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Remember When April 25, 2019

10 years ago (2009)
•It’s easy to look past the green sign above the office door on South McKenzie Street in Luverne.
In much the same way, it is easy to look past domestic and sexual violence, according to Raevette Loonan, Rock County advocate of the Southwest Crisis Center.
“Secrecy keeps violence happening,” she said.
So, for 25 years the Southwest Crisis Center (SWCC) has been “helping victims find a voice.”
SWCC started as a volunteer group called New W.A.V. (Women Against Violence). The first office opened in Worthington and served Nobles, Rock and Pipestone counties.
SWCC is  now a five-county nonprofit organization. Offices are in Jackson, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock and Cottonwood counties.
 
25 years ago (1994)
•Sometimes the demands of a baby can be overwhelming for a new parent. Sometimes teenagers or adolescents can be even more demanding for parents.
Parenthood can be tough for anyone, but a single parent with no friends or family members to lean on can find the stresses of parenthood nearly unbearable.
To ease the burden of parenthood for those who need help, Rock County is developing a support system to fill a void some struggling parents may have.
 
50 years ago (1969)
•Road and bridge damage in Rock County from last week’s flood has been estimated at $132,000 according to reports received from city, township, county, state, and federal officials.
Representative Wendell Erickson called last week asking for a report on the road and bridge damage in Rock County. Erickson said that the state may grant special help in this session. Some federal aid may also be available to Rock County.
Don Barth, Rock County engineer, has estimated the damage on county roads and bridges at $65,000. Five bridges were damaged but none are beyond repair, Barth said.
 
75 years ago (1944)
•Glad to be home after two years in the southwest Pacific is Cpl. Marlo Schneekloth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Schneekloth, who arrived Sunday to spend about two weeks with his parents. He has been granted an honorable  medical discharge from the service.
Cpl. Schneekloth, who served in a medical corps, saw duty in Australia, New Caledonia and Guadalcanal, and brought with him a number of pictures and souvenirs from that theater of war. For awhile, he served aboard a transport plane, used in evacuating wounded and sick from Guadalcanal to station hospitals located elsewhere in the Pacific.
 
100 years ago (1919)
•With abnormal cost conditions to contend with in every phase of state and road building, the Rock county board of commissioners has not definitely decided upon the extent of their road building program for 1919.
The only work thus far ordered done consists of gravelling six and a half miles of road on state road No. 2, west to Beaver Creek, and two miles of road south of Beaver Creek on state road No. 6. These tasks will be undertaken by County Engineer Davison as soon as conditions permit.
For the last two years the county has followed the plan of doing its own road building, and maintaining an organization for this purpose throughout the summer and fall.
But with workmen scarce, and the cost of maintaining a grading camp in keeping with the excessive cost of materials, the commissioners consider the road building problem a most difficult one to solve.
Ordinarily, feeding the horses necessary with a road building organization is considered an insignificant item expense, but not so this year with hay selling at $25 to $35 a ton and had to secure at these prices at the very outset.
At the present time less than half of the ninety miles of state road that has been laid out in Rock county has been graded, and there are sections of the completed roads that need rebuilding.

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