To Northwood-Kensett girls’ basketball player Hattie Davidson and coach Daryl Love.

It was an exciting game for the Northwood-Kensett girls’ basketball team Friday night as junior Hattie Davidson surpassed 1,000 career points and coach Daryl Love earned his 100th career win.

With a win over Nashua-Plainfield at Northwood, the Vikings remain perfect in Class 1A.

Davidson has led the Vikings in scoring all three years she has been eligible to play varsity and this year has averaged more than 20 points per game.

Love, who has been coach in Northwood for 13 years, has turned around the Northwood-Kensett girls’ basketball program.

Two years ago, the Vikings were a win away from the state tournament, and last year the team was ranked in the state polls for the first time. The team’s record thus far this year is 13-2.

We applaud both Davidson and Love for their achievements and wish them continued success.

 

To the approval of disaster relief funding at the state Capitol.

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton signed legislation this week providing almost $12 million in disaster relief funding for 37 counties and three tribal governments across the state.

Freeborn County was one of them.

During storms last June, Albert Lea received more than 7 inches of rain from the storm, leading to high water levels in both Fountain and Albert Lea lakes, closed streets, some homes with sewage backups and farmland that was under water. Several ditches were damaged.

Some of the money will be used as a match for federal emergency funds used by local governments to repair roads.

Other nearby counties included in the legislation were Blue Earth, Faribault, Steele and Waseca.

 

To the purchase of the shuttered Wells food processing plant.

It was a big deal last week to hear news that Wells Food Processing LLC has purchased the closed plant in this community.

Pioneer Bank took control of the site in 2013 after foreclosing on then-owner Stephen Singleteary of Mankato. Singleteary had borrowed more than $4 million from the bank and received more than $8 million in public subsidies to reopen the factory, which had been mostly closed since 2004.

The plant was opened for only about a month in 2010 with 20 employees.

Though Wells Processing has not yet announced how many people it expects to hire in its new operation or when it plans to open, we look forward to the reopening of this plant and we hope it helps boost the Wells economy.