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$1.00Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 • Glencoe, Minnesota Vol. 115 No. 49CThe McLeod County

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Chronicle photos by Lori Copler

The Buffalo Creek Community Choir presented “Be-hold the Star! A Christmas Journey to the Light ofChrist,” by Lloyd Larson, to a full house at GraceLutheran Church, Brownton, Sunday afternoon.Above, the 24-voice choir is directed by Rosine Her-modson-Olsen. At bottom left, Rosine and AndrewHermodson-Olsen perform a duet, “There Was TheWord.” At bottom right, Amy Hollan sings “HappyBirthday, Jesus” as part of the prelude. Other soloistswere Laura Bickel, Kristen Hansch, Mark Maiers,George Stoller, Elizabeth Hermodson-Olsen andMichelle Borchart. Other choir members are Steffie

Gronlund, Miranda Sweely, Nancy Sweely, ElaineDahlke, Mary Garoutte, Jessica Hermodson-Olsen,Jodi Sanken, Judy Sondergaard, Ardis Waller, ValUecker, Jody Genz, Sandy Herrmann, Doug Karg,Cindy Maiers, Joyce Peterson and Ben Schuft. Musi-cians included Vicki Herrmann, accompanist; JaneDuesterhoeft, clarinet; Beth Selle, flute; and MichaelSelle, saxophone. Narrators were Amanda Hendrick-son and Oather Martin. A youth choir of Allie Gron-lund, Jessica and Elizabeth Hermodson-Olsen, EmmiJerabek, Miranda Sweely and Emma Trettin also per-formed.

Choir cantata draws large crowd

City offered former Economart for $1By Rich GlennieEditor

Glencoe City Council is pondering a propos-al to purchase the former Mark’s Economartbuilding and property from Security Bank &Trust for $1.

At Monday night’s meeting, City Counciltook no official action, but heard a decisionneeds to be made by Dec. 31.

Part of the deal would include the city pick-ing up the $14,022 in 2013 property taxes onthe former grocery store property.

The 23,000-square-foot building is being in-spected by International Hygiene Corp. to de-

termine what hazardous materials are in the fa-cility, said City Administrator Mark Larson.Of particular concern is asbestos.

Larson said the building was built in stages,and before a decision is made, the city needsto know costs for repairs or demolition of thebuilding.

Dan Ehrke, Glencoe Area Chamber presi-dent and the city’s economic development di-rector, said there are Department of Employ-ment and Economic Development (DEED)grants available to the city. They are 50 per-cent grants for public infrastructure projects,and there is a new program for demolitions.

If the city owns the property, the DEEDgrants could assist in future costs, he added.

Ehrke said the chamber’s Economic Devel-opment Committee (EDC) has looked at doingsomething with the old grocery store propertyfor a number of years, but he said there is nodeveloper interested at this time.

Ehrke said if the city controlled the property,it could be made into an attractive develop-ment project.

“But the building’s in a pretty rough stateright now,” Ehrke said, after eight years of noheat and a leaky roof.

Mayor Randy Wilson said as bare land, the

property might be more attractive to a poten-tial developer.

Ehrke agreed that it might be “cost prohibi-tive” to remodel the building. The entire prop-erty is about an acre in size, he said.

Wilson said City Council would have to takeaction at its Dec. 17 meeting in order to meetSecurity Bank’s deadline. He suggested get-ting cost estimates on demolishing the build-ing and see what DEED funds might be avail-able in the meantime.

Asked about the parking lot, Larson said alittle of the parking lot lies within the railroadright-of-way.

Glencoe’s Holly Days activities continue, parade this weekendThe 2012 Holly Days activities continue this

week.On Thursday, Dec. 6, the annual lighting

contest judging will begin at 7 p.m. for the res-idential and business storefront contest. Thelighting contest is sponsored by Glencoe Lightand Power with $500 in prizes.

On Saturday, Dec. 8, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.,the Glencoe Historic Preservation SocietyHoliday Open House will be held in the Glen-coe historic room in the Glencoe City Center.Complimentary cookies and cider will beavailable. Also, GHPS members will be having

a holiday bake sale with a homemade Christ-mas theme.

Another Saturday, Dec. 8, event is kid’s dayat the outdoor ice rink and sledding hill from 2p.m. to 4 p.m., is now is available. The event issponsored by the Glencoe Parks Department.Contests and refreshments will be available.

The Glencoe Lions Lighted Parade, one ofthe region’s largest lighted Christmas parade,will begin at 6 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 8. The pa-rade route follows Greeley Avenue from 10thStreet north to 18th Street. If one would like toregister to participate in the parade, call the

Glencoe Area Chamber of Commerce office at320-864-3650.

On Thursday, Dec. 13, from 5 p.m. to 7:30p.m., will be a Christmas Jubilee with Santaand his reindeer at Coborn’s in Glencoe. Cook-ie decoration and refreshments also will beavailable.

Also on Thursday, Dec. 13, from 5 p.m. to7:30 p.m., one can hop aboard the TrailblazerTransit and take in the tour of the lighting dis-plays in Glencoe. The tour will be held whileSanta and reindeer are visiting at Coborn’s.The Tour of Lights is sponsored by Trailblazer

Transit and is free.On Saturday, Dec. 15, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.,

a snow sculpture contest will be held at OakLeaf Park. This is a family or group activity(children should be accompanied by an adult).Prizes will be awarded for top sculptures.

A Live Nativity will be held from 6 p.m. to 8p.m., Saturday, Dec. 15, at Oak Leaf Park.Viewers will drive through the park and look atthe staged scenes. The Live Nativity will bebenefiting the McLeod Emergency Food Shelf,so please bring a non-perishable food item or acash donation.

Council favorscurrent site forits liquor storeexpansionBy Rich GlennieEditor

After receiving a marketanalysis of its municipalliquor store from DakotaWorldwide, Glencoe CityCouncil on Monday nightsent the matter to a subcom-mittee of the chamber’s Eco-nomic Development Com-mittee (EDC) to begin inter-viewing architectural firmson expanding the liquor storeat its current site.

The site, the former cityhall offices, was first lookedat several years ago, butother possible sites also weresuggested — the formerMark’s Economart buildingon Greeley Avenue or a newliquor store near Coborn’s on11th Street in the east end ofGlencoe.

According to the DakotaWorldwide market analysis,Coborn’s was the highest inpotential sales, the currentsite in the middle and Econo-mart the lowest.

The initial market analysiswas done in 2006 of thesame trade area of about 14miles east to west and 17miles north and south ofGlencoe.

Currently there are ninebusinesses that receive a por-tion of their sales from Glen-coe’s trade area. The munici-pal liquor store has thelargest share at 43.4 percent,the study indicated.

“There is room for im-provement,” City Adminis-trator Mark Larson told CityCouncil. He added that on asquare footage basis, the

Glencoe Liquor Store has ahigher percentage of salesthan any of its competitors.

Those competitors includeLiquor Hutch at 16.6 percent,Mighty’s Liquors in Plato at10.6 percent and Good TimeLiquor in Norwood YoungAmerica at 9 percent.

According to the study,“All scenarios tested assumethe remodel or new facilitieswill have an attractive, up-dated decor not unlike theLiquor Hutch as well as anexpanded assortment and astaff that is knowledgeableabout wines and microbrewbeers.

“Of the three sites tested,the Economart site is thepoorest performer. It lacksthe transient exposure of theother two sites and is defi-nitely a location known to lo-cals only.

“Not surprisingly the bestsite is adjacent to Coborn’s.The grocery store is thelargest draw in Glencoe andthe only grocery store of sizein the trade area. As such,Coborn’s expands Glencoe’strade area and would expandthe liquor store’s trade areaas well,” the analysis stated.

While it was estimated thesales would be greatest atCoborn’s, the investmentwould be about $1 millionfor a new facility.

By expanding at the cur-rent site, Larson said the citywould maximize its sales atthe least expense. The

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Happenings

Auxiliary Christmas party setThe Glencoe American Legion Ladies Auxiliary Unit

95 will host its Christmas party on Monday, Dec. 17, atDubbs Grill and Bar in Glencoe. Call Jan by Dec. 10 at320-864-3631 if one plans to attend. Each member willpay for their own meal.

Legion Post 95 meets Dec. 6The Glencoe American Legion Post 95 will hold its

monthly meeting at 7 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 6, in the base-ment of the Glencoe VFW Club. All members are en-couraged to attend. Lunch will be served.

Community Strings performThe Community Strings, under the direction of Jack

Noennig, will perform two concerts on Sunday, Dec. 9.The concert “Christmas Around the World” will be at 3p.m. and 7 p.m. at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church,1407 Cedar Ave., Glencoe. There is no charge, but a free-will offering will be taken for the food shelf. The doorswill open one hour prior to each performance.

Community bingo set Dec. 9Grand Meadows Senior Living, 1420 Prairie Ave.,

Glencoe, will be hosting a community bingo on Sunday,Dec. 9, from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. (25 cents per card/pergame) with a cookie social to follow. Call 320-864-5577for more information.

After-Prom party ‘tip night’The Glencoe-Silver Lake After-Prom Party committee

will hold a “tip night” at the Glencoe Pizza Ranch onMonday, Dec. 10.

Tournaments set for Dec. 8A ninth-grade boys’ and girls’ basketball tournament

will be held on Saturday, Dec. 8, sponsored by the GSLBooster Club. Proceeds from the tournaments will go to-ward investing in GSL students. The games will be heldin both the high school gymnasium and the Panther FieldHouse, starting at 8 a.m. The championship game for thegirls is scheduled for 2 p.m. and for the boys at 3 p.m.Teams include Howard Lake/Waverly-Winsted, BellePlaine, Sibley East, Hutchinson, Mayer Lutheran, LesterPrairie and host GSL.

Grand Meadows open houseGrand Meadows Senior Living, 1420 Prairie Ave., will

host a holiday open house at 2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 8,with Christmas musical entertainment by ChristianNielsen. Refreshments and pictures with Santa will fol-low the entertainment.

VFW Auxiliary to meet Dec. 10The next regular meeting of Glencoe VFW Post 5102

Ladies Auxiliary will be at 6 p.m., Monday, Dec. 10, atthe VFW Club. This will be the Auxiliary’s annualChristmas party.

Post 143, Auxiliary to meetBrownton American Legion Post 143 and its Auxiliary

Unit will have their monthly meetings and celebrateChristmas on Monday, Dec. 10. The evening starts with asocial hour at 5:30 p.m. at the Brownton Bar and Grill;the meal is at 6 p.m.; and all will retire to the communitycenter for desserts and a gift exchange ($10 gift). If onewishes to be a part of the meal, please let Karen Tordsenknow.

Sportsmen to meet Dec. 11The Shady Lane Sportsmen’s Club annual meeting will

be held on Tuesday, Dec. 11, at 7:30 p.m.

GHPS Christmas open houseThe Glencoe Historic Preservation Society (GHPS)

will host its Christmas open house and bake sale from 9a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 8, in the Glencoe HistoricRoom at the Glencoe City Center. The group will serveChristmas cookies and cider. The public is invited. Pro-ceeds will help GHPS finish refurbishing the GlencoeHistoric Room.

Vocal band concert Dec. 6The Home Free Vocal Band, a five-man band with no

instruments, will perform a Christmas concert at 7 p.m.,Thursday, Dec. 6, in the high school auditorium. Theband, which first appeared in Glencoe last October aspart of the Glencoe Concert Association series, makes theaudience think it is hearing drums, bass, horns and otherinstruments, but it is coming from the five male voices.Tickets are available at the door or can be ordered onlineat http:/www.homefreevocalband.com/christmas/glen-coe.html.

Glencoe Seniors meetings setThe Glencoe Senior Citizens Club will meet on Thurs-

day, Dec. 6, at 12:30 p.m., in the senior room at the Glen-coe City Center. Rhodella Engelmann will serve. Sheep-head and 500 will be played. All area seniors are wel-come to attend. The seniors also are looking for canastaand pinochle players, and are open to suggestions forother board and card games. The club also will meet at12:30 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 11. Arlene Gilster will serve.

Wee Friends’ vendor fairWee Friends Creative Preschool will be hosting the

vendor fair on Saturday, Dec. 8, from 9 a.m. to noon, atthe First Congregational Church, 1400 Elliott Ave.,Glencoe. Thirteen vendors will be at the event.

Buttonbox Club to performThe Minnesota Buttonbox Club will perform from 1

p.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 8, in the entry of Coborn’sin Glencoe. The performance is to emphasize theMcLeod Emergency Food Shelf during the holiday sea-son.

