Third-graders to visit area farms

Published 9:36 am Thursday, September 13, 2012

The 21st annual Third Grade Farm Tours will be held on Sept. 19 and 20.  This event is sponsored by the Albert Lea-Freeborn County Chamber of Commerce Agricultural Committee, and its committed corporate sponsors and friends.

Scheduled visits are as follows:

•Sept. 19: Students from the United South Central, Glenville-Emmons, Alden-Conger and Albert Lea schools of Hawthorne and Sibley elementaries will visit the farms.

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• Sept 20: Students from the Albert Lea schools of Halverson, Lakeview and  St. Theodore Catholic School, New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva will tour the farms.

Student will visit Larry Reynen’s potato farm, Gary Braaten’s hog farm and John Miller’s dairy farm.