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Volume 3, No. 42
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Eagles to host
playoff games
Elementary
school honored
for third year
in a row
Both the Eagle football
team and the volleyball
team will host openinground section games this
week. The football team
(4-4) will host Yellow Medicine East (1-7) on Tuesday,
Oct. 21, at 7 p.m. in Eden
Valley. If the Eagles win,
they will play at Paynesville
on Saturday, Oct. 25, also
at 7 p.m.
The volleyballers (9-16)
will host ACGC on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 7 p.m. If
they win, they will play at
BBE on Friday, Oct. 24,
also at 7 p.m.
The EV-W/Kimball cross
country team will also vie
for state berths on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 4 p.m. at
Little Crow Country Club
in the Section 6A meet.
Fall family fun
day at library
on Saturday
EV-W ECFE and the
Eden Valley Area Library
will host a fall family fun
day on Saturday, Oct. 25,
from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at
the library. For children up
to age five, it will feature
animals, clowns, balloons
animals, snacks, music, art
projects, and more.
Memorial Mass
at old St. Anthony School
A special memorial
Mass will be held at the
old St. Anthony School in
Watkins on Sunday, Oct.
26, at 8 a.m. The school’s
cornerstone will be displayed. Demolition of the
school will begin soon to
make way for a new parish
center. Refreshments and
reminiscing will follow the
historic mass. St. Anthony
Catholic Church invites the
entire community to attend.
Elementary
honored
again in
Minnesota
rankings
By Michael Jacobson
Photo Courtesy of Northern State University
Inducted into the Hall of Fame at Northern State University on Friday, Oct. 3, were (left to right): Bill Erickson (Class of 1983);
Denise (Ruhland) Clemens (Class of 1992 and EV-W Class of 1987); Rod Kutter (Class of 1974); Tim Miles (Class of 1990);
Tanya (Frerichs) Sheldon (Class of 1995); and Josh Trandall (Class of 1996).
HALL OF FAME
Clemens inducted into NSU Hall of Fame
Denise (Ruhland)
Clemens honored
by alma mater
By Michael Jacobson
Denise (Ruhland) Clemens,
a 1987 EV-W grad, was recently inducted into the Hall of
Fame at Northern State
University in Aberdeen, S.D.
Clemens earned her bachelor’s degree in environmental
science and biology from
Northern State in 1992, while
also playing on the women’s
basketball team. The Wolves
won
Northern
Sun
Intercollegiate Conference
titles in 1987-88 and 1991-92
with Clemens, a self-described
six-foot post who averaged 14
points per game and 10
rebounds per game during her
college career, she estimated.
She was twice named All
Conference (1991 and 1992),
was Academic All American,
was NSIC Scholar-Athlete,
and was NSU’s Women Athlete
of the Year in 1992, as the
Wolves won the NAIA national title her senior year.
“It’s a tremendous honor,”
said Clemens of the induction,
which occurred on Friday,
Oct. 3, in Aberdeen, “and it
brought back great memories.”
Six former NSU coaches
and athletes were inducted
into the Hall of Fame this
year, including Nebraska
men’s head coach Tim Miles,
who earned a master’s degree
from NSU in 1990 while serving as an assistant basketball
coach. Since then, he has
served as head coach at
Mayville State, Southwest
Minnesota State, North
Dakota State, and Colorado
State before entering the Big
10 ranks at Nebraska last year.
Clemens met her husband
Bill at Northern State and now
teaches science and coaches –
assistant girls’ basketball
coach at Northwestern High
School in Mellette, S.D., about
20 miles south of Aberdeen.
Athletics teaches so much,
said Clemens, who also earned
her teaching certificate from
NSU in 1995, such as perseverance, teamwork, dedication,
and loyalty. “I had a great
experience in athletics,” she
said, “and I’ve always been
trying to pay it back.”
After her high school career,
which included being on the
Eagles team, as a ninth grader,
that finished as state runnersup in 1984, Clemens picked
Northern State because it was
a small school, like EV-W. She
still values the lessons taught
to her by Scott Hendricks, her
high school coach, and Curt
Fredrickson, her college
coach. (Fredrickson is now
747-278 in 35 years at NSU.)
Clemens hurt her knee as a
college sophomore and
thought about hanging up her
basketball shoes, but she
decided to do the rehab, which
paid off when a young team
won the NAIA national title
her senior year. She was the
only senior on the team, which
went 30-4 overall and 10-2 in
NSIC play.
Clemens was inducted into
the EV-W Hall of Fame in 2007.
Clemens and her husband
reside in Northville, S.D., and
have five children: Josh,
Ashley, Josie, Zachariah, and
Will.
