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By STEVEN A. LOUDENManaging Editor

The valedictorian and salutatorian were found about as far away from Blooming Prairie High School as possible Wednes-day, enjoying an early summer day at the beach with their fellow seniors.

Granted, the Class of 2012 had to bring the beach to Blooming.

Seniors rocked a keg of root beer in their bathing suits and bikinis on the sands of Victory Field – one block from the school. Cars were parked haphazardly with their stereos cranked, and students were dancing and laughing as their music fl oated through the air.

“It’s senior prankish. It started out in the parking lot, and then we had to move it over this way,” is how valedictorian Lyndsay Pryor explained the party. “We weren’t disrupting school, but the super-intendent (Barry Olson) came out and he said to move it along.”

Salutatorian Hunter Henderson hopped out of the pool, which was constructed in the bed of a pickup truck, to talk about the transition from high school to South Da-kota State University in Brookings.

“What am I going to miss most? The teachers, they were like the parents and the kids were like the family. I’m really going to miss that when I go off to col-lege,” she said.

Henderson plans to study animal sci-ence, with an emphasis on equine science.

Both young women are proud they have been recognized as the top students in their class.

“Whether I got it or not, I’ve always went for high grades – I’ve always went for A’s. It’s really important for me to do well in school,” Henderson said.

“It feels good – very good,” Pryor add-ed. “Grades have always been important, and it’s just kind of nice to be recognized for the hard work you put in.”

Pryor said she will miss her classmates

and Blooming residents when she heads off for University of Minnesota-Twin Cit-ies to study nursing and Spanish.

“You always have people there with you to support you if you ever need them – and in the good times like this,” she said. “It will be different, and it’s a lot larger than this. I’m going to miss that

community feeling.”Though classes were done, Henderson

still had a softball postseason in her near future Wednesday as the Awesome Blos-soms competed in section play the next day.

“This is one of the best things that can happen in my senior year,” she said of the

team’s success. “It’s so nice that we could go this far as a team.”

With the graduation ceremony be-ing the only in-school function standing in their way, the beach partygoers were ready for summer vacation.

“I love this class,” Pryor said. “It was a good year, and summer will be fun.”

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Claremont man races garden tractor at Smokin’ in Steele

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Crash on 218 leaves 1 dead

A head-on crash in Steele County between a car and semi-tractor trailer has left one person dead.

The crash happened on Highway 218 near Bixby around 5 a.m. Saturday. Bixby is located between Blooming Prairie and Owatonna. The road was closed in both directions for nearly 12 hours as the Minnesota State Patrol re-constructed the crash.

The driver of the pas-senger car was pronounced dead at the scene, accord-ing to the patrol. However, as of press time Monday, his name has not yet been released. The Steele Coun-ty Coroner is trying to identify the driver.

The State Patrol identi-fi ed the driver of the semi as Del Mees, 52, of Dexter. He escaped the wreckage without any injury.

Assisting the patrol at the crash was the Steele County Sheriff’s Offi ce.

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Going to state!The Blooming Prairie High School softball team poses with the Section 1A Championship trophy. Front row, from left, are Hunter Henderson, Julia Manges, Kelsey Kubista, Tricia DeBoer, Kelsey Wolf, Savanah Allard and Tessa Ivers. Midde row, from left, are Tori Poe, Megan O’Connor, Madison Worke, Jenna Krell, Mariah Holland, Shelbi Swenson and Sam Ivers. Back row, from left, are assistant coach Duane DeBoer, Delaney Nelson, Ashley Krohnberg, manager Kelli Naatz, manager Taylor Farr, assistant coach Brandi Halsey and head coach Alison Mach. For more on the softball team, see pages 6A and 5B through 8B.


Seniors from Blooming Prairie High School gathered Wednesday afternoon for a beach party blowout at Victory Field – complete with a keg of root beer and a pool in the bed of a pickup truck. It was the last day of school for these graduates, who were happy to celebrate the end of classes with a sandy bash under the sun. Front row, from left, are Maggie Sorenson, Kelsey Kubista and Adam Driessen. Back row, from left, are, Antonio Patiño Jr, Alexander Fiebiger, McKayla Myer, Jonas Hellevang, Savanah Allard and Hunter Henderson. Hidden behind the crowd are Tricia DeBoer, Cortney Easton and Cierra Coughlin.

Class of 2012 brings the beach to Blooming

STATE BOUND AGAIN New districts mean new candidates

The Blooming Prairie area is greatly impacted by the 2012 Supreme Court re-districting plan.

The new District 27A for the Minneso-ta House of Representatives has, in fact, become a peninsula jutting west into Dis-trict 24B. This peninsula encompasses the city limits of Blooming Prairie, while the Blooming Prairie Township will be part of District 24B.

The nearby townships of Westfi eld, Udolpho, Newry and Geneva will also be part of District 27A. Neighboring town-ships of Summit, Somerset, Aurora and Ripley will be part of District 24B.

With the redistricting comes elections this November.

In District 27A, former Wells Mayor Shannon Savick, DFL-Wells is challeng-ing incumbent state Rep. Rich Murray, R-Albert Lea. Murray currently represents that district.

Murray is currently the vice-chairman of the Government Operations and Elec-tions committee and a member of the Jobs and Economic Development Finance, State Government Finance and Transpor-tation Police and Finance committees.

The city of Blooming Prairie’s current state representative is Patti Fritz, DFL-Fairbault. The major changes in her dis-trict are the removal of the city and the renaming to District 24B. She will face former Medford Mayor Daniel Kaiser, R-Medford, in November.

Fritz, of Faribault, is currently a mem-ber of the Agriculture and Rural Devel-opment Policy and Finance, Health and Human Services Finance and Health and Human Services Reform committees.

Perhaps the third time around will be a charm for the Awesome Blossoms softball team.

This week, Blooming Prairie will try once again to battle its way to a state softball cham-pionship in North Mankato. After two unsuc-cessful tries in as many years, the Blossoms are hoping to come out on top for once this year.

Going into state this week, Blooming Prairie doesn’t have as good of a record as it did last year. The Blossoms are 20-3 so far this year, compared to last year’s impressive near-perfect record of 20-1 going into state. But, despite a couple more losses this season, don’t underestimate the Blossoms’ power and ability to make a run for the state title.

Coach Ali Mach is to be commended for her tremendous string of success with the local softball team. She has taken the girls to the state tournament three consecu-tive years. There aren’t many teams who can make that claim. Mach is extremely humble in the success she has achieved with the team.

It is special to see the energy level and excitement that is being pumped into the community over the success of the local sports team. Spring sports often attract fewer fans than the other sports seasons, but that doesn’t diminish what the Blossoms have accomplished.

Let’s hope softball fever will be conta-gious around Blooming Prairie this week.

Community members should rally around the team as the Blossoms go for the gold. It will be a tough battle, but the Blossoms are only three victories away from call-ing themselves “State Champions.”

We are confi dent that the Blossoms can go all the way. They have gotten so close in years past that it’s time for them to win it all. But win or lose, the Blossom girls will be awesome in our book. We are proud of each player for what they accomplish on the softball diamond.

The Blossoms’ softball attack is defi nitely one of the best in the state. Let’s hope their talent, along with a little luck thrown in, will bring home a state championship. Good luck to the Blos-soms as they conquer their way to the state title!

Public policy vs. Lowering taxes

To the Editor:We need as taxpayers to watch

what’s going on in the city of Owatonna and elsewhere. Sev-eral weeks ago I watched a city truck, a tandem axle truck, at 10:30 a.m. out for lunch at the Subway idling for 35 minutes.

I called the Mayor and told him about it, and his reply was, “They are not supposed to be do-ing this.”

So, two weeks later at 9:30 a.m., a white city pickup with the driver had the door open and was talking to a couple of people, I suppose his friends.

My complaint is this – when I worked for a company as a fi eld supervisor, it was my duty to watch the men on break and not running to town for lunch with the company trucks.

When I go to a tax meeting, I continue to ask about this. I could just as well talk to a tree!

Unless we as Mr. and Mrs. Public start doing our own polic-ing, whenever you see this hap-

The Steele County Fair has lost one of its great-est boosters of all time.

Bob Ringhofer, who was born and raised in Owatonna, had been involved with the fair in some capacity for much of his life. He died last week at the age of 94.

Former fair manager Elmer Reseland recalls Ringhofer sharing stories about being a child when he would hop the trains coming into Owatonna with the carnival rides just to get out to the fairgrounds.

“He would anxiously await the carnival to arrive,” Reseland said. “He wanted to be where the action was.”

For more than a half century, Ringhofer was involved in the fair. His fi rst big involvement came back in 1952 when he served as superintendent of the horses.

Reseland said one of Ring-hofer’s greatest contributions to the fair was the revival of the horse barns during the 1950s. When Ringhofer took over, the barns were hardly ever full. He took it upon himself to borrow a trailer and drive around the county picking up horses for the ex-hibits, according to Reseland.

Ringhofer went on in his later years to become president of the fair from 1977-1983. He served on the fair board until 2007, but continued after that as director emeritus.

“He had a deep inter-est in the fair,” Reseland said. “The fair was in-grained into his blood.”

The fair offi ce will miss Ringhofer’s presence. For many years, he volun-teered his time to do small jobs around the offi ce. He came in and stamped en-velopes and folded news-letters, Reseland said.

Reseland always knew he could count on Ringhofer when questions came up. Just a few weeks before his death, Reseland went to him to fi nd out information about a fair policy in question that nobody could fi gure out.

“He had the answer,” Reseland said. “His mind was very sharp and he had a great memory.”

Besides mourning the loss of Ringhofer, fair offi cials are also trying to fi nd ways to pay tribute to the man who helped build the fair into one of Minnesota’s best county

fairs. Reseland plans to put together a display honoring Ringhofer in the fair’s muse-um in time for this year’s fair.

There are already other items dedicated to Ring-hofer around the fair-grounds, including a water fountain, table and a bench by the horse building.

Both Reseland and Ring-hofer compiled a book, “A Brief History of the Steele County Free Fair.” The book detailed the fair from 1871-2001.

“He just loved the fair,” Reseland said. “He’s a big reason the fair has be-come the fair it is today.”

The fair will certainly miss one of the biggest boosters who went in hot pursuit of making sure area residents had a great fair to enjoy each and every summer.

(Rick Bussler is publisher of the Times. Email him at [email protected].)

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Blossoms back in the huntfor state title State trips are

memorableI remember the fi rst time

I covered a high school athletic team on its road to the state championship.

I remember it very well, because I was very new to the job. I had just started the month before.

I was also fresh out of journalism school, and ready to put my newfound knowledge to work.

I was covering the Randolph Rockets – the Wisconsin version.

Randolph is a small village with about 1,800 residents at the time. The village and area townships revolved around their boys basketball team.

It helped that Randolph was a perennial contender for its division crown. A year in which the Rockets were not fi ghting for the valued gold ball was a dismal one.

Buses would line up in the school parking lot and Randolph fans would fi le aboard. Cars and minivans would follow as the cara-van headed to Madison.

Games at that time were played in the comforting University of Wisconsin Field House. When that house was rocking, there was nothing greater.

The boys brought home the championship trophy that year, capping off an amazing 1998 season.

At that time, I was shoot-ing roll after roll of fi lm. I would drop the fi lm off at the news offi ce, then wait impa-tiently for it to be developed.

Then I would look through the proof sheets to fi nd the photos I thought would work best in the paper.

Sometimes, after they were enlarged, I saw one or two were out of focus. Then it was back to the drawing board.

Those pictures that did make the fi nal cut were scanned into the computer off negatives and printed in camera-ready format.

I would take those printed photos back to Randolph. Using a wax machine , I would com-pile my congratulatory pages using the cut-and-paste method.

When I covered Blooming Prairie’s triumphant Section 1A softball victory on Thursday, I shot 124 digital pictures.

Using Photoshop, I digi-tally sized and edited about 50 of those pictures, which can be found through-out this newspaper.

And I did it in about fi ve hours. What used to take fi ve days can now be done in an afternoon or evening.

Isn’t it amazing how tech-nology has changed?

I know the staff here at The Times is looking for-ward to covering a Minne-sota State High School League softball championship.

I know the community would welcome a state trophy.

And I know the girls are ready to give us one. Go Awesome Blossoms!

(Steven A. Louden is the managing editor of The Times. He can be reached by phone at (507) 583-4431 or by e-mail at [email protected])

Readers are encouraged to go to the Times website at www.bloom-ingprairieonline.com to cast their opinion about the current ques-tion. This poll is not a pure scientifi c sampling of readers’ views, but rather, is intended to create community discussion of issues.

❐ Softball. ❐ Golf. ❐ Track.❐ Every team.

Last week’s question:What do you like to cook on the grill?

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I like to keep it easy with brats, hot dogs and burgers. – 53 percentI prefer pork chops. – 5 percent I’ll have the chicken, please. – 5 percentI like to get fancy with steaks and ribs. – 37 per-cent

This week’s question:Which team/individuals do you think will make it farthest in the state tournement?

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Incorrect scores were listed for three Blooming Prairie High School golfers who competed in the West Sub-Section 1A event May 21 at Adams.

Victor Peterson gained medal-ist honors for the boys with a 76 for the Awesome Blossoms, and Jon Hatch and Pat Jones each carded an 86.

Some sponsors were incor-rectly listed for the second annual Blooming Prairie Ribfest to be held June 30.

Con-Tech Manufacturing Inc. of Blooming was omitted. Fa-mous Dave’s of Rochester is an-other one of the sponsors.

The trophies were made by, and purchased from, Fame Awards of Owatonna.

Also, the baby photo of McK-ayla Myer was inadvertently omitted from the Class of 2012 graduation section.

The Times regrets the errors.

Corrections

pening, call the City Engineer at (507) 774-7307 or the County Engineer at (507) 444-7671. You have that right.

For instance, I am paying $93 tax on a parcel of land I have

when that kind of money used to be rent on land. So what happens with the tax like this? You have to pass it on to the renter.

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High school students cash in on Stock Market Game

By LeMAR NELSONStaff Writer

Blooming Prairie High School was notifi ed last week that two of its stock market teams placed second and third in the Best Prep’s Stock Market Game in the entire state.

Janet Luick, the advisor for the BP’s Integrated Math Test Preparation and Careers Class, entered three teams in the con-test.

“I had no idea that we had done so well until I received no-tifi cation by mail of the results. It was quite an achievement for these students,” remarked Luick.

Best Prep is a statewide, non-

profi t organization with a mis-sion to prepare Minnesota stu-dents with business, career and fi nancial literacy skills through experiences that inspire success in work and life.

There are six programs, one of which is the Stock Mar-ket Game. Luick entered three teams in the yearlong contest, which ran from September 2011 through the end of April.

In order for the students to learn about and understand the stock market, they studied les-sons about stocks, bonds and mutual funds.

One of the ideas emphasized and studied dealt with diversi-fi cation in stock portfolios, and the students decided how much

risk to take. When the game season came to an end, the local ITPC class found out that two of its teams fi nished in the top three.

On May 23, the two classes traveled to Brooklyn Center to receive their awards at a spe-cial ceremony and received two plaques for BPHS to display. Each member received a certifi -cate and a Stock Market Game T-shirt.

The second-place team in-cluded Josh Jannings, Cody Wagaman, Jesaray Suazo, Vic-toria Poe and Janelle Morem.

Kelsey Wolf, Jarrod Grunklee, Tom Shawback, McKayla Myer and Cody Hoffman made up the third-place team.

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Above: The team that placed second in the state in Best Prep’s Stock Market Game is, from left, teacher Janet Luick and students Josh Jannings, Cody Wagaman, Jesaray Suazo, Victoria Poe and Janelle Morem. At right: The team that placed third is, from left, teacher Janet Luick and students Kelsey wolf, Jarrod Grunklee, Tom Shawback, McKayla Myer. Not pictured is Cody Hoff man.

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Coming Soon: Fun and excitement at the Boys and Girls Club of Bloom-ing Prairie.

Club staff members were busy preparing last week for Monday’s summer opening and this year’s theme – the movies.

The club is open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

“It’s an open door policy. We never know when we’re going to get kids and how many we’re going to have,” said Mary Sherman-Ahrens, unit director since 2008.

Youths who attend will receive breakfast and an afternoon snack. A hot lunch is also served, and Nick’s Prairie Café caters this meal.

The food helps balance out the eight- to nine-hour day of program-ming.

Students arrive at the club by 8:45 a.m. They place their belongings in cubbyholes near the front entrance and head into the lounge for breakfast. Morning classes include math, fi tness, Spanish, scrapbooking and outdoor games.

Others include “Stomp Out Bully-ing” and “Fun Money.”

Lunch and quiet time follow.In the afternoon, the youths learn

about careers and other cultures, take part in more special programs or head to the library to read, the pool to swim or the park to play.

Special programs continue after a snack break. “Club Scrub” closes the day from 5:45 p.m. to 6 p.m.

A membership fee costs $10 per year. There is a $30 per month user fee during the summer to cover oper-ating costs. That user fee is reduced to $15 per month for those who qualify for a free or reduced lunch.

Kid-friendlyA birthday board in the lounge helps

everyone remember each child’s birth-day. Each child also has a mailbox to receive mail from other members.

“They have to be signed, and they have to be nice,” Sherman-Ahrens said are the rules for the mail.

“We do have a member of the month every month. We recognize a kid that has been exceptional – they have to attend so many days a week and if their behavior is really good,” she added.

A schedule further down the hall-way reminds everyone where they have to be, and when.

The education center still smells of fresh paint, and the chairs are being replaced by beanbags.

“It makes it more relaxing and com-fortable, too, for reading especially, and it’s kid-friendly, too.

An adjoining room houses the com-puter center, where youths are taught Internet use and safety and can play educational games. The center boasts 12 brand new computers Sherman-Ahrens purchased through a grant.

A healthy lifestyles grant covered the purchase of bicycles, a bike rack and helmets.

“I can get ‘stuff,’ I just can’t get operating money,” she said. “That’s what we need at this point.”

Getting helpFunds for operating costs are raised

through grants and donations.“There will be a summer campaign

letter coming out hopefully within a week. I ask everybody in the com-munity for money,” Sherman-Ahrens said. “In December, I do a holiday campaign.”

A limited amount of funding comes

from the federal government and United Way.

“We have a budget right now of about $140,000,” Sherman-Ahrens said. “Probably 60 percent or more of that is staff. I’m a full-time unit direc-tor. Right now I have four part-time staff, one that is almost full time. Of course in the summer there are options for more hours for my employees.”

Volunteers are hard to come by at the club, she added.

“That’s where we lack. We do need more volunteers. During the school year we normally have some kids that come in that do ‘Power Hour’ with our kids. That’s a homework help session. If they need help with home-work, they’ll fi nd it here.”

The youths will also go on occa-sional fi eld trips, attending Minnesota Twins and Rochester Honkers base-ball games and Minnesota Timber-wolves basketball games, as well as zoos and museums.

Those trips are included in the membership and user fees.

“Nothing’s extra. We don’t charge extra for our meals, either,” Sherman-Ahrens said.

“It’s still very, very affordable be-cause, most months, they’re here for over 20 days, and they get two meals and a snack and programming.”

Building plansThe building contains a small teen

center, and plans are to expand that center so the teenagers can be com-pletely separate from the younger children, should they wish.

“What we’re working on is to redo an area upstairs,” Sherman-Ahrens said. “They’ll have their own en-trance, and there will be a staff there.”

The largest age group attending the club used to be the 6 to 9 group. As they have grown up, the 10-and-older group is expanding. But the older teens are dropping out.

“We have a hard time retaining teens, just like any other club does. We just have to make it appealing for

them,” Sherman-Ahrens said.Many of the appealing items for

youths of all ages can be found in the game room, including a pool table, a ping pong table and a foosball table. A carpetball table is expected to arrive soon.

