St. Catherine Catholic Church
203 E. Brown St., Luverne
St. Catherine Ph. 283-8502; www.stscl.org
Monsignor Gerald Kosse, Pastor
Sundays 8:30 a.m. Mass. Public Mass will be celebrated at FULL capacity in the church. Masses: 9 a.m. Wednesdays, 10 a.m. Friday at the nursing homes – check the bulletin. All Sunday masses will be live streamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pg/stccluverne/videos/. Visit www.stscl.org for more information.
 
Luverne Christian Reformed Church
605 N. Estey St., Luverne
Office Ph. 283-8482; Prayer Line Ph. 449-5982
www.luvernecrc.com — office@luvernecrc.com
Sundays 9:30 a.m. Worship service. 6:30 p.m. Evening worship service. We are streaming Sunday services live on YouTube at 9:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Send him a friend request if you’re not connected. You may also visit our website for delayed broadcasts. Also our services are on local cable TV at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesdays and at 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays. In all circumstances, may we joyfully declare: “Our help is in the name of the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.” Psalm 124:8.
 
First Baptist Church
103 N. Jackson St., P.O. Box 975, Luverne
Ph. 283-4091; email: fbcluv@iw.net — www.fbcluverne.org
Walt Moser, Pastor
Sundays, 10:30 a.m. In-person worship service. Service is also on Facebook Live at 10:30 a.m.
 
Grace Lutheran Church
500 N. Kniss Ave., Luverne
Ph. 507-283-4431; www.graceluverne.org — graceluverne@iw.net
Ann Zastrow, Pastor
Dave Christenson, Interim Pastor
Thursday, May 19: 8:30 a.m. Missions in Action. Sunday, May 22: Senior Sunday — 8 a.m. Senior Brunch. 9 a.m. Worship Service. 5 p.m. Evening Worship. Monday, May 23: Grace Notes deadline. Tuesday, May 24: 7 a.m. Dorcas Circle meets at The Bean. 9 a.m. Staff meeting. Wednesday, May 25: 7 a.m. Men’s Bible study. Online, TV and Radio Worship options are available. Online: Sundays 9 a.m. on the church website www.graceluverne.org, click Worship tab or go directly to our Facebook page at Grace Lutheran ELCA, Luverne. TV: Vast Channel 3 will air our worship service Mondays at 4:30 p.m. and Fridays at 10 a.m. Radio: KQAD-AM Radio will air our worship service on Sundays at 8:15 a.m.
 
Bethany Lutheran Church
720 N. Kniss Ave., Luverne
Ph. 507-283-4571 or 605-215-9834
Andrew Palmquist, Pastor
Sundays, 10:15 a.m. Worship service; worship online as well (at els.org). Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. Zoom Bible study. See our Facebook page, Bethany Lutheran Church (Luverne) for other classes and events.
 
American Reformed Church
304 N. Fairview Dr., Luverne
Ph. 507-283-8600; email: office@arcluverne.org
Friday, May 20: 6:3o a.m. Community Men’s Bible study. Sunday, May 22: 9:30 a.m. Worship Service 10:50 a.m. Sunday school. Tuesday, May 24: 12 p.m. Staff meeting. Thursday, May 26: Ascension Day. Services are also broadcast on Vast Channel 3 on Mondays at 6 p.m. and Wednesdays at 4 p.m. DVD’s available upon request. To stay up to date on announcements, follow us on Facebook and Instagram @arcluverne.
 
 
Rock River Community Church
1075 110th Ave., Luverne
Ph. 507-283-9070; email: info@rockrivercommunity.church
Bob Junak, Pastor
Come as you are—Sundays @ 10 a.m.: Main Service. Kids church age 3-6th grade—Nursery. Wednesdays @ 6:30 p.m. Midweek Service—Kids age 3-6th grade.
 
United Methodist Church
109 N. Freeman Ave., Luverne
Ph. 283-4529
Saturday, May 21: 8 p.m. AA meeting. Sunday, May 22: 9:30 a.m. Adult Sunday school. 9:45 a.m. Coffee. 10:30 a.m. Worship service. 4:30 p.m. Genesis/Revelation Bible Study. Tuesday, May 24: 7 p.m. Scouts. Wednesday, May 25: 5:30 p.m. Community Meal with pickup option available. 8 p.m. AA Meeting. Live streamed on Facebook and radio.
 