BENEFIT
Community shows support for Heinens
75¢
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Index
Anti-Bullying Month
2
Blotter
2
Farm Safety
2
Manannah News
3
Meeker SWCD
3
Tractor Show at Hilltop
3
Boy Scouts
4
Letters to the Editor
4
MPCA Report
4
Bulletin Board
5
Community
5
Classifieds
6
Entertainment
7
Public Notices
8
Community Thanks
9
Memorial Mass
9
Pieces of Past
9
Scoreboard
10, 11, & 14
CMC Meet
11
Volleyball Finale
11
Football Contest
12
Volleyball Salute
13
Football Wins
14
Benefit held
for Lisa Heinen
to help offset
medical bills
By Laurie Schultz
The small community of
Watkins united together for
resident Lisa Heinen at a benefit held to raise funds to help
offset the burden of medical
bills on Sunday, Oct. 19.
In April, Heinen was diagnosed with a rare cancerous
tumor called teratoma. The
tumor, attached to Heinen’s
heart, was restricting blood
flow and causing her arteries
to become clogged.
Heinen underwent three
weeks of radiation and chemotherapy before having surgery to remove the mass a few
weeks ago. She remains in the
intensive care unit at the Mayo
Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Her
husband Ervin said that Lisa
will most likely remain in the
hospital for another month
and then go to a rehabilitation
center until she has fully
recovered from surgery.
Ervin was overwhelmed by
the number of people who
came out to show the family
support at the benefit. “Words
can’t even begin to describe
how amazed I am at the turn-
Photo by Laurie Schultz
VFW Post #5460 members Alan Dockendorf, Gilbert Hennen, Tom Wilson, Paul Heibel, Al
Brutger, Don Dufner, Jack Schlangen, and Dan “Bones” Erpelding assisted in preparing and
serving breakfast at a benefit held for Lisa Heinen on Sunday, Oct. 19 at the Watkins Village
Hall. Heinen was diagnosed with a rare cancerous tumor that required surgery. A benefit was
held to raise funds to help offset some of the financial burden of Heinen’s ongoing care.
out today,” he said.
to organize a benefit.
have in the past,” said Dufner.
Both Lisa and Ervin have
They approached VFW Post “We definitely set a record
lived in Watkins most of their #5460 to prepare and serve a today,” he added.
lives. When medical costs not breakfast. Post member Don
Along with serving breakcovered by their insurance Dufner explained the VFW fast, a silent auction and a
became a financial burden, served 364 adults and over 20 bake sale were held on Sunday.
the Heinen family, with the children at the breakfast. Donations for the auction
help of their friends Doreen “VFW members served more were generously donated by
and Tom Unterberger, began people today then we ever
BENEFIT – see page 2
For the third year in a row,
EV-W Elementary School has
ranked among the top schools
in Minnesota.
Earlier this month, the elementary school was named
Celebration School eligible as
part of the Minnesota
Department of Education’s
2014 ratings, based on the
Multiple
Measurement
Ratings.
The top 15 percent of elementary schools receiving
Title I funds are named
Reward Schools, and the next
25 percent (those in the 60th to
the 85th percentiles) are
Celebration eligible. These
schools can apply to become a
Celebration School, an honor
bestowed on 10 percent of the
eligible schools.
“We are pleased to be designated a Celebration School
again this year,” said elementary principal Rob Pederson.
“We have continued to score
well in the area of proficiency
on the MCAs. Our staff has
also worked hard to reduce
the achievement gap for our
target populations of special
education and free/reduced
meals. Our staff will continue to develop and implement
their MMR action plans for
their grade level or department.”
Elementary schools are
rated on three criteria (each
worth 25 points apiece): student proficiency, student
growth, and achievement gap
reduction. Then their total is
turned into a percentage (by
dividing by 75) to get a rating
based on a 100-point scale.
This year, schools were rated
on a two-year average to get
their MMR rating.
EV-W improved its MMR
rating this year to 67.06 (from
59.47 last year). They scored a
perfect 50 on proficiency, 25.5
on growth, and 25.09 on
achievement gap reduction,
for a total of 100.59 points out
of 150, resulting in an MMR
rating of 67.06 (a percentage
of points achieved compared
to the total points possible).
Only Title I schools, mostly
elementaries, are recognized
as Reward or Celebration
schools in the MMR ratings.
EV-W Secondary School
increased its MMR rating
from 74.13 in 2013 to 81.05 in
2014 but is not eligible for any
designation from the state
since it is not a Title I school.
EV-W Secondary also
earned a perfect 50 points for
proficiency, 30.95 for growth,
31.14 for achievement gap
reduction, and 50 points for
graduation rate, totaling 162.1
(divided by 200 possible
points) for a rating of 81.05.
This year, 131 schools
received a Reward School designation, while 217 schools
were classified as Celebration
eligible, according to a
Minnesota Department of
Education press release.
MMR RANKS – see page 3