Vol. 112 No. 9 • Thursday, February 14, 2013 • Silver Lake, MN 55381

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Silver Lake Leader photo by Alyssa Schauer

This Sunday, Feb. 17, at the HutchinsonHigh School, the Phoenix Drumline will beperforming at 1p.m. Three of the members

are Silver Lakeites, including Ivy Nunvar(left) and Erik Ramgren. Missing was KyleTotusek Guetter.

By Alyssa SchauerStaff Writer

Imagine a bright highschool gymnasium —the bleachers filled with

students, parents and grand-parents — and instead of bas-ketball players or wrestlers, agroup of teenagers walk outonto the court, sporting drumbarrels over their shouldersand holding wooden drum-sticks upright in their hands.

The gym is silent, until thelead shouts, “One! Two!Three!” and soon the room isechoing with rhythmic beats,gong rings and melodicchimes — familiar sounds ofthe Phoenix Drumline.

On Sunday, Feb. 17, onecan turn this imagination intoa reality at Hutchinson HighSchool, where the PhoenixDrumline is hosting its an-nual “Distant Drums” show,featuring other area drum-lines.

“The drumline is knownfor its summer marching unitthat performs from Junethrough August in a varietyof parade routes throughoutthe area, including Hutchin-son, Maynard, Silver Lake,Litchfield, Glencoe, Olivia,and Hector. This DistantDrums show is part of theirwinter competition,” Laurie

McCleskey, coordinator ofthe Phoenix Drumline said.

McCleskey added that thedrumline also participates incommunity events such asRelay for Life and McLeodCounty and Renville CountyFairs.

“The drumline has alsoperformed at the MinnesotaState Fair,” McCleskeyadded.

The Phoenix Drumlinebegan as the dream of agroup of drummers fromHutchinson High School,who wanted to organize acompetitive drumline.

McClesky said the drum-line’s first competitive seasonbegan in January 1994 afterthe state of Minnesota issueda “certificate of incorpora-tion.”

Today, the drumline is op-erated by the Crow RiverDrumline Association, and anumber of parent volunteers,and consists of membersfrom Hutchinson and the sur-rounding areas, including Sil-ver Lake, where drumlinemembers Kyle Totusek Guet-ter, Erik Ramgren, and IvyNunvar reside.

“I was in marching bandbefore joining the PhoenixDrumline, and thought it’d befun,” Ramgren said.

Ramgren, 18, a senior atHutchinson High School, saidhe has been a member sincelast year, and has enjoyedbeing “part of the drumlinefamily.”

Nunvar, 15, a sophomore atHutchinson High School, saidshe joined because she “al-ways had liked music.

“I was pretty good at keep-ing a beat, so I thought I’djoin the drumline,” she said.

At the Silver Lake Busi-ness Expo held in January,the Drumline performed its“new” songs for the wintercompetition season.

“Our instructors wrotepretty cool music this year.I’m excited to perform thesongs,” Ramgren said.

“Being in the drumline islike being a part of a family,”Nunvar said.

“It feels so good to do re-ally well on the drums. It getsme hyped up for perform-ances,” she added.

Ramgren is the son of Scottand Barb Ramgren, and Nun-var is the daughter of Boband Joy Nunvar, all of SilverLake.

The Distant Drums show isset for this Sunday, Feb. 17 atthe Hutchinson High School,starting at 1 p.m.

Local drummers readyto perform at Hutch High3 Phoenix Drumline members from Silver Lake

By Rich GlennieEditor

The Glencoe-Silver LakeSchool Board on Mondaynight approved an easementrequest by the city of SilverLake on a portion of theschool’s Lakeside footballfield.

Silver Lake City ClerkKerry Venier said the ease-ment is required in order to re-construct Grove Avenue fromHighway 7 south to CountyRoad 2.

The easement is for the in-stallation of utilities next to

the football field.A second, temporary ease-

ment on the same propertywould remove and replace thefencing on the entire east sideof the football field.

Venier said the $2.5 millionreconstruction project is abouta half mile in length and isbeing done in conjunction withthe county. The work includesupgrading underground utili-ties and total reconstruction ofthe roadway.

In the past, Venier said,these easement agreementswere usually done with ahandshake, but nowadays,

they must be formallyrecorded.

The project also includedmaking the intersection atMerrill Street and Grove Av-enue near the football fieldmore “pedestrian friendly” forstudents and the public.

The aim is to include a side-walk from Lakeside Elemen-tary east to the football field,Venier said, and it ties in withthe city’s comprehensive planof “making Silver Lake morepedestrian friendly” with addi-tional sidewalks.

Venier said the reconstruc-tion work is expected to start

in June and wrap up in earlySeptember.

During that period, the offi-cial detour coming from Glen-coe will be on County Road 2north to County Road 22 eastto County Road 15 and thennorth to Highway 7. The planswill not affect the one-waystreet in front of Lakeside Ele-mentary.

Board member Jamie Al-sleben thanked Venier and theSilver Lake City Council forcommunicating with theschool board and for partner-ing “to benefit the city and theschool.”

Board member Donna Von-Berge asked Venier what hap-pens if the construction goeslonger; if so, can GSL accessthe football field when thefootball season starts? Orshould the district considerother options?

Venier said the field will beaccessible. The infrastructurework will be done first, hesaid, and then filled withgravel before the concrete ispoured sometime in August.

But if there are delays, thegravel base will remain andwill allow access to the foot-ball field, Venier said.

Kiddingly, Venier said it willprobably be a good year forfarmers and gardeners “and itwill probably rain a lot.”

Venier said the reconstruc-tion work will start on thenorth end, and street may betorn up all at once. There alsowill be work on the south end,where the concrete surface ofCounty Road 2 ends north tothe city limits and Grove Av-enue.

It is hoped to be able to laydown the concrete final sur-face all at one time, Veniersaid.

GSL grants easement for Grove Street work

Silver Lake City Council

Regular MeetingFeb. 19, 2013

(Note date change due to holiday)6:30 p.m.

Agenda

Call to order:Approve agenda:Consent agenda:1. Approve minutes of the Jan. 22 regular meeting.2. Approve payroll No. 2 and January Ambulance.3. Claims to be paid:Old business:1. Update on Grove Avenue/CSAH 2 reconstruction proj-ect. New business:1. Update on McLeod County Solid Waste operations.2. One-day on-sale liquor application for American Le-gion for March 10.Department Business:1. Liquor Store2. Public Safety3. Public Works4. Community Development5. AdministrationOpen discussion:

School Board OKs Great Britain tripBy Rich GlennieEditor

The Glencoe-Silver LakeSchool gave its approval to an-other trip abroad for BreaWiblemo and her social stud-ies students at the end of the2014-15 school year. This timethe trip will be to GreatBritain.

Wiblemo said the 10-daytrip will include 10 to 12 stu-dents as a minimum and twochaperones. The emphasis ofthe trip is British literature andShakespeare, as well as thehistory of England and itsmonrachy.

Students will pay approxi-mately $3,485 each, and therewill be two years to work toearn the money and to do fundraising.

Wiblemo said the studentswill be required to do curricu-lum work before and duringthe trip, and make a presenta-tion to the school board ontheir return.

There will be no cost to theschool district, Wiblemo em-phasized.

In other matters, the School

Board:• Approved its pay equity

compliance report to the stateOffice of Management andBudget. Business ManagerMichelle Sander said the dis-trict is in compliance.

• Received certificates of ap-preciation from Superintend-ent Chris Sonju thanking themin recognition of School BoardRecognition Week, Feb. 18-22.

• Heard Winterfest activitiesat the high school will be Feb.19-22.

• Heard the seventh-gradefield trip to the Twin Cities onFeb. 21 will be in two parts.The first will be a trip to helpwith Feed My Hungry Chil-dren, followed by a trip to seethe Body World exhibition.

• Heard the region sciencefair is set for Saturday, Feb. 16.

• Heard that the MathCounts team of Jordan Brei-denbach, Jacob Fehrenbach,Connor Heuer, Cora Kuras,Marisa Luchsinger, Rachel Re-ichow, Dini Schweikert, KatieTwiss, Jacob Vasek and EricVillow competed at the regionFeb. 1.

• Heard the one-act play“Medea” finished in the upperhalf of the section competitionafter finishing second at thesubsection.

• Granted family leave re-quests for Suzanne Magnuson,high school counselor, TinaSchauer, community educa-tion/field house director, andJessica Neid, health assistant athigh school.

• Approved Mike Sundbladas the head coach of the firstRobotics program and DougFegley as the head coach of thenew trap shooting program.

• Accepted the resignation ofGreg Fleck as a special educa-tion paraprofessional at Lake-side Elementary, effective Feb.19.

• Accepted the following do-nations:

Silver Lake Lions Club,$200 for the Robotics pro-gram.

Glencoe American LegionPost 95, $200 for the Roboticsprogram.

Glencoe American LegionPost 95, $400 for the Close Upprogram.

Silver Lake Lions Club,$1,000 for a trip abroad.

Stevens Seminary, $6,600for the Close Up program.

Plato American Legion Post641, $2,000 for the Close Upprogram.

GSL Panther Boosters Club,$6,351.38 for the fall activitiestrainer.

Bump’s Family Restaurant,$250 for a trip abroad.

Eileen Popelka, $250 for atrip abroad.

Brownton Lions Club, $150for the junior high Quest pro-gram.

Glencoe VFW Post 5102,$500 for the trap shooting pro-gram.

Silver Lake Civic Associa-tion, $500 for the Close Upprogram.

Glencoe Regional HealthServices, $500 for communityeducation programs.

Seneca, $500 for the CloseUp program.

• Set the next GSL SchoolBoard meeting for 7 p.m.,Monday, March 11, in Room124 at Lincoln Junior High.

Glencoe-Silver Lake HighSchool’s 2013 Triple A nomi-nees are seniors AlexandraStensvad and Eric Thalmann.They will compete with otherTriple A winners for the rightto advance to the state compe-tition in Class A and Class AAand a chance at a four-year$1,000 scholarship.

Stensvad, daughter ofDuane and Roxanne Stensvadof Silver Lake, will attendSouth Dakota State University,where she plans to major inpre-pharmacy.

At GSL, Stensvad is a mem-ber of the National Honor So-ciety, girls’ basketball team,band and choir. She also wasthe manager for the girls’ soc-cer team and tutors junior highstudents in the morning at Lin-coln Junior High School.

Stensvad has been involvedin Science Fair since the fifthgrade, winning many awardsand a state fair trip in all butone of those years.

In the seventh grade, she dida service project for theMcLeod Alliance for Victimsof Domestic Abuse and hascontinued this project everyyear.

Last year and again thisyear, Stensvad has painted oldchairs to be sold as gardenchairs to help raise money forthe Alliance. Two of her chairswill be at the alliance’s bowl-ing fund raiser, and the restwill be sold at the alliancegarage sale in April.

Stensvad, along with fourothers, will have her seniorpiano recital at ChristLutheran Church. She hasbeen taking piano lessonssince the fourth grade.

She also ushers and is a

reader at church.Thalmann, son of Brian and

Karen Thalmann of Plato,plans to attend the Universityof St. Thomas with an in-tended degree in either mathe-matics or actuary science.

Thalmann has equally im-pressive credentials as a four-year participant in band andchoir and as a four-year athletein football, basketball andbaseball.

He has been a two-yearmember of student govern-ment and is a two-year mem-ber of the National HonorSociety.

