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Avon council gives preliminary fire hall bond approval
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Capital improvement plan has bond maximum of $2.58 million BY TIM HENNAGIR STAFF WRITER
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Melrose woman named state fair supreme baker
Avon city leaders want to issue a maximum of $2.58 BY CAROL MOORMAN | STAFF WRITER million in general obligation bonds for a new fire hall. andy Freeman is on a baking high. That amount and a capiShe received the Supreme Baker tal improvement plan for the Award during this year’s Minnesota project were approved Sept. State Fair. The person who tallies the most points 11 by the council during their for ribbons earned from their creative baked prodmonthly meeting at Avon uct entries receives this honor. Freeman entered City Hall in Avon. 21 items and received ribbons for eight, including The city is proposing istwo first place blue ribbons, two second places, two suance of the bonds later this third places, one fourth place and one fifth place. year once bids for the fire hall Overall she earned 13 ribbons out of 33 total project are received. entries, which included five ribbons in the bee and Current plans call for honey category. expanding the current pub“I’ve never earned that many ribbons before. lic safety facility, at 140 I was thrilled,” she said Sept. 6 still on a sweet Stratford St. E., by roughly high more than one week after her award noti8,500-square-feet. The expanfication. “I think it’s because I take a variety of sion will include four apparathings in creative products, from a tea ring, yeast tus bays, equipment storage bread, quick bread, Bundt cake, to an angel food areas and locker rooms. sponge cake.” David Drown AssociThe icing on the cake came when she demonates provides finance-related strated her blue ribbon Bourbon-Chocolate Tipsy management services for Cake Aug. 29 in the Creative Activities building the city of Avon, including kitchen at the fair. property tax impact analy“I made three cakes so people could eat it,” sis. Jason Murray works for As sun was fistarting Commercial said Freeman, of rural Melrose, who, over her thethe Minneapolis rm and to rise Monday, Contractors Company workers from Melrose state fair were years inof competition, has won the is Avon’s financial adviser. side the attended Lisa’s Ona Sept. Main11 building working on Cake securing Grand Award twice. Murray the westhearing wall. for the capital PHOTO BY CAROL MOORMAN This year, when she made her prize public winning cake for competition she put her improvement plan and fire iconic 1959 Barbie doll inside the Bundt hall bond and provided backpan. ground on the preliminary “She looked very cute in the Bundt project bonding schedule.
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Candy Freeman demonstrates her blue ribbon BourbonChocolate Tipsy Cake Aug. 29 in the Creative Activities building kitchen at the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights. Freeman earned eight creative baked product ribbons and the Supreme Baker Award.
pan,” Freeman said. Freeman has been entering state fair items since 1996, following in the footsteps of friends Lois Thielen and Jean McDonald. Thielen was a creative baked products ribbon winner this year, along with Kelsey Oja, a Melrose High School graduate, and Rita Meyer, from Meire Grove.
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Kelsey Oja (left) and Candy Freeman stand outside the Creative Activities building on entry day Aug. 19 at the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights. Freeman has been entering items at the state fair 27 years, while Oja, a Melrose High School graduate and family friend, is relatively new to competition
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Rose Baggenstoss talks about her passion for putting together puzzles Sept. 15 in her Albany apartment. She has had a sense of service her whole life, something she learned from her parents, John and Terry Baggenstoss.
Baggenstoss walks her way through life BY CAROL MOORMAN | STAFF WRITER
Rose Baggenstoss lives a life of service. For 38 years, she was the friendly face who served food and refreshments at Hillcrest Family Restaurant/Stubby’s Tavern
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in Albany, now Bear Crest Lounge, until she quit Aug. 28. She would walk from her downtown apartment to and from work each day – wherever she needed to go, for that matter, since she does not drive.
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Stacy Schuller works with Alfred Kill to get a Fairbanks Type Y oil engine running Sept. 14 during Albany Pioneer Days at the Stearns County Pioneer Club grounds in rural Albany. The engine was used on a riverboat. .
PUBLIC NOTICES Stearns County Notice of Public Hearing ................................ pg. 4 Albany School Reg. Meeting, Sept. 13 .................................... pg. 9
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