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By Karen SnyderPINE ISLAND – Job opportu-

nities are on the rise in Pine Islandthanks to the acquisition of DSManufacturing by a Nebraska com-pany, Lincoln Industries. The busi-nesses announced the deal on April2, and already, DS (now officially“DS Manufacturing, a whollyowned subsidiary of Lincoln In-dustries”) is hiring.

DS, which employs between 80and 90 workers, has started build-ing a second shift, said RichBreustedt, former co-owner andnow plant manager. “We envisionover 20 new jobs will be addedthis year, and more in 2016.”

And more beyond that: “Theplant [now 75,000 square feet] willmore than likely be expandedwithin the next few years,” he said.

Established 51 years ago as PinePlating, DS Manufacturing fabri-cates and chrome plates metal tu-bular components and welded as-

semblies for local and nationalmanufacturing companies. It alsomakes Khrome Werks, a line ofaftermarket motorcycle productssuch as handlebars, mufflers, andexhaust systems that are soldthroughout the world.

Breustedt and Mike Gaveskebecame partial owners of DS in2005 and full owners last year.Like Breustedt, Gaveske will staywith the company, as director ofbusiness development.

Lincoln Industries, founded in1952, fabricates and plates tubes,too. It specializes in large diam-eter tubes and DS in small diam-eter tubes, an expertise vital to thebusiness’ continued success, saidLincoln communications managerKylie Ensrud.

“Lincoln Industries was a cus-tomer of DS,” Breustedt said. “Weboth realized that combining thetwo companies would create asynergy of growth which would

Lincoln Industries buys DS ManufacturingSale means more jobs for Pine Island

allow us to enter new marketplacesby combining our strengths.”

Lincoln Industries has grown15 percent a year for the past fiveor six years, Ensrud said. And forthe past seven years, it has madeThe Great Place to Work Institute’slist of 25 Best Medium-Size Com-panies to Work For. The instituteis a Fortune partner, and you canread its 2014 review of Lincoln athttp://us.greatrated.com/review/lincoln-industries2014.

The DS staff are enthusiasticabout the sale to Lincoln, Breustedtsaid: “We feel that the opportuni-ties for growth and security thatLincoln Industries will offer ourcompany and our employees is anexciting prospect.”

Asked about the possibility oftransferring the Pine Island op-eration to Nebraska, Ensrud said,“There are no plans at all to move.The talent and expertise are there,and the location is convenient.”

DS is seeking workers to fill“skilled manufacturing jobs inmetal fabrication, welding andpolishing,” Breustedt said. “Wedo some of the training in housewhen needed. We will also be add-ing manufacturing support posi-tions such as quality control.”Five facts aboutLincoln Industries

Lincoln Industries employs ap-proximately 600 people in its fivelocations in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Among the customers LincolnIndustries serves are John Deere,Harley-Davidson, Daimler, andVolvo.

In 2013, Inc. 500/5000 recog-nized Lincoln Industries as one ofthe fastest-growing privately heldcompanies in America.

Lincoln is committed to envi-ronmental responsibility and hasachieved perfect compliance ev-ery year for the past eleven years.

The company generated over$125 million in earnings in 2014and has a goal of achieving 15percent revenue growth every year.

By Audra DePestel

Noll is the Cheese Festivalbutton design winnerPINE ISLAND – The Pine IslandCheese Festival Committee is proudto announce Mikkey Noll as thewinner of the 2015 Cheese Festivalbutton design contest. A se venth-grader at PI Middle School, Nollwill receive a check for $50 alongwith the first button. The contesttheme this year was farming. Over100 students in grades K-12participated in the contest, and allwho submitted a design will receivea free button. The selection processwas a difficult one for the committee– they even had to have a tie-breaker.The runner-up design as well asthe all of the other drawings willbe on display at Pine Island Bank.The 79th Cheese Festival will takeplace June 5-7 at its new locationnext to the Douglas Trail/TrailheadCity Park area.

Powerline work runs in the Matthees family

At a Matthees family gathering in January 2015, six members formedtheir family “tree” of powerline workers. Clockwise starting at bottomleft: Dale Matthees, Ross Matthees, Chad Matthees, Kyle Lodermeier,Matthew Matthees, and Brandon Matthees.

By Marilyn AndersonZUMBROTA – It is not unusual

to hear of several members of afamily following the same careerpath. A family business, healthcare,law, farming, or teaching, are allexamples. For Zumbrota nativeDale Matthees, his son, and fourof his nephews, conversation at afamily gathering is likely to turnto a common bond besides theirfamily relationship – powerlinework. Dale and five members ofthe “next generation,” attendedvocational schools for powerlinework and are currently employedby cooperatives and companies inMinnesota in a variety of roles.It began with Dale

Dale and his four siblings, Gary,David, and Keith Matthees andMarla Lodermeier, grew up in ru-ral Zumbrota. After graduatingfrom Zumbrota High School, Daleattended the eleven month line-man program at Jackson Voca-tional School (now MinnesotaWest Community & TechnicalCollege, Jackson Campus). Nowa resident of Farmington, Dale isin his 46th year at Dakota ElectricAssociation, having started em-ployment there in August 1969.

During his tenure, he has seenmany changes as the customer baseat Dakota Electric has grown from10,000 to 110,000 services withbusiness customers as large asBurnsville Center. When severestorm damage occurs and poweroutages are extensive in the area,other power companies are calledupon to assist to restore electric-ity to homes and businesses andmake repairs as quickly as pos-sible. Maintenance is an ongoingtask for the cooperative as well asnew construction.The next generation

In 2001, Brandon Mattheesgraduated from Farmington HighSchool and followed his dad’scareer path. However, he was ableto go just down the road to DakotaCounty Technical College (DCTC)in Rosemount for his training asthe school and program opened inthe early 1970s.

“I guess I should have gottenhim up every time I had 2 a.m.calls to go to work,” joked Daleabout his son’s career choice. Bran-don has worked for a dozen yearsfor Xcel Energy in the southernmetro area where he is now a crewchief. He has had the opportunityto travel a few times with his job,assisting in storm damage else-where. One of the longest assign-ments was for 21 days followingthe widespread devastation ofHurricane Sandy.

In addition to his son, four ofDale’s nephews headed to line-man programs for training. After

graduation from Zumbrota-Mazeppa High School in 2002,Ross Matthees also attendedDCTC. He has worked at GoodhueCounty Cooperative Electric, basedout of Zumbrota, since shortly af-ter completing the lineman course.Ross worked as a lineman untilmoving to Member Services at thecooperative in 2014. He said theMatthees cousins talked at familygatherings about their futures, in-cluding the possibility of becom-ing lineworkers. Being aroundDale and learning what he did; thepossibility of a career after aneleven month program for initialtraining; a job where you workoutside; and good pay were allfactors influencing their careerdecisions, Ross said.

Kyle Lodermeier graduated fromZMHS in 2008. After completinghis training at DCTC, he initiallyworked for contractors, construct-ing and repairing power lines.Working as a contracted employeeis another role recently graduatedstudents will seek for employment.Contracted lineworkers may alsobe called upon to repair lines thathave suffered storm damage in-cluding traveling to areas hit byhurricanes. For the past three years,Kyle has been employed at Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric inOwatonna, where he is a journey-man lineman.

Brothers Matthew (2007 ZMgrad) and Chad (2011 ZM grad)Matthees also followed their uncleand cousins to the power linemanindustry. After Matthew completedthe program at DCTC atRosemount, he initially workedsummers at Dakota Electric As-sociation as a lineman and has beena dispatcher there since 2011.

Chad broke the mold and wentout of Minnesota for his trainingby attending Northwest LinemanSchool in Meridian, Idaho. Butthen Chad returned to Minnesotato work. After working for a con-tractor, he has been a lineman atPeople’s Energy Cooperative ofOronoco for two years.Training overview

Electrical lineworker programssuch as the ones the Matthees fam-ily members have attended aredescribed as preparing graduatesto join the electrical power indus-try workforce as safe and knowl-edgeable apprentices. Along withextensive hands-on experiencebuilding power lines, students alsopractice both overhead and un-derground techniques. Instructiondone on campus includes trainingfor pole climbing, line construc-tion, bucket-truck operation anderecting power lines usingpowerline construction trucks.

After completion of a training

program, 7500 hours of on-the-job work are required for an ap-prentice to become a journeymanlineworker. Hours are categorizedwith overhead and undergroundconstruction and maintenancebeing two of the major categories,and with safety training also a veryhigh priority. Four years of spe-

cific testing is done, culminatingin a comprehensive final exam.

As you travel around towns orthe countryside and see a powerlinetruck or line construction in pro-cess, you just might see a memberof the Matthees family or anotherone of your friends or neighborsat work.

By Tawny MichelsZUMBROTA – The April 16

Zumbrota City Council meetinghad a short agenda with very littlediscussion. The council did hearfrom resident Tim Mack duringthe public comments portion ofthe evening to discuss some newdevelopments in the proposed ZipRail line.

Mack said he was selected to bepart of the Zip Rail Citizens Advi-sory Committee which consists ofresidents in the towns that will beimpacted if the rail line becomes areality. Along with Mack, citycouncilor Brad Drenckhahn waschosen for the committee.

Mack said he will be reporting

to the committee that Zumbrotaand its residents have some con-cerns such as road access, safety,and the need for additional fireand rescue to accommodate thechanging landscape and the sub-sequent possible threats of acci-dents.

Mayor Rich Bauer said he agreeswith voicing all of these concerns.He added, “I would also like toknow the economics of it all. Inever see anything about that sideof it. Will we ever know?” Hementioned that he would like toknow the total cost, estimated num-ber of travelers, and if it will re-ally benefit the area at all.

Drenckhahn responded, “I guesswe will find out at the first meet-ing in May.”

No other council membersweighed in on the issue other thanto agree with the concerns men-tioned by Mack and Mayor Bauer.Other business

Council approved a bid fromEhlers in the amount of $11,500for a wastewater and water ratestudy per the suggestions from cityattorney Ken Bayliss and CityAdministrator Neil Jensen.

Council approved a sealcoatquote from Pearson Brothers. Theywill be sealcoating approximately26,529 square yards of asphalt for$60, 631.72.

Dan King informed the councilthat they may soon be hearing aplea by Zumbrota residents overthe next few months to get an or-dinance change that would allowchickens within city limits after acase was presented before the EDAon Tuesday, April 14.

Citizens AdvisoryCommittee forZip Rail is formed

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Please build the Zip Rail when...To the Editor:

Please build the Zip Rail wheneducation finally gets funded eq-uitably. The starting point of thishigh-speed train, Minneapolis, gets$12,000/student. My town, Can-non Falls, gets $6000/student.

Please build the Zip Rail whenyou have fixed every bridge androad in Minnesota—FIRST.

Please build the Zip Rail whenyou have finished all the over-passes needed to save lives.

Please build the Zip Rail whenthe proposed tracks, or even yournewest monster “elevated” tracks,do not divide a town or schooldistrict.

Please build the Zip Rail when

you develop a system that will notgive off any vibrations or currentsthat impact our farmers’ livelihoodsand a system that I will not hearfrom my town as I like to sleepwith my windows open, like mostrural Minnesotans do.

Please build the Zip Rail whenridership forecasts are simply be-lievable. Do you really believethat anyone is willing to pay $60round trip to ride this Zip Rail,with NO stops along the way?

Please build the Zip Rail whenyou no longer subsidize the cur-rent rail system in the Twin Citiesbecause that, too, is a big flop.

Please build the Zip Rail wheneach of these so called “private

investors” have donated equallyas much to a charity – any charity,I don’t care!

Please leave the Highway 52and Highway 56 corridors alone.We are rural Minnesota; we livehere for a reason. You want toplow through our quiet little townsso that Mayo employees can getto work faster. Well then, maybethose people should live, pay taxes,and support the community thatsupports them. I have done noth-ing but promote Destination Medi-cal Center; however, if this high-speed rail goes through, you havelost my support 100%.

Beth GieseCannon Falls

Misconduct continuesTo the Editor:

This letter is in response to thearticle last week titled “Mazeppaadministrator/clerk applicants tobe narrowed down this week.” Myresponse is in regard to the sec-tion titled “Peplinski a no-show.”

Mazeppa City Attorney SteveErwin continues to cover up evi-dence of corruption. This afterclaiming 838 days after his origi-nal complaint that he had feelingsthat he needed to be protected be-cause I requested to inspect pub-lic records. Amazingly, he con-vinced Wabasha County AttorneyKarrie Kelly of these feelings and

she filed charges against me forstalking and filing a false policereport. With the sanctions placedon Wabasha County Judge Walters,it leaves one to believe the rest ofthe followers would play it closeto the book. Erwin’s frivolouscharges were dismissed and theappointed judge ruled that anyrecords request I had be made toMr. Erwin through my attorney.Mr. Erwin provided my attorneywith five dates in which I couldreview records. I advised Erwinthat I also wanted to review therecords requested by the organi-zation California Common Sense,

and due to the distance I had totravel, would review all recordswhen available.

Erwin has since been non-re-sponsive. Understandable, due tothe content of the records I wantto inspect. He now claims since Ididn’t show up on the date he de-manded that “the city will not wasteany more time or effort on futurerequests.” Mr. Erwin you are apublic servant and know or shouldknow public records are to be madeavailable during regular businesshours, not when you demand. Whatare you trying to hide?

Steve PeplinskiCaledonia

Response to PeplinskiTo the Editor:

This is in response to Mr.Peplinski’s letter this week. Asusual, he misstated several factsand totally invented others.

Facts, as stated by President JohnAdams many years ago, are trouble-some things. Here are the facts.

We first had contact with Mr.Peplinski several years ago whenhe asked for a permit to do somework on his building in Mazeppain a commercial zone. When heattempted to live in the buildingcontrary to Mazeppa zoning code,we told him he could not do so.

Mr. Peplinski and his formergirlfriend then sent more than 100requests for information under theMinnesota Data Privacy Act tothe City of Mazeppa. As city at-torney, one of my jobs is to re-spond to requests for information.Each and every one of those re-quests was fulfilled and the infor-mation was provided to Mr.Peplinski and his former girlfriend.Does this sound like the City ofMazeppa and I are trying to hideanything?

The Data Privacy Act was passedby the Minnesota Legislature toprovide transparency in govern-ment. It was not designed to allowcitizens to simply harass their gov-ernment at great cost to the gov-ernment and ultimately the tax-payers.

Mr. Peplinski has filed numer-ous allegations against me andmembers of the County Attorney’sOffice with the Minnesota Boardof Professional Responsibility(Lawyers’ Board), all of whichhave been dismissed without evenso much as a hearing.

Mr. Peplinski at one time hadeleven harassment restraining or-ders in effect against him. A ha-rassment restraining order isgranted by a court after a hearingto prevent further harassmentagainst a person. I personally pros-ecuted him for a violation of oneof those orders and he pled guilty.At the court hearing where he en-tered a guilty plea, one of the ThirdDistrict judges asked Mr. Peplinskihow many harassment restrainingorders were in effect against him.

Mr. Peplinski replied, “About adozen.”

The most recent request by Mr.Peplinski asked for seven years’worth of my correspondences andemails with the Mazeppa CityAdministrator, city clerk, city coun-cil, Wabasha County attorney,Sheriff Rodney Bartsh, and allsheriff’s deputies. He also askedfor seven years’ worth of agendasand minutes of the Mazeppa CityCouncil. This amount of paper-work resulted in several thousandpages of materials. It has taken agreat deal of time and thousandsof taxpayer dollars to accumulatethese items. We sent his attorneyseveral dates in February that wouldwork for the city officials and I tomeet with him to view the materi-als we had collected. We neverheard from either Mr. Peplinskior his attorney as to which datewould work.

In March, we received anotherrequest from Mr. Peplinski’s at-torney to pick new dates to viewthe materials. We again sent sev-eral dates and times to his attor-ney. We agreed with Mr.Peplinski’s attorney to meet himat Mazeppa City Hall on March25, 2015, from 8 a.m. to noon (dur-ing regular business hours) to havehim view the materials we hadcollected so far. He never showedup to view the materials, did notcontact the city, nor did he con-tact my office to say that he wouldnot attend. He wasted the time ofthe city administrator, city clerk,city attorney, and a sheriff’s deputy.

With regard to the accusationsmade in his latest letter to the edi-tor, here are the facts. Mr. Peplinskisent to me a check to cover thecost of one of his multitudinousdata privacy requests. In the letteraccompanying the check, he statedthat if the $5 he sent was not allneeded to cover the request, wecould apply it to his water billwith the City of Mazeppa. A shorttime later, he called the WabashaCounty Sheriff’s Office and re-ported that I had stolen his $5. Hedid this four more times. He alsosent a letter stating that he con-tacted the sheriff’s office because

he felt that I had not processed hisdata privacy request fast enough.The last time he did this, becauseit wasted a lot of my time to an-swer these ridiculous charges, andwasted a lot of time of the WabashaCounty Sheriff’s Office, I con-tacted the Wabasha CountyAttorney’s Office and requestedthat charges be filed against Mr.Peplinski for his conduct. I be-lieved then, and I believe today,that his conduct violated the law.The county attorney took a longtime to file charges against Mr.Peplinski but finally did so, charg-ing him with falsely reporting acrime and stalking in violation ofMinnesota Statute Sections609.749 and 609.505.

A judge of the Third JudicialDistrict disagreed and dismissedthe charges. While I disagree withthe ruling, I have a great deal ofrespect for our system of laws anddefer to the ruling.

Now Mr. Peplinski continuesto make his totally unfounded ac-cusations. He has been asked byme, the Wabasha CountyAttorney’s Office, and theWabasha County Sheriff’s Officeto provide evidence to back up hisassertions and never does so. Thisis because he has no evidencewhatsoever. There is no “cover-up” or “corruption.”

As another judge of our ThirdJudicial District told Mr. Peplinskion one occasion, “If you want tofind out what the problem is, Mr.Peplinski, go home and look inthe mirror.”

Steven L. ErwinMazeppa City Attorney

AsThe Worm

TurnsBy Jeanne Truestedt

Fingers know best

To understand the growing po-tential of one’s garden is to knowand understand its soil. To do thatone must take the gloves off, benddown to worm level and feel theearth. Don’t worry, worms don’tbite and they don’t usually inhabitthe topsoil you’re touching any-way. What you really want is tofeel the texture, density, and moist-ness of the environment into whichyou plant roots so they can breathe,take up nourishment and thrive.

Assuming you take a shovel withyou, dig down into the soil abouthalf a foot and turn the earth overso you can get up close and per-sonal. Using your eyes, look for

signs of moisture, small stones,bits of twigs, and worm holes/tun-nels. With your nose, smell forrot, chemicals, and mold. And withyour fingers, squeeze the soil tosee if it forms a ball that holdstogether from the compression, orcrumbles into the palm of yourhand. Depending upon your ob-servations, you can solve lots ofpotential growing problems justby using common sense and whatyou’ve experienced.

If you see, feel, and smell ex-cess moisture you probably havea clay soil that doesn’t drain well,encourages root rot, and doesn’thave enough oxygen in it to pro-mote vigorous growth for eitherplants or worms. On the other hand,a soil that crumbles in your palm,smells like springtime, and looksporous is a miracle served on asilver platter to the avid gardener!Plant immediately and enjoy.

Friable soil is necessary for sus-

taining excellent growth condi-tions, so heavy clay soil will re-quire some additional effort tomake it more porous. Addingmulch, sand/gravel, and otheramendments to the soil is costly,laborious, and exhausting...but itworks. A healthy worm popula-tion can certainly help, but it takesdecades of work to create largefriable areas. So, if you do haveless than ideal soil to work with,start adding mulch, and organicmatter to small areas first with theintention of enlarging the spacesgradually.

Or build raised beds and fill thebeds with fertile soil to start grow-ing things immediately. Large potsalso work for growing anythingfrom flowers to vegetables, espe-cially the new mini-varieties. Ei-ther method will keep you gar-dening until you can get around toamending a larger area.

FromDevil’sKitchenBy Jan David Fisher

American moral standards

Former President Jimmy Carterhas written several books sincehis term in office. One of them,published in 2005, was entitled“Our Endangered Values”(America’s Moral Crisis). I startedreading it and the more I read, themore I had a feeling of “been there,done that!” In 1859, CharlesDickens wrote a novel about theFrench Revolution from an En-glish (London) perspective.

The novel begins, “It was thebest of times, it was the worst oftimes, it was the age of wisdom, itwas the age of foolishness, it wasthe epoch of belief, it was the ep-och of incredulity, it was the sea-son of Light, it was the season ofDarkness, it was the spring of hope,it was the winter of despair, wehad everything before us, we hadnothing before us, we were all goingdirect to Heaven, we were all go-ing direct the other way – in short,the period was so far like the presentperiod, that some of its noisiestauthorities insisted on its beingreceived, for good or for evil, in

the superlative degree of compari-son only.”

Mr. Carter’s book begins, “Themost controversial issues beingaddressed within our nation willbe discussed in the following chap-ters. It will be helpful to under-stand the prevailing personal opin-ions of American citizens, theirdifferences and similarities, howthey have been modified or re-main the same and whether theyare compatible with the profoundpolitical changes taking place inour country.”

Carter follows with a list of theissues, both specific and general.What has changed between 1859and 2005? The writer’s viewpointis the same – woe is us! The is-sues are similar. Some words aremore precise to the issue. Cartercould have opened with the sameline: ”It is the best of times, it isthe worst of times.”

Why did Mr. Carter write thisbook? He feels driven by his Chris-tian moral beliefs. He tries to com-pare his moral standards and prin-ciples against the presidents whofollowed him. He doesn’t just findthem different, but, rather, infe-rior to his principles. The Found-ing Fathers used a variety of booksas their background for writingthe Declaration of Independenceand the Constitution of the United

States. Notice as you read thesedocuments that no book is definedas “the” reference. They designedand built a nation, recognizing allfaiths and endorsing none of them.Our forefathers left their home-lands because their religions weredifferent from the prevailing oneof their country. Had they stayedthere, they would have been killed.We tend to forget that. We havecome full circle in believing thatour religion is the only right oneand all of the others are false.

The key for me is “Christianmoral beliefs” and what thosewords evoke. All too often thosewords lead to killing and war andnot to acceptance and peace. Whatwe, as a nation, should have, areAmerican moral beliefs and prin-ciples. For instance, “All men (andwomen) are created equal.” Weshould judge people by their ac-tions based not on a religious bookbut one based on equality. We needto get back to when this countrywas the “melting pot” of mankind.When it didn’t matter what youwere before, now you are Ameri-can! At one point in my life, I feltthe melting pot had boiled over.Now I feel the fire has gone outunder it. Diversity has been ourstrength and it has grown, maybetoo much for some of us. Untilnext week.

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4-H presents treats to Honor Guard and LegionMAZEPPA – Members of the Mazeppa Musketeers 4-H Club provided the Mazeppa American Legion, HonorGuard, and Legion Auxiliary with a reception of delicious treats following their meeting on April 8. From leftto right, front row: Gabbi Perrotti, Rosa Perrotti, Maddie O’Reilly, Brooklyn Radtke, Zoa Creiger, andChristine Siems; back row: Isaiah O’Reilly, Will Radtke, Mark Yeakel, Lana Yeakel, Isaiah Creiger, ArickaRoberson, and Cecelia Siems.

DNR QUESTION OF THE WEEKQ: I’d like to incorporate native

plants into my home landscaping.How will I know what species toplant, and do you have any advicefor getting started?