First Presbyterian Church
302 Central Lane, Luverne
Ph. 283-4787; email: Firstpc@iw.net
Sunday, May 22: 9:30 a.m. Worship service. 10:30 a.m. Sunday school. Monday, May 23: 9 a.m.- 12 p.m. Quilting Group. 5 p.m. Bible Study. Tuesday, May 23: 1:30 p.m. Communion at Mary Jane Brown Home. 2:30 p.m. Communion at Poplar Creek. Wednesday, May 25: 7:15 p.m. Deacons. In-person Worship service and live on Facebook. Our Facebook page can be found under First Presbyterian Church of Luverne. We are also on the local Luverne cable station at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Tuesdays and 10 a.m. on Thursdays.
 
St. John Lutheran Church
803 N. Cedar St., Luverne
Ph. 283-2316; email: stjohn@iw.net
www.stjohnlutheranluverne.org
Rev. Dr. Phil Booe, Pastor
Saturday, May 21: 5:30 p.m. Worship Service. Sunday, May 22: 9 a.m. Worship Service. 10:15 a.m. Sunday school; Adult Bible Study. Wednesday, May 25: 9:30 a.m. Bible Study. Services will be available on the Vast Channel 3 Sunday and online at the city website, cityofluverne.org.
 
Living Rock Church
500 E. Main St., Luverne
Ph. 449-0057; www.livingrockswmn.org
Billy Skaggs, Pastor
 
New Life Celebration Church
101 W. Maple, Luverne
Ph. (605) 368-1924; email: newlifecelebration@gmail.com
Food mission every third Thursday.
 
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
305 E. 2nd St., P.O. Box 36, Hardwick
Ph. (507) 669-2855; zionoffice@alliancecom.net
Jesse Baker, Pastor
Sunday, May 22: 9 a.m. Worship service. 10:15 a.m. Sunday School. 10:30 a.m. Bible study. Worship service on Luverne cable at 3:30 p.m. every Thursday and Friday.
 
Ben Clare United Methodist Church
26762 Ben Clare Ave., Valley Springs, S.D.
igtwlb@WOW.net
Bill Bates, Pastor
 
First Lutheran Church
300 Maple St., Valley Springs, S.D.
Ph. (605) 757-6662
Mark Eliason, Pastor
Thursday, May 19: 7 p.m. Parish Council meeting at First Lutheran. Sunday, May 22: 9 a.m. Worship Service. Masks are strongly recommended, but not required, even if fully vaccinated. Worship will be streamed live on Facebook Video worship via YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHdQwVxFcU4
 
Palisade Lutheran Church
211 121st St., Garretson, S.D.
Ph. (507) 597-6257 — firstpalisade@alliancecom.net
Mark Eliason, Pastor
Thursday, May 19: 1:30 p.m. Palisade WELCA meeting. 7 p.m. Palisade Council meeting. Sunday, May 22: 10:30 a.m. Worship Service. Masks are strongly recommended, but not required, even if fully vaccinated. Worship will be streamed live on Facebook. Video worship via YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHdQwVxFcU4
 
First Presbyterian Church
201 S. 3rd St., P.O Box 73, Beaver Creek
Ph. 507-935-5025
email: lori.firstpres@gmail.com
Sundays, 9:30 a.m. Worship Service. Second Tuesday of each month, 7 p.m. Session meeting.
 
Magnolia United Methodist Church
501 E. Luverne St., Magnolia
Ph. 605-215-3429
email: magnoliamnumc@gmail.com
Nancy Manning, Pastor
Sunday, 9 a.m., in-person with livestream available on the church’s Facebook site.
 
Steen Reformed Church
112 W. Church Ave., Steen
Ph. 855-2336
Jeremy Wiersema, Pastor
Sunday, 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship service in-person with livestream available on Facebook and YouTube. Radio worship on KQAD Sundays at 9:30 a.m.
 
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
112 N. Main St., Hills
Ph. 962-3270 / bethlehemofhills@gmail.com
Sundays: 9 a.m. Worship at Tuff Chapel. 10 a.m. Worship with Holy Communion. 9 a.m. Sunday School. 7-8:30 p.m. Youth group meets. Worship will be streamed live to Facebook at Bethlehem of Hills. You can find more info on our website blchills.org. Tuesdays: 2 p.m. Tuff Home Bible study. 3:30 p.m. Tuff Village Bible study. Wednesdays: 9 a.m. Quilting. 6 p.m. Confirmation. 7 p.m. Social/dessert time. 7:15 p.m. Wednesday night worship service.
 
