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Meeker County Board

District 1

� Beth Oberg

1,247

Jim Swenson (i)

1,083

District 2

Dale Fenrich

1,069

David Gabrielson (i)

1,069

District 3

Tim Benoit (i)

1,145

� Bryan Larson

1,330

District 4

Wally Strand (i)

888

� Mike Housman

1,482

District 5

� Mike Huberty

1,644

Write-in

149

Litchfield School Board

Four candidates ran to fill three seats.

Darrin Anderson

2,479

� Stacey Helstrom

2,963

� David Huhner

3,002

� Marcia Provencher

3,518

State Representative

District 18A

� Dean Urdahl (i)

Repub.

11,742

Nancy Larson, DFL

8,372

State Senate

District 18

� Scott Newman (i)

Repub.

22,554

Steve Schiroo

DFL

16,179

Amendments

Voter ID requirement

Yes 1,362,976

� No 1,535,948

Defining marriage between man and woman

Yes 1,400,805

� No 1,507,308

Election 2012 results

Editor’s note: All results are unoffi cial until approved by the appropriate canvassing boards.

BY JENNY BERG

STAFF WRITER

Superstorm Sandy crashed ashore the Eastern Seaboard last week, affecting the lives of millions and leaving a path of destruction several hundred miles long.

“It’s been crazy. The damage has been incredible,” said Shannon Levinski, resident of Keansburg, N.J. Levinski, 38, graduated from Litchfield High School in 1992. She has lived on the Jersey Shore for almost three years.

A mandatory evacuation forced Levinski to leaver her home Oct. 28, right before the superstorm hit. Levinski returned home Wednesday to survey the damage.

“The boardwalk down here is completely destroyed,” said Levin-ski, noting Atlantic City is mostly underwater. Levinski’s house was not flooded because she has a crawl space, but the water level was up about four feet surrounding her house, she said.

“I was very fortunate,” Levinski said. Others were not as lucky — superstorm Sandy claimed the lives of at least 106 people in the United States, and damage from the storm is estimated at $30 to $50 billion.

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Tangled extension cords connected to a generator charge cell phones for citizens of Bayonne, N.J., where power was out for several days. Former Litchfi eld resident Shannon Levinski snapped the photo while touring the damage from superstorm Sandy last week.Sandy to A2 �

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BY ANDREW BROMAN

EDITOR

Rep. Dean Urdahl, R-Acton Town-ship, easily defeated DFL challanger Nancy Larson on Tuesday, but he wasn’t relishing the victory on Wednesday morning, reacting to reports of Republicans losing control of both the Minnesota Senate and House.

“Obviously, I am not happy that we are pretty much at the will of the DFL Governor (Mark Dayton) and DFL Legislature,” said Urdahl, who captured 58 percent of the vote.

Urdahl said he expected to lose his chairmanship of the Legacy Commit-tee, which appropriates funds gener-ated by the Legacy Fund statewide sales tax. But, he vowed to work with the new DFL majority to accomplish tasks for the 18A House District. “I find I can still get things done when I’m in the minority,” he said.

Urdahl said the Republican Party, overall, made missteps during this election cycle. He noted the defeat of two constitutional amendments,

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BY JENNY BERG

STAFF WRITER

Voters showed up to the polls Tuesday to cast ballots for candi-dates on a city, county, state and national level, and to give their two cents on the two amendments that appeared on Minnesota ballots. Across the county, the polls were bustling from open to close.

An estimated 12,311 people voted in Meeker County, according to the Secretary of State’s Office, includ-ing 3,541 people in Litchfield. The number of total voters was down about 300 people from 2008.

“It’s been just crazy … We’ve never had a break,” said Election Judge Ron Ebnet, who helped reg-ister Litchfield residents to vote Tuesday.

Ebnet said people were waiting to register at 6 a.m., and some took the paperwork with them to fill out at work, and then returned later in the day to cast their ballot. By 11 a.m., Ebnet said they had reg-istered at least 100 people to vote.

“It’s got to be the presidential race,” Ebnet said about the high turnout. “By 10 a.m., we already had 813 voters. That’s a lot.”

Election Judge Sandy Hickman attributed the good turnout to the presidential race and the two amendments on the ballot.

“It’s been a good turnout,” Hick-man said. “I think people are inter-ested in the vote this year and want to get it to count.”

In Meeker County, 13,521 people were registered to vote as of 7 a.m.

Tuesday. Ninety-one percent of registered voters cast ballots in the county, up from an election turnout of 89 percent in 2008 in Meeker County.

The Secretary of State’s Office reported an unofficial turnout of 75.71 percent of eligible voters in the state Wednesday morning, with about 2.9 million people vot-ing.

Races draw strong voter turnout Presidential race, amendments bring people out to vote

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Election judge Anne Mattsfi eld and Litchfi eld resident Heather Silbernagel study a city map Tuesday to make sure Silbernagel gets registered to vote in the correct Litchfi eld ward.

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BY ANDREW BROMAN

EDITOR

Meeker County voters kicked out three County Board incumbents as a result of Tuesday’s election, while one race remained deadlocked at 1,069 votes for each candidate, ac-cording to preliminary election results.

If it holds a tie, the District 2 con-test between challenger Dale Fenrich and incumbent Dave Gabrielson could come down to a coin flip, ac-cording to Meeker County Auditor Barb Loch.

Loch said she tentatively expects to conduct a recount on Friday. State law authorizes a coin flip, or a lot drawing, to determine a winner, she said.

On Wednesday, Gabrielson said he

would accept the outcome of a coin flip, but he opposed the process. “If they got to flip a coin, fine. I’ll flip a coin. But that’s not a way to handle it in public government,” he said.

Regardless of the outcome of his race, Fenrich described the defeat of at least three incumbents as “ex-citing.”

“There was a rumbling the whole time, an unsettled rumbling,” Fen-rich said. “(Voters) just didn’t think they were getting the service.”

Tuesday’s incumbent causalities included Jim Swenson of District 1, Tim Benoit of District 3 and Wally Strand of District 4. They were re-placed by challengers Beth Oberg, Bryan Larson and Mike Housman, respectively.

Swenson, who chairs the County Board, said he was still trying to

figure out why incumbents fared so poorly. “Apparently people wanted change. I don’t know. It’s a little puz-zling,” Swenson said early Wednes-day morning.

Competing from the board’s only open seat in District 5, Mike Huberty easily defeated write-candidate Ma-ryls Houk. Ben Smith, whose name appeared on the District 5 ballot, previously withdrew from the race, though Smith still managed to col-lect 327 votes.

The shakeup comes nearly six months after the County Board redrew the districts’ boundaries be-cause of population changes reported in the 2010 census.

Before he became a candidate, Housman challenged the board’s initial attempt to redraw the lines, filing a lawsuit in Meeker County

District Court, alleging the board appeared to draw the lines to protect seats held by Swenson and Gabriel-son.

The board adopted a second redis-tricting plan, though Housman also criticized this plan, stating better options existed.

Housman, an activist within the Meeker County Republican Party, called for more transparency in County Board dealings. “I ran on a campaign of honesty, transparency, and common sense,” Housman said Wednesday morning, “and I think that resonated with the voters.”

While board elections are non-partisan, Housman was not afraid to tout his affiliation with the Re-publican Party. A self-proclaimed

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Litchfield resident Deanna Frazier, 47, works as a media relations assistant manager with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. She visits areas affected by natural disas-ters and helps local media out-lets with the information and updates coming from FEMA, as well as help get information to survivors.

Frazier was deployed to Cranston, R.I. following super-storm Sandy. FEMA contacted Frazier on Thursday morning, and by 5 a.m. Friday, Frazier was flying to the East Coast.

“In Rhode Island, they have a much smaller disaster than what is going on in New York or New Jersey, but this is the biggest disaster they’ve ever experienced,” Frazier said Monday.

Frazier got into the FEMA office on Saturday, and began organizing documents and press releases. Frazier will be deployed anywhere from 45 to 90 days, working 12-hour days for seven days a week during the first month.

Frazier visited the damaged areas Saturday.

“It was pretty bad. You’ve got all these houses on the beach and within three to four blocks of it, that when the water came in, it brought sand with it,” Frazier said. “All these homes have three to five feet of sand on their first floor.”

Frazier noted farther inland, there is severe wind damage to roofs, uprooted trees, water damage to houses — and more sand.

“The streets are covered with sand. They’ve got dump trucks working 24/7 to haul out the sand,” Frazier said. “It’s amazing what they’ve gotten done in this short amount of time so far.”

Frazier moved to Litchfield this summer with her husband, Dan, who is the new district superintendent. Frazier began

working for FEMA in 2009, and has helped with floods in Iowa, Connecticut and Missouri, where five days into her de-ployment, the tornado touched down in Joplin, Miss.

Rhode Island received the emergency disaster declaration for public assistance from the White House on Saturday, said Frazier, but commented she is still waiting for the declaration on independent assistance for folks affected by the super-storm, so she can begin helping individuals register for grants.

WAITING FOR POWER

Power went out for much of the Eastern Seaboard on Oct. 29. A week later, Levinski was still without power at her home in New Jersey.

Local gas stations were also affected by the power outages, and many were rationing their gasoline, Levinski said.

On Saturday, the stations began rationing gas by license plate numbers — if the last digit on a car’s license plate

was even, a driver can get gas on even days of the month, and if the last digit is odd, a driver can only get gas on the odd days of the month.

“It’s only in 12 counties, but I live right in the middle of it,” said Levinski, noting many people are waiting more than four hours in line for gas, and cars are lines up more than 15 blocks in Bayonne, N.J.

Levinski said the service stations at rest areas off the interstate have no limit restric-tions, and are selling fuel until they sell out.

“The lines go on for miles,” Levinski said of the gas stations along the interstate.

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Natalie Devine, a 2006 Litch-field High School graduate, was stranded in Charlotte, N.C., for five days when flights in and out of New York and New Jersey were canceled due to the storm.

“It’s been a crazy last couple of days,” said Devine, who was attending a cousin’s wedding in Texas before the storm hit, and was expecting to fly back to New York on Oct. 29.

“All this was brewing that week, so they started to cancel all the flights,” said Devine. She was able to fly to North Carolina, where her original flight had a layover, and visit her boyfriend. Devine’s flight was rescheduled for Oct. 31 but, again, her flight was canceled.

By Nov. 2, Devine was fi-nally able to fly back into the John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Devine’s apartment in East Harlem was far enough north to avoid damage from the su-perstorm, but many areas of the city were flooded. Devine visited the damaged parts of New York on Saturday.

“It looks completely differ-ent. They were pumping out just gallons and gallons of wa-ter and all the small businesses were boarded up,” Devine said. “It’s definitely a different New York than I’m used to.”

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A street is coated with sand in Avon-by-the-Sea, N.J., following superstorm Sandy. Former Litchfi eld resident Shannon Levinski took the photo Wednesday.

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Shannon Levinski, 1992 Litchfi eld High School graduate, sits on a downed tree in Bayonne, N.J., while touring the destruction of superstorm Sandy.

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Minnesota House of Representatives District 18A Dean Urdahl Nancy LarsonPrecincts Repub. DFLActon Township 106 98Cedar Mills 15 9Cedar Mills Township 143 101Collinwood Township 399 221Cosmos 100 130Cosmos Township 70 51Danielson Township 93 77Darwin 89 80Darwin Township 228 172Dassel 412 314Dassel Township 582 302Eden Valley 134 114Ellsworth Township 326 222Forest City Township 229 143Forest Prairie Township 293 186Greenleaf Township 258 183Grove City 135 171Harvey Township 114 88Kingston 53 39Kingston Township 445 242Litch. Wards 1 364 310

Ward 2 328 334Ward 3 331 260Ward 4 348 323Ward 5 255 247

Litchfi eld Township 310 207Manannah Township 137 117Swede Grove Township 122 74Union Grove Township 212 143Watkins 234 158

MEEKER COUNTY TOTAL 6,865 5,116

Districtwide: Urdahl was named the unoffi cial winner.

both products of a Republican-controlled Legislature.

Voters rejected a proposal to require voters to present valid photo identification at the polls and a proposal to define marriage as between a man and woman. “I think we assumed too much on the constitutional amendments,” Urdahl said.

In particular, Republicans did a poor job responding to concerns about the voter ID amendment, he said. In Meeker County, local officials said they feared the amend-ment would become another unfunded state mandate, po-tentially costing taxpayers thousands of dollars in staff time and new equipment pur-chases.

In addition, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie said the amendment could complicate voting for citizens, including military personnel, living overseas.

“I think we could have done a better job writing and pre-senting the bill,” Urdahl said.

Larson said she was disap-pointed with her race’s out-come but not surprised Repub-licans fared poorly statewide. She agreed the amendments backfired on Republicans. “People are tired of these flash point issues that really don’t affect their lives that much,” she said. “They’re concerned about the major issues. They’re concerned about taxes, about jobs and the economy.”

Larson said District 18A is a “tough district for Democrats.” But, she said, she had no re-grets in deciding to run. She said Urdahl’s moderate posi-tions on issues likely helped him. “I hope this makes him take pride in being moderate,” she said.

Urdahl received substantial criticism from members of his own party for voting in favor of a plan to fund the construction of a new Vikings stadium. At one point, the Meeker County Republican Party considered withdrawing its endorsement for Urdahl’s candidacy. At an April meeting, Urdahl gave an impassioned speech justi-fying his vote for the Vikings stadium, while scolding fellow Republicans for proposing to withdraw the endorsement.

Urdahl said he doubted his vote for the Vikings stadium

significantly affected the elec-tion’s outcome. He noted his strong performance in Cokato, a conservative stronghold, where he received 808 votes compared to 505 for Larson.

District 18 State Sen. Scott Newman, R-Hutchinson, who defeated DFL challenger Ste-ven Schiroo, received only 766 votes in Cokato by compari-son, according to preliminary election results.

“I did better than New-man in Cokato and Newman voted against (the Vikings stadium),” Urdahl said.

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BY STAN ROESER

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Meeker County Board approved Tuesday the ap-pointment of Donald Dufner as the new Meeker County Veterans Service officer.

He will succeed Chuck Unterberger who will retire Dec. 31. Dufner, a retired career U.S. Air Force officer and a Watkins resident, has worked extensively in human resources during his service career and holds a masters degree.

He was selected from a field of 27 applicants by a commit-tee which included Mark Lau-er, chairman of the Meeker County Veterans Committee; Rube Nathe, assistant chair-person; Cheryl Brueggemeier of the county human resourc-es staff; Chuck Underberger and County Administrator Paul Virnig. His salary will be $3,551 per month.

BECKMAN RESIGNS

The County Board accepted the resignation of Stephanie Beckman as county attorney ef-fective Dec. 11. She was recently named as a new district judge.

Beckman outlined for the board procedures for naming her replacement.

Plans are to accept applica-tions for the position until Nov. 27.

A committee — comprised of two county commissioners, Ad-ministrator Virnig, along with a representative of the sheriff’s department, the county human resources office and the county attorney’s office — will select one to three finalists. They will be interviewed by the county board, likely at a December meeting.

SEVEN-YEAR PLAN PRESENTED

County Highway Engineer Ron Mortensen presented his seven-year construction plan to the board.

The plan includes 2013 im-provements on CSAH 19 in the far northeast part of the county, a stretch of CSAH 28 south of Litchfield and improvement of a stretch of CSAH 30 south to Manannah.

The difficulties faced by the Meeker County Highway De-partment in an era of reduced funding and spiraling costs became clear during a discus-sion on improvements of CSAH 19 in the Kingston area.

Bituminous overlays on CSAH 19 slated for 2013 would cost an estimated $988,000.

However, Bob Hendrick-son, former Litchfield Street Department head who has extensive experience in road construction, recommended a more durable surfacing. This procedure, however, would run the cost to $1.9 million. Under the bituminous plan, the roadway would have an estimated life of 15 years. Under the alternate plan the road’s

life would extend to 25 years. The county in approving the road plan took no action on the alternative format.

PARAMEDIC PROGRAM EXPLORED

Meeker County Sheriff Jeff Norlin and Dr. Jeff Ho, part-time deputy, outlined a pro-gram for the board under which paramedics working on a vol-unteer basis would provide im-proved service in this specialty to the county. The paramedics could be trainees at Ridgewa-ter or the Hennepin Medical Center or personnel who have completed courses there but have not found employment in their field.

An effort would be made to have two to five available to cover emergency situations around the county.

Norlin reported that quite a number of graduate paramed-ics at Ridgewater and Hutchin-son do not land jobs but are

eager to put their skills to work to gain experience.

Dr. Ho, a physician on the staff of the Hennepin Medical Center, said the program would be the first of its kind in the state and could be a model for other similar programs.

“It may not work,” he said, “but if it does it would be a win-win situation both for the county and those volunteering.”

ATV PARK MOVES FORWARD

The long-discussed plan to develop an ATV park in Ells-worth Township near Lake Erie has gained new impetus as the organizing group has received state and federal grant money which enables park de-velopment to go ahead.

To clear the way for the grants, it was necessary for the ATV group to lease its 40 acre tract to the county and that action was approved by com-missioners Tuesday.

County Board appoints new veterans service officer

The Clearwater River Wa-tershed District is propos-ing to restore the Kingston Wetland, a 479-acre wetland located west of Minnesota Highway 15 between Kimball and Kingston.

A 2008 study indicated im-pairments in the downstream water bodies due to low dis-solved oxygen. The proposed project aims to improve water quality in the Clearwater Riv-er and downstream lakes, ac-cording to the Meeker County Soil and Water Conservation District.

Pending environmental re-view and permitting approval, construction is anticipated to begin this winter.

An environmental assess-ment worksheet of the pro-posed Kingston wetland res-toration project has been pre-pared by the Meeker County Soil and Water Conservation District, which lists potential

impacts from the proposed project related to water re-sources, wetlands, wildlife and construction activities.

The worksheet is available for public review and com-ment, and is available in the Soil and Water Conservation section of the Meeker Coun-ty website, www.co.meeker.mn.us, or at the Litchfield Pubic Library.

Meeker County SWCD will accept written comment on the worksheet until 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28. Com-ments should be submitted to Joe Norman, district techni-cian at Meeker County SWCD, at 916 E. St. Paul St., Litch-field. Email comments may be sent to [email protected] with “Kings-ton Wetland EAW” in the subject line. Respondents are asked to include their name and mailing address with comments.

District proposes restoring the Kingston Wetland

A fire damaged a house at 52252 343rd St. in Union Grove Township around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Meeker County Sheriff’s Of-fice.

A caller reported seeing flames and large amounts of smoke coming from the west side of the residence. When deputies arrived, the west side of the house was on fire and the fire was spreading up the exterior wall into the upstairs and attic.

The Grove City Fire De-partment, Eden Valley Fire Department and Paynesville Fire Department put out the fire. The cause of the fire is undetermined at this point.

The house is owned by Janet Smiglewski of Grove City, and is considered a total loss. No

one was inside the residence at the time of the fire.

The fire is under investiga-

tion by the Meeker County Sheriff’s Office and the State Fire Marshal’s Office.

Blaze burns through Union Grove Township house


Firefi ghters put out the blaze at a house in Union Grove Township on Wednesday, which burned through the exterior wall on the west side of the house.

LOCAL BRIEFS

City to negotiate new Civic Arena agreement

The Litchfield City Council voted Monday night to negoti-ate a new agreement for al-lowing the Litchfield School District to use the city-owned Civic Arena during the 2012-13 school year.

The new agreement, which the City Council referred to the city’s Finance Committee for deliberation, would allow the School District to continue us-ing the arena for hockey prac-tices and games, along with physical education classes.

Last year, the School District paid the city $47,000 to use the

arena. The agreement also included a $5,254 payment for heating, ventilation and air conditioning improvements.

Hutchinson woman injured in collision

The vehicles driven by a 53-year-old Dassel man and a 26-year-old Hutchinson woman collided around 7 p.m. Nov. 1 at the intersection of U.S. Highway 12 and Minnesota Highway 15 in Dassel, according to the Meeker County Sheriff’s Office.

Gregory Kieffer, 53, of Das-sel, driving a 2000 Chevrolet Venture van, collided with a 2011 Mazda CX-7 SUV driven by Katie Hoeschen, 26, of Hutchin-son. Hoeschen was transported

by Gold Cross Ambulance to the Hutchinson Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The Meeker County Sheriff’s Office, Dassel Rescue and the Minnesota State Patrol also responded to the scene.

Deputies’ training exercise catches fire

Litchfield firefighters ex-tinguished a small grass fire Oct. 30 that started during a training exercise involving two Meeker County Sheriff’s depu-ties at the Litchfield Police Gun Range on 615th Avenue.

The deputies were practicing with a 37mm launcher, which fires tear gas and other non-lethal projectiles, when a gas

round landed on a berm used as the range’s backstop. Heat from the round caused the fire, according to Chief Deputy Brad Lindgren.

The deputies attempted to put out the blaze with an ex-tinguisher, but the Litchfield Fire Department was called after the fire kept burning, Lindgren said.

Lindgren described the epi-sode as embarrassing. “We’re catching a lot of f lak for it already,” he said Wednesday.

Severe dry weather left many parts of Meeker County vulnerable to wildfires ear-lier this month, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. But, in recent days, rainfall and higher humidity have helped to reduce

the fire danger, according to the DNR’s website.

Writer’s Group members to read from new book

Members of the Litchfield Area Writer’s Group will read selections from their new book, “In Other Words,” at 2 p.m. Sun-day, Nov. 18 at Cricket Meadow Tea in Litchfield. Coffee and cookies will be served. Every-one is welcome. Copies of the book will be available for sale.

Kingston to hold dissolution election

The city of Kingston will hold a special election March 12 to determine whether to dissolve its boundaries and join the surrounding township.

Minnesota Administra-tive Law Judge James La-fave issued the order Oct. 17, about three weeks after he organized a hearing in Kingston to consider a peti-tion signed by 32 residents asking for a referendum on the dissolution question.

To proceed with a spe-cial election, the petitioned needed to be signed by one-third of qualified vot-ers, according to Lafave. In this case, 49 percent of qualified voters from the 2010 election signed the petition.


opinionFIRST AMENDMENT

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom

of speech, or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

“We’ve been blessed” announces the headline on the cover of “Agriculture,” a 44-page supplement being mailed to area farm families this week.

The headline alludes to what farmers have been saying about the superb growing conditions and bumper crops they’ve enjoyed this year.

While much of the nation — including a large portion of Minnesota — was contending with a severe drought, McLeod and Meeker counties had a terrific 2012 growing season. “We probably got the best crops in the entire country, right in this area,” said Randy Kath of Steffes Auctioneers in Litchfield.

No doubt, the drought has touched our region as well, and ample moisture is needed to recharge the soil. It also resulted in high crop prices, which are causing problems for some area livestock producers.

But compared to the misery experienced by growers elsewhere in the Midwest and across the U.S., local farmers have it pretty good.

Agriculture is vital to our region. Anyone with doubts needs only to drive by one of the grain elevators in our region during harvest.

Of McLeod and Meeker counties’ 36,600 jobs, almost 2,700 are on the farm. Many more jobs in our cities are ag-related.

Agriculture is big business here. In 2010, the most recent year for which agriculture statistics are available, the total value of farm products sold in the two counties exceeded $329 million. In McLeod County alone, $79 million was generated by the sale of crops, while $47 million was derived from the sale of livestock and poultry and their products such as milk and eggs. In Meeker County, $82 million was generated by the sale of crops, while $121 million was derived from the sale of livestock and poultry and their products.

Who’s responsible for all those products? The 2007 agriculture census, a summary produced every five years by the the U.S. Department of Agriculture, tells us a great deal about the people who farm.

In McLeod County, farming was the primary occupation of 55 percent of farm owners. In Meeker County, though farm sizes tended to be a bit larger, farming was the primary occupation of just 42 percent of farm owners. The average age of farmers in both counties was 54.

It’s also worth noting that

women tend to be more involved in farming in Meeker County, where 10 percent of farms are principally owned by women. In McLeod County, 7.7 percent of farms are owned by women.

The statistics show that while farming might be changing, it remains one of our region’s lifebloods, just as the manufacturing and service sectors are. When agriculture does well here, everyone benefits. And when it goes in the tank, we all feel that, too.

Anyone who has ever tried a hand at farming knows it’s not easy work. It’s long hours, physically demanding, and requires many of the same skills used by agronomists, mechanics and accountants.

Only one in 90 Americans are employed in farming, yet their jobs are more important than ever. In the U.S. of the 1930s, one farmer fed only himself and three other eaters. The same farmer now feeds well more than 100 people.

One of the more interesting recent trends suggest smaller farms might be making a comeback. Farm sizes actually shrank between 2002 and 2007, according agriculture censuses from those two years. In McLeod County, the average size went from an average of 266 acres to 239. In Meeker County, it went from 298 acres to 281.

And there were more farms. “These new farms,” the USDA reported, “tended to have more diversified production, fewer acres, lower sales and younger operators who also worked off the farm.”

Those findings suggest that the love for farm life has not gone out of style, as had been feared.

The latest agriculture census might provide even more surprises. Stay tuned.

OUR VIEW

‘We’ve been blessed’2012 has been a good year for local farmers. A lot of it had to do with the weather, though socioeconomic trends are also shaping the way our region’s farms operate.

“Agriculture,” a special publication of the Hutchinson Leader and Litchfi eld Independent Review, is being mailed to area farm families this week.

I suppose you could call it a little suburb of Litchfield.

It’s quiet and deserted now, but when warm weather comes again, the city-owned campground on the east shore of Lake Ripley will be alive with activity as each of the 32 campsites are occupied through much of the camping season.

City Administrator Bruce Miller reports that the campground, where fees are $15 and $17 per night, nets the city about $40,000 per season, of which between $10,000 and $15,000 is profit.

I was not able to determine just how and when the city acquired the campground property.

What is known is that it was the work of Bob Hendrickson, an energetic, progressive street commissioner in the 1970s, that was the key to the development of the facility as it is today.

Hendrickson, an avid camper himself, who lives now in retirement near Kingston, spurred the effort to bring water, sewer and electricity to the site, planted the hedgerow that skirts the east side and directed hard surfacing of the camp ground area.

Gene and Barb Bahr have served as campground hosts for the past eight years and live on site during the camping season.

The Bahrs collect the fees, keep the grounds presentable, see that the campground rules (there are 23) are kept and generally keep the place running in an orderly way.

Disputes and problems out there are few, Gene reports, and when they do crop up, he finds his experience in working with people gained during many years as a Litchfield police officer particularly relevant.

Gene reports that a lady camper came up to him this summer highly incensed about the dogs who were “leaving their droppings all over.”

It wasn’t dogs, Gene related, but geese and they have posed an ongoing problem for which no solution has been found.

“They seem to move along out when the campground is full but when the census falls off early in the week they come right back in,” Gene notes.

Camp rules are strict about dogs. They must be on short enough leashes so that they cannot wander out into the trails where runners, walkers and bikers pass.

Campers are restricted in size to

Campground thrives as its own community

35 feet so that none protrudes into the area.

The campground is somewhat unusual, Gene says, in that no reservations are accepted.

It’s strictly on a first come, first served basis, he says, which he feels is the fairest way. Occasionally there is a little traffic backup at the gate but generally the format works well, Gene says.

Most of the campers he notes come from within a 60-mile-or-so radius of Litchfield and many are former residents of here or have some other ties to the community. There is usually, Gene says, a nice blend of retirees and families with young children, and they seem to blend well.

The runners bikers and walkers who pass through the community develop a sense of camaraderie with the campers and warm greetings are the custom.

The campers do contribute to our economy, Gene notes. They buy groceries and gas, patronize our liquor store and often eat out.

Of his summer job, which he and his wife handle so efficiently, Gene says, “it’s a very pleasant job giving me a chance to work with some very pleasant people.”

THE BEST OF FAMILY LIFE

We were up north a couple of weeks ago visiting with my daughter and family which included two daughters, a fourth grader and a sixth grader.

