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PO Box 8, Lismore, MN507-472-8221

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WorthingtonFIRE DEPARTMENT

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SHOE FIT COMPANY

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Mick’s Repair405 10th Street

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Benson Funeral Home & Cremation serviCe

1225 Ryan’s Road, Worthington, MN

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Worthington Federal Savings Bank, f.s.b.

418 Eleventh St., P.O. Box 339, Worthington, MN 56187

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SCHWALBACH

HARDWARE1131 Oxford St., Worthington, MN

507-376-4555acehardware.com

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1501 CollegewayWorthington, MN

507-376-6197

Worthington Area YMCA

DeGroot Family Center

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AndersonAlignment

500 9th StreetWorthington, MN 507-376-4744

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851 WEST OXFORD STREET WORTHINGTON, MN

Insurance products are guaranteed by the Minnesota Guaranteed Fund. Not a deposit of the bank and not guaranteed by the bank.

Not FDIC insured.

First state insuranceagency1433 Oxford St.,


Auto, home, business, farm, life, health

507-372-2921 • 800-881-1473 AveraWorthington.org

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KM GRAPHICS

1036 Oxford Street, Worthington, MN 507-372-4600

www.kmgraphics.net

The Area’s Most Diversified Printer

965 McMillan StreetWorthington, MN

507-376-5312

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Jason Vote,Agent716 Oxford StreetWorthington, MN507-372-2906www.jasonvote.com

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22636 U.S. Hwy 59Worthington, MN

800-776-0517

Working towards a brighter future for everyone

This cooperative is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

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1234 Oxford StreetWorthington, MN

[email protected]

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Gina RascheDistrict Manager

959 Hwy 59 & 60 S., Worthington, MN507-376-3697 • Cell: 507-360-7622

Fax: 507-376-4402

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Jim Nickel, Bill Reum, Trevor Nickel, Jeff Nickel, Agents “Insurance Since 1921”

1709 N. Humiston, Worthington 507-376-9788

NICKEL & ASSOCIATESINSURANCE AGENCY, INC.

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KARL’S CARQUEST Auto Parts

1159 Oxford St.Worthington, MN

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Jessica Noble, Agent


Bus: 507-372-2141www.jessnoble.com

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FAREWAY1028 RYANS ROAD

WORTHINGTON, MNGROCERY•507-372-5191

MEAT•507-372-5388www.fareway.com

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JESSICA RILEY1016 OXFORD STREET WORTHINGTON, MN

507-372-2777

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• Commercial920 Flower LaneWorthington, MN507-376-9066

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507-343-38681531 Oxford Street • Wothington, MN 56187

Open seven days a week

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1628 FIRST AVENUE • WORTHINGTON, MN

24 Hour ServiceBusiness: 507-372-2525 • Residential: 370-3328

MIKE BURNS, OWNERWWW.BURNSLOCKANDKEY.COM

HOME • AUTO • COMMERCIAL

Burns L ck & Key

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Locally owned & operated since 1997

Bob & Steve’s

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Todd Henderson 1154 Oxford St. • Worthington, MN

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Coffee with a CopWednesday, June 27th • 9 am - 10 amAt the globe office • 300 11th street

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By Alyssa [email protected]

WORTHINGTON — Nobles County individuals with loved ones who have cognitive disorders can rest a little easier, thanks to a wristband and the Nobles County Sheriff’s Office.

The NCSO can trace the location of Nobles County residents that qualify for Project Lifesaver in the event that cognitive disor-ders like autism, demen-tia, Alzheimer’s disease or down syndrome cause them to wander from their caregivers. There are cur-rently wristbands or ankle transmitters that emit a frequency signal worn by seven Nobles County resi-dents ranging from 5 to 76 years old in three com-munities.

“We attach a transmit-ter to every participant and that sends a signal every second to a receiv-er,” Nobles County Chief Deputy Chris Dybev-ick explained of how the tracking technol-ogy works. Dybevick and Nobles County Sheriff’s Detective Melissa Einck serve as Project Lifesaver administrators for Nobles County.

For the most part, the receiver collects location

data silently and with-out any review unless the sheriff’s office is contact-ed that a participant has wandered. That has hap-pened once since adopting the program in June 2016, Dybevick said.

“We successfully found one of our participants in 12 minutes,” Dybev-ick said, noting that par-ticipant was one of 3,415 successfully found to date nationally. “The program has a 100 percent find rate.”

According to the Project Lifesaver webpage, agen-cies with the nonprofit organization find partici-pants, on average, in 30 minutes. That is 95 per-cent less time than stan-dard operations without Project Lifesaver, the site claims.

The transmitter can connect to a vehicle, which is necessary due to a finite radius it can track.

While the transmitters must be within a specific distance of the lost indi-vidual to pick up a trace, a person’s unique frequency code can be programmed into any transmitter across the country. If a participant will be travel-ing outside the immedi-ate area, the NCSO will contact the nearest par-ticipating department in

advance should a search become necessary. Like-wise, the NCSO can pro-gram the wristbands of county visitors.

