Willmar City Council to consider athletic fields and rec and event center
The Willmar City Council Public Works and Public Safety Committee has moved the plans for the proposed recreation and event center and the new sports fields forward to the Willmar City Council. The committee had tabled the plans pending more information. It received that information last week. The Willmar City Council meets Monday, March 15. 6:03 am, Mar. 15, 2021 ×
The Willmar City Council will consider the plans and agreements for the Invest in Willmar local option sales tax athletic fields and recreation and event center projects at Monday s meeting, March 15.
Design by LSE Architects.
Katy Burns: Onward with Dr. Seuss! Or at least most of him
A statue of Dr. Seuss and the Cat in the Hat at the Springfield, Massachusetts, museum. Tribune News Service
Published: 3/7/2021 6:00:15 PM
‘They canceled Mr. Potato Head! This week alone they canceled The Muppets! They’re canceling Dr. Seuss from reading programs,” Donald Trump Jr. was generally having a nervous breakdown over kids’ culture on – where else? – TV’s Fox and Friends last Tuesday.
“I literally know ‘The Cat in the Hat’ by heart, without the book there, because I read it so many times to my children,” he continued. “These things are not racist!”
CentraCare could assume Rice Hospital debt from Willmar
The Willmar City Council is moving forward a request from CentraCare to refinance the Rice Memorial Hospital debt with conduit revenue bonds. The plan will not only save CentraCare money through reduced interest rates, but will also take the remaining debt from the hospital off the city s books. 8:00 pm, Mar. 4, 2021 ×
CentraCare wants to pay off the city s hospital debt by issuing conduit bonds.
Erica Dischino / West Central Tribune
WILLMAR CentraCare, the parent company of Willmar s Carris Health, is looking to assume all of the city s remaining hospital debt through the issuance of conduit revenue bonds, pending City Council approval in April.
Public tells Willmar City Council it wants a local administrator; national search will continue
There is a growing push in Willmar and on the city council to hire someone who already lives in Willmar as the next city administrator. However, a motion to do a two week in house search failed at Monday’s council meeting, meaning the city will continue to use Baker Tilly as its national search firm. 9:00 pm, Mar. 3, 2021 ×
The city of Willmar will continue its national search for a new city administrator, even as the calls from the public to hire a local candidate grow. Screenshot from city of Willmar website
James Savig passed away on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2021 at age 80 in his home.
Jim was born on October 18, 1940 to Minda (Westlund) & Arnold Savig at his home in Park township, rural Lake Park.
Jim attended grades 1-6 in District 10, and graduated in 1958 from Lake Park High School. He attended Gale Institute in Minneapolis and trained in IBM punch card accounting, graduating in 1962.
On May 19, 1962 Jim was united in marriage to Audrey Nelson at Salem Lutheran Church in Hitterdal, MN. They lived in Detroit Lakes before moving to their home in Lake Park in 1963. Ten years later they built and moved to their current home in Audubon. On this property, Jim planted and maintained 700 trees.