They are, if you will allow for a bit of grandparental prince gems — girls that are cute, bright and active as demon competitive swimmers and full of life in general.

On this day, though, they were sitting close on a couch, hitting, pinching, yes, even threatening to bite each other over some agreement lost on me.

As I watched them squabble, my mind drifted back to the days when we had little kids in our family including two boys who were very close in age.

My thoughts, somewhat self-right-eously, were that my boys never engaged in such goings on.

How wrong I was came to light a week or so later when I was deep in the files here compiling the Back Then News.

I came across a “Lookin’ Around Litch” column I had written back in 1968 and here’s the way it went:

“Occasionally when out with neighbors or friends with our two boys, who are very close in age, we’ve encountered well meaning people who will say something like, ‘Isn’t it nice that those two boys are so close in age that they can play nice together?’

“Now either our two boys are diametrically opposed in temperament to the kids these people are familiar with, or they have never had kids or have forgotten what it’s like to have small fry around the house.

“Individually I think our two boys are lovable little tykes. Together they often turn to a pair of gouging, kicking biting pair of banhees who would challenge the entire peace keeping staff of the United Nations.

“Youngsters in that age bracket invariably want the same pillow, the same chair, the same toy. If there are two of these items, one will want them both.

“This Easter I bought as a surprise for them five little cars. You guessed it, one wanted all of them.

“Sometimes when I’m home alone with them I simply give up and let them squabble. They are after all about the same size.”

They, of course, like most once combative siblings have grown to be compatible brothers and good citizens, one with a degree from Carleton and the other a Northwestern graduate.

What this scenario pointed up for me is how completely we forget the trials and joys of the years we have little people around the house.

Despite the incidents of bickering you’d like to forget those years, I think they are the best of family life and it is distressing to see how quickly they pass. I hope present day parents with small children realize how precious these growing up years are.

Stan

ROESERLOOKIN’ AROUND LITCH

BY PATRICK J. MICHAELS

CATO INSTITUTE

Hurricane Sandy — which was, technically, not a hurricane by the time it buzzed into the Jersey Shore — was a terribly destructive cyclone. But blaming it on global warming, as did Al Gore, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, and NYC’s Mayor Bloomberg, is scientifically ludicrous.

One has to be amazed at how little fact-checking the global warming alarmists do. I guess they don’t want the latest storm crisis to go to waste, but they don’t help their cause by misstating the obvious.

There’s a pretty sizable scientific literature out there on hurricanes and global warming. From the “modeling” end, probably the most cited paper is a 2004 study by Tom Knutson from the government’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton. Although he’s tweaked it a bit since then, the result remains the same. There should be a slight increase (8 per cent) in hurricane power by the

end of this century. But the inter-annual variability of these storms is so great that this signal will not emerge from the noise until around 2080.

From the “real world” point of view, I published a bunch of papers in response to Tom’s work in which we found, using his assumptions about the amount of oceanic warming, that there would be a similar — again 8 percent — increase in the number of big (Category 3 or higher) storms in the same time frame. When we adjusted for the pokey rate of oceanic warming being observed, that figure dropped by half.

Chunzai Wang of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has performed a very interesting data-based analysis of Atlantic hurricane tracks showing that increasing the area of warm water results in a significant lowering of the likelihood that a storm will strike the U.S., something that should happen with continued oceanic warming. The reason is because storms form further out to sea, and

there are more chances for a kink in the mid-atmospheric winds to direct them to the north.

One has to be amazed at how little fact-checking the global warming alarmists do.

A recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) purports to show an increase in hurricane-related storm surges that conveniently begins in 1923, which was during a decade-long lull in hurricane activity. Starting something at a low point pretty much insures a trend in any randomly distributed variable. This problem was noted by the above-mentioned Tom Knutson.

But the real killer to the hurricane-global warming hype comes from Dr. Ryan Maue (pronounced like the island) of Weatherbell Analytics. Using satellite data that gives global coverage beginning in 1972, Maue has calculated what is called the “Accumulated Cyclone Energy” (ACE) index. This is a mathematical integration of storm wind speed

and longevity. There obviously is no change in hurricane energy that at all relates to warming, and it is currently near its lowest levels on record.

I trotted this out once in a discussion with Nick Kristof on CNN’s Piers Morgan show on Nov. 1. CNN, of course, cannot let go of the meme that Sandy (which was not a hurricane at landfall) was amped by global warming, so Kristof’s substantive response was to accuse me of not publishing any scientific papers since 1992. (I emailed him the 8-page single spaced list beginning in 1992, presuming he will set the record straight with CNN—and also rag on whomever gave him that little bit of libel.). Morgan’s producer also had copies of the papers dealing specifically with oceanic temperatures, climate change and hurricane intensity.

What is really modulating Atlantic hurricanes is the distribution of temperature in the Atlantic. It was in an unfavorable mode in the 70s and 80s, which reversed in the mid-90s,

concurrent with the start of a ten-year very active period. Since the big storm outbreak in 2005, the Atlantic hasn’t been unusually energetic since then. In fact, we are now enjoying the longest interval in the modern record (seven years and counting) without a major (Category 3) hurricane strike in the U.S.

The bottom line is that, everything else being equal, warmer oceans should produce stronger or more frequent storms. But the change has clearly been so small that there is simply no detectable signal — and is likely to remain so for a long time. Further, everything else is almost never equal. It would have been nice if Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Cuomo had done a bit of fact-checking before stirring the global warming pot. As for Gore, the lack of any increase in hurricane energy related to global warming is just an inconvenient truth.

Patrick J. Michaels is Director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute.

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DISTRICT 1 Beth Jim Precincts Oberg Swenson (i)Darwin 105 54Darwin Township 224 148 Litch. Ward 2 325 292Ward 3 287 269Ward 4 306 320

TOTAL 1,247 1,083

DISTRICT 2 Dale David Precincts Fenrich Gabrielson (i)Forest City Township 199 152Harvey Township 114 75Litchfi eld Township 240 267Litch. Ward 1 289 334Ward 5 227 241

TOTAL 1,069 1,069

DISTRICT 3 Tim Bryan Precincts Benoit (i) LarsonActon Township 39 159Cedar Mills 17 7Cedar Mills Township 114 114Collinwood Township 389 212Cosmos 81 134Cosmos Township 54 56Danielson Township 60 106Ellsworth Township 271 245Greenleaf Township 120 297

TOTAL 1,145 1,330

DISTRICT 4 Wally Mike Precincts Strand (i) HousmanDassel 264 445Dassel Township 300 565Kingston 32 60Kingston Township 292 412

TOTAL 888 1,482

DISTRICT 5 Mike Precincts Huberty Write-inGrove City 190 31Eden Valley 209 2Forest Prairie Township 413 6Manannah Township 214 2Swede Grove Township 78 50Union Grove Township 211 49Watkins 329 9

TOTAL 1,644 149

Meeker County Board results

Many voters cast ballots in the election because of a number of important issues on a national level, including the economy, healthcare, foreign policy and energy.

Litchfield resident Heather Silbernagel voted because she wants to see change at a national level.

“I just don’t like how it’s been the same. Four years have gone by, and it’s the same empty prom-ises,” Silbernagel said.

The presidential election was the most important reason Litchfield resident Dena Carlson voted Tuesday. Carlson said she was concerned about how having a new president in of-fice could affect programs from social services.

“Meeker County has been hit hard with its cuts and we’re trying to serve more with less and less money,” Carlson said. “Our town has a lot of seniors. Our town has a lot of kids. They are in need of some of those programs.”

The economy was another driving force behind many vot-er’s decisions this election. Li-tchfield resident Jim Musberger said the economy was the main issue he looked at before voting.

“The economy has got to be at the top of the list,” Musberger said. “That’s what I looked at mainly. I think it’s improving gradually, slowly.”

Musberger also focused on the Voter ID amendment, and said he thinks the issue is “all political.”

Voting against the Voter ID amendment also was an impor-tant issue for Litchfield resident Nadine Twardy.

“I have some family members in the military and I think that would create a hardship for them,” Twardy said.

The marriage amendment also ruffled up a lot of contro-versy in the months before the election. Voting no on the both the marriage and Voter ID amendment was important to Litchfield resident Roxanne Erickson.

“I’m voting no twice. I think you have enough proof with the stuff they go through to get to the ballot, and I don’t think anybody should be told who they can love and who they can marry,” Erickson said.

Whether voting for candi-dates in the local races, the presidential election or to cast a voice on the two amendments, many Meeker County residents followed their civic duty as an American to vote.

“I guess I just feel like it’s my duty to participate in the choice we’re given,” said Litchfield resident Marian Johnson.

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fiscal conservative, Housman said one of his tasks will be to ensure the county is properly spending taxpayer money.

He said he would to work to determine whether the county is spending too much money on certain services. During the election, several candidates criticized state government for requiring counties to provide certain services but then fail-ing to fund them.

One of Housman’s tasks, he said, is to determine how state mandates affect the county’s ability to curtail spending. He said he couldn’t immedi-ately say which services should be subjected to cuts. “I have hunches, but I couldn’t sit here and make a prediction of what that list would look like,” Hous-man said.

While Housman and Fenrich both expressed satisfaction with Tuesday’s turnover on the County Board, Bryan Larson, who defeated Benoit, described it as a “little scary.”

“It seems really crazy that there would be five new ones,” Larson said Wednesday morn-ing during a moment when Fenrich held a slight lead over Gabrielson.

Larson said he sensed from voters that they wanted change, though no single issue seemed to drive the voters’ desire to remove incumbents. “I heard a lot of people say we need new blood in there,” Larson said.

According to Gabrielson, the Tea Party is to blame for his tight race. “This election is a bunch of right-wing Tea Party members,” he said.

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Mary Anne Baker, 64

Oct. 30, 2012Mary Anne Baker, 64, of Li-

tchfield died Tuesday, Oct. 30, at Ecumen of Litchfield. Mass of Chris-t ia n Bu ria l was 10:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 2, at the Church of St. Philip in Litchfield. Visitation was 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, at the church with a parish prayer service at 8 p.m. Visitation was continued one hour prior to the service at the church. Interment was in the Calvary Catholic Cemetery.

Mary Anne Baker, the daughter of Ansel and Marga-ret (Skilling) Sogge, was born on July 6, 1948, in Windom. At an early age her family moved to the Grove City area where she attended country school. They moved to Sauk Centre and she graduated from Sauk

Centre High School in 1966. On Feb. 4, 1967, she was united in marriage to Larry Baker in West Union. They made their home in Litchfield. Mary Anne worked for a short time doing office work for Jennie-O. In 1968 she began working for the Independent Review where she worked until retir-ing in 2004. Mary Anne was a very active member of the Church of St. Philip, CCW and was awarded the Bishop’s Medal for Social Concerns. She enjoyed volunteering at the Place of Hope shelter for the homeless. She was also a member of the Jaycee Women. Mary Anne always looked forward to her mission trips to Guatemala to serve others through her church. She enjoyed craft work and painting. Her main love in life was her family and she really enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren and great grandchildren.

She is survived by her hus-band, Larry of Litchfield; daughter, Cindy (Lonnie) Kohls of Hutchinson; five

g r a ndch i ld r en , A m a nd a Smith (Taylor Fenrich), Ja-cob Smith (Mercedes Karg), Brandon Kohls, Josh Isaacson and Skyler Baker; four great grandchildren, Alex Ruzicka, Aiden Hudson, Jayden Fenrich and Zeke Smith. She is also survived by her father, Ansel “Jerry” Sogge of Sartell and formerly of Sauk Centre; broth-ers, James (Kathleen) Sogge of Paynesville, David Sogge (Beth Nelson) of Blaine, Pat-rick (Joanne) Sogge of Savage, John (Bobbi Jo) Sogge of Prior Lake; sisters, Reverend Carol (Geary) Smith of Sauk Rapids, Kathryn (Dale) Struffert of Sartell, Janet (John) Tracy of Ramsey; daughter-in-law, Lori Baker; friend for life, Darlene Lambert; many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Margaret “Anne” Sogge; and son, Jef-frey Baker.

Arrangements by Johnson Hagglund Funeral Home in Litchfield. Please sign our online guest book at www.johnsonhagglund.com.

Henry “Hank” Rasmussen, 95

Oct. 28, 2012Henry ‘Hank’ B. Rasmus-

sen, 95, of Li-tchfield, died Sunday, Oct. 2 8 , a t E m -manuel Home in Litchfield. Funeral ser-v i c e s w a s 11 a.m. Mon-day, Nov. 5, at the Zion Lutheran Church in Litchfield. Visitation was 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4, at John-son-Hagglund Funeral Home in Litchfield, and continued one hour prior to the service at the church. Interment was in Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Grove City, with Military honors provided by Litchfield Military Guard. Following the service at the cemetery, family and friends were invited to the church for a time of fellowship and lunch. The family thanks you for your friendship and support.

Henry Burton Rasmussen, son of Jens and Helga Rasmus-sen, was born on Oct. 11, 1917 in Eagle Grove, Iowa. He moved with his parents to Odin, in 1920. He received his education

in District 33 country school. After school he began farming with his father.

Henry was drafted into WWII in May of 1942. Henry served in U.S. Army Co. E. 532nd EBSR as a foreman in the engineering unit. He served in Australia, the Phil-ippines, New Guinea and Ko-rea. He was discharged from service on Nov. 26, 1945. Many of the friends he made during his service years became his close friends. He especially enjoyed going to his annual Army reunion.

During his service years his parents bought a farm between Atwater and Grove City. When Henry returned home he again farmed with his father. On Sept. 14, 1952, Henry was united in marriage to Marion Okland at the West Lake Lutheran Church with K.A. Bodin officiating. They lived in Willmar until 1955, and then moved to an apart-ment north of Atwater until they could move into their farm that was northeast of Grove City. Hank and Marion farmed from 1956 to 1979. Dur-ing this time they were blessed with four children; Ron, Caro-lyn, Janice and Bonnie. As his parents grew older he moved a house onto the farm so that

they could live close by. Henry was a kind and patient son, brother, husband and father.

He retired in 1979 due to a farm accident. After retire-ment, he helped other farmers with field work. In 1991, Henry and Marion moved to a house in Grove City. He was a mem-ber of the VFW in Grove City until it disbanded.

He is survived by his wife, Marion; son, Ron (Karen) of Kingston; daughters, Carolyn (Brent) Griswold of Manches-ter, Conn., Janice Rasmussen of Litchfield and Bonita (Tom) Leaf of rural Grove City. He is also survived by five grand-children, Rory Rasmussen, Kara (Cody) Johnson, Sybil and Caleb Rasmussen and Carl Henry Leaf. Henry was very happy to welcome to the family this past year two great-granddaughters, Franquee Hill and Ellis Johnson.

Henry was preceded in death by his parents; his broth-er, Harley Rasmussen; and sister-in-law, Marie Rasmus-sen; his nephew, Tom Rasmus-sen; and great-granddaughter, Kelly Jean Rasmussen.

Arrangements by Johnson Hagglund Funeral Home in Litchfield. Please sign our on-line guest book at www.johnsonhagglund.com.

D. Richard Nelson, 82

Oct. 25, 2012D. Richard (Dick) Nelson,

82, died in his sleep Thursday, Oct. 25, with his loving wife, Kathy, at his side, losing his battle with cancer.

Memorial service celebrat-ing Dick’s life was Tuesday, Oct. 30, at Norwood Christian Church in Norwood, Colo. The

family request that memorials be made to Hospice and Pallia-tive Care of Western Colorado, 645 5th St. Montrose, CO 81401.

Dick was born in Litchfield to Lloyd and Inez Nelson on May 30, 1930, and graduated from Litchfield High School in 1948. He moved to Denver, Colo., in 1971 and on to Nor-wood, Colo., in 1990 so he could be closer to the outdoors for better hunting, fishing and golfing.

Dick is survived by his wife, Kathy of Norwood, Colo.; five children, Mike of Edina, Meredith of Aurora, Colo., Tim of Westminster, Calif., Doriann Calvil lo of Nor-wood, Colo., and Tim Nelson of Houston, Texas; as well as 10 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; brothers, Har-lan of Fergus Falls and Stan of Green Valley, Ariz.; in addi-tion to many nieces, nephews and cousins.

Vernon Mundt, 76Oct. 29, 2012Vernon Julius Mundt, 76, of

Albuquerque, N.M., died Mon-day, Oct. 29.

Services were 8:30 a.m. Mon-day, Nov. 5, at Annunciation Parish in Albuqerque, N.M. Interment was 2:15 p.m. Tues-day, Nov. 6, at Santa Fe National Cemetery.

Vernon was born March 12, 1936, near Litchfield. He grew up working on a farm where he participated in 4H events. Later he became involved in tractor pulling competitions. However, his main passion was flying. He purchased an airplane and loved giving friends and fam-ily rides.

Vern joined the army where he was stationed in Germany as a surveyor. The love of flying guided Vern to enter helicopter

flight school. Vern later met Dianne Pesina at a dance and after a long distance courtship, they were wed on Sept. 18, 1965 in Silver Lake. In 1967 Vern was stationed at White Sands Mis-sile Range near Alamogordo where his main job was missile retrieval.

After five years, Vern re-tired and moved to Albuquer-que, N.M., working as a civilian pilot. During this time Vern flew for the police department, local television stations and several private companies. He participated in filming for movies, and flew many famous people around New Mexico. His favorite was helping with the 1987 Miss USA pageant. Vern also spent many summers in the Black Hills, S.D., where he fought forest fires and reseeded damaged areas.

In 1983, he joined the Army

National Guard Unit in Santa Fe. He participated in Opera-tion Desert Storm and retired with the rank of CW4.

In the last several years, Vern volunteered at the VA hospital. He was also a member of the American Legion Honor Guard and assisted at numer-ous funerals playing Taps on the bugle. He greatly enjoyed being around his grandchil-dren and liked to spoil them just a bit.

Vernon is survived by his sister, Linda of Litchfield; sons, Craig (Tina Drennan) of Ed-monds, Wash., Troy (Christine) of North Liberty, Iowa; and two grandchildren, Tyler and Rachel.

He was preceded in death by his parents and wife.

Vernon was very proud of serving his country and will be missed by all who knew him.

Hardy Silverberg, 90

Oct. 26, 2012Hardy D. Silverberg, 90, of Li-

tchfield, died Friday, Oct. 2 6 , at Ecu-men Emman-u e l H o m e . A memorial service will be 3 p.m. Sat-urday, Nov. 10, at Trinity Episcopal Church in Litchfield with visitation one hour prior to the service. Interment will be in Lake Ripley Cemetery. Military Honors will be pro-vided by the Litchfield Military Honor Guard.

Hardy Desmond Siverberg, born July 15, 1922, to Clarence and Alina (Carlson) Silverberg in Litchfield. He was married to

Lavon Maye Andersen of Ruth-ton on April 18, 1948 in Trinity Episcopal Church in Litchfield. He graduated from Litchfield in 1941. He then served two and half years in the Air Force as a radio operator in a B-29 Bomber in the Pacific area. He was sta-tioned on Saipan and flew on 31 bombing missions. He was discharged from the military Sept. 25, 1945. He then attended the University of Minnesota for two and half years, after which he returned to Litchfield to manage his father’s grocery store, Fairway Foods. In 1957, he became Assistant City Clerk and in September of 1961 he was appointed Clerk of District Court of Meeker County and served until his retirement in 1981. He became a resident of Emmanuel Nursing Home in 2006. His favorite pastimes were fishing, shaking dice and playing cards with friends,

walking his dog and spend-ing time with family. He was a lifetime member of Trinity Episcopal Church in Litchfield

He is survived by his wife, Lavon of Litchfield; sons, David (and Debbie) Silverberg of Iowa, Dan Silverberg of Arizona, Jon (and Penny) Silverberg of Li-tchfield; grandchildren, Amy, Brad and Katie of Litchfield, and Jonah Silverberg of Iowa; niece, Sherri (and Mike) Cook of New Brighton and nephew, Mike (and Pam) Silverberg of Colorado.

He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Paul (and Lois) Silverberg of Colorado, Nathan ‘Dale’ of Minneapolis; and niece, Ann Silverberg of Colorado.

Arrangements with the Johnson Hagglund Funeral Home in Litchfield. Please sign our online guest book at www.johnsonhagglund.com.

Blanche Harris, 79Oct. 27, 2012Blanche B. Harris, 79, of

L i t c h f i e l d , died Satur-day, Oct. 27, at the Meek-er Memorial Hospital in L i t c h f i e l d . A memorial service will b e 1 p . m . Saturday, Nov. 10, at the Au-gustana Memorial Chapel in Litchfield.

Blanche Beatrice Harris, daughter of John and Vio-let (Thompson) Boquist, was born on Dec. 6, 1932 in Todd County. She was the second of eight children, and began working outside the home to help support the family at age 10, sometimes working up to three jobs at a time. After

moving to Litchfield in 1945, she attended Litchfield High School. In 1948, Blanche began working at Harding Cleaners in Litchfield, she worked in dry cleaning for 42 years. She was married to Dale Harris in Litchfield on July 29, 1950. Throughout her life Blanche lived in Todd County, Litch-field, Darwin, and Minneapo-lis, before moving to Tuscon, Ariz., in 1978. In 1990, she returned to Litchfield, where she worked as a caregiver. She lived at Lincoln Apart-ments for 11 years and moved to Gloria Dei in February. She was both a Girl and Boy Scout leader and active in the Lu-theran Church ladies circles. Blanche loved to cook and col-lect recipes, she also enjoyed ceramics. She always placed others before herself, and would sacrifice her own health for others. Blanche always had

kind words for everyone and only once did she express her anger about another person.

Blanche is survived by her daughter, Brenda Harris (and Chris Docktor) of Carver; son, Lee Harris of Minne-apolis; granddaughter, Lisa (and Lance) Pierce of Mayer; great-grandson, Alex Pierce of Mayer; sister, Connie (and Don) Lies of Litchfield,; sis-ter-in-law, Audry Harris of Darwin and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Dale; a daugh-ter, Denise; parents, John and Violet; siblings, Bernice, John, Caroline, Bernard, Herbert and Cecilia and nieces and nephews.

Arrangements by Johnson Hagglund Funeral Home in Litchfield. Please sign our on-line guest book at www.johnsonhagglund.com.

Robert McCarney, 91

Nov. 5, 2012Robert E. McCarney, 91,

d i e d M o n -day, Nov. 5, a t M e e k e r County Me-morial Hos-pital in Litch-f ield. Mass of Christian Burial wi l l be 10:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 9, at Church of Our Lady in Manannah. Mes-senger Francis Garvey will officiate and burial will be in the parish cemetery. Friends and family may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today (Thursday, Nov. 8) at Church of Our Lady in Manannah and one hour prior to the services Friday, Nov. 9 at the church. Eden Valley Amer-ican Legion Post 381 will pray

at 6:30 p.m., followed by parish prayers at 7 p.m., and Knights of Columbus Bishop P.J. Casey Council 2029 of Litchfield at 8 p.m., today, (Thursday, Nov. 8), at the church in Manannah.

Robert was born June 14, 1921, in Litchfield to James “Len” and Mary (Hollihan) McCarney. He served his coun-try in the U.S. Army during WW II. Robert married Rose-lyn Severson on Feb. 10, 1945, in St. Cloud. He was a farmer and lived in the Litchfield area all of his life. Robert was a member of Church of Our Lady in Manannah, Knights of Columbus Bishop P.J. Casey Council 2029 of Litchfield, Eden Valley American Le-gion Post 381, and the Last Mans Club. He enjoyed play-ing cards, traveling, bowl-ing, dancing, and visiting about the old days. Robert had a strong sense of faith and taught life lessons to his

children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Family was the most important thing to him.

Survivors include his wife of 67 years, Roselyn of Litch-field; daughters and sons, Marlys (Richard) Olson of Mahtomedi, Thomas of South Range, Wis., Rosemarie of St. Paul, Janine (Harold) Sheper-sky of Eden Valley and Eugene of Litchfield; brother and sister, Jerome (Margaret) of Litchfield and Geraldine (Rol-lie) Lounsbury of St. Maries, Idaho; 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Robert was preceded in death by his parents; and son, Emmett.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Williams Ding-mann Family Funeral Home, Eden Valley. Obituary, video tribute and guest book avail-able online at www.williams-dingmann.com.

Jerome “Jerry” Christians, 66

Nov. 3, 2012Jerome “Jer r y” Dua ne

Christians, 66, of Litchfield, died Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012, at the Hutchinson Community Hospital in Hutchinson. A pri-vate family service will be held at a later date.

Jerome “Jer r y” Dua ne Christians was born on Nov. 9, 1945, in Tyler. He was the son of Martin and Geneva (Stowe) Christians. Jerry grew up in Balaton and graduated in 1963. He then enlisted in the US Navy and served from 1963 to 1966.

On July 24, 1967, Jerry mar-

ried Doris Evans from Rus-sell. They made their home in Circle Pines until 1976, when they moved to Litchfield.

Jerry worked highway con-struction until his retirement in 2003. He enjoyed the Minne-sota Vikings football, Nascar racing, working outside on his farm and spending time with his grandchildren.

Jerry passed away on Sat-urday, Nov. 3, 2012, at the Hutchinson Community Hos-pital in Hutchinson, at the age of 66 years.

Blessed be his memory.Jerry is survived by his

wife, Doris Christians of Li-tchfield; children, Clint Chris-tians and his wife, Shelly of Watkins, Laura Redepenning

of Olathe, Kan., Brent Chris-tians of Litchfield; four grand-children, Kendra and Luke Christians and Jacob and Adam Redepenning; broth-ers, Marv Christians and his wife, Mary of Old Town, Fla., Clair Christians and his wife, Peggy of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.

Jerry was preceded in death by his parents, Martin and Geneva Christians; brothers, Harlan Christians and Calvin Christians.

A r r a n g e m e nt s by t h e Dobratz-Hantge Chapel in Hutchinson. Online obituar-ies and guest book available at www.hantge.com. Please click on Obituaries/Guest Book.

Seat belt use in southwest Minnesota is up 1.4 percent, according to a Minnesota De-partment of Transportation.

A survey completed as part of a multi-agency effort, called Toward Zero Deaths on our roadways, shows a regional rate of seat belt usage at 82.5 percent in September 2012. In 2011, the survey reported 81.1 percent.

The southwest Minnesota Toward Zero Deaths program was established in 2007. The goal is to reduce fatal and serious injuries on roadways using education, enforce-ment, engineering and emer-gency services. Seat belt use is the single most important pre-crash factor in reducing

injury severity.“Most of us are aware that

rural highways have a higher fatality rate than metro areas,” program coordinator Amy Roggenbuck stated, “and if you are involved in a crash you have a 45 percent greater chance of survival with a seat belt on.”

The counties involved in the program include: Big Stone, Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, McLeod, Meeker, Murray, Pipestone, Redwood, Renville, Swift and Yellow Medicine. The observa-tional surveys were conducted the week of Sept. 17-23 at 36 ran-domly selected sites. County Highway Departments and the State Patrol helped in conduct-

ing the surveys.The regional seat belt sur-

veys are unrelated to the Min-nesota Department of Public Safety annual statewide sur-vey results announced re-cently and cannot be compared to the statewide results.

Statewide belt use is a re-cord high 93.6 percent, accord-ing to Department of Public Safety. The statewide survey provides a comprehensive gauge of belt use by measur-ing counties where 85 percent of the state’s road deaths oc-curred on average during the past three years, while the re-gional surveys have a smaller sample size and aim to provide an additional snapshot of belt use to measure local progress.

