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Melrose schools to host facility listening sessions
Number 37 • Volume 133
Pitching in during
Lahr, Abfalter bring experience to ATKINSON TO TALK ABOUT SPACE Holdingford MISSIONS BOOK AT MELROSE LIBRARY city positions pg. 6
Albany Pioneer Days Melrose researching policing options ... pg. 3 Hiltner happy to carry on legacy ... pg. 7 ‘A Team’ has first baby boy in 2017 ... pg. 16 Gymnasts scoring with the best ... pg. 10
BY CAROL MOORMAN STAFF WRITER
Three dates set for public input
Familiar faces may greet people at Holdingford City Center. Nicky Lahr is the MELROSE – new clerk and treasurMelrose Area Public er and Kelly Abfalter is Schools will be hostthe new deputy clerk and ing three listening treasurer; each welcomed sessions following to their positions during the failure to pass a the Aug. 8 council meetfacilities bond refering, which was Lahr’s endum Aug. 9. first day on the job. Sessions will be COMMUNITY COVERAGE 127 YEARS Both have lived in held on the followthe Holdingford/Avon ing dates and locaareas for a number of tions: years. PHOTO BY CAROL MOORMAN – 7 p.m., MonLahr, who was raised Ken Ebnet (left) and Gary Pilgrim sit in front of a Ferris wheel Sept. 8 inside their G&K building on the Albany Pioneer day, Sept. 19, at Days grounds in rural Albany. Pilgrim constructed the Ferris wheel and a swing, both which will be operational during in Sartell, spent the mathe Melrose High the Sept. 15-18 Albany Pioneer Days, as will many other engine-run items inside their building. jority of her adult life School media center, working for St. Cloud 546 Fifth Ave. NE, Metro Bus, which earned Melrose. her government-relat– 7 p.m., ed experience when she Wednesday, Sept. moved into a supervisor 21, at Freeport City position. She moved on BY CAROL MOORMAN | STAFF WRITER people, and pretty soon they brought another engine,” PilHall, 125 E. Main to a management posigrim said Sept. 7. “In 1991, I did the same thing, and pretty St., Freeport. tion for another company soon I’m here with one engine and now it’s all kinds of on’t be surprised if you hear carousel mu– 8 p.m., Thursbefore applying for and them, McCormick, International, John Deere, Wisconsin, sic coming from the G&K building, fi lled day, Sept. 22, at the accepting the HoldingBriggs & Stratton, a Call of the West from 1902 and more.” with engines and memorabilia, on the AlGreenwald Pub, 310 ford city position one Three generations of Pilgrims, from Pillager, have bany Pioneer Days Threshing Show grounds Sept. 15-18. First Ave. N., Greenmonth ago. pitched in during Pioneer Days, starting with Pilgrim’s “I made a Ferris wheel and swing powered with belts Aswald. the sun was starting to rise Monday, Commercial Her husband, Dan, dad, Glenn; mom Louise; brother Gene and wife Marla; and a motor, and we have music playing, so people enContractors Company The public is workers from Melrose were inworks in the city’s pubGary and wife Kim; and his son Jason and wife Clarissa. joy the sounds as they watch it,” said Gary Pilgrim, who, side the Lisa’s On Main invited to attend the building working on securing lic works department. It was on the Pioneer Days grounds years ago where along with friend Ken Ebnet, own engines and finagle sessions and speak PHOTO the west wall. BY CAROL MOORMAN Together they have three Gary Pilgrim met Ebnet, of Long Prairie, who also knew contraptions in the building. “We like to have engines runon ideas and congrown children, one Richard Reller, another engine enthusiast. ning something.” cerns as the school grandson and another They found they shared a passion for engines. Ebnet even constructed a bench out of a grain drill for district moves forone on the way. “They’re unique. They’re different,” said Ebnet, people to sit on outside of the building. ward to solve facility Abfalter was raised whose wife Ardis, also helps during the Albany show. It is one of many buildings and demonstrations that issues. in Michigan and worked Ebnet started attending shows thanks to another friend will be showcased during the 48th annual show, put on by for the Wisconsin Dethe Stearns County Pioneer Club on the grounds north- who went to the Rose City Threshing & Heritage Festival, partment of Justice and a east of Albany. This year’s show will feature Ford tractors, and Ken sat with him, showcasing a couple of engines, and sheriff’s office in Florida. it progressed from there. They both started going to the equipment and vehicles and Cushman gas engines. It was engines that brought the Pilgrim family to Pio- Pioneer Days show. Reller was also at the Albany show. neer Days years ago. “My mom, dad and brother started coming here, and Staff page 3 Pioneer Days page 3 they brought up one engine to display and met so many
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Pilgrim, Ebnet showcase running engines
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flag disposal ceremony
Wearing a firefighting jacket supplied by the Melrose Fire Department, Don Salzmann tosses a worn flag into an incinerator PHOTOS BY CAROL MOORMAN Sept. 6 during a flag disposal ceremony at the Melrose American Micky Kramer (front) and Gary Toenyan march with a worn flag to be disposed of during a flag disposal ceremony Legion parking lot in Melrose. The Legion and VFW posts host Sept. 6 at the Melrose American Legion parking lot in Melrose, while Jim Athmann (left) stands at attention. Melrose this annual ceremony in which worn and tattered flags are disposed of in the proper way. Boy Scouts, firefighters and members of the public were present.
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PUBLIC NOTICES • Mortgage Foreclosure - pg. 7 • Albany Area Schools Sept. 14 Agenda - pg. 7 • Holdingford School Board Work Session Minutes, Sept. 7 - pg. 6 • City of Albany Planning Commission Public Hearing - pg. 7 • Sauk River Watershed Notice of Reg. Board Meeting - pg. 6 • Avon Township Notice of Public Meeting - pg. 7 • City of Melrose Public Hearing on Vacation of Easement - pg. 6
BIRTHS page 3 Nile Matthew Luxem Theo John Nickolauson
OBITUARIES page 4 Dorothy F. Gerads Irene M. Ohmann Jerome H. Schoenborn Lucille B. VanHoorik
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