YES! House guest artist JJ Kapur to host “Letters of Love” workshop and performance
Department of Public Transformation (DoPT) and The YES! House, a project of DoPT, is excited to host guest artist JJ Kapur for a 6 day residency at The YES! House.
March 2025
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Annual event provides opportunity for local students to experience agriculture
On March 12th, the annual Ag in the Classroom event was held at the Minnesota West campus in Granite Falls. Each year in March, Yellow Medicine County Farm Bureau hosts the event that allows for 4th grade students from area schools to gather with local commodity groups, electric industry representatives and farm safety instructors. This year, seven schools including Montevideo, Lakeview and YME attended, bringing more than 300 students to the venue to meet with the five commodity groups. Each group hosts a 20 minute session of educational information.
Garrison Keillor & Friends: The beauteous face in utero…
I once walked down Wabasha Avenue in downtown St. Paul and was stopped by an old wino who asked for something to eat and when I gave him a couple bucks, he said, “You’re Garrison Keillor, you can do better than that.” The man had bad habits but his thinking was clear. I was a nobody from Anoka who got his picture on the cover of Time and my notoriety should mean profits for the needy. But that was many years ago and fame fades fast. I haven’t been recognized by a wino for at least thirty years.
Another storm could be on the way
The National Weather Service says 1 to 3 inches of snow was common from the late winter/early spring storm system late Friday into Saturday. A few spots picked up over 5 inches.
Construction on new bike trail expected this summer
At Monday evening’s meeting of the City Council, City Engineer Mike Amborn of Rodeberg & Berryman, Inc, was in attendance to provide an update on the proposed bike trail improvements along County Road 5. The trail project was awarded a grant in 2021 through the Minnesota Department of Transportation Alternatives (TA) Program. The federal grant is administered through MnDOT for projects intended to improve pedestrian transportation infrastructure.
This Happened Here: Duluth Blood…
[Welcome to the words of our first guest columnist! Johanna Luetmer, a writer, musician, and child development expert who currently lives in St. Paul, has graciously agreed to share this tale of a cozy Minnesota afternoon turned harrowing. Enjoy.]
Notes from the Granite Area Arts Council: This Week, It’s All About the Pets…
Last Saturday, I had the pleasure of attending the salon for River Valley Ripple artist Sierra Kallio, who’d been occupying a YES! House apartment for three weeks, holed up with a lot of recycled materials (scavenged from local bins + donated to her, more on that below) to craft paintings and a film. The house was packed.
Seed Library launch event planned for Saturday
On Saturday, March 22nd, the Granite Falls Public Library is hosting an event to launch its new Seed Library.
“…for the wind passes over it, and it is gone…” Psalm 103:16a
Today I am writing from the second highest location in Cottonwood County. I am at Shalom Hill Farm, about 17 miles north west of Windom, overlooking miles of Minnesota prairie. One of the common elements of nature residing here is the wind. There’s something about a prairie wind. I feel it often at Bergen and St. Lucas churches when I’m there.