Vol. 113 No. 6 • Thursday, January 30, 2014 • Silver Lake, MN 55381

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Silver Lake Leader photosby Alyssa Schauer

BloodmobileThe Red Cross bloodmo-bile was in town Monday atthe Silver Lake AmericanLegion, with a total of 52units collected, with 10units coming from doublered donors including For-rest Henriksen (above),Frank Kaczmarek, PaulPokornowski, Chad Poko-rnowski and Loren Math-ews. Carey Alsleben was afirst-time donor. Therewere nine deferrals. To theright, a phlebotomist startsthe donation process withBob Penas.

By Alyssa SchauerStaff Writer

On a 4-1 vote last Tuesdaynight, the Silver Lake CityCouncil voted to support theMcLeod County Board’s plansto retrofit the Materials Recov-ery Facility (MRF) into a one-sort recycling operation.

Commissioners PaulWright, Sheldon Nies and RonShimanski and Solid WasteCoordinator Sarah Young up-dated the City Council aboutthe county’s current five-sortrecycling program and itsplans to retrofit the MRF.

About a year ago, the com-missioners presented theCouncil with an update aboutthe five-sort recycling pro-gram, including its history, thefinancial aspects, and the im-portance of the recycling pro-gram in the county.

“In the last year, we havediligently researched what itwould take for the county tobecome a one-sort operation,”Wright said.

He said he and other com-missioners have toured differ-ent recycling facilities, andhosted a meeting in Decemberwith representatives fromtownships and municipalitiesto show their research find-ings.

Wright highlighted that thecurrent five-sort recycling pro-gram allows the county to pro-

vide many services to resi-dents, including school recy-cling rebates, mattressrecycling, tire recycling, alu-minum fundraising and paperdrive fundraising for area non-profit organizations, municipalyard waste hauling and pro-cessing, and much more.

He also presented the Coun-cil with the 2013 operating ex-penses of the MRF, whichshowed that revenues totaled$831,875 and expenses were$823,611.

He said expenses didn’t in-clude collection costs and rev-enues didn’t includeabatement and tip fees fromthe landfill.

“Keep in mind, we are nottrying to run a business here,”Wright said.

He also noted that the manyservices funded through thecounty’s recycling programwouldn’t exist if there was noMRF.

“Also, a big part for me (inkeeping the MRF), is the eco-nomic impact of having thoseservices here. The wages stayhere. Those people workingare in McLeod County, earn-ing dollars. The trucking, thehauling, isn’t being paid toHennepin County,” Nies said.

“If we didn’t have a MRF,the extras we’re able to cash-flow as a service would disap-pear. Jobs at West Central

Industries would disappear.We want to be able to maintainservices here,” Wright added.

Councilors questioned theprojected increase in tonnageat a one-sort facility and won-dered about filling up the land-fill.

Wright said the county usesthe tip fee as a “regulator” forwaste coming in.

City Clerk Kerry Venierquestioned the county compet-ing with Waste Management.

“Isn’t it getting pretty ag-gressive? Doesn’t Waste Man-agement employ a lot ofpeople in the county? What ifSpruce Ridge closes?” Venierasked. He questioned if WasteManagement would be of-fended by the current recy-cling situation and wondered ifit would “pull out” its recy-cling from McLeod County.

“Our objective is to be aservice for McLeod County,”Wright said.

He added that most countiesin Minnesota charge per parcelfor paying for recycling serv-ices. “There are zeros all theway across McLeod County.That’s very rare in the state ofMinnesota ... Our belief is thatone-sort can increase our rev-enues, and we will be com-pletely self-sustaining. We

On 4-1 vote, Councilendorses MRF retrofit

By Alyssa SchauerStaff Writer

At its regular meeting Jan.21, the Silver Lake City Coun-cil approved the variance ap-plication request andconditional use permit (CUP)for Jeff Chmielewski, with afew changes.

Chmielewski applied for aCUP to build a 1,656-square-foot garage on his property at204 Gehlen Drive and a vari-ance to reduce the setbackfrom five feet to zero feet.

The ordinance for construct-ing new buildings is 800square feet, and the ordinancefor setbacks is five feet fromproperty lines.

Chmielewski said one of theconcerns was using the build-ing for commercial use, but he

said he would sign a legal doc-ument to “promise” personaluse only of the building.

“I would use it to store per-sonal equipment. A trailer.Bobcat. It’s not for business.The more I can get into theshed, the less is outside,”Chmielewski said.

Mayor Bruce Bebo askedwhy Chmielewski doesn’t“pull the building forward” tokeep a five-foot setback.

“That’s one of the problemsI have, is being right on the(property) line. With the waterdumping onto other proper-ties,” Bebo said.

“What can we do to resolveit?” Chmielewski asked.

“We do have to considerpractical difficulties. The ques-tion you’d have to ask is ‘will

moving it create a big problemor hardship?’” Venier said.

“That was the questionasked at the planning commis-sion meeting. The answer was‘wasted space.’ The answerwasn’t, ‘Because I can’t getinto it,’” Councilor Eric Nel-son said.

“If that’s the case, then wecan’t accept the variance,” Ve-nier said.

Venier told the City Councilit has to decide if Chmielewskiis able to place the building onhis property, five feet from theproperty line, without anytrouble.

“If he’s not able to, you cangrant the variance. But if hecan (move the setback to fivefeet) and still build the build-ing he wants to build, then

there’s no need for a variance,”Venier said.

Bebo said the first thing theCouncil should consider is theCUP. “If the CUP doesn’t passbecause it is oversized, doesn’tthat reflect what he’s going todo with the variance?” Bebosaid.

Venier said Chmielewski isasking for a CUP to “nearlydouble” the size of his build-ing from what the ordinancestates.

“We’ve approved big build-ings before, but this is largerthan what we have approvedbefore. But the lot is alsolarger than what we’ve seenbefore,” Venier said.

“Why is it so important to beright on the property line?”Councilor Carol Roquette

asked.Chmielewski said it gives

him more space to use on hisproperty.

Council approved the CUPfor the size of the shed to be36-by-46 feet, with an amend-ment that Chmielewski sign alegal document stating he willonly use the building for per-sonal use.

“If you don’t have a prob-lem keeping a setback of fivefeet, than we should move thebuilding forward (to keep thatsetback),” Bebo said.

“An ordinance is an ordi-nance for a reason,” Roquetteadded.

“I agree with that, but (theside) towards Grove Avenue,I’d like to keep on the line,”Chmielewski said.

He said that property to thewest of him is his uncle’s land,and “I’m more than likelygoing to purchase that someday. But I can agree to movethe setback from the propertyline of the football field.”

“I’d like to see you get thebuilding so that the eave isn’tdumping on somebody else’sproperty,” Bebo said.

Chmielewski said he’s thelowest property in the area.“All the water runs to me.”

The Council approved thevariance request with changesthat the north side of the build-ing have a five-foot setbackand the west side have a two-foot setback from the propertyline.

Large garage gets CUP, but setbacks revised

The “Dairyland DonkeyBasketball Show” isrescheduled for Sunday,Feb. 9, at 5 p.m., at theGlencoe-Silver Lake highschool gymnasium.

Tickets sold for the Jan.26 date will be honored forthe event.

It is basketball played onreal, live donkeys, and itwill be wilder than a rodeoand funnier than a circus!

Teams include FFAmembers, GSL staff, mem-bers of local fire depart-ments and the GSLbasketball teams.

All local players will beriding, so come out and seesomeone you know try to

ride a donkey and play bas-ketball at the same time.

This fun-filled show issponsored by and benefitsthe GSL FFA chapter. Kid-die rides (12 and under) areavailable at intermissionfor the first 125 childrensigned up with a paid par-ent ticket. Tickets can bepurchased in advance andat the door and are avail-able from FFA membersand in the high school agroom.

The event, originallyscheduled for Sunday, Jan.26, was postponed becauseof blizzard-like conditionsthat day.

Donkey basketballrescheduled to Feb. 9at GSL High School

Council ‘rolls over’ fee for Molly’s CaféBy Alyssa SchauerStaff Writer

On a 4-1 vote on Jan. 21, theSilver Lake City Council ap-proved a “roll over” of the$150 application fee from2013 for a 2014 on-salewine/strong beer applicationfor Molly’s Café owner FrankKoelfgen.

In December, Koelfgen ap-proached the Council to dis-cuss different liquor licensingoptions for his restaurant, in-cluding a “set-up” liquor con-sumption option and anon-sale wine/strong beer li-cense.

In 2013, Koelfgen paid the$20 state application fee and$150 city application fee for awine license, but said he neverreceived the license from thestate.

Koelfgen said the state had“no evidence” of his applica-tion, though it cashed his $20

check.“After looking at all the op-

tions for liquor licensing, I’vedecided to apply for the on-sale wine and beer license,”Koelfgen said.

“What was holding me backfrom applying for any licensewas selling 3.2 beer. But Kerry(Venier) talked with the city at-torney, and found I’d be able tosell strong beer, as long as Ialso had a 3.2 on-sale beer li-cense,” Koelfgen said.

“If someone has an on-sale3.2 beer license, and theyapply and get approved for awine license, (the license) isautomatically bumped up tostrong beer,” City Clerk KerryVenier said.

“I do have to get both li-censes though,” Koelfgenstressed.

“Which two?” asked MayorBruce Bebo.

“The 3.2 on-sale license and

the wine/strong beer license,”Koelfgen said.

“It’s kind of crazy you evenhave to post a 3.2 license evenif you don’t sell it,” Bebo com-mented.

Koelfgen said he put in hisapplication that day to get “theball rolling,” but wanted tocheck with the Council if it can“roll over” the $150 fee fromthe previous year.

He said the total fee amountis $300 — $150 for the 3.2beer license and $150 for thewine/strong beer license.