He also has participated inthe Business Professionals ofAmerica (BPA) competition asa junior and placed first in thestate in the basic office sys-tems and procedures.

Thalmann also placed 15thout of 431 in the open event fi-nancial math and analysis and22nd out of 400 in parlimen-tary procedure at the NationalBPA convention in Chicago.

Active in Future Farmers ofAmerica (FFA) since the ninthgrade, Thalmann has partici-pated in the crops competition.

He also was selected as aGSL chapter officer as a soph-

omore and continued throughhis senior year.

Thalmann competed at thestate FFA convention eachyear in high school.

As an eighth grader, Thal-mann was named the JennyResch Memorial Scholarshiprecipient to one student whoshowed outstanding achieve-ments in the classroom, com-munity and character.

The Triple A state winnerswill be honored at the boys’state basketball tournament inMarch.

Page 2 — Silver Lake Leader, Thursday, February 14, 2013

StaffBill and Joyce Ramige, Publishers;

Rich Glennie, Editor; Brenda Fogarty,Sales; Alyssa Schauer, Staff Writer/Of-fice.

LettersThe Silver Lake Leader welcomes let-ters from readers expressing theiropinions. All letters, however, must besigned. Private thanks, solicitationsand potentially libelous letters will notbe published. We reserve the right toedit any letter.A guest column is also available to anywriter who would like to present anopinion in a more expanded format. Ifinterested, contact the editor,richg@glencoenews.com.

EthicsThe editorial staff of the Silver Lake

Leader strives to present the news in afair and accurate manner. We appreci-ate errors being brought to our atten-tion. Please bring any grievancesagainst the Silver Lake Leader to theattention of the editor. Should differ-ences continue, readers are encour-aged to take their grievances to theMinnesota News Council, an organi-zation dedicated to protecting the pub-lic from press inaccuracy andunfairness. The News Council can becontacted at 12 South Sixth St., Suite940, Minneapolis, MN 55402, or(612) 341-9357.

Press FreedomFreedom of the press is guaranteed

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Ben Franklin wrote in the Pennsyl-vania Gazette in 1731: “If printers weredetermined not to print anything tillthey were sure it would offend nobodythere would be very little printed.”

Deadline for news and advertisingin the Silver Lake Leader is noon,Tuesday. Deadline for advertising inThe Galaxy is noon Wednesday.

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Plato Fish Fry set for FridayThe 61st-annual fish fry, sponsored by the Plato Fire De-

partment Relief Association, will be held at the Plato Com-munity Hall Friday, Feb. 15, beginning at 3 p.m. The menuincludes fish, potato salad, potato chips, baked beans,bread, pickles, bars, coffee and milk. Take-out ordersavailable.

Legion meeting set Feb. 18The Silver Lake American Legion will have its monthly

meeting at Silver Lake American Legion Post 141 onMonday, Feb. 18, at 7 p.m.

Intro to Medicare is offeredThe Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging®, Inc., will

be teaching an introductory class on Medicare. If you aregetting close to age 65, new to Medicare or just want in-formation about benefits, this class is for you. The classwill be held at the Hutchinson Senior Center, 1005 Hwy.15 S, Suite 15, Hutchinson, on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 1p.m. For more details and to reserve a seat, contact AshleyRonglien at 1-800-333-2433, extension 82024.

Senior dining birthday partyThe Silver Lake senior dining site will hold its February

birthday party on Thursday, Feb. 14. There will be musicat 10:15 a.m. and bingo at 11 a.m. The menu includes roastturkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, stuffing,cranberry garnish, and angel food cake with strawberries.Call Manager Pearl Branden to order your meal at 320-327-2536 or 320-327-2621.

‘Singing Valentine’ program The McLeod County Historical Museum is hosting a

“Singing Valentine” fund raiser Thursday, Feb. 14, from 9a.m. to 5 p.m. For just a $50 donation to the McLeodCounty Historical Society, you can send a song and a roseto your loved one on Valentine’s Day. For questions, call320-587-2109 or e-mail at asa@hutchtel.net.

GSL FFA ‘Barnyard Day’ setThe Glencoe-Silver Lake FFA Chapter is hosting a

“Barnyard Day” on Tuesday, Feb. 19, from 9 a.m. to 2p.m., at the Glencoe-Silver Lake High School in Ag Room341. Come see cows, horses, chickens, sheep, and muchmore.

Classical Gas duo performsClassical Gas will perform on Thursday, Feb. 21, at 7

p.m., in the Glencoe-Silver Lake Auditorium as part of theGlencoe Area Performing Artists Concert Series. The vio-linist and pianist combine to offer a show that is a little bitJack Benny, Fritz Kreisler, Victor Borge and Abbot andCostello. Sure to delight all audiences, it will leave yousmiling and warmed with a show encompassing manystyles of musical entertainment.

Lions meeting set Feb. 21The Silver Lake Lions will meet on Thursday, Feb. 21,

at 7 p.m., for a dinner meeting in the Silver Lake AmericanLegion Club Rooms.

Upcoming Events

The Silver Lake Senior Cit-izens Club met Monday, Feb.11, at the Silver Lake Audito-rium.

President Genny Lhotkacalled the meeting to order,followed by the Pledge of Al-legiance.

There were 27 regular mem-bers present and two newmembers, Gary and KathyKaczmarek, and one guest,Carol Navratil.

February birthdays wereSam Shimanski, Alma Og-itzak, Adam Kaspryzk, BenLewandowski, Aggie Fiecke,Roger Lhotka, Dan Tschim-

perle and Yvonne Urban. Lunch committee for the

March meeting includes SamShimanski, Genny Lhotka,Betty Vejrosta and YvonneUrban.

31 winners: Yvonne Urbanand Alma Ogitzak.

500 winners: AdamKaspryzk, Mary Jaskowiak,Martha Wilkins, Milton To-tusek, Genny Lhotka, DallasEhrke, Joanne Victorian, Mar-garet Benz, Alice Paul andBernie Kaczmarek.

The next meeting is set forMonday, March 11, at 1 p.m.in the Silver Lake Auditorium.

Two new members joinSilver Lake Seniors Club

Each Wednesday night, be-ginning Feb. 13, during theLenten season, Grace BibleChurch in Silver Lake willhost a 5 p.m. soup supper(free-will offering) served bymembers of the Living WaterPuppets team.

The meal will be followedby a 7 p.m. church service.This year’s Lenten theme is“Fear Not!” and will involve

an examination of selected in-dividuals or situations in theBible when God told His peo-ple to not be afraid.

Speakers will include vari-ous members of the churchboard.

The public is invited to at-tend. Grace Bible Church islocated in Silver Lake at 300Cleveland St., next to the citywater tower.

Lenten services, soup suppersbegin at Grace Bible Church

Silver Lake Leader photo by Rich Glennie

The 2013 Triple A (Academics, Arts andAthletics) award selections at Glencoe-Sil-

ver Lake High School are AlexandraStensvad and Eric Thalmann.

Stensvad, Thalmann GSL’s Triple A nominees

Collection sites needed for food drive challenge Plans are under way for next

month’s fifth-annual McLeodFood Drive Challenge, whichis designed to assist theMcLeod Emergency FoodShelf with efforts to feed thehungry in McLeod County.

The Glencoe Area Chamberof Commerce, HutchinsonArea Chamber of Commerce,Lester Prairie Business Asso-ciation, Winsted Chamber ofCommerce and Silver LakeBusiness Association are spon-soring this friendly challenge

with a goal of raising morethan 100,000 pounds of dona-tions during the month ofMarch.

Based on the per capita chal-lenge, Plato won last year’schallenge by collecting nearly16 pounds per resident. SilverLake claimed second placewith roughly 5-1/2 pounds do-nated per resident. Close be-hind in third place wasGlencoe with an average offive pounds donated per resi-dent.

In total, McLeod Countybusinesses and residents do-nated 20,000 more pounds in2012 compared to the previousyear.

Donations collected duringMarch are matched by Min-nesota Food Share Network,making this a critical time torestock the shelves at the localfood shelf.

Businesses and organiza-tions wanting to participate asa collection site for the upcom-ing challenge should contact

the Glencoe Area Chamber ofCommerce or the McLeodFood Shelf.

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Bustos jury trialbegins Feb. 19

Jury selection began Mon-day for the David Bustos trial,set to begin Tuesday, Feb. 19,in McLeod County DistrictCourt.

Bustos, of Silver Lake, hasbeen charged with two countsof murder in the February2012 alleged stabbing death ofDomingo Limon at her homein Glencoe.

A pool of 68 potential jurorsappeared before JudgeMichael Savre Monday after-noon, who outlined their re-sponsibilities as jurors.

Three potential juror candi-dates were eliminated Mondayafternoon, one of whom is thespouse of a potential witness,and two of whom are McLeodCounty employees. McLeodCounty Attorney Mike Junge,who is prosecuting the case,said he gives legal advice tothe two county employees on aregular basis.

The remaining jurors filledout questionnaires Monday af-ternoon, and on Tuesday begana one-on-one questioning ofeach potential juror.

Savre said he intends to seat16 jurors, 12 as trial jurors andfour as alternates. Savre alsosaid jury selection could takethree to four days, and the trialitself could last four to sixdays.

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I always forget about thisdelicious season between win-ter and spring: Girl ScoutCookie sales!

The familiar white boxsealed with a Girl Scoutspatch, labeled “Media Kit,” ar-rived in the mail last week andseeing the free boxes of ThinMints and the caramel, co-conut Samoas as I tore openthe box was a great way tokick off the season!

Of course, my collection hasgrown with co-workers bring-ing in sales forms for theirdaughters and my little neigh-bors knocking at my door, andsince I can’t turn down sweets,my kitchen table is filled withred boxes of peanut butterTag-A-Longs, green boxes ofThin Mints, purple boxes ofSamoas, and orange boxes ofDo-Si-Do cookies.

I have my very own rain-bow! And no space to pack mylunches with the colorful tow-ers of cookies stacked in pilesall over my wooden table.

As I munch on my crispychocolate Thin Mints andwipe the crumbs from myface, I can’t help but remem-ber my time as a Girl Scout.

Yes, for a couple of years, Iwas a Brownie and before Iknew it, I earned my greensash, became a “Junior,” andreligiously read the Junior GirlScout Badge Handbook, coverto cover, studying the differentbadges I could earn.

The most memorable expe-riences I have in earningbadges was when I tooknightly EMT classes with mymom in order to receive thefirst aid badge, and when Itook a camping trip with othergirl scouts and a few chaper-ones, including my dad, inSturgeon Bay.

Attending EMT classes as afourth-grader was a little scaryfor me. First of all, when Ilearned that you have to domouth-to-mouth for CPR, I

was grossed out and hoped Inever had to use it, especiallyon those icky boys at school.

It took awhile for me toeven practice on the plasticdummy, but eventually, Ilearned that saving a life was-n’t about mouth-to-mouth, anda few weeks later, I got overhaving “cooties” and I wascertified!

But naturally, earning thecamping badge was more funand I will never forget my first“woodland” camping experi-ence. I can thank my Dad forthat.

Our Girl Scouts team, con-sisting of about six girls,headed to Sturgeon Bay for anovernight camping trip, andDad joined our group as achaperone with two othermoms.

My mom just had babybrother Mitchell, so of course,she was home taking care ofhim, leaving Dad to fill in the“motherly” duty of joining meon my camping trip.

