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Remember When June 3, 2021

10 years ago (2011)
•A Luverne High School sophomore will pull double duty at the Minnesota State Class A Tennis Championship next week.
One week after helping the Cardinals win the Section 3A Team Tournament, Joey Vajgrt qualified for the Class A Singles Tournament by placing second at the Section 3A Individual Tournament Thursday and Tuesday in Redwood Falls.
It’s the second straight season Vajgrt advances to the state classic as Section 3A’s runner-up.
 
25 years ago (1996)
•The writing’s been on the wall for several years, but this time local Land O’ Lakes employees heard the bad news for real.
On Friday, Land O’ Lakes company officials in St. Paul announced as of Aug. 1 the Luverne facility will no longer receive milk directly from member farms, and it will discontinue condensing operations.
“We’ve been expecting it for several years, really,” said plant manager Cliff Hansen. “This is the fourth time we’ve been considered for not receiving milk. Every time, at the last minute, they’ve found funding to keep it going.”
 
50 years ago (1971)
•Mike Wynia assumed duties as a Luverne Police patrolman last week as part of the summer replacement program instituted by Chief Chester Bendt. Wynia has just completed his first year at Alexandria-Area Vocational Technical School and is studying law enforcement. The program at the school aids a student in the field of law enforcement. In Luverne Wynia will be filling in for patrolmen on vacation and assisting in other areas.
Wynia is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wynia of rural Edgerton. Wynia’s wife, Sandra and their 18-month-old daughter, Michelle Lynn, will be joining him in Luverne. He is a graduate of Edgerton High School.
 
75 years ago (1946)
•The memories of many residents and former residents of Beaver Creek were turned back Thursday to the days when Civil War veterans were busy making a new town a pleasant and profitable place in which to live.
Like dozens of Memorial days in the past, Memorial day of 1946 was another homecoming day for many of the former residents of the town, but it was different in one respect. A memorial, in the form of a new 30-ft. flag pole, was dedicated at the Beaver Valley cemetery, where it had been erected in the memory of 15 Civil War veterans, one Spanish-American war veteran, and five World War I veterans, and also in the memory of the town and community’s first settlers. 
 
100 years ago (1921)
•A. O. Moreaux was on Saturday appointed by Governor J. A. O. Preus as a member of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tidewater Commission to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Michael Dowling, of Olivia. The other members of the commissions are A. H. Comstock, of Duluth, and J. L. Record, of Minneapolis. Mr. Moreaux accepted the appointment the first of this week.
The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tidewater Commissions was created by the 1919 legislature for the purpose of promoting the project of establishing a deepwater way connection for ocean-going vessels between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean and to promote the construction thereof. Among other things the project will require the canalization of the St. Lawrence river from Montreal so as to permit passage of the largest ocean-going vessels. Accomplishment of the project would make Duluth and certain other cities on the Great Lakes ocean ports and make possible the shipment of the great resources of the heart of the continent to the markets of the world without breaking bulk, and therefore at a minimum of cost.

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