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January 22, 2016
Oregon
Shop supervisor’s creations
power ag center’s experiments
By GEORGE PLAVEN
EO Media Group
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Shop manager Paul Thorgersen performs routine maintenance
on a weed whacker at his shop at the Columbia Basin Agricultural
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