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6 – FARM MARKET NEWS JULY 21, 2008
Country Coffee Shops
Kerry Benson and Richard Skalsky, owners and operators of B&S Diner in Dunnell,
serve up pans of piping hot caramel rolls to their customers on a daily basis.
Dunnell’s B & S Diner:
Good for a cup of coffee,
jumbo shrimp supper
By Justin R. Lessman
The B&S Diner in Dunnell is a hometown
favorite with a regional following.
Located right on Main Street in Dunnell — a
small but proud farming community just east
of Jackson — the diner draws everyone from
9 a.m. regulars for coffee and freshly baked
caramel rolls to Friday night out-of-towners for
occasional prime rib and jumbo shrimp supper
specials.
Owners and operators Kerry Benson and
Richard Skalsky say they enjoy catering to both
crowds and everyone in between.
“The folks here, they support their diner,”
Benson, a former employee of the diner when it
was called Mary’s Café, said. “They want a diner
here and they show us that.”
Skalsky, a Jackson native who has spent time
in Faribault and Oklahoma City, agreed, adding
that word is spreading.
“Our customer base is certainly expanding,”
he said. “We have a lot of people drive quite a
ways to get here for a meal or cup of coffee and
roll and we are grateful for that.”
But it was the hometown atmosphere
and welcoming spirit of the locals that drew
Benson and Skalsky to the Dunnell diner. That
atmosphere and spirit are reflected on the walls
of the B&S diner in historical photographs of the
streets of Dunnell and in the faces of the folks
who come in for a bite and get greeted by name.
“It’s a nice, hometown, friendly atmosphere,”
Skalsky said. “It’s like everybody knows everybody
and we all just get along real well.”
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Available at Dunnell’s B&S
Diner, Dunnell, MN, and
95 other coffee shops
across the area.
Doors open at 6 a.m. Monday through
Saturday and there’s usually folks waiting at the
door, Benson said.
“There’s the early crowd and then the 9 a.m.
crowd,” she said.
The diner’s signature breakfast dishes are two
types of hashbrown omelets — one with ham
and mushrooms, the other with taco fixings,
dubbed a “Mexican hashbrown omelet.”
“We really introduced the hashbrown omelet
here,” Skalsky said, adding it quickly became a
breakfast-time favorite.
“You lay hashbrowns down on the griddle,
scramble eggs and put over it and then add the
toppings,” Benson said. “You make it nice and
crispy and fold it all in. Everything’s inside the
hashbrowns.”
While breakfast is the meal of the day for many
at the B&S Diner, Benson and Skalsky say they
draw their largest crowds at lunch time. Diner
hours are 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through
Saturday and 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday — except
those nights when Benson and Skalsky stay open
late for supper specials — though it’s nothing
to leave the diner in the hands of the local card
players if the game runs long, Benson said.
“Every Tuesday, there’s a card club and the
ladies play 500,” she said. “If they’re still going
after we finish up, they just leave the money in
the drawer and lock up after themselves. Unless
I get pulled into the game too.”
“I’ve even sat in once or twice,” Skalsky said.
“That’s the whole meaning of this. It’s an honest,
friendly atmosphere and we love that.”
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nesting surveys for wood ducks
and mallards, in which they found
good numbers of both species.
Other work the interns have
been or will be doing this summer
include: updating watershed
maps, helping with goose banding
with the DNR, taking water
samples for water quality, testing
on a weekly basis the waters
of Jack Creek, Okabena Creek
and the outlet to Heron Lake,
submitting bi-monthly activity
reports, compiling a detailed
report of the activities and projects
they have completed along with a
photographic record of each and
compiling a daily journal of all
their work activities.
Additionally, they have
conducted sago pondweed
studies on Heron and Duck lakes,
conducted vegetative transects
with the Heron Lake and DNR
staff and have been contacting
landowners regarding their best
management practices via site
inspections of their conservation
projects for compliance and
they have both been installing
promotional signs at those same
locales.
