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VIRGINIA â Gaylord Powers made a lifelong career of traveling about Northern Minnesota tuning pianos. He played the piano as well and still does, entertaining residents and visitors at Essentia Health's third-floor convalescent unit with Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata." Today, March 14, Powers will be hearing the "Happy Birthday" song as he turns 100 years old. "That's too bad," he jokingly told the Mesabi Tribune in response to acknowledgment of his turning a century old. He lived in Ely as a youngster, and later his parents, Glenn and Florence Powers, moved their family to Virginia, whe...