Wow.

OK, for those of you who like to read the Faribault County Register right away on Saturday morning, this one may take you well into Saturday afternoon to get it all read. For those of you who like to know what is going on in Faribault County, this one is for you.

This week’s issue of the Register is chock full of news. I think I counted seven stories about important things going on at meetings of local governmental bodies. Blue Earth Area Schools may be changing sports conference membership, USC Schools studying a need for some new facilities, which BEA is doing too. The County Board having some personnel issues and a whole lot more.

In fact, we actually split the story about the County Board into two stories. Yes, there was that much going on.

I think I counted nearly 20 or more sports stories. Well, that number is true if you count each boys golf and girls golf and boys track and girls track events as two stories, which we do. But they are often tied together into one story. Then we also group all the baseball and all the softball game stories in to one story with one headline. We have to do that to get all of them in the paper. Otherwise, we would have to have a 12-page sports section, and as it is, sports cover nearly four pages this week.

This past Tuesday, there were 12 sporting events on that day between the ones for Blue Earth Area and for United South Central. That, folks, is believed to be a record for one day. Again, that counts boys and girls golf and boys and girls track as separate events, even though they happen at the same place at the same time.

Two of the 12 events were canceled, and that was the BEA boys and girls track meet. So then it was down to 10, but still, that is a whole lot of sports in one day.

Then there is the other news. Things like a visit to Faribault County by a U.S. Senator, Amy Klobuchar. She seems to show up somewhere in Faribault County every year almost. Last time it was at Winnebago Manufacturing.

This year it was at the farm of Darin Johnson, a popular place for people to show up at, including a U.S. presidential candidate a couple of years ago.

Then there is a story about a new solar energy company coming to Faribault County and having a ribbon cutting at their new office in Winnebago.

If you like reading feature stories (and who doesn’t) this issue is for you, too. There is an interesting story about a Blue Earth man, Jim Sabin, who started up a hobby after not doing it 24 years. Not only does his hobby keep him busy after retiring last year, he is creating beautiful artwork in the form of duck decoys.

Maybe you knew about this talented retired produce manager at Juba’s but I sure didn’t until I saw one of his pieces at the Eagles recent fundraiser.

And another story you’ll want to read is about a 13-year old girl and her battle with cancer. It is heart-wrenching and heart-warming all at the same time.

You may wonder if I read everything in the Register every week. The answer is yes, because that is part of my job as editor. I read everything and edit it if necessary. And that is besides writing a lot of the stories as well.

But to be honest, I also read some of the stories again, when the Register comes to my mailbox every Saturday morning, just because I like to see it in print.

After last week’s issue was delayed and not delivered until Monday, maybe we are making up for it by giving you an extra special packed full of news issue this week.

I had several people tell me that we had ruined their Saturday morning because the Faribault County Register was not delivered on Saturday as usual, and their routine was to read it right away every Saturday.

(The paper was delayed two days due to our driver who delivers it to stores and post offices was unable to do it during Friday night like he usually does.)

Well, this week you might have to spend some time on Easter Sunday as well as some of this next week getting all of this one read.

And to be totally honest, there are about four or five stories we are working on that we could not get finished in time for this current issue. And probably would not have had room for anyway.

So I predict that next week might be chock full of news as well.

As always, our goal is to cover as much news of Faribault County as we possibly, humanly can. Sometimes time and space restraints keep us unable to get everywhere, and write about everything. But we will certainly try to do the best we can.

And as always, thanks for reading us.

And a Blessed Easter to all.