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News from Clarissa's Past 25 Years Ago July 11, 2001 A public hearing was held for the alley tarring by the trailer court at the July 2 council meeting. The issue was tabled until the next council meeting to be held on Tuesday, July 17. The cost of tarring the alley would be $5300 with 80% of the cost passed on to the homeowners. There were citizens on both sides of the issue. Those in favor of it felt it was a street, why not pave it? It has been patched for 13 years and

News from Browerville's Past 25 Years Ago July 12, 2001 Wade Johnson thinks that if he had gotten a chance to address neighbors’ concerns about his business expansion plans, they may have supported his bid for a conditional use permit to add slaughtering to his meat market business. But Johnson said the neighbors and officials at the zoning meeting didn’t listen to him. And, he said, two or three phone calls to County Commissioner Gary Feist to discuss the issue went unanswe

News from Bertha and Hewitt's Pasts 25 Years Ago July 11, 2001 Martina Hendrickson’s sister, Eleanora Berthiaume, who lives just outside of Hewitt checked on a shed that had blown over in the storm. Inside she found a mother cat and eight of her kittens who had perished in the building. Three other kittens were still alive. One died shortly after being found. The other two were taken to Martina’s daughter, Cathy, who was at work at the time, and brought them home. Gizmo, th

News from Eagle Bend's Past 25 Years Ago July 11, 2001 Ray Jackson and Ione Heldt were Grand Marshals of the Eagle Bend Days parade. ********** Bruce Anderson drove the Eagle Bend Rescue Squad and Kyle Lancaster tossed candy from the Jerry’s Body Shop float. 50 Years Ago July 15, 1976 On May 18, Superintendent W.B. James accepted a portrait of Manassas Sarff, which was presented to the Eagle Bend Public School by his granddaughter, Gladys Wendel. Manassas Sarff was one o

News from Verndale's Past 40 Years Ago, July 16, 1986 • Lynette Hahn, Miss Verndale, showed the dress she’ll be wearing for the judging and coronation ceremony for the Queen of the Lakes Pageant held during Minneapolis’ Aquatennial next week. Lynn will be leaving early Saturday for the week-long schedule of events. She will be riding Verndale’s float in both the daytime parade on Saturday morning and the Torchlight Parade on Wednesday night. • The first citywide rummage sal

News from Browerville's Past 25 Years Ago July 5, 2001 Jenni Pachan and Sarah Hoelscher represented the city of Browerville at the League of Minnesota Cities annual conference held in Duluth, June 19-22. Both girls were selected by the Browerville Public School based upon their participation in numerous school activities. They will be seniors this fall. Included in their activities are athletics, music, peer helpers, the Future Business Leaders of America and the Blandin Fou

News from Clarissa's Past 25 Years Ago July 4, 2001 Shepherd of the Valley Bible School was taught again this year by a group of counselors from Luther Crest Bible Camp. They taught the children about God through worship time, skits, short sermons, songs for the children, and bible talk where they had discussions about the bible. Other activities included crafts, games, a visit to the Central Todd County Care Center and a trip to Lake Charlotte. Four of the teachers who tau

News from Eagle Bend's Past 25 Years Ago July 4, 2001 On Sunday, July 1, a ribbon cutting ceremony and open house was held at the new Eagle Valley Clinic in Eagle Bend. Pictured are: Tim Rice, president of Lakewood Health System; Dr. Bill Mennis, Staples physician; Michele Fisher, St. Cloud CentraCare site administrator; Tom Hock, P.A.-C; Mel Nefstead, board chairman, Lakewood Health System; Dr. Paul Van Gorp, Long Prairie physician; Toni Tebben, site coordinator, CentraCar

News from Bertha and Hewitt's Pasts 25 Years Ago July 4, 2001 Amy Ashbaugh is doing something that a lot of people never think of doing. She is going to Spain for eight weeks to study Spanish. Amy is a 1996 Bertha-Hewitt graduate and is the daughter of George and Jean Ashbaugh from Hewitt. She graduated from Concordia College in May 2001 with a major in Spanish. Being out of the country is not new to Amy. She was an exchange student in Peru and when she returned she went to

News from Verndale's Past 40 Years Ago, July 9, 1986 • Crews from Minnesota Power and West Central Telephone worked feverishly to restore services to some of the areas where lines were disrupted. Pictured, they are working in front of the home occupied by Lena Rieck following the storm which whipped through a five block area of Verndale only minutes after 1 a.m. on Friday, July 4. Scott Miller, police chief, reported his car was blown from the road as he rounded a curve in t