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For more than a decade, Litchfield High School’s construction trades class has given students an opportunity to learn and use in real time building and home improvement skills. Students in the program have built a house on school property since 2010, when Gary Hein initiated the class.

A grass-roots coalition representing more than a dozen community organizations is planning an event featuring music, games and food to celebrate unity among Hutchinson-area residents. Titled Belonging Begins with Us, the celebration is set for 1 to 3 p.m.

Songs of Summer Festival, Litchfield’s annual family music event that benefits local nonprofits, is set for Friday, Aug. 16, at Memorial Park on Lake Ripley.

Two entrances, more growers, more food vendors and more fun are all happening Saturday at the 17th annual Minnesota Garlic Festival 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at the McLeod County Fairgrounds in Hutchinson.

20 YEARS AGO: NEWS FROM THE ISSUE OF AUG. 12, 2004 Corporate discussions are underway between the two companies that own medical clinics in Litchfield about a potential merger.The possibility that the Litchfield Allina Medical Clinic might be purchased by Affiliated Community Medical Center based in Willmar was brought up in a discussion Monday at the Meeker County Memorial Hospital Board meeting. Board member Keith Carlson of Dassel said people are talking about it and want to know what’s happening. No official word has come from either of the two corporations, said Dr. Deb Peterson, chief of medical staff at MCMH and the Allina Clinic in Litchfield. Should the merger occur, “Allina would be divesting itself of us (the Litchfield Allina clinic),” Peterson said, with ownership of that clinic being assumed by ACMC.