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Farm NewsBy Bonnie UrferLast we left you, Jane Hosking andJohn LaForge were in federal prison.Both were released in October of2006 after serving six months for theirresistance at the School of theAmericas in Georgia. I liketo say that getting out of jailor prison feels so good thatit’s almost worth going in.And this is the news fromhere...Sue Katt, John Adams andThe Good Luck Farm

The summer of 2006was the firstseason of TheGood LuckFarm. Sue Kattand John Adamsgrew a stunninggarden that kept35 families wellsupplied withfresh organic veggies with deliveriesmade one day a week to localsubscribers and to Duluth on anotherday. This summer the number ofsubscribers increased to 70 and thesize of the garden doubled as well.The first season came with a twomonth drought and the gardenrequired a life support system ofwater. By early August the rains cameand watering ceased making foreasier gardening. Subscribers sentpositive comments in the season-end

survey and theventure wasconsidered verysuccessful. Atthe end of lastseason Sue,

Jane and John Heid joined the “Livingthe Dream” walk that kicked off inSelma, Alabama and ended inColumbus, Georgia in time for theSOA action in November. JohnAdams did some unsuccessful bowhunting but some very productive

pheasant hunting in NorthDakota. He says he needsto flock shoot and thenumbers of birds wereperfect for that. He spenta bit of time last fallclearing trees down the hill

from their house.Sue, Barb Kattand theirMother, Ann,hiked to thebottom of theGrand Canyonlast December.John Adamsattended a

conference on food an farmingsponsored by the Weston A. PriceFoundation held in Washington, D.C.last November. The conferencefocused on encouraging traditionaldiets and linking people with localfarmers. A large group of Amishfarmers were there selling raw milkand specialty cheeses and bread inthe lobby of the Hilton Hotel. Theposh hotel is situated among theworld’s largest military contractorsand corporate headquarters. He alsotraveled the southwest for most of the

winter and missed our onlysnowstorm of last winter but arrivedhome in time for the maple syrupseason and onion planting. Sue spentpart of her winter consulting withPraxis, an organization with a focuson ending domestic violence.

Once winter ended Sue and Johnreturned to garden, garden, garden.Early this spring they held a farmparty for shareholders. Those whocame helped to plant potatoes andhad a tasty lunch. With enough rainthroughout this season John and Suehad time to do some windsurfinginstead of irrigating to keep the plantsalive. Sue took enough time off thissummer to take a rafting trip throughthe Grand Canyon with Barb, AnnKatt, their sister-in-law, Cindy andtheir niece, Ashley.

The Good Luck Farm, in 2007,was able to provide low-incomeshares to families in Duluth and Luck.Anathoth Community and The GoodLuck Farm will be hosting a HarvestBreakfast on the 29th of September.The menu includes pancakes with ourown maple syrup, omelets with localeggs, potatoes with garden freshvegetables and muffins all for $8.You’re all invited for good food andtours of Anathoth.John Heid

John’s schedule included plenty ofpainting for the Edmunds Companyand volunteer gardening for TheGood Luck Farm. He joined the“Living the Dream” walk inNovember. In December John left forChicago to do a month-long ChristianPeacemaker Team training. As a partof the agenda, the group in trainingcarried out a “no war toys” action at a

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Chicago Toys R Us store. Once thetraining was completed, he traveled tovisit his family in Erie, Pennsylvania. InMarch, John, Mike Miles and I wereall arrested in a sit-in in CongressmanDavid Obey’s office in Superior,Wisconsin, demanding an end to Iraqwar spending. We spent one night injail and were arraigned in the morning.John and Mike pled not guilty andattended numerous court appearancesbefore being found guilty and fined.None of us have paid the fines andthe consequences for our action is stillunresolved. In March John and Ijumped on a train for the southwest.We stayed with our friends Polly andPeter Edmunds in their Deming, NMhome and had various adventuresduring the trip. John is very interestedin doing work on immigrant issues onthe U.S./Mexican border. As a resultwe volunteered in an immigrant soupkitchen in Mexico and hiked the hillson the U.S. side of the border leavingwater in the desert for anyone comingthrough. Part of our time was spent inCave Creek Canyon with Felice andJack Cohen-Joppa, bird watchingand hiking. We both had the goodluck to see the Elegant Trogan and along list of other birds. John helpedMike with the Sami Rassouli speakingtour. Sami is a good friend of thecommunity who left the U.S. to returnto his homeland of Iraq to do peaceand justice work there. In May Johnreturned to the southwest to continuehis border work. He helped in the“No More Deaths” campaign,delivering food and water into thedesert, helping migrants in trouble andtraveled to Washington, D.C. tolobby for an end to border deaths andincarceration. He was arrested inD.C. for holding a banner saying “NoBorder Wall” in front of the WhiteHouse in the “picture postcard” zone.John returned to Anathoth in Augustfor a brief time before heading offonce again to visit his family in Erie.Upon his return, he, his newcommunity members at the WinonaCatholic Worker and I, attended the

Minnesota State Fair. John nowresides at the Winona worker.Barb Katt

Barb met Randy Surbaugh in Juneof 2005. Randy was raised just 13miles north of us and still lives there.Since Randy loves the outdoors andhas always philosophically embracedthe principles that guide the farm, therelationship between Barb and Randygrew. They spent time with eachother’s families (including thiscommunity family), visiting eachother’s homes and gardening. WhenSue and John Adams came into thecommunity and needed a place tolive, Barb offered to share her housewith the gardeners and happily spendsmore time at Randy’s house. Barbcontinues to be a fully engagedcommunity member, attendingmeetings and helping in communityevents and life, whilecreating another homedown the road. Barbtook two trips to theGrand Canyon sincelast June, one on ahike down to thebottom with a stay atthe Phantom Ranchand one on the rafttrip from one end ofthe canyon to theother. This season, Barb has workedfor the Edmunds Company doinglog-building restoration as she doesevery summer. She is an expert witha chain saw and all the tools neededin the trade. Barb continues to doher peace work in communities ofwomen and prayer with a focus onsovereignty and gender politics, theenvironment and war. She participatesin various ceremonies with nativefriends. Barb and Sue’s Grandmother,Helen and Mother, Ann live in southeastWisconsin and Barb makes trips to visitthem frequently.Jane Hosking

