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  • Joined: August 30, 2022
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City Council approves second reading of Edibles Zoning Ordinance

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.

UPCOMING EVENTS

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.

Notes from the Granite Area Arts Council: MN River Successfully Serenaded

If you were watching the Vikings game at the American Legion on Sunday the sixth, we hope you didn’t mind the choral accompaniment that likely wafted through the floor from upstairs. Perhaps our renditions of “Down to the River to Pray” and other river-themed tunes somehow helped the team pull off their surprising victory. Who knows? The CAIR River Sing was a success, thanks to 50+ intergenerational participants, a plaintive and emotionally stirring musical saw, my mother’s multiple aging songbooks / zest for hymns, and the muscle power that hauled the piano out of Bluenose’s gazebo, up Main Street, and up an elevator on one of the windiest days of the year. Special kudos to the multiple kid performers who took the floor in the latter half of the event, adding dance moves and singular piano-key plinks to their tunes.

News from WRAP:

Becci ten Bensel & Women’s Rural Advocacy Program (WRAP) Staff On a single night in January of 2022, there were 7917 people facing homelessness in Minnesota. This statistic comes from the Minnesota HMIS (Homeless Management Information System).

Memory Care Corner:

At our last event, we received questions about sundowning. As promised, I will utilize today’s column to shed some light on this subject.

Clarkfield Community Closeup

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.

USDA designates nine counties as Natural Disaster Areas, including Yellow Medicine

This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including the replacement of essential items such as equipment or livestock, reorganization of a farming operation or the refinance of certain debts. FSA will review the loans based on the extent of losses, security available and repayment ability.