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March 6, 2020

CROOKSTON’S BRADY HEPPNER SIGNS WITH ROANOKE RAILDOG PRO HOCKEY TEAM

The Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs (a professional hockey team in the Southern Professional Hockey League based in Roanoke, Virginia) have announced the addition of three rookies to their roster and one of them is Crookston High School grad, Brady Heppner.

Heppner arrives following the conclusion of his college career at Saint John’s University. The Crookston native tallied eight goals and 13 assists over 26 games during his senior season in 2019-20. He led his team in goals in both his sophomore and junior year and over 99 career games with the Johnnies, Heppner had 42 goals and 40 assists in his career.

The Rail Yard Dawgs will play the Quad City Storm this weekend.

March 6, 2020

Charles “Chuck” Olson – Obit

Charles Scott “Chuck” Olson, 63, of Bemidji, MN, passed away early Thursday morning, March 5, 2020, at the Cornerstone Nursing Home in Bagley, MN after battling cancer for the past several months.

Chuck was born on March 1, 1957, in Crookston, MN, the younger of two sons of the union of Phillip Martin and Veda Myrtle (Taylor) Olson. He grew up in Crookston where he was baptized and confirmed at Trinity Lutheran Church and attended Crookston public schools including Washington Elementary School, Highland Middle School, and Central High School, where he played for the Pirate Tennis Team. Chuck graduated with the Class of 1975 and furthered his education at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, earning a bachelor’s degree in Business in 1979. He then returned to Crookston and was employed in sales for Crookston Marine. In 1986 Chuck moved to Bemidji where he worked for Xen’s Sporting Goods Store, which later became known as Kabilka’s. With his expertise as a fisherman and hunter, his two lifelong passions, Chuck earned the trust and loyalty of his many customers when it came to purchasing the latest and best equipment for their needs. He also provided fishing guide services for many visitors to the area lakes. In 1989 Chuck became a District Representative for the Minnesota State Lottery and did quite a bit of traveling throughout the northland. He retired this past December.

Throughout his life, Chuck enjoyed fishing and hunting with his parents, Phil and Veda, and brother, Larry. He discovered tournament fishing many years ago and often partnered with Mickey Kaiser from Crookston or Lauren Ras from Bemidji. In 2007 Chuck and Lauren won the Fort Francis Bass Tournament and were awarded a $30,000 boat, motor, and trailer. In 2019 they finished 2nd in the same tournament.

Chuck is survived by his mother, Veda Olson of Crookston; brother and sister-in-law, Larry and LouAnne Olson of Crookston; 2 nephews and a niece: Matt Olson and Paul Olson of Isanti, MN, and Lisa Cole and her husband, Michael, of Crookston; 7 great-nieces and great-nephews: Michaella Johnson, Joslynn and Jace Olson, Madisyn, Caden, and Brittyn Sanders, and Owen Cole; and many other relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by his father, Phil Olson; and grandparents: Archie and Emelia Olson, and Everett and Nellie Taylor. Chuck will be very lovingly remembered and sadly missed by all who were a part of his life.

A memorial service celebrating the life of Charles Scott Olson will be held at the Stenshoel-Houske Funeral Home in Crookston, MN at 11:00 am, Saturday, March 14, 2020, with The Rev. Loren Mellum, officiating. Visitation with the family will be for one hour prior to the service. Inurnment will take place in the Oakdale Cemetery, Crookston.

www.stenshoelhouske.com

March 6, 2020

Arrest/Fire Report – Friday, March 6, 2020

The Northwest Regional Corrections Center announced the arrests of the following individuals:

Rey Lee Trevino IV, 33 of Crookston, for gross misdemeanor subsequent domestic assault violation.

Stephanie Lori Haugtvedt, 27 of Grand Forks, ND, as a felony fugitive from another state. Released to another authority.

March 6, 2020

DGF USES STRONG START IN SECOND HALF TO BEAT CROOKSTON BOYS BASKETBALL

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The Crookston Pirate Boys Basketball team played an excellent first half and trailed by six points at halftime, but the Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Rebels started the second half on a 13-2 run and held on the rest of the way for a 71-51 victory in the first round of the Section 8AA Boys Basketball tournament played in Glyndon. “We played much better than we did when we played here in January,” said Crookston Coach Greg Garmen. “They boys played hard, but DGF is a very good team and is just bigger, faster, stronger.”

