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By Jessica GramsStaff Writer

The GSL School Board has final-ized much of its proposal for thepossible construction project itwould like the public to approve onMay 12. First, a motion was carriedfor a 30-year repayment plan, with afinal payment to be made Feb. 1,2045.

Next, Superintendent Chris Sonjurecommended approval of the ballot

language, highlighting the plans forthe improvements, which was ap-proved by the board.

The Review and Comment pro-posal has been prepared for submis-sion to the Commissioner of Educa-tion by Business Manager MichelleSander, which was approved by theboard and Board Member ClarkChristiansen made note that theSchool Board appreciates all of thework she had put in to the 42-pagedocument.

The board held a discussion re-garding the potential polling places-for the bond election. Sonju notedthat these locations are not a recom-mendation, just explaining wherethe elections have been held before.The potential places will be at Lin-

coln School, Lakeside School, NewAuburn City Hall, Plato Fire Halland the Brownton Community Cen-ter. The Hassan Valley Township lo-cation in Biscay is no longer goingto be used. Absentee ballots areavailable and the requirements forabsentee ballots are much moreopen, with leaner requirements thanin past elections. The application foran absentee ballot will be availableonline, or can be requested from thedistrict office.

Board Member Jamie Alslebenrecommended that the Glencoe lo-cation be at the Panther Field Houseto limit disruption at the schools.Dawn Petersen, assistant to the su-perinendent, said that the last gener-al election held in the field house

went very poorly, with a lot of noisecoming from the gym next door

Christianson reiterated that he stillsupports having the only pollingplace at Helen Baker School, be-cause people who haven’t seen itcan see what they are voting about.Board members Jason Lindemanand Anne Twiss agreed that a singlepolling place would be effective, es-pecially in light of the new ease ofthe absentee ballots.

Board Member Donna Vonbergesaid the absentee ballot is “too new,not enough people are going to useit,” and it would only be fair to havefive polling places for everyone to

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Glencoe, Minnesota Vol. 118, No. 6 Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015

CThe McLeod County

Boys’ cagers win 3 straightPanthers close in on share of WCC title

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No change in school polling places Push is onfor Hwy. 212improvementsBy Rich GlennieCorrespondent

Local legislators were asked Fri-day afternoon at a gathering at theGlencoe City Center ’s HistoricRoom what can be done locally tohelp push for progress and fundingfor the long-stalled Highway 212improvements. Those improvementswould extend the four lanes westfrom Carver to Cologne.

The historicroom seemed ap-propriate sincethe Highway 212extension hasbeen in theworks for over60 years and stillhas two majorgaps — the fivemiles from Chas-ka to Cologne,and another fiveor six miles from Cologne to Nor-wood Young America.

Attending the meeting were stateRep. Glenn Gruenhagen, R-Glen-coe, state Rep. Dean Urdahl, R-Grove City, mayors of Glencoe andHutchinson along with councilmembers and staff from both com-munities, all the county commis-sioners, some township officials,county highway department person-nel as well as some industry leadersand economic development experts.

But it wasCarver CountyHighway Engi-neer LyndonRobjent who putthings into per-spective: “We’rep u s h i n gMnDOT (Min-nesota Depart-ment of Trans-portation) ashard as we can,” but he said themetro MnDOT division has no in-terest in putting money into four-lane highways that are outside of theHighway 494/694 beltline aroundthe metro area.

“It is not a priority with the MetCouncil,” Robjent added of High-way 212, “and it never will be forthe metro MnDOT district.” He sug-gested the best bet may be to pushMnDOT District 8 officials based inWillmar to find funds to help com-plete the extension of the four-lanes.

Building bondelection setfor May 12

Montgomery Gentry to headline2015 Heat in the Street festivalBy Lori CoplerEditor

The Glencoe Fire Department’srelief association continues to drawbig-name talent to its annual Heat inthe Street music festival.

The department announced lastweek that Montgomery Gentry willbe the headliner at this year’s Heatin the Street, set for July 25 in theGlencoe City Center parking lot.

Also slated are Eric Paslay, ChrisHawkey and The Plott Hounds.

Montgomery Gentry is comprisedof the vocal duo of Eddie Mont-gomery and Troy Gentry, both na-tives of Kentucky.

Montgomery Gentry has had atotal of 14 Top 10 singles, including

five that reached the top of thecharts — “Something to Be ProudOf,” “If You Ever Stop Loving Me,”“Lucky Man,” “Back When I KnewIt All” and “Roll With Me.” Theywere inducted into the Grand OleOpry in 2009.

Glencoe firefighter Jon Dahlke,one of the event’s organizers, saidthis will be the fourth year of Heat inthe Street, which raises funds for therelief association — and the secondyear that it has attracted national tal-ent.

Dahlke said the event started be-fore he joined the department.

“It just started as a new idea as afundraiser for the department,” saidDahlke. “We were looking for some-

thing different that would fit into thearea.”

Dahlke said Heat in the Street wasloosely patterned after the ColdSpring Fire Department’s Fire Fest.

Last year’s Heat in the Street at-tracted over 2,800 people.

“This year, we’re expecting about5,000,” said Dahlke.

Dahlke said ticket sales are beingannounced this week in The Chroni-cle as well as on local radio stations.

Tickets are available on the Heatin the Street website, www.heatinthestreet.com, as well as through thedepartment’s Facebook page. Theyalso are available at Glencoe Wine& Spirits and the Glencoe City Cen-ter.

Gruenhagen

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Chronicle photo by Lori Copler

Caught the big fish (house)Loren Schmeling of Hutchinson was the winner of an Ice Castlefish house given away by the Brownton Rod & Gun Club througha raffle held in conjunction with its annual ice fishing contestSaturday. Several hundred people congregated on Lake Marion

for the contest, then returned to the clubhouse for the drawing.Jeff Kraimer, owner of the Brownton Bar & Grill, won both thesecond- and third-place prizes — a small ATV and a generator.Schmeling is a longtime member of the Rod & Gun Club.

Submitted photoCountry duo Montgomery Gentry is coming to Glencoe in July forthe Glencoe Fire Department’s Heat in the Street music festival.

School BoardTurn to page 2

Highway 212Turn to page 3

By Lori CoplerEditor

Marie Dols “lovedher 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. Thatwas evident Monday, Feb. 1,when a large group of womenfrom the Stewart AmericanLegion Auxiliary gathered atthe Shade Tree RetirementCenter in Brownton to cele-brate Dols’ 100th birthday.

Dols is a 67-year memberof the Auxiliary, which pro-vided dessert and beveragesto help her celebrate at anopen house.

*****Dols said she never expect-

ed to live to be 100, butthinks she reached the mile-stone because she neverstopped moving.

And though she never ex-pected to be a centenarian,Dols is quite proud of howagile she remains.

“I don’t walk with a caneor a walker,” she said. “Mydoctor always told me to do alot of walking, and I’veobeyed him on that. And I’venever been sorry.”

*****Marie Dols grew up on a

farm six miles southeast ofStewart with her brothers,Herbert and Oscar Mayer.There was no running waternor electricity on the farm.

“We carried water in pailsfrom the well,” said Dols.“And there was no electricity,just gas lights with mantlesand kerosene lamps.”

Dols said her parents didn’texpect her to help much withfarm chores, but she did helpher mother cook, whichturned into a lifelong love forher.

“When we had thresherscome, my mother alwaysmade a forenoon meal and anafternoon meal, and I’d al-ways help her,” said Dols.

She attended countryschool, walking about a mileacross farm fields to getthere, and later went to St.Boniface Parochial School inStewart and then graduatedfrom Stewart High School.

After high school, her olderbrother helped put herthrough beauty school in St.Paul. After that, she opened abeauty shop in Brownton,which she later sold. She thenopened another shop in Stew-art, across the street to thenorth from where the formerRed Owl building stands.

“I had one beauty operatorworking for me, and we werekept very, very busy,” saidDols. “People came from allaround.”

In her mid 20s, she marriedNestor Dols, the Stewartpostmaster.

After they set up house-keeping, Dols moved herbeauty shop to the back of herhouse.

“That way I could preparethe meals for my family andtend to my customers, too,”said Dols. She said her homewas a green stucco house“kitty corner” from St. Boni-face.

Along with her beautybusiness and keeping housefor her family, Dols had“quite a garden,” she said,with sweet peas climbing upthe fence in the yard.

She and her husband hadtwo children, a son and adaughter. Sadly, her son diedat the age of 23 or 24 when

he slipped on some ice whilestarting his car and was runover.

Her daughter Patricia andher husband visit nearly everyweekend, Dols said, and takeher 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 familyaround me,” Dols said.

And, actually she has athird treasure: her life inStewart.

“I liked the town, I likedthe people and I was just realhappy there,” Dols said.

Chronicle photo by Lori Copler

Members of the Stewart American Legion Auxiliaryhelped Marie Dols — a 67-year member of the Auxiliary— celebrate her 100th birthday on Monday, Feb. 1. Pic-tured are, front row from left, Sylvia Markgraf, MargeEhlert, Marie Dols (the birthday girl), Vera Bents and

Norma Syverson; middle row, Dolores Beich, Alecia Kot-tke, Viola Renner, Jane Friedrichs, Joyce Markgraf andKaren Maiers; and, back, Jamie Guiterrez, MarcellaBrede, Georgia Forcier, Mardette Trettin, Shirley Kirchoffand Lori Vinkemeier.

Happenings

Woodworking orientation setThe Glencoe Woodworking Club has set a safety and

orientation class for Tuesday, Feb. 17, from 7 p.m. to 9p.m., in the lower level of the Glencoe City Center.Please call 320-266-4060 for more information and toenroll. Drop-ins are welcome.

Plato Fire fish fry set Feb. 20The Plato Fire Department will host its annual fish fry

Friday, Feb. 20, at the Plato Community Hall. Servingstarts at 3 p.m.

