Litchfield’s 67th annual Watercade celebration is coming up July 6th through the 9th. A fundraising campaign is underway to help with royalty-related expenses.
Former 2008-09 Miss Litchfield Ashley Krug says she’s helping Becca Hansen Forsman with the coronation this year and she will be serving as a co-emcee with Chris Olson for the pageant on July 9th at 3 p.m. in the Bernie Aaker Auditorium. She says there is a way for individuals to help sponsor the royalty and the campaign is called Royalty Legacy sponsorship with 4 levels of participation.
Krug says you can be a Nobility sponsor by donating anywhere from $25 to $99; a Royalty sponsor with donations between $100 to $499; a Majesty sponsor with a donation from $500 to $999; and a Dynasty sponsor with a donation of $1,000 or more. She says it’s expensive for the queen and princesses to keep their float maintained, travel to other communities and for dresses, crowns, scholarships and other royalty-related items.
Krug says people who donate will be recognized in the program at the pageant and will receive two complimentary tickets to the coronation. She says you can go to watercade.com and click on the royalty tab for more details.
On Wednesday afternoon, the Stearns County Emergency Communications Center received a call from a boater on the Mississippi River reporting an overturned kayak. On Friday, the body of the missing kayaker was located in the Mississippi River.
He was identified as 39-year-old Donald Richard Worden of St. Cloud. His body was recovered at approximately 6:45 Friday evening. The Stearns County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call from a boater on the Mississippi River at 6:20 Friday evening near the St. Germain Street bridge reporting what appeared to be a body floating in the water.
The St. Cloud Fire Department and St. Cloud Police Department responded to the call along with the Sheriff’s Office. Boats from the St. Cloud Fire Department and Stearns County Sheriff’s Office worked together on the recovery. An investigator from the Stearns County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene. The body of Donald Worden was transported to the Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy.
The Minnesota State Patrol responded to a couple of motorcycle crashes on Sunday afternoon. The first one involved two men from Litchfield in Pope County, and the other one involved a Howard Lake man in Kimball.
At 1:10 Sunday afternoon, two Harley-Davidson motorcycles were both westbound on Highway 55 in Pope County at County Road 23 in Chippewa Falls Township when they collided. They were driven by 47-year-old Jeramie Anthony Linsmeier of Litchfield and by 49-year-old Joel Christopher Engler of Litchfield. Linsmeier received non-life-threatening injuries, but was not transported to the hospital. Engler received non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to the Glacial Ridge Hospital. Neither man was wearing a helmet.
At 4:45 Sunday afternoon, 36-year-old Jared Patrick Bakeberg of Howard Lake was driving a 2004 Yamaha motorcycle westbound on Highway 55 at Maus Drive in Kimball, had a mechanical issue and crashed. He was taken to the St. Cloud Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Bakeberg was not wearing a helmet.
The City of Litchfield’s water treatment plant has a filter cell that is being
upgraded with new media and is expected to be back online in the next two
weeks. The three operating filters are experiencing very high water
consumption due to the current heat wave. We are asking residents, businesses,
and industry to voluntarily conserve water for the next couple weeks while the
filter is down. Please limit all non-essential water use.