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“I have become like a broken vessel.” (Psalm 31:12b)

I remember repairing a broken cup years ago. It was one of my favorite cups, so I glued it back together. It was never quite the same again, so I used it for a pencil holder. I tried to make the repair invisible, but I wasn’t able—the cracks always showed. I didn’t know at that time, that there was a Japanese art called Kintsugi that started in the 1400s. Kintsugi is known as “golden repair.” According to wellbeing. com, “It was thought to be the invention of Japanese shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimasa, who charged his craftsmen with finding a more thoughtful, aesthetically pleasing way of fixing a broken tea bowl, rather than the traditional method of using ugly metal staples. Using precious metals, including gold, Japanese craftsmen started to bond together pieces of pottery by drawing attention to, rather than away from, the breaks, which in turn had the effect of making the break the most important part of the piece itself.”

COURT NEWS

Yellow Medicine County Sheriff’s Office Olby, Adrian Terry, Hanley Falls; Offense date 4/16/21 Traffic - DWI - Operate Motor Vehicle - Alcohol Concentration 0.08 Within 2 Hours (Felony); Plea 2/14/22 Guilty; Disposition 2/14/22 Convicted; Amended Court Decision 3/21/23 Sentenced Commit to Commissioner of Corrections - Adult (MN Correctional Facility - St. Cloud, 84 Mo, Stay For 84 Mo), Local Confinement Local Confinement (90 Days Credit for time served: 1 Days); $1,000 Fine.

BUILDING

Editor’s Note: What started as a project titled “Angels Among Us” has evolved into something so much more .

Helmsley Charitable Trust grant awarded to Avera Granite Falls

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has granted $682,498 to Avera and Access Health to purchase ultrasound machines as part of a $26.4 million ultrasound initiative in Minnesota. The initiative includes nearly $18.3 million to help Minnesota hospitals and health centers purchase ultrasound imaging devices and an additional $8.1 million to boost sonography and point of care ultrasound (POCUS) training opportunities across the state.

Informational Community meeting on Upper Sioux State Park land transfer

State Senator Gary Dahms (R – Redwood Falls) and State Representative Chris Swedzinski (R – Ghent) invite area residents to attend an informational meeting regarding the possible transfer of lands from the Upper Sioux Agency State Park to the Upper Sioux Community. The meeting will take place on Wednesday, April 5 at 7:00 p.m. in the cafeteria of the Minnesota West Community and Technical College Granite Falls Campus (1593 ‒ 11th Avenue). Folks should use the door to the AG Bush Student Center on 11th Avenue.

Notes from the Granite Area Arts Council

Important art update: our reverse-snowbird fairies have finally picked up sticks! If you’ve walked along Prentice St. over the last week, you may have noticed that our solstice village has been unearthed from the sheet of ice that trapped it there for far longer than planned… all thanks to gallery employee Lisa, who spent multiple hours hacking away (and may have incurred a minor case of winter sunburn as a result) to safely transport the houses to their secret summer storage location.

Garrison Keillor and Friends

I talked to a friend last week whose Lutheran church in Minneapolis is trying to attract people of color. Lutherans have been white for centuries, coming as they did from Scandinavia and Germany, countries that were never great colonial powers and didn’t grab big chunks of Africa and Lutheranize the indigenous people.