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Clarkfield American Legion will have its Memorial Ay Service at the Clarkfield Cemetery on Monday, May 29th at 9 a.m. Bring your own chair, please.
I loved the Choose Your Own Adventure books when I was growing up. You would read part of a chapter and then you’d have to make a decision, each of which would send you to a different page in the book.
South Dakota singer/songwriter Brady Wrede returned to Bluenose Gopher Public House downtown Friday evening for a second performance at the venue. Wrede performed there last summer, and returned with new music last week. On hand were also copies of all three of his EPs for sale. The concert was free to attend. The next event to be held at the venue will be Saturday, May 13th when Damen Tesch hosts the last performance of his Bluenose Music Residency. There will also be a grill-out from 5-8 p.m., with music beginning 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tesch is a singer/songwriter originally from Marshall who recently returned to the area after having traveled for the last 25 years.
Yellow Medicine East Senior Softball players with their parents (Left to right) Donnie, Aria and Jami Peters; Will, Hannah and Jill Stark; Kelly, Hailey and Nick Baker; Angie Ochoa, Atrinity Tipton, and Serenity Uribe.
A variety of vendors are returning, with some new vendors joining the mix for this season’s annual Makers Market series held on the Riverwalk in downtown Granite Falls. The first in the series takes place Thursday, June 1st from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Sometimes we think we have more time than we do. As was the case with my entire week last week, planning to write this very column Sunday evening to allow for the week to play out enough that I may have something of local interest to talk about. Alas, sometimes the weekend goes to chaos, such as this one did for me, and Monday morning I’m struggling to collect a single, useful thought before the deadline for the first newspaper jumps up to grab this column that hasn’t yet been written.
This year’s annual Prom event at Yellow Medicine East High School was met with challenges as moments before the traditional drive-up began, rain poured from the sky. Guests braved the rain with umbrellas in tow to watch the students drive-up to enter the school for their evening of activities. The rain continued to pour, with some brief lightening before falling heavily again, ending towards the end of the drive-up portion of the evening.
When you bang up your knee so it swells up like an elephant’s and it brings tears to your eyes to take a step, the orthopedic guy gives you a knee brace to wear requiring four straps to be wrapped tight around the leg and hooked and held tight by Velcro strips, a piece of equipment that I, a professional humorist with less mechanical ability than the average primate, need to remove every night when I go to bed and reattach in the morning. My wife could do this in a jiffy but I made her go to Minnesota to play the opera (she’s a violist) because I love her and because I don’t want her to see me as a pitiful helpless wretch.
YME Trap Coach Sandra Berthelsen says that Sunday, May 7th, the fourth week of Conference Competition rounds was an exciting day. “Not only did we get to show off our sponsored businesses banner,” she says. Logan Hoff shoot a perfect score 25/25. This is Logan’s third “25” patch since he started trap shooting. With the next squad, Garrett Cob shot his lettering score of 20/25 for this season. “We could not be shooting on a High School Trap Team if it wasn’t for the MN Heartland Preserve. They put forth the efforts with East Medicine Pheasants Forever, Chippewa County Pheasants Forever, Southwestern Prairie Sportsmans Club, Granite Falls Redi-Mix and Troy’s Electric to build the ranges we shoot on,” Berthelsen says. Next week’s highlights wrap up the season’s conference rounds.