A: First of all, congratulations– using native plants will createbetter habitat for bees, butterflies,and other native animals in youryard, and can provide other envi-ronmental benefits such as soak-ing up storm water.

You will have the most successif you start by learning about yoursite an d the surrounding land-scape. It’s best to plant speciesthat are adapted to your area and

your conditions. You can use his-torical vegetation information, aswell as current nearby natural ar-eas, for reference.

For example, if you live in apart of the state that was histori-cally prairie, and your site is sunnywith appropriate soils , prairie plants are likely the right choice. On the other hand, if you live in a for-ested area, native forest vegeta-tion might be the best choice. Lo-cal government offices such as soiland water conservation districtscan often help make these deter-minations. Maps of current andhistorical vegetation for many

counties can also be found atwww.dnr.state.mn.us/eco/mcbs/maps.html . And you’ll find a state-wide map of natural vegetation athttp://files.dnr.state.mn.us/eco/mcbs /na tu ra l_vege ta t ion_of_mn.pdf.

There are also many good booksabout landscaping with nativeplants .For the names of nativeplant nurseries, landscaping ser-vices and local organizations thatspecialize in native landscaping,visit the DNR website at:www.dnr.state.mn.us/gardens/nativeplants .

– Hannah Texler, DNR regionalplant ecologist

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To the Editor:For those of us who are elected

officials in small towns and town-ships throughout Goodhue County,we share many of the same corevalues and concerns when it comesto local government. Many of thedecisions we make aren’t easy,but at least we maintain local con-trol in most matters.

Because of legislation pushedand ultimately signed into law lastyear at the State Capitol, the issueof solid waste will come beforethe county board to discuss anddebate again. This time, the Cityof Red Wing and the MinnesotaPollution Control Agency are co-conspiractors in a plot to forceevery city in Goodhue County tohaul their garbage to Red Wing.

This proposed municipal solidwaste ordinance will likely resultin garbage bills going up for com-munities on the western half ofGoodhue County. The City of RedWing could mandate any fee theyfeel appropriate. What’s reallygalling is the fact Red Wing is themost prosperous city in GoodhueCounty. From my perspective, it

doesn’t make much sense to sendour garbage to Red Wing, consid-ering part of my community,Dennison, rests in Rice County.Maybe pure political muscle willwin the day on this issue, but mycommunity deserves the same re-spect as the people of Red Wing.

For the Goodhue County Com-missioners, this is a litmus test forlocal control. I’m reminded of thecomparisons to the wheelage tax,as far as the state legislature giv-ing power to counties to imposenew taxes. If you noticed last year,people in Goodhue County hadthat new tax added to their licensetabs.

Here’s hoping the commission-ers keep their hands out of thecookie jar of local control. Whatother demands will the City ofRed Wing extract from us? Willthey want the townships to sendall their garbage to Red Wing next?

In the meantime, please contactyour state representative andcounty commissioners to expressyour opinions and concerns.

Jeffrey W. FlatenMayor of Dennison

To the Editor:You’re at a bar or party and

witness someone trying to takeadvantage of a friend who is drunk.Doesn’t look right? That’s be-cause it isn’t. Sex with someonewho can’t consent is not cool –actually, it’s rape.

April is Sexual Assault Aware-ness Month; it’s your chance tolearn more about how you, as abystander, can safely prevent as-sault by speaking up when some-thing doesn’t look right.

Yes, our society promotes a“mind your own business” mes-sage, and speaking up might seemdifficult. But it doesn’t have tobe. If you think someone is introuble, ask if they are OK. If youdon’t feel comfortable approach-ing a situation on your own, ask— a friend, a coworker – or callyour local rape crisis line at 800-

519-6690, or the police, for help.You aren’t ruining someone’s funor being a jerk if you speak up.You are watching out forsomeone’s sister, brother, child,or friend. Next time, it could beyour loved one who needs help.It’s time for all of us to speak up,get involved, and put an end tosexual assault!

For more information aboutSexual Assault Awareness Month,or to find out about becoming avolunteer advocate, contact HOPECoalition’s Sexual Assault Ser-vices at 651-388-9360 x 1 or emailsa@hope-coalition.org. Visit ourwebsite at www. hope-coalition.org.

HOPE Coalition Staff/Volun-teer Sexual Assault Advocates ofGoodhue and Wabasha County:

Laura McDonoughSusan Draves

Kristine KvolsRosalie Biittner

Lori Bouyea-GatesTara DoughertyStaci Greenlee

Kari KearnsJessica Seide

Zumbrota has styleTo the Editor:

How lucky Zumbrota is to havefive pro-active businesses that cre-ated such a fun day for so many,last Saturday, April 11. RoxanneBartsh (Wild Ginger Boutique) hadmentioned the event a month ear-lier, but it was the personal invita-tion from a Lake City friend thatgot me there and was I ever glad!

First stop, Crossings gift shop,packed with over two dozen womenshopping, while a masseuseshowed off her talents in the back-ground. Watching our time, wetrotted off next to Luya’s Shoes &Other Fine Things, also packedwith women of all ages makingpurchases. Luya’s interior is defi-nitely “advanced style.” Next stopWild Ginger, too full to do anyserious shopping as we scuttledoff to the theater for the 3 p.m.documentary entitled “Advanced

Style.” Once again, this Lake Cityresident was blown away, notingthe theater was filled and fancysnacks were included in the nomi-nal ticket price. The highlight—seeing an entertaining documen-tary encouraging women to cre-ate their own personal style nomatter how old they are. A wellorganized style show, the eventscenterpiece, included local mod-els of all ages and dress sizes, fea-turing the latest from the abovestores, in addition to PhenomenallyYours — Resale and Consignment.

In case you didn’t know it, Zum-brota has more than style. It alsohas energy and class, bringing meback there this Saturday to do somemore serious shopping. Way togo team Zumbrota. You’ve gotlots to brag about.

Kate HalversonLake City

The Galkin Evangelistic Team

SACREDIRISH CONCERTPerformed by

A Medley of Folk,Appalachian,

and Sacred MusicFollowing the concert will

be a gospel message byevangelist Will Galkin.

Olde Pine Theatre1113 2nd Street SW, Pine Island

Thursday, April 237:00 p.m.

For more information contact Cornerstone Baptist Church at 507-356-4306.

PieFellowship

to follow

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Community CalendarCOUNTY

Senior DiningReservations are required by

calling 24 hours ahead at each ofthe nutrition sites.

In the Pine Island area, mealsare served at the Pine Island Se-nior Center (356-2228); Zumbrotaarea, Zumbrota Towers (732-5086).

April 23-29Thursday: Hamburger on bun,

pickles, potato salad, calico beans,melon wedges

Friday: Birthday party, roastbeef, mashed potatoes and gravy,stewed tomatoes, wheat dinner roll,Polynesian cake

Monday: Salisbury steak (alt:liver and onions), baked potatoand sour cream, seasoned peas andcelery, five-cup fruit dessert

Tuesday: Beef stroganoff,noodles, broccoli, mixed greenssalad, rhubarb torte

Wednesday: Italian chickenbreast, hash browns au gratin,buttered beets, cucumber salad,pear halves

If you have questions, call 356-2228.

Seasons HospiceAdult Grief Support Group,

Tuesday evenings for eight weeks,May 5 through June 23, 6:30-8:30p.m. Registration required by April29. The group provides a safe,confidential place to learn aboutand understand the process of griev-ing, to express thoughts and feel-ings, and to connect with otherbereaved individuals.

All groups are held at the Cen-ter for Grief Education and Sup-port, Seasons Hospice, 1696Greenview Dr. SW. Registrationis required two days prior to thedate of the event. For details: 507-285-1930 or shbp@seasonshospice.org.

Olmsted County ParksOxbow Park – Feed the Rap-

tors, Saturday, April 25, 3 p.m.Spend the afternoon learning moreabout some of our area’s mostcommon birds of prey.

Chester Woods Park – Friendsof Chester Woods Spring WorkDay, Saturday, April 25, 10:30a.m. – 4 p.m. Annual spring cleanup– help prepare the park for sum-mer and meet some new people.Friends of Chester Woods willconduct their business meetingfrom 10:30 a.m. to noon at thepark office, followed by a potlucklunch. Cleanup begins at 1 p.m.

Root River Park – Bird Walk,Saturday, April 25, 7:30 a.m. TheAudubon Society is hosting a hike.Meet at the Heintz Center at 1926College View Rd East at 7:30 p.m.to car pool.

Questions about Chester Woods,call Celeste Lewis at 507-287-2624. Questions about OxbowPark, call Clarissa Josselyn at 507-775-2451.

GOODHUECommunity Library

The Goodhue School Library,in conjunction with SELCO andGoodhue County, is open to thepublic Mondays and Wednesdaysfrom 3:30-7:30 p.m. The libraryis equipped with inter-library loanservice, which means if the librarydoes not have a book you want,that book can be there in two days.

Historical SocietyThe Goodhue Area Historical

Society is closed for the season,but anyone who wishes to arrangea visit can call Ardis Henrichs,651-923-4629; Marie Strusz, 651-923-4302; Ray McNamara, 651-923-5117; or Roy Buck, 651-923-4388. The museum will reopenwith regular hours next spring. Visitgood hueareahistory.org for infor-mation.

MAZEPPAHistorical Society

The Mazeppa Area HistoricalSociety Museum is closed for theseason. For inquiries, contact HelenReiland, 507-250-6021; Jim Siems,507-843-2201; or Diane Gilsdorf,507-843-4013, or visit www.mazeppahistoricalsociety.org.

ORONOCOArea History Center

The Oronoco Area History Cen-ter is open to visitors in the CityBuilding every second Saturdayfrom 10 a.m.-noon. Contact us atOAHC, 54 Blakely Ct. NW orcall 507-367-4320. You may alsovisit our web page at oronocoareahistory.org.

PINE ISLANDTops #1280

PI Tops #1280 meets everyMonday night at St. Paul Luth-eran Church. Weigh-in is at 5:15and meeting time is 6 p.m. Every-one welcome. Questions call 356-

4799 or 356-4700.

Caregiver Support GroupThe gropu meets Monday, April

27, at 1 p.m. at St. Paul LutheranChurch. Respite is available uponrequest. Call the Pine Island AreaHome Services at 356-2999 formore information.

Blood Pressure ClinicThe clinic will be on Tuesday,

April 28, at 11 a.m. at the PineIsland City Centre.

Cancer Support GroupThe group meets on Thursday,

April 23, at 9 a.m. at St. PaulLutheran Church.

Moms in PrayerPine Island Moms in Prayer meet

Monday mornings from 8-9 a.m.in the library of the Good NewsE-Free Church, 208 North Main(across from Kwik Trip). Enterside door of the church and godownstairs. Call 259-8012 or 356-4800 for more information.

Toastmasters MeetingThe Pine Island Toastmasters

meet at 6:30 a.m. Fridays at St.Paul Lutheran Church. They donot meet on holiday weekends:Christmas, New Year’s, Easter,Memorial Day, 4th of July, LaborDay or Thanksgiving.

History CenterThe Pine Island Area History

Center’s open hours are Mondaysfrom 8-11 a.m. and the first Sun-day of the month from 1-3:30 p.m.Please contact us throughpineislandhistory.org or by call-ing 507-356-2802 (history center)or 507-398-5326 (director).

WANAMINGOKW School Board Meeting

The Kenyon-WanamingoSchool Board will meet Monday,April 27, at 7 p.m. in the schoolmedia center conference room inKenyon. Items on the agenda: staff-ing for 2015-16; consideration ofearly retirement incentive; admin-istrative negotiations involving theprincipal contact and the superin-tendent contract; KW EducationAssociation notice of desire tonegotiate; revision of the commu-nity education policy; strength andconditioning program for summer2015 and 2015-16 school year;acceptance of donations; extendedfield trip requests; Dollar Volumeadvertising contract; 2015-16 feesto be charged; the Health & Safetypolicy for 2015-16; the Health &Safety budget for 2015-17; schooldistrict property and workman’scompensation insurance for 2015-16; the May school board meet-ing; committee reports; and ad-ministrative reports. The meetingis open to the public. Anyone wish-ing to address the school boardmay do so at the beginning of themeeting.

Home Study FestivalThe Home Study Spring Festi-

val will be on Monday, May 4, atNew Life Church in Wanamingo.Registration is at 5:30 p.m. withdinner following at 6 p.m. Enter-tainment provided by St. Patrick’schoir from Shieldsville singingsongs from the Patsy Cline erawith costumes. The public is in-vited. Contact Patty Kempf at 651-923-4501 for registration and otherinformation.

ZUMBROTALibrary

The Zumbrota Public Libraryis at 100 West Ave., Zumbrota,507-732-5211. Hours are Mon.,12-8; Tues. 10-6; Wed., Thurs.,12-8; Fri., 10-5; and Sat., 9-3. Dur-ing closed hours you can learnmore about the library at http://www.zumbrota.info.

Windhorst BenefitA fundraising party for the ben-

efit of Scott Windhorst will be onSaturday, April 25, at Wally’sCovered Bridge Restaurant from4 p.m. until closing. Silent auc-tion opens at 4 p.m. Former Vi-kings Paul Krause and DaveOsbourne will be there from 5:30-7:00 p.m. Ben Olsen will performat 8 p.m.

Legion Post 183American Legion Post 183 meets

Thursday, April 23, at 6 p.m. atStary-Yerka VFW Post 5727.

ZMHS PromZumbrota-Mazeppa High

School Prom, “Country Nights,”is on Saturday, April 25, at thegymnasium in Zumbrota. Doorsopen at 4:15 p.m. Grand March isat 4:45 p.m.

VFW MeetingThe VFW meets Thursday, April

23, at 7:30 p.m. at Stary-YerkaVFW Post 5727.

History CenterThe Zumbrota History Center

has a photo stand displaying over50 photographs of early Zumbrotascenes. They have been enlargedto 8 x 10 for easier viewing. Newphotos are being added all the time.Also on display are military memo-rabilia, including Civil War items,different models of telephones,Zumbrota telephone books datingback to the 1900s, and items ofZumbrota advertising. Museumhours are Saturdays, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.Other hours by appointment (732-7049).

Zumbrota Towers EventsApril 23-29

Thursday: 10:15 a.m. ExerciseMonday: 1:30 p.m. Cribbage,

500Tuesday: 10:15 a.m. ExerciseWednesday: 1:30 p.m. Euchre,

Snacks

Tops MeetingZumbrota Tops #563 meets ev-

ery Monday night at Our Saviour’sLutheran Church. Weigh-in timeis changed to 5:30 p.m. and meet-ing time to 6 p.m. Everyone wel-come. Questions call 732-7459 or732-4766.

Community Band PracticeThe Zumbrota Community Band

practices on Monday nights at 7:30p.m. in the Zumbrota-MazeppaHigh School music room. Volun-teer musicians are welcome.

State TheatreCharlie Parr in concert, Sat.,

April 25, 8 p.m. Tickets availableat 732-7616.

The State Theatre is at 96 East4th Street in Zumbrota. For infor-mation visit zaac.org.or call 507-272-1129.

CrossingsPoet-Artist Collaboration 14,

through May 9.Beginner’s Guide to Saving $$$

with Solar, free presentation forEarth Day, Weds., April 22, 7-8p.m.

Wine & Writing: The Inner Lifeof Books, Thurs., April 23, 7-9p.m.

Rosemaling with KenMagnuson, Fri. – Sun., April 24 –26, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Asian Brush Painting, Sun.,April 26, 4:30-9:00 p.m. and Mon.,April 27, 6-9 p.m.

Yoga, Tues., April 28, 6:30 p.m.to 7:30 p.m.

For more information go towww. crossingsatcarnegie.com orcall 507-732-7616. Crossings isat 320 E Ave.

Against proposed municipalsolid waste ordinance

April is Sexual AssaultAwareness Month

ZM second grademusical is April 28ZUMBROTA – Grab your hat! It’s time to party! The Zumbrota-Mazeppasecond-graders will put on the musical “Hats,” by John Jacobson andJohn Higgins, on Tuesday, April 28, at the ZM auditorium in Zumbrota.Show times are 2:20 p.m. and 7 p.m. Hats of all shapes and sizes takeover the stage when a group of milliners help Hatless Henrietta and ImaMilliner find t he perfect hat. Discover that it’s not the hat that makesa person special, but what’s underneath! Front row, from left to right:Jayda Hagfors and Nevaeh Clemens; back row: Sydney Preston andZach Petersburg. The second graders are taught by Susan Peterson.

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Zumbrota/Mazeppa

By Tawny Michels

Food drive competition ends with silly stringZUMBROTA – Each year Zumbrota-Mazeppa’s National Honor Society participates in Minnesota’s Marchfood drive. They are split into teams who raise money and food to beat another team. The contest ran for twoweeks and the winners got to silly string one person from the other advisory team. ZM teacher Amy Matuskasaid, “Overall, the students did a great job. We raised about $600 and collected over 600 pounds of food. Wedonated half of our proceeds to the Mazeppa Food Shelf and half to the Zumbrota Food shelf.” Above, AnneWilson silly strings, from left to right, Connor Heitman, Sam Nordquist, Ryan Archer, Tyler Stene, and JacobNeibur, at the Positive Behavioral Intervention System (PBIS) celebration on April 2. PBIS is a program ZMuses to recognize good things that students within the district do.

Lands Lutheran Church and United Redeemer Lutheran Church conducteda “Food Shelf Challenge” between the two churches. Lands hosted anice cream social for the two churches April 12 where stories andfellowship were shared after the successful challenge. Miley Hoffarth,front, and Mackenzie Boraas anxiously wait for the rest of the bananasand strawberries to be added as Mike Boraas finishes scooping icecream on the 10-foot banana split.

By Marilyn AndersonZUMBROTA – Creative, new

approaches, in addition to meth-ods that have proven successful,resulted in March donations to theZumbrota Area Food Shelf sur-passing last year’s total during theMinnesota FoodShare Campaign.Jan Horsman and MaggieEggerichs, co-directors of the lo-cal food shelf, report total dona-tions raised this March were$12,404 and 4,715 pounds of foodand grocery items.Variety of approaches

In addition to the many indi-vidual contributions, a few of thegroup monetary donations includeda $2,000 check from the ZumbrotaCommunity Trust and a $500 checkfrom Operation Round-Up. Op-eration Round-Up is a programthrough Goodhue County Coop-erative Electric whereby memberscan voluntarily have their electricbill “rounded up” to the nearestdollar, with the extra going to char-ity.

Area churches used a variety ofmethods to share the message ofneed. Some followed the “Packthe Pews” approach, utilizing in-formation for bulletin inserts pro-vided by Minnesota FoodShare toengage their members in support-ing Minnesota food shelves bybringing non-perishable food itemsto worship services. Other churchesoffered suggestions for specificitems that are needed each month.

For the first time, a “Food ShelfChallenge” was conducted be-tween two Zumbrota congrega-tions – United Redeemer LutheranChurch and Lands LutheranChurch. Together, the two con-gregations donated 7,790 points,with a point tallied for each dollaror each pound collected fromMarch 1-22. Totals had been kepta secret between the two congre-gations until the conclusion of thecollection time in March whenUnited Redeemer was declared the

winner. Therefore, Lands was thehost for an ice cream social onApril 12, a time for the competi-tors to come together to enjoy fel-lowship and share stories.Eggerichs and Horsman were onhand to tell how the donations willhelp those that use the food shelf.Carol Copley, coordinator for thechallenge at Lands, said the eventinvolved everyone at the church,including a costumed “superhero”who visited the Sunday Schoolchildren to talk about the needs inthe community and how they couldhelp. Leah Wichman-Hinz, coor-dinator at United Redeemer, saidit was “really wonderful to seehow the congregation got on boardand involved to help the commu-nity. It was a good time doing thechallenge, but the biggest rewardis being able to help meet the needsof the food shelf.”

Another new technique for fill-ing the shelves this year was theproject done by Zumbrota GirlScout Troop #25421 which in-volved collecting items for birth-day bags. A family also donated anumber of Easter baskets filledwith treats.

Students, including those fromZumbrota-Mazeppa Schools con-tinue to find creative ways to col-lect food and monetary donationsfor the food shelf, said Eggerichs.With the Mazeppa Food Shelf nowopen, donations are divided be-tween the two locations. Elemen-tary students conducted a PenniesWar while the National HonorSociety conducted a competitionfor high school students, assign-ing points for specified types ofitems. The home room adviserswho lost to their opposing roomwere silly-stringed at the end ofthe competition.Ongoing needs

Eggerichs appreciated the manybusiness organizations, clubs, in-dividuals, schools, and churchesthat contributed this year. She said,“The exceptional effort put forth

by our community, is especiallyappreciated during March, as apercentage of our totals will bematched by Minnesota FoodShare.With ever increasing food coststhese much needed donations arewhat keep us going.”

While the generosity of the com-munity in helping to attain the goalof providing food for those whoare less fortunate or have fallenupon hard times continue to amazethe volunteers at the food shelf,the needs are ongoing. Monthly

purchases average between 2,500and 3,000 pounds with an averagecost of about $1 per pound. Ex-penses for the past year, includ-ing rent and utilities, were over$48,000.

Monetary donations can bemailed to Zumbrota Area FoodShelf, PO Box 43, Zumbrota, MN55992.

Creativity and consistency result in successfulMinnesota FoodShare March Campaign

By Tawny MichelsZUMBROTA – The Zumbrota-

Mazeppa School District had beensearching for a new superinten-dent to replace the current super-intendent, Tony Simons, who an-nounced late last fall that he wouldbe leaving after this year. After afew months of interviews, theschool board offered the positionto Gary Anger, and he accepted.

Anger had other offers on thetable, but said he felt that ZM isreally where he wanted and neededto be at this time in his life. “Fromday one in the interview process,it just felt right,” he said. “It wasjust like, this is THE job!” He isexcited to work with ZM and thecommunity as a whole, and saidhe has heard amazing things aboutthe staff at ZM: “The things hap-pening within the classroom wallsare really positive.”

As a child, Anger traveled arounda lot because his father was a ser-geant major in the US Army. Hismother is from Italy, where hisparents met when his father wasstationed there. “My mother stillhas an incredibly intense Italianaccent,” Anger said. “I will haveto get her down here because peoplewill love her.” Eventually, Anger’sfamily settled in Minnesota andhe spent much of his life in eastBloomington in the shadows ofthe old Met Stadium where heworked as a vendor as a child. Heattended Kennedy High School

Gary Angerwhere he says he played everyminute of every game for the 1981Minnesota state champion soccerteam.

Anger holds a bachelor’s de-gree in elementary education fromMinnesota State University –Mankato and a master’s degreein industrial technology from theUniversity of St. Thomas. He hasbeen the principal at Red Pine El-ementary for the Rosemount-AppleValley-Eagan School District since2003. Prior to that, he was theprincipal at South WashingtonCounty School in Bloomington forfour years. He also serves as an

adjunct professor for Saint Mary’sUniversity.

“I have always loved learningand have just never left publiceducation,” Anger said of how hegot into education. “There is justnothing I am more passionate aboutthan education.” His favorite partis seeing what he calls minormiracles that happen every day,such as seeing a student who hada bad day suddenly have a goodday or do well on a test. He said itis also seeing the success of theteachers and other school staff andthe amazing things they do fortheir students, day-in and day-out.

