New traffic Town baseball safety signal for Hwy. 212, Bruins, Brewers, Blue Jays in action Chandler — Sports pages — Page 2 hronicle $1.00 The McLeod County a continuation of The Glencoe Enterprise Glencoe, Minnesota Vol. 117, No. 24 C www.glencoenews.com Wednesday, June 18, 2014 2 beloved ECFE teachers to retire By Alyssa Schauer “parent first” program at GSL has stayed the Staff Writer same in her 26 years as an educator. he Early Childhood Family Education “ECFE is primarily a parent education pro- (ECFE) program at Glencoe-Silver gram. Parents always have to be in attendance TLake schools is losing two beloved with their children. We can’t serve children teachers to retirement this summer: Director Jan without serving the parents,” she said. Mackenthun and Mary Jo Schimelpfenig, parent Mackenthun earned her bachelor’s degree in educator. family social science and early childhood from Mackenthun began at GSL in the winter of the University of Minnesota. 1985, when ECFE was part of Community Edu- She first taught in New Brighton at a private cation at GSL. preschool and then spent a year teaching in “Karen Thell and I were the first employees at Montevideo. ECFE in GSL, and we actually started in the Mackenthun went back to school at the Uni- basement of Christ Lutheran Church,” Macken- versity of Minnesota for three years to earn her thun said. master’s degree in home economics education. She said the ECFE moved into Helen Baker There, she also earned her parent education li- Elementary the next fall and shared rooms with cense. Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE). Mackenthun is originally from St. Paul, and From there, ECFE moved to the old middle after meeting her husband, Merlin, at college, school at Henry Hill for five years, and then into moved out to the McLeod County area where the old kindergarten room at Lincoln Junior they raised two children, Amanda and Scott. High. After earning her master’s degree, Macken- “At that time, I wrote a grant to build an addi- thun stayed home to “raise the kiddos” before Chronicle photo by Alyssa Schauer tion onto Helen Baker, and then ECFE was there starting at GSL in 1985. Mary Jo Schimelpfenig, left, and Jan Mackenthun are both retiring from the Glen- for about 19 or 20 years before moving into this coe-Silver Lake Early Childhood Family Education program. Schimelpfenig is a addition at Lincoln,” Mackenthun said. Retirements parent educator, and Mackenthun is the program’s long-time director. She said the philosophy of ECFE being a Continued on page 3 Planning commission OKs industrial park TIF By Rich Glennie Editor The Glencoe Planning and Indus- Flurry of actions trial Commission, meeting Thursday in the west conference room of the by City Council Glencoe City Center, recommended Glencoe City Council ap- approval of Tax Increment Financing proved two resolutions and two (TIP) District No. 18 that will estab- motions at its Monday meeting lish a small business industrial park concerning the Creekside west- in the Creekside subdivision near end industrial park project. Miller Manufacturing. After closing a public hear- Glencoe City Council asked for a ing in which no comments sur- recommendation from the planning faced, City Council established commission to establish the new in- TIF District 18 with one resolu- dustrial park and to rezone the prop- tion and an interfund loan to “up front” the money needed to Chronicle photo by Josh Randt erty from residential (R-1) to busi- ness and commercial (B-1). buy the former Creekside prop- 3rd place at Class AA tourney City Administrator Mark Larson erty and lone home on the said the city has purchase agree- property with the other resolu- The Glencoe-Silver Lake Panther baseball team VonBerge and Head Coach Dean Schwirtz. Back ments on the 39 acres of property for tion. brought home the third-place trophy from the row, from left: Assistant Coach Dave Sell, Alex $207,000 and for the lone house in Total cost is estimated at Class AA state tournament this past weekend. Romano, Mason Goettl, Teddy Petersen, Mitch the subdivision for $182,500. about $400,000. The city will GSL went 2-1 at state, losing only to St. Cloud Pinske, Tristan Weber, Zach Jungclaus, Tyler Closing on the purchases is ex- reimburse itself with the bonds Cathedral en route to a 19-5 overall record. With Chap, Aaron Boraas, Reed Wawrzyniak, Tanner pected next month, Larson added. sold for the project. the Class AA third place trophy are, front row, Grack, Bennett Bielke, Cole Mathews, Jacob In establishing TIF District 18, the One motion authorized the from left: Assistant Coach Dave Wendlandt, Popelka and Assistant Coach Chris Odegaard. Nolan Lepel, Chris Ross, Carter Pinske*, Levi *Denotes