donnelly news

Next edition may 5th-11th Welcome to another addition of the Donnelly news. Weather news: Most of last week was sunny and mild the weekend was fairly cool and rainy before turning nice again. A friend told me he had his corn planted and was going to start on beans this week S J/Kong parish news: The May newsletter .which contains the summer schedule, is now out; extra copies are available in the narthex of each church May 20th will be bachelorette sun if you have a grad this year please let the parish office know a.s.a.p. I also plan to recognize area grads in a future column GSLC news: Rev Norm Olsen from Reclaim resources and Erin Koehntop from someplace safe will be leading adult forums in May. Tickets are now on sale for the New Wine performances at first Lutheran on May 6th, 9th 12th & 13th dessert at 6 pm show at 7 pm The Red Hatters will meet at 1 pm at a place to be in Donnelly on May 7th the bookmobile will be in town at 3:30 pm the city council and Rendsville 4-h will meet at 7 pm The Donnelly community club will meet at 7pm in the Donnelly hall on May 14th. Doug Ohman will present a program “libraries of MN” at the Morris public library on May 14th at 7 pm. He has been at our threshing bee several times and is very, very good. My aunt pearl’s auction sale is on May 12th at her house in Donnelly beginning at 10 am see the ad in the classy canary The state republican party will have their convention on May 18 and 19th in st Cloud Brielle Renee Koehntop was born on April 23, 2012 at Douglas County Hospital to Kyle and Mandi Koehntop of Morris. Grandparents are Parker and Renee Kloos of Donnelly and Roger and Bonnie Koehntop of Morris. Great grandparents are Herb and Carol Kloos Martian Pasche of Hoffman passed away on Apr. 29th survivors include his sister in law Esther Pasche and her family his funeral is today (sat) at 11 am at Zion in Hoffman Jack Charles Ritter infant son of Adam and Karla (Long) Ritter of Morris died on Tuesday, May 1 at the Douglas County Hospital in Alexandria. His funeral is today (Sat) at 11 am at Zion in Morris Former Donnelly area resident Joan Bruns passed away on Apr 30th Ruth West of Florida passed away recently among her survivors is her brother Andy Brevig Brielle Renee Koehntop was born on April 23, at Douglas County Hospital to Kyle and Mandi Koehntop of Morris. Grandparents are Parker and Renee Kloos of Donnelly and Roger and Bonnie Koehntop of Morris. Great grandparents are Herb and Carol Kloos Brody James Pederson was born on April 24, to Ryan and Christina Pederson. Grandparents are Lyle and Correen Pederson of Dumont, and Gordy and Marge Smith of Rock Rapids, Iowa. Great grandmother is Virene Olson of Morris Congratulations to Kody Armstrong who made the honor role at WCA h.s Congratulations to Landon strand who recently earned a letter in speech (Discussion) He placed in the top 6 in all his meets this year Congratulations to Tristan Raths who won 2nd place at the state Jaycee wrestling tournament The Morris/ca girls track team placed third in the minnewaska meet. MaKenzie Smith finished 2nd in the 3200 meters, Rebekah Aanerud finished 4th in the 300 meter hurdles, Beth Holland was a member of the 4 x 100 relay team that finished 2nd, the 4x200 that finished 1st, the 4x 400 team that finished 4th, McKenzie was a member of the 4 x 800 team that finished first, she also finished third in the discus. The team finished 5th at the Breck meet with McKenzie Smith named outstanding distance runner she won both the 1600 and 3200 meter races and fished 9th in the discus Kourtney Geise finished 6th in the 400 was a member of the 4 x 800 relay team that finished din 4th , Rebekah finished 7th in the 100 hurdles and 6th in the 300 Beth was a member of the 4 x 100 relay team that finished 1st the 4 x 200 which finished 2nd she and Kourtney were members of the 4x400 which finished 6th she also placed 9th in the pole vault Apr 18th PR Mike Hanson and I enjoyed a visit at the common cup in Morris Apr 25th I visited with Sam and Dorothy Johrdheim in their house in Donnelly, the 27th I traveled to Dalton for the Haining family concert at Zion-Sarpsborg Free Lutheran On Apr. 28th I traveled to Glenwood where I met PR Mike Hanson at his home. From there we traveled to the Lcmc Augustana district convention at Christ the King church in Hutchinson. It was a very informative and interesting day; learning about the reclaim hymnal, institute of Lutheran Theology, other mission start churches in the area etc. Enroute home I stopped to visit Inga Mae Urke at her home in Starbuck Apr 29th a full church was on hand for confirmation services at gslc, later I traveled to Kong for the new wine benefit dinner Apr 30th Andy Brevig, Steve Fults and I attended the st co rep central committee meeting at Morris library. We heard from Craig Bishop the 7th district chairman and Scott Dutcher the 12A candidate for state rep. the next meeting was tentatively scheduled for May 21st. Enroute home May 1st I stopped into McCollar Jewelry for one of my frequent visits with Wally Jim and Lou Eystad visited some friends at the wwv one day last week, May 2nd they were among those who helped with the commodity distribution at the senior center in Morris As many of you have seen and/or heard my farm place(s) are no more they were demolished by the new owner several weeks ago