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Wednesday, February 18, 2015 No. 7

One Dollar

Area women transform shirts

into quilts in memory of a friend
By Marilyn Anderson
WEST CONCORD On Sunday, February 8, twenty-three
friends and family members of Judy
Kinsey and the late Jim Kinsey
were invited to a celebration at
the Kinsey farm, six miles west of
Pine Island. The celebration provided the opportunity for those
involved in making seven quilts
from 35 plaid shirts that had belonged to Jim to present them to
recipients who were unaware of
the project.
Judy and Jim and their two children, Julie and James, moved to a
small farm near Berne in 1978.
Julie (now Julie Buresh, living in
Kasson with her family) and James
(West Concord, with his wife Tami)
graduated from Pine Island High
School. Judy and Jim were active
in area organizations, many associated with youth Girl Scouts,
Boy Scouts, 4-H, and AFS. Judy
has also served as accompanist
for the Landaires and the choir at
Lands Lutheran Church near Zumbrota. It was through many of these
connections that Judy sought help
with the quilting project to honor
her husband who died unexpectedly July 15, 2014, at Saint Marys Recipients of the quilts were unaware of the project until the surprise was revealed at the celebration at the
Hospital in Rochester.
Kinsey farm on February 8. Each quilt was presented by the person who had cut and sewn the shirts that were
The project

used in making the quilt top. Seated: Analisa Buresh (Jims granddaughter), Judy Kinsey (wife), and
After Jim died, Judy was going Alexandra Buresh (granddaughter). Standing: Jean Helen Kinsey (Jims sister), James Kinsey (son), Denny
through his things and counted 35 Heimer (friend), and Julie Buresh (daughter).

nice shirts. Some dress blue or

white, but mostly plaid, she said.
Jim loved plaid shirts. I thought
it would be nice if we could do
something to remember him. Judy
wondered if a quilt could be made
from the plaid shirts for their two
children. She contacted her friend,
Karen Heimer of Mazeppa, for
advice. Heimer, in turn, sought
advice from another quilter, Kathy
Gaines of Rochester, and the project
was on.
Gaines suggested the quilt pattern Yellow Brick Road as it
calls for fat quarters, which are
approximately equal to the amount
of fabric in the back of a mans
shirt. The completed quilt size
would be 57x75 inches. With 35

shirts, there would be enough for

five quilts one each for Judy,
Jims sister and Jims best friend,
as well as the children. Judy divided the shirts into five bundles,
sorting by color as much as possible. Each bundle had two plain
shirts, blue and/or white, and five
plaid shirts.
Next, Judy recruited seamstress/
quilter friends to make the quilts,
including Deb Wilkinson and Mary
Veiseth of Zumbrota, and Barb
Truzinski of Cleveland, MN. They
were to interpret the pattern and
use the bundles of shirts to make
the quilt tops. When Veiseth saw
she had extra blocks and fabric
left from her bundle, she suggested
an additional two quilts could be

made if the surpluses were combined. As a result, two more quilts

were made, one each for Kinseys
two granddaughters. Gaines put
the quilts together (top, bottom,
center batting) with machine quilting. The projects were returned to
the original three sewers for the
binding.
Others who assisted as technique
and logistic helpers on the project
beside Heimer were Barb Loken
of Zumbrota, Cheryl Saver of South
St. Paul, and Rebecca Nesse of
Rochester.
Each quilt also has a shirt pocket
incorporated somewhere in one
of the blocks. Judy explained, Jim
always had a supply of index cards
and a pen in his shirt pocket, and

he wrote notes, to do lists, things

he saw and wanted to remember.
The finishing touch was a label
that was machine embroidered by
Judy, with Jims name, the
recipients name, the quilt makers
name, the quilters name, and the
quilt pattern.
Celebration

Not all attendees at the celebration had received the same invitation. Two versions had been designed and sent by Judy.
After all the guests had arrived,
Judy began revealing the mystery
message sent to those unaware of

Quilters and helpers who transformed 35 shirts into seven quilts display
one of the quilts that was presented on February 8. The shirts, mostly
plaid, had belonged to Jim Kinsey, who passed away July 15, 2014. The
shirt pocket that was incorporated into the pattern can be seen on the
quilt, with index cards poking out from the pocket. Jim was known for
always having a supply of index cards and a pen in his shirt pocket for
writing notes, lists, and things to remember. Seated, from left to right:
Mary Veiseth, Judy Kinsey, and Deb Wilkinson; standing: Barb Loken,
Karen Heimer, Barb Truzinski, and Cheryl Saver.

the quilt project. Each invitation

for the event was the same on the
front a plaid design and several
numbers, 7, 35, 1, 4, 2, 8, and 3
and a celebrate banner. But the
message on the inside was different. Those that did not know about
the quilts were invited to come,
solve the mystery and have some
lunch. The project participants
received the invitation to celebrate
Shirts into Quilts. Shh, its a surprise. Details of the numbers were
also provided.
With only James making a partial attempt to guess the meaning
of the numbers (35 and 2 being
the the highway numbers traveled
to visit family friends), his mother
explained the actual meaning: 35

Local students advance to Southeast

Minnesota Final Spelling Bee
ROCHESTER Two regional
Spelling Bees were held on Tuesday, February 10, at the Southeast
Service Cooperative in Roches-

ter. Seventy-six students participated in the two regional Spelling

Bees. Students from thirty-eight
districts throughout southeast

Bond refunding saves

Wanamingo thousands
By Alicia Hunt-Welch
WANAMINGO Results of a
bond sale were presented to the
Wanamingo City Council on February 9. Upon approval by the
council, the bonds would officially
be sold February 10. A total of
$2,020,000 in general obligation
crossover refunding bonds was
approved after a motion by Jamie
Majerus, seconded by Todd Kyllo.
City Administrator Michael
Boulton said the total savings from
refunding to a lower interest rate
will eliminate two years off bond
payments. The net bond savings
was $264,246.88 or 7.28%.
Majerus said, Great news. We
are saving some money.
Bonds in the transaction included
$1.81 million in General Obligation (GO) improvements bonds
obtained in 2007 with a 4.74%
interest rate and a maturity date of
2037; $1,465,000 in principal is
News-Record photo by Peter Grimsrud still owed on this. With the crossover refunding process, the average new interest rate on new bonds
MINNEAPOLIS Zumbrota-Mazeppa High School high kick dancers, from left to right, Kennedy Mueller, was estimated at 2.96% with a
Maddie Lawler, Breana Haag, Maddie Lindhart, and Sophie Holm are full of enthusiasm at the start of the maturity date of 2035. Boulton
State Class A High Kick Tournament at The Target Center in Minneapolis on Saturday. The Cougars placed said, Being able to reduce the
eighth in team competition. See pages 4-5A for more information and photos.
payments by two years is huge.

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shirts from Jim Kinsey; 1 quilt

pattern; 35 blocks for each quilt, 3
quilt makers; 1 quilter; 7 beautiful quilts; 4 technique/logistics
helpers; 2 and 8 for the date February 8.
Each quilt maker individually
read the personalized label and
presented the quilts to the recipients: James Kinsey (son); Julie
Buresh (daughter); Judy Kinsey
(wife); Jean Helen Kinsey (sister); Denny Heimer (friend);
Analisa and Alexandra Buresh
(granddaughters). Judy had placed
a plaid pen and several index cards
in each of the quilt pockets as a
further reminder of Jim. Stories
and memories were shared
throughout the afternoon.

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The other bond in the crossover

transaction included $740,000 in
GO tax increment and improvement refunding bonds obtained in
2009 with a 4.49% interest rate
and maturity date of 2025.
$425,000 in principal is remaining on this bond. Through crossover refunding, the maturity year
would remain the same but the
average interest rate on new bonds
would be 2.21%.
A lengthy bond rating process
was completed and the city was
given an A- Standard & Poors
rating. The rating reflected the
following positive factors: very
strong cash levels to cover debt
service and expenditures; adequate
budgetary performance, flexibility, and management conditions
with standard financial policies.
Negative factors keeping the city
from a higher rating were: weak
economy with below-average incomes, and very weak debt and
contingent liabilities with total debt
service at half of expenditures in
2013.
The citys financial advisors,
Northland Securities, assisted in
the transaction.

Minnesota advanced to compete

in the regional competitions coordinated by the Southeast Service Cooperative.
Among the top twelve spellers
(six from each Spelling Bee) now
advancing to the final Spelling Bee
are Brynn Karstens of ZumbrotaMazeppa School and Madeline
Hansen of Pine Island School. The
contests will be on Tuesday, February 24, at 9 a.m. at the Southeast
Service Cooperative. The grand
champion of the final will advance
to the annual Scripps National
Spelling Bee in Washington D.C.
held May 24-29, 2015.

INDEX
Communities Served:
Goodhue ............................
Pine Island/Oronoco ..........
Wanamingo ........................
Zumbrota/Mazeppa ...........

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1,5B
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Obituaries ..........................
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By Pete Grimsrud

Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton accused Tom Bakk, his fellow

Democrat and Senate Majority
Leader, of stabbing him in the back.
Bakk sought to delay a large pay
raise for state cabinet officers after promising Dayton support privately.
The salary increase would total
$800,000 per year for 23 officers,
averaging just under $35,000 annually. Bakk led passage of an
amendment by a 63-2 margin to
delay the payments. He said that
the state employees deserve the
raise, but he wants an incremental

approach.
The miscommunication or
backstab resulted in Dayton saying that he will not meet with Bakk
alone again and will deal with the
Republican House Speaker Kurt
Daudt in the future.
Politicians dont like surprises
and only press for approval of a
bill if they already know the outcome, similar to a man asking for
a womans hand in marriage. This
seems to be the way business is
done from Washington to city hall.
Dayton is understandably upset that political practice was not
followed, but Im glad. I dislike
the backroom dealing thats treated
as necessary to run our government institutions. Well-meaning
men like Dayton strangle debate
and discourse over laws and their
best implementation with political tactics.

The synergy required by an

elected body to make sound decisions require all voices to be heard
that want to be heard. Backroom
deals may achieve outcomes or
end in betrayals that break down
trust, as happened in this case.
An average annual $35,000 raise
for 23 state employees seems excessive even if the state needs to
raise the pay scale in order to compete with the private sector. The
public sector may not currently
provide comparable pay, but most
public sector jobs provide lifetime
benefits and job security. An incremental increase seems prudent.
Dayton says he learned a brutal lesson not to trust Bakk.
Maybe the lesson he should learn
is that an openly measured approach is another way to avoid
surprises and pass a better bill.

AbbreviationsEnglish
From
Devils
Kitchen
By Jan David Fisher

We love abbreviations! Especially ones that make words or

that can be pronounced as words.
Here is a list of some familiar abbreviations. For how many do you
know what the letters mean: Radar, ABC, BBC, CCC, DoD,
ECHO, FHA....? The list seems
endless. Even foreign nationals
have joined in the fun and terror.
Until recently, Isis was an Egyptian god. Now it is an organization wanting to take over Syria
and Iraq. Does the name mean
anything in Arabic or Syrian? Is
using English a threat to us?
We have come to believe that
English was spoken from the be-

ginning. We have forgotten (if we

ever knew) that modern English
is a relatively new language. Old
English goes back to about the
year 500 AD. Hebrew goes back
about 4000 years. One problem
with Hebrew is the vowels are
additional markings which help
speak the language and most writings dont have the vowel markings. Prayers have another style
of markings that provide the music for singing (chanting) the
prayer. Music in written form today is a relatively new way of
writing the music.
Many businesses adopt English
logos that are used worldwide.
Take a close look at a box of Legos.
Other than the word LEGO, very
few words are on the box. LEGOs
are made in Denmark. Another
surprise is inside the box. The instruction booklet has very few
words in it. Makes for an easy
translation. Take another look at

the suggested retail price printed

on the box. The amount is printed
without any currency symbol. The
USA price might be 8.50. We assume this means $8.50. In France
or any other European country the
box is 8.5 euro. What does LEGO
mean as a word?
In the Israeli town of Modiim,
English comes to the rescue again.
Hebrew does not have a round
letter C. Its C is a square-shaped
letter. On two adjacent hills, the
top of each hill is apartment buildings arranged in the circle of a C.
The two complexes are known as
Big C and Little C Apartments.
The two names are not Hebrew
but English. Hebrew added some
English into the language.
French was the Language International and before that, German, and before that was Latin.
Who knows, Klingon may be a
future worldwide language. Until
next week.

Column on PI city/school
relationship was inaccurate
To the Editor:
As superintendent and board
chair of Pine Island School we
were extremely surprised when we
read the final paragraph of Mr.
Fishers From Devils Kitchen
editorial in the February 4 edition
of the News-Record, in which he
commented on how the City of
Pine Island was slowing down the
permitting and working against the
construction of the new school.
Having been involved in every
aspect of the new school project,
from its conception through the
current construction phase, this
assessment is not only inaccurate
but is completely opposite of the
teamwork and collaboration that
has existed between school and

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Deans OutdoorService is another

silent assistant to seniors hes taken
under his care to make sure that
they can stay in their homes for as
long as possible. Or perhaps its
the many volunteers transporting
those unable to drive to clinic appointments, the grocery store, or
a lunch up town.And if you spend
much time at Better Brew, youll
see young adults from the community being trained as barristas
with people skills as well as technical know-how. Stay long enough
to meet Maries Geek Squad and
you can learn how to handle that
smart phone that makes you feel
like a dummy! These are just a
few of the many things youll see

To the Editor:
The Zip Rail project (Twin Cities to Rochester) is six months
from completing the Tier 1 Study,
which then will issue a build or
no build statement. It then goes
to Tier 2, which makes it almost
impossible to stop. If it is built, a
permanent division of rural west
Goodhue County will take place.
It is imperative that we citizens
convince MNDOT and the Federal Railroad Administration that
this project should never be completed.
The Zip Rail construction would
create a no-access fence from the
north to the south end of the county.
This will eliminate possibly 20
east-west rural intersections. Farmers would have to move machinery 10 to 15 miles to crop the other
side of their farms. School busing
for four to five districts could
double the cost and time spent twice
going on in our little community a day. Emergency vehicles (fire
if you tune out the static and open trucks, sheriff cars, ambulances)
your eyes to see the differences
made by the silent majority who
care.
Im not sure anyone really ex- By Steve Betcher
pects you to write to the paper to Goodhue County Attorney
tell the world how big an asset
I asked the paralegal intern, who
each of these folks are to the com- is working in our office, what her
munity. In fact, they probably initial impressions were of work
wouldnt even expect such grati- in the Goodhue County Attorneys
tude in the face of the chronic com- Office She replied, without hesiplainers. But Id be willing to bet tation, that the office staff does a
youd shock them silly if you much broader range of legal work
thanked them personally for what than she had imagined.
The Goodhue County Attorneys
they are doing, especially if you
Office prosecutes major crimes,
mean it...
Jeanne Truestedt felonies, and some gross misdePine Island meanors, wherever they occur in
the county. Additionally, over the
years, our office has been retained
to prosecute misdemeanors in
many Goodhue County municipalities. We also represent and
advise the Goodhue County Board
of Commissioners and county
provide feedback on the Draft Tier departments.
This year criminal prosecution
1 Environmental Impact Statement
as part of the Minnesota Depart- responsibilities assumed promiment of Transportation, Olmsted nence in our attorney caseload.
County Regional Railroad Author- While total numbers of adult felony
ity and the Federal Railroad and gross misdemeanor cases were
Administrations continuing evalu- up almost 25 percent over last year,
ation of the proposed project.
from 468 in 2013 to 584 in 2014,
Applications are due to MnDOT we also saw an all-time high in
by Friday, February 27, 2015. The number of chemical dependency/
CAC application packet is also mental health commitments and
available on the project website, tax court cases.
www.goziprail.org.
Many of the felony criminal
cases were controlled substance
offenses 167 in 2014, up almost
84 percent over 91 cases in 2013.
Of those controlled substance
cases, most were methamphetamine related 119 in 2014, up
83 percent from 65 in 2013.
Seven cases were heroin-related
in 2014, somewhat bucking the
national epidemic of heroin-related
crime. This may be due in part to
the aggressive enforcement effort
of the Minnesota U.S. Attorneys
Office and metro area task force
arrests and prosecutions of several major heroin distribution rings

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would need more time to get to

you. The rural electric could not
respond to electrical outages as
quickly. Electric line rebuilds
(raised lines over the rail power
lines plus new line construction)
would be quite costly. Also, two
to three hundred acres of land would
be lost forever.
The Zip Rail demand is from
the Mayo Destination Medical
Center and the University of Minnesota. Informed Rochester citizens are opposed to it. The Mayo
Clinic hints that it will be selfsupporting once the billions are
spent to build it. Minnesota citizens will fund the majority of the
cost. It is very unlikely that it will
ever pay its own way. That way,
the tax-payers will subsidize the
annual losses, even though we will
never ride the train! We need to
derail it.
Representative Drazkowski has
the right idea by proposing a ban

on further state spending on Tier

1. Our senator feels more input
research is needed. What is it about
NO that you dont understand?
Two possible routes are being
considered (Highway 56 vs. Highway 52). That is an excellent tactic to divide and conquer; the
two sides spend their energy defending their own space. Also, they
are saying nothing will happen for
several more years (dont panic,
there is no rush).
As private citizens, we need to
attack this monster now. Start petitions with your friends and forward them to Nora Felton, 507250-5660. Call your state legislators and US Senators. Check this
website for current new
nora4goodhue county@gmail.
com, or call Barb Stussy, 732-5115,
or Heather Arndt, 507-319-8536
for further ideas.
Don Buck
Zumbrota

Meeting the challenges ahead

Zip Rail Advisory

Committee being formed
A Community Advisory Committee (CAC) is being formed for
the Zip Rail project, with CAC
members to be selected from the
applications received. Area residents, employers, travelers and
others interested in the proposed
high-speed passenger rail connection between Rochester and the
Twin Cities are invited to apply
for membership on the Zip Rail
Corridor Community Advisory
Committee.
This advisory committee will

school project has remained on its

original aggressive schedule of
opening later this year in September. The citizens of Pine Island
should be very proud of their city
leadership and how positively they
have represented the town in cooperation with the school for this
win / win endeavor that will ultimately move our community forward. We are honored to be working with such dedicated and professional individuals serving the
City of Pine Island.
John Champa,
School Board Chair
Tammy Berg-Beniak,
Superintendent
Pine Island School

Zip Rail will affect our lives forever

Many work behind the scenes

to make a difference
To the Editor:
In small communities, the contentious voices of chronic complainers sometimes make outsiders wonder why one would choose
to live in such an environment.
But for every loud mouth one hears,
there are some citizens working
quietly to make important things
happen to add to the quality of life
for the nonvocal majority. And
sometimes its the same individuals doing both things at the same
time!
Within the past year, the
Truestedts have required 911 assistance twice for serious problems at extremely inconvenient
times. Both times a team of competent, efficient, and well qualified first responders appeared
within minutes to save the day...no
fuss, no muss, and no calls for
accolades, credit, or recognition.

city officials over the last two years.

The mayor, city council, city
clerk, and city engineer have been
extremely professional, cooperative, and timely in issuing building permits, approving the annexation agreement, reaching road
agreements, approving designs,
and are currently working diligently with the school on finalizing the utility agreement. The cooperation between the school and
the city has been outstanding
throughout the entire process and
has set the example of how schools
and local government can work
together for a positive outcome
for the entire community. The citys
willingness to work openly with
the school is the main reason the

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in 2014. It may also reflect statewide efforts by law enforcement,

prosecutors, and public health officials to warn potential users of
the extraordinary risks of overdose and addiction which use of
heroin poses.
Twenty-seven individuals were
charged with prescription drugrelated felonies, after methamphetamine the highest number of individuals in a class of offenders. In
this respect, Goodhue County follows the national trend of everincreasing abuse of prescription
drugs which experts believe predisposes individuals to progress
to heroin addiction.
To date, the County Attorneys
Office has been absorbing the increases in drug prosecutions and
shifting existing staff resources
to respond in this area. We have
also been working with Goodhue
County Health and Human Services and Hiawatha Valley Mental Health to develop a broader
range of community-based chemical dependency treatment programs, including juvenile outpatient and additional adult outpatient programming.
As of this writing, the Goodhue
County Board of Commissioners
has voted to bond for completion
of the unfinished fourth courtroom
located on the third floor of the
Goodhue County Justice Center.
The additional courtroom is necessary to accommodate the increasing judicial workloads and consolidate the work of the justice
system into one building which
can be efficiently secured while
court is in session.
The national public risk level
has changed as America has remained at war with terrorists. Security alerts warning of threats of

rogue individuals assaulting public gatherings necessitate stepping

up precautions in all criminal justice and government related facilities.
The Goodhue County Justice
Center was designed with a single
public entrance that can be secured
with minimal law enforcement
personnel resources. Design modifications and security updates will
allow fewer officers to provide
more comprehensive protection to
persons utilizing the Goodhue
County Courts and Justice Center
personnel.
Policy meetings to develop an
updated solid waste strategy for
Goodhue County made a substantial step forward when State Representative Tim Kelly shepherded
a bill through the 2014 Legislature, with substantial support from
the City of Red Wing, to allow the
old county landfill in Red Wing to
be eligible for inclusion in the State
of Minnesotas closed landfill program. County commissioners must
still decide if and how to finance
the $1.9 million cost of admission
to the program, however, the potential $10 million cost of a landfill cleanup would be passed to
the state if an agreement can be
reached.
Along with these legacy issues,
we look forward to assisting the
Goodhue County Board as it considers questions of rail transportation safety, zip rail development,
and issues raised by the development of the Mayo Clinic Destination Medical Center to name a
few developing topics.
In all of these challenges,
Goodhue County is well prepared
to build on existing problem solving infrastructure, utilizing board
leadership, staff experience, and
informed public participation.

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County

GOODHUE SENIOR PROFILE

Goodhue County seeks Dairy Princess candidates

The American Dairy Association of Goodhue County is seeking candidates to participate in the
2015 Dairy Princess program.
Dairy Princesses serve as good
will ambassadors for the dairy industry by appearing at various
promotional events and speaking
to consumers and the media. They
also participate in many parades
throughout the county. The annual Goodhue County Dairy Princess and DHIA banquet and coronation will be held Saturday, March
28, at Stary-Yerka VFW Post 5727
in Zumbrota at 7:30 p.m.
A candidate must be a high
school graduate by July 1 and not
yet 24 years old. She or her parents must be actively engaged in
the production of milk for sale to
a licensed plant during the current
year. A candidate also qualifies if
she or her parents are employed
on a dairy farm.
The new Goodhue County Dairy
Princesses will advance to a train-

ing seminar to be held at the College of St. Benedict in May. In

addition to learning skills that can
be used for the rest of their lives,
the young ladies will also compete for the twelve spots to ad-

vance to the Princess Kay of the

Milky Way competition. At all
levels of competition, contestants
are judge on their communication
skills, personality, enthusiasm for
dairy promotion and general

knowledge of the industry.

For an application and any questions please contact Goodhue
County Dairy Princess Coordinator Lindsay Finnesgard at 507-4216444 or lfinnesgard@yahoo.com.

