February 2025

Over the weekend, the Section 3A Dance tournament was held in Montevideo with 11 teams competing. The Silhouettes scored 2nd place in the Jazz Division with eight points, and second place in the High Kick division with eight points to earn a spot in the State Class A High Kick and Jazz tournaments. The state jazz tournament takes place on Friday at 11:30 a.m. at the Minneapolis Target Center, while the high kick tournament takes place Saturday at 11:30 a.m. in the same location.

The Lions Buck Tournament was held at the Rock Dining and Events during Ole & Lena Days. The winners are (Left to right) 2nd Taylor and Sue Tollefson; 1st Jon and Bob Thoma; 3rd Todd Mathei and Mark Grannes. There were a total of 34 teams that played in the annual tournament.

On February 8th, the Quad County youth wrestlers took first place at the Marshall K-3rd grade tournament.

During one of the colder, iciest and foggiest days on the Lower Sioux Reservation in southwest Minnesota in mid-January, a team of four Anishinaabe men from the White Earth Nation in northwestern Minnesota created an ideal green marriage of hemp and solar. There, 8th Fire Solar brought a solar thermal panel to install on a recently built hempcrete house – perhaps the perfect housing material of the future.