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Bank opens support center
Fairmont. They provide behind-the-scene support for
Sentinel Staff Writer
the company’s nine retail faFairmont
cilities, explained Tom
Lytle, president of the Fairepartment by de- mont bank.
partment, em“We knew if we truly
ployees began
wanted to be efficient, we
moving into the newly built needed to bring the different
Bank Midwest support cen- support operations toter before Christmas, with
gether,” he said.
the last group making the
Those services include
transition in mid-February.
house data processing, inforThe new facility has 26
mation technology, elecemployees, with room to
tronic banking, loan
seat 53.
processing and wealth man“Definitely new jobs will agement.
be brought into Fairmont as
Jackson and Spirit Lake
a result of this center,” said were among the potential
Bryan Wilken, vice presisites for the new facility, but
dent of information technol- Fairmont was chosen for a
ogy at Bank Midwest.
number of reasons, includChip Pearson
The workers relocated
CENTER
Above: The new Bank Midwest support center in Fairmont, located along Highway 15 at Center Creek
from sites in northern Iowa
Continued on Page 13 Commons, brings several behind-the-scenes banking services together under one roof.
and southern Minnesota to
By MEG ALEXANDER
D
Aerospace finally feeling at home
By JODELLE GREINER
Sentinel Staff Writer
Blue Earth
G
etting all their
employees under
one roof has been
a relief and a boost for production at Aerospace, says
Mark Nordquist, director of
business development.
“Everything we do is
custom,” Nordquist said.
“We build our own cable,
back shells, bulk cable.”
The company serves the
military, Boeing, Lockheed
and Raytheon, he said.
Among other things,
Aerospace’s products are
part of unmanned aerial vehicles, which “keep pilots
out of harm’s way,”
Nordquist noted, and satellite communications to
“track soldiers.”
“It helps our country and
our troops,” Nordquist said.
“That’s important to our
employees.”
“It’s fun to see the military channel and say ‘We
made that!’” said Brooke
Prestegard, human resources manager at Aerospace. “Pretty rewarding.”
Employees might have
been proud of what they
did, but until the move to
Blue Earth they faced a situation in which they didn’t
have enough room to do it.
The business had been in
Fairmont since 1967, operating out of three different
buildings enclosing 55,000
square feet. This created
lots of problems, in production and morale.
“We literally had to take
stuff from one building to
the other to produce our
product,” said Prestegard.
“Things could be misplaced with multiple build-
ings,” Nordquist said.
And with their people
spread out, workers
couldn’t just ask each other
a question.
Not only were they having logistical problems, they
were increasingly busy.
The company was planning to build in Fairmont,
but Telex announced it was
closing its operation in Blue
Earth and the site was the
right size.
Aerospace started leasing the building in 2006,
and took ownership of the
145,000-square foot facility
in January 2008.
It was good timing:
Aerospace did $121.9 million in business in 2008,
“the best year we’d ever
had,” Prestegard said.
In fact, the way things
AEROSPACE
Continued on Page 13
Jodelle Greiner
Above: Eugene “Butch” Voyles works on a “Y” cable at Aerospace in Blue
Earth. Aerospace has a much larger work area for employees in the Blue Earth
building than they did in three buildings in Fairmont.
Left: Aerospaceʼs main product — lots of cables.
Staff, patients welcome new clinic
By JODELLE GREINER
Sentinel Staff Writer
Blue Earth
D
Jodelle Greiner
Above: Dr. Kevin Kimm consults with staff at the nursesʼ station in UHDʼs new clinic.
r. Kevin Kimm is
pleased with the
new clinic that he
and the other staff at United
Hospital District moved into
at the beginning of the year.
“It’s very modern,”
Kimm said. “It’s a beautiful
clinic. It’s unusual to find a
clinic like this in a town of
this size.”
Kimm recalled what it
was like when he was working at the old hospital building: Patients were being
directed “down an elevator
and up a ramp” to get to
their tests and his nurse had
to run upstairs for supplies.
“Did we get the job
done? Yes, but with more
struggle and more inconvenience for the patients,” he
said.
“Now, instead of the patient having to go somewhere, we are coming to
them,” Kimm said. “I can
walk them down the hall 10
yards and they’re done.”
