NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED ASSESSMENTNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council will meet at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 26, 2006, to consider, and possibly adopt, the proposed assessment for the blacktop overlay surfacing improvement of the alley located between the north line of Adam Street and the south line of Barck Avenue (lying between McKenzie and Spring Streets) of Block Eight of the Barck, Adams & Howe Addition. Adoption by the City Council of the proposed assessment against abutting property may occur on September 26, 2006, following the hearing. Such assessment is proposed to be payable in equal annual installments extending over a period of five (5) years, the first of the installments to be payable on or before the first Monday in January, 2007, and will bear interest at the rate of six (6) percent per annum from the date of the adoption of the assessment resolution. To the first installment shall be added interest on the entire assessment from the date of the assessment resolution until December 31, 2007. To each subsequent installment when due shall be added interest for one year on all unpaid installments.You may, at any time prior to certification of the assessment to the Rock County Auditor-Treasurer, pay the entire assessment on such property with interest accrued to the date of payment to the City of Luverne. No interest shall be charged if the entire assessment is paid within thirty (30) days from the adoption of this assessment. You may at any time thereafter pay to the Rock County Auditor-Treasurer the entire amount of the assessment remaining unpaid, with interest accrued to December 31 of the year in which such payment is made. Such payment must be made before November 15 or interest will be charged through December 31 of the succeeding year. If you decide not to prepay the assessment before the date given above, the rate of interest that will apply is six (6) percent per year. The right to partially prepay the assessment according to city ordinance is available. The proposed assessment roll is on file for public inspection in the City Clerk’s office. The total amount of the proposed assessment is $14,326.27. Written or oral objections will be considered at the meeting. No appeal may be taken as to the amount of an assessment unless a written objection signed by the affected property owner is filed with the municipal clerk prior to the assessment hearing or presented to the presiding officer at the hearing. The City Council may, upon such notice, consider any objection to the amount of a proposed individual assessment at an adjourned meeting upon such further notice to the affected property owners as it deems advisable. If an assessment is contested or there is an adjourned hearing, the following procedure will be followed:(1) The City will present its case first by calling witnesses who may testify by narrative or by examination and by the introduction of exhibits. After each witness has testified, the contesting party will be allowed to ask questions. This procedure will be repeated with each witness until neither side has further questions.(2) After the City has presented all its evidence, the objector may call witnesses or present such testimony as the objector desires. The same procedure for questioning of the City’s witnesses will be followed with the objector’s witnesses.(3) The objector may be represented by counsel. (4) Minnesota Rules of Evidence will not be strictly applied; however, they may be considered and argued to the City Council as to the weight of items of evidence or testimony presented to the council.(5) The entire proceeds will be tape-recorded. (6) At the close of presentation of evidence, the objector may make a final presentation to the City Council based on the evidence and the law. No new evidence may be presented at this point.(7) The City Council may adopt the proposed assessment at the hearing.An owner may appeal an assessment to District Court pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Chapter 429.081 by serving notice of the appeal upon the Mayor or City Administrator within thirty (30) days after the adoption of the assessment and filing such notice with the District Court within ten (10) days after service upon the Mayor or City Administrator. Under Minnesota Statutes Chapters 435.193 to 435.195, the City Council may, in its discretion, defer the payment of this special assessment for any homestead property owned by a person 65 years of age or older for whom it would be a hardship to make the payments. When deferment of the special assessment has been granted and is terminated for any reason provided in that law, all amounts accumulated plus applicable interest become due. Any assessed property owner meeting the requirements of this law and the local improvement policy ordinance may, within 30 days of the confirmation of the assessment, apply at the City Clerk’s office for the prescribed form for such deferral or payment of this special assessment on his/her property.John M. Call, City Administrator(8-31)

