September 2022

Charlie Roth to play tribute show for Jerry Ostensoe on October 21st

If you ask local musician Charlie Roth how long he knew the local and surrounding arts community legend Jerry Ostensoe, he’ll tell you it was over 40 years, as they met around 1980. Ostensoe recently passed away from ALS. In his final hours both Roth and another arts community pillar, Malena Handeen, played live music for Ostensoe as he lie in wait. Handeen had her accordion and Roth had his guitar and they played Ostensoe’s music just hours before he’d passed on. Dave Smiglewski, the mayor of Granite Falls and one of Ostenoe’s bandmates, was also present at the bedside performance.

Newspaper columnist and freelance writer awarded

Appleton freelance writer, photographer, and “Prairie Notebook” columnist for the Montevideo America News, Tom Watson, was recognized for his award-winning work as an outdoor media producer at the 66th annual meeting of the Association of Great Lakes Outdoor Writers (AGLOW) held in Branson, Missouri, September, 2022.

RECIPE

OF THE WEEK Note from Myrna: During World War II, sugar was rationed. Every family got tokens that were used to get sugar.

News from Milan

Another week closer to the white stuff covering up all the things you haven’t finished doing this fall. And, yes, it is fall now. Soon we will have the autumn holidays. Better buy candy now so you have time to get more to replace all you ate before Halloween.

Memory Care Corner:

In my last article, I wrote about the upcoming free fall movie event being sponsored by MAMLN (the Montevideo Area Memory Loss Network) and the Millennium Theater in Montevideo. The free movie event is scheduled for Wednesday, October 5th and they will have two show times: the first at 2 p.m. and the second at 6 p.m.

Moonstruck Creations to display custom works at Meander Art Crawl this weekend

Tucked back away from the road located at 5073 Highway 212 just outside of Granite Falls exists Moonstruck Creations LLC. It is owned and operated by Bryan and Peggy Mooney of Granite Falls. They are on the Meander Art Crawl map for the 2022 Meander coming up from Friday, September 30 – Sunday, October 2nd.

Landowners express concern as Summit Carbon Solutions submits CO2 pipeline route

Earlier this month, Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions (Summit) submitted its first route permit application to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) for the Otter Tail and Wilkin Counties section of its proposed Midwest Carbon Express CO2 pipeline network in Minnesota. This leg of the project is 28.1 miles, a small fraction of the more than 212 miles of highly pressurized hazardous liquid CO2 pipeline proposed for Minnesota. Submitting a permit application to the PUC is one of many steps Summit needs to take before they can begin the construction of any CO2 pipelines in Minnesota. Summit’s proposed CO2 pipeline network will cut through Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Martin, Otter Tail, Redwood, Renville, Wilkin, and Yellow Medicine Counties.