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The Tim Orth Memorial Foundation (TOMF) is a non-profit located at Lake Lillian, Minn., whose mission is to assist children (birth to age 18), financially or otherwise, in the West Central Minnesota area who are facing substantial medical expenses incurred as a result of a serious accident or illness. TOMF is an organization run completely by volunteers and funded solely by donations.

Voters in the Glencoe-Silver Lake School District approved by a solid majority a request to replace an outgoing operating levy with a new operating levy high enough to trigger additional aid from the state.
The school district’s request for additional money passed Tuesday 1,130 to 741 (60.4% in favor of the request to 39.6% opposed).
“I’m just happy it passed, for our students, our administrators and our staff,” said Director Alicia Luckhardt. “Our supporters were out there and they chose to vote.”

(For the complete story, see the Nov. 6 print edition of The Chronicle.)

In step with the implementation of the already-approved half-percent local-option sales tax for 2020, the McLeod County Board unanimously approved $10 million in bonding at its Tuesday, Nov. 5 meeting.
Of the $10 million, $6 million is designated for road construction and $4 million will go to the McLeod County Government Center renovation (the former Jungclaus building).

In a rebuke to his own party, Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., was one of only two democrats to vote against formal proceedings and setting rules of an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.
Peterson represents Minnesota’s 7th Congressional District — the largest geographical district in Minnesota, sprawling across nearly the entire western portion of the state. It includes Glencoe, Brownton, Silver Lake, Plato and Biscay.

(For the complete story, see the Nov. 6 print edition of The Chronicle.)

To the editor,
Why is it that our rural newspaper appears to have the lack of interest in agriculture to not comment on U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue’s comments, whereas the Minneapolis Tribune on Oct. 5 titled an article: "Perdue to farmers: Go big or just go.”
This lack of notice in our newspaper and no response from our farmers shows the plight of our ag industry. This lack of interest is not new; Earl Butz, secretary of agriculture back in the ‘70s, said the same thing by stating: “Farmers must get big or get out” with little or no outcry from our farmers or the press.