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Stay outstanding in 2022

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting I’m going to see the doctor. Which doctor? No, the regular kind. Driving by Bruce’s drive I have a ... Read more

by Al Batt, Tuesday, December 28, 2021 6:17 pm

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Al Batt: Setting goals for tomorrow

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting                   Yesterday, my goal was to make it to today. What’s ... Read more

by Al Batt, Tuesday, December 21, 2021 5:23 pm

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Al Batt: Predicting yesterday’s weather

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting I’m a crack meteorologist. I’m 100% correct in my weather predictions. How is that possible? I predict yesterday’s weather. ... Read more

by Al Batt, Tuesday, December 14, 2021 4:31 pm

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Lillian M. Flynn

Our Mother died pretty much on her own terms, on December 8, at about 9am, in the living room of the home she loved, with ... Read more

by Al Batt, Monday, December 13, 2021 3:24 pm

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Al Batt: A bad case of the Mondays

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting I have a bad case of the Mondays.    It’s Wednesday. Then I have a bad case of the ... Read more

by Al Batt, Tuesday, December 7, 2021 5:46 pm

Obits

Loren Sutherland, 89

Loren (Sunny) Arthur  Sutherland, age 89, recently passed away from an unexpected illness in Arizona. Loren was born in Austin, MN, to Amos and Hattie ... Read more

by Al Batt, Monday, December 6, 2021 1:18 pm

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Al Batt: No time for being offended

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting I’ve looked everywhere for my flashlight and I can’t find it. Doesn’t that make you angry? No, I’m delighted. ... Read more

by Al Batt, Tuesday, November 30, 2021 5:34 pm

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Al Batt: The price of potato chips

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting I took my car to my brother’s shop for repairs. I was afraid Jim Bob would rip me off. ... Read more

by Al Batt, Tuesday, November 23, 2021 5:46 pm

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Mercedes “Merce” A. Nordstrom

Mercedes (Merce) Audrey (Gwinn) Nordstrom passed away peacefully at the Mayo Clinic Health System Austin on Saturday, November 20, 2021, surrounded by her family following ... Read more

by Al Batt, Monday, November 22, 2021 4:25 pm

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Ronald E. Hammermeister, 72

Ronald Emil Hammermeister, age 72, of Austin, Minnesota, passed away on Thursday, November 18, 2021, at St. Mark’s Living surrounded by his family. Ronald was ... Read more

by Al Batt, Monday, November 22, 2021 1:07 pm

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Al Batt: Some light reading — with a deer

Echoes From the Loafers’ Club Meeting I see you have a new bearskin rug. It was me or the bear. I’m glad it worked out. ... Read more

by Al Batt, Tuesday, November 16, 2021 5:38 pm

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Al Batt: Missing a friend and fellow ball player

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting I visited family in western Alaska.              Nome? They’re my family. Of course, I ... Read more

by Al Batt, Tuesday, November 9, 2021 5:20 pm

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Al Batt: Salmonella is not a young salmon

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting  I remember everything that happened when I was four years old as if it were yesterday. What happened yesterday? ... Read more

by Al Batt, Tuesday, November 2, 2021 5:57 pm

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Elizabeth Isabel Johnson, 93

Elizabeth I. Johnson, 93, of Northern Minnesota, formerly of Austin, Minnesota, passed away peacefully in her home on October 30, 2021, after a long battle ... Read more

by Al Batt, Monday, November 1, 2021 4:58 pm

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Steven A. Reese, 65

Steven Reese of Austin was taken from us too soon at the age of 65 in an accident on the night of October 23, 2021 ... Read more

by Al Batt, Friday, October 29, 2021 1:34 pm

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