Elmore, MN

On December 15: Our Santa Party was a great success. We had 30+kids and their parents attend. They made ornaments and saw Santa. Elton and Sharon Rhoda decorated the bank meeting room and Lois Anderson, Deb Jahnke, Tina Rhengians, and Angie Cooke volunteerd their time and materials and V. Osterman along with other volunteers baked cookies and donated cocoa and cider.

On December 16th the Elmore Glows lighting was also a great success. 70 homes participated in lighting up our town. The Horizons, had handed out the lights on Dec 1 & 2 with the promise to turn them on the 16th to show pride and unity in our community. Although it was not an actual competition, we did drive around and evaluate the lighting efforts.

Rhonda & Craig Lloyd and Ray and Cheryl Knieland created the most simple, but elegant scenes on their lawns. Their use of lights exhibited balance, uniformity and color. The most lights used was by Don and Barb Stencil and Elton Rhoda’s and Sam Orvill’s . There was no lighting theme, but some very innovative ideas were used in putting up lights. For example, on the west side of town, a house had lights strung between trees creating a colorful clothesline mesh. Also Al Ferguson’s created a web of musical lights in front of his tree in the window.

Other lightings definitely worth mentioning were Roger & Arlys Holland–Shelley & Travis Risk–JoAnn & Dale Zimmerman–Alissa & Chris Mack–Chad Viland–Rochelle & Shane Rhengians–JoAnn & Mike Hearns–Sharon & John Wander–Rick & Rose Garvick–Joe & Deann Gonzales–Marv & Carol Boettcher–Clara Veriede–Bev & Lorman Jahnke– Mark & Janice Croom–Alvin & Joann Wirtjes– and last but not least, is Bob and Lois Wagner, who have inspired us with their annual decorationg and shown community pride for years.

There are many that decorated, but did not have their lights on or we unfortunately did not know their name, so please accept our apologys, if we missed your name. As we hope to make this an annual event with recognition and prizes, hopefully these individuals can sign up and join in the fun. Thank you all for making our city “glow” over the holidays.

Just the other day I heard my daughter say “I can’t wait til summer gets here!”  Now, that’s a very popular saying about this time every year!  Everybody seems  to think that the days are c r a w l i n g along.  But you know it can be very deceiving.  Especially for us ‘parents’.  If you’re anything like me, with kids in school and mountains of things to do every day, it doesn’t seem that far away!  All the things that need to be accomplished every day doesn’t give me a lot of time to wish for summer! (Besides what will we do with them under foot?) Just the bill paying is enough for me to wish there were more days in a month to be able to keep up with them!  Then there’s the every day chores and things that need to be done in order to live comfortably that take a lot of time and  energy. So for some parents it doesn’t ‘really’ matter if it’s winter or summer, after all, each season comes with it’s own pros and cons! There will still be the necessary things that will need to be done! But for kids, “nothing” is more important than to have the warm weather and school to be out along with mosquitoes and sweat so they can say………. “THERE’S NOTHING TO DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!”     

If you have ever had an interest in becoming an EMT - now is the time to fulfill that dream!!  All across the state the average age of an EMT is rising.  And our squad is no different.  Within the last year we have had two retirements and two EMT’s that have moved out of our service area.  We need the younger generation to step forward and take advantage of this opportunity.

South Central College Emergency Medical Services is offering a 112-hour Emergency Medical Technician training session at the Elmore Ambulance/Fire Hall starting February 26, 2008 and running through May 29, 2008.  The 28 sessions will be held Tuesday and Thursday nights, 6:30pm - 10:30 pm. 

If you are interested in taking this class please contact Clara Vereide at 943-3650.  Registration deadline is February 20th.  If you live within the Elmore service area and will be able to join the our squad, the cost of this class ($1,068) is covered by Elmore Ambulance Services.

Sunday     February 10, 2007    at   2:45 p.m.