5 years ago

Frazee-Vergas Forum

August 6, 2019

Rural Free resident Kevin Flynn recently returned from the Vikings training camp and he left impressed. The facility was dazzling, and the players’ skills on the field was inspiring, and kindest of the field was admirable. Flynn attended the pre-season training camp in Eagan as part of his job. He works for the radio station 1100 AM, The Flag. “The sports director was sick, so I was batting clean up,” Flynn said, adding he’d covered training camps before, but this was his first time at the new facility.

The Looney Daze Grand Marshall is Ellen Dedrick. Dedrick was born in Vergas in 1924, which makes her 95. She is the youngest daughter of William and Anna (Buehler) Sauer. William Sauer was a local blacksmith, the first fire chief of the village and also a mayor of Vergas. The current Vergas Mayor, Dean Haarstick, lives in Dauer’s former house. Dedrick currently lives in the Minneapolis area, but will return to Vergas for Looney Daze festivities, including the parade set for 2 p.m. Sunday.

25 years ago

Frazee Forum

August 5, 1999

Leading the Aug. 15 Looney Days Parade will be the last member of a family that has been in Vergas since before it was a town. Reinhardt Katzke, who has been chosen as this year’s Grand Marshal, thinks he has lived in Vergas as a year-round resident longer than anybody now in the community. He was born in Vergas 86 years ago, and with the exception of his time in World War II, has been in Vergas ever since. Until 1 1/2 years ago, Katzke lived in the historic house on the north edge of Vergas, which is now being remodeled for a bed and breakfast facility. He used to own the land on which the assisted living facility and the city all park are now located.

It was Monday morning and Turkey Days ’99 was all over. Jessica Teckemeyer, who was crowned as Miss Frazee Saturday, looked a bit stunned with disbelief after being named to succeed Heather Carr. She was stunned, she admitted. How did she feel at the Saturday pageant when her name was announced as the new queen? “I was shocked and excited and overwhelmed at the same time,” she said. Teckemeyer, a 1999 graduate of Frazee High School, said she always thought it would be fun to run for the position of Miss Frazee.

50 years ago

Frazee Forum

August 8, 1974

Miss Patty Bradbury, 18, was chosen from a field of nine candidates to reign as Miss Frazee 1974 at the conclusion of the Miss Frazee pageant Saturday night. The pageant is a project of the Mrs. Jaycees and a highlight of Frazee Turkey Days celebration.

Julie Courneya, 1973 Miss Frazee and recently crowned Miss Northwest at Detroit Lakes, made her final appearance as queen of Frazee Turkey Days as she greeted the large crowd in the parade on Sunday afternoon.

Mabel Hamilton was identified as the “Mystery Gobbler” about 2:45 p.m. Saturday after the fourth clue had been announced. Mable presented the $100 contest prize to Mrs. Dick (Arlene) Kyte who solved the mystery with assistance from her mother, Mrs. Ralph Frahm.