Ramping up for construction season

May 2, 2025
May 2, 2025

Jim Woster

Associate Editor

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Jim Woster

My sister, Jeanne, and hubby Ray have lived in the St. Paul side of the Twin Cities for the better part of 60 years. Ray was a lifetime engineer for 3M, and Jeanne was a registered nurse for her entire career. Our daughter, Michelle, has been in the Cities, first as a student at St. Thomas in St. Paul and for the past 25 years as a resident of northeast Minneapolis. To strengthen even further our Twin Cities connection, daughter Sara, who now resides in New York, attended the University of Minnesota, and son Jim worked there for a couple years prior to his move to Los Angeles.

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Jim is associate editor of Tri-State Neighbor and also works with the SDSU Alumni Foundation.