“I paid $150 for the wine ap-plication last year and nevergot anything from it, and Iguess I’d like to ask if I coulduse that $150 towards one ofthem again,” Koelfgen said.

“Was that $150 toward us orthe state?” Councilor NolanJohnson asked.

“The city. But my feeling isthat I did everything I needed

to. I got the paperwork in, senta check, etc.,” Koelfgen said.

“Was there a mistake on ourpart?” Councilor Pat Fogartyasked.

“No. We did our due dili-gence. Both us and Frank. Thestate requested more informa-tion, and we got it. We sentthem everything they re-quested and needed. It reallywas no different than any othertime. Frank contacted themthis December and they saidthey had nothing on it, but Ihave the e-mail correspon-dence,” Venier said.

“They even cashed my $20check for the ‘wine’ card,”Koelfgen said.

“I don’t think there’s any-thing more the city or Frankcould have done,” Venieradded.

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“Can Frank plan on thissame scenario happeningagain?” Councilor Eric Nelsonasked.

“I hope not,” Venier said.He added: “The most con-

fusing thing is that they toldFrank that they had nothing onhis application. I don’t knowwhat happened. If, for somereason, Frank didn’t qualify,they should have at least saidsomething. There was zerocorrespondence from the statesaying ‘yea’ or ‘nay.’

“You have to buy a buyer’scard which is a $20 fee. Theycashed his check but didn’tsend him his card. That wehave nothing to do with,” Ve-nier said.

“I would be more apt to for-give the $150 if we were theones who messed up,” Fogartysaid.

“I don’t think it’s anybody’sfault here. It’s on the state,”Venier said.

“Can we be more proactiveabout this in the future?” John-son asked.

“I can’t do anything morethan what we do here. No dis-respect to Frank, but I’m notgoing to chase him down (tokeep asking),” Venier said.

“That’s part of the problem.I go to the city (for the appli-cation.) City goes to the state.

It’s like a three-ring circus,”Koelfgen said.

Venier added: “It is a weirdarrangement. He pays the cityand we issue a city license, buthe didn’t get the license fromthe state. So we get stuckhanging onto his $150 eventhough he didn’t get his li-cense.”

“If we roll this $150 overand he still doesn’t get the li-cense, that’s $300 you’re out,right, Frank? What if you gointo it and decide it’s too muchof a hassle (to sell on-salewine)? You’d still be out that

$150. You won’t get thatback,” Bebo said.

On a 4-1 vote, the Councilagreed to roll over the previ-

ously paid $150 into the costsfor 2014 licensing. Fogartycast the dissenting vote.

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Glencoe-Silver Lake sent a large contingent of competi-tors to the Region 1 Business Professionals of America(BPA) competition at Wayzata High School Jan. 24. TheGSL students included, front row from left, Adam Eber-hard, Patrick Fehrenbach, Jayden Tschimperle, KeatonAnderson, Oakley Clark, Michael Boesche, Tate Lilienthaland Bennett Bielke. Second row, Zach Jones, EmilyPopelka, Yodee Rivera, MicAnna Maresh, Claire Wraspir,Lexi Kerslake, Ashlyn Ratike, Callie Raduenz and HannahLemke. Third row, Jenessa Urban, Ellie Lepel, Ashley

Miller, Jessica Klitzke, Alyson Winn, Robyn Siewert, PiperDavis and Patrick Kunkel. Fourth row, Rachel Rusten, Tay-lor Nowak, Layne Herrmann, Cortney Konen, Kyle Beck,Jacob Wawrzyniak and Noah Tankersley. Fifth row, Yese-nia Vega, Jenna Lokensgard, Lindsay Wedin, MitchBeneke, Alex Romano, Mitch Rothstein, Mark Lueders andMichael Schaefer. Sixth row, Faith Rakow, Katie Twiss,Jacob Fehrenbach, Rachel Reichow, Amanda Husted,Maggie Petersen, Dini Schweikert, Leah Litzau andMitchell Boesche.

GSL BPA students earn regional honorsThe Region 1 Business Pro-

fessionals of America (BPA)competition was held atWayzata High School Jan. 24,and Glencoe-Silver Lake(GSL) students captured 18first places, 10 seconds andeight third-place finishes.

The first places were earnedby Keaton Anderson and Ben-nett Bielke, both in administra-tive support team; MichaelBoesche, fundamental wordprocessing; Mitchell Boesche,basic office; Oakley Clark,(two) digital publishing withInDesign and managementmarketing; Piper Davis, ad-ministrative support team;Adam Eberhard, keyboarding;Alexis Kerslake, desktop pub-lishing; Mark Lueders, data-

base applications; AshlynRatike, (two) advanced wordprocessing and integrated of-fice; Rachel Rusten, (two) ad-vanced spreadsheet and legaloffice; Robin Siewert, (two)adminstrative support teamand accounting using Quick-books; and Lindsay Wedin,medical office.

Second places went to Ker-slake in advanced office; EllieLepel, integrated office;Rachel Reichow, fundamentaldesktop publishing; YodeeRivera, fundamental account-ing; Alex Romano, broadcastnews; Mitch Rothstein, broad-cast news; Michael Schaefer,broadcast news; and AlysonWinn, database applications.

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Sixth places: MicAnnaMaresh, fundamental spread-sheet; and Faith Rakow, med-ical office.

Alternates included LeahLitzau, integrated office;Emily Popelka, advancedword processing; Maresh,database applications; andRakow, basic office.

Seniors to meet on Feb. 10The Silver Lake Senior Citizens Club will meet Mon-

day, Feb. 10, at 1 p.m., at the Silver Lake Auditorium.

County DFLers meet Feb. 8The McLeod County DFL will meet Saturday, Feb. 8,

at 10 a.m., in the downstairs meeting room of the Hutchin-son Public Library.

Senior dining birthday partyThe Silver Lake senior dining site’s February birthday

party is set for Friday, Feb. 21, at the Silver Lake Audito-rium. The menu includes salisbury steak, parslied wholepotatoes, squash, bread and margarine, and blushing pears.Call site manager Pearl Branden at 320-327-2536 or 320-327-2621 to order.

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want to continue to run (recy-cling) as a service,” Wrightsaid.

Councilor Pat Fogarty askedabout the physical changesneeded to retrofit the MRF forone-sort recycling.

Wright said an addition onthe east side would be the“only physical change youwould see, basically.”

“We would be using some ofthe same machinery, such asthe baler. We just purchasedthat, and want to use as muchof the same machinery as wecan,” Wright said.

Venier questioned the town-ship recycling shed and com-mented that even with five-sortrecycling, “the shed is alwaysfull. Would you look at doingdelivery or picking up in therural areas, or still have thesheds?” he asked.

He said his concern was thatthe city is working on anagreement with the county touse the highway shed, and hedidn’t want to see the agree-ment change so that the countyuses the shed to accommodatethe overflow in recycling.

“Anywhere there are town-ship sheds, they are alwaysfull. I’m not really sure whatwe’d do. The good thing is thatthey are always full, but it’s aninconvenience we have to dealwith. We would look at work-ing with West Central to domore frequent pick-ups,”Wright said.

“If you do get to your pro-jected 10,000 tons of recyclingwith one sort, are you going tohave facilities to hold that?We’d like to use the shed herefor public works. We don’twant to see the stalls used asstorage for recycling. Can yougive us any assurance thatwon’t happen?” Venier asked.

“You got five board mem-bers, and they change. We’llwork with you on it. We knowit’s a problem. City people andrural people use those sheds,but we will absolutely workwith you to fix that problem,”Nies said.

Venier added: “The problemwe run into is that every timethe county rolls out a new pro-gram, like mattress recyclingor battery recycling, they endup there (at the shed). That’s aconcern we need to address,”

Venier said. Bebo asked about paying for

the retrofit to the MRF, andWright said money in theabatement fund will be used.

“There’s $5 million in therenow. You never want to de-plete that. The exact numbersBurns and McDonnell willhave. Hopefully, it doesn’t turnout like a road project. Wemade it quite clear what wewant it to cost. There shouldnot be any impact on any citiesor residents to be paying forit,” Wright said.

Nelson said he attended themeeting in December andmentioned there was a ques-tion he “never really heard theanswer to.”

“You’re expecting 10,000tons of material as comparedto 6,000 tons. So you expectrevenues to go up that percent-age, but what happens to theexpenses? Do they go up at thesame rate or is that rate in thisnew facility going to behigher?” Nelson asked.

“We would operate at thesame fixed costs. We knowthat costs will increase rightoff the bat,” Wright said.

“So you’re saying it will payfor itself, even with these pro-grams,” Nelson asked.

“Well, to the best of ourknowledge. We’re expectingthat our revenues are going toclimb higher, because weknow what our fixed costs are.I totally believe we’ll see that25 percent or so increase assoon as we switch,” Wrightsaid.

“I believe you said it willcost us extra to operate this fa-cility,” Nelson recalled.

“I know that question wasasked, and we weren’t quitesure. We knew that was a ques-tion that needed to be an-swered correctly, but we donot have the right informationto answer that correctly,”Wright said.

“We look at ourselves as notjust a recycling facility. We aretaking the residents’ efforts inrecycling through the MRF togive back in other programs,”Young said.

On a 4-1 vote, the Councilapproved to support theCounty’s plans to retrofit theMRF, with Nelson casting thedissenting vote.

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Editor’s note: This comesfrom a Pulkrabek letterwritten to their children inRacine, Wis.: Frank, Antonand Mary. They had been inAmerica one year. It wassigned John and AnnaPulkrabek (parents) andbrothers, Waclaw, Charles,Mathias and Thomas, writ-ten with God’s help, July 20,1858.

We greet you, dearest chil-dren hundred and thousandtimes. And we kiss you. Wehave received your letter andwere pleased to learn that youare all well and making good.

