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Citizens advocate for EIS on proposed hog feedlot in Fillmore County

By K aren R eisner karen@fillmorecountyjournal.com

The informational meeting held by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) regarding the proposed Catalpa LLC hog facility drew a large crowd to the Mabel Community Center Tuesday evening, June 19. More than an hour before the meeting was to begin, speakers demanding an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), a substantially more in-depth review, spoke to the crowd in front of the community center. The nearly threehour long informational meeting began with a review of the permitting process.

Yellow shirts emblazoned with “EIS YES” and stickers with the same demand were displayed by many in the estimated 300 plus crowd. Both outside and inside

the center during the meeting, people were generally courteous and respectful in their comments.

Law enforcement was visible.

The project proposal is for the construction of a new 1,992 animal unit (one sow and piglets is .4 animal unit) swine facility (4,980 sows) in Sections 7 and 18, Newburg Township, about 10 miles east of Harmony. Two barns, an animal mortality composting building, one stormwater basin, and a livestock watering well are to be part of the farrowing facility. More than seven million gallons of manure will be stored in concrete pits underneath the barns. Manure is to be removed each fall and injected into cropland.

The comment period on the Environmental Assessment WorkSee HOG FEEDLOT Page 16 

Speakers for responsible agriculture stress reasons why an EIS is needed before the informational meeting on the proposed Catalpa hog facility.

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Preston funds its donation for veterans home

By K aren R eisner karen@fillmorecountyjournal.com

cash donation until construction it would not be matched 2:1 with federal funds.

There was more discussion about where access to the home site should be. Mayor Kurt Reicks noted the option to purchase calls for 15 acres more or less. The home will be located on top, which is nine acres; this leaves about six acres to work with.

Councilman Charles Sparks insisted there isn’t a need for a See VETERANS HOME Page 2 

By R ich Wicks rich@fillmorecountyjournal.com

At the Kingsland School Board meeting on June 18, the board formally set the dates for anyone looking to run for election to the board in November.

The dates for filing affidavits of candidacy will be July 31 through August 14. In the November general election, voters will elect three members to four-year terms. All board members were present for the meeting (Doug Plaehn, Leah Stier, Jackie Horsman, Tiffany

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Mundfrom, Heather Betts, Ann Oeltjen and Superintendent James Hecimovich). No members of the public were on hand to address the board.

The board approved the consent agenda items, including the resignation of Varsity Baseball Coach Jamie Fenske, and hiring Scott Eckelkamp (grades 7-9 math), Mark Fitzpatrick (elementary PE) and Annalisa Pendl (school social worker).

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The source of funding in the amount of $320,000 from the city was identified at the June 18 city council meeting. The funds will cover the land purchase and the cash donation to be included in the application so the veterans home can be entered into the federal queue in April 2019.

City Administrator Joe Hoffman explained there had been a conference call with the Min-

nesota Department of Veterans Affairs (MDVA) Tuesday, June 12, and they requested that the land for the veterans home and local donations be transferred to the state as soon as possible.

This will allow the local contributions to be recognized in the federal application to ensure they are matched 2:1 with federal funds.

The state will not proceed with the application to be entered into the federal queue until the land is in the state’s name. If the city withheld its

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city through street. The MDVA should be allowed to develop the site the way they think it should be. A motion was unanimously approved to exercise the option to purchase the 15 acres from Robert Doherty which will include an access from the north. An easement will be sought from Cecil Anderson to get access from the south.

The city paid Doherty $15,000 to extend the option, which goes toward the purchase price of $210,000 when the option is exercised. City staff had been asked by Mayor Reicks to come up with options to fund the $195,000 left on the purchase price and the $125,000 cash donation that was pledged by the council.

The $320,000 will come from several sources including: Minnesota Investment Fund savings, EDA operating, EDA development funds, city contingency funds, and a transfer of a portion of street maintenance funds.

The funding sources as presented which totaled $320,000 were approved. There will be an in person meeting attended by Hoffman, Greg Davids, Robert Maust and Ron Scheevel with MDVA in St. Cloud next week.

Other Business in brief • Foremost Farms requested a variance at 220 St. Paul St. SW to add a 70-foot tall milk

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silo tank in the alley between the 100 West blocks of River St. and Main St. The 50,000 gallon silo will replace a 3,000 gallon tank. Planning and Zoning recommended approval. Hoffman said there has been no public feedback. City code requires a 20-foot setback. The variance is for a zero-foot setback. The variance was approved. Hoffman said he was thrilled Foremost Farms was investing in the community.

• Ambulance Director Ryan Throckmorton explained his effort for a Public Access automated external defibrillator (AED) program. The program will use a surplus AED. The intention is to loan it out at no cost to the public for a family event or other community group gathering. A case, pads and batteries were funded by the Preston Community Foundation at a cost of $350. An application/ agreement was developed with input from the League of Minnesota Cities. Throckmorton said it will be sent to the city attorney for final review. Applications will be handled through city hall. The application and program were approved pending city attorney review.

• There was more discussion on the tax forfeited property in the 300 block of St. Paul St. SW, Preston Oil Products, Inc. Hoffman had consulted with Craig Britton, a Petrofund consultant, to get more information. The site is not currently

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listed as a contaminated site, although it very likely is. Hoffman explained the city could request permission from the county to remove the tanks, four are listed in the data base, at the city’s expense. Then the city could have testing done to establish the extent of contamination. Hoffman said this would let us know the extent of contamination before purchasing.

Sparks favored requesting an additional six months from the county to withhold sale or lease of the parcel to give the city time to figure things out.

Councilmen Maust and David Collett were not in favor of purchasing the property or spending anything on it. Sparks argued there is no incentive for anyone else to clean it up if the city doesn’t do it. Hoffman asked if we want to allow a possibly contaminated site in our community, which would be a public health hazard.

Hoffman said if the tanks were taken out of service prior to December 22, 1988, the state would pay for removal and a limited amount of clean up through the Abandoned Tank Program.

A motion was approved to direct the staff to send a letter to the county auditor requesting the parcel be withheld from sale or lease from others for six months and to get permission to remove the tanks. Maust and Collett voted no.

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“Paula Ruesink (Forestville Historic site) for inviting grades 3-5 students, and to The Friends of Forestville for the grant that paid for the visit, as well as KSP for transportation to and from the event. Thanks also to Pheasants Forever for a $310 donation to the Trap Team.”

Business Manager Amber Herbrand gave a budgetary summary and a legislative update, and the board approved the Expenditure Budget for 2018-19. Herbrand stated that under the state’s “Safe Schools program, “July 16, the Commissioner is going to raise a priority list,…and on August 29 they will do a free-for-all registration,” with schools applying for grant funds through this program. She said after talking with Kingsland administrative staff, cameras seem to be the highest priority item that would give Kingsland the best chance to get funding through this program.

Several annual designations/ agreements were made, including designating Superintendent Hecimovich as IOWA (Identified Official with Authority) for the Minnesota Depatment of Education, naming Principal Scott Klavetter as the Local Education Agency representative for Title 1 and Title 2 programs, approving the SMEC Joint Powers Agreement, and

renewing membership in the Minnesota State High School League. The board also voted to continue the regular schedule of board meetings “as is” (a work session on the first Monday each month at 6pm, and a regular board meeting on the third Monday at 6:30pm).

Exceptions will be made for holidays and other conflicts.

The board discussed the proposed tax abatement plan, and spoke with Mike Hoheisel (of Baird Associates) via speakerphone during the meeting to get clarification about what he called the $85,000 one-time “budget enhancer” that is a part of this plan. The next board meeting will be a “work session” on Monday, July 2, at 6 p.m. in the Elementary Conference Room. The next regular board meeting will be Monday, July 16. The meeting on July 16 will also include a public hearing regarding the proposed property tax abatement. As always, the public is welcome.

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C ommentary Hey leadership! Let Congress work

By Lee Hamilton There aren’t many people who would argue that Congress is working well these days.

It’s been 24 years since it passed a comprehensive budget without resorting Lee H. to omnibus Hamilton bills. It can’t pass health-care legislation. Its members talk about the desperate need for a new infrastructure bill, but can’t even get one drafted.

It’s unable to produce immigration reform. It’s facing a host of issues on the environment, education, trade, the concentration of wealth and economic power, war powers and our entanglements abroad — and it can’t find common ground or develop a consensus around solutions to any of them.

This goes a long way toward explaining why Congress is held in such low public esteem: it can’t make progress on issues of importance to ordinary citizens.

How did we get here? How did the House and the Senate — which these days can only be called “the world’s greatest deliberative body” with ironic air-quotes — become so frustratingly unproductive?

There’s no single answer, of course. Partisanship and polarization among politicians and the American people as a whole have made honest negotiation and compromise politically fraught. A lot of members simply don’t believe in government, and oppose government action.

Many are content to defer to the president.

We have a presidential administration beset by internal probEditorial Cartoon

lems, vacancies, and cabinet appointees struggling to perform effectively. This at the same time that very few voices in Congress speak up for sustaining its role as a co-equal branch of government — let alone for congressional dynamism and policy leadership.

Of course, it’s hard to be effective when you don’t work very hard at legislating. You can’t explore the complexities of the issues that need addressing, build consensus, or hammer out legislation when you’re so concerned with raising money and pursuing re-election that you put in only a three-day legislative work week.

At its current law-making pace, one pundit noted recently, Congress has “a real chance at being the least productive legislature since the 32nd, from 1851 to 1853.” This is a far cry from the government envisioned by our Founders, who believed that Congress should drive federal action.

In the end, it’s hard to avoid faulting the congressional leadership. To be sure, there are a lot of members who no longer really identify with the body in which they serve. They rhetorically separate themselves from the institution. They identify with their party, or with special interest groups they support, but not with Congress itself.

And so they don’t seem to carry any sense of responsibility for its functioning.

But it’s leadership’s task to turn that around. Congress has never been easy to corral, but strong leaders (and I have seen many of them) have always understood that they had to work in the environment they were given. They were able to make Congress work.

There’s a list of procedur-

al and structural reforms that might help — stopping the three-day work week, strengthening committees, following the traditional order, campaign finance reform, and nonpartisan redistricting that would lead to more competitive congressional seats. But really what needs to happen is that the leadership must let the House and Senate — the full House and Senate — work their wills on the major political issues of the day. These days, leaders usually do their utmost to avoid this.

Putting power back in the hands of ordinary members may seem counter-intuitive when just above I suggested that Congress needs strong leaders. It does — just not leaders who manipulate the process to get the results that they themselves, or some faction of their caucuses, want to see.

Rather, we need leaders who enable members of the Congress to vote on the major issues of the day. This means leadership that recognizes that Congress is filled with diverse and often conflicting opinions, and that to represent and serve the American people as intelligently and effectively as possible, members should vote on the clear-cut and specific issues of most concern to Americans.

Instead, too often today the leadership blocks the full House and Senate from working their respective wills on major legislation. This should end.

Lee Hamilton is a Senior Advisor for the Indiana University Center on Representative Government; a Distinguished Scholar, IU School of Global and International Studies; and a Professor of Practice, IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 34 years.

Devil’s Advocate…Atheism

By Aaron Bishop Harmony, MN In light of the article written last month about atheism, it is clear there is a severe misunderstanding among some county residents about others. I was Aaron Bishop encouraged to help set the record straight as best I can on what atheism is and who atheists are.

Atheists, or non-theists, are people who do not assert the existence of God or any gods.

That’s it. Note the lack of any other prerequisites. There’s nothing about needing to accept evolution as fact. Nothing about being pro-abortion.

Nothing about being conservative. Nothing about being ABBA fans. And of course, nothing about worshiping Satan. It’s hard to worship something one doesn’t believe in.

Atheism has no dogma. Atheism has no creed. Atheism has no tenets. This doesn’t mean people who are atheists do not adhere to a dogma, creed, or set of tenets in their daily lives. Atheists do not necessarily share much in common with other atheists. Some atheists are spiritual (Theravada Buddhists), some believe in an afterlife or reincarnation, ghosts and spirits. Some atheists are wealthy while others are poor. Some atheists are artists while others build cars (arguably an art). Some are farmers, some are nurses, some are foresters, and some are business owners. Atheists may be the most compassionate people you’ll ever meet. And don’t quote me on this, but I hear that some adult atheists still cry when Simba finds Mufasa after the wildebeest stampede in The Lion King.

I hope this helps clear things up.

The author’s remarks imply atheists act a certain way, believe certain things, have no moral compass, and/or are anti-Christian. This is a fundamental misrepresentation of who atheists are and what atheists believe. Again, the only thing which all atheists have in common is the lack of belief in deities. Nothing more. Are some atheists jerks sometimes? Yes! Are there any God-believing people who can be jerks? You betcha!

I would kindly suggest to the author and others like him to please ask instead of making assertions and post them all over the newspaper. Instead of trying to understand the per-

spective of other people, some folks (it seems) like to point fingers, make false accusations, and claim some moral high ground, which is ironic to me.

I hope readers get the point here that atheists are just living a life that they feel to be most authentic and true to them. Does this sound wholly unfamiliar or foreign to your own experience? Probably not.

That’s because this is what people do, regardless of their faith or lack-thereof.

To summarize, atheism is the lack of belief in deities, and shouldn’t be misrepresented as anti-Christian. If you have a question about atheism, ask an atheist and be open to their answer, even if sometimes it’s “I don’t know,” because the answer isn’t always known. If you’re an atheist, anti-theist, or agnostic, the same applies!

Practicing kindness and curiosity without judgment is something people of any faith or a lack-thereof can improve on.

Yes, even me.

I am an agnostic atheist who contemplates the plausibility of an afterlife. Who knew? I do not think the answer is knowable, which makes me agnostic, and since I don’t assert the existence of deities, that makes me an atheist as well. After learning this, I hope we can still get along fine.

I am willing to speak with anyone about my perspective if they are willing to converse.

Contact the Fillmore County Journal and I’m sure they’ll let me know that you’re interested. Faith perspectives are ever evolving, and I hope in our communities we are open to continue learning from one another and not let our discomfort with alternative perspectives get in the way of rich dialogue.

I won’t “proselytize” or force my lack of assertion of God or gods down your throat. All I can do is best describe my thoughts, feeling, and reasons, and all I ask for is kindness and patience in return.

Cheers.

P.S. If you hadn’t guessed, I am one who still gets teary eyed watching The Lion King.

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C ommentary Deficits

By Stan Gudmundson Over the past couple of weeks, I came across a few interesting news items In one newspaper article a child psychologist wrote of her concerns about children who suffer from anxiety and depression.

C e r t a i n l y, worthy concerns and Col. Stan she provided Gudmundson good advice.

Last week I came across another article that also impacts young children. Was there anything that had been invented that these youngsters wished had not been invented researchers asked. There was and the answers were all very much the same.

Children, especially the younger ones, wished that iPhones and iPads and all of the other electronic devices people spend so much time on had not been invented. Many parents have grasped what these things have to offer, whatever that is, at the expense of the little ones.

Mommy and Daddy have their eyes glued to a portable device of some kind and don’t have time for their kids.

How sad. And also, irresponsible. Do you suppose there is a relationship between anxiety and depression of children and being ignored by parents staring at the alternate and inconsequential world electronics provides?

In another, researchers concluded that loneliness causes heart disease at a rate that is comparable to obesity. In still another, researchers found that there has been a noticeable increase in visits to doctors. Because the patients are ill? No, they are lonely and need human contact.

The problems for which they are seen are made up.

And one other that I find to be the most remarkable. Atheists have shorter life spans those who are religious. According to an article in the Washington Times, “Researchers at Ohio State University found that religious people live an average of four years longer than atheists.

The study was published in the journal, Social Psychological and Personality Science.” Is four years

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a long time? If you are twenty years old, that may not seem like all that much. But if you are getting older, four years is significant.

It would be interesting to know why. Because, after a certain point, atheists have nothing to look forward to? Because they look back on their lives with regret over decisions they made or events that have happened to them thinking that is all there is? That’s it. Especially if they made poor decisions during their lives or that life’s circumstances were particularly difficult. So, what’s the use of living longer? Do the bodies of atheists essentially shut down and commit suicide independent of an atheist’s wishes? Or, at some point, do they wish the whole life affair would just end.

And so their attitudes help them along in sort of a death wish?

This too, is really sad.

All of these issues are things missing in people’s lives. Mostly self-induced, they are serious deficits. Not one of them is healthy that even includes a faith that there is no God. Even if you are not a Christian or

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even if you are not moved to be a Christian, the church offers benefits besides the promise and messages they teach and believe in.

Churches are refuges from loneliness and from the destructive life-shortening consequences of an atheist faith. Fellowship, friendship, and help with life’s problems. There are great church dinners/suppers all over the area and often, coffee and donuts. Though I prefer chocolate chip cookies myself. This short list doesn’t include everything, not even the greatest gift of all.

Churches are places that help one to establish proper priorities. Like keeping your children as your principle precedent over the trivial world of electronic communications and other secondary and tertiary concerns.

Mind the little ones, reach out to the lonely, and pray for those who believe there is no hope.

If you haven’t been to church for awhile or if you have never been, do come. We come in different flavors but the essential message is the same. Pick one.

We will be happy to see you.

Letter about Catalpa LLC Environmental Impact Study...

To the Editor, As a dairy farmer with an Monday, June 25 approved feedlot permit here • Spring Valley City Council, in Section 24 Canton TWS, City Hall, 6 p.m.

Fillmore County and living only 2.5 miles from the pro• City of Rushford City posed 1,900 animal unit hog Council, City Hall, 6:30 p.m. facility, I believe Caltalpa LLC, • Chatfield City Council, City the group building this facility, Hall, 7 p.m. should be required to conduct Tuesday, June 26 an EIS (Environmental Impact • Fillmore County Study) before they are allowed Commissioners, Courthouse, to build.