The Social Security offi ce in Austin donated a television. An Xbox Kinect was donated as well.

Shelves are fi lled with board games, puzzles, boxes of Lego bricks and more.

There is a fi tness room for when the weather is poor and the children have to exercise inside. Gopher Sport, a fi t-ness equipment provider in Owatonna, donated the treadmills and more about three years ago.

Another improvement Sherman-Ahrens said needs to be made is in the club’s kitchen, which does not meet state codes for serving children hot meals.

Plenty of praiseThe club is a positive, praise-fi lled

environment, and troublemakers are quietly dealt with.

“The kids that we have coming here do better in school. They read better, because we really work on the math and reading here. We partner with the schools,” Sherman-Ahrens said.

“The kids know our expectations – we have very high expectations for our kids,” she added. “We give them (troublemakers) a plan. We have a thing called a fi x-it ticket. They have to fi ll it out and, if they have to apologize, they have to go up and talk to each person that was involved. We normally do not suspend anybody for any certain amount of time, unless it’s reoccurring.”

The local club is part of the three-club Rochester organization. The two other clubs are in that city.

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From left, Jaci Hillson, Khristine Dornquast and Sam Wacek stand in front of a mural that decorates the exercise room at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Blooming Prairie, 401 Fourth Street SE. The youth development professionals, as well as other staff and volunteers, were busy last week preparing the club for summer programs, which begin Monday.

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There are three ratings under the Multiple Measurement Rat-ings system. Only Title I schools were rated.

A “Reward School” is among the top 15 percent of schools in the state. There were 128 schools that received this desig-nation. Work these schools have done to improve performance will be shared with other state schools.

Blooming Prairie Elementary School principal Chris Staloch said the designation is a “great honor,” but added that a lot of schools are doing really well in

meeting criteria and not receiv-ing that title.

“I think that it’s still how that MMR score, or what it actually is, is still a little bit (in the) gray area,” he said. “It still tells us we have more work to do. We’re not done. We know our areas we need to improve in, and we’ll continue to work on that.”

“Focus Schools” are the larg-est contributors to the state’s achievement rate, and 85 schools were thus named. These schools will work at the district level to develop an improvement plan to address poor performance.

There were 42 schools des-ignated as “Priority Schools,” which are the lowest performing schools in the state. Turnaround plans and school improvement grants will be made available to these schools.

This is the inaugural year for the MMR system.

“It’ll be interesting. Will the state eventually come back and change something? It still leaves a gray area – what does it truly mean?” Staloch said. “But I think it tells us that we’re on the right track, and we need to keep going in the direction that we’re going and change the things we know we need to change.”

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Blooming Prairie Elementary School students were recognized during an awards ceremony Wednesday afternoon at the school.

The school itself has also been hon-ored, having received a Title I “Re-ward” designation. This means BPES is among the state’s best schools in the state in student performance.

The rating is completed by the Min-nesota Department of Education, which released its Multiple Measurement Rat-ings last month.

“That says that we’re in the top 15 percent of Title I schools,” elementary school principal Chris Staloch said. “Not every school is a Title I school. If you are a Title I school you receive more funding, and you receive that funding through the federal govern-ment.”

There are about 850 Title I schools in Minnesota. Blooming Prairie High School is not a Title I school.

“Most schools are Title I schools just because you have more access to more funds,” Staloch said. “Everyone wants more access to more funds at this time.”

New systemAccording to the MDE, the new rat-

ings are the result of the implementa-tion of a new accountability system that is more fair, and more accurate, than the No Child Left Behind law.

“With this new accountability sys-tem. We’ll be able to better assess how our schools are really doing, and put in place structures and resources to sup-port their efforts,” said Brenda Cassel-lius, commissioner of education.

“Rather than relying on a failed sys-tem that doled out punitive labels and didn’t tell the whole story about our schools, today we’re recognizing our high performing schools and making a commitment to stand behind those schools most in need,” she said.

The new measurement is made pos-sible through a waiver for Minnesota to the NCLB. The goal of the MMR is to improve the disparity in the “achieve-ment gap,” or the gap in academic per-formance between students of color and in poverty and their white counterparts.

Closing the gap“They used to judge us on Adequate

Yearly Progress, and now they have the new MMR reporting system, Staloch said. “Under that new reporting system, they rate schools on whether they con-sider you to be a top school in Minne-sota, or in the middle or a school that really needs assistance.”

The rating system takes into account school performance in four categories: profi ciency on state testing, growth, progress in closing achievement gaps and graduation rate.

State offi cials hope the new focus will cut Minnesota’s achievement gap, which is one of the nation’s highest, in

half within six years.“We just don’t have a ton of diver-

sity, so we’re not going to see a huge achievement gap. But there is still a gap between some of our students and our Caucasian or white students,” Staloch said. “The gap isn’t as prevalent in Blooming Prairie as it would be in the Twin Cities.”

There were 50 Hispanic students and fi ve black students registered at the start of school, which is 14.5 percent of the 379-student population in the elemen-tary school.

Through state funding, Blooming elementary is able to provide reading and math specialists as well as a Title I teacher.

“We have a lot of options for our kids, and we can support a lot of their needs,” Staloch said. “That, I think, is really, re-ally important to us. Not a lot of small schools have that. I think that’s big, and I think we have a staff that truly cares about our kids.”

Six Blooming students received the President’s Education Award, which was designed to help principals rec-ognize and honor students who have achieved high academic goals through hard work and dedication to learning.

“We want to see more than just six students standing up here. We’re very proud of everybody in this room, and we know we have a lot very smart kids in here that can work hard and achieve this,” Stoloch said during the awards ceremony.

School earns top honors under new ratings system

How They RatedBPES: Overall grade of

86.00 percent; Achievement gap grade of 84.45 percent

BPHS: Overall grade of 66.09 percent; Achievement gap grade of 60.54 percent

School expands, shares its resourcesBlooming Prairie Elementary

School is working with the local Boys and Girls Club to keep stu-dents learning during summer vacation.

Through the Southern Min-nesota Initiative Foundation in Owatonna, the school connected with Capstone Press for a three-year trial of the myON reader online book program.

MyON reader matches stu-dent interests and reading levels with online content by allowing students to “like” genres of fi c-

tion and nonfi ction. The system then recommends books to stu-dents.

“For the next three years, they’ll have the opportunity in the summer to go home and read books at their level and at their interest,” school principal Chris Staloch said. “The Boys and Girls Club has Internet access, and that’s all you need to get on this. So I told Mary (Sherman-Ahrens, unit director) we want to share our stuff with you be-cause we know a lot of our kids

go down there.”The school also has a math

program called Study Island for grades three through six. This online program supplements in-class lessons.

“The Boys and Girls Club … does a great job of getting kids in a more structured environ-ment who need a more struc-tured environment. They can offer things like this to the kids and get them to sit down and do some of that stuff,” Staloch said.

“Any time that we can work with other organizations in our community, we’re going to be stronger,” he added. “If they can work directly with us, they’re going to be stronger, too.”

Department of Education ratings system explained

Kathryn Borchart proudly displays the mountain bike she was presented during the Blooming Prairie Elementary School awards ceremony Wednesday afternoon. Each student receives a “Gold Card” when he or she works hard in the classroom. Borchart earned a Gold Card every month to earn the bike. “I got my homework in, and I did good on the big projects, and I took my time when I did my work,” the sixth-grade student said. “I’m excited, very excited.” She said she is looking forward to summer vacation. In fall, she will move on to the high school. “It’s kind of nerve-wracking. The high school’s really big compared to the elementary.”


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Kartes will represent Blossoms at state track meetBy LeMAR NELSON

Staff Writer

Senior Gabe Kartes broke his own triple jump record at the Section 1A track and fi eld meet May 29, and he is headed to the

state meet Friday.His new record of 43’2”

earned him fi rst place in the section, representing Blooming Prairie well on the fi rst day of the two-day meet. It was the best jump he has had in his career.

The locals managed to set two more school records at the Section 1A meet at Winona on Thursday. That made three new records set at the meet.

Michael Thomas broke the old school record in the 400-me-

ter dash with a time of 51.04 seconds. He took third, and he missed the state-qualifying time by less than one second.

The 1600 relay team of Gabe Kartes, Cole Sunde, Alex Fiebiger and Thomas set a new school record in that event with a time of 3 minutes, 32.25 sec-

onds. The relay team fi nished fi fth in the meet.

“That was something as a coach when you set goals which, at the time, seem unobtainable. When the record falls, it’s awe-some to see the look on the ath-letes’ faces,” coach Rhett Mc-Donald said.

The Awesome Blossoms girls 3200 relay team of Alanna Grant, Kendra Boecker, Macaela Jensen and Arrica Imm fi nished 11th in that event.

Marissa Jensen placed fi fth in the discus with a toss of 98 feet, 9 inches, on the fi rst day of the meet.

Three new school records set at section

Boys second,girls thirdat section


Awesome Blossoms golfer Victor Peterson tied for third in-dividual at the Section 1A golf meet at Adams on May 29 and earned a trip to the state golf meet.

Peterson will golf at the state meet June 12.

He led the Blooming Prairie boys to a second-place fi nish, behind section champion Waba-sha-Kellogg. The girls fi nished third behind Lewiston-Altura and Wabasha Kellogg.

Peterson carded a fi ne 81 to earn his spot at the state meet.

Fletcher Blaschko of Wabasha-Kellogg took medalist honors with a 76.

Blooming’s C.J Hein shot a 92 for 17th place, and Pat Jones and Tommy Braaten came in with a 95 and a 96, respectively. Jon Hatch shot a 99, and Jason Jirele fi nished the scoring with a 109.

Coach Erik Vigeland seemed pleased with the showing, and said he was glad to take home a second-place trophy for the team.

Anna Noble led the Blossoms scoring with a 105, placing 15th individually. Katelyn Eischens followed with a 108, Sydney Basness carded a 116, and Mag-gie Sorenson and Morgan Hagen each came in with a 120. Taylor Christianson fi nished the scor-ing with a 122.

Sorenson was the only senior on the girls team.

Peterson advances to state golf meet

Kelsey Kubista connects for an RBI grounder up the middle, giving Blooming Prairie a 1-0 lead in the top of the fourth inning of the Section 1A Championship game Thursday at Todd Park in Austin.

Times photos by Steven A. Louden

Pitcher Shelbi Sweson delivers another strike Thursday at Todd Park in Austin during Blooming Prairie’s 3-1 Section 1A Championship victory.

Ball club fi nishes season 5-14Half of team comprised of senior players


Although the 5-14 record was not great, the Awesome Blossoms baseball team played many close games that could have gone either way.

“The team was respected by the opponents in the confer-ence and the area,” said coach Paul Peterson. “We would like to point out how appreciative we are of the effort and the posi-tive attitude that the athletes dis-played all season long. That was great!”

A group of seniors who had played together for several years led the team, including Luke Hueman, Isaiah Toquam, Ryan McCabe, Jon Kraling, Tyler An-derson, Dylan Srsen and Frank Suazo.

Some of these players were three-year starters. They will be hard to replace both on the fi eld and off, because of the character they showed.

There is a good group of fresh-men, sophomores and one junior who will have to fi ll the shoes of those graduating players.

Season endsAfter being shut out through

the fi rst six innings, the Awe-some Blossoms baseball team scored six runs in the top of the seventh to take a 6-5 lead over Randolph on May 29.

Unfortunately, the Rockets used their home-fi eld advantage to answer with two runs in the bottom of the seventh to take a 7-6 win over the Blossoms in fi rst-round action of the 1A Sub-section tournament.

An uncharacteristic streak of wildness by Randolph’s pitch-ing staff gave up six walks in the seventh, and Isaiah Toquam’s single drove in two of the six runs in the inning. That hit and a single by Weston Fiebiger in the second inning were the only hits BP could muster in the game.

The local batters struck out 10 times and had nine walks.

Trevor Otte led off the Ran-dolph seventh with a double, followed by a base hit from Ty-ler Weed. A walk and a base hit followed, and the home team had the victory.

The Rockets tallied single runs in the fi rst and second in-nings, got two in the third, and one on a Nick Malatee home run in the sixth for the fi rst fi ve runs. That set up the winning tally in the seventh.

John Rumpza pitched the fi rst 2-1/3 innings and allowed four runs, two earned, on three hits and four walks. Toquam went the last four-plus innings and took the loss. He allowed three runs, two earned, on six hits and four walks, with four strikeouts.

Blooming had six runs on two hits with two errors. Randolph had seven runs on eight hits with one error.

OUTSIDETHE LINES

LeMar Nelson

Softball squadmakes big news

Of course the big news in high school sports last week centered on the softball team’s third straight Section 1A title, which earned the team yet another trip to the state tournament.

For most schools, getting to the state tournament is a memorable occasion, and a second trip is something great. To get there three times (all in a row), is almost unheard of.

What makes this time even more special is that very few fans ever thought that this year’s team would be able to com-pensate for the loss of all-state pitcher Erica Manske, who led the locals for four years.

But Junior Shelbi Swenson has stepped right into the circle and put up numbers that almost equal those of Manske. She has met every challenge and now is the undisputed leader of the team.

It is also remarkable how this team has taken the individual talents and melded them into a very strong team. From Tricia DeBoer getting on and liter-ally stealing her way around the bases to Kelsey Kubista’s clutch hitting game after game, the offense has been putting up some pretty big numbers.

With Jenna Krell’s superla-tive play at shortstop, Julia Manges’ scooping ability at fi rst, and Hunter Henderson’s deft handling of the catch-ing chores, the defense has made very few errors.

All in all, the team is now

a pretty formidable one, and there are high hopes for a strong showing at the state tournament later this week.

Finally, a great deal of credit has to go to coach Ali Mach and her staff. Coach Mach has an uncanny ability to put her players in the right positions that make the team a strong one.

She did some juggling of personnel early in the season, but all the moves she made have strengthened the team. She may not win Section 1A coach of the year as she did last season, but in my book that is what she is.

A tip of the hat to the coaches and the team for a great season, with one more story yet to be written.

The baseball team fi nished their season with a 5-14 record, but as coach Paul Peterson commented: “We played a lot of close games that could have gone either way. The boys just didn’t have much luck in those contests.”

I didn’t follow the team too closely because of my illness, but from what I did see, I was impressed with the attitude of the players.

The corps of seniors who have played together for years always seemed to be upbeat and eager to play, despite what the record indicated. It is fun when competitors are more concerned with how they play the game, rather than worry too much about the outcome.

A tip of the hat goes to a bunch of boys with the right attitude toward sports.

Congratulations to the golf team that won the sub-section, and then saw the boys take second in the section. An extra nod goes to sophomore Vic-tor Peterson, who earned a trip to the state golf tournament as well. Nice going, Victor.

OUTSIDEContinued on page 7A


For the third straight year, the Awesome Blossoms softball girls are packing up for another trip to the state tournament after defeating Chatfi eld 3-1 at Todd Park in Austin Thursday.

It also marked the third Sec-tion 1A title in a row.

“It feels really good to win the section again,” junior pitcher Shelbi Swenson said. “It was especially satisfying because not too many people thought we would have such a good season this year.”

The victory over Chatfi eld sparked an excited, but some-what subdued, celebration as the girls were already looking for-

ward to next week and the state tournament.

“I don’t know if it is such a feeling of excitement as it is a re-lief,” said coach Ali Mach. “The more success one has, the more that is expected, but these girls have handled it all very well.”

A pitching duel between soft-throwing Katie Jech and Swen-son ended in the fourth inning when BP broke through for two runs.

Jech hit Hunter Henderson to lead off the inning, and Swen-son laid down a perfect sacrifi ce. Kelsey Kubista, a clutch hitter for the locals all season, stroked a base hit up the middle, and pinch runner Mariah Holland scored when the catcher dropped the throw to the plate.

A second run scored when Kubista moved to second on a groundout, and then came home on Julia Manges’ second single of the game.

The only glitch for Swenson came in the bottom of the fourth, when two bloop singles and a Blossoms error plated one run for the Gophers. The error put runners on second and third base with two outs.

Swenson promptly struck out the next batter to end the inning.

The Blossoms added an insur-ance run in the fi fth on Tricia DeBoer’s single, a Henderson walk and a Chatfi eld error at third base.

SOFTBALLContinued on page 8A

Softball team earnsthird straight trip to state

I t ’ s only fi t-t i n g , and a bit i r o n i c , t h e y w o u l d h a v e physical problems together and then rebound to good health at the same time.

Young playersIt’s been fun watching Scott Di-

amond and P.J. Walters pitch in the majors. I told my pal and former colleague, columnist Charley Wal-ters, who pitched for the Twins in 1969: If this pitching thing doesn’t work out for this Walters kid, he might have a future as a colum-nist at the Pioneer Press. Charley laughed and said, “Ha ha, I might tell him that.”

Twin Cole De Vries has had a dream come true already this season – pitching fi ve score-less innings at his hometown ball park with the team he watched as a child, and playing in front of friends and family.

He is a bit rough around the edg-es, but I think he will smooth out with time and experience.

Another call-up from Rochester who has talent, but is still rough around the edges, is infi elder Brian Dozier. I’ve seen him make some great plays in Fort Myers and now at Target Field.

That’s where I caught up with the laid-back country boy last week, and I asked him where he lives.

“Fulton, Mississippi. I was born and raised there. The home of El-vis,” he replied.

I asked him what his hobbies are.

“I do a little fi shing, but I’m big into hunting. I do a lot of deer

hunting in the off-season, and duck hunting, too. Those are probably the two things I love to do most,” he said with a happy, Southern twang in his voice.

I asked him how he liked Min-nesota.

“It’s nice! Minneapolis is a beautiful city. Of course, I arrived after the cold was gone. But I was here for Twins Fest, and went all around Minnesota on the Caravan with TK (former manager Tom Kelly), and that was a good experi-ence,” he said.

Brian went on to tell me how much he loves playing shortstop, but has played second, third, and will play anywhere the Twins need him. He lives and eats healthfully, but his weakness is a juicy steak and some cheesecake for dessert.

‘The Hammer’Another positive: As I predicted;

Josh Willingham is hammering the ball, as his nickname “The Ham-mer” suggests. He even got the second walk-off home run at Tar-get Field.

In his short time here, he has dived into community events. One project he’s involved in is called Josh’s Junior. Before a home game he’ll host a youngster on the fi eld, introducing him or her to the rest of the team, actually taking the child to the outfi eld, into the dugout, and allowing him or her to collect au-tographs and souvenirs as they go.

We’re lucky; we’ve got some great guys here, and besides, some teams haven’t been to the playoffs in decades. Let’s just take the rest of the season, try to have some fun, and watch a bunch of hopeful kids, and a few seasoned vets, try to im-prove a bad situation.

And let’s celebrate the fact that we have a Major League team with a colorful and successful past – many cities don’t!

Being a “glass-half-full type of guy,” I keep looking for bright spots in what others have called a lost Twins season.

I agree: Many things have been disappointing, but that’s part of the game. Lately, we’ve had the luxury of the Twins dominating their divi-sion and making frequent appear-ances in post-season play.

Our recent past has been great! Yes, I’ve been extremely frustrated by this year and last. But what re-ally bugs me are the fair-weather fans who constantly criticize in-dividual players when they don’t know what they are talking about, and others who are only fans dur-ing winning times.

The Twins had some terrible years in the 80s and 90s, but they were also world champions in both of those decades. They’ll be back.

We have some great fans here, but also some with short memo-ries. Last year, Joe Mauer was sick and plagued with injuries, and fans booed him even though he was league MVP a couple of years ear-lier.

This year he is batting around .300, and still gets a few boos car-ried over from 2011.

