LisaAnn Artistic Creations 
assumes name
Minnesota secretary of state 
Certificate of assumed name
MINNESOTA STATUTES, CHAPTER 333
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ASSUMED NAME: LisaAnn Artistic Creations
PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS:
980 140th Avenue, Luverne, MN 56156 USA
NAMEHOLDER(S):
Name: Lisa A Hamann
Address: 980 140th Avenue, Luverne, MN 56156 USA
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Signature : /s/ Lisa Ann Hamann
MAILING ADDRESS: 980 140th Avenue, Luverne, MN 56156
EMAIL ADDRESS FOR OFFICIAL NOTICES: lisaelli42@gmail.com
(02-02, 02-09)

ISD #2184 seeks 
bids by Feb. 21  
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
Sealed proposals will be received by the Luverne Board of Independent School District No. ISD 2184, Luverne, Minnesota at the District Office in the Middle-High School Building, 709 N. Kniss Avenue, Luverne, Minnesota 56156 on
Tuesday, the 21st of February, 2023 at 11:00 A.M. for the 2023 School Parking Lot
Improvements – Independent School District No. 2184, Luverne, Minnesota, at which
time the proposals shall be publicly opened and read aloud.
The approximate quantities of work on which proposals will be received are as follows:
 
20,800 S.Y. 6” & 7” Concrete Pavement
21,200 S.Y. Pavement Removal
 
and other related items of construction.
All bids shall be made on proposal forms furnished by the Engineer and shall be accompanied by bid security in the form of a certified check or bid bond, made payable to Luverne Board of Independent School District No. ISD 2184 , in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the bid, which security becomes the property of the School District in the event the successful bidder fails to enter into contract and post satisfactory bond. This project consists of a Base Bid and two alternates. Work shall commence on or after May 28, 2023, and all work shall be completed by August 12, 
2023.
The Board reserves the right to reject any or all proposals and to waive
technicalities and irregularities. The Board also reserves the right to increase, decrease
or delete items of work to comply with budget limitations.
The Luverne Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 
The Contractor and all subcontractors shall submit to the Owner a signed statement verifying compliance with each of the criteria described in the
State of Minnesota “Responsible Contractor” law as codified in Minnesota Statute
section 16C.285. See the Instructions to Bidders for more details.
Complete digital project bidding documents are available at www.questcdn.com. You may download the digital plan documents for $22.00 by inputting Quest project #8387132 on the website's Project Search page. Please contact QuestCDN.com at 952-233-1632 or info@questcdn.com for assistance in free membership registration, downloading, and working with this digital project information. An optional paper set of the proposal forms and specifications for individual use may be obtained from the office of the Engineer, DGR Engineering, 1302 South Union, P.O. Box 511, Rock Rapids, Iowa 51246, telephone 712-472-2531, Fax 712-472-2710, e-mail: dgr@dgr.com, upon payment of $50.00, none of which is refundable.
Published upon order of the Luverne Board of Independent School District No. 
ISD 2184, Luverne, Minnesota. LUVERNE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
By   /s/  Tyler Reisch                
      Business Manager
(02-02, 02-09)

Bork probate
STATE OF MINNESOTA probate COURT
                                                                         DISTRICT COURT
COUNTY OF ROCK                                                                     PROBATE DIVISION
 
In Re: Estate of                                                              Court File No. 67-PR-22-212
Orville Roland Bork, a/k/a Orville R. Bork,
a/k/a Orville Bork,
Deceased                                                 ORDER AND NOTICE OF HEARING
FOR FORMAL PROBATE OF WILL AND
APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
IN SUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION
AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS
 
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS AND CREDITORS:
It is Ordered and Notice is hereby given that on the 27th day of February, 2023, at 8:30 O'clock A.M., a hearing will be held in the above named Court at Rock County Courthouse, Luverne, Minnesota, for the formal probate of an instrument purporting to be the will of the above named deceased, dated March 18, 2022, and for the appointment of Barbara Bork, whose address is 1269 70th Ave., Luverne, Minnesota 56156, as personal representative of the estate of the above named decedent in supervised administration, and that any objections thereto must be filed with the Court. That, if proper, and no objections are filed, said personal representatives will be appointed to administer the estate, to collect all assets, pay all legal debts, claims, taxes and expenses, and sell real and personal property, and do all necessary acts for the estate. Upon completion of the administration, the representative shall file a final account for the allowance and shall distribute the estate to the persons thereto entitled as ordered by the Court, and close the estate.
Notice is further given that ALL CREDITORS having claims against said estate are required to present the same to said personal representative or to the Court Administrator
within four months after the date of this notice or said claims will be barred.
 