The weekend was filledwith swimming, fishing, mak-ing beaded bracelets, sleepingin a giant tent in the woodsand joining in on a NativeAmerican Pow Wow dancearound a large, flaming bon-fire.

The camping experiencewas memorable, not becauseof the Pow Wow, but becauseof the “big bear” patrolling thewoods and scaring Girl Scoutcampers.

After the campfire, we allheaded back to the tent

through the dim, shadow-ywoods, arm-in-arm, on guardfor anything eerie to “pop” outand scare us.

We finally made it to thetent, and began situating oursleeping bags, when I felt asudden movement, as the tentshook violently back andforth. I dropped the flashlightinto my sleeping bag andscreamed as loud as I could.

Then I heard the comfortingvoice of my Dad outside thetent and ask “Are you girlsok?”

We told him about the tentshaking and he said he'd takea look around. He reportedback that bears were suppos-edly seen in the area, and thathe found nothing outside thetent, but that he'll keep"watch" as he sits around thecampfire.

I could hear his footstepsgrow distant and that’s when Iheard the low growling out-side the tent. We girlsscreamed again and grabbedthe flashlight to look for shad-ows along the sides of the tent.Nothing was found, but thetent started to shake again andwe all screamed as my dadpulled back the door andstarted howling with laughter.

There’s a reason Dads aren’tinvited on Girl Scout campingtrips.

As I think about my time asa Girl Scout, that experiencemakes me laugh, and I mustsay, I’ve become really goodat growling like a bear. Toobad there isn't a badge for that.

’Tis the season: for Scout cookies!

The Travel SectionBy Alyssa Schauer

Letter to the Editor

Teen dating violence awareness monthTo the Editor:

McLeod Alliance for Vic-tims of Domestic Violencerecognizes February as Na-tional Teen Dating ViolenceAwareness Month. This monthaims to bring attention to per-vasive teen dating violenceand what communities andparents can do to recognizeand end it.

There are a number of warn-ing signs that parents may en-counter when their teen is inan abusive relationship.

Your child may have fewerfriends than before meeting adating partner, and may be iso-lated from friends, outside ac-tivities, and even family.

Parents may also noticeemotional changes in theirchild, including crying and

wanting to be alone.Another red flag is a partner

who constantly calls or textsyour teen, demanding to knowwho they are with and wherethey are. And although yourteen may be making excusesfor this behavior, don’t ignoreyour suspicions.

Experts believe that the bestapproach if you suspect vio-lence is to avoid a powerstruggle with your child, keeplines of communication open,and provide resources.

The National Teen DatingAbuse Helpline is a 24-hourhotline, specifically designedfor teens and young adults. Itoffers real-time, one-on-onesupport from trained peer ad-vocates. All communication isconfidential and anonymous.

It is accessible by phone at1-866-331-9474 or via the In-ternet at loveisrespect.org. Thewebsite provides additional re-sources for teens, parents,friends and family, peer advo-cates, government officials,law enforcement officials andthe general public.

I urge you to take a few mo-ments to visit loveisrespect.org so that you can be betterprepared to help your child ifthey need you to intervene.

If you would like more in-formation, please call McLeodAlliance at 320-234-7933.

Glynis VacekAdvocacy coordinator

McLeod Alliancefor Victims of Domestic

Violence

75 YEARS AGO - FEB. 12, 1938 — TheVillage Council voted to allot funds for the pur-chase of a powerful siren for the fire departmentand for installation with controls in the fire halland in the telephone office. The siren will bemounted on the water tower.

A Siren Benefit Dance, sponsored by the Sil-ver Lake Fire Department, will be held onValentine’s Day, Monday, Feb. 14. Music willbe furnished by Jerry Dostal and his Orchestra.Tickets are 40¢ and 10¢. Proceeds from thedance will be used to aid in the purchase of thenew fire siren.

The Farmers Produce Co., at its annual meet-ing held last Tuesday, reported another success-ful year with dividends being paid out. PeterWawrzyniak was elected to the board of direc-tors, replacing Stanley Pokorny. Will Zanda,John Schultz, Dana Lord, Dewey Born, LeoZanoth and Joseph Mickolichek were re-electedto their positions.

Mr. Morse of the University Farm will give ameat-cutting demonstration at Lowy’s FoodStore on Thursday morning, Feb. 17. A freelunch will be served at noon.

The Silver Lake Fire Department made a runon Monday afternoon to the Sylvester Mallakhome near the Dahlin Skimming Station to ex-tinguish a chimney fire.

Members of the Silver Lake unit of the 4-HClub and all boys and girls interested in joiningthe local club are asked to meet at the RichardPenaz home on Thursday evening, Feb. 17.

The Young Ladies Sodality of St. Adalbert’sChurch have organized a Glee Club under thedirection of Sister Albertine. They also starteda library with 30 books, which will be increasedto 100 by the Sodality.

The St. Martha’s Society of St. JosephChurch is sponsoring a card party on Sunday,Feb. 13. Admission is 25¢ which includes a freelunch.

Mrs. Frank Vacek, 69, died at her home inGlencoe on Jan. 30. Funeral services were heldon Tuesday morning, Feb. 1, at the St. GeorgeChurch in Glencoe.

50 YEARS AGO - FEB. 7, 1963 — Temper-atures are up in the 20s and 30s, but the thawingof the past few days has made for slippery driv-ing and walking.

The Pioneer Telephone Company of McLeodCounty presented the science class of SilverLake High School with two kits containing allmaterials for conducting operating experimentsfor energy from the sun and from sun to sound.

The Silver Lake Farmers Co-operative Live-stock Shipping Association will hold its annual

meeting on Saturday, Feb. 9, at the Silver LakeAuditorium. Election will be held to fill the ex-pired terms of directors Edward Hlavka andLeonard Fiala.

The senior class of Silver Lake High Schoolwill hold a pancake supper on Monday, Feb. 11,in the high school cafeteria. Tickets for the all-you-can-eat pancakes are $1 for adults and 50¢for children under 12.

The Silver Lake Fire Department made a runto the Esther and Marvin Eggert farm, northeastof Silver Lake, on Sunday night at about 8 o’-clock.

Edward Mallak has been named as clerk inthe county treasurer’s office.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Ruzicka observed theirgolden wedding anniversary on Sunday, Jan. 20,at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ruzicka.

Marie Artmann and Gerald Kaczmarek wereunited in marriage on Saturday, Dec. 29, at theChurch of the Holy Trinity in Winsted.

25 YEARS AGO - FEB. 11, 1988 — SilverLake Lions fund-raising chairmen, Stan Drahosand Joe Gehlen, announced their first fund-rais-ing effort for the Silver Lake Centennial in1989, a 30-30 Model 94 Winchester gold-trig-gered rifle with a hand carved scene of SilverLake. Chances for the rifle are $5. The tentativedate to award the rifle is Easter.

The Silver Lake City Council approved thelease between the city of Silver Lake, d/b/a Sil-ver Lake Municipal Liquor Store, and the SilverLake Lions Club for rental of space for the saleof games of chance from May 1, 1988, to April30, 1989.

Tuesday morning, at 4:50 a.m., the SilverLake Fire Department was called to a chimneyfire at the Ken Baumann farm.

The Pearl Nuwash Estate Auction will be heldon Thursday, Feb. 18, at the Silver Lake Audi-torium.

Frank W. Chrast, 74, passed away on Jan. 29,at a Las Vegas, Nev., hospital. Spring burial willtake place at St. Joseph’s Cemetery in SilverLake.

Frank D. Konerza, 99, passed away on Thurs-day, Feb. 4, at the Delano Nursing Home in De-lano. Funeral services were held on Sunday,Feb. 7, at the Czech Brethren PresbyterianChurch in Silver Lake.

Dr. Ben Wrbitzky, 94, passed away on Satur-day, Feb. 6, at the Hutchinson hospital. Funeralservices were held on Tuesday, Feb. 9, from theCongregational United Church, Hutchinson.

A daughter was born to Michael and KarenNavratil on Jan. 9.

Down Memory LaneCompiled by Margaret Benz

Silver Lake Leader photo by Rich Glennie

Pillars of CharacterSix Glencoe-Silver Lake High School stu-dents were selected as Pillars of Charterfor January. They included, front, from left,Piper Davis honored for responsibility,Taylor Zitur for responsibility, and Maria

Leon for caring and trustworthiness. In theback are Patrick Fehrenbach for responsi-bility and Laura Yetzer for caring. Missingwas Keenan Mehlos who was honored forfairness.

Ridgewaterhosts severalmulticulturalactivities

To celebrate cultural diver-sity, Ridgewater College stu-dents and staff continue toparticipate in several aware-ness activities during its an-nual Multicultural Month inFebruary. Several are open tothe public.

The next two weeks of ac-tivities are unique to eachcommunity.

Willmar campus events in-clude the following which areopen to the public:

• Thursday, Feb. 21, 11 a.m.,noon and 1 p.m., in the Con-ference Center: Watch the 45-minute film, “MinnesotaNice,” that captures real storiesfrom real Minnesota studentswho have experienced bully-ing and have bravely steppedforward to share their experi-ences. Discussion afterwardswill include guest conversa-tions with the film’s producer,Alex Fischer.

• Thursday, Feb. 28, 11 a.m.to 11:50 a.m., in the cafeteria:Shannan Paul, professionalspeaker and comedian, will ad-dress cultural sensitivity byusing personal anecdotes andreal situations to teach the au-dience how to not “be that per-son” who walks blindly into anawkward situation.

On the Hutchinson campus:• Wednesday, Feb. 20, 11

a.m., in the commons: Taste ofCulture is a MulticulturalMonth tradition whereby stu-dents and staff go on a gastro-nomic, tasteful journey bytasting many dishes frommany cultures.

• Wednesday, Feb. 28, 11a.m. to 11:50 a.m., in the Com-mons: Shannan Paul, profes-sional speaker and comedian,will address cultural sensitivityby using personal anecdotesand real situations to teach theaudience how to not “be thatperson” who walks blindlyinto an awkward situation.Open to the public.

For more information, con-tact the Ridgewater CollegeMulticultural Affairs DirectorEdel Fernandez at 320-222-5986 or edel.fernandez@ridgewater.edu.

Financial planning is thetopic of a five-session,evening series that began Feb.12 at Ridgewater College,Hutchinson campus.

“Take a walk through thestep-by-step process that willhelp you feel confident in yourfinancial decisions,” said JohnSanken of Navigator FinancialGroup. He will cover every-thing from estate planning andlong-term care to annuities.

Learn to develop your port-folio for now and for your fu-ture. Discover strategies tominimize estate taxes, learn todistinguish between variousannuities, and explore the lim-itations of Medicare and Med-icaid and how long-term careinsurance can help protect

against the risk of losing yourlife savings.

Sessions will run 6:30 p.m.to 8 p.m. on Tuesdays, Feb.26, March 26, and April 9 andApril 30. There is a per sessioncost per person or couple.

For more information or toregister, go to www.ridgewater.edu/customized and do asearch for Financial PlanningSeries.

Page 4 — Silver Lake Leader, Thursday, February 14, 2013

www.GlencoeNews.com

In Memory of

Frank Pavlishwho passed away

25 years ago on 2-14-88

In MemoriamHe wished no one a last

farewellNor even said goodbye.He was gone before

we knew itAnd only God knows why.They say time heals all

sorrowAnd helps us to forget.But time so far has only

proved how much we miss him yet.

