The Grove City Area CARE program has a couple of events this month – on successive Wednesdays. The first one is coming up this Wednesday – a Minnesota Farm Advocate meeting with speaker Jim Molenaar.
CARE Volunteer Coordinator Rosie Dilley says the program will begin at 11 a.m. in the Cardinal Room at 205 South 3rd Street in Grove City, and lunch will follow. She says anyone is welcome – no RSVP is needed – and Jim will talk about financial planning, lender negotiations, legal services and more.
Dilley says on the following Wednesday, March 18th, the We Care About You Senior Health Expo will be held in the Trinity Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall on East Highway 12 in Grove City from 9-to-11:30 a.m. She says there will be a continental breakfast, door prizes and information available from 35 vendors. She says there will be some of the vendors from past expos, some new ones, and they are going to also have a time of music therapy.
Dilley says if anyone would like more information about the Farm Advocate meeting this week, the health expo next week or about any of the other services available through the Grove City Area CARE program, they may call the CARE office at 320-857-2274. She says donations to the program are always welcome and may be sent to Post Office Box 192 in Grove City.
The Minnesota State Patrol responded to a one-vehicle crash on Saturday afternoon at 4:49 near the intersection of Highways 12 and 22 in Litchfield Township. A 2002 Ford F150, driven by 39-year-old Christopher Alan Griggs of Atwater, was westbound on Highway 12 and left the roadway near the Highway 22 intersection.
Griggs was taken to Meeker Memorial Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Also responding to the scene were the Meeker County Sheriff’s Office and Mayo Ambulance.
The G.A.R. Hall and Meeker County Museum in Litchfield will be the site for another Civil War Roundtable meeting next week. The program on March 12th will begin at 1:30 p.m.
Museum Executive Director Danelle Erickson says the topic this time will be “The Seeds of the Civil War.” She says Joyce & Jim Hinderks will be talking about some of the events that led up to the Civil War.
Erickson says there will be no roundtable meeting in Litchfield in April as people are encouraged to attend the Civil War Symposium – an annual event – in Bloomington on April 25th. She says that same day, the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War will have a ceremony at 3 p.m. at Lake Ripley Cemetery to honor the last Civil War veteran burial – an event that will be taking place in each county in the state.
Erickson says if anyone is doing research on Meeker County history or genealogy, they have been getting their record books and newspapers more accessible and most of the newspapers are now on microfilm. She says the museum at 308 North Marshall Avenue in Litchfield is open Tuesdays through Fridays from 10-to-4 and Saturdays from noon-to-4 and you can find more information at meekercomuseum.org or on their Facebook page.
The Minnesota State Patrol responded to an accident Thursday morning at 6:01 involving a semi and a pedestrian at Highway 55 and Commercial Drive in Annandale. The pedestrian, 45-year-old James Smith of Annandale received non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to the St. Cloud Hospital.
The 2026 Peterbilt Semi Truck, driven by 52-year-old Frank Melvin Warden of Maple Lake, was traveling westbound on Highway 55 and Smith was walking westbound on Highway 55, when contact was made. Also responding to the scene were the Wright County Sherriff’s Office, Annandale Fire Dept., Annandale Police Dept., and Allina Health EMS.