A Willmar woman is under arrest after police say she accidently dropped a bag full of meth in an Olivia convenience store. Olivia police say at 8:12 Wednesday morning they got a call from Casey’s General Store after a staff member found a baggie of suspected drugs on the floor of the store. Officers were given a baggie containing a crystalline substance which tested positive for methamphetamine. The bag weighed just under 26 grams. They reviewed security video from the store and spotted a woman who had unknowingly dropped the baggie. She was later identified as a 59-year-old-Willmar woman, and she was arrested in Willmar a couple hours later and taken to the Renville County Jail where she faces charges of 2nd Degree Possession of a controlled substance.
The Believe It Achieve It fundraising event is coming up on February 1st for the School of St. Philip. Songblast – the dueling guitar music of Glen Everhart and Pat Balder – will be the entertainment for the evening at the Litchfield Eagles Club which also includes a 2-meat buffet.
Shepherd of Souls Area Faith Community Events Coordinator Monica Schreiber says the event will begin with social hour at 5, dinner at 6 and Songblast sometime after 7. She says Glen and Pat put on an entertaining show with comedy and rock ‘n’ roll music, and Glen performed last summer at the St. Philip’s Church Bazaar which was well-received by those attending.
Schreiber says Glen and Pat are known nationwide as they perform all over the U.S. She says tickets for the event on February 1st are on sale at the Litchfield Eagles Club and at both St. Philip’s Church and School, and they will need to have RSVPs in real soon in order to plan for the number of meals. Tickets are $50 for the meal and show, and $25 if you just attend the show.
A holistic health fair will be held in the Kingston Community Center on Saturday, January 18th, from 10-to-4. Admission is $10.
Retired registered nurse Kari Johnson of Dassel is coordinating the event and will be speaking about integrating faith and health. In an Enterprise-Dispatch article, she said she had attended a similar event in Northfield and thought she would put one together in the local area to promote overall well-being by addressing physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.
Johnson said that she’s a little nervous about how this event will go, but is excited to see where it will lead. She says she became interested in holistic and alternative options when her son was in first grade and struggling with memory and behavioral issues. Johnson says he was treated with medication, but then she read about a study in which eating foods without artificial food coloring or preservatives made a big difference in children with a similar diagnoses.
Johnson says she received some pushback from doctors who told her it wouldn’t work and that there was a lack of research, but she tried it anyway, with surprising success. She says when people talk about holistic health, sometimes they think that they’re against the traditional medical providers, and that’s not really the case – there’s a place for everybody, and there’s not one answer out there that is right for everybody in every situation.
There will be several speakers besides Johnson at the holistic health fair addressing topics such as quantum neuro reset therapy, menopause/perimenopause, gut health/detox, neuro-lymphatic reflexes, Aloeva therapy and an EMF demonstration. She says each speaker will talk for about 30-to-45 minutes and there will also be vendors. For more information, email Kari Johnson at beauty4asheskari@gmail.com.
