Cardinals play well at holiday tourney
It was a nice holiday of hoops for the Redwood Valley boys basketball team as they were undefeated Dec. 29 and 30 at the Willmar Tournament.
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Make a donation Jan. 17 and 18 during Redwood Falls Blood Drive
The Red Cross is experiencing the worst blood shortage in a decade. Your help is needed and the opportunity to give blood in Redwood Falls is coming up from noon to 6 p.m.
Red Cross to host blood drive Jan. 12
Make an appointment to give blood with the Red Cross at our blood drive between 1 and 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan.
WABASSO SENIOR DINING MENU
In response to the pandemic, Wabasso Senior Dining is only offering home delivery of meals, until further notice. Home delivery is available to those residing in Wabasso, Wanda, Lucan, Seaforth, Vesta, Delhi, Lamberton, Redwood Falls, Clements, Morton, Fairfax, Franklin, Gibbonand Winthrop.
WABASSO DECEMBER STUDENTS OF THE MONTH
Wabasso Students of the Month for December are fifth grader Cassondra Bliss, seventh grader Tyson Lightfoot; junior Isabella Fennern and senior Kalybe VanWatermeulen. The students were asked to answer several questions about school and activities.
From the Editor’s Desk
I’ve had this column on my mind for the past week. I couldn’t get away from the fact that this is the Jan. 6 paper. I felt I couldn’t ignore what happened one year ago. Then sometimes I would think to myself: “do you really want to bring that up and get angry comments?”
Build Back Better bill should be named Build Back Broke
The 2,465 page Build Back Better bill was filled with “pork.” The cost went from “zero dollars” to $3.5 trillion to over $5 trillion! Almost $80 billion would have gone to weaponizing the IRS to assist in looking at transactions in your account that were over $600, later raised to $10,000. There is also around $12 billion for electric cars, $1 trillion to turn government facilities into “green buildings,” new funding for gender identity issues and bias training, massively expanding federal tax dollars for abortions without the Hyde amendment protections, while limiting seniors’ access to new cures and treatments by imposing socialist price controls on prescription drugs, subsidizing union members’ dues and on and on….
Lady Cards drop 2 in invite
The Redwood Valley girls basketball team went 0-2 at the recent Willmar Holiday Invitational. The Cardinals fell 57-20 to Willmar and 65-33 to Central MN Christian in nonconference action.
IN BRIEF
Cougars to win over Ortonville The Cedar Mountain Cougars capped off 2021 with a 76-38 pounding of Ortonville at the Lakeview Holiday Tournament. The Cougars led 34-18 at the half and erupted for 42 second half points to win going away.
Winter truck load hikes to begin
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Winter load increases will begin at 12:01 a.m. Friday, Jan. 7, on unrestricted state highways in the metro, southeast and south frost zones. Frost zones and restricted routes can be found on the Minnesota Department of Transportation load limits map.