JEFFERSON — Glenn and Amber Fleming were just settling down for a quiet winter’s evening earlier this year when there came a knock on the door.
Their friend Jeff Schmidt seemingly needed some help unloading some donations for the upcoming meat raffle for the Jefferson Sno-Hawks snowmobile club.
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