New Well

The City is drilling a new well this fall. All the preliminary work
has been done and we will abandon the oldest one. We will have two
wells servicing the community. With plenty of capacity for many
years in the future.

Dates of beginings of local cemeterys

There was a question of late about the local cemeteries. My
information tells me that
1894 Highland Cemetery started This is the Presbyterian and
Lutheran, actually it is two cemeteries in one as one side was the
'Union Evangelical Church Holding' and the other and the other
Highland Cemetery
1896 St. Mary's Cemetery started, German Roman Catholic
1947 St. Hedwig's Cemetery started, Polish Roman Catholic

Tags: Holdingford Christmas Lights
Minnesota Stearns County Lake Wobegon Trail

On October 2 there was a well attended 'meet the candidates' event sponsored by the Holdingford Lioness Club. at the Holdingford City Center. Participating candidates include Michelle Fischbach and Paul Stacke, District 14 state senator; Barb Beniek and Dan Severson, District 14A state representative; Vince Schaefer, Stearns County Board of Commissioners District 3; Ernie Schmit, Holdingford mayor, Mike Odden and Lloyd Rausch, Holdingford City Council.

public informational meeting at the Holdingford Community center

On Sunday Oct. 1, at 1PM the Comp Plan task 

force will be hosting a public informational meeting at the Holdingford

Community center.  The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the draft comp

plan and solicit input from the public.  The public is incouraged to attend to

learm more about the Plan  and provide input.

The plan can be found on the City web site.

Mike Odden

mike.council@holdingfordmn.us

Area Family Picnic

The family picnic was a great success ! A good turn out considering
the hostile weather. Many people from Holdingford and the surrounding
area. Many thanks to the hard work of the Lion's Club in organizing
this event. They had a free barbecued pork dinner with the
trimmings, there were booth's set up by local organizations show
casing their interests. Music was provided by a local old time band,
" The Gene Ostendorf Band" they have been together for years and are
really good. Fun to listen to. There were games for the young ones,
horseshoes and other events.

Coming up Sept 10th will be a area family picnic at the Holdingford Legion Park. It is being sponsored by the local lions club (the main organizers) and area businesses. They are providing free food , refershments, music. from 12:30 to 5:00 p.m. All people in the area are invited. The idea is provide opportunity for residents of Holdingford, St. Wendel, Opole, St. Anna to get together for family fun. This is the first time something like this has been done. It should be a good time.

Things are changing in Holdingford. This is one of the gardens started by the new garden club called "Pedals to Petals" as it's right next to the Lake Wobegon trail. In beautiful downtown Holdingford

Pictures of Holdingford Daze Parade

Thanks to Jim Czech 1978 graduate of Holdingford, who was visiting the
old stomping grounds. Here is a link to some beautiful
photos
of the parade. Jim is a excellent photographer, thanks Jim

map of Ridgeview Addition

Here's a link to a map of the new addition south of town. Nice sized
lots. It also has a link to a slide show of progress. I understand
they want to start building by August sometime.
CLICK HERE

City Festival

It's coming quick 'Holdingford Daze' this weekend July 7th and 8th.
The theme this year is 'Aloha to paradise' For a full itinerary go to
the Events
page