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With our karst geology, sink• Mabel-Canton School holes can appear anywhere, anyBoard, Media Center, 6 p.m. time. A detailed and careful • Fillmore Central School EIS should be conducted so Board, High School Media as to insure the preservation Center, 6:30 p.m. of the ground water and surMonday, July 2 face water of our part of the • City of Houston Planning state. In addition, pumping 8-9 Commission/EDA, City Hall, million gallons of water from 5:30 p.m. the local aquifer to water these • Lanesboro City Council, pigs and handle their manure City Hall, 5:30 p.m. is a concern for all area farmers • Kingsland School Board and land owners that have priwork session, Elementary vate wells. This facility and its Conference Room, 6 p.m. impact should have a detailed • Preston City Council, City study. This study would show Hall, 6 p.m. if this facility will work in our area.

We need to preserve the Schedule subject to change. unique quality of this part of Minnesota for tourism, agriculture and for the 20,000 people Domestic shorthair/mix that live here in this county. male • Small When the going gets tough, the tough get going. I’m a There is not going to be an sweet tabby boy named Aster, and I’m the runt of a litter option for a do-over if this facilof six. That means that the others like to beat on me, but I’m Aster, and I’m faster. I find places to hide and then ity causes problems.Please conattack when they least expect it. Our momma Dahlia was found in Elgin and by the time she got to her foster tact the MPCA (Mn Pollution home, she had six kittens. That’s where we all spent our first few months. I got the most attention from my foster Control Agency) (651) 296mom, so I probably purr the most of all us kittens when picked up. I like sleeping and playing with “the big kids,” 6300 or (800) 657-3864 and ask Cypress and Daffodil. My name means, “star,” and I’d that the Caltalpa LLC hog facillove to be a star in your life!

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City infrastructure and finances – another perspective

By David Webb, MD Lanesboro, MN In response to the June 4 commentary by Peggy Hanson, while I am in basic agreement with her thesis, I believe she picked the wrong example to make her case. There David Webb were important factual omissions and errors in her brief description of a particular Lanesboro infrastructure project. I should like to present a more complete accounting of it here. The project she referenced was the paving of Zenith Street East from Maple Drive to the city limits. Auburn-Zenith is the principal entrance into Lanesboro from the South and Southeast, one of only six arteries entering the city from all directions, and the only one which heretofore was not paved in its entirety. In addition to automobiles, traffic on Zenith Street regularly comprises school buses, construction vehicles, semi-trucks and trailers, livestock trailers, grain trucks, and heavy farm tractors and implements, much of which, much of the time exceed the posted 30 mph speed limit, and very little of which is generated by local residents. Nonetheless, it is we residents who have borne the brunt of the egregious dust problem created by this traffic, with significant adverse effects on health and home economics. Paving the remaining section of Zenith Street concurrently with the completion of the already begun repaving of Auburn-Zenith offered a unique opportunity to mitigate this problem. With equipment and construction crews already on site, the project could be undertaken this spring at never likely to be duplicated bargain price. The City Council’s decision to proceed with the project was hardly a hasty one.

An initial proposal for consideration was presented to Council last fall. Subsequently, the matter has been an agenda item at eight consecutive Council meetings. There were two announced and published public hearings on the proposed project. Data presented to the Council included Net Present Value analyses, the

State of Minnesota Local Road Research Board document “To Pave or Not to Pave? Making Informed Decisions on When to Upgrade a Gravel Road,” initially a paving contractor’s estimate and subsequently two formal bids, as well as input from the city engineer and citizen residents. Any and all concerns raised, including those raised by Ms. Hanson, were addressed and duly considered. Importantly, Council did not, as was misstated by Ms. Hanson, vote to spend $95K on the project. Rather, Council voted their approval of a $95K project, for which we property owners on this section of Zenith Street will pay half. Moreover, in an unprecedented action for Lanesboro, 100% of us residents signed waivers indemnifying the City against any future claims for reducing that 50% assessment.

Based upon the data presented to and reviewed by Council, it is anticipated that in the long term the project would be cost neutral for the City; that is the City’s share of the cost of paving would be approximately offset by the reduced cost of gravel road maintenance and dust abatement. In the final analysis, we residents were indeed grateful to those Council members who recognized that fiduciary responsibility to their constituents is not simply a matter of limiting expenditures, but rather of balancing costs vs. benefits, a decidedly more difficult task. I entirely agree with Ms. Hanson on the importance of the next election cycle for the future of Lanesboro. Will it be progress or stagnation? To the excellent questions she suggested posing to prospective candidates, I would add a couple more: 1. Do you believe governance should be “bottom-up” (small d) democratic or “top-down” autocratic? Would you welcome or seek to constrain citizen input, particularly on matters most immediately affecting them? 2. In deciding a complex issue, would you take the opinions of planners, advisors, consultants, and other “experts” as mandates rather than advice? Or would you do your homework, solicit citizen input, attempt to reconcile conflicting advice, carefully assess all available data, and finally render a decision based on your own well considered best judgment?

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Obituaries Warren H. Madson Warren H. Madson, age 83, of Bandera, Tex.,, formerly of Calmar, Iowa, died on June 15, 2018, at home, following a stroke. Warren Helgeson Madson was born March 22, 1935, on a farm in N e w b u r g , Warren H. Minn., to Madson Talbert and Helen (Helgeson) Madson. He was baptized and confirmed in Fountain Lutheran Church.

He graduated Preston High School in 1953. He was captain of the football team. He attended LeTourneau Technical School in Longview, Tex., continued his studies at the University of Alaska and at the University of Alabama, and received an associate of science degree from Texas State Technical College in Waco, Tex. Warren entered the U.S. Air Force in San Antonio, Tex., in 1955. He married Beverly Var in 1956. To this union was born Cheryl Lynn Madson. They later divorced. After training on jet airplanes, he flew helicopters in Anchorage, Alaska. He left the Air Force and went into the construction business for two years in San Antonio. June 19, 1962, Warren entered the U.S. Coast Guard and was based in San Diego, Calif. He got transferred to Miami, Fla., during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He flew the HU16E Albatross and helicopters.

He qualified as a Seaplane Pilot, a Shipboard Helicopter Pilot and Coast Guard Standardization

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Pilot, accumulating more than 6,000 hours during his military career.

While on a National Airlines flight Warren met stewardess Anna Belle Acree. They were married in Orlando, Fla., July 18, 1964, and honeymooned in the Scandinavian countries. He was based in Naples, Italy, three years, flying C-123 to Greece, Spain, Turkey and around Italy supplying the Loran Sites. He then transferred to Salem Coast Guard Air Station, Mass., and then to Otis Air Force Base, where he continued his helicopter search and rescue. He was honored many times, including with Winged S for his daring life-saving feats. Subsequently, he was based in Mobile, Ala., at the Coast Guard Aviation Training Center where he trained pilots to land on ships. He was also deployed to Antarctica. His last assignment was Cleveland, Ohio, where he was liaison to 6,000 Coast Guard Auxiliarists in the eight states around The Great Lakes. After 24 years of service, Warren and Anna Belle farmed and raised registered beef master cattle near Moody, Tex. He was President of Elm Creek Water Supply and President of McLennan County Farm Bureau. To be closer to his aging mother, Warren and Anna Belle moved to Harmony, Iowa. He was a member of Calmar Lions Club of Halverson-Gieson American Legion Post #266, a member of Calmar Lutheran Church and was President on the Council.

They moved to Bandera, Tex., to be near daughter, Cheryl Harrison. They became members of Grace Lutheran Church. Warren became a member of American Legion Post #157. He was also a

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Warren is survived by his wife, Anna Belle Madson, his daughter, Cheryl Lynn Harrison of Boerne, Tex., his grandson Brian Timothy Crabb of Pittsburg, Pa., a sister, JoAnn Erickson, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and several nieces and nephews.

Warren was preceded in death by his parents, his granddaughter Erin Janelle Crabb, brothers Arden Madson and Thomas Madson, and sister Susan O�Neil.

A graveside service with military honors will be held on Saturday, June 30, 2018, at 10 a.m. at the Bandera Cemetery, followed by a memorial service at Grace Lutheran Church.

In lieu of glowers, donations may be made to Grace Lutheran Church, PO Box 1226, Bandera, Tex. 78003.

•Senior Strength & Balance Class, 8:15-9am, Harmony Community Center. 507-272-3731.* •Rushford Food Shelf, 9-11:30am and 12:30-4pm, Tenborg Building, 113 E. Jessie St.* •Preston Food Shelf, 9am-12pm and 1-4pm, 515 Washington St. NW.* •Senior Strength & Balance Class, 10-10:45am, Spring Valley Community Center. 507-272-3731.* •Senior Strength & Balance Class, 11:30-12:15, Christ Lutheran Church, Preston. 507-272-3731.* •AA Closed Meeting, 12pm, Preston United Methodist Church, 212 St. Anthony St. N., lower level.*

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ester, Angel (Duane) Bakke of Lanesboro, Patty (Eric) Kammer of Chatfield, and Sherman (Christy) Plank of Douglas; seven grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren. She is preceded in death by her husband Jim, son Travis James Plank, three brothers and two sisters.

Her memorial service will be held Tuesday, June 26, 2018, at 1 p.m. at United Methodist Church in Chatfield, with Pastor Debra Jene Collum officiating. Visitation will be held one hour before services at the church. A private family committal will take place at a later date.

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something she shared with everyone she came in contact with. Her favorite subject, though, was her family.

Everyone she considered a friend throughout her life received a basic knowledge and regular updates of her brothers and her son. She had special nicknames for them all, and bragged them to the moon.

Lois is preceded in death by her parents Roy and Madge Slagle, brothers Ronald, Roy (Bud), and Richard Slagle; and former husband Duane Roller. She is survived by brothers Donald (Faley), Myron (Ben), Larry (Bing), and Darrell (Dean) Slagle; son and daughter-in-law Lon and Melody Roller, and grandchildren Bethany and Hunter Zrucky.

Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Thursday, July 5, 2018, at Longville Bible Chapel, Longville, Minn. There will be a brief burial service after the funeral at Riverside Cemetary for those who can attend, followed by a reception hosted by Longville Bible Chapel. The family would like to express special appreciation and thanks to Gunderson Harmony Care Center, for the two years of loving care and support they provided Lois and her family.

Lois “Tilly” Roller Lois “Tilly” (Slagle) Roller passed away June 15, 2018, at the age of 85. Formerly of Longville, Ardith Plank Ardith Plank, 88, of Chatfield, Minn., she lived her passed away on June 18, 2018.

Ardith was born on May 18, final years near family 1930, to in Harmony, Gerold and Minn. Lois Alice (Norwas raised ton) Casler in Longville in Winona, before mov- Lois “Tilly” Minn. She ing to Minattended Rod Starz Roller neapolis to school in A memorial service for Rod complete her education. Lois Starz will be held at Harmony Winona and Ardith Plank loved singing in church with United Methodist Church, Harreceived her the choir and soloing for special mony, Minn., on Saturday, June GED from RCTC. Ardith married James T. Plank events. Her faith in God was 30, 2018, at 11 a.m. on January 31, 1953, in Winona.

The couple honeymooned in the Blue Ridge Mountains; her favor1st Tuesday of every month: ite memory was picking daffodils 50% off everything in the store! along the way.

Ardith worked for Mayo Clinic 3rd Thursday of every month: at the St. Marys Hospital for 19 years as a Unit Assistant in Senior Day - 50% off purchases for those 55 years and older. the Cardiac Surgical Unit. There she was honored with the Karis ThrifT STore Award for clinical care excellence.

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Harmony Historical Society unveils walking tour signs

Cliff Johannessen, Marv Wicks, Mary Lou Zombory, Sharen Storhoff, Ralph Beastrom, and Deb Paulson cut the ribbon for the Harmony Historical Walking Tour.

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The project took well over a year to complete and included extensive research into the history of Harmony. “We were blessed with ladies from the town years ago who documented everything with journals, newspaper clippings, pictures, and more,” Zombory said. Former Harmony resident Ida Johnson kept detailed journals of everyday life in Harmony, which were very useful for the Society members as they researched information for the walking tour signs.

Historical Society Members Sharen Storhoff, Marv Wicks, Ralph Beastrom, and Mary Lou Zombory along with other individuals worked hard to curate the information for the signs. “It was hard picking which things would go on the signs, but we had to narrow it down,” Zombory said.

After the information for each sign was decided on, Zelda Productions of Decorah, Iowa, took care of the graphic design. Ten signs in total were created. Nine of those were 2’ x 3’ sloped signs that were placed strategically at locations in Harmony where the history portrayed on that sign could be visualized. A larger 12’ x 2’ sign showcasing the timeline of the City of Harmony from 1848-2017 was installed at the visitor’s center where the walking tour begins.

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Members of the Historical Society visited the Decorah historical walking tour several times during the span of the project to get tips and ideas for the Harmony project. Harmony has the distinction of being the first town in Minnesota to create its own historical walking tour. That meant that MnDot had to figure what policies and procedures to set up for signage placed on a MnDot right of way. Those policies and procedures can then be applied to future similar projects in other Minnesota cities.

When spring came and it was time to install the signs, the society ran into some more delays with unexpected snowstorms through April. Once the weather finally improved enough to pour the concrete pads, members of the Lions Club helped to install the signs around Harmony. When the signs were up, they were left covered, waiting to be unveiled at the June 16 ribbon cutting.

The day of the ribbon cutting was a beautiful day, albeit hot, and was well-attended. Among the speakers were Representative Greg Davids and Harmony Mayor Steve Donney. “I would like to thank Cliff Johannessen and the whole historical society for putting this project together,” Donney said.

“HAHS (Harmony Area Historical Society) is continuing with efforts to restore the history of Harmony,” Society president Cliff Johannessen said. Their next project is the restoration of the grain elevator that sits beside the visitor’s center.

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By One Stroke, Falcon Girls Golf State Runner-Up

athletes of the week

By Paul Trende Fillmore Central’s six girls golfers each played 36 holes. They each teed-off 36 times. They had countless fairway The shots, r o u g h - Trende s h o t s , Report s a n d shots, c h i p shots, and puts. The Fa l c o n s’ scoring golfers combined Paul Trende for just over 700 total swings.

Lac qui Parle Valley’s six golfers each played 36 holes. They had countless fairway shots, rough-shots, sandshots, chip-shots, and puts. Their scoring golfers combined for just over 700 total golf swings. After two days, some ten hours’ worth of course time, the 2018 Class A state girls golf championship at Pebble Creek Course in Becker came down to a single stroke.

After Day 1, defending champion BOLD (347) led Lac qui Parle Valley (354), Fillmore Central (358), and Park Christian (366). At the turn Day 2, the scores had tightened. It was evident the Falcons, in their fifth straight state meet, were again in the running for the program’s second championship. When all had concluded, the numbers were crunched. Individual scores were super close. The top five finishers were all within four strokes of the lead, the top eight within ten strokes. Lac qui Parle had the Class A state champion, sophomore Rachel Halvorson, who finished atop the leaderboard with a 155 (37, 39, 36, 43). Halvorson had been tied for first after Day

1 with Park Christian’s Emily Doeden (76s).

Fillmore Central was the only school with two girls in the top ten. Five-time state veterans Grace Miller and Madison Scheevel, forever linked in FC girls golf history, for a last time officially did their magic simultaneously, proving themselves Class A’s top duo. Miller, a senior, tied for third place with Doeden (157s). Each athlete was just two strokes off Halvorson’s title pace, one stroke behind Legacy Christian’s second place Sophie Gray (39, 40, 39, 38 > 156). With just one sub-40 score previously at state, Grace went 39, 39, 37, and 42.

It was her best score and finish at state, her fifth top 20 finish, fourth top 10 finish. Eighth grade through junior years, Miller went 184 (tied for 20th), 166 (tied for 6th), 166 (8th), and 167 (tied for 8th). Scheevel wasn’t far behind, taking sixth with a 162. She’d hit sub-40 three times at state previously, but had never been so (low) consistent as 41, 41, 40, and 40. It was her best score and finish at state, her fourth top 20 finish, third top 10 finish. Seventh grader though sophomore years, the junior went 201 (tied for 53rd), 175 (tied for 15th), 165 (7th place), and 168 (10th place). Team-wise, scores were also super close. The four squads atop the leaderboard finished separated by just 12 strokes. By a single stroke, LqPV (714) held off Fillmore Central (715) for the state title, with Park Christian (723) and BOLD (726) taking third and fourth. It was the Falcons’ third second place finish in four years, with a state title coming in 2016. It was their fifth top three finish in the last five years. They now

Grace Miller & Madison scheevel Fillmore Central Golf

have a nice collection of state golf hardware. Cailey Rindels was FC’s third golfer. She went 46, 47, 50, and 50 to post a 193 (tied for 33rd). The senior, in her fourth state competition, was a smidgeon better both in 2016 (190) and 2017 (182). Taylor Bushman was FC’s fourth golfer.

She went 49, 57, 46, and 52 to post a 204 (tied for 49th). The sophomore shot 222 last season.

Bushman had FC’s third score Day 2 (98). Varsity newcomers Keanna Weedman (55, 54, 54, 49 > 212) and Hailey Lange (50, 55, 59, 60 > 224) were FC’s two other competitors. Lange’s 105 was used as FC’s fourth score Day 1. And while a third runner-up isn’t nearly as cool as a second state championship, 2018 confirmed that FC’s girl’s golf program is on the best Class A run in the state. Only BOLD has also made Becker each of the last five years. The teams combined score over that period has FC in the lead by 52 strokes (3,538 to 3,590). At state, FC is the only team the last five years to post two sub-700 scores (692 in 2016, 697 in 2017) and they own four of the top ten lowest team scores.

