In observance of National Safe Digging Month in April, Great Plains Natural Gas wants to bring awareness to a simple process that will keep people safe, reduce service disruptions and have those planning to dig follow the law.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is modernizing payment options in state parks, recreation areas and forest campgrounds by discontinuing the use of on-site self-payment collection boxes and expanding electronic payment options. This includes deploying an app for mobile devices called Yodel.
Nancy Black, Tribune Content Agency TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (04/06/23). Follow personal passion this year. Attain prizes with steady practice, planning and coordination. You’re on top of the world this spring. A shared financial twist requires summer resolution, deepening autumn collaboration and partnership. Discover new income sources next winter. Love inspires greatness.
Thrivent, a Fortune 500 diversified financial services organization, is pleased to announce that Mark Jensen, ChFC, LUTCF, RICP of Granite Falls was recently inducted into the organization’s prestigious Hall of Fame. He is one of only 12 inductees in 2023. Jensen is a Financial Associate for the Midwest Rockies Advisor Group.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) today released its environmental assessment worksheet (EAW) for a new swine feedlot in Yellow Medicine County. Luke and Melissa Stevens plan to house 4,800 heads of grow-finish or weanto- finish swine near the town of Hazel Run, on land currently used for row-crop agriculture and surrounded by small residential farms.
The 17th Annual SMSU Fine Arts Celebration returns March 28 through May 5. The celebration features creative works from the Fine Arts and Communication Department and the Creative Writing Program.
The Minnesota Highway Safety Center will be offering 55+ Driver Discount Courses on April 20th from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Granite Falls Senior Center and April 26th 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Montevideo Community Center. Both are four-hour refresher courses.
Editor’s Note: What started as a project titled “Angels Among Us” has evolved into something so much more than we originally anticipated. We put out the call asking for nominations of people in our communities who go above and beyond for others, with overwhelming response. What resulted is a new concept - a new weekly series called “Building Community” with a focus on how our community members from all walks of life are building the kind of community they want to live in, whether its through small things, or very large life changing things. It’s about inspiring ideas in others we may not have considered, and hearing words of encouragement from those who have overcome their own challenges to become more involved in our communities. To tell us about someone you know that’s helping to build community, send an email to jstolen-jacobson@cherryroad.com.
Morgan IronHeart found a drive to build community after reaching a low point in life. “To be honest, opiate addiction and my drinking had just gotten to a point where I wanted to give up on life. I just felt hopeless. There was no light at the end of the tunnel,” he says. “As a last ditch effort and surrender, I went to treatment and in treatment I got to spend time with my counselor. That was my first time really spending time with a positive male role model, in a cultural setting, too.”