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Remember When Sept. 29, 2016

10 years ago (2006)
•By Saturday about 150 Rock County residents will be trained to the federal standards of the National Incident Management System.
If training isn’t completed and a disaster comes to the county, federal funding for mitigation might not be granted. …
The federal training is supposed to unify procedures that will be used across state lines.
For example, people from Minnesota might help in a South Dakota or Iowa disaster and with NIMS the protocol and procedures are the same.
 
25 years ago (1991)
•Construction should begin soon on the Southwest Minnesota Veterans Nursing Home, according to Luverne City Administrator Steve Perkins.
Perkins told the Luverne City Council Monday that a letter from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs came Sept. 19, obligating $4.8 million in federal funds to assist Luverne in the construction. …
The $4.8 million is about 65 percent of the total cost of $7.4 million. The remaining $2.6 million is being paid by the city of Luverne.
 
50 years ago (1966)
•A boy with arsonist tendencies has caused two minor incidents at the Luverne High School.
A match had been touched one evening to a small pile of rags or waste paper on the terrazzo floor.
A member of the football squad came along and saw the blaze and stamped it out.
The next day there was a fire in the light fixture, in the very same area, which had been caused by a wad of paper or rags being stuffed back of the fixture. When the light bulb got hot enough, the paper, or rags, ignited. The fixture was damaged by fire and the wall was scorched in an area corresponding in size to the fixture.
 
75 years ago (1941)
•The W.P.A national defense sheet metal training class, which has been in progress for the past thirteen weeks under the instruction of Arden Canfield, drew to a close Friday afternoon, of last week. Nine men completed the course which was conducted five days a week at the Luverne high school industrial training room. The schooling which these men have received will better enable them to handle the more technical work which is being done by the W.P.A. workers in this community.
 
100 years ago (1916)
•With a total of $7,000 already pledged for the purpose of providing a race track in connection with the Rock county fair grounds, the prospects for securing this apparently much desired acquisition appear to be exceptionally bright.
The amount represents subscriptions for stock at $100 a share, which were secured during the three days of the fair through the effort of President Herman Fitzer and Secretary A.A. Anderson, of the fair association, who made an active canvass in behalf of the project.

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