January 2022
- January 25, 2022Vink: 'Thank you, Luverne' To the Editor: Luverne — Love the Life! I am grateful for a small city the size of Luverne, yet with its many amenities. As young parents it was good to raise our children in quality schools and recreation, and soon more child care is coming. Now as aging people we appreciate its many advantages — the Generations meals, the public wheelchair transportation,…
- January 18, 2022This week’s Star Herald features a story on Generations’ next steps in their mission to improve senior nutrition in Rock County. Senior nutrition used to be a poverty topic for the community group, Luv1LuvAll. Luv1LuvAll grew out of a Blandin Foundation initiative called “Leaders Partnering to End Poverty,” and senior nutrition was identified as one piece of the poverty puzzle. Now, fully…
By Scott Rall, outdoors columnistJanuary 18, 2022Last week I gave you all the rundown about how the 2021 pheasant season went. Record-keeping for some outdoor people is totally off the charts. One guy I know records every flush and every harvested bird on every spot he has ever hunted over the past 20 years before he goes to bed. I would fall asleep trying to do that. I don’t have a lot of my outdoor facts and figures written down. Mostly they…
By George Bonnema, Luverne HorticulturalistJanuary 18, 2022January … my least favorite month – cold, lots of cloudy days, short hours of daylight, nothing much to do except move snow and work on taxes. Well, maybe not the “nothing to do” part, because it is the perfect time to plan next year’s vegetable and/or flower garden. It is amazing that the day after Christmas, seed and nursery catalogs appear in my mailbox, and that continues for most of the…- January 11, 2022The critically important role of health care workers has never been more apparent than now as we enter a second winter with COVID-19. Minnesota’s nursing assistants, RNs, respiratory therapists and many others have saved thousands of lives during the pandemic. They need more Minnesotans to join them in this noble and lifesaving work. That’s why Governor Walz has proclaimed January as Health Care…
By Brenda Winter, columnistJanuary 11, 2022I’m not a fashion diva, and never has that been made more clear than last week when I – like many in Rock County – slogged through the first week of 2022 with a case of the flu. I felt fine Sunday morning, but I opted not to attend church because my husband had been feeling poorly for a few days. Our community’s new-found sense of health caution made me decide against sharing the germs from our…- January 11, 2022Kracht: 'How about you?" To the Editor: 2021 is over, but where are we with the Covid-19 pandemic? We are still getting the same confusing, contradictory advice from the same people who have been wrong every step of the way. Remember the promise from the person who is now in the White House? “We are not going to shut down the economy and the country, we are going to shut down the…
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