We’re well into the spring sports season, and still dealing with cancellations, reschedules, and shortened games because of all the cold, rainy, windy weather. I don’t recall a spring sports season that’s been quite so interrupted in many years.
Thursday, May 5th: 4:15 p.m. Track and Field Girls and Boys Varsity Meet vs Multiple Schools at Yellow Medicine East High School.
Anyone with a 2022 Minnesota fishing or hunting license can receive a free camouflage and blaze orange Minnesota Twins logo cap thanks to a special ticket offer. That’s right — the Minnesota DNR Days are back at Twins games this season, through a partnership between the Twins and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
Ariel Christine Sakry was born on February 10, 1997, in Alexandria and brought much joy to her parents, Nichole (Toft) and Josh Sakry. She was baptized at Bethesda Lutheran Church in Alexandria and confirmed at Clarkfield Lutheran Church. Ariel graduated from Yellow Medicine East High School in Granite Falls in 2015 before attending Fergus Falls Community College for her generals. She had just recently been accepted to SMSU in Marshall to start her journey towards becoming a teacher. Not one to shy away from hard work, Ariel lived out her “what can I do to help you?” motto by serving others in a nursing capacity at the Clarkfield Care Center, as a lifeguard at the Clarkfield pool, and helping customers at J & S. She has worked since she was 15 years old after obtaining her CNA license.
The funeral service for Roger Schwerin, 64, of Maple Grove, took place at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, at the Horvath Remembrance Center in Marshall. Visitation was Tuesday from 3 - 7 p.m. with sharing of memories at 6:30 p.m. and Wednesday from 10 - 11 a.m. at the remembrance center. Interment took place at St. Luke’s Cemetery in Posen Township, rural Wood Lake. A livestream and recording of the service will be available at www. horvathfuneralservice.com. Our beloved dad, papa, brother, and friend Roger left us for the golden gates of Heaven while surrounded by his family and friends at Methodist Hospital on April 29.
Robert Abel, 84, of Granite Falls passed away Monday, November 1 at the Avera Granite Falls Care Center. A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, May 7 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Wing-Bain Funeral Home Chapel in Granite Falls.
We would like to extend our sincere thanks to all of our family, friends, neighbors and community during this most difficult time. Your phone calls, texts, visits, words of comfort, donations of memorials, donations of food and your support are greatly appreciated. We need to thank Everett and Wing-Bain Funeral Home for their wonderful care and support shown to our family. We also need to thank Pastor John McCosh and Rock Haven Church for a beautiful and touching memorial service. Also a huge thank you to pastor John McCosh for being with us and supporting us this last year. It gives us some peace to receive such blessings from the community that Jon loved so much.
The family of John Rice would like to thank everyone for their prayers, cards, visits, flowers memorials, and food donations brought to our homes at the time of the loss of our husband, father, and grand - father. A special thank you to Tim Velde for the beautiful service and support throughout this difficult time. Thank you also to Pastor David Christensen, Pastor Steve Quist, and Pastor Kelly Wasberg for their visits and words of comfort; to the pallbearers, the YMLC Service Group for serving the lunch after the funeral, the organist, Sunset Funeral Home, Avera Hospice, and the Granite Falls VFW and Legion and the Hanley Falls Legion for providing military honors at the funeral. Your kindness will always be remembered.
Mother’s Day is the one day a year when Mother gets to put her feet up and is waited on hand and foot by her minion. Father brings her an iced coffee, just the way she likes it. The children deliver the remote control, blankets, and a snack. Uninterrupted, Mother watches an entire episode of BBC-produced British period piece on PBS. It is pure bliss.
It was not one of those weekends to write home about as it was wet and chilly. Some locations picked up nearly 2.00 inches of rain. Rainfall amounts of .50 to 1.25 inches were very common throughout the state. All of this rain this spring, and the snow this past winter, has put the drought behind us for pretty much the entire state of Minnesota, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. For those who have not been happy with our chilly and wet spring, this has been the one silver lining in all of this crazy weather.