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Panthers suffer two losses
GSL girls’ hoops still at .500 mark for year
Knowledge
Bowl team wins
triple threat
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The McLeod County
Glencoe, Minnesota Vol. 119, No. 3
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hronicle
www.glencoenews.com
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January 20, 2016
County gets final
costs for retrofit
of recycling facility
By Lori Copler
Editor
The retrofit of McLeod County’s
material recovery facility (MRF) to
accommodate single-sort recycling
cost $5.04 million, according to a
final report presented to the County
Board Tuesday.
The project had a targeted budget
of $4.48 million.
County Commissioner Sheldon
Nies said that some of the costs that
were included in the project — for
an example a $167,000 fence required by the city of Hutchinson,
and software upgrades, a forklift
and technology upgrades for the
scale — were not necessary for the
project.
“Those things had to be done
whether we went to single-sort or
not,” said Nies. He said those items
were added into the project for efficiency purposes.
Commissioner Paul Wright said it
was good to have final figures to
provide the public.
“Unfortunately, a former commissioner led people to believe that
we had spent $6.5 million on this
project,” Wright said, referring to
comments made at the county’s
truth in taxation hearing, held in
December.
“Did it cost more than we originally thought? Yes, it did,” said
Wright. “But we were capable of
keeping the costs within reason.”
In related recycling business, Don
Hopp, MRF manager, reported that
the facility collected 9,467 tons of
recycling in 2015, as compared to
8,095 tons in 2014. Hopp said the
2015 goal was 10,000 tons, but reminded the County Board that the
one-sort system had only be in
place for seven months in 2015.
Hopp also reported that low commodity prices continue to be an
issue, as they are, on average, about
40 to 45 percent less than a year
County Board
Turn to page 3
Planning Commission
hears about drainage,
Armstrong projects
By Rebecca Mariscal
Staff Writer
Short Elliot Hendrickson (SEH)
Engineer Justin Black attended the
Glencoe Planning Commission
Thursday to present overviews on
the Armstrong Avenue and northeast drainage projects.
Armstrong Avenue
Chronicle photo by Lori Copler
Kilo is the new K-9 dog for the McLeod County
Sheriff’s Office. He joined his handler, Deputy
Brian Stiles, on Dec. 6. The two will begin for-
mal training in February through Performance
Kennels.
New K-9 dog on duty
Kilo doing ‘ride-alongs’ until formal training starts
By Lori Copler
Editor
f enthusiasm, energy and sociability are desirable traits for
a sheriff’s deputy, Kilo easily
fills the bill.
Kilo is the McLeod County Sheriff’s Office latest K-9 dog, arriving
from Slovakia in early December,
and coming into the possession of
Deputy Brian Stiles on Dec. 6.
Kilo was actually obtained by
Performance Kennels, which pro-
I
vides K-9 training, from a breeder
in Slovakia.
The Slovakian dogs are considered the elite for performance dogs.
“That’s what they’re bred for
there,” said Stiles.
The county has been without a K9 unit since Jake, who was handled
by then-deputy Jennifer Mueller, retired in 2009.
Since then, McLeod County Sheriff Scott Rehmann has been looking
to re-establish the K-9 program. In
2015, he received authorization
from the County Board to add a K-9
unit back into the department, and
Performance Kennels began looking
for a dog.
Stiles said the German Shepherds
bred at the Slovakian breeder have
to pass a baseline test as a puppy
before being considered for sale as a
police dog.
Kilo
Turn to page 3
The Armstrong Avenue project is
a street and utility improvement
project that will take place on
Armstrong Avenue from 13th
Street to Seventh Street, Seventh
Street from Armstrong Avenue to
Chandler Avenue, Baxter Avenue
from Seventh Street to Fifth Street
and one block of 12th Street.
Black explained the City Council
will approve plans and authorize
advertising for bids at the next
council meeting on Jan. 19.
The cost of the project will be
$5.575 million and will be paid by
state aid, a grant, general tax levy,
assessments and sewer and water
revenue funds.
One detail Black went over was
Seneca Food Corporation’s access
to its facilties. The project will create a temporary road from Thirteenth Street for Seneca’s access.
During work on Seventh Street and
Armstrong Avenue, Seneca also
will have a temporary driveway.
Black explained during the project there will be a detour route for
Highway 22 as the crews work on
the intersection of Thirteenth Street
and Armstrong Avenue. This detour
will follow County State Aid Highway (CSAH) 3 to Ford Avenue.
The detour will last for up to three
weeks.
The Armstrong project will be
carried out in phases, Black explained to the commission. The
first phase will be utility work at
the intersection of Armstrong Avenue and Eighth Street. Then phase
two will have the heart of the work
on Seventh Street. Until the first
two phases are done, the construction won’t start on the remaining
five phases.
Construction is currently set to
begin in May.
Northeast drainage
The northeast drainage project is
focused near the Glencoe-Silver
Lake High School on the central
ponds and drainage basin to which
they connect. Black explained the
water in the basin is not draining
away and is doing the reverse of
what it should.
The project would follow the
recommendation of two drainage
studies, one from 1978 and one
from 1993, that suggest extending
a ditch or pipe system from the
Projects
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Silver Lake Council ponders law enforcement options
By Karin Ramige Cornwell
Publisher
Last year was a tough year for the
Silver Lake Police Department, having not one, but two, police chiefs
resign.
In May, Police Chief Forrest Henriksen submitted his resignation with
plans to relocate. He left in Septem-
ber.
After a lengthy hiring process, a
second chief, Kenneth Bradford, resigned after less than a week on the
job.
With the resignation of the second
chief, the City Council began looking at all law enforcement options
for the city.
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The city has had four police chiefs
in the last 10 years.
The City Council had a work session Thursday, Jan. 14, to discuss
what options would be best for police protection for the city.
Thirteen members of the public
were in attendance at the meeting,
including McLeod County Sheriff
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Scott Rehmann, Chief Deputy Tim
Langenfeld and County Commissioner Ron Shimanski.
City Clerk Kerry Venier has been
researching the options and presented the Council with five viable options.
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a neighboring community was presented, but not thoroughly discussed
as neither Lester Prairie nor Winsted
were interested in the arrangement,
although both offered support if
needed.
Police
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The McLeod County Chronicle, www.glencoenews.com, Wednesday, January 20, 2016, page 2
Cyber safety: it’s about being a good role
model, keeping up with technology trends
Chronicle photo by Lori Copler
Stellar spellers
Dan Cross, left, was the champion speller at the Glencoe-Silver Lake spelling bee, held Jan. 13, while
Makayla Ronngren, right, was the runner-up. Both are
eighth graders. They are with the bee adviser, Amber
Hlavka. Room winners from grades five through eight
competed in the final competition. With four participants from First Lutheran School, there were 33 students who competed in the spelling bee.
By Lori Copler
Editor
Kids these days have access to all kinds of information over the Internet — even
things that aren’t appropriate
for them.
“They can ‘Google’ any
naughty word they heard on
the bus and it will show them
photos or activities,” Dave
Eisenmann told a sparse
crowd at a forum hosted at
Glencoe-Silver Lake High
School Thursday night.
Eisenmann, director of instructional technology and
media services at Minnetonka
Schools, spoke on cyber safety to a handful of parents and
a couple of students. GSL
High School Principal Paul
Sparby said he hopes Eisenmann can also put on a student presentation in the future.
And while Eisenmann can
offer all kinds of tips for installing filters on WiFi
modems, phones, tablets and
computers, he also said that
parents simply need to talk to
their kids about what’s appropriate and what is not.
“In my day, we had the
‘sex talk’ or the ‘drug talk,’”
said Eisenmann. “Now, we
have the ‘technology talk.’”
And many of his tips for
initiating those conversations
and establishing guidelines
for technology use are simple.
For example, the “Grandma Test.”
Eisenmann said parents
should encourage their kids
to think before they post
thoughts, photos and other
things on social media.
“What would Grandma
think if she saw that?” is a
question parents can ask their
children. If it’s not appropriate for grandma, it’s probably
not appropriate for the general public,” Eisenmann said.
Or, there’s the T.H.I.N.K.
before you post guideline,
which asks people to consider
a series of questions before
posting something: is it True?
is it Helpful (or Hurtful)? is it
Illegal? is it Necessary? is it
Kind?
“You just have to have an
open, honest conversation
with your kids,” said Eisenmann. “Just snatching the
phone from your kids when
you see something is just
going to make that conversation hard. Talk to your kids
about what your values are
and what they are when it
comes to technology.”
But parents also need to set
rules and guidelines. For example, limiting time on computers, phones, tablets, television and game consoles for
entertainment purposes. And
not allowing phones and
tablets in bedrooms at nighttime.
“Studies show that kids get
less sleep when their devices
follow them into their rooms
at night,” said Eisenmann.
And no devices when fami-
lies gather for dinner or activities.
And it’s OK to filter the information that comes to your
children until you feel they
are of an appropriate age to
have full access to all that is
on the Internet.
And it’s important for kids
and adults alike to realize that
no technology is fleeting, said
Eisenmann. Each of us will
leave a “digital footprint” in
the cyber world.
“It used to be that we
would look at photographs
and scrapbooks to see what
our ancestors were like,” said
Eisenmann. “Someday, people will be able to see every
photo, blog post and entry
that their grandparents and
great-grandparents made on
the Internet.”
Eisenmann has compiled a
click-through list of links regarding cyber safety that’s
accessible to the public at
tinyurl.com/CyberResources.
The loss of police coverage
hours was another concern.
The city currently has 80
hours of police coverage per
week.
4. Keep the police department and have the city attorney’s office, sheriff’s department or a neighboring department provide a system of
checks and balances. The
sheriff’s department reported
that the county attorney discouraged it from this type of
arrangement.
If any of the first three options are selected, the city
would work with City Attorney Jody Winters to put a
checks-and-balances system
in motion.
5. Contract law enforcement services with the sheriff ’s department for 40-80
hours per week.
Bebo and Venier have met
with county officials and received proposals for 40, 56
and 80 hours of sheriff department coverage in the city.
The cost would range from
$91,414.92 to $182,235.82,
depending on the number of
hours of coverage.