First with Lane Powell and Aaron Mensink (2014-2017) and now with Mensink and Andy Todd (2017-2018), it’s has been a true dynasty. A 50-person entourage of fans braved the 2½ hour trip to support the small team. But the window may be closing. This will be the first year in FC’s reign where two state-scoring golfers (Miller, Rindels) graduate. And Miller’s been FC’s best the past five years. Scheevel will be a heavy favorite to make Becker alone next year, but from there it’ll take some improvement and/ or some newcomers to take FC to state a sixth straight year. But from Keeley Todd, to Katie Tammel, to Laura Donney, to Tayah Barnes, to Miller and Rindels, always with Scheevel (and others), it’s been a spectacular five years.

Knight Boys Golf Takes on State

Grace Miller (left) and Madison Scheevel (right) are Class A’s top girls’ golfer duo, courtesy of third and sixth place respective finishes at state. See “By One Stroke, Falcon Girls Golf State Runner-Up” for more.

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On the boys’ side, Kingsland took on Pebble Creek Golf in Becker. The state meet probably won. Brent Kohn’s Knights came in as the 7th highest scoring team at sections. They had their work cut out for them to make it a great experience. Kingsland couldn’t keep up with their section pace.

Third time state entrant, senior Simon Broadwater, stayed in the neighborhood of his most previous work at Becker last year (165 > tied for 16th place). Broadwater was the Knights top golfer, going 43, 43, 42, and 41 for a two-day 169. He tied for 32nd place of 85 golfers. The field was better this year than last, as 17 golfers notched under 160 scores. Only eight did so last year. Sleepy Eye United’s Ben Laffen (34, 37, 36, 37 > 144) topped Section 1A champion

Khrystjan Petersen (32, 36, 36, 41 > 145) of Faribault B.A. for the individual state championship. Laffen led Sleepy Eye (641) to a share of the Class-A team title with Mounds Park Academy (641). Kingsland (765), in its first ever state meet as team double-K, finished in 8th place (of 8). The Knights other four golfers, Wyatt Pruter (44, 49, 55, 39 > 187), Nick Wernimont (49, 50, 54, 47 > 200), Nathan Lund (47, 58, 56, 54 > 215), and Gregg Hubka (50, 75, 52, 51 > 228) all finished in the bottom third of the field. The Knights as a team were 70 strokes better at the Section 1A meet, when they posted a 695. Broadwater was 11 strokes better (158), Pruter 23 strokes better (164), Wernimont 19 strokes better (181), and Lund 23 strokes better (192). A 695 at state would’ve put them in fifth place.

Trojan Baseball Loses Two at State

The run is over. RushfordPeterson’s memorable 2018 baseball season was destined to end on either June 15 or June 16.

The Trojans hoped for the 16th (state title game at Target Field).

Instead, R-P played a game in Chaska, then a game in Jordan.

Miscues were an issue, though it was not just a Trojan problem. R-P (1A Champion, 15-8) first took on tournament 3-seed South Ridge (7A Champion, 19-5) at Chaska Athletic Park.

The critical inning was the third.

In a 1-1 game, the Trojans got a “K” for the third out, but Riley Kinsley reached on passed ball.

With runners on the corners, Mason Lane then had the biggest hit of the contest, a 2-run double. Matt Clark followed with an RBI-double. South Ridge took a 4-1 lead. They added a run in the fourth. R-P had just one hit over its final 11 batters, just four hits total, and fell 5-1. They got their only run via a Payton Hahn bases loaded fielder’s choice RBI, scoring Jake Paulson (second inning). Starting pitcher Shawn Marg was 2-for-3 but took the loss on the mound (4 IP, 7 H, 5 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 4 K). Nick Carlson (7 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 6 K) took the win without yielding an earned run. He also went 1-for-2 with an RBI and a run. Lane (2-3, 2B, 2 RBI, R), Joey Janke (2-4, SB, R), Logan Young (1-3, RBI, R), Clark (1-3, 2B, R), and Kinsley (0-3, R) produced for the Panthers. R-P out-errored South Ridge 4 to 2.

The Trojans then moved into the consolation bracket, games at the nearby Mini-Met in Jordan. The Trojans took on a familiar foe, Hinckley-Finlayson (5A Champion, 14-5). The teams met in the consolation final in basketball. A game highlighted by errors came down to the at bat. H-F put up two in the first, R-P two in the fourth. In the bottom of the sixth, the Jaguars used a hit, a stolen base, a throwing error, and another hit to plate two.

The Trojans trailed 4-2 heading to the top of seven. Landon Skalet’s RBI-triple scored Seth Heiden, making it 4-3. With two out, Ben Ansell reached on an error with Skalet scoring the tying run (4-4). After another error and a walk loaded the bases, Carter Weidemann authored a 2-run single that made it 6-4.

The Trojans got four runs in the inning off two hits and two errors, albeit, they left the bases juiced. Jordan Aug’s club was three outs away from the consolation final (5th place game).

But then three of H-F’s first four batters in the bottom of the seventh reached on Trojan errors. A pair of runs scored, tying the game 6-6. Still, two fly-outs had R-P one out away from extras. But pinch-hitter Brady Johnson (in the nine-hole) singled to right field, scoring the game-winning run, Travis Visser from second base. The Jaguars prevailed 7-6. Marg (2-3) again had two hits. Weidemann (1-4) had 3 RBIs. Skalet (1-3, 3B, R) and Halen Schwendinger (0-2) also had RBIs. Ansell (1-4, 2 R), Dawson Dahl (0-3, 2 R), and Heiden also scored runs. Ansell (2/3 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 0 ER) took the loss, Mueller (6 IP, 8 H, 4 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 2 K) a no decision.

Adam Bridenstine (1/3 IP) took the win, Ryan Stafne (6 2/3 IP, 5 H, 6 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 3 K) the no decision. Chayne Dunkley was 4-for-4 (RBI, two 2B, 2 R) to lead the H-F bats. Visser (1-4) drove in two while Trevor Johnson (1-4) scored twice. The game had ten total errors with just five of the 13 total runs earned. R-P’s season ends at 15-10. It was a great run for seniors Dahl, Ansell, Marg, Paulson, Hahn, Keegan Dittman, and Sam Schwendinger. Dahl, Paulson, and junior Landon Skalet pull the hat trick. They play on state teams in football (2017), basketball (2018), and baseball (2018), a feat rarely performed in the Fillmore County Sports era.

Only former teammate Noah Carlson had previously done so (unofficially), as he went in track and field (2013-2016), basketball (2014, 2015), and football (2016). Chatfield watched its football, wrestling, and baseball teams go to state during the 2013-2014 school year, though no Gopher played on all three teams.

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A pair of individuals took on the state Class A golf meet in Becker. Fillmore Central’s Carter Nevalainen went 44, 45, 46, and 43 to post a 178 and tie for 51st overall (of 85). The senior shot a 163 at sections. Nevalainen played Becker as a freshman with FC’s 2015 Section 1A champion team, posting a 180 (50, 41, 42, 47). Nevalainen was coached by Brad Holten. Lanesboro’s Janell Boyum went 49, 52, 57, and 52 to post a 210, tying for 57th overall (of 85). The senior posted a 194 at sections. Boyum was coached by Krissy Overland.

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Chatfield Schools receive high technology scores

By Mary L. Allen The Chatfield School Board met on June 19, 2018, in the art room at the high school. Board members present were Scott Backer, Amy Jeffers, Katie Priebe and Matt McMahon along with Superintendent Harris, Administrative Assistant Lorri Lowrey, and Technology Integration Specialist Kristi Cook. Board member Lanny Isensee was not present.

Reports Kristi Cook, technology integration specialist, reported on the Spring Clarity Survey that is done every year to assess the technical skills of teachers and students in technology. The survey showed that Chatfield’s classrooms are on the high end of the proficiency scale. Kristi said that this score was up 50 points from last year and gave credit to the teachers and students who are continuing to improve these skills. Areas that she will focus on for the 2018-19 school year are digital citizenship and increasing the 4 Cs in the classroom.

Digital citizenship is teaching students to be safe online and cautioning students about sharing information online. She has worked with third grad-

ers on this concept and hopes to add the upper elementary grades this year. The 4 Cs in technology are Creativity, Collaboration, Critical Thinking and Communication and she will be teaching them throughout the technology curriculum.

This summer she is working on preparing the new iPads for teachers, training teachers on Schoology, preparing a video for parents on Schoology, and other technical issues to get ready for the next school year.

Superintendent Harris updated the board on the Finance and Facilities Committee meeting that was held on June 7. The preliminary budget projects a $280,000 deficit for the 2019 school year because state money continues to fall short of the annual inflationary cost increases and enrollment remains flat.

The district will be focused on cost controls and opportunistic saving for the 2019 school year. Depending on the outcome of the finalization of the 2019 budget, budget cuts for subsequent years may need to be explored. Operating Capital and Long Term Facility Maintenance fund balances are sound.

Since the pool will be removed from its present site, he is working with Wendel Companies on a site survey and recommendation for parking lot and traffic pattern changes to this area.

Additional revenue for facility projects may be seen from the sale of dark fiber (fiber optic) that the district no longer has use for. The construction budget has an estimated $250,000 surplus that the committee recommended using $140,000 for additional facility and equipment items. These items were for safety, security and site improvement. The rest of the surplus will be reserved until after the new construction is occupied. Because these monies were bonded specifically for new construction, they must be used for this purpose.

There was a long list of consent items in part because the new fiscal year of 2018-19 starts in July. Under consent items the board approved Karyl Lyon, business manager, as designee to wire transfers, excess funds and bond payments, The Chatfield News as the official newspaper, Ratwick, Rozak, Maloney and Bartel as official legal counsel,

and the authorization for the treasurer to approve end of year bills. The official district depositories are the Root River Sate Bank, Minnesota Liquid Asset Funds and F and M Community Bank (Alice Groen Trust Account). The superintendent and business manager were designated as district representatives and school board meetings will be the third Monday of each month at 7 p.m. in the high school media center with some exceptions on legal holidays. Hires approved were Greg Silha, summer weight room supervisor; Kelsey Gwidt, ninth grade volleyball coach; Matt Mauseth, high school special education teacher and reading teacher, and Kiya Virgin, SADD co-advisor.

The annual reading of district policies of Family and Medical Leave and Health and Safety were reviewed only with no changes. The first reading of the Crisis Management Policy will be reviewed for the next meeting and the second reading of four policies was approved.

Under new business, the food service contract was renewed for one year with no increase

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in lunch prices. A resolution for establishing dates for filing affidavits of candidacy for the next school board election were approved. Board member Matt McMahon encouraged others to file and run for the school board. Approval of donations and grants of $28,711.27 for the 2017-18 school year was given. The policy for early entrance to kindergarten was officially approved by the board.

There have been guidelines and procedures previously used by administrators that will continue with board approval. The 2018-19 school year budget was approved. Superintendent Harris showed a spread sheet of each fund. The General Fund shows a small fund deficit as discussed earlier. The Food Service and Community Education have a positive fund balance. Other funds approved from the General Fund were the Construction Fund, Debt Service, and the Trust Fund.

The meeting was adjourned with a reminder that school board meetings are at 7 p.m. the third Monday of each month at the high school. Summer office hours are Monday through Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The office will be closed July2-6.

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State gains 10,200 jobs in May Unemployment rate drops to 3.1% ST. PAUL – Minnesota employers added 10,200 jobs in May, according to seasonally adjusted figures released today by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED).

With those gains, the state has added 29,188 jobs in the past year, a 1% growth rate. The U.S. rate of job growth during that period was 1.7%.

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Professional and business services led all sectors last month with 2,700 new jobs. Other sectors adding jobs were leisure and hospitality (up 2,200), construction (up 1,600), trade, transportation and utilities (up 1,500), manufacturing (up 1,400), other services (up 900), government (up 300), information (up 100) and logging and mining (up 100). Financial activities was steady.

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government (up 5,804), trade, transportation and utilities (up 4,986), education and health services (up 4,463), leisure and hospitality (up 2,979), construction (up 2,898), professional and business services (up 2,072), information (up 133) and other services (up 12).

Two industries lost jobs in the past 12 months: financial activities (down 188) and logging and mining (down 34).

In the Metropolitan Statistical Areas, four regions gained jobs over the past 12 months: Minneapolis-St. Paul MSA (up 1.5 percent), Duluth-Superior MSA (up 0.9%), St. Cloud MSA (up

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Courrier ~ Scaife Rebecca Courrier and Frederick Scaife will be married on June 30, 2018, in La Crosse Wis. Their parents are Bryce and Barbara Courrier and James and Tara Scaife, all of Rushford.

Becky is a graduate of Winona State University and works as a videographer. Fred is a graduate of Luther College and works as a vocal educator.

Lt. Chelsea Larro Lt. Chelsea R. Larro, U.S. Navy, embedded in the U.S. Marine Corp 1st Division as their mental health provider, was recently presented the Meritorious Service Medal.

She is the daughter of Candy and Ralph Larro of Preston.

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The dedication and genuine professional care Lt. Larro has provided to management, regular engagement with the Marines and Sailors and wise counsel to Company and Battalion leadership contributed immensely to mission accomplishement. She personally oversaw mental health outreach programs including force preservation representation, Command advisement and crisis management. Her efforts have directly impacted the Marines and Sailors in the command, ulitimately ensuring they received proper care and mitigating the potential suicides. Her commitment to readiness reduced clinical wait times, disposition time and operation impact of mental health treatment requirements. She augmented the skillful execution of a unified mental health approach between hospital and operational providers. This resulted in an increased understanding of mental health by the Unit Commanders, which allowed them to make critical decision on the welfare of the Marines and Sailors. She exudes professional competence and cultural assimilation with the Marine Corps values to include becoming one of four licensed clinical social workers with a fleet Marine force qualification. The exeptional profession abiblity, steadfast initiative and selfless dedication to duty exhibited by Lt. Larro reflected great credit upon her and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.”

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Katie is a 2008 graduate of Lanesboro High School and a 2013 graduate of Winona State University. She is employed in the financial aid office at Winona State University and during the summer months is also employed at Emil Farqart’s in Lanesboro.

David is a 2003 graduate of Fillmore Central High School and a 2007 graduate of Winona State University. He is employed

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He is also a basketball official during the winter months.

The couple will be married on July 7, 2018, at Greenleafton Reformed Church in rural Preston.

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The Lenora United Methodist Church is on the National Register of Historic Buildings.

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USDA resumes continuous conservation reserve program enrollment As part of a 33-year effort to protect sensitive lands and improve water quality and wildlife habitat on private lands, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will resume accepting applications for the voluntary Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).

Eligible farmers, ranchers, and private landowners can sign up at their local Farm Service Agency (FSA) office between June 4 and Aug. 17, 2018.

“The Conservation Reserve Program is an important component of the suite of voluntary conservation programs USDA makes available to agricultural producers, benefiting both the land and wildlife. On the road, I often hear firsthand how popular CRP is for our recre-

ational sector; hunters, fishermen, conservationists and bird watchers,” U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said.

“CRP also is a powerful tool to encourage agricultural producers to set aside unproductive, marginal lands that should not be farmed to reduce soil erosion, improve water quality, provide habitat for wildlife and boost soil health.”

FSA stopped accepting applications last fall for the CRP continuous signup (excluding applications for the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) and CRP grasslands). This pause allowed USDA to review available acres and avoid exceeding the 24 million-acre CRP cap set by the 2014 Farm Bill. New lim-

ited practice availability and short sign up period helps ensure that landowners with the most sensitive acreage will enroll in the program and avoid unintended competition with new and beginning farmers seeking leases. CRP enrollment currently is about 22.7 million acres.

2018 Signup for CRP For this year’s signup, limited priority practices are available for continuous enrollment.

They include grassed waterways, filter strips, riparian buffers, wetland restoration and others. View a full list of practices at www.fsa.usda.gov/programsand-services/conservation-programs/conservation-reserve-program/crp-continuous-enrollment/ index.

FSA will use updated soil rental rates to make annual rental payments, reflecting current values. It will not offer incentive payments as part of the new signup.

USDA will not open a gen-

eral signup this year, however, a one-year extension will be offered to existing CRP participants with expiring CRP contracts of 14 years or less.

Producers eligible for an extension will receive a letter with more information.

CRP Grasslands Additionally, FSA established new ranking criteria for CRP Grasslands. To guarantee all CRP grasslands offers are treated equally, applicants who previously applied will be asked to reapply using the new ranking criteria. Producers with pending applications will receive a letter providing the options.

About CRP In return for enrolling land in CRP, USDA, through FSA on behalf of the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), provides participants with annual rental payments and cost-share assistance. Landowners enter into contracts that last between 10 and 15 years. CRP pays producers who remove sensitive lands

from production and plant certain grasses, shrubs and trees that improve water quality, prevent soil erosion and increase wildlife habitat.

Signed into law by President Reagan in 1985, CRP is one of the largest private-lands conservation programs in the United States. Thanks to voluntary participation by farmers, ranchers and private landowners, CRP has improved water quality, reduced soil erosion and increased habitat for endangered and threatened species.

The new changes to CRP do not impact the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program, a related program offered by CCC and state partners.

Producers wanting to apply for the CRP continuous signup or CRP grasslands should contact their USDA service center.

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The Commonweal Theatre, located in historic downtown Lanesboro, will hold a special ceremony on Saturday, July 7 at 11 a.m. to unveil a vertical banner which will hang from the Manion Law office building directly south of the theatre. The creation and unveiling of the banner is the culmination of a successful collabora-

tion between the theatre company and the Lanesboro Public Schools art classes headed up

by Stena Lieb. In honor of the Commonweal’s 30th season, Lanesboro students designed and produced original theatrical masks using the inspiration of the popular Greek tragedy and comedy masks. The student’s masks currently hang in

Great Lanesboro Sing-in on June 30 to benefit Legion We all know that singing people are happy people. So come and sing with us on Saturday, June 30 at the Great Lanesboro Sing-in (AKA the Beer Choir), from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. or so. It will be at the Community Center, located on Highway 250 close to

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the center of Lanesboro. No one has to sing “purdy,” just sing loud!

