In Search of a
Dairy Princess
The Rock County chapter of the American Dairy Association is looking for candidates to be the 2003 Rock County Dairy Princess.
The role of the Rock County Dairy Princess is to serve as an ambassador in Rock County for the dairy industry.
Her duties will include appearing at various promotional events, participating in parades throughout the county and speaking to consumers and the media.
To qualify, candidates must be at least 16 years of age and not yet 24 years old by July 1, 2003.
The candidates, or her parents (or legal guardians) must be actively engaged in the production of milk for sale to a licensed plant during the current year.
Candidates also qualify if they or their parents are employed on a dairy farm in the dairy related industry.
If you are interested in participating in the contest, call Philip or Theresa Raak by Jan. 15 at 348-4850.
Luverne native a key player in Sundance movie
A movie by Patrick Coyle was recently accepted to be shown at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
For Coyle’s first feature film, "Detective Fiction," which he wrote, directed and starred in, he chose Luverne native Greg Winter to be the director of photography.
Winter, a 1971 LHS graduate, has been in the film business since he graduated from the University of Iowa with a master’s degree in fine arts.
He currently works as an art director at Wilson-Griak, a Minneapolis film production company and is currently a member of the Minneapolis Film board.
In the independent film world, Sundance is a big deal.
The festival has launched the careers of Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Steven Soderbergh and St. Louis Park’s Joel and Ethan Coen, whose first film, Blood Simple, won first prize at the first Sundance Film Festival in 1985.
The film was described by Colin Covert of the Minneapolis Star Tribune as "a dark psychological drama of addiction and infidelity, but its journey to the screen played out more like a Horatio Alger story, an up-by-your bootstraps tale of determination in the face of formidable challenges."
The Sundance Film Festival is from Jan. 16 through Jan. 26.
"Detective Fiction" will run four consecutive days, beginning Monday, Jan. 20.
For those of you who won’t be attending the Sundance Festival this year, Luverne’s Ben VanderKooi is working to get a screening of the movie at the Palace Theatre.
JC Penney’s last day is Friday
After 15 years, the JC Penney store will close its doors for the last time tomorrow.
A customer appreciation open house is today, Thursday, Dec. 26, from 1 to 4 p.m.
Nationwide, gas prices drop
Since mid-November, the nationwide price of gas has dropped 8.6 cents per gallon and currently averages $1.378.
In the Midwest, prices have dropped 13.1 cents to $1.339.
The average prices in other regions are
_ Great Lakes Region, $1.329
_ West, $1.426
_ Southeast, $1.318
_ Southwest, $1.331
_ Mid Atlantic, $1.413
_ New England, $1.484
Publisher Roger Tollefson can be contacted by e-mail at tolly@star-herald.com