The annual Mother- Son Snowball, organized by ECFE, was held Sunday afternoon, Jan. 29 at the Event Center. Boys age 3 through 3rd grade were invited to attend with their moms or favorite lady friend and about 70 people attended. The Snowball included a photo shoot and frame making activity, snacks, games and dancing to the tunes.
The weather forecast is looking perfect for the 41st Annual Fishing Derby this Sunday, Feb. 5—sunny with temps in the upper 20s. While lake ice conditions have improved some, Lynn Krenz of the Sportsmen’s Club, advises checking for the latest updates on the club’s Facebook page: Sleepy Eye Sportsmen’s Club & Trap.
The stage was set for this Saturday’s second annual Sleepy Eye Pond Hockey Classic on Sleepy Eye Lake. Organizer Lucas Heiderscheidt and a small army of hockey buddies and supporters, had even cleared this ice and built six hockey rinks on the lake. That was before it rained, then snowed, wrecking the ice surface. In addition, deep snow and slush created an iffy ice safety situation. Something had to be done.
For the 41st winter, the Sleepy Eye Sportsmen’s Club welcomes anglers and friends to Sleepy Eye Lake for the Annual Fishing Derby on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 5.
A Red Cross Blood Drive will be held at St. Mary’s School on Friday, Feb.
Greetings from the Dyckman Free Library. Our staff have been busy training on new software that will go into effect March 2. The transition to the new software should be seamless with very little affect to our patrons. One temporary change will be the suspension of MNLink items starting February 6 until we go live March 2. We use MNLink if we cannot locate a specific item within our own system of Traverse des Sioux (TDS). Since we have a robust collection within TDS we do not need to use MNLink very often so hopefully this temporary freeze will go unnoticed.
Stolen vehicles have become an issue in Sleepy Eye and the surrounding counties. To my knowledge all the vehicles that have been stolen were unlocked with keys in them, or close to them in a garage. Please keep your vehicle locked and take the keys out of your vehicle. If you lock your garage that is a good level of protection against vehicle theft. If your vehicle is left outside, please lock it and take the keys with you.
For the first time in about five years, the aeration system has been turned on at Sleepy Eye Lake. Parks Director Matt Schmidt said they measure the oxygen levels in the water a couple times each week. Last week the oxygen level was approaching a low level that could cause fish to die.
The United Way of the Brown County Area, in partnership with VITA, our Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, will be providing a FREE Tax preparation program, starting Tuesday, Feb. 9 through April 20 in the lower level of the New Ulm Public Library. This program is run by local IRS Certified volunteers who work with the United Way and VITA to provide this much needed service in our community.
Schwartz Farms of Sleepy Eye recently held an Employee Christmas party where they hosted an Employee Food Drive Competition for the Sleepy Eye Food Shelf. The employees, made up of three teams, collected a total of 259 pounds of food. Pictured is Nate Stevermer (left), of Schwartz Farms, with a portion of the food he delivered, with Bruce Lokensgard and Kamakshi Murthy, Food Shelf volunteers. “The Sleepy Eye Food Shelf greatly appreciates the awesome generosity of Schwartz Farms’ team of employees,” said Ann McCabe, Food Shelf President. Submitted