When my kids were young, they were fortunate enough to have their own personal Santa. Back then, Lee Eiler, of Wood Lake was well into his years of being Santa Claus at all of the local events, and he enlisted me to help with some of those. Thus, there were a number of times around the holidays when my kids were little that I dressed up - all six feet of me - as Santa’s tallest elf.
The Minnesota Highway Safety Center will be offering 55+ Driver Discount 4-Hour Refresher Courses on the following days: -January 19th, 2023, Course #52101 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Kilowatt Community Center, Granite Falls.
Every year around this time, some well-meaning aunt sends my children an advent calendar. Not one of the cool, new, weird advent calendars. Not the advent calendars with booze or beauty products or fishing tackles or coffee or rocks or the one for your pet. (Fun Fact: If there currently isn’t enough friction in your marriage, you can even get your spouse a workout advent calendar.) Nooo. This well-meaning aunt gets my kids an advent calendar with chocolate. So, come December, every morning, like clockwork, my kids start their day right out of the gate with, sigh, chocolate.
7:15PM. The center atrium at the mall. A large, temporary structure houses “The North Pole”, an ad-hoc collection of holiday lights and fake snow. Rob weaves his way past a “Closed” sign, through the short maze where a line usually forms, and pokes his head behind the curtain.
Tis’ the season – it’s a phrase we hear often these days. We are in a season of holiday celebrations, a season of hustle and bustle, a season of balancing want vs. need, and of course, a season of giving. And while December is a time we tend to think more about the spirit of giving and receiving, it’s a need that our communities and neighbors have year-round.
Prairie Five Community Action has wonderful options to help fill any holes in your holiday shopping list! Give the gift of safety with a punch card or monthly pass for our RIDES transportation system. Winter weather driving can be so dangerous and even going out to warm up the car and scrape the windows gets tedious.
Congratulations to Whitney Tennis & Stephen Winger on their marriage last Saturday! (Whitney is the daughter of Todd & Amy Tennis). Caroline Streich & family attended their second cousin Mike Beninga’s funeral at St.
While my son was deployed in the Middle East, I wrote about my grandma’s great cookie mission. Each week she would bake and send box after box of cookies and then, once they arrived, my son would go around base and hand them out to all of his fellow soldiers that were around at distribution time.
Thank you to everyone who attended our community artist in residence’s going-away shindig at the Rock on Tuesday the 29th! We’re grateful to all 60+ folks who showed up to watch the Voices & Views video project, play with the completed Wonder Boxes (which are, last I checked, currently chilling outside the Makers on the Minnesota gallery – though they do all have wheels and may perhaps soon be on the move), watch our sock puppet staff get ceremoniously stuffed into a bag and handed to Leah, and redden her face with toasts and compliments.
“Whose Line Is It Anyway?” was a comedy television show that was hosted by Drew Carey from 1998 – 2007. The show consisted of a group of four people acting out comedy sketches on-the-spot with suggestions and ideas from the live audience.