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Fall Foraging, part 1 Some of you may have heard my recent interview with WTIP about foraging medicinal plants in the late summer and autumn. The next few weeks, I want to highlight some of these wonderful plant allies.

North Shore Health Mask Policy Explained By Jason Yuhas, Infection Control, Quality Improvement, Corporate Integrity Director and Troy Batchelor, Hospital Director of Nursing With the diligence and hard work of our North Shore Health (NSH) Team and the strong support of our community, NSH made it through the COVID-19 pandemic without a single case of infection to our Care Center Residents. We also observed very few outbreaks within the NSH staff.

The world is run by those who show up.” That is supremely so in democratic elections. If you do not vote, you have no right to blame anyone else for an election’s result.

For a country that spread out before one to a near horizon in greens and browns and blues, there was nothing much wild anymore. Members of the Family Suidae had been domesticated there some millennia ago, and its nearest geographical descendent was the Vietnamese potbelly.

It was just about our hottest day, burning bright at noon with the blue sky and me wondering how the trees could survive in that kind of parched heat. It was nice for rolling down the windows in the truck, and, driving the old residential streets of Grand Marais, up the slope from the big lake and harbor, along the shade trees, it was just all-around good.

Mark Saturday and Sunday, August 17th and 18th on your calendars. That is the date of the third Meet in the Middle Pickleball tournament in Grand Marais. (The middle here is in between Duluth and Thunder Bay and all points between.)

Some Ado about Ado I was listening to this story, a good story, an enjoyable story, an entertaining story and then the storyteller quickly wraps it and says, “so without further ado” and proceeded to get onto a whole other thing. And I wanted to say: Wait? What? I was really enjoying that ado.

Massage Variety Just as there are many styles of yoga, there are many styles of massage. When choosing your massage therapist or spa / wellness center, it can be helpful to have a basic understanding of what certain names of massage are describing.

10 YEARS AGO JUNE 7, 2014 v Rod Dockan and Carah Thomas will present their country music favorites to celebrate the first day of summer on Saturday, June 21 at 3 p.m. at the Care Center.