As to our health, we are allwell except father who is stillweak, as he was very ill inwinter, that we were afraidthat he will die any minute.

We gave a few lines aboutfather to Radimer, but they didnot think it important andmaybe did not enclose it withtheir letter. They did not thinkit worth mentioning.

We understand from yourletter that our single childrencould make there a better liv-ing. And so we beg you to ex-plain to us all about that;maybe they could possiblymarry in, or find some work.So when you write, tell whatwould be the best thing, if weshould sell out here and go, allof us. The worst of it is, dearchildren, that the weather wasvery bad and everything is sohigh.

All summer this year it wasvery dry. So you can believewhat conditions we have. Andit is so bad not only aroundChrudim, but also at Pardu-bice and Praha. The crop is sobad that the farmers cut thegrain not with scythes but withsickles.

At Mrtova and Grusevic it isalso bad. Same at Tremosice.Potatoes are bad and cabbagenone.

So, dearest children, I don’tknow what will become of us.Cattle are also cheap, a cowselling formerly for 4-silvergolden now sells for 40 steins.Only a cow which is good formeat keeps its price.

Horses are cheap; for in-stance a colt sells for 5 or 6 sil-ver golden, most. And it mustbe quite good, otherwise no-body wants it even for noth-ing.

And so it will be best to sellout here and buy somethingthere across the sea. We areglad now that we did not try tokeep you here.

Dear children, you don’tknow how people were talkingand were worrying so much.Mrs. Matouskova came to usand was crying that you losteverything and when you wereon the ship third day that Tonybecame sick that he gotepilepsy and died and his wifeAnna came back to Brno.

And so, thank God that yougot there safely and are mak-ing a good living. Thus youhave stopped bad people’stongues. Those that were talk-ing so much are now ashamed.

Our dearest children, itgrieves us most that we willnever see you again. Oh God,

if only I could get there andmeet you again, when it is sogood there.

I have written you thatthank God I am well, and I for-got about Honzik Jensovsky,that God took him anyway aswell as his daughter Anna. Hedied three weeks before St.Wenceslau’s day.

Before he died he sent forus. I went there and saw thathe will not live. I asked whatprovisions he made. He saidhe bequeathed us 300-silvergolden. I told him God willrepay you with a heavenlykingdom. He died the samenight.

Two priests were at the fu-neral. He ordered 120 goldenfor funeral expenses. His wifewas only single until afterLent and then she married Wa-clav Slawik of Zaluzan.

And you should have seenher while she was a widow;that was really something howmany admirers she had. Onefellow came to her from Po-hori.

With Slawik she received 6thousands of silver.

And I have yet something totell you. In Grusovice 22houses burned down, but oursthere, nothing happened.We wrote you a letter and gaveit to Radimer. Then they didnot put it in their letter.

You have written aboutfarming. We could not go untilspring. We do not know any-thing about those states andtherefore, for God’s sake totell the truth because peoplehere are saying you haven’tanything.

Write if it is as you havewritten, in order to put ourminds to rest. Goodbye; Sodearest children, I beg of youin God’s name, do not desertGod and keep him till yourdeath. With this I am closingand greet you many times. Beof good cheer with your chil-dren.

Signed: John, Anna, Wa-claw, Charles, Matias, andThomas Pulkrabek.

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Feather strippingIn the Jan. 16 issue of the Silver LakeLeader, Ron Pulkrabek wrote about “theart of feather stripping” in his “TracingRoots” column. Kathy Winter found thisphoto from her aunt of women engagedin a “feather-stripping bee.” During

these “bees,” the women would pluckfeathers from dead geese and ducks.The purpose of the activity is to makesoft down feather beds and pillows forhome use. The items were also given aswedding gifts.

A letter to their children in America

Tracing RootsBy Ron Pulkrabek

Last week, I spent two daysat the Minnesota NewspaperConvention in Bloomingtonwith my co-workers, learningabout the newspaper industry,computer software and pho-tography tips for journalists.

My friend Chris said,“You’re going to a newspaperconvention? Sounds sonerdy!”

I had to laugh because she’sright. It does sound nerdy, butI love conventions.

There’s always great foodserved, interesting people tomeet, old friends to see, and ofcourse, interesting seminarson how to be better at yourjob.

Not to mention, there aremany vendors who offer in-centives to stop at their booths,like free lip balm, bookmarks,and candy.

My co-workers probablythought I was a hillbilly in-dulging in the candy dishes atcheck-in, but who can pass upfree tootsie rolls and peanutbutter cups?

Even our free tote bags ofconvention information in-cluded salted nut rolls, a bagof Australian licorice, nutgoodies, and bit-o-honeys.

I think the Minnesota News-paper Association wanted toensure a good time at its con-vention — it certainly knowsthe way to my heart.

Besides the tasty treats andelegant catered luncheons, theseminars offered great insightfor us working in the world ofnewspapers.

One of the seminars we at-tended was about taking greatphotos in everyday situations.This is something I want to

work on as a journalist be-cause I believe good photo-graphs can really “sell” astory. It’s hard for me to admitthat as a writer, since usingwords to create scenes and set-tings is the essence of my job,but sometimes it takes a goodphotograph to get people toread the article.

The seminar speaker, DaveSchwarz, works for the St.Cloud Times and has traveledto France, Germany,Guatemala, and Afghanistanon assignment for the paper.

Immediately I thought,“How can I do that!?”

It sounded like my dreamjob, to be able to travel andtake beautiful photos, but Iknow the writer in me wouldbe missing out.

Though traveling wouldproduce great images, Davereminded us that good photoscan be found in even the mostroutine occasions, like sport-ing events, blood drives, me-morial services, and parades.

His presentation gave me aninspiring feeling to really lookaround me; it gave me a freshperspective on my life andwhat is happening around me,and inspired me to always beon guard for that “perfect”image to accompany the story.

After the seminars, I pe-

rused the booths, taking ad-vantage of the free reporternotebooks, pens, and candy; Icouldn’t help but think ofother conventions and aca-demic events I’ve attended inhigh school.

I traveled to Madison, Wis.,for student council conven-tions (that offered free pizza)to universities for math meets(that we celebrated with tripsto Culver’s for ice cream), tomuseums and the Jelly BellyFactory for science club(where we received free jellybeans.)

Yes, I was a geek, which mybrothers are quick to remindme, but I was fed well and ac-tually learned a lot.

The newspaper conventionsare always in January, so Ihave to wait a year again toenjoy the event, but in themeantime, I’ll remember whatI learned when I’m on assign-ment, and hopefully can im-prove my photography whencovering routine events likethe St. Patrick’s Day parade,bean bag tournaments, fishfrys, and of course, Pola-Czesky Days.

And maybe I’ll indulge inthe candy dish at work to sat-isfy that sweet tooth.

Food, candy, freebies, and learning

The Travel SectionBy Alyssa Schauer

75 YEARS AGO - FEB. 4, 1939 — The an-nual meeting of the Silver Lake Creamery Co.will be held on Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 7, at theSilver Lake Village Hall. Election of officerswill be held, reports will be read, and any otherbusiness will be discussed. After the businesssession is ended, there will be hot dogs andsmokes. Members of the board whose terms ex-pire this year are Ed Wraspir, Stanley Drahos,Henry Nuwash and Art Hudec. Hold-over mem-bers are Joe Chap, Fred Drahos and FrankSchultz.

Mr. and Mrs. Jos. A. LaMott observed their48th wedding anniversary on Friday evening attheir home with family and friends. The eveningwas spent in dancing and playing cards.

Ted Drahos, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Dra-hos, left Thursday of this week for Los Angeles,Calif., where he will enter the Aero IndustriesTechnical Institute for a course in aeronauticalengineering. He has been employed for the pastyear at the Jack Horesji Cafe. Raymond Dobistakes his place at Jack’s Cafe.

Mr. and Mrs. Bud Lyman are the parents of ason born on Jan. 25.

50 YEARS AGO - JAN. 30, 1964 — The an-nual Silver Lake Fire Department Stag Partywill be held on Friday evening, Jan. 31, at theauditorium.

Gehlen Farm Service, Inc., will be host to thefarm men and women of this community onThursday, Feb. 6, at its big Beautena GiveawayParty at the Silver Lake Auditorium.

A benefit card party for the Silver Lake HighSchool Band Uniform Fund will be held onThursday, Feb. 6, at the Silver Lake Auditorium.The event is sponsored by the Hale-Rich ValleyFarm Bureau Unit.

The Silver Lake Fire Department was sum-moned to two fires in the community this week.Monday evening, shortly after 9, the department

made a run to the Donald Fredin farm home(former Anton Knoll farm) north of town to ex-tinguish a fire in a wall next to the chimney.Tuesday afternoon, the department successfullyfought a fire at the Joseph Shaur farm home justsouth of town.

Leslie Zeman, 45, passed away on Friday,Jan. 10. Funeral services were held on Sunday,Jan. 12, in Waconia. His grandparents are Mr.and Mrs. Anton Hlavka Sr. of Silver Lake.

Fred Lueck, 64, passed away on Tuesday,Dec. 31, 1963. Funeral services were held onThursday afternoon, Jan. 2, at the Zion LutheranChurch in Hopkins.

George Stachowiak, 71, passed away at theSt. Mary’s Hospital in Winsted on Friday, Jan.24. Funeral services were held on Tuesdaymorning, Jan. 27, at the St. Joseph Church.

A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Donald(Arlene Konerza) Casey on Jan. 24.

25 YEARS AGO - FEB. 2, 1989 — On Sun-day, Feb. 5, the Silver Lake Catholic Schoolwill hold its annual School Carnival at the Sil-ver Lake Auditorium.

Auditions were held for the Silver Lake Cen-tennial play, “The Spirit of Silver Lake,” withmany local actors auditioning. Eight more menare needed for the play and are to report to theauditorium on Monday or Tuesday of next weekif they would like to participate in the play.

