Food Drive 4

Museum gives thanks

5

Library News 6

Recycle Lights 7

PTO Bingo 9

Fire Open House 10

Lions Christmas Trees

11

Inside this issue:

Dates to Remember

City Council Meetings

November 5

December 3

Planning and Zoning

Meetings

November 20

December 18

This institution

is proud to be

an equal

opportunity

provider &

employer

November/December Volume 19 Issue 6

Royalton City Newsletter

PO Box 276 12 N Birch Street Royalton MN 56373

Meet the New Police Force

Royalton City Hall 320-584-5900

and later a t t e n d e d Alexandria Te c h n i c a l college with

a major in Criminal Justice. In high school, he was an avid athlete participating in football, track and field, wrestling and baseball. Recently, he became coach for the Trap Shooting team at the School. His goal as a police officer is to cultivate an abun-dance of healthy con-nections with the com-munity while enforcing the law and protecting the people of the com-munity of Royalton.

Officer David Kalis, lives in the Sartell area. He graduated

Chief Lindsay Bru-yere, has been work-ing for the City of Royalton since 2005. He also works at the St. Cloud Correctional Facility. Lindsay ac-cepted the Royalton Police Chief position on July 2, 2019. Since 2005, Chief Lindsay has dedicated his time to serving and protecting the residents of Royalton.

Officer Jake Wentland is from the Bowlus area where he grew up with four brothers. He graduated from Royalton High School

Royalton’s First Christmas Lights In 1954, Al and Marty Toenies moved to Royalton.

It was an even smaller town than what we know of today. They lived in an apartment above Jerry’s Café (10 Spot). At the time, they would see Chuck and Jeanette Platten-

from Sartell High School and attended North Dakota State University with a ma-jor in law enforcement.

His fiancé, Sara, is a registered Nurse at the Paynesville Hospital. David is a sports en-thusiast. Having played hockey and baseball in high school has showed him how to be a team player. He is looking forward to meeting the resi-dents of the commu-nity by forming a strong bond between the Police Department and the community in which he serves and protects.

berg in their garden just below and would s top and v is i t .

Jeanette would soon invite the Toenies’ over for supper. The four of them would continue to meet up together and during one visit while playing cards, the group decided that they wanted to bring a l i t - Continued on page 3

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purchase of a new

police vehicle.

If you have questions or

concerns about our city, please do not hesitate to

reach out to the City Coun-cil or our staff! We are all

here to help!

From the Mayor

everyone who helped. Lions

Club members served hot dogs and coffee and Santa made an appearance! Royal-

ton High School has coffee and goodies once a month for senior citizens which

provides a great connection between residents and our

school.

There are so many individu-

als and organizations that give their time and talent to help our city. The Lions

club, Sportsman’s club, leaders of the Boy and Girl Scout troops, and others

who volunteer their time to help our city. I’m very grate-

ful for all they do. If you know of someone or a group that is helping our city in

some way, please let me

know. I’d like to thank them.

We sold the 1999 truck that

had been forfeited after a

drug arrest for $18,501. Ac-

cording to the law the city

gets to keep 70% of the pro-

ceeds and the rest is split

between the State and Mor-

rison County. The $12,500

we keep goes toward the

At this time of

year I like to ex-press my grati-tude to all who

make Royalton a great place to

live, work and play.

As a city we could not func-tion without our staff! A spe-

cial thank you goes to the of-fice staff, public works, police

and fire/rescue for all their hard work throughout the year. Our Planning & Zoning

Commission members put in countless hours ensuring that the ordinances for our

city are up to date and rele-vant. And of course, thanks

to the Council members for all they do for the commu-

nity.

Thanks to the Fire and Res-cue department for organiz-

ing the Fire Up the Diamonds event – complete with awe-some fireworks! Platte River

Day was a success thanks to the Lions Club! The weather

cooperated and people were able to enjoy the food and en-tertainment! Thanks to the

Lions Club for all they do for our city! Christmas on the

Platte was magical thanks to

Many residents have stopped by or called City Hall recently about a lot of dirt being moved along Hwy 10 on October 24. During routine maintenance, the Public Works crew discov-ered that the main sewer line in that location was beginning to crush from the constant weight being placed on it from the road above. Burski Exca-vating was called in to take care of the job. Once the pro-ject is completed, the 60 feet of new sewer pipe should last for many more years to come.

