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Mike Hall, owner of Bob’s Heliarc Welding/Precision Propeller Works, welds at his shop in the Brainerd Industrial Park.

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NAPA Auto Parts along Edgewood Drive in Baxter began its life as the Standard Parts Service in 1946 in downtown Brainerd. The business celebrates its 70th anniversary this year and the 90th anniversary of the beginning of NAPA.

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BY RENEE RICHARDSON

Brainerd Dispatch Associate Editor

The year a lakes area business first opened its doors, a 1946 Buick Roadmaster fresh off the assembly line was selling for less than $2,000.

It was 1946.

World War II was over. America was getting back on its feet on the homefront. And two men - now well-known names - were opening a business in downtown Brainerd.

Seventy years later, the business continues although a few things have changed - its location and its name. In some ways the inventory is much the same, but a world apart. And its current name may not readily link a passer-by to its history.

In 1946, Standard Parts Service opened on the corner of Sixth and Front streets in downtown Brainerd. The men behind the business became well-known names in the community in Henry Mills and Clarence Holden. Their auto parts and service store opened in August

of 1946. During the next three years they opened a branch in Crookston and another in Little Falls. Neither had the longevity of their Brainerd business.

In 1949, the business moved to 317 South Sixth St., where it remained until the fall of 1965. Then it moved to 221 N. Fourth St., where the SuperAmerica and Kelly’s Garage now stand and where it stayed until a move to Baxter some 33 years later.

The Holden brothers bought the entire business after the death of Henry Mills in 1972. They continued the business two more years before selling to Bud Hennen. The company name changed as well to Genuine Parts and Service, which evolved into NAPA Auto Parts. In the following years, the business changed hands three more times between 1978 and 1986, before Larry Althringer took the reins. He moved the business to Highway 371 in Baxter in 1998 where it remains to this day as NAPA. See NAPA, Page S2

Co-owners at NAPA in Baxter Lynn Underhill and Bill Freihammer say longevity is a mix of focusing on customer service and having quality employees.

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Thousands upon thousands of parts line the shelves at NAPA in Baxter. These days a computerized program provides data on what kind of cars are in the area and what types of parts are more likely to break down.

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When she moved to the parts program she was a trailblazer for a woman in the role, Freihammer said.

Underhill said the key to the ongoing business has always been service. If they don’t have a part, they’ll search for it.

Freihammer, who started working at another parts store before making the move to HAPA, said having the right inventory is also key. He said buying the business was the right move and they haven’t looked back.

“We knew what we were getting into,” Freihammer said noting their lengthy history in parts and service before they purchased the business.

They work with a computerized inventory and said as a business they have to keep up with technology trends. They never thought they’d be selling parts online, but they do.

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These days, a computerized system analyzes what kind of vehicles are in the vicinity and what parts are most likely to break-down. If it has an engine, they are likely to have the part, Underhill said. The store offers auto parts, tools and equipment.

“We have the largest,” Freihammer said of inventory.He said NAPA is the only locally owned and operated parts store in the community. Shelves upon shelves stocked with items cover two stories of space in the NAPA building, neatly stowed and documented.

Brakes. Hoses. Batteries. Anything likely to expire on a working vehicle.

Some things haven’t changed.

“People love their cars,” Freihammer said.

They get a mix of do-it-yourselfers and professional mechanics.

“We have an excellent staff,”

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Freihammer said. “We’re very fortunate to have the staff we do.”

A plus for them comes with the summer’s warmth and clear pavement as classic car clubs bring by vintage automobiles like the 1938 Cadillac that drove up one day.

They’ve also had a Studebaker drop by. They sponsor Wednesday Night Drags at the North Central Speedway south of Brainerd. Their sense of whimsy is apparent in store displays. A little race car suspended along one wall. A collection of vintage and replica pedal cars for children.

Lasting for 70 years and continuing now, Freihammer said, comes down to the same thing it always has. “Still the same thing, still it’s customer service,” he said.

