The secret to longevity?
“Work like hell and keep a garden,” said Hazel Englund, who celebrated her 97th birthday at a table at the Pioneer Bar Saturday, surrounded by friends and family.
Believed to be the town’s oldest lifelong resident, Englund worked at the bar in the early 1930s. Back then she was Hazel Vermiere and the Pioneer was the Pioneer Beer Parlor, operated by Lou LaMoore, a madam who entertained men upstairs. Englund worked…