Saturday, April 8: Sons of Norway, Elvidal Lodge, will meet Saturday, April 8, 2:00pm at the Kilowatt Community Center. Nicole Zempel will present a program on mushrooms, with samples to taste. She forages for mushrooms locally and creates art using mushrooms. Visitors welcome.
The Sons of Norway will meet at 2pm at the Kilowatt Center in Granite Falls on Saturday April 8th. Nicole Zempel will speak on raising mushrooms.
April is here! Happy Easter everyone!! Our Annual Easter Coloring Contest has generated 170 entries!! Good Luck to all the 3- 8-year-olds that entered. Three gift baskets will be awarded to the winners in three age categories.
Each week, the Advocate Tribune will share a photograph from our archives for you to “guess who”. To submit your guesses, send us a message by email to jstolen-jacobson@cherryroad.com or message our Facebook page. We will publish the answers the next week.
When life is going well, it’s easy for Psalm 118:24 to pop into my mind, “This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” And that’s wonderful! But that isn’t the kind of day the psalmist was having when this psalm was written.
Typically Minnesota ranks high on all sorts of charts, whether it’s for US Census participation or quality of life. So I was a little disappointed when I read we are ranked 39th in SNAP Access.
At Monday evening’s meeting of the Granite Falls City Council, head librarian Larissa Schwenk was in attendance to give a report on the Granite Falls Library. In her report, Schwenk noted that in 2022 the library offered 154 programs, including storytime at the libray, Lego Club, adult and kid make-and-take activities and more. Across those programs, there were 2,376 community members that participated.
OF THE WEEK Submitted by Myrna Stölen A note from Myrna: This is a good way to use hot dogs. Hot Dog Surprise 2 cups chopped hot dogs 2 cups chopped ham or spam 1/2 cup sharp cheddar cheese, grated 2 chopped hardboiled eggs 3 teaspoons ketchup 2 tablespoons pickle relish 1 teaspoon mustard 1/2 onion, chopped Mix all together really well.
At least once in your long and delicious life you owe it to yourself to go hear Olivier Messiaen’s “Turangalîla-symphonie” and don’t wait until you’re 80 as I did but finally last week went to hear the New York Philharmonic take us on this wild 90-minute roller- coaster ride in which Catholics are kidnapped and Baptists go Buddhist and you think in French and fly in a formation of geese and get a taste of molecular physics as horses go galloping down the aisles, and in the gorgeous slow passage “Garden of Sleeping Love” you will fall in love forever with the person next to you so be very careful where you sit. I sat next to my sweetheart and after years of thinking I was averse to modern music, here was a hymn to joy and time, movement, rhythm, life and death, with big Wagnerian chords, delicate intervals, a dozen percussionists, a genius pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and we’ve been happily married ever since.
As ice comes off southern Minnesota lakes, evidence of this year’s harsh winter is washing up along the shorelines on some shallow lakes. While dead and dying fish washing ashore in spring can be discouraging to see, it’s the result of a process called “winterkill,” according to biologists with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.