July 2025

A Message from Senator Klobuchar on Farmfest

Minnesota’s farmers and ranchers have made our state the sixth-largest agricultural producing state and the fourth-largest exporter of agricultural commodities in the country — generating $106 billion in economic activity every year and supporting 388,000 jobs. They produce turkey for our sandwiches, wheat for our bread, milk for our ice cream, and ground beef for our hamburgers. They produce ethanol that powers our vehicles. Farmfest is our opportunity to celebrate their work and all they do to feed and fuel our state, our country, and the world, while also confronting the challenges rural Minnesota faces now and in the future.

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Redwood County VFW Post #2553 presents award to Lund

Redwood County Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Post #2553 presented to Ava Lund, of the Redwood Gazette, a VFW Newspaper Publication Citation. The award is in recognition of and sincere appreciation for the consistent wholehearted efforts through which Lund has promoted the Citizenship Education of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Lund has edited and published over 25 articles in support of VFW Post #2553 programs. Articles were judged as 1st place in 2023 and 2nd in 2024 in the Minnesota Department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Newspaper article competition.

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The God of All Comfort

What do you think of when you think about the word comfort? For some, it might be a hammock swinging between two trees. For others, it might be putting on some headphones sliding into a warm bubble-bath and just melting their cares away. For me, when I think about comfort, I think about lying on the beach with my wife, Jen. I’ve got my eyes closed, there’s a cool ocean breeze blowing over me, and all I can hear is the sound of seagulls and waves tumbling across the sand. To me, that’s comfort. But that’s not the kind of comfort the Apostle Paul has in mind in 2 Corinthians 1:3 when he refers to God, as, “the God of all comfort.” No, there, Paul uses the Greek word, paraklēsis (Parrock-lay-cease) and it doesn’t mean ease, or relaxation, or tranquility like it does in our culture.

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