Fodness retires after 24 years serving school meals

Brenda Fodness hung up her kitchen apron and removed her hairnet for the last time Tuesday after serving breakfasts and lunches at the Luverne Middle-High School for the past 24 years. While working in the school’s new cafeteria is more enjoyable than the basement kitchen she worked in for decades, Fodness said she decided to retire rather than battle another winter driving between Kenneth and Luverne each day. She began the job in September 1997.