crafts

RCO has crafts and watermelon at Plaza
By Lori Sorenson
July 23, 2025
On Tuesday, July 15, Rock County Opportunities hosted a Summer Crafts with Watermelon event at the Plaza on Main. The organization invited families and children to participate in “puffy paint chalk,” bubbles, coloring sheets and other outdoor crafts while enjoying fresh watermelon under the shelter. According to organizers the event was well-attended despite the heat and they went through 2 ½…
Anonymity brings out Kafka's creative side
By Mavis Fodness
October 25, 2023
Hands are all you see in Connie Kafka’s “how-to” YouTube videos. With more than 1,700 followers, the Luverne native, who also enjoys sharing her eye-catching paper-pieced crafts on her social media page titled “Prairie Paper Crafts,” is not one to take money for her talent. Thus her social media is not a business site but a place where Kafka displays her one-of-a-kind creations and, at times,…