10 years ago (1994)"Veterans groups from the Second District American Legion and Second District American Legion Auxiliary gathered Sunday at Appreciation Day and official dedication ceremonies for the flags at the Minnesota Veterans Home, Luverne.Dignitaries, veterans and interested citizens assembled at the south entry to hear the Luverne High School band under the direction of Dale Nelson and to be recognized for their efforts on behalf of the Home.Speakers included Sen. James Vickerman, the Rev. Eugene Egan, Herb Nagorske, Betty Huber, Pam Barrows, Ben Vander Kooi, Bill Weber, Jim Main, Eddie Deutsch and Teresa Anderson.The facility is currently home to 42 veterans and will begin hiring for positions and processing admissions to fill the remaining 43 beds this week. The plan is to be at full capacity by winter or early spring 1995."25 years ago (1979)"Contract negotiations in the Hills-Beaver Creek School District are at a stalemate.The assessment of the situation is agreed to by both Gordon LeBoutillier, superintendent, and Gerald Van Roekel, spokesman for the Hills-Beaver Creek Education Association.… The areas of differences yet to be resolved include salary, fringe benefits, extracurricular pay, child care leave, qualification of substitute teachers, professional development leave, personal leave, association leave, jury duty and bereavement leave."50 years ago (1954)"Band members from the 17 schools participating in Luverne’s fourth annual Tri-State Band Festival here Saturday proved to be excellent troupers. Despite the drizzling rain and wet streets, they gave the 6,000 or more spectators who lined the parade route a spine tingling show … and a sample of what the public would have enjoyed had the weather permitted the scheduled maneuvers at the football field where the judging and massed concert were to have been held. The crowd was the largest in the festival’s four year history, officials said."75 years ago (1929)"Rock County’s first killing frost arrived Tuesday night, or to be more exact, early Wednesday morning, and there is little room to doubt its freezing proclivities, for the mercury had descended to 28 above zero, or four points below freezing, by 6:00 o’clock Wednesday morning. Thermometers registered 42 degrees above at 9 o’clock Tuesday evening, but there was a chill in the air that plainly forecasted the frost."100 years ago (1904)"The first rattle snake that has been found in that vicinity for several years was killed at the Mounds Wednesday morning by T.A. Olin, night operator at the Omaha depot. Mr. Olin was out to the Mounds to get some views and as he was about to kneel on the ground to rest his Kodak on his knee he noticed the snake just in front of him, coiled and ready to strike. As rattle snakes are as common at his old home as garter snakes are here, he readily recognized its specie and captured it and brought it to the city. The snake was a young one about a foot long and one rattle has just started to grow."