Monday, July 10, 2000
Running a motel in Helena, Montana, was a very confining business, the mystery writer and Chatfield native, Elizabeth Gunn told an audience last week at the Harmony Public Library. "There were whole years where we didn’t
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"Where Fillmore County News Comes First"
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Sunday, May 19th, 2013
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Root River Blues Revisited: In the Wake of the Flood
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Monday, June 26, 2000
6:00 a.m. Thursday June 1, 2000: The South Branch of the Root River, small, clear and perhaps somewhat low for this time of year, placidly meanders and winds its way through Lanesboro towards a merger with the mighty Mississippi. Water flows over the city’s historic dam at the leisurely rate of about 600 cubic feet per second.
By 9:00 a.m., however, a mere three hours later, conditions on the South Branch have changed dramatically. Now turbid and brown with eroded soils from the west, and fully engorged with the branches, trees and debris of uncountable tributary streams, the Root now spills well over its banks.
A soupy, almost syrupy morass of floodwater has quietly but steadily spread itself over Riverview Campground, the RV campsite just upstream from the dam that borders the football field of Lanesboro High School. The evacuation of the campground’s temporary and unpleasantly surprised residents quickly turns into a sodden muddy mess. Coolers, lawn chairs and an assortment of other sundry camping items drift along with the river.
By 10:00 a.m. water roars over the Lanesboro Dam at perhaps 1700 cubic feet per second, a rate nearly three times that of only four hours before. Below the dam, in the controversial and certainly questionable location of a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources fishing pier project, a frothy, rapidly moving mass of water, at least 10 to 15 feet in depth at its deepest, covers and scours the landscape. Stinking of sewage, this moving “lake” is now only eight feet away from overflowing the dike, which barricades Parkway Avenue from the river’s seasonal flood-swollen onslaughts.
The small wooden tool shed of Lanesboro’s Community Garden, quivers, then slowly lifts and drifts downstream. A small clump of trees snares the antique wood-sided shack, saving it until some future flood again tries washing the structure away.
Around 11:30 a.m. first one, then the other of Kim-O’s portable plastic toilets flows away from Riverview Campground. These float beautifully as they make their way to and over the dam, then disappear in the furiously churning waters below. Minutes later, broken and
battered pieces of port-a-potty including chemical holding tanks complete with seats reappear and bob away with the river’s flow to destinations unknown.
Just before noon a tree 30 feet long, driftwood from some flood of the past, slowly rises from its former riverbank-res .....
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6:00 a.m. Thursday June 1, 2000: The South Branch of the Root River, small, clear and perhaps somewhat low for this time of year, placidly meanders and winds its way through Lanesboro towards a merger with the mighty Mississippi. Water flows over the city’s historic dam at the leisurely rate of about 600 cubic feet per second.
By 9:00 a.m., however, a mere three hours later, conditions on the South Branch have changed dramatically. Now turbid and brown with eroded soils from the west, and fully engorged with the branches, trees and debris of uncountable tributary streams, the Root now spills well over its banks.
A soupy, almost syrupy morass of floodwater has quietly but steadily spread itself over Riverview Campground, the RV campsite just upstream from the dam that borders the football field of Lanesboro High School. The evacuation of the campground’s temporary and unpleasantly surprised residents quickly turns into a sodden muddy mess. Coolers, lawn chairs and an assortment of other sundry camping items drift along with the river.
By 10:00 a.m. water roars over the Lanesboro Dam at perhaps 1700 cubic feet per second, a rate nearly three times that of only four hours before. Below the dam, in the controversial and certainly questionable location of a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources fishing pier project, a frothy, rapidly moving mass of water, at least 10 to 15 feet in depth at its deepest, covers and scours the landscape. Stinking of sewage, this moving “lake” is now only eight feet away from overflowing the dike, which barricades Parkway Avenue from the river’s seasonal flood-swollen onslaughts.
The small wooden tool shed of Lanesboro’s Community Garden, quivers, then slowly lifts and drifts downstream. A small clump of trees snares the antique wood-sided shack, saving it until some future flood again tries washing the structure away.
Around 11:30 a.m. first one, then the other of Kim-O’s portable plastic toilets flows away from Riverview Campground. These float beautifully as they make their way to and over the dam, then disappear in the furiously churning waters below. Minutes later, broken and
battered pieces of port-a-potty including chemical holding tanks complete with seats reappear and bob away with the river’s flow to destinations unknown.
Just before noon a tree 30 feet long, driftwood from some flood of the past, slowly rises from its former riverbank-res .....
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Bare Feet
I did something very daring last night. I walked outside in my bare feet to put a bag of trash in the dumpster. The dew-covered grass felt cool to my hot feet. The sidewalk was smooth and warm in contrast. The different temperatures and textures comp
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Lazarus
Monday, July 17, 2000
Over the last several years, many of our farm cats have come to live with us as orphans, dropped off on the side of the road by some passerby who found it easier to dump an animal in the country than go through the e .....
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Over the last several years, many of our farm cats have come to live with us as orphans, dropped off on the side of the road by some passerby who found it easier to dump an animal in the country than go through the e .....
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Curdlecod goes Asiatic
Chester and Cynthia Curdlecod are the local gourmets of Flabbergast County and one evening last week we were invited to their home for dinner. They take pride in their ability to prepare sumptuous meals from the local fish, fowl and fauna and avoid b
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Journal Profile # 75
Name: Karla Wangen
Home: Rural Harmony
Age: 37
Profession: 1. Parent 2. City Clerk for the City of Canton
Family:Husband-Arlis Wangen; 3 daughters-Kayla-age 15, Krista-age 11 and Nicole-age 7.
Pers .....
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Home: Rural Harmony
Age: 37
Profession: 1. Parent 2. City Clerk for the City of Canton
Family:Husband-Arlis Wangen; 3 daughters-Kayla-age 15, Krista-age 11 and Nicole-age 7.
Pers .....
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Watermelon Jam
3 cups sugar
11/2 cup finely chopped seeded watermelon (do not puree)
1/4 cup lemon juice
l cup water
1 package (1l oz.) powdered pectin
• In a bowl, combine sugar, watermelon and lemon juice. Let stand for 10 min., stirring occa .....
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11/2 cup finely chopped seeded watermelon (do not puree)
1/4 cup lemon juice
l cup water
1 package (1l oz.) powdered pectin
• In a bowl, combine sugar, watermelon and lemon juice. Let stand for 10 min., stirring occa .....
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Monday, July 10, 2000
(no letters were received for the week of July 17, 2000)
To the Editor,
This is great! I will no longer have to wait long periods of my life for Mom to mail old issues of the Journal. The Journal is at my finger tips at any time of the .....
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To the Editor,
This is great! I will no longer have to wait long periods of my life for Mom to mail old issues of the Journal. The Journal is at my finger tips at any time of the .....
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