The city spent $170,805 in
2014, $149,794 in 2015 and
has $192,451 budgeted for
2016.
Under the contract, the
county would provide patrol
in the city for the contracted
amount of hours. The times
would be determined by the
city. It also would provide funeral escorts, door checks,
could be available when businesses are closing late at
night, and report to the City
Council with the frequency
requested.
Investigations and other paperwork would be done the
sheriff ’s department, but
would not count against the
number of contract patrol
hours.
Some of the benefits to this
option would be an established department and professionalism, higher pay for officers, and possibly a better
handle on law enforcement
costs.
If city would chose this
route, the sheriff’s department
would hold meetings with the
public to explain the changes
and address any concerns.
The biggest con to the
arrangement would be losing
the police department and its
identity. Several council
members expressed that once
this path is taken, it would be
very difficult and costly to establish a local department
again.
There also were concerns
about the response time. The
sheriff’s department responds
to many of the city’s calls and
provides mutual aid and
backup for the police department. Many times the Sheriff’s Deputy arrives before the
local police department when
the Silver Lake police officer
is on call.
No decisions were made at
the meeting. The current posting for the police chief position will remain advertised.
The Council further discussed
the options at its regular
meeting that was held Tuesday, Jan. 19, due to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday on Monday.
Police Continued from page 1
Happenings
SL Women’s Club to meet
The Silver Lake Women’s Club GFWC will meet
Monday, Jan. 25, at 6:30 p.m., at the American Legion
Club Rooms. The program will consist of book reviews.
Blood drive in Hutchinson
There will be an American Red Cross blood drive
Tuesday, Feb. 9, from noon to 6 p.m., at Peace Lutheran
church, 400 Franklin St. SW, Hutchinson. Eligible blood
donors of all types are needed, especially those with Type
O, AB, B negative and A negative.
Dining site birthday party
The Silver Lake Dining Site will have its January
birthday party Thursday, Jan. 21, starting with bingo at
11 a.m. The menu is oven-crispy chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, carrots and cake. For reservations, call
320-327-2621 or 320-327-2536.
Church pie, ice cream sale
The LWML of Emanuel Lutheran Church of Hamburg
will host a pie and ice cream sale Sat., Feb. 6, from 11
a.m. to 7 p.m., at the Hamburg Hunting and Fishing Club
Fish Fry. Proceeds will be used for mission projects.
Supplemental funds are by Thrivent Financial.
Glencoe seniors meetings
The Glencoe Senior Citizens meet on Tuesdays and
Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. in the seniors room at the Glencoe City Center. Sheephead is played on Tuesdays, and
both sheephead and 500 are played on Thursdays. All
seniors over 55 are invited. For more information, call
320-510-1551 and leave a message.
To be included in this column, items for Happenings
must be received in the Chronicle office no later than
5 p.m. on Monday of the week they are to be published. Items received after that will be published elsewhere in the newspaper as space permits. Happenings
in Glencoe, Brownton, Stewart, Plato, New Auburn,
Biscay and Silver Lake take priority over happenings
elsewhere.
The City Council discussed
the pros and cons of each of
the other five options:
1. Continue the police department operation as is, continuing with the process to
hire a new chief.
Maintaining a local police
department holds a sense of
pride for any small community.
The Council has heard
many positive things about
the police department and
feels safe with a local police
presence.
Local businesses such as
Cenex and the American Legion like that officers are
around at closing time when
employees are leaving late at
night and possibly taking deposits to the bank.
The public likes the fact
that it has officers it can identify with and feels that response time would be quicker
with a local department.
The biggest con for this option is the hiring process.
Silver Lake has struggled
to attract qualified candidates
for the chief position. As of
Thursday’s meeting, no applications had been received for
the chief ’s position, which
was posted in December, although an interested candidate was present at the meeting.
There have been a few inquiries into the position, but
the salary and response time
requirements seem to have
deterred applicants.
Interim Chief RJ Cripps,
who applied for the position
with the first posting, has expressed interest again.
2. Appoint Cripps as chief
and hire a new full-time officer.
In addition to the same pros
as the first option, the Council appreciates that Cripps has
local ties to the community
and is already in the department. The Council felt Cripps
has done a good job as interim chief since September.
He stepped up and got
everything in order for the
Peace Officers Standards and
Training board review this
fall.
The Council has heard very
positive things about Cripps.
In the past, the city has not
had as much trouble attracting applicants for the fulltime officer positions.
The major concern continues to be his inexperience in
law enforcement. Cripps has
been a police officer for about
two years.
Council Member Ken Merrill expressed concern about
“throwing him into the fire”
before he was ready.
3. Appoint Cripps as chief
and hire several part-time officers, cutting the coverage
time by 10-20 hours.
A pro for this option would
be a cost savings of a fulltime salary and benefits.
A con would be that scheduling part-time officers can be
more difficult as many work
with other law enforcement
agencies in the area.
There also is a concern that
the state no longer issues
issue part-time law enforcement licences.
Mayor Bruce Bebo said
that past chiefs have always
expressed the importance of a
full-time officer.
UWMC extends 2015 campaign
through first quarter of 2016
Historical society to premier
videos in Hutchinson, Glencoe
The McLeod County Historical Society will be premiering two of its “Bringing
Books to Life” videos in January.
On Sunday, Jan. 24, at 2
p.m., the premier of “Surviving the U.S. & Dakota War of
1862” will be shown at the
McLeod County Historical
Museum Educational Media
Center. The museum is located at 380 School Road NW,
Hutchinson.
The second video premiere, of “Native American
Legends & Beliefs,” will be
shown Sunday, Jan. 31, at 2
p.m., at the Glencoe Public
Library, which is located in
the Glencoe City Center,
1107 11th St. E, Glencoe.
Both videos are made possible through the Minnesota
Arts & Cultural Library
Legacy Fund.
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As an integral part of
McLeod County, United Way
advances the common good
by supporting programs in
the areas of income, education and health. The UWMC
is part of a network of nearly
1,200 United Ways. Each
local United Way must complete the requirements annually in order to retain its United Way Worldwide membership.
Donations to help fund
partner agencies and programs supporting area residents can be sent to the United Way of McLeod County
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County (UWMC) Board
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March 31. After meeting with
its partner agencies last April,
the UWMC established a
$275,000 county-wide need
this campaign. Thus far, the
campaign has received
pledges of $170,326, or 62
percent of the need.
“We have seen the tremendous generosity of so many
individuals, families and
businesses in the region this
fall and winter, but despite
that, we were not able to
reach our goal in 2015
alone,” said Johnson. “We
feel it is in the best interest of
our partner agencies to actively campaign through the
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of the proposed Morningside
Avenue project. If built
ahead, it will be designed to
fit with the potential Morningside work.
Financially, Black said, it
would make sense to do the
two projects together as long
as the Morningside Avenue
project receives the bonding
Junge said there would be no
financial burden to the county
in doing this. Paul Steinman
of Springsted said the foundation could save up to $1
million by refinancing. The
current average bond interest
is about 5 percent; Steinmann
said the foundation is anticipating a new interest rate of
1.81 percent with the rebonding.
• Set a public hearing for
Feb. 16 at 9:30 a.m. to consider a county tax abatement
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St. Pius X School
1103 10th St. E., Glencoe
Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016
Dinner includes:
ANNUAL FAMILY STYLE
TURKEY SUPPER
Zion United
Methodist Church
Turkey, Ham, mashed
potatoes, gravy, cranberry
sauce, vegetables, pull apart
buns, stuffing, homemade
apple crisp & beverages.
306 2nd St. NW, Buffalo Lake
Submitted photo
Coach Vicky Harris shows off the Triple Threat Trophy from the St. Francis meet. GSL won it for having
the three best teams.
Wednesday, Feb. 3
Eat-ins & Take-Outs
Take-outs Available!
serving from 4:30–7:30 pm
Serving 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Adults: $10.00
Children (ages 3-12): $5.00
Children 2 & Under: FREE
Advanced Tickets available at:
CenBank, Main Street Market and
Buffalo Lake Insurance in Buffalo Lake;
NewsMirror in Hector and
Zion UMC Members.
junior varsity teams
started in 60th overall,
but
A Catholic United Financial
Matching Grant Event.
Enjoy a delicious meal and help
kick-off Catholic Schools week at
St. Pius X Catholic School!
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discouraged from talking to
or petting patrol dogs while
they were “working,” sociability with the public is encouraged.
Kilo will patrol with Stiles
whenever Stiles is on duty,
but both also will be on call
when off duty.
“The county may call for a
dog from a neighboring county if we are off duty — it depends on what the situation
is,” said Stiles. But as a member of the county’s SWAT
team, Stiles already is used to
being on call even when off
duty.
Once Kilo completes his
formal trailing, Stiles will
need to put in about 16 hours
of training each month to
maintain certification. That
can either be done one-onone with the dog, or with a
group of other handlers and
dogs.
Kilo cost the county
$8,200, and the total cost of
the program, with training,
equipment and retrofitting the
squad car, will be about
$15,000.
Stiles said the sheriff’s office has received donations of
over $16,000 in cash and
services. For example, Form
A Feed in Stewart gave both a
cash donation and agreed to
provide dog food. The Glencoe Veterinary Clinic offered
two free wellness checks a
year.
But those are just two examples, Stiles said.
“It’s been overwhelming,
the support we’ve had,” he
said.
Stiles said that anything donated above the original
$15,000 estimate will be put
aside in a fund to hopefully
get a second dog for the
county.
“That way, we’ll always
have one available on shift,”
said Stiles.
Stiles said he is looking
forward to the new venture
with Kilo.
“It’s going to be a lot of
fun.”
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it requested. Otherwise,
Morningside would have to
be delayed two years, and
Black said the city would not
want to delay the drainage
project.
An update on the project
was on the agenda for the
Jan. 19 city council meeting.
In other business, the com-
Saturday,
Jan. 30
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• Approved the underground utility ordinance for
review by the City Council.
• Continued to discuss a
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ago.
“We keep a pretty close eye
on the markets,” said Hopp.
He said a surge in prices is
expected in 2016.
