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Celebrating the women who kept the home fires burning (and the economy moving) during WWII

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published February 28, 2019 at 1:17 PM CST

March is Women's History Month, and March 21 is National Rosie the Riveter Day.

Here in our community, the Veterans Memorial Hall is expanding their work of collecting oral histories from veterans and is asking for the stories of local "Rosies," the women who kept American functioning while the men were overseas.

If you or someone you know would like to participate in this project, contact Pippi Mayfield at 218-733-7507 or email her at pippi@thehistorypeople.org.

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Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.

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