Caregiver group to meetThe Glencoe Caregiver Discussion Group will meet

Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 5:45 p.m., at Grand Meadows SeniorLiving in Glencoe. The topic will be “family meetings.”For more information, call Jan Novotny at 320-894-0479.

Legion Auxiliary sets meetingThe Glencoe American Legion Ladies Auxiliary will

meet Monday, Feb. 16, at 7 p.m., at the Glencoe FireHall. Lunch will be served.

Valentine’s Day at the libraryThe Glencoe Public Library is presenting a free Valen-

tine’s Day event, “I Love It,” with a special storytime, aValentine craft and a heart snack, on Saturday, Feb. 14, at10:30 a.m. All children are welcome.

Glencoe Study Club to meetThe Glencoe Study Club will meet Monday, Feb. 16, at

7:30 p.m., at the home of Shari Johnson. Gail Koch willpresent “One Wig at a Time.”

Stewart Legion meetingThe Stewart American Legion Post 125 and its Ladies

Auxiliary will meet Monday, Feb. 16, at 7 p.m., at theStewart Community Center. Hostesses are Norma Syver-son and Joanne Wagner.

St. John’s pancake dinner setSt. John’s Lutheran Church, 216 McLeod Ave., Plato,

is hosting a pancake dinner Sunday, Feb. 22, from 10:30a.m. to 1 p.m. Takeout is available. Proceeds will helpsupport Heifer International and the Parochial EducationFund.

Bar Bingo set for SaturdayThe 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 cashprizes. The progressive game pay-out is $1,199 if haveBingo within 61 called numbers. Food, beverages andpull-tabs are available.

Blood drive set in PlatoThe Plato Lions Club is sponsoring a Red Cross blood

drive Thursday, Feb. 26, from noon to 6 p.m., at DiscoverChurch. To make an appointment, call Ken or MyraFranke at 320-238-2370.

Glencoe seniors meetingsThe Glencoe Senior Citizens meet on Tuesdays and

Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. in the seniors room at the Glen-coe City Center. Sheephead is played on Tuesdays, andboth sheephead and 500 are played on Thursdays. Allseniors over 55 are invited. For more information, call320-864-3799 and leave a message.

Bloodmobile in Stewart Feb. 18The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at Cactus Jack’s

II, Highway 212, Stewart, on Wednesday, Feb. 18, fromnoon to 6 p.m.

100 years: Marie Dols reflects on her life

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reach.Christianson said “I’m not

convinced that many of ourvoters have been in HelenBaker in the last 20 years.”While the board agreed thatthe needs at Helen Baker arewell known to those at themeetings, anyone walking into Helen Baker to vote maynot be swayed by their firstlook at the school.

“It is our job to make thisas convenient as possible,”said Alsleben. He said thatholding the voting at one siteis too disruptive, and “not inthe best interest of our stu-dents and their education.”

Board Member KevinKuester noted that the biggestchallenge will be getting theundecided voters out to thepolls. Lindeman moved to usethe five listed sites and usethe sites from 10 a.m. to 8p.m., which was passed bythe board.

The McLeod County RelayFor Life will officially launchits season Tuesday, Feb. 10,at 5:30 p.m., at Faith Luther-an Church, 335 Main St. S,Hutchinson.

Participants will ring in thenew season with a rally thateducates everyone on howtheir involvement helps theAmerican Cancer Society’sgoal to save lives and createmore birthdays. Rally activi-ties include a 1980s theme,door prizes, refreshments andgreat information on beingpart of the McLeod CountyRelay For Life.

The American Cancer So-ciety’s Relay For Life is anovernight community cele-bration where individuals andteams camp out, picnic,dance, play games and take

turns circling a track relaystyle to raise funds and fightcancer.

The event opens as cancersurvivors lead the wayaround the track and honoredon a survivor lap. As the sunbegins to set, the warm glowof hundreds of luminarieslight the field in an emotion-al, silent ceremony. Each bagis lit in honor of a loved onewho won the fight againstcancer, or in remembrance ofa special person who lost thebattle.

Started in 1985, the RelayFor Life began with one manwho circled a track for 24hours, raising $27,000. Thisyear, the Relay For Life hasgrown to more than 5,200communities and more than25 countries worldwide.

County Relay For Lifelaunches season Feb. 10

The McLeod County Re-publican Convention is setfor Saturday, Feb. 14, at 9a.m., in the Commissioners’Room at the McLeod CountyCourthouse in Glencoe. Reg-istration opens at 8:15 a.m.

Among business items arereviewing and considering

changes to the McLeodCounty Republican constitu-tion, election to fill executiveboard offices, including chair,treasurer and vice chair, andany other business.

For more information, visitwww.mcleodGOP.com.

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But it was not all gloomand doom.

Gruenhagen has authored abill that would seek Highway212 funding in this year’sbonding bill to complete theextension to Cologne. Thecost is about $63 million. Hesaid the environmental impactstatements (EIS) have beencompleted on that section ofthe roadway. But if nothing isdone, those impact statementswill expire, “and we’ll haveto do it all over again.”

The goal is to use as muchof the existing two-lane high-way as possible to keep thecost down, Robjent said.

Gruenhagen said whilelocal voices need to be heard,it has to be noted that there isa lot of competition for whattransportation dollars areavailable.

“There is a wide fundinggap between wants andneeds,” Gruenhagen said ofthe $8 billion in transporta-tion requests this session.

He said a recent report inthe Chaska Herald indicatedGov. Mark Dayton is in sup-port of including Highway212 into his $1.2 billiontransportation bonding pro-posal.

But Gruenhagen said theGOP House caucus is onlycommitted to up to $500 mil-lion for roads and bridges, buthe said 2016 is the biggerbonding year.

While Dayton is asking for$1.2 billion, Gruenhagen saidonly $87 million of thatwould go to upgrade ruralroads and bridges. “We needto prioritize,” he added, espe-cially about rural Minnesota’sneeds.

He recommended thatthose in attendance, as well asother area constituents, e-mailthe governor about theirHighway 212 concerns and e-mail the House transportationchairman, Tim Kelly, who issupportive of Gruenhagen’sbill, as well as the SenateTransportation chairman,Kevin Dibble, a metro DFLerwho is not.

He said e-mails shouldstress the importance of animproved Highway 212 forthe rural economy of westernand southwestern Minnesota.Also suggested were a letter-writing campaign to legisla-tors and the governor, as wellas having large groups ofpeople attend the upcomingtransportation committeemeetings to stress the impor-

tance of moving forward onHighway 212. He said that ishow Highway 14 got funded— with people from that areaconstantly attending theselegislative meetings.

“The squeaky wheel getsthe grease,” he added.

County Commissioner RonShimanski, a former stateHouse member, suggestedGruenhagen expand his bill totake in Highway 212 all theway to Highway 15 nearBrownton. “Then you mayget a piece (of the highway)done. Hopefully, it’s not theHighway 15 piece.”

“It seems like there is a lit-tle wave of support now,”Gruenhagen said of the Leg-islature.

About the Met Council’sopposition to four lanes out-side the metro area, Gruen-hagen said the good news isthe Met Council chairman re-cently resigned and that nu-merous communities in theMet Council area have balkedat some of the Council’s re-cent decisions.

“Our (House GOP) caucusis against the Met Council,”Gruenhagen said. “The MetCouncil does not have our(rural Minnesota) best interestat heart.”

Urdahl, who represents aportion of Hutchinson as wellas Meeker and a portion ofWright counties, said local in-dustries and chambers ofcommerce also need to pro-vide a strong voice by keep-ing the pressure on legislatorsand the governor over High-way 212.

He said while the gover-nor’s transportation bond pro-posal is high and the Republi-cans’ is a lot lower, he (Day-ton) will have to come down,and to do that, highway proj-ects will have to be cut. “Youhave to keep lobbying to keepthat (Highway 212) in thebonding bill as he makes re-ductions.”

Shimanski noted that High-way 212 also was left out ofthe Corridors of Commercefunding cycle last year, eventhough Highway 212 hasbeen named a regional corri-dor.

Urdahl said there is less ofa chance that will happennow that the MinnesotaHouse is controlled by Re-publicans. Last session, theDFLers had total control. Hesaid, “Rural issues will bemore loudly heard (this ses-sion).”


McLeod County is gearingup to launch its one-sort re-cycling program, and resi-dents are being asked tochoose the size of their curb-side recycling carts.

Cards regarding cart sizesare to be returned by Feb. 13to the solid waste depart-ment. The goal is to have theprogram get under way inMay.

Sarah Young, solid wastecoordinator, brought a fewitems to the County Board’sattention regarding one-sortrecycling at its Feb. 3 meet-ing.

First, the County Boardamended its contract withWest Central Sanitation toaccommodate the new one-sort recycling program.

Don Williamson of WestCentral Sanitation said thatcurbside pickup of recycling

will be every other week,rather than every week, incommunities that participatein the county’s recycling pro-gram.

“It will be picked up onthe same day as garbage,”said Williamson; however,garbage is picked up on aweekly basis.

Young asked the CountyBoard to invest about$185,840 in additional cartsand in specialized lids for therecycling carts, with thefunds to come from the solidwaste abatement fund.

Young said the lids willhave specific informationpermanently ingrained intothem as to what materials areacceptable to be placed in thecart.

The lids also will have in-formation about McLeodCounty recycling.

“We want residents to be-come vested in this pro-

gram,” said Young.Young said having the in-

formation right on the lidwill be more helpful than try-ing to provide informationthrough brochures, news arti-cles and other means.

The County Board alsoagreed to provide 8-cubic-yard containers at each ruralrecycling site, rather than thesheds or pre-sort containers.

Young said the proposedone-sort recycling programdoes not include curbsidepickup at rural residences, al-though the county may, inthe future, consider offeringthat option in rural residen-tial areas that contain a lot ofhomes.

Young also said that workon the Materials RecoveryFacility (MRF) in Hutchin-son is moving along nicely.

