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Monday, October 31, 2022

Trick or Treating hours for Windom are from 4-7pm. It is going to be a fantastic night to be out and about for all the little ghosts and goblins. PLEASE BE SURE TO drive slowly and watch out for the excited little ones that may not be thinking about safety but the next stop for candy.

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Friday the 28th turned into a double fire call for the Windom Fire Department. According to Windom Fire Chief Ben Derickson, at 12:28pm the Fire Department was paged to a grass fire south of Windom on 900th St by Bergen. At 12:32pm another page came in for a lawn mower on fire at the Windom Golf Course by the number three tee box. Chief Derickson stated that they split up the trucks and guys and went to both fires. According to Derickson, at the grass fire there was about 500 feet of road ditch that had burnt and just got into the field. They had a local farmer come and disk up about 40 feet of the field along the ditch to make sure the fire couldn’t go any further into the field. The Grass Fire Crew was back to the Fire Hall by 1:40pm. At the Golf Course Fire, maintenance was mulching up leaves when the lawn mower started on fire. The Golf course fire crew were finished and back to the Fire Hall at 1:20pm. The lawn mower is a total loss.

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Thursday, November 3rd the LLS Meal Program will be having Free Meal Distribution at the Mountain Lake Food Shelf from 4-5pm.  The meals are a bundle of 10 frozen, healthy meals for adults ages 18 to 59 and are FREE OF CHARGE. These meals are meant for adults who cannot access school-age meals or senior dining meals. This program is made possible through a grant from Second Harvest Heartland. No residency, no income guidelines, no registration, no reservation required. Meals are provided on a first come, first serve basis.  For more information you can call Kelly at 831-6161.

Here is also the Facebook link to the event to share: https://fb.me/e/22vh1JMHM

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The Murray County Board of Commissioners will meet Tuesday November 1st at 8:30 am in the Murray County Government Center. If you would like to call in to listen or join via zoom you can find further information on the Murray County Home Page.

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Cottonwood County Board of Commissioners will hold their regular meeting Tuesday, November 1st at 9am in the Cottonwood County Courthouse in Windom.  After all regular meeting agenda items are discussed, the meeting will be closed to discuss strategy for labor negotiations.

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Jackson County Board of Commissioners and Drainage Authority will meet on Tuesday, November 1st at 9am in the Jackson County Courthouse Commissioners Board Room.

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Windom City Council will be meeting Tuesday November 1st at 6:30pm in the City Council Chambers.  IF you would like your opinion to be presented at this meeting  to the Department of Transportation on the new road stripeing out on Highway 60/71, please either e-mail Mayor Jones at [email protected]  or submit in writing your thoughts and drop or mail at City Hall.

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With many hunting seasons underway, and about 400,000 hunters set to converge on the state’s fields and woods for the Nov. 5 firearms deer opener, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reminds hunters there’s no such thing as a successful hunt if it isn’t safe.

Done right, hunting is an exceptionally safe activity that brings families and friends together to create life-long memories, and it’s up to every hunter to ensure that trend continues. Three of the main ways to ensure a safe hunt are to:

  • Practice climbing into and out of tree stands before the season starts.
  • Brush up on the key tenets of safe firearms handling before hitting the field.
  • Wear blaze clothing to ensure visibility to other hunters.

According to Col. Rodmen Smith, Director of the DNR Enforcement Division, “There is a lot at stake every time hunters head into the field and safe hunts don’t just happen by chance — they happen when hunters make keeping themselves and others safe the top priority.”

Accidents involving tree stands are the leading cause of injury among hunters. According to national data, as many as one in three hunters who hunt from an elevated stand will fall and sustain a serious injury. The number of hunting-related firearms fatalities has dropped significantly over the past 60 years — largely due to safety training requirements for young and new hunters — but even one fatality is too many.

For more information about blaze clothing requirements, see page 33 of the 2022 Minnesota Hunting and Trapping Regulations booklet (mndnr.gov/Regulations/Hunting).