Chronicle photos by Rich Glennie

Christmas showAbout 100 dancers will per-form a “Country Christmas”at the Glencoe City Center at2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 9. Thedancers are from Lori’sSchool of Dance, and in-structor Lori Dahlman saidthe ages range from 3-year-olds to adults. Above, Breck-ynn Lindeman, left, andAlexa Salomon practice theirroutine, while at right, thegroup photo included, AvaSolomon, Aubrey Lindeman,Mia Cano, Maelee Streufert,Madison Dahlke, Ava Koe-nen, Beatrice Beste Zehnderand Emma Vandamme.“They will be dancing tomany fun Christmas songs,”Dahlman said.

Economart site also wouldneed about $1 million to im-prove.

Currently, the sales at themunicipal liquor store are$1.35 million to $1.4 milliona year, and expanding at thecurrent site could increasethat to about $1.8 million, ac-cording to the analysis.

Sales at a site nearCoborn’s could generate asmuch as $2 million, but thenet profit would be reducedwith debt payments on a newstructure.

Larson estimated net prof-its on $1.8 million in salescould be about $216,000 ayear. In 2011, the net profitwas $136,000, of which$100,000 was transferred tothe debt service on the CityCenter.

Larson said by expandingat the current site, the liquorstore profit would continue topay off the City Center debtand fund the remodelingproject at about $41,000 ayear for 10 years.

Mayor Randy Wilson saidthe city needs to do some-thing to protect its marketshare. “If we do nothing, itmight deteriorate our income(from the liquor store). Iwant to preserve the incomewe have now, and it is an op-portunity to get more sales,too.”

Larson said sales this yearalso are ahead of last year’space with the biggest monthsbeing November and Decem-ber.

Wilson asked if this liquorstore expansion project issomething to look at in Janu-ary.

Larson said the EDC sub-committee needs to make arecommendation on an archi-tectural firm, and it could bea project that could be donethis winter, since most of thework is inside.

Larson said the main issueis with a “footprint” for theliquor store’s new coolers.Parking is another issue thatneeds to be addressed. He re-minded City Council that thecity owns a property to thewest of the liquor store thatcould be used for futureparking.

Liquor storeContinued from page 1

By Rich GlennieEditor

Closing off railroad cross-ings in Glencoe while TwinCities & Western (TC&W)Railroad switches railcars hasbeen a problem at times, butrecently the trains have causedproblems for students gettingto school on time.

It also has raised safety con-cerns, especially for studentswho walk and who have triedto get past the stopped trainsby crossing between the rail-cars.

Bob Suko, a spokesman forTC&W, said the railroad andGSL school officials havebeen discussing ways to ad-dress these safety concerns.

At Monday night’s GlencoeCity Council meeting, Sukosaid the railroad and schooldistrict are working together,and the school district has sentletters to district students andparents about the safety con-cerns at railroad crossings, es-pecially when switching istaking place.

Suko said the timing of therailroad car switching, that hasat times blocked intersectionsat Union and Pryor avenues inthe mornings, is based on whathappens in the Twin Cities.

He said the railroad cars

coming from the Twin Citiesovernight often are not sorted,and that sorting needs to bedone in Glencoe.

“We try to do as much aspossible to keep crossingsopen,” Suko said. One optionis to try to do the switchingearlier in the day.

But another issue will be thelength of TC&W trains in thefuture with new grain-han-dling businesses opening atBrownton and Buffalo Lake.They will require 110-cartrains.

Suko said TC&W’s busi-ness levels are “really high”right now with the new busi-nesses that will require thelonger trains.

Suko said those trains,which will not be stopping inGlencoe, are up to 7,000 feetlong. But trains can only gothrough Glencoe at a maxi-mum of 20 miles per hour. It ispossible that all the crossingsin Glencoe could be blockedas the longer trains gothrough.

Mayor Randy Wilson saidplans to move the TC&Wswitchyard farther east couldeliminate the blockage prob-lems in Glencoe.

Suko said that would help,but may not totally eliminate

the problem.That future switchyard proj-

ect is tied in with the city’splans to extend MorningsideAvenue north from 11th Streetto 16th Street in 2014. Thatalso would close off the UnionAvenue crossing with a newat-grade rail crossing built atMorningside Avenue.

Wilson said that rail switch-yard project has been talkedabout for nearly a decade, andpart of that conversation askedthat the cities that currentlyhave the switchyard — St.Louis Park, Minnetonka andHopkins — chip in to have theswitchyard moved to Glencoe.Those communities havebalked at that idea.

Safety concerns riseat railroad crossings

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Santa Claus’little helpersAn “Elf Workshop” washeld Saturday morning inthe activities room of theGlencoe Public Library.Head librarian JackeeFountain, above, read tothe youngsters beforethey started makingChristmas decorationsand writing letters toSanta Claus. At the right isTaylor Fox, 5, daughter ofBeth and Flint Fox ofGlencoe, working on herChristmas decoration. Theyoungsters also wrappedthe Christmas presentthey brought to the Elf’sWorkshop, which will go to the McLeod County annual toy drive for those less fortu-nate. The toy drive is under way, and the toys will be distributed before Christmas.


String concertThe Community Stringshas been practicing atGood Shepherd LutheranChurch for its annualChristmas performancesof “Christmas Around theWorld,” at 3 p.m. and 7p.m., Sunday, Dec. 9.Above, violinists include,front, from left, Krista Bo-raas, Jaelyn Pinske, LisaHarwell and Joy Freitag.In the back are Teddy Pe-tersen, Aaron Boraas,Adam Eberhard, SamBullert and Scott Landes.At left is Zoran Bortnem,6, of Cokato.


Glencoe City Council onMonday night authorized thecity attorney to draw up a res-olution of support for TwinCities & Western Railroad(TC&W) in the railroad’s bat-tle over routes for its trains inthe southwest metro area.

TC&W spokesman BobSuko attended Monday’s CityCouncil meeting and said thecompany is seeking supportof communities and cus-tomers along its rail line toobject to the route proposedfor the Southwest Light RailTransit (SWLRT) system byHennepin County and theMetropolitan Council.

A draft environmental im-pact statement (DEIS) recom-mends changing the rail routeused by TC&W in order toaccommodate the SWLRTproject, which could startconstruction in 2014 and becompleted in 2017.

“While TC&W supportsthe proposed SWLRT projectand its benefits, we opposethe recommended freightroute as it is presently de-signed,” Suko said.

“The recommended routedesigns adds a significantclimb up a steep grade byfreight rail standards andtight track curvature thatdoesn’t exist today. Such adesign will require extra lo-comotives, fuel, track mainte-

nance and additional time tooperate the same trainsTC&W operates today,” Sukosaid.

Suko told City Council thatTC&W’s stance is it does notcare how to get there just aslong as it does not take longerand it is as safe as possible.

“It’s frustrating for us,”Suko said, “because our con-cerns have been pushedaside.”

“We’re supportive ofSWLRT, we want to makethat clear, but we do not wantit to be a hinderance to useconomically,” Suko said.

“Whatever the route, we donot want it to cost us moremoney or cost our customersmore money,” Suko added. Inbusiness, increased costs arepassed onto customers, in-cluding those in Glencoe, headded.

He also stressed that thisroute decision has great im-pact on a lot of people andbusinesses. “This encompass-es a lot of people,” Suko said.The metro area often does nottake into consideration theimpacts its decisions have inrural Minnesota, he added.

“Despite TC&W’s repeatedefforts over the last severalyears, we need your help ineducating both HennepinCounty and the Met Councilthat rerouting TC&W’sfreight trains in order to ac-commodate the SWLRT sys-

tem as currently designedwill have a material adverseeffect on the city of Glen-coe’s future competitive-ness,” Suko stated.

Mayor Randy Wilsonasked if Hennepin Countyand the Met Council “willeven listen to us?”

“Yes,” Suko replied. “Thisis bigger than our fight.” Hesaid support from businessesand customers along theTC&W rail line “showswe’re more serious aboutthis, and we are not going toroll over.”

A DEIS decision was ex-pected to be made by Dec.11, but Suko said a recent$100 million error was dis-covered in the design esti-mates, and that has delayedany decisions.

Glencoe City Council willvote on a resolution of sup-port at its Dec. 17 meeting.

Council member GregCopas asked about priorities:This route project or the oneinvolving the MorningsideAvenue extension set to beginin 2014?

“This is priority,” Sukosaid of the rerouting of thesouthwest metro line. He saidthat could be brought to clo-sure quickly. “For us, this is ahuge focus.”

“The railroad has been agood neighbor,” Wilsonadded. “We should supportthis.”

TC&W seeks supportagainst SWLRT design

Plato Post Office hours trimmed


The annual Truth in Taxa-tion hearing was held atMonday night’s Glencoe CityCouncil meeting, and nocomments were received.

So City Council approvedthe budget that includes a 2percent raise for all city em-ployees in 2013. That comesto an additional $5,403.

The actual levy increasedby less than .03 percent, ac-cording to City AdministratorMark Larson, and is essen-tially a balanced budget andabout $40,000 less than the2012 budget.

“We held the line on thelevy,” Larson said.

Total revenues in 2013 areat $3.201 million, and totalexpenditures are at $3.168million, Larson said.

City Council also approvedthe ad valorem tax and debtlevy, the portion paid by localproperty taxes, at $2.275 mil-lion.

In other matters, CityCouncil:

— Hired James Voight asthe new operator for the Pub-lic Works Street/Parks De-partment. After the retirement

of long-time Street Supervi-sor Terry Buska, the city splithis duties between GarySchreifels and Mike Drew.Drew is supervisor ofStreet/Parks.

Voight has worked for thecity as a snowplow driver thepast four years and is a Glen-coe volunteer firefighter. Lar-son said Voight brings withhim a well-rounded back-ground and skills for the job.

— Heard that the Jan. 1change over to one-sort recy-cling “may be too opti-mistic,” according to Larson.

That new contract withWaste Management is expect-ed to be approved at the Dec.17 City Council meeting.

Larson said the contracttalks will slow down in orderto “ensure it is done correct-ly.”

— Discussed getting stateRep. Glenn Gruenhagen, R-Glencoe, and state Sen. ScottNewman, R-Hutchinson, tocarry legislation to allow thecity to extend the life of taxincrement financing (TIF)district No. 4, which is set toexpire in 2013.

The TIF district, whichgenerates about $130,000 intax increments a year, cur-

rently helps pay the new in-dustrial park and downtownredevelopment debt.

When begun, Larson saidthe aim of the TIF districtwas to address economic de-velopment growth in bothareas. But that growth hasbeen slowed the past fewyears, thus the need to extendthe TIF district for up to 10years.

“It’s not generating a lot ofrevenue,” Larson said of TIFdistrict No. 4. The downtownportion is expected to be paidoff in 2015 and the new in-dustrial park portion in 2028.“Without an extension of TIFdistrict No. 4, the fund willbe in the hole,” Larsonadded.

He said both local legisla-tors are willing to sponsor thelegislation, but Gruenhagen ischecking with the legislativeattorneys over a possible con-flict of interest. His new of-fice building at Greeley Av-enue and 13th Street was partof the downtown redevelop-ment project.

If Gruenhagen cannotsponsor the bill, state Rep.Dean Urdahl, R-Grove City,will be asked, Larson said.

Tax hearing draws no comments

The hours of service at thePlato Post Office will betrimmed by about half eachweek day, beginning in Feb-ruary, announced KathyStuedemann, officer in chargeof the Plato facility.

The announcement comesin the heels of a recent meet-ing with United States PostalService (USPS) officials andPlato residents and officials.

Stuedemann said the cur-rent hours at the Plato PostOffice are 7:30 a.m. to 4:15p.m. Beginning in February,the daily weekday hours willbe noon to 4 p.m., she said.

The cuts, along with othersin the area, are aimed at re-ducing costs at small, ruralpost offices. “They’re trying

to save money,” Stuedemannsaid.

Post offices at Hamburgand Brownton also had hours

reduced, but the cuts did notimpact post offices in Glen-coe and Silver Lake.


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The silence is deafening afterthe Glencoe-Silver LakeSchool Board approved a

$1.5 million addition to the LincolnJunior High School last month. Theaddition will house the district’sEarly Childhood Family Educa-tion/Early Childhood Special Educa-tion (ECFE/ECSE) and LearningReadiness programs. The additionwill be attached to the northwest cor-ner of the junior high facility.

To those paying attention, it also isidentical to a portion of the district’s$18.6 million building bond plansthat were rejected by voters —twice. This $1.5 million project isnot being run through GSL voters.No referendum will be held.

The goal of mentioning all this isnot to fan the flames or passionsabout this end-run of the voters, butto point out that it is happening.There will be no excuse to say laterthat the voters knew nothing aboutit.

The GSL School Board has beenforthright in its discussions about itsspace needs, so there is no excusefor not knowing about the facilityshortfalls, especially at the HelenBaker Elementary School, and whatis about to happen.