She said the building is al-most complete, the largebaler has been resituated, the

old scale area has been filledin, the old equipment dis-mantled, the electrical andHVAC systems are being up-graded, and new equipmentis being installed.

“Most of it is expected tobe done by April 15,” saidYoung. “We want to do a testrun in March on the newequipment. That will give usa month to a month and ahalf to test and train. Ourgoal is to deliver the recy-cling carts by May 1.”


Construction on McLeodCounty’s jail expansion proj-ect will hopefully begin assoon as road restrictions havebeen lifted this spring.

John McNamara of WoldArchitects reviewed somefinal revisions with the Coun-ty Board at its Feb. 3 meet-ing.

The potential closing ofIves Avenue just east of thecourthouse and the reopeningof Judd Avenue a block fur-ther east will free up someparking space, McNamara

said.The plan is to put angle

parking on the east side of theformer Ives right-of-way,near where Glencoe Oil oncestood.

The approximate cost of$160,000 to reconstruct andopen Judd Avenue has nowbeen added to the project’sestimated cost, McNamarasaid.

Up in the air for costs in-clude an estimated $75,000for door access controls andaudio and video security. Mc-Namara said those items maybecome part of a larger proj-

ect to address access and en-trance security in all of thecounty’s buildings.

The project, when it wasoriginally conceived in Au-gust 2014, had been estimat-ed to cost $6.925 million. Areview of the project at aCounty Board workshop inNovember 2014 saw an esti-mated price of $7.125. Al-though the County Board re-viewed some ways to cutcosts, it decided to use re-serve funds to pay for the ex-cess in hopes of having to additems later at a higher cost.The estimated cost at the Feb.

3 meeting was $7.315 mil-lion, which included the JuddAvenue work and higher esti-mated cost for actual con-struction because of risingconstruction costs.

McNamara said Wold willnow begin preparing con-struction documents and willsubmit bid documents for theCounty Board’s approval ateither its Feb. 17 or March 3meeting. The bid will beawarded in mid-April, withconstruction to begin shortlyafter that date.

McNamara estimated that itwill take about a year to con-

struct the addition, which in-cludes additional cells, a newsally port for squad cars, anexpanded lobby and entrancenear court administration, anadditional elevator and bath-room space, and a secure pas-sageway between the jail andone of the upstairs court-rooms, among either items.

In other business, theCounty Board:

• Decided to combine thehead building maintenancesupervisor position with thecentral purchasing coordina-tor job. Wayne Rosenfeld re-cently retired as the building

maintenance supervisor, andthe central purchasing job isexpected to open up in thenear future.

“This is absolutely the rightway to do this,” said Com-missioner Sheldon Nies.

• Approved a temporary re-duction in hours — to 28hours from 40 — for a sup-port enforcement aide in theSocial Services department.The reduction will be effec-tive Feb. 9 through Sept. 4.

• Agreed to hire a full-timesocial worker for child pro-tection because of a resigna-tion in that area.

Jail expansion bids to be received in mid-April

Christ Lutheran and GoodShepherd Lutheran churchesin Glencoe have organized aThrivent Action Team andwill be packaging 1,250 drysoup mixes, which will bedonated to the McLeodEmergency Food Shelf.

The soup-packaging eventwill be held on President’sDay, Monday, Feb. 16, from10 a.m. to noon.

There will be two shifts,one from 10 a.m. to 10:45a.m., and 11 a.m. to 11:45a.m.

There will be a soup lunchwith bread and desserts

served for all volunteers aftereach shift has ended.

Each packaging participantis asked to donate $5 to helpcover the cost of the suppliesfor the soup mix. If you areunable to participate in thepackaging but are willing todonate funds to help supportthe event, please contactSusie Christianson at 320-292-1032.

For more informationabout the event please visitwww.christluth.com and clickon the Soup Packaging Eventlink.

Volunteers sought to packagedry soup on Monday, Feb. 16Single-sort recycling to start in May

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Former Chronicle sports editorLee Ostrom used to tell me that oncea person hits 50, “it’s all mainte-nance.” Which I think was just anice way of saying “it’s all downhillfrom here.”

There comes a time in life when aperson has a hard time recalling amemory, or wonders obsessively ifthey left on the iron, stove, oven,lights, forgot to turn down the ther-mostat, or feed the dog before leav-ing the house. Or wastes preciousminutes looking for keys or a phonethat were right where they belongedall along.

Those incidents lead one to won-der if they should go to a doctor tobe screened for an early onset of de-mentia.

I always chalked up those smallincidents to simply being too busyand overwhelmed by a myriad of de-tails, rather than being the result ofaging.

Until I lost my car.This weekend was a long one of

covering Cabin Fever Day events,

the Brownton Rod & Gun Club icefishing contest and then capping theweekend with volunteering to helpat the sheephead tournament inBrownton Sunday.

But I lost my car long before thebusyness of the weekend over-whelmed my middle-aged brain.

I was leaving my house to walk tothe Brownton Area Civic Center Fri-day evening when I noticed my carwas still in the driveway, not in thegarage. I was going to pull it in be-fore continuing on my way, when

my pager went off. I jumped in thecar and headed to the fire hall.Shortly after arriving, the call wascancelled, and I headed back to thecivic center. But instead of parkingin my garage, less than two blocksaway, I parked on the street near thecivic center.

At the end of the evening, Iwalked home.

At about 1:30 a.m., I woke up andsuddenly wondered about my car. Itiptoed outside in my pajamas andpeeked in the garage door. No car.

I quickly dressed and walked tomy car — parked less than a blockaway — furtively looking over myshoulder to make sure no one hadseen my embarrassing gaffe. I re-trieved my car and tucked it out ofsight in my garage.

I’ve misplaced my keys, myglasses, my dog’s leash, my phone,and countless other small items, butI’ve never before misplaced my car.

Maybe it is time to make an ap-pointment…

The McLeod County Chronicle, Wednesday, February 11, 2015, page 4

StaffKarin Ramige Cornwell, Pub-lisher; Lori Copler, Editor;June Bussler, Business Man-ager; Sue Keenan, Sales Rep-resentative; Brenda Fogarty,Sales Representative; TomCarothers, Sports Editor; Jes-sica Grams, Staff Writer; Jes-sica Bolland and Alissa Han-son, Creative Department;and Trisha Karels, Office As-sistant.

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Rental inspection ordinancesand “snowbird” ordinancesseem to be dominating city

council discussions in the area.Last week in Brownton, a resident

complained about the city’s amende-ment to its winter parking ordinance,which prohibits parking on citystreets between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m.from November to April — regard-less of snowfall.

Monday night in Stewart, councilmembers once again heard a com-plaint about its rental inspection or-dinance, with claims that it was overreaching. Silver Lake also is current-ly considering a rental inspection or-dinance, and the issue is on its Feb.17 agenda.

In both the Brownton and Stewartinstances, complainants had validpoints. Why should people not be al-lowed to park overnight on citystreets when there is no snow event?And why should good landlords besubject to inspection fees when theyare already doing their best to pro-tect their tenants’ safety?

Sadly, it is always a few violatorsthat lead to government creating or-dinances and laws that impact every-one.

It’s the chronic violator of the

winter parking ordinance that causescity councils to subscribe to theKISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) theo-ry to create laws that allow littlemisinterpretation of their intent.

It’s the bad landlord who createssituations that causes city councils toadopt far-reaching rental ordinancesthat try to address every possible sit-uation and close every loophole.

Unfortunately, government cannottarget specific groups for its ordi-nances. A rental ordinance applies tothe good landlord and the bad. Thesnowbird ordinance applies to theperson who flaunts it as well as theperson who conscientiously tries notto impede snow removal.

It is, indeed, a case of the tail wag-ging the dog, but there seems to beno help for it. Until people use com-mon sense in following ordinances,those of us who actually possess itwill be the ones to suffer.

Government always steps in to po-lice those who do not police them-selves. Want more relaxed ordi-nances? Help your neighbor policehimself. When common sense final-ly prevails, there will be no need forthe government to overly intervene.

— L.C.

Rotten applesspoil the whole barrel

Our view: Actions of a fewhas consequences for many

Question of the weekGov. 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 changesin 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

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Lost keys? No, I lost the whole darn car

Lori Copler

Letter to the Editor

Obama is giving away the storeTo the Editor:

President Obama continues to tryand give away the store, the latestbeing free college tuition. If youhave money to pay for it, that is fine.We don’t.

Thomas Jefferson, a past president

of the United States, said it best, andI quote, “The democracy will ceaseto exist when you take away fromthose who are willing to work andgive it to those who would not.”

Robert L. HatlestadGlencoe

To the Editor:Linda Krueger, Colleen Benjamin

and LaDonna Stuber want to thankeveryone who helped make it possi-ble this holiday season to send out207 soldier care packages throughOperation Minnesota Nice. Lastyear’s total was 166, and this yearmore family, friends, surroundingcommunities, churches, organiza-tions and businesses — all too manyto mention — generously donatedtime, items and money. We also re-ceived donations and packing helpfrom a few local church youthgroups.

Linda, Colleen and LaDonnasmiled as they quoted “Can’t thankThe McLeod Chronicle/Lorienough!”

Linda mentioned how this year itwas a little more stressful packagingas the ladies worked with five differ-ent units at one time. Some were in

extreme hot weather, while othershad cold nights and lived in tents.They had to send the right items tothe units, all having different needs.The undisclosed areas where someof the soldiers were was so secretthey only got code names for thepackages, or had to send them toone person in the unit, such as achaplain or a lieutenant colonel.

They packed an extra month asthey had extra items to send andthey had just received new namesfrom units in Turkey and Bahrain,which they want to send a few pack-ages to these soldiers before retiringfor the year.

