Peek at the Past

Published Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Here are local and area highlights in history for Dec. 3, gleaned from the files of the Albert Lea Tribune:

1988 — One of the events for the first Albert Lea Winterfest scheduled for Feb. 3-5, 1989, would be a volksski at Helmer Myre State Park.

1978 — Eleanor Wong Telemaque’s book, “It’s Crazy to Stay Chinese in Minnesota,” was being released by the Thomas Nelson publishing firm of Nashville, Tenn. (Her father, the late Sammy Wong, was the owner of Albert Lea’s Canton Cafe.)

1958 — The Egg Institute of Freeborn County was proposing that area poultry farmers join a state program to label and sell Grade A eggs.