Michelle Kangas of Baxter has been named registrar at Central Lakes College (CLC).Kangas has been a senior customer service specialist at CLC since 2004 and from 1997-2004 was a cashier. From 1993-97 she was a Fi-nancial Aid Assistant at CLC.

A native of Menahga, Kan-gas earned her BS in elemen-tary education from St. Cloud State University and has com-pleted many courses from Bemidji State University, Minneapolis Community and Technical College, and CLC.

She has experience as a classroom teacher and a cor-porate administrative assis-tant.

“Michelle has been a val-

Remembrance of Things PastThe following articles are taken from the archives of 70 years ago.

Remembrance of Things PastThe following articles are taken from the archives of 70 years ago.

The following articles are taken from the archives of 70 years ago.

Remembrance of Things Past

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AGED MEADOW TWP. PIONEER DIED ON OCTOBER 11

Death claimed another pioneer when Charles Lake, aged resident of Meadow township, passed away at his farm home on Sunday, October 11 at the age of 83 years, 2 months and 5 days. He had been ill for some time. Deceased is survived by his wife and five sons, who are Nestor, Eino, Oscar and William, all of this community, and Eddie, who is in the U. S. Army and in training at Columbia Army Air Base, Columbia, South Carolina.

* * *OBITUARY

Mrs. Anna Kaisa Nevala, maiden name, Kuoringi, was born in Kuusamo, Finland, September 7, 1859. She was married to Peter Nevala in Norway in 1879 and in 1881 she came to America to join her husband who had come to Calumet, Michigan. In 1882 they moved to Paddock township where they resid-ed on their homestead until Mr. Nevala's death which occurred October 9, 1923. Mrs. Nevala made her home on the farm with her children until 1939, after which she moved to Sebeka and lived with her daughter, Mrs. Elmer Matta, until the time of her death. To this union were born twelve chil-dren, six preceding her in death. Mrs. Nevala passed away Septembr 30, 1942 in Sebeka at the age of 83 years and 23 days. Left to mourn her passing are six children, namely: William, Albert and Arvid, of Sebeka; Arthur, of the U. S. Army at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey; Mrs. Matt (Anna) Kangas and Mrs. Elmer (Hilma) Matta, of Sebeka; and one daughter-in-law, Mrs. John (Fanny) Nevala; four grandchildren, Sarvey and Florine Nevala, Robert Salmi and Ella Jane Parvi, and a host of relatives, friends and neighbors.

* * *BIG LIVESTOCK SHIPMENTS

LAST WEEK In writing up the news article of the shipments of livestock made last week by Sarkela Transfer, the type lines got mixed up and were confusing. Therefore, this week we reproduce the corrected news item: "The Sarkela Transfer hauled last week, from Monday until Friday, 13 semi-trailer loads and one straight load, consisting of 170 head of cattle, 43 calves, 126 hogs and 623 sheep. This was a record breaker for one week."

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LAST RITES HELD Funeral services were held from the South Finnish Church, Saturday, October 10th for Mrs. Fredricka Yrjo who passed away at the home of her son John Wednesday morning, October 7th, 1942. Mrs. Yrjo was born in Finland, June 16, 1849. She was 93 years, 3 months and 21 days at the time of her death. She has resided in Blueberry township since coming from Finland 49 years ago. The deceased leaves two children, a son John and daughter Johanna, 4 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren. She was laid to rest in the Alajoki cemetery. Funeral director Kumpula was in charge of the arrangements.

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SERVICE Pvt. Paul E. Day who is in the army and stationed at Camp Carson, Colorado arrived here today and will spend a couple of weeks with his par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Day. Raymond Cary, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Cary and Ernest Cary, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cary arrived here this morning for a visit with their parents. The boys who are cousins are in the Navy and at present are in training at Great Lakes. Sgt. Eddie Lake who is stationed at Columbia Air Base, Columbia S. C. arrived here Tuesday having been called here by the death of his father, Eddie Lake. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon, October 16, from the Meadow Finnish Church at 1:00 p.m.

* * *LOCALS

Mrs. Ed Maki and little daughter Mary arrived Thursday from Detroit, Mich. to visit at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Young. Mrs. Ted Pederson (Violet Raatikka) also of Detroit accompanied her and will visit relatives here and at Sebeka. Lieut. Walter Hepokoski left for Fort Eustis, Virginia last Saturday after a weeks visit with his parents and rela-tives. Mrs. Calvin Spangler entertained a group of ladies Friday evening at a party honoring the birthday of Mrs. Wm. Salo. A delicious lunch was served.

