April 21
•Complainant on 211th Street, Hardwick, reported theft.
•Complainant on Highway 24, mile marker 3, Steen, reported debris.
•Complainant westbound on Interstate 90, mile marker 11, Luverne, reported suspicious activity.
April 22
•Complainant on County Road 11, Hills, reported an abandoned vehicle.
•Complainant westbound on Interstate 90, mile marker 6, Beaver Creek, reported a driving complaint.
•Complainant on W. Mead Court reported a civil issue.
•Complainant on 21st Street, Hills, reported suspicious activity.
•Complainant on E. Luverne Street reported assault.
•Complainant reported a miscellaneous call.
April 23
•Complainant on E. Luverne Street reported a missing person.
•Complainant eastbound on Interstate 90, mile marker 7, Beaver Creek, reported a driving complaint.
•Complainant on Redbird Road reported suspicious activity.
•Complainant on Luverne and Estey streets reported illegal burning.
•Complainant westbound on Interstate 90, mile marker 11, Luverne, requested motorist assistance.
April 24
•Complainant on Linden Street requested assistance from another department.
•Complainant on W. Interstate Drive reported a fire.
•Complainant on N. Spring Street requested an unlock.
•A warrant was reported on E. Dodge Street.
•Complainant on Oak Drive reported a civil issue.
•Complainant on Main Street, Steen, reported suspicious activity.
•A warrant was reported on S. Kniss Avenue.
April 25
•A warrant was reported at Day County Sheriff’s Office.
•Complainant on N. Kniss Avenue reported a parking issue.
•A warrant was reported on 70th Avenue, Beaver Creek.
•A warrant was reported on E. Crawford Street.
•Complainant on Dodge Street and Highway 75, Luverne, reported harassing communications.
•Complainant on Highway 75, Interstate 90 overpass, Luverne, reported debris.
April 26
•Complainant on County Road 4 and 81st Street, Beaver Creek, reported weapons.
•Complainant on Pine Drive reported a disorderly.
 
In addition, officers responded to 2 motor vehicle accidents, 2 transports, 10 ambulance runs, 4 paper services, 3 animal complaints, 1 fingerprint request, 33 burn permits, 1 background check, 1 alarm, 3 purchase and carry permits, 3 stalled vehicles, 46 traffic stops, 11 abandoned 911 calls and 2 OFPs.

Earth moving work is underway to bring a Kwik Trip to South Highway 75 in Luverne.
Company officials said Luverne’s Kwik Trip footprint will be 9,000 square feet located on 2.88 acres just south of the Econo Lodge Hotel near the intersection of Highway 75 and Gabrielson Road.
The Luverne Kwik Trip will be open 24 hours per day, seven days a week, with 20 full-time employees.
The newer “Gen 3” design will be similar to the Kwik Trip in Windom and will include all the same amenities except a car wash.
The gas station convenience store is known for its fried chicken and take-home meals, and it also has vegetables and fresh meat for grilling, plus potatoes, bread and bakery items.
Kwik Trip has its own dairy, sweet goods and bread production in La Crosse, Wisconsin, from where it distributes directly to more than 800 of its stores in the Upper Midwest.
In addition to standard convenience store merchandise and grocery items, Luverne’s Kwik Trip fuel pumps will have unleaded, premium and E-85 gas (no diesel).
The Luverne location is among several new Kwik Trip stores in the works, including one in Worthington and several in Sioux Falls.
Construction will begin this fall, with opening expected in January 2024.

Nineteen-year-old Zach Jennissen traveled on foot from Sioux Falls to Luverne Monday night as part of a 600-mile trek to Canada.
The 2022 Foley High School grad has been making the trip since he was in sixth grade to promote the 30 for Freedom cause to end human trafficking.
“I’m blessed that I get to use my gift to improve the lives of others,” he said Monday.
“Human trafficking is something that is near to my heart and it’s a large issue in this country. It’s much larger than people know and I’m trying to make it known.”
He stayed with Canaan Petersen in Luverne Monday night and continued the next day to Mankato. His future route includes St. Cloud, Brainerd, Duluth and eventually through Grand Portage. 
30 for Freedom started with one man’s vision to get 30 of his friends to run 30 miles to raise $30,000 on his 30th birthday to help victims of sex trafficking.
Brent Silkey’s vision has since then inspired thousands to raise $1.56 million in the past seven years.
Jennissen’s FB page has a Venture Miles link to support his cause.

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 September 23, 1943.
(Continued from last week, where Herbert recounted his 1888 blizzard experience.)
 
