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Fri, May 09 2008

Mankato Magazine

Mankato City Magazine with features from around Mankato, North Mankato and South Central Minnesota

PHOTO GALLERY: Mankato Magazine Faces and Places, May 2008

See a photo gallery from the May 2008 Mankato Magazine's Faces and Places.....more>>

Mankato Magazine: All in the family
Mankato Magazine: On the rocks
Mankato Magazine: Austins Auto
Mankato Magazine: Cabin 'off the map'
PHOTO GALLERY: Mankato Magazines Faces and Places, April 2008
View a photo gallery of Faces and Places in the April, 2008 issue of Mankato Magazine that will be distributed March 28, 2008.
PHOTO GALLERY: February 2008 Mankato Magazine Faces and Places
See images from the Faces and Places feature in the February 2008 issue of Mankato Magazine.
Mankato Magazine: Jerry's Body Shop
Jerry and Geralynn Kottschade have been operating the Mankato auto collision repair business for 36 years.
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Mankato Magazine: Familiar faces
Maureen Rodriquez runs Me and My Master pet training.
Mankato Magazine: Q & A with Laura Diaz
Mankato YMCA Program Director found her calling with the starting of a part-time job
Mankato Magazine: Revved up cycle riders
They’re like proud parents, these motorcycle owners. Bonnie Sack of St. Peter coos while she watches her husband park her cycle in the garage.
Mankato Magazine: Familiar Face
Doug “Digger” Rodell
City of residence: Mankato
Age: 44
How long have you lived in the area: All his life
Job title: Manager of Spinners Bar in North Mankato
Work history: Bartender at the Holiday Inn at age 19 from 1981-85; at T.J. Finnegan’s Pub from 1985-2000; at Hooligan’s Neighborhood Pub & Grill from 2000-2002; and also worked at Choppers Bar & Grill, Buster’s Bar and South Street Saloon
Married?: Single with no children
Mankato Magazine: Chad Surprenant
Chad Surprenant
Local history: Born in New Ulm, raised in Mankato. Currently lives near Lake Washington
Education: Graduated from Iowa State in 1993 in Civil Engineering.
Family: Wife Tara and three children: Noah (6), Ellie (3), Caleb (1).
Mankato Magazine
Mankato Magazine is a lifestyle magazine profiling people, places and lifestyles of the Minnesota River Valley.
Magazine profile: Duncanson farm family
Evoking the words “family farm” in 2007 conjures a different image than it might have a few decades ago. The Duncanson brothers, Pat and Karl of Mapleton, agree times have changed, and yet, in some ways, have stayed the same.
Pomp for the graduation parties
How local families help each other out when it comes time for graduation parties.

What is this?

Engagements

• Desotelle-Bomier
• Zander-Mielke
• Sellner-Nelson
• Peterson-Hawkes
• Pick-Krumm

Sports

• West splits doubleheader with Mayo
• Tigers hold off Giants in extra innings
• Mavericks net new women's soccer coach
• New race off and running Saturday
• West boys earn state track berth

Editorials

• Our View: Mortgage bailout bears risk
• Our View: Rigorous journalism still needed
• Our View — You can’t eat ethanol
• Our View — Gas tax holiday a bad idea all around
• Our View: Spring Lake now better than ever

Currents

• Festival season coming
• Closeup: Symphony to present 'Brahms and the Gypsies'
• Some performers stay in character
• Entertainment Calendar: 5/8-5/14
• Adjuncts OK at MSU

Outdoors

• Water will be chilly for fishing opener
• Minnesota Fishing Report: Updated May 3
• Plenty of fishing hot spots in our area waters
• Le Center anglers take top honors at tourney
• Tragic incident could have easily been avoided

Your View

• In recognition: Volunteers made West prom a success
• In recognition: Book sale was a huge success
• Your View: Cornish needs to stop worrying about his agenda
• Your View: Spiritual implications of debate can't be ignored
• Your View: Act would help thousands of students

Family

• Recall: Dune buggies, ejection danger
• Recalls: Children's storage bins
• Recalls: Nintendo lapel pins; beach chairs
• NEW: EPA orders stores to pull Miracle Gro
• Recalls: lawnmowers, heart drug

Multimedia

• PHOTO GALLERY: Mankato Magazine Faces and Places, May 2008
• PHOTO GALLERY: Central High School Rocketry Club
• PHOTO GALLERY: The March 29, 1998 tornado
• PHOTO GALLERY: Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton boys basketball at the state tournament
• PHOTO GALLERY: Maple River boys basketball in the state tournament

Web Extras

• Weird News: They're armed and clumsy
• Weird News: He who hesitates is lost (and arrested)
• Weird News — Not too proud to parade some chutzpah
• Weird News — They want their rights
• Weird News: It's never my fault

Business

• Wall Street quietly rises: gas at record
• Wall Street retreats on oil price
• Corn near record price: oil to blame
• Wall Street moves higher despite oil hike
• E.U. leader: biofuels blame for food overblown

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