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Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 • Glencoe, Minnesota Vol. 115 No. 52
Citizens, sheriff personnel
honored for 2012 efforts
By Lori Copler
Staff Writer
Three citizens and several McLeod County
Sheriff Department members were honored
Wednesday for their efforts throughout 2012.
The three citizens — Gustavo Guevara and
Clark and Kenny Fillbrandt — were recognized for the roles they played in two separate
events — a fiery car crash in September that
claimed the lives of two young men, and the
July 16 bank robbery that resulted in a suspect
fleeing on foot through area corn fields.
According to Sheriff Scott Rehmann, Guevara came upon a car crash Sept. 28. Along
with Deputy Matt Rolf, Guevara attempted to
pull the victims from the vehicle despite the
flames.
“Deputy Rolf and Gustavo approached the
car, which was on fire, and worked together in
pulling one of the victims away from the vehicle and fire,” said Rehmann.
Guevara received a plaque for his efforts;
Rolf received a letter of recognition.
Clark and Kenny Fillbrandt received letters
of recognition for their roles in helping the
sheriff’s department locate a suspect from the
Hutchinson bank robbery.
According to Rehmann, the Fillbrandts reported to Deputy Justin Thompson that a person matching the suspect’s description had
been spotted riding a bicycle near their residence.
Although deputies were unable to locate the
suspect at first, Thompson was on his way
home July 18 when a bicyclist crossed the
road in front of him. Thompson called for additional deputies, a perimeter was set up, and
the robbery suspect was arrested a short time
later.
Thompson also received a letter of recognition for his efforts.
Rolf also received a meritorious service
award for his actions regarding an attempt to
locate a vehicle driven by a suspect in a domestic assault, and a subsequent high-speed
chase in March, which resulted in the driver of
the suspect vehicle threatening officers with a
knife.
Rolf, Rehmann said, successfully subdued
the driver.
Detective Sgt. Rich Gronlund also received
a letter of recognition for his efforts in attempting to stop the bank robbery suspects’
vehicle the day of the robbery; and dispatcher
Angie Sandgren was honored for her handling
of the incident as a communications officer.
Sandgren “handled the pursuit and acted in a
very calm and professional matter,” Rehmann
said.
Three communications officers — Teresa
Housenick, Elisa Dording and Jennifer Otto —
were recognized for their efforts during a
school bus accident that was reported Jan. 13.
Rehmann said that about 3 p.m. that day, the
communications center began receiving nu-
Sheriff’s honors
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Chronicle photos by Lori Copler
Among those honored Dec. 19
for extraordinary efforts during
2012 at the the McLeod County
Sheriff’s Department award ceremony were, front, from left, communications officers Teresa
Gutzke and Elisa Dording, and
office specialist Barb Roiger;
and, back, Kevin Mathews, emergency services director; Matt
Rolf, patrol deputy; Sgt. Jen
Otto, communications; Detective
Sgt. Rich Gronlund; and citizen
Gustavo Guevaro. Also honored,
at right, were citizens Kenny and
Clark Fillbrandt, shown with
Sheriff Scott Rehmann.
2012: A Year in Review
By Rich Glennie
Editor
With 2012 fast coming to a close,
The Chronicle took a look back into
its pages to cull out some of the
events that helped shape the year.
They included a shocking airplane
crash that claimed the lives of three
people about five miles north of
Glencoe in March. It ended with the
even more shocking massacre of 20
elementary students and six of their
teachers/administrators in a Connecticut school Dec. 14.
Weather, and lack of weather,
dominated again in 2012, starting
with little snowfall during the winter
months, a drenching, water-logged
spring and a dry, parched summer
and fall that resulted in drought-like
conditions throughout the state and
nation.
But there was enough to “weather” to produce a bumper crop for the
area farmers.
But like every year, 2012 was
about people. People, and the events
in their lives, make a community
newspaper successful. And 2012
was no exception.
The following is a brief summary
of some of the events that helped
shape 2012:
January
Jan. 4 — The first baby of the
new year, Trenton Jenneke, arrived
at Glencoe Regional Health Services
at 10:05 a.m., Monday, Jan. 2. He is
the son of Becky Beckmann and
Travis Jenneke of New Auburn.
County Commissioner Bev Wangerin was elected chairman of the
McLeod County Board of Commissioners.
Hannah Huttner joined the City
Center staff as its new events coordinator.
The area started the new year with
no snow on the ground and with
mild temperatures.
Jan. 11 — Clark Christianson was
The biggest surprise in 2012 hapened in late March when a singleengine airplane broke up in mid-air and crashed into a farm field
re-elected chairman of the GlencoeSilver Lake School Board.
Glencoe City Council approved
the replacement of the main shelter
house at Oak Leaf Park after the facility was condemned for use earlier
in the fall. The building was replaced just in time for use during
Glencoe Days in late June.
The Brownton Area Civic Center
was preparing to open with the
move of city offices and library into
the former McLeod West school
building. The new city council
chambers were used for the first
time Feb. 8.
Jan. 18 — “Between a rock and a
hard place,” was the headline for
David Boyd and his wife, Kathy,
who sought help as he battled
mounting medical bills, mounting
household bills and a disease —
polycystic disease — that was shutting down his kidneys. He needed a
kidney transplant.
Later, the community rallied
around the Boyds with a community
fund-raiser spearheaded by the
Weather
Wed., 12-26
Thur., 12-27
Fri., 12-28
Sat., 12-29
Sun., 12-30
Glencoe Lions. But before that
could happen, Boyd was called to
the Mayo Clinic to get a kidney
transplant. It was successful.
Wallace “Wally Warnke, 85, a former student in the old school building that became the Glencoe City
Center, recalled his school days and
his delight that the old building has
a new lease on life.
Jan. 25 — The attendees of the
annual High Island Lake and Watershed Improvement in New Auburn
heard from DNR officials that the
restocking of High Island Lake with
walleyes was successful, and walleye fishing could begin later in the
year. In May, the DNR called its
walleye stocking efforts a success.
Local legislators, state Rep. Ron
Shimanski, R-Silver Lake, and state
Sen. Scott Newman, R-Hutchinson,
got an earful from local officials
after the state Legislature, controlled
by Republicans, ended the popular
Year in Review
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Looking back: Temperatures
were more Christmas-like this
past week as cold air dominated. A light dusting of snow fell.
Date
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about five miles north and east of Glencoe. The three people on
board were killed.
People features are what make a community newspaper interesting, and there were plenty of interesting people stories, like the
one with Wally Warnke, above, who was a youngster when the
old “Henry Hill” building first opened in 1933. He praised the efforts to keep the building open for other uses.
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Temperatures and precipitation compiled by Robert Thurn, Chronicle
weather observer.
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Year in Review Continued from Page 1
Between a rock and a hard place describes what
faced the District 18B Republican convention in February when two incumbent state legislators were
forced to run against each other after redistricting
created the new District 18B House seat. State Rep.
Glenn Gruenhagen, R-Glencoe, at left, emerged victorious over state Rep. Ron Shimanski, R-Silver Lake,
right. Shimanski went on to run for the first district
county commmissioner seat and won in November.
blood drives, retired after 17
years. Her replacement is
Charleen Engelmann.
“We never gave up,” said
German-born
Marianne
Dreier of Glencoe. She described the trials and tribulations of growing up in Germany before, during and after
World War II, including some
very harrowing wartime experiences. She married Ray
Dreier of Glencoe after she
moved to the United States
with her family in 1956.
The Glencoe Charter Commission members sparred
over proposed changes to the
city charter. Commission
member Marie Thurn felt the
decisions had been rushed
and not discussed enough before recommendations were
passed on to the full City
Council.
May 9 — Five members of
the Glencoe-Silver Lake
Business and Professionals of
America (BPA) competed at
the national level in Chicago.
They included Taylor Mohr,
Emily Schaefer, Taylor Kinzler, Rachel Schuth and
Caitlin Miller.
Glencoe native Joe Koktan
was interviewed by phone
while on duty in Afghanistan
working as an Army public
affairs officer. His duties included interviewing and photographing soldiers on duty
Rick and Holly Corrick, a long-time teaching tandem
at Glencoe and Glencoe-Silver Lake High School,
called it a career at the end of the 2011-12 school
year. Rick was an industrial technology teacher, and
Holly taught music.
there. Koktan was half way
through his deployment, and
returned to his home and
family in Marshall late in
2012. He also has served in
Iraq with the National Guard
several years earlier.
“Hiding in the Open,” was
GSL’s spring drama. The play
was about hiding from the
Nazis prior and during World
War II.
May 16 — A controversial
new school lunch program is
scheduled to kick off July 1.
The federal-mandated program is aimed at childhood
obesity, and new rules on
what will be offered and in
smaller portions were unveiled. After the new school
year started, it was reported
student participation in the
new lunch program was
trending downward.
May 23 — Florence
Hovda, who lived most of her
life in Brownton, turned 100
and received congratulations
from President Barack and
Michelle Obama.
Year in Review
Turn to page 5
April
April 4 — Glencoe City
Council pondered the need
for a new market study on its
municipal liquor store. By the
end of the year, City Council
opted to expand at its current
site and into the former city
hall offices on 10th Street and
Greeley Avenue.
It was another successful
Tim Orth Memorial Foundation fund-raising event at the
high school. The entertainment-packed evening helped
raise funds for six “Orth
Kids” with developmental
disabilities.
April 11 — The Good Friday Cross Walk was done
under bright sunshine, participants wearing light jackets
and even shirt sleeves as mild
weather kicked off the Easter
weekend.
April 18 — “Catwalk” was
the theme of the 2012 Glencoe-Silver Lake Prom held in
the high school auditorium.
The GSL Knowledge Bowl
team placed eighth out of 24
at the state small-school competition. Team members were
Ethan Bass, Joe Fehrenbach,
Chandler Swift and Patrick
Fehrenbach.
The Glencoe-Silver Lake
School Board spent more
time trying to figure out how
to get a building bond passed
to construct an addition to the
Lincoln Jr. High-high school
campus. In 2011, two referendums were defeated by nearly
identical counts.
Cheryl Ruud retired from
the McLeod County Auditor’s
office after 27 years.
April 25 — McLeod County was ranked as the No. 3
‘healthiest county in the
state,” according to Public
Health Director Kathy
Nowak.
May
May 2 — Barb Smyth,
long-time coordinator of the
local American Red Cross
In This Blessed Season
As we celebrate the birth of our Savior, we recount our
many blessings and your kind friendship is at the top of
the list! Merry Christmas to all and many thanks for
helping to make this past year a fruitful one for us.
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David Boyd and his wife, Kathy, were struggling to
make ends meet as he faced the prospect of kidney
dialysis while he awaited a transplant. In the meantime, medical bills continued to pile up and other
bills could not be met. He appealed for help, and the
public responded.
homestead property tax credit displacing a family of four.
in Minnesota.
Juan and Bree Rodriguez and
two children were not inFebruary
Feb. 1 — Glencoe-Silver jured. An electrical problem
Lake’s one-act play was “Lit- in the dining area was the
tle Women,” and the team fin- cause of the fire.
Feb. 22 — The Glencoe
ished third in the district.
Business
Expo was another
Only the top two teams adsuccess at the Panther Field
vanced.
At the annual McLeod House.
Ron Knop, longtime GlenCounty Corn & Soybean
coe
Municipal Electric emGrowers annual meeting,
Nathan Winter, area extension ployee, retired after 40 years
educator, was named the win- with the utility.
After much wrangling,
ner of the Friend of AgriculGlencoe-Silver
Lake teachers
ture award.
Feb. 8 — The Glencoe and school board negotiators
Charter Commission began reached a tentative contract
meetings after a rough start. It agreement. The agreement
started in late 2011 with a was for a pair of two-year
heated debate about how the contracts dating back to 2011.
commission members were The talks had stalled in November after a mediation sesappointed, who should be on
the commission and what the sion. The GSL School Board
commission should be look- approved the contracts at its
ing at. The debate raged for March meeting.
Feb. 29 — Brownton held
much of the early part of the
its
Cabin Fever Days, which
year.
But the charter commis- included a play “Death in
sion, after setting new Them Thar Hills” as well as
precinct boundaries in the an open house at the new
city, also tackled language Brownton Civic Center.
Katie Twiss was the Linchanges to the Light & Power
coln
Jr. High Spelling Bee
Commission as well as lanchampion
for 2012, besting
guage changes to the charter
Haley
Kirchoff
for the title.
itself.
Redistricting forced two
Glencoe-Silver Lake advanced 30 students to the area legislators — state Rep.
state Business and Profes- Ron Shimanski, R-Silver
sionals of America (BPA) Lake, and state Rep. Glenn
Gruenhagen, R-Glencoe, to
competition.
The McLeod County Board square off against each other
discussed security changes at for the right to run as the
the courthouse on the heels of GOP nominee in the new Disa gun-shooting incident at a trict 18B House seat. Gruencourthouse in northern Min- hagen came away with the
emotional endorsement of
nesota.
Feb. 15 — Linda Krueger, District 18B Republican delea volunteer for the “Operation gates.
David Muniz Bustos of SilMinnesota Nice” program got
ver
Lake was charged with
to meet one of the recipients
murder
in the stabbing death
of her “care” package for deployed military personnel. of his girlfriend, Domingo
She met with Kelly Collins of Limon at Limon’s Glencoe
Eden Prairie, who was sta- residence. Limon was stabbed
13 times. The Bustos murder
tioned in Afghanistan when
she received the holiday trial is scheduled for Feb. 11.
package from Krueger. They March
March 7 — The first real
met when Collins was on
snowfall of the season
leave and in Eden Prairie.
dumped four inches of wet,
Krueger sent even more
packages of donated items for heavy show on the area Feb.
