Our weather has had a few bad setbacks recently. However, we have escaped all of the severe storms that have been forecast for this area. Traffic has really slowed down going by my house of late. I am not sure if it is because the farmers are able to get into their fields or if the high cost of gasoline has something to do with it. However, spring is in the air. The wind doesn’t seem to be as brisk as it has been and the grass needs mowing. There are little purple violets smiling up at me in the midst of it all and my tulips are blooming. The wind has lost its cold sharp edge and it gives you a soft caress. I do believe spring is here and I like it, I love it, and I want some more of it!Several ladies from Steen attended the Christian Women’s Club meeting at United Methodist Church in Rock Rapids, Iowa, on Wednesday afternoon. There was a noon luncheon followed by a program. Those attending were Lucy Van Wyhe, Winnie Scholten, Joan Hoogeveen and Henrietta Huenink. The Southwest Crisis Center will have their 9th annual Women’s Expo from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, May 3, at United Methodist Church in Luverne. The Steen Opportunity Extension Club enjoyed their annual tour on Tuesday, April 19. The tour took them first to Sioux Falls where they rode the trolley to Falls Landing for lunch at the new restaurant. After lunch they enjoyed some shopping before leaving for Luverne where they went to see Betty Mann’s collection of more than 3,000 glass and ceramic shoes and her nutcracker collection before returning home.Orrin and Bernice Aukes visited Lisa Telford at Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux Falls Sunday afternoon. She had undergone back surgery and will be hospitalized for some time. There was a dinner for volunteers at Tuff Home in Hills Friday noon. Those attending from Steen were Bill and Bertha Bosch, Mildred Keunen, Jo Aykens, Milton Bonnema and Malena Boeve. Former Steen residents, Lillian Ausen and Vera Rozeboom, were here Wednesday to visit their brother, Orrin Aukes, and sister, Verla Baker, who joined them at Luverne Pizza Ranch for lunch. Congratulations to Hills-Beaver Creek boys basketball team for winning the Section 3 championship.The Women’s Ecumenical breakfast will be at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 4, at Fist Presbyterian Church in Luverne for a morning of Christian fellowship. Congratulations to the Hills-Beaver Creek coach, Steve Wiertzema, for being named Section 3 basketball coach of the year!In our fast-moving world of today there are so many reasons we must learn to think for ourselves.You Set Your Own ValueMan can make of himself pretty nearly what he wants to be. Though he be handicapped by poverty, and though he be deprived of friends and others who might assist him, if he has the will to do, he can attain the end toward which he sets out. At any rate, he won’t miss it far. And by reaching for the height, even though he cannot quite touch it, man improves his standards. Every man stamps his value on himself. He is the mint through which the coinage of his personal powers passes into circulation. It is seldom that others offer a higher price than he himself names. In short, man is made great or little by his own will. Doctors know that drugs do not heal. They do not give medicine because it cures, but because in some cryptic way it assists nature to affect a cure. The healing power and the growing power are within one’s self. The growing power of an individual is like the growth of a tree — it all comes from within; men grow from the inside out. The impetus, the desire to do, the push that goads one to greater and still greater effort, all come from the individual’s self. It cures, it achieves, it makes men.