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Bernadotte Wraps Gifts for Adopt-A-Family Tradition at December 9 4H Meeting

Bernadotte 4H held its monthly meeting for December at the New Ulm Public Library to discuss their agenda.

The Bernadotte 4H Club youth wrapped presents for local families in their community, part of their Adopt-AFamily tradition on Christmas holidays.

By Robert Lawson Publisher info@nicolletcountyledger.com

Tressa, Emmalie, Elizabeth, Evalyn, Masen, Paxton, Haley, Hudson, London, Mason, Ayla, Carlos, Evan, Marilyn, Kaleb, Alex Aurora, Paulette and Mary Owen, Blaire, Bryanna, Mark, Violet, are the future of 4H in Bernadotte, a

rural community in Nicollet County where agriculture and leadership are nearly synonymous. Their last names are withheld for privacy and safety at the request of Bernadotte 4H.

Holiday Cheer in North Mankato

Regional and local 4H chapter across the country participate in activities throughout the year such as parent’s meetings, safety/health education programs, picnics, music, future 4H’ers night, drama, camp-outs, environmental education programs, community service activities, recreation, window displays/ club booths, group/club exchange program, National 4H Week observance, holiday parties, Get Green promotions and international programs.

The club in Bernadotte does such activities as ditch cleaning, sledding at Mount Kato in Mankato, bowling, local fairs, volunteering, a flower fundraiser and Lafayette Santa Day, which they

will also participate in this coming Tuesday, December 12 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Lafayette Community Center in Lafayette. They also participate in Adopt-A-Family. As such, they wrapped gifts for families at their monthly meeting on December 9 at the New Ulm Public Library meeting room.

The club discussed old and new business, including planning and approving a field trip to Crayola at the Mall of America in January. They will also hold a potluck dinner in January at the Lafayette Community Center. They plan on serving hot beef commercials with sides, salads and dessert. They plan to hold the event on January 7, 2024 at

5 p.m.

Nikki Aschenbrenner and Linda Beranek are the co-leaders of Bernadotte 4H. There are around 24 members of Bernadotte 4H and the club dates back to the early 1920s, according to one of the members and confirmed by the coleaders. They hold their meetings on the third Sunday of each month.

The 4H Group also discusses its budget and ways to raise funds for its activities. The 4H pledge is “I pledge my head to clearer thinking, my heart to greater loyalty, my hands to larger service, and my health to better living. For my family, my club, my community, my coun-

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Snow Levels at Low Levels

See more holiday exterior lights photography from neighborhoods of North Mankato and the Taylor Library on Page 6 of this week’s Ledger issue.

coating of snow at the Colony Court Apartments in North Mankato this past week.

Nicollet City Council December Meeting ABylightRobert Lawson with report- March 11-12, 2023 “Super-Duper the beginning of the season for snow

City Receives Complaints About Chickens and Home Based ing from BringMeTheNews cit- Clipper” ing data from National Oceanic Publisher Business, Council Officially Adopts Final 2024 Tax Levy According to a report in the New Ulm Journal, Nicollet residents complained at a recent Nicollet City Council meeting about chickens and home occupation businesses being a nuisance. The Siemonsma/Scheurer residence on the 400 block of 4th Street was a target for

its backyard chickens, the report noted.

Another complaint was lodged against the Hanel residence on the 300 block of 4th Street because the owner is alleged to be possibly operating a home-based business.

Nicollet Mayor Fred Froehlich was

on record to say that a city ordinance already exists that prohibits keeping chickens in town. The city clerk read the nuisance ordinance that prevents poultry and farm animals in city limits, the report also stated. Another council

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and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) “Lackluster start to snow season in Minnesota: What will December bring?” by Meteorologist Sven Sungaard Report from Minnesota Department of National Resources (DNR) “The

info@nicolletcountyledger.com So far, here in the South Central region of the state of Minnesota, we have not seen any serious accumulation of snow yet and we are headed into Christmas and the new year. It seems

is getting later each year with global warming, but sometimes it is followed by a major dump of snow in January or March like the year before last year and last year respectively. So far this year, we have only seen snow a couple of times, less than an inch and melt as fast as it fell.

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New Executive Director of the Minnesota State You’ve Come, All Ye Faithful: Southern Agriculture Center of Excellence Woman Who Grew Up in Lafayette Now a Leader in Agriculture South Central College News southcentral.edu

South Central College (SCC) has named Tina LeBrun to the position of Executive Director of the Minnesota State Southern Agricultural Center of Excellence. She will begin

in the role on October 11, 2023.

Established in 2013 as a Minnesota State system Center of Exc el lenc e,

the Center today includes seven member colleges and universities: South Central College, Minnesota West Community and Technical College, Riverland Community College, Rochester Community and Technical College, Da kota County

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50 Years of Christmas in Christ Chapel

The story—and stories—behind 50 years of Christmas in Christ Chapel.

Gustie News Wire Gustavus Adolphus College Written by Emma Myhre ’19

built on The Nine Lessons and Carols, a British Christmas Eve tradition celebrated at Gustavus through the 1960s.

But Reverend Elvee envisioned the new CinCC as a gift to the Gustavus The original blueprint for CinCC community—an opportunity to come was a blend of liturgy, music, and dance, together, celebrate the season, and mar-

vel at Gustavus student excellence.

“Elvee is a genius with an incredible creative intellect,” says Greg Aune, Professor Emeritus and former Gustavus Choir director. “He created CinCC and the Nobel Conference. There are no

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News from the Archives Saturday and Sunday with their father, W. C. Milliman, in Bernadotte.

They came here to observe Mr. 100 Years Ago – Feb. 14, 1920 Milliman’s birthday anniversary, Miss Anna Ebert is employed which was on Saturday. as domestic at the Reuben Lund 50 Years Ago – Feb. 19, 1970 home.

Those who spent the weekRobert Isenberg, H. E. Hedren and Henry Johnson attended the end at the Ambassador Motel in Oldsmobile dealers’ convention at Minneapolis as guests of Land O the Radisson hotel at Minneapolis Lakes were Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Berdan, Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon last week.

