Edina realty foundation helps the Service family
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PRESS RELEASE
Edina Realty Foundation recently donated $1,000 to the Service family in efforts to help the family following a fire on Nov. 21, 2021.
Edina Realty Foundation is an organization that offers financial support to nonprofit organizations, serving homeless individuals, children and families and/or homelessness prevention in Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Founded in 1996, the Foundation was created to invest in the local communities Edina Realty serves to give everyone a better place to call home.
“Over the years, the Waseca Edina Realty office has donated more than $5,700 to support local nonprofits,” said Office Manager Jenifer Dvorak. “Our team strongly believes in the importance of giving back to the community, and we look forward to continuing our efforts to support those in need.”
Tax levy approved with 4.5% increase - Dec. 10, 2021
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By REED WALLER
Staff Writer
NRHEG District approved it’s tax levy following a truth in taxation hearing Dec. 20, 2021 and continues to show the lowest tax levies of any other school district in Southern Minnesota, showing $453 for 2021, less than half of Waseca.
Truth in Taxation
The annual Truth in Taxation hearing was presided over by NRHEG Business Manager Karla Christopherson Monday, December 20 preceding the regular monthly board meeting.
After the property tax statements are distributed, a public hearing must be held to hear comments or objections before the levy can be certified.
The school levy is set either by state formula, or by the voters by operating referendum or building bonds.
The State Legislature sets the tax capacity for the district in different types of property. The County Auditor then calculates the tax based on the state-determined tax capacity. The Auditor then divides the total levy by total tax capacity to determine the rate needed.
Geneva Cancer Auction: Action dates Jan. 7-8 and Jan. 14-15
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What started from humble beginnings has turned into one of the biggest annual events in Southern Minnesota.
It’s time again for the Geneva Cancer Auction, which runs for consecutive weekends starting Jan. 10 at Geneva Bar & Grill.
The auction started in 1985 with several family members and friends who wanted to raise money to fight cancer. Several of them had experienced losses of loved ones to the disease. That first year they raised $5,500. Word spread quickly and every year since the auction has grown by leaps and bounds. Hundreds of items, some of them quite unique, have been donated for the auction block.
The cancer committee also hosts a raffle. This year raffle prizes are as follows: $1,000, $500, $400, $300, $200 and $100. Cost is $5 per ticket. The drawing is Jan. 15 at 10 p.m. and you need not be present to win.
Jan. 6, 2022 - Service home lost in Nov. fire: Century old home catches fire from neighboring trailer
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The New Richland Community, the New Richland Care Center,and the UPS drivers of Owatonna all pitched in to help the Services in their time of need. Pictured here is Shane Service with UPS drivers: Carl S., Ed W., Corey, Paul M., Mike C. Mike M., Jay V. and the rest of the Owatonna team helped donate and help in many other ways to get us through this time. Thank you." - Shane Service on the UPS drivers in the photo.
By MELANIE PILTINGSRUD
Staff Writer
Shane and Olivia Service and their four boys, Matthew (17), Ethan (14), Shane Jacob (13), and Benjamin (10), lost their house on Nov. 21, 2021 when 30-mile-an-hour winds carried an out-of-control fire in a nearby trailer to their home.
“It was just an accident,” said Shane.
A family friend had parked his trailer on the Service property when he had nowhere else to go. “We told him he could stay with us as long as he helped out,” said Olivia. That included mowing the lawn, felling trees and helping to clean up the woods. Shane signed over a Ford Expedition to him for helping, which, because it had been jacked up to service the transmission, would shortly go up in flames.
According to Shane, the trailer had a wood burning stove inside it that didn't have a proper top on the exhaust, but the fire was lit that evening to warm the trailer in preparation for the chilly night. Suddenly, Shane noticed that there were red embers coming out of the top of the chimney. When the two went into the trailer to inspect it, the fire was roaring. They hurried out to get a bucket of water, but the top of the trailer had already caught fire.
One fatality after Pemberton collision: Longtime Star Eagle employee Linda Shell’s death ‘a blow to the community’
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Linda Shell was the daughter of Donald Martin and Irene Delores. She graduated from Waldorf High School in 1972. In 2007 she was hired to work as an advertising representative for the Star Eagle.
By ELI LUTGENS
Publisher/Editor
A little after 2 p.m. on Thursday, December 16, 2021, Linda Shell was pronounced dead at the scene of a car accident after a collision with a semi-truck at the intersection of Mainstreet in Pemberton and Highway 83. Linda was hired in 2007 by then office manager Tracie Rosacker to work as an advertising representative for the Star Eagle newspaper. Three years ago she began working for the Janesville Journal where publisher Tracie Rosacker said, "We couldn't really afford to pay her when she started and I told her that. But before I knew it we couldn't afford not to have her."
In her time with both publications, and at one time the Good News Magazine, Linda spoke with hundreds of local businesses across Southern Minnesota and got to know many more who walked through the doors of the Star Eagle and Janesville Journal. Her efforts made it possible for these publications to focus on providing quality news stories that readers have come to admire.
"Her loss is a blow to the hearts of each and everyone us in the community," Rosacker said. "Linda knew everybody. Wherever we went together, someone always knew Linda. "Doing her job made it possible for me to do mine, for all of us to do our jobs. There will never be another Linda Shell."
When Rosacker learned the news of her friend of 20 plus years and longtime employee dying she broke down. "Linda always said this wasn't just a job to her. We were her family. The last thing she told me the day before, after our office Christmas party, was that she loved me, all of us… I just can't believe this happened."