City has used nearly half of salt, sand supply By Randy Roberts, Star-Gazette managing editor) Although December 2000 was the coldest and snowiest on record in Minnesota, the winter season itself is closer to normal than the previous four, according to Cal Ruedy, Hastings street superintendent.

With two declared snow emergencies and a handful of snowfalls with less than 2 inches, the city has used up approximately 1,500 tons of its salt-and-sand mixture.

“I’m looking out the window, I’d say we’ve used half of our supply already,” Ruedy said. “In a normal year, we will use between 3,000 and 4,000 tons (salt and sand) by Jan. 1.”

Not since 1996 has the city had to restock its salt and sand supply, which the street department mixes at a 7:1 sand-to-salt ratio.

“Right now, it is possible we may have to haul more salt and sand,” Ruedy said…

Thank you to St. Jude May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us. St. Jude, worker of miracles, pray for us. St. Jude, helper of the hopeless, pray for us. (This prayerful novena along with your petition must be repeated 9 times a day for 9 consecutive days has never failed.) Publication must be promised and done. M. S.

What’s Inside? Here’s a Quick Look: PROFILE: CITY ENGINEER IN the beginning, there were no roads, sewers or sidewalks. But man made them, and now thus must be maintained and repaired. In this profile, Tom Montgomery, city engineer, talks about what he does. Story on page 5A.

Forum Question: Do you think having an international airport located in the middle of Dakota County would benefit Hastings?

Lonnie Bishop: “It should have a good impact. I wouldn’t mind having it here. It would save time going to the airport.”

Janet Palek: “No, we already have the incinerator coming. We don’t need an airport too.”

“I don’t want it here. I don’t want it and all the traffic and all the noise.”

Skeeter Scanlon: “Yeah, I think it would help Hastings. I think there would be a lot of jobs at the airport for people here who want them.”

“And being that is would be so close to Hastings, I think people here would be more inclined to take those jobs than people who would have to travel a long way to get here.”

49 Years Ago HASTINGS GAZETTE January 28, 1971 LANGDON Locals Mrs. Lloyd McHatti, 459**** Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Belden returned Sunday, January 17 from a 10-day trip to Tokyo and Hawaii.

Miss Dianna Pommerenning was installed as Honored Quee, Jobs Daughters, Bethel 53. Mr. and Mrs. Gunderson attended the event.

Mr. and Mrs. Carol Redmond and Terry had Mr. and Mrs. Val Johnson as dinner guests Sunday. They are of Hastings.

Mr. and Mrs. George Orr of Minneapolis were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis(?) Mr. and Mrs. Jess Bletsoe of…were Sunday guests of Mr. (name unclear).

Mr. and Mrs. Burrel Board drove to Eau Claire Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Board of Altoona, Wisconsin, visited Mr. and Mrs. Marton Board Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Linden Scheel entertained on Sunday for Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Scheel, Emil Scheel, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Walker, Patrick, Cherie and Todd.

John and Jane Pawlik, Jim and Janda Laib went skiing at Stillwater, Sunday with Miss Anne Breitkreutz.

Mrs. Henry Halberg attended the Senior Citizen’s Club at the Recreation Center Tuesday. Mrs. Ed Halberg, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smallidge and Mrs. and Mrs. Fred Spadino served the lunch.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Halberg and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Halberg went to the Memorial Hospital to see John Conrad, who was very ill Saturday morning. He passed away Saturday evening. We will miss John very much.

Mrs. Adra Hartung, Mrs. Mabel Wells and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Halberg called on Mr. and Mrs. Henry Halberg Saturday afternoon.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smalidge called on the Dr. Dracy home in Cannon Falls Sunday afternoon.

NEWPORT Locals Mrs. Lloyd McHattie, 459-**** The Scale Watchers Club met on Thursday evening. (name) of Lakeville was champion loser.

The Dime-A-Time Club met at Mrs. Spierings.

The Senior Citizens Club met at the Country Club on Tuesday. 500 was played at nine tables and bingo at one.

The Woman’s Club of Newport met at Mrs. Holmquists on Wednesday with a 12:30 luncheon. Beth Scofield helped Mrs. Holmquist while I made a trip to the Doctor for penicillin. Mrs. Peters entertained the group with a book review.

Karen and Mark Nygard of BrooklynCenter were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Zinschlag.

Mrs. Irene Stotesbery entertained Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Witzel and Karen and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dawson and sons at supper Sunday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fritz entertained at a dinner party for Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Schneeman, Mr. and Mrs. William J. Malloy and Mr. and Mrs. Dennis McNamara.

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Bailey Sr. entertained at dinner on Friday for a family group of 12, honoring the joint birthdays of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bartch.

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Witzel, Mrs. Gladys McDonald and Mrs. Agnes March were supper guests of Mrs. Grace Fourt on Friday.

Mrs. Irene Olinger had a birthday Tuesday. Mesdames Ada Howard, Esther Cunningham and Gladys Rentz entertained her at lunch on Monday. The second birthday cake showed up at the hobby club meeting.

Mrs. Jean McCarthy entertained for her mother on Wednesday.

120 Years Ago THE MIRROR December 20, 1900 Published by the prisoners of the Stillwater Prison Motto: “It is never too late to mend.”

