5 years ago

Frazee-Vergas Forum

August 20, 2019

The Frazee City Council accepted a $750 donation from the Frazee Lions to purchase and install frisbee golf equipment at Lions Park. During the Frazee City Council’s monthly meeting on Monday, Aug. 12, Councilman Mike Sharp explained the course layout is being reviewed as there may be Native American burial grounds at the site. Sharp said hold locations may need to be moved, if mounds are determined to exist at the park.

Scout Stewart, who is the daughter of Scott and Jessica Stewart, was crowned as the 2019-20 Miss Wolf Lake during Friday night’s pageant. She was one of six people to received a crown as part of the annual pageant and officially took over the reigns from outgoing Miss Wolf Lake Kelsie Heyer.

Annabelle Hrdlicka was all smiles as she received roses and a crown during the Miss Wolf Lake pageant on Friday night. Hrdlicka is the daughter of Charlie and Katrina Hrdlicka and was crowned as Little Miss Wolf Lake.

25 years ago

Frazee Forum

August 19, 1999

Jessica Meyer was crowned Miss Vergas at the Aug. 12 Miss Vergas Scholarship Program, which kicked off Vergas Looney Days. The queen’s crown was placed on her head by beaming outgoing queen, Casey Archer. As the new Miss Vergas, Meyer will be the community’s goodwill ambassador for the next year, appearing at pageants, riding in parades and participating in other events.

“To guarantee a continuous supply of quality food at a cheap price to at the American people.” That is how Frazee farmer August Ziegler paraphrases a segment of the mission statement of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Zieglers says he has no major problem wit that, if it was amended to read as follows: “To guarantee a continuous supply of quality food at a cheap price to the American people at a fair price to the American farmer.” Farmers—small and moderate-sized farmers, that is—aren’t getting their fair share of the U.S. food dollar, Ziegler strongly feels. Ziegler acknowledged that things have been rough for family farmers—at least off and on—for a long time.

50 years ago

Frazee Forum

August 22, 1974

The appointment of John W. Youngquist, Mankato, who joined the Minnesota Department of Highways in 1941, to the position of District Engineer of District 4 with headquarters in Detroit Lakes was announced today by Highway Commissioner Ray Lappegaard. Youngquist succeeds Frank J. Pawlak, retired, and will assume his new duties August 21. District 4 operations are the construction and maintenance of state highways in a west central Minnesota area encompassing all of part of 12 counties.

A Callaway, Minn. woman was killed and another critically injured in a one car accident near Lake Park Sunday evening. Mrs. Dick Ladwig died as a result of the accident that occurred at the intersection of Becker County roads 7 and 4. Her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Bianka Ladwig, also of Callaway, a passenger in the car, is a patient at St. Mary’s Hospital in Detroit Lakes.