Music acts: Johnny Holm Band, Pop Rocks, Mason Dixon Line, Fabulous Armadillos.

Location: In the 1980s and 1990s the events were at Lake Winona, but a bigger midway required more space. Also: Electricity lakeside was insufficient.

Entry fee: $5 entry button Some events extra. Advance purchases at Kwik Trip, Midtown Foods, Hy-Vee.

Clearances. Goldstar Amusements is unable to bring its larger state-fair quality rides to Winona. The new Center Street location has insufficient clearance from buildings along the sidewalk and boulevard trees.

Carnival: The carnival is one of two units of Faribault-based Goldstar Amusements. The other is playing simultaneously this weekend in Buffalo, 40 miles northwest of Minneapolis.

Southern venues. In cooler months Goldstar sets up at festivities in Louisiana. Its northern venues in warmer months:  Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota.

PICKWICK, Minn – First-responders from Pickwick were notified that an empty canoe was floating down the unseasonably swollen Mississippi River downstream from Winona. They recovered the canoe but found no evidence to whom it belonged or from where it had come. There having been no distress calls, the rescue crew figured that fast current had picked up the canoe and carried it away unbeknownst to the owner.

WINONA, Minn. – A citizen called police that people  were frolicking in the Princess Wenonah fountain at Windom Park, this under the gaze of the statuesque princess herself. This was about 1:10 a.m. Nobody was in the fountain when police arrived, but nearby were three adults still drenching. Police told them not to go back in. Police took their names and ages, all in their mid-40s. No citations were issued. Princess Wenanh watched the whole mini-drama unfold without saying a word.

WINONA, Minn. – A drunken patron was thrown out of the Market Street Tap, a popular downtown bar, after swinging a bar stool at another customer. Undeterred, the guy came back in and picked another bar stool. The bartender escorted him out second time. In the process, the man fell backwards anf hit his head. Two hours later he was back. This time the bartender called police. Nobody at the bar wanted to share much of the details with officers – not even the first assault victim, who suffered arm injury. Even so, police figured out the assailant was a 61-year-old man who was still hanging around. But not having witnessed the assaults and with the recalcitrance of people who were there, the officers decided not to make an arrest. Instead they handed out “statement forms” to everyone to write up what they saw. The forms are due back in five days. Police said the forms could be the basis for assault charges. The man who police said was the common denominator in all the incidents  was issued an order, valid for a year, to stay out of the establishment.

Busy night on Market Street. Off Third Street in the downtown bar district. Bursting with revelry on a Steamboat Days weeknight.

ROCHESTER, Minn. – A Rochester man, Trashun Haywood, 22, was found guilty of assault jn a Christmas Eve 2021 stabbing a a Northwest Side apartment The jury returned the verdict soon after brief deliberations. Haywood, was accused of repeatedly stabbing a 26-year-old Rochester man with a pocket knife in an argument. Haywood faces as much as seven years in prison. Sentencing was scheduled for July.

Earlier: Rochester man knifed three times in fight

WINONA, Minn. – A man out walking his dog on Fifth Street was stopped by a woman in a car who struck up a conversation through her car window about the dog. One thing led to another, and the man explained he was homeless. The woman said she had a nice place, a fenced yard and plenty of food. She suggested that he put the dog in the car. He did. She drove off. He said he tried to catch up on foot but couldn’t. His next stop was the police station to report that his dog had been stolen – a 7-month-old little white guy with a tan face. The man wanted his dog back. He said the woman was in a black sedan but he didn’t note the make or model nor did he get a license number, He described the woman in her 50s or 60s. Police listed the incident as theft and went on the lookout for the dog-napper.

WINONA, Minn. – A construction worker fell forward while cutting tree roots with a Sawzall device and instead hit an underground gas line. There were no injuries. Firefighters called the energy company Xcel to cut off gas upstream. This was about 9:35 a.m. at the construction site in the 100 block of Fairfax Street on the Far West End.

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona State University science student, Bianna Jones, was crowned Miss Winona in the annual pageant. Her schedule will include events at Steamboat Days and other communities’ parades around the region over the summer. Jones will receive a $3,000 college scholarship to further her studies at Mayo Clinic. Receiving $500 scholarships were runners-up Natalie Horeck as princess of the starboard watch and Emma Jan Mandelkow as princess of the port watch.

Jones. Officially her title is Miss Winona Steamboat Days to reflect the pageant’s new management.

