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News from Browerville's Past 25 Years Ago March 29, 2001 A group of town people from the community will be going to Haiti as part of the Haiti Outreach Program. While in Haiti, the group will take part in the construction of a new 20x20 foot home that will house a family of six. To make the trip possible, $10,000 had to be raised to send the group, and an additional $1500 was raised to be used for material to construct the home. The house will consist of a brick foundation

News from Clarissa's Past 25 Years Ago March 28, 2001 John Romstad, Commander of Clarissa Post 213 of the American Legion, announced that Jared Voge, son of Rick and Jane Voge of Clarissa, was named to attend the 53rd Annual American Legion “Legion Boys State” to be held at the Campus of St. Olaf College in Northfield, June 10 through 16. ********** The Clarissa Senior Citizens have been waiting patiently for their new building to be completed. Now that it is nearly finish

News from Bertha and Hewitt's Pasts 25 Years Ago March 28, 2001 “I’ve heard it called the dumbing of Minnesota,” said Bertha-Hewitt Superintendent Larry Werder. “It’s not about raisers,” said Bertha-Hewitt School Board member Mary Ward, “It’s about education.” She was referring to Governor Jesse Ventura’s proposed budget which would cause the district to lose about $190,000 for the 2001-2002 school year. Bertha-Hewitt does have a fund balance of close to a million dollars,

News from Eagle Bend's Past 25 Years Ago March 28, 2001 Last Thursday, 76 women attended a Farm Woman Appreciation Day that was held at the Double Eagle Country Club near Eagle Bend. Jim Lunemann of Central Ag Services started the program by welcoming everyone. Lunemann said he learns a lot from farmers by what he refers to as “milk tank talk”. From those talks he gets asked plenty of questions and based the topics of the day on some of them to answer some frequently asked q

News from Verndale's Past 40 Years Ago, March 24, 1986 • A good sized crowd was on hand last Thursday night at the Staples AVTI for the first public hearing in six years on the Highway 10 project. They were told, barring unforeseen difficulties, the final legs in the Highway 10 project on this area should be completed in 1989, with the exception of city by-passes. • Publication of last week’s issue of The Sun was delayed somewhat while pressmen were ironing out the wrinkle

News from Clarissa's Past 25 Years Ago March 21, 2001 Several parents whose daughters are members of the Eagle Valley Girls Basketball team were on hand at the March 12 school board meeting venting their frustrations with the way the girls basketball team is being handled. Board Chairman Bob Winkler explained that the board would not take action, but would listen as it is a personnel matter. Diane Considine served as spokesperson for the group. Over the next hour, criticism

News from Browerville's Past 25 Years Ago March 22, 2001 Sue Wiersgalla is secretary-treasurer of American Legion Post 293, and loves it. The American Legion Post and the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) work together to open the doors of the Vets Club to Browerville’s citizens but basically its a post home for the vets. The Vets Club is proud to sponsor the “fish fry” on Friday nights during Lent. This project is very successful and raises money for the year for various chari

News from Eagle Bend's Past 25 Years Ago March 21, 2001 On Thursday, March 22, an auction sale will close out the Eagle Bend business that for years was known as Engebretson Chevrolet and Engebretson Motor Company. Lloyd Engebretson started in the machinery business with Art Craig in 1945 in the garage now occupied by Maureen’s Ceramics. The building stood on the now vacant lot between Sir Anthony’s Restaurant and Bisel’s. In 1946, Engebretson bought the garage from Cliff Ha

News from Bertha and Hewitt's Pasts 25 Years Ago March 21, 2001 The parishioners of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Bertha and Trinity Lutheran Church in Hewitt have been making quilts for people around the world and locally since 1970. The project began when Helen Hoffman (wife of Pastor Herman Hoffman) and Elsie Erdman encouraged some women of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church to meet weekly in the church basement to sew quilts for the Lutheran World Relief. Soon the women of Trini

News from Verndale's Past 40 Years Ago, March 26, 1986 • Newly enlisted Privates Mike Iverson of Nimrod, Terrance Ackerman of Verndale, Kevin Lillquist of Sebeka and Robert Mackay, Jr. of Menahga, got a brief rundown on the capabilities of one of the Minnesota Army National Guard’s M-60 Tanks from Staff Sergeant Jeffrey Packer of McGregor. These citizen-soldiers were among the 160 newly-enlisted Guard members at the Basic Training Orientation Course at Camp Ripley March 15-1