John Satterman will erect his Swenson, Mr. and Mrs. Richard saw mill at the John Lund farm Portner, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Isaacson two miles northeast from Lafayette. and Mr. and Mrs. Leo Marti.

Lois Wellnitz of Princeton spent Those who desire to have lumber sawed may haul the logs over there the weekend here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Wellnitz. now at any time.

Those who gathered at the Gerald Buttermaker Sjostrom of Klossner Forst home Sunday to honor Robert transacted business here Monday.

Aug. A. Johnson has bought the Hamann who is home on furlough, former J. P. Sjogren residence on were, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Schroeder Church Street and will reside there and family of New Ulm, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Meyer and boys, Mr. after March 1st.

Alvin Fjell is installing booths and Mrs. Delton Hamann and famin the H. F. Anderson restaurant. ily, Mr. and Mrs. Greg Bieraugel This makes a great improvement and Mrs. Rose Hamann.

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Maidl to Anderson’s ice cream parlor.

There will be a greater demand for and family went to the airport in ice cream hereafter, by the young Minneapolis Wednesday to get their daughter, Diane and Deanna folks.

Mrs. C. O. Gustafson of St. Schmitz, who returned that day Peter arrived here Thursday and from a five day visit at the Tony will stay at the Anton Malmberg Cranford home at Metairie, La. home for a while. With her came They also attended the Mardi Gras Curtis Malmberg who has been vis- at New Orleans while there.

Narve Nelson and Otis Muller iting with grandma Gustafson since returned Monday evening from a Christmas.

Pete and Albert Peterson of week’s fishing at Leech Lake with Alfsborg have rented the Freeman Mr. and Mrs. Harold Woods of Gibbon.

Anderson farm in New Sweden.

Forester members from this area Decorator Fjell is painting John who attended the C.O.F. Bowling Peterson’s Ford.

The local W.C.T.U. will meet with Tournament at St. Peter Sunday Mrs. T. F. Bergquist next Tuesday were Gerald, Richard and Ronald Seitz, Alphonse Goblirsch, Jerome afternoon, Feb. 17.

E. O. Abrahamson and family Weisensel, Leo Maidl, Marion and Henry Abrahamson visited Bushard and Clarence Maidl.

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hatch of at the Rudell home at Winthrop Rochester spent the weekend at the Sunday.

Miss Claudia Swenson of Otis Muller home.

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Eckberg Minneapolis visited here over visited at the Carl Lund home in St. Sunday.

John Johnson of Parshall, N. D., Peter Friday evening. was a visitor with his bro-in-law C. NICOLLET LEADER H. Nelson over Sunday.

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Focus on Ag

USDA Issues a Surprising WASDE Report

By Kent Thiesse

Farm management analyst kent.thiesse@minnstarbank.com

The monthly USDA World Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) Report that was released on November 9 was a bit of a surprise to grain traders and may impact corn and soybean markets in the coming weeks. The WASDE Report raised 2023 corn and soybean production estimates, based on increases in the expected final U.S. crop yields for 2023. However, the report made smaller adjustments to projected 2023-24 carryover estimates at the end of the current marketing year on August 31, 2024, due to some projected increases in grain usage during the current marketing year. The biggest surprise to the grain markets was the rather large increase in the estimated 2023 U.S. average corn yield in in the November USDA report compared to the October estimate and the

corresponding increase in the total production level.

There was an immediate negative grain market reaction for both corn and soybeans following the release of the November WASDE Report. Most grain marketing analysts viewed the latest report as “quite bearish” for future corn prices and “neutral” to “somewhat bearish” for soybean prices. December corn futures closed at $4.68 per bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) following the November 9 report, which compares to a price of $4.76 per bushel following the WASDE report on September 12 and to $6.64 per bushel and $5.55 per bushel, respectively, following the November WASDE reports in 2022 and 2021.

November soybean futures closed at $13.43 per bushel following the latest WASDE report, which was above the $12.90 per bushel price following the September report and

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75 Years Ago – Feb. 16, 1945 W. H. Krohn and family visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Swartz in St. Paul, Sunday.

Mrs. Justine Jacobson entertained a group of ladies at her home Saturday afternoon in observance of her birthday anniversary.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Nelson of Winthrop, Mrs. Theo. Ostrom and Grace, of New Sweden, visited Sunday afternoon at the Arthur Flygare home in Bernadotte.

Mr. and Mrs. Delphin Anderson and children, Duane and Gladys, were entertained at dinner Sunday at the Gerald Wise home in New Sweden. The afternoon was spent at the Orville Quist home near St. Peter.

Miss Elaine Isenberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Delphin Isenberg of Cornish, has completed a course in beauty culture, and also passed the state board examinations, thereby receiving the license for such work.

Raymond Quandt, Hugo Albrecht and Arthur Schaeffler, members of the board of Lafayette township, went to St. Peter, Monday, and attended the annual weed conference, which was held in the court room of the court house.

Mrs. Martha Carlson and Mrs. LeRoy Anderson spent last weekend in the twin cities.

Carl Youngblom of St. Paul and his roommate, Tom Kostuch, returned to St. Paul Monday evening, after a few days visit with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Youngblom.

Misses Betty and Bonnie Milliman, students of the Hamline University, Minneapolis, spent

115 Years Ago – Feb. 18, 1905 The personal property taxes are due March 1st, and unless paid by that time a penalty of 10 percent will be added.

The fifth of its series of club dances was given by the Nicollet Dancing Club at Blank’s hall Tuesday evening. The Nicollet orchestra furnished the music.

Do not forget the special school meeting to be held on Saturday evening, February 25th. It is important that all interested in school matters should attend this meeting.

The school rooms at present are so overcrowded that early provision needs to be made for an extra room and teacher for same.

The farmers of Brighton township will build a co-operative creamery near the place of Adam Jutz, on the southwest corner of section 3, and are busy hauling material for the same now. They will commence with the erection soon as the weather permits and will hold a meeting on Saturday, March 4th, for the purpose of organizing.

A Judson correspondent says a party from Nicollet, who has been cutting ice, had the misfortune of journeying to the river bottom, rather a disagreeable experience, though the distance traveled was only twelve feet. He then drove home six miles, in his wet clothes, which were certainly stiff upon him by the time he arrived. Do you know him?

