The Thirteen Towns, Fosston, Minnesota - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - 7CommuniTy/sporTs

Marcy Erickson (second from left) was Fosston’s Homecoming Queen of 1984. Pictured are Marcy and her attendants as they are driven around Fosston’s streets.

LOOKING BACKONE YEAR AGOOctober 1, 2013

Nick Vig and Molly Buehler were named Fosston High School’s Homecoming King and Queen.

The First Care Foundation gave a donation in memory of longtime pharmacist Elmer Nord. Essentia Health-Foss-ton’s in-house pharmacy was named “The Elmer “Doc” Nord Pharmacy”.

The 5th Annual Labor Day Trails to Treatments Cancer Ride raised more than $26,000 over the weekend.

DNA tests confirmed that the male gray wolf trapped and killed in the West Winnie Campground on Lake Win-nibigoshish was the same wolf that bit a 16 year old male two days earlier.

TEN YEARS AGOSeptember 28, 2004

Nord’s Pharmacy was struck by a hit-and-run driver. The vehicle was driven up onto the sidewalk, smashed into the building, and drove off the curb on the east side.

Fosston received a $300,000 loan from the US Department of Agriculture to be used for Fosston’s hospi-tal renovation project. Addi-tionally, Bagley received a $475,000 USDA Rural Development loan for Wee-Care Children’s Center.

Polk County Sheriff Mark LeTexier was the featured speaker at the East Polk County Farm Bureau’s annual meeting. Sheriff LeTexier spoke on the ease with which methamphetamine is pro-duced.

A mini-reunion for Foss-ton’s Class of 1969 took place in Fargo. 12 former students out of a class of 64 gathered at the Ramada Inn for an eve-ning of reminiscing.

TWENTY YEARS AGOOctober 3rd, 1994

Erica Foster was named Homecoming Queen, and Brian Rud was King.

Jerry Daniels was inducted into the BSU Athletic Hall of Fame.

Dr. Roger Higdem, pro-fessor and chair of Albertson College of Idaho’s mathemat-ics/computer science depart-ment, was appointed provost and dean of the college in Caldwell, ND. Higdem is the son of the late Melvin and Laura Higdem of Fosston.

Warren Affeldt was run-ning for Polk County Com-missioner.

THIRTY YEARS AGOOctober 11, 1984

The Fosston School Dis-trict received a $60,395 low interest Energy Invest-ment loan from the office of Energy and Economic Development to make energy improvements at both school buildings. With the improve-ments, it was expected that the energy savings would be over $11,000 per year.

The Fosston Jaycee

GreyHound Girls sHoW dePtH

lookinG At next yeAr

How many times have you heard the statement “We were missing one of our star players” offered as an excuse for losing a game you should have won? Fosston’s Grey-hound volleyball team went into Tuesday night’s game against Mahnomen miss-ing one of their star players. Rather than using that as an excuse for a loss, they used it as an opportunity to give some players off the bench a chance to show what they could do against varsity com-petition.

Fifth year varsity hitter, and team co-captain Eliza-beth Olson, sidelined with a sprain that may keep her out of a couple more games, watched Kaili Schmidt turn in a more than credible per-formance in her absence.

First game of the match saw Mahnomen grab an early two point advantage, but the Hounds quickly caught up, took the lead, and never looked back. The Mahnomen girls fought back to come within one point a couple

times, but shot themselves in the foot with service errors and miscues, allowing the Greyhounds to squelch any comeback attempt and close out the first set at 25-20.

Games two and three were nearly identical except for the scores, with Fosston jumping out to a double digit lead in the early stages, and shutting down any attempt by the indi-ans to close the gap. Game two went to the Hounds by 25-11, and the final was all Fosston again for a 25-8 finish and a three game sweep.

Abby Swanson’s name appears on the leader board again with 13 kills, Camille Hagen put down five, and Kylie Sollie had four. Emily Curfman kept the girls sup-plied with 18 good sets and Kailey Carlin recorded 7. Mahnomen had some prob-lems with Fosston’s low, fast serves, yielding 9 aces to Emily and another 6 to Noelle Dufault.

Justine Hougo topped Mahnomen’s kill tally with 10, and setter Abby Johnson

offered 14 successful assists. Next action for the lady

Hounds is a road trip to Twin Valley to do combat with the Titans of NCE/Ulen-Hit-terdal. The Titans come in with a record of 7 wins and 7 losses, and the Hounds are 10 and 3. The Titans are not a tall team, but they are some scrappers, and they’ve shown well against some very strong teams. Records are deceptive. Most of those 7 losses have been in a couple very tough tournaments, with only one regular season loss - that to Hawley. They are undefeated in Pine to Prairie Conference play, as are the Greyhounds. NCE’s triple threat package of Tatum Lundin, Carrington Roy and Sarah Brouillard can climb the ladder pretty well, and they can put some heat on the ball. When they’re on, they’re tough, and they have Rana Opsahl, one of the pre-mier setters in section 8, set-ting them up. It likely won’t be dull. See story on that game elsewhere in this issue.

Junior varsity games are always a lot of fun to watch, and they provide a glimpse of what’s waiting in the wings for the next few years down the line. It appears we’ll have enjoyable evenings in the home town gym for years to come as these spirited young ladies mature into solid var-sity players.

