Teresa Resch left a job as senior operations manager for Ultimate Hoops at Life Time Fitness and signed on with the Raptors in 2013. Earlier this month,
A conversation with Jim Resch quickly revealed the strength of his roots in southwest Minnesota. This came with several mentions of the three-hour commutes (with one stop) made to and from Lakefield to Minneapolis-St. Paul by Jim, his wife, Brenda, and various family members.
In Jim’s descriptions, these trips were always made to or from “the Cities.” And it was comforting to know that on the prairie, where high schools have shrunk, consolidated or gone away, and the number of farmers has dwindled, one thing that hasn’t changed from my days growing up in Fulda (32 miles northwest of Lakefield) in the 1950s and into the ’60s:
We’re still either “going up to the Cities” or someone is “coming down from the Cities.