Welcome home, Luverne alumni; enjoy the weekend, and enjoy your hometown

I would like to extend a warm welcome to all the Luverne alumni who made the trek back to their hometown for the Luverne Cardinal Pride All School Reunion.
For some of you it’s probably been a few years since you’ve visited. We hope you’ll find that your hometown school and community are in grand shape.
We hope that you are all excited about everything that the Cardinal Pride Committee has put together for all of you this weekend. I think the committee did an outstanding job coordinating all the events, tours and things to do while you are all back visiting with your classmates, friends, past acquaintances and family members.
We also hope you’ll notice the great things going on in our community. Take a stroll up and down Main Street and enjoy all the beautiful façade improvements and renovations in our business district.
You may want to rent an e-bike at our newly remodeled and expanded Luverne Aquatics and Fitness facility and take the bike for a ride on our new Luverne Loop bike path around town (or reserve a ride on a golf cart tour at the chamber office). Either way you will see what our community has put together the past 10 years.  
Be sure to tour the newly remodeled Luverne Public Schools building and its 778-seat performing arts center. We’ve always been proud of our schools, but now we have one of the nicest school facilities in southwest Minnesota.
If history is your passion, you can take a tour of the recently relocated and remodeled Rock County History Center in the former Herman Motors building on Main Street. People come from all parts of the world to see the collection of more than 4,000 nutcrackers, but they leave with a solid understanding of our local history.
You might notice our Power Plant expansion on the east end of Main Street, and on the west side of town (on Old 16) you’ll see the Lineage Logistics freezer warehouse that will not only serve our new Premium Minnesota Pork hog processing facility but numerous other food industries in the tri-state area.
Read the front page Star Herald story about housing developments, new apartments, National Guard Readiness Center under construction, the 186-spot day care center coming in the former Tri-State Insurance building and more.
It goes without saying that we’ve been working hard to do what’s best for our community.
Luverne has been a great place to live, work and play for the past 150 years, and we intend to keep it that way for many years to come so that all of you can continue to be proud of your hometown and school.
Have a great weekend at the Cardinal Pride All School Reunion. We hope you all take some newly minted memories back home with you.