Ten Years Ago

June 7, 2007

Local small grain producers are smiling broadly thanks to steady and widespread rainfall which arrived in the area Monday evening after several scorching days at the end of May and first part of June. About three-quarters or an inch of rain fell on the area Tuesday breaking a dry month of May and about a week of hot weather. “This rain will definitely help,” said Heath Druffel, area manager for McGregor Co., in Waitsburg. “This is money falling out of the sky,” said Gary Hofer, a local wheat trader and analyst.

Charter member of the Waitsburg Lions Club, Bob Patton,...