Date Filed: January 24, 2023 /s/ Terry S. Vajgrt
District Court Judge
 
Douglas E. Eisma /s/ Natalie Reisch Attorney for Petitioner Court Administrator
Eisma and Eisma
130 East Main (COURT SEAL)
Luverne, MN 56156
(507) 283-4828
I.D. #15834 (02-02, 02-09)

Seniors Emma Beyer and Ross Bergman received the queen and king crowns respectively Monday afternoon in the Luverne Middle-High School performing arts center as part of the school’s mid-winter week of activities. The 10 senior candidates were nominated by teachers based on their school and community service involvement during their high school years. Juniors Jenna DeBates (far left) and Kayla Bloemendaal introduced the royalty candidates that included (from left) Christina Wagner, Tori Hemme, Lauren Hansen, Emma Beyer, Josie Anderson, Ross Bergman, Brady Bork, Parker Carbonneau, Tyson Cowell and Camden Janiszeski.

Janet Marshall’s new business, Yellow Rose Cookie Shoppe, combines the celebrations of life’s special moments along with some nostalgia.
Marshall started the cottage food business in September 2022 after she began baking sugar cookies, first as a way to combat boredom and then as a business, after her personally decorated creations were a hit at her son’s wedding.
Her journey into baking cookies first began when she was a young girl growing up on the family farm near Raymond, Minnesota.
Marshall recalls her mother making various cookies, bars and cakes while her father worked the fields.
She expanded her knowledge through extracurricular activities.
“I was in 4-H, and foods were the project that I was in,” she said.
Decades later, her own children, Ethan and Erica, were also in the 4-H foods project, where she often helped the youngsters complete projects for the Rock County Fair.
Years later, Marshall’s thoughts returned to baking special creations after announcing her retirement from Berkley Technology Services, Luverne, in late 2021. Months later the state was engulfed in the coronavirus pandemic.
“I was looking for something to do to occupy my time while in lockdown,” she said. “I then came across a sugar cookie group on Facebook.”
The group featured pictures of beautifully decorated cookies made for all different occasions.
Her son’s recent engagement sparked the idea to create sugar cookies for the couple’s July 2022 nuptials.
“That was my goal – to  get myself where I could make nice personal cookies for their wedding,” Marshall said. “That’s what I did. I worked on it.”
Through the social media site, Marshall found recipes for a basic sugar cookie recipe and how to make royal icing.
For weeks she studied videos and viewed pictures on Pinterest as she mastered working with royal icing, which is critical to cookie decorating.
“Something I have learned over time doing these is if my icing would not flow nicely, just go back and remix it,” she said. “It is worth the time doing than just fighting through it.”
Designs are first sketched out on notebook paper, where she carefully notes colors and icing thicknesses.
Through the spring and early summer of 2022, Marshall worked on mastering her decorating techniques that included air brushing and a projector to help with the decorative writing.
“Sometimes I have a hard time falling asleep because I’m thinking about how I am going to do this — thinking about designs,” she said.
Soon friends noticed her work and began asking Marshall to create personal cookies for bridal showers, birthdays or baby showers.
While thinking she should start her own business, Marshall baked and decorated 175 sugar cookies for her son’s wedding, ultimately creating several different designs. Each cookie was individually packaged.
Two months after the wedding, Marshall officially opened Yellow Rose Cookie Shoppe, named in honor of her late mother.
“My mom and I shared a birthday in June,” she said. “We had wild yellow roses, and they always bloomed on our birthday. In her cards she always wrote, “The yellow roses are blooming.”
Marshall specializes in the traditional sugar cookie flavor but can make lemon, pumpkin spice, confetti, apple cider, chocolate chip, M&M and chocolate brownie sugar cookies.
Her social media site says she “makes custom decorated sugar cookies to help celebrate special moments in your life!”
She is registered as a cottage food business through the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and, as a result, sells directly to customers through her social media site, Yellow Rose Cookie Shoppe. Her base price is $36 for a dozen cookies.
As a sole proprietor, Marshall sets her own hours.
“The beauty of it is, if it works in my schedule I will do it. If not, I can say ‘no’,” she said.
For various holidays, Marshall creates several appropriate designs she offers for sale to the public.
For the upcoming Valentine’s Day, she’s created special two cookie sets as well as single cookies, much like she did for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
She’s also created a football stadium involving 15 cookies in honor of the upcoming Super Bowl.
Her husband, Eugene, used to be the taste tester in the family. Now Marshall relies on other family members and friends as cookie testers.
“My future son-in-law likes sugar cookies, so he gets to eat some cookies I’m working on,” Marshall said.
No doubt, the upcoming wedding will have special cookies completed by Marshall at her Yellow Rose Cookie Shoppe.

