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A groundbreaking was held on September 2nd at Lincoln-Pipestone Rural Water System’s (LPRW) site for a new lime-softening water treatment plant located 1.5 miles west of the City of Boyd, MN. This 1.8 million gallon per day (MGD) facility is part of a larger $43,273,000 capital improvement project that includes source development, treatment, transmission pipeline and other systemwide improvements. The LPRW Board of Commissioners has awarded a $24,210,500 contract to Gridor Construction, Inc of Buffalo, MN for construction of its water treatment plant; and a $4,700,000 contract to Winter Contracting, LLC of Brookings, SD for construction of 18 miles of raw and finished water transmission lines.

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Chippewa County Historical Society’s annual Horse Power event was held Saturday morning at Swensson Farm. The show featured a number of demonstrations such as rope making, butter making, cider pressing, corn shelling, and more. Vendors hosted booths throughout the grounds, and other activities included horse drawn wagon rides. The event is held annually to share some of the ways horses and mules were used to work the land, the Historical Society says, as agriculture in the United States was at one time dominated by the use of horses and mules following the Homestead Act in 1862. The Historical Society says horses and mules reached their peak use in 1920 with 25 million animals before the invention and availability of mechanized farm equipment caused a steady drop in the use of animals in homestead activities