March 2022
City Council hears student proposal for promotional video
At the regular monthly meeting of the Montevideo City Council, the students in Mr. Vik’s 4th grade special projects class were in attendance to present their idea for producing a tourism video to the Council. Previously, the group approached the School Board at a meeting in February to request permission from the board to approach the council. The students took turns speaking, noting their goals to make Montevideo a better place to live, and to produce the film to be placed on the schools website, and perhaps aired at the theater in town to highlight all the community has to offer. The goal for the projects completion is near the end of May. The council motioned to approve the student’s proposal.
Lil’ Thrifty Babes offers affordable, gently used clothing for babies
Settling into her new role as a stay-at-home mother, Anaïs Johnson, of Clarkfield, started brainstorming ideas for something to do that would be a unique home-based business. What she came up with, a couple of months ago, was a homebased re-sale site that operates on Instagram in which parents looking to find trendy, affordable, gently used baby clothes could purchase them easily from the comfort of their home.
Local teacher starts baking business
Robyn Aslesen first started baking custom cakes for her own wedding in 2014. Being pleased with the results, she began adding in a few more wedding and graduation cakes over the years. By the end of 2021, her three-year-old son began helping Aslesen with her baking. “He wanted to bake more than we were able to eat,” she says. “When I mentioned that to him, his response was – mom, you should sell some!” Thus, Aslesen says, it was that idea from her child that planted the seed of inspiration to move the business forward. Within a week of his suggestion, Aslesen says she applied for and received her Minnesota Cottage Food Producer license, and Tasty Bakes and Custom Cakes was born.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Saturday, March 12th: Talking Waters Beer Brunch. Begins at 11 a.m.
Montevideo Swim & Dive team members qualify for State
Last Thursday, the Montevideo boys Swim & Dive team participated in the Section 3A preliminaries, with team members qualifying for advancement to sections. Montevideo scoring was as follows: 200 MEDLEY RELAY – (1) Montevideo (Austin Dunn, Callim Schmitz, Evan Smith, Mickey Hess) 1;43.31 … 200 FREESTYLE – (5) Austin Dunn, 1:54.95 50 FREESTYLE – (4) Evan Smith, 23.46, (10) Gavin Arends, 23.84 DIVING – (9) Wyatt Picht, 187.00.
Taterpie’s Sweet Treats launches at Java River
Taylor Patton Holien has always enjoyed baking, having spent time with her grandmother baking as a child, and baking more extravagant cakes and such for birthdays for family members as she got older. “It was always something that I liked to do and then I just kind of grew from there,” she says. “I would have people reach out to me and I’ve done cakes for birthdays and things like that.”
Thunder Hawk girls basketball team advances to State finals
Last week, the Thunder Hawk girls defeated Benson 58-19 in an away game. The win signaled the title of West Central Conference Champs for the Thunder Hawk girls, with a 12-1 West Central Conference record. The title is the first in the school's history. The girls moved on to the Sections Tournament Saturday hosted in Montevideo to defeat Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 65-34, advancing the team to the state finals.
Three from Team UNITED reach milestones
Tyler Schickedanz achieved his 60th win at the Section Tournament Saturday. MINNESOTA Dan Gunlogson achieved his 100th win at the Section Tournament Saturday.
Three from Team UNITED qualify for State
Last weekend, Team UNITED traveled to Redwood Falls to the Section 3AA championship individual tournament. At the meet, qualifiers for State were Daniel Gunlogson (113 pounds), Zander Clausen (120), Dain Mortenson (152), Avery Wittnebel (160) and Keaton Haas (220). Scoring from that event follows:
Stock named West Central Conference player of the week
Landon Stock was named the West Central Conference Player of the Week for boys basketball last week. West Central Conference Schools include Benson, BOLD, Melrose Area, Minnewaska Area, Montevideo, Morris Area and Sauk Centre. MINNESOTA