'Just one more thing'
Q and A
Ron Thorson
Age: 71.
City: Breezy Point.
You're visiting the Farmer's Market today (July 30): "My wife, Sandra, and I try to make it once a week to the Farmer's Market here in Nisswa. We like to purchase beets and beans and potatoes, all the fresh produce."
Ron Thorson of Breezy Point visited with the vendors at the Farmer's Market in Nisswa in July. Brainerd Dispatch/Jennifer Stockinger » Purchase reprints of this photo.
Family: Wife, Sandra; four adult children; and five grandchildren with the oldest one who is done with college and the youngest one who is age 5.
Greatest extravagance: "Food. I love food. My favorite dishes are the traditional meals, like pork roast and mashed potatoes."
Dish you cook/crowd pleaser: "Salmon patties with creamed peas and mashed potatoes."
Volunteer work: Lutheran Church of the Cross in Nisswa, the food shelf and the Interfaith Hospitality Network in Brainerd.
A saying you say a lot: "Just one more thing."
Precautions you take in life: "I'm careful with how I walk for fear out of dislocating my hip. I've had an artificial hip for three years and I worry about breaking it."
If you die and you could come back as a person or thing what would it be: "A black Lab."
Hobbies: Yard work and gardening.
- Jennifer Stockinger