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future pen-pals. John Heid and Ipicked Jane up from Pekin FederalPrison Camp before continuing on tovisit Molly, Jerry, Amos and newlyborn Jonah Mechtenberg-Berrigan.Molly, Jerry and family left Anathothin June of last year to start a CatholicWorker community in Kalamazoo,Michigan. Jane wished for a tour ofmicro-brewery’s along the way and Ithink we did a pretty good job offulfilling that request. After Jane’srelease from prison last October shereturned to Anathoth to spend her firstcozy winter and spring in the strawbale house. Prison turned Jane from alate morning riser to an early birdrecruit. She spent the winter cross-country skiing and sledding with ourneighbors the Vos Benkowski family.Jane is a master house and pet sitterand had an endless string of jobstaking care of everything from cats,

dogs, chickens and almost tendedto a potbellied pig. Beforegardening season started, Janedonated 10" of her hair to the“Locks of Love” a programdesigned to make wigs for childrenundergoing cancer treatment. Early

in the yearJane beganthe seasonwith TheGood LuckFarm. Sheloved thecommute towork anddidn’t plantnearly as

many flowers as is typical for her. Sheswitched to work with the Edmundscompany in midsummer and has beentraveling Wisconsin and Minnesota onvarious jobs. In a sad tale, Jane madearrangements to turn her car into agreasemobile at the MidwestRenewable Energy Fair held in June.But before she and John LaForgearrived at the fair, the car sprung aleak and lost all of its oil. The situationwas bad enough that the enginesubsequently froze and the car could

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person is hard tofind. For a startBarb visits herparents everyWednesday to giverespite to herMother who caresfor her Father whosuffers withAlzheimer’sDisease. It is a strong commitmentfrom which she does not waver. Andthen there’s work, work and morework. Barb continues to be thecoordinator for the Luck CommunityEducation program, scheduling andoverseeing night classes throughoutthe school year. Most nights shestumbles in after 10:00 p.m. to getsome rest before the next day begins .Barb is a cook and has signed on tocater numerous events includingweddings and the state Greensgathering here at Anathoth last month.She spent most of her weekendsproviding excellent dishes forhundreds at a time. Over the pastyear Barb traveled to Milwaukee forthe Midwest Social Forum, Salt LakeCity to visit her sister, and Arizona tovisit Mike’s mother for her birthday.In March both Barb and Mike visitedtheir daughter Emma in Ireland whereshe went to college for a semester.Barb and Mike still play music withLinda and Jim Miles as part of the“Command Zulu” band, once called“Relative Minor.” Last SeptemberBarb presided over her first wedding.She joined in parades andappearances as a result of Mike’s runfor Congress. Other events Barbattended include the National CatholicWorker Gathering last October, theSt. Thomas Earth Day Symposium,and the Popular Education: Pedagogy

of the Oppressed forum at theUniversity of Minnesota in July. Barbbecame Godmother to Thomas, MikeKass and partner Kathy’s new baby.And of course Ollie and Jeff weremarried in August and no Mother of theBride comes through such an eventwithout buckets full of anxiety.Mike Miles

Mike ran for Congress last yearand the effort ended with a loss inNovember. The community wasdisappointedbecause hisCongressionalincome would havemeant we all couldquit our jobs, besupported by taxpayers and commitall of our time topeacemaking.Running forCongress meant attending one eventafter another, traveling, speaking,parading and singing across northernWisconsin. Scheduling the “Wheelsof Justice” bus tour took up a lot ofMike’s time after the run forcongress. It meant finding venues inas many cities as possible along a setroute which wasn’t always easyespecially in Republican territory likeTexas. He remains the treasurer for thebus tours but has retired fromscheduling. Then the Anathoth “LiveEarth” music festival planning andpreparation consumed Mike until theevent came and went. Organizing forthe affair included everything fromfinding vendors and bands, tending toparking and camping, ticket printingand sales, advertising and interviews,finding volunteers and insurance. Thefestival cost way more to put on thanwas taken in and Mike became theunderwriter for the event. (Anycontributions to off-set the cost of themusic festival can be made to MikeMiles.) A huge lightening storm the dayafter the festival took out severalcomputers in the community, includingMike and Barb’s. Philip was home atthe time, however, and managed to

save most of the programs and dataon their hard-drive. It is true thatwhen it rains, it pours. Weekendsbefore and after have been filledwith helping Barb cater weddingsand other events, working forEdmunds and keeping up on tasks athome. Mike and I are both trying toretire. Neither of us are having anyluck.John LaForge

John became an expert at hidinghis lawnmower behind the trainingcenter at the federal prison camp inDuluth and joining his friends in jamsessions in the chapel. He walkedout of prison into the throes of awelcoming-out brass band. ThenJohn made it to another big house inFebruary of this year — the House

of Commons. Hespoke about uraniumweapons ormisnamed DepletedUranium, which arecompletely illegalunder internationallaw but usedextensively by theU.S. in bombingmissions. The

“Weapon of Mass DestructionPlowshares” action took place inJune of 2006 while John was inprison but he was out in time toattend the sentencing in Bismarck,North Dakota of Carl Kabat, GregBoertje and Michael Walli onNovember 16 of last year. In Juneof this year John attended the hugeU.S. Social Forum in Atlanta,Georgia. In June he went to anInstitute for Energy andEnvironmental Research workshopon disarmament. John did apresentation at St. Thomas onuranium weapons in March and didsupport work for a NukewatchTrack Watch as I waited for thecore of the defunct nuclear reactorsouth of Genoa, Wisconsin to leavethe area by rail to Barnwell, SouthCarolina. John cuts wood for all ofthe houses in the community and is

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in the process of replacing the sidingon the tall house. In July, Johnorganized the “Walk for the Water” inDuluth to kick off a campaign drawingattention to thousands of barrels oftoxic and possibly radioactivegarbage dumped into Lake Superiorby Honeywell and the Army Corps ofEngineers over 50 years ago. Due toan opinion piece published in theMinneapolis Star Tribune recentlyby John, the issue is gaining a bit ofattention again. Amongst the workrelated projects and journeys, Johnhas had some time to relax as well,visiting Door County and SouthDakota with his friend Patty Olson. Acouple of weeks ago, the WisconsinNetwork for Peace and Justiceannounced John LaForge as recipientof the 2007 “Lifetime AchievementAward.”