The blizzard we had Tuesday worked havoc with the train service. No trains went either way until the following morning when the snowplow cleared the tracks.

Except for telephonic communica- the Chester Nelson home Saturday tion, this village was cut off by the evening. drifting snow and extreme cold LAFAYETTE NICOLLET weather.

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100 Years Ago – Feb. 14, 1920 Mrs. Henry Netzke visited her daughter at New Ulm the first of the week who has been ill.

George and William Lange of Oshawa township have gone to Sioux City, Iowa, to attend an automobile school.

Show your loyalty to the fire company by purchasing tickets for their annual ball to be given in the Nicollet opera house tonight.

The ladies of the Progressive Banner will give an apron sale for the benefit of the auxiliary in the local auxiliary parlors Saturday afternoon, Feb. 21.

Henry Epper and family are getting comfortably settled in their new, large and modern residence on West Fourth Street, having moved in during the week.

Three auctions are booked for this vicinity in the near future. The sale of Louis Wenholz will occur on February 20. August Schroeder will conduct a sale on February 27th, and H. C. Fricke will close out his personal property on March 4th.

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Johnson of Langdon, N. D., the latter a sister of J. H. Meurer, arrived here last Friday for an extended visit with relatives in Nicollet and vicinity.

Mr. Johnson was an old time resident of Nicollet and in his early days drove a stage between New Ulm and St. Peter.

Dr. E. F. Vogelpohl, Nicollet’s resident dentist, opened up for business in the former Dr. Meilicke’s office this week. His office is modernly equipped in every respect for his dental practice. Dr. Vogelpohl was called out of town today but will be on deck again Monday morning.

25 Years Ago – Feb. 16, 1995 Congratulations to Peter Anthony, son of Willis and Rachel Anthony, for being named to the Dean’s List at Bethany College. Also to Michael Gunderson, son of Darwin and Brenda Gunderson, who also made the Dean’s List at the University of Minnesota, Morris.

Sharon Gaalswyk, Karen Gaalswyk, Cheryl Epper and Joyce, manager of the Budgetel Motel went to dinner at Charley’s and saw the play at the University in Mankato, “Stepping Out.” Kevin and Jeanette Hewitt of Cleveland entertained Sunday afternoon in honor of their daughter, Heather’s 4th birthday. Among those present were Earl and Evie Nelson of Norseland, Bob and Donna Hewitt of St. Peter, Darren and Corrinne Ely, and Angie Seitzer of Cleveland.

Darryl and Barbara Stevensen and Mr. and Mrs. Wade Zieske of rural New Ulm flew to Florida last week to spend time with Barbara’s parents, Herb and Jolene.

Good winter weather has allowed all aspects of construction for the new InLaws Restaurant at Nicollet to proceed. The business, located at the corner of Highways 14 and 111 in Nicollet, is slated to open in early spring.

Herring Trucking of Lafayette put up a new building on the old railroad right-of-way property over the winter. It’s behind the city disposal plant. The 40 X 75 foot building has space for two trucks and will give the Herrings a place to wash their trailers when they return from trips. Final details are being completed and the building should be ready for use in a few weeks.

85 Years Ago – Feb. 16, 1935 About 7:30 Monday morning, the fire department was called to the farm home of Henry Ott where a bad chimney fire was raging.

There was no damage.

Emil Starke has been busy for the past two weeks cutting logs and sawing lumber for a new barn which he will have erected on his farm this spring.

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wyngarden and children, who spent several months with Mr. and Mrs. Carl Netzke returned to their home at Tappen, N.D., Wednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Kettner, Mrs. L. W. Kettner, Mrs. E. A. Zimmermann and Mrs. Aug. Thom, Jr. visited relatives at Truman on Monday. The latter two remained for a week’s stay.

Aug. Koetting of Courtland township was seriously injured, Wednesday morning, when a shed, which he was tearing down, suddenly collapsed, pinning him underneath. His right hip and his right leg were broken.

A social evening was spent at the home of Miss Norma and Gordon Ott Wednesday evening. The time was spent in playing “bunco” with high honors going to Miss Viola Bode and Harvey Enter and Miss Elvira Enter and Harold Heidemann, low. At midnight a delicious lunch was served.

Peter Jutz came down Monday from Pierz with a truck load of potatoes which he is selling very cheap.

Mrs. Martin Zins and daughters spent Thursday at Nicollet with her sister, Mrs. R. J. Dauffenbach.

Joyce and Allen Erickson, Henry Maritz, Margie Monson and Mrs. Ella Johnson were entertained at

10 Years Ago – Feb. 18, 2010 Nicollet senior Jordan Rudenick surpassed the 1,000 point career mark in a make-up game with St. Clair Saturday afternoon. Rudenick, a four-year player for the Nicollet High School, has been a consistent scorer for the Raiders and is a good all-around player.

Congratulations to Steve and Barb Hulke of Courtland on becoming grandparents for the first time.

Little Hannah Hulke was born to their son and daughter-in-law, Brent and Andria, February 7.

The fourth annual Polar Plunge at Lake Hallett in St. Peter Sunday was even bigger and better than the first three. A total of 313 “human plungers” raised more than $44,000 for Special Olympics. Those numbers are up from 110, 165, and 196 plungers and $21,000, $28,500, and $30,000 in the first three. Nicollet County Sheriff Dave Lange and his group opened the plunge. Nicollet American Legion Post 510 was represented by Del Vulcan and Bruce Connelly. The gals went first and the guys followed when the Courtland Fire Department jumped. Group members were Pam Meyer, Mary Luepke, Jenna Krueger, Danielle Bode, Dave Ubel, Leon Luepke, Jon Rewitzer, Brandon Matter, Adam Marti, and Pat Stadick. Lafayette Ambulance “Team McFreezies” included Kim Schwab, Daryl Trautmiller, Kevin Reinhart, Jay Carlson, Jessi Gieseke, Collin Gieseke, and Marti Uhde.

Andrew and Lisa Quist of Norseland were among nearly 90 Minnesota Farm Bureau members who attended the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation Promotion and Education Conference January 29-30 in Bloomington.

