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The McLeod County
Glencoe, Minnesota Vol. 118, No. 6
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www.glencoenews.com
Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015
No change in school polling places
Building bond
election set
for May 12
By Jessica Grams
Staff Writer
The GSL School Board has finalized much of its proposal for the
possible construction project it
would like the public to approve on
May 12. First, a motion was carried
for a 30-year repayment plan, with a
final payment to be made Feb. 1,
2045.
Next, Superintendent Chris Sonju
recommended approval of the ballot
language, highlighting the plans for
the improvements, which was approved by the board.
The Review and Comment proposal has been prepared for submission to the Commissioner of Education by Business Manager Michelle
Sander, which was approved by the
board and Board Member Clark
Christiansen made note that the
School Board appreciates all of the
work she had put in to the 42-page
document.
The board held a discussion regarding the potential polling placesfor the bond election. Sonju noted
that these locations are not a recommendation, just explaining where
the elections have been held before.
The potential places will be at Lin-
coln School, Lakeside School, New
Auburn City Hall, Plato Fire Hall
and the Brownton Community Center. The Hassan Valley Township location in Biscay is no longer going
to be used. Absentee ballots are
available and the requirements for
absentee ballots are much more
open, with leaner requirements than
in past elections. The application for
an absentee ballot will be available
online, or can be requested from the
district office.
Board Member Jamie Alsleben
recommended that the Glencoe location be at the Panther Field House
to limit disruption at the schools.
Dawn Petersen, assistant to the superinendent, said that the last general election held in the field house
went very poorly, with a lot of noise
coming from the gym next door
Christianson reiterated that he still
supports having the only polling
place at Helen Baker School, because people who haven’t seen it
can see what they are voting about.
Board members Jason Lindeman
and Anne Twiss agreed that a single
polling place would be effective, especially in light of the new ease of
the absentee ballots.
Board Member Donna Vonberge
said the absentee ballot is “too new,
not enough people are going to use
it,” and it would only be fair to have
five polling places for everyone to
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Chronicle photo by Lori Copler
Caught the big fish (house)
Loren Schmeling of Hutchinson was the winner of an Ice Castle
fish house given away by the Brownton Rod & Gun Club through
a raffle held in conjunction with its annual ice fishing contest
Saturday. Several hundred people congregated on Lake Marion
$1.00
for the contest, then returned to the clubhouse for the drawing.
Jeff Kraimer, owner of the Brownton Bar & Grill, won both the
second- and third-place prizes — a small ATV and a generator.
Schmeling is a longtime member of the Rod & Gun Club.
Push is on
for Hwy. 212
improvements
By Rich Glennie
Correspondent
Local legislators were asked Friday afternoon at a gathering at the
Glencoe City Center ’s Historic
Room what can be done locally to
help push for progress and funding
for the long-stalled Highway 212
improvements. Those improvements
would extend the four lanes west
from Carver to Cologne.
The historic
room seemed appropriate since
the Highway 212
extension has
been in the
works for over
60 years and still
has two major
gaps — the five
miles from Chaska to Cologne, Gruenhagen
and another five
or six miles from Cologne to Norwood Young America.
Attending the meeting were state
Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen, R-Glencoe, state Rep. Dean Urdahl, RGrove City, mayors of Glencoe and
Hutchinson along with council
members and staff from both communities, all the county commissioners, some township officials,
county highway department personnel as well as some industry leaders
and economic development experts.
But it was
Carver County
Highway Engineer Lyndon
Robjent who put
things into perspective: “We’re
p u s h i n g
MnDOT (Minnesota Department of Transportation) as Robjent
hard as we can,” but he said the
metro MnDOT division has no interest in putting money into fourlane highways that are outside of the
Highway 494/694 beltline around
the metro area.
“It is not a priority with the Met
Council,” Robjent added of Highway 212, “and it never will be for
the metro MnDOT district.” He suggested the best bet may be to push
MnDOT District 8 officials based in
Willmar to find funds to help complete the extension of the four-lanes.
Highway 212
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Montgomery Gentry to headline
2015 Heat in the Street festival
By Lori Copler
Editor
The Glencoe Fire Department’s
relief association continues to draw
big-name talent to its annual Heat in
the Street music festival.
The department announced last
week that Montgomery Gentry will
be the headliner at this year’s Heat
in the Street, set for July 25 in the
Glencoe City Center parking lot.
Also slated are Eric Paslay, Chris
Hawkey and The Plott Hounds.
Montgomery Gentry is comprised
of the vocal duo of Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry, both natives of Kentucky.
Montgomery Gentry has had a
total of 14 Top 10 singles, including
five that reached the top of the
charts — “Something to Be Proud
Of,” “If You Ever Stop Loving Me,”
“Lucky Man,” “Back When I Knew
It All” and “Roll With Me.” They
were inducted into the Grand Ole
Opry in 2009.
Glencoe firefighter Jon Dahlke,
one of the event’s organizers, said
this will be the fourth year of Heat in
the Street, which raises funds for the
relief association — and the second
year that it has attracted national talent.
Dahlke said the event started before he joined the department.
“It just started as a new idea as a
fundraiser for the department,” said
Dahlke. “We were looking for some-
Weather
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thing different that would fit into the
area.”
Dahlke said Heat in the Street was
loosely patterned after the Cold
Spring Fire Department’s Fire Fest.
Last year’s Heat in the Street attracted over 2,800 people.
“This year, we’re expecting about
5,000,” said Dahlke.
Dahlke said ticket sales are being
announced this week in The Chronicle as well as on local radio stations.
Tickets are available on the Heat
in the Street website, www.heatin
thestreet.com, as well as through the
department’s Facebook page. They
also are available at Glencoe Wine
& Spirits and the Glencoe City Center.
January highlights: Bitterly
cold lows gave way to warming temps and freezing rain.
Date
Hi
Lo Snow
Feb. 3
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Feb. 4
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Feb. 5
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Feb. 6
Feb. 7
Feb. 8
Feb. 9
Submitted photo
Country duo Montgomery Gentry is coming to Glencoe in July for
the Glencoe Fire Department’s Heat in the Street music festival.
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Temperatures and precipitation compiled by Robert Thurn, Chronicle
weather observer.
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Happenings
Woodworking orientation set
The Glencoe Woodworking Club has set a safety and
orientation class for Tuesday, Feb. 17, from 7 p.m. to 9
p.m., in the lower level of the Glencoe City Center.
Please call 320-266-4060 for more information and to
enroll. Drop-ins are welcome.
Plato Fire fish fry set Feb. 20
The Plato Fire Department will host its annual fish fry
Friday, Feb. 20, at the Plato Community Hall. Serving
starts at 3 p.m.
Caregiver group to meet
The Glencoe Caregiver Discussion Group will meet
Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 5:45 p.m., at Grand Meadows Senior
Living in Glencoe. The topic will be “family meetings.”
For more information, call Jan Novotny at 320-894-0479.
The Glencoe American Legion Ladies Auxiliary will
meet Monday, Feb. 16, at 7 p.m., at the Glencoe Fire
Hall. Lunch will be served.
Valentine’s Day at the library
The Glencoe Public Library is presenting a free Valentine’s Day event, “I Love It,” with a special storytime, a
Valentine craft and a heart snack, on Saturday, Feb. 14, at
10:30 a.m. All children are welcome.
Glencoe Study Club to meet
The Glencoe Study Club will meet Monday, Feb. 16, at
7:30 p.m., at the home of Shari Johnson. Gail Koch will
present “One Wig at a Time.”
Stewart Legion meeting
The Stewart American Legion Post 125 and its Ladies
Auxiliary will meet Monday, Feb. 16, at 7 p.m., at the
Stewart Community Center. Hostesses are Norma Syverson and Joanne Wagner.
St. John’s pancake dinner set
St. John’s Lutheran Church, 216 McLeod Ave., Plato,
is hosting a pancake dinner Sunday, Feb. 22, from 10:30
a.m. to 1 p.m. Takeout is available. Proceeds will help
support Heifer International and the Parochial Education
Fund.
Bar Bingo set for Saturday
The Glencoe Lions Club will sponsor Bar Bingo at the
Glencoe Country Club on Saturday, Feb. 14, at 2 p.m.
Everyone age 18 and over is welcome to play for cash
prizes. The progressive game pay-out is $1,199 if have
Bingo within 61 called numbers. Food, beverages and
pull-tabs are available.
Blood drive set in Plato
The Plato Lions Club is sponsoring a Red Cross blood
drive Thursday, Feb. 26, from noon to 6 p.m., at Discover
Church. To make an appointment, call Ken or Myra
Franke at 320-238-2370.
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
320-864-3799 and leave a message.
Bloodmobile in Stewart Feb. 18
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at Cactus Jack’s
II, Highway 212, Stewart, on Wednesday, Feb. 18, from
noon to 6 p.m.
County Relay For Life
launches season Feb. 10
The McLeod County Relay
For Life will officially launch
its season Tuesday, Feb. 10,
at 5:30 p.m., at Faith Lutheran Church, 335 Main St. S,
Hutchinson.
Participants will ring in the
new season with a rally that
educates everyone on how
their involvement helps the
American Cancer Society’s
goal to save lives and create
more birthdays. Rally activities include a 1980s theme,
door prizes, refreshments and
great information on being
part of the McLeod County
Relay For Life.
The American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life is an
overnight community celebration where individuals and
teams camp out, picnic,
dance, play games and take
turns circling a track relay
style to raise funds and fight
cancer.
The event opens as cancer
survivors lead the way
around the track and honored
on a survivor lap. As the sun
begins to set, the warm glow
of hundreds of luminaries
light the field in an emotional, silent ceremony. Each bag
is lit in honor of a loved one
who won the fight against
cancer, or in remembrance of
a special person who lost the
battle.
