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FALL HOME IMPROVEMENT

Each house gettingaround $18,000in improvements

by JUSTIN R. LESSMANPublisher

By the end of next year, 28 houses in a 19-block area of Jackson will have each received around $18,000 worth of much-needed sprucing up.

Key to that is a half-mil-lion dollars’ worth of Small Cities Development Grant money awarded through the Minnesota Depart-ment of Employment and Economic Development and administered locally by Western Community Action.

Awarded in 2013, the grant funds expire in De-cember 2015.

As of right now, two hous-es have been completed, 16 are in progress, five are out for bid and three are being inspected, all within two target areas of Jackson — on in the southwest part

of the city and one in the northeast. That’s accord-ing to Jeff Gladis, housing director with WCA, who said those stats put Jackson well ahead of schedule.

“If we keep going at this pace, we’ll be able to shut down this grant early, which always looks good on future grant ap-plications,” he said. “In fact, there shouldn’t be any reason why we won’t finish early. Ideally, we could close by the end o f September 2015 .”To date, $318,499 of the $510,000 in available grant funds have been commit-ted, Gladis said, meaning just short of $200,000 re-mains. Total local match is close to $136,200.

The grant funds give low- to moderate-income families 0 percent deferred loans for up to 80 percent of eligible home repair costs. The loan is poten-tially forgivable.

The housing rehabili-tation grant program is offered through DEED’s

Grant funds helping to fi xup 28 homes

See GRANT on C3

by MIKE JORDANStaff Writer

An inviting presence on south Main Street in Lakefield since the early 2000s, the Kozy Heat Fire-place Gallery Showroom is becoming even more so today with a variety of new models and a remod-eled showroom in which to showcase them.

“We have made changes to our fireplace showroom before, but this time, we are changing a lot of our fireplaces,” said Jen Hen-dricksen, who is in charge of sales at the Kozy Heat Gallery. “Jan. 1, 2015, a new law goes into effect requiring every fireplace to have a safety screen front — and it has to be a fixed screen.”

The screens come in a variety of colors and de-signs that are pretty much invisible to people viewing their fireplace flames as normal.

“The safety screen bar-riers come in black, weath-ered charcoal, vintage bronze, rust titanium and brushed stainless steel,” she said. “There are many styles of the safety screens available too, including a beveled-style safety screen

front, prairie design safe-ty screen, mission-style safety screen, an arched mission-style safety screen and a Celtic knot-designed screen.”

With the new law taking effect Jan. 1, Kozy Heat of-ficials decided rather than adapt their existing models of fireplaces to meet the

Kozy Heat Gallery revamped for fall fi replace off erings

PHOTO BY MIKE JORDANJen Hendricksen points out the location toward the back of the Kozy Heat Fireplace Gallery where two of the newer models will be on display once the remodeling of the space is finished.

PHOTO BY MARIE ZIMMERMANRobin and Mark Medill are turning a 1970s split level on Springfield Parkway into their dream home, a timber lodge style retreat.

See FIREPLACE on C2

SUBMITTED PHOTOSDee Emmerich’s dining room in its finished state, with wainscot up and sealed, wallpaper above and frieze above that.

Dee Emmerich shows the complementary colors of the 13-inch arts and crafts border she will place above the field, or wallpapered area, above the wainscoting in her dining room.

Emmerich tackles dining room reno project in family’soriginal 1893 home

by MIKE JORDANStaff Writer

A Lakefield resident is using an 80-year-old pho-tograph to restore her his-toric home’s dining room to its original glory.

“Ten years ago, I picked out wallpaper for this project, well before retir-ing and I moved here,” said Dee Emmerich, own-er of the house at 506 Bush St. in Lakefield. “This was my great-grandfather’s home and, at one time, was the hospital. To aid in my restoration project, I found a 1930s-era photo of the dining room, which has given me an idea of what I hope to make the dining room look like once again.”

Emmerich discovered

the wallpaper at a place in Iowa back in the mid- to late 1980s.

“It is hand-covered-silk, Victorian-period, authentic wallpaper,” she said. “The dining room was done in Vic-torian period when the house was built in 1893. The exterior of the house is Victorian period. But the majority of the in-terior was done in part arts and crafts and part Victorian.”