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Parents: Milt and Jamie Kehren
Siblings: Tara (30), Angel (26),
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High school activities: Cross
country and National Honor Society
Favorite class or subject: Child
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Best high school memory:
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would one of your first purchases
be? A vacation to somewhere warm
Describe yourself in one word:
Organized
College/career plans: Go to
college for nursing

From Our Files

20 Years Ago
February 22, 1995
Jeremy Hadler and Chriss Mann,
both seniors at Goodhue High
School, received awards in competition at Riverland Technical
College in Rochester on February
2. Mann received first place in
carpentry construction and Hadler
received third place in carpentry
and first place in tool identification.

40 Years Ago

GOODHUE

WANAMINGO

February 20, 1975

William Monson. *** Mr. and Mrs.

Olaf Langseth and daughter, Karen
Rachel, were guests at the O.B.
Sunde home in Hayfield on Sun-

28. *** Gerald OReilly was a

40 Years Ago
Sunday dinner guest of the Donald
February 20, 1975
Brad Spitzack scored 30 points
OReillys. *** Mrs. Wm. Buck
was a Friday afternoon caller at in the Bulldogs 64-57 victory over
Byron on Friday. *** Mr. and Mrs.
the Arthur Buck residence.
Henry Barsness and Mr. and Mrs.
60 Years Ago
Grant Fredrickson left on a cruise
February 17, 1955
in the Caribbean on February 3.
50 Years Ago
BORN TO: Mr. and Mrs. Patrick *** A family gathering was held
February 18, 1965
Barry, a son, on February 14; Mr. at the K.O. Syverson home last
Mr. and Mrs. Emil Groth will and Mrs. Bernard Gadient, a son, Sunday. Birthdays were celebrated
observe their 45th wedding anni- on February 14. *** A new Holy for K.O. Syverson, Dawn Stockmo,
versary at their home on February Trinity Catholic Church is expected and Rahn Lund.
to get underway this coming spring,
50 Years Ago
according to the local building
February 18, 1965
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Urch and
committee in charge. *** Mrs.
James DeGeest and Mrs. George family of West Concord were
Gorman spent Tuesday in Roch- Sunday dinner guests at the Warren Jackson home. *** Mrs. Joyce
ester.
Alme fell on the ice outside her
70 Years Ago
home Thursday, February 4, and
February 22, 1945
suffered a fracture to her right wrist.
BORN TO: Mr. and Mrs. Vic- *** Mr. and Mrs. Roger Hostager
tor ONeill, a son, on Sunday; Mr. and family of St. Paul Park were
and Mrs. Raymond Augustine, a Sunday afternoon and supper
daughter, on Sunday. *** Mr. and guests at the home of his parents,
Mrs. Leo Redding and family and Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Hostager.
70 Years Ago
Mrs. Louise Schliep were callers
February 22, 1945
Saturday evening at the Lawrence
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Tongen and
Redding home. *** Mr. and Mrs.
Bert Majerus and family were family were dinner guests Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Sunday callers in Zumbrota.
Goodhue School will purchase
a computer terminal and digalog
for instructional use. The terminal will enable the school to become part of the Minnesota Education Computing Consortium.

day. *** Miss Margaret Chrislock

of Mantorville was a weekend visitor at the home of her father, C.H.
Chrislock.

WANAMINGO, 1975 Jennie Axelson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ken

Axelson, wore her native Korean costume at the Girl Scout Songfest on
Saturday. The dress, sent to her by her Korean mother, is worn for
holidays.

ZUMBROTA
10 Years Ago
February 9, 2005
The December ZM Students of
the Month are Ashley Matthys,
Alesha Laures, Alyssa Huneke,
Karissa Hegseth, Holly Albers,
Michael Pahl, Alesha Walter, Ray
DeWitt, Bart Hoven, Landon
McAthie, Andrea Mathison, Tyler
Snell, Micvhelle Korsten, Carrie
Borgstrahl, Jenny Josselyn, and
Tony Nigon. *** The students from
ZMHS who participated in the annual Dorian Vocal Festival at
Luther College in Decora, Iowa,
were Jenny Josselyn, Alysha
Tiedeman, Kelly Vilen and Gunter
GOODHUE 1975 Lyle Zemke, Goodhues lone District Four wrestling Mussel.
champion (in the 126 pound class), receives his championship pin and
ribbon from Wasecas athletic director and this years tournament
manager Duane Aamot.

20 Years Ago
February 8, 1995

PINE ISLAND
10 Years Ago
February 23, 2005
Pine Island resident Janice Thompson is a semifinalist for
Teacher of the Year. *** For Bill
Frame, February 14 is more than
Valentines Day it is also his
birthday. For eight years he has
celebrated the day by walking from
his home in rural Pine Island into
town for breakfast. This year was
his 72nd birthday.

20 Years Ago
February 23, 1995
Pine Island High School junior
Emilie Arel was elected president
of the Southeast Division of the
Minnesota Student Councils last
Friday at the spring convention in

Albert Lea.

30 Years Ago
February 13, 1985
Randy Webber was named the
Lions Club Student of the Month,
representing the machinist/mechanics division of the industrial
arts department. *** A new business in Pine Island is Chucks Auto
Clean, located in the former
Chucks Repair building behind
Caseys. Owner of the business is
Chuck Bee, who is also the manager. *** Outstanding Citizens
honored at the annual Jaycees dinner were: Chuck Andrist, Farmer;
Ken Arel, Educator and Boss of
the Year; David Egger, Young
Minnesotan; Amy Templeton,

Youth; and Helen Mahler, Civil

Servant.

40 Years Ago
February 20, 1975
Two members of this years
Panther wrestling team qualified
for the Region One Tournament,
February 21 and 22 at the Mayo
Civic Auditorium in Rochester.
They are Jeff Rud, who was runner-up at 132 pounds; and Ken
Markham, runner-up in the 155
pound class. *** Dr. George
Kelcey, a full-time physician, has
opened his office in the Pine Island Medical Building. *** Mr.
and Mrs. Erwin Spading spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Miller in Owatonna.

Ida Nygren had friends and family with her to help her celebrate
her 102nd birthday on Friday at
the Zumbrota Nursing Home. ***
The Sub-Section 1A One-Act Play
Contest was held in Pine Island
on January 28. ZMHS students
received 4th place. The cast of
characters were Sarah Johnston,
Jennifer Voth, Jennie Ritter, Andrew Gregory, Matt Kitzman,
Jenny Banitt, Molly Grossbach,
Darik Rude, Kelly Hovel, and Kari
Anderson. The director was Virginia DeBole.

30 Years Ago
February 6, 1985
Julius Kunde celebrated his 93rd
birthday Sunday at his home. About
70 friends and relatives came to
extend birthday greeting. ***
Mable Lohmann is a patient at the
Zumbrota Community Hospital
following hand surgery last
Wednesday. She expects to be hospitalized for a month. *** Mrs.
Marguerite Stehr returned home
Thursday following cataract surgery Wednesday at Rochester
Methodist Hospital. *** Connie
Rostad retired as office manager
at the Goodhue County Coopera-

tive Electric Association after

working there for 36.5 years. ***
A number of residents from the
Zumbrota Nursing Home were
honored at a special awards ceremony given for those who participated in the Bowlerama Tournament for the month of January.
Trophies were given to high point
woman Lillie Teal and high point
man Ralph Scott.

40 Years Ago
February 6, 1975
Mrs. Clara Friedrich returned
home after spending four weeks
with her daughter, Mrs. Greg Hess
and granddaughter Gina, in
Cucamonga, California. *** Mrs.
Wayne Weis was a weekend guest
at the home of her sister and brotherin-law Dr. and Mrs. Howard
Imbody at Fort Dodge, Iowa. ***
Sunday evening dinner gusts at
the home of the Carl Jorgensons
were Mr. and Mrs. Edward Glestad,
Candy, Cindy and Kerry and Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Glestad of Wanamingo. The occasion was the birthday of Carol. *** Mr. and Mrs.
Palmer Flaaen and Debbie and Mr.
and Mrs. Dan Scheffler drove to
Lake City to help Mrs. Ron Charette

celebrate her birthday.

50 Years Ago
February 4, 1965
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Buck and
family were entertained Sunday
afternoon and evening at the
Charles Ryan home in rural
Goodhue. *** Mr. and Mrs. Burton Meyer and five children were
Sunday afternoon visitors at the
home of her parents Mr. and Mrs.
Adolph Ofstie. *** Sunday dinner guests from Wanamingo at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ring
were her parents Mr. and Mrs. A.M.
Stockmo. *** Dr. and Mrs. John
Anderson spent from Monday
through Wednesday in Minneapolis attending the veterinary convention that was held at the
Leamington Hotel. *** Mrs.
Harold Johnson, Miss Leona
Glamm and Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Grimm were among the guests
Thursday at a dinner party at the
Herbert Meyer home in Pine Island for his birthday. *** Mrs.
Eugene Lund and Mrs. Carl
Yungen visited Mrs. John Lund at
the David Lund home in Minneapolis.

50 Years Ago
February 18, 1965
Mrs. Harold Reiter returned
Tuesday after a visit with her
mother, Mrs. Hilda Burreson, at
Austin. *** Mr. and Mrs. Ulrich
Karlen were visitors at the Obert
Visseth home at Wanamingo Sunday evening. *** Mr. and Mrs.
G.T. Sollenberger and Bruce and
Mrs. Eve Engledinger were visitors Saturday at the Walter
Engledinger home at Red Wing.

60 Years Ago
February 17, 1955

PINE ISLAND, 1965 Receiving the two highest awards of scouting last
Sunday was Mike Feigal, center, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Feigal. With
Feigal as he receives his For God and Country Award at the Methodist
Church on Sunday morning are Reverend David Achterkirch, left, and
Scoutmaster Charles Hess, right. On Sunday afternoon, Feigal was
advanced to the rank of Eagle Scout.

Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Clarkson

and Larry Joe Stucky of Minneapolis spent the weekend at the
Leo Stucky home. *** Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Schmidt and family
of Mazeppa visited Mrs. Matt
Goodman Sunday afternoon. ***
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Noser and
family of Rochester visited his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Werner
Noser, Sunday afternoon.

ZUMBROTA, 1965 Receiving their Lions badges, which promotes them from Cub Scouts to Webelos, are,
front row, from left to right: Danny Savig, Robert Erredge, Tim Stee, and Jimmy Perry; back row: James
Juveli, Paul Post, Charles Stevens, Lonnie Berg, and Ricky Falk. Webelos Den Leaders are Alfred Perry and
David Rockne.

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Community Calendar

Area Sports

923-4302; Ray McNamara, 651- prizes will be available.

923-5117; or Roy Buck, 651-9234388. The museum will reopen KW School Board Meeting
Senior Dining
with regular hours next spring. Visit
KENYON The next regular
Reservations are required by good hueareahistory.org for infor- Kenyon-Wanamingo School
calling 24 hours ahead at each of mation.
Board meeting will be Monday,
the nutrition sites.
February 23, at 7 p.m. in the school
In the Pine Island area, meals
media center conference room in
are served at the Pine Island SeKenyon. Items on the agenda innior Center (356-2228); Zumbrota
clude: personnel report, superinarea, Zumbrota Towers (732- Historical Society
tendent search update, Building
5086).
The Mazeppa Area Historical & Grounds expenditures, finance
February 19-25
Society Museum is closed for the update, recommendations for reThursday: Roast turkey, mashed season. For inquiries, contact Helen ductions in programs and posipotatoes, peas/onions, cranberry sauce, Reiland, 507-250-6021; Jim Siems,
tions, an administrative commitpumpkin pie
507-843-2201; or Diane Gilsdorf, tee update, Community EducaFriday: Birthday party, baked fish 507-843-4013, or visit www.maz
tion, the 2015-16 school year cal(alt: chicken breast), au gratin pota- eppahistoricalsociety.org
endar, acceptance of donations,
toes, carrots, three-bean salad, apple
policy revisions, committee recake
ports, and administrative reports.
Monday: Ham/scalloped potatoes
Anyone wishing to address the
(alt: beef patty), Oriental blend vegschool board may do so at the beetables, coleslaw, fruit cup
Area History Center
Tuesday: Goulash, fruit salad, dinThe Oronoco Area History Cen- ginning of the meeting.
ner roll, chocolate cherry bar
ter is open to visitors in the City
Wednesday: Pork steak, dressing,
carrots, molded cinnamon applesauce, Building every second Saturday
from 10 a.m.-noon. Contact us at
salad, banana pudding
If you have questions, call 356- OAHC, 54 Blakely Ct. NW or Library
call 507-367-4320. You may also
2228.
A Family History Collage Workvisit our web page at oronocoarea shop will be at 1:30 p.m. on Saturhistory.org.
day, February 21. Artist Susan
Tea Party Meeting
Weinberg from the Minnesota
Dave Racer, a Twin Cities comHistorical Society will address the
mentator and businessman, will
materials and design of a family
present How the Declaration inhistory collage.
forms the Constitution on Thurs- Tops #1280
The Zumbrota Public Library
day, February 19, at 7 p.m. at the
PI Tops #1280 meets every
Eagles Club in Rochester, 917 15th Monday night at St. Paul Luth- is at 100 West Ave., Zumbrota,
Hours are Mon.,
Ave SE.
eran Church. Weigh-in is at 5:15 507-732-5211.
Tues. 10-6; Wed., Thurs.,
and meeting time is 6 p.m. Every- 12-8;
Fri., 10-5; and Sat., 9-3. DurSeasons Hospice
one welcome. Questions call 356- 12-8;
ing closed hours you can learn
Coffee and Conversation Group, 4799 or 356-4700.
more about the library at http://
Wednesday, February 25, 9-10 a.m.
www.zumbrota.info.
A group for anyone who has ex- Caregiver Support Group
perienced the death of a loved one.
The group meets Monday, FebAll groups are held at the Cen- ruary 23, at 1 p.m. at St. Paul History Center
The Zumbrota History Center
ter for Grief Education and Sup- Lutheran Church. Respite is availport, Seasons Hospice, 1696 able upon request. Call Pine Is- has a photo stand displaying over
Greenview Dr. SW. Registration land Area Home Services at 356- 50 photographs of early Zumbrota
scenes. They have been enlarged
is required two days prior to the 2999 for more information.
to 8 x 10 for easier viewing. New
date of the event. For details: 507photos are being added all the time.
285-1930 or shbp@seasonshos Blood Pressure Clinic
Also on display are military memopice.org.
The clinic will be held on Tues- rabilia, including Civil War items,
day, February 24, at 11 a.m. at the different models of telephones,
Olmsted County Parks
Pine Island City Centre.
Zumbrota telephone books dating
Chester Woods Park Fitness in
back to the 1900s, and items of
Nature, Saturday, February 21, 1 p.m. Kindergarten Round-Up
Zumbrota advertising. Museum
If conditions allow, join park staff for
2015 Pine Island Kindergarten hours are Saturdays, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
a fun afternoon of cross country skiRound-up will be on Friday, March Other hours by appointment (732ing. You must bring your own skis.
6, from 1-3 p.m. Children born 7049).
Meet at the boat ramp kiosk.
Oxbow Park Animal Tracks and between September 1, 2009, and
Signs, Saturday, February 21, 11 a.m. August 31, 2010, are eligible for Zumbrota Towers Events
February 19-25
Learn how to look for signs and clues kindergarten for the 2015-16 school
of animal life around us. A great ac- year. If you did not receive a packet
Thursday: 10:15 a.m. Exercise
in the mail about the event, please
tivity for the whole family.
Monday: 1:30 p.m. Cribbage,
Questions about Chester Woods, contact the K-8 office at 356-8581 500
call Celeste Lewis at 507-287-2624. to ensure that we have you on our
Tuesday: 10:15 a.m. Exercise
Questions about Oxbow Park, call list.
Wednesday: 1:30 p.m. Euchre,
Clarissa Josselyn at 507-775-2451.
Snacks

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PINE ISLAND

Moms in Prayer

GOODHUE
Community Library

Pine Island Moms in Prayer meet

Monday mornings from 8-9 a.m.
in the library of the Good News
E-Free Church, 208 North Main
(across from Kwik Trip). Enter
side door of the church and go
downstairs. Call 259-8012 or 3564800 for more information.

The Goodhue School Library,

in conjunction with SELCO and
Goodhue County, is open to the
public Mondays and Wednesdays
from 3:30-7:30 p.m. The library
is equipped with inter-library loan
service, which means if the library Toastmasters Meeting
does not have a book you want,
The Pine Island Toastmasters
that book can be there in two days. meet at 6:30 a.m. Fridays at St.
Paul Lutheran Church. They do
Grandparents/Senior Bingo not meet on holiday weekends:
The Goodhue Gesundheit 4-H Christmas, New Years, Easter,
Club will host Grandparents/Se- Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor
nior Citizen Bingo on Sunday, Day or Thanksgiving.
March 1 at 1 p.m. at Holy Trinity
Catholic Church. Club members History Center
are inviting their grandparents and
The Pine Island Area History
senior citizens to a short monthly Center will be open by appointmeeting, plenty of Bingo, and ment only during the months of
lunch, all at no cost. There will be January and February. Please conprizes. Call Grace Poncelet (923- tact us through our website
4097) or Ann Buck (923-4274) if www.pineislandhistory.org or by
you need a ride.
calling 507-398-5326, 507-9934860 or 507-356-4778 to schedule your visit. Beginning in March
MS Fundraiser
A fundraiser for Multiple Scle- 2015 the Pine Island Area History
rosis research will be held at Dars Center will be open the first SunPub on Saturday, February 21, 7- day of each month from 1:00-3:30
11 p.m. A silent auction will be p.m. and on all Monday
from 7-10 p.m. There will be food, mornings from 8-11 a.m.
beverages, and socializing for everyone.

WANAMINGO

Historical Society
The Goodhue Area Historical
Society is closed for the season,
but anyone who wishes to arrange
a visit can call Ardis Henrichs,
651-923-4629; Marie Strusz, 651-

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Join your business neighbors
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Pancake Breakfast
The Kenyon-Wanamingo FFA
Alumni will host a pancake breakfast on Saturday, February 21, at
the Wanamingo Community Center from 7-10 a.m. A free will donation will be accepted and door

Tops Meeting
Zumbrota Tops #563 meets every Monday night at Our Saviours
Lutheran Church. Weigh-in time
is changed to 5:30 p.m. and meeting time to 6 p.m. Everyone welcome. Questions call 732-7459 or
732-4766.

Community Band Practice

The Zumbrota Community Band
practices on Monday nights at 7:30
p.m. in the Zumbrota-Mazeppa
High School music room. Volunteer musicians are welcome.

State Theatre
Collective Unconscious performs The Beatles Abbey Road
album, Saturday, February 21, 7:30
p.m. Call 732-7616 for tickets.
The State Theatre is at 96 East
4th Street in Zumbrota. For information visit zaac.org.or call 507272-1129.

News-Record photo by Peter Grimsrud

Zumbrota-Mazeppa high kick dance team members from left, Breana Haag, Halle Kruse, Sophie Holm and
Maddie Lindhart compete in the State Class A tournament at the Target Center in Minneapolis on Saturday.
The Cougars placed eighth.

ZM jazz and high kick teams

compete in State Class A tournament
By Faye Haugen
MINNEAPOLIS Although
they had high hopes of qualifying
for the finals in both the State Class
A high kick and jazz finals, the
Zumbrota-Mazeppa dance teams
were happy to have made it to the
big show.
After placing first in both events
at the Section 1A meet in Eyota
the week before with two of their
best performances of the season,
Coach Jen Stumm said her girls
danced even better at the state meet
held at the Target Center in Minneapolis on Friday and Saturday.
We looked even better in high
kick than we did last week. The
girls were confident, focused and
strong, and they really competed
with so much energy, it just gave
me goose bumps. They did just
awesome, exclaimed Coach
Stumm. I thought our jazz looked
really good and it was one of our
better performances this season.
Of the 12 teams competing, ZM
placed eighth in high kick and ninth
in jazz. The Marshall School of
Duluth took first place in jazz followed by Aitkin and Yellow Medicine East. In high kick, Aitkin was
first, followed by Yellow Medicine East and Crosby-Ironton.
Coach Stumm said that the state
meet gives her team a chance to
see what they need to improve in
their performance.
During the season we compete
against our section members and
we do very well, but Section 3 and
4 bring competition to a whole
new level. We traveled to Yellow
Medicine East for a meet this winter
and it was a really big deal for us.
We need to do a little more of that.
We need to get up to speed with
what other sections are doing,
Coach Stumm explained about upping the Cougars performance.
This was a fun season to coach.

Sophie Holm and Emma Gunhus share a hug after singing the National
Anthem at the beginning of the State Class A jazz dance meet at Target
Center in Minneapolis, Friday.

The girls were great to work with

and they had such great attitudes.
They could not have danced any
better than they did, praised the
ZM coach who pointed out that
the Cougar high kick team started
out the season placing 12th in their
first tournament to end placing first
in the Section 1A meet.
The Cougars will graduate four

Crossings
Tom McGregor and Michael
Schmidt, oil and encaustic wax paintings, through March 25. Reception
Sat., Feb. 21, 6-7:30 p.m.
Free History Night Series: The
Making of Mount Rushmore, Thurs.,
Feb. 19, 7 p.m.
Getting Started in Writing for Children, Sat., Feb. 21, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Seamless Felted Slippers, Sat., Feb.
21, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Yoga, Tues., Feb. 24, 6:30 p.m. to
7:30 p.m.
For more information go to www.
crossingsatcarnegie.com or call 507732-7616. Crossings is at 320 E Ave.

Operation Round Up grants

$20,423 to local organizations
ORONOCO Peoples Energy
Cooperatives Operation Round
Up Trust Board has provided
$20,423 in grants in the first quarter to several non-profit organizations. Among the recipients was
the City of Oronoco, which received $1,396.78 for chairs for the
senior area of the Community
Center.
The Operation Round Up fund
at Peoples Energy Cooperative
started in 2002 and raises approximately $72,000 a year to support
a variety of charitable, educational,
community and youth-related programs and events.
The program is funded by donations from members of Peoples
Energy Cooperative who voluntarily have their monthly electric
bill rounded up to the nearest dollar. Approximately 11,600 mem-

bers currently participate with an

average donation of $6 a year per
member, demonstrating that small
change can make a big difference.
Applications for funding are
considered on a quarterly basis.
The funds are held separately from
the Peoples Energy Cooperative
operating accounts and are administered through Board of Trustees
consisting of seven Peoples Energy Cooperative member volunteers.
To be considered for second
quarter grants in 2015, applications must be submitted no later
than March 20, 2015. Program
guidelines and applications for
Operation Round Up donations
are
available
at
www.peoplesenergy.coop or by
calling the Cooperative at (507)
367-7000 or (800) 214-2694.