Boo birdsMatt Capps, like Joe, is a great

guy who does a lot for the com-munity, yet he was booed after his fi rst blown save this year. The fol-lowing night he was booed as he entered the game in the ninth, and then received a standing ovation after completing the save.

Matt knows he didn’t fare well last year and that he disappointed fans. He said that is why he wanted to come back this season to pitch for the Twins. He wanted to make up for last year.

After re-signing with the Twins in the off-season, Matt took the initiative to learn a new pitch. He came up with a nice split-fi nger fastball that drops right over the plate, and it has made a difference in his end results.

In fact, Matt’s new pitch and most of his performances are bright spots. Joe Mauer fl irting with .300, and his pal Justin Morneau crack-ing out home runs and regaining his swing, are a couple more ac-complishments so far in 2012.

Joe and Justin used to live to-gether and hung out together away from the ball park. Because they both have families now, they don’t get that opportunity too often any-more.

But, at the ball park, you will fi nd them sitting, running, stretch-ing, lifting and playing catch with each other. I’ve even seen them ap-plying eye black to each other.

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HornetsFeature – Chris Schumann,

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USRA B-ModsFeature – Kylie Kath, Austin

Schrage, Scott Demmer, Pete Ki-ley, Trevor Hunt, Todd Borwege, John Warrington, Terry Kohnert, Ben Moudry, Taylor Ausrud

First Heat – Hunt, Moudry, Warrington, Schrage, Kiley

Second Heat – Kath, Demmer, Kohnert, Borwege, Ausrud

WISSOTA Street StockFeature – Tony Shaner, Tyler

Peterson, Mike Blowers, Brent Holland, Kory Adams, Andrew Lokenvitz, Jason Newkirk, Na-than Schumacher, Nick Roem-hildt, Jason Barber

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Blowers, Barber, SchumacherWISSOTA Midwest Modi-

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Pfeifer Jr., Jason Born, Anthony Condit, Ryan Stebbins, Taylor Ovrebo, Jacob Stark, Johnny Magnum, Casey Trom, Jeff Born, Curtis Wilson, Kadden Kath, Steven Amundson, Tim Myhre, Roger Bentzin

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Second Heat – Pfeifer Jr., Ja-son Born, Ovrebo, Gardner, Jeff Born, Bentzin, Wilson

IMCA Stock CarFeature – Travis Shipman,

Austin Curtin, Jesse Anderson, Jesse Olson, Dan Mackenthun, Ryan Goergen, Jesse Baer, Blake Cole

Heat – Shipman, Olson, Curtin, Goergen, Anderson, Cole, Mack-enthun

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son Cummins, A.J. Wiste, Josh Mattick, Todd Scharkey, Jeremy Misgen, Greg Jensen, Michael Wytaske, Joe Horgdal, John Klugherz, Doug Hillson

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Second Heat – Mattick, Schar-key, Jensen, Klugherz, Wytaske


It is diffi cult for BPHS senior Lucas (Luc) Zellmer to com-pare communities in which he has lived. After all, he was just 1 when his family picked up stakes in Hutchinson and moved to Blooming Prairie in 1994.

Luc has known no other com-munity, and that doesn’t bother him one bit.

Luc, who has been a three-sport athlete his whole school career, has two older brothers to whom he often looks for guidance. His oldest brother, Marcus, is a Luther College graduate. His other brother, Matt, is currently studying at Luther and he plays on the varsity basketball team.

His dad, Randy is a logistics manager at Hormel, and his mom, Kay, is the Blooming Prairie school nurse.

Luc has lettered in football, basketball, and baseball for three years, but it is easy to tell that his fi rst love is football.

When asked about his great-est thrill in high school, he noted, “I think the two state playoff experiences tops every-thing. We were a little awed the fi rst time we made it, but we

were still disappointed when we lost that semi-fi nal game. This past year was even more disap-pointing, as we thought we had the better team. An unfortunate turnover swung momentum, and we never recovered.”

His biggest disappointment in high school was an easy one, too, as it was the shoulder in-jury in football that eventually resulted in his missing both the basketball and baseball seasons.

The injury required surgery to repair the damage, but that did not stop Zellmer from set-ting a Minnesota high school record for career touchdown passes – which he did in the semi-fi nal playoff game last fall.

After the football season, Zellmer had to shut down his athletic play completely.

“That was really tough for me to have to sit on the sidelines while my teammates were trying so hard to represent BPHS in a winning manner,” he said.

But Luc has persevered, and he is now in the last stage of rehab before he heads off to University of Wisconsin-River Falls to study biology in the fall.

He will also be trying out as quarterback for a football team

that has had a couple of tough seasons, and he has a goal of being able to help the team im-mediately.

Luc is quick to answer when he is asked his opinion of his community.

“The teachers have been very supportive, and quick to offer advice and help when-ever a student needs it. They attend events to show school spirit in that way also,” he said. “My parents have also been my biggest boosters, and they and other parents have shown tremendous backing, especially in football, where they and other community members have made the football season a real ‘family affair.’ This is a great community in which to grow up.”

His advice to underclassmen is quite simple: “Work hard, as the school days pass by quickly. Be as good a student as you can and represent your school and community in a respectful manner.”

Luc is that good example as he is an excellent scholar. He is a high honor roll student, is a member of the local chapter of the National Honor Society, and is also active in several commu-nity services. He will persevere, for sure.

Zellmer perseveres despite injury that sidelined him

Get to know …Lucas Zellmer/Senior

Age: 18Also in my family are: dad Randy, mom Kay, brothers Mark and MattThe athletic achieve-ment I’m most proud of is: two state ap-pearancesThe academic achieve-ment I’m most proud of is: obtaining a 4.0 GPAMy favorite movie is: Dumb and DumberMy favorite recording artist is: TupacMy favorite TV show is: American PickersThe best meal my mother makes is: enchiladasA bad habit I have is: I take too many naps.A pet peeve I have is: slow driversThe thing I do best outside of school is: sleepThe person I’d most like to meet is: President ObamaThe last time I cleaned my room I found: a hatNobody ever says I’m: not a hard-workerMy most prized posses-sion is: section champion-ship medalsI see myself in 10 years as: still in school

In track, Gabe Kartes will compete in the triple jump at the state after setting a new school record. A tip of the hat goes to Michael Thomas, who also set a new school mark in the 400.

Two relay teams performed very well, as the 1600 relay team set a new school record. The girls 3200 relay team, which ran well this season, is poised to do even better with another year of experience. All of their runners were underclassmen.

All of these accomplish-ments give further indications that spring sports at the lo-cal high school are thriving. Although some teams had a lot more success than others, I am impressed with the determina-tion and the attitude displayed by al the student athletes involved in the various sports.

I have always thought that BPHS has a reputation for good sportsmanship, and I saw nothing this spring that would change that opinion.

GraduationSunday marked the gradu-

ation for the senior class of 2012. Even though I have been away from the school system for 20 years now, I still get that familiar feeling of excite-ment for the graduates as they begin an entirely new life.

But there is also a little sense of sadness as some relationships that have been built with many of these students have now ended.

I haven’t gotten to know every senior in this class, but I certainly have developed some friendships with many of them – especially the athletes who have so ably represented the high school in all of the sports offered in the curriculum.

The football team probably established the closest com-panionship, as parents and the community at large followed the team all the way to the state playoffs with enthusiasm and fervid school spirit. It was quite a ride, if I do say so myself.

The seniors on that team had played together since their grade school days, and they seemed to function, not as a separate team, but as a single unit, and it was a joy to watch.

Some other seniors were fun to follow in the other sports, but it was that group of se-nior boys who really stamped their mark on the 2011-12 athletic programs. They will certainly be missed.

July FourthNow that we are into June,

plans are ramping up for the Old Fashioned Fourth of July celebration in the community. The annual button sales cam-paign is underway, and I will put in a little plug for the sales.

It is through that cam-paign that the biggest share of money is generated for the expenses of the parade and other attractions. I urge ev-eryone to purchase a button.

The local paper is already starting to put together advertis-ing and articles for a big supple-ment to go along with the regular issue of the Fourth of July edition, and the staff is eagerly contributing to that endeavor.

The celebration is one to which I look forward with great anticipation, and I manage to at-tract several of my big city rela-tives to join me for that special holiday. Bring it on, as they say!

Let’s close this week with three questions for those people who think they know the an-swers to everything. These are not trick questions, and readers will get the answers next week.

1. Name the one sport in which neither the partici-pants or the leader know the score until the contest ends.

2. What famous North American landmark is moving backward?

3. Only two vegetables can live to produce for sev-eral growing seasons. What are the two vegetables?

Look for the answers, and we’ll talk again.

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Victor Peterson golfed his way to the state meet, shoot-ing a 76 at the Sub-section 1A and an 81 at the Section 1A meets.

Kelsey Kubista sparked the offense in the Section 1A softball game, batting home the fi rst run and crossed the plate herself for the second.

Blooming Prairie High School

CalendarThursday, June 7

State Softball at Caswell Park in Mankato, 11 a.m.

Friday, June 8State Softball at Caswell

Park, TBDState Track Meet at Ham-

line University, TBDSaturday, June 9

State Track Meet at Ham-line University, TBD

Tuesday, June 12State Golf Meet at Pebble

Creek in Becker, TBD

Shaner ends droughtat Chateau RacewayBy TODD NARVESON

Chateau Racing Service

It was an absolutely beautiful night for racing at Chateau Race-way on Best Disposal and Rent-N-Save night at the track.

The crowd witnessed some of the best feature racing so far this season. Several divisions kept up their different streaks, one driver ended a long victory lane drought and another continued to dominate.

The fi rst feature to run was the S&S Auto Salvage Hornet 12-lap race. Chris Schumann, in his second night out, scored the win over Gary Stahl and Marissa Wolff. Braeden Allen fi nished in fourth with Zach Elward in the fi fth spot.

Keith Weber and Matt Brooks led the 14-car fi eld to the green in the Misgen Auto Parts Pure Stocks. Brooks led until Bran-don Vogt stole the lead on lap two. Dylan Nelson swept past Tyler Peterson for fourth, while Stacy Krohnberg ran third. Cole Lonergan entered the top fi ve on lap seven.

Brooks rallied close to Vogt on lap eight, while Nelson passed Krohnberg for third. Kaitlyn Stark’s car stalled and brought out the yellow on lap nine. On the restart, Lonergan stormed to third and then quickly chal-lenged Brooks for second. Nel-son then challenged Brooks for third, while Lonergan now was on Vogt for the lead with two to go.

Vogt, Lonergan and Nelson were close and went three wide for the lead, and Nelson took over with one lap left. Nelson would take his second win of the season, with Lonergan second. However, Lonergan was light at the scales and disqualifi ed. That moved Vogt to second, Brooks ended up third, with Brady Krohnberg and Keith Weber in the top fi ve.

First-lap crashThe L&D Ag USRA B-Mod

feature started with a bang when fi ve cars tangled in turn one. Ben Moudry suffered the worst dam-age and was done for the night. Trevor Hunt also went pitside with a fl at tire, but would return about a half lap behind the fi eld.

The race up front was great when Austin Schrage held off Kylie Kath for many laps. Pete Kiley and Scott Demmer had a good race of their own going for third. Kath was right on Schrage,

but could not fi nd a way to get past the leader. Finally, on lap eight, Kath took to the high side and bolted past Schrage, and Demmer was now third.

Kath went on for his fi rst win at Chateau and became the fi fth different winner. Schrage was second and Demmer third. Ki-ley ended up in fourth, and Hunt made up a lot of ground to re-bound for an excellent fi fth place fi nish.

The Best Disposal WISSOTA Street Stock feature had a pair of sevens up front, with Andrew Lokenvitz and Tyler Peterson in row one. Peterson took the lead from the start, with Brent Hol-land and Tony Shaner trailing. A three-car tangle with Jason Barber, Kory Adams and Nathan Schumacher brought out the yel-low on lap three.

On the restart, Shaner chal-lenged Holland for second and made the pass. Mike Blowers was up to fourth after starting in the fourth row. Shaner then drove up alongside the leader Peterson, and the race was on. Blowers stole third from Holland on lap six and kept up with the lead duo.

Peterson and Shaner remained close through the middle part of the race. Blowers closed in and made it a three-car tussle. They ran nose to tail for a few laps, and then the white fl ag came out. Shaner pulled to the inside of Pe-terson in turn two, and they were now door-to-door for the lead.

Shaner got alongside Peterson coming into turn four with the checkered fl ags in the air. The two traded paint coming out of four, and Shaner took the win by about a foot. It was Shaner’s fi rst feature win at Chateau since Sept. 1, 2006. It was also the fi fth different feature winner so far this season. Blowers fi nished third, with Holland fourth and Kory Adams fi fth.

Led from the fl agJohnny Magnum led the Farm

Boy BBQ WISSOTA Midwest Modifi ed feature from the drop of the green fl ag. Greg Pfeifer Jr. soared from the eighth posi-tion to fourth on lap one. Steven Amundson ran second, with Tay-lor Ovrebo third, until Ovrebo got a bit loose on lap three and most of the pack shot past. Ovre-bo’s problems continued when he stalled one lap later.

On the restart, Pfeifer Jr. stormed to second and chal-lenged Magnum for the lead. On

lap fi ve, Pfeifer Jr. was scored the race leader. Amundson spun in turn three and Tim Myhre made hard contact, and that brought out the caution. On the restart, Cody Gardner was now up to second, while Anthony Condit, Ryan Stebbins and Mag-num raced three wide for third.

Gardner zoomed past Pfeifer Jr. for the lead on lap seven, but they remained close. Another yellow for debris on lap eight brought things to a halt once again. Jason Born made a slick move on the start and split Con-dit and Stebbins for third. Back up front, Pfeifer Jr. was right on Gardner for the lead. But that was broken up when Kadden Kath’s stalled car signaled an-other yellow.

It looked like Gardner had things in control until the fi nal lap. Pfeifer Jr. made a big run into turn four and got alongside Gardner. They touched, and Gardner got to the fi nish line fi rst in another close fi nish. Born was third, with Condit fourth and Stebbins fi fth. Gardner was the fi rst repeat winner in the division this season.

Eight-car battleThere might have been only

eight Power 96/KQAQ 970AM IMCA Stock Cars, but their fea-ture was pretty good for most of the 20-lap distance. This one had all sorts of two- and even three-wide racing up front.

Austin Curtin had the lead and had his hands full with Travis Shipman. They had a good skir-mish up front while they traded paint. Curtin held the lead until lap 12, when Shipman made the pass. Shipman would win and become the fi fth different win-ner this year. Curtin was second, with Jesse Anderson, Jesse Ol-son and Dan Mackenthun in the top fi ve.

The fi nal race of the night was the French’s Repair & Fabrica-tion USRA Modifi ed 25-lap fea-ture. Fresh off his two USMTS wins last weekend, Brandon Da-vis redrew the pole position and Josh Mattick was alongside.

Davis stormed off the pole and led every lap of the caution-free race for his third win of the sea-son. Davis has also won six of his last seven starts at area tracks. Jason Cummins would take sec-ond on lap four and remain there. A.J. Wiste passed Josh Mattick on lap 12 for third, while Mattick would wind up fourth and Todd Scharkey was fi fth.

Swenson retired the last six batters in a row, fi nishing the game with a strikeout, her eighth of the game.

“We came together as a team, and now we go to the state tour-nament with high hopes of do-ing well there,” Swenson said. “We had a little trouble at fi rst, as slow-throwing pitchers seem harder for us to hit against. We hit better against harder throw-ers, but we eventually got some runs anyway.”

Mach gave credit to the girls.“They have come together as

a team very well, and they are playing with a lot of confi dence now,” she said. “I am quite proud of this particular group of girls for their accomplishments.”

Blooming had three runs on six hits with two errors. Swen-son gave up just one walk in the game. Chatfi eld had one run on two hits with one error.

The Blossoms will face Eden Valley-Watkins at Caswell Park in Mankato on Thursday in an 11 a.m. game.

One more to goChatfi eld was all that was left

standing in the way of the Awe-some Blossoms softball team after it edged Lewiston-Altura 2-1 in eight innings of the Sec-tion 1A tournament fi nal game.

The thrilling contest was played at Todd Park in Austin on May 29, and it matched two of the ranked teams in the state.

The eventual winning run came in the top of the eighth. Tricia DeBoer slapped her fi rst hit of the game, a double into an over-shifted Cardinal defense, and went to third on a nifty sac-rifi ce by Jenna Krell.

Hunter Henderson was asked to bunt, but missed the attempt. But catcher also mishandled the ball, and DeBoer slid home with the run.

The drama did not end there. With one out in the bottom of the inning, Natalie Kalmes singled and stole second. Allisa Heim followed with an infi eld single.

Blossoms hurler Shelbi Sw-

enson struck out pitcher Brooke Shilling, bringing up clean-up hitter Danielle Harstad. Harstad had tied the game an inning ear-lier with a long home run over the left fi eld fence.

Coach Ali Mach went to the mound to ask Swenson if she should give Harstad an inten-tional walk, already knowing the answer.

“I wanted to pitch to her,” Swenson said. “She got me good with that home run, and I wanted to get her back. Fortu-nately, I was able to do so.”

Harstad took a called third strike, and the Blossoms had the win and the chance to play for the section title on Thursday.

The locals thought they had the win in the sixth when they scored the fi rst run of the game.

Krell opened the inning with a sharp single, and she went to third on Henderson’s long dou-ble to the leftfi eld fence. Krell came home on a sacrifi ce fl y by Swenson.

Harstad, leading off the bot-tom of the seventh, erased that lead with her home run to force the extra inning.

Shilling, who was rated one of the top pitchers in the section, gave up six hits while striking out 13 Blossoms and walking just one.

Swenson allowed just fi ve hits, also with 13 strikeouts. She walked two.

Neither team made an error, but the passed ball by the Cardi-nals proved to be the difference. It was an evenly-played contest between two ranked teams.

Tori Poe takes a cut at a Chatfi eld pitch during Blooming Prairie’s 3-1 Section 1A Championship victory Thursday at Todd Park.


Shortstop Jenna Krell makes the throw to fi rst baseman Julia Manges during the bottom of the fourth inning of the Section 1A Championship game Thursday at Todd Park in Austin. The throw was a half-step to late, and one run scored on the play. Shelby Swenson struck out the next batter to end the frame.

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A rare treat is coming our way, Southern Minnesota! A free community concert is hap-pening at Bandshell Commu-nity Park on June 21.

Zenshin Daiko, a non-profi t group of 40 performers ages 6 to 17 are coming straight from Makawao, Hawii to put on this concert. Zenshin Daiko is a performing group dedicated to teaching taiko to children, and sharing it with the community.

Taiko means “great” or “wide” drum. The children perform amazingly on these tremendously large drums, and the sound is absolutely amaz-ing!

Check out what is in store for us by fi nding their page on Facebook.

The group is coming to our area to perform in the Roches-terfest parade to honor for-mer Rochester Mayor Chuck Hazama, who is Hawaiian.

During the Austin phase of their trip here, we will be tak-ing Zenshin Daiko on tours of our world-famous SPAM Mu-seum, which is widely known in Hawaii. The group members tell us they are proud to be “BIG SPAM fanatics!

After the tour at the museum, they will tour The Hormel In-stitute, also known around the world for its cutting-edge and ongoing cancer research.

Later in the afternoon of June

21, we will be serving them SPAM-burgers, after which they will be performing for our entire region at the Bandshell Park below Skinners’ Hill.

In case of rain or other in-clement weather, our alternate location will be the Historic Paramount Theatre.

There are many sponsors to thank for this event, including the Rochester CVB for partner-ing with us, local attractions, and businesses for their support and donations. Thanks also go to our excellent and willing CVB Board members who will be helping us cook and serve dinner to the approximately 50 Zenshin Daiko performers and organizers.

