To area basketball players.

Josh Peters of Lake Mills and Megan Kortan of Albert Lea became the fourth and fifth area players to surpass 1,000 career points this winter.

Peters broke the barrier Thursday against Forest City in the Class 2A District 4 semifinals.

Though the Bulldogs’ season ended that night with a loss, we applaud Peters for reaching this achievement. He was 9th in the North Iowa Conference with an average of 16.7 points per game.

Kortan buried a pair of 3-pointers, shot 33 percent from the field and scored a game-high 20 points to join the 1,000-point club Friday in Albert Lea’s 56-39 loss at Winona. Last season, Kortan was the only player in the Tribune’s coverage area to finish in the area’s top four in scoring, rebounding, assists and steals. She was a First Team All-Area selection.

Also surpassing 1,000 career points this season were NRHEG’s Spencer Tollefson, Northwood-Kensett’s Hattie Davidson and Alden-Conger’s Eli Hallman.

 

To Old Man Winter.

This last week has been a chilly one, and it looks like more cold temperatures are on the way.

Dangerous wind chills of 25 below to 35 below zero were expected to occur Saturday night through Sunday morning across all of southern Minnesota, continuing a pattern seen earlier this week.

Though there are some days forecast this week in the teens and even the 20s, we look forward to spring’s arrival.

It can’t come soon enough.

 

To 100-year-old Thora Peterson.

Peterson of Wells, who will be 101 in May, shared her life memories in this week’s Prairie Profile on Tuesday in the Tribune. It was enlightening to hear about all of the memories of her life, particularly in the middle of the Blue Zones Project here in Albert Lea.

A former farmer and worker at Birds Eye in Waseca, she credited hard work as her secret to aging well in both body and mind. She said she enjoys the simple things in life, such as crocheting, sewing and knitting.

 

To everyone interviewed for the Tribune’s annual Progress edition.

The Albert Lea area is full of amazing people, and we appreciate the opportunity to be able to tell your stories to the community in today’s Progress edition.

This is one of the Tribune’s largest newspapers of the year, and it is something we work on for several months.

This year the theme for the special section is Door by Door, and through that we hope we’ve been able to open many doors in the community.

Let us know what you think and as always if you have any ideas for stories in the future, feel free to let us know that as well.