FIRST HALF –
DGF started strong with baskets from Ian Mickelson and Aiden Leach for a 4-0 lead two minutes into the game. Crookston’s first points of the game were scored when Walker Winjum made a three-pointer from the wing to bring the Pirates within a 4-3 deficit. The teams exchanged points for the next five or six minutes until DGF went on a 7-0 run to take a 20-12 lead halfway through the first half. DGF continued to hold a five to eight-point lead for the next eight minutes and took a 30-21 lead and things weren’t looking good for the Pirates. Crookston responded in fine fashion with back-to-back three-pointers by Carter Bruggeman and Winjum to get within a 30-27 deficit with 1:10 left in the half. “We finally gave Carter the green light after we told him he couldn’t shoot after the eighth game or so of the year,” said Coach Garmen. “It was nice to see him hit the shot and Walker had a nice night tonight.” DGF’s Jacob Strand countered with a wide-open three-pointer to give the Rebels a 33-27 lead going into halftime. “We executed our game plan well in the first half and played well,” said Coach Garmen. “The guys played hard, played solid defense and it was an all-around good first half.”

SECOND HALF –
DGF had a great start to the second half while taking care of several Pirate turnovers and went on a 13-2 run behind six straight points from Owen Leach for a 46-29 lead four minutes into the half. “We had to many turnovers in that stretch,” said Coach Garmen. Crookston stopped the run when Carter Bruggeman made a three-pointer, but DGF answered with four straight points to take a 49-32 lead. Crookston picked up the defensive pressure and forced the Rebels into several turnovers and the Pirates turned them into quick points with a Jack Garmen three-pointer, and back-to-back baskets from Carter Bruggeman and Caden Osborn to cap a 7-0 run to get within a 49-39 deficit with 10:25 left in the game. Every time Crookston seemed like they were going to get another run going DGF answered with a basket and the slowly pulled away the rest of the game to win 71-51. With about two minutes left in the game, Coach Garmen added a nice touch and put all five seniors that dressed out on the floor so they could finish out the season on the floor. “It wasn’t the way we wanted to end the floor but it was nice to get them all out on the floor at the end,” said Coach Garmen talking about the seniors. “Some played more than others, but they showed up and worked hard in practice and it was good group of seniors.”

Crookston ends the season with a record of 9-18 and will say goodbye to five seniors, Walker Winjum, Caden Osborn, Brady Butt, Cooper Brown, and Joseph Ramirez. “If we would have had the energy like we did tonight all season long, we would have had some more wins,” said Coach Garmen. “They made a lot of memories this year and it was a great group of guys.” DGF improves to 21-6 on the year and will play Pelican Rapids on Saturday in the Section 8AA quarterfinals.

	1st	2nd	Final
CROOKSTON	27	24	51
DGF	33	38	71

For Crookston	Points	Rebound	Steals/Assists
Easton Tangquist	13	3	3 assists
Caden Osborn	12	9	2 assists
Walker Winjum	11	11	3 assists
Carter Bruggeman	10		3 steals
Jack Garmen	5	2

For DGF	Points
Owen Leach	22
Aiden Leach	15
Ian Mickelson	10
Jacob Strand	9
Justin Wang	7
Colby Schreiber	5
Logan Bittker	4
Drew Coalwell	2

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March 6, 2020

UMC BASEBALL WINS FIFTH STRAIGHT OVER UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES

The University of Minnesota Crookston (UMC) Golden Eagle Baseball team won their fifth straight game with an 11-1 victory over University of Sciences (UOS) in Winter Haven, Florida.

Minnesota Crookston opened the scoring in the opening inning with Brock Reller (Jr., Grand Forks, ND) driving a triple to score Brad Morris (Jr., Auckland, New Zealand) giving the Golden Eagles a 1-0 lead. Scott Finberg (Sr., Stillwater) continued the inning with a single driving in Reller from third base putting UMC in front 2-0 after one inning. UOS utilized a sacrifice fly in the third inning to trim the deficit down to 2-1 after three innings. Scott Finberg continued a productive day at the plate with an RBI ground out in the sixth inning driving in Brad Morris increasing Minnesota Crookston’s lead to 3-1. The Golden Eagles tacked on two more runs in the eighth inning. Finberg singled in Morris to make it 4-1 before Eli Jung (Jr., Dickinson, ND) walked with the bases loaded increasing UMC’s lead to 5-1 heading into the final inning. In the ninth inning Brock Reller blasted a three-run home run putting Minnesota Crookston in front 8-1. Eli Jung drove out UMC’s second three-run homer of the inning to close out an 11-1 win for the Golden Eagles with eight runs coming across the plate in the final two innings.

