Another book for Johnson
Julianne Johnson knew before she finished her first book last year that there probably would be more. It didn’t take the Grove City native long to make that come true.
June 2024
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HAPPENINGS
NEXT SEVEN DAYS THURSDAY,JUNE 27 Litchfield Community Farmers Market 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at Central Park in downtown Litchfield.
A big (and growing) issue no one’s addressing this election year
Though the pace won’t really pick up until the fall, federal election campaigns are well underway. And we’re hearing a lot about a welter of key issues like abortion, immigration, the ethics of the Supreme Court, wars in Europe and the Middle East, and the like. But at a time when candidates should be engaging the electorate on the country’s biggest challenges, here’s something they’re not talking about: The national debt.
More real than real
With the Hutchinson Center for the Arts closed in anticipation of its upcoming move to 218 Main St. S., it is hosting its new exhibit at Art’s Place.
MARLYN A. KRUEGER
Marlyn A. Krueger, 95, of Hutchinson passed away on Saturday, June 22, 2024, at Harmony River Living Center in Hutchinson. Funeral Service will be Thursday, June 27, 2024, 11 a.m., at Peace Lutheran Church in Hutchinson with interment in Oakland Cemetery in Hutchinson. Visitation was Wednesday, June 26 from 4 -7 p.m. at Dobratz-Hantge Funeral Chapel in Hutchinson and will continue one hour prior to the service at the church. Memorials preferred. Online guestbook is available at www.hantge.com.
Like a Weed
Archway Publishing, April 26, 2024 Price: $3.99 ebook, $20.99 paperback and $43.99 hardcover. Other books: Johnson’s first nonfiction book, “Food, Feathers and Fur: Cooking and Critters from the Farm at Cricket Meadow,” was released last year.
55+ SENIOR ACTIVITES
Hutchinson Senior Center is owned and operated by Hutchinson through its Parks, Recreation and Community Education Department. Activities for people age 55 or older are available 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at Hutchinson Event Center, 1005 State Highway 15 S. For more information, call 320-234-5656. The following schedule is for June 28-July 4: Friday, June 28: 9:15 a.m. Chair Yoga; 10 a.m. Knot Just Knitting; 1 p.m. bingo, 500, Hutch Bowl.
LOOKING BACK
125 YEARS AGO: 1899 Hurrah for the Fourth! There will be 10,000 people in Hutchinson for the Fourth of July. Let us be prepared to take care of them in grand shape.
LINDA C. BLACK HOROSCOPES
Nancy Black, Tribune Content Agency TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (06/27/24). Let your heart guide this year.
Saving a piece of McLeod County history
A few years back, while filming my monthly episode of “History Quest,” the crew and I came upon an old “abandoned” cemetery over by Biscay. It was the Getchell Cemetery, and it was so overgrown with briars, brambles and trees that it scarcely looked like a cemetery.