* * *THE MENAHGA MESSENGER

OCTOBER 15, 1942

NORTH GERMANY Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Schulz of Michigan arrived last week to spend their vaca-tion at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schulz, Sr. and other relatives and also with Mrs. Schulz's people in North Dakota. They left for Dakota on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Steinkraus have recently purchased the Jost farm in Lyons township where they just recently moved. The Ingwald Westby family are pre-paring to move on th George Kollman place. A family whose name is not yet known to the writer have moved on the farm vacated by the Westby family. The Werner Nolte family are enjoying a visit with relatives from N. Dak. who arrived last week for an indefinite stay. Cpl. Vernon Steinkraus writes from Fort Knox, Ky. that quite a number of boys from the vicinity of Sebeka have arrived and are now stationed at Fort Knox. and that it seems good to see familiar faces. Chris Petersen, who left in the selec-tive service with a group from Grand Rapids some weeks ago, is now sta-tioned at Fort Bliss, Texas.

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THE SEBEKA REVIEW FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1942

HUNTERSVILLE C. W. Traverse threshed some grain for Jack Keller and Frank Blanchard the first of the week. Mrs. Bob Estabrooks and children, are staying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Blanchard, while Bob is up north working in the mines. Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Richards and fam-ily and Mrs. B. Richards and children, were Sunday visitors in the home of Mrs. Effie Shaw. Jack Dunham, who recently pur-chased the farm, known as the Bradford place, has been moving some buildings there, recently, so they will be moving soon.

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The American Legion Auxiliary of Sebeka, is sponsoring an Amateur Contest, the date approximately set for the 20th of October. Anyone interested in taking part should write to Mrs. Earle Wheeler, Chairman or Mrs. H. Aaser, President of the Auxiliary.

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Perham Health invites all area women to its annual Just for Women wellness night on Tuesday, October 16. The event is free and features ex-perts on a variety of hot top-ics specifi c to women’s health and will take place from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. at New Creation Church, 295 West Coney Street, Perham.

Over 25 booths and screen-ings will be offered from 5:00 to 6:15 p.m., including educa-tion on disease management, heart attack and stroke aware-ness and prevention, urinary incontinence, osteoporosis, hypertension, and immuni-zations, to name just a few. Relax with a massage offered by Perham Health massage therapists. A light meal will be available during this time as well.

From 6:15 to 7:00 p.m, a panel of Perham Health medi-

cal providers will answer the frequently asked questions they hear from women. Sitting on the panel will be Dr. Joshua Chapman, Dr. Andrea Westby, Dr. Sonja Lien, and Dr. Tim Studer.

Back by popular demand to Just for Women is keynote speaker Deadra Stanton. Stan-ton entertained attendees at the fi rst Just for Women event four years ago and has been requested back ever since. She will entertain her audience with her presentation titled, Fines Double in Road Con-struction. If this year’s presen-tation is anything like her fi rst, you will not want to miss it.

Just for Women is free to attend but your registration is appreciated. You may register at tracy.hendrickx@perham-health.org or call (218) 347-1303. Come enjoy an evening just for women.

Perham Health hosts Just for Women wellness

LAST WEEK’S NEWS:On Tuesday morning, ‘GPA

Lanes’ was busy, with Jew-ell Dockter (2), Dottie Clark (3), Russ Johnson (5), Edna Berttunen (6), Peter Siltala (5), Verna Allebach (5), Arme Wiita (2), Norma Pederson (1) and Bea Schwartz, along with Martha Hepokoski (1), Don Markkula (1), Ron Hagen (1), Ellen Santi, Melvin Botsford (4), Irene Miska (3), Florence Lillquist (2) and Don Miller (1) doing their best to keep the crew ‘hopping’.

Tuesday afternoon brought a church service, shared by Rev. Hannu of Spruce Grove Apos-tolic Lutheran Church (thank you).

Therapeutic music in the morning and equally-enter-taining music by the group, ‘Slim Pickins’ (thank you) was enjoyed by many, Wednesday. After ‘coffee time’, some ap-preciated hearing the area’s newspapers being read.

Visiting early in the week were Alice Kako, Judy Maan-

inga and Jenni Maaninga, who came to chat with Arlene Seik-kula, and Shirley Koskiniemi, a guest of Jennie and Elaine Sakkinen.

Thursday morning brought the Catholic Mass, which we thank Fr. Arlie Sowada for. Crafters were busy, that after-noon, painting ‘pumpkins’ and making things for their foster grandchildren. Stamp-cutting volunteers got busy, still later, benefi ting military veterans.

Evelyn Wilcox enjoyed chatting with her sister Shir-ley Schmitt of Park Rapids on Thursday. Also that day, Ma-vis Kussatz and Ellen Ruona called on Arlene Seikkula.

While other residents crafted and made fall decorations, Cy Nelson, Irene Konshok, Melvin Botsford, Marvin King, Ray Stopka, Betty Liimatta, Rose Taylor, Signe Johnson, Ellen Santi toured the Menahga area, observing the colorful foliage. A second group headed for the Wolf Lake hills, where Charlie Hasbargen, Edna Berttunen, Delores Schultz, Irene Miska, Aili Bohjanen, Marvin Ander-son and Ellie Taylor experi-enced the sights on Friday.

