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By Ryan McGaugheyrmcgaughey@dglobe.com

Worthington

Now entering its 19th year, the Worthington

Windsurfing Regatta and Music Festival has experienced plenty of growth since it first took place in 2000.

Josh Miller, in his second year as president of the festival’s board of directors, expects that trend to continue with this year’s event, set for June 8-10.

“The board is really looking forward to this year,” Miller said. “We are getting ready for the biggest year yet. It has been a lot of work that basically started the week after last year’s

event, and we hope everyone can see that when they experience the Regatta this year.”

Miller and the board expect this year’s lineup of musical artists to bring large crowds to Lake Okabena’s Sailboard Beach. Internationally known country music star Neal McCoy is the headliner on Saturday night, and also on the bill are acts like Drop Tailgate and the ’70s Magic Sunshine Band (both Friday night) and Shotgun Drama Junkies and Shane Martin (both Saturday).

“Our board really wants to cater to everyone as much as possible,” Miller said. “We have some great bands coming to

Sailboard Beach, and I think everyone that comes out will not regret it.”

The board has already prepared for what it expects to be larger crowds in one significant way — expanding the available food options.

We know in some of our recent years, there have been some long wait times to get some of the great food at the Regatta,” Miller explained. “We are trying to help with that this year by adding a few more food vendors.

“With Neal McCoy

coming this year, we wanted to prepare for a larger crowd,” he continued. “We have a lot of the same great food vendors that come year after year, like the Cheese Carriage and P.S. Indian Tacos, and then a few new food vendors, like John Ramert, who is originally from Worthington and has a business called Smoke Show Eats. He will have ribs, pulled pork sliders and chicken tenders.”

In addition to adding more food choices for attendees, the Regatta board is making a concerted effort to attract festival-goers of all ages, Miller added.

“We are really trying to make it as family friendly as possible,”

Miller said of the festival. “We have something new this year called the Artmobile, and they will be doing crafts with kids. Also, the Worthington High School AOK Club and CCSI will be back doing games and crafts as well. All these things are free for the kids to do.

“We want families to make a day out of it, and come down to grab something to eat and drink and let the kids have some fun.”

As one might expect, each year’s Windsurfing Regatta and Music Festival doesn’t just happen as a result of the efforts of its board members. The various components of each year’s event require

multiple people who give freely of their time to make them happen.

“I would guess we have roughly 100 volunteers throughout the weekend from our board members, the beer garden, people helping with the second annual Ken Moser Memorial Run/Walk, the chair auction, the Reserves and volunteers to help pick up on Sunday.”

It takes a lot of planning to put this together. I know people have given up a lot of their own time to help make this happen. It also takes a lot of sponsorships, so I can’t say thank you enough to all of our sponsors.”

Tim Middagh / The GlobeLarge crowds took in the sights and sounds of the Windsurfing Regatta and Music Festival on June 10, 2017 along Sailboard Beach.

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Entering 19th year, Regatta keeps getting bigger and better

Friday, June 811 a.m. to 8 p.m. (or later) Food vendors open for business4 a.m. to midnight Beer Tent open4 to 8 p.m. Media Tent open5:30 p.m. Opening Ceremony, National Anthem and Flag

Raising; live broadcast by KSFY meteorologist Phil Schreck (weather permitting)

6 p.m. Drop Tailgate8:30 p.m. The 70’s Magic Sunshine Band

Saturday, June 98:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Media Tent open9 a.m. Skipper’s meeting; racing to follow9 a.m. Ken Moser Memorial Run/Walk, Sailboard

Beach9 a.m. Regatta Bike Ride, Centennial Park9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Ride the Hog for Stroke Prevention,

Sanford Clinic11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Children’s Activities Sponsored by CCSI11 a.m. to 8 p.m. (or later) Food vendors open for businessNoon to 4 p.m. ArtmobileNoon to 4 p.m. Kids Craft Tent Sponsored by WHS AOK Club2 p.m. to 11:59 p.m. Beer Tent open4 p.m. Shotgun Drama Junkies6 p.m. Chair Auction & Regatta Raffle Drawing7 p.m. Shane Martin9 p.m. Neal McCoy

Sunday, June 109:30 a.m. Skipper’s meeting; racing to follow10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Media Tent open11 a.m to 3 p.m.. Food vendors openAfternoon Windsurfing Awards Ceremony

19th Annual Windsurfing Regatta & Music Festival

Photos by Tim Middagh / The GlobeAbove: A group of windsurfers sails along Lake Okabena on June 10, 2017 during a hot and breezy Worthington Windsurfing Regatta and Music Festival. Right: Pop ROCKS was the headlining act Saturday night during the 2017 Windsurfing Regatta and Music Festival.

