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12:25 a.m.
Adam Sundquist works on the twin table machine center, which is used to drill and bore holes through plate steel, during the night shift at Melrose Metalworks, Inc. Melrose Metalworks employs 45 full-time people and runs two shifts. They make parts for many different companies including Gehl, Bobcat and Caterpillar. “If a customer brings us a blueprint, we will make it,” said Dave Dahle, foreman of the night shift.
1:15 a.m.
Melrose police officers Chris Swanson (left) and Pat Nechanicki patrol the streets of Melrose in the wee hours of the morning. Both police officers are full-time with the Melrose Police Department and when they are working the night shift they patrol the streets and respond to calls.
3:51 a.m.
Between 2 and 3 a.m.
At Melrose Dairy Proteins, Rachael Bueckers seals the liners of cheese barrels to prevent mold during storage and applies the appropriate labels needed according to customer and government regulations. Bueckers is one of the 20-25 employees who worked the 12-hour night shift on Aug. 11.
Operators Dennis Berscheid, (from front) and Matt Beckermann and maintenance man Paul Feldewerd monitor the powder handling system on computers at Proliant Dairy Ingredients. The system, which involves pumps, evaporators and a dryer, is used to make dry permeates, mainly using biproducts from Melrose Dairy Proteins. The sugar supplement is used in products consumed by humans and in animal feed. The plant operates close to 20 hours a day with four hours of downtime for cleanup.
5:51 a.m.
Melrose postal worker Rose Lensing unloaded incoming mail from one of four cages dropped off by a contracted deliverer a few minutes earlier. Lensing sorts through the delivered mail, in bundles, trays and loose, placing it in specified areas for each of the four rural carriers, one star route carrier and city route carriers. Outgoing mail is picked up by a contracted deliverer at 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
4:15 a.m. BEACON PHOTOS BY MARK KLAPHAKE, Emily Lahr, HERMAN LENSING, and CAROL MOORMAN
Jim Loecken arrives at Scherer Enterprise at 4 a.m. to get the process ready to pickle 840 dozen eggs, which includes starting the cooker and disinfecting and rinsing quart jars, which Loecken is doing above. They also make pickled gizzards and sausages at the business Jim’s father-in-law, Cletus Scherer, started close to 40 years ago. On this morning long-time worker JoAnn Nieland will arrive by 6 a.m., with Jim’s daughter Raechel and husband Adam also helping out. “We do about 320 dozen an hour,” said Jim, adding most labor is done manually, including peeling the eggs. The brine is Cletus’ special recipe. “We’ve changed it very little over the years,” said Jim. The completed product is labeled and stored in a cooler on-site until delivery time, which is often done by Jim.
7:10 a.m.
6:47 a.m.
Lisa Latzka-Illies visits with husband Jim Illies (from left) and Vern Hollermann and LuVerne Ritter visit at Lisa’s On Main. “I’m trying something new on you today,” she said, handing each one a cup of coffee. Talk turns to the raccoons that got into a corn patch. They are among the regulars who frequent this café most weekdays. “I wonder where Josie is,” Jim asks of another regular, Joe Blenker, who was absent on this sunny early morning.
Having a “tailgating discussion” around a table in the electric/street department office (power plant) are city of Melrose utilities employees Pat Lomax, (from left) Ron Tieman, Dale Lyon and Russ Braegelmann. Not pictured Steve Scholz. The daily discussions determine work that needs to be done that day, “so we are all on the same page,” said Lyon, electric department supervisor, a utilities employee for almost 37 years. Scholz (27 years) and Lomax (17 years) determine on a computer the “locates” (Gopher State One Call) of electrical, water and sewer lines that need to be done for upcoming individual projects. Braegelmann (35 years) performs a daily checklist of 50 items at the power plant and substations. Tieman (city employee seven years) spends about one hour cleaning the three parks. Also during the day these employees work on construction projects, installation of new electrical service lines and maintenance of electrical projects and equipment.
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