Nettie Kuznia   Tarek Hjelle   6th Grade 1995, Tri-County
School, Karlstad,MN   When Nettie Donarski was growing up, she
had two brothersand four sisters.  When she was around ten years
old, she had to help herdthe cows and milk them, pump water for
the cattle and the house, and carryit there by hand, and work in
the field with horses. Like making hay, workingup the field for
grain. When harvest came, she had to cut grain with atractor and
a binder and do the shocking by hand.  When she was twelve or
thirteen, she had to clean the barn,carry wood in for fires and
for heat. For excitement, she played baseballwith all her
neighbors and some cousins. In the winter, her mom,
DorothyDonarski, and her dad, Nick Donarski, and her brothers
and sisters wentice skating on the pond which was for cattle.
When she was fifteen, she went to Stephen High School forone
year. After that, she went to dances with her friends on
weekends.  When she turned sixteen, she started dating. Her
firstdate was a French man. At age eighte