Flip of coin decides township clerk race

Supervisor Eddie Woitalla flipped the coin that decided the Platte Lake Township clerk race Thursday night.

"I called heads and I won," Robert Dambowy said this morning.

Dambowy and incumbent Mark Otremba each received 4 votes for the three-year term in Tuesday's township election and the coin flip was scheduled for Thursday.

"Everybody was very friendly," the new clerk said. "It's a small group of people, maybe a couple of hundred voters. Everybody knows everybody."

Winners in other township races included:

DAGGETT BROOK -- William Caughey, supervisor, and Kristy Schubert, clerk.

DEERWOOD -- N. Guy Lommen, supervisor, and Judy Hamilton, clerk.

FORT RIPLEY -- Felix Gangestad, supervisor, and Stanley Dobosenski, clerk.

GAIL LAKE -- Charles Newenhouse, supervisor, and Marvin Fiemeyer, clerk.

IDEAL -- Jerome Taylor, supervisor.

JENKINS -- Dennis Czeck, supervisor, and Patti Buellen, clerk.

LAKE EDWARD -- Ronald Metzen, supervisor, and Martha Look, clerk.

LITTLE PINE -- Mike Rourke, supervisor, and Audrey LeBlanc, clerk.

LONG LAKE -- David Johnson, supervisor, and Patsy Olson, clerk.

MAPLE GROVE -- JIm Anderson, supervisor, and Norene Warta, clerk.

MISSION -- Robert Young, supervisor, and Ellen Thatcher, clerk.

PERRY LAKE -- Charles Rono, supervisor, and Lois Laughton, clerk.

PLATTE LAKE -- Jerome Weiss, supervisor, and Robert Dambowy, clerk (decided by a coin flip).

RABBIT LAKE -- Calvin Tuper, supervisor, and Linda Danielson, clerk.

ROSS LAKE -- Larry Robberstad, supervisor, and Joyce Neumann, clerk.

ST. MATHIAS -- Clayton Eisel, supervisor, Mary Sather, clerk, and Joan Koering, treasurer.

SIBLEY -- Mary Pfeiffer, supervisor.

TIMOTHY -- Jackie Becker, supervisor, and Beth Peterson, clerk.

WOLFORD -- Dennis Henrichs, supervisor, and Rebecca Guida, clerk.

Results had not yet been received today at the Crow Wing County Auditor's Office from the following townships: Bay Lake, Center, Crow Wing, Fairfield, Garrison, Irondale, Nokay Lake, Oak Lawn, Pelican and Roosevelt.