Arlington ENTERPRISE Serving the Communities of Arlington and Green Isle, Minnesota Single copy $1.00 www.arlingtonmnnews.com Volume 131 • Number 4 • Thursday, July 31, 2014 • Arlington, MN 55307 Future plan announced for Green Isle Post Office By Kurt Menk window service hours will view process which included allow for the completion of Office. Overall, 192 out of livery option. Editor not be reduced and access to customer survey responses, the administrative tasks asso- 480 surveys were returned. Four people or two percent The Postal Service has de- delivery receptacles will not input from a community ciated with the implementa- According to the results, favored a village post option. termined that the Green Isle change as a result of the Post meeting and the operational tion. 165 people or 86 percent fa- Three people or two per- Post Office will provide six Plan realignment of weekday needs of the Postal Service. At the community meeting vored the realignment of cent favored a nearby post of- hours of window service each window service hours. The Postal Service will an- last week, postal management hours at the Green Isle Post fice option. weekday, according to Post The Postal Service made nounce the implementation shared the results of a survey Office. Seven people or four per- Plan Coordinator Janelle the announcement after it date and the operational hours which was sent out to cus- Thirteen people or seven cent made no selection. Daniels. The current Saturday concluded the Post Plan re- of the office at a later date to tomers of the Green Isle Post percent favored a mailbox de- Male suspect stomps on puppy’s head in Arlington, $1,000 reward is offered By Kurt Menk the report. She exited her Editor home and saw a male stomp- A 10-week old puppy died ing on the dog’s head. The after an unidentified male re- male then fled from the scene portedly stomped on its head and jumped over a fence at a residence along the 100 along First Avenue South. block of East Clinton Street A $1,000 reward is being near First Avenue South in offered for information lead- Arlington around 12:30 a.m. ing to the arrest and convic- Saturday, July 23, according tion of the individual in- to the Arlington Police De- volved. partment. People who have any infor- The homeowner, Heidi mation about this incident are Fisher, let the puppy out to go strongly encouraged to con- to the bathroom and heard the tact the Arlington Police De- dog screaming, according to partment at 507-964-5200. Filing period is open, no candidates have filed yet By Kurt Menk third term in office. Editor The terms for these The filing period three open positions are Enterprise photo by Kurt Menk opened for seats on the Ar- for four years each. lington City Council, Story Hour Parade Green Isle City Council, Green Isle Sibley East School Board In the City of Green After a year absence, the Story Hour Parade returned owners along the way. Prior to the parade, the final ses- and various townships at Isle, the terms of City with storyteller Marie Kreft and many eager children sion of Story Hour was held at the Arlington Public Li- 8 a.m. Tuesday, July 29. Council members Todd in Arlington on Friday morning, July 25. The partici- brary. As of Wednesday after- Burg and Shawn Harms pants received many generous treats from business noon, July 30, no candi- will expire at the end of dates had filed for any of this year. these open positions. The terms for these two The filing period will positions are for four years close at 5 p.m. Tuesday, each. School Board awards bids on key services Aug. 12. By Karin Ramige Cornwell item bid, the board awarded coach; Annie Kreger, assis- • Approved the renewal of Sibley East Manager bids to the company that had tant tennis coach; Ethan the district membership to the On the Sibley East Arlington School Board, the terms of The Sibley East School the lowest bid on each item. Black, high school social Minnesota School boards As- In the City of Arlington, School Board members Board reviewed and approved Both companies will service studies teacher; Megan sociation for $4,415 and the the terms of Mayor Jim Scott Dose, Anne Karl and the bids received for bread, the district. Koepp, second grade in Ar- policy services renewal for Kreft and City Council Dan Woehler will all ex- milk, food, fuel and garbage Gaylord Sanitation and lington; Brenda Brandt, sec- $595.00 totaling, $5,010. members Curt Reetz and pire at the end of the year. hauling in preparation for the Renville Sibley Sanitation ond grade in Gaylord; Lauren • Accepted a $100 donation Jason