The Divine Providence auxiliary has been around even before the actual building was completed, according to its members. It was dreamed up as a way to support the nursing home by sewing necessary items like curtains and bedspreads. From there, the auxiliary formed a sewing and quilting group specifically to raise funds for general needs.
The 2025 Section 2A Cross Country meet boasted perfect running conditions at Baylor Park in Norwood Young America on Thursday, Oct. 23. The cool temperatures, sunny day with very little wind, and a course that has excellent energy return, is the type of day that every runner prays for during a sections meet. After training hard during a cross country season that had adverse weather conditions, this was the perfect day to see what their training has done for them. Our athletes toed the starting line with confidence that did not disappoint. We saw personal records across the board — athlete after athlete crushing their previous best times and tossing aside their section rankings as meaningless.
On Monday, Oct. 13, the Meats and Livestock Evaluation Teams competed in the Region VI Competition at South Dakota State University.
Happy Halloween from the Dyckman Free Library! Hope you were able to make our Great Pumpkin event last week, the turn out was beyond amazing and it was a great way to honor our Linus. For readers that don’t know our Linus story, I’ll give you a quick recap. Linus Mauer was born and raised in Sleepy Eye, he went on to become a cartoon instructor at the Art Instruction School in Minneapolis where Charles Schulz was teaching cartooning. Linus and Charles became good friends and Charles decided to name a character after his friend in his newly developed comic strip “Peanuts.” How cool is that!
Minnesota Honors Society students from Sleepy Eye and St. Mary’s know that community service mixes well with holiday fun. For the past few years on Halloween, the students go door-to-door in town, but instead of collecting treats, they ask for donations to the Sleepy Eye Food Shelf.
Sleepy Eye United beat Tracy-Milroy-Balaton in their playoff rematch on Tuesday, Oct. 21.
Sleepy Eye Chamber of Commerce/ Dyckman Free Library
After taking a year off to rest and regroup, the Sleepy Eye Holiday Lights in Motion committee is ready to roll for 2025! Volunteers are sought to help with set up in Sportsmen’s Park on weekends until the show opens on Thanksgiving night, beginning this Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 25 and 26. Work begins at 9 a.m. and goes to 5 p.m. A meal is provided for those working during lunch time. (Volunteers provide that, too.)
Sleepy Eye native Melissa Pietig was singled out as a notable woman in dairy by Dairy Star this past August. The Midwest-based publication published a feature story on Pietig’s agricultural work and her contributions toward expanding the Lax-Pietig Family Farms.
The Sleepy Eye FFA Chapter has completed its trap shooting season. There were four shoots for the season: Springfield, Mt. Lake, Sleepy Eye, and Windom.