Donations taken to Spokane

DUSTY — Homestead Ministries took a horse trailer of clothes and four bicycles to Spokane to “Off Broadway Family Ministries.”

Donations have been given all summer long.

Thank you to everyone who gave warm clothing and other needed items and thank you to Tom Riedner and Roger Zaring for providing delivery service.

A two-day guest of Karen Broeckel was former LaCrosse School classmate Carmi Cummings Thompson. Thompson was traveling between her home near Victor, Mont., to her other home in Mt. Vernon, Wash. Thompson’s parents used to own the cafe in LaCrosse during the 1950’s so the two took a t...