Thrivent, a Fortune 500 diversified financial services organization, is pleased to announce that Mark Jensen, ChFC, LUTCF, RICP of Granite Falls was recently inducted into the organization’s prestigious Hall of Fame. He is one of only 12 inductees in 2023. Jensen is a Financial Associate for the Midwest Rockies Advisor Group.
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.
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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.
Art Attack is the newest community driven art program that the Granite Area Arts Council is offering the public. This new group, open to all ages and with most upcoming events being free, is starting this Thursday, April 6th from 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Granite Falls Police Department Benoit, Robert Charles, Granite Falls; Offense date 2/11/23 Disorderly Conduct - Offensive/Abusive/ Noisy/Obscene (Misdemeanor); Plea 3/27/23 Guilty; Disposition 3/27/23 Convicted; Court Decision 3/27/23 Sentenced Local Confinement (90 Days, Stay 0 Yr 0 Mo 90 Days for 1 Yr); $150 Fine. Logan, Christyan Matthew, Bagley; Offense date 8/14/22 Damage to Property - 3rd Degree - Reduce Value $501 - $1000; Plea 3/31/23 Guilty; Disposition 3/31/23 Convicted; Court Decision 3/31/23 Sentenced Local Confinement (138 Days, Stay 0 Yr 0 Mo 0 Days Credit for time served: 138 Days).
Sunset Funeral Home Echo, MN Thursday, April 13, 2023 4:00 p.m. .
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.
Submitted Healthy Tip of the Week: and (b) the added preservatives are bad for our health. Many processed foods contain a high amount of salt which leads to higher blood pressure and heart disease.
Around 1 a.m., on Thursday, March 30th, a train operated by BNSF Railway traveling through Raymond derailed with approximately 22 tanker cars going off the tracks, and caught fire. A press release from the Kandiyohi County Sheriff’s Office noted that the tankers were carrying “a form of ethanol” and “a corn syrup liquid”. The cause of the derailment is currently unknown and under investigation. Evacuations took place within a half-mile radius of the site, with residents being instructed to leave their homes, and being directed to a school in the nearby town of Prinsburg. According to the Raymond Fire Department’s Facebook post, the evacuation was for “precautionary measures”.