Waterama officials announce 2014 to be a ‘musical year’

July 16, 1964 – Construction was about to begin on a new headquarters building for Assembly Homes. The building would be located across the street from the group’s Lakeview Nursing Home on Lakeshore Drive.

Gordon Moe was elected chairman of the Glenwood school board. Serving with Moe were Hames Stradtman, Dr. Gordon Lee, Earl Fingerson and Grant Hustad.

Foreign students were beginning to arrive in the area for the 1964 school year. At Villard, Ursula Baum, of Nordenham, West Germany, would live with the Elmer Polzines in Leven Township, and in Glenwood, Martin Kimmel, of Vienna, Austria, was coming to spend the year with the James Gilman family.

Myrtle Olson, longtime, respected Glenwood teacher and administrator was named parade marshal for the annual Waterama Sunday parade. Olson had retired in 1960 after being in the school system since 1918.

July 18, 1974 – Waterama officials were announcing that this was to be a “musical year” for the annual summer celebration. Expected for the parade, for example, were the Suhrah Temple Shrine drum and bugle corps, a premier marching unit in the state.

The annual 4-H Demonstration Day was held. Among the winners were Diane Bryce, Karen Forbord, Denise Bennett, Joyce Elvehjem, Christine Morris and Michelle Morris.

It was announced that Glenwood’s Cenex terminal would double in size to allow for storage of greater amounts of propane as well as gas and oil. Willis Bremseth, manager of the local terminal, said that a dike would need to be built around the storage tanks, according to Minnesota Pollution Control Agency regulations.

Glenwood’s legion baseball team was in the midst of its season. Members of the team were Tim Bremseth, Jeff Shaub Dean Meyer, John Gloege, Gordy Moen, Brad Braaten, Mark Hovren, Bruce Haugen, Ron Robinson, Wes Schultz, Bill Neuenfeldt, Dave Kuhns, Keith Kerfeld, Harley Hanson and coach Judd Peterson.

July 19, 1984 – The DeBoer Potato Company, a Glenwood produce company since 1947, changed hands when it was sold to Charles Olson, owner of an Alexandria produce company and a former Glenwood resident. Ray and Dennis DeBoer sold their firm to Olson, who had bagged potatoes for DeBoer when he was 15 years old.  

Two Kandiyohi County residents were killed in a car accident in Gilchrist Township, Pope County. The two were in a single car which rolled several times during the accident. Both were thrown from the vehicle.

The city of Glenwood told its residents that there would we spraying for mosquitoes before the annual Waterama Celebration.

July 18, 1994 – A $514,000 federal grant had been put to use at the Glenhaven Manor. The 30-unit low-rent housing complex was to have 32 units, an enlarged community center and two new parking lots thanks to the grant money provided by the Housing Urban Development’s Comprehensive Improvement Assistance Program. The work was scheduled to be completed by October.

Members of the United Transportation Union (UTU), one of the 17 unions that represented Soo Line employees, had gone on strike early the previous Thursday morning. The UTU had been operating under the same contract since 1988 and was seeking the same benefits for members as similar employees got on other similar-sized railroads.

Katie Hoffmann, a 16-year-old from Villard, was participating in the Rotary Club’s foreign exchange program and was to live in the Faeroe Islands, located in the North Atlantic Ocean between Iceland and Norway, for one year. Hoffmann had just completed her sophomore year at Minnewaska Area High School.

Jaysan Will Anderson was the first baby born in June, which was Dairy Month. He was pictured in the Tribune with his mother, Sandra Nygaard, and Meredith Fredlin, the Pope County dairy princess, and Lisa Hollerman, the Pope County dairy attendant. Jaysan was born June 18 at the Glacial Ridge Hospital.

July 12, 2004 – A stream-powered train from Canadian Pacific Railways stopped by Glenwood on Wednesday, July 7, before heading west the next morning. People gathered at the rail yard east of Glenwood Wednesday evening to view the antique locomotive and restored passenger train cars. Thursday morning, the train departed west through Lowry. Money from ticket sales from railroad workers to ride the train was donated to the Hearts and Hands food shelf of Pope County.

“I’ll bet you can’t talk to anyone in the three-state area who hasn’t either been here, or knows someone who’s been here.” That’s according to Darren Anderson, who with his wife, Angie, were the new owners of the Minnewaska House between Glenwood and Starbuck. It was the reputation for being a great place to go out for dinner and dancing that the Andersons wanted to reawaken at the popular eating spot.   

July 14, 2014 – Starbuck VFW Post 4582 won five games in six days and won its own tournament over the weekend. On Tuesday Starbuck knocked off Wilmar in a league game, 8-2. On Saturday Starbuck won the opening game of the tournament they were hosting, defeating Sauk Centre 2-1.

Glenwood’s city crew members were chosen as the Waterama 2014 Grande Day Parade Marshals. The Glenwood City crew works together as a team to keep the city beautiful and running smoothly throughout the year. They are especially busy during Waterama, putting in long hours behind the scenes. The city crew included Mike Skeates, Trevor Larson, Mike Frederick, Dave Perryman, Gary Koubsky, Tait Blair and Andy Jergenson.

Local attorney JoEllen Doebbert has been elected to serve as an officer of the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Probate and Trust Law Section. Doebbert was elected to serve as treasurer at the Section’s Probate and Trust law Conference on June 3, 2014. Her term begins July 1.