Krueger and helpers are all soonce again overwhelmed at howgenerous people can be, especiallyduring the holidays when everyoneis so busy buying gifts for their fam-ilies! 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 bymyself and my soldiers. Your kindwords and gifts made the Christmasseason easier to cope with being faraway from family and friends. Hereat FOB Fenty, we know we are notforgotten by the kind people ofGlencoe and other communities inMinnesota. Again, many thanks forall of your prayers and packages. Iwish you and your family a HappyNew Year! Stay warm in Minnesota.I grew up in Boston and went to col-lege in Vermont, but neither com-pare to a Minnesota winter! Mywarmest thank you,” Mark.

Operation Minnesota NiceLinda Krueger, Colleen Benjamin

and LaDonna Stuber

Record year for local Operation Minnesota Nice

By Rich GlennieCorrespondent

With two openings on thecity’s cemetery board, theGlencoe City Council late lastyear discussed naming thecouncil members as the newboard, rather than seek com-munity volunteers to fill thepositions. The main reasonwas there was little interestshown by the public.

But last Wednesday after-noon, the Council’s personneland legislative committee rec-ommended staying with theappointment system after anumber of names surfacedshowing interest in the twovacancies. Mayor Randy Wil-son has the authority to makethe appointments with Coun-cil approval.

The two members whosetwo five-year terms have ex-pired are Jim Carlson, whowas first appointed to thecemetery board in 2004 andreappointed in 2009, and GaleRoth, who was appointed in2005 and reappointed in2010.

Other current members ofthe board are Council Mem-ber Gary Ziemer, who wasappointed in 2011; MarleneRobeck, appointed to fill theterm of Robert Hatlestad in2010 and reappointed in2012; and Sherri Stamps, firstappointed to fill the term ofRobert Hartelt in 2011 andreappointed in 2013.

City Administrator MarkLarson said after no one ap-plied for the positions late lastyear, he suggested the ceme-tery board be made up of CityCouncil members instead.

Over the last few years, thecemetery board didn’t havemany activities and had notmet in 18 months. It is sup-posed to meet at least once ayear.

“It does not have much of abudget and not many actionitems,” Larson said.

But it does control about$80,000 in dedicated ceme-tery funds. Some of thosefunds are from individual do-nations and others from feescharged for burial services.But Larson said that fund isdiminishing as changes occurin burials. He said fewer peo-ple are going with full burialsand more are being cremated.That has resulted in lessmoney going into the dedicat-ed perpetual care fund.

He said the former GlencoeCemetery Association dis-banded in 1986 and turned

over the duties to the city.That also included about$100,000 in a perpetual carefund, which is now down toabout $80,000. Larson saidthe cemetery commission re-ceives about $11,000 a yearin revenues from cemeteryfees, but spends about$16,000 a year in doing buri-als and maintaining the ceme-tery.

“In the future, there will beno cemetery fund,” Larsonpredicted. “Then the city willhave to fund it.”

Council Member Dan Per-schau said, since city staffhandles all the finances forthe cemetery, what else doesthe cemetery commission do,and what are its responsibili-ties?

One issue is the recordkeeping. “We run into issueson records from the olddays,” Larson said. The cityis working off a 1932 ceme-tery map. People were not al-ways buried where therecords indicated, or emptygrave sites were not alwaysempty, he added.

Larson said the cemeteryboard also handles the ceme-tery bylaws and sets thecemetery fees, with CityCouncil approval. The com-mission also is supposed tomeet annually, but Ziemersaid the last meeting was July31, 2013.

There is one big issue thatthe cemetery board may han-dle, and that is obtainingcomputer software for locat-ing and making available on-line all the grave sites in thecemetery. The matter received

cemetery commission andCity Council approval severalyears ago, and it was estimat-ed it would cost about$12,000. But it didn’t proceedbecause of Council concernsabout staff time needed toinput the information into thecomputer system.

One idea is to get volun-teers to input the information,which is now kept on cards atcity hall. “It’s a hugeprocess,” Ziemer said.

Paying for the softwarecould be from the perpetualcemetery funds, or from do-nations from groups like theVFW, which has shown an in-terest in identifying all theveterans buried in Glencoe.

Wilson said the softwarecould also include the othercemeteries in Glencoe — theCatholic Cemetery and FirstLutheran Cemetery.

The Glencoe City Ceme-tery actually includes threeold cemeteries in one loca-tion. The Glencoe CatholicCemetery is on the south sideof Buffalo Creek, and FirstLutheran Cemetery is adjoin-ing the Glencoe City Ceme-tery.

Ziemer said neither St. Piusnor First Lutheran “have anyskin in the game” with thesoftware project, but Wilsonsaid they should be invited tojoin in the project.

Larson said the Friends ofthe Library also has donated$1,500 toward setting up agenealogy research area at theGlencoe City Center once thecemetery software is installedand the information available.

“California or Bust” statesthe huge sign hanging fromthe spare tire attached to thetrunk of Milton Totusek andbrother Frank’s 1925 ModelT Ford coupe.

In 1947, in their early 20s,they started on a 6,744-mile,whirlwind circle tour of theWestern USA. They visitedfriends and relatives in Wash-ington who had previouslylived in Silver Lake. Miltonand his wife Alice still live ontheir farm north of SilverLake. Milton still has the signand, for over 60 years, theModel T Ford sat outsidenext to his granary. With Mil-ton’s permission, you can re-live their Model T trip andcar troubles from 67 yearsago. So buckle your seat belt,folks! Let’s go for a thrillingride in a Model T Ford coupe— at 35 miles per hour!Leave the driving to Miltonand Frank!

On the bright sunny morn-ing of July 15, 1947, we leftHutchinson at 8:13 a.m. inour 1925 Model T Fordcoupe. By 12 noon we werein Ortonville, crossing intoSouth Dakota.

After leaving Webster, wehad a generator problem. Wespent the night in Medina,N.D. The next morning wearrived in Bismarck, wherewe ground the valves andfixed the generator.

We crossed over the Mis-souri River and later passedthrough the Petrified Forestregion. After splicing the fanbelt together with wire, weentered Montana at 5:15p.m., arriving at Glendive at6 p.m. After two more splic-ings we made it to Miles Cityat 8 p.m., where we pur-chased a new fan belt in themorning.

The next afternoon wecaught a glimpse of themighty Rockies. We arrivedat Helena in the evening andslept in our hammocks slungbetween two billboards.

On July 18, at 6:15 a.m.,we crossed the ContinentalDivide going through Mc-Donald Pass, elevation 6,325feet. At 4:40 p.m. we passedthrough the 4th of July Sum-

mit in Idaho, elevation 3,070feet, and arrived in Spokane,Wash., at 6:30 p.m. We spentthe night in a tourist camp.

On July 19, we leftSpokane for Odessa, wherewe looked up Frank WraspirSr., who had lived in SilverLake years ago, and enjoyedhaving dinner with him. Thenwe visited relatives in Odessaand Irby. The first day wesaw our relative FrankWraspir Jr. and rode his com-bine for a couple of rounds.Then we met F.B. Totusek inOdessa, who operates a May-tag Shop. We also met Mrs.H.J. Ulrich, (nee AnnaWraspir), and Stanley andBill Wraspir, who operate abakery shop in Odessa, andmet Walter Ott, who worksthere. At Irby we met Jim andJoe Totusek, who have awheat ranch; Miroslav To-tusek, who operates an eleva-tor; and Mrs. Victoria Ott,(nee Totusek), who is thepostmistress. We spent thenight and the next day inOdessa at the Frank WraspirJr. home.

On Sunday, July 20, wewent huckleberry pickingwith the Wraspir and Millsfamilies near the Canadianborder and didn’t get enoughfor a good taste. The next daywe spent with the F.B. To-tuseks at the shop and haddinner at their home.

On July 22, Frank WraspirSr., the Model T Ford and wewent to see the immense heapof concrete called GrandCoulee Dam. We toured theinside. After leaving Coulee

City we came to Dry FallsPark, a place where themighty Columbia onceflowed. Then to Soap Lakeand back to Odessa, hitting adog en route and bending thecrank.

On July 25, we left Odessaand headed for Seattle, Wash.We crossed the Cascades bySteven’s Pass, elevation4,061 feet, and entered Taco-ma, where we stopped at asmall baseball park for thenight.

On July 26, we left Tacomain the rain. We crossed theColumbia River viaLongview Bridge, arriving inAstoria, Ore., at 12:30 p.m.On Sunday, July 27, we wentto Seaside to witness thecrowning of Miss Oregon.We stayed in Astoria, touredfish canneries and saw loadsof salmon and tuna.

On July 29, we slept in thesticks outside Coos Bay, Ore.The next morning we spenttime driving in the clouds. At11:12 a.m., we crossed intoCalifornia and were checkedby inspectors. That afternoonwe saw the world’s tallestRedwood tree at 364 feethigh. Evening found uscamped in Stephens Grove inthe Redwood Forest.

On July 31, we left thegrove and drove many miles.At 4 p.m., we crossed theGolden Gate Bridge at SanFrancisco and by 5:10 p.m.we were on the outskirts ofFrisco and stopped atMadrone, Calif., where weslept in a baseball park. (Tobe continued).

California or bust, in Model T

Tracing RootsBy Ron Pulkrabek

Submitted photo

Frank and Milton Totusek with their faithful 1925 FordModel T, which they drove to California in 1947.

By Rich GlennieCorrespondent

The Glencoe Fire Depart-ment is having a difficulttime filling its 40-person ros-ter and is looking for newvolunteers to bring it back upto strength. But that could bedifficult, the City Council’spersonnel and legislativecommittee heard Feb. 4.

City Administrator MarkLarson said the departmentcurrently has 34 members,but is funded for 40.

Because people are moremobile, and often experiencemore career and life changesthan in the past, it is becom-ing more difficult to find andretain volunteers for the firedepartment.

Larson also said “peopledon’t stay with employerslike they used to,” and someemployers are not willing togive volunteers the timeneeded for training and re-sponding to calls.

For day fire calls, Larsonsaid Glencoe currently callsPlato to help “because not alot of them (Glencoe volun-teers) work in the communi-ty.”