CHATAUQUA Circle update President Leland of the Pierian Circle is to be congratulated upon the program which he arranged for the first quarterly meeting of the circle held on last Sunday afternoon. It was one of the best meetings from every point of view that we have ever held. Everything worked smoothly and pleasantly.

The music, which is in charge of the vice-president, was simply excellent, no other word does its justice.

LOCAL updates Doc, of the laundry, met with an accident the past week by which a rib was fractures.

Handsome Johnny departed for green fields and pastures new, Monday afternoon, the Board of Pardons having acted favorably in his case. We congratulate Johnny and wish him a successful future.

At the meeting of the Board of Pardons in the capitol, Friday afternoon, one sentence of twelve years was commuted to ten; another, that of our twine shipping clerk, was reduced to a conditional pardon. All other cases were continued.

The large wooden clock that is so much admired by visitor and which has adorned the editor’s office for years is now in the hands of a clock doctor for the first time.

“A forcible illustration of the fact that one who violates the law may be at the same time a person of the very highest moral sensibilities is afforded by a recent case in New York. A 15-year-old boy was arrested for the offense of riding his bicycle at a more rapid gait than the law allows. When he was arraigned in police court it was found that he had five dollars in his pocket, and as his fine was only three dollars, he was asked why he did not liquidate and go free. He replied that the money belonged to his employer and he had no right to touch it. The officer explained that he could make it up and doubtless his employer would heartily approve of his course in borrowing the money. The lad stood fast, however, and was remanded to jail for three days.”

Elsewhere: Mob rule is now applied in Rockport, Ind., where 1,000 Indiana citizens disarmed the sheriff and took (two people denied due process) to eternity by the rope route.

152 Years Ago THE STILLWATER REPUBLICAN December 22, 1868 Our Christmas Present.

Dear Reader, ere another week and the day which we celebrate as the day on which was born a Saviour to all mankind, will have passed and gone, with its many joys, and pleasant memories.

Washington county has no delinquent personal tax, and very little of real estate.

The County tax amounts to only ten mills, the city tax to only fourteen mills and the town taxes in the various towns in the county from ½ to seven mills.

Our Own State.

St. Paul papers speak of an increased religious interest in that city.

One or two Minneapolis mechanics have undertaken the manufacture of velocipedes.

CHRISTMAS Its Origin and Early Mode of Observance Apropos of the season, we append the following account of the day we celebrate, from Appleton’s Cyclopedia: CHRISTMAS (Christ and mass) a festival of the Christian church, observed on Dec. 25, as the anniversary of the birth of the Saviour. Its institution is attributed by the decretal letters to Pope Telesphorus, who died A. D. 138, and throughout the subsequent history of the church it has been one of the most noted of Christian solemnities (important feast days). At first it was the most movable of the Christian festive day, often cofounded with the Epiphany, and celebrated by the eastern church in the months of April and May. In the 4th century the urgency of St. Cyril of Jerusalem obtained from Pope Julius I an order for an investigation to be made concerning the day of Christ’s nativity. The result of inquiry by the by the theologians of the East and West was an agreement upon the 25th of December. The chief grounds for the decision were the tables of the censors in the archives of Rome; and although, in the opinion of some of the fathers (eminent theologians), there was not authentic proof of the identification of the day, yet the decision was uniformly accepted, and from that time the nativity has been celebrated throughout the church on the same day. It has also been a common tradition that Christ was born about the middle of the night. The custom in Catholic countries of ushering in Christmas day by the celebration of three masses, one at midnight, the 2d day at early dawn and the 3d in the morning, dates from the 6th century. The day was considered in the double light of a holy commemoration and a cheerful festival, and was accordingly distinguished by devotion, by vacation from business, and by merriment…. In the Protestant districts of Germany and the north of Europe, Christmas is often called the “children’s festival,” and Christmas eve is devoted to giving presents, especially between parents and children, and brothers and sisters, by means of the so-called Christmas tree… There is this difference between the temporal (earthly) blessings, health and money; money is the most envied , but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflect that the poorest man would not part with health for money, but that the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

From Statehood 162 Years Ago THE STILLWATER MESSENGER July 13, 1858 Motto: “Be just and fear not—Let all the ends thou aims’t at be thy Country’s, thy God’s, and Truths’” … ‘Ah, me! What brave times I used to have, away down in my childhood, on those visits to Grandpa’s! I can see it all now, just as though I had been there last night, the group gathered in the long Autumn’s evenings round the chimney. There were grate and irons, with their lion’s feet, and their brass tops, and the pile of birch sticks built up almost to the jam, and all our faces would glow in the light of the fire, that beat in ruddy surf up the black chimney…. The frost was at work on the windows; marvelous and cunning artist that frost was; etching with silent, mysterious fingers, all sorts of landscapes and figures, which we should read in the morning with as much eager curiosity and interest as travelers read this day, on old stones and ruined palaces, the hieroglyphics of Nineveh and Egypt… Lost Horse Ad: STRAYED, From the premises of the subscriber, about six weeks since, a dark bay mare about 8 years old, with a scare on the left hind foot near the hoof; she is very heavily built, and about 12 hands high. A reward of ten dollars will be paid to any person who will return said mare or give information leading to her discovery to the subscriber.

JULIUS Brunswick, Stillwater, July 12, 1858—13 4w.