ANNUAL REPORT 2011
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McCallum Museum offers link to Osceola County’s history: Janet Stofferan has served as curator since 1996
SIBLEY, Iowa — Step inside the McCallum Museum and there’s plenty to see — and there’s still more on the way.
By Ryan McGaughey , April 04, 2011
Ellsworth church still going strong: St. Mary’s observing 125 years
ELLSWORTH — The congregation has changed, the buildings have been renovated and the associated school is gone, but St. Mary’s Church prospers, still vital at 125 years old.
April 04, 2011
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Almberg puts interest in outdoors to good use
RUSHMORE — Entering Brian and Jodi Almberg’s home on Nobles County 35 is like walking into an animal sanctuary.
By Beth Rickers , April 02, 2011
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Virgil Veen, keeper of the creatures: Animal control officer has served community for at least a decade
WORTHINGTON — A dog on the loose, a cat up a tree and a critter of some sort in a window well. Just another day on the job for Worthington’s Animal Control Officer Virgil Veen.
April 02, 2011
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A jewel of a business: Sue Salzwedel makes jewelry, operates home-staging enterprise in spare time
OKABENA — Instead of jewelry, it might have been more prudent for Sue Salzwedel to go into crafting hats, since she wears so many herself.
By Beth Rickers , April 02, 2011
Playing by harp: Fransen comforts, calms
WORTHINGTON — Sometimes it takes a moment of closure to open new doors of opportunity.
By Jane Turpin Moore , April 01, 2011
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A remarkable journey: Herminio Lopez overcomes life’s challenges on way to Worthington
WORTHINGTON — Chasing the American Dream was not one of Herminio Nuñez Lopez’s aspirations. Truthfully, Lopez has never planned for much in his life. If he had ever planned for his future, he believes it wouldn’t have developed as perfectly as it has thus far.
April 01, 2011
Where the cutting-edge research happens: Diagnostic rooms busy at Newport Labs
WORTHINGTON — The buzzer sounds, and a woman donned in a lab coat, safety glasses and latex gloves hurries to the door. Outside, a man hands her a specimen contained in a veterinarian’s rolled-up plastic glove. She looks at what appears to be a pig’s organ and sets it atop her cart among other samples dropped off by delivery drivers that morning.
By Julie Buntjer , April 01, 2011
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Haffield knows his hometown inside and out: WHS graduate has been city’s head engineer for 33 years
WORTHINGTON — Growing up in Worthington, Dwayne Haffield knew the streets of this town like the back of his hand.
March 31, 2011
Intervet calls 50 countries — and Worthington — home: Mergers continue to promote expansion of product lines
WORTHINGTON — Intervet Schering-Plough has a presence in 50 countries around the world, but boasts its smallest manufacturing site along Lake Street on Worthington’s south side.
By Julie Buntjer , March 31, 2011
Ray Crippen: Right on time: The many faces of Worthington’s clocks
It is likely — oh, it is certain, really — that there was a pendulum clock on the wall of Worthington’s first depot. This would be a face the whole town of early settlers came to know. Time was important at depots. Trains ran on timetables. “The 6:10 is at Sibley, on schedule …”
By Ray Crippen , March 31, 2011
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A man of many stories: Retired educator Ken Thompson experienced Iwo Jima landing
WORTHINGTON — From St. Paul Johnson High School to Hamline University to Iwo Jima to a 36-year career as a teacher, coach and athletic director at Worthington High School, 90-year-old Ken Thompson has enjoyed a wealth of memorable experiences few could rival.
By Les Knutson , March 30, 2011
No place like home for Nobles family: Southwest Minnesota natives settle, establish careers in Worthington
WORTHINGTON — There’s no place like home. The phrase has become cliché, but for Josh and Jessica Noble it couldn’t ring more true.
March 30, 2011
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Bioscience Conference has evolved in its seven years: Annual event will be hosted for seventh time next month
WORTHINGTON — What is now known as the Regional Bioscience Conference was initially a simple reception to commemorate the grand opening of Prairie Holding corporate headquarters.
March 30, 2011
From Worthington to around the world: Mike Winter develops Worthington Ag Parts into global enterprise
WORTHINGTON — On a late February day, Worthington Ag Parts President Mike Winter paid a visit to his hometown to check in on the business, but it wasn’t just to make sure the salesmen were busy on the phone — they were — or to watch the dozen workers busily dismantling tractors out in the shop.
By Julie Buntjer , March 29, 2011
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