Doug and Linda Johnson and Kathy Abrahamson will provide the accompaniment. Words to the oldies and not so old goodies, and some patriotic songs for an early start to 4th of July. Words

the Events Hall of the theatre and each appears on the banner which will be a permanent fixture on the Manion building.

The July 7 unveiling event and will be attended by Ms. Lieb as well as attorney Tom Manion. There is no charge to attend and all are welcome, including Lanesboro Schools art students and their families. to the music will be furnished.

Admission is a $5 or more donation. Pulled pork sandwiches, coleslaw, and chips will be $7 and a dessert bar is $1. There will also be a cash bar.

All proceeds from the event will go towards redoing the tuckpointing of the Legion’s National Historic Register 1873 building.

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sheet (EAW) has been extended to July 3 at 4:30 p.m. Cathy Rotshus, MPCA information officer, noted the capacity crowd was a record for a public meeting, which was being held at the request of local citizens.

Rotshus made it clear that this is not a public hearing, comments will not be part of the record or be considered in the decision making process unless the comments are submitted in writing. She said the public’s comments are important to us.

The EAW is a look into the potential impact to human and environmental health. It is used to decide if a more in-depth EIS is necessary. The general animal feedlot National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit sets up certain conditions. These conditions can not be changed at this point.

Charles Peterson, responsible for EAW review, explained the review process is normally 30 days, but due to citizen requests it has been extended for a total of 53 days. Written comments from citizens during the review process are part of the official record and are public information. Three hundred comment letters have already been received on this project. After the comment period, the MPCA reviews the comments, responds in writing to each comment, and then considers the need for an EIS. Considerations include the type

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of facility, the extent and reversibility of environmental effects, and potential cumulative effects.

No permits are issued until the environmental review is complete.

The applicant may be asked for additional information at the end of the comment period.

Mark Gernes, permit writer and environmental specialist, explained the process when an application is received: the staff reviews and studies liquid manure storage and specifications, the manure management plan, emergency response, and mortality management.

There are three ways for the public to participate: informational meeting, request contested case hearing, and written comments.

The EAW process must be complete before issuing a feedlot permit. MPCA continues to provide oversight during construction and does on site inspections. If conditions are not met, the MPCA has enforcement authority.

Citizen comments Over 30 people made their way to the microphone to express their concerns or to ask questions.

Citizens making comments were of all ages ranging from 15 to senior citizens. All comments were limited to three minutes. There was a question about requesting a public hearing before the Citizens Advisory Board. Rotshus said that board no longer exists, the legislature disbanded it.

Note from this reporter; I will refer to people that made comments by their first name only,

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in most cases, and I apologize for misspellings.

Asher, 15, said he would like to continue to breath clean air and drink clean water.

Mrs. Louis questioned whether there is an aquifer under the proposed site? She was concerned about the volume of water use.

Nitrate levels already are high in the area, water already polluted.

Ginger wanted to know what sinkholes are not listed. Who pays when my well is contaminated and needs to be dug deeper?

Steve asked who here is in favor of the facility? Clearly, the crowd was overwhelmingly in favor of an EIS and not in favor of construction of what was referred to as a “factory farm.” He suggested that the concentration of hogs and the manure produced would lead to an ammonia cloud, increasing lung diseases. “Does corporate America have the right to pollute rural America?” Scale matters, we shouldn’t be a dumping ground for Chinese pork.

Sabena maintained an EIS is reasonable.

Bonnie, Section 24, Canton Township, insisted there were mistakes in the EAW. This large of facility is too concentrated for the karst region. She repeated a statement she had heard, “the solution to pollution is dilution.”

Janene said she had photographs of the 2009 flood that shows water flowing through a field where manure from this facility is to be spread, which ran on through her property to

Wiesel Creek.

Brigetta, a science teacher at North Winneshiek School, said her concern is child health. She maintained there are peer review studies that link hog confinements to higher child asthma rates.

Eva, Wykoff, expressed her concern about antibiotic residues left in the soil.

Kevin said he was concerned about how water quality from a shallow well would be affected.

Matt spoke in favor of the hog facility. He said we have built two hog confinement facilities and haven’t had many complaints.

Speaking of manure application, manure is injected. The last thing we want is leeching.

Mark Gernes, MPCA permit writer, explained that in certain situations manure is required to be injected. This application calls for injection or immediate incorporation.

Vance, Section 24, Canton Township, runs a commercial dairy farm. He said he is pro-ag, but is concerned about ground water with this facility. With the karst features, sinkholes can form quickly.

Gernes replied that we do require identification of these features: sinkholes, intermittent streams. There are setback requirements.

Dane, apple orchard in Preston, said he had nothing against conventional farming, adding his main concern is the karst geology.

Requiring an EIS is reasonable.

Karl recalled the spill of a mil-

lion gallons of manure in 2013 from a manure pit that failed in Fillmore County. It was about one-quarter of the size of the proposed pits.

Steve Schmidt, MPCA feedlot compliance enforcement, said that pit was not permitted by the MPCA, but by county feedlot officer. He acknowledged that the manure spilled likely made its way to the Root River; it was a catastrophe. It was an open top pit; the manure pits in this project are under the barns and supported from inside. A tile line around them will be required to be checked monthly for any manure. Later there was a question about any penalty for the spill. Schmidt said there was no penalty because the failure was due to “an act of God,” a rainfall event that exceeded a 25-year storm event.

Don, Pilot Mound, noted there are North Carolina law suits against hog facilities. Rotshus maintained that Minnesota’s standards are more stringent than North Carolina’s.

Dayna said we raise hogs on pasture and woods. Her greatest worry was the potential for a sinkhole to open up under the manure pits. It is clear this facility will have an environmental impact; an EIS is reasonable. Who pays for a ruined well and what about the effect on property values.

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grandchildren to get an EIS. Loni, two miles from proposed project, asked who is Catalpa LLC? Who is responsible for compliance?

Dan Dykstra, assistant general manager of Waukon Feed Ranch, Inc., stepped forward to answer those questions. Waukon Feed Ranch provides agricultural products and services which include swine management. Catalpa LLC is majority owned by Al Hein’s family. The site of the facility is below his home. Minority share holders include the Feed Ranch which is being hired by Catalpa as

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a general contractor and to manage the facility. Holden Farms provides the sows and contracts Waukon Feed Ranch and/or Catalpa to raise their pigs. The baby pigs are to be weaned at 22 days and shipped into the Holden Farms system. They are not to be finished near the sow facility in order to maintain biosecurity.

There was a statement from a woman claiming there is no formal way to submit complaints.

Rotshus maintained complaints can be submitted anonymously to MPCA. Call (800) 422-0798.

When complaints are received we will go out and investigate.

Pam, a pastor, insisted an EIS for a factory farm is needed to

protect family owned businesses, tourism, and fishing.

Charles asked how manure is transported and if manure produced by baby pigs is taken into account?

Jeff Bauman, project consultant, explained manure will primarily be transported through hoses using pumps. The use of manure tankers for transport was not ruled out. It is possible to move manure six to seven miles through hoses with pumps. Sows are expected to produce 2.5 litters of baby pigs per year, expecting to wean an average of 12 pigs per litter.

Sue, Section 21, Newburg Township, lives on a small farm.

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She sighted the hilly topography and the fragile, fractured bedrock. It makes no sense to have this concentration of pigs. Injected manure will still filter into the ground water. She suggested this facility will keep people from coming into the area, which could increase tax base and strengthen communities. An EIS is needed.

Jennifer, Fillmore County, insisted that a lot of well water is already contaminated. She expressed even greater concern for the growth of antibiotic resistant infections.

Calvin, a professor emeritus at the U of Minnesota, karst geology expert, said he keeps a data base on sinkholes. He asked people to send him maps that show where sinkholes and springs are on their property. An EIS is needed to provide more data. Sinkholes form naturally or can be induced by human activity.

Mark, Niagara Cave, said he had multiple concerns. Even when manure is knifed in it doesn’t stay where it was put. Within hours after a rainfall manure can be smelled in the cave well below the surface. An EIS is definitely necessary.

Harvey, Harmony, said we are all in this together.

Oliver, near Canton, as humans we try to advance. Put down your greed, understand other people are here.

Jenny felt the information on manure transport was not clear in the EAW. Martin, environmental educa-

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tor from a sixth generation farm in Olmsted County, belongs to a caving club. He has seen manure in caves. He said with karst expect the unexpected. We stand up as farmers as socially and environmentally responsible.

Robert, Harmony, graduated from Mabel high school in 1947.

My problem is with the size of the operation.

Mark, farm north of Mabel which is 1.25 miles from the proposed site of the facility, asked how old is the data, noting weather patterns have changed since 2000.

In good conscience how can the MPCA not order an EIS? Gernes, MPCA, said the data age depends on information; the U of Minnesota makes management change recommendations.

The permit is a five-year permit and is reviewed every five years.

Peterson, MPCA, said they use the most recent five years of meteorological data (2011-2016) and data which has been gathered closest to the site.

Rotshus reminded people that tonight is not your only opportunity to ask questions. Several that commented at this event were encouraged to submit their comments in writing. Written comments will be accepted either by email at mark.p.gernes@state. mn.us or mailed to Mark Gernes at MPCA, 18 Wood Lake Dr. SE, Rochester, Minn. 55904. For more information on the permit, call Gernes at (507) 206-2643.

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Rushford Village waits on Benson Lane project; approves platting plan

Rushford Village Council approved new platting for an existing cemetery in South Rushford. Pictured (L-R) are Mayor Gordon Johnson, Councilor Chad Rasmussen, Zoning Administrator Jon Pettit, and Councilors Dennis Overland and Mike Ebner.

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By Kirsten Zoellner At the June 5 Rushford Village Council meeting, Mayor Gordon Johnson stated his reluctance to spend $150,000200,000 for the Benson Lane Project, currently in the engineering phase. Johnson questioned the idea of redirecting water, prior the problem crossing and the council opted to see what other options, with cost analysis, may be available other than installation of large culverts.

At the June 19 meeting, the issue was brought up again.

“Benson Lane has been quiet.

He [Engineer Derek Olinger of Bolton & Menk] read about it in the paper and he was pretty nervous,” responded Public Works Supervisor Travis Scheck.

Johnson clarified that the concern lay with the council moving ahead with some alterations prior to consulting the

city engineer and Department of Natural Resources. According to Johnson, Olinger indicated that costs will continue to come down and that the project was estimated on the high side in case of any issues. “We wouldn’t just go doing something in haste, but $150,000 is a lot to spend on this type of project,” added Johnson.

Johnson asked the council to consider the possibility of a ponding area upstream that would slow the flow of water to the Benson Lane crossing.

Zoning Administrator Jon Pettit indicated he’d done something similar on his personal property and was able to work with Fillmore County Soil and Water Conservation District.

Pettit’s project was funded on a 75/25 cost share and that he was required to use their engineering plans.

The properties adjacent to the

crossing are owned by Mike Eidenschink and the State of Minnesota, along with a handful of residents who access their properties by way of the crossing.

“This thing overtops all the time now. It’s always going to be a struggle,” said Johnson.

“Is there anything we could do?

I have no clue, but maybe it’s something we could explore.

City Attorney Tom Manion suggested the city collaborate with property owners. “There’s a possibility of significantly downsizing the project,” added Johnson.

In other news, the council heard from eight area residents regarding new platting of the Oak Wood Cemetery, which sits atop a hill, just south of Highway 16 in south Rushford. The cemetery has permitted access via the State of Minnesota right of way. A private road from the

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“The platting looks excellent.

It looks to be very well done,” noted Johnson.

The council questioned who had maintenance responsibility of the road, but it was noted that the maintenance issue was separate from the request for new platting. The Planning and Zoning Committee has reviewed the request and recommended approval to the city council.

The council approved the request for replatting. The documents will go to the county auditor’s office first, then to the recorder’s office for final approval.

The council considered amendments to ordinances regarding “jake braking” and mowing of negligent properties. Approval for the installation of signs prohibiting engine braking was granted. Signs will be placed on state highway locations approved

by Minnesota Department of Transportation with enforcement done by the Fillmore County Sheriff’s Department and State Trooper officers.

Manion suggested the city adopt staged penalties for first, second, and third offense, indicating all three could involve hefty fines with the third offense potentially including a court hearing. Official adoption of the

changes and details of fines will be addressed at a later date.

The cities current mowing ordinance provides for the sending of a letter to negligent properties, with 10 days to rectify unmowed grass exceeding eight inches. The council considered whether or not the council needed to send a letter for each offense or if a letter should be sent for the first offense and simply mowed each time after that it exceeds the maximum height.

Manion had concern for this option, as it could put the city in a position of contracted maintenance. Instead, he suggested the city remove the 10-day option, instead having the city send a letter and mow the property immediately. It was further suggested that the city could skip sending a letter at all and mow properties, at the owner’s expense, any time grass growth exceeded eight inches. City ordinances are posted and therefore should be “known.”

“Ignorance is no excuse,” said Manion.

The policy will be reviewed by Manion and proposed changes presented at the next council meeting for approval. It was also specified that the ordinance changes will affect both residential and commercial properties within Rushford Village limits.

The next regularly scheduled council meeting is Tuesday, July 3, at 7 p.m., at the Village Hall.

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FILLMORE COUNTY JOURNAL

Monday, June 25, 2018

County awarded funds The Minnesota State SetAside Committee for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) has recommended $2,800 be awarded to Fillmore County for Phase 35. These Federal funds are

awarded by the Department of Homeland Security-FEMA and used to provide emergency food and shelter to people in need of them. The local board is made up of Workforce Development, churches,

Semcac, Human Services, and other interested organizations.

The local board determines how the funds are to be distributed among emergency food and shelter programs run by local service organizations in the area. Under the terms of the grant from the National Board, local governmental or

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for-profit. Qualifying organizations may apply by July 2.

Anyone wishing more information about the Emergency Food and Shelter Program and how to apply for funding should contact Wendy Todd, Semcac, P.O. Box 549, Rushford, Minn. 55971-0549, (507) 864-7741.

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FILLMORE COUNTY JOURNAL

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Last month, Board Director Julie Koop tendered her resignation, effective following the June meeting.

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The lengthy meeting agenda also covered a number of other items including review of quotes and provider selection for Property & Liability Insurance and Worker’s Compensation Insurance. Superintendent Chuck Ehler indicated that the district had received three quotes for Property & Liability coverage from Vaaler, FMC, and CO Brown Insurance companies and that coverage needs to be in place by July 1.

Board Director Dean Mierau, who sits on the Insurance Committee, expressed a desire to see the quotes run through the committee prior to getting board approval. “You knew this was coming for three years, Chuck. That’s why we have a committee,” said Mierau.

Ehler noted running the quotes through the committee first wouldn’t alter the quote figures and the board is now under a time constraint.

“We shouldn’t deviate from the process,” responded Mierau, who made a motion to run the quotes through the committee first. It was seconded by Board Director Jon Pettit. The motion was defeated in a vote with Directors Valerie Howe, Joyce Iverson, and Bonnie Prinsen opposed. Board Chairman John Linder was absent. A motion to accept the Vaaler quote for Property & Liability and the CO Brown quote for Worker’s Compensation was seconded and approved in a 3:2 vote.

Upon voting, current district insurance agent Butch Johnson came forward to address the board directly. “I’m going to interrupt the meeting because I need to show you guys some Agent of Record letters,” said Johnson. Ehler attempted to stop the interruption, noting the time for public comment was at the beginning of the meeting.

Johnson contended that Ehler did not have the right to sign a release of information to seek quotes from the specified companies due to his standing as Agent of Record with the district until June 30, 2018.

The letter, dated June 5, 2017, and signed by Ehler and Board Chairman John Linder, allows Johnson to bring the district’s insurance needs to potential insurance providers and secure quotes for those district.

By Ehler providing letters to the insurance providers, giving a release of information, Johnson says he was blocked from being the first agent to those companies to secure provider quotes. “You’re not an insurance broker, Chuck,” said Johnson.

After allowing Johnson’s comments, Ehler maintained that he was given false information regarding his authority to release the information. “I wasn’t aware that’s how that works,” said Ehler.

[NOTE: Ehler clarified on June 20, in an email, “The school district has the ability

and right to change an AOR (Agent of Record) at any time. It is a standard practice in the insurance business to submit letters to an AOR to secure quotes.” Ehler cites Amy Dedrich of Marsh & McLennan Agency and Gary Lee at the Minnesota School Board Association for providing the clarification to the district.]

“What we have right here is no good,” added Mierau, noting that quotes were previously sealed and opened for review by the Insurance Committee.

Directors Howe and Prinsen questioned why Johnson waited until after the board had approved new insurance to bring up the issue, rather than in midMay when he was blocked from getting quotes from providers.

Johnson maintained that until the board approved the quotes, he wasn’t aware of the presented bids to the same insurance providers he’d sought.

Prinsen further noted that the district has made effort in the past to use local agents. “I think we’ve done that, continue to do that, and have done that in this case. On the other hand, we’re stewards of funds and we need to look for the best product for the best price. I feel like that’s part of our responsibility as board members.”

Johnson recommended the district to rescind the May 8 Agent of Record letter Ehler provided to Vaaler, allowing Johnson to fulfill getting quotes from all providers before moving forward with a decision.

The board voted unanimously to rescind the earlier motion.

