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Written by Joel Klaassen Tuesday, 21 May 2013 15:55
Irv Schroeder was one of a kind. He lived to age 90 years and packed a lot of life into all of them.I learned to know him after he and his family first moved to Hillsboro when he bought the Chevrolet-Oldsmobile dealership on North Main where Hillsboro State Bank is now located. It was 1962. A few years later he built a new facility where USD 410 District central office is now.
He was one of Hillsboro’s biggest boosters wherever he went. He never met a stranger, and more people in this area knew Irv than anyone else I can think of. He was a people person in every sense of the word.
Promoting his business was at top of the his list and he never missed an opportunity. Even after his retirement, he still dabbled in selling cars.
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Written by Joel Klaassen Tuesday, 14 May 2013 13:33
There is one big thing that Facebook is good for, and has changed the world for the better. That would be for sharing photos with friends and family.The rest of it, not so much. For me, it will never be about buying or selling anything, at least that is how I think at the moment.
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Nancy and her mom and I went out for Sunday brunch in Wichita for Mother’s Day. We had a great time, even though we waited for an hour to eat.
We thought that by going early we would beat the crowd, as no reservations were taken for Mother’s Day. Unknown to me was the fact that the prices were jacked up for this day, but it didn’t matter.
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During our wait at the restaurant, we met some wonderful people. As we were talking with two couples...
Written by Joel Klaassen Tuesday, 07 May 2013 14:12
We were invited to attend last week’s piano recital put on by the Tabor College preparatory school at the Wohlgemuth Center. I was very impressed with the talent on display.What was amazing to me was that none of the students appeared to be nervous. If they were, it sure didn’t show.
The youngest players performed first and on up the line to the oldest. The talent escalated as they went.
I wish now I had stayed with the piano when I was a kid. My brother Mark, who plays in two bands in Tulsa, says the same thing. My sister, Elaine, did stick with it and is an accomplished pianist and organist today. She has given lessons in the Minneapolis, Minn., area for about 20 years.
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I think it’s important for every kid to be good...
Written by Joel Klaassen Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:59
Were you ever bored as a kid? I know I was and I know my kids and grandkids were, too. However, as an adult there are a thousand ways not be bored these days. It’s easy not to be that way if you own a business, serve on a civic or chuch committee, own a house or are in charge of the household, follow sports teams, watch favorite TV shows, have a smart phone, a computer, travel for pleasure and for business, file income taxes and other taxes, fix things, remodel a house or business, and on and on—you get the idea. I haven’t been bored in years.•
Nancy and I just returned from the Association of Free Community Papers conference in Denver. We drove this time instead of flying. I had never seen the wind-turbine farm that...
Written by Joel Klaassen Tuesday, 23 April 2013 12:43
After writing about my travel misadventures last week, I received an e-mail from an Amtrak person suggesting I should take the train to Chicago next time. The note stated the train has never been canceled in more than a dozen years and probably a lot longer than that.So I checked online for the departure and arrival times and the rate. Based on what I saw, I wouldn’t have been able to make my connection for the trip to Dubuque to catch a ride to Moline. Total travel time is about 12 hours if you don’t mind leaving in the middle of the night. Time is always of the essence.
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I have always been intrigued by trains. When I was a kid in the early 1950s, my mom put us kids on the train in Mountain Lake, Minn., then picked us up 10...
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