Roxi’s Styling Salon has a perm special for$26 which includes haircut and conditioningtreatment.

Mrs. Edward Vlcek, 77, passed away onThursday, Jan. 26, at the home of her daughterand son-in-law in Broken Arrow, Okla. Funeralservices were held on Monday, Jan. 30, at theBethlehem United Methodist Church inHutchinson.

A daughter was born to Barry and SharonBarton on Jan. 25.

Down Memory LaneCompiled by Margaret Benz

Letter to the Editor

Attend your Republican caucuses Feb. 4To the Editor:

Let your voice be heard. At-tend your local Republicancaucus.

We are writing to encourageRepublicans to attend yourlocal precinct caucus on Feb.4. Precinct caucuses providethe first opportunity many ofus have in determining whatissues need to be addressed byour local government such aslower taxes, better schools andsafer neighborhoods.

It is at the caucus whereyour local precinct leaders areelected and delegates areelected to begin the party’s en-dorsement process.

There are those who wouldlike to do away with the cau-cus system. Without caucuses,the voice of the individual cit-izen in the affairs of our state

would greatly be suppressed.Attendees are welcome to

participate or simply observe.It’s a wonderful way to meetyour local Republican candi-dates and discuss public pol-icy. It’s where, with yourneighbors, your resolutionsmay be passed and become thestarting point in our party’sstanding platform. Plus you’llget to cast your vote in a pref-erence poll for our Republicancandidates for governor andfor U.S. Senate.

A government of the people,by the people and for the peo-ple, starts with you.

Politics is the process of thepeople to decide what lawsand elected representativesthey want. Political party ac-tions and candidates areshaped directly by the people

that show up and participate.Our governmental policy andsuccess for the people reflectsthe effectiveness of your per-sonal political activity.

Please visit McLeodGOP.com to learn more about thecandidates and to view eligi-bility requirements.

There are several conven-ient local caucus locationsthroughout McLeod County.To find yours visit McLeod-GOP.com.

McLeod County RepublicanParty officers:

Eric Harpel, chairJim Bobier, deputy chair

John Grein, secretaryJennifer Moore, treasurer

Vice chairs Nate Kiewel,Lori Hornick-Lindell, Jim

Nielsen, Carmen Patino,Jonathan Boesche

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LeRoy Emil Prochaska, 68,of Glencoe, died Friday, Jan.24, 2014, at his home at GrandMeadows Senior Living inGlencoe.

A memo-rial servicewas heldWednesday,Jan. 29, atFaith Pres-b y t e r i a nChurch inSilver Lake-with theRev. CarolC h m i e l -ewski offi-ciating.

Jacki Rossi was the organ-ist, and congregational hymnswere “Just As I Am” and“Amazing Grace.” Soloist Au-gust Makovsky sang “TheLord’s Prayer” and “In theGarden.”

Urn bearers were MarkAhlbrecht, Milan Gores, Den-nis Gores, Mike Matousek,Wally Zich and Jack Splichal.Honorary urn bearers were hisgrandchildren and great-grandchildren. Interment wasin Bohemian National Ceme-tery in Silver Lake.

Mr. Prochaska was bornFeb. 13, 1945, in Glencoe, toEmil and Elsie (Gores) Pro-chaska. He was baptized as aninfant and confirmed in hisyouth, both at St. GeorgeCatholic Church in Glencoe.

He attended country schoolin Rich Valley Township, Dis-trict 29, for a few years beforegraduating with the GlencoeHigh School class of 1963.

Mr. Prochaska continued to

live on the family farm, wherehe spent the rest of his lifefarming.

On Feb. 6, 1967, he wasunited in marriage to SusanVorlicek by the Rev. Halloranat St. George Catholic Churchin Glencoe. The Prochaskasmade their home on the farmnear Glencoe. The couple wasblessed with three children,Julie, Brian “Myron” andAmanda. They shared nearly47 years of marriage.

Mr. Prochaska went on towork some part-time jobs atLemke’s Welding, GreenGiant, Mueller’s Sales & Serv-ice and Glencoe Butter & Pro-duce.

Farming was his life andpassion. He was a member ofFaith Presbyterian Church inSilver Lake.

Mr. Prochaska was alwaysdoing something, always onthe go, leaving an impressioneverywhere he went. He lovedto interact with people.

His enjoyments in life in-cluded old-time and countrywestern music, dancing, dem-olition derbies — building anddriving the cars — fixing cars,tinkering on anything, rollingdice with the neighbors, eatingonions, bullhead meals, and,of course, his warm DietPepsi.

The Prochaskas would goon drives, some short andmany long, just to enjoy theride and spend time together.“The scenic route,” as hecalled it sometimes went outof the way and often paused ata Burger King or a DairyQueen. He particularly liked

to play with his kids andgrandkids, cherishing the timespent with his friends and fam-ily.

Survivors include his wife,Susan Prochaska of Glencoe;children, Julie (Brian)Rempfer of Wahpeton, N.D.,Brian “Myron” Prochaska ofGlencoe and Amanda (Luke)Uecker of Volga, S.D.; grand-children, Travis Dammann,Cory Dammann, CameronUecker, Damon Uecker, Eric(Jen) Rempfer, Anna (RobbyCompart) Rempfer and Darren(Sarah Fromouth) Rempfer;great-grandchildren, DomanikDammann, Elizabeth Rempferand Kathryn Rempfer; otherrelatives and many friends.

Preceding him in death werehis parents, Emil and ElsieProchaska, and parents-in-law,Ben and Alice Vorlicek.

Arrangements were by theJohnson-McBride FuneralChapel of Glencoe. Onlineobituaries and guest book areavailable at www.hantge.com. Click on obituaries/guest book.

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Happy 87th BirthdayHelen Melquist

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Friday, Feb. 14

Valentine’sDay

Obituaries

Fern Elizabeth “Liz”(Hlavka, Lane) Gaffaney 65,of Forney, Texas, died Jan. 16,2014, after battling cancer fortwo years.

F u n e r a ls e r v i c e swere heldS a t u r d a y,Jan. 18, inG a r l a n d ,Texas.

Intermentwas at theN a t i o n a lCemetery inD a l l a s ,Texas.

Fern Eliz-abeth Hlavka was born July28, 1948, to Mabel BonniwellHlavka and Donald Hlavka.

She grew up in the SilverLake area and graduated fromSilver Lake High School in1966. After high school, sheearned her licensed practicalnurse (LPN) degree at MeekerCounty School of Nursing inLitchfield, followed by severalyears in nursing at MethodistHospital in Rochester, beforemoving to Annapolis, Md.

On June 8, 1972, LizHlavka married Ensign Dou-glas “Buzz” Lane followinghis graduation from the NavalAcademy. The Navy took thecouple to California andRhode Island. Following hisretirement after reaching therank of lieutenant commander,they lived in the Dallas, Texas,area. They had two children,Katherine and Daniel.

Mr. Lane passed away in1991, and Daniel Lane waskilled in a motorcycle accidentin 1997.

In September 2000, shemarried Thomas AndrewGaffaney, and they remainedin Dallas.

Mrs. Gaffaney’s passionswere her love for God, herfamily, and the ministries shewas involved in. Her love forJesus manifested in severaldifferent ways — throughsinging and playing the organin many different churchesand involvement in KairosOutside (an international min-istry supporting women whohave incarcerated loved ones).

She adored her twin grand-

daughters, whether teachingthem how to sew, bake, swim,or just brushing their hair.Other passions included gar-dening and quilting.

She was employed by theSocial Security Administrationfor over 30 years and thor-oughly enjoyed helping peo-ple.

Survivors include her hus-band, Thomas Gaffaney ofForney, Texas; her daughter,Katherine “Katie” (Daniel)Robertson; two granddaugh-ters, Allison Claire Robertsonand Evelyn Morgan Robert-son, all of Leesburg, Va.; hermother, Mabel Hlavka of Sil-ver Lake; her sisters, Jacque-lyn Hlavka (DuWayne) Paulof Alexandria and BarbaraHlavka (Harlan) Wawrzyniakof Silver Lake; brother, James(Candace) Hlavka of LesterPrairie; and seven nieces andnephews.

She was preceded in deathby her first husband, Douglas“Buzz” Lane; her son, DanielS. Lane; and her father, Don-ald Hlavka.

Fern E. Gaffaney, 65, of Forney, Texas

Fern E. ‘Liz’Gaffaney

LeRoy E. Prochaska, 68, of Glencoe

LeRoy E.Prochaska

Chicken Pot Pie Soup

Ingredients:2 cups all-purpose flour1-1/4 teaspoons salt2/3 cup shortening5 to 6 tablespoons milkSoup:2 tablespoons butter1 cup cubed peeled potatoes1 cup chopped sweet onion2 celery ribs, chopped2 medium carrots, chopped1/2 cup all-purpose flour1/2 teaspoon salt1/4 teaspoon pepper3 cans (14.5 ounces each) chicken broth2 cups shredded cooked chicken1 cup frozen petite peas1 cup frozen corn

Directions:In a large bowl, mix flour and salt; cut in short-ening until crumbly. Gradually add milk, toss-ing with a fork until dough holds together whenpressed. Shape into a disk; wrap in plastic wrap.Refrigerate for 30 minutes or overnight. On alightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/8-inchthickness. Using a floured 2-1/2-inch heart-shaped or round cutter, cut 18 shapes. Place 1inch apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at425° for 8-11 minutes or until golden brown.Cool on a wire rack. For soup, in a Dutch oven,heat butter over medium-high heat. Add the po-tatoes, onion, celery and carrots; cook and stirfor 5-7 minutes or until onion is tender. Stir inthe flour, salt and pepper until blended; gradu-ally whisk in broth. Bring to a boil, stirring oc-casionally. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for8-10 minutes or until potatoes are tender. Stir inremaining ingredients; heat through. Serve withpastries.

