Members of the Luverne City Council unanimously approved the purchase of 0.53 acres of land from Sandy Maxwell during their meeting July 13. 
The land, located near Redbird Field, was purchased by the city at a cost of $16,325. 
According to City Administrator Jill Wolf, when Maxwell recently had her property surveyed, it was found that her property line actually extended to the middle of Redbird Road. 
“This meant that a portion of the city right of way and utility assessments were on her property,” Wolf said. “So this action corrects that mistake.” 
Wolf said the property includes a triangle area that includes a portion of Redbird Road as well as the grass berm on the west of the road generally up to the trees. 
The property is also located along the railroad and near the river. It is part of the original settlement of Luverne. 
“The abstract of the property actually showed it dated way back to the beginning of incorporation of Luverne,” Wolf said. 
“Throughout the years, many different parcels were subdivided and combined, so at some point, I would guess, a parcel was combined and either recorded incorrectly or it was purchased before Redbird Road was developed,” Wolf said.
“This is a pretty rare scenario and does not usually happen.” 
Redbird Road, including the newly purchased land, provides access to Redbird Field baseball stadium as well as the wastewater treatment facility and a pair of city wells. 
Wolf said the city had an appraisal done on the land that needed to be purchased and that the appraiser took into consideration its location next to the rail line and in a flood zone. 
“We really appreciated Sandy notifying us of the situation and allowing us to correct it by purchasing the land and retaining ownership to the right of way and utility assessments,” Wolf said. “She was great to work with."

Hunters can apply for special youth deer hunt permits through Friday, Aug. 18. The number of permits for each hunt is limited.
Individual hunts will be held in several state parks, and in the Rydell National Wildlife Refuge, on various dates in the fall.
At the Blue Mounds State Park, the youth deer hunt will be Nov. 18-19.
Adults must accompany youth during these hunts. These firearms hunts are for youth ages 12-15 at the time of the hunt.
Youth archery hunters in Sand Prairie Wildlife Management Area in Sherburne County can be ages 10-17.
Special youth deer hunts are different from the statewide youth deer season, which takes place Oct. 19-22 and does not require an application. More information is available on the DNR website (mndnr.gov/hunting/deer/special-deer-hunts.html).
In most instances, hunters may only possess and use nontoxic ammunition when participating in a special hunt in a Minnesota state park; however, nontoxic ammunition requirements do not apply to youth special hunts in the shotgun-use area if hunters remove all parts of harvested deer, including the entrails.
Nontoxic ammunition includes steel, copper-plated, nickel-plated, zinc-plated and other projectiles made from a nontoxic material approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. A full list is available in the Code of Federal Regulations (ecfr.gov) and can be found by typing “hunting methods” in the search box and clicking “What hunting methods are illegal?”
Contact: Barbara Keller, big game program leader, 651-259-5198.

Dispatch report
July 7
•Complainant on W. Warren Street reported theft/larceny.
•Complainant on W. Warren Street and S. East Park Street requested assistance from another department.
•Complainant on S. Walnut Street reported a civil issue.
•Complainant on S. Kniss Avenue reported trespassing.
•Complainant west-bound on Interstate 90, mile marker 12, Luverne, requested assistance from another department.
July 8
•Complainant northbound on Highway 23, mile marker 15, Jasper, reported a driving complaint.
•Complainant west-bound on Interstate 90, mile marker 8, Beaver Creek, reported debris.
•Complainant west-bound on Interstate 90, mile marker 11, Luverne, reported a driving complaint.
•Complainant east-bound on Interstate 90, mile marker 15, Luverne, requested assistance from another department.
•Complainant west-bound on Interstate 90, mile marker 20, Magnolia, reported a driving complaint.
Complainant on S. West Park Street reported a civil issue.
•Complainant reported an assault.
July 9
•Complainant on Highway 23, Beaver Creek, reported theft.
•Complainant on E. Dodge Street reported theft.
•Complainant on E. Dodge Street and 140th Avenue reported a driving complaint.
•Complainant on 160th Avenue, Ellsworth, reported a fire.
•Complainant on Blue Ridge Drive reported suspicious activity.
•Complainant east-bound on Interstate 90, mile marker 18, Magnolia, requested assistance from another department.
•Complainant east-bound on Interstate 90, mile marker 1, Luverne, reported a driving complaint.
•Complainant on N. Freeman Avenue reported suspicious activity.
•Complainant on E. Main Street reported theft.
July 10
•Complainant on Interstate 90, exit 12, Luverne, reported a pedestrian.
•A warrant was issued in Panama City, Florida.
•Complainant on E. Main Street reported vandalism.
•Complainant on S. West Park Street requested assistance from another department.
•Complainant requested assistance from another department.
July 11
•Complainant on S. Josephine Avenue, Hills, reported burning.
July 12
•A weather alert was issued.
•A warrant was issued on E. Minnesota Avenue in Steen.
•A warrant was issued in Luverne.
•A warrant was issued on E. Minnesota Avenue in Steen.
July 13
Complainant reported vandalism.
•Complainant on E. Dodge Street reported a parking issue.
•A weather alert was reported.
•A weather alert was reported in Beaver Creek.
•Complainant on 141st Street reported vandalism.
•Complainant on 3rd Street and Church Avenue, Hills, reported disturbing the peace.
•Complainant on W. Luverne Street reported disturbing the peace.
July 14
•Complainant west-bound on Interstate 90, mile marker 10, reported a pedestrian.
 