Zumbrota-Mazeppa coach Jen Stumm may have been saying a little

prayer before the finalists in Class A jazz are announced, Friday.

seniors in Maddie Lindhart, Emma

Gunhus, Olivia Gadient and
Kennedy Mueller.
A lot of people didnt think we
would recover from losing seven
seniors from least years team, but
this years seniors really took it
upon themselves that this season
was not going to be a rebuilding
year. That they were going to be
competitive. This years seniors
jumped in and helped with choreography, formatting our routines
and with their leadership, said
Coach Stumm. Their attitude was
so positive and uplifting.
ZM is no stranger to the state
meet. The Cougars have qualified
for the state meet nine straight years
in jazz competition and two of the
last three years in high kick.
Members of the Cougar high
kick team are seniors: Emma Gunhus, Kennedy Mueller, Maddie
Lindhart and Olivia Gadient; juniors: Breana Haag, Calley Gunhus, Grace Myran, Katie Grudem,
Rachel Tschann and Sophie Holm;
sophomores: Amanda Edstrom,
Bethany Renken and Katie Lawler;
freshmen: Corie Deraas, Maddie
Lawler and Nikki Bryant; and
eighth-graders: Halle Kruse and
Myfanwy Postians.
Members of the ZumbrotaMazeppa jazz team are seniors:
Kennedy Mueller, Maddie
Lindhart and Olivia Gadient; juniors: Breana Haag, Grace Myran,
Katie Grudem, Rachel Tschann
and Sophie Holm; sophomores:
Kaitlyn Hinchley and Katie Lawler;
freshmen: Corie Deraas and Maddie Lawler; and eighth-graders:
Halle Kruse and Myfanwy Postians.

Zumbrota-Mazeppa dance team fans make sure the Cougars know they were at the Target Center both Friday
and Saturday for the State Class A dance competition.

NEWS-RECORD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2015 PAGE 5A

Congratulations

Zumbrota-Mazeppa Dance Teams

HVL Jazz - 3rd Place Section 1A Jazz - Champion
State Class A Jazz participant
HVL High Kick - 2nd Place Section 1A High Kick - Champion
State Class A High Kick - participant

Members of the Zumbrota-Mazeppa jazz team are, from left, front row: Olivia Gadient, Maddie Lindhart and
Kennedy Mueller; second row: Katie Grudem, Breana Haag, Sophie Holm, Rachel Tschann and Grace Myran;
back row; Katie Lawler, Kaitlyn Hinchley, Halle Kruse, Myfanwy Postians, Corie Deraas and Maddie Lawler.

Members of the Zumbrota-Mazeppa high kick team are, from left, front row: Corie Deraas, Olivia Gadient,
Nikki Bryant, Grace Myran, Katie Lawler and Maddie Lawler; second row: Emma Gunhus, Kaitlyn Hinchley,
Katie Grudem, Bethany Renken, Calley Gunhus, Halle Kruse, and Amanda Edstrom; back row: Rachel
Tschann, Maddie Lindhart, Sophie Holm, Breana Haag, Kennedy Mueller and Myfanwy Postians.

ZM senior Maddie Lindhart drives the car during the Cougars high kick
performance, Saturday.

Katie Grudem, Emma Gunhus, Grace Myran and Maddie Lindhart are all smiles during Zumbrota-Mazeppas
high kick program on Saturday at the Target Center in Minneapolis.

Sophie Holm pauses during jazz

competition on Friday at the Target
Center.

Zumbrota-Mazeppa high kick members, from left, Kennedy Mueller, Myfanwy Postians, Emma Gunhus,
Breana Haag, Sophie Holm and Maddie Lindhart, placed eighth in Class A competition on Saturday in what
Coach Jen Stumm said was their best performance of the season.

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ZM jazz team members, Olivia Gadient, Katie Grudem and Sophie Holm
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Breana Haag does a leap during

jazz competition, Friday.

ZM dancers, from left, Myfanwy Postians, Katie Lawler, Breana Haag, Olivia Gadient, Kaitlyn Hinchley and
Sophie Holm are flying high during State Class A jazz competition on Friday.
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Olivia Gadient and Kaitlyn Hinsch perform on Friday at the Target Center in Minneapolis. ZM placed ninth.

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Area Sports
DC boys drop their last two games
By Faye Haugen
KASSON A pair of road losses
marked the end of the season for
the Dodge County boys hockey
team.
The Wildcats end the season with
a 7-17 overall record. Section 1AA
playoffs begin on Thursday with
DC traveling to Lakeville to take
on top-ranked, top-seeded and undefeated North.
LaCrescent
Dodge County fell 9-3 at LaCrescent on Thursday evening. The
Lancers scored three goals in the
opening period, four in the second and two more in the third period.
Drew Kirmse got the Wildcats
on the scoreboard in the second
period off an assist by Chris Roberts. Colton Goodman scored on a
power play goal later in the period
off an assist by Kylo Courteau.
Roberts scored the last goal of the
game off an assist by Courteau.
Joey Biwer made 25 stops in
goal. DC had 26 shots on goal.
Dodge County 3 - LaCrescent 9
Dodge County
0 2 1 = 3
LaCrescent
3 4 2 = 9
First Period
L: Power play goal by Zack Hanno; assists by
Austin DeBoer and Noah Salow
L: Goal by Gage Udahl; assist by Jory Danielson
and Austin DeBoer
L: Power play goal by Carter Schmitz; assists
by Zack Hanno and Noah Salow
Second Period
L: Goal by goal by Zack Hanno; assist by Noah
Salow
DC: Power play goal by Drew Kirmse; assist by
Chris Roberts
L Goal by goal by Zack Hanno; assists by Noah

Salow and Carter Schmitz

DC: Power play goal by Colton Goodman; assist
by Kylo Courteau
L: Goal by by Zack Hanno
L: Goal by Gage Undahl; assist by Laudon
Pellinger
Third Period
L: Goal by Carter Schmidt; assists by Zack
Hanno and Noah Salow
L: Short-handed goal by Carter Schmidt; assist
by Gage Undahl
DC: Goal by Chris Roberts; assist by Kylo
Courteau
DC shots on goal: 26
Saves: Joey Biwer, 25

Minnehaha Academy
The Wildcats closed out the regular season with a 5-2 loss at Minnehaha Academy on Saturday.
Nic Leisen cut MAs lead to 21 late in the first period off assists
by Chris Roberts and Drew Kirmse. The hosts added two goals in
the second period for a 4-1 lead,
and made it 5-1 in the third period. Daytin Freerksen scored for

the Cats in the third period off an

assist by Nic Leisen.
Mitch Sobotta made 35 stops in
goal. DC took 16 shots against
Minnehaha Academy.
Dodge County 2
Minnehaha Academy 5
Dodge County
1 0 1 = 2
Minnehaha Academy 2 2 1 = 5
First Period
MA: Goal by Josh Radtke; assist by Andrew
Wolpert
MA: Goal by Jake Lindquist; assist by Max
Hobrough
DC: Goal by Nic Leisen; assists by Chris Roberts
and Drew Kirmse
Second Period
MA: Goal by Josh Radtke; assists by Joel Lenhart
and Zach Newton
MA: Goal by Josh Radtke; assist by Max Hobrough
Third Period
MA: Goal by Josh Galkowski; assist by Jake
Frisell
DC: Goal by Daytin Freerksen; assist by Nic
Leisen
DC shots on goal: 16
Saves: Mitch Sobotta 35

2015 Section 1AA Boys Hockey

1. Lakeville North
Thursday, Feb. 19 at Lakeville

8. Dodge County
4. Mayo

Saturday, Feb. 21
at higher seed

Thursday, Feb. 19 at Rochester

5. Century
2. Lakeville South

Thursday, Feb. 26,

at Rochester

Thursday, Feb. 19 at Lakeville

7. Owatonna
3. Farmington

Saturday, Feb. 21
at higher seed

Thursday, Feb. 19at Farmington

6. John Marshall

News-Record photos by Faye Haugen

Zumbrota-Mazeppas Natalie Majerus tries to get in front of a Lourdes player to stop the fast break in
Tuesdays game in Zumbrota.

ZM earns a split in HVL play

Pine Islands Brynn Olson qualifies

for the state gymnastics meet

By Faye Haugen
ZUMBROTA The ZumbrotaMazeppa girls basketball team saw
their record move to 7-14 overall
and 4-11 in HVL play with a win
and a loss last week.
The Cougars lost to Lourdes but
won at Triton. ZM will close out
regular season play on Friday when
they play at Kasson.
Lourdes
The Cougars played a very good
first half in Tuesdays home contest against Lourdes. ZM trailed
just 23-21 at the break, and knotted the score at 23-23 at the start
of the second half when the Eagles
failed to return from the halftime
break in time. The referee handed
ZM the ball and, with just the five
Cougar players on the floor, Lauren Miller hit an uncontested layup.
The Eagles did get back on the
court and they then went on a 100 run to open up a lead they would
not relinquish, winning 60-48.
Miller led ZM in scoring with
17 points and she had eight blocked
shots. Taylor Blakstad came off
the bench to score a career high
11 points.

By Faye Haugen
PINE ISLAND The Pine Island gymnastics team will keep
their string of state tournament
qualifiers in tact because freshman Brynn Olson took second in
the vault and fourth place in all
around competition on Saturday
at the Section 1A meet in Austin.
It was a great section meet
for the Pine Island gymnastics
team. The girls finally put all
four events together for a fifth
place finish with a season high
score of 130.025, said a pleased
Coach Chris Templeton. Due to
the luck of the draw, we started
first on vault. This is nice because its the same rotation as a
home meet. We had a very good
vault today. Both Robin Talbot
and Brynn Olson scored personal
bests and Brittney Arndt, Rachel
Schutz and Bailey Kuball missed
personal bests by less then .1 of
a point. Brynns score of 9.275
was good for second place. The
scores resulted in a season high

Zumbrota-Mazeppa 48 - Lourdes 60
ZM - Alyssa Quam 6, Laura Drackley 1, Lauren
Miller 17, Miranda Mollenhauer 8, Lyndsey
Quam 5, Taylor Blakstad 11
Scoring by halves
Lourdes
23
37 = 60
Zumbrota-Mazeppa
21
27 = 48
Free throws: ZM - 9 of 14 for 64%; L - 14 of 27
for 52%; Field goals: ZM - 19 of 47 for 40%;
L - 20 of 56 for 35%; Rebounds: ZM - 39
(Alyssa Quam 12); L - 28; Turnovers: ZM - 27;
L - 15; Three-pointers: ZM - Lyndsey Quam
(1); L - 6

Wrestler

Triton
Balanced scoring was the key
to Fridays 50-42 win at Dodge
Center. ZM had only five players
scoring in the victory, but four of
the five were in double figures led
by Alyssa Quam with 14, Lynd-

Zumbrota-Mazeppas Taylor Blakstad drives around a Lourdes defender

in Tuesdays game in Zumbrota. Blakstad scored a career high 11
points.

sey Quam, 12, Lauren Miller, 11,

and Miranda Mollenhauer, 10.
Mollenhauer also grabbed a teamhigh 10 rebounds and Miller
blocked nine shots.
The Cougars trailed Triton 2221 at the half, but outscored the
Cobras 29-20 for their fourth HVL
win of the season.
Zumbrota-Mazeppa 50 - Triton 42

ZM - Alyssa Quam 14, Lauren Miller 11,

Miranda Mollenhauer 10, Lyndsey Quam 12,
Natalie Majerus 3
Scoring by halves
Zumbrota-Mazeppa
21
29 = 50
Triton
22
20 = 42
Free throws: ZM - 8 of 14 for 42%; T - 8 of 10
for 80%; Field goals: ZM - 17 of 42 for 40%;
T - 16 of 47 for 34%; Rebounds: ZM - 39
(Miranda Mollenhauer 10); T - 21; Turnovers:
ZM - 31; T - 18; Three-pointers: ZM - Lyndsey
Quam (3), Alyssa Quam (4), Natalie Majerus
(1); T - 0

Shelby Hinsch led Goodhue with

Goodhue played great defense
13 points followed by McKenzie in holding the Bombers to just 11
Ryan with 11 and Rachel Watson points in the opening half and 10
and Sydney Lodermeier with 10 points in the second half.
each.
Shelby Hinsch pumped in 11
Goodhue 60 - Wabasha-Kellogg 39
points to pace Goodhue with SydG - Shelby Hinsch 13, Taylor Larson 8, Sydney ney Lodermeier adding 10.
Lodermeier 10, Maddy Miller 2, Michelle Hadler
2, Rachel Watson 10, McKenzie Ryan 11, Megan
Ryan 2
Scoring by halves
Goodhue
31
29 = 60
Wabasha-Kellogg
18
21 = 39
Free throws: G - 13 of 29 for 45%; WK - 9 of
15 for 60%; Three-pointers: G -McKenzie
Ryan (2); WK - 2

Cannon Falls
The Wildcats had 12 players
score in Thursdays 58-21 drubbing of Cannon Falls.

Goodhue 58 - Cannon Falls 21

G - Shelby Hinsch 11, Taylor Larson 6, Sydney
Lodermeier 10, Maddy Miller 5, Michelle Hadler
2, Rachel Watson 6, McKenzie Ryan 2, Megan
Ryan 3, Kalley Diercks 2, Kate Stehr 2, Brittney
Ryan 5, Emily Benrud 4
Scoring by halves
Goodhue
29
29 = 58
Cannon Falls
11
10 = 21
Free throws: G - 18 of 31 for 58%; CF - 3 of
8 for 38%; Three-pointers: G -Megan Ryan
(1), Shelby Hinsch (1); CF - 0

KW holds off upset-minded PI

By Faye Haugen
KENYON Pine Island gave
HVL Blue Division leading
Kenyon-Wanamingo all they could
handle in Fridays girls basketball game in Pine Island.
The Panthers used their longrange shooting to lead much of
the first half before the Knights
took a 35-34 lead into the locker
room. Kenyon-Wanamingo built
up a 10-point lead in the second
half, using the free throw line to
score many of their points. The
Knights hit 24 of 27 at the line in
the 70-66 win. Pine Island was 16
of 25 at the free throw line, but
they did sink eight treys.
Megan Quam led the Knights
with 19 points. Mara Quam scored

her fifth.
Both Brittney and Brynn had
personal best scores in the all
around. Brittney scored a 33.850
and Brynn scored a 35.4 which
placed her fourth. We only had
to count one fall all day, pointed
out Coach Templeton. All week
we talked about cleaning up our
routines, focusing on the event
at hand and not thinking ahead
or behind. The girls did a great
job of staying in the moment.
This has been a very successful
season. The first meet of the season we scored a 115.4. To improve by 15 points over the course
of the season is huge. It just shows
how hard the girls worked and
how willing they are to be pushed
into new skills. This is a very
young team and the future looks
very bright.
Class A State competition will
begin at 11 a.m. on Saturday at
the Sports Pavilion at the University of Minnesota.

SECTION 1A WRESTLING LEADERS

Goodhue wins big in two games

By Faye Haugen
GOODHUE With the end of
the regular season quickly approaching, the Goodhue girls basketball team earned a pair of easy
wins. The Wildcats whipped both
Wabasha-Kellogg and Cannon
Falls to move to 19-5 overall and
11-3 in HVL play.
Wabasha-Kellogg
The Cats earned a 60-39 win at
Wabasha on Tuesday, rolling up a
huge lead in the first half and coasting in the second to the easy win.
Goodhue took a 31-18 lead to
the locker room at the half, and
they outscored the Falcons 29-21
over the last 18 minutes of play.

team vault score.

The Panthers continued to do
well on the bars in their next
rotation. We had a good bar set.
Baileys score of 7.175 was a
personal best, and both Brynn
and Brittney had good routines
as well. Not a season high event
score, but still a good score,
remarked Coach Templeton. The
dreaded beam was next. We tried
some new things in practice this
week to help the girls focus in
on this event. Boy did it work
with four no-fall routines. Both
Brittney and Brynn had personal
best scores. Cora (Heidan) and
Bailey also had no-fall routines.
The team score of 32.925 was a
season best. Brynns score of 8.7
placed her sixth. Floor was last.
We also had a very nice floor
set. Megan (Leland), Rachel, Brittney and Brynn all had good routines. Brittneys score of 8.975
is a personal best and placed her
ninth. Brynns score of 9.2 placed

14 of her 16 points in the second (1), Brittney Flom (1); PI - Noelle Langworthy
(3), Autumn Pin (2), Madi Owen (1), Kaitlyn
half of play for KW.
Champa (1), Emilee Fredrickson (1)
Pine Island had great balance in
their scoring, led by Summer Cavallaro with 16 points, Noelle Langworthy, 15, Autumn Pin, 12, and HVL Girls Basketball
Conf
Over
Emilee Fredrickson, 10.

STANDINGS

Kenyon-Wanamingo 70
Pine Island 66
KW - Megan Quam 19, Brittney Flom 8,
Savannah Bleess 6, Mara Quam 16, Emily
Ashland 9, Kasey Dummer 9, Megan Flom 3
PI - Noelle Langworthy 15, Autumn Pin 12,
Madie Owen 3, Kaitlyn Champa 4, Emilee
Fredrickson 10, Emilie Rucker 6, Summer
Cavallaro 16
Scoring by halves
Kenyon-Wanamingo
35
35 = 70
Pine Island
34
32 = 66
Free throws: KW - 24 of 27 for 89%; PI - 16 of
25 for 64%; Three-pointers: KW - Kasey
Dummer (3), Emily Ashland (1), Megan Flom

Blue Division
Kenyon-Wanamingo
Goodhue
Hayfield
Pine Island
Zumbrota-Mazeppa
Triton
Gold Division
Kasson-Mantorville
Lourdes
Byron
Lake City
Stewartville
Cannon Falls

W L
12 2
11 3
10 4
5 10
4 11
0 14
Conf
14 0
9 4
9 5
8 7
3 12
1 14

W L
16 7
19 5
16 7
8 16
7 14
2 22
Over
22 2
12 9
11 10
13 9
4 17
4 19

W L

106
Ethan Cota, Kenyon-Wanamingo 35
Mark Buringa, St. Charles
32
Spencer DeFrang
30
John Altendorf, Goodhue
17
Jack Williams, Pine Island
11
113
Tyler Ryan, Kenyon-Wanamingo
28
Noah Bauer, Pine Island
27
Hayden Stensland, ZM
27
Maleek Hussein, Chatfield
24
Jackson Heydt, Hayfield
19
120
Joey Majerus, Zumbrota-Mazeppa 36
Jared Goldsmith, Chatfield
36
Jared Clawiter, Kenyon-Wanamingo 32
Alan Spaeth, St. Charles
29
Jeremy Keller, Lake City
23

1
1
6
14
4
8
6
9
7
11
1
2
3
6
13

PI POOL & PINS

Island League
2-2-15
Producers Hybrids 6 vs. DMC Plumbing
24; D&M Dairy 8 vs. Oertli & Pleschourt
22; Majerus & Tiarks 24 vs. Kittelson
Heating & Plumbing 6; Comstock Farm
10 vs. Owens Locker 20
Top team series: DMC Plumbing 3564
Top team game: DMC Plumbing 1226
Top individual series: Shannon Morrow
725
Top individual: Shannon Morrow 274
Classic League
2-3-15
AR Auto Care 7 vs. 0 MJB Farms; Eberhart
Construction 5 vs. 2 Leos Sportsbar;
Hinrichs Plumbing & Pump 0 vs. 7 Groth
Implement
Top team game: Groth Implement 1174
Top team series: Groth Implement 3400
Top bowler game: Ron Nelson 278
Top bowler series: Ron Nelson 687

126
Bradley Kish, Kenyon-Wanamingo 25
Joel Gadient, Goodhue
24
Jacy Ball, St. Charles
23
Morgen Moreno, Hayfield
21
Nate Goldsmith, Chatfield
20
Sam Norquist, Zumbrota-Mazeppa 18
Colin Jorde, Dover-Eyota
17
132
Jake Mandt, Chatfield
35
Maverick Jackson, ZM
27
Mason Huemann, Goodhue
25
Isaac Haman, Pine Island
22
138
Kelby OReilly Goodhue
27
Dylan Craig, Kenyon-Wanamingo 21
Jacob Bennett, ZM
19
145
Hank Friedrichs, Chatfield
36
Freedom Hunt, ZM
26
Lane Heim, St. Charles
25
Ryan Keach, Dover-Eyota
22
Trevor Turner, Pine Island
21
Kaleb OReilly, Goodhue
20
Andrew Schmidt, Lake City
18
Hayden Voxland, Zumbrota-Mazeppa
12
152
Caden Steffen, ZM
27
Keaton Schaefer, Dover-Eyota
26
Ryan Meeker, Chatfield
26
Bailee OReilly Goodhue
24
Mason Stevenson, KW
21
160
Ted Androli, Kenyon-Wanamingo 32
Devin Manzy, Zumbrota-Mazeppa 30
Shane Siewert, Lake City
28
Logan Breuer, Goodhue
24
Ricardo Chavez, St. Charles
16
170
Drew Sathrum, Kenyon-Wanamingo 33
Dillon Downes, ZM
31
Michael Otomo, Dover-Eyota
24
Bailey Paquin, KW
23
Ethan Wright, Chatfield
21
Ethan Otterbein, Triton
18
182
Nick Richards, Dover-Eyota
28
Charles Dahling, Goodhue
27
Ryan Hanson, Lake City
22
Noah Prodzinski, ZM
22

11
3
6
9
15
18
14
2
9
7
6
6
15
12
1
10
5
10
12
12
2
15

195
Jacob Bleess, Chatfield
Luke Rechtzigel, KW
Michael Noll, Lake City
Seth Tupper, Zumbrota-Mazeppa
Colton Pike, Pine Island
220
Ian Morrison, Chatfield
Randy Henderson, Triton
Evan Block, ZM
285
Tanner Welsh, Dover-Eyota
Seth Donkers, KW
Alex Aarsvold, Pine Island
Jordan Ronningen, Goodhue

4
8
2
8
11

27 8
26 7
24 10
30
26
22
19

3
10
8
11

STANDINGS

HVL Boys Basketball

Conf
Blue Division
W L
Goodhue
13 3
Pine Island
9 7
Hayfield
6 10
Triton
5 11
Kenyon-Wanamingo 2 14
Zumbrota-Mazeppa 0 16
6
Gold Division
Conf
8
14 2
11 Lake City
Lourdes
11 5
8
11 5
15 Byron
Kasson-Mantorville 10 6
Stewartville
10 6
4
Cannon Falls
5 11
5
2
9
10

32
28
26
20
19

HVL Wrestling

Conf
W L
Kasson-Mantorville 10 0
3
Kenyon-Wanamingo 9
1
5
Zumbrota-Mazeppa 8
2
10 Stewartville
7
3
11 Byron
6
4
14 Goodhue
5
5
11 Lake City
4
6
Pine Island
2
8
4
Hayfield
2
8
6
Triton
1
9
12
1
9
14 Cannon Falls

Over
W L
20 6
15 11
10 15
10 16
6 19
1 21
Over
21 3
16 8
13 11
14 11
13 11
8 17
Over
W L
21 1
28 5
29 6
18 7
14 11
15 9
10 11
5 13
3 12
8 15
3 20

Harvest League
2-4-15
Prigges Flooring 4 vs. 0 Bye; Schaefers
Heating 0 vs. 4 Jims Barbershop; PI
Pool & Pins 1 vs. 3 Friedrichs
Top team game: Friedrichs 1055
Top team series: Jims Barbershop 3036
Thursday, February 19
Top bowler game: Rick Kunz 243
West
Section
1A
boys
basketball
at higher seed, 7 p.m.
Top bowler series: Rick Kunz 644
West Section 1AA boys basketball at higher seed, 7 p.m.
Kenyon-Wanamingo girls basketball, Cannon Falls at Kenyon, 6 p.m.
Commercial League
Friday, February 20
2-5-15
Stus Proshop 7 vs. 0 Bye; Maple Island Section 1A wrestling at Mayo Civic Arena, 11:30 a.m.
2 vs. 5 Ellefson Trucking; Terry Buck Goodhue girls basketball,Lourdes at Goodhue, 6 p.m.
Construction 5 vs. 2 Kiffmeyer Motorsports; Zumbrota-Mazeppa girls basketball at Kasson, 6 p.m.
Bluff Valley Campground 7 vs. 0 Nelson
Saturday, February 21
Family Services
State Class A gymnastics meet at University of Minnesota, 11 a.m
Top team game: Terry Buck Construction Section 1A wrestling at Mayo Civic Arena, 11 a.m.
1231
HVL girls basketball championship at Kasson, 7 p.m.. (tentative time)
Top team series: Ellefson Trucking 3428
Tuesday, February 24
Top bowler game: Darik Rude 268
South Section 2AA boys basketball at higher seed, 7 p.m.
Top bowler series: Darik Rude 695
West Section 1A boys basketball at Mayo Civic Auditorium, 6 p.m.
West Section 1AA boys basketball at Mayo Civic Auditorium, 6 and 7:30 p.m.

