Waterama button to take on new shape

June 20, 1963 – The Glenwood Post Office announced that a new five-digit zip code would need to be included on all mailing addresses. The announcement was made by Postmaster Chris Femrite. 

Alphin Mesa, the Congolese student who had spent the year with Rev. Thomas Zemek and his family, was nearly ready to leave Glenwood. He was enrolled at St. Cloud State College, though the decision on whether or not he would attend was still up to the International Christian Youth Exchange, which had sponsored his time in this country.

Bass and walleye limits were being caught regularly on area lakes. Seekers of panfish were also reporting success.

June 21, 1973 – Glenwood voters OK’d a proposal to build a new clinic next to the hospital. The vote was 474 to 32, a smaller total than had been anticipated but, city officials said, left little doubt as to where the voters stood on the issue. 

Palmer Arness, a Gilchrist Township farmer, was named to the Pope County Board of Commissioners to succeed the late Otto Solbrekken. Solbrekken had been elected to his third four-year term in November but had since died. Arness was active in his community and had served on the Gilchrist Township Board.

The American Legion and Auxiliary officers were pictured in the Tribune. They included Freeman Ramberg, Jerry Leedahl, Ron Lovehaug, Art Stone, Bob Robards, Frank Swenson, Bob O’Fallon, Bill McCann, Cliff Anton, Harriet Overby, Donis Chapman, Dorothy Halverson, Millies Johnson, Mil Meyer, Gwen Shea, and Shirley Zemke.

June 23, 1983 – Angela Thomson, Kristi Hagen and Margaret Aal were crowned the new royalty at the annual Midsommernattsfest, sponsored by the area Sons of Norway at the Starbuck Park. Stepping down from their positions the previous year were Valerie Vold, Sara Larson and Laurie Hagen.

The Cyrus Farmers Elevator had signed a contract with a North Dakota construction firm to build a 26-car grain-loading facility in Glenwood adjacent to the Soo Line yards. Elevator general manager, Ken Ling said that the facility would feature four silo units, rising 140 feet above the main structure. 

The Minnesota Orchestra was expected to premiere an original composition, Deep Summer Music, by Libby Larsen, at its performance at the Terrace Mill. Larsen had been commissioned by the mill foundation to do the piece. This was the third year the orchestra would appear at the mill. 

June 21, 1993 – According to statistical estimates made by the American Cancer Society, 43 new cases of cancer would be diagnosed in Pope County in 1993. Twenty-one people would die from the disease. According to the data gathered by the Minnesota Department of Health and Minnesota Cancer Surveillance System, the number of cancer cases in the country for a three-year period from 1988-1990 was down from what was expected.

There were to be may new faces in Glenwood as Dairyland Computer and Consulting Company held its annual summer conference. Over 280 clients from nearly 100 facilities in Glenwood, as far away as Fort Lauderdale, Fla., were to attend the week-long conference held at Minnewaska Area High School.

Paul Kirkwold, who farms near Starbuck, was pictured on the front page of the Tribune taking advantage of dry, sunny weather to bale hay cut earlier. He had told the Tribune that his first cutting looked pretty good and that the rest of his crop was progressing well. 

June 23, 2003 – In a time of budget shortfalls and number crunching for local government throughout Minnesota, the Pope County Board followed in the footsteps of the Glenwood City Commission last week and asked its department heads to make significant cuts in their budgets.

The board had decided at its regular meeting to ask each department head to show the board how his or her department would be affected by both 15 and 25 percent cut in funding. 

The legacy of the Lakeside Ballroom will surely be carried on if the turnout at the last public meeting on the issue is any indication. The general consensus among those in the large and enthusiastic crowd was that Lakeside should be rebuilt. 

June 17, 2013 – Same idea.. new Shape! Heading into the 58th annual Waterama celebration, the traditional Waterama buttons have undergone a  makeover. They’ll still feature the 2013 Waterama Royalty, but with a fun, new oval shape.

Minnewaska Area Day Treatment Principal Diane Cordes is saying farewell to the MAS District and Pope County after being named superintendent in Breckenridge. After 25 years in the district with a two-year leave of absence to be a Youth and Family Ministry director at Bethesda Lutheran Church in Alexandria and the last five years being spent at the Day Treatment school, Cordes is saying goodbye. 

Glenwood City Commissioners raised the annual donation to the Minnewaska Lake Association by $1,000 to help the group fight Eurasian Milfoil in the lake.