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By Julie Buntjerjbuntjer@dglobe.com

WORTHINGTON — From Memorial Day to King Turkey Day, Worth-ington’s Oxford Street and North Humiston Avenue have traditionally been lined with American flags, but the winds along the Buffalo Ridge are harsh. The flags get tattered and torn, and as city crews take them down and replace as needed, the funds for the program are completely depleted.

The flags are purchased by the Community Image Committee of the Worth-ington Area Chamber of Commerce in a program it calls Flags of Freedom.

Flags of Freedom will be the benefactor from this year’s Regatta Chair Auc-tion.

“We’re hoping this year

to raise enough to keep the flags refilled for two years,” said Denise Erwin, advertising manager at The Globe and past mem-ber of the Community Image Committee.

It costs approximately $3,000 per year to replace flags, poles and hardware that get damaged by the elements. The $6,000 fundraising goal match-es the amount of money raised in the 2017 Regatta chair auction.

“Mostly the flags need replacing — we don’t want any up that are ripped,” Erwin said. “Over the years, Todd Wietzema and his crew have perfect-ed it as much as they can, getting different types of brackets that hold up to the strong winds.”

This year’s Regatta Chair Auction will again fea-ture 10 Adirondack-style chairs sponsored by local businesses and painted by local artists. Each chair

will be auctioned off to the highest bidder beginning at 6 p.m. June 9. Steve Prins will be the auction-eer.

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Sailboard Beach during the Regatta.

A People’s Choice con-test will take place Fri-day and Saturday at the media tent, with the pub-lic encouraged to contrib-ute funds as their vote for the best looking chairs. All of the money collected from the People’s Choice voting, the chair auction and the sponsorships will go to Flags of Freedom. Awards will be present-ed to the artists deemed the first, second and third place winners.

Since The Globe launched its chair auction in 2004, nearly $52,000 has been raised for char-ities. Among the benefac-tors have been the Hospice Cottage, Freedom Shore Park & Veterans Memo-rial, United Way, Honor Flight Southwest Minne-sota, Love INC of Nobles County, Nobles County Historical Society, CCSI and several others.

By Karl Evers-Hillstromkevershillstrom@dglobe.com

WORTHINGTON — Country music star Neal McCoy is prolific.

He’s released 15 albums, sold more than six million records and, every year, McCoy spends about 200 days on the road playing 110 shows.

It’s a grueling sched-ule, but having toured for more than three decades, McCoy is used to it. Plus, he wouldn’t do it if he didn’t absolutely love it.

“I love being on stage, I think I’ve got a terrific band and we get joy in bringing joy to other peo-ple,” McCoy said. “As a rule, the thing that makes it fun about our show is we’re truly having fun, we’re not acting like we’re having fun.”

McCoy’s travels will soon take him to southwest Minnesota, where he’ll headline the Worthington Windsurfing Regatta and Music Festival at June 9.

“We do understand

Minnesota, Ohio, Wis-consin people stay pretty cooped up for a lot of win-ter, so in the summertime when they get to gather around a lake or park and have these country music festivals, they usually are in a great mood and ready to be entertained,” McCoy said.

McCoy has five No. 1 singles and five top 10 hits in his career. Among them, “Wink,” “The Shake” and “Billy’s Got His Beer Gog-gles On” consistently get the crowd on their feet and energized.

McCoy’s personal favor-ite will always be his first No. 1 single, “No Doubt About It.” He’s been play-ing it for 25 years and isn’t sick of it yet.

“It’s just as fun to sing as it always was, it feels right to do it, and just reminds me that because of this song, we were able to make a really good career out of this thing,” McCoy said.

With that said, McCoy doesn’t play with a set

list. He and his band play it by ear and read the crowd’s energy.

“I finish a song, turn around and holler at the band, ‘What are we gonna do next?,’” McCoy said. “We can read an audience pretty early. I can tell you the way it’s going to go from the first song, but not the direction, because we play whatever the crowd is telling us to.”

As a big supporter of the military, McCoy’s favorite venues are often located in obscure parts of the world.