Sadly missed byLarry; Duane & Diane;

and families*6La

In Memory of

Julia Pavlishwho passed away

one year ago on 2-15-12What would we give if we could day, Hello Mother, inthe same old way. To hearher voice, to see her smile.To sit with you and chat awhile. In tears we saw you

sinking, our hearts were almost broken. You foughtso hard to stay. But whenwe saw you sleeping sopeacefully free from all

pain; we could not wish youback again to suffer soagain, for your work on

earth is done. But you leftus to remember. There’s no

one who can take yourplace. You have gone where

we will follow and meetyou one by one.

Sadly missed byLarry; Duane & Diane;

and families*6La

Be Safe Little One...

now that you’ve turned 21!

Happy BirthdayValentine

Love, your family.

COLIN

A Mass of Christian Burialfor Bernard C. Koktan Sr., 90,of Silver Lake, will be heldFriday, Feb. 15, at 11 a.m., atHoly Family Catholic Churchin SilverLake. TheRev. TonyStubeda willbe the cele-brant.

Mr. Kok-tan died Sat-urday, Feb.9, 2013, atthe GlencoeR e g i o n a lHealth Services long-termcare facility.

Visitation will be today(Thursday, Feb. 14), from 4p.m. to 8 p.m., at the MareshFuneral Home in Silver Lake.A Knights of ColumbusRosary will be recited at 6:30p.m.

Pallbearers will be SaraKoktan, Daniel Koktan, JennieNemec, Brent Nemec, AmyBipes and Aaron Koktan.Honorary pallbearers areBernard “Ben” Koktan III andBeau Koktan. Interment willfollow the service at HolyFamily Cemetery.

Mr. Koktan was born Oct. 5,1922, in Rich Valley Town-ship, McLeod County, to Johnand Anna (Portele) Koktan.

He graduated from Silver

Lake High School in 1940.He farmed in the Silver Lakearea following his graduation.

Mr. Koktan married ArleneZeleny on June 20, 1956, at St.Joseph Catholic Church in Sil-ver Lake. God blessed theirmarriage with five children.They continued to farm fol-lowing their marriage.

Mrs. Koktan died March 30,2002.

Mr. Koktan was active inthe Holy Family CatholicChurch. He also was a mem-ber of the Knights of Colum-bus and the First CatholicSlovik Ladies Association.

He enjoyed farming activi-ties like gardening, field workand harvesting. He also likedattending his four sons’ sport-ing events, especially theirfootball games. He avidly fol-lowed the Gophers, Vikingsand Twins teams.

Over the past 10 years, Mr.Koktan looked forward to BoyScout Troop 3405 from theTwin Cities biking the LuceLine Trail and camping at hisfarm.

In later years, he enjoyedwatching what type of birdsate at the bird feeders he setup. He valued visiting his sis-ters at Our Lady of GoodCounsel in Mankato and cook-ing for family holidays.

Mr. Koktan was a gentle,

loving and respected man whowill be missed by his familyand the community.

Survivors include his sons,Kevin (Paula) Koktan, Crys-tal, Brian Koktan, Silver Lake,and Bernie (Kris) Koktan Jr.,Silver Lake; a daughter,Brenda (Michael) Nemec,Dassel; daughter-in-law,Sandy Defries, Hutchinson;grandchildren, Amy Bipes,Aaron Koktan, Sara Koktan,Daniel Koktan, Jennie Nemec,Brent Nemec and significantother, Samantha Carston,Bernard “Ben” Koktan III andBeau Koktan; two great-grandchildren, Hailey andRaydon Bipes; sister-in-law,June Koktan, Winsted; sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Vi-vian and Dan Osmek of St.Louis Park; and many nieces,nephews, other relatives andfriends.

Preceding him in death werehis parents; wife, Arlene; son,Greg; brother, John; sisters,Sister M. Celine (Adeline)SSND, Sister M. DeLourdes(Helen) SSND, and Sister M.Bernard Ann (Martha) SSND.

The Maresh Funeral Homein Silver Lake is serving thefamily. Online condolencesmay be made at www.mareshfuneralhome.com.

Bernard Koktan Sr., 90 of Silver Lake

BernardKoktan

ObituariesGRACE BIBLE CHURCH

300 Cleveland Ave.,Silver Lake

Dr. Tom Rakow, Pastor320-327-2265

http://silverlakechurch.orgSat., Feb. 16 — Men’s Bible

study, 7 a.m.; church booth atGlencoe Business Expo, 10 a.m.

Sun., Feb. 17 — “First Light”radio broadcast on KARP 106.9FM, 7:30 a.m.; pre-service prayertime, 9:15 a.m.; worship service,9:30 a.m.; Sunday school, 10:35a.m.; church booth at GlencoeBusiness Expo, 11 a.m.; openshooting for Centershot graduates,11:45 a.m.; Centershot ArcheryMinistry, 1 p.m.

Wed., Feb. 20 — Soup andchili supper, 5 p.m.; confirmationclass, 6 p.m.; Lenten service, 7p.m.

Thurs., Feb. 21 — Women’sfellowship at King’s Wok, 5 p.m.

Sat., Feb. 23 — Men’s Biblestudy, 7 a.m.; women’s Biblestudy, 9 a.m.; facility in use forwedding shower; clergy chilichallenge at Glencoe UCC, 4 p.m.

Sun., Feb. 24 — “First Light”radio broadcast on KARP 106.9FM, 7:30 a.m.; pre-service prayertime, 9:15 a.m.; worship service,9:30 a.m.; Sunday school, 10:35a.m.; youth activity at PowderRidge; open shooting for Center-shot graduates, 11:45 a.m.; Cen-tershot Archery Ministry, 1 p.m.;women’s appreciation dinner, 5p.m.

Dial-A-Bible Story, 320-327-2843.

FAITH PRESBYTERIAN108 W. Main St.,

Silver Lake320-327-2452

Fax 320-327-6562E-mail: faithfriends@embarqmail.comMark Ford, Pastor

Carol Chmielewski, CLPOffice hours: Tuesdays andThursdays from 1 p.m. to 5

p.m. and Sundays from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Sun., Feb. 17 — Handbell prac-tice, 8:45 a.m.; worship servicewith fellowship to follow, 10 a.m.

Mon., Feb. 18 — Session meet-ing, 6:30 p.m.

Wed., Feb. 20 — Light supper,5:30 p.m.; WOW classes, 6 p.m.;Lenten devotional service, 6:30p.m.; choir practice, 7 p.m.

Thurs., Feb. 21 — Day caremeeting, 6:15 p.m.

CHURCH OF THE HOLYFAMILY

700 W. Main St.,Silver Lake

Anthony Stubeda, PastorFri., Feb. 15 — Mass, 8 a.m.;

stations of the cross, 6 p.m.; AFCstations of the cross with BishopJohn LeVoir at St. Pius X, 7 p.m.;youth group cosmic bowling atHutch Bowl, 9:15 p.m.

Sat., Feb. 16 — Youth groupBible study and breakfast at St.Pius X, 9 a.m.; reconciliation, 5p.m.; Mass, 6:30 p.m.

Sun., Feb. 17 — Mass, 8 a.m.and 8 p.m.; CCW coffee and rollsafter morning Mass; potluck andState of the AFC at Holy Family,5:30 p.m.

Tues., Feb. 19 — Mass, 8 a.m.;adoration, 8:30 a.m.-10 p.m.;quilting, 9 a.m.; KC meeting, 7p.m.

Wed., Feb. 20 — Mass, 8 a.m.;first- through sixth-grade religiouseducation classes, 5:30 p.m.; sev-enth- through 11th-grade religiouseducation classes, 7:15 p.m.

Thurs., Feb. 21 — Mass atCedar Crest, 10:30 a.m.

Fri., Feb. 22 — Mass, 8 a.m.;stations of the cross, 6 p.m.

WORD OF LIFE CHURCH950 School Rd. S.W.

Hutchinson320-587-9443

E-mail: infor@loversoftruth.comJim Hall, Pastor

Sun., Feb. 17 — Worship, 9:30a.m. and 6 p.m.

THE CHURCH OF JESUSCHRIST OF LATTER DAY

SAINTS770 School Rd.,

HutchinsonKenneth Rand,

Branch President320-587-5665

Sun., Feb. 17 — Sundayschool, 10:50 a.m.-11:30 a.m.;priesthood, relief society and pri-mary, 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

RIVERSIDE ASSEMBLYOF GOD

20924 State Hwy. 7 W.Hutchinson

320-587-2074E-mail: assembly@

hutchtel.netDr. Lee Allison, pastor

Sun., Feb. 17 — Worship, 8:30a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

Wed., Feb. 20 — Family nightactivities, 6:30 p.m.

FIRST CONGREGATIONUNITED CHURCH OF

CHRIST31 Fourth Ave. S.W.,

Hutchinson320-587-2125

E-mail: jmm@hutchtel.netSun., Feb. 17 — Sunday

school, 9 a.m.; worship, 10:15a.m.

ST. PIUS X CHURCH1014 Knight Ave.,

GlencoeAnthony Stubeda, Pastor

Thurs., Feb. 14 — Mass atGRHS-LTC, 10:30 a.m.; area wor-ship meeting, Holy Family, 7 p.m.

Fri., Feb. 15 — Morningprayer, 8 a.m.; school Mass, 8:20a.m.; stations of the cross with

school children, 2 p.m.; no Span-ish Mass; Spaeth-Medina weddingrehearsal, 5 p.m.; stations of thecross, 7 p.m.; youth group cosmicbowling in Hutchinson, 9:15 p.m.

Sat., Feb. 16 — Youth groupBible study, St. Pius X, 9 a.m.;Spaeth-Medina wedding, 2 p.m.;reconciliation, 4 p.m.; Mass, 5p.m.

Sun., Feb. 17 — Mass, 9:30a.m.; Spanish Mass, 11:30 a.m.;Spanish religious educationclasses, 12:45 p.m.; Guadalupecommittee, 1:45 p.m.; first com-munion parent meeting, 2:30 p.m.;AFC potluck, address at HolyFamily, 5:30 p.m.; Mass at HolyFamily, Silver Lake, 8 p.m.

Mon., Feb. 18 — No Mass; noschool; parish offices closed.

Tues., Feb. 19 — Pastoralleader days; no Mass, 7:20 a.m.;junior choir practice, 2:50 p.m.;KC meeting, 7:30 p.m.

Wed., Feb. 20 — Pastoral lead-ers day; no Mass; kindergartenthrough sixth-grade religious edu-cation classes, 7 p.m.-8 p.m.; sev-enth- through 11th-grade religiouseducation classes, 7 p.m.-8:15p.m.; senior religious educationsession, 7 p.m.

SHALOM BAPTISTCHURCH

1215 Roberts Rd. S.W.Hutchinson

Rick Stapleton,Senior pastor

Adam Krumrie,worship pastorTait Hoglund,

Student ministriesThurs., Feb. 14 — Senior high

free lunch, 11 a.m.; worship team,6 p.m.

Sun., Feb. 17 — Worship, 9a.m. and 10:30 a.m.; Sundayschool for all ages, 9 a.m.; Cou-ples Connect, 4 p.m.

Mon., Feb. 18 — Women’s dis-cipleship, 6:30 p.m.

Tues., Feb. 19 — Women’s dis-cipleship, 9 a.m.

