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Paulette O’Connell, of Clarkfield, has been volunteering with the Lee-Mar Ranch Equine Center’s therapeutic riding program since 2011, helping with at least three sessions each year. The program provides the opportunity for those with disabilities of all kinds to engage in therapeutic sessions that utilize horseback riding at the facility.

Morgan IronHeart found a drive to build community after reaching a low point in life. “To be honest, opiate addiction and my drinking had just gotten to a point where I wanted to give up on life. I just felt hopeless. There was no light at the end of the tunnel,” he says. “As a last ditch effort and surrender, I went to treatment and in treatment I got to spend time with my counselor. That was my first time really spending time with a positive male role model, in a cultural setting, too.”

Thrivent, a Fortune 500 diversified financial services organization, is pleased to announce that Mark Jensen, ChFC, LUTCF, RICP of Granite Falls was recently inducted into the organization’s prestigious Hall of Fame. He is one of only 12 inductees in 2023. Jensen is a Financial Associate for the Midwest Rockies Advisor Group.

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When life is going well, it’s easy for Psalm 118:24 to pop into my mind, “This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” And that’s wonderful! But that isn’t the kind of day the psalmist was having when this psalm was written.

Audrey Arner of Montevideo prefers to think of helping as an opportunity to think about what we want our community to be like. “There’s been points at which some people have convened to talk about a vision for Montevideo, meaning what we want it to be like, not next year, not three years from now, but in the long term. If you think about that, what’s called for is everybody putting their shoulder into it,” she says.

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.