August 2023

Cook County Community Health Assessment and Improvement Plan is undergoing an update

Every five years, the Community Health Assessment (CHA) and Community Health Improvement Planning (CHIP) require local public health agencies under the Minnesota State Statute to complete a plan. Cook County completed a draft of its 20232028 CHA and hosted a June meeting to gather community feedback on the report.

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Contest

Rock Skipping Kid’s (12 and under) – Patrick Skelly. Men’s – Caleb Martineau.

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2023 Winners of the Bucks Hardware and Northern Wilds Big Fish contest

Brook Trout 1st- Jeff Keil 19” 2nd- Dan Viren 18 ¾” Lake Trout 1st- Justin Schliep 38 ½” 2nd- Justin Schliep 33 ½” Northern Pike 1st- Terry Kloss 27 ½” 2nd- Kevin Sheils 27 ¼” Salmon 1st Charly Trovall 32 ¼” 2nd-BillSimonowicz31½” Smallmouth Bass 1st Oppie Sheils 19 ½” 2nd Terry Kloss 19” Walleye 1st Kevin Sheils 30” 2nd Oppie Sheils 25” Kid’s Tournament 1st- Delaney Steblay 34” Lake Trout 2nd- Alexa Larson 31 ¼” Lake Trout 3rd- Delaney Steblay 28” Lake Trout Open Drawing winners: Charley Trovall, Thoms Leuty and Steve Bonin. Kids drawing winners: Alexa Larson, Delaney Steblay and Oppie Sheils.

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Outdoors with

Memories of the Minnesota River mudflats Towards the end of summer there was a place in the river bottoms that all the kids from all the high schools in the cities seemed to know. It was a place in the Mississippi River bottoms in the cities, although few but me of the others knew that it was not the Mississippi, but the Minnesota River, because I paid attention to such things, and if you were young then all you knew was the airport and the great airplane runways over the river, and maybe Interstate 494, possibly Cedar Avenue.

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