Following the vote, the board unanimously approved the Worker’s Compensation quote for CO Brown.

The Insurance Committee, made up of Mierau, Linder, and Ehler, will meet to discuss quotes Thursday, June 28, at 5 p.m. If needed, Board Director Joyce Iverson will stand in for committee member John Linder. Following the committee meeting, there will be a special school board meeting, to begin at 5:30 p.m. in

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the Forum Room to allow the board will vote on an Property & Liability provider prior to the July 1 deadline.

In other board action, the board has approved a contract with Bernard Bus Service to equip all school buses with cameras. The contract, provided through Telin Transportation Services, of Farmington, includes the installation of eight cameras, as well as hard drives, docking stations, and required equipment. The cost is $9,798. The district will provided $5,000 of the cost, while Bernard Bus Service will pay the remainder.Should the district change transportation providers in the future, Bernard Bus Service will retain ownership of the cameras and equipment.

A number of personnel changes, policy readings, budgetary revisions and adoptions were also board approved, as were contracts for Community Education Director Lisa Lawston, Early ChildhoodElementary Principal Angela Shepard, Middle School/High School Principal Jake Timm.

Also approved were a Lead In Water Management Plan, the annual Q-Comp Report, and a revised cooperative agreement with Houston School District for Boys and Girls Track and Field.

The district has received confirmation that a cooperative application for a Safe Routes to School Grant has been denied a fourth time. The application was submitted jointly by the district and the City of Rushford for installation of sidewalks along Pine Meadows Lane, leading from Highway 43 to the new school. Quotes for the district to install the six-foot wide sidewalk, on the south side of Pine Meadows Lane, will be presented at the July meeting.

Also expected at the July meeting is discussion of the trapshooting team, specifically costs related to it, and consideration of hiring a school nurse.

The next regularly scheduled school board meeting is Monday, July 16, at 5:30 p.m., in the Forum Room. The public is encouraged to attend.

Current Insurance Agent Butch Johnson interrupted the board meeting, following a vote that was eventually rescinded, regarding his standing as Agent of Record. Pictured, left to right, are Board Director and Vice-chair Joyce Iverson, Administrative Assistant Laura Hahn, Superintendent Chuck Ehler, Johnson, and Board Director Bonnie Prinsen.

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Monday, June 25, 2018

The FCJ reaches over 13,000 households each week.

Planning Commission continues discussion of commercial solar power systems Karen Reisner At the June 14 meeting of the Fillmore County Planning Commission, a proposed Renewable Energy Ordinance and the regulation of large commercial solar power systems dominated the discussion. The countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current ordinance does not regulate commercial solar power systems.

At the commissionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last meeting in May representatives of Tradewind Energy, a Kansas based for profit renewable energy company, said the process to establish and finally construct a large solar project takes 3-5 years. Their legal advisor recommended several revisions to the ordinance under consideration.

County attorney Brett Corson has reviewed the revisions that were recommended.

Duane Bakke suggested that allowing for 3-5 years should be a condition of a permit issued by the county rather than in its ordinance. Usually, all state and/or federal permits and other issues are dealt with before coming to the local government for a permit.

The Tradewind representative suggested Fillmore County was ideal for a 50 megawatt solar project. About 500 acres would need to be leased for a 50 megawatt solar power system.

Trinity Johnson asked how can we take 500 acres of productive

agricultural land out of production? Zoning administrator Cristal Adkins noted that 500 acres amount to one-half of one percent of the tillable acres in Fillmore County.

Besides permitting and leasing land, the company would need a signed agreement to allow it to connect into the electrical grid. High voltage transmission lines capable of handling this power source run east to west along the southern part of the county.

Andy Bisek maintained we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let people build houses on productive agricultural land. Adkins noted, in the current ordinance, the only prohibition on agricultural land is the construction of a house.

Bisek said he would rather see commercial solar than wind. Bakke said he likes solar, but it is a size thing; I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like the size being proposed.

Johnson admitted the tax it generates could help the county. The Tradewind representative stated last meeting that a 50 megawatt system could generate $100,000 in property taxes, of which 80% would go to the county and the rest to the township or city.

Bakke suggested that EDA director Marty Walsh be directed to do some research regarding commercial solar. There was some concern about the poten-

tial number of commercial solar projects that may be proposed.

Bakke wanted to know how many could connect to that high voltage transmission line?

SSTS Public Hearing Set There will be a public hearing on Section 803, Sale or Transfer of Real Estate (1) Compliance Inspection, at the July 12 planning commission meeting.

Revisions to the ordinance will be discussed. Part of the language reads: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Subsurface sewage treatment system (SSTS) inspection must be completed before real estate is sold or transferred.â&#x20AC;? Seller is responsible for inspection unless buyer and seller agree in writing for the buyer to have that responsibility.

Adkins said most of the changes are to clear up the language. When a system is found to be compliant, no further action is needed.

Attorney Corson noted that no inspection is needed when less than $1,000 changes hands.

There was discussion about when the inspection should be required in contract for deed transactions.

Commission members wanted language that required an inspection in a contract for deed transaction, but only one inspection. No compliance inspection is needed if â&#x20AC;&#x153;the sale or transfer completes

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Board of Adjustment public hearings â&#x20AC;˘ Parker Johnson, Amherst Township, Section 27, requested a variance from 604.05 (9).

He wants to construct a dwelling on land that has a greater than 65 crop equivalency rating. Bisek asked why he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t build on the current site.

Johnson said it would require more dirt work and that it had water runoff issues. The new site would not have these water issues. There was no comment from the township or the public. The variance was approved 4 to 1 (Bisek voted against). â&#x20AC;˘ Daniel Terbeest, Bloomfield Township, Section 17, requested a variance from the

countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ordinance that requires a 1,000-foot setback from a dwelling for a sand pit. Mark and Deb Larson (brother-inlaw and sister) own a house that is no more than 350 feet from the proposed sand pit. Terbeest said they had given their verbal consent.

Adkins said there needs to be a specific number on a variance.

She has requested a survey.

Steve Duxbury stated he would like to see a letter from the owners of the nearby home.

It was decided to table the variance discussion until the next meeting. By then there should be a survey, a variance request for a specific number of feet from the neighboring home, and a letter of consent from the homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s owners.

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USDA reopens application period for producers recovering from cattle loss, other disasters The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will begin accepting disaster assistance program applications on June 4 from agricultural producers who suffered livestock, honeybees, farm-raised fish and other losses due to natural disasters.

USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) is reopening the application period for two disaster assistance programs in response to statutory changes made by Congress earlier this year.

“When disasters hit, help is

as close as your USDA service center,” said Bill Northey, Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation. “After any catastrophic event, an eligible producer can walk into any one of our local offices and apply for help.”

Beginning June 4, FSA will accept new applications for losses for calendar year 2017 or 2018 filed under the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) or Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-raised Fish Program (ELAP). Producers who

already submitted applications and received decisions on their applications for these years do not need to file again, but they can reapply if they have additional losses or their application was disapproved because it was filed late.

In February, Congress passed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, which made several changes to these two disaster programs, including: Removing ELAP’s $20 million fiscal year funding cap, enabling FSA to pay producers’ 2017

applications in full and their 2018 applications as soon as they are approved.

Removing the per-person and legal entity annual program payment limitation of $125,000 for LIP for 2017 and future years.

(The income limitation applies as it did before, meaning producers with an adjusted gross income of more than $900,000 are not eligible.)

Changing LIP to allow producers to receive a payment for injured livestock that are sold for

Security State Bank of Lewiston to merge with Minnwest Bank Minnwest Bank and Security State Bank of Lewiston announced today the signing of an agreement to merge. Completion of the transaction, which is currently expected to occur in the third quarter of 2018, is contingent upon regulatory approval. Security State Bank of Lewiston had consolidated assets

of $67.2 million and $61 million in deposits, as of December 31, 2017.

Douglas Karsky, president of Minnwest Bank, stated, “Minnwest Bank is dedicated to the growth and prosperity of agricultural communities and with this merger, we are confident that we can provide a strong

financial network for the Security State Bank of Lewiston customers. Through this process, our ultimate goal is to make this transition as smooth and as transparent as possible to customers.”

Minnwest Bank is a family owned bank with 24 branches in 19 communities throughout

Minnesota and South Dakota, with $1.6 billion in assets. Minnwest Bank is a preferred SBA lender and participates in State and Federal loan programs such as SBA, FSA, Farmer Mac, Rural Finance Authority and South Dakota Dept. of Agriculture.

Minnwest Bank is one of Minnesota’s largest agricultural lenders.

“The current owners of the Security State Bank of Lewiston, the Fischer family, have built a similar community banking model as Minnwest Bank and both banks are family owned.

When this opportunity arose, it made sense for all parties involved to make this merger happen. We are excited about the opportunity to serve these new communities, and continue to build on the foundation established by the Fischer family,” said Karsky.

“Our family has been involved in providing financial services to the Lewiston community

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a reduced price due to an eligible event. Previously, the program only covered financial loss for livestock death above normal mortality.

Producers interested in LIP or ELAP should contact their local USDA service center. To apply, producers will need to provide verifiable and reliable production records and other information about their operation.

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MnDOT to award $4.2 million to support mobility for seniors, persons with disabilities The Minnesota Department of Transportation has $4.2 million in federal funding for cities, counties and transit service providers to help serve the transportation needs of the elderly and persons with disabilities. Deadline to apply is June 29.

Entities eligible for the funding are tribal governments, state and local governments, private nonprofit organizations, and operators of public and private transportation services.

Two categories of funding are available. The vehicle capital assistance is for the purchase of vehicles that support enhanced transportation services for senior citizens and disabled individuals. The transportation coordination funding links transportation providers directly with human services agencies and other stakeholders on a regional scale.

“In the areas where public transit is inadequate or inappropriate, this funding will

improve mobility for special populations and provide financial assistance for planned transportation services to improve the safety of their operations,” said Robert Clarksen, transit program manager.

Funding allocations are made by MnDOT on an annual, competitive basis. The program requires a 20% local share.

Applicants may apply online at www.mndot.gov/transit/ grants/5310/. Awards will be announced in September.

Since 2005, MnDOT has leveraged federal support in excess of $20 million for similar programs throughout the state. The funding is administered by the Federal Transit Administration’s Section 5310 program to improve mobility by removing barriers for the special transportation needs of seniors and disabled populations and expanding the transportation mobility options available.

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Ask a Trooper

By Sgt. Troy Christianson Minnesota State Patrol Question: I recently purchased a 2018 Polaris Ranger.

We have a 2-year-old son and I am wondering what the laws Troy H. are. Does he Christianson need to be in a car seat or booster seat with a helmet? Thank you in advance.

Answer: When riding ATVs, OHVs and motorcycles on public lands or waters, or on a public road right-of-way, a passenger under age 18 must: • Wear an approved helmet.

• Wear a seat belt if provided by the manufacturer.

An approved helmet must meet federal law, which requires the helmet to display the symbol “DOT.” DOT is the manufacturer’s certification that the helmet conforms to the applicable federal motor vehicle safe-

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ty standards. Standard bicycle helmets and hockey helmets do not meet legal requirements.

It is important to keep in mind the size of the child’s head and neck, as well as the weight of the legal helmet. The weight of the helmet may be too heavy for the child’s head and neck to safely support, especially when being bounced around on the trail. Again, bike or hockey helmets do not meet the legal standards and would not provide the level of protection necessary.

For more information, visit https://files.dnr.state.mn.us/rlp/ regulations/ohv/ohv_regs.pdf.

You can avoid a ticket — and a crash — if you simply buckle up, drive at safe speeds, pay attention and always drive sober. Help us drive Minnesota Toward Zero Deaths.

If you have any questions concerning traffic related laws or issues in Minnesota send your questions to Sgt. Troy Christianson – Minnesota State Patrol at 2900 48th Street NW, Rochester, Minn. 55901-5848.

Or reach him at Troy.Christianson@state.mn.us.

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Fillmore County Police Reports Chatfield Police Department Kristopher Nguyen, 26, Rochester, Minn.; 5/19/2018, Speeding (39/30), Fine $40, Total Fees $130.

Fillmore County Sheriff’s Office Jamie Dale Hanson, 25, Stewartville, Minn.; 5/13/2018, Driver Over/Around Barricades, Fine $40, Total Fees $130.

Gabriel Wallace Haskin, 19, Rochester, Minn.; 2/12/2018, Disorderly Conduct - Offensive/Abusive/Boisterous/Noisy/ Obscene, Fine $1,000 (stay $1,000 until 6/7/2019), Total Fees $90. Local Confinement - 90 days (stay 90 days for one year). Unsupervised probation for one year - Conditions (6/7/2018): Remain law-abiding, No same or similar, No assault, Domestic abuse evaluation - complete and provide proof to the court by August 1, Follow recommendations of evaluation.

Jessica Julia Johnson, 27, Grand Meadow, Minn.; 5/22/2018, Speeding (64/55), Fine $40, Total Fees $130.

Lacy Jae Krahn, 24, Spring Valley, Minn.; 5/23/2018, Speeding (65/55), Fine $40, Total Fees $130.

Bradley Glen McMartin, 45, Lyle, Minn.; 2/12/2018, Disorderly Conduct - Offensive/Abusive/Boisterous/Noisy/Obscene, Fine $1,000 (stay $900 until 6/7/2019), Total Fees $190.

Local Confinement - 90 days (stay 90 days for one year).

Probation to the court for one year - Conditions (6/7/2018): Domestic abuse evaluation complete by August 1, Follow recommendations of evaluation, Remain law-abiding, No same or similar, No assault/aggressive/ threatening behavior.

Tyler David Robertson, 18, Austin, Minn.; 4/28/2018, Speeding (65/55), Fine $40, Total Fees $130.

Margaret Ann Watson, 32, Minneapolis, MN; 5/1/2018, Speeding (70/55), Fine $60, Total Fees $150.

MN State Patrol - Rochester David Richard Gilbert-Pederson, 27, Minneapolis, Minn.; 3/17/2018, Speeding (75/55), Fine $140, Total Fees $260.

3/17/2018, Driving After Suspension, Fine $200.

Larry Wayne Johnson, 72, Spring Grove, Minn.; 5/19/2018, Speeding (74/55), Fine $60, Total Fees $150.

Alyssa Ryan Juarez, 21, Rochester, Minn.; 2/20/2018, Speed Exceed in Special Zone Set by Commissioner (50/40), Fine $40, Total Fees $130.

John Thomas Nordstrom, 50, Harmony, Minn.; 5/14/2018, Speeding (65/55), Fine $40,

Total Fees $130.

Kelly Andrew Peck, 60, Montevideo, Minn.; 5/28/2018, Speed Exceed in Special Zone Set by Commissioner (50/40), Fine $40, Total Fees $130.

Michael Jeffrey Ruoho, 32, Little Canada, Minn.; 3/25/2018, Speeding (72/55), Fine $60, Total Fees $150.

Preston Police Department Winston Reed Howerton, 56, Lanesboro, Minn.; 5/1/2018, Operate Vehicle With Expired Registration, Fine $30, Total Fees $120.

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Chris Boyum remembers Wesley Stevens in Memorial Day speech Chris Boyum gave the following speech at the Peterson American Legion Memorial Day program held at the Peterson City Park Historic Bandstand on May 28, 2018. This speech is printed with the permission of Chris Boyum and the Stevens family.

Good morning, and thank you to everyone joining us here today in remembrance and recognition of our fallen servicemen and women on this Memorial Day. I especially want to thank the Rushford-Peterson Middle School band and Director Jake Olson for sharing your talents with us on this special day. Thank you as well to Commander James Loven and the Gilbertson-Rude American Legion Post 526 for inviting me to speak with you today. It is truly my privilege and honor to once again stand here with you on Memorial Day. As Commander Loven mentioned, I entered the U.S. Army after graduation from high school and served for 24 years until retirement in 2012.

I then had the opportunity to move back home, buying a family farm and living here for the past six years. I am a son of this community, a son who willingly left to serve his country, a son who had the good fortune to return home again.

Today we set aside time in our busy lives to honor, to reflect, to pass on memories, to remember those who served in our nation’s wars and paid the ultimate sacrifice. Three years ago, I spoke to you about two of Peterson’s sons who paid this price with the US Army in Italy during World War II. Their names are Stanford Gilbertson and James Rude, the namesakes of our Peterson Legion Post. Now I would like to remember another Peterson son who willingly left home to serve his country in the U.S. Army in Vietnam, another son who lost his life in service to our Nation. This project really began at that time. I wanted to complete a biography for him as had been done for Stanford and James, to be hung with his picture to honor him in the American Legion. They are on display here today.

The Peterson son I am speaking of is Wesley Stevens. I want to re-introduce him to you here today, this Memorial Day, so he will not be forgotten, so you will remember his name, the young man that he was, know about his military experience, how he died, and how the family coped with the loss of their son and brother. Many of you here today may have known Wes, went to school with him, knew him as a neighbor or acquaintance, or remember hearing the tragic news of his death. But there is probably much about Wes that you do not know, some of which I want to share with you here today. So when you leave here today, I hope that you will remember his name, know that he was your neighbor that lived down the road from you, not unlike many others who

came before and after him in this community, a young man who eagerly joined the Army and went to war at our country’s calling, a Peterson son that died for America 49 years ago.

I personally want to thank everyone I spoke with who shared their memories of Wes. I especially want to thank his brother Doug and sister Karen for sharing family stories, photographs and mementos, Wes’ letters home from Vietnam, and his personal belongings returned to the family after his death. I also want to thank sisters Jean, Chris and Sonja for providing their memories of Wes. This tribute to Wes would be vastly incomplete had it not been for their willingness to share their brother and their family with me. And for that, I am truly grateful.