Seatbelt usage increases in region


SportsTHIS DAY IN SPORTS HISTORY

Litchfi eld’s Lois Nelson recorded an all-time high score for a local women’s bowler in a tournament at Alexandria. Nelson, who carried

a 160 average, rolled 11 consecutive strikes for a 290 game. — Nov. 12, 1992

Carlson cornerWeek 9: John Carlson was inactive for the Minnesota Vikings’ 30-20 loss Sunday to the Seattle Seahawks. Carlson sustained a concussion in the team’s Week 7 win over Arizona and has missed the last two games.Statistics: Carlson has been targeted six times in seven games, catching three passes for eight yards.Up next: The Vikings (5-4) play host to the Detroit Lions (4-4) at noon Sunday at Mall of America Field in Minneapolis.They said it: “We do expect to have [John Carlson] back on Wednesday,” head coach Leslie Frazier said. “He’s going to see a doctor [Monday] but we’re expecting positive news regarding John, so it will be good to have him back.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MINNESOTA VIKINGS

BY LYLE DIEKMANN

SPORTS EDITOR

Litchfield junior Savannah Ramirez followed up the best meet of her career with a more impressive performance at the Class A state cross country meet.

Ramirez posted a personal-best time of 14 minutes, 47.3 seconds to finish seventh overall at Saturday’s meet at St. Olaf College in Northfield.

“I don’t know how to ex-plain it,” Ramirez said. “The temperature was not too cold or hot, so that was perfect. I don’t know if I will be able to do it again next year, so I thought it was really excit-ing.”

Ramirez, a three-time state qualifier, turned in her previ-ous best time (15:01) while winning the Section 6A title

Oct. 25 in Spicer.Clare Flanagan of The

Blake School won the state championship with a time of 14:04.1.

Ramirez came close to cracking the top five. Marisa Shady of Esko (14:44.8) and Elizabeth Schlafke of Annan-dale (14:46.3) were the fifth- and sixth-place runners.

“I wasn’t really paying at-tention to the clock,” Ramirez said. “I was paying attention to the two girls in front of me and trying to beat them.”

Ramirez, who placed 48th at the 2009 state meet, fin-ished 13th in 2010, posting a time of 15:19.9.

Saturday’s meet was the conclusion of a successful and consistent season for Ramirez. In nine meets this fall, she posted a pair of wins and finished no worse than seventh in any meet.

“I have high expectations for myself,” Ramirez said. “I want to keep raising the bar. I know I can do better and push myself. I always know there is

Ramirez seventh at state meetLitchfield’s Kragenbring places 87th in boys race

STAFF PHOTO BY LYLE DIEKMANN

Litchfi eld junior Savannah Ramirez placed seventh at the Class A state cross country meet Saturday in Northfi eld. Cross country to A9 �

BY LYLE DIEKMANN

SPORTS EDITOR

Dassel-Cokato beat Litch-field 3-1 during the regular season.

The Chargers did it again in the playoffs.

D-C eliminated Litchfield with a 25-22, 25-15, 18-25, 25-20 victory in the Section 6AA-South championship match Nov. 1 at Sauk Rapids-Rice

High School.The Chargers (22-8) dropped

a 3-1 decision to Sauk Centre in Saturday’s Section 6AA championship game, while Litchfield finished its season 17-13 overall.

“It would have been nice to get that revenge win at a critical time that would put us one step closer to a goal,” Litchfield coach Darin Swen-son said. “The girls wanted it. They believed that they could have won that match, but in the end it’s two evenly-matched teams. We have our strengths in different places than their strengths, and their strengths

were just a little too much for us to handle tonight.”

D-C played its best volley-ball late in each game.

After securing a 25-22 win in the opener, the Chargers were down 10-9 in Game 2. Litchfield was unable to extend its lead as D-C closed on a 16-5 run.

Litchfield bolted to a 6-1 lead in Game 3 and crept back into the match with a 25-18 victory.

“We got them out of their system where they were roll-ing a lot of shots,” Swenson said. “We dug a few balls. That was one of those games where we had them on their heels. It started with our serve.”

The Chargers scored four of the first five points in Game 4, but a seven-point run on senior Alexi Besser’s serve put the Dragons on top, 8-4.

D-C chipped away at the lead and won a key point to take a 20-18 lead. The two teams touched the ball 47 times dur-ing the point that lasted more than a minute and ended when Besser’s kill attempt sailed long.

D-C led by two or more points the rest of the way.

“That was a big point,” Sw-enson said. “They are a very

Litchfield bounced in 6AA-South finalDragons finish season 17-13 overall


Breanna Sittig comes up with a dig during Litchfi eld’s 25-22, 25-15, 18-25, 25-20 playoff loss to Dassel-Cokato Nov. 1 at Sauk Rapids-Rice High School.

Section 6AA-South Volleyball TournamentQuarterfi nals (Oct. 25)

(1) Dassel-Cokato 3, (8) Foley 0

(4) St. Cloud Cathedral 3, (5) Annandale 1

(3) New London-Spicer 3, (6) Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted 1

(2) Litchfi eld 3, (7) Paynesville 0

Semifi nals (Oct. 30)

Dassel-Cokato 3, St. Cloud Cathedral 2

Litchfi eld 3, New London-Spicer 1

Final (Nov. 1)

Dassel-Cokato 3, Litchfi eld 1

Section 6AA

championship (Saturday)

Sauk Centre 3, Dassel-Cokato 1

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BY LYLE DIEKMANN

SPORTS EDITOR

Litchfield’s girls swimming and diving team will send 15 individuals to the Section 3A meet, which begins at 5 p.m. today at Jerry Carlson Pool in Hutchinson.

The top 16 swimmers in each event qualify for the con-solation and championship finals beginning at 3 p.m. Sat-urday. Diving gets under way at 11 a.m. Saturday.

“We’ve been very fortunate to have the quality and quantity of swimmers coming through our program,” Litchfield coach Rick Loge said. “In year’s past the goal was to make section cut

times. Now the goal is getting state cut times.

“I don’t want to put the cart before the horse, but I hope we get a couple relays and at least a couple of individuals to state.”

Litchfield has qualified swimmers or divers for the state meet 16 times during the past three seasons, including six each in 2010 and 2011.

To match or exceed that number this season, the Drag-ons need to be in top form throughout the two-day meet.

Litchfield will compete against teams from Chaska, Dassel-Cokato, Holy Family Catholic, Hutchinson, Mar-shall, Montevideo, Mound-Westonka, Orono, Waconia and Willmar.

“Hutchinson has always been one of the top teams in the state,” Loge said. “The girls need to finish in the top two (at sections) to go to state,

but most of the kids have to qualify by time. That’s the way it has always been.

“There are some weaker sections in the state,” Loge added. “I’d rather have the tough competition.”

Litchfield’s best bet for an-other state meet appearance is junior Marisa Warren, who became the first Dragon to win three medals at one state meet.

Warren won individual medals by finishing third in the 100-yard butterf ly and seventh in the 100 backstroke.

Senior Greta Walsh, senior Montana Linsmeier, sopho-more Anika Ellingson and Warren became the first Li-tchfield relay to win state medals, finishing seventh in the 200 medley relay. All four swimmers are returning for

the Dragons.“The relays are going to be

tough,” Loge said. “The state cut time is 1:55. We’ve gone 1:54 but not consistently. All four girls are going to have to put in their best swims.”

Walsh, Linsmeier and War-ren will form three-fourths of the 200 freestyle relay, which also qualified for state in 2011. The Dragons were 18th overall.

Loge said the freestyle relay is about one second from hit-ting the state qualifying time.

Ellingson, who placed 15th at state in the 100-yard breast-stroke last year, is the other Litchfield swimmer who ad-vanced to state in 2011.

“Anika has been consis-tently at or below the state

Fifteen swimmersset for section meetLitchfield heads to Hutchinson for two-day event

Sydney Weires, Svea Ellingson, Montana Linsmeier, Alyssa Raiber, Alex Ramirez, Brylee Stenmark, back, Anika Ellingson, Sarah Schmidt, Claudia Treml, Erica Staton, Marisa Warren, Emma Ridgeway, Kelsey Wattenhofer and Greta Walsh will represent Litchfi eld at the Section 3A swim meet. Not pictured is Chloe Jeffery.


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BY LYLE DIEKMANN

SPORTS EDITOR

Since 1998 the Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City football team has played in 10 section championship games.

Even after Saturday’s 6-0 win over Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa in the Section 4A title game, the Falcons have just four state tournament berths to show for it.

“We’ve took second in the section a lot,” ACGC junior Jordan D. Nelson said. “You go to our school, there are a lot of

second-place trophies. It’s nice when we can finally get into the state tournament, but it’s not done yet. We still have a lot of work to do.”

ACGC (8-2) will play Sec-tion 3A champion St. Clair (9-2) in the Class A state quar-terfinals at 7 p.m. Friday at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall.

The Falcons are return-ing to the state tournament for the first time since 2010 when they lost 47-18 to New Ulm Cathedral in the Class A quarterfinals.

ACGC’s opponent is mak-ing its first state playoff ap-pearance as an 11-man team.

Not bad considering St.

ACGC wins Section 4A titleFalcons face St. Clair in state quarterfinals


Members of the Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City football celebrate after winning the Section 4A championship game 6-0 over Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Saturday at St. Cloud.

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HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS SCHEDULE(Home events in bold)Today (Nov. 8) Swim — Litchf ield at Section 3A meet (at Hutchinson), 5 p.m.FridayFB — ACGC vs. St. Clair (at Southwest Minnesota St. University, Marshall), 7 p.m.SaturdaySwim — Litchf ield at Section 3A meet (at Hutchinson), 11 a.m.MondayNo events scheduledTuesdayNo events scheduledWednesdayNo events scheduledFOOTBALL

CONFERENCE STANDINGSWright County Conference West All Conf. Glencoe-Silver Lake 8-2 4-0Annandale 9-1 3-1Dassel-Cokato 3-7 1-3Litchfield 4-6 1-3New London-Spicer 7-4 1-3Friday’s resultsHutchinson 28, Glencoe-Silver Lake 7New London-Spicer 28, Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta 14Saturday’s resultsAnnandale 21, Foley 0West Central Conference All Conf. BOLD 10-0 8-0Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta 9-1 8-0

Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 8-2 6-2Lac qui Parle Valley 4-5 4-4Minnewaska Area 6-5 4-4Paynesville 5-5 4-4Benson 4-6 3-5Sauk Centre 2-7 2-6Montevideo 1-8 1-7Yellow Medicine East 0-9 0-8Friday’s resultsBOLD 42, Minnewaska Area 21New London-Spicer 28, Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta 14Saturday’s resultsACGC 6, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 0Central Minnesota Conference All Conf. Holdingford 10-1 7-0Pierz 8-2 6-1

Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 6-5 4-3Maple Lake 7-4 4-3Kimball Area 5-5 3-4Eden Valley-Watkins 2-7 2-5Rockford 3-7 2-5Howard Lake-Waverly-Win. 1-8 0-7Friday’s resultsHoldingford 34, Upsala/Swanville 0Mayer Lutheran 23, Maple Lake 13Saturday’s resultsACGC 6, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 0VOLLEYBALLCONFERENCE STANDINGSWright County Conference All Conf.Waconia 23-6 10-0Delano 22-7 9-1Glencoe-Silver Lake 25-4 8-2

Mound-Westonka 25-4 7-3Dassel-Cokato 22-8 6-4Hutchinson 12-14 5-5Orono 14-15 4-6Litchfield 17-13 3-7New London-Spicer 12-16 2-8Annandale 8-20 1-9Holy Family Catholic 5-22 0-10 West Central Conference-South All Conf. Pts.BOLD 16-13 9-4 10Montevideo 11-13-3 7-6 9Atwater-Cosmos-GC 9-13 6-7 6Yellow Medicine East 3-22 2-11 2Lac qui Parle Valley 5-20 0-13 0Central Minnesota Conference All Conf.Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 25-8 7-0

Pierz 18-11 6-1Eden Valley-Watkins 15-10 4-3Maple Lake 19-11 4-3Kimball Area 13-14 4-3Holdingford 14-14 2-5Howard Lake-Waverly-Win. 4-17 1-6Rockford 7-19 0-7STATE RANKINGSClass A Football Associated Press Poll 1. Mahnomen (8-0), 2. Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s (8-0), 3. Dawson-Boyd (7-1), 4. Minneota/Lincoln HI (7-1), 5. Lester Prairie/Holy Trinity (7-1), 6. Pillager (7-1), 7. Blooming Prairie (7-1), 8. Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City (8-2), 9. Springfield (6-2), 10. St. Clair (6-2).Others receiving votes: Browerville, Cook County, Barnum, Bethlehem Academy, Adrian.

SCOREBOARD

Clair did not have a varsity football team in 2011.“It’s very unique,” ACGC head coach Terry

Karlsgodt said. “They lost to a couple of good teams, but here at the end of the year, they’ve beaten some good teams. It looks like whatever strategy they used last year has worked pretty well.”

St. Clair’s road from a nine-man team to sec-tion champion in 11-man has been an interesting journey.

Cyclones head coach Chris Harvey and school administrators agreed to cancel the varsity foot-ball season in 2011 after just two seniors and six juniors showed up for the first week of practice.

“We’ve been caught in kind of a cycle at St. Clair,” Harvey said. “We’ve had to field teams dominated by lower classes. The kids would get knocked around, hurt and quit. We knew we had to put the breaks on this if we wanted to be competitive.

“It was the right time to do it,” Harvey added. “Everybody met and came to the same decision. It gave our kids a chance to play at a level that was appropriate for them. We were able to build some confidence playing a JV schedule because we were able to go out and compete.”

St. Clair started this year with 39 players on its roster in grades 9-12 and went 6-2 during the regular season.

It wasn’t until a Week 8 match-up with Beth-lehem Academy that Harvey knew his team was good.

The Cyclones won that game 13-6 in double overtime before beating Southwestern United, Martin County West and Adrian in the section tournament.

Bethlehem Academy (9-2) is still alive in the Class A state tournament.

“I didn’t think we would turn it around that quickly to be honest with you,” Harvey said. “Whenever people would ask, ‘How are you going to do?’ or ‘Where do you fit in the confer-ence?’ my answer was always, ‘I don’t know.’ We didn’t know what we had yet.

“The victory over Bethlehem Academy was kind of a signature win for our team,” Harvey added. “That was a big step up the mountain of success.”

St. Clair, like ACGC, relies heavily on run-ning the football.

The Cyclones, led by senior Michael Nett and junior John Goebel, have run for 3,002 yards and attempted only 43 passes in 11 games this season.

ACGC has 2,540 yards on the ground in 10 games.

“I’ve seen the film on ACGC and they look pretty straight-forward and physical. That’s the direction we’ve been trying to take our team,” Harvey said. “Personally, I like to see two teams play physical, smash-mouth football rather than throw it 50 times a game. It’s small-town football, and that’s the way it’s been played for a long time.”

However the game is played, Karlsgodt knows his team will be up for the challenge.

“I’ve talked with a lot of folks and they are impressed with their program,” Karlsgodt said. “They are a good club. That’s the bottom line.”

FALCONS BLANK B-B-E, 6-0

Nelson scored nine rushing touchdowns this season, but none were more important than his 2-yard plunge in Saturday’s Section 4A championship game.

Nelson’s touchdown with 20 seconds re-maining in regulation helped Atwater-Cos-mos-Grove City to a 6-0 win over Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa at Husky Stadium in St. Cloud.

After missing part of the second half be-cause of a hip injury, Nelson came back on the field for ACGC’s game-winning drive.

“It still kind of hurt, but sitting there watch-ing the team play, I can’t do that,” Nelson said. “I’ve got to be out there. You don’t think about it as much when the play is going, so it wasn’t too bad.”

Scoring opportunities were few and far between in the first half as the two teams combined for just 124 totals yards of offense.

ACGC took the opening kickoff of the second half and marched 72 yards on 14 plays – all runs – to the B-B-E 6-yard line.

On fourth-and-one, Jaguars’ linebacker Austin Kollman stopped ACGC’s Larry Bom-stad for no gain.

B-B-E took over on downs, but its offensive struggles continued in the second half.

The Jaguars gained only nine yards on their first four second-half possessions, allowing ACGC to win the field position battle.

ACGC finally cashed in on its final drive of the game.

A 22-yard punt return by Dylan Hoerchler gave the Falcons the ball on the B-B-E 29-yard line with 3:20 to play.

Nelson ran for 12 yards for a first down, but an illegal motion penalty moved the ball back to the 22-yard line.

After a Nelson run lost a yard, Hoerchler threw an incomplete pass. A four-yard run by Maverick Whitcomb moved the ball to 19 yard-line and Lucas Damm came on for a 36-yard field goal attempt.

After a B-B-E timeout, Damm made the field goal but ACGC was whistled for illegal motion.

After a delay of game penalty moved the ball back to the 29-yard line, Hoerchler threw a deep pass to Taylor Larson, who made a leap-ing catch at the 1-yard line.

“Coach said throw a nine to me, which is a fly route,” Larson said. “I just went up and got it. I figured the last one they threw to me, I was a little behind the cornerback. I figured I probably should get in front of him this time and it worked out.”

Three plays later Nelson scored the 2-yard touchdown to break the scoreless tie.

“We were going to pass it and (Hoerchler) changed it in the huddle,” Nelson said. “I didn’t even have time to think about it. Maverick (Whit-comb) made a good block and I just went right in.

“But without that catch, we would still be playing overtime right now,” Nelson added. “It’s the craziest game I’ve been a part of in a long time.”

B-B-E (6-5) had a chance to tie the game when Alex Wosmek connected with James Kuefler on a 51-yard halfback pass.

Kuefler fumbled the ball and Hoerchler recovered on the ACGC 17-yard line with just seconds remaining.

“B-B-E played their hearts out,” Nelson said. “They made it as hard as they possibly could for us to do anything.”

Results SaturdayACGC 6, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 0B-B-E (6-5) ............ 0 0 0 0 — 0ACGC (8-2) ............ 0 0 0 6 — 6SCORINGFourth QuarterTeam: ACGC ... Time: :20 ... Scoring play: Jordan D. Nelson 2-yard run ... PAT: Lucas Damm kick blocked.Team StatisticsB-B-E: Rushing: 26-76, Passing: 3-8-47-0-1, Total yards: 123, First downs: 3, Penalties: 5-41.ACGC: Rushing: 51-164, Passing: 5-12-98-0-1, Total yards: 262, First downs: 12, Penalties: 7-59.Individual StatisticsB-B-E — Rushing: Austin Kollman 7-28, Jordan Wosmek 9-26, Brian Good-win 5-11, Patrick Rooney 5-11. Passing (cmp-att-yds-TD-Int): Goodwin 2-7-0-0-1, Wosmek 1-1-47-0-0. Receiving: James Kuefler 1-47, Tyler Tensen 1-3, Rooney 1-(-3). Punting: Trey Heinsius 8-31.8. Fumble recoveries: none. Interceptions: Goodwin 1.ACGC — Rushing: Jordan D. Nelson 13-40, Dylan Hoerchler 11-40, Taylor Larson 6-27, Larry Bomstad 7-26, Alex Pankratz 5-17, Maverick Whitcomb 5-12, Mitchel Macik 2-4. Passing (cmp-att-yds-TD-Int): Hoerchler 5-11-98-0-0, Larson 0-1-0-0-1. Receiving: Larson 2-59, Lee Whitcomb 2-22, Macik 1-17. Punting: Jordan Nelson 5-33.0. Fumble recoveries: Hoerchler 1. Interceptions: Larson 1.

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Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City defenders Logan Jacobs and Jordan Fester (67) tackle Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa quarterback Brian Goodwin during Saturday’s 6-0 win in the Section 4A title game.

Class A State Football TournamentQuarterfi nals (Friday and Saturday)

Browerville (9-2) vs. Dawson-Boyd (10-1)

Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s (10-0) vs. Bethlehem Academy (9-2)

Mahnomen (11-0) vs. Barnum (9-2)

Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City (8-2) vs. St. Clair (9-2)

Semifi nals (Nov. 17 at Metrodome)

Upper bracket semifi nal, 9 a.m.

Lower bracket semifi nal, 11:30 a.m.

State championship (Nov. 24 at

Metrodome)

Semifi nal winners, 10 a.m.

Fan bus availableFree fan buses are available for Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City football fans planning to attend Friday’s Class A state quarterfi nal game Friday at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall.

The ride is free for adults or students who register by 3 p.m. today. Sign up by stopping in the ACGC High School offi ce or calling the community education offi ce at 320-857-2651.

All students in sixth grade or under must be accompanied by an adult.

Game tickets also can be purchased in advance at the high school offi ce from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. today. Tickets cost $8 for adults and $5 for students.

Three weeks ago Brad Steil was promoted from director of baseball operations to interim farm director for the Minnesota Twins.

On Nov. 1, the Twins took away the interim tag.

Steil, 36, will replace long-time minor league director Jim Rantz, who spent 52 years with the organization.

The Litchfield native will be busy this offseason helping general manager Terry Ryan and the rest of the front office add talent to a Twins team that has been the worst in the American League the past two seasons.

Steil probably doesn’t need any advice, but I’m more than willing to share my thoughts on the team’s rebuilding process.

Ryan has made no secret that he will be actively pursuing pitching this offseason. In particular, starting pitching.

Twins’ starters had the worst earned run average (5.40) of any AL team last year.

Rookie left-hander Scott Diamond appears to be the only starter penciled into the rotation for 2013.

Ryan is on record saying he wants to know who his five starters will be prior to spring training. That means the Twins will be active on the trade market and free agency.

Trading center-fielder Denard Span for a starting pitcher is a logical first move.

Span is a reliable defender and solid lead-off hitter with a reasonable contract. He’s owed $4.75 million in 2013 and $6.5 million in 2014 with a club option in 2015.

While moving Span obviously won’t net the Twins a true ace, he could be coveted by teams who need

an upgrade in center field.Perhaps the Atlanta

Braves would be willing to move right-hander Tommy Hanson, who struggled in the second half of last season.

Atlanta also has pitching prospects Sean Gilmartin and Randall Delgado, who was the target of the Chicago Cubs during a failed deal for Ryan Dempster.

The Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, Philadelphia Phillies and Arizona Diamondbacks are other teams will potential openings in center field. The Rays, Rangers and Diamondbacks have solid pitching staffs and three of the deepest farm systems in the game.

The Twins do have an abundance of outfield prospects, which could help sweeten a potential deal.

Shipping out Span also opens up center field for Ben Revere, who was one of the bright spots for the Twins in 2012.

Ryan has indicated he will try to get more at bats for Chris Parmelee, who is blocked at first base by Justin Morneau and designated hitter by Ryan Doumit. Parmelee could be an option in right field, particularly against right-handed pitching.

Free agent pitchers can

cost a pretty penny, but the team will have to sign at least one this offseason.

Assuming the Twins budget stays in the $95-million range, the team will have about $25 million to spend.

Adding an arm like Zach Greinke is a pipe dream.

Unless the team is willing to use half that money – or more – on one player, that rules out signing guys like Anibal Sanchez, Hiroki Kuroda, Dan Haren, Edwin Jackson and Kyle Lohse.

The two pitchers I would target are right-hander Jeremy Guthrie and lefty Joe Saunders.

Both pitchers have their warts, but are durable starters who have had success pitching in the AL. Getting to throw two-thirds of their innings in pitchers’ parks like Target Field, Comerica Park and Kauffman Stadium should make them serviceable No. 3 and 4 starters.

I also would sign versatile infielder Jeff Keppinger to balance out a lineup loaded with left-handed hitters.

Keppinger played first, second and third base last season for Tampa Bay and is known for his ability to hit left-handed pitching.

With a Hanson/Diamond/Guthrie/Saunders rotation, Ryan can audition Samuel Deduno, P.J. Walters, Cole DeVries and Kyle Gibson for the No. 5 spot in spring training.

That’s probably not a rotation that strikes fear into opposing lineups, but it should be a vast improvement over anything Twins’ fans have seen since 2009.

Contact me at [email protected] or follow me on Twitter at Lyle Diekmann@LitchSprtsGuy.

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Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City junior Taylor Larson intercepts a pass intended for Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa’s James Kuefl er (22) during Saturday’s game in St. Cloud. Larson has a school-record 14 interceptions this season.

BY LYLE DIEKMANN

SPORTS EDITOR

A ball-hawk is an athlete who is skilled at stealing or catching the ball.

That’s a perfect descrip-t ion of Atwater- Cosmos-Grove City junior Taylor Larson.

The Falcons’ safety set a school record during the sec-ond quarter of Saturday’s 6-0 win over Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa in the Section 4A championship game.

Larson intercepted a pass intended for B-B-B junior James Kuefler, giving him 14 picks in 10 games this season.

Dustin Grages had 12 in 1998, but we got beat in the semifinals of the state tourna-ment that year,” said ACGC coach Terry Karlsgodt. “He played 13 games that year.

“Taylor has had a terrific year,” Karlsgodt added. “He has a great sense for the ball and he jumps so well. He has great hands and concentra-tion, and he just has that mentality. It’s hard to put the best-ever moniker on some-body, but it’s hard to beat what he’s accomplished. And some of the catches he’s made have been spectacular. It isn’t

really luck.”In recent years, ACGC has

struggled to defend the pass. No single game exposed that weakness more than last year’s playoff loss to Kimball Area.

Cameron Hunt threw for 370 yards and five touch-downs – all of them to Preston Peglow.

The Falcons have yielded only 992 passing yards this season, which is a big reason why they are only allowing 11.5 points per game.

Of the 28 turnovers ACGC has forced this season, 15 have come from Larson.

“I didn’t even know if I was

going to start this season, honestly,” Larson said. “I guess I showed coach that I wanted to play. The intercep-tions just happen. You’ve just got to read it.”

Larson, who has had two three-interception games this season, also benefits from having a stout run defense in front of him and a savvy coaching staff.

“Coach (Doug Torgerson), he runs us through all the routes that they do,” Larson said. “It’s all coaching. I’m glad to have him as a coach.”

Larson, who played quar-terback as a junior high and JV player, is starting to con-tribute more offensively.

In addition to being the b ack up for qu a r t erb ack Dylan Hoerchler, Larson sees time at running back and receiver.

He’s carried the ball 29 times for 144 yards and a touchdown and caught six passes for 134 yards and a score.

“He can pretty much do a little of everything,” Karls-godt said. “He’s a very good athlete and we knew that all along. He was not a mystery by any means.”

W hile 2 012 has been a breakout season for Larson, he hopes it lasts a couple more weeks.

ACGC plays St. Clair in the Class A state quarterfinals at 7 p.m. Friday in Marshall.

It’s awesome,” Larson said. “I hope it’s real fun.”

Larson finds his way to the footballACGC junior sets school record for interceptions


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THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OFTHE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THEORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THETIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AF-FECTED BY THIS ACTION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that de-fault has occurred in the conditions ofthe following described mortgage:

DATE OF MORTGAGE: May 4, 2006

ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OFMORTGAGE: $130,400.00

MORTGAGOR(S): David M. Ahl andJean R. Ahl

MORTGAGEE: Mortgage ElectronicRegistration Systems, Inc.

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SERVICER: JPMorgan Chase Bank,N.A.

DATE AND PLACE OF FILING: FiledMay 22, 2006, Meeker CountyRecorder, as Document Number340560

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: As-signed to: U.S. Bank National Associa-tion, as Trustee, Successor in interestto Bank of America, National Associa-tion as Trustee as successor by mergerto LaSalle Bank, National Associationas trustee for WMALT 2006-AR6 Trust;Dated: May 17, 2012 filed: June 7,2012, recorded as document number375706

LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPER-TY: Lot 8 and The North 25 feet of Lot7, Block 41, Lindstrom's Addition to theVillage Grove City, Now City of GroveCity

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room for improvement.“I will probably run more

in the offseason,” Ramirez added. “I didn’t do much for this season. Hopefully I can stay under 15 minutes and set that as a goal.”

Litchfield junior Caleb Kra-genbring finished 87th overall in the Class A boys meet.

Kragenbring, a two-time state qualifier, completed the 5,000-meter race in 17:18.9.

“I was a lot less nervous,” Kragenbring said. “I knew what to expect because I had a general idea of the course. I ran well, so I’m pretty satisfied with it.”

