Deer Creek council to look into options at four-way stop

By Chad Koenen

Publisher

The Deer Creek Lions Club will continue to offer gambling services at Wet Woody’s Pub and Grub in Deer Creek.

During its regularly scheduled meeting last Monday night, the Deer Creek City Council acknowledged a letter it received from Wet Woody’s Pub and Grub owners Rod and Cathy Woodward who rescinded the 30-day notice they served to the Deer Creek Lions Club in January to vacate the property. 

According to the letter provided to the city council, the Woodwards said “this rescission notice is because it was voted on by Lions members that Korie Gray would not manage our facility for gambling operations. Miram DeCock will control our bar and in-house Lions table gambling operation.”

The letter, which was not dated, stated it was effective immediately and covered pull tabs, electronic pull tabs, bingo, meat raffle and any future activities. 

The council said it appears as though the Lions Club made some concessions to remain as the non-profit gambling organization and were glad to see the two sides were able to find common ground. 

In other news

• Approved a Household Hazardous Waste Mobile Collection agreement with Otter Tail County Solid Waste to have a collection in the community. 

• Discussed a request from Arvig for an easement to install fiber communication within the City of Deer Creek. The project will bring fiber communications to homes and businesses in the region. 

• Discussed a purchase agreement with Dominic Koep to purchase the area surrounding the tennis courts near the former Deer Creek School. The Deer Creek Lions Club has expressed an interest to purchase the tennis courts in order to make improvements at the pickle ball and basketball courts. The Lions Club said it was interested in making the improvements, but was concerned about making further enhancements to the property if it was not owned by the City of Deer Creek. 

• Discussed a variety of ways to decrease the amount of vehicles that do not stop by the four-way stop at Main Street and Highway 106. Councilman Danny Hendershot said he spoke with representatives from MnDOT who will try a variety of different ways to increase the visibility of the stop signs and hopefully get more people to stop at the intersection.