Mt. Lake Mayor Mike Nelson has a few hidden talents.
Nelson is up early in the morning — between 4:30 and 5 o’clock every day, seven days a week — brewing root beer at the A&W Restaurant, on the edge of Mt. Lake.
Nelson arrives at the A&W Restaurant long before the business is open to the public and works alone as he brews root beer that customers will enjoy that same day.
For more details on this story, see the July 28 edition of the Cottonwood County Citizen and Citizen eEdition.
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