Big Stone County, Minnesota - Living Rural and Loving it!
We have been posting our school music programs on our Facebook page and now that we have a few more to add, we’ve decided to post all the videos on one page for easy access. Â They all did a beautiful job. Â Enjoy!
We are considered “rural” here on the MNbump – people enjoy coming to our area for the fishing and the beauty of Big Stone Lake, the National and State Parks – the beauty of a more open-space quality of life.  Our region is perfectly described with two …
Great app if you are in Big Stone County – next to property that looks great to hunt – and you want the owner information! Â This link will provide all of the public data through the County GIS system (who owns the property, size, value, taxes, etc)
Directions: — Note: Â Once you have downloaded the app & the BSC Map, you may just see a blue dot on the map… that is because it is zoomed in too close. Â Zoom out to see the land features. Â Click on the blue dot to get GIS location and click on the little white pop-up box with the GIS location to get more information on that property (sometimes it does take a couple of clicks on the box in order to get the little arrow & link to info when using smaller devices like your phone)
Link to the County Instruction Sheet (PDF): Â doc101416-10142016154206
Big Stone Lake to around Big Stone County, MNbump is beautiful this time of year. Â We had a Facebook follower that commented on a post that had a few fall pictures from an afternoon drive (shown below) that she enjoyed seeing photos from the area …
We need your help!  There is a group of parents researching the possibility of upgrading the Ortonville Swimming Pool.  They have been gathering information from other communities that have recently upgraded their community swimming pool.  They have also been gathering information from additional community pools on their rates …
We have been sharing the family-fun fall activities on our Facebook page and thought we’d share the information on a one-stop blog post!
Saturday & Sundays Noon to 6:00 p.m.
Through October 23rd
Things to do:
Change tires on the care, make it a competition!
Take your photo with bales or a minion
Use the sling shot to hit the target
Try the obstacle course
Slide into the corn pit
Play tic tac toe
Bowling
Match Game
…. and try the maze!!!
Also have pumpkins for sale
Facebook Page: Â https://www.facebook.com/7-75-Corn-Maze-453903144661978/
Saturdays and Sundays from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Until October 23rd!
They offer hay rides, corn maze, corn dig, climbing bales and barrel train rides. Â They have gourds, specialty pumpkins, Indian Corn, straw bales and corn stocks for sale!
Website: Â www.bigstonepumpkinpatch.com
Facebook Page: Â https://www.facebook.com/thepumpkinpatch2012/
Great housing opportunities in Big Stone County!  The City of Ortonville via Ortonville Area Health Services has expanded their senior housing campus (located on a beautiful 18-hole golf course) which has opened up a number of single-family homes over the past few months adding to our …
First, this is certainly not an all inclusive list that covers everything that those within our arts’ community do! I’m starting with one project that was recently featured on 1350 KDIO‘s Morning Show with Julie & Adam.  The Cari Me Project (click here for more info). …
Among the goals of the trip is to increase awareness of Minnesota Business First Stop, which Gov. Mark Dayton created in 2012 to help businesses cut through red tape when working with state agencies. Â Minnesota Business First Stop streamlines the process for financing, licensing, permitting, technical assistance and other resources that state agencies provide to businesses.
Commissioner Hardy will be joined on the trip by leaders from the following state agencies:
Andrea Vaubel, assistant commissioner, Department of Agriculture
John Linc Stine, commissioner, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Tom Landwehr, commissioner, Department of Natural Resources
Mark Phillips, commissioner, Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board
Charlie Zelle, commissioner, Department of Transportation
Cynthia Bauerly, commissioner, Department of Revenue
Ken Peterson, commissioner, Department of Labor and Industry
Mike Rothman, commissioner, Department of Commerce
Graceville, Wheaton-Dumont Co-op Elevator’s Graceville Grain Terminal – provided the Commissioners a tour of this newer unit train loading facility.  The tour was provided by Co-op Board President Vaughn Maudal and General Manager Phil Deal.
Very interesting presentation – a few highlights:
This is a locally-owned and operated agricultural cooperative that serves more than 1,200 patrons and operates facilities in 14 communities in over 7 counties and three states (Minnesota, South & North Dakota). Â In Minnesota, they operate 7 grain facilities and 2 agronomy centers. Â The communities are Ortonville, Clinton, and Graceville in Big Stone County; and Dumont and Wheaton in Traverse County; and Tenney and Campbell in Wilkin County.
Graceville opened about 3 years ago.  Deal noted that this is their flagship property in Minnesota.  Cost a little more than $28 million dollars to build.  Here they receive grain by truck from area farmers and then load shuttle trains which are usually about 115 cars long totally more than 450,000 bushels each!  They load the trains using a loop-track model where the entire train is stored on their property and moved around a loop almost continuously while it is loaded (they can load a train in about 6 hours!)
Their grain goes all over the world with soybeans mainly to China and corn mainly going to Korea or Japan.
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Included below are two links  to articles written by Lois Torgerson and published in the Northern Star (we have received authorization to use the articles on this post) 100,000 Signatures are needed – seeking recognition for Clinton native Captain E. Royce Williams, Retired, who served in …