Kimm loves the new procedure rooms, all of which
are equipped with supplies
needed by staff. He also
likes the fact that each doctor has three examination
rooms instead of two.
“There’s usually less
waiting and we’re more efficient in doing procedures,”
UHD
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Opera House enjoys turnaround
According to Chris
Pierce, board president and
Sentinel Staff Writer
member of the endowment
fund committee, the Opera
Fairmont
House has repaid about 65
hat a comepercent of the money it used
back. Not so
from the endowment princilong ago, Fair- pal. After much discussion,
mont Opera House was in
the decision was made to
jeopardy of closing its
stash the rest of the Kinddoors. Bills were piling up
strom gift away for capital
and the historical venue was expenses.
struggling to make ends
“I’m a saver,” said Kathi
meet.
Peterson, managing director
Two years later, the place since December 2009.
is thriving.
Peterson has a different
Good news for the non- approach than many of her
profit organization came
predecessors. She began
earlier this year in the form with no experience in the
of a generous bequest from entertainment industry, but a
the Blanche Kindstrom es- strong background in busitate. Thanks to this gift, the ness administration. It was
Opera House was able to
her idea, for instance, to add
make a sizeable contribua bar, offering wine and
tion to its endowment fund. beer before shows and durBuilding up its endowing intermission, which has
ment has been a goal for
been a successful fundsome time, but especially
raiser.
since January 2009, when
“Kathi’s done an outmembers voted to dip into
standing job lowering our
the fund’s principal to pay
bottom line,” said Pierce,
off bank loans, delinquent
crediting the managing dibills and remaining exrector for cutting expenses
penses from the 2007 roof
30 percent, as well as creatrepair and renovations.
ing buzz with the entertainBy MEG ALEXANDER
W
Chip Pearson
Above: Fairmont Opera House is enjoying some better days financially after
receiving a substantial donation, cutting its costs and boosting revenue.
ment she has booked for the
facility.
Memberships are up almost 15 percent since Peterson started at the Opera
House, as are subscribers
for the series of monthly
concerts that run from October through May.
“We’re trying to draw in
more people,” said Peterson, who lined up a diverse
2010-2011 season, including dueling pianists Deuces
Wild.
“More seats have almost
sold out than in a long
time,” she said. “... Considering the economy, it’s
pretty amazing.”
Sponsors also have
stepped up, with three businessmen in particular backing the successful new
Blues on Stage series.
In addition, more acts are
paying to use the facility for
performances.
Besides paying for operating expenses, funds raised
by the Opera House go toward maintenance and repairs, which are inevitable
with any building but especially one built at the turn of
the 20th Century.
“We’re perpetually raising funds or asking for
money. It’s nonstop,” Pierce
said. “It’s an old building
with a lot of needs. ... We’re
fighting time, water, gravity
and temperature fluctuations. Those are our enemies.”
Insulation improvements
are needed in the near future
to reseal the attic and prevent water damage. Also,
the furnace is getting older.
“It’s always something
with an old building,” Peterson said.
And then there are the
costs associated with entertainment production. A
plethora of recent grants
have been a boon for the
Opera House, with money
coming in to replace the
stage floor, install new spotlights, buy headsets for the
Children’s Theatre productions, utilize more energy
efficient lighting and more.
Truman fire hall renovations move ahead
By KYLIE SAARI
Sentinel Staff Writer
Truman
A
long-awaited and
much-contested
building project
began quietly this winter in
downtown Truman.
Getting approval from the
city and voters for an addition at the fire hall took more
than a decade. The process finally was placed before the
public in May 2010.
Voters approved selling
bonds for $550,000. An additional $100,000 has been donated to the fire department
over the years.
According to city clerk
Monte Rohman, the project is
90 percent complete and on
budget, with the exterior
structure up. Work currently
is being done on the interior.
Firefighters wanted the
addition because their department and equipment have
grown since the original
structure was built, leaving
them jockeying trucks and
ambulances with little room
between them to work.
The new addition includes
more space for parking trucks
and other motorized equipment, a kitchen, bathrooms,
equipment rooms, office
space and a meeting room.
Much of the arguing over
the addition related to how
much the project would raise
taxes, and how much of an
addition the department really needed.
