Velma H. Thompson, 96, Urbana, Ill., formerly of Luverne, died Saturday, Feb. 8, 2003, at Meadowbrook Health Center in Urbana.

Memorial services and burial will be at a later date.

Velma Hagemeier was born to Edward and Florence (Ott) Hagemeier on May 26, 1906, in Luverne.

She married Marcus L. Thompson on July 7, 1933, in Iowa City, Iowa. She was a secretary at Montgomery Ward in Iowa City, Iowa. Later she was a secretary at Dr. Perkins Nursery School.

Mrs. Thompson was a member of Wesley Methodist Church in Urbana.

Survivors include two sons, J. Edward Thompson, Libertyville, Ill., and Thomas L. Thompson, Rolla, Mo.; six grandchildren, Wade Thompson, Scott Thompson, Luke Thompson, Kyle Thompson, Jay Newbold and Kelly Newbold; six great-grandchildren; seven great-great-grandchildren; and one brother, Marvin Hagemeier, Casper, Wyo.

Mrs. Thompson was preceded in death by one brother and one sister.

Renner-Wikoff Chapel, Urbana, was in charge of arrangements.

Luverne sophomore forward Justin Arndt tips the puck off the stick of Mankato West’s Bobby Umhoefer during Thursday’s boys’ hockey game at the Blue Mound Ice Arena. West downed the Cardinals 4-2, saddling LHS with its third consecutive loss.

By John Rittenhouse
The Luverne boys’ hockey team completed a 13-8-1 regular season by playing a pair of home games late last week.

The Cardinals dropped a two-goal decision to Mankato West Thursday before snapping a three-game losing skid with a four-goal win over Minneapolis South Saturday.

Luverne drew the No. 10 seed for the Section 1A Tournament and will skate against No. 7 Waseca at 7 p.m. tonight in Waseca. The Cards played Waseca twice during the regular season, falling 3-1 at home Jan. 4 before losing 5-3 in Waseca Jan. 25.

Luverne 5, MS 1
The Cardinals ended a three-game slide with a four-goal victory over Minneapolis South Saturday at the Blue Mound Ice Arena.

With Tony Smedsrud, Andy Hess and Tom Gluf leading the way, Luverne scored the game’s first four goals to open a commanding lead that was never threatened.

Smedsrud recorded three assists and scored a goal for the winners. Hess netted a pair of goals, and Gluf registered two assists.

Hess opened the scoring at the 6:01 mark of the first period with an assist going to Gluf.

Smedsrud scored an unassisted goal to make it a 2-0 game in the second period.

Gluf and Smedsrud received assists for a power-play goal scored by Dan Park with 8:47 remaining in the third period, and Smedsud set up a goal by Nick Otten 1:19 later to make it a 4-0 game.

After MS recorded its first goal with 4:06 left to play, Hess scored 10 seconds later with assists going to Otten and Smedsrud.

Cody Gehrke blanked MS during the first two periods of the game in net for LHS. Pat Bennett and Brad Van Santen shared time as goalies in the third period.

MW 4, Luverne 2
The Cardinals dropped their third consecutive game when they hosted Mankato West at the Blue Mound Ice Arena Thursday.

Luverne outshot the Scarlets 29-16 in the game, but MW scored two goals in the first six minutes of play and never trailed during a two-goal victory.

Graham Kuehner opened the scoring at 12:25 of the first period before teammate Danny Umhoefer netted a power-play goal at 9:18 to make it a 2-0 game.

Luverne’s Hess pulled the Cardinals to within one goal of the Scarlets when he scored at 7:07 after being set up by Park and Chris Morgan, but MW’s Taylor Wallace scored 23 seconds later to make it a 3-1 game.

Luverne’s Tony Smedsrud netted the lone goal of the second period at 12:02 after being set up by Eric Lammert to make it a 3-2 difference.

MW, however, blanked the Cards in the third period, and put the game away when Wallace put a power-play goal into an empty net with 34 seconds remaining.

Gehrke made 12 saves in 15 attempts as Luverne’s goalie.

By John Rittenhouse
The Hills-Beaver Creek boys locked up the Red Rock Conference championship by beating Adrian 64-52 in Adrian Tuesday.

H-BC took a 14-0 league record into the game and needed a victory in Adrian, or against Fulda in Hills on Friday to win the title outright.

