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y Tim King
The Todd County 4-H Horse
evelopment Committee
ceived approval from the Todd
ounty Board of Commissioners
accept a $3,888.00 grant from
he Minnesota Horse Council at
he commissioner's Tuesday
ebruary 16 meeting.
The money will be used to
mprove the safety in the horse
arns at the Todd County Fair
rounds, Nancy Becker, spokeserson for the Horse
evelopment Committee, told
mmissioners. The primary
mprovement will be to fill the
orse stalls in the barns. The
oors have been compacted over
he years and now are eight to
n inches below grade, accord-
g to Becker. She said filling the
alls would create a healthier
nvironment for the horses and a
afer environment for horse own-
s. It will also make the horses
ore visible to Todd County fair
oers.
The money will also be used to
mprove external lighting for theorse exposition arena.
mproved lighting will increase
oth safety and accessibility to
he arena, said Becker.
Commissioner Ruda support-
d accepting the grant because it
ade the facility more usable.
The arena and barns are used
y 4-H members, Prairie Dusters
addle Club, and Todd County
heriff's Posse, as well as the
eneral public during fair time.
ecker told commissioners the
osse, 4-H Horse Council, and
innesota Power and Light are
ssisting the project financially.
he asked commissioners if theunty would help by providing
he fill for the stalls.
Commissioner Kircher asked
er to determine how much fill
as needed and to bring that
formation back to the board.
010 LEGISLATIVE POSITIONS
Commissioners passed a reso-
tion containing nine legislative
riorities they will urge area leg-
lators to support. Priorities
clude asking legislators to sup-
ort the creation of a committee
study potential revisions to
he Minnesota ditch law, support
he inclusion of funding for the
erham garbage incinerator inhe bonding bill, and to act to
elay the implementation of new
eptic system rules by the
innesota Pollution Control
gency.
Commissioners Kneisl and
eumann attended a legislative
bonding hearing on February 17
with the purpose of lobbying for
Perham incinerator bonding
assistance. They also attended a
hearing on the new septic system
rules. Commissioner Ruda said
the Todd County Board of
Commissioners will continue to
engage in discussions with the
legislature directly as well as
through the Association of
Minnesota Counties and the
Minnesota Rural CountiesCaucus.
This is the first time the Todd
County Board of Commissioners
has developed legislative policies
and actively pursued them
though lobbying.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
GRANT
Commissioners voted to accept
a $5,600 grant, from the U.S.
Department of Homeland
Security, for the purpose of creat-
ing a hazard mitigation plan.
County Administer Burkett said
the plan is a mandate and,
because of that, it is difficult to
merge with other plans preparedby the county.
ZONING
Commissioners approved a
conditional use permit, and pre-
liminary plat, that will allow
Phillip Stueve to start a body
shop and sales lot for repairable
vehicles in Round Prairie
Township. The new business will
be south of Long Prairie, near
Midway Gas Station, on
Highway 71. Steuve said his
business will include auto body
and frame repair as well as a
sales lot with twenty to thirty
repairable vehicles for sale.
SOLID WASTECommissioners agreed to join
a joint powers authority with
Otter Tail, Becker, and Wadena
Counties to manage the Perham
incinerator. The new joint pow-
ers authority will be called
Prairie Lakes Municipal Solid
Waste Authority.
While supporting the joint
powers board agreement,
Administrator Burkett warned
commissioners they were dele-
gating part of the decision mak-
ing authority of the Todd County
Board of Commissioners to the
Prairie Lakes Municipal Solid
Waste Authority. He said thecommissioners will now have to
share decision-making authority,
regarding the incinerator, with
the other counties.
In a separate action, commis-
sioners voted to remove Tim
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Early Intervention into Reading
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W EEKLY W EATHER REPORT
75¢Commissioners vote to
remove Solid Waste Director
Pictured in front, left to right, are the 2010 Todd County Dairy Princesses: Tracy Perish,
Megan Middendorf, Tiffany Hulinsky, and Emma Motl.
In the back are the 2010 Todd County Junior Dairy Ambassadors: Tayah Smith, Kim
Blommel, Deandra Lunemann, Rachel Perish, Samantha Salber, Sarah Paskewitz, and
Brenda Rausch. Not pictured: Rachel Stoterau, who was ill and unable to attend.
The Browerville first, second and third grade classrooms have implemented EIR into their read-
ing program this year. EIR stands for Early Intervention into Reading. The program is used in con- junction with their current program. EIR helps children who are struggling in reading and yet do
not qualify for other services. EIR is an intervention, so it helps teach children the basic skills which
they may not have yet mastered. The program gives children the basic skills that help develop them
into successful readers. EIR works on finding strategies that help students read. They use many dif-
ferent strategies to help them become better readers. EIR has been effective because the reading is at
a level where children can be successful.
Continued on page 20.