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Published 6:00pm Wednesday, December 31, 1969

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   mike erickson March 26, 2012 at 9:32 pm <Link>

   I would like to invite everyone out to the Summerfest and to take a tour of the Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center. This beautiful building was started on July 29th 1890. A lot of people call it: old, falling apart, out dated, and useless.
   This building was designed to last 400 years and has hardly used a 1/4 of it’s life helping the sick, weak, dying, a dependant people that has walked through the doors.This building has helped thousands of people get well and get back to their loved ones to give and live life with them.
   The R.T.C. has also given comfort to the people who were too bad off and offered peace, and people who cared for these people until they had passed away, letting them go with the respect and dignity they deserved as people. Some of these people never got a chance for a proper burial by family and have been layed to rest in the cemetary from the hospital.
   This building has seen all walks of life and all kinds of illness including mental illness. Lately it seems that the only things this building has seen is vandals, breakins, ridicule, and the people who care about this building by trying to protect it. I am one of these people. I was working security the night of Jan. 13th the night that 3 people broke into this magnificent building. I was angered, and discusted that someone would do this to such a building.
   We do have a lot of friends of the Kirkbride, people from the museum, and other people that have interest in the building to see it stand for a good long time yet. I would like to see it stand so generations after me would have a chance to see such a structure and take it all in. Don’t let such a piece of history, with so much beauty, go in vein. Let your council members know you want to keep it by asking them for an extension from the state. All they have to do is ask for it.

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