The Knights of Columbus District 25 Free Throw Competition was held at St. Mary’s School on Sunday, Feb. 20. Girls winners by age category are picture, from left: Age 9 - Avery Hillesheim; Age 10 - Elsie Leopold; Age 11 - Jayde Altermatt; Age 12 - Olivia Schieffert; Age 13 - Morgan Mathiowetz; Age 14 - Kiara Murphy. PROVIDED
KOFFEE KUP, Feb. 17 — HIGH GAME: Jan Seidl 185, Ardelle Domeier 148, Brenda Walden 147. HIGH SERIES: Jan Seidl 520, Ardelle Domeier 419, Gloria Engholm 397. STANDINGS: Yuban 100-54; Hills 99-55; Butternut 88-66.
Thursday, Feb. 24 Girls Basketball Subsections start, #1 Knights and #2 Indians have first round byes Boys Basketball: Indians at BLHS; Knights home vs.
The family of Marilyn Windschitl would like to thank everyone for their supportive words, thoughts, prayers, cards, memorials, gifts, flowers, food, and donations during this time of our unexpected loss.
MANKATO - Erna Josephine Scherer, age 95, of Mankato, MN formerly of Sleepy Eye died Monday, February 14, 2022 at Hillcrest Nursing Home in Mankato. Erna was born in Sleepy Eye the second of four children to Joseph & Stephanie (Schlegl-Kirsch) on June 3, 1926.
NEW ULM - Patricia (Pat) Schieffert, age 79 of New Ulm passed away peacefully at her home last week. Born and raised in Leavenworth, MN, to Rose and George Windschitl, Pat considered herself lucky to grow up in the quiet, peacefulness of a small country town.
SLEEPY EYE - Marie Wunsch, of rural Sleepy Eye, passed away peacefully on February 16th, 2022 at the age of 60, at St Mary’s Hospital in Rochester. Visitation will be on Thursday from 4 to 7 pm at the Sturm Funeral Home, Sleepy Eye and will continue on Friday from 9 until 10:15 am at the church in Mankato.
River Valley speakers had two tournaments last week. On Tuesday, Feb. 15, the junior high students competed at the Tracy junior high tournament. The junior high speakers had great results and earned the fourth-place team award out of twelve teams. The duo team of Leo Hovland and Lily Pingeon, as well as, Paige Schwarzrock, humorous and Aubree Paplow, prose, all earned first place champion honors in their categories. Lily Kallevig placed second in extemporaneous reading, while Ayvah Wendt placed third in prose and Kali Nachreiner earned fifth place in humorous.
Carmen Lendt is a senior at Sleepy Eye High School. She plays volleyball and softball and was on the football cheerleading team. Carmen belongs to FFA, NHS, Knowledge Bowl team and is on the school newspaper staff. She serves as senior class vice president and secretary of FFA. Carmen also teaches Sunday School at her church and worked at summer school, last summer, with 5th and 6th graders.
The following students from Sleepy Eye have been named to the dean's list for academic excellence after the fall 2021 semester at South Dakota State University in Brookings. To earn dean's list distinctions students must have earned at least a 3.5 GPA — Gabriella Helget, Madison Hoffman, Lauren Hoffmann, Jacob Lux, Samantha Richert, Sydney Windschitl.