U.S. servicemen and women 28-29. Prior to the snow was
stationed overseas later in the a mixture of rain and sleet
year.
that made for slippery condiFire damaged the former tions.
Stewart Hardware building,
The on-going bankruptcy
case of Bryan Koepp continued throughout the year.
Criminal charges against
Koepp, who allegedly took
money from family and
friends with no intention of
repaying them, were filed
later in the year. He is expected to be in court on the criminal charges in December.
Businessman Mark Jungclaus was seriously injured in
a snowmobile accident on
Gull Lake near Brainerd.
March 14 —The District
DFL convention was held in
Hutchinson and Glencoe native Steven Schiroo, now of
Cokato, emerged as a candidate for the District 18 Senate
seat held by state Sen. Scott
Newman, R-Hutchinson. No
one stepped forward as the
DFL House 18B challenger.
Later in the spring, Logan
Campa of Hutchinson tossed
his hat into the ring to run
against state Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen, R-Glencoe.
March 22 — Long-time
Glencoe Police Officer Kevin
Dietz announced his retirement from the force.
David Boyd and wife,
Kathy, talked about his kidney transplant and how grateful they were for the community support they received. A
fund-raising benefit was held
on March 25.
March 28 — Two GSL
science fair participants —
Alexandra Stensvad and
Mark Broderius — earn
awards at the Minnesota Science Fair. Also attending the
state science fair were GSL’s
Danielle Mathews and Mercy
Rakow.
During the same time, four
GSL art students had their
works on display at the state
Capitol building. They included Jenna Lokensgard,
Apisara Aungutam, Darin
Thommavongsa and Erin
Nowak.
The crash of a small plane
north and east of Glencoe
killed all three passengers and
two dogs on board. Killed
were the pilot Stuart
Dahlberg, 52, of Brooklyn
Center, his wife Ivelisse
Suarez Morillo, 36, and
Dahlberg’s mother, Mae
Elaine Dahlberg, 76, of St.
Cloud. They were on their
way to Colorado. After a
nine-month investigation, the
official cause of the crash was
made public in December —
the plane broke apart in midair before crashing in a farm
field.
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Chronicle photos by Rich Glennie
Living Nativity
Despite a week-long delay, the first of what is expected to be an annual Living Nativity was held at
Oak Leaf Park Sunday night. According to the
Rev. James Gomez, 205 to 210 vehicles drove
through the park looking at the six scenes that
made up the Living Nativity. It started with the
Angel Gabriel and Mary and went on to Mary and
Joseph traveling to Bethlehem and then to shepherds tending their flocks at night. Real sheep
were incorporated into this scene. Scene four
was Angels, above, as the multitude of heavenly
hosts. Then it was on to the wise men and their
gifts of gold, incense and myrrh. Finally, at left,
was Mary with Baby Jesus. Gomez said, despite
the cold, there were enough actors for the
scenes, and the local Boy Scouts collected donations for the McLeod Emergency Food Shelf as
the vehicles entered the park. He said “three pails
of money” were collected along with numerous
bags of food donations, which will be brought to
the food shelf on Wednesday. “It was well received,” Gomez said of Glencoe’s first attempt at
the Living Nativity event. He was pleased with the
involvement of several area churches as well as
the many volunteers. Gomez especially lauded
Lynn Exsted for all she did to lay the ground work
for the annual event.
The Minnesota State Patrol reported that a pedestrian was struck and injured as she crossed Highway 212 in Stewart early
Sunday morning.
The State Patrol said
Janell M. Bryant, 46, of
Stewart, and a male had
just left a bar in Stewart
and were crossing Highway 212 on foot “without
checking for traffic.”
Bryant was struck by a
2002 Dodge Durango,
driven by Joyce A. Koepp,
48, of Brownton. The Durango was eastbound on
Highway 212.
The State Patrol reported
that Bryant was treated for
injuries and released.
Koepp was not injured.
Ehrke to leave
chamber Jan. 11 for
position with SEH
Dan Ehrke, president of the
Glencoe Area Chamber of
Commerce, announced last
week that he will be leaving
his chamber position to take a
job with Short Elliott Hendrickson (SEH), an engineering firm.
In a letter to chamber
members, Ehrke said he will
begin work with SEH as of
Jan. 14, but he will continue
working as chamber president
until Jan. 11 “to help the organization prepare for the upcoming membership campaign, business expo and
other various tasks that need
immediate
attention.
“The decision to leave
the chamber
was
not
easy,” Ehrke
stated. “It has
been
my
honor to rep- Dan Ehrke
resent the
community and, most importantly, Glencoe’s business
community.”
Ehrke said the chamber’s
board of directors is working
on a transitional plan “to ensure that the needs of our
members continue to be met.”
The current chamber board
chairperson is Laurie Gauer.
Sheriff’s
honors
Chronicle photo by Rich Glennie
Nunsense meets ‘Hee Haw’
The cast of “Sister Amnesia’s Country
Western Nunsense Jamboree” mixed a
bit of “Hee-Haw” with “Laugh-In” with the
set design for the performances at the
Glencoe City Center. In the front are Sister Hubert (Jessica Fogarty), left, and Sister Amnesia (Katie Palmer). In the loft are
Sister Leo (Alicia Beste) and Sister
Robert Anne (Kay Wilson). The other cast
member is Father Virgil Manly Trott (Tyler
“Chuck” Peterson). The dinner/dessert
theater performances continue this weekend with shows on Friday and Saturday
at 6 p.m.; Sunday at 2 p.m.; and Monday’s
New Year’s Eve performance at 6 p.m. followed by a post-party.
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merous 9-1-1 calls regarding
a school bus accident with
children aboard the bus.
“The initial callers were
very upset and unable to advise communication officers
Teresa Housenick and Elisa
Dording of their location,”
said Rehmann. “Sgt. Jennifer
Otto was also in dispatch,
and began assisting with the
multiple calls and radio traffic. After several minutes, the
communications officers
were able to get an accurate
location and got all appropriate responders en route and
on scene.”
Office commendations
were given to Emergency
Services director Kevin
Mathews and Otto for their
efforts regarding the ARMER
radio project, and to Otto and
Barb Rieger for the conversion to a new records management system.
GLENCOE ROTARY
Introduces
Donna Krauth
Profession/Occupation: Financial Assistance Supervisor for McLeod County Social
Services.
How many years have you been in Glencoe: 20 years.
How long have you been a Rotarian and
why did you join Rotary: Over 10 years. I
joined Rotary after being invited to a couple
meetings and discovered many of Rotary’s
goals and objectives fit very closely with
my work at Social Services.
Name some reasons you came to Glencoe
and/or what are some good things about
Glencoe: My family came to Glencoe upon
my spouse being offered a power line electrician position with the Light and Power
Commission. We loved the close proximity
of Glencoe to the metro area while still
being able to raise our children in a small
community dedicated to families.
Family: spouse, John; 3 children, Trevor
(30), spouse Jenn, and 4-year old daughter
Ashleigh; Tonya (29), spouse Simon, and 4year old daughter Kaitlyn and 2-year old
son Aiden; and Taylor (21) and girlfriend
Jayme.
––– DID YOU KNOW –––
Glencoe Rotary Club has awards
Strive Scholarships to GSL students.
Wishing you all the
wonders of the season
Christmas is a magical time of year for young
and old alike. Take time to relax and enjoy
the blessings of the season
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
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Pedestrian injured when
struck by vehicle on 212
Police were called to a residence on Newton Avenue at
12:49 a.m., Tuesday, to help at a
medical emergency. A person
was having an asthma attack.
Another medical was called in
at 9:42 p.m., Tuesday, from a residence on 10th Street. A person
had a shortness of breath and
was confused. The person was
taken by ambulance to the Glencoe Regional Health Services
emergency room.
Two more medical calls were
received Wednesday morning at
1:55 a.m. and 7:42 a.m. The first
involved a woman in the 15th
Street area who was transported
to the hospital. The other involved
a male, who fell, and was transported by ambulance from his
Reeds Lane residence.
A theft was reported at 10:15
a.m. from Casey’s General Store
on 13th Street. A woman paid for
items inside the store, but not for
the gas she pumped. A sheriff’s
deputy stopped her and she returned to pay for the gas.
At 4:51 p.m., Wednesday, a
person called feeling cold and
clammy with high blood pressure.
The person was transported by
ambulance from Grand Meadows
Senior Living on Prairie Avenue.
Police issued three “snowbird”
citations in the early morning
hours on Thursday.
Police were called to a medical
situation at a residence on Elm
Street at 10:47 p.m., Thursday. A
female was complaining of back
pains and was transported by
ambulance to the hospital.
Also on Thursday, at 11:30
p.m., police cited the driver of a
vehicle with no insurance and expired driver’s license. Upon further check, a warrant also was
found and the female was arrested. The incident occurred at 13th
Street and Ives Avenue.
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Past year in review:
The predictable, but
with some surprises
Our view: May this coming year indeed turn
into a happy New Year, since the world didn’t end
“T
he older we get, the
faster time goes” is the
old saying, and the recent past is a prime example. It
seems just moments ago, we were
talking about the Y2K problem at the
turn of the millenium that was expected to stop the world in its tracks,
and here we are 12 years later talking
about the end of the world again, according to the Mayan calendar. But
the world did not end, and we are
still going.
In today’s Chronicle, we took a
look back at the local events that
helped shape 2012. There were some
predictable things that happened, as
well as a few surprises.
As usual, weather played a key
role in 2012. There was little snow or
cold last winter. But that was followed by a damp, soggy spring,
which in turn was followed by a dry
spell that stretched well into late fall.
It was nearly a repeat of the 2011
weather pattern.
Toss in a few nasty storms that
toppled trees and damaged buildings,
and it was a typical year, weatherwise.
As we enter another winter,
drought conditions linger throughout
Minnesota, the Upper Midwest and a
good chunk of this nation’s mid section, too. A “normal” snowfall this
winter may help restore water levels
as the debate over global warming,
and its causes, rages on.
The other things that are predictable are the people who make the
news each year. There were deaths of
prominent people, accomplishments
by ordinary folks and milestones
reached by others. Many were chronicled on our pages throughout 2012.
What was not predictable was an
airplane falling from the sky in
March and landing in a bare farm
field north of Glencoe, killing all
three people on board.
What was not predictable was the
murder of a woman during a domestic violence incident in Glencoe last
February.
What was not predictable was a
bank robbery in Hutchinson that led
to a high-speed chase throughout the
county in July, and the arrest and
prosecution of the perpetrators.
The year also ends on the national
scene with the worst of a rash of
gun-related massacres in 2012 —
that of 20 young elementary students
and six adults at Sandy Brook Elementary School in Connecticut.
While the horrific carnage wrought
by that mad gunman stunned the nation, acts of kindness and caring
abounded throughout the year as
well.
Locally, the community rallied
around David Boyd and wife, Kathy,
as he struggled with disease and the
need for a kidney transplant, and as
the family struggled to make ends
meet and keep their home.
The same with young Max Karels
of Brownton and many others in
their battle with cancer and other
life-threatening health issues. Another successful Tim Orth Foundation
fund-raising event this spring helped
with medical costs for other youngsters with disabilities and help enhanced the impression that we are
kind, caring people.
When people are in need, area res-
idents respond, and that is as predictable as the sun rising in the
morning. There is something special
about living in small-town America.
Also, Glencoe-Silver Lake students continued to excel in the classrooms, in athletics and in fine arts.
Many advanced to state and even national competitions.
This also was an election year, and
all the state Legislature was up for
grabs after redistricting earlier in the
spring. While the area stayed firmly
in Republican hands, statewide, Republicans lost control of both houses
of the Minnesota Legislature. The
DFL now controls the agenda in
2013 and 2014.
Locally, new faces will appear on
Glencoe City Council and the GSL
School Board. Kevin Dietz, a retired
police officer, won a seat on City
Council and Donna VonBerge begins
as the new member of the School
Board in January.
Two long-time area mayors depart
the scene at the end of the year with
Brownton’s Curt Carrigan being defeated by write-in candidate Jay
Werner, and New Auburn Mayor
Roger Becker opting not to run
again, stepping away after 30 years
in that position.
So what is in the works for 2013?
On the city level, work on expanding the Glencoe Municipal Liquor
Store is in the works. Plans to do
something with the old Mark’s
Economart property will be on the
agenda. Work on a long-range plan
for infrastructure improvements
(streets, sewers and water lines) will
continue, and City Council needs to
figure out how to pay for them.
Also, the city and county will need
to discuss their rival recycling plans
and repair the communications gap
that appeared at the end of this year.
The city also will be working on
final plans for the Morningside Avenue extension that is scheduled for
2014.
On the GSL School Board level,
work will begin in 2013 on the $1.5
million addition to the Lincoln Jr.
High School that will house the
Early Childhood Family
Education/Early Childhood Special
Education and Learning Readiness
programs. The move of the early
childhood programs from Helen
Baker Elementary will free up space
for the burgeoning elementary (K-2)
population in that building.
But do not be surprised if talk of
another building bond referendum
surfaces sometime in 2013, because
the Band Aid approach with the Lincoln addition does not address the
long-term space needs of the school
district.
On the county level, the retirement
of two long-time commissioners —
Bev Wangerin and Ray Bayerl —
marks the first major change on the
County Board in nearly a generation.
What those changes will mean, if
anything, is anyone’s guess.
