It’s 5 a.m. and cold, dark and quiet outside a western Minnesota motel. Cold and dark it will remain for a while longer. Not so the quiet. In the warm glow of light from our motel room, my ...

Steve Hansen became reacquainted with Ward Holasek in 2009. As a child, Hansen used to see Holasek’s family at his church and remembered that their farm, located just east of Waconia along ...