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NAPA has seen it all over the years, from the Model T and tractor parts of its beginnings to engine rebuilds in the 1960s to the present day with both do-it-yourselfers and professional mechanics with their own garages.

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Seventy years after opening its doors, and undergoing a few changes, the original business remains connected to its roots.

This year also marks the 90th anniversary of NAPA’s founding as the National Automotive Parts Association. There are more than 6,100 NAPA Auto Parts stores across the nation with more than 422,000 parts and accessories for autos and industrial uses representing the most extensive inventory in the industry, NAPA reported.

In-laws Bill Freihammer and Lynn Underhill (he is married to her sister) bought the NAPA in Baxter in 2005. A paper in a plastic protective sleeve in their offices notes the store’s history and ownership changes. There are not as many photos of the original building and locations, but there is a sense of history and links in a chain back to the company’s startup.

Freihammer said the reason for the business’ longevity has a lot to do with the quality of the employees. Many of the staff members are

veteran employees, some with more than 30 years on the job. The company employs about 20 with part time and full time staff. Other newer additions still have extensive experience in the business of keeping motorized vehicles going.

Freihammer said NAPA has seen it all over the years, from the Model T and tractor parts of its beginnings to engine rebuilds in the 1960s to the present day with both do-ityourselfers and professional mechanics with their own garages.

The store offers retail and wholesale services, tests batteries, alternators and starters and makes hydraulic hose assemblies, which it did a lot of last summer for companies involved in cleanup in the aftermath of the supercell storm damage.

Both Freihammer and Underhill blazed their own way. They describe themselves as farm kids who learned the value of a day of work early.

Underhill enjoyed working with her father with the tools, maintenance and repairs. Being outside at the family farm in Pierz was preferably to any indoor job. When she first came to NAPA about 37 years ago, she was hired on as a bookkeeper.

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Mike Hall, owner of Bob’s Heliarc Welding/Precision Propeller Works, pounds a propeller into alignment at his shop in the Brainerd Industrial Park.

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Propellers line the shelves at Bob’s Heliarc Welding/Precision Propeller Works in the Brainerd Industrial Park.

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The name may be long but the message is simple.

Bob’s Heliarc Welding/Precision Propeller Works takes what’s broken and fixes it so it’s good as new.

Owner Mike Hall said the names represent two sides of the same coin. Bob’s Heliarc Welding was started by Bob House 45 years ago, while Hall added the Precision Propeller Works portion when he took over the business 18 years ago.

House taught Hall everything he could before Hall started running the business, and the two names represent the different skill sets of the two men. Hall is good at fixing propellers and not as skilled as a fabricator.

“Bob was amazing at fabrication,” Hall said. “And I can weld anything.”

House was always known for fixing propellers, Hall said, but he was also a fabricator, so his business name emphasized his fabrication skills. Now that Hall has more of a propeller focus, his addition emphasizes that aspect of the business.

“I was good at propellers, so I pushed the propeller side of it more than I did the welding side,” Hall said. “But I kind of would like more welding projects, the fixing things.”

The current shop location in the Brainerd Industrial Park at 1205 Madison St. is across the parking lot from the original, much

smaller shop, Hall said. Despite the new signage, he said some customers still drive to the old shop. There are even original customers in their 80s or 90s who still come to the shop to fix their propellers.

When Hall first took over, some customers were reluctant to deal with him, as he was younger and less experienced than House. But over the years, Hall said they’ve warmed up and now some customers are reluctant to talk to anyone other than him.

“Bob worked magic, and I’ve got people doing the same thing now at me,” Hall said.

“If I’m not here, they say, ‘Well, I’ll come back later.’”

Hall still makes cool things from time to time, he said, but it takes him longer and he usually ends up gifting what he makes.

“That flower pot over there?” Hall said.

“It’s for sale, but I’ll give it away before I sell it.”

There’s a skill involved in hammering a propeller blade back into its correct shape without snapping it, Hall said. He does it by securing the propeller against a block mold of the correct blade angle and delicately yet powerfully hammering the blade into shape.