Instead of biting off the wholeproject, the School Board has optedto go at it piecemeal, something itdid not want to do because it adds tothe overall cost.

So why bypass the voters? Thereremains serious space needs in thedistrict, whether voters believe it ornot. Just because voters did not sup-port the bigger project, did not makethe space problems go away.

They became more acute when theincoming kindergarten class was alot larger than expected. That in-

creased class sizes dramatically, butthere was no wiggle room to add an-other section in the Helen Bakerbuilding. There simply was no addi-tional space.

Doing nothing was deemed not agood option by the School Boardand administration. We agree.

With the larger-than-expectedkindergarten class this fall movinginto the first grade next year, thelack of space is not going away un-less something was done.

So the district will do the next bestthing: If you cannot add onto HelenBaker, then move the ECFE/ECSEprogram out and into a new additionat Lincoln Jr. High. That will free upspace at Helen Baker for a sixth sec-tion of first graders next year andpossibly another large class ofkindergartners in 2013-14.

In the interim, the School Boardhired another kindergarten teacher toease the load of the large class sizes.

The School Board made its deci-sion to proceed at the Nov. 13 meet-ing in Silver Lake. No one in thepublic raised any objections, whichbegs the question: Everyone eitheragrees with the School Board’splans, or most voters are asleep atthe wheel.

Well, public, you have been noti-fied that the building project, albeit alot smaller version, is moving for-ward, and the plan will addressspace needs at the primary gradelevels.

But it does nothing to address theefficiencies, or more comprehensivespace needs identified in the referen-dum campaigns. Perhaps that will beaddressed piecemeal, at greater ex-pense, as well.

Stay tuned.— R.G.

Public, are you payingattention? A building

project is moving aheadOur view: Addition onto Lincoln will help

address space needs at Helen Baker Elementary

Hats off to the HutchinsonTigers for winning thestate Class AAAA football

title in convincing fashion, crushingWright County Conference (WCC)rival Holy Family of Victoria in thechampionship game.

It fittingly concluded an impres-sive season in which the Tigers beatthe Glencoe-Silver Lake Panthers —twice, by nearly identical scores. ForGSL, if you are going to lose — andthose two were its only losses —you might as well lose to the best.

That the powerful WCC again hadtwo finalists in the Class AAAA titlegame says a lot about the strength ofthe conference. To add to the mys-tique, four WCC teams made it to

the state tournament — Annandaleand New London-Spicer being theothers. GSL, the second-best team inthe WCC, beat both of them plusHoly Family, yet never got out of thesection because of Hutchinson.

GSL also beat Becker, yet anotherstate tournament entry, during theregular season.

But GSL could not get pastHutchinson. It was simply Hutchin-son’s year to shine. And in highschool sports, there is always nextyear.

So, congratulations to theHutchinson Tigers, and see you nextyear.

— R.G.

Hats off to HutchinsonTigers for state title

City, county should be ashamed for lack of respectTo the Editor:

I am writing this letter to the edi-tor with disgust over the fact that onNov. 28, Gov. Mark Dayton orderedall United States and Minnesotastate flags be flown at half staff inhonor of the ultimate sacrifice ofMarine Lance Cpl. Dale Means, whowas killed in the line of duty in

Afghanistan.As an Iraq war veteran, I was dis-

gusted with the city of Glencoe andMcLeod County government. I didnot see one U.S. flag or one stateflag flown at half-staff on any city orcounty property that had a flag pole.

I think that the city and county of-ficials should be ashamed of them-

selves for not honoring a young manwho answered his call and made thesupreme sacrifice to duty as manymen or women who have served inthe armed forces have made to pro-tect these United States of Americaand the freedom of all Americans.

Arthur WemhoffGlencoe

Rep. Peterson, staff responsive to business needsTo the Editor:

Local jobs are at the heart of whatwe do at Miller Manufacturing. Weemploy 135 people full time at ourfactory and distribution center inGlencoe.

Because of our top-notch staff ofMinnesota workers, we are able toproduce quality, American-madefarm and ranch products, at a pricethat competes successfully with cut-rate, offshore goods.

A few years ago our position wasthreatened — and with it Minnesotajobs — when a competitor knockedoff our line of backyard poultryproducts that we have manufacturedfor over 50 years in Minnesota, and

had them made in China. To add insult to injury, these infe-

rior China products are labeled withthe 4-H emblem, which is funded bythe U.S. government through theDepartment of Agriculture. We be-lieved that this was clearly improperuse of the 4-H emblem as per 4-Hpolicy which prohibits the use of theemblem to imply endorsement ofproducts. We also believed it wasnot appropriate for a U.S. govern-ment-funded organization to licenseproducts made in China and, there-fore, putting U.S. jobs at risk.

We brought our concerns to U.S.Rep. Collin Peterson, who took ac-tion to keep jobs in Minnesota. He

and his staff worked with the U.S.Department of Agriculture, and as aresult of Congressman Peterson’s ef-forts, this unfair practice, and in myopinion abuse of a national treasure,will cease at the end of this year.

The 7th District is fortunate tohave a congressman who is respon-sive to Minnesota business andworking to protect American jobs.

On behalf of all our dedicated em-ployees in Glencoe, thank you, Rep.Peterson and staff, for your efforts.

Dan FerriseCEO,

Miller ManufacturingCompany

Guest column:

Thrilled by latest Glencoe blood drive!By Charleen Engelmann

I am thrilled almost beyond wordsat the wonderful turnout and re-sponse to the Glencoe CommunityBlood Drive on Wednesday, Nov.28. Our goal was 106 units, and weblew past that goal with a total col-lection of 142 units! Awesome!

On Nov. 29, we received an emailfrom Dave Kelley, the donor recruit-ment representative for our Mid-America Division, who faithfullyworks with us to set up each blooddrive.

It reads, in part: “You hit a grandslam home run! You crushed yourgoal yesterday. Wow! 142 units!Thank you very much for helpingthe ARC out during this difficulttime. As we discussed, we have beencalled upon to help the patientsalong the East Coast as a result ofHurricane Sandy. The 36 extra unitscollected yesterday are greatly ap-preciated …. Thanks again for agreat job! Please pass on my appre-ciation to all of your callers and vol-unteers.”

I believe the community may notbe aware of how many workers it re-

quires to present a blood drive, notjust once, but three times a year!Many thanks are due to those whomake the drives possible:

• To the hardworking AmericanRed Cross team that arrives beforenoon on the day of the blood drivefor setup, then works diligentlythrough the afternoon and evening,loading up and departing around 8p.m.

• To the donors who appear fortheir appointments, and the walk-ins. Because of this drive’s tremen-dous turnout, a lot of patience wasrequired on the part of the donorsand walk-ins as they awaited theirturns to donate. Some were unableto wait the full time and a few left.

The ARC Collection Supervisor,Tochina, had to cut off walk-ins at5:15 p.m. in order for the ARC tocomplete all the blood draws for thepre-scheduled appointments for theevening.

We apologize for that, and hopethat will not deter you from makinganother appointment for our nextblood drive.

• To the Glencoe City Center for

the use of their facility, the custodi-ans for the setup, and especiallyHannah Huttner Hallahan for her as-sistance.

• To the Glencoe Lions Club,Coborns and Security State Bank fordonation of funds, food and sup-plies.

• To the Keebler Corporation,which has committed for two years(2012-13) to donate their snack sup-plies to the national American RedCross, also benefitting our commu-nity drive.

I specifically want to acknowl-edge the dozens of faithful volun-teers who selflessly help out foreach and every blood drive! I can’tname each and every person, butplease know that your donations oftime and talents are so greatly appre-ciated.

• Special appreciation to NeldaKlaustermeier, scheduling chairper-son and my right-hand co-chair, andher dedicated staff of callers, whomI call the backbone of the volunteers.

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Tag-teamThe husband and wife team ofWally (above) and Janet Wen-dorff of Glencoe, (right) weredonors at the Nov. 28 AmericanRed Cross blood drive at theGlencoe City Center. Phle-botomists were Lisa Pesta,above, and Jan Smelter, at right.The goal of the drive was 106units, but the drive exceededthat when 142 donations wereobtained. Wally Wendorff, whogave a double-red donation, alsoreached his 11-gallon donationlevel. The next Glencoe blooddrive will be Wednesday, April 24. “Donorturnout was terrific and kept Red Crossstaff busy,” a local organizer said. Therewere several first-time donors in EricHarpel, Aaron Rhodes, Natalie Gostynskyand Jason Jacobuz. Those meeting newdonation goals included: Joleen Nelson,

two gallons; Michelle Strobel and RandallCarrigan, three gallons; Cindy Ettel, Mar-vin Huwe and Stacy Schuch, four gal-lons; Sandy OIson, five gallons; Lee Car-rigan and Colleeen Benjamin, six gallons;and Glenn Koch, 10 gallons.

If not for the hard work ofNelda and the callers whohelp to fill the appointmentscalendar, there would be noblood drive.

• To Marne Long, whotakes care of publicity, getsthe information to area news-papers and churches, and for-wards the post-blood-drivestatistics for publication.

• To Sue Magnuson, Na-tional Honor Society adviserat GSL High School, and theGSL students who deliverposters and table tents to areabusinesses and restaurants.

• To Barb Schrupp, ourshopper, who orders the fooditems needed for the canteen.

• To the ”traffic persons,”who greet and register thedonors and manage the fold-ers.

• To Marilyn Sell, our can-teen manager, who arrangesfor the canteen workers need-ed to serve the donors aftercompletion of their blood do-nations.

• To the “observers,” whowatch for any donors havingproblems after donating.

• To Sharon Schauer, ourcook/chef who prepares and

serves the much-appreciatedlight meal for the Red Crossstaff during their shift.

We received a thank younote signed by Tochina (ARCcollection supervisor) and thenursing crew who staffed theblood drive: “Thank you foreverything! Great volunteers,patient donors and a wonder-ful meal. All your hard workshows with the success of thedrive.”

Our next Glencoe Commu-nity Blood Drive is scheduledon April 24, 2013. Futureblood drives will be held atthe Glencoe City Center.

As such, we cannot neglectto appreciate the GSL SchoolDistrict for allowing us theuse of the Panther FieldHouse for prior drives; DonBohnert for all his assistance;as well as student volunteersfrom the Honor Society whohelped set up and take downthe equipment at the fieldhouse.

We especially appreciatethe hard-working formercommittee members who didwonderful jobs laying thegroundwork for prior drivesbefore retiring: Barb Smyth

as coordinator, Joy Cohrs asco-chair, and Sherri Skoglandas cook/chef. Your serviceswere invaluable.

Each of these past andpresent volunteers play animportant part in the wholepicture. We can’t have ablood drive if any of thepieces are missing from thepicture. Be sure to say a wordof thanks if you see these vol-unteers out and about.

And the “whole picture” isthis: each unit of blood donat-ed can save up to three lives.The 142 units donated onNov. 28 have the potential tosave 426 lives! Isn’t that re-markable?

This Christmas season, weare sometimes consumedwith finding the perfect giftfor someone we care about.Well, as donors, you just“Gave Something that MeantSomething:” You gave some-body hope – hope for today,hope for tomorrow and hopefor the future.

God bless your Christmas!Charleen Engelmann is

the coordinator of the Glen-coe Community BloodDrive.

Blood donors Continued from page 4

By Lori CoplerStaff Writer

McLeod County’s 2012 taxhearing — held Thursdayevening — was far differentthan its 2011 hearing.

In 2011, the tax hearingwas standing-room only asresidents poured in to ques-tion hefty increases in proper-ty taxes, which county per-sonnel contended werecaused by changes in the statetax law, while state legislatorsargued that local govern-ments didn’t adjust theirbudgets enough.

This year, there were justfour citizens in attendance,one of whom left the roomwhen County Board ChairBev Wangerin suggested thatanyone with questions abouttheir valuation meet privatelywith Assessor Sue Schultz.

County Auditor/TreasurerCindy Schultz presentedbudget and levy information,which showed that the coun-ty’s levy decreased 2.93 per-cent in 2011, had no increasein 2012, and that no increaseis proposed for 2013, with atotal levy of $18.29 million.

However, the county willbe using about $2.1 millionof its reserves to offset ex-

penditures, in particular, $1.5million in its special revenuefund, which is dedicated forspecific projects, such as theARMER radio system.

Colleen Robeck of the au-ditor/treasurer office said thatMcLeod County currently hasabout $42 million in reserves— as of Dec. 31, 2011, but “alot of that is restricted for cer-tain things.”

About $11.1 million in re-serves is “unrestricted” andcan be used at the board’sdiscretion.

