Local News

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The 17th annual Meeker Memorial Hospital Foundation Golf Tournament is coming up on August 9th at 11 a.m. at the Litchfield Golf Club. The funds raised this year will be designated for a safe room in the hospital’s emergency room.

Meeker Memorial CEO Mary Ellen Wells people may register for the golf tournament on the hospital’s website which is meekermemorial.org. She says there is an area in the ER right now for some of their patients that is considered a safe room, but it needs updates.

Wells says they would also like to develop a triage room in the ER, and there are other building plans being considered at Meeker Memorial with more information being released later this year. She says they just inked a deal on Tuesday for St. Cloud Orthopedics to provide joint replacement surgeries at Meeker Memorial Hospital 4 days a week as Dr. Walker has gone back to Hutchinson.

Wells says Meeker Memorial is also excited to welcome a new family physician – Dr. Leif Olson – who will start in October. She says October will mark one year since she began at Meeker Memorial as interim CEO. She was named CEO earlier this year. Wells says she came out of retirement after 40 years in health care and says Litchfield is such a wonderful community and Meeker Memorial is a phenomenal hospital with so much potential.

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“Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” opens tonight at 7 p.m. and continues Friday and Saturday nights at 7 p.m. and Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock in the Bernie Aaker Auditorium. If you’ve never attended a Litchfield Community Theatre production or if you’re a faithful attendee of their productions, you won’t want to miss this show.

Director Tim Nelson and his cast and crew have been working hard all summer on this production and are ready to perform. “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” uses songs – often in a comedic way – to tell the story of Joseph and his brothers from the final chapters of the book of Genesis as Joseph’s jealous brothers sell him into slavery and he ends up as a powerful leader in Egypt – second only to Pharaoh – and saves many people, including his brothers and their families, from a future famine. Nelson says a huge pyramid is affixed in the middle of the Bernie Aaker Auditorium stage where much of the show is performed.

Adam Stern has returned to his hometown of Litchfield this summer to perform in the lead role of Joseph and is supported by a very talented cast. The singing, choreography and costumes in “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” have propelled Litchfield Community Theatre to a new level of professionalism. Tickets will be available at the door or call Litchfield Community Education at 693-2354 or go to litchfieldcommunitytheatre.com.

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