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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15 , 2018 VOL. 133 NO. 46 www.pinecitymn.com $1.00
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Community gathers to give at Thanksgiving BY MIKE GAINOR EDITOR@PINECITYMN.COM
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Tis the season already? Junior high students getting warmed up for annual holiday concert The Pine City High School music department is getting ready for their annual holiday concerts, and will be presenting its Junior High Holiday Choir and Band Concert on Thursday, Nov. 29 at 7:30 p.m. The choirs will begin the concert with the 7th graders singing several seasonal songs, including “Little Star,” which is a partner song with “The First Noel.” The 7th graders will also be performing a favorite Hanukah song called “Hi Ho for Hanukah.” The 8th grade choir will follow with a fun piece that combines two traditional Christmas carols, “We Three Kings” and “Ukranian Bell Carol.” They also will perform “Moonlight Sleigh Ride” and “Hanukkah Night.” The Junior High bands will finish the evening concert with the Concert Band performing an energetic arrangement of “Joy to the World” entitled “Celebrate the Seasons” as well as “Holiday Highlights” and “The Gift of Christmas.” The Symphonic Band will finish the concert with a lush Wind Ensemble version of “Coventry Carol” and a traditional English selection “Cambridge Carol.” All are invited to this free concert held in the beautiful Pine City High School Auditorium. The Pine City Senior High Concert concert is coming on Monday, Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m.
School staff donate to students through Mary Murphy Fund BY SHIRLEY SCHMIDT NEWS@PINECITYMN.COM
“No one has ever done something like this for me before.” A student exclaimed those words after receiving items purchased for her through the Mary Murphy Fund. More than 25 years ago, a Special Education teacher at Pine City Public School was given the SEE FUND, PAGE 14
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(l-r) Dihanna Fedder, Amanda Essen and Samantha Duerschmidt review current Mary Murphy Fund procedures.
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Putting on a Thanksgiving dinner for 300 is, well, no picnic. But it is, according to Trudy Wood, a lot of fun. Wood is coordinating the 26th annual Community Thanksgiving Day Dinner. Though the sitdown dinner is hosted by Our Redeemer Lutheran Church (at 825 Golf Avenue SW), Wood noted that it takes a coalition of area churches to make the meal come together. “A lot of the churches are just going to be sending in donations,” Wood said. “But the ones that are actually doing food ... Immaculate Conception Church is doing desserts, the Pine City Evangelical Free Church is doing stuffing and getting the advertising going, First Presbyterian Church has scouts come and send letters to ask for donations and then also do the mashed potatoes. Zion Lutheran Church is doing the sweet potatoes and they also have a youth group that helps them peel.” Wood laughed. “It’s quite the effort. And then the prepared foods will be coming to us at Our Redeemer on Thanksgiving morning.” The cooks at Our Redeemer will be busy in Trudy Wood their home kitchens too the days before Thanksgiving. “Now, we do the turkeys,” Wood explained. “Bob Thompson from MinPack donates all of the turkeys. He does that every year. This year it’s going to be 23. That’s a lot. Then the Our Redeemer folks take a turkey home, sometimes take two, and get it all roasted and they bring it back Wednesday with the juices in the bag so we can make homemade gravy.” She said Carolyn Tuckner gets her homemade cranberry sauce ready and brings that in, where she’s joined by a host of volunteers from all over Pine City. “Everybody comes in, then, on Wednesday night – all the scout groups from town, different churches send their people, their children in that need community service hours,” Wood said, growing energized and enthusiastic just
‘I just can’t believe how many people come out of the woodwork and ask to help. It’s great... This just makes me feel like I can make a difference.”
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