Community Celebration—
Next Up! The Bluebell Festival
Weather and road construction permitting, planning for Plainview's annual Bluebell Festival has begun.  County Road 4, which takes visitors to Carley State Park, is scheduled to be resurfaced.  Festival organizers are working on an alternate route to the park so that the Festival can take place. Check back for details.

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Business Training Brief—
EDA Cashflow Workshop scheduled for April 18th
The Plainview EDA will offer a workshop, Can Your Small Business Cash Flow Your Business's Future? on Wednesday, April 18th from 8 to 10 a.m. Coffee and rolls will be available at 7:30 a.m.; location to be announced.  This workshop is FREE to all residents of Wabasha County. For more information, call (507) 534-2264.  More information

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Noteworthy Events—
PEM Plays at the Hassler Theater in February and March
The PEM Drama Department will offer a Junior Varsity play, The Ever After—The Musical, on February 17th and 18th, at 7:00 p.m. and February 19th, at 2:00 p.m at the Jon Hassler Theater.  The Ever After is a hilarious parody of daytime TV. TV host Sally Lizzie Jesse Donatello-Griffin wonders if time truly heals all wounds. She invites Cinderella and her middle-aged "beauty-impaired" stepsisters to reconcile with each other after being estranged for 20 years.  The result is a hysterical fractured fairy tale that has it all: a trash-talking clairvoyant mirror, an unfortunate prince who is turning slowly back into a frog and even Jiminy Cricket — now an occupational therapist and author of the book My Life as Your Conscience.

The Varsity play, Once Upon A Mattress, will be held at 7 p.m. at the Hassler Theater on March 1st and 2nd; and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. performances at the Hassler on March 3rd and 4th.

Tickets are $6.00 for adults; $5.00 students, and will be available at 1st National Bank and People’s State Bank in Plainview, and People’s State Bank in Elgin. Tickets are also on sale via the PEM website.