October 2022

Last week, motivational speaker Terrence Lee Talley made a visit to Granite Falls along with Minneapolis-based band WonderStruck. Talley has traveled to schools around the country with a message of “never lose hope and never give up”, encouraging students to create positive life choices. Talley, also a published author, combines stories, comedy and motivation to share his message. He grew up in the Twin Cities. Talley’s appearance at Yellow Medicine East was held with support from Student Reach Minnesota. The program was held first for students of the district in grades 5th through 12th, and repeated in the evening with an assembly for the public in the YME Auditorium.

Psalm 121 - 1I lift up my eyes to the hills; from where is my help to come? 2My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. 3The Lord will not let your foot be moved nor will the one who watches over you fall asleep.

Who dunnit? That will be the question audience members answer this Halloween season during an upcoming Murder Mystery Dinner Theater fundraiser: “Murder on the Yellowstone Trail,” written and directed by Paul Warshauer, to be held in back-to-back shows at the Rock in Granite Falls on Friday and Satuday, October 28 and 29. Proceeds from ticket sales of “Murder on the Yellowstone Trail” will benefit the Granite Falls Historical Society (GFHS) and Granite Area Arts Council (GAAC).

The YME Trap team is enjoying the opportunity to be shooting Trap simulator style thanks to coach Jason Hoff heading up an effort to bring this advantage to the team. The East Medicine Pheasants Forever was approached by the team to request a donation of funds to purchase the dry-fire simulator system. “To our surprise, they voted that they will take care of it all expenses. We owe a huge Thank You to the EMPF Chapter for this awesome surprise to help the team - Very exciting news. Jason got on the horn right away to order,” says Trap Coach Sandra Berthelsen. The YME trap shooting athletes will be allowed to use this system with a coach present to practice their shooting skills without having the expense of ammunition. “We hope to have practices more often and the kids use their own guns with this system so not much is different. Over time the more they practice the better you will become,” Berthelsen says.”Please reach out to Jason Hoff if you have further questions about how to get your child introduced to trap shooting before the Spring season.”

Throughout town, some houses have been given the Halloween treatment with makeshift graveyards, large blow-ups, huge spiderwebs, lots of orange string lights, and pumpkins galore, people are ready for Spooky season and the throngs of trick-or-treaters that will be out later this month.