Larson said the city staffand fire department personnelare trying to come up withnew recruitment ideas “andget the word out were arelooking for firefighters.”

Although the volunteersare not paid, they receive ayearly contribution to the

Glencoe Fire Relief Associa-tion and become partiallyvested after 10 years andfully vested after 20 years.

“I don’t think pay is theissue,” Larson said. But itmay be the time commitmentin training and meetings,“which are now tougher”than in the past.

Mayor Randy Wilson, a re-tired Glencoe firefighter,agreed pay was not an issue.“Time commitment, that’s themain issue.”

Larson said one idea is tostart an Explorer program atthe high school, like the po-lice department did, to getyounger people interested injoining the Glencoe Fire De-partment.

In other matters, the com-mittee:

• Discussed changes to theCity Center liquor vendorrules that will give customersanother option — the city.The main concern is thecity’s share of the liquor saleprofits at the City Center arenot meeting expectations.

Two vendors currently holdlicenses to sell at City Centerevents — Dubbs Grill & Barof Glencoe and One EyedWilly’s of Lester Prairie.

City and other city-trainedstaff would handle the alco-hol sales if the city becomes athird option. Larson said Po-lice Chief Jim Raiter indicat-ed no concerns about the cityoption.

With 22 wedding recep-tions already scheduled for2015 and several other eventsplanned, Larson said the goalis not to compete with theother vendors, but to offer an-other option, “to make theCity Center work.” That stillleaves open the option ofother vendors supplying theservice at the City Center, butthey need a liquor licensefrom the city of their resi-dence, plus a $100 fee andproof of insurance.

All people serving alcoholat City Center events musttake training, mainly inunder-age identification andcarding of people beingserved at the events

• Heard that the city‘s mu-nicipal state aid (MSA) isgoing up in the future. Cur-rently, the city receives$286,000 a year for thestreets and roads designatedas municipal aid streets with-in the city. Much of the MSAfunding has been tied up withpast projects, like the 10thStreet reconstruction and theMorningside Avenue bridgeand street extension.

But Larson said those proj-ects are being paid off, andthe next round of MSA willlikely be used for the Arm-strong Avenue reconstructionscheduled for 2016.

By 2019, Larson said thecity MSA funding will beabout $326,000 a year.

Glencoe Fire Department lookingfor volunteers to fill out its roster

City cemetery board appointmentsdiscussed at personnel committee


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Winter finds its way back to the upper Midwest thisweek as a strong, early week storm ushers in colder air. Astrong Pacific storm cruised through the upper MidwestTuesday, dropping a little snow and more noticeably tem-peratures.

Behind the storm winds picked up and temperaturesdropped quickly. Be careful when out and about Wednes-day as there will probably be slick spots with the fastfreeze (some roads to our west may be very tricky to ma-neuver).

Highs will stay below average the rest of this forecastperiod as well, improving slightly towards the end of theweek, but sliding back down Saturday. Highs may have atough time getting out of single digits Saturday.

We’ll see improvement early next week, with anotherupper Midwest storm Tuesday into Wednesday … tooearly to say where exactly, but something to keep an eyeon. Have a great week, all; another week closer to spring!

Ma dobry weekendem Mit dobry vikend

Wednesday night — Lows -8 to -2; breezy, partlycloudy.

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 snowfallare we this year?

Answer to last week’s question (How does not havingsnow cover this winter affect our daily temperatures?) Ina typical winter, snow reflects a good chunk of the sun’senergy; with bare ground still showing we are able tosoak up what little sun we get better and this keeps tem-peratures anywhere from 10 to 15 degrees warmer thanwe normally would be.

Remember: I make the forecast, not the weather!

Weather CornerBy Jake Yurek

Silver Lake City CouncilRegular Meeting

Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015(Note the change in date due to the holiday)

6:30 p.m.Agenda

Call to order:Approve agendaConsent 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 StreetSE.2. Planning Commission recommendation on applicationfor conditional use permit (accessory building over 800square feet) and variance (side walls over 10 feet high)for 213 Cleveland Street E.3. One-day gambling permit application by the SilverLake 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:

The GFWC Women’s Clubof Silver Lake had its regularmeeting Monday, Jan. 26,with 15 members present.

Margaret Evans HuntingtonScholarship forms have beendelivered to the high schoolfor girls to apply. The clubapproved $25 to purchaseitems for the Guatemala Mis-

sion Banquet basket for Feb.7.

Mayor Bruce Bebo hadcontacted the club to see if itwould be interested in takingover the Dairy Day celebra-tion. After much discussion,it was decided to take on theproject. Details will beworked out at the next meet-

ing.State yearly reports have

been completed and total vol-unteer hours and dollars do-nated will be announced inFebruary.

The program for theevening was book reviews.The Silver Lake Study Club,of which the women’s club is

a branch, always had book re-views at their meetings.Books discussed were “TheOrphan Train,” “OrdinaryGrace” and “The Glass Cas-tle.”

The next meeting will beMonday, Feb. 23, at 6 p.m.This will be the OperationSmile work meeting.

Silver Lake Women’s Club met on Jan. 26

An Arlington woman wastreated for minor injuries fol-lowing a one-vehicle accidentin Sibley County Tuesday,Feb. 3. The crash was report-ed at about 1 p.m.

According to the SibleyCounty Sheriff’s Office, JeanJackels, 29, of Arlington, wasdriving a 1997 Ford Explorersouthbound on Sibley CountyState Aid Highway (CSAH)17, about seven miles south

of Arlington, when she lostcontrol of the vehicle and en-tered the west road ditch. Thevehicle overturned onto itsside.

Jackels was wearing a seatbelt. She was taken by theArlington Ambulance to theSibley Medical Center fortreatment of her injuries. Alsoresponding to the accidentwas the Arlington Fire De-partment.

Arlington woman hurtin one-vehicle accident


The Brownton City Coun-cil took in comments from aresident regarding its snowremoval ordinance at its Feb.3 meeting, but indicated thatit probably will not be mak-ing any more changes.

In November, the CityCouncil decided to adopt asnow removal policy similarto the city of Glencoe’s, es-tablishing no parking on citystreets between 2 a.m. and 6a.m. during the months ofNovember through April, re-gardless of whether there issnow on the ground or not.

Brownton resident JamieBah told the City Council atits February meeting that thenew ordinance treats resi-dents like little kids.

Bah said that while he un-derstands the need to get ve-hicles off the street for snowremoval, the new ordinanceis too prohibitive.

“We have to get permissionto park on the streets that our

tax dollars paid for,” saidBah.

If it is absolutely necessaryfor people to park on thestreets — for instance, if theyhave overnight visitors —they are asked to call the cityand let the police departmentknow.

Bah said that makes himfeel like he needs parentalpermission to have guests.

“It’s like, ‘hey, dad, I’mhaving people over. Is it OKif we park on the street?’”Bah said.

Bah also said he is not theonly one with concerns, butothers did not feel they couldmake a difference by ap-proaching the City Council.

Mayor Norm Schwarzesaid the City Council hadtried to find a policy thatmade perfectly clear whencitizens can and cannot parkon the streets.

Other policies the city hastried, Schwarze said, deter-mined parking based on snowevents, which led to specula-

tion on what actually consti-tutes a snow event.

Police Chief Ken Bauersaid the police departmenttries to use common sense inenforcing the ordinance.

Bah suggested the city usee-mail, social media andother ways to alert residentson when the city intends toplow.

But Schwarze said that thecurrent ordinance is clear,and that he doesn’t think ask-ing someone to contact thecity and let it know that therewill be parking on the streetsis a hardship.

“It’s just a phone call,” saidSchwarze, who added, “Idon’t think we’ll be changingit (the snow ordinance) anytime soon.”

In other business, the CityCouncil:

• Approved buying a newriding lawn mower for themaintenance department.

• Heard that the fire depart-ment is expecting its newpumper truck to arrive in

April. The new truck will re-place two older trucks in thefleet, 1986 Pierce pumperand a 1964 Chevroletpumper. The City Council au-thorized the fire departmentto sell both of those trucks.

• Set a special meeting forMonday, Feb. 23, at 6 p.m.,to go over proposed streetand utility improvementswith the city engineer, as wellas review applications for itsopen maintenance departmentposition.

• Heard that deputy clerkCindy Lindeman intends tofully retire this spring, andconsidered a suggestion byCity Clerk Ella Kruse thatboth the clerk and deputyclerk positions be made 32-hour-a-week jobs.

• Set public meetings forSaturday, March 7, at 10a.m., and Tuesday, March 10,at 7 p.m., to present informa-tion regarding the RS Fiberproject to city residents.

Brownton City Council takes in commentson changes in its winter parking ordinance


A motion to repeal the cityof Stewart’s rental inspectionordinance failed on a 2-2 voteMonday night.

New Council Member CurtGlaeser made the motionafter the City Council had alengthy discussion with resi-dent Keith Fredrickson overthe ordinance.

Both Glaeser and CouncilMember Chuck Kruggel(who also took office in Janu-ary) voted in favor ofGlaeser ’s motion, whilecouncil members Kevin Klu-cas and Jim Eitel votedagainst.

Mayor Jason Peirce ab-stained from voting, prompt-ing Glaeser to ask that thecity contact its attorney for anopinion on whether the mayorcould vote on the issue.

Peirce said he has ab-stained from voting on the or-

dinance because he ownsrental property in Stewart.

“I’m torn on the whole sub-ject,” said Peirce. “I’ve ab-stained from voting in thepast, and I struggle with vot-ing on this topic.”

Peirce said his voting onthe issue could be perceivedas a conflict of interest, al-though he doesn’t feel hewould directly benefit finan-cially from voting on theissue.

“This applies to everyone,not just property Peirceowns,” he said.

Peirce said that getting thecity attorney’s opinion wouldcost taxpayers money.

“Well, I think we need todo it,” said Glaeser. “Other-wise we’ll be deadlocked for-ever.”

