To The Editor, Murray County citizens, businesses, and organizations currently have a great opportunity to support their local food shelves. The Murray Masonic Lodge in Slayton is conducting a fund drive to benefit Food Shelves in Slayton and Fulda. Nothing will be subtracted for expenses. All funds collected will go to Slayton and Fulda Food Shelves. All money will go to feed needy families in our area. Your contribution to help hungry families will realize two times the benefit with this drive! This is a great opportunity to make a major difference!

Nearly 250 people had the opportunity to listen to three different presentations on Wednesday, Jan. 24 for the second informational meeting regarding the City of Slayton’s electric utility municipalization effort. A question and answer session took place afterward.

The University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) has announced its Dean’s List for Fall Semester 2023. Students on the Dean’s List have achieved a grade point average of 3.50 or higher while earning a minimum of 12 letter-graded credits.

The Friends of the Casey Jones Trail group is hoping to secure enough support to restore other portions of the trail. They have requested $3.15 million from the State to rehabilitate two segments of the Casey Jones State Trail – the Pipestone trailhead, along with three miles of the trail heading east of the Pipestone and the final segment (3rd phase) of the Currie Loop Trail.

In September 2023, the Murray County Ambulance became the first ambulance agency in Minnesota to implement Avel eCare EMS technology in their rig, utilizing grant funding from Southwest Minnesota EMS. Murray County Ambulance EMT, Nichole Gunnink, offers the following insights from the first few months of implementing the pilot program.

Question: I have noticed cars that can’t be seen in the day when they fail to turn on their lights on during the recent fog. Can you please explain how dangerous it can be and what the law is that covers this?

Dr. Richard L. Klingler, MD, upgraded the hospital communications equipment in late 2023. The first communications with the new radio was on December 23, 2023. That contact was with a station in Olivia, MN. When the digital aspect of the radio – Wires X – is programmed into the new radio, communications can be global. This is not CB (Citizens Band). Operators need FCC licensure.

By Arnold Krusemark Earlier this week we received an email from Burpees suggesting we plan our garden for this year including what to plant and where. They also mentioned crop rotation. Crop rotation is a subject all farmers are well aware of. That, along with enough and the right kind of fertilizer need to be considered along with what to plant and where.

CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH, Slayton, MN. Pastor Chad Duffy.

By John Stenen Millions and millions of bornagain Christians believe that the next event on the prophetic calendar is the ‘rapture’ of the Church. The apostle Paul refers to it in 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18 and says the day is coming when we who belong to Christ will be ‘caught up’ to meet Christ in the air. That is what the word Rapture means, to be caught away. You can also read about it in 1 Corinthians 15: 52-53 where our bodies will be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye; that is super fast. Imagine what that will do to the world’s economy when we are gone. After the rapture, the Antichrist will be revealed and for the next seven years this earth will experience tribulation as this planet has never had before; read about it from Revelation 6: thru Rev. 18: It tells of horrendous death and destruction. However, many will be saved through the preaching of the gospel from the 144,000 Jewish evangelists, but they will be hunted down and killed by beheading.(See Rev. 7:). The Rapture could come at any moment, and each day we receive is another opportunity to surrender to Christ; but one day is going to be the last day, and when we are caught away, you will be left behind. Please, surrender to Christ today while God’s free gift of eternal life is available. We do not know when He is coming, but neither do we know when we are going to breathe our last. God bless.