AREA SPORTS SCHEDULE

NEWS-RECORD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2015 PAGE 7A

Wrestling
PI earns a first round win over WK

News-Record photos by Faye Haugen

The Zumbrota-Mazeppa wrestling team celebrates their Section 1A wrestling title after edging KenyonWanamingo 27-26 in the final in Rochester, Saturday.

ZM edges KW by one for Section 1A title

By Faye Haugen
ROCHESTER The Section 1A
wrestling duals were expected to
be a fight with any one of four
teams battling for the title.
The finale lived up to expectations as Zumbrota-Mazeppa edged
Kenyon-Wanamingo 27-26. For
ZM it was their first section title
since 2012. For KW it was their
sixth straight year as finishing as
section runners-up.
Our seniors and our captains
believed they could beat KW. They
led us all season and they made it
happen, said ZM coach Link Steffen of the seven seniors on his
Cougar mat team. The whole team
wrestled well. It is nice to see that
the kids were rewarded for all of
their hard work. They deserve it.
We had a great year and we
beat a lot of ranked teams, but we
had some things not go our way in
our match with ZM, said a disappointed KW coach Matt Ryan.
The Knights opened with three
straight wins on a major decisions
by Ethan Cota (106) and Jared
Clawiter (120) and a decision by
Tyler Ryan (113).
Down 11-0, ZM ran off five wins
to take an 18-11 edge. Joey Majerus (126), Jacob Bennett (138),
Freedom Hunt (145) and Caden
Steffen (152) all won by decision.
In a match that decided the contest, Maverick Jackson (132) won
by injury default when Matthew
Houglum tore some ligaments in
his shoulder. Houglum was unable to complete the last 30 seconds of the match. Jackson was
leading 4-1 at the time of the in-

jury.
It was a tight match and who
knows what could have happened.
But when Houglum was unable to
continue, we gave up an added
three team points. That really hurt,
pointed out Coach Ryan.
KW rallied with a decision by
Ted Androli at 160 pounds and a
fall by Drew Sathrum at 170 pounds
which gave KW back the lead at
20-18.
Dillon Downes at 182 for ZM
and Luke Rechtzigel at 195 for
KW swapped decisions for a 2321 Knight lead.
Seth Tupper notched a second
period fall at 220 for the Cougars.
Evan Block knew he had to keep
his match to a three point decision
for ZM to win the match and that
is just what he did as KWs Seth
Donkers earned a 6-0 decision over
the ZM senior, securing ZMs onepoint victory. Even though Block
lost his match, he celebrated like
he had won a state title.
This was a lot like a college
match. It took forever with two
good teams going at it. It was quality
wrestling, pointed out Coach Steffen.
KW was a 31-24 winner over
ZM when the two teams squared
off in HVL action in December.
They were missing a couple of
kids the first time we wrestled ZM
and we knew this was going to be
a lot closer, remarked Coach Ryan.
It played out on paper just about
like I thought it would except for
the injury default. We did everything we wanted to except win. I
dont know if we are jinxed in this

match or just have some very bad

luck, lamented Ryan after finishing second the past six seasons.
Zumbrota-Mazeppa is a very
good team and we battled them
hard. I thought we had a legitimate chance to win a state title
this year. Everyone was healthy
and everything was in place, said
Coach Ryan who added, I wish
we both could qualify for the state
meet because I really think we
could wrestle in the state finals
against each other. But only one
team gets to go from our section.
KW ends the dual meet season
with a 28-5 record. They will graduate just two seniors from their second-ranked Class A team in Drew
Sathrum and Bailey Paquin.
Zumbrota-Mazeppa will carry
a 29-6 record and a sixth-place
ranking in the Class A pool into
the state meet that begins on Thursday, February 26 at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. Action
will begin at 11 a.m. against a team
yet to be determined.

By Faye Haugen
KENYON All season long the
Pine Island wrestling team has
struggled to fill a varsity lineup.
Low numbers at some weights and
injuries have made it tough for the
Panthers to be competitive this
season.
But the eighth-seeded Panthers
were able to put 11 matmen on the
mat in Kenyon in the opening round
of the Section 1A dual, Thursday.
It resulted in a 46-33 win over
ninth-seeded Wabasha-Kellogg.
Jack Williams, Isaac Haman,
Trevor Turner, Matt Riley, Noah
Koenig, Colton Pike and Alex
Aarsvold all earned pins in the
victory for Pine Island. Noah Bauer
won by major decision at 113
pounds.
PI saw their season come to an
end with a 60-18 loss to top-seeded
Kenyon-Wanamingo in the quarterfinals. The Panthers end the
season with a 5-13 dual meet
record. Pine Island will graduate
just one senior in Colton Pike.
Pine Island 46 - Wabasha-Kellogg 33
106 - Jack Williams pinned Tanner Sanderson,
1:27; 113 - Noah Bauer won 9-0 over Kaleb
Olson; 120 - Evan Goplen was pinned by
Nolan Rommel, 5:22; 126 - Brayden Burkhalter
was pinned by Tagen Miller, 2:32; 132 - Isaac
Haman pinned Jamie Hewitt, 55 seconds;
138 - Brogan Kunz lost 8-2 to Cooper Holtorf,
145 - Trevor Turner pinned Hunter Christenson,
1:49; 152 - Matt Riley pinned Cody Irish,
3:17; 160 - Noah Koenig pinned Jonathan
Norgrant, 1:18; 170 - PI forfeited to Paul

Pine Islands Noah Bauer has Wabasha-Kelloggs Kaleb Olson in all

kinds of trouble in the 113 pound match in Thursdays dual meet in
Kenyon. Bauer earned a major decision and the Panthers won 46-33.
Novak; 182 - PI forfeited to Dalton Peterson;
195 - PI forfeited to Dalon Miller; 220 - Colton

Pike pinned Collin Schmoker, 3:53; 285 - Alex

Aarsvold pinned Bryan Schoker, 3:07

Zumbrota-Mazeppa 27
Kenyon-Wanamingo 26
(ZM wrestlers listed first)
106 - Spencer DeFrang lost 10-1 to Ethan
Cota; 113 - Hayden Stensland lost 9-3 to Tyler
Ryan; 120 - Sam Nordquist lost 12-4 to Jared
Clawiter; 126 - Joey Majerus won 2-1 over
Bradley Kish; 132 - Maverick Jackson won by
injury default over Matthew Houglum; 138 Jacob Bennett won 4-1 over Dylan Craig; 145
- Freedom Hunt won 3-1 over Clay Burow; 152
- Caden Steffen won 1-0 over Mason Stevenson;
160 - Devin Manzy lost 5-2 to Ted Androli;
170 - Tyler Soltau was pinned by Drew Sathrum,
2:46; 182 - Dillon Downes won 7-2 over Bailey
Paquin; 195 - Noah Prodzinski lost 7-4 to Luke
Rechtzigel; 220 - Seth Tupper pinned Riley
Donkers, 3:06; 285 - Evan Block lost 6-0 to
Seth Donkers

Injuries deplete Goodhues lineup

By Faye Haugen
CHATFIELD With injuries
forcing three starters out of their
lineup, the Goodhue wrestling team
fell to Chatfield in the quarterfinals of the Section 1A dual wrestling meet in Chatfield, Thursday.
Joel Gadient, Mason Huemann
and Casey Deneen are all nursing
injuries and missed Thursdays
match.
The Cats forfeited four weights
to the defending Section 1A and
State Class A champions.

Kelby OReilly won by technical fall at 138 pounds. John Altendorf won by major decision at
106 pounds and Bailey OReilly
at 160 and Charles Dahling at 182
won by decisions.
The Wildcats end the dual meet
season with a 15-9 record. They
will graduate four seniors in Jacob Gilsdorf, Logan Breuer,
Charles Dahling and Jordan Ronningen.
Goodhue 15 - Chatfield 52
106 - John Altendorf won 13-0 over Chase

Ketterhagen; 113 - Joel Breuer was pinned by

Maleek Hussein, 1:59; 120 - Goodhue forfeited
to Jared Goldsmith; 126 - Goodhue forfeited
to Nathan Goldsmith 132 - Kaleb Stern was
pinned by Jake Mandt, 1:48; 138 - Kelby
OReilly won by technical fall over Carter
Fishbaugher, 17-0 ; 145 - Kaleb OReilly lost
11-3 to Ryan Meeker; 152 - Goodhue forfeited
to Hank Friedrichs; 160 - Bailee OReilly 10-4
over Kevin Brandt; 170 - Logan Breuer lost 53 to Ethan Wright; 182 - Charles Dahling won
10-4 over Dalton Lundy; 195 - Ryan Schoenfelder
was pinned by Jacob Bleess, 2:36; 220 Jordan Ronningen lost 3-0 to Ian Morrison;
285 - Goodhue forfeited to Logan Karver

News-Record photos by Faye Haugen

Kenyon-Wanamingos Mason Stevenson prepares to toss Chatfields Hank Friederichs during the Section 1A
semifinals in Rochester on Saturday.

KW gets an impressive win over Chatfield

By Faye Haugen
ROCHESTER When Chatfield and Kenyon-Wanamingo
squared off on the mat in December, the Knights edged the defending state champions 33-31.
Saturdays rematch in the Section
1A semifinals on Saturday was
expected to be another close fight.
It wasnt, as the Knights earned a
convincing 40-21 win.
We really wrestled well and
got some big wins from kids who
were beat by Chatfield the first
time around, said Coach Matt
Ryan.
The Knights got off to a hot

start winning four of the first five

matches, three of them by falls.
Ethan Cota (106), Tyler Ryan (113)
and Bradley Kish (126) won with
a pin and Matthew Houglums
decision at 125 gave the Knights a
21-3 lead.
Chatfield won the next three
weights to close the gap to 21-12,
but Ted Androli won with a pin at
160, Bailey Paquin won by decision at 170, and Drew Sathrums
major decision guaranteed a new
Section 1A champion.

Kenyon-Wanamingo 40 - Chatfield 21
106 - Ethan Cota pinned Chase Ketterhagen,
18 seconds; 113 - Tyler Ryan pinned Maleek
Hussein, 5:24; 120 - Jared Clawiter lost 6-3 to
Jared Goldsmith; 126 - Bradley Kish pinned
Samson Stephas, 1:44 ;132 - Matthew Houglum
won 6-0 over Nathan Goldsmith; 138 - Dylan
Craig lost 7-3 to Jake Mandt; 145 - Jaeden
Sokoloski lost 10-4 to Ryan Meeker; 152 Mason Stevenson lost 10-3 to Hank Friederichs;
160 - Ted Androli pinned Kevin Bradt, 1:40;
170 - Bailey Paquin won 3-2 over Ethan Wright;
182 - Drew Sathrum won 13-1 over Dalton
Lundy; 195 - Riley Donkers was pinned by
Jacob Bleess, 5:58; 220 - Luke Rechtzigel
lost 11-7 to Ian Morrison; 285 - Seth Donkers
pinned Logan Karver, 5:56

KW ends
PIs dual
season
Zumbrota-Mazeppas Jacob Bennett keeps Dover-Eyotas Marcus Otomos shoulders pinned to the mat in
Saturdays Section 1A semifinal match in Rochester. Bennett won 8-2 at 138 pounds.

ZM gets off to a great start over DE

By Faye Haugen
ROCHESTER Second-seeded
Zumbrota-Mazeppa came ready
to wrestle in Saturdays Section
1A semifinals against third-seeded
Dover-Eyota. The Cougars got off
to a huge start that propelled them
to a 48-18 win over the Eagles.
Our seniors and our captains
had no doubt about what we were
going to do against Dover-Eyota.
They just really went after it with
a confident attitude, said Coach
Link Steffen.
ZM topped the Eagles 37-23 in
regular season action in December.
Spencer DeFrang (106), Hayden Stensland (113) and Joey Majerus (120) all earned pins to get
ZM off to an 18-0 start. Maverick
Jackson (132) and Jacob Bennett
(138) both earned decisions followed by falls from Caden Steffen (152) and Devin Manzy (160)
for an overpowering 36-6 Cougar lead with five weights to
wrestle. The Cougars ended the

match with a forfeit to Seth Tup- against the Cougars.

ZM had little trouble with the
per at 195 pounds and a fall by
Evan Block at 220 pounds for the Saints, winning 66-7 as the Cougars won 12 of 14 weights.
30-point victory.
Zumbrota-Mazeppa 48
Hayden Stensland, Caden StefDover-Eyota 18
fen, Dillon Downes, Jarret Haglund
106 - Spencer DeFrang pinned Taylor DeFrang, and Seth Tupper all won with pins.
5:02; 113 - Hayden Stensland pinned Blake The Saints forfeited to Maverick
Badker, 32 seconds; 120 - Joey Majerus pinned Jackson, Jacob Bennett, Evan
Michael Nelson, 42 seconds; 126 - Sam Nordquist
lost 4-0 to Colin Jorde; 132 - Maverick Jackson Block and Connor Hegseth. Sam
won 4-1 over Corbin Powrie; 138 - Jacob Nordquist won by technical fall,
Bennett won 8-2 over Marcus Otomo; 145 - Devin Manzy won by major deciFreedom Hunt lost 6-3 to Ryan Keach; 152 - sion, and Joey Majerus won by
Caden Steffen pinned Keaton Schaefer, 1:00; decision.
160 - Devin Manzy pinned Kane Lemke, 1:41
170 - Dillon Downes lost 15-3 to Michael
Otomo; 182 - Noah Prodzinski lost 6-1 to Nick
Richards; 195 - Seth Tupper won by forfeit;
220 - Evan Block pinned Noah Teed, 4:39;
285 - Connor Hegseth was pinned by Tanner
Welsh, 53 seconds

St. Charles
The Cougars opened tournament
action on Thursday when they
hosted seventh-seeded St. Charles
and 10th-seeded Triton in
Mazeppa. The Saints topped Triton 54-24 in the opening match to
move into quarterfinal action

Zumbrota-Mazeppa 66 - St. Charles 7

106 - Spencer DeFrang lost 12-1 to Mark
Buringa; 113 - Hayden Stensland pinned Tyler
Mathison, 54 seconds; 120 - Joey Majerus
won 5-0 over Alan Spaeth; 126 - Sam Nordquist
won by technical fall over Logan Wendt, 17-2;
132 - Maverick Jackson won by forfeit; 138 Jacob Bennett won by forfeit; 145 - Freedom
Hunt lost 5-3 to Lane Heim; 152 - Caden
Steffen pinned Jerod Wohlferd; 160 - Devin
Manzy won 8-0 over Ricardo Chavez; 170 Dillon Downes pinned Darlan Doan, 1:05;
182 - Jarret Haglund pinned Chad Flodeen,
3:42; 195 - Seth Tupper pinned Marshal Majerus,
2:39; 220 - Evan Block won by forfeit; 285 Connor Hegseth won by forfeit

By Faye Haugen
KENYON Top-seeded
Kenyon-Wanamingo had little
trouble in their Section 1A dual
meet opening match, defeating
eighth-seeded Pine Island, 60-18
in Pine Island. The Panthers opened
the meet with a 46-33 win over
Wabasha-Kellogg.
The Knights got falls from Ethan
Cota, Jared Clawiter, Bradley Kish,
Dylan Craig, Mason Stevenson,
Ted Androli and Seth Donkers.
Bailey Paquin, Drew Sathrum and
Luke Rechtzigel all won by forfeit.
Pine Island saw Isaac Haman
and Trevor Turner win with pins
and Noah Bauer and Colton Pike
win with decisions.
Kenyon-Wanamingo 60 - Pine Island 18
(KW wrestlers listed first)
106 - Ethan Cota pinned Jack Williams, 1:52;
113 - Tyler Ryan lost 4-2 in overtime to Noah
Bauer; 120 - Jared Clawiter pinned Evan Goplen,
1:08; 126 - Bradley Kish pinned Brady Burkhalter,
12 seconds 132 - Matthew Houglum was
pinned by Isaac Haman, 3:52; 138 - Dylan
Craig pinned Brogan Kunz, 3:12; 145 - Clay
Burow was pinned by Trevor Turner, 5:39;
152 - Mason Stevenson pinned Matt Riley, 20
seconds; 160 - Ted Androli pinned Noah Koenig,
32 seconds; 170 - Bailey Paquin won by
forfeit; 182 - Drew Sathrum won by forfeit;
195 - Luke Rechtzigel won by forfeit; 220 Riley Donkers lost 3-0 to Colton Pike; 285 Seth Donkers pinned Alex Aarsvold, 3:26

Pine Islands Matt Riley works on the head of Wabasha-Kelloggs Cody

Irish in Thursdays Section 1A match in Kenyon. Riley earned a secondperiod fall in the Panther win.

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Boys Basketball

PI wins 15th game of the season

By Faye Haugen
PINE ISLAND Pine Island
stepped out of HVL action to earn
their 15th win of the season with a
65-51 victory over Medford in Pine
Island, Monday.
We got a very balanced scoring effort with six players scoring
between seven and 12 points, said
Coach Jim McNamara. We did a
great job rebounding, winning that
statistic 47-21. Chris Frick had a
big game in his first varsity start
with 11 rebounds and four assists.
Pine Island led 30-22 at the half,
and they didnt let up over the last
18 minutes on their way to a 14point win over the Tigers.
Broc Finstuen and Matt Smith
led Pine Island in scoring with 12
points each. Matt Kukson added
11.
The Panthers were seeded fourth
in the West Section 1A tournament, and they will host fifthseeded Hayfield on Thursday at 7
p.m.
The West Section 1AA semifinals will be held Tuesday at Mayo
Civic Arena in Rochester at 7
p.m. with the finals set for Saturday, February 28 at 11 a.m. in
Rochester.
News-Record photo by Faye Haugen

Goodhues Jacob Pasch gets a hand in the face of Wabasha-Kelloggs Ryan Wolfe during Tuesdays game in
Goodhue.

Goodhue closes with three wins

By Faye Haugen
GOODHUE The Goodhue
boys basketball team closed out
their regular season with three
wins to end the season with a 206 record. The Cats have a fivegame winning streak heading into
their Section 1A quarterfinals game
on Thursday against either Glenville-Emmons or LeRoy-Ostrander
at 7 p.m. in Goodhue.
Blooming Prairie
The Wildcats earned a big win
on Monday evening, stopping
Blooming Prairie 62-52 in a key
West Section 1A matchup.
A great start fueled the Cats to
the win as Goodhue led 41-40 at
the half. The Blossoms did play
better in the second half, outscoring
Goodhue 32-21, but they were
unable to make up enough ground
to pull out the win.
Tyler Schumacher led the Cats
with 17 points. Jacob McNamara
added 16 and Riley Augustine 13.
Goodhue 62 - Blooming Prairie 52
G - Jacob McNamara 16, Tyler Schumacher
17, Riley Augustine 13, Jacob Pasch 7, Ryan
Alpers 2, Ben Opsahl 3, Calvin Peterson 4
Scoring by halves
Blooming Prairie
20
32 = 52
Goodhue
41
21 = 62
Free throws: G - 3 of 3 for 100%; BP - 6 of 9
for 57%; Field goals: G - 26 of 49 for 53%; BP
- 21 of 47 for 44%; Rebounds: G - 22; BP - 24;
Turnovers: G - 10; BP - 14; Three-pointers:
G - Tyler Schumacher (3), Jacob Pasch (1),
Ben Opsahl (1), Jacob McNamara (2); BP - 4

Wabasha-Kellogg
In their second non-conference
game in a row, Goodhue rolled to
an easy 62-35 win over WabashaKellogg on Tuesday in Goodhue.
Coach Matt Halverson was able
to go to his bench early and often
when Goodhue took a 37-18 lead
at the half. The Cats held a 25-17
scoring advantage in the second
half.
Tyler Schumacher pumped in
14 points with Riley Augustine
adding 11. In all, 12 Goodhue players scored in the win.

Pine Island 65 - Medford 51

PI - Ben Farrell 7, Luke Thornton 7, Matt Kukson
11, Broc Finstuen 12 Mitchel Acker 7, Matt
Lien 1, Kyle Groven 1, Chris Frick 3, Matt Smith
12, Michael Sloane 2
Scoring by halves
Medford
22
29 = 51
Pine Island
30
35 = 65
Free throws: PI - 11 of 21 for 52%; M - 15 of
26 for 58%; Three-pointers: PI - Matt Smith
(2), Mitchel Acker (1), Broc Finstuen (1); M - 4

News-Record photos by Faye Haugen

Pine Islands Luke Thornton backs off when he sees that teammate Broc
Finstuen has the rebound in Fridays game in Kenyon.

