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Saturday, December 14, 2024: Christmas letter.  Greetings from Mark and Paula Persons Brainerd, Minnesota |
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We ate our way across the Minnesota State Fair again this year. It took three days, and we didn’t get covid! We enjoy the music the most. Paula is still SCUBA diving with almost 1100 dives. She carved Halloween pumpkins underwater in Crosby and at the Great Lakes Aquarium in Duluth. She continues to volunteer feeding fish and cleaning tanks at the Aquarium in the winter. We attended a broadcast engineering conference followed by a tour of ETC in Middleton, Wisconsin. ETC designs and makes theatre lighting. A very impressive operation. We (Mark and Paula) were inducted into the Minnesota Broadcasters Hall of Fame as a team in our business of 44 years. The ceremony was held in Rochester, MN, on October 1st to a standing ovation. We join the ranks of well-known on-air personalities such as Charlie Boone, Don Shelby, Franklin Hobbs, Halsey Hall, Herb Carneal, Stanley Hubbard, Paul Douglas, Roger Awsumb, and Steve Cannon. Only a few engineers have been inducted and very few couples. Find out more and hear radio interviews on our website at: http://mwpersons.com Since then, we have been interviewed on five local radio stations about the award. Paula, as a member of the local Daughters of the American Revolution, is still cleaning veteran graves. The group has cleaned some 600 over the past six years. Mark is an avid amateur photographer and website writer. His BrainerdVFW.org/ won first place no less than four times in Minnesota VFW competition. Another is: SBE17.org/ (the Society of Broadcast Engineers.) Still another is the GilbertLake.org/ He has also turned into a great handyman repairing things on the homestead – which Paula is loving – a talent he kept hidden until he had time in retirement. For a week this winter, we head to Bonaire, a Dutch island about 50 miles off the coast of Venezuela. Paula will be diving while Mark will visit a high-power radio installation and an amateur radio station. Find out more on our Blog: GilbertLodge.com/ Paula is Paula@mwpersons.com and Mark is Mark@mwpersons.com We want to take this time to wish you the best during this holiday season and may the upcoming year bring you health, joy and peace. Mark and Paula Persons. |
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Merry Christmas. Mark |
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