Hills United Reformed Church
410 S. Central Ave., Hills
Office Ph. 962-3254
hillsurc@alliancecom.net
Alan Camarigg, Pastor

Cheers and shouts from staff and family and propelled 550 Luverne Elementary students to finish the PPIE Cardinal Dash in a noticeably fast time on Wednesday, May 4. Principal Stacy Gillette said, “This is the fastest Cardinal Dash ever completed!” After the half-mile and one-mile dashes, classrooms faced off in a tug-of-war challenge within each grade level on the football field.
 
The Cardinal Dash is the fundraising event of the school’s Parent Partners in Education (PPIE). The Dash debuted in 2015 as a fun fitness event to raise money for special activities and enhancements such as swimming lessons, guest speakers, Respect Lunch plus one large project. This year’s project is to purchase additional comfy reading chairs for the media center. The event raised $18,206, surpassing the $16,000 goal.
 
Each grade level was assigned a color to wear during the Cardinal Dash. Fifth grade was red, fourth was blue, third was green, second was orange, first was yellow (pictured taking off at the starting line) and kindergartners (purple).

A meat market will return to Luverne later this year when Fareway Stores takes over the former W-2’s building at the corner of Highway 75 and Main Street.
Fareway will lease the building from Luverne Properties for at least two years with the option to purchase it if all goes well.
Fareway real estate director Koby Pritchard discussed plans at Monday’s meeting of the Luverne Economic Development Authority.
“With our investment in this leased building, our hope is — assuming things go well — to bring our standard, larger footprint meat market to Luverne,” Prichard said.
“Looking down the road, that’s Fareway’s goal.”
The business would hire at least two full-time employees.
While no formal agreements are in place, the company is eyeing the city-owned lot across the intersection (formerly Remedez).
Pritchard attended Monday’s Luverne Economic Development Authority meeting for a grant application through the city’s Historic Façade Improvement Program.
The company is investing $69,000 in renovations to the façade of the building, and the LEDA approved a $21,000 grant to support it. Fareway will forego the loan option available with the program.
The scope of work includes new siding, fresh paint, new signage, LED lighting on the south and west, blackout glass, a new door, a walk-in cooler, and parking lot improvements.
Construction will start in the coming weeks and wrap up later this summer.
 
Meat market with groceries, not grocery store with meat counter
Pritchard told the LEDA board that the meat market is only part of the company’s long-range plans in Luverne.
“What we’re talking about today is a very small portion of the project in general because our investment will be a lot bigger than the $69,000 in just requesting the façade grant,” Pritchard said.
“We’re looking to make sure we have a chance to redevelop and build new if we want. The beauty of that is if we’re operating well out of this footprint and we decide we want to put our standard meat market in Luverne, then the doors never close, which is a really big deal, too, for us.”
The 2,300-square-foot building is smaller than Fareway’s typical meat market, and the only one of its kind in Minnesota.
“As our meat market concept has grown, we have a few different versions and types of markets, and we felt this concept fit Luverne,” Pritchard said.
In the company’s first venture of this kind in Minnesota, Fareway Meat Market will be a full-service butcher shop that will also offer ancillary grocery items.
“It’s Fareway Meat and Grocery, not Fareway Grocery and Meat,” Pritchard said. “It’s the backbone of what we do.”
He said the company was looking for a community to test this kind of market.
“With W-2 meats having already been here, a group of people from Fareway came and looked at Luverne, and we were all just blown away by the community,” he said.
“It’s just a wonderful town of 5,000 people that is growing, but still has that small-town feel. It has a great downtown and it checked all the boxes of a community we look for. It’s phenomenal.”
 