Anger hopes to bring a cultureof positivity and recognition toZM. “One of the things I’m goodat is recognizing the strengths inother people,” he said. “I neverleave work without writing at leasttwo notes commending people forthe work that they do.” He alsohopes to bring a sense of commu-nity and to maintain a high profilein Zumbrota and Mazeppa so thatpartnerships can develop that havenever been thought of before.

He explained the need for edu-cators to realize that the readingstudents are doing now is differ-ent from back in his day. It is moretechnology-based with the use ofthe internet and devices such assmartphones and iPads.

With this in mind, he said it isimportant to understand that thefirst step to connecting with the

ZM ISD 2805SCHOOL BOARD MEETING

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIS-TRICT NO. 2805

ZUMBROTA-MAZEPPA PUBLICSCHOOLS

MONDAY, APRIL 27, 20157:00 P.M.

ZUMBROTA-MAZEPPA HIGHSCHOOL MEDIA CENTERZUMBROTA, MINNESOTA

I. Call Meeting to Order (Action)II. Recite the Pledge of AllegianceIII. Adopt Agenda (Action)IV. CommunicationsV. ReportsVI. Old Businessa. 2015-16 School Year Budgetb. Speech Teacherc. 2014-15 District Assessment Co-

ordinator Position (Action)d. Trap Shoot Team Lettering (Ac-

tion)e. 2014-15 Vocational Construction

House UpdateVII. Patron InputVIII. New Businessa. Adopt the Consent Agenda (Action)b. Personnel (Action)c. Request for Bids for School Insur-

ance in the 2015-16 school year. (Ac-tion)

d. 2015-16 Achievement and Inte-gration Plan and Budget (Action)

e. 2014-15 School Audit (Action)IX. Board Comments and ReportsX. Pertinent DatesXI. Future Agenda ItemsXII. Recess to a Closed Session to

Discuss Personnel Matter (Action)XIII. Adjourn Closed Session and Re-

open Regular Meeting (Action)XIV. Adjourn Regular Meeting (Action)

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Gary Anger is eager to start as ZM School Superintendentcommunity and building partner-ships is marketing and being nimbleas 21st century educators. “Thismeans using a more multi-facetedcommunication approach with thehelp of tools such as Twitter,Facebook, improving the website,and e-newsletters,” he said. Be-ing involved doesn’t mean youhave to go down to the school.“Just call up the superintendent’soffice and say ‘hey, I noticed thisgoing on. What do you think aboutit?’” he said. “It is a two-way street;for the community to be more in-volved in the school, the schoolneeds to be more involved in thecommunity.”

Anger’s approach to keepingthings going well at ZM and withinthe community is gaining trust.“With transparency comes trust,”hesaid. There are moments whenhe can be very open and honest,and that is most of the time, heexplained, but there are things likedata privacy that by law he cannotdisclose to the public. With com-munity honesty and involvementhe hopes to achieve mutual re-spect and trust.

The ZM community is similarto those he has worked with pre-viously, but from a district-widestandpoint things will definitelybe different. “On snow days I’meither going to be your worst en-emy or your best friend depend-ing on who you are!” he joked.

Anger is married, and his wife

Lori is a kindergarten teacher. Theyhave two daughters: Emily, a fresh-man at the University of Minne-sota, and Betsy, a junior at EastviewHigh School. His family lives inApple Valley, and he intends tocommute to ZM for the first yearto allow his daughter to graduatewith her friends. After that theywill look into moving closer.

Anger’s hobbies and interestsinclude reading and the outdoors.He particularly enjoys fishing,golfing, and riding bike with his

wife. He feels his biggest accom-plishment in life is being a greatdad and husband; also, being agood son to his parents and know-ing that they are proud of the per-son he has become. He cites hisbiggest career accomplishment ashaving a network of amazing edu-cators whom he calls friends. “I’vedone great things in my career,but it’s always dependent on greatstaff and people around me,” hesaid.

By Alice Duschanek-MyersZUMBROTA – At the work

session on April 13, the Zumbrota-Mazeppa School Board approvedsigning a contract for superinten-dent for 2015-18 with Gary An-ger.

Board chair Pete Hinrichs said,“The school board officially ap-proved the contract with a salary$122,000 the first year, and a 2.5%increase each year. Anger will haveeleven days paid vacation, threefloating holidays, and eighteen daysof sick leave. The district will payfor $1,500 monthly for insurance,life insurance, disability insurance,$4,000 for a 401K, and $,3000 forhis relocations costs.”Trapshooting

The board continued the dis-cussion of whether to allowtrapshooting team members to earnletters. Hinrichs recommended thatthe trapshooters and bowling teamearn patches for participation. Mostboard members agreed that, re-garding lettering, there should bea line at high school sanctionedand school-run activities. Boardmember James Wendt said he dis-agreed, and that the students shouldbe able to letter.Speech pathologist

Wendt said that the GoodhueCounty Education District (GCED)would like to know whether ZMSchools or the GCED will hire afull-time speech pathologist for2015-16. The district currentlyrequires 1.6 FTEs of speech ser-

vices for its students. He said, “TheEd District is responsible for aspeech person. A .6 FTE speechteacher is hard to find.”

Jean Roth expressed concernabout the GCED, not the schooldistrict, hiring the speech teach-ers. As a district employee shesaid if the school does the hiringthen the teachers would have moreconnection to the ZM students.Also, they would not abruptly bereassigned to other locations. Itwould provide more stability andconsistent service to benefit thestudents.

Speech pathologists are in highdemand. GCED has applicants whowill move on in their job search ifthey are not hired soon. The dis-trict will have GCED hire for nextyear, and will continue to con-sider the school district hiring thespeech teachers for the followingyear.Other business

Superintendent Tony Simonsreported that there has been noadditional information from Po-lice Chief Patrick Callahan abouthiring a school resource officer.

The board will continue the dis-cussion about creating a districtassessment coordinator (DAC)position. In the future, a DACposition could be combined withthe duties of a special educationcoordinator, assistant coordinator,or dean of students. Gary Angersuggested talking with GCEDabout options for a DAC.

AdditionIn the April 15 article “ZM vo-

calists participate in solo/ensemblecontest” Greta Gartner (alto) shouldalso have been listed among thosereceiving a “Superior” rating.

ZM School signsthree-year contractwith Gary Anger

ZUMBROTA POLICE REPORTMarch 29

2:26 a.m. – An officer assisted adeputy with a traffic stop.

4:26 a.m. – An officer responded to abusiness alarm.

1:14, 1:39, and 5:19 p.m. – Driverswere warned for speeding.

2:38 p.m. – Casey’s North reported agas drive-off.

6:38 p.m. – A person was taken intocustody for a domestic assault.March 30

7:15 a.m. – A driver was warned forspeeding.

7:33 a.m. – An officer watched schoolcrosswalks.

10:38 a.m. – A dog was running loosein traffic.

10:40 a.m. – An officer did a schoolwalk through.

12:02 p.m. – A driver was warned forfailure to yield to a pedestrian in a cross-walk.

2:02 p.m. – A male walked into thepolice department wanting his bloodpressure checked. It was high and hewanted an ambulance paged.

3 p.m. – An officer watched the schoolcrosswalks.

4:52 p.m. Social Services opened achild endangerment case on a juvenileafter her father’s residence was raidedin a search warrant.

6:44 p.m. – A small amount of mari-juana was located in a vehicle. A citationwas issued to the driver. The parentsarrived and took custody of the juvenile.March 31

12:57 a.m. – A noise complaint wasreported.

4:47 p.m. – An officer responded to amedical assist.April 1

12:53 a.m. – Kwik Trip reported amale who smelled of alcohol. The driverwas found driving in an alley off EastMain Street. The driver was stoppedand there was a strong order of alcohol.The driver failed a field sobriety test andwas arrested for DWI.

7:44 p.m – An officer unlocked avehicle.

9:27 p.m. – A female reported thatshe did not like her neighbors. The kidswere on her property jumping off theretaining wall. She said she has had on-going noise problems with their dogsbarking and hears yelling at times.

10:19 p.m. – An officer responded toa business alarm.April 2

2:03 a.m. – A semi tractor and trailerwere parked on a city street facing thewrong direction. The driver was cited forcity ordinance violation and was warnedfor a parking violation.

7:31 a.m. – An officer watched schoolcrosswalks.

1:14 p.m. – ZMHS reported that astudent had checked out of school andwas seen smoking by the post office.

1:33 p.m. – An officer did a schoolwalk through.

1:36 p.m. – City Hall received a callabout an intoxicated male.

1:46 p.m. – A vehicle was driving ona flat tire. The driver was taking thevehicle to Total Tire to get it repaired.

1:49 p.m. – Casey’s South reported

that a person forgot to pay for his fuel.He did pay for his food.

3:06 p.m. – An officer watched schoolcrosswalks.

3:31 p.m. – A female reported thatmales were coming into her yard andurinating in her trees. A male was lo-cated and advised of the complaint andadvised to stop.

6:05 p.m. – Casey’s North reported agas drive-off.

6:20 p.m. – A young child was byhimself and had difficulty speaking sothe officer was unable to obtain informa-tion. A guardian came walking down apath with another sibling. The guardianwas highly intoxicated. The mother wassober and took custody of the children.A report was made to Social Services.

7:20 p.m. – An officer spoke with adriver and occupants who were squeal-ing the vehicle’s tires. The driver waswarned for conduct and no drivers li-cense in possession.April 3

12:26 a.m. – A driver was warned fornot stopping for a stop sign and goingover the center line.

12:50 a.m. – A driver was warned forhaving a left brake light not working andfailure to change drivers license address.

12:09 p.m. – Zumbrota VFW reporteda missing/stolen game packet for MNLottery machine.

1:38 p.m. – A driver was warned forstop sign violation.

2:43 p.m. –Hub Food Center reportedtheft by a check.

7:15 p.m. – An officer fingerprinted alocal nursing school student.

8:19 p.m. – An officer unlocked avehicle.

9:18 p.m. – Four males were shoot-ing airsoft rifles by the cement plant inviolation of city ordinance. The weaponswere taken for evidence.April 4

1:23 a.m. – A suspicious male waslooking at a truck in Grover’s lot.

12:02 p.m. – A male reported that hehad not seen or heard from his daughterin days. Her dog was home and had notbeen let out. Her cell phone was pluggedin to a charger at the house. She has ahistory of meth use. He later called backand said he had located his daughterand she was OK.

6:27 p.m. – A person was locked outof their house. An officer was able tounlock the door.

9:23 p.m. – A male reported that adouble stroller had been taken from hisgarage.

11:04 p.m. – An officer unlocked avehicle.

11:36 p.m. – A driver was given awarning for having a headlamp out andfailure to signal and stop at a stop sign.

11:59 p.m. – A driver was warned forhaving a right tail light out.

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Obituaries

Benjamin Honaker 1929-2015

DENVER, CO – Benjamin S.Honaker, 85, died on Thursday,April 2, 2015, surrounded by familyat Highlands Ranch in Denver,Colorado.

Ben was born on May 17, 1929,in Johnson, Nebraska. He gradu-ated from Hastings High Schoolin Hastings, Nebraska, in 1946 andfrom Hastings College in 1954.He worked for Lincoln NationalLife Insurance Company for sev-eral years. Ben was a member ofthe International Order of Free-masonry for Men; he was a StephenMinister at Bethany LutheranChurch; and he was an active par-ticipant in the Men’s Ministry. He

was a blood donor with theSiouxland Blood Bank in SiouxCity, Iowa, and Bonfils BloodCenter in Denver, Colorado, andhad achieved the level of being a22-gallon donor. He and his wifeMaxine participated in a few eventswith Mission Builders helping tobuild churches in different areasin the country.

Ben is survived by his daugh-ters, Beth (Mike) Stumm of Zum-brota, Becky (Terrel)Hobbiebrunken of Nebraska; step-daughters, Mary (Tom) Brook ofColorado, and Sue (Jerry) Carterof Virginia; sister, Lola (Jake) Feisof Longmont, Colorado; grand-children, Jen and John Stumm,Stephanie, James, and EmilyVanderBrinnk, Christine, Sarah,and Ryan Brook, and Elizabethand Joseph Carter.

He was preceded in death byhis wife, one sister, and two broth-ers.

A funeral service was held onFriday, April 17, at BethanyLutheran Church in Cherry HillsVillage, Colorado, with PastorRussel Britton officiating. Burialwas in Courtyard Columbariumat the church. Memorials may bemade to: Bethany Lutheran Church,Men’s Ministry, 4500 E HampdenAve, Cherry Hills Village, CO80113.

Ruby Raths 1931-2015

FARIBAULT – Ruby A. Raths,83, of Faribault, passed away onApril 16, 2015, at the OakwoodHills Adult Foster Care in Faribault.

Ruby Alberta was born on Oc-tober 18, 1931, in Lake City, toAlbert and Aurelia (Pruter) Fick.She was united in marriage toHoward Raths on July 8, 1950, inLake City. They started their farm-ing life on Howard’s family farmin Newport, and later farmed inKenyon, Claremont, Zumbrota,and Faribault. She was a home-

maker for her family and also hadworked in the kitchen at theOwatonna Hospital, as an aide atthe Faribault State Hospital, car-ing for the handicapped in a grouphomes, and assisted at a childcarecenter. She enjoyed crocheting,knitting, painting, reading, andbowling. Ruby also always hadher dog, Hershey, at her side.

She is survived by her husband,Howard of Faribault; children,Peggy (Bob) Tri of Zumbrota andRon Raths of Rochester; daugh-ter-in-law, Nancy Raths ofWanamingo; eleven grandchil-dren; twenty-one great-grandchil-dren; brother, Rollie Fick ofFlorida; and many other relativesand friends.

She was preceded in death byher parents; son, Donald Raths;and siblings, Roy, Ruth, Jean, Jane,and Harold.

Memorial services were held onMonday, April 20, at the ParkerKohl Funeral Home & Crematoryin Faribault, with Rev. CraigBreimhorst, pastor of ChristLutheran Church, officiating, fol-lowed by fellowship. For onlinecondolences and further informa-tion, visit www.ParkerKohlFuneralHome.com.

Norman Briggs 1930-2015

ZUMBROTA – Norman Briggs,84, of Zumbrota and formerly ofArvada, Colorado, passed awayat his daughter’s home on April10, 2015.

Norman was born on April 14,1930, in Bolton, England, the sonof Norman James and Lucy(Greenhalgh) Briggs. He was theyoungest of four children. He at-tended school until the age of 14and left school to become a ma-chinist. In 1948, at the age of 18,Norman immigrated to the UnitedStates and entered the United StatesArmy where he served in Germanyduring the Korean War. He was amember of the 1st Infantry divi-

sion, the Big Red One. After hishonorable discharge, Norman at-tended Denver University, wherehe received a master’s degree ineducation. He met and married LoisKnowles and the couple raised twochildren in Colorado as Normanworked in the Denver PublicSchool System. After 33 years ofteaching, Norman retired. He en-joyed volunteering at the museum,traveling, and visiting his grand-children. He greatly enjoyed a goodcup of tea, a good book and WWIIhistorical documentaries.

Norman is survived by his chil-dren, Norman James (Debbie)Briggs of Lakewood, Colorado,Lucy (Eric) Schwartz of Zumbrota;his grandchildren, Andi Schwartzand Melanie Schwartz of Zum-brota; two nieces, Evelyn andChristine; and very special friends,Mimi (Dave) Larson and theirdaughter Chiana of GreenwoodVillage, Colorado.

He was preceded in death byhis parents; his siblings, MinnieLarson, William and StanleyBriggs; and his niece, Lucy Ellen.

A memorial service will be heldat a later date in Colorado. MahnFamily Funeral Home-LarsonChapel of Zumbrota is assistingthe family with arrangements.Online condolences may be of-fered at mahnfamilyfuneralhome.com.

Grace Fredrickson 1938-2015

Grace K. Fredrickson, 76, ofRed Wing and formerly of Zum-brota, died on Monday, April 13,2015 at the Red Wing Health Cen-ter.

Grace Karen Fredrickson wasborn on August 9, 1938, inBelvidere Township, GoodhueCounty, to Herbert and Hazel (neeHennings) Fredrickson. Gracegrew up in rural Zumbrota, attendedcountry School District #70 forfirst grade, Zumbrota Schools andgraduated from Zumbrota HighSchool in 1956. She attendedWaldorf Junior College and re-ceived her liberal arts degree in1958 and her bachelor of sciencedegree in elementary educationfrom Luther College in 1960. In1972 she received her master’s ofscience in education from WinonaState University, and in 1978 shereceived her certification of el-ementary administration fromWinona State University. Grace

taught third grade in BloomingPrairie for two years, before teach-ing various grades in Rochesterfrom 1962 till 1989. In 1989 shewas forced to retire after suffer-ing detached retinas in both eyes.

Grace was a past member of theMinnesota Education Associationand current member of the Re-tired Educators of Minnesota, alife member of the National Edu-cation Association and the Minn-E Minni Enthusiasts in which sheheld many offices and attendednational conventions, and an hon-orary member of Alpha DeltaKappa Sorority since 1977. Gracealso served as a counselor at CampEdith Mayo where she was in-volved with the horses, served assuperintendent of the arts depart-ment at the Goodhue County Fairand was a member of the Zum-brota Covered Bridge Society.

Grace enjoyed traveling and hadtraveled throughout the UnitedStates, Mexico and Canada. Shealso enjoyed constructing minia-ture items for doll houses, baking,sewing, doing genealogy and sew-ing vintage doll clothing for whichshe won prize ribbons at the locallevel and state fair level.

Grace is survived by her sib-lings, Harold Fredrickson of Zum-brota, Marilyn Fredrickson ofKasson and Frederick (Janice)Fredrickson of Zumbrota. She waspreceded in death by her parents,Hazel and Herbert.

The funeral was held on Thurs-day, April 16, at United RedeemerLutheran Church in Zumbrota withPastor Richard Jorgensen offici-ating. Burial was in ZumbrotaCemetery.

Ralph Stehr 1942-2015

ZUMBROTA – Ralph EdwardStehr, 72, of Zumbrota, passed onto his heavenly home on Satur-day, April 18, 2015, at his homein Zumbrota after a long and cou-rageous battle with Multiple My-eloma. For the past seven years,his motto was “Never Give Up.”

Ralph was born on June 27, 1942,in Red Wing to Sylvester andMarguerite (nee Cordes) Stehr. Hegrew up on the family farm inZumbrota and was baptized andconfirmed at Christ LutheranChurch. In 1960, Ralph graduatedfrom Zumbrota High School wherehe enjoyed playing basketball,football, track, band, and choir.He later attended Dunwoody In-stitute in Minneapolis, studyingbuilding construction.

On February 16, 1963, he mar-ried Gwendolyn Scharpen at St.John’s Lutheran Church of ruralGoodhue. They enjoyed fifty-two

years of marriage, enriched by adeep faith in God, family, andfriends.

Ralph was employed byMatthees Construction and FloydLarson Construction for over forty-three years as a carpenter and build-ing supervisor. He built the houseon their farm homestead and wasan active member of their church,where he served as an Elder, wason the school board, and sang inthe choir. Ralph also farmed forforty-five years, and was a 4-Hleader and a fifty-year member ofthe Carpenter’s Local Union 1382.He enjoyed attending farm ma-chinery auctions, and playing cardsincluding being in a card club forforty-five years. Ralph especiallyenjoyed all the family gatheringsand attending his grandchildren’schurch, music, and sporting events.

Ralph is survived by his wife,Gwen; daughter, KimberlyErickson of Goodhue; son, Mark(Lisa) Stehr of Goodhue; grand-children, Matt Stehr, Tyler Stehr,Joey Stehr, and Jordan Erickson,all of Goodhue; step-granddaugh-ter, Stephanie Erickson of Min-neapolis; brother, Richard (Eliza-beth) Stehr of Zumbrota; sister,Mary Jane Swee of Laguna Woods,California; sister-in-law, KarenStehr of Zumbrota; and nieces andnephews.

Ralph was preceded in death byhis parents and twin brother Roger.

The funeral service will be heldon Wednesday, April 22, at 11a.m. at Christ Lutheran Church inZumbrota with Pastor Wayne D.Schoch officiating. Burial will bein Zumbrota Cemetery. Visitationwill be one hour prior to the churchservice.

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Ronald Berg 1951-2015

WANAMINGO – Ronald Den-nis Berg, 63, of Wanamingo, diedSaturday, April 18, 2015, at St.Lucas Care Center in Faribault.

He was born November 9, 1951,in Faribault, the son of Donaldand Florence (Hagen) Berg. Rongrew up and attended school inKenyon, graduating in 1970. Heeventually moved to Wanamingo.Ron married Diane Kohl on Sep-tember 12, 2008, and they havebeen together over 26 years. Roneventually worked for the federalprison in Rochester. He then wasemployed by the postal serviceuntil his retirement due to healthproblems.

Ron served on the WanamingoCity Council for a number of yearsand mayor for one term. He servedon the Goodhue County Histori-cal Society and Zumbrota Ambu-lance Board.

He loved to travel and was al-ways planning his next trip. Ronand Diane spent winters on SouthPadre Island, Texas. He was plan-

ning his next trip right to the end.In November he contracted a se-vere infection and had been hos-pitalized since that time.

Ron enjoyed golfing until hisbody wouldn’t let him, driving his1930 Model A, and spending timewith the grandchildren, who weremost important to him. Ron hadmany friends who he spent muchtime with. Among other things,he will be remembered for hishearty laugh and his love for life.He leaves a hole in the hearts ofall who knew him.

He is survived by his wife, DianeBerg of Wanamingo; step-children,Nick (Lynn) Auseth and their chil-dren, Alicia, Ashley, Shelby, andBailey of Wanamingo, Amy (Ja-son) Raths and their children, Lucasand Brenden of Wanamingo; great-granddaughter, Lydia; sisters,LoisAnn (Walter) Cheeve ofCleveland and Barbara (Roger)Nelson of Mankato; father andmother-in-law, Stanley and Eliza-beth Kohn of Wanamingo; sister-in-law, Sally (David) Fredricksonof Wanamingo; brother-in-law,Stuart (Debbie) Kohn of Dennison;numerous nieces and nephews; onegreat nephew; and special cousin,Patsy.

He was preceded in death byhis parents.

Visitation will be at MichaelsonFuneral Home, Kenyon, on Sun-day, April 26, from 2-5 p.m. andat Trinity Lutheran Church,Wanamingo, on Monday fromnoon to 1 p.m. Funeral serviceswill be held Monday, April 27, at1 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Churchwith the Reverend Chris Culurisofficiating.

Luella H. Wogsland 1918-2015MENOMONEE FALLS, WI –

Luella “Lu” Wogsland was bornto eternal life on Wednesday, April8, 2015 in Menomonee Falls,Wisconsin, at age 96.

Her funeral was held on April12 in Menomonee Falls with in-terment at Wisconsin MemorialPark in Milwaukee.

Luella H. Loken was born July25, 1918 in Zumbrota to Oscarand Mary (Finstuen) Loken. Shegraduated from Zumbrota HighSchool and attended St. Olaf Col-lege. Her nursing instruction wasat Fairview Hospital School ofNursing. She pursued her nursingcareer at Madison General Hos-pital, St. Luke’s Hospital in Racineand American Motors in Milwau-

kee as an industrial nurse. Lu closedher working career as parish sec-retary at Christ the King LutheranChurch in Brookfield, Wisconsin.

On October 14, 1950 Luella wasjoined in marriage to RichardWogsland at Lands LutheranChurch, Zumbrota.