Wangerin said the countytries to keep an amount equalto 30 to 35 percent of itsbudget in reserve for emer-gencies and cash-flow issues.

Glen Sladek, a ruralHutchinson resident, said thatwhile he appreciates the needto maintain a reserve fund, hetook the County Board to taskfor dedicating $500,000 fromreserves to a proposal to pavethe Luce Line recreationaltrail.

“If we have $500,000 forthat, we’re over-collectingfrom our taxpayers,” saidSladek.

Commissioner-elect RonShimanski, a state representa-tive whose term expires Dec.

31, also expressed concernabout using county money to-ward the state-owned trail.

Shimanski said he appreci-ated remarks from Commis-sioner Paul Wright at a previ-ous meeting that likenedusing a collaborative efforttoward funding the trail to asimilar collaborative effortthat improved buildings onthe county fairgrounds.

But, Shimanski contended,there is a difference betweenthe county project and thetrail. The trail, he said, is a“state project” and Shimanskisaid he isn’t comfortable withone unit of government do-nating to another.

However, Wangerin saidthat state officials — in par-ticular state Sen. Scott New-man of Hutchinson — hadmade it clear at a meeting oflocal officials “that if wewant to rise to the top (forstate funding), we need tomake a local contribution.”

In other business at thehearing, County Administra-tor Pat Melvin presented in-formation regarding savingsin staff over the past threeyears.

Melvin said that all staffingrequests — including the re-placement of staff who quitor retire — must comethrough a committee for eval-uation before final approvalby the County Board.

A variety of measurestaken by the board — includ-ing reducing full-time posi-tions to part time, delayinghiring, sharing staff betweendepartments, and utilizingvolunteers and employeesprovided by Central Min-nesota Jobs and TrainingServices, had saved the coun-ty a total of $1.58 millionsince February 2009.

Only a handful of residentsshow up for county tax hearing

Police Report

Only two “snowbird” ordinancecitations were issued early Mon-day morning, Nov. 26.

Police assisted with a possiblestroke patient at a residence on14th Street at 5:04 a.m., Monday.The patient was transferred byambulance to the hosital.

Also, police investigated a re-port of drug activity at a locationon 16th Street at 9:07 a.m., Mon-day.

It was reported that a buckdeer was spotted in the 2400block of 9th Street (near PizzaRanch) at 4:09 p.m., Monday. Itwas feared one had escapedfrom the wildlife sanctuary, butthe deer was gone when policearrived.

On early Wednesday morning,two more “snowbird” parking cita-tions were issued.

A theft was reported at 3:45p.m., Wednesday, from a resi-dence on Armstrong Avenue.About $400 was stolen from awallet.

At 4:31 p.m., Wednesday, a fe-male fell near the Glencoe Med-ical Clinic parking lot and wastaken to the clinic for treatment.

Police issued four “snowbird”citations early Thursday morning.

Police received a call Thursdaymorning about a female juvenilewho did not want to go to school.Her father requested a police rideto school because she missedthe bus. The officer denied the re-

quest and informed the father thatwas his role as a parent. Theschool also began the truancyprocess, and that paperwork willbe forwarded to social services.As the officer was leaving theHennepin Avenue home, the ju-venile left and got into a vehiclethat had pulled up in front of theresidence.

After receiving a driving com-plaint at 8:50 p.m., Thursday, po-lice cited the driver for carelessdriving. The incident occurred inthe 700 block of Morningside Av-enue.

On Friday morning, Nov. 30,four more “snowbird” ordinancecitations were issued.

Also on Friday, kids were re-ported playing in an abandonedhouse in the 500 block of 7thStreet.

On Saturday morning, Dec. 1,another eight “snowbird” ordi-nance tickets were issued by po-lice.

Also on Saturday morning, adomestic dispute was called infrom a residence on Judd Av-enue, and a female was arrested.

A gas drive-off was reported at8:01 p.m., Saturday, at Casey’sGeneral Store on 13th Street. Ared Pontiac Firebird drove offwithout paying for $15.04 in gas.

Twelve more “snowbird” cita-tions were issued early Sundaymorning, Dec. 2.

Also on Sunday morning, aproperty damage report was re-ceived from a residence on 10thStreet.

On Monday, Dec. 3, two med-ical calls were received. One in-volved a 102-year-old who fell ata Knight Avenue residence, andthe other medical call was from aresidence in the 700 block of 18thStreet.

Building Permits

The following building permitswere approved by the GlencoeCity Council Monday night, Dec.3:

Paul Florin, 1315 E. 14th St.,porch.

Scott Trebesch, 1902 FairwayDr., reroof.

Brad Karg, 1603 Knight Ave.,mechanical permit.

Ruben Rodriguez, 1420 E.13th St., mechanical permit.

Julio Arce, 1605 Birch Ave., re-side.

Tony Stepien, 1327 E. 15th St.,deck.

Glen Knoll Properties, 707 W.13th St., remodel and deck.

Tall Oaks Properties, 1103 E.14th St., reroof.

Gary Lenzen, 1521 Elliott Ave.,window replacement.

Maureen Lowden, 807 BaxterAve., mechanical permit.

Miller Manufacturing, 1400 W.13th St., addition.

Christ Lutheran, 1820 KnightAve., mechanical permit.

Harpel Bros., 2305 E. 10th St.,remodel/addition.

Question of the weekThe city of Glencoe has been offered the former

Mark’s Economart building and property in downtownGlencoe for $1 and the payment of its 2013

property taxes ($14,022).Should the city accept the offer?

1) IYes2) No

3) Not sure

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banning on-street parking in Glencoefrom Nov. 1 to April 1 between the hours

of 1 a.m. to 6 a.m.?I love it — 26%I hate it — 18%

It should be allowed if there is no snow — 56%

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“Last spring, Glencoe-Sil-ver Lake’s Knowledge Bowlteam sent four students to thestate meet. Ever since, wehave been wonderingwhether we could repeat,”said GSL coach Vicky Harris.

“Nobody from the teamgraduated last year, so wewere hoping that we wouldhave a good, strong start tothis year’s competitions. OnSaturday, Dec. 1, we finallyhad an opportunity to seewhether any of this promisewould be fulfilled at NewLondon-Spicer,” Harris said.

And they did not disap-point. GSL’s varsity team fin-ished first and third. Thefirst-place gold medal teamincluded Joe Fehrenbach,Ethan Bass, Mark Broderiusand Chandler Swift. Thethird-place bronze medalteam included Lindsey Beck-er, Cedric Winter, PatrickFehrenbach and JacobWawrzyniak. Willmar tookthe silver medal.

“What a fantastic start tothe season,” Harris added.

There were 15 teams in thevarsity competition, includ-ing GSL’s two teams.

The top written score was46, and the GSL teams scored43 and 38. This meant thatGSL 1 started in Room 2, andGSL 2 began the meet inRoom 3, Harris said.

In oral round 1, GSL 1 beatAtwater-Cosmos-Grove City(ACGC) and Yellow Medi-cine East (YME), 20-10-2,while GSL 2 earned 17 pointsagainst Hutchinson (11) andWillmar Community Chris-tian (a new team) with 1.

This meant both teamsmoved up a room for round2. Next round, GSL 1 earned14 against Willmar (11) andCMCS (5) in Room 1. Mean-while, GSL 2 beat ACGC andNew London-Spicer (NLS)13-12-5 in Room 2.

“For the last two roundsGSL 1 and GSL 2 would beagainst each other in Room 1.Oh yes, and Willmar wasthere, too,” Harris said.

Competition in Round 3was close, with GSL 2squeaking out a slight leadwith 12 points, Willmar 11,GSL 1. Round 4 was notquite as close, and Willmarwon with 16 points vs GSL 2(13) and GSL 1 (10).

When the medals wereawarded, GSL 1 earned gold,Willmar took silver, and GSL2 finished with bronze.

*****While the GSL varsity was

doing well, so were the juniorvarsity and junior high teams.

There were 12 JV teams,and GSL brought one. “Be-cause we have 11 students ingrades 10-12, there were onlythree on our JV team, butOakley Clark, Brent Duenowand Kyle Beck did fine withthree,” Harris said.

The highest written score

was 53. GSL’s score was 49,starting the team in thirdplace. It stayed in Room 1 forthe whole meet, alwaysagainst Hutchinson. Bensonand NLS took turns compet-ing against them.

Round 1 scores: GSL 17,Hutchinson 16, Benson 6.Round 2: Hutch 19, GSL 14,NLS 5. In round 3: GSL 16,Hutch 13, Benson 5. Lastround: GSL 20, Hutch 17,NLS 4.

In the end, Hutchinson hadwon by two points, whileGSL got second.

“This was totally awesomefor a team of three, anddemonstrates the strength ofGSL’s group of 10th-12thgraders,” Harris said. “TheJV questions were differentthan varsity at this meet, soyou can’t compare scores.”

The junior high competi-tion had 27 teams, filling ninerooms. GSL had three teams.“Since we have eight newjunior high students, ourmain goal was to give everynew student a good meet ex-perience and show them whata meet was like, so we mixedeveryone up,” Harris said.

The GSL teams were prettyevenly matched with eachother, she added.

For instance, in three out offour oral rounds, GSL 1 com-peted against another GSLteam, and not always thesame one. Also, both GSL 1and GSL 3 made it to Room1, where teams from Willmarand Hutchinson were parkedfoEventually the meet waswon by Willmar, withHutchinson in second. GSL 1took third. All three GSLteams were in the top 12.

Team members of GSL 1were Maddie Kuehn, JennaLokensgard, Lindsay Wedin,Jake Fehrenbach and JakeVasek.

GSL 2 included MitchBeneke, Connor Heuer, DiniSchweikert, Jack Gephart,and Theresa Siers.

GSL 3 members were Kait-lyn Arthur, Katie Twiss,Robin Swift, Cora Kuras,Marisa Luchsinger andRachel Reichow.

GSL’s Knowledge Bowlteams are coached by VickyHarris and Clare Nolan. Thenext meet will be at ACGCon Monday, Dec. 10.

GSL Knowledge Bowlteams start out strong

The Brownton Lions Clubwill host “Santa Day” Satur-day, Dec. 8, from 10 a.m. tonoon, at the Brownton Com-munity Center.

There will be activities,treats for the kids and goodiebags will be handed out.Santa, of course, will be onhand to visit with children.

BrowntonSanta Dayset Dec. 8

100 Years AgoDec. 6, 1912A.F. Avery, Editor

The arrival of sub-zero weath-er has put a stop to the construc-tion of the double railroad trackand foreman Slane informs theTribune that the crew will proba-bly break camp tomorrow. Thehorses will be shipped to thecity, but the tents and machinerywill be stored here until nextspring, when the work will becompleted.

Mr. William Reimers andMiss Martha Perschau of Sumterwere married at the John Tess-mer home on Thanksgiving day.The groom is the brother of F.J.Reimers of Stewart.

Marshal Mangold found FredBahr of Gibbon in a helplessstate of intoxication Thanksgiv-ing night and took him into cus-tody. Mr. Bahr appeared beforeJudge Dols the following morn-ing and, upon pleading guilty toa charge of drunkenness, wasfined $10 and costs, amountingto $15. The prisoner paid theamount and was released.

Glen Hawes and Louis Faren-baugh were chopping up somewood at the home of the latter’sgrandfather last Friday whenLouis mistook Glen’s hand for ablock of wood and neatlychopped off the ends of two fin-gers on Glen’s left hand. The in-jured fingers were dressed andare healing nicely.

75 Years AgoDec. 3, 1937Harry Koeppen, Editor

Stewart’s plans for a newschool building are now entirely

in the hands of the district PublicWorks Administration (PWA) di-rector at Omaha, Neb., who hasbeen asked to give an extensionof time in which to begin workon the new building. Bidsopened on the proposed buildingwere entirely too high, and if noextension is granted, the districtwill probably go without a newbuilding.

Stewart’s several deer-huntingparties have returned from theirtreks to the north. The Richards-Senescall-Buhr party returnedFriday with but one deer for theefforts of the six in the party.The Kasal-Schilling party of 11returned that same day witheight deer. The Kahlow-Decker-Forcier-Goodman-Ludoweseparty was home Thursday with adeer each. The Anderson-Rosenow party had several deer.Nearly all the local huntersworked in the Ely area.

50 Years AgoDec. 6, 1962Kermit T. Hubin, Editor

Mrs. Fred Lewin, nee IdaSchroeder, died at her home inStewart Monday morning whilehanging out her wash. She suf-fered a heart attack and was no-ticed by her neighbor, Mrs.Katherine Callier. She hadreached 82 years of age.

Connie Hahn, daughter of Mr.and Mrs. Harold Hahn of Stew-art, became the bride of DuaneKottke, son of Mr. and Mrs.Elmer Kottke of Buffalo Lake,on Nov. 10 at St. Paul’s Ameri-can Lutheran Church in Stewart.

Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Quandt(Elizabeth Briese) are the proudparents of a daughter born Nov.

29. She joins two sisters, Deniseand Gwendolyn.

35 Years AgoDec. 8, 1977Kermit T. Hubin, Editor

Ninety-nine units of bloodwere collected at the Brownton-Stewart Red Cross blood driveMonday. Two first-time donorsfrom Stewart were Kevin Maiersand Mrs. Herb Hennessey. One-gallon pins were given to HarryLauwagie and Carl Runke, and afour-gallon pin was awarded toMrs. Harvey Henke.

John Kloempken was rushedto the Hutchinson hospital Sun-day morning after suffering astroke at his residence.

30 Years AgoDec. 9, 1982Dave Stoltz, Editor

Some 27 persons were set toappear in Sibley County CourtDec. 7 in connection with an un-dercover investigation of 23 Sib-ley County taverns and bars. theinvestigation involved the sellingof alcohol to minors. Employeesof 21 of those establishmentshave been charged.

Byron and Sheila Bussler arethe parents of a baby boy, TravisChristopher, born Nov. 11. Hejoins a brother, Nathan, 15months.

Barbara Ann Trettin andMichael Leonard Loncorichwere united in marriage Nov. 6at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church inStewart. Parents of the coupleare Mr. and Mrs. Donald Trettinof Buffalo Lake and Mr. andMrs. Leonard Loncorich ofStewart.

From the Stewart Tribune archives

100 Years AgoDec. 6, 1912O.C. Conrad, Editor

On Wednesday forenoon oc-curred the marriage of MissEmma Dahlke, daughter of Mr.and Mrs. A. Dahlke, who residewest of town, to Mr. HeinrichKoelln in the local church. Mr.and Mrs. Koelln will reside onthe groom’s farm seven milesnorthwest of town.

Miss Marie Hopps and Mr.August Schleeter were marriedat the home of the bride’s parentsin Minneapolis on Thanksgivingday.

Miss Martha Perschau and Mr.William Reimers were united inmarriage at the home of Mr. andMrs. John Tessmer on Thanks-giving day. They will go imme-diately to housekeeping on thegroom’s farm north of town,which he has lately been fittingup with new buildings through-out and which will make an idealhome.

75 Years AgoDec. 2, 1937Percy L. Hakes, Editor

A deal was made last weekwhereby George Kreie disposedof his interest in the StandardService Station, which he hasoperated for the past two years toWillmar Zimmerman. The newproprietor is an energetic youngman and should do well in thisnew venture. Mr. Kreie has not

yet decided what he will do.Santa Claus Day in Brownton

will be Saturday, Dec. 11. Bringall the kiddies to town that dayas he will have a gift box foreach child.

50 Years AgoDec. 6, 1962Charles H. Warner, Editor

Sue Anne Warner, 9, died ather home Tuesday at 9:45 a.m.Death was due to kidney failure.Funeral services will be Friday,Dec. 7, at 2 p.m., at the Brown-ton Congregational Church. SueAnne is the daughter of CharlesH. and Eunice Warner of Brown-ton. She also is survived by hersiblings, Charles H. Warner III,8; Mary Lynn, 7; Beth Renee, 5;and Kay Nancy, 3.

Little interest was generated inthe village election Tuesday withonly 33 votes cast. IncumbentClerk Ivan H. Kreie, incumbentassessor Leo Plaisance and in-cumbent trustee Percy Hakeswere all re-elected. No one filedfor the office of constable, whichresulted in Carl Wachter, HenryKahle and A.W. Radke gettingtwo write-in votes each. The can-vassing board drew lots, andWachter was declared the win-ner.

20 Years AgoDec. 2, 1992Lori Copler, Editor

The Brownton City Council

will be advertising for a new mu-nicipal liquor store manager fol-lowing the resignation of manag-er Steve Messner. The CityCouncil will meet in special ses-sion Dec. 17 to consider applica-tions.

Clerical workers and otherMcLeod County employees innon-supervisory positions are ex-pected to vote next week onwhether they will become part ofthe Teamsters Union. Along withclerical workers, the vote in-cludes home health aides, cooksat the county jail and other em-ployees.

10 Years AgoDec. 4, 2002Lori Copler, Editor

A fire Tuesday, Nov. 26, total-ly destroyed a rural Browntonhome. Firefighters from Brown-ton and Stewart were paged atabout 12:45 p.m. on a report thatthe home was totally engulfed inflames. The house, owned byJohn Holton Swan, was locatedon 10th Street, about a mile westof Highway 15 on the Sibley-McLeod line. By the time the de-partments arrived, the house — adouble-wide modular home on abasement — had been totally de-stroyed and collapsed into thebasement. Brownton Fire ChiefJim Todd estimated the loss of itshouse and its contents at$90,000. The state fire marshal isinvestigating.

History

From the Brownton Bulletin archives

22 Browntonseniors meton Monday

Twenty Brownton seniorcitizens met Monday at thecommunity center.

Cards were played afterthe meeting with the follow-ing winners: 500, Carol Brel-je, first, and Gladys Rickert,second; pinochle, LeoneKujas, first, and Ordell Klu-cas, second; and sheephead,Lil Lindeman, first, and ElvaWendlandt, second.

John Huebert won the doorprize. Ordella Schmidtserved refreshments.

The next meeting will beMonday, Dec. 10, with anoon potluck. All seniors arewelcome.

Chronicle photo by Rich Glennie

Voice of DemocracyThe Glencoe VFW Post 5102 and itsLadies Auxiliary presented two scholar-ships to Chantelle Wolff and ChristopherRoss, both juniors at Glencoe-Silver LakeHigh School, for their essays about “IsOur Constitution Still Relevant?” The es-says were part of the annual Voice ofDemocracy contest sponsored by theVFW and Auxiliary. Wolff was the first-place winner and received $125. Rosswas runner-up and received a $75 check.Wolff’s entry has been sent on to the dis-trict level. The state winning entry wins a

trip to Washington, D.C., March 2-6, andreceives a portion of the $152,000 in na-tional awards. The top scholarship isworth $30,000. Involved in the local pres-entation last week were, front, from left,VFW Post 5102 Commander James Pe-ters, Wolff, Ross, Sharon Knop andSharon Gutknecht, both of the VFW Aux-iliary. In the back is VFW member BobSenst, VFW senior vice commander.Gutknecht is the local chairwoman of theVoice of Democracy contest.

It is hard to believe that itis almost Christmas! Comecheck out one of our cookingmagazines to get some freshideas for your Holiday bak-ing. We also have craft, card-making and scrapbookingmagazines.

It is a Christmas theme forthe Noon Book Club of theBrownton Library. We willmeet Thursday, Dec. 20, atnoon, and are reading “TheChristmas Wedding” byJames Patterson. New mem-bers are always welcome. Wemeet the third Thursday ofeach month from noon to 1p.m.

The library offers a storytime every Wednesday morn-ing at 10 a.m. Come join theother kids for a story, someplay time and coloring or acraft. Also a story time is of-fered every Saturday morn-ing. Watch the Chronicle andFacebook for special activi-ties.

December’s activity forkids is Monday evening, Dec.10, “The Christmas Bed-time

Story.” Join us any time, 6p.m. or after, for crafts andactivities. The story will startat 7 p.m. Kids may wear theirpajamas and bring along theirfavorite blanket and/orstuffed animal and listen to abedtime story around theChristmas Tree!

Just a reminder that theBrownton Public Library willbe closed or have shorterhours on the following daysin December:

Monday, Dec. 24 —closed.

Tuesday, Dec. 25 —closed.

Monday, Dec. 31 — Openfrom 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Merry Christmas andHappy New Year from theBrownton Public Library!

Just a reminder of our reg-ular hours: Monday, 3 p.m. to7 p.m.; Tuesday, 2 p.m. to 4p.m.; Wednesday, 9 a.m. to11:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 6p.m.; Thursday, 2 p.m. to 7p.m.; Friday, closed; Satur-day, 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Brownton LibraryBy Beth Selle


Thurs., Dec. 6 — AA Group Mtg. next to Post Office inStewart, 8 p.m., call 320-212-5290 for info.; Home FreeVocal Band, GSL High School Auditorium, 7 p.m.

Sat., Dec. 8 — GSL Booster Club 9th grade boys & girlsbasketball tournament, Panther Field House and GSL HighSchool, Glencoe, 8 a.m.; Brownton Santa Day, CommunityCenter, 10 a.m.-Noon.

Sun., Dec. 9 — Community Strings “Christmas Around theWorld” concert, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Glencoe,3 p.m. & 7 p.m.

Mon., Dec. 10 — Tops Weigh-In mtg., 5-5:30 p.m.; Brown-ton Senior Citizens Club, 1 p.m.; Stewart City Council, 7p.m.; Brownton American Legion Post 143 & Auxiliary mtg. &celebrate Christmas, Brownton Bar & Grill, 5:30 p.m.

Tues., Dec. 11 — Narcotics Anonymous, Brownton Com-munity Center, 7 p.m.

Thurs., Dec. 13 — AA Group Mtg. next to Post Office inStewart, 8 p.m., call 320-212-5290 for info.; Stewart Lions.

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The community is invitedto an open house hosted byPrairie River Home Care,Inc., to celebrate the re-open-ing of Birchwood House inJanuary 2013.

The open house is sched-uled for Wednesday, Dec. 12,between 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.,and will include light appetiz-ers and tours of the newly re-modeled residential carehome located at 710 Park Is-land Drive in Hutchinson.

Birchwood House was builtin 2005, funded by donationsfrom many community mem-bers and local groups. PrairieRiver Home Care purchasedit in September 2012 fromGlencoe Regional HealthServices (GRHS) andHutchinson Area Health Care(HAHC), which had jointlyowned the home and used itas a center for hospice careuntil 2010.

Prairie River Home Carewill reopen Birchwood Houseas a residential care boardingand lodging home for patientswith Parkinson’s disease andother neurological movementdisorders, such as Hunting-ton’s disease, muscular dys-trophy (MD), amyotrophiclateral sclerosis (ALS) andmultiple sclerosis (MS).Parkinson’s disease is themost prevalent movement dis-order, affecting 1.5 millionpeople nationwide.

Patients with movementdisorders have special needsfor physical, occupational andspeech therapy, diet, mobility,medication management andsafety issues, such as preven-tion of injuries due to falls.

In addition, these patientsoften have unique needs withrespect to socialization andphysical and cognitive stimu-lation.

In preparation to serve pa-

tients with these conditions,Prairie River Home Care hasremodeled Birchwood Houseto include a chair lift elevator,theater, exercise room and acyber café outfitted with com-puters for the use of residentsand their family members.

Birchwood House will ac-cept patients who require 24-hour supervision and will bestaffed for up to eight resi-dents.

According to Mark Austin,director of area developmentfor Prairie River Home Care,Birchwood House eventuallywill be staffed with up to 10employees with special train-ing in caring for patients withmovement disorders. He ex-pects most of these employ-ees will be new hires from thelocal community.

“We are excited to reopenBirchwood House to patientswith Parkinson’s and othermovement disorders. We willpartner with the StruthersParkinson’s Center in GoldenValley, the National Parkin-son Foundation Minnesota

(NPFM), the local Hutchin-son medical and long-termcare community and otherneurological treatment organi-zations to make BirchwoodHouse a success,” said JudyFigge, registered nurse andchief executive officer ofPrairie River Home Care.

Prairie River Home Care isa Medicare-certified home-care agency offering a broadrange of services to individu-als of all ages.

Prairie River Home Careprovides services within 60Minnesota counties, through anetwork of eight offices locat-ed in Fairmont, Hutchinson,Blaine, Mankato, Marshall,Rochester, Buffalo and St.Cloud. The corporate office islocated in Buffalo.

Prairie River Home Carehas been owned and operatedfor 14 years by Ken and JudyFigge, who together havemore than 60 years of experi-ence offering home-care serv-ices.

For more information, visitwww.prhc.com.

People

Exsted wins $100,000 prizeNicholas Exsted of Glencoe won $100,000 in the Min-

nesota State Lottery’s 15X the Money game on Nov. 25.Exsted bought three tickets on Nov. 24 from Schmidty’sin New Germany. He did not win on them, so the next dayhe bought two more, also from Schmidty’s. Exsted said henoticed only one other ticket had been sold between histwo purchases. The first ticket he bought on Nov. 25 wasthe winner of the game’s top prize. “If the person beforeme had purchased two tickets, I wouldn’t be sitting hereright now!” an elated Exsted said. He claimed his prize atLotterty headquarters in Roseville on Nov. 27.