Luverne High School advanced to the one act play section competition Saturday, its first appearance in 23 years.
Luverne competed at home Jan. 28 against five other schools, finishing second in the sub-section 3A competition.
Murray County Central of Slayton was crowned champions.
Both Luverne and MCC will compete Saturday in Redwood Valley for a chance to represent Section 3A in the MSHSL one act competition Feb. 9-10 in St. Paul.
Placing in the top two came as a surprise to the Luverne team.
“The other performances throughout the day were strong as well,” said Joseph Stearns, who began as director in 2019. “We haven’t made it beyond our first round of sub-sections in my time as director, so to a certain degree, the idea was not on my radar.”
Luverne performed “Ruby,” by University of Sioux Falls alum Greta Smith.
Smith condensed her two act play about an eighth-grader using colors to express her feelings, especially about her parents’ divorce, to a one act play that can be performed under 35 minutes.
“I am proud of the kids and the effort they put in, regardless of our placing,” Stearns said. “I am glad we were able to put on a good show that was received well by the audience and judges.
Judges Matthew Cook, Lori Grote and Paul Jones judged the subsection competition in Luverne. It was the first year the competition was conducted in the middle-high school performing arts center.
“Overall, the judges’ feedback for our performance was positive,” Stearns said. “Especially in contrast to previous years.”
With a week between sub-section and section competitions, Stearns said changes will be minimal for Luverne.
“We plan to work on volume levels, polishing some of the weaker points of the show,” he said. “We hope to revamp our backdrop a bit to allow more of our lighting effects to be impactful.”
Cast members include Brianna Kinsinger, Alex Perkins, Steven Woods, Hallie Bork, Abby Boltjes, Isabella Benson, Rebecca Hoogland, Hunter Cope, Makayla Oechsle, Parker Carbonneau, Zander Carbonneau, Halle Pergrande and Travis Schempp.
Other schools competing at the Jan. 28 sub-sections were Adrian, Edgerton, Pipestone Area and Russell-Tyler-Ruthton.
Luverne last advanced to section competition in 2000, when they performed “The Crucible” for the sub-section 3A championship.

The Luverne High School speech team is coming off a very successful 2022 season.
They earned their second consecutive Section 3A championship, and a record-setting seven individuals qualified for the state tournament.
Team captains hope history repeats itself this year.
Seniors Grace Ingebretsen and Parker Carbonneau lead the 30-member team.
Both want top team finishes at each tournament, but they know speech is a learning process.
For Ingebretsen, speaking skills is what she’s learned since she joined four years ago. She competes in extemporaneous reading.
“I know that sounds really basic, but speaking was something I used to struggle with a lot,” she said. “I was really nervous standing in front of a crowd and talk with more than just my friends.”
Carbonneau is beginning his sixth year on the speech team.
The state tournament qualifier in extemporaneous speaking wants teammates to avoid unnecessary stress.
“It is easy to get worried before your first speech meet and before a big meet,” he said. “Do your best and try to stay relaxed. You usually turn out better.”
Of the 30 students committed to the speech team, coach Gavin Folkestad indicted eight students are new to the program.
“We’ve enjoyed two consecutive years as Section 3A champions, and I certainly hope to see that continue,” he said. “While we graduated five seniors who competed at last year’s state meet, I don’t see any reason why the success can’t continue.”
A team trophy is the goal at each meet.
“We have the experience and numbers to still be in play at the Big South, sub-sections and sections,” he said. “Windom is our biggest competition at those meets, but they graduated several of their top performers as well.”
Folkestad wants students to gain more than just speaking skills at speech meets.
“It builds lifetime friendships with students from other schools,” he said. “There is no other sport or fine arts activity that I see students celebrate the success of their competitors more than speech.”
This year Folkestad is assisted by first-coach Joseph Stearns.
A fellow English teacher at Luverne Middle-High School, Stearns assists students competing in the public address categories of original oratory, extemporaneous speaking, informative speaking, great speeches and discussion.
“I want the students I work with to explore their own interests in an intellectual way, and I want to help them present their interests to an audience in a well-structured and coherent format,” he said. “I want students to gain confidence in themselves and help them find their own voices.”
Luverne kicks off the 2023 speech season with the first of 11 tournaments Saturday.
Their schedule is as follows:
•Feb. 4 at Worthington.
•Feb. 11 at Luverne.
•Feb. 18, Redwood Valley.
•Feb. 25, Marshall.
•March 4, Montevideo.
•March 16, Big South Conference in Worthington.
•March 18, Russell-Tyler-Ruthton.
•March 25, Minneota.
•March 28, sub-section in Windom.
•April 15, sections in Redwood Valley.
•April 29, state tournament in Apple Valley.

