Lifestyle

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.

If you were to go down to one of Albion’s Church former church school class rooms the you would find the ladies quilting group working on one of their many quilts. Janice Brekke, Sharon Lee, and Jean Knudson, hand make 10 to 12 quilts a year.

When I was growing up in the early 1980s, we had a weekly newspaper in our town. There was a woman assigned to cover our little neighborhood. I remember her calling each week to ask my mother what was new in our family. Did Jeremy make the honor roll this quarter? Had we gone on vacation recently? Did we get a new pet? She would take this information from anyone in the neighborhood who was willing to share it and would write a column each week. When the paper came out on Wednesdays, my mother was always excited to read what was going on in the neighborhood. Everyone on our street knew each other. We played outside with the kids every day until dusk. My parents were in a bowling league with our neighbors. We had a block party in the street in the summer. When a new family moved in everyone welcomed them and introduced themselves. I guess you could say it was a great community.