Aug 29, 2018
Lake City Fire Department (LCFD) firefighters practice rescue rappelling from a third-floor window at Ardent Mills in Lake City on Aug. 21. It was the second time in a decade the department conducted rappelling training at the mill, according to an Ardent Mills PowerPoint Presentation about the...
Jun 27, 2018
When Jacob Pierzyna and Zachary Melin walked with their fellow students at Dunwoody College of Technology on May 17, they were the first students to graduate in partnership with a new Ardent Mills apprenticeship program.
Pierzyna and Melin will continue working with Ardent Mills until early fall...
Nov 9, 2017
Editor’s note: Matt Krumel is a trucker from St. Perrysburg, Ohio. Earlier this year he traced the origins of his childhood fascination with trucking and agriculture to Lake City. The result is the story below. He is a member of the American Truckers Historical Society.
On its way to the bakery...
Nov 10, 2016
Lake City Food Shelf Treasurer Mavis Hawkins (center) and Executive Director Carole Helgerson (right) present Al Thompson with a check for $5,200. The money, representing half of the proceeds from Ardent Mills’ golf tournament in September, will go toward the Packing for the Weekend’s efforts to...
Oct 6, 2016
The first annual Nourishing the Lake on the Links Golf Tournament on Sept. 10 at the Zumbro Falls Golf Course raised $10,377 for two local food programs. Ardent Mills, which organized the tournament, donated $5,200 to the Packing for the Weekend program and the rest to the Lake City Food Shelf....