Local supermarkets seeing a beef shortage

August 1, 1963 – Annele Suojanen, a Finnish Foreign exchange student, joined her Glenwood family, Oliver and Dorothy Hoplin and girls, for the coming school year. She noted that Glenwoodites “smiled all the time.” “Finns keep things bottled up,” she said.

Outboard motors were the target of area thieves. Several had been carried off Lake Osakis in broad daylight. County lake residents were also reporting such items missing. 

Top scorers in ladies’ day golf at Minnewaska Golf Club were Eleanor Cheeseman, Helen Larson, Fern Swedenburg, Della Ostrander, Marge Powers, Gladys Johnson, Ann Hansen, Pat Brown, Edith Graves, Mary Gilman, Frances Hallett and Shirley Sharp. 

Resort owners reported that, though fishermen were catching northerns and panfish, no catches were in themselves remarkable. Walt Chapman, of Walt’s Landing on Lake Pelican, said that sunfish were getting the most attention.

Shoppers at Callaghan’s Hardware on Crazy Days could buy freezers for as little as $180 and televisions for as little as $140. 

August 2, 1973 – Rain fell around Waterama’s major events the previous weekend. Harlan Heidecker had served as admiral of the annual event. Pam Erickson was crowned Waterama queen. Her princesses were Lois Blair and Ingrid Pfahl. Miss Congeniality was Carey Halvorson. Among the annual Kiddie Parade winners were Dan and Don Ostrander, Dick Lee, Sara Peterson, Kevin and Brenda Bodeker, Cindy Barsness, Tom Schmainda, Debbie Stavem and Steven Troen. Senior Waterama Royalty were Clara Swanson of the Glenwood Retirement Home and Ole N. Barsness of the Lakeview Nursing Home. 

Local supermarkets were beginning to note shortages of beef products as a result of a ceiling set on retail beef prices. Packing plants had either shut down or cut down the number of their employees. Price controls were expected to last until mid-September.

August 4, 1983 – The small grain harvest was underway in Pope County. Pictured in the Tribune atop their combines were Owen Rouch Jr. and Pat Gaffaney. Harvest had just begun, however, and results had not yet been determined. 

The Glenwood school board announced that it would no longer provide drivers’ training as part of the high school curriculum. The board said that a private Alexandria company would be available for drivers’ ed. 

Karla Mjoness was crowned Miss Glenwood Waterama with princesses Kris Bremseth and Kim Peterson, Miss Congeniality Shannon Endres, Junior Queen Jessica Zavadil and Tonya Grammentz, Junior Princess. Endres’ dad, Bill, had served as admiral for the annual events. 

August 2, 1993 – John P. Shea, of Glenwood, had joined the Pope County Tribune staff in advertising sales. A Glenwood native, he was a 1968 graduate of Glenwood High School who studied art for several years at St. Cloud State University.

Glenwood Retirement Village had received what it had been looking for for several months, a letter from the office of Housing and Urban Development that it could prepay a $197,000 loan. GRV Executive Director Gordon Amble flew to Washington the previous Monday to see if he could get the slow process moving and left Washington with the letter Tuesday night. 

Rose Hanson, a resident at the Glenwood Retirement Village, celebrated her 100th birthday on July 27 with family and friends. She was born on July 27, 1893, to Christian and Inge Hegg in Gilchrist Township. She was married to Sam Hanson and they had three children, Walter Hanson, Florence Arneson and Violet Mitchell.

August 4, 2003 – Valeeporn Lartviriyavanich, a 2000-2001 foreign exchange student from Bangkok, Thailand, had come back to Minnesota to visit her host family Marvin and Kathy Hoffman. She went on a trip with them to Texas to visit her host sister and went to the Sheppard Air Force base near Wichita Falls. 

David Martelli and Jewfong Dai would like to encourage people to ride bicycles more. They are seeing the U.S.A. from the seats of their two bikes in their attempt to encourage others to ride more. The couple started June 8 from Medford, Ore., and are headed around the country and back to Medford on a trip they expect to take about six months. “We have no route; we did zero planning,” and Martelli, a veteran of a number of bicycle trips of up to 3,500 miles. 

July 29, 2013 – Rachel Riley, daughter of Tim and Diane Riley of Glenwood, was crowned 2014 Waterama Queen at the coronation ceremony Sunday night at the bandshell in City Park. Pictured in the Tribune, Rachel shows some emotion as last year’s queen Alexia Amundson places the royal robe around her shoulders.

If all goes according to plan, construction of a new GrandStay Hotel & Suites will begin this fall and be open for business by April, according to local owners who are proposing the hotel project. 

Luke Vaughn, of Bloomington, Minn.,  caught a trophy walleye on July 5 on a Pope County lake. It was Luke’s first time walleye fishing. The walleye measured 28.5 inches long and was estimated to weigh 9 and 1/2 pounds.