After beating the Dragons by 12 points on their home floor, H-BC was able to celebrate its first RRC championship.

H-BC opened a six-point lead (16-10) in the game’s first period and extended the difference to 11 points (39-28) by outscoring the Dragons 23-18 in the second quarter.

A 17-13 scoring cushion gave the Patriots a 56-41 lead at the end of the third quarter.

Adrian sported an 11-8 scoring edge in the fourth quarter, but it wasn’t enough to offer H-BC a serious challenge.

Trey Van Wyhe and Tyson Metzger led the Patriots with 17 and 16 points respectively. Metzger pulled down a team-high nine rebounds.

Kale Wiertzema, who had five steals, had a double-double for the winners with 12 points and 11 assists. Tyler Bush and Jesse Leuthold added five and four steals to the cause.

H-BC, 18-4 overall and the winner of 11 straight games, hosts Fulda Friday and plays in Ellsworth Monday.

Kyle Knips led the Dragons with 19 points and nine rebounds. Pete Hohn chipped in 12 points, and Brandon Wolf registered seven assists.

Adrian, 14-8, plays in Minneota Friday.

Box score
H-BC
Bush 4 0 1-2 9, Wysong 0 0 0-0 0, Roozenboom 3 0 0-0 6, Broesder 0 1 0-0 3, Wiertzema 1 1 7-9 12, Metzger 6 1 1-6 16, Leuthold 0 0 1-2 1, Van Wyhe 7 0 3-6 17.
Adrian
Hohn 6 0 0-0 12, Wolf 2 1 0-0 7, Spieker 1 0 3-3 5, Block 0 0 1-2 1, Lynn 1 0 0-0 2, K.Knips 8 0 3-6 19, C.Knips 3 0 0-0 6.

Team statistics
H-BC: 24 of 44 field goals (55 percent), 13 of 26 free throws (50 percent), 26 rebounds, 11 turnovers.
Adrian: 22 of 46 field goals (48 percent), seven of 11 free throws (64 percent), 25 rebounds, 21 turnovers.

Luverne senior Danielle Cook goes through her floor exercise routine during the Section 3A Gymnastics Championships staged in Luverne Saturday. Cook led the Cardinals by placing 17th on the floor and 11th on the vault during her final high school meet.

By John Rittenhouse
A record-setting performance by the Luverne-Hills-Beaver Creek gymnastics team wasn’t enough to extend the 2002-03 season Saturday.

The Cardinals drew the honor of hosting the 11-team Section 3A Gymnastics Championships in the Luverne High School gym.

Luverne performed well enough to register a school record tally as a team, but the Cardinals were unable to qualify anyone for the Minnesota State Class A Gymnastics Championships that will be staged in St. Paul Friday and Saturday.

The top team and top four individual finishers in all events advance to the state meet in section competition.

L-H-BC didn’t meet the criteria to send an individual to St. Paul, but the Cardinals did establish a school scoring record by finishing sixth in the field with 130.525 points.

L-H-BC’s effort as a team Saturday was .25 better than the 130.275 it recorded during a home meet against St. James.

With Kaitlin Haack leading the way, Worthington nipped Jackson County Central 141.75-140.3 to win the section team title.

Marshall (137.575), Windom-Mountain Lake-Butterfield-Odin-Red Rock Central (137.025), New Ulm (135.775), L-H-BC (130.525), Martin County West (129.775), Pipestone (123.275), Redwood Valley (123.2) and St. James (103.175) round out the field.

Haack had an outstanding day for Worthington, winning the all-around (37.95), bars (9.65) and vault (9.625) titles. Marshall’s Jessica Dolan was the floor (9.575) and beam (9.625) champion.

A pair of 11th-place performances highlighted the day for L-H-BC.

Senior Danielle Cook, who placed 18th all around with 32.775 points, finished 11th on the vault with a 9.0. Cook also led the Cardinals by placing 17th on the floor with an 8.5.

Junior Amanda Dooyema placed 11th for L-H-BC with an 8.65 effort on the bars.

Cardinal junior Callen Bosshart emerged as the team’s top all-around performer by scoring 32.925 points to place 17th.

Eighth-grader Brittany Mulder led the Cardinals on the beam by placing 17th with an 8.0.

Here is a look at how each L-H-BC athlete scored and placed in each individual event during the section meet.