The two interns are also
required to provide articles to the
district’s newsletter periodically,
answer the telephone and are
to provide an overview of their
summer activities evaluating
themselves and the program
as well as the people they have
worked in partnership with to the
August board meeting of both the
Heron Lake Watershed District
and the North Heron Lake Game
Producers Association.
“We also helped the Natural
Resources Conservation Service
plant 7,000 trees on a farm north
of Worthington; that was a big
project,” Johnson said. “And we
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AUCTION
CALENDAR
TUESDAY, July 22, 9 a.m., Comfrey, MN. Farmer consignment
equipment auction. Dan Pike Auction Co.
WEDNESDAY, July 23, 11 a.m., Marion, S.D. David Carter Estate,
owners. Tractors, machinery, Model A’s, tools, antiques, primitives.
Wieman Auction Service.
WEDNESDAY, July 23, 2 p.m., Lewisville, MN. Elliot & Vickie
Dewar, owners. Farm equipment, vehicles & collectibles. Kahler &
Hall Auction Service.
WEDNESDAY, July 23, 4 p.m., Beaver Creek, MN. Consignments.
Appliances, glassware, furniture, antiques & collectibles, shop items.
Duane Mulder Auction Service.
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, July 25-26, 9 a.m., Fairmont, MN. Vincent
& Jeanne Celander, owners. Tractors, gas engines, farm equipment,
signs, farm-related antiques, cast-iron seats, tools, toys & more.
Wedels, Kahlers & Pike Auction Service.
MONDAY, July 28, 6:30 p.m., Windom, MN. Naeve Family Trust,
owners. 240-acre bare farmland, Jackson County. Dan Pike Auction
Service.
TUESDAY, August 5, 9:30 a.m., Rock Rapids, IA. James C. Lora,
owner. Land. Clark Anders Auction Service.
WEDNESDAY, August 6, 8:30 a.m., Marion, S.D. Consignments.
All types machinery, attachments, vehicles, trucks, riding mowers.
Wieman Auction Service.
WEDNESDAY, August 6, 6 p.m., Rowena, S.D. Brian & Lynne
Hunter & Snowy Bluff, LLC, owners. Red Rock Lounge, Skitzo’s & 4
bdrm. home. Goeman Auction Service.
THURSDAY, August 7, 6:30 p.m., Hartford, S.D. Roger Sletten,
owner. 40 acres. Merle Miller Auction Service.
TUESDAY, August 12, 9 a.m., Armstrong, Iowa. Annual farm
machinery consignment. Rooney Auction Co.
SATURDAY, August 16, 10 a.m., Ruthton, MN. Waneta Shriver,
owner. Acreage, tractor, van, mowers, antiques, household. Mike
Carpenter Auction Service.
SATURDAY, August 16, 10:30 a.m., Jackson, MN. Don & Carol
Zebedee, Harold Skow, owners. Livestock & farm equipment. Dan
Pike Auction Service.
SATURDAY, September 6, 9:30 a.m., Lakefield, MN. Annual Fall
Consignments. Farm equipment, trucks, trailers, construction. Dan
Pike Auction Service.
SATURDAY, September 6. Annual fall equipment consignment
auction. Pike Auction Service.
THE FOLLOWING AUCTIONS ARE HELD WEEKLY:
TUESDAYS, 8:00 A.M.: Slaughter hogs, 11:00 A.M. hay/straw;
12:30 P.M. slaughter cattle; 2:00 P.M. dairy or stock cows, baby & started
calves, feeder cattle. Special dairy sales, 1st & 3rd Thurs. of each
month at Pipestone Livestock Auction Market, Inc., Pipestone, Minn.
507-825-3306.
WEDNESDAYS, 12:30 p.m.: Hay and straw sales at Jackson Livestock
Exchange, Jackson, Minn., 507-847-5679.
THURSDAYS, 10 a.m.: Weekly sale of cattle at Sheldon Livestock
Sales, Inc., Sheldon, Iowa.
TO LIST YOUR AUCTION CALL
PIPESTONE PUBLISHING at 1-800-325-6440 or
LIVEWIRE PRINTING at 1-800-658-2393