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Unsolved mystery in death of family dog By Barb Jeffers barb@fillmorecountyjournal.com
As animal lover’s know, a pet becomes part of the family when it is brought home. Joe and Angi Kaase and their sons, Ryli and Quinci, felt this way about their 15 month-old German Shepherd named Tyson. Ryli and Quinci loved spending time with Tyson, especially playing outside. Angi said, “When you would go outside and yell for the kids and they didn’t answer, all you had to do was whistle or holler for Tyson and whichever direction he peeked his head around, you knew our boys were over there.” On Sunday, November 10, 2013, Joe Kaase went outside to put their vehicles in their Tyson, the Kaases’ family dog, remains the center of an unshop for the night as snow had solved case after being found shot on November 14. begun to fall. As Joe shut the Photo Submitted doors of the shop Tyson went
Commonweal Theatre to refinance debt gent. A city can get a lower rate as a tax exempt entity and karen@fillmorecountyjournal.com this can be extended to non A public hearing was held profits. Commonweal Theatre prior to the Lanesboro City Corporation can take advanCouncil meeting on January tage of the tax exempt rate 6. Councilman Keith Eide was with the city acting as a conabsent. The hearing was in duit in the reissuance of the regard to the nonprofit the- revenue note. There will be no atre corporation’s request to liability to the city if the city amend and reissue its commer- agrees to the requested changes cial development note that had in the original note. Bubany emphasized that it been issued in 2006. Mike Bubany, David Drown wouldn’t affect the credit ratand Associates, explained that ing of the city in any way. He with the 1982 Tax Equity and added that any local governFiscal Responsibility Act the ment entity could act as the rules were made more strin- conduit for the theatre. It just By K aren R eisner
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made sense for that entity to be Lanesboro as the theatre is located here. There is a limit on the amount any city can designate as “qualified tax exempt obligation” during the period of one year and that is $10 million. Bubany noted that Lanesboro will not be affected by that limit. With the amendment of the note the Commonweal Theatre will save 1.5 to 2 percent on interest rates. F & M Bank is the sole holder of the debt. Hal Cropp, speaking for the theatre board, pointed to the See LANESBORO Page 11
outside. At 6 a.m. the next morning Angi went outside to feed Tyson. Tyson wasn’t around. At 7 a.m. she went back out to put Tyson in his kennel as her son was getting on the school bus and still no Tyson. When Angi left for work that morning she figured Tyson was snuggled up in his dog house keeping warm. That afternoon, at approximately 4 p.m., Angi left work to attend school conferences in Harmony, Minn. and decided to stop home and check on the dog on the way. When she got home, there was still no sign of Tyson, no tracks in the snow, and none of his food had been eaten. Angi and Ryli walked the entire property searching for Tyson checking to make sure he wasn’t caught on a fence
or laying in an outbuilding injured. After finding no sign of him, Angi called the Fillmore County Sheriff’s Department to report a missing dog. Joe and Angi telephoned and stopped at neighbors and put a post on Facebook hoping someone had seen Tyson. The post was shared over 50 times by caring people concerned about the missing pet. The Kaase’s walked their property a second time yelling and looking for Tyson. Angi said, “We wanted him home so bad we would even think we heard him from time to time in the distance.” However, it was not Tyson. By Tuesday, November 12, Tyson had still not returned See TYSON Page 7
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Fillmore County survives arctic cold, polar vortex moves out In addition, several Fillmore County businesses closed their mitchell@fillmorecountyjournal.com doors in order to cope with the For the first time in 17 years, frigid temperatures, a call made all Minnesota public schools to keep both employees and were ordered closed by Governor customers safe. Even though Mark Dayton on Monday, Janu- weather data is often unpredictary 6 due to dangerously cold able, the temperatures experitemperatures and wind chills. enced from January 6 through The last Minnesota governor to January 8 is some of the coldest close public schools statewide many will probably see for a was Arne Carlson, who closed significant duration of time—or schools three times during his at least many hope. governorship—once in January What’s really behind the pres1994, once in February 1996, See POLAR VORTEX Page 2 and once in January 1997.
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