By Jeff Olsen
with drumstick and wishbone on pardon day
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December 2, 2017
Wyatt, Nate, Sharlene, and Carl Wittenburg with President Trump and Drumstick, the guest of honor
How sweet it is!
It couldn't have been any sweeter for Glen and Marlys Jaenicke of rural Wannaska, Minnesota, on Tuesday, November 21.
They were standing outside the White House in the Rose Garden watching their daughter, Sharlene, and her husband, Carl Wittenburg, shake hands with President Trump just moments before he officially pardoned the Alexandria, Minnesota, turkey farmers' two Presidential Birds.
Mr. Jaenicke, who raised turkeys for 40 plus years, beamed because his daughter, who grew up raising millions of turkeys and even came home from college to run one of his turkey operations in...
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