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Editorial

Legacy System Protagonists

South Central Minnesota and Nicollet County News Updates

News in Southern Minnesota Agricultural

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Who are the parties and people whose interests are are going to be disbursed to select bound by the principles of a 20th Century Era and educators in Mankato, Owatonna, whose actions seem to attempt to prevent us from and Winona, according to KIMT3 News in Rochester. The grants taking a leap fully into the 21st Century Era? were awarded by Minnesota AgriBy Robert Lawson LawsonMediaPubstack The Crypto Room https://lawsonmedia.substack. com/p/legacy-system-protagonists

Conservatism can apply to a lot of different things or ideas. As generations overlap and race toward the next cycle of innovation or historical era, they are rarely able to see the whole context relative to either innovation or history. Everything is an educated guess as far as the future is concerned, but nonetheless, we continue to analyze and forecast because we operate on the notion of chance and possibility, allowing us to extend ourselves, sometimes even beyond reasonable reach. We are a duality, because as the liberal application of thought contrasts and clashes with the conservative application of thought among a vast collective of sub strains that comprise the ecosystem of human activities, we create both history and innovation. Politics is merely a regulator between the two. As our activity expands on a wider timeline between death and birth cycles (generations), we come to periods of transition. They are rarely observed in history as some magic moment that happens seemingly overnight. We move toward a trajectory upon which our history and innovation drives a wide spectrum of cultural and societal changes at a given moment that gives rise to a new era. That era is upon us in the 21st century, but as with any period, there are colliding interests that want to preserve the benefits they were allotted in the previous century, most of which was carved out of two world wars, followed by a period of wars on terrorism, ideology and narcotics trafficking. Who are the holdover protagonists of this period, clinging to the unraveling rope of the 20the century?

Jamie Dimon The CEO of one of the largest global financial institutions that ever existed and its intrinsic ties to global affairs and politics make him one of the most vulnerable people to changes that are taking place in society.

He even goes so far as to call people who use Bitcoin nothing more than criminals, tax evaders and money launderers. As many people have rightly pointed out on both sides of the political spectrum already, Dimon ought to be the last person to speak about corrupt money practices, considering his firm has been subject to many billions of dollars in penalties for exactly the aforementioned. In other words: straight from the horse’s mouth. Dimon’s bank is already reportedly using a blockchain token with his depositors’ funds to transact right now, essentially acting as a centralized version of Bitcoin. These are often referred to as either Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) or the predecessor of a CBDC. Many finance and fintech experts now believe that most central governments, including the United States, will eventually issue centralized digital currencies for their nations that compete with Bitcoin, and major banks like JP Morgan Chase and others will swallow up smaller regional banks all under one large centralized financial system tied to the Federal Reserve.

The FedNow system was quietly introduced in July of this year, which is believed to be the beginning of a move toward a nationalized CBDC.

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Stellar Lumens XLM and Ripple XRP are examples of bridge technologies offered to commercial banks that are part of their aligned central banks’ financial system and settlement process. The fiat system settlement process was designed for a paper era with lots of middlemen, which is why transactions often take up to days or weeks. Smart contracts on the blockchain eliminate this process to near instant settlement, which is what a 21st Century economy demands. It also demands to be global.

El Salvador has chosen an alternative route and is banking on backing its currency with Bitcoin and ditching the fiat system altogether. There are economic blocks developing across the world as well, such as BRICS+ nations and their push to dedollarize world trade, specifically energy. They also have their own digital currency plans. Despite your politics, the world is going cashless, in both centralized and decentralized ways. Jamie Dimon is the horse-and-buggy driver in the age of electric self-driving cars.

Gary Gensler The current chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission has proven to be the perfect Sheriff — of Nottingham. He was self-appointed the champion of traditional finance for fiat and has been quick to enforce rules he made up for crypto businesses and projects overnight after years of development post-Bitcoin. He lost several battles in court against Ripple, the company behind the XRP token, before an overall defeat. Banks globally, meanwhile, have been inking deals with the company to use its XRPL blockchain for settlement. Gary Gensler was another big bank cartel member for Goldman Sachs, who many criticize of agency capture. Recently, a judge furiously reprimanded Gensler and his agency of not following critical legal procedural rules and conduct. Gensler is the washed up boss everyone can’t wait to see be fired. Gensler has also been subject to several harsh words in congressional testimony by a variety of active voices on the Hill.

Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth Warren, the liberal politician in this case, is dead-to-rights a victim of her own ignorance. It wasn’t always that way. She came from modest means and achieved a great deal in her lifetime, especially in three particular areas: law, politics and personal finance. Her achievements are as noteworthy as the other two previously mentioned names on this list that were both heavily invested in finance. Neither of them worked with working class families in any significant way such as Warren when she started her career in public school teaching, then pursued a career in law, and in bankruptcy law in particular. As she became more successful, she began teaching law at a swanky private college — Harvard and earned significant revenue, before transitioning to politics and public policy completely. All of this took place in the post-WWII geo-political, cultural and financial world of the 20th century. The Occupy movement that helped her during the Great Recession, housing market collapse and stock market implosion now resents her, many of them who happen to be the Wall Street Bets crowd that help bankrupt a hedge fund engaged in massive short selling of companies

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culture in the Classroom (MATIC).

They are intended to fund projects that support agriculture and food systems education efforts in state K-12 education. The recipients included Sarah Odegard at Loyola Catholic School in Mankato, Kimberly Penning at Owatonna High

School and Mika Miller at Winona County 4-H. According to the report, Odegard will use the money to finance a Ruby Ranch field trip, while Penning intends to educate students on water quality and aquaponics. Miller plans to use his grant for a food systems in agriculture class with 4-H After-School.

Ten other agriculture educators received grants from the organization in Minnesota.