MyselfUntil October of lastyear, John Heid and Idid a good portion ofthe support work forJane and JohnLaForge as they

spent their six months in prison pluskeeping Nukewatch alive and wellduring John’s absence. In the fall Itook a trip with my friends Ann andKay Turner to Arizona where westayed and visited with my nieceShannon. She was extremelygenerous and let us borrow her littleBMW convertible to tour Arizona. Itaught a couple of mosaic classes forthe Luck and Fredric schools in theSpring and also took a watercolorclass, always hoping to improve mypainting skills. In March I wasarrested in a “no more war funding”occupation with Mike and John Heid.It’s always an educational experienceto spend time in U.S. jails to witnessfirst hand the poor conditions andinhumane treatment. In April JohnHeid and I took the marvelous trip toNew Mexico and in May I did an artshow at the beautiful Women’sEnvironmental Institute in NorthBranch, Minnesota. Kristin Boland,

our neighbor, graduated with herMasters Degree in May so we allattended her party on the 27th. Thenmy friend John Southard, (yes, yetanother John) spent three weeksvisiting for the first time. He arrived onthe first day of his retirement from theSeattle police department where hespent 18 years as a 911 dispatcher.We attended the Midwest RenewableEnergy Fair in June. I always feel thisfair is one of the most promising andencouraging events when it comes tosocial change and consciousness-raising around energy issues. Thesaddest part of the year was myinability to attend the Roger Watersconcert in the Cities at the end ofJune. The tickets were astronomicallyexpensive and no matter how much Ilove the music of Roger Waters, I hadto let it go. In July I took off forKansas City to be with friends I’dmet in the federal prison camp inGreenville, Illinois in 2001 and 2002.It’s extremely rare for ex-inmates tokeep in touch post-prison. The eventwas lovely and everyone is doing fine.I was the official photographer forOllie and Jeff’s wedding which madethe whole affair extra special for me. Ihear they actually like the photos. Iwent to the Minnesota State Fairtwice and saw all different things thesecond time. And recently I had theopportunity to spend time with familyand friends in Madison, Blue Moundsand Milwaukee. Now I have a coldthat I hope goes away very quickly asthis coming Friday I intend toparticipate in a “stop the war andfunding” action in Duluth. I have notime to feel sick — there’s too muchwork to do.

Community VisitorsThis year, as with every year, we’ve hadlots of visitors: Tim Scott’s confirmationgroup from New Richmond; NationalService Learning students; the NonviolentPeace Force weekend of nonviolencetraining with North Minneapolis teens;Peace Studies students from St. Thomas;the University of Illinois spring breakgroup; the Wisconsin State Greensmeeting; the Lutheran church of WestDenmark crowd; three of Emma’s friends

from Ireland who stayed for a month andmore; Bahia Quinlan, our garden intern oflast summer and our friend Lindsay fromthe Uof I in Champaign; Jenny Hauf, thisseason’s intern; Kim Sowinski who veryrecently joined us and will be here for thecoming six weeks; Chris Sloane and LauraGrover from Maine were here for threeweeks to help out before moving toIndiana; and too many overnight andweekend guests to mention. Thank you allfor coming and enriching our lives.

Community Eventsand ProjectsWorking on the garden, making maplesyrup, fixing up houses and taking care ofthe infrastructure, cutting, baling andstacking hay, lawn mowing, conductingtours, canning, freezing and drying foodare all some of the normal tasks thathappen around here. We’ve also decidedto work on building a community or retreatcenter here at Anathoth. Of course themost difficult part is the fundraising. Todate we’ve decided on a floor plan and alocation and we are one quarter of the wayto our fiscal goal. Yet to be firmed up areconstruction materials and the decision ofwhen to break ground for the muchneeded community building. It will containa kitchen, large meeting space, green-house/water and greywater treatmentroom, composting toilets, sleepingquarters for numerous guests andstudents, showers, and a small apartmentfor an intern. We intend to utilize solar andhopefully wind to generate electricity, andhave been exploring green roofs. It’s anexciting project for the community andwe’re actively looking for a grant writer tohelp us achieve our financial goals in a

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The Good Luck Farm(Excerpts from the Good Luck Farmnewsletters that gets inserted with eachbox of veggies.)

June Thanks for signing up with TheGood Luck Farm, we are happy to begoing into our second year of vegetables.The boxes start out the season pretty lightand get heavier as we move along intosummer and harvest the fruit, rather thanjust the leaves of plants. But we have ourfirst tomatoes plumping up right now, soit’s not so far off. We’ve been putting thesolar shower to good use, but haven’thopped in one of the nearby lakes yet …The latest hard work at the farm: We builta packing shed to keep us dry and out ofthe sun while we load up the boxes. It hasa hay roof and no walls so it looks like aTiki bar. A few nights ago we drank pinacoladas with reggae music and torchlights to christen our new shed…. Wehave also begun the summer stream ofvisitors and helpers to the farm. Last weekwe were joined by a couple from Canada,Shane and Melissa, who are touring eco-villages. They stopped by here for a fewdays and helped out in the garden. Shaneis keeping a blog about their tour — ifanyone is interested in checking it out, it’secotourofnorthamerica.blogspot.com

The planning for the July 7th bash iskeeping people busy. We hayed the fieldsthis week for a nice lawn for the concertand camping and parking areas. We had abig crew of friends that pitched in to makeit go quickly. We haven’t had to irrigatemuch at all this year, a big relief from lastyear, and things are looking good.

Kohlrabi Hash Browns: 1) GrateKohlrabi and squeeze out moisture 2)Combine with eggs, onion, bread crumbs,salt, ginger, and red pepper in mixing bowland mix. 3) Heat butter and oil in largeskillet and add kohlrabi and press down,cook until brown (5-7 minutes a side).

Farm News: We’ll be in the news! Wehad a reporter and a photographer downfor the day from the Duluth News Tribuneand they’ll be a story in next Thursday’spaper. Photographer Amanda Odeski andreporter Jana Goerdt came down and spentthe afternoon talking about the garden,Anathoth and the upcoming concert. We’llsee what they write….

July The box has a few new items thisweek that have arrived on the scene.

There is a big Chinesecabbage or greencabbage in most boxes,or cauliflower and saladmix, hot pepper,cucumbers and garlic,snap peas (a lot), andbeets (a couple), alongwith a kohlrabi, andscallions…. Farm News:Peter Edmunds, a log-home repair guru andlongtime friend ofAnathoth, pulled intothe driveway thismorning with hiscontroversial July 4thparade float. He servedin the Navy and was ona ship during the Cuban missile crisis. Thefloat was recently allowed in the Duluthand Superior parades but denied entranceto the Hayward, WI, and Virginia, MNparades. The two parade floats he madelisted the number of U.S. soldiers whohave died in Iraq and the other said ForChildren, For Veterans, For Mothers, Forthe Planet: No More War. The floats weresponsored by Grandmothers For Peace,Peace North, and Veterans for Peace. Thesigns will be displayed this weekend forthe big 20 year anniversary concert bash(25 kegs of beer!) we are throwing atAnathoth, the community that the GoodLuck Farm is located in…. Farm News: Ourbig anniversary concert is behind us andthe music was all fantastic. It turned out tobe 95 degrees the day of the big event,which we think kept a lot of people away.Those who were here had to seek shadeand run through the kid’s sprinkler hoseto keep cool. By evening the temperaturehad dropped enough for everyone todance to Buckwheat Zydeco — it was agood party.