Started in 1985, the Relay
For Life began with one man
who circled a track for 24
hours, raising $27,000. This
year, the Relay For Life has
grown to more than 5,200
communities and more than
25 countries worldwide.
County GOP convention set
The McLeod County Republican Convention is set
for Saturday, Feb. 14, at 9
a.m., in the Commissioners’
Room at the McLeod County
Courthouse in Glencoe. Registration opens at 8:15 a.m.
Among business items are
reviewing and considering
changes to the McLeod
County Republican constitution, election to fill executive
board offices, including chair,
treasurer and vice chair, and
any other business.
For more information, visit
www.mcleodGOP.com.
Chronicle photo by Lori Copler
Members of the Stewart American Legion Auxiliary
helped Marie Dols — a 67-year member of the Auxiliary
— celebrate her 100th birthday on Monday, Feb. 1. Pictured are, front row from left, Sylvia Markgraf, Marge
Ehlert, Marie Dols (the birthday girl), Vera Bents and
Norma Syverson; middle row, Dolores Beich, Alecia Kottke, Viola Renner, Jane Friedrichs, Joyce Markgraf and
Karen Maiers; and, back, Jamie Guiterrez, Marcella
Brede, Georgia Forcier, Mardette Trettin, Shirley Kirchoff
and Lori Vinkemeier.
100 years: Marie Dols reflects on her life
By Lori Copler
Editor
arie Dols “loved
her beauty shop,”
which she ran for
many, many years in Stewart.
“I got to know just about
everyone,” she said last week.
And, apparently, people got
to know Dols as well. That
was evident Monday, Feb. 1,
when a large group of women
from the Stewart American
Legion Auxiliary gathered at
the Shade Tree Retirement
Center in Brownton to celebrate Dols’ 100th birthday.
Dols is a 67-year member
of the Auxiliary, which provided dessert and beverages
to help her celebrate at an
open house.
*****
Dols said she never expected to live to be 100, but
thinks she reached the milestone because she never
stopped moving.
And though she never expected to be a centenarian,
Dols is quite proud of how
agile she remains.
“I don’t walk with a cane
or a walker,” she said. “My
doctor always told me to do a
lot of walking, and I’ve
obeyed him on that. And I’ve
never been sorry.”
*****
Marie Dols grew up on a
farm six miles southeast of
Stewart with her brothers,
Herbert and Oscar Mayer.
There was no running water
nor electricity on the farm.
“We carried water in pails
from the well,” said Dols.
“And there was no electricity,
just gas lights with mantles
and kerosene lamps.”
Dols said her parents didn’t
expect her to help much with
farm chores, but she did help
her mother cook, which
turned into a lifelong love for
her.
“When we had threshers
come, my mother always
made a forenoon meal and an
afternoon meal, and I’d always help her,” said Dols.
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reach.
Christianson said “I’m not
convinced that many of our
voters have been in Helen
Baker in the last 20 years.”
While the board agreed that
the needs at Helen Baker are
well known to those at the
meetings, anyone walking in
to Helen Baker to vote may
not be swayed by their first
look at the school.
“It is our job to make this
as convenient as possible,”
said Alsleben. He said that
holding the voting at one site
is too disruptive, and “not in
the best interest of our students and their education.”
Board Member Kevin
Kuester noted that the biggest
challenge will be getting the
undecided voters out to the
polls. Lindeman moved to use
the five listed sites and use
the sites from 10 a.m. to 8
p.m., which was passed by
the board.
She attended country
school, walking about a mile
across farm fields to get
there, and later went to St.
Boniface Parochial School in
Stewart and then graduated
from Stewart High School.
After high school, her older
brother helped put her
through beauty school in St.
Paul. After that, she opened a
beauty shop in Brownton,
which she later sold. She then
opened another shop in Stewart, across the street to the
north from where the former
Red Owl building stands.
“I had one beauty operator
working for me, and we were
kept very, very busy,” said
Dols. “People came from all
around.”
In her mid 20s, she married
Nestor Dols, the Stewart
postmaster.
After they set up housekeeping, Dols moved her
beauty shop to the back of her
house.
“That way I could prepare
the meals for my family and
tend to my customers, too,”
said Dols. She said her home
was a green stucco house
“kitty corner” from St. Boniface.
Along with her beauty
business and keeping house
for her family, Dols had
“quite a garden,” she said,
with sweet peas climbing up
the fence in the yard.
She and her husband had
two children, a son and a
daughter. Sadly, her son died
at the age of 23 or 24 when
he slipped on some ice while
starting his car and was run
over.
Her daughter Patricia and
her husband visit nearly every
weekend, Dols said, and take
her to Mass.
*****
When she looks back on
her life, Dols has two things
she truly treasures:
“I loved my beauty work,
and I loved having my family
around me,” Dols said.
And, actually she has a
third treasure: her life in
Stewart.
“I liked the town, I liked
the people and I was just real
happy there,” Dols said.
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Jail expansion bids to be received in mid-April
said.
The plan is to put angle
parking on the east side of the
former Ives right-of-way,
near where Glencoe Oil once
stood.
The approximate cost of
$160,000 to reconstruct and
open Judd Avenue has now
been added to the project’s
estimated cost, McNamara
said.
Up in the air for costs include an estimated $75,000
for door access controls and
audio and video security. McNamara said those items may
become part of a larger proj-
ect to address access and entrance security in all of the
county’s buildings.
The project, when it was
originally conceived in August 2014, had been estimated to cost $6.925 million. A
review of the project at a
County Board workshop in
November 2014 saw an estimated price of $7.125. Although the County Board reviewed some ways to cut
costs, it decided to use reserve funds to pay for the excess in hopes of having to add
items later at a higher cost.
The estimated cost at the Feb.
3 meeting was $7.315 million, which included the Judd
Avenue work and higher estimated cost for actual construction because of rising
construction costs.
McNamara said Wold will
now begin preparing construction documents and will
submit bid documents for the
County Board’s approval at
either its Feb. 17 or March 3
meeting. The bid will be
awarded in mid-April, with
construction to begin shortly
after that date.
McNamara estimated that it
will take about a year to con-
struct the addition, which includes additional cells, a new
sally port for squad cars, an
expanded lobby and entrance
near court administration, an
additional elevator and bathroom space, and a secure passageway between the jail and
one of the upstairs courtrooms, among either items.
In other business, the
County Board:
• Decided to combine the
head building maintenance
supervisor position with the
central purchasing coordinator job. Wayne Rosenfeld recently retired as the building
maintenance supervisor, and
the central purchasing job is
expected to open up in the
near future.
“This is absolutely the right
way to do this,” said Commissioner Sheldon Nies.
• Approved a temporary reduction in hours — to 28
hours from 40 — for a support enforcement aide in the
Social Services department.
The reduction will be effective Feb. 9 through Sept. 4.
• Agreed to hire a full-time
social worker for child protection because of a resignation in that area.
Single-sort recycling to start in May
Volunteers sought to package
dry soup on Monday, Feb. 16
By Lori Copler
Editor
McLeod County is gearing
up to launch its one-sort recycling program, and residents are being asked to
choose the size of their curbside recycling carts.
Cards regarding cart sizes
are to be returned by Feb. 13
to the solid waste department. The goal is to have the
program get under way in
May.
Sarah Young, solid waste
coordinator, brought a few
items to the County Board’s
attention regarding one-sort
recycling at its Feb. 3 meeting.
First, the County Board
amended its contract with
West Central Sanitation to
accommodate the new onesort recycling program.
Don Williamson of West
Central Sanitation said that
curbside pickup of recycling
Christ Lutheran and Good
Shepherd Lutheran churches
in Glencoe have organized a
Thrivent Action Team and
will be packaging 1,250 dry
soup mixes, which will be
donated to the McLeod
Emergency Food Shelf.
The soup-packaging event
will be held on President’s
Day, Monday, Feb. 16, from
10 a.m. to noon.
There will be two shifts,
one from 10 a.m. to 10:45
a.m., and 11 a.m. to 11:45
a.m.
There will be a soup lunch
with bread and desserts
will be every other week,
rather than every week, in
communities that participate
in the county’s recycling program.
“It will be picked up on
the same day as garbage,”
said Williamson; however,
garbage is picked up on a
weekly basis.
Young asked the County
Board to invest about
$185,840 in additional carts
and in specialized lids for the
recycling carts, with the
funds to come from the solid
waste abatement fund.
Young said the lids will
have specific information
permanently ingrained into
them as to what materials are
acceptable to be placed in the
cart.
The lids also will have information about McLeod
County recycling.
“We want residents to become vested in this pro-
gram,” said Young.
Young said having the information right on the lid
will be more helpful than trying to provide information
through brochures, news articles and other means.
The County Board also
agreed to provide 8-cubicyard containers at each rural
recycling site, rather than the
sheds or pre-sort containers.
Young said the proposed
one-sort recycling program
does not include curbside
pickup at rural residences, although the county may, in
the future, consider offering
that option in rural residential areas that contain a lot of
homes.
Young also said that work
on the Materials Recovery
Facility (MRF) in Hutchinson is moving along nicely.
She said the building is almost complete, the large
baler has been resituated, the
old scale area has been filled
in, the old equipment dismantled, the electrical and
HVAC systems are being upgraded, and new equipment
is being installed.
“Most of it is expected to
be done by April 15,” said
Young. “We want to do a test
run in March on the new
equipment. That will give us
a month to a month and a
half to test and train. Our
goal is to deliver the recycling carts by May 1.”
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tance of moving forward on
Highway 212. He said that is
how Highway 14 got funded
— with people from that area
constantly attending these
legislative meetings.
“The squeaky wheel gets
the grease,” he added.
County Commissioner Ron
Shimanski, a former state
House member, suggested
Gruenhagen expand his bill to
take in Highway 212 all the
way to Highway 15 near
Brownton. “Then you may
get a piece (of the highway)
done. Hopefully, it’s not the
Highway 15 piece.”