Like others before,Fredrickson claimed that theordinance was too restrictive.

Fredrickson had lived in

his house before moving andrenting it out. He said he hadto rent it out because hecouldn’t sell it in the currenthousing market and recoverhis investment.

“My other option was to letit go back to the bank,” saidFredrickson. “If we keepgoing down the road we’regoing, we’re going to have alot more foreclosures intown.”

Klucas said the city adopt-ed the ordinance to help“make property safe forrenters.”

But Fredrickson arguedthat some of the ordinance’sstipulations “don’t have any-thing to do with guarding life,limb or welfare. It’s overreaching.”

Fredrickson also argued —as have other landlords beforehim — that the ordinance tar-gets rentals, and not all livingunits in the city.

“It (the house) was goodenough for me and my familywhen I lived there, but not forsomeone else and their fami-ly,” said Fredrickson.

Glaeser agreed withFredrickson, saying hedoesn’t feel the city shouldcome between landlords andtenants.

“It’s not our job to bebabysitting everything intown,” said Glaeser.

Klucas said he felt the ordi-nance could use some tweak-ing, but “I’m not ready to justget rid of it.”

In the end, the City Councilagreed to grant Fredrickson asix-month extension to fix theitems on his inspection list.

However, Glaeser alsomade a motion to consultwith the city attorney whetherPeirce can vote on the issuein the future. That votepassed 3-2, with Klucas andEitel voting against it.

Motion to repeal rental ordinancefails at Stewart Council meeting

Record

Glencoe Police

TUESDAY, FEB. 39:25 a.m. — An officer investi-

gated a complaint of bullying.4:05 p.m. — A property dam-

age vehicle accident occurred atthe intersection of 10th Street Eand Morningside Drive. The driv-ers exchanged insurance infor-mation.

7:10 p.m. — Officers arrested aperson on a warrant on 16thStreet E.

9:57 p.m. — A vehicle hit aparked car in the area of NinthStreet E and Pryor Avenue. Thedriver was cited for failing to stopat a stop sign and possession oftobacco.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 45:04 a.m. — A driver was cited

for driving after revocation and noproof of insurance, for the secondtime within a year, at a traffic stopnear Morningside Drive and 10thStreet E.

THURSDAY, FEB. 51:17 a.m. — Officers arrested a

person on a warrant on 11thStreet E.

11:34 a.m. — A woman inGlencoe called to report a domes-tic that occurred in Brownton.

12:03 p.m. — McLeod CountySocial Services called for a wel-fare check on a “male party thatwas mad and took off.” The per-

son was found at the courthouse,and later left on a bus.

1:15 p.m. — A vehicle wentinto a ditch at the entrance to thepark on DeSoto Avenue. The driv-er had arranged for a tow.

5:37 p.m. — A driver was citedfor speed and no current proof ofinsurance at a traffic stop in thearea of Hennepin Avenue N and11th Street E.

9:17 p.m. — A resident on Bax-ter Avenue N reported that theirneighbors had moved out thatday, but left open the doors to theresidence. An officer secured thedoors.

FRIDAY, FEB. 63:21 a.m. — One of the city’s

squad cars was damaged whenthe door of a car wash camedown on it.

12:27 a.m. — A gas drive-offwas reported on 10th Street, butthe driver came back and paid forit.

7:59 p.m. — A woman wastaken to the hospital by ambu-lance from an address on GreeleyAvenue.

9:18 p.m. — An open door wasdiscovered at the back of a busi-ness on 12th Street E. Officersearched the building and se-cured the door.

9:59 p.m. — Several deputiesand officers assisted with re-straining an inmate at the McLeodCounty Jail.

10:18 p.m. — A female was

taken by ambulance to the hospi-tal from an address on NewtonAvenue.

SATURDAY, FEB. 71:39 a.m. — Officers again as-

sisted at the McLeod County Jailwith a disruptive inmate.

2:08 p.m. — An adult femalewas taken by ambulance to theemergency room after sprainingher ankle. The incident occurredon Newton Avenue.

11:42 p.m. — Officers respond-ed to a noise disturbance onNewton Avenue.

SUNDAY, FEB. 81:14 a.m. — Officers respond-

ed to a noise complaint on ElliottAvenue.

8:15 a.m. — An officer assistedat the McLeod County Jail.

1:29 p.m. — An officer and theGlencoe Ambulance respondedto a medical emergency on JuddAvenue N. A male was taken tothe hospital.

1:50 p.m. — An apartment resi-dent on Newton Avenue com-plained “that the upstairs neigh-bor is stomping on the floor to irri-tate her.” The officer said he didnot hear anything besides peoplewalking.

6:21 p.m. — A female slippedon some ice and fell on LoudenAvenue, but declined medical at-tention.

6:51 p.m. — An off icer re-sponded to a complaint of loudmusic on 15th Street W.

11:19 p.m. — A person on 13thStreet E reported being threat-ened. According to the police re-port, the person “spoke with a guyhe knew in Hutchinson that statedthe Mexican drug cartel was com-ing for him.”

MONDAY, FEB. 912:49 p.m. — An officer re-

sponded to a mental health issueon 16th Street E.

1:25 p.m. — Possible criminalsexual conduct was reported on16th Street E.

4:13 p.m. — Officers receiveda report of a child crying and amother yelling on Newton Av-enue. Upon arrival, off icers“heard children playing andlaughing.” Officers spoke with themother and said the childrenseemed to be happy. One officertried to get a cookie from a smallboy, “but he was denied and got ahigh five instead.”

7:25 p.m. — A person on 16thStreet E reported they receivedan automated phone call stating“they were getting sued by theIRS” and given a number to callfor more information. An officeradvised the person not to call thenumber.

11:50 — An unwanted femalewas reported at the Happy Houron 11th Street E. She was takento detox.

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The documentary film,“When God Left the Build-ing,” will be shown Feb. 15,at 3 p.m., at the Glencoe CityCenter.

Following the film, theRev. James Gomez of GoodShepherd Lutheran Church inGlencoe and Traci Kohls, di-rector of disciple ministries atTrinity Lutheran in Waconia,will host a 20-minute livediscussion.

This film reveals the de-cline of the American churchand focuses on the currentspiritual climate.

Director Thom Schultz saidof the film, “The Americanchurch as we know it isdying. What was once theheart and soul of the commu-nity is going away. We won-

dered why. And we wonderedwhat’s next.”

According to Schultz, themajority of churches acrossthe country are in a state ofdecline. He said weeklychurch attendance hasdropped to 20 percent of thepopulation. This trend has re-sulted in the closing of 4,000churches per year, he said.

The filmmakers spent threeyears documenting a churchthat saw its attendance plungefrom 900 to 40.

“It was a heart-wrenchingmash-up of societal upheaval,spiritual confusion andhuman conflict,” Schultzsaid.

The film also prominentlyfeatures the unconventionalwork of churches and organi-

zations that are actively doingthings differently and outsideof the traditional churchbuilding.

A preview of the film isavailable at WhenGodLeft-theBuilding.com.

Tickets to the Feb. 15, 3p.m., film screening are freeand available at online atwww.gslcglencoe.org. Atten-dees also may sign up at thedoor on the day of the event.

The film was produced byGroup Productions, a Col-orado media company.

Questions about the docu-mentary may be directed toGood Shepherd LutheranChurch at 320-864-6157 [email protected].

January students of the month at Glen-coe-Silver Lake’s Lincoln Junior HighSchool are, front from left, KristianCasey, Kalie Butcher and Megan Siew-

ert; and, back, Preston Sturges, Ben-nett Lepel, Lily Schmitt and CourtneyRicher.

Chronicle photo by Jessica Grams

7th-grade students of the month

Glencoe-Silver Lake Lincoln JuniorHigh eighth-grade January students ofthe month are, front from left, Anna-maria Falcon, Alysse Rhode, Grace

Witte and Kaleb Elke; and back, AdamGaroutte, Olivia Streich, Rhyan Her-rmann, Jaelynn Pinske and MeganFehrenbach.

Chronicle photo by Jessica Grams

8th-grade students of the month

January Pillars of Character at Glen-coe-Silver Lake (GSL) High School are,from left, Cora Kuras, responsibility;Jenna Jochum, responsibility; and Ben

Donnay, respect. Missing are DevinFleck, caring; and Tanner Rosckes,trustworthiness.

Submitted photo

GSL High School Pillars of Character

Glencoe-Silver Lake High January stu-dents of the month are, front from left,Austin Maynard, Moriah Maunu and

Richard Wilson, and back, Fabian Medi-na and Luis Dueñas. Missing wereRobin Swift and Ellie Schmidt.

Submitted photo

GSL High School students of the month

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Graduate from St. Cloud StateTwo Glencoe students were among graduates from St.

Cloud State University at the conclusion of the fall se-mester. Cody Becker earned a bachelor of science degreein finance and Kaitlyn Schroepfer earned a bachelor ofelective studies in communication sciences and disorders.

Son born to Klitzke familyBrad and Nicole Klitzke of Chaska

announce the arrival of a son, BarrettJohn Burton Klitzke, born Dec. 7,2014, at the Ridgeview Medical Cen-ter in Waconia. Barrett weighed 7pounds, 1 ounce, and was 181⁄2 incheslong. He joins siblings Myah andHailey. Grandparents are Shirley andthe late Burton Klitzke of Darwin and Kenneth andChristine Dodge of Eden Prairie. Great-grandparents areJoyce Schmidt of Glencoe and Jane Stephan of West St.Paul.

Daughter for Glencoe coupleAmber 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 longat birth. She joins a brother, Aaron Joseph-Alan Skarhus,age 2.

Named to U of St. Thomas listFour 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 Shan-non Twiss.

Clark named to dean’s listOakley Clark, a freshman at Gustavus Adolphus Col-

lege in St. Peter, was named to the fall semester dean’slist. He is the son of Jerry and LeAnn Clark of Glencoe.