The tomatoes are just coming in now,we mostly have some small cherrytomatoes and yellow Taxis in the boxesthis week. They are the early seasonvarieties and taste a little different thanthe mid-season tomatoes which might bearriving next week… Sue made anexcellent tomato snack with cheese cubes,basil, apple cider, olive oil, salt and pepper.

We have reached our goal or sharesfor the season, thanks to all of you whoreferred friends to us. We are pleased thatwe could spread the shares evenlybetween Duluth and Luck… Farming inthe News: President Bush set up acabinet-level advisory panel on foodsafety for imported foods. Yawn! We needmore than a panel if we are going to keepimporting foods from countries which are

light years away from any type ofproduction standards...

We’ve had help in the garden the lastfew weeks from Jenny, Chris and Laura.They are on their way to Indianapolis forjobs and grad school but are spendingsome time with us first. We served sidesalads from the farm at Café Wren’s FullMoon Fest on Saturday. A good bandplayed three hours straight and everyoneenjoyed Smokey Meadows burgers alongside our bean salad, tomato salad andlettuce salads. Stephanie served wine andthen the big moon came up over the cowsgrazing next door…. I’ve been reading thisweek about the benefits of organicallygrown produce over corporate agriculturalfare. It reminded me of the “debate” thatwent on for far too long over globalwarming. Any review of organicvegetables versus non-organic alwaysfinds more nutrients and fewer pesticidesin the organic produce. The information inthe mainstream press will tell you thatthere is no difference in nutrient levels.This is untrue. A similar outcome is foundeven when you compare non-organicproduce today with produce from 50 yearsago. The nutrient levels have dropped….Here at the farm we need rain. The last fewrains have bypassed us and things aregetting really dry. With 2 acres it is hard tokeep up watering. The dryness also makesplants more susceptible to insects anddiseases. We have been pleased for the

Farm cat Gilda and St. Francis together under the “tikihut.”

6most part with the variety and quality ofthe produce, but we are aware that thingswould be doing better with moremoisture… We have our first corn thisweek. It’s an early corn that grows about 5feet tall with only a few leaves. The othervarieties are reaching ten feet now so weshould have a good amount of cornthrough the season. That was not apromise, but if all goes well …From Nourishing Traditions:Green Beans with Cashews

In large skillet fry green beans untiljust tender in oil or lard, about 5 minutes.In separate bowl place 1 t ginger, 3Tfermented soy sauce, ½ C orange juice orchicken stock or water, 1 t raw honey, 1 tsesame oil, 1 garlic clove peeled andmashed, ½ t rosemary and ½ C cashews.Whisk and then add to skillet. Bring toboil and add 1 or 2 T arrowroot (thickener)until sauce thickens and beans are wellcoated.

August In good news from the federalcourt system, a judge has finally halted acrop of genetically engineered seeds frombeing planted. In northern California ajudge reasoned that the Round-up Readyalfalfa would likely cause more pesticidesto be applied, not less, and that the plantswould also likely contaminate otherconventional crops. Therefore, the USDAviolated federal laws by not ordering anenvironmental impact statement beforereleasing GE alfalfa.

This letter was going to be a long sobstory about lack of rain, but lucky for youwe got an inch of rain last night in thatbeautiful lightning storm. Some of thosestrikes made me jump out of my lawn chairand yell “holy cow!” I hope you allstepped out to see the show. I am in toogood of mood after that rain to complainabout our changing climate. Next weeknew items will likely be potatoes andwatermelon, with more corn andmuskmelons. Our broccoli is in misery andabout to be mowed. The flea beetles havewiped out the planting we should beharvesting right now. But more is comingin now that should be ready in a week ortwo…. After a hot dry summer the rain andcool weather has been a relief for thefarmers, vegetables, and the soil. We werelucky to be spared the most severe storms– no hail, no straight line winds, noexcessive rain…. We squished potatobugs one by one, by the thousands. Weknew that the bugs are toxic to the leavesonce their innards are splashed on thembut we didn’t think their guts wouldactually kill the whole plant, which it did.Thus, we are harvesting potato plantsearlier than we would like to, as they aresmaller than we’d like — and it’s all the

U.S. governments fault. I’ve been sleepingin a tent in the garden lately, trying to getthe dogs to join me, to try to deter thedeer. We have a really nice planting ofbeans and some beets in the back of thegarden — two of the deer’s favorites. Westarted seeing some deer damage. I’vebeen trying to hold them at bay. We’vehad some good rains lately — about 1½inches in the last week — so most thingsare doing well. The nights are gettingcooler, so the warm weather crops areslowing up and the cooler weather cropsare kicking back in.Overheard at the Farm:

“I don’t wanna have to have acommunity meeting every time I wannatake out a ground squirrel.” Jim Miles, onhis warfare with the dreaded stripedground squirrel.

“Sorry I killed your brother, Rags.”Chris Boland after shooting our sweet dogRags’s brother, who fell in with the wrongcrowd of feral friends.

“Who was it that I told you that diedyesterday?” John LaForge

“Whoa, Jonah is big everywhere.”Barb Kass, changing baby Jonah’s diaper.

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” BonnieUrfer chasing a runaway rototiller.

“Just remember how clean the gardenis.” Farmer Sue Katt, while giving tours ofher living arrangements.

“I just can’t believe BuckwheatZydeco is coming here.” Mike Miles

“If you call us Cajun, we’re notplaying.” Buckwheat Zydeco…We’re toofar north to understand the distinction.

John Adams

Jenny’s JourneyI come from Milwaukee, one ofmy favorite cities. I enjoy thelook of the old breweries andstone churches, the remnants ofbrick roads and cobblestone,and the curiosities found in theyards of my Riverwestneighborhood, which is full ofthe sounds of bikes andbasement bands.

