The special general election will be held April 13 to fill the vacant seat. 11:06 am, Feb. 10, 2021 ×
The two winners of the Mower County primary race are John Mueller, left, and Tim Duren. (Contributed photos)
AUSTIN John Mueller and Tim Duren took the top vote totals in Tuesday s special primary election to fill the District 1 seat on the Mower County Board of Commissioners.
The pair will face off in a special general election on April 13.
With seven candidates on the ballot, Mueller, who owns a livestock equipment business and works as a truck driver, earned 245 votes of the 653 cast. Duren, a sales manager at Games People Play in Austin who also owns and operates Duren Concessions at the Minnesota State Fair, earned 167 votes to come in second place.
23 Abdirahman Abdalla was around seven years old when he went to his mother’s first-cousin’s wedding in Rochester, Minnesota. It was a sunny July day, and around 30-40 close family and friends gathered in his cousin’s home to celebrate the union. Clad in whites and creams with reddish-orange stripes, men wore suits and women wore the dirac, a traditional dress for formal occasions. Abdalla remembers watching his mother and other women performing traditional dances while joyful guests offered excited gestures of encouragement. He also wore a suit, which annoyed him because his little cousins were around at the time playing Twister, and it’s difficult to play Twister in a suit. After the wedding, everyone went outside where there was cake, and Abdalla remembers the entire scene as a really great time. In fact, as an American born first-generation Somali-American, Somali weddings are one of his favorite cultural traditions.
Century Farm Applications Due March 1, 2021
If your family has owned your farm for at least 100 years according to authentic land records you are invited to apply for the Century Farm designation sponsored by the Minnesota State Fair and Minnesota Farm Bureau. The farm must be at least 50 acres in size and have been in continuous family ownership for at least 100 years. The Century Farm program was begun i 1976 to promote agriculture and honor historic family farms in Minnesota. More than 10,500 farms have been honored since the program began.
Applications are available on the Minnesota State Fair website: mnstatefair.org/about-the-fair/awards-and-recgnition/. Century Farms will receive a certificate signed by Minnesota State Fair Board President Ron Oleheister, Governor Tim Walz and Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation President Kevin Paap, along with an outdoor sign signifying Century Farm status. In addition there will be a display at the Minnesota Farm Bureau exhibit during the 202
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Norwegian waffles by Stine Aaslund, founder of Nordic Waffles, are now on sale at Minot groceries. Aaslundâs waffles have been popular at the Norsk Høstfest in past years.
Area residents who have been missing a taste of the Norsk Høstfest can now find it in a local grocery store aisle.
Stine Aaslund, founder of Nordic Waffles, said her Norwegian waffles are available at Marketplace Foods and Cash Wise Groceries in Minot.
The waffles are part of the fabric of life in her native Norway, said Aaslund, who now lives in the Twin Cities. In Norway, the waffles can be found in convenience stores, in Norwegian homes, in restaurants -all the time, everywhere. For Aaslund and her countrymen, the waffles are part of “hygge,” an all-encompassing word that is translated as comfort but also conveys love, friendship, family, and enjoying one’s home.