New watering system for golf course to be installed

Nov. 22, 1962 – Hillier of Glenwood was honored as she took her post as fifth district president for the VFW Auxiliary. Also pictured with Hillier were Ethel Teach, fifth district musician, and Clara Reents, district secretary. Both were also from Glenwood. 

Leven Township farmer L.C. Schumacher was elected to chair the Pope County Agricultural Society, also known as the fair board. Elected to serve with Schumacher were Courtney Engebretson, Gilman Gandrud, Ralph Cheeseman, Orville Swenson, N. P. Hansen, Peters Jacobson and Don Reents. Holdover directors were Magnus Troen, Fred Jellum and Lewis Elder.  

Nov. 23, 1972 – Two Glenwood students placed well in the state’s 22nd annual speech festival at St. Cloud State College. They were Deb Churchill, a junior who participated in the hexathon, six speech events, three in interpretation and three in speech, and Sue Peterson, a junior who participated in the dual categories of interpretation and speaking. Other entrants were Jodi Bogie, Sandy Peterson and Julie Hanson. 

Nov. 25, 1982 – School superintendent N. H. Kerfeld, reported to the board of education that he was concerned because participation in the school lunch program was down. One hundred fewer students were using the program than had the previous year, he told the board, though enrollment figures were only down by 40.

Members of the Minnewaska Golf Club agreed to installation of a new watering system for the nine-hole golf course. The cost of the project, expected to begin in the spring, was around $50,000. Elected to the board of the club were Roger Salonen, Wylie Bogie and Ron Erno. They joined Byron Holm, Earl Rundgren and Al Stellner.

Deer registration stations had been busy over the weekend, with the county’s seven reporting stations adding up to 542 deer. Ninety-three of the 130 registered at Minnewaska Service in Starbuck were bucks. 

Nov. 23, 1992 –  The Lowry school, a fixture in the Lowry community since 1902, fell to the wrecking ball and was pictured in the Tribune. The newer gymnasium and locker room/bathroom addition between the gym and the old school were saved and would eventually become the community center in Lowry. 

The Joint Powers Board of Education that runs Minnewaska Area High School approved starting a girls’ swim team for the fall of 1993. Estimated costs to begin the program were $9,458. Of this cost approximately $972 would be one-time costs for equipment. 

Nov. 25, 2002 – Rural law enforcement officers wear a variety of hats in the course of their work. Pope County Deputy Sheriff Chris Johnson put on his obstetrician’s cap Wednesday night, and the results proved heroic. The deputy came to the assistance of a married couple, who was en route to the Douglas County Hospital along State Highway 104 when the woman unexpectedly went into labor. 

Johnson performed a breech-birth delivery, then he used CPR to save the baby girls’ life as ambulance crews arrived on the scene. Both the mother and the child survived the trip to Glacial Ridge Hospital and were released with a clean bill of health Thursday. 

The family asked not to be identified in media reports.

Johnson called the events “stressful,” but the baby’s family was fortunate that a deputy with Johnson’s extensive medical -response training and experience was on call Wednesday night. 

Nov. 26, 2012 – Minnewaska Area Board of Education member, community members, parents, students, a legislator and school administrators gathered at Minnewaska Area High School Monday night to put a huge issue on the table: Can Minnewaska revive the ag program? Meeting attendees packed the board room to talk with Joel Larsen, program specialist for ag education with the Minnesota Department of Education, and explore that question. 

With little discussion, the Pope County Board of Commissioners accepted a letter of resignation from Wayne Anderson, Pope County Assessor. The letter was received Nov. 14; Anderson’s resignation is effective Dec. 31, it was stated. 

A recount confirmed that Jack Christman won the city race. According to Glenwood Finance Officer Brenda Sargent, who conducted the recount with election judges Heidi Winter and Betty Barsness, the vote total changed by just one vote and that was an absentee ballot and added to Shannon Bodeker’s total. The recount was conducted at the community room in the Pope County Courthouse last Tuesday.