The Cokato Chamber of Commerce will be sponsoring a family fun night with the help of area businesses Saturday, Aug. 23 in Peterson Park. The evening will include a movie in the park at 9:30 p.m. featuring the movie “Cars.” The admission is free with a food shelf donation. More details to be given closer to the event.
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Unlike as stated in today’s (Monday, June 30) paper, there is no Dassel City Council meeting tonight. This issues highlighted for today will be discussed at the Monday, July 7 meeting.
Michael and Mindy Housman will begin selling organic foods the last Thursday of the month at The Little Red Hen shop in Dassel. The Housman’s have an organic farm north of Dassel. They will be selling lamb, eggs, baked goods, and in the coming months, garden produce. There will also be sign-ups for free-range chicken and turkey for ordering. Check out the Housman’s at The Little Red Hen the last Thursday of the month (beginning June 26) from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Dayna Sherman has withdrawn from her candidacy for the Cokato Corn Carnival royalty due to an earlier than expected starting date to a hockey camp, according to Jody Danielson, queens committee chair. Candidates include Courtney Valen, Margaret Neutzling, Jordann Nelson, Staci Paul, Heidi Nelson, Chantel Davis, and Aimee Peterson.
During Cokato’s Memorial Day parade, the queen candidates for the upcoming Cokato Corn Carnival were debuted. They are Aimee Peterson, Staci Paul, Heidi Nelson, Dayna Sherman, Courtney Valen, Margaret Neutzling, Chantel Davis, and Jordann Nelson.
Law enforcement statewide and nationwide are launching a “Click it or Ticket” enforcement preceding a “rash of deadly crashes over the last month that resulted in 22 vehicle occupant traffic deaths of which 15 of the motorists were not wearing seat belts,” according to a press release from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. A seat belt fine is $25, but can cost as much as $115 with administrative fees, the release said.
Enhanced patrols enforcing this will began May 19 and will go through Sunday, June 1. Last year, during a similar enforcement, nearly 8,500 seat belt citations were given.
Two Coach buses full of National Guard soldiers returning home Wednesday were welcomed home as they were escorted to their home base in Litchfield. Nearly 100 soldiers of the 849th Mobility Augmentation Company came through Cokato around 11:45 a.m. and escorted through town by the Cokato Fire Department. Meeker County Sheriff’s deputies met the buses near the high school were they were then escorted to Litchfield. Signs of the returning soldiers lined the roads from Howard Lake to Litchfield. Pictured are the employees of Paisley Consulting waiting for the soldiers to come through Cokato.
Thanks to generous contributions from the City of Darwin, Lions Club, and the Community Club, Darwin will soon be getting signs along Highway 12 entering the town. The signs will be done by Darwin Monument. It is yet to be determined when the signs will be up, but the ball is rolling on the project. Currently, the only signs signifying it’s a town is the “If you lived in Darwin, you’d be home now.”
Renovation work on the Gust Akerlund Studio foundation is underway, as noted at the Cokato City Council meeting last Monday.
Work began Wednesday, and will include the front half of the building put up on jacks facing Broadway. The whole building will not be jacked up, however, said Museum Director Mike Worcester.
Before the bracing, some initial work is necessary such as disconnecting the ventilation ducting in the crawl space.
The best case scenario is that the work can be done in one month’s time, Worcester noted.
Part of the venting cost was a surprise budget wise, but Worcester hopes it will be small in nature. Council Member Butch Amundsen expressed concern about the extra cost, and that the bid was too low.
Amundsen wanted to know if more surprises would come.
Worcester built in a personal visit from each bidder into the bidding process, and made extra precautions to make sure that bidders knew what they were walking into.
This work is being paid for with a matching grant by the state.
Two bodies were found at a home on Lace Avenue, two miles west of Silver Lake at 7:21 p.m. Sunday, April 13. The bodies were those of Katrin Rose Czeck, 35, and Donald Francis Czeck, 41. The initial investigation revealed Katrin died from multiple stab wounds and Donald from self-inflicted wounds, according to a McLeod County Sheriff’s Office report. According to KARE 11 News, a neighbor reported them having three children ages 8, 11, and 19. The incident is under investigation.