Beer Macaroni and Cheese

Ingredients:1 package (16 ounces) elbow macaroni1/4 cup butter2 garlic cloves, minced1/4 cup all-purpose flour1 tablespoon ground mustard1 teaspoon salt3/4 teaspoon pepper2-1/2 cups milk

3/4 cup amber beer1/4 cup heavy whipping cream3 cups (12 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese, di-vided2 tablespoons minced chives5 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled

Directions:Cook macaroni according to package directionsfor al dente. Meanwhile, in a Dutch oven, heatbutter over medium-high heat. Add garlic; cookand stir for 1 minute. Stir in the flour, mustard,salt and pepper until smooth; gradually whiskin the milk, beer and cream. Bring to a boil;cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened.Reduce heat. Stir in 2 cups cheddar cheese,fontina cheese and 1 tablespoon Parmesancheese until melted. Add chives. Drain maca-roni; stir into sauce. Transfer to a greased 3-qt.baking dish. Sprinkle with remaining cheddarand Parmesan cheeses. Bake, uncovered, at400° for 15-20 minutes or until golden brownand heated through. Top with crumbled bacon.Let stand for 5 minutes before serving.

Delicious Slow Cooker Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:2 cups white sugar1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder1 teaspoon salt2 eggs1 cup milk1/2 cup vegetable oil2 teaspoons vanilla extract1 cup boiling water

Directions:Spray crock of a large slow cooker with cookingspray. In a medium bowl, whisk the sugar, flour,cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Ina separate small bowl, whisk together the eggs,milk, oil and vanilla until well combined. Whiskin the boiling water. Pour the wet ingredientsinto the dry and mix well. Pour the cake batterinto the prepared slow cooker. Set slow cookerto “low” and cook until cake has no wet spotson top and has pulled away from sides of thecrock, about 3 hours. Turn off slow cooker andallow cake to rest for 30 minutes before serving.

Kitchen Delights& Other Things

By Lori CoplerStaff Writer

Four Glencoe-SilverLake (GSL) juniors— Taylor Venier,

Christopher Lemke, RobynSiewert and Mariah Gulde-mann-Chiariello — havebeen chosen as House pagesfor the current Minnesota leg-islative session.

Tom Schoper, a social stud-ies instructor at GSL, saidthis is the largest number ofpages the school has had inseveral years.

Schoper said aspiringpages have to submit an essayregarding why they want toserve, and also are required toundergo a background check.

All four pages will workfor a week in the House, andall will serve in May. All fouralso will work with local stateRep. Glenn Gruenhagen ofGlencoe.

“They’ll spend a couple ofdays working in Rep. Gruen-hagen’s office, a couple ofdays on the House floor, anda couple of days workingwith committees,” saidSchoper.

Schoper said there is a costassociated with being a page,primarily for housing for theweek they are at the Capitol.They stay in a hotel withinwalking distance of the Capi-tol, and are chaperoned theentire time they are there,Schoper added.

*****Taylor Venier wrote in her

essay that she is hoping apage experience will furtherher education in “all areas ofgovernment and show mehow to be a true leader.”

Venier indicated that it isimportant for young people tohave hands-on experience inlawmaking.

“After all, young peoplelike myself are the future ofthis nation,” Venier wrote.

Lemke said in his essaythat his social studies teacher(Schoper) is “very enthusias-tic about politics and hassparked my interest in thissubject.”

Lemke said that “spark”has led him to attend local

precinct caucuses, and nowwants to see “first-hand” howstate government works.

Guldemann-Chiariello saidthat she visited the state Leg-islature last year as a mocktrial participant.

“Part of that visit waswatching the House and Sen-ate floors in action,” wroteGuldemann-Chiariello.“Those people are makingdecisions that will affect ourlives, in both the present andthe future. I want to take partin the formation of these de-cisions.”

Siewert wrote in her essaythat she is particularly inter-ested in how tax laws, and therules and regulations that gowith them, are made.

“My mother is the bookkeeper for the small businessthat my parents own. Withthe new tax laws, she oftencomes home frustrated be-cause the rules and guidelinesare quite contradicting,”

Siewert wrote.In addition, Siewert wrote,

“I would simply like to learnmore about how the govern-ment in my home state func-tions.”

*****Schoper said that students

accepted into the page pro-gram are an “elite” group se-lected through a stringentprocess.

To that end, Schoper saidhe would hate to see studentsnot be able to participate be-cause of financial reasons,which is why the pages aresoliciting donations.

The four pages will be get-ting some financial assistancefrom the county Republicans,and also are approachinglocal Lions clubs and otherorganizations for donations,Schoper said.

Schoper said anyone elseinterested in donating cancontact him at the high schoolat 320-864-2436.

Four GSL juniors selectedas House pages for May

Chronicle photo by Lori CoplerGSL juniors selected to serve as House pages thisspring are, front, Taylor Venier and Robyn Siewert,and, back, Mariah Guldemann-Chiariello and Christo-pher Lemke.

Local scholarship applica-tions will become available toGlencoe-Silver Lake seniorson Monday, Feb. 3.

More than $70,000 wasawarded to the class of 2013,and the scholarships will beawarded at the GSL SeniorBanquet on Sunday, May 18.

Monies for these scholar-ships come from local organi-zations, businesses andfamilies and are awarded toseniors who will be attendinga post-secondary school dur-ing the 2014-15 school year.

Scholarship informationand applications can be foundunder the “Counseling Cor-ner” section on the GSL web-siet at www.gsl.k12.mn.us.

Parents of seniors are askedto check with their child re-garding this scholarship infor-mation and encourage yourchild to give these applica-tions the time they deserve.

The applications are to bereturned to the guidance officeno later than 8 a.m. on Tues-day, March 11. No applica-tions will be accepted afterthat time or date.

Scholarshipapplicationsavailable Feb. 3

Girls need to pick up the paceBy Josh Randt Sports Editor

After going 1-2 last week,girls’ head basketball coachZach Otto-Fisher said his teamneeds to get out of the gates fast,and not be so slow in the open-ing minutes.

First, Glencoe-Silver Lakecame away with a 63-53 victoryover Litchfield on Tuesday, Jan.21, before the Panthers lost 56-46 to Willmar at home on Thurs-day, and the rivalry game againstHutchinson Friday night was alittle one-sided as Hutch scored72 to GSL’s 52.

What Otto-Fisher said helearned over the three-gamespan is that, “We can’t startgames so slow and miss ourshots. Against Willmar, that’swhat cost us the game —poorshooting from the whole team.”

Indeed, there was a stark con-trast between Tuesday’s game inLitchfield, and Thursday’s lossto the Willmar Cardinals, asGSL went 12-40 from the field.

“We just came out reallydead,” senior captain StephKlockmann said. “We weren’tplaying our game. We were let-ting them take over … We defi-nitely weren’t boxing out. Weknew coming into it that theywere going to be (working) foroffensive rebounds, and we did

not stop them at all.” The Panthers have not been

blown out in the losses, however.At one point GSL trailed Will-mar by 25 points in the secondhalf, yet still managed to go onan 18-6 scoring run to bring itback within seven. AgainstHutchinson, Otto-Fisher’s Pan-thers only trailed 36-30 at half-

time. But the head coach said hewould rather see his team playmore consistently throughout thegame.

“Yes, it is an inspiration forthe girls to be able to battle backand make things closer,” saidOtto-Fisher. “But I am not happywith the big leads that we aregiving up. We need to play 36

minutes of basketball right now,and not little five-to-six minutespurts here and there.”

At one point in the second halfagainst the Cardinals, Otto-Fisher yanked his entire startinglineup off the floor except forSam Lange.

“(Coach) just told us that weneeded to refocus because weweren’t playing together,”Klockmann said. “We justneeded to settle down and startover.”

Returning his starters to thefloor just a minute later, the Pan-thers responded to their headcoach and went off on that 18-6run. But the Cardinals just hadtoo much, and closed out GSL56-46.

So what are the positivesOtto-Fisher is taking away fromthese games?

“We can make our shots, andwe can hold our own in games,”he said. “I am so proud that thegirls never put their heads downand give up on the game. Theyfight until the horn blows.”

And while the latter twogames weren’t their best of theseason, Otto-Fisher was verypleased with the way his teamplayed against Litchfield.

“We need more games like(the one against) Litchfield,where Maddie (Monahan) and

Steph (Klockmann) go off for 17assists combined,” Otto-Fishersaid. “(Sam) Lange throwsdown five from downtown, andour bench players all contributedefensively, but also on offense.”

One of the main factorsagainst Litchfield, said Otto-Fisher, was the play of RachaelPopp, who finished with 11points, six rebounds and two as-sists.

“Popp was one of those play-ers who gave a spark to us atLitchfield,” said Otto-Fisher.“She had boards, assists, points,but most importantly, she hadconfidence and this desire toprove something. She wants toget the big minutes and be a keyrole player.”

Against the Dragons, MaddieMonahan had 20 points, 10 as-sists, three steals and two re-bounds.

Sam Lange had one of herbiggest games against Litchfield,scoring 15 of her 17 points onthree-pointers, and finished withthree rebounds, one assist and ablock.

GSL’s game with Annandalewas postponed on Tuesday. ThePanthers host Holy FamilyCatholic on Friday, before Ro-cori visits Glencoe on Monday,Feb. 3.

Silver Lake Leader, Thursday, January 30, 2014 — Page 5 Sports

Tanner Chmielewski looks to hit a switch versus BrockLuthens of Hutch. Luthens went on to pin Chmielewskiat 4:39 as the Panthers lost 61-8 to the Tigers.