Luella is survived by her sister,Margaret Thalman of Red Wing,nieces and nephews, Donna Hin-richs, Richard Loken, MaryVeiseth, Barb Loken, Dave Loken,and Jessie Aylsworth.

She was preceded in death byher husband, Richard, her parents,brothers, Harold Loken and ObertLoken, sisters, Alice Quittem andAntelia Hegge, nephews, RobertLoken and Bruce Thalman, andniece Annette Ring.

WanamingoKW National Honor Society inductsnew members and recognizes staffBy Alicia Hunt-Welch

KENYON – Members of theKenyon-Wanamingo High Schoolchapter of the National HonorSociety held their annual induc-tion ceremony on the evening ofApril 21. New NHS inductees wereTed Androli, Ashlee Blastervold,Samuel Breimhurst, ShelbyClawiter, Shera Clawiter, VictoriaClouse, Kasey Dummer, IsabelleFinholm, Megan Flom, MeganGroth, Natalie Hildebrandt, AlissaJohnson, Cassandra Kern, Chris-topher Lang, Kelsey Noah,Madeline Patterson, Mariah Peter-son, Emily Pliscott, Mara Quam,Katarina Rechtzigel, Brandi Re-mold, Benjamin Ringham, SarahSahl, Makayla Sokoloski, SydneyWarner, and Tanner Warner.

Vocalists Rosie Breimhurst andMegan Quam and senior choirmember provided prelude music.NHS advisor Rich Kincaid openedthe ceremony and welcomedguests. NHS president EllynBeulke, vice-president Drew

Sathrum, secretary Erin Houglum,and treasurer Brittney Flom tookpart in a candle lighting ceremonyand bringing attention to the quali-ties valued by NHS – scholarship,service, leadership, and charac-ter. KW Superintendent/interimprincipal Jeff Pesta served as thespecial guest speaker for the event.

Senior NHS members weregiven the opportunity to recog-nize a teacher or other staff mem-ber who was most influential totheir education or personal growth.The following is a list of seniorsand the staff members they recog-nized:

Mariah Quam and Erin Houglum– Spanish teacher Anna Bauer

Noah Rechtzigel – ag teacher/FFA advisor Chuck Larson

Quinn Traxler and TannerWarner – industrial tech teacherDoug Thompson

Rosie Breimhurst – band direc-tor Claire Larson

Brittney Flom – coach/elemen-tary physical education teacher

Tracy ErlandsonDrew Sathrum – coach/elemen-

tary principal Matt RyanAnna Washburn – family and

consumer science teacher/FCCLAadvisor Stacy Quam

Brennah McCorkell and BenRingham – social studies teacherDan Rechtzigel

Emily Ashland – high schoolsecretary Holli Gudknecht

Eric Hokanson – math teacher/math team coach Karen Davison

Fran Miles – middle school so-cial studies teacher Sarah Ohm

Clint Irrthum – coach/middleschool physical education teacherKirby VanDeWalker

Jessica Bauer – vocal musicteacher Stephanie Schumacher

Makayla Sokoloski – physicalscience teacher/Knowledge Bowladvisor Darin Walling

Ellyn Beulke – retired middleschool teacher Diane Mathias

Bailey Paquin – wrestling as-sistant coach Wayne Lexvold

Megan Quam – middle school

KW ELEMENTARY STUDENTS OF THE WEEKBy Alicia Hunt-Welch

WANAMINGO – Each weekstaff members at Kenyon-Wanamingo Elementary School(grades K-4) recognize one stu-dent in each class displaying thefollowing expectations: Be Re-sponsible, Be Respectful, and BeSafe. A staff member and teacherare also selected for the weeklyhonor. The following is a list ofKW teachers by grade and the stu-dents they selected as Students ofthe Week for the weeks of March20, 27 and April 10, respectively.Kindergarten

Mrs. Heidi Haugen – June

Sundin, De’Tajha Nelson, n/aMrs. Tanya Short – Nathan

Glenn, n/a, n/aMrs. Krista Swanson – Calixto

Torres Jr., Mackenzie Lankford,Cooper McGowanFirst grade

Ms. Megan Sabrowsky (long-term sub for Ms. Benbrooks) –Andrew Baalson, Olivia Lopez,Ryan Rechtzigel

Mr. Tony Donkers – RyanLaCanne, Gracie Johnson,Lillianna Shermann

Mrs. Cathy Stark – Decota Ruiz,Shaila Sanchez-Lopez, IsabellaGresethSecond grade

Mrs. Mary Gail Anderson –Francis Cusey, Jamison Hoffman,Wade Allen

Mrs. Renee Hildebrandt – RossAldorfer, Allina Mendoza, KyleBrogger

Mrs. Deb Hinrichs – HaydenBaka, Justin Mogren, Joe Mills.Third grade

Mrs. Val Ashland – FaythEggerstedt, Liliana Wood, AutumnRauk

Mrs. Shelly Froehling –Remington Enfield, Aidan Lindell,

Mackenzie SturgisMr. Jake Wieme – Mason

Mensing, n/a, Cooper BrandonFourth grade

Mrs. Cody Anstedt – SidneyMajerus, Lucas Beardsley, SkylarStevens

Mr. Kevin Anderson – JayceBarron, Anthony Martinez,Gennielyn Morales Delgado

Ms. Rhonda Thesing – n/a, n/a,Bradley HeckmanTeacher of the week

ESL teacher Deb Schulz washonored the week of March 20.Staff Member of the Week

Missy Ehrich, food service, washonored the week of March 20

reading teacher/coach Mandi KylloIsabelle Finholm – high school

English teacher/former speechteam advisor Rebecca Kunesh

Other members of the KW NHSare Sarah Benrud, Madison Born,Alexa Christenson, Jared Clawiter,Ethan Cota, Riley Donkers, ErinGudknecht, Courtney Houglum,Kayla Knott, Kaitlin Knott, EllaLee, Erica Meyers, Ebelin Mo-rales Delgado, John Nelson, SiriQuam, Mason Stevenson,Madeline VanGuilder, and JacobWhipple.

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Pine Island

Groundbreaking ceremony forPine Haven expansion is April 23

PINE ISLAND – United StatesDepartment of Agriculture(USDA) Rural Development StateDirector Colleen Landkamer,alongside local, state, and nationalofficials, will visit Pine Island at 3p.m. on Thursday, April 23, tobreak ground with Pine HavenCommunity to add on a $6.2 mil-lion expansion and remodel of thecurrent facility.

Pine Haven Community pro-vides a continuum of care for eld-erly and disabled populationsthrough the belief that every per-son is unique. Pine Haven pro-vides short-term and long-termskilled nursing care through its70-bed nursing home. In addition,it provides a 24-unit facility for

senior and assisted living in Ever-green Place. Pine Haven Neigh-borhood provides residents witha home-like atmosphere in thesmaller setting of individual house-holds.

Member of the Vikings speaks atPine Island School STARR assembly

Pine Island STARR (Stop Think and Act Respectfully and Responsibly)students who had earned the most Panther Prides in the month ofMarch from each grade level got to meet Marcus Sherels of the MinnesotaVikings and his best friend, Tim Nela (a graduate of John Marshall HighSchool who currently works in Rochester). The students each also

received a certificate, Panther Paw, and autographed pictures. Fromleft to right, front row: Brynne Kelley, Sarah Olson, Joey Halverson,Gavin Owen, and Isabelle Snyder; middle: Panther mascot; back row:Nela, Abby Whitby, Danny Cote, Brayden Burkhalter, Cal Svestka, andSherels.

By Audra DePestelPINE ISLAND – Pine Island

K-8 School held its monthlySTARR (Stop Think and Act Re-spectfully and Responsibly) stu-dent assembly on Friday, April10. The PBIS (Positive BehaviorInterventions and Supports) teaminvited Marcus Sherels and hisfriend Tim Nela to be speakers atthe assembly to address the im-portance of goals, dreams, anddoing well in school.

Sherels and Nela, both gradu-ates of John Marshall High School,spoke in an interview format aboutovercoming adversity. For ex-

ample, Nela was born in Sudanand came to the U.S. when he wasvery young. He first moved to NorthDakota and spoke no English. Hespoke Swahili and Sudanese. Neladescribed how difficult it was toadjust to a new culture and a newlanguage. Sherels talked about thedifficulty of having big dreams,but not being the biggest guy. Hejoined the University of Minne-sota football team and later earnedan athletic scholarship. Sherels thenwent to an open tryout for the Vi-kings and is now in his fifth yearwith the NFL.

Sherels and Nela also spoke

about being kind, being a goodfriend, respecting your teachersbecause they care about you, al-ways believing in yourself andstaying positive, and being a goodstudent in class. As they concluded,they wished the grades 3-8 stu-dents good luck on their Minne-sota Comprehensive Assessmenttests. The students who earned themost Panther Prides (STARR re-wards) in March got a private “meetand greet” with Sherels and Nela,a foam panther paw, a certificate,and autographed pictures.

Pine Island School holds themonthly STARR assemblies toreview behavior expectations and

sometimes teach or remind abouta new expectation. Some assem-blies are virtual assemblies likevideos or power points. Besidesthe reminder of expectations, theSTARR assemblies generally in-clude new student recognition,prize drawings/winners, specialactivities – i.e. MCA Rahrah, ReadAcross America, student council,Kindness Challenge, Toys for Tots,etc. Some assemblies are for K-4and 5-8 and some combine all K-8 students.

For more information visit https://sites.google.com/a/pineisland.k12.mn.us/pine-island-pbis/

Pine Island High School class holds 50-year reunionPINE ISLAND – The Pine Island High School class of 1964 gathered forits 50-year reunion on August 23, 2014, at the Olde Pine Theatre with33 of the 51 class members attending. First row, from left to right:Rosemary Kirgis Heimberg and Kenneth Krause; second row: HaroldMillering, Joann Ruegg Rehling, Carol Arndt Lane, Joanne Stolp Hace,Theresa Sigrist Poncelet, Marie Rober Geise, and Sandy Sanford Anderson;

third row: Betty Jo Schlaeppi Clemons, Bob Rossi, Kathy SchmiesingRossi, Charlie Ronningen, Carolyn Zwart Hammett, Carolyn HurlbutBerg, Kay Geise Scripture, and Judy Rossi Peterson; fourth row: DougSchlaeppi, Gary Rehling, Jim Shelstad, Glenda Nesbitt Robertson, ErnestDearinger, Donn Frederick, Dale Hayward, and Erwin Poncelet; fifthrow: Joe Edstrom, Jon Gravenish, Dale Andrist, Bernie Rehling, JimKundert, Annette Glabe, Carol Berg Peterman, and Sue Snow Schliep.

BELLECHESTERROLLING MEADOWS MENNONITECHURCH, Belvidere Town Hall, 2miles north of Bellechester on County2, Pastor Aaron Witmer, 651-923-4240. Sundays: 10 a.m. SundaySchool; 11 a.m. Worship; 7 p.m. HymnSing every fourth Sunday.

ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC , Bellech-ester, Father Paul Kubista. Sundaymornings: 8:30 a.m. Mass. Tuesdayand Thursday mornings: 8 a.m. Mass.

GOODHUEHOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC ,Goodhue, Father Paul Kubista. Masstimes: Monday and Wednesday, 8a.m. at Holy Trinity; Tuesday andThursday, 8 a.m. at St. Mary; Satur-day, 5:30 p.m. At Holy Trinity; Sun-day, 8:30 a.m. St. Mary and 10:30a.m. St. Columbkill.

ST. LUKE LUTHERAN, Goodhue,651-923-4695, Pastor Regina Has-sanally. Secretary hours: Monday andThursday: 5:15-8:15 p.m.; Tuesdayand Wednesday: 9:15 a.m.-3:15 p.m.Wed., April 22: 6:30 p.m. Confirma-tion class for 8th grade only. Sun.,April 26: 8:30 a.m. Sunday School;9:30 a.m. Worship with communionwith grades 3-6 singing.

ST. PETER’S EV. LUTHERAN,WELS, 702 Third Ave., Goodhue,Randall L. Kuznicki, Pastor. Wed.,April 22: 8:30 a.m. Quilting with Biblestudy; 3:30 p.m. Confirmation classat church. Sun., April 26: 9:15 a.m.Sunday School; 10:15 a.m. Worshipwith confirmation and communion.Tues., April 28: 1-4 p.m. Pastor’soffice hours.

MAZEPPAST. JOHN’S EV. LUTHERAN ,Mazeppa, Alan Horn, Pastor. 843-6211, home; 843-5302 work. Bibleclass every Wednesday at 7 p.m.

ST. PETER & PAUL CATHOLIC ,Mazeppa. Weekends-Masses: Sun.:10 a.m., Mazeppa, Fr. Joe Fogal.

UNITED METHODIST, Mazeppa,David Neil, Pastor. Church: 843-4962;home: 732-4291. Every Sunday: 9:30a.m. Sunday School; 10:30 a.m.Worship.

ORONOCOGRACE LUTHERAN, WELS , 45 1stAvenue NE, Oronoco: 507-367-4329,Pastor Ben Kempfert 507-367-4426.Office hours: Tuesday-Friday, 8-11a.m. Website: www.grace LutheranOronoco .come. Follow us on face-book. Sundays: 8:45 a.m. SundaySchool; Bible study; 10 a.m. Wor-ship.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OFORONOCO, 40 3rd Street SW., Rev.Lisa Johnson office hours Mondays1-4 p.m.; Office hours: Tuesdays andThursdays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Wed., April22: 5-7 p.m. Food shelf open. Sun.,April 26: 9 a.m. Worship.

PINE ISLANDCORNERSTONE BAPTISTCHURCH, Pine Island, Tim Graham,Pastor, 507-356-4306, www.cornerstonepi.org, ASL Interpretation avail-able. Sun., 9:30 a.m. Sunday School;10:30 a.m. Worship; 6 p.m. Worship(most Sundays) Wed., 7 p.m. Prayerservice; Cornerstone Club. Wed.,-Thurs. April 22-23: Galkin Evange-listic Ministries morning and eveningworship; Weekdays at 7 p.m. Thurs.,April 23: 7 p.m. Pie fellowship atOlde Pine Theatre with Galkins.

GOOD NEWS EVANGELICAL FREECHURCH, 208 North Main, Pine Is-land, Chris Paulson, Pastor, (507)356-4834. Sundays: 9:15 a.m. Sun-day School for children and adults;10:30 a.m. Worship; 7 p.m. YouthGroup for grades 7-12. Wednesdays:6 p.m. AWANA for grades K-6; 7:30p.m. Bible study for all ages.

PINE ISLAND ASSEMBLY OF GOD ,520 So. Main St., Pine Island, 356-8622, email: dashpole@bevcomm.net, Rev. Dan Ashpole, Pastor. Sun-days: 9:30 a.m. Adult Bible class andChildren’s Sunday School; 10:30 a.m.Worship.

CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL CATHO-LIC, 451 5th Street SW, Pine Island,356-4280, Father Randal Kasel, Pas-tor. http://www.stpaul stmichael.comSaturday Mass 5 p.m.; Sunday Mass10:30 a.m.; Confessions 4:15 p.m.Saturday; Daily Mass Wednesday8:30 a.m. and Friday 8:30 a.m.; Con-fessions 8 a.m. Office Hours Tues-day-Thursday, 9 a.m.-noon and 1-5p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m.-noon. Mass atPine Haven Care Center is the firstWednesday of the month at 11 a.m.

ST. PAUL LUTHERAN , ELCA, 2143rd St. S.W., Box 708, Pine Island,Audrey Lukasak, interim senior pas-tor, and Kip A. Groettum, associatepastor. Email: saint paulpi@yahoo.com; Web site: www.saintpa1ulpi.orgWed., April 22: 3:30 p.m. 7-8 gradeconfirmation; 6 p.m. Adult ed class;7 p.m. Chancel choir; 8 p.m. Praiseteam. Thurs., April 23: 9 a.m. and 7p.m. Senior quilt tying; 6:30 p.m.Building/grounds meeting. Sat., April25: 8 a.m. Church cleanup; 5 p.m.Worship. Sun., April 26: 8:15 a.m.Worship; 9:30 a.m. Fellowship; Sun-day School; Handbells; 10:30 a.m.Worship; Sunday School. Mon., April27: Newsletter deadline. Tues., April28: 8:30 a.m. Quilting; Staff meet-ing; 1:30 p.m. Bible study. Wed., April29: 3:30 p.m. 7-8 grade confirma-tion; 6 p.m. Adult ed class; 6:15 p.m.

Chancel choir potluck/rehearsal.

UNITED METHODIST, 200 Main St.North, PO Box 8, Pine Island, Caro-lyn Westlake, Pastor; Office hours:Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-2:15 p.m.;Web address: www.piumc.org; email:piumc@bevcomm.net. Wed., April22: 9 a.m. Better Brew hours; 5:45p.m. Meal; 6 p.m. Children’s wor-ship; Confirmation; Adult study; 6:30p.m. Confirmation.

WANAMINGONEW LIFE CHURCH , Wanamingo,Pastor Patrick McBride, 507-824-3019. New Life Church meets at 10a.m. at 525 Beverly Street, Wana-mingo. Free nursery for infantsthrough age three; Sunday Schoolfor all ages beginning at 9 a.m. SmallGroup Bible Studies Sunday eveningsat 7 p.m.

TRINITY LUTHERAN , Wanamingo,Christopher Culuris, Pastor 507-824-2155; www.TrinityWanamingo.org.Wed., April 22: 9 a.m. Volunteershelp with newsletter. Thurs., April23: Noon WELCA spring luncheonwith Wednesday circle hosting. Sun.,April 26: 9 a.m. Sunday School;Worship followed by coffee fellow-ship. Wed., April 29: 4:30 p.m. Con-firmation.

WANAMINGO LUTHERAN ELCA,Wanamingo, MN 55983, ChristopherCuluris, Pastor. Office hours Thurs-days 1-3 p.m., 507-824-2410. Sun.,April 26: 10:30 a.m. Worship. Wed.,April 29: 4:30 p.m. Confirmation atTrinity.

ZUMBROTACHRIST EV. LUTHERAN CHURCHand School, WELS, 223 East 5thStreet, Zumbrota, Office 732-5421.Wayne Schoch, Pastor, 732-4089;School, Daniel Kell, Principal, 732-5367. Wed., April 22: 10 a.m. Chapel;10:30 a.m. Bible study; 1 p.m. Nurs-ing Home service; 3:15 p.m. Juniorchoir picnic; 3:30 p.m. Confirmationclass. Sun., April 26: 8 and 10:30a.m. Worship; 9:15 a.m. SundaySchool; 9:30 a.m.. Special votersmeeting; Bible study. Wed., April 29:10 a.m. Chapel; 10:30 a.m. Biblestudy; 3:30 p.m. Confirmation class.

FAMILY WORSHIP CHURCH Weeklyworship services: 81 West 5th Street,Zumbrota, 507-732-7438, www.fwc1.org. Sunday: 9:30 a.m- Corinthians.Wednesdays 7 p.m. Interactive Biblestudies, prayer, and counseling.

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,UCC, 455 East Avenue, Zumbrota;Rev. Lisa Johnson. Secretary’s of-fice hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sun., April 26: 11a.m. Worship.

LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY CHURCH,a Wesleyan church, 179 W. 3rd St.,Zumbrota, lighthousecommunityzum@yahoo.com, Janet Fischer, Pastor.Office: 732-5074. Thurs., April 23:6:30 p.m. Bible study at church. Sun.,April 26: 10:45 a.m. Worship,Jeremiah 15:15-21.

NEW RIVER ASSEMBLY OF GOD ,290 South Main Street, Zumbrota.507-398-2604. Pastor Gary Basin-ski. Service times: Saturday, 7 p.m.www.NewRiverZumbrota.com.

OUR SAVIOUR’S LUTHERAN AFLCEric Westlake, Pastor, 1549 East Av-enue, Zumbrota, 732-5449, churchoffice. Website: oslczumbrota.org.Office hours: Tues., Wed., and Fri.,8 a.m.-noon. Wed., April 22: 9 a.m.Women’s Bible study; 3:30 p.m.WINGS; Junior youth group; 6 p.m.Youth group; 7 p.m. Bible study. Sat.,April 25: 7 a.m. Men’s prayer break-fast. Sun., April 26: 8 a.m. Prayertime; 9 a.m. Sunday School; 10:15a.m. Worship; Noon New member-ship class, part B; 7 p.m. 50+ Biblestudy. Mon., April 27: 7 p.m. Momsin prayer. Wed., April 29: 9 a.m.Women’s Bible study; 3:30 pm.WINGS; Junior youth group; 6 p.m.Youth group; 7 p.m. Bible study.

CHURCH OF ST. PAUL CATHOLIC,749 Main St. South, Zumbrota, 732-5324, email stpauls@hcinet.net Pas-tor Father Randal Kasel, pastor. Of-fice hours: Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-noon and 1-5 p.m., Friday, 9 a.m.-noon. http://www.stpaulstmichaelcom.Mass Schedule: Sunday, 8:30 a.m.;Tuesday and Thursday, 8:30 a.m.Mass at Zumbrota Care Center isthe second Thursday of the monthat 9:15 a.m.

UNITED REDEEMER LUTHERAN,560 W. 3rd St., Zumbrota, 732-7303,Rev. Dick Jorgensen and Youth Di-rector Cindy Wilson. Wed., April 22:7:15 a.m. CBC: 6 p.m. WELCA meet-ing; 6:30 p.m. Bells practice; 6:45p.m. Confirmation small groups; 7p.m. Choir rehearsal. Thurs., April23: 7 p.m. Food shelf open. Sun.,April 26: 8 and 10:30 a.m. Worshipwith blessing of quilts; 9:15 a.m. PACE.Wed., April 29: 7:15 a.m. CBC; 6:30p.m. Bells practice; 6:45 p.m. Confir-mation class; 7 p.m. Choir rehearsal.

RURALEMMANUEL LUTHERAN, Aspelund,Martin Horn, Pastor. Wed., April 22:3:15 p.m. Overcomers; 5 p.m. 2ndyear confirmation at Hauge; 6:15 p.m.1st year confirmation; 7:30 p.m. Biblestudy and prayer. Sat., April 25: 8a.m. FBI Bible study at church. Sun.,April 26: 9:30 a.m. Sunday School;10:45 a.m. Worship; 7 p.m. Proclaimchoir concert. Wed., April 29: 3:15p.m. Overcomers; 5 p.m. 2nd yearconfirmation at Hauge; 6:15 p.m. 1styear confirmation at Hauge; 6:30 p.m.Choir at Hauge; 7:30 p.m. Bible studyand prayer at Hauge.

GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH, Ner-strand, Don Kloster pastor, (507) 334-2822. Sundays: 9 a.m. Worship; 10:15a.m. Coffee hour; 10:30 a.m. Sun-day School; Confirmation class.

GRACE & ST. JOHN’S LUTHERANCHURCHES, Rural Goodhue, County4 Blvd., Pastor Justin Gosch. Grace:Sundays: 9 a.m. Worship; 10:15Sunday School. Communion on thesecond and last Sunday of eachmonth. St. John’s: Sundays: 9:15 a.m.Sunday School; 10:30 a.m. Worship.Communion on the second and lastSunday of each month.

