Published May 05, 2009, 12:00 AM


Brad Greenway, left, Matt Meyer, Matt Baker, Joe Koch, Ron Baker and Ronny Prien sit down for lunch Monday with Dean Baker and son Aaron Baker, right, in Ron Baker’s garage after a morning of planting corn. Friends, family and neighbors gathered to help the Baker family plant 240 acres of corn following the death of Dean’s wife, Kathy, on April 27. (Laura Wehde/Republic Photo)
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