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Kenny Westerberg RIP

6th grade picture

I lost my boyhood friend, Kenny Westerberg, today due to complications brought on by surgery for colon cancer. We attended 12 years of school together, played baseball and basketball (played in state tournament) and did a lot of just goofing around.

I went to his wedding in 1968. It was a fabulous wedding in Boston with limousines, wedding hall with orchestra and seven course meal the likes of which I had never seen before or since.

He is survived by two sons, John and Shawn and sister Konnie Wigman.  He requested no service and that his ashes be strewn on his parents grave in Iroquois, SD.

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Me, Bob Hoevet and Kenny in I Club photo from our yearbook.

We should have been the Iroquois White Sox instead of Chiefs.

Kenny had a lead part in our Jr. Class Play

Kenny held down the post

James L. Hayes RIP

I worked road construction with Jim Hayes during the summers of '66 and '67. I visited him several times in recent years in Akeley, MN. In the summer of '67 I went to his home in Akeley with him for a weekend. 

I put him in for a Cold War Certificate but he passed away in May before I could deliver it to him. I delivered it to his widow last week.

Family at Walker, MN

Pam lined up a stay at Chase on the Lake in Walker, MN for all of us this past week.

Chase on the Lake

Max likes lounging on the lake

Ride the Rockies Report

It wasn't the 471 miles that made this year's ride hard, it was the 33,000 feet of elevation gain.

Day one was the hardest but the ride was cut short when RTR closed the route at Berthoud Pass because of bad weather causing dangerous riding conditions.

The night in Winter Park was really cold. The tent froze up and had to be packed frozen. It was still froze that afternoon in Steamboat when I unpacked.

Roger, the leader of Roger's Riders, waiting to be bussed over Berthoud when they closed the route down.

On day 6 we braked for the Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway near I70 west of Denver.

Tennessee Pass marks the original training area at Camp Hale for the 10th Mountain Division which fought in Italy and the Aleutian Islands in WWII and many places since.

Roger's Riders at Lookout Mountain, six miles from the finish at Golden, CO.

Flag Dedication Ceremony

Today Post 377 Color Guard conducted a flag dedication ceremony at the Legacy of Delano, which provides assisted living enhanced and memory care services. The flag was presented to Alex Ferrell, Executive Director.

Color Guard members: Carl Janzen, Dale Vander Linden,
Vern Lange, Dick Amundson, Mike Brandenburg, and
John Sweet, Bugler. Alex Ferrell raises the flag.

Made it home

We made it home today. My rain gauge had five inches in it. The San Antonio television station that we watched while there reported on the level of the aquifer when reporting the weather each day. So don't complain about the rain. Hopefully the aquifers here are full. Water is a valuable resource, conserve it.

Eisenhower Museum

Big day today, braking twice, once for the Eisenhower Museum.

Ike and I.

Kansas Vietnam Memorial

Today we braked for the Kansas Vietnam Memorial in Junction City. http://www.vietvet.org/kansmem.htm