UMC improves to 8-4 on the year and wraps up its Florida trip against St. Cloud State on Friday at . University of Sciences drops to 2-11 on the year.

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March 6, 2020

CROOKSTON FIGURE SKATING CLUB PRESENTS THE 2020 DREAMS ON ICE THIS WEEKEND

Figure Skating will take over the Crookston Sports Center this weekend with the 2020 Dreams on Ice presented by the Crookston Figure Skating Club. Shows are at 6:00 p.m. Saturday, and 2:00 p.m. at the Crookston Sports Center with the theme of “The Fabulous 50’s.” The doors will open one hour before each show. Admission is $6 for adults, seniors and students are $4. A family weekend wristband is $25.

Overall about 100 skaters are involved in the Crookston Figure Skating Club and this year will include a special presentation of a gold jacket to Breanna Kressin, who becomes just the second member in the club’s history to be recognized as a gold medalist by the United States Figure Skating Association. “This year our ages range from ages 2 to 18,” said Ericka Uttermark, Crookston Figure Skating Club Head Coach. “We have five seniors this season who are Kathryn Halos, Audrey Harbott, Kaydin Brule, Eliza Meyer, and Emily Gillette, so we’re excited for them. At this year’s show, we’re also going to honor Brianna Kressin who became a USFSA Gold Medalist in December which is the highest honors from the United States Figure Skating Association. She passed her test, so we will give her the gold medalist jacket and honor her. She is only the second skater in our club history to receive that acknowledgment.”

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March 5, 2020

15 AREA GIRLS BASKETBALL PLAYERS NAMED TO CLASS A AND AA ALL-STATE TEAMS

The Minnesota High School Girls Basketball Coaches Association has announced their All-State basketball teams for each class with several area players making the impressive list. The players are nominated by the coaches and the coaches throughout the state in the respective class vote on the teams. The Class AA and Class A players from the area are listed below –

Class AA All-State –
Katie Borowicz – Roseau

Class AA Honorable Mention –
Ellie Colbeck – Fergus Falls
Sabrina Fronning – Fergus Falls
Paige Thompson – Hawley
Greta Tollefson – Pelican Rapids
Emma Borowicz – Crookston

Class A All-State –
Karley Motschenbacher – Park Christian
Brianna Raddatz – Walker-Hackensack-Akeley
Kora Kritzberger – Ada-Borup

Class A Honorable Mention –
Megan Benjamin – Walker-Hackensack-Akeley
Justine Day – Walker-Hackensack-Akeley
Jenna Pahlen – Red Lake County Central
Keylee Dahl – Northern Freeze
Clara Girdler – Red Lake Falls
Rylie Mortimer – Warren-Alvarado-Oslo

One Class AA Honorable mention name of note to Crookston fans – Ellie Hasz of Pine City (Daughter of former Crookston Central High School grad and former baseball and basketball coach Ted Hasz)

March 5, 2020

UMC BASEBALL’S 3 HOME RUNS, MIXED WITH SOLID PITCHING TO WIN FOURTH STRAIGHT

The University of Minnesota Crookston (UMC) Golden Eagle Baseball team won their fourth straight game with a 7-3 victory over West Virginia Wesleyan College (WVWC) in Auburndale, Florida.

UMC started the scoring in the bottom of the first inning. Ben Bryant (Soph. Fargo, ND) led off the inning with a single and advanced to second base on a Travis Conoryea (Jr. Inver Grove Heights) sacrifice. The next batter, Mason Ruhlman (Sr. Algonac, Mich) grounded out to second base, but that allowed Bryant to advance to third before Brad Morris (Jr. Auckland, New Zealand) singled to score Bryant and the Golden Eagles led 1-0.
UMC added another run in the fourth inning with a Scott Finberg (Sr. Stillwater) solo home run for a 2-0 lead.
WVWC scored their first run of the game in the top of the fifth inning after a single, an error and another single to cut the Golden Eagle lead in half (2-1).
UMC responded with a run in the bottom of the fifth when Conoryea walked to lead off the inning and advance to second on a wild pitch. Ruhlman reached on an error on the first baseman and a hustling Conoryea scored from second base to give the Golden Eagles a 3-1 lead.
UMC broke the game open with three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning with Morris reaching on a triple and scoring on a Brock Reller (Jr. Grand Forks, ND) single. Two more runs scored on a Finberg home run for a 6-1 lead.
The three-run inning was important for UMC because WVWC bounced back with two runs on a double to get within a 6-3 deficit. UMC responded with a Reller home run in the bottom of the eighth inning to take a 7-3 lead and the Golden Eagles retired the side in the top of the ninth to pick up their fourth win in a row with a 7-3 victory.
Finberg and Morris were both 3 of 5 at the plate. Finberg had three runs batted in and two runs scored. Matt Nelson (Soph. Afton) picked up the win on the mound going six innings while scattering six hits, striking out eight and only walking one batter.

