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Soroms receive Spirit of A.Z. Wells Award.(KEEPING UP WITH PEOPLE)

Wenatchee Business Journal, August, 2007 by Marantos, Jeanette

Their home town was named Lanesboro, not Lake Woebegone, but everything else about Terry and Suzanne Sorom's Minnesota childhoods sounds like a skit fight out of Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion.

Instead of the Chatterbox Care. Laneboro's bachelor farmers drank their coffee at the Chat and Chew. Scummy Benson ran Gunderson's Tavern with his partner, Moose, and turned a blind eye when young rabble rousers like Terry sneaked into the pool room next to the bar--as long they kept quiet.

The Soroms were born in the same hospital and attended the same school. It was the only school in town.

"There was a little Catholic church on one side and the Lutheran church on the other, with the school between them," Suzanne Sorom said. "The biggest...

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