In addition, officers responded to 2 motor vehicle accidents, 2 transports 5 escorts, 15 ambulance runs, 5 paper services, 6 animal complaints, 1 fingerprint request, 8 burn permits, 2 alarms, 4 stalled vehicles, 37 traffic stops, 13 abandoned 911 calls, 2 tests, 1 welfare check, 1 report of cattle out, 1 curfew check and 1 follow-up.

Card showers
MaReese Cragoe will celebrate her 90th birthday on Wednesday, July 19. Greetings may be sent to Poplar Creek; 201 Oak Drive, Unit 407; Luverne, MN 56156.
 
Neil and Sharon Dohlmann will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on Thursday, July 20. Greetings may be sent to them at 410 E. Luverne Street, Magnolia, MN 56158.
 
Dorothy Rosenberg will celebrate her 95th birthday on Sunday, July 23. Greetings may be sent to 110 S. Walnut Avenue, Luverne, MN 56156.
 
Marvin Scherff celebrated his 85th birthday on Sunday, July 16. Greetings may be sent to 1204 N. Linden Street, Luverne, MN 56156.

LHS Student Council news
Luverne High School incoming senior Henry Hartquist was elected president of the Southwest Division of the Minnesota Association of Student Councils (MASC) during the division assembly in April.
Hartquist will lead the organization made up of 39 schools from across southwest Minnesota during the 2023-2024 school year.
LHS Student Council adviser Jason Berghorst was also named the Southwest Division Adviser of the Year at the same event.
Also in April, incoming senior Patrick Kroski was elected as LHS student body president for the upcoming school year. Kroski will lead the Luverne Student Council and be the student representative at school board meetings. The following incoming seniors were elected as student council officers: Tyler Arends, vice president; Sarah Stegenga, secretary; and Kai Buss, treasurer.

The following article is part of the Diamond Club Member group that began in the January 7, 1943, issue of the Rock County Star Herald. Members of this group consist of persons of age 75 and older.
The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on Nov. 4, 1943.
Thor Berg continues his life story from last week.
Mr. Berg was always fond of the out-of-doors and since his boyhood days, has been fond of hunting and fishing. In Norway, he often donned a pair of snow shoes and went hunting in winter for hours at a time. After coming to this country, he hunted ducks, geese and prairie chickens, all of which abounded in great numbers. Fish, too, were extremely plentiful in all the rivers and creeks, and he states he has caught many good sized pickerel in the Rock river. He still enjoys reading magazines dealing with outdoor sport.
He managed to escape harm in the blizzard of 1888, but he recalls how the day was as beautiful as it could be in the forenoon, with a genuine January thaw in progress. By five o’clock in the afternoon, however, the storm raged in blinding fury. He recalls how two men were frozen to death when they were unable to reach shelter.
Mr. Berg worked on farms north of Luverne in Mound and Vienna townships practically his entire life after coming to this country. He never married, and has only the one brother, Nels, with whom he resides here in Luverne.
Despite the fact that he is nearly 90, he is still active, can hear well, and can read without glasses. He often makes a trip down town, and he enjoys visiting with his older friends.
Mr. Berg is a member of Blue Mound Lutheran church, and for years served as janitor there.
         Donations to the Rock County Historical Society can be sent to the Rock County Historical Society, 312 E. Main Street, Luverne, MN 56156.
Mann welcomes correspondence sent to mannmade@iw.net.

10 years ago (2013)
•It takes dozens of involved staff and volunteers to run a county fair smoothly, but this year in Rock County, one loyal organizer will be absent.
Floral Hall superintendent Ida Reverts passed away last fall, so this year, her co-workers are learning to manage without her.
“I think anyone who has spent time at the fair in the past 50 years realizes that Ida was always there,” said Lynette Jauert, who is Open Class co-superintendent this year with Twila Walker.
“She was the first person to arrive in the morning and the last to leave at night.”
To recognize those contributions and Ida’s contributions to the fair through the years, the Rock County Fair Board renamed the Floral Hall the “Ida Reverts Memorial Hall.”
 