The Magner family in Nicollet County will be having a street

named after it, according to reporting by the St. Peter Herald published December 6. According to local lore, a Magner family feud of brothers in the era of the American Civil War was etched into the American annals of history and will soon be commemorated by a street in the municipal district. The street was newly acquired, according to the Herald report. The section of 361st avenue that sits directly west of the new Saint Peter High School, will now be called Magner Road, in

memory of the historic family. The Herald chronicled the tale of the Magners, early settlers in Nicollet County who immigrated to the United States from Ireland’s southernmost region of County Cork in the early 1900s. The brothers were farmers but wound up on opposing forces during the war. They both died at Gettysburg. Outside the activities of the war, the family of 11 contributed in various ways to the history of Nicollet County. The report is worth a read.

in which a germ escapes from a laboratory, it’s not surprising that conspiratorial thinking has become so common. We don’t know whom to trust. When it comes to lab leaks, misinformation and disinformation are standard fare. No wonder the public no longer believes the “official truth.”

break in which one hospital patient spread smallpox to many others throughout the building.

So an initially clear case has been thoroughly muddied: if you read Wikipedia now, you’re told that no one really understands what happened to Janet Parker, since Bedson, having fallen on his sword in a tragically literal way, was dead, the university exonerated, and the case itself vanished into a murky cloud, like those of the earlier two British outbreaks.

We can take this story as paradigmatic for the entire history of lab leaks. They always seem to vanish into an oblivion of indeterminacy or misinformation. Sometimes the obfuscation is politically motivated at the government level; sometimes it stems from a natural desire to protect scientists, institutes, reputations. But the result is the same, in almost every country, in almost every case.

“A technician working in a bioweapons laboratory in the city neglected to replace a filter on an anthrax fermenter.”

The Soviet Union specialized in cover-ups, even the cover-ups of natural outbreaks of plague or cholera. In 1971 a bioweapons experiment in which aerosolized smallpox was blown out over the Aral Sea went tragically wrong when a young fisheries expert on a boat contracted the illness and spread it to nine other people. Three died, including two young children. The government claimed that the infections had spread naturally from Afghanistan, where pockets of smallpox infection still smoldered. But there were no intervening cases and the whole explanation seemed disingenuous.

Only after the fall of the Soviet Union did the Russians admit what had actually happened. And this story, too, has been almost forgotten.

Yet it is one of many. In 1977, a pseudo pandemic, the “Russian flu” as it came to be known, broke out in China and spread across the world. It was a mild flu, as influenza outbreaks go, and seemed to infect, almost exclusively, people under the age of 25. Examination of the strain by Western scientists showed something odd: the strain, of a type known as H1N1, was virtually identical to strains that had circled the world continually since 1918, only to be replaced, in 1957, by a novel influenza strain, H2N2.

This meant that the virus had disappeared into a freezer, probably in Russia, which apparently investigated influenza as a potential agent for its biological weapons program.

It may have been used in a vaccine

experiment in Russia or in China.

But the story behind this incident was muddied by the Soviets, who may have shared the strain with the Chinese government as part of vaccine research. We will likely never know what really occurred.

More deadly, if less extensive, was a bioweapons accident in the city of Sverdlovsk in 1979. A technician working in a bioweapons laboratory in the city neglected to replace a filter on an anthrax fermenter that dried anthrax spores used for biological weapons. This caused either a leak or an explosion (reports vary) that sent anthrax spores up into the prevailing winds over Sverdlovsk, resulting in at least 64 deaths. The Soviet government launched a massive cover-up that eventually involved U.S. scientists sent to investigate the outbreak, some of whom were convinced by the Soviets that the anthrax deaths had been caused by “tainted meat.”

It took many years for the truth to emerge.

In the fall of 2001, the United States had its own bioweapons brush with anthrax, terrifying at the time, all but forgotten now. A wildly popular book, Germs, by then New York Times reporters Judith Miller, William Broad, and Stephen Engelberg, had just been released.

And then, in October, a nation already traumatized by the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks learned that we might be under attack again. A series of strange letters addressed to media and government figures were filled with dried anthrax spores, resulting in 22 infections, of which 5 were fatal.

No one, at first, knew the extent of the attack, who had perpetrated it, or where it would end. But the investigation itself exploded rapidly, pointing in several directions, many of them entirely fanciful. Were the spores coated in bentonite, as some experts insisted—a process that characterized biological weapons research in Iraq? Did they contain silicon, which also suggested a sophisticated state operation by a hostile nation? Were they the product of one disgruntled person’s work or an entire enemy biological weapons program?

A long forensic investigation eventually pointed to the United States’ own biodefense industry as the source of the anthrax spores.

After investigating and clearing one suspect, a virologist named Steven Hatfill, the long finger of the FBI pointed to another biodefense scientist, Bruce Ivins, who worked in the anthrax laboratory of the United

The Murky History of Lab Leaks They are almost never fully covered by media and usually shrouded by a fog of disinformation and denial.

Could this explain the culture of conspiracy surrounding COVID-19?

By Wendy Orent OpenMind

The last death from smallpox happened in a laboratory—or more precisely, above one. In 1978, a year after the last naturally occurring case of smallpox in the world, virologist Henry Bedson of the University of Birmingham was rushing to complete a series of experiments with the deadly virus before the World Health Organization shut his work down, having declined permission for him to continue this research.

We don’t know what exactly Bedson was doing with his samples, nor how a 40-year-old medical photographer named Janet Parker, whose office was above his laboratory, managed to contract the disease.

Before she died, Parker passed smallpox to her mother, who, freshly vaccinated, had only a mild case.

Her father died soon after of a heart attack. And the last victim of this tragic case was Bedson himself, who, taking responsibility for the infection, slit his own throat.

Despite extensive investigation, Parker’s case remains unexplained in the record. An air duct led directly from part of Bedson’s laboratory to the “telephone room” where Parker spent several hours, and an official investigation proposed that infectious smallpox virions must have, in some way, drifted upwards. Other researchers suggested that Parker herself came down to Bedson’s laboratory, though there is no actual evidence she did so. The initial investigation exonerated the University of Birmingham, despite the weird coincidence that in 1966, another medical photographer at the same institute had also contracted smallpox in a mysterious way—and spread the infection to 72 other people. Fortunately, since a mild form of smallpox was involved that time, no one died. And so many years later, we still don’t fully understand what happened, to Parker or her predecessor.