In other business Tuesday,
the County Board:
• Agreed to assist the
Southwest Initiative Foundation (SWIF) in refinancing its
general obligation bonds by
allowing the non-profit to use
the county’s tax-exempt status.
County Attorney Mike
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Auditorium
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school area east to the east
ditch. A 5,000-foot-long pipe
would extend from the athletic complex to the ditch.
With the upcoming school
district expansion, Black said
a better outlet is needed in
that area.
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the dogs part of their families.
“It used to be a K-9 was
considered a working dog,”
said Stiles. “When his shift
was over, he went into a kennel until he went on shift
again.”
Kilo has joined Stiles’ family, which includes his wife,
two children, ages 5 and 3,
and a 9-year-old Yellow
Labrador Retriever.
“Kilo does awesome” with
all of them, although the elderly Lab sometimes has trouble keeping up with the 14month-old Kilo.
“I’d forgotten how much
energy a young dog has,”
Stiles laughed.
Stiles said he was a little
concerned about introducing
Kilo to the Lab, which was
the family “baby” for years.
“I was afraid there would
be some aggression, but they
get along great,” said Stiles.
And not only is it encouraged for the dogs to become a
part of their human families,
but also with the general public. Where once people were
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And Performance Kennels
owner Steve Pearson also has
standards for dogs before he
brings them to the States for
training.
After the County Board approved reinstating the program, the sheriff sent out an
email to his deputies to see if
any had an interest in being
the dog’s handler. Those who
were interested were interviewed, and Stiles was selected.
Right now, Kilo (who was
named by Stiles’ kids after
considering a list of possible
names) is just riding along
with Stiles, getting used to
being in a patrol car and out
in public.
The first week of February,
Kilo and Stiles will begin
four weeks of training in both
narcotics and basic obedience. They will then take the
month of March off before
starting a 10-week program
for patrol, tracking, searching, etc.
Unlike the past, canine handlers are encouraged to make
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This meet had many
interesting features.
One is that the varsity and
junior varsity teams compete
against each other but receive
separate awards.
“We enjoy having the junior varsity teams find out how
they will do in varsity,” said
Harris.
GSL had two varsity teams
at the meet. GSL team two
started in fourth place with a
written score of 45 and competed in room two for most of
the meet, earning oral scores
of 13, 13, 7 and 14. Due to its
good last round, the team finished second with a score of
96.5. Prior Lake finished first
with a score of 97. The members of GSL team two were
Jacob Fehrenbach, Marisa
Luchsinger, Austin Pinske,
Katie Twiss and Jake Vasek.
GSL team one began in
room six with a written score
of 36. Its high oral round
score of 19 moved the team
up to room two and then
room three, where it earned
12, 5 and 14 points for a total
of 88 points and sixth place.
GSL team one included
Mitch Beneke, Mark Lueders,
Maggie Petersen and Dini
Schweikert.
GSL was the only school to
have two teams in the top six.
Meanwhile, one of GSL’s
*2-3Ca
Last year, GlencoeSilver Lake (GSL)
Knowledge Bowl went to St.
Francis for the “Rumble on
the Rum,” an excellent
chance to meet some teams
from the metro and St. Cloud
areas. GSL’s three top teams
did well enough to win a
Triple Threat award for having the strongest three teams
at the meet.
On Saturday of this year,
GSL went again.
“The way we get better is
by competing against good
teams,” said Coach Vicky
Harris. “We had seen a lot of
the remarkable St. Cloud region at Buffalo, but we wanted to compete against the excellent metro teams, too.”
A total of 85 teams were
present from these schools:
Academy of Holy Angels,
Big Lake, Buffalo, Centennial, Chanhassen, Chaska, Elk
River, GSL, Holy Family,
Monticello, North Branch,
Princeton, Prior Lake,
Rogers, St. Francis, Tartan
and Zimmerman. Buffalo had
nine teams, Chaska had six,
but GSL just had four. Although almost of GSL’s
whole ninth- through 112grade group was able to make
it, GSL is definitely a smaller
school than most of the others.
to assist the city of Stewart in
building a new service road
on its north edge to accommodate additional truck traffic to Form A Feed.
• Purchased a new climate
control system for the data
center at a cost of $19,450.
Scott Grivna, building
maintenance supervisor, said
the current unit is only a year
old, but is oversized for the
data center, and is costing the
county an estimated extra
$2,000 per month for electric-
ity in the summer to cool the
center.
Grivna said the current unit
could probably be used at one
of the county’s other building.
• Approved a memorandum
of understanding between
McLeod County Public
Health and Heartland Community Action Agency regarding the Head Start program. The memorandum will
allow the two agencies to collaborate on the program.
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The McLeod County Chronicle, Wednesday, January 20, 2016, page 4
Dayton’s proposed
bonding lacking
Our view: Roads, bridges
received little consideration
G
ov. Mark Dayton
rolled a proposed
$1.4 billion bonding
proposal last week.
We applaud the fact that
Dayton’s proposal was pretty
even-handed in terms of geography: 35 percent to the metro
area, 35 percent to Greater
Minnesota, and 30 percent that
could be considered
“statewide.”
But scrolling through the list
of proposals, there is remarkably little listed under “transportation.” Most of Dayton’s
proposed improvements are
for facility improvements,
some for rail and the rest for
port authorities.
Missing are any plans for
road and bridge improvements.
This past year has been full
of debates, discussions and desire for an improved road and
bridge system in Minnesota.
Heaven knows, we had the
worst possible wake-up call to
alert us to the crumbling, erosion and failure of our road
and bridges: the 2007 collapse
of the 35W bridge in Minneapolis.
In fact, in just nine short
years, the Star Tribune reports,
the “new” 35W bridge is already showing signs of aging.
The reality is that our roads
and bridges are in desperate
need of repair, upgrades and
expansion. Our road system
continues to be our main mode
of transporting goods and
services in Minnesota. We can
scarcely afford to allow them
to continue to deteriorate.
Gov. Dayton’s proposed
bonding focuses heavily on
water quality — no doubt, a
high-priority issue in Minnesota.
But we also need to “spread
the wealth” to other needs. We
think transportation is a need
that deserves more than a
token nod of the head.
We hope our local legislators
will take up the battle to improve our roads and bridges,
particularly Highway 212. The
need will not go away, no matter how much we ignore it.
— L.C.
You can
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Question of the week
What should be the main focus of the
2016 Minnesota bonding bill?
1) College facilities.
2) Sports and athletic facilities.
3) Water quality.
4) Roads and bridges.
5) State and municipal parks.
6) Other.
Do you think President Obama’s executive
orders regarding gun control will help reduce
the number of gun-related deaths in the U.S.?
1) Yes — 9%
2) No — 86%
3) Not sure — 6%
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Commissioner: national convention is beneficial
To the Editor:
I want to thank Mr. Bobier for his
letter to the editor on Jan. 6, 2016,
allowing me the opportunity to address the importance of McLeod
County’s involvement in the National Association of Counties (NACo).
McLeod County has been a member of NACo since 1964. This past
year, I have taken an active role in
NACo. NACo is the only national
organization that represents county
governments in the lobbying process
at the congressional level. When I
was elected to the board, I was informed that our county had not
taken full advantage of its membership since former Commissioner
Bev Wangerin’s active involvement.
When the County Board unanimously approved me as the delegate and
the subsequent travel for NACo, I
was honored. Several constituents
have called commissioners and even
attended board meetings, including
truth in taxation hearings, pressing
the board to make better use of its
resources, lobbying for relief from
unfunded mandates on the state and
federal levels. I also agree that this
is an issue that our county has faced
and needs to be addressed.
I currently serve on the justice and
public safety committee of NACo, a
position that provides McLeod
County with a voice on a national
scale when dealing with the tough
issues of public safety. I was invited
by current committee members to
join this group based on my training,
education and experience in the public safety field. Given that McLeod
County is in the middle of working
on a construction plan for a new jail,
many of the conversations related to
the mental health of jailed populations become increasingly relevant.
It is important to have a voice in the
future policies as they pertain to the
cost of running a county corrections
system because the taxpayers of
McLeod County will be responsible
for the costs related to inmates with
mental health issues.
Also, the safety of our government facilities and body cameras
worn by police officers are topics
that are on the minds of most. The
San Bernardino shooting is another
tragic example of how we need to
plan for our employees’ safety. The
individuals responsible for providing this safety are our law enforcement officers. In reference to the
body camera discussion, we need to
have a voice in how this data will be
stored, processed and disseminated
in the future. The cost of this
process could overwhelm a small
county such as ours, so we need a
seat at the table as these polices are
developed.
Involvement in NACo gives
McLeod County the chance to sell
itself. As the representative for
McLeod County at these meetings, I
have the privilege to spread the
word to others across the nation
about the great things we are doing
here. Many commissioners at these
meetings, like myself, are not fulltime politicians. They are engaged
members of their community who
want to give back to the places they
Nagel
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Commissioner clarifies travel policy, expenses
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Letters to the Editor
To the Editor:
Although I am not normally one
to get involved in the “war of the
words,” I must attempt to correct
some false statements made by an
individual on county expenses and
our last Truth in Taxation hearing.
In local newspapers from a week
ago, we had our Truth in Taxation
hearing wrongfully explained as
being a “packed house.” Fact is that
our 2015 Truth in Taxation hearing
had more open chairs than occupied
by a long shot, and was the lowest
attended in years. Some of those attending were our county employees
and department heads, who were
there to listen to concerns. Records
show that only five people spoke
during the meeting; however, some
more than once. Yet another low
number as compared to years prior.
Travel expenses always attract attention on all levels of government
— local, state and federal. In
McLeod County, we do try to keep
these expenses under control as
much as possible. We do send employees to trainings and meetings at
great distances if necessary for the
good of McLeod County. We have
granted out-of-state travel for the
highway, public health, social services and sheriff’s departments.
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editor. loric@glencoenews.com.
We have, for years, sent commissioners on out-of-state travel as
well. We have sent commissioners
in the past to attend NACo meetings
(National Association of Counties)
and to attend the “Washington Fly
In” nearly every year. I attended one
of those meetings in 2014 with our
highway engineer, John Brunkhorst.
