H-BC School Board 
meets March 14
Hills-Beaver Creek Dist. 671
Minutes
March 14, 2022
The Hills-Beaver Creek School Board met for its semi-monthly meeting at 7:04 p.m. in the H-BC Secondary School Board room, 301 N Summit Ave, Hills, MN.
Board members and Administration present were Fransman, Gehrke, Harnack, Knobloch, Rauk and Rozeboom. Superintendent Holthaus, Principal Kellenberger and Business Manager Rozeboom were also in attendance. Board member Bosch
was absent.
Motion by Rozeboom, second by Harnack, and carried to approve the agenda. Visitor to the meeting was Mavis Fodness of the Rock County Star Herald.
PATRIOT PRIDE:
-Girls Basketball All Conference: Kenadie Fick, Honorable Mention: Lanae
Elbers
-Boys Basketball All Conference: Cole Baker and Oliver Deelstra
-Boys and Girls Academic All Conference: Kenadie Fick, Liam Raymon, Troy 
Durst
-End of Boys and Girls Basketball Seasons
-School Social Worker Week 3/6-3/12
-Knowledge Bowl Regional top 3 of 24
Board Committee Meeting Reports:
-Staff Development 3/2 and Personnel/Finance 3/10
Motion by Knobloch, second by Fransman, and carried to approve Consent
Agenda:
-Minutes—02/28/2022
-Bills
-Hiring Melanie Kruse as Special Education Teacher for the 2022-2023
School Year, Pending MN Teacher License Approval
INDIVIDUAL ACTION ITEMS:
Motion by Harnack, second by Fransman, and carried to approve 3/28/22
Board Meeting move to 8 p.m. due to Elementary Band/Vocal Music Concert.
Motion by Rauk, second by Harnack, and carried to approve Resolution
for Purchase of 2023 IC 77 Passenger Bus.
Motion by Knobloch, second by Rozeboom, and carried to approve 
Preschool Program additions of M-F 1/2 Day Preschool -Pilot M-F program.
Motion by Fransman, second by Rauk, and carried to approve Preschool 
Program Fee Structure for the 2022-2023 School Year.
Motion by Harnack, second by Fransman, and carried to approve
Enrollment/Demographic Study with TeamWorks International.
Motion by Rozeboom, second by Knobloch, and carried to approve Donation
Resolution:
$100.00 from Hills Lions Club for FFA
$20.00 from Blackbaud Giving Fund for Elementary Student Council
$20.00 from Blackbaud Giving Fund for Secondary Student Council
DISTRICT NON-ACTION ITEMS:
•Secondary Principal Report
•Superintendent/Elementary Principal Report
•Legislative update - Rozeboom
AGENDA ITEMS FOR THE NEXT REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING
DATES TO REMEMBER:
-Regular Board Meeting, Monday, March 28, 2022
-Regular Board Meeting, Monday, April 11, 2022
Meeting adjourned at 8:17 p.m.
Tamara Rauk, Clerk
(04-07)

Brandt applies for 
livestock feedlot permit
Notification Requirements
MINNESOTA RULE 7020.2000, SUBP. 4
notice of application foR 
livestock feedlot permit
Notice is hereby given per Minnesota Statutes 116.07, subd. 7(a), that Greg Brandt has made application to the County of Rock, for a permit to construct a feedlot with a capacity of 500 animal units or more.
The proposed feedlot will be located in the SE 1/4 of Section 5 in Luverne Township, Rock County, Minnesota.
The existing facility consists of a confinement building and open lots with runoff controls to house 200 head of feeder cattle and 625 head of finishing cattle. The proposed modification will add 290 head of feeder cattle and reduce the finishing cattle by 125 head. Manure storage from the confinement is a poured concrete pit and pack on lot, the open lot will be pack on lot. The site will house 500 head of finishing cattle and 490 feeder cattle equaling 843 animal units.
This publication shall constitute as notice to each resident and each owner of real property within 5,000 feet of the perimeter of the proposed feedlot as required by Minnesota State Law.
Published at the request of Greg Brandt.
(04-07)

Rock County Board of 
commissioners to meet April 19
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AND INTENT TO CONSIDER PLANS FOR
REDISTRICTING OF COUNTY COMMISSIONER DISTRICTS IN ACCORDANCE 
WITH MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 375.01 TO 375.025
Notice is hereby given that on the 19th day of April, 2022, at 9:00 a.m., the Rock County Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing at the Herreid Board Room, 204 East Brown Street, in the City of Luverne, for the purpose of considering preliminary plans for the redistricting of Rock County Commissioner Districts. A copy of the preliminary plans with all attachments and supporting documentation shall be available for public inspection in the office of the Clerk of the County Board during regular office hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday and on the Rock County website at www.co.rock.mn.us. Any citizen intending to submit a plan for consideration in the redistricting of Rock County Commissioner Districts must do so no later than the 15th day of April 2022, at 5:00 p.m.
Notice is also given that the Rock County Board of County Commissioners will meet in the Herreid Board Room, 204 East Brown Street, in the City of Luverne, on April 19, 2022, for the purpose of redistricting Rock County Commissioner Districts.
Dated: April 5, 2022
(04-07, 04-14)

