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06/12/2026

We are ready, are you???!!! Let’s go! Worthington Windsurfing Regatta & Music Festival

06/12/2026

The Worthington Junior American Legion baseball team is off to a strong start thanks to a winning performance this past weekend.

Head coach Tucker Sorenson said the team competed in a 15U state qualifier at Woodbury and won the title. The squad played one game Friday, twice on Saturday and twice more on Sunday, going 4-0-1 as they tied a game in pool play.

The Junior Legion team will compete in the MBT (Minnesota Baseball Tournament) July 17-19 in Rochester.

Sorenson reviewed his team by position; you can hear more from him at https://www.myradioworks.net/podcasts (click on 566).

06/12/2026

Algona, Iowa driver is first in one class, second in another.

The following are current season point standings at Worthington Speedway after June 6 racing:Worthington Sportsmen: 1. 66-Todd Koppen, Rushmore, 117; 2. 21W-Dylan Rouzer, Jasper, 112; 3. 21###-Devon Steele, Brewster, 112; 4. 75-Elmer Rolfes, Merrill, Iowa, 108; 5. 49-Hendrick Beukes, Sibley, Iowa, 1...

06/11/2026

The Crown Jewels, a Queen tribute band, will take the Sailboard Beach stage tonight at the Windsurfing Regatta & Music Festival. Band member Alex Parsons acknowledged the classic rock band's resounding popularity.

"The wonderful thing about Queen is there's so many different people who love them," Parsons said. "Bring your kids out — this is going to be a great show for that. Bring your parents out. Bring your grandparents. Everybody's going to love the show."

As Queen tribute acts go, Parsons said, The Crown Jewels are in their 15th year together and is "the premier group in all of the Midwest."

Explained Parsons: "We're mainly Minnesota-based, so it's nice for us to be home. This started as kind of a pet project for me. I was getting vocal lessons and my vocal teacher challenged me. She said, 'We keep coming back to these Freddie Mercury songs. You need to do a Queen show.' So then I called up a big venue and then they said, 'That sounds great.' I hung up the phone, and then I had to figure out how to make it happen in two months. I put out a Craigslist ad and I found our guitarist, Steve Pritchard, who's still in the band today, and some other musicians. And here we are 15 years later."

There's even a little extra something planned for tonight's show.

"If you're thinking of bringing out the family, we're going to have some fake mustaches for the kids. You know, we need to see more facial hair on these kids these days."

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06/11/2026

Jay Schiedt is in his fourth and final year as a member of the Windsurfing Regatta & Music Festival Board of Directors.

"I've had a ton of fun in the last four years with this board and they've done a terrific job," he said Thursday.

Schiedt talked about the music component of this year's festival.
"Redferrin, for example, is a guy that is on the cusp of greatness right now, and he could blow up any month, and you get to see him in Worthington, Minnesota for free," he said. "The dude seems like he's going to put on a nice little party for us, and the weather looks terrific, so we couldn't be more excited about our headliner. "

He also spoke about some of the other bands that are going to be town this weekend.

"We're going to start out with Self Tilted -- it's a rock 'n' roll band — at 7 p.m. on Friday," he explained. "And then I know that a lot of people are really excited about the Crown Jewels because they're a Queen cover band. They're going to be at 9 p.m. on Friday.

On Saturday, The Indecisions — "an upbeat cover band" — will perform at 5 p.m., followed by Chase McDaniels at 7:30 p.m. and Redferrin at 9:30 p.m.

"We have a few people that coordinate the music for us, kind of led by Barry Roberts, and Dayton Williamson and Tanya Wagner are also on that committee of the board," Scheidt said. "They do a terrific job of lining up some really good acts for us."

Added Scheidt about the festival: "I always think that the Saturday, we have a Bloody Mary bar, but we needed more stuff going on. And us as a board really put together kind of a nice lineup on Saturday morning into the early afternoon of activities that everybody in the community can come out and do."

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06/11/2026

Incident took place in the 1400 block of Third Avenue.

The Worthington Police Department is investigating a drive-by shooting that took place last week, according to a press release issued this morning.The police department reported that the incident occurred at approximately 3:15 p.m. Friday, June 5 in the 1400 block of Third Avenue. Officers were disp...

06/11/2026

Minnesota West women's basketball coach Rosalie "Moz" Hayenga-Hostikka was one of the individuals to speak Tuesday during a program honoring retiring longtime Worthington athletic trainer Joel Krekelberg.

"We're one of the luckiest junior colleges in the nation," she explained. "Not many at the Division III level can say they have a trainer like Krek and even the two new that we've had here because of what he did. But my biggest memories with Krek will always be the wisdom that he gave and the time he took to talk -- and we all know Krek can talk. And we all know Krek can tell good stories, right?

"There's just so many times that his talks gave me personally just so much perspective and helped me through so many things," Hayenga-Hostikka continued. "And I don't think there's ever any question that Krek cared for every player, every coach and every program that he worked with."

In addition to the care he offered for athletes, Krekelberg was well known for the quilts he created for coaches and others in the community.

"I mean, who does this? Who does this for people?" Hayenga-Hostikka asked rhetorically. "You know, he knows what coaches put in. He took the time to make all of these quilts for us and make everybody feel special. And I know he's done it in other ways for people here, too.

