Remember When June 6, 2019

10 years ago (2009)
•As students left for summer Wednesday, Cloyce Smith left her art classroom for the last time.
After 39 years in education, Smith is now beginning a new project, retirement. “You know when you are ready to be done,” she said. “The time is right.”
According to the back of her “survivor” shirt she wore on the last day, Smith has taught in five different schools with 11 principals and 10 superintendents.
During her career, Smith’s goal has been the same, pushing students to be creative and to be pleased with their own work.
With that mindset Smith says she’s never ceased to be surprised with students’ work each year.
As young artists came in and out of her room, they were reminded of one thing, “It's a place to be creative, to please themselves and do their best,” Smith said.
In this way Smith taught not only art techniques but also life concepts.
 
25 years ago (1994)
•A Minneapolis rock climber will be released from the hospital today after falling more than 50 feet at Blue Mounds State Park.
Rock County ambulance and rescue crews were called to the scene at about 2 p.m. Saturday when climber Dave Fox fell from the top of a cliff to a grassy area below.
He was taken by helicopter to McKennan Hospital, Sioux Falls, S.D.
During a telephone interview with Fox in his hospital room Monday, he said he suffered two broken ankles, one of which will require three months in a cast. Fox said he must have fallen forward and landed on his hands because one wrist is broken.
The impact of the fall also caused two compressed vertebrae in his lower back.
“I didn’t fall while I was climbing,” Fox said. “I was already at the top and was standing on the ledge.”
 
50 years ago (1969)
•Mrs. Alfrida Tuff left Tuesday for a six-week visit with relatives in Norway.
Friends from Sioux Falls took her to the airport in Minneapolis Tuesday where that night she took a flight to Oslo, Norway, where she has a sister. Frida has four sisters and two brothers in Norway and she is the only one of her family who ventured out to the New World. Her sister will accompany her via plane on June 17th to Bardufoss; then it will be a three-hour bus ride to Narvek. The brothers and sisters will all join her there for a family reunion. After July 1st, then she will go back to Oslo. She will also visit her husband Bernard’s family at Gran.
July 21 will find Frida boarding the plane again for her return trip to the U.S.
 
75 years ago (1944)
•Rock county has long been known as the farmer’s paradise. Never has it been truer than this spring. March and April weather that was discouraging in the extreme way gave way to almost perfect growing conditions in May. Although small grain seeding was all of two weeks late, recent sunshine and moisture has brought them along so fast that they have very largely made up for the late snowing. …
Corn planting too, was delayed by the wet weather, but warm soil and abundant moisture started germination almost as soon as the seed was in the ground. As a result many farmers had to start cultivating first plantings just as soon as they were done with the last ones.
 
100 years ago (1919)
•Another step in Luverne’s progress toward street paving was taken Tuesday evening at the regular meeting of the common council, when that body voted to instruct the city attorney to prepare a resolution requiring property owners on Main street to make the changes in their water and sewer connections necessary for paving.
The area of street on which these changes are to be required extends from the Rock Island railroad crossing to East Park Street, a distance of eight blocks and it is expected that the proposed resolution will be adopted at the next meeting of the council.