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Lind: Many Old Timers identified

One of the favorite performing groups of past years was the Fairmont Old Timers, which had its own show on WDAY Radio and played for many area events, sponsored by the Fairmont Creamery, Moorhead.

• Fairmont Old Timers

Lind: Mother continues to wait for justice in son’s death

It’s been almost four years since John Lindeman was shot down in cold blood in Phoenix. But his killers still haven’t been found.

• John Lindeman

Neighbors: Poem of long ago taught children the presidents

Folks continue to write in about schools in the past having kids learn poetry.

• Bob Lind

Lind: Mentor man a reminder that many decent, heroic people do exist

News reports often are top-heavy with stories about criminals. But let’s not forget that many decent and even heroic people are out there.

• Bob Lind

Lind: A story you can sink your teeth into

You can sink your molars into this story. Charles Presler certainly did. He’s the guy in the picture pulling with his teeth a truck loaded with men.

• Charles Presler pulls a truck with his teeth

Lind: North Dakota grad escaped enemy territory safely in Vietnam

Richard Pieterick was on the Wolford (N.D.) High School basketball team that lost the 1968 North Dakota state Class B championship game to Casselton.

• Richard Pieterick in Vietnam

Neighbors: If you are in this old 4-H photo, Chet will buy you a coffee on Wednesday

Want a free cup of coffee and a piece of pie? Well, all you have to do is let Chet Larson know you are in this picture.

• North Dakota 4-H group from 1952
• Bob Lind

Lind: Readers remember horse-drawn school wagons, or ‘hacks’

Well, here we are in 2013, and Neighbors is looking forward to what you folks will send in to this column this year.

• School bus of yesteryear

Neighbors: Even 105-year-old Eva is critical of the Twins’ moves

Eva Charon plays cards (bridge, pinochle, cribbage) five days a week. She quilts and watches TV (the Game Show Network and Minnesota Twins games).

Lind: New year brings ‘old days’ to mind

While we look ahead into the new year, neighbors, let’s not forget the so-called “old days,” both to bring up memories for folks who went through them and for the younger generations, to give them an idea of how people lived back then.

• Bob Lind

Columns

Lind: Columnist Lubenow made lasting impression on former classmate

Longtime readers of The Forum will never forget columnist Wayne Lubenow. Reading his folksy column was an everyday must.

• Wayne Lubenow
• Bob Lind

Song draws more response

The song “My Cathedral” from the old Don McNeill’s Breakfast Club radio program lives on.

Lind: More readers weigh in on how best to garnish lefse

Ideas about what to put on lefse continue to roll in. Somehow, lutefisk becomes involved, too.

• Bob Lind

Lind: Ministry gives hope, guidance to female inmates

The napkins on the tables, Karen Adams tells the women, are “crying towels.” That’s good, one of the women tells her, because “we do a lot of crying here.” “Here” is the Cass County Jail in Fargo. The women are inmates.

• Bob Lind

Englevale, ND, man recalls blizzards

It sure doesn’t look like spring around the region. So, in keeping with the on-going winter-like weather, here are some recollections of three blizzards as reported by Jim Dick, then and now of Englevale, N.D.

Of nurses, quints and lefse debates

Lois Ebentier, Moorhead, writes that her friends are calling her a “celebrity.”

Lind: Older generation didn’t waste, ‘used it up, wore it out’

Young folks who blame older generations for making the planet a mess because they wastefully threw away too much stuff have it all wrong, according to Roger Engstrom, of Detroit Lakes, Minn.

• Bob Lind

Lind: ND attorney general distantly related to 1940s-era Esmond grocery store owner

Neighbors carried a woman’s reminiscences of the winters of the 1940s early this year, including a story about her father riding horseback to a small store near Esmond, N.D., for groceries. That store, she said, was owned by the Stenehjems.

• Bob Lind

Lind: Moorhead man recalls horseback ride through blizzard in 1944

A month ago, the Fargo-Moorhead region was hit with a major winter storm that created its share of problems, primarily in terms of getting around. But that was nothing new for longtime area residents like Manuel Jerger, Moorhead.

• Bob Lind

Lind: Soldier’s bracelet unearthed in Germany, returned to family

It’s March 12, 1945, on the outskirts of the village of Bubingen, Germany, and near the Germans’ Seigfried Line, putting the U.S. 63rd Infantry Division under intense German artillery fire.

• Soldier's bracelet
• Gordon Strom
• Bob Lind