Kilowatt Community Center 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.
At the regular meeting of the Granite Falls City Council Monday evening, the council received the monthly report for June from Granite Falls Police Chief Brian Struffert. Struffert wrote, “The weather is warming up and so are our calls.” Struffert also noted that June was a busy month with preparations for the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum Airshow duties, as well as Western Fest.
Musician Crista Bohlman, from Mankato, will be the next artist providing live music at the next Makers Market on the Riverwalk in Granite Falls on Thursday, July 7th, 2022. Bohlman has been creating and performing music since she was just three years old, when she began playing the violin at New Ulm’s Schell Brewery with Paula Marti.
Alexander Dayne Phillippi, 34, made a first appearance in Yellow Medicine County District Court Friday to face charges of third-degree burglary, as well as first-degree criminal property damages. According to the criminal complaint, the charges are a result of a break-in at the Family Foods grocery store in Clarkfield, as well as property damage to a parked plumbing van that happened currently this week.
Elliott Kling, Junior Princess 2021-2022 Favorite memory from your reign: Car rides to events and Zorbaz! Future plans (college/career): Equine therapist or Vet tech Favorite Western Fest event: Rodeo! Advice to this year’s candidates/royalty: Have fun and make memories! Parents: Heather and Matt Kling Siblings: Elayna Sponsor as candidate: Granite Family Dentistry Emily Cobb, Western Fest Princess Western Fest 2021 Favorite Memory from your Reign: My favorite memories from my reign have been getting closer with my fellow royalty and the endless laughs and jam sessions we have had before and during our parades. Future Plans (College/Career): I am currently attending Minnesota West Community and Technical College in Luverne Minnesota to become a Radiologic Technologist.
On 6/19/22 at 5:29 PM Granite Falls Fire Department was dispatched by Yellow Medicine County Sheriff’s Office on a request by Renville County Sheriff’s Office to respond to a possible drowning occurring in the Minnesota River at Vicksburg County Park. Nearby water resources were simultaneously working a separate recovery operation down river.
On Friday evening, the YES House hosted “Sunrise at Midnight”, a traveling four-person production created by Taous Claire Khazem. The production was a 45 minute act, based on folktales from the mountain regions of Algeria. In the program, Khazem writes, “In 2008, I went to Algeria (where my father is from) and worked with a group of eight actresses in Bejaia. We went into the mountains and collected folktales from old women, then created a show based on three of those stories. During that period, I came across other folktales that had been translated into French. They were raunchy, violent and full of twists and turns.” Khazem’s production was created in 2017, and in 2020, the small troupe began a tour of Minnesota with the act. The visit to the YES House is part of the current tour that also included stops at Carleton College in Northfield, and The Little Theater in New London. Photo by Jessica Stolen-Jacobson
[Program Director Dani Prados left in mid-June for her first brief vacation in… forever. In the interest of transparency, here is an inside look at our program: transcripts of five of the twelve voicemails the program staff has left her so far.]
June is National Pride Month and is celebrated to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, formerly known as the Stonewall Riots, in Manhattan, New York. Throughout the 1960s, the police raided establishments rumored to serve members of the LGBTQ+ community, and then on June 28, 1969 police raided the Stonewall Inn, a known “private bottle bar” that LGBTQ+ individuals frequented. Within minutes bar patrons and neighborhood residents began the uprising in response to the police brutality against those that were being arrested. Hundreds of people were involved in the uprising and ensued for the next five days, six days total. New York’s Pride march this year will commemorate the 53rd anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.
Psalm 16 is a prayer for protection. David, the psalmist, asks God for safety and refuge not just in times of trouble, but throughout his life. It’s thought that David wrote this after a close brush with death, possibly in a battle.