By the time this article is read, some of you may have already given up on some of the New Year’s Resolutions you made a week ago. Maybe the goal you set in your resolution was not reasonable – or maybe you don’t even believe in making New Year’s Resolutions? Either way, many use the beginning of a New Year as a “clean slate” to try to do things better, whether for ourselves or for others.
January is Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month as well as National Stalking Awareness Month. WoMen’s Rural Advocacy Programs, Inc.
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.
The current artist on display at the KK Berge building in the main artist’s gallery, Maya Ulrich, grew up in the Renville area with another wellknown local artist, Tamara Isfeld, as her art teacher. Ulrich also grew up with artist parents who cultivated a creative environment for her to grow, learn, and evolve.
150th anniversary of historic, deadly blizzard this week Just in time for the 150th anniversary of the Great Blizzard of 1873, former Kandiyohi County resident Carolyn Mankell Sowinski has published a book titled “The Great Storm: Minnesota’s Victims in the Blizzard of January 7, 1873.” Sowinski became interested in the idea of writing the book when doing research on her own genealogy, and discovering that her great-great grandfather had been caught in the blizzard. He survived, but in her research, Sowinski discovered that in Kandiyohi County alone, twelve people had died as a result of the storm.
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Jeanette Hendrickson, 95, of Montevideo passed away Tuesday, December 27, 2022, at Luther Haven Nursing Home in Montevideo. A funeral service was held Friday, December 30, 2022, at 10 a.m. at Wing-Bain Funeral Home in Granite Falls. Visitation was from 9 - 10 a.m. at the funeral home, one hour prior to the service. Jeanette Corinne Hendrickson was born October 9, 1927, the daughter of John and Clara Tofte in Appleton. She was baptized and confirmed at Drywood Lutheran Church in rural Appleton. She grew up on a farm in Swift County near Drywood Lake. Jeanette is a graduate of Appleton High School. She continued her education at Moorhead State University and received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Elementary Education. She taught in several area schools. Her final years of teaching were spent in Granite Falls where she and her husband Donald Hendrickson resided. Jeanette enjoyed traveling, having traveled to Hawaii, Mexico, Bermuda, various areas of United States and Canada. She also spent two months touring 18 countries in Europe. After retirement she enjoyed being a homemaker, assisting family members and spending time with her friends. She was an active member of Granite Falls Lutheran Church where she taught Bible School for several years and was also a member of the Altar Guild for a number of years. She is survived by her sister Arlene Grube of Appleton; brother Richard Tofte of Morris; and several nieces, nephews and extended family and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband Donald, her parents and sister Doris Nelson.
Often when I’m writing and need to concentrate, I’ll put my earbuds in and go to my Prime Music account and search for “Canon in D” and then start playing all the different versions of this song. There are many, many recordings of this song, all with different interpretations of the same music that was written by the German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel in the late- 1600s.
Belview GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH Sundays: 9 a.m. Holy Communion, 10:15 a.m.
Patricia Lubeck is a local author who has just released her new book, Asylum Scandals. This book is about two of Minnesota’s two oldest state hospitals. One in St. Pete (that opened in 1866) and one in Rochester (that opened in 1879). Her latest book tells the harrowing tales of patients who were locked away in the asylums.