HAUGE LUTHERAN, Rural Kenyon,Martin Horn, Pastor. Wed., April 22:3:15 p.m. Overcomers; 5 p.m. 2ndyear confirmation; 6:15 p.m. 1st yearconfirmation at Emmanuel; 7:30 p.m.Bible study and prayer at Emman-uel. Sun., April 26: 9 a.m. Worship;10:30 a.m. Sunday School; 7 p.m.Proclaim choir concert at Emman-uel. Wed., April 29: 3:15 p.m. Over-comers; 5 p.m. 2nd year confirma-tion; 6:15 p.m. 1st year confirma-tion; 6:30 p.m. Choir; 7:30 p.m. Biblestudy and prayer.

IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH,Hay Creek (LCMS), 24686 Old ChurchRoad. Pastor Lowell Sorenson, 651-388-4577. Sundays: 9 a.m. SundaySchool; Bible class; 9:45 a.m. Fel-lowship time; 10 a.m. Worship.

LANDS LUTHERAN , 16640 Highway.60 Blvd., Zumbrota, MN 55992-5105.Zumbrota. Wed., April 22: 7:15 a.m.Youth Bible study at Bridget’s; 9 a.m.Coffee and conversation; 6:15 p.m.Confirmation; Worship; 7 p.m. Youthgroup.

MINNEOLA LUTHERAN, 13628County 50 Blvd. Rev. Hannah Berg-strom de Leon, Pastor. Sun., April26: 9:15 a.m. Sunday School; 10:30a.m. Worship with communion fol-lowed by lunch and ditch cleanup.

ST. COLUMBKILL CATHOLIC ,

36483 County. 47 Blvd., Belle Creek,Father Paul Kubista. Sundays: 10:30a.m. Mass.

ST. JOHN’S EV. LUTHERAN , BearValley, Alan Horn, Pastor. 843-6211,home; 843-5302 work. Bible Classis every Wednesday at 6 p.m. inMazeppa.

ST. JOHN’S EV. LUTHERAN, WELS ,Minneola Township, County Road 7,rural Zumbrota, Randall Kuznicki,Pastor. Sun., April 26: 8:30 a.m.Worship. Tues., April 28: 1-4 p.m.Pastor’s office hours.

ST. PETER LUTHERAN , The Luth-eran Church Missouri Synod, Bel-videre, 28961 365th St., Goodhue,MN 55027-8515, Dr. Scott T. Fiege,Pastor. Sun., April 26: 9:30 a.m.Sunday School; 10:30 a.m. Worship.

STORDAHL LUTHERAN, ELCA , Ru-ral Zumbrota. Church: (507) 732-5711,Kathy Lowery, Pastor, Home 507-271-5711.

URLAND LUTHERAN 6940 County9 Blvd., Cannon Falls, MN 55009.Church: 507-263-5544; Pastor DavidHurtt, Interim. Wed., April 22: 7 a.m.Men’s Bible study; 6:30 p.m. Affir-mation class; 7:30 p.m. Praise andworship practice. Thurs., April 23:6 p.m. Communion instruction class.Sun., April 26: 9:15 a.m. SundaySchool; Youth forum; 10:30 a.m.Communion worship. Wed., April 29:7 a.m. Men’s Bible study; 6:30 p.m.Affirmation class; 7:30 p.m. Praiseand worship practice.

WANGEN PRAIRIE LUTHERAN ,LCMC 34289 County 24 Blvd., Can-non Falls, Curtis Fox, Pastor, 507-663-9060; Linda Flom, Visitation Min-ister, 263-5613. Sundays 9 a.m.Worship. Thursdays 9:30 a.m. Biblestudy; 7 p.m. Blue grass jam.

ZWINGLl UNITED CHURCH OFCHRIST, 23148 County Highway 24,West Concord (Berne), 507/527-2622.Rev. Victor Jortack, Pastor.

Churches

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Section B of NEWS-RECORD Wednesday, April 22, 2015 • No. 16

OronocoWanamingo Pine Island

Zumbrota MazeppaGoodhueNeighbors

Students vote for their favoritebooks in reading program

The four Pine Island students who read all twelve of the books nominated for the Maud Hart Lovelace Awardare, from left to right, Ellie Albrecht, Andrew Taggart, Bethany Dick, and Anna Kruse. Students who read atleast three of the books were allowed to cast their votes for their favorite. After votes around the state aretallied a winner will be announced on April 25.

PINE ISLAND – Pine IslandElementary School completed thisyear’s Maud Hart Lovelace read-ing program with voting on fa-vorite books from April 1-9.Thirty-eight students in fourth andfifth grade read at least three ofthe twelve nominated titles andwere thus eligible to vote. Fourstudents read all twelve nominatedtitles: fifth-grader Anna Kruse, andfourth-graders Ellie Albrecht,Bethany Dick, and AndrewTaggart.

The favorite book for fourth-graders was “As Simple As ItSeems” by Sarah Weeks. Fifth

grade votes showed a tie between“As Simple As It Seems” and“Belly Up” by Stuart Gibbs. OnApril 9, local votes were submit-ted to the state committee to betabulated with those from aroundthe state. This year’s Maud HartLovelace Award winner will beannounced on April 25, the birth-day of Lovelace.

Born in Mankato in 1892,Lovelace is the author of the Betsy-Tacy series. Characters from thesebooks reflect her own childhoodfriendships in Mankato. The MaudHart Lovelace Award was estab-lished in 1980. Each year the state

committee selects twelve booksof fiction written in the past fiveyears for nomination. Authors mustlive in North America and the booksmust currently be available in pa-perback form. The purpose of theaward is to encourage school agechildren to spend time readingrecreationally.

The titles nominated for nextyear’s award will also be an-nounced on April 25 and childrenwill have a whole year to readthem and then vote for their fa-vorite next spring. Titles are avail-able through the public library.

Goodhue annnounces MarchStudents of the Month

Derek Alpers, left, and Calvin Peterson were named Students of theMonth for March at Goodhue School.

GOODHUE – Goodhue Stu-dents of the Month were namedfor March. Derek Alpers repre-sented the junior high, and CalvinPeterson the high school.

Alpers is the ninth grade son ofJohn and Jodie Alpers. He saidhis brother Ryan has been a posi-tive role model for him. His fa-vorite subject is science, and he isinvolved in cross country, basket-ball, student council, and churchyouth group. Alpers said his big-

gest accomplishment so far hasbeen playing AAU Basketball.

Peterson, the junior son of Scottand Kellie Peterson, plays foot-ball and basketball, and is a mem-ber of Environthon, National HonorSociety, and his church youthgroup. His favorite subject is bi-ology and his positive role modelis his brother Cameron. Peterson’sbiggest accomplishment so far iswinning the Sub-section 1A Westchampionship in basketball.

Pine Haven Care Centercelebrates its volunteers

Phillip Goplen says a Norwegian prayer before the meal at the PineHaven Care Center volunteer banquet. On the left, Lea Dacy listensclosely as she gets ready to entertain during the event.

Dedicated volunteers, from left to right, Diane DeBoer, Pat Christensen, Lela Kennedy, and Maggie Neiattend the annual volunteer banquet at Pine Haven Care Center.

By Audra DePestelPINEISLAND – Pine Haven

Care Center held its annual Vol-unteer Banquet on WednesdayApril 15. This year’s theme was“Volunteers are a Work of Heart.”Over 40 volunteers attended theevent which featured a marinatedchicken dinner with side dishesand pumpkin pie for dessert. Resi-dent Phillip Goplen said gracebefore the meal with a prayer hespoke in Norwegian and then trans-lated to English. Lea Dacy enter-tained with her electric cello andhumorous commentary.

Pine Haven has over 100 vol-unteers who offer their time andtalents. The volunteers serve inmany different ways and areaswithin the care center, from theboard and auxiliary, to musicalentertainment, chaperoning out-ings, playing games such as Wiiand Bingo, and one-on-one visits.Some volunteers also mend clothes,do manicures, read stories, assistwith mealtime, decorate the facil-ity, bake for fundraisers, and helpwith Sunday coffee.

Activity Director Char Tewaltsaid the dedication and compas-sion the volunteers show the resi-dents is wonderful. “All these vol-unteers make a big difference inthe lives of our residents everyday and they are an important partof our care center community.”Tewalt was also happy to see fourof Pine Haven’s youth volunteers

attend the banquet this year, say-ing, “It is good to see the youngergeneration getting more involvedtoo.”

The groundbreaking for the newaddition is on April 23 at 3 p.m.Along with the new addition,Tewalt said there will be even moreopportunities for volunteers to helpout. She encourages everyone tolook into volunteering at PineHaven, saying, “Volunteering can

be a very rewarding experienceand it only takes a little of yourtime to make a big difference insomeone else’s life.”

Pine Haven welcomes and en-courages more of the area youthto volunteer, especially during thesummer months when more out-door activities are planned. Forinformation about volunteer op-portunities, contact Pine Haven at507-356- 8304.

PIE Walkathon will be April 25By Tawny Michels

ZUMBROTA – The Zumbrota-Mazeppa Annual Partners in Edu-cation (PIE) Walkathon will beon Saturday, April 25, at CoveredBridge Park from 9 a.m. to noon.Partners in Education is a partner-ship between parents and schoolstaff to promote a unified educa-tion system.

“The PIE group has assisted ingiving the students of our districtopportunities that they wouldn’totherwise have,” Roxanne Webstersaid. “I really want to acknowl-edge how much effort and timethese volunteers put in to help thedistrict and the teachers.” Withtheir time and donations, the pro-gram has received funds to increasethe amount of books in Webster’sclassroom library.

Stacy Liebenow said that teach-ers have used PIE for two thingsthis year, “PIE has allowed us togo on a field trip to Quarry Hill,and they purchased headphonesfor our iPads for students whichhelps with noise level and focus.”She expressed her gratitude to-wards all of the volunteers andsaid, “Without PIE we would not

have been able to enhance studentlearning.”

Caitlin Bonde, a first-yearteacher in the first grade, said sheis very excited to take part in herfirst ever walkathon and encour-ages community members to getinvolved as well. “This is a hugeevent for PIE funds. These fundsprovide a variety of different thingsused in our classrooms every day,”she said.

Lisa Nelson, also a first gradeteacher at ZM, noted how impor-tant PIE is to the teachers, “PIEhas been very supportive of theZM primary. They have helped usfinancially...Most recently theyhave purchased headphones forthe students to use with their iPads.We would not have been able todo this otherwise,” she said.

Event coordinator JessicaLochner explained the importanceof community involvement inevents such as this. She said, “Istrongly believe a strong schooldistrict is comprised of engagedcommunity members, excellentteachers and faculty. Together wecan strive for excellence and dem-

onstrate a strong support systemfor our students.”

Lochner also said that a lot goesinto planning an event such as this.They have a committee of eightparents, Quinn Rasmussen (schoolprincipal), and teachers who meetmonthly to plan various eventsthroughout the year. She said,“Over the past few months, wehave reviewed prior year notes,requested input from others in-volved, and divide and conquerthe tasks. It takes a village!”

Besides the walkathon, there willbe food, games, activities, and asilent auction at the event for fami-lies to take part in before and afterthey walk on the approved trail atthe park. All members have ex-pressed that they hope to see thecommunity help out with this event,and other PIE events throughoutthe year. Community members canvolunteer the day of the event ordonate to a neighbor kid who iswalking to support their school ordirectly to ZM PIE. For more in-formation email zumbrotamazeppapie@gmail.com or visittheir Facebook page.

Open burning permit isamended in WanamingoBy Alicia Hunt-Welch

WANAMINGO – Open burn-ing restrictions are now in placein Wanamingo after the city councilpassed an ordinance on April 13.Ordinance #169 prohibits the burn-ing of oil, petroleum fuels, rub-ber, plastic, chemically treatedmaterials, and other materials thatproduce excessive or noxioussmoke, such as tires, railroad ties,painted or glued wood compositeshingles, tar paper, insulation, sheetrock, wiring, paint/paint filters,hazardous waste, solid waste, food,leaves or grass clippings withincity limits.

The ordinance does not affectthe use of grills, hibachis, pro-pane or natural gas devices, orrecreational campfires.

Issues have come up in the pastresulting in the city moving to amore strict burning code. A pub-

lic hearing was held, and no com-ment was offered. A motion byLarry VanDeWalker to approvethe ordinance carried 5-0.

Recreational fires should be nomore than three feet in diameter,surrounded by non-combustiblematerial, and no closer than 25feet in distance from any struc-ture or combustible material. Anyrestrictions or bans set by a stateagency, such as the Departmentof Natural Resources or the Min-nesota Pollution Control Agency,on recreational fires and burningduring times of increased fire dan-ger or poor air quality would takeprecedence. Refer to the agencies’websites to check the status of anybans in place before using recre-ational fires.Loan with Nesseth renegotiated

In 2005, local business ownerByron “Barney” Nesseth requested

that the city establish a revolvingloan fund. In October 2005, thecity entered into a loan agreementwith Nesseth to help financeHussmann and Tyler refrigerationequipment for his grocery store.The original amount of the loanwas $42,000 with a 6% annualinterest rate to be repaid in tenyears. Consistent regular paymentswere not made on the loan (withCity Administrator MichaelBoulton noting that a payment wasnot made in about a year and ahalf) and as of February 20, 2015,Nesseth still owed $29,540.95 tothe city.

Nesseth requested that the cityrefinance the loan, which the cityagreed to with amended terms. Therevised agreement states that a$26,000 principal amount, in ad-ditional to attorneys’ expenses, willbe paid to the city in $500 pay-ments each month on the fifth day(beginning March 5, 2015) andwithdrawn automatically from theHometown Wine & Spirits bankaccount. A $100 fee will be ap-plied per month if payments arelate. If no payments are made for60 days, the $29,540.95 owed onthe original note plus a 0.05%compounded monthly interest ratewill be charged. The council ap-proved the terms of the amendedloan.Maple Island request

The council approved a consentto assignment of contract for pri-vate development for Maple Is-land, Inc. The process was neededfor the business to enter a con-struction loan agreement with theirlender, using the land they obtainedfor their building expansion ascollateral. Since the land is in anestablished tax increment financ-ing district through the city, thecouncil had to give their consentfor this to be done.New WFD trainees approved

The Wanamingo Fire Depart-ment recently accepted applica-tions for new members. The WFDPersonnel Committee recom-mended that the council approveJosh Revland, Brandon Lunde,Parker Erickson, and TylorSchaefer as new trainees.

Councilman and Assistant FireChief Todd Kyllo said this wasthe best group of candidates thedepartment has seen in many years.A motion to approve by JenniferBerquam carried.Other business

The city received three quotesfor technology upgrades, fromStoddard Enterprises, Inc., CornellComputers, and Over Your HeadTechnologies. After reviewing thecomputer equipment and serviceplans offered through each com-pany, Jamie Majerus made a mo-tion to accept the bid from Cornellfor $3,832, which included a three-year guarantee. The last time thecity purchased computers was in2006.

The council approved extend-ing the service and rental agree-ment with Hasler for the city’spostage meter. The city will pay$26.17 per month for the three-year contract.

The next regular council meet-ing is on Monday, May 11, at 7p.m. in the council chambers.

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Bible college choir to performat Emmanuel Lutheran Church

ASPELUND – The AssociationFree Lutheran Bible School Pro-claim Choir will present a concertat Emmanuel Lutheran Church inAspelund (42957 County 1 Bou-levard between County Roads 30and 8) on Sunday, April 26, at 7p.m. The concert is free and opento the public.

The 36-member choir tours an-nually, this year traveling throughsouthwestern Minnesota and east-ern South Dakota. Kenyon-Wanamingo High School gradu-ate Nicole Persson of ruralWanamingo is a member of choirand will be performing at her homechurch.

The Proclaim Choir, one of tenperforming groups represented atthe school, is under the directionof Andrew Hanson. The choir iseclectic in style, with its musicincluding sacred classics, hymn

arrangements, and energetic spiri-tuals. AFLC Schools PresidentWade Mobley, will give a greet-ing at the concert.

The Association Free LutheranBible School provides a two-year,college equivalent study of theBible and related subjects wherecredits transfer to many other four-year Christian colleges. The schoolbegan in 1966 with thirteen stu-dents and now has an enrollmentof 117. The courses are designedto prepare students to live com-mitted Christian lives in whatevervocation they choose, and to ac-tively participate in their localcongregation. The campus is lo-cated on the shores of MedicineLake, in a northwest suburb ofMinneapolis.

For more information onEmmanuel Lutheran Church or theconcert call 507-824-2307.

Birth

GRONVALLEdwin Herbert was born on

March 7, 2015, to Karl and KimGronvall of Menomonie, Wiscon-sin. He was 24 inches long and 11pounds, 3 ounces. He joins broth-ers Vernon and Walton.

Grandparents are Dale and KathyHadler of Goodhue and Dan andSusan Gronvall of Red Wing.Great-grandmothers are ArleneHadler of Goodhue and Peg Kylloof Kenyon.

County

O’Brien crowned DodgeCounty Dairy Princess

2015 Dodge County Dairy Princess Morgan O’Brien is with her sponsorRoss Bailey of Carriage House Animal Hospital.

Morgan O’Brien of rural Kassonwas crowned 2015 Dodge CountyDairy Princess at the Dodge CountyDairy Princess Banquet April 10at the Milton Township Hall.

Sponsored by Carriage HouseAnimal Hospital, O’Brien is a 2014graduate of Kasson-MantorvilleHigh School and the daughter ofPatrick and Emma O’Brien, whofarm near Kasson. The O’Briensmilk 110 Holstein cows, raiseyoung stock and steers, and farm

around 300 acres. O’Brien’s re-sponsibilities on the farm includetaking care of newborn calves,keeping records of the milk cows,and helping with field work.

O’Brien is currently attendingRochester Community and Tech-nical College, where she hopes topursue the veterinary tech pro-gram. She enjoys outdoor activi-ties and needle work.

Taylor Reber and McCayla Thoeserved as Dodge County’s DairyPrincesses in 2014.

ZM choir takes a trip to Branson, Missouri

Among the stops on the Zumbrota-Mazeppa choir’s tour of Branson,Missouri, was the Titanic Museum.

Submitted by Susan PetersonChoir director

From March 18-22, 2015, theZumbrota-Mazeppa High Schoolchoir traveled to Branson, Mis-souri.

On Thursday, March 19, thechoir started our tour of Branson.First, the choir went to the TitanicMuseum, an interactive museumthat taught students about the Ti-tanic and her passengers. The choirwas able to experience what lifewas like for passengers on the Ti-tanic and see artifacts from theship. Next, they went to theBranson Imax Entertainment Com-plex where they could shop andwatch an Imax film about the his-tory of the rural areas aroundBranson, known as the Ozarks. Thechoir was also asked to be part ofa commercial for the BransonImax Entertainment Complex.Students were filmed shopping,watching a movie, and touringbehind the scenes of the Imax films. In the evening, the choir went to a

sold out performance of theHaygoods. The Haygoods is themost popular musical theatershow for groups in Branson. It isa group of five brothers and onesister who all play more than oneinstrument and can sing well witheach other. The Haygoods eveninvolve the audience and usea zipline and laser lights in theperformance.

On Friday, March 20, the choirwoke up early and traveled toThe College of the Ozarks to per-form and work with one of themusic professors, Gregg Busch.The choir had a great session withthe professor inside a very nicevenue at the college. The College ofthe Ozarks is a “hard knock col-lege,” meaning students work atthe college and pay no tuition.While at the college, the choir wentto the Ralph Forester Museum,which is on the College of theOzarks campus. At the museumstudents got to look at animalsnative to the Ozarks, a wide vari-ety of guns, Kewpie dolls and muchmore. Some students also had theopportunity to tour the chapel oncampus and hear the organ playedby some college students. Thenafter taking sometime out to eatand shop, the choir went to theHughes Brothers Show, another

popular musical theater show inBranson. The choir performedbefore the Hughes Brothers showand were able to perform a num-ber with some of the members ofthe cast. They then watched theshow “It” and had a meet and greetwith the Hughes Brothers Fam-ily. Students were allowed to askquestions and speak to the castmembers. One of the things thatthe Hughes Brothers said was thatno matter what business you gointo, know that family and yourpersonal values are the most im-portant.

On Saturday, March 21, thechoir traveled to Silver Dollar City,an amusement park outside ofBranson. Silver Dollar City tookthe choir back in time just by en-tering the gates. The choir saw ablacksmith, wood carver, and glassblower at work. They spent thewhole day touring the cave, ridingrides such as Outlaw Run (rankedseventh in the world’s top 50 woodrollercoasters), watching someshows, and doing a little shopping.

The next day the choir checkedout of the hotel to travel home.They stopped at the Bass Pro Shopin Springfield, Missouri, and hadlunch in Iowa amid 70 degree tem-peratures. They made it home withapproximately nine inches of snowalready on the ground in Zum-brota.

4-H NEWSCherry Grove Busy GophersBy Kate Rechtzigel

The meeting for April 12 wasstarted at 7:05 p.m. with the as-signing of workers for the hog roast.The ditch clean-up was then dis-cussed and it was decided to haveit on April 25 at 2 p.m. Snackswere volunteered by Sam Tudorfor that month. Livestock trainingwas then discussed, since severalmembers will go this year. At thistraining, which is required everyfour years you learn new tech-niques for 4-H and you get to goaround the town to learn about allthe different meat and AG busi-nesses. This year it will be held atthe Mazeppa Community Centeron Saturday, April 18 from 9 a.m.- noon. We discussed having newt-shirts made because of our newmembers, and we all joked thatwe need to have them double spell-checked this year. Emily Pliscott,Kira Quam, Maddie Patterson, andSam Tudor were assigned to thatgroup.

Then we had a demonstrationdone by Kira Quam on Dairy Judg-ing. She told us about all the per-centages involved. 15% is con-sidered the frame of the cow, 25%is the strength of the cow, 20% isthe rear front and leg placement,and 40% is the udder which in-cludes depth, balance, texture, andteat length and placement. She saidthat the major points are height,rib-depth, pear-shaped body frame,teat length, level back, movement,and squared feet.

The meeting was adjourned at7:40 p.m. with the Fitzgeralds serv-ing Rice Krispie bars and SpecialK bars along with white and choco-late milk.

Mazeppa MusketeersBy Brooklyn Radtke

The April meeting of theMazeppa Musketeers was calledto order at 6:30 p.m. on April 12,2015. We started out by thankingsome of the families who helpedserve treats to the Mazeppa HonorGuard, Legion, and Ladies Aux-iliary. Then we planned our Maybaskets to give to the Riverviewsenior citizens.We also talked aboutthe Goodhue County 4-H HogRoast on April 26.

We had a demonstration byAricka Robertson on how to makeOreo truffle balls coated in almondbark. We also enjoyed yummycupcakes. If you are interested injoining Mazeppa Musketeers 4-H, you can come to our next meet-ing on Sunday, May 3 at 6:30 p.m.at the Mazeppa Community Cen-ter.

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Baseball

KW sweeps two from ZMBy Faye Haugen

ZUMBROTA – By identical 5-4 scores, Kenyon-Wanamingoswept an HVL baseball double-header over Zumbrota-Mazeppain Zumbrota, Saturday.Game one

Gavin Roosen earned the moundwin in the opening game when hestruck out six, walked three andgave up seven hits over six in-nings for the Knights. Drew Sath-rum earned the save, striking outone over the last inning.

Three ZM pitchers, Tyler Gru-dem, Caleb Hinrichs and BradySchoenfelder combined to strike-out one, walk four and give upnine hits.