The Cardinal girls finished second and the boys placed fourth Monday, April 4, at the Luverne Invitational track meet in Luverne.
Coach Janiszeski said he’s pleased with what he’s seen so far with this meet and the Brookings, South Dakota, competition over the weekend. 
“The kids had some great early season performances, which creates excitement for what they could accomplish by the end of the season,” he said.
“The team had several Top 10 performances including a few PR performances.”  
The Cardinals will be back on the track Saturday in Brandon, South Dakota.  
 
LHS boys
Ashton Sandbulte won the 100-meter dash in 11.13 and took first with the 4-by-200-meter relay team of Lucky Dara, Gavin DeBeer and Eli Radtke with a time of 1:36.98.  
Radtke also finished first in the pole vault at 11-6.
Camden Janiszeski was first in the 800-meter with 2:09.63 and Ryan Fick third (2:21.13).  
The 4-by-400 relay team of Camden Janiszeski, Dara, Ethan Rahm and Sandbulte placed second with a time of 3:44.36.  
Jordan Friedrichsen finished third in the shot put with a throw of 43-02 and fifth in the discus (103-00). Eli Woodley was sixth in the shot put at 38-01 1/2.  
Owen Janiszeski placed fourth in the 3200-meter run with a personal record of 10:46.25.  He was seventh in the 400 meters with 59.98.
The 4-by-800-meter relay team of Leif Ingebretson, Kaleb Hemme, Hudson Hough and Eli McLendon was fifth (11:01.99) and the 4-by-100-meter relay team of Treven Bell, Tyler Rolfs, Noah Mehlhaff, Zachary Terrio was sixth (51.06).  
Fick placed sixth in the 1600-meter run (5:12.60), and Rahm was seventh in the 200-meter dash (25.73).
 
LHS girls
The Cardinal girls finished second as a team by a mere two points to Southwest Christian-Ellsworth Monday.  
Jadyn Hart had a great day for the Cardinals with first in the shot put and first in discus as well with throws of 34-03 and 106-04 respectively.
The 4-by-800-meter relay team of Tenley Nelson, Tiana Lais, Ella Schmuck and Kayla Bloemendaal placed first with a time of 10:34.99. Placing second with a time of 10:37.14 were Luverne’s other 4-by-800 team of Jenna DeBates, Elizabeth Wagner, Cassi Chesley and Maria Rops.  
Debates finished first in the 800 meters in 2:34.26 followed by Schmuck third (2:47.71), Grace Ingebretson fourth (2:55.57), and Rosalynn Hartshorn sixth.
Tenley Nelson finished first in the 3200-meter run in 11:35.04
Wagner was first and Mia Wenzel second in the high jump, clearing 5-00 and 4-08 respectively. 
Isabella Oye and Tiana Lais finished second and third in the 200-meter dash respectively.
Rops had a second-place finish in the 400-meter dash with a personal best of 1:07.
Wagner was second in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 51.35, followed by Chesley fourth (56.11) and Kayla Bloemendaal fifth (59.41).
The long jump had Makena Nelson finishing third with 14 3/4, Isabella Oye and Thorson tied for fifth with a jump of 13-07.   
Ingebretson also finished fourth in the 1600-meter run in 6:18.04 .  
In the 100-meter hurdles Kendra Thorson finished fourth (19.48) and Augusta Papik fifth (19.98).  
The 4-by-100-meter-relay team was fifth in (1:01.38) with the group of Morgan Hadler, Skylar VanderSteen, Morgan McTigue and Corynn Oye.  
Two Luverne teams competed in the 4-by-200-meter-relay race. Placing fifth in (1:59.06) were Wenzel, Thorson, Reinha John and Isabella Oye. In sixth place in (2:00.96) were Makena Nelson, Hailey Como, Anna Banck and Sara Stegenga.
Stegenga finished seventh in the 100-meter dash (13.83) and sixth in the triple jump (28-04 1/2).

Hills-Beaver Creek track and field teams enjoyed some season opening successes at their first meet Monday night in Luverne.
The girls placed fifth and boys sixth as teams, and coach Rex Metzger said he was pleased by the Patriots’ performances.
“It was great to see our kids compete, and I thought overall we were very competitive,” he said. “I look forward to the rest of the season.”
H-BC track teams will travel to Slayton Thursday for the Murray County Central Relays.
 
