Cook County AA Meetings Mondays: Open Meeting, 7:30 PM, Grand Marais Senior Center (1st Monday of the month is potluck/speaker meeting. Potluck at 6:30 PM and speaker at 7:30). Tuesdays: Big Book Study Group, Open Meeting, 6:00 PM, First Congregational Church in Grand Marais. Wednesdays: 12 Step Study Meeting, 6:30 PM, Arrowhead Electric Co-op building, Lutsen. Thursdays: Women’s Meeting, Noon, […]
West End Calendar
Tofte Town Meeting er Held the 2nd Thursday of each month, 7:00 p.m. at the Tofte Town Hall, 7240 Tofte Park Road. 3/13tfn Lutsen Township Monthly Meetings Held the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at the Lutsen Town Hall located at 116 Caribou Trail. 4-17tfn Schroeder Town Meetings Held the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00 […]
Forever may it wave
I agree with the “coffee klatch crew” that wants to erect a flagpole in downtown Grand Marais in memory of Dick Joynes. I think that would be a wonderful way to remember a man who was a friend to so many. The recent discussion of where a memorial flag could be placed in downtown Grand Marais has me thinking of […]
Why can’t all religions get along?
How many times have you heard, and maybe even said, “All religions are different paths up the same mountain. We’re all serving the same God, but simply getting to Him by different roads”? It sounds so reasonable, and so it ought to be true. I read an essay by Stephen Prothero – a professor of religion at Boston University (The […]
Historical Reflections
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Down Memory Lane
10 Years Ago · Sept. 18, 2000 • Cook County officials will soon install a weather transmitter in the Gunflint District to alert residents and campers of bad weather. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration transmitter will provide early storm warning to people who own the $40 radios. The radios turn on automatically when a storm warning is issued. • […]
The Turning of a Leaf
I’d seen the plant many times but never really noticed it. Tall and bushy, with oval leaves and minuscule orