Good Samaritan Society-Glenwood Lakeview to close

Aug. 27, 1964 – The “holding action” organized by the National Farmers Organization (NFO) to take beef cattle and hogs out of the market was apparently working. Area highways were manned by NFO members to keep tabs on truckers. An incident at the intersection of Highways 55 and 29 at Glenwood added fuel to the fire.

Robert Tervola, of Henning, was named assistant county agent for Pope County. He had been active in Ottertail County 4-H as a youngster.

The Minnewaska Concert Association kicked off its annual drive for members. Gail Twite was chair of the campaign. She was assisted by Francis Hallett and Murel Brier.

School was about to begin in Villard. Members of the faculty included Rovert Lommel, Edward Noble, Carl Henager, Bruce Thorfinnson, Mrs. Earl Fingerson, Ruth Metaweh, Russ Torfin, Gary Magnuson, Nora McCarty, Rosella Terhaar, Emily Elliott and Myrtle Kellodge.

Aug. 29, 1974 – Pope County residents donated 225 pints of blood during the visit of the Red Cross Bloodmobile to the county. Awarded four-gallon pins were Harlan Rajdl, of Villard, and Mrs. James Berg, of Starbuck, while Courtney Engebretson, of Starbuck, got his three-gallon pin.

School was about to start in District No. 612 and, while talks continued, teachers would begin the year without a contract. New teachers in the district included Rich Make, Gary Ekdahl, Darrell Bacon, Bill Gilman, Doug Hamilton, Roger Lykins, Joan Nelson, Janine Scheider and Sherry Nelson.

Four of five area girls’ teams were expected to kick off their seasons on the road. The Glenwood Lakers were on their way to New London, Starbuck was off to Bellingham, Brooten to Belgrade and Kensington to Belview. Villard’s season would open a week later with the Mallards traveling to Ashby.

Aug. 30, 1984 – Rain had helped some crops in the area but fields as close as a mile went without and looked poor. County agent Jack Morris said that farmers had a good small grains crop and that the rain would help many farmers in the county harvest good corn and soybean yields as well. 

Opening day enrollment in the Glenwood-Lowry district was at 1,037, down 14 from the previous year’s number.

The Red Cross Bloodmobile garnered 175 pints in a visit to Glenwood. Awarded seven-gallon pins were Ralph Martin and Jerry Leedahl. Organizers of the visit said that the number of donations was better than average.

Harold Jaeger was selling most of the 40,000 used books he had at his business on First Avenue Southeast. He told the Tribune that he didn’t take pornography. “Well,” he said, “I take them to get them out of circulation. We burn wood. They give off pretty good heat.”

Aug. 29, 1994 – The school doors of the Minnewaska Area Schools District were to open Tuesday, Sept. 6. The projected enrollment was expected to be 1,867, a decrease of 13 students from opening day the previous year. New teachers at MAHS included Wade Amundson, Helen Olson and Meribeth Noyes. Todd Sauer had been hired as the adaptive physical education teacher, and he was to teach in all four schools.

Two people were cut but not seriously injured after the airplane they had been flying crash-landed at the Glenwood Municipal Airport. According to the Glenwood Police Department, the aircraft had taken off from the airport’s grass runway which crossed the paved runway. The people in the plane said the plane had lost power shortly after takeoff. The pilot had gotten the plane turned around and headed back to the airport, but the plane flipped over when it landed.

The next five months were to be a global adventure for Ann Ogdahl of Glenwood as she was to study and travel around the world. She was one of 28 St. Olaf College students who were to leave for the college’s Global Semester, a tour of at least eight countries. She would fulfill five credits in the countries of Egypt, India, Japan and China.

Aug. 23, 2004 – At least one Minnewaska Area Elementary School would close in the 2005-2006 school year if the fall 2004 referendum was not passed. That was a result of the action taken by the Minnewaska Area School Board accepting its resource reallocation committee’s recommendations for building utilization and school district goals at the Aug. 17 Minnewaska Area Schools Board meeting. The recommendations detailed the district’s options for housing elementary students if the Fall 2004 referendum was passed, as well as if it wasn’t.

Bidding on the new Lakeside Ballroom would begin the third or fourth week of September, with construction following by mid-October, according to Glenwood City Commissioners. The commission met on Aug 18 to discuss budgeting changes and plans for the new ballroom, narrowing down some of the additions and dividing up costs between the restaurant and the base building.

Aug. 25, 2014 – Minnewaska Area Schools approved a bond vote question that would authorize the district to sell a 20-year bond for school building improvements in Glenwood, Starbuck and at Minnewaska Area High School for $8,750,000. The primary issue was the roof at Minnewaska Area High School, which, with flashing replacement or repair and related masonry work, would cost nearly $5 million. The balance of the project would include roof work at Minnewaska Elementary, outdoor facility work at MAHS, including repair of the parking lot, tennis courts and running track, some security upgrades at all three schools, rewiring of the buildings for better technology, and emergency repairs at the Minnewaska Day Treatment Center in Starbuck.

A population of zebra mussels, an aquatic invasive species (AIS) first discovered in Lake Minnewaska last year, seems to be increasing in the lake. A few weeks ago, when the City of Glenwood removed some of the beach equipment from the lake, scores of small mussels were found attached to some of that equipment. Zebra mussels are small, fingernail-sized animals that attach to solid surfaces in water.

The Good Samaritan Society-Glenwood Lakeview has given a 60-day notice to the State of Minnesota that it will be closing on or around Oct. 20 of this year, according to a recent news release. The Glenwood Lakeview Center and the senior services environment in the area have had several challenges that make daily operations difficult, according to the news release.

The first annual Glacial Lakes Plein Air festival, held Aug. 13-16, attracted artists from across the state. After attending workshops, artists spread throughout the area to find inspiration and paint outdoor scenes. Some of the sites painted included Peters Resort, the Terrace Mill and the Pope County Museum grounds. In all, 15 artists showed the results of three days of painting. Of the 32 paintings shown, 12 were sold in the one-day silent auction. A reception was held on Aug. 16 at the Pope County Museum.