Goodhues Isaiah Hinsch sets up his defense on Wabasha-Kelloggs

Zach Kjeseth in Tuesdays game in Goodhue.
Goodhue 62 - Wabasha-Kellogg 35
G - Jacob McNamara 8, Tyler Schumacher 14,
Riley Augustine 11, Jacob Pasch 6, Sam
McNamara 2, Ben Opsahl 2, Ryan Alpers 7,
Wilson Jonas 2, Isaiah Hinsch 2, Justyn Lind
2, Calvin Peterson 2, Aaron Austin 2
Scoring by halves
Wabasha-Kellogg
18
17 = 35
Goodhue
37
25 = 62
Free throws: G - 5 of 9 for 56%; WK - 5 of 9
for 56%; Three-pointers: G - Jacob Pasch
(2), Tyler Schumacher (2), Ryan Alpers (1);
WK - 4

Hayfield
Goodhue closed out regular season play with a 60-45 win at Hayfield, Friday.
Jacob Pasch had a big game for
the Cats, scoring 22 points when

he hit six threes. Riley Augustine Kenyon-Wanamingos Ben Ringham tries to keep Pine Islands Broc Finstuen away from the ball in Fridays
added 13 points.
game in Kenyon. Teammate Tanner Warner also tries to get in on the action.
Goodhue jumped out to a 38-22
lead by the half. Hayfield was never
able to make up any ground on the
Cats who won their fifth straight.
By Faye Haugen
Goodhue 60 - Hayfield 45
In all, nine players scored for Pine PI - Ben Farrell 5, Luke Thornton 6, Matt
G - Jacob McNamara 9, Tyler Schumacher 6,
KENYON Both teams were Island and seven players scored Kukson 11, Broc Finstuen 23 Mitchel Acker 4,
Riley Augustine 13, Jacob Pasch 22, Sam looking for a win to build up some for KW.
Matt Lien 1, Chris Frick 2, Matt Smith 5, Bryce
McNamara 6, Ben Opsahl 4
Hinrichsen 1
momentum for post-season play,
Broc Finstuen had a good all KW - Eddie Matul 8, Kwazi Spencer 3, Gavin
Scoring by halves
but it was Pine Island that earned around game with 23 points, 11 Roosen 9, Tanner Warner 2, Eric Hokanson 7,
Goodhue
38
22 = 60
a 58-47 win over Kenyon-Wana- rebounds, five assists and three Connor Sviggum 11, Devyn Stordahl 7
Hayfield
22
23 = 45
Free throws: G - 7 of 9 for 77%; H - 7 of 15 for mingo in the regular season finale steals, said PI coach Jim McScoring by halves
46%; Field goals: G - 23 of 40 for 57%; H - 17 in HVL Blue Division boys bas- Namara. Matt Kukson added 11 Pine Island
26
32 = 58
of 42 for 40%; Rebounds: G - 25; H - 21; ketball.
Kenyon-Wanamingo
16
31 = 47
points
for
the
Panthers.
Turnovers: G - 12; H - 10; Three-pointers:
Free throws: PI - 14 of 18 for 78%; KW - 8 of
The
Panthers
held
a
modest
15The Knights saw senior Con- 14 for 57%; Three-pointers: PI - Matt Smith
G - Jacob Pasch (6), Ben Opsahl (1); H - 4
11 lead with 7:20 to play in the nor Sviggum score 11 poins in his (1),Mitchel Acker (1), Broc Finstuen (2); KW first half, but a 7-0 run over the last home game.
Eddie Matul (1), Kwazi Spencer (1), Gavin
next five minutes allowed the Pan- Pine Island 58
Roosen (1), Eric Hokanson (1), Connor Sviggum
(2), Devyn Stordahl (1)
thers some breathing room as they Kenyon-Wanamingo 47
opened up a 22-11 lead. By the
40-12 lead at the break. ZM did half, Pine Island led 26-16.
Both coaches went to their re2015 West Section 1AA Boys Basketball
play better in the second half, but
they were no match for the high- serves often. KW was celebrating 1. Lourdes
senior night and Coach Mat Thursday, Feb. 19 at Byron,
scoring Eagles.
Tuesday, Feb. 24
Jacob Forrey led ZM with 10 Schaefer started an all senior lineup. 7 p.m.
8. Zumbrota-Mazeppa
6 p.m. at Mayo
points.

PI stops KW in season finale

ZM drops a pair of HVL games

By Faye Haugen
ZUMBROTA The ZumbrotaMazeppa boys basketball team
closed out regular season play with
losses to Lourdes and Triton to
finish with a 1-21 record.
The eighth-seeded Cougars will
open West Section 1AA play on

Thursday at top-seeded Lourdes

at 7 p.m.
Lourdes
The Cougars dropped a 66-33
game to Lourdes in Zumbrota,
Tuesday. ZM had trouble finding
their mark in the first half of play,
and the Eagles jumped out to a

Zumbrota-Mazeppa 33 - Lourdes 66
ZM - Noah Erickson 8, Isaiah Stueber 5, Nathan
Debner 6, Alex Guse 4 Jacob Forrey 10
Scoring by halves
Zumbrota-Mazeppa
12
21 = 33
Lourdes
40
26 - 66
Free throws: ZM - 16 of 18 for 89%; L - 20 of
28 for 71%; Three-pointers: ZM - Noah Erickson
(2), Isaiah Stueber (1); L - 5

Triton
The Cougars got off to another
slow start in Fridays season finale against Triton in Zumbrota.
ZM trailed 31-19 at the half, but
they were able to make it a 10point game before the Cobras went
on a 10-0 scoring run for a 68-49
victory.
Jacob Forrey netted 18 points
to lead Zumbrota-Mazeppa in scoring.
Zumbrota-Mazeppa 49 - Triton 68
ZM - Noah Erickson 2, Isaiah Stueber 7, Nathan
Debner 9, Alex Nelson 2, Alex Guse 3 Jacob
Forrey 18, Jacob Niebuhr 4, Zach Sanborn 2,
Landon Rauen 2
Scoring by halves
Triton
31
37 = 68
Zumbrota-Mazeppa
19
30 = 49
Free throws: ZM - 14 of 21 for 66%; T - 18 of
27 for 66%; Field goals: ZM - 15 of 48 for 31%;
T - 22 of 51 for 43%; Rebounds: ZM - 23; T 28; Turnovers: ZM - 17; T -14; Three-pointers:
ZM - Isaiah Stueber (1), Jacob Forrey (4); T - 6

With a good head fake, Zumbrota-Mazeppas Paul Dahlen gets a pair of

Triton players in the air during Fridays game in Zumbrota.

VOLLEYBALL
The good get
gooder
By Ed Stern
GOODHUE Danis was good
going into tonights matches. And
when they were done they got even
better. Facing their toughest game
ever against Out of Towners, they
managed to scrape out a 32-30
win in a 45-minute contest that
could have been used for a highlight reel.
Merribeth Schrimpf literall
helped scrape the win out, by diving into the wall to make a save
that almost cost her a nail. I just
saw the ball going out after we
had hit it, and I knew that I needed
to get it. I didnt realize until later
that I had chipped a nail. Wow!
What some great athletes wont
do to help their team win!
And she was great, gaining the
lead and winning point in the long
game on two borderline awesome
hits. Merribeth, you are an inspiration to young volleyballers everywhere!

Civic Arena

4. Pine Island

Thursday, Feb. 19 at PI, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 28, 11 a.m.
at Mayo Civic Arena

5. Hayfield
2. Byron
Thursday, Feb. 19

7. Triton
3. Dover-Eyota

Tuesday, Feb. 24
7:30 p.m. at Mayo
Civic Arena

Thursday, Feb. 19

6. Cannon Falls

2015 West 1.Section

1A Boys Basketball
Goodhue
Thursday, Feb. 19
at Goodhue, 7 p.m.

8. Glenville-Emmons
Tuesday, Feb. 17

9. LeRoy-Ostrander
4. Randolph

Tuesday, Feb. 24
6 p.m.
Mayo Civic
Auditorium

Thursday, Feb. 19

5. Grand Meadow

Saturday, Feb. 28
5 p.m. at
Mayo Auditorium

2. Blooming Prairie
7. Southland

Thursday, Feb. 19

Tuesday, Feb. 17

9. MSAD

3. Lyle/Pacelli

Tuesday, Feb. 24
6 p.m.
Mayo Civic
Auditorium

Thursday, Feb. 19

6. Bethlehem Academy

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Obituaries

Churches
BELLECHESTER
ROLLING MEADOWS MENNONITE
CHURCH, Belvidere Town Hall, 2
miles north of Bellechester on County
2, Pastor Aaron Witmer, 651-9234240. Sundays: 10 a.m. Sunday
School; 11 a.m. Worship; 7 p.m. Hymn
Sing every fourth Sunday.
ST. MARYS CATHOLIC, Bellechester, Father Paul Kubista. Sunday
mornings: 8:30 a.m. Mass. Tuesday
mornings: 8 a.m. Mass.

GOODHUE
HOLY
TRINITY
CATHOLIC,
Goodhue, Father Paul Kubista. Mass
times: Monday and Wednesday, 8
a.m. at Holy Trinity; Tuesday and
Thursday, 8 a.m. at St. Mary; Saturday, 5:30 p.m. At Holy Trinity; Sunday, 8:30 a.m. St. Mary and 10:30
a.m. St. Columbkill.
ST. LUKE LUTHERAN, Goodhue,
651-923-4695, Pastor Regina Hassanally. Secretary hours: Monday and
Thursday: 5:15-8:15 p.m.; Tuesday
and Wednesday: 9:15 a.m.-3:15 p.m.
Wed., Feb. 18: 6 p.m. Supper; 7
p.m. Worship. Sun., Feb. 22: 8:30
a.m. Sunday School; 9:30 a.m. Worship with communion with 3-6 grade
singing.
ST. PETERS EV. LUTHERAN,
WELS, 702 Third Ave., Goodhue,
Randall L. Kuznicki, Pastor. Wed.,
Feb. 18: 8:30 a.m. Quilting, beginning with Bible study; 7 p.m. Worship, with fellowship and Ladies Aid
meeting following. Sun., Feb. 22: 8:15
a.m. Worship with communion; 9:15
a.m. Sunday school; Bible study.
Tues., Feb. 24: 1-4 p.m. Pastors
office hours.

MAZEPPA
ST. JOHNS EV. LUTHERAN,
Mazeppa, Alan Horn, Pastor. 8436211, home; 843-5302 work. Bible
class every Wednesday at 7 p.m.
ST. PETER & PAUL CATHOLIC,
Mazeppa. Weekends-Masses: Sun.:
10 a.m., Mazeppa, Fr. Joe Fogal.
UNITED METHODIST, Mazeppa,
David Neil, Pastor. Church: 843-4962;
home: 732-4291. Every Sunday: 9:30
a.m. Sunday School; 10:30 a.m.
Worship.

ORONOCO
GRACE LUTHERAN, WELS, 45 1st
Avenue NE, Oronoco: 507-367-4329,
Pastor Ben Kempfert 507-367-4426.
Office hours: Tuesday-Friday, 8-11
a.m. Sundays: 8:45 a.m. Bible study;
Sunday School; 10 a.m. Worship.
Website: www.gracelutheranoronoco
.come. Follow us on facebook. Sun.,
Feb. 22: 11:15 a.m. Worship with
potluck and forum with Pastor Gunn
and annual meeting.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF
ORONOCO, 40 3rd Street SW., Rev.
Lisa Johnson office hours Mondays
1-4 p.m.; Office hours: Tuesdays and
Thursdays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Wed., Feb.
18: 7 p.m. Worship. Sun., Feb. 22:
9 a.m. Worship. Wed., Feb. 25: 11:30
a.m.-1 p.m. Luncheon; 4-6 p.m. Food
shelf open.

PINE ISLAND
CORNERSTONE
BAPTIST
CHURCH, Pine Island, Tim Graham,
Pastor, 507-356-4306, www.corner
stonepi.org, ASL Interpretation avail-

able. Sun., 9:30 a.m. Sunday School;

10:30 a.m. Worship; 6 p.m. Worship
(most Sundays) Wed., 7 p.m. Prayer
service; Cornerstone Club.
GOOD NEWS EVANGELICAL FREE
CHURCH, 208 North Main, Pine Island, Chris Paulson, Pastor, (507)
356-4834. Sundays: 9:15 a.m. Sunday School for children and adults;
10:30 a.m. Worship; 7 p.m. Youth
Group for grades 7-12. Wednesdays:
6 p.m. AWANA for grades K-6; 7:30
p.m. Bible study for all ages.
PINE ISLAND ASSEMBLY OF GOD,
520 So. Main St., Pine Island, 3568622, email: dashpole@bevcomm.
net, Rev. Dan Ashpole, Pastor. Sundays: 9:30 a.m. Adult Bible class and
Childrens Sunday School; 10:30 a.m.
Worship.
ST. MICHAELS CATHOLIC, 451 5th
Street SW, Pine Island, 356-4280,
Father Randal Kasel, Pastor; Saturday Mass 5 p.m.; Sunday Mass
10:30 a.m.; Confessions 4:15 p.m.
Saturday; Daily Mass Wednesday
8:30 a.m. and Friday 8:30 a.m.; Confessions 8 a.m. Office Hours Tuesday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-noon and 1-5
p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
ST. PAUL LUTHERAN, ELCA, 214
3rd St. S.W., Box 708, Pine Island,
Pastors David Beckstrom, and Kip
A. Groettum, Associate Pastor. Email:
saint paulpi@yahoo.com; Web site:
www.saintpa1ulpi.org Wed., Feb. 18:
6 p.m. Book study; Dinner; 7 p.m.
Worship with communion; 8 p.m.
Chancel choir; 8:45 p.m. Praise team.
Thurs., Feb. 19: 6:30 p.m. 5th grade
first communion class; 7 p.m. Church
council. Sat., Feb. 21: 8 a.m. Mens
group breakfast; 5:30 p.m. Worship.
Sun., Feb. 22: 8:15 a.m. Worship;
9:30 a.m. Adult forum; Fellowship;
Sunday School; Handbells; Transition team interviews; 10:30 a.m.
Worship; Sunday School. Mon., Feb.
23: Newsletter deadline. Tues., Feb.
24: 8:30 a.m. Mission quilting; staff
meeting; 1:30 p.m. Bible study. Wed.,
Feb. 25: 3:30 p.m. Grades 7-8 confirmation field trip; 6 p.m. Book study;
Dinner; 7 p.m. Worship; 8 p.m. Chancel choir; 8:45 p.m. Praise team.
UNITED METHODIST, 200 Main St.
North, PO Box 8, Pine Island, Carolyn Westlake, Pastor; Office hours:
Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-2:15 p.m.;
Web address: www.piumc.org; email:
piumc@bevcomm.net. Wed., Feb. 18:
9 a.m. Better Brew; 7 p.m. Worship.
Thurs., Feb. 19: 10 a.m. Pine Haven Bible study; 4 p.m. Disciple. Sun.,
Feb. 22: 8:30 a.m. Coffee fellowship; 9 a.m. Worship with pie auction following; 10 a.m. Coffee hour
fellowship; 10:15 a.m. Sunday School.
Mon., Feb. 23: 7 p.m. Council meeting. Tues., Feb. 24: 7 p.m. Finance
meeting; Advanced disciple. Wed.,
Feb. 25: 5:45 p.m. Meal and children worship; 6 p.m. Confirmation; 7
p.m. Worship.

WANAMINGO
NEW LIFE CHURCH, Wanamingo,
Pastor Patrick McBride, 507-8243019. New Life Church meets at 10
a.m. at 525 Beverly Street, Wanamingo. Free nursery for infants
through age three; Sunday School
for all ages beginning at 9 a.m. Small
Group Bible Studies Sunday evenings
at 7 p.m.
TRINITY LUTHERAN, Wanamingo,
Christopher Culuris, Pastor 507-8242155; www.TrinityWanamingo.org.
Wed., Feb. 18: 9 a.m. Volunteers
help with newsletter; 4 and 7 p.m.
Worship at Wanamingo Lutheran.
Sun., Feb. 22: 9 a.m. Sunday School;

Worship with Sunday School singing followed by coffee fellowship.

Mon., Feb. 23: 8:30 a.m. Quilting;
Noon WELCA potluck; 7 p.m. Kenyon
Sunset Home annual meeting. Wed.,
Feb. 25: 6 p.m. Supper; 7 p.m. Worship.
WANAMINGO LUTHERAN ELCA,
Wanamingo, MN 55983, Christopher
Culuris, Pastor. Office hours Thursdays 1-3 p.m., 507-824-2410. Wed.,
Feb. 18: 4 and 7 p.m. Worship with
communion. Sun., Feb. 22; 9:15 a.m.
Sunday School; 10:30 a.m. Worship.
Mon., Feb. 23: 7 p.m. Kenyon Sunset Home annual meeting. Wed., Feb.
25: 6 p.m. Supper at Trinity; 7 p.m.
Holden evening prayer at Trinity.

ZUMBROTA
CHRIST EV. LUTHERAN CHURCH
and School, WELS, 223 East 5th
Street, Zumbrota, Office 732-5421.
Wayne Schoch, Pastor, 732-4089;
School, Daniel Kell, Principal, 7325367. Wed., Feb. 18: 10:30 a.m. Bible
study; 3:15 p.m. Junior choir; 3:30
p.m. Confirmation class; 5 p.m. Supper; 6:30 p.m. Worship; 7:30 p.m.
Adult choir. Sat., Feb. 21: Noon
hotdish salad luncheon. Sun., Feb.
22: 8 and 10:30 a.m. Worship with
communion; 9:15 a.m. Sunday
School; 9:30 a.m. Bible study. Mon.,
Feb. 23: 7 p.m. Bible study. Tues.,
Feb. 24: 2:15 p.m. Towers Bible study;
6 p.m. Bell choir. Wed., Feb. 25:
10:30 a.m. Bible study; 1 p.m. Nursing Home service; 3:15 p.m. Junior
choir; 3:30 p.m. Confirmation class;
5 p.m. Supper; 6:30 p.m. Worship;
7:30 p.m. Adult choir.
FAMILY WORSHIP CHURCH Weekly
worship services: 81 West 5th Street,
Zumbrota, 507-732-7438, www.fwc
1.org. Sunday: 9:30 a.m- Corinthians.
Wednesdays 7 p.m. Interactive Bible
studies, prayer, and counseling.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,
UCC, 455 East Avenue, Zumbrota;
Rev. Lisa Johnson. Secretarys office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays
10 a.m.-3 p.m. Wed., Feb. 18: 7 p.m.
Worship at Oronoco. Sun., Feb. 22:
11 a.m. Worship. Wed., Feb. 25:
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Luncheon at
Oronoco.
LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY CHURCH,
a Wesleyan church, 179 W. 3rd St.,
Zumbrota, lighthousecommunityzum
@yahoo.com, Janet Fischer, Pastor.
Office: 732-5074. Sun., Feb. 22:
10:45 a.m. Worship with Rev. Tim
Purcell.
NEW RIVER ASSEMBLY OF GOD,
290 South Main Street, Zumbrota.
507-398-2604. Pastor Gary Basinski. Service times: Saturday, 7 p.m.
www.NewRiverZumbrota.com.
OUR SAVIOURS LUTHERAN AFLC
Eric Westlake and Tim Banks, Pastors, 1549 East Avenue, Zumbrota,
732-5449, church office. Website:
oslczumbrota.org. Office hours: Tues.,
Wed., and Fri., 8 a.m.-noon. Wed.,
Feb. 18: 9 a.m. Womens Bible study;
3:30 p.m. WINGS; 6 p.m. Youth group.
Sat., Feb. 21: 7 a.m. Mens prayer
breakfast; 7 p.m. Youth group (7-12)
open gym. Sun., Feb. 22: 8:30 a.m.
Prayer time; 9 a.m. Sunday school preschool through adult; 10:15 a.m.
Worship; 7 p.m. 50+ study group.
Mon., Feb. 23: 7 p.m. Moms in
Prayer. Wed., Feb. 25: 9 a.m.
Womens Bible study; 3:30 p.m.
WINGS and junior youth group; 6
p.m. Youth group; 7 p.m. Bible study.
CHURCH OF ST. PAUL, 749 Main
St. South, Zumbrota, 732-5324, email
stpauls@hcinet.net Pastor Father

College
University of Northwestern

ST. PAUL Kayla Roper of

Goodhue graduated on December
19, 2014, with a bachelor of science degree in English. Named to
the deans list for the fall semester were Lisa Greenslade and Andrea Petersen, both of Pine Island,
and both earned Highest Honors
(3.9-4.0 GPA).
Wisconsin Lutheran College

MILWAUKEE, WI Rebecca
Miller of Mazeppa was named to
the deans list for the fall semester.
University of Wisconsin Whitewater

WHITEWATER, WI Elizabeth Kock, a graduate school psychology major from Oronoco, was
the winner of a graduate research
grant. Kock will examine the effects of using pre-instructional
access to a preferred sensory item
to improve the challenge behavior of a student with autism within
the general education classroom.

Zumbrota Theresa Funk, AAS,

BEMIDJI Kayla Morey of Pine health information technology;
Island was named to the deans Cody Lodermeier, AS, nursing;
list for the fall semester.
Alexander VanOstrand, AS, 2+2
accounting
Bemidji State University

Rochester Community and

Technical College

ROCHESTER Fall semester

2014 graduates include those from
the following area cities:
Goodhue Grant Kyllo, DIP,
building utilities mechanic
Mazeppa Andrea Klavetter,
DIP, child development; Marissa
Manthei, CERT, advanced hospital nursing assistant
Oronoco Shelley Nakada, DIP,
administrative clinic assistant,
Honors
Pine Island Courtney Davis,
AA, liberal arts and sciences; Levi
Plank, CERT, welding technology; Todd Pletz, AAS, health information technology, High Honors
Wanamingo Tracy Schaefer,
AS, human services specialist,
Honors, and CERT, workplace
communication, Honors

Lake Area Technical Institute

WATERTOWN, SD Shawna
Conrad of Goodhue was named
to the presidents list for the fall
semester.
University of Wisconsin Platteville

PLATTEVILLE, WI Osmond
Goodman of Oronoco and Michael
Angst of Pine Island were named
to the deans list for the fall semester.
Winona State University

WINONA Students from the

following cities completed academic requirements for degrees
following the fall term:
Oronoco Cody Glabe, bachelor of science in nursing; Chelsea
Palmer, bachelor of arts in English
Zumbrota Samantha Mitchell,
bachelor of science in accounting; Grace Robertson, bachelor of
arts in English; and Cody
Tiedemann, bachelor of science
in sociology: criminal justice
Named to the deans list for the
fall term were Stephanie Josselyn,
Nasha Reuter, Carly Roberts, and
Dillon Harvey of Mazeppa; Cody
Glabe, Samantha Norte, Jessica
Seys-Altum, and Andrew Jaeger
of Oronoco; Laura Grant, Shelby
Kann, Jennifer Kubista, Bruche
Miller, Naomi Pahl, and Sarah
Murray of Pine Island; and Kenedy
Beebe, Ashlen Buck, Kaitlen Buck,
Benjamin Coady, Brenna Hoven,
Dillon Huemann, Kelli Oelkers,
Alyssa Stehr, Marcy Swenson,
Cody Tiedemann, Kindra Walstad,
and Laura Huneke of Zumbrota.

Randal Kasel, pastor. Office hours:

Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-noon and
1-5 p.m., Friday, 9 a.m.-noon. http:/
/stpaulzm.com. Mass Schedule: Sunday, 8:30 a.m.; Tuesday and Thursday, 8:30 a.m. Mass at the nursing
home is the second Tuesday of the
month at 9:15 a.m.

Lucille Radtke 1939-2015

UNITED REDEEMER LUTHERAN,

560 W. 3rd St., Zumbrota, 732-7303,
Rev. Dick Jorgensen and Youth Director Cindy Wilson. Wed., Feb. 18:
7:15 a.m. CBC; 10 a.m. Food shelf
open; 1:30 and 6:30 p.m. Worship;
5:30 p.m. Jubilee bells practice; 5:30
p.m. Supper; 7 p.m. Choir rehearsal.

RURAL
EMMANUEL LUTHERAN, Aspelund,
Martin Horn, Pastor. Wed., Feb. 18:
3:15 p.m. Overcomers; 5 p.m. 2nd
year confirmation at Hauge; 6 p.m.
Supper at Hauge; 6:15 p.m. 1st year
confirmation at Hauge; 6:30 p.m. Choir
at Hauge; 7:30 p.m. Worship at
Hauge. Sat., Feb. 21: 8 a.m. Mens
fellowship breakfast. Sun., Feb. 22:
9 a.m. Worship; 10:30 a.m. Sunday
School; 5:45 p.m. Youth group. Wed.,
Feb. 25: 3:15 p.m. Overcomers; 5
p.m. 2nd year confirmation at Hauge;
6 p.m. Supper; 6:15 p.m. 1st year
confirmation; 6:30 p.m. Choir; 7:30
p.m. Worship.
GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH, Nerstrand, Don Kloster pastor, (507) 3342822. Sundays: 9 a.m. Worship; 10:15
a.m. Coffee hour; 10:30 a.m. Sunday School; Confirmation class.
GRACE & ST. JOHNS LUTHERAN
CHURCHES, Rural Goodhue, County
4 Blvd., Pastor Justin Gosch. Grace:
Sundays: 9 a.m. Worship; 10:15
Sunday School. Communion on the
second and last Sunday of each
month. St. Johns: Sundays: 9:15 a.m.
Sunday School; 10:30 a.m. Worship.
Communion on the second and last
Sunday of each month. Wed., Feb.
25: 6 p.m. Supper; 7 p.m. Worship
at St. Johns.

