State report states truck was traveling at a high rate of speed in the parking lot.
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ONAMIA A 72-year-old Brainerd woman was killed Thursday, Jan. 7, when she was struck by a truck leaving a convenient store in Onamia.
The Minnesota State Patrol responded to the fatal collision at 6:28 p.m. at the Super Stop off Highway 169, just north of Onamia. Troopers learned a Chevrolet Silverado was traveling at a high rate of speed in the Super Stop parking lot when it struck a pedestrian as she was leaving the store. The Mille Lacs Sheriff’s Office reported the vehicle crashed into the building after it struck the pedestrian.
First National Stores usher in age of the supermarket in Gardner
First store of its kind in city attracts 10,000 people to its grand opening
Mike Richard
Special for The Gardner News
The decade of the 1950s opened up a wide world of newness and novelty for society in America. World War II had ended and a new prosperity gave way to a baby boom explosion of automobiles, television and rock n roll music.
Another of these unique innovations – the supermarket – made its debut on the local scene 70 years ago last spring with the opening of Gardner’s first shopping headquarters, the First National Stores at 57 City Hall Ave., on April 27, 1950.