“It seems like there is a little wave of support now,”
Gruenhagen said of the Legislature.
About the Met Council’s
opposition to four lanes outside the metro area, Gruenhagen said the good news is
the Met Council chairman recently resigned and that numerous communities in the
Met Council area have balked
at some of the Council’s recent decisions.
“Our (House GOP) caucus
is against the Met Council,”
Gruenhagen said. “The Met
Council does not have our
(rural Minnesota) best interest
at heart.”
Urdahl, who represents a
portion of Hutchinson as well
as Meeker and a portion of
Wright counties, said local industries and chambers of
commerce also need to provide a strong voice by keeping the pressure on legislators
and the governor over Highway 212.
He said while the governor’s transportation bond proposal is high and the Republicans’ is a lot lower, he (Dayton) will have to come down,
and to do that, highway projects will have to be cut. “You
have to keep lobbying to keep
that (Highway 212) in the
bonding bill as he makes reductions.”
Shimanski noted that Highway 212 also was left out of
the Corridors of Commerce
funding cycle last year, even
though Highway 212 has
been named a regional corridor.
Urdahl said there is less of
a chance that will happen
now that the Minnesota
House is controlled by Republicans. Last session, the
DFLers had total control. He
said, “Rural issues will be
more loudly heard (this session).”
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But it was not all gloom
and doom.
Gruenhagen has authored a
bill that would seek Highway
212 funding in this year ’s
bonding bill to complete the
extension to Cologne. The
cost is about $63 million. He
said the environmental impact
statements (EIS) have been
completed on that section of
the roadway. But if nothing is
done, those impact statements
will expire, “and we’ll have
to do it all over again.”
The goal is to use as much
of the existing two-lane highway as possible to keep the
cost down, Robjent said.
Gruenhagen said while
local voices need to be heard,
it has to be noted that there is
a lot of competition for what
transportation dollars are
available.
“There is a wide funding
gap between wants and
needs,” Gruenhagen said of
the $8 billion in transportation requests this session.
He said a recent report in
the Chaska Herald indicated
Gov. Mark Dayton is in support of including Highway
212 into his $1.2 billion
transportation bonding proposal.
But Gruenhagen said the
GOP House caucus is only
committed to up to $500 million for roads and bridges, but
he said 2016 is the bigger
bonding year.
While Dayton is asking for
$1.2 billion, Gruenhagen said
only $87 million of that
would go to upgrade rural
roads and bridges. “We need
to prioritize,” he added, especially about rural Minnesota’s
needs.
He recommended that
those in attendance, as well as
other area constituents, e-mail
the governor about their
Highway 212 concerns and email the House transportation
chairman, Tim Kelly, who is
supportive of Gruenhagen’s
bill, as well as the Senate
Transportation chairman,
Kevin Dibble, a metro DFLer
who is not.
He said e-mails should
stress the importance of an
improved Highway 212 for
the rural economy of western
and southwestern Minnesota.
Also suggested were a letterwriting campaign to legislators and the governor, as well
as having large groups of
people attend the upcoming
transportation committee
meetings to stress the impor-
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Rotten apples
spoil the whole barrel
Our view: Actions of a few
has consequences for many
R
ental inspection ordinances
and “snowbird” ordinances
seem to be dominating city
council discussions in the area.
Last week in Brownton, a resident
complained about the city’s amendement to its winter parking ordinance,
which prohibits parking on city
streets between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m.
from November to April — regardless of snowfall.
Monday night in Stewart, council
members once again heard a complaint about its rental inspection ordinance, with claims that it was over
reaching. Silver Lake also is currently considering a rental inspection ordinance, and the issue is on its Feb.
17 agenda.
In both the Brownton and Stewart
instances, complainants had valid
points. Why should people not be allowed to park overnight on city
streets when there is no snow event?
And why should good landlords be
subject to inspection fees when they
are already doing their best to protect their tenants’ safety?
Sadly, it is always a few violators
that lead to government creating ordinances and laws that impact everyone.
It’s the chronic violator of the
winter parking ordinance that causes
city councils to subscribe to the
KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) theory to create laws that allow little
misinterpretation of their intent.
It’s the bad landlord who creates
situations that causes city councils to
adopt far-reaching rental ordinances
that try to address every possible situation and close every loophole.
Unfortunately, government cannot
target specific groups for its ordinances. A rental ordinance applies to
the good landlord and the bad. The
snowbird ordinance applies to the
person who flaunts it as well as the
person who conscientiously tries not
to impede snow removal.
It is, indeed, a case of the tail wagging the dog, but there seems to be
no help for it. Until people use common sense in following ordinances,
those of us who actually possess it
will be the ones to suffer.
Government always steps in to police those who do not police themselves. Want more relaxed ordinances? Help your neighbor police
himself. When common sense finally prevails, there will be no need for
the government to overly intervene.
— L.C.
Letters to the Editor
Obama is giving away the store
To the Editor:
President Obama continues to try
and give away the store, the latest
being free college tuition. If you
have money to pay for it, that is fine.
We don’t.
Thomas Jefferson, a past president
of the United States, said it best, and
I quote, “The democracy will cease
to exist when you take away from
those who are willing to work and
give it to those who would not.”
Robert L. Hatlestad
Glencoe
You can
vote
Lost keys? No, I lost the whole darn car
Former Chronicle sports editor
Lee Ostrom used to tell me that once
a person hits 50, “it’s all maintenance.” Which I think was just a
nice way of saying “it’s all downhill
from here.”
There comes a time in life when a
person has a hard time recalling a
memory, or wonders obsessively if
they left on the iron, stove, oven,
lights, forgot to turn down the thermostat, or feed the dog before leaving the house. Or wastes precious
minutes looking for keys or a phone
that were right where they belonged
all along.
Those incidents lead one to wonder if they should go to a doctor to
be screened for an early onset of dementia.
I always chalked up those small
incidents to simply being too busy
and overwhelmed by a myriad of details, rather than being the result of
aging.
Until I lost my car.
This weekend was a long one of
covering Cabin Fever Day events,
Lori Copler
the Brownton Rod & Gun Club ice
fishing contest and then capping the
weekend with volunteering to help
at the sheephead tournament in
Brownton Sunday.
But I lost my car long before the
busyness of the weekend overwhelmed my middle-aged brain.
I was leaving my house to walk to
the Brownton Area Civic Center Friday evening when I noticed my car
was still in the driveway, not in the
garage. I was going to pull it in before continuing on my way, when
my pager went off. I jumped in the
car and headed to the fire hall.
Shortly after arriving, the call was
cancelled, and I headed back to the
civic center. But instead of parking
in my garage, less than two blocks
away, I parked on the street near the
civic center.
At the end of the evening, I
walked home.
At about 1:30 a.m., I woke up and
suddenly wondered about my car. I
tiptoed outside in my pajamas and
peeked in the garage door. No car.
I quickly dressed and walked to
my car — parked less than a block
away — furtively looking over my
shoulder to make sure no one had
seen my embarrassing gaffe. I retrieved my car and tucked it out of
sight in my garage.
I’ve misplaced my keys, my
glasses, my dog’s leash, my phone,
and countless other small items, but
I’ve never before misplaced my car.
Maybe it is time to make an appointment…
online at w w w . g l e n c o e n e w s . c o m
Letter to the Editor
Question of the week
Gov. Mark Dayton recently increased salaries
for members of his cabinet. What do you think?
1) It helps government stay competitive with the private sector.
2) It’s unfair to single out one group of state employees.
3) The governor should not have unilateral authority over salaries.
4) I don’t know.
Results for most recent question:
There have been some significant changes
in our climate in recent years. Why do you think this is?
1) Global warming — 41%
2) Volcanic activity — 3%
3) Just a fluke — 41%
4) I don’t know — 14%
58 votes. New question runs Feb. 11-17
Feel strongly about an issue?
Share your opinion with The McLeod
County Chronicle readers through a letter
to the editor.
Please include your name, address and
telephone number (for verification purposes).
Record year for local Operation Minnesota Nice
To the Editor:
Linda Krueger, Colleen Benjamin
and LaDonna Stuber want to thank
everyone who helped make it possible this holiday season to send out
207 soldier care packages through
Operation Minnesota Nice. Last
year’s total was 166, and this year
more family, friends, surrounding
communities, churches, organizations and businesses — all too many
to mention — generously donated
time, items and money. We also received donations and packing help
from a few local church youth
groups.
Linda, Colleen and LaDonna
smiled as they quoted “Can’t thank
The McLeod Chronicle/Lori
enough!”
Linda mentioned how this year it
was a little more stressful packaging
as the ladies worked with five different units at one time. Some were in
extreme hot weather, while others
had cold nights and lived in tents.
They had to send the right items to
the units, all having different needs.
The undisclosed areas where some
of the soldiers were was so secret
they only got code names for the
packages, or had to send them to
one person in the unit, such as a
chaplain or a lieutenant colonel.
They packed an extra month as
they had extra items to send and
they had just received new names
from units in Turkey and Bahrain,
which they want to send a few packages to these soldiers before retiring
for the year.
Krueger and helpers are all so
once again overwhelmed at how
generous people can be, especially
during the holidays when everyone
is so busy buying gifts for their families! Operation Minnesota Nice/
Supporting our Troops “Making a
Difference, One Package at a Time!”
Thank you!
Card of thanks that was received:
“Many thanks for your generous
gifts. They were much enjoyed by
myself and my soldiers. Your kind
words and gifts made the Christmas
season easier to cope with being far
away from family and friends. Here
at FOB Fenty, we know we are not
forgotten by the kind people of
Glencoe and other communities in
Minnesota. Again, many thanks for
all of your prayers and packages. I
wish you and your family a Happy
New Year! Stay warm in Minnesota.