“You have to learn how to work the metal,” Hall said. “I like them when they’re bad like that because it gives me a challenge. I don’t like it when they break though.

That’s never a good thing.”

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Once the blade is back in its correct shape, Hall will fill in any chips in the blades, buff it out and paint it.

Hall said he recently counted up the block molds he has on site and tallied 383 blocks. Combined with the blocks he has scattered at home and other places, he figured he has around 500 blocks. The large variety of pitch blocks means he can fix a wide variety of propellers.

One of House’s calling cards was being able to repair cracks and breaks in mechanical parts like crankcases and transmissions. Instead of buying a whole new expensive part, Hall said, he can fix the old piece and make it good as new.

“People throw stuff away rather than fix it,” Hall said. “Now that a snowmobile is $15,000, people are fixing the older sleds.”

House was a longtime industrial technology teacher at Brainerd High School, Hall said, and started his business because he loved the work. His love of welding helped develop an outstanding welding program at BHS while he was there, he said, and produced some great part-time workers for the busy summer season.

Summer results in some unique challenges for the business, Hall said. People will be lining up in the shop for repairs and Hall tries to deal with them all at once, because of his perfectionist attitude toward work.

“At the end of the day I don’t go home because, unfortunately, my standards are too high for me to allow anybody to do my work,” Hall said.

Some people have said Hall’s repair work costs too much or it takes too long, he said, but it’s for a reason.

“I want to give somebody back a product that’s as good as new if not better,” Hall said.

In the summer, Hall offers full marine repairs in order to meet the larger demand. But the shop is still limited in

the repairs it can offer because of a lack of knowledge in some areas. In those cases, they refer the customer to a repair shop they can trust.

The business does a wide variety of work on boats and tries to fix them as quickly as possible, Hall said, because there’s really only four months for boating in Minnesota.

“Things always break when you want to use them,” Hall said. “We try to get people back on the water as quickly as possible.”

How busy the business is depends on factors like the water levels, weather and gas prices, Hall said. This past year has been better than most, he said, because people are using their boats again.

Because of the rising costs of new boats, they’re also putting more time and effort into fixing their older boats.

Over the last 18 years, welding technology has changed quite a bit, Hall said. When it comes to welding, 98 to 99 percent of what the business does is heliarc welding, which is an older term for what’s now called tungsten inert gas, or TIG, welding. Heliarc welding works for almost any type of metal, he said.

Only a few things remain from House’s original business, Hall said: a hammer, anvil and recently retired grinder. But the top-notch quality of the welding and repair work remains, he said.

“We can fix nearly anything,” Hall said. “And I thank Bob for teaching me how to make something out of nothing.”

Hall really likes what he does, he said, but he puts in a lot of hours at work.

It’s that trait, he said, that led House to turn the business over to him nearly 20 years ago.

“Bob, somehow, he found somebody to work as hard as him to take over,” Hall said. “I had to dedicate a lot of my time to make it.”

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Underhill said they’ll do whatever it takes and while that sometimes means they won’t come out ahead on a deal, a “good deed goes alot further.”

They had a customer who rents pontoons and depends on that summer income. After the pontoon was booked with clients for the Fourth of July, one of the pontoons needed a valve job, which could have put it out of service for the pivotal holiday weekend. One of their machinists stayed, working through lunch breaks and after hours to get the job done on time.

“They know these people’s livelihoods are on the line,” Freihammer said.

Their customer base comes from marinas, golf courses, dealers, contractors, collectors, garages and homes. Pretty much anything on wheels.

They are mindful of customers’ time and livelihood, running parts out to the mechanic’s garages.

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While many things have changed with technology leading the way, one thing hasn’t changed, Freihammer said one thing hasn’t the way an automobile can be an embodiment of freedom and an extension of its owner.

“People still love their cars,” he said.

