It seems like yesterday the town was bustling with visitors combing tents full of merchandise just outside of the newspaper office, the sounds of Bingo call letters and numbers resonating through our office windows with shouts of Bingo, “We’ve got another Bingo but hold your cards while we check, “and music piped in from the harbor park coming through the open alley windows.
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.
REASON Ms. Roberts Barbara Millicent Roberts came into this world in 1959.
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.
North Shore Health Care was one of several regional care facilities to receive first round direct payments from the State of Minnesota. The money was issued to help financially stabilize local care centers and hospitals.
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The annual Fisherman’s Picnic alumni baseball game was a back-and-forth affair with the “kids” beating the alumni 12-11. Hunter Gomez had four hits and three RBIs to lead the way for the Sr Legion team.
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.
Best Class Reunion Float 1st- Class of 1983 2nd- Class of 2013 3ed- Class of 1963 Funniest Entry 1st- Hungry Hippie 2nd- Grand Marais State Bank 3rd- Shriner’s Cycos .
Rock Skipping Kid’s (12 and under) – Patrick Skelly. Men’s – Caleb Martineau.