PROBATE COURTDISTRICT COURT—COUNTY COURTPROBATE DIVISIONORDER AND NOTICE OF HEARING FOR FORMAL PROBATE OF WILL AND APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE IN SUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION AND NOTICE TO CREDITORSSTATE OF MINNESOTACOUNTY OF ROCKIn Re: Estate of Leroy Carl Stroeh DeceasedTO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS AND CREDITORS:It is Ordered and Notice is hereby given that on the 11th day of September, 2006, at 3:30 O’clock P.M., a hearing will be held in the above named Court at Rock County Courthouse, Luverne, Minnesota, for the formal probate of an instrument purporting to be the will of the above named deceased, dated July 9, 2003, and for the appointment of Alma Thomsen, whose address is 1655 Co. Hwy. 8, Tyler, MN 56178, as personal representative of the estate of the above named decedent in supervised administration, and that any objections thereto must be filed with the Court. That, if proper, and no objections are filed, said personal representative will be appointed to administer the estate, to collect all assets, pay all legal debts, claims, taxes and expenses, and sell real and personal property, and do all necessary acts for the estate. Upon completion of the administration, the representative shall file a final account for the allowance and shall distribute the estate to the persons thereto entitled as ordered by the Court, and close the estate. Notice is further given that ALL CREDITORS having claims against said estate are required to present the same to said personal representative or to the Court Administrator within four months after the date of this notice or said claims will be barred.Dated: August 16, 2006 /s/Timothy K. Connell/s/ Douglas E. Eisma Timothy K. ConnellDouglas E. Eisma District Court JudgeAttorney for Petitioner /s/Sandra L. VrtacnikEisma and Eisma Sandra L. Vrtacnik130 East Main, Box 625 Court AdministratorLuverne, MN 56156(507)283-4828I.D. #158343(8-24, 8-31)

Certificate of Assumed Name1. State the exact assumed name under which the business is or will be conducted: Perkins Consulting2. State the address of the principal place of business: 212 Cashin Drive, Luverne, MN3. List the name and complete street address of all persons conducting business under the above Assumed Name or if the business is a limited liability company ("LLC"), provide the legal LLC name and registered office address of the LLC: Perkins Rental Properties LLC, 212 Cashin Drive, Luverne, MN 561564. I certify that I am authorized to sign this certificate and I further certify that I understand that by signing this certificate, I am subject to the penalties of perjury as set forth in Minnesota Statutes section 609.48 as if I had signed this certificate under oath.8/10/2006 Steven L. Perkins, Chief Manager Perkins Rental Properties LLC (8-24, 8-31)

NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALETHE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION.NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that default has occurred in conditions of the following described mortgage:DATE OF MORTGAGE: November 24, 2004MORTGAGOR: Marla Mirth, a single person.MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING: Recorded November 29, 2004, Rock County Recorder, Document No. 160261.ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: NONELEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY:All of Lot 3 and the N 1/2 of Lot 4, in Block 5, in the Original Plat to the City of Steen, Rock County, Minnesota COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: RockORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $37,000.00AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE, INCLUDING TAXES, IF ANY, PAID BY MORTGAGEE: $37,718.36That prior to the commencement of this mortgage foreclosure proceeding Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee complied with all notice requirements as required by statute; That no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof;PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows:DATE AND TIME OF SALE: October 19, 2006 at 10:00 A.M.PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff’s Office, West Entrance, Law Enforcement Center, 213 East Luverne Street, Luverne, MN to pay the debt then secured by said mortgage, and taxes, if any, on said premises, and the costs and disbursements, including attorneys’ fees allowed by law subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns. MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROM FINANCIAL OBLIGATION ON MORTGAGE: None"THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAGOR’S PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED."Dated: August 10, 2006.Mortgage Electronic RegistrationSystems, Inc. Mortgagee/Assignee of MortgageeUSSET & WEINGARDEN P.L.L.P.By: /s/ Paul A. Weingarden Paul A. WeingardenAttorneys for Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee4500 Park Glen Road #120Minneapolis, MN 55416(952) 925-688890-599 603836THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.(8-24, 8-31, 9-7, 9-14, 9-21, 9-28)

NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALETHE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION.NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage: DATE OF MORTGAGE: March 5, 2004ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $107,500.00MORTGAGOR(S): Harvey Horn and Tamara Horn, husband and wifeMORTGAGEE: Regent Financial Group, Inc.DATE AND PLACE OF FILING: Filed March 10, 2004, Rock County Recorder, Document No. 158246ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: Assigned to: New Century Mortgage Corporation Dated: June 7, 2006, thereafter assigned to Deutsche Bank National Trust Company as TrusteeLEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY:The N 50 1/2 Feet of Lot 18 and the S 1/2 of Lot 19, All in Block 2 in Kreps and Clark Addition to the City of LuverneCOUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: RockTHE AMOUNT CLAIMED TO BE DUE ON THE MORTGAGE ON THE DATE OF THE NOTICE: $113,864.59THAT all pre-foreclosure requirements have been complied with: that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof;PURSUANT, to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows:DATE AND TIME OF SALE: September 28, 2006, 10:00 a.m.PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff’s Main Office, West Side Sheriff Dept, Front Step, Luverne, MN 56156to pay the debt secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and disbursements, including attorneys fees allowed by law, subject to redemption within 6 months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s) the personal representatives or assigns."THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAGOR’S PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES SECTION 582.032 DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN 5 UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.Dated: August 14, 2006Deutsche Bank National Trust Company as Trustee Assignee of MortgageeSHAPIRO, NORDMEYER & ZIELKE, LLPBY /s/ Lawrence P. Zielke Lawrence P. Zielke - 152559 Diane F. Mach – 273788 Kristine M. Spiegelberg – 0302016 Attorneys for Mortgagee7300 Metro Blvd., Suite 390Edina, MN 55439-2306(952) 831-4060THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.(8-17, 8-24, 8-31, 9-7, 9-14, 9-21)

NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALETHE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION.NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that default has occurred in conditions of the following described mortgage:DATE OF MORTGAGE: May 1, 2000MORTGAGORS: William H. Bullis and Terry R. Bullis, husband and wife.MORTGAGEE: Option One Mortgage Corporation.DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING: Recorded May 12, 2000, Rock County Recorder, Document No. 147827.ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: Assigned to: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. its successors and assigns, as nominee for "First Union National Bank, as Trustee of the Amortizing Residential Collateral Trust, 2000-BC3", without Recourse, Dated: June 22, 2001, Recorded: July 24, 2001, Document No. 150527.LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY:The North Seventy-Six (N 76) feet of Lot Fourteen (14) in Auditor’s Plat No. 3, Subdivision of Outlot Seventeen (17) in County Auditor’s Plat of Luverne Outlots in Section Ten (10), Township One Hundred Two (102) North of Range Forty-Five (45) West of the 5th p.m.COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: RockORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $43,190.00AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE, INCLUDING TAXES, IF ANY, PAID BY MORTGAGEE: $44,651.59That prior to the commencement of this mortgage foreclosure proceeding Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee complied with all notice requirements as required by statute; That no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof;PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows:DATE AND TIME OF SALE: October 12, 2006 at 10:00 A.M.PLACE OF SALE: Sheriff’s Office, West Entrance, Law Enforcement Center, 213 East Luverne Street, Luverne, MN to pay the debt then secured by said Mortgage, and taxes, if any, on said premises, and the costs and disbursements, including attorneys’ fees allowed by law subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns. MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROM FINANCIAL OBLIGATION ON MORTGAGE: None"THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAGOR’S PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED."Dated: August 4, 2006.Mortgage Electronic RegistrationSystems, Inc. Mortgagee/Assignee of MortgageeUSSET & WEINGARDEN P.L.L.P.By: /s/ Paul A. Weingarden Paul A. WeingardenAttorneys for Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee4500 Park Glen Road #120Minneapolis, MN 55416(952) 925-688840-1594 0002868594THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.(8-17, 8-24, 8-31, 9-7, 9-14, 9-21)