Special thanks go to Austin Parks and Recreation staff for co-sponsoring this event with the Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau, Jim Stiles and SuperFresh Produce, Todd Hepler and Hy-Vee, Nicole Behne and Hormel Foods Corporation, the Paramount Theatre staff, and Joel Nelson and Nelson Sound.

Bruiser and SPAMMY will be part of the activity that eve-ning, as well. It will be a won-derful show, a great evening of entertainment, and fun meeting these young performers who are coming so far for this event.

Make sure you bring your lawn chairs or blankets to enjoy

the show.Other events that are happen-

ing in and around the Austin area in June include:

• The ninth Annual Flea Market will be at the Mower County Fairgrounds from Fri-day through Sunday.

• The Darren Dash Kiddie Run, 5K, ½ Marathon to save lives originates in Lafayette Park on Saturday.

• The American Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at Sterling State Bank for blood donations from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday, and noon to 6 p.m. June 5 and June 6.

• The fourth Annual Gifted and Talented Symposium at Riverland Community College from June 10 to June 14.

• Austin Big Band’s Concert in the Park, Band Shell/Com-munity Park begins at 7:30 p.m. June 13.

• Riverland Community College presents ”The Sound of Music” at 7:30 p.m. perfor-mances, with 2 p.m. perfor-mances Sundays, June 17 to June 23.

• Summer Solstice Ecoblitz, a fun family day of nature-related outdoor activities to celebrate summer, is at the Jay C. Hormel Nature Center on June 23.

• The MeadowFest Sesqui-centennial Civil War Celebra-tion, hosted by Mower County

Historical Society, is open to everyone June 23 and June 24.

• The Hormel Institute will host the fi rst of three pub-lic open houses of their research facility over the summer months June 28.

Contact our offi ce for full details on who to call for in-formation related to times and tickets for each of the above events. More events come to our attention every day. Make sure to visit our website often at www.austincvb.com for Cal-endar of Events listings.

Please call us at the Aus-tin Convention and Visitors Bureau offi ce for events and information at (507) 437-4563. If you or your group, church, organization or attraction have something special planned, let us help you advertise it. Make the most of all Austin has to offer!

(Cheryl Corey is the ex-ecutive director of the Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau.)

Free community concertslated for June 21 in Austin

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By KENT OLSONUniversity of Minnesota

Extension

Direct payments to farmers under the current farm bill have been a small, but stable and im-portant, part of farmers’ income. These direct payments are cut in the draft farm bill from the Ag-riculture Committee of the U.S. Senate.

In the last few years, those direct payments have been es-sentially the only government payments made to farmers on the basis of their crop acreage. Crop prices have been higher than the levels that would cre-ate payments under the counter-cyclical and Average Crop Rev-enue Election programs.

Based on the Minnesota farms in the FINBIN sample at the Uni-versity of Minnesota, direct pay-ments have been a fairly stable source of income for farmers: a fi ve-year average of $13,044 for all farms in the sample and $17,980 for crop farmers.

For all farms, the highest av-erage payment was $13,873 per farm in 2010; the lowest was $12,399 per farm in 2011.

These direct payments have been a small part of gross cash farm income: 2 percent dur-ing the past fi ve years for all of these farms and 2.8 percent for crop farmers.

However, direct payments have been an important part of

net farm income: 8.8 percent for all farms and 9.8 percent for crop farmers. These percentages have declined slightly over the past fi ve years except for 2009, which was a low-income year for farmers.

For crop farmers, direct pay-ments as a percentage of net farm income ranged from a low of 7.7 percent in 2011 to a high of 19.1 percent in 2009.

Direct payments are a fi xed payment in contrast to counter cyclical payments that vary with price levels, and ACRE pay-ments, which vary with price and yield levels.

The policy draft from the committee replaces these three payment systems with a new program called Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and expanded insurance subsidies. These pro-posals will move federal farm support into more of a risk man-agement program with coverage levels moving with changes in yields and market prices over a moving fi ve-year time frame.

How to understand direct farm payments

For all farms,the highest

average payment was $13,873 per

farm in 2010;the lowest was

$12,399 per farmin 2011.

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July 3:Congrats Taylor Farr on your graduation from B.P.H.S.

Community20 Years Ago

Wednesday, June 3, 1992Karla Ressler, Editor

During the next few months, the facilities study committee will be searching for a solu-tion that not only addresses the needs of the students but is also affordable for the patrons. With the formation of the sec-ond committee, the members will be starting from “scratch” to determine the needs of the students and how the current facilities meet these needs.

Six Blooming Prairie High School athletes were named to Gopher Conference All-Con-ference Teams at meetings by the coaches last week. The boys placed four members on the all-conference baseball team, and the girls added two for their second place softball team. Senior Mark Nahlovsky and juniors Trent Vorlicek, Derek Cobban, and Dan Cobban were named to the 20-member conference team.

30 Years AgoWednesday, June 2, 1982

Victor P. Krejci andVernon H Krejci, EditorsLarry Penk, new adminis-

trator for Prairie Manor Nurs-ing Home, began his work in that capacity here Tuesday morning, June 1. Lucille Pe-terson who has been serving

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A moment in Blossom historyDid You Know?

In the 1960-61 school year at BPHS, two sports commanded the most at-tention. Keep in mind that this was the era before girls’ sports came into the activity schedule, and GAA provided the only outlet for girls to display any talents in various activities.

The 1960 football team surprised everyone, as they were supposedly in a rebuild-ing year. The team fi nished the season with a 7-1 record and a second-place fi nish in the Gopher Conference. The only loss came in the last game of the season, when Janesville defeated the Blossoms 33-6. Lyle Noble, Howard Kittleson, David Underwood and Bob Easton all made the all-conference team.

The other surprise of that school year came from the

wrestling team, which won the only Gopher Conference championship in the school’s history. It compiled a 10-2 dual meet record. Some of the boys on that team were Lyle Noble, Vern Benson, Howard Kittleson, Roger Syverud, Ken Esplan, Joe Benson and Dale Tollefson, just to name a few of the wrestlers.

Basketball was just begin-ning to win consistently, which would build the next few seasons into champion-ship years. Baseball and track both had representative, though not remarkable, sea-sons. It was another of those years in BPHS history that had its share of successes, both in the classroom and in athletics.

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50 Years AgoTuesday, June 7, 1962Victor P. Krejci and

Vernon H. Krejci, EditorsSeventy-four Blooming

Prairie high school seniors will climax twelve years of formal schooling on Thurs-day night of this week, June 7, when they solemnly march down the aisle at the high school auditorium to play their leading role in the 60th commencement exercises of their alma mater. The program will start at 8 p.m.

75 Years AgoThursday, June 3, 1937Walter K. Mickelson,Editor & Publisher

Signifying successful com-pletion of four years of high school work, diplomas, cov-eted awards for many, will be presented to 37 Seniors of the Blooming Prairie high school at graduation exercises Thurs-day, June 10.

Dedicated to the advance-ment of junior Red Cross activities, 1,000 enthusiastic rural school children partici-pated in a parade and program for the very successful rally day last Friday in Owatonna.

as acting administrator since last Feb. 12, said Mr. and Mrs. Penk and their daughter, Kel-ly, who is 8 years-old, moved to Blooming Prairie on Friday.

Members of the Class of 1982 were presented diplo-mas Friday evening, May 28,

at the 81st annual Commence-ment Program held at Bloo m-ing Prairie High School. The auditorium was packed with friends, relatives, and students with the processional by the high school band, directed by Clifford Jones, opening the

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The free event includes hot-dogs, lemonade, horse-drawn wagon rides, spirit-painting on horses, ground games, grooming

horses and riding horses, includ-ing assisted horse rides.

The open house is from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the RideAbility barn, 10038 County Road 5 NW in Pine Island.

For more information, call (507) 356-8154 or visit the web-site www.rideability.org.

Submissions for this Happenings column must be received in the Times offi ce no later than noon on Friday before the week they are to be published. Items received after that will be published elsewhere in the newspaper as space permits. Happenings in Blooming Prairie and Steele, Dodge, Freeborn and Mower counties take priority over hap-penings from other areas.


June 5Norm and Marj Wonderlich

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June 6Mr. and Mrs. Bill Schabert

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June 7David and Lori Miller

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June 8Cletus and Sharon Glynn

(ann.), Mark Vermilyea, Mark Robinson, Bryan and Cheryl Hernandez (ann.), Jim Srsen

June 9Julie Peterson, Marty and

Robin Shaw (ann.), Clarence Boyd, Cheryl Coughlin, Bob Nahlovsky, John Dean and Jackie Olson (ann.), Kari Ann Lueth, Fran Bramstedt, Heidi and Brett Zimmerman (ann.), Cheryl Hernandez

June 10David Trihus, Morgan

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June 11John and Mary Worke

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June 12Tiffany Thompson, Addison

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McCabeMorningside College broke

fi ve school records and tied sixth during the 2012 baseball sea-son. Brendan McCabe, a senior catcher from Blooming Prairie, was the Mustangs’ top home run hitter with fi ve. He had a .338 batting average and 45 RBIs in 148 at-bats. He scored 11 runs on 50 hits, including 10 doubles, with 20 walks and 75 total bas-es. He was second highest on the team in hit-by-pitches with 12 and in strikeouts with 28. He stole nine bases in 12 attempts. His fi elding percentage was .991 in 46 starts, with 49 games

played.

NDSUThe following students have

been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at North Dakota State University: Eng-lish education student Karissa J. Buck, criminal justice student Andrew G. Lundberg and natu-ral resources management stu-dent Dustin L. Simonson, all of Owatonna.

SMSUThe following students gained

high honors recognition (3.8-

4.0 grade-point average)for the spring semester at Southwest Minnesota State University: Courtney Severtson of Bloom-ing Prairie and Tyler Yule of Medford. Receiving honors rec-ognition (3.5 and 3.79 GPA) was Amanda Streed of Owatonna.

Herdina, NobleElliot Herdina and Jordan No-

ble, both of Blooming Prairie, have been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at Gustavus Adolphus College, a private liberal arts college in St. Peter, Minn. Herdina was one of 543 students to graduate with bachelor of arts degrees, and one of 95 to graduate magna cum laude (3.5 to 3.699 grade-point average), May 27. His degree is in nursing.

RiverlandThe following students from

Blooming Prairie have been named to the president’s list (4.0 grade-point average) for the spring spring semester at Riverland Community College: Candace Bartlett, Kara Kubista, Kelli Williamson and Robert Sherman.

The following students from Blooming Prairie have been named to the dean’s list (3.25 to 3.99 GPA) at Riverland: Alex Klecker, Amber Michaud, Ben-jamin Trom, Bryce Halla, Eliza-beth Imm, Holly Vogt, Juan Vil-larreal, Katie Williamson, Kayla Wobschall, Lauren Koster, Me-gan Spinler, Nicholas Rich-ardson, Richard Brown, Ryan Kubista and Candace Bartlett.

College News

Build the Barns Bash starts June 29A Build the Barns Bash is slat-

ed for June 29 and June 30 at the Steele County Fairgrounds.

The event is a fund-raiser for a 30,000-square-foot agricultural building on the fairgrounds, a replacement for a barn that col-

lapsed during a heavy snowfall in 2010.

The bash opens at 11 a.m. both days in Fair Square and the beer garden. Live entertainment be-gins in the beer garden at 9 a.m.

FaithThe Times • Tuesday, June 5, 2012 • 11A

Obituaries

Engagement

The memorial service for Pa-tricia “Patty” Lynn Hayden will be at 11 a.m. June 9, 2012, at

Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 150 Second Street NE with the Rev. William Kulas celebrating.

Inurnment will be in the Fair-view Cemetery in Hayfi eld.

Patricia “Patty” (Fredrickson) Hayden

Baptist

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH104 1st Ave. NE., Blooming Prairie

Pastor Matt Fennell507-583-2673

Wednesday: 6:30 p.m. Service. Sunday: 9 a.m. Sunday School; 10 a.m. Sunday Morning Service; 11:30 a.m. Second Service.

Catholic

ST. MARY’S CATHOLICRural Geneva

Father Swamy Pothireddy507-465-8217

Sunday: 10:45 a.m. Mass.

SACRED HEART CATHOLIC

Father William Kulas507-477-2256

Sunday: 10 a.m. Mass.

CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS307 1st St. SW., New Richland

Father Swamy Pothireddy507-465-8217

Saturday: 5 p.m. Mass. Sunday: 8 a.m. Mass; 9 a.m. Sunday School.

ST. COLUMBANUS CATHOLIC CHURCH

114 E. Main St., Blooming PrairieFather William Kulas

507-583-2784Saturday: 3:45 p.m. Reconcilia-

tion; 4 p.m. Mass. Sunday: 8 a.m. Mass. Monday - Friday: 9 a.m. -1

HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC CHURCH OF LITOMYSL

9946 SE 24th Ave., OwatonnaRev. John Sauer, Pastor

Rev. Jon Moore, Substitute Priest Rev. Andrew Vogel, Parochial Vicar.

507-451-2299www.litomysl.webs.com

Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Mass. Wednes-day: 6-11 gr. Faith-In-Action and

Sunday: Pre - 5 grade Family Faith Formation with noon Potluck.

SACRED HEART CHURCH810 S. Cedar Ave., Owatonna

Father Rev. John Sauer507-451-1588

www.sacredheartowatonna.orgSaturday: 5 p.m. Mass. Sunday:

1 p.m. Spanish Mass.

ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH

Father Emmanuel Sylvester218-695-2641Sunday: 11 a.m.

LutheranAURORA LUTHERAN

6329 SE 38th StOwatonna, MN 55060

Sunday School: 9:15 a.m.Worship Service: 10:30 a.m.

FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH—ELCA

434 1st St. SW., Blooming PrairieCharles Leonard, Senior Pastor

Heidi Heimgartner, Associate Pastor507-583-6621

Sunday 8:30 a.m.

10:30 Worship. Sunday 8:30 a.m. Broadcast on

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Sunday: 8:30 a.m. Worship: 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School: 10:30 a.m.

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GOOD SHEPARDLUTHERAN—LCMS

2500 7th Ave. NE., OwatonnaRev. Mark Rosenau & Rev.

Gregory Schlicker507-451-4125

a.m. Worship Services; 9:15 a.m. Sunday School.

ST. MICHAEL’S LUTHERAN—ELCA

30450 570th Ave., WalthamRev. John Heruth (Intern)

507-567-2474Sunday Worship: 9:30 a.m.

RED OAK GROVE LUTHERAN—ELCA

30456 Mower-Freeborn Rd.Austin

Pastor Lindsay Stolen507-583-2038 or 507-437-3000

www.roglutheran.orgSunday: 9 a.m. Worship;

10:15 a.m. Sunday School (Sept-May).

REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH—LCMS

1054 Truman Ave., OwatonnaPastor Kirk Griebel

507-451-2720www.redeemerowatonna.org

Sunday: 9 a.m. Worship Service; 10:15 a.m. Sunday School.

ST. JOHN’S LUTHERANCHURCH —LCMS

4532 SE 84th Ave., ClaremontRev. Alan Broadwell

507-584-2404

1st and 3rd Sundays. Sunday School

Sunday Service held at 10:30 a.m.

ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN CHURCH—LCMS

28959 630th Ave., SargeantRev. Ronald Prigge

507-584-6358Sunday: 9 a.m. Sunday School;

10:15 a.m. Worship Service.

TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH

5881 SE 118th St.Blooming Prairie

507-633-9331Worship Service: 9:00 a.m.

TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH—ELCA

Rev. Paul Hauschild507-477-2248

10:30 a.m. WorshipWorship Services; 9:15 a.m.

Sunday School.

TRINITY LUTHERAN—LCMS57403 300th St., Waltham

Pastor Jeff Kuddes507-567-2272

Sunday: 9 a.m. Sunday School; 10:15 a.m. Divine Service.

ST. PAUL’s LUTHERAN—LCMS202 E. Park Ave., Hollandale

Pastor Jeff Kuddes507-567-2272

Sunday: 8:30 a.m. Worship; 9:45 a.m. Sunday School.

COMMUNITY LUTHERAN CHURCH—ELCA

106 3rd St. SE., GenevaPastor Carrie McElfresh

507-256-4288Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Worship; 10:30 a.m. Sunday School

ZION LUTHERAN

CHURCH - ELCA7126 SW 98th St., Ellendale

Pastor Gary Rusinko507-465-8400

Sunday 9 a.m. Worship; 10 a.m. Sunday School.

Mennonite

PRAIRIE MENNONITE CHURCH

13638 750th St., Blooming PrairieArnie Skrivseth & Dennis Martin

507-583-2081 & 507-477-3216

Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Sunday School; 10:30 a.m. Worship Services.

Methodist

LANSING UNITED METHODIST CHURCH26875 539th Ave., Lansing

507-437-1437Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Worship Services.

1st Thursday of month: 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Soup Lunch.

ELLENDALE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH200 6th St. NW., Ellendale

Pastor Lisa Dodd507-684-2731

www.ellendaleumc.orgSunday: 9:15 a.m. Sunday School;

10:30 a.m. Worship.

GENEVA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH100 2nd St. NE., Geneva

Pastor Lisa Dodd507-684-2731

www.genevaumc-mn.orgSunday: 8:45 a.m.

Mormon

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY

SAINTS404 31st ST. NW. Austin

507-433-9042Sacrament 10:50 a.m.- Noon

Non-Denominational

CEDAR CREEK CHURCH

Pastor Aaron de Neui507-477-2255

www.cedarcreekchurch.orgSunday: 10 a.m. Worship.

ELEVATION NORTH CHURCH 217 N. Main

Medford, MNWorship and Praise Service 10 a.m.

Sunday School 11:15 a.m.

Presbyterian

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Pastor Charlie Talcott507-477-2631

Sunday: 9:15 a.m. Sunday School; 10:30 a.m. Worship Services.

Seventh-Day Adventist

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH

2373 7th Ave. N.E. OwatonnaPastor James Van Arsdale

507-451-5761

11 a.m. Church.

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Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute-Owatonna, part of Al-lina Health, has achieved STAR Program Certifi cation through Oncology Rehab Partners’ model of cancer rehabilitation care.

It is the fi rst program of its kind to be certifi ed in Minne-sota and also the largest STAR Program in the nation.

Cancer survivor Marlene Miller says cancer rehabilita-tion has given her a quality of life that she would not have had without it.

“There is a defi nite need for rehabilitation in the course of cancer care. It makes the jour-ney back from treatment a lot easier. It helps bring you back to the best you can be as you’re fi nding your ‘new normal.’”

The STAR Program addresses the unique needs of cancer sur-vivors, including lymphedema, fatigue, musculoskeletal pain, joint stiffness, weakness, cog-nitive problems, balance prob-lems and issues with communi-cation, swallowing or eating.

“Cancer patients have differ-ent needs from other traditional rehabilitation patients, which requires a different rehabilita-tion skill set to most effectively care for them,” said Dr. Nancy Hutchison, a physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist at Sister Kenny Rehabilitation In-stitute and Virginia Piper Can-cer Institute, also part of Allina Health.

Health professionals who completed the rigorous STAR Program training include phy-

sicians, nurse practitioners, physical therapists, occupation-al therapists, speech-language pathologists, care coordinators and administrators.

The specialized training on how to address the needs of cancer survivors enables these Sister Kenny STAR Certifi ed Clinicians to provide each pa-tient with individualized re-habilitation to help him or her regain function and improve quality of life.

STAR Program services are offered at nine Allina hospitals and 14 community-based sites of Sister Kenny Sports and Physical Therapy Center.

To access the STAR Program services at Sister Kenny Reha-bilitation Institute-Owatonna, call (507) 977-2150.

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Ronald Dean “Ron” Reese, age 66 of Blooming Prairie, passed away Friday, June 1, 2012 at Good Samaritan Society in Albert Lea.