But in every city I findmyself oppressed by thebuildings pushing against thesky, the constant drone of traffic,and the overwhelming presence of anti-lifeeverywhere — in the concrete that I walkupon, the plastic siding on the houses, andthe metal sewage grates. I liken the structureof the city to monoculture’s corn andsoybean rotation, with the city’s crops beingpeople and cement. While there is a certainbiodiversity in the city, most of it is

depressingly contrived, such as in the caseof parks where everything is trim as a golfcourse. Milwaukee does boast of a few parksand trails that retain nature, namely the trailsaround the Milwaukee River and those inthe belly of Lake Park. But while I do love tosee creatures and plants surviving in thecity and am strengthened by their hardiness,I’m also heart-broken to see turtles andgoslings swimming and feeding in thegreasy, scummy water of the city’s rivers,which have postings along their bankswarning against the consumption of fishcaught in their waters. It was frustrating togo on walks and see edible and medicinalplants such as lambs quarters, violets,burdock and yarrow, and either not collectthem or do so warily, thinking of the spectrumof toxins and heavy metals saturating theplants’ cells.

My dislike of city life certainly leantitself to my interest in sustainability, but mydad and Laura Ingalls Wilder alsoencouraged my pursuit of a mindful andsimple existence. My dad is an enthusiasticdumpster diver of sorts, scouring the alleyfor treasures which he has used in carpentryprojects and the construction of one-of-a-kind tomato hoops. He’s also an avidrecycler, and used to collect all of the cansfrom his break room, filling the stationwagon’s trunk, backseat, and floors withaluminum. Whenever he’d give me a rideanywhere we’d drive to a soundtrack ofwhistling wind and rattling cans.

And as a child, the “Little House onthe Prairie” books also had a huge effect onme. I was completely drawn into the Ingalls’sworld of firewood, gingham, and churnedbutter. The idea of a home built of log ordug out of the earth fascinated me. Mychildhood was relatively easy andunchallenging — at times we didn’t have

much money for new shoes,but we did have food on thetable, and if the refrigeratorwas bare the grocery storewas only a five-minute driveaway. The thermostat wasalways set at a minimum of 68degrees in the wintertime, andmy sister and I often snuck itup to 70. Growing up in sucha climate-controlled andunsurprising environmentmade Wilder ’s stories oftraveling for weeks in acovered wagon and waking up

with ice on the bed quilt irresistibly romanticand enticing.

So I grew into a tenacious bike rider,commuting by bike on Milwaukee’s winterstreets, with cans of my own jumping aroundin a milk crate. I went to college for two yearsbefore dropping out, yearning for the

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simplicity and hardship that characterizedthe pioneer life. I hopped a freight train androde a bike through the south with a friend,traveling with all of our food and shelterstrapped to our bike racks, giving thanksfor bungee cords and carabiners. I workedon a farm in Virginia and tended to goatsand chickens alongside the AppalachianTrail. I traveled throughout New England,learning how to contra dance and cook. LastDecember I moved back to Milwaukee,where I lived in a communal house packedto the gills with food from dumpsters, bikeshung from ceiling hooks, and 20-somethings.I was happy to be back home, to have founda community of people with similar politicalbeliefs and artistic endeavors. But the longerI stayed in Milwaukee the more rundown Ifelt. I was happy to have a backyard with agarden, but I longed for wide skies, fieldsand forests — land that I could have a trulysymbolic relationship with.

In my flight from Milwaukee I was sadto be leaving friends behind, but was mostlyoverjoyed at the prospect of the long driveout west and up north along the Mississippi.I was tickled pink by descriptions ofAnathoth — dogs all over the place, a fired-up sauna and home-cooked hospitality. Andafter months of contributing to theMilwaukee Sewage District I was enamoredwith the thought of pooping in an outhouse,knowing that what went in would be fullycomposted and spread in the woods, notpoured into beloved rivers and lakes, orprocessed and granulated into “activatedsewage sludge,” the main ingredient inMilorganite fertilizer. (There’s a big scandalin Milwaukee these days, involving thespreading of PCB-contaminated sludge inmany of the city’s recreational areas.)

I arrived at Anathoth on the auspiciousdate of 07/07/07. With the woods and farmfields surrounding the county roadsglorious and golden, I knew that I was whereI wanted to be. My heart sings often enough,but it sings longer and louder whensurrounded by fresh apples (and the

ensuing pies), sun-warmed water towash in, carrots from the field andbeans cooked with friends. In thewoods and fields fly cranes, hawks,ospreys and a beautiful, majesticbarred owl which I’ve been luckyenough to see twice. Rambunctiousdogs accompany me everywhere,loyally protecting the community andI from chipmunks and rabbits. I’mfilled by the colors of the landscape— fields are yellow with goldenrod,and the grass is dotted by the orangesof the devil’s paintbrush. My days arefull of little blessings and offerings,

as I put corn cobs in the compost bucketand harvest beautiful vegetables from thefield rich from last year’s food scraps.

And life’s not easy , at least not“modern.” I often take care of the strawbalehouse while Jane’s gone, where there’s notoilet or running water. As a result, “goingto the bathroom” means sitting in the draftyouthouse (luckily, the flies have pretty muchdied off), or squatting in the grass. Unlessthere are leftovers, eating means preparingfood, which can take anywhere from fiveminutes to a few hours. Since Anathothianslive off the land as much as possible, muchpreparation is done in anticipation of thewinter. As a result I’ve done some foodpreservation — drying apples, canningtomatoes and making salsa. Hot peppers andmullein leaves are strung across mywindowpanes. In anticipation of tonight’sbig freeze, everybody’s out in the garden,cutting the last of the basil, saving armfulsof ground cherries, and picking lettuce.Living here means working, and I love it.It’s real work that nourishes me in everypossible way — it’s good for the soul tohave four pumpkins in my arms under a bluesky and crisp air, and good for the body(and brain and soul) to have steaming sweetpotato and carrot soup at the table.

I look forward to moving along withthese seasons, harvesting the remainder ofthe fall crops, storing and preserving foodand preparing the field for the winter. I alsoanticipate evening saunas, northern lightsand the mornings’ outhouse meditations.The crispness of the air finds the dogs andI jumping around and running through thefields, breathing clearly amidst thelandscape’s changing colors. My days hereare different than any other days I’ve lived— richer and more wholesome. I want tosqueeze all the life that I can out of my timehere, like cider pressed from an apple. Andwhen I leave I’ll be taking so much morethan dried apples and peppers with me. Ican’t see myself ever being happy again ina city, or in a living structure made from

Help Keep MoreNuclear ReactorsOut of Wisconsin

Please contact your State Legislatorsand urge them to Vote No onAssembly Bill (AB) 346 repeal of thecommon sense law that protects thepublic from unnecessary new nuclearpower reactors in Wisconsin (statestature 196.493).

If passed, the repeal wouldencourage more nuclear power inWisconsin and increase the likelihoodthat the state will become a nationalhigh-level nuclear waste dumpsite.