Wesley Warren Stevens was born October 28th, 1950 in Mason City, Iowa, the third oldest of eight children of Mr. and Mrs. Adell “Steve” and Frances Stevens. Wes had two brothers, Doug and Russell, and five sisters, Jean, Christine, Janet, Sonja and Karen. Their family moved from Iowa to Minnesota in 1955, where he grew up on a dairy farm west of Peterson on North Prairie. Wes had a typical rural childhood, playing with his siblings and learning to work on the farm at a young age. Wes was the mischievous type. Jean remembers Wes and younger brother Russ creating a diversion to lure her outside the house so they could “liberate” the pie she had just baked from the kitchen for a light snack.

But he was also often described as patient and caring, especially to his younger siblings. Wes’ father was a strict and hardworking man, and was especially firm with his sons when it came to responsibility and discipline. Wes was a rebellious youth, some would say he had a bit of a chip on his shoulder, and this attitude did not coincide well with his father’s stern ways.

You see, the Stevens kids did not participate in school sports or extracurricular activities because all this running back and forth to town was a waste of gas, and there were chores at home to do.

Classmates described Wes as a very intelligent and witty kid, but one prone to getting into trouble and underachieving in school. His closest friend was the late Merlin Hermanson, and by the time they were teenagers they were pushing the boundaries of their conservative rural Minnesota environment of the mid-1960s.

With ongoing conflict between him and his father, Wes lived and worked with Allen and Donna Aarsvold during much of his senior year in high school. Wes was a good worker, helping with the milking chores and other general farm work on the Aarsvold farm. He was caring and helpful with their young daughters, and overall he was a pleasant young man

to have in their home. When he was finished working at the Aarsvold’s, Wes went to live with his sister Jean and her husband Marv, who were now living on the home farm on North Prairie.

Dad wasn’t ready to have him home, and Wes probably felt about the same.

Wes graduated from Peterson High School on May 24, 1968. Actually, his classmates are celebrating their 50th class reunion this year, next weekend in fact. Wes was eager to leave home and get out from under his father’s rule. I think he saw the military as his opportunity to escape. His older brother Doug was already in the Army, and with the Vietnam war at it’s height and the likelihood of being drafted a real possibility, Wes was eager to enlist in the Army. He was only 17 years

old and would not be 18 until October, and would need his parents’ approval to join. But signing Wes’ enlistment papers was already causing conflict at home. His father wouldn’t agree to it. But his mom did sign for him, probably reasoning that in a couple months he would be old enough to join on his own and would go anyway, so why hold him up. This would cause further tension between Steve and Fran after their son came home from Vietnam in a coffin.

Of course I never personally knew Wes, he died a year before I was born. But the more I have learned about him, I find it striking how much we have in common. I also grew up on a farm not far from where he did.

I don’t remember how I first learned of him, but I remember riding the same school bus

when Karen was still in school, and knowing that her brother had been killed in Vietnam. I remember watching her walk down that long driveway, thinking she must be sad, walking to a farm that to me, in my 8-yearold mind seemed idle, unkempt, and filled with sorrow. I saw a picture of Wes standing on the Peterson football field by the goal post, with the high school in the background. Just a simple snapshot, one that could easily have been of me, or any number of Peterson kids who have walked those school grounds.

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rural and small town life. She grew up on a dairy farm north of Cresco, Iowa. Never living too far from that farm, she married a dairy farmer from south of Harmony.

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looking for a way to escape my current course. The cost of car insurance alone was going to kill me. I too joined the Army when I was 17, and my parents had to sign the papers for me. I’m sure they had some of the same feelings and reservations that Fran and Steve had. But for me there was no war going on, besides a Cold War. Wes was inducted into the U.S. Army on September 26, 1968. By this time, he also had a girlfriend, a girl from Lewiston named Cheryl Rinn, and they kept in contact while he was away. He met her through his friend Merlin, who was also dating a girl from Lewiston who had introduced Cheryl to Wes. He attended basic training at Fort Campbell, Ky., and advanced individual training at Fort Sill, Okla., as an Artilleryman. Wes rode a bus home from Oklahoma for Christmas leave. Actually, he rode the bus to Albert Lea, where the bus route ended unbeknownst to him. Now sitting in a truck stop after midnight, he was none too happy and started talking to a truck driver heading to Madison on Highway 16, and he hitched a ride. The truck driver dropped him off right in Peterson, and Mom and Dad were certainly surprised when Wes walked in the door at 3:30 in the morning. By this time the family was

living in Peterson in a house on Church Street, now the Liss home, and the last photographs were taken of him there. These pictures included Cheryl, and they were now engaged and planned to marry after he got out of the Army. Toward the end of Artillery school Wes learned that he would receive orders to Vietnam, along with most of his other fellow classmates.

Wes deployed to the Republic of South Vietnam on March 7, 1969. Wes told his brother Doug in a letter, who was stationed in Germany at the time, that when saying goodbye, Dad had cried before he left for Vietnam. Could you believe it?!, the old man cried! Wes was making light of the incident to his older brother, as probably neither one of them had ever seen such show of emotion from their father before. But the “Old Man” loved his son, although he probably never said this to him, and he was fully aware that many sons were dying in Vietnam.

Wes arrived in Vietnam at Bien Hoa Air Base outside Saigon.

He was assigned to Battery B, 3rd Battalion, 82nd Artillery, 196th Light Infantry Brigade with the 23rd Infantry Division, also known as the “Americal Division,” located at Chu Lai south of Da Nang. This is in the northern part of South Vietnam, not far from the Demilitarized Zone with North Vietnam. On March 8, 1969, the day after his arrival in Vietnam, Wes was pro-

Monday, June 25, 2018 moted to Private First Class, but he did not learn about this until a month later. He spent a couple weeks at Chu Lai for training before being further attached to A Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment as the RTO (Radio Telephone Operator) for the Forward Observer.

As an artilleryman assigned to an artillery unit, Wes expected to be forward deployed to a firebase where the big artillery guns were set up to provide fire support to infantry elements in the field. Or better still, be assigned to a base camp such as Chu Lai providing Brigade-level artillery support from a rear area.

But neither of these assignments were in store for Wes. As the RTO to the Forward Observer, he became part of the infantry with the responsibility to call in artillery support for his infantry unit. Wes was under no illusions of what this meant for him: six months humping and fighting in the bush with the infantry, and after that he could opt to stay with the Infantry as a Recon NCO or go back to his artillery unit in a rear area. If he made it that long. He wrote to Doug that only one of the last four RTOs in his current position had survived long enough to return to their artillery unit.

By late March, Wes was going out on missions with his infantry company. Wes’ attitude about the Army and his perspective about the war changed dramatically from the time he arrived

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in Vietnam to only a few weeks later serving with his infantry unit. He first felt sympathy for the Vietnamese people and questioned the Army’s sometimes brutal tactics to root out the enemy. But he was quickly dehumanizing the Vietnamese, and shocked by the abject poverty and primitive conditions in which most rural Vietnamese families lived. He was transitioning into survival mode of the combat infantryman, kill or be killed. Too much sympathy often led to the latter.

Wes’ first combat injury, however, came not from the enemy but from would-be killer bees.

The soldiers had disturbed a bee hive while out on patrol, and Wes and eight others became bee sting casualties. Wes lost consciousness and recalled coming to once on the MedEvac helicopter. His eyes were swollen shut for two days and he spent a week in recovery. It did give him some time to catch up on his letter writing. Wes was looking forward to “stand down” coming up in mid-May, where the Battalion would be pulled out of combat operations and send to the rear area for three days of R&R (Rest and Recuperation). The soldiers planned to drink for three days straight.

R&R not withstanding, on May 5, units of the 1st Cavalry Division were ordered to clear enemy elements from the Tam Ky (Tom Key) area, where a few days earlier VC (Viet Cong) and

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NVA (North Vietnamese Army) elements had overrun a South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) outpost on Nui Yon Hill. After the initial assault to retake the hill failed, the 3-21st Infantry Regiment, including Wes’ A Co, was air-assaulted by helicopter to reinforce the 1st Cavalry units on the morning of 13 May 1969. At 1130 hours that morning, Wes was mortally wounded when an enemy RPG (Rocket Propelled Grenade) detonated near his position.

Western Union Telegram, Washington, DC. 16 May 69, 9:37 PM Eastern Daylight Savings Time Mr. and Mrs. Adel Stevens, Peterson, Minnesota The Secretary of the Army has asked me to express his deep regret that your son, Private First Class Wesley W. Stevens, was killed in action in Vietnam on 13 May 1969 while on a combat operation when the area came under mortar attack by a hostile force. Please accept my deepest sympathy. This confirms personal notification made by a representative of the Secretary of the Army. Kenneth G, Wickham, Major General, The Adjutant General, Department of the Army, Washington, DC. In those few short words, in a very impersonal and matter of fact military manner, a parent’s worst fears became their reality.

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white star arrived at the Stevens house in Peterson to deliver the message just before Noon on the 17th of May. Sonja and Karen were walking home together for lunch that day from school and saw the military car parked in front of their house. Sonja remembers her mother telling her several days earlier not to come home if she saw a military car at their house, rather to go directly to their neighborâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house instead. You see, Fran knew Wes had been killed before she received the telegram, she had felt him die within her when it happened. It was a motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intuition. She knew the military car was coming to their home soon. But rather than doing what her mother had told her, Sonja went inside and saw her mother slumped over in her chair crying, two military men in uniform consoling her.

Dad was at work and not home yet. The girls did not go back to school that day. Cheryl later joined the family, and Fran had asked her to take the girls for a walk. Sonja remembers walking

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past the elementary school while the other kids were outside playing for recess. When the kids saw the Stevens girls, they all stopped playing and just silently watched them walk by. The word of their brotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death had traveled quickly, even among the school children.

Jean received a phone call at the farm shortly after. Her Dad simply said â&#x20AC;&#x153;we lost Wes,â&#x20AC;? and he hung up the phone.

Allen Aarsvold was out in the field planting corn that afternoon. The late Dick Hatlevig was Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current teenage farmhand, and he came out to the farm after school and told him the news. Wes had been out to the Aarsvoldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for supper one evening before deploying and had sent them letters from Vietnam. Wesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; death was like loosing their own son, the son they never had.

His battalion commander later wrote to Fran and Steve following his death. I quote: â&#x20AC;&#x153;On the morning of May 13th, 1969, Wesley was serving as a forward observer with an infantry unit which was on a combat sweep near the village of Khan Tan, approximately 4 miles southwest

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Wesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remains returned home on the 21st of May. Fran was determined to open the casket to see her son one last time before the funeral, but Doug was home now from Germany and convinced his Mom that what she might see inside may not be the image of Wes that she would want to remember.

She relented. His funeral was held with military honors on Saturday, the 24th of May at North Prairie Lutheran Church, exactly one year to the day from his high school graduation.

Fran and Steve really didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want military honors at Wesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; funeral, they werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in the mood to see anything military. Doug again convinced them Wes deserved military honors. Honorary pallbearers were his high school classmates Raymond Agrimson, Craig Anderson, Bruce Benson, Raymond Halverson, Darrell Hatlevig, Merlin Hermanson, Murray McKinley, and Robert â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bobbyâ&#x20AC;? Pederson.

Wes was interred at the North Prairie Lutheran Church Cemetery. At his grave, a young girl named Cheryl was on the ground crying, her teenage fiancĂŠ was gone.

The Stevens family dealt with Wesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; death the best they knew how. Mostly, it was just too painful an experience to revisit, and it was best to keep memories of Wes tucked away. Steve mostly kept his memories and feelings for Wes inside, not showing emotion, the typical â&#x20AC;&#x153;show no

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weaknessâ&#x20AC;? man of his generation. He avoided events such as Memorial Day programs where he may have to accept peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sympathy or condolences, where he would get uncomfortable and may not be able to maintain his stoic façade. Fran eventually began to participate in Memorial Day events, being honored as a Gold Star Mother, and honoring her sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sacrifice. As devastating as Wesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; loss was to the entire family, it probably had the most impact on his sister Chris. She was only two years younger than Wes, they were inseparable as kids growing up, he was her best friend.

Wes was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, and the Vietnam Campaign Ribbon. The Republic of South Vietnam also posthumously awarded the Military Merit Medal and the Gallantry Cross with Palm. There was a picture that appeared in the local paper of an Army Officer presenting these awards to Fran and Steve at their home, and the look on their faces said it all: there was no joy, no reason to smile, no award that could give them any peace or bring back their son.

In a letter from his Division Commander in Vietnam, MAJ GEN Gettys also sent his condolences. He wrote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I realize how pitifully inadequate words are at such times of immeasurable sorrow, but I feel impelled to write a few lines in any eventâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;? he concluded â&#x20AC;&#x153;When this vast and most cruel of wars is over and we have established a more gen-

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erous and just world than this, perhaps we will all take comfort in the thought that your son was one of the men who made that world possible.â&#x20AC;? But Fran and Steve, and the rest of the Stevens family, were never able to take much comfort from the cause for which Wes died for in Vietnam.

Among Wesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; letters, pictures, and personal items was a poem entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;End of Vietnam War.â&#x20AC;?

The poem reads: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The peace has come, why do I cry, the tears keep falling, though I try so hard to stop and grateful be, For all the young men who now will live to be all the things my son will never see.

I cry for all the ones who have been prisoners for so long, and the joy their loved ones must feel to know the long vigil will soon be done, The peace is too late for so many, and yet if it will save just one young life, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have no regret.

If one motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son can live to grow in peace, that knowledge will bring me relief in my grief, Every day the news is full of war and Vietnam, now maybe I can start to forget, when I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to listen to the dead and wounded listed every day.

Ring the bells, let the world know, how grateful we should all be that at last, the peace has come. Ring the bells for Wes on Saturday.â&#x20AC;?

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• 2 Plus bedroom • Garage • 0.29 acre lot • Main floor bedroom • Total remodeled kitchen • Updated plumbing, electrical, drywall, flooring • Covered deck • Selling in the “AS-IS” condition

209 MAIN ST SOUTH, CHATFIELD

$129,900 #4073199

• Commercial building great visibility in downtown Chatfield NEW with LISTING • 4,706 sq. ft. ideal for retail/office space • Large display window • Renovated handicap bathroom • New commercial grade carpet • Tons of storage in full basement with concrete floor • Second level offers 2-1 bedroom remodeled apartments

82 ACRES ON THE ROOT RIVER

$209,900 125 TWIFORD ST SW, CHATFIELD

• 4 Bedrooms • 2 Full baths • 2 Car Garage • 3,488 sq. ft.

• Double corner lot • 2-Covered porches • Walk-up attic • Original woodwork • Pocket doors • Hardwood floors • Butler pantry • 9’ Ceilings • Paneled doors • Fenced yard • Paver patio • Fruit trees/gardens • Remodeled in the 80’s CUTE & COZY

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$618,103 12716 COUNTY RD 138 SE, CHATFIELD #4082543

• 3 Plus bedrooms • 3 Baths • 3 Car Garage • Built 1990 • 2,143 sq. ft. on one floor • No steps • Handicap Accessible • 26’ x 27’ Workshop • 54’ x 54’ Barn/Shed with box/tie stalls • 36 tillable acres • Excellent hunting with +/- 20 wooded acres • Awesome horse setup • +/- 1620 ft North Branch Root River NO WORK NEEDED – GREAT LOCATION

$139,900 1218 CHURCH AVE, ST. CHARLES #4088308

• 2-2 Bedroom units with separate heat & access • 2nd floor apartment (1,019 sq. ft.) totally remodeled • Full basement, Fenced yard • Some original woodwork • Huge covered deck • New garage (26’x 24’) in 2013 • Close to downtown • Ideal for the owner-occupant

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98 CEDAR ST, FOUNTAIN

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• 1 Bedroom • Garage • 2 Lots on the corner • Everything updated in 1992 • Affordable • Updated windows, roof & garage door • Gas $29 • Electric $105 • Water/Sewer $53 • Garbage $19 • Move-in condition • Start here

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240 2ND ST NE, HARMONY

$94,900 #4086626

• 4 Bedrooms • 2 Baths • 2 Car Garage • Full basement • New roof, windows, siding, flooring, appliances • Built 1948 • 2,190 sq. ft. • Storage shed • Patio • No backyard neighbors • Dead End Street • On Golf Course

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100 GOLD ST N, WYKOFF

$124,900 #4084344

• Totally renovated building • Commercial kitchen • Pizza ovens • 3 Baths • 2 Dining areas • Finished LL • Operating as Bank Gift Haus & Margaret’s Tea Room • Professional rental office with separate access

CHATFIELD – JORDAN TOWNSHIP! 154 Acres of bare land, (100 acres tillable, 40 acres pasture with spring, 14 acres woods/non-tillable). $885,000 $840,000 WYKOFF – Farm in Jordan Township – 124 acres located in a beautiful valley

104 FILLMORE ST E, WYKOFF

$239,900 #4088912

• 4 Bedroom • 4 Bath • 2 Car Gar. (728 sq. ft.) • 3,808 sq. ft.

