Luncheon and wax museum Friday at Saint Peter’s
The Delano Catholic community’s annual salad/hotdish luncheon and wax museum event is planned for Friday, May 16 at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Delano.
Luncheon will be served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Cost will be $7 for adults, $3 for children 12 and under, and preschool aged children, free.
Open house at Golden Living Center Thursday
The Golden Living Center, located at 433 Co. Rd. 30 in Delano, will he hosting an open house and ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday, May 15 from 1 to 4 p.m.
The ribbon cutting will occur at 1:30 p.m., with entertainment and food from 2 to 4 p.m. There will be tours and information about the facility, as well.
Updated areas at the facility include Medicare suites, satellite TV service in all resident rooms, remodeled therapy department and expanded services, redecorated hallways and bathrooms, and a new dining room in the rehabilitation wing.
Park Construction is continuing its fast pace of construction on Highway 12. Their pace, ultimately, has created some challenges for other contractors on the project. One such challenge is surfacing with some of the private utilities along the corridor. Xcel Energy (gas) and Mastec, a contractor of Frontier (phone), have been busy relocating their utility lines outside of the future roadway. By the early next week, Park Construction will have caught up to the private utilities in two areas. This conflict creates the very undesirable scenario that Park could have to suspend highway reconstruction in certain areas of the job until the private utilities are out of the way.
To avoid this outcome, Mastec and Xcel will be operating accelerated construction activities for the remainder of this week. Mastec specifically will start tomorrow with around-the-clock work on completing their new system. One of the impacts will be construction at the intersection of 3rd Street and St. Peter Avenue. At this location, Mastec will be completing connections of its new utility systems within a manhole located in the intersection. This construction will involve the use of a generator and lighting within the manhole and surrounding area 24 hours per day, supporting technicians completing the work. This effort will allow the phone utilities to be out of the way for Park Construction by early next week. Residents in the area of 3rd Street and St. Peter Avenue should take note of this increased activity over the next week.
The Delano Sons of the American Legion will host the last omelet breakfast of the season on Sunday, May 11 from 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. The first 75 mothers will receive a rose bush in honor of Mother’s Day.
Tickets are $7 for adults and $4 for children
Proceeds to benefit Lyndale Church youth group and GFWC
Park Construction, general contractor for the Highway 12 project, will be shutting off the water in the area of 405 and 407 River Street South Apartments on Thursday, May 1 from 9 a.m. to 12 Noon for a scheduled connection of a new water main. Please adjust your routines and schedules to coincide with this temporary interruption.
If you have any questions, please contact Ed Williams, Foreman for Delano Municipal Utilities at (763) 972-0557 or Al Johnson, Construction Supervisor for Park Construction at (763) 238-9148.
West Metro Business and Craft Expo Sat.
The West Metro Business and Craft Expo is set to take place Saturday,
May 3 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Orono Discovery Center in Maple
Plain.
The event will feature more than 50 exhibitors, free admission, food,
a magician, face painters, a visit from a fire truck, raffle prizes,
and speaker presentations.
For more information, call (763) 972-1282 or e-mail rebecca@definemarketing.com
A high voter turn-out at the polls Tuesday yielded the passage of question one of the two-question ballot for the Delano School District Tuesday.
Question one, which asked voters for funds to acquire land for a grades 4-6 building, passed with 1,782 in favor of, and 1,304 against.
Question two, which asked voters for funds to construct the grades 4-6 building, failed with 1,694 voting against it, and 1,388 voting in favor of it.
Park Construction, general contractor for the Highway 12 project, will be shutting off the water in the area of Third Street South (from Franklin Avenue to Highway 12) Wednesday, April 23, 2008 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. for a scheduled connection of a new water main. Please adjust your routines and schedules to coincide with this temporary interruption.
If you have any questions about the water shut off, contact Al Johnson, Construction Supervisor for Park Construction at (763) 238-9148 or Ed Williams, Foreman for Delano Municipal Utilities at (763) 972-0557.
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In other Highway 12 news, at the construction meeting for the public Tuesday morning, MnDOT officials said MnDOT feels an alternate truck route for through truck traffic is necessary, and is looking at alternate routes and communicating with road authorities to establish the route.
A discussion also took place about the intersection of Highway 12 and Bridge Avenue in the area of Absolute Automotive, and issues were noted from that area.
Submit your items for the Happenings column of each week’s Delano Herald Journal via e-mail to delano@heraldjournal.com.
Items can also be sent via fax to (763) 972-1029, mail at PO Box 498, Delano, MN 55328, or by calling (763) 972-1028.
The Delano Boy and Cub Scouts will be going door-to-door collecting food Saturday, April 26 from 9 a.m. to noon.
All food and monetary donations will go to the Delano Helping Hands Food Shelf.
For more information, contact Geoff Gruba, scoutmaster of Troop 273, at (763) 972-2553.