Silver Lake Leader photo by Lori Copler

Jennifer Illg (behind) does her best to keep Willmar’sKaitlynn Kienholz out of the lane during last Thurs-day’s 56-46 loss to the Cardinals. Illg finished withthree points and two assists.

Silver Lake Leader photo by Josh Randt

DANCELINE

GYMNASTICS

GIRLS’ BASKETBALL

WRESTLING

December12....at NLS Conf. Tourney ................................................10th14....at Hutchinson Inv........6thJanuary04....at Belle Plaine Inv............09....at Holy Family Cath Conf.Tourney ....................................11....at Waconia Inv .................18....at Delano Conf. Tourney...................................................25....at NLS Inv........................February08....at Orono (Sections) ..TBD

December06....at Annandale....................

.........................L,126.025-95.507....at Northfield Inv................13....NLS .......L,129.875-98.2514....at St. Peter..............................................L,118.625-94.2517....Watertown-Mayer .........................................L,137.6-99.1

January14....Litchfield ................................... .........L,123.375-103.12517....at Dassel-Cokato ....................................L,120.775-101.618....GSL Inv.......................5th21....St. Peter and Orono ...3rd23....Waconia...L,128.875-98.530....at Delano ..................6:00February07....Mound-Wtka .............6:0014....at Mankato................TBD

December05....Wabasso-Red Rock Cen-

tral.... ...........................L,36-3107....GSL Inv. .....................2nd 12....Dassel-Cokato....W,48-2512....Litchfield .............W,47-2114....at Andover Inv. ............1st19....at NLS ................W,37-2119....at Ann/ML ...........W,31-3020....at St. Peter ........W,45-3120....at WEM/JWP......W,45-3021....at Richfield Inv. ...........3rdJanuary02....Watertown-Mayer ...............................................W,36-3009....Orono ................W,65-14 09....Delano .................W,58-6 11....at Zimmerman Inv.......3rd18....at LCWM Inv..............2nd20....at Mound-Wtka ....L,41-2923....at Hutchinson ........L,61-830....at ACGC Quad..........5:0031....at NLS Conf. Tourney ................................................3:30February01....GSL Youth Tourney...8:0006....New Prague..............6:0007....at STMA....................6:0008....at DC Inv...................8:00

December03....St. Peter .............W,60-4207....at NYA ................W,39-3310....Belle Paine .........W,68-3513....New Ulm.............W,60-4817....at New Prague.....L,62-3020....Lester Prairie......W,71-5828....at MACCRAY......W,58-23January03....at Sibley East .....W,49-4010....at Mound-Wtka ....L,53-4111....at Mayer Lutheran ................................................L,81-6214....NLS .....................L,62-5217....Orono ..................L,73-5221....at Litchfield .........W,63-5323....Willmar ................L,56-4624....at Hutchinson ......L,72-5228....at Annandale...postponed31....Holy Family Cath ......7:15February03....Rocori .......................7:3007....Dassel-Cokato ..........7:1510....at NLS.......................7:1518....Litchfield ...................7:1520....at Waconia................7:1521....Delano ......................7:1525....Annandale ................7:15

GSL WinterSports BOYS’ BASKETBALL

November26....Maple River .........L,62-61

December06....at Bloomington Jefferson .....................................L,68-3607....at NYA ................W,73-4810....at Hutchinson .....W,66-5912....Dassel-Cokato....W,47-3717....at Annandale .......L,62-5428....Belle Plaine ........W,79-72January03....Sibley East .........W,57-5504....at Jordan .............L,63-4309....at BOLD .............W,66-5210....Mound-Wtka.......W,77-6014....at NLS ................W,66-6317....at Orono ..............L,73-5521....Litchfield .............W,55-5124....Hutchinson ..........L,62-5728....Annandale.......postponed31....at Holy Family Cath ..7:15February03....at Belle Plaine...........7:3006....at Dassel-Cokato ......7:1510....at Rocori ...................7:3011....NLS...........................7:1514....Waconia....................7:1518....at Litchfield ...............7:1520....at Watertown-Mayer .7:3021....at Delano ..................7:15

By Josh RandtSports Editor

Last week, after the Glencoe-Silver Lake boys’ basketballteam went 1-1 against WrightCounty Conference opponents,head coach Robb DeCorsey saidthe ball needed to find its way in-side if the Panthers were going toscore.

This past week, GSL defeatedLitchfield 55-51 on Tuesday, Jan.21, before falling in overtime toHutchinson on Friday at home62-57.

The first time GSL and Hutchclashed was Dec. 10, as the Pan-thers routed the Tigers 66-59.

But there were some majordifferences in the lineups of bothteams for Friday night’s game:the Tigers’ Marcus Hahn was ab-sent from the first meeting, rest-ing up from a long footballseason. And Mason Goettlmissed Friday’s game for GSL,still recovering from an appen-dectomy, while Teddy Petersensat out most of the first half witha sore ankle. Reed Wawrzyniakand Scott Landes started in theirplaces.

“They didn’t have that size, a6’3 guy down low,” senior centerGarrett Ober said of Hahn andthe teams’ first meeting. “Andwe had Mason Goettl out andTeddy (Petersen) with a soreankle. That makes a difference.(Hutch) was pretty physical.There were some cheap shots,but, it’s basketball. That’s thegame.”

A quick inbounds pass fromRiley Steenhoek resulted in aneasy layup for Hahn and a 5-0lead as the Panthers were caughtoff guard just minutes into thegame.

Ober scored his first field goalon GSL’s next possession, butHahn went right back down andscored again to keep the Panthersfrom closing in.

The two teams went to the halfwith Hutchinson leading 30-16,as Hahn led Tiger scorers withnine points.

DeCorsey was rather dis-pleased with the way his teamlooked in the first half.

“We were just kind of out ofit,” said DeCorsey annoyed.“There was no push down thefloor, and we couldn’t pressurethe ball because we didn’t score.”

The good news was that sixdifferent Panthers scored in thefirst half, and the Tigers had beencalled for charging three times,but GSL could not get consistentbuckets or make the necessarystops when it needed them.

The bad news was that KeatonAnderson only scored 12 pointsall game.

“Keaton’s got to score, and he

didn’t score,” DeCorsey said.“He had 12 points. We’re notgoing to win if Keaton onlyscores 12 points.”

Hutch came out in the secondhalf and looked to possibly runaway with the game as Hahn putin a layup and Jayden Juergensenscored on a put-back, giving theTigers a 34-16 lead.

But after that, GSL took off ona 17-6 scoring run, during whichfive different Panthers scored.

Hutch called timeout afterScott Landes scored three of his11 points with 13:37 remainingas GSL fought back to make it34-26.

The Panthers really startedclosing in on the Tigers midwaythrough the half, primarily be-hind the 6'8 Ober.

Just a couple of minutes aftersinking another jumper, Ober at-tacked the lane and drew a foulon Hahn. The junior sunk bothbefore dropping in another layupoff the glass, and draining an-other field goal from about 15feet out, as GSL found itselfwithin two during a Hutch time-out with 7:29 remaining.

GSL built its biggest lead, athree-point 50-47 difference, asOber went up strong under therim once again for another layupwith 2:15 left in the second half.

But Hahn scored five points inthe final two minutes forHutchinson, including the tyingthree-pointer with just 1:00 left.

Petersen got off a last-secondshot but it fell short as the teamsheaded into overtime.

Hahn and the Tigers came outfast, building a 58-52 leadhalfway through the extra perioduntil Hahn fouled out.

But another Ober put-backand trey from Anderson, and thePanthers found themselves down58-57 with Ober at the free-throw line and just 0:42 remain-ing.

Ober’s free throw clanked offthe rim as the Tigers’ MasonKucera corralled the ball anddrew a quick foul from Petersen.Kucera sunk both free throws,extending the lead to 60-57. GSLeventually fell 62-57.

The Panthers were scheduledto host Annandale (No. 9 ClassAA) Tuesday, but the game waspostponed due to weather.

Now GSL heads to Victoriafor a showdown with the No. 2ranked team in Class AAA, theHoly Family Catholic Fire, onFriday.

After that, the Panthers travelsouth to Belle Plaine on Monday,Feb. 3.

Hutch escapes with anovertime victory, 62-57

Teddy Petersen (right) throws up a no-look shot as hedraws a foul from a Hutch defender. Petersen and thePanthers saw plenty of physical play Friday against theTigers, but lost 62-57 in overtime.

Silver Lake Leader photo by Josh Randt

By Josh RandtSports Editor

The Glencoe-SilverLake/Lester Prairie wrestlingteam is on its first losing streakof the season after droppingduals to Waconia (36-31) andHutchinson (61-8) this pastweek.

The Panthers were scheduledto grapple with Waconia at thedouble-team dual in Mound-We-stonka on Jan. 16, but inclementweather kept the team from com-peting.

Despite three straight losses,GSL/LP is ranked No. 12 inClass AA teams, according to theGuillotine, and head wrestlingcoach Lance Wurm called it a“good learning week.”

“We did enough to win, butmistakes here and there cost us,”Wurm said of last week. “It wasa good learning week, and that’swhat we need right now … Weknow we’re close, but they’vegot to believe they can get overthe edge and do it.”

The reason why Wurm is soupbeat in spite of the losses is be-cause the things that went wrongare fixable, he said.

“It’s just little things that reallyhurt us that are pretty easy topoint out,” Wurm said. “Likegiving up points late in the periodagain. Against Waconia that hurtus. (Jacob) Jewett had a majorand he lost it. It’s things likethat,” that cost his team a poten-tial victory against Waconia, andkept them from closing the gapagainst Hutch.

But GSL sat two of its tough-est wrestlers, Michael Donnayand Nate Tesch, at the skirmishin Norwood Young America lastTuesday against Waconia, whichresulted in a 36-31 loss. The twowould have been present had

GSL/LP competed as planned onthe 16th.