Bemidji State dean’s listArea students named to the Bemidji State University

fall semester dean’s list include: Lindsey Becker, JenniferIllg, Aaron Luehrs and Jeana Van Dyne, all of Glencoe;and Breanna Wagner of Stewart.

Eberhard awarded scholarshipSouth Central Electric Association on Feb. 6 presented

Ray Eberhard of Glencoe with a $500 scholarship at itsfacility in St. James. The scholarship was established inmemory of former South Center Electric meter foremanDaron Hunstad, who died in 2012. The scholarship wasavailable to students attending the powerline technologyprogram at Minnesota West Community and TechnicalCollege in Jackson. Eberhard is in his first year at thecollege. He grew up on a dairy farm near Glencoe, theson of Bob and Gloria Eberhard.

Barrett Klitzke

Film on decline of the churchto be shown Feb. 15 in Glencoe

Scholarshipsavailable fromNicollet/Sibleygrowers assn.

The Nicollet/Sibley CountyCorn and Soybean Growersare offering six $750 scholar-ships for students enrolled intwo- or four-year collegesand majoring in ag business,ag production, ag engineer-ing, ag education or any ag-related field of study.

Scholarship applicantsmust be a resident of Sibleyor Nicollet county and theirfamily must be a MinnesotaCorn or Soybean Grower As-sociation member.

Two $500 adult scholar-ships for adults enrolled in anag education program alsoare being offered.

For a scholarship applica-tion contact the Nicollet/Sib-ley County Corn & SoybeanGrowers at 507-237-4100 orcheck with your local highschool. The deadline for sub-mitting applications is April10.

100 Years AgoFeb. 12, 1915Koeppen Brothers, Editors

A pretty wedding occurred atSt. Boniface Catholic Church inthis village Wednesday, Feb. 10,when Miss Cecelia Schilling andMr. Edward Forcier were unitedin holy wedlock. The bride is thedaughter of Mr. and Mrs.Leonard Schilling of RoundGrove, and the groom is the sonof Mr. and Mrs. Victor E. Forcierof Grafton. After a short honey-moon, the couple will make theirhome on the farm of the groom’sparents.

Miss Emma Cayott, popularclerk in the local post office, hastaken a position at the StewartState Bank in addition to herpost office duties.

Willie Macejewski won thepie-eating contest at the movieshow Monday evening.

The J. Lewin & Sons storewas broken into Saturday nightand the cash register stripped ofall its money, amounting to just asmall sum. Entrance was madeby breaking out a window on therear door and opening the latch.Sunday, a new window was putin and that same night anotherentrance was made into the storethe same way, and again a smallsum was taken from the register.

75 Years AgoFeb. 9, 1940Harry Koeppen, Editor

The Stewart CooperativeCreamery Association had its an-nual meeting Tuesday at thecommunity center, where pa-trons learned that the creameryproduced 436,135 pounds of but-ter during 1939. Otto Doerr waselected to the board of directorsto replace Oluf Thompson, whois soon to leave this community.Other directors are CharlesEwert, J.A. Novotny, CharlesKuttner, L.W. Wangerin, Jack

Schilling and John Lipke.Friends of J.W. Skinner, who

was injured last week in a falldown the stairs at the hotel, willbe glad to hear he is gettingalong nicely.

50 Years AgoFeb. 11, 1965Kermit T. Hubin, Editor

Christine (Thomson) Rich-ards, 82, succumbed to a strokeMonday morning, Feb. 1, in Ker-rville, Texas. She and her hus-band, Lester, resided in Stewartuntil 1943. Since retiring, theyspent their winters in Texas, andlived there permanently in recentyears. Funeral services were heldFeb. 4 at the Kloempken FuneralHome in Stewart.

One of the heaviest snowfallsin the state this winter dumpedeight to 10 inches of snow hereWednesday, closing schools andcausing the cancellation of sev-eral area meetings and events.

35 Years AgoFeb. 7, 1980Anthony G. Blum, Editor

The Huyhn Trung Luong fam-ily, refugees from Saigon, Viet-nam, arrived at their new homein Stewart Friday. They aresponsored by a coalition ofchurches in the area.

The Stewart Improvement As-sociation had its annual meetingWednesday night and electedfour new board members —Orvel Tessmer, N.E. Dols, LarryRoepke and Bennie Carlson.They join incumbent boardmembers Gary Kosek, BudAhlers and Clarence Kern. Tess-mer was elected president; Dols,vice president; Larry Roepke,treasurer; and Carlson, secretary.

Mr. and Mrs. David Klinkner(Diane Rennecke) announce thebirth of a son, Preston Harris,born Sunday, Jan. 27. He joins abrother, Richard, and two sisters,Racquel and Jaclyn.

Obituaries

Lauren Emily Knorr, 6months, of Hutchinson, diedSunday, Feb. 1, 2015, at theTomah Memorial Hospital inTomah, Wis.

A Massof ChristianBurial washeld Satur-day, Feb. 7,at St. Anas-t a s i aC a t h o l i cChurch inHutchinsonwith theRev. Jerry Meidl officiating.Bev Wangerin was the pianistand Jennifer Lauinger wasthe flutist. Song leaders werePatti Cogley and BobbiLudewig. Soloist Patti Cog-ley sang “Child of Wonder.”The St. Anastasia children’schoir sang “Every Move IMake.” Special music was byShanda Landes, Joy Freitag,Roxanna Boe, Mark Luedersand Denise Lueders. Musicalselections were “Enter theJourney,” “Hail Mary, GentleWoman,” “Song of Farewell”and “Fly Like a Bird.”

Pallbearers were Eric In-glis, Nick Heitz, Brian Knorr,Michael Knorr and John Mc-Cormick. Honorary bearerswere Tom Inglis and ClintKnorr. Interment was in thechurch cemetery.

Lauren Emily Knorr wasborn July 18, 2014, inHutchinson, the daughter ofShawn and Jessica (Inglis)Knorr. She was baptized asan infant on July 27, 2014, atMinneapolis Children’s Hos-pital, and confirmed in faithon Aug. 10, 2014, at St.Anastasia Catholic Church inHutchinson.

Lauren’s journey began atHutchinson Health, whereour precious little girl entered

the world with a head full ofdark, curly hair. She was lov-ingly embraced by her bigsisters and parents as the per-fect addition to our family.

Within a few days, Laurenbegan to experience manyseizures and neurologicalconcerns, resulting in her in-ability to suck, swallow orcry. She was transported toChildren’s Hospital in Min-neapolis, where she wouldspend the first month of herlife.

Despite all the love andcare Lauren received fromher amazing doctors andnurses, we were unable tofind a cause or treatment forher condition. On Aug. 9, webrought our daughter homeon Hospice care so that shecould spend her last daysfeeling the warmth and com-fort of family. She was ex-pected to live for only aweek.

Through the grace of God,Lauren exceeded all of ourexpectations and gave us sixprecious months. During thattime, our family was able toshare so many of our favoriteplaces, people and life expe-riences with our sweet baby.Knowing life with Laurenwould be cut too short, wechose to live life to the fullest— taking her on trips to thezoo, going for walks aroundthe river and snuggling everymoment we could.

Lauren’s quiet presence inour lives was a source of im-mense joy and valuable les-sons. Even though our hopesand dreams for a long,healthy life for our little girlwere not realized, Lauren’slife taught us so many amaz-ing things. Through her, welearned the true value ofkindness and generosity, the

importance of family andfriends, and the blessing ofunconditional, never-endinglove. These unexpected giftsfrom a small, innocent baby,brought us a deeper apprecia-tion of God’s love, and ourworld will forever be morefull and complete because ofher. While her life was short,it was incredible. Her lighttouched the hearts of somany. We will be forevergrateful for knowing and lov-ing our precious Lauren.

She is survived by her par-ents, Shawn and JessicaKnorr of Hutchinson; sisters,Ava and Julia; grandparents,Tom and Mary Inglis, BonnieKnorr and Clint and DianeKnorr, all of Hutchinson;aunts and uncles, Michael(Josie) Knorr of Waconia,Christine (Knorr) Ruppert ofHutchinson, Brian (Heather)Knorr of Hutchinson, JohnMcCormick of Charlotte,N.C., Emily (Nick) Heitz ofMinneapolis, and Eric Inglisof Rice; cousins, CassidyRuppert, Cade Ruppert, Hay-den Knorr, Haley Knorr,Brady Knorr, Lily Mc-Cormick, Anna McCormickand Baby Heitz; many greataunts and uncles, other rela-tives and friends.

She was preceded in deathby her great-grandparents,Donald and Elizabeth Krasen,Walter and Cleo Knorr,Stephen and Gertrude Inglisand Edward and TheresaSobota; and cousin, HopeMcCormick.

Arrangements were by theDobratz-Hantge FuneralChapel in Hutchinson. Onlineobituaries and guest book areavailable at www.hantge.com.

Lauren Knorr, 6 months, Hutchinson

Lauren Knorr

Thomas “Tom” RichardMiller, 56, of Glencoe, diedThursday, Jan. 29, 2015, athis home.

Memorial services wereheld Saturday, Feb. 7, atJohnson McBride FuneralChapel in Glencoe with theRev. Ronald Mathison offici-ating. Congregational hymnswere “Rock of Ages” and“On Eagle’s Wings.” Inter-ment was in the First Evan-gelical Lutheran ChurchCemetery in Glencoe.

Thomas “Tom” RichardMiller was born Jan. 25,1959, in Glencoe. He was theson of Marvin and June(Luhring) Miller. He wasbaptized as an infant onMarch 8, 1959, by the Rev.

H.A. Bode, was confirmed inhis faith as a youth on April15, 1973, by the E.W. Blu-menkamp/Nathan Castens-both, both at First Evangeli-cal Lutheran Church in Glen-coe. He received his educa-tion at Glencoe Public HighSchool.

He lived his entire life inGlencoe, and worked as acook and a bartender at vari-ous places in Glencoe. Hewas currently employed atMidwest Porcine as a butcher.He was a member of FirstEvangelical Lutheran Churchin Glencoe.