Wed., Feb. 20 — Release time,9 a.m.; AWANA, 6:30 p.m.; mid-dle school youth group, 6:30 p.m.;senior high youth group, 7:30p.m.

Thurs., Feb. 21 — Senior highfree lunch, 11 a.m.; worship team,6 p.m.

BETHEL LUTHERAN77 Lincoln Ave.,Lester Prairie

Bethany Nelson, pastor320-395-2125

Sun., Feb. 17 — Worship, 9a.m.; coffee and fellowship, 10a.m.; global barnyard, 10:15 a.m.

Mon., Feb. 18 — Ladies’ Biblestudy, 7 p.m.

Wed., Feb. 20 — Office hours,3 p.m.; family Lenten service, 6p.m.; Holden evening prayer, 6:30p.m.; choir, 7:15 p.m.; worshipteam, 8 p.m.

Church News

Mickolichek receives degreeJamie Mickolichek of Silver Lake received a bachelor

of science degree in business administration during fallcommencement ceremonies at the University of Wiscon-sin-River Falls. She is the daughter of Larry and JeanetteMickolichek of Silver Lake.

Bayerl named to graduate list Mitchell Bayerl of Silver Lake was among graduates

during the winter commencement ceremonies at the Uni-versity of Wisconsin-Madison. Bayerl earned a bachelorof science degree in mechanical engineering.

SCSU announces fall gradsAmanda Schermann and Nathan Schlagel, both of Silver

Lake, were named to the fall graduate list at St. CloudState University. Schermann earned a bachelor of science(BS) degree in accounting and graduated cum laude.Schlagel earned a BS degree in ecology and field biology,and graduated magna cum laude. Other area students in-clude: Cokato: Heidi Gruenhagen, Gary Hillukka, StacyJanckila and Kayla Koivisto; Dassel: Lesley Burandt,Timothy Cox, Joshua Lindgren, Susan Rootes and AnneTormanen; Hutchinson: Robert Cripps, Erin Hepola, An-gela Mellies and Lynn Wegner; and Winsted: Laura Ro-jina.

Son born to Eastling familyLloyd and Jessica Eastling of Silver Lake announce the

birth of their son, Andrew Stefan, on Feb. 6, 2013, atHutchinson Community Hospital. Andrew weighed 9pounds, 4 ounces, and was 20-1/2 inches in length. Hisolder sister is Annie. Grandparents are Lester and JeannieEastling of Cokato and Denise Jaskowiak of Winsted andthe late Stefan Jaskowiak.

People News

Marissa Lee and LukeJaskowiak are pleased to an-nounce their engagement andupcoming marriage on June22, 2013, in Alexandria.

Marissa Lee is a 2004 grad-uate of Fertile-Beltrami HighSchool and attended TheSalon Professional Academyin Fargo, N.D.

She is employed at CarlosCreek Winery in Alexandria.

Luke Jaskowiak is a 2005graduate of Parkers PrairieHigh School and attended Be-midji State University for con-struction management.

He is employed at WaltJohnson Construction inAlexandria.

Parents of the couple areGary and Connie Lee ofMankato and Mark andMichelle Jaskowiak of EagleBend.

Grandparents are Orville

and Edith Lee of Mentor, thelate Harvey and Donna Jen-srud of Fertile, MaryJaskowiak and the late ErnieJaskowiak of Silver Lake, andJim and Marilyn Perry ofSpicer.

The couple will reside in theParkers Prairie area.

Lee —Jaskowiak

Marissa Lee and LukeJaskowiak

Engagements

Thank YouWe would like to extend

our sincere thanks to the Sil-ver Lake First Respondersand Ambulance, the ER staffat the Hutchinson Hospital,Dr. Mona, the CardiovascularICU Unit at Abbott North-western Hospital, and the

staff at Harmony River fortheir excellent care duringJim’s recovery.

Jim is now recuperating athome.Also, thank you to all who

sent cards and for the phonecalls and visits. Thank You!

The family of Jim & Lovey Jurek

*6La

Financial planningseries held Tuesdays

FFA dayat Capitolset Feb. 21

Future Farmers of America(FFA) members from acrossMinnesota will be proactivecitizens as they congregate atthe Minnesota State Capitol onThursday, Feb. 21.

Minnesota FFA Day at theCapitol is a chance for studentsto meet their legislators, dis-cuss vital issues surroundingagricultural education, and tosee state government in action.

In its 16th year, FFA mem-bers and advisors will start theday at 8 a.m. in the StassenBuilding, Department of Rev-enue, Room 2000 SajegetadRoom, to hear words of wel-come from representativesfrom the Minnesota FFA, Min-nesota Association of Agricul-tural Educators (MAAE) andthe Minnesota Agricultural Ed-ucation Leadership Council(MAELC).

The majority of the day willhave FFA members meetingwith their local legislators andwitnessing the action on boththe Senate and House floorsessions.

FFA members also will bejoined by several legislatorsfrom 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.in Room 125 of the MinnesotaCapitol. Legislators will ad-dress the FFA members andhave a question-and-answerperiod.

This also will be an opportu-nity for FFA members to learnabout a variety of topics thatlegislators are addressing dur-ing the 2013 session.

FFA Day at the Capitol issponsored and organized bythe Minnesota FFA Associa-tion, MAAE, and MAELC.

All individuals consideringpursuing a college educationare invited to attend Ridgewa-ter’s annual spring gathering,Discover Ridgewater. The freeinformational event is sched-uled for Wednesday, Feb. 27,on the college’s Hutchinsoncampus, and Thursday, Feb.28, on the Willmar campus.Both events will begin at 8:30a.m, with check-in beginningat 8 a.m.

Discover Ridgewater intro-duces potential college stu-dents to all that RidgewaterCollege has to offer.

Each campus has numerous

departments and programareas for students to visit, andinformation will be providedregarding how to apply, whatfinancial aid is available,scholarships and other avail-able student services.

Information sessions anddepartment tours will run until11 a.m., at which time guestsare invited to listen to a specialguest speaker who will be ad-dressing current Ridgewaterstudents.

Visit www.ridgewater.edu/discover for details and to reg-ister.

Ridgewater holding annualspring gatherings Feb. 27-28

Silver Lake Leader, Thursday, February 14, 2013 — Page 5 Sports

WRESTLING

GYMNASTICS

BOYS’ BASKETBALL

GIRLS’ BASKETBALL

GSL PantherWinterSports

December07....at Watertown-May.. W,80-6311....at Bl. Jefferson.....L,64-5713....Hutchinson .........W,65-6415....New Ulm.............W,77-6718....at Waconia...........L,91-6921....Rocori .................W,67-60........GSL tourney: 28....vs. Spectrum ......W,86-3629....vs. HF Catholic...W,72-59

January05....Jordan .................L,66-5508....at Dassel-Cok.....W,74-6011....at Mound-Wtka. ..:L,86-7812....NYA Central........W,66-4615....N.London-Sp. ......L,65-6318....Orono ..................L,79-6419....at Faribault ..........L,67-6422....at Litchfield ..........L,58-4025....at Hutchinson ......L,69-6829....at Annandale .......L,72-49

February01....HF Catholic ........W,73-7008....Dassel-Cokato....W,63-5609....Mound-Wtka.......W,56-4711....at Sibley East .....W,85-6614....at N.London-Sp. .......7:3019....Litchfield ...................7:3022....Delano ......................7:3026....Annandale ................7:30

MarchSection 5(AA) Tourney07....1st Round

November27....at St.Peter............L,69-4829....at Jordan .............L,69-35

December04....at Belle Plaine .....L,58-5406....Marshall ...............L,68-3811....New Prague.........L,59-4514....at Annandale .......L,55-4220....Mayer Lutheran ..W,46-3728....vs. Luverne.........W,39-26

January05....at New Ulm.........W,51-2908....Dassel-Cokato.....L,60-4711....at Mound-Wtka...W,75-6212....NYA Central........W,73-6415....at N.Londn-Sp. ....L,73-5918....at Orono ..............L,53-3622....Litchfield ..............L,41-2925....Hutchinson ..........L,41-3729....Annandale ...........L,62-55

February01....at HF Catholic......L,70-3505....Spectrum............W,69-1807....at Dassel-Cokato.L,45-2909....Mound-Wtka. .......L,75-7412....N.London-Sp. .....W,46-4515....Waconia....................7:3019....at Litchfield ...............7:3022....at Delano ..................7:30Section 2(AAA) Tourney26....1st Round

MarchSection 2(AAA) Tourney02....2nd Round

November30....Annandale...............114.7

December01....at Becker Inv. ...................08....at Northfield Inv................13....at WM triangular ..............15....at St. Peter.......................21....Orono...............................

January08....at Litchfield ......................11....Dassel-Cokato .................18....Waconia ...............L,113.019....GSL Invite .........6th,118.924....Delano .............................26....at Northfield Inv................

February01....Mound-Wtka. ...................06....at NL-Spicer.....................Section 2(A) Meet15....at Watertown.............TBA

December01....GSL-Don Hall Inv. .......4th08 ...at Andover Inv. ...........2nd13....at Litch: vs.DC....W,42-30........vs. Litchfield .......W,53-1415....at Richfield Inv. ....2nd,2-120....at Hutch: vs.NLS ...L,66-9........vs.Ann/ML .............L,60-8

January03....GSL: Waconia ....W,42-30 ........vs.Hutchinson......L,52-2305....at Ogilvie Inv ...............1st08....at WM .................L,36-28........vs.LeS-Hend. ....W,60-1210....GSL: Delano.......W,63-1112....at Zim Invite.. ..............1st19....at LCWM Invite ...........6th22....St.Peter ..............W,44-3124....Mound-Wtka.......W,35-3325....at N.Prague .........L,39-32........vs.M’nkatoWest ..W,42-1829....at Tri-City United....W,39-3131....at HLWW ............W,54-20

February01....WCC. at Delano .........3rd08....at MW Invite ...............3rdSection 2(AA) Tourney14....Teams, 1st rounds ....TBA16....Finat 4, at WM ..........4:0022-23..Indys, at Waconia ..TBA

4 wins in a row for GSL boysBy Lee OstromSports Editor

Suddcnly, the Glencoe-Silver Lake boys’ bas-ketball team has won

four games in a row and liftedits overall winning percentageabove .500.

After notching a pair ofhome-court victories againstWright County Conference op-ponents — 63-56 over winlessDassel-Cokato and 56-47 overailing Mound-Westonka — lastweekend, plus an 85-66 out-of-league win at Sibley East onFeb. 11, the Panthers show a12-10 record with fout gamesremaining on their regular-sea-son schedule.

“We had a little talk after theAnnandale game,” head coachRobb DeCorsey said.

The Panthers lost 72-49 atAnnandale on Jan. 29, extend-ing a losing streak to sixgames. But they have not lostsince.

Against DC, the GSL boysplayed man-to-man defensethroughout a 31-28 first half,but showed a variety of zonesto spark a 10-1 opening run tothe second half.

When DC closed to 41-35,DeCorsey turned to his bench,which responded to the chal-lenge.

First, senior forward Bran-don Ebert stole the ball on con-secutive DC possessions.Fellow 12th-grader Greg Ober— with an assist from fresh-man guard Teddy Petersen —turned Ebert’s initial theft intotwo fast-break points; with thenext theft, starter Ethan Maassdrew an on-the-run foul, whichproduced a pair of free throws.

