Learn about watercolor still life and landscape painting during two upcoming classes at the Grand Marais Art Colony. On Oct. 10-11 it’s Paint: Exploration of Your Creative Self with Tim Young. In this class, Young will demonstrate and expound upon his exuberant style of painting. He will facilitate the exploration of students’ creative process as they dive into their preferred […]
Nursing Assistant and Home Health training in October
The North Shore Care Center in Grand Marais, in collaboration with Lake Superior College, will be offering the Nursing Assistant & Home Health Aide training course beginning Thursday, Oct. 8. The classes, taught by instructor Mark Abrahamson, will meet from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and every other Saturday beginning Oct. 10 from 8:00 a.m. to […]
ACA to host movie events
Come to the movies on the first Saturday morning and first Monday evening of each month in the Arrowhead Center for the Arts (ACA) auditorium. There is a suggested $2 donation to help cover expenses. The Saturday movies on the “big screen” are sponsored by Cook County Community Education and are rated G or PG. The Saturday showings begin at […]
Wild winds in Cook County
Monday, September 28 came in like a lion and went out like a lion. Whitecaps whipped across the Grand Marais harbor, with waves crashing over the breakwall from the harbor side. Lake Superior was slate gray, and giant clouds rolled over the Sawtooth Mountains from the northwest. At the Cook County airport, manager Rodney Roy reported wind speeds of 27 […]
Planning Commission rezones despite court decision
The Minnesota Appeals Court has a lot of power, but in the case of Lance Johnson vs. Cook County, local zoning ordinances trump the state. An August 4, 2009 Minnesota Court of Appeals decision ruled in favor of Johnson, who had taken Cook County to court when his request to rezone his Lutsen property was denied in 2001. The property, […]
Birch Grove pellet boiler up and running just as weather turns
Friday, September 25, 2009 was an exciting day at Birch Grove Community Center. Community members, Birch Grove Community Center Director Jessa Wallendahl, a business rep, and Birch Grove Community School board member Skip Lamb were all on hand for the delivery of 16½ tons of wood pellets to be used in the building’s new Pelco biomass pellet boiler. A delivery […]
County board opposes sound barrier around BWCA
The county board decided on September 22, 2009 to make a statement to the U.S. Forest Service regarding the potential impact of the sound of snowmobiles on the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW). A lawsuit filed in 2006 has resulted in a federal Court of Appeals directive to the U.S. Forest Service to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) […]
I’m staying here
My husband, Chuck, and I went wandering a couple of weekends ago. We traveled down, then up, to Roseau, MN for a weekend of sightseeing and four-wheeling. It is a long drive to Roseau, but interesting. There are a lot of similarities between the town on the northwestern border and our community. Roseau is 10 miles from the Canadian border; […]
Journeys of our lives – Volume 1: Boboes and Their Way
There once was a kingdom of wonder, of bounty, and of peace known as the “Land of Being.” All who lived there freely enjoyed all that the kingdom had to give – all of which was good. Their lives were truly at rest and their existence pleasurable; this was true because their King was always opening his Royal Storehouses to […]