10 Years Ago HASTINGS STAR-GAZETTE August 5, 2010 City, Hudson agree on sale By Chad Richardson The City of Hastings just took a big step toward significant redevelopment in downtown Hastings.

Last week, the city’s redevelopment agency approved the purchase agreement for the site occupied by Hudson Manufacturing Co. The sale price will be just $3 million.

Environmental, survey and title work is under way. If everything goes according to plan, the Hastings Economic Development and Redevelopment Authority would close late this fall or early this winter.

Hudson, which manufacturers sprayers in the facility, would be allowed to stay in the buildings shortterm through a post-closing agreement. Once the closing takes place, Hudson would begin moving its Hastings location to a space formerly occupied by Intek Plastics, located on 10th Avenue near Smead Manufacturing Co. Once that move is complete, HEDRA would assume ownership of the buildings and the land.

“I think everyone would agree – it has been on a long-range plan to relocate Hudson elsewhere,” city administrator Dave Osberg said this week. “Obviously, having a major manufacturing plant along the riverfront is not something you see much of anymore.”

No plans exist yet to redevelop the site.

“We have no plans on our table,” Osberg said. “The intent is to redevelop it. We want to try to engage the community in what we have down there and make it a featured point of the city along the riverfront.”

National Night Out (photo by Chad Richardson) Cody Lewison cools off under the spray of a fire hose during a National Night Out observation in the Hillside neighborhood Tuesday night. For more photos on this event, turn to page 9A.

Party planned for outgoing club pro Brad Schmierer He has been a fixture on the Hastings golf scene for 31 years (photo of Brad Schmierer by Katrina Stys) By Katrina Styx, staff writer The Hastings Country Club is bidding farewell to its head golf professional, Brad Schmierer, with a party this Friday.

Schmierer worked for the club 31 years before they decided to let him go this past spring because of financial limitations.

“I’ve enjoyed my 31 years,” Schmierer said.

His golf career started in high school, when he won the North Dakota State tournament two years in a row. He was also a caddy for eight years, and even got to caddy for Gary Player in the 1970 U.S. Open in Hazeltine.

“As a caddy, that was my pinnacle,” he said.

Schmierer came to Hastings in 1979. In his first year, he launched a junior golf program, and several fo the kids who participated in the program later worked for Schmierer or turned pro themselves.

In his second year, he started the Lin Hildebrandt Invitational, which brought top amateurs from Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota and Wisconsin into Hastings.

“It was exciting, and we filled the field every year,” he said…

30 Years Ago HASTINGS STAR-GAZETTE August 9, 1990 Carey helps Metro All-Stars defeat Out-state team (photo) Brian Carey, the Most Valuable Defensive Player for the Hastings football team the last two years, got a chance to show his skills with the state’s best. Page 11A.

What’s Inside? Here’s a quick look: GAS PRICE Anger Hastings consumers vented their anger and frustration over rising gasoline prices to workers and managers of local service stations this week, but seemed to be doing a bit of panic buying as well. Page 3A.

School lunches hiked For the last three years school lunch program operated in red ♦ The School Board last week approved a 25-cents across the board hike in school lunches.

♦ Comparable worth adjustments, decline in the number of available commodities, and lack of reimbursement from state and federal governments are reasons for deficits.

See stories on page 5A ‘Hometown Boy’ movie gets mixed reviews locally Story on page 3A Another Outdoor Concert this Sunday!

The Minnesota Chamber Symphony will bring its classical music to Hastings this Sunday at 4 p.m., downtown Hastings. Page 4B.

City approves site plan for yard waste drop off area The Council approved a site in the Industrial park for a yard waste drop off area and recycling center. Story on page 9A.

Paradise only 20 minutes away A park that offers much in year-round enjoyment only minutes from Hastings. See Extra.

Opinion Page 6A; Obituaries 4A Second group forming in Hastings City starting neighborhood crime watch in east end SUMMARY: Crime and the fear of it seem to be increasing and the city of Hastings is trying to get its residents to do something about it through a neighborhood crime watch program. One is already in place in a west Hastings neighborhood and a second is being organized for east Hastings.

By David Welch, staff writer Car windows being smashed at car dealer’s parking lots. Apartments being broken into while neighbors sleep nearby. Windows broken. Fires set. Vandalism.

The list goes on.

As Dakota County and Hastings grow in population, so too has crime. But the city of Hastings is determined to do something about it. One way is through the establishment of neighborhood crime watch programs.

About a year ago a neighborhood crime watch program was started in the area of west Second Street. The chairman of that neighborhood program is Karl Voelker. Voelker said he would recommend the program to any neighborhood that wants to help fight crime on a local level.

“It’s worked real well,” he said. “You better believe I would recommend it.”

Voelker said the program in his neighborhood, which encompasses about 16 homes, works because everyone watches out for everyone else. He said his neighbors are more concerned about what is happening around them… 50 Years Ago HASTINGS GAZETTE Thursday, August 20, 1970 VOL. CXIX, NO. 7.