Vault: Cook, 11th, 9.0; Bosshart, 13th, 8.95; Morgan Bosshart, 20th, 8.75; Mulder, 24th, 8.7; Brittany Boeve, 27th, 8.55.

Beam: Mulder, 17th, 8.0; C.Bosshart, 25th, 7.45; Dooyema, 29th, 7.35; Cook, 31st, 7.2; Boeve, 35th, 7.05.

Floor: Cook, 17th, 8.5; C.Bosshart, 19th, 8.4; Dooyema, 28th, 8.1; M.Bosshart, 36th, 7.7; Mulder, 46th, 7.25.

Bars: Dooyema, 11th, 8.65; C.Bosshart, 22nd, 8..125; Cook, 25th, 8.075; Mulder, 31st, 7.6; M.Bosshart, 44th, 6.35.

By John Rittenhouse
The Ellsworth boys’ basketball team raised its record to 22-2 by recording a pair of wins since Saturday.

The Panthers secured a 16-point win over Lakeland in Terril, Iowa, Saturday before winning their second consecutive Camden Conference title with an 11-point home win over Lincoln HI Tuesday.

Ellsworth hosts Hills-Beaver Creek and is tentatively scheduled to play Lakeview in Cottonwood Tuesday.

Ellsworth 90, LH 79
The Panthers locked up their second consecutive CC championship when they toppled the Rebels by 11 points in Ellsworth Tuesday.

LH’s 1-3-1 zone press gave the Panthers some problems in the first half, but EHS was able to overcome the pressure and foul trouble to pull out a victory.

LH ambushed the Panthers by scoring the game’s first nine points before settling for a 23-19 lead at the end of the first period.

The Rebels led 44-43 at halftime before Ellsworth outscored the visitors 20-14 in the third quarter to gain a 63-58 advantage.

With Curt Schilling, Tom Janssen and Adam Sieff scoring nine, eight and six points respectively in the fourth quarter, EHS went on a 27-21 scoring run to prevail by 11.

Schilling finished the game with 38 points and 10 rebounds, while Dylan Kvaale registered a triple-double with 12 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds.

Travis Jenniges and Janssen netted 12 and 11 counters for EHS. Brant Deutsch added eight rebounds and eight assists to the winning cause.

Box score
Schilling 13 0 12-13 38, Jenniges 4 1 1-3 12, Janssen 2 1 4-4 11, Kvaale 6 0 0-0 12, Sieff 1 2 0-0 8,, Deutsch 1 0 1-2 3, Brommer 2 0 2-4 6.

Ellsworth 87,
Lakeland 71
The Panthers opened a nine-point lead in the first quarter and never lost control of the game while besting Lakeland by 16 points in Terril, Iowa, Saturday.

Ellsworth ruled the glass by plucking 41 rebounds and was aggressive enough on offense to earn 34 free throws during the game.

"It was a game that we seemed to be in pretty good control of most of the way," said Panther coach Ken Kvaale.

"It was a good, physical game. I think the keys were our rebounding and the fact that they had a lot of fouls."

Ellsworth led 27-18 after eight minutes of play and increased the difference to 13 points (42-29) by halftime.

Lakeland trimmed the difference to 10 points (63-53) by the end of the third quarter before being outscored 24-18 in the final eight minutes to fall by 16.

Blake Brommer, who registered nine rebounds and six steals, led the Panthers in scoring with 22 points.

Curt Schilling, who passed for eight assists, had a double-double with 12 rebounds and 21 points.

Brant Deutsch added 11 points, eight rebounds and six assists to the winning cause. Dylan Kvaale charted nine assists and seven rebounds, and Travis Jenniges added six assists.

Box score
Schilling 10 0 1-6 21, Jenniges 3 0 2-4 8, Janssen 0 1 6-8 9, Kvaale 3 0 1-3 7, Sieff 2 1 2-2 9, Deutsch 4 0 3-3 11, Brommer 6 1 7-8 22.

Team statistics
Ellsworth: 31 of 64 field goals (48 percent), 22 of 34 free throws (65 percent), 41 rebounds, 13 turnovers.

Luverne senior guard Jesse Kuhlman drives past a Russell-Tyler-Ruthton player during the first quarter of Tuesday’s boys’ basketball game in Luverne. Kuhlman scored 17 points before breaking his left arm at 4:23 mark of the second quarter. Luverne went on to beat the Knights 57-52.

