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Fundraising supper March 18


By KATHY PAULSEN

Staff Writer

Think local history isn't interesting?

Think again.

The Clarks Grove Area Heritage Society is making plans to build a museum for their community. The site has been selected, the floor plan is drawn, and now they need help to raise funds for the project.

The society is inviting everyone to Clarks Grove on Tuesday night, March 18, for a pancake supper.

LeRoy Sommers will be flipping pancakes, served with sausage, coffee and milk, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at the First Baptist Church. Boy Scout Troop #219 has volunteered their help.

NR City Council


By JESSICA LUTGENS

Contributing Writer

The New Richland City Council held its first meeting of the month on Monday, March 10 at 6:30 p.m. All members were present. The agenda was reviewed and approved, and slight changes to the consent agenda – errors in the minutes from both meetings in February, and an additional invoice in the fire department’s pay requests – were made before approval.

The first order of business, parking/snow ordinances concerns of a citizen, was skipped due to said citizen’s absence.

By KATHY PAULSEN

Staff Writer

A benefit is planned for Sunday, March 9 for Shannon Rhoades of Ellendale. 

Recently, Shannon was snowmobiling with a group in the Rushford area when the ski of her snowmobile caught a culvert marker. The snowmobile rapidly changed course and fell into a six-foot ravine. Shannon had to be airlifted to a hospital in LaCrosse where the doctors determined she had a crushed vertebra, as well as two breaks to her pelvis.

Ironically, Shannon lost her father, David Rysavy, as a result of a snowmobile accident in 2010.

Plans presented for Trucker’s Inn site

By SCOTT GROTH

Contributing Writer

The Ellendale City Council met Thursday, February 27. Mayor Swearingen and all council members were present. Clerk LeeAnn Hojberg, Deputy Clerk Kim Zimprich, Josh Otto, Pete Paulson, Eric Hefner, Randy Bradt and Brian DePrez were also in attendance.

DePrez, Store Development Associate with Casey’s General Stores, was called upon by Mayor Swearingen. DePrez introduced himself stating he was in store development for Casey’s in Minnesota, Dakotas and part of Wisconsin. Deprez had copies of a drawing showing where Casey’s would like to erect a new store — the parcel where the former Trucker’s Inn sits just east of Ellendale along Interstate I-35.

Green Eggs and Ham breakfast rescheduled for Monday

NRHEG Elementary will hold its annual Green Eggs and Ham breakfast on Monday, March 10, postponed from Friday, March 7. The breakfast will last from 7 a.m. until 8:15. Please join us in this annual breakfast in support for “Read Across America” that started March 3. 


Pontoppidan to host waffle breakfast

Pontoppidan Lutheran Church in rural Ellendale will host an all-you-can-eat breakfast featuring Dad’s Belgian Waffles Saturday, March 8 from 9 a.m. to noon. Tickets are $7, children 5 and under free. Carry-outs will be available. Pontopppidan is located at 96571 SE 75th St., Ellendale.