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News from Clarissa's Past 25 Years Ago December 27, 2000 If you’ve used the postal service in Clarissa within the last four and a half years, your needs would have been met by Chuck Tangeman of Verndale. He has announced he has taken a postmaster position in Menahga and will be leaving January 11. He has thoroughly enjoyed serving our small community and has treated his job as though “it’s his own business” and takes great pride in his work. ********** Two young cheerleade

News from Browerville's Past 25 Years Ago December 28, 2000 Seven Browerville students led a training for 40 area high schools students at the Browerville Community Center. Kalie Becker, Lindsey Dickinson, Kelly Hudalla, Kim Hynnek, Bevin Smeija, Shanda Stracek, and Pokie Zellgert have been tobacco prevention advocates for the last couple of years. Together they led a Teens Against Tobacco Use (T.A.T.U.) Training. ********** At their December 19 meeting, commissioners comb

News from Bertha and Hewitt's Pasts 25 Years Ago December 27, 2000 A short school board meeting culminated in a tour of the new addition is what happened at the Bertha-Hewitt School Board meeting on Tuesday evening. Members of the board heard again from Doug Cederstrand from E and V Construction Managers. He told them the progress being made is good and everything is on or ahead of schedule. All the concrete sidewalks are complete, however, landscaping and parking lot strip

News from Eagle Bend's Past 25 Years Ago December 27, 2000 Spotlight on Scholarship Gold award winners—to receive the Gold award, a student must be involved in a MSHSL activity in that season (football, volleyball or cheer leading), be a member of the Varsity or JV team and must have a GPA from 3.6 and up. Pictured are: Justin Boseck, Antony Motl, Charlie Woida, Mark LaVoie, Jared Voge, Austin Murch, Clayton Krause, Nathan Wood, Michelle Holt, Tabitha Denny, Katy Denny, Mega

News from Verndale's Past 40 Years Ago, January 1, 1986 • Pictured, Millie Krueger of Verndale points to the first of a collection of Danish Christmas plates sent by an uncle from Denmark to her parents in the late 40s and continued to send as long as he lived. Millie and her husband, Howard, continued the collection until 1979 when they became too expensive. • There will be 12 panels in the Minnesota Historical Society genealogical traveling exhibit which will be in Vernda

News from Browerville's Past 25 Years Ago December 21, 2000 The Browerville girls basketball team won in the closing second in a match-up versus the Henning Hornets on Tuesday, December 12. Both teams struggled in the opening minutes. In the fourth, the Hornets came out and marched ahead of the Tigers to gain a four point lead themselves only Browerville came back on free throws by MerriAnne Werder, a steal by Megan Geraets and a drive to the basket and lay up by Kim Salber

News from Clarissa's Past 25 Years Ago December 20, 2000 It takes a lot of hard work and determination to start a band and stick with it, but that’s just what two local teens have done. Jon Cline, 16, of Browerville, and J.J. Korfe, 18, of Clarissa, started playing together about three years ago. More recently, Lucas Uchoa, 16, of Brazil, has become the vital third member of their group. They are doing so well they are in the process of putting together a compact disc. They

News from Eagle Bend's Past 25 Years Ago December 20, 2000 It was the early 1970s when a young couple, Fred (Buck) and Carolynne Bisel, and their young children decided to leave the Washington, D.C. metro area. Buck had been the manager of a large Safeway food store. They had a choice of grocery stores in Sauk Centre, Grey Eagle or Eagle Bend. They chose Eagle Bend because it was located in a strong agricultural area, not depending on the tourist trade. They bought the groce

News from Bertha and Hewitt's Pasts 25 Years Ago December 20, 2000 The new chapel at the Bertha-Domian-Anderson Funeral Home was dedicated to the memory of George Domian and “Swede” Anderson. Pictured by the dedication plaque were Joe Schuller, Rhonda Amundson, Nora Anderson, Jon Johns and Jerry Anderson. ********** During the latter part of the regular meeting of the Bertha City Council on Monday, December 11, new Mayor Gary Kleen and new Council Member Brad Rach took

News from Verndale's Past 40 Years Ago, December 25, 1985 • Verndale played host to a convention held last weekend for the Mrs. Santa Clauses, who assembled to list their gripes. They were opposed to the color red, and opted for purple. They declared “Plump is in” and asked for various items such as a cook stove, automatic poopper-scooper, a moped and more. They welcomed the “real Mrs. Santa” (Alyce Seaton). At the conclusion of their program they performed a dance. • Kim T