“Can farmers be happier and more profitable working with, instead of against, Mother Nature, or as I prefer to call it: God’s creation?” This was the question asked by rural Sacred Heart farmer Phil Smith, who’s family farm served as the host site for last month’s annual Soil Health Field Day organized by the Renville County Soil and Water Conservation District’s (SWCD) .
Jon Dell is performing live music at Bluenose Gopher Public House on Wednesday, November 16th starting at 6 pm. The performance will be his first time being featured at Bluenose. Dell grew up in Nebraska. He attended college there, studying theater and music. Dell stayed around the Lincoln, Neb. area for a few years after graduating college, playing bass with a couple of local bands. He now currently resides in Brooklyn, New York after following his sweetheart there about eight years ago. Though he has never been to Granite Falls specifically, Dell has been through Minnesota a few times with various bands. Mankato was about as far into Minnesota as he’s been so far. When asked how he ended up with Granite Falls on his tour roster, Dell said, “Luke [Hendrickson] reached out to me through this network of singer-songwriters that we’ve kind of built all over the country. He set up several shows for me in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and one of the places that he said I should definitely go play was Bluenose Gopher Public House. So, Luke set up the show for me, but through looking at the website, I’ve seen several people that I know who have also played there. It must be a good spot. I’m looking forward to it.” Dell’s favorite part of creating music is connecting with the people listening. “The thing I love most about it is finding things that I connect with people all over the country. Being a folk singer, it’s a pretty stripped down show. It’s just me on an acoustic guitar singing my songs and telling the stories of how I came up with them. If I’m in a loud, noisy bar I like to find the one person who’s paying attention and just try to connect with them,” Dell said. He also explained that once he starts getting a couple of people engaged that he’s connecting with, usually other people then start following along.
One of the topics of discussion at Monday evening’s meeting of the Granite Falls City Council was the results of the recent meeting of the Utility Commission. The discussion from the commission included an update on the turbine #3 project of the hydroelectric facility. Turbine parts are scheduled to be installed into the pit December 1st with a generator to be installed shortly after, while the draft tube and building of the generator floor are underway now. The company installing the updated parts, Canyon Hydro, is asking the City to accept a proposed completion date change from February 1st of 2023 to April 1st, 2023. The council approved the recommendation to move the date. The council also heard a requst by the Baseball Association to waive building permit fees for the construction work happening at Richter Field. It was also noted that if the council were to approve waiving the permit fees for Richter Field, they should consider waiving the permit fees for the improvements soon to be made at the Softball field. The council approved waiving the permit fees for both projects.
Friday, November 11th: Veteran’s Day program at Fagen Fighters WWII Museum. Friday, November 11th & Saturday, November 12th: Yellow Medicine East Presents Anastasia in the YME Auditorium at 7 p.m.
This Sunday at 2 pm, the Building Bridges Choir will be hosting a performance of patriotic and Americana songs at the St. Paul Lutheran Church sanctuary. The concert is free and open to the public, and there will be snacks served afterward.
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.
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.
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At our last event, we received questions about sundowning. As promised, I will utilize today’s column to shed some light on this subject.
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.