By the time you read this for the most part the election will be history. Of course the best part of it is no more commercials, letters, editorials, lawn signs, and telephone polls and surveys.

A n ad published in small town newspapers is making its way around our state. It begins with a comment on the upcoming marriage amendment, then moves to a curious deprecation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America .

He was raised and educated in Glen Ullin and Almont, where his parents, Ralph and Pearl Tavis, owned and operated the Tavis Cafe.