And, as with every year, 2013 will
be impacted by weather, more unexpected surprises and the kind and
positive actions and activities of the
people who make up this region.
May this coming year indeed be a
Happy New Year!
— R.G.
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Ever had one of those ‘oh, oh’ moments?
Ever have one of “oh, oh” moments? You know the one where you
lock and close the car door at the
same time you realize the keys are
still in it.
I did that the other day. It was the
first time I can ever remember doing
it. You see, I’m a creature of habit.
I stop the car. Pull the keys out.
Put them in my right hand pocket.
Grab what I need to bring into the
office. Hit the door lock on the way
out. Close the door.
I’ve done that routine countless
times. Never have I left the keys behind. This time I did. Not in the ignition, but on the arm rest between the
seats.
I must have had it in my hand,
picked up my camera, note pad and
water bottle (with my winter gloves
on) and not noticed the keys fell out
in the process.
Anyway, that’s my story, and I’m
sticking to it.
That did not, however, end the
problem. My son, Andrew, has been
relentless in his ribbing of my mistake as soon as he found out ... from
his mother. You see, my wife had to
come and bail me out with the spare
key.
First of all, it is such a novelty that
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I leave myself that wide open to Andrew’s ridicule. My son lives for
these moments to exploit my weakness.
You should have heard him after
he learned I tried to put two legs in
the same pants hole one morning,
only to take a slow-motion tumble
into the closet.
Second, Andrew hasn’t figured
out yet that I still haven’t bought
him a Christmas present. More
ridicule from him may save me
money in the long run.
Third, my wife just shakes her
head as I continue to plow face-first
into “senior citizenhood.” She’s try-
ing to help, but apparently cannot, or
will not, keep an eye on me all the
time.
So I get loose on occasion.
While locking myself out of my
car is extremely rare, I can think of
two times when we locked ourselves
out of the house. Both times we had
to pry off a screen, pry open a window and shove Andrew through the
opening. As the smallest, skinniest
and most agile, he was designed for
that job. Like a pipe cleaner is how I
view him.
Now that I think of it, that may be
why he is merciless in his ridiculing.
Pay back is sweet.
But Andrew will not be around
home forever — we think — so we
have to be more cautious with our
keys. He has to move out some time,
right?
If he does plan to stay with us for
the rest of his life, I have mentioned
on numerous occasions that he better
get some practice changing “adult”
diapers. He may be our care giver as
we delve deeper into these “golden
years.”
I can still see him shuddering at
that visual. If that does not inspire
him to find a place of his own, I’m
not sure what will.
Letters to Editor writers in 2012
Editor’s Note: The strength of a local
community newspaper is its opinion pages.
The Chronicle has been blessed over the
years with people who are willing to share
their opinions on these pages. Here are
those who contributed this year:
January
Catherine Lorenz, New Auburn; Lona Oltmann, ConnectCare; state Rep. Ron Shimanski, Silver Lake; Mary Ann Olmstead-Kohls,
Crow River Area Youth Orchestra (CRAYO);
Holli Schafer, Glencoe; and Randall Thalmann, Plato.
February
Carmen Forcier, Glencoe; state Rep. Glenn
Gruenhagen, Glencoe (three); Tim Tanchin,
Stewart, McLeod County DFL; Debbie
Wuetherich and Jane Goettl, Friends of High
Island Lake; Bradley Weber, Eden Prairie,
formerly of Silver Lake, and Brenda Fogarty,
Silver Lake; Steve Beddor, Norwood Young
America (NYA); Glynnis Vacek, McLeod Alliance for Victims of Domestic Violence; and
Christopher Sonju, GSL superintendent.
March
Marietta Neumann, McLeod Emergency
Food Shelf; state Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen,
Glencoe (twice); Timothy Dolan, Winthrop;
Gordon Schrode, Lester Prairie; Mary Jo
Wieseler, Peggy Kinzler, Bob and Sharon
Iverson and Lee and Jeralyn Broderius, GSL
band and choir trip chaperones; David Heintz,
Glencoe; and RS Fiber Marketing Committee
members.
April
Jeff Scharpe and Virginia Anderson, Glencoe VFW Post and Auxiliary; Christopher
Sonju, GSL superintendent; Diane Robinson,
Hutchinson; Marie Thurn, Glencoe (twice);
Daryl Panning, Plato; John Salsbury, Glencoe; Tammy Tankersley, Glencoe; and Cindy
Graham, Glencoe.
May
Linda Delagardelle, Glencoe; Pat
Brinkman and Gail Koch, Wigs of Hope,
Staff
William C. Ramige, Publisher;
Rich Glennie, Managing Editor; Karin Ramige Cornwell,
Advertising Manager; June
Bussler, Business Manager;
Sue Keenan, Sales Representative; Brenda Fogarty, Sales
Representative; Lori Copler,
Staff Writer; Lee Ostrom,
Sports Writer; Jessica Bolland, Alissa Hanson and Lindsey Drexler, all production;
and Trisha Karels, Office Assistant.
Letters
The McLeod County Chronicle welcomes letters from readers expressing their opinions. All letters,
however, must be signed. Private
thanks, solicitations and potentially
libelous letters will not be published. We reserve the right to edit
any letter.
A guest column is also available to
any writer who would like to present an opinion in a more expanded
format. If interested, contact the
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Glencoe; Marietta Neumann, McLeod Emergency Food Shelf; Joanne Jacques, Glencoe;
Virginia Adams, Glencoe VFW Auxiliary;
and state Rep. Dean Urdahl, Grove City, and
state Rep. Ron Shimanski, Silver Lake.
June
Gary Ballard, Glencoe; Catherine Miller,
rural Glencoe; Pam Ainslie, ConnectCare;
Steve Schiroo, Cokato; and Charleen Engelmann, Glencoe, Red Cross blood drive coordinator.
July
Preman Singh, M.D., Glencoe Regional
Health Services; Marietta Neumann, McLeod
Emergency Food Shelf; Gary Otteson, Glencoe High School class of 1962; Brian
Schlagel, Glencoe; and state Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen.
August
Terry Jones, Glencoe; Niki Pokornowski,
McLeod County Relay for Life; Chris Shimanski, Sioux Falls, S.D.; Grant Knutson,
Hutchinson; Karen de Boer, Glencoe; Sue
Ernst, Glencoe; Ashly Kyte, Glencoe; Kevin
Petersen, Minneapolis, Pro Marriage Amendment Forum; Christopher Sonju, GSL superintendent; state Sen. Scott Newman, Hutchinson; state Rep. Ron Shimanski, Silver Lake;
Thomas Schoeneberger, DDS, Glencoe; and
Sandy Lemke, Glencoe Senior nutrition site
manager.
September
State Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen, Glencoe;
Mike Gavin, Chapter 92 South Central Minnesota Flyers; Virginia Adams, Glencoe VFW
Auxiliary; Pam Johnson, Crow River Habitat
for Humanity; Robert L. Hatlestad, Glencoe;
and Craig Bishop, Hutchinson.
October
Robert L. Hatlestad, Glencoe; Nathan Unseth, Lester Prairie; Paula and Howard Bulau,
Glencoe; Emily Gruenhagen, Glencoe; Jaime
Thissen, Glencoe (twice); Eric Harpel,
McLeod County GOP; Donald B. Rudy,
M.D., Glencoe; Catherine Lorenz, New
Ethics
The editorial staff of the McLeod
County Chronicle strives to present
the news in a fair and accurate manner. We appreciate errors being
brought to our attention. Please
bring any grievances against the
Chronicle to the attention of the editor. Should differences continue,
readers are encouraged to take their
grievances to the Minnesota News
Council, an organization dedicated to
protecting the public from press inaccuracy and unfairness. The News
Council can be contacted at 12 South
Sixth St., Suite 940, Minneapolis,
MN 55402, or (612) 341-9357.
Auburn; Glynnis Vacek, McLeod Alliance for
Victims of Domestic Violence; Tammy
Tankersley, Glencoe; state Sen. Scott Newman, Hutchinson; Jodi Harpstead, Lutheran
Social Service of Minnesota; Linda Senst,
Glencoe; state Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen, Glencoe; Miles Seppelt, Park Rapids; Terry Jones,
Glencoe; Maureen Krumrey, Glencoe; Ruth
Wendlandt, Gaylord; Mark Santelman,
Winthrop; Edward Ide, Glencoe; the Rev.
James Gomez, DCE Matt Harwell, the Rev.
Anthony Stubeda, the Rev. Dennis Reichow,
Dr. Tom Rakow and the Revs. Daniel Welch
and Ronald Mathison; Terry Sandquist,
Hutchinson; Dave and Dee Czech, Arlington;
Dana Melius, Winthrop; David and Arla
Huser, Lester Prairie; Mark Ranum and Laurie Ortega, Pioneerland Library System; Jeff
Bonderman, Glencoe; Kelli and Ken Reiter,
Bumps Stop Here Relay for Life team; and
Marilyn Vinkemeier, Glencoe.
November
Charleen Engelmann, American Red Cross
Glencoe community coordinator; Christopher
Sonju, GSL superintendent (twice); Ed
Homan, McLeod County Solid Waste director; Virginia Adams, Glencoe VFW Auxiliary;
Gert Noga, Glencoe; Collette Ingenthron,
Glencoe; Pam Johnson, Crow River Habitat
for Humanity; Gary Ballard, Glencoe; Wayne
Rosenfeld, Glencoe; and Linda Krueger,
Glencoe.
December
Arthur Wemhoff, Glencoe; Dan Ferrise,
Miller Manufacturing Company; Karen Thell,
Glencoe; Don Williamson and Jeff Bertram,
West Central Sanitation; state Rep. Glenn
Gruenhagen, Glencoe; Kurt Thompson,
Southwest Initiative Fund; Charles Shamla
and family, Glencoe; Christopher Sonju, GSL
superintedent; Melissa Draeger, Glencoe; and
Theresa and Byron Wills and Ray and Merline Duering, Halloween Village.
Press Freedom
Freedom of the press is guaranteed under the First Amendment to
the U.S. Constitution:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the press…”
Ben Franklin wrote in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1731: “If printers
were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would
offend nobody there would be very
little printed.”
Deadline for the McLeod County
Chronicle news is 5 p.m., and advertising is noon, Monday. Deadline for Glencoe Advertiser advertising is noon, Wednesday. Deadline for The Galaxy advertising is
noon Wednesday.
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Year in Review Continued from page 2
provide a more reliable electrical feed to Glencoe from
the east to complement the
line coming from the west.
The Duane and Mary Nelson family was named the
McLeod County Farm Family of the Year. The Nelson
farm is located on the
McLeod County-Sibley
County border, south of
Brownton.
State Sen. Scott Newman
recapped the 2012 legislative
session by pointing out how
the “philosophical gap” has
grown between Republicans
and Democrats.
June
September
for the past 17 years, retired
on June 30.
July
July 4 — The former
Pamida business in east
Glencoe was changing over
to a Shopko Hometown store
after the two companies
merged.
Property taxes were a hot
topic when Republican legislators Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen and Sen. Scott Newman, made the rounds at
town hall meetings. The Legislature’s decision to end
homestead credits was the
main target.
July 11 — The GlencoeSilver Lake School District
put the finishing touches on
a variety of projects, including replacing the floor in two
of the three gymnasiums at
the Panther Field House. The
floors of the original field
house project were cracking
due to groundwater issues,
and a new wood floor was
constructed over the top. The
project also addressed draining water away from the
foundation of the facility.
Temperatures reached the
upper 90s and hit 100 on
July 6, and dew points were
into the 70s as people
flocked to the Glencoe
Aquatics Center to get some
relief from the heat and oppressive humidity.
July 18 — Improvements
were unveiled by state and
county officials for Highway
15 from the Highway 212 intersection north to Hutchinson. That section will be
milled and a new overlay
placed down. The other project is the construction of a
round-about next year at the
intersection of Highway 15
and Airport Road on the
south end of Hutchinson.
Glencoe City Council gave
first reading to a new “snowbird” ordinance that bans onstreet parking from 1 a.m. to
6 a.m. from Nov. 1 to April
1. The parking ban remained
controversial after police officers began issuing tickets
on Nov. 6 despite no snow
on the ground.
August
Aug. 1 — The robbery of
the Citizens Bank & Trust of
Hutchinson landed the two
bank robbers in federal court.
Eric Andrew Ebbers, 25, and
Erica Lee Reeves, 25, of
Kirkland, Wash., were arrested after a high-speed chase
on July 17. Reeves was apprehended when the vehicle
Valedictorian Rachel Schuth, left, and salutatorian
Morgan Petersen were members of the 2012 graduating class of Glencoe-Silver Lake High School in
was stopped with spiked
“stop sticks” south of
Hutchinson. Ebbers escaped
and was apprehended the
next day near Biscay.
The two were indicted by a
federal grand jury in August
for the Hutchinson bank robbery and for another on June
4 in Lake City. In September,
Ebbers pleaded guilty in federal court.
Aug. 8 — A two-vehicle
crash on Highway 212 at
Morningside Avenue in
Glencoe killed Marvin E.
Schreiner, 58, of Belle
Plaine, and injured LeRoy E.
Meline, 60, of Norwood
Young America and his
mother, Virginia C. Huddlested, 82, of Norwood
Young America. The Meline
vehicle left Highway 212,
crossed a median and broadsided the Schreiner vehicle
as it was heading southbound
on Morningside Avenue.
Kayla Schermann was
crowned Miss Pola-Czesky
during the annual PolaCzesky Days celebration in
Silver Lake.