To improve the chances for a successful find, one of the key qualifying fac-tors for an individual to be able to wear a transmitter is to be under 24-hour care, Dybevick said.

The NCSO has been able to offer the program at no cost to participants thanks to a combination of initial grant funding and fun-draising efforts. Dybev-ick said the office has the equipment to accept more participants, adding that area residents are still learning that the sher-iff’s office is offering the program despite it being active for the past two years.

For more information regarding the Project Life-saver, contact Dybevick or Einck at the Law Enforce-ment Center 295-5400.

Other area public safe-ty agencies that partici-pate in Project Lifesaver include agencies in north-west Iowa: Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office, Lyon County Sheriff’s Office, O’Brien County Sheriff’s Office and Spirit Lake Police Department.


WORTHINGTON — How does a person know whether a police officer, fire truck or ambulance should respond to a call?

That was one of the questions Worthington Police Chief Troy Appel fielded Thursday morning from Worthington Chris-tian School kindergartners in Martha Lubben’s class.

Last week’s 30-minute interaction was just one of many the chief has had with Worthington kin-dergartners from Prairie Elementary, Worthington Christian School and St. Mary’s since taking office in fall 2014. His visits include silly voices as he reads a book, leads a brief chat about police-related topics and answers ques-tions. Kids go home with

a picture book, a color-changing pencil with the department’s non-emer-gency number and their junior badge.

“I get a lot of hugs,” Appel said. “A lot of kids

will come up to me and tell me ‘I’m going to be a police officer.’”

Whether that becomes true or not, Appel is excit-ed that the interactions are breeding positive results,


WORTHINGTON — The Nobles County Sheriff’s Office Shop with a Cop event is returning for the second time this winter, and the office has a goal to make it bigger and better than what was considered to be a highly successful kickoff last December.

“It went really, real-ly well and was well received,” said Nobles County Sheriff’s Deputy Kristi Liepold about the inaugural event. “I’m hoping we can double it this year, depending on how much we get for funds.”

Double would be 28, as the 2017 event just before Christmas paired deputies with 14 Nobles County kids in need of a little extra holiday financial support. Each kid was given about $150 to spend on a combi-nation of toys and clothing they self-selected from an hour-long shopping trip at Walmart in Worthing-ton.

“Shop with a Cop is a good event to show (the kids) and the rest of the community that we’re not just about writing tick-ets,” Nobles County Sher-iff Kent Wilkening said just after the early Decem-ber 2017 shopping trip.

Some funding has already been secured for the next selection of chil-dren thanks to generous area organizations, indi-viduals and a Walmart

grant, Liepold said. The families have yet to

be selected, Liepold said, but will again be referred through the sheriff office’s contacts, Nobles County resources and area schools.

Liepold said the idea was inspired by other county sheriff’s offices who have participated in the pro-gram. At the suggestion of one of the Nobles County deputies, the entire office jumped on board to help make a unique holiday shopping experience for the kids.

“All the deputies said how good of a time they had and they really enjoyed it,” Liepold said. “I know I was really looking forward to it last year, and it really helped my Christmas.”

Although Liepold does not take credit for sug-gesting the program, Wilkening said she has taken a special interest in coordinating the project.

A mother herself, Liepold

was compelled to put forth extra effort to a program that would brighten chil-dren’s Christmas morn-ing.

“I have kids of my own and I know how exciting it is and fun Christmas is,” Liepold said, while expressing sympathy for families that experience financial stress surround-ing the holiday season.

With the intent to con-tinue the Shop with a Cop program for several years in the future, the NCSO is continuously accepting donations, Liepold said.

“It certainly depends on funds, but it would be great if we could do this for the next 10 or 20 years and look forward to it every year,” she said.

Cash or check donations may be made in person at the Law Enforcement Center in the Prairie Jus-tice Center in Worthington or by contacting Liepold or Wilkening.


WORTHINGTON — It’s anyone’s guess what Lucky Sayveo may be doing on any given day.

Whether he reports for work or not isn’t the ques-tion, but as a Worthington police officer, what Sayveo encounters on duty is a new mystery each day.

“You deal with different people, different calls,” Sayveo said.

The first-year Worthington police officer is assigned to the after-noon shift. He reports for duty at 12:30 p.m. and clocks out at 9 p.m.

For those eight hours, Saveyo’s squad car is his “office,” and it’s not dif-ficult for him to travel nearly 1,000 miles a shift throughout town.

“Sometimes I think — as I drive five to eight hours around town a day — that I could be in a dif-ferent state in that amount of time,” he said.

But Sayveo is not driving in circles for the fun of it. The Worthington commu-nity depends on him and the department’s other members to help keep the community safe, wheth-er that’s by responding to calls for service, being constant eyes and ears and being proactive or being a positive community role model, especially in the eyes of youths.

