Lindberg resigns as Villard’s superintendent

April 14, 1955 – Three fishermen from this county paid fines amounting to more than $500.00 for illegal spearing of fish in Lake Reno on Friday night of last week. Game Warden Walter Trippe of Pope County with five helpers cornered the fishermen and caught them in the act of spearing and with fish in their possession.

The senior class play, “Night of January 16th” which will be presented on Friday and Saturday evenings, April 22 and 23, will be something new and different. This play, to the best of our knowledge, is the first one to be presented by a senior class at Glenwood High School in which the audience takes such an active and decisive part. With Myrna Johnson, who plays the leading part, on trial for the murder of a famous financial genius, the jury selected from the audience is given the problem of deciding whether she is guilty or innocent.

John Shea, salesman for the Gloege Chevrolet Company, returned to the dealership today after having been awarded membership in the exclusive “100-50 Car Club,” Chevrolet’s national honor organization for retail salesmen. As a member of this club he was a guest of honor at a banquet at zone headquarters, at Fargo, N.D. Chevrolet zone officials and zone leaders of the National Club of Honor Club Officers welcomed him.

April 15, 1965 – Three resignations from the Glenwood school faculty were announced at a regular board meeting. They were Bernadine Albrecht, home economics; Sharon Kinden, junior high English; Nancy Linder, girls’ phy ed and health education.

William Lindberg resigned as Villard’s superintendent of schools. He had been in Villard for four years and resigned to take a similar position in Fairfax.

Pope County was the only west central Minnesota county to cut real estate taxes. The county’s taxes for 1965 declined by over $17,000; surrounding counties went up from just over $540,000 in Stearns to just over $112,000 in Swift. The statewide average tax rate was at 224.80 while Pope County’s rate was at 223.4 mills.

April 17, 1975 – Starbuck’s plan for a new 19-bed hospital was okay-ed by the Central Minnesota Health Planning Council. The structure was originally intended to be built adjacent to the Minnewaska Lutheran Home.

Fourteen Glenwood declam students talked their way into region action. The students were Jane Kinney, Mike Stack-pool, Kathy Myrom, Julie Hanson, Eileen Halvorson, Val Chan, Jackie Christman, Karen Bommersbach, Diane Bryce, Sandy Peterson, Carmen Oeltjen and Gwen Mortenson.

The Glenwood math team captured third place in the senior division of a contest at Bemidji State.

April 18, 1985 – Gerald Springer was pictured in the Tribune as he dragged a field for Arnold Tank near Villard. Many area farmers had begun planting small grains.

1985 was a year when the ice left Minnewaska with a whimper, not a bang, as it did in some years. The ice melted quietly away in 70 degree temperatures on April 16. The ice also disappeared from Lake Amelia on that date, and Lake Reno’s ice was on the way out. From records kept since 1906, the earliest ice-out date was March 25 in 1942 with the latest being April 30 in 1965

Olga Dingwall was honored as the Lowry Citizen of the Year. As well as serving in her church and as a community volunteer, Mrs. Dingwall had been the school cook for the entire 29 years of the Lowry lunch program.

April 17, 1995 – Eleven Minnewaska Area High School students earned the opportunity to attend the state speech tournament in Stillwater. They were Curtis Danielson, Melissa Listug, Leah Smith, Marin Hustad, Travis Nelson, Trisha Rust, David Fischer, Carrie Nevitt, Elisabeth Peterson, Jenny Schlief and Erin Philipson.

Over $20,000 in bad checks were passed in 1994 according to an article published in the Tribune in April 1995. Over 20 percent of those checks were turned over to the county attorney’s office for prosecution, with 75-80 percent settled between the writer and receiver.

April 18, 2005 – Minnewaska FOCUS Group (Focus on Changing Unhealthy Situations) staged a mock drunk driving accident. Two cars were donated and driven by group members and crashed in the MAHS parking lot for students in grades 9-12 to watch. One student was airlifted from the scene by helicopter. A video was shown after the accident of reactions from parents of students involved in the accident. This demonstration allowed students to really feel some of the consequences without actually living the horrible experience.

Minnewaska Area High School hosted its 2005 prom with the theme “A Moonlight Dance.”

To highlight the many ways dairy products add variety and flavor to our diets, area cooks were invited to share their best recipes in the 2005 West Central Dairy Days Recipe Contest. Recipes had to include at least two dairy products and could be entered under a variety of categories The first-place winner would receive $30.

In celebration of their 20th anniversary, the Pope County Hospice program presented The Good Death, a moving play that provided a glimpse into a family’s experience and emotional journey while caring for a loved one at home. The play was open to the public.

April 13, 2015 – Some remnants of Minnewaska’s ice covering were resting on shore near Morning Glory Gardens on the northwest side of the lake last Tuesday. Lake Minnewaska lost its ice covering last week with the first official ice-free day on April 8. The median ice-out dates for Lake Minnewaska are between April 15 and April 21, so the ice left the lake a bit earlier this year thanks to some warm sunny days in March and some very windy days, once the ice started to deteriorate in April. Although most of the lake was open by Monday, April 6, a stubborn sheet of ice lingered in a bay near Minnewaska Area High School through April 7 and some slush was still evident on the Starbuck side of the lake through Tuesday. That ice was completely gone by Thursday, April 8.

Plans for the Fremad building in downtown Glenwood were discussed at the April 7 Pope County Board of Commissioners meeting, and it looks like the wait continues. Pope County Coordinator Jim Thoreen explained that the Minnesota Historical Society has been unable to send an inspector, but hopes to send one soon.

From fencing demonstrations by Jeffrey Ozanne to a visit from the Minnesota Zoo the Pope County Community Expo featured something for everyone last Saturday. More than 150 vendors set up displays throughout Minnewaska Area High School, transforming the space into an information and shopping superstore for the day. Pictured in the Tribune was Ralph Gaffaney who worked the front booth for the Glenwood Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce and welcomed those who attended the Expo. Thousands of area residents showed up for the annual event.