So Emmerich has de-cided to carry on with that theme, using a bit of both in the dining room where part of the restoration will be Vic-torian and part will be done in arts and crafts, the wallpaper border in particular.

“My ex-husband , Gary Boyd, is here from Washington, D.C., and has been helping me with this project,” Em-merich said. “This is the fourth house we have ren-

ovated.”Most recently, the dining

room had 1970s-era wall-paper on its walls, which Emmerich described

as non-descript, but the 1930s photo showed the dining room had wain-scot too.

RESTORING HISTORY

See HISTORY on C4

by MARIE ZIMMERMANNews Editor

Picture a stately lodge in the mountains — ruddy brown log siding covers the exterior, a stone motif at its base.

There’s a striking grand entrance, a cedar-lined cove with hot tub, an enter-tainment room that boasts theater-style seating and a full bar.

The cozy master bed-room comes complete with substantial closet space and en suite bathroom where a walk-in shower beckons.

This picturesque retreat is not actually in the moun-tains. It’s on Springfield Parkway in Jackson.

The home belongs to Robin and Mark Medill, who had been living in Wilmont the last 10 years. Robin teaches special edu-cation at Worthington Se-nior High School and Mark

Couple fashioning mountain retreat from Minnesota home

See RETREAT on C6

Rural Developmentoffers opportunityto low-income folks

U.S. Department of Ag-riculture Rural Develop-ment currently has funds available for helping low- and very low-income in-dividuals and families in Jackson County purchase and repair homes.

Applicants interested in purchasing a home must be unable to qualify for tradi-tional financing and meet USDA income and credit requirements. Homes must be modest in size and de-sign and be located in a rural community of 20,000 people or fewer that is not urban in nature. No down payment or mortgage in-surance is required.

“Our program helps very

low-income families in the community,” said Kathy Oertli, area Rural Develop-ment specialist.

Rural Development also offers home repair loans for very low-income homeowners. Loans up to $20,000 are available at an interest rate of 1 per-cent and repayable over 20 years. Grants up to $7,500 may be available to homeowners over the age of 62 and must be used to remove health or safety hazards.

“With the home improve-ment program, we can help the very low-income families improve their homes due to our low loan rate, where otherwise they could not afford to do these repairs due to the higher bank rates,” Oertli said.

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“Any fireplace manu-factured this year is still OK to sell without the re-quired safety screen bar-rier,” Hendricksen said. “The decision was made to discontinue those former models rather than spend-ing the time and money to retest them after adding a safety screen to them.”

Originally, Kozy Heat sent its various fireplace models to an independent lab for testing along with a couple of technicians, but now that fireplace testing is done in-house, Hen-dricksen said.

The new safety screen barriers incorporated into the design of the Kozy Heat Fireplaces gets warm, but not “burning hot,” Hen-dricksen added.

Some of the new models with the safety screens in-tact and on display include the Chaska 34 and the Chaska XL inserts.

FIREPLACE: Kozy Heat revamps its galleryContinued from C1

PHOTO BY MIKE JORDANKozy Heat’s Chaska 34 model displays the new beveled safety screen barrier. See FIREPLACE on C3


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GRANT: Rehab is under wayContinued from C1


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“They have a little dif-ferent look to them with the safety screen barriers in place, but the screens are almost invisible,” she said. “Other new Kozy Heat Fireplaces with the new safety screens displayed include the Bayport 41 and the Carlton that comes in different sizes and the relatively new Slayton that is available in two models.”

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Although the new Kozy Heat Fireplace models with their safety screens is probably the biggest news from Kozy Heat going into the fall, another adaptation to the fireplaces is being made as well.

“A lot of our fireplaces are now electronic igni-tion instead of having a standing pilot,” she said. “We still have standing pilot models, just not as many. The electronic igni-tion fireplaces sometimes qualify for rebates through energy suppliers.”

Additionally, some of the Kozy Heat Fireplaces can be ordered now with either logs or glass beads, such as the Bayport 41, as well as several others, Hendrick-sen said.

