March 2023
Lady Jays Basketball earns At-Large bid to the 2023 NJCAA National Tournament
After a long week of waiting for the DIII Selection Show, the Lady Jays (27-4) were excited to earn the #5 seed as the second-selected, At-Large team to play in the NJCAA DIII Women’s Basketball National Championship.
“I wait for you, O Lord; my soul waits; in your word is my hope.” (Psalm 130:5)
She couldn’t help it. Something was missing. Something deep inside wasn’t right; like an ocean wave without the sound. Vacant. Lost. A vacuum created by guilt. She was waiting, but she didn’t know what she was waiting for…to fill that void, she took another drink. Then like the psalmist she cries out on her knees, begging, “O Lord, hear my voice! Open your ears and hear me. O Lord, if you keep track of sins, I know I’m not worthy? O Lord, who could be?” She was at her bottom. Again, God heard her voice and sent words of hope. Words she finally heard. Words that filled her with life-giving air, renewing her hope for life.
CHURCH SCHEDULES
Belview GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH Sundays: 9 a.m. Holy Communion, 10:15 a.m.
From the Editor’s Desk
You know how sometimes you think you’re going to do just a quick, little project and then it turns into something that consumes your entire day? That happens to me a lot in my house. So on Sunday morning, when I realized I had no photo sessions scheduled for the first Sunday in many months, and no events to cover for the newspaper or last minute interviews scheduled for the weekend, I decided I could get a couple of small projects done around the house that were desperately needed.
Notes from United Way
The great Hotdish/casserole debate. It is a Midwestern story as old as time.
Notes from the Granite Area Arts Council
The artists have applied! Our 2023 Community Artist-in-Residence call is now closed, and the Advisory Board convened this week to start the process of choosing our finalists for this year’s residency. Thanks to the Blandin Foundation grant, we’re this time able to invite those artists to Granite Falls and try it before they buy it (and vice versa), reality TV style: as part of the application process, three artists will soon visit to complete two-day mini-residencies on this year’s theme, which is “Flora, Fauna and Fungi.” After that, one artist will be offered the six-month residency.
Clarkfield
Paula Ramsay, former Band Director at the Clarkfield School for 40 years, passed away at age 90 in Edmond, OK on March 12th. He also played organ at Clarkfield Lutheran Church.
Live Well, Age Wisely
I will share a secret with you – I get a little nervous when I sit down to write this! Each column presents an opportunity to share resources or ideas to help make life easier and I want to be sure I’m making the most of it. When I’m looking ahead at my calendar and see there is one due soon, I say a little prayer for guidance.
Great Women of Granite Falls, Clarkfield and the Upper Sioux Community
Part One of a Series: Norma Lucille Hanson Luedke Kennedy Norma Lucille Hanson was born in Granite Falls on 03-30-28. Her parents were Ludwig and Nellie (Dotseth) Hanson, whose families were early homesteaders in Yellow Medicine County, and very involved in the early days of the communities of Clarkfield, Normania, and Spring Creek.