When City Council members and firefighters began
working in earnest on the
project in 2009, the two
groups clashed over how
much it would cost. Firefighter estimates came in at
about $599,000, while the
city felt the bill would be
closer to $845,000.
Disagreements about how
much work firefighters could
do themselves to lower costs
broke out, and soon the council and fire department were
working from two different
plans.
They decided to take the
issue to voters, who would
ultimately pay for the building through increased taxes.
Voters were given a
choice between approving
Chip Pearson
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Above: The parking area of the fire hall in Truman has been expanded to give
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Prairieland envisions fresh start
By JENN BROOKENS
Sentinel Staff Writer
Truman
F
or 20 years, the
Prairieland compost facility in
Truman has been in the
business of re-using
garbage.
That mission will continue in coming years, but
in a new way.
“At least for the near future, garbage is big business and not everyone
understands that,” said facility manager Mark Bauman. “The amount of
garbage people produce is
large and we need to be
thoughtful about what we
do with it.”
The plant, which employs 11, began by creating
compost. Then, in 1995, it
also began making refusederived fuel, which it has
sold to the Wilmarth power
plant in Mankato.
Recently, Prairieland hit
a crossroads by paying off
the $4 million in bonds that
helped build the facility. At
the same time, an opportunity arose to create more refuse-derived fuel at a lower
cost.
Chip Pearson
Above: Waste is piled up on the tipping floor at the Prairieland compost facility
in Truman.
“We’re talking about a
different direction,” Bauman said.
Prairieland answers to
Martin County and Faribault County commissioners.
All garbage from the two
counties is brought to the
facility. Despite some recent arguments, the majority of commissioners want
to see Prairieland move forward with a plan to concentrate on processing
refuse-derived fuel. The recent purchase of a $400,000
shredder cuts down on
landfill material from the
tipping floor by 80 percent
to 90 percent.
“It shreds oversized and
bulky material that used to
have to be landfilled, like
furniture, sheet plastic and
mattresses,” Bauman said.
As for the compost produced, most of it is spread
on farm land. It helps put
organic material back into
the soil and helps hold nutrients together in sandy
soil, while helping break up
clay soils.
Hog farmers also use the
compost, for mortality composting.
“Our goal at this point is
to continue composting and
send as much as we can to
Wilmarth,” Bauman said. “I
don’t know what a contract
will look like, but we
should be able to have an
operating budget less than
last year. It could be a lot
less depending on what
type of contract we could
get with Wilmarth.”
Prairieland pays a
burn/disposal fee at
Wilmarth. Resource Recovery Team of Elk River has
had an exclusivity clause
with Wilmarth to be the
sole provider of RDF, so
Prairieland contracted with
RRT for several years. But
changes at RRT have resulted in delivering less material to the Mankato plant,
and the exclusive contract
with Xcel is being dropped.
There are a few drawbacks. With the composting
operation, there is no capacity to store RDF when the
Wilmarth plant is down.
During this time, material
from Prairieland is landfilled. However, because
Wilmarth outages are usually scheduled, Prairieland
can be prepared ahead of
time.
“If we stopped composting, we could store fuel,”
Bauman said. “If we get a
good, solid contract, we
may idle or suspend composting operations.”
Over the years, some of
the arguments against
Prairieland have been that it
drives up costs for garbage
haulers who want to landfill. But that is not necessarily the case.
“The hardest concept for
people to grasp is processing garbage, compost or
waste energy, it is all more
expensive than landfilling
at this point, but that
doesn’t mean that citizens
that are using this process
are paying more at the
curb,” Bauman said.
“We’ve seen companies
that are all over in prices.
The tip fee is not necessarily related to garbage services costs.”
Landfills are becoming
more rare. Many major
businesses, such as 3M or
Walmart, will not contract
with hauling companies that
landfill. The few landfills
still in operation in Minnesota either accept limited
waste, such as industrial or
commercial, or will not accept anything from outside
their county.
And landfill lessons of
the past have shown it ends
up being more expensive in
the long run, with millions
of dollars going to landfill
cleanups and treatment.
“I don’t know what the
future will bring, but in
Minnesota, there will be
less landfilling and more
processing of garbage,”
Bauman said. “We are in a
good position with our facility already permitted.