“I’ve won a couple Entertainer of the Year awards, but the thing I’ve gotten the most fulfill-ment out of is my USO tours — I did Iraq, Afghan-istan, Pakistan and other places around the world,” McCoy said. “Because I’m truly a patriotic person — I bleed red, white and blue — I love to get out there in front of those troops. Sometimes it might be in remote places and it won’t be a performance,

but I can shake their hand and say, ‘Hey, I appreciate you, man.’”

The Longview, Texas resident has traveled all around the world with his band and two-man crew. McCoy’s band travels with just one bus, a trailer and a few instruments, and that’s all they need.

“Without sounding ego-tistical, we think we’re as good as anybody at it,” McCoy said. “We obvious-ly don’t have all the money these bigs acts tour with, so we don’t have a bunch of screens, a fancy light show, smoke bombs and all that stuff, but you’re going to get entertained with just good music and personality.”

McCoy only asks Worth-ington just one thing: Give us your all.

“All we ask from a crowd is what we give them, and

we give them everything we’ve got,” McCoy said. “I am going to put on every show like it’s our first one and our last one.”

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WORTHINGTON — A chance to create a piece of art that fulfills a public service — while being aes-thetically pleasing and seen by many — is com-ing to the Worthing-ton Windsurfing Regatta and Music Festi-val.

A recently unveiled proj-ect, the Worthington Art-mobile will roll up from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday near Lake Okabena to debut its initiative to create unique, handcrafted flower plant-ers at bus stops around the city. The bus will be parked by the corner of Third Ave-nue and Lake Street, and the activities will be set up near the other children’s

goings-on. “We’re excited,” said

Gail Holinka about she and Bobbie Alsgaard-Lien’s effort to begin engag-ing community members

in a practical art proj-ect to increase awareness of Southwest Minnesota Opportunity Council bus-ing services. Holinka and Alsgaard-Lien are the nonprofit’s coordinators and lead artists.

Community members of all ages and abilities are invited to visit the station Saturday to have a hand

in the first of six 24-inch planters slated to be com-pleted this year.

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said about the Vermil-lion, S.D. mosaic artist, the artmobile’s first guest artist. “She even has one at Minnesota West in Worthington.”

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WORTHINGTON — The ’70s Magic Sunshine Band — taking the stage Friday, June 8 at the Regatta — plays music that can’t be heard live very often.

The band, formed four years ago in the Twin Cit-ies, steers clear of ’70s classic rock, which already gets a lot of play. Instead, they jam out to what you would’ve heard if you tuned in to AM radio in the 1970s.

“People come out to see us because it’s unique … nobody does this style of music,” said Kevin Len-hart, drummer and found-er of the band. “Everybody has a good time. They can dance, sing along to the music. There’s such a great vibe at our shows when people come out to see the band.”

A Cleveland, Ohio native who now lives in Min-neapolis, Lenhart got the idea to start the band from his fiancee, Gigi. He began to recruit Minneso-ta musicians he’d played with in the past and swift-ly got a talented group together. He recruited tal-ented Anoka bassist Brian Hollenbeck — not to play bass, but to be the lead singer.

“When he came to one of our jam sessions, he completely surprised

me by being a great lead singer and guitar player,” Lenhart said. “So we stuck with that.”

Tim Sweet of Rich-field, Aaron Carlson of St. Cloud and Mike Fishel of Storden now round out the crew. Although the band was stacked with veteran musicians, they weren’t sure how their first show — a full house at Gluek’s Restaurant and Bar in Minneapolis — would go.

“We didn’t know if peo-ple would walk out the door, but instead it was amazing how receptive people were to it,” Len-hart said. “It was a great relief to see people stick around and enjoy our show.”

The group generally plays at clubs, casinos and festivals. Lenhart noted classic ’70s songs are get-ting play with the young-er generation, in part because they’ve been fea-tured in advertisements and movies. For example, songs on the band’s set list such as “Pina Colada,”

“Come and Get Your Love” and “Fox on the Run” have been high-lighted in Marvel’s popu-lar “Guardians of the Gal-axy” series.

“It’s great that young-er people are getting into this music, whether it’s through pop culture or maybe their parents and

grandparents,” Lenhart said.

The band has a member with local ties. Fishel, who joined the band as a gui-tarist two years ago, got a two-year degree from Worthington Community College, where he honed his skills with a college pop group.

Fishel later joined The Banditos from Fulda, who were well-established at the time but needed a gui-tarist. He went on to play for more bands than he can count, but one of his fondest memories remains opening for Buddy Holly’s band members The Crick-ets in Worthington in 1990.

