Valley Talk

OLD Program guests
April 1: George French – Dinner Theatre
April 2: Angie Peltier – U of M Extension
April 3: Chuck Getsman – Spring Cleanup Week
April 6:
April 7: Leah Winjum – CHS After-Prom Party
April 8: Taylor Wyum – CHEDA Director
April 9: Common Ground – Spring Thing 2026
April 10: Darren Grubb – Medicare Advantage Program
April 13: Michelle Christopherson – UMC Film Series
April 14: Kurt Ellefson – Polk County Veteran’s Affairs
April 15: Libby Boucher – United Way
April 16: Gina Gunderson – ECFE
April 17: Sarah Reese – Polk County Public Health
April 20: Dana Johnson – National Crime Victim Rights Week
April 21: Jasmine Wangen – Safe Kids Grand Forks
April 22: Jacob Snyder – Polk County Environmental Services
April 23: Angie Peltier – U of M Extension
April 24: Cindy Strom – Mental Health Awareness Month
April 27: Bo Broby – Grand Theatre
April 28:
April 29: Randy Bruer – Crookston School District
April 30:
May 1: Chris Trostad – Highland School

August 22: Angie Peltier – U of M Extension
August 23: Nate Lubarski – Crookston H.S. A.D
August 26: Marcia Haglund – Tri-Valley Transportation
August 27: Randy Bergquist – Crookston School Superintendant
August 28: UMC – name not yet announced
August 29: Officer Don Rasicot – Back to School Safety
August 30: Jeff Shoobridge – Crookston City Administrator
September 2 – No program Labor Day
September 3: Allan Dragseth – RRV Sugarbeet Museum Harvest Days
September 4: Cassie Rudie – Benedictine Foundation Glow Ball Tourney
September 5: Steve Hannah – Pioneer Day
September 6: Crookston Civic Music League
September 9: Marcia Haglund – Girls Scouts
September 10: Shirley Iverson – Crookston Area Community Fund
September 11: Gina Gunderson – ECFE
September 12: Angie Peltier – U of M Extension
September 13: Carma Hanson – Safe Kids Grand Forks
September 16: Gary Willhite – Polk County Commissioners
September 17:
September 18: Chris Trostad – Highland School
September 19: Corky Reynolds & Ashton Sangster – UMC Softball Hit-a-Thon
September 20: Sarah Pylon – Valley Corn Maize
September 23: Kurt Ellefson – Polk County Veterans Affairs
September 24: Randy Bergquist – Crookston School Superintendant
September 25:
September 26:
September 27: Richard Sanders – Polk County Highway Agency
September 30: Beth Carlson & Sandy Perkins – Crookston Community Theatre

December 1: Carma Hanson – Safe Kids Grand Forks
December 2: Mary Schmidt – Villa Angel Tree
December 3: Jerry Lindsey – Community Basket Committee
December 4: Pastor Ruth Sanders (Blue Christmas Service at Wesley United Methodist Church)
December 5: Gary Willhite – Polk County Commissioners
December 8: Tracy Blazek – UMC Ukrainian Presentation
December 9: Carol Gregg – Fin and Fit
December 10: Marcia Haglund & Elizabeth Hensrud – Tri-Valley Transportation Holiday Update
December 11: Paige Tice – Riverview Home Care
December 12: Mike Boucher – Driftbusters Safety Training
December 15:
December 16: Randy Bruer – CHS Superintendent
December 17: Morgan Torkleson – West Polk Soil & Water
December 18: Angie Peltier – U of M Extension
December 19: Fred Parnow – Get Kids Outdoors
December 22: Kurt Ellefson – Polk County Veterans’ Affairs
December 23: Crookston Fire Department – Winter Safety
December 24: Santa Claus
December 25: No Show (Christmas)
December 26: MNN 2025 State News recap
December 29:
December 30:
December 31: Boy Scout Troop 41 – Spaghetti dinner fundraiser