Saturday’s meet was less stressful for Kragenbring – a two-time all-Wright County Con-ference runner. He lost a shoe during the previous state meet.

“I tied ‘em real tight,” Kra-genbring said. “I double knot-ted them and everything.”

After missing the state meet a year ago, Kragenbring ap-pears motivated for an even better season in 2013. After finishing 97th at state as a freshman, he moved up 10 spots in Saturday’s race.

“Hopefully I make it back to state next year and do a little better,” Kragenbring said. “Obvi-ously, I’m going to train hard and do my best throughout the sea-son, but we’ll see what happens.”

CALLANDER PLACES 105TH

Eden Valley-Watkins/Kim-ball senior Raelynn Calland-

er finished 105th in her first state meet.

Callander completed the 4,000-meter race in 16:22.4, which was 17 seconds off her previous best time this sea-son. She finished 12th at the Section 6A meet with a time of 16:05.

“What a great experience to compete at the state cross country meet,” Callander said via Twitter. “It was definitely overwhelming with all the people.”

Callander was the first EV-W/K runner to qualify for state since Justine Hilsgen placed 94th overall in the 2007 meet.Results SaturdayClass A state meetBoys standings - 1. Perham 37, 2. St. Cloud Cathedral 72, 3. Waseca 164, 4. Martin County West 200, 5. Cotter 200, 6. Esko 201, 7. Red-wood Valley 205, 8. Minnehaha Academy 211, 9. Plainview-Elgin-Millville 218, 10. The Blake School 227, 11. Proctor 247, 12. Pelican Rapids 253, 13. Albany 260, 14. Mora 303, 15. Park Rapids 365, 16. Luverne 385.Top 10 - 1. Matt Welch (Proctor) 15:34.0, 2. Charlie Lawrence (Foley) 15:46.5, 3. Shane Streich (Waseca) 15:52.9, 4. Nick Golebiowski (St. Cloud Cathedral) 15:53.2, 5. Keeghan Hur-ley (Perham) 16:01.2, 6. Ian Torchia (Rochester Lourdes) 16:04.8, 7. Brady Speicher (Perham) 16:09.4, 8. Jayden Cullen (Perham) 16:12.4, 9. Nik Stoks (Canby/Minneota/Lincoln HI) 16:14.7, 10. Isaac Overmyer (Park Rapids) 16:14.8.Litchfield - 87. Caleb Kragenbring 17:18.9.Girls standings - 1. Esko 115, 2. Annandale 150, 3. Minnehaha Academy 151, 4. Waseca 157, 5. Dover-Eyota 184, 6. The Blake School 187, 7. Perham 194, 8. Adrian 204, 9. Rochester Lourdes 206, 10. Holdingford 212, 11. Canby/Minneota/Lincoln HI 237, 12. Martin County West 255, 13. Spectrum 257, 14. Warroad 267, 15. Albany 282, 16. International Falls 302.Top 10 - 1. Clare Flanagan (Blake) 14:04.1, 2. Emi Trost (Cannon Falls) 14:16.5, 3. McKenzie Holt (St. Cloud Christian) 14:29.8, 4. Emily Man-tor (United South Central) 14:39.5, 5. Marisa Shady (Esko) 14:44.8, 6. Elizabeth Schlafke (Annandale) 14:46.3, 7. Savannah Ramirez (Litchfield) 14:47.3, 8. Hannah Truniger (Mayer Lutheran/Lester Prairie/Holy Trinity) 14:49.4, 9. Madison Schandelmeier (Luverne) 14:56.6, 10. Kayla Woltz (Chatfield) 14:59.8.EV-W/K - 105. Raelynn Callander 16:22.4.Litchfield - 7. Ramirez 14:47.3.


Eden Valley-Watkins/Kimball senior Raelynn Callander placed 105th during her debut at the Class A state cross county meet.

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scrappy defensive team. We have to earn our points. We didn’t earn that one. I don’t think we gave the point away. I think D-C earned it.”

Koch had a busy night at the net, going 64-for-74 with a match-high 29 kills.

Litchfield junior Natasha Stubeda was second on the team with seven kills.

Besser, who was a perfect 18-for-18 from the service line, finished with a team-high 17 digs.

“I think they got some more touches on some balls

where we didn’t dig as many up,” Besser said. “It was a close match. Looking back, there isn’t really one thing we could have done better.”

It was the final match for Koch, Besser and seven other seniors – Anna Wood, Bri Graphenteen, Paige Nelson, Hailey Horstmann, Kaitlyn Dorn, Kristen Klaben and Kelsey Fisher.

Swenson said his nine se-niors were instrumental in improving on last season’s 9-20 record.

“In my opinion, they made Litchfield volleyball relevant again,” Swenson said. “We had a couple years where we were going through hard

times. A lot of these kids stepped in when they were young and got some early experience. We played more competitively than we have in the past few years. I’ve very proud of the girls. It’s sad that it ends in the way that it does, but it always ends some time. It hurts right now, but I think they will look back on their careers and be proud of what they did in their time.”

“I think a lot of people thought that we weren’t go-ing to be very good or make it this far,” Koch said. “I think we proved them wrong. We kind of made a name for the Litchfield volleyball pro-

gram. I’m more than proud of my team.”Results Nov. 1Dassel-Cokato 3, Litchfield 1Litchfield (17-13) ............... 22 15 25 20Dassel-Cokato (22-7) ......... 25 25 18 25Individual statisticsLitchfield – Serving — Natasha Stubeda 11-12-2, Breanna Sittig 9-11-0, Kelsey Fisher 18-19-1, Bri Graphenteen 4-7-0, Bailey Koch 11-14-1, Alexi Besser 18-18-1, Kaitlyn Dorn 1-2-0. Setting — Fisher 105-108-32, Graphenteen 31-32-8, Paige Nelson 7-8-1, Besser 3-4-1, Dorn 4-4-1, Anna Wood 1-1-1. Hitting — Stubeda 21-26-7, Kristen Klaben 13-16-2, Wood 1-1-0, Fisher 10-13-4, Nelson 5-6-2, Koch 64-74-29, Besser 17-23-3. Blocks — Klaben 1, Nelson 1, Koch 1. Digs — Besser 17, Stubeda 13, Koch 10, Fisher 9, Wood 8, Graphenteen 4, Sittig 3, Klaben 3.Dassel-Cokato - Serving — Anna Webster 17-17-1, Anne Raisanen 14-14-0, Andi Gayner 9-9-0, Kaitlyn Sterner 18-18-1, Liana Haataja 14-14-0, McKenzie Fiedler 19-20-0. Setting (as-sists) — Webster 38. Hitting (kills) — Raisanen 21, Ariana Hasti 2, Brenna Olsen 11, Gayner 11, Alexis Carlen 9. Digs — Webster 26, Raisanen 22, Carlen 9, Olsen 11, Gayner 4, Sterner 14, Haataja 4, Fiedler 23.

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cut time,” Loge said. “Once you’ve made it there, you want to keep going back.”

Linsmeier – the team’s top sprinter – will have a chance to qualify for state in the 50 and 100 freestyles.

Junior Alyssa Raiber (but-terfly), junior Emma Ridge-way (backstroke), junior Kelsey Wattenhofer (breast-stroke) and Walsh (back-

stroke) are other’s within striking distance of a state qualifying time.

Claudia Treml, Sarah Schmidt, Brylee Stenmark, Svea Ellingson, Chloe Jef-fery, Erica Staton, Sydney Weires and Alex Ramirez are Litchfield’s other section qualifiers.

“They’ve got to get into the consolation or champion-ship heats,” Loge said. “They have to get through (today) to have any chance to go on to state.”

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Litchfi eld’s section qualifi ers200 Medley Relay - Montana Linsmeier, Greta Walsh, Anika Ellingson, Marissa Warren

200 freestyle - Claudia Treml, Sarah Schmidt

200 individual medley - A. Ellingson, Kelsey Wattenhofer, Brylee Stenmark

50 freestyle - Linsmeier, Walsh, Alyssa Raiber

Diving - Svea Ellingson, Chloe Jeff ery

100 butterfl y - Erica Staton, Warren, Raiber, Stenmark

100 freestyle - Linsmeier, Emma Ridgeway, Sydney Weires, Treml

500 freestyle - Schmidt, Staton, S. Ellingson, Alex Ramirez

200 freestyle relay - Walsh, Linsmeier, Warren, (to be determined)

100 backstroke - Warren, Weires, Walsh, Ridgeway

100 breaststroke - A. Ellingson, Wattenhofer, Jeff ery

400 freestyle relay - To be determined

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COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY ISLOCATED: Meeker

THE AMOUNT CLAIMED TO BE DUEON THE MORTGAGE ON THE DATEOF THE NOTICE: $154,128.01

THAT all pre-foreclosure requirementshave been complied with; that no actionor proceeding has been instituted at lawor otherwise to recover the debt se-cured by said mortgage, or any partthereof;

PURSUANT, to the power of sale con-tained in said mortgage, the above de-scribed property will be sold by theSheriff of said county as follows:

DATE AND TIME OF SALE: December6, 2012, 10:00am

PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff's Main Office,326 North Ramsey, Litchfield, MN55355

to pay the debt secured by said mort-gage and taxes, if any, on said premis-es and the costs and disbursements, in-cluding attorneys fees allowed by law,subject to redemption within 6 monthsfrom the date of said sale by the mort-gagor(s) the personal representatives orassigns.

TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROP-ERTY: If the real estate is an owner-oc-cupied, single-family dwelling, unlessotherwise provided by law, the date onor before which the mortgagor(s) mustvacate the property, if the mortgage isnot reinstated under section 580.30 orthe property is not redeemed under sec-tion 580.23, is 11:59 p.m. on June 6,2013.

"THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FORREDEMPTION BY THE MORT-GAGOR, THE MORTGAGOR'S PER-SONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR AS-SIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVEWEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS EN-TERED UNDER MINNESOTASTATUTES SECTION 582.032 DE-TERMINING, AMONG OTHERTHINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGEDPREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH ARESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESSTHAN 5 UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTYUSED FOR AGRICULTURAL PRO-DUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.”

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that de-fault has occurred in conditions of thefollowing described mortgage:

DATE OF MORTGAGE: June 30, 2005

MORTGAGOR: Brice M. McDonald, asingle person.

MORTGAGEE: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING:Recorded July 14, 2005 Meeker CountyRecorder, Document No. 333837.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: As-signed to: Minnesota Housing FinanceAgency.

TRANSACTION AGENT: NONE

TRANSACTION AGENT'S MORT-GAGE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER ONMORTGAGE: NONE

LENDER OR BROKER AND MORT-GAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ONMORTGAGE: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE SER-VICER: U.S. Bank Home Mortgage, adivision of U.S. Bank National Associa-tionMORTGAGED PROPERTY AD-DRESS: 441 1st Street North, Dassel,MN 55325TAX PARCEL I.D. #: 23.0123000LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPER-TY: All of Lot 2, Block 9 and that part ofLot 3, Block 9, Original Plat of Dassel,and that part of Lot 1, Block 1, Nor-gren's Addition to the Village of Dassel,all in Section 27, Township 119N,Range 29W; that part of said Lot 3 andsaid Lot 1 is as follows: Beginning atthe Southeast corner of said Lot 2,thence Southeasterly along the Eastline of said Lot 3 a distance of 30.00feet; thence Southwesterly parallel tothe North line of said Lot 3, a distanceof 140.00 feet to the West line of saidLot 3; thence Northwesterly along theWest line of said Lot 3 a distance of30.00 feet to the Southwest corner ofsaid Lot 2; thence Easterly along theSouth line of said Lot 2 a distance of140.00 feet to the point of beginning,Meeker County , Minnesota.



AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BEDUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE, IN-CLUDING TAXES, IF ANY, PAID BYMORTGAGEE: $110,989.94

That prior to the commencement of this

mortgage foreclosure proceeding Mort-gagee/Assignee of Mortgagee compliedwith all notice requirements as requiredby statute; That no action or proceedinghas been instituted at law or otherwiseto recover the debt secured by saidmortgage, or any part thereof;PURSUANT to the power of sale con-tained in said mortgage, the above de-scribed property will be sold by theSheriff of said county as follows:

DATE AND TIME OF SALE: December20, 2012 at 10:00 AM

PLACE OF SALE: Front Entrance,Meeker County Sheriff's Office, 326North Ramsey, Litchfield, MNto pay the debt then secured by saidMortgage, and taxes, if any, on saidpremises, and the costs and disburse-ments, including attorneys' fees allowedby law subject to redemption withinsix (6) months from the date of saidsale by the mortgagor(s), their personalrepresentatives or assigns unless re-duced to Five (5) weeks under MN Stat.§580.07.

TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROP-ERTY: If the real estate is an owner-oc-cupied, single-family dwelling, unlessotherwise provided by law, the date onor before which the mortgagor(s) mustvacate the property if the mortgage isnot reinstated under section 580.30 orthe property is not redeemed under sec-tion 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on June 20,2013 unless the redemption period isreduced to 5 weeks under MN Stat.Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.

MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROMFINANCIAL OBLIGATION ON MORT-GAGE: None

"THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FORREDEMPTION BY THE MORT-GAGOR, THE MORTGAGOR'S PER-SONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR AS-SIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVEWEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS EN-TERED UNDER MINNESOTASTATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DE-TERMINING, AMONG OTHERTHINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGEDPREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH ARESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESSTHAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROP-ERTY USED IN AGRICULTURALPRODUCTION, AND ARE ABAN-DONED."


Minnesota Housing Finance AgencyMortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee

USSET, WEINGARDEN AND LIEBO,P.L.L.P.Attorneys for Mortgagee/Assignee ofMortgagee4500 Park Glen Road #300Minneapolis, MN 55416(952) 925-6888135 - 12-005485 FC

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROMA DEBT COLLECTOR.

Publ. Oct. 18, 25, Nov. 1, 8, 15, & 22,2012

NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE


NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that de-fault has occurred in conditions of thefollowing described mortgage:


MORTGAGOR: Travis J. Hansen andMelissa L. Hansen, husband and wife.


DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING:Recorded May 29, 2007 Meeker CountyRecorder, Document No. 347472.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: As-signed to: Minnesota Housing FinanceAgency.

TRANSACTION AGENT: NONETRANSACTION AGENT'S MORT-GAGE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER ONMORTGAGE: NONE

LENDER OR BROKER AND MORT-GAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ONMORTGAGE: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE SER-VICER: U.S. Bank Home Mortgage, adivision of U.S. Bank National Associa-tion

MORTGAGED PROPERTY AD-DRESS: 125 East 9th Street, Litchfield,MN 55355

TAX PARCEL I.D. #: 27.0317000

LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPER-TY: The East 100.00 ft of Lot 8, Block12, City of Litchfield




That prior to the commencement of thismortgage foreclosure proceeding Mort-gagee/Assignee of Mortgagee compliedwith all notice requirements as requiredby statute; That no action or proceedinghas been instituted at law or otherwiseto recover the debt secured by saidmortgage, or any part thereof; PUR-SUANT to the power of sale containedin said mortgage, the above describedproperty will be sold by the Sheriff ofsaid county as follows:

DATE AND TIME OF SALE: December6, 2012 at 10:00 AM

PLACE OF SALE: Front Entrance,Meeker County Sheriff's Office, 326North Ramsey, Litchfield, MNto pay the debt then secured by saidMortgage, and taxes, if any, on saidpremises, and the costs and disburse-ments, including attorneys' fees allowedby law subject to redemption withinsix (6) months from the date of saidsale by the mortgagor(s), their personal

representatives or assigns unless re-duced to Five (5) weeks under MN Stat.§580.07.

TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROP-ERTY: If the real estate is an owner-oc-cupied, single-family dwelling, unlessotherwise provided by law, the date onor before which the mortgagor(s) mustvacate the property if the mortgage isnot reinstated under section 580.30 orthe property is not redeemed under sec-tion 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on June 6,2013 unless the redemption period isreduced to 5 weeks under MN Stat.Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.




Minnesota Housing Finance AgencyMortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee

USSET, WEINGARDEN AND LIEBO,P.L.L.P.Attorneys for Mortgagee/Assignee ofMortgagee4500 Park Glen Road #300Minneapolis, MN 55416(952) 925-6888135 - 12-005486 FC


Publ. Oct. 25, Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22, & 29,2012




DATE OF MORTGAGE: March 6, 2009


MORTGAGOR(S): Donn A. Vorbeckand Beverly A. Vorbeck, husband andwife as joint tenants


TRANSACTION AGENT: MortgageElectronic Registration Systems, Inc.MIN#: 100248900000013483

LENDER OR BROKER AND MORT-GAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ONTHE MORTGAGE: Rescue MortgageInc., dba Mortgage Depot

SERVICER: CitiMortgage, Inc.

DATE AND PLACE OF FILING: FiledMarch 11, 2009, Meeker CountyRecorder, as Document Number357893

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: As-signed to: CitiMortgage, Inc.; Dated:August 24, 2012 filed: August 28, 2012,recorded as document number 376976

LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPER-TY: Lot Four (4) in Block Thirty-six (36)of the Town (now City) of Litchfield

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 514 Swift AveN., Litchfield, MN 55355

PROPERTY IDENTIFICATION NUM-BER: 27-0504000









"THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FORREDEMPTION BY THE MORT-GAGOR, THE MORTGAGOR'S PER-SONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR AS-SIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVEWEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS EN-TERED UNDER MINNESOTASTATUTES SECTION 582.032 DE-TERMINING, AMONG OTHERTHINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGEDPREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH ARESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS

THAN 5 UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTYUSED FOR AGRICULTURAL PRO-DUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.”


CitiMortgage, Inc.Assignee of Mortgagee

SHAPIRO & ZIELKE, LLPBY____________________Lawrence P. Zielke - 152559Diane F. Mach - 273788Melissa L. B. Porter - 0337778Ronald W. Spencer - 0104061Stephanie O. Nelson - 0388918Randolph W. Dawdy - 2160XGary J. Evers - 0134764Attorneys for Mortgagee12550 West Frontage Road, Ste. 200Burnsville, MN 55337(952) 831-4060

Publ. Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25, Nov. 1, & 8,2012






MORTGAGOR(S): Marvin Orville Ryd-berg Jr. and Tammy Elizabeth Rydberg,husband and wife

MORTGAGEE: Wells Fargo Bank, NA

LENDER OR BROKER AND MORT-GAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ONTHE MORTGAGE: Wells Fargo Bank,NA

SERVICER: Wells Fargo Bank, NA

DATE AND PLACE OF FILING: FiledMay 27, 2009, Meeker CountyRecorder, as Document Number359169

LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPER-TY: Lot 6, Block 2, Bell's Addition of Au-ditor's Re-plat, City of Dassel

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 211 S 6thStreet, Dassel, MN 55325

PROPERTY IDENTIFICATION NUM-BER: 23.0276000





DATE AND TIME OF SALE: November29, 2012, 10:00am

PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff's Main Of-fice, 326 North Ramsey, Litchfield, MN55355


TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROP-ERTY: If the real estate is an owner-oc-cupied, single-family dwelling, unlessotherwise provided by law, the date onor before which the mortgagor(s) mustvacate the property, if the mortgage isnot reinstated under section 580.30 orthe property is not redeemed under sec-tion 580.23, is 11:59 p.m. on May 29,2013.

"THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FORREDEMPTION BY THE MORT-GAGOR, THE MORTGAGOR'S PER-SONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR AS-SIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVEWEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS EN-TERED UNDER MINNESOTASTATUTES SECTION 582.032 DE-TERMINING, AMONG OTHERTHINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGEDPREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH ARESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESSTHAN 5 UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTYUSED FOR AGRICULTURAL PRO-DUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.

Dated: September 24, 2012

Wells Fargo Bank, NAMortgagee

SHAPIRO & ZIELKE, LLPBY______________________Lawrence P. Zielke - 152559Diane F. Mach - 273788Melissa L. B. Porter - 0337778Ronald W. Spencer - 0104061Stephanie O. Nelson - 0388918Randolph W. Dawdy - 2160XGary J. Evers - 0134764Attorneys for Mortgagee12550 West Frontage Road, Ste. 200Burnsville, MN 55337(952) 831-4060

Publ. Oct. 18, 25, Nov. 1, 8, 15, & 22,2012




DATE OF MORTGAGE: October 6,2006

ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF

MORTGAGE: $90,984.00

MORTGAGOR(S): Elizabeth R.Theisen and David A. Theisen, wifeand husband




DATE AND PLACE OF FILING: FiledOctober 9, 2006, Meeker CountyRecorder, as Document Number343452

LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPER-TY: Lot 5, Block 35, Original Plat ofLitchfield

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 512 AustinAve N, Litchfield, MN 55355













SHAPIRO & ZIELKE, LLPBY ___________________________Lawrence P. Zielke - 152559Diane F. Mach - 273788Melissa L. B. Porter - 0337778Ronald W. Spencer - 0104061Stephanie O. Nelson - 0388918Randolph W. Dawdy - 2160XGary J. Evers - 0134764Attorneys for Mortgagee12550 West Frontage Road, Ste. 200Burnsville, MN 55337(952) 831-4060

Publ. Oct. 25, Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22, & 29,2012






MORTGAGOR(S): Alvaro Gomez, asingle person




DATE AND PLACE OF FILING: FiledJune 10, 2011, Meeker CountyRecorder, as Document Number370124

LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPER-TY: Lot 3, Block 1, Sunrise TerraceFifth Addition

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 319 TerraceView Drive, Litchfield, MN 55355










"THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FORREDEMPTION BY THE MORT-GAGOR, THE MORTGAGOR'S PER-SONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR AS-SIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVEWEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS EN-TERED UNDER MINNESOTASTATUTES SECTION 582.032 DE-TERMINING, AMONG OTHERTHINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGEDPREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH ARESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESSTHAN 5 UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTYUSED FOR AGRICULTURAL PRO-DUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.”



SHAPIRO & ZIELKE, LLPBY ___________________________Lawrence P. Zielke - 152559Diane F. Mach - 273788Melissa L. B. Porter - 0337778Ronald W. Spencer - 0104061Stephanie O. Nelson - 0388918Randolph W. Dawdy - 2160XGary J. Evers - 0134764Attorneys for Mortgagee12550 West Frontage Road, Ste. 200Burnsville, MN 55337(952) 831-4060

Publ. Nov. 8, 15, 22, 29, Dec. 6 & 13,2012






MORTGAGOR(S): Daniel D. Kulsethand Karla K. Kulseth, husband andwife.


TRANSACTION AGENT: MortgageElectronic Registration Systems, Inc.MIN#: 1000255-0000558422-0

LENDER OR BROKER AND MORT-GAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ONTHE MORTGAGE: Bank of America,N.A.

SERVICER: Bank of America, N.A.

DATE AND PLACE OF FILING: FiledJuly 26, 2010, Meeker CountyRecorder, as Document Number365508

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: As-signed to: Bank of America, N.A., Suc-cessor by Merger to BAC Home LoansServicing, LP fka Countrywide HomeLoans Servicing, LP; Dated: April 11,2012 filed: April 26, 2012, recorded asdocument number 375035

LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPER-TY: That portion described below of thatpart of the Northwest Quarter of theNorthwest Quarter of Section 33, Town-ship 119 North, Range 29 West, de-scribed as follows: Beginning at a pointon the East line of Northwest Quarter ofthe Northwest Quarter of Section 33,Township 119 North, Range 29 West,572.0 feet north of the southeast cornerof the Northwest Quarter of the North-west Quarter of said Section 33; thencecontinuing north along the east line ofthe Northwest Quarter of the NorthwestQuarter of said Section 33, a distanceof 444.0 feet; thence due west 874.6feet; thence South 0 degrees 16 min-utes East 296.0 feet; thence South 85degrees 04 minutes East 415.0 feet;thence South 55 degrees 53 minutesEast 134.8 feet; thence South 84 de-grees 13 minutes East 363.0 feet to thepoint of beginning.WHICH LIES WITHIN the Easterly300.00 feet thereof and lies Northerly ofa line hereinafter to be known as "LineA", and is described as follows: Com-mencing at the southeast corner of saidNorthwest Quarter of the NorthwestQuarter, said Section 33; thence northalong the east line of said NorthwestQuarter of the Northwest Quarter, saidSection 33, 636.23 feet to the point ofbeginning; thence deflecting to the left84 degrees 57 minutes 17 seconds adistance of 301.17 feet and there termi-nating.Together with an easement for drive-way purposes contained in Doc. No.272542.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 22901 713ThAve, Dassel, MN 55325


publicnoticesPROPERTY IDENTIFICATION NUM-BER: 07-0506001





DATE AND TIME OF SALE: January4, 2013, 10:00am

PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff's Main Of-fice, 326 North Ramsey, Litchfield, MN55355


TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROP-ERTY: If the real estate is an owner-oc-cupied, single-family dwelling, unlessotherwise provided by law, the date onor before which the mortgagor(s) mustvacate the property, if the mortgage isnot reinstated under section 580.30 orthe property is not redeemed under sec-tion 580.23, is 11:59 p.m. on July 5,2013.



BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.Assignee of Mortgagee

SHAPIRO & ZIELKE, LLPBY___________________Lawrence P. Zielke - 152559Diane F. Mach - 273788Melissa L. B. Porter - 0337778Ronald W. Spencer - 0104061Stephanie O. Nelson - 0388918Randolph W. Dawdy - 2160XGary J. Evers - 0134764Attorneys for Mortgagee12550 West Frontage Road, Ste. 200Burnsville, MN 55337(952) 831-4060

Publ. Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25, Nov. 1, & 8,2012




DATE OF MORTGAGE: 03/02/2009

MORTGAGOR(S): Thomas R. Boesonand Jane M. Boeson, husband andwife.

MORTGAGEE: CitiFinancial Services,Inc.

Transaction Agent: N/ATransaction Agent Mortgage ID No: N/ALender or Broker: CitiFinancial Ser-vices, Inc.Servicer: One Main FinancialMortgage Originator: CitiFinancial Ser-vices, Inc.

DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING:Recorded March 05, 2009,MeekerCounty Recorder, Document No.357796.

LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPER-TY: The real property in Meeker Coun-ty, Minnesota, described as follows:That part of the West half of the North-west Quarter (W 1/2 of NW 1/4) of sec-tion 34, Township 120, Range 29,Meeker County, described as follows:Commencing at the Southwest cornerof said West 1/2 of Northwest 1/4;thence on an assumed bearing of North00 degrees 29 minutes 07 secondsEast along the West line thereof a dis-tance of 990.32 feet; thence South 89degrees 30 minutes 53 seconds East, adistance of 906.03 feet; thence North60 degrees 11 minutes 35 secondsEast, a distance of 410.85 feet to thepoint of beginning of the tract to be de-scribed, thence North 32 degrees 12minutes 25 seconds West, a distance of1709.72 feet to the North line of saidWest 1/2 of Northwest 1/4; thence East-erly along the North line thereof a dis-tance of 992.23 feet to the Northeastcorner thereof, thence Southerly alongthe East line of said West 1/2 of North-west 1/4 a distance of 1411.69 feet to aline bearing North 60 degrees 11 min-utes 35 seconds East from the point ofbeginning; thence South 60 degrees 11minutes 35 seconds West a distance of79.36 feet to the point of beginning.Containing 17.63 acres, more of less,subject to the right of way of existingCSAH No. 21 along the North line of theHere described Tract; Subject to theright of way of existing CSAH No. 4,along the Southwesterly line of the Heredescribed tract.

