The Eagle Bluff Learning Center in rural Lanesboro hosted an educational talk September 8, on the topic of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). The speaker, Peter A. Larsen, PhD, works at the University of Minnesota’s Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine. Currently, he leads a CWD diagnostic development team. Having grown up in South … [Read more...]
Community Chests keep it local
Nowadays, some people only associate “Community Chest” with yellow cards in the game “Monopoly.” But in the real world, Community Chests have long provided a great deal of financial support to local charitable causes. The Fillmore County Journal reached out to the townships within Fillmore County, and although most do not still have a functioning Community Chest, two local … [Read more...]
Faith. Family. Friends.
New York, the city that never sleeps. Bright lights, bustling sidewalks, and... seven life-long best friends, who are all originally from Chatfield on the “Today Show”? As many know, bucket lists can bring you to so many new places, and for Kelly Nosbisch, Janet Nelson, Renee Bennett, Angela Clemens, Julie Griffin, Michelle Pederson, and Kelly Tweite, their bucket list … [Read more...]
Fighting drugs in our neighborhoods
On August 14 the Fillmore County Sheriff’s Office and Fillmore County Attorney’s Office teamed up at the Methodist Church in Fillmore, Minn., to address illegal drugs in Fillmore County. Topics covered education on the wide variety of illegal drugs as attendees learned how these substances are made and distributed. A strong emphasis was placed on how the residents of the … [Read more...]
Quilt of Valor awarded to extraordinary veteran
By Katrina Bergey On Friday, August 2, at the veterans cemetery in Preston a remarkable veteran, Dean Alden, received his Quilt of Valor. Quilts of Valor is an organization that was founded in 2003 by a woman named Catherine Roberts whose son had served in Iraq. “The mission of the Quilts of Valor Foundation is to cover service members and veterans touched by war with … [Read more...]