Michael Donnay and Teschwere also missing in the 61-8pounding at the hands of theHutchinson Tigers on Thursday.

Instead, the Panthers forfeitedat 138 against the Tigers andbumped Brandon Richter up to145 where Michael Donnaywould have squared off withLuke Pundsack.

Richter, and nearly every otherPanther, lost Thursday night, butRichter was disqualified forslamming Luke Pundsack.

The exceptions were JacobJewett and Aaron Donnay at 113and 126 pounds.

Jewett went point crazy anddefeated Dylan Pundsack 23-13for a major decision, and AaronDonnay also notched a major de-cision with his 14-4 victory overJayden Mackedanz.

“Aaron wrestled cautious andsmart,” Wurm said. “So that wasnice to see.”

The pair of losses and a stum-ble to the Mound-WestonkaWhite Hawks on the Mondaybefore squaring off with Waco-nia puts GSL/LP in its first losingslump of the season.

Things won’t get much easier,as the Panthers will see a bevy oftalent from Class A on Thursdayat the quadrangular hosted by At-water-Cosmos-Grove City.

The team will stay overnightThursday, as the Wright CountyConference tournament beginsthe following day at New Lon-don-Spicer.

Saturday, GSL/LP hosts itsyouth wrestling tournament atthe GSL gymnasium.

The Panthers are then off untilFeb. 6 when they host section foeNew Prague for parent’s night.

‘It was a goodlearning week’

By Lori CoplerStaff Writer

The McLeod County Boardof Commissioners will vote apotential change to one-sortrecycling at either its Feb. 17or March 4 meeting, townshipofficials heard at Mondaynight’s McLeod County Asso-ciation of Townships wintermeeting.

County Board Chair PaulWright said Feb. 17 is the ear-liest date a vote could betaken, but it depends on if thecounty’s solid waste consult-ant has the information theBoard requested available bythen.

The County Board hasasked Burns & McDonnell toprepare both a business planand a facility plan in regards tothe possible retrofit of the Ma-terials Recycling Facility(MRF) for one-sort recycling.

That retrofit, currently esti-mated at $2.8 million to $3.5million, includes an additionto the facility, re-tooling of ex-isting equipment and somenew equipment, and a realign-ment of the loading docks.

Wright said the project, ifapproved, will be paid forthrough the county’s abate-ment fund, which currentlyhas a balance of between $5million and $5.5 million.

“There will not be onepenny of any levy dollars en-tering into this proposal at all,”said Wright.

Wright said the current five-sort program, in which homeowners and businesses pre-sort their recyclable material,generated over 6,000 tons ofmaterial in 2013, the highesttonnage in the history of theMRF.

“That was even after onecommunity pulled out andwent to their own program,”said Wright.

If the county switches to aone-sort program, in whichresidents and businesses putall of their recyclables into onecontainer to be sorted later atthe MRF, there will be an esti-mated increase of 25 percentin recycled material in the firstyear, said Wright.

Wright also emphasized, asthe County Board has severaltimes in recent months, thatthe county is offering a servicewith its recycling program,rather than trying to run a busi-ness.

The MRF program alonegenerated $831,875 in operat-ing revenue in 2013 with thesale of recycled material, andhad operating expenses of$823,611.

Wright pointed out that theoperating expenses include$146,060 paid to local organi-zations through paper drivesand $55,000 paid to organiza-tions through aluminum cancollections.

“We would not be payingout that money if we were abusiness, not a service,” saidWright. “This chart wouldlook a lot different if we didn’tpay that out.”

Wright also reviewed finan-cial information for the wholeSolid Waste department,which includes curbside recy-cling, its household hazardouswaste facility and the recy-cling sheds and bins for therural area.

Overall, in 2013, the SolidWaste department had $1.95million in revenue and $1.84million in expenses. Revenueincludes about $1.05 millionfrom the Greater MinnesotaLandfill Clean-Up Fee (abate-ment fund), $551,416 fromcounty-imposed tip fees atSpruce Ridge Landfill, and$111,750 in SCORE funding.

And because McLeodCounty runs its recycling pro-gram as a service, Wright said,it offers far more services thanjust curbside pickup, includingbeing a spot to recycle every-thing from wine bottle corks tofishing line.

“We’re quite rare in theamount of things we can offerto you,” said Wright.

In fact, Wright said,McLeod County has been ap-proached by neighboringcounties about sharing pro-grams, in particular thecounty’s mattress recycling

program.“When you have a good

thing going, it doesn’t takelong and the word spreads,”said Wright.

Commissioner SheldonNies said that while the countyappreciates the opportunity towork with its neighbors, hewanted to stress that McLeodCounty has no intention ofsubsidizing other counties’programs.

“We want to be sure our dol-lars stay in our county,” saidNies.

Wright also reviewed a listof counties that impose a feeor a tax to support recyclingprograms. McLeod Countyhas never used tax dollars tosupport its programs, Wrightsaid.

“We do not have to chargeanything to put these programstogether,” Wright said. “Wehave a stellar program here,without costing anyone any-thing.”

GruenhagenState Rep. Glenn Gruen-

hagen, R-Glencoe, spokebriefly about issues at the statelevel, in particular the impactof “Obamacare” and MNSure.

Gruenhagen said he hopesthat MNSure will be repealed,in part because it duplicatesservices offered at the federallevel, and also because thelaunch of the program hasbeen both costly and problem-atic.

In fact, said Gruenhagen, aconsultant who reviewedproblems with the MNSurewebsite is recommending thatthe state scrap it and “start allover.”

Gruenhagen also reviewedexamples of how Obamacareand MNSure can be costly tobusinesses.

Gruenhagen also said he ishoping there will be reform ofbusiness taxes this year.

County staffMcLeod County Sheriff

Scott Rehmann, Planning and

Zoning Administrator LarryGasow and Highway EngineerJohn Brunkhorst all addressedthe group.

Rehmann reported an inci-dent that had occurred thatmorning near Stewart, inwhich a man’s family had be-come concerned when they re-alized he had not returnedhome after being out in Sun-day’s blizzard.

His vehicle was found stuckin a snowdrift, unoccupied.His body was found about 2-1/4 miles from his vehicle, ashe had apparently tried to walkfor help, Rehmann said.

“Please don’t leave your ve-hicle if you get stuck some-where,” said Rehmann. “Stayin your car and call us, or waitfor someone to come by.”

Rehmann also said that re-sponding to such incidents ishazardous to law enforcementand rescue personnel. In fact,he said, the death investigatorfrom the Cities rolled her ve-hicle, as did one of hisdeputies, while trying to get tothe scene.

Rehmann also reported thatmethamphetamine is making areappearance in Minnesota, asis heroin.

Brunkhorst reported on thetownship bridge program, not-ing that of 11 bridges inMcLeod County that are con-sidered “deficient,” seven arein townships and four belongto the county. Thanks to town-ship bridge funding, bridges inLynn, Round Grove and Win-sted townships have been ei-ther repaired or replaced, andhe encouraged any townshipwith bridge needs to contacthim.

Larry Gasow, county zoningadministrator, reported thatnew flood-plain maps arenearing completion, and partof the process before theirfinal adoption will be a reviewof the county’s flood-plain or-dinances.

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Winter hitsin full forceThis winter has definitelyseen its share of coldweather and snow withsub-zero temperaturesrecorded for most of themonth of January. Schoolshave been closed through-out the state once again,as the windchills remain inthe negative. Tempera-tures are not looking up ei-ther, as the forecast showsa high of 5 degrees on Fri-day, 10 degrees on Satur-day and 11 degrees onSunday.

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Anthony Stubeda, PastorThurs., Jan. 30 — Mass at

Cedar Crest, 10:30 a.m.Fri., Jan. 31 — No Mass.Sat., Feb. 1 — Holy Family and

St. Pius X youth group Bible studyat St. Pius X, noon; reconciliation,5:30 p.m.; Mass with blessing ofthroats, 6:30 p.m.

Sun., Feb. 2 — Presentation ofthe Lord; Mass with blessing ofthroats, 8 a.m; Mass, 8 p.m.

Mon., Feb. 3 — No Mass; KC4th-degree meeting at Bird Island,7:30 p.m.

Tues., Feb. 4 — Mass, 8 a.m.;eucharistic adoration 8:30 a.m. to10 p.m.; quilting, 9 a.m.

Wed., Feb. 5 — Mass, 5 p.m.;first reconcilation for secondgraders, 5:30 p.m.; first- throughsixth-grade religous educationclasses, 7 p.m.-8 p.m.; seventh-through 11th-grade religious edcu-ation classes, 7 p.m.-8:15 p.m.

Thurs., Feb, 6 — Mass at CedarCrest, 10:30 a.m.; CCW, 7 p.m.

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SAINTS770 School Rd.,

HutchinsonKenneth Rand,

Branch President320-587-5665

Sun., Feb. 2 — Sunday school,10:50 a.m.-11:30 a.m.; priest-hood, relief society and primary,11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

RIVERSIDE ASSEMBLYOF GOD

20924 State Hwy. 7 W.,Hutchinson

320-587-2074E-mail: assembly@

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Sun., Feb. 2 — Worship, 8:30a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

FIRST CONGREGATIONUNITED CHURCH OF

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ST. PIUS X CHURCH1014 Knight Ave., GlencoeAnthony Stubeda, Pastor

Thurs., Jan. 30 — Morningprayer, 7 a.m.; Mass, 7:20 a.m.;junior choir, 2:50 p.m.

Fri., Jan. 31 — Morning prayer,8 a.m.; Catholic Schools WeekMass with Bishop LeVoir, 8:20a.m.; Spanish Mass, 5:30 p.m..

