2019 Year in Review...

October 2, 2019

It has been a long couple of months for the staff and customers of Security State Bank waiting for all the changes to be completed. But is close to being completed.

Christopher Ingraham was at the Red Lake Falls Library on Thursday night to promote his new book “If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie.”

RLCC Homecoming Courtwere: Tanisha Srnsky, Sophia Linder, Adrianne Jones, Chris Longtin, King Derek Peterson, Queen Allison Aakhus, Calyssa Eskeli, Gunnar Thompson, Tyler Hanson, and Trent Goulet.

Garden Valley Technologies made $5,000 donations, with funding through the Garden Valley Education Foundation, to each robotics team at schools at Bagley, Fertile-Beltrami, Fosston-Lengby, Grygla, Red Lake Falls, Red Lake County Central, Thief River Falls and Win-E-Mac in our service area.

The last day of September. This past month was busy and full of rain. We are lucky that we didn’t get the flooding that Grand Forks and other places in North Dakota were so unfortunate to get.

October 9, 2019

The wet weather this fall has added to the typical stresses experienced during fall harvest. 

On Sept. 27 the Rebels hosted their homecoming game against the Fosston Greyhounds and won with a final score 56-8.

Had enough rain yet? Enough said. It seems we are replenishing our water table all at once.

Jess & Heidi Determan went to the Cindy & Del Determan home to watch the Vikings game. It is always fun to get together and enjoy a game and have your team win. Vikings won this week. Hooray.

October 16, 2019

As hard as the farmers have been hitting the fields, trying to get their soybeans harvested, Mother Nature has been waging a battle with them. This past week alone brought another 2.58 inches of unneeded rain. The rivers are rising, the fields are flooding.

On Tuesday, October 8, 2019, the Red Lake County Board of Commissioners were informed by RLC Assessor Nancy Amberson that the valuations for pipeline utilities were lowered.

We were very lucky to not receive the snow and blowing snow that visited North Dakota and Western Minnesota. It seemed Grand Forks and North of there received quite a lot of snow and blowing snow. It is much too early to have to contend with snow!

October 23, 2019

Kimberly, or Kim Olson was hired as the new financial bookkeeper at RLCC high school.

We were given a couple of days of nice weather last week. Now it is raining again. It is never ending this year. I hope it gets the falling out of the sky out of its system, so we are not hit with a snowstorm every week this winter. 

October 30, 2019

To this date, we have recorded 23.16 inches of rain at the NWROC. To put that into perspective. On average, our growing season rainfall total is 17.49 inches. The all-time wettest growing season was in 1941 with a drenching total of 29.18 inches of rain.

The Red Lake County Girls varsity volleyball team played Cass Lake in Plummer on Oct. 22. They won in three sets.

It froze last night. It was a hard freeze so no more growing. Did you have your flowers put inside or did you finally give up the fight? Maybe now after the freeze, the weather will straighten out. It has been quite a Fall.