Exciting news for the Cook County Community Center! The Statewide Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP) has teamed up with the Center on a new project aimed at improving access to healthy beverages at the community center.
At the Tuesday, August 8, County Board meeting, Cook County Commissioners appointed Andrew Beavers as the Land Services Vacation Rental administrator and Compliance Officer, a position new to the country.
November rain In an old interview from the 70s or so, on the BBC or such, the interviewer or host or someone asked Richard Burton, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, what alcoholism was like. And the acting mouth of The Bard, steeped in wordcraft, said: “It’s November, and it’s raining.” I understand the metaphor, I do.
Man versus Nature It’s still summer which means city folk leave the urban jungle behind and head to The Cabin. The great outdoors is calling.
Oh, to be eight again! We’re launching into week three of hosting eight-year-olds. The first was our granddaughter, Hazel, immediately followed by my grand-niece and grand-nephew, Astrid and Basil (Australian niece Laura’s twins).
Local author Jennifer Shoals is excited to announce the publication of her third book, The Next World, Our Expanding Consciousness. A launch event with author talk will be hosted by Drury Lane Books on Saturday, August 26, 2023 at 6 p.m. Come meet the author, join the question and answer session, and go home with a signed copy of her new book!
Alborn artist Dean Kegler won the Minnesota trout and salmon stamp contest with an acrylic painting of a brook trout, and Bemidji artist Sam Larsen won the walleye stamp contest with an acrylic painting of a walleye. Judging for both contests happened virtually Aug. 3.
Northeast Minnesota and Tribal Nation Land Holdings – From April through June, the Northland Foundation awarded $1,011,000 in quarterly grants and another $27,500 in Maada’ookiing grants to benefit the people and communities within its geographic service area.
The Happy Hikers will hike the Bally Creek section of the SHT. Beginning at the parking area off County Rd. 6, we will soon enter one of the largest red pine forests on the entire length of the trail, planted in 1937. We will then travel through mixed conifers and aspen. The SHT follows a 193-foot boardwalk over a beaver dam at Sundling Creek. We will have lunch at one of the campsites near the end of the hike. Well-behaved dogs are welcome, on a leash.
The Senior LinkAge Line will offer two classes covering health care fraud, waste & abuse prevention on Wednesday, September 13, 2023, from 10:00 11:30 a.m. and again from 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.