New scoring machines added to Luverne LanesWhen Luverne bowlers show up for their first week of this year’s bowling season, they will find a new addition to the lanes.Over the past three months Cory and Lisa Schneekloth have been busy adding automated electronic scoring machines.The machines were purchased from Garden Center Lanes in Alexandria, Minn., when they recently built a new 36-lane facility and had to install all new equipment.The scoring machines Luverne bowlers will be using are Brunswick Framworx, according to Lisa Schneekloth, the same equipment being used at the Empire Bowl in Sioux Falls.The first thing bowlers will notice when they walk in is that the scoring tables are gone.In their place are pedestals which can be used to enter the bowlers’ names, handicaps, etc.Above, hanging from the ceiling, will be monitors which will allow the bowlers to keep track of the scores and how their team is doing.The first test run for the new equipment was earlier this week for one of the ladies’ leagues.The rest of us will get our first look at the new system when we start league bowling next week.Senate candidate in Luverne on TuesdayThe democratic nominee for the United State Senate, Amy Klobuchar, plans to start her southwest Minnesota tour in Luverne next Tuesday.Klobuchar, the current Hennepin County Attorney, will be at the Coffee Haus in Luverne at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday for about a half hour. Everyone is encouraged to stop in and find out her opinions and let her know yours.Her other stops in the area have not yet been determined.Klobuchar will be taking on Republican U.S. Representative Mark Kennedy in November.The two are in a race for the Senate seat currently held by Senator Mark Dayton.Don’t forget the murder mysteryDon’t forget the deadline for ticket sales of GEP’s murder mystery, "Murder at the Midnight Hour," is tomorrow (Friday, Sept. 1.)The play is a joint effort of the Green Earth Players and the Luverne Area Community Foundation.Money raised from the play will go toward the foundation’s charitable causes in the community.The audience becomes a part of the play as they become the guests at a wedding where the murder occurs. Someone in their midst is the killer.The play will be presented in an outdoor setting at the Prairie Heights Bison Ranch.The evening will start at 6 p.m. with appetizers, some made from bison raised on the Prairie Heights Bison Ranch. Beer and wine will also be served.Tickets are $50 per person, $35 of which is a tax-deductible contribution to the Foundation.Tickets for the event can be purchased at the Luverne Chamber of Commerce, Minnwest Bank, Buffalo Ridge Insurance, or by calling 283-9273 or 220-2424.FRG ships supplies to Iraqi schoolsI mentioned a few weeks ago that the Family Readiness Group was collecting school supplies for Iraqi children.The effort went very well.Supplies collected from area communities included notebooks, pencils, colored pencils, erasers, rulers, schoolbags and soccer balls.Five volunteers, Eloise Wohlford, Ardie Schmidt, Janet Bush, Lucille Belau and Mary Gehrke even made school bags for the kids.According to Gina Newman, program coordinator for FRG, 75 boxes have been shipped in the past two weeks.Newman said many of the local National Guard soldiers recently deployed are doing humanitarian projects such as assisting in rebuilding schools, working with a walk-in medical facility for Iraqis, getting supplies to a local orphanage and keeping water flowing to villages.What’s next? According to Newman, the next project will be collecting medical supplies needed at the medical facility for the Iraqis.Publisher Roger Tollefson can be reached by e-mail at tolly@star-herald.com

