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Tickets now on sale for Top Executive Leadership & Business Awards Luncheon FILE Tickets are now on sale for the 2021 Top Executive Leadership and Business Awards Luncheon. (Source: Ryan Sjoberg) By KEYC Staff | May 12, 2021 at 4:52 PM CDT - Updated May 12 at 4:52 PM
The event, hosted by the Greater Mankato Area United Way and presented by United Prairie Bank, will be held in person, while adhering to state health guidelines, at the Mayo Clinic Health System Event Center on June 8. The luncheon is scheduled between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Company leaders are invited to attend the event, while a virtual streaming option will also be made available.
United Way seeks volunteers for Books for Kids
United Way seeks volunteers for Books for Kids By KEYC Staff | February 25, 2021 at 1:08 PM CST - Updated February 26 at 11:21 PM
MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) - Greater Mankato Area United Way continues its 24-year tradition of Books for Kids.
Each year, they distribute roughly 30,000 books to local children. Kids ages two months to four years old from Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet, and Waseca counties are eligible to receive the books. The program starts up in early March and they are currently looking for volunteers, who are needed to label and stamp envelopes and assemble the mailers with Capstone books. The project is proving to be more important than ever one year into the pandemic.
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Katolight CEO Lyle Jacobson enjoys showing off the âbiggest walleye I ever caughtâ during a 2019 fishing outing.
Courtesy Kay Jacobson
Courtesy Kay Jacobson
MANKATO â Longtime Katolight CEO Lyle Jacobson guided the Mankato-based company as it grew into a major source of diesel generators. And after the family-owned business was sold, his attention turned to providing a financial spark for the development of a downtown childrenâs museum and funding community charities.
Jacobson died Tuesday. He was 79.
âLyle ran his company in an extremely fair way. He was a really nice guy. Lots of people lost a really good friend â the community lost a really good friend, too,â said Randy Berkland, of Mankato.