The Litchfield Watercade celebration is less than 6 weeks away and there are event to get signed up for already such as the Pickle Ball Tournament on July 6th. More details can be found at watercade.com or on the Litchfield Watercade Facebook page.
Queen of the Lakes Addie Lundin says she mentioned the idea of having a pickle ball tournament to bring all ages of people in the community together when she was a candidate for Miss Litchfield in 2024 and it became reality last year during the Watercade celebration. She says it will be held on July 6th, starting at 3 p.m. in the Litchfield Area Recreation Center. It’s $60 per team and if you register by June 22nd, you get a free t-shirt. The final day to register is July 1st.
Lundin says she’s been busy promoting the Minneapolis Aquatennial which will be coming up at the end of July and she will be going to about 100 parades and coronations around the state in the coming weeks. She says as Queen of the Lakes this past year, she’s been able to travel all over the nation and even into Canada promoting the Aquatennial celebration.
Lundin says, despite her busy schedule, she’s been able to complete her second year at NDSU where she is a nursing student. Miss Litchfield Brooke Caron, a student at the College of St. Benedict, says the Pickle Ball tournament is an important fundraiser for the royalty program.
Caron says they are coordinating a daddy/daughter dance on June 19th and will collect donations for the food shelf. She says, as Addie will be at the Watercade coronation inviting her to attend the Minneapolis Aquatennial, she will travel to Minneapolis at the end of July to compete in the next Queen of the Lakes pageant. Litchfield Princess Raigan Miller says she and Brooke and Katelyn Guggemos have been proudly representing Litchfield this past year, and she encourages people to participate in the pickle ball tournament on July 6th.
Miller says she went to Ft. Jackson in South Carolina for basic training last October and then to Ft. Rucker in Alabama from January through April. She says she was able to get home to participate in the Christmas party at the LARC in December.
The Litchfield School Board had a visit last night from participants in the Adaptive Bowling program. Students in the program recently did very well in their state bowling tournament.
Tyler Storm, who co-coaches Adaptive Bowling with Amy Terning, says Donnie Weimer came in second place in the state tournament. He says there are 7 students in the program which is open to 7th through 12th graders and they got a send-off to their state tournament – including being serenaded by the Litchfield High School Band. Storm says the Litchfield Eagles Club has been their sponsor and they got a great deal from the Litchfield Bowling Center. Donnie says they got to go bowling on Wednesdays and he will be on the team again next year.
The Student Council representatives gave their final report to the Litchfield School Board last night. President Kelsey Palmer will be going to Gustavus Adolphus to major in accounting, and Vice President Kala Ziegler will be going to UMD to study cellular molecular biology.
The Litchfield School Board had a discussion about a preliminary needs list. Several projects are on the list for all of the school district’s facilities with a total cost of over $20,000,000. The District is looking ahead to November for a possible building referendum question on the ballot, along with an operating levy.
Also last night, the Litchfield School Board approved of a resolution accepting donations including: $5,000 from Meeker Memorial Hospital for an extra summer weight room coach; $575 from Meeker County Farm Bureau Federation and Farm Bureau Financial Services through Michael Niedzielski for the Litchfield Middle School for transportation for the 5th grade farming/ag field trip; $400 from the Litchfield Lions Club for the Litchfield Baseball Team for helping with the city-wide clean up; and $1,000 from Trelleborg Medical Solutions for Litchfield Middle School for the Robotics Program.
On this day in music, May 26, 1969, newlyweds John Lennon and Yoko Ono commenced their second week-long “bed-in” at Montreal’s Hotel La Reine Elizabeth. Based on the idea of a “sit-in,” the engagement was meant as a form of protest, promoting world peace amid the Vietnam War. During their time at the hotel, the pair welcomed members of the press, as well as a variety of high-profile guests – several of whom participated in the June 1 recording of “Give Peace a Chance.” The couple held their first bed-in in March at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam, following their wedding.
In 1973, singer-songwriter Carole King played a free concert to roughly 100,000 fans at New York’s Central Park. The Brooklyn-born artist, who was readying to release her fifth album, Fantasy, considered the homecoming show as a gift to her fans. Joni Mitchell, Jack Nicholson, and Faye Dunaway were all in attendance, as King performed some of her biggest hits to date, including “Beautiful,” “It’s Too Late,” and “You’ve Got a Friend.”
In 1990, for the first time in US chart history, female artists held the top five spots on the Billboard Hot 100. Madonna’s “Vogue” topped the chart, followed by Heart, Sinead O’Connor, Wilson Phillips, and Janet Jackson.
In 1964, Marianne Faithfull recorded the Mick Jagger/Keith Richards-penned “As Tears Go By.” The melancholy tune, which featured Jimmy Page on guitar, was an international hit for Faithfull, landing in the UK and Canadian Top 10, and the US Top 40. The Rolling Stones would also release a top-selling version of the song in 1966.
In 1984, Deniece Williams, who began her career as a backing vocalist for Stevie Wonder, had her own moment to shine when “Let’s Hear It for the Boy” began a two-week run at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. The song appeared in the blockbuster film Footloose.
BORN ON MAY 25
1904: George Formby
1920: Peggy Lee
1926: Miles Davis
1940: Levon Helm (The Band)
1946: Mick Ronson
1948: Stevie Nicks
1949: Hank Williams Jr.
1964: Lenny Kravitz
1972: Alan White (Oasis)
1981: Isaac Slade (The Fray)