Digging Along Hwy 10

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www.MnTreasureCity.com

tle Christmas to Royalton. Al and Chuck would measure the distance between present day Scotties and the old antique building. Because they didn’t have enough money to pur-chase any greenery, they set out asking for donations from lo-cals. Once they had enough, Al and Chuck were able to buy the greenery from the Little Falls Green House and a bell for the center. That was the first year

in 1954. In 1955, they wanted to expand. Back then, they did-n’t have the Christmas lights on the strings like we have now, the lights needed to be put to-gether. Al and Chuck recruited help from a few others and to-gether sitting in the old fire hall, they put together bulbs and painted clear ones yellow to go with the existing red and green bulbs. Then they strung them

together which would be draped across Centre Street by Cedar Street. This process only lasted two years. Each year after that, they were able to buy the premade lights, but only what they could afford. And each year the strings of lights draped across the roads increased. Many cold nights, filled with stories and laughter would bring good ideas.

It

p ro ve s to show t h a t with a l i t t l e conver-sation, a n y -t h i n g c a n h a p -pen.

The Royalton Sportsmen's Club is closed for the season. Will reopen last part of April. We will be offer-ing DNR Certified ATV and Fire-arms Safety Classes in 2020. For more information, call Tim and Scarlett Feiler at 320-584-5110.

Have a safe and successful hunting season.

Private Snow Removal

Scott Lorenz 320-360-0140

Brian Czech 320-232-9013

Looking Good Lawn

320-420-3497

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Royalton Band & Choir Concerts

*November 7, Fall Band Concert

*December 5, Elem Christmas Con-

cert

*December 9, Holiday Band and

Choir Concert

*All concerts start at 7:00pm in the South Gym

PLEASE HELP SUPPORT THE MORRISON COUNTY FOOD SHELF

THIS HOLIDAY SEASON The Holy Trinity 11th Grade Confirmation students will be stop-

ping by your neighborhood within the Royalton city limits to col-lect non-perishable food items. Clip this ad to your bagged dona-

tion and set it out on your doorstep.

WHEN: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 from 7:00 – 8:30 pm

A list of most needed items can be found on our parish website at holytrinityroyalton.org

Due to a limited time frame and pick up zones, all packages may not get picked up. Please bring any remaining packages

or any donations from outside city limits to Holy Trinity Catholic Church or drop off at Royalton City Hall (8am – 4pm) by Monday, November 25.

Questions, contact Neil at 247-3559

Annual

Thanksgiving

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Judy Glaze with records of baptisms, deaths, and mar-riages for the parish of SS Peter and Paul of White-hall, Wi. 1873-1990's. There are several local last names in these books so if you know your family came from this area come and look them over. We thank all of you for thinking of us and sharing your treasures with us. It is always much appreciated that you remember your home town. We wish you and your families a safe and healthy holiday seasons.

book about his family history.

Mike Weinand donated stones that were once used as tools. Arlene Justin gave a program booklet for a class reun-ion for the classes of 1942-1950 that took place in Aug. 1990. Joyce Mester gave RHS annuals from 1956 – 1958. She also gave slides with pictures used during the All School Reunion in 1995.

The Royalton Police De-partment gave RHS annuals from 2008, 2009, and 2011. Carol Zapzalka do-nated her mothers gradu-ating class picture of 1921, there were five girls that year. Betty Deverent do-nated a book t i t l e d “About Lit-tle Rock” by H a r v e y Starr. We also re-ceived 3 books from

Another Year to Give Thanks at the Museum submitted by Barb Gangl

We start with those who donated to us last year. They are Dale Chisholm a book titled “Military Memories Guest Book.” David Logan, grandson of Harry Brown-ing Logan, donated photos of some males in the Logan family. Connie Gangl gave us photos of Homecoming 1966, a neck-tie used by Tom(Kool) LaSota when he marched in parades for the Royalton American Legion. She also donated photos of the old high school being torn down in April 1986. Carol Zapzalka gave us three books her mother had dated from December 1917.

