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Archive

March 18th, 2020

A new normal

Abi Reiter, a waitress at Bump’s Family Restaurant, brought an order to a waiting customer Tuesday morning. New rules issued Monday prohibit sit-down dining in Minnesota restaurants.

Spring band, choir trip to NOLA

Members of the Glencoe-Silver Lake High School band and choir stopped at Oak Alley Plantation in New Orleans during their visit to New Orleans earlier this month. After a bus ride to New Orleans, the group participated in a clinic Loyola University and spent time touring the area, enjoying sight-seeing venues like the Museum of the Delta Blues Clarksdale, Miss. and sites along the way. The students and chaperones also stopped at the Gateway Arch in St. Louis during the trip.

Virus puts GSL’s spring season schedule in doubt

Members of the GSL High School baseball team like Jake Sifter (21) hope they will be able to play some games once they return to school.

Honoring a memory

During their trip earlier this month, GSL students visited the WW II  Museum in New Orleans and found the brick honoring Lt. Donald Givens family. A navigator in the U.S. Army Air Force, Lt. Givens was killed in 1945. First Lutheran School Principal Dean Scheele’s father served with Lt. Givens and sent letters to his mother. Five former First Lutheran students researched Lt. Givens’ service while eighth-graders and presented Givens’ nephew a letter Givens’ mom, Ruth, wrote to Scheele’s father, Marvin, after Don Givens was killed.

Marcella Cohrs, 101, of Glencoe

Updates from Wednesday, March 18

Marcella Cohrs, 101, of Glencoe, passed away Tuesday, March 17, at Good Samaritan Society in Arlington.
The visitation and funeral service have been postponed until a later date.
The Johnson-McBride Funeral Chapel is handling the arrangements. Its website is www.mcbridechapel.com and it hosts obituary and guestbook information.

Virus puts GSL’s spring season schedule in doubt

Glencoe-Silver Lake High School baseball coach Dean Schwirtz was at practice Friday, March 13, focusing on the details of his players’ preparation for the coming season.
Now, he’s uncertain when, or if, the players will take the field this spring.

GSL alum loses his freshmen season to COVID-19

He went to college hoping to play baseball and begin work on a degree. Now, the Coronavirus has pushed half of his plan aside.
Spencer Lilienthal was a shortstop on the Crown College baseball team. When the team was in Florida last week, playing spring games it couldn’t play on Minnesota’s frozen turf, players were told the COVID-19 virus was threatening the season.
Monday, that threat became reality.

COVID-19: Here’s what doctor says you should know

By Dr. Tyler Helland
Glencoe Regional Health
There are many concerns about the outbreak of COVID-19, commonly known as the coronavirus. The best way to protect a community from the potential impact of a virus outbreak is to be vigilant in prevention, and to remain calm.

What is Coronavirus?
Coronavirus is a family of viruses and a variant strain of the common cold. It is officially named SARS-CoV-2 by the World Health Organization. Other names used commonly in the media are COVID-19 (which is an abbreviation for Coronavirus Disease which occurred first in 2019) or just Coronavirus.

Coronavirus being felt in Glencoe area

Some members of the Glencoe City Council might not have heard of the term “social distancing” before Monday night’s meeting. But with the COVID-19/Coronavirus making its way across the United States as part of an international health crisis, councilors sat 6 feet apart from one another Monday evening.

City puts final touches on advisory board ordinance

Having put the final touches on a new ordinance limiting the service of citizens on the city’s municipal advisory boards and commissions, the Glencoe City Council can now put the new ordinance into action.
Monday, March 16, the council voted to enact a new ordinance limiting new members of advisory boards to two three-year terms and prohibiting them from serving on more than one advisory board or commission at a time. The new ordinance will be enacted now that Sharon Hoese has resigned from the park board.