I grew up in Boston and went to college in Vermont, but neither compare to a Minnesota winter! My
warmest thank you,” Mark.
Operation Minnesota Nice
Linda Krueger, Colleen Benjamin
and LaDonna Stuber
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City cemetery board appointments
discussed at personnel committee
California or bust, in Model T
Submitted photo
Frank and Milton Totusek with their faithful 1925 Ford
Model T, which they drove to California in 1947.
mit in Idaho, elevation 3,070
feet, and arrived in Spokane,
Wash., at 6:30 p.m. We spent
the night in a tourist camp.
On July 19, we left
Spokane for Odessa, where
we looked up Frank Wraspir
Sr., who had lived in Silver
Lake years ago, and enjoyed
having dinner with him. Then
we visited relatives in Odessa
and Irby. The first day we
saw our relative Frank
Wraspir Jr. and rode his combine for a couple of rounds.
Then we met F.B. Totusek in
Odessa, who operates a Maytag Shop. We also met Mrs.
H.J. Ulrich, (nee Anna
Wraspir), and Stanley and
Bill Wraspir, who operate a
bakery shop in Odessa, and
met Walter Ott, who works
there. At Irby we met Jim and
Joe Totusek, who have a
wheat ranch; Miroslav Totusek, who operates an elevator; and Mrs. Victoria Ott,
(nee Totusek), who is the
postmistress. We spent the
night and the next day in
Odessa at the Frank Wraspir
Jr. home.
On Sunday, July 20, we
went huckleberry picking
with the Wraspir and Mills
families near the Canadian
border and didn’t get enough
for a good taste. The next day
we spent with the F.B. Totuseks at the shop and had
dinner at their home.
On July 22, Frank Wraspir
Sr., the Model T Ford and we
went to see the immense heap
of concrete called Grand
Coulee Dam. We toured the
inside. After leaving Coulee
City we came to Dry Falls
Park, a place where the
mighty Columbia once
flowed. Then to Soap Lake
and back to Odessa, hitting a
dog en route and bending the
crank.
On July 25, we left Odessa
and headed for Seattle, Wash.
We crossed the Cascades by
Steven’s Pass, elevation
4,061 feet, and entered Tacoma, where we stopped at a
small baseball park for the
night.
On July 26, we left Tacoma
in the rain. We crossed the
Columbia
River
via
Longview Bridge, arriving in
Astoria, Ore., at 12:30 p.m.
On Sunday, July 27, we went
to Seaside to witness the
crowning of Miss Oregon.
We stayed in Astoria, toured
fish canneries and saw loads
of salmon and tuna.
On July 29, we slept in the
sticks outside Coos Bay, Ore.
The next morning we spent
time driving in the clouds. At
11:12 a.m., we crossed into
California and were checked
by inspectors. That afternoon
we saw the world’s tallest
Redwood tree at 364 feet
high. Evening found us
camped in Stephens Grove in
the Redwood Forest.
On July 31, we left the
grove and drove many miles.
At 4 p.m., we crossed the
Golden Gate Bridge at San
Francisco and by 5:10 p.m.
we were on the outskirts of
Frisco and stopped at
Madrone, Calif., where we
slept in a baseball park. (To
be continued).
Glencoe Fire Department looking
for volunteers to fill out its roster
By Rich Glennie
Correspondent
The Glencoe Fire Department is having a difficult
time filling its 40-person roster and is looking for new
volunteers to bring it back up
to strength. But that could be
difficult, the City Council’s
personnel and legislative
committee heard Feb. 4.
City Administrator Mark
Larson said the department
currently has 34 members,
but is funded for 40.
Because people are more
mobile, and often experience
more career and life changes
than in the past, it is becoming more difficult to find and
retain volunteers for the fire
department.
Larson also said “people
don’t stay with employers
like they used to,” and some
employers are not willing to
give volunteers the time
needed for training and responding to calls.
For day fire calls, Larson
said Glencoe currently calls
Plato to help “because not a
lot of them (Glencoe volunteers) work in the community.”
Larson said the city staff
and fire department personnel
are trying to come up with
new recruitment ideas “and
get the word out were are
looking for firefighters.”
Although the volunteers
are not paid, they receive a
yearly contribution to the
Glencoe Fire Relief Association and become partially
vested after 10 years and
fully vested after 20 years.
“I don’t think pay is the
issue,” Larson said. But it
may be the time commitment
in training and meetings,
“which are now tougher”
than in the past.
Mayor Randy Wilson, a retired Glencoe firefighter,
agreed pay was not an issue.
“Time commitment, that’s the
main issue.”
Larson said one idea is to
start an Explorer program at
the high school, like the police department did, to get
younger people interested in
joining the Glencoe Fire Department.
In other matters, the committee:
• Discussed changes to the
City Center liquor vendor
rules that will give customers
another option — the city.
The main concern is the
city’s share of the liquor sale
profits at the City Center are
not meeting expectations.
Two vendors currently hold
licenses to sell at City Center
events — Dubbs Grill & Bar
of Glencoe and One Eyed
Willy’s of Lester Prairie.
City and other city-trained
staff would handle the alcohol sales if the city becomes a
third option. Larson said Police Chief Jim Raiter indicated no concerns about the city
option.
With 22 wedding receptions already scheduled for
2015 and several other events
planned, Larson said the goal
is not to compete with the
other vendors, but to offer another option, “to make the
City Center work.” That still
leaves open the option of
other vendors supplying the
service at the City Center, but
they need a liquor license
from the city of their residence, plus a $100 fee and
proof of insurance.
All people serving alcohol
at City Center events must
take training, mainly in
under-age identification and
carding of people being
served at the events
• Heard that the city‘s municipal state aid (MSA) is
going up in the future. Currently, the city receives
$286,000 a year for the
streets and roads designated
as municipal aid streets within the city. Much of the MSA
funding has been tied up with
past projects, like the 10th
Street reconstruction and the
Morningside Avenue bridge
and street extension.
But Larson said those projects are being paid off, and
the next round of MSA will
likely be used for the Armstrong Avenue reconstruction
scheduled for 2016.
By 2019, Larson said the
city MSA funding will be
about $326,000 a year.
cemetery commission and
City Council approval several
years ago, and it was estimated it would cost about
$12,000. But it didn’t proceed
because of Council concerns
about staff time needed to
input the information into the
computer system.
One idea is to get volunteers to input the information,
which is now kept on cards at
city hall. “It’s a huge
process,” Ziemer said.
Paying for the software
could be from the perpetual
cemetery funds, or from donations from groups like the
VFW, which has shown an interest in identifying all the
veterans buried in Glencoe.
Wilson said the software
could also include the other
cemeteries in Glencoe — the
Catholic Cemetery and First
Lutheran Cemetery.
The Glencoe City Cemetery actually includes three
old cemeteries in one location. The Glencoe Catholic
Cemetery is on the south side
of Buffalo Creek, and First
Lutheran Cemetery is adjoining the Glencoe City Cemetery.
Ziemer said neither St. Pius
nor First Lutheran “have any
skin in the game” with the
software project, but Wilson
said they should be invited to
join in the project.
Larson said the Friends of
the Library also has donated
$1,500 toward setting up a
genealogy research area at the
Glencoe City Center once the
cemetery software is installed
and the information available.
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the huge sign hanging from
the spare tire attached to the
trunk of Milton Totusek and
brother Frank’s 1925 Model
T Ford coupe.
In 1947, in their early 20s,
they started on a 6,744-mile,
whirlwind circle tour of the
Western USA. They visited
friends and relatives in Washington who had previously
lived in Silver Lake. Milton
and his wife Alice still live on
their farm north of Silver
Lake. Milton still has the sign
and, for over 60 years, the
Model T Ford sat outside
next to his granary. With Milton’s permission, you can relive their Model T trip and
car troubles from 67 years
ago. So buckle your seat belt,
folks! Let’s go for a thrilling
ride in a Model T Ford coupe
— at 35 miles per hour!
Leave the driving to Milton
and Frank!
On the bright sunny morning of July 15, 1947, we left
Hutchinson at 8:13 a.m. in
our 1925 Model T Ford
coupe. By 12 noon we were
in Ortonville, crossing into
South Dakota.
After leaving Webster, we
had a generator problem. We
spent the night in Medina,
N.D. The next morning we
arrived in Bismarck, where
we ground the valves and
fixed the generator.
We crossed over the Missouri River and later passed
through the Petrified Forest
region. After splicing the fan
belt together with wire, we
entered Montana at 5:15
p.m., arriving at Glendive at
6 p.m. After two more splicings we made it to Miles City
at 8 p.m., where we purchased a new fan belt in the
morning.
The next afternoon we
caught a glimpse of the
mighty Rockies. We arrived
at Helena in the evening and
slept in our hammocks slung
between two billboards.
On July 18, at 6:15 a.m.,
we crossed the Continental
Divide going through McDonald Pass, elevation 6,325
feet. At 4:40 p.m. we passed
through the 4th of July Sum-
over the duties to the city.
That also included about
$100,000 in a perpetual care
fund, which is now down to
about $80,000. Larson said
the cemetery commission receives about $11,000 a year
in revenues from cemetery
fees, but spends about
$16,000 a year in doing burials and maintaining the cemetery.
“In the future, there will be
no cemetery fund,” Larson
predicted. “Then the city will
have to fund it.”
Council Member Dan Perschau said, since city staff
handles all the finances for
the cemetery, what else does
the cemetery commission do,
and what are its responsibilities?
One issue is the record
keeping. “We run into issues
on records from the old
days,” Larson said. The city
is working off a 1932 cemetery map. People were not always buried where the
records indicated, or empty
grave sites were not always
empty, he added.
Larson said the cemetery
board also handles the cemetery bylaws and sets the
cemetery fees, with City
Council approval. The commission also is supposed to
meet annually, but Ziemer
said the last meeting was July
31, 2013.
