On the Road with Jason Davis visits Terrace

June 28, 1962 – Bob DeHaven, WCCO Radio personality, was expected to emcee the annual Waterama celebration. Admiral Harvey Gloege was encouraging the area businesses to complete their floats for the parade.

Barsness Lutheran Church dedicated the new educational wing. The first planning committee for the unit had included John Peterson, Paul Hagen and Earl Fingerson. Pastor of the church was also observing the 95th anniversary of its inception as a congregation.

Pictured in the Tribune were Glenwood Boy Scouts off to Camp Wilderness for a week. They included Paul Johnson, Mark Hoplin, Tom Brown, Dennis Hagen, Tom Warfield, John Lewis, Bruce Carlson, Greg Gross and adult leader, Don Hoplin.

June 29, 1972 – Sixteen-year-old Kathy Bryce of Glenwood was elected president of the Minnesota 4-H Federation during a junior leadership conference held at the state fairgrounds in St. Paul. She was the second county 4-Her to head this group in two years. Nancy Mrnak had served as president in 1970-71.

Residents of the county all became Scandinavian for a day or so with the celebration of summer solstice, Midsommernattsfest, in Glenwood. This was the first local observance of the event. Joyce Femrite was crowned queen of the celebration. Other candidates included Ann Flom, Debbie Gandrud, Joan Rambeck and Debra Whittemore.

More than 100 graduated of Glenwood High School during the “Roarin’ ‘20s” returned to town for a school reunion. Traveling the furthest were Louise Hume Swanson, Lucille Berry Erickson, Dora Berry Bowden, Clifford Olson and Esther Kuehn. Special guests were Myrtle Olson and Margot Wollan Wells.

July 1, 1982 – Nearly 7,000 people were expected to turn out for the second Minnesota Orchestra concert at the Terrace Mill. The concert had drawn 4,000 people to the quiet hamlet the previous year. Ralph Halstead and Gilman Braaten were pictured in the Tribune putting finishing touches on a mill foundation project, a log cabin in the mill pond district.

Extension agent Jack Morris called the crop outlook “very good” despite slow growth due to a colder than usual late spring. Morris said, “If we get a few hot days, the corn and beans will really start popping.”

Queen Valerie Vold and princesses, Sara Larson and Laurie Hagen, ruled over the annual Midsommernattsfest. Vold was crowned by previous queen, Becky Brandt.

June 29, 1992 – Michael Corkill-Bomgaars had been contacted by some Glenwood officials who were concerned about the need for more housing in town and use for the old Central High School building. He said the county Housing and Redevelopment Authority (HRA) could use its taxing authority to deal with the housing issues as well as economic development.

Assistant county attorney, Belvin Doebbert, reported to the Pope County Board of commissioners that engineers (RCM) had refused to accept any “culpability” for the expense of installing a berm in County Ditch No. 8. The berm was required by the Corps of Engineers after problems arose on CD 8 when the contractor, Cummerford Construction, put ditch spoils in the wetland area.

Out of the 8,000 entries in Minnesota, David Ask Sr. of Glenwood placed third for the Father of the Year in 1992. The entry was sent in by his son, David Ask Jr. of Glenwood as an assignment in his college composition class at Minnewaska Area High School. Pictured in the Tribune with their father were Kirsten, David Jr. and Andrew. Third place earned the Ask family a season pass to Valley Fair.

July 1, 2002 – Ten-year-old James Gabrielson entered his invention into the annual E.N. Nordgaard Elementary School inventor’s fair and was one of the top 10 inventors. He advanced and tied for first place at the state fair in the Kids Choice Award category. His invention was the Lindy Rig Organizer, developed to avoid getting his Lindy Rigs tangled with the other lures in his tackle box and taking time away from fishing to untangle the lures.

The Pope County Sheriff’s Department and Pope County Coalition of Lakes Association (COLA) were working together to help property owners, both residential and seasonal, protect their properties against burglary, theft and vandalism through the Neighborhood Watch and Operation Identification programs. Richard Heimkes and Richard Kangas were spearheading the effort to revitalize the programs. Heimkes said, “We were concerned about lake properties because so much of that property is vacant for a portion of the yea, the perpetrator has free land and a lot of open ground and nothing gets found until the opening of fishing season.

July 2, 2012 – The National Weather Service had issued a heat advisory for Monday, July 2 in Pope County and could be issued through the latter part of the week. Heat index values would soar to 100  to 108 across much of central and southern Minnesota.

The construction of a new, three-story, 56-unit hotel with a 24-hour free-standing diner took another step forward when the Glenwood City Commission unanimously approved a conditional-use permit to allow construction of the hotel complex.

Seven area girls would compete for the chance to be the 9th Annual Miss Minnewaska queen when the coronation took place on Sunday of Starbuck’s Heritage Days celebration. They were Connor Olson, Sharaya Schwardt, Samantha Anderson, Julia Henke, Katie Rutledge, Renae Mullins and Tara Engebretson.

A four-day class on goofing off was taught by clown Professor Friendly (a.k.a. Bob Jensen of Princeton) at the Terrace Mill. The annual Clown Academy drew the attention of TV journalist Jason Davis. His half-hour program, On the Road with Jason Davis, was aired on Twin Cities’ 5 Eyewitness News every Sunday night.