With the clotheslines to follow, the neighbor was able to bring his family to the Herbert home.
Worked in Harness Shop
Here he worked as foreman in the shop for Burley and Kennicott. After three years, Kennicott was in full charge of the business and he was employed by him for 10 years. He was a shop mate of the late Ed Lynch for 12 years, and later worked for him in his own shop. He went to Alden, Minn., where he remained one year working at his trade, then he came back and worked 12 years for Steve Kennedy and three years for John Albert. On March 1, 1919, he opened his own shoe repair shop in the rear of what then was the Handy grocery, and what now is the Schlader jewelry building. This he operated until going to California in February, 1928. He opened a shop in San Fernando, and after his wife’s death on May 15, 1929, he moved to North Hollywood where he is still proprietor of “Dad Herbert’s” shoe repair shop.
Racing was one of Mr. Herbert’s favorite sports in his younger days. When he was a boy of nine, he rode on the first half mile race track at the Minnesota state fair. For three seasons, he rode for a horse owner named Dilley, and when the latter was ruled from further competition from the track, Mr. Herbert’s horse racing days were over.
Won But Lost
The account of the last race as related by Mr. Herbert is interesting. Seven horses were entered in a seven heat race. His horse, a buckskin mustang, won three of the races, and a spotted horse, ridden by a Negro boy, also had won three. The other horse dropped out, leaving the two of them to finish the last race alone.
“That crazy horse I was riding got Mr. Dilley ruled off the race track,” Mr. Herbert relates. “It was one of the fastest horses I’ve ever been on, and also one of the most unpredictable. It would just as soon run right through a crowd as go around a curve at the end of the track. In this particular race, I was about three lengths ahead of the other horse. Just a few feet from the finish line, the buckskin came to a dead stop. It happened so fast that I went right over its head, and landed on the other side of the finish line ahead of the other horse, but my horse still hadn’t crossed the line. The owners of the two horses, and the judges had quite a discussion about the whole thing, and finally, the victory was awarded my horse, but only on condition that Mr. Dilley would never race another horse on that track.”
On Fire Hose Team
Foot racing was also a favorite sport of Mr. Herbert, who said that one time he would just as soon have run a foot race as to go fishing. After coming to Luverne, he joined the Luverne fire department, and was a member of the hose cart team that won the world’s championship in a tournament in Pipestone in 1895, by running 200 yards, laying 150 feet of hose and making the coupling in 26 and one-fifth seconds. Mr. Herbert was not one of the runners, but served as one of two “bracers” as they were called; men who braced the wheels just as the race was about to begin. Only a few of those men are living at the present time, he said, among whom are Al Angell and Jim Wiggins of Luverne, Jean Barck, Spokane, and Ed Bronson, who lives in Idaho. Mr. Herbert served as a member of the fire department for about 20 years.
Mr. Herbert became the father of four children, three of whom are living at the present time. They are Mrs. A. B. Cowan, Luverne; Mrs. Maude M. Smith, North Hollywood, and Horace G. Herbert, also of North Hollywood.
Nicknamed “Waxie”
He explained that his son, Horace, was known more generally by the nickname, “Waxie”. After his second son, Horace grew older, it developed that he acquired the name “Little Waxie,” his brother became “Big Waxie,” and Mr. Herbert himself became “Old Waxie”.
On Nov. 11, 1939, Mr. Herbert remarried, his wife being Anna Mattison. She is here with him at the present time, and they expect to leave today for their home in North Hollywood.
In addition to his children, his direct descendants include five grandsons and two great granddaughters. He has three brothers and one sister living; Charley Herbert and John Herbert, both of Sioux Falls, Cort Herbert, Galesburg, Wis. and Mrs. Fletcher Alger, of Sioux Falls.
He attributes his long life to hard work and having lots of fun. Always a lover of sports, his hobbies until later years have been hunting and fishing. His health is still good, he says, as a recent medical examination revealed that he was as “fit” as a fiddle.”
He was never greatly interested in politics, and has never held a public office. He is affiliated with the AOUW lodge, of which he has been a member for 35 years.
 
         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)
•Luverne High School Class of ’97 graduate Bill Aanenson brings 16 years of experience to a brand new business on Highway 75.
Aanenson and his wife, Michelle, opened Rock Motor Sports LLC in April.
The business, located in the former TriState Auto building, offers parts and service for every kind of outdoor power equipment — boats, motorcycles, four-wheelers, lawn mowers and more.
Bill said he began working on small engines when he was a student at Alexandria Technical College. “I worked for a shop when I was in school,” he said. “I worked four years in Sheldon, Iowa, and I worked more than 10 years at Outdoor Motor Sports in Spearfish, S.D.”
Michelle will be the office manager for the new business — when she’s not caring for the couple’s first child due in a few weeks. “That’s why we came back,” Bill said. “This is a better place to raise a family.”
 
25 years ago (1998)
•Blue Mounds State Park Partners raised more than $1,300 when 150 people showed up Saturday during their March for Parks event.
The money will be used to enclose and heat the open picnic shelter at the park, creating a winter warming house.
Though rain drizzled on the park at the start of the event, the remainder of the day was dry.
In addition to hiking, participants enjoyed puppet shows, music, games, nature crafts, scavenger hunts, campfires, hotdogs and more.
March for Parks is held nationwide and is sponsored by the National Parks and Conservation Association.
 