Luke Rechtzigel and ConnorSviggum each had three hits. Svig-gum also had a double and an RBI.Jared Clawiter and Ted Androli

also added a single, each.ZM got two hits from Alex Nel-

son, Schoenfelder and Isaiah Nolte.Kenyon-Wanamingo 5Zumbrota-Mazeppa 4

R H EKW 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 5 4 2ZM 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 4 9 1Pitching IP K BB H R ERKW - Roosen 6 6 3 9 4 -KW - Sathrum 1 1 0 0 0 0ZM - Grudem 3.1 0 2 6 3 3ZM - Hinrichs 1.2 1 0 3 0 0ZM - Schoenfelder 2 0 2 0 0 01B: KW - Luke Rechtzigel (3), Connor Svig-gum (2), Jared Clawiter, Ted Androli; ZM –Alex Nelson (2), Brady Schoenfelder (2), IsaiahNolte (2); 2B: KW - Connor SviggumGame two

The Knights won the secondgame in the bottom of the seventhinning when Jared Clawiterknocked in the winning run. KWalso got a pair of hits from EthanBenda and a double from Luke

PI slips past StewartvilleBy Faye Haugen

PINE ISLAND – It was a busyweek for the Pine Island baseballteam, as they played three HVLgames, winning one of the three.

The Panthers will host CannonFalls on Thursday at 5 p.m, play adoubleheader at Goodhue on Sat-urday beginning at 11 a.m., andtravel to Kasson on Monday for a5 p.m. start.Lake City

The Panthers came up short 9-4at Lake City, Monday.

Matt Lien opened on the mound,striking out two, walking four andgiving up four hits over 4.2 in-nings. Brady Braaten saw 1.2 in-nings of action with one strike-out, one walk and four hits.

PI outhit the Tigers 12-8 be-hind the bats of Matt Huus (RBI),Bryce Hinrichsen, Tucker Han-son (RBI) and Braaten, who allhad two hits. DJ Titus, AaronGillard, Lien and Colton Pike eachhad one hit.

“This game was a lot closer thanthe score indicates,” said CoachCraig Anderson. “We outhit LakeCity, but we left 12 runners onbase, and to Lake City’s credit,they got clutch hits and took ad-vantage of five walks and threehit batters to fuel their offense.”Pine Island 4 - Lake City 9

R H EPine Island 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 4 12 3Lake City 2 0 2 1 1 3 x 9 8 2Pitching IP K BB H R ERPI - Lien 4.2 2 4 4 4 4PI - Braaten 1.1 1 1 4 3 3Lake City 7 3 4 12 4 31B: PI – DJ Titus, Matt Huus (2), AaronGillard, Matt Lien, Colton Pike, Bryce Hin-richsen (2), Brady Braaten (2), Tucker Han-son (2)Lourdes

The Panthers were shut out 9-0when they lost to Lourdes in Roch-ester, Tuesday.

“Lourdes proved to loom wor-thy of their fifth place ranking inthe state in this game. They tookadvantage of three walks, an errorand scored five runs on only twohits to jump out to a big lead in thebottom of the first,” pointed outCoach Anderson of the 5-0 leadthe Eagles got off to. “Some sloppydefensive work allowed Lourdesto score two more unearned runsin the fourth inning, We did threatento get back in the game with awalk and Brady Braaten’s longdouble in the sixth, but Lourdesworked out of the jam and pre-served the shutout.”

Aaron Gillard took the moundloss when he walked six and gaveup seven hits over 4.1 innings.Matt Huus tossed 1.2 innings withone strikeout and one hit.

PI had just two hits, the Braatendouble and a Huus single.Pine Island 0 - Lourdes 9

R H EPine Island 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4Lourdes 5 0 1 1 0 2 x 9 8 0Pitching IP K BB H R ERPI - Gillard 4.1 0 6 7 7 2PI - Huus 1.2 1 0 1 2 2Lourdes 7 10 3 2 0 01B: PI – Matt Huus; 2B: PI - Brady BraatenStewartville

The Panthers earned their firstwin of the week when they slippedpast Stewartville in Pine Island,Thursday.

“After having three games withno practice, we finally got in somedefensive work on Wednesday. Itreally paid off today,” said CoachAnderson after Thursday’s game.“The team played solid defensewith Tucker Hanson and BradyBraaten making some nice playsto take away some hits.”

Braaten started on the mound,striking out seven, walking fourand giving up five hits over sixinnings. Bryce Hinrichsen got inan inning of relief with one hit.

Both Derek Rucker and AaronGillard had doubles to pace PI atthe plate. Hitting singles wereBraeden Aakre, Hinrichsen, Col-ton Pike, Hanson and Matt Lien.

Pine Island 4 - Stewartville 3R H E

Stewartville 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 6 1Pine Island 0 0 0 0 4 0 x 4 7 0Pitching IP K BB H R ERPI - Braaten 6 7 4 5 3 3PI - Hinrichsen 1 0 0 1 0 0Stewartville 6 5 2 7 4 31B: PI – Braeden Aakre, Bryce Hinrichsen,Colton Pike, Tucker Hanson, Matt Lien 2B:PI – Derek Rucker, Aaron Gillard

KW tops BA, but falls to LourdesBy Faye Haugen

WANAMINGO – The Kenyon-Wanamingo baseball team nearlypulled off a huge early season up-set on Monday in Wanamingo.

The Knights lost a narrow 8-7HVL game to the Eagles, rankedfifth in the Class AA poll.

KW took a 5-3 lead into thesixth inning before the Eaglesplated four runs for a 7-5 lead.KW came back with two runs inthe bottom of the sixth to knot thescore at 7-7.

“Mitch Brandhagen got the go-ahead hit in the top of the seventhto break the tie,” said Coach RandyHockinson. “Nick Hanson pickedup the save by not allowing a runin the bottom of the seventh. Wehad the tying run thrown out at theplate as Gavin Roosen was tryingto score from second on a singleto center by Drew Sathrum. Aperfect throw from Lourdes cen-ter fielder Paul Schroeder nailed

the runner by a step and a half.”In his first mound start, Connor

Sviggum struck out two, walkedthree and gave up five hits.

Roosen and Sathrum both hadthree hits in the loss. Ethan Bendahad a single.Kenyon-Wanamingo 7 - Lourdes 8

R H ELourdes 0 0 0 2 1 4 1 8 11 4KW 0 0 0 0 5 2 0 7 8 5Pitching IP K BB H R ERKW - Sviggum 5 2 3 5 3 1Lourdes 7 4 3 8 7 31B: KW – Gavin Roosen (3), Drew Sathrum(3), Ethan BendaBethlehem Academy

The Knights needed eight in-nings to earn a 6-5 win over Beth-lehem Academy on Tuesday.

“Ethan Benda knocked in thewinning run in the bottom of theeighth, scoring Drew Sathrum,”pointed out Coach Hockinson.

Roosen threw 6.1 innings withsix strikeouts, three walks and fivehits. Sathrum came on to end thegame, giving up two hits.

At the plate, Dylan Craig andSathrum both had a pair of hits.Ethan Benda had a single.Kenyon-Wanamingo 6Bethlehem Academy 5

R H EBA 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 7 4KW 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 1 6 8 2Pitching IP K BB H R ERKW - Roosen 6.1 6 3 5 5 5KW - Sathrum .2 0 0 2 0 01B: KW – Dylan Craig (2), Drew Sathrum(2), Ethan BendaLake City

The Knights fell 4-2 when theyhosted Lake City on Thursday.

In his first start, Ethan Bendastruck out three, walked one andgave up eight hits.

Drew Sathrum and Ethan Bendaeach had a hit for KW.Kenyon-Wanamingo 2 - Lake City 4

R H ELake City 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 4 8 1KW 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 3 4Pitching IP K BB H R ERKW - Benda 7 3 1 8 4 2Lake City 7 6 2 3 2 -1B: KW – Drew Sathrum, Ethan Benda

News-Record photos by Faye HaugenPine Island’s Matt Lien dives back to first base after getting caught in a rundown in Thursday’s game withStewartville. Lien was tagged out before getting back to first.

Pine Island’s Tucker Hanson keeps his eyes on the ball as he slides in tomake the catch against Stewartville, Thursday.

Goodhue suffers two shutoutsBy Faye Haugen

GOODHUE – Goodhue suffereda pair of shutouts to two HVLranked teams last week. CannonFalls and Kasson-Mantorville keptthe Wildcats winless.

Goodhue will try to get that firstwin this week when they play atByron on Thursday, at BloomingPrairie on Friday (both at 5 p.m.),host Pine Island in an HVL double-header on Saturday beginning at11 a.m., and host Lourdes onMonday at 5 p.m.Cannon Falls

Cannon Falls earned a 9-0 winat Goodhue on Monday. RileyAugustine was tagged with themound loss when he struck out

seven, walked 10 and gave up sevenhits.

Goodhue got singles from Tay-lor Buck, Logan Breuer, RileyAugustine, Tyler Schumacher andJordan Ronningen.Goodhue 0 - Cannon Falls 9

R H ECannon Falls 0 1 2 0 2 4 0 9 7 0Goodhue 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3Pitching IP K BB H R ERG - Augustine 7 7 10 7 9 7Cannon Falls 7 7 6 5 0 01B: G – Taylor Buck, Logan Breuer, RileyAugustine, Tyler Schumacher, Jordan Ron-ningenKasson-Mantorville

Fourth-ranked Class AA Kas-son-Mantorville earned a 10-0, six-inning win over the Cats in Kas-son, Thursday.

Sam Kyllo took the hill forGoodhue where he walked twoand gave up 2 hits.

Goodhue was limited to just threehits in the loss, singles by TaylorBuck, Logan Breuer and RileyAugustine.

The good news for the Wild-cats was their defensive play withjust one error in the loss.Goodhue 0 - Kasson-Mantorville 10

R H EGoodhue 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1KM 0 1 0 4 3 2 10 12 0Pitching IP K BB H R ERG - Kyllo 6 0 2 12 10 6KM 6 6 3 3 0 01B: G – Taylor Buck, Logan Breuer, RileyAugustine

News-Record photos by Faye HaugenKenyon-Wanamingo catcher Dylan Craig is ready and waiting to tag out Zumbrota-Mazeppa’s Alex Nelson atthe plate in Saturday’s game in Zumbrota.

Rechtzigel.Drew Sathrum went the distance

on the mound in the second gamefor KW. The senior right-handerstruck out five, walked one andgave up six hits.

Brady Schoenfelder stayed onthe mound for ZM, striking outthree, walking four and giving upseven hits.

Connor Hegseth had a pair ofhits and Alex Nelson had a double.Kenyon-Wanamingo 5Zumbrota-Mazeppa 4

R H EZM 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 4 6 4KW 0 0 3 0 1 0 1 5 7 3Pitching IP K BB H R ERKW - Sathrum 7 6 1 6 4 -ZM - Schoenfelder 7 3 4 7 5 31B: KW - Ethan Benda (2), Jared Clawiter;ZM - Connor Hegseth (2), Kevin Nordquist,Spencer DeFrang, Tyler Grudem; 2B: KW -Luke Rechtzigel; ZM - Alex Nelson

Zumbrota-Mazeppa’s Tyler Grudem fouls off a bunt attempt againstKenyon-Wanamingo on Saturday in Zumbrota.

ZM drops a pair of HVL gamesBy Faye Haugen

ZUMBROTA – A pair of HVLGold Division teams, Byron andLourdes, stopped Zumbrota-Mazeppa in baseball action thispast week.

The Cougars will try to get thatfirst win when they play at LakeCity on Thursday, host Stewartvilleon Tuesday, and play at Kasson,Tuesday. The first pitch is 5 p.m.for all three games.Byron

Byron took home a 7-3 victoryfrom Zumbrota on Monday.

Brady Schoenfelder started onthe mound, striking out seven,walking two and giving up eighthits over six innings. Alex Nelsonsaw one inning of work, strikingout two, walking one and givingup one hit.

ZM had four hits, all singles,from Kevin Nordquist, SpencerDeFrang, Connor Hegseth andTyler Grudem.Zumbrota-Mazeppa 3 - Byron 7

R H E

Byron 3 1 0 2 0 0 2 7 9 0ZM 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 4 2Pitching IP K BB H R ERZM - Schoenfelder 6 7 2 8 5 4ZM - Nelson 1 2 1 1 2 21B: ZM – Kevin Nordquist, Spencer DeFrang,Connor Hegseth, Tyler GrudemLourdes

Fifth-ranked Class AA Lourdesran crazy in Thursday’s game inZumbrota. The Eagles stole ninebases in the 13-3, six-inning vic-tory.

In his first varsity pitching start,Isaiah Nolte struck out one, walkedthree and gave up nine hits overfour innings. Tyler Grudem saw

1.2 innings of mound work withtwo walks and seven hits.

Kevin Nordquist had a pair ofhits to lead ZM at the plate. Team-mates Spencer DeFrang, Grudem,Alex Nelson and Connor Hegsethall hit singles.Zumbrota-Mazeppa 3 - Lourdes 13

R H EZM 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 7 1Lourdes 3 1 1 4 1 3 13 16 1Pitching IP K BB H R ERZM - Nolte 4 1 3 9 9 9ZM - Grudem 1.2 0 2 7 4 4Lourdes 6 5 4 7 3 11B: ZM – Kevin Nordquist (2), Spencer De-Frang, Tyler Grudem, Alex Nelson, ConnorHegseth

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SoftballGoodhue wins RP tournament titleBy Faye Haugen

GOODHUE – It’s just two weeksinto the season and the Goodhuesoftball team has already played10 of their 18-game schedule.

The Wildcats suffered losses toKasson-Mantorville, Cannon Fallsand Kenyon-Wanamingo, but theywon the four-team Rushford-Peter-son Invitational to even their recordat 5-5.Kasson-Mantorville

The Wildcats gave last year’sClass AA champion all they couldhandled in a 4-0 loss to Kasson-Mantorville in Goodhue, Monday.

“It was a great defensive game,and Lexi did a great job pitching,”said Coach Bob Bitzan.

Maddie Damon had control onthe mound for the KoMets as shestruck out 18 and allowed just twohits, singles by Kate Lexvold andBrittney Ryan.Goodhue 0 - Kasson-Mantorville 4

R H EKM 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 4 6 1Goodhue 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2Pitching IP K BB H R ERG - Kennedy 7 2 1 6 4 3KM - Damon 7 18 0 2 0 01B: G – Kate Lexvold, Brittney RyanCannon Falls

Coach Bitzan was not as happywith his team’s play at CannonFalls on Tuesday. The Bomberstook advantage of three Wildcaterrors on their way to a 7-5 win.

Cannon Falls did most of theirdamage in the second inning whenthey scored four times. The Bomb-ers also benefited from some greatdefensive plays that took a num-ber of hits away from the visitors.

Goodhue made it a game in thetop of the seventh when BaileyKreisler hit a two-run homerun todraw the score to 7-5. Goodhueleft the tying run on base when thegame ended with a fielder’s choice.In all, Goodhue stranded nine run-ners on the base paths.

Lexi Kennedy struck out two,walked three and gave up 11 hits.

Bailey Gullerud led the offensegoing 3 for 4 with a double andtwo RBI. Kennedy had two hits,Kreisler had a two-RBI homerunand Kate Lexvold and BrittneyRyan each singled.

Goodhue 5 - Cannon Falls 7R H E

Goodhue 1 0 0 0 2 0 2 5 8 3Cannon Falls 0 4 1 0 1 1 x 7 11 1Pitching IP K BB H R ERG - Kennedy 6 2 3 11 7 6Cannon Falls 7 1 6 8 5 51B: G – Kate Lexvold, Lexi Kennedy (2),Bailey Gullerud (2), Brittney Ryan; 2B: G –Bailey Gullerud; HR: G – Bailey KreislerMable-Canton

Goodhue opened the Rushford-Peterson tournament with a 4-2win over Mable-Canton.

Lexi Kennedy tossed the threehitter, striking out two and walk-ing four.

Kate Lexvold had a pair of hits,one a double, and two RBI. BaileyGullerud had a double, and hit-ting singles were Katie Pearson,Kennedy, Britt Ryan, Emily Ben-rud and Kate Stehr.Goodhue 4 - Mable-Canton 2

R H EGoodhue 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 4 8 2Mable-Canton 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 3 1Pitching IP K BB H R ERG - Kennedy 7 2 4 3 2 2Mable-Canton 7 0 3 8 4 2

1B: G – Katie Pearson, Kate Lexvold, LexiKennedy, Britt Ryan, Emily Benrud, Kate Stehr; 2B: G – Kate Lexvold, Bailey GullerudHouston

The Wildcats whipped Hous-ton 11-4 in the championship game.Goodhue pounded out 14 hits andscored in six out of seven innings.

Offensive leaders for Goodhuewere Bailey Kreisler, 3 for 4 witha double and two RBI, Kate Lex-vold, 3 for 5 with a double andtwo RBI, Bailey Gullerud, 3 for 4with an RBI, and Britt Ryan, 2 for4.

Lexi Kennedy struck out five,walked one and gave up eight hitsin the mound win.Goodhue 11 - Houston 4

R H EGoodhue 1 1 2 3 2 0 2 11 14 1Houston 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 4 8 1Pitching IP K BB H R ERG - Kennedy 7 5 1 8 4 4Cannon Falls 7 1 6 8 5 51B: G – Katie Pearson, Kate Lexvold (2),Bailey Kreisler (2), Lexi Kennedy, AutumnLindblom, Bailey Gullerud (3), ,Britt Ryan(2); 2B: G – Kate Lexvold, Bailey Kreisler

KW wins three of five gamesBy Faye Haugen

WANAMINGO – The Kenyon-Wanamingo softball team wonthree of five games played lastweek. The Knights topped Beth-lehem Academy, Goodhue andLyle/Pacelli, but dropped HVLgames to Hayfield and Stewartville.

The Knights will play at PineIsland on Thursday, at Byron onFriday, and host Zumbrota-Mazeppa on Monday. All threegames begin at 5 p.m.Hayfield

The Knights suffered an 11-0,five-inning loss to Hayfield inWanamingo on Monday.

The Vikings took advantage of10 hits, three walks and threeKnight errors to end the game early,

Shayla Berkner was tagged withthe mound loss when she struckout four, walked three and gaveup 10 hits. Only one of the Vi-kings, 11 runs was earned.

KW was limited to just four hits,singles by Ellyn Beulke, Berkner,Kelsey Noah and Brandi Remold.Kenyon-Wanamingo 0 - Hayfield 11

R H EHayfield 5 5 0 1 0 11 10 1KW 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3Pitching IP K BB H R ERKW - Berkner 5 4 3 10 11 1Hayfield 5 6 1 4 0 01B: KW – Ellyn Beulke, Shayla Berkner,Kelsey Noah, Brandi RemoldBethlehem Academy

The Knights earned an 8-3 non-conference win over Bethlehem

Academy in Faribault on Tues-day.

Shayla Berkner earned the winwhen she struck out five, walkednine, and gave up six hits.

Berkner aided her cause with apair of hits, one a double. EllynBeulke hit a double, and earningsingles were Mikayla Sokoloski,Megan Quam and Kaitlin Knott.Kenyon-Wanamingo 8Bethlehem Academy 3

R H EKW 2 0 0 0 2 1 3 8 6 0BA 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 6 0Pitching IP K BB H R ERKW - Berkner 7 5 9 6 3 3Bethlehem Acad. 7 8 6 6 8 81B: KW – Mikayla Sokoloski, Shayla Berkner.Megan Quam, Kaitlin Knott; 2B: KW – EllynBeulke, Shayla BerknerStewartville

After losing their first game ofthe season the night before in {PineIsland 1-0, Stewartville came intoFriday’s game against the Knightswith a bad attitude. It resulted in a10-0, five inning win by the Ti-gers.

Caitlyn Hughes struck out 11on her way to a perfect game forStewartville on the mound.

Shayla Berkner struck out one,walked two and allowed 13 hits inthe loss.Kenyon-Wanamingo 0 - Stewartville 10

R H EKW 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -Stewartville 0 1 3 5 1 10 13 -Pitching IP K BB H R ERKW - Berkner 5 1 2 13 10 9S - Hughes 5 11 0 0 0 0

Lyle/PacelliThe Knights routed Lyle/Pacelli

25-6 in Austin, Saturday. KW mayhave thought they were takingbatting practice as they knockedout 20 hits, nine for extra bases.

KW wasted no time in taking a13-0 lead in the opening inning.Coach Rich Kincaid was able towork 16 players into the lineupover five innings.

Shayla Berkner tossed two in-nings with two strikeouts, twowalks and two hits. Brandi Re-mold threw the last three inningswith five strikeouts, three walksand seven hits.

Leading the Knight offensiveattack were: Makayla Sokoloski,2 for 2 with a double; Mara Jonson,3 for 3, Remold, 2 for 3 with ahomerun, double and two RBI,Mariah Quam, a homerun and threeRBI, Ellyn Beulke, 2 for three witha pair of doubles, and Megan Quam3 for 3.Kenyon-Wanamingo 25 - Lyle/Pacelli 6

R H EKW 13 4 2 0 6 25 20 3Lyle/Pacelli 0 1 0 4 1 6 9 4Pitching IP K BB H R ERKW - Berkner 2 2 2 2 1 1KW - Remold 3 5 3 7 5 41B: KW – Mikayla Sokoloski, Mara Jonson(2), Justine Wallaker, Sara Sahl (2), ShaylaBerkner, Megan Quam, Shera Clawiter, KelseyNoah (2); 2B: KW – Mikayla Sokoloski, BrandiRemold, Ellyn Beulke (2) Shayla Berkner,Megan Quam, Kaitlin Knott; HR: KW – BrandiRemold, Mariah Quam

PI makes up for late startBy Faye Haugen

PINE ISLAND – The Pine Is-land softball team may have got-ten their season off to a late start,but they more than made up for itwith four wins last week.

The Panthers will try to keepthat win streak going when theyhost Kenyon-Wanamingo onThursday at 5 p.m., play in theAustin Invitational at 4 p.m. onFriday and 10 a.m. on Saturday,and play at Cannon Falls at 5 p.m.on Tuesday.Lake City

The Panthers opened the sea-son with a 12-4 win at Lake Cityon Monday.

Taylor Schroeder earned themound win when she struck outthree, walked none and gave uptwo hits over three innings. BridgetKennedy tossed four innings withsix strikeouts, no walks and sevenhits.

Molly Shelton led the offensewith a pair of doubles and threeRBI. Autumn Pin was 3 for 4 withtwo RBI, and Summer Cavallarohad a pair of hits.

“We had a slow start to the nightwith our bats. As the girls loos-ened up, we put the ball in playand that became contagious in thefifth and seventh innings,” saidCoach Kim Jones.Pine Island 12 - Lake City 4

R H EPine Island 0 0 0 1 5 2 4 12 6 -Lake City 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 4 7 -Pitching IP K BB H R ERPI - Schroder 3 3 0 2 1 1PI - Kennedy 4 6 0 7 3 3Lake City 7 4 10 12 81B: PI – Autumn Pin (3), Summer Cavallaro(2); 2B: PI – Molly Shelton (2)Lourdes

Panthers stopped Lourdes 12-2in six innings in Rochester, Tues-day.

“The weather was great and thegirls responded at the plate. Fresh-man Autumn Pin was 3 for 5 witha triple and an RBI, Taylor Schro-der and Candace Uhde were both2 for 4 and Candace had two RBI.Mya Polzer had three stolen basesfor us,” reported Coach Jones.

