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Eric Lohn, Co-President & CFO of St. Luke’s, has announced he will be retiring on April 12. With Lohn’s retirement, fellow Co-President Nicholas Van Deelen, MD, will be promoted to the role of sole President of St. Luke’s and of Aspirus Health’s Minnesota Region. Current VP of Strategy & Finance Chris Johnson will be promoted to Interim Chief Operating Officer. Dr. Van Deelen and Johnson will begin their new roles on April 15.

Spring Allergies Part 2 Still battling springtime sniffles? There are just as many tools to help as there are people. Remember, every person is different, so what may work for one person may not for another.

April Fools’ Day A Hero’s Journey April 1st, a.k.a. April Fool's Day, is once again upon us.

Because Pastor Enno is gone that day, I will be doing the sermon at First Congregational Church, UCC, on April 14th next; and I am mildly terrified. My last attempt to preach was a mostly easy talk about the importance of law to protect children. Before that I last tried to preach in 1964. Talk about unused muscles!

Every place has a place like this place I have this place that I go to near here, where in the spring the river is a river and it tries with all its force and wile and guile and tumult to flush the creek chubs and steelhead fries and steelhead smolt out to the great inland sea like some pod of goldfish flushed down the toilet. But this is a contest a myriad years old, and the little riverine fishes find cover from the current in the flooded bottoms, behind standing tree trunks, in the tuft grasses, in the flooded brush.