Stan just got back from four days in the Canadian wilderness. It is actually not all that wild. We do have a satellite downlink so the Camp Manager John Anderson could be reading this if he is sitting up late tonight.
There were nine publishers and managers in our group, four from our division in Shakopee.Front row, Mark Weber, general manager, Southwest Newspapers; Wayne Kasich, publisher of the International Falls Daily Journal; Dick Crawford, publisher of the Chanhassen Villager and Chaska Herald; Matt McMillan, publisher of the Hutchinson Leader; back row, Brent Schacherer, publisher of the Litchfield Independent; Rob Davenport, Advertising Director of the Daily Journal; Mark Poss, president, Red Wing Publishing; Craig Theis, Advertising Director for Southwest Newspapers; Stan Rolfsrud, president, Southwest Newspapers.
Kasich, assisted by his able rookie manager, cooked us an excellent shore lunch yesterday, cleaning slabs of freshly-caught trout on the spot to go with the piping hot American Fries and beans.
Appetizers were bacon and onion sammiches.... and warmed oysters with Gouda cheese on saltine crackers ... macadamia nuts and the ubiquitous cold beverages.
The onions were Georgian Vidalias, and sliced at one eighth of an inch, of course. Sweet onions with salty, crisp bacon on soft bread --in the outdoor air.
The weather was spring-like, no snow, some sun, wind from the north, then the south, then a perfectly calm full-moon night; you never know what you're going to get. We kept the lodge fires going every night.
