Progress Neighbors
ALBERT LEA TRIBUNE
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2023
Mark Heinemann, president of Arcadian Bank, proudly displays a drawing of what Farmers State Bank of Hartland looked like prior to the December 2021 tornado, which decimated the building. KELLY WASSENBERG/ALBERT LEA TRIBUNE
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The new Arcadian Bank in Hartland will feature a drive-thru and 24-hour ATM access. PROVIDED
Arcadian Bank’s new Hartland location expected to be built in the spring after former location damaged by 2021 tornado By KELLY WASSENBERG news@albertleatribune.com
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ARTLAND — The wind downtown streets since the days blew with an increas- when it was traveled by horse and ingly high intensity, buggy. And the building had suffered tree branches broke, significant damage. glass shattered, shin“The southwest corner of the buildgles lifted and bricks ing was the hardest fell. hit,” Arcadian Bank President Mark Although the day the tornado devastatHeinemann said. With the corner of ed Hartland was the the building reduced first time tornadoes had hit the state in to rubble, the bank’s December, the results interior was exposed, were all too familiar. he said, adding that all of the south winTears were shed, lives were changed and dows were blown in, the landscape would debris had made its way inside from adnever be the same. Depicted in many —Mark Heinemann jacent buildings, and of the photographs the establishment’s from the day were newly installed roof pictures of Arcadian Bank’s Hart- was perforated. land branch. Recalling the 2010 tornado that Originally built in 1912 as Farm- had affected a number of the bank’s ers State Bank of Hartland, the location had been a mainstay on the See BANK, Page 2
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A new name and location
Clothes, care and connection
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Two popular businesses combine under one name in Clarks Grove. Page 7
Church transforms former Sunday school rooms into thrift store. Page 7