Redwood County Share the Spirit is something of an institution for the community as an opportunity to exercise charity and benevolence or to receive some much needed help and generosity heading into the holidays and winter months.
"I believe that the program is in its 39th year," said Char Ellig, one of the coordinators.
Ellig and Sara Madsen are in their second year of jointly running Share the Spirit.
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For decades the communities of the Redwood area have coexisted at best.
While the majority of those communities have consistently maintained a population of people of European descent, there is one place that is culturally distinct from the others.
The Lower Sioux Community and the Dakota people who live there have existed in the area as a cultural island in a sea of those predominantly European cultures. At times those cultures have clashed creating a widening gap of misunderstanding, apathy and racism. While there has been talk of trying to close the gap, not much action has taken place...
Plum Creek Park near Walnut Grove is owned and operated by Redwood County. The site, which has been in existence for nearly 50 years, began as a water retention project, but as time went on improvements have made it a destination for people who come from across the nation to visit it.
While regional in the people its serves, the park had not met the designation as a regional park according to state standards, but efforts have been happening to change that.
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What started a few years ago as an event to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the City of Redwood Falls has grown into its own community event. Known as NightFalls, the celebration is being held at the falls in Ramsey Park this Friday and Saturday.
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In 1954, a group of Redwood Falls investors who wanted to “slow the exodus” of business and people from the community to the metro area and to help stabilize the farm and ag business in the area established a new entity known as Redwood Falls Industries, Inc.
During the five decades that organization has been in existence it has been involved in myriad projects that have helped business grow from the creation of the industrial park to more recent housing projects in the area adjacent to the Redwood Valley schools campus.
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By Troy Krause
Editor
Posted May. 29, 2015 at 12:01 AM
The population of the Lower Sioux Community is growing, and, according to Dennis Prescott, Lower Sioux tribal council chair, there are others living in the area surrounding the community who would like to move.The problem, however, is finding adequate housing to make that possible for them. The community took a big step toward addressing its housing needs this past Friday when it officially opened a new housing unit that was erected utilizing funds from the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency through the Economic Development and Hous-ing...
By Troy Krause
Editor. Redwood Falls Gazette
Updated Jun. 17, 2013 @ 1:20 pm
When the Redwood Communities Foundation was established in 1989, the idea behind the organization was to help non-profit entities with their financial structure. Over the years numerous organizations have been aided by the foundation as they try to aide the communities in which they exist.
One such entity, the Orrin Estebo Foundation, was established in 2006 in an effort to provide funding for people in Redwood Falls who were in need – focusing on education, emergencies and economic development. Click here...
Nonprofits and small municipalities often rely on grant funding to accomplish their missions and keep up with important infrastructure and public works projects. Since 1990, the Redwood Area Development Corporation (RADC) has offered grant writing services to area towns and nonprofits. Services are tailored to each client and their specific needs.
"Our approach is that the entity is the expert in the subject matter, and we’re providing expertise to help them be successful with the grant application process."