• Main Floor living • Energy efficient • Private & fenced yard • Wood floors • Paneled doors • Open layout • Large rooms • Finished lower level • Theatre room • In-floor heat ready • Drive a little save a lot • Choice of schools

with the Root River running through the property. Approximately 45 acres could be tillable with the balance being fenced pasture. Includes hay shed. New Price - $399,900

31008 US 52, CHATFIELD

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$455,900

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• 5 Bedrooms • 4 Baths • 4,353 sq. ft. • 3 Car garage • Hardwood floors • Ceramic tile floors • Quality windows • Custom cabinetry & trim • Granite tops • Theater room • Master suite w/heated floors, ceramic shower & whirlpool • Wooded lot • Gated subdivision • Private blacktop drive

LOTS & ACREAGES FOR SALE FOUNTAIN – CARROLTON TOWNSHIP – 8.5 acre building site with a couple acres of tillable located off the county road high on the hill overlooking the valley. #4077950 $85,000 LANESBORO – 20 acre building site (5 tillable, balance woods) adjacent to state land. Blacktop road, great views, good access, trails and tons of wildlife. #4085542 $149,900 LANESBORO – CARROLTON TOWNSHIP – 12 acres of woods with approximately 400’ of creek frontage and adjoins State land. Ideal for hunting, recreation or weekend getaway. Additional land available for building site. #4076539 $49,900 LANESBORO – New rural subdivision with acreage lots located next to bike trail with Root River frontage and trout stream access. Shared well & 46 acres of common area. Call for details! $79,900

LANESBORO – HOLT TOWNSHIP – Approximately 93.5 acres (39 tillable acres rented, 13.5 CRP, 22 wooded, balance yard/pasture) with home and outbuildings.

Excellent investment & hunting property. $535,000

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Charming 4 bedroom 2 bath home with lots of character and charm.

You’ll love all the old original woodwork, hardwood floors and built-in columns between the living room and dining room. Main floor bedroom is currently used as office, main floor laundry and 1/2 bath. The bedrooms all have walk-in closets. Beautiful arched doorways, permanent steel siding, updated electrical, all new windows and single detached garage with cement drive. Nicely landscaped yard located in established neighborhood with mature trees. Move-in ready!

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The kitchen has a small porch (mud room) in the back of the house. The upstairs has 4 bedrooms and bath. One bedroom has a porch off it with French Doors.

The walk-up attic is ready for finishing! With a little new paint and refinishing, the hardwood floors with property could be brought back to its majestic beauty it was intended to have. The property sits on over half an acre in town with alley access.

Great Business Opportunity as owner is retiring! Currently operating as a greenhouse and floral business which has been owner operated by 2 different families since 1954. Long term established business. Inventory will be sold separately as it changes on a daily basis. Excellent location on busy Highway 16 & 63. For more information or to schedule a time to preview the business give me a call!

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Ranch home on corner • 3 car garage • Carport • Living room • Dining room • Open lower level ready to finish • Vinyl siding • Covered porch • Walking distance to grocery store and downtown $140,000

344 MAIN ST N #3, CHATFIELD Condo • 2 bedrooms • 2 baths • Open living, Dining and Kitchen • Large master with 2 w/in closets • Attached garage

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Large corner lot • Close to elementary • Close to golf course • Open to builders • City Utilities

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108 GREENLEAFTON RD, PRESTON

3 bedrooms • 2 baths • d/o • Living room • Dining room • Main floors laundry • New roof, c/a, windows, furnace • Fenced yard • Walk to prime trout fishing • Next to state bike trail • Hooked up to city water and sewer.

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2.9 acres • Wooded • Close to hunting, fishing, camping • Private • Ideal for house or cabin

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105 PARKWAY AVE, LANESBORO

Owner is retiring • Unique diner (1927 Goodell Diner Car) • High traffic area • Scenic Lanesboro • Located on Main St • Close to state trail • Property runs down to Root River • Room for outside seating • Turn key operation

$124,900

90 MAIN ST., FOUNTAIN

Ideal location on Main St and close to State 27583 DEEP RIVER ROAD $595,000 Bike Trail • Commercial LANESBORO potential for retail, hotel/ 140 acres • Prime hunting ground • 63 acres tillable • 20 acres pasture • Building site with outbuildings • motel, office space, shops, etc • Updates are already done 1920 sq. ft. pole shed • Barn • Well

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Totally renovated & remodeled 3 bedroom 2 bath home. All the walls have new sheet rock and will be mudded, taped and painted in neutral color. New plumbing & electrical with new furnace and water heater. Mud room is also home to main floor laundry – all new. ¾ bath on main floor with shower – all new. New laminate flooring throughout main floor. Stairs and upper level will have all new carpet. Upstairs full bath is all new. Both baths will have linoleum installed, new toilets, sinks etc. Formal dining room has arched doorway to living room area. Kitchen will have new countertops and cabinets re-installed. New appliances will be installed or $4,000 appliance allowance, whichever new buyer would like. New shingles on front of the house and new wood front steps. This house will be totally new. Come look early and pick out your own paint and flooring colors!

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38689 Cty Rd W20, Decorah SOLD 330 Main Ave S, Harmony SOLD 304 Fillmore St W, Preston SOLD 209 Washington Pl SW, Preston SOLD

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POSTED NOTICE OF MAIL BALLOT PROCEDURES TO VOTERS OF CITY OF FOUNTAIN IN FILLMORE COUNTY, MINNESOTA

1. The following precinct located in the City of Fountain has elected to vote by mail ballot procedure in statewide elections as authorized under Minnesota Statues 204B.45.

2. For 2018 statewide elections, the election dates and corresponding dates that ballots will be mailed to all registered voters in mail ballot precincts are: Statewide Primary Election: August 14, 2018 Ballot Mailing Date: July 5, 2018

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notice of mail ballot procedures to voters of fountain township in fillmore county, minnesota 1. The following precinct located in Fountain Township has elected to vote by mail ballot procedure in statewide elections as authorized under Minnesota Statues 204B.45.

2. For 2018 statewide elections, the election dates and corresponding dates that ballots will be mailed to all registered voters in mail ballot precincts are: Statewide Primary Election: August 14, 2018. Ballot Mailing Date: July 5, 2018 Statewide General Election: November 6, 2018. Ballot Mailing Date: September 21, 2018.

Each voter registered by July 5, 2018 ,for the Statewide Primary Election and/ or September 21, 2018, for the Statewide General Election will be mailed a ballot automatically.

3. Eligible voters not pre-registered by the dates noted, or pre-registered voters wishing to receive their ballot at a temporary address may contact the Fillmore County Auditor/Treasurer by phone, mail or in person for the absentee ballot application.

4. All ballots may be returned (a postage prepaid return envelope is included when the ballots are mailed), or may be delivered in person, or delivered by designated agent to: Fillmore County Auditor/ Treasurer Office.

Ballots must be received no later than 8:00 p.m. on Election Day in order to be counted. Normal business hours are Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

5. In additional to normal business hours, extended hours for mail ballot voting are:

Statewide Primary Election: Saturday, August 11, 2018, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.; Monday, August 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Statewide General Election: Saturday, November 3, 2018, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.; Monday, November 5, 2018, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

6. The polling place for this election will be at the Fillmore County Auditor/Tresurer Office.

The polls will open: Statewide Primary Election: Tuesday, August 14, 2018, from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Statewide General Election: Tuesday, November 6, 2018, from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

At least one assistive voting device will be available at that polling place that permit persons with disabilities to vote privately and independently and that permit any voter to submit their ballot to be automatically checked and corrected for voting errors prior to being cast and counted.

7. All mail ballots will be counted at the Fillmore County Auditor/Treasurer Office after 8:00 p.m. on the respective election dates.

Additional information is available by contacting the Fillmore County Auditor/ Treasurer Office, phone 507-765-3811.

Dated 25th day of May, 2018 By order of Fountain Township Dan Graskamp, Clerk Publish 18,25

Minnesota Secretary of State CERTIFICATE OF ASSUMED NAME Minnesota Statutes Chapter 333 1. State the exact assumed name under which the business is or will be conducted: bluff country retreat llc 2. State the address of the principal place of business. A complete street address or rural route and rural route box number is required; the address cannot be a P.O. Box. 26557 evening drive lanesboro, mn 55949 3. List the name and complete street address of all persons conducting business under the above Assumed Name, OR if an entity, provide the legal corporate, LLC, or Limited Partnership name and registered office address. bluff country retreat llc 405 Richard Drive New Market, MN 55054 4. I, the undersigned, certify that I am signing this document as the person whose signature is required, or as agent of the person(s) whose signature would be required who has authorized me to sign this document on his/her behalf, or in both capacities. I further certify that I have completed all required fields, and that the information in this document is true and correct and in compliance with the applicable chapter of Minnesota Statutes. I understand that by signing this document I am subject to the penalties of perjury as set forth in Section 609.48 as if I had signed this document under oath.

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Motion by Tjepkes to approve the following ordinance: ORDINANCE #151.05 PRINTED WITH SOY INK

AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE CORRECTED ZONING MAP FOR THE CITY OF WYKOFF AS PROVIDED IN ORDINANCE #602.01 Printed on recycled paper

THE CITY COUNCIL OF WYKOFF, MINNESOTA DOES ORDAIN: That the zoning map established by Ordinance #602.01, January 1, 2011 is amended to change the following dePRINTED ON scribed areas; which have previously been zoned and are now coded to the corrected zoning classification:

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The motion for the adoption of the foregoing Ordinance #151.05 was duly seconded by member Sackett and upon a vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof: Gleason, Sackett, Williams, Tjepkes and Vreeman.

Those voting against: none Motion carried 5-0.

Adopted by the City Council of the City of Wykoff on the 12th day of June, 2018 and effective upon publication.

Statewide General Election: November 6, 2018 Ballot Mailing Date: September 21, 2018 Each voter registered by July 5, 2018 for the Statewide Primary Election and/ or September 21, 2018 for the Statewide General Election will be mailed a ballot automatically.

3. Eligible voters not pre-registered by the dates noted, or pre-registered voters wishing to receive their ballot at a temporary address may contact the Fillmore County Auditor/Treasurer by phone, mail, or in person for absentee ballot application.

4. All ballots may be returned (a postage prepaid return envelope is included when the ballots are mailed), or may be delivered in person, or delivered by designated agent to: Fillmore County Auditor/Treasurer Office.

Ballots must be received no later than 8:00 p.m. on Election Day in order to be counted. Normal business hours are Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

5. In addition to normal business hours, extended hours for mail ballot voting are: Statewide Primary Election: Saturday, August 11, 2018 from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.; Monday, August 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.; Statewide General Election: Saturday, November 3, 2018 from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.; Monday, November 5, 2018, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

6. The polling place for this election will be at the Fillmore County Auditor/Treasurer Office.

The polls will open: State Primary Election: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 from 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

State General Election: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 from 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.

At least one assistive voting device will be available at that polling place that permit persons with disabilities to vote privately and independently, and that permit any voter to submit their ballot to be automatically checked and corrected for voting errors prior to being cast and counted.

7. All mail ballots will be counted at the Fillmore County Auditor/Treasurer Office after 8:00 p.m. on the respective election dates.

Additional information is available by contacting the Fillmore County Auditor/ Treasurer Office; phone 507-765-3811.

Dated 25th day of May, 2018 By order of City of Fountain Ronda A. Flattum, City Clerk/Treasurer Pub 18, 25

ss: Alan Williams ATTEST: ss: Rebecca Schmidt Mayor Allan Williams City Clerk Rebecca Schmidt Published in the Fillmore County Journal on June 18, 2018 and June 25, 2018.

NOTICE OF HEARING ON ASSESSMENTS FOR SOUTH MAIN STREET IMPROVEMENTS OF 2018 CITY OF WYKOFF, MINNESOTA

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

TIME AND PLACE, GENERAL NATURE OF IMPROVEMENTS: Notice is hereby given that the City Council of the City of Wykoff, Minnesota, will meet in the City Hall in the City of Wykoff, Minnesota, on the 9th day of July, 2018, at 7 o'clock P.M. to consider objections to the proposed assessments for South Main Street Improvements of 2018 heretofore ordered by the City Council.

ASSESSMENT ROLL OPEN TO INSPECTION: The proposed assessment roll is on file with the City Clerk and open to public inspection.

AREA PROPOSED TO BE ASSESSED: The area proposed to be assessed consists of every lot, piece or parcel of land benefitted by said improvement, which has been ordered made and is as follows: South Main Street from South Street to Centennial Street, in the City of Wykoff, Minnesota.

TOTAL AMOUNT AND TERM OF PROPOSED ASSESSMENT: The total amount proposed to be assessed is $61,926.00 and is proposed to be payable in annual installments over a period of 10 years.

WRITTEN OR ORAL OBJECTIONS: Written or oral objections will be considered at the hearing.

RIGHT OF APPEAL: An owner of property to be assessed may appeal the assessment to the district court of Fillmore County pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 429.081 by serving notice of the appeal upon the Mayor or Clerk of the City within 30 days after the adoption of the assessment and filing such notice with the district court within ten days after service upon the Mayor or Clerk.

LIMITATION ON APPEAL: No appeal may be taken as to the amount of any assessment adopted by the City Council unless a written objection signed by the affected property owner is filed with the Clerk prior to the assessment hearing or presented to the presiding officer at the hearing. All objections to the assessments not received at the assessment hearing in the manner prescribed

by Minnesota Statutes, Section 429.061 are waived, unless the failure to object at the assessment hearing is due to a reasonable cause.

DEFERMENT OF ASSESSMENTS: Under the provisions of Minnesota Statutes,Sections 435.193 to 435.195, the City may, at its discretion, defer the payment of assessments for any homestead property owned by a person 65 years of age or older for whom it would be a hardship to make the payments. The procedure for applying for such a deferment has been set forth by resolution, by the City Council, a copy of which resolution is available upon request at the office of the City Clerk.

MAILED NOTICE: The notice of this hearing mailed to property owners contains additional information.

DATED: June 12, 2018

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STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF FILLMORE DISTRICT COURT THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT Court File No.: 23PR18376 In Re: Estate of ROGER N. EIKEN, also known as ROGER EIKEN and ROGER NORMAN EIKEN, Decedent.

NOTICE OF INFORMAL APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Notice is given that an Application for Informal Appointment of Personal Representative was filed with the Registrar.

The Registrar accepted the application and appointed Winifred A. Eiken, whose address is 16717 371st Ave, Canton, MN 55922, to serve as the personal representative of the decedentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s estate.

Any heir or other interested person may be entitled to appointment as personal representative or may object to he appointment of the personal representative. Any objection to the appointment of the personal representative must be filed with the Court, and any properly filed objection will be heard by the Court after notice is provided to interested persons of the date of hearing on the objection.

Unless objections are filed, and unless the Court orders otherwise, the personal representative has the full power to administer the estate, including, after thirty (30) days from the issuance of letters of general administration, the power to sell, encumber, lease, or distribute any interest in real estate owned by the decedent.

Notice is further given that, subject to Minn. Stat. § 524.3-801, all creditors having claims against the decedentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s estate are required to present the claims to the personal representative or to the Court within four (4) months after the date of this notice or the claims will be barred.

Dated: June 4, 2018 James D. Attwood, Registrar Nethercut Schieber Attorneys, PA Greg Schieber MN# 395855 32 Main Ave N, Harmony, MN 55939 Telephone: (507) 886-6131 Facsimile: (507) 886-2711 e-mail: greg@ranlaw.net Publish 18,25

32. Emergency Management (*) TITLE V: PUBLIC WORKS 50. Garbage and Rubbish 51. Sewer Regulations 52. Water Regulations 53. Storm Water Drainage Utility 54. Rates and Charges TITLE VII: TRAFFIC CODE 70. Traffic Regulations 71. Parking Regulations 72. Snowmobiles 73. Recreational Vehicles 74. Bicycles, Roller Blades, Roller Skates, Roller Skates, Roller Skis and Skateboards TITLE IX: GENERAL REGULATIONS 90. Abandoned Property 91. Animals (*) 92. Health and Safety; Nuisances (**) 93. Streets and Sidewalks (*) TITLE XI: BUSINESS REGULATIONS 110. General Licensing Provisions 111. Commercial Amusements 112. Liquor Regulations 113. Peddlers and Solicitors 114. Reserved 115. Reserved 116. Regulating Lawful Gambling 117. Garage and Rummage Sales 118. Regulation of Public Dances and Special Events 119. Sexually Oriented Businesses (**) TITLE XIII: GENERAL OFFENSES 130. General Offenses

the Minnesota Basic Code of Ordinances and any supplements or additions to it are hereby adopted by reference or referenced as if they had been in existence at the time the Minnesota Basic Code of Ordinances and any supplements or additions to it was, are or may be in the future adopted, unless there is clear intention expressed in the Code to the contrary.

Section 6. It is the intention of the City Council that, when adopting the Minnesota Basic Code of Ordinances, all future supplements are hereby adopted as if they had been in existence at the time this code was enacted, unless there is clear intention expressed in the code to the contrary.

Section 7. The Code of Ordinances is declared to be prima facie evidence of the law of the city and shall be received in evidence as provided by Minnesota Statutes by the Courts of the State of Minnesota. A copy of the Code of Ordinances marked â&#x20AC;&#x153;Official Copyâ&#x20AC;? shall be filed as part of the official records of the city in the office of City Clerk. The City Clerk shall provide a copy of the Code of Ordinances to any person who requests a copy and shall charge that person the cost to the city of the copy of the Code of Ordinances.

Section 8. This ordinance adopting the Code of Ordinances, and the Code itself, shall take effect upon publication of this ordinance in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s official newspaper.

Section 9. Any amendments to a statute or rule adopted in this Code or any former code or ordinance which continues to be in effect, shall be included by reference as if the amended statute or rule had been in existence at the time the Code or ordinance was adopted.

The motion for the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by member Sackett and upon a vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof: Gleason, Sackett, Williams,Tjepkes.

Voting against: Vreeman Motion carried 4-1.

PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF Wykoff, MINNESOTA THIS 12th DAY OF JUNE, 2018.