Freihammer said the Brainerd lakes area is growing and NAPA’s name, now 90 years old in the nation and 70 here is still going strong because of the good ground work laid when it put down roots and that legacy has been passed on.

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The 1960s were important in the history of Pine River. It was then that the historical “Logsleds to Snowmobiles” book reports the loss of an emblematic business (The Lake Region Hotel) for Highway 371 redevelopment, and the founding of a vital institution.

“The loss of one regional landmark was countered almost immediately by the development of another regional institution, the Kitchigami Regional Library. Its growth expansion since 1965 may have helped ‘put Pine River on the map’ as much or even more than the Spurriers and their hotel,” the book reads.

The women of Pine River provided the impetus for the development of library programs in the city starting back in 1907, when Ammarilla Dawes,

wife of the city’s founder, George Barclay, saw a need.

In the back of Dawes’ millinery store was a rental library. That was followed by a school library in 1915, which eventually became both a school library and a public library in 1923 and relocated so the library could take advantage of a St. Paul Public Library lending program, according to the “Cass County Heritage” book.

This was with help of the Eradelphian Club and one member, Mrs. Harry H. Hill, who offered up her home for the combined library. It was then that the Pine River Community Library was officially founded. The school eventually suspended the joint venture in the 1940s because school officials thought the combination might jeopardize school funding. For several years the community library was on hiatus, but it returned.

“The state developed legislation to provide for the creation of regional public library systems,” said Marian Ridge, director of the Kitchigami Regional Library System since 1999.

“As a cooperative structure of counties, the legislation required every county to participate in a regional public library system in order to provide access to public library services.”

According to “Logsleds to Snowmobiles,” Bea Burnson of Pine River led a group of Eradelphian Club members to request organization of a bookmobile service for Pine River in the early 1960s due to this legislation.

In response, the Minnesota State Library Division appointed Marlys Howe and a Cass County committee to develop the first “county-wide library system in north central Minnesota.”

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grams. Though some once thought technology would make libraries obsolete, it appears that it has instead enhanced the library experience.

“It’s going with the times and becoming more technologically advanced,” Erickson said. “People still like to hold and smell books. Reading an e-reader in bed isn’t the same as a paperback.”

There are signs that the printed books at the Pine River Public Library still reign supreme even though people can now borrow library books from their easy chair so long as they have a library card handy.

“Even a couple years ago,” said Ridge, “I was getting journalists calling and asking if electronic materials would be the death of libraries. I said, ‘No, it will not die.’ It’s pretty much turning out I was right. The use of e-materials is flattening both at libraries and sales. The publishers like Amazon are seeing no growth in that area. Library services continue to change because people are coming to their libraries for more varied purposes, but print still reigns supreme and remains a critical part of what we provide.

Libraries are nowhere near the end of their value to the communities where they exist.”

The library is home to hundreds of books, books on CD, music compact discs, Internet access, wireless Internet access, movies and a black cat named Browser.

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A library building expansion is planned too.

“So far, we are going to do one side of the library building and screen it in with windows that close in the summer time,” Erickson said. “It won’t be heated. But people could sit out there three seasons out of the year. It would be an area where Browser can be out getting fresh air. He can sit there while people read. We thought about putting coffee out there. Once that gets going good we might consider putting a porch on the other side. It’s going to cost $18,000 and I think we have about half of it.”

Technology, of course, has also changed for the library.

“We had catalogs when I started,” Erickson said.

“Actual card catalogs where we filed the cards, and we didn’t have computers. That came later. To get the computers, we had fundraisers like a huge garage sale. I went around and picked up old appliances and things like that. Part of that money went to computers. We started with two computers, one for the public and one for the staff person. Of course, then there was always continuing education for whoever worked here.

We had dumb terminals. That was the first thing. The catalog was all words. It wasn’t fancy. It was called a dumb terminal.”

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was 23 or 24 locations, and within the next decade there were fewer people. They might sometimes find it convenient and be there, but most of the time they were going to the nearest larger community to use the branch library there.”

