Chad Reimer (Granite Falls) and Justin Weckwerth (Montevideo) come from small towns in western Minnesota where everyone knows your name. On Tuesday night at the National Bowling Stadium, they were able to put together a score of 1,136 to take the lead in Standard Doubles at the 2023 United States Bowling Congress Open Championships, giving the bowling world the chance to know their names.
Over the course of 2023, the Granite Falls Area Historical Society (GFHS) will be seeking to collaborate with area communities in an effort to showcase the lives and contributions of the great women of Granite Falls area history through stories, exhibits and theatrical performances.
Mort Meyenburg Vicar of Healing Waters Lutheran Parish, Lutheran Seminary Student From the Oxford Languages online dictionary light is defined as a noun, a verb, and an adjective. As a noun it is “the natural agent that stimulates sight and makes things visible”; as a verb it is “to provide with light or lighting; to illuminate”; as an adjective it is “having a considerable or sufficient amount of natural light; not dark.” When we turn a light on we can see.
Belview GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH Sundays: 9 a.m. Holy Communion, 10:15 a.m.
Curt Holt, former Football Coach and teacher at GFHS from 1956 to 1961 passed away on February 4th. The funeral date has not been set. Curt and his wife moved from California to Plymouth, Minnesota a few years ago. His wife passed away three years ago. If you have any questions, please call me at 320-564-3937.
I think most of us have come to the point in winter where we don’t maybe pay as much attention to the forecast, kind of expecting winter to be done with its wrath by now. At least, I know that’s how I’ve been functioning.
Congratulations to Ben Albertson who was Track Champion in the Streeter class at the Fiesta City Speedway in Montevideo this last racing season! Ben’s son Landon stood in for Ben to receive his trophy at the racing banquet as Ben was attending his daughter Kayleigh’s dance competition in Brookings, SD last Saturday. The Lakeview Mystiques that Kayleigh Albertson dances with got 1st place in the Brookings, SD Just for Kix Competiton last Saturday.
When I worked as a Memory Care Coordinator, people would often ask what the risk factors were for dementia. Today I thought we could review some of those risk factors – however, please keep in mind that if several of these risk factors apply to you, it certainly doesn’t mean that you will definitely get dementia.
Sandy Robinson and Ben Carlson were part of news reports in Minnesota’s newspapers. Neither one was probably aware of the attention created by the event.
There have been some remarkable people in rural Minnesota over many years, but none are more interesting or may have impacted more lives than the late Dr. Kathleen Jordan. A bright and spirited woman with a can-do attitude, she was responsible for the testing of thousands of youngsters for the dreaded disease of tuberculosis in our part of Minnesota.