Ruehling will all ex- The terms for these upcoming school year at its submitted bids for garbage Scott, fifth grade in Gaylord; from the New Auburn Post pire at the end of this year. three open positions are regular meeting on Monday, and recycling collection at Katie Fostner and Brittney 7266 VFW. Kreft, earlier this for four years each. July 21. each campus. Aamodt, speech language • The board will hold a spe- month, announced that he Each year the district seeks Gaylord Sanitation submit- pathologists. cial meeting prior to the regu- does not plan to seek a bids for these key regularly ted a lower bid for the Gay- The hirings were approved lar board meeting on Mon- used services. lord site and Renville Sanita- by a 5-0 vote. Board chair day, Aug. 18 to review the Two quotes were received tion had the lower bid for the Brian Brandt abstained due to progress of the capital im- for the bakery items from Arlington site. Bids were conflict of interest. provement project going on Pan-O-Gold and Bimbo Bak- awarded accordingly. • Approved a 10 day pater- this summer. Special meeting called to eries USA. United Farmers Co-op and nity leave for James Callahan They will meet at the front The bid was awarded to Trebelhorn and Associates beginning on or around Oct. entrance of the Gaylord site act upon emergency repair Bimbo Bakeries USA who submitted quotes for diesel 21. at 5:30 p.m. and reconvene had the lowest bid on the ma- fuel. The bid was awarded to • Approved the July 2014 around 6:30 p.m. in Arling- due to flooding in June jority of the items most used UFC of Winthrop. bills and payment totaling ton. By Kurt Menk ministrator Matt Jaunich. by the district. In other action the board: $2,033,804.76. The time of the regular Editor The repair is necessary due Kemps was the only bidder • Accepted the resignations • Considered and approved meeting was moved to 7 p.m. The Sibley County Com- to the flooding last month. for dairy products and were of Sara Gabrielson, high a motion to issue “Friends of at the regular location in missioners will hold a special The meeting will be held in awarded the bid. school social studies and Sibley East” community room 149 at the Arlington meeting to approve or deny a the Board Room at the Sibley Indianhead Food Service Katherine Palmer, second passes to residents of the Campus. bid for an emergency repair County Courthouse in Gay- and Reinhart Food Service grade teacher in Gaylord. DAC. These passes will in- to County State Aid Highway lord at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, both submitted line item bids •Approved hiring Rene clude athletic events as well 6, according to County Ad- July 31. for food services. Being a line Moriarty as head tennis as the fine arts events. Annual library report presented to Arlington City Council By Kurt Menk wonderful to see these stu- tem and needs to be re-en- circulated 39,992 items which like an e-book which can Editor dents complete their program Statistics tered or it is simply discard- resulted in a drop of six per- only have one user at a time, The annual report on the and for us to be able to pro- The 2013 library card reg- ed. cent from the previous year. multiple patrons can access Arlington Public Library was vide this service in our com- istration was1,430 which is Circulation statistics for I’m not too concerned. When the same issue of a periodical recently presented by Direc- munity.” down 100 from the previous 2013 are again down from the people are spending money, at the same time.” tor Kathy Homme to the Ar- Homme further reported year, according to Homme. previous year, according to library use typically drops. Homme continued, “E- lington City Council. that the local library contin- “This may be a result of Homme. When times are tough at books continue to grow. At After brief comments about ues to work with Sibley East our new Traverse des Sioux “We are not alone, accord- home, user services rise.” the end of last year we had staffing, Homme reported and St. Paul’s schools to get policy to review patron ing to the numbers generated On a positive note, Zinio 5,060 e-books and 791 e-au- that the local library contin- the youth involved in reading. records and renew patron at Traverse des Sioux,” said magazine circulation is con- dios available for patrons to ues to offer GED classes on “We averaged seven to nine cards every two years,” said Homme. “As a system, we stantly climbing, according to check out. That number in- Tuesday nights and ESL classroom visits per month,” Homme, “instead of the five were down 117,624 items Homme.