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Published December 29, 2012, 12:00 AM

Joe Lueken


In this Sept. 2, 2012 photo, Joe Lueken, owner of two grocery stores in Bemidji, Minn. and Wahpeton, N.D.,, poses for a photo Lueken's Village Foods at the south end of Bemidji. Lueken, 70, is retiring and turning hiss two stores over to an employee stock ownership program, passing up interest from several other regional grocery chains. (AP Photo/Bemidji Pioneer, Monte Draper)
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