Once we returned home, we immediately sat with Hutchinson Leader
staff to cover our few days in Washington, D.C. — this is called transparency, much like Commissioner
Nagel did this year when he returned.
The “Washington, D.C., Fly In” is
a time to network with other commissioners from across the state, the
Minnesota Department of Transportation and our congressional
leaders as we have many meetings
together where we all sit at the same
table and talk about transportation
issues. We need their help from federal sources and they need our input
to solve transportation problems and
funding.
NACo is the only county government lobbying group we have as a
nationwide voice. Work here is a direct connection with our Congress
men and women and is a very important way of having a voice that
Ethics
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can effect our counties and constituents back home. Policy is not
thrown together in minutes and then
put into action — well not usually,
anyway. It is important we have,
whenever possible, a seat at the
table as we move forward.
Government is supposed to work
by leaders working together to solve
problems for constituents and then
develop law or changes around it,
not by sitting back and taking cheap
shots at each other until finally
someone caves in.
If this topic of NACo interests
you, take a minute to look up the
National Association of Counties
and you decide if it is important.
The past president of NACo was a
county commissioner from Hawaii
— talk about travel expenses.
Communication between leaders
is needed in order for a successful
and information rich government to
work properly at all levels.
McLeod County also sends employees and elected bodies to many
in-state travel functions as well. Attending Association of Minnesota
Counties, PrimeWest, Minnesota
Rural Caucus, transportation fo-
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offend nobody there would be very
little printed.”
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As a retired editorial
writer, it has been difficult to
just sit on the sidelines as the
presidential candidates continue ranting and raving
about each other and the
other party’s hopefuls. I was
hoping the field would be
culled to a workable number
by now but, sadly, it has not.
Political ambitions and egos
die hard.
I also hoped the unfolding
“reality political show”
would have petered out by
now, too. Not so. Americans
love reality TV, and apparently reality political show
sound bites keep many of us
riveted to our tubes.
So into the political fray I
dive.
With the upcoming Minnesota party caucuses still
weeks away, people have
time to wade through the voluminous rhetoric to pick a
favorite. Then attend the
party caucus of your choice
and get involved.
Sadly, however, the reality
is your participation is not always welcome and not always productive, since the
“party machine” controls all
the rules and sets all the
“hoops” that need to be
cleared before you are accepted.
The biggest hoop is party
loyalty, which is required to
participate. What if you have
no strong party affiliation?
Might as well stay home.
There is “no room at the inn”
for you or your diverse (middle-of-the-road/split ballot)
Rich Glennie
ideas in either major party.
Either you will toe the party
line, or else.
That brings us to alternatives to the Republicans or
Democrats. Well, there are a
variety of other options —
the Green, Independence, Socialist, Communist, Libertarian parties to name a few —
but the likelihood of any
gaining traction is as likely as
winning the Powerball.
So you may have to create
your own party. My suggestion is the Stubborn As A
Mule Party.
What? I guess that has already been assumed about
the Republicans and Democrats.
How about the Horse Manure Party. Electing 100 Senate equine and 432 House
horses could create a new
cottage industry. Manure
cleanup. Can’t be any worse
than what we have now, except we all can recognize the
byproducts of horses. Can’t
say the same with the human
manure spreaders currently
occupying many of the con-
gressional seats today.
Perhaps the smartest man
in the country is Donald
Trump. The billionaire businessman has played the national media like a fiddle. He
doesn’t even have to dip into
his war chest to pay for publicity. All he has to do is open
his mouth and say something
outrageous. The national
media is like a moth to a
flame. They simply cannot
resist the next “Trumpism.”
Outside of P.T. Barnum,
Trump may be the best political snake oil salesman in recent memory. His following
has grown with each outlandish comment he has
made.
So to win favor with
today’s electorate, a candidate now needs a reality TV
show as well as a political
campaign. I can see it now:
“The Solitary Life of a Vermont Socialist” starring Sen.
Bernie Sanders; or the
“Cuban Crisis” starring Sens.
Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio;
or “The Rear View of the
Horse” starring either Democrat Martin O’Malley or Republicans Dennis Kocinich
and Jeb Bush, who can expound on the joys of never
being heard or seen, except
as bringing up the rear.
There, I’ve waded in. Now
your job is to sort through the
rest of the manure.
Rich Glennie was the editor of The Chronicle for 23
years. He retired Aug. 1,
2014, but still plans to submit an occasional column.
Wright Continued from page 4
rums, water-related meetings
and many other functions require travel dollars as well.
Utilizing technology to curb
these expenses such as webinars and interactive TV are
used, but do not always substitute person-to-person meetings. However, all travel expenditures in state and out are
focused on a common set of
goals in mind: To serve our
constituents better, to have a
seat at the table in policy setting and to maintain a voice
for our county. Considering
these items a vacation is far
from the truth — it’s our job
and duty.
I hope this information
helps and brings some fact
and reasoning for travel expenses and corrects an explanation of our truth in taxation
hearing. A major difference
between my letter and the one
written by someone else on
these topics is that I did not
have to twist statements in
order to make my point.
Paul Wright
McLeod County
Commissioner
District 3
were erratic.”
6:07 p.m. — A female with
chest pain was taken by ambulance from an address on Basswood Street W to the emergency
room.
11:56 p.m. — A driver was
cited for drug paraphernalia and
issued a warning for speeding at
a traffic stop in the area of Baxter
Avenue N and Ninth Street E.
THURSDAY, JAN. 14
10 a.m. — Officers assisted a
landlord on 11th Street with an
issue regarding people staying in
an apartment without a lease.
10:16 a.m. — An officer delivered an emergency message to a
person on DeSoto Avenue N.
10:19 a.m. — A student was issued a citation for possession of
tobacco on 16th Street E.
2:35 p.m. — Officers assisted
the Glencoe Ambulance with a
medical involving a female who
had fallen outside on Hennepin
Avenue.
4:49 p.m. — A driver received
a citation for expired registration
at a traffic stop on Highway 212.
6:03 p.m. — A passenger in a
vehicle was given a citation for
possession of drug paraphernalia
at a traffic stop in the area of 16th
Street E and Hennepin Avenue
N. The driver was given a verbal
warning for failing to put on headlights when required.
7:08 p.m. — A driver was cited
for driving after revocation at a
traffic stop on Highway 212. A
passenger, who also was the vehicle’s owner, was cited for no insurance.
FRIDAY, JAN. 15
Two citations were issued for a
violation of the winter parking ordinance.
10:14 a.m. — Officers responded to a medical where a
child had fallen and hit their head
on a wall corner. The child was
taken to the hospital.
11:36 a.m. — An officer responded to an incident with a juvenile at an address on Newton
Avenue.
3:39 p.m. — A two-vehicle accident occurred at 1825 16th
Street. Involved were a 2002
GMC Envoy driven by Jacob
Litzau of Plato and owned by
William Litzau of Plato, and a
2007 Chevy Silverado driven by
Mason Ahlbrecht of Lester
Prairie and owned by Mark
Ahlbrecht also of Lester Prairie.
There were no injuries.
5:39 p.m. — An officer responded to a child exchange
happening in the lane of traffic at
Morningside Drive and Highway
212. The officer advised both
drivers of their location and to
never do so again.
7:04 p.m. — Officers responded to a domestic at an address
on Edgewood Drive. A mental
health hold was requested.
9:33 p.m. — A driving complaint was made about a vehicle
hitting curbs and sitting at intersections at Highway 212 and
Morningside Drive. The officer located the vehicle in Plato and
heard the driver’s contact had
fallen out while driving.
SATURDAY, JAN. 16
Three citations were issued for
a violation of the winter parking
ordinance.
1:47 a.m. — An officer responded to a medical for an adult
female who cut her finger. She
was taken to the hospital.
4:37 p.m. — A citation was issued for expired registration at a
traffic stop at Highway 212 and
Chandler Avenue.
9:29 p.m. — Officers responded to a medical with a report of
back pain on Newton Avenue.
The person was taken by ambulance to the hospital.
9:40 p.m. — Officers responded to a disturbance of loud music
and kids running in the halls at an
address on Baldwin Avenue.
9:50 p.m. — Officers responded to a disturbance in which a
neighbor flipped off the reporting
party. The suspect did not come
to the door.
SUNDAY, JAN. 17
One citation was issued for violation of the winter parking ordinance.
1:25 a.m. — An officer assisted
with an intoxicated individual
walking on Seventh Street and
Chandler Avenue. The person
was given a ride to their residence and put into the care of a
sober relative.
1:40 p.m. — Officers responded to an alarm at Greeley Avenue. A door and a window on
the south side of the building
were kicked, but no damage was
done and the building was secured.
4:15 a.m. — Officers responded to a physical fight between
brothers on First Street.
9:01 a.m. — A gas drive off
was reported on 13th Street. The
vehicle and driver were found
several hours later and advised
to return to pay.
1:42 p.m. — An officer assisted
the ambulance with a medical on
Hennepin Avenue.
6:22 p.m. — An officer assisted
a motorist who ran out of gas at
Highway 212 and Dairy Avenue.
The party was taken to Super
America.
8:45 p.m. — A gas drive off
was reported at 11th Street. The
vehicle was not located.
10:27 p.m. — An officer responded to a medical for an individual with a dislocated shoulder.
The party was transported.
10:43 p.m. — Officers cited a
driver for driving after suspension
at a traffic stop on 13th Street
and Hennepin Avenue.
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TUESDAY, JAN. 12
5:21 a.m. — Officers responded to a medical on 16th Street. A
person having difficulty breathing
was taken to the hospital.
11:13 a.m. — A complaint was
made about two dogs outside in
the elements on Chandler Avenue. An officer drove by and
saw the dogs were doing fine
with access to the garage.
11:38 a.m. — Officers arrested
a person on a warrant on 11th
Street.
12:14 p.m. — Officers assisted
the ambulance with a medical on
Newton Avenue.
1:47 p.m. — An officer responded to an accident in a parking lot on 18th Street in which a
vehicle was struck. Involved was
a 1997 Chevy GMT 400 owned
and driven by William Carl
Braasch of Gaylord.
