Dusting Off the Archives
News from Verndale's Past
40 Years Ago, October 8, 1986
• Larry (Cork) Anderson of Verndale, a charter member of the Wadena Elks Lodge, presented checks from the Lodge No. 2386, to, from left: Maureen Baker, coordinator for the Verndale Girl Scouts; Deb Erickson, director for Hands, Inc., Verndale’s new girls’ precision marching unit; and Robert Koons, Cubmaster, who also accepted a check on behalf of the Boy Scouts.
• Lions Club members were invited to a style show by Lioness after their respective meetings last Thursday evening. Lioness had previous packaged clothing and accessories in bags and it was taken to meetings during the summer months. Each was given the bags and requested to wear what was therein for the show at the October meeting. Barb Schenk, emcee, introduced the models with lively commentary.
• Fifteen Wadena County 4-H Dog Project members attended the Regional 4-H Dog Show at the Armory in Brainerd on Saturday, September 20. They were: Aaron Crandall, Lisa Mell, Connie Nanik, Debbie Mell, Stacy Tiede, Becky Fredrich, Rhonda Bondzin, Colleen Schoon, Amy Mell, Orrin Lein, Scott Nanik, Gary Lust, Rozanne Bondzine, Jody Johnson and Casy School. They qualified by earning blue ribbons at the Wadena County Fairy in July. Members that earned trips to the state dog show were: Becky Friedrich in four-dog team and obedience, Connie Nanick in four-dog team, Stacy Tiede in four-dog team and obedience, and Rhonda Bondzin in four-dog team and obedience.
• Fred Klimek was the first Lion to outbid other Lions members for a purse, modeled by Shirley Anderson. In it, he found he had also won a six pack of pop and a pack of wine coolers.
15 Years Ago, October 13, 2011
• She is the typical small town girl who was seen playing school sports, involved in an occasional play and tending to animals on her family’s dairy farm. After Kara Trosen graduated from high school and was the Wadena County Dairy Princess in 2005, she was ready to get out of Verndale and see what the world had to offer. She studied music in Iowa and after one semester moved to Moorhead for two semesters taking speech pathology. Then she moved to Colorado and acquired her cosmetology license. She returned to Verndale and now works at Mane Hair Design.
• If you ask Reverend Fred Hartley why he went into youth ministry, he will simply tell you that it was his love for Jesus and for teens that drew him into it. Hartley is the new youth pastor at the Verndale Alliance Church which is part of the Christian Missionary Alliance. You could say Hartley has been training for ministry for most of his life as he grew up the son of a pastor.
• Pictured, this group of women, consisting of Janell Carr and Rhonda Kern of Verndale and Barb Moench and Joan Goeden of Wadena, try to make Tri-County’s Women’s Night Out a must do each year. They, along with a few more friends, loaded up with the “goodies” that were being handed out by Tri-County staff members. Their favorite part of this annual outing is listening to the speaker, but noted the food is always good and that they like picking up the brochures.
• After a short rest and with a missing game on their schedule, the Pirates were able to pick up a game against Hancock that was played on Tuesday evening. The Pirates were able to defeat the Owls 36-14.
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