Sat., Feb. 1 — Widow-widow-ers and senior singles breakfast,9:30 a.m.; Spanish baptism ses-sion, 10 a.m.; Holy Family amdSt. Pius X youth group Bible studyat St. Pius X, noon; reconciliation,4 p.m.; Mass and blessing ofthroats, 5 p.m.; Mission of LoveValentine sales before and afterMass.

Sun., Feb. 2 — Presentation ofthe Lord; Scout Week; Mission ofLove Valentine Sale before and

after Mass; Mass and blessing ofthroats, 9:30 a.m.; CatholicSchools Week turkey and hamdinner, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m.; SpanishMass, baptisms and blessing ofthroats, 11:30 a.m.; Mass withblessing of throats at Holy Family,Silver Lake, 8 p.m.

Mon., Feb. 3 — Blessing ofschool children’s throats; Mass,5:30 p.m.; first reconcilation, 6:30p.m.; KC 4th-degree meeting atBird Island, 7:30 p.m.

Tues., Feb. 4 — Morningprayer, 7 a.m.; Mass, 7:20 a.m.

Wed., Feb. 5 — Evening prayer,5:40 p.m.; Mass, 6 p.m.; kinder-garten through sixth-grade reli-gious education classes, 7 p.m.-8p.m.; seventh- through 11th-gradereligious education classes, 7p.m.-8:15 p.m.

SHALOM BAPTISTCHURCH

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Mon., Feb. 3 — Griefshareworkshop, 6:30 p.m.; women’sdiscipleship, 7 p.m.

BETHEL LUTHERAN77 Lincoln Ave.,Lester Prairie

Bethany Nelson, pastor320-395-2125

Thurs., Jan. 30 — Bethel BookClub.

Sun., Feb. 2 — Worship withcommunion, 9 a.m.; confirmation,10:15 a.m.; Sunday school, 10:15a.m.

Church News

Area students on ISU listSeveral local students were named to the fall semester

dean’s list at Iowa State University including TeeganEbenhoh of Cokato; Nicholas Clobes and Danielle Penkeof Hutchinson; and Molly Range of Lester Prairie.

Unseth, Garbers on fall listMiriam Unseth of Lester Prairie and Kristin Garbers of

Silver Lake were named to the fall semester dean’s list atthe University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Unseth is in thecollege of education and human services, while Garbersis in the college of business.

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Page 8 — Silver Lake Leader, Thursday, January 30, 2014

This favorite section contains excellentlocal stories on the impact of agricul-

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Silver Lake Leader photosby Rich Glennie

One-act playat sub-sectionThe Glencoe-Silver Lake’sOne-Act Play cast cap-tured the sub-section titleSaturday at Annandale.Some of the cast membersare, above, from left, KaylaW i l l i a m s - S c h w a r z e ,Mariah Guldemann-Chia-riello and Travis Uecker. Atthe right are ChristopherRoss, Katy Kunkel, LeahPeterson and Lili Mallak.GSL advances to the sec-tion competition Feb. 1 atJordan. The section win-ner goes on to the statefestival on Feb. 14.

By Lori CoplerStaff Writer

Participation in MockTrial can help highschool students hone

several skills, while at thesame time learning about thelaw and having fun.

“Half of it is acting, andhalf is thinking on your feet,”said Oakley Clark, a GSLHigh School participant inthe activity.

In Mock Trial, high schoolstudents are given a legalcase, and compete with otherschools by trying it in front ofan actual judge, alternatingbetween being the plaintiffsand the defendants, and play-ing the parts of attorneys andwitnesses.

This year’s case, chosen bythe state bar association, asponsor of the activity, isbased on a civil lawsuit filedagainst Sleeping Giant Ship-ping, Inc., in regard to thesinking of the Great Lakesship, the Edmund Fitzgerald,in November 1975.

The case involves the par-ents of one of the crew mem-bers suing the company fornegligence.

Participants said they havelearned the difference be-tween civil and criminalcases with the selection ofthis year’s case.

In a civil case, they said,

the plaintiffs need to providea “preponderance of evi-dence” that there was a civilwrong. In criminal cases,proof needs to be “beyond ashadow of a doubt.”

First-year participantFreddy Pena said a civil suitinvolves four components:first that there was a duty tothe plaintiff; second, that theduty was breached; third, thatthere was an approximatecause of the breached duty;and, fourth, that the plaintiff“had to have had a loss” as aresult of the breach of duty.

GSL social studies teacherTom Schoper and junior highcounselor Joe Morcomb arethe coaches for the team,aided by several local attor-neys who volunteer to comein for practice.

“They are a huge help tous,” said Clark. “We come upwith strategies, and they tellus what will and will notwork.”

Morcomb agreed that theattorneys are a great help athoning the students’ trialskills.

“They can really hammeron some points that theythink are weak,” Morcombsaid, adding that the studentsrespond well and adjust theirstrategies accordingly.

Schoper said the GSLMock Trial team is one of the

few in the area. This year’sschedule consisted of threecompetitions.

The first was against St.Michael-Albertville, withGSL acting as the defenseand St. Michael-Albertvilleas the plaintiff.

The second competitionwas held Wednesday, Jan. 22,against Watertown-Mayer,with GSL, as the plaintiff,coming out on top 222-214.

The third was held Tuesdayat the McLeod County Court-house against Annandale.

Actual judges hear the trial,and participant Ellie Forciersaid the judges are very com-plimentary.

“They say we behave betterthan real attorneys, Forcierlaughed.

There are 12 students par-ticipating in Mock Trial, whosaid their season does not endwith the end of competition.

The participants also take atrip to the State Capitol,where they visit the SupremeCourt and both the Senateand the House.

Also at the end of the year,they said, they have the “MyCousin Vinny” awards cere-mony and party, in whichawards are given for best at-torney, best witness, etc.

“We have a lot of fun,”concluded Clark.

Mock Trial hones students’acting, legal preparation skills

Shown above are the participants of theGlencoe-Silver Lake (GSL) mock trialteam following its 222-214 win over Wa-tertown-Mayer on Jan. 22. In the frontrow, from left, are Coach Joe Morcomb,Alfredo Pena, Brandon Potter, GustavoVillalobos and Katie Twiss. In the backare Derek Ortloff, Danielle Mathews

(captain), Oakley Clark (captain), MaryRoach, Coach Tom Schoper and EllieForcier. Missing is Ismael Calderon(captain), who missed the meet becauseof illness. The team finished its seasonof competition yesterday (Tuesday)against Annandale at the McLeodCounty Courthouse.

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Well, our broken record full of nothing but bitter coldand wind continues this week as we slowly moderate up atad in the temperature department.

The cold scenario I was worried about, but didn’t thinkwould pan out, certainly did late weekend into early thisweek with another brutal blast of winter weather. The high-est wind speed winner Sunday was Redwood Falls with a60 mph wind. (That qualifies in summer as a severe thun-derstorm wind!)

Temperatures slowly rise this week as the cold poolmoves away from our area. A reinforcing cold front willcome through for Thursday and Friday, but it should onlyknock temperatures down into the single digits for highs(it’s crazy to think that isn’t so bad).

We inch up into the teens for the weekend as our overallpattern finally allows for a westerly component instead ofmainly north northwest.

Precipitation chances seem low this week with onlypassing showers possible Wednesday night and again Fri-day night. A large storm will enter the picture around theMonday time frame, so it will be something to watch. Butit’s way too early to venture a guess as to where it mightgo (right now it’s pointing to our south).

Stay warm, maybe February will bring some relief.Ma dobry weekendem Mit dobry vikend

Wednesday night — Lows -2 to 4; clouds/snow shower.Thursday — Highs 4-10; lows -12 to -6; mostly clear.Friday — Highs 8-14; lows 0-6; partly cloudy/night

snow shower.Saturday — Highs 12-18; lows -3 to 3; partly cloudy.Sunday — Highs 12-20; increasing clouds.Weather Quiz: What are some of February’s weather ex-

tremes?Answer to last week’s question: Do clouds grow as high

in the atmosphere in winter as they do in summer?Clouds can’t grow as tall in winter due to there not beingenough “umpf” to get them up that far. In summer, verywarm air is allowed to rise much higher than the cold airof winter, which limits how tall clouds can get. Warm airrises much better than cold air.

Remember: I make the forecast, not the weather!

Weather CornerBy Jake Yurek

The 16th-annual Tim OrthMemorial Foundation basket-ball jamboree will be held atthe Glencoe-Silver Lake HighSchool gymnasium Saturday,March 29. The doors open at4:30 p.m., with the games be-ginning at 6 p.m.

The proceeds (raffles, con-cessions, admission, dona-tions, and silent auction) fromthis event will be given to TyOlson and Braden Olson, sonsof Chris and Cindy Olson ofLitchfield, Ricardo MartinezJr., son of Ricardo and MariaMartinez of Glencoe, AngelitaGonzalez, daughter of Be-rangila and Juan Gonzalez ofGlencoe, Brayden Havelka,son of Pam Hoffman and JeffHavelka of Hutchinson, Tay-lor Tenhoff, son of Russ andMonica Tenhoff of Cokato,Landon Weigel, son of Steveand Tonda Weigel of Hutchin-son, Molly Koschinska,daughter of Tim and ShannonKoschinska of Waconia, JadaNeid, daughter of Cory andJessica Neid of Glencoe, LukeNelson, son of Greg and SaraNelson of Dassel, Zella JoThode, daughter of Matt andSara Thode of Hutchinson,and Cody Olson, son of Joniand Craig Olson of Hutchin-son.

For more information, callRalph Johnson at 320-587-6733 or Don Tangen at 320-864-6010.

Donations to the Tim OrthMemorial Foundation may bemailed to: Ralph Johnson, 558Juergens Rd., Hutchinson,MN 55350; or Don Tangen,PO Box 33, Glencoe, MN55336. For more informationvisit www.timorthfoundation.org.

Tim Orthbasketballjamboreeis March 29