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    Thursday, March 1, 2012

    Volume 95; Number 37


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    A community newspaper serving Browerville, MN and surrounding areas. USPS 067-560

    Pioneer Days in Fawn Lake Township


    By Rin Porter in the 1870s, loggers came into the Fawn Lake Township is located region and spent years cutting in the northern half of Todd down the pine forests that covered County, and is on Todd Countys the land at that time. One of the eastern border with Morrison firms that hired men to cut down County. Fawn Lake Township lies the forests was Farnham & just south of Villard and just north Lovejoy Lumber Company, a partof Turtle Creek Townships. U.S. Hwy 10 crosses the eastern half of the township, running from southeast to north central. County Road 7 crosses the western and southern parts of the township, running from the northern border of Villard, straight south for about four miles, and then making a 90 degree turn to the east and running east for about five miles, to the Morrison County border. Charles and Rachel Phelps. The township includes a number of lakes, including Fawn Lake, Rodgers Lake, and Long Lake. The Long Prairie nership of Sumner W. Farnham River runs from the southwest to and James A. Lovejoy that was the northeast in Sections 4, 5, 6, formed in 1860 and continued until and 7, and Fishtrap Creek runs 1886, when Mr. Lovejoy died. The lumbering work was done through the center of the township. The southwestern sections of land in winter, and ended when the are home to part of the Sylvan snow melted. Lumberjacks would Shores planned community. There travel to the Fawn Lake area in the late fall. O.B. DeLaurier wrote are no cities within the township. It is believed that no Americans The logs from most of the settled in the Fawn Lake Township town[ship] were cut and hauled to area until after the Civil War. But the Fishtrap and piled along the banks. With coming of spring, the melting snows gave the signal for rolling the logs into the stream and driving them down into the Long Prairie river, thence into the Crow Wing and then into the Mississippi, which carried them into the booms at Minneapolis, where they gave rise to a flourishing lumber aristocracy in that city (May 21, 1936). Another lumber company was owned by Albert G. Lawrence and S. H. Curtis. Lawrence is listed on the 1885, 1895, and 1905 Minnesota Censuses for the village of Motley, along with his wife and daughters. On the U.S. Census of 1870, he was living in Bremer County, Iowa, and listed his occupation as carpenter. But in 1881 he started a steam sawmill in Motley that had a planing mill in addition. Ella H. Topp, in her history of Motley, Minnesota, The Right Side of the River, wrote, Mr. Lawrence ran [lumber] camps along the Fish Trap and Long Prairie River (p. 15). Lawrence remained in Motley until his death in 1911. He is buried in the Motley Public Continued on page 20.

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    Browerville High School receives donation from Viking Coca-Cola

    By Tim King A decision regarding a request for a Conditional Use permit to build a church and school in Little Elk Township was put on hold until March, by the Todd County Board of Commissioners at their Tuesday February 21 meeting. The school and church had been proposed by Lawrence Troyer of that a rejection of the permit the Living Waters Mennonite might be a violation of the appliChurch. The Conditional Use per- cants rights. County Board mit request had first been heard Chairman Gerald Ruda said he by the Todd County Planning and agreed with Neumann and more Zoning Commission at its information was needed before a February 2 meeting. Lawrence final decision on the Conditional Troyer requested permission to Use permit application was made. build a 70 by 150-foot building Ruda suggested referring the that would combine both the application back to the Planning school and church. The twenty-six Commission for further consideraacre parcel of land is owned by Ted tion. Commissioner Kircher and Maureen Golla. A number of agreed and withdrew his motion to neighbors complained that the reject the permit application. In a separate discussion Ruda new building would disrupt deer and turkey hunting on their land. said the county is reviewing how Dale Golla, the son of the the Planning Commission makes landowners, said his family is now decisions on Conditional Use Permit applications. Ruda repreopposed to the building. Following the public discussion sents the county commissioners on at their February 2 meeting the Planning Commission. He said Planning Commission members he wanted to see a process where discussed the permit application. both the Planning Commission Their discussion, according to the and the applicant had all the informinutes of the meeting, focused on mation they needed before a deciheavy traffic on County Road 14 sion on a permit was made. Todd and hunters shooting near the County has been studying the perschool and church. Finally, the mit process in Crow Wing County. We will be visiting Crow Wing Planning Commission voted 4 to 1 County to see how their decision to deny the permit application. They then sent their recommenda- making process works, Ruda said. COUNTY RECORDER tion to the Todd County REPORT Commissioners for a final deciAlthough there were nineteen sion. Planning Commission member Rin Porter voted against the fewer mortgage foreclosures in motion to reject the conditional Todd County in 2011 than in 2010, County Recorder Cheryl Perish use permit application. At the February 21 Todd told commissioners that may not County Commissioners meeting, mean foreclosure activity is County Commissioner David decreasing in the county. It is taking a long time for Kircher asked his fellow commissioners to reject the permit appli- them to move through the syscation and support the decision of tem, she said. We saw an increase in foreclosures again in the Planning Commission. We appoint the Planning January. The numbers of foreclosures Commission and I think we should have increased every year since support their decisions, Kircher 2005. In 2010 they peaked at a total said. County Commissioner Randy Continued on page 20. Neumann said he was concerned

    Commissioners table Mennonite Church/School decision

    Left: Ben Dreher, Rachel Perish, and Wayne Petermaier accepted a $1,294.76 check from Kim Walker, representing Viking Coca-Cola Powerade 4U on Friday, February 24. Viking Coca-Cola Bottling Company directs a portion of its sales of the Powerade and Powerade Zero products back to participating area high schools under a program called Powerade 4U. Money collected on all Powerade and Powerade Zero products sold throughout the Viking Coca-Cola Bottling Co. territory is then divided to high schools based on their percentage of purchased beverages. The programs goal is to encourage active lifestyles through the support of school athletic programs within the Viking Coca-Cola Bottling Co. franchise territory. Other participating area high-schools include: Minnewaska High School, Jefferson High School, Brandon High School, Evansville High School, Osakis High School, Bertha High School, and Sauk Centre High School.

    WEEKLY WEATHER REPORT


    Wed. Feb. 29 Snow/Wind 30/10 Thur. Mar. 1 Mostly Cloudy 30/23 Fri. Mar. 2 Snow Showers 28/15 Sat. Mar. 3 Flurries 24/14 Sun. Mar. 4 Partly Cloudy 28/24 Mon. Mar. 5 Partly Cloudy 35/22

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