New facilities are much
more expensive than they
were in 1991, and are also
more difficult to site.”
UHD
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he said.
Kimm says the “privacy
factor is much better.”
Doctors’ offices and
nurses’ stations were moved
to the back of the clinic, behind the examination rooms.
Patients will not be back in
that area, so staff can consult and make phone calls in
private. Previously, appointments were made at an open
desk in the waiting room.
“A lot of times, the people in the waiting room
could hear (what the visit
was about),” Kimm said.
“We weren’t comfortable
with that.”
The new clinic’s waiting
area has three rooms that
can be closed for private
conversations and a conference room is available to
discuss bills and other matters.
Kimm also noted the better handicap access.
“In the old clinic, there
Phase 1 and 2, which included the business office,
“In the old
medical records, the new
entry and the laboratory.
clinic, there were
Now that the first two
times we couldn’t
phases are complete, Phase
get wheelchairs
3 will start and wrap up in
April or May. It will include
through the doors
the kitchen and dining area.
of the exam
Work on Phase 4 will begin
rooms.”
when Phase 3 is completed,
— Dr. Kevin Kimm
and is scheduled to be finished in November or December 2011.
were times we couldn’t get
Lang is excited about the
wheelchairs through doors
new improvements: “It funof the exam rooms. Here it’s damentally changes the way
not a problem,” he said.
we provide services to paThe facility is built with tients,” he said.
extra room to expand.
Having all the doctors
They’ve even been able
and equipment under one
to hire more staff, he said.
roof improves communica“Maybe we’ll be doing
tion and service, he said.
even more of that,” Kimm
“There’s a higher level of
said.
coordination of care,” Lang
UHD is not done with
said. “Care of the patient is
construction, said CEO Jeff enhanced with cooperative
Lang.
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less expensive and we can
were going, the business
control our lead time,”
still needed more room.
Nordquist said.
The plan was to keep
Resolving mistakes and
production running in
Fairmont and Blue Earth, answering questions also
take less time.
but “the economy col“Now, you can walk
lapsed on us,” Nordquist
right out there, look at it
said, and Aerospace lost
and solve it,” Nordquist
major contracts.
After the record year in said.
“Our safety numbers
2008, Aerospace did only
$80 million worth of busi- have improved being in
one building,” Nordquist
ness in 2009 and was
forced to downsize. It did- said. “Probably the
longest string we’ve ever
n’t need all the room it
had.”
had, so the decision was
The building not only
made to move operations
looks better, thanks to a
to Blue Earth.
front facade grant from the
“It was bittersweet to
city of Blue Earth, having
move,” Prestegard said.
so much more room
“Fairmont supported our
makes a difference in what
business for a very long
Aerospace can do, includtime.”
ing having its own maIn other respects, the
chine shop and support
move has been good.
staff on site. Aerospace
The transition was
also has added its own
made in stages, but the
whole operation has been training facility.
“It’s provided crossunder one roof since the
fall. Nordquist and Preste- training opportunities
since everyone’s here,”
gard say that’s a relief.
Prestegard said.
“In Fairmont, we did
All the little things
batch manufacturing — all
this stop-and-start action,” coming together is adding
Nordquist said. “Here we up to improved business.
“We’re trying to build
get a continuous rate.”
back and hoping to be
The “vertical integraback to what we were by
tion” means they “don’t
have to send it out, so it’s 2012,” Prestegard said.
Chip Pearson
Above: The new Bank Midwest support center in Fairmont features lots of natural light, as seen here in
the employee break room.
CENTER
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ing technology, location, community
aspects and the potential workers
available for hire.
Set back from Highway 15 at Center Creek Commons, the support center does not attract a lot of attention.
The architecture is subtle but unique,
with a colored metal overhang that
changes colors in the sunlight, from
teal to burgundy.
Inside, visitors must wait in the
lobby until an employee lets them in
the building. Codes are then required
to enter many of the rooms.
“It’s a very secure building,” said
Jean Pike, chief operating officer.
And it needs to be. Protecting customers’ private data is a top priority.
“It’s exciting to build a building
like this, especially from a technology
point of view,” Wilken said. “A data
center like this cannot be found (except) up in the Twin Cities metro area,
not one that is comparable.”
