Year in Review A look back at 2023 Part 2

By Brenda Erdahl

July

The Covid pandemic changed the landscape for small businesses across the country. To survive, owners found themselves having to rethink formerly tried and true business models. For Dangerous Man Brewing it was a wakeup call. “All of our eggs were really in one basket,” said Sarah Bonvallet. “It was time to get into distribution.” About a year ago, Bonvallet and her husband Rob Miller started leasing the old Kramer Sales building at the corner of county roads 8 and 37 on the north side of Maple Lake with plans to make it into a brewery. After months of renovating and installing the necessary equipment, in March the couple started producing. With 10 employees including themselves, they are now on track to reach their goal of brewing 2,400, 31-gallon barrels of Dangerous Man Brew this year to be shipped and sold around Central Minnesota including right here in Maple Lake . . . After a year serving as Miss Maple Lake Audrey Lee is getting ready for her grand finale at the Minneapolis Aquatennial where she will compete against 40 other candidates from communities around the state for the title of Queen of the Lakes. . . The Maple Lake Trap Shooting team sent six competitors to the High School Clay Target League National Championships in Mason, MI last weekend. They competed in the team qualifiers and finished 165th out of 240 teams across the country. . . Parkside Elementary in the Buffalo/Hanover/Montrose School District is one of seven organizations to benefit from Wright County’s first distribution of opioid settlement money. County Commissioners approved a plan, Tuesday, July 11 at their regular county board meeting to award $500,000 to local organizations with high impact projects that will support opioid epidemic response strategies including prevention, treatment recovery and harm reduction. . . St. Timothy students had a memorable day at Target Field, Sunday, July 23. Not only did they get to see the Twins defeat the White Sox 5-4, they had the privilege of singing the National Anthem at the start of the game.

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