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Weekly Weather Date High Low Precipitation From Josiah Avery, East County Road 14 July 23 65.8 53.2 0 0.00 July 24 69.4 50.0 0 0.00 July 25 74.7 50.2 0 0.00 July 26 76.3 64.6 0 0.00 July 27 80.4 66.9 0 0.00 July 28 82.0 64.4 0 0.00 July 29 81.1 63.5 Rain Trace
How did Allie Duclos do at the Lumberjack logrolling World championships? We will know next week because of the event in Hayward takes place this weekend. Allie Duclos, a fivetime World Amateur title holder, is now a professional and is ranked seventh in a very talented group of top logrollers.
It is no small effort to organize and run a four-day festival, but the Grand Marais Lion's Club has been successful at it for more than 90 years! Growing up here, short of Christmas, my favorite time of the year was the Fisherman's Picnic and all the events and fun activities available for kids. Some of the events have changed— there is no more grease pole over the harbors with a ten-dollar bill attached to the end of it—walk the pole and dive for it, and if you grab it, it is yours.
It is incredible how fast the summer months go here in Northern Minnesota. Between parades, community events, visits along the Northshore with the kids, and so much more, the time really flies.
All records were broken with the Garden Club's celebration of their 90th Anniversary at the Cook County Community Center last Saturday. Over 200 people attended with 20 of them being special guests from the Lake Superior Garden Club. There was also folks from Iowa, Florida, Illinois, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Kentucky, Montana, Arizona, Texas, Pennsylvania, North Dakota, Massachusetts, California, Kansas, Ohio, Canada, and France who came for the flower show.
Purple Heart Day Purple Heart Day is observed on August 7 each year and is a time for Americans to remember and honor the brave men and women who were either wounded on the battlefield or paid the ultimate sacrifice with their lives. The Purple Heart is America’s oldest active military award.
As I write this, several pieces to the issue of my candidacy have yet to be answered, but you, voters in District 4 particularly, need to know and prepare for the chance to file for a commissioner seat.
The article written by Cook County Highway Engineer Robbie Kimmel-Hass in last week's Cook County News Herald is a “gem” that the residents and folks that use the Croftville Road for recreation were waiting for. It indicates to us that he is lacking in common sense as a virtue in his background as an engineer. He spends a lot of time on the inconsistencies with the past practices for setting “speed limits” on curves on county highways. He uses the Gunflint Trail as an example. I have always thought that the suggested speed sign on curves was not the speed limit but a winter road recommendation that can be safely increased in the summer. I don't think these 'inconsistencies' create safety issues for road users.
On March 14 of this year, Kamala visited Minnesota. She could have toured a farm, a mine, a taconite plant, or small business. But no, instead she visited an abortion clinic, misnamed as Planned Parenthood. NBC stated proudly that she was likely to be the first vice-president to visit a clinic that performs abortions. Of course, her action was to cement Kamala’s and the Democrat Parity’s dark obsession with the need to terminate the lives of innocent unborn humans.