There is one big issue that
the cemetery board may handle, and that is obtaining
computer software for locating and making available online all the grave sites in the
cemetery. The matter received
By Rich Glennie
Correspondent
With two openings on the
city’s cemetery board, the
Glencoe City Council late last
year discussed naming the
council members as the new
board, rather than seek community volunteers to fill the
positions. The main reason
was there was little interest
shown by the public.
But last Wednesday afternoon, the Council’s personnel
and legislative committee recommended staying with the
appointment system after a
number of names surfaced
showing interest in the two
vacancies. Mayor Randy Wilson has the authority to make
the appointments with Council approval.
The two members whose
two five-year terms have expired are Jim Carlson, who
was first appointed to the
cemetery board in 2004 and
reappointed in 2009, and Gale
Roth, who was appointed in
2005 and reappointed in
2010.
Other current members of
the board are Council Member Gary Ziemer, who was
appointed in 2011; Marlene
Robeck, appointed to fill the
term of Robert Hatlestad in
2010 and reappointed in
2012; and Sherri Stamps, first
appointed to fill the term of
Robert Hartelt in 2011 and
reappointed in 2013.
City Administrator Mark
Larson said after no one applied for the positions late last
year, he suggested the cemetery board be made up of City
Council members instead.
Over the last few years, the
cemetery board didn’t have
many activities and had not
met in 18 months. It is supposed to meet at least once a
year.
“It does not have much of a
budget and not many action
items,” Larson said.
But it does control about
$80,000 in dedicated cemetery funds. Some of those
funds are from individual donations and others from fees
charged for burial services.
But Larson said that fund is
diminishing as changes occur
in burials. He said fewer people are going with full burials
and more are being cremated.
That has resulted in less
money going into the dedicated perpetual care fund.
He said the former Glencoe
Cemetery Association disbanded in 1986 and turned
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Brownton City Council takes in comments
on changes in its winter parking ordinance
By Lori Copler
Editor
The Brownton City Council took in comments from a
resident regarding its snow
removal ordinance at its Feb.
3 meeting, but indicated that
it probably will not be making any more changes.
In November, the City
Council decided to adopt a
snow removal policy similar
to the city of Glencoe’s, establishing no parking on city
streets between 2 a.m. and 6
a.m. during the months of
November through April, regardless of whether there is
snow on the ground or not.
Brownton resident Jamie
Bah told the City Council at
its February meeting that the
new ordinance treats residents like little kids.
Bah said that while he understands the need to get vehicles off the street for snow
removal, the new ordinance
is too prohibitive.
“We have to get permission
to park on the streets that our
tax dollars paid for,” said
Bah.
If it is absolutely necessary
for people to park on the
streets — for instance, if they
have overnight visitors —
they are asked to call the city
and let the police department
know.
Bah said that makes him
feel like he needs parental
permission to have guests.
“It’s like, ‘hey, dad, I’m
having people over. Is it OK
if we park on the street?’”
Bah said.
Bah also said he is not the
only one with concerns, but
others did not feel they could
make a difference by approaching the City Council.
Mayor Norm Schwarze
said the City Council had
tried to find a policy that
made perfectly clear when
citizens can and cannot park
on the streets.
Other policies the city has
tried, Schwarze said, determined parking based on snow
events, which led to specula-
tion on what actually constitutes a snow event.
Police Chief Ken Bauer
said the police department
tries to use common sense in
enforcing the ordinance.
Bah suggested the city use
e-mail, social media and
other ways to alert residents
on when the city intends to
plow.
But Schwarze said that the
current ordinance is clear,
and that he doesn’t think asking someone to contact the
city and let it know that there
will be parking on the streets
is a hardship.
“It’s just a phone call,” said
Schwarze, who added, “I
don’t think we’ll be changing
it (the snow ordinance) any
time soon.”
In other business, the City
Council:
• Approved buying a new
riding lawn mower for the
maintenance department.
• Heard that the fire department is expecting its new
pumper truck to arrive in
April. The new truck will replace two older trucks in the
fleet, 1986 Pierce pumper
and a 1964 Chevrolet
pumper. The City Council authorized the fire department
to sell both of those trucks.
• Set a special meeting for
Monday, Feb. 23, at 6 p.m.,
to go over proposed street
and utility improvements
with the city engineer, as well
as review applications for its
open maintenance department
position.
• Heard that deputy clerk
Cindy Lindeman intends to
fully retire this spring, and
considered a suggestion by
City Clerk Ella Kruse that
both the clerk and deputy
clerk positions be made 32hour-a-week jobs.
• Set public meetings for
Saturday, March 7, at 10
a.m., and Tuesday, March 10,
at 7 p.m., to present information regarding the RS Fiber
project to city residents.
Motion to repeal rental ordinance
fails at Stewart Council meeting
By Lori Copler
Editor
A motion to repeal the city
of Stewart’s rental inspection
ordinance failed on a 2-2 vote
Monday night.
New Council Member Curt
Glaeser made the motion
after the City Council had a
lengthy discussion with resident Keith Fredrickson over
the ordinance.
Both Glaeser and Council
Member Chuck Kruggel
(who also took office in January) voted in favor of
Glaeser ’s motion, while
council members Kevin Klucas and Jim Eitel voted
against.
Mayor Jason Peirce abstained from voting, prompting Glaeser to ask that the
city contact its attorney for an
opinion on whether the mayor
could vote on the issue.
Peirce said he has abstained from voting on the or-
dinance because he owns
rental property in Stewart.
“I’m torn on the whole subject,” said Peirce. “I’ve abstained from voting in the
past, and I struggle with voting on this topic.”
Peirce said his voting on
the issue could be perceived
as a conflict of interest, although he doesn’t feel he
would directly benefit financially from voting on the
issue.
“This applies to everyone,
not just property Peirce
owns,” he said.
Peirce said that getting the
city attorney’s opinion would
cost taxpayers money.
“Well, I think we need to
do it,” said Glaeser. “Otherwise we’ll be deadlocked forever.”
Like
others
before,
Fredrickson claimed that the
ordinance was too restrictive.
Fredrickson had lived in
his house before moving and
renting it out. He said he had
to rent it out because he
couldn’t sell it in the current
housing market and recover
his investment.
“My other option was to let
it go back to the bank,” said
Fredrickson. “If we keep
going down the road we’re
going, we’re going to have a
lot more foreclosures in
town.”
Klucas said the city adopted the ordinance to help
“make property safe for
renters.”
But Fredrickson argued
that some of the ordinance’s
stipulations “don’t have anything to do with guarding life,
limb or welfare. It’s over
reaching.”
Fredrickson also argued —
as have other landlords before
him — that the ordinance targets rentals, and not all living
units in the city.
“It (the house) was good
enough for me and my family
when I lived there, but not for
someone else and their family,” said Fredrickson.
Glaeser agreed with
Fredrickson, saying he
doesn’t feel the city should
come between landlords and
tenants.
“It’s not our job to be
babysitting everything in
town,” said Glaeser.
Klucas said he felt the ordinance could use some tweaking, but “I’m not ready to just
get rid of it.”
In the end, the City Council
agreed to grant Fredrickson a
six-month extension to fix the
items on his inspection list.
However, Glaeser also
made a motion to consult
with the city attorney whether
Peirce can vote on the issue
in the future. That vote
passed 3-2, with Klucas and
Eitel voting against it.
Record
Glencoe Police
TUESDAY, FEB. 3
9:25 a.m. — An officer investigated a complaint of bullying.
4:05 p.m. — A property damage vehicle accident occurred at
the intersection of 10th Street E
and Morningside Drive. The drivers exchanged insurance information.
7:10 p.m. — Officers arrested a
person on a warrant on 16th
Street E.
9:57 p.m. — A vehicle hit a
parked car in the area of Ninth
Street E and Pryor Avenue. The
driver was cited for failing to stop
at a stop sign and possession of
tobacco.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4
5:04 a.m. — A driver was cited
for driving after revocation and no
proof of insurance, for the second
time within a year, at a traffic stop
near Morningside Drive and 10th
Street E.
THURSDAY, FEB. 5
1:17 a.m. — Officers arrested a
person on a warrant on 11th
Street E.
11:34 a.m. — A woman in
Glencoe called to report a domestic that occurred in Brownton.
12:03 p.m. — McLeod County
Social Services called for a welfare check on a “male party that
was mad and took off.” The per-
son was found at the courthouse,
and later left on a bus.
1:15 p.m. — A vehicle went
into a ditch at the entrance to the
park on DeSoto Avenue. The driver had arranged for a tow.
5:37 p.m. — A driver was cited
for speed and no current proof of
insurance at a traffic stop in the
area of Hennepin Avenue N and
11th Street E.
9:17 p.m. — A resident on Baxter Avenue N reported that their
neighbors had moved out that
day, but left open the doors to the
residence. An officer secured the
doors.
FRIDAY, FEB. 6
3:21 a.m. — One of the city’s
squad cars was damaged when
the door of a car wash came
down on it.
12:27 a.m. — A gas drive-off
was reported on 10th Street, but
the driver came back and paid for
it.
7:59 p.m. — A woman was
taken to the hospital by ambulance from an address on Greeley
Avenue.
9:18 p.m. — An open door was
discovered at the back of a business on 12th Street E. Officer
searched the building and secured the door.
9:59 p.m. — Several deputies
and officers assisted with restraining an inmate at the McLeod
County Jail.
10:18 p.m. — A female was
taken by ambulance to the hospital from an address on Newton
Avenue.
SATURDAY, FEB. 7
1:39 a.m. — Officers again assisted at the McLeod County Jail
with a disruptive inmate.
2:08 p.m. — An adult female
was taken by ambulance to the
emergency room after spraining
her ankle. The incident occurred
on Newton Avenue.
11:42 p.m. — Officers responded to a noise disturbance on
Newton Avenue.