UMC improves to 7-4 on the year and takes on the University of Sciences (Pennsylvania) Thursday afternoon. West Virginia Wesleyan College drops to 0-10 on the year.

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March 5, 2020

Arrest/Fire Report – Thursday, March 5, 2020

The Northwest Regional Corrections Center announced the arrests of the following individuals:

Eric Anthony Lee Stone, 25 of Brainerd, for felony theft of a motor vehicle. Taken without the owner’s consent.

Audriauna Lucille Harper, 27 of Crookston, for misdemeanor violation of a domestic abuse no-contact order. Bail supplied.

Fire Calls:

The Crookston Fire Department was called to conduct a carbon monoxide check on the 200 block of Johnson Place at 8:47 Wednesday morning. Elevated levels were detected, and the residence was ventilated. Probable cause was a vehicle running in the attached garage.

March 2, 2020

Judith Ann Olson – Obit

Judith Ann Olson, 80, of Halstad, MN passed away on Sunday, March 1, 2020, in her home in Halstad after a courageous battle with cancer.

Judith Ann Jacobson was born August 24, 1939, to Philip & Harriet (Bjorge) Jacobson. She attended grade school in Caledonia, ND, graduated from Climax, MN High School in 1957 and attended Interstate Business College in Fargo ND. She married Albert (Bobby) Olson on December 30, 1957, and they spent the next 44 years farming and raising their children near Halstad. Bobby passed away 2004.

She was a lifelong member of East Marsh River Lutheran Church where she was active in the Ladies aid and served many positions on the council. She was a member of the Red River Homemakers, FHA Chapter mother for all three daughters and was also a 4-H leader for Marsh River 4-H Club. She was named Norman County Farm Woman of the Year in 1983 and in her “spare” time, was a mediator for the State of Minnesota Extension Service during the mid-1980’s farm crisis.

Judy was a dedicated mother, grandmother and great grandmother. The highlights of her day were talking with and spending time around her family. She loved her children unconditionally and was always there to help or just to listen. She was the best cheerleader for her grandchildren, spending countless hours at every sporting event, concert or anything they were a part of. They were her world, and she theirs. The bond she shared with her 2 great grandsons these past 3 years was pure joy to watch and will be embedded in our hearts and minds forever. Her pride and joy was truly her family.

Judy is survived by four children; Angela (Peter) Matthews, Kittery ME; Terri (Mike) Trygg, Halstad, MN; Roberta (Robert) Hettervig, Hillsboro ND; and Rodney (Anita) Olson, Halstad, MN; four grandchildren; Ross Hettervig, Brittany (Mike) Peschel, Blake Olson & Ryan Olson, and two Great Grandson’s; Jett & Cal Peschel. She is also survived by 5 step grandchildren and 5 step great grandchildren and her very special cousins who still to this day meant the world to her, Patty Jewel and Joyce Gullingsrud. She is preceded in death by two infant siblings, her parents, and her husband Bobby.

Special thanks to Hospice of the RRV’s Green Team, and also Judy’s neighbors at the Heritage House in Halstad for their support and all the goodies they shared.

Funeral: 11:00AM Wednesday, March 4, 2020, at Halstad Lutheran Church, Halstad, MN.
Visitation: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 from 5:00PM to 7:00PM, at Fredrikson-Ganje Funeral Home, Halstad, MN.
Burial: East Marsh River Lutheran Cemetery, rural Halstad, MN.
Arrangements with Fredrikson-Ganje Funeral Homes, Halstad, Minnesota www.fredriksonfh.com