Freshman hitter Rebecca Olson is a mainstay in the JV ranks, and continues to play strong with the JV, even though she now dresses with the varsity, and sees action there as well. Freshman Haley Swanson is already good enough to play with the

varsity, but she is getting a lot more valuable experience playing with the JV. Bumps and passes aren’t quite as pre-cise and accurate at the JV level, so Haley has had lots of practice running the ball down and making very good sets out of less than precision passes. Freshman outside hitter Jennifer Non turned in some very good defensive play, but showed particu-larly well at the service line displaying a nice low hard serve. Junior middle hitter Payden Ware uses all of her 5’7” frame to great advan-tage, jumping like she has springs in her feet, and reach-

ing well above the defense to drive home kill shots. Solid and steady play from Katie Nelson, Jordyn Manecke, Morgan Wilson and Hannah Paulson contribute to a team that bodes well for Fosston’s future in the world of section 8 volleyball. The JV girls carry a very good 8 and 3 record.

Next time Fosston plays at the home gym, (October 2, against Norman County West) come early and get a look at the future. ‘C’ game starts at 5, and JV action gets under way at 6. It’s better and cleaner entertainment than you’ll find on TV.

Jennifer Non booms a hard serve for the Greyhounds in the Mahnomen JV game.

Haley Swanson puts up a nice set for Morgan Wilson in the JV game against Climax-Fisher.

Payden Ware gets a good set, and goes on high to drive one down for the Hounds in the Mahnomen JV game.

Following in the footsteps of big sister Liz, Rebecca Olson shoots one past the block for a kill against Mahnomen. Jordyn Manecke looks on.

Women sponsored a Trike-A-Thon to raise money for cystic fibrosis. They raised $1,541.75.

Keith and Ann Johnson, Larry and Cleone Johnson, and Alton and Mercedes Beckstrom, all of Fosston, received Land O’Lakes Milk Quality Production Awards.

Marlys Boline, Wendel Hanson, Irene Hemphill, Jean Olson, Jarvis Zitzow and Marilyn Malmanager were chosen from a field of 140 to participate in an institu-tion for teachers of science or mathematics at Bemidji State University.

FORTY YEARS AGOOctober 10, 1974

The Fosston Greyhounds shut out Waubun 27-0 in the last game of the season.

The volleyball team defeated Fertile 2-0 and lost to Mahnomen 0-2. Renee Mireault was the high scorer when they defeated East Grand Forks.

Fire Chief Jerry Anderson announced that the Fosston Fire Department would hold the traditional evacuation of the local schools during Fire Prevention Week.

Members of the 7th grade football team which defeated Mahnomen with an overtime touchdown were Kyle Ander-son, Don Brinkman, Todd Daniels, Bill Darby, Greg Gubrud, Aanders Jackson, Mark Juve, Mike Killian, Kent Larson, Scott Smith, Scott Strande, Dave Wand-schneider Mark Winkler, and Tom Woods.

FIFTY YEARS AGOOctober 15, 1964

By an overwhelming vote of 254-12, McIntosh voters agreed to a bond issue of $35,000 to build a new city hall.

Four men instrumental in Fosston getting an “up to snuff” golf course vis-ited Fosston to look over their handiwork. They were Gorman Thompson, state FHA representative, Mr. Weaver, a secretary in the Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C., Don Mark, local sparkplug of the project, and John Freidericks, county FHA supervisor.

Robert Lindberg of East Grand Forks leased the Tor-blaa potato ware house and had it in operation.

One of the biggest “hauls” reported in the area for a long time was a loot of between $6,000 and $7,000 taken in a break-in at Wild Rice Electric in Mahnomen.

SIXTY YEARS AGOOctober 14, 1954

Hubert Humphrey headed a DLF rally in Fosston.

Don Anderson was named district museum chairman.

Edgar and Arlen Olson placed in the Purple Ribbon class at the Junior Livestock shows.

Oscar Hauge of Brands-

vold was among the last to file for the office of county commissioner.

SEVENTY YEARS AGOOctober 13, 1944

Former coach Dick See-bach wrote about visiting Japan.

Sidney Melbo drowned in an accident at the grain docks in Duluth.

Sgt. Arnold Aakus was stationed in France.

Mr. and Mrs. K.O. Axel-vold of Queen township observed their golden wed-ding anniversary.

EIGHTY YEARS AGOOctober 12, 1934

Orvin Wiberg of Trail was named vice president and Pearl Fish of Fosston, secre-tary of the East Polk County 4-H Federation.

Olai Westrum of Clear-brook narrowly escaped death when he used his gun as a club to knock down a running duck and the gun discharged, grazing his side.

Clayton Engan was named to the Carleton College choir in Northfield.

Axel Nelson marketed his potatoes at $1.25 a bushel and had a yield of 825 bushels per acre.

NINETY YEARS AGOOctober 10, 1924

Mrs. R.E. Bakke was injured when she was thrown from a car near Erskine and it ran over her.

The boys glee club elected Edwin Halvorson president, Orlando Sinjem vice presi-dent, and Lewis Vik librarian.

O. Ose of Fisher and Ole Hegland enjoyed a fishing trip to Madison and Twin Lakes.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGOOctober 9, 1914

John Luthen lost his sepa-rator and five stacks of grain by fire.

H.C. Halvorson sold his farm to John A. Johnson of Hazel Run.

John Nordus sold his inter-est in the City Cafe to Chris Afseth.

Mr. and Mrs. D.E. Smith arrived to take over manage-ment of the Central Hotel.

Andrew Johnson, cattle buyer, driving a car and Dr. H.O. Hellmer, veterinarian, riding a motorcycle, collided at the corner of Harrison and First.

ONE HUNDRED TEN YEARS AGOOctober 14, 1904

R.C. Dunn, Republican candidate for governor, vis-ited Fosston.

A picture of the Fosston Elevator and Flour Mill was published with information that a large warehouse had been added.

S.T. Rickanrud went to Waukon, Iowa to get Mrs. Frank Boutin. Frank Boutin was cut in two when he was hit by a log and thrown into the band saw at the Crookston Mill near here.