Christmas at the Palace
The Luverne Chamber of Commerce is again sponsoring Christmas at the Palace.
The concert will at the Palace Theatre, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 13
Each year the Chamber sponsors the event, which features local talent.
Last year the event was used to raise money for Habitat for Humanity. This year the proceeds will go to benefit the Palace Theatre.
So far, participants include the choirs from the American Reformed Church, Grace Lutheran Church, New Life Church, First Baptist Church, First Presbyterian Church and St. Catherine Church.
Other local talent will include Joe Dorhout, Carol Zwaan, Luverne High School Brass, Wendy and Heidi Sandbulte and Amy Donth, Jack Leslie, Sue Sandbulte.
Admission to the event will be $5.00 or $3.00 with a food shelf donation.
Work progresses on new Dollar Store
Construction work on the new Dollar General Store is on schedule and should be completed between May 15 and June 1, according to Lee’s Construction, Alexandria.
The 7,500 square foot store is being built on the site of the former Lampert Lumber building at 303 S. Kniss.
A spokesperson for Dollar General, described the merchandise the company sells as "moderately priced basic merchandise for family and home needs."
Most items are priced below $10.
Family Dollar headquarters are located in Charlotte, N. C.
The company was started in 1955, and currently has 5,500 stores and seven distribution centers, primarily in the middle and southeast United States.
New North Star Web site for all things Minnesota
Monday was the debut date for the new North Star Web site.
The site replaces the former North Star site, which served as the state’s main Web portal for the past five years.
Over the past two years the number of visits to North Star has increased 50 percent to an average 1.2 million monthly.
That number is expected to increase to 2.2 million visits a month by 2003.
When you get to the new site, the state services and information are divided into easily recognizable themes: living and working, learning and education, health and safety, government, business, travel and leisure, and environment.
The address for the remodeled site is the same: www.state.mn.us.
Why is Minnesota Growing?
We keep hearing that Minnesota is one of the few states in the upper Midwest that is continuing to grow. Why?
As is turns out, it’s because people are staying here and are also migrating here.
The increase in Minnesota’s population during the 1990s was due to the arrival of new residents from other states and from foreign countries. According to a new report by Minnesota Planning, migration is a major factor in Minnesota’s population growth.
The trend, according to the report, is a departure from previous decades, when more people left the state than moved in.
According to Dean Barkley, former Planning Commissioner and now U.S. Senator from Minnesota, the greatest amount of new migration was among adults, ages 25 to 44 and children, ages 5 to 19.
The increase in migration helped all the counties in the state. Even the counties that lost population, lost less than in previous decades.
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