Son born to SchroedersJason and Michele (Dammann) Schroeder of Courtland

announce the birth of their son, Aiden William, on Nov.20, 2012, at the New Ulm Medical Center. Aidenweighed 8 pounds, 12 ounces, and was 21-3/4 inches inlength. He joins a big brother, Alex, 3. Grandparents areDonald and Carol Dammann of Glencoe and John andBev Schroeder of Courtland. Great-grandmother is EthelHardel of Brownton.

Holy Trinity honors namedSeveral local students were named to the first-quarter

honor rolls at Holy Trinity High School in Winsted. Onthe “A” honor roll are Evelyn Penas, eighth grade,daughter of Bob and Peni Penas of Silver Lake; EricKlima, senior, son of Jim and Kari Klima of Silver Lake;Brandon Schlagel, senior, son of Art and Debbie Schlagelof Silver Lake; and Craig Wosmek, senior, son of Brianand Wendy Wosmek of Glencoe. On the “B” honor rollare Stephanie Hoffmann, eighth grade, daughter of Tomand Bev Hoffmann of Silver Lake, and Jacob Klima,sophomore, son of Jim and Kari Klima of Silver Lake.

Broderius earns BS degreeLisa Broderius of Glencoe earned her bachelor of sci-

ence degree in environmental studies at Bemidji StateUniversity at the conclusion of the summer 2012 ses-sions.

Chronicle photo by Alyssa Schauer

3rd-grade Panther PawsThe third-grade Panther Paw award win-ners for November were announced atthe all-school meeting at Lakeside Ele-mentary last Thursday morning. In thefront, from left to right, are Stephanie

Garnica, Sofia Mattson, Linette Munoz,Spencer Lemke and Beau Lepel. In theback are Meadow Askerud, Grace Pat-naude, Elijah Yurek, Isabel Villarrel andPorter Mikolichek.


4th-grade Panther PawsAt its all-school meeting, Lakeside Ele-mentary announced the following stu-dents as Panther Paw award winners forNovember. In the front, from left to right,are Hailey Conklin, Makayla Ronngren,

Devin Chalupsky and Zackary Wanous. Inthe back are Katelyn Fiecke, Eli Kuehn,Devin Forcier, Hope Kosek and MajkyaMetcalf. Missing is Joseph Schlueter.


5th-grade Panther PawsThe Panther Paw award winners for themonth of November were announced atthe all-school meeting at Lakeside Ele-mentary last Thursday. The fifth-gradeaward winners, from left to right, in the

front, are Michael Waibel, Isabelle Elias,Brandon Medina, Dylan Heuer and Kait-lyn Popp. In the back are Bennett Lepel,Taylor Hatlestad, William Higgins, LydiaSchmieg and Noah Falcon.


6th-grade Panther PawsAt the all-school meeting last Thursdaymorning, the November Panther Pawsawards were announced. In the front,from left to right, are sixth-grade studentsKatherina Cohrs, Angela Binder, Jared

Lokensgard, Nathan Litzau and MadilynnAnderson. In the back are Maddie Brown,Kristen Major, Erin Jaskowiak, MeganFehrenbach and Troy Lueck.

Birchwood open house set Dec. 12

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Staff honoredHeide Nelson was recog-nized at Helen Baker Ele-mentary School for con-sistently showing respectto students and staff. Shewas honored by the GSLPanther at an all-schoolgathering recently.

Kindergartenconcert setfor Dec. 12

The Glencoe-Silver LakeHigh School Auditorium willbe filled with anticipationand excitement Wednesday,Dec. 12, at 1:30 p.m., asHelen Baker School kinder-gartners take their places onstage for their annual con-cert.

The Helen Baker Kinder-garten Winter Concert willfeature selections that high-light the learning that takesplace in music class, includ-ing singing, instrument play-ing, dancing, and muchmore.

“We’ll even sing a fewholiday favorites,” said Car-rie Knott, elementary schoolmusic teacher, who will di-rect the concert.

In addition, the children’sartworks will be displayedon the choral shells that stu-dents created with artteacher, Andrea Wigern.

The public is encouragedto attend. There is no admis-sion charge.

Koepp hearing rescheduledAn omnibus hearing for

Bryan Koepp, a former Glen-coe businessman facing sixfelony theft charges, has beenchanged to Tuesday, Dec. 18,at 1 p.m., in McLeod CountyDistrict Court, from its origi-nal date of Dec. 13, accordingto court records.

Koepp is facing three

felony counts of theft by falserepresentation and threefelony counts of theft byswindle in relation to severalloans he obtained under al-legedly false pretenses from avariety of people betweenApril 2009 and August 2010.


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The regular meeting of theGlencoe VFW Post 5102Auxiliary was held Nov. 12with Commander AngelaJohnson presiding and 18members present.

After the reports were readand approved, the bills pre-sented, and general ordersand communications read, themembers acknowledgedPOWs/MIAs with a momentof silence and a prayer.

The Christmas party willbe held on Dec. 10 withLindy’s catering the meal ofchicken, mashed potatoes,gravy, glazed carrots,coleslaw and dinner rolls.

The members also ap-proved bringing a food itemfor the food shelf and veter-ans gifts for the VeteransHome in Hastings. Also ap-proved was a life member-ship or equivalent to be givenaway at the Christmas party.Other items for the Christmasparty prizes also were encour-aged.

Virginia Adams had 429

children participate in the“Pledge of Allegiance” pro-gram on Veterans Day.

Angela Johnson andSharon Knop reported on the2nd District meeting held inFairmont on Oct. 27.

There were two entries inthe Voice of Democracy con-test. First place will receive$75 and second place $50from the Auxiliary.

The Midwinter Conferencewill be Jan 25-27 at the Min-neapolis Marriott City Center.

The 2nd District meetingwill be in St. Paul on Jan. 5.There is a request for theAuxiliary to bring a superbowl basket to the districtmeeting. The Auxiliary decid-ed to donate $25 instead.

A donation of $75 was ap-proved for Operation Min-nesota Nice.

The lunch committee forthe Jan. 14 meeting will beElaine Tabbert, Marlene En-gelke, Irene Thurn and DonnaHardel.

Obituaries

Funeral services forMelford Waldemar Schwarz-rock, 88, of Gaylord, wereheld Monday, Dec. 3, at St.John’s Lutheran Church,Mountville, Dryden Town-ship, Sibley County. The Rev.Harold Storm officiated.

Mr. Schwarzrock diedWednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, atthe Sibley Medical Center inArlington.

The organist was DebbieForstner, and special musicwas by his great-grandchil-dren, “Jesus Loves Me.”Congregational hymns were“Abide With Me,” “Be Still,My Soul” and “Lift High theCross.”

Cross bearer was DrewSchwarzrock, and pallbearerswere his grandsons, ScottSchwarzrock, Robb Schwarz-rock, Jesse Elbert, Joshua El-bert, Jacob Elbert and JosephElbert. Interment was in thechurch cemetery.

Mr. Schwarzrock was bornSept. 14, 1924, in RoundGrove Township, McLeodCounty, to Albert and Erna(Redmann) Schwarzrock. Hewas baptized as an infant andconfirmed in his faith as ayouth, both at St. Matthew’sLutheran Church in PennTownship, McLeod County.He received his education atcountry school in RoundGrove Township.

On March 22, 1947, Mr.Schwarzrock was united inmarriage to Leona Thiesfeldat First Lutheran Church inGlencoe. After their mar-riage, the couple farmed inRound Grove Township. In1952, they moved to the Gay-lord area and farmed in Dry-den Township. In 2000, theymoved to Gaylord, where hespent the rest of his life. Theywere blessed with three chil-dren and shared 65 years ofmarriage.

Mr. Schwarzrock was amember of St. John’s Luther-an Church, Mountville, inDryden Township, and servedas a school trustee, churchtrustee, church elder, on thecemetery board and sang inthe church choir.

He will be remembered forhis kind demeanor and polite,respectful manners. He mod-eled his Christian faith everyday. Old-time music warmedhis heart, and he enjoyed cardplaying and playing the har-monica, especially for thegrandchildren and great-grandchildren, giving them a“high five” when leaving.

Survivors include his wife,Leona Schwarzrock of Gay-lord; children, Myron (Sue)Schwarzrock of Gibbon,Miriam (Ron) Elbert of Gay-lord, and LeOra (Jay) Spenceof Fort Collins, Colo.; seven

grandchildren, Scott (Mandy)Schwarzrock, Jesse (Gina)Elbert, Laurie (John) Eriksen,Joshua (Tracy) Elbert, Robb(Terri) Schwarzrock, JacobElbert and Joseph Elbert; 12great-grandchildren, Drew,Devon, Zachary, Ethan andOlivia Schwarzrock, Jack,Noah and Ava Eriksen,Mason, Caden, Nolan and Je-remy Elbert; sister, ValariaJohnson of Menagha; sisters-in-law, Lillian Zastrow ofAmboy, Anita Thiesfeld ofGlencoe and Alice Schwarz-rock of Glencoe; nieces,nephews, other relatives andfriends.

Preceding him in deathwere his parents, Albert andErna Schwarzrock; step-mother, Lilly Schwarzrock;brothers, Leonard andWillmer Schwarzrock; sister,Divine Schwarzrock in infan-cy; granddaughter, HeideSchwarzrock; brothers-in-law, Hillard Thiesfeld and hiswife, Leatrice, Melvin Thies-feld, Albert Thiesfeld and hiswife, Donna, Linus Zastrowand Donald Peterson.

Arrangements were byEgesdal Funeral Home inGaylord. Online obituariesand guest book are availableat www.hantge.com. Click onobituaries and guest book.

Melford Schwarzrock, 88, of Gaylord

Funeral services for HazelRuth Slipka, 78, of Stewart,were held Monday, Dec. 3, atthe Hughes-Hantge FuneralChapel in Stewart. The Rev.Paulus Pil-grim offici-ated.

Mrs. Slip-ka died Fri-day, Nov.30, 2012, atG l e n c o eR e g i o n a lH e a l t hServices.

The organist was AdlineKottke, and soloist GaryHoffman sang “The Lord’sPrayer,” “On Eagle’s Wings,”“Nearer, My God, to Thee”and “The Old RuggedCross.”

Honorary pallbearers wereNancy Schultz, Robyn Kor-son, Jill Westphal, WesleyWestphal, Weston Westphal,Dwayne Krienke, HowieKrienke, Duane Flemming,Lara Egge, Kym Markgrafand Logan Egge. Pallbearers

were Jeff Erkenbrack, StanWestphal, Russ Korson,Randy Korson, John Korson,and Gary Hoffman. Intermentwas in Round Grove Lake-side Cemetery in Stewart.

Hazel Ruth Korson wasborn May 19, 1934, inCollins Township, McLeodCounty, to John and Emma(Segler) Korson. She attend-ed country school in ruralStewart, and received oneyear of education at theBrownton High School.

She was both baptized andconfirmed as an adult at St.Paul’s Lutheran Church inStewart.

On June 4, 1952, HazelKorson was united in mar-riage to Harry Walter Slipkaat St. Paul’s Lutheran Churchin Stewart. They made theirhome in Stewart, where theyraised their daughter, Pat.

Mrs. Slipka was a cook atthe Stewart School for 26years, retiring in 1999. AfterMr. Slipka died on March 18,2011, she continued living in

their home in Stewart.Mrs. Slipka loved flowers

and enjoyed gardening. Shealso enjoyed cooking andcrocheting. In her youngeryears, she helped her husbandwith Stewartfest. She enjoyedvisiting on her “Gator” andgoing to Minnesota Mini RodPulls.

Survivors include herdaughter, Pat (Rich) Hansenof Stewart; grandson, MikeHansen of Stewart; sister,Emma Hoffman of Hutchin-son; brother, Art (Judi) Kor-son of Stewart; sister-in-law,Ruth Nelson of Buffalo Lake;nieces and nephews; andother relatives and friends.

Preceding her in deathwere her parents; husband,Harry; three brothers; andone sister.

Arrangements were withthe Hughes-Hantge FuneralChapel in Stewart. An onlineguest book is available atwww.hantge.com. Click onobituaries/guest book.

Hazel Ruth Slipka, 78, of Stewart

Hazel Slipka

Roger Franklin Sommers,79, of Faribault, died Friday,Nov. 30, 2012, at St. Mary’sHospital, Rochester.

Funeral services were heldat TrinityL u t h e r a nC h u r c h ,F a r i b a u l tT u e s d a y ,Dec. 4, withthe Rev.Steven J.Kuehne of-f i c i a t i n g .I n t e r m e n twas atM e a d o wRidge Memorial Park, Farib-ault.