He was born on Aug. 14, 1945 in Waseca, to Omer and Dorothy (Worke) Reese. Ron graduated from Blooming Prairie High School in 1963 and served in the U.S. Army from 1963 to 1966.

Ron graduated from Mankato State with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and psychology in 1971. He worked most of his life for Bank of

America as a stockbroker specializing in insurance mutual funds.

Ron married Mary Bolger in Austin, and the couple moved to England. Three children were born to this union. The couple was divorced later. He enjoyed golfi ng and attending family get-togethers. Ron was a member of the American Le-gion, VFW and Red Oak Grove Lutheran Church.

Survivors include his mother, Dorothy Johnson of Blooming Prairie; three children, Veronica Reese of Washington D.C., Michelle Reese of London, England, and Michael Reese of Manchester England; brother, Allan (Vicki) Reese of Ellen-dale; sister in law, Alice Reese; and many other wonderful rela-tives and friends.

He was preceded in death by

his father, and two brothers, Curtis and Gary.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 9, at Red Oak Grove Lutheran Church in rural Austin, with Pastor Lindsay Stolen offi ciat-ing.

Visitation will be one hour before the service at the church.

Interment is at Red Oak Grove Cemetery. Military honors by American Legion Post #52.

The family prefers memori-als to Red Oak Grove Lutheran Church or the Servicemen’s Club in Blooming Prairie.

Condolences may be ex-pressed to the family online at www.worlein.com.

Worlein Blooming Prairie Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Ronald Dean “Ron” Reese, 66, Blooming Prairie

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas John-son are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Jeana Kay Johnson, to George Douglas Snyder, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Snyder.

An August wedding is planned at the First Baptist Church in Blooming Prairie.

Johnson-Snyder

Sister Kenny clinicians trained to address unique needs of cancer survivors

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These STAR certifi ed health professionals completed the rigorous training that allows them to help patients improve their quality of life at the Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute-Owatonna. From left, are manager Linda Hoff man, speech language pathologist Anna Forsman-Johnson and physical therapist Karla Melchert. Not pictured is physical therapist Dorothy Tevis.

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Steele County News Steele County News

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Smokin’ in SteeleBrent Dohrnmann, 26, ofClaremont, raced to third

place in the 1100 Super-Mod garden tractor racing event.

By PER KVALSTENStaff Writer

Rural Owatonna resident Dan Stursa and his family have been named as one of two Century Farms in Steele County.

The only original structure on the property that remains intact is a grainery built in 1875.

“The structure is built solid,” Stursa said. “We have been looking for a per-manent home and have asked the Steele County Historical Society if there is interest in having it for display. We want someone to take it. It is a piece of Steele County history and deserves a home that the public can look and learn from it.”

The family hasn’t actively farmed the farmland itself since 1958. Stursa works for Wenger Corporation, and his wife Kim works for Federated Insurance.

Since then, it has been rented out. The current renter is Brian Racek.

Even though the Stursa family does not farm the land, they take pride in being part of the agricultural scene of Steele County and being able to keep the farm in the family for 100 years.

“It isn’t always possible to keep a farm in the family this long,” Stursa said. “We have worked hard from generation to generation to make sure we did.”

The family will be honored at the fi rst night of the Steele County Free Fair. The Minnesota State Fair and the Minnesota Farm Bureau recognized 144 Minnesota farms that qualify as Century Farms.

To qualify, the farm is to be owned continuously by the family for at least 100 years and be 50 acres or larger.

Stursa’s grandfather, Fred Dusek, came to Steele County from Czechoslo-vakia in 1900. He was just 3 years old at the time. Stursa’s great-grandparents, Joseph and Frantiska Dusek, purchased the property in 1912 for $8,000.

Fred Dusek and his wife Mary pur-chased the farm in 1927. The couple owned the farm south of Owatonna until 1987, when Mary Dusek sold the prop-erty to her grandchildren – Stursa and

his sister Debbie Burnham.Many of Stursa’s family, including

two uncles and his mother, were born in the old house, which no longer sits on the property. Stursa lived on the farm in that original home until 1995.

He had begun construction on the new home in 1994.

Stursa and Kim married in 2003. The couple has one child, Breyonna, who is the fi fth generation of the family who will continue to live on the property.

“Breyonna loves the farm and has no intention of leaving the home,” Stursa said.

Since the Century Farm program be-gan in 1976, more than 9,100 Minnesota farms have been recognized.

Keeping it in the family Stursa family honored as a Century Farm

Times photo by Per Kvalsten

Breyonna, Kim and Dan Stursa stand in front of the last remaining structure from the original farm, a grainery. Stursa has asked the Steele County Historical Society to take possession of the building. Stursa’s great-grandparents, Joseph and Frantiska Dusek, purchased the property in 1912 for $8,000. The family has been named a Century Farm for Steele County.

Teens process information differently than adults

Recently , the Parents Group in our coalition brought a speaker in to talk about how to work with teenagers and how to communicate more effec-tively.

We had a wonderful re-sponse with 76 parents, youth ministers, family counselors, and youth mentoring organiza-tions all talking together about how to make the partnership between adults and teenagers the best it can be and what to do so that we can communi-cate across the generational divide.

The fundamental challenge of growing up and of guiding adolescents has not changed too much; neither has the in-credible privilege of being able to work together with ado-lescents at a time when they are most open to trying new things, passionate about their ability to change the world and honest about what they think.

If you ever have a chance to hear Erin Walsh speak, I encourage you to go! There was much that she shared, but one thing particularly stuck with me.

Studies have shown that adults and teenagers do not read facial cues or expressions the same way that adults do. The judgment center of the brain, the pre-frontal cortex, is still under construction for teenagers. When shown the same face, adults will say that the person looks afraid or confused. Teenagers almost uniformly say that the person in the picture is angry.

Have you ever had the ex-perience where your teenagers asks you why you are yelling at them all the time or why you are so angry, and you think you are being perfectly reasonable?

When a seemingly normal conversation goes completely off track you may want to con-sider that your teens are simply processing the information differently in their brain and therefore interpreting things differently. This miscommuni-cation is not personal, it is part of brain development.

The way to get around this when you are talking to teens is to make sure as adults that you try to remain calm and ac-curately name the emotion that you are feeling, why you are feeling that way and then be specifi c about what you expect your teenager to do next.

We all know that communi-cation is the key to any rela-tionship. Our coalition’s vision is a community and its youth free from the harm of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. We will only achieve that vision within our community if we can communicate effectively with one another.

(Steele Talkin’ is a weekly column featuring offi cials representing various orga-nizations throughout Steele County. Tanya Paley is the project coordinator for the Steele County Safe and Drug Free Coalition. Her column appears regularly.)


Bonnie Houdek of Owatonna can check one item off her bucket list. She purchased this red, white and blue Honda Goldwing trike and made friends with a large group of bikers. Supporters of the Steele County Veterans Service Offi ce and members of the Minnesota chapter of Borikeneers Motorcycle Club rode Saturday to raise money for the purchase of a power wheelchair.


Bonnie Houdek of Owatonna may be new to the motorcycle world, but she has quickly made a lot of new friends.

Her smiling personality has a lot to do with it. Her red, white and blue Honda Goldwing trike takes the rest of the credit.

“Everybody comes up to look at her bike,” said Rene Gilormini, director of the Steele County Vet-erans Service Offi ce.

“It was the selling point,” Houdek admitted, saying she was in the market for a trike and fell in love with the patriotic paint job.

Houdek is a fi rst-year motorcycle rider, and said purchasing a trike “had been on my bucket list as one of the things I wanted to do.”

Houdek was one of 28 riders and her trike one of 21 motorcycles to raise $440 on a 140-mile ride

north of Steele County on Saturday.“I know a few of the riders,” she said. “I like to

support the veterans, and this is for a great cause. It’s a great way to meet new people, too.”

Supporters of the Steele County Veterans Ser-vice Offi ce and members of the Minnesota chap-ter of Borikeneers Motorcycle Club rode to raise money for the purchase of a power wheelchair.

The Borikeneers Motorcycle Club is a group born out of a desire to honor military service and veterans. They honor the accomplishments and struggles of the 65th Infantry Regiment, the only Hispanic segregated unit in U.S. military history.

Gilormini said $2,700 of the $3,300 cost had been raised to date. The wheelchair will be a loan-er, and people who need it for temporary use will sign for it out of his offi ce.

The ride Saturday was the fourth annual “Spring-Up for Veterans” run, and it began and ended at Sportsman’s Grille on the north side of Owatonna.

Bikers raise money for power wheelchair, aids Steele County Veterans Service Offi ce

Task force formed to decide options


People from all walks of life have volunteered to help the county in deciding if the pro-posed public works facility is the right decision for Steele County now and in the future.

The process to fi gure out what to do with the public works facil-ity started when the 2010 fl oods destroyed most of the former fa-cility on Hoffman Drive in Owa-tonna. Because of the fl ood plain city ordinance, the new facility had to be either raised above the level required by the county and city or moved to a different lo-cation.

In the months since, the facil-ity has been proposed to move to Highway 14, and a $13 million project has been introduced to county commissioners.

The cost of the project has raised many concerns from the community, and thus a task force has been put together.

The task force of 11 Steele County residents includes co-owner of Ag Power Enterprises Mike Milstead, County Admin-istrator Tom Shea and Owa-tonna Chamber of Commerce President Brad Meier.

“I think that the task force is a great thing,” Shea said. “It is good to have input and sugges-tions to review. It is critical the public is informed on what’s go-ing on with the project.

It has the objective of stipulat-

ing that the Hoffman Drive lo-cation is not feasible for repair or re-building at that location as well.

The task force fi rst met May 24 and met again this morning to discuss its fi ndings to the com-missioners and county residents.

Six different areas were de-veloped by the task force to evaluate. These areas are need, location, design, construction, fi nance and other.

HIGHWAYContinued on page 2B

Is the proposed public works facility the right option for Steele County?


A sign on the door of the Steele County Highway Department in the fl oodplain directs those interested to its leased location.

STEELETALKIN’

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The task force is focusing on equipment needs, affordability, resources available, design is-sues and cost effectiveness.

The task force has been look-ing into construction issues like value engineering, and how the county can decrease the cost to $130 per square foot.

The county and the task force are also looking at prevailing wages, total county debt and the 10-year plan for replace-ment.

“Through various commit-tees, Steele County has been researching the project from the beginning. I am confi dent that the county has done a good job looking at every aspect of

the public works project,” Shea said.

Currently, the county is pay-ing $200,000 a year in rental fees for the temporary facility. Before the fl ooding, the county didn’t anticipate building a new facility until 2017.

County offi cials such as County Engineer Anita Benson have said it isn’t the best time to build the public works facility. But as it sits now, Benson said, it is important to get the com-plex built out of the fl oodplain.

At today’s meeting held at the temporary public works facil-ity, the task force reviewed fi -nancing. The meeting was held from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.


The ribs were not the only thing Smokin’ in Steele as the tires purred on the Steele County Fairgrounds blacktop during garden tractor racing Saturday.

Brent Dohrmann raced to third place in the 1100 Super-Mod event, pulling the weight 234 feet, 10 inches, on his modifi ed John Deere decorated with green and gold fl ames.

Dohrmann, 26, of Clare-mont, has been competing in tractor pulls for nearly six

years. He got into the sport by helping his cousin, Ryan Hodg-man, as part of the pit crew.

Hodgman’s grandfather, Don Hodgman, gave the young men the tractors so they could com-pete together.

Dohrmann said getting into the sport can be expensive, as pullers have to buy and upgrade their tractors for competition. But, once the major purchases are made, he said annual main-tenance is manageable.

The Owatonna Knights of Columbus hosted the fi fth an-nual Smokin’ In Steele.

The event, held Friday

through Sunday at the Steele County Fairgrounds, raises funds for the Special Olym-pics Minnesota, Steele County Chapter.

Smokin’ in Steele revolves around a designated state bar-becue competition, which is sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbecue Society.

Professional teams competed for $10,000 in cash prizes. Lo-cal talent challenged for prizes and trophies in the Backyard BBQ cook off.

Blues music provided the background entertainment for those in attendance.

Times photos by

Steven A. Louden

Above: Brent Dohrmann, 26, of Claremont, sits astride his 1100 Super-Mod tractor, on which he competed Saturday during the garden tractor pull event at Smokin’ in Steele. At left: Dohrmann puts the pedal to the metal on his way to third place, pulling the weight 234 feet, 10 inches.

Tires, ribs keep things Smokin’ in Steele


It has been nine years since the Owatonna Area Chamber of Commerce decided to spruce up the community it serves.

In those years, companies and individuals have made it possi-ble to place hanging fl ower bas-kets throughout the community.

“Since 2004, when the pro-gram started, we have been able to double the amount of hanging baskets we have in Owatonna,” Melanie Blanchette, Owatonna Area Chamber of Commerce Main Street manager, said.

“When the fl ower basket pro-gram started, we had 80 fl ower baskets in town. This year we have 160. That is amazing.”

A crew of four volunteers placed the baskets next to des-ignated poles on Main Street, Bridge Street, the Steele Coun-ty Fairgrounds and the south Federated Insurance location Wednesday.

“It only took about three hours to do,” Blanchette said. “We have it down to a science.”

The volunteers just had to place the fl ower baskets where they needed to be. The Owaton-na Parks and Recreation Depart-ment did the rest, having equip-ment that makes it easy to place the baskets on the poles.

The baskets are created by Souba Greenhouse in Owaton-na, and have been since the be-ginning of the program.

“In the fi rst year, the chamber raised enough money to fabri-cate the specially-designed bas-kets,” Blanchette said. “Since then, they have been housed in the winter at the Owatonna Park

and Rec.”Keeping a program of this

magnitude going does not come cheap. It costs about $85 per basket for the fl owers and their upkeep each year. The chamber raised more than $13,000 this year.

During the week, Cedar Val-ley Services will water the fl ow-ers. Volunteers continue that wa-tering on weekends.

“The fl owers are watered ev-ery day, other than the days it rains,” Blanchette said. “The community really enjoys the hanging baskets. They are so welcoming and great for the residents, but even people from outside of Owatonna that come to the community enjoy seeing them. The baskets add so much to the community, they just add a lot to Owatonna.”

The chamber has always re-ceived positive reviews about the program when surveys have been sent out, she added.

The donations for the hanging baskets are tax deductible.

Flower baskets brighten up Owatonna


When the fl ower basket program started, there were 80 fl ower baskets in town. This year there are 160.

‘Chainsaw Juggler’to stroll through park

Wade Henry known as the “Chainsaw Juggler” will be strolling the fairgrounds all dur-ing fair week at the 2012 Steele County Free Fair.

His appearance is made possible by a Legacy Grant to the fair from the state of Min-nesota.

Besides his daily strolling, he will be the featured entertainer for the Wednesday Kid’s Day show in Fair Square Park, and on several occasions on the free stages.

What goes through the mind of someone who has running chainsaws turning and fl ipping around in front of his face?

“Nothing at all,” Henry quips. “The true skill of chainsaw juggling involves the ability to clear the mind of any distractions and focus only on the moment.”

Wade is based out of Clear-water, Fla., where he trains, drills and develops his skills for presentation at fairs and festivals all over the U.S. and Canada. The act combines fast-paced juggling, unicycling, fi re eating, balancing, music and plenty of audience participation to create family-oriented shows on the grounds of the fair.

Known widely for thrilling audiences with his chainsaw juggling, Wade has a unique ap-proach to delivering entertain-ment. His antics always attract huge crowds, who gasp and cheer at his many spectacular routines.

Delivering the act “Street Show” style has been the answer for the largeness of Wade’s “one-man act.” Per-forming atop the highest uni-cycle on the fair circuit, Wade’s head stretches to 13 feet above the crowd.

Sharon Stark will be honored for 50 years as offi ce secretary at the fair at the pre-fair dinner held Sunday night. Others to be honored that night include: Sandy Boss (Hobbies), 25 years; Jim Linder and Paul Arn-felt (board members), Rhonda Harne (bank), Dave Kubista (indoor concessions) and Bob and Ruth Bullock (wine), 15 years; Sharon Kline (offi ce sec-retary), Dick Lee (phones) and Gary Ridge (ATM), 10 years; and Bill Hartle, (board mem-ber), Jim Hoffman, (parking) and Mary Peterson (horses), fi ve years.

Entry forms for the Owa-tonna Peoples Press Amateur Talent Show to be held Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. are avail-able at the OPP offi ce, the fair manager’s offi ce and on the fair website.

Dates of the 2012 SCFF are Aug. 14 to Aug. 19 in Owa-tonna. Check the fair website at www.scff.org. The fair phone number is (507) 451-5305.

FAIRTALK

Todd Hale

HIGHWAYContinued from page 1B

The Steele County American Dairy Association is sponsoring its Breakfast on the Farm event from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 23 at Clover Glen Dairy Farm, 9368 SE 18th St. in Claremont.

Parking at the farm is avail-able only to the disabled. Bus transportation from the fair-grounds will be provided. The last bus departs to the farm at 11:30 a.m.

Cost for adults is $3, and chil-dren ages 5 and younger are free.

The menu includes pancakes, sausage, cheese, milk and cof-fee .

Activities include a milk truck display, barn tours, crafts and butter making, a petting zoo and farm and home safety demon-strations. Those who attend may also have their pictures taken with a calf.

County dairy princesses and

dairy ambassadors will be on the grounds to greet guests.

For more information, call Deb Johnson at (507) 528-2699.

Mower CountyEugene Anderson Dairy Farm,

30111 620th Ave. in Waltham, is where the Mower County Farm Bureau, in cooperation with sup-porting organizations and busi-nesses, is sponsoring its break-fast event.

It will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. June 16. There will be a free shuttle bus that leaves from Hy-Vee in Austin at 8 a.m.

A Chris Cakes breakfast, con-sisting of pancakes, sausage, juice and coffee, will be served for $3 per person. Those ages 6 and younger are free, and the family rate is $12.

Activities include educational

agriculture displays and exhib-its, wagon rides, a petting zoo, a scavenger hunt, an infl atable bounce house, a pedal tractor play area, FFA presentations and county dairy princesses appear-ances.

For more information, call Ar-dis Jensen at (507) 567-2296.

Breakfast on the Farm events on tapAt a Glance

The Steele County event will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 23 at Clover Glen Dairy Farm, 9368 SE 18th St. in Claremont. Cost for adults is $3, and children age 5 and younger are free.

The Mower County event will be held from 30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. June 16 at the Eugene Anderson Dairy Farm, 30111 620th Ave. in Waltham. Cost is $3 per person. Those age 6 and younger are free, and the family rate is $12.

Event planned for ag building

A Build the Barns Bash is slated for June 29 and June 30 at the Steele County Fairgrounds.

The event is a fund-raiser for a 30,000-square-foot agricultur-al building on the fairgrounds, a replacement for a barn that col-lapsed during a heavy snowfall in 2010.

The bash opens at 11 a.m. both days in Fair Square and the beer garden. Live entertainment begins in the beer garden at 9 a.m.

Attractions include a classic car, pickup and tractor cruise-in, a silent auction, pony rides and concessionaires. Performers in-clude the Urban Myth Band and Big City.

Two new appointees have been selected to represent Mower County on the Cedar River Watershed District’s Board of Managers, replac-ing two original members who opted this spring not to seek re-appointment.

Susan Olson, an attorney from Red Rock Township, and Jason Weis, a Rose Creek resi-dent who owns Weis Landscap-ing and Design LLC, have been

appointed by the Mower Coun-ty Board to serve three-year terms on the CRWD board.

Their fi rst monthly CRWD board meeting is slated for June 20.

Olson and Weis will be two of four Mower County resi-dents serving on the seven-member CRWD board. The other three managers represent Dodge, Freeborn and Steele counties.

