DCI History October 20, 2022

10 years ago
October 24, 2012
Randy Carlsen, Publisher
 
Last year the K-M Middle School held their first Community Service Day, the Tuesday before the Education Minnesota fall break. The event went over so well staff and administration wanted to do the community service day again. Tuesday some 700 fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth graders and staff ventured out and did a variety of community service work. “The kids worked hard and we wanted to make it fun for them too,” said middle school principal Al Hodge. “It was a good experience for students and staff.” Students in advisory classes chose projects around Kasson-Mantorville to work on during the morning and returned to school for lunch and concluded with a wrap-up assembly. Last year the Community Service Day was an all day event and the middle school principal said that was too long. “This year the event worked out better with the lunch and the assembly,” said Hodge. At the assembly students were asked what went well, what they liked doing and what could be done to make this an even better event. Projects ranged from raking leaves and piling brush at Riverside Park in Mantorville to hosting a day care carnival for local day cares in the commons area at the middle school. Students also cleaned school buses at the bus garage, raked lawns for Faith in Action, cleared the K-M Community Education garden and worked on trail cleanup at Oxbow Park. In Kasson an advisory group was raking at a home and a neighbor came over and asked if they could rake at a place next door where a resident had a bad knee. They obliged and raked the front and back yard.
 
20 years ago
October 23, 2002
Randy Carlsen, Publisher
 
The newly rebuilt Kasson wastewater treatment plant is a couple of weeks from completion after nearly 14 months of construction. General contractor Wapasha Construction of Winona has been working on the $6,595,000 rebuild project since last August. The plant began processing sewage with the new equipment Monday, October 21. Water will flow through the facility 100 consecutive hours and ongoing testing will take place to determine if all the equipment is running according to plan. President of Wapasha Construction, Tom Peplinski, said the project has gone well. There have been a couple of delays due to rain but that can be expected on a project of this magnitude. If operations go according to plan, Wapasha will be at the site another four-six weeks. One problem has developed with one of the eight reed beds. There is a leak in the pond and so far workers have been unable to detect the source. All eight reed beds have been filled with water. The water level is allowed to drop only three milliliters over a 24-hour period of time. That would be equivalent to the thickness of a quarter. Unless the source is found the sub-contractor may have to rebuild the bed.
 
30 years ago
October 21, 1992
Randy Carlsen, Publisher
 
For the first time ever, people living, working or traveling in Dodge County will be able to communicate better than ever via Cellular 2000 service. Cellular 2000, a Minnesota-based cellular service company, recently expanded service to Dodge County. This makes Dodge County part of America’s largest, unified cellular service network—developed by Cellular 2000—which covers more than 50,000 square miles and 350 towns in rural Minnesota. Cellular technology gives cellular telephone users the same communication quality and reliability they are accustomed to when using their home or office phones. “We believe that no matter where you live or travel, you deserve the same cellular convenience, security and efficiency available in larger, urban areas,” says Richard Keane, Manager of the Pine Island Telephone Company.
 
50 years ago
October 25, 1972
Folmer Carlsen, Publisher
 
A two-story farmhouse four miles southeast of Kasson owned by Roger Earls, a Mayo clinic employee, burned to the ground last Wednesday evening. Neither Earls nor his wife and five children were at home at the time of the fire. Fire trucks from Kasson and Byron fire departments arrived at the burning house about 8 p.m. and according to Fire Chief Ray Driver the fire was raging when his department arrived at the scene. The Earls family had only recently moved to the Kasson area.