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It isn’t every day that a couple celebrates their anniverary after their platinum year, but Copper Glen has two of them. Alvina and Don Van Gorp celebrated their 72nd Anniversary on August 19th and Milton and Eileen Hoidal celebrated their 73rd Anniversary on September 25th of this year.

Every three years, Prairie Five Community Action Council (CAC) conducts a community assessment survey. The data collected in the most recent survey showed that there was a need for childcare in the area.

Editor’s Note: Each week in November, the newspaper will be featuring area businesses to support shopping local this holiday season, as well as some creative gift-giving ideas that support local organizations and businesses.

Pastor Donald McKee Our Savior’s Lutheran Church Thank you for what you do in this community to promote the Kingdom of God. As we edge toward Thanksgiving, we are thankful for all the good that people do in so many ways.

Jamie Kalvestran is the current artist exhibiting inside Java River in downtown Montevideo. Kalvestran has been artist since she was a very young child growing up in north central Wisconsin. As a young adult, she worked as a banker before she decided to pursue art school in Minneapolis. Her formal, technical training is in product development and design. Kalvestran currently has over 15 vendors listed on her website, the majority being textile designs. She sells prints of her designs as well as offering licensing for products. Kalvestran’s current works being displayed on exhibit in Java River are abstract in expression while also having touches of realism. Her work is like art inception, or like those hidden objects games in the kids’ magazine Highlights, except instead of looking for kids toys you’re looking for another face or another being altogether that’s been blended into the layers.

Last Thursday, a Town Hall was held at the Montevideo Community Center with representatives of the agency, First Children’s Finance in attendance to discuss the current child care needs, and ideas for how to address the issue.

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