5 years ago

Frazee-Vergas Forum

January 8, 2019

After several years of service in the city government of Frazee, Hank Ludtke has turned in his mayoral gavel. “I’ll still work on the Heartland Trail and be around,” Ludtke said. “But I’m looking forward to spending more time with the kids and my grandchild and old dog Muskie.” Ludtke, a 1967 Frazee graduate, never considered running for a local office in his youth.

The Frazee Fire Department members were told to wear sweat pants for a recent mandatory training session. The training was on blood born pathogens, so the request for workout attired didn’t make a lot of sense, until Kari Hardmeyer walked into the fire hall with more than 20 yoga mats. Hardmeyer had spent 22 days at a yoga retreat on a lake outside San Marcos, Guatemala in early 2018. There, she earned her yoga teaching certification.

For months, Eileen Griffnow had a big secret. During a friend’s 50th wedding anniversary party she was informed her husband would be inducted into the Minnesota Hereford Breeder’s Hall of Fame at the annual Hereford’s Association meeting in December. “My son Jeremy told me,” Eileen said. “I stood there crying.”

25 years ago

Frazee Forum

January 14, 1999

Joshua Kohler, 17, Frazee, is the winner of the Big Buck Contest sponsored by Lakes Sport Shop, Detroit Lakes. The 13-point nontypical buck was shot the first weekend of gun season in the Hungry Lake area of Silver Leaf Township. It scored an estimated 169 points unofficially, with the Boone & Crockett scoring system used as the basis. Joshua is the son of Mark and Val Kohler.

Loon Lake is frozen pretty solid this time of the year. It’s not exactly the type of weather that inspires most people to think of lake associations. But that’s what’s on the minds of Gene and Lorraine Mansager and Reg and LaVerne Hansen. They want to start a Loon Lake association. They have a meeting set for 2 p.m. Saturday for other people—and they hope there are quite a few of them—who might also be interested. It will be—where else?—at the Loon’s Nest in Vergas.

In a 3-1 decision, the Frazee City Council decided in closed session Monday there were reasonable grounds to terminate liquor store bookkeeper/deputy clerk Pam Graham. That meeting was held Monday at 12:45 p.m. in the basement of City Hall. Voting in favor of termination on the grounds stated were Mayor Russell Vikesland and council persons Dean Long and Pat Johnson. Councilman Fred Daggett cas an opposing vote to the motion, said Clerk Teri Osterman. Councilman Jim Clarey was absent. Osterman said she is unable to comment on the reason(s) for the termination.

50 years ago

Frazee Forum

January 10, 1974

Frazee is picked as the favorite to repeat as champions of the Heart O’Lakes Conference wrestling tournament to be held Saturday, Jan. 12 at the Frazee High School gym. First round matches start at 12 o’clock noon. The consolation finals are at 6:30 p.m. followed by the championship finals.

At the January Village Council Meeting Monday night, Bennet Melbye was appointed new councilman to fill the unexpired term of Cloyd Jacobs who is now serving as mayor. Melbye is the Special Services Director at the Frazee-Vergas school.

A Detroit Lakes woman became Becker County’s first traffic fatality of 1974 about 9 a.m. last Thursday when the pickup truck in which she was a passenger was struck by a westbound Burlington Northern freight train. The victim was Luella Goshinka, 63, a resident of Lamplighter Manor, a retirement home in Detroit Lakes. The accident happened on a township road about three miles southeast of Detroit Lakes. Mrs. Goshinka was riding in a pickup driven by her son, Donald Albert Olds, 28, of Rt. 3, Frazee, who lives near the crossing. He escaped without injury. Becker County Sheriff James Larson said Mrs. Goshinka was thrown from the pickup and then pinned under it.