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| Our cabinet designer Beth, with Becky. |
More than that, her Collins Cabinets company is located in rural Alexandria, just across the County Road from the Strandberg farm, where, while driving Paul home back in 1964, Stan blew out the engine on Mom's 1957 Oldsmobile.
We were introduced to Beth Collins by our neighbor and interior designer, Becky Loebertmann this morning. Becky had no idea of the old home week that would briefly overwhelm her planning meeting.
Beth helps run the Collins Cabinets family business. It was founded by her late father. Beth lives in Minneapolis with her husband, but maintains a home in Alexandria near Lake Darling. She's on I-94 a lot, shuttling between the busy workshop and the Twin Cities market.
The two ex-Cardinals could have chatted away all morning, but there was work to do. (Beth was the captain of the cross-country team in the 90s. Stan's ninth-grade basketball coach, Casey DeJong, is now 80 years old and still helps out at Collins Cabinet. And of course she knows the Sonstegaards and the Strandbergs. And can barely remember Triple R Sports before it became The Bugaboo Bay.)
It's going to be nice to be able to say that our master bath was re-built by friends from Stan's hometown.
