By Deanna Anderson
Coleridge Blade
COLERIDGE — Mike and Mary Biltoft have already received the best Christmas gift they could ever have.
After hearing the frightening word cancer, enduring surgery and weeks of treatment, he received a good report from doctors.
“With his scan this month we were given the greatest Christmas present a person could receive — no signs of cancer for now — a miracle and a blessing,” said Mary.
It was the middle of March when Mike was first diagnosed with cancer at the hospital in Osmond.

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By Deanna Anderson
Coleridge Blade
COLERIDGE — Mike and Mary Biltoft have experienced first-hand the difference prayer can make in your lives.
They not only found support from back home, they found hope at the home-away-from home for cancer patients they stayed at in Rochester, Minn.
The couple stayed at Hope Lodge for five weeks while Mike received both radiation and chemo treatments at Mayo Clinic.

“You have to wait for an available spot at Hope Lodge,” said Mary. “We only stayed two nights in a motel before moving into Hope Lodge. We had our own bedroom and bath upstairs. On the main floor there were TV rooms and eight kitchens — you shared a refrigerator and had a shelf in the cabinets for your things.”

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By Deanna Anderson
Coleridge Blade
NORFOLK — District Court Judge Patrick Rogers will retire in January after serving eight years on the District Court bench in the Seventh Judicial District.
Rogers grew up in Randolph and graduated from Randolph High School.
He attended Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa and graduated from the University of Nebraska Law School.
Rogers came back to his hometown and practiced law in Randolph from 1969–1995.
Rogers was appointed as a County Judge in the Sixth Judicial District in 1995 and served in Dakota City.

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Local friends and neighbors gathered together recently to help the family of Jon and Carol Milander harvest their crops following the death of the Milanders’ daughter, Kristin.

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COLERIDGE — Lifelong residents of the Coleridge community were honored at the Nov. 26 Community Thanksgiving Service.
Earl and Shirley Papenhausen received the 2008 Community Service Awards which were presented by the Coleridge Christians Caring Committee.
Both Earl and Shirley have served their community and have been faithful members of their church over the years.

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