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Kansas highway crash
A "keep out" sign is posted at the end of the driveway to the Kerber family property Monday, April 2, 2012 in Jordan, Minn. Five members of the family were killed Sunday morning when their vehicle crashed on a Kansas highway. The dead are identified as Tom Kerber, 25, and Melissa Kerber, 24, of New Prague; Joy Kerber, 14, James Kerber, 12 and Jessica Kerber, 10, of Jordan. The family was on vacation to a motocross race.
MPR Photo/Jennifer Simonson) (Read the story

This week, we visited an oasis in a western Minnesota food desert, the northern woods and the Jordan home of a family involved in a devastating crash in Kansas.

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Wind turbines
Two wind turbines at the University of Minnesota-Morris produce between 60 and 70 percent of the electricity used on campus, one of the most sustainable in the country.
MPR Photo/Conrad Wilson) (Read the story
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Kansas highway crash
A "keep out" sign is posted at the end of the driveway to the Kerber family property Monday, April 2, 2012 in Jordan, Minn. Five members of the family were killed Sunday morning when their vehicle crashed on a Kansas highway. The dead are identified as Tom Kerber, 25, and Melissa Kerber, 24, of New Prague; Joy Kerber, 14, James Kerber, 12 and Jessica Kerber, 10, of Jordan. The family was on vacation to a motocross race.
MPR Photo/Jennifer Simonson) (Read the story
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Kathy Draeger, Lake Jorgenson
Mike Jorgenson and Kathy Draeger moved their family of five from St. Paul to a 320-acre farm in Big Stone County four years ago. Much of Big Stone County has been labeled a food desert by the USDA. "Here we are in the heart of farm country and yet considered a food desert," Draeger wrote on her blog. Draeger is the statewide director of the University of Minnesota's Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships as well as an adjunct professor of agronomy and plant genetics. Draeger's son Lake Jorgenson, 7, enjoys his mom's attention at the family's farm.
Ann Arbor Miller for MPR) (Read the story