Aug. 15 — Seventh District U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., was in the
area discussing the Farm Bill
2012 that passed the Senate
in a bipartisan fashion, but
cannot get a hearing in the
U.S. House because of political wrangling. He was frustrated by the inaction of the
House Republican leadership. As the year ended, the
2012 Farm Bill was still not
approved by Congress.
When filings closed, races
were shaping up for area city
council and school board
elections. Glencoe Mayor
Randy Wilson faced a challenge from Lloyd Thurn;
Precinct 4 council member
Greg Copas was challenged
by former Glencoe police officer Kevin Dietz; and four
people filed for three seats
on the Glencoe-Silver Lake
School Board — three incumbents and newcomer
Donna VonBerge.
Aug. 22 — State Rep. Ron
Shimanski, R-Silver Lake,
and Gene Feltmann of rural
Lester Prairie emerged from
the primary election as the
top vote getters in the threeperson McLeod County
Commissioner District 1 primary race. They advanced to
face each other in the Nov. 6
general election.
McLeod County is seeking
repeal of a 27-year-old state
statute that requires sevencounty metro waste to be
hauled to an incinerator in
Elk River. Enforcing that
long-dormant statute could
negatively impact the
amount of waste going to the
Spruce Ridge Landfill near
Biscay and the amount of
methane gas being generated
to operate the gas-to-electricity generators at the landfill.
Glencoe Light & Power, as
well as Glencoe City Council
and the McLeod County
Board, also opposed enforcing the old state statute.
Aug. 29 — United Grain
Systems (UGS) held an open
house for its newly constructed, multi-million dollar
grain terminal facility located at Brownton.
Work began on a new
Glencoe Light & Power
Commission transmission
line from its Armstrong Avenue substation east to a new
substation to be built on Diamond Avenue. The new
power line ran along Highway 212 right-of-way for
most of the way and will
Weather plays a part in every year in review, and this past year was no exception. High winds on June 10 severely
damaged the Barney Tadsen baseball
Klobuchar, D-Minn.
The Glencoe-Silver Lake
School Board continued to
weigh options on how to address the more-than-expected
kindergartners crammed into
the Helen Baker Elementary
School building. The district
had 138 kindergartners arrive
to start the year, and class
sizes ballooned to 27 per
class.
Sept. 26 — Brownton Police Chief Ron Kelm resigned as the Brownton City
Council scrambled to come
up with solutions for law enforcement in the community
which will be without an officer as of Oct. 1
October
Oct. 3 — A one-vehicle
rollover Sept. 27 claimed the
life of Bert Henry Statema,
84, of Stewart. The accident
Year in Review
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Make A Wish Foundation, and he wanted a ice fishing
shack. Karels, of Brownton and a 2012 graduate of
Hutchinson High School, is battling cancer.
Sept. 5 — Elda Huepenbecker turned 100, but has
not slowed down. She entered two doilies in the
McLeod County Fair and
won two blue ribbons. It was
the first time she had entered
any of her craft work at the
county fair.
Sept. 12 — Glencoe
passed the second reading of
its controversial “snowbird”
winter parking ordinance,
but on a 3-2 vote. The vote
came after a public hearing
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June 6 — State Rep. Ron
Shimanski, the odd-man out
in the legislative redistricting
announced in the spring,
opted instead to run for the
county commissioner seat
being vacated by long-time
Commissioner Ray Bayerl.
Glencoe-Silver Lake and
Stevens Seminary awarded
132 diplomas at the 2012
graduation ceremony. Valedictorian was Rachel Schuth
and salutatorian was Morgan
Petersen.
The husband and wife
teacher duo of Holly and
Rick Corrick called it a career at the end of the school
year. Holly Corrick was a
long-time music teacher, and
Rick Corrick an equally
long-time industrial technology instructor.
A machine shed fire at the
John Kohnen Sr. residence
south of Glencoe over the
Memorial Day weekend
caused an estimated $1 million in damages, according to
Glencoe Fire Chief Ron
Grack.
June 13 — A fast-moving
storm with straight-line
winds caused damage in the
Brownton area June 10. Most
of the damage was at Tadsen
Field to the baseball field
where a dugout was blown
apart and part of the outfield
fence blown down. Also, tree
limbs fell on the city park
shelter house.
Tanner Walker’s passion
for helicopters took him to
the sands and desert of
Kuwait during his deployment to the Middle East.
Walker’s home is in Brownton.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation presented Brownton’s
Max Karels with a new fish
house. The 18-year-old
Hutchinson High School
graduate is the son of
Michelle Wright and Paul
and Trisha Karels. Max was
being treated for testicular
cancer.
June 20 —The new plans
for the Morningside Avenue
extension from 11th Street
north to 16th Street indicated
a narrower street width and a
round-about at the 16th
Street end of the project.
Stormy weather produced
large hail and toppled a number of trees in Lincoln Park.
The rainy spring and start of
summer dumped nearly 12
inches of rain over a sixweek period. Creeks in the
area again overflowed their
banks.
June 27 — Two people
were killed and four others
injured in a three-vehicle
crash June 23 on Highway
15, about five miles south of
Brownton. Killed were Ashley Leonard, 13, of St. Peter
and Beatrice Klinkner, 77, of
Hanska.
Christ Lutheran Church
began construction on a new
addition to the church. The
main entrance will switch
from the west side of the
Knight Avenue church to the
south side. The expansion
was expected to be completed by the end of the year.
Tom Keefe, the county’s
information system director
was held in August and action was tabled on the second
reading.
Sept. 19 — The McLeod
County Board changed its recycling haulers as of Oct. 1
when it opted to award a
three-year contract to West
Central Sanitation of Willmar. Waste Management was
the former contracted hauler.
That set off a series of actions later in the fall. Glencoe City Council approved
Waste Management as its recycling hauler, using a onesort system, and the county
board reacted angrily by raising the tip fees at the landfill
owned by Waste Management.
Kurt Bills, GOP candidate
for the U.S. Senate, stopped
at Tom Schoper’s government class at GSL High
School to talk to the students
about economics. Bills, an
economics teacher at Rosemount High School, was running against U.S. Sen. Amy
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The McLeod County Chronicle, Wednesday, December 26, 2012, page 6
County planning committee OKs renewal of gravel pit permit
By Lori Copler
Staff Writer
The McLeod County Planning Advisory Committee approved a renewal for a gravel
pit conditional use permit
Wednesday morning, Dec. 19,
after hearing comments and
concerns from neighboring
property owners.
Darian Litzau of Litzau Excavating, Inc., applied for the
extension of the permit, for a
gravel pit he operates on
property leased from Orville
Foust on Zero Avenue, east of
Lester Prairie.
Zoning Administrator Larry
Gasow said the permit for the
pit was first issued in the
early 1990s, before there were
10-foot setbacks from the
property line.
“Back then, it was common
to mine right up to the property line,” said Gasow, which
sometimes caused problems
with neighboring property.
That is why the county adopted a 10-foot setback, he
added.
Gasow also said the permit
had been issued prior to a survey of the property, and that
the mining operation had
crossed what were then assumed to be the property
lines.
Gasow said that Litzau had
worked to restore what had
been mined over the property
lines, and that with the exten-
sion of the permit, anything
he mines “to the south and the
west (of the original mined
area), he will have to conform
to the setbacks.”
Kerry Wuetherich, who
owns a farm to the south of
the property, also noted that
material had been taken from
his property, but added that
Litzau “did a pretty good job
of restoring it.”
Deb Wuetherich, his wife,
said that originally, the material brought in to restore it
contained concrete and other
undesirable material, which
she said was cleaned up.
“But I think there needs to
be closer eyes out there,” Deb
Wuetherich said.
Help available if farmers struggle
For farmers in need of help,
there are some resources
available, mostly organizations with professionals who
assist farmers when the need
arises. Often some of the organizations can help strengthen the financial position of
the farm family.
One of the most important
factors to getting through
tough situations is communication. Communication is
vital for families to discuss
the current situation and to
make decisions together that
impact the family. If communication isn’t happening at the
family level, it may very well
be necessary to seek out professional help or to reach out
to trusted individuals.
Stress management: University of Minnesota Extension has a web-based educational series available for
farm families dealing with
change and stress found
under: http://z.umn.edu/b3l.
“The Crisis Connection is a
nonprofit agency that provides 24-hour crisis counseling by telephone. Anyone can
call from throughout Minnesota to receive support at
any time.” The Minnesota
Crisis Line can be reached at
612-379-6363, toll free at
866-379-6363, or visit its
website: www.crisis.org.
Financial management:
University of Minnesota Extension runs the FarmerLender Mediation Program.
“Mediation is the use of a
trained neutral facilitator to
assist in the negotiations of
parties in a dispute. Mediation
is an informal and confidential process that generally requires less cost and time than
adversarial court litigation.”
For further information on the
Farmer-Lender Mediation
Program, contact 218-9355785 or visit its website:
http://z.umn.edu/b3m.
The Minnesota Department
of Agriculture (MDA) runs
the Minnesota Farm Advocates Program.
“Farm Advocates provide
one-on-one assistance for
Minnesota farmers who face
crisis caused by either a natural disaster or financial problems. They are trained and experienced in agricultural lending practices, mediation,
lender negotiation, farm programs, crisis counseling, disaster programs, and to recognize the need for legal and/or
social services.”
For further information on
finding Minnesota Farm Advocates, contact the MDA
Hotline at 800-967-2474, or
Farm Notes
By Nathan Winter
visit its website and search
under Minnesota Farm Advocates: http://www.mda.state.
mn.us/.
The MDA also runs the
Minnesota Farmer Assistance
Network (MFAN).
“MFAN provides business
and financial guidance at no
cost to Minnesota farmers and
farm families facing economic hardship. This network of
volunteer financial analysts
work in collaboration with
farm business management
instructors, extension educators and others with the expertise to help in several areas
including financial statement
preparation, debt restructuring, business reorganization,
and farm transition.
MFAN also will provide referrals for legal advice and
mental health counseling.”
For further information on the
MFAN Program contact 877898-6326 or visit their website and search under MFAN:
http://www.mda.state.mn.us/.
“Farm business management programs are designed
to provide education to farm
owners and operators or persons interested in farming.
The purpose of the program is
to assist students in meeting
their business and personal
goals. This is best accomplished through the use of
quality records and sound
business decisions. Effective
financial management in the
business is the best way for
the business to maintain that
competitive edge. Farm business management education
programs in Minnesota are
available through the Minnesota State Colleges and
Universities (MnSCU).”
For further information on
farm business management
programs, contact 651-2011672 or visit its website for
instructors: http://www.fbm.
mnscu.edu/.
The Minnesota Dairy Initiatives Program (MDI) is a
producer-led initiative to coordinate a comprehensive approach to the delivery of onfarm services to Minnesota’s
dairy producers.
The MDI regional teams locally manage and coordinate
the delivery of on-farm advi-
Holly Days winners
announce for lights,
medallion hunt, parade
The Holly Days committee
announced the contest winners for this year’s festivities.
Business Lighting Contest
winners were:
First place: Franklin Printing.
Second place: Priority 1
Metrowest Realty.
Third place: McLeod Coop Power.
Residential Lighting Contest winners were:
First — 1410 Pryor Ave.
Second — 603 Fir Circle.
Third — 403 16th St. W.
Fourth — 1519 Newton
Ave.
Fifth — 1020 Vernon Lane.
The Holly Days Medallion
Hunt winner was Doug
Schrader, Carrie Ehrke and
kids. The clue led them to the
Pizza Ranch’s “horse &
sleigh.”
The Holly Days Lighted
Parade winners were:
First place: Glencoe Fire
Department.
Second place: Sibley Electric.
Third place: Glencoe Pizza
Ranch.
Fourth place: McLeod Coop Power.
Fifth place: Miller Manufacturing.
sory services using the skills
and experience of team members with expertise in a variety of areas to help dairy
farmers.”
For further information on
MDI, contact 877-577-0741
or visit its website:
http://mndairyinitiative.org/.
Resources and sources for
further information:
University of Minnesota
Extension has a toll-free line
available called the farm information line.
“When you call the farm
information line, you’ll get
reliable, research-based answers from Extension agriculture experts. It is a statewide
service backed by a network
of local educators, so you'll
get information to meet your
specific needs.”
To contact the Farm Information Line call 800-2329077 or e-mail [email protected].
University of Minnesota
Extension also has trained
professionals throughout
Minnesota that can be helpful
with current research, questions, and programs related to
agriculture, community, the
environment, family, garden,
and youth.
For further information on
the University of Minnesota
Extension, visit its website:
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to find extension educators in
your area: www.extension.
umn.edu/offices/.
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Upcoming educational
events:
• Private pesticide applicator training, Litchfield, Jan.
22.
• Private pesticide applicator training, Cologne, Jan. 30.
• Hutchinson agribusiness
committee winter seminar,
Hutchinson, Jan. 31.
• Soils 101 workshop, Watertown, Feb. 4.
• Private pesticide applicator training, Willmar, Feb. 8.
• Private pesticide applicator training, Hutchinson, Feb.
21.
• McLeod County Master
Gardener Horticultural Day,
March 23.
• Meeker County Gardeners Gala, April 9.
Glencoe VFW
OKs donations
Glencoe VFW Post 5102
announced the following donations were made recently
by the club:
Girls’ softball, $200.
Panther Booster Club,
$100.
Voice of Democracy program, $125.
McLeod County Social
Services’ nutrition program,
$25.
Veterans Pheasants Dinner
program, $75.
Local shut-in veterans
Christmas program, $225.
Cub Scouts, $100.
St. Cloud Veterans Administration Christmas program,
$100.
