Lowell Jost station featured on 'Hatteberg's People
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Sunday evening
In Jost's Service Station Monday afternoon, Dr. Randall Whitely came in for a soda and a chat.
"There's the famous star," he said, grinning.
Lowell Jost is Hillsboro's latest celebrity. He was featured Sunday night on "Larry Hatteberg's People," a TV feature that runs every Sunday on KAKE channel 10.
It all started last Monday morning, when Jost got a phone call from Hatteberg. The TV anchorman wanted to know if he could do a story on Jost and his full-service gas station, one of few left in the state. Hillsboro retiree Frank Wiens had suggested the story.
Jost said OK, and the next morning Hatteberg pulled up in the driveway in his big Suburban. Jost was looking for the cameraman before Hatteberg said that he was a one-man operation, preferring to do his own filming.
"He does it all himself," Jost said.
Hatteberg hung around the station for about 45 minutes, talking to Jost and filming him in action.
Hatteberg was very friendly and down to earth, he said.
Jost wishes that he could have thought more about the questions before he answered them instead of talking "off the top of my head."
But he's happy with the results.
"It kinda turned out OK," he said.
The night the show aired, Sunday, Jost got a call from his sister. He'd already told some that he was going to be on television, and word just gets around.
Jost's sister asked, "Did you tape it? Because I did!"
On his first full day as a TV celebrity, people drove by the station waving, he said.
Jost says he didn't want to make a "to-do," but he's glad the TV piece showed off Hillsboro. He's also glad that a human interest story like this one can counteract the stream of bad news that seems to flood the news.
"There is another side to life," he said.
