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Beaver Creek City Council installs new councilor, approves liquor license to new bar owners

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By
Mavis Fodness

After swearing in its newest council member, the Beaver Creek City Council approved a liquor license for the new owners of the Beaver Bar.
Josh Boomgaarden replaced Jamie Dysthe on the Beaver Creek City Council. Councilman Dysthe was appointed mayor late last year after Mayor Carolyn DeBoer passed away.
Boomgaarden works at Minnwest Bank in Luverne as a credit analysis and ag lender. He and his wife, Alisha, moved to Beaver Creek last year.
After taking the oath of office at the Jan. 13 meeting, Boomgaarden’s first official action involved the former Beaver Bar.
Earl Vanden Bussche, Beaver Creek, and Marci Lee and Wade Hofer, both of Valley Springs, South Dakota, are in the final stages of purchasing the business from Shad Kruger.
Kruger closed the bar at the corner of North Third Avenue and East First Avenue on Oct. 1. Kruger purchased the business from the city of Beaver Creek in 1998.
Vanden Bussche and Lee appeared at the Jan. 13 meeting to discuss reopening the business and securing the necessary licenses to operate.
“We are planning to be open by the (February) first,” Vanden Bussche said.
The council approved the on-sale liquor license, but the owners are in the process of applying to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety for the off-sale license and will work with state officials to reopen the bar’s kitchen.
“It (buying a bar) was something we have been talking about for a year,” Vanden Bussche said.
Once the business reopens, it will be called “Up the Dam Creek,” with its logo featuring a beaver dam.
The closing on the building was scheduled for Wednesday, Vanden Bussche said. Renovations will take place in the future.

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