Word: edina
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edina, Minn...
Hughes will play center between right wing Gene Purdy and left wing Tom Murray. Purdy, a two-letter-winning junior from Edina, Minnesota, is another productive scorer: 8-12-20 as a freshman, and 13-20-33 as the number three scorer last season. Hughes, Purdy and Cook will combine their talents on the power play tonight...
...socially and academically, Loegering's decision was prompted by an anxiousness to get involved in politics in some way, 1976 being a presidential year. Loegering's original goal was to gain experience working in an interesting campaign, although he had no particular campaign in mind, and went home to Edina, Minnesota in June without a job, planning to look around. Had this year not been an elections year, Loegering thinks he would have remained in school, but summers spent as an intern and aide in Governor Wendell Anderson's office gave him an interest in politics, a few contacts...
Arriving back in Edina, a new idea began to crystalize in his mind. A Minneapolis magazine had rated the Republican state senator from his district, a career politician named Otto Bang, one of the 10 least effective legislators in the state. Bang would seek reelection in November, and as of June no serious effort to unseat him had gotten underway. Loegering sought the official endorsement of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party that month and it was his practically for the asking. Primary day was September 14, but Loegering, on the strength of the party endorsement, was unopposed. Since June...
...hope to raise about $8000," Loegering said last week from his home in Edina. "We should be getting about $2000 in public funds, and $500 from the D-F-L. We've had one good coffee party fund raiser already and we're scheduling others." Loegering is buoyant and optimistic, having gotten an influential Edina Republican to serve as chairman of his campaign comittee, and having completed work on the formation of a Republicans for Loegering Committee, to be announced next week. But, as Loegering readily admits, the fight is still very much uphill. His opponent in the fall will...