“The latest trend in fire-places seems to be people liking as big of a viewing area as they can get in their individual application,”

she said. “Where decora-tive fronts were an option before, we now have, with the safety screen fronts, a choice between styles and colors, but that process starts with whether a cus-tomer wants logs or beads in their fireplace and then what size.”

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When advising custom-ers on their fireplace pur-chase, Hendricksen starts out by identifying what the customer’s primary concern is — ambiance or heating. Then she identi-fies what room the cus-tomer is looking to place the new fireplace in and whether he or she wants the traditional logs in the firebox or beads. Once that is all decided, she turns on the appropriate Kozy Heat fireplaces and explains how each unit works and the differences between them.

“The ones they like I write down on a preview sheet and we do our best to install the one they chose,” she said. “Locally, our in-stallation team goes out and meets face to face with the customer to determine where and how the fire-place they have chosen will be located and if they need to choose a different model if their first choice does not work out. When they come

back with that information, I do all the pricing and usually send that informa-tion out or email it to the customer. If they want to go with it, I schedule the installation after checking with the warehouse and with the shipping crew on availability.”

Kozy Heat also manu-factures mantels and wood surrounds for its fireplac-es, but creates those only by order and does not warehouse any of them, Hendricksen added.

Kozy Heat’s Thief River Falls Fireplace is the most popular model locally and comes in bigger sizes. But it can still be located in small spaces within a home and fits nicely in a corner application, Hendricksen noted.

All Kozy Heat Fireplaces are listed online with their specifications, descriptions and installation manuals for each model for anyone to view.

What’s next

Coming up for Kozy Heat Fireplaces are some fire-place units with two gas orifices — a top and bottom burner so that one can be turned off when less heat is required in certain ap-plications.

“We will have another freestanding Kozy Heat Fireplace with a safety

FIREPLACE: Kozy Heat gallery revamped for fall fi replace off eringsContinued from C2

screen too,” Hendricksen said, “and, on the horizon, a see-through, linear fire-

place — a longer, horizon-tal fireplace that is wider than it is tall could be com-

ing to the gallery soon.”

PHOTOS BY MIKE JORDAN

Left: Jen Hendrickson shows off the the Chaska 34 Kozy Heat Fireplace with the beveled safety screen barrier in a stacked rock surround.

Below: This Chaska 34 Kozy Heat Fireplace has a beveled safety screen barrier application that is hardly visible to the fireplace viewers.

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HISTORY: Emmerich tackles dining room renovation in 1893 homeContinued from C1

“The wainscot appeared to be about shoulder-high on the people in the pho-to,” she said. “We found in

the dining room the origi-nal wallboard under some vivid green, flowered wall-paper that was over it and

under the 1970s paper. The original 1893 wallboard was a drab brown.”

To replicate the 1930s look, Emmerich purchased 4-feet-by-8-feet sheets of oak-faced plywood to use for the wainscoting. They have already used the hand-covered silk wallpa-per Emmerich purchased to place on the field of the wall — that area above the wainscot — and have decided to make the new chestnut-colored wainscot shoulder-high as it ap-peared in the old photo.

“Above the field, we plan to place a frieze,” she said. “That is the 13-inch border that goes up to meet the ceiling cove that we have already replaced with new wood. We will have to cut the frieze, because they just print it in a roll by special order.”

The hand-covered-silk, period-authentic wallpa-per comes in a neutral white color and had to be painted too, Emmerich

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Olympic gold,” she said. “But it was the chestnut stain color of the wood-work that we were trying to match that was time consuming and difficult. We ended up settling for something close to the

color we were looking for.”Basically, Emmerich set

up a chemistry lab in her kitchen and worked to get the color of chestnut she was hoping for; but no matter what combination she tried, the result was only close to a color match, she said.

“We ended up mixing three brands of chestnut stain to get as close to the color I was hoping to use for the wainscot,” she said. “It took a lot of time and mixing to get this color of stain.”

Now Boyd is staining the

PHOTO BY MIKE JORDANDee Emmerich holds up the end of the roll that, once cut and placed, will become the frieze, or 13-inch arts and crafts border, above the field, or wallpapered area, above the wainscoting in her renovated dining room.

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wainscot pieces they pre-viously measured and cut for each wall in the dining room in chestnut.

