browerville blade - 07/07/2011

A community newspape r serving Br owerville, MN and surr ounding ar eas. USPS 067-560 Thursday, July 7, 2011 Volume 95; Number 4 www.bladepublishing.net Wed. July 6 Sunny 78°/57° Thur. July 7 Mostly Sunny 78°/60° Fri. July 8 Partly Cloudy 77°/60° Sat, July 9 Showers 77°/61° Sun. July 10 Showers 77°/62° W EEKLY W EATHER REPORT 7 5 ¢ Browerville Alumni reunites Bro wervil le High Sc hool Ban d From D .C. to Liberty Class of ‘61 enjoys a great reunion Front row, from left: Shirley Iten Fox, Richard Gregerson, Gary Feist; second row: Mary Jo Roman Santer, Gene Steinert, Ralph Twardowski, Eugene Baron; third row: MariRose Lamusga Hook, Marge Schieffer Duncan, Fred Hoelscher, Norma Jambor Roscoe, Janice Goligowski Libby, Carolyn Garland Wolf; fourth row: JoAnn Verhey, John Duncan, Rose Ostrowski Gonsior, John Ollman, Richard Kaluza, Betty Hagen Brown, Willard Koivisto; back row: Dennis Buhl, Stan Gonsior, Ron Brown, Pat Konetzko Hicks, Richard Verhey, Larry Kopp Class of ‘66 enjoys 45th year reunion After waiting 20 years since their last get together, the graduating class of 1966 made up for lost time by celebrating together during the Browerville days event. The reunion began on Friday night when 10 of the class members gathered to decorate the float for the for the Saturday night parade. Wit h the usual threat of rain overnight, the finishing touches were completed on Saturday morning. The group gathered from 1 to 4 in the Vets Club basement and found joy and laughter to be shared as old friendships were renewed and new ones were cultivated. Many had not seen each other since high school. The class paused to remember the three members who have died since grad- uation. Sharon Carstensen, Sue Biermaier , and Roger Twardowski as well as sending some positive energy to Linda (Stepaniak) Zuehkle who was unable to attend June, 2011, the Browerville classes of 1961 and 1966 held their class reunions in conjunction with Browerville Days. By Tarissa Host. Members of the Browerville High School Band took the trip of a lifetime from Washington D.C. to the Statue of Liberty this June. The band has been busy fund raising for the past two school years in preparation for this trip. Members sold various things to help raise money such as cookie dough, poinsettia’s, candy, pizza, and held a band carnival. The trip was a huge success and reward for the sixty-three band students who worked passionately to raise enough money for the trip. The band, consisting of sixty-three students, band director Mrs. Sandy Schorn, and sixteen parent chaper- ones, set off for Ohio Sunday, June 12th. The destination was Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio seventeen hours away. We had to sleep on the bus the first night of the trip. We encountered lit- tle traffic and arrived right on time. The only difficulty on the seventeen hour ride was determi ning who was lucky enough to sleep on the floor and Continued on page 16. Continued on page 16.

browerville blade - 07/07/2011

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