April 2023

Severe Weather Awareness Week is April 17-21

Are you ready for severe weather? Each year, Homeland Security and Emergency Management (HSEM), in collaboration with the National Weather Service sponsors Severe Weather Awareness Week in Minnesota. The week is designed to refresh, remind and educate everyone about the seasonal threats from severe weather and how to avoid them. It’s also a great time to make and practice your emergency plan and build or refresh your emergency preparedness kit.

Shots fired during execution of warrant in Granite Falls

Jessica Stölen-Jacobson Editor jstolen-jacobson@cherryroad. com Late Monday afternoon, a force of officers from the Cooperative Enforcement Effort (CEE) VI Drug and Gang Task Force, along with officers from the Granite Falls Police Department, Upper Sioux Community Police Department and Yellow Medicine County Sheriff’s Office arrived at a home on the 1100 block of Bergeson Drive in Granite Falls to execute a warrant.

Editor’s Note

Editor’s Note: The newspaper’s Building Community Feature is taking a one week hiatus this week due to the holiday. In the meantime, feel free to continue nominating those you know who help to build community - whether it’s through small things, or very large, life-changing things. Those who inspire ideas in others they may not have considered, and who would offer words of encouragement from a place of having overcome their own challenges to be more involved in community.

Garrison Keillor and Friends

At least once in your long and delicious life you owe it to yourself to go hear Olivier Messiaen’s “Turangalîla-symphonie” and don’t wait until you’re 80 as I did but finally last week went to hear the New York Philharmonic take us on this wild 90-minute roller- coaster ride in which Catholics are kidnapped and Baptists go Buddhist and you think in French and fly in a formation of geese and get a taste of molecular physics as horses go galloping down the aisles, and in the gorgeous slow passage “Garden of Sleeping Love” you will fall in love forever with the person next to you so be very careful where you sit. I sat next to my sweetheart and after years of thinking I was averse to modern music, here was a hymn to joy and time, movement, rhythm, life and death, with big Wagnerian chords, delicate intervals, a dozen percussionists, a genius pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and we’ve been happily married ever since.

Train derailment in Raymond draws aid from local agencies

Around 1 a.m., on Thursday, March 30th, a train operated by BNSF Railway traveling through Raymond derailed with approximately 22 tanker cars going off the tracks, and caught fire. A press release from the Kandiyohi County Sheriff’s Office noted that the tankers were carrying “a form of ethanol” and “a corn syrup liquid”. The cause of the derailment is currently unknown and under investigation. Evacuations took place within a half-mile radius of the site, with residents being instructed to leave their homes, and being directed to a school in the nearby town of Prinsburg. According to the Raymond Fire Department’s Facebook post, the evacuation was for “precautionary measures”.

From the Editor’s Desk

Last week my son spent the majority of it trying to convince me (still) to fly out to New York to be at his Army promotion ceremony. Alas, it wasn’t a possibility at this time with so much going on here. So when it came time for his ceremony to begin, one of his buddies was kind enough to man the phone so I could watch on FaceTime.

Red Cross and PEANUTS: Be Kind, give blood in April

During National Volunteer Month in April, the American Red Cross is joining forces with PEANUTS as a reminder that it’s cool to be kind! We rely on the kindness of volunteer donors every day to ensure blood is available when patients need it.

RECIPE

OF THE WEEK A note from Myrna: This is a good way to use hot dogs. Hot Dog Surprise 2 cups chopped hot dogs 2 cups chopped ham or spam 1/2 cup sharp cheddar cheese, grated 2 chopped hardboiled eggs 3 teaspoons ketchup 2 tablespoons pickle relish 1 teaspoon mustard 1/2 onion, chopped Mix all together really well.

Montevideo Arts & Event News

April blizzards bring May lizards. I know that’s not funny, but … will we ever see spring flowers or showers for that matter? This winter season’s last episode is a real nail-biter! Buried deep in the remaining snow are creative souls busy at work on their projects.