We are saddened by the loss of friends, this week. Our con-dolences go out to the families of Rosa Maninga, a friend of the past seventeen months, Robert Stoll, whom we got to know over the past fi fteen months, and a newer friend, Maxine Makela, whom we got reacquainted with back in August. Rosa passed away on Tuesday and Bob and Maxine passed on over the weekend. We’ll miss them.

Joan Hasbargen helped the staff run the Bingo games on Wednesday and Satur-day. Thanks, Joan. Saturday afternoon was spent crafting Halloween bags for the foster grandchildren and painting of other projects.

Mary Salmonson was wished well, Saturday, after recover-ing with us for a short time. We wished Maxine Kimer well this Monday as she headed for home.

Popcorn and a movie greeted those venturing to the activity room, Sunday morning. The afternoon was spent quietly, unless you were a Vikings fan experiencing their win.

Visiting on the weekend:

Connie Strandquist of Hawley and Shirley Koskiniemi called on Jennie and Elaine Sakki-nen. Alice Kako stopped in to visit with Arlene Seikkula (Fri-day, too), Betty Liimatta had a nice weekend with daughter; Roxanne Lindberg, of New Brighton; and Len and Dolo-res Hotakainen were here from Gilbert, visiting with Reuben Stierna and John Bankord.

* * *THIS WEEK’S NEWS:

A quiet Monday saw people receiving manicures, drinking coffee, watching the televised Catholic Mass on TV and tak-ing part in a Bible study ses-sion.

Tuesday’s kickball game drew a large number of par-ticipants, while the afternoon activities of church services (thank you, Reverend Bruer of First English Lutheran) and trivia and other games drew similar numbers of people.

Hazel Chambers enjoyed visiting with Julie Pagni of Portland, Oregon and Kathy Pagni of King City, Oregon on Tuesday.

Church services provided by Runeberg Apostolic Lutheran Church were appreciated by those attending Wednesday afternoon. Staff read aloud the local ‘rags’ for those interested in listening, later.

Thursday brought out the table beachball players in the morning and those good at cut-ting stamps and crafting dur-ing the afternoon.

Marilyn Allison stopped in to chat with George Bittman on Thursday.

Don Miller (2), Don Mark-kula (2), Ron Hagen (2), Ellen Santi, Mary Lou McDonald (1), Jennie Sakkinen (6), Ellen Santi (1), Elaine Sakkinen (1) and Florence Lillquist, along with Norma Pederson (1), Jew-ell Dockter, Dottie Clark, Peter Siltala (5), Hazel Dormanen (2) and Dale Robbins (2) tested their skills in bowling on Fri-day morning .

That afternoon the Resident Council held their monthly meeting and, still later, people gathered to reminisce.

George Bittman of Park Rapids (Tuesday), Arlene Anttila of Menahga (Friday) and Myron Vallier of Conifer, Colorado (Saturday) were wel-comed to GPA recently.

Wished well upon her dis-charge to home on Friday was Elsie Pickar.

The bingo games on Wednes-day and Saturday were helped along by Joan Hasbargen (both days) and Arlette Markkula (Saturday). Thank you, ladies.

Action at Saturday after-noon’s table beachball game was exciting, at times, for those playing.

Sunday morning brought out the movie watchers and those appreciating therapeutic mu-sic. That afternoon, those at-tending church services thank Reverend Smith of Menahga Assembly of God Church for sharing.

Shirley Koskiniemi called on Jennie and Elaine Sakkinen on Wednesday and Sunday. Also on Sunday, Mavis Kussatz paid a visit to Arlene Seikkula.

We’re looking forward to Wednesday’s visit by “The Polka DJ.” The music starts at 1:30 p.m.

GPA NewsBY TOM ELLINGSON

GPA News BY TOM ELLINGSON

GPA NewsBY TOM

ELLINGSON

Kangas named CLC registrar

Michelle Kangas

ued member of the Records and Registration Department for nearly a decade and part of our college community for the past 19 years,” said Beth Adams, CLC dean of stu-dents. Kangas began her new assignment at the community and technical college on Sep-tember 26.

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Zach Feldman graduated from Eagan High School on June 2, 2012. Congratula-tions, Zach.

Love, Grandpa Marv Mey-ers of Menahga and the late Lila Jane Meyers 10-10pd

Zach Feldman graduates

MS SupportGroup meets

The Park Rapids Area Mul-tiple Sclerosis Support Group will meet Wednesday, October 17, (the third Wednesday of the month) from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. They meet at the St. Joseph’s Area Health Services, 600 Pleasant Ave, in Park Rapids. This month’s topic will be “Working for me: Research in understanding and treating progressive MS.”

Disease progression is one of the most frustrating and elusive aspects of multiple sclerosis. What causes MS to get worse? Who is likely to have a more progessive course and why? What can be done to slow its progression?

Anyone affected by MS is invited to join the support group to watch a DVD pro-gram featuring scientists and clinicians who are working to fi nd answers to these ques-tions and more.

Any questions contact De-nise Pederson at (763) 350-6957 or pedersondenise@gmail.com, or Susan Monsrud at (218) 237-2067 or sjm@ar-vig.net.