March 2022

Shirley Alf

March 3, 2022

TRACY - Shirley R. Alf, age 86 of Tracy, passed away Saturday, February 26, 2022 at Our House Hospice of Murray County in Slayton. Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, March 3, 2022 at Tracy Lutheran Church. Visitation will be 4:00- 7:00 p.m. Wednesday at the Tracy Area Funeral Home and will continue one hour prior to the service at church on Thursday. Interment is in the Tracy City Cemetery. Online condolences may be sent at www.stephensfuneralservice.com. Stephens Funeral Service - Tracy Area Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.

Shirley Mae Nolting

March 3, 2022

MORGAN - Shirley Mae Nolting, 92 of Morgan, passed peacefully on February 21, 2022 at Centra- Care - St. Cloud Hospital. Visitation will be held from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 21, 2022 at Bethany Lutheran Church in Morgan. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 21, 2022 at Bethany Lutheran Church in Morgan with burial to follow in Bethany Lutheran Cemetery.

Joyce Theresa Schoo

March 3, 2022

Joyce Theresa Schoo, 87, passed away peacefully at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, MN on February 17th, 2022 from Pancreatic Cancer.

Elaine Vagle

March 3, 2022

REDWOOD FALLS - Elaine Vagle, age 75 of Redwood Falls, passed away Sunday, February 27, 2022 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester after a lengthy battle with cancer. Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 4, 2022 at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Redwood Falls. Visitation will be 4:00-7:00 p.m. Thursday, March 3 at Redwood Valley Funeral Home. Visitation will continue one hour prior to the service at church on Friday. Interment will be in the Redwood Falls Cemetery. Online condolences may be sent at www.stephensfuneralservice.com. Stephens Funeral Service - Redwood Valley Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.

Belkstrom reports from Romania, on the border with Ukraine

March 3, 2022

Editor’s note: Pastor Nate and Chris Belkstrom, of Living Word Church in Redwood Falls, have been in Bucharest, Romania since early January and sent the following report on the situation there and the work they are doing. They wrote this Feb. 28.

Recognizing International Women’s Day

March 3, 2022

March 8 is International Women’s Day. Don’t ask me how I know this. I just do. So let us speak of Woman, specifically the International Woman. I like her. Very much. In my opinion She deserves much more than a day. But time waits for no man. Or woman, it seems. So ... let’s get to it.

March 3, 2022

How much damage can one man do? In one year President [Joe] Biden has done a lot of damage. To our economy, energy, borders, crime, supply chain and education. Biden being weak and wrong on almost every foreign policy decisions has lead Russia into Ukraine. Shutting down our pipelines and drilling in America gave power to Putin and about $1 billion per day. For years our government suppressed the truth about Russia and China. The media helps to spread the half truths and lies. They get rich on the government “officials” feeding them money and telling them what they want to report. That way they can cover up the horrendous performance on the withdrawal in Afghanistan leading to the deaths of 13 service members. Now, their totalitarian control creates fear to get power, money and control.

March 3, 2022

Assembly of God • Northwood Church, Redwood Falls, 627-2514, northwoodchurchredwood.org; Worship service:Sunday 10 a.m. and Wednesday 7 p.m.

This Lent, how can we welcome and prepare for him in new, different way?

March 3, 2022

This past Sunday morning I was praying “No one pours new wine into old wineskins ... rather, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins” from Mark 2:22. It was the antiphon (bible verse) that was prayed as part of The Liturgy of the Hours (daily prayers/scriptures of the Church). As I was reflecting on this verse, I realized that this verse was fitting as we are about to begin the holy season of Lent.

March 3, 2022

It’s back! It may be a year late, but the 40th annual New Ulm Farm-City Hub Club Farm Show will take place Friday and Saturday, March 11 and 12 in the Civic Center on the Brown County Fairgrounds. The Farm Show committee and Hub Club members are excited to be able to hold the show. The club show was the “last show in town” before Covid shut things down in March 2020 and is the first event of its type to come back.