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Nancie Deming, Cook County Licensing Case Manager and Community Childcare Coordinator joined counties across the nation in Maricopa County, AZ for an invite-only joint convening of the National Association of Counties (NACo) Counties for Career Success cohort and Prenatal-to-Three County Leaders Academy. The event brought together a diverse group of county leaders to collaborate on solutions for career readiness and economic mobility for families with young children, grounded in the robust role of counties in removing barriers for families and connecting residents to good jobs.

This is Lucy. She lives, mostly, in the sky. Not with diamonds, but with her boyfriend Raymond. Raymond is a good provider. He has some great stories to help pass the time and can sing like a chickadee. Lucy likes hanging out in trees, chatting with the neighbors and posing for pictures for the newspaper.

Three generations joined together to raise $7,900 to publish Braille Children’s Book The National Braille Press (NBP), Children's Braille Book Club of the Month Little Beaver and Echo, was published in honor of the 10th anniversary of Bob O’Brien’s passing. O’Brien was a former NBP trustee for 40 years, and three generations of his family joined together to raise $7,900 to publish a children’s braille book in his memory.

The Good Harbor Hill Players invite everyone to help create the 2024 Summer Solstice Pageant to be performed June 22 at 8 pm at North House Folk School. We welcome artists, performers, crafters and helpers of all ages!

Finding Long-term Housing in Grand Marais by April 1, 2025 There's nothing like a good outhouse, and one of the foremost attributes of Grand Marais and its outer reaches is a handsome offering of pit toilets. When my wife and I were living in Grand Marais out of a campervan we relied mostly on pit toilets for dumping our 5.5 gallon porta- potty black water tank, much the way our forebears may have dumped deposits from a chamber pot into the pit of a nearby privy.

I have spent the last two weeks gobsmacked by words—delicious, evocative, painful, image-filled, award-winning words. The smacking began with The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride.

Dummy The other day I was doing something unusual. I was in nature, doing natural things.

My modest proposal I’m no Jonathan Swift, and I’m certainly not going to recommend that we sell our children (although I was tempted on occasion). I am mightily concerned, though, about news that Social Security may run out, and I believe our income tax system is a mess.

with The life of a gentleman gardener Did I mention that my potato fork has a bent tine? The second one on the left looking down the D-handle at the ground. It's bent up, about 15° askew from the other tines.