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About Dave
I graduated from the University of Illinois with a B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering. I worked in the Research Dept. of Caterpillar Inc. most of my career. I worked in the area of welding research. I retired in 1991.
I enjoy golf and played in three retirement leagues at one time. I have played a trumpet since grade school and have played in a German Um Pah Pah band for over 25 years. The bands name is Kaiser Wihlem Rattskeller Brummers. I am on the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Peoria Public Library. I have served as President and Treasurer of the organization since 1995. I have been teaching computer classes for the last 10 years. My computer knowledge is self taught. I teach classes with SeniorNet, a not-for-profit organization that teaches computer skills to seniors. I have also taught at the Peoria Public Library. With my wife Sharon we have two Arabian horses, Corey and Amego, and a 5 year old Black Laboratory Retriever named Nate. I enjoy taking Nate for 2 or 3 walks every day to the park near my house. Nate loves to socialize with other dogs in the park and trys to catch rabbits or squirrels. Fortunately for the squirrels and rabbits, Nate has never got one. I love to travel to new places and to visit friends and family.
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Book Review by Dave
BLOOD HOLLOW by William Kent Krueger
BLOOD HOLLOW is a fiction murder mystery that takes place in northern Minnesota in a town called Aurora, which is located near Iron Lake and the boundry waters. An reservation for the Ojibwe indians is nearby. Cork O'Connor, Aurora's former sheriff and owner of Sam's Place - a burger barn on Iron Lake - solves the murder of a high school girl whose body was discovered four months after her disapperance on New Year's Eve. The evidence points to her boyfriend, a local bad boy Ojibwe indian Solemn Winter Moon. William Kent Krueger combines indian lore and a complex cast of characters to solve this murder. The ending was a shocker and Corky again becomes Sherrif of Tamarack County.
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