Operation Minnesota
Nice, $100.
Two Glencoe-Silver Lake
scholarships of $500 each.
Kerry Wuetherich also
questioned the classification
of the gravel pit property for
tax purposes, but County
Commissioner Ray Bayerl,
who sits on the planning committee, said that is not an
issue for the committee.
“How the property is taxed
isn’t up to us,” said Bayerl.
“You need to take that up with
the assessor.”
Kerry Wuetherich also
asked about the restoration of
the pit. Wuetherich, who had
a pit on his property, said he
has fully restored it with wildflowers, and that two neighboring pits are “an eyesore” in
comparison.
Amy Anderson, assistant
county attorney, said that until
the pit is closed, restoration
requirements do not have to
be met.
“As long as it’s an active
pit, you don’t have to restore
it,” said Anderson.
But once the permit expires, Gasow said, the pit
must be restored within a
year.
Gasow also said that, typically, most excavation companies will do the restoration
work as they close out one
area of the pit and move to
another.
“It’s just easier and more
cost-effective to do it while
they have the equipment
there,” said Gasow.
Kerry Wuetherich also contended there is a thistle problem near the pit, which has
spread on to his property.
The committee agreed to
add weed control as a condition to the permit.
The committee also set the
hours of operation for 6 a.m.
to 6 p.m., which are the same
as a pit across the road from
the Foust property. Gasow
noted that there may be occasions when material may need
to be moved outside of the
stipulated operating hours,
and asked that Litzau contact
his office if that is the case.
The permit will be on the
County Board agenda at its
Dec. 27 meeting.
History
From the Brownton Bulletin archives
100 Years Ago
children.
Dec. 27, 1912
O.C. Conrad, Editor
Mr. Andrew Amundson of
Stewart, who recently purchased
the Cozy Corner Saloon, is now
comfortably settled with his family in the Polsfuss residence on
the north side.
Mrs. Alma Frauendienst of
Penn was awarded the handsome
doll given away by Podratz’s
Furniture Store on Christmas
Eve.
The finishing lumber for the
interior of the new city hall arrived the latter part of last week,
and Mr. Linne, the contractor is
pushing the work as rapidly as
possible. Part of the furnace material is also on hand and Mr.
Doerr of Winthrop has begun installing the same. It appears that
the new hall will be ready for use
about the middle of January.
John Sommerdorf, who has
made his home for the past nine
years with his grandson, Herman
Sommerdorf, living three miles
north of here, died suddenly of
the infirmities of old age, having
celebrated his 93rd birthday on
the 17th of this month. He leaves
one son, Carl Sommerdorf of
this village, besides numerous
grandchildren and great-grand-
75 Years Ago
Dec. 30, 1937
Percy L. Hakes, Editor
Mrs. John Ewald (Bertha
Block) died at her home in
Brownton Tuesday morning,
Dec. 28, at the age of 80 years. A
native of Germany, she came
with her family to the United
States at the age of 6. She and
her husband had 11 children,
three of whom died in infancy,
and another, Edward, was killed
in France during the World War.
Surviving children are William
of Hutchinson, Louis of Brownton, Mrs. Fred H. Petersen and
Mrs. Benjamin C. Peik of
Brownton, Mrs. Nels Jorgenson
of Hutchinson, Mrs. Norval Englestad of Astoria, S.D., and Dr.
R.P. Ewald of Newport.
Mrs. Fredricka Mielke, nee
Beutling, a pioneer settler of
Sumter, died Tuesday, Dec. 21,
at the age of 83 years, 11 months
and 5 days. She leaves to mourn
her four children, namely: Mrs.
Charles Jungclaus, Mrs. Henry
Seeland, and Charlie and
William Mielke.
The Cozy Corner Beer Parlor
was again the victim of burglars
Tuesday morning this week. The
only thing missing was the small
change left in the cash register,
amounting to less than $5. This
is the second burglary at the saloon within six months.
20 Years Ago
Dec. 23, 1992
Lori Copler, Editor
The Brownton City Council
will interview six applicants for
the position of liquor store manager at a special meeting Jan. 7.
Those set to be interviewed are
Kay Selle of Brownton, currently
serving as the temporary manager; Gordon Glasgow, Brownton;
Doug Polzin, Brownton, Steven
Grenke, Glencoe, Randy Hahn,
Glencoe, and Warren Mathwig,
Green Isle.
10 Years Ago
Dec. 25, 2002
Lori Copler, Editor
Four McLeod West juniors
have been chosen to serve as legislative pages in the Minnesota
House of Representatives. They
are Kati Albers, Lance Woller,
James Evanson and Andrew
Schutte. Selected as alternates
are Justin Kalenberg, Emily Olesen and Heather Krulikosky.
From the Stewart Tribune archives
100 Years Ago
Dec. 27, 1912
A.F. Avery, Editor
A daughter was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Herman Moritz of
Grafton last Saturday, Dec. 21.
John Kalenberg has decided to
farm his own place north of town
the coming year and bought this
week a span of iron-gray 4-yearold horses weighing about 2,500
pounds from F.G. Dols of
Sumter.
The 6-month-old baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kasal
of Collins Township died last
evening from bowel trouble after
an illness of only a few hours.
75 Years Ago
Dec. 24, 1937
Harry Koeppen, Editor
Mike Kasal had the best female White Rock and O.W. DeGree earned second place for his
pen of Rhode Island Reds at the
McLeod County Poultry Show
held here.
Mrs. R.E. Mittlestadt was
hostess to the “500” club Friday
evening, the affair being a
Christmas party. Prizes went to
Mrs. P.L. Hakes of Brownton,
Mrs. Albert Bethke, Mrs. Herbert Fleisch and the traveling
prize to Mrs. W.A. Phillips.
The infant daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Leonard Klammer of
Hutchinson, Patricia Sue, was
baptized Sunday morning at the
Lutheran church with the Rev.
C.H. Kowalske, the baby’s
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grandfather, officiating.
A large crew of interested
businessmen were on hand last
Thursday evening to assist in
decorating the community hall
for the Christmas program Friday afternoon. The work was
completed in a short time because there was a large and helpful crew on hand. The weiner
and coffee lunch which followed
the work was prepared by John
Kisling and J.P. Tollefson.
families. Peter Paul Onyuka of
Kenya spent the holiday with the
August Langenbau family, while
Abdoulaye Mohamed of Niger
stayed with the Orville Trettin
family.
Former Stewart resident Stanley Dawson, 55, died Friday,
Dec. 23, at the Hutchinson hospital, of congestive heart failure.
The funeral service was Wednesday, Dec. 28, at the Stewart Funeral Home.
50 Years Ago
30 Years Ago
Dec. 27, 1962
Kermit T. Hubin, Editor
Mr. and Mrs. Ardan Kuehn
(Elaine Tock) announce the birth
of a son, born Dec. 25, Christmas day. He is named Robert
Earl.
Ladies of the Christian Mothers Society of St. Boniface
Catholic Church again gladdened the hearts of shut-ins in
the community with boxes of
food. Among those who helped
pack the boxes were Margaret
Kalenberg, Mrs. Norbert Kalenberg, Mrs. Arnold Meyer, Mrs.
Richard Buhr, Mrs. Ray Ludowese and Mrs. Roland McGraw.
Dec. 30, 1982
Dave Stoltz, Editor
Winter returned in full force
last week, providing a white
Christmas as a storm dropped a
foot of snow in the area.
Quick action by some area
resident revived a rural Stewart
man who became ill during the
Christmas Eve service at St.
Matthew’s Lutheran Church in
Fernando. Joe Peavey, 39, apparently stopped breathing twice,
and both times was revived by
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
administered by Jim Stockmann.
Peavey’s son and wife also became ill, and all were taken to
the Hutchinson hospital. The
house they are renting is being
checked for possible carbon
monoxide or sewer gas issues.
Larry Meier and Mrs. Jerome
(Evelyn) Ewert won shopping
sprees at Ahlers’ IGA and
Larry’s Red Owl, courtesy of the
Stewart Area Jaycees.
35 Years Ago
Dec. 29, 1977
Kermit T. Hubin, Editor
Two Africans who are in the
United States under the Aid for
International Development program spent Christmas with local
Thurs., Dec. 27 — AA Group Mtg. next to Post
Office in Stewart, 8 p.m., call 320-212-5290 for
info.
Mon., Dec. 31 — NEW YEAR’S EVE; Tops
Weigh-In mtg., 5-5:30 p.m.; Brownton Senior Citizens Club, Brownton Community Center, 1 p.m.
Tues., Jan. 1 — NEW YEAR’S DAY
Narcotics Anonymous, Brownton Community
Center, 7 p.m.; Brownton City Council, 7 p.m.
Thurs., Jan. 3 — AA Group Mtg. next to Post
Office in Stewart, 8 p.m., call 320-212-5290 for
info.
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The McLeod County Chronicle, Wednesday, December 26, 2012, page 7
People
Dircks, Hennessey note birth
Sheri Dircks and Josh Hennessey of Hutchinson announce the birth of their daughter, Khloe Janice Hennessey, on Dec. 10, 2012, at Glencoe Regional Health
Services. Khloe weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounces, and was 20
inches in length. Her older siblings are Hailey, Corra and
Karter Hennessey. Grandparents are Debbie Dircks of
Hutchinson, Joyce Markgraf and Bob Miller of Stewart,
Nancy Hennessey of Hutchinson and Keith Hennessey of
Plato.
Daughter to Ware, Rannow
Submitted photo
December Panther Pride recipients
The Helen Baker Elementary School awarded its December Panther Pride recipients last week. The students received an award for displaying caring and kindness. The
recipients of the award for the month included, front row,
left to right, Drew Alsleben, Cheyenne Cadena, Mason
Schilling, Caroline Dostal, Madison Schultz, Sophie
Groe, Cooper Rosenlund, Alexis Kube, Isabel Eggersgluess and Anthony Witte. In the middle row are Clayton
Moore (standing), Joe Mattson, Hannah Graf, Grace
Lipke, Madyson Mathews, Caden Neid, Brooklyn Christenson, Karla Rodriguez, Adrian Flores, Ben Southerland, Hunter Fearing and Bree Ryherd (standing). In the
back are Josilyn Marentes, Mason Ittel, Melanie Zavala,
Yajaira Villarreal, Tage Rosenlund, McKenzie Patnaude,
Gabriel Hussong, Jaxin Anderson, Calla Becker and
Holden Meyer.
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The McLeod County Chronicle, Wednesday, December 26, 2012, page 8
Keith Edward Hurajt, 53, of Winthrop
Obituaries
Robert Walter Dose, 65, of Hamburg
Funeral services for Robert
Walter Dose, 65, of Hamburg, were held Saturday,
Dec. 22, at Zion Lutheran
Church in Benton Township,
Cologne,
with
the
Rev. Eric
Zacharias
and Padre
H o w i e
Krienke officiating.
Mr. Dose
died Monday, Dec. Robert Dose
17, 2012, at his home in
Hamburg.
Pallbearers were Warren
Prehn, Loren Engelmann,
Randall Wroge, Mark Melcher, Marlin Melcher, Mark
Lenzen, Jim Heckmann and
Chris Franzen.
Mr. Dose was born May
10, 1947, in Glencoe, to Walter H. and Lois L. (Kern)
Dose. He was baptized on
May 25, 1947, at St. John’s
Lutheran Church in Plato by
the Rev. R.L. Ehlen, and confirmed on March 26, 1961, at
St. John’s Lutheran Church in
Plato, by the Rev. Edgar F.
Schroeder.
On Aug. 24, 1968, Mr.
Dose was united in marriage
to Lorraine K. Bollmann at
Zion Lutheran Church in
Benton Township, Cologne,
by the Rev. John Melchert.
The couple farmed north of
Plato on his family farm until
1970, at which time they
moved to their current farm
southeast of Hamburg. Here
they worked together with the
Lenzen family (Marlys,
Loren, Mark and Patty),
working hard and enjoying
every day. As years went on
Mr. Dose greatly enjoyed
working alongside his sons,
Jon and Jared.
Mr. Dose was a loving husband, dad and grandpa. His
grandchildren were his pride
and joy. He had a passion for
his small gatherings at the
farm with family and friends.
He looked forward to the annual Memorial Day and July
4th picnics with friends.
Farming was his love,
spending his days in his John
Deere tractors and attending
Red and White Holstein cow
auctions.
He was a faithful member
of Zion Lutheran Church,
where he had served as
trustee from 2005 through
2007.
Survivors include his loving family, wife, Lorraine;
sons and daughters-in-law,
Jon and Kelly Dose of Green
Isle and Jared and Stacy Dose
of Hamburg; daughter, Jaclyn
Dose of Hamburg; grandchildren, Alison, Grace, Ava and
Sam Dose, Kirstin, Emma
and Kellen Dose; sister and
brother-in-law, Jane and Don
Bayerl of Annandale; sistersin-law, Marlys Lenzen of
Green Isle and Linda Sprengeler of Darwin; nieces and
nephews, Becky and Todd
Sullwold, Tricia and Ryan
Kusske and Mark and Patti
Lenzen; other relatives and
friends.
Preceding him in death
were his parents, Walter and
Lois Dose; stepfather, Earl
Sprengeler; brother, Jon
Sprengeler; father-in-law
and mother-in-law, Erwin and
Malinda Bollmann; and
brother-in-law, Loren Lenzen.
Arrangements were with
the Johnson Funeral Home in
Waconia. Visit www.john
sonfh.com.
