On Saturday morning at 4:29 A.M., the Meeker County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a motor vehicle crash with injuries in the 73000 block of CSAH 6 of Collinwood Township. Meeker County Deputies, Wright County Deputies, Dassel Fire and Rescue, Mayo Ambulance, and Cokato Ambulance all responded to the scene.
Deputies from the Kandiyohi County Sheriff’s Office were in the area for a transport and assisted until Meeker County Deputies arrived. The driver, 18-year-old Marlon Guillen-Sarmiento of Willmar, drove off the roadway and struck a pole. Guillen-Sarmiento’s driving privileges were suspended at the time of the crash. Guillen-Sarmiento sustained non-life threatening injuries and was transported to a local hospital. A juvenile passenger was not injured as a result of the crash. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
On Friday night at 10:26, Agents of the CEE-VI Drug and Gang Task Force and Meeker County Deputies conducted a traffic stop on MN Highway 7, east of Cosmos on a person who was suspected of trafficking methamphetamine into the CEE-VI service area from the Twin Cities Metro area. During the stop, search warrants were executed on the driver and his vehicle.
Agents recovered over a pound and a half of methamphetamine. The driver of the vehicle, 46-year-old Michael Diekman from Prinsburg and his passenger, 46-year-old Michael Anderson from Montevideo, were arrested in this incident and both are being held in the Meeker County jail on 1st Degree Controlled Substance charges.
The Atwater Threshing Show will be held this weekend – Saturday and Sunday – from 7-to-4 each day. The site is just east of Atwater, and about a mile south of Highway 12 on the Kandi-Meeker Road.
Adam Bosch says the featured tractor this year is Allis Chalmers and the feature in the Gas Engine Alley is Economy – a brand sold by Sears. He says there’s a tractor parade each day at 1 p.m. and there’s something for everyone to see.
Bosch says a lot of vintage cars are also displayed at the Atwater Threshing Show by members of the Atwater Car Club and others from the area. He says there are all kinds of demonstrations like threshing, corn shelling, sawmilling and more which show how farm work was done in the 1920s and 1930s with lots of manual labor.
Bosch says needle art will be featured in the Pioneer Building and there will be quilting, rug looming and other crafts demonstrated. He says there will be bluegrass and Gospel music each day – with Monroe Crossing scheduled for Sunday from 2-to-4 p.m. There’s a kid’s pedal pull Sunday at 11 a.m., a worship service Sunday at 8 a.m., food served by the Atwater Lions Club and more. Admission is $10 for adults and free for children 12 and under. For more details, go to atwaterthreshingdays.com or look for the Atwater Threshers Facebook page.
Scott Gottschalk embarked on his No Boundaries Tour on May 25th in an effort to break a world record and to draw attention to the problem of human trafficking, but an accident 21 days later, brought his tour to an end. However, he has continued the campaign in other ways and has a couple of events coming up shortly to celebrate.
Gottschalk says a No Boundaries bus tour will begin on September 7th and for the week following that, he will be stopping at schools and other facilities along his 5200-mile route talking about human trafficking, and then on September 12th, he will be taking one final ride to West Fargo, ND and back on a 3-wheeled cycle as his left leg is still healing from the accident he had in June. He says on September 13th, there will be a ride with 200 motorcycles from Hilmerson Sports Center in Little Falls to Vikingland Harley-Davidson in Sauk Rapids and there will be a special guest – the current motorcycle ride record holder – for the last 50 miles.
Gottschalk says there will be a celebration event from 12-to-3:30 at Vikingland in Sauk Rapids with food, entertainment, raffles and a silent auction. For more details, go to NBTRide.com.