Mr. Sommers, the son ofGlenn Fredrick and AliceAnna Nora (Vail) Sommers,was born March 15, 1933, inFaribault. He was baptized onJuly 2, 1933, and confirmedon March 30, 1947, both atTrinity Lutheran Church,Faribault. He graduated fromFaribault High School in1952.

Mr. Sommers married De-lores Boernsen at TrinityLutheran Church, Faribault,on June 9, 1962, and she pre-

ceded him in death on May16, 2012. Together theyfarmed for numerous years,owned and operated theA&W in Faribault for 27years, as well as other busi-nesses such as the Un-Furni-ture Place & Water RestShop, Blue Haven Homesand Sommers Oil, all inFaribault, and Klaggees IceCream in Austin. Throughouthis life, he sold his gardenproduce through farmers’markets.

Mr. Sommers was a mem-ber of the Faribault Noon Ex-change Club, Kiwanis andserved as an elder, as well asin other church positions.

Survivors include hisseven children, Linda (Bruce)Donnay of Glencoe, Laurie(the Rev. John) Meyer of Tri-mont, Richard “Rich” (LoreeLynn) Sommers of Faribault,Robert “Bob” (Raquel) Som-mers of Northfield, Paul(Karen) Sommers of Farib-ault, Christine (Sean) Som-mers-Austin of Bozeman,Mont., and Carolyn (David)Sommers Tillotson of Rich-field; 15 grandchildren, TylerDonnay, Sarah, Mark,

William and Anna Meyer,Jessica Anderson (fiancéAllen Greenslade), Molly(Tedd) Pederson, Troy (spe-cial friend, Kim Johnson)Sande, Nicole, Peter, Taylorand Nathaniel Sommers, ElsaAustin, Dylan Ramsey, AliceTillotson, and expecting an-other grandchild in May;seven step-great-grandchil-dren, Logan, Luke, Ava, Gra-cie, Piper, Chloe, Zacharyand Aubrey; two brothers,Raymond Sommers of Farib-ault and Lester Sommers ofBloomington; three sisters,Dorothy Fischer of Faribault,Della (Lester) Gunderson ofNorthfield and DeloresStrasser of Apple Valley.

He was preceded in deathby his parents; his wife, De-lores; two brothers, Everettand Donald Sommers; andone sister, Betty Hoppe.

Memorial gifts may be di-rected to Faribault LutheranSchool or Faribault Noon Ex-change Club.

For information and guestbook, visit boldtfuneralhome.com.

Roger F. Sommers, 79, of Faribault

Roger F.Sommers

Deaths

JudithKatzenmeyer,66, Brownton

Judith Katzenmeyer, 66, ofBrownton, died Sunday, Dec.2, 2012, at Glencoe RegionalHealth Services long-termcare.

Funeral services will beheld Thursday, Dec. 6, at 11a.m., at Grace LutheranChurch, 8638 Plum Ave.,Brownton.

Visitation will be Wednes-day (today) from 4 p.m. to 8p.m., and continues Thursdayfrom 10 a.m. to the time ofthe service, all at Grace

Lutheran Church. Intermentwill be in the church ceme-tery.

Arrangements are with theHantge Funeral Chapel ofBrownton. For an onlineguest book, go to www.hantge.com. Click on obituaries/guest book.

Chronicle photo by Brenda Fogarty

7th-grade students of NovemberLincoln Jr. High named its November stu-dents of the month last week. They in-clude, front row, from left, Eduardo Blan-co, science; Jack Gepson, geography;Rebecca Lieser, English; AbigailSchmieg, choir; and Blake Ortloff, ag/in-

dustrial technology. In the back are EllenFollestad, English; Mackenzie Davis, art;Grace Draeger, band; Austin Pinske, pre-algebra; and Kylie Ness, physical educa-tion.

Chronicle photo by Brenda Fogarty

8th-grade students of the monthNine eighth-grade Lincoln Jr. High stu-dents were selected for the Novemberstudents of the month awards last week.They included, front row, from left, CoraKuras, history; Amanda Husted, English;Rachel Reichow, band; and Marissa Kir-

choff, music. In the back are Dylan Brei-denbach, ag/industrial technology; JacobFehrenbach, science; Eric Villnow, art;Jordan Kaczmarek, algebra; and LuisDuenas, physical education.

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and music that lifts the spirit. The old worries make room for other interests. The

common routine of life gives way a little because there is more to the day than the same

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Advent comes with the blessing of the Gospel. It is the balm for our particular

burdens and relief for our personal loneliness. The blessing of the Gospel of Advent is

the reminder that Christ is coming to that we don’t have to carry that load by ourselves

anymore or walk the daily path in solitude. He is coming to be with us.

Give us Your blessing, heavenly Father. Amen.

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First Evangelical LutheranChurch of Glencoe hasplanned many special eventsand services for the Adventand Christmas seasons.

Beginning tonight, Wed-nesday, Dec. 5, is an Adventworship service with com-munion, at 7 p.m.

Then on Wednesday, Dec.12, at 7 p.m., is a new Adventmusic service featuring musi-cal groups of all ages fromFirst Lutheran.

First Lutheran Church willshow a Christmas movie,Saturday, Dec. 15, at 7 p.m.,in the fellowship service. Themovie, “Christmas with aCapital ‘C’,” features a smalltown, Trapper Falls, Alaska,and its events, friends andfamilies that fill the Christ-mas season. A free-will offer-ing will be accepted.

On the same evening, FirstLutheran is teaming up withthe Glencoe Chamber ofCommerce and other areachurches to display a live na-tivity scene in Oak Leaf Parkbetween 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.

On Sunday, Dec. 16, at 8a.m., during the worshipservice, will be the Sunday

school’s Christmas service.The preschool Christmas

program will be Tuesday,Dec. 18, at 7 p.m.

First Lutheran School chil-dren’s Chirstmas service,“Portraits of Christmas,” forkindergarten through eighthgrade, will be Wednesday,Dec. 19, at 7 p.m.

First Lutheran memberswill join members from GoodShepherd Lutheran Church ofGlencoe for Christmas carol-ing on Thursday, Dec. 20, at5:30 p.m., and will gather inFirst Lutheran’s fellowshipcenter. After caroling, thesingers will return to the fel-lowship center for barbecuesand dessert.

First Lutheran School classChristmas parties will be Fri-day, Dec. 21, the last day be-fore Christmas vacation. In-stead of students exchanginggifts with each other, the stu-dents, as a class activity, willgive gifts to less fortunatepeople.

Christmas Eve worshipservices will be Monday,Dec. 24, at 2 p.m., 7 p.m. and11 p.m.

Christmas Day worshipservice will be Tuesday, Dec.25, at 9 a.m., with a liveKDUZ broadcast.

A New Year’s Eve worshipservice with communion willbe Monday, Dec. 31, at 5p.m.

ChurchesBEREAN BAPTIST

Corner of 16th Street andHennepin Avenue, Glencoe

Johnathon Pixler,Interim pastor

Call 320-864-6113Call Jan at 320-864-3387 for

women’s Bible studyWed., Dec. 5 — Women’s Bible

study, 9 a.m.; service on GlencoeCable Channel 10, 8 p.m

Fri., Dec. 7 — Men’s Bible study,9 a.m.

Sun., Dec. 9 — Sunday school forall ages, 9 a.m.; worship, 10:20 a.m.;service on Glencoe Cable Channel10, 10:30 a.m.

Tues., Dec. 11 — Men’s Biblestudy, 6 a.m.

CHRIST LUTHERAN1820 N. Knight Ave., Glencoe

Katherine Rood, Pastor320-864-4549

www.christluth.comE-mail: [email protected]., Dec. 5 — Men’s breakfast,

Bible study, 8 a.m.; televised worshipon Channel 10, 2 p.m.; chapel com-munion service, 1:30 p.m.; communi-ty meal, 5:30 p.m.; bells, 5:30 p.m.;confirmation, 6:30 p.m.; choir, 6:30p.m.; Advent worship service, 7 p.m.

Thurs., Dec. 6 — Grand Meadowsworship, 7 p.m.

Fri., Dec. 7 — Pastor at RedwoodFalls meeting.

Sun., Dec. 9 — Worship, 8:15 a.m.and 10:45 a.m.; Sunday school andadult education, 9:30 a.m.; long-termcare worship, 1 p.m.

Mon., Dec. 10 — Televised wor-ship, 3 p.m. on Channel 10.

Tues., Dec. 11 — Ladies fellow-ship at Gert & Erma’s, 10 a.m.; SarahCircle at Judy Peterson’s home, 7p.m.

CHURCH OF PEACE520 11th St. E., Glencoe

Joseph Clay, PastorSun., Dec. 9 — Worship at Church

of Peace, 10 a.m.; church council fol-lows service; confirmation class, 9:15a.m.

ST. PIUS X CHURCH1014 Knight Ave., GlencoeAnthony Stubeda, Pastor

Wed., Dec. 5 — Morning prayer, 7a.m.; Mass, 7:20 a.m.; kindergartenthrough sixth-grade religious educa-tion (RE), 7 p.m.-8 p.m.; seventh-through 11th-grade RE, 7 p.m.-8:15p.m.

Thurs., Dec. 6 — Fund-raisingnight at Pizza Ranch; no eveningprayer; Mass, 6 p.m.; CCW Adventcelebration follows Mass.

Fri., Dec. 7 — Morning prayer, 8a.m.; school Mass, 8:20 a.m.; adora-tion of the blessed sacrament followsMass until noon; first Friday com-munion calls, 10 a.m.; AFC staffmeeting, Holy Family, 3:30 p.m.;Mass, 6 p.m.

Sat., Dec. 8 — Immaculate Con-ception of Blessed Virgin Mary holyday of obligation; Mass, 9 a.m.;mothers group meeting, 10 a.m.; pre-baptism session at St. Pius X, 10:30a.m.; reconciliation, 3:30 p.m.; Mass,5 p.m.

Sun., Dec. 9 — Second Sunday ofAdvent; Mass, 9:30 a.m.; Our Ladyof Guadalupe procession, Mass andcelebration, 11:30 a.m.; no SpanishRE classes; Catholicism series at St..Pius X, 4 p.m.; Mass at Holy Family,Silver Lake, 8 p.m.

Mon., Dec. 10 — No Mass; sched-uling of liturgical ministers begins;Schoenstatt girls’ group meeting, 3p.m.

Tues., Dec. 11 — Morning prayer,7 a.m.; Mass, 7:20 a.m.; junior choir,2:50 p.m.; adult choir, 7 p.m.; Man-anitas for Our Lady of Guadalupe, 11p.m.

FIRST CONGREGATIONALCHURCH UCC

1400 Elliott Ave., GlencoeRev. Linzy Collins Jr., PastorE-mail: [email protected]., Dec. 5 — Communion at

GRHS long-term care, 10:15 a.m.;choir practice, 6:30 p.m.

Sun., Dec. 9 — Worship, 9:15a.m.; Sunday school, 10:35 a.m.

Tues., Dec. 11 — Bible study, 9:30a.m. and 6:30 p.m.

FIRST EVANGELICALLUTHERAN

925 13th St. E., GlencoeDaniel Welch, Senior Pastor

Ronald L. Mathison, Associate Pastor

320-864-5522www.firstglencoe.org

E-mail: [email protected]., Dec. 5 — Public school

confirmation, 3:30 p.m.; ChristChimes, 4 p.m.; Gospel Ringers, 6p.m.; senior choir, 6:15 p.m.; Adventworship with communion, 7 p.m.

Thurs., Dec. 6 — Board of evan-gelism, 7 p.m.; board of deacons, 7p.m.; board of trustees, 7 p.m.

Sun., Dec. 9 — Worship 8 a.m.;fellowship, 9 a.m.; Sunday school,9:15 a.m.; worship, contemporary,10:30 a.m.; Spanish worship, 6 p.m.

Tues., Dec. 11 — GRHS commun-ion, 9:30 a.m.; Common Cup meet-ing, 10 a.m.; Millie Beneke Manorcommunion, 1:15 p.m.; Alzheimersupport group, 6 p.m.; men’s clubChristmas potluck, 6:30 p.m.; Chris-

tian education board, 7 p.m.

GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERANLutheran Church–Missouri Synod

1407 Cedar Ave. N., GlencoeRev. James F. Gomez, Pastor

Matthew Harwell,Director of Christian EducationE-mail: [email protected]., Dec. 5 — Kids Praise, 3:15

p.m.; REVEAL, 5:30 p.m.; AdventHolden evening prayer, 7 p.m.; boardof education, 8 p.m.; deacons, 8 p.m.

Thurs., Dec. 6 — GRHS commun-ion, 9:30 a.m.

Fri., Dec. 7 — Community Stringsdress rehearsal, 7 p.m.

