In my last article, I explained what sundowning was and some ideas on how to lessen sundowning symptoms. I explained the importance of reducing the stimuli during the evening hours, keeping the house well lit, and planning more active days, as the person who rests all day could likely be more restless at night.
Congratulations to Tiana Irvine & Cole Ward on their marriage last Saturday! Paul & Joyce Ramsey moved to Edmond, OK to be by their daughter. The Valhalla Apartments Residents enjoyed a Fish Fry last Friday for supper.
The recent grant awards by the Granite Falls Area Community Foundation are a wonderful statement about supporting the community’s needs as well as its dreams. Over $79,000 was given to various organizations and/or causes that will inspire or provide better days for lots of residents, including students in our community.
Last week I wrote about my trip to Fort Drum, New York to watch my son’s military promotion ceremony. I mentioned that one full day was spent on the ceremony and everything involved with it, and my final day in Upstate New York was spent helping him learn how to shop like a real broke adult, and helping decorate and organize his home. The day in between all of that (trip days bookmarked by two long, terrible flight days), we spent going on an adventure that we decided needed to be an epic one.
Last week, I traveled to western Upstate New York to attend my son’s military promotion ceremony. With short notice, I was left with some pretty undesirable flights, but after an eight hour adventure of plane changes and layovers, I made it.
The thing about fall is that it’s not winter. Winter is winter. Winter comes right after fall. Fall is, try to stay with me here, directly after summer. The season of fall is named after a guy who first noticed the temperature dropping and, for some reason, coincidentally, was always dropping stuff. And, in another pretty big coincidence, his name was Fall.
In the third grade, our class started a school newspaper. At the time, I was a student in Redwood Falls Elementary School, but I distinctly remember the first article I wrote, titled “Tom Terry and his one man band”. The story was about a man who played five separate instruments who put on a concert at our school.
Rob Perez People are Dying To Get in There October was a lot of skeletons and zombies and ghosts and it made me realize that Halloween omits an important step before the afterlife. The transition.
This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including the replacement of essential items such as equipment or livestock, reorganization of a farming operation or the refinance of certain debts. FSA will review the loans based on the extent of losses, security available and repayment ability.
It’s been nearly two weeks since we said our last good-byes to Jerry Ostensoe. There was a heartfelt and thoughtful memorial service, followed by an afternoon and evening of gathering and listening to wonderful music performed by several talented local area musicians. And the evening before there was live music dedicated to Jerry’s legacy at Blue Nose in downtown Granite.