Two nights of music
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By Melissa Dunn
Staff Writer
Nearly 350 people enjoyed the vocal and instrumental sounds of the season at the second annual Home for the Holidays concerts featuring NRHEG graduates Gavin Berg, Adam Moen and Eva Wayne, which took place at Trinity Lutheran Church in New Richland last Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon. The event, sponsored by the New Richland Area Foundation, brought in over 7,000 dollars to benefit needs in the area.
Berg, a 2002 graduate of NRHEG, is an accomplished keyboard player currently serving as organist at Westwood Lutheran Church in St. Louis Park. Moen, a 2008 graduate, has performed in numerous productions at the Ordway and Guthrie theaters and took the weekend off from his role in "Jersey Boys" at Chanhassen Dinner Theater. Wayne is a 2023 graduate and currently attends the University of St. Thomas, majoring in Business Law & Compliance.
Celebration of Highway 14 Mile completed
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Four-lane highway now continuous from New Ulm to Rochester
Governor Tim Walz and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan today stood alongside a bipartisan group of legislators and community leaders to open the last stretch of Highway 14 that completes a continuous four-lane highway between New Ulm and Rochester. Photos from the event are attached.
Governor Walz’s advocacy on this project spans back to his time in Congress and the death of his neighbor in Mankato.
“As someone who has lost a neighbor on this road, I know that for the Minnesotans who travel Highway 14 every day, this project is personal. After years of working on this in Congress, I’m incredibly proud to see the final miles of this project completed,” said Governor Walz. “Today, I am keeping all who have lost loved ones on this highway in my thoughts. This expansion will keep Minnesotans safe while expanding economic activity across southern Minnesota.”
Panthers set to compete in Orlando in February
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By DEB BENTLY
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“Our goal is to win our fourth state championship in a row, and then advance as far as we can at the national competition in February,” says NRHEG Competition Cheer coach Joni Churchill.
The 13-member varsity competition cheer squad has been practicing its high-energy performance since last July, according to Churchill.
“These are tough kids,” she says of the team. “They’ve put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into perfecting this routine.”
Competition cheer teams are expected to create and perform a routine which lasts 2 minutes, 30 seconds. Within that time limit, they are required to include a cheer which lasts about 1 minute. Also required, along with traditional jumps and dance moves, are “small group” stunts and a pyramid. And, oh, they are expected to make it look easy–and never, ever to look like they’re tired.
“We get points taken off if the judges think we look tired,” comments one team member.
The term “individual stunts,” coaches explain, really means that the full team must break into small groups, each of which must then perform the same, difficult moves. In the case of the NRHEG routine, each of three groups lifts its “flyer” into the air and spins her around.
Moen, Berg to perform
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Proceeds go to New Richland Area Foundation
By DEB BENTLY
Staff Writer
New Richland residents are in for a treat; Adam Moen and Gavin Berg are scheduled to perform for a New Richland Foundation fundraiser that will have folks flocking to Trinity Lutheran Church Dec. 9 and 10.
“The NRHEG community is where we learned to sing and to play instruments,” says Adam Moen. “It gave us a foundation for everything that’s followed.”
“People talk about how it takes a village to raise a child,” observes Gavin Berg. “Well, this is our village. The people here are always with us because they’re part of who we are.”
Holiday lights shine on fairgrounds
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By DEB BENTLY
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The Waseca County Free Fair is again sponsoring its “Holiday Lights” celebration on Friday and Saturday evenings from 6 to 9 p.m. The event will take place the next two weekends: Dec. 1 and 2, and Dec. 8 and 9.
LEGACY - Above, Vince Peterson and scenes from the display which was set up on his property near New Richland until 2015.
Anyone attending is invited to bring donations of food items to be distributed to area food shelves, or to give a free-will cash donation which will either be kept by the fair board to support future holiday lights events, or passed on to food shelf organizations in Janesville, New Richland and Waseca as the individual specifies.
Entry into the event is at the far east end of the grounds, near what is the parking lot at fair time. Those who wish can park their cars at the end of the drive-through to walk to booths and gatherings.
Fair board members will be on the grounds serving hot cocoa all six evenings. The Waseca fire department had a “cookies with Santa” event last Saturday, and will possibly other evenings as well.
Various area businesses and organizations will also have booths.