5 years ago

Frazee-Vergas Forum

August 27, 2019

The CornerStone group is no longer purchasing the Baer Building. Back in April, the news broke that the CornerStone group had signed a purchase agreement to buy the historic brick building on the corner of Main Avenue and Lake Street. The closing date was set for July. The plan for the venue included a youth center with a coffee shop and bistro on the main level, with apartments remaining on the top floor. According to CornerStone Board member Karen Pifher, damage to the building occurred after the purchase agreement was signed.

The Frazee Fire Department is looking to add to its team of volunteers. Last October, Brandon DeGroat applied and was brought on as a probationary firefighter. “I joined because I like to help others out and really, I’m the guy that would give someone in need the shirt of my back,” he said. The 2014 Frazee High School graduate watched his grandfather Roger Sanders go on calls for the fire department while growing up, and had the privilege of riding in the fire trucks during parades as well.

Bustin’ muttons can be a big job for a little rodeo star, but for some, natural talent shines bright from the start. Frazee resident Ella Behrmann and her little brother Carter landed on both ends of the spectrum this year. The 8-year-old daughter of Aaron and Diana Behrmann tried mutton busting for the first time this summer at Wadena’s County Fair.

25 years ago

Frazee Forum

August 26, 1999

Kim Boyer couldn’t bring herself to eat cicada bugs while she was in China. She did, however, do a lot of other interesting things while she was teaching English in the southeastern Chinese city of Zibo July 18-Aug. 7. While Boyer was impressed with what she did and saw, she was most impressed with who she met, she stressed. “It was the people who made the trip,” she said. “I was so impressed at how eager the children were and how kind everybody was. People make you feel like you’re giving such a gift by being there.”

Frazee’s newest church is scheduled to be in a new building by the middle of September. Harvest Fellowship Church which has been holding services and activities in various locations, has leased 3,000 square feet of the K&J Mini Storage building, in western Frazee, from Pat Furey. The congregation is expected to be moved into the building, by Sept. 15, said Rev. Joe Clauson, who is co-pastor of the church, with his wife, Iliana.

An abandoned township road which now serves as a right-of-way may be accepted as a Vergas city street at the council’s next meeting. Much of Monday’s special meeting of the Vergas City Council was devoted to a discussion of Old Detroit Road, which runs about an eight of a mile from Highway 228 to the Dennis Pausch property. “It was a township road that was abandoned,” explained Mayor Roger Hanson. “There is no record of it having been given to the city.”

50 years ago

Frazee Forum

August 29, 1974

A Moorhead man employed by the Burlington Northern Railway died Friday morning of injuries received in a railroad accident in Frazee. Alfred Dawson, 50, died about 8 a.m. Friday at St. Mary’s Hospital in Detroit Lakes, about two hours after the repair vehicle in which he was a passenger was struck from behind by an eastbound BN freight train.

Nine Kangas brothers, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Kangas, are challenging the Wolf Pack in a baseball game honoring the Wallace Kinnunens on Sunday, Sept. 1 at 2 p.m. at the Wolf Lake ball park. There will also be an awards presentation to the Wolf Pack and a pot luck picnic. The Kangas Bros. Nine include John, Ivan, Irv, Steve, Carlton, Merlin, Arlen, Ike and Howard. Their father, Leonard, will be the coach and mother, Hilma, the bat girl, assisted by grandson Shane Kangas. Playing for the Wolf Pack are Steve Olmsted, Dave Eckert, Brian Anderson, Harvey Harvala, George Toops, Frank Haataja, Dan Nerdy, Dean Hilden, Mitch Aho, Chuck Hansel, Delbert Saarinen and Randy Hanson. They will be managed by Virgil Nerdy. The Kangas Bros. nine will be managed by Maynard Kangas (a cousin). On the bench to assist the Kangas boys will be cousins Joe and Jake Harvala.