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Preventing breast cancer with mammograms

Breast cancer affects one in eight women. Add life-saving early detection to your list of autumn traditions like pumpkins, harvest and football. Your local health care team can help you prevent, detect and treat breast cancer. Among the best tools is a yearly mammogram for all women aged 40 and older. Let’s remember the facts: • Breast cancer is the most common non-skin cancer women face; around 240,000 cases will be found this year. • One in three of all new cancers found are breast cancer. • This year, more than 43,000 women will die from the disease; it’s second ...

Homecoming: Important college town tradition evident in Marshall

One of the things I like best about fall is college homecoming week; when we have a parade, a football game, receptions, awards programs and other campus events at Southwest Minnesota State University. It demonstrates the value of SMSU to all of southwest Minnesota. I know that value almost as well as anyone, as someone who defied the logic of the late 20th century that everyone should have the experience of going off to college. When I became seriously interested in attending SSU (the previous name) I heard from some well-meaning teachers and friends of parents who thought I should ...

Before the Marshall Area YMCA

Editor’s note: The Marshall Area YMCA is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Members of the community are sharing some of their memories of bringing the YMCA to Marshall. In the late 1990’s the completion of the Marshall Flood Control Project opened up much of the city for commercial and industrial expansion as well as housing areas. The issue quickly moved to not enough people to fill available jobs in the community. The challenge for the community and employers in the community was how to attract and retain families in the community to provide local employers the needed ...

A blue Halloween

A hard frost has heralded the end of the growing season even though there are some plants – they are probably guys — who are insisting, “Really, I’m fine! It’s just a leaf wound!” Our garden turned in a stellar performance despite this summer’s incessant heat and insufficient rainfall. Perhaps this was due to the large amounts of cow residue I plowed under last fall. Or maybe I’m full of bull residue and just got lucky. The pumpkins and the gourds went crazy then went AWOL. They started out as spindly, sickly little sprouts that looked totally harmless. Then, ...

Wear purple in October

If you don’t own anything purple in your wardrobe, time to start shopping before October rolls around. The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence first started Domestic Violence Awareness Month in 1981. Back then, it was a Day Of Unity. The color purple was selected as the color to promote awareness for the first Domestic Violence Day of Unity in October 1981. The color is meant to be a symbol of peace, courage, survival, honor, and dedication to ending violence. The first Domestic Violence Awareness Month took place in 1987. That same year marked the start of the first ...

Taste of Marshall showcases huge variety of local food items

Anyone who wants to find out what’s available for dining in the Marshall area should go to Taste of Marshall. I ventured out to the Red Baron Arena on Monday to see what the 2023 event had to offer. There were 22 vendors, more than I could sample. In my younger days I could really pack away food from buffets. I could eat a lot and not get fat. Now I eat more modestly but can’t seem to take off the 10 or 15 pounds I could afford to lose. So at Taste of Marshall I started with one of my favorite restaurants. They served up pork chops with potato on the side and a chocolate ...