CHURCH SCHEDULES
Belview GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH Sundays: 9 a.m. Holy Communion, 10:15 a.m.
November 2022
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“With trumpets and the sound of the horn shout with joy
I played trumpet in high school. There are a few things I remember most about playing trumpet.
USDA designates nine counties as Natural Disaster Areas, including Yellow Medicine
This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including the replacement of essential items such as equipment or livestock, reorganization of a farming operation or the refinance of certain debts. FSA will review the loans based on the extent of losses, security available and repayment ability.
Clarkfield Community Closeup
Sons of Norway will meet at 2pm on Saturday, Nov. 12th at the Kilowatt Center in Granite Falls Clarkfield News Brandon Dack went to Luther Haven Nursing Home in Montevideo to visit his grandma Libby Dack & play Rummy last Monday.
Memory Care Corner:
At our last event, we received questions about sundowning. As promised, I will utilize today’s column to shed some light on this subject.
News from WRAP:
Becci ten Bensel & Women’s Rural Advocacy Program (WRAP) Staff On a single night in January of 2022, there were 7917 people facing homelessness in Minnesota. This statistic comes from the Minnesota HMIS (Homeless Management Information System).
Notes from the Granite Area Arts Council: MN River Successfully Serenaded
If you were watching the Vikings game at the American Legion on Sunday the sixth, we hope you didn’t mind the choral accompaniment that likely wafted through the floor from upstairs. Perhaps our renditions of “Down to the River to Pray” and other river-themed tunes somehow helped the team pull off their surprising victory. Who knows? The CAIR River Sing was a success, thanks to 50+ intergenerational participants, a plaintive and emotionally stirring musical saw, my mother’s multiple aging songbooks / zest for hymns, and the muscle power that hauled the piano out of Bluenose’s gazebo, up Main Street, and up an elevator on one of the windiest days of the year. Special kudos to the multiple kid performers who took the floor in the latter half of the event, adding dance moves and singular piano-key plinks to their tunes.
Beyond Reason
Rob Perez People are Dying To Get in There October was a lot of skeletons and zombies and ghosts and it made me realize that Halloween omits an important step before the afterlife. The transition.
Meet Dinosaurs! event held at Granite Falls Public Library
The Granite Falls Public Library held a Meet Dinosaurs! event on Saturday, November 5th. The event was brought to life by Curt Struz, of Struz Entertainment, based out of Wisconsin. Kids and adults packed the library to its gills! Struz brought some of the dinosaurs to life, including a baby triceratops, velociraptor, and a baby t-rex in an egg.