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The Lamb Shoppe offers all-natural treatments, products, care
CEDAR MILLS — Supporting local businesses, consuming healthier products and learning about empowering wellness are three things that customers who visit The Lamb Shoppe near Cedar Mills may encounter during their shopping experience.
Since 1996, The Lamb Shoppe has offered locally raised lamb meat for customers. Over the years, the business has transformed into a natural health store and wellness center.
Connie Karstens and her husband, Doug Rathke, bought their farm in 1990. Karstens had experience with sheep after being active in 4-H throughout her life, and Rathke was a sheep shearer, so the couple knew they wanted to have a flock of their own.
A ‘Rosie the Riveter'
103-year-old Leqve shares WWII experience working on B-17 bombers
KASSON — In 1941, Helen Leqve picked potatoes to earn her bus pass to California to join the World War II civilian war effort.
The 103-year-old, like “Rosie the Riveter,” worked on B-17 bombers during WWII. Leqve lives on her own to this day, assisted by her daughter, Karen Tracy, who lives close by.
“There aren’t very many of us (female WWII riveters) left,” Leqve said.
Now, 80 years after the war, Leqve continues to tell her tale, visiting schools, Lions Clubs and historical societies alongside Tracy.
“I enjoy doing it because I think people should know what went on,” Leqve said.