CRWD gets two new managers

FRANKHENEFIELD

Attorney at Law

415 East Main StreetBlooming Prairie

(507) 583-6663

General Practice Includes:

Darrell B. Ingvaldson recent-ly completed his fi nal seminar with the Minnesota Agriculture and Rural Leadership program and traveled to Morocco with 29 classmates.

Ingvaldson is a Farm Bureau agent and is involved with numer-ous conservation and agricultural programs in the Austin area.

MARL’s mission is to develop the skills of state agriculture and rural leaders to enhance their ef-fectiveness and impact in local, state, national and international arenas.

In Morocco, Class VI visited a donkey veterinary hospital in Fez. This project was started with help of the University of Minnesota. The class observed and learned about agricultural research re-garding olive trees and oil pro-duction near Meknes. In Rabat, the students were honored to an evening dinner given at the home of the U.S. Ambassador Sam and Sylvia Kaplan, who are also from Minnesota. They were able to tour a poverty-stricken area of Kenitra and visited an after-school en-richment program for students

and mothers. They toured a feed-lot/dairy cooperative farm near Taroudant.

“The eye-opening study, tours and cultural immersion that the

MARL Class VI experienced while in Morocco will help class members be better leaders in their home communities, in agriculture and in Minnesota,” said Dan Hoff-

man, MARL executive director.They learned the importance

of diplomacy, trade relations and trade agreements to Minne-sota Farmers by visiting the U.S. Embassy and visiting a feedlot that purchases and uses corn and soybeans from the United States, Hoffman said.

Class VI is comprised of 32 pro-fessionals from across the state. Two-thirds of the participants are active in farming and one-third work in agriculture-related indus-tries, rural businesses and rural communities.

Class VI began its 18-month program in November 2010 with an orientation seminar in St. Cloud. Since then, it has met in Marshall, St. Paul, Washington, D.C., Itasca, Duluth, Moorhead, Rochester and Windom.

The MARL program is led by a board of directors that represent various interests of the agricultur-al sectors and rural communities in Minnesota. The board partners with the University of Minnesota Extension and Southwest Minne-sota State University to deliver the program.

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It’s time for another in-stallment of “Ask the Trash Queen,” where I answer com-mon questions received on the Steele County Recycling Hotline using the persona of the Steele County Trash Queen.

This is the title I’ve cho-sen for myself as I perform a recycling rap, complete with drum beat, in front of groups in Steele County wearing a recycled cape and crown.

Dear Disposal Diva: My amazing children blessed me with a fancy new fl at screen TV for Mother’s Day. How can I get rid of my heavy old TV? – Grateful Mama

Her Trashy Majesty answers: What a timely question! The Retrofi t Companies along High-way 14 West in Owatonna is holding a one-day collection on Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon. They will accept many kinds of electronics, fl uorescent bulbs, batteries and other special wastes at either reduced prices or free of charge. Call them for more information at (507) 455-2181. Waste Manage-ment also accepts electronics for a fee at the Steele County Recycling Center in Owatonna (507) 456-4894, as does the Steele County Landfi ll (507) 583-7766. Best Buy recycles used electronics, including TV sets up to 32 inches, for free at their stores as well. Go to www.bestbuy.com for details.

Dear Recycling Goddess: Little Herbie is fi nally gradu-ating, so we are naturally celebrating this hard-earned diploma with a huge party. How can we encourage guests to recycle their empty water bottles? – Environmen-tally Conscious Parents

The Rapping Recycler Re-sponds: Easy! Simply label a large waste can “Recycle cans and bottles” and set directly next to the garbage can, then recycle at curbside or bring to a recycling drop off site after the party. Another idea is to pick up and use the free, large, but collapsible and easily transport-able event recycling containers loaned out by Steele County Environmental Services. Call (507) 444-7475 for details.

Ms. Trashy Know-it-all: Our garbage hauler tells me they can’t accept my leftover paints, furniture stripper and insecticides. Our party is just a week away and we need space in our garage, so now what? – Cleaning Crew

The Dancing Queen divulges:

STEELETALKIN’

Mary Olson

A diagnosis of breast cancer brings all kinds of challenges, not the least of which can be fi nancial.

Being unable to work, or hav-ing to work reduced hours and devote time to treatment, can interfere with employment. Co-pays, deductibles, and treat-ment expenses add up.

Some cancer treatments, like radiation, are not always avail-able locally, which means long drives several times a week, a considerable expense with the price of gas these days.

The Cambridge Medical Center Foundation established the Hope Fund in 2011 as a way to help ease the fi nancial burdens that can accompany a breast cancer diagnosis by pro-viding emergency fi nancial help for basic living expenses.

Last year, two breast cancer patients in the Owatonna area received emergency fi nancial assistance. This year, even more will receive help through the Hope Fund.

The Hope Fund expanded to three Allina Health hospitals, including Owatonna. The Min-nesota Affi liate of Susan G. Ko-men for the Cure is funding an $89,000 grant for the program, an increase from the $41,000 grant the organization provided last year.

The CMC Foundation will act as administrator of the Hope Fund for all three hospitals. “Like Cambridge Medical Cen-ter, Buffalo and Owatonna hos-pitals also serve breast cancer patients in a similar setting with similar fi nancial challenges,” said Julie Gotham, executive

director of the CMC Founda-tion and project leader for the Hope Fund.

“As members of one health system, it seemed logical that the next step would be for the CMC Foundation to expand the program and offer it in other communities with simi-lar needs, Gotham added. “We have come together under the Allina Associated Foundation umbrella to serve patients in three out-state areas.”

Owatonna Hospital helps to serve breast cancer patients from rural settings, where ac-cessibility to care is compli-cated by distance and a lack of transportation.

“Our local patients have to travel sometimes far distanc-es to receive treatment,” said Molly Pirjevec, manager of

Development and Community Engagement at Owatonna Hos-pital.

“They may miss work, put lots of miles on their car, which increases the burden of fi ghting their disease, and none of the people affected by breast can-cer locally qualify for fi nancial assistance through any other similar program,” Pirjevec said.

Many breast cancer patients fi nd themselves in dire circum-stances.

“Because of the Komen grant, the Hope Fund literally saves these (patients) and their families from eviction, and gives them the help they need to continue their treatment and their fi ght against breast can-cer,” said Gotham. “Most im-portantly, it relieves a signifi -cant source of stress so they can focus on recovery.”

To be eligible for assistance from the Hope Fund, applicants must be actively receiving care for breast cancer. Active treat-ment includes chemotherapy, radiation, bone marrow trans-plant, surgery, lymphedema, cording, hospice or palliative care.

Applicants must also be 18 years or older and living in one of the following, Dodge or Waseca counties.

Awards from the Hope Fund will be paid directly to creditors and not to applicants.

Applications for the Hope Fund can be downloaded from Owatonna Hospital’s website, owatonnahospital.com, by call-ing the Owatonna Hospital Foundation at (507) 977-2562, or at the hospital’s Community Resource Center and Adminis-tration Offi ce, room 1430.

Trash Queen answers recycling questions

Steele County runs a Household Hazardous Waste facility at the Steele County Landfi ll that accepts hazardous chemicals from homes in Steele County free of charge. It is open every Thursday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., the fi rst and third Saturdays of each month from 9 a.m. to noon and by appointment. This facility closes for the season at the end of September each year. The landfi ll is located along Highway 218 between Owatonna and Blooming Prairie. For more informa-tion, call the Steele County Recycling Hotline (507) 451-5443 or the Steele County Landfi ll (507) 583-7766.

Dear Empress of Waste: I

set out 48 big cardboard boxes to be recycled, but the driver did not take them. I thought cardboard was recyclable! – Discouraged homeowner

The Recycling Guru says: Corrugated cardboard is defi -nitely recyclable and is a valued commodity for manufacturing into new boxes. The problem is with the recycling trucks’ confi guration and space. All corrugated boxes must be bro-ken down so that they fi t in the narrow trough to be hydrauli-cally lifted and dumped into the storage compartment of the truck. Truck drivers have very limited time for each stop on their routes of up to 450 homes a day, so Waste Management also requires that cardboard be taped or tied together in 1-foot bundles for quick handling. To avoid taping or tying boxes together, bring them to one of the seven recycling drop off sites situated throughout Steele County. The Recycling Center in Owatonna is even staffed 44 hours a week, so you can ask for help unloading if you visit that location between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Fri-day or 8 a.m. to noon Saturday. Styrofoam and bubble wrap are not recyclable, so remove those from boxes prior to recycling.

The Trash Queen sincerely congratulates all 2012 gradu-ates and wishes them the best as they embark on new challenges.

Large covered recycling containers available for free use

Make your next party or com-munity event “green” by provid-ing guests with labeled contain-ers in which to deposit empty

recyclable cans and bottles.Steele County Environmen-

tal Services has large recycling containers that may be used free of charge by any Steele County individual, family, group or busi-ness planning a special event such as a graduation party, fam-ily reunion, church festival, cor-porate event or community cel-ebration.

Last year, 68 individuals and groups borrowed recycling con-tainers for events from Steele County for special events.

The 30-gallon portable and collapsible recycling containers are labeled and have holes in the lids designed for recycling empty aluminum cans, glass and plastic bottles together, making recy-cling convenient and easy for both guests and event organizers.

Once collected, the cans and bottles may be recycled at curbside in the clear plastic bag provided when the bins are bor-rowed. The fi lled bags may also be dropped off at any one of the seven recycling drop-off sites lo-cated throughout Steele County.

Individuals or groups inter-ested in borrowing these free sturdy recycling containers may check out one or more recycling containers in the Environmen-tal Services Department in the Steele County Administration Center at 630 Florence Avenue in Owatonna.

Call the Steele County Recy-cling Hotline at (507) 451-5443 for more information or to re-serve containers.

Owatonna Hospital Foundation’s Hope Fund to help cancer patients

Brownsdale Farm Bureau agent goes to Morocco

Submitted photo

Darrell B. Ingvaldson recently completed his fi nal seminar with the Minnesota Agriculture and Rural Leadership program and traveled to Morocco with 29 classmates.


Public Safety

Last Name: CORDOVAFirst Name: ABELMiddle Name: VILLARREALGender: MALEEye Color: BRORace: HISPANICHeight: 5’ 8”Weight: 170 lbs

2 warrants for DUI/ DAR IPS violation

Last Name: GOMEZFirst Name: CLAUDIAMiddle Name: PATRICIAGender: FEMALEEye Color: BRORace: HISPANICHeight: 5’ 3”Weight: 175 lbs

Warrant for Crim. Abuse.

Last Name: CASTROFirst Name: ALANMiddle Name: NMNGender: MALEEye Color: BRORace: HISPANICHeight: 5’ 7”Weight: 115 lbs

2 Warrants Dom. Assult

Last Name: WARNERFirst Name: RYANMiddle Name: DOUGLASGender: MALEEye Color: BLURace: WHITEHeight: 6’ 0”Weight: 185 lbs

Warrant for GM DUI

Last Name: LEEFirst Name: SYLVIAMiddle Name: MARYGender: FEMALEEye Color: BLUERace: WHITEHeight: 5’ 2”Weight: 135 lbs

Warrant for FTA Court

Steele County’s Most Wanted

Call 911 if you know the whereabouts

of any of these criminals.

Blooming Prairie PoliceMay 31Traffi c. Offi cer stopped a ve-

hicle in the city at 4:09 p.m. An adult was arrested during the stop.

Owatonna PoliceMay 25Theft. At 1:08 a.m., offi cer

took a report of a theft in the 200 block of Cedar Ave. N.

Burglary. Offi cer investigat-ed a burglary in the 500 block of State Ave. NW at 11:23 a.m.

Warrant Arrest. An adult subject was arrested on a war-rant in the 100 block of 26th St. NW at 7:22 p.m.

DWI Arrest. Offi cer stopped a vehicle at Hazeltine Ave. NE and Rose St. E. at 10:08 p.m. The adult driver was taken into custody for drunken driving.

May 26Domestic. At 6:21 a.m., of-

fi cers responded to a domestic disturbance in the 1900 block of Hartle Ave. SE.

Vandalism. Offi cer took a re-port of property damage in the 1900 block of 3rd Ave. NE at 8:28 a.m.

Hit and Runs. Two hit and run accidents were reported. The fi rst one happened in the 1200 block of Bigelow Ave. NE at 12:22 p.m. and the second one in the 3900 block of Cabela Dr. NW at 5:38 p.m. Both resulted in property damage to vehicles.

Warrant Arrests. Two adults were arrested in separate inci-dents for warrants. The fi rst one in the 500 block of Bridge St. W. at 3:33 p.m. and the second one in the 2200 block of 46th St. NW at 6:10 p.m.

DWI Arrest. At 10:42 p.m., offi cer stopped a vehicle at Bixby Road SE and School St. E. The adult driver was arrested for DWI.

May 27Drunken Driving. Offi cer

pulled over a vehicle in the 1700

block of Cedar Ave. S. at 12:30 a.m. The adult driver was taken into custody for DWI.

Harassment. A citizen re-ported being the victim of ha-rassing communications in the 200 block of Northridge Place NE at 12:51 p.m.

May 28DWI Arrest. At 2:47 a.m.,

offi cers stopped a vehicle in the 200 block of Vine St. E. The adult driver was arrested for DWI.

Accident. Offi cer investigat-ed a property damage crash in the 200 block of South St. E. at 10:21 a.m.

Domestic. A domestic distur-bance was reported in the 1500 block of St. Paul Road NE at 5:05 p.m.

May 29Theft. A theft complaint was

made in the 1900 block of Hartle Ave. SE at 3:04 p.m.

Traffi c. Offi cer stopped a ve-hicle at 24th Ave. NW and Lew-is Dr. NW at 4:07 p.m. An adult was arrested during the stop.

Crash. At 4:41 p.m., offi cer responded to a crash at 24th Ave. NW and Bridge St. W. The offi cer issued a citation to one of the drivers. No injuries were reported.

Assault. A report of an assault was taken at 5:56 p.m. in the 1100 block of 16th St. SW.

DWI. A vehicle was stopped in the 1200 block of Oak Ave. S. at 7:06 p.m. Offi cer arrested the adult driver on suspicion of DWI.

May 30Runaway. Offi cer took a run-

away report in the 100 block of McKinley St. SW at 8:14 a.m.

Assault. At 8:34 a.m., an as-sault was reported in the 100 block of Bridge St. W.

Restraining Order. Offi cer handled a restraining order vio-lation in the 300 block of Broad-way St. E. at 1:38 p.m. An adult was arrested for the violation.

Shoplifter. A shoplifting complaint was taken at 2:21 p.m. in the 100 block of Broad-way St. E.

Juvenile. At 7:44 p.m., a ju-venile complaint was handled by an offi cer in the 700 block of Havana Road SE.

May 31DWI Arrest. Offi cers stopped

a vehicle at Glendale St. NW and State Ave. NW at 2:33 a.m. The adult driver was arrested for DWI.

Domestic. At 5:52 p.m., a do-mestic disturbance was reported in the 800 block of Brook Lane NE. A juvenile was arrested at the scene.

Drunken Driving. A traffi c stop was made in the 1200 block of Frontage Road W. at 6:58 p.m. Offi cers arrested the adult driver for DWI.

Assault. Offi cer arrested an adult for an assault in the 200 block of Fremont St. E. at 7:22 p.m.

Steele County SheriffMay 25Traffi c. Deputy stopped a ve-

hicle in the 500 block of Central Ave. W. at 3:23 p.m. An adult was arrested during the stop.

May 26DWI Arrest. At 5:03 a.m.,

a vehicle was stopped at 52nd Ave. NW and 76th St. NW. Dep-uty arrested the driver for DWI.

May 27Death. Deputy handled a

death investigation in the 1400 block of 58th St. SW at 3:28 p.m.

Pursuit. At 10:34 p.m., depu-ties got involved in a vehicle pursuit at County Road 3 and County Road 45. The K-9 was used to make the arrest.

May 28Use of Force. Deputy made

a report for using force in the 7500 block of County Road 3 at 12:38 a.m.

May 29Vandalism. A citizen report-

ed property damage in the 4500 block of County Road 45 S. at 9:16 a.m.

Accident. Deputy responded to a property damage crash in the 7100 block of 98th St. SE at 10:23 a.m.

Suspicious. At 7:04 p.m., deputy responded to suspicious activity in the 4500 block of County Road 45 S.

May 30Crash. Deputy responded to

a property damage crash in the 2100 block of 72nd Ave. NE at 9:42 a.m.

Traffi c. A vehicle was stopped at Cedar Ave. N. and North St. E. at 10:17 a.m. A citation was issued.

Shoplifter. At 2:53 p.m., dep-uty took a shoplifting complaint in the 300 block of Mineral Springs Road N.

May 31Probation. Deputy responded

to a report of a probation vio-lation at 7:37 p.m. in the 5000 block of Havana Road. An adult was taken into custody at the scene.

Liquor. At 10:38 p.m., a li-quor violation report was taken in the 5600 block of Kenyon Road.

Dodge CountySheriff’s Offi ceThe Dodge County Sheriff’s

Offi ce handled 392 complaints for the week of May 23 to May 30. Some of them include:

May 23Work Accident. At 1:18 p.m.,

a tractor overturned at a farm, 1 mile east of Hwy. 57 in Mantor-ville. There were no injuries and no damages.

May 26Disturbance. At 11:33 a.m.,

a male locked himself in an apartment in Hayfi eld behind Casey’s. He was causing a dis-turbance and threatening a fe-male. Deputies responded to the scene.

Suspicious Activity. At 11:55 p.m., a Hayfi eld woman reported that someone was going through her vehicle that was parked in her driveway.

May 27Drunkeness. At 9:40 p.m.,

an intoxicated male in Kasson requested deputies to transport him to Generose to get help for his drinking problem.

May 28Environment. At 1:45 p.m.,

deputies received a complaint that a truck with a lot of garbage in it was parked next to the trail-er park. Garbage was blowing all over the place from it.

Disturbance. At 7:14 p.m., a verbal domestic in Hayfi eld re-sulted in the suspect throwing ashes in another party’s face. Deputies responded and sepa-rated the parties for the night.

May 29Damage to Property. At

11:10 a.m., a Dodge Center resident came home and found a liquor bottle in his car and a window broken out.

Sex Offense. At 4:57 p.m., a Dodge Center resident found sexual exploited material on his juvenile daughter’s cell phone.

Dodge CountyDistrict CourtThe following cases were

heard in Dodge County District Court the week of May 21 with Judge Joseph F. Wieners presid-ing:

Christopher W. Boelter, 21, Elgin, previously appeared and was convicted of felony theft of a motor vehicle. Boelter was sentenced to $75, no alcohol or controlled substance use, do not enter liquor establishments, maintain employment, obtain GED, no contact with victim, 50 hours of community service and 5 years of supervised probation.

Christopher J. Marcks, 19, Brownsdale, previously ap-peared and was convicted of felony theft of a motor vehicle. He was sentenced to $75, no alcohol or controlled substance use, cognitive skill training, no contact with victim, write letter of apology, 50 hours of com-munity service and 5 years of supervised probation.

Dodge County Sheriff’s Offi ceThe following misdemeanors

and petty misdemeanors were heard in Dodge County District Court the week of May 21 to May 28:

Victor H. Cortez, 37, West Concord, cross-over viola-tion, $130; Timothy H. Davis, 45, Austin, registration viola-tion, $180; Jonni C. Erath, 23, Hayfi eld, registration violation, $380; Elliot J. Kallestad, 18, Morristown, speeding, $140; Wmel M. Loera, 40, Waseca, speeding, $220; James W. Low-ery, 29, Byron, no insurance, $280; Jennifer A. Peck, 19, Rochester, minor consumption, $180; Jared M. Peterson, 23, West Concord, speeding, $140; Justin D. Roe, 18, Dodge Cen-ter, minor consumption, $180; Alejandro J. Ruvalcava, 32, Kasson, revoked license and in-valid license, $380; Richard J. Young, 39, Dover, registration violation, $110.

