Yansi Flores
Yansi Flores, Shelby Mortenson and Janessa Bakkelund, YME girls basketball team seniors. Photo Submitted .
Kilowatt Community Center
Healthy Tip of the Week: A sore throat is most often caused by a viral infection, which usually resolves on its own. But the scratchiness is uncomfortable, and swallowing worsens the irritation.
The Yellow Medicine
The Yellow Medicine East Varsity girls basketball team. Photo Submitted .
Memory Care Corner
In February, MAMLN partnered with the Living at Home Block Nurse Program in Granite Falls and brought The Remember Project to our area. We heard very positive comments from those who participated. On Thursday, March 24, a third short play entitled, “In the Garden” will be performed. This play is set in the home of Arthur Monsetin where his three grown children have gathered after the death of their mother. They have come to try to decide a course of action for their beloved father who is struggling with Alzheimer’s disease. At times Arthur may wander off, lash out in anger or forget the names of his grandchildren. At other times he is lucid, funny, and wise. Each of Arthur’s children has a very different view about what is best, yet one thing is clear: their love for their father will guide the way.
Clarkfield Community Closeup
Coni Sederstrom, Shirley Olson & Rhian Debban went to the Sons of Norway at the KiloWatt Community Center in Granite Falls last Sat. afternoon. Rhian gave a speech on Norwegian Vikings. Coni & Shirley served lunch.
Senior LinkAge Column: Diabetes Prevention
Benjamin Franklin once said, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure…” and Medicare has adopted this “weighty” idea. Medicare covers preventative services at 100% to prevent and/or detect diseases early when they are most easily treated. Diabetes is one such disease.
Notes from the Granite Area Arts Council
It’s me, your CAIR communications director, back from last week’s vacation! It was spring break at SMSU, and for the first time in my life, I went on an actual spring break trip – two friends and I headed to Vegas, which is, as I was dismayed to discover upon landing, a town that wants to eat your money. I did not gamble, apart from losing $20 in an airport slot machine, but I did spend a lot of time squinting at menu prices.
Meet your local business community
Editor’s Note: “Meet your local business community” is a new feature of the Advocate Tribune that aims to better connect our community to the people behind the businesses and services in our local area. To participate in this feature, contact Jessica Stölen-Jacobson at jstolen-jacobson@cherryroad.com
Senior Nutrition program celebrates 50th anniversary
Prairie Five Community Action Council This March, Prairie Five Meals joins the Administration for Community Living and senior nutrition service providers across the country to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the national Senior Nutrition Program. Since 1972, the Senior Nutrition Program has supported nutrition services for older adults.
New energy co-operative subject of recent webinar
Earlier this month, Montevideo-based CURE (Clean Up the River Environment) hosted a webinar to spread the word about a new cooperative solar garden that’s currently in development in an area West of Clara City, to benefit Xcel Energy customers in both Yellow Medicine and Chippewa Counties among others. The cooperative solar garden is being developed by a company called Cooperative Energy Futures that only produces cooperatively owned community solar installations. “Rather than other models of community solar projects, they develop community solar projects as member-owned cooperatives,” explains CURE Energy Democracy Program Director Erik Hatlestad.