Beltrami County completely discontinued its outreach service, and the Kitchigami board looks at the places where the bookmobile is still used, and where it is not. They then must make decisions whether the program is still sustainable.

“It makes no sense to stop where people aren’t coming,” Ridge said.

In other changes, the system continues to progress.

The Kitchigami system may be expanding to another city soon.

“The city of Crosby has expressed interest in joining the system,” Ridge said.

“Representatives from that community and representatives from the Kitchi board will be having a series of meetings over the next few months, sort of a fact-finding committee to see if they would be a good fit. And we want to make sure any changes that are made benefit absolutely everyone in the region.

That committee will be charged with taking a look at whether that will work and whether the two bodies can kind of work well together. I think the committee hopes that by May they will have a clear sense whether Crosby will become a branch of

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The organization was funded in part by the city’s municipal liquor store. Later, people said the three Bs “Bill, Bea and Booze” - built the library.

The new system became a reality March 2, 1965.

“The Cass County Board of Commissioners established an overall Cass County Library System. County organizations, working with voluntary library workers, officially endorsed the program,” the “Cass County Heritage” book says. “State and federal library funds came to Pine River first, because of the years of service at local and county levels.”

The city of Pine River donated the use of armory facilities as the public library, marking the solidification of the Pine River Public Library, which was then called the Cass County Library Center, headquarters of the Cass County Library System since its foundation on July 20, 1965. Bookmobile services began in 1966.

In 1967, the library relocated to a building on Barclay Avenue. The relocation was done in the middle of a blizzard, and staff and volunteers used snowmobiles to get the job done.

With the addition of Beltrami and Crow Wing counties to the library system, the system was renamed the first day of 1969 as the Kitchigami Regional Library System, one of 12 systems in the state.

The library itself was renamed the Kitchigami Regional Library, a name that stood until 1986, when the city of Pine River renamed it the Pine River Public Library.

The new name was within the city’s power, since it funded the institution, according to “Logsleds to Snowmobiles.”

“Cities with libraries joined separately,” Ridge said. “Almost all of them joined between 1969 and 1970. The last city to join was Park Rapids and it joined in 1991.”

The formation of library systems allowed small libraries to have access to materials from outside of the library’s physical location.

“If it is a standalone you can’t do interlibrary loans,” said Muriel Erickson, Pine River Public Library librarian. “We have a compact agreement. All the libraries signed let everyone borrow by interlibrary loan. If you are a standalone library not connected to a region, you can’t borrow outside the system.”

“It provides residents with the region access to a range of library materials they simply would not have access to without the cooperation, particularly when you are deal-

within five years.”

The board initially planned to move the library to the same property as the regional headquarters, but plans changed with a donation from Pine River State Bank. “(The system) had actually given us some property over there,” Erickson said. “Then we were going to build there, but the bank donated this property.”

“By the time I came in July of 1999, Pine River had received the donation of the current building and decided that was the best location for the Pine River Public Library,” Ridge said.

“The building was donated in 1998,” Erickson said.

“They rented this building from the foundation for three years until they got the new one built. Then they moved over there. We gutted this and a lot of volunteer work came to take walls down and make it easier for the contractor.”

During the relocation of library materials before the 2002 reopening, volunteers stepped up once again, though this time there was rain instead of snow.

“The kids in town were great at helping move books, and they moved the cat with them,” Erickson said. “That’s when Browser came to us, was the year we were moving in. I didn’t know if I was going to even keep him, but he came in the day we moved and it rained the night before.

It flooded. It came down through the ceiling too. The kids just picked him up and moved him over here and I thought, ‘I guess I will have to keep him now.’ Now he’s 14 years old.”

The Pine River Public library has had many constants over the years. The library is known for its Halloween Haunted House, its summer book sales, and newer fundraisers such as Cupcake Wars and wine tasting events. There have been changes, however, and some of them came at a cost to the library and community. “(The bookmobile) started to scale down in the early decades of the 21st century,” Ridge said. “In part because communities no longer had enough people for us. Back when the bookmobile started, it started two years before the region and was a Cass County service. At that time it served over 30 different locations.