A veil of secrecy seems to surround virtually all investigations of leaks involving dangerous pathogens. It’s confounding and troubling to realize that before the public learns anything like the truth, investigators and journalists often, if not always, have to tear away veils of obfuscation and sometimes outright duplicity. This duplicity can range from the open lying and stonewalling of the Soviet government to the self-protective, natural desire scientists may have to escape blame and protect themselves and their coworkers from charges of malfeasance. And since so much fog envelops almost every instance

We don’t even understand how common lab leaks really are, because so many have been swept under the rug or quickly disappeared from media reports. The cases of the smallpox lab accidents in Britain in 1966 and 1978—and another in 1973—are models for how laboratory accident fog works.

For instance, no one knows how the young photographer caught his mild form of smallpox (known as variola minor, or alastrim) in Birmingham in 1966, but the fact that he worked where Janet Parker worked in 1978 at least suggests that a continuing problem existed.

Yet because no one died in 1966, officials let that incident go.

More serious, if more limited, was the incident in 1973, when a lab worker at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine contracted smallpox by visiting a lab where the virus was being grown in eggs. She apparently watched it being harvested, contracted the infection, and then inadvertently passed it on to two people she shared a newspaper with while she was in the hospital with “glandular fever.” She survived; they did not.

That accident, unless you dig for it, seems to have vanished from historical memory too.

Far more attention was paid to the Parker death. There, the government’s “Shooter Report” (named after its chief investigator, the microbiologist Reginald A. Shooter) found the likely cause was heavy contamination in the vent leading from Bedson’s lab to Parker’s work space. Shooter also examined the questionable safety practices in Bedson’s laboratory.

While the report acknowledged that Parker may have visited the corridor where the labs were located, there is no indication she ever entered Bedson’s lab, nor was she on the list of approved visitors or workers, all of whom were vaccinated yearly.

The Shooter Report left little doubt that the virus had traveled up the air duct. But a later report exonerated the University of Birmingham on surprising grounds: the investigator argued that smallpox could be contracted only from face-to-face contact with another person, and not through the air. This is manifestly untrue, as proved by a German out-

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The 2023 national average corn yield is now estimated at the record level of 174.9 bushels per acre, which was increased from 173 bushels per acre in October. The 2023 harvested corn acreage in the U.S. was maintained 87.1 million acres, resulting in an estimated record total U.S. corn production of 15.234 billion bushels for 2023. This compares to total U.S. corn production levels of just over 13.7 billion bushels in 2022, near 15.1 billion bushels in 2021, and 14.1 billion bushels in 2020. Total corn usage for the 2023-24 marketing year is now estimated at just over 14.46 billion bushels, which would be up from nearly13.77 billion bushels in the 2022-23 marketing year. The amount of corn used for feed and ethanol production, as well as for exports, are all expected to increase during the current marketing year that ends on August 31, 2024, as compared to a year earlier.

USDA is now estimating 2023-2024 U.S. corn ending stocks at just over 2.15 billion bushels, which was 26 million bushels above the October estimate.

This compares to previous carryout levels of just over 1.36 billion bushels in 2022-23, nearly 1.34 billion bushels in 2021-22, and 1.24 billion bushels in 2020-21. Based on current estimates, the U.S. corn carryout to use ratio would be at 14.9 percent for 2023-24, which compares to previous levels of 9.9 percent for 2022-23, 9.2 percent for 2021-22, and 8.3 percent in 202021. The increased level of corn supply could limit the potential for substantial rallies in the cash corn market in the coming months.

Total U.S. soybean production for 2023 was estimated at just under 4.13 billion bushels in the November report, which was increased by 26 million bushels from the October estimate and was slightly higher than the average grain trade projection. Total soybean demand for 2023-24 is projected at just over 4.18 billion bushels, which is down from 4.3 billion bushels in 2022-23, primarily due to a decrease in the expected soybean export level. The 2022-23 U.S. soybean ending stocks in the recent WASDE Report were estimated at 245 million bushels, which was an increase of 25 million bushels compared to the October USDA report. The projected soybean ending stocks compare to 268 million bushels in 2022-23, 274 million bushels in 2021-22 and 256 million bushels in 2020-21. The projected 202324 carryout level is still well below the very high ending stocks of 523 million bushels in 2019-20 and 913 million bushels in 2018-19. The soybean stocksto-use ratio for 2023-24 is estimated at 5.9 percent, which is down from down from 6.2 percent on 2022-23 and is far lower than the levels of 11.5 percent in 2019-20 and 23 percent for 2018-19.

Based on the November WASDE report, USDA is currently estimating the U.S average on-farm cash corn price for the 2023-2024 marketing year at $4.85 per bushel, which was down $.10 per bushel from the October report. The USDA marketing year price estimates are the expected average farm-level prices for the 2023 crop year from September 1, 2023, to August 31, 2024; however, they do not represent estimated prices for either the 2023 or 2024 calendar year. The projected USDA average corn price of $4.85 per bushel would be lower than the average prices of $6.54 per bushel in 2022-23 and $6.00 per bushel in 2021-22 and would compare to recent national average corn prices of $4.53 per bushel for 2020-21, and $3.56 per bushel for 2019-20.

USDA maintained the projected U.S. average farm-level soybean price for the 2023-24 marketing year at $12.90 per bushel, which was the same as the October estimate. The 202324 projected national average soybean

price compares to prices of $14.20 per bushel in 2022-23, $13.30 per bushel in 2021-22, $10.80 per bushel for 202021, and $8.57 per bushel for 2019-20. The fact that soybean ending stocks remain fairly tight may offer some opportunities for short-term rallies for farm-level soybean prices in the coming months, especially if there are any weatherrelated production issues in South America.

USDA Increases 2023 Corn and Soybean Yield Projections Based on the USDA Crop Production Report released on November 9, the projected U.S. average corn yield for 2023 will be 174.9 bushels per acre, which would be an increase from the final 2022 average yield of 173.4 bushels per acre but would still trail the record U.S. corn yield of 177 bushels per acre in 2021. This compares to other recent U.S. corn yields of 171.4 bushels per acre in 2020, 167.5 bushels per acre in 2019, and 176.4 bushels per acre in 2018. The projected 2023 U.S. harvested corn acreage is 87.1 million acres, representing an increase of 10.1 percent from 79.1 million acres that were harvested last year, which is quite significant.

