The Litchfield Rotary Club had a successful rose and fall bouquet sale. The roses and fall bouquets will be available to be picked up at Davis Auto Body on East Highway 12 on Thursday and Friday from 11:30-to-1 and from 3:30-to-6 and on Saturday from 9-to-noon.
Litchfield Rotary Club President Andrew Letson says it helps if you can bring your sales stub, but if you lost it, they can look up your order. He says they order a few extra flowers, so if you forgot to place an order, you could call a Rotary member to secure a last minute bouquet.
Letson says this is the biggest fundraiser of the year for the Litchfield Rotary Club and they use the proceeds for all kinds of great community projects. He says they recently helped with the purchase of an audio enhancement system at Lake Ripley Elementary School.
Letson says he would like to thank the community for all of the support it gives the Litchfield Rotary Club each year. Rotary Membership Chair Dennis Gartner says the Rotary Club meets on Tuesday mornings at 7 o’clock at the Rescue Hall for breakfast and new members are welcome.
Gartner says if anyone is interested in joining the Rotary Club, they may call him at 320-221-3636. He says the Litchfield Rotary Club supports all kinds of great projects such as Beds for Kids, scholarships, the installation of AEDs around the town, the Splash Pad at Memorial Park and the development of Prairie Park.
Election Day is just one week from today. Several people have been taking advantage of the early voting option, and the Auditor’s office in the Meeker County Court House has been a busy place.
Auditor Barb Loch says her office is still located at the Meeker County Court House and it will not be moving to the Health & Human Services building until after Thanksgiving and people can only enter the Court House on the Sibley Avenue side. She says there will be more extended hours at the Court House for early voting including Saturday and Sunday from 9-to-3 each day and until 5 p.m. on Monday. The polling locations will be open on November 5th from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Loch says 10 precincts in Meeker County have mail-only ballots and if those residents choose to vote in advance at the Auditor’s office, they need to bring their ballot from the mail to the Court House. She says early ballots and mail-in ballots are checked for any mistakes and efforts are made to contact those voters before Election Day, but ALL ballots are counted AFTER 8 p.m. on November 5th.
Loch says you do not need to vote in every category on your ballot, but if you vote for more than one candidate when it says to vote for only one, your ballot will be rejected; and there are categories where you can vote for more than one candidate such as school board, so it’s important to read the instructions on your ballot, and there is a constitutional amendment on this year’s ballot. If you do not vote in that category, it will be considered a “no” vote.
Loch says if you write-in a candidate, it’s important to fill in the oval next to their name or else it won’t count. She says you can follow the results on the Minnesota Secretary of State’s website on election night, and go to mnvotes.gov or the Meeker County website for any election information in advance. The election results are not official until each board or council canvasses those results. Meeker County will canvass its results on November 12th. If you have any election-related questions, call the Meeker County Auditor’s office at 693-5212.
The Litchfield School Board has approved of a person to fill the Associate Director of IT position. Mark Schumann was hired for the new position last night. The Board also hired Darala Loch as the Dragons Kids Club Coordinator.
The Board approved of a resolution accepting a donation of $3,328.77 from the LDC Hockey Boosters for the HUDL for Boy’s Hockey.
The Litchfield School Board also had a discussion about being a Farm Bureau member. Superintendent Susan Burris says membership with Farm Bureau could help with a career development partnership. The Board approved of a 3-year membership for $200.