He’s happy to be back.“It’s really fun for me

because Worthington is home for me, my home area, so I’m delighted and we’re all excited to be here,” Fishel said.

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While the focus will be on completing the mosa-ic planter, Alsgaard-Lien said there will be a variety of other art-based projects for Artmobile visitors.

Other planned proj-ects include designing a T-Shirt, hat and maracas.

The duo will also have

surveys for people to provide feedback how they use the bus service and ideas how to better engage others.

Holinka, Als-gaard-Lien and the Headstart-turned-Art-mobile-bus will hit the road to other locations throughout Worthington this summer to handcraft the other planters.

The goal, Alsgaard-Lien said, is to complete four tiled and two painted planters.

“As artists we’d be stuck if we only did tiles,” Alsgaard-Lien said about creating colorful, diverse planters. “This way, we’ll also be able to reach out to artists of different medians.”

The duo also hopes individuals of a variety of cultures will partic-ipate in the design of the planters to represent Worthington’s diverse population.

Upcoming artmobile stops will also feature

artists of a diverse back-ground, including His-panic and Karen artists.

“The neighborhoods will help us design some nice, cultural designs that connect with those areas,” Holinka said.

“For people that don’t necessarily speak or read (English), it’s a visual way to communicate,” Alsgaard-Lien added of the visual markers for the SMOC bus stops.

Holinka and Als-gaard-Lien anticipate

other benefits from engaging the public in the project.

“Statistically, when your community is involved in the creation of public art, usual-ly damage is very min-imal,” Alsgaard-Lien said. “People respect that creative process, because they were involved in it, or knew someone involved in it.”

Worthington’s Art-mobile project is being initially funded by an

ArtPlace America grant through the Southwest Minnesota Housing Part-nership and its Partner-ship Art initiative.

To learn about volun-teering opportunities, contact Holinka or Als-gaard-Lien.

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By Julie Buntjerjbuntjer@dglobe.com

WORTHINGTON — From face-painting and sand art to boat races and squirt gun games, this year’s Kids Zone promises to be big-ger and better along Lake Okabe-na’s Sailboard Beach during the Worthington Windsurfing Regatta.

Two separate groups are coordi-nating a bevy of children’s activi-ties — the A-OK (Arts-Optimists, Kiwanis) Club from Worthington High School and Client Commu-nity Services Inc. (CCSI). They will lead games and activities for kids from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.

The A-OK Club will lead activi-ties in the craft tent, with the local Optimists Club donating funds for

art supplies. A-OK Club leader Jennifer Buchholz said this year’s craft projects include make-and-take suncatchers, sand art and beaded bracelets. A perennial favorite is face painting, which is done by student members of the club.

“It’s all free and it’s for any and all ages,” Buchholz said.

Meanwhile, staff and clients of CCSI are sponsoring an array of carnival-type games. CCSI Exec-utive Director Jeri Schettler and staff member Ashley Clark have planned several new-and-im-proved games, including some for older kids. Tim Middagh / The Globe

Kids enjoy fun in the sand during the 2017 Worthington Windsurfing Regatta and Music Festival. An expanded slate of kids’ activities is planned for this year.

By Ryan McGaugheyrmcgaughey@dglobe.comDeb Barrett earned a

spot in Shotgun Drama Junkies almost by acci-dent.

“I met the band maybe five years ago when they were looking for some-one to cover a show that the lead singer couldn’t make,” Barrett remem-bered during a phone conversation last month. “Then I became best friends with the bass player.”

As fate would have, the timing was eventually right for Barrett and that bass player — Kevin Kelm — to make music on a more regular basis.

“When their band was in transition about two years later, they called me … and it just so hap-pened that the band I was in was just ending,” Barrett explained. “I jumped in and we kept the band going for about

two years; it was a coun-try band.

That band, Country Crossing, would ulti-mately become Shotgun Drama Junkies in 2016.

“When it was time for that (Country Crossing) to move on, the three of us that fronted the band decided it was too much fun and wanted to keep it going,” Barrett remem-bered.

Shotgun Drama Junk-ies will take a shot at having too much fun — if that’s even possi-ble — when it performs beginning at 4 p.m. June 9 at the Worthington Windsurfing Regatta and Music Festival. And lest one thinks the Junkies are still all about playing strictly country music, you’ve got another thing coming.

