Guests at the annual Granite Falls Area Community Foundation Awards banquet were treated to a live viewing of St. Cloud umpire Louis Thomas Williams IV’s back-flips at the beginning of his speech in the Granite Run Golf Course’s clubhouse.
The Yellow Medicine East Theatre group performed both Friday and Saturday evening, hosting a production of the musical “Anastasia”. The story is based on the 1997 animated film of the same name, and is an adaptation of a legend of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia who escaped the execution of her family. Years later, Anya, an amnesiac orphan, hopes to find trace of her family by siding with two con men who hope to take advantage of her likeness to the Grand Duchess. The play was directed by YME theatre director Kade Davidson, with assistance from a variety of area businesses, and volunteers who helped with set design, posters, providing snacks, and parents donating goodies for concessions. The theatre group was also able to borrow costumes from the Dawson-Boyd Drama Department.
Thursday, November 17th: Celebrate the new National Votes for Women Trail marker for Nellie Volstead at the Andrew and Nellie Volstead House Museum. Refreshments served 5:30 - 6 p.m., music from the play Over the Barrel, and dedication at 6 p.m.
Belview GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH Sundays: 9 a.m. Holy Communion, 10:15 a.m.
Once upon a time in the year 1426 BCE, there was a man named Korah, who along with two other people led a revolt against Moses. Korah was a Levite and a cousin to Moses and Moses’ brother Aaron. God had declared that all Levites were to be assistants to the priests in worship in the Jewish temple; but only Aaron and sons of Aaron could be priests. This didn’t sit well with some of the other Levites. They resented Moses’ leadership over them and decided they weren’t going to let Aaron’s family have all the rights to become priests. So, they gathered, they plotted, and they rebelled. The rebellious Levites that followed Korah (250 of them) showed up at the temple with censers. (A censer is a container to burn incense which only priests were allowed to do.) As a warning from God, Moses told the people if they get away from these people they were following, they would be OK, but if they did not – God’s wrath would consume them. You can read the whole story in Numbers 16, but it ends with the earth splitting open and swallowing the rebels and a plague continues to kill the rebel’s followers (14,700 of them) until Aaron is able to stop the plague.
Hunters: Register your deer Hunters are required to register every deer they harvest before processing, before antlers are removed and within 48 hours after taking the animal. Hunters can register deer online, via phone or in person.
Granite Falls, Minn. (November 09, 2022) – Granite Falls Area Community Foundation – Project Impact will use a $15,000 Blandin Foundation Leadership Boost Grant for the addition of an ADA Whirl to the State-of-the-Art Playground being built in Spring of 2023 Leadership Boost Grants were launched to encourage Minnesotans living in rural and Tribal communities to be visionary and creative as they move their communities forward after two years of snowballing challenges.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is accepting public comment through Dec. 9 on its proposal to classify 13 high-risk invasive aquatic plants, fish and invertebrates as prohibited. The DNR classifies invasive species as prohibited to prevent their introduction and spread in Minnesota, and to protect the state’s environment, economy, natural resources and outdoor recreation.
Dorian Gatchell served in the US Military, having served his country well and assumes his great great- grandchildren will some day consider him a hero. He told the students at the ECHO Charter School at Thursday’s Veterans Day Program, that he considered so many others to have earned the title of Hero.
Healthy Tip of the Week: Though some memory lapses are normal as you age (forgetting where you put the keys, a word at the tip of your tongue that you can’t retrieve), serious memory decline is not a given. You can keep your mind sharp and reduce the risk of serious memory impairments by concentrating on what you eat.