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Michael “Mick” Simmons peers out of his ice cream trailer window at three children on an overcast Tuesday afternoon at the Shoreview Farmers’ Market. The youngest, a boy, shouts: “Ice cream! Ice cream!” The 73-year-old owner of Grandpa’s Ice Cream has served homemade scoops at the market for five years. His company started 16 years ago when he and his wife traveled to Italy and were inspired by the gelato. Four storm-damaged tents and one trailer later, Grandpa’s Ice Cream has become part of the market’s character. However, this year’s market looks far different than years prior. Half the vendors. Half the kids. Half the profit. “Without kids, we don’t get very many people stopping for ice cream,” said Simmons, who explained that the financial consequences of COVID-19 have been more frightening for him than the virus itself. According to Shoreview Recreation Program Supervisor Stephanie Schutta, fewer parents have been bringing their children to the market. “We used to do free kids’ activities at the market during a normal season. We’ve had to cut that,” she said. Prior to the virus, local bands, entertainment and activities were offered. Despite the downturn in family attendance this year, however, locals have turned to the farmers’
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The 32-year-old Hugo resident says her friends have always joked that her life is like a Michael Myers movie. “I have been in the worst relationships. I pick the worst guys,” she said. “It is kind of a pattern.” Guthrie said she has been in five emotionally abusive relationships, some of which became physically abusive, too. Guthrie reconnected with someone she went to high school with. They got married, bought a home and had a daughter. “He kind of always had this underlying drinking problem and I didn’t realize how bad it was,” Guthrie
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s said. “The drinking got extremely bad, to the point where he wasn’t even hiding it anymore.” Guthrie recalled an incident where she went downstairs to wake up her husband and, in the process slipped on his vomit on the floor. She woke him up from a drunken nap and he got very angry. The police were called. He wasn’t physically abusive, she said. “That is one thing he never did. It is something that I used to justify a lot of things he did. He doesn’t hit me like my other boyfriends did. He doesn’t throw me at elevators or push me down the stairs,” she said. Guthrie recalled another incident that occurred while she was pregnant. Her husband was drinking and depressed, then put a loaded gun to his head. “He went to put the gun down and it went off and went through our floor,” she said. “I told him if he ever brought a loaded gun out ever again, I would leave him.”