In an attempt to provide the officers with a change of pace, the afternoon officers are assigned to a “beat,” which identifies east, west, center (town) and traffic.

An officer, Sayveo explained, is not confined within the parameters of their beat.

“If it’s a big call every-one is headed that way,” regardless of geographic assignment, Sayveo said. “We also like to drive by each other if someone is responding to see if they

are alright. They usually just give a sign if they’re OK, and we keep driving.”

However, the beats ensure there’s no ques-tion which officer needs to respond for the initial call for service. An officer may be called to anything from a shooting, theft, property damage, domestic situa-tion or assault — but it’s certainly not limited to that. Officers may also be called for welfare checks, civil disputes over prop-erty and even to remove a bat from a residence.

Officers also serve war-rants for individuals who violate their probation or miss a court appearance, Sayveo said.

Sayveo said some days may be slow, while others are what he described “the lid popping off.” Those days involve going call to call without the ability for a breather. The most calls Sayveo recalls responding to in one day is 10.

On the slower days, Say-veo likes to devote himself to being proactive through traffic stops and spend-ing time with kids. He prefers to play basketball with kids — who almost always beat him, he said with a grin.

Whether the children consciously realize it or not, Worthington police officers spend time with them each morning and afternoon — in perhaps less visible ways on the basketball court, but just as important. Officers take their patrol around the schools in the morn-ing and afternoon, Sayveo said.

Sayveo parked in a highly visible location Wednesday afternoon in front of Worthington Mid-dle School to see if motor-ists were traveling at an appropriate speed before students rushed out the doors at the sound of the day’s final bell.

“Sometimes kids just

take off across the road without looking both ways,” Sayveo said. “The goal isn’t to stop people and write tickets, but to force people to slow down.”

Sayveo, as is expected of all Worthington police officers, knows the city like the back of his hand. It’d be difficult for an offi-cer not to know all the street names and gen-eral block vicinity due to the time spent cruising through town, but officers are actually tested on it.

“It helped that I grew up around here,” the Brews-ter native said.

That’s just one tool Worthington police offi-cers have to decrease their response time, especially in the most critical situa-tions for the safety of both civilians and their part-ners.

Sayveo said his impres-sion is that the majority of the people in the commu-nity appreciate the offi-cers and department. It’s no surprise that there are a few, particularly those involved in frequent police contacts, that are less appreciative, but even so, people are pretty decent to Sayveo on and off-duty, he said.

But that’s what it’s like to be a police officer in Worthington — where officers can integrate into the community when off-duty and be known by more than a badge num-ber when on duty, Sayveo said.

Sayveo feels appreciated by the many waves offered by motorists and commu-nity members when he drives by in his squad car.

“It gets to be so much (the waving) that I just give the one-finger flick,” he said, laughing. “But I like that people wave.”

Bringing loved ones home

Community role models

‘Well received’ Shop with a Cop returning for second year

Each day a ‘mystery’ for Worthington police officers NCSO offering tracking technology to

Nobles County residents with cognitive disorders since 2016

Worthington police officers create positive on-duty interactions with kids, community members

Tim Middagh/The GlobeThe Nobles County sheriff’s deputies and their Shop with a Cop participants finish their holiday shopping after the office’s inaugural event last December.

Tim Middagh/The GlobeWorthington Police Chief Troy Appel reads to Worthington Christian School kindergartners in Martha Lubben’s class last week as part of the Blue in the School initiative.

Tim Middagh/The GlobeWorthington Police Officer Lucky Sayveo reports for a shift last week.

which is why he has the entire force dedicating a minimum of 30 minutes a week to youths and com-munity members as part of their weekly duties.

Since January 2015, Worthington police offi-cers have made more than 600 visits to area schools, Appel said. Those inter-actions have included Appel’s regular appear-ances to kindergarten classes, but it also involves officers holding the doors and excitedly greeting kids in select mornings, par-ticipating in a recess ses-sion or attending a sport-ing event.

“It’s just to be there and interact with the kids,” Appel said.

The department also recently participated in its annual Serve and Pro-

tect day, during which the majority of the depart-ment’s members served lunch to Prairie Elemen-tary students — uniform and all.

“We wear our full uni-form (during these inter-actions) to give exposure and familiarity to kids,” he said.

Appel said what began as the Blue in the School initiative branched into another — Blue in the Community.

Officers may also spend time with youths or other community members out-side the school settings. City parks are prime set-tings for these inter-actions, as officers may jump in on a pick-up bas-ketball game, round of tag or other activities kids are engaging in.

Appel said it’s difficult to measure the impact of the regular interactions, but he’s confident that exposure will prove ben-eficial in the future.

“We’re creating a group of kids that will be very familiar with police instead of scared,” he said. “That will only help us when we need it most.”

Appel said that the Blue in the School and Blue in the Community ini-tiatives are here to stay as long as he is police chief. It was inspired by the department’s revised mission statement, which emphasizes working with the community to provide exceptional public safety.

“What better place than to start in the school,” Appel said.

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