Lester Prairie News

"It's hard to believe that I'm here, sometimes," Pastor Bethany Nelson said as she gazed around her office at Bethel Lutheran Church in Lester Prairie recently.

Wednesday afternoon proved a busy one for the Lester Prairie Fire Department and other area departments who were called in to assist with two fires that were burning at the same time.

"I'm not making a lot of money, but the skills I'm learning are irreplaceable," said Hannah, the daughter of Lloyd and Carol Wortz of Lester Prairie.

For more than half a century, trains blew their whistle while rumbling into Winsted on the Luce Line, named after the Luce family of Minneapolis.