REGISTERED PROPERTY: No

TAX PARCEL NO.: 13.0437.002

ADDRESS OF PROPERTY:28878 CSAH 4Dassel, MN 55325

COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS

LOCATED: Meeker



That prior to the commencement of thismortgage foreclosure proceeding Mort-gagee/Assignee of Mortgagee compliedwith all notice requirements as requiredby statute; that no action or proceedinghas been instituted at law or otherwiseto recover the debt secured by saidmortgage, or any part thereof;

PURSUANT to the power of sale con-tained in said mortgage, the above de-scribed property will be sold by theSheriff of said county as follows:

DATE AND TIME OF SALE: Thursday,November 29, 2012, 10:00 a.m.

PLACE OF SALE: Main Lobby of theSheriff's Office, 326 North Ramsey Av-enue, City of Litchfield

to pay the debt then secured by saidMortgage, and taxes, if any, on saidpremises, and the costs and disburse-ments, including attorneys' fees allowedby law subject to redemption within 6months from the date of said sale bythe mortgagor(s), their personal repre-sentatives or assigns.

DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: Thedate on or before which the mortgagormust vacate the property if the mort-gage is not reinstated under MinnesotaStatutes section 580.30 or the propertyredeemed under Minnesota Statutessection 580.23 is 05/29/2013 at 11:59p.m. If the foregoing date is a Satur-day, Sunday or legal holiday, then thedate to vacate is the next business dayat 11:59 p.m.

MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROMFINANCIAL OBLIGATION ON MORT-GAGE: NONE

THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FORREDEMPTION BY THE MORT-GAGOR, THE MORTGAGOR'S PER-SONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR AS-SIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVEWEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS EN-TERED UNDER MINNESOTASTATUTES SECTION 582.032, DE-TERMINING, AMONG OTHERTHINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGEDPREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH ARESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESSTHAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROP-ERTY USED IN AGRICULTURALPRODUCTION, AND ARE ABAN-DONED.


CitiFinancial Services, Inc.Mortgagee

Peterson, Fram & Bergman, P.A.By: Steven H. BrunsAttorneys for:CitiFinancial Services, Inc.Mortgagee55 E. 5th St., Suite 800St. Paul, MN 55101(651) 209-759913502-110104


Publ. Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, Dec. 6,2012





MORTGAGOR(S): Ryan J. Lydeen andCatherine L. Lydeen, husband and wife.

MORTGAGEE: One Mortgage, LLC

Transaction Agent: N/ATransaction Agent Mortgage ID No: n/aLender or Broker: One Mortgage, LLCServicer: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.Mortgage Originator: One Mortgage,LLC

DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING:Recorded March 21, 2007,MeekerCounty Recorder, Document No.346292.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: As-signed to: JPMorgan Chase Bank, Na-tional Association Dated: March 16,2007,Recorded March 21, 2007,MeekerCounty Recorder, Document No.346293.

LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPER-TY: Lot "B" Spaulding's Second Addi-tion to the Village (now City) of Watkins,LESS AND EXCEPT that portion ofsaid Lot "B" described as follows, to-wit:Beginning at a point on the South line ofsaid Lot "B" of said Spaulding's SecondAddition to the Village (now City) ofWatkins, 20 feet West of the Southeastcorner of said Lot "B", thence runningEast on the South line of said Lot "B" tothe Southeast corner of said Lot "B",thence running North 12 feet on theEast line of said Lot "B" to a point;thence running in a Southwesterly di-rection to the point of beginning.


TAX PARCEL NO.: 28-0163-000

ADDRESS OF PROPERTY:500 1st StreetWatkins, MN 55389




That prior to the commencement of thismortgage foreclosure proceeding Mort-

gagee/Assignee of Mortgagee compliedwith all notice requirements as requiredby statute; that no action or proceedinghas been instituted at law or otherwiseto recover the debt secured by saidmortgage, or any part thereof;


DATE AND TIME OF SALE: Thursday,December 20, 2012, 10:00 a.m.



DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: Thedate on or before which the mortgagormust vacate the property if the mort-gage is not reinstated under MinnesotaStatutes section 580.30 or the propertyredeemed under Minnesota Statutessection 580.23 is 06/20/2013 at 11:59p.m. If the foregoing date is a Satur-day, Sunday or legal holiday, then thedate to vacate is the next business dayat 11:59 p.m.




JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Asso-ciationAssignee of Mortgagee

Peterson, Fram & Bergman, P.A.By: Michael T. OberleAttorneys for:JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Asso-ciationAssignee of Mortgagee55 E. 5th St., Suite 800St. Paul, MN 55101(651) 209-7599


16309-120377

Publ. Nov. 8, 2012NOTICE OF MORTGAGEFORECLOSURE SALE




MORTGAGOR(S): Reneta G. Degner,a single person.

MORTGAGEE: Mortgage ElectronicRegistration Systems, Inc. as nomineefor Mortgage & Investment Consultants,Inc.

SERVICER: Bank of America, N.A.

MORTGAGE ID #:100032413509298167

DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING:Recorded January 25, 2010, MeekerCounty Recorder, Document No.362981.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: As-signed to: Bank of America, NationalAssociation as successor by merger toBAC Home Loans Servicing, LP fkaCountrywide Home Loans Servicing, LPDated: September 22, 2011,RecordedOctober 14, 2011,Meeker CountyRecorder, Document No. 371807.

LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPER-TY: Lot 108, Block 8, Minnie BelleShores, according to the map or platthereof on file or of record in the officeof the County Recorder in and forMeeker County, Minnesota.


TAX PARCEL NO.: 11-0569000

ADDRESS OF PROPERTY:19871 612th AveLitchfield, MN 55355




That prior to the commencement of thismortgage foreclosure proceeding Mort-gagee/Assignee of Mortgagee compliedwith all notice requirements as requiredby statute; that no action or proceedinghas been instituted at law or otherwiseto recover the debt secured by saidmortgage, or any part thereof;


DATE AND TIME OF SALE: Thursday,July 26, 2012, 10:00 a.m.



DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: Thedate on or before which the mortgagormust vacate the property if the mort-gage is not reinstated under MinnesotaStatutes section 580.30 or the propertyredeemed under Minnesota Statutessection 580.23 is 01/26/2013 at 11:59p.m. If the foregoing date is a Saturday,Sunday or legal holiday, then the dateto vacate is the next business day at11:59 p.m.



Dated: May 31, 2012

Bank of America, National AssociationAssignee of Mortgagee

Peterson, Fram & Bergman, P.A.By: Steven H. BrunsAttorneys for:Bank of America, National AssociationAssignee of Mortgagee55 E. 5th St., Suite 800St. Paul, MN 55101(651) 209-7599


16751-121451

NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENTS OFMORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that theabove Mortgage Foreclosure Sale ishereby postponed to Thursday, August30, 2012, at 10:00 a.m., Main Lobby ofthe Sheriff's Office, 326 North RamseyAvenue, City of Litchfield in said Countyand State.

Dated: July 10, 2012



16751-121451

NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OFMORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that theabove Mortgage Foreclosure Sale ishereby postponed to Thursday, October04, 2012, at 10:00 a.m., Main Lobby ofthe Sheriff's Office, 326 North RamseyAvenue, City of Litchfield in said Countyand State.

Dated: August 24, 2012



16751-121451


NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that theabove Mortgage Foreclosure Sale ishereby postponed to Thursday, Novem-ber 08, 2012, at 10:00 a.m., Main Lobbyof the Sheriff's Office, 326 North Ram-sey Avenue, City of Litchfield in saidCounty and State.




16751-121451


NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that theabove Mortgage Foreclosure Sale ishereby postponed to Thursday, Decem-ber 13, 2012, at 10:00 a.m., Main Lobbyof the Sheriff's Office, 326 North Ram-sey Avenue, City of Litchfield in saidCounty and State.




16751-121451

Publ. Oct. 18, 25, Nov. 1, 8, 15, & 22,2012



NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that de-fault has occurred in conditions of thefollowing described mortgage:DATE OF MORTGAGE: August 21,2009

MORTGAGOR: John E. Kuechle, a sin-gle adult.

MORTGAGEE: The First National Bankof Cold Spring.

DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING:Recorded August 26, 2009 MeekerCounty Recorder, Document No.360878.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: As-signed to: Mortgage Electronic Regis-tration Systems, Inc.. And thereafter as-signed to: U.S. Bank National Associa-tion.

TRANSACTION AGENT: NONE

TRANSACTION AGENT'S MORT-GAGE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER ONMORTGAGE: NONE

LENDER OR BROKER AND MORT-GAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ONMORTGAGE: The First National Bankof Cold Spring

RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE SER-VICER: U.S. Bank Home Mortgage, adivision of U.S. Bank National Associa-tion

MORTGAGED PROPERTY AD-DRESS: 140 3rd Street South, Watkins,MN 55389

TAX PARCEL I.D. #: 28-0265000

LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPER-TY: Beginning at the Northwest cornerof Lot I, of Lot 6, Block 2, Auditor's re-plat of Auditor's plat no. 1, City ofWatkins, thence due East 159 feet,thence due North 150 feet, thence dueWest 159 feet, thence due South 150feet to the point of beginning, being partof Lot H, of Lot 6, Block 2, Auditor's re-plat of Auditor's plat no. 1, City ofWatkins, Meeker County, Minnesota.




That prior to the commencement of thismortgage foreclosure proceeding Mort-gagee/Assignee of Mortgagee compliedwith all notice requirements as requiredby statute; That no action or proceedinghas been instituted at law or otherwiseto recover the debt secured by saidmortgage, or any part thereof; PUR-SUANT to the power of sale containedin said mortgage, the above describedproperty will be sold by the Sheriff ofsaid county as follows:

DATE AND TIME OF SALE: November29, 2012 at 10:00 AM

PLACE OF SALE: Front Entrance,Meeker County Sheriff's Office, 326North Ramsey, Litchfield, MN

to pay the debt then secured by saidMortgage, and taxes, if any, on saidpremises, and the costs and disburse-ments, including attorneys' fees allowedby law subject to redemption withinsix (6) months from the date of saidsale by the mortgagor(s), their personalrepresentatives or assigns unless re-duced to Five (5) weeks under MN Stat.§580.07.

TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROP-ERTY: If the real estate is an owner-oc-cupied, single-family dwelling, unlessotherwise provided by law, the date onor before which the mortgagor(s) mustvacate the property if the mortgage isnot reinstated under section 580.30 orthe property is not redeemed under sec-tion 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on May 29,2013, unless the redemption period isreduced to 5 weeks under MN Stat.Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.




U.S. Bank National AssociationMortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee

USSET, WEINGARDEN AND LIEBO,P.L.L.P.Attorneys for Mortgagee/Assignee ofMortgagee4500 Park Glen Road #300Minneapolis, MN 55416(952) 925-688819 - 19-153-2012 FC


Publ. Nov. 8, 2012MEETING NOTICE

The Meeker County Board of Adjust-ment will meet at the Courthouse inLitchfield, MN on Tuesday, November20, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. to consider thefollowing Applications for Variances andother business before the Board.

1. Robert Peschon, 23387 559th Av-enue, Litchfield, MN 55355. Lot Eight(8), Hope Lake Shores, Acton Town-ship, Hope Lake. An application to in-stall a holding tank in variance to the re-quired 150' setback to the OrdinaryHigh Water Level of Hope Lake which isa Natural Sensitive Lake and a varianceto the required 10' side lot line setbackall in the R-2 Rural Residential Districtand within the Shoreland District.

2. Richard Fust, 4546 West 131st, Sav-age, MN 55378. Property located at28380 738th Avenue, Dassel, MN55325. That part of Government LotOne (1), Section Thirty Six (36), Town-ship One Hundred Twenty (120), RangeTwenty Nine (29), more fully describedin the application, Kingston Township,Big Swan Lake. An application to con-struct a new cabin in variance to the re-quired 100' setback to the OrdinaryHigh Water Level of an R.D. Lake in anR-1 Suburban Residential District andwithin the Shoreland District.

The Meeker County Board of Adjust-ment will hear all interested parties atthis time.


/s/ Kristin Cote Zoning Administrator

Publ. Nov. 1 & 8, 2012NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that theCity Council of the City of Grove Citywill meet on Tuesday, November 13,2012 at approximately 7:00 p.m. in theCouncil Chambers at City Hall, 210 At-lantic Avenue W, Grove City, Minneso-ta, to conduct a public hearing on a pro-posed amendment to the Enabling Res-olution Establishing an EconomicDevelopment Authority approved onOctober 17, 1996 (the “Enabling Reso-lution”), which established the Econom-ic Development Authority of the City ofGrove City (the “EDA”) pursuant to Min-nesota Statutes, Sections 469.090 to460.1081.

Summary of Amendment toEnabling Resolution

Under the original Enabling Resolution,the EDA board of commissioners has 5members. The proposed amendment tothe Enabling Resolution increases theEDA board of commissioners to 7 mem-bers.

Hearing

At the public hearing any person wish-ing to express a view regarding the pro-posed amendment to the Enabling Res-olution will be heard orally or in writing.At the conclusion of the hearing or anyadjournment thereof the City Councilwill take whatever action it deems nec-essary with regard to the Enabling Res-olution. A copy of the full text of the En-abling Resolution as proposed to beamended is on file for public inspectionin the office of the City Administrator-Clerk-Treasurer at City Hall during nor-mal business hours.

Publ. Nov. 8, 15, 22, 29, Dec. 6, & 13,2012STATE OF MINNESOTACOUNTY OF MEEKER

IN DISTRICT COURTEIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

Case No. 47-CV-12-816Bernice Grabber-Tintes, Plaintiffvs.Douglas Ruhland and LADDCO, LLC,Defendants.

NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE UN-DER JUDGMENT AND DECREE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That byvirtue of a Judgment and Decree en-tered in the above-entitled action onOctober 11, 2012, a certified copy ofwhich has been delivered to me direct-ing the sale of the premises hereinafterdescribed to partially or fully satisfy theamount found and adjudged due as ofthe date of this Notice of $69,705.13,plus accrued interest, under said Mort-gage dated June 2, 2011, and recordedJune 15, 2011, at 8:00 a.m. as Docu-ment No. 370157 in the office of theCounty Recorder in Meeker County,Minnesota, between LADDCO, LLC asMortgagor to Bernice Grabber-Tintes asMortgagee, in the original principalamount of $64,431.31, said Plaintiff inthe above-entitled action from said de-fendants, Douglas Ruhland and LADD-CO, LLC, the Sheriff of Meeker Countywill sell at public auction, to the highestbidder for cash, on December 20, 2012at 10:00 a.m. at the Meeker CountyLaw Enforcement Center, in the City ofLitchfield, State of Minnesota, in thestate and county, the premises and realestate described in said Judgment andDecree:

Lots 1, 2, and 3 of Block 5 of Jack'sAddition of Section 2, Township 121North, Range 31 West in MeekerCounty, Minnesota.

The time allowed by law for redemptionof above referenced mortgage is sixmonths from the date of the sale.

Anderson Larson Hanson & Saunders,P.L.L.P.BY: Aaron P. WelchReg. No.: 0387891Attorneys for Plaintiff 331 Professional Plaza331 SW Third StreetP.O. Box 130Willmar, MN 56201Telephone: (320)235-4313

_____________________________Jeff Norlin, Sheriff of Meeker County

By: _________________________Brad Lindgren, Deputy Sheriff

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DISTRICT REVENUES AND EXPENDITURESBUDGET FOR 2012-2013

Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City School DistrictDistrict Number: 2396 District Name: ACGC

2011-12 Actual 2011-12 Actual June 30, 2012 2012-13 Budget 2012-13 Budget June 30, 2013Revenues Expenditures Actual Revenues Expenditures Projected

And Transfers And Transfers Fund And Transfers And FundFUND In Out Balance In Transfers Out BalanceGeneral Fund/Restricted $270,346 $408,617 $559,245 $486,260 $498,820 $546,685General Fund/Other $8,310,809 $7,516,982 $2,174,595 $7,896,328 $8,092,009 1,978,914Food Service Fund $439,526 $430,378 $31,806 $434,231 $437,908 $28,129Community Service Fund $396,418 $393,339 $490 $386,009 $303,593 $82,906Building Construction Fund $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0Debt Redemption Fund $903,081 $923,323 $197,632 $904,468 $903,375 $198,725Trust Fund $8,465 $13,562 $390,622 $7,302 $7,265 $390,659Internal Service Fund $0 $0*OPEB Revocable Trust Fund $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0OPEB Irrevocable Trust Fund $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0OPEB Debt Service Fund $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0TOTAL - ALL FUNDS $10,328,645 $9,672,639 $3,023,635 $10,114,597 $10,242,970 $2,433,042.58

CURRENT STATUTORY OPERATING DEBT PERLONG TERM DEBT MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 123B.81

OUTSTANDING July 1, 2011 $3,734,256 AMOUNT OF GENERAL FUND DEFICIT,PLUS: NEW ISSUES $44,131 IF ANY, IN EXCESS OF 2.5%

LESS: REDEEMED ISSUES $877,600 OF EXPENDITURES, 6/30/11 $0OUTSTANDING JUNE 30, 2012 $2,900,787

COST PER PUPIL UNIT - AVERAGEDAILY MEMBERSHIP (ADM) 6/30/11

SHORT TERM DEBT TOTAL OPERATING EXPENDITURES 7,597,686CERTIFICATES OF 2011-12 TOTAL ADM SERVED + TUITIONEDINDEBTEDNESS $1,085,000 OUT ADM + ADJUSTED EXTENDED ADM 786.04

OTHER SHORT-TERM INDEBTEDNESS $0 2011-12 OPERATING COST PER ADM $9,666The complete budget may be inspected upon request to the Superintendent.

Comments: See attached for detailed comments. General Fund/Other balance is broken out into three categories#574,353.66—Unassigned, #593,787.00—Assigned for Roof Repairs, and $8,758.00—Non-spendable (this category includespre-paid items and inventory)

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Publ. Nov. 1 & 8, 2012Court File No. 47-PR-12-1010STATE OF MINNESOTACOUNTY OF MEEKER

DISTRICT COURTPROBATE DIVISION

EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

NOTICE AND ORDER FOR HEARINGON PETITION FOR DESCENT OFPROPERTY

ESTATE OF WESLEY BLOMKER,DECEDENT

A Petition form Determination of De-scent has been filed with this Court.The Petition represents that the Dece-dent died more than three years ago,leaving property in Minnesota and re-quests the probate of Decedent's lastwill, if any, and the descent of suchproperty be determined and assignedby this Court to the persons entitled tothe property.

Any objections to the Petition must befiled with the Court prior to or raised atthe hearing. If proper, and no objectionsare filed or raised, the Petition may begranted.

IT IS ORDERED and Notice is furthergiven, that the Petition will be heard onNovember 26, 2012 at 8:45 a.m. by thisCourt at the Meeker County Court-house, 325 N. Sibley Avenue, Litchfield,Minnesota.

(1) Notice shall be given to all interest-ed persons (Minn. Stat. 524.1-401) andpersons who have filed a demand fornotice pursuant to Minn. Stat. 524.3-204.

(2) Notice shall be given by publishingthe Notice and Order as provided bylaw and by Mailing a copy of this Noticeand Order at least 14 days prior to thehearing date.

FILED OCT. 17, 2012MEEKER COUNTY COURTSLITCHFIELD, MN 55355(Court Seal)

Steven E. DrangeJudge

10/17/12/s/ LuAnn Sandvig

Deputy Court Administrator

Attorney For PetitionerMark P. WoodWood, Berry, & Rue, PLLP34 E. 2nd StreetP.O. Box 158LITCHFIELD, MN 55355320-693-3289128107




ORDER AND NOTICE OF HEARINGON PETITION FOR FORMAL PRO-BATE OF WILL AND APPOINTMENTOF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVEIN UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRA-TION AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ESTATE OF LOUISE R. LHOTKA, DE-CEASED

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS ANDCREDITORS:

It is Ordered and Notice is hereby giventhat on the 10th day of December, 2012,at 8:45 a.m., a hearing will be held inthe above named Court at 325 N. Sib-ley Ave., Litchfield, Minnesota, for theformal probate of an instrument purport-ing to be the will of the above nameddecedent dated September 29, 2009,and for the appointment of Duane O.Lhotka whose address is 20751 - 624th

Avenue, Litchfield, Minnesota 55355, aspersonal representative of the estate ofthe above named decedent, in an unsu-pervised administration, and any objec-tions thereto must be filed with theCourt. That, if proper and no objectionsare filed, a personal representative willbe appointed to administer the estate,to collect all assets, pay all legal debts,claims, taxes, and expenses, and sellreal and personal property, and do allnecessary acts for the estate. Any objections to the Petition must befiled with the Court prior to or raised atthe hearing. If proper, and no objectionsare filed or raised, the Petition may begranted.

Notice is further given that ALL CREDI-TORS having claims against said estateare required to present the same to saidpersonal representative or to the Clerkof the Court within four months after thedate of this notice or said claims will bebarred.


Richard T. JessenJudge

10/31/12/s/ LuAnn Sandvig


JAMES F. MARRINAttorney For Petitioner111 South 7th AvenueSaint Cloud, MN 56302(320) 253-4500MN Attorney No. 67805




NOTICE AND ORDER FOR HEARINGON PETITION FOR FORMAL ADJUDI-CATION OF INTESTACY, DETERMI-NATION OF HEIRSHIP, AND AP-POINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRE-SENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDI-TORS

ESTATE OF JAMES E. STRUTHERS,DECEDENT

It is Ordered and Notice is given that onDecember 10, 2012 at 8:45 a.m., ahearing will held in this Court at 325North Sibley Ave., Litchfield, Minnesota,for the adjudication of intestacy and de-terminiation of heirship of the Decedent,and for the appointment of Michele Sat-terlund whose address is: 2610 ThePlaza, Richmond, VA 23222 as person-al representative of the Estate of theDecedent in an UNSUPERVISED ad-ministration. Any objections to the peti-tion must be filed with the Court prior toor raised at the hearing. If proper, andno objections are filed or raised, thepersonal representative will be appoint-ed with full power to administer the Es-tate including the power to collect all as-sets, to pay all legal debts, claims, tax-es and expenses, to sell real and per-sonal property, and to do all necessaryacts for the Estate.

Notice is also given that (subject toMinn. Stat. 524.3-801) all creditors hav-ing claims against the Estate are re-quired to present the claims to the per-sonal representative or to the Court Ad-ministrator within four months after thedate of this Notice or the claims will bebarred.


Richard T. JessenDistrict Court Judge, Probate Division

10/31/12/s/ Dorothy Brutger





NOTICE AND ORDER FOR HEARINGON PETITION FOR FORMAL ADJUDI-CATION OF INTESTACY, DETERMI-NATION OF HEIRSHIP, APPOINT-MENT OF PERSONAL REPRESEN-TATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDI-TORS

ESTATE OF WAYNE ZEPPELINA/K/A WAYNE WENDELL ZEPPELIN,DECEDENT

It is Ordered and Notice is given that onDecember 3, 2012 at 8:45 a.m. a hear-ing will be held in this Court at 325 N.Sibley Ave., Litchfield, Minnesota, forthe adjudication of intestacy and deter-mination of heirship of the Decedent,and for the appointment of SHANE P.ZEPPELIN whose address is: 613 S.MARSHALL AVE., LITCHFIELD, MN55355 as personal representative of theEstate of the Decedent in an UNSU-PERVISED administration. Any objec-tions to the Petition must be filed withthe Court prior to or raised at the hear-ing. If proper and if no objections arefiled or raised, the personal representa-tive will be appointed with full power toadminister the Estate, including thepower to collect all assets, pay all legaldebts, claims, taxes and expenses, tosell real and personal property, and doall necessary acts for the Estate.

Notice is also given that (subject toMinn. Stat. 524.3-801) all creditors hav-ing claims against the Estate are re-quired to present the claims to the per-sonal representative or to the Court Ad-ministrator within four months after thedate of this Notice or the claims will bebarred.


Honorable Kathryn N. SmithJudge

10/24/12/s/ LuAnn L. Sandvig


Attorney For PetitionerMark P. WoodWood, Rue, & Holt, PLLP34 E. 2nd StreetP.O. Box 158LITCHFIELD, MN 55355320-693-3289128107

Publ. Oct. 25, Nov. 1 & 8, 2012STATE OF MINNESOTACOUNTY OF MEEKER

DISTRICT COURTEIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

CASE TYPE: QUIET TITLECOURT FILE NO. 47-CV-12-975

Randy C. Dague and Susan R. DaguePlaintiff,

vs.

Robert Arries, Nancy Arries, MatthewSokol, Mary Sokol, Leo Boschee, FredRettig, Alan Koch, Michelle Koch; LoydSpicer and Ruth Spicer and their heirs,designees, or descendants; and all oth-er persons unknown claiming any right,title, estate, interest, or lien in the realestate described in the Complaint here-in, Defendants.

SUMMONS

THIS SUMMONS IS DIRECTED TOLoyd Spicer and Ruth Spicer and theirheirs, designees, or descendants.

1. YOU ARE BEING SUED. The Plain-tiff has started a lawsuit against you.The Plaintiff's Complaint against you isattached to this Summons, and is on filein the office of the Court Administratorof the above-named Court. Do notthrow these papers away. They are offi-cial papers that affect your rights. Youmust respond to this lawsuit eventhough it may not yet be filed with theCourt and there may be no court filenumber on this Summons.

2. YOU MUST REPLY WITHIN 20DAYS TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS.You must give or mail to the personwho signed this Summons a written re-sponse called the Answer within 20days of the date on which you receivedthis Summons. You must send a copyof your Answer to the person whosigned this Summons located at:131 South Main StreetP.O. Box 129

Hutchinson, MN 55350

3. YOU MUST RESPOND TO EACHCLAIM. The Answer is your written re-sponse to the Plaintiffs' Complaint. Inyour Answer you must state whetheryou agree or disagree with each para-graph of the Complaint. If you believethe Plaintiff should not be given every-thing asked for in the Complaint, youmust say so in your Answer.

4. YOU WILL LOSE YOUR CASE IFYOU DO NOT SEND A WRITTEN RE-SPONSE TO THE COMPLAINT TOTHE PERSON WHO SIGNED THISSUMMONS. If you do not Answer with-in 20 days, you will lose the case. Youwill not get to tell your side of the story,and the Court may decide against youand award the Plaintiffs everythingasked for in the Complaint. If you do notwant to contest the claims stated in theComplaint, you do not need to respond.A default judgment can then be enteredagainst you for the relief requested inthe Complaint.

5. LEGAL ASSISTANCE. You maywish to get legal help from a lawyer. Ifyou do not have a lawyer, the Court Ad-ministrator may have information aboutplaces where you can get legal assist-nace. Even if you cannot get legalhelp, you must still provide a writtenAnswer to protect your rights or youmay lose the case.

6. ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLU-TION. The parties may agree to or beordered to participate in an alternativedispute resolution process under Rule114 of the Minnesota General Rules ofPractice. You must still send your writ-ten response to the Complaint even ifyou expect to use alternative means ofresolving this dispute.

7. THIS LAWSUIT MAY AFFECT ORBRING INTO QUESTION TITLE TOREAL PROPERTY located in MeekerCounty, State of Minnesota, legally de-scribed as follows: Parcel A: That part of Lot C of Govern-ment Lot 1, Section 13, Township 118North, Range 31 West, described asfollows, to wit:Beginning at the Northeast corner ofsaid Government Lot 1, running thenceWest on the North boundary line of saidLot C to a point of 17.0 rods East of theshore of Lake Minnie Belle; thenceSouth 66.0 feet; thence East parallelwith the North Boundary line of said LotC to the East boundary line of said LotC; thence North to the place of begin-ning. ANDParcel B: That part of Lot C of Govern-ment Lot 1, Section 13, Township 118North, Range 31 West, described asfollows, to-wit:Beginning at a point on the shore ofLake Minnie Belle, 121.0 feet South ofthe Northwest corner of Lot 2 of Subdi-vision of Lot C of said Government Lot1; thence southerly along said lakeshore 60 ½ feet; thence East 15.0 rods;thence North parallel to the lake shore60 ½ feet; thence West to the point ofbeginning. ALSO beginning at a point on the shoreof Lake Minnie Belle, 60 ½ feet South ofthe Northwest corner of said Lot 2 ofSubdivision of Lot C; thence in asoutherly direction along said lakeshore 60 ½ feet; thence East 15.0 rods;thence northerly parallel to the lakeshore 60 ½ feet; thence West to thepoint of beginning.

