Hi! I grew up in the Twin Cities, but I consider myself to be citified small town country. Radio has taken me to northern Iowa and southern Minnesota. I am married to a great guy and we have 3 cats (or maybe they have us, we're not sure)! I volunteer with Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Healthy Seniors and the local food shelf. I also try to give a bit to the Humane Society. Reading, Quilting and Sudoku are a few of my hobbies. Sports are cool too! I enjoy playing golf (the real kind, not video) and listen to or watch most of the rest...especially baseball. Go Twins!
Lisa Marie
Art and Music at the Owatonna Arts Center
The Owatonna Arts Center, 435 Garden View Lane, will be having a concert and a new art exhibit in April.
On Sunday, April 3, Mary McCartney Watercolor exhibit will open. According to the press release, McCartney titles the exhibit "Our Natural Treasures: Art and Nature, A Closer View...
American Red Cross Asks for Blood Donors
March is Red Cross Month. April is Volunteer Month. The American Red Cross salutes their many volunteer blood donors who help hospital patients in need because of an accident or surgery. The Red Cross has a goal to collect 14,000 blood and platelet donations every day...
Lisa’s Logic: Get Lost Day
March 26 is Make Up Your Own Holiday Day, according to brownielocks.com. Maybe they could not decide or maybe they thought something could be missing that we are not celebrating. Well, anyway, I decided to come up with Get Lost Day.
Now, of course, this could mean a couple of different things and that's how I'm going to take them, too...
One-Hit Wonder: J.J. Jackson
He was born in Arkansas, wrote with and for many artists and even lived in Brazil -- J.J. Jackson.
Jerome Louis Jackson, best known as J.J. Jackson, was born in 1941 in Arkansas, according to mentalitch.com.
He wrote his own music and worked with a number of artists, including The Shangri-Las, in the early to mid-'60s...
Winter Storm Update for Southern Minnesota
The winter storm for our area seems to have passed. In Ellendale, I measured both on the back steps and the driveway in the front yard. I measured about 8 inches.
According to NOAA, the heaviest snowfall started about 1AM and lasted until 6AM, with visibility down to a quarter of a mile or less at times...
Learn About Some Impressive Women in History
March is Women's History Month. International Women's Day took place March 8, 1911. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter proclaimed the week of March 8 as National Women's History Week. It was 1987 that March became Women's History Month.
Althea Gibson grew up in Harlem, according to history...
Lisa’s Logic: Chocolate Week
Hooray! Spring is here and it is officially American Chocolate Week, but we can share. Canada does share with us Cupcake Day, or we borrow it from them, so we can share this. With all the chocolate that we will be having, it won't be too hard to fulfill Act Happy Week...
Owatonna Bark and Rec in April
The Owatonna Parks and Rec are teaming with the Steele County Humane Society for Bark and Rec with treats, grooming and all doggy stuff in one place. It will be on Saturday, April 23, at the Steele County Fairgrounds in the Four Seasons Centre in Owatonna from 9AM to noon...
Lisa’s Logic: A Flash of Snow
Friday during the day, we had some very light snowflakes. One of those "Was there snow or not?" It did stop for a bit, then started up again.
My husband and I went out to eat. The snow did start to stick as we were sitting there and it was on the vehicles...
An Unusual Find in the KRFO/Kat Kountry 105 Closet
In the closet of our KRFO/Kat Kountry studios tucked back in a corner is a game that was made specifically for the area. Trivia Game Productions from Rochester came around in the early 1990s, ad exec John Connor said. They made games out of trivia from the county and radio stations asked advertisers to have places on the board...