Girls’ results
Seventh-grader Brynn Bakken turned in H-BC’s lone first-place finishes with her 15’ 2” long jump and 13.56 time in the 100-meter run.
Placing second were the relay teams in the 4-by-100-meter (55.05) and 4-by-200-meter (1:54.88). Runners on both those teams were Layla Deelstra, Brynn Rauk, Bakken and Abbie Harris.
Senior Kenadie Fick placed second in the 1600-meter run with a time of 6:07.66.
In fourth place were Layla Deelstra (13.74) in the 100 meter and the 4-by-800-meter relay team of Fick, Taylor Durst, Emma Deelstra and Bailey Spykerboer (11:47.99).
Ally Birger threw 27-4 in the shot put for sixth place.
Boys’ results
Liam Raymon, Luke Fuerstenberg, Cooper Gehrke and Brock Harnack teamed up for second-place finishes in the 4-by-100 (48.39) and 4-by-200 (1:40.00).
Gehrke was third in the 100-meter with a tie of 11.93.Harnack was third in the 300-meter hurdles in 49.42
Placing fourth were Elijah Taubert (25.24) in the 200-meter run and Raymon 40-6 in the triple jump.
James Vanden Bosch was fifth in the 300-meter hurdles (53.40).
In sixth place were Raymon (12.33) in the 100 meters and Harnack in the triple jump (38-0).

On Thursday, April 7, Pioneer PBS will release a new “Postcards” series that features Minnesota artists, including the Luverne-based band, Beautiful Kingdom.
The three-piece band, Beautiful Kingdom, features Matthew Stensland-Bos of Luverne, Nadia Sessen, originally of Montreal, Quebec, and Tyler Bryce, originally of California.
They have since played all over the area, including as a headliner at Levitt Shell in Sioux Falls, and are working on their full debut album.
For the Postcards feature, Pioneer PBS film crews recorded and interviewed the musicians in the home of Matthew’s parents, Doug Bos and Lynette Stensland, west of Luverne on County Road 5.
“It was really neat,” Bos said. “Matthew likes the acoustics in our dining room.”
Pioneer PBS promotes the April 7 airing with a description of the band. “Each of these singer-songwriters was creating music on their own for nearly a decade before hearing about each other,” the promo says.
 Beautiful Kingdom formed in 2019 after years of talking and dreaming about creating a band together, according to Stensland-Bos.
“This band is not only a personal dream fulfilled for each of us, but part of a larger vision for what music and the world can be,” he said Tuesday. 
The band’s full songs are available to listen on the usual streaming platforms, such as Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music. 
Samples of the singles releases are available on the band’s website, beautiful-kingdom.com, which also features several videos and images at the acreage where Stensland-Bos grew up.
When asked about the meaning of their name, Sessen replied, “We’d like to bring heaven on to earth. We’d like to make it the most beautiful place possible.”
The Postcards stories will be available for online viewing starting at noon through the station’s website: www.pioneer.org/postcards and YouTube Channel.
The program will be aired over the Pioneer PBS broadcast network on April 7 at 7 p.m.
Thursday’s series will also feature multimedia Indigenous Inkpa Mani and Renville author Patricia Buschette.
The next local performance of Beautiful Kingdom will be Friday, June 3, at Take 16 during Buffalo Days weekend in Luverne.

Local children’s author Kathie Hendricks has had two more books published, “A Day at the Beach” and “My Friend Andee.”
The 8- and 11-year-old characters, Bean and Tommy, are excited to go to the beach and wonder if they’ll see a shark.
Hendricks said one part of the story recreates a mishap in 2015 when her grown children helped her escape the pull of crashing waves on a California beach.
The other book follows the adventures of Bean’s imaginary friend, Andee, who is based on an imaginary friend that Hendrick’s daughter spoke of in childhood.
“When we moved to Luverne, Andee moved to New York City,” Hendricks recalled about 4-year-old Stephanie.
Her latest releases join four other books already on the market.
“Please Don’t Eat the Cupcakes” and “Backyard Hockey” were published in February of 2021.
“Here Come the Leprechauns” was released just ahead of St. Patrick’s Day in 2019, and her first book, “Walleyes and Watermelon: The Story of Summer at the Lake,” came out in January 2019.
Hendricks, a licensed in-home child care provider, said she had long dreamed of writing a children’s book, but it wasn’t until she had back surgery in 2017 that she found the time and motivation to do it.
By the end of her 10-week recuperation, Hendricks had written nine more children’s books, all neatly recorded in a stack of manuscripts ready to share with her publisher.
“Once I get an idea in my head, it doesn’t take very long to write,” she said. “It’s not a novel; children’s books are 20 pages or less.”
There are four more books from those original manuscripts awaiting publication.
She publishes under the pen name “Kate Henry” through Christian Faith Publishing in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
Her books are available at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and in bookstores.