The object of this action is to obtain ajudgment that Plaintiffs are the ownersin fee of the above described real prop-erty and that none of said Defendantshave any estate or interest therein orlien thereon.

By: Christopher A. KleimanKRAFT WALSER LAW OFFICE, PLLP131 South Main StreetP.O. Box 129Hutchinson, MN 55350Telephone: (320) 587-8150Facsimile No. (320) 587-8152Attorney License No. 0277411

Publ. Nov. 1, 8, & 15, 2012STATE OF MINNESOTACOUNTY OF MEEKER

DISTRICT COURTJUDICIAL DISTRICT: EIGHTH

COURT FILE NO. 47-JV-12-1016CASE TYPE: Juvenile

SUMMONS AND NOTICETERMINATION OF PARENTAL

RIGHTS MATTER

In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child(ren) of Paulina Marie HarderParent Dylan John LambertsonParent

NOTICE TO: Paulina Marie Harder,above named parent(s) or legal cus-todian(s).

1. A Termination of Parental Rights Pe-tition has been filed in the Office of theClerk of Juvenile Court located at 325 NSibley Avenue, Litchfield, Minnesota, al-leging that parental rights of the above-named parent(s) or legal custodian(s) tothe child(ren) named in the petitionshould be permanently severed.

2. Notice is hereby given that the mat-ter of said Termination of ParentalRights Petition will be called for hearingbefore the Juvenile Court located at 325N Sibley Avenue, Litchfield, Minnesota,on December 3, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. or assoon after as the Matter can be heard.

3. YOU ARE ORDERED to appear be-fore the Juvenile Court at the scheduledtime and date.

4. You have a right to be representedby counsel.

5. If you fail to appear at the hearing,the Court may still conduct the hearingand grant appropriate relief, includingpermanently severing the parentalrights of the above-named parent(s) orlegal custodian(s) and taking perma-nent custody of the child/ren named inthe Petition.

WITNESS, the HonorableKathryn Smith

Judge of District Court

/s/ Jane Lind Deputy Court Administrator

Publ. Nov. 1, 8, & 15, 2012STATE OF MINNESOTACOUNTY OF MEEKER

DISTRICT COURTFAMILY DIVISION


CASE TYPE: Dissolution With ChildrenCOURT FILE NO. 47-FA-12-1009

In Re the Marriage of:Katherine Anne Espina Straus, Petitionerand Edgar Estuardo Espina Ortiz,Respondent

SUMMONSTHE STATE OF MINNESOTA TO THEABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT:

WARNING: Your spouse has filed alawsuit against you for dissolutionof your marriage. A copy of the pa-perwork regarding the lawsuit isserved on you with this Summons.This Summons is an official docu-ment from the court that affects yourrights. Read this Summons carefully.If you do not understand it, contactan attorney for legal advice.

1. The Petitioner has filed a lawsuitagainst you asking for a dissolution ofyour marriage. A copy of the Petition forDissolution of Marriage is attached tothis Summons.

2. You must serve upon Petitioner andfile with the Court a written Answer tothe Petition for Dissolution of Marriage.You must pay the required filing fee.Answer forms are available from theCourt Administrator's office. You must

serve your Answer and upon Petitionerwithin thirty days of the date you wereserved with this Summons, not countingthe day of service. If you do not serveand file your Answer, the Court maygive your spouse everything he or sheis asking for in the Petition for Dissolu-tion of Marriage.

NOTICE OF TEMPORARYRESTRAINING PROVISIONS

Under Minnesota law, service of thisSummons makes the following require-ments apply to both parties to the ac-tion, unless they are modified by thecourt or the proceeding is dismissed:1. Neither party may dispose of any as-sets except (a) for the necessities of lifeor for the necessary generation of in-come or preservation of assets, (b) byan agreement of the parties in writing,or (c) for retaining counsel to carry on orto contest this proceeding.2. Neither Pary may harass the otherparty.3. All currently available insurance cov-erage must be maintained and contin-ued without change in coverage or ben-eficiary designation.

NOTICE OF PARENT EDUCATIONPROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

Under Minnesota Statutes, Section518.157, in a contested proceeding in-volving custody or parenting time of aminor child, the parties must begin par-ticipation in a parent education programthat meets minimum standards promul-gated by the Minnesota Supreme Courtwithin 30 days after the first filing withthe court. In some Districts, parentingeducation may be required in all cus-tody or parenting proceedings. You maycontact the District Court Administratorfor additional information regarding thisrequirement and the availability of par-ent education programs.


Thomton, Sperry, Jensen, & Keithahn,LTD. /s/ Kim Keithahn Attorney Reg. No. 255397Attorneys for Petitioner329 East Highway 12P.O. Box 249Litchfield, MN 55355(320) 693-2454

Publ. Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, & Dec. 6,2012

NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE


NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That de-fault has occurred in the conditions ofthe following described mortgage:

DATE OF MORTGAGE: August 27,2007


MORTGAGOR(S): Kristin M. Hoskins, asingle person


DATE AND PLACE OF FILING: FiledSeptember 12, 2007, Meeker CountyRecorder; Document No. 349429

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: As-signed to: none

LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPER-TY: Lot 9 of Block 1, Town of Dassel

STREET ADDRESS OF PROPERTY:520 - 2nd Street North, Dassel, MN55325-1076

COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY ISLOCATED: Meeker County, Minnesota THE AMOUNT CLAIMED TO BE DUEON THE MORTGAGE ON THE DATEOF THE NOTICE: $108,646.48

THAT no action or proceeding has beeninstituted at law to recover the debt se-cured by said mortgage, or any partthereof; that there has been compliancewith all pre-foreclosure notice and ac-celeration requirements of said mort-gage, and/or applicable statutes;


DATE AND TIME OF SALE: December20, 2012 at 10:00 am

PLACE OF SALE: Meeker CountySheriff's office, 326 North Ramsey,Litchfield, Minnesota

to pay the debt then secured by saidmortgage and taxes, if any actually paidby the mortgagee, on the premises andthe costs and disbursements allowed bylaw. The time allowed by law for re-demption by said mortgagor(s), theirpersonal representatives or assigns issix (6) months from the date of sale.

Unless said mortgage is reinstated orthe property redeemed, or unless thetime for redemption is reduced by judi-cial order, you must vacate the premis-es by 11:59 p.m. on June 20, 2013.

MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROMFINANCIAL OBLIGATION ON MORT-GAGE: NONE.

“THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FORREDEMPTION BY THE MORT-GAGOR, THE MORTGAGOR'S PER-SONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR AS-SIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVEWEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS EN-TERED UNDER MINNESOTASTATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DE-TERMINING, AMONG OTHERTHINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGEDPREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH ARESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESSTHAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROP-ERTY USED IN AGRICULTURALPRODUCTION, AND ARE ABAN-DONED.”


WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.Mortgagee

REITER & SCHILLER, P.A.By: /s/ Rebecca F. Schiller, Esq.Sarah J.B. Adam, Esq.N. Kibongni Fondungallah, Esq.James J. Pauly, Esq.Steven R. Pennock, Esq.Curt N. Trisko, Esq.Attorneys for Mortgagee25 North Dale StreetSt. Paul, MN 55102-2227(651) 209-9760(WF1583)


NOTICE OF MORTGAGEFORECLOSURE SALEFORECLOSURE DATAMinn. Stat. § 580.025

(1) Street Address, City and Zip Codeof Mortgaged Premises: 520 - 2ndStreet North, Dassel, MN 55325-1076(2) Transaction Agent: Wells FargoBank, N.A.(3) Name of Mortgage Originator(Lender): Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.(4) Residential Servicer: Wells Fargo(800)416-1472(5) Tax Parcel Identification Number:23.0048000(6) Transaction Agent's Mortgage IDNumber (MERS number): none


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IN-HOME OR ON-SITE Massage Ther-apy Services: Swedish, Deep Tissue,Sports, Prenatal, Geriatric, Chair. Com-mitted to excellence w/11+ years expe-rience. I bring all supplies to you forMassage that's comfortable and conve-nient! 651-208-2091 or www.flutterbymassage.com $45/Hour

Tree Service 2505

FELLING TREE SERVICE: Trimming,topping, removal, cleanup, fullyequipped, fully insured. Professionalclimbers. Emergency storm damage.Free estimates. 320-243-4164.

3000 Merchandise

Antiques 3010 ANTIQUE COFFEE TABLE. 4'x4' withthick glass top. $50. 320-262-9320

ANTIQUE OAK LOW-BOY dresser,large oval mirror, 2 drawers. $165. 218-371-9314

ANTIQUE ROCKING CHAIR. Tan, ex-cellent condition. $15, firm. Cash only.Ask for Eileen only. 320-327-2746

ANTIQUE SCHOOL DESK with drawerunderneath, $90. 320-593-2967

ANTIQUE SOLID OAK Office chair, re-finished, nice piece, $20 Hutchinsoncell 314-941-9736

Appliances 3020 (2) MICROWAVE OVENS, KENMORE,over the stove model, $150 each. 320-693-8934; after 6 pm.

BUILT-IN DISHWASHER, stainlesssteel Frigidaire, AquaSurge with speedclean. 2 years old. $200. 320-583-2764

DISHWASHER, BISQUE. $25 or FREEto a non-profit. 320-583-2955

Appliances 3020 ELECTRIC STOVE, WHITE. Wechanged colors. $50 or FREE to a non-profit. 320-583-2955

FRIGIDAIRE REFRIGERATOR,BROWN, older, but runs good. Perfectfor cabin. $25. 320-583-2764

GE ELECTRIC STOVE. Bisque, mfg1999. $70 320-587-4837

KENMORE ELITE CLOTHES washer.White, toploader. Works great. $50.320-583-2764

MICROWAVE SHARP CAROUSEL,used one year, works fine, excellentcondition. $25. Call 320-587-7984

REFRIGERATOR, 16.2 cu. ft. Bisquecolor. Works great. We changed colors.$50 or FREE to a church or non-profit.320-275-3297

STOVE, GE BLACK, electric, glasstop,self-cleaning, 2 years old. $250. 320-583-2764

WASHER & DRYER, KENMORE, H.E.,excellent condition. $350. 320-221-3809

WHIRLPOOL DISHWASHER built in,quiet, runs good, almond color.$20/OBO. Call 320-587-5873

Appliances 3020 GE PROFILE PRODIGY clothes dryer,white. Works great. $50. 320-583-2764

WHIRLPOOL WASHER & Amana dry-er. $100/set. Good condition. 320-583-7160

WHITE GE REFRIGERATOR, 1999mfg. 28w x 29-1/2d x 67h. $200. 320-587-4837

Clothing/Jewelry 3050 BOY'S BLUE COLUMBIA, winter jack-et, size 4/5, very nice, $15. 320-221-1216

BOYS BROWN COLUMBIA jacket.Great condition! $20. 320-587-3456

GIRLS 3T WINTER COAT, never worn,still has tags on it! White “puffer” coatwith leopard trim. Retails for $70, sellingfor $25. Call 320-333-1658

Electronics 3060 DELL LATITUDE-D410 Netbook/laptop.Duo-core Pentium, Windows-XP, 2gigram, 60gig harddrive. Looks flawless,Fast wifi internet anywhere! Light to carry. I need money now so first $139gets it. Text/call 320-296-4176


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Licensed & InsuredLicense #BC631832

We offer Leaf-Free Gutter Systems

Electronics 3060 8GB ANDROID 4.0, connect tablet,used, excellent condition. No scratches,$150. Call Andrew, 320-296-0824 any-time

GARMIN NUVI CAR GPS navigator.Bright LCD, good battery, recent up-dates. Charger, windows or dash mountincluded. Looks works like new. Paidwell over $140 new, $65. Text/call 320-296-4176

RCA COLOR TV, 19”, excellent condi-tion, works good. $25. 320-864-3882

TV'S, 20” & 28”. $25-50. 320-234-6155

Exercise Equip. 3070 OLYMPIC WEIGHT SET, with benchand leg workout, weight tree, curl bar.$225. 320-510-0290

ORIGINAL SCHWINN EXERCISERbike. Timer works, $50. 320-593-2967

WESLO PURSUIT 350, exercise bike,digital monitors, excellent condition.$25. 320-221-3809

Firewood/Fireplace 3080ASH FIREWOOD. DRY, split. $150 percord- 4x4x8. Cash. 5 miles northwestHutchinson, 320-587-6474

MIXED HARDWOOD FIREWOOD.Split and dried 2 years, delivered local-ly, $200 cord, 4x4x8. 320-296-4620

Furniture 3090 1940's LIGHT OAK BEDROOM SETdresser, bench and bed complete withnew Serta box spring and mattress.$400. 320-857-2542

BED FRAME, BOXSPRING, complete.$20. 218-371-9314

CORNER OAK GUN cabinet. $75. 320-234-6155

CORNER TV CABINET. $40. 320-234-6155

COUCH FOR SALE: Smokey blue printwith mauve floral. Oak trim across thetop back and on arms. Skirting aroundbottom. $200 Call 320-857-2736

COUCH, GOOD SHAPE. $80. 320-510-0290

CURVED GLASS CURIO cabinet, lightoak, excellent condition. 33A x 57h x14d. $350 BO. 320-282-7253

DRESSERS, WOODEN, GOOD condi-tion. Very sturdy, not pressed wood.Drawers are dovetailed, all wood. $25each. 320-587-9285

DROP LEAF TABLE, with stools, barelyused. 320-510-0290

KITCHEN TABLE, 1 leaf, fold down, 4chairs, $30 BO. 320-779-0006

LOW BOY DRESSER, 6 drawer, 3'w x28”h x 15”d. $15. 320-593-2967

Furniture 3090 END TABLE. $5. 218-371-9314

PIANO STOOL, GLASS clawed feet,reproduction piece, asking $30.Hutchinson cell 314-941-9736

POWER RECLINERS. 1 brown, 1 blue.$20 each. 320-234-6824

SMALL CABINET, 1 drawer. Nice. $15.320-587-0722

STAND WITH GLASS top, 3-1/2' tall.$50. 320-587-0722

TODDLER BED, COMPLETE, unfin-ished wood. $10. 320-587-3456

TWIN SIZE HEADBOARDS, (3), $30-50. 320-234-6155

WALNUT HUTCH, BEAUTIFUL. $150.320-587-0722

WOOD DESK, GREAT for child's room,office, living/family room (doesn't takemuch space). Nice piece of furniture.$25 BO. 320-310-2117 or 320-237-7263, leave voicemail message or text

WOODEN DESKS. GOOD condition,nice. $25 each. 320-587-9285

Heat/AC Supplies 3110 HEATMASTER SS WOOD BOILERSStainless steel, round barrel design withrocker grate and ash pan. 20 yearlimited warranty. Don't wait anotheryear to start saving! Call Wood's EdgeAlternative Heating, LLC 320-864-6435www.woodsedge.us

Heat/AC Supplies 3110 HEAT SURGE HEATER, new bulbs,$175. 320-693-8934; after 6 pm.

HOT WATER HEATER, L.P., 40 gallon,used about 2 years, excellent condition,$150. Call 320-234-6804

WOODMATER WOOD BOILERS.Mild Steel, round barrel design, ashremoval system optional. 10 yearlimited warranty. Don't wait anotheryear to start saving! Call Wood's EdgeAlternative Heating, LLC. 320-864-6435www.woodsedge.us

Household Goods 3130 LARGE FRAMED MIRROR, 28x45.Glass size 35x23. $10. 320-587-3464

PIZELLE MAKER, WORKS fine. $35.320-593-1690

PORCELAIN DOLLS & doll cabinet,4x7 with glass front. Great condition.320-693-8749

WINDOW BLINDS (2), white, neverused, 62” x 48”, asking $30, retail $50.320-333-1658

Misc. For Sale 3160 190+ 1980'S DC/MARVEL & othercomics in protectors. Superheros andmore! All to go. 320-693-6695

1930 ROYAL PORTABLE typewriter,case and typing manual included, ex-cellent condition, $40. 320-453-3801

Misc. For Sale 3160 20 LB. LP TANKS. 2 with LP in, $20each. 1 empty $15. 320-562-2581

ACCEL IGNITION DISPLAY case. Vin-tage lighted metal cabinet. $100. 320-583-8946

ATTENTION NURSERY GROWERS:Winter over blanket for perennials andshrubs, never used, 72” x 250' roll,$200. (Sorry, no checks; cash only).Call Brian at 612-756-3234

CHILDREN'S VIDEOS (VHS). Disney,many titles to choose from. Asking price$4 each. 320-310-2117 or 320-237-7263, leave voicemail message or text

CHRISTMAS NET LIGHTS 5 clear and3 multi. $16. 320-693-8787

CONFERENCE TABLE, HEAVY dutycommercial oval oak laminate, 36x72.$75 BO. 320-275-4059

DEFIANT LEGAL FOR trade scale fromgrocery store. $199. 320-587-4837

DISHES: ROYAL STETSON under-glaze (made in USA), Royal Maytime.Not a full set. Make an offer. 320-587-4678

FOLD DOWN TV antenna tower, 40',$150. 320-333-4957

FULL SIZE LIFT base, head and footraise up and down. $400. 320-583-6903

HOT WHEELS, OLD and still in pack-age. Starting at $2 each. 320-262-9320

“HOW TO BECOME thin naturally byeating more.” $40. 320-593-2967

Misc. For Sale 3160 LIONEL TRANSFORMER VINTAGEtrain controller, model 4090 with dualcontrols. $40. 320-857-2124

LOPIM WOOD STOVE, with glassdoors. Metal desk. 507-834-6529

MATTERHORN, CHRISTMAS TREE,6/1/2', fully assembled and decoratedwith 5 strings of clear lights. $25. 320-693-8787

NEW IN BOX, “Grow with me” trike,original, Fisher Price. $25. 320-587-3456

POOL TABLE, FULL size, comes with 2sets of balls, cues, rack and other ac-cessories. Asking price is $200 BO.320-310-2117 or 320-237-7263, leavevoicemail message or text

STEEL WAGON WHEELS, three, eachmounted on a base. $20 each or allthree for $50 Hutchinson cell 314-941-9736

STORAGE SHED, 11'4”w X 14'2”l x15'10” h, $400. Sorry, no checks, cashonly. Call Brian 612-756-3234, anytime

TELESCOPING FLAG POLES. Kingston Lions Club. Wally Strand,320-398-6782; Bob Hermann, 320-693-6782; Dan Johnson, 320-275-2269; Lee Dahlquist, 320-286-0013.

TENTS FOR RENT: Also chairsand tables. Kingston Lions Club.Dave, 320-275-2804


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Misc. For Sale 3160 PRE-LIT CLEAR GARLAND, 25', withlighted wreath. $15. 320-693-8787

TENTS FOR RENT: for weddings,graduations, etc. 2-20x20's, 2-20x30's.Phone (320)693-3315.AR16-28c

THE RECYCYLERFREE PICK UP & RECYLE of your un-wanted items, metal, appliances, any-thing with extension cord. Serving theLitchfield and Grove City area. CallMike for an appointment. 320-262-9320

VINTAGE BICYCLE, 1958 ladies 26”balloon bike with front basket in ridingcondition. $45. 320-857-2124

Musical Instruments 3170 660 CONN ALTO sax, new, $1000.Selmer open hole flute, $350, new.American made. 320-693-8579

PACKARD PIANO, older, all ivory keys,in good condition, $100. Call 952-442-4913

PIANO, UPRIGHT, good condition.$150. Call 320-587-2423

YAMAHA ALTO SAXOPHONE, YAS23 for sale. Well cared for band instru-ment. $600 or offer. Call 320-223-3201if interested.

Power Equip/Tools 3190CRAFTSMAN 10” table saw, 4' table,runs good, $75. 320-593-7055

STANDING ROUTER TABLE. $20,320-593-7055

Sporting Goods 3191 BASKETBALL SHOES, MEN'S Adidassize 8, black with silver. PurchasedNov. 2011. Worn 1 basketball season.Paid $49.99, asking $20. 320-395-9839

BASKETBALL SHOES, MEN'S Nikesize 9. White with black and red. Worn2 months during spring basketball. Pur-chased April 2012. Paid $49.99, asking$20. 320-395-9839

BASKETBALL SHOES. MENS Adidassize 8. black with silver, purchased Nov2011, worn one basketball season. paid49.99 asking $20. 320-395-9839

BOYS HOCKEY SKATES, size 10 inchildren's. $10. 320-587-3456

BOYS UNDER ARMOUR basketballshoes, very good condition. Size 7Y.$10. 320-587-3456

DEER STAND, The Tree Lounge, verygood condition, $100. Call 320-221-3123

DOWNHILL SKI PACKAGE. Elan SCX163 skis with Salomon bindings, poles,and size 8 Women's Dalbello boots.Great deal for a beginner! $100 or offer.Call 320-223-3201

ICE AUGER, 7” with new blades. $20.320-587-9409

LOWRANCE x85, with assy, worksgood. $130. 320-510-0290

NIKE SHARK FOOTBALL spikes,black, like brand new, barely used, size8.5, $35. Call 320-587-7860

SNO-FURRY WOOD SLED, metal run-ners. $14. 320-593-2967

TASCO EXPEDITION, 3x9x44 riflescope, rubber coated, $75. 320-583-6903

TROLLING MOTOR, MARINER Maud-er, $135. 320-693-8934; after 6 pm.

WHITE NIKE VOLLEYBALL shoes,womens size 5, $5. Call 320-587-7860

Winter Sports 3193 (2) SNOWMOBILE HELMETS, ArcticCat, green, black, and white, with heat-ed visor, 1 L and 1 XL, like new, $75each. 320-587-5873

Auto Accessories 3198(3) P265 70 R17 tires, good tread, $40a piece. 320-221-0886

ACCESS TONNEAU COVER/CHEVYsilverado ext cab $270. 320-510-0290

AUDI A6 WINTER floor mats, set of 4,fits years 1997-2001, $20. 320-593-8055

CAR RAMPS, HEAVY duty, $45. 320-587-4837

Auto Accessories 3198HUB CAPS: 1978 Chevy, ¾ ton pickup,Scottsdale, 2WD, 1989 Ford F350. $20for each set. 320-238-2306

TIRES (2), 70/R15 steel rims, $20.Rims are from 1998 Ford Taurus wag-on. With 3.0 V6 engine, FWD, Call An-drew, 320-296-0824 anytime

TIRES, 4 each, size P225/65R16, oktread, all for $80. 612-919-4507

Misc. Wheels 3199autos/recreational

2003 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500LT. Extended cab. 82,469 miles. 4WDleather, loaded, excellent, dark graymetallic. $14,900. 320-234-3666

WANTED: JUNK & Repairablevehicles and farm machinery.Paying top $$$24 hour towing availableCall 320-275-3960

Buy Sell Trade 3200

WANTED: JUNK VEHICLES, oldfarm equipment, combines, heavyequipment, any scrap iron. Willpick up. Will Clean Up. Also havescrap metal dumpsters available.320-221-2092

WANTED: USED MOTORCYCLES.Running or not, titles or no titles, paycash, will pick up. 320-469-0860

WANTED: VEHICLES RUNNINGor not. Cash on the spot. $200 -$1000. Call Dick, 320-220-1095

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Animal Supplies 4010 INDIGO IGLOO DOG house, for largedog, like new condition. $35. 320-583-2764

LARGE DOG KENNEL, excellent con-dition, with new camo kennel jacket,only $85. 320-234-3678

WIRE DOG KENNEL. 22"h x 24"w x38"L $25. Call 320-275-4059

Farm Equip/Sup. 4020 1967 JOHN DEERE 3020 with loader.320-693-7506

Pets 4070 CROW RIVER OBEDIENCE offers dogclasses for all levels. We accept dogsof all ages and sizes. Call Audrey 320-693-7694

DOG BOARDING, LARGE indoor andoutdoor runs. Reservations suggested.Steve & Joan Turck, Litchfield, 320-693-394414tfc

RAT TERRIER PUPS. First shots,docked, wormed, companion for fami-lies, kids, elderly, truckers, $125 cash.320-221-3081

REDNOSE PIT PUPPIES: 5 males and2 females. They are 9 weeks old andare vet checked with shots and de-worming. They are very cute and cud-dly. All have different colors and mark-ings. 320-848-6759

Pets/Free 4080 FREE KITTENS. GOOD indoor homesonly. Eating well, litter box, trained,beautiful. 320-221-5459

OUTDOOR KITTENS needing indoorhomes. Call 320-587-5436

Yard/Garden 4110 CRAFTSMAN RIDING LAWN mower,GT 3000, needs battery, runs good.$200. 320-262-9320

Yard/Garden 4110 JOHN DEERE MODEL 322, 2 cyclesnow blower, $100. Call 320-275-4059

MARY MAC WOOD chipper, 5HP mo-tor, low hours, runs great. $200. 320-234-7981

PARTING OUT RIDING LAWN mow-ers, rear trans axle for riding lawn mow-er, starters, carburetors. Parts startingat $50. 320-238-2306

SIMPLICITY RIDING LAWN tractor,16HP, 48” deck, hydrostatic drive, as is,$250. 320-238-2306

6000 Rentals

Homes for Rent 60053 BR, 2 BA, HOUSE IN LITCHFIELDExtremely clean, New paint, oak floors,central air, washer/dryer, 2 stall garage,nice backyard, great location. nopets/no smoking. $725. plus utilities.612-618-7114 or 320-286-6389

5 BR, 3 BA. Gorgeous classic home,$1200 month + utilities. 317 N Arm-strong Ave, Litchfield. Scott, 370-434-0962

BEAUTIFUL RENT TO own home inLitchfield 3 BR, 1 bath. Granite coun-ters, new flooring. $5000 down and$800 per month, 320-212-6506

Farm Land 6020 WANTED: LAND OWNERS willing toprosper with a respected farmmanager/operator. We can work togeth-er to capitalize on your investment. Asalways, competitive with references.Over 100 years of Family DiversifiedAgriculture. Scott Streich. (320) 583-5324.

Storage Rental 6060

LITCHFIELD STORAGEWell Lit Area, Convenient Location,24/7 Access, Month to Month Rent,Long Term Discount, Unit Sizes6x10, 10x20, 10x25. 320-693-9370

MINI STORAGE RENTALnew units, 5x10, 10x20, 10x40. Se-curity lighting, patrolled regularly,paved lot & entrances. Convenientintown location. Economy Mini Stor-age. 320 South Davis.

320-699-0308

RIPLEY MINI STORAGE, starting at$39.95, 10x11, 10x22, 10x28, 10x16,also available. 1205 Sibley Ave S,Litchfield, 320-693-6136 or 320-593-2248

SELF STORAGE. ALL metal fully en-closed storage. Size 10x20, 1325 E.Hwy 12, behind Home State Bank.Tangen Properties. 320-221-1805

Vacation Rentals 6070 LAKEHOME FOR RETREAT. Shortand longer rentals available. Sleeps 6+.Furnished, heat/AC. Lake Jennie. 320-587-8809

Litchfield 6510 1 & 2 BR APTS coming available. Ref-erences required. Quiet, not for the par-ty folks. 763-248-2579

1 & 2 BR APTS in Litchfield. NO Pets,References Required. Call 320-693-8497 or 320-693-3444

1BR PUBLIC HOUSING UNITwith rent based on income. Prefer-ence given for elderly/disabled re-ceiving social security benefits. Pref-erence also given for applicants re-quiring our 24 hour onsite housingwith services (24/hour awake staff).

Call 320-693-2104, forapplications/tour of facility

APARTMENT FOR RENT IN LITCH-FIED, call 320-221-3669.