By the time I came in 1999 it

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ing with small communities with small physical facilities,” Ridge said. “It becomes very important that they are able to share with other people. Also, to use the dollars they have effectively. Instead of several small libraries trying to catalog materials, there is one central service location that provides the technical background and services and support services necessary so the small branch libraries can focus on public services.

They all share the materials and the staff shares their expertise and it means that anyone who lives in our communities has access to much more library services than would be available otherwise.”

Over time the library system expanded into two more counties, managing nine library locations.

The building housing both the Pine River Public Library and the Kitchigami Regional Library System headquarters eventually became too cramped. The Pine River Library Building Foundation, Inc. was formed to raise funds for relocation.

“The aisles were half this size,” Erickson said. “You couldn’t get two people back to back down the aisle. Only one person fit. With the old building when the snow melted the water would run through the front and out the back door. When we moved out of there, there was mold and everything. I think there was one side window and one front window. I think those were the only windows there.

It was really dark and it was not handicapped accessible at all. When we got this we made sure all aisles were handicapped accessible and measured everything before we put the shelves down.”

“It was so small some of the functions had to take place in the back of the building next door,” Ridge said.

“The front of that building was the public library. It was very difficult working arrangements. It was resistant to further increases in technology because of the nature of the building, and the building was not strong or a healthy work environment.

The Kitchigami Regional Library Board, in cooperation with Cass County, was able to get a Utilities Grant program through TDS. …

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Taren said the business has a good relationship with its customers - and those customers’ dogs.

“The drivers take dog treats in their trucks,” she said, noting that is a unique aspect of the company.

Robbie’s daughter, Maranda, has been a longtime driver for Pequot Lakes Sanitation but soon will move out of state. Taren’s son, Tyler Gardner, also worked for the company for a time, but he too, moved.

Robbie and Taren still enjoy the business, especially with all the help their employees give them that frees up some time, but they look forward to retiring in the near future.

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In 2008, they purchased a fully automated truck, where the driver doesn’t have to get out of the truck to dump trash.

“As long as the customers leave their carts facing the correct direction and away from posts, etc., an automated truck will speed up the operation 10 fold,” said Robbie, “even when the homes are as far apart as they are in our area.”

Over the years they also added curbside recycling service in Breezy Point and more recently in Pequot Lakes, after those cities required it.

“Nobody is required to recycle, it’s completely up to the customer,” Taren said, noting those two cities require refuse haulers to offer the service, though she said it’s not profitable for haulers. “It costs us just as much to get rid of recycling as it does garbage as far as the tipping fees are concerned. It’s a second truck and driver along with all the operation expenses.”

It once was free to haul recycling because it was free to dump it, and haulers made their money from aluminum and cardboard and county SCORE (Select Committee on Recycling and the Environment)

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Since 1995, the family-owned Pequot Lakes Sanitation has provided waste collection services to residential and commercial customers from Crosslake to Pine River, to the south end of Gull Lake to Highway 1.

The company’s family roots actually date back to 1982, when Dick Wilske bought North County Sanitation. Wilske doubled the business in the first year and then in 1995 sold part of the business the Pequot Lakes portion - to his son and daughter-in-law, Robbie and Taren Saccoman.

The Saccomans, who lived in downtown Pequot Lakes at the time, named their portion of the business Pequot Lakes Sanitation.

Two years later they bought the rest of North County Sanitation from Wilske and his wife, Kay, and the entire business changed to the Pequot Lakes Sanitation name. In 2007, the business expanded again with the purchase of Gull Lake Sanitation.

Robbie previously spent 18 years in the plumbing business as the owner of Cross Country Plumbing. At the same time he often helped his father with the garbage route by filling in for him when Wilske vacationed.

“The intent was to make sure he could retire,” Robbie said, eventually making the decision to quit the plumbing business and buy his dad’s business.