50 years ago (1973)
•Style Shop to Celebrate ‘New Look’ — Completion of an improvement program which included the laying of new carpeting, paneling some walls, and other remodeling, will be celebrated by the Luverne Style Shop during the next week.
Audrey Wildung, owner, announced that a number of valuable prizes will be given away during the celebration, and invites the public to come in and see the new interior and to register for the prizes.
Also there during the week to greet her many friends will be H.F. Wildung, founder of the store, who now lives in California, but is there for a visit.
 
75 years ago (1948)
•Another burglary at Beaver Creek was reported this week by Sheriff Roberts.
Thieves broke a window on the east side of the Walter Eads and Son garage, rifled the cash register, and escaped unseen with between $12 and $15 in cash Thursday night, the sheriff said. Nothing else was missing.
Discovery of the break-in was made about 4 p.m. Friday by Pete Drowden, village night-watchman.
Whether the break-in was linked is any way with the previous burglaries at Beaver Creek is hard to determine. The school building and the Noll service station were entered on the night of  April 21, and Noll station had been entered several weeks previously.
 
100 years ago (1923)
•”Better Teeth Week” begins Monday, May 7th, 1923. During this week we hope to conduct an intensive campaign for the encouragement of more thorough and more frequent use of the toothbrush,” announced Clara O. Herm, Luverne school nurse. “We have received attractive dental charts from the Florence Manufacturing Co. Gold starts will be placed after the name of each child who has brushed his teeth twice the day previous. …
“We ask the co-operation of the parents in making this week a success. If your child has not been to the dentist within the year, we would urge that you make an appointment with your dentist at the earliest opportunity. Even though there are no cavities, it is well for the child to become acquainted with the dentist as early as possible.”

The Rock County Community Library is host to a photo gallery from the Diane and Alan Page Collection.
The photo collection called “Testify: Americana Slavery to Today” will be on display through May 12.
The collection renews the personal call to action by the Pages.
According to a press release by the collection organizers, the Pages created “Testify” in 2018 to better understand racial divide and that the U.S. was built on white supremacy and the lies of racial difference.
“Before reconciliation, there must be truth – and the truth can be ugly,” Alan Page said. “But we cannot reconcile and move forward if an increasingly louder group of people continue to deflect, minimize and sweep history under the rug.”
The series of photographs depict actual pieces in the private collection of Alan Page and his late wife, Diane.
Included among the pieces are photographs of Jim Crow signage, public slave sale announcement, real estate tokens and the Ghetto Game.
“We want as many people as possible to have direct access to this information so they can form their own opinions — and these objects are facts,” said Georgi Page-Smith, Alan Page’s daughter and director of the collection.
“What folks choose to do with these facts is obviously up to them, but we hope they will create more understanding and help us move beyond the divisiveness we’ve seen lately.”
The traveling photo display is a result of the Greater River Regional Library System, who worked with Page-Smith to bring a smaller traveling version of “Testify” to all of Minnesota.
This display is currently set up in the Rock County Library basement.
The display will be in the Edgerton Public Library from May 15-31.

Birthday
Adam Cox will celebrate his 40th birthday from 4-7 p.m. Saturday, May 6, at Take 16 Event Center in Luverne. (Shhh...it is a surprise.)

LSS meals at Generations
 
Monday, May 8: Parmesan chicken, green beans, fruit cocktail, breadstick, dessert.
Tuesday, May 9: Turkey noodle casserole, broccoli florets, cinnamon baked apple slices, dinner roll, cookie.
Wednesday, May 10: Meatballs, mashed potatoes, carrots, bread, pudding.
Thursday, May 11: Lemon pepper fish, scalloped potatoes, mixed green salad with dressing, dinner roll, fruit.
Friday, May 12: Roast beef with gravy, mashed potatoes, corn, peaches, bread.
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.

Corinne Marion Ruddy Nath, age 93, of Luverne, died Monday, April 24, 2023, at the Sanford Luverne Medical Center.
She was born to Cletus and Carol Ruddy on January 3, 1930. She was raised on the Ruddy farm northeast of Luverne, Minnesota, and was the third of 17 children.
    After graduating from Luverne High School in 1947, Corinne married Orlen Nath, and they were blessed with seven children, Mike, Steve, Joel, Gregg, Pam, Joni and Tom. She worked at Nelson Brothers Department Store and then worked at the Luverne Community Hospital for over 30 years.
She was an active member of St. Catherine Catholic Church for her entire life. She was famous for her love of flowers and her delicious cinnamon rolls. She looked forward to family picnics and the annual family Christmas party.
Corinne is survived by her children, Mike Nath (Janet) of Luverne, Pam Welch (Mickey) of Yankton, South Dakota, Joni Keck (Kraig) of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Tom Nath (Lisa) of Luverne; daughter-in-law Wendy Nath of Luverne; and many grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; three sons, Steve, Joel and Gregg; and many brothers and sisters.
Visitation will be Wednesday, May 3, from 1-2 p.m. at St. Catherine Catholic Church in Luverne. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 3, at St. Catherine Catholic Church in Luverne, officiated by Monsignor Gerald Kosse.  Burial will be in the St. Catherine Catholic Cemetery in Luverne.
Dingmann Funeral Home in Luverne is in charge of arrangements.