By John Rittenhouse
The Luverne boys’ basketball team experienced its most successful week of the 2002-03 season by winning two of three games in a six-day span.

The Cardinals beat Jackson County Central by 19 points at home Thursday before ending a 2-10 Southwest Conference campaign with a 22-point loss in Marshall Saturday. Luverne returned home Tuesday and upended Russell-Tyler-Ruthton by five points.

Luverne, 4-16 overall, ends the regular season in Ivanhoe Friday.

Luverne 57, R-T-R 52
The Cardinals overcame adversity to best the Knights by five points in Luverne Tuesday.

After watching senior guard Jesse Kuhlman get carted off the floor by a Luverne ambulance crew after sustaining a broken arm in the second quarter, no one would have blamed the remaining Cardinals if they would have packed it in for the rest of the night.

Instead, the Cardinals played some of their most inspiring basketball of the season while crowing the visiting Knights.

Trailing 13-12 entering the second quarter, Luverne took a 21-20 lead when Kuhlman converted a field goal near the five-minute mark of the period to account for his 16th and 17th points of the game.

Kuhlman came up with a steal moments later, and was fouled from behind while shooting a lay up. The force of the foul caused Kuhlman to miss the shot, and the blow sent Luverne’s leading scorer into the padded wall under the basket. Kuhlman broke his left arm on impact with the wall, ending his senior basketball season at the same time.

After nearly a 20-minute delay, play resumed in a somber way. Jake Studer, a senior guard who sustained a broken arm while pitching a baseball game a few years ago, was clearly shaken by the incident involving his friend when he shot the two foul shots for Kuhlman.

Fighting back tears, Studer made one of two free throws to ignite an 8-3 run capped by a Josh Lange field goal at the final buzzer to give the Cards a 30-23 halftime advantage.

Luverne kept the pressure on R-T-R by going on a 7-2 run in the first four minutes of the third quarter to gain their biggest lead of the game at 37-25. Studer, who scored 10 points for the Cards, hit a shot at the buzzer to give LHS a 42-29 cushion heading into the fourth quarter.

The Cardinals continued to play well in the early stages of the fourth quarter as they increased the difference to 16 points (48-32), but the Knights countered with a 20-6 run capped by a three-point shot with 19.2 seconds left to trim the difference to two points at 54-52.

Luverne senior guard Joey Pick put the game on ice by sinking three of four free throws in the final 17 seconds.

Lange scored 15 points and grabbed five rebounds for the winners. Aaron Schmidt led the Cards with eight rebounds.

Box score
Studer 3 1 1-2 10, Pick 0 0 3-5 3, Kuhlman 4 3 0-0 17, Schmidt 0 0 0-2 0, DeGroot 0 0 0-0 0, Boelman 3 0 0-0 6, Heronimus 2 0 2-2 6, Lange 7 0 1-2 15.

Team statistics
Luverne 23 of 52 field goals (44 percent), seven of 16 free throws (44 percent), 25 rebounds, nine turnovers.
R-T-R: 21 of 42 field goals (50 percent), four of four free throws (100 percent), 18 rebounds, 14 turnovers.

Marshall 71,
Luverne 49
A strong second half by the Tigers kept the Cardinals from posting back-to-back wins Saturday in Marshall.

Luverne played with the Tigers in the first two quarters, but Marshall outscored the Cards 49-32 in the second half to win by 22 points.

"Their pressure took its toll on us," said Cardinal coach Tom Rops. "They kept pressure on us for four quarters and were able to pull away from us in the end."

With Jesse Kuhlman netting eight of his team-high 20 points in the first half, Luverne stunned MHS by taking an 11-9 lead in the first period.

Marshall moved in front 22-17 at halftime before using a 22-14 scoring cushion in the third quarter to open a 44-31 advantage. The Tigers canned 12 of 14 free throws in the fourth quarter, when they outscored the Cards 27-18 to win by 22.

Nick Heronimus added 10 points to Luverne’s cause. Aaron Schmidt pulled down eight rebounds. Kuhlman recorded three steals.

Box score
Studer 1 0 3-5 5, Pick 1 0 0-2 2, Kuhlman 1 6 0-0 20, Schmidt 1 0 4-6 6, Stegemann 1 0 0-3 2, Boelman 2 0 0-0 4, Heronimus 3 1 1-2 10.