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona driver, whom police quoted as having had an alcoholic drink at a restaurant, was arrested on the East Side and booked for driving drunk. Judging from a breathalyzer test, Jake William Manning-Wasilevich, 34, had been tippling more than he realized. His blood-alcohol level tested at 0.09%, exceeding the legal max roughly 15%. The arrest was about 9:25 p.m. at Fifth and Lafayette streets. Police said that Manning-Wasilevich had slid hrough a stop sign. When he was stopped and lowered his window, police said, they smelled alcohol. Also, they said his eyes were bloodshot and watery.

WINONA, Minn. – Police made their first Steamboat Days arrest at the beer tent on the Levee. Police were told that Patrick Mathew Smith, 46, of Winona, had been misbehaving and was asked to leave and refused. Smith was booked for drunkenness and also for violating a probation requirement not to imbibe This was about 9:20 p.m.

Earlier: Police put full force out for Steamboat Days — plus

Smith. Unfortunate head start on Steamboat Days.

BRAINERD, Minn. – A supercell spawned three tornadoes Up North in Minnesota, one with tornadic winds estimated at 120 mph. No injuries were reported. Hail stones, some as large as softballs, caused damage, but it was minimal in the forested landscape.

> Crow Wing County. Near Whitefish and Clamshell lakes. Rated EF-2, with wind speed estimated 120 mph.

> Crow Wing County. From Rabbit Lake to Cedar and Hammal lakes. An EF-2 estimated at 115 mph.

> Aitkin County. Near Glen. Possibly an EF-1 estimated at 65 mph.

A tornado from another storm cell was near Wright in Carlton County. Although winds were  estimated at 80 mph, National Weather Service meteorologists described it as “weak and whispy.” The path was five miles long.

Earlier: Rating tornadoes

WINONA, Minn. – An intensive-care nurse was assaulted on duty at the Winona hospital. She showed bruising to police and told them that a patient grabbed her by an arm. This was about 7:30 p.m. The nurse deferred on pressing a criminal charge and only wanted the incident documented.

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona woman reported a $1,300 cell phone missing frpm her place. She said she suspected a male visitor the night before. Police began trying to locate him. The theft was reported about 5:40 p.m. from the 700 block of East Third East Stret.

WINONA, Minn.  – The murder trial of Adam Fravel for the 2023 slaying of Maddi Kingsbury will not be held in Winona. “A fair trial cannot be ensured within this county,” said Judge Nancy Buytendorp. Her ruling  accepted the argument of Fravel’s attorney that the Winona area to too prejudiced against Fravel to empanel a disinterested and impartial jury. Judge Buytendorp said she will work to find a “suitable county” for the case. The Winona court is in Minnesota’s Third Judicial District, which is headquartered in Rochester and spans 11 counties. Generally venue changes are kept relatively nearby for logistical reasons: The Winona judge and prosecution team, for example,  would need to commute elsewhere, perhaps relocate, for the duration of the trial, which could be weeks, even months. An Olmsted County trial in Rochester, 40 miles away, seems unlikely because Favel’s attorney has blamed local prejudice partly on media coverage, much of it from Rochester television stations whose signals blanket the region. The most distant Third District court is 100 miles west in Albert Lea. Other possible Third District courts are in media-underserved Wabasha County, 40 miles away, or in  Steele County, 90 miles away.

Earlier: Attorney files brief to relocate Fravel trial

Earlier: Fair murder trial possible in Winona for Fravel?

LEWISTON, Minn, – An Elgin woman carrying four teenagers and an infant in her vehicle was injured in a crash on Interstate 90 at the westbound exit to Lewiston. Amanda Jean Speedling, 36, was taken 14 miles to the Winona hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Unhurt in her vehicle, a 2015 Ford Explorer, were:

> Bo D Brinkman, 15, of Elgin.

> Evan Francis Kisch, 15, of Elgin.

> Daniel E Rademacher, 15, of Elgin.

> Reese L Speedling, 15, of Elgin.

> Rhett L Steffen, an infant, of Elgin.

All were wearing seat belts, the State Patrol said. The other driver, Janet Mary McCauley, 73, of Plantation, Florida, was unhurt. The Patrol said that McCauley, in a 2017 Toyota Camry, was slowing to change lanes and was rear-ended. Road conditions were wet. This was about 3:15 p.m.

GOODHUE Minn. – A Wisconsin driver was injured when he swerved ti avoid a deer and crashed into a power pole. Thomas Patrick Link,58, of Hudson, suffered sustainable injuries, a state trooper said. Link was taken 30 miles to the Red Wing hospital. The accident was on wet pavement about 11:55 a.m. Link was driving a 2007 Toyota Corolla. He was northeast of Goodhue at County Road 4 and 350th Street near Belvidere Mills.