Recollections

News from Eagle Bend's Past

25 Years Ago

July 26, 1995

Ken Nelson and Neola Jasmer, administrators of the Bernice Lundgren Estate, presented the Eagle Bend Senior Citizens Center with a check for $42,727. Those from the center accepting the donation were Lorraine Bruun, director; Gladys Dettinger; Ira Simar, president; Evelyn Cossentine, treasurer; Ethel Pooler, secretary; and Renold Aldrich, vice president.

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The Eagle Bend City Council has agreed to accept a $5000 donation from the fire department and will likely use the money, as recommended by the fire department, toward the purchase of a new riding lawnmower, which they will buy locally. The council will likely have to match the donation to purchase the needed mower. The deal will be handled in the 1996 budget.

50 Years Ago

July 23, 1970

Members of the graduating class of 1949 and 1950 of Eagle Bend High School gathered last Saturday afternoon and evening, July 18, for a reunion. Of the possible 61 graduates of the combined classes, only 30 members and their spouses attended, with only two families coming from out-of-state: Mr. and Mrs. Roger (Sally Hetland) Wedner of Gervais, Oregon, both being from the class of 1950; and Dr. and Mrs. Roger Berstom of Tampa, Florida, also from the class of 1950.

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Steven Gjerstad and his wife Florence began a year’s ministry with the Evangelical Covenant Church at Detroit, Michigan. The year-long internship from North Park Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois, began on July 1.

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