We also received this year several items for Thomas Radziej. First was his Annapolis Navel Acad-emy graduation uniform from 1959. Scott and Leah Walberg have loaned us a mannequin, Jed, to dis-play the uniform along with its dress sword.. Thomas also donated sev-eral RHS “Royalairs” from the early 1950's and a

Library News

Happy Fall Everyone! Minnesota is showing off its’ dramatic colors with the changing of the seasons—such a beautiful state we live in!

The library hosted some wonderful authors in September and October. Bestselling author Lorna Landvik was here for a lively discussion about her new book and her in-triguing path to becoming a writer. It was a very entertaining evening with lots of laughter!

Historian, photographer, and au-thor Doug Ohman visited the li-brary with a nostalgic presentation about the heart of the farm, and barns of Minnesota. His photog-raphy and storytelling about the history of Minnesota’s barns was a heartfelt trip down memory lane.

Children’s author and outdoor en-thusiast Kevin Lovegreen visited Royalton, Rice, and Holdingford Elementary schools with a presen-tation on his award winning series “Lucky Luke’s Hunting Adven-tures”. Kevin finds great joy in-spiring kids to read, write, and enjoy the outdoors. Both the Royalton Elementary Library and the Royalton Public Library have a set of Kevin’s books for children to check out.

stories, created their own “leaf ghosts”, and enjoyed a Halloween treat!

We’re excited to now offer wireless printing at the library! You can print an item from your device by going to griver.org, selecting Royalton as your location, and click on the Print2Go icon. You can then select your files to print and pick them up at the library. Black and white copies are .10 each and color copies are .50.

If you have technology questions or would like information on how to use the Great River Regional digital library, stop in on Wednes-day, November 20th between 5:00 and 6:0 P.M. for one-on-one help with a librarian.

Sign up at the library or online for Miss Kathy’s upcoming storytimes!

T h a n k s g i v i n g S t o ry t i m e —Thursday, November 21st from 10:30-11:15 A.M.

Puppet Show Storytime —Thursday, December 19th from 4:30-5:15 P.M.

I hope to see you soon at the li-brary—have a festive and joyful holiday season!

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By Terri Deal-Hansen

On November 7th author B.K. Parent, winner of the 2018 MNReadsMNWrites Author Project, will visit the Royalton 7th and 8th grade classrooms. B.K. will be discussing her young adult fiction ebook, “Journey’s Middle”, and will offer a writing challenge to the students. The Royalton Friends of the Library group gener-ously provided two copies of the

book for the 7th and 8th grade teachers.

On December 14th, artist, Rose Borman will return to the library with a unique art class. Using a rustic barn board, you will create a beautiful nail head art piece with a

snowflake design, which can be used to display holiday cards.

All of these events are made possi-ble thanks to Minnesota Legacy Funding, which allows libraries to bring authors, artists, musicians, and other performers to our rural librar-ies at no cost to patrons. All events are free at the library!

A spooky Halloween storytime brought out princesses, superheroes, a bear, a hotdog, a rainbow unicorn, and more! They listened to haunted

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Rain or shine!

We’ve got you

covered!

320.237.5484

From graduations to weddings, we do it all!

FREE set up and take down!

www.completecoveragecanopy.com

Recycle

Christmas Lights

Starting

November 1,

2019

bring in your un-

wanted Holiday lights and exten-

sion cords to be

recycled by

Wacosa.

Ordinance # 3 SECTION 4. PARKING RESTRIC-TIONS - WINTER

When snow has accumu-lated to a depth that requires plowing and/or removal; all vehi-cles including trail-ers parked and/or standing on city streets and alleys in the City of Royalton shall be towed to an impound lot at owners expense.

Winter Snow

Whether we are ready for it or not, snow is coming! If you have a fire hydrant on or near your property we appreci-ate your help in clearing the area. The fire department may need to hook up in case of fire!

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Battery Recycling

Royalton City Hall

will now start to accept all alkaline batteries for recy-cling again. Please do not

throw away those small bat-teries that are in your smoke

detectors or flash lights, bring them into City Hall.

Vehicle Batteries are not

accepted.