Another DC turnover re-sulted in a break-away solo

dash by Ober for two morepoints.

GSL led, 47-35. It became 49-38 when Ober

rebounded his own miss for adeuce; then 51-40 when Pe-tersen finished a press-break-ing GSL surge — on a passfrom Keaton Anderson.

When DC drew closer,Ebert’s three-point play fromin close — after another assistfrom Anderson — fattened thelead back to 56-48.

Ebert finished with threepoints, three rebounds, threesteals and three charges taken.

“He comes in and changesthe game,” DeCorsey said.

Same with Ober — 13points, 4 rebounds, 3 steals.Same with Petersen — 7points, 2 steals.

***— Saturday against Mound-

Westonka, the Hawks playedwithout top scorer Collin Host,who was sick. Meanwhile, thePanthers lost Petersen, who fellhard to the floor in a scramblefor the ball and sustained agash on his forehead that de-layed the game for severalminutes.

Eventually, the Panthersemerged victorious, despitetheir 10-for-24 performanceshooting free throws — 8 of 21in the second half.

— GSL’s attack was bal-anced. Season scoring leaderMaass was whistled for threefouls in the first half, wound upfouling out and tallied only 10points. Anderson matched that,while senior forward ReedDunbar had nine points and 11rebounds.

— Maass scored 29 pointsand Anderson added 22 inGSL’s win at Sibley East.

Silver Lake Leader photo by Rich Glennie

GSL senior Ethan Maass tries driving theDassel-Cokato lane, while watched byCharger defenders Jake Smith (23) and

Dalton Asplin (12). WCC action occurredlast Friday evening in Glencoe.

at NEW PRAGUE• (9) Mankato West vs. (8) Tri-

City United, 6 p.m. • QUARTERFINAL: 8/9 Winner

vs. (1) New Prague, 7:30 p.m.***

at HUTCHINSON• (12) Mankato East vs. (5)

GSL/LP Panthers, 6 p.m.• QUARTERFINAL: 5/12 Win-

ner vs. (4) Hutchinson/BLHS, 7:30p.m.

***at BELLE PLAINE

• (10) Delano vs. (6) Waconia,6 p.m.

• QUARTERFINAL: 6/10 Win-ner vs. (3) Scott West, 7:30 p.m.

***at WATERTOWN

• (11) New Ulm vs. (7) St. Peter,6 p.m.

• QUARTERFINAL: 7/11 Win-ner vs. (2) Watertown-Mayer, 7:30p.m.

***

Semifinals (4 p.m.) and finals (6p.m.) Saturday, Feb. 16, at Water-town-Mayer High School. Winneradvances to the state Class AAtournament in St. Paul.

Times and pairings for the first two rounds of the Section 2(Class AA) team wrestling tournament, scheduled for Thursday,Feb. 14, at the four high seeds:

Section 2(AA) WrestlingGSL/LP seeded 5thBy Lee OstromSports Editor

Glencoe-Silver Lake/LesterPrairie is the fifth seed, and thePanthers will wrestle No. 12Mankato East in a first-rounddual match of the Section 2(Class AA) tournament Thurs-day evening (6 p.m. start) atHutchinson.

The winner advances to thequarterfinals to tangle withfourth-seeded Hutchinson/Buf-falo Lake-Hector-Stewart im-mediately afterward (7:30 p.m.approximate start time).

New Prague, Watertown-Mayer and Scott West are theother top seeds who will playhost to second-round matchesFeb. 14.

Thursday’s final four sur-vivors converge on Watertown-Mayer High School onSaturday. Semifinals at 4 p.m.Finals at 6 p.m.

***GSL/LP closed its regular-

season schedule by placingthird at the nine-team Leopold-Haglund Invitational last Fri-day (Feb. 8) at Mound-

Westonka High School.Several Panthers already had

reached their maximum num-ber of regular-season matches,and as a result had to be heldout. Included were 120-pounder Michael Donnay, whotakes a 31-4 record to sections;both 126-pounder BrandonRichter (27-9) and 171-pounder John Williams (21-13); plus 132-pounder KylePolzin and senior 160-pounderMartin Lezama.

Despite being short-handed,three Panthers placed first intheir respective classes. In ad-dition, GSL/LP wrestlers com-bined for one second place, onethird, two fourths and a fifth.

As a team, GSL/LP tallied144.5 points. Monticello wasthe champion with 192, andSouth St. Paul was the runner-up with 160.5.

Following the Panthers wereEastview (142.5), Mound-We-stonka (120), Waconia (106),Buffalo (93), WEM/JWP(86.5) and St. Paul Como (48).

The Panthers’ three individ-ual champions were junior

Jacob Jewett at 106 pounds,senior Mitchell Hartwig at 152,and junior Dalton Clouse at195.

Jewett, now 30-4, was thetop seed at 106, and looked likeit, pinning South St. Paul’sLorenzo Diaz (2:43) in thesemifinals and Ryan Eustice ofWaterville-Elysian-Morris-town/Janesville-Waldorf-Pem-berton at 3:04 of thechampionship match.

Hartwig, seeded No. 1 at hisweight, also, improved to 33-2by scoring a technical fall overAndrew Morgenstern of East-view in the first round, pinningJohn Byers of Mound-West-onka (:37) in the semifinals,and scoring a major decisionover Carter Barnes of Monti-cello in the finals.

Clouse, now 28-7, pinned hisway to a title. Also a top seed,he won by fall over Kyle Bu-dach of WEM/JWP in 1:25,Jeremiah Yeats of Monticelloin 1:14, and Jack Buck of Mon-ticello in 1:35.

Nate Tesch, a 10th-grader,placed second at 138, where he

won twice by fall before beingpinned in the finals by top-seeded Zach Beaumaster(3:45).

Tesch goes to sections with a27-8 chart.

At 120 pounds, GSL/LPninth-grader Aaron Donnaylost his semifinal by major de-cision, but bounced back to de-cision Noah Byers ofMound-Westonka, 8-2, in thematch for third place. AaronDonnay improved to 23-13.

A Panther eighth-grader,Dalton Kosek placed fourth at145 pounds. Kosek’s varsityrecord now is 8-11.

Senior Nick Jenkins placedfourth at 160. He now sports a7-12 record.

And Colton Lueders, whostarted the winter playing bas-ketball, but decided to givewrestling a try at mid-season,won twice (by fall) Friday,earning him fifth place at 182.Lueders’ overall record is 4-8.

Three Glencoe-Silver Lake defenders—from left, Taylor Breidenbach, KaitlynCohrs and Erin Nowak — corral Spec-trum Sting guard Rachel Stevenson(32) during last Tuesday’s basketballaction in Glencoe.

Hawks nip GSL girls, 75-74By Lee OstromSports Editor

Victoria Anderson’s three-point field goal with 5 sec-onds remaining rocketed

Mound-Westonka to a 75-74 lead,and the White Hawks survived GSL’slast-gasp attempt — a near-miss byeighth-grader Maddie Monahan — toclaim victory in last Saturday’sWright County Conference clash inGlencoe.

Monahan, the Panthers’ youngpoint, took an in-bounding pass,drove the length of the court andtossed up a close-range shot as timeexpired. The ball hit the backboard,hit the rim, and then rolled out.

The loss, GSL’s eighth in their lastnine games, dropped the Panthers’overall mark to 6-15. Mound-West-onka improved its chart to 4-16.

The Panthers lost despite getting24 points and 17 rebounds from 6-

foot-1 senior Clarissa Ober, fourtriples and 19 points in all from 5-4junior Samantha Lange and 17 pointsfrom junior forward StephanieKlockmann.

GSL trailed 46-36 after a wild firsthalf of action.

Ober, who has signed to play ballat South Dakota State University be-ginning next year, was whistled forher third foul only eight minutes intolast Saturday’s game.

With Ober on the bench, the Pan-thers went inside to Klockmann andoutside to Lange to stay with the hot-shooting White Hawks, who lit upGSL’s defense from three-pointrange during the first 18 minutes ofplay.

But Ober returned to the court inthe second half, and GSL ran off thefirst 11 points to grab a 47-46 lead.

With 11:47 remaining and herteam trailing 57-55, Ober went to

work at both ends of the court. Thebig lefty poured in GSL’s next 13points, including a basket at 2:10 leftthat gave the Panthers a 68-64 lead.

But the White Hawks tallied thenext five points — going ahead 69-68 on an Anderson triple.

An aggressive drive down the laneby Monahan resulted in a go-aheaddeuce for GSL; then Klockmannstole the ball and raced in for a layupto give GSL a 72-69 lead with 1:11remaining.

After Anderson struck again toknot the score, the Panthers workedthe clock. Finally, Ober reboundedher own miss and was fouled on theplay. She coverted both free throwsfor a 74-72 GSL lead. Only 23 sec-onds remained.

All that remained was for Ander-son to swish her winner.

Editor Rich Glennie contributed tothis report.

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McLeod County

McLeod County Board of Commissioners Meeting Minutes 1/8/13

Commissioners Bayerl, Nies, Ter-linden and Wright were present.

Nies/Wright motion approved theagenda.

Bayerl/Wright motion approved theconsent agenda including December18, 2012 Meeting Minutes and Synop-sis; December 27, 2012 Meeting Min-utes and Synopsis.

Bayerl/Nies motion carried unani-mously to adopt amended Resolution12-CB-37 Determination CountyDitch #10 Lateral 1 Drainage Systemsis Private or Public.

Nies/Wright motion carried unani-mously to approve the settlement andrelease of Equal Employment Oppor-tunity Commission Charges.

Nies/Bayerl motion carried unani-mously to approve the clarifications tothe Fee Schedule as listed above.

Bayerl/Nies motion carried unani-mously to adjourn for 2012 sine die.

Commissioners Bayerl, Nies, Ter-linden; Christensen and Wright werepresent.

Nies/Christensen motion carriedunanimously to cease nominations andcast a unanimous ballot for Commis-sioner Paul Wright as Board Chair for2013.

Bayerl/Nies motion carried unani-mously to cease nominations and casta unanimous ballot for CommissionerKermit Terlinden as Board Vice Chairfor 2013.

Nies/Terlinden motion carriedunanimously to approve the agendawith the following item removed;under Assessor item A; Oath of Officefor County Assessor Sue Schulz; fol-lowing item added; under Administra-tion item D; discussion aboutCommissioners using I-pads.

Terlinden/Bayerl motion approvedthe consent agenda including Decem-ber 28, 2012 Auditor’s Warrants; Au-thorize out of state travel for CountyEngineer to attend National Associa-tion of County Engineers (NACE) an-nual conference April 21-25, 2013 inDes Moines, IA.  Approximate cost in-cluding early bird registration, hotel,and parking is $1,600; Approve theSale of Cigarette and other TobaccoProducts License for Dodge House inLester Prairie, MN from January 1,2013 through December 31, 2013; Ap-prove the Sale of Cigarette and otherTobacco Products License for BigDon’s Cathedral in Lester Prairie, MNfrom January 1, 2013 through Decem-ber 31, 2013; Approve Employee Dis-honesty and Faithful Performance ofDuty Coverage bonds for officers andemployees.

Nies/Terlinden motion approvedpayment of bills totaling $612,548.47from the following funds: GeneralRevenue $567,997.39; Road & Bridge$26,293.50; Solid Waste $6,870.40;County Ditch Fund $11,359.80 andSpecial Revenue Fund $27.38.

