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The McLeod County Chronicle, www.glencoenews.com, Wednesday, October 2, 2013, page 10
Wine-making, beer-brewing
Chronicle photo by Lori Copler
and supplies, as well as gift items for
wine and beer enthusiasts. The business
is located in the former Star
Motel building. A grand opening is
planned for Oct. 11-12.
shop opens up in Glencoe
By Lori Copler
Staff Writer
One of Glencoe’s
newest businesses,
PJ’s How 2 Spirits,
has its roots in a simple
bottle of homemade wine.
Jean Weber, who opened
the business in the former
Star Motel building with
partner Peter Goettl, said
her brother makes homemade
wine, and presented
the couple with a bottle of
homemade white wine a
few years ago.
“It was really quite
good,” said Weber, and she
became interested in making
her own wine as a
hobby.
“We’ve been home brewing
for a little over two
years,” said Weber. “It’s
aways kind of fun to see
how your product turns
out.”
She and Goettl captured a
grand champion at a county
fair this summer for their efforts
in wine making.
But getting supplies and
kits for their hobby was
problematic.
“We looked up winemaking
supplies and kits on
the Internet, and found that
the closest places to get
them are at least 60 miles
away,” said Goettl. “We Peter Goettl and Jean Weber have
were making wine one day transformed a hobby into a business,
and ran out of corks. We opening up PJ’s How 2 Spirits in
ended up driving 60 miles Glencoe. The new store features
just to get a bag of corks.” beer-brewing and wine-making kits
That experience “sparked
us” to open PJ’s How 2
hosts the wine- and beermaking
supplies and kits, as opened about two weeks
ready for business, and
Spirits in Glencoe, said
Goettl. “We were talking to
well as novelty items and ago.
different people, and having
gifts (such as an umbrella in “It’s been a little slow,”
to drive somewhere for kits
a wine bottle and painted said Goettl, “but we get a
or order them over the Internet
was kind of an issue.”
glassware).
few more people in each
PJ’s How 2 Spirits also day.”
Weber and Goettl are
offers bottles for both wine And with those people
hoping that having a local
and beer, chemicals for the come questions and new
store will help more people
process and brewers yeast needs.
with their hobby, as well as
for beer.
“We really don’t know
inspire it in others.
The other room offers yet what people need,” said
Goettl said they looked at
space to ply their craft. Goettl.
several different buildings
Once a sink is installed in “But if we don’t have
in Glencoe, but settled on
the second room, Weber and what they’re looking for,
the former Star Motel site
Goettl hope to offer classes we’ll get it for them,”
on 10th Street East because
on making wine and brewing
beer.
Along with supplies, kits,
Weber added.
it offered them two rooms
for their business — one
The two spent about six gifts and classes, Weber and
weeks getting the place Goettl will offer their expertise.
“If anyone has questions
about the process, they are
welcome to call us,” said
Goettl. “If we don’t know,
we’ll find out for them.”
PJ’s How 2 Spirits has set
a grand opening for Oct. 11,
from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and
Oct. 12, from 9 a.m. to 1
p.m., with a discounted
price on beer and wine kits.
Its phone number is 320-
864-VINO (8466). The
website address is
www.pjshow2spirits.com.
Hours are Tuesday
through Friday, 11 a.m. to 6
p.m.; and Saturday, 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m.
County planning
commission OKs
preliminary plat
Property is located near Lake Marion
By Lori Copler
Staff Writer
The McLeod County Planning
Advisory Commission
approved a preliminary plat
that will create a two-lot parcel
to be known as “Fly
Catcher Addition” on the
west side of Lake Marion, at
its Wednesday, Sept. 25,
meeting.
The property is 8.9 acres
with access off Tagus Avenue
in Collins Township. It is
owned by Scott Haag of Darwin.
Zoning Administrator
Larry Gasow said his department
has no concerns regarding
the proposed plat. There
are no feedlots close by,
Gasow said, and the plat will
remain zoned agricultural.
The new, second lot could
be a potential site for a house,
Gasow said, which would be
within the county’s zoning
limits for the number of residential
homes allowed within
a quarter section of agriculture-zoned
property.
provements.
The County Board also is
hoping that a probate judge
will approve using between
$3.8 million and $4 million
from the Annamarie Tudhope
estate to pay for the jail expansion.
Tudhope, former publisher
and editor of the Glencoe
Enterprise, bequeathed the
bulk of her estate to the
county for the construction
of a new jail. Because the
project is an expansion of the
existing jail and not the construction
of a new one, a
judge will need to determine
if the project is in keeping
with the intent of Tudhope’s
will.
Rehmann also said the
county’s security committee
Gasow did say that some
issues will need to be dealt
with if one of the lots is sold
in the future. Under the proposed
split, an overhead
power line will cut across a
corner of one lot to reach the
other.
“A new owner may not
want that,” said Gasow, who
said the power line may need
to be buried in a utility easement.
There also is a potential for
the two sites to share a well
and a driveway access,
Gasow said, and easements
for those two items would
need to be worked out at the
time of sale, also.
“If the property is sold,
those easements need to be
recorded,” said Gasow.
The planning commission
meeting also was a public
hearing for the proposal. Because
no one attended or submitted
written comments,
Gasow said the issue will be
placed on the County Board’s
consent agenda on Oct. 22.
County jail Continued from page 1
met last week and has been
discussing issues raised by
constituents at the public
hearing, in particular a desire
to not close off the north entrances
to the courthouse.
Rehmann said the committee
will likely recommend to the
County Board that the entrances
stay open.
But the multiple entrances
to the courthouse will still be
a concern for security,
Rehmann indicated.
“We may have to do something
different with those
north entrances during highprofile
events, such as murder
trials,” Rehmann said.
The County Board intends
to take up the matter again at
its Oct. 22 meeting.
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