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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.

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.

In the last days of school before the holiday break, Bert Raney Elementary students were surprised to see a special visitor in the halls when they arrived to school. Ester the Elf sat perched on a ladder in the hallway after having made quite the mess. Luckily, custodian Ron was on hand to help clean up the mess Ester the Elf left behind.