25 years ago (1998)
•Bill Nath, Luverne, will be 80 years old in February, and after more than 50 years of working with the Rock County Fair, he has decided to retire.
Nath began working with the Fair Board as groundskeeper back when ice cream cones were a nickel apiece and midway rides cost a dime. Of course, back then the main attractions were the Ferris wheel and merry-go-round, rather than the Zipper or the scrambler.
I used to come to the fair every year, even before I started working there,” he said. “It was a thrill when the fair was here and we’d get to go.”
 
50 years ago (1973)
•Brent Ross and Bob Vrtacnik added a new experience to their list of summer time involvements this month.
Sponsored by the Rock Soil and Water Conservation District, the boys spent two weeks studying environmental education at the Long Lake Conservation Center.
In addition to study with plants and work with visual projects, the boys participated in contour mapping, watershed, forestry, and wildlife management, aquatic biology, population dynamics, recreational skills and soils.
 
75 years ago (1948)
•John Reimer announced this week that his new laundry, to be known as the Luverne Laundry, will be open for business next Monday.
Installation of all the equipment has now been completed, and the plant is ready for operation. The laundry is located on the corner of Main and Oakley streets, across the street west from the Spease Tire Shop.
“Luverne has long felt the need of having its own modern laundry, and it is our aim to provide one,” Reimer said this week. “We will be using modern equipment and modern laundry methods to insure quick, reliable service at an economical price. We invite the public to try our service. We will call for and deliver all laundry, and we will endeavor in every way to make out business one which will answer a long felt need in Luverne.”
 
100 years ago (1923)
•Another big dance, of the kind for which Dell-Hogan Post, of the American Legion, of this city, has become noted during the past year, will be held at the Armory, in this city, Monday night, July 22.
The committee in charge has planned a big carnival dance on this date and it is a safe bet that the evening will be as entertaining and enjoyable as at any dance ever held in this city. Arrangements have been made to provide every dancer, both gentlemen and ladies, with carnival hats and caps. The hall will be attractively decorated in Legion colors. All carnival accessories will be supplied by the committee. Notice has been given out that there will be no confetti used at the hall, owing to numerous complaints against this practice.
Following the custom of the past year, the Legion will make a free distribution of prizes at the dance. Various assortments of staple and fancy groceries will be given away including fifty pounds of sugar, two baskets of assorted fancy groceries, a sack of flour, coffee and a box of fancy biscuits.

Thirty-four Luverne Middle School students, three school chaperones and nine adults traveled to Washington, D.C., July 7-11. The days were full for the group as they visited the Capitol, White House, Arlington National Cemetery, Gettysburg Battlefield, the Washington Monument, the Holocaust, American History and National Archives museums, and the Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR, MLK, World War II, Vietnam, and Korean memorials. Pictured are students (front, from left), Sophia Remme, Hazel Sailor, Rylee Kurtz, Macie Edstrom, Garret Cattnach, Ben Hartquist, Danny Aning, Cole Buss, (second) Kassidy Saarloos, Alexa Braun, Duncan Benjamin, Carter Como, Will Bergman, Colton Haubrich, Jackson VanMaanen, Collin Knips, Kelby Schomacker, Hudson Hough, Andrew Deutsch, Matthew Gangestad, Ashton Pick, Liam Brown, (third) Olivia Versteeg, Allyssa Evers, Marlee Nelson, Charlie Mostad, Logan Willi, (back) Olivia Lund, Aubrey Van Belle, Anna Reisdorfer, Haily Steele, Natt Hernandez, James Wendlandt and Ethan Van Batavia.

LSS meals at Generations
 
Monday, July 24: Goulash, corn, tropical fruit, bread.
Tuesday, July 25: Biscuit with sausage gravy, roasted potatoes, cinnamon apple slices, dessert.
Wednesday, July 26: Sloppy Joe on a bun, roasted potatoes, baked beans, fresh fruit.
Half-Price Day sponsored by Security Savings Bank.
Thursday, July 27: Ham and turkey chef salad, breadstick, fresh orange, dessert.
Friday, 28: Roasted turkey with gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, dessert.
LSS Dining offers well-balanced and affordable meals in a community atmosphere.
Call Pam Franken at 283-9846, extension 11 to reserve one day prior, to arrange to pick up a dinner or for home-delivered meals.
Gift certificates are available at the meal site or online at www.lssmn.org/nutrition.