February 2023
CHURCH
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The Personal, Joyful, Sure Care of God
Big corporations generally aren’t known for their personalized care of their customers. If you have a problem with Amazon and try to call customer service, even if you get to talk to an actual person, it’s not going to be Jeff Bezos himself or any other executive. The service a major corporation provides its customers doesn’t work that way.
Letter to the Editor
The last couple of weeks there have been articles in the Montevideo American News and the West Central Tribune about the Community Services Building in Montevideo, commonly known as the Family Services building. Having spent 34 years as an employee in that building, the stories are of interest to me.
Beyond Reason
The Paper Plane Recently my friend Chris suggested something radical: the Paper Plane. That got me thinking.
News from Milan
What a wonderful day we had Saturday. I’m sure it’s only a tease before we head back to winter. After all we do have a couple of months yet before the threat of snow is done. I’ll just enjoy it while it issunny and warming. I don’t even mind putting up with sloppy gravel roads. I can always run to the car wash again.
Use the winter to prepare for spring turkey hunting
Imagine sitting in the woods on a spring morning with wildflowers in bloom, trees budding bright green and birds overhead migrating back to Minnesota. Then a turkey gobbles in the distance, responding to a turkey call.
Memory Care Corner
Have you ever told your spouse or friend something and knew they were not paying attention? I experience that from time to time if I say something to my husband while he is looking at his IPad or listening to the television. Even though he might murmur a response, I can almost bet that he has no idea what he just responded to! (Perhaps this is the time I should suggest making a large purchase or plan a trip!) If you stop and think about it, hearing and remembering go hand in hand.
Citizens Alliance Bank in merger with Granite Mountain Bank
With over 200 employees across multiple locations, Citizens Alliance Bank focuses on small towns, family-owned businesses, and the local communities where their branches are located. Locally, Citizens Alliance Bank has locations in both Montevideo and Granite Falls, where they offer agricultural, commercial, and personal banking done locally.
Benson & Helgeson Insurance adds two new employees
Benson & Helgeson Insurance dealt with a number of challenges in 2022 with storms and retirements of long term employees Barb Boike and Steve Helgeson. The agency added two new employees to the team in 2022 - Megg Sachariason and Melissa Erickson. Megg has taken over the agency’s auto, home and commercial policies, and Melissa is the new office manager.
Dryer Doctors LLC to expand new and used equipment lot
Dryer Doctors LLC in Montevideo has been in business for six years, offering grain dryer, and grain handling sales and service. The company found its beginnings in 2017, when Josh Bauman, John Keller, and Leon Fokken, all co-workers at Custom Ag left to work for Northern Grain, and only a year and a half later, Northern Grain closed its doors. “We had calls from farmers saying we don’t care if you’re working at Walmart - you’d better figure this out because this fall when we have harvest, you’re going to be in my yard,” says John Keller. “So out of necessity for the farmers, we just said ok.”