Team statistics
Luverne: 17 of 53 field goals (32 percent), eight of 18 free throws (44 percent), 20 rebounds, 16 turnovers.
Marshall: 26 of 59 field goals (44 percent), 16 of 22 free throws (73 percent), 29 rebounds, nine turnovers.

Luverne 53, JCC 34
The Cardinals snapped an eight-game losing skid by coasting to a 19-point home win over the Huskies Thursday.

Luverne, which won its second conference game of the season, scored more than one-half of its points with three-point shots.

The Cards canned nine of 19 three-pointers (47 percent), which accounts for 27 of the team’s 54 points.

With Andy Stegemann scoring seven of his team-high 10 points and Kuhlman adding six of his nine counters in the first quarter, Luverne opened a 14-point lead (19-5) that was never seriously threatened the rest of the night.

The Cards extended the difference to 17 points (30-13) with an 11-8 scoring edge in the second quarter, and they remained in front by 17 (42-25) after battling JCC to a draw at 12 in the third quarter.

Luverne’s 11-9 scoring edge in the fourth quarter made the difference 19 points at game’s end.

Schmidt contributed six rebounds and four steals to the winning cause.

Box score
Studer 3 1 0-1 9, Pick 1 2 0-0 8, Kuhlman 0 3 0-0 9, Roemen 0 1 0-0 3, Deragisch 0 0 0-0 0, Goembel 1 0 0-0 2, Schmidt 0 0 4-8 4, Stegemann 2 2 0-0 10, Boelman 3 0 0-0 6, Heronimus 1 0 0-0 2.

Team statistics
Luverne: 20 of 55 field goals (36 percent), four of nine free throws (44 percent), 25 rebounds.
JCC: 12 of 40 field goals (30 percent), seven of 12 free throws (58 percent), 28 rebounds.

By Lori Ehde
Only three weeks after Cook’s closed its doors, former Cook’s employee Kathy Jarchow will reopen the doors as Gabe’s.

Leasing the 6,000-square-foot building from Bob Cook, Jarchow said Gabe’s will offer much of the same inventory as Cook’s shoppers are familiar with.

Why is the store called Gabe’s?

"My maiden name is Gabrielson," Jarchow said. "I didn’t think guys ordering Red Wing work boots would want to call ‘Kathy’s.’"

The store will have men’s and women’s clothing and shoes, and she’ll even hire the same Cook’s employees. "It’ll be the same Cook’s gang," Jarchow said.

Cindy Kooiker will be there full-time, and Henrietta Remme and Cleone Honken will work part-time.
Jarchow’s no stranger to the retail clothing business.

She started working for Randy Creeger when she graduated from Luverne High School in 1978.

After several years there, she was hired as assistant manager at Bostwick’s where she eventually became manager.

From there she worked for Bob Cook for 14 years. The last four years have been full-time as manager and buyer.

Jarchow said Cook’s clothing didn’t close because the business was doing poorly. Rather she said it was difficult to support the number of families that were depending on the business.

She said Gabe’s will be a secondary family income, and won’t offer the same volume of inventory as Cook’s did.

"Cook’s has always done well," Jarchow said. "I totally have faith in the community."

She said she’d been negotiating with Cook on leasing the building since he announced his plans to quit last fall.

Recent approval of a small business loan from the Southwest Minnesota Regional Development and local banks put the wheels in motion.

"I am very grateful to Dan Statema, Luverne EDA and Parnell Thorson for their help and guidance through this process," Jarchow said Wednesday when the loan was approved.

She’s planning to open Gabe’s early in April, but a grand opening won’t be scheduled until fall.

By Lori Ehde
As updates in software and technology rapidly outpace the shelf life of most computer hardware, computer owners find themselves with "perfectly good machines" they’d rather not use.

Because they’re still technically operable, it’s hard to justify throwing them out.

The result: computer graveyards have established themselves in basements and storage areas of homes and businesses around the world.

Luverne School District Technology Coordinator Wade Hiller said he tries to sell as many school computers as he can on the district’s rummage sale.

Last year, the school district upgraded nearly 70 Macintosh PowerMac 7200s to i-Macs, and Hiller hopes to get $50 to $75 apiece for the old machines.

That might be wishful thinking, given other rummage sales have taken in only $100 or $150 total.

"We don’t make much, but our purpose is to give everyone an opportunity, and so we don’t have to pay for the disposal," said District Financial Officer Marlene Mann.