“It took a lot of measur-ing of each piece before we cut them so they would fit the walls correctly,” she said. “The spaces between the oak-faced plywood wainscot will be covered with oak strips and the point where the wainscot and the wallpaper meet will have oak stripping too, but most likely in a smaller width and added horizontally.

“The designing of the wood pieces for the wain-scot took a day and a half

to do after a lot of measur-ing and re-measuring,” she said. “And we went through 20 different colors of stain to get the color of stain I wanted. Once designed, we cut all the background boards to allow for the wall to breathe and are staining the wainscot; then we will put one coat of polyure-thane on them. The stain-ing process for the wain-scot has delayed us days.”

Since the staining has taken place outside, Em-merich said after each board is coated with poly-urethane, it will need to be rubbed with steel wool to make the surface smooth.

The wainscot will be nailed to the wall, except in cer-tain locations where it will need to be screwed on.

“Removing the old wall-paper only took 20 min-utes,” she said. “Whoever did the wallpapering be-fore did a spectacular job. It took little preparation to put the new Victorian embossed wallpaper up. But it did require a special paste.”

Boyd will be returning to Washington, D.C., in a few days to his restored 1897 home that Emmerich helped him renovate. She hopes to have the dining room project complete by

HISTORY: Emmerich tackles dining room renovation in 1893 homeContinued from C4

the time he departs.“We started this project

in earnest two weeks ago,” she said. “Gary loves this home as much as I do. Our first renovation project was a 1927 home in Detroit. It had been a speakeasy with chalkboards all over the walls and it had 37 telephone jacks, mostly in the closets. The basement had a full commercial bar in it with frescos on the walls. And it had a ghost. When we were upstairs all alone, the ghost would flush the toilet and turn on all the lights on the lower level. Then, one time, Gary was in the basement and felt a presence in the door-way. He asked the ghost to quit flushing the toilet and leaving the lights on and said Eleanor (the former owner) didn’t live there anymore. We never heard the toilet flush in the base-ment again, nor did we find the lights on down there.”

Emmerich and Boyd also restored a 1905 home pre-viously.

“Experience gives you fearlessness restoring a home,” she said. “So you try to do things that are remarkable. Just do it and, if it works out, that is fine; if it doesn’t, you start over. This house will have its 125th anniversary in 2018. I hope to have its restoration project totally complete by then.”

SUBMITTED PHOTOSGary Boyd works on the removal of the old wallpaper on the south wall of the din-ing room in Dee Emmerich’s home at 506 Bush St., showing the original 1893 drab brown wallpaper at the bottom layer.

Gary Boyd applies chestnut stain to the precut oak-faced plywood wainscoting that was later placed in the Emmerich dining room.

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“I love being on an acre-age,” Robin said

In 2012, they purchased a 1970s split level on

Springfield Parkway and set about designing their dream home.

Outside, the transforma-tion is evident. New log siding gives the home a striking profile and is a nod to the timber-lodge style

common in the Medills’ home states. Real stones trim the foundation of the house.

“We love it. My husband is from Colorado and I’m from Utah. This is the look we know,” Robin said.

As the logs have gone up, the Medills have hand-stained each one. Staining after installation prevents damage to the finish from nails and tools, Robin said.

It was something they’d never done before, but they

read up on the subject and taught themselves.

“You have to be careful where you’re starting and stopping or you get over-lap,” Robin said.

Not immediately evident are the interior updates.

“We’re changing it all. It’s just very user-un-friendly on the inside,” Robin said, noting the pre-vious owners must have been short, because it was cramped.

RETREAT: Couple fashions mountain lodge from Minnesota homeContinued from C1

PHOTO BY MARIE ZIMMERMANAs the logs have gone up, the Medills have hand-stained each one. Staining after installation prevents damage to the finish from nails and tools, Robin Medill said.

See RETREAT on C7


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RETREAT: A mountain lodge homeContinued from C6

Overhauling the kitchen was first on the list, before the Medills moved into the home. The remodeled cooking space has black mottled countertops that contrast with a copper-col-ored tin ceiling and whim-sical black light fixtures. Hardwood floors give the dining room a polished look.

