Harkening Back
News from Clarissa's Past
25 Years Ago
October 3, 2001
Leopold Keller of Clarissa could tell you a lot about the depression. He lived through the height of it in the 1920’s and 1930’s. He could also tell you how two different times, once in 1978 and again in 1987, he won the National Enquirer contest for the longest beard in the United States, winning $450. He’s had whiskers and hasn’t shaved since December of 1957.
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Courtney Zimmer won first prize in the Hoe and Hope Garden Club’s sunflower contest. Her sunflower measured 52 inches in diameter. Second place went to Amber Engen. Other participants included Matthew Drajna and Brian Denny.
50 Years Ago
October 14, 1976
The Clarissa Jaycees sponsored the DNR gun training classes that qualified 32 boys and girls to hunt in the state of Minnesota.
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Janet Cook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Cook, was promoted to the rank of Specialist Five on October 1. Janet joined the U.S. Army in June 1947. She is an administrative specialist serving in the U.S. Army at Ft. Sam Huston, Texas.
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