PINE ISLAND Lucille

Radtke, 75, of Lindstrom, died
Thursday February 12, 2015 at
University of Minnesota Hospital
in Minneapolis from complications
of pneumonia.
Lucille Marie Heyes was born
October 25, 1939, in Lakota, Iowa,
to Marie and Ubbe Heyes. She
married Roger Radtke on June 1,
1963, and was very proud to work
side by side with Roger on the
family farm. She also worked as
an LPN at St. Marys Hospital in
Rochester in surgery until her retirement on November 29, 2001.
She was always busy and couldnt
sit still so she still continued to
work part-time for a few more
years. Roger and Lucille
finallymoved into their dream
house on the lake in Lindstrom on

Hilda Gravenish 1916-2015

HAUGE LUTHERAN, Rural Kenyon,

Martin Horn, Pastor. Wed., Feb., 18:
3:15 p.m. Overcomers; 5 p.m. 2nd
year confirmation; 6 p.m. Supper; 6:15
p.m. 1st year confirmation; 6:30 p.m.
Choir; 7:30 p.m. Worship. Sun., Feb.
22: 9:30 a.m. Sunday School; 10:45
a.m. Worship; 5:45 p.m. Youth group
at Emmanuel. Wed., Feb. 25: 3:15
p.m. Overcomers; 5 p.m. 2nd year
confirmation; 6 p.m. Supper at Emmanuel; 6:15 p.m. 1st year confirmation at Emmanuel; 6:30 p.m. Choir
at Emmanuel; 7:30 p.m. Worship at
Emmanuel.
IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH,
Hay Creek (LCMS), 24686 Old Church
Road. Pastor Lowell Sorenson, 651388-4577. Sundays: 9 a.m. Sunday
School; Bible class; 9:45 a.m. Fellowship time; 10 a.m. Worship.
LANDS LUTHERAN, 16640 Highway.
60 Blvd., Zumbrota, MN 55992-5105.
Zumbrota. Text study; 7 p.m. Spiritual guidance. Wed., Feb. 18: 7:15
a.m. Youth Bible study at Bridgets;
9 a.m. and 7:15 p.m. Worship with
communion.
MINNEOLA LUTHERAN, 13628
County 50 Blvd. Wed., Feb. 18: 6
p.m. Soup; 7 p.m. Worship. Fri., Feb.
20: 5-8 p.m. Office hours. Sun., Feb.
22: 9:15 a.m. Sunday School; 10:30
a.m. Worship with communion; Noon7 p.m. Office hours.
ST. COLUMBKILL CATHOLIC,
36483 County. 47 Blvd., Belle Creek,
Father Paul Kubista. Sundays: 10:30
a.m. Mass.
ST. JOHNS EV. LUTHERAN, Bear
Valley, Alan Horn, Pastor. 843-6211,
home; 843-5302 work. Bible Class
is every Wednesday at 6 p.m. in
Mazeppa.

PINE ISLAND Hilda Ida

Gravenish, 98, of Pine Island, died
Saturday, February 14, 2015, at
Deer Crest in Red Wing, where
she has resided for the past six
months.
She was born on June 12, 1916,
in Pine Island to George and Ida
(Krause) Koenig. She graduated
from Pine Island High School in
1933 and then worked a few years
in Rochester at a canning company and as a seamstress. On November 10, 1937 she married
Armond Gravenish. They lived in
the Pine Island area where they
farmed until retiring and moving
into Pine Island in 1988. Hilda
also worked at Reiters Grocery a
number of years. Armond died on
March 28, 2004. In 2012 she
moved to the Evergreen Place and
most recently to Red Wing. She

ST. JOHNS EV. LUTHERAN, WELS,

Minneola Township, County Road 7,
rural Zumbrota, Randall Kuznicki,
Pastor. Wed., Feb. 18: 8 p.m. Worship. Sun., Feb. 22: 10:30 a.m.
Worship. Tues., Feb. 24: 1-4 p.m.
Pastors office hours.

URLAND LUTHERAN 6940 County

9 Blvd., Cannon Falls, MN 55009.
Church: 507-263-5544; Pastor David
Hurtt, Interim. Wed., Feb. 18: 6 a.m.
Mens Bible study; 6 p.m. Youth chili
supper; 7 p.m. Worship with communion. Fri., Feb. 20: 7 p.m. Ordination and installation for Pastor
Yackle. Sun., Feb. 22: 9:15 a.m.
Sunday School; Youth forum; 10:30
a.m. Praise and worship. Wed., Feb.
25: 6 a.m. Mens Bible study; Supper; 7 p.m. Worship; 8 p.m. Praise
and worship practice.
WANGEN PRAIRIE LUTHERAN,
LCMC 34289 County 24 Blvd., Cannon Falls, Curtis Fox, Pastor, 507663-9060; Linda Flom, Visitation Minister, 263-5613. Sundays 9 a.m.
Worship. Thursdays 9:30 a.m. Bible
study; 7 p.m. Blue grass jam.
ZWINGLl UNITED CHURCH OF
CHRIST, 23148 County Highway 24,
West Concord (Berne), 507/527-2622.
Rev. Victor Jortack, Pastor.

was a member of St. Paul Lutheran

Church where she was active in
the WELCA and also volunteered
with other activities at the church.
She enjoyed cooking, baking, vegetable gardening, walking, and
travelling and was an avid Twins
fan.
Survivors include eight children,
Marlys (Raymond) McNamara of
Goodhue, Diane Gravenish of
Maple Grove, Jeanette (Gary)
Stephens of Mokena, Illinois, Jon
(Mary) Gravenish of Lake City,
Tom (Maureen) Gravenish of
Burlington, Ontario Canada,
Nadine (Richard) Thurow of
Oakdale, Mary Alice (Gene
Erdmann) Krause of Lonsdale and
Sandy (Doug Majerus) Gravenish
of Red Wing; eighteen grandchildren, thirty-eight great-grandchildren, five great-great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews
and two sisters-in-law. She is preceded in death by her parents; three
brothers; one sister and one sonin-law.
The funeral service will be at
11 a.m. on Tuesday, February 24,
2015, at St. Paul Lutheran Church
in Pine Island with Reverend Kip
Groettum officiating. Burial will
be in the Pine Island Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m.
Monday, February 23, at the Mahn
Family Funeral Home, Mahler
Chapel in Pine Island and at the
church for one hour prior to the
service. Memorials are preferred
to the church or Pine Haven Care
Center. Online condolences may
be sent to www.mahnfamily
funeralhome. com.

Edna Darcy 1924-2015

ST. PETER LUTHERAN, The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, Belvidere, 28961 365th St., Goodhue,
MN 55027-8515, Dr. Scott T. Fiege,
Pastor. Wed., Feb. 18: 7 p.m. Worship at Bethany in Lake City. Sun.,
Feb. 22: 9:30 a.m. Sunday School;
10:30 a.m. Worship. Wed., Feb. 25:
7 p.m. Worship.
STORDAHL LUTHERAN, ELCA, Rural Zumbrota. Church: (507) 732-5711,
Kathy Lowery, Pastor, Home 507271-5711. Wed., Feb. 18: 6 p.m.
Choir; 6:30 p.m. Worship with communion. Sun., Feb. 22: 9 a.m. Confirmation; 10:30 a.m. Worship. Tues.,
Feb. 24: 11 a.m. Text study.

November 29, 2008.

She enjoyed fishing, crocheting, and sewing. She was very talented with the sewing machine
and could fix and sew anything
you could think of. She was picky
about her work too, and Roger
had the job of pulling apart seams
and zippers that she wasnt 100%
pleased with. She also had an
embroider machine that she was
proud of, and she embroidered designs on everything she wore, and
everything she gave as gifts also.
She also loved sewing doll clothes
for granddaughters and to sell.
She is survived by her husband
of nearly 52 years, Roger Radtke;
daughter, Sandra (John) Stiles of
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin; sons,
Gary (Betsy) Radtke of Mazeppa,
Kevin (Michelle) Radtke of Pine
Island, and David (Becky) Radtke
of Mazeppa; brother, Richard
(Doris) Heyes of Buffalo Center,
Iowa; grandchildren, Andrew
(Samantha) Stiles, Rochelle Stiles,
Ian, Mikayla, Brooklyn and William Radtke, Gary (Jessica) Schulz,
Julie (Keith) Peine; great-grandchildren, Owen Schultz, Noah and
Jasmine Schulz, Adam and Christopher Peine; adopted children
Stella and Conrad Seim; and many
nieces and nephews.
She is preceded in death by her
parents, in-laws, and a grandson,
Nicholas Radtke, at birth.
Funeral
services
were
onTuesday February 17, at Saint
Paul Lutheran Church in Pine Island with the Reverends Kip
Groettum and Craig LundstadVogt co-officiating. Burial followed at the Pine Island Cemetery.

MAZEPPA Edna Darcy, 90,

died Thursday, February 12, 2015,
at her home in Mazeppa, surrounded by her family.
Edna Lily Mehrkens was born
March 1, 1924, on her grandparents farm in Greatstone, North
Dakota, to Fred and Elsie (Siebrass)
Mehrkens. When she was around
six years old, the family returned
to Minnesota to live on farms in
rural Goodhue and Mazeppa. She
worked in the factory at Durkee
Atwood in Red Wing and as a
seamstress at Lake City Knitting
until she married. From 1968 to
1974, Edna worked at Zumco in
Zumbrota. On June 24, 1950, she
married Lawrence Darcy in Lake
City. They resided on a farm in
rural Mazeppa until they retired
in 2005 when they moved into
town. Edna enjoyed numerous
hobbies including sewing, baking,
gardening, rug making, and cro-

cheting. She also enjoyed spending time with her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren,
along with other family and friends.
She will be greatly missed by all
who loved her. She was a member
of St. Marys Catholic Church of
Bellechester.
Survivors include her husband
Lawrence of Mazeppa; two daughters, Wanda (Wayne) Schafer and
Colleen (Denny) Berg, both of
Mazeppa; six grandchildren, Robin
(Henry) Keller of Oak Center,
Carrie Schafer and Andy (Carrie)
Schafer, both of Mazeppa, Tracy
(Aaron) Huppert of Hager City,
Wisconsin, Kristin (Jesse Bishop)
of Minneapolis, and Amanda (Ben)
Sand of Mazeppa; eight greatgrandchildren, Noah and Maya
Schafer, Zailey and Deacon
Schafer, Teagan and Crue Huppert,
and Beckett and Laney Sand; one
brother, Clarence (Lucille)
Mehrkens of Mazeppa; and three
sisters, Lila (Donald) Reese of
Goodhue, and Betty Mehrkens and
Joyce (Kelly) Larson, both of
Mazeppa.
She was preceded in death by
her parents; one brother, Walter
Mehrkens and his wife Maxine;
and one great-grandson, Bennett
Schafer.
The funeral mass was held
Monday, February 23, at St. Marys
Catholic Church in Bellechester
with Father Paul Kubista officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery. Memorials are suggested
to Mayo Hospice. Friends may
share a memory at www.mahn
familyfuneralhome.com.

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Zumbrota

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Section B of NEWS-RECORD

Oronoco

Mazeppa

Pine Island

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 No. 7

Sweetheart Family Dance was February 10

By Audra DePestel
PINE ISLAND Pine Island
Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) held its annual Sweetheart Family Dance and potluck
on Tuesday, February 10, at Pine
Haven Care Center. Close to 25
kids and their families joined Pine
Haven residents for the popular
fun-filled event.
Pine Haven supplied some of
the food and beverages for the event
and participating families brought
a dish to share. After the meal DJ
Kevin Kann provided music for
the dance with his FeelinGood
sound and light show.
The residents gathered around
the dance floor to watch the kids
dance and sing along to their favorite
songs.
Margaret
Pendergrass, a resident at Pine
Haven, said Its so fun watching
the little ones dance, they are so
cute! During the event, the kids
also handed out paper Valentine
Avery McNamara gives her great-aunt Darsa Fiek, a resident at Pine
hearts to the residents.
Haven, some Valentine hearts at the Sweetheart Family Dance.

From left to right, Miley Hoffarth, Kelli Williams, and her daughter Jaiden Stucky, ECFE instructor Chloe
House, Lauren Pahl and her mother Anne Pahl dance to the song Let It Go from the movie Frozen at the
Sweetheart Family Dance at Pine Haven Care Center. Watching in the background are Rebecca Lilly
(standing) with Pine Haven residents Jim Schrantz and Margaret Pendergrass.

School Board Recognition

Week is February 16-20
From left to right, Riley Rucker and Jackson English show off their moves while Elleigh Maxson gets a little
encouragement to join the dance from her mom, Ashleigh Maxson.

Zumbrota Area Food Shelf is

participating in March campaign
ZUMBROTA The Zumbrota
Area Food Shelf is once again
participating in the Minnesota Food
Share March Campaign. For more
than three decades, the March
Campaign has been making a major
difference in relieving hunger
throughout the state. The annual
effort raises money and food to
stock nearly 300 food shelves
throughout Minnesota. The contributions from this passionate
annual effort, which brings together
families, companies, faith communities, schools, and civic groups,
raises more than half the food distributed each year by these food
shelves
All food and monetary donations given to the Zumbrota Area
Food Shelf stay at and are used by
the Zumbrota Area Food Shelf
only. Our food shelf service area
includes, Zumbrota, Wanamingo,
Bellechester, and Goodhue. Prior

to this month we also served

Mazeppa, however they have now
started their own food shelf.
Minnesota Food Share provides
a portion of their Food Fund
dollars to our local food shelf, based
on the pounds collected and dollars raised in our community.
Through the March Campaign,
giving food or money to your local food shelf is the perfect way
for donors to stretch the value of
their donation while helping people
during their greatest hour of need.
Every dollar raised goes directly
to stock food shelves.
More than 554,000 Minnesotans in 2012 received federal food
assistance one out of every 10
people in the state. In Minnesota
each day 3,500 children are served
by food shelves. There were more
than 3 million visits to Minnesota
food shelves in 2013. More than
49 million Americans, including

more than 16 million children live

in households that do not have
consistent access to nutritious
foods.
Your ongoing support will assure that our local food shelf will
continue to provide food for those
in need. Donations may be mailed
to Zumbrota Area Food Shelf; PO
Box 43; Zumbrota, MN 55992.
Volunteers will be available every Tuesday during the month of
March from 6-7 p.m. for donations.

The Minnesota School Boards

Association has designated February16-20 as School Board Recognition Week in Minnesota as a
time to build awareness and understanding of the vital function
an elected board of education plays
in our society.
School board members devote
countless hours to making sure
our schools are helping every child
learn at a higher level. They make
the tough decisions every month
and spend many hours studying
education issues and regulations
in order to provide the kind of
accountability our citizens expect.
The key work of school boards
is to raise student achievement by:
Creating a vision for what the
community wants the school district to be and for making student
achievement the top priority;
Establishing standards for what
students will be expected to learn

and be able to do;

Ensuring progress is measured
to be sure the districts goals are
achieved and students are learning at expected levels;
Being accountable for their
decisions and actions by continually tracking and reporting results;
Creating a safe, orderly climate where students can learn and
teachers can teach;
Forming partnerships with others in the community to solve common problems; and
Focusing attention on the need
for continuous improvement by
questioning, refining and revising issues related to student
achievement.
School board members give the
citizens of Zumbrota, Mazeppa,
Pine Island, Oronoco, Kenyon,
Wanamingo, and Goodhue a voice
in education decision-making.
Even though we make a special

effort to show our appreciation in

February, their contribution is a
year-round commitment.
Zumbrota-Mazeppa School
Board members: James Wendt,
elected 1998; Peter Hinrichs,
elected 2008; Brian Grudem,
elected 2008; Mark Krier, elected
2012; Becky Hinchley and Jean
Roth, elected 2014.
The Kenyon-Wanamingo Board
of Education: Doug Kyllo, board
chair; Greg Dotson, vice chair;
Karla Bauer, clerk; Marilyn
Syverson, treasurer; Debb Paquin;
Jeremy Lerfald; Jennifer Smith
Goodhue School Board: Tris
Danielson, Brian Schafer, Michelle
Goodman, Ann Buck, Amber
Lohman, Mike Kehren
Pine Island School Board: John
Champa, Angela Heiden, Kerry
Hayden, Rob Warneke, April
Bailey, Kim Fall, Jeremy Douglas

Wanamingo

Goodhue

The Kenyon-Wanamingo High School cast of Zombie Night!, from left

to right, sitting: Isabelle Finholm, Makayla Sokoloski, Emily Pliscott,
Katie Rechtzigel, Ashlee Blastervold, Rosie Briemhurst, Amos Avery,
and Evelyn Humphrey; standing: Stephanie Ford, Ella Lee, Allison Timbeross,
Kadey Seeger, Ebelin Morales, Cass Kern, Haha Shepard, Corissa Kern,
Sydney Warner, Eli Bushman, Hunter Stanke, Noah Stevenson, Amanda
Horn, Sophie Kyllo, Kalley Seeger, Kurt Briemhurst, and Mitchell Ades.

Not pictured: Ryan Pelkey, Brittney Jarvis, Sam Briemhurst, John Nelson,
Caleb Greseth, and Katie Doehling. Zombie Night! is a two-act play
with campy, doo-wop songs mixed into the story featuring a crazy
farmer, a mad doctor, a mean nurse, ghosts, tough juveniles, a bridesmaid,
hikers, and costumed party animals. The director is Randy Hockinson
and senior Rosie Briemhurst is the musical director and accompanist.
Aerin Avery is doing the costumes and John Nelson is building the set.

Zombie Night! to open at KW High School

Randy Sorenson meets
Miss United States
ORLANDO, FL Randy Sorenson of Larsen Industries in Goodhue attended
the American Fence Association (AFA) Fence Tech Show in Orlando,
Florida, February 2-6. At the Ronald McDonald House in Orlando, where
the AFA is involved in charity work, he met the reigning 2014 Miss
United States, Elizabeth Safrit of North Carolina.

By Alicia Hunt-Welch
KENYON The KenyonWanamingo High School drama
department will present Zombie
Night! next weekend. Performances will be Saturday, February 28, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, March
1, at 2 p.m. in the high school
auditorium in Kenyon. The play
by Tim Kelly will be directed by
Randy Hockinson.
Hockinson described Zombie
Night! as a comedy with some

musical numbers mixed in. The

story is about some high school
students going to an abandoned
farm house for a fright night gettogether, but they run into real
zombies, he said. The show is
more funny than scary, Hockinson
said, but some characters might
be too intense for young children.
Kellys plays are known for their
artistic and entertaining content.
He has created everything from
mysteries to musicals and serious

dramas. Kelly had about 350 plays

in print before his death in 1998,
and during his lifetime he received
many playwriting and critics
awards and honors.
High school students involved
in the play are Rosie Briemhurst,
Sydney Warner, Katie Doehling,
Amos Avery, Jack Beulke, Zach
Baumgartner, Adam Ramirez,
Russell
Torkelson,
Sam
Briemhurst, Ashlee Blastervold,

Ebelin Morales, Kadey Seeger,

John Nelson, Isabelle Finholm,
Cass Kern, Kalley Seeger, Corissa
Kern, Emily Pliscott, Britney
Jarvis, Caleb Greseth, Kate
Rechtzigel, Amanda Horn, Evelyn
Humphrey, Grace Sanders,
Shawna Bollinger, Ella Lee, Alyssa
Holk, Makayla Sokoloski,
Stephanie Ford, Noah Stevenson,
Haha Shepard, Hunter Stanke, Ely
Bushman, and Ryan Pelkey.

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Obituaries

PINE ISLAND Wilfrid W.

Liffrig, 90, of Pine Island and formerly of Mazeppa, died on Thursday, February 12, 2015, at Pine
Haven Care Center.
Wilfrid Walter Liffrig was born
on October 12, 1924, in Makoti,
North Dakota, to Nicholas and
Barbara (Schafer) Liffrig. He grew
up on the farm and attended country school. Wilfrid worked as a
farmhand before moving to Minnesota. On June 6, 1949, he married Helen M. Meyer at Ss. Peter
& Paul Catholic Church. They
made their home in Mazeppa and
Wilfrid worked at the Mazeppa

Feed Mill, where he worked his

way up to manager. Wilfrid also
worked for Zumbrota Feed and
Grain for many years. He retired
in 1989 and then he worked for
the Zumbrota-Mazeppa School
District, driving the car that picked
up special needs students. Wilfrid
also mowed the Mazeppa ball fields
and several larger yards in the
Mazeppa area. In 2007, they moved
to Pine Island. Wilfrid enjoyed
gardening, playing cards, deer
hunting, mowing lawns, visiting
with family and friends, and always had a love of horses. He was
a member of Ss. Peter & Paul
Catholic Church.
Wilfrid is survived by his wife,
Helen; son, Mark (Teresa) Liffrig
of Pine Island; grandchildren,
Laura (Jake) McBroom of
Wanamingo, Ben Liffrig of
Mazeppa, and Matthew Liffrig of
Pine Island; and great-grandchildren, Aurelia, Violet, and Otis
McBroom.
Wilfrid was preceded in death
by brothers Robert, Gilbert,
Sylvester, Raymond, Clifford,
Walter, Leo, and Daniel Liffrig;
and sister Verna Lee.
A Mass of Christian Burial was
held on Tuesday, February 17, at
Ss. Peter & Paul Catholic Church
in Mazeppa with Monsignor Robert
G. Meyer and Father Randal Kasel
con-celebrating the mass. Burial
was in the church cemetery.

John Schafer 1933-2015

GOODHUE John Simon

Schafer, 81, of Goodhue, died
Thursday, February 12, at St. Marys
Hospital in Rochester following
an accident at work.
He was born on November 24,
1933, in Lake City to Vincent and
Ada (Simon) Schafer. He was baptized and confirmed at St. Peters
Lutheran Church, Belvidere. He
graduated from Red Wing Central High School in 1951. While
in high school, FFA was a big part
of his life. He was vice-president
of the Red Wing Chapter and President of the District 6 FFA. He
was a member of the parliamentary procedure team that won first
place in District 6. He was also on
the winning team of the checkerboard quiz contest. He received
the Star State Dairy Farmer award.
After the death of his father, he
took over the family dairy farm
operation. On September 29, 1956,
he married LaVonne Flom at Trinity Lutheran Church in

Wanamingo. He was drafted into

the US Army in 1957 and discharged in 1959. Following his
discharge, he returned to the family farm until his retirement from
dairy farming in 1985. He then
went to work for Dairy Farmers
of America in Zumbrota for 14
years. He was working for OReilly
Auto Parts in Cannon Falls at the
time of his death. John was a member of St. Peters Lutheran Church
for many years where he served
on the church council. Currently,
he was a member of Immanuel
Lutheran Church in Hay Creek.
He enjoyed spending time with
his family and helping his sons
with their farming.
Survivors include his wife,
Lavonne; two daughters, PeriAnne
(Ray) Williams of Goodhue and
Kimberly (Kyle) Gibbens of
Tomah, Wisconsin; two sons, Todd
(Tammy) Schafer of Norwalk,
Wisconsin, and Kevin (Carol)
Schafer of Lake City; eight grandchildren, Shane, Shayla, and
Alexandra Gibbens, Tyler, Trent,
Travis, Jeremy, and Amanda
Schafer; three step-grandchildren;
and two sisters, Margaret Schafer
and Ruth Schafer, both of Rochester.
He was preceded in death by
his parents and one infant son.
A funeral will be at 11 a.m.
Wednesday, February 18, at
Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Hay
Creek, with Reverend Lowell
Sorenson officiating. Burial will
be in the St. Peters Lutheran
Church Cemetery, Belvidere.
Visitation will be for one hour prior
to the service all at the church.
Online condolences may be sent
to www.mahnfamilyfuneralhome.
com.

