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Hard Work, Consistency, Family and Faith Drive Big G - Aug 7, 2008 - 9:03:53 PM

Garth and Ruth Grafft inside their store, Big G Foods in Marengo. The couple opened the store in 1998. It currently employs around 50 people. Laura Timm Photo
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MARENGO
- When Garth Grafft was around twenty years old he and his family found
themselves facing hard times on their farm in Olin, Iowa.
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Attendance is all that matters - Jul 31, 2008 - 10:04:11 PM

“The river and the trees and the paths had healed us both. The anxieties of the day had been defeated, at least for a day or two...” Laura Timm Photo
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July has escaped us. This hard earned summer, though not yet packing to leave, has made appointments with autumn.
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