Contest
Rock Skipping Kid’s (12 and under) – Patrick Skelly. Men’s – Caleb Martineau.
Fisherman’s Picnic Parade winners
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 .
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.
Senior Legion CC/SB beats alumni
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.
North Shore Health Care Center receives direct payment from the state
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.
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.
BEYOND Reason
REASON Ms. Roberts Barbara Millicent Roberts came into this world in 1959.
Wondering ’61
Wondering ‘61 The Bowser Chronicles on 61 Anybody with a television in the 1980’s knows who Bowser was, but these Chronicles are not about Sha Na Na or its lanky bass. If you have been corrupted by video games, you may have thought these Chronicles were about the main antagonist in Super Mario Brothers.