Aesthetically, the environment is
soothing, with earth tones and imita-
tions of natural textures used throughout the building.
“We got to design how we wanted
it to be,” Pike said. “This is truly built
the way we wanted our operations to
be. That was a real privilege.”
The building has two large training
rooms, and smaller meeting rooms are
conveniently located near the “cubicle
farm” — the hub of the facility. About
20 people were in this space on a recent work day, but hardly a sound
could be heard.
This was intentional, Pike said.
Workers were worried the noise would
be loud and they would have trouble
concentrating in the new building.
They’ve been surprised to find otherwise.
“The comments have been positive,” she said. “People say they can
focus on their jobs now.”
The facility also offers workers a
nice reprieve from their work.
“People who work here are sitting
at computer screens all day,” Wilken
said.
The break room is spacious, with
lots of windows and a separate reading
area, where employees can curl up on
a couch and enjoy a good book, or just
soak up the sun. A patio on the north
side looks out over Center Creek.
“I enjoy coming to work every
day,” said Wilken, who started out in
the bank basement on Downtown
Plaza and then moved into a building
across the street.
Many of the staff from other sites
were in similar situations before moving to the new facility in Fairmont.
They were running out of room, as the
demand for support services increased
and more customers are choosing electronic banking options.
“The way we do business is changing,” Lytle said. “... Some customers
like to come into the bank and have a
cup of coffee, and some like to do it
all over the phone, and we have to
provide services for both types. Those
are the times we’re in.”
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$400,000 — an amount more
in line with the city’s plan —
or $550,000. Residents chose
the higher amount, one of the
key reasons their property tax
levy increased 40 percent
from 2010 to 2011.
Rohman said the construction should be complete
in two or three months, as
contractors need to wait until
the snow is melted to complete work on the roof.
In the meantime, firefighters are donating time in the
evenings and on weekends to
finish interior work, such as
putting up walls, installing
floor tile and procuring items
for the new spaces.
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FAIRMONT GIRL SCOUT DAISIES: Kindergarten & 1st Grade
Leaders: Sarah Pfeffer; Andrea Laven; Judy Botzet & Laura Dunker;
Sara Becker-Sokoloski & Jana Roemen
FAIRMONT GIRL SCOUT BROWNIES: 2nd & 3rd Grade
Leaders: Tamarae Schmidt, Cathy Malo & Michele Nelson; Sue Handevidt & Jennifer
Freese; Holly Maday & Erin Maidl
FAIRMONT GIRL SCOUT JUNIORS: 4th & 5th Grade
Leaders: Nicki Kueker & Sara Pittman; Wendi Tonder & Jodi Bass; Amy Schultz &
Stacy Kain; Lisa Hunwardsen & Patti Mathews
FAIRMONT GIRL SCOUT CADETTES: 6th, 7th, & 8th Grade
Advisors: Barb Sandersfeld & Sandy Soelter; Brenda Madsen & Pam Mosloski;
Jodi Bass & Wendi Tonder; Jody Sandersfeld; April Teskey & Nicole Spear; Judy Botzet
& Sandy Cihak
FAIRMONT GIRL SCOUT SENIORS: 9th & 10th Grade
Advisors: Jennifer Nielsen & Cindy Nelson
FAIRMONT GIRL SCOUT AMBASSADORS: 11th & 12th Grade
Advisors: Nancy Klemek & Jeanette Suckow
CEYLON GIRL SCOUTS: Grades 2-6
Leaders: Melinda Chambers & Aubrey Plumhoff; Dawn Lopau & Elizabeth Ward
GRANADA GIRL SCOUTS: Grade 1 - Leader: Kandi Sundberg
MCW GIRL SCOUTS: Grades K-7
Leaders: Mandy Revland & Alicia Whitehead; Sheila Bettin & Barbra Swenson; Amy
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TRUMAN GIRL SCOUTS: Grades 2, 3, & 5
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Cubmaster - Tessa Peterson; Assistant Cubmaster - Duane Tenney
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Mike Madsen - Scoutmaster 235-8051
Joe Loughmiller - Scoutmaster 235-5473
Todd Williamson - Assistant Scout Master
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