New playground equipment

Check out the new playground equipment at the Holdingford Veterans Park built by the Holdingford Lions Club sponsored by the Lions Club the city of Holdingford in many community members. the Lion's did a excellent job!

Bring Your Skates

The skating rink is open at the Park

Ice Skating in Central Mn

Want to go ice skating ? You won't find a better skating rink than the one in Holdingford. Lots of ice and plenty of close free parking. The City maintence Dept. did a good job creating and upkeeping this rink. Come and enjoy !!

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Holdingford awarded $10,000 grant by Initiative Foundation

The city of Holdingford awarded $10,000 grant by Initiative Foundation
The city of Holdingford through Healthy Community Planning Program was granted $10,000 in support of the following community projects:

*Assist Holdingford Lions Club covered bridge project on Lake Wobegon trail.

*Holdingford Lioness Club in conjunction with the City of Holdingford and Holding Township compile a Welcome Packet for new residents in the Holdingford Area. Lioness Club will also develop and distribute brochures about the community of the City of Holdingford and Holding Township, to new residents moving into area.

*Holdingford Area Historical Society
Holdingford Area Historical Society will be incorporated as a non-profit organization. Historical Society will be incorporated as a non-profit organization, to be officially recognized by the MN Historical Society. Secure rights to a one room schoolhouse from the holdingford area, plans and have blueprint for foundation for schoolhouse.

*Petals to Pedals Garden Club
Two park benches will be installed between fountain and "Triangle Garden."Install fountain, electric outlets for fountain and for Christmas decoration. Expand wild flower garden at trailhead: benches, holding pond for fountain, lawn in front of garden.

*Healthy Community Planning Steering Committee
Construction of skate board park in Veterans Memorial Park, as Eagle Scout project
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New Emergency Siren

Hear The Siren

There is a new (to us) emergency siren on the south end of town. I hope we don't have to listen to it except on the first Wednesday of the month when it is tested. Click above to hear a siren similar in sound.



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The New Water Fountain

I have been slow in posting this photo of the new fountain at the Lake Wobegon trail. It has been up and running for a while. A very nice addition. I wrote about it here . A big thanks goes out to Wedel's Electric of Albany for donating their labor to this project.
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New Skateboarding Park

Here is another cool project. Andrew Piasecki's dream has come to reality. He wanted to build a skate board park for the City of Holdingford as a Eagle Scout project. He worked through the local H.I.P. committee. Which if you remember got started with training and a grant from the Initiative Foundation. He raised funds from a number of local businesses and organizations including the American Legion, Lions Club, Sno Flyers Club, The Hair Salon, Two Rivers Enterprise donated steel and developer Tim Berscheid has donated a half pipe. The other pieces of equipment include a grind rail, grind box, quarter pipe and launch ramp, that were built by Andrew and friends. It all sits on top of a 30’ x 50’ concrete slab. Good job Andrew! I know the young folks around here will put this to good use.
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Lioness New Park Project

The Holdingford Lioness Club has recently taken on the job of renewing the playground equipment at the Legion Memorial Park. Scraping it down to the metal priming and putting a fresh coat of brightly colored paint. The results look great ! Our hats off for a excellent job ! Oh, and the money for the paint was donated by the Holdingford Snow-Flyers Club. A big thanks to them also.
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Lake Wobegon Water Fountain

The Petals To Pedals Garden Club keeps working hard to make the city garden on The Lake Wobegon Trail, more beautiful and unique. The latest additions. A cedar fence section, was put up by the county as a background to a row of arborvitae bushes. The center piece is this neat concrete water fountain. I have to give them credit they did a lot of research to find a cool fountain for a reasonable price. They found it at 'Pam's Butterfly' a concrete ornament Co. by Cushing. They were able to try it out and it works great. The electricity will be in next week. Of course this is a work in progress, more landscaping is to be done. Benches and more gardens are on the list.
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The shelter and bathroom at the American Legion Memorial Park recieved a upgrade and new faces this fall. Thanks to the efforts of the the Holdingford Lions Club who provided the labor. The project was funded by the Am. Legion and the City.
The legion also created a memorial to veterans of all the services.

Exit 153
City cleanup went very well. We filled two dumpsters full of stuff and one large trailer full of appliances, tv's etc.
Butch (from Tom's Refuse) Herman, Vicki and I were there all morning from 8 to 12. lloyd did his shift from 8 to 10 as did Ernie, 10 to 12. Dick didn't show up as he said he would, Kim was plucking chickens that day.