If passed, the repeal wouldeliminate two legal requirements thatmust now be met before new reactorscan be built in Wisconsin: 1) That afederal nuclear waste storage site mustbe in operation; and 2) that reactor-generated electricity must beeconomically advantageous to theratepayer compared with alternatives.

A special Nuclear PowerCommittee and the WisconsinLegislative Council haverecommended repeal of theseprecautionary, conservativerequirements. Their effort is part of anindustry push for more reactorsradioactive and waste productionnationwide. Pro-nuclear propagandahas it that nuclear power is “cheap”and “carbon free.” But nuclear wastemanagement will cost hundreds ofbillions of dollars over a period of atleast 300,000 years; and the mining,milling and production of reactor fuelcreates millions of tons of carbonpollution that the industry ignores.

The proposed Yucca Mountaindump site in Nevada is unfit andshould never open. One NuclearRegulatory Commission member saidFeb. 7, 2007 that the Yucca projectmust be scrapped. This would putWisconsin higher on the list ofpotential dump sites, especially if tonsof new waste is produced by newreactors.

The time to express your opinionis now. Please call, write, email and/orvisit your legislators as soon aspossible.

Legislative Hotline:800-362-9472

Jenny with her arms full of pumpkins.

inorganic materials, in a place that doesn’trely directly on the sun for dinner and poweror wood and stoves for heat. I’m finallygetting the opportunity to live the way thatI want (albeit without a covered wagon), andI don’t want to live without a compostabletoilet or Australian Sheepdog ever again.Being here makes me happily realize that,though I’llinevitably be incities and non-s u s t a i n a b l eliving situationsfrom time to time,there’s noturning back.From now on, Iwon’t be fullypleased unlessthere’s ano u t h o u s enearby.

Jenny Hauf

Lake Superior BarrelDump Scandal —Murky As Ever

A good deal has been written about the1,448-plus barrels of toxic and probablyradioactive chemicals that were dumped intoLake Superior by the U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers.

You can get a very good, 100-pagecompilation of news accounts and officialreports at the UPS Store on Arrowhead Roadin Duluth for less than the cost of dinnerout. It’s a good read if your stomach canhandle governmental graft, militarycontractor fraud, nighttime mobster-like“cement shoe treatment” of industrial trashand blunt bureaucratic dismissals ofcautionary alarms.

The public might want to know why noagency, corporation or individual has beenheld accountable for the illegal dumping,why the full extent of the dumping has neverbeen acknowledged, why the contents ofthe barrels has never been fully made known,and why “the mystery of radioactive wasteis still out there,” as Ron Swenson, of theMinnesota Pollution Control Agency’s(MPCA’s) barrels investigation andoversight unit, once said.

The wastes came from the Twin CitiesArmy Ammunition Plant (TCAAP),Minnesota’s largest Superfund site, whichat the time was run by Honeywell.

For six years, between 1957 and 1962,barrels containing benzene, PCBs, lead,

cadmium, barium, hexavalent chromium(exactly 1,285 pounds according to ArmyCorps documents: See the film “ErinBrockovich” for its effects on humanbeings), and, most likely, radioactivematerials were rolled off barges into the lakeat 16 or more places along the North Shore.One of the seven acknowledged dump sitesis within a mile of Duluth’s drinking waterintake. Three of the dumps — including thewater-intake site and another said by thefederal Environmental Protection Agency tobe 75 square miles in size — are federallydesignated Superfund sites.

In February, state Rep. Mike Jaros ofDuluth wrote to the congressionaldelegations of Minnesota and Wisconsinurging that sediment testing be conductedprior to any removal of the aging barrels. InMarch, the Save Lake Superior Associationresolved unanimously to urge that all thebarrels be removed and safely shipped to ahazardous waste containment site.

This would be a prudent thing to do —unless the barrels are weakened, brokenopen or leaking. After exhuming a mere ninebarrels in 1990, the agencies responsible forprotecting the environment dismissed thethreat posed by the chemicals. “We don’tbelieve there’s any short-term threat tohuman health,” said Ron Swenson of theMPCA. This “think about it later” approachraises more questions than it answers. AsSwenson admitted in 1991, “What thismeans in the long term for public health, forthe lake’s ecosystem … we still haven’tdetermined.”

This April, Carl Herbrandson of theMinnesota Department of Health reportedto Duluth researcher Dan Conley that theDOH had “decided to write a healthconsultation about what we know relatedto the barrels in Lake Superior and anypotential health concerns.” How DOHintends to do this without hard data is anopen question.

This report is not due until September,but the Army already reached itsown conclusions. In 1990, ArmyCorps spokesman Ken Gardnertold the Duluth News Tribune, “I’msure if you got a few feet away fromthe barrels you wouldn’t find anytraces of any of the chemicals …there is no public health threat.”The Corps might sound “sure,”but it appears to have lied aboutthe barrels more than once. It firstsaid there was nothing dangerousin them. It even produced severalaffidavits from former workers who

swore they put “metal shavings” into thebarrels.

The Corps told the MPCA in 1976 thatthere were only seven dump sites. However,Bob Cross of the MPCA’s spills unit toldthe St. Paul Pioneer Press in 1992 that aformer Corps supervisor had reported thatthere were at least 16 dump sites.

In February 1995, Herb Bergson — thenmayor of Superior, now mayor of Duluth —threatened to sue the Army, the MPCA andHoneywell over a cleanup. No law suit hasmaterialized. Today, only the Red Cliff Bandof Lake Superior Chippewa and Rep. Jarosappear committed enough to protecting thedrinking water to confront the issue directly.The Red Cliff Band is pursuing removal ofsome barrels under its own authority as asovereign nation.

The Army, Honeywell, the EPA and theMPCA must be compelled do their legal dutyand see that the Great Lakes are protectedfrom the cancer-causing toxics in the barrels.To insure public and environmental safety,the responsible parties should be required:

* To fund an independent scientificconfirmation of the presence or absence ofradioactive materials in the barrels, toidentify and characterize the specificcontents of the barrels, and to publiclyidentify their locations.

* To fund an investigation into the stateof the barrels’ decay and the contamination,if any, of surrounding sediment.

* To fund a barrel dump remediationprogram that does not threaten tocontaminate drinking water sources ¾ evenif this means extending the water intakepoint away from the barrels.

Mayor Bergson complained in 1995 that,“The contents of at least 1,448 barrels arestill unknown to the public,” and that “Thelocation of many of the barrels is stillunknown.”

Twelve years later, it’s about time foranswers.

