Heart of America Medical Center’s long-term care unit helped one of their residents celebrate a very special birthday recently.
Fern Tufte turned 100 Oct. 12. Staff helped her to celebrate her special day. Due to restrictions placed on visitation to combat COVID-19, family and friends ...
Their residence was in large drawer in a chest of drawers that had been painted various colors, including bright red and navy blue, to once suit my fancy. The five-drawer chest eventually succumbed to feature two shades of beige that went very nicely in the extra bedroom of my parents’ home. ...
This is the time of year when I think back on attending school and all the traditions associated with that time period. Recently, I witnessed a woman cleaning her outside windows and it immediately reminded me of how this fall task was done in our home.
It often happened when one could feel ...
Whether you live in a mansion or a purple cottage by the road, your home is the background for your personality. I was blessed to have a mother who taught me this. It was the reason that she purchased an antique drum table with pedestal mount and claw feet and placed it in our living room. ...
Rumbles of thunder and occasional downpours provided a backdrop for the annual Prairie Village Museum Village Fair Sunday, Aug. 22.
The event began at 9 a.m. with a pancake breakfast, blacksmithing demonstrations and hymns sung in the original Zion Lutheran Church building. Food vendors ...
You haven’t changed a bit – or have you? This was the question I asked not only of myself but of the Ray Auditorium recently during Grain Palace Days and the All School Reunion. Isn’t it fun to ask ourselves a question and even more fun to ask a great big room? I was not alone in the ...
Upon entering the kitchen at First Lutheran Church, I heard the clinking of tin pie plates as they are taken from a stack. Next comes the rhythm of the rolling pins as they clap with the counter while flattening pugs of ivory dough into circles. Occasionally a pug becomes a heart, a perfect ...
A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to view some spectacular vintage clothing. You know me, I take to vintage like the race car’s rubber tires take to the road.
Seeing the first, beautiful and pristine two-piece suit stopped me in my tracks. Seeing the right fabric, perfect pattern style ...
In five days, actors from the Missoula Children’s Theater transformed the Village Arts Center auditorium into a frontier apple orchard and a group of area children into stage performers.
The children, who ranged in age from kindergarten through 12th grade, gathered at the center July 19. ...
Rugby musician and composer David Halvorson brought the wild and windy sounds of North Dakota’s Badlands to the Minot City Band July 17.
Written by Halvorson in 1988, “The Badlands” involves 29 musical parts. “It’s pretty challenging,” Halvorson said. “It has the flute, oboe, ...