Are you ready for severe weather? Each year, Homeland Security and Emergency Management (HSEM), in collaboration with the National Weather Service sponsors Severe Weather Awareness Week in Minnesota. The week is designed to refresh, remind and educate everyone about the seasonal threats from severe weather and how to avoid them. It’s also a great time to make and practice your emergency plan and build or refresh your emergency preparedness kit.
Feature is taking a one week hiatus this week due to the holiday. 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.
Last week, five Yellow Medicine East students traveled to Lakeview to compete in the local region’s solo/ensemble contest. Devin Ladwig (baritone) received an Excellent Rating on his vocal solo. Abbagail Green (clarinet), Ashton Helgeson (mezzo), Zach Mc-Geary (Tenor), and Hannah Stark (soprano) all received Superior Ratings for their solos.
Yellow Medicine East boasts a senior-heavy baseball roster this spring, which has 12th-year coach Trevor Schulte and his players beaming with confidence ahead of the 2023 season. “Nine experienced seniors, who have been tested in tight games throughout their careers,” Schulte said on Monday morning, when asked to define the strength of the mighty Sting.
Pickleball at the KCC: Groups are playing on the following days / times: Mondays & Wednesdays - 1:00pm – 3:00pm Tuesdays & Thursdays nights - 6:00pm - 8:00pm Fridays - 9:00am 11:00am FREE for members, and just the daily fee for non-members. No experience necessary.
Late Monday afternoon, a force of officers from the Cooperative Enforcement Effort…
The following are recordings from the public meeting held in Granite Falls…
This column was written in the gently-cat-chewed shade of a small but blooming collection of branches from my yard. Thanks to local plant expert Nicole Zempel’s Facebook post, I remembered that this is a thing you can do: collect bare branches, stick them in water, and then enjoy leaves a little ahead of schedule.
On Saturday evening, a crowd almost more than the Lee-Mar Ranch Equine Center could hold gathered for the fourth annual Healing Hearts Night at the Barn fundraiser. The event featured a multitude of silent auction items donated by area businesses and organizations - everything from saddles and riding gear, to stays at a local Air BnB.
When an athlete shoots a “Perfect Score of 25” they receive a 25 patch from the Minnesota Clay Target league. Also, for that 1st time accomplishment, YME Trap coaches chose to give those athletes a gun case as an extra bonus. The following Trap team participants were presented were certificates and the gun cases: Ryan Brouwer and Logan Hoff. Both accomplished their perfect score last season. “We would like to thank the Runnings store in Marshall, MN for the donation of a gun case for our young shooter(s),” says coach Sandy Berthelsen. This past week the team shot with the simulator. “I know the kids want to shoot outside but nobody is. So this is the next best thing. We hope to be on the range to shoot soon if the snow would ever stop piling up,” Berthelsen says.