Sun., Dec. 9 — Choir, 7:45 a.m.;worship with new member welcome,9 a.m.; Kingdom Quest, FUEL, adultBible study, 10:15 a.m.; CommunityStrings Christmas concert, 3 p.m.,and 7 p.m.; no LIVE.

Tues., Dec. 11 — GSLC Biblestudy, 9:30 a.m.

ST. JOHN’S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN4505 80th St., Helen Township

GlencoeDennis Reichow, Pastor

Wed., Dec. 5 — Fifth- and sixth-grade catechism, 3:45 p.m.; seventh-and eighth-grade catechism, 4:45p.m.; chimes, 6:30 p.m.; choir, 7:30p.m.

Sun., Dec. 9 — Worship, 9 a.m.;Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Bible class,10:20 a.m.; youth group Christmasparty, 2 p.m.

Tues., Dec. 11 — Table Talk, 7p.m.

GRACE LUTHERAN8638 Plum Ave., Brownton

Andrew Hermodson-Olsen, PastorE-mail:

[email protected]

Wed., Dec. 5 — Confirmationclass, 4 p.m.; choir rehearsal, 7 p.m.

Sun., Dec. 9 — Worship, 8:45a.m.; Sunday school, 10 a.m.

Mon., Dec. 10 — Local broadcast,6 p.m.

Tues., Dec. 11 — Bible study, 9a.m.

IMMANUEL LUTHERAN700 Division St., Brownton

R. Allan Reed, Pastorwww.immanuelbrownton.orgWed., Dec. 5 — Silent auction

bidding ends; Bible study with pas-tor, 9 a.m.; confirmation classes, 4p.m.; Noah’s Ark Christmas service,5 p.m.

Thurs., Dec. 6 — Parkview Biblestudy, 1:30 p.m.

Fri., Dec. 7 — Ladies Aid meet-ing, noon.

Sun., Dec. 9 — Worship, 9 a.m.;Bible study with pastor, Sundayschool, 10 a.m.; Channel 8 video.

Tues., Dec. 11 — F.A.I.T.H.group, 7 p.m.

CONGREGATIONALDivision St., Brownton

Barry Marchant, Interim Pastorbrowntoncongregational.org

Wed., Dec. 5 — Christmas carolsing, 7 p.m.

Sun., Dec. 9 — Worship, 9 a.m.;Bible study and Sunday school, 10a.m.; “A Mandolin Christmas Con-cert,” 7 p.m.

ST. BONIFACE CATHOLICStewart

Wed., Dec. 5 — Mass, 9 a.m.Thurs., Dec. 6 — No Mass.Fri., Dec. 7 — Mass, 9 a.m.Sat., Dec. 8 — Mass, 9 a.m.;Sun., Dec. 9 — Mass, 9:15 a.m.

ST. JOHN’S CHURCH13372 Nature Ave. (rural Biscay)

Robert Taylor, pastor320-587-5104

Sun., Dec. 9 — Sunday school, 9a.m. ; worship, 10:30 a.m.

CROSSROADS CHURCH10484 Bell Ave., Plato

Scott and Heidi Forsberg, pastors320-238-2181

www.mncrossroads.orgWed., Dec. 5 — Youth and adult

activities night, 7 p.m.Sun., Dec. 9 — Worship, 10 a.m.

ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN216 McLeod Ave. N., Plato

Bruce Laabs, Pastor320-238-2550

E-mail: [email protected]

Wed., Dec. 5 — Youth choir prac-tice, 5 p.m.; Midweek, 6 p.m.

Thurs., Dec. 6 — Bible study, 8:45a.m.; bulletin deadline.

Sun., Dec. 9 — “Time of Grace,”TV Channel 9, 6:30 a.m.; worship, 9a.m.; Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Biblestudy, 10:10 a.m.

Tues., Dec. 11 — Belle Plaine andArlington visits; prayer meeting, 5p.m.

ST. PAUL’S UNITED CHURCHOF CHRIST

308 First St. N.E., PlatoBill Baldwin, Pastor

www.platochurch.comWed., Dec. 5 — Office open, 9

a.m.; men’s coffee, 9 a.m.; confirma-tion class, 5 p.m.; adult choir, 6 p.m.;women’s guild, 6:30 p.m.

Fri., Dec. 7 — Office open, 9 a.m.

Sun., Dec. 9 — Sunday school,8:45 a.m.; Advent worship, 10 a.m.;fellowship luncheon, 11 a.m.

IMMANUEL EVANGELICALLUTHERANNew Auburn

Bradley Danielson, PastorE-mail: [email protected]

Wed., Dec. 5 — Seventh-gradeconfirmation, 4 p.m.; eighth-gradeconfirmation, 5 p.m.

Sat., Dec. 8 — Decorate church,church council.

Sun., Dec. 9 — Worship, 9 a.m.;fellowship time, 10 a.m.; Sundayschool, 10:15 a.m.; church council,10:30 a.m.

GRACE BIBLE CHURCH300 Cleveland Ave., Silver Lake

Dr. Tom Rakow, Pastor320-327-2352

http://silverlakechurch.orgWed., Dec. 5 — Confirmation

class, 6 p.m.; prayer time and puppetpractice, 7 p.m.

Sat., Dec. 8 — Men’s Bible study,7 a.m.

Sun., Dec. 9 — “First Light” radiobroadcast on KARP 106.9 FM, 7:30a.m.; pre-service prayer time, 9:15a.m.; worship service, 9:30 a.m.;Sunday school and Christmas pro-gram practice, 10:35 a.m.; potluck,noon; Christmas caroling.

Mon., Dec. 10 — Church boardmeeting, 7 p.m.

Dial-A-Bible Story, 320-327-2843.

FAITH PRESBYTERIAN108 W. Main St., Silver Lake

320-327-2452 / Fax 320-327-6562E-mail:

[email protected] may be able to reach someone

at the church every Tuesday throughFriday. Don’t hesitate to come in (usechurch office door) or call, or e-mailat [email protected].

Wed., Dec. 5 — PresbyteryWomen Christmas party and potluck,12:30 p.m.; light supper, 5:30 p.m.;WOW classes and adult Adventstudy, 6 p.m.; choir practice, 7 p.m.

Sun., Dec. 9 — Worship, 10 a.m.;coffee fellowship to follow service.

HOLY FAMILY CATHOLICCHURCH

712 W. Main St., Silver LakeAnthony Stubeda, Pastor

Wed., Dec. 5 — Mass, 8 a.m.;first- through sixth-grade religiouseducation classes, 5:30 p.m.; seventh-through 11th-grade religious classes,7:15 p.m.

Thurs., Dec. 6 — Mass at CedarCrest, 10:30 a.m.; CCW, Rosary So-ciety potluck and meeting, 6 p.m.

Fri., Dec. 7 — Mass, 8 a.m. and 7p.m.

Sun., Dec. 9 — Mass, 8 a.m. and8 p.m.

Tues., Dec. 11 — Mass, 8 a.m.

FRIEDEN’S COUNTY LINE11325 Zebra Ave., Norwood

Joseph Clay, PastorSun., Dec. 9 — Worship at Church

of Peace, 10 a.m.; church council fol-lows service; confirmation class, 9:15a.m.

THE CHURCH OF JESUSCHRIST OF LATTER DAY

SAINTS770 School Rd., Hutchinson

Kenneth Rand, Branch President320-587-5665

Wed., Dec. 5 — Young men andwomen (12-18 years old) and scout-ing, 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

Sun., Dec. 9 — Sunday school,10:50 a.m.-11:30 a.m.; priesthood, re-lief society and primary, 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

WATER OF LIFE CHURCHIGLESIA METODISTA LIBRE

Clinica del Alma727 16th St. E., Glencoe

Spanish/bi-lingual servicesNestor and Maria German, Pastors

E-mail:[email protected]

Sun., Dec. 9 — Worship, 2 p.m.

ST. PETERLUTHERAN CHURCH

77 Second Ave. S.Corner C.R. 1 and Second St. S.,

Lester PrairieDavid R. Erbel, pastor

Sun., Dec. 9 — Worship, 9 a.m.;Sunday school and Bible study, 10:15a.m.

Mon., Dec. 10 — Office open, 9a.m.

SHALOM BAPTIST CHURCH1215 Roberts Rd. S.W., Hutchinson

Rick Stapleton, Senior pastorAdam Krumrie, Worship pastorWed., Dec. 5 — Release time for

second through fifth grades, 9 a.m.;LIFT, 1 p.m.; AWANA, 6:30 p.m.;middle school youth group, 6:30p.m.; senior high youth group, 7:30p.m.

Thurs., Dec. 6 — Senior highlunch, 11 a.m.; worship team, 6 p.m.

Fri., Dec. 7 — Women’s candle-light dinner, 6:30 p.m.

Sat., Dec. 8 — Women’s candle-light dinner, 5:30 p.m.

Sun., Dec. 9 — Worship, 9 a.m.and 10:30 a.m.; Sunday school, 9a.m.; grief share, 2 p.m.

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Dictionaries for 3rd gradersThe five Lions clubs in the GSL SchoolDistrict presented dictionaries to third-grade students at St. Pius X recently. Re-ceiving the dictionaries were, front row,from left to right, Isaiah Essen, Andy Ru-elas, Connor Hallaway, Aolani Guardado,Bianca Espinozaand Sara Cross. Sister

Viji Grace is their teacher. The Lions, allmembers of the Glencoe club, includeRon Dahlke, Marv Gustafson, ElmerSchuette, Bill Curtis, Sandy Dammannand Karen Glennie. The other Lions clubsare from Plato, New Auburn, Browntonand Silver Lake.

First Lutheran plans special,numerous Christmas events

Christ Lutheran hosts free Wednesday mealsChrist Lutheran Church in

Glencoe is sponsoring andserving a free communitymeal on the first Wednesdayof each month for all in thecommunity and surroundingareas. It is called the “Abun-dant Table CommunityMeal.”

The doors open at 4:30p.m. for fellowship. The mealwill be served from 5:30 p.m.to 6:30 p.m., and is open tofamilies and children, the eld-erly, and all seeking fellow-

ship or in need of a helpinghand.

“It is not only about themeals, but about buildingcommunity and sharing our‘Abundant Table,’” said theRev. Katherine Rood. “In ad-dition, it is also about de-creasing isolation and provid-ing a coordinated, but lovingresponse to people in need.

“Our goal is to provide anutritionally balanced and ap-petizing meal with neighborsand strangers breaking bread

together,” Rood said. A pasta dish, salad, bread

and Christmas cookies willbe served on Wednesday,Dec. 5. It will be located inthe church basement fellow-ship hall.

Call Christ LutheranChurch at 320-864-4549 tojoin in the fellowship andmeal.

“Please hold this new min-istry in your prayers,” Roodsaid.


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Actual size of ad.3.575” x 2”

Glencoe Advertiser716 E. 10th St., Glencoe, MN 55336

320-864-5518Karin Ramige Cornwell, [email protected]

Sue Keenan, [email protected] Fogarty, [email protected]

Same as above PLUS transmission service• Install new transmission filter• Change 100% of fluid• Install new transmission pan gasket• Flush value body & torque converter• Adjust band & throttle linkage• Inspect for leaksCall for appointment. Synthetic oil extra.

• Change engine oil with Mobil oil (up to 5 qts.) & engine oil filter• Lube complete suspension• Perform an 18-point safety inspection

GOODonly $2300

only $8000

only$19000

Same as above PLUS Cooling System Tune-up• Pressure test for leaks• Flush engine, radiator & heater core• Install new anti-freeze to -35 degrees• Inspect cooling fan for proper operation

BETTER

BEST

Hutchinson575 Jefferson • 320-234-9690

Glencoe1320 Pryor • 320-864-6222

Expires 12-14-12

Includes tax & disposal fees.



91455 S46-49

COUPON

ADD Tire Rotation to any above service for only $20 more! TPMS Extra

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For all your Plumbing & Heating needs

and repairs call today!• Tempstar Gas, LP Furnace & A.C.

• License #067203-PM

Dobrava Bros.Plumbing & Heating • Glencoe

320-864-6335www.dobravabrothers.com

PLUMBING

HEATING

Dale’sPlumbing & Heating, Inc.

is now

• Central Air Conditioning• Air Duct Cleaning

• Service Work

320-864-6353or Gaylord 507-237-2330

2110 9th St. E. • Glencoewww.glencoephinc.com

Lic.# 062054-PM

K42C

LES

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GLENCOEPlumbing & Heating, Inc.

Brian Mikolichek: Owner • Bonded-Insured

Residential Remodel Service Light Commercial

Complete Plumbing and Heating Systems

Air Conditioning Installation

Winsted, MN 320-395-2002

MikolichekPlumbing & Heating

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Documents

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