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Caregiving can feel simultaneously rewarding and exhausting. As conditions progress, caregivers may begin to feel more and more isolated and even burned out. Pandemic restrictions have only exacerbated this. I was recently reminded of the wonderful resources and opportunities that Lutheran Social Services offers to caregivers in our area and wanted to make sure that you were aware of them, too. You don’t need to go through a difficult time on your own.

Mark this Date on Your Calendar! Last fall, 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.

In February 2020, prior to the first wave of the CO- VID-19 pandemic, a City Artist-in-Residence (CAIR) Advisory Group (made up of City staff, business owners, community champions, and local artists) in partnership with the Department of Public Transformation (DoPT), launched a Call for Artists inviting applicants from across the country to apply to be the inaugural City Artist-in-Residence in Granite Falls. While CAIR programs are becoming increasingly popular in urban areas, Granite Falls was to become the first town of its size to host a City Artist. Members of the CAIR Advisory Group, who had been meeting since Summer of 2019 to design and implement the program, selected Dani Prados to become the first Granite Falls City Artist-in-Residence.

Queen Yansi Flores and King Ean Clarke. SIGNATURE STILLS BY MARIAH 2022 Snoball Queen Yansi Flores was crowned at the Coronation Ceremony held Monday afternoon.

At last week’s annual Granite Falls Area Community Foundation Banquet, plans were announced for a new project to help promote tourism in Granite Falls, while also improving the lives of those in the community. The project stems from a 2017 grant awarded to the Foundation by the Bush Family in honor of its son Archibald “Archie” Bush. The funds awarded that year were to be used for a project or significant issue within the Granite Falls Community, and so the Foundation hosted events, and meetings, conducting surveys to gather input from the community on how the funds should be used.

Last Wednesday evening, the Granite Falls Area Community Foundation hosted their 13th annual banquet, announcing grants distributed throughout the year. Granite Falls Area Community Foundation’s Brett Almich noted, “That $10 that you give to the $1,000, it all adds up. Every year we’re able to donate a lot of money. This year, once again, we’ll be able to grant over $50,000 so that’s pretty impressive for our little town of Granite Falls to be able to do that.”