5:46 p.m. — A medical was reported on Prairie Avenue. A person had a cut on the head from a
fall and was taken to the emergency room.
10:05 p.m. — An animal complaint was made on Seventh
Street and an officer spoke with
the party involved.
10:09 p.m. — An officer responded to an animal complaint
on 14th Street in Glencoe and
advised the owner of the barking
dog.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 13
Two citations were issued for
violations of the winter parking ordinance.
1:52 p.m. — Officers and the
Glencoe Fire Department responded to Hennepin Avenue N
on a fire alarm, which turned out
to be false.
2:37 a.m. — A citation for driving after suspension was issued
at a traffic stop on Highway 212
near Chandler Avenue.
9:48 a.m. — Officers responded to a disturbance on 16th
Street E.
11:18 a.m. — A citation was issued for speeding in the area of
Hennepin Avenue and Ninth
Street E.
3:32 p.m. — Officers assisted
the Glencoe Ambulance with a
medical on 12th Street E.
4:51 p.m. — An officer responded to a report of an IRS
scam on 15th Street E.
5:15 p.m. — A report of property damage involving a broken
window was reported on 13th
Street E.
5:47 p.m. — A driving complaint was received on a vehicle
westbound on Highway 212 from
Norwood Young America. Officers
located the vehicle at Go For It
Gas, and spoke to the driver, who
was “angry and aggressive, stating it was the other drivers that
Guest Column:
Government must work better
By Lee H. Hamilton
Whoever wins November’s
presidential election, it’s a
sure bet that at some point he
or she will vow to set the federal government on the
straight and narrow. Maybe
the new president will even
resort to the time-honored
pledge to create a government “as good as the people.”
It’s a bracing sentiment. But
you’ll want to take it with a
grain of salt.
Our history is filled with
remarkable government accomplishments. Our involvement in World War II and
hands-on approach to the
postwar reconstruction of Europe and Japan, our role in
ending the Cold War, the interstate highway system, extending the right to vote to all
our citizens, federal research
and support for ending diseases such as polio …
There’s a long list of crucially important efforts the federal government has executed
well.
Yet every American ought
also to be alarmed by an expanding list of missteps and
blunders. In a report last
month for the highly capable
and too-little-noticed Volcker
Alliance — whose goal is to
improve government effectiveness — New York University Professor Paul C.
Light drew attention to what
he calls “a shocking acceleration in the federal government’s production of highly
visible mistakes, miscalculations, and maladministration.” He went on to say,
“The aging bureaucracy can
no longer guarantee faithful
execution of all the laws, and
it has become increasingly
unpredictable in where and
how it will err.”
A moment’s reflection will
call to mind a sobering litany
of failures: the inability to
stop the 9/11 attacks; the confused, inadequate response to
Hurricane Katrina; the even
more confused response to
the 2008 financial collapse;
shortfalls in the care of our
veterans; bridge collapses,
mining accidents, and other
failures caused by inadequate
funding for inspection and
regulation; the breaches in
White House security; the
fact that we’ve now been
fighting a war on terror for
nearly 15 years with no end
in sight … It’s enough to
make the staunchest champion of government action lose
hope.
These failures can occur
for many reasons: muddled
policy, insufficient resources,
poor organization, lack of
leadership, lack of skills,
sometimes even outright misconduct. The question isn’t
really what or who is to
blame. It’s how we turn
things around and reverse the
accelerating pace of breakdowns.
To start, the executive and
the legislative branches need
to focus on the implementation of policy. A lot of hard
work goes into its creation,
both on Capitol Hill and in
the agencies, but the sad truth
is that much less attention
goes to how it’s going to be
carried out. This is largely in
the hands of the president,
but Congress has a crucial
role to play both in crafting
the law to account for how it
will be implemented, and
then in pursuing oversight afterward. Both branches need
to pay attention to how they
will assess effectiveness, anticipate problems, make sure
that staffing is adequate, and
provide necessary resources.
Second, if making policy
today is complicated, so is
implementing it. This means
that we need skillful people
within the government to
carry it out. Let’s be blunt.
You don’t want a second-rate
lawyer negotiating arms control or trade agreements. You
don’t want third-rate scientists defining drinking-water
requirements. Getting things
right means hiring good people, retaining them, and then
making sure they’re held to
account with well-conceived
metrics.
Finally, we have to put an
end to the politics that so
often stymies policy. Too
often these days, the losers of
a policy debate immediately
turn to torpedoing it. They
block the filling of key positions, cut funding, twist the
objectives, or impose hiring
freezes. They block policy
changes that would improve
implementation, put unqualified executives in control, or
tolerate misconduct and confusion. Some government
failures aren’t the result of
muddled policy, lack of leadership, or incompetence;
they’re the result of what
amounts to calculated sabotage.
Most Americans want government to work well. We
want it to enhance the quality
of our lives and our communities. Arguments over the
appropriate size of government are important, but that’s
not the issue here. The issue
is that when a policy is adopted, it needs to be executed effectively. Whoever our next
president turns out to be, let’s
hope he or she takes that
charge seriously.
Lee Hamilton is director
of the Center on Congress
at Indiana University. He
was a member of the U.S.
House of Representatives
for 34 years.
Nagel Continued from page 4
call home and that have done
so much for them. They are
always interested in improvements they can bring to their
counties as well. This provides me the opportunity to
highlight our fairgrounds to
host events, our state-of-theart recycling program, and
our progressive trail systems
to name just some of the
amazing things about
McLeod County. I travel to
NACo meetings with commissioners from Renville,
Swift, Steele, Carver, Washington, Anoka, Ramsey, Hennepin, Roseau, and Stearns
counties, and we all work
very hard for our counties and
our state. If you wish to learn
more about NACO and the
benefits to McLeod County
you can visit its website at
www.naco.org.
The letter also mentions my
inability to attend my annual
township meetings because I
was on vacation. We had
planned a family vacation
around my son’s spring break,
which prohibited me from attending these meetings. This
did overlap with township
meetings, but I notified my
townships that I would not be
able to attend and I sent a letter to them explaining my absence and offering my contact
information for them to use. I
do my best to talk with the
residents from townships in
my district as often as possible. I have reached out to the
township boards so we can
keep each other informed and
I am happy to meet with them
whenever they would like.
I want to also take this time
to remind all citizens of
McLeod County that they are
always welcome to contact
me with any questions, comments or concerns. As a commissioner, I strive to always
to do what is best for McLeod
County.
Joe Nagel
McLeod County
Commissioner
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SL Dollar General store moves one more step forward
By Karin Ramige Cornwell
Publisher
The reality of a Dollar
General store in Silver Lake
is a little closer after a public
hearing on Tuesday, Jan. 12,
before the city’s planning
commission.
Overland Engineering, the
company that builds Dollar
General stores, applied for a
variance to a city ordinance
in regards to the required
number of parking spaces for
a retail property.
The city’s ordinance requires one parking spot per
100 square feet of gross merchandise area. That would require 73 spaces for the proposed store.
Dollar General usually has
30 spaces per store. Based on
the number of stores it has
built, it has found that number to be sufficient.
Sam DeLeo from Kramer
Leas DeLeo P.C., a surveying
company from St. Cloud, was
the only one in attendance at
the public hearing. DeLeo
and his firm is contracted by
Dollar General and Overland
Engineering to survey potential new store sites.
DeLeo reported that in the
more than 30 stores he has
worked on, the 30 spaces is
more than enough for that
type of business. The Dollar
General feels that its stores
have more of a constant
stream of business throughout
the day, rather than busy rush
times.
The planning commission
approved recommending to
the City Council to approve
the variance allowing 30
parking spaces.
City Clerk Kerry Venier reported that the annexation of
the property into the city limits from Hale Township was
approved by the state. The
Council approved the annexation on Dec. 21.
DeLeo reported that once
the variance was approved
and the annexation complete,
the company could apply for
the building permit and finalize the purchase of the land
on the corner of Highway 7
and McLeod County Road
16.
Construction could start as
early as this spring.
Dollar General, out of Tennessee, is a retail company
that operates over 12,000
stores in 43 states. It currently has stores in Winsted and
Cokato.
Members of the planning
commission are Neil Syvertson, Sean Askerud, Connie
Kratzke and Trevor Bercher.
City Council member Josh
Mason serves as the liaison to
the commission.
Heat wave!!
Well, at least it’ll feel like that after what we’ve been
dealing with for the past week or so. The cold chunk of
air that settled over the area for the weekend has moved
off and allowed more seasonable weather to creep back
in. Highs Thursday and Friday will be in the teens to 20,
with a shot at 30 degrees by Sunday. The northwest flow
that pulled the cold air in has shifted to more of a westeast flow, so for the time being the upper Midwest will be
at or slightly above average.
The only chance of precipitation/snow will come in
late Saturday to early Sunday as a quick-moving system
slides through. I’m only expecting light amounts at best,
with perhaps a few unlucky areas getting a few inches
(exact location is anyone’s best guess — basically anywhere from Iowa to the Canadian border).
Temperatures will cool off again to start next week, but
only by a few degrees. The coldest blob of horrible air is
stuck back up in Canada, and long-range forecasts show
it will have a tough time moving this far south, so hopefully the computers know what they’re talking about this
time. Have a great week, all; enjoy the balmy 20-30-degree weather!
Ma dobry weekendem
Mit dobry vikend
Wednesday night — Lows 4-10; clouds.
Thursday — Highs 15-21, lows 0-6; clouds.
Friday — Highs 13-19, lows 4-10; partly cloudy.
Saturday — Highs 23-29, lows 12 to 23; clouds, night
snow shower.
Sunday — Highs 27-33; early snow shower, clouds.
Weather Quiz: Why don’t we ever see any large snowstorms when there’s below-zero temperatures?
Answer to last week’s question (What are the coldest
temperatures ever recorded for Minnesota, the United
States and the world?): Minnesota’s coldest temperature
was -60 degrees in Tower on Feb. 2, 1996. U.S.A’s coldest temperature was -80 degrees in Prospect Creek, Alaska, on Feb. 23, 1971. The world’s coldest recorded temperature was -128.6 degrees at the Soviet Vostok Station
in Antarctica on July 21, 1983.
