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Royal roots firmly planted

by Chanet Stevenson
| November 9, 2017 2:00 AM

ROYAL CITY — Mother's Day of 1958 saw the strongest wind Ted Christensen had ever encountered. Tumbleweeds clogged water lines as the wind billowed through the Royal Slope, sweeping up entire crops along with it.

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