Celebrating five generations, the Steffensmeiers posed for a Christmas Eve Day photo. In the center is great great grandma Gladys Steffensmeier of Sleepy Eye holding Brixxon Weber. To the left is Brixxon's dad Cody Gent of Morgan, and to the right are grandma Krista Gent of New Ulm and great grandpa Lynn Steffensmeier of Morgan. SUBMITTED
Minnesota State University, Mankato awarded 2,276 degrees to 1,941 students at the end of the fall 2021 semester on Dec. 11 in Taylor Center's Bresnan Arena on the Minnesota State Mankato campus. The following students from Sleepy Eye were among the graduates: Ann Berkner, BS, Marketing; Crystal Ibberson, SPEC, Educational Leadership; Mya Ibberson, BS, Exercise Science; Sarah Lendt, EDD, Counselor Education & Supervision.
Three times a week the Parks Department measures the thickness of ice on Sleepy Eye Lake and also measures the oxygen level in the water. Tuesday morning Craig Fischer met this reporter at the lake to show how it's done.
The 150th Anniversary Committee will be meeting January 19 at noon in the City Council Chamber. This committee welcomes new members and they are also looking for someone to chair the event. If you’ve been thinking that you might like to be involved, this is your opportunity. The meetings are scheduled for one hour and a light lunch is served.
People who live in good health for 100 years and longer are not just lucky. Researchers have found that those who live an exceptionally long and healthy life often have company in their very own families. Scientists are now aiming to better understand the genes, lifestyle or other factors that make these people so unique. Hopefully, we can all benefit from their findings.
The Sleepy Eye FFA December Members of the Month are Manny Poplow, Lily Kallevig and Trevor Rathman; Morgan Hoffmann is Officer of the Month. Manny Poplow is in 9th grade and has been in FFA for one year.
The thin gray wire, all fence like, extended the full length of the woods. No doubt it had purpose by either keeping something in or others out. Perhaps it offered safety on each side of it, depending upon which side of the fence you were on so-to-speak. Truth is, I’d never gone near it nor paid much attention to it until today.
SLEEPY EYE CHURCHES Calvary Baptist Church, Pastor Phil Siefkes, 794-6048, 220 4th Ave. SW, calvary-answers.org Sunday Service - 10:45 a.m.