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Bemidji Family's Close Call in the Boulder Colorado Shooting

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Louis Saxton

Louis Saxton is a gifted musician who graduated high school in Bemidji during the pandemic year and went off to college to study cello in Boulder Colorado. This week, a shooter killed 10 people at a grocery store across the street from where Louis lives as a student. On the Wednesday Morning Show Louis's dad, Robert Saxton, told us what it was like to discover that his son was in the grocery store when the shooting began, how he was able to survive the event, and how their family is coping with their feelings in the aftermath.

(In this video from the Ft Collins Coloradoan, Louis Saxton pays his respects by playing cello for those who died in the shooting.)

Maggie is a rural public radio guru; someone who can get you through both minor jams and near catastrophes and still come out ahead of the game. She pens our grants, reports to the Board of Directors and helps guide our station into the dawn of a new era. Maggie is a locavore to the max (as evidenced on Wednesday mornings), brings in months’ worth of kale each fall, has heat on in her office 12 months a year, and drinks coffee out of a plastic 1987 KAXE mug every day. Doting parents and grandparents, she and her husband Dennis live in the asphalt jungle of East Nary.