March is Food Share Month and the Meeker Area Food Shelf welcomes any donations of non-perishable food, personal care items and cash. The Litchfield Lions Club had a food collection on Saturday at Family Fare and at Walmart and delivered the items to the Food Shelf in downtown Litchfield.
Food Shelf Coordinator Jamie Revermann says they had volunteers who unloaded the items from the Lions Club and spent time getting the shelves stocked at 118 North Sibley Avenue in Litchfield. She says they keep track of the pounds of the items that they collect and the cash that is donated from March 1st through April 6th as Minnesota Food Share gives them an extra grant based on those amounts.
Revermann says the cash donations she receives are greatly appreciated because for every $1, she can purchase about $4 worth of food at the Second Harvest Heartland Food Bank. She says food donations such as cooking supplies, soups and canned goods and personal care items like shampoo and detergent are appreciated as the need is greater than ever, and she is so grateful for the way that the community supports the Food Shelf.
Revermann says the Food Shelf in downtown Litchfield is open Mondays from 11-to-6, and Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 10-to-3 and the Food Shelf in downtown Dassel is open Tuesdays from 10-to-3 and Thursdays from 3-to-6. She says they also have a mobile unit that can deliver food to people who are homebound and they have bags that they send home with students.
Dean Urdahl has two more movies coming out this year that will continue the “Uprising” series of films that he has produced in recent years. The next two films deal with the events leading up to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
Urdahl says the film “Tangled Web” will have its world premiere April 28th, 29th and 30th at 7 p.m. each evening at the Hollywood Theater in downtown Litchfield. He says this film will wrap up the Indian Wars that began in Minnesota in 1862 and will start to look into the plots to assassinate Lincoln.
Urdahl says the second film “Lincoln and Booth” will explore the various plots – one of which was to kidnap the President, but evolved into Booth shooting Lincoln. He says that film is expected to be released in late August or early September.
Urdahl says the director of the films, Christopher Forbes of Augusta, Georgia, had a couple of setbacks recently in which the film distributor, ITN which would help finance the films, dropped them, and then his wife and daughter were involved in an automobile accident which required Chris to care for them rather than spending time editing the films, so they have started a Go Fund Me page to help finish the film editing process.
Urdahl says if anyone is willing to help, they can email him at urdahls@hotmail.com and then he will send the Go Fund Me link. He says he doesn’t make any money on these low-budget films; they are just meant to entertain and educate people and they’ve been produced using local actors and local landmarks such as the G.A.R. Hall, Litchfield Opera House, Rosemary Home, the former residence of State Senator Steve Dille, and the Forest City Stockade.
The second of Willmar’s two wind turbines was taken down by demoltion workers on Friday afternoon. On Thursday morning, crews from Veit Construction wired both towers with explosives and ignited them. The south tower came down, but the north tower remained standing.
Kevin Marti said some of the explosives did not go off because of faulty blasting caps, so the contractor reportedly made an overnight trip to Missouri and got some more. At 2:18 p.m. Friday the north tower came down about 8 seconds after a successful blast.
Willmar Municipal Utilities General Manager Jeron Smith says the bid from Veit to take down the towers was less than half of what they had budgeted. The steel from the towers and the fiberglass blades will be recycled along with whatever they can salvage from the wind turbine machinery. Later, the concrete pads will be broken up and removed, and the land will be returned to the Willmar School District.
The Kandiyohi County Sheriff’s Office conducted a traffic stop for suspicion of an impaired driver on Friday afternoon at 5:07 on Indian Beach Road by Green Lake. As deputies were in the middle of the stop, the 65-year-old female driver from Sunburg took off at a high rate of speed and struck a bridge railing at 134th Avenue Northeast. Spicer Fire, Kandiyohi County Rescue and New London Ambulance personnel were able to remove the woman from the vehicle as she was trapped. She was transported by New London Ambulance with non-life-threatening injuries and alcohol was a factor in the crash. The walking portion of the bridge was closed.
Each day a business will be featured as “Business of the Day” and every time their commercial is aired be the 7th caller and win a chance to receive KLFD Bucks to be spent at our “Business of the Day” locations.
Monday thru Friday, at 4 pm we will draw out a winner to be put into our final drawing to be held sometime later in April. Once your name has been drawn out daily and put into the final drawing, you are no longer qualified to call in. Otherwise, you can keep calling in once a day to qualify.
Each day a business will be featured as “Business of the Day” and every time their commercial is aired be the 7th caller and win a chance to receive KLFD Bucks to be spent at our “Business of the Day” locations.
Monday thru Friday, at 4 pm we will draw out a winner to be put into our final drawing to be held sometime later in April. Once your name has been drawn out daily and put into the final drawing, you are no longer qualified to call in. Otherwise, you can keep calling in once a day to qualify.