1 week Ago By Lee Hilgendorf
2000 – 25 years ago Minnesota’s First Lady, Terry Ventura, paid a visit to Rochester’s Bamber Valley Elementary School at the invitation of third graders Maddie Kosis, Ashley Azar, Niki Rhodes and Valerie Troutman. Rochester natives and twin sisters, Kelly and Coco Miller are the first duo to win the prestigious Sullivan Award as the nation’s top amateur athletes. Nurses at Olmsted Community Hospital are seeking to join the Minnesota Nurses Assoc.
which represents about 15,000 nurses statewide.1975 – 50 years ago An Air Force C141 Starlifter carrying 65 South Vietnamese orphans landed at Travis Air Force base where they will meet their new American families. Two bulls were corralled at the fairgrounds and a third was caught at Bamber Valley School after they escaped while being loaded into a trailer after a sale.
One patrol car was “gored.”1950 – 75 years ago Effective April 30 the Chicago and North Western Railway system will begin daily operation of diesel-powered “400” through trains between Rochester and Chicago. Technicians of radio station KSTP, who went on strike Wednesday night, returned to their jobs this morning and were told their jobs had been filled.
1925 -100 years ago The U.S.S.
Saratoga, a floating hanger and landing field, takes to the water today as the first of Uncle Sam’s fleet of fast, hard-hitting airplane carriers. Rochester inventor, Otto Haling has returned from Waterloo, Iowa where he has been developing a carburetor for the new John Deere tractor.]]>.