Patience pays off
Gary Papik is among six local investors comprising Luverne Properties LLC. He said he’s been holding out for a business like Fareway to come into the building.
“There was a lot of other interest in the building, but we waited,” Papik said. “We knew it needed to be a meat market, because that’s what the people in Luverne were asking for.”
He said the location is also well-suited for a meat market.
“It is great when you can stop in quick to get what you need and get on to your next thing,” Papik said. “This location is ideal for that, as opposed to an office building or something else.”
He pointed out that W-2’s Quality Meats left town for staffing reasons and pending retirements, not because there wasn’t enough support for a meat market.
“The business was here, but they were at a point in their lives where they needed to leave,” Papik said.
Pritchard praised the Luverne Properties group members for their help.
“Gary has been a wonderful partner to work with. His whole group has been great,” he said. “Anything we needed they helped with and were really excited about this potential investment.”
Fareway is headquartered in Boone, Iowa, near Ames and has 129 stores, including both full-service stores and meat markets, in six states, with another opening next month in a seventh state.
That includes the store in Worthington that opened in 2009 and two full-service stores in Sioux Falls, as well as stores in Tea and Harrisburg in South Dakota.
The new one at 41st and Ellis in Sioux Falls is one of the newer stores that Pritchard encourages people to visit to get a concept of Fareway’s newer model.
“It will be interesting what happens with this location — what I consider to be the best corner in town —because it’s so different than your standard Fareway,” he said.
“The biggest message is our excitement to grow our brand and market in Luverne – a new concept like this meat market.”

A wine tasting and dinner Saturday night will raise funds to support the new Child’s Remembrance Garden in Luverne.
The mission of the families working to build the garden is “to provide a non-denominational safe place for those who have lost a child to grieve, remember and heal.”
It will be located in the northwest corner of Tonto Park off James Street near St. Catherine’s Cemetery, and the goal is to raise $120,000 for the design that will include a water feature, center area with a pergola, walking paths, a labyrinth, lending library, a prayer wall and donor board.
Donations will also be used for maintenance of the garden and future enhancements such as statues near entrances and more private areas to the sides of the main garden. 
Wayne and Mary Thompson are among the local families involved with the project. Their daughter, Brooke, was hit by a reckless driver in July of 2019.
“For me the garden will be a place of calm, a place to see our sweet Brooke’s name, honor her, keep her sparkle going, and a place to pray for others,” Mary said.
“My hope is that we will have created a place for everyone to feel closer to their children and maybe make a friend who understands in this long journey to somehow reach hope and healing.”
She said they’ve heard from over 60 families who have lost a child and hope the garden is completed.
Among them are Brock and Ashley Benson, whose son Hayden died two hours after he was born on May 27, 2021.
“For my family and me, the garden will be a place to be surrounded by nature and beauty to remember Hayden and see his name,” Ashley said. “The tranquil and peaceful atmosphere will allow a sense of calm and will be a great place to meditate and reflect.”
She said it will be a tribute to all children who have gone too soon.
“I see it as a place people can go to individually heal and feel closer to their children, as well as a place people can come together for a candle lighting or other gathering.” 
Tyson and Monica Facile, whose son Jackson died in 2020 at 4 months old, said they envision the garden will be a place where people find that joy and grief can coexist.
“I hope it’s a place that brings peace and comfort in the unimaginable pain from losing a child,” Monica Facile said. “I love that it will be a kid-friendly place for all the siblings that are struggling with this loss as well.”
The Thompsons, Bensons and Faciles joined several other local families to form a non-profit last year and lease the 60-by-140-foot parcel from the city of Luverne.
According to the lease contract, the city will own the garden and its accessories, and the non-profit will be responsible for costs associated with operating, maintaining and managing the property, including utilities for a water feature and lighting.
City public works crews have already helped by clearing some old, dying evergreens and preparing the site for development.
The garden will be professionally planned and installed by a landscape architect/designer hired by the non-profit group, and the city will review the plans before implementation.
Lucas Stoffel from Oak Haven Landscape and Design out of Sherburn has been working on the project, which is expected to be complete this summer.
He has a special tie to the project as brother-in-law to Facile and godfather of Jackson.
“It means so much to me and my family that he was chosen to be the landscaper for this garden,” Facile said. “I know whole-heartedly that he will be putting his heart and soul into this.”
The Luverne Area Community Foundation is accepting funds for the project at the Main Street office or through ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­luvacf.org.
The non-profit group can also accept donations through its website, childsremembrancegarden.org, where there is also information about purchasing benches or pavers in honor of a child and confidential scholarships for those with hardships who wish to purchase pavers.
“All children deserve to be honored and remembered,” Mary Thompson said.
“We want to continue to spread awareness to the many families who have lost a child from conception to any age, from any community, from any walk of life that may want to honor and remember them here.”
The group is looking forward to Saturday’s wine tasting and dinner as a source for financial support.
“Thank you so much to all who have believed in and supported our project,” Thompson said. “Your generosity is beyond words, and we are so grateful.”
The event starts at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 14, at Big Top Tents and Events. Doors open at 6 p.m. for social hour and a silent auction.
The deadline to purchase tickets at Blue Mound Liquor is May 11. (Call 507-449-5052.)