“We all come from various musical back-grounds,” Barrett said. “Kirk (Rasmussen, lead guitar player and lead/background vocalist) was in a classic country and rock band back in the ’80s. Kevin has done everything from blues to rock to country. I was mostly country, but I love love love rock and roll.”

Barrett admitted to

once not knowing how to play rock; she now has three electric guitars. The band now performs what is close to a 50/50 mix of country and rock.

She and the rest of the Junkies — Rasmussen (also known as “Captain Kirk”), Kelm and drum-mer Joe Monroe — are based in the northern suburbs of the Twin Cit-ies, and they’ll be taking

their tunes this summer primarily across Minne-sota and into Wisconsin.

Over Memorial Day weekend, Shotgun Drama Junkies took the stage at Wild West Days in Zim-merman. Another festi-val that’s in store for the band is Walker’s Moon-dance Jammin’ Coun-try Fest, which the band is playing for the third straight year. The Fourth of July weekend will be spent at Nisswa Freedom Days; the Junkies will play there on the evening of July 3.

There’s also more in store for the band this season than just festivals.

“We play anything from festivals to regular old bars, Legions, the VFW — we love it all and just have fun,” Barrett said.

Fun is expected to had in Worthington, at which the Junkies are perform-ing for the first time next weekend. Even the road trip is something to look forward to, Barrett point-ed out.

“If the gig far away we try to car-pool, because it’s just fun to visit and check up on each others; lives,” she said. “I’m very excited (about Worthing-ton.) I looked it up online and was like, ‘this is huge.’”

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WORTHINGTON — Shane Martin and band will not only be “keepin’ the night alive” June 9 during the Worthington Windsurfing Regatta and Music Festival, they’ll be getting the party started.

The Minnesota native country rocker and his band will take the Sailboard Beach stage at 7 p.m. Saturday, opening for the 19th annual festival’s headlin-er, Neal McCoy.

“We’re high-energy, high-harmony — a country rockin’ good time,” Martin said

of his four-member band.Playing a mix of original and

cover tunes, the Independence artist is excited to play and experience for the first time Worthington’s music festival on a lake-backdropped stage.

“(The Worthington show) will be the first big concert of the summer — that’s always exciting,” Martin said. “Getting on the big stage and opening for Neal McCoy is going to be a big treat as well.”

As someone who has a fol-lowing and tours throughout the midwest, Martin is excited that summer is here to stay.

“The summer is way too

short in Minnesota, and it’s good to be back outside per-forming in the sun and enjoy-ing the crowds and concerts,” he said.

As someone who grew up per-

forming and listening to rock-based music, Martin found his blended country-rock sound in 2009 when he travelled to Nashville for the first time.

“It opened my eyes to what

country music and songwrit-ing was about, and I felt that’s where I was supposed to be,” the Albertville native said. “I

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New this year will be a golf putting game, a basketball-type game, squirt gun game and the ever-popular fishing game where kids can toss a line and get a prize. There will also be a dino dig for younger children to dig in the sand for prizes, face painting and a bean bag toss.

“The games before were for the little kids,” said Schettler, adding that there was a desire for more variety and to offer fun activities for older children as well.

“We’ll have a game where there’s a gut-ter filled with water and a boat and they’ll blow

through a straw and race the boat,” Clark said.

Schettler said all of CCSI’s supervisory staff, as well as several clients, will help lead the activi-ties during the day.

“We want to get the cli-ents out to give back to the community,” Schet-tler said. “That was the whole purpose of the games when we started four years ago — to give back.”

There is no cost to chil-dren to participate in the carnival games, and Clark assured that all children will go home with a little prize or candy.

“It’s so much fun to watch the kids just play and have fun,” Schettler said, adding that she also enjoys seeing the clients interact with the children.

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was a country boy at heart, and it felt natural to lean on the country side.”

Martin has recorded and released four albums since 2010 and two EPs: “Keepin’ the Night Alive,” 2017; “Til the Wheels Fall Off,” 2015; “Light it Up,” 2012; and “Rewind,” 2010.

His popular songs include “American Dream,” “Whatever Floats Your Boat,” “Hankerin’ and Jonesin’” and “She’s Got Swagger.”

Martin will be accompanied on stage by band members Shawn Kolles, drums and vocals; Mike May, bass and har-mony vocals; and Brad Nelson, lead guitar and vocals.

For more information, visit shanemartin.com

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Participants in the 2017 Regatta Bike Ride are shown. This year’s event

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