Bridget Kennedy went the dis-tance on the mound, striking outseven, walking none, and allow-ing just three hits.Pine Island 12 - Lourdes 2

R H EPine Island 2 1 1 2 2 4 12 13 2Lourdes 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 2Pitching IP K BB H R ERPI - Kennedy 6 7 0 3 2 -Lourdes 6 2 4 13 12 81B: PI – Autumn Pin (2), Molly Shelton,Taylor Schroder (2), Ashley Westlake; 2B: PI– Taylor Schroder 3B: PI – Autumn PinStewartville

In a well played game in Pine

Island, Thursday, the Panthersslipped past Stewartville 1-0.

With two out in the sixth, MollyShelton hit a single and advancedto third on two passed balls. Ha-ley Bauman knocked in Sheltonfor the only run of the game.

Stewartville did threaten in thetop of the seventh with runners onsecond and third with two out. Aground ball to Summer Cavallaroat shortstop who threw to firstbaseman Emilie Rucker who madea difficult stretch for the ball, madethe out to preserve the win.

Taylor Schroder struck out one,walked none and gave up just onehit over three innings. BridgeKennedy earned the win, strikingout three, walking one and givingup three hits.

Bauman had a pair of hits to gowith singles hit by Autumn Pinand Shelton.Pine Island 1 - Stewartville 0

R H EStewartville 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 -Pine Island 0 0 0 0 0 1 x 1 4 -Pitching IP K BB H R ERPI - Schroder 3 1 0 1 0 0PI - Kennedy 4 3 1 2 0 0

1B: PI – Autumn Pin, Molly Shelton, HaleyBauman (2)Houston

The Panthers made it 4-0 in theirfirst week of play with a 9-1 non-conference win over Houston inPine Island, Friday.

Summer Cavallaro had three hits,one a triple, and four RBI. BridgetKennedy and Haley Bauman bothhad a pair of singles.

Kennedy went the distance onthe mound, striking out 11, walk-ing one and scattering four hits.

“Bridget was so poised on themound,” said Coach Jones.“The girls are working well to-gether and are working hard. Weask them to improve everyday andhave a great attitude and effort. Ithas been fun to see their improve-ment.”Pine Island 9 - Houston 1

R H EHouston 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 -Pine Island 2 5 2 0 0 0 x 9 9 -Pitching IP K BB H R ERPI - Kennedy 7 11 1 4 1 0Houston 6 4 2 9 9 41B: PI – Summer Cavallaro (2), Bridget Kennedy(2), Haley Bauman (2); 3B: PI – SummerCavallaro

News-Record photos by Faye HaugenPine Island’s Mya Polzer makes the catch of the fly ball in right field in Friday’s game with Houston.

Pine Island’s Kaitlyn Champa tries to beat out the throw to first base onher infield hit against Houston, Friday. The Houston pitcher was able tomake the play for the out.

Goodhue’s Bailey Kreisler is congratulated by her teammates afterhitting a two-run homerun against Cannon Falls, Tuesday.

News-Record photos by Faye HaugenGoodhue’s Autumn Lindblom gets the ball and glove down in time to tag out Cannon Falls’s Ashley Serres atthe plate in Tuesday’s game in Cannon Falls.

KW edges Goodhue in HVL playBy Faye Haugen

GOODHUE – Kenyon-Wana-mingo earned a 4-1 win at Goodhuein HVL softball play on Thursdayin Goodhue. The game was re-scheduled from the week beforedue to wet conditions.

It was a scoreless contest untilthe third inning when the Knightsscored all four of their runs. ThreeGoodhue errors fueled the Knightattack that also included singlesby Brandi Remold (RBI), EllynBeulke and Kelsey Noah (RBI).

Goodhue scored their only runin the bottom of the seventh whenAutumn Lindblom singled andthere was a fielder’s choice andtwo walks to Britt Ryan and EmilyBenrud to force the run in.

Shayla Berkner picked up themound win for the Knights whenshe struck out two, walked threeand gave up five hits. Lexi Kennedystruck out two, walked two andgave up nine hits for Goodhue onthe hill.

Brandi Remold (double), EllynBuelke and Berkner all had a pairof hits for KW. Makayla Soko-loski, Kelsey Noah and MariahQuam all hit singles. Goodhue gotsingles from Abby Doerhoefer,Bailey Kreisler, Autumn Lind-blom, Bailey Gullerud and KatiePearson.Kenyon-Wanamingo 4 - Goodhue 1

R H EKW 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 4 9 1Goodhue 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 3Pitching IP K BB H R ERKW - Berkner 7 2 3 5 1 1G - Kennedy 7 2 2 9 4 01B: KW – Makayla Sokoloski, Brandi Re-mold, Ellyn Beulke (2), Shayla Berkner (2),Kelsey Noah, Mariah Quam; G - Abby Doer-hoefer, Bailey Kreisler, Autumn Lindblom,Bailey Gullerud, Katie Person 2B: KW – BrandiRemold

Thursday, April 23Goodhue baseball at Byron, 5 p.m.Kenyon-Wanamingo baseball at Stewartville, 5 p.m.Kenyon-Wanamingo track at Lake City, 4:15 p.m.Kenyon-Wanamingo golf at Zumbrota, 1 p.m.Kenyon-Wanamingo softball at Pine Island, 5 p.m.Pine Island baseball, Cannon Falls at Pine Island, 5 p.m.Pine Island softball, Kenyon-Wanamingo at Pine Island, 5 p.m.Pine Island golf at Zumbrota, 1 p.m.Pine Island track at Lake City, 4:15 p.m.Zumbrota-Mazeppa baseball at Lake City, 5 p.m.Zumbrota-Mazeppa softball, Triton at Zumbrota, 5 p.m.Zumbrota-Mazeppa golf at Zumbrota, 1 p.m.Zumbrota-Mazeppa track at Stewartville, 4:15 p.m.

Friday, April 24Goodhue baseball at Blooming Prairie, 5 p.m.Kenyon-Wanamingo softball at Byron, 5 p.m.Pine Island softball at Austin, 4:30 p.m.Pine Island track at Hamline

Saturday, April 25Goodhue softball at Preston, 11 a.m.Goodhue baseball, Pine Island at Goodhue (DH), 11 a.m.Pine Island baseball at Goodhue (DH), 11 a.m.Pine Island golf, Lourdes and Stewartville at Pine Island, 10 a.m.Pine Island softball at Austin, 11 a.m.

Monday, April 27Goodhue baseball, Lourdes at Goodhue, 5 p.m.Goodhue softball, Hayfield at Goodhue, 4:30 p.m.Kenyon-Wanamingo baseball at Cannon Falls, 5 p.m.Kenyon-Wanamingo softball, Zumbrota-Mazeppa at Wanamingo, 5 p.m.Pine Island baseball at Kasson, 5 p.m.Zumbrota-Mazeppa baseball, Stewartville at Zumbrota, 5 p.m.Zumbrota-Mazeppa softball at Wanamingo, 5 p.m.

Tuesday, April 28Kenyon-Wanamingo golf, Bethlehem Academy at Kenyon, 4:15 p.m.Kenyon-Wanamingo baseball at Pine Island, 5 p.m.Kenyon-Wanamingo track at Rushford, 4 p.m.Pine Island baseball, Kenyon-Wanamingo at Pine Island, 5 p.m.Pine Island softball at Cannon Falls, 5 p.m.Pine Island track at Cannon Falls, 4:30 p.m.Zumbrota-Mazeppa baseball at Kasson, 5 p.m.Zumbrota-Mazeppa golf at Dodge Center, 2:30 p.m.Zumbrota-Mazeppa track at Elgin, 4:30 p.m.

AREA HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS SCHEDULE

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Area SportsBy Faye Haugen

ROCHESTER – On a perfectday to open the 2015 season, theStewartville boys golf invitationalwas held at Willow Creek GolfCourse on Thursday.

Thirteen teams took part inthe 18-hole meet with Byronwinning the team title with a scoreof 325. Pine Island placed sev-enth with 366 strokes, and Zum-brota-Mazeppa was eighth witha score of 367.

PI’s Matt Smith carded a scoreof 78 (39-39) to earn medalisthonors. He was joined by JakeBarr with a 91 (41-50), KalebKautz, 96 (44-51) and Cole Van-Houten, 101 (50-51). Also play-ing for the Panthers were Hay-den Larson, 101 (49-52) andDylan Wisman, 121 (59-62).

Joey O’Gorman led the Cou-gars with a low score of 85 (44-41). He was followed by NoahErickson, 89 (45-44), Corbin

PI and ZM boys kick off the golf seasonAvery, 92 (46-49) and Sid Sub-ramanian, 101 (50-51). Also play-ing for ZM were: Isaiah St. Mar-tin,106 (53-53) and Alex Hunsted,108 (53-55).

“A strong positive from thismatch was that each of our play-ers were discussing with theirteammates what they felt wentwrong an how they planned tofix it,” aid ZM coach GaryO’Connor.Byron 325: Hunter Fjerstad 41-38=79, ChrisStreed 39-40=79, Nick Hillemeier 36-44=80,Aaron Timm 40-47=87Lake City 329: Parker Schurhammer 339-41=80; Thomas Huettl 39-43=82; BrennanRothgarn 39-55=83; Sam Klipfel 41-43=84Kasson-Mantorville 346: Max Blaisdell40-39=79; Keagan Kochie 44-38=82; Ma-son Holecek 46-42=88; Grant Badger 46-51=97Stewartville Maroon 354: Carter Van Tassel44-43=86; Moses Hettinger 45-42=87; MitchMcGuire 45-44=89; Jacob Struif 46-46=92Stewartville Gold 362: David Rysted 45-

44=89; Carter Jannsen 43-46=89; NickLechtenberg 43-47=90; David Capelle 47-47=94Hayfield 363: Brady Becker 45-41=86, AaronAnderson 42-46=88; Jacob Dahlen 50-44=94;Andy Pike 46-49=95Pine Island 366: Matt Smith 39-39=78;Jake Barr 41-50=91; Kaleb Kautz 44-52=96;Cole VanHouten 50-51=101Zumbrota-Mazeppa 367: Joey O’Gorman44-41=85; Noah Erickson 45-44=89; CorbinAvery 49-43=92; Sid Subramaniam 50-51=101LeRoy-Ostrander/Grand Meadow 373:Tyler Sloan 44-43=87; Mark Cotton 45-47=92;Dylan Jech 46-49=95; Grant Vikre 50-49=99Caledonia/Spring Grove 386: Ethan DuCharme 49-45-94, Symon Ely 47-49=96, LoganLarson 51-45=96, Cody Creeser 53-47=100Lanesboro 391: Jonathan Bierman 42-45=87; Adam Sutter 46-50=96; Isaac Bierman49-52=101; Jared Kelly 50-57=107Lyle/Pacelli 505: Mason Altorf 64-57=121;Noah Aakre 57-67=124; Troy Seguin 63-65=128; Kobie Shafer 67-65=132Blooming Prairie, incomplete: TommyBraaten 38-45=83; Jon Hatch 44-48=92,Brady Carlson 51-48=99Medalist: Matt Smith, Pine Island, 78

ZM places fourth and fifth at ElginBy Faye Haugen

ELGIN – Zumbrota-Mazeppatraveled to Elgin on Friday totake part in the Plainview-Elgin-Millville Invitational. The Cou-gars boys placed fourth and thegirls fifth out of eight teams

The Cougars got first placefinishes from Skyler Jacobson inthe 800-meter run and from Mad-die Lindhart in both the shot anddiscus.

PEM easily won the girls titlewith 130 points. Lake City wasa distant second with 130 points.ZM scored 71.5 points.Plainview-Elgin-Millville 209, Lake City130, Century 101.5, Zumbrota-Mazeppa71.5, Schaeffer Academy 65, Lyle/Pa-celli 46.5, Rochester Area Christian35, St. Charles 25.5Track events100-meter hurdles: 2. Breanna Haag (ZM)

17.43; 1600-meter run: 4. Skyler Jacob-son (ZM) 5:10.1; 800-meter run: 1. SkylerJacobson (ZM) 2:34.3; 300-meter hurdles:2. Breanna Haag (ZM) 51.78Field eventsTriple jump: 6. Breanna Haag (ZM) 29’11.5’’;Shot put: 1. Maddie Lindhart (ZM) 43’; 2.Lauren Miller (ZM) 30’6’’; Pole vault: 7.Lexi Macht (ZM) 7’; Discus: 1. Maddie Lindhart(ZM) 133’6’’; 6. Lauren Miller (ZM) 75’8’’Relays4x200-meter relay: 5. Zumbrota-Mazeppa(Breanna Haag, Amanda Edstrom, Katie Lawler,Bella Wagner) 2:02.69Boys

PEM crushed the boys field,scoring 298 points. Lake Cityscored 95 points, Century, 92.5and ZM 69 points.

Isaiah Steuber won the 800-meter run and Alex Guse wasfirst in the discus to pace theCougars.Plainview-Elgin-Millville 298, Lake City

95, Century 92.5, St. Charles 80.5,Zumbrota-Mazeppa 69, Lyle/Pacelli 27.Rochester Area Christian 27, Schaef-fer Academy 8Track events110-meter hurdles: 4. Dillon Downes (ZM)18.1; 800-meter run: 1. Isaiah Steuber(ZM) 2:11.28; 300-meter hurdles: 5. Dil-lon Downes (ZM) 46.73; 3200-meter run:8. Cole Haferman (ZM) 12:30Field eventsTriple jump: 3. Aaron Bianchi 38’8.5’’;Discus: 1. Alex Guse (ZM) 111’1’’; Shotput: 6. Alex Guse (ZM) 33’10’’; Long jump:4. Adam Krage 18’5.25’’Relays4x800-meter relay: 3. Zumbrota-Mazeppa(Isaiah Steuber, Colton Webster, Tyler Stene,Bailey Berg) 9:25.42; 4x200-meter relay:3. Zumbrota-Mazeppa (Jacob Dahl, AdamKrage, Matt Lyon, Sean O’Malley) 1:38.58;4x100-meter relay: 5. Zumbrota-Mazeppa(Alex Guse, Brad Arndt, Dylan Mollenhauer,Landon Rauen) 49.28; 4x400-meter re-lay: 3. Zumbrota-Mazeppa (Aaron Bianchi,Adam Krage, Matt Lyon, Jacob Dahl) 3:47.12

PI boys place third at the Winged FootBy Faye Haugen

ELGIN – The Pine Island boystrack team placed third in thenine-team Winged Foot Invita-tional in Elgin, April 9. The Pan-ther girls placed seventh.Boys

Host Plainview-Elgin-Millvillewon the boys title with 150 points,followed by Stewartville with146.5 points and Pine Island with117.5 points.

Placing first for the Pantherswere Kyle Groven in the 200 and400-meter dashes, Mitchel Ackerin the 1600-meter run, Isaiah On-dler in the 800-meter run, the4x800-meter relay team of Ja-cob Higgins, Logan Meurer,Isaiah Ondler and Jimmy Kroll,and the 4x400-meter relay teamof Ben Farrell, Jason Hoerle,Mitchel Acker and Kyle Groven.Plainview-Elgin-Millville 150, Stewartville146.5, Pine Island 117.5, Rushford-Peterson/Houston 73, Byron 62, LakeCity 60.5, Grand Meadow/LeRoy-Os-trander/Southland 48.5, Triton 31,Wabasha-Kellogg 12

Track events100-meter dash: 2. Ben Farrell (PI) 11.7;1600-meter run: 1. Mitchel Acker (PI)4:46.17; 5. Jack Williams (PI) 4:57.75; 8.Logan Meurer (PI) 5:07.46; 400-meter dash:1. Kyle Groven (PI) 51.7; 6. Jason Hoerle (PI)54.11; 6. Isaiah Ondler (PI) 54.48; 800-meter run: 1. Isaiah Ondler (PI) 2:07.61; 4.Jacob Higgins (PI) 2:15.85; 200-meter dash:1. Kyle Groven (PI) 22.77; 2. Ben Farrell (PI)23.34; ; 3200-meter run: 3. Jack Williams(PI) 10:49.71; 7. Garrett Bates (PI) 11:57.98Field eventsHigh jump: 3. Ben Farrell (PI) 5’6’’; Triplejump: 6.. Chris Frick (P{I) 38’11.75’’; Shotput: 4. Peyton Thein (PI) 39’5’’; Long jump:3. Chris Frick (PI) 19’11.5’’; Pole vault: 7Brandon Haze (PI) 9’6’’Relays4x800-meter relay: 1. Pine Island (JacobHiggins, Logan Meurer, Isaiah Ondler, JimmyKroll) 8:46; 4x200-meter relay: 4. PineIsland (Tristan Akason, Patrick Bogard, ChrisFrick, Jason Hoerle) 1:39.5; 4x100-meterrelay: 6. Pine Island (Tristan Akason, PatrickBogard, Nathan Marx, Hunter Kraling) 49.21;4x400-meter relay: 1. Pine Island (BenFarrell, Jason Hoerle, Mitchel Acker, KyleGroven) 3:34.46Girls

The Panthers’ 4x800-meter re-lay team of Sara Schartau, Cait-

lin Schartau, Jocasta Adelsmanand Breanna Ihde placed secondto pace PI. Caitlin Schartau wasthird in the 400-meter dash.Grand Meadow/LeRoy-Ostrander/South-land 94, Stewartville 87, Lake City 73,Rushford-Peterson/Houston 61, PineIsland 36, Wabasha-Kellogg 6, Triton9Track events100-meter dash: 4. Madison House (PI)13.89; 1600-meter run: 7. Jocasta Adels-man (PI) 5:55.41; 400-meter dash: 3. CaitlinSchartau (PI) 1:05.42; 800-meter run: 6.Sara Schartau (PI) 2:46.72; 8. Brittney Arndt(PI) 2:50.79; 200-meter dash: 5. ElizaWarneke (PI) 28.55Field eventsHigh jump: 6. Eliza Warneke (PI) 4’8’’Relays4x800-meter relay: 2. Pine Island (SaraSchartau, Caitlin Schartau, Jocasta Adels-man, Breanna Ihde) 11:03.77; 4x200-meterrelay: 4. Pine Island (Madison House, LexiLoats, Brittney Arndt, Eliza Warneke) 1:56.47;4x100-meter relay: 8. Pine Island (LexiLoats. Emily Klingsporn, Arniecee Brewster,Abby Schimek) 1:00.28; 4x400-meter re-lay: 3. Pine Island (Sara Schartau, ElizaWarneke, Brittney Arndt, Caitlin Schartau)4:30.11

News-Record photos by Faye HaugenZumbrota-Mazeppa shortstop Rachel Mensink makes a backhanded grab for the force out at second baseagainst New Life Academy on Saturday in Zumbrota.

ZM improves to 9-0By Faye Haugen

ZUMBROTA – The Zumbrota-Mazeppa softball team easily wonfour games to improve to 9-0. TheCougars crushed Lake City, NewLife Academy, St. Anthony Vil-lage and Simley.

ZM will host Triton Thursdayand play at Wanamingo, Monday.Both games are at 5 p.m.Lake City

ZM whipped Lake City 24-0 infive innings in front of their hometown fans on Thursday.

The Cougars pounded out 25hits in the HVL win. Leading hit-ters were: Alyssa Quam, 4 for 5with a homerun, double and fourRBI, Rachel Mensink, 4 for 5 witha double and four RBI, MorganOlson, 3 for 5 with two doubles, atriple and three RBI, Tara Ma-tuska, 3 for 4 with a double, tripleand three RBI, Cait Heitman 3 for3 with a double and an RBI, JackieMatuska, a homerun, double andtwo RBI, and Tayler Mort, a single,homerun and three RBI.

Alyssa Quam earned the win inher first mound start. The seniorstruck out seven, walked one andgave up two hits over four innings.Jackie Matuska saw an inning ofrelief work.Zumbrota-Mazeppa 24Lake City 0

R H ELake City 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3ZM 3 20 0 1 x 24 25 0Pitching IP K BB H R ERZM - Quam 4 7 1 2 0 0ZM - J. Matuska 1 0 0 0 0 0Lake City 5 0 4 25 24 181B: ZM – Tayler Mort, Alyssa Quam (2),Rachel Mensink (4), Kellie Nordquist (2),Laura Drackley, Cait Heitman (2); 2B: ZM –Morgan Olson (2), Tara Matuska, Rachel Men-sink, Jackie Matuska, Alyssa Quam, Cait Heit-man; 3B: ZM – Morgan Olson, Tara Ma-tuska, Kellie Nordquist; HR: ZM – AlyssaQuam, Tayler Mort, Jackie MatuskaNew Life Academy

The Cougars opened the Zum-brota-Mazeppa Invitational onSaturday morning with a 13-0 shut-out over New Life Academy.

Morgan Olson tossed the shut-out, striking out four and scatter-ing two hits over four innings. TaraMatuska gave up two hits in oneinning of mound relief.

Jackie Matuska led the offensegoing 3 for 3 with a homerun andan RBI. Alyssa Quam was 2 for 3with a homerun and two RBI, Tay-ler Mort was 2 for 3 with a doubleand three RBI, Kelli Nordquistwas 2 for 3 with a double andthree RBI, and Morgan Olson hasa two RBI homerun.Zumbrota-Mazeppa 13New Life Academy 0

R H EZM 0 1 4 4 4 0 13 11 1NLA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3Pitching IP K BB H R ERZM - Olson 4 4 0 2 0 0ZM - T. Matuska 1 0 0 2 0 01B: ZM – Jackie Matuska (2), Tayler Mort,

Zumbrota-Mazeppa’s Kelli Nordquist slides into second base safelyagainst New Life Academy in Zumbrota, Saturday.

Alyssa Quam, Rachel Mensink, Kellie Nor-dquist; 2B: ZM – Tayler Mort, Kelli Nor-dquist; HR: ZM – Morgan Olson, Jackie Ma-tuska, Alyssa QuamSt. Anthony Village

ZM knocked off St. AnthonyVillage in their second game ofthe tournament.

The Cougars pounded out 19hits led by Kellie Nordquist whowent 4 for 4 with a double and anRBI. Tara Matuska was 3 for 4with a double and an RBI, andAlyssa Quam was 2 for 4 with ahomerun and three RBI.

Morgan Olson threw two inningswith three strikeouts. Alyssa Quamtossed the last three innings withsix strikeouts, one walk and onehit.Zumbrota-Mazeppa 16St. Anthony Village 0

R H EZM 6 0 6 1 3 16 19 1SAV 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3Pitching IP K BB H R ERZM - Olson 2 3 0 0 0 0ZM - Quam 3 6 1 1 0 0St. Anthony 5 2 0 19 16 151B: ZM – Morgan Olson (2), Jackie Matuska(2), Taylor Mort, Alyssa Quam, Rachel Men-sink, Kelli Nordquist (3), Tara Matuska (2),

Laura Drackley; 2B: ZM – Tara Matuska,Tayler Mort, Kat Hodgman, Kelli Nordquist;HR: ZM – Alyssa QuamSimley

The Cougars closed out tourna-ment play with a 15-4 win overSimley in five innings.

Tara Matuska pitched all fiveinnings with five strikeouts andsix hits.

