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Remember When July 28, 2016

10 years ago (2006)
•The Lewis and Clark Rural Water Board is allowing members to pre-pay their share of the project to get more money to spur the project along immediately.
As the project is able to collect more money now, members are able to save money in the long run by avoiding inflation costs.
Both the city of Luverne and Rock County are asking Lewis and Clark for permission to pay early.
 
25 years ago (1991)
•Cuts and confusion describe the Department of Natural Resources and the state park system.
According to a letter to park employees from Bill Morrissey, director of the Division of Parks and Recreation for the Department of Natural Resources, the Department received a $523,200 increase in its operating fund appropriation. But because fixed costs such as property taxes, unemployment and workers’ compensation increased by $1,608,300, the department has a shortfall of $789,600.
Visitor services in all parks are being reduced, often by cutting seasonal employees.
 
50 years ago (1966)
•If your grass needs trimming, hold it!
Before you go out and mow that lawn, remember that every year an estimated 80,000 Americans are injured, permanently maimed or killed in rotary lawn mower accidents.
“The incidence of injury last summer in Luverne and Rock county was quite high,” notes Dr. A.C. Martin, county health officer.
The majority of injuries are caused by two types of accidents – objects picked up and thrown by the blades and direct injury to the hands and feet by blades.
Though the power mower adds greatly to the convenience of maintaining a lawn, it should be treated as a potentially dangerous machine.
 
75 years ago (1941)
•The first annual Soap Box Derby for members of the Cub Pack of the Luverne Boy Scouts organization, was held Monday night on Sherman hill in Luverne. The races were run on Crawford street between Kniss and Freeman avenues, those streets being blocked off so that traffic could not interfere with the event.
Two speed races and one distance race made up the card of the classic. Nine Cubs between the ages of 9 and 12 years were entered and each contestant was required to use only coasters made by himself. …
The Cub Pack is a preparatory organization for the Boy Scouts of America, its purpose being to train boys between the ages of 9 and 12 years in the elementary principles of scouting. It is to the Boy Scouts what the DeMolay is to the Masonic orders and the Antlers is to the Elks lodge.
 
100 years ago (1916)
•The same old story of a young lad severing home ties and going out into the world to see real life, only to make a serious misstep and be brought up in the shadows of a penal institution after a brief encounter with an unsympathetic public, was again told Wednesday afternoon in a local justice court.
The narrator was R.L. Gaynor, of New York City, a bright appearing lad of 17 years, who had been arrested that day at Ellsworth, charged with robbing the E.F. Hills home on section 36, Magnolia township, the previous afternoon. He is accused of taking several dollars in change, two pairs of cuff links, a set ring, a boy’s dollar watch, a razor, a pair of automobile glasses, a lavaliere and a cap, said to represent a value of $50. All of this property was found on his person when he was arrested, except the lavaliere and the money.

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