Robbie ran Pequot Lakes Sanitation with one truck by himself for about six years. The work entailed a four-and-a-half-day route in winter and six-day route in the summer.

“It was manageable for one person, but he had long days,” Taren said.

Robbie agreed: “There were a lot of 15- to 16-hour days.”

He hired his first employee, Tim McFeters, in 2002.

After severing his right foot while working on a truck at his home in 2002, Taren sold her half of a garden center/landscaping business she owned to help Robbie run Pequot Lakes Sanitation.

The business grew from one truck to two by 2002, and currently Pequot Lakes Sanitation/Gull Lake Sanitation has five trucks and nine employees. The territory covered has grown as well.

“Breezy Point boomed about a dozen years back,” Taren said, explaining a portion of the company’s growth on the residential side.

In 2003, the Saccomans moved

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Clow Stamping has made Merrifield its home for more than 40 years. The metal stamping and fabrication business has devoted that time to manufacturing quality products while “exceeding customer requirements and expectations in all areas.”

For roughly 30 years, operations have been led by Reggie Clow, who inherited the company from his parents, Everett and Gladys Clow, and serves as owner, president and CEO. The Clows started the business in St. Louis Park in 1970. The business quickly

grew too large for the facility and they found the current site in Merrifield after hearing suggestions from lakes area customers and citing a desire to live in a more rural setting.

“It took me a year to get used to (rural life),” Clow said. “I wasn’t so sure it was a good idea, but it turned out to be a great idea. I love it up here. It is a great place to live.”

At that time, the building was 15,000 square feet and the Clows only needed roughly one-third of that space to operate.

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BY NANCY VOGT Echo Journal Editor

The Nisswa A&W, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2016, has been open every summer since 1966, and has been locally owned and operated in the same location since the day it opened.

Bob Daniels, who owned Bar Harbor for a period of time, opened the downtown Nisswa A&W in 1966. He sold the restaurant in 1967 to Richard Buck. Nine years later, Buck sold the restaurant to his son, Rollin, in 1976, and Rollin owned it for 22 years.

Martha Stenglein was the fourth owner from 1998-2015, when she sold it to current owner Emma Larson.

Like other A&Ws, the Nisswa restaurant started as a drive-in where food was delivered to customers in their cars. The restaurant later expanded to add a dining room, which took the place of the drive-in. While the menu has remained mainly unchanged over the years, the building’s interior has been remodeled, and the exterior was painted in 2015.

Larson said A&W invented the bacon cheeseburger and is most known - of course - for its frosted mugs of homemade draft root beer on tap. She’s the only one who knows

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how to make the root beer, and she makes triple batches every day during the summer.

Larson grew up in Nisswa and at age 25, she bought the restaurant she’s worked at for half her life.

“I always knew I’d be in hospitality and tourism,” said Larson. “This was actually my first job. I started here when I was 13. I knew restaurants was the path I was going to take, and then the opportunity came up to buy.”

“Five” is big in Larson’s life - she was born May 5 (the fifth day of the fifth month of the year), and was 25 in the spring of 2015 when she became the restaurant’s fifth owner.

“I knew the right thing was happening,” she said of buying the restaurant last spring and becoming one of Nisswa’s youngest business owners.

“I worked every day last summer - 2,000 hours,” Larson said. “This is kind of my baby.”

Larson attended Nisswa Elementary School in kindergarten and first grade before switching to the Pequot Lakes School District. She graduated from Pequot Lakes Rollin Buck owned the Nisswa Dairy Queen from 1976-98. His daughter, Heidi, and another child are shown in this 1979 photo, when the restaurant still had a drive-in.

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“We could add another $10 million in sales here and handle it. If we get beyond that point, I’ll have to look at expanding.”

In his time running the business, Clow said he is proud of the culture that has been established for his employees and customers.