SUNDAY, FEB. 8
1:14 a.m. — Officers responded to a noise complaint on Elliott
Avenue.
8:15 a.m. — An officer assisted
at the McLeod County Jail.
1:29 p.m. — An officer and the
Glencoe Ambulance responded
to a medical emergency on Judd
Avenue N. A male was taken to
the hospital.
1:50 p.m. — An apartment resident on Newton Avenue complained “that the upstairs neighbor is stomping on the floor to irritate her.” The officer said he did
not hear anything besides people
walking.
6:21 p.m. — A female slipped
on some ice and fell on Louden
Avenue, but declined medical attention.
6:51 p.m. — An officer responded to a complaint of loud
music on 15th Street W.
11:19 p.m. — A person on 13th
Street E reported being threatened. According to the police report, the person “spoke with a guy
he knew in Hutchinson that stated
the Mexican drug cartel was coming for him.”
MONDAY, FEB. 9
12:49 p.m. — An officer responded to a mental health issue
on 16th Street E.
1:25 p.m. — Possible criminal
sexual conduct was reported on
16th Street E.
4:13 p.m. — Officers received
a report of a child crying and a
mother yelling on Newton Avenue. Upon arrival, officers
“heard children playing and
laughing.” Officers spoke with the
mother and said the children
seemed to be happy. One officer
tried to get a cookie from a small
boy, “but he was denied and got a
high five instead.”
7:25 p.m. — A person on 16th
Street E reported they received
an automated phone call stating
“they were getting sued by the
IRS” and given a number to call
for more information. An officer
advised the person not to call the
number.
11:50 — An unwanted female
was reported at the Happy Hour
on 11th Street E. She was taken
to detox.
Silver Lake Women’s Club met on Jan. 26
The GFWC Women’s Club
of Silver Lake had its regular
meeting Monday, Jan. 26,
with 15 members present.
Margaret Evans Huntington
Scholarship forms have been
delivered to the high school
for girls to apply. The club
approved $25 to purchase
items for the Guatemala Mis-
sion Banquet basket for Feb.
7.
Mayor Bruce Bebo had
contacted the club to see if it
would be interested in taking
over the Dairy Day celebration. After much discussion,
it was decided to take on the
project. Details will be
worked out at the next meet-
ing.
State yearly reports have
been completed and total volunteer hours and dollars donated will be announced in
February.
The program for the
evening was book reviews.
The Silver Lake Study Club,
of which the women’s club is
a branch, always had book reviews at their meetings.
Books discussed were “The
Orphan Train,” “Ordinary
Grace” and “The Glass Castle.”
The next meeting will be
Monday, Feb. 23, at 6 p.m.
This will be the Operation
Smile work meeting.
Weather Corner
By Jake Yurek
Winter finds its way back to the upper Midwest this
week as a strong, early week storm ushers in colder air. A
strong Pacific storm cruised through the upper Midwest
Tuesday, dropping a little snow and more noticeably temperatures.
Behind the storm winds picked up and temperatures
dropped quickly. Be careful when out and about Wednesday as there will probably be slick spots with the fast
freeze (some roads to our west may be very tricky to maneuver).
Highs will stay below average the rest of this forecast
period as well, improving slightly towards the end of the
week, but sliding back down Saturday. Highs may have a
tough time getting out of single digits Saturday.
We’ll see improvement early next week, with another
upper Midwest storm Tuesday into Wednesday … too
early to say where exactly, but something to keep an eye
on. Have a great week, all; another week closer to spring!
Ma dobry weekendem
Wednesday night — Lows -8 to -2; breezy, partly
cloudy.
Thursday — Highs 5-11, lows 0-6; mostly clear.
Friday — Highs 18-24, lows 2-8; clouds, flurries.
Saturday — Highs 8-15, lows -4 to 2; partly cloudy.
Sunday — Highs 10-18; partly cloudy.
Weather Quiz: How far behind average for snowfall
are we this year?
Answer to last week’s question (How does not having
snow cover this winter affect our daily temperatures?) In
a typical winter, snow reflects a good chunk of the sun’s
energy; with bare ground still showing we are able to
soak up what little sun we get better and this keeps temperatures anywhere from 10 to 15 degrees warmer than
we normally would be.
Remember: I make the forecast, not the weather!
Arlington woman hurt
in one-vehicle accident
An Arlington woman was
treated for minor injuries following a one-vehicle accident
in Sibley County Tuesday,
Feb. 3. The crash was reported at about 1 p.m.
According to the Sibley
County Sheriff’s Office, Jean
Jackels, 29, of Arlington, was
driving a 1997 Ford Explorer
southbound on Sibley County
State Aid Highway (CSAH)
17, about seven miles south
of Arlington, when she lost
control of the vehicle and entered the west road ditch. The
vehicle overturned onto its
side.
Jackels was wearing a seat
belt. She was taken by the
Arlington Ambulance to the
Sibley Medical Center for
treatment of her injuries. Also
responding to the accident
was the Arlington Fire Department.
Silver Lake City Council
Regular Meeting
Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015
(Note the change in date due to the holiday)
6:30 p.m.
Agenda
Call to order:
Approve agenda
Consent Agenda:
1. Approve minutes of the Jan. 20, 2015, annual meeting.
2. Approve payroll 2, 3 and December ambulance.
3. Claims to be paid.
Old business:
1. Rental ordinance proposal.
2. Proposal to take over cable access channel.
New business:
1. Resident to discuss sewer backup on Cleveland Street
SE.
2. Planning Commission recommendation on application
for conditional use permit (accessory building over 800
square feet) and variance (side walls over 10 feet high)
for 213 Cleveland Street E.
3. One-day gambling permit application by the Silver
Lake Fire Department Relief Association for June 27,
2015 (raffle).
4. Resident request to place “No Use of Jake Brake”
signs at entrances into the city.
Department business:
1. Liquor Store.
2. Public Safety.
3. Public Works.
4. Community Development.
5. Administration.
Open discussion:
Thurs., Feb. 12 — AA Group mtg. next to
Post Office in Stewart, 8 p.m., call 320-2125290 for info.
Mon., Feb. 16 — PRESIDENT’S DAY; Tops
Weigh-In mtg., 5-5:30 p.m.; Brownton Lions;
Stewart American Legion Post 125 & Auxiliary mtg., Stewart Community Center, 7 p.m.
Tues., Feb. 17 — Brownton Legion.
Wed., Feb. 18 — Red Cross Bloodmobile,
Cactus Jack’s II, Stewart, noon6 p.m.
Thurs., Feb. 19 — AA Group
mtg. next to Post Office in Stewart, 8 p.m., call 320-212-5290
for info.; Stewart Lions.
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Submitted photo
GSL High School Pillars of Character
January Pillars of Character at Glencoe-Silver Lake (GSL) High School are,
from left, Cora Kuras, responsibility;
Jenna Jochum, responsibility; and Ben
Donnay, respect. Missing are Devin
Fleck, caring; and Tanner Rosckes,
trustworthiness.
Chronicle photo by Jessica Grams
7th-grade students of the month
January students of the month at Glencoe-Silver Lake’s Lincoln Junior High
School are, front from left, Kristian
Casey, Kalie Butcher and Megan Siew-
ert; and, back, Preston Sturges, Bennett Lepel, Lily Schmitt and Courtney
Richer.
Submitted photo
GSL High School students of the month
Glencoe-Silver Lake High January students of the month are, front from left,
Austin Maynard, Moriah Maunu and
Richard Wilson, and back, Fabian Medina and Luis Dueñas. Missing were
Robin Swift and Ellie Schmidt.
People
Graduate from St. Cloud State
Two Glencoe students were among graduates from St.
Cloud State University at the conclusion of the fall semester. Cody Becker earned a bachelor of science degree
in finance and Kaitlyn Schroepfer earned a bachelor of
elective studies in communication sciences and disorders.
Son born to Klitzke family
Brad and Nicole Klitzke of Chaska
announce the arrival of a son, Barrett
John Burton Klitzke, born Dec. 7,
2014, at the Ridgeview Medical Center in Waconia. Barrett weighed 7
pounds, 1 ounce, and was 181⁄2 inches
long. He joins siblings Myah and Barrett Klitzke
Hailey. Grandparents are Shirley and
the late Burton Klitzke of Darwin and Kenneth and
Christine Dodge of Eden Prairie. Great-grandparents are
Joyce Schmidt of Glencoe and Jane Stephan of West St.
Paul.
Daughter for Glencoe couple
Amber Earl and Nathan Skarhus of Glencoe announce
the arrival of a daughter, Elizabeth Rose-Mary Skarhus,
born Jan. 29, 2015, at Glencoe Regional Health Services.
She weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces, and was 21 inches long
at birth. She joins a brother, Aaron Joseph-Alan Skarhus,
age 2.
Scholarships
available from
Nicollet/Sibley
growers assn.
Chronicle photo by Jessica Grams
8th-grade students of the month
The Nicollet/Sibley County
Corn and Soybean Growers
are offering six $750 scholarships for students enrolled in
two- or four-year colleges
and majoring in ag business,
ag production, ag engineering, ag education or any agrelated field of study.
Scholarship applicants
must be a resident of Sibley
or Nicollet county and their
family must be a Minnesota
Corn or Soybean Grower Association member.
Two $500 adult scholarships for adults enrolled in an
ag education program also
are being offered.
For a scholarship application contact the Nicollet/Sibley County Corn & Soybean
Growers at 507-237-4100 or
check with your local high
school. The deadline for submitting applications is April
10.
Named to U of St. Thomas list
Four Glencoe students were named to the fall semester
dean’s list at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul —
Kyler Anderson, Danielle Bielke, Louis Iacona and Shannon Twiss.
