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News from Clarissa's Past 25 Years Ago May 16, 2001 Last Friday, first graders honored their moms at a special program. They performed songs, presented their moms with hand-made gifts and each recited a poem. Pictured, Jacob Schauer is giving a gift to his mom, Denitra and Brooke Schumann shared a poem, and Jerod Nelson is also pictured with his mom. ********** The Eagle Valley Rebels baseball team continues to search for improvement on defense. The Rebels have had more t

News from Browerville's Past 25 Years Ago May 17, 2001 On May 9, the District Special Olympics competition was once again held in Long Prairie with the cooperation of the Long Prairie/Grey Eagle School system offering the use of their track facilities. The Area 5 Special Olympics Track and Field event hosted about 275 athletes from: Browerville, Aitkin, Bertha-Hewitt, Brainerd, Crosby-Ironton, Long Prairie-Grey Eagle, Menahga, Mid-State Co-op, New York Mills, Remer, Onamia,

News from Eagle Bend's Past 25 Years Ago May 16, 2001 Forty teddy bears, furry ones, cloth ones, in all colors of the rainbow and some others besides, have recently been made by women of the United Methodist Church in Eagle Bend. “We had made teddy bears for the Eagle Bend Fire Department once before, but they have run out,” explained Carolynne Bisel. “They asked us to make some more. The teddy bears are given to children at fire calls or accidents. The little bears give the

News from Bertha and Hewitt's Pasts 25 Years Ago May 16, 2001 The Eagle Valley and Bertha-Hewitt Schools are using a new game to help teach their students. The Stock Market Game is an interactive educational tool that can be used in grades 4-12 to teach a variety of subjects including math, social studies, language arts and business. Jan Hierl at Eagle Valley and Mike Bauck at Bertha-Hewitt are the teachers who are working with a carefully designed curriculum. In this port

News from Verndale's Past 40 Years Ago, May 21, 1986 • Two young men, the sons of Darold and Jean Hahn, have returned to Verndale to begin a business on their own. Jeff and David have purchased the equipment of the defunct Ritari Systems Inc., and will be providing services of a well-equipped machine shop and manufacturing plant. For the time being, they are also located in the same building, adjacent to the railroad tracks on South Brown Street in Verndale. • Because the M

News from Browerville's Past 25 Years Ago May 10, 2001 When Browerville Science Teacher Bruce Curley went to the school board and asked them for the money to fund a greenhouse for his students, they told him it would be too expensive. Not to be defeated, Curley sought and received $20,000 to fund his project from a private party. Because the greenhouse is new to the school, much of the time this year has been used setting up the house and fine tuning its automatic climate co

News from Clarissa's Past 25 Years Ago May 9, 2001 The Rebels softball team put themselves in a deep hole as they gave up three first inning runs and five fourth inning runs to trail 9-0 after four innings. Jenny Nelson made some great plays as shortstop for the Rebels. Walks, followed by errors, followed by hits usually spell trouble, and it did for Eagle Valley. Michelle Holt pitched the first four innings. Holt gave up six hits and walked three. ********** Elise Krause,

News from Bertha and Hewitt's Pasts 25 Years Ago May 9, 2001 Several area hunters/dog handlers recently placed in the National Hunting Dog Trials in Stratton, Colorado. The competition took place April 6-8. Steve Aeling from Hewitt and Goldie, a yellow Labrador owned by the American Heritage Hunt Club, placed first in the national competition. Steve also placed seventh with Zelda, a German Short Hair pointer. Maggie, a Labrador Retriever owned by the Aelings, took 10th in t

News from Eagle Bend's Past 25 Years Ago May 9, 2001 Joseph Harren, Kayla Salathe, Katie Asfeld, Trevor Ahrendt and Justin Smith, students at Eagle Valley School, participated in the regional Math Masters of Minnesota Challenge at Osakis High School on May 4. The team’s advisor/coach is Mr. Jenkins. Thirty-five teams of students competed individually as teams on eight sets of mathematical problems in this competition. ********** Bonnie Stoecker, Stacey Berg and Heidi Goddi

News from Verndale's Past 40 Years Ago, May 14, 1986 • New FFA chapter officers for the 1986-87 year are: Mike Willis, president; Loren Horsager, vice president; Peter Schmitz, treasurer; Ken Moyer, sentinel; Bridget Perish, secretary; and Brenda Line, reporter. Alternates named were Mary Tiede, Synette Plautz, and Damon Butler. A movie entitled “Be All You Can Dream” was shown during the program. Advisor Russ Schauer commended the students for their performance. • Honored