Senior Citizens selected for

county honorResidents from Monticello and Annandale have been selected as this year’s Wright County Outstanding Senior Citizens.
Millie Vetsch of Monticello and Jim Rudolph of Annandale will be honored at the Wright County Fair on August 3 in Howard Lake along with runners-up Sarah Varner of Buffalo and Marvin Decker of Waverly.
Vetsch is 70 years young and very active in the Monticello community. Her volunteer efforts include the Monticello-Big Lake Hospital Auxiliary, serving three years as president and three years as treasurer. She has been an active member of Trinity Lutheran Church, with service on the church council and church organizations and committees. Her many community volunteer activities include assistance with the World Day of Prayer event, Sherburne County’s RSVP program, the American Cancer Society’s Daffodil Days, the CAER program in Elk River and school, youth and senior citizens activities and events.
She has coordinated Home Delivered Meals in Monticello since 1996 and graduated Summa Cum Laude from St. Cloud State with a degree in Elective Studies in 1999 and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Advocacy for Older Adults.
Rudolph is 78 years young and has a long list of volunteer activities in Annandale that include service in the schools and he was an initiator of the High School Key Club, an extension of the Kiwanis Club. He served on the Minnesota Project Grant Committee which led to the formation of the Annandale History Club. He has served on various committees for the Lake Sylvia Association and is working on compiling stories that will be included in a book entitled “Remember Lake Sylvia.”
A few of Rudolph’s many other community activities are service with the Red Cross Bloodmobile, the Kiwanis and the Annandale United Methodist Church where he currently serves as a trustee.