When reliving the moments between Jen Hentges’ collapse from an allergic reaction and the arrival of the ambulances, 5-year-old Gabbie Hentges doesn’t like to focus on her own acts of heroism that almost certainly saved her mom’s life.

Gabbie was worried about one the small thing: “We kind of left the door open and let some of the air out,” she said.

She left the door to her family’s Spring Lake Township door open while waiting for ambulances to arrive.

Thirty years ago, an aluminum canoe flew off the top of a car and hit another car driven by Wanda Lucius of Jordan. Lucius' car spun out of control. Beverly Dorn of Lydia, a passenger in the car, and Lucius ended up in separate hospitals.

For more information, read the Looking Back column in the June 26 issue of the Jordan Independent. Read it online in the Print Edition section, or subscribe by going to www.jordannews.com/subscribe.

The Jordan Fire Department celebrated 125 years of serving the community with a celebration and parade May 17. Here are some videos of the festivities:

Jordan celebrated Memorial Day last month with ceremonies at three cemeteries. At Calvary Cemetery, the ceremony began with a flag raising by the Jordan Girl Scouts.

The ceremony also included a reading of names of soldiers buried at the cemetery:

Jordan still has a school resource officer, but for how long?

The Jordan School Board is still waiting for a final decision from the Minnesota River Valley Special Education Cooperative as to whether or not the special education cooperative that calls Jordan home will continue to fund its third of the officer’s salary.

The Jordan board voted last month to continue funding its third of officer Shane Schultz’s salary contingent on the cooperative’s board voting to continue funding it’s portion. The third and final portion of the officer’s salary is paid by the city.