Area students named to the Bemidji State University
fall semester dean’s list include: Lindsey Becker, Jennifer
Illg, Aaron Luehrs and Jeana Van Dyne, all of Glencoe;
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facility in St. James. The scholarship was established in
memory of former South Center Electric meter foreman
Daron Hunstad, who died in 2012. The scholarship was
available to students attending the powerline technology
program at Minnesota West Community and Technical
College in Jackson. Eberhard is in his first year at the
college. He grew up on a dairy farm near Glencoe, the
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The documentary film,
“When God Left the Building,” will be shown Feb. 15,
at 3 p.m., at the Glencoe City
Center.
Following the film, the
Rev. James Gomez of Good
Shepherd Lutheran Church in
Glencoe and Traci Kohls, director of disciple ministries at
Trinity Lutheran in Waconia,
will host a 20-minute live
discussion.
This film reveals the decline of the American church
and focuses on the current
spiritual climate.
Director Thom Schultz said
of the film, “The American
church as we know it is
dying. What was once the
heart and soul of the community is going away. We won-
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According to Schultz, the
majority of churches across
the country are in a state of
decline. He said weekly
church attendance has
dropped to 20 percent of the
population. This trend has resulted in the closing of 4,000
churches per year, he said.
The filmmakers spent three
years documenting a church
that saw its attendance plunge
from 900 to 40.
“It was a heart-wrenching
mash-up of societal upheaval,
spiritual confusion and
human conflict,” Schultz
said.
The film also prominently
features the unconventional
work of churches and organi-
zations that are actively doing
things differently and outside
of the traditional church
building.
A preview of the film is
available at WhenGodLefttheBuilding.com.
Tickets to the Feb. 15, 3
p.m., film screening are free
and available at online at
www.gslcglencoe.org. Attendees also may sign up at the
door on the day of the event.
The film was produced by
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Good Shepherd Lutheran
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Obituaries
Lauren Knorr, 6 months, Hutchinson
Lauren Emily Knorr, 6
months, of Hutchinson, died
Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015, at the
Tomah Memorial Hospital in
Tomah, Wis.
A Mass
of Christian
Burial was
held Saturday, Feb. 7,
at St. Anast a s i a
Catholic
Church in
Hutchinson Lauren Knorr
with the
Rev. Jerry Meidl officiating.
Bev Wangerin was the pianist
and Jennifer Lauinger was
the flutist. Song leaders were
Patti Cogley and Bobbi
Ludewig. Soloist Patti Cogley sang “Child of Wonder.”
The St. Anastasia children’s
choir sang “Every Move I
Make.” Special music was by
Shanda Landes, Joy Freitag,
Roxanna Boe, Mark Lueders
and Denise Lueders. Musical
selections were “Enter the
Journey,” “Hail Mary, Gentle
Woman,” “Song of Farewell”
and “Fly Like a Bird.”
Pallbearers were Eric Inglis, Nick Heitz, Brian Knorr,
Michael Knorr and John McCormick. Honorary bearers
were Tom Inglis and Clint
Knorr. Interment was in the
church cemetery.
Lauren Emily Knorr was
born July 18, 2014, in
Hutchinson, the daughter of
Shawn and Jessica (Inglis)
Knorr. She was baptized as
an infant on July 27, 2014, at
Minneapolis Children’s Hospital, and confirmed in faith
on Aug. 10, 2014, at St.
Anastasia Catholic Church in
Hutchinson.
Lauren’s journey began at
Hutchinson Health, where
our precious little girl entered
the world with a head full of
dark, curly hair. She was lovingly embraced by her big
sisters and parents as the perfect addition to our family.
Within a few days, Lauren
began to experience many
seizures and neurological
concerns, resulting in her inability to suck, swallow or
cry. She was transported to
Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis, where she would
spend the first month of her
life.
Despite all the love and
care Lauren received from
her amazing doctors and
nurses, we were unable to
find a cause or treatment for
her condition. On Aug. 9, we
brought our daughter home
on Hospice care so that she
could spend her last days
feeling the warmth and comfort of family. She was expected to live for only a
week.
Through the grace of God,
Lauren exceeded all of our
expectations and gave us six
precious months. During that
time, our family was able to
share so many of our favorite
places, people and life experiences with our sweet baby.
Knowing life with Lauren
would be cut too short, we
chose to live life to the fullest
— taking her on trips to the
zoo, going for walks around
the river and snuggling every
moment we could.
Lauren’s quiet presence in
our lives was a source of immense joy and valuable lessons. Even though our hopes
and dreams for a long,
healthy life for our little girl
were not realized, Lauren’s
life taught us so many amazing things. Through her, we
learned the true value of
kindness and generosity, the
importance of family and
friends, and the blessing of
unconditional, never-ending
love. These unexpected gifts
from a small, innocent baby,
brought us a deeper appreciation of God’s love, and our
world will forever be more
full and complete because of
her. While her life was short,
it was incredible. Her light
touched the hearts of so
many. We will be forever
grateful for knowing and loving our precious Lauren.
She is survived by her parents, Shawn and Jessica
Knorr of Hutchinson; sisters,
Ava and Julia; grandparents,
Tom and Mary Inglis, Bonnie
Knorr and Clint and Diane
Knorr, all of Hutchinson;
aunts and uncles, Michael
(Josie) Knorr of Waconia,
Christine (Knorr) Ruppert of
Hutchinson, Brian (Heather)
Knorr of Hutchinson, John
McCormick of Charlotte,
N.C., Emily (Nick) Heitz of
Minneapolis, and Eric Inglis
of Rice; cousins, Cassidy
Ruppert, Cade Ruppert, Hayden Knorr, Haley Knorr,
Brady Knorr, Lily McCormick, Anna McCormick
and Baby Heitz; many great
aunts and uncles, other relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death
by her great-grandparents,
Donald and Elizabeth Krasen,
Walter and Cleo Knorr,
Stephen and Gertrude Inglis
and Edward and Theresa
Sobota; and cousin, Hope
McCormick.
Arrangements were by the
Dobratz-Hantge Funeral
Chapel in Hutchinson. Online
obituaries and guest book are
available at www.hantge.
com.
Lyle M.C. Roepke, 82, of Hutchinson
Lyle Marlin Carl Roepke,
82, of Hutchinson, formerly
of Stewart, died Wednesday,
Feb. 4, 2015, at Harmony
River Living Center in
Hutchinson.
Funeral
services
were held
S a t u r d a y,
Feb. 7, at
S
t
.
Matthew’s
Lutheran
Church in
Fernando,
rural StewLyle Roepke
art, with the
Rev. Aaron Albrecht officiating. Wanda Renner was the
organist. Soloist Chuck Thiel
sang “How Great Thou Art”
and “Just a Closer Walk With
Thee.”
Congregational
hymns were “Beautiful Savior” and “Amazing Grace.”
Military honors were by the
Stewart American Legion
Post 125 Honor Guard.
Pallbearers were Aaron
Roepke, Kyle Roepke,
Matthew Roepke, Cory
Ruschmeyer, Gabriel Roepke, Scott Roepke and Jeff
Roepke. Interment was in the
St. Matthew’s Lutheran
Cemetery in Fernando.
Lyle Marlin Carl Roepke
was born Sept. 11, 1932, in
Round Grove Township,
McLeod County. He was the
son of Ervin and Clara
(Kuehn) Roepke. He was
baptized as an infant at the
family home and was later
confirmed in his faith as a
youth on April 14, 1946, at
St. Matthew’s Lutheran
Church in Fernando. He was
educated at country School
District 37 in rural Stewart.
He entered active military
service in the U.S. Army on
Jan. 9, 1953, in Minneapolis,
and served his country during
the Korean War. He was honorably discharged on Jan. 8,
1955, at Camp Hanford,
Wash.
On June 5, 1958, he was
united in marriage to Norine
Ruschmeyer at First Lutheran
Church in Glencoe by the
Rev. A.H. Fellwock. Their
marriage was blessed with
three sons, Randy, Brian and
Rick. The family resided on
the family farm in rural Fernando, and moved to
Hutchinson in 2007. They
shared 56 years of marriage.
Mr. Roepke farmed for 38
years. He also hauled milk
for the Round Grove Creamery for some years and served
on the creamery board. After
retiring from farming in
1996, he worked part time for
the Buffalo Lake Elevator
and also graded township
roads. He was a lifetime
member of St. Matthew’s
Lutheran Church in Fernando, rural Stewart, and also
was a member of the Stewart
American Legion Post 125.
He enjoyed playing cards
and listening to old-time
music. He played the drums
for the Fernando Dutchmen
band for over 20 years. He
especially enjoyed spending
time with his family, grandchildren and friends.
When he needed assistance
with his daily care, he became a resident of Burns
Manor Nursing Home in
Hutchinson in 2008, and
later a resident of Harmony
River Living Center.
He is survived by his wife,
Norine Roepke of Hutchinson; sons, Randy (Deb)
Roepke of Hutchinson, Brian
(Jody) Roepke of Hutchinson
and Rick (Kristin) Roepke of
Silver Lake; grandchildren,
Aaron (Alicia) Roepke, Kyle
(Shawna) Roepke, Matthew
Roepke, Nicole Roepke,
Gabriel Roepke, Maren
Roepke and Luke Roepke;
great-grandchildren, Wesley
and Calvin Roepke; brother,
Charles (Marlene) Roepke of
Winthrop; sister, Valeria
Uecker of Brownton; sisterin-law, Rita Roepke of
Brownton; many nieces,
nephews, other relatives and
friends.
He was preceded in death
by his parents, Ervin and
Clara Roepke; brothers,
Lloyd Roepke and Walter
Roepke; and father-in-law
and mother-in-law, Clarence
and Loretta Ruschmeyer.
Arrangements were by the
Dobratz-Hantge Funeral
Chapel in Hutchinson. Online
obituaries and guest book are
available at www.hantge.
com.