Sanford Luverne’s annual Hospice Dinner and Auction on April 23 resulted in net proceeds of $88,163 to benefit the hospice cottage.
Hospice Volunteer and Marketing Coordinator Helen Saum said the amount is a new milestone for the annual event.
“Thank you, thank you to the many businesses, individuals, volunteers and families who supported the hospice fundraiser online and/or in person this year. 
“We are truly blessed by the level of continued support for hospice and The Cottage.”
An online silent auction held over three days attracted 365 bidders vying for 232 items.
Bluestem catered the sold-out dinner served by students and Luverne Education Association representatives. It attracted 341 people and 32 sponsor tables.
Keith Elbers auctioned  26 donated packages along with five keys for a chance to win a walleye fishing trip to Platte, South Dakota. The winning key was purchased by Tom Arends.
The purchase of a charity dinner ticket gave each guest one chance to win a trip to Savannah, Georgia, donated by Sue VerSteeg at Great Planes Travel.
Jen Rolfs won the trip, and Jodi Reverts won the Blue Mound Quilt raffle.
The 2022 hospice honorees were recognized at the event, each receiving a piece of wall art handcrafted by Marlene Greve, Adrian
Lois Petersen, Cottage LPN, from Hardwick, was named this year’s Hospice Team Member. 
“Lois has been a member of the hospice team for the past nine years,” said Dr. Austin Spronk, Sanford Hospice Medical Director who presented awards at the banquet.
“She exemplifies the hospice caregiver role in the care that she has given each and every day at the hospice cottage.”
He said an example of her “going the extra mile” was when she made sure that one of the cottage patients was able to sit on a couch beside her husband (who was wheel chair bound). 
She used the stand aid lift and assisted the spouse (who was not a Sanford patient) to sit on the couch with his wife one last time. 
“This employee always makes sure that the patients are well taken care of – as this has always been her first and foremost priority,” Spronk said. “She ensures that the patients get what they really want – even if it doesn’t work that well in her daily schedule.”
He said others describe her as “very caring, a hard worker, friendly, very thoughtful about each patient’s and family’s feelings. She also provides very good post-death bereavement support to families.”
Cindy Heitkamp, Adrian, was honored as the 2022 Hospice Volunteer. 
She is a retired nurse who previously worked at the Adrian Clinic and Sanford in Sioux Falls. She volunteered over 350 hours for hospice since beginning in 2007, providing one-to-one supportive visits to numerous hospice patients living in the Adrian and Ellsworth area as well as helping at The Cottage in Luverne. 
“Cindy is someone who provides a caring, compassionate presence, always has a smile and stories to share with others, and brightens the day for many patients and their family members,” Spronk said.
“Cindy has also helped organize the Hospice 'Tree of Lights” at Christmas time for the Adrian community.  Cindy exemplifies the hospice mission and values.”
Diana Schwartz, Beaver Creek, was honored as the 2022 Friend of Hospice for the many ways she supports the hospice program, including a seven-year stint on the Hospice Community Advisory Board.  
“She is someone who goes above and beyond helping with whatever is needed each year,” Spronk said. “Diana is a tremendous advocate for hospice and says most everyone she talks with has either had a loved one, a neighbor, or knows someone who has been touched by the hospice program.”
He praised Schwartz’s commitment to helping with the hospice fundraisers each year. 
“She personally donates items and is willing to ask others to follow,” Spronk said. “Her positive attitude and million-dollar smile can be seen coming and she's someone hard to say ‘no’ to.” 
For the April 23 fundraiser she sold over $5,000 worth of raffle tickets to help raise funds for hospice.
“Diana doesn’t do this for any personal gain,” Spronk said. “She believes in hospice and the care provided at The Cottage and is steadfast in helping so that future patients and families in our area who may need services in the future, can receive them.”

