![]() ![]() He pitched a large canvas tent on his land along Eagle Lake and invited Anderson and his co-founders to meet with the outstate group. Thanks to the event, Lovander controlled a pot of more than $20,000. ![]() They sold 484 tickets, according to a front-page West Central Tribune story about the chapter’s first banquet held in April 1983. Friends, including Lee Wierschem, went to work selling tickets, unsure of their prospects. Lovander committed the upfront money for a minimum of 200 meals at the Kandi Entertainment Center in Willmar. Kandiyohi County’s founding members were soon to do much more. “I do my own August (roadside) counts,” Lovander said he responded. “Do you hunt pheasants a lot,” Anderson said he asked Lovander. He responded to Lovander’s phone call with some caution. Anderson was lured to one caller’s “fundraiser” only to find a few guys gathered around a case of beer in a small house, he said. Others had already called him with all kinds of big offers. “I was getting a lot of calls from crack people,” said Anderson, explaining he had initially answered Lovander’s call with some skepticism. His group would be the first outstate chapter. Lovander, known to many as “the governor,” had originally answered Anderson’s call by telephoning him to say he was putting together a group in Kandiyohi County. ![]()
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