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REGIONAL- Ashley Thaemert and Ryan Miller are both looking forward to hitting the trail on Sunday for Ely’s Wolftrack Classic. The two met through a mutual love of sled dogs, though Miller is certainly later to the game.
Mushing might seem very romantic, wearing a fur-trimmed parka and driving a sled through the snowy woods with a team of dogs barking in the lead. But the reality of caring for and training these four-legged athletes is a different story. There is daily care and feeding, veterinary care, yard cleanup, and of course the time needed to establish a bond with each dog, learn each dog’s strengths and weaknesses, and then train the dogs to run as a team.
Dec. 17 was the first, of what hopes to be, many shipments of potatoes from Quincy to a Frito-Lay facility in Perry, Ga.
Thaemert Farms, a Quincy area potato farm, has been working with Frito-Lay since 1983. Normally they send potatoes by semi truck to Frito-Layâs Vancouver, Wash. facility. Recently, however, Frito-Lay reached out to organize one shipment of potatoes to go by railcar to Georgia. This is a trial run to see if it could be implemented in the future.
It will take 17 days for the potatoes to travel from Quincy to its final destination in Georgia. The railcar is completely temperature controlled in order to keep the potatoes from going bad along the journey. The railcar will be kept around 52 degrees Fahrenheit.