APPROVED: ss: Alan Williams, MAYOR ATTEST: ss: Rebecca Schmidt, CITY Publish 18, 25

NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage: Mortgagor:Beverly H. Paulsen and Robert H. Paulsen, Wife and Husband Mortgagee: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for GMAC Mortgage Corporation dba ditech.com Dated: 03/09/2001 Recorded: 04/12/2001 Fillmore County Recorder Document No. 315218 Assigned To: Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Indenture Trustee for GMACM HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 2004-HE5 Dated: 08/08/2017 Recorded: 08/14/2017 Fillmore County Recorder Document No. 41885 Transaction Agent: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. Transaction Agent Mortgage Identification Number: 100037506524735199 Lender or Broker: GMAC Mortgage Corporation dba ditech.com Residential Mortgage Servicer: Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC Mortgage Originator: GMAC Mortgage Corporation dba ditech.com LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: All that parcel of land in City of Rushford, Fillmore County, State of Minnesota, as found in Deed Doc #292572, ID# 06-0153000, being known and designated as South Fifty feet of Lots 67 and 68 in Block 6, City of Rushford (Original Town), also that part of the vacated alley in Block 6 described as follows: Comm. at the SE. corner of Lot 67; thence South parallel with Elm St. 10 feet; thence West parallel with the South side of Lots 67 and 68 to the point of beginning. Also, the East 18 feet of the South 50 feet of Lot 69, Block 6, Original Town, now City of Rushford, Minnesota.

By fee simple deed from Michael Nanof and Dawn M. Twenten Nanof, husband and wife as set forth in doc# 292572 dated 2/11/1997 and recorded 2/13/1997, Fillmore County Records, State of Minnesota.

This is Abstract Property.

TAX PARCEL NO.: 06.0153.000 ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 117 Elm St N Rushford, MN 55971 COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Fillmore ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $59,500.00 AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE: $48,966.77 That prior to the commencement

of this mortgage foreclosure proceeding Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee complied with all notice requirements as required by statute; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows: DATE AND TIME OF SALE: July 12, 2018, 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: Main Lobby of Courthouse, 101 Fillmore St W, Preston, MN to pay the debt then secured by said Mortgage, and taxes, if any, on said premises, and the costs and disbursements, including attorneysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fees allowed by law subject to redemption within 6 Months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns.

DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: The date on or before which the mortgagor must vacate the property if the mortgage is not reinstated under Minnesota Statutes section 580.30 or the property redeemed under Minnesota Statutes section 580.23 is January 12, 2019, at 11:59 p.m. If the foregoing date is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, then the date to vacate is the next business day at 11:59 p.m.

MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROM FINANCIAL OBLIGATION ON MORTGAGE: NONE THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAGORâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED. Dated: May 21, 2018 Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Indenture Trustee for GMACM HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 2004-HE5, Assignee of Mortgagee By: PFB LAW, PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION Attorneys for: Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Indenture Trustee for GMACM HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 2004-HE5, Assignee of Mortgagee 55 East Fifth Street, Suite 800 St. Paul, MN 55101-1718 651-209-7599 651-228-1753 (fax) THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. 17725-17-00362-1 Publish 28,4,11,18,25,2

STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF FILLMORE DISTRICT COURT-PROBATE DIVISION THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT In Re: Estate of Harlan William Baker Decedent.

Court File No. 23-PR-18-393 NOTICE INFORMAL PROBATE OF WILL AND APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is given that an application for informal probate of Decedentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Will dated August 27, 2016, has been filed with the Registrar. The application has been granted.

Notice is also given that the Registrar has informally appointed Richard Alan Tucker, whose address is 31799 County Road 109, Lewiston, MN 55952 as personal representative of the Estate of the Decedent. Any heir, devisee or other interested person may be entitled to appointment as Personal Representative.

Unless objections are file with the Court (pursuant to Minn. Stat. 524.3-607) and the Court otherwise orders, the Personal Representative has full power to administer the Estate including, after 30 days from

the date of issuance of letters, the power to sell, encumber, lease or distribute real estate.

Any objections to the probate of the Will or appointment of the Personal Representative must be filed with this Court and will be heard by the Court after the filing of an appropriate petition and proper notice of hearing.

Notice is also given that (subject to Minn. Stat. 524.3-801) all creditors having claims against the Estate are required to present the claims to the Personal Representative or to the Court Administrator within four months after the date of this notice or said claims will be barred.

James D. Attwood Registrar Attorney for Petitioner Dan Moulton Moulton Law Office 976 14th Avenue SW Rochester, Minnesota 55902 Attorney License No.: 0136888 moultonlawoffice@gmail.com Phone: (507)288-6334 Fax: (507)289-1275 Publish 25,2

notice fillmore cemetery association The Fillmore Cemetery Association will be holding their annual meeting on June 27th at 6:30 p.m. The meeting will take place in the Village of Fillmore home of Dale Shafer. The Board would like to send out special thanks to all those who donated to the perpetual care fund this past Memorial Day; it is greatly appreciated and much needed. Any questions about meeting location or if you would wish to donate to the perpetual care fund, email us at FillmoreCemetery@gmail.com Publish 18,25 ORDINANCE NO. 10.01 CITY OF WYKOFF Motion by Gleason to approve the following City of Wykoff Ordinance #10.01: ORDINANCE NO. 10.01 CITY OF WYKOFF COUNTY OF FILLMORE STATE OF MINNESOTA AN ORDINANCE ENACTING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES FOR THE CITY OF WYKOFF, MINNESOTA, ADOPTING THE MINNESOTA BASIC CODE OF ORDINANCES, 2014 EDITION AND AMENDING, RESTATING, REVISING, UPDATING, CODIFYING AND COMPILING CERTAIN ORDINANCES OF THE CITY DEALING WITH THE SUBJECTS EMBRACED IN THE CODE OF ORDINANCES AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES. WHEREAS Minnesota Statutes Section 471.62 authorizes the city to adopt the Minnesota Basic Code of Ordinances by reference, and Sections 415.02 and 415.021 authorize the city to cause its ordinances to be codified and printed in a book, NOW THEREFORE the City Council of the City of Wykoff, Minnesota, ordains: Section 1. The Minnesota Basic Code of Ordinances, 2014 Edition, together with amendments and supplements contained therein, is hereby adopted and shall constitute the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Code of Ordinances of the City of Wykoff.â&#x20AC;?

This Code of Ordinances also adopts by reference certain statutes and administrative rules of the State of Minnesota as named in the Code of Ordinances. It is the intention of the City Council that, when adopting the Minnesota Basic Code of Ordinances, all future amendments and supplements are hereby adopted as if they had been in existence at the time this Ordinance was enacted, unless there is clear intention expressed in the Code to the contrary.

Section 2. The Code of Ordinances as adopted in Section 1 shall consist of the following titles and those existing city ordinances also listed in Section 3.

TITLE I: GENERAL PROVISIONS 10. General Provisions (*) TITLE III: ADMINISTRATION 30. General Provisions (*) 31. Departments, Boards and Commissions (*)

TITLE XV: LAND USAGE 150. General Provisions (**) 151. Zoning (**) 152. Subdivision Control (**) 153. Anti-Blight Regulations (**) TITLE XVII: GENERAL AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS Section 3. All prior ordinances shall be deemed repealed from and after the effective date of this ordinance, except as they are listed in this section; provided, this repeal shall not affect any offense committed or penalty incurred or any right established prior to the effective date of this ordinance, nor shall this repeal affect the provisions of ordinances levying taxes, appropriating money, annexing or detaching territory, establishing franchises, or granting special rights to certain persons, authorizing public improvements, authorizing the issuance of bonds or borrowing of money, authorizing the purchase or sale of real or personal property, granting or accepting easements, plat or dedication of land to public use, vacating or setting the boundaries of streets or other public places; nor shall this repeal affect any other ordinance of a temporary or special nature or pertaining to subjects not contained in or covered by the Code of Ordinances. All fees and charges established in ordinances or resolutions adopted prior to the adoption of this city code shall remain in effect unless amended in this code or until an ordinance adopting a schedule of fees and charges is adopted or amended.

These are the addendums to the Code of Ordinances and are codified: Title III. Administration 31.

Departments, Boards and Commissions 31.201 Volunteer Fire Department Continued: Appointment of Officers 31.221 Election of Officers 31.261 Firefighters 31.471 Organization, Meetings, Minutes and Expenditures Title VII: Traffic Code 71. Parking Regulations 71.041 Declaration of Snow Emergency; Parking Prohibited 71.081 Prohibiting Parking Areas in Front Yards in Residential Zones 73. Recreational and Other Vehicles 73.081 Motorized Golf Carts, Utility Task Vehicles and Mini Trucks Title IX. General Regulations 91. Animals 91.021 Dogs and Cats 91.061 Kennels 92. Health and Safety: Nuisances 92.191 Nuisance Parking and Storage 92.711 External Solid Fuel-Fired Heating Devices (Outdoor Wood Burning Stoves) Title XI. Business Regulations 117. Garage and Rummage Sale 117.21 Restrictions and Prohibitions Title XV: Land Usage 151. Zoning 151.211 R-1 Single-Family Residential District 151.471 Residential Regulations Section 4. This ordinance adopting the Code of Ordinances shall be a sufficient publication of any ordinance included in it and not previously published in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s official newspaper. The Clerk of the city shall cause a substantial quantity of the Code of Ordinances to be printed for general distribution to the public at actual cost and shall furnish a copy of the Code of Ordinances to the County Law Library or its designated depository. The official copy of this Code of Ordinances shall be marked and kept in the office of the City Clerk.

Section 5. It is the intention of the City Council that, when adopting the Minnesota Basic Code of Ordinances and any supplements or additions to it, that all existing and future amendments to any state or federal rules and statutes adopted by reference or referenced in

NOTICE OF INFORMAL APPOINTMENT OF CO-PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF FILLMORE DISTRICT COURT THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FILE NO.: 23-PR-18-322 In Re: Estate of Estelle Lorraine Kjos Formerly known as Estelle Lorraine Prestemon, Decedent.

Notice is given that an Application for Informal Probate of Will and Informal Appointment of Personal Representative was filed with the Registrar, along with a Will dated April 12, 2012, and a Separate Writing pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 524.2513, dated April 4, 2014. The Registrar accepted the application and appointed Kenneth Swenson, whose address is: 2386 Coral Ct NE, Rochester, Minnesota 55906 and Miles Prestemon, whose address is 6850 TPC Drive, Suite 104, McKinney, Texas 75070, to serve as the co-personal representatives of thedecedentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s estate.

Any heir, devisee or other interested person may be entitled to appointment as. personal representative or may object to the appointment of the personal representatives. Any objection to the appointment of the personal representatives must be filed with the Court, and any properly filed objection will be heard by the Court after notice is provided to interested persons of the date of hearing on the objection.

Unless objections are filed, and unless the Court orders otherwise, the co-personal representatives have the full power to administer the estate, including, after thirty (30) days from the issuance of letters testamentary, the¡ power to sell, encumber, lease, or distribute any interest in real estate owned by the decedent.

Notice is further given that, subject to Minn. Stat. § 524.3-801, all creditors having claims against the decedentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s estate are required to present the claims to the co-­personal representatives or to the Court within four (4) months after the date of this notice or the claims will be barred.

Dated: June 13, 2018 /s/James Atwood Court Administrator Terry A. Chiglo (MN#02438785) Terry A. Chiglo, Attorney P.O. Box 507 Houston, MN 55943 Telephone: (507) 864-3585 ATTORNEY FOR PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE(S) Publish 25,2 Notice of meeting carrolton town board The Carrolton Town Board will meet on Tuesday, July 3 at 7:00 p.m.

Luanne Storelee, Clerk Carrolton Town Board Publish 25,2

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PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED

BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that default has occurred in conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: April 30, 2009 MORTGAGOR: Bradley A. Danielson, as a single man.

MORTGAGEE: Merchants Bank, National Association.

DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING: Recorded May 8, 2009 Fillmore County Recorder, Document No. 371904.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: NONE TRANSACTION AGENT: NONE TRANSACTION AGENT’S MORTGAGE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER ON MORTGAGE: NONE LENDER OR BROKER AND MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ON MORTGAGE: Merchants Bank, National Association RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE SERVICER: Merchants Bank, N.A. MORTGAGED PROPERTY ADDRESS: 30357 Whitmore Street South, Rushford, MN 55971 TAX PARCEL I.D. #: R05.0340.010 LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: Lot Four (4) and the North 40 feet of Lot Five (5) in Block Eleven (11) of the Village of South Rushford, Fillmore County, Minnesota.

COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Fillmore ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $65,000.00 AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE, INCLUDING TAXES, IF ANY, PAID BY MORTGAGEE: $54,395.60 That prior to the commencement of this mortgage foreclosure proceeding Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee complied with all notice requirements as required by statute; That no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows: DATE AND TIME OF SALE: August 2,

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PUBLIC NOTICES 2018 at 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: Fillmore County Courthouse, Main Lobby, Preston, MN to pay the debt then secured by said Mortgage, and taxes, if any, on said premises, and the costs and disbursements, including attorneys’ fees allowed by law subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns unless reduced to Five (5) weeks under MN Stat. §580.07.

TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owneroccupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise provided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must vacate the property if the mortgage is not reinstated under section 580.30 or the property is not redeemed under section 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on February 4, 2019, unless that date falls on a weekend or legal holiday, in which case it is the next weekday, and unless the redemption period is reduced to 5 weeks under MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.

MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROM FINANCIAL OBLIGATION ON MORTGAGE: None “THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAGOR’S PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.” Dated: May 30, 2018 Merchants Bank, National Association Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee USSET, WEINGARDEN AND LIEBO, P.L.L.P. Attorneys for Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee 4500 Park Glen Road #300 Minneapolis, MN 55416 (952) 925-6888 94 - 18-003835 FC THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. Publish 18,25,2,9,16,23

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Full-time inside sales/estimator position. Previous construction experience desirable. Willing to train the right candidate. Apply at Chatfield Lumber Co., Inc., 4707 Co. Rd. 7 S.E., Eyota, MN. 55934. h18,25-o ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT needed at Fillmore Central High School in Harmony. Must be proficient in office practice and computer skills. Interested candidates may download support staff application online at www.fillmorecentral.k12.mn.us or pick one up in any school office and send completed application to: Principal Heath Olstad, Fillmore Central High School, P.O. Box 599, Harmony, MN 55939. Position open until filled. Fillmore Central ISD #2198 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability. h18,25-o BRANDING IRON is looking for a part-time bartender. Some experience preferred. Stop up and fill out an application or any questions, call Steve at 507-765-3388. h18,25-o STRAIGHT TRUCK DRIVER needed with Class B CDL, 6 days/week.

Regular part-time split shift, Rochester to Mabel and back to Rochester. Good driving record and work history required.

Background check and drug testing mandatory for employment. Send resume to: larry@mwt.net or mail to N811 Old River Rd., Stoddard, WI, 54658. Call: 608-792-8457. h28,4,11,18,25-o

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Rushford-Peterson Schools is accepting applications for a

Long-Term substitute for our Elementary Administrative Assistant beginning approximately August 20 through October 26, 2018.

Interested applicants please send a letter of interest and district application (found online at www.r-pschools.com under the District-Employment tab) to angelashepard@r-pschools.com or mail to: Angela Shepard- ES Principal, Rushford-Peterson Schools, PO Box 627, Rushford, MN 55971. Questions about the position can be directed to Angela Shepard at (507) 864-7786, ext. 1005.

The position is open until filled. EOE

SPECIAL E D U C AT I O N PARAPROFESSIONAL needed at Fillmore Central Elementary School in Preston beginning in the 2018-19 school year. 6.75 hours/student contact day with possible transportation route. Interested candidates may download an application at www.fillmorecentral.k12.mn.us or pick one up in the district office. Please send completed application to: Michelle Breitsprecher, Director of Special Education, Fillmore Central Schools, PO Box 50, Preston, MN 55965. Position open until filled.

Fillmore Central ISD #2198 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability. h25,2,9-o AIRLINES ARE HIRING - Get FAA approved hands on Aviation training.

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The First State Bank of Fountain has the following position available: Personal Banker & Compliance Officer The First State Bank of Fountain, a $35MM independent community bank, is seeking an experienced Personal Banker & Compliance Officer. The successful candidate should have a two-year college degree, a minimum of 7 years bank lending and compliance experience, be highly motivated, energetic, computer literate, detail orientated, possess excellent communication skills, and enjoy working in a team environment. Accepting applications through July 16, 2018.

Please send resumes to: Root River State Bank 18 SE 3rd Street, P.O. Box 517 Chatfield, MN 55923 Attn: Chuck Johnson

Connaughty Industries dba Rushford Manufacturing is looking to fill the position of

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Do you want to be apart of a locally owned company where you will be treated as a person, not a number? Rushford Manufacturing is a full service manufacturer which includes engineering and design services as well as fabrications and machining services. Responsibilities include: ability to set up and operate manual and CNC equipment, ability to read 2D and 3D prints, operate inspection equipment such as mircometers, calipers and gauges, utilize mastercam software a plus. Minimum requirements include: positive attitude, ability to multi-task, mechanical aptitude, strong attention to detail. Compensation based upon abilities.

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Congratulations to the R-P Trojans baseball team on their trip to State!

Abby Malone represented Rushford-Peterson High School at Girls State at Bethel University June 10-16. Girls State is a week-long conference intended to promote Americanism and good citizenship.

Students learn more about governmental affairs by participating in mock government. They also get the chance to meet students from across the state, where they may form lasting friendships with students who have similar interests.

Malone is the daughter of Shelly and Chris Malone. Her appearance at Girls State is sponsored by the Peterson American Legion Auxiliary. There were no applicants for Boys State this year.

Congrats to the R-P Trap team on placing 31st in Class 3A at the Trap Shooting Championship.

Many kids shot better than their season average, learned a lot, and got better. Great season!!

Congratulations to RPH Track Team Members, Nicole Blagsvedt and Cullan Olson for making it to the State Track Meet on June 8th! Great job!

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