Terlinden/Bayerl motion carriedunanimously to approve the agree-ment for road maintenance serviceswith Helen Townships.

Bayerl/Terlinden motion carriedunanimously to approve Amendment#3 for Lease Agreement 43002 withMnDOT. This amendment extends thelease of the old MnDOT Glencoetruck station.

Bayerl/Terlinden motion carriedunanimously to trading in the 20 yearold floor scrubber for a new one fromHillyard (Hutchinson, MN) for a costof $6,200 with trade in of $500 for atotal cost of $5,700 with funding com-ing from the 2013 budget.

Terlinden/Nies motion carriedunanimously to appoint Ron Shiman-ski to the Trailblazer Joint PowerBoard.

Nies/Terlinden motion carriedunanimously to approve an amendedagreement with the State of Minnesotawhich extends the deadline to receiveNext Generation 911 funds from Oc-tober 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013.

Nies/Christensen motion carriedunanimously to adopt Resolution 13-CB-01 authorizing the McLeodCounty Auditor-Treasurer to designatedepositories.

Terlinden/Nies motion carriedunanimously to bill Mark Ahlbrecht ofLester Prairie, MN $140 rent per acrefor 8.5 acres of property north andwest of the Social Service building onFord Avenue in Glencoe, MN effec-tive Crop-Year 2013 with rent due Oc-tober 31, 2013.

Nies/Terlinden motion passed toapprove a penalty of $75 for both Cac-tus Jack’s and Silver Lake Legion fortobacco violation. Roll Call Vote:Nies - Yes, Terlinden - Yes, Wright –Yes, Christensen – No.

Terlinden/Christensen motion car-ried unanimously to award the 2013legal newspaper to McLeod Publish-ing at a cost per column inch of $1.00and award of the 2012 McLeodCounty Financial Statement toHutchinson Leader at an insertion rateof $0.05.

(Published in The Silver Lake

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McLeod County

McLeod County Board of Commissioners Meeting Minutes 1/22/13

Commissioners Wright, Nies, Ter-linden, Shimanski and Christensenwere present.

Nies/Terlinden motion approvedthe agenda.

Terlinden/Shimanski motion ap-proved the consent agenda includingJanuary 8, 2013 Meeting Minutes andSynopsis; January 3, 2013 Auditor’sWarrants; January 11, 2013 Auditor’sWarrants; and Approve agreement forroad maintenance services withCollins Township.

Nies/Shimanski motion approvedpayment of bills totaling $148,753.81from the following funds: GeneralRevenue $96,001.60; Road & Bridge$17,718.86; Solid Waste $20,763.35;and County Ditch Fund $14,270.00.

Nies/Terlinden motion carried toapprove the purchase a Caterpillar938K front end loader from ZieglerCat of Minneapolis, MN for$188,164.13 including tax (State Con-tract Pricing) with funding comingfrom the 2013 budget. Roll Call Vote:Nies - Yes, Terlinden - Yes, Wright –Yes, Christensen – No, Shimanski -Yes.

Terlinden/Shimanski motion car-ried unanimously to approve sellingthe following equipment locally bysealed bid: 1986 Fiat FR15 loaderminimum bid: $9,620 and 1969 Cat966C loader minimum bid: $16,032.

Nies/Shimanski motion carriedunanimously to approve purchasingtwo Dodge Durangos via state con-tract #35446, from Burnsville Dodge(Burnsville, MN). One vehicle is a V8for patrol use for a price of $28,329.00and the other is a V6 Durango forSheriff Rehmann at a price of$25,976.00 with funding coming fromthe 2013 budget.

Shimanski/Terlinden motion car-ried unanimously to approve purchas-ing two Ford Police InterceptorsUtility Vehicles AWD from Jay Mal-one Motors (Hutchinson, MN). JayMalone is matching the State Contract#37699 price of $25,633.82 per vehi-cle for a total price of $51,267.64 withfunding coming from the 2013 budget.

Terlinden/Nies motion carriedunanimously to approve the purchase5 ARMER Motorola XTS 1500 porta-bles, 5 speaker mics, and 5 singlechargers to give to the selected schoolsacross the county for a total of cost of$8,612.79 including tax, McLeodCounty will be reimbursed $8,112.79from the selected schools.

Nies/Shimanski motion carriedunanimously to approve the McLeodCounty Public Health Nursing Serv-ices Hispanic Outreach Worker Con-tract with Carmen Patino fromJanuary 1, 2013 through December31, 2013 at a rate of pay of$27.39/hour.

Nies/Terlinden motion carriedunanimously to approve out of statetravel for Jean Johnson and PatGeiken to attend the Community Anti-Drug Coalition of America (CADCA)National Leadership Forum in Wash-ington, DC from February 3rd thru 7th

for a total cost of $2,703 for each par-ticipant with funding coming from theDrug Free Communities (DFC) grantfund.

Nies/Christensen motion carriedunanimously to approve the Commit-tee appointments with the abovechanges.

Terlinden/Nies motion carriedunanimously to approve of an agree-ment with SAIC not to exceed$50,000 for a study of the McLeodCounty Solid Waste operations withfunding coming from the Solid WasteFunds.

Nies/Shimanski motion carriedunanimously to approve a revision tothe current out of state training policyto state with the requirement that allout of state come before the board onthe regular agenda for approval andthat a summary of the training be pre-sented at a board meeting as well.

Terlinden/Nies motion carriedunanimously to close the meeting at10:38 a.m. to discuss an appeal regard-ing disciplinary action taken.

Terlinden/Nies motion carriedunanimously to open the meeting at11:44 a.m.

(Published in The Silver Lake

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Glencoe-SilverLake School Board

School Board ProceedingsISD #2859

Glencoe-Silver Lake, MinnesotaJanuary 14, 2013

The School Board of IndependentSchool District #2859 met in regularsession on January 14 at 7:00 p.m. inthe Lincoln Meeting Room (Room124). Interim Board Chair Christian-son called the meeting to order. Mem-bers present: VonBerge, Lindeman,Kuester, Alsleben, Christianson, andTwiss. In addition, SuperintendentSonju; Business Manager Sander;Principals Butler, Wang, and Sparby;Girls’ Basketball Coaches Cullen Oberand Zach Otto-Fisher and team repre-sentatives Clarissa Ober and TaylorBreidenbach; Mock Trial Coach TomSchoper and team members MitchPolzin (also Student Government rep),Shannon Twiss, Ellie Forcier, JosieKjenstad, Gustavo Villalobos, andDerek Ortloff; Student Activities rep-resentative Shelby Rolf; many stu-dents from the 9th grade Civics class;Technology Staff Morris; and Super-intendent’s Secretary Peterson were inattendance.

The Pledge of Allegiance was re-cited.

Interim Board Chair Christiansonadministered the Oath of Office toKuester, Alsleben, and VonBerge.Kuester and Alsleben were re-electedand VonBerge was newly elected inNovember.

Officers were elected for 2013. In-terim Chairperson Christianson re-quested nominations for Chairperson.Twiss to nominate Christianson for theposition of Chairperson. After thethird call for nominations, the InterimChairperson declared the candidateelected by acclamation and directedthe acting Clerk to so record in theminutes.

Christianson requested nomina-tions for Vice Chairperson. Kuester tonominate Alsleben for the position ofVice Chairperson. After the third callfor nominations, Christianson de -clared the candidate elected by accla-mation and directed the acting Clerkto so record in the minutes.

Christianson requested nomina-tions for Clerk. Christianson to nomi-nate Twiss for the position of Clerk.After the third call for nominations,Christianson declared the candidateelected by acclamation and direct theacting Clerk to so record in the min-utes.

Christianson requested nomina-tions for Treasurer. Alsleben to nomi-nate Kuester for the position ofTreasurer. After the third call for nom-inations, Christianson declared thecandidate elected by acclamation anddirected the Clerk to so record in theminutes.

Announcements, Acknowledge-ments, and Reports: Announced thenext regular School Board meetingwill be on February 11, at 7:00 p.m.,in the Lincoln Meeting Room (Room124); Mock Trial Coach Schoper andteam members Polzin, Twiss, Forcier,Kjenstad, Villalobos, and Ortloff pre-sented to the Board; Principals Butler,Wang, and Sparby reported to theBoard; Student Government/StudentActivities representatives Polzin andRolf reported to the Board; Girls’ Bas-ketball Team members Ober and Brei-denbach reported to the Board;Business Manager Sander reported tothe Board; Superintendent Sonju re-ported to the Board; and Committeereports were given by Twiss, Alsleben,and Christianson. No action taken.

1. Public Input: None2. Alsleben/Twiss to approve the

agenda (6-0).3. Kuester/Lindeman to approve

the consent agenda: December bills;regular Board meeting minutes of De -cember 10, 2012; the hirings ofNathaniel Byrne as Long-Term Sub-stitute for Emily Foss’ FMLA LeaveRequest beginning on or around Feb-ruary 14, 2013, Ashley Boyer asLong-Term Substitute for Angie Mel-lies’ FMLA Leave Request beginningon January 2, 2013, Tristan Sprengleras five-hour-a-day Paraprofessional inthe Special Education Program at GSLHigh School (replaces Deb Rudy whoresigned); the leave request of BrittaAldrich, School Readiness PreschoolTeacher, for Child Care Leave for themonths of September through Decem-ber of the 2013-2014 school year; theretirement of William Kittel, SpecialEducation Teacher at GSL HighSchool, effective at the end of the2012-2013 school year; and the ex-tracurricular assignments of Cassie

Helmbrecht as Junior High Gymnas-tics Coach (replaces Lisa Eischenswho resigned) and Marielle Gatenbyas JV Softball Coach (replaces TomLemke who resigned) (6-0).

4. Kuester/Alsleben to set the reg-ular School Board meetings on thesecond Monday, beginning at 7:00p.m. and meet in the Lincoln MeetingRoom (Room 124), with a secondmeeting, if necessary, to be held on thefourth Monday. (The November meet-ing will be on Tuesday because of Vet-erans Day) (6-0).

5. Twiss/Lindeman to leave the perdiem rates for 2013 as they have beensince 2004: attendance at regular andspecial formal Board meetings –$2,000.00 per year; per committeemeeting – $35.00; per negotiationsmeeting – $50.00; and additional payafter three hours for committee andnegotiations meetings – $35.00 (6-0).

6. Alsleben/Kuester to adopt thecommittee assignments for 2013 asspecified by the School Board (6-0).

7. Kuester/Lindeman to authorizeMichelle Sander, Business Manager,to make payment (prior to SchoolBoard approval) of claims that cannotbe deferred until the next Board meet-ing without loss to the district of dis-count privileges and, further, authorizeMichelle Sander to initiate and trans-act electronic transfers for the purposeof investing excess monies and forpayment of bond principal and interestas provided by M.S. 1996, Section123.35, Subd. 15 (6-0).

8. Twiss/Kuester to delegate thefollowing statutory duties of the Clerkto the administrative staff: the keepingof the book of minutes of all SchoolBoard meetings, the preparation of re-ports that shall include the conditionand value of school property, receiptsand disbursements in detail and suchother financial matters as may becalled for by the Minnesota Depart-ment of Education, the length of theschool term and the enrollment and at-tendance by grades, and the names andpost office addresses of all directorsand other officers, and such otheritems of information as may be calledfor by the Commissioner of Education(6-0).