MAZEPPA Elizabeth Betty

Ann Schafer, 86, of Mazeppa,
passed away Tuesday morning,
February 10, 2015, surrounded by
her loving family at the Zumbrota
Health Services in Zumbrota.
She was born to Leo and Anna
(Tri) Reding on September 4, 1928,
in Zumbrota Township, Goodhue
County, the eldest of three children. She graduated from a country school and continued on at
Mazeppa High School until she
graduated in 1946. On November
12, 1947, she married Clarence B.
Schafer at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Mazeppa, where she
also was baptized and confirmed.
She was a member of the Ladies Group at the church and served
as treasurer for a number of years.
Betty was also a member of the
Mazeppa American Legion Auxiliary since 1951 and was past president and treasurer.
Betty worked at several jobs
including the Mazeppa Co-op
Creamery, Hess Lumber Yard in
Pine Island, Mazeppa Liquor Store,
and Redings Nite Club in

nix area in 2009, degenerative arthritis forced him to give it up in

2013. KJ was an avid Packers fan
and Harley Man, with a knack
for mechanics and a gift of persuasion. He could talk anybody
into almost anything and frequently
did. He was generous, friendly,
outspoken, and impulsive, always
ready for an adventure. KJ had a
passion for living on or near the
water, where he loved fishing,
boating, and making driftwood art.
Other pleasures were playing pool,
off-road excitement, and music,
especially The Grateful Dead, et
al. Karol and Diane Treichler of
Red Wing were married in Zumbrota and later divorced. After a
time, KJ was involved in a very
short second marriage.
He was preceded in death by
his father, Floyd Kish, and his stepfather, Harold O. Toupin. Besides
his former wife, Diane (Robert)
Hetrick, survivors include their two
daughters, who were the loves of
his life: Ariel Kish (grandsons
Jacob and Ethan Grant) and
Brittney (Phil) Tauscher (granddaughter Teagan), all of the La
Crosse area; mother Colleen B.
Kish Toupin of Burnsville; brothers Kevin (Jennifer) Kish of Zumbrota and Dana (Debra) Kish of
Molokai, Hawaii; nephews Jeremy (Stephanie) Kish and Philip
(Chrisna) Kish; nieces Jody (Arnie)
Meyer, Jennifer (Seth) Finck, and
Lindsey Kish; eight great-nephews and nieces; and countless
friends who have shared KJs energy and enthusiasm through the
years.
At a later date, cremains will be
privately placed at his favorite
water locale.

Mazeppa. In 1971 she started

working at Peoples State Bank in
Mazeppa, which became the First
State Bank of Red Wing, Mazeppa
Office. After 39 years at the bank,
Betty retired in 2010 at the age of
82.
Betty enjoyed crocheting, spending time with her family and traveling when she was able. She especially enjoyed the trips to Florida
to see Ann and Rick, grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and
June and family in New Mexico,
Indiana, North Carolina, and
Florida. She was also able to travel
to Hawaii in 2001, but always
dreamed of going to Stockholm,
Sweden, where her Grandma Tri
was born.
Survivors include her children,
Faye (Ron) Gabrielson of Lake
City, June (Gregg Bell) Schafer
of Rochester, and Dale (Curt
Holzworth) Schafer of Mazeppa;
her grandchildren, Chris Nolan,
Jim (Kattie) Nolan, Jessie (Bill)
Ridenbaugh, Sarah Jo (Gabe)
Sandvik, Melanie (Tony)
Nachreiner, Megan Gabrielson,
Jeremy (Katie) Schafer, Tessa
(Chris) Beyers, Jake Dungan; seventeen great-grandchildren; two
great-great-grandchildren, with
one more due in May; brother
Duane Dewey Reding of
Mazeppa; sister Beverly Poncelet
of Mazeppa; and many nieces and
nephews.
She was preceded in death by
her husband Clarence, her parents,
her daughter and son-in-law Ann
and Rick Nolan, and an infant
grandson.
A funeral service was held on
Saturday, February 14, at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in
Mazeppa, with Father Joe Fogal
officiating. Burial was in Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery in
Mazeppa.

WABASHA Arjorie B.
Reynolds, age 98, of Wabasha and
formerly of Canby, died at St.
Elizabeths Health Care Center in
Wabasha.
She was born January 13, 1917
in Canby, the daughter of Sever
and Anna (Jacobson) Anderson.
She was a graduate of Canby High
School. Arjorie married Dorance
Reynolds February 28, 1958 in
Jasper. She was a homemaker on
the farm and she also worked several years as a clerk at Dicks Drug
Store in Canby. Her husband died

Virginia M. Flaaen age 84, of

Roseville and formerly of
Wanamingo, died on Tuesday,
February 10, 2015 at the Golden
Living Lake Ridge Care Center in
Roseville.
Virginia Mae Berg was born on
July 29, 1930, in Cherry Grove
Township, Goodhue County, to
Magnus and Julia (nee Kvittem)
Berg. She grew up on the family
farm and attended country school.
Virginia graduated from Kenyon
High School in 1948. On May 21,
1949 she married Phillip Flaaen.
They farmed for ten years, before

moving to Mazeppa in 1960. In

1967 they moved to Rochester.
Virginia worked as a nurses aide
at St. Marys Hospital and Madonna
Towers in Rochester. They divorced in 1987 and the next year
Virginia moved to Roseville. Virginia worked as a seamstress in
the Roseville area. Virginia met
her longtime companion Alvin
Smith and together they enjoyed
traveling to Alaska and the southern states. She also enjoyed bowling, playing cards with friends,
and gardening and she was known
as an animal lover.
Virginia is survived by her
daughter, Cindy (Bruce) Thompson of Minneapolis; son, Les Flaaen
of Red Wing; sister, Ramona
Nelson of Rochester; and nieces
and nephews.
Virginia was preceded in death
by her parents, Magnus and Julia;
sons, Jimbo and Myc; brother,
Ordean Berg; and longtime companion, Alvin Smith.
A memorial service was held
on Friday, February 13, at Lands
Lutheran Church in Zumbrota with
Pastor David Krinke officiating.
Burial was in the church cemetery.

October 28, 1993. Arjorie moved

off the farm in 1994 into Canby.
She later lived in the Canby Assisted Living Apartments for two
years before moving in 2010 to
Wabasha to live with her son.
She was a member of Our Saviors Lutheran Church in Canby.
She was also a member of the
Eastern Star and the Canby VFW
Post #117. She enjoyed farm work,
growing flowers in her many gardens and baking. She was an active hospice volunteer for a number of years.
Arjorie is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Sandra and
Harvey
Christensen,
of
Browerville; son and daughter-inlaw, Larry and Doreita Dee
Reynolds, formerly longtime Pine
Island residents, now of Wabasha;
grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death
by her husband, Dorance, one
brother and one sister.
Her body has been cremated.
A graveside service in Canby City
Cemetery followed by a celebration of her life will be held at a
later date in Canby.

Gary Schutz 1961-2015

KASSON Gary Schutz, 53,
of Kasson and a lifelong Pine
Island area resident, died Tuesday, February 10, 2015, at his home.
Gary Alan Schutz was born May
25, 1961, in Zumbrota, the son of
Raymond and Dorothy Schutz.
Raised in Pine Island, he served
in the U.S. Army in the early 1980s.
Over the years, he worked in construction and owned a couple of
small businesses. He was a devoted father, and loved fishing,
hunting, camping, and playing the
drums.
Gary is survived by his fiance,
Carmen Debek of Kasson; two
sons, Dustin Schutz and his fiance Cassie Kunkel of Rochester

Virginia Flaaen 1930-2015

and Trevor Schutz of Stewartville;

a daughter, Ashley Schutz of
Chester; two grandchildren, Hailey
Marie Schutz-Vale and Payton
Marie Swenningson; a sister,
Sanfra (Bob) Winters of Lake
Elmo; and two brothers, Morris
(Phyllis) Schutz of Stewartville,
and Larry (Joanne) Schutz of Rochester.
He was preceded in death by
his parents; and a sister, Diana
Lynn McCoy.
A memorial gathering was held
Monday, February 16, at Strikers Corner in Stewartville. A private burial has been scheduled at
the Pine Island Cemetery. Online
memorials may be written at
www.mahnfamilyfuneralhome.com.

Kenneth Crosby 1920-2015

ZUMBROTA Kenneth J.
Crosby, 94, of Zumbrota, died on
Sunday, February 8, 2015, at the
Zumbrota Health Services.
Kenneth John Crosby was born
on September 14, 1920, in Bay
City, Wisconsin, to Carl and Clara
(nee Strand) Crosby. He grew up
on the family farm and attended
country school. Kenneth farmed
with his parents. On April 20, 1968,
he married Marion L. Mehrkens
at Christ Lutheran Church in Zumbrota. Kenneth retired from farming in 1968 and worked for five

years at Maple Island Creamery

in Wanamingo before he fully retired.
Kenneth is survived by several
relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by
his wife, Marion; parents, Carl and
Clara; and two brothers and one
sister.
The funeral service was held on
Wednesday, February 11, at Christ
Lutheran Church in Zumbrota with
Reverend Wayne D. Schoch officiating. Burial was in Zumbrota
Cemetery.

Eugene Jackson 1941-2015

Karol Kish 1956-2015

PHOENIX, AZ On January
20, 2015, Karol John Kish (KJ),
58, suffered a major hemorrhage
of the brain and was put on life
support, but he never regained
consciousness. Immediate family
members at his side granted permission to donate organs and tissues to the extent possible, and KJ
expired on January 22 at Barrow
Neurological Institute in St.
Josephs Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona.
Karol was born in Zumbrota on
July 3, 1956, an early firecracker
and third son of Floyd and Colleen (Lange) Kish. He attended
Zumbrota schools until twelfth
grade, then completed a GED,
followed by a vocational welding
program. Several years later he
trained as a color specialist and
enjoyed 35 years of self-employment as a surface reconditioning
professional, working primarily for
used car dealers in and around La
Crosse, Wisconsin. Although he
moved his business to the Phoe-

Arjorie Reynolds 1917-2015

Elizabeth Schafer 1928-2015

Wilfrid Liffrig 1924-2015

PINE ISLAND Eugene

Geno Jackson, age 73, of Pine
Island, died Monday, February 2,
2015 at Mayo Clinic Hospital
St. Marys Campus, Rochester.
Eugene John Jackson was born
on July 12, 1941, in West Bend,
Iowa, the son of Eugene Pete
and Dorothy M. Kenney. He graduated from West Bend High School.
On May 1, 1962 Geno and Sharon
Johnson were united in marriage
in West Bend, Iowa. The couple
moved to Pine Island in the mid1960s where Geno was the coowner of City Meat Market until
he became a meat cutter for Owen
Locker Plant in Pine Island. Sharon
passed away on November 22,
1996. Geno and Patricia Ann
(Snow) Koop were united in marriage on September 9, 2000 at the
Church of St. Michael in Pine Island. Geno was a member of the
Church of St. Michael and served
on the Pine Island Fire Department for 20 years. He greatly enjoyed casino trips, bus trips and
spending time with his family,

especially his grandchildren.

He is lovingly survived by his
wife, Patricia of Pine Island; three
sons, Rusty (Lynn), Brian (Cheryl)
and Wayne (Tammy), all of Pine
Island; daughter, Lesley (Lonny)
McKay of West Concord; three
step-children, Craig (Julie) Koop,
and Steve (Jeanne) Koop, of Pine
Island, and Richard (Julie) Koop
of Rushford; eight grandchildren;
three great-grandchildren; ten stepgrandchildren; five step-greatgrandchildren and one brother,
Dwight (Sandy) Jackson of Des
Moines, Iowa.
He was preceded in death by
his parents; his wife, Sharon; and
one infant great-grandson, Elliott
Burdick.
A memorial service was held
on Thursday, February 5, at the
Church of Saint Michael, Pine Island with Father Randal Kasel
officiating. Burial will be in Concord Cemetery, Old Concord, at a
later date. Honorary pallbearers
were Genos grandchildren and
step-grandchildren. Online condolences can be offered at
mahnfamilyfuneralhome.com.

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Zumbrota/Mazeppa

ZM community designs the profile

for a new school superintendent
By Alice Duschanek-Myers
ZUMBROTA At the work
session on February 9, the Zumbrota-Mazeppa School Board accepted a profile for a new superintendent created by School Exec
Connect (SEC) based on the input from parents, community members, businesses, and school staff.
SEC consultant Toni Johns summarized information collected at
community discussion meetings,
from 109 respondents to the online superintendent search survey,
and from meeting with the district
staff. Consultants also met with
the teachers union president and
ZM Superintendent Tony Simons.
Johns said, It is important that
60% of those taking the online
survey were parents and community and business members.
The survey participants chose
dedicated competent staff, the high

level of student achievement,

teacher quality, strong community
pride in the schools, and class size
as the districts strengths. The
districts challenges were strong
administration and principals, state
financial support, sound fiscal
management, and high quality facilities.
In the focus groups and surveys
high quality facilities were important, however, Johns said both
identified some need to improve
facilities. The focus groups were
interested in long-range planning
for technology, student achievement, building improvement, finances, referendums, and the future. There were concerns that both
communities be treated equally and
about bonding the communities
together.
In the survey, the goals identified by the community for the dis-

trict to accomplish were a focus

on 21st century curriculum, continuing high student achievement,
continuing to meet student needs
per their ability, prudent management of financial resources, and
strengthening academic programs
and curriculum.
The skills and characteristics of
a new superintendent desired by
survey participants were an understanding of school finance and
the districts business; a team
builder; an understanding of curriculum, instruction, and learning;
approachable with warm people
skills; and a consensus builder who
can work with the districts constituents. Focus groups wanted a
transparent leader, a strong community leader, and accountability
of all staff.
The school board unanimously
decided to post the entire report

from the survey, community focus groups, and characteristics and

skills desired in a superintendent
by the community on the district
webpage at www.zmschools.us.
Candidates will be directed to the
document for interviewing.
Johns said there are twenty interested applicants. Eight to ten
candidates will likely be interviewed by the school district. SEC
consultants Charlie Kyte and Johns
will help narrow the number of
candidates down and will introduce the candidates on March 9.
Interviews are set for March 17
and 18.
On March 24, 25, and 26 the
candidates will visit the ZM
Schools and communities. Johns
said the ZM Districts search for a
superintendent is early compared
with others, which is very positive for the district.

Valentines Day royalty crowned

at Zumbrota Health Services
ZUMBROTA King Wayne Fogelson and Queen Colleen Rud were crowned
Valentines Day royalty at Zumbrota Health Services on February 13.
They were selected by staff, residents, and family members, and they
will reign over festivities during the coming year.

ZM continues discussion of ACT test location

By Alice Duschanek-Myers
ZUMBROTA On February
9, the Zumbrota-Mazeppa School
Board and administration continued the discussion of the best location for juniors to take the ACT
test on April 28.
There are testing facility requirements for accessibility, types and
size of rooms to seat 15-30 students, writing surfaces, bulletin
boards with materials removed that
could provide information for test
questions, two reliable clocks in
each room, phone to call ACT if

there are problems, and an environment that is free of distractions.

There must be no interruption in
the rooms for four hours. Bells/
announcements must be shut off
and test in progress posted. The
staff proctoring the test must be
trained about the requirements.
Principal Jeff Nolte recommended testing in the quietest environment in the school, the senior hallway. Grades 7 and 8 could
attend classes in the middle school
area of the building. The discussion has continued about other

Mazeppa may install a

drug disposal drop box
By Alicia Hunt-Welch
MAZEPPA At the February
11 Mazeppa City Council meeting, Mayor John Betcher suggested
that a drop-off site for unused prescription drugs be established in
town. Several communities have
drug drop-off locations and protocol for deputies to pick up and
dispose of unused medication.
The benefit to having such a
site is that it takes drugs out of the
home where they could be misused or stolen. It is not recommended that medications be tossed
down a drain or toilet, as the ingredients could get into the groundwater system or create problems
with wastewater treatment. Medications collected are usually incinerated.
The council discussed possible
locations for a security drop-off
box with limited access. It was
suggested that the cost of the box
could be covered by a local service organization.
Until the time a drop box is established, unused prescription
drugs and over-the-counter medication whether expired or not
could be dropped off at city hall
and picked up by a deputy the same
day. More information will be

obtained before moving forward.

City earns insurance dividend

The citys insurance agent, Sara

Markham, discussed coverage
options for the city policy. The
council opted not to waive the torte
limit liability insurance, not to make
medical payments for liability, and
to approve the open meeting law
endorsement coverage. Markham
said the city received a dividend
of about $5,000 for not having a
large number of claims.
Policing report

Wabasha County Deputy Keith

Fratzke presented the council with
the call report. During January
deputies responded to two traffic
incidents, two medical calls, one
theft, a report of suspicious activity, a parking complaint, a fraud
complaint, a civil matter, an animal complaint, and a person driving while intoxicated.
The council conducted the second reading of amended ordinance
#16-1 related to winter parking
restrictions. The ordinance was
approved and is now in effect.
City Administrator Duane
Hofschulte said work on both Highway 60 bridges near Mazeppa was
tentatively set to begin June 8 and
end September 4.

Mazeppa hiring committee

set for new city
administrator/clerk search
By Alicia Hunt-Welch
MAZEPPA The Mazeppa City
Council established a hiring committee to conduct the search and
preliminary work for the hiring of
a new joint city administrator/clerk
position at the February 11 meeting. Those on the hiring committee will be Mayor John Betcher,
councilman Tom Marsh, City
Administrator Duane Hofschulte,
clerk Linda Friedrich, and Planning & Zoning chairman Joe Sand.
A motion to approve the hiring
committee by Mike Hammes was
seconded by Derald Mitchell and
carried 4-0.
Current
Administrator
Hofschulte is set to retire this year.
This month the committee will
determine specifics for the job to
be offered. In March the city would
advertise for the new position. In
April interviews would be conducted, and May is the target date
for a candidate to be hired. During June the new hire could work
with Hofschulte and clerk Linda
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protocol, prior to Hofschulte retiring July 1, 2015.

Employee pay raises approved

The council approved pay increases for several employees. Two

percent pay increases were approved for Public Works Director
Larry Zielsdorf, clerk Linda
Friedrich, and liquor store manager Cindy Smith; and a 5% bump
was approved for maintenance
worker Jim Glander.
City Administrator Duane
Hofschulte has declined pay raises
for many years. He noted that the
municipal liquor store bartenders
wages would remain the same since
their pay is comparable to other
bars. A motion to approve by Scott
Parker, seconded by Mike
Hammes, carried. The pay raises
for 2015 were built into the budget and planned for last year.

possibilities: finding an outside

location for the ACT; grades 9,
10, and 12 not attending school
that day; and a trial of online learning with the students having oneto-one technology in grade 10.
The school board and adminis-

trators preferred that all students

attend school. Locally, in Pine Island, Kasson, and Rochester grades
9, 10, and 12 will not report on the
test day. In Byron, grades 9 and
12 will not report.
Superintendent Tony Simons

Goranson is re-elected
Mazeppa Fire Chief
By Alicia Hunt-Welch
MAZEPPA The Mazeppa Fire
Department held its annual election of officers at its January 5
meeting. Brandon Goranson was
once again elected to serve as fire
chief. He will be supported by
assistant chiefs Bob Josselyn and
Jeff Sommerfield, safety officer
Denny Tri, inside captain Bryce
Dohrn, outside captain Derald
Mitchell, truck captain Jason Klein,
medical director Stephany Klein,
and fire wardens Roger Markham
and Steve Liffrig. The MFD President is Paul Goetsch, vice-president is Denny Tri, and secretary is
Ellen Lexvold. These recommendations were presented to the
Mazeppa City Council and approved at the councils February
11 meeting.
The MFD will host the annual
township meeting on February 21.
Representatives from the City of
Mazeppa and the various town-

ships the department serves will

be in attendance to connect and be
updated on the departments service, progress, goals, and needs.
Relief Association officers

Elections were also held for the

Mazeppa Firefighters Relief Association on January 5. The following members will serve in these
positions for 2015: President Brent
Lexvold, Vice-President Steve
Goodenough, Secretary Shelly
Schultz, Treasurer Fran Feuter, and
Trustees Paul Goetsch and Steve
Meerkins.
The primary purpose of the
Mazeppa Firefighters Relief Association is to provide supplemental benefits to volunteer firemen,
such as disability and accident
insurance and pension benefits,
in addition to raising funds to help
offset the cost of running the department. Through charitable gambling and fundraisers the organization also aides in the betterment
of the communities they serve.

said there is evidence that students

test better and are more comfortable in the school where they attend every day. He said, This year
is a baseline year for the ACT.
School scores will go down because all junior students are tested,
not just the college-bound. He
said there is no plan for school
districts to opt students out of ACT
testing in the future.
Next year the district will purchase John Baylor test preparation materials for the students to
practice and to identify weak areas requiring more instruction.
Nolte said, We can do a bandaid
preparation this year with the time
we still have.
Simons said, The testing team
meets on Wednesday (February
11). We can discuss how we can
have school on the ACT day.
The ACT test location discussion will continue, and a decision
will soon be made to allow ample
time to share plans with the students and their parents. There is
no charge for the school ACT test
for junior students.

