Dale and Duane bought this when they were kids. Josh got it working again. Next step for Dale when Josh gets the handle bars fixed is his 1989 Harley.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
1958 Cushman
Dale and Duane bought this when they were kids. Josh got it working again. Next step for Dale when Josh gets the handle bars fixed is his 1989 Harley.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Snow!!!
I went to my first game at Target field last night May 13th and in the 8th inning it started snowing!!! Only in Minnesota would you beleive that! Kathie
Friday, April 29, 2011
May birthdays
Thomas Threadgold May 2
Bob Threadgold May 3
Carrie Green May 7
Ann Riggs May 10
Sachin Choudhary May 12
Josh Anderson May 15
Michael Riggs May 30
Monday, April 25, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
April Birthdays
April 1 -- Hannah (Anderson) Stewart
April 4 -- Ty Nordtvedt
April 6 -- Aydan Palmquist
April 6 -- Lucas Froehlich
April 20 -- Brady Barringer
April 23 -- Joe Palmquist
Monday, February 28, 2011
March celebrations
Donald and Kathleen Anniversary -- March 3
Duane Barringer -- March 3
Jim Williams -- March 3
Logan Williams -- March 3
Mark & Mike Williams -- March 5
Cheri Williams -- March 9
Don Froehlich -- March 14
Keeda Beach -- March 15
Kellan River Stewart -- March 16
Phyllis (Threadgold) Williams -- March 20
Hayley Anderson -- March 28
Harvey Threadgold -- March 28
Josh Williams -- March 29
Saturday, February 26, 2011
More t-shirt news
(Do not think I am putting this on the blog to have anybody collect t-shirts. We have enough. It is just so you can see what kind of response we are getting. It makes our church seem pretty impressive.)Recycled T-shirts woven into sleeping mats for Haiti's poor
Hugo resident Gretchen Boyd has collected about 600 shirts that will be used to create thick sleeping mats for homeless in haiti. - Photo by Paul Dols
by Debra Neutkens
Staff Writer
HUGO — Old T-shirts are providing a small amount of comfort to Haiti’s homeless.
A South Dakota church is collecting the cotton discards and weaving them into thick mats for the multitudes who sleep on the ground.
Hugo resident Gretchen Boyd is helping the small congregation collect the shirts. She has about 600 in her garage at the moment waiting to make the trip to tiny LaBolt, S.D.
Her great-grandparents attended LaBolt Evangelical Covenant Church, as did her grandparents and mother; Boyd and her sister were baptized there. The ladies in the congregation felt woven mats made from old T-shirts was a worthwhile ministry for the earthquake-stricken inhabitants of Haiti, so the call went out.
Boyd felt the collection drive tied in nicely with a “Pay it Forward” program started Nov. 6 by the promotional product industry in which she works. The idea is to promote volunteerism as a way to build a sense of community and make a positive impact, she said. “T-shirts happen to be a big part of what we sell, so it’s a nice fit.”
After years working in radio, the small business owner started Boyd’s Promos over a year ago, selling imprintable marketing and promotional items. Before that, she was a disc jockey, or on-air personality, for KTIS, a Christian station, and then sold advertising for CBS radio. Boyd left the corporate world of broadcast to “be my own boss and focus on things important to me.”
One priority is devoting time and energy to the Haiti program. “It happened to be something my family’s church was working on and I wanted to support the program,” she said.
Promotional material Boyd hands to friends and clients describe the T-shirt program and the plight of Haiti’s 90 million inhabitants. Statistics are included like the number who live in poverty: About 80 percent and the number who never go to school: almost half. Unemployment is 70 percent.
“The need is great” she said. “Thousands of children are sleeping directly on cold and hard dirt floors.”
T-shirts are cut into long strips that are tightly twisted and crocheted into the woven mats. “They’re like the old rag rugs made by past generations,” Boyd explained. It takes about 20 T-shirts per mat.
She is also offering a 10 percent discount off the purchase of new T-shirt orders from churches, sports organizations or businesses that donate five or more shirts.
She is making the three-hour trek to South Dakota early next month with the hundreds of shirts collected to date. No doubt, it will be nice to have her garage back, at least temporarily. Boyd is collecting shirts as long as people choose to donate.
A South Dakota church is collecting the cotton discards and weaving them into thick mats for the multitudes who sleep on the ground.
Hugo resident Gretchen Boyd is helping the small congregation collect the shirts. She has about 600 in her garage at the moment waiting to make the trip to tiny LaBolt, S.D.
Her great-grandparents attended LaBolt Evangelical Covenant Church, as did her grandparents and mother; Boyd and her sister were baptized there. The ladies in the congregation felt woven mats made from old T-shirts was a worthwhile ministry for the earthquake-stricken inhabitants of Haiti, so the call went out.
Boyd felt the collection drive tied in nicely with a “Pay it Forward” program started Nov. 6 by the promotional product industry in which she works. The idea is to promote volunteerism as a way to build a sense of community and make a positive impact, she said. “T-shirts happen to be a big part of what we sell, so it’s a nice fit.”
After years working in radio, the small business owner started Boyd’s Promos over a year ago, selling imprintable marketing and promotional items. Before that, she was a disc jockey, or on-air personality, for KTIS, a Christian station, and then sold advertising for CBS radio. Boyd left the corporate world of broadcast to “be my own boss and focus on things important to me.”
One priority is devoting time and energy to the Haiti program. “It happened to be something my family’s church was working on and I wanted to support the program,” she said.
Promotional material Boyd hands to friends and clients describe the T-shirt program and the plight of Haiti’s 90 million inhabitants. Statistics are included like the number who live in poverty: About 80 percent and the number who never go to school: almost half. Unemployment is 70 percent.
“The need is great” she said. “Thousands of children are sleeping directly on cold and hard dirt floors.”
T-shirts are cut into long strips that are tightly twisted and crocheted into the woven mats. “They’re like the old rag rugs made by past generations,” Boyd explained. It takes about 20 T-shirts per mat.
She is also offering a 10 percent discount off the purchase of new T-shirt orders from churches, sports organizations or businesses that donate five or more shirts.
She is making the three-hour trek to South Dakota early next month with the hundreds of shirts collected to date. No doubt, it will be nice to have her garage back, at least temporarily. Boyd is collecting shirts as long as people choose to donate.
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