Kasson Police DepartmentLindsey M. Blaine, 24, Roch-

ester, seat belt, $105; John M. Finley, 58, Kasson, seat belt, $105; Marjo P. Gray, 69, Roch-ester, failure to yield right of way, $130; Rory B. Horsmen, 29, Dodge Center, seat belt, $105; Riley S. Kispert, 22, Dodge Center, provide alcohol to minor, $325 and 2 years of unsupervised probation; Sierra J. Koskinen, 18, East Troy, WI, seat belt, $105; Merle L. Mad-ery, 57, Kasson, seat belt, $105; Jason F. Simons, 37, Kasson, seat belt, $105; Lorraine V. Spading, 81, Kasson, seat belt, $105; Dean N. Tripp, 39, Man-torville, seat belt, $105; Mat-thew J. Wheeler, 25, Rochester, seat belt, $105.

MN State PatrolRochesterJonathan W. Collett, 26, Kas-

son, failure to obtain new license after moving, $100; Hector M. Martinez, 27, Stewartville, speeding, $220.

West Concord Police DepartmentAlexander W. Borwege, 19,

Rochester, speeding, $140.

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Area Court News

I was wondering if it is legal for a car dealership owner’s family and extended family to all drive cars on “dealer plates.”

The answer is: A dealership owner and his or her spouse can drive with dealer plates. Their children cannot unless they are full-time employees, or if they are part-time, and only for busi-ness purposes.

Extended family and friends are not allowed.

The Driver and Vehicle Ser-vice spells out the usages very nicely when the dealer receives dealer plates. Minnesota dealer rule 7400.6000 states the fol-lowing:

“The registrar shall immedi-ately revoke a dealer demonstra-tion plate or a dealer in-transit plate when the registrar has suffi cient cause to believe that the plate was used on a vehicle other than as provided in Min-nesota Statutes, section 168.27, subdivisions 16 and 17.

“When a dealer plate is re-voked, the dealer shall surren-

der the plate to a peace offi cer or to the registrar at the time notice of revocation is deliv-ered to the dealer. If a revoked dealer plate is not at the dealer’s place of business when a notice of the revocation is served, the dealer shall surrender the plate to the registrar within 48 hours after notice of the revocation is served.

“The vehicle on which the dealer plate was misused must be titled and registered within 10 days of the revocation of the plate.”

There are several investiga-tions for this violation, which the State Patrol has acted upon from receiving a citizen’s tip.

Dealers may display dealer plates only on vehicles they own or are holding for resale. The plate must be fi rmly affi xed to the rear of the vehicle. It can-not be displayed in the window. Only one plate is displayed on the vehicle.

Some other examples of im-proper dealer plate use include:

When is it legalto use dealer’s plates?

ASK ATROOPER

Jacalyn StichaConsignment vehicles; cour-tesy or loaner cars; lease cars; tow trucks; service trucks; parts trucks; vehicles sold to an em-ployee on contract; and vehicles used by spouses of the dealer-ship’s employees.

(If you have any questions concerning traffi c related laws in Minnesota, please send your questions to: Email Jacalyn Sticha, Minnesota State Patrol, at [email protected]. Please put Ask a Trooper in the subject line.)


Road repairsFrom left, laborers Will Naylor and Jake Mindrup shovel dirt and broken-down blacktop at the intersection of Fourth Avenue SW and Main Street W on Thursday. Work continued this week as Roger and Sons, of Austin, repair eight sections of city streets. The sections under repair are: one patch of 194 feet on First Avenue NW in front of the Prairie Manor Care Center; one patch of 86 feet on Second Street NW just west of Memorial Avenue; two patches on First Avenue NE; three patches on Fourth Avenue NW; and one patch on the western-most part of Fifth Street NW. The city approved a $27,865 quote from Roger and Sons last month to do the work, for which $30,000 was budgeted.

KNIN, Croatia - Performing combat training missions can be interesting when your squad leader is giving commands in his second language.

Minnesota National Guard

soldiers from the 2nd Combined Arms Battalion, 136th Infantry teamed up with soldiers from the Croatian Armed Forces for an annual exercise called GUARDEX 12.

The soldiers from 2-136 CAB were in Croatia training with Croatian soldiers May 4-18.

The soldiers conducted pla-toon level training, integrating Croatian and U.S. soldiers.

Minnesota guardsmen training in Croatia

SoftballThe Times • Tuesday, June 5, 2012 • 5B

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The seniors of the Blooming Prairie High School softball team pose with the Section 1A Championship trophy. Front row, from left, are Kelsey Kubista and Tricia DeBoer. Back row, from left, are manager Taylor Farr, Julia Manges, Hunter Henderson, Savanah Allard, Kelsey Wolf and manager Kelli Naatz.

If you want to watch the best softball action in the state, North Mankato is the place to be this week. That’s where Blooming Prairie and many other top teams will be battling it out for state titles.

The Minnesota State Softball Tournament will kick into ac-tion Thursday with the Blossoms tackling Eden Valley-Wat-kins beginning at 11 a.m. at Caswell Park in North Mankato. The winner of that game will move on to semi-fi nals at 5 p.m.

The winner of the Blooming Prairie-Eden Valley game will meet the winner of Red Lake Falls and New Ulm Cathedral during the 5 p.m. contest.

The other bracket pits two undefeated teams against each other. Cherry comes into the state with a 23-0 record and Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg is 24-0. In the other contest, Sebeka will take on New Life Academy of Woodbury.

Winners from both brackets will fi ght it out for the state championship at 1 p.m. Friday. All state tournament games are played at Caswell Park.

The third place game will take place prior to the champion-ship game at 11 a.m. Friday.

Tickets will go on sale one hour before each game. Prices are $8 for adults and $5 for students for a single session, or $21 for adults and $12 for children for a season book good for all games.

State softball tourney starts Thursday

The Blooming Prairie softball team is on the road to state.

Blooming Prairie softball players applaud their Chatfi eld opponents following the Awesome Blossoms 3-1 victory Thursday at Todd Park in Austin.

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softball team huddles up to

celebrate during the Section 1A Championship.

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The Blooming Prairie fans rise to their feet to cheer on their Awesome Blossoms softball squad Thursday during the fi nal out of the Section 1A Championship.

Mariah Holland gestures toward the fi eld as Blooming Prairie softball players relive the fi nal moments of their 3-1 victory.

Above: Tori Poe hugs a teammate after Blooming Prairie defeated Chatfi eld 3-1 on Thursday to win the Section 1A Championship game.

At left: The girls put on their game faces for photographs after Blooming Prairie defeated Chatfi eld 3-1 on Thursday. Front row, from left, are Mariah Holland, Shelbi Swenson and Sam Ivers. Back row, from left, are Ashley Krohnberg and Kelli Naatz.


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NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALEPRIVATE

THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage:DATE OF MORTGAGE: November 14, 2003ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $140,505.00MORTGAGOR(S): Rob-ert I. Duffee and Dianne G. Duffee, Husband and WifeMORTGAGEE: Timber-land Mortgage Services, Inc.DATE AND PLACE OF FILING: Filed November 14, 2003, Steele County Recorder; Document No. A317105 ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: Assigned to: Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Inc., a California corpo-ration, nka Wells Fargo Bank, suc-cessor by merger to Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc. by written as-signment recorded on January 13, 2004 as Document No. A 318675LEGAL DESCRIP-TION OF PROPERTY: Commencing at a point 447.92 feet East and 227 feet South of the NW Corner of the East half of the SE 1/4 of Section 2-107-20, running thence South 98 feet, thence East 190 feet, thence North 98 feet, thence West 190 feet to the point of beginning.STREET ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 1725 Woodlawn Ave-nue, Owatonna, MN 55060COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Steele County, MinnesotaTHE AMOUNT CLAIMED TO BE DUE ON THE MORTGAGE ON THE DATE OF THE NOTICE: $130,356.81THAT no action or proceeding has been instituted at law to re-cover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; that there has been compliance with all pre-foreclosure notice and accel-eration requirements of said mort-gage, and/or applicable statutes;PURSUANT, to the power of sale con-tained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows:DATE AND TIME OF SALE: July 3, 2012 at 10:00 a.m.PLACE OF SALE: Steele County Sheriff’s offi ce, in the Law En-forcement Center, 204 Pearl Street East, Owatonna, Minnesotato pay the debt then secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any actu-ally paid by the mortgagee, on the premises and the costs and dis-bursements allowed by law. The time allowed by law for redemption by said mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns is six (6) months from the date of sale.Unless said mortgage is rein-stated or the property redeemed, or unless the time for redemp-tion is reduced by judicial order, you must vacate the premises by 11:59 p.m. on January 3, 2013.MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROM FINANCIAL OBLIGA-TION ON MORTGAGE: NONE“THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAG-OR, THE MORTGAGOR’S PER-SONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELL-ING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUC-TION, AND ARE ABANDONED.”

Dated: May 9, 2012WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.

Mortgagee

REITER & SCHILLER, P.A.By: /s/ Rebecca F. Schiller, Esq. Sarah J.B. Adam, Esq.

N. Kibongni Fondungallah, Esq. James J. Pauly, Esq. Brian F. Kidwell, Esq.

Steven R. Pennock, Esq.Curt N. Trisko, Esq.

Attorneys for Mortgagee 25 North Dale Street St. Paul, MN 55102-2227 (651) 209-9760

(E8715)

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.

NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALEFORECLOSURE DATAMinn. Stat. § 580.025

(1) Street Address, City and Zip Code of Mortgaged Premises1725 Woodlawn Avenue, Owatonna, MN 55060(2) Transaction AgentTimberland Mortgage Services, Inc.(3) Name of Mortgage Originator (Lender)Timberland Mortgage Services, Inc.(4) Residential ServicerWells Fargo Bank 800-416-1472(5) Tax Parcel Identifi cation Num-ber17-002-2127(6) Transaction Agent’s Mortgage ID Number (MERS number)none

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NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE

THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OFTHE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITH-IN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAWIS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage:DATE OF MORTGAGE: April 30, 2004MORTGAGOR(S): Monique L. Kraay, a single personMORTGAGEE: Wells Far-go Home Mortgage, Inc.DATE AND PLACE OF RECORD-ING: Filed for record May 4, 2004, as Document No. A321521 in the offi ce of the County Record-er in Steele County, Minnesota ASSIGNMENT(S) OF MORTGAGE: Assignment dated April 30, 2004 to Minnesota Housing Finance Agency, fi led for record May 4, 2004, as Document No. A321522 in the offi ce of the County Record-er in Steele County, Minnesota.Said mortgage is not Registered Land.TRANSACTION AGENT: NoneTRANSACTION AGENT’S MORT-GAGE IDENTIFICATION NUM-BER ON MORTGAGE: NoneLENDER OR BROKER AND MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ON MORTGAGE: Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc.RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE SER-VICER: U.S. Bank Home MortgageMORTGAGED PROPERTY AD-DRESS: 247 1st Street SEBlooming Prairie, MN 55917TAX PARCEL ID NUM-BER: 14-105-0108LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROP-ERTY: Lot 8, Block 1, Olson’s Ad-dition to the Village of Blooming Prairie, Steele County, MinnesotaCOUNTY IN WHICH PROP-ERTY IS LOCATED: SteeleORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $ 81,900.00AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE, INCLUDING TAXES, IF ANY, PAID BY ASSIGNEE OF MORTGAGEE: $73,417.03That prior to the commencement of this mortgage foreclosure pro-ceeding Assignee of Mortgagee complied with all notice require-ments as required by statute; That no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to re-cover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof.PURSUANT to the power of sale con-tained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows:DATE AND TIME OF SALE: July 19, 2012 at 10:00 a.m.PLACE OF SALE: Steele County Sheriff’s Offi ce located at the Law Enforcement Center, 204 Pearl Street East, City of Owatonna to pay the debt then secured by said Mort-gage, and taxes, if any, on said prem-ises, and the costs and disburse-ments, including attorneys’ fees allowed by law subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns unless reduced to fi ve (5) weeks under MN Stat. §580.07.TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise provided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must vacate the property if the mortgage is not re-instated under section 580.30 or the property is not redeemed un-der section 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on January 19, 2013. If the foregoing date is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, then the date to vacate is the next business day at 11:59 p.m.

MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROM FINANCIAL OBLIGA-TION ON MORTGAGE: NoneTHE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORT-GAGOR, THE MORTGAGOR’S PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MIN-NESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRO-DUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.

Dated: May 22, 2012.MINNESOTA HOUSING FINANCE

AGENCYAssignee of Mortgagee

Marinus W. Van Putten, Jr., Reg. No. 11232X

BEST & FLANAGAN LLP225 South Sixth Street, Suite 4000

Minneapolis, MN 55402(612) 339-7121

Attorney for Assignee of Mortgagee

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage:DATE OF MORT-GAGE: January 2, 2004ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $148,100.00MORTGAGOR(S): Lyle D. Seath and Shirley A. Seath, husband and wifeMORTGAGEE: Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc., a California cor-poration, n/k/a Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. successor by merger to Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc.DATE AND PLACE OF FILING: Filed January 7, 2004, Steele County Recorder; Document No. 318497 ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-GAGE: Assigned to: noneLEGAL DESCRIP-TION OF PROPERTY: Commencing at the southeast cor-ner of the NE 1/4 Section 26-T105N-R21W of the 5th PM; thence north 00º 00’ east a distance of 731.84 feet, on an assumed bearing on the east line of the NE 1/4 of said Sec-tion 26; thence north 84º 24’53” west a distance of 33.15 feet, to the point of intersection with the westerly right-of-way of County State Aid Highway No. 14 (Sixth Street), said point being the point of beginning; thence north 84º 24’ 53” west a distance of 241.06 feet; thence north 04º 04’ 27” west a distance of 187.12 feet; thence south 85º 19’ 10” west a distance of 109.10 feet; thence north 11º 07’ 15” east distance of 322.28 feet; to a point on the southerly right-ofway of State Highway No. 30; thence southeast-erly a distance of 325.33 feet, on a nontangential curve, concave to the northeast, with a radius of 1697.022 feet, a central angle of 10º 59’ 02” and a chord bearing of south 67º 21’ 09” east on the southerly right-of-way of said State Highway No. 30, to the point of intersection with the westerly right-of-way of said Coun-ty State Aid Highway No. 14 (Sixth Street); thence south 00º 00’ west a distance of 392.36 feet, on the westerly right-of-way of said Coun-ty State Aid Highway No. 14 (Sixth Street), to the pont of beginning.Abstract PropertySTREET ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 520 6th Street, Ellendale, MN 56026COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Steele County, MinnesotaTHE AMOUNT CLAIMED TO BE DUE ON THE MORTGAGE ON THE DATE OF THE NOTICE: $148,217.11THAT no action or proceeding has been instituted at law to re-cover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; that there has been compliance with all pre-foreclosure notice and accel-eration requirements of said mort-gage, and/or applicable statutes;PURSUANT, to the power of sale con-tained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows:DATE AND TIME OF SALE: June 19, 2012 at 10:00 a.m.PLACE OF SALE: Steele County Sheriff’s offi ce, in the Law En-forcement Center, 204 Pearl Street East, Owatonna, Minnesotato pay the debt then secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any actu-ally paid by the mortgagee, on the premises and the costs and dis-bursements allowed by law. The time allowed by law for redemption by said mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns is six (6) months from the date of sale.Unless said mortgage is rein-stated or the property redeemed, or unless the time for redemp-tion is reduced by judicial order, you must vacate the premises by 11:59 p.m. on December 19, 2012.MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROM FINANCIAL OBLIGA-TION ON MORTGAGE: NONE“THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAG-OR, THE MORTGAGOR’S PER-SONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELL-ING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUC-TION, AND ARE ABANDONED.”

Dated: April 23, 2012

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Mortgagee


N. Kibongni Fondungallah, Esq. James J. Pauly, Esq. Brian F. Kidwell, Esq. Steven R. Pennock, Esq. Curt N. Trisko, Esq. Attorneys for Mortgagee 25 North Dale Street St. Paul, MN 55102-2227 (651) 209-9760 (E7421)



(1) Street Address, City and Zip Code of Mortgaged Premises520 6th Street, Ellendale, MN 56026

(2) Transaction AgentWells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc., a California corporation, n/k/a Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. successor by merger to Wells Fargo Home Mort-gage, Inc.(3) Name of Mortgage Originator (Lender)Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc., a California corporation, n/k/a Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. successor by merger to Wells Fargo Home Mort-gage, Inc.(4) Residential ServicerWells Fargo (800) 416-1472(5) Tax Parcel Identifi cation Num-ber15-026-1003(6) Transaction Agent’s Mort-gage ID Number (MERS number)none

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THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: June 21, 2005ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $156,800.00MORTGAGOR(S): Paul G. Delarosa and Olga B. De-larosa, husband and wifeMORTGAGEE: Mortgage Elec-tronic Registration Systems, Inc.TRANSACTION AGENT: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.MIN#: 100220710000035655LENDER: Maribella Mortgage, LLCSERVICER: JPMor-gan Chase Bank, N.A.DATE AND PLACE OF FIL-ING: Filed June 22, 2005, Steele County Recorder, as Document Number A000332936ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: Assigned to: U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, succes-sor in interest to Bank of America, National Association as succes-sor by merger to LaSalle Bank Na-tional Association, as Trustee for Certifi cateholders of Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, Asset-Backed Certifi cates, Series 2005-HE9; Dated: January 3, 2012 fi led: January 13, 2012, recorded as document number A000382364 LEGAL DESCRIP-TION OF PROPERTY:Lot 1, Block 1, Oakridge BluffsPROPERTY ADDRESS: 10 6Th St Se, Medford, MN 55049PROPERTY IDENTIFICA-TION NUMBER: 16-108-0101COUNTY IN WHICH PROP-ERTY IS LOCATED: SteeleTHE AMOUNT CLAIMED TO BE DUE ON THE MORTGAGE ON THE DATE OF THE NOTICE: $188,876.05THAT all pre-foreclosure require-ments have been complied with; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; PURSUANT, to the power of sale con-tained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows:DATE AND TIME OF SALE: June 12, 2012, 10:00amPLACE OF SALE: Sher-iff's Main Offi ce, Law Enforce-ment Center, 204 Pearl Street East, Owatonna, MN 55060to pay the debt secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and dis-bursements, including attorneys fees allowed by law, subject to redemp-tion within 6 months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s) the personal representatives or assigns.TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise pro-vided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must va-cate the property, if the mortgage is not reinstated under section 580.30 or the property is not re-deemed under section 580.23, is 11:59 p.m. on December 12, 2012."THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAG-OR'S PERSONAL REPRESEN-TATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES SECTION 582.032 DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDEN-TIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN 5 UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED FOR AGRICULTURAL PRO-DUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.