Mary Jane Draeger, 78, of Hutchinson
Funeral services for Mary
Jane Draeger, 78, of Hutchinson, were held Sunday, Dec.
23, at St. Matthew’s Lutheran
Church in Fernando with the
Rev. Aaron
Albrecht officiating.
M r s .
Draeger
died Thursday, Dec.
20, 2012, at
the Harmony River
Living Cen- Mary Jane
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in Draeger
Hutchinson.
The organist was Wanda
Renner and the soloist was
Andrew Hermodson-Olsen.
Congregational hymns were
“How Great Thou Art,”
“Comfort Ye, Comfort Ye,
My People” and “Savior,
Like a Shepherd Lead Us.”
Pallbearers were Bruce
Karl, David Karl, Clyde Zieman, Mike Kokesch, Lowell
Briese and Adam Boehlke.
Interment was in the church
cemetery.
Mary Jane Karl was born
May 9, 1934, in Hutchinson,
to Joseph and Fern (Ankeny)
Karl. She was baptized as an
infant on May 27, 1934, at St.
Boniface Catholic Church in
Stewart. She received her
First Holy Communion on
June 11, 1944, at St. Anastasia Catholic Church in
Hutchinson. She received her
education in Hutchinson and
attended Hutchinson High
School.
On May 15, 1952, Mary
Karl was united in marriage
to Stanley Draeger at St.
Matthew’s Lutheran Church
in Fernando. This marriage
was blessed with four daughters. The Draegers resided in
and farmed in Bismarck
Township, Sibley County.
They shared 50 years of marriage before Mr. Draeger died
on May 22, 2002. Mrs
Draeger later moved to
Hutchinson in 2002.
Mrs. Draeger was a loving
wife, mother, homemaker and
partner in the farming operation. She also worked at the
3M Company in New Ulm,
and Winthrop Good Samaritan Center and Hands, Inc., in
Winthrop. She was a member
of St. Matthew’s Lutheran
Church in Fernando.
Mrs. Draeger was an excellent baker. She loved going
shopping, especially for
shoes, and enjoyed playing
cards and bingo. She cherished the time she spent with
her family, grandchildren and
friends.
Survivors include her
daughters, grandchildren and
great-grandchildren; brother,
Edward Karl of Hutchinson;
sister, Lucy Schmidt of
Hutchinson; sisters-in-law,
Leola Karl of Hutchinson and
Joyce Karl of Hutchinson;
many other relatives and
friends.
Preceding her in death
were her parents, Joseph and
Fern Karl; husband, Stanley
Draeger; brothers, William
Karl, Francis Karl and his
wife, Ihone, Joseph Karl, Jr.;
sister-in-law, Cleo Karl; and
her brother-in-law, Victor
Schmidt.
Arrangements were by the
Dobratz-Hantge Chapel in
Hutchinson. Online obituaries and guest book are available at www.hantge.com.
Click on obituaries/guest
book.
Orville W. Howe, 86, of Hutchinson
26, 1926, in Glencoe, to
Irwin and Alice (Mutchler)
Howe. He was baptized as an
infant on Jan. 30, 1927, by
the Rev. E. Kolbe, and confirmed in his faith as a youth
on April 21, 1940, by the
Rev. Alf R. Streufert, both at
First Evangelical Lutheran
Church in Glencoe. His confirmation verse was John
8:31-32.
Mr. Howe received his education in Glencoe and was a
graduate of the Glencoe High
School class of 1944. He entered active military service
in the U.S. Navy on June 5,
1944, and served his country
in World War II. He received
an honorable discharge on
June 5, 1946.
On April 23, 1948, Mr.
Howe was united in marriage
to June Jensen by the Rev.
E.H. Streufert at First Evangelical Lutheran Church in
Glencoe. The couple made
their home in Glencoe. They
shared over 64 years of marriage.
Mr. Howe worked in the
body shop at Harpel Brothers, Inc., in Glencoe, retiring
in 1989 after 41 years.
He was a lifelong member
of First Evangelical Lutheran
Church and a member of the
Glencoe VFW Post 5102.
Mr. Howe was a very
meticulous man, which
showed in his gardens, lawn,
vehicles and everything else
he loved. He enjoyed fishing,
watching birds and riding his
motorcycle. He was a caring
man who cherished the time
spent with his family and
friends.
Survivors include his wife,
June Howe of Hutchinson;
brother, Donald (Freda)
Howe of Arvada, Colo.; sister, Mary (Howard) Anderson
of Grand Rapids; brother-inlaw, Ralph Ziegelman of
Alexandria; nieces, nephews,
other relatives and friends.
Preceding him in death
were his parents, Irwin and
Alice Howe; and sister, Audrey Ziegelman.
Arrangements were by the
Johnson-McBride Funeral
Chapel of Glencoe. Online
obituaries and guest book are
available at www.hantge.
com. Click on obituaries/
guest book.
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care facility.
The funeral service will be
today (Wednesday, Dec. 26),
at 11 a.m., at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ in Plato.
Visitation is today (Wednesday), from 9:30 a.m. to 11
a.m., at the church. Interment
will be in the church cemetery.
Arrangements are with the
Johnson-McBride Funeral
Chapel of Glencoe. For an
online guest book, visit
www.hantge.com.
Deaths
Connie
Oltmann, 97,
of Plato
Connie Oltmann, 97, of
Plato, died Sunday, Dec. 23,
2012, at Glencoe Regional
Mr. Hurajt entered active
military service in the U.S.
Army and received an honorable discharge on Feb. 3,
1986.
Mr. Hurajt made his home
in Minneapolis, Brownton,
New Auburn and Glencoe. In
2006, he moved to Winthrop.
After returning from the
service, Mr. Hurajt worked
construction and was a dog
catcher. In 1992, he started
his job as a truck driver. He
also spent a majority of his
time in the garage fixing and
building cars and trucks.
Mr. Hurajt was a member
of the American Legion Post
1982.
A kind-hearted and good
man, Mr. Hurajt enjoyed
working on vehicles and mud
trucking. He also was an
awesome skier. He loved
many things; above all else,
he loved his mother, daughter, granddaughter, eating
bacon and drinking his Pepsi.
He especially cherished the
time spent with his family
and friends.
Survivors include his children, Jared Hurajt, Nicole
Hurajt and her special friend,
Andrew Polzin, of New
Auburn, Joel (Hilary) Lorenz
of Winthrop, James (Sarah)
Rogstad of Braham and Jennifer (Craig) Rogstad of New
Auburn; grandchildren,
Stephan Lorenz, Shilo
Lorenz, Brittany Reid,
Michael Rogstad, Anthony
Lowden, Timothy Lowden,
James Lowden, Jeremy
Pavek, Brookelynn Polzin
and Tristan Lorenz; sister,
Becky Soucek of Savage;
niece, Melanie Soucek of
Savage; other relatives and
many friends.
Preceding him in death
were his parents, Edward and
Loretta Hurajt; and life companion, Beverly Rogstad.
Arrangements were by the
Johnson-McBride Funeral
Chapel of Glencoe. Online
obituaries and guest book are
available at www.hantge.
com. Click on obituaries/
guest book.
Flood risk open house set Jan. 8
Representatives from the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA), in conjunction with
the Minnesota Department of
Natural Resources, will host
a flood risk information open
house on Tuesday, Jan. 8,
from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., at the
McLeod County Courthouse,
County Board Room, 830 E.
11th St., Glencoe.
The open house will provide McLeod County residents with an opportunity to
review a recently completed
preliminary Flood Insurance
Study (FIS) and its accompanying preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs).
The FIS and the FIRMs
provide base flood information, delineate areas subject
to significant flood hazards
within the county, and offer
information public officials
may use when permitting development in the floodplain.
The open house will be
staffed with representatives
from various local, state and
federal agencies who will
provide the most current information about flood risk,
flood insurance, floodplain
development regulations, and
the process for floodplain
mapping within McLeod
County.
The newly prepared preliminary floodplain maps will
be on display. Once the maps
become effective, these maps
will be used by floodplain
permit officials, builders and
developers, lenders, realtors,
insurance agents and the general public to determine flood
risk, develop mitigation
measures, and encourage
wise and responsible risk
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Property owners, realtors,
lenders and insurance agents
are urged to attend and take
advantage of this opportunity
to learn more about flood risk
and hazard mitigation within
their community.
For more information, contact John Devine, FEMA Region V program specialist, at
312-408-5567 or Marge
Dworak, FEMA Region V
outreach specialist, at 312408-5527.
FEMA’s mission is to support citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation
all work together to build,
sustain, and improve the
country’s capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from and
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Funeral services for Orville
William Howe, 86, of
Hutchinson and formerly of
Glencoe, were held on Friday, Dec. 21, at First Evangelical
Lutheran
Church in
Glencoe,
with
the
Rev. Ronald
Mathison
officiating.
Mr. Howe
died Monday, Dec. Orville Howe
17, 2012, at
Harmony River Care Center
in Hutchinson.
Dawn Wolter was the organist. Congregational hymns
were “Away in a Manger,”
“My Hope is Built on Nothing Less” and “I Know That
My Redeemer Lives.”
Military honors were provided by Glencoe VFW Post
5102.
Pallbearers were Michael
Ziegelman, Thomas Ziegelman, Norb Hemmann, Eddie
Brelje, Dennis Scharpe and
Gale Donnay. Interment was
in the church cemetery.
Mr. Howe was born Nov.
Memorial services for
Keith Edward Hurajt, 53, of
Winthrop, were held Friday,
Dec. 21, at the JohnsonMcBride Funeral Chapel in
Glencoe.
The Rev.
Chris Meyers officiated.
Mr. Hurajt
died
T h u r s d a y,
Dec.
13,
2012, at his
home
in Keith Hurajt
Winthrop.
Urn bearer was Nicole Hurajt. Interment will be at a
later date.
Special music was from
CD selections. Military honors were provided by Glencoe American Legion Post
95.
Mr. Hurajt was born March
16, 1959, in Minneapolis, to
Edward and Loretta (Bacon)
Hurajt. He was baptized as an
infant in the Lutheran faith in
Burnsville and was educated
at Burnsville High School.
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e have all heard the phrase: “the light at the end of the tunnel.” Sometimes, it is
referring to a positive conclusion to something difficult that we might be going
through. At other times it might be used concerning a near death experience. For
Stephen, in Acts chapter 7, both meanings rang true: “But (Stephen), full of the Holy Spirit,
gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. And
he said, ‘Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of
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Lives remembered: Those who passed on in 2012
Mary Jane Parr, 76, Dassel,
Dec. 25, 2011; Melvin
Schuft, 88, Gaylord, Dec. 26,
2011; Marcella M. Kotkan,
83, Silver Lake, Dec. 27,
2011; Eleanor Ewert, 95, Columbia Heights, formerly of
Stewart, Dec. 31, 2011;
Robert “Bob” Durbin, 86,
Norwood Young America
(NYA), Dec. 31, 2011; Ada
Mackenthun, 93, NYA, Jan.
1; Joseph Zajicek, 78, Glencoe, Jan. 1; LaJean Koentopf,
62, Sterling, Va., formerly of
Glencoe, Jan. 1; Eldon
Pulkrabek, 82, Spring Grove,
formerly of Glencoe, Jan. 3;
Harvey Schilling, 88, Arlington, Jan. 6; Shirley Ann
Bulau, 82, Gibbon, Jan. 7;
Ann Stuedemann, 100, Glencoe, Jan. 8; Oscar Forcier,
Nevis, Jan. 9; Stephen Rosckes, 64, Lester Prairie, Jan. 12;
Richard Goldstein, 78,
Hutchinson, Jan. 14; Dorothy
Grochow, 84, Gaylord, Jan.
15; John Engelsmeier, 63,
Hutchinson, formerly of
Brownton, Jan. 17; Joseph
Nix, 92, Glencoe, Jan. 21;
Orval “Bud” Birkholz, 90,
Lester Prairie, Jan. 22; Jack
Pulkrabek, 78, Glencoe, Jan.
22; Alyce Klinkner, 80, Stewart, Jan. 27; Margaret Ann
Style, 75, Glencoe, Jan. 29;
Richard Hayes, 78, Glencoe,
Jan. 30; and Lorene Alsleben,
88, Glencoe, Jan. 31.
February
Fumie Sikkila, 87, Brownton, Feb. 3; Marlys Rusch,
78, Glencoe, Feb. 5; Blanche
Bandas, 99, Glencoe, Feb.
13; Mabel Stuber, 97, Green
Isle, Feb. 13; Herald Barton,
97, Silver Lake, Feb. 15;
Richard Burandt, 86, Glencoe,
Feb.
16;
Paul
Youngquist, 61, North
Branch, recently of Glencoe,
Feb. 16; Katherine Daak, 80,
Buffalo Lake, formerly of
Olivia, Feb. 18; Betty Kemmerer, 78, Lester Prairie, formerly of Pennsylvania, Feb.
19; Helen Fruetel, 88, Alamo,
Texas, formerly of NYA, Feb.
21; Darwin Raduenz, 71,
Glencoe, Feb. 21; Lester Arlt,
69, St. Cloud, Feb. 22;
Rueben Knick, 92, Glencoe,
Feb. 23; Lillian “Lil” Sommers, 91, Arlington, Feb. 24;
Irene Schrupp, 99, Glencoe,
Feb. 26; Lorna Field, 92,
Glencoe, Feb. 26; Lorna
Schmidt, 90, Glencoe, Feb.
26; Robert “Bob” Koepp, 60,
St. Paul, Feb. 29; and Delores
Mackenthun, 81, Arlington,
Feb. 29.
