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Protestors lined the 11th Street bridge in Hudson on Sunday morning in a show of support for Daunte Wright and his family. Wright grew up in Hudson, and still has family in the area. Rebecca Mariscal / Hudson Star-Observer
Tobin Bonesteel creates a poster during the Hudson Bridge Group rally for Blacks Lives Matter on Sunday, April 25. The list included names of some of the Black people who have been killed in recent years. Rebecca Mariscal / Hudson Star-Observer
Daunte Wrightâs mother, Katie, center, and his aunt, Kelly Bryant, thanked people for coming out in support of Daunte in Hudson on Sunday, April 25. The Wright family used to live in Hudson, and left in search of a more diverse community, Wright said. Rebecca Mariscal / Hudson Star-Observer
Gabe Olson-Jensenâs fascination with pomology the growing of fruit took root early and soon will result in an orchard at River Falls High School.
The Wisconsin FFA and the USDA recently awarded the sophomore $10,000 for his project âImplementing Organic Practices in Modern Apple Growing.âÂ
In seventh grade, he became interested in fruit trees and contacted University of California-Riverside requesting information about citrus seedlings. He ended up being mentored by the citrus program director and learned the process of grafting.
At 14, he began working at Maple Leaf Orchard, a Pierce County farm near Spring Valley, where he credits the owners in teaching him much about apple farming practices. He then began research on his parentsâ acreage, planting 75 apple tree rootstocks, grafting all to produce Honeycrisp apples.
Wannie M. Johnson, of Park Rapids, MN, passed peacefully on March 5, 2021 in Riverside, CA.
Wannie was born in Woodville, WI on March 30, 1931. She grew up in River Falls, WI and graduated from River Falls High School in 1948. She married Dean Robert Johnson on November 19, 1952 in Pasadena, CA. Wannie graduated from Wisconsin State University - River Falls in 1955 with an Elementary Education degree and later earned her Master’s Degree in Southern CA. She was a dedicated kindergarten teacher for 32 years in San Bernardino, CA.
Dean and Wannie’s greatest joy was to build a home on Little Sand Lake in 1967. They spent many summers traveling back and forth between San Bernardino, CA and Park Rapids, MN while they were still teaching. They retired to Park Rapids in 1987 and enjoyed golfing, fishing, entertaining family and friends, and traveling extensively. They spent winters south in many places, but liked living in Canyon Lake, TX in later years. After Dean passed in 2007, Wan
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