The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources asks that people avoid disturbing or touching deer fawns, which are born around this time of year. Most fawns are born in mid-May to mid-June, and fawns do not attempt to evade predators during their first few weeks of life.
The Granite Area Arts Council held a joint artists’ reception for photographer Jessica Stolen-Jacobson and artist Jeremy Radtke with a full house. Stolen- Jacobson’s display is in the main gallery, Chiaroscuro: An Exhibit, and Radtke’s display, 66 Korea with a Kodak, is in the Emerging Artist’s gallery. Both artists gave talks during the joint reception. Stolen-Jacobson discussed her last year working on her exhibit and explained how she involved several people from the community in her work by having them be the models for the portraits on display.
On Friday, the Yellow Medicine East boys and girls varsity Track & Field teams traveled to Cottonwood for the Lakeview Invitational. The boys team took the seventh place spot with a score of 19 points, while the girls team took fifth with a score of 43.
The weather played a big part in how the race night went at Fiesta City Speedway. Rain showers throughout the day made for a fast and tacky track.
Belview GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH Sundays: 9 a.m. Holy Communion Sunday May 7: 9:30 am Sunday School, 10:30 am Holy Communion Sunday, May 14th: 10:15 a.m.
Since its inception in 2002, the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association, along with the DNR and Explore Minnesota, has been an organizing partner of the Governor’s Deer Opener. While this is a great event, designed to celebrate the pastime that we all love and cherish, MDHA will not be participating this year. In a unanimous decision, our Executive Board voted not to support this year’s Governor’s Opener due to continued attempts to ban wolf hunting and anti-gun legislation within the state, which are in direct opposition to our mission.
I salute the Hollywood writers who went out on strike this past week but I can tell you that we essayists won’t be joining them. For one thing, the essay is deeply imbedded in our nation’s very identity (U.S.A.) but for another thing, a national essay strike would be like a National Husbands Day of Silence, most wives wouldn’t care and many wouldn’t notice.
Last week, I managed to let everyone know how awkward I can be more than once, but the best display of this happened during the artist’s reception for the exhibit that I and Jeremy Radtke both have on display at the Granite Area Arts Council. As we were both designated time to speak at this event, there was a requirement to stand in front of everyone and talk about the project. Of course, the first thing I did was let everyone know I was nervous sweating. Apparently, my nervous coping skill is to let everyone know that, indeed, I am nervous. It was a wonderful event though, and I’m very thankful for everyone who ventured to the gallery that evening. It’s always weird to talk about something that you’ve worked on that feels so intimate, as if you’re sharing a little of yourself with many people. It’s also really hard to receive compliments (I am, after all, Minnesotan). The exhibit remains in the gallery for those still interested in seeing it. I was also told by a reader that I don’t look like my column photo at all. That made me laugh a little because my own mother has also pleaded with me to change that. Maybe someday. In the meantime, my oldest child’s daily phone calls home have been a daily countdown to his leave from Fort Drum to return to Minnesota for a short, two-week visit home. We have a routine of chatting in the morning while we are both getting ready for the day. Even though New York is in a different time zone, I’m an early riser, so this works out well. There’s always a lot to do and a lot of people to see during his visits. He’s always been my right-hand guy on projects that must be done around the house requiring more than one set of hands. So of course, last trip included removing a very large damaged tree branch without destroying the roof, this trip will involve some repair to some crumbling brick on the chimney. But this trip, in particular, will have even more activity than usual as we prepare for his wedding that will ta
Clarkfield American Legion will have its Memorial Ay Service at the Clarkfield Cemetery on Monday, May 29th at 9 a.m. Bring your own chair, please.
What is a Gruffalo? The Gruffalo is a beloved character from Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. The Gruffalo has terrible tusks, claws, teeth and jaws, knobby knees, turned-out toes, and a poisonous wort at the end of his nose.