From the Brownton Bulletin archives
100 Years Ago
Feb. 12, 1915
O.C. Conrad, Editor
The Albert Polsfuss home was
thoroughly fumigated last Sunday afternoon being quarantined
for several weeks for diphtheria.
Miss Lilly, the only patient, was
scarcely sick, but the necessary
precaution was taken to avoid
spreading the contagion.
Carpenter Lenz has been installing shelves and bins in Sell’s
Cash Store, and Mr. Sell tells us
that he expects soon to have in a
stock of choice fresh groceries.
Just as soon as the weather permits, Mr. Sell plans an addition
to accommodate a general store.
Last Sunday immediately following the close of the German
Lutheran church services, the
Rev. A.C. Bode performed the
ceremony that united Miss
Martha Ostermann in marriage
to Mr. A.F. Schumacher. The
couple will make their home
with the groom’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Schumacher, residing just north of this village.
75 Years Ago
Feb. 8, 1940
Milton D. Hakel, Editor
Hans Ewald received the good
wishes of many friends Wednesday who stopped to congratulate
him on his 96th birthday. Mr.
Ewald is remarkedly alert mentally for a man of his advanced
age.
Miss Hilda Gaulke of Brownton and Mr. Howard Fenske of
Gibbon were united in marriage
at Immanuel Lutheran Church
here Sunday. Miss Gaulke is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto
Gaulke of Brownton and the
groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
William Fenske of Gibbon. The
couple will make their home on
a farm near Gibbon.
Hanna Albertine Friederika
Zieman, wife of the late August
Zieman, died at the age of 74
Friday, Feb. 2, at the home of her
son, Robert Zieman, south of
Brownton. Mr. and Mrs. Zieman
had made their home on a farm
south of Brownton. She is survived by and mourned by seven
sons and four daughters, 29
grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren, and many other relatives.
ican Breeding Association of
Wisconsin because his daughters
had become extraordinarily good
milk producers. Schiro’s cow
turned into one of his top two
milk producers.
The Brownton Lions Club
drew nearly 900 people to the
Lake Marion Ballroom Saturday
night with its annual buffalo dinner.
10 Years Ago
Feb. 9, 2005
Lori Copler, Editor
For the second time in three
years, the Stewart Fire Department has received a federal grant
through the Department of
Homeland Security’s Assistance
to Firefighters grant program.
Stewart received a $47,279 grant
to purchase new turn-out gear,
pagers, portable radios, fire hose,
a positive pressure fan and other
equipment.
The loss of its full-time patrol
officer led the Brownton City
Council to discuss how to provide police protection. The
Council learned at its Feb. 1
meeting that Kevin Weber was
leaving the department to start
training with the Minnesota State
Patrol. Police Chief Mark Mathwig said that, on average, a patrol officer stays with the city
about three years before moving
on. Besides paying an officer his
or her salary, the city also provides uniforms and training,
which drives up costs, Mathwig
said. He added that he has been
in touch with Glencoe about
sharing officers.
Stewart Police Officer Pat
Geiken has resigned to accept a
position with the McLeod County Sheriff’s Department, and the
Stewart City Council voted to
begin advertising for a new officer.
50 Years Ago
Feb. 11, 1965
Charles H. Warner, Editor
Walter Gaulke, who has occasionally filled in with the village
police, was hired effective Feb. 1
to the position as day policeman
and city maintenance man to fill
the position of the late Martin
Braun.
John Hagedorn of the Brownton Feed Mill and Hugo Lemke
of Hugo’s Place both underwent
surgery this weekend. Friday afternoon, Hugo had an operation
for a rupture at the Glencoe hospital. While chopping wood Friday, Mr. Hagedorn was struck in
the eye by a splinter and he underwent surgery at Union Hospital, New Ulm, on Saturday.
For the third year in the row,
Clifford Bussler of Brownton has
been elected the president of the
Minnesota Duroc Breeders Association.
20 Years Ago
Feb. 8, 1995
Lori Copler, Editor
A group of Australian and
Danish farmers came to Brownton to take a look at one of
Donovan Schiro’s cows. The
cow was bred from semen Schiro
had purchased from a bull named
Juror, who apparently had become a rising star with the Amer-
From the Stewart Tribune archives
100 Years Ago
Feb. 12, 1915
Koeppen Brothers, Editors
A pretty wedding occurred at
St. Boniface Catholic Church in
this village Wednesday, Feb. 10,
when Miss Cecelia Schilling and
Mr. Edward Forcier were united
in holy wedlock. The bride is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Schilling of Round
Grove, and the groom is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Victor E. Forcier
of Grafton. After a short honeymoon, the couple will make their
home on the farm of the groom’s
parents.
Miss Emma Cayott, popular
clerk in the local post office, has
taken a position at the Stewart
State Bank in addition to her
post office duties.
Willie Macejewski won the
pie-eating contest at the movie
show Monday evening.
The J. Lewin & Sons store
was broken into Saturday night
and the cash register stripped of
all its money, amounting to just a
small sum. Entrance was made
by breaking out a window on the
rear door and opening the latch.
Sunday, a new window was put
in and that same night another
entrance was made into the store
the same way, and again a small
sum was taken from the register.
75 Years Ago
Feb. 9, 1940
Harry Koeppen, Editor
The Stewart Cooperative
Creamery Association had its annual meeting Tuesday at the
community center, where patrons learned that the creamery
produced 436,135 pounds of butter during 1939. Otto Doerr was
elected to the board of directors
to replace Oluf Thompson, who
is soon to leave this community.
Other directors are Charles
Ewert, J.A. Novotny, Charles
Kuttner, L.W. Wangerin, Jack
35 Years Ago
Schilling and John Lipke.
Friends of J.W. Skinner, who
was injured last week in a fall
down the stairs at the hotel, will
be glad to hear he is getting
along nicely.
Feb. 7, 1980
Anthony G. Blum, Editor
The Huyhn Trung Luong family, refugees from Saigon, Vietnam, arrived at their new home
in Stewart Friday. They are
sponsored by a coalition of
churches in the area.
The Stewart Improvement Association had its annual meeting
Wednesday night and elected
four new board members —
Orvel Tessmer, N.E. Dols, Larry
Roepke and Bennie Carlson.
They join incumbent board
members Gary Kosek, Bud
Ahlers and Clarence Kern. Tessmer was elected president; Dols,
vice president; Larry Roepke,
treasurer; and Carlson, secretary.
Mr. and Mrs. David Klinkner
(Diane Rennecke) announce the
birth of a son, Preston Harris,
born Sunday, Jan. 27. He joins a
brother, Richard, and two sisters,
Racquel and Jaclyn.
50 Years Ago
Feb. 11, 1965
Kermit T. Hubin, Editor
Christine (Thomson) Richards, 82, succumbed to a stroke
Monday morning, Feb. 1, in Kerrville, Texas. She and her husband, Lester, resided in Stewart
until 1943. Since retiring, they
spent their winters in Texas, and
lived there permanently in recent
years. Funeral services were held
Feb. 4 at the Kloempken Funeral
Home in Stewart.
One of the heaviest snowfalls
in the state this winter dumped
eight to 10 inches of snow here
Wednesday, closing schools and
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FREE BEER 3 .m.-?? • Prizes All Day
Music by: River Canyon 9 p.m.-1 a.m.
Offer expires 02/28/2015
VALENTINE EVENING SPECIAL
623 12th St. E., Suite 1
Glencoe
(320) 864-5565
RESERVATIONS APPRECIATED
Bring Your Sweetie for Valentine’s Specials!
– 2 - 4 oz. Lobster Tails
– Salmon & Lobster Sauce of Fettuccine Noodles
– Steak & Shrimp (Garlic, Butter or Breaded)
All with choice of potato, salad bar and dessert.
Full Menu also available.
Fri., Feb. 20 – Knight Moves w/Chris, 8 pm-12 am
Sat., Feb. 21 –The Scene Karaoke/DJ, 8 pm-12 am
Fri., Feb. 27 – Swinging Country w/Phyllis Hummel, 7-11 pm
Sat., Feb. 28 –Total Country Band, 8 pm-12 am
EVERY FIRST SATURDAY – PRIME RIB
EVERY THIRD SATURDAY – KING CRAB LEGS
FRIDAYS – Meat Raffle – 6 p.m.-??
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Fish Fry Every Friday
Prime Rib Every Friday & Saturday
Prize 599
BINGO Every Sunday at 1:30 pm Top
until goes out
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Hutchinson
(320) 234-7627
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The McLeod County Chronicle, www.glencoenews.com, Wednesday, February 11, 2015, page 10
Brownton Cabin Fever Days
This year’s Cabin Fever Days mystery dinner
was “Murder on the Petulant Express,” with a
cast of characters including Franz Faschmacher (Keith Tongen), a Bavarian brewer.
Another cast member (suspect) in the mystery
theater was Sen. Strom Thurmond (Dave
Sanken), left, an overly patriotic politician. He
is questioned about his involvement with the
murder victim by Randy Lindeman, right.
Chronicle
photos by
Lori Copler
Bryce Lindeman portrayed baseball player Kid Root at the mystery dinner theater.
He visited with Joan Ewald.
Dustin Klabunde, right, quizzes murder suspect Christine Agatha (Anita
Crosby) at the mystery dinner.
Francine Cooper (Sheila Bussler)
shed a crocodile tear or two at the reported murder of railroad czar Peter
Petulant during the mystery dinner
theater Saturday evening.
Ron Lamprecht, a Brownton High School
graduate who is now a nationally known
comedian, brought his act to the Brownton Area Civic Center Friday night. The
building was formerly the Brownton
school.
2/3rds Minnesota, a local band featuring Josie Sanken, MaryPat Speersma,
Keenan Dummer and Tyler Stehr, were
among the featured entertainment Friday night at the Brownton Area Civic
Center.
A bean bag tournament was held Saturday; Jason Rosenau was among
the competitors.