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U-Haul Company of Texas is pleased to announce that Patriot Auto Repair signed on as a U-Haul® neighborhood dealer to serve the Atlanta community. Patriot Auto Repair at 1914 W. Main St. will offer essential services like U-Haul trucks, trailers, towing equipment, moving supplies and in-store pickup for boxes. U-Haul has teamed with independent dealers to offer moving equipment since 1945. With the COVID-19 outbreak creating challenging times for small businesses, more than 20,000 dealers across the U.S. and Canada are creating supplemental income through their U-Haul partnership. When a customer rents from a U-Haul dealer, they are directly supporting an independent small business in their community.

Atlanta was founded by veterans and has always been home to many. Today more than 10% of Cass County’s residents are veterans. To commemorate the upcoming Memorial Day, we are reprinting some veteran news from issues past for the next few weeks.

Like so many of you, I can look at my past and see several “turning points” in my life. Why does a North Dakota “flatlander” end up marrying a Missouri “hillbilly”? There’s a story there for another time. I’ve often reflected on my college days working for JC Penney in the lingerie department back in the days when women wore full slips and half slips. Often they’d hold one up, evaluate it and drop it and I had the “opportunity” (likely not my word of choice then) to refold it and put it in the right bin. To this day, I can’t hold up a folded item in the store and not refold it. Now, opportunity was the right word!