"We probably all know the hearts that Krek has carved for so many different people in so many ways. For me personally, for my basketball team, he gave us hearts so that we could each touch it and have our DNA on it, right? And so that we're a part of each other for the rest of our lives."

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Meanwhile. Krekleberg -- who worked for the National Football League's Houston Oilers early in his career before returning to his hometown of Worthington -- also spoke Tuesday.

"I did not want this to be an I Love Me event, I want this instead to be a I Love You one," he said. "The quilts you see were made mainly for the head coaches and ADs I worked with over the years, and some additional ones are sprinkled in because I had a certain fabric or a special one to make one. I made them because I respected all the coaches and ADs that I worked with over the years, and it was my way of showing back respect. If I had time and financial backing, I would have made them for all the coaches I've worked with.

"As long as I'm talking about coaches and ADs, I also want to acknowledge their partners," Krekelberg added. "They are the unsung heroes who have to listen to all the ups and downs of being coaches' partners. They are the ones who hold it all together at home. And while acknowledging partners, I have to put a very special emphasis on my partner, Amy Ernst. She has been my most fabulous supporter since I take over the past almost 20 years. I have a magnet on my refrigerator with a proverb that says, 'When I count my blessings, I count you twice.' With Amy, I multiplied that several times. Finally, and most important, the three men I admire most are the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost."

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06/10/2026

Redferrin will headline the Windsurfing Regatta & Music Festival this Saturday night on Worthington's Sailboard Beach. The country music performer noted this week that music wasn't his first career choice.

"I did my first pro motocross race ever actually in Mankato, which is pretty funny," he remembered. "I did that for a long time, racing Arenacross and Supercross, and that led me to meeting FGL (Florida Georgia Line). Them boys realized I wrote songs, too, when I wasn't racing and honestly opened the door and taught me about Nashville. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't be here today.

"My dirt bike career was dwindling down," he continued. "I couldn't quit getting hurt, and it was looking like construction was going to be my full-time gig. They definitely showed me a new world and gave me a lot of opportunity, man. I'm so super-thankful for them boys for doing it because I couldn't imagine doing anything else now."

Redferrin's debut album has gotten more than a half billion streams and he'll drop a full-length album the night before he performs in Worthington.

"I wrote me about 60 songs for it," he said. I worked on it all last year, and we trimmed it down to 13 and I think they're the cream of the crop. I hope everybody loves it. ... 'Been there, done that" is a saying I've heard a million times. I don't know why it took me so long to write it, but that's kind of the spirit of the whole project. Just been there, done that. I ain't doing this heartbreak stuff anymore, even though I keep on doing it for some reason."

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06/10/2026

Dustin Hahn has been on the board of the Windsurfing Regatta & Music Festival — which is this weekend in Worthington — for five years.

He said Wednesday morning: "Mr. DJ Barry Roberts just kept hounding me and hounding me and well, here we are five years later. I went the first year I was here and kind of took it in as just a bystander ... taking a look at the events. It's a great event. I mean, one of the few things we have in town that we bring people out for, along with Turkey Day and International Fest. It's great things to have in a small community. It keeps bringing people to the community."

One key element that draws people to the festival each year is the food. Hahn said 15 different vendors are coming for the weekend, ranging from food, beverages, snacks, drinks and more.

"It's a busy season for all the vendors." he stated. "We know that. We have a lot to come back every single year, so we try to reward them. They've been with us for a long time, so they do awesome. People love their food.

"We try to bring in a couple new ones every single year," he added. "It's one of those things where sometimes we might reach out, but the majority of time it's people reaching out to us. They just want to be part of a great festival here in Worthington.

"I usually try to sample a little bit of everything everybody's got. I mean, all the food is fantastic out there. If you got a craving, there's something there that's going to cure that craving that you have."

The food vendors will open around 11 a.m. each day. People can come down to Sailboard Beach on Friday for lunch and enjoy the beach as things get set up for the festival. The vendors will remain open until they run out of food — "which I hope they don't do," Hahn said -- or until the festival's over for the night, which is usually between 11 a.m. and midnight.

Hear this complete interview at https://www.myradioworks.net/podcasts (click on 560).

06/10/2026

Chase McDaniel will make his way from Nashville to Worthington to perform Saturday night at the Worthington Windsurfing Regatta & Music Festival.

McDaniel said an interview with Radio Works earlier that he hit his 10-year mark in Nashville last month. He has been playing music, however, much longer than he's been living in Music City. He's a self-proclaimed "Kentucky Boy" who said his two-hour drive from home to Nashville "was a lot longer than it actually was" as he eventually found his way to pursue his music dreams there,

McDaniel recalled his deciding to move from Kentucky to Nashville several years ago -- but then COVID hit.

"It was definitely not expected for anyone, but for me either -- I'm always the guy who's had multiple jobs," he explained. "I didn't come to town with any financial support from anyone; some people do. I had two or three different jobs, and I lost all of them during the pandemic so I was scrambling and trying to make things work.

McDaniel remembered being the near the end of his rope and phoning his grandmother — his "ma'maw" and asking if she had a bed for him when he came back soon.

"I was ready to move out and a buddy lent me some money," he said. "I didn't want to do it; I probably wanted to stay a couple more weeks. And in that time, I found a job busing tables and started working in this bar, bartending in that bar. I ended up meeting the guy who became my agent to introduce me to my record label, and that's also where I met my fiance, so that bar kind of saved my life. It's pretty crazy."

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