NEWS
--A very busy weekend of events, including Albany Pioneer Days and Threshing Show starting today at 7am in Albany and going through Sunday, tractor pulls, displays, music, food and much more listen to AM960 KLTF Party Line today at 10:05am to get full details on the events this weekend in Albany. Man Vs. Beast Rodeo is Saturday and Sunday at the Morrison County Fairgrounds both days rodeo starting at 4pm though JoJo Wagner stated yesterday on KLTF the gates will open before 2pm and families can come and watch the animals get ready and see the vendors and the full event get a great seat, ride the mechanical bull and see the rodeo both nights tickets are $15 at the gate for adults. The End of Summer Bash rock concert is Saturday night at Great River Arts in Little Falls with FM94 KFML, St. Michael's Church Bazaar in Buckman is Sunday polka mass at 10am, chicken and ham dinner to follow, live music, bingo, silent auction and grand raffle all Sunday in Buckman and Camp Ripley biennial open house is Sunday from 10am-2pm inside Camp Ripley's main gates, a free event to see military vehicles and a ceremony for the U.S. Air Force begins at noon. There will be a fly over and speakers including large TV's showing Charles Kapsner's final painting of the U.S. Air Force then shuttles to the state cemetery nearby to see the five portraits close up after the ceremony. There will be food and items to see throughout the full event Sunday at Camp Ripley. Get details on the events this weekend at fallsradio.com then click on the community calendar for further details.
--The school year has just begun and already many school bus drivers have concerns about the safety of the students they pick up and drop off. Bethany Schubert is the Vice President of Trobec's Bus Service. She says since the school year started they have already reported 15 stop arm violations to police. In one incident the kids were about five seconds away from the car when the car drove through. Luckily the kids jumped back but the car just sped through the stop arm without even blinking. Schubert says they have seen an increase in stop arm violators over the past few years along all of their bus routes. There is a one day survey done nationally, where different states report in the stop arm violations they have had. Last year, Minnesota reported 583 violations in that one day. If you break that out over the school year that's over 100,000 stop arm violations for the year. She adds in today's fast pace world it's important to slow down when you see the flashing yellow lights not just for your safety but for the safety of our kids. Schubert says they have been in contact with police to help catch these violators. Penalties for offenders vary from a warning up to a $500 fine.
--Archery season begins Saturday and hunters in a CWD zone are reminded to keep the carcass within the zone until a not detected test is reported. To meet mandatory chronic wasting disease sampling requirements, self-service sampling stations are available for bowhunters in CWD management zones, in southeast and north central Minnesota. Archery hunters must provide the head of all adult deer at one of the sampling stations. Hunters who wish to mount their deer may work with a participating taxidermist, listed on the DNR’s website, to have their deer sampled. Find more information, including sampling station locations, on the southeast management zone and north central management zone pages.
–A rare occurrence tonight as the full moon for September is today which is Friday the 13th. It is the first Friday the 13th Full Moon since 2000 and last before 2049. This is also the Harvest Moon.
--Swanville High School has announced their candidates for homecoming King and Queen. King candidates are Jackson Thieschafer, John Russell and Camryn Nohner. Queen candidates are Kaycee Vilinski, Victoria Kircher and Lucia Bryce. The homecoming coronation for Swanville is at 7:00pm on Sunday, September 22nd at Swanville High School Auditorium. In high school football Swanville teams up with Upsala as the USA Patriots and they host Parkers Prairie on Friday, September 27th in their homecoming game.
--Last November voters in the Holdingford school district approved an $11.14 million bond referendum for improvements to the school district and as a result the Holdingford schools will be a construction site for the rest of this school year. Superintendent Chris Swenson says they are just finishing up a roofing project, and will now move on to the construction phase. He says they've moved some offices and have vacated the areas of the building that will be worked on. One key area is creating a new more secure entrance. One of the projects they are working on is tied into secured entrances, creating a better entrance for their building, so their high school entrance is going to be remodeled, office areas will be restructured and they will create a larger commons area. They are also renovating a lunchroom, adding six new elementary classrooms, and restructuring the parking lot. They are planning to have all of it done by next spring.
--Todd County released information of a fatality on September 7th. Just after 7:00pm the Todd County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call reporting an accident at the address of 49379 131st Avenue in rural Hewitt. The victim was identified as 33-year old Aaron Broughton of rural Hewitt. Broughton had been working in a trench laying water lines when the trench collapsed. Broughton was pronounced deceased at the scene. During the same week of September 1st through September 7th, the Todd County Sheriff's Office responded to 224 calls for service. The following were the types of calls: 78 traffic stops, 10 civil process, 10 suspicious activity type complaints, 3 thefts, 3 welfare checks, 6 assist other agencies, 5 accidents, 3 traffic complaints, 3 disturbances/domestics, 5 car/deer accidents, 3 alarms, 3 scams and 16 farm animals out complaints.
DEATH NOTICES
--Thomas “Tom” Vanhove, age 69 of Little Falls.
WEATHER
TODAY= isolated AM showers, then clearing, breezy, high 59.
TONIGHT= clear skies, cooler, winds die down, low 44.
SATURDAY= sunny early, late afternoon T-storm, high 72, low 50.
SUNDAY= sunny and warmer, high 78, low around 55.
MONDAY= sunny and warmer, high 81, low around 60.
SPORTS
HS FB= Little Falls at Milaca tonight 7pm on AM960 KLTF.
HS FB= Rockford at Pierz tonight 7pm on FM94 KFML.
TWINS= Nationals pound the Twins 12-6 last night to take the three game series. Indians did not play so Twins lead is 3.5 games in the central as they head to Cleveland for a big three game series. Pregame tonight 5:30pm and also Saturday at 5:30 then on Sunday pregame begins at 11:30am on Q92 WYRQ.
COL FB= Gophers host Georgia Southern Saturday 2:30pm on KLTF
NFL= Vikings are at Green Bay Sunday at noon, listen to NFL coverage Sunday with a triple header on AM960 KLTF.