Lifestyle

This week’s Artist of the Week is Northside Elementary’s first grader Jonas Sturm. Parents: Jake and Katy Sturm Favorite instrument: Conga Drums What do you want to be when you grow up? Professional YouTuber Favorite part of music class: Games .

Northside Elementary’s Artist of the Week this week is 4th grader Kendall Malmgren. Parents: Lucas, Brooke Malmgren Favorite instrument: Piano What do you want to be when you grow up? Mechanical Engineer Favorite part of music class: Learning about the different facts of music .

Happy 95th Birthday Floyd Wilkening from your coffee buddies. Barb Holmgren .

Bill Brown and his wife Corinne have been supporters of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research since Corinne’s diagnoses in October 2009. During the next 6 years they both joined the Mankato walk to defeat ALS. The disease is an incurable and upon diagnosis patients life expectancy is 2 to 5 years.

Its been two years since the start of COVID-19. During these past two years we have all seen changes some good some bad. Younger people had to survive going to online schooling and older people may have had to change to working from home instead of the office.

It is finally the week of the new Plaindealer design and layout. Last week in my column I gave you all a little preview of what this week’s paper will be like from here on out. Hopefully everyone enjoys it, finds it easier to read and find things in it too.