Archive - Jun 2019

In the afterglow of Glencoe Days, the community will welcome attention from a Twin Cities TV station this week when Fox 9 (KMSP) brings its town ball tour to Vollmer Field in Oak Leaf Park today, June 26.
The Glencoe Brewers will host the Young America Cardinals tonight, 7:30 p.m. Admission to the game is free as the host team aims to put its best foot forward for the visiting cameras, TV station crew and on-air talent.

At coronation on Sunday in the Glencoe-Silver Lake (GSL) auditorium, Claire Witte won Miss Glencoe honors in the first crowning since 2007. She also earned Miss Congeniality, an honor bestowed by a vote of peers who also participated in the Miss Glencoe program. Also winning honors alongside Witte was Isabel Petersen, who was crowned as Glencoe’s ambassador.
The daughter of Jeri and Brian Witte, 17, the soon-to-be senior at GSL, and Petersen, 16, who’s going to be a junior at GSL, each had their own perspective on the significance of being crowned:

To the editor,
This letter is in response to Darius Remus’ letter (Chronicle, June 19) in which he accuses me of misleading the public. He states that the Green New Deal is only a “resolution…not a bill, legislation or policy that requires a vote.”
Let me be clear, in the last legislative session there were at least 14 DFL bills that promoted the Green New Deal. These bills, too numerous to list, were included in the DFL Jobs and Energy Omnibus Bill, HF 2208, which passed the Democrat-controlled House by 74-59.

The science is clear: carbon emissions sent into the atmosphere from a variety of human sources threaten to upend our economy, our health, our national security, and our very way of life.
At a recent conference at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment, I joined local and state leaders, as well as energy and environmental experts from Minnesota and around the world as we shared our ideas for addressing climate change, which I consider the most urgent and existential challenge of our time.
Those ideas - and the action they spur - can’t come soon enough.

Howard “Mike” Ackerson, 99, peacefully passed away surrounded by his family at his home in Glencoe.
Services for Mr. Ackerson will be 1 p.m., Friday, June 28 at First Baptist Church in Pillager, with a visitation one hour prior to services at the church. There will also be a visitation Wednesday (today), June 26, 4 to 7 p.m., at Hantge-McBride-Hughes Funeral Chapel in Glencoe. Interment will be at Wildwood Cemetery in Pillager.
Mr. Ackerson was born Oct. 4, 1919, in Brainerd to Charles and Nellie (Everist) Ackerson. He served in the U.S. Army from 1941-1945.