The Local Candidates Vadys D. Hoepner Files For Office Of Clerk Of The Dist. Court (photo) I have resided in Dakota County for Twenty- nine years. My family and I now reside in Hastings. My husband is employed by the State Department of Aeronautics. For the past ten years I have been active in community affairs, and have served as township chairwoman for one of the major political parties. I have been exposed to law office administration over the years, and I am generally familiar with the legal process. Presently, I am operating a family sales business with the help of my husband… Dorothy Karnick Files As Candidate For Clerk of Court (photo) I am 46 years old. I reside at…Ramsey Street, Hastings, Minnesota with my parents, Mr. and Mrs. William “Bill” Karnick.

I have spent my entire life in Hastings, except for a few years when I was employed by the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, D. C. and St. Paul, Minnesota.

I returned to Hastings and worked for ten years in the Register of Deeds Office of Dakota County, for the late C.E. Tuttle and Amos Welshons, Sr. I left the Register of Deeds Office to work for ten years in the Business Office of the Regina Memorial Hospital, Hastings.

For the past five years I have worked for Herman J. Just, M. D. as Secretary, Bookkeeper, and Office Manager. Dr. Just, a practicing GP, is also the Coroner for Dakota County. I also perform the duties as Secretary for the Coroner and am responsible for all Coroner Records which are filed and maintained at Dr. Just’s office.

I am a graduate of Hastings High School, 1943.

Stephen J. Majeski Files For Clerk Of District Court (photo) I have become a candidate for the Clerk of District Court because I sincerely believe I can serve the taxpayers best. As a present employee of Dakota County, I feel I have the reputation, qualification and experience to support my contentions.

I was born and raised in Hasting and received my grade and school education there. Upon graduation from high school, I enrolled in college at the U. of M. I completed my freshman and sophomore years at Minnesota… Earl Zehnder File For RE-election As County Treasurer (photo) As your incumbent treasurer, I have filed for re-election and seek your continued support in the coming elections.

Efficiency and honest practical administration and accurate detailing of records are prime requisites for the County Treasurer’s Office. I recognize the value and merit of these golden virtues and will continue to practice and uphold them. We must be conscious of our community and the people we elect as our representatives and servants in government. We must elect qualified, capable and responsible people adapted to the office which they seek… Stiles Fritz Files As Candidate For Clerk Of Court, Dakota Co.

(photo) Stiles Fritz of… 6th St. So., South St. Paul has filed for office of Clerk of Court of Dakota County.

Mr. Fritz is 29 years old and a life-long resident of Dakota County. Fritz is also a property owner and taxpayer in So. St. Paul and his is presently serving on the Dakota County Sheriff’s Civil Service Commission. Fritz was graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Science in 1964.

Filing statement: As Clerk of Court, I pledge that my office shall be run efficiently, so that there shall be no delay in the processing of the cases referred to me and my office.

Marriage Announcement Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Boucher (Linda R. Wegner) were married August 5, 1970 in Aberdeen, South Dakota.

Mr. Boucher is a teacher at Hastings High School and Mrs. Boucher is employed as a secretary for the Magnetic Oxide plant at Chemolite. After a short trip through South Dakota and Iowa, the couple is at home at….Lyn

Way, Hastings.

100 Years Five Months Ago THE PRESCOTT TRIBUNE March 11, 1920 STOCK ON NEW BRIDGE NOW ON SALEGET IN ON IT From the number that were present at the mass meeting last Friday at the Opera House it is quite evident that there are a number of boosters in Prescott. The meeting was indeed a huge success as it should be, and the bridge across Lake St. Croix became more than the wish of a few, but the earnest effort of many. 157 Years Ago THE HASTINGS CONSERVER August 18, 1863 Mending and Darning.

Most of our fair readers have a decided aversion to that part of their duty which falls under the “patching and darning” denomination. They are of opinion that “a rent may be the incident of a day; but a darn, premeditated poverty.” But if they only know how pretty a well-executed piece of repair looks, when you see in its warp and wool the bright threads of economy and independence and womanly thrift, crossing and recrossing one another, they would lay aside embroideries and crochet work, and take up, instead, the mending basket.

We rode down town the other day, when the only other occupants of the stage were a young gentleman and a lovely girl, of we should think, about eighteen. She was the prettiest, freshest looking girl one would want to see—there were no tell-tale traces of midnight parties and headachy mornings, in those peach-blossom cheeks and clear, bright eyes…If we had been an old bachelor, or a young one either, we would certainly have fallen in love with that girl, particularly after we discovered that she was as industrious as she was pretty. And how do you suppose we found that out? The (mended) handkerchief that lay in her lap told us so….Time and patience and wise economy had been there.

Territorial Dispatch THE EMIGRANT AID AND JOURNAL City of Nininger, Dakota County, Minnesota Territory August 15, 1857 Mr. Vere Foster, an English gentleman who has devoted his time and money to the establishment and promotion of Systematic Emigration from the Old World to the New, came out some weeks since in advance of a party of 140 picked emigrants, who had been shipped from Liverpool under his direction in the ‘City of Mobile,” which sailed on the 26th of May, and arrived on the 1st of July. Some of these emigrants were promptly forwarded to their friends in different sections; a number, contrary to Mr. Foster’s advice, stopped in this city while the remainder, 94 in all, started directly from the Castle Garden depot for the West, under Mr. Foster’s personal oversight.