“New is fun,” Robin said.A substantial addition —

nearly doubling the space in the house — has allowed for a master bedroom with walk-in closet that elimi-nates the need to put away out-of-season clothes; a small three-season space with cedar paneling and a hot tub; and a family room that features a bar, a large TV and a row of recliners for theater-style seating.

The Medills’ two adult sons live out of state, but have been back to visit and made good use of the fam-ily room, Robin said.

A 12-foot-by-12-foot en-tryway was also added, giving Robin room she never had in previous farm homes “with these small tiny entries.”

Much of the interior work has been done by the Medills, who also re-modeled their home in Wilmont. Persistence and patience are Mark’s forte.

Wisdom is Robin’s.“The biggest thing is if

you’re tired, stop. Don’t keep going,” she said.

It’s hard to find ambition for projects after the work-day is done, but Robin is excited to see the finished product. For added moti-vation, this is the couple’s last house.

“The next one will be a motor home when we retire, or a houseboat,” Robin said.

There are quite a few projects in process, but “we’re getting close,” Rob-in said.

They hope to have all their renovations — in-cluding landscaping and concrete work — done by next summer.


The city of Jackson is in line for a thorough fall cleaning.

The city will again con-tract with Waste Manage-ment for a two-day ex-tra garbage collection, w i t h t h e west side o f t o w n scheduled for cleanup Saturday, S e p t . 2 7 , and the east-side cleanup set for Saturday, Oct. 4.

Highway 71 is the divid-ing line.

Items to be picked up as part of the cleanup in-clude furniture, mattress-es, carpet and household goods. Tags are available for a fee at City Hall for electronics and appliances.

Items that will not be picked up include con-crete, dirt, trees, building materials, branches, tires, appliances without tags purchased from City Hall, white goods, hazardous wastes, auto bodies, lead acid batteries and used oil.

“The city offers this cleanup service in an ef-fort to promote a clean

and aesthetically pleasing community and to assist residents in preventing the accumulation of interior/exterior trash and other materials,” said Jennifer Bromeland, city adminis-trator.

Residents who live in the city limits of Jackson can participate. No waste from non-residential customers, contractors, businesses or those residing outside the city limits will be accepted, Bromeland said.

More than 61 tons of garbage were picked up during the spring cleanup effort, Bromeland said, at a total cost of $6,138.60.

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There’s no better time than now to give one’s homes the attention it deserves.

Home inspect ions ahead of cold weather can help add comfort, save energy and cut home maintenance in the long-run.

When inspecting a home’s windows or doors, check for the following:

• Inspect interior and exterior finishes: Over time, paint and stain can weather away. Flaking or peeling may mean it’s time to refinish or re-place the unit.

• Look for damaged exterior surfaces or signs of leaks: Check the sprin-kler system to make sure it’s watering the lawn and landscape, not soak-ing windows or doors.

Cracked or deteriorated wood may be a sign of water penetration. Leaks can linger and affect in-terior walls, floors or ceilings, so look closely for discoloration or other moisture signs. Track the trail of problems. For ex-ample, discolored trim around a window might actually be caused by moisture entering a ways away. With a leaky roof, water may run down in-side the wall and appear at the window.

• Clear windowsills and tracks of dirt and de-bris: Sand, leaves, insects or pine needles stuck in weather-stripping can affect the performance of windows and doors. Open the windows and clean the opening with a soft brush, like a dry

Fall good time for annual home checkuppaint brush or vacuum at-tachment. Do the same for sliding patio doors.

• Try opening and clos-ing: Open windows and doors to make sure moving parts work, and units close properly. Replace worn or broken parts.

• Inspect weather-stripping: Reattach loose weather-stripping around windows or doors, and replace material that’s ripped or torn.

• Replace or repair bro-ken locks: If locks feel loose or don’t work smoothly, re-place them. Keep windows and doors locked when not in use. Locks help hold doors and windows tightly, to lock out rain, wind, snow and insects.

• Inspect weep and breather holes: Weep holes in the exterior of windows allow excess moisture to escape, while breather holes allow air exchange within certain components. Clear blocked holes of dirt or debris with a wire or toothpick.

• Feel for signs of air leakage around the win-dow or door: Improperly installed windows or doors can be drafty, decrease en-ergy efficiency and allow unwanted moisture into the home.


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