Remember: I make the forecast, not the weather!
The Silver Lake Senior Citizens Club met Monday, Jan.
11, at 1 p.m.
There were 24 regular members present, one new member,
Alice Carol Totusek, and one
visitor, Yvonne Nowak.
January birthdays were
Marcella
Pokornowski,
Margie Chap, Carol Navratil
and Hubert Schumann. There
were no January anniversaries.
A reminder was given that
the next cards session at Cedar
Crest is Jan. 20 at 1:30 p.m.
A sympathy card was sent to
Alice Paul.
The next regular meeting is
Feb. 8 at 1 p.m. The lunch
committee for the February
meeting is Donald and Margaret Benz and Doris and
Glenn Wraspir.
31 winners: Tina Dolezal
and Margie Chap.
500 winners: Margaret
Scherman, Hubert Schermann,
Clarence Juncewski, Joanne
Victorian, Marcella Pokornowski, Donald Benz, Alice
Paul, Ed Goede, Yvonne
Nowak and Richard Kosek.
GSL Youth Energy team
granted funding for vehicle
The Glencoe-Silver Lake
Youth Energy Summit
(YES!) team was announced
as a winner of the 2015-2016
McKnight Foundation Project
Funding.
GSL, along with six other
teams, received an award of
$1,000. The GSL YES! team
and its coach, Mike Sundblad, earned the money for
their electric vehicle with
solar power station.
Funding was awarded to
teams whose projects engage
and empower youth to make
an impact in their school and
community on climate
change through hands-on
projects.
The project funding is a result of a larger grant from the
McKnight Foundation in the
fall 2015 to bring climate literacy to the YES! students
across greater Minnesota.
17 Brownton seniors meet
Seventeen Brownton senior
citizens met Monday afternoon at the Brownton Community Center.
Winning at cards were
Carol Brelje, first, and Alice
Olson, second, 500; Pearl
Streu, first, and Ruby Streich,
second, pinochle; and Lil Lin-
deman, first, and Harriett
Bergs, second, sheephead.
Archie Diehn won the door
prize. Theola Fors served refreshments.
The next meeting will be
Monday, Jan. 25, at 1 p.m. All
area seniors are welcome.
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The MIA-POW candle was
lit and a moment of silence
observed.
Alice Deno read the closing prayer.
The next meeting will be
Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 7 p.m., at
the New Auburn City hall.
During Lent, all meetings
will be held the second Tuesday of the month.
The meeting was adjourned
by the president.
INC.
NA VFW Auxiliary meets
The New Auburn VFW
Post 7266 Auxiliary meeting
was called to order Jan. 13 by
President Phyllis Schwanke.
The secretary’s report and
treasurer’s report were read
and accepted.
All correspondence was
read by the members of the
auxiliary.
The auxiliary had nine
dozen cookies donated to the
New Auburn Santa Claus
Day on Dec. 19 at the New
Auburn City Hall.
Donations were made to:
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Locals named to dean’s list
Rochester Community and Technical College named
Paige Sikkila of Brownton and Lillian Reinert of Glencoe to the fall semester dean’s list. To qualify, students
must earn a grade point average of between 3.0 and 4.0.
Named to Normandale list
Ashley Mohlis and Ariel Simmons of Glencoe and
Mariah Dalos of Plato were named to the fall semester
dean’s list at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. Students must earn a grade point average of 3.5
or higher to qualify for the list.
Local earns nursing degree
Savanna Schwegel of Brownton graduated from the
College of St. Scholastica in Duluth with a bachelor of
science degree in nursing.
24 Silver Lake senior
Weather Corner citizens met Jan. 11
By Jake Yurek
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Ridgewater College in Willmar announced its 2015
dean’s list. To qualify, students must earn a grade point
average of 3.5 or higher. Named to the list are Nancy
Ahlers of Brownton; Thomas Becker, Michael Boesche,
Jay Carmona, Jennifer Dahlke, Mitchell Donnay, Connie
Duenow, Elizabeth Dvorak, Krista Green, Judy Litzau,
Austin Maynard, Ryan Ragan, Shannon Schaefer, Taylor
Schrupp and Jose Vega Duran, all of Glencoe; Kaitlyn
Bohning, Brianna Damlow, Brandon Ebert, James Hannah, Nathan Schermann, Jodi Schmidt, Brittany Thiesfeld and Heather Worm, all of Silver Lake; and Brianna
Korson, Matthew Oleson, Robbie Sheets and Logan Sondergaard, all of Stewart.
MSU dean’s list announced
Samantha Iverson, Alexis Kerslake and Rachel Rusten
of Glencoe and Miranda Buesing, Krista Lange, Joseph
Madsen and Kristen Madsen of Lester Prairie have been
names to the Minnesota State University Moorhead
dean’s list for the fall semester of 2015. Students must
earn a grade point average of 3.25 or higher to make the
list.
UMD dean’s list released
Several area students earned a spot on the University
of Minnesota Duluth’s dean’s list for the 2015 fall semester. On the list are Katelin Goebel of Brownton; Kaitlyn
Boesche, Adam Broderius, Mark Broderius, Adam Eberhard, Dylan Jenkins, Chandler Swift and Chentelle Wolff
of Glencoe; Jake Anderson, Jacob Roth and Garret
Schultz of Lester Prairie; Patrick Fehrenbach and Jacob
Wawrzyniak of Silver Lake; and Chris Dahlman of Stewart. To earn a spot the students had to maintain a grade
point average of 3.5 or higher.
Wedding
Wolter
— Klemz
Erin Wolter and Todd
Klemz were united in marriage on Nov. 14, 2015, at
Immanuel Lutheran Church
in Brownton by the Rev.
Allan Reed.
Parents of the couple are
Bob and Dawn Wolter of
Glencoe and Brad and Amy
Klemz of Otsego.
Stephanie Worm served as
the bride’s matron of honor.
Bridesmaids were Ashley
Kuhnau, Amanda Langins,
Rebecca Radtke and Molly
Sinclair.
Tony Nowak served as best
man to the groom. Groomsmen were John Wolter, Micah
Larson and Phil Nowak.
The reception was held at
the Hutchinson Event Center.
The bride and groom took
their wedding trip to Punta
Cana in the Dominican Republic.
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NA VFW Post 7266 meets Wed.
The New Auburn VFW
Post 7266 met Jan. 13. The
meeting was called to order
by Commander Willard
Grack.
The post inspection was
conducted by Francis Rowe
of Arlington at 6:30 p.m.
Donations were made to:
GSL after-prom party, $75;
Kyle Wanous, 4-H, $75; Zack
Wanous, 4-H, $75; and Zoey
Ruschmeier, 4-H, $75.
The next meeting will be
Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 7 p.m., at
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During Lent, all meetings will
be on the second Tuesday of
the month.
The meeting was adjourned
by Commander Grack.
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The 2016 Swan Lake
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weather permitting.
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Thurs., Jan. 21 — AA Group mtg. next to
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Mon., Jan. 25 — Tops Weigh-In mtg., 55:30 p.m.; Brownton Senior Citizens Club,
Brownton Community Center, 1 p.m.; Brownton Rod & Gun Club, 7 p.m.
Thurs., Jan. 28 — AA Group mtg. next to
Post Office in Stewart, 8 p.m., call 320-2125290 for info.
Tues., Feb. 9 — American Red Cross blood
drive, Peace Lutheran Church, 400 Franklin
St. SW, Hutchinson, 12-6 p.m.
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Todd and Erin Klemz
The couple will reside in
Golden Valley.
The groom is an accountant at Retail Financial Services in Plymouth and the bride
works at Bonefish Grill in St.
Louis Park.
The couple met at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall.
GLENCOE
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County Chronicle, as well as online at Glencoenews.com, we
will be featuring information about the upcoming Glencoe
Business Expo on Feb. 20. We will be featuring the schedule
of expo activities for that weekend.
We will be offering a special marketing package:
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Annually, the event attracts around 2,000 people.
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Obituaries
Florence E. Abram, 97, of Brownton
Chronicle photo by Rebecca Mariscal
FLS students compete in Geo Bee
First Lutheran School in Glencoe held
its Geography Bee on Thursday, Jan.
14. Three students earned top spots
with two winning the chance to go the
state bee. They are from left to right,
Alaina Voss, Elise Betcher and Grace
Litzau. Litzau was the champion of the
bee with Betcher taking second and
Voss earning third. Overall, 10 students participated.
Chronicle photo by Rebecca Mariscal
Dahl speaks to GSL students
Agronomic Service Representative Tim
Dahl visited Glencoe-Silver Lake High
School on Friday as part of the Lincoln
Junior High career speaker program.
Dahl spoke to the junior high students
about the various agricultural careers.
Stewart City Council makes 2016
annual appointments, designations
By Lori Copler
Editor
The Stewart City Council
made its annual designations
and appointments at its Monday, Jan. 11, meeting.
One position that was not
filled was that of the emergency management director.
Mayor Jason Peirce said there
were no qualified candidates
at the moment.
Council Member Carol Altrichter suggested that fellow
Council Member Kevin Klucas be appointed the acting
emergency management director. Klucas had the position in the past, when he was
not on the City Council.
The Council appointed
Klucas to the position.
Other appointments for
2016 include:
• Klucas, acting mayor;
• Altrichter and Peirce,
blight inspectors;
• Dean Nelson, fire chief;
• Jason Carter, second assisted chief;
• Heather Peirce, emergency medical responder captain;
• Klucas and Altrichter, liaisons for the clerk’s office;
• Jim Eitel and Curt
Glaeser, liaisons for the
street, maintenance, water
and wastewater departments;
• Eitel and Altrichter, liaisons to the fire department
and emergency medical responder departments;
• Peirce, personnel policy
and program manager;
• Glaeser, safety director;
• Eitel, planning and zoning commission;
• Klucas, Board of Adjustment;
• Altrichter, RS Fiber Joint
Board;
• McLeod County Sheriff’s
Office, animal control officer;
• Heart of Minnesota, official animal pound;
• The McLeod County
Chronicle, official newspaper;
• Bolton & Menk, engineering firm;
• Brenda Chmielewski, city
assessor;
• Gavin, Winters, Thiemann & Long, LTD, city attorney;
• Schlenner Wenner & Co,
city auditors;
• MNSpect, Inc., building
inspections;
• Matthew Maiers, tree inspector;
• Buffalo Lake Insurance
Co./Security
Insurance
Agency, city insurance agent;
and
• State Board of Investments, First Minnesota Bank,
Institutional CDs Inc./ICD
Securities, Inc.; Southwest
Securities and Home State
Bank, financial depositories.
