Vandal’s Family Market has a lot to celebrate, and the owners are inviting the public to come celebrate with them at the store in Blooming Prairie. 

Clarks Grove Golf Course isn’t your typical golf course. 
You might notice this by the moneybox on the front door to the club house, asking you to drop in $10 if you want to golf and no one is in the club house. Or you might notice the foot golf course parallel to the golf course. 

While Amy Roggenbuck may be wearing many hats, she will always be focusing on prevention.
“Our overall goal is to try to have people reach their full potential health-wise and keep them there,” she said. “If we have a prevention focus as a larger part of our work, this may create a higher quality of life for people to live longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury or premature death.”

Once again, local and area bikers teamed up to show their support for a very worthy cause: the Steele County Toys for Tots program. 

It was a busy evening at the West Concord Historical Society Friday night as McKenna Rubin was crowned Miss West Concord 2015, Marvin Hanson announced as Citizen of the Year and Al and Rita Gilbert as recipients of the Mayor’s Key to the City Award.
Hayden Rubin was named the first runner-up in the Miss West Concord Pageant and Claudia Hodgman was named Miss Congeniality.

Despite some humid weather and late-night storms, this year’s Steele County Relay for Life was a success yet again. Thus far, the event has raised more than $101,000 for the American Cancer Society. 

All the bituminous has been removed on the Blooming Prairie Main Street reconstruction, a joint project between the City of Blooming Prairie and Steele County. Concrete removal was planned to begin this week.
Recent work has involved connecting the water main and sanitary sewer in the center of Highway 218.  

The crowd went wild as young men put their bravery and skills to the test by trying to stay on a bull for at least eight seconds at the Dodge County Fair Grand Stand last Wednesday night.  
The Rice Bull Riding Company put on the event and featured riders from all over including Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas. 

High school football teams across the state are facing shortened preseason schedules, due to a scheduling conflict with the 2015 Prep Bowl site. 
The Prep Bowl, usually held the third week of November, was supposed to be played at the University of Minnesota’s TCF Bank Stadium. There was only one problem. The Gophers had dibs on that weekend.