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SCHOOL MENU Monday, April 15: Breakfast: BeneFit Breakfast Bar, Fresh Fruit, Assorted Fruit Juice, Milk. Lunch: Chicken Drumstick, Mashed Potatoes/ Gravy, Steamed Beets, Buttered Bread, Chilled Tropical Fruit, Fresh Fruits & Vegetables, Milk.

REBELS TRAVEL TO TRACY FOR INVITATIONAL MEET

In cold wet conditions, the track and field teams traveled to Tracy to partake in the 7-team Panther 1 Invite. Both the boys and girls squads were short participants due to the band and choir solo ensembles, but that didn’t stop them from some great performances.

REBELS BASEBALL KICKS OFF SEASON

MCC Vs. YME The Murray County Central Rebel Baseball team opened the season this past week with a pair of games.

TRACK STARTS SEASON WITH DICK DAVIDSON INVITE

On Thursday, April 4th, the MCC Track teams hosted six other teams for the Dick Davidson Invitational. Dick Davidson led the Slayton/MCC Track teams for 34 years. During his tenure, he guided 31 individual events and 25 relay teams that placed in the top 9 at the state meet. His teams placed at the MSHSL State top ten 7 times (5 boys, 2 girls) winning boys state in 1978 and in the State True Team meet 15 times (11 boys, 4 girls) winning boys state in 1988, 1989, and 1997. He is a member of the Minnesota Cross Country Hall of Fame, Minnesota Track Hall of Fame, and Murray County Central Hall of Fame. Currently, Coach Davidson officiates high school meets and would do that to the one that bears his name.

CHURCH NOTES

CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH, Slayton, MN. Pastor Chad Duffy. Office Hours: 8am to 4:30pm. Phone: (507) 836-8291. Sun. Apr. 14: 9am Sun. School, 10am Worship; Wed. Apr. 17: 6:30pm Confirmation; Sun. Apr. 21: 9am Sun. School, 10am Worship.

GREEN THUMB

One of these days outside gardening will commence for sure. One of the recent magazine articles recommends you make plans and compute how much you hope your garden and fruit orchard will produce.

GOOD NEWS

By John Stenen God created all that we see and do not see in six days. Thousands of years later, Jesus, (God in the flesh, John 1:) said, in John 14:14 that He was going away to prepare a place for us that where He is, there we would one day be because He is coming back to get us. He also said that in His Father’s house are many mansions.

THEOLOGY IN THE TRENCHES

How to Cast an Animal Track As I made my way through the freshly fallen snow, there was evidence I wasn’t the first one who’d taken this path today. Animal tracks of various critters were all over the place, and as my fascination with them began years ago—it resurrected anew.