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Grant Peterson
host · Westbrook, MN
Keeps the coffee hot, the questions kind, and the show running four minutes long every single week.
A weekly half-hour visit · Westbrook, Minnesota
GRANT'S
SMORGASBORD
a little of everything, off the south shore
A 30-minute Saturday-morning hour from a card table on the dock, where Grant Peterson, Ole, Lena, and whoever wanders by talk lakes, ladders, lutefisk, and the Westbrook Loons' shot at the section title.
A note from Grant's desk
Pull up a chair. We don't have a format, exactly — we've got coffee, a microphone, and a standing invitation to anybody with a story. Some weeks it's the high school track team. Some weeks it's Lena correcting Ole. Most weeks it's both.
— Grant
30 minutes, Saturday mornings · pull up a chair
FMKDUC · WESTBROOK
NOW PLAYING:
Field Notes: Pickleball Comes to Trinity Lutheran
Saturday mornings · coffee's hot ▌
recaps from the south shore
From the shows desk
TUNING IN…
After every show the gang writes it all up — who came by, who won the bake-off, what the train did. Here are the six most recent.
Field Notes: Pickleball Comes to Trinity Lutheran
Grant's recap of the morning Pastor Dahl picked up a paddle and the whole fellowship hall changed forever.
Read the whole story →Lena Wins the Bake-Off (Year Eleven)
The bars, the judging, and Hilda's gracious-as-ever runner-up speech, written up in full.
Read the whole story →Ice-Out 2026: The Train Was Right Again
Every listener guess, the winning date, and why the 6:04 is still the most reliable forecaster in the county.
Read the whole story →On the Booster Bus to Sections
Forty-two band kids, one tuba, and Grant in the back row. A travel diary from the highway.
Read the whole story →A Survivor's Guide to the Lutefisk Supper
Hilda's lye, Lena's exit strategy, and everything the Ladies' Aid wants you to know before Thursday.
Read the whole story →Meet the Loons: Section Final Preview
Coach Sorenson and three seniors on the season, the rivalry, and the orange-slice budget.
Read the whole story →one host · a whole town of co-hosts
Meet the cast
Grant runs the show from the same folding card table he's used since 1995. Everybody else just wanders by — and somehow it works.
OL
Ole
co-host · Lena's better half
Owns three snowblowers and one good joke, which he tells weekly. We keep him on because Lena comes with him.
LN
Lena
co-host · Ole's sharper half
Corrects Ole in real time, on the air, for free. Eleven-time bake-off champ. Do not get between her and the bars.
HD
Hilda
Trinity Lutheran Ladies' Aid
If you've been to a funeral in this county, you've eaten her hotdish. Runs the coffee, the bars, and quietly, the town.
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good neighbors, every one of 'em
★ EST. 1961 ★ WESTBROOK ★
Sorenson's Bait & Tackle
Minnows, leeches, and advice you didn't ask for.
Earl's never steered me wrong on the leeches. The advice, you can take or leave.
★ EST. 1908 ★ WESTBROOK ★
Trinity Lutheran Ladies' Aid
Coffee, bars, and a casserole for every occasion.
They've fed this whole county through every joy and sorrow. Be grateful — and bring the dish back.
★ EST. 1947 ★ WESTBROOK ★
Westbrook Hardware & Hatchery
If we don't have it, you didn't need it.
Ole bought his third snowblower here. Lena's official note is on file behind the counter.
★ EST. 1955 ★ WESTBROOK ★
The Whistle Stop Café
Pie by the slice since the 6:04 ran on coal.
Get there before the train crowd or you'll not see the rhubarb. That's just the rule.
in plain words
What is this?
Grant's Smorgasbord is a little 30-minute Saturday-morning radio variety hour from small-town Minnesota — warm, funny, wholesome stories about lake country, church suppers, the high school teams, and the neighbors who wander by the dock. If you like Ole-and-Lena humor and the slow comfort of a small town, pull up a chair.