Mr. Miller enjoyed fishing,watching football and social-izing with his friends. He wasconsidered a kind and hard-

working man.He is survived by his sister,

Jean “DeeDee” Blankenhage-nand her husband, Daniel, ofCincinnati, Ohio; nephews,Tyler Miller and TannerBlankenhagen; great-nieces,Hailey Miller and CaliMiller; as well as cousinsand many friends.

He was preceded in deathby his parents, Marvin andJune Miller; and a sister, JoanMiller.

Arrangements were withthe Johnson-McBride FuneralChapel in Glencoe. Onlineobituaries and guest book areavailable at www.hantge.com.

Thomas Richard Miller, 56, of Glencoe

Lyle Marlin Carl Roepke,82, of Hutchinson, formerlyof Stewart, died Wednesday,Feb. 4, 2015, at HarmonyRiver Living Center inHutchinson.

F u n e r a ls e r v i c e swere heldS a t u r d a y,Feb. 7, atS t .Matthew’sL u t h e r a nChurch inFernando ,rural Stew-art, with theRev. Aaron Albrecht officiat-ing. Wanda Renner was theorganist. Soloist Chuck Thielsang “How Great Thou Art”and “Just a Closer Walk WithThee.” Congregationalhymns were “Beautiful Sav-ior” and “Amazing Grace.”Military honors were by theStewart American LegionPost 125 Honor Guard.

Pallbearers were AaronRoepke, Kyle Roepke,Matthew Roepke, CoryRuschmeyer, Gabriel Roep-ke, Scott Roepke and JeffRoepke. Interment was in theSt. Matthew’s LutheranCemetery in Fernando.

Lyle Marlin Carl Roepkewas born Sept. 11, 1932, inRound Grove Township,McLeod County. He was theson of Ervin and Clara(Kuehn) Roepke. He wasbaptized as an infant at thefamily home and was later

confirmed in his faith as ayouth on April 14, 1946, atSt. Matthew’s LutheranChurch in Fernando. He waseducated at country SchoolDistrict 37 in rural Stewart.

He entered active militaryservice in the U.S. Army onJan. 9, 1953, in Minneapolis,and served his country duringthe Korean War. He was hon-orably discharged on Jan. 8,1955, at Camp Hanford,Wash.

On June 5, 1958, he wasunited in marriage to NorineRuschmeyer at First LutheranChurch in Glencoe by theRev. A.H. Fellwock. Theirmarriage was blessed withthree sons, Randy, Brian andRick. The family resided onthe family farm in rural Fer-nando, and moved toHutchinson in 2007. Theyshared 56 years of marriage.

Mr. Roepke farmed for 38years. He also hauled milkfor the Round Grove Cream-ery for some years and servedon the creamery board. Afterretiring from farming in1996, he worked part time forthe Buffalo Lake Elevatorand also graded townshiproads. He was a lifetimemember of St. Matthew’sLutheran Church in Fernan-do, rural Stewart, and alsowas a member of the StewartAmerican Legion Post 125.

He enjoyed playing cardsand listening to old-timemusic. He played the drumsfor the Fernando Dutchmen

band for over 20 years. Heespecially enjoyed spendingtime with his family, grand-children and friends.

When he needed assistancewith his daily care, he be-came a resident of BurnsManor Nursing Home inHutchinson in 2008, andlater a resident of HarmonyRiver Living Center.

He is survived by his wife,Norine Roepke of Hutchin-son; sons, Randy (Deb)Roepke of Hutchinson, Brian(Jody) Roepke of Hutchinsonand Rick (Kristin) Roepke ofSilver Lake; grandchildren,Aaron (Alicia) Roepke, Kyle(Shawna) Roepke, MatthewRoepke, Nicole Roepke,Gabriel Roepke, MarenRoepke and Luke Roepke;great-grandchildren, Wesleyand Calvin Roepke; brother,Charles (Marlene) Roepke ofWinthrop; sister, ValeriaUecker of Brownton; sister-in-law, Rita Roepke ofBrownton; many nieces,nephews, other relatives andfriends.

He was preceded in deathby his parents, Ervin andClara Roepke; brothers,Lloyd Roepke and WalterRoepke; and father-in-lawand mother-in-law, Clarenceand Loretta Ruschmeyer.

Arrangements were by theDobratz-Hantge FuneralChapel in Hutchinson. Onlineobituaries and guest book areavailable at www.hantge.com.

Lyle M.C. Roepke, 82, of Hutchinson

Lyle Roepke

100 Years AgoFeb. 12, 1915O.C. Conrad, Editor

The Albert Polsfuss home wasthoroughly fumigated last Sun-day afternoon being quarantinedfor several weeks for diphtheria.Miss Lilly, the only patient, wasscarcely sick, but the necessaryprecaution was taken to avoidspreading the contagion.

Carpenter Lenz has been in-stalling shelves and bins in Sell’sCash Store, and Mr. Sell tells usthat he expects soon to have in astock of choice fresh groceries.Just as soon as the weather per-mits, Mr. Sell plans an additionto accommodate a general store.

Last Sunday immediately fol-lowing the close of the GermanLutheran church services, theRev. A.C. Bode performed theceremony that united MissMartha Ostermann in marriageto Mr. A.F. Schumacher. Thecouple will make their homewith the groom’s parents, Mr.and Mrs. Fred Schumacher, re-siding just north of this village.

75 Years AgoFeb. 8, 1940Milton D. Hakel, Editor

Hans Ewald received the goodwishes of many friends Wednes-day who stopped to congratulatehim on his 96th birthday. Mr.Ewald is remarkedly alert men-tally for a man of his advancedage.

Miss Hilda Gaulke of Brown-ton and Mr. Howard Fenske ofGibbon were united in marriageat Immanuel Lutheran Churchhere Sunday. Miss Gaulke is thedaughter of Mr. and Mrs. OttoGaulke of Brownton and thegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs.William Fenske of Gibbon. Thecouple will make their home ona farm near Gibbon.

Hanna Albertine FriederikaZieman, wife of the late AugustZieman, died at the age of 74Friday, Feb. 2, at the home of herson, Robert Zieman, south ofBrownton. Mr. and Mrs. Ziemanhad made their home on a farmsouth of Brownton. She is sur-vived by and mourned by sevensons and four daughters, 29grandchildren, 22 great-grand-children, and many other rela-tives.

50 Years AgoFeb. 11, 1965Charles H. Warner, Editor

Walter Gaulke, who has occa-sionally filled in with the villagepolice, was hired effective Feb. 1to the position as day policemanand city maintenance man to fillthe position of the late MartinBraun.

John Hagedorn of the Brown-ton Feed Mill and Hugo Lemkeof Hugo’s Place both underwentsurgery this weekend. Friday af-ternoon, Hugo had an operationfor a rupture at the Glencoe hos-pital. While chopping wood Fri-day, Mr. Hagedorn was struck inthe eye by a splinter and he un-derwent surgery at Union Hospi-tal, New Ulm, on Saturday.

For the third year in the row,Clifford Bussler of Brownton hasbeen elected the president of theMinnesota Duroc Breeders Asso-ciation.

20 Years AgoFeb. 8, 1995Lori Copler, Editor

A group of Australian andDanish farmers came to Brown-ton to take a look at one ofDonovan Schiro’s cows. Thecow was bred from semen Schirohad purchased from a bull namedJuror, who apparently had be-come a rising star with the Amer-

ican Breeding Association ofWisconsin because his daughtershad become extraordinarily goodmilk producers. Schiro’s cowturned into one of his top twomilk producers.

The Brownton Lions Clubdrew nearly 900 people to theLake Marion Ballroom Saturdaynight with its annual buffalo din-ner.

10 Years AgoFeb. 9, 2005Lori Copler, Editor

For the second time in threeyears, the Stewart Fire Depart-ment has received a federal grantthrough the Department ofHomeland Security’s Assistanceto Firefighters grant program.Stewart received a $47,279 grantto purchase new turn-out gear,pagers, portable radios, fire hose,a positive pressure fan and otherequipment.

The loss of its full-time patrolofficer led the Brownton CityCouncil to discuss how to pro-vide police protection. TheCouncil learned at its Feb. 1meeting that Kevin Weber wasleaving the department to starttraining with the Minnesota StatePatrol. Police Chief Mark Math-wig said that, on average, a pa-trol officer stays with the cityabout three years before movingon. Besides paying an officer hisor her salary, the city also pro-vides uniforms and training,which drives up costs, Mathwigsaid. He added that he has beenin touch with Glencoe aboutsharing officers.

Stewart Police Officer PatGeiken has resigned to accept aposition with the McLeod Coun-ty Sheriff’s Department, and theStewart City Council voted tobegin advertising for a new offi-cer.

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Another cast member (suspect) in the mysterytheater was Sen. Strom Thurmond (DaveSanken), left, an overly patriotic politician. He

is questioned about his involvement with themurder victim by Randy Lindeman, right.

2/3rds Minnesota, a local band featur-ing Josie Sanken, MaryPat Speersma,Keenan Dummer and Tyler Stehr, were

among the featured entertainment Fri-day night at the Brownton Area CivicCenter.

A bean bag tournament was held Sat-urday; Jason Rosenau was amongthe competitors.

Francine Cooper (Sheila Bussler)shed a crocodile tear or two at the re-ported murder of railroad czar PeterPetulant during the mystery dinnertheater Saturday evening.

Ron Lamprecht, a Brownton High Schoolgraduate who is now a nationally knowncomedian, brought his act to the Brown-ton Area Civic Center Friday night. Thebuilding was formerly the Browntonschool.

Dustin Klabunde, right, quizzes mur-der suspect Christine Agatha (AnitaCrosby) at the mystery dinner.

Bryce Lindeman portrayed baseball play-er Kid Root at the mystery dinner theater.He visited with Joan Ewald.

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