5 years ago

Frazee-Vergas Forum

November 10, 2020

Jeremy “Hoby” Perala saw the world, for better and worse, during his service with the Marine Corps. The Evergreen resident joined the armed services during peace time. He was training in Okinawa, Japan in September of 2001, and on chow hall duty. That meant he woke at 3:30 a.m. to help prepare breakfast. A typhoon was hitting at the same time, so others were securing the barracks. After battening the hatches and refueling the body, everything changed. Perala recalls being summoned to the T.V. room where he watched the September 11 attacks on the Twin Towers unfold.

Renovations to the exterior of the Vergas Event Center have begun. The Vergas Event Center Committee met on Wednesday, Nov. 4 and Vergas City Clerk Julie Lammers reported the remodeling project was “going really well” and the old siding had already been removed. She explained when the siding was removed in front of a door that mold was discovered.

25 years ago

Frazee Forum

November 9, 2000

Frazee will soon have a new businessman on main street. The Frazee City Council agreed to sell its three lots in the 100 block of West Main Avenue for $6,000 at its regular meeting Monday, Nov. 6. Roger Boe, a Lake Seven summer resident of Keller, Texas, provided the council with $1,000 down and a number of preliminary building plans.

Frazee-Vergas School District Supt. Joe Merseth said he will submit his resignation to the school board at its meeting 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 13. The resignation would take effect at the end of this school year, he said. Merseth said he reached the “rule of 90”—which allows teachers and administrators to draw retirement when their combined age and experience total 90—last year, when he hit his 56th birthday.

Voters soundly rejected a school excess levy referendum and elected some new city officials. That’s a brief summary of Tuesday’s unofficial local and area election results.

50 years ago

Frazee Forum

November 13, 1975

St. John’s Lutheran Church of Height of Land will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the church on Sunday, November 16. Dinner will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and a program is to be presented at 2 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend this special occasion.

Dennis Fett, 14, is pictured with a large 8-point buck he shot Nov. 8 while deer hunting near Frazee. Dennis is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Fett, Jr. of Frazee.

Mr. and Mrs. Harold (Bud) Sewer of Frazee wish to announce the engagement of their daughter, Judith Kay, to Michael James Richter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Richter of Perham. A December 13 wedding is planned.

Indian War Cries, beating tom-toms, flutes, bells, and singing chants are lifting the rafters in the Upper Elementary building at Frazee these days as 4th-6th graders prepare for their annual program. The title of the program is “The Legend of the Twelve Moons,” a choral pageant of the American Indian, by Ruth Roberts. It will be presented in the Frazee High School gym on Friday, Nov. 21 at 8 p.m. Directors of the program are Mrs. Joyce Riebe and Miss Rikka Hoffland.