Results are in for the primary election for the Wright County Commissioner third district seat, of which a large portion is the Delano area. Three names appeared on the ballot, with the top two advancing to the general election this fall.
Jack Russek, who is the incumbent, received the top number of votes with 631, followed by Matt Walker who received 475. These two will advance to the general election. The third contender, Jon Steinmetz, received 350 votes.
Filings closed at 5 p.m.Tuesday for city council seats and school board seats for the election this fall.
The Delano City Council has two seats up for election this year - those presently held by Holly Schrupp and Marc Plese. Both Schrupp and Plese refiled, as did Harlan Lewis, Lee Bunker, Derek Schansberg, Betsy Stolfa, and Janice Braegelmann-Schweiss.
For Delano School Board, four seats are up for election this fall, with four people having filed for positions on the board. Filings include Sam Nelson, Amy Johnson, Peter Brasket, and Sarah Gallagher, the last two of which are incumbents. The other two board positions are presently held by Kevin Max and Lorrie Mulholland who did not refile.
The Red Cross bloodmobile is in Delano today, Monday, June 2, from 1 to 7 p.m. at Mt. Olive Lutheran School, located at 435 East Bridge Avenue.
Blood donations are especially needed during the summer, when more accidents occur as a result of summertime travel.
The process takes about an hour – donors register, have blood checked, and donate if able.
For more information, call Angie at (763) 972-2838 or Mary at (763) 972-6270.
The Delano Royalty Organization will be hosting its annual car wash Saturday, June 7 from 9 a.m. to noon at Delano Methodist Church, located on County Line Road.
This is a free-will offering, with proceeds benefiting the royalty program.
The Delano Lions will be hosting a golf tournament at Pioneer Creek Golf Course Monday, June 9.
The event will include a 12:30 p.m. tee time, with a scramble format of teams of four. There will be a driving contest and putting contest, general raffle prizes as well as a $1,525 grand prize.
Special guest at the event will be Brock Lesnar.
The $125 cost includes 18 holes of golf, a cart, lunch, and a dinner of roasted pork loin.
For more information, contact Brandon Hoffman at (612) 790-7779 or Brandon.G.Hoffman@wellsfargo.com; or Curt Nelson at (612) 270-3618.
The annual salad luncheon will be served at the Delano United Methodist Church, located at 3310 County Line Road, Tuesday, June 10.
Serving will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The menu will include a variety of salads, bread sticks, bars. and beverages.
Delano Municipal Utilities will be shutting off the electricity in the area of Country Mall (Nystrom Building), Quick Shop, Dairy Queen (approximately 10 businesses) on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. for the purpose of a system upgrade. Please adjust your routines and schedules to coincide with this temporary interruption.
If you have any questions, please contact Ed Williams, Foreman for Delano Municipal Utilities at 763 972-0557.
Park Construction is continuing its fast pace of construction on Highway 12. Their pace, ultimately, has created some challenges for other contractors on the project. One such challenge is surfacing with some of the private utilities along the corridor. Xcel Energy (gas) and Mastec, a contractor of Frontier (phone), have been busy relocating their utility lines outside of the future roadway. By the early next week, Park Construction will have caught up to the private utilities in two areas. This conflict creates the very undesirable scenario that Park could have to suspend highway reconstruction in certain areas of the job until the private utilities are out of the way.
To avoid this outcome, Mastec and Xcel will be operating accelerated construction activities for the remainder of this week. Mastec specifically will start tomorrow with around-the-clock work on completing their new system. One of the impacts will be construction at the intersection of 3rd Street and St. Peter Avenue. At this location, Mastec will be completing connections of its new utility systems within a manhole located in the intersection. This construction will involve the use of a generator and lighting within the manhole and surrounding area 24 hours per day, supporting technicians completing the work. This effort will allow the phone utilities to be out of the way for Park Construction by early next week. Residents in the area of 3rd Street and St. Peter Avenue should take note of this increased activity over the next week.
