Kettle River news

The next Kettle River city council meeting is 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. A reminder to attend the meetings and learn what is happening in the city.

Candlelight Christmas Eve services at Holy Trinity will be at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 24. Everyone is invited to attend.

Thank you to Jeff Vichorek for donating the Kettle River city Christmas tree and Randy Sarvella for donating the lights. Thanks too to Wayne Gulso, Tim Taylor and Britt Sarvela for getting the tree into place. Also I would like to thank all the people who decorated the building and cleaned up after the Market event. Santa visited with both children and adults while he was there. The many vendors had a variety of items and there was a nice crowd of people that came out despite the rainy weather.

Quilting at Holy Trinity is 9 a.m. to noon every Wednesday.

Once there were two sisters who decided to exchange $20 each year for Christmas. They did this for many years, then one of the sisters retired from her job and felt she couldn’t afford to exchange $20 each year, so they decided to exchange $10 each year. Then the other sister retired and they decided to exchange only $5 each year. Then when hard times hit, they decided that they could no longer exchange the $5 each year and just quit exchanging Christmas gifts at all. I think some people have this same idea about exchanging Christmas gifts. It isn’t about the cost of the gift, it is about wanting to give someone something just because you can. So, instead of going into debt to get everyone expensive gifts, maybe you could start giving something from your heart. I remember when I was a teen, before any of us had jobs, we were really poor, so we cut and wrapped pictures, from magazines, of things we would have liked to give each if we had had the money. One year, I was able to knit a sweater for each of my siblings for Christmas. But I didn’t have enough time to finish my brother’s sweater, so I wrapped it up with the needles still in it and finished knitting it after Christmas.

In all the stories of my obnoxious neighbor that I’ve related, I must tell you that these people lived next door to us from the time I was young until my mother moved away in 1975. We put up with them for years.

They were always the same, and the police usually ignored their calls after a while. I have related only a few of the problems we had with them. Since then, I have had wonderful neighbors.