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The Redhead Creamery in rural Brooten hosted a Holiday Open House on Saturday, Dec. 5 on a day with hazy cloud cover, mild temperatures and a lack of wind that helped make for a wonderful afternoon for tours of the Jennissen dairy farm and the creamery's factory. Numerous farm tours took place throughout the afternoon, which for many, was their first glimpse at a working dairy farm. To top it off, Santa Claus made a special visit via a horse-drawn wagon in the second hour of the four-hour long...
iVantage Health Analytics and the National Organization of State Office of Rural Health (NOSORH) has recognized Glacial Ridge Hospital for overall excellence in Patient Perspectives and Financial Strength, reflecting top quartile performance among all acute care hospitals in the nation. "We are very pleased to receive this recognition," stated Glacial Ridge Health System CEO Kirk Stensrud. "Our staff and physicians have worked very hard as a team to exceed our patients' expectations while at...
CHS Prairie Lakes recently finished its latest expansion project, which began construction back in September of 2014. The $3.8 million project, which increased both fertilizer storage capacity and blending abilities at the CHS Prairie Lakes location in Elrosa, MN, will continue to build on the company's promise of helping member-owners grow. "The expansion added on to the former fertilizer building and more than doubled our storage capacity, increasing storage to 11,000 tons. We also added two...
The second annual Minnesota Kendama Open is this Saturday and Sunday at the Mall of America in Bloomington. Glacial Wood Products of Brooten is the title sponsor of the event and a manufacturer of the unique Kendama handheld wooden game device. GWP has been building this line for over four years, and these products are sold across Asia, Europe and the U.S. Day two (Sunday, Nov. 15) begins with the start of the finals round at 11 a.m. followed by intermediate finals at 11:30. Competition...
At 11 a.m. on Tuesday this week, the doors opened for business at Classic Co. Bar and Grill in downtown Brooten. Over the lunch hour, head chef and manager Bob Paek reported that they had a nice crowd of about 20 people come for a bite to eat. Business remained steady throughout the day. When I stopped by with my family for supper at about 6 o'clock, traffic through the door picked up quite a bit. Overall, Paek and the rest of his crew were quite pleased with how the first day went. Their menu...
If you have ever had to give CPR or observed it being done, you'd know how quickly the rescuer can get fatigued giving manual chest compressions. Glacial Ridge Hospital and ambulance service received new technology to help with that. An automated chest compression device, the Physio-Control LUCAS 2, is a mechanical CPR device that allows emergency medical personnel to perform hands-free, consistent, and uninterrupted CPR while attending to the patient's other needs. The LUCAS 2 device can be...
