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Backyard Almanac: Blink and miss Aut-win? Get the book from KUMD!

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson
Published October 23, 2020 at 1:30 PM CDT

Two weeks ago it was 80°.

A week ago, there was no snow.

Last Friday, Larry Weber was heralding the beginning of Aut-Win.

Eight days of aut-win?  Is this the shortest aut-win EVER?

It just might be, but if you want to relive the glory days of aut-win, Larry Weber has written the definitive guide, and it's called Awesome Aut-Win.  If you would like to take a copy as a thank-you gift, click on the "donate" button in the upper-right corner of our home page and make your membership pledge online now at the $120 level.

At the bottom of the pledge form, look for the comments button.  In addition to whatever other comments you might want to make, add this request:
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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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