5 years ago

Frazee-Vergas Forum

February 16, 2021

“I felt like I won the lottery; I was so excited I almost ran a red light,” Delair Kaas said about being chosen to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The rural Vergas resident, who formerly owned the Frazee-Vergas Forum with his wife Gale, read awhile back that an opportunity for senior citizens to get the COVID-19 vaccine was coming to Fergus Falls. When the sign-up day arrived (Jan. 19), Delair and Gale did all they could to tip the odds in the 66-year-old’s favor.

On April 17, 2018, Mark McFadzen was bringing in the last set of milk after a day’s work at a rural Frazee dairy farm when a police officer came calling. “He asked me to step outside; that my boys had something to tell me,” he recalled. “I went outside of the milk house and my boys were bawling.” It was there he learned his wife and a son had been murdered by a young man they invited into their home to help get back on his feet. After nearly three years of going through the court system, on Jan. 26, William Hillman, Pine River, Minn., was convicted on two charges of second degree murder of 42-year-old Denise McFadzen and 21-year-old Dalton McFadzen.

Area residents have the opportunity to enjoy a drive-thru dinner on Saturday, Feb. 13 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. at the Frazee Event Center. Friends and family of Cassie Charley, who was recently diagnosed with stage four endometrial cancer, are hosting the Hearts for Cassie fundraiser. Turkey steak will be served with mashed potatoes, veggies, a bun and dessert, all for a freewill offering.

35 years ago

Frazee Forum

February 14, 1991

The Frazee Community Club, the V.F.W. Post 7702 and the Lakeside Cemetery Assn. need your help to create a Centennial Avenue of Flags. For the success of this project, we are asking families of deceased veterans that already possess an American flag to proudly display them in Frazee’s Avenue of Flags. Each flag will be mounted on a pole bearing the veteran’s name, rank and service status. If your family does not have a flag and would like to participate, one can be purchased.

Birthday cake coordinators Doris Myers and Eleanor Illg, along with area cake decorators Linda Jutz, Sharon Strom, Janet Christen and Kathy Peichel, designed and decorated a cake to feed 1,000 people, which was stretched to 1,400 pieces, Sunday at the Frazee auditorium. There were two Centennial Coins placed in the cake – Miss Frazee Jennifer Frobenius was the lucky winner.

THERE IS ONLY ONE FRAZEE

A settlement had sprung up

Where the Otter Tail flows,

Amidst great stands of timber,

And to the west plateaus.

The place was called Third Crossing

  Until Randolf L. Frazee

Became a leading businessman

In eighteen seventy three.

He moved on to the Senate

But he left his name behind,

To be forever on the map

As the one name of its kind.

A host of friendly people

Lived in this community,

And those who left still proudly say,

“I grew up in Frazee.”

– Jean E. Sailer

50 years ago

Frazee Forum

February 12, 1976

Heart O’Lakes VFW Auxiliary presented a Bicentennial Flag to the Frazee-Vergas Schools on Friday. Displaying the new flag were Carl Ingebrightson, superintendent of schools, Evelyn Perrine and President Norma Moe of the Auxiliary.