captains. For more details, go to Planning Council actions Vorlicek*, Cole Petersen*, Colton Lueders, Josh today’s sports section. Continued on page 12 Turn to page 12 Beep Baseball returns to Glencoe Days events By Rich Glennie Jake Busse, Scott Conklin, Matt Evers, Ellen Blind or blindfolded players in the outfield at Oak Leaf Park. There will be round-robin Editor Bruns and Keith Ortloff. Glenn Koch, father of are aided by two sighted players to help find play, and there is a fee per individual. Regis- Anyone who watched Beep Baseball last Gary, fills in where needed. the beeping ball. tration begins at 9:30 a.m. that day and pitch- year will recall the helpless feeling of batters, Gary Koch said several more players are The Millers are a nationally sanction Beep ing of the horseshoes begins at 10 a.m. Pick up base runners and outfielders trying to find a being recruited, and he is still looking for um- Baseball team and travel around the country early registration forms at the chamber office beeping baseball while blindfolded. pires. Matt Harwell, last year’s umpire, will be playing games. in the Glencoe City Center or call 864-5231 Beep Baseball will be back at Vollmer Field this year’s announcer, Koch said. Koch said fans should bring their own chairs for information. on Saturday when Minnesota Millers traveling Proceeds from the game will go to the and sit in the infield. The game is actually Also new is a 3-on-3 basketball tournament Beep baseball team takes on a group of locals Millers, who will play in the Beep Baseball played in the outfield at Vollmer Field. being coordinated by Cole Schlauderaff. That in a six-inning game. Game time is 6 p.m., World Series set for Rochester later this year. After the game, those wanting to try Beep is set to begin at 9 a.m., Saturday, at Oak Leaf Saturday. Last year, the event raised about $1,500 for baseball can do so for a $5 donation. Koch Park. The event is sponsored by the Glencoe the Millers to travel the Beep Baseball World said the lineup was long last year after the The fifth annual Glencoe Days Sheephead Lions and pits the visually-impaired Millers Series. game. Tournament is scheduled for Saturday, June against the blindfolded locals. The game will The aim of Beep Baseball is to hit the ball “It was a great time. There were a lot of pos- 21, at the Glencoe Country Club. The first ses- see some veterans of last year combined with while blind or blindfolded. The pitcher, who is itive comments,” Koch said of last year’s inau- sion is at 9 a.m., and the second session starts some new faces, according to Gary Koch of sighted, calls “ready, set pitch” from 10 feet gural game. at 12:30 p.m. Entry fee is $5 and there is a 100 the Glencoe Lions. away and the batter has to time the swing ac- ***** percent payback. Call Scott at 320-864-5529 The local team will have the likes of Glen- cordingly. There also will be plenty of activities before for more information. coe Police Chief Jim Raiter, McLeod County Once hit, either third base or first base is ac- and after Beep Baseball. Glencoe Days Sheriff Scott Rehmann, firefighter Corey tivated with a beeper and the runner must New this year is a Glencoe Days Horseshoe Continued on page 3 Scheidt and businesspeople Bruce Bergmann, reach the base before the ball is fielded. Tournament scheduled for Saturday, June 21, Looking back: Another 2.49 June 12 66 ......54 .........0.00 Weather inches of rain fell, combined June 13 77 ......56 ..........0.00 Chronicle News and with three inches the week be- June 14 68 ......58 ..........0.70 fore to make for a soggy June 15 75 ......59 ..........1.02 Advertising Deadlines month. June 16 85 ......58 ..........0.48 All news is due by 5 p.m., Monday, and all adver- Temperatures and precipitation Date Hi Lo Rain tising is due by noon, Monday. News received after Wed., 6-18 Thur., 6-19 Fri., 6-20 Sat., 6-21 Sun., 6-22 June 10 79 ......53 ..........0.00 compiled by Robert Thurn, Chronicle weather observer. that deadline will be published as space allows. H: 87º, L: 70º H: 82º, L: 69º H: 86º, L: 68º H: 85º, L: 66º H: 80º, L: 63º June 11 82 ......59 ..........0.39 The McLeod County Chronicle, www.glencoenews.com, Wednesday, June 18, 2014, page 2 Glencoe Dairy Day set for New traffic warning signal installed downtown, Oak Leaf Park The Minnesota Depart- ment of Transportation Dairy Day is scheduled for shredded beef sandwiches (MnDOT) is deploying Rural Thursday, June 19, in Glen- and hot dogs, while free root Intersection Conflict Warning coe, with many downtown beer floats, courtesy of the Systems (RICWS) at rural in- businesses participating in Glencoe Area Chamber of tersections across the state, the annual dairy promotions Commerce, will be served.