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This week’s photo hint: This photo appeared in a 2002 edition of the Montevideo-American News. Last Week’s Answer: Bill Pauling Guessed by: Pam Eklund, Dave Gilbertson, John Albrecht.

The heat and scattered showers at times over the past month, have been adequate for most of our sweet corn growers. I spoke to one sweet corn grower, and she said that the corn should be ready for all of us to eat any day! For many of us, this is one of our favorite times of the year when we can enjoy fresh local sweet corn.

The small town of Maynard put on a big display of fireworks on the 4th of July. The show kicked off right at 10:00 pm. The fireworks show was preceded earlier in the day by Maynard’s annual 4th of July parade. Photo by Cynthia Christians

We have just finished celebrating the most American of Holidays: Independence Day. It can be difficult to reconcile the concepts of freedom and independence with religion. When Martin Luther, in The Freedom of a Christian, stated that Christians are freed from the obligation of keeping God’s law to obtain salvation, some ignored the message while others didn’t hear the rest of Luther’s message -- that our freedom is meant to result in willing service of God and our neighbors.

The Montevideo Fire Department responded to a call of a fire in the lower level of La Plazita II, located downtown, on Wednesday evening. The fire originated in a clothing dryer. “Other than a lot of smoke from the dryer, the damage was pretty minor,” says Montevideo Fire Chief Mitch Stueck. “Whenever the firemen respond to a Main Street fire, there’s a lot of stuff that we think about with all of the different buildings connected, so we’re very happy that it was able to be extinguished fast.” With many of the downtown buildings being connected, the potential for fire to travel from building to building could make a fire difficult to stop. “We’ve had about four or five Main Street fires and we’ve been able to put them all out really fast,” Stueck adds. Photos by Jessica Stölen-Jacobson

Yellow Medicine Soil & Water Conservation District The weather. It always seems to give us something to talk about.

Last week, a storm hit Montevideo in the early hours of Thursday morning, producing strong wind gusts, but little rain. By morning, the streets were covered in broken branches, and much of the town was without electricity and internet due to downed lines, leading to business closures.

Reading Corps, Math Corps, and Early Learning Corps are working to bring tutors to elementary, and preschool classrooms in Montevideo. “We’ve been in the Montevideo area working with our Early Learning Corp working with Prairie Five’s Headstart organization there for quite a while, but this is the first year that we will be with Ramsey Elementary and the Sanford Education Center with our elementary-school-based program,” says Katelyn Dokken, of the national nonprofit, Ampact.