9. Twiss/Alsleben to schedule Meetand Confer on Wednesday, Feb. 6,2013 at 3:30 p.m. in the Lincoln Meet-ing Room (Room 124) at Lincoln Jun-ior High School (6-0).

10. Alsleben/VonBerge to adopt thefollowing policies: 104School District Mission Statement;202 School Board Officers; and 206Public Participation in School BoardMeetings/Complaints about Persons atSchool Board Meetings and Data Pri-vacy Considerations (6-0).

11. VonBerge/Twiss to approveGSL High School Spanish TeacherTeri Windschitl’s nine-day trip abroadto Peru at the end of the 2013-2014school year. Students participating inthe trip will be required to pay approx-imately $3,200 and there will be atleast two chaperones present. Studentsare required to do curriculum work be-fore, during, and after the trip (6-0).

12. Lindeman/Kuester to adopt theresolution to amend the Glencoe-Sil-ver Lake ISD #2859 Flexible BenefitsPlan in order to add a health savingsaccount optional benefit for eligibleemployees, effective January 1, 2013(6-0).

13. Alsleben/Twiss to approve re-vising the 2012-2013 budget as pre-sented by Business Manager Sander:General Fund Revenues – original$15,775,596, revised $15,551,524;General Fund Expenditures – original$16,197,910, revised $16,271,872 (6-0).

14. Lindeman/VonBerge to acceptthe donations from the followinggroups and/or individuals with appre-ciation: Kurt and Shirley Luhmann,Silver Lake American Legion Post#141, Prairie Woods EnvironmentalLearning Center, Plato Lions Club,Silver Lake Lions Club, MichelleGilbertson, Carol and John Siefert,Crow River Sno Pros, ThompsonReuters – Pat Chiariello, BrowntonLions Club, New Auburn Lions Club,Plato Fire Department, and NewAuburn Fire Department (6-0).

15. Twiss/VonBerge to adjourn at8:26 p.m. (6-0).

16. Complete minutes and all doc-uments relating to this meeting are onfile and available for review at the Su-perintendent’s Office, 1621 East 16thStreet, Glencoe.

Glencoe-Silver LakeSchool District #2859

By: Anne Twiss, Board ClerkThese minutes are unofficial untilapproved by School Board action.

(Published in The Silver Lake

Leader February 14, 2013)

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The annual Glencoe Busi-ness Expo will be held Satur-day and Sunday, Feb. 16-17, atthe Panther Field House.

The Expo features displaysby area landscapers, contrac-tors, automobile and tractordealers, food vendors andother businesses as well asarea churches, the school dis-trict, local service organiza-tions, fire and policedepartments.

The doors open at 10 a.m.,Saturday and run until 4 p.m.On Sunday, Expo doors openat 10 a.m. and run until 3 p.m.

Also on Sunday, in conjunc-tion with the Glencoe Busi-ness Expo, will be the annual

Glencoe Rotary Club pancakebreakfast in the adjacent highschool cafeteria. The breakfastruns from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Entertainment on Saturdayincludes the Remarkable Rep-tile Show at 10:30 a.m. andagain at 1 p.m.

Also, Vikings cheerleaderswill be on hand at 1:30 p.m.and 3 p.m. for photographs.Participants are asked to bringtheir cameras and a donationfor the McLeod EmergencyFood Shelf. The Vikingscheerleaders are sponsored byProfessional InsuranceProviders.

On Sunday, the entertain-ment includes the Hutchinson

Clown Club from noon to 3p.m.

The two days of events in-clude face painting, games,door prizes, including passesto the Minnesota Zoo, PowderRidge, Nickelodeon Universeat the Mall of America, Cin-eMagic Theater, University ofMinnesota men’s basketball,and a voucher for a MinnesotaTwins game in 2013 as well astickets to the Chanhassen Din-ner Theatre.

Also, there will be free cho-lesterol and glucose screeningsfor the first 200 people visitingthe Glencoe Regional HealthServices booth.

Glencoe Business Expo,Feb. 16-17 at field house

Silver Lake Leader photo by Rich Glennie

January Students of MonthEight students were selected as JanuaryStudents of the Month at Glencoe-SilverLake High School. They include, front,from left, Ryley Oliver, Somers Willock,

Derek Bratsch and Braxton Eggersgluess.In the back are Mark Lueders, Ivan Mar-tinez and Chad Thompson. Missing wasHailey Havlik.

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Silver Lake Leader photo by Alyssa Schauer

Fifth-grade Panther Paw winnersLakeside Elementary held its monthly all-school meeting in the gymnasium Feb. 1,and the following fifth-grade studentswere announced as Panther Paws win-ners. In the front, from left to right, are

Alexa Alberts, Nina Comelli, MasonHusted and Breana Templin. In the backare Earl Janke, Race Hutchins, PaigeSturges and Courtney Richer. Missingwere Lily Kirchoff and Derek Ramirez.

Silver Lake Leader photo by Alyssa Schauer

Sixth-grade Panther Paws winnersThe sixth-grade Panther Paws winnerswere announced at the monthly all-schoolmeeting Feb. 1 at Lakeside Elementary.They include, from left to right, in the front,Michael Mathwig, Reid VanHove, Gage Al-

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Kitchen Delights& Other Things

A much quieter weather week is on tap for the countrythis week as we put a very active weekend behind us.

Last week saw some of the most active weather acrossthe country we can see. Everything from 40 inches of snowin the blizzard on the East Coast, a winter storm of our ownand even tornadoes in the southern portion of the country(this was tied into the same storm we had).

Wednesday into Thursday will be our best chance of see-ing any additional snowfall, but the system will be poorlyformed, and it may focus most of its energy to our north.The system will drag a cold front through the area to endthe week, so highs will have a tough time getting out of theteens. There could be some passing flurries over the week-end, but nothing of major note.

Temperatures will ramp back up a bit Sunday as we headtowards a new week. Taking a peek at the extended showsa strong storm trying to take shape early next week to oursouth. Most models right now keep the storm to our south,but it could be something to watch.

Have a great mid-February week, all!Ma dobry weekendem Mit dobry vikend

Wednesday night — Lows 18-24; snow showers.Thursday — Highs 23-29; lows 2-8; clouds/early snow

shower.Friday — Highs 10-18 ; lows -4 to 2; partly cloudy.Saturday — Highs 10-18; lows 0-6; partly cloudy.Sunday — Highs 18-24; mostly clear.

Weather Quiz: If all of the precipitation from our week-end storm had been snow, how much could we have seen?

Answer to last week’s question: Our area has seen any-where from 25 to 35 inches of snow this winter so far. Thisputs us right in line with average. Remember, March tendsto be our snowiest month.

Remember: I make the forecast, not the weather!

Weather CornerBy Jake Yurek

Feb. 18-22Silver Lake

Senior Nutrition SiteMonday — Closed for Pres-

idents Day.Tuesday — Liver or pepper

steak, buttered boiled pota-toes, peas, bread, margarine,apricots, low-fat milk.

Wednesday — Chickenchow mein, rice, chow meinnoodles, oriental vegetables,mandarin orange gelatin,cookie, low-fat milk.

Thursday — Roast beef,mashed potatoes, carrots, din-ner roll, margarine, puddingdessert, low-fat milk.

Friday — Creamy vegetablesoup, tuna salad sandwich,tropical fruit, crackers, mar-garine, brownie, low-fat milk.

GSL SchoolsElementary/Jr. High/Sr.

HighBreakfast

Monday — No school, Pres-idents Day.

Tuesday — Pancake on astick or Cheerios and apple-cinnamon muffin, dicedpeaches, low-fat milk.

Wednesday — Egg andcheese omelet or reducedsugar Coco Puff cereal andstring cheese, apple wedges,low-fat milk.

Thursday — Breakfast pizzaor reduced-sugar Fruit Loopscereal and blueberry muffin,orange juice cup, low-fat milk(egg and cheese omelet atjunior high and high school).

Friday — Pancakes withsyrup or reduced-sugar Cinna-mon Toast Crunch cereal andyogurt, diced pears, low-fatmilk. (French toast sticks withsyrup at junior high and highschool).

Helen Baker/LakesideLunch

Monday — No school, Pres-idents Day.

Tuesday — Chicken nug-

gets, brown-rice pilaf, chefsalad with cheese, egg andcroutons, bread stick, sea-soned carrots, confetticoleslaw, petite banana,chilled applesauce.

Wednesday — Italian meatsauce over whole-grain rotinipasta, bread stick, ham andcheese on a whole-grain bun,seasoned green beans, cae-sar romaine side salad withdressing, orange wedges,chilled peaches.

Thursday — Diced chickenin gravy, whole-grain dinnerroll, fun lunch, mashed pota-toes, broccoli florets withdressing, sliced strawberries,chilled pears.

Friday — Tony’s pizza, tunasalad on whole-grain bread,seasoned corn, baby carrotswith dressing, apple wedges,chilled mixed fruit.

High School LunchMonday — No school,

Presidents Day.Tuesday — Mexican bar

with beef or chicken tacos orbeef or chicken taco salad,brown rice, refried beans, kid-ney-bean salad, baby carrotswith dressing, petite banana,cinnamon apple slices.

Wednesday — French toaststicks with syrup, oven-bakedtator tots, cheesy scrambledeggs, jicama fruit salad, cu-cumbers with dressing, slicedstrawberries, chilled peaches.

Thursday — Oven-bakedchicken, whole-grain dinnerroll, mashed potatoes andgravy, seasoned carrots, applecrisp, confetti coleslaw, redpepper strips with dressing,cranberry sauce, chilled pears.

Friday — Pasta bar withchicken alfredo or marinarasauce, meatballs, steamedbroccoli, caesar romainesalad, baby carrots with dress-ing, apple wedges, chilledmixed fruit.

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GRHS entersinto learningcollaborativewith Stratis

The long-term care facilityat Glencoe Regional HealthServices (GRHS) has joinedthe Stratis Health Acting To-gether to Achieve Excellencecampaign (ATTAX).

This campaign was designedto ensure that every nursinghome resident receives thehighest quality of care.

The ATTAX campaign willinstill quality and performanceimprovement practices aimedat attacking and eliminatinghealth-care-acquired condi-tions and improving residentsatisfaction in Minnesota nurs-ing homes.

Supporting the developmentof strategies for overall qualitywill be at the heart of thiswork, as well as specific em-phasis and resources on im-proving dementia care andpreventing pressure ulcers,falls and urinary tract infec-tions.

Successes and best practicesfrom the group will be sharedwith the Minnesota nursinghome community over thenext few years.

“We already have an exten-sive quality improvement pro-gram in place,” states PamGould, registered nurse,GRHS long-term care directorof nursing. “The ATTAX cam-paign will raise the bar a littlehigher as we continue to pro-vide quality care for our resi-dents.”

The work is supported bythe federal Centers forMedicare & Medicaid Serv-ices (CMS), and is being ledby Stratis Health, Minnesota’sMedicare quality improvementorganization.

“CMS has made transforma-tional quality improvement apriority across the country, andthis is such exciting work thatwe are able to continue as thequality improvement organiza-tion with nursing homes inMinnesota,” said Jane Peder-son, M.D., director, medicalaffairs, Stratis Health.

Glencoe Regional HealthServices is a primary-carehealthcare facility with a 25-bed Critical Access Hospital,110-bed nursing home, 40-unitsenior housing complex andclinics in Glencoe, LesterPrairie and Stewart.

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