What to pack: a charged portable battery bank for cell phones, charging cords, water for hydration, little trinket(s) to possibly leave behind, a pen and paper, snacks, gardening gloves, and a tweezer set.
Jessica Stolen-Jacobson, a journalist and professional photographer, was invited by Scott Tedrick, Editor of the Renville County newspaper, to collaborate with him on creating a project that celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Volstead-Capper Act. The Act is the driving force behind the project, with both Stolen-Jacobson and Tedrick eager to create the 100th Anniversary Cooperative celebration project; and, it took Tedrick and Stolen-Jacobson on quite the adventure.
With the high gas prices, not only is a day in the City of Granite Falls-owned Memorial Park a short drive, but offers a new, state-of-the-art playground for children. The park is the second-oldest park in Granite Falls, and sits on 141 acres of land.
In my last article, I wrote about a person who had been diagnosed with Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA). I promised that in this article, I would share more specifics on this type of dementia.
If you take financial advice from this column, in the future, you may not be able to afford to read this column. That said… let’s talk digital currencies. There are more than 18,000 cryptocurrencies on the market but what is it? Most agree it’s a digital currency that operates outside the traditional government/banking control, instead using public ledgers known as blockchains. But did you know that anyone can make a digital currency with a little coding? Yes, you and I can make our own digital currency. Late Show host Stephen Colbert’s crypto is called Ijustmadethatupeum. But is it a currency?
If you are a confirmation student looking for a good way to sidetrack your pastor, you could do worse than asking them to explain the Trinity. The three persons of the Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, can be difficult to understand individually. Many picture God as an old man who is alternately disinterestedly distant and vengeful, Jesus as a person who arrived at a stable at Christmas and was hung from a cross sometime around Easter, and the Holy Spirit as… Well, there are no secular traditions around Pentecost, so we don’t normally give much thought to the Spirit. One might also think that God became Jesus so that people could see him then became the Spirit after returning to heaven to sit next to himself and wait to come back.
Music has always been a part of my life. I remember long car rides when my father would often begin singing. Perhaps it was to help him stay awake, or perhaps to quiet his four children! Regardless, we would always be serenaded with songs like “On Top of Old Smoky” or Eddie Arnold’s “Cattle Call.”
It seems like Pentecost should get more attention than it does -- both in the church and in the world at large. I am sure that there are faith traditions that do Pentecost more justice than Lutherans, but it isn’t exactly a household name. It probably doesn’t help that the event was beyond Luke’s descriptive powers (there is a sound like the wind and tongues as of fire), so the religious artwork depicting Pentecost makes the Apostles look like a group of birthday candles. Pentecost also loses out because many who might ask why the paraments are red have already begun their summer vacation from church. Whatever the case may be, the fact remains that the Holy Spirit made a dramatic entrance into an international crowd that had gathered in Jerusalem, including some 120 followers of Jesus.
The Montevideo-American News sent out a questionnaire to retiring staff members of the Montevideo School District. The following are the responses.
This week’s photo hint: This photo appeared in a July 2012 edition of the Montevideo American News. Last Week’s Answer: Dave Stendahl Guessed by: N/A .