Dated: April 20, 2012 U.S. Bank National Association,

as Trustee, successor in interest to Bank of America, National Asso-

ciation as successor by merger to LaSalle Bank National Association, as Trustee for Certifi cateholders of

Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securi-ties I LLC, Asset-Backed Certifi -

cates, Series 2005-HE9

Assignee of Mortgagee SHAPIRO & ZIELKE, LLP

BY ___________________________

Lawrence P. Zielke - 152559Diane F. Mach - 273788

Melissa L. B. Porter - 0337778Ronald W. Spencer - 0104061

Stephanie O. Nelson - 0388918Attorneys for Mortgagee

12550 West Frontage Road, Ste. 200


Burnsville, MN 55337(952) 831-4060

PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT, YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS OFFICE IS DEEMED TO BE A DEBT COLLECTOR. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THIS NOTICE IS REQUIRED BY THE PROVISIONS OF THE FAIR DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT AND DOES NOT IMPLY THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT MONEY FROM ANY-ONE WHO HAS DISCHARGED THE DEBT UNDER THE BANKRUPTCY LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage:DATE OF MORTGAGE: June 17, 2005ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $120,000.00MORTGAGOR(S): Mat-thew C. Wieman and Ashley M. Wieman, husband and wifeMORTGAGEE: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.DATE AND PLACE OF FILING: Filed June 28, 2005, Steele County Registrar of Titles; Document No. T-000058376 and memorialized upon Certifi cate of Title No. 15768ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-GAGE: Assigned to: noneLEGAL DESCRIP-TION OF PROPERTY: The West Sixty One and Three-Fourth (61 3/4) feet of Lot Three (3), Block One (1) and also the East Eight and One-Fourth (8 1/4) feet of that certain alley run-ning North and South across Block One (1), which crosses said Block at the East Side of Lots One (1) and Two (2) all being in Ford's ad-ditino to the City of Owatonna.REGISTERD PROPERTYSTREET ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 118 East Park Street, Owatonna, MN 55060COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Steele County, MinnesotaTHE AMOUNT CLAIMED TO BE DUE ON THE MORTGAGE ON THE DATE OF THE NOTICE: $121,385.41THAT no action or proceeding has been instituted at law to re-cover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; that there has been compliance with all pre-foreclosure notice and accel-eration requirements of said mort-gage, and/or applicable statutes;PURSUANT, to the power of sale con-tained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows:DATE AND TIME OF SALE: June 19, 2012 at 10:00 a.m.PLACE OF SALE: Steele County Sheriff’s offi ce, in the Law En-forcement Center, 204 Pearl Street East, Owatonna, Minnesotato pay the debt then secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any actu-ally paid by the mortgagee, on the premises and the costs and dis-bursements allowed by law. The time allowed by law for redemption by said mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns is six (6) months from the date of sale.Unless said mortgage is rein-stated or the property redeemed, or unless the time for redemp-tion is reduced by judicial order, you must vacate the premises by 11:59 p.m. on December 19, 2012.MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROM FINANCIAL OBLIGATION ON MORTGAGE: MATTHEW C. WIEMAN AND ASHLEY M. WIEMAN“THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAG-OR, THE MORTGAGOR’S PER-SONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELL-ING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUC-TION, AND ARE ABANDONED.”

Dated: April 25, 2012

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.Mortgagee

REITER & SCHILLER, P.A.By: /s/ Rebecca F. Schiller, Esq. Sarah J.B. Adam, Esq. N. Kibongni Fondungal-

lah, Esq. James J. Pauly, Esq. Brian F. Kidwell, Esq. Steven R. Pennock, Esq. Curt N. Trisko, Esq. Attorneys for Mortgagee 25 North Dale Street St. Paul, MN 55102-2227 (651) 209-9760 (E7582)



(1) Street Address, City and Zip Code of Mortgaged Premises118 East Park Street, Owatonna, MN 55060


(2) Transaction AgentWells Fargo Bank, N.A.(3) Name of Mortgage Originator (Lender)Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.(4) Residential ServicerWells Fargo (800) 416-1472(5) Tax Parcel Identifi cation Num-ber17-126-0103(6) Transaction Agent’s Mortgage ID Number (MERS number)none

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STATE OF MINNESOTACOUNTY OF STEELE

DISTRICT COURTTHIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT

PROBATE COURT DIVISION

Court File No. 74-PR-12-1042Estate OfThomas A. Kramer, Decedent

NOTICE AND ORDER OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR

PROBATE OF WILL AND APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL

REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

It is Ordered and Notice is given that on June 26, 2012 at 10:45 a.m., a hearing will be held in this Court at 111 East Main Street, Owatonna, Minnesota, for the formal probate of an instrument purporting to be the Will of the Decedent dated, Decem-ber 18, 2007, (“Will”), and for the ap-pointment of Anthony Kramer, whose address is 817 Minnesota Avenue, Owatonna, MN 55060 and Megan Kramer, whose address is 817 Min-nesota Avenue, Owatonna, MN 55060 as Co-Personal Representa-tives of the Estate of the Decedent in an unsupervised administration. Any objections to the petition must be fi led with the Court prior to or raised at the hearing. If proper and if no objections are fi led or raised, the Personal Representatives will be ap-pointed with full power to administer the Estate including the power to col-lect all assets, to pay all legal debts, claims, taxes and expenses, to sell real and personal property, and to do all necessary acts for the Estate.

Notice is also given that (subject to Minn. Stat. 524.3-801) all credi-tors having claims against the Estate are required to present the claims to the Personal Representatives or to the Court Administrator within four months after the date of this Notice or said claims will be barred. Date: 5-15-12

Casey J. ChristianJudge of District Court

Attorney for PetitionerKristin K. Haberman

Einhaus, Mattison, Craver & Haberman, P.A.

202 N. Cedar Ave.P.O. Box 545

Owatonna, MN 55060Attorney License No: 0268045

Phone: 507-451-3580FAX: 507-451-3532


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DISTRICT COURTTHIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT

PROBATE COURT DIVISION

Court File No. 74-PR-12-1040Estate OfGary L. Schubert, Decedent

NOTICE AND ORDER OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR

PROBATE OF WILL AND APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL

REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

It is Ordered and Notice is given that on June 26, 2012 at 10:45 a.m., a hearing will be held in this Court at 111 East Main Street, Owatonna, Minnesota, for the adjudication of intestacy and determination of heir-ship of the Decedent, and for the ap-pointment of Christine Lynn Brooks, whose address is 5410 SW 81st Street, Owatonna, MN 55060 as Personal Representative of the Es-tate of the Decedent in an unsuper-vised administration. Any objections to the petition must be fi led with the Court prior to or raised at the hear-ing. If proper and if no objections are fi led or raised, the Personal Representative will be appointed with full power to administer the Estate, including the power to col-lect all assets, to pay all legal debts, claims, taxes and expenses, to sell real and personal property, and to do all necessary acts for the Estate.

Notice is also given that (subject to Minn. Stat. 524.3-801) all credi-tors having claims against the Estate are required to present the claims to the Personal Representative or to the Court Administrator within four months after the date of this Notice or said claims will be barred. Date: 5-15-12

Casey J. ChristianJudge of District Court

Attorney for PetitionerKristin K. Haberman

Einhaus, Mattison, Craver & Haberman, P.A.

202 N. Cedar Ave.P.O. Box 545

Owatonna, MN 55060Attorney License No: 0268045

Phone: 507-451-3580FAX: 507-451-3532


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SALEPRIVATE THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage:DATE OF MORTGAGE: May 28, 2010ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $93,112.00MORTGAGOR(S): Paul F. Watkins, singleMORTGAGEE: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.DATE AND PLACE OF FIL-ING: Filed June 4, 2010, Steele County Recorder; Document No. A000371522; order correcting mari-tal status recorded April 2, 2012 as Document No. A000383798 ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-GAGE: Assigned to: NoneLEGAL DESCRIP-TION OF PROPERTY: Commencing at a point 33 feet North and 24.75 feet East of the South-west corner of the Southeast Quar-ter of Section 35, Township 108, North of Range 20 West, which point is marked by an iron rod marker, running thence North 64 degrees 45’West 149 feet to an iron pipe marker, thence North parallel with and 110 feet West of the North and South centerline of said Section, 350 feet; thence East at a 90 degrees an-gle 198.43 feet to an iron rod marker; thence South 0 degree 21’West 80 feet to iron rod marker; thence North 90 degrees East 183 feet to center-line of public road; passing through iron rod marker on West line of said public road; thence South 0 degree 21’West 335.5 feet along center-line of said road to a point 33 feet North of the South line of said Sec-tion 35; thence North 89 degrees 33’ West parallel with South line of said Section, 244.15 feet to point of beginning; subject to easement for public road and containing 0.95 acre, more or less, in said South-east Quarter of Southwest Quar-ter and 2.23 acres, more or less, in said Southwest Quarter of said Southeast Quarter of said Section.STREET ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 2662 24th Avenue NE, Owatonna, MN 55060COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Steele County, MinnesotaTHE AMOUNT CLAIMED TO BE DUE ON THE MORTGAGE ON THE DATE OF THE NOTICE: $97,216.63THAT no action or proceeding has been instituted at law to re-cover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; that there has been compliance with all pre-foreclosure notice and accel-eration requirements of said mort-gage, and/or applicable statutes;PURSUANT, to the power of sale con-tained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows:DATE AND TIME OF SALE: July 10, 2012 at 10:00 a.m.PLACE OF SALE: Steele County Sheriff’s offi ce, in the Law En-forcement Center, 204 Pearl Street East, Owatonna, Minnesotato pay the debt then secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any actu-ally paid by the mortgagee, on the premises and the costs and dis-bursements allowed by law. The time allowed by law for redemption by said mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns is six (6) months from the date of sale.Unless said mortgage is rein-stated or the property redeemed, or unless the time for redemp-tion is reduced by judicial order, you must vacate the premises by 11:59 p.m. on January 10, 2013.

MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROM FINANCIAL OBLIGA-TION ON MORTGAGE: NONE“THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAG-OR, THE MORTGAGOR’S PER-SONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELL-ING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUC-TION, AND ARE ABANDONED.”

Dated: May 17, 2012

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Mortgagee


N. Kibongni Fondungallah, Esq. James J. Pauly, Esq. Brian F. Kidwell, Esq. Steven R. Pennock, Esq. Curt N. Trisko, Esq. Attorneys for Mortgagee 25 North Dale Street St. Paul, MN 55102-2227 (651) 209-9760 (E2861)



(1) Street Address, City and Zip Code of Mortgaged Premises2662 24th Avenue NE, Owatonna, MN 55060(2) Transaction AgentWells Fargo Bank, N.A.(3) Name of Mortgage Originator (Lender)Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.(4) Residential ServicerWells Fargo (800) 416-1472(5) Tax Parcel Identifi cation Number12-035-2310(6) Transaction Agent’s Mortgage ID Number (MERS number)None

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THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage:DATE OF MORT-GAGE: December 4, 2007ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $172,000.00MORTGAGOR(S): Mark R. Mc-Gaheran and Debra J. McGa-heran, As Husband and WifeMORTGAGEE: Mortgage Elec-tronic Registration Systems, Inc.TRANSACTION AGENT: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.MIN#: 100029500021992973LENDER: Commu-nity Bank OwatonnaSERVICER: Cenlar FSBDATE AND PLACE OF FILING: Filed December 12, 2007, Steele County Registrar of Titles, as Document Number T000062415ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-GAGE: Assigned to: Cen-lar FSB; Dated: March 2, 2012 LEGAL DESCRIP-TION OF PROPERTY:Lot 7, Block 1, Radel's Coun-try Club Addition No. 2REGISTERED PROPERTYPROPERTY ADDRESS: 450 Al-lan Ave, Owatonna, MN 55060PROPERTY IDENTIFICATION NUM-BER: 17.318.0107 Cert No. 17269COUNTY IN WHICH PROP-ERTY IS LOCATED: SteeleTHE AMOUNT CLAIMED TO BE DUE ON THE MORTGAGE ON THE DATE OF THE NOTICE: $169,754.07THAT all pre-foreclosure require-ments have been complied with; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof;PURSUANT, to the power of sale con-tained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows:DATE AND TIME OF SALE: July 19, 2012, 10:00amPLACE OF SALE: Sher-iff's Main Offi ce, Law Enforce-ment Center, 204 Pearl Street East, Owatonna, MN 55060to pay the debt secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and dis-bursements, including attorneys fees allowed by law, subject to redemp-tion within 6 months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s) the personal representatives or assigns.TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise pro-vided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must va-cate the property, if the mortgage is not reinstated under section 580.30 or the property is not re-deemed under section 580.23, is 11:59 p.m. on January 22, 2013. "THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAG-OR'S PERSONAL REPRESEN-TATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES SECTION 582.032 DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDEN-TIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN 5 UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED FOR AGRICULTURAL PRO-DUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.

Dated: May 17, 2012

Cenlar FSBAssignee of Mortgagee

SHAPIRO & ZIELKE, LLP

BY ___________________________

Lawrence P. Zielke - 152559Diane F. Mach - 273788

Melissa L. B. Porter - 0337778Ronald W. Spencer - 0104061

Stephanie O. Nelson - 0388918Randolph W. Dawdy - 2160X

Gary J. Evers - 0134764Attorneys for Mortgagee

12550 West Frontage Road, Ste. 200

Burnsville, MN 55337(952) 831-4060

PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT


COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT, YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS OFFICE IS DEEMED TO BE A DEBT COLLECTOR. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THIS NOTICE IS REQUIRED BY THE PROVISIONS OF THE FAIR DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT AND DOES NOT IMPLY THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT MONEY FROM ANY-ONE WHO HAS DISCHARGED THE DEBT UNDER THE BANKRUPTCY LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. 5/29,6/5,6/12

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that default has occurred in conditions of the following described mortgage:DATE OF MORT-GAGE: May 4, 2007MORTGAGOR: T a n y a A. Pender, A Single Person.MORTGAGEE: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association.DATE AND PLACE OF RE-CORDING: Recorded May 8, 2007, Steele County Record-er, Document No. A000349515.ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: NONE TRANSACTION AGENT: NONETRANSACTION AGENT'S MORT-GAGE IDENTIFICATION NUM-BER ON MORTGAGE: NONELENDER OR BROKER AND MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STAT-ED ON MORTGAGE: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National AssociationRESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE SERVICER: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National AssociationMORTGAGED PROPERTY AD-DRESS: 30 Aspen Highland Place, Owatonna, MN 55060TAX PARCEL I.D. #: 17-254-0103LEGAL DESCRIP-TION OF PROPERTY:

Lot 3, Block 1 Golfview Addi-tion No. 2, Owatonna, MinnesotaCOUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: S t e e l eORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $ 1 6 8 , 7 0 8 . 0 0AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE, INCLUDING TAXES, IF ANY, PAID BY MORTGAGEE: $ 1 8 5 , 4 0 0 . 1 6That prior to the commencement of this mortgage foreclosure pro-ceeding Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee complied with all notice requirements as required by stat-ute; That no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or other-wise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof;PURSUANT to the power of sale con-tained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows:DATE AND TIME OF SALE: July 29, 2011 at 10:00 AMPLACE OF SALE: S t e e l e County Sheriff's Offi ce, Law En-forcement Center, 204 Pearl Street East, Owatonna, MNto pay the debt then secured by said Mortgage, and taxes, if any, on said premises, and the costs and dis-bursements, including attorneys' fees allowed by law subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns unless reduced to Five (5) weeks under MN Stat. §580.07.TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise provided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must vacate the property if the mortgage is not rein-stated under section 580.30 or the property is not redeemed under sec-tion 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on Janu-ary 30, 2012, unless the redemption period is reduced to 5 weeks under MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.

MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROM FINANCIAL OBLIGA-TION ON MORTGAGE:None"THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAG-OR, THE MORTGAGOR'S PER-SONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER

THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELL-ING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUC-TION, AND ARE ABANDONED."

Dated: May 31, 2011.

JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association

Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee

USSET, WEINGARDEN AND LIEBO, P.L.L.P.

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Pursuant to the provisions of Min-nesota Statutes 580.07, the forego-ing foreclosure sale is postponed until July 27, 2012 at 10:00 AM at the Steele County Sheriff’s Offi ce, Law Enforcement Center, 204 Pearl Street East, Owatonna, MN, in said county and state.

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SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGINDEPENDENT SCHOOL

DISTRICT #756BLOOMING PRAIRIE, MN 55917

MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2012

HIGH SCHOOL MEDIA CENTERPROPOSED TENTATIVE AGENDA

6:00 a.m.Thursday, June 14, 2012 Work Session – Board Room at the High School 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 18, 2012 Informal Finance Work Session – High School Media Center7:00 p.m. Monday, June 18, 2012 Open Public Forum – High School Media Center7:15 p.m. Monday, June 18, 2012 Regular School Board Meeting – High School Media CenterAny person may raise a question to the School Board. The Board will not act on any item presented to them, which is not on the agenda, until the following Board meeting. Also, the Board would like persons to limit themselves to fi ve minutes, with a maximum of 15 minutes per topic. These limitations are needed for us to run a timely and orderly Board meeting. Persons are requested to identify themselves prior to speak-ing.I. CALL TO ORDER - CHAIRPER-SON

II.ROLL CALL - CLERK

III. APPROVAL OF AGENDA

IV. PRINCIPAL REPORTS

V. ITEMS ON WHICH BOARD AC-TION IS REQUESTEDA. Consent Agenda Minutes Bills Treasurer’s Report Resignations Employment B. Aid Anticipation/Cash Flow Bor-rowing ProgramC. Resolution Announcing Availabil-ity of Positions D. Technology LeaseE. Copy Machine LeaseF. Principals’ ContractG. Custodial Union AgreementH. Non-Certifi ed Negotiations/GridI. Staffi ng J. Technology Fee VI.ITEMS OF INFORMATION AND/OR DISCUSSION ONLYA. Committee Reports B. Enrollment DataC. Dates to Note VII. SUPERINTENDENT OR BOARD MEMBER ITEMSVIII. ADJOURNMENT*Agenda may be subject to changes

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that default has occurred in conditions of the following described mortgage:DATE OF MORT-GAGE: January 15, 2009MORTGAGOR: Denys A. Aldrich, a single woman.MORTGAGEE: Prestige Mortgage, LLC.DATE AND PLACE OF RECORD-ING: Recorded January 21, 2009 Steele County Record-er, Document No. A000361608.ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-GAGE: Assigned to: JPM-organ Chase Bank, N.A.TRANSACTION AGENT: NONETRANSACTION AGENT’S MORT-GAGE IDENTIFICATION NUM-BER ON MORTGAGE: NONELENDER OR BROKER AND MORTGAGE ORIGINA-TOR STATED ON MORT-GAGE: Prestige Mortgage, LLCRESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE SERVICER: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National AssociationMORTGAGED PROPERTY ADDRESS: 202 Central Av-enue West, Medford, MN 55049TAX PARCEL I.D. #: 161011205LEGAL DESCRIP-TION OF PROPERTY:Lots 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, all in Block 12, in Johnson and Company Addition to the Village (now City) of Medford, Min-nesota, Steele County, Minnesota.COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: S t e e l eORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $ 1 4 0 , 3 0 6 . 0 0AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE, INCLUDING TAXES, IF ANY, PAID BY MORTGAGEE: $ 1 4 7 , 1 7 4 . 11That prior to the commencement of this mortgage foreclosure pro-ceeding Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee complied with all notice requirements as required by stat-ute; That no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or other-wise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof;PURSUANT to the power of sale con-tained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows:DATE AND TIME OF SALE: July 27, 2012 at 10:00 AMPLACE OF SALE: S t e e l e County Sheriff’s Offi ce, Law En-forcement Center, 204 Pearl Street East, Owatonna, MNto pay the debt then secured by said Mortgage, and taxes, if any, on said premises, and the costs and dis-bursements, including attorneys’ fees allowed by law subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns unless reduced to Five (5) weeks under MN Stat. §580.07.

TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise provided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must vacate the property if the mortgage is not rein-stated under section 580.30 or the property is not redeemed under sec-tion 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on Janu-ary 28, 2013, unless the redemption period is reduced to 5 weeks under MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.

MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROM FINANCIAL OBLIGA-TION ON MORTGAGE:None“THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAG-OR, THE MORTGAGOR’S PER-SONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELL-ING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED


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