IBEW LU 965 Members Donate and Deliver 50,000 pounds of potatoes as a memorial

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Tons of taters
By Tori Rosin

The possibilities are endless with potatoes.

If potatoes are cut and fried, you've made French fries. If they are boiled and mashed, you've made potato soup. If you combine them with vegetables, mayonnaise and eggs, you have potato salad.

Jackie and Jim Mortenson proved something else can be done with potatoes Saturday morning. Along with Jackie's coworkers at Alliant Energy's Baraboo office, members of the IBEW 965, they gave 50,000 pounds of potatoes to social service organizations across six counties. "It took the effort of 45 people to do this," Jackie said. "I couldn't have done it if they didn't help me."

The Mortenson family gave the gift of spuds in memory of their father Jack, a Plainfield, Wisconsin farmer who grew potatoes for 38 years. Jim farmed with Jack, who died in March. Jim will continue to farm there. "He worked with my dad since he was a little kid," Jackie said.











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