March
George Husske, 92,
Dubuque, Iowa, March 1; Esther Grenke, 95, Glencoe,
March 7; Celestine “Tina”
Nieland, 91, Arlington,
March 9; Annamarie Raether,
64, Glencoe, March 12;
Milan Hoff, 88, Hutchinson,
March 16; Carlene (Beneke)
Leeland, Portage, Wis.,
March 18; Leroy “Corky”
Polzin, 81, Brownton, March
20; Marjorie Karg, 90, Glencoe, March 23; Samuel Steinbrecher, 89, Glencoe, March
24; Vernhold Bethke, 77,
Stewart, March 24; and
Bernard Jochum, 86, Glencoe, March 28.
April
John Kuenzel, 91, NYA,
April 5; Inez Koester, 89,
Green Isle, April 5; Harvey
Beneke, 73, Arlington, April
6; Lucille Haag, 84, Glencoe,
April 6; Cory Potter, 42,
Glencoe, April 7; Lillian
Schugg, 100, Glencoe, April
9; Wayne Luehring, 73, Glencoe, formerly of Brownton,
April 13; Hilda Bauer, 97,
Stewart, April 15; LaVerna
Dahlke, 85, Arlington, April
22; Myra Oelfke, 90, NYA,
April 22; Alice Lueck, 85,
Glencoe, April 25; and Agnes
Tietz, 91, Hastings, formerly
of Glencoe, April 30.
May
E. Marie Dammann, 92,
Minneapolis, May 4; Eleanor
Grack, 73, Glencoe, May 6;
Lamar Wittenberg, 54, Carver, May 8; Gerald Brinkman,
80, Glencoe, May 9; Delores
Sommers, 76, Faribault, May
16; Rodney Schwarze, 66,
Brownton, May 18; Scott
Vikander, 45, Stillwater, formerly of Stewart, May 18;
Violet Chalupsky, 93,
Hutchinson, May 20; Christine Heintz, 79, Hutchinson,
May 22; Dorothy Vacek, 90,
Brownton, May 24; LeRoy
Winter, 67, Arlington, May
24; June Stoterau, 78, NYA,
May 27; and Diane Helgeson,
61, Stewart, May 26.
June
Janell Bernard, 58, Glencoe, June 1; Daniel
Moehring, 61, Plato, June 2;
Bernice Hutter, 93, Glencoe,
June 3; Shauna Carter, 34,
Winthrop, formerly of Glencoe, June 6; Genevieve
“Gen” Regner, 73, Lake Marion, June 6; Myrtle Witte,
100, Cosmos, formerly of
Brownton, June 9; Betty Lou
Setterman, 76, Gaylord, June
10; Ian Bunn, 2, Plato, June
15; Harry Gassman, 83,
Hutchinson, June 17; Gladys
Lehmann, 96, Brownton,
June 18; Walter Rannow, 91,
Hutchinson, June 18; Diane
M. Maass, 61, Hutchinson,
formerly of Brownton, June
19; Destany Thomson, 6,
New Ulm, June 19; Dale
Wagner, 88, Hutchinson, formerly of Stewart, June 21;
Mae Luedloff, 86, NYA, June
27; and Hazel Wendlandt, 89,
Hutchinson, June 28.
July
Lester Alsleben, 96,
Brownton, July 1; Olga
Mackenthun, 101, Waconia,
formerly of Hamburg, July 1;
Lewis Bullert, 77, Glencoe,
July 1; Stanley Katzenmeyer,
71, Glencoe, July 2; Dean
Mathews, 57, Glencoe, July
5; Lucy Jacobson, 52, Park
Rapids, July 6; Bernette Asplund, 87, Hutchinson, July
6; Stanley Ruschmeyer, 90,
Glencoe, July 8; Esther
Oelfke, 95, Glencoe, July 8;
Quentin Klucas, 80, Stewart,
July 10; Cora Baysinger, 92,
Stewart, July 12; Philip Plaisance, 82, Hutchinson, July
13; Duane Voigt, 76, East
Bethel, formerly of Arlington
and Green Isle, July 13;
Bertha Milbrand, 102, Glencoe, July 14; Vernon Hanson,
84, Maplewood, formerly of
Stewart, July 16; Bruce Post,
52, New Auburn, July 16;
Doris Bollingmo, 89, Buffalo
Lake, formerly of Stewart,
July 16; Lorraine Brinkmeier,
84, Hutchinson, July 16;
Toshiko Neumann, 86, Little
Canada, formerly of Glencoe,
July 17; Donald Murch, 88,
Glencoe, July 18; Anthony
“Tony” Boettcher, 55, Glencoe, formerly of Gaylord,
July 20; Delia Jaramillo, 83,
Dubuque, Iowa, July 21;
Elden Bipes, 89, Brownton,
July 22; and Richard Weber,
85, Northfield, formerly of
Glencoe, July 28.
CHURCH OF PEACE
520 11th St. E., Glencoe
Joseph Clay, Pastor
Sun., Dec. 30 — Worship at
Friedens 10 a.m.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL
CHURCH UCC
1400 Elliott Ave., Glencoe
Rev. Linzy Collins Jr., Pastor
E-mail: [email protected]
Sun., Dec. 30 — Worship, 9:15
a.m.; no Sunday school.
Wed., Jan. 2 — GRHS-LTC communion, 10:15 a.m.; choir practice,
6:30 p.m.
FIRST EVANGELICAL
LUTHERAN
925 13th St. E., Glencoe
Daniel Welch, Senior Pastor
Ronald L. Mathison,
Associate Pastor
320-864-5522
www.firstglencoe.org
E-mail: office@firstglencoe.org
Wed., Dec. 26 — No public school
confirmation; no handbells.
Sun., Dec. 30 — Worship, 8 a.m.;
Melvin “Mel” Foss, 70,
NYA, Oct. 15; Marvin Neumann Sr., 88, Silver Lake,
Oct. 15; Ferdinand Heuer, 82,
Glencoe, formerly of NYA,
Oct. 16; Natalie Schuft, 88,
Glencoe, Oct. 17; Robert
“Bob” Kleinschmidt, 65,
Brownton, Oct. 20; Sandra
Hunter, 69, rural Glencoe,
Oct. 20; Lorna Schmidt, 97,
Belle Plaine, formerly of
Glencoe, Oct. 21; Melvin
Sprengeler, 84, Plato, Oct.
22; Roy Pikal, 84, Hutchinson, Oct. 24; Anthony Albers,
87, Glencoe, Oct. 27; and
Evelyn Heuer, 86, Waconia,
Oct. 30.
September
November
Dora Kingsley, 93, Jordan,
formerly of Plato, Sept. 1;
Mary Burich, 97, Bloomington, formerly of Hutchinson,
Sept. 2; Bernice “Bernie”
Gorman, 78, Cross Plains,
Wis., Sept. 2; Kenneth Plihal,
74, Glencoe, formerly of
Hutchinson, Sept. 3; Carol
Hafner, 78, Glencoe, Sept. 4;
Darlene Becker, 81, Glencoe,
Sept. 8; Timothy Straub, 71,
Black Hawk, S.D., Sept. 12;
Michael Dressel, 53, Glencoe, Sept. 13; Gerald Donnay,
85, Glencoe, Sept. 15; Gerald
Nutter, 49, Stewart, Sept. 15;
Stanley Schermann, 83, Glencoe, Sept. 16; Kristine Villnow, 50, Glencoe, Sept. 17;
Janice “Jan” Moller, 73,
Lester Prairie, Sept. 21; Leon
Mackenthun, 63, Hamburg,
Sept. 21; April Lynn-Smith,
55, Hector, Sept. 24; Bert
Statema, 86, Stewart, Sept.
27; Brandon Lindeman, 23,
Brownton, Sept. 28; Earl
Neubarth, 75, New Auburn,
Maurice Pike, 96, Glencoe,
Nov. 2; Veronica Jilek, 80,
Glencoe, Nov. 7; Lorene
Dreier, 79, Watertown, formerly of Hamburg, Nov. 9;
Daryl Will, 68, Hamburg,
Nov. 11; Janet (Schrupp)
Ellingson, 88, Everett, Wash.,
Nov.
23;
Melford
Schwarzrock, 88, Gaylord,
Nov. 28; Hazel Slipka, 78,
Stewart, Nov. 30; and Roger
Sommers, 79, Faribault, Nov.
30.
December
Judith “Judy” Katzenmeyer, 66, Brownton, Dec. 2;
David Bergmann, 60, Minnetrista, Dec. 5; Ruth Grewe,
92, Gibbon, Dec. 7; Earl
Mielke, 78, New Germany,
Dec. 12; Keith Hurajt, 53,
Winthrop, Dec. 13; Ronald
“Ron” Parpart, 75, Waconia,
Dec. 17; Orville Howe, 86,
Hutchinson, formerly of
Glencoe, Dec. 17; Robert
Dose, 65, Hamburg, Dec. 17.
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fellowship, 9 a.m.; Sunday school,
9:15 a.m.; KDUZ radio broadcast,
9:30 a.m.; worship with communion,
10:30 a.m.; Spanish worship, 6 p.m.
Mon., Dec., 31 — Church office
closes at noon; worship with communion, 5 p.m.
Tues., Jan. 1 — Church office
closed.
Wed., Jan. 2 — Public school confirmation, 3:30 p.m.; Christ Chimes,
4 p.m.; Gospel Ringers, 6 p.m.; new
membership class, 6:15 p.m.; senior
choir, 6:15 p.m.
GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN
Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
1407 Cedar Ave. N., Glencoe
Rev. James F. Gomez, Pastor
Matthew Harwell,
Director of Christian Education
E-mail: offi[email protected]
Sun., Dec. 30 — Worship with
communion, 9 a.m.; Financial Peace
University video, 10:15 a.m.; no
Kingdom Quest, FUEL, adult Bible
study or LIVE.
Mon., Dec. 31 — Office closed.
Tues., Jan. 1 — Office closed.
Wed., Jan. 2 — Kids Praise, 3:15
p.m.; education, 7 p.m.; deacons, 7
p.m.
ST. JOHN’S
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN
4505 80th St., Helen Township
Glencoe
Dennis Reichow, Pastor
Sun., Dec. 30 — Worship, 9 a.m.;
Sunday school, 10 a.m.
Mon., Dec. 31 — New Year’s Eve
worship, 7 p.m.
Wed., Jan. 2 — Fifth- and sixthgrade catechism, 3:45 p.m.; seventhand eighth-grade catechism, 4:45
p.m.; chimes, 6:30 p.m.; choir, 7:30
p.m.
GRACE LUTHERAN
8638 Plum Ave., Brownton
Andrew Hermodson-Olsen, Pastor
E-mail:
[email protected]
www.gracebrownton.org
Sun., Dec. 30 — Worship, 8:45
a.m.; no Sunday school.
Tues., Dec. 31 — Worship broadcast, 6 p.m.
IMMANUEL LUTHERAN
700 Division St., Brownton
R. Allan Reed, Pastor
www.immanuelbrownton.org
Wed., Dec. 26, through Fri., Dec.
28 — No Noah’s Ark Preschool
classes.
Sun., Dec. 30 — Worship with
communion, 9 a.m.; no Bible study;
no Sunday school; Channel 8 video;
register for Jan. 6 communion.
Fri., Dec. 28 — Mass, 9 a.m.
Sun., Dec. 30 — Mass, 9:15 a.m.
Mon., Dec. 31 — Mass, 6 p.m.
ST. MATTHEW’S LUTHERAN
Fernando
Aaron Albrecht, pastor
No calendar submitted.
ST. JOHN’S CHURCH
13372 Nature Ave. (rural Biscay)
Robert Taylor, pastor
320-587-5104
Sun., Dec. 30 — No Sunday
school; worship, 10:30 a.m.
CROSSROADS CHURCH
10484 Bell Ave., Plato
Scott and Heidi Forsberg, pastors
320-238-2181
www.mncrossroads.org
Wed., Dec. 26 — Youth and adult
activities night, 7 p.m.
Sun., Dec. 30 — Worship, 10 a.m.
ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN
216 McLeod Ave. N., Plato
Bruce Laabs, Pastor
320-238-2550
E-mail: [email protected]
www.christ-4-u.org
Wed., Dec. 26 — No Midweek;
newsletter deadline.
Thurs., Dec. 27 — Bible study,
8:45 a.m.; bulletin deadline.; deacons
meeting, 7 p.m.
Sun., Dec. 30 — “Time of Grace,”
TV Channel 9, 6:30 a.m.; worship
with communion, 9 a.m.; Sunday
school, 10 a.m.; Bible study, 10:10
a.m.
Mon., Dec. 31 — New Year’s Eve
worship with communion, 5 p.m.
ST. PAUL’S UNITED CHURCH
OF CHRIST
308 First St. N.E., Plato
Bill Baldwin, Pastor
www.platochurch.com
Wed., Dec. 26 — Office closed.
Fri., Dec. 28 — Office open, 9
a.m.
Sun., Dec. 30 — Worship, 10 a.m.
IMMANUEL EVANGELICAL
LUTHERAN
New Auburn
Bradley Danielson, Pastor
E-mail: [email protected]
Sun., Dec. 30 — Worship, 9 a.m.;
fellowship time, 10 a.m.
Wed., Jan. 2 — Seventh-grade
confirmation, 4 p.m.; eighth-grade
confirmation, 5 p.m.
ST. PAUL’S LUTHERAN
Stewart
Robert Lehner, Pastor
Wed., Dec. 26 — WELCA
sewing, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Sun., Dec. 30 — No Sunday
school; worship, 10 a.m.