John LaForge

Barb stretches her hand across the 980million year time gap visible in the GrandCanyon

TransitionI am trying to teach my mindto bear the long, slow growthof the fields, and to singof its passing while it waits.The farm must be made a form,endlessly bringing togetherheaven and earth, lightand rain building, dissolving,building back againthe shapes and actions of the ground. If it is to be done,not of the body, not of the willthe strength will come,but of delight that moveslovers in their loves,that moves the sun and stars,that stirs the leaf, and liftsthe hawk in flight... I am trying to teachmy mind to accept the finishthat all good work must have:of hands touching me,days and weathers passingover me, the smooth of love,the wearing of the earth...

— Wendell Berry “From the Crest”(excerpts)

Autumn’s come to the farm post-haste. (Doesn’t it always?) Hawks are inmotion amidst the gathering clouds. Inswirling kettles (read: avian community)they pass over our fall chores and ritualson a pilgrimage of their own.

Monarch butterflies too are on themove and many stripe of terrestrial critterare afoot. Change is in the air from leafcolor to temperature.

I too am in motion. In migration. Janeand I are redefining our relationship,rediscovering who we are as individuals,adjusting by turns to friendship postmarriage i.e. divorce ... a terrain of grievingand reconciliation, letting go and goingforth. Transition.

I feel beckoned back to hospitality,spirituality and activism Catholic Workerstyle... back to the so called corporal worksof mercy under the shared roof andcommunal table of a hospitality house.The Winona (MN) Catholic Worker hasaccepted my request to join them for thecoming year. So, I will be a stone’s throwfrom this beloved farm and still in kinshipwith Anathoth.

In his insightful work, Touching TheWorld, Dan McKanan writes: “Thehealthiest communities are those that cancelebrate even when their own stability is

The GreatUnconformity

For nine days this summer I was carriedby the Colorado River 225 miles throughthe Grand Canyon. The power of theelements is consuming there.

Roughly five thousand feet below therim of the Canyon the schist and graniteare so old and subjected to so much heatand pressure that they carry no sign of lifewithin them. No fossilized sea life orplants, no microscopic protozoa or slimemold, these ancients are estimated to beabout 1.7 billion years old.

Deposited directly on the top of theserocks is a layer of sandstone filled withsigns of life and aged at 570 million years.That leaves a gap in the geologic recordof 980 million years during which time lifeon our planet sprang forward. All aroundthe globe when these same aged rockformations are exposed, the same gap inthe rock record is found: it’s referred to asThe Great Unconformity.

Reaching with the span of my handacross those 980 million lost years I feltboth insignificant and empowered. I feltthem together. In Harmony. It is thatfeeling I seek again when the turmoil ofthe world erases clarity.

Insignificant and Empowered, at thesame time – I wish for all of you anexperience like that, too.With hope for the future!

Barb Katt

threatened by changing vocations.”While I don’t see community stabilitythreatened by my departure, I do recognizethat transition of members, short or longterm, can be stretching, painful andchallenging for everyone...Amidst the realities of transition, WendellBerry’s reflection comes back to mind...“The farm must be made a form,endlessly bringing togetherheaven and earth, lightand rain building, dissolving,building back againthe shapes and actions of the ground.”

Even as I pack, numbers of heartysouls have expressed interest in bringingtheir hopes and belongings down thewinding driveway.

The seven springs, summers andautumns I have witnessed here atAnathoth leave a deep imprint on my spirit... and plenty of hand callouses. Duringthose years were lean and large maplesyrupings. Amos was born. ELF was shutdown. There were potlucks and bonfiresand a baptism on sunset hill. And lots ofMiles’s youth graduations in town. Astraw bale meditation center went up ontelescope hill. Over 139 species of birdpassed through the farm. And Lord knowshow many people!

Several springs ago, the primordialSandhill Crane returned to Anathoth’senvirons to reclaim breeding groundsvacated many decades ago. Blessed be thecrane, the harbinger of hope, the timehonored symbol of long haul fidelity...season in and out...

With gratitude to the AnathothCommunity Farm and its wide circle ofsupport ...

john heid

When Live Earth concerts on 7-7-7 cameon our radar, it seemed a perfect fit. Whatbetter place to hold a concert on the“luckiest” day of the millennium than atAnathoth Farm near Luck, Wisconsin. TheCommunity said “Why not?” Chris andKristin were willing to share their frontyard. 20 years of nonviolence,sustainability and community warrants abig party, and so the momentum began tobuild. When Mike booked BuckwheatZydeco for the headliner, we felt sure thiswas going to be big, and profitable. Thenwe saw that an average of a thousandpeople a day were visiting the AnathothFarm website! Cousin Sarah came on tohelp as part of her senior project inmarketing. Add an enormous amount ofpre-event press generated by writers wholoved everything about Live Earth Wiscon-sin being at an eco village where you couldsee the future of energy right now, wegeared up for the masses. In the final weekwe ordered 10 more portapottys, more foodvendors, another tent, more t-shirts….

7-6-7 arrived with many friendscoming in to make signs and organize foodfor artists and volunteers. The kid’s areagot set up, the stage was ready, the solarlights were ready, the extra power wasready, the medical tent was stocked. Spiritswere high over dinner; it was not going torain. Woody McBride played wonderfulmusic into the night from the bonfire hill toall the early campers and volunteers undera beautiful summer night sky.

7-7-7 dawned. The sound guys arehere. Jim works his magic on the stage andthe sound is great! Our house turns intofood central. Fry bread, beans and ricewith 2 options, (do we soak 25 pounds ofbeans or 50?!) Mary Lou and Piadad makemountains of tortellini salad and fruitplates for the artists, Linda and neighborJay cook amazing food for BuckwheatZydeco, we want this to be their favoritestop of the summer. Delicious food smellspermeate the food court, Pedro’s tacowagon, Jim’s friend with the pork sand-wiches, the local co-op with whole snacks,Jamaica kitchen with jerk sauce overeverything. The beer wagon opens, coffeeis iced, how about a strawberry smoothie?