Threshing Reports — 1916The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on August 11, 1916:THRESHING REPORTS SHOW FAIR YIELDSCorn is Developing in Fine Shape, But Soaking Rain Would Prove Highly Beneficial.Rock county’s small grain crop is now either in the shock, stack or bin, and from the threshing thus far done satisfactory yields have been secured, especially in view of the fact that it seldom happens that weather conditions entirely favorable to both a bumper crop of small grain and corn prevail during the same season.Rock county’s corn crop is one of the most promising ever grown, but in order to enable it to reach its fullest fruition a good soaking rain within four or five days is deemed essential by many.While some of the corn is fast approaching the roasting stage, most of it is at the stage where it is just forming the kernel, and well informed corn growers contend that a heavy rain within the next few days will do much toward increasing the size of the ears and filling them out well, thus giving Rock county one of the greatest corn crops ever grown. What is true in regard to the needs of corn is said to be equally applicable to the late potato crop.The cooler weather and two or three showers of the past week have somewhat relieved the situation, but the showers have been too restricted both in quantity and area covered, although the rainfall in some localities has been sufficient to materially improve conditions. However, a heavy general rain is the one thing desired by most corn growers.Shock threshing is now well under way, and subjoined will be found the results of theses operations in a number of instances:Rudolph Trosin, Luverne township, on Saturday, threshed twenty-two acres of oats that averaged 45 bushels to the acre, by machine measure. This grain later outweighed the machine measure by two bushels per acre.Chris. Fitzer, Luverne township, has threshed forty-seven acres of oats and ten acres of barley. The oats was about equally divided between the early and medium varieties, and both averaged 50 bushels to the acre. The barley yielded 22 bushels to the acre.Peter Bendt, Mound township, has threshed thirty acres of early oats, and secured 42 bushels to the acre.Herman Fitzer, Luverne township, has secured an average of 48 bushels from a field of thirty acres of early oats.Floyd O. Norton, Luverne, has threshed the oats from a field of nearly 100 acres, from which 3,150 bushels were secured.Chas. Ehlers, Luverne township, secured an average of 36 bushels of barley from a field of thirty-five acres. Five acres of this field had been badly injured by grub worms.Chas. Husen, Luverne township, has threshed seventeen acres of barley that averaged 38 bushels.Will Schneekloth, Luverne township, secured an average of 30 bushels from thirty-five acres of barley.John Wulf, Luverne township, threshed eight acres of barley Friday that yielded 43 bushels to the acre.J. E. Mitchell, this city, threshed out 420 bushels of oats from a field of ten acres.Mr. Norton and Mr. Trosin are said to have the distinction of selling the first new oats on the Luverne market. Mr. Norton selling the first of his grain Saturday morning to Dunn Bros., and Mr. Trosin starting hauling his grain to the Farmers’ elevator the same day. Mr. C. Fitzer is credited with bringing in the first new barley, which was purchased by the Farmers’ Elevator company Tuesday.Donations to the Rock County Historical Endowment Fund can be sent to the Rock County Historical Society, P.O. Box 741, Luverne, MN 56156.Mann welcomes correspondence sent to mannmade@iw.net.

As I write this column Monday morning, it is gray outside and the forecast is a high of just 70 degrees. So I’m wondering, where did the summer go? A few days in Omaha and some trips to see family in North Dakota don’t exactly make the meatiest of scrapbook material.Even the backyard fire pit I wanted so badly for my birthday fell short of its potential, having seen a blaze just twice.I did a little unscientific poll, and these are some suggestions for what to do before the end of summer:
Remove the Christmas lights from around the roof.
Retrieve children from whatever summer camp or friend’s house they’ve gone missing to.
Go to the drive-in.
Spend every spare minute outside, especially if you have a pool so you can get your money’s worth.
Make s’mores.
Golf, go to the races, go to the park or do whatever you might be getting sick of doing by the end of summer — remembering that you’ll be craving it by next spring.
Winterize or spray for de-bugging the house where necessary.
Walk or ride bike to work.
Find something other than BLTs to make with those fresh, ripe tomatoes everyone is either selling or giving away. While you’re at it, freeze some zucchini and sweet corn.
Send thank-you notes from last spring’s graduation gifts.
Make your kids go to bed on time, so mornings aren’t miserable for the start of school.
Clean out your closets to switch over to fall wardrobe more smoothly.
Hang some laundry outside because you won’t be able to for long.
Re-grow hair that was burnt off by grilling mishaps.As for me, now that the weather is cooling, I can actually enjoy my fire pit more than I have on these recent hot summer nights.