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NEWS
–The Boys & Girls Club of Little Falls will be holding their 1st Halloween 5K Run/Walk this Friday with 5:00pm registration 6:00pm start at the new club site on the west side of Little Falls. Cost is $10 per person or $40 per family. Come dressed to run for the costume contest. Not a runner or walker then you can sponsor a child to run! All are welcome to tour the new club on Friday from 4:00-8:00pm.
–Hundreds took time out of their Sunday to participate in a walk to raise awareness for missing person Marc Welzant. The group gathered in Kiwanis Park in Brainerd taking part in a walk of about 2 miles, retracing the route Welzant is believed to have taken the day he disappeared a year ago yesterday. Welzant, a 47-year-old developmentally disabled adult, left his group home the afternoon on October 26th and last seen at a gas station hours later. Welzant is described as having brown hair, brown eyes and being about 5 feet, 2 inches tall. The gas station video shows Welzant wearing a dark colored jacket and dark colored pants. During Sunday’s walk to raise awareness that Welzant remains missing, prayers were said at Kiwanis Park and again at the Holiday Gas Station. Participants in the walk also paused at the home where Welzant lived. Police are asking residents to thoroughly check their own property and areas in and around Brainerd. Those with information regarding Welzant’s disappearance contact Brainerd Police at (218) 829-2805.
–Douglas and Pope County Sheriff’s officials say they have spoken with the man who was last seen with a missing U of M Morris student. Laura Schwendemann, 18, who has resided in Hancock and Starbuck, was last seen October 14th in Alexandria around 9:30pm. Schwendemann has brown hair, blue eyes, 5’5 and 125 pounds. Authorities say Schwendemann left the gas station with a man she knew in a 1997 black Geo Prism with loud exhaust. Investigators believe they traveled to unknown locations throughout southern Douglas County and northern Pope County during the late evening hours. Authorities were able to speak with the man. According to Sheriff Wolbersen, the man is a focus of the investigation and a “person of interest” in Laura’s disappearance. He says investigators have not received information that would suggest that Laura is being held against her will, or that the teen left by her own decision and is evading being found. Many ground and air searches have been conducted in the 10 days since Schwendemann went missing. The sheriff says more searches will be scheduled if new information is uncovered. Several of those searches have taken place in Orange Township, about 10.5 miles from the Holiday Gas Station. People both in Minnesota and across the country have been keeping their porch light on in support of Schwendeman’s safe return.
–This year marks the 34th year of the local Toys for Kids program that provides Christmas gifts for Southern Crow Wing County families. The 2015 program officially begins on November 27th. The Marine Corps League will be receiving donations 8am – 4pm. Toy donations will be accepted at over 50 drop-off sites. The Toys For Kids program is administered in cooperation with the local Salvation Army and is supported solely by financial and toy donations from the community. The Heartland Detachment of the Marine Corps League has sponsored this program since the beginning.
–A Community Open House on November 4th from 6:30-8pm will be held to show off the new additions to the Pierz Healy High School. All are invited to attend and refreshments will be served.
–The city of Little Falls will be having the annual Fall Leaf and Brush Collection on Saturday, October 31st for one and two unit residential properties. Residents are asked to have their leaves in untied bags at the curb (not the alley) by 6:00am Saturday morning. Since the hauler will be leaving the emptied bags, please leave a rock or brick nearby for the hauler to place on the emptied bags. They will also pick up brush as long as it’s no longer than 4 feet long or 1” in diameter. Brush must be bundled together in a manageable fashion.
–In order to make emergency repairs to the water main, water will be shut off today, (October 27th) from approximately 10:30am until approximately 3:00pm in the following locations: On 12th, 13th, and 15th Street Southwest from Highway 27 to 1st Avenue; and also on 14th Street Southwest from Highway 27 to 2nd Avenue.
–Anglers who fish Mille Lacs Lake will be allowed to keep one walleye and five northern pike this winter. The Department of Natural Resources announced regulations for the upcoming ice fishing season for the big lake Monday, a week after it confirmed that there will be a winter walleye season on Mille Lacs. The DNR closed the summer walleye season on the lake in August after anglers exceeded a quota that was set low to protect its struggling walleye population. Anglers will be allowed to keep one walleye between 18 and 20 inches or one longer than 28 inches. Last winter’s limit was two. The size restrictions haven’t changed. If the winter walleye harvest approaches the 5,000-pound cap, the DNR says, catch-and-release will be implemented so angling can continue.
DEATH NOTICES
–William “Bill” Kremers age 67 of Bowlus
–Dorothy A. Sanders, age 89 of Little Falls.
WEATHER
TODAY= cloudy skies, high 55, rain by evening, low 43.
WEDNESDAY= rain, wind, falling temps, precip changes to snow
by late afternoon- high 43 early falling to near 30 by nighttime.
THURSDAY= rain/snow early then cloudy, breezy, high 42.
SPORTS
TWINS= Torii Hunter announced Monday he is retiring from baseball after 19 seasons, Hunter was a Twin 1997-2007, then played with Anaheim and Detroit before returning to Minnesota last season. Hunter hit 353 career homers and played in 2,372 games in career.
WS= Game 1 of the World Series tonight as the New York Mets travel to Kansas City against the Royals.
HS VB= Pierz at Osakis in playoffs Thurs 7pm on FM94 KFML.
HS FB= Pierz vs. Albany from SCSU Saturday 5pm on FM94 KFML.
–for the Pierz game there will be advance ticket sales for the state football game in the District office until 3:00pm Friday. Stop in or call the Pierz High School for ticket prices and information.
COL FB= Gophers host Michigan, pregame 5pm Saturday on KLTF.
MLB= The Minnesota Twins announced they are making moves to improve the fan experience at Target Field. On Monday the Twins unveiled plans to reconfigure Target Field’s centerfield seating area into what they call “multi-level fan gathering spaces.” The project will be the most extensive renovations at Target Field since the stadium opened, and is designed to give new life to a previously underutilized portion of the ballpark. The renovations are to be all completed before the start of season of Twins baseball.
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