GRACE BIBLE CHURCH
300 Cleveland Ave., Silver Lake
Dr. Tom Rakow, Pastor
320-327-2352
http://silverlakechurch.org
Wed., Dec. 26 — No services.
Sun., Dec. 30 — “First Light”
radio broadcast on KARP 106.9 FM,
7:30 a.m.; pre-service prayer time,
9:15 a.m.; worship service, 9:30
a.m.; Sunday school, 10:35 a.m.;
take down Christmas decorations.
Mon., Dec. 31 — New Year’s Eve
get-together, 8 p.m.
Wed., Jan. 2 — Confirmation/discipleship class, 6 p.m.; prayer time, 7
p.m.
Dial-A-Bible Story, 320-3272843.
ST. BONIFACE CATHOLIC
Stewart
Wed., Dec. 26 — No Mass.
Thurs., Dec. 27 — Mass, 9 a.m.
FAITH PRESBYTERIAN
108 W. Main St., Silver Lake
320-327-2452 / Fax 320-327-6562
E-mail:
CONGREGATIONAL
Division St., Brownton
Barry Marchant, Interim Pastor
browntoncongregational.org
Sun., Dec. 30 — Worship, 9 a.m.
[email protected]
You may be able to reach someone
at the church every Tuesday through
Friday. Don’t hesitate to come in (use
church office door) or call, or e-mail
at [email protected].
Sun., Dec. 30 — Worship, 10
a.m.; coffee fellowship following
worship.
Wed., Jan. 2 — Presbyterian
Women meeting, 1:30 p.m.; light
supper, 5:30 p.m.; WOW classes, 6
p.m.; adult Bible classes, 6 p.m.;
choir practice, 7 p.m.
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77 Second Ave. S.
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David R. Erbel, pastor
Sun., Dec. 30 — Worship, 9 a.m.;
Sunday school and Bible study, 10:15
a.m.
SHALOM BAPTIST CHURCH
1215 Roberts Rd. S.W., Hutchinson
Rick Stapleton, Senior pastor
Adam Krumrie, Worship pastor
Thurs., Dec. 27 — Worship team,
6 p.m.
Sun., Dec. 30 — Worship, 9 a.m.
and 10:30 a.m.; grief share, 2 p.m.;
youth New Year’s Eve party.
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HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC
CHURCH
712 W. Main St., Silver Lake
Anthony Stubeda, Pastor
Wed., Dec. 26 — Rosary followed
by communion service at Cokato
Manor, 9:30 a.m.
Thurs., Dec. 27 — Rosary at
Cedar Crest, 10:10 a.m.; Mass at
Cedar Crest, 10:30 a.m.
Fri., Dec. 28 — Meet and greet at
Prairie Senior Cottages in Hutchinson, 1:30 p.m.
Sat. Dec. 29 — Reconciliation, 5
p.m.; Mass, 6:30 p.m.
Sun., Dec. 30 — Mass, 8 a.m. and
8 p.m.
Mon., Dec. 31 — Parish offices
closed.
Tues., Jan. 1 — New Year ’s
Mass, 8 a.m.
THE CHURCH OF JESUS
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770 School Rd., Hutchinson
Kenneth Rand, Branch President
320-587-5665
Wed., Dec. 26 — Young men and
women (12-18 years old) and scouting, 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Sun., Dec. 30 — Sunday school,
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1014 Knight Ave., Glencoe
Anthony Stubeda, Pastor
Wed., Dec. 26 — No Mass, 7:20
a.m.; no school; parish offices open;
no religious education classes.
Thurs., Dec. 27 — Mass at GRHSLTC, 10:30 a.m.; KC Christmas
party, 7 p.m.
Fri., Dec. 28 — Morning prayer, 8
a.m.; school Mass, 8:20 a.m.; Spanish
Mass, 5:30 p.m.
Sat., Dec. 29 — Reconciliation, 4
p.m.; Mass, 5 p.m.
Sun., Dec. 30 — Mass, 9:30 a.m.;
Spanish Mass and baptisms, 11:30
a.m.; no Spanish religious education
classes; Mass at Holy Family, Silver
Lake, 8 p.m.
Mon., Dec. 31— School break
continues; parish offices open; Mass,
5 p.m.; midnight Spanish Mass.
Tues., Jan. 1 — Mass, 10 a.m.; no
school; parish offices closed; no junior choir practice.
Wed., Jan. 2 — Evening prayer,
5:40 p.m.; Mass, 6 p.m.; school resumes; kindergarten through sixthgrade religious education classes, 7
p.m.-8 p.m.; seventh- through 11thgrade religious education classes, 7
p.m.-8:15 p.m.
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CHRIST LUTHERAN
1820 N. Knight Ave., Glencoe
Katherine Rood, Pastor
320-864-4549
www.christluth.com
E-mail: offi[email protected]
Wed., Dec. 26 — Televised worship, 2 p.m. on channel 10.
Leona Miller, 97, Glencoe,
Aug. 2; AnnaMae Albrecht,
87, Hutchinson, formerly of
Glencoe, Aug. 4; Kenneth
Place, 91, Glencoe, Aug. 5;
William “Bill” Harens, 92,
Gaylord, Aug. 6; Harold Otto,
89, Arlington, Aug. 10; Herbert “Herb” Krienke, 86,
Glencoe,
formerly
of
Hutchinson, Aug. 10; Marjorie Felt, 83, Waconia, Aug.
12; Frances Dvorak, 75,
Litchfield, Aug. 12; Rosemary Schuette, 64, Brownton,
Aug. 12; Debra Kottke, 58,
Cologne, Aug. 14; Marcille
Brelje, 82, NYA, Aug. 28;
and Patrick “Pat” Guck, 74,
Glencoe, formerly of Arlington, Aug. 31.
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Wed., Dec. 26 — Women’s Bible
study, 9 a.m.; service on Glencoe
Cable Channel 10, 8 p.m.
Fri., Dec. 28 — Men’s Bible study,
9 a.m.
Sun., Dec. 30 — Sunday school
for all ages, 9 a.m.; worship, 10:20
a.m.; service on Glencoe Cable Channel 10, 10:30 a.m.
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The McLeod County Chronicle, Wednesday, December 26, 2012, page 10
Accidents claimed the lives of several
people in 2012, including Henry
Statema of Stewart, who was killed and
Recently re-elected Stewart
Mayor Jeff Erkenbrack suddenly resigned Dec. 10 without explanation. Council
member Jason Peirce was appointed acting mayor.
Dec. 19 — A squabble over
recycling pitted Glencoe City
Council against the McLeod
County Board of Commissioners. The city opted to go
to a one-sort recycling program, separating itself from
the county’s current five-sort
system. The rub is the onesort program, offered by
Waste Management, takes recyclable material away from
the county’s recycling center,
causing revenue problems for
the county program.
Al Robeck, long-time
water and wastewater plant
employee, announced his retirement after more than 40
years with the city. It was the
second long-time city employee to retire. The other
was Terry Buska, city street
superintendent, who retired in
October.
his wife, Kathleen injured in a one-vehicle rollover on County Road 7 in September.
Year in Review Continued from page 5
occurred on County Road 7,
northeast of Stewart, when
his Ford Windstar went off
the road and struck a power
pole. Statema’s wife, Kathleen, was airlifted from the
scene to Hennepin County
Medical Center in Minneapolis.
Glencoe City Council
agreed to shuffle its public
works staff when long-time
street superintendent Terry
Buska retired due to health
reasons. Gary Schreifels,
public works director, and
Mike Drew, park superintendent, will split Buska’s management duties. The Council
also set up two departments
in
public
works
—
parks/streets handled by
Drew and water/wastewater
and sewers handled by
Schreifels.
Oct. 10 — The city of
Brownton will again pursue
setting up a municipal natural
gas utility when it gets natural gas service to the community. That could become a reality by next summer, council
members were told.
Blustery winds combined
with dry conditions fueled
fires to buildings and fields in
the area as the statewide
drought conditions deepened.
The state had little moisture
after June.
Former standout athlete
Robyn Ruschmeier, Glencoe
and GSL football coach Dave
Dose and Glencoe girls’ volleyball and basketball coach
Mary Resch were the latest
inductees into the GSL Panthers Hall of Fame on Oct. 5.
Oct. 17 — Glencoe’s Linda
Krueger began gathering donations for her participation
in “Operation Minnesota
Nice,” which sends “care”
packages to U.S. military personnel deployed overseas
during the holidays. Krueger
shipped out about 25 packages last year, but by early
December this year had packaged and sent out 90.
It was a busy few weeks
for the Glencoe City Center
with a variety of performances held in the Grand Ballroom, including the Concord
Singers of New Ulm, the
Augsburg Singers, an allmale chorus, and the Rickie
Lee performance of 1950s
tunes.
Oct. 31 — Former Glencoe
businessman Bryan Koepp,
who allegedly borrowed
money from friends, family
and acquaintances to keep his
landscape business afloat,
faced his first hearings on
criminal charges connected
with the case.
Eight Glencoe-Silver Lake
FFA students attended the national convention in Indianapolis, Ind.
Laura Taylor of Stewart
earned her silver award for
scouting as a member of the
Brownton-Stewart Girls
Scouts.
Miller Manufacturing was
honored as the Glencoe Area
Chamber of Commerce’s
Manufacturer of the Year. The
ceremony drew U.S. Rep.
Collin Peterson, D-Minn.,
who gave one of the several
speeches at the event.
After years of a freeze, the
McLeod County Board approved a motion to lift its ban
on hiring.
The new Buffalo Highlands
Trail was officially opened
Oct. 27. The paved trail goes
from Morningside Avenue in
Glencoe east about two miles
to County Road 1. It is the
first of a three-phased project
that is supposed to take the
trail to Plato, five miles to the
east.
November
Nov. 7 — Nov. 8 was declared Helen Nowak Day in
Glencoe by Glencoe Mayor
Randy Wilson after she
turned 100 years old.
“Annie” opened as the fall
musical at Glencoe-Silver
Lake High School.
The Rev. Andrew Hermodson-Olsen, pastor at Grace
Lutheran Church in Brownton, returned from a trip to
South Africa and spoke about
building relationships with
others “face-to-face” through
mission work.
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Nov. 14 — Navy veteran
Jeff Jensen, the technology
coordinator at Glencoe-Silver
Lake, gave an emotional address as the main speaker at
Glencoe Veterans Day program in the high school gym.
Election Day had some interesting results. At the state
level,, local legislators state
Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen, RGlencoe, and state Sen. Scott
Newman, R-Hutchinson, both
won, but the GOP party took
a beating statewide, losing its
majorities in both the Minnesota House and Senate.
DFLers now control the Legislature and governor’s mansion for the next two years.
Locally, Kevin Dietz unseated Greg Copas for the
Precinct 4 City Council seat,
while Brownton’s long-time
mayor, Curt Carrigan, was
defeated by write-in candidate, Jay Werner. At Plato,
two write-in candidates won
seats on the Plato City Council — Dennis Oltmann and
Bob Pflipsen.
The GSL School Board
election found incumbents
Jamie Alsleben and Kevin
Kuester winning re-election,
while newcomer Donna VonBerge upended incumbent
Gary Schreifels for the third
seat on the board.
Nov. 21 — GSL School
Board members heard that
participation in the school
lunch program has trended
downward after new federal
guidelines were instituted in
July.
A grand jury indicted
McLeod County Sheriff
Deputy Mark Eischens on
two felony and two misdemeanor counts in regards to a
shooting incident in April.
Eischens was a member of an
emergency response team
that was executing a search
warrant at a Biscay home
when his firearm was discharged, grazing Harry Lee
Ondracek. Ondracek was
taken to the hospital and later
charged with fifth-degree
drug charges.
The GSL School decided to
go ahead with a building addition onto the Lincoln Jr.
High School and not call for
a referendum. The $1.5 million project will build an addition to the northwest corner
of the building to house the
ECFE/ECSE
programs.
Those early childhood programs would vacate their
building at Helen Baker Elementary to make room for
more classrooms at the K-2
facility, which is overcrowded. A larger, more comprehensive building project was
rejected twice by GSL voters
in 2011.
Nov. 28 — “Need never
Ends” is how Marietta Neumann, McLeod Emergency
Food Shelf director, described the ever growing demands on the local food shelf
by a larger number of county
residents.
Glencoe-Silver Lake Homecoming king and queen for
2012 were Kurtis Kunkel and Brooke Kaczmarek.
December
Dec. 5 — The long vacant
Mark’s Economart building
in downtown Glencoe was
offered to the city for $1 plus
payment of the 2013 property
taxes. Later in the month,
City Council agreed to the
purchase, which includes
paying $14,022 in property
taxes for 2013.
Glencoe City Council also
opted to expand its municipal
liquor store at its current site
in the former city hall offices.
The city has debated options
on what to do with its liquor
store for several years, including relocating it.
Dec. 12 — Long-time 1st
District County Commissioner Ray Bayerl called it a career after 22-1/2 years on the
board. He got into the county
government by fulfilling the
wish of a dying friend, his
predecessor,
Lawrence
Fiecke.
Ann Phillips was named
Glencoe Area Chamber of
Commerce’s Volunteer of the
Year and Sheila Murphy was
the Chamber Volunteer of the
Year. The two were honored
at the annual meeting and
banquet of the chamber.
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2211 11th St. E., Glencoe
320-864-3354
ARE YOU EXPECTING A SPECIAL DELIVERY?
If you’re expecting a bundle of joy around the first of the year, you can win a bundle of
great prizes for you and baby from the participating Glencoe area sponsors listed here.