First snowfall is good time to review snow ordinances Street parking, snowmobiles in unauthorized locations are among common complaints By Randy Roberts, Star-Gazette managing editor A couple of inches of snow are on the ground and a few snow fences have been erected…Snow emergencies are declared when the National Weather Service at the Minneapolis/ St. Paul Metropolitan Airport reports snowfall of 2 inches or greater. When snow emergencies are declared, the information will be posted on the Hastings Star-Gazette website… During an emergency, it is illegal to park vehicles on any street until the street has been cleared of snow to its full width.

The snow emergency is effective two hours after the media are notified. But police officials recommend residents move vehicles from the streets during or immediately following a snowfall of 2 inches or more.

“If it has snowed, we’re plowing the streets,” said Lt. Joe Kegley, who added that leaving vehicle in the streets is the No. 1 snow-related

Almost 40 Years Ago HASTINGS STAR November 11, 1980 Trend encouraged (editorial) A number of service clubs are looking harder at what they can do for their community.

The latest in this series of events is the Kiwanis Club. The evening club is now complete with its work at Roadside Park and is now looking for work at Lake Rebecca. Indeed, last Saturday a group of Kiwanians started some work to help defray costs of the park. We expect such volunteerism to continue next spring…Let’s have more volunteerism in working to keep our parks in good shape.

56 Years Ago HASTINGS GAZETTE October 29, 1964 ‘World Community Day’ Observance Is Set By UCW The United Church Women of South Washington County will observe World Community Day on Friday, Nov. 6, at 1:15 p.m. at the Koinonia Presbyterian church in Pine Ridge Estates, St. Paul Park.

Theme for the day will be “Nations in Community— A Channel to Peace.” The observance of this day highlights the Christian World Relations emphasis on promoting peace through education and action.

Guest speaker will be Mrs. H. T. Downing of Minnetonka, who has served as first vice-president of Minneapolis Council of Church; was president of Greater Minneapolis United Church Women; was on the board of the Minnesota International Center as clothing chairman; was treasurer of the executive board of the Women’s U. N. Rally; attended a 10-day seminar at the U. N. in New York this past May; and presently is leadership chairman of the Minnesota Church Women on the National Board of Managers of the United Church Women.

100 Years Ago THE MIRROR Edited and Published Weekly by the Inmates of the Minnesota State Prison (in Stillwater) Our Motto: “It is never too late to mend.”

October 28, 1920 Prison politics: Both the Republican and Democratic parties, at their national conventions, came out in favor of a continuation of water irrigation for the arid and semi-arid lands of the unparalleled West.

Here is the Democratic platform in regard to the reclamation work: “We favor ample appropriations for the continuation and extension of this great work of home building and internal improvement along the same general lines, to the end that all practical projects should be built, and waters now running to waste shall be made to provide homes and add to the food supply, power resources, and taxable property, with the government ultimately reimbursed for the entire outlay.”

With but slightly changed phraseology, the Republicans assert their belief in the continuance of irrigation development in the following party platform plank: “We favor a fixed and comprehensive police of reclamation to increase national wealth and production.

We recognize in the development of reclamation though Federal action, with its increase of production and taxable wealth, a safeguard for the nation.

We commend to Congress a policy to reclaim lands and the establishment of a fixed national policy of development of natural resources in relation to reclamation through the now designated government agencies.”

With such substantial and understandable timber in both platforms it is reasonable to assume that no matter which party wins the coming election, the members of Congress will feel in duty bound to enact the necessary legislation and appreciate the required funds to inaugurate a broad reclamation program that will make it possible for as many acres of land in the dry sections of the country to be irrigated and brought into a high state of cultivation as the available water supply will warrant.

120 Years Ago BACKBONE St. Paul and Minneapolis November 1, 1900 OUR CAUSE MOVES ON!

Enemies of the Saloon Testify of their Hatred with their Ballots. 100,000 Increase Over Levering’s Vote. Minnesota’s More Than Doubled.

The campaign of 1900 is over. The Prohibition party, encouraged by its largely increased vote over that of 1896, yet deeply impressed with the magnitude of the task which it has undertaken, presses toward the mark of its high calling, which is to enlist and drill an army of American citizens who will with their ballots push the prohibition issue to the fore and fight it out until the requiem has been sounded over the dishonored grave of the saloon devil.

We give below the latest summary of the vote in the nation, as furnished by the United Prohibition Press. The official returns will not differ materially from it.

Washington County, Minnesota: Levering 47; Wooley 47; Higgins 30; Haugen 24.

130 Years Ago ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE October 25, 1890 Saint Paul Caught in the Current Prison labor will be discussed at a meeting in the People’s church Sunday evening. W. H. Dixon, of the Milwaukee road, will return ths morning from a business trip to Chicago.

Three volumes of the circuit court reports of Ohio were received at the state library yesterday.

Stillwater News Events of a day on the St. Croix. The city council has at length determined on grading North Fourth street.

The city council meets again at an adjourned session next Wednesday evening in order to consider the absorbing topic of grading North Fourth Street.

The last trip of the steamer R. J. Wheeler for this season was begun yesterday, when she started with a large raft of logs for Guttenberg, Iowa (IO).

The young ladies of the German Catholic church will give a supper at the music hall this evening and disturb the principle of the good Wanamaker by raffling off a gold watch and pair of bracelets.

From Statehood 162 Years Ago THE STILLWATER MESSENGER June 1, 1858 Volume 2, Number 37, Van Vorhes & Easton, Publishers Motto: “Be Just and Fear Not.—Let al the ends thou aim’st at, be thy Country’s thy God’s, and Truth’s.”

Territorial Dispatch 170 Year Ago November 1, 1850 Dakota Tawaxitku Kin, or THE DAKOTA FRIEND Vol. 1, No. 1.

Published by the Dakota Mission Truth.

It must of necessity be admitted that Truth is consistent with itself. If so, then it follows that the true and real interests of one man cannot interfere with the interests of another unless man himself is a falsehood. Hence if all men in all things adhered strictly to the truth we might dispense with all bolts, bars, and arms. What a deal of trouble and expense would be avoided! How pleasant would life be! The bottom of our shoes would not be half so likely to rip off! “Buy the Truth and sell it not. Bind it around thy neck.”