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Crowds gathered from look-out points along the Highway 212 overlook, and at Memorial Park on old Hwy 67 to watch the im- plosion of the former NSP plant just ou Highway 212 on Wednes - day morning. Xcel Energy hired company Veit to implode the structure most recently called the Minnesota Valley Generating Plant. The facility was constructed in the 1930s, providing elec - tricity throughout the region until the 1990s, and was retired in 2009. Among the many bystanders were film crews from Kare 11 News, and Pioneer PBS's Postcards, which will air the story of the building and the people that worked there in their upcoming Season (air date to be announced). Businesses and community members throughout Granite Falls reported hearing the sound of the implosion, and feeling the ground shake.

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Last Friday evening, the Advocate Tribune, Montevideo-American News, Tri-County News, and Bluenose Gopher Public House co-hosted the Minnesota Cook-Ou event featuring the best of Minnesota-style recipes from contestants. At the event, the late Howard Mohr's wife Jody Mohr presented a copy of "How to Talk Minnesotan", and a reading of "The Long Goodbye" was done by Editor Jessica Stölen-Jacobson. Tasters brought dona - tions for the Food Shelf in the form of canned goods and cash, and voted on their favorites. Winners were: Hotdish - Jessica Stölen-Jacobson, Jell-O - Betsy Pardick, Bars - Cynthia Chris -

sources An angler caught a one pound 12-ounce hybrid sunfish from Green Lake in Kandiyohi County that the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has certified as tying the weightbased state record. The record fish’s weight ties that of a hybrid sunfish caught from the Zumbro River in 1994.

I don’t spend a lot of time on television whether it be television shows, or movies. I’ve shocked people with my lack of knowledge about classic movies -having never watched most of them.

Trick or Treat The evening is coming when children, and I use that term “children” loosely, will come to my door, dressed in costumes that range from cute to the macabre to the barely there. These little people will hold their bag of candy/loot in front of me, and utter the phrase “Trick or Treat”.

1 cups flour 1 cup pecans toasted and chopped *Toast them in oven 350 degrees for 10 min. 3 teaspoons sugar 1 stick butter 1 teaspoon vanilla Work all of this together with your hands.

After my knee surgery, I knew it would be important to create some new routines to have to follow in my time of recovery. One of my favorites was that after work each day, I would crutch into my PT studio (aka the guest bedroom) and turn on Jeopardy to accompany my exercises.

Junior Achievement (JA) in Lyon County has been awarded a community impact grant from the United Way of Southwest Minnesota (UWSWMN) of $4,000. These funds will help purchase resources needed to provide the consistent presence of JA in Lyon County schools with the purpose of inspiring and preparing young people to succeed in the global economy. This work aligns with UWSWMN's financial stability priority area.