ZM ISD 2805
REGULAR SCHOOL BOARD
MEETING
INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2805
ZUMBROTA-MAZEPPA
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2015
7:00 P.M.
ZMHIGH SCHOOL MEDIA CENTER
ZUMBROTA, MINNESOTA
I. Call Meeting to Order (Action)
II. Recite the Pledge of Allegiance
III. Adopt Agenda (Action)
IV. Communications
V. Reports
VI. Patron Input
VII. Old Business
a. 2015-16 School Calendar (Action)
b. Construction House Sale Timeline
c. MSBA Revised Policies (Action)
VIII. New Business
a. Adopt Consent Agenda (Action)
b. Personnel (Action)
c. Extracurricular Committee Report
(if needed)
d. Community Advisory Committee
for Zip Rail Project
IX. Board Comments and Reports
X. Pertinent Dates
XI. Future Agenda Items
XII. Adjourn to Closed Session for
Personnel Issue (if needed) (Action)
XIII. Reconvene Regular Meeting (Action)
XIV. Adjourn Regular Meeting (Action)
ZM7-1f

Fundraiser underway for

animal oxygen masks
By Tawny Michels
ZUMBROTA Zumbrota resident Carol Post is the local ambassador (volunteer) for a
fundraiser in partnership with Pam
Miller, owner of Bone Appetit
Canine Bakery (BACB) Unleashed. The name of the fundraiser
that has been making its way
through southern Minnesota is
Fresh Air for Fido. This is a project
that is very near and dear to me
and one that I am very excited to
bring to Zumbrota, Miller said.
The hope is to raise money for
the Zumbrota Fire Department to
purchase three sets of oxygen
masks for dogs, cats, or other pets
involved in structure fires. Each
set costs $75 to $80. The fundraiser
will continue until all funds are
raised for the three masks.
I first saw this done in Rochester where BACB Unleashed was
trying to raise enough money for
a set of oxygen masks for each
truck, Post said. I gave a donation toward it and that is how Pam
got in touch with me to work for

the fundraiser for Zumbrota Fire.

Residents can expect to see posters at various businesses around
Zumbrota advertising the
fundraiser and places to donate.
Those interested can also donate
online, but must specify that the
donation is for Zumbrota Fire.
If this fundraiser is successful,
we may do this for some more of
the surrounding communities,
said Post. So far, BACB Unleashed
has provided this same equipment
for Rochester, Dodge Center,
Kasson, Eyota, Plainview, and soon
to be Pine Island.
BACB Unleashed is a dog biscuit mobile bakery. Pam Miller, a
Rochester resident, also has a
website where you can purchase
dog biscuits and other pet toys
and
accessories:
www.bacbunleashed.com.
If you would like to donate or
have any questions you can contact Pam Miller at 612-816-7366
or BACBunleashed@me.com.
You can also contact Carol Post at
507-421-8109.

ZM first-graders
learn about bagpipes
ZUMBROTA Ruby Baninski gets to hold the bagpipes brought by Bob
Schmidt to Zumbrota-Mazeppa Primary School on February 3. Schmidt,
of Zumbrota and a member of the Minnesota Police Pipe Band, played
his bagpipes for the ZM first-graders. He played songs including Scotland
the Brave and Amazing Grace and explained to the kids how to play
the bagpipes, how they work, and answered several of their questions.
The students are preparing for their musical performance, Teach the
World to Sing, which consists of songs from Mexico, Japan, France,
England, Africa, Italy, and Scotland. While learning their songs, they
have been going on Google Earth to see attractions in each country and
compare and contrast them with the United States.

Upcoming meeting dates

The Planning & Zoning Committee will meet on February 25

to discuss plans and projects for
the year within the constraints of
their budget.
The next regular council meeting is set for Wednesday, March
11, at 6 p.m. in the council chambers.
The Board of Equalization meeting to contest property valuations
will be held Tuesday, April 14, in
the council chambers.

Kids of Christ have some Valentines fun

ZUMBROTA The Kids of Christ students at Christ Lutheran Church in Zumbrota had fun making Valentine headbands and sharing Valentines on
Thursday, February12. Front row, from left to right: Jacoby Brown, Lincoln Toombs, Bennett Myran, Reid Finnesgard, Mia Moran, Alivia Sperber,
and Abi Barton; back row: Kate Flaaen, Oakley Anderson, Jake Moran, Jacklyn Tangen, Karlee Scheffler, Layla Schran, Sofia Richter, Sophia
Garcia, Holly Jarrett, and Joe Ottem.

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Wanamingo

Wanamingo staff reviews positive, pay raises given

By Alicia Hunt-Welch
WANAMINGO Yearly performance reviews for City of
Wanamingo staff were reviewed
and approved by the city council
at the February 9 meeting. Reviews were conducted in January
and February for clerk Jean Rugg,
administrator Michael Boulton,
and maintenance workers Monty
Schaefer and Brad Kennedy. Councilman VanDeWalker said the reviews were all positive and the
staff is working in harmony.
Boulton said a suggestion to
come out of the meeting was to
have a quarterly sit-down with
different members of the council
so that everyone is informed and
better understands various aspects
of employee responsibilities, du-

ties, and happenings. A motion

by Jamie Majerus to accept the
yearly employee reviews for 2014
carried. The reviews will be placed
in their personnel files and planned
pay increases will be given.

Aluminum cans in the collection

wagon were taken to recycling.
More water was put on the ice
rink, and Schaefer said it seems
quite a few kids are using the rink.
Fire extinguishers were checked.
Public Works report
A couple ladders were obtained
Maintenance worker Monty and the floor at the city shop will
Schaefer said that during the past be painted and pallets will be used
month he and Brad Kennedy to keep stored items off the floor.
plowed and sanded as needed. The Kyllo to return as pool manager
grader and pay loader had minor
Brandi Kyllo, who served as the
repairs tended to. One of the city Wanamingo pool manager for sevwell houses was shut off to re- eral years, will return to the posipaint the interior; once completed tion for the 2015 season. Stephanie
the well house was put back in Kish served as pool manager last
use. The Christmas decorations year after Kyllo resigned the powere taken down when the weather sition.
warmed up. They finished cleanBoulton said Kish indicated she
ing out the city storage barn. Some was not interested in serving as
items not being utilized were sold. the manager again this year, but

Wanamingo EDA renews lease

agreement with NorthStar Genetics
By Alicia Hunt-Welch
WANAMINGO At the February 9 Wanamingo Economic
Development Authority meeting,
the EDA commissioners reviewed
the amendment to the lease agreement with NorthStar Genetics,
LTD. Following the end of the
current contract on March 14, 2015,
the agreement would be up for
renewal every two years, with
automatic renewal for up to ten
years, and with 180 days notice
before termination rights. For the

period of March 14, 2015, to March

2016 rent for the front suite will
be $835 per month, with the following years rent to be $845 per
month, and continuing with an
annual increase of $10 per month.
For the back suite the tenant agreed
to pay $200 per month.
NorthStar began leasing the front
suite in the Medical Facility Building in February 2010. In March
2014 the business extended its
agreement to also occupy the back

suite for storage and conference

room use. NorthStar also uses the
back suite now for office space.
EDA Board Director Michael
Boulton and commissioners Ryan
Holmes, Brian Gudknecht, Brian
Johnson, Jim Kittelson, Josh
Schaefer, and Josh Sandberg discussed the medical buildings rental
agreements in place with all tenants and the facilitys long-term
probability and contingency plans
if a tenant were to exit the space.

preferred the assistant manager

position. Kyllo will be paid $11.50
per hour for the part-time manager position; Kish will be paid
$9.50 per hour. A motion to approve carried unanimously.
Other staff news

Boulton attended the Southeastern Minnesota League of Municipalities annual meeting on January 29. He said, The meeting was
a great forum to meet the newly
appointed and elected officials in
the region. Topics discussed included economic development/job
creation, city funding, sales tax

on city purchases, urban forest

management funding, silica sand
mining, bridge/highway project
expenses, tax reciprocity, Destination Medical Center fixes and a
study on DMCs impact, affordable housing, and health insurance
costs. A presentation was also given
on tourism trends and strategies
for southeastern Minnesota by
Dave Vogel from the Explore
Minnesota Tourism regional manager.
The Wanamingo Fire Department will soon begin a hiring pro-

cess. In preparing for an upcoming retirement and vacancy in

membership, the department is
looking for about three new volunteer members. Boulton and
Councilman Todd Kyllo will serve
on the interview committee. Kyllo
who also serves as a WFD
firefighter, first responder, and
assistant chief said it has been a
challenge to come up with three
interested candidates to interview
during the last few years. Anyone
interested in serving on the WFD
should contact Boulton or Kyllo.

State Fair and Farm Bureau Federation

accepting Century Farm applications
ST. PAUL Minnesota families who have owned their farms
for 100 years or more may apply
for the 2015 Century Farms Program. Created by the Minnesota
State Fair in conjunction with the
Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation, the Century Farms Program
was developed to promote agriculture and honor historic family
farms in the state. More than 10,000
Minnesota farms have been honored since the program began in
1976.
Family farms are recognized as
Century Farms when they meet
three requirements. The farm must
be: 1) at least 100 years old according to authentic land records;
2) in continuous family ownership for at least 100 years (con-

tinuous residence on the farm is

not required); and 3) at least 50
acres.
A commemorative certificate
signed by State Fair Board of
Managers President Al Paulson,
Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation President Kevin Paap and
Governor Mark Dayton will be
awarded to qualifying families,
along with an outdoor sign signifying Century Farm status.
Applications are available online
at mnstatefair.org (click the Recognition Programs link at the
bottom of the home page); at
fbmn.org; by calling the State Fair
at (651) 288-4400; or at statewide
county extension and county Farm
Bureau offices. The submission
deadline is April 3. Recipients will

be announced in May. Previously

recognized families should not
reapply.
Information on all Century
Farms will be available at the
Minnesota Farm Bureau exhibit
during the 2015 Minnesota State
Fair, which runs August 27 through
Labor Day, September 7. A Century Farm database is also available at fbmn.org.
The Minnesota State Fair is one
of the largest and best-attended
expositions in the world, attracting 1.8 million visitors annually.
Showcasing Minnesotas finest
agriculture, art and industry, the
Great Minnesota Get-Together is
always 12 Days of Fun ending
Labor Day. Visit mnstatefair.org
for more information.

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Pine Island
Goodhue
Goodhue still needs
a contract with
Gibson Sanitation
By R.D. Aaland
GOODHUE The Goodhue
City Council met Wednesday,
February 11, at its new time of
6:45 p.m. The city has been notified by Dale Gibson of Gibson
Sanitation that the rates charged
for recycling have been increased
from $75 per ton to $80 per
ton. These are the rates charged
by the City of Red Wing for using
its recycling center.
Red Wings reasoning for the
raise in price was because Rochester charges $125 per ton. The
Goodhue Council was concerned
that they have no control over Red
Wings prices.
The council decided that city
attorney Richard Gorman should
write a letter to the management
of the Red Wing Recycling Center requesting a long-term contract with Goodhue stating the cost
for the next few years. The council also wants Dale Gibson to sign
the contract for garbage collection with the City of Goodhue that
was to have been signed in January 2014. This was a five-year
contract covering 2014 through
2018.

ment on June 10, 2015. It was also

brought up that all work is guaranteed for one year after completion.
After much discussion, it was
decided to hold back $10,000 to
cover the section that measures
36 x 200 feet where the pavement
is cracked. This is only effective
if Fitzgerald has included this in
The top four finishers in the eighth annual Dale Murray Bean Bag Tournament are, from left to right: Jeff Moyer and Nick Moyer, fourth place,
his application for payment.
$100; Nate (Turbo) Hitchcock and Chad Robertson, third, $150; Troy Johnson and Owen Miller, second, $200; and Chad Weltzin and Patrick
Wastewater rates

The final discussion was on the

need to raise rates for wastewater,
because the present costs are equal
to or exceeding revenues. Based
on a monthly usage of 5,000 gallons of water, Goodhue residents
currently pay $27.58 for water and
$16.67 for wastewater for a total
of $44.25. In comparison, residents
in Zumbrota pay $38.55, Pine Island pay $51.10, Mazeppa $71.60,
and Wanamingo $96.50.
I&S Group completed a utility
rate study and they suggested raising water rates to $31.33 and wastewater to $23.17, or a total increase
of $10.25 per month.
The council is not ready to raise
the rates until it gets input from
the community and the effect of
the suggested rates is studied. The
City engineers report
City engineer Andy Brandel said council tabled its decision until
that work on the bath house is pro- April.
gressing, but cold weather will slow Meetings during Lent
The next three Goodhue City
construction. He also reported that
the road extension design for South Council meetings will start at 5
Broadway will be handled by en- p.m. to allow the members the
opportunity to attend Lenten
gineers hired by Ag Partners.
Brandel turned in a contractors services. The council meeting on
application for payment from April 8 will began at 6:45 p.m.
Fitzgerald Excavating and Trucking Inc. for the amount of
$328,659.76.
This bill brought an immediate
reaction from the council. The first
question was, Does this include
the portion of the street that has
crack? Leia Ryan said, The council does not want to pay for shoddy
GOODHUE Last weeks iswork.
Brandel explained that there will sue had the Honor Roll for Goodhue
be a punch list of things to be School. Also named to the A Honor
completed before the final pay- Roll was senior Kate McNamara.

Addition to
Goodhue School
Honor Roll

Slade, first place, $300.

Dale Murray Beanbag Tournament held Feb. 7

By Audra DePestel
PINE ISLAND The eighth
annual Dale Murray Bean Bag
Tournament was held on Saturday, February 7 at the Pine Island
American Legion with 53 teams
participating. The tournament, held
in memory of Dale Murray who
passed away from cancer on February 16, 2007, is always held the
first weekend in February. Teams
came from as far away as the Twin
Cities and Wisconsin.
Sons of the American Legion
(SAL) members offered burger
baskets, appetizers, and their famous philly steak and cheese sandwiches for purchase along with
selling meat tray raffles. Drink
specials were also offered.
Dana (Murray) Fogarty, daughter of the late Dale Murray, continues to organize the beanbag
tournament her Dad liked to put
on every year because its cabin
fever time and it helps support the
Pine Island Legion. She said, This
is not a fundraiser but an excuse
to get out during the winter for
some fun!
Winning first place and $300
were Chad Weltzin and Patrick
Slade; taking second and $200 were
Troy Johnson and Owen Miller;
taking third and $150 were Nate
(Turbo) Hitchcock and Chad

PI School is holding
practice ACT test today
By Alice Duschanek-Myers
PINE ISLAND At the Pine
Island School Board meeting on
February 12, Principal Kevin Cardille reported that the ACT practice test for all juniors was scheduled for February 18.
Cardille said this will help familiarize the students with the process they will go through when
they actually take the ACT. The
results will give both students and
staff an opportunity to identify areas
that they need more practice with,
he said. Students will have a chance
to use the Minnesota Career Information System (MCIS) to review these areas before ACT testing on April 28.
High school students took final
exams in a new format that spreads
the exams out over two days. The
students reported that it was very
helpful to have more time for preparation and testing.
Registration for classes is scheduled for conference day on February 24. The 2015-16 Class Description Handbook and College
Credit Handbook are available for

students and parents. Career and

technology courses are outlined
in the Class Description Handbook.
During conferences there will
be evening information sessions
for parents on class offerings and
sessions for students during the
day. Students will be able to see
and hear about offerings in different departments. The school is
offering more Project Lead The
Way, Advanced Placement (AP),
and college credit classes.
Enrollment in Post-Secondary
Enrollment Option is decreasing.
The district has applied to add
physics through College Now.
There are sixty students attending
online classes in speech and literature with teacher Angela Organ.
Cardille has been working on a
new schedule for grades 5-12 next
year. The high school plans to work
on Ramp Up for Readiness, which
is now in the middle school. In the
new schedule there will be half an
hour weekly for Ramp Up in the
high school. The teacher Professional Learning Communities
(PLC) will be able to meet for 45
minutes weekly. There will be more
options for career development in
middle school.
The Grade 5-12 school staff are
giving input on remodeling the
building for middle and high
school. It is a complex task with
the layout of the building and planning into the future.
There were 370 students in
grades 9-12 in January compared
to 357 last year. 745 students were
enrolled in grades 5-12.
Superintendents report

Superintendent Tammy BergBeniak reported that School Management Systems was reviewed.
The district would like to move
forward to use it.
She met with representatives for
Pine Island at the state capitol.
The legislature could consider increasing funds for maintenance of
buildings. Most districts receive
$0.58/square foot for maintenance.
The largest districts in the state
receive $3.00/square foot.
Student representatives report

Payment Center for

City of Pine Island
and News-Record/
Zumbro Shopper
Located in front of
Pine Island City Hall

Filler0

Taylor Schroeder presented a

report to the school board. Students attended music clinics in the
past two weeks and are preparing
for contests. The student council
will be recognized at the John Kline
Star of the North event for the
Heavenly Hats project. The math
league team finished the season
in third place. FCCLA attended

Robertson; and fourth place for

$100 were the father and son team
of Jeff and Nick Moyer. Eight other
teams also received cash prizes

ranging from $20 to $70 through For more photos from the event
random drawings so that every- check out the tournaments
one had a chance at money, no Facebook page.
matter how bad or good they were.

DMC community groups

compete for $100,000 grant
By Alice Duschanek-Myers
PINE ISLAND In November
2014 sixteen communities met in
Red Wing to participate in a regional Community Growth Initiative (CGI) organized by the Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation (SMIF). SMIF is offering
$100,000 in grant funds to help
support projects in communities
that will be impacted by the development of Destination Medical Center (DMC) in Rochester.
Grant funds could be awarded
to one or more projects. A project
awarded a grant must provide 25%
matching funds, which can be in
kind funds. The project must be
completed in one year.
The group came up with eight
community projects. They selected
these four projects as finalists for

the grant funds:

1.) A regional informational
portal with a searchable database
of events and attractions to market the communities in the region.
This project could be expanded
with information on housing and
businesses. Chris Giesen of Harmony is the chairperson for this
project.
2.) A regional project focusing
on labor needs and the workforce,
which could expand to housing
and transportation resources.
3.) A regional park and ride system with lots specified in four directions from Rochester. The
project could evolve with more
possibility for mass transportation
scheduling to reduce the number
of trips by commuters traveling to
and from Rochester and DMC. The

project chairperson is Rod Steele

of Pine Island.
4.) A regional connection of trails
to create a complete regional trail
system. Locals and tourists could
be attracted to the health assets of
the trails and active living. This
project includes developing a
master plan and investigating any
funding options. Ann Priebe of
Spring Valley is the project chairperson.
The projects will be presented
to a panel of judges at the Rochester International Event Center on
Saturday, February 21 from 9 a.m.
to noon. The Regional Community Growth Initiative Core Leadership Team will announce the
grant award(s) at a press conference on Monday, February 23 at
10 a.m.

Pine Island participates in revision of

Minnesota teacher evaluation model
By Alice Duschanek-Myers
PINE ISLAND On February
12, Pine Island PreK-4 Principal
Cindy Hansen reported that she
has gone to the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)
twice in the past month. She is
representing principals and teachers on a committee to revise the
Minnesota teacher evaluation
model. In 2013-14 the district participated in a pilot project for the
evaluation process.
Hansen said Mike Coty, a teacher
development and evaluation
project facilitator from MDE, will
meet with the Pine Island teacher
evaluation team next week. He has
years of experience mentoring and
coaching new teachers and developing strategies for the classroom.

assessment is the Malcolm Baldrige

National Quality Award. The performance criteria in the assessment can help organizations assess their improvement efforts,
diagnose their overall performance
management system, and identify
their strengths and opportunities
for improvement. An organization
can use the results of performance
review to plan for more improvement and progress.
Seven categories are in the performance review, and leadership,
strategic planning, and customer
focus are the driving forces assessed in a performance review.
Pine Island had a high level of
strengths in these areas: analyzing data, creating a substantial
organization, senior leader (longterm staff) promoting legal and
ethical behavior, developing strategic plans, and addressing strategic objectives with emphasis on
customers (students, parents, staff).
The districts opportunities for
improvement are in these areas:
performance management engaging the workforce, student and
customer satisfaction, making data
available, development and implementation of action plans, and
management and evaluation of the
suppliers to the district.
Leland recommended the district create assigned action plans

with specific timelines and measurements with scheduled review

dates.
Other business

Regions and all teams advanced

The board approved overnight
to State in STAR events. Music
trips to Kansas City, Missouri, for
Listening made it to state compeArt Scream and Culture Club, April
tition, after placing first and sec1-4, and to Minneapolis for DECA
ond in sections.
to compete in state competition,
The National Honor Society is
March 8-10.
collaborating with the Lions Club
Resignations were accepted from
to collect 1,500 pairs of shoes by
Doug Strandell, Ron Lenoch, and
February 27 for Soles for Souls.
Diane Webb for the end of the
FCCLA worked with Officer Jeff
school year. Berg-Beniak thanked
Sjoblom on Drunk Driving Awarethem for their dedication to the
ness. Roots and Shoots hosted a
students and school, and said it
Mayo Clinic Blood Drive on Febwas a loss to the district.
A draft of an application for a
ruary 12. SADD is working on
student representative to the school
Drug Awareness Week.
board was reviewed. The board
The students like the lock schedwill continue this discussion on
uling for finals because they had
March 9.
more time to take each test.
Baldrige Review Report
Jeff Leland presented the feedGrade 11 students will take the
Teacher Nicole Mentjes was
ACT test on April 28. Students in
recognized for being selected as back report from the Pine Island
grades 9, 10, and 12 will attend
Teacher of the Year at the school. School Districts independent review using the Baldrige Educaschool at home online that day.
Other business
The board approved a request
School board chair John Champa tion Criteria for Performance Exfrom Kelli English and Kelly Yolch
said that he had the pleasure of cellence. He reported that the disto continue their job-share kinattending Meet and Confer with trict ranked high on the assessdergarten teaching position in
April Bailey and Superintendent ment compared to others that he
2015-16.
Berg-Beniak. He heard positive had seen in ten years as an evaluThe deletion of policies on textthings and about some issues. He ator with the Performance Excelbook and materials, instructional
said, I am grateful for the com- lence Network.
There are Baldrige performance
improvement, and instructional
munication with the teachers. The
materials review and alternative
teachers talked about holding a assessments specifically for busiinstruct were approved by the
walk to the future, from the old ness/nonprofit, education, and
school board.
site to the new school site. The health environments. The founevent could be on May 13, the dation of the Education Criteria
anniversary of the referendum to
build a new PreK-4 and improve
the old building.
BEVCOMM can no longer offer the phone in the hallway for
students at no charge. The school
board decided to pay a monthly
charge of $36 to keep a phone for
students to call parents. The phone
will be relocated during the remodeling.
The 2015-16 school calendar
was approved. Graduation is scheduled for Sunday, June 5, 2016 at 2
p.m.
The board approved a resolution supporting a Local Learning
Year. Angie Heiden said the resolution is to support school districts
making their own choice of when
to start school. There is high support for districts to decide their
own calendars, she said. The
By Audra DePestel
Zumbro Education District member districts would all need to approve resolutions to change the
school calendar in the future.
Jake Massey of Olmsted MediISLAND The Pine Island Middle School Student Council held a Coin War for the Crohns and Colitis
cal Center Sports Medicine and PINE
Foundation of America to support students at Pine Island affected by the disease. From January 26 through
Performance visited the school February 6 students in the grades 5-8 homerooms competed against each other, which resulted in a grand
board. OMC is offering 15% off total of $1281.10 being collected. Student council members, along with Matthew Schaefer (who has Crohns
for Pine Island athletes who want disease) and his mother Sara Schaefer, hold up the banner with the amount collected that will be donated in
to train there. This could help Matthews honor to the foundation. From left to right: Matthew Schaefer, Hannah Ryan, Rachel Ryan, Kaedyn
maintain conditioning during off- Peterson-Rucker, Will Warneke, Lauren Meurer, Brooke Sinning, Lauren Monosmith, Taylor House, Josh
Zemke, Will Cobb, and Sara Schaefer. The winning homeroom was Mrs. Amy Northrops class. They earned
seasons, like over the summer.

PIMS Coin War collects $1,281 for

Crohns and Colitis Foundation of America

a breakfast party.