Sarah Lendt (pictured with her family, from left: Isaac, Carmen, Sarah, and Keith) received her doctorate degree, an Ed.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from the Counseling and Student Personnel department within the College of Education at Minnesota State University, Mankato, on Saturday, Dec. 10. Lendt is currently counselor for students in grades 5-8 at Sleepy Eye Public School. Submitted
After four months working on the budget for 2023, the City Council made it official at their meeting Tuesday night, Dec. 13. Following the required Truth in Taxation hearing—which did not garner any questions—the council gave final approval to the budget t.hat was approved as preliminary in September and reflects an increase in the property tax levy of $62,515 or 3.96% more than the 2022 levy.
Cortnie Mathiowetz, and daughter Coraline, are pictured at the Sleepy Eye Craft and Vendor Show at the EventCenteron Dec.4.This is the fourth year Mathiowetz has organized this event. She said it was the biggest one yet, with 47 vendors, completing filling the Event Center floor and a big crowd of shoppers throughout the event. Mathiowetz said she will be donating the profit from the show to B the Light, a New Ulm area breast cancer support organization. Deb Moldaschel
The paper used by Koozie Group in most of its calendars and all of its paper mouse pads, Souvenir Sticky Note™ pads, and Souvenir scratch pad products now comes from facilities certified by either the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) or the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). These two organizations are the gold standard for responsible forestry management.
SouthPoint Financial Credit Union has announced that Bob Schmid has been named the Director of Business Services. Schmid has been working in the banking industry in Sleepy Eye (where he was born and raised) for the past 19 years.
St. John's Ev. Lutheran Church presented this fall's Pumpkin Patch Palooza proceeds, $6,421.20, to the Sleepy Eye Police Department to be used to purchase cameras for Sportsmen's Park, from left: Police Chief Matt Andres, St. John's Pastor Timothy Berg, City Manager Bob Elston, event co-chair Jennifer Hinderman, and Investigator Shawn Bohnen. Submitted
We have been blessed with another “Holiday Lights in Motion” Christmas season and we are so fortunate. This committee of people and their volunteers do an excellent job of decorating Sportsmen’s Park and add so much to the glitter of the season in our community. It’s one more of the features that make Sleepy Eye a place where people want to come. I want to extend a huge thanks to everyone who had a hand in that effort. We are blessed to have you do the work you do. Andy Pelzel, Mike Suess and Shari Hittesdorf among others all get special accolades for heading up this effort. Thanks also to our businesses that sponsor events in the park in conjunction with Holiday Lights in Motion.
The Miss Sleepy Eye royalty assisted at the Chamber of Commerce Light the Night event at Sportsmen's Park on Saturday evening, Nov. 26, handing out 150 glow necklaces to children, from left: Princesses Presley Bauer and Natalie Marti, Chamber Director Christina Andres, and Miss Sleepy Eye Katelyn Rutscher.
The South Central Minnesota Chapter of the Compassionate Friends will observe the Annual World Wide Candle Lighting with a pot luck supper and program on Sunday, Dec. 11 at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 700 South Broadway in New Ulm. The pot luck will begin at 6 p.m. At 7 p.m. candles will be lit “that their light may always shine” followed by a program of poems, readings and music.
The Schroepfer-Bertrand Research Fund, in conjunction with the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS), is pleased to announce completion of the Sleepy Eye newspapers digitization project,. The MNHS’s on-line Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub now includes 82,000 pages from nearly 8,200 issues published in Sleepy Eye from 1875 through 1977 and no longer under copyright.