Still too cold out, but the River Valley Wildcats competed at Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial-Nicollet on Tuesday, April 19 anyway. The Wildcats competed against host Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial-Nicollet, St. Clair/Immanuel Lutheran, Jackson County Central, Mt. Lake Area, Mankato Loyola/Cleveland, and M/T/GHEC/ML. Host LCWM-N won both the girls and boys meets. River Valley finished second in girls and third in boys.
Sunday night, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz gave his State of the State Address from the Minnesota Capitol.
Witness Tree To the Editor: A time in a life that approaches 80 years of age, one remembers as a 10-year-old the stories of an 80-year-old, as he is now. The reach of 150 years becomes a heritage.
Mental Health Awareness Month 2022 will begin on Sunday, May 1 and end on Tuesday, May 31. Mental Health Month was established in 1949 to increase awareness of the importance of mental health and wellness in Americans’ lives and to celebrate recovery from mental illness. Despite this bold campaign that began 73 years ago, we are still struggling to talk about and seek help to address our mental health. Mental Health Awareness month is represented by a green ribbon. You will see these green ribbons on display throughout the month of May at the Community Services Building located at 1117 Center Street, New Ulm, and in front of the Brown County drop-in center, Bridge on Center, located at 1113 Center St., New Ulm.
Twenty-two students from Sleepy Eye High School’s Natural Resources class toured Highwater Ethanol on April 20 to get a closer look at the ethanol production process. During the tour, the students learned about the different stages of the ethanol production process such as income grain grading, grain handling, fermentation, grain storage, dried distillers grain production and storage, ethanol storage and shipment.
Staff from the DNR Hutchinson Area Fisheries Office stocked 300 brown trout and 300 rainbow trout in both Fort Ridgely Creek, in Fort Ridgely State Park and Spring Creek, in Brown County, about 2.5 miles south of the park, on April 12. Pictured is fisheries technician Hannah Anema releasing fish. Minnesota’s trout season opened on April 16. Submitted
The Sleepy Eye FFA Members of the Month for March are Austin Uecker, Sophie Kyllonen, Alex Confer. Adam Johnson is Officer of the Month.
About 80 students at Sleepy Eye Public School were able to receive a free bicycle Tuesday afternoon. The bikes were provided by Allina Health and New Ulm Medical Center, which partner with Free Bikes 4 Kidz MN, a nonprofit organization geared toward helping all kids experience the joy of riding a bike, by providing bikes to those who might not be able to afford one. Allina locations, like NUMC, collect donated bikes in the fall and they are refurbished and ready to donate in the spring. The school was able to invite qualifying families to sign up to receive bikes and Tuesday was the big day they were delivered to the school for pick up by parents. The project has existed for several years and this year NUMC partnered with Sleepy Eye Schools, Pro Kinship for Kids, and the Ivy House, to distribute 100 bikes to Brown County youth. Pictured after unloading the bikes into the shop behind school are six high school students who volunteered to help and (at right) Superintendent John Cselovszki and John Pappenfus of Allina.
Marie Dauer, a resident at Divine Providence Community Home, was born on April 17, 1917 and has lived through so much, including two world wars. This faith-filled New Ulm native was one of 10 children raised by Herbet and Mathilda (Seifert) Theissen at 802 N. Franklin in New Ulm. She was united in marriage to Paul Dauer on October 16, 1939 at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. The couple raised five children: Margaret (Joseph Moran of Centennial, Colorado), John (Yolanda Perez of San Antonio, Texas), Tom (Kathy Dauer of Spokane, Washington), James (Dr. Susan Tiegs of Albany, Oregon), and Peter (Patty Dauer of Entiat, Washington).
Question: I’ve noticed you use the word “crash” and not the word “accident” when talking about incidents while on the radio, TV, and the newspaper. Why is that? Answer: I’d be glad to talk about this as I am passionate about this topic and it is certainly intentional.