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In honor of The City of New Richland's 140th anniversary, Farm & City Days will have a fireworks show Friday, July 7.
Stop by City Hall, The Red Leaf, The Willows, Wagner Foods or The State Bank of New Richland with any donations to help cover the cost. Donations can be mailed to P.O. Box 262 and checks made out to NR Farm & City Days.
The goal is to pay for half and raise donations for half of the cost. Thank you!
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The Rose Ensemble, a musical group from St. Paul, will be bringing music from its American Roots concert program to New Richland Care Center on Wednesday, May 3. They will perform at 6 p.m.
The hour-long program will feature music drawn from over 100 years of American history. With Shaker tunes, early Bluegrass, old-time Gospel, and Civil War anthems, there will be a little something for everyone...including the chance to sing along on old favorites! The group includes 8 singers plus instrumentalists playing fiddle, guitar, banjo, accordion, and upright bass.
For more information on The Rose Ensemble, visit www.RoseEnsemble.org.
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NRHEG Community Education is offering a canning meat, poultry and vegetables class.
This class has been a hit for the last few years. If you thought using the pressure cooker was scary, this class is for you. Join us in learning all about preserving meat and poultry using a pressure canner.
Popular methods of preservation will be covered, as well as proper techniques for using the pressure cooker. Take home ideas and recipes for a variety of different foods.
• Date: Monday, May 8
• Time: 6:–7:30 p.m.
• Cost: $20
• Location: FACS Room at USC high school
• Instructor: Marilyn Dobberstein
• Register by: May 1
For more information, call Marilyn at 507-417-2667.
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The annual Ellendale citywide cleanup has been set for Saturday and Sunday May 6 and 7.
There will be two dumpsters available starting on Saturday and continuing until full (do not leave items on the street) in front of the Maintenance building for City Residents only to dispose of items that will not fit in their trash containers.
Please DO NOT dispose of florescent light fixtures or light bulbs, hazardous materials, tires and yard waste (i.e. leaves & branches) in the dumpster.
There will be a separate trailer for the following items: scrap metal, electrical wiring, small appliances, washers, dryers, stoves, refrigerators, dishwashers or any other electronics. Please no TVs or computers and/or monitors.
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Intersection of 13, 30 still an ideal location
IDEAL LOCATION — At the business corner of 415 Southeast Second Street, New Richland, this mid-1930s building was the first, and this man was the second proprietor of the service station at the intersection of Highways 13 and 30, longtime home to One Stop and future home of Casey’s.
By RODNEY HATLE, NRAHS
Contributing Writer
(Part One of two parts.)
At this corner, New Richland’s very own, locally-owned One Stop eventually became the town’s one-and-only clerk-on-site gas station, and a convenience store.
The property has been sold and a new corporate building with similar service is forthcoming.
History shows that New Richland has had about a dozen small gas stations over the years – as many as eight at the same time. That was not so different from other towns of its size since 1930.
In 1940, the date written on this picture, this corner was nearing its 10th year as one of New Richland’s “filling stations.” It had been the second, but by 1940 there were several more. Four others were on this road, Highway 30. Four were on Broadway Avenue, two of which were across from each other on what is now First Street South, and two were across from each other at Third Street North.