People start coming, the show openswith the St. Croix tribal drum and jingledancers. The drum blesses the stage andthe grounds. The crowd is small, the day isgetting hotter. It is early yet we tellourselves, there is a lot of music comingup. People are not coming out in the heatof the day. The family band takes the stage

Live Earth Wisconsin: Social Capital,Compostables and a lot of T-shirts

and we play a great set. We see peoplegrabbing shade near the edge of the field.We see friends sitting in the heat, encour-aging us on. The field is big we tellourselves, people are back at the camp-ground out of the sun, there are a lot morepeople here than we think. On it goes, theIrish band Bedlam, Natty Nation and NumaRumba bringing world beat to the northwoods. The music is superb. The day iscooling off. Ticket sales pick up asFloydian Slip and Devon Evans play BobMarley favorites. More people come asSavage Aureal Hot Bed steps up andfinally Buckwheat Zydeco. Dancing andlaughing people enjoy the music as muchas any festival I’ve ever attended. Aspeople leave the show, there are greatcomments. The day was excellent: themusic, the food, the site, the sound. Weknew that. It wasall we hoped theday to be. Therejust weren’tenough people.The 95 degree daywith dangerouslyhigh heat index(formally known ashumidity) was agood reason tostay home, andpeople did.

Organizing something like the festivalis hugely stressful. Mike was the vision-ary, I was the worrier. Do we have toomuch or not enough — how much isenough when there are so many variables?Bonnie says it well: “you can’t know.”And we didn’t know. The best anyone cando is to prepare for the best and the worstcase scenario and see what happens. 600people is a lot of people, but it is not 2,000.We had a lot of everything left over. Somethings could be sent home with the manygood friends who came and worked likecrazy and then thanked us for the day, andsometimes even left a donation knowingthat we clearly didn’t make the break-evenpoint. Some things could be returned. Lotscouldn’t and we now have a significantstash of compostable partyware (my newbusiness is PartyGreen — call me if youwant to have a zero waste event) andAnathoth t-shirts with a lovely Bonniegraphic (available for a $15 or moredonation to the farm’s building fund.)

A few days after the festival, my sisterwisely told me that maybe we just neededto rethink what we generated from thefestival: from buildings funds to a

ginormous amount of social capitol. Socialcapitol is the “priceless” commodity on theMasterCard ads. It’s that real, but notnecessarily tangible entity that formssocial connections and networks that arebased on principles of trust and mutualreciprocity. The clearest examples of socialcapital for me were:

*The 100 or more people who touredthe farm during the Live Earth weekend tosee what we were all about, and gotexcited about the alternatives that areavailable to ANYONE!

*The kitchen crew: Chris, Lee, Judy,Monique and many more who assured meover and over that “we know how to dobig food” and meant it! Friends like theseare like a balm. We hope we are the sameto them.

*The gate keepers, the ticket sellers,the money counters,the schleppers, and allthe others who camefrom far and wide whojumped into theimpossible task listsand made it all happenwith good humor,energy and encour-agement, becausethey believe in thework of the farm andwanted this festival to

be a success. If success is measured bythe people who attend, I know the festivalwas just that.

The money part has become insignifi-cant in the passing weeks. Mike was ableto sign back up with the Log RestorationBusiness and has been working off thedebt. It is far more than a coincidence thatthe crew had a need for him at the same timeas he had a need for work. The physicallabor has been good for him and has givenhim time to reflect on the festival, himselfand the future of the community.

While we have no regrets about theventure, we probably will not try this againon such a big scale. It is not sustainable.More modest efforts are more in line withwhat we at Anathoth live and believe. Sonow we wait, wondering what will come ofall that effort and good energy. I believethat when things like the festival areoffered with good intentions, they do notreturn empty, and the benefits will bereaped in ways yet unknown. Thank youto all who came, to all who worked, to allwho believe in impossible dreams and therealities they can become.

We have many people to thank forjust about every reason imaginable.Friends come and plant, harvest, cutwood, put on festivals, help withelectrical needs, lend dishes, cook,give us seed potatoes, make signs,give money for new buildings ... all ofit helps to keep us going.

Grete Miles, Dan Corcoran, Maryand Nelson Harper, Leigh and BobWaggoner, St. John’s Episcopal,Mary Pat Hill, Elizabeth Peterson,Char Madigan and Rita Foster, Caroland Jerry Berrigan, Phil Warner,Mary and Jim White, Felicia Santini,Joe and Stephanie Palen, Al Gedicks,Roscoe Churchill, Laura Olah, DianeLange and William Garvey, Moira andDan Moga, Tim Lietzke, Tess andBob Koenig, R.A. Broda, MargaretPenning and Dan Guenthner, Minkoand Jerry Werle, Lucy and Pat Basler,Jean and Bill Basinger, Virginia andWill Rhodes, Sandy and MikeGutmann, Sue Marxen, Carol andKen Masters, Larry Olds, Mary BethLaForge, Peg LaForge, Gary andKathy Tonkin, Christine and SteveClemens, June Prange, Dorothy andJim Kass, Mark Leininger, SadieGreen, Jack Shelton, KurtGreenhalgh, Patty Olson, Sa Chuand Dan Bednar, Joy and RobertJohnson, Evie and Dan Beal, Judy

and Bill Jehorek, Chloe Manz,Joyce and Tom Kessler, Linda,Jim, Sarah and Micah Miles,Curt and Brian Spengel, Emmaand Philip Miles, Paul, Chrisand Steve from Ireland, Kristinand Chris Boland, NancyStewart and Jeff Peterson, Jenand Paul Vos Benkowski, SuePope and Paul Heinrich, MattBlackwood, Betty and BillHurst, Chaz Self and family,Heidi Krattinger, MarkSherman, Justin Gleicher,Colleen Allen and Kris

Schmid, Carl Sack, Donna Howard,Laura Grover and Chris Sloan, JennyHauf, Kim, Mark and PashaSherman, Frank Shelton, and if we’veforgotton your name we apologizeand hope to never do that again.

Thank youMiner, Bob Koszarek, David Schall,Darrell Schaapveld, Ruth White,Brenda Johnson and Jay and SamStackhouse, Mary Lou and Gene Ott,Polly and Peter Edmunds, Monique,Eli and Pam, Chris, Elizabeth andchildren, Chris Meyer and Ruth Adix,Christine and Lee George, JoelKilgour, David, BahiaQuinlan and LindseyHajduk, Jeff Leys, AnnTurner, Barb Delaney,Kim Hrbek and MikeRust, Mike and MarnieRozumalski, Greg Klave,Chris Yocca, and JohnBachman and Phil, MattDelaney, Bridget Crozier& Emily, Lorna andCraig Knutsen, CarolHannah, Judy Kastelle,Dave Seabring, AnnetteandAaron Johnson,Patty, Brian, Mari AnneWestigard, Liza and CurtCarlson, Burnell Décor,Jody Slocum and KurtBuetow, West DenmarkChurch, Luck School,Woody McBride, CaseyBorchert and AlyssaNotermann, FloydianSlip, Devon and CeceliaEvans, Eric Schubring,Sharyl Manwiler, Mary

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