2019 Holiday Mail Deadlines

USPS Retail Ground

12/14/2019

First Class Mail (incl. greeting cards) 12/20/2019

Priority Mail 12/21/2019

Priority Mail Express

12/23/2019

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Single Cereal bowls

Fruit Cups

Veggie Cups

Single Serve Meals:

Canned BBQ Chicken

Beef Stew

Canned Rice a Roni

Beef Lasagna

Gift Cards to fill bags from Walmart/ Bills/Aldis or Coborns

Drop off at City Hall

E y e g l a s s Recycling

Throughout the year, Lions, Leos and other volun-teers collect

used eyeglasses and deliver them to regional Lions Eye-glass Recycling Centers (LERCs). LERC volunteers clean, sort by prescription strength and package the glasses. Recycled glasses are distributed to people in need in low and middle income communities where they will have the greatest impact.

You can drop off your usable

eyewear (without the cases)

at Royalton City Hall and

Pine Country Bank in

Royalton. The Royalton Li-

ons would like to thank eve-

ryone who has donated in the

past to this very worthy

cause.

The Royalton Fire and Rescue De-

partment and Sparky would like to

thank those of you who attended the Open House. The weather was-

n’t being cooperative that day, so

we hope you had a good time, en-

joyed the food and learned a few

important safety tips.

Sparky has a few reminders for

everyone to practice.

change the batteries in your

smoke and carbon dioxide de-tectors and to test them every

month.

Review and practice your

PRACTICE!!!!!!

With holidays coming there’s go-

ing to be a lot of good food to eat

so when preparing those meals always use safe cooking tech-

niques.

It is our hope that we never have

to go to your home, but we are

here 24/7 if needed.

evacuation plan with your kids

and have a meeting place.

In your evacuation plan try to

have 2 ways out, stay low, touch the door knob with the

back of your hand before open-

ing, if its hot do not open and

take the 2nd way out and go to

the meeting place, never go

back in.

If you can’t get out NEVER hide

in the closet, under the bed, GO

TO the window and holler for

help.

PRACTICE!!!!!, PRACTICE!!!!!,

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Royalton Fire Open House submitted by Joel Newman

Royalton City Newsletter

The Royalton Lions will be spon-

soring a Winter Open House at the

Royalton Ice Skating Rink (North

of Royalton Elementary School).

The Winter Open House is sched-

uled for Saturday, December 28,

2019, from 11:30am - 1:30 pm. We

will be offering food and warm

drinks, wagon rides, bonfire and a

fresh coat of ice for skating.

Weather Permitting. Please watch

electronic sign by City Hall for up-

dates.

2019 Christmas Tree

Sales

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Winter Open House!

Getting ready to decorate your home

for the holidays? The Royalton Lions

are selling real, beautiful Christmas

trees starting Wednesday, No-

vember 20th. The Lion's Christmas

Tree lot will be at Bill's Superette in

Royalton again this year. Tree varie-

ties offered include: Blue Spruce,

Scotch Pine, Black Hills

Spruce, Balsam Fir and Fra-

ser Fir. Prices range from $30 to

$60 and trees are from 6 ft to

10 ft tall.

Lion's tree attendants will be

available on weekends and eve-

nings to help you find and load

the perfect tree. Tree delivery is

available upon request. Weekday

sales are self serve with payment

to cashiers in Bill's Superette.

Proceeds from Christmas trees sales

are reinvested back into the commu-

nity. Several Lion’s winter activities

include: skating rink maintenance

and open house, Senior Citizen Ap-

preciation Dinner and Take a Kid

fishing.

Royalton Cub Scouts will once again be serving Breakfast with Santa. They will have doughnuts, muffins, rolls, juice and coffee along with their holiday bake sale! They will also have Christmas wreaths for sale as part of their fall fund-

raiser.

5th Annual

Christmas on the

Platte

December 7, 2019 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Tree Lighting at 6:00 p.m.

Food and Beverage provided by Royalton Lion’s Club

Music

Wagon Rides

Tree Decorating Contest with

cash prizes of

1st Place $75.00

2nd Place $50.00

3rd Place $25.00

Reserve your Tree to decorate for

$50.00 by November 14, 2019.

This is open to families, friends

and organizations.

Trees will be lit nightly until

January 5, 2020.