One of Yellow Medicine County’s two Pheasants Forever chapters, the East Medicine Pheasants Forever group has won the only National Award from Pheasants Forever to be given in Minnesota. A group of the East Medicine Pheasants Forever chapter’s members attended the National Pheasant Fest in Minneapolis on Saturday, February 18th to receive the distinction.
There is just a little time left to tell us about those in our communities who go above and beyond for others. There’s so much negativity surrounding us these days, so when our CherryRoad leaders called a meeting to discuss the new feature “Angels Among Us” - a magazine that will be published in April, I was excited to get to work on it.
Last week the Yellow Medicine East Girls Varsity Basketball team took on Lakeview at home for a 61-36 victory. Leaders in the game included Hannah Stark who scored 26 points with three assists and four steals, while Ruby Bones added another 14 points, eleven rebounds to the team total.
Early childhood education workers had more incentive than ever to choose Ridgewater College to advance their careers this semester. A new partnership with the Southwest Initiative Foundation (SWIF) is providing up to $30,000 to assist with students’ tuition and program costs for a March-start cohort of 11 students.
Hunters harvested about 170,000 deer during the 2022 deer hunting season, a lower total harvest than in recent years. Total harvest was down 7% compared to the 2021 season and 10% less than the five-year average deer harvest for Minnesota.
Psalm 121 is one of my favorites because it’s like a song of promises. Promises that God will be there for us always.
Spearers, anglers and bowfishers will be allowed to keep up to 10 gar — the toothy, prehistoric fish native to Minnesota waters — starting March 1, when a new gar possession limit is in effect on all Minnesota inland and border waters. The limit applies to longnose and shortnose gar, which previously could be kept in unlimited numbers, and is among other new regulations in the 2023 Minnesota Fishing Regulations booklet.
Dryer Doctors LLC in Montevideo has been in business for six years, offering grain dryer, and grain handling sales and service. The company found its beginnings in 2017, when Josh Bauman, John Keller, and Leon Fokken, all co-workers at Custom Ag left to work for Northern Grain, and only a year and a half later, Northern Grain closed its doors. “We had calls from farmers saying we don’t care if you’re working at Walmart - you’d better figure this out because this fall when we have harvest, you’re going to be in my yard,” says John Keller. “So out of necessity for the farmers, we just said ok.”
Potential residents, future employees and local businesses are invited to learn more about the Montevideo Veterans Home at a Community Office Open House. The event will be held Tuesday, March 7 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Montevideo Veterans Home Community Office located at 202 North 1st Street, Montevideo.
Belview GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH Sundays: 9 a.m. Holy Communion, 10:15 a.m.