The November USDA Report increased the estimated 2023 corn yields from the October report by 7 bushels per acre in North Dakota, by 6 bushels per acre in Wisconsin, by 5 bushels per acre in South Dakota, by 3 bushels per acre in Illinois and Indiana, by 2 bushels per acre in Minnesota, and 1 bushel per acre in Iowa. The latest report left the projected corn yield unchanged from a month earlier in Ohio and reduced the estimated yield in Nebraska by 1 bushel per acre.

Minnesota is projected at an average corn yield of 181 bushels per acre in 2023, compared to 195 bushels per acre in 2022, with Iowa the same as last year at 200 bushels per acre in 2023. Other projected state average corn yields for 2023 are Illinois at 203 bushels per acre, Indiana at 200 bushels per acre, Ohio at 195 bushels per acre, Nebraska at 173 bushels per acre, Wisconsin at 171 bushels per acre, South Dakota at 152 bushels per acre, and North Dakota at 143 bushels per acre.

USDA is estimating the 2023 U.S. soybean yield at 49.9 bushels per acre, which is an increase of 0.3 bushels from the October estimate. The projected 2023 national average soybean yield compares to 49.6 bushels per acre in 2022, 51.7 bushels per acre in 2021, 51 bushels per acre in 2020, 47.4 bushels per acre in 2019, and the record U.S. soybean yield of 52.0 bushels per acre in 2016. The 2023 harvested soybean acreage is projected at just under 82.8 million acres, which is down from the 2022 U.S. soybean harvested acreage of just over 86.2 million acres. This compares to harvested soybean acreage of 86.3 million acres in 2021 and 82.6 million acres in 2020.

USDA is estimating the 2023 Minnesota soybean yield at 48 bushels per acre, which is down from 50 bushels per acre in 2022, while Iowa is projected at 58 bushels per acre in 2023, which is down slightly from 58.5 bushels per acre last year and compares to the record yield of 63 bushels per acre in 2021. Estimated 2023 soybean yields in other states include Illinois and Indiana at 61 bushels per acre, Ohio at 58 bushels per acre, Nebraska at 51 bushels per acre, Wisconsin at 49 bushels per acre, South Dakota at 41 bushels per acre, and North Dakota at 34 bushels per acre.

Note — For additional information contact Kent Thiesse, Farm Management Analyst and Sr. Vice President, MinnStar Bank, Lake Crystal, MN. (Phone — (507) 381-7960) E-mail — kent.thiesse@minnstarbank.com) Web Site — http://www. minnstarbank.com/

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States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.

Ivins killed himself with an overdose of acetaminophen before he could be charged or tried.

Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Willman, then of the Los Angeles Times, wrote a book called The Mirage Man, setting out the case for Ivins’s guilt. But Martin Hugh-Jones, a British-born anthrax expert once closely tied to U.S. biodefense, knew Ivins and insists, to this day, that Ivins was innocent and railroaded—and that, in fact, evidence points to other arms of the U.S. biodefense program. Another long-time biodefense expert, Andrew Weber of the Council on Strategic Risks, has a different take: “I was briefed by the FBI on the Ivins investigation and am 100 percent sure he was the perpetrator.

The only shocking thing about this is that it took the FBI seven years to come to that conclusion.’

Still other biodefense experts insisted, at least at the time, that the anthrax spores were made and sent from outside the United States altogether. Since Ivins never came to trial, his guilt remains unproven, and the memory of anthrax let-

ters has also dissolved into near oblivion.

“This long history of misinformation means that the public has no reason to believe anything they’re told about laboratory accidents.”

The misinformation surrounding laboratory escapes means we may never get to the bottom of any of them. “Clear cases are muddied, and those that seem clear at first become ambiguous and disappear from the record,” says Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University. Denial is common and “the whole matter just rolls off and out of memory,” he says.

This long history of misinformation means that the public has no reason to believe anything they’re told about laboratory accidents, or indeed about anything relating to pandemics and disease, especially surrounding SARS-CoV-2, the novel virus causing the present pandemic of COVID. When nothing is explained, everything is possible.

Daniella Lebor, an expert on misinformation for the London communications agency APCO Worldwide, says, “Some people don’t believe anything they’re told because they lack trust in the institutions that

weren’t transparent to begin with.”

A case in point: Anthony Fauci’s “noble lie”— as it has famously been called—at the outset of the COVID pandemic, telling people not to buy and wear face masks because, he said, they don’t work. It transpired eventually that Fauci said this to protect the mask supply for healthcare workers who had a dire need for them. Reversing that policy and admitting that masks are protective did nothing for people’s trust. No matter how noble Fauci’s intention, “If he knew that was incorrect, it’s disinformation—misleading and intending to mislead,” says Lebor.

Eventually the line between truth and falsehood is blurred so much that people are unable to distinguish between conspiracy theories and actual scientific facts.

When we’re told that nothing is a lab leak, anything could be a lab leak, and many people have become convinced that SARS-CoV-2 has its origins in a laboratory: either created by accident or design, or originating as a natural bat virus that infected a lab worker. There’s virtually no evidence the virus came from a lab but plenty of proof that it evolved in the Huanan market

in Wuhan, to which many of the early COVID cases were linked.

But rational explanations no longer appeal to a public subjected to misinformation for too long.

Conspiracies seem easier and somehow cleaner. “People like easy answers to complex questions,” says King’s University College historian Alison Meek. “The world is random and accidents are scary. Unpacking COVID is convoluted because some people don’t understand how science works. We like answers, we like conclusions, we like it simple” when nothing is. While media, including social media, and the constant sharing of misinformation have magnified the problem, the roots go deeper. Without transparency from institutions and governments, the blurring of facts and falsehoods will go on. If government officials themselves can’t commit to telling the truth about lab leaks, about masks, about science itself, expect to see large numbers of people going down the disinformation rabbit hole with no clear path back out.

An earlier version of this essay was published on March 25, 2022.

DECEMBER 29, 2022 Republished under CC License

like GameStop and others a full decade later. The liberal senator is politically ignorant that her relationship to traditional finance is her crutch among a new generation hell bent on fixing a broken and outdated financial system.

