Life after high school: are you ready to go to college?
Minnesota West Community & Technical College If you are the first generation of your family to have the opportunity for college, Minnesota West is offering a “College is for Me” program in June at our Worthington and Granite Falls Campuses. Free of cost to attend and we encourage first-generation students and English language learners of all ages with a High School diploma or GED to sign up.
Editor’s Note: The newspaper’s Building Community
Feature is taking a hiatus this week. In the meantime, feel free to continue nominating those you know who help to build community - whether it’s through small things, or very large, life-changing things. Those who inspire ideas in others they may not have considered, and who would offer words of encouragement from a place of having overcome their own challenges to be more involved in community.
YME tennis hosts Osakis
Last Tuesday, the YME boys varsity tennis team hosted Osakis, taking a 0-7 loss. Scoring from that meet follows: Singles (1) Isaac Maddock, def. Ryan Syring (YME) 6-0, 6-0 2) Tyler Stier def. Karter Canatsey (YME) 6-4, 6-4 (3) Bryce Moen def. Liam Hadfield (YME) 6-0, 6-0 (4) Micah Moore def. Evan Christianson (YME) 6-0, 6-1 Doubles (1) Connor Gulbranson/Marcus Wolf def. Gage Corner/Ryan Brouwer (YME) 6-4, 6-1 (2) Fisher Torgerson/Preston Stienert def. Devin Ladwig/Mathias Vonderharr (YME) 6-0, 6-0 (3) Kellen George/Trent Redetezke def. Hlaing Aung/Jayden Yackley (YME) 6-0, 6-2.
YME baseball takes on KMS, Benson
Last Tuesday, the YME boys varsity baseball team traveled to Kerkhoven to take on KMS for a 1-2 loss. Scoring from that game follows: YME 001 000 0-1 5 1 KMS 200 000 x-2 2 0 Hitting - Bryce Sneller 1-1 bb-2, Landon Anderson 2-4, Cody Dahlager 1-3 r, Jake Odegard 1-3 rbi, Connor Fagen 0-1 bb, Drew Almich 0-2 bb Pitching - Sneller (L) 4-1-2-2-3-6, Nick Moritz 2-1-0-0-0-0.
Kilowatt Community Center News
Submitted Healthy Tip of the Week: A simple hack for healthy eating (and portion control) is to make half your plate veggies at each meal. The veggies pack in essential vitamins, minerals and other phytonutrients important for health and longevity.
Garrison Keillor and Friends
Spring leaped out at us in New York last week — suddenly one day it was 80, just like me — it sprang at us shang a lang lang as once we’d sung so we were sprung from the steel corset of winter and I took a couple of Londoners to lunch at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station where, when I was 11, I ate my first oyster on a trip from Minnesota with my dad. I saw him eat one and so I ate one and I trace my independence back to that 1953 oyster — when you eagerly devour something that would disgust your beloved aunts, you’ve taken a step toward becoming your own person.
Horse made popular in children’s book and author to visit Granite Falls this weekend
This Saturday, a special guest is coming to Lee-Mar Ranch Equine Center. Tammy Rudningen, of rural Pennock, along with her horse Tic Tac will be bringing registered guests an experience that includes a copy of Rudningen’s book, penned under the name T.R. Star, titled “Tic Tac Takes a Tour”, the chance to meet and take photos with Tic Tac - the star of the book, and a reading of the children’s story.