by Elaine Rassel Gordon Roese’s birthday is June 11. If you wish to remember him on this day or to keep in touch with him otherwise, I have his address as follows:
Gordon Roese
11501 Masonic Home Dr. Apt. 308 Minneapolis, MN 55437-3658 His phone number is 1-712-221-5833.
This week has been busy! School events are winding down and seem to be one after another. This Tuesday evening (May 18) the Middle School is having their Spring Concert. That is the same night that the School Board meets at Remsen but at 5:30 p.m.
Due to a wrong Marcus Council agenda sent to the Marcus News, I didn’t attend. We received an agenda saying the meeting would be on the next night (Tuesday) at 7:30 p.m. I called the City office on Tuesday to see if this meeting was still going to be on that Tuesday night and was told the meeting was on the night before. In looking over the situation, the mistake was found that the last year’s agenda (with almost the same date) was sent instead. Mistakes can happen_I just had one less meeting to go to!
I did find out that the city approved the sale of Hogue’s Jewelry building. This has a painted wall that is to the north of the small city park. With this wall gone, we only have one left. That one is located on the west side of Jeff’s Food building and is becoming less visible.
There will be an article at a later date in the Marcus News on the history of the FCA or first known as Farmers Cooperative Elevator that is merging with another organization, Alceco. Both organizations feel they can do better as one instead of two for those people they serve. This could take place after their membership votes are in sometime in June.
The MMCRU Royal Scholarship Program was on Tuesday (May 11). These students graduating were the recipients of many scholarships and awards. These will be printed in a couple of weeks
I went to the MMCRU Industrial Tech Show on Saturday. If you didn’t get there, you missed out on some interesting projects these students do. There were many grandfather clocks (not the tall ones! but probably wall clocks) made. A chest of drawers by Nathan Harvey received “Best of Show” as well as Runner-up on all categories! I could see why he received this award! There were other students that received special honors for what they did. Not all are boys girls seem to be interested in this class as well.
Saturday we went to Tyler Frederes’ graduation party at the Golf Club. When his guests arrived, Tyler went to greet them how many times do you see that happening?! Congratulations on your graduation, Tyler. He is planning on going to John Deere school at Calmar. Not a bad choice!
I have another graduation party to go to and then it is graduation on Sunday, May 23 for MMCRU students. I heard it is supposed to be on the football field, but maybe this is a rumor. Unless the weather is not good, this isn’t really a bad choice. Last year’s was an outdoors one but not by choice all because COVID-19 was the dictator. That class will never forget their graduation.
Don’t forget Memorial Day services on Monday, May 31 at 9:30 at Marcus-Amherst Cemetery and 10:30 at Trinity Lutheran Cemetery.
Keep those who have lost friends and relatives to death in your thoughts and prayers as well as those who are having health problems, struggling to financially keep up, finding a job, the graduates that are going out into a new world for them, and for those who are distanced from their family. Count your blessings.
There was a man on early morning television that decided to do something for horses that no longer were race horses. All this happened when he heard that a famous Kentucky Derby winner from a few years back was supposed to have ended up in a slaughter house. (He never did say if it actually happened or not.) He acquired some land and let it be known that “has-been horses” were welcome. As of this writing, he has 240 horses. Not all the horses were winners but he couldn’t turn away those that came in behind the winner. Running around, free as the wind blows, are horses that have made $241 million on track for their owners and also millions more off track. The oldest horse there is 32 years old. The farm is open for people to tour and see their favorite “past” horse. With all the helpers needed as well as feed, etc., I wonder if there is probably admission for this tour or previous owners pay. There is also a cemetery on this farm where horses are buried. Each grave is marked with a stone and name of the horse and some history of it. The man who owns this land said he knows how hard it is to say goodbye to a pet and wanted a place for these horses to enjoy their last well deserved years and have a final resting place as well.
For many years Dr. Tabke had horses in our pasture. When he went to the country, he took the horses with him. We still miss these horses. When they saw one of our vehicles coming, they would run to the fence waiting to be petted! There was one summer when his younger daughter and a friend of hers were at the pasture getting ready to ride the horses. Zachary came with his water tank to put more water in the horse tank. She came up to him and said, “I want to thank you for giving our horses water. I would pay you but I used my last money to buy my horse a treat!” He let her know there was no charge.
I will close with this quote from Harry Truman (1884-1972) U.S. president: “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”