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2018 BUDGET: Scandia City Council trims to 4.2 percent increase. PAGE 11
Progress continues on Scandia Veterans Memorial
JENI O'BRIEN
Taco Daze 2017
Landscaping plans have been approved by the Scandia Park and Recreation Committee and work will begin this week. Final landscaping will be finished following completion of the memorial. Work on construction of the block honor walls, which will hold the memorial bricks, is scheduled for next week. This will take about two weeks. The stone veneer for the bottom of the walls is ordered and will be here next week. The monument is nearing completion and will be installed in early
September. Benches have been ordered and should arrive in late September. Plans for a dedication ceremony are being made and will be announced soon. The committee for the memorial is still taking orders for additional memorial bricks for the honor wall. The bricks may honor any veteran, not just from Scandia. The cost is $100 per brick Only about 45 bricks are remaining from the original 200. To order a brick or bricks, contact George Galleberg at 651-433-5328 or Donna Granberg at 651-433-2713.
The Chisago City American Legion Post 272 led the Taco Daze parade Saturday afternoon. See more Taco Daze photos on page 6
Marine’s historic bridge restored, new details rediscovered BY SUZANNE LINDGREN EDITOR@OSCEOLASUN.COM
The Marine Restoration Society and City of Marine have finished a collaborative project to research and restore one of the state’s oldest bridges. Until fairly recently the small stone bridge beneath Judd Street was thought to be little more than a culvert. But in April 2016 the Restoration Society began working with the City of Marine to reconstruct the bridge and with the Bluestem Heritage Group, a research company based in St. Paul, to uncover its history. While Marine resident and mason Mike Tibbetts reconstructed the keystone arch facing Burris Park, Fitzie Heimdahl of the Restoration Society led the effort to research its background from October 2016 to September 2017, through review of county, state and national records. According to Heimdahl, Tibbetts was able to recycle some stones from another old bridge in Marine, where Broadway crosses the Mill Pond. He started construction at the beginning of July and wrapped up in mid August. The city paid for and
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While Marine resident and mason Mike Tibbetts restored the keystone arch, Fitzie Heimdahl of the Restoration Society led the effort to research its background.
assisted with its construction. As reported in the Messenger in March, the bridge was part of the Point Douglass Military Road, a planned route from Hastings to Superior that was never finished.
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The Restoration Society had posited that the bridge was built contemporaneously to the road in 1853, but further research has revealed that it was not quite as
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Scandia students support victims of Hurricane Harvey Sixth grade students in Dominic Mancini's classroom wanted to help people affected by Hurricane Harvey. They collected partially used and new gift cards for families who have been impacted at Bellaire High School in the Houston area. Bellaire was chosen because Mr. Mancini has a friend who used to work at the school and she has been rallying all the support she can for those kids. Pictured are sixth grade students Colby Christenson and Ashley Decker.
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