Builders and investors involved with the PrairieE Loft apartment buildings hosted informal tours Friday of the construction progress so far. Two three-story apart­ment buildings are going up on the former Sharkee’s and Mert’s lots along Hatting Street. They will have 27 one- and two-bedroom units, all with in-floor heat and will be elevator-accessible and have off-street parking. Despite supply chain challenges and weather delays, the units are expected to be move-in ready by Oct. 1, and the website will begin accepting lease applications in roughly four weeks. When they are complete, they’re expected to make a big dent in Luverne’s current hous­ing shortage.

Both Cardinal track teams won the Section 3A True Team meet Monday night in Redwood Falls.
Each school had two entrants per event and one relay team. Relays are scored at three times the number of teams. There were 11 teams, so 33 points for first and individual events are double the amount of competitors so first was 22 points.
“If you can get both competitors in an event to finish in the top few, you can score more points than a relay,” coach Pete Janiszeski said.
Luverne did exactly that throughout the meet.  Janiszeski said he knew it was going to be tight, but both teams had a chance.
“I thought that each and every one of the kids did an outstanding job and did everything they could to score points for their team,” Janiszeski said. “We had a lot of kids doing multiple events and events that aren't necessarily their ‘favorite’ event, which is the type of sacrifice it takes to put together a great team.
“Whether they competed in one event or four, they poured everything they had into each and every event.”
 
LHS girls’ results
With eighteen total events, the girls’ team total after five was Luverne 159.5 and Canby-Minneota 155.5. After eleven events the girls stood at 378 and Candy-Minneota 323. 
The Luverne girls ultimately won first with 622 points. Candy-Minneota finished second with 558.5 points and Southwest Christian-Edgerton  took third with 491 points.  
In the 1600-meter-run Tenley Nelson won second (5:19.47) and Jenna DeBates fourth (5:27.09).  They also teamed up in the 800-meter-run with Nelson first (2:20.72) and DeBates fifth (2:34.09). 
Elizabeth Wagner and Mia Wenzel took first and second places respectively at 5-0 in the high jump.  Wagner also finished first in the 300-meter-hurdles (49.29).  In the triple jump Kendra Thorson was third (33-02 1/2) and Makena Nelson fourth (32-06).  
The Hart sisters Jocelyn and Jaydn won first and third respectively in the shot put with 39.02 and 34.06 throws.
In the discus it was Jadyn placing first (114-04) and Jocelyn second at (106-08).
Sarah Stegenga was third (28.27) and Mia Wenzel sixth (28.88) in the 200-meter. 
Alexis Hultgren placed second (7-0) and Corynn Oye fourth (6-06) in the pole vault. 
The 4-by-100-meter relay team of Mia Wenzel, Hailey Como, Anna Banck and Isabella Oye was first in a time of 53.17.  
 
LHS boys’ results
It was a back and forth battle for the boys’ title.  After eight events Luverne was ahead by one point over Redwood Valley; after ten events Redwood was ahead by nine, and after twelve events Luverne was back ahead by four points. 
Luverne closed strong, coming out in first place with 573 points. Southwest Christian-Edgerton won second with 541.5 and Redwood Valley third with 521 points.  
 Early on in the meet the 1600-meter-run had Camden Janiszeski (4:41.86) and Owen Janiszeski (4:42.65) finishing first and second respectively. Camden also added a second in the 3200-meter-run (10:32.68).  
In the 400-meter-dash Ashton Sandbulte was second (52.71) and Lucky Dara fourth (54.39).  
  In the 100-meter-dash Sandbulte placed first (11.19) and Eli Radtke fourth (11.72).   Sandbulte (22.71) and Radtke (23.77) teamed up again with a first and fourth in the 200-meter.
Radtke added a first in the pole vault at (11-06) and Noah Mehlhaff (9-06) came in third.
In the 800-run Ryan Fick finished second (2:08.80) and Owen Janiszeski fourth (2:11.83).
Both LHS teams will be on the track for the Class A True Team State Track and Field Championship on May 21 in Stillwater, MN. 
The rest of the results are as follows:
 