The 61st edition of the Twins Winter Caravan made a stop in Luverne Wednesday, Jan. 25.
The tour featured Twins players, coaches, alumni and broadcasters traveling to 12 communities in Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Iowa.
Each stop included question-and-answer sessions, autographs and meet-and-greets with fans, in partnership with the Treasure Island Baseball Network.
Participating in Luverne were 2022 National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Tony Oliva and his wife Gordette, Twins catcher Ryan Jeffers and left-handed pitcher Caleb Thielbar, and longtime Twins television play-by-play voice Dick Bremer. 
Twins Hall of Famer Justin Morneau was also scheduled to come to Luverne, but he attended the funeral of Jake Mauer, Joe Mauer’s father.
The stop in Luverne was a private visit at the Veterans Home, but other stops were bigger events and fundraisers.
For example, the Twins participated in a Let’s Kick Hunger Day Radiothon in Brooklyn Park Wednesday to benefit Second Harvest Heartland, and on Saturday the Justin Morneau Ice Fishing Tournament in St. Isle, Minnesota, will benefit the United Heroes League. On Feb. 8 a Black Woods Blizzard Tour in Carlton will fund the fight against ALS.
The Twins Winter Caravan returned this year after a two-year pandemic-related break.
“We are truly ecstatic to get back on the Winter Caravan trail and bring Twins Baseball directly into the communities where our fans live, work and play,” team president and CEO Dave St. Peter said in a statement released Jan. 12.
“The Caravan is a beloved tradition that continues to unite generations of Twins players and fans.”

Luverne’s Convention and Visitors Bureau collected a record amount of lodging taxes in 2022, spurred by several major construction projects and the need for workers’ housing.
The CVB brought in $72,377 last year from Luverne hotels and motels, which are required by state law to collect the tax in order to support community promotion.
“Lodging tax (“heads in beds tax”) provides funds to advertise and promote the community to visitors and build the community as a travel destination,” said Luverne Chamber Director Jane Wildung Lanphere.
She said funds were used to pay for several new local promotions to attract visitors to Luverne.
 
Digital billboard, bloggers and videos
For example, in 2022 the CVB and Chamber partnered with the city to purchase a new $7,500 digital billboard for Highway 75. It will be installed and operational this year.
The CVB also paid three bloggers last summer to create a series of Luverne adventures for families, couples and the outdoors. The blogs, which cost CVB $5,000, are available on the Chamber website, luvernechamber.com, and on shrpa.com.
In September 2022, the CVB Board spent$3,000 to produce 30-second and 60-second Luverne LOOP video ads in partnership with John Barnes of UDO Velvet Productions. They’ll be released this spring at the start of biking season.
These expenses are in addition to ongoing expenses associated with promoting the Luverne community.
These include hosting events such as the February Fishing Derby (which is canceled this year due to unsafe ice) and Fourth of July at The Lake that bring people to town.
Other regular ongoing CVB expenses include:
•Operating the Chamber as an official Explore Minnesota Affiliate Travel Information Center to serve visitors with information for local and state travel opportunities.
•Maintaining a digital presence on the Explore Minnesota website.
•Advertising in state, regional and national travel magazines and on interstate billboards.
•Operating the “Roll On Luverne” borrow a bike program.
•Distributing more than 2,500 Luverne Visitors Guides to Minnesota Travel Information Centers, Chambers and CVBs throughout Minnesota
•Planning and coordinating special group tours, class reunions and family events to Luverne and Rock County (approximately 500-1,000 annually)
•Responding to individual requests for local information by visitors and new residents from leads generated by print advertising. (The Chamber responded to 1,500 requests for Visitor Guides last year.)
Campgrounds and “vacation rentals by owners,” which are not required to meet hotel industry requirements, are not required to collect lodging taxes.
 
Rate increases and construction lodging
The 2022 record lodging tax receipts of $72,377 reflect increased rates, but the hotels also operated at capacity most of the year, due to workers at major construction sites in and around Luverne.
For example, the labor force for Walleye Wind Farm’s construction of 40 turbines in western Rock County reached 200 workers at its peak last summer.
Other major projects last year were the Lineage Logistics 235,000-square-foot cold storage warehouse and National Guard Armory construction in Luverne’s industrial park, PrairiE Loft’s two 27-unit three-story apartment buildings on South Highway 75, the pool and fitness center addition and remodel.
The 2022 lodging tax receipts of $72,377 compare with $51,530 collected in 2021 and $32,968 during the pandemic in 2020.
Luverne hotels collecting the tax in 2022 include Econolodge, Super 8, Hillcrest, Cozy Rest and GrandStay.
Other lodging tax amounts collected in the past 10 years include:
$41,466.62 in 2013 when the GrandStay opened in June.
$47,086.40 in 2014
$52,398.03 in 2015
$53.066.03 in 2016
$53,363.30 in 2017
$45,717.65 in 2018
$47,369.80 in 2019
The Convention and Visitors Bureau is organized under the authority of State Statute by city ordinance. 
The CVB Board of Directors, which determines and prioritizes how funds are used, has given the Chamber operational responsibility to carry out its mission.