The City Council also reappointed Teresa Rosenow as
an at-large member of the
planning commission. It is
still seeking another commission member.
In other business, the City
Council:
• Made its annual resolution to close certain streets
during the Stewartfest celebration.
• Accepted a $300 discount
on a bill from Ewert Bros.,
Inc., for work done at the
ballpark. The discount was
given as a donation toward
the project.
• Agreed to donate old fire
department turnout gear to
Riverside Church in Hutchinson for distribution in a thirdworld country.
• Agreed to send two new
firefighters to training.
Stewart City Council tables
fire request to buy mini-pumper
By Lori Copler
Editor
The Stewart City Council
tabled a request from the fire
department to purchase a
2012 mini-pumper.
A resolution regarding the
purchase came before the
Council at its Monday, Jan.
11, meeting.
The 2012 Ford 550 minipumper had a purchase price
of $137,500. The department
sought an additional $10,000
to buy equipment for the
truck.
But City Council members
questioned if the truck would
be adequate for the department, and also suggested
tabling the matter until it
could be brought before
township officials. Townships
that contract with the city of
Stewart for fire protection
share in the cost of equipment
purchases.
Council Member Carol Altrichter, a former firefighter
with a suburban fire depart-
ment, questioned the tank capacity of the truck, and
whether it would be adequate
for rural fires.
The proposed truck would
hold 200 gallons of water onboard. Altrichter said 500 gallons should be the minimum.
Fire Chief Dean Nelson
said the mini-pumper would
be a back-up to the department’s primary pumper, and
not a first-out engine.
Assistant Chief Jason
Carter said he pictured the
truck being used primarily for
traffic accidents.
“If you’re buying for accidents, you’re buying it for the
wrong reasons,” said Council
Member Kevin Klucas, who
also is a member of the Stewart Fire Department.
“What I want to know is if
this truck is going to serve
our needs 10 years down the
road,” said Klucas.
Council Member Jim Eitel
said the city should bring the
matter to the area townships.
Klucas said the truck should
also be brought to the joint
meeting so officials could
look at it.
In the end, the City Council
agreed to table the issue and
set up a meeting with the
townships.
In related matters, the City
Council:
• Declined a request to provide a stipend to the Emergency Medical Responder
unit captain.
• Heard that there were no
applicants for the unit’s second captain position. Heather
Peirce is currently the only
captain.
• Klucas volunteered to try
to deal with a warranty issue
on one of the fire department’s tanker trucks.
• Heard that six EMRs
were interested in attending
the Long, Hot Summer conference presented by North
Memorial in March.
Florence Ethel (Gehrke)
Abram, 97, of Brownton,
died Monday, Jan. 11, 2016,
at Glencoe Regional Health
Services Long Term Care.
Funeral
services
were held
T h u r s d a y,
Jan. 14, at
G r a c e
Lutheran
Church in
Brownton
with the
Rev. An- Florence
drew Her- Abram
modsonOlsen officiating. Bev Wangerin was the pianist. The
Grace Lutheran Church choir
sang “Come Follow Me” and
The Rev. Andrew and Rosine
Hermodson-Olsen
sang
“Borning Cry.”
Casket bearers were Dawn
Condos, Erin Jensen, Keith
Tongen, Doug Karg, Dave
Wendlandt and Alan Jerabek.
Interment was in the church
cemetery.
Florence Ethel (Gehrke)
Abram was born Sept. 28,
1918, in Collins Township,
Brownton, the daughter of
Henry and Amanda (Schimmelpfennig) Gehrke. She was
baptized as an infant and confirmed in her faith as a youth
on March 29, 1931, by the
Rev. Kowalske at Grace
Lutheran Church in Brownton. She was educated in
Brownton, graduating with
the Brownton High School
class of 1936.
On Sept. 22, 1940, she was
united in marriage with Wesley J. Abram by the Rev.
Kowalske at Grace Lutheran
Church in Brownton. They
made their home in Sioux
Falls, South Dakota, Denver,
Colorado, Salt Lake City,
Utah, and Brownton. Their
marriage was blessed with
two children, Ken and Mary.
The Abrams shared over 60
years of marriage before Mr.
Abram’s death on Jan. 21,
2001.
In addition to being a loving wife, mother and homemaker, Mrs. Abram worked at
Scrimgeour Pharmacy in
Brownton. She was a lifelong
member of Grace Lutheran
Church in Brownton, where
she was a member of
WELCA and held the office
of treasurer-secretary in her
earlier years. She also was a
member of the church choir
and was a Sunday school
teacher.
Mrs. Abram loved the outdoors, fishing and gardening,
mostly flowers. She enjoyed
taking long walks in which
she could speed walk, reading
books, playing cards, especially bridge, and baking
breads and pies, which she
would always share with others. She was an avid sports
fan and would attend her children and grandchildren’s
sporting events. In her later
years, she enjoyed Vikings
football and baseball games
on television. She and her
husband spent many winter
months in San Diego, California. She treasured the time
spent with friends and family.
She is survived by her son
and daughter-in-law, Ken and
Karlene Abram of Wolcotteville, Indiana; daughter and
son-in-law, Mary and Jim
Nelson of Plymouth; grandchildren, Dawn (Jim) Condos
of Romeoville, Illinois, Karna
(Dan) Chier of Noblesville,
Indiana; Erin Jensen (domestic partner Joe Defilippis) of
Helena, Montana, and Seth
(Jessica) Jensen of Port Angeles, Washington; greatgrandchildren,
Zachary
Young, Jamie Condos, Jack
Wesley
Condos,
Sam
Philpott, Allison Philpott,
Carley Chier, Vaughn Wirkus,
Domonic Defilippis, Mady
Defilippis and Lochlyn
Jensen; nieces, nephews,
other relatives and many
friends.
She was preceded in death
by her parents, Henry and
Amanda Gehrke; husband,
Wesley J. Abram; sister, Elsie
Sommerdorf; and brother,
Glen Gehrke.
Arrangements were with
the Johnson-McBride Funeral
Chapel in Glencoe. Online
obituaries and guest book are
available at www.hantge
.com.
Delphine Mallak, 97, of Silver Lake
Delphine Cecelia (Millerbernd) Mallak, 97, of Silver
Lake, died Thursday, Jan. 14,
2016.
A Mass
of Christian
Burial was
held Monday, Jan.
18, at Holy
F a m i l y
Catholic
Church in
Silver Lake
with
the Delphine
Revs. Paul Mallak
Schumacher and Cornelius Ezeiloaku as
concelebrants.
Casket bearers were Harlan
Wawrzyniak, Duane Wawrzyniak, Alvin Rozeske, Bruce
Rozeske, Brian Stibal and
Gerald Ardolf.
Interment was in St. Adalbert’s Catholic Cemetery in
Silver Lake.
Delphine Cecelia (Millerbernd) Mallak was born Jan.
8, 1919, in Winsted, the
daughter of Joseph and Rosalia (Fasching) Millerbernd.
She grew up and went to
school in Winsted, and was
the second youngest of 12
children
She was united in marriage
to Ernest Mallak and the couple made their home on a
dairy farm in Hale Township.
After Mr. Mallak’s death in
2006, Mrs. Mallak moved
into Ethel’s on the Lake in
Silver Lake. While living
there, she continued her passion for baking, especially
kolaches. In 2014, she became a resident of Cedar
Crest Estate in Silver Lake.
She was loved by all and
will be missed.
The Maresh Funeral Home
in Silver Lake served the
family.
at Prairie Senior Cottages in
Hutchinson.
Graveside services will be
held Thursday, Jan. 21, at 1
p.m., at St. Paul’s United
Church of Christ Cemetery in
Plato.
Arrangements are with the
Johnson-McBride Funeral
Chapel in Glencoe. An online
guest book is available at
www.hantge.com.
Deaths
Dale Roth, 85,
of Hutchinson
Dale Roth, 85, of Hutchinson, formerly of Plato, died
Saturday, Jan. 16, at his home
Winters attend
national Farm
Bureau session
Nathan and Kelly Winter
of McLeod County attended
the American Farm Bureau
Federation (AFBF) Annual
Convention held in Orlando,
Florida, Jan. 8-12.
Nathan Winter was awarded the trip after receiving the
Minnesota Farm Bureau
(MFB) Foundation Extension
Educator of the Year Award
at the MFB annual meeting
in November. Winter is the
ag productions systems University of Minnesota Extension educator in McLeod and
Meeker counties.
“I appreciated the opportunity to attend the AFBF Conference in Orlando,” said
Winter. “Educational sessions I attended will help
strengthen my work with
farmers and agricultural professionals in McLeod and
Meeker counties.”
Over 60 Farm Bureau
members from Minnesota are
among the nearly 7,000 Farm
Bureau members representing each state and Puerto
Rico at the AFBF Annual
Convention. The meeting
also featured workshops and
seminars, as well as, the national resolutions session,
which set policies for the upcoming year. For information
on Farm Bureau, visit www.
fbmn.org.
Thank You
In Memory of
BEVERLY A.
ZELLMANN
4-11-37 – 1-20-2015
Those we love don’t
go away, they walk
beside us every day...
Unseen, unheard,
but always near,
still love, still missed
and very dear.
Sadly missed by,
Husband, Earl;
Grant, Rochelle, Jenna,
Nate, Amy, Allison
*3Ca
We would like to
thank our relatives and
many friends for the
kindness that has been
shown to our family
since the passing of our
husband, father and
grandfather, David
Micka.