"Yeah, it’s a low-end computer, but it gives them an opportunity and it allows the school to get rid of them."

The district pays garbage fees by weight, and discarding a large volume of sizable computer monitors would be costly.

Buyer beware
The seven-year-old machines are sold "as-is" with no technical support agreements.

"They’re all in pretty good shape, but some computers don’t have working CD ROMs or floppy drives," Hiller said. "We try to pick them apart and salvage some things before we sell them."

Hiller said the machines are all in good operating shape, but buyers need to understand they’re not getting speedy Internet surfers.

"They’re painfully slow," Hiller said. "That’s why we’re getting rid of them. They no longer have educational value."

He said they, like most used computers, are suitable for composing letters or organizing finances.

He advised most people considering their first home computer purchase to "get the latest and greatest with technical support."

If individuals and small businesses think their computer stockpiles are getting out of hand, Hiller is happy to show off the district’s massive "bone yard," as he calls it.

That’s where he and his student interns prepare used computers for sale, or strip down broken computers for parts.

They clean them up, "wipe the hard drive" and reinstall the original operating system software.

Wiping the drive
Wiping the drive, as he calls it, is something everyone should do before selling or donating used computers.

He said simply deleting files doesn’t permanently clear them from the computer’s memory.

Information, or at least remnants of it, will remain in the computer’s data storage sectors until new information is rewritten over the top — or until the drive is manually erased.

While Symantics, Disk Warrior and Norton Disk Wipe are reputable software options, Hiller said most computers come already equipped with disk wiping capabilities.

He also advised those with older machines to buy older wiping software to make sure it will be compatible.

He recommended home computer operators seek help when wiping their drives. "Most people aren’t going to know how to do it," he said. "Most people will need assistance to get their computers free of information."

That help could come from students who show interest in computer technology, and Hiller said he’d be happy to refer people to some kids who can help.

The reason it’s so important to wipe a drive is that personal computers often contain personal information, such as credit card or bank account numbers.

Donating computers
Another option for used computers is to donate them to charities.

While there are no established local organizations that receive computer donations, the Web site christina.org links interested donors with charitable organizations interested in receiving them.

Among those links are:

The Lazarus Foundation, which refurbishes used computers and gives them to the needy. Since 1993, its mission expanded to include teaching the recipients how to set up and use these computers. It can be found at www.lazarus.org.

Jamaica Organization for Youth (J.O.Y.), which provides needy children in Jamaica with technology in schools and community centers. It can be found at www.funspot.net/joy.

Heartsandminds.org offers a listing of several reputable organizations that accept computer donations.

If all else fails, used computers collecting dust in graveyards eventually find their way to legitimate junkyards.

It’s not that throwing them away is an expensive option for Luverne residents.

According to City of Luverne Public Works Director Darrell Huiskes, residents can dispose of their computers with their regular household garbage for no special fee.

Star Herald photo illustration by Sue Bruynes

By Sara Strong
The vacated hospital space in Adrian will soon have a new use if plans stay on track.

A special task force is confident in the possibility of creating a "board and lodge" with limited home health services in the former hospital space.

The hospital closed a year ago, but Arnold Memorial Nursing Home and Clinic remained open. The hospital space was without a use until these new plans came forward.

Adrian Mayor and Hospital Board member John Faber said, "We’re leaning toward a board and lodge concept."

The city of Adrian owns the Arnold Memorial building, but leases the facility to Sioux Valley Hospitals and Health System.

A board and lodge designation means that limited services, such as meals, laundry and housekeeping, will be offered to residents.

This shouldn’t be confused with an assisted living facility, because the boarding rooms won’t offer nursing staff, or other expanded services that come with assisted living facilities.

The next task force meeting is March 3, and the Adrian City Council must approve any recommendation from sub-boards and committees.

It’s expected that the former hospital space can accommodate eight rooms and a community room.
Faber said many details like service providers and specific costs aren’t available yet.

Last year at this time, the hospital board accepted Sioux Valley’s proposal and recommended hospital closure to the Adrian City Council.

The city council also voted at that time to work with Sioux Valley on implementing new services in the hospital space.

A task force was formed and has met several times to explore options for the space. The board and lodge concept became one of the most feasible possibilities, considering costs and state requirements.

Those interested in becoming residents will be asked to commit to at least a month-long stay and will be screened for physical and mental health.