CREEKSIDE APARTMENTSFREE cable, 2 BR's now avail-able. Quiet, country setting inLitchfield. 320-693-6091 or 1-800-892-2091

DUPLEX, 1 BR available, new updates,garage, $400 month plus utilities. 424Holcombe Ave S. 320-295-6824

HIGHLANDER APTS. 2 BR, newly re-modeled. $500 per month, 1 year lease.320-693-0400

LITCHFIELD, 1 BR, heat, trash, water,electric included. Washer/dryer in apt.$460 month. 320-282-9320

Dassel 6590 DASSEL, FULLY RENOVATED, 2 BR,single level with laundry, off street park-ing. Responsible persons, no smoking,pets. References, damage deposit re-quired. $700 + utilities. 320-587-8809

Grove City 6620 2 BR DUPLEX in Grove City, veryclean, new appliances, dishwasher,washer/dryer, AC, garage, lots of stor-age, no pets please. $550 month. Avail-able now. 952-461-2897

LARGE 2 BR APT in Grove City on-sitelaundry, garbage, garage included.$456 month. Call Linda, 320-857-2170or Bob, 320-857-2326

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COUNTY ATTORNEY APPOINT-MENT: Meeker County is seeking afull-time County Attorney due to theCounty Attorney's recent appointmentas District Court Judge. The County At-torney is responsible for criminal prose-cutions, civil actions, advice to electedofficials, including the County Boardand the appointed Department Heads.In addition, the County Attorney fulfillsall other duties as required by law.There will be supervision for three (3)full-time Assistant County Attorneys andfour (4) support office staff. The ap-pointment is for the remainder of thecurrent term of elected office (throughDecember 31, 2014). Any candidate forCounty Attorney after this appointmenttime must file for election on or beforeJuly 2014 then run for election to the of-fice in November 2014 for four yearterms. Applicants must be licensed topractice law in Minnesota, have severalyears of experience as an attorney, andpossess substantial criminal and civil le-gal experience, as well as governmentlaw experience. Some supervisory ex-perience preferred. Salary commensu-rate with experience. For applicationform contact the Cheryl Brueggemeier,Human Resource Specialist, 325 SibleyAvenue North, Litchfield, 693-5203, orgo to www.co.meeker.mn.us and clickon “Employment Opportunities”. Dead-line for applications is 4:30 p.m. onNovember 27, 2012. AN EOE.

Health/Medical 8060

CEDAR CREST ESTATE, INC. cur-rently has openings for FT TMA's & PTCNA's and Cooks at our Hutch Facility.FT & PT TMA's & CNA's at our SilverLake Facility. FT/PT CNA's & PT Cooksat our Cosmos Facility. Please apply online at: cedarcrestmn.com or come in to one ofour 3 locations

Health/Medical 8060ECUMEN OF LITCHFIELD,EMMANUEL is looking for aHousekeeping / Laundry Assistant.Would work 56 hours bi-weeklyincluding every other weekend. Dayshift: 5 am - 1:30 pm / 6 am - 2:30 pm.Applications can be picked up at 600South Davis, Litchfield MN or call 320-693-2472 to request one. AAEEO

ECUMEN OF LITCHFIELD,EMMANUEL has a LPN opening; 32hrs bi-weekly including every otherweekend. (2:30pm–11:00pm) includingevery other weekend. Must havecurrent MN LPN license withexperience in LTC. Applications can bepicked up at 600 South Davis, LitchfieldMN 55355 or call 320-693-2472 torequest one. AAEEO

Part Time 8110HELP WANTED: PART TIME, after-noon and early evening hours at Cenexstation. Pick up applications at Con-sumers Coop, 1025 Frontage Rd E,Litchfield

Part Time 8300

HELP WANTEDDriver Education

InstructorsToday's Driving School is hiringpart-time education instructors toteach behind-the-wheel trainingand/or classroom instruction. Flexi-ble hours to fit your schedule. Inter-ested candidates must:

Be 21 years of age or older

Must have clean driving record

Enjoy working with youngadults

Call 320-293-0352 to schedule an interview

Seasonal Positions 8500POWDER RIDGE IN KIMBALL is inneed of Ski and Snowboard Instructors,Part time Dec.-Mar., also lift, tubing,rental and kitchen workers. Will train.Apply on-line at www.powderirdge.comor at the chalet M-F, 8-4. 320-398-7200.

LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE is look-ing for someone to do snow removal at2 of our homes in Litchfield. Snow re-moval must be done by 8am. If interest-ed please call Leaurie at 320-693-3337

Litchfield Police

AUCTIONLitchfield City Garage – 420 West 4th St., Litchfield

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Results of area city, township racesCEDAR MILLS

Mayor

� Samuel Flom 22Treasurer

� Andrew Hooper 23COSMOS

Mayor

� Rich Gieser 174Dale Jackson 54City Council

� Jody Fruetel 164Dale Schultz 87� Ronald Tusha 102Matthew Engelson 47COSMOS TOWNSHIP

Supervisor

� Paul Flux 113Clerk

� Gerald Fank 110DANIELSON TOWNSHIP

Supervisor

(write-in)Treasurer

(write-in)DARWIN

Mayor

� Josh Johnson 158City Council

� Mark Gabrielson 116Jeremy Cates 68� Sarah Kotila 87DARWIN TOWNSHIP

Supervisor

� Eric Gabrielson 344Clerk

(write-in)DASSEL

Mayor

Larry Oberg 109Michael Scanlon 273� Jeff rey Putnam 309

City Council

Jonathan Haapala 136Bob Lalone 166Jack Adams 91� Sara Nelson 391� Sharon Asplin 459EDEN VALLEY

Mayor

� Pete Korman 203City Council

� Eric Reetz 165� Cheryl Thielen 126Peggy Bethel 117GROVE CITY

Mayor

Sean Gallagher 34Michael Bredeson 82� Melissa Drange 187City Council

� Karl Nelson 171� Gwen Cram 177Melissa Bergstrom 31Tim Nelson 99Dean Rueckert 86HARVEY TOWNSHIP

Supervisor

� Dale Pautzke 168Clerk

� Wanda Urdahl 166KINGSTON

Mayor

� Jim Herda 76City Council

� Van Zwettler 65� Peter Axford 57KINGSTON TOWNSHIP

Supervisor

� Ned Root 558Clerk

� Gail Schiefelbein 553

Town Question

Shall the second Tuesday in March of each year be designated as the date of the Kingston Township general election?� Yes 509No 89LITCHFIELD

City Council At-Large

� Ron Dingmann 2,702Ward 2

� Connie Lies 545Ward 4

� Vernon Loch 557WATKINS

Mayor

Scott Piccerillo 62Lynn Hokanson 55Kathleen Tschumperlin 126� Dennis Loch 147City Council

� Melody Gertken 217� Sue Unterberger 217Jesse Hesse 149Leroy Holthaus 61Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City

School Board

� Joel Gratz 630Michelle Randt 586� Dale Martin 703Jeanna Lilleberg 591� Sarah Blom 688Eden Valley-Watkins

School Board

Troy Thielen 380Robert Flaschenriem 505� Bob Stenger 547� Sarah Kuechle 735Dan Weiss 341� Shelley Kern 685

BY JENNY BERG

STAFF WRITER

Three candidates were elect-ed to the Litchfield School Board in the elections Tuesday, including Stacey Helstrom, Marcia Provencher and David Huhner.

Helstrom, the lone incum-bent among the four candi-dates, garnered 2,963 votes, around 25 percent of the to-tal votes. Helstrom was first elected to the school board in 2004, and has served as board chairperson for two years.

“A couple things that went through my mind is how much I’ve appreciated (outgo-ing board members) Brian Park and Karla Rick contribut-

ing to the board. I’m going to miss them, but I’m excited we have new members coming on board,” said Helstrom, noting the opportunity to broaden the viewpoints of existing mem-bers with new ideas from out-side voices.

Also joining the board is Marcia Provencher, who re-ceived 3,518 votes, the highest number of votes in the race.

“I guess I go into this next adventure. I’m looking forward to it,” Provencher said.

Provencher commented one of the things she has missed since retiring after 27 years of working in Community Educa-tion is being a team player who helps problem solve and create “new paths to innovative ideas.”

“I’m looking forward to that challenge,” Provencher said.

The third member elected to the school board is David Huhner with 3,002 votes. Huh-ner said his first duty, being an

outsider to the group, will be to listen and learn and get caught up to speed on board processes and issues.

“I’m just super excited and thankful,” Huhner said. “I’m excited for the opportunity and thankful the voters gave me the chance.”

The three elected members will join the board in January. The Litchfield School Board, under the direction of new Dis-trict Superintendent Dan Fra-zier, meets on the second and fourth Mondays of the month in room 200 of the Meeker County Family Service Center.

Board goals for the 2012-13 school year include continuing to improve fiscal transparency and understanding for staff and the community, establishing an improved delivery system for teacher professional develop-ment, and increasing access to and usage of modern technol-ogy in classrooms.

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Regardless of the outcome of Tuesday’s election, Sen. Scott Newman said Monday that he and Sen. Mike Parry are press-ing on with their challenges to Secretary of State Mark Ritchie’s alleged inappropriate campaigning against the Voter ID amendment.

Republicans Newman, R-Hutchinson, and Parry, R-

Waseca, filed complaints with the Minnesota Campaign Fi-nance and Public Disclosure Board, Office of Administra-tive Hearings and Office of the Legislative Auditor last month.

The three complaints, col-lectively, assert that Ritchie improperly used public funds and the prestige of his elected office in an effort to defeat the ballot initiative requiring vot-ers to show photo IDs.

Judge Bruce Johnson with the OAH last week dismissed the senators’ complaint with that office, concluding there was “no probable cause to be-lieve that any of the violations of (Minnesota statutes on fair campaign practices) alleged in the complaint have occurred.”

Last month, the campaign fi-nance board declined to inves-tigate the matter deeming the senators’ complaint “insuffi-cient” in part because informa-tion presented on the Secretary of State’s website about possible effects of passing the amend-ment didn’t constitute “express advocacy” encouraging people to either vote for or against the proposal.

Newman said a decision from the Office of the Legisla-tive Auditor was still pending and was not likely to be reached before the election.

Speaking of the OAH’s ac-tion, Newman said, “The fact that it was dismissed doesn’t mean that what Mark Ritchie did was right.”

Newman, Parry press case against RitchieJudge dismisses complaint alleging Ritchie misused funds

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Rumor has it that I snore.

I say “rumor,” because despite the best persuasive eff orts of my family to convince me of this fact, I still have never caught myself snoring.

Yet, this rumor has off ered many opportunities for my children and wife to poke some fun.

I’ve heard all the stories about the sound of a chainsaw coming from my bedroom, or the windows rattling in the house as I slept.

My kids giggle when I fall asleep on the couch at the end of a busy day, and they have to turn up the volume on the television to “20” to compete with my snoring.

Although I still refuse to accept their claims that I snore, if it were true, I guess it would be hereditary. Many times while growing up — and even today when we visit my parents — I witnessed my father “sawing logs,” as he used to say.

Funny how that trait gets passed along from one generation to the next.

Well, anyway, my family has put up with my rumored snoring for many years now, and they handle it good naturedly.

What concerns my wife is that, at times during deep sleep, she witnesses long pauses between my snores. This used to panic her, as she believed I had quit breathing. But with time, she’s learned to correct the issue with a simple nudge to the ribs. (Pretty much the same approach she uses when she can’t put up with my snoring anymore.)

This topic came up the other day as our children began to kid me about my naps on the couch and the snoring that often accompanies them.

My wife defended me (??) by saying that the snoring isn’t so bad, “It’s when he stops breathing that worries me,” she off ered.

“What do you do then?” 11-year-old Chloe asked. “Do you wake him up?”

“Of course I do,” her mother responded. “Most of the time.”

This is humor at our house, a smart-alecky skill that has been learned quite well by our three children. Elijah demonstrated this as he quickly responded to my wife’s one-liner.

“Well, yeah,” my 9-year-old, who loves his father very much said. “After all, Dad’s gotta get his rest.”

— B.A.S.

A restful (?) sleep

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LOCAL BRIEFS

Chancellors Quartet gospel group toperform in Litchfield

The Southern gospel group, Chancel-lors Quartet, will perform at 6 p.m. Sun-day, Nov. 11 at the Church of the Naza-rene in Litchfield. The group has been performing across the country since the 1970s, and has made several radio and television appearances. There’ sno charge to attend, but a free-will offering will be accepted. For more information. For questions, contact Dave or Sandi Huikko at 320-275-0197.

Snowflake promotion begins Nov. 19

The Litchfield Chamber of Com-merce’s snowflakes promotion will begin Monday, Nov. 19 and run through

Sunday, Dec. 16. Local consumers will have the opportunity to win cash prizes by shopping locally at more than 30 participating businesses. Snowflake tickets are distributed at the participat-ing businesses as customers make their purchases. At the end of the four-week period, tickets are drawn for $2,500 in cash prizes. Community members with winning number tickets could win one of three $500 cash prizes or the top prize of $1,000.

Running for a good cause

If you’re a runner or walker and love to participate in 5K events, mark your calendar. There’s a new event coming to Hutchinson.

Snap Fitness is introducing its first 5K event — the Turkey Trot 5K Run/Walk at 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 17.

This event is for everyone with 100

percent of the proceeds going to the McLeod Emergency Food Shelf for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.

The participation fee is $15 plus a nonperishable food donation. The dead-line for advance registration is Friday, Nov. 9. Those that sign up by this date are guaranteed a long-sleeve T-shirt. Registration after Nov. 9 is $20 and a nonperishable food donation.

Packet pick up is from 7 to 8:45 a..m. on race day — Saturday, Nov. 17 — at Snap Fitness in downtown Hutchinson.

The race route begins at Snap Fit-ness and follows Main Street South to Second Avenue West to Lewis Avenue, north on School Road, across the bridge and then the race follows the Luce Line Trail along the Crow River. The race ends near the dam. The run route can be found online at www.favoriterun.com/422742.

For more information, call Mark Morris at 320-234-7627, or email [email protected].

BY JENNY BERG

STAFF WRITER

Litchfield resident Tina Pennertz loves to bowl. Why?

“Because it’s my favorite thing to

do,” Pennertz announced.Pennertz has bowled

her whole life, but never competitively — until she joined the newly-formed Litchfield Area Special Olympics SPITFIRE bowling team.

Pennertz is part of the five-member Special Olympics bowling team offered this fall for the first time through Litchfield Community Education and Recreation. Individuals with intellectual disabilities age 8 through adult have the opportunity to train with local volunteer coaches in sports such as bowling, basketball, aquatics, and track and field, and then compete in area and state competitions if they choose.

Litchfield Community Education Director Bob Lawrence is a coach for the SPITFIRE bowling team.

“Just getting to know and building relationships with the athletes, and knowing that it’s impacting their lives in a positive way” is rewarding, Lawrence said.

Lawrence noted many of the athletes were not able to compete on high school or youth athletic teams, and Special Olympics programs fill that void.

“It’s just an organization that really cares about what they’re doing,” Lawrence said. “They try to make their competitions as high level quality as they can, to really give the experience to the athletes that they might have missed out on.”

The dream to bring Special Olympics activities to Litchfield began last year when the Litchfield Community Education

advisory council identified unmet needs within the community, and found one of the needs was programming for individuals with disabilities.

“We decided to pursue it, and within a week, we had gotten a voicemail from a

representative from Special Olympics Minnesota saying they wanted to expand in the area,” Lawrence said. “Timing-wise, it was a relevant conversation here.”

Lawrence said Special Olympics Minnesota was able to offer Community Education some funding for start-up costs such as jerseys for athletes.

Most Special Olympics sports seasons are eight weeks long, and include area and state competitions. Athletes practice with volunteer coaches for one hour once a week to work on skills.

“We should have at least one person who understands the sport as the head coach because we want to be able to train and to improve in the sport, but the remainder of the coaches just have to have a desire or willingness to commit to working with the athletes,” Lawrence said. “They don’t really need to understand the sport. They don’t need to be highly skilled in that specific sport because Special Olympics will provide that training, but also it’s just a matter of encouragement and reminders on their form and method.”

Pennertz said she has improved a lot since joining

the SPITFIRE bowling team. For her, the best part of practice is getting a spare or a strike.

“My favorite part is trying my best to get higher scores,” said Pennertz, who noted she has also met several people since joining the bowling team. “I like making friends with bowling.”

Four Litchfield bowlers competed in the Special Olympics Area 6 bowling competition Oct. 13 in Hutchinson. Pennertz received a first place ribbon, Litchfield residents Rhonda Schmitz and Matthew Sook both received third place ribbons, and Litchfield High School student Amy Felt received a fourth place ribbon.

Getting the ball rollingSpecial Olympics programs rev up in Litchfield

Litchfi eld resident Rhonda Schmitz, a member of the Litchfi eld Special Olympics bowling team, focuses before her turn at practice. Schmitz won a third place ribbon at the Special Olympics Area 6 bowling competition Oct. 13 in Hutchinson.

STAFF PHOTOS BY JENNY BERG

The new SPITFIRE bowling team gets the ball rolling for the Litchfi eld Area Special Olympics program, which began this fall. Community Education and Recreation Director Bob Lawrence said other programs starting this year will be basketball, aquatics, and track and fi eld.

“Th e rewards outweigh what you’re putting into it. It’s a very fun organization to be part of, particularly when you get to competitions”Bob LawrenceLitchfi eld Community Education and Recreation Director on coaching the Litchfi eld Area Special Olympics bowling team

How to get involved The Litchfi eld Area Special Olympics team is looking for coaches and athletes for the basketball and aquatic programs beginning in January, and for track and fi eld this spring.

Community Education and Recreation Director Bob Lawrence said they also plan to off er additional Special Olympics Minnesota programs such as bocce ball and golf if coaches and athletes are interested.

For more information, contact Community Education at (320) 693-2354.

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I’ve had a lot of dogs in my life ... at the present time we have four here at Cricket Meadow: Buck, Lily, Ruger and Nelli. I have a special place in my heart for each one. And, with advancing age and recent health issues for all but the latter, I am reminded that I may have to part with them sooner than later. Which reminded me of all the canine friends I have said goodbye to in my life.

The dog I remember best from my childhood was Smokey, a beautiful border collie mix with tan and white accents on his smoke-colored fur. He was really the mainstay of my youth in that we got him when I was four years old, and he lived for almost 12 years.

We never had housedogs back on the farm. Our dogs were lavished with love, fed and sheltered well, but never set foot in the house. Smokey had a doghouse nestled in the lilac bushes in the backyard and was fed table scraps from an old iron skillet. He trailed us as we did our chores and followed us as we rode our bikes, always staying at the end of the driveway. My Dad had a “no chasing cars” policy and somehow got the dogs we owned to refrain from tire biting and running in the road.

We all loved Smokey, who possessed a gentle personality but gave a firm bark to any stranger who drove in the yard. In the wintertime, Dad tucked his house right next to ours so he was sheltered from the wind and feeding him was easier when the drifts mounded up in the lawn.

One night during an ice storm, for some reason, Smokey sought shelter in the haystack near the barn. When Dad noticed him missing for morning chores, he discovered Smokey’s lifeless form under some fallen bales. We were as crushed as Smokey had been, and mourned for weeks over the loss of our beloved pet. Though we know going into pet ownership that it is a fleeting thing, it doesn’t make the loss any easier. We did have dogs that followed Smokey. But he was our first real dog love and none of us have ever forgotten him.

Ice Storm Stew2 tablespoons flour1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper1 pound boneless pork, cut into chunks2 cloves garlic1 tablespoon oil3 cups vegetable broth12 ounces beer2 large sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed3 parsnips, peeled and sliced1 medium onion, cut up1-1/2 teaspoons thyme1 tablespoon brown sugar1 tablespoon Dijon mustard4 tomatoes, chopped2 apples, cored and cut into wedgesIn a plastic bag, combine flour and red pepper. Add pork

and shake to coat. In a 4-quart Dutch oven, cook meat and garlic in hot oil until meat is browned. Stir in broth, beer, sweet potatoes, parsnips, onions, thyme, brown sugar and mustard. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 30 minutes. Stir in tomatoes and apples. Return to boiling. Reduce heat and simmer, covered for about 5 minutes until vegetables are tender.

Canine Crunch (for pet owners)1 cup rice cereal1/2 cup golden raisins1/2 cup dry-roasted peanuts1 cup dried apricots, diced16 ounces almond barkIn a large mixing bowl, melt almond bark in microwave,

stirring until smooth, about 3 minutes. Add other ingredients. Combine well and drop by spoonfuls onto waxed paper. Chill.

Haystacks1/2 cup chocolate chips1/2 cup butterscotch chips1/2 cup peanut butter1/2 cup salted peanuts2 cups chow mein noodlesPlace chips and peanut butter in a large bowl. Stir. Add

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Remembering our loved ones includes man’s best friend

The Litchfield Area Male Chorus was invited to the Cragun’s Resort in Brainerd, Minn., to sing patriotic songs at a Sept. 24 reunion of more than 70 members of the 196th Regimental Combat Team.

The 196th RCT was original-ly made up of soldiers from the South Dakota Army National Guard. They were training at Ft. McCoy, Wis., when the Ko-rean War broke out. Thirty-six days later, in September 1950, the 196th RCT was activated and soon they were on their way to Fort Carson, Colo.

The Under Secretary of the Army, Dr. Joseph W. Westphal, was in Minnesota to show the Army’s appreciation for Na-tional Guard soldiers at Camp Ripley, and discuss the future of the Army with heroes from a different era.

The group, which in early 1951 numbered 4,795 soldiers, held its first reunion in 1987 and planned to get together every two years in a different

location. Wayne Wilson, a Male Chorus Member and member of the 196th RCT, was instrumen-tal in planning this year’s event including inviting the vocal talents of the Litchfield Area Male Chorus and their director,

Randy Wilson.Dr. Westphal thanked the

men for their service to their country and ended his talk by fielding questions from the audience concerning today’s Army.

The night was a time for American heroes to get togeth-er with old friends, talk about their duty, remember stories of time spent with the 196th RCT and celebrate service to this great country 60 years ago.

Litchfield Male Chorus invited to combat team reunion

Members of the Litchfi eld Area Male Chorus sing at the Sept. 24 reunion of the 196th Regimental Combat Team in Brainerd.

4H REPORT

Valley VictorsThe Valley Victors 4-H club

held their harvest party/new year kick-off on Oct. 14 at the Steve and Carrie Ludwig residence. Roll call was name your favorite fall activity. The new 2012-13 club officers were installed. Many new families were present. The club will do the fall road ditch cleanup Oct. 27. The club chose shooting

sports as their project of in-terest. The community pride project will be the Eden Val-ley Library and the food shelf garden. Thank you to Todd and Ann Lemke for having the food shelf garden at their place this year. There was a hayride and games after the meeting. The next meeting will be Nov. 5 at the Mike and Bridget Lux residence.

— Katherine Gathje, reporter

RESCUE SQUAD

The Litchfield Rescue Squad Sweepstakes calendar winners for Oct. 29-Nov. 2: $20 — Jody Miller of Litchfield, Adam Fast of Litchfield, Mark Thompson of Eagen, Minn., Johnny Wim-mer of Litchfield, Darrin Schutt of Brownton, Minn. Checks will be mailed monthly.

BIRTH

Calvin James Kadelbach

Matthew and Julie Kadelbach of Litchfield announce the birth of their son, Calvin James Ka-delbach. He was born at 3:46 a.m. on Sept. 28. He weighed seven pounds, seven ounces and was 20 inches long. He is welcomed home by his big brother Keagan and big sister Lucy. Grandpar-ents are Rodney and Deb Kraft and Jim and Karen Kadelbach. Great grandparents are Marce Solmonson and Bob Kadelbach.

James and Karen Kadel-bach of Litchfield announce the engagement of their daughter, Katey Kadelbach of Atwater, to Jason Rosen-quist of Atwater. Jason is the son of Frans and Debbie

Rosenquist of Atwater. Katey graduated from Litchfield High School and Ridgewater College and is a stay-at-home mom. Jason is a graduate of New London-Spicer High School and is self-employed as a farmer. The wedding is planned for February 2, 2013, at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Atwater.

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Local teachers from Litch-field, Eden Valley-Watkins and Dassel-Cokato districts were honored at the Leaders in Edu-cational Excellence Awards ceremony Oct. 24 at the River’s Edge Convention Center in St. Cloud.

The honorees, who were nominated by their school or district, received a plaque and certificate from Gov. Mark Day-ton. More than 150 educators from 41 school districts were honored.

Among those honored were three Litchfield educators (pic-

tured above).Eden Valley-Watkins educa-

tors were also honored at the ceremony, including retired Eden Valley Elementary teach-er Peggy Plath and Secondary School art teacher Carolyn Becher.

In addition, Dassel-Cokato educators received honors, including high school FACS teacher Karen Ness, Dassel second-grade teacher Melissa Opsahl, Cokato second-grade teacher Rachel Franklin and eighth-grade geography teach-er Jacob Stang.

Local teachers honored at awards ceremony

Litchfi eld educators honored at the Leaders in Educational Excellence Awards ceremony include, from left, Litchfi eld Middle School Assistant Principal Bryan Goraczkowski, Title I/Basic Skills Coordinator Sue Fenton and Wagner Elementary fourth-grade teacher Mike Warpula. Executive Director of Resource Training and Solutions Rob Cavanna is pictured in the front, third from the left. Also pictured, in the back row from the left, is Litchfi eld High School Principal Adam Holm, Lake Ripley and Wagner Elementary Principal Gregg Zender and Superintendent Daniel Frazier.

Current classes can be found in the electronic version of our program guide at our website at www.litchfieldcommunityed.com.

UPCOMING CLASSES AND ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:

Nov. 12 — Youth archery Nov. 13 — X-Treme Kids Nov. 17 — Dribblin’ Drag-

ons Nov. 19 — Tae Kwon Do Nov. 27 — Extreme Lego:

Pulleys, Gymnastics

YOUTH TRIPS

Nickelodeon Universe at Mall Of America on Nov. 5, Minnesota Children’s Theatre “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” on Nov. 16, and Skatin’ Place in St. Cloude on Dec. 28.

FALL BUS TRIPS

Bus trips this fall include Disney on Ice at Xcel Energy Center on Dec. 6 ($28). All prices include motor coach transportation.

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Fou r-hou r refresher course

Nov. 13 — 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Nov. 13 — 12:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Eight-hour initial course Nov. 7 and 8 — 5:30 to

9:30 p.m.

ADULT BASIC EDUCATION CLASSES

Adult Basic Education classes, including GED and ESL, are free. Earn your

diploma, learn English or study for your citizenship test. Instructors are available 5 to 8 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays. All classes are at the Meeker County Family Service Center.

Feel free to stop into my office, call 693-2354, email [email protected] with any thoughts, questions, concerns or ideas regarding how Community Education can better serve you.

COMMUNITY EDUCATION

Upcoming classes include Youth Archery

The following are menus for Litchfield Public Schools. All meals include 1/2 pint of milk.

Week of Nov. 12-16

HEAD START BREAKFAST

Monday — Breakfast on a stick, apple sauce.

Tuesday — Muffin, cheese stick, peaches.

Wednesday — Cinnamon roll, yogurt, pears.

Thursday — Breakfast om-elet, English muffin, peaches.

HEAD START LUNCH

Monday — Hot dog on a bun, seasoned fries, green beans, peaches.

Tuesday — Salad with pop-corn chicken, breadstick, sea-

soned carrots, fresh fruit.Wednesday — Fish sticks,

oven fries, cole slaw, pineapple tidbits.

Thursday — Meat and gra-vy, mashed potatoes, mixed veggies, fresh fruit, fresh din-ner roll, holiday dessert.

LAKE RIPLEY AND WAGNER ELEMENTARY

BREAKFAST

Monday — Cereal, granola bar, apple sauce.

Tuesday — Breakfast bites, cheese slices, fruit juice.

