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A sample of the pet tags available at the Hawk Creek Animal Shelter. The IDs are being placed on every pet who's adopted and every pet who arrives at the shelter and is claimed by an owner. They're also for sale to the public. (Tribune photo by Anne Polta)

New project of Willmar, Minn., shelter focuses on need for pet ID tags

WILLMAR -- Pets with ID tags are more likely to be reunited with their owners -- and reunited sooner -- if they're ever lost. It's a message the Hawk Creek...

news / local Mon, Jun 04, 2012 - 12:00am

Savannah, left, a female Lhasa apso-poodle mix, and Reed, a male Pomeranian, were apparently abandoned on the edge of Willmar. Hawk Creek Animal Shelter staff rescued the pair who now have a chance to be adopted. The shelter, owned and operated by the Humane Society of Kandiyohi and Meeker Counties, spends an average of $209 to care for each animal, and adoption fees do not cover those costs. (Tribune photo by Ron Adams)

Local Humane Society seeks support at Save Our Tails fundraiser Friday in Willmar, Minn.

WILLMAR -- Bobbie Bauman thinks the two small dogs were abandoned somewhere on First Street Northeast, near KWLM Radio on Foot Lake at the edge of town. Employees at the...

news / local Mon, Feb 20, 2012 - 12:00am

Sue Lea of Kandiyohi volunteers Friday and spends some quality time with the dogs, like Eve, at the Hawk Creek Animal Shelter. Tribune photo by Ron Adams

Humane Society to give 'state of the shelter' report this week

WILLMAR -- A "state of the shelter" report will be given at the annual meeting this week of the Humane Society of Kandiyohi and Meeker Counties. The Humane Society has...

news / local Mon, Jan 02, 2012 - 12:00am

Crater Cup to feature 8-inch cups

The 2011 Crater Cup Classic at Hawk Creek Golf Club is a new tournament with a new twist: 8-inch cups. The four-person, 18-hole scramble begins with a noon shotgun start...

sports Mon, Sep 19, 2011 - 12:14am

Hinrichs, Armstrong, Boelter win titles at Hawk Creek Country Club

RAYMOND -- Dave Hinrichs won his third Hawk Creek County Club men's club championship on Saturday, shooting 77-33-110. Three players tied for second at 112, including defending champion Zach Gerdes.

sports Tue, Aug 23, 2011 - 1:03am

Hawk Creek club tourney is on Saturday

The Hawk Creek Club Tournament at Raymond begins teeing off at 8 a.m. on Saturday. The Men's Championship Flight is 27 holes; Men's A (11-19 handicaps) and B Flights (20...

sports Thu, Aug 18, 2011 - 12:10am

The Olson Lake brood marsh and public hunting area near Raymond is making a comeback. (Tribune photo by Ron Adams)

Olson Lake making a comeback in west central Minn.

RAYMOND -- Olson Lake is a 124-acre, shallow water lake that was once a waterfowl hunter's Mecca and could be soon again. It's part of a 450-acre Waterfowl Production Area,...

outdoors / region Sat, May 14, 2011 - 8:00am

Cold slows rising waters, give a reprieve to flood fighters on Hawk Creek in west central Minn.

CLARA CITY -- A return to sub-freezing temperatures is giving flood fighters a reprieve in the area, but worries remain about the additional moisture held in the six- to 12-inches...

news / region Wed, Mar 23, 2011 - 10:44am

Jeff Stager worked with a partner setting up sandbags Tuesday afternoon in the north side of Clara City.

Flood fighting now underway in west central Minnesota

CLARA CITY -- Flood fighting efforts have got underway as waters swelled over the banks of tributaries to the Minnesota River on Tuesday afternoon. Volunteers began sandbagging an area on...

news / region Tue, Mar 22, 2011 - 4:09pm

Erin Richards talks Friday about the MnSNAP Spay Neuter Assistance Program's mobile surgery van, which was at the Hawk Creek Animal Shelter in Willmar. Tribune photos by Ron Adams

Mobile, low-cost spay-neuter service meets a need for many pet owners

WILLMAR -- The patient was anesthetized, limbs lolling as Erin Richards and Lindsay Liles carried her to the back of the RV and hoisted her onto the surgery table. Dr.

news / local Sat, Feb 26, 2011 - 12:00am

Flood outlook for Minnesota River Valley: You can bet on it

WILLMAR -- The stage is set for spring flooding in the Upper Minnesota River Valley and its tributaries. The National Weather Service in Chanhassen is urging residents in the upper...

news / local / region Thu, Jan 20, 2011 - 12:00am

Hawk Creek will be open this weekend

Hawk Creek Country Club in Raymond announced Friday that it will be open this weekend from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and then will be closed for the season after that. The...

sports Sat, Nov 06, 2010 - 12:00am

A small orange kitten surveys the world through the wire bars of its crate at the Hawk Creek Animal Shelter. A high kitten population has overflowed the shelter this fall. Tribune photo by Anne Polta

Animal shelter issues plea for help with high kitten census

WILLMAR -- It's raining cats and kittens at the Hawk Creek Animal Shelter. The shelter issued an appeal to the public this week to help by either adopting a cat...

news / local Sat, Oct 02, 2010 - 12:00am

A Minnesota Pollution Control Agency crew makes its way downstream to identify, measure and weigh the fish they collected by electro-shocking about a 500-yard reach of Hawk Creek on July 28. From left to right are Sara Johnson, Bryan Spindler, Chris Butterfield, Erin McGee and Matthew Mitchell. (Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny)

Fishing for answers

CLARA CITY -- Decades ago anglers worked the Yellow Medicine River and Hawk Creek hard. They prized the Yellow Medicine River for its smallmouth bass and Hawk Creek for its...

outdoors Sat, Aug 14, 2010 - 12:00am

Valerie, a pit bull available for adoption from the Humane Society of Kandiyohi County's Hawk Creek Animal Shelter, is involved in a new training program the shelter hopes will increase the rate of long-term successful adoptions of pit bulls -- a category that includes Staffordshire and bull terriers. Of the 1,000 or so animals who come through the shelter's doors each year, dogs classified as pit bulls are among the harder ones to place. Valerie is also pictured at top and below left during a walk Frida...

Animal shelter tackles new initiative to improve successful pit bull adoption rate

It has been a familiar, and unwanted, pattern: Pit bull arrives at animal shelter, pit bull gets adopted, pit bull ends up back at the shelter. The Hawk Creek Animal...

news / local / region Tue, Jul 06, 2010 - 12:00am

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