To Pastor Carol for her
kind words, the musicians for their special
music and the ladies
that helped serve the
funeral lunch.
It is greatly appreciated by our family!
The Family of
David Micka
*3Ca
PERSONALIZED & CUSTOMIZED
952.467.2081
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Thank You
The family of Berdina Luehring would like to
thank everyone for the many expressions of kindness and support shown to our families during this
time of bereavement. We are deeply touched by the funeral message Pastor Welch gave in memory of
Mom/Grandma, how very special.
A special thank you to relatives, friends and neighbors in
the Glencoe Rescue and Ambulance, Ridgeview Medical
Center staff, Allina Care staff, McBride Funeral Chapel staff,
and members of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Thank you for keeping all of us in your prayers in
this time of sorrow, especially during the Christmas
season.
Dennis & Arlys Harms,
Sandra Bruckschen, and families *3Ca
The McLeod County Chronicle, www.glencoenews.com, Wednesday, January 20, 2016, page 8
Submitted photos
Pictured above are the Glencoe-Silver
Lake musicians who participated in the
ninth- and 10th-grade Central Minnesota Band Directors Association
(CMBDA) Honor Band; from left, are
Dallas Durbin, Leah Bettcher and Jessica Alsleben.
Chronicle photos by
Rebecca Mariscal
Playtime and
Pizza at ECFE
GSL students named to honor bands
On Jan. 16, one student
from the Glencoe-Silver Lake
(GSL) Lakeside Elementary
School Intermediate Band,
four students from the Lincoln Junior High Bands, and
three students from the GSL
High School Bands attended
the Central Region Honor
Band of the Minnesota Band
Directors Association.
GSL High School Band
students Leah Bettcher (bassoon), Dallas Durbin (trumpet) and Jessica Alsleben
(trombone) were members of
the ninth- and 10th-grade
Honor Band. Lincoln Junior
High School Band Students
Abby Gronlund (flute), Eli
Kuehn (trombone), Gabe
Christensen (trombone) and
Dan Cross (percussion) were
members of the sixththrough eighth-grade Honor
Band. Emma Gepson (trumpet) of the Lakeside Intermediate Band was also a member of the sixth- through
eighth-grade Honor Band.
Held at Elk River High
School, the bands featured
162 students from 47 schools
throughout central Minneso-
ta. The day included significant rehearsal time and a
short amount of time with
volunteer section coaches.
The event culminated with a
concert held in the Elk River
High School Auditorium.
The CMBDA sixththrough eighth-grade Honor
Band was conducted by Peter
Guenther, director of bands at
Owatonna High School,
while the ninth- and 10thgrade Honor Band was conducted by Catharine Sinon
Bushman of St. Cloud State
University.
Glencoe-Silver Lake’s
Early Childhood Family
Education (ECFE) program held a Pizza and
Play open house Friday
in the Lincoln Junior
High Gym. Bounce
houses, tricycles, scooters, games and pizza
were all on hand for the
visiting kids. The event
also gave parents the
opportunity to sign up
for upcoming events.
Above, Iris Cathey, 2,
takes the wheel. At left,
Theodore Mielke, 3,
plays with a ball.
Key 2016 election dates announced
Abby Gronlund, Dan Cross and Gabe
Christensen.
Winter Garden College set Feb. 4
Are you looking for something garden-related to fill the
long, cold, winter hours?
McLeod, Stearns and Douglas
County Extension Offices just
might have the solution for
you.
The Winter Garden College
returns to McLeod County on
Feb. 4. Sessions in Douglas
and Stearns counties will follow on Feb. 18 and Feb. 25.
Starting at 6 p.m., these twohour sessions will include
three half-hour presentations
by three different horticulture
educators, with time for questions at the end of each session.“Ins and Outs of Asexual
Propagation,” presented by
Beth Berlin. Planting seeds is
a very popular way to propagate plants, but how about
asexual propagation? Come
learn an introduction about
different types of asexual
propagation, including cuttings, grafts or dividing. It
might give you some ideas for
fun new experiments to try.
Berlin is the University of
Minnesota Extension educator, horticulturist, in Stearns,
Benton, and Morrison counties. She has a bachelor of science degree in agricultural
education and a master’s degree in horticulture from the
University of Minnesota.
Berlin also is the landscape
designer and a member of the
install crew for the landscape
business owned and operated
by her and her family.
“Composting Waste to Improve Garden Performance,”
presented by Nathan Winter.
By composting, a home gardener can turn waste into a
high-quality soil amendment
that can help produce great
flowers or food.
This presentation will include the science behind the
composting process. Winter
will provide materials to help
Farm Notes
By Nathan Winter
you start planning your first
compost pile, information on
improving existing compost
piles and explain the value of
compost to your garden systems.
Winter is the University of
Minnesota Extension educator, horticulturist, in McLeod
and Meeker counties. For
over 10 years, Winter has provided education in the agricultural and horticultural
areas. He is an avid gardener
and produces vegetables sold
at local farmers’ markets.
Winter has a bachelor of science in agriculture education
and a master’s of education
in agriculture education from
the University of Minnesota,
St. Paul. He resides on a
small acreage near Hutchinson.
“Successful Seed Starting,”
presented by Robin Trott. Always wanted to start your
own seedlings, but weren’t
sure how? Learn sowing
strategies that will have you
successfully starting your
own plants indoors and out.
Discover how temperature,
light, growing medium and
humidity can affect your
seedlings and take home
some easy seed recommendations to get you started.
Trott is the University of
Minnesota Extension educator, horticulturist, in Douglas
County, answering questions
ranging from insects and disease to landscape design. She
is an experienced environmental educator, market gar-
dener and flower farmer, and
has worked in various positions in the floriculture and
education industry for over 11
years. Trott has a passion for
all aspects of horticulture, and
especially loves the challenging questions that lead to research and revelation.
Presentations at each event
will be the same, only the locations will be different —
Feb 4: McLeod County Fairgrounds, 840 Century Ave.
SW, Hutchinson; Feb. 18:
Douglas County Extension
Meeting Room, located in the
Douglas County Service Center, 720 Fillmore St., Alexandria, (park in the lower level
parking lot off Fillmore Street
and enter by the library; Feb.
25: 3601 18th St. S, Suite
113, St. Cloud.
Sessions are from 6 p.m. to
8p.m., and are open to the
public. University of Minnesota Extension Master Gardeners, Douglas County, are
sponsoring the Alexandria
event, and covering registration for all participants. Cost
for the St. Cloud and
Hutchinson events is $10 per
participant (payable to University of Minnesota). Preregistration is preferred with
the county you wish to attend,
but registrations at the door
are welcome if space is available. For more information or
to register, please call Douglas County Extension at 320762-3890.
Until next time, happy gardening!
Key dates
• March 1 — Precinct caucuses. The precinct caucus
finder will be available the
week of Feb. 8 on the Office
of the Minnesota Secretary of
State website, mnvotes.org.
The finder displays caucus
locations provided by the
DFL Party and Republican
Party. Voters may also contact their preferred political
party to find caucus locations.
• May 17-May 31 — Candidate filing period. Candidates running for partisan office need to file for office
during this window of time.
• May 17-Aug. 23 — Presidential filing period for minor
party and independent candidates who must file by petition.
• June 24 — Minnesotans
can begin to vote early via
absentee ballot, by mail, or in
person for the Aug. 9 Primary
Election.
To vote early by mail, Minnesotans can apply to have an
absentee ballot mailed to
them. To vote early in person,
Minnesotans can get and cast
an absentee ballot at their
county election office. Minnesotans who are military and
overseas voters who want to
vote absentee can learn more
on the website.
• July 19 — Pre-registration deadline for the Primary
Election. Voters are encouraged to pre-register to vote to
avoid lines at the polling
place. Voters who miss this
deadline may still register at
their polling place on Primary
Election Day, Aug. 9. One
may also register on the secretary of state website.
• Aug. 9 — Primary Election Day.
• Sept. 23 — Minnesotans
can begin to vote early via
absentee ballot, by mail, or in
person for the Nov. 8 General
Election.
To vote early by mail, Minnesotans can apply to have an
absentee ballot mailed to
them. To vote early in person,
Minnesotans can get and cast
an absentee ballot at their
county election office. Minnesotans who are military and
overseas voters who want to
vote absentee can learn more
by visiting the secretary of
state website.
• Sept. 27 — National
Voter Registration Day.
• Oct. 18 — Pre-registration deadline for the General
Election. Voters are encouraged to pre-register to vote to
avoid lines at the polling
place. Voters who miss this
deadline may still register at
their polling place on Election Day, Nov. 8. One may
also register on the secretary
of state website.
• Nov. 8 — General Election Day.
Register now
The voter registration
process in Minnesota is easier
and more convenient than
ever before. Minnesotans can
register to vote from the comfort of their own home by
going online to mnvotes.org.
Voters can register at the
polls on Election Day or
when applying for or renewing their driver ’s license.
Voter registration applications are also available at
every state agency, all 87
county offices throughout the
state, and online in English,
Hmong, Russian, Somali,
Spanish and Vietnamese.
Minnesotans who are already registered to vote
should confirm their voter
registration information is up
to date, and encourage their
friends, family and co-workers to do the same.
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GSL participants in the CMBDA sixththrough eighth-grade honor band were,
from left, Emma Gepson, Elias Kuehn,
Recently, Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon
highlighted key 2016 election
dates in Minnesota and encouraged all citizens, regardless of political affiliation, to
get involved, stay informed
and, most importantly, vote.
“Minnesotans pride themselves on civic engagement
and we know that doesn’t just
start or end at the ballot box¸”
said Simon. “Over the next
year, Minnesotans will be
talking with their neighbors
at precinct caucuses, encouraging friends and family to
register to vote, and making
sure their voices are heard on
Election Day.”
This is going to be an important election year in Minnesota. In addition to voting
for the next president of the
United States, Minnesotans
will vote for their members of
the U.S. House of Representatives, their state senators
and representatives, as well
as on a constitutional amendment. Some Minnesotans
may also be voting for their
local county commissioner,
soil and water supervisor, city
officers, school board members, township officers, or
local ballot questions.

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