ZM had 14 hits in the victoryled by Morgan Olson who was 4for 4 with a triple, double and apair of singles. Tara Matuska hada double, single and two RBI, JackieMatuska had a homerun, doubleand four RBI, and Alyssa Quamhit her fourth homerun of the sea-son and had four RBI.Zumbrota-Mazeppa 15 - Simley 4

R H EZM 9 0 2 0 4 15 14 2Simley 0 3 0 0 1 4 6 1Pitching IP K BB H R ERZM - T. Matuska 5 5 0 6 4 2Simley 5 6 2 7 6 61B: ZM – Morgan Olson (2), Tayler Mort,Kellie Nordquist, Natalie Majerus, Tara Ma-tuska, Cait Heitman; 2B: ZM – Morgan Ol-son, Tara Matuska, Aubrey Reuter, JackieMatuska; 3B: ZM – Morgan Olson; HR: ZM –Jackie Matuska, Alyssa Quam

The Minnesota clay target league season is under way for the Pine Island trap team. Since the school boardapproved trap shooting as a school activity three years ago the number of participants has doubled with 36boys and girls grades 6-12 competing together on the shooting course in 2015. Coach Patrick Smith said,“This is great for our team. We have a strong class of sixth-graders coming in. That means we have thepotential for some of these kids to shoot on our team for seven years. The earlier we can start them, thebetter they will be by the time they reach high school.” The Pine Island team shoots Monday nights throughthe months of April and May at the White Pines Sportsman’s Club in Pine Island. The Minnesota clay targetleague has seen exponential growth since its inception with 8,600 kids and 243 teams competing this year.Shoots are held at the local gun club and scores are posted online so there are no costs associated withtravel. This year Pine Island is in Conference 3A shooting against Edina, Coon Rapids, Jordan, Mounds View,Norman County, Alden-Conger, and Providence Academy. Practicing in Pine Island are, from left, JoeJaronski, Emalie Stolp, Talia Mentjes and Conner Swarthout

Pine Island High School trap team takes aim

PI POOL & PINSClassic League4-7-15AR Auto Care 3219 vs. 3097 Leo’sSportsbar; Hinrichs Plumbing & Pump3327 vs. 3136 MJB Farms; GrothImplement 3453 vs. 3406 EberhartConstructionTop team game: Groth Implement 1211Top team series: Groth Implement 3453Top bowler game: Doug Christianson257Top bowler series: Darik Rude 698

Harvest League4-8-15Friedrichs 2924 vs. 0 Bye; Jim’ Barbershop2965 vs. 3103 Pi Pool & Pins; Schaefer’sHeating 2818 vs. 3032 Prigge’s FlooringTop team game: Prigge’s Flooring 1090Top team series: PI Pool & Pins 3103Top bowler game: Rick Kunz 267Top bowler series: Rick Kunz 696

Commercial League4-9-15Terry Buck Construction 3181 vs. 3143Ellefson Trucking; Kiffmeyer Motorsports3161 vs. 3393 Stu’s Proshop; MapleIsland 3277 vs. 3109 Nelson FamilyServices; Bluff Valley Campground 3094vs. ByeTop team game: Stu’s Proshop 1159Top team series: Stu’s Proshop 3393Top bowler game: Paul Radke 236Top bowler series: Andy Rude 657

Classic League4-14-15AR Auto Care 3276 vs. 3177 Leo’sSportsbar; Hinrichs Plumbing & Pump3217 vs. 3001 Groth Implement; EberhartConstruction 3218 vs. 3214 MJB FarmsTop team game: Leo’s Sportsbar 1156Top team series: AR Auto Care 3276Top bowler game: Darik Rude 264Top bowler series: Darik Rude 707

Harvest League4-15-15Friedrichs 2761 vs. Bye; Prigge’s Flooring2980 vs. 2923 PI Pool & Pins; Jim’sBarbershp 2956 vs. 3002 Schaefer’s

HeatingTop team game: Schaefer’s Heating 1061Top team series: Schaefer’s Heating 3002Top bowler game: Chris Winchester 252Top bowler series: Ben Koehler 636

Commercial League4-16-15Terry Buck Construction 3105 vs. 3129Bluff Valley Campground; Stu’s Proshop3248 vs. 3248 Maple Island; KiffmeyerMotorsports 3061 vs. 3152 Nelson FamilyServices; Ellefson Trucking 3060 vs. ByeTop team game: Stu’s Proshop 1131Top team series: Stu’s Proshop, MapleIsland 3248Top bowler game: Bob Archer 258Top bowler series: Rick Kunz 666

ZumbrotaStoryhill’s latest chapter: tourbefore hiatus includes Zumbrota

ZUMBROTA – With harmoniesthat have been compared to TheEverly Brothers and Simon &Garfunkel, melodies that sink intoyour skin and clever tale telling thatsticks with you, Storyhill has climbedmusical mountains. Now touringbefore a hiatus, Storyhill takes theZumbrota State Theatre stage onFriday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m.

Chris Cunningham and JohnHermanson grew up together in Mon-tana and began playing music as aduo. They’ve performed togetherand separately ever since, and theirsell-out reunion concerts are a tes-tament to how popular their col-laborative efforts are.

Mixing old-fashioned storytellingwith hauntingly spare acoustic ar-rangements, the duo sing about love,war and the many sorrows that ac-company them.

Cunningham and Hermanson havefollowed separate pursuits in Mon-tana and Minnesota for several years,while reuniting as Storyhill.Cunningham produces recordingsat Basecamp Recording, a studio

he built just outside of Bozeman.Hermanson, who attended St. OlafCollege, works as a producer inMinneapolis and continues to playwith his band Alva Star.

Their 2007 eponymously titledCD led them to win the prestigiousKerrville New Folk SongwritingContest. Their latest CD, “Shade ofthe Trees,” was released in 2010.

To reserve tickets, visitwww.crossingsatcarnegie.com, call507-732-7616 or stop in to Cross-ings at 320 East Avenue in Zum-brota.

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Track teams have perfect conditions in Lake CityBy Faye Haugen

LAKE CITY – Not muchwind, bright sunshine and warmtemperatures made for aperfectday for a track meet inLake City Monday.Boys

Pine Island won the six-teammeet with 119 points. Kenyon-Wanamingo was third with 108points and Zumbrota-Mazeppaplaced fifth with 66 points in theboys’ standings.

Placing first for the Pantherswere Ben Farrell in the 100 and200-meter dashes, Kyle Grovenin the 800-meter run, Jack Will-iams in the 3200-meter run, ChrisFrick in the long jump, the 4x200-meter relay team of Ben Farrell,Kyle Groven, Chris Frick andJason Hoerle, and the 4x400-meter relay team of Jason Ho-erle, Jimmy Kroll, Isaiah Ondlerand Kyle Groven.

Caleb Greseth placed first forKenyon-Wanamingo in the 110and 300-meter hurdles and theshot put.

Pacing ZM with a first placefinish was Zach Sanborn in thehigh jump and the 4x100-meterrelay team of Jacob Dahl, AdamKrage, Matt Lyon and DillonDownes.Pine Island 119, Byron 118, Kenyon-Wanamingo 108, Lake City 100, Zum-brota-Mazeppa 66, Wabasha-Kellogg41Track events100-meter dash: 1. Ben Farrell (PI) 11.57;4. Devyn Stordahl (KW) 12.38; 5. NathanaelBauernfeind (KW) 12.41; 6. Jeremy Bryant(PI) 12.44; 110-meter hurdles: 1. CalebGreseth (KW) 16.26; 2. Mason Stevenson(KW) 17.01; 3. Dillon Downes (ZM) 17.98; 6.Nicholas Cain (PI) 19.2; 1600-meter run:2. Eric Hokanson (KW) 4:49.04; 4. IsaiahOndler (PI) 5:00.22; 6. Jimmy Kroll (PI) 5:06.34;400-meter dash: 2, Kyle Keller (KW) 52.66;4. Ben Ringham (KW) 54.79; 5. Chris Frick(PI) 55.13; 6. Micah Grove (KW) 56.89; 800-meter run: 1. Kyle Groven (PI) 2:09.85; 2.Isaiah Ondler (PI) 2:10.91; 3. Jason Hoerle(PI) 2:13.65; 5. Isaiah Steuber (ZM) 2:14.5;200-meter dash: 1. Ben Farrell (PI) 23.10;4. Kyle Keller (KW) 24.30; 5. Tristan Akason(PI) 25.16; 6. Nathanael Bauernfeind (KW)25.43; 7. Noah Rechtzigel (KW) 25.63; 7.Sean O’Malley (ZM) 25.63; 300-meterhurdles: 1. Caleb Greseth (KW) 44.94; 2.Dillon Downes (ZM) 45.2; 6. Nicholas Cain(PI) 50.31; 3200-meter run: 1. Jack Will-iams (PI) 10:45.76; 2. Bailey Berg (ZM)10:54.78; 3. Ben Bohn (KW) 11:08.41; 5.Logan Meurer (PI) 11:30.10Field eventsHigh jump: 1. Zach Sanborn (ZM) 5’8’’; 2.Alex Guse (ZM) 5’6’’; 6. Tristan Akason (PI)5’2’’; Discus: 4. Chris Frick (PI) 105’11’’;6. Ryan Kelling (PI) 100’4’’; Shot put: 1.Caleb Greseth (KW) 40’3’’; 3. Ben Farrell(PI) 39’1’’; 4. Bailey Paquin (KW) 36’3’’; 5.Alex Guse (ZM) 35’6’’; Long jump: 1. ChrisFrick (PI) 19’2’’; 3. Nathanael Bauernfeind(KW) 18’1’’; Pole vault: 5. Dillon Downes(ZM) 8’; 7. Mitchell Magnuson (PI) 6’Relays4x800-meter relay: 2. Pine Island (JacobHiggins, Jack Williams, Garrett Gates, LoganMeurer) 9:07.45; 3. Kenyon-Wanamingo (EricHokanson, Sam Ringham, Aaron Grove, BenBohn ) 9:14.91; 5. Zumbrota-Mazeppa (IsaiahSteuber, Colton Webster, Tyler Stene, BaileyBerg ) 9:34.79; 4x200-meter relay: 1.

Pine Island (Ben Farrell, Kyle Groven, ChrisFrick, Jason Hoerle) 1:35.02; 2. Kenyon-Wanamingo (Nathanael Bauernfeind, DevynStordahl, Mason Stevenson, Kyle Keller)1:36.28; 5. Zumbrota-Mazeppa (Matt Lyon,Adam Krage, Alex Guse, Sean O’Malley)1:42.36; 4x100-meter relay: 1. Zumbrota-Mazeppa (Jacob Dahl, Adam Krage, MattLyon, Dillon Downes ) 48.10; 3. Kenyon-Wanamingo (Bailey Paquin, Noah Rechtzi-gel, Shane Deland, Micah Grove) 49.29;4x400-meter relay: 1. Pine Island (JasonHoerle, Jimmy Kroll, Isaiah Ondler, Kyle Groven)3:47.05; 3. Zumbrota-Mazeppa (Jacob Dahl,Matt Lyon, Adam Krage, Zach Sanborn) 3:53.61;7. Kenyon-Wanamingo (Noah Rechtzigel, AaronGrove, Ben Ringham,, Micah Grove) 4:07.96Girls

Byron took the girls title with190 points. Pine Island was thirdwith 66 points, Kenyon-Wana-mingo was fourth with 58 pointsand Zumbrota-Mazeppa was fifthwith 57 points.

Leading Pine Island was the4x800-meter relay team of SaraSchartau, Jocasta Adelsman,Caitlin Schartau and BrittneyArndt.

KW got first place finishesfrom Mara Quam in the 300-meterhurdles, triple jump and longjump, and Tess Hokanson in the400-meter dash.

Zumbrota-Mazeppa’s MaddieLindhart continues to throw verywell early in the season, win-ning both the discus and shot put.Byron 190, Lake City 137, Pine Island66, Kenyon-Wanamingo 58, Zumbrota-Mazeppa 57, Wabasha-Kellogg 45Track events100-meter dash: 6. Madison House (PI)

14.32; 100-meter hurdles: 1. Mara Quam(KW) 16.41; 2. Breanna Haag (ZM) 18.04;1600-meter run: 2. Skyler Jacobson (ZM)5:56.21; 4. Lauren Berg (KW) 6:07.36; 400-meter dash: 1. Tess Hokanson (KW) 1:04.24;5. Kendra Kundert, 1:10.85; 6. Liza Shelquist(PI) 1:13.45; 800-meter run: 3. SkylerJacobson (ZM) 2:44.86; 4. Alex Blomgren(KW) 2:50.25; 200-meter dash: 2. CaitlinSchartau (PI) 27.82; 300-meter hurdles:2. Breanna Haag (ZM) 50.97; 3200-meterrun: 2. Jocasta Adelsman (PI) 12:40.02; 4.Valeria Agus (PI) 15:44.24Field eventsHigh jump: 3. Eliza Warneke (PI) 4’6’’;Triple jump: 1. Mara Quam (KW) 34’6.75’’;8. Breanna Haag (ZM) 28’5’’; Long jump:1. Mara Quam (KW) 16’10.5’’; 5. Tess Ho-kanson (KW) 14’3’’; Shot put: 1. MaddieLindhart (ZM) 43’6’’; 5. Lauren Miller (ZM)27’11’’; Pole vault: 4. Leah Anderton (PI)7’6’’ Discus: 1. Maddie Lindhart (ZM) 116’5’’;7. Lauren Miller (ZM) 73’4’’Relays4x800-meter relay: 1. Pine Island (SaraSchartau, Jocasta Adelsman, Caitlin Schar-tau, Brittney Arndt) 10:48; 6. Kenyon-Wana-mingo (Kasey Dummer, Alissa Johnson, Lau-ren Berg, Alex Blomgren) 12:02; 4x200-meter relay: 2. Pine Island (Eliza Warneke,Sara Schartau, Madison House, Brittney Arndt)1:55.94), 1:56.6; 4. Kenyon-Wanamingo(Megan Groth, Mara Quam, Sarah Benrud,Tess Hokanson) 2:01.89; 4x100-meter re-lay: 3. Pine Island (Eliza Warneke, MadisonHouse, Cassidy Clementson, Lexi Loats)55.314. Zumbrota-Mazeppa (Breanna Haag,Amanda Edstrom, Katie Lawler, Bella Wag-ner) 56.21; 4x400-meter relay: 2. PineIsland (Caitlin Schartau, Brittney Arndt, SaraSchartau, Eliza Warneke) 4:21.67; 6. Kenyon-Wanamingo (Victoria Clouse, Sarah Benrud,Siri Quam, Tess Hokanson) 4:51.01

Track and FieldPI and KW run at Dodge CenterBy Faye Haugen

DODGE CENTER – Pine Is-land and Kenyon-Wanamingotook part in Thursday’s TritonInvitational with the PI boys plac-ing second, and the girls third,and KW boys placing fourth andthe girls seventh in the eight-teammeet.Girls

Grand Meadow/LeRoy-Os-trander/Southland and Waterville-Elysian-Morristown dominatedthe meet with GMLOS scoring169.5 points to WEM’s 153. PItallied 88 points and KW, 47.

“The great weather, and hardwork so far this season has helpedour athletes achieve 22 personalrecords on the night,” said PIgirls coach Bill Frame. “I haveto say that our eight senior girlsare doing their part to contributein events that we feel are criticalto placing high in the end of theseason meets. Some are findingnew events to them that they arebecoming proficient at.”

The Panther 4x800-meter re-lay team of Sara Schartau, Cait-lin Schartau, Jocasta Adelsmanand Brittney Arndt placed first.

One of the highlights for PineIsland was one of their 4x100-meter relay teams that was madeup of foreign exchange students.

“Despite a couple of shakyhandoffs, they completed the raceand outdistanced another team.We are very proud of HannaFriederich (Germany), MontesseSalinas (Chile), Angelica Petrini(Italy) and Valeria Agus (Italy).”

Kenyon-Wanamingo waspaced by Tess Hokanson whoplaced first in the 400-meter dash.Grand Meadow/LeRoy-Ostrander/South-land 169.5, Waterville-Elysian-Morris-town 153, Pine Island 88, Lourdes76.5, Bethlehem Academy 68, Med-ford 57, Kenyon-Wanamingo 47, Tri-ton 40Track events100-meter dash: 4. Cassidy Clementson(PI) 14.41; 4. Kaela Horn (KW) 14.41; 7.Sarah Benrud (KW), 14.72; 100-meterhurdles: 6. Mikayla Pukal (PI) 18.93; 1600-meter run: 3. Jocasta Adelsman (PI) 5:48.45;400-meter dash: 1. Tess Hokanson (KW)1:01.66; 3. Caitlin Schartau (PI) 1:03.52; 4.Sara Schartau (PI) 1:05.81; 7. Eliza Warneke(PI) 1:08.56; 800-meter run: 3. KaseyDummer (KW) 2:47.49; 4. Maddie Patterson(KW) 2:47.67; 6. Taylor Rasmussen (PI)2:48.47; 8. Breanna Ihde (PI) 2:50.4; 200-meter dash: 4. Brittney Arndt (PI) 28.95; 7.Liza Shelquist (PI) 30.04; 300-meter hurdles:3. Mikayla Pukal (PI) 53.99; 5. Morgan Van-Houten (PI) 56.75; 7. Isabella Wiggins (PI)58.96; 3200-meter run: 6. Valeria Agus(PI) 15:36.4Field eventsTriple jump: 7. Jordyn Braaten (PI) 26’1’’;Long jump: 5. Tess Hokanson (KW) 13’10’’;Pole vault: 5. Leah Anderton (PI) 7’6’’; 7.Liza Shelquist (PI) 7’; Discus: 6. NaomiBauernfeind (KW) 68’3’’Relays4x800-meter relay: 1. Pine Island (SaraSchartau, Caitlin Schartau, Jocasta Adels-man, Brittney Arndt) 10:38.82; 4. Kenyon-

Wanamingo 11:41.25; 4x200-meter re-lay: 2. Kenyon-Wanamingo 1:57.04; 7. PineIsland (Lexi Loats, Liza Shelquist, Emily Kling-sporn, Morgan VanHouten) 2:01.27; 4x100-meter relay: 5. Pine Island (Cassidy Clem-entson, Lexi Loats, Emily Klingsporn, BellaWiggins) 57.71; 4x400-meter relay: 3.Pine Island (Sara Schartau, Jocasta Adels-man, Brittney Arndt, Caitlin Schartau) 4:20.09;8. Kenyon-Wanamingo 4:47.37Boys

Lourdes won the boys titlewith 158 points with Pine Islandplacing second with 144 points.Kenyon-Wanamingo tallied 95points.

The Panthers got first placefinishes from Kyle Groven in the100 and 400-meter dashes, BenFarrell in the 200-meter dash,Chris Frick in the long jump, the4x800 and the 4x200-meter re-

lay teams.Caleb Greseth placed first in

the 110-meter hurdles and Ma-son Stevenson was first in the300-meter hurdles. Ben Bohn ranto a first place finish in the 3200-meter run.Lourdes 158, Pine Island 144, GrandMeadow/LeRoy-Ostrander/Southland103, Kenyon-Wanamingo 95, Bethle-hem Academy 67, Triton 63, Medford55, Waterville-Elysian-Morristown 17Track events100-meter dash: 1. Kyle Groven (PI) 11.51;5. Devyn Stordahl (KW) 12.3; 6. JeremyBryant (PI) 12.33; 7. Tristan Akason (PI)12.36; 8. Nathanael Bauernfeind KW) 12.48;110-meter hurdles: 1. Caleb Greseth (KW)16.35; 2. Mason Stevenson (KW) 16.89; 6.Nicholas Cain (PI) 18.88 1600-meter run:2. Eric Hokanson (KW) 4:55.21; 3. IsaiahOndler (PI) 5:01.68; 4. Jacob Higgins (PI)5:06.95; Sam Ringham (KW) 5:15.03; 400-meter dash: 1. Kyle Groven (PI) 50.91; 3.Kyle Keller (KW) 53.11; 4. Jason Hoerle (PI)54.58; 8. Ben Ringham (KW) 56.45; 800-meter run: 3. Jack Williams (PI) 2:07.77;7. Jacob Higgins (PI) 2:11.73; 200-meterdash: 1. Ben Farrell (PI) 23.14; 3. KyleKeller (KW) 24.12; 5. Nathanael Bauern-feind (KW) 24.83; 6. Ben Ringham (KW)24.94; 7. Tristan Akason (PI) 25.42; 8. Jer-emy Bryant (PI) 25.46; 300-meter hurdles:1. Mason Stevenson (KW) 41.45; 5. Nicho-las Cain (PI) 48.65; 3200-meter run: 1.Ben Bohn (KW) 11:01; 7. Garrett Bates (PI)11.44Field eventsHigh jump: 5. Tristan Akason (PI) 5’2’’;Discus: 5. Chris Frick (PI) 105’4’’; 6. RyanKelling (PI) 98’8’’; Shot put: 5. Caleb Gre-seth (KW) 39’1.25’’; 8. Ben Farrell (PI) 37’3’’;Long jump: 1. Chris Frick (PI) 20’; 2. BenFarrell (PI) 19’1.25’’; 8. Nathanael Bauern-feind (KW) 17’; Pole vault: 5. Broghen Kunz(PI) 9’6’’; 7. Brandon Haze (PI) 8’6’’; 7.Nathan Marx (PI) 8’6’’Relays4x800-meter relay: 1. Pine Island 8:42.1;3. Kenyon-Wanamingo 8:44.43; 4x200-meterrelay: 1. Pine Island 1:33.52; 3. Kenyon-Wanamingo 1:36.24; 4x100-meter relay:3. Pine Island A 49.47; 4. Pine Island B50.59; 7. Kenyon-Wanamingo 51.44 4x400-meter relay: 4. Pine Island 3:46.11; 6.Kenyon-Wanamingo 3:51.83

News-Record photos by Faye HaugenKenyon-Wanamingo’s Caleb Greseth stays ahead of teammate Mason Stevenson as they near the finish linein the 110-meter hurdles in Lake City. Monday.

Pine Island’s Garrett Talbot takes part in his very first triple jump at theLake City Invitational on Monday in Lake City.

Zumbrota-Mazeppa’s Brad Arendt heaves the shot during competitionin Lake City, Monday.

Pine Island’s Leah Anderton keep her eyes on the bar as she makes hersecond attempt in the high jump at Lake City, Monday.

Kenyon-Wanamingo’s Kaela Horn reaches back for the baton from teammate Stephanie Voegele in the4x200-meter relay in Lake City, Monday.

Zumbrota-Mazeppa’s Breanna Haag strides to the finish line in the 100-meter hurdles in Lake City, Monday. The ZM junior placed second.

HVL Softball Conf. OverallW L W L

Kasson-Mantorville 4 0 4 0Pine Island 4 0 4 0Zumbrota-Mazeppa 3 0 9 0Hayfield 3 1 3 1Kenyon-Wanamingo 3 3 5 3Stewartville 2 1 5 1Goodhue 1 4 5 5Byron 1 1 1 1Lourdes 1 2 2 3Triton 1 3 2 3Cannon Falls 1 3 1 3Lake City 0 4 1 4

HVL Baseball Conf. OverallBlue Division W L W LHayfield 3 1 3 1Pine Island 2 2 3 3Triton 1 4 1 4Kenyon-Wanamingo 0 3 1 3Zumbrota-Mazeppa 0 3 0 3Goodhue 0 5 0 6Gold Division W L W LKasson-Mantorville 4 0 4 0Rochester Lourdes 4 0 4 0Lake City 3 1 4 3Byron 3 1 3 1Cannon Falls 3 2 3 2Stewartville 2 3 2 3

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