“I have a great staff, and we are very sensitive to customer needs,” Clow said. “We pro-

vide a competitive product on time. A lot of the customers want me to do the work for them, and I’m happy to do it.”

As for the employees of Clow Stamping, their president and CEO believes they enjoy what he called a fair wage with good benefits, as well as the opportunity to move up in the company.

“I pretty much always promote from within,” Clow said. “I have only gone outside for one hire in the past … All of my managers grew up in the company and eventually were promoted. There is always a chance for advancement.”

A turning point for the company, according to Clow, came roughly 12 years ago in fear of foreign competition when Clow Stamping hired consultants, who suggested the business

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cut down on unnecessary aspects.

“That was when our customers started buying from overseas,” Clow said. “I decided we had to cut the fat and lean out and stay competitive. We still practice lean manufacturing today. It really changed our culture.”

In the future, Clow expects the business to continue growing in some form, and also hopes the family business stays in the family.

“I have a 16-year-old son who may eventually take over, but he is pretty young so who knows?” Clow said. “I would like to see it become a third-generation business, but we are just going to have to wait and see.”

DAN DETERMAN may be reached at 218855-5879 or dan.determan@pineandlakes. com. Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter. com/dandeterman.

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High School in 2008, and earned her Associate in Arts degree and hospitality certificate from Central Lakes College in Brainerd.

She started working at A&W in Nisswa the summer after completing seventh grade.

“My sister worked here first, so then I started working here as well,” she said, noting her older sister, Noel, also still works at the seasonal restaurant that’s open May 1 through the annual Nisswa Fall Festival in mid-September.

The sisters come from a family that owned restaurants.

Their grandparents owned Happy Chef restaurants, where their mother worked while growing up.

“I have a crazy work ethic. It’s in my family’s blood,” Larson said.

“I love the excitement and the constant interaction with customers. I am definitely a people person,” she said, noting her love for small-town life. “It’s kind of a dream come true - my first job to my last job - and hopefully I’ll be able to pass it down to my kids someday.”

She loves seeing the local residents and tourists each summer.

“It’s cool to see grandparents come in and remember A&W as a kid and share that with the next generation and create lasting memories, especially frosted mugs of root beer,” she said.

She also loves being in downtown Nisswa.

“The sense of community we have in Nisswa is different than a lot of towns,” Larson said. “Everyone knows each other. We’re there for each other. It’s a gorgeous area.

You can’t get that in a big city.”

Larson praises her “phenomenal employees” who return each summer to work at A&W. And she advocates the restaurant’s celebration of National Root Beer Float Day on Aug. 6 every year. To go along with its theme of serving classic all-American food, the restaurant serves free root beer floats that day and strongly encourages donations for the Wounded Warrior Project. Nationwide, A&W Restaurants collect over $200,000 each year for the Wounded Warrior Project.

“I have lots of family and friends in the military so it’s close to my heart,” Larson said, noting the restaurant also offers a military discount. “They’ve given so much and we need to do what we can to help.”

During the restaurant’s off-season, Larson is a tax preparer at Nisswa Tax Service, just down the street from A&W, along with former owners Rollin Buck and Stenglein. She plans to own A&W until she retires.

“I love the idea of a family restaurant. It’s a good way to instill values and work ethic in kids,” she said.

“I’m a small-town girl who loves her hometown. I love this town and its people,” she added.

From left, three owners of the 60-year-old Nisswa A&W are Martha Stenglein, 1998-2015; Rollin Buck, 1976-98; and Emma Larson, current owner. Bob Daniels opened the restaurant in 1966, and Richard Buck owned it from 1967-76.

PHOTO BY NANCY VOGT /ECHO JOURNAL

NANCY VOGT may be reached at 218-855-5877 or nancy.vogt@pineandlakes.com. Follow her on Twitter at www.twitter.com/nancyvogt.

This photo of former Nisswa A&W owner Rollin Buck’s son, Chris, and Rooty the Great Root Bear, taken around 1979 outside the Nisswa A&W, hangs inside the restaurant today.

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