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Advanced Body Chiropractic expands to Chatfield
Rushford Village aims to clarify policing needs By K irsten Zoellner kirsten@fillmorecountyjournal.com
Dr. Stephanie Lillis recently expanded Advanced Body Chiropractic to Chatfield. Photo by Hannah Wingert By H annah Wingert hannah@fillmorecountyjournal.com
When Dr. Stephanie Lillis D.C. was 19, she was in a serious car accident that changed her life. The accident left her severely injured and in chronic pain. When nothing her doctors tried worked to relieve her pain, they suggested surgery as a treatment. Thankfully, she decided to try out a chiropractor before the surgery and was amazed. “He took away the pain and gave me back my life,” she said. “I really truly felt like I was called to this profession through that experience.” Dr. Lillis began her career working for a chiropractic office in Cincinnati for five years,
but when she and her husband started their family, she knew it was time for a change. “We didn’t want to raise the kids in a big city,” she said. So, they uprooted and moved to Rochester, where Dr. Lillis is originally from. Dr. Lillis and her husband have co-owned Advanced Body Chiropractic in Stewartville for 14 years now. “He’s not a chiropracter, but he does everything else,” she laughed. In 2016, Dr. Lillis was approached by Dr. Julie Elder from Elder Chiropractic who asked if she would be interested in purchasing her practice and expanding Advanced Body Chiropractic to Chatfield. Dr. Elder had sustained a serious elbow injury while out walking
her dog and was unable to continue running her practice. “I’ve known her for many years and felt honored to be the one that she reached out to,” Dr. Lillis said. “I didn’t want to see something that she’d been building her whole life just go away.” After meeting with Dr. Elder, Dr. Lillis talked to her husband and spent some time praying over the big decision facing them before deciding to go ahead with the purchase. Originally, the plan was to open the new location in November 2016, but one weekend in October, Dr. Lillis couldn’t stop thinking about Dr. Elder’s patients who were See CHIROPRACTIC Page 7
On the heels of a January meeting with the City of Rushford, the City of Peterson, Rushford Police Department, and the Fillmore County Sheriff’s Department, the city has received a letter from Rushford indicating termination of the current policing arrangement and a desire to attempt to negotiate a new contemporary agreement. February 13, the City of Rushford approved ending the current arrangement December 31, 2017. The arrangement, as detailed by City of Rushford Administrator Tony Chladek, is response only, not preventative. When there is a call in the Village, the call goes to the Fillmore County Sherrif’s Department, who dispatches the Rushford Police Department if a county deputy is not in the area. Rushford Village reimburses the Rushford Police Department for
time and equipment. Mayor Gordon Johnson indicated to the Village council at the February 20 meeting that he’d spoken with Peterson Mayor Tim Hallum, who was in attendance. “They could have come and talked to us. However, they’re going about it in a way… they’d like more dollars,” said Johnson. “I don’t recall that we ever asked for anything.” He indicated it could be in the best interest of both the Village and Peterson to have a joint meeting with Fillmore County Sheriff Tom Kaase. The city believes the county is willing to offer a contract, similar to the cities of Canton and Wykoff, which would provide two-hours of patrolling in the city 365 days per year for a contracted price. Johnson questioned Mayor Hallum as to whether Peterson has asked for or needs patrolling. Hallum responded they had not. See POLICING Page 2
CWD meeting offers different management perspective By K irsten Zoellner kirsten@fillmorecountyjournal.com
As Fillmore County comes to grips with the positive identification of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in the wild whitetail population, state organizations, landowners, game farmers, and hunters are grappling for answers and a clear path forward. On the heels of the findings, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) developed a CWD response plan and a Deer Management Plan Advisory Committee. Several public
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meetings have been held and the vested interests of those involved have brought both frustration and further questions. Initially, the deer identified included two bucks harvested approximately four miles west of Lanesboro, November 6 and November 13, in permit area 348. A third deer, harvested in mid-November, was identified five miles north of first two, but within the disease management zone, which is now designated Deer Permit Area 603. The See CWD Page 14