Second Harvest Northern Lakes Food Bank recognizes the 10th anniversary of its Mobile Food Pantry Program. The Mobile Food Pantry Program began with a goal to increase food security in communities with a high level of need and low food resources; often focused on rural communities.
Last week the CDC recommended that all people over the age of 6 months receive an updated COVID-19 vaccine to protect themselves from severe outcomes due to COVID19 this fall and winter. Not only does vaccination continue to be the strongest protection against hospitalization and death due to COVID-19, but also it reduces your chance of suffering from Long COVID.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation recently added new Road Weather Information Systems at 10 locations in northern Minnesota to collect data that will help support agency maintenance decisions. The information, which includes camera images, is also sent to the National Weather Service and MnDOT’s 511 traveler information system. MnDOT now has 163 RWIS sites throughout the state.
Carol Morgen Our final hike of the season, Oberg Mountain, will be held on September 27. It is a 3-mile moderate hike.
Celebrate Feast of Tabernacles Almighty Yahuah's commanded Yearly Sacred Festival Sukkot (Tabernacles) is being locally hosted by Proverbs 6:23 Ministry, September 30th through October 7th. Please call 218-533-6029 for information and directions.
with What another summer. What a staff at the store: Charity, Tonya and Amy; Jake and Cody; old Steve and younger Steven; Nick and the boys – Robert, Danny and Rio and the Bear; Maya and James, myself, but my contribution these days is negligible.
The season is fall. Leaves have begun to turn and periodically flutter in the breeze to the ground.
In early September, returning on the Gunflint Trail for the umpteenth time, I finally turned right on Old Ski Hill Road. Its entrance is shared with Cutoff Road, County 52; I had always said I should go west to see what was there. It turns out that though the ski hill is gone, there is plenty of there there, including 108 lots with named owners.
The Superior National Forest plans to continue conducting pile burning and some understory broadcast burning throughout the month and maybe into October. Actual date and location of burns are dependent on weather conditions, fuels conditions, and available fire staffing resources. See attached maps for more information.
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