Wednesday — Cereal, wheat toast, fresh fruit.

Thursday — Frudel bar, Trix yogurt, fruit juice.

Friday —No School.

LAKE RIPLEY AND WAGNER LUNCH

Monday — Hot dog on a bun, seasoned fries, green beans, peaches.

Tuesday — Salad with pop-corn chicken, breadstick, sea-soned carrots, fresh fruit.

Wednesday — Fish sticks, oven fries, cole slaw, pineapple tidbits.

Thursday — Meat and gra-vy, mashed potatoes, mixed veggies, fresh fruit, fresh din-ner roll, holiday dessert.

Friday — No School.

MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL BREAKFAST

Monday — Breakfast on a stick, apple sauce.

Tuesday — Muffin, cheese stick, fruit juice.

Wednesday — Cinnamon roll, yogurt, fruit choice.

Thursday —Breakfast om-elet, English muffin, fruit juice.

Friday —Pancakes, sau-sage link, fruit juice.

MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL LUNCH

Same as lunch menu for Lake Ripley and Wagner with the following alternates:

Monday — Hamburger/bun.

Tuesday — PBJ.Wednesday — BBQ/bun.Thursday — None.Friday — Egg salad sand-

wich.

LITCHFIELD SCHOOL MENUS

Members and coaches of the Litchfi eld Area Special Olympics bowling team, SPITFIRE, pose during a practice at Litchfi eld Bowling Center, from left, front, Tina Pennertz, Amy Felt, Carolyn Okeefe, Matthew Sook and Rhonda Schmitz; back, coaches Bob Lawrence, Barb Felt and Autumn Mickelson.


The athletes are bracketed based on scores submitted at the beginning of the season, and compete against other athletes with similar scores. They are now training for the state competition Nov. 10 in Blaine, Minn.

The crew practices every Wednesday at Litchfield Bowl-ing Center with coaches Law-rence, Autumn Mickelson, special education teacher at Lake Ripley Elementary, and Barb and Russ Felt. Practice entails athletes bowling two games simultaneously in two side-by-side lanes, and then the scores are averaged out in the same manner as Special Olym-pics bowling competitions.

“For a couple of out athletes, their scores at the area compe-tition were much higher than any of their practice scores,” Lawrence said. “The bowling alley being filled with hun-

dreds of bowlers really ener-gized them.”

Within a few weeks, com-munity members can sign up to be a coach or athlete for winter Special Olympics activi-ties, including swimming and basketball, which will start in January.

Lawrence said they plan to have a skills portion of the bas-ketball program, but also create a unified partners team, which is a team of 12 players. Up to eight of the players on the team will be intellectually disabled, and four non-disabled players will serve as unified partners. Lawrence hopes to have a school-age team comprised of students and partners in grades 6-12.

Special Olympics Minnesota offers 17 different sports for athletes to participate in, and Lawrence said Community Education plans to add more programs such as bocce ball and golf if enough coaches and athletes show interest.

“I’m just excited for where it can go,” Lawrence said.

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We have just come through a very divisive election season. During the recent election campaigns, we have seen and heard many things, including selfishness. At times, all sides seemed determined to merely “get what they wanted” no matter what the cost to others or to our nation as a whole.

Webster’s New Ideal Dictionary defines “selfish”

this way: 1. Concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself. Seeking or concentrating on one’s own advantage, pleasure, or well-being without regard for others. 2. Arising from concern with one’s own welfare or advantage in regard to others.

Elisa Morgan of MOPS International (Mothers of Preschoolers) defines

“selfish” with a piece called, The Toddler’s Creed:

If I want it, it’s mine. If I give it to you and

change my mind later, it’s mine. If I can take it away from

you, it’s mine. If I had it a little while ago,

it’s mine. If it’s mine, it will never

belong to anyone else, no mat-ter what.

If we are building some-

thing together, all the pieces are mine.

If it looks just like mine, it is mine.

The Apostle Paul offers us an alternative to this selfishness in Philippians 2:3-8: “Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the

interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient, unto death, even death on a cross.”

Rev. Bill

KERRWORDS FOR LIVING

Christ offers alternative to selfishness

A/G-LIGHTHOUSE

28164 Hwy. 22 N., Litchfield(320) 593-2202Pastor Chris CastillejaSunday — 10 a.m. Worship.

ALL SAINTS LUTHERAN

118 First St. N., Darwin(320) 693-5778Pastor Joe MidthunSunday — 10:30 a.m. Worship.

APOSTOLIC LUTHERAN

Kingston(320) 398-2130Pastor Orval WirkkalaSunday — 10:30 a.m. Worship.

BECKVILLE LUTHERAN

20521 600th Ave., Litchfield(320) 693-2519Pastor Maggie CumingsSunday — 10:45 a.m. Worship.

BELIEVER’S FELLOWSHIP MENNONITE CHURCH

34419 520th Ave., Grove City(320) 857-2800Pastor Melvin BeilerSunday — 10:30 a.m. Worship.

CATHOLIC CHURCH OF OUR LADY

57382 CSAH 3, Manannah(320) 693-8900Monsignor Francis J. GarveySaturday — 4 p.m. Mass; 8 p.m. Mass.Sunday — 9:15 a.m. Mass.

CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST. GERTRUDE

31608 650th Ave, Forest City(320) 693-7801Father Joseph Steinbeisser, PastorFather James Devorak, Associ-ate PastorSunday — 10:30 a.m. Mass.Wednesday — 8 a.m. Mass.

CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST. JOHN

106 Fourth St. N., Darwin(320) 693-9496Father Joseph Steinbeisser, PastorFather James Devorak, Associ-ate PastorSaturday — 5 p.m. Mass.

Sunday — 9 a.m. Mass.

CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST. PHILIP

821 Fifth St. E., Litchfield(320) 693-3313Father Joseph Steinbeisser, PastorFather James Devorak, Associ-ate PastorSaturday — 5:30 p.m. Mass.Sunday — 7:45 a.m. Mass; 10:30 a.m. Mass; 12 p.m. Mass in Spanish.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH

(Non-Denominational)312 Marshall Ave. N., Litchfield(320) 593-3635Pastor Mike ZylstraSunday — 8:15 a.m. Worship; 10:45 a.m. Worship.

CHURCH OF GOD OF ABRAHAMIC FAITH

501 Ramsey Ave. S., Litchfield(320) 693-6391Pastor Dale SwartzSunday — 10 a.m. Worship.Wednesday — 7 p.m. Worship.

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

770 School Road, HutchinsonSunday — 9:30 a.m. Sacrament meeting; 11:30 a.m. Priesthood (for men) and Relief Society (for women).

CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

422 Ramsey Ave. N., Litchfield(320) 693-8108Pastor Jason YoungWorship Pastor Rebecca YoungHispanic Pastor Alex MartinezVisitation Pastor Larry Harsh-manSaturday — 5 p.m. Hispanic Service.Sunday — 10:30 a.m. Worship.

CORNERSTONE CHURCH

205 CSAH 34, Litchfield(320) 593-7971Paul Jorgensen, Lead/Teach-ing PastorJeff Garland, Family Minis-tries PastorSunday — 8 a.m. Worship;

9:30 a.m. Worship; 11:00 a.m. Worship. 11 a.m. Espanol Ser-vice.Monday — Noon, Local Access Broadcast.

CORNERSTONE CHURCH

Kingston Community Center30840 722nd Ave., KingstonSunday — 10 a.m. Family Inte-grated church meeting.

EVANGELICAL COVENANT

301 Lake St., Dassel(320) 275-3315Pastor Keith CarlsonSunday — 10:30 a.m. Worship.

FIRST BAPTIST

Grove City(320) 857-2495Pastor Peter LeeSunday — 10 a.m. Worship.

FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN

54986 145 St., Cosmos(320) 877-7663Pastor Maggie CumingsSunday — 9 a.m. Worship/Holy Communion.

FIRST LUTHERAN

703 Sibley Ave. S., Litchfield(320) 693-2487Senior Pastor Paul LutterAssoc. Pastor Christa ForsytheSunday — 8:30 a.m. Traditional Worship; 10:45 a.m. Contempo-rary Worship.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN

225 Holcombe Ave. N., Litch-field(320) 693-3548Pastor Gordon PennertzSunday — 10 a.m. Worship.

GETHSEMANE LUTHERAN

221 Atlantic Ave. E., Dassel(320) 275-3852Pastor Steven OlsonVisitation Pastor John Peter-sonYouth Minister Drew NelsonSunday — 8 a.m. Worship/Holy Communion; 10:30 a.m. Worship/Holy Communion; 10:30 a.m. Radio Broadcast of 8 a.m. Service on KDUZ

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GRACE LUTHERAN

Intersections of Wright Cty. Rds. #2 & #37, West of French Lake(320) 286-5980Pastor Michael NelsonThursday — 2:30 p.m. Wor-ship at Dassel Lakeside Resi-dence.Sunday — 8:30 a.m. Worship.

HARVEST COMMUNITY

(Evangelical Free Church)303 S. Gorman Ave., Suite 400Litchfield(320) 221-1817Pastor Mike SechlerSunday — 10 a.m. Worship and Kids Praise.

IMMANUEL LUTHERAN

(LC-MS)175 11th St. W., Litchfield(320) 693-6155Pastor Samuel MorschingSunday — 9 a.m. Worship.

KINGDOM HALL OF JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES

U.S. Highway 12 W., Litchfield(320) 693-2998Sunday — 9:30 a.m. Bible Edu-cational Talk; 10:20 a.m. Watch-tower study.Tuesday — 7:30 p.m. Theocratic Ministry School.

LAKE UNION EVANGELICAL COVENANT

74246 CSAH 19, South Haven(320) 398-2992Pastor Lloyd MelvieSunday — 9 a.m. Worship.

MARANATHA HOUSE OF PRAYER

335 Adams, HutchinsonPastor Freddy MacdenFriday — 7:30 p.m. Service.

NORTH CROW RIVER LUTHERAN

45 Quinnell Ave. S.W., Cokato(320) 286-5980Pastor Michael NelsonSunday — 10 a.m. Combined Parish Confirmation Service at NCR.

OSTMARK LUTHERAN

(ELCA)32721 680th Ave., Watkins(320) 693-8450Pastor Joe E. MidthunSunday — 8:30 a.m. Worship (Holy Communion on the first and third Sundays).

PEACE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

309 Church St. N., Eden Valley(320) 693-3848Pastor Jeanne Bringgold-ProSunday — 8:45 a.m. Worship.

ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN

Missouri Synod60929 110 St., Hutchinson(320) 587-4853Pastor David J. MarkworthSunday — 9 a.m. Worship.

ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN

19903 — 56th Ave. NE, AtwaterSunday — 10 a.m. Worship.Second and last Sunday of the month Communion.

ST. PAUL’S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN

227 Ramsey Ave. S., Litchfield(320) 593-6324Pastor Paul LindhorstPastor Tim RedfieldSunday — 8:15 a.m. Worship; 10:45 a.m. Worship; 2:15 p.m. Local access broadcast.Monday — 9 a.m. Local access broadcast.

ST. PETER’S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN

20314 CSAH 9, Darwin(320) 275-2965Pastor Tim RedfieldSunday — 10 a.m. Worship.

ST. MATTHEW’S UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

Pastor Jeanne Bringgold-Pro31415 CSAH 2, Forest City(320) 693-3848Sunday — 10:30 a.m. Worship.

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST

313 Miller Ave. N., Litchfield(320) 693-6910Pastor Devin LocatiSaturday — 11 a.m. Worship.

SHALOM BAPTIST

1215 Roberts Road, Hutchinson(320) 587-2668Senior Pastor Rick StapletonWorship Pastor Adam KrumrieSunday — 9 a.m. Worship; 10:30 a.m. Worship.

TRINITY EPISCOPAL

3 East Fourth St., Litchfield(320) 693-6035Sunday — 10:30 a.m. Service.

TRINITY LUTHERAN

54384 U.S. Highway 12, Grove City(320) 857-2001Pastor Jean OhmanSunday — 10:30 a.m. Worship.

UNITED METHODIST

1000 Sibley Ave. S., Litchfield(320) 693-3409Pastor Bill KerrSunday — 10:30 a.m. Worship.

VICTORY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

(Independent Bible)206 Second St. S., Grove City(320) 857-2680Pastor Danny PuckettSunday — 10:30 a.m. Worship.

WORD OF LIFE OUTREACH CENTER

950 School Road S.W., Hutchin-son(320) 587-9443Pastors Jim and Sheree HallSunday — 9:30 a.m. Celebra-tion; 6 p.m. Celebration.Wednesday — 7 p.m. Celebra-tion, teen service.Thursday — 7 p.m. Service is broadcast on channel 13 in Litchfield, live on the Internet www.wolhutch.com.

ZION LUTHERAN

504 Gilman Ave. N., Litchfield(320) 693-3207Pastor Christian MuellerleileSunday — 8:30 a.m. Classic Worship (Live KLFD Broad-cast); 10:45 a.m. Confirmation Worship Service; 11 a.m. Cable TV Broadcast.

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The “Minnesota Book of Skills: Your Guide to Smoking Whitefish, Sauna Etiquette, Tick Extraction, and More” is a fun, brand new book from the Minnesota Historical Society Press. Author Chris Niskanen has put together a collection of short overviews of many topics, such as building your own backyard ice rink, portaging in the BWCA, finding agates, and backing up a trailer.

I was curious to read the sauna etiquette section, since my grandma had a wood-burning sauna I used often as a child. I learned from the book that there’s a Finnish word for the combined smell of the steam, wood, and woodsmoke of a sauna: löyly. Now I know that it’s löyly that makes me powerfully nostalgic for Saturday sauna nights. This is a book I plan to read further and probably give for Christmas gifts, because I think it’s both useful and entertaining.

Another book I plan to read doesn’t take place in Minnesota, but it could have been set here because the same religious and ethnic group lives in our area. “We Sinners” by Hanna Pylvainen is a novel about a Finnish Laestadian Lutheran family in Michigan. Each chapter is told by a different person in the 11-member Rovaniemi family. Some of the children stay in the church, and others leave. Some readers have told me that they loved it and learned so much more about

Finnish Lutherans, while others have said they’ve been disappointed that it didn’t go deeper. The final chapter, which takes place at the founding of the Laestadian church, tends to confuse most readers; it’s intended as historical perspective. Amazon named this one of its best books of the month in August, and it has gotten good reviews elsewhere for Pylvainen’s spare, nuanced writing.

A Litchfield writer praised for her nuanced writing, Nancy Paddock has a new book of poetry out this year that our library has added to the collection this fall. “Cooking with Pavarotti” includes poems on the culinary arts and many other subjects. This book is published by Red Dragonfly Press. We do not yet have Joe Paddock’s new book, but I will find a copy for our library.

Another new book from the Minnesota Historical Society Press is “Mni Sota Makoce:

Beth

CRONKLITCHFIELD HEAD LIBRARIAN

Check out some books with Minnesota ties

Several recently released books with ties to Minnesota are available at the Litchfi eld library. The titles shown above include “Cooking with Pavarotti,” “One Drop in the Blue Sea,” “Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota” and “Minnesota Book of Skills: Your Guide to Smoking Whitefi sh, Sauna Etiquette, Tick Extraction, and More.”

The Land of the Dakota.” According to the book, “The Dakota phrase Mni Sota Makoce, Land Where the Waters Reflect the Clouds, gives the state of Minnesota its name.” The book tells the story of the Dakota people in Minnesota: creation stories , archaeological history, interactions and treaties with European Americans, and modern efforts to reclaim traditional cultural places.

Yet another book from the MHS Press, “One Drop in a Sea of Blue: The Liberators of the Ninth Minnesota,” tells a little-known story of the Civil War. In 1863, 38 men from the Ninth Minnesota Regiment held a train at gunpoint to free a fugitive slave and his family who had been captured and were being shipped out of state to be sold. Because it happened in Missouri where the soldiers were not to interfere with Union loyalists who were slaveholders, the

soldiers were charged with treason and imprisoned without trial for two months. Their case was debated in the U.S. Senate.

The book follows these 38 after their release, as they rejoined their regiment to be defeated at Brice Crossroads. Some were imprisoned at Andersonville stockade. The Ninth suffered unusually high mortality rates at Andersonville, but those who continued to fight helped to win the western theater of the war. Fourteen of the 38 liberators survived the war and left behind accounts of their wartime experiences. Author John B. Lundstrom tells a carefully researched story that is being described as a microcosm of the entire Civil War experience.

A library should have books that cover local interests. I hope you’ll find something that interests you among these new additions.

SENIOR DINING

Here is next week’s lunch menu for Lutheran Social Ser-vices Mid-Minnesota Senior Dining at the Litchfield Civic Arena dining room. Activities begin at 11 a.m. Dinner is at 11:30 a.m.

The program is open to people 60 and older and their

spouses on a donation basis and anyone at full price. The site is handicapped accessible. Reser-vations must be made one day in advance. Call 320-693-6318; you may leave a message on the answering machine.

All meals come with one glass of low-fat milk.

WEEK OF NOV. 12-15

Monday — Swedish meat-balls, paprika potatoes, spin-ach, bread, ice cream.

Tuesday — Liver or pepper steak, buttered boiled potatoes, peas, bread, apricots.

Wednesday — Chicken chow mein, rice/chow mein

noodles, oriental vegetables, Mandarin orange gelatin, cookie.

Thursday — Roast beef, mashed potatoes, carrots, din-ner roll, pudding dessert.

Friday — Creamy vegetable soup, turkey sandwich, tropical fruit, crackers, brownie.

Medicare open enrollment begins Oct. 15

Remember that the Medi-care annual open enrollment period is Oct. 15 through Dec. 7. If you wish to change Medi-care Part D or Medicare Ad-vantage coverage for 2013, all changes must be made between Oct. 15 and Dec. 7. Coverage will then begin January 1, 2013.

For plan comparisons, trained Senior LinkAge Line counselors will be available by appointment at Meeker Memo-rial Hospital on Tuesday, Nov. 20, from 1 to 3 p.m. To make an appointment or to receive as-sistance by phone, call the Se-nior LinkAge Line: One Stop Shop for Minnesota Seniors at 800-333-2433. When calling, please have your Medicare card and prescription drug information ready.

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Peanut Butter and Milk Committee heads to Alabama

A group of Meeker County residents will be heading to Alabama on Nov. 3 for an an-nual exchange trip. The six people representing the Pea-nut Butter and Milk Festival Committee will be touring farms and businesses in the Hartford area and enjoying other fun activities.

This year’s group includes Robert and Lori Christof-ferson, Doreen Hoff, Meek-er County Dairy Princess Emily Euerle and Litchfield

High School Future Farmers of America students Nicole Thompson and Jessica Han-son. They will fly to Panama City, Florida on Saturday and will then stay with host fami-lies in Hartford, Ala.

On Nov. 4, they’ll attend church with their host fami-lies and attend a barbecue at Wiregrass Electric Coopera-tive. On Nov. 5, they’ll travel up to Montgomery for a tour of the State Capitol. On Nov. 6, they’ll tour Sysco in Geneva and the Michellin Tire plant in Dothan, and will attend a banquet at Shiloh Baptist Church in Hartford.

On Nov. 7, they’ll tour farms and businesses in the Hartford area, and then attend a fish fry in Hartford. On Nov. 8, they’ll travel to the Florida Panhandle for some time at the beach and a tour of the Eden State Park Mansion. On Nov. 9, they’ll tour more farms and businesses around Hartford and then attend a farewell pizza party at First National Bank in Hartford. They will re-turn to Minnesota on Nov. 10.

Litchfield Christian Women meet Nov. 9

Litchfield Christian Wom-en is holding a Thanksgiving brunch at the Litchfield First Lutheran Church from 9 to 10:30 a.m. The cost is $9. The brunch will feature creative wood turning by Ron Larsen. It will also feature music by Duane Hickler and Maxine Nickerson of Litchfield and special speaker Heidi Studer from Perham, Minn. Call Barb Werner at 693-2504 for reserva-tion information.

Marine Corps birthday

The 237th Marine Corps is celebrating its birthday at 7 p.m. Nov. 10 at the VFW Post 2818 on U.S. Highway 12 in Li-tchfield. Chili, S.O.S., cheese, crackers and cake is being served. Wives are welcome, too.

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CommUnity Club meets Nov. 12The Litchfield Women’s

CommUnity Club will meet at 1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, at the home of Marge Connor. In honor of Veterans Day, the

program will be “The Resto-ration of Civil War Veterans Gravestones at Lake Ripley.” This is a project initiated by the Ladies of the Grand Army

of the Republic and jointly funded by the City of Litch-field. For more information, please call Merna Pease at (320) 693-6169.


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Across1. Hits hard 6. Discompose11. Provokes13. Weak15. Timid, childish man 16. “So soon?”17. “___ alive!” (contraction)18. College fee 20. “Fantasy Island” prop21. Locale23. Apprehensive24. Hacienda hand, maybe25. Fishhook line27. Ballad28. Shoulder gesture 29. Mourner 31. Category32. Contemptible one33. Grimace34. Letters36. Betting information seller 39. “Silly” birds40. Greyhound, e.g.41. Hang43. Absorbed44. Ringlets 46. Back of the neck47. “To ___ is human ...”48. Layered ice cream dessert 50. Blazer, e.g. (acronym)51. Run away lovers 53. Not worth using 55. Differing from accepted standards

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14. Eager19. Get misty-eyed

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10 YEARS AGO:NEWS FROM THE ISSUE OF

NOV. 7, 2002

Mike Hirman easily won his fifth term as sheriff, Barb Altringer won a Litchfield City Council seat and Vern Madson was re-elected Litchfield Mayor as the mid-term elections drew a strong voter turnout in Meek-er County. About 80 percent of registered voters in Meeker County cast ballots in the elec-tion, rivaling the turnout in presidential election years.

Hackers have been trying to break into the computer network that services the Meeker County courthouse offices. County Administrator Paul Virnig told the Meeker County Board Tuesday that his suspicions of this surfaced last week when there was evidence of an effort to break into the network. Virnig said it was hard to surmise how private information gleaned from such an effort would be used. With the hacker threat in mind, the County Board gave unanimous approval to the purchases of a “firewall” that will protect computer information. Cost of the service was estimated at between $26,000 and $30,000

As a child care provider, Joy Rotert supervises ac-tivities, makes meals, changes diapers, cleans and hands out hugs. Her efforts were recog-nized by the Meeker County Childcare Association, which named Rotert childcare pro-vider of the year in the county.


NOV. 6, 1992

About 10,500 voters went to the polls in Meeker Coun-ty and followed the national trend in giving a plurality to President-elect Bill Clinton with President George Bush running second and Ross Perot finishing third. Clinton polled 3,861 votes in Litchfield carry-ing all five wards. George Bush polled 3,497 votes with Perot drawing 3,120.

In the down-to-the-wire race for the legislative seat in District 20A, Meeker Coun-ty voters gave the edge to Nancy Larson by the margin of 4,528 to 4,228 over Bob Ness. Unofficial vote totals gave Ness a 56-vote margin in the district with a recount in prospect. The close-ness of the race was indicated by results in Stockholm Town-ship, the only Wright County precinct in the district. Here Ness had 176, Larson 175. Simi-larly in Litchfield Township, Ness had a 232 to 231 margin.

Scott Vettleson, who has coached the Dragon foot-ball team for the past seven years, submitted his resigna-tion as coach to the Litchfield School Board Monday. Vettle-son will retain his position as senior high math instructor. In his seven year tenure his teams have compiled a 37-30 record. His 1987 team finished 9-3 and won the section champion-ship and his 1990 team was 9-2 and advanced to the sectional finals.

A fire, which broke out in a residence in Forest Prai-rie Township, claimed the life of a 35-year-old woman

who was apparently asleep in an upstairs bedroom and died of smoke inhalation. The fire started in a garage attached to the house and spread. A boy-friend of the victim who was living at the house was away at his job in Golden Valley when the fire occurred. The woman was rushed to the hospital here where she was pronounced dead.


NOV. 1, 1962

One of the community’s most active young men, 27-year-old Eugene Chris-tenson, lies perilously close to death in Meeker Memorial Hospital at press time after be-ing severely injured in an auto accident Saturday afternoon. He has been in a deep coma ever since his small compact car went out of control and rolled over several times on County Road 1 about six miles south of Litchfield. Both Christenson and Robert Revering, 20, who were hunting pheasants were thrown from the car. Revering, however, suffered only minor bruises. Christenson, who is president of the Litchfield Jaycees, suffered brain stem contusions and was in rigid paralysis at press time.

Litchfield Jaycees put together an enjoyable Hal-loween party for the youth of the community again last Wednesday night. There was the traditional costume contest at the high school and a parade from the high school to the Community Building where youngsters enjoyed a full hour of cartoons. There was a dance at the armory for the teen age group.

The Harvey 4-H Club was named Meeker County’s outstanding 4-H Club for the third straight year as the an-nual 4-H Roundup was held at-tended by an estimated 500 peo-ple at Wagner school. Officers of the winning club are Glenn Freitag, president; Jeanne Mc-Carney, vice-president; Janet Dylla, secretary; Karen Dough-erty, reporter; and Betty Dylla, treasurer. Carroll Bergerson, president of the Northwestern National Bank, presented the 4-H championship awards in the various categories and Garry Hollaar, president of the First State Bank, present-ed state fair demonstration awards.


NOV. 5, 1937

Lawrence Ruhland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ruhland, resident west of Watkins, got his left hand into the rolls of

a corn shredder which he was operating. All four fingers were so badly mangled that amputa-tion was necessary.

Mrs. Alice Lamb, who has functioned as librarian at the library here for 33 years or since it was opened in May, 1904, has tendered her resig-nation to the library board. Mrs. Bess Harmon was at once elected to fill the position. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and profession-ally trained in the work. Mrs. Lamb will leave for New York soon to visit her niece and son and later will go to Florida to spend the winter. Funds for the construction of the library were donated by Andrew Car-niegie in 1903. It was completed and opened in May of 1904 with Mrs. Lamb as librarian.

The Emil Bartz home in Darwin was destroyed in the fire early Tuesday morning in the absence of members of the family. The blaze was discovered at 2 a.m. and the fire was well advanced when first seen. Mr. Bartz was in St. Cloud visiting a sister who is ill. Mrs. Bartz was visiting in Wisconsin. Defective wiring near the entrance is believed to have been the cause.

122 YEARS AGO NEWS FROM THE ISSUE OF

NOV. 9, 1890

MARRIED: At the bride’s parents home in Cedar Mills on Sunday, Nov. 2, Columbus C. Arrowood to Miss Ida M. Freeman. The Rev. Porterfield of Swan Lake performed the ceremony. The contracting parties are both well and fa-vorably known in this county. Arrowood is one of Kingston’s young and prosperous farmers and his bride is one of Meeker County’s best young ladies. The Review wishes them a long and prosperous wedded life.

Wm. Hilderbrand is build-ing a shed at the mill on the river for the accommodation of his customers who come to the mill with horse teams. — Forest City News.

Signor Vegora and pupils of Minneapolis have been engaged to give a concert in Litchfield on Dec. 1. The com-pany consists of 10 persons and is said to be very fine having played to full houses in the big city. A group of Litchfield busi-nessmen have gotten together and guaranteed a house of $100 in tickets to get the group to come here. The concert will clearly be the highlight of the entire musical season in Litch-field. Do not miss it.

The raff le over a quilt donated by the ladies for Will Blair, the boy who had his arm cut off last fall in the gear of Asberry Smith’s engine, came of at Hull’s Hall in Darwin Saturday night. Al Olson of Harvey had ticket number 23, which was the win-ner. The quilt was supposed to be worth $18 but Olson sold it to Will for $3. The dance fol-lowing the raffle would have been a pleasant affair only for the amount of poor whiskey poured. This sent several men down completely and staggered many more.

Quilt raffled, poor whiskey poured 122 years ago

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