Vicki Gerdes
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Staff writer at Detroit Lakes Newspapers for the past 16 years, currently editor of the entertainment and community pages as well as covering city council and the Lake Park-Audubon School Board. Living in DL with my cat, Smokey.
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The statistics are truly alarming: One Minnesota child in seven now lives in poverty. For those doing the math, that's about 15.2 percent, or 192,000 children in all. For children under the age of five, that rate jumps to 17.2 percent. "That's simply ...
The 2011 Minnesota deer-hunting season officially gets underway next weekend. But for those who aren't into shooting at large, furry, white-tailed creatures with an impressive rack of horns, the Historic Holmes Theatre annually provides an alternative form of entertainment on the opening night of the hunting season. This year, that entertainment will be a performance by Zorongo Flamenco, a Minneapolis-based music and dance troupe that presents traditional Spanish flamenco with a contemporary flair. Set to take place Friday at 7 p.m., the event is being billed as a "Girls Night Out" becau
Halloween happenings in the area begin tonight with a carnival hosted by the Audubon Fire Department and Auxiliary at the Audubon Community Center, from 4 to 6 p.m. There will also be a Haunted House at the Old Pine Point School on Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m.; and Trick or Treating at Emmanuel Community in Detroit Lakes on Sunday from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. The Speak Easy and Holiday Inn in Detroit Lakes will be hosting some spooky celebrations on Saturday night as well. Tickets are still available for tonight's "A Tribute to Duke Ellington" at the Historic Holmes Theatre in Detroit Lakes.
Halloween happenings in the area begin tonight with a carnival hosted by the Audubon Fire Department and Auxiliary at the Audubon Community Center, from 4 to 6 p.m. There will also be a Haunted House at the Old Pine Point School on Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m.; and Trick or Treating at Emmanuel Community in Detroit Lakes on Sunday from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. The Speak Easy and Holiday Inn in Detroit Lakes will be hosting some spooky celebrations on Saturday night as well. Tickets are still available for tonight's "A Tribute to Duke Ellington" at the Historic Holmes Theatre in Detroit Lakes.
When a group of Detroit Lakes High School music students got the opportunity to spend some time in New York City last spring, many of them attended a performance of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." So impressed were they with what they saw that they requested to use the show as the 2011 DLHS fall musical -- and got their wish. The Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play will be presented in five performances at the George Simson Auditorium inside Detroit Lakes Middle School, starting on Thursday, Nov.
Though he likes to call himself a "worker bee" when it comes to his work for the Detroit Lakes Shrine Color Guard, that doesn't mean Al Krogstad's contributions to the local unit of Fargo's El Zagal Shrine go unnoticed. Quite the contrary: Earlier this month, at the Oct.
In April 2010, a group of 17 area musicians got together with vocalist Doug Newman on the stage of Detroit Lakes' Historic Holmes Theatre to pay tribute to legendary "Big Band" leader Woody Herman and his music. Held in conjunction with the theater's spring gala, the event proved to be a resounding success. "It went very well," said Bill Mohn, the Detroit Lakes percussionist who put together the music for the event. In fact, not long after the curtain had fallen on that performance, Mohn and Holmes Theatre executive director Amy Stoller Stearns began making plans for a sequel. "She (St
It was a whirlwind of a weekend for Dr. Aaron Bernstein, the renowned biodiversity expert from Harvard Medical School who was invited to spend three days in Detroit Lakes by the Prairie Woods Chapter of the Izaak Walton League (also known as the "Ikes"). Besides a Saturday morning presentation at the Historic Holmes Theatre, Bernstein also spoke to students and faculty at Concordia College in Moorhead and Detroit Lakes High School as well as to medical professionals at Essentia Health. Dr.
"L-P-A!" "L-P-A" "L-P-A!" "L-P-A!" The fist-pumping chant that filled the gymnasium at Lake Park-Audubon Elementary School Monday afternoon was a clear sign of the overwhelming enthusiasm of students, staff, administration and parents at the formal dedication of their new and renovated school facilities. That enthusiasm carried over into a second dedication ceremony held just a few hours later, where State Rep.
Since he was 16 years old, Dr. Mark Lindquist has spent virtually his entire working career in a hospital emergency room -- first as an orderly, and later as a medical doctor. But as of last Thursday, the medical director of the Essentia Health-St. Mary's emergency room and St. Mary's EMS ambulance service has left his E.R. days behind. Lindquist, 55, has joined the staff of the Sanford Health Clinic in Detroit Lakes, where he'll start his new duties on Nov. 1. "I'm taking a couple of weeks off," he said Tuesday.