LHS girls:
100H  7. Roselynn Hartshorn 19.18
300H  12. Kendra Thorson 58.78
100  4. Isabella Oye 13.71  10. Anna Banck 13.84 
400  4. Tiana Lais 1:03.91 6. Sarah Stegenga 1:05.49 
3200 4. Ella Schmuck 13:04.88  8. Kayla Bloemendaal 13:39.28 
4x200  4. Makena Nelson, Isabella Oye, Hailey Como, Anna Banck 1:55.27
4x400  2. Tiana Lais, Jenna DeBates, Cassi Chesley, Tenley Nelson  4:23.44
4x800  2. Tiana Lais, Elizabeth Wagner, Maria Rops, Cassi Chesley 10:33.82
Long jump  5. Kendra Thorson 14-10.25  10. Sarah Stegenga 14-06.00
 
LHS boys
110H  8. Isaac DeBates 19.74  13. Micah Andersen 20.81  
300H  7. Darius Dolo 49.99  15. Gavin DeBeer 54.32
3,200  7. Sage Viessman 11:17.84
4x100  8. Ethan Rahm, Ashton Hood,Tyler Rolfs, Zachary Terrio   51.08
4x200  4.  Lucky Dara, Ashton Hood, Tyler Rolfs, Zachary Terrio 1:40.27
4x400  4. Lucky Dara, Zachary Terrio, Owen Janiszeski, Camden Janiszeski 3:46.65
4x800  3. Ryan Fick, Sage Viessman, Leif Ingebretson, Kaleb Hemme 9:20.70
High Jump  7. Gavin DeBeer 5-06  8. Isaac DeBates 5-06
Long jump  3. Ashton Sandbulte 19-05.25  10. Gavin DeBeer 17-04.00
Triple jump  7. Gavin DeBeer 37-07.75  10. Ethan Rahm 35-07.25
Shot put  4. Jordan Friedrichsen 45-00.50  9. Elijah Woodley 39-11.00
Discus  6. Jordan Friedrichsen 121-02  14. Elijah Woodley 100-00

Rock County Rural Water will add a new well to the system, thanks to $100,000 in Covid relief funds allocated to the project.
At the May 3 Rock County Board meeting, commissioners approved Rural Water’s request for funds to design and construct a new well in the system’s current wellfield.
Estimated cost is $225,000.
“What this will do will help us in drought conditions,” system manager Ryan Holtz said.
“We had problems last summer with the drought pulling low on the wells. (With an additional well) the wells will be less vulnerable when the aquifer is lower than we are now.”
The new well site will be located west of Rural Water’s current pump station, which is six miles south of Luverne along County Road 9. The well will be located on the west side of the Rock River.
Commissioner Stan Williamson is the representative on the rural water board.
“The Rural Water Board made a tough decision to spend money and gamble, more or less, to see if this will work,” he said. “It was a good decision, and Rural Water struck gold. This will really, really take some pressure off by hitting that water.”
Rural water currently has 11 operational wells, and Holtz said the search for an additional well began last summer.
Engineers with LRE Water of St. Croix, Minnesota, completed the search and later conducted a study on the well’s sustainability.
The well is located 320- to 350-feet deep, which is substantially deeper than the system’s current wells. The deeper wells will be beneficial during droughts and will avoid contaminants from the vulnerable upper aquifer.
The well’s projected water availability at 300 gallons per minute would be sustainable for 39 years. At 200 gallons per minute, sustainability would be more than 100 years.
The Rural Water system pumps 1,200 gallons a minute to satisfy the current needs of its 800 customers, majority of whom operate livestock production facilities.
However, the new well’s water would be blended to improve quality.
“When we tested it, there were absolutely no nitrates in the water,” Holtz said.
“The only tradeoff is that the water is a little bit harder, but we can blend it with the upper aquifer and customers will ever notice the difference.”
The added well water will provide a buffer during high-demand times.
Previously the Lewis and Clark Regional Water System could supply more water over and above Rural Water’s contracted amount of 300,000 gallons a day.
Rural Water pumped 700,000 gallons a day in January this year and in July 2021 pumped 1.2 million gallons a day, purchasing more water from Lewis and Clark to meet the demand.
“They had more water than they had customers,” Holtz said.
“Now everybody, for the most part, is hooked up except two (members). We are down to our allocation now and what we get is what we get. We don’t have that big buffer there like we used to have.”
Bids to design and construct the new well will be let this summer, with the majority of the work completed before year’s end. However, the variable frequency drive controls might not be readily available.
The VFD gears down the well’s pumps for better energy efficiency when water demand is low.
Holtz estimated a possible wait of 24 weeks for the controls to arrive.