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Question: I have a question about people who are driving for food deliveries and ride-hailing app services using their personal vehicle. Are they supposed to have commercial insurance or any other special type of insurance?

Prairie Lives

Douglas Hamilton was born in 1948 in Willmar, Minn., the first of two sons, to Douglas and Gertrude (Pierce) Hamilton. The Hamilton’s lived in Grove City, but his dad ran a car lot in nearby Atwater.

The Hamilton’s were Seventh Day Adventists, which made them unique in Grove City.

The Library Nook

The winter reading program runs now through March 30. Stop by the library to sign up. Read six books to receive a prize!

The activity at the library for the weeks of January 16 through January 27 will be salt painting.

Area News

Advocate Tribune - Concluding his eighth National Finals Rodeo, bareback rider Tanner Aus took many things back to his Minnesota home: Confidence, talent and satisfaction that he got on nearly a dozen of the greatest bucking horses over consecutive nights. There’s also that $90,480 in earnings.

Area History

In January 1924, the Community Club of Canby held an Agriculture Short Course and Community Meeting at the high school auditorium with meetings in the morning, afternoon, and the evening of January 21 and 22.  There were four headline speakers; J. G. Haney, J. L. Wenstadt, Zella Wigent, and L. A. Hawkins.

Rotary of Canby

At the Rotary of Canby meeting on Jan. 11, Coach Jeff Thovson (above, L-R), Brynn Kockelman, Kalee Verhelst, and Josie Frank shared about the Lancers girls basketball program and how their season is going. Student Rotarians included (below) Kale Dritz, Colton Ruether, and Brooklyn Kindopp.

WRAPS

January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month as well as National Stalking Awareness Month. WoMen’s Rural Advocacy Programs, Inc. (WRAP) has been and continues to serve victims of trafficking since 2020 as well as victims of domestic violence since 1994 in Lincoln, Lyon, Redwood, and Yellow Medicine Counties.

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