By Jennie Zeitler, Staff Writer jennie.zeitler@ecm-inc.com The former baseball field in the northeast corner of Holdingford was transformed into the town’s softball field in 1971, after people were asking Cyril Ebnet to form a slow-pitch softball league. With the encouragement of Charlie Heidgertken of Freeport, Ebnet had formed a fast-pitch softball team in 1966, which Read more »
By Jennie Zeitler, Staff Writer jennie.zeitler@ecm-inc.com Brad Goodwin’s clearest memory of the final moments in the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa (BBE) High School Class A boys basketball championship game is seeing his son, Brian, stand still, holding the ball in his hands for the last few seconds of the game, with a big smile on his face. “After Read more »
By Jennie Zeitler, Staff Writer jennie.zeitler@ecm-inc.com “It’s cool to see how interested people are — as enthusiastic as I am about the fundraising,” said Kenzie Cotty, 18-year-old St. John’s Prep senior from Avon, and Hodgkin’s lymphoma patient. After a doctor referred Cotty to St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a charity committed to funding research to cure childhood Read more »
By Jennie Zeitler, Staff Writer jennie.zeitler@ecm-inc.com More than one-third of Minnesota is represented by members in Women Anglers of Minnesota (WAM), which is celebrating 35 years of friendship, fun and teaching the joy of fishing. With members in 30 of Minnesota’s 87 counties, Kristen Merwin, vice president and tournament chair, would like to re-energize WAM Read more »
By Jennie Zeitler, Staff Writer jennie.zeitler@ecm-inc.com Nine-year-old Kierra Hellermann of Elrosa has already made three donations to Locks of Love in her short life. According to the Locks of Love Web site, that means Kierra’s hair donations have made up nearly one-half of one wig for a child without hair. Locks of Love is a Read more »
By Jennie Zeitler, Staff Writer jennie.zeitler@ecm-inc.com Kali Peschel has been a basketball junkie for nearly as long as she can remember. “I remember watching basketball on TV and wanting to be on the screen playing with them,” said Kali. The Peschels played basketball in the driveway and talked basketball a lot. Don Peschel, Kali’s dad, Read more »
By Jennie Zeitler, Staff Writer jennie.zeitler@ecm-inc.com Marie Marthaler has quilted with the St. John’s Missionary Society ladies for half of her life. She started 45 years ago, making several quilts a year with the group, which were used at fundraisers. The group formed in about 1935, and at that time they were able to use Read more »
By Jennie Zeitler, Staff Writer jennie.zeitler@ecm-inc.com After trying twice to get rid of a former church building, Barbara Lent accepted the fact that she was meant to keep it. During a quilt hop weekend she attended with four friends, the vision for the project developed and by the end of the weekend, the Red Hen Read more »
By Jennie Zeitler, Staff Writer jennie.zeitler@ecm-inc.com For four years, St. Francis of Assisi Church has presented “Journey with Jesus to Calvary,” a play written by Jane Keppers. “The play was written as an alternative to just reading the story to the elementary religious education students,” Keppers said. “The first year, one character spoke to the Read more »
By JENNIE ZEITLER Staff Writer jennie.zeitler@ecm-inc.com Six years ago this month, Pauline Segaar was told she had, at most, two years to live. Her motto is, “Courage is fear that has said its prayers,” a saying by Dorothy Bernard. After two years of testing, trying to find out what was causing pain in her left Read more »