Bill Gates Bill Gates is simply ignorant about the reality of energy resources. He is the main critic of Bitcoin for its impact on the environment. Many agree with him. A recent study estimated that Bitcoin mining uses roughly one swimming pool worth of water per transaction due to electricity maintenance requirements globally. I haven’t read the study to know if it takes into account the growing demand and use for/of renewable energy resources to mine. I have heard quotes from the study author suggesting that this is

due to the computational demands. It is none other than one of the largest tech companies on planet earth that is trying to convince people that the computational demand is detrimental to the environment. Which system do you actually believe takes more computational power: Bitcoin mining or Microsoft? I think you can already guess the answer to that question.

The question of which is more useful is highly debatable yet irrelevant.

Gates and Microsoft want to hang on to a legacy system of centralized technologies in much the same way banks want to hold their monopolies over fiat currencies. Also, Microsoft as a corporation, is completely bound to banks for its financing. The truth is, the whole of the world is demanding ever more computational power

across the board and that will exponentially increase with AI and IoT, let alone cryptocurrency. The world is demanding more renewable energy resources. The problem with electric cars isn’t that there isn’t enough electricity. It is that there isn’t enough electric car infrastructure available to drive long distances — yet. Decentralized mass transit projects may one day change that, too.

Paul Krugman Krugman is another self-appointee.

He has championed the cause of fiat money as a solution to the problems of the working class. He believes, as Warren does, that the problem is with how we are taxed, not realizing that the money they advocate for, essentially is a tax. He is a vocal critic of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.

“Twelve years on, cryptocurrencies play almost no role in normal economic activity. Almost the only time we hear about them being used as a means of payment -- as opposed to speculative trading -- is in association with illegal activity,” Krugman wrote.

The irony here is that these are the specific criticisms of banks and the fiat system that Bitcoin advocates argue about traditional finance and its lack of transparency and merit.

The world’s opinion about the government’s role in money, including its distribution and management, is quickly changing.

This article originally appeared in the Crypto Room on LawsonMediaPubstack, a Substack account from Lawson Media & Publishing.

Professor Emeritus Greg Aune, the former Jon and Anita Thomsen Young Distinguished Endowed Chair of Music and conductor of the Gustavus Choir, directs the 2016 Christmas in Christ Chapel: Ubuntu, Jesu. It was the first to be livestreamed. other celebrations like these in the more. Though its core remains as it cessful because each is unique, and I world.” was in 1973, the theme evolves each can remember every one.”

The thousands of alumni who’ve year. Services have been inspired by The service’s technical capacities been a part of one know that the prep- global Christmas traditions, political have increased as technology and aration and execution of Christmas moments, specific Biblical texts, and devoted alumni have made it possible. in Christ Chapel is a year-long affair liturgical takes on subjects like ecol- Throughout the 2000s, the choirs and that pulls in almost every member of ogy. “It’s difficult to compare each music ensembles continued to grow the Gustavus community: technicians, year because they have almost nothing in size. In 2012, Jon Young ’77, a dining services, designers, musicians, in common except our traditions and CinCC alum who played in the brass, dancers, actors, student workers, and the Chapel,” says Aune. “But it’s suc- volunteered the services of his event

company, Heroic Productions. Their expertise and technology have brought a Broadway- level polish to the service ever since. Then, in 2014, Jon and his wife Anita Thomsen Young ’77, an usher at the first CinCC, proposed livestreaming online. “This technology was just coming into the public, and we knew this would allow us to show CinCC the way Gusties knew best,” Young says. “We don’t add anything musically or programmatically.

We take all of that good and put it in a package for the world to see.”

After two successful years of award-winning livestreams and a tripling of the CinCC audience, Twin Cities Public Television approached Gustavus with an offer: broadcasting Christmas in Christ Chapel nationally. The 2016 and 2018 CinCC performances were shown in television markets throughout the country during the holidays.

“Christmas in Christ Chapel forced us to become a better, more capable Music Department.”

—Al Behrends ’77, former fine arts director The global pandemic that shuttered events in 2020 demonstrated how important CinCC has become to the Gustavus community.

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“Tina’s experience both in the field and as an educator makes her an ideal fit for this role,” said SCC President

Annette Parker. “I am excited to watch the future of the Center unfold under her leadership.”

LeBrun has more than 15 years of experience working with faculty, staff and students in higher education. She currently serves as a Farm Business Management Instructor for SCC, a position she has held since January 2009, and holds the position of Past President for the National Farm and Ranch Business Management Educator Association (NFRBMEA). She holds a Bachelor’s

Degree in Agriculture Economics and Animal Science from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and a Master’s in Education from the University of Minnesota. Born and raised on a dairy/ crop farm in south central Minnesota, LeBrun and her husband are also active producers and currently reside on a cattle farm in Lafayette, MN. Based on SCC’s North Mankato Campus, which serves as the lead institution for the Center, LeBrun will further the organization’s mission of aligning

students with the resources of academic institutions and industry to develop and sustain the workforce needs of agriculture in Southern Minnesota.

“I look forward to continued work with farm producers, supporting our ag educators and students, and strengthening relationships with ag business and industry,” shares LeBrun. “I have a strong passion for both agriculture and education, and as a farm producer I believe it is our responsibility to advocate for this great industry.”

try, and my world.” According to 4h.org, since 4‑H began more than 100 years ago, it has become the nation’s largest youth development organization. It

all started when researchers discovered The Bernadotte 4H Club’s young that farmers could learn from younger members adjourned their meeting and generations about new farming ideas or began wrapping the presents destined techniques. for families in their community.

member said he saw a coup but no chickens, while another speculated the birds were moved indoors due to cold temperatures.

The council advised the city clerk to prepare a letter, along with a copy of

the nuisance ordinance. The city will give the farm animal owners a month to relocate or remove from city premises the fowl in question. The council will discuss further action in January should the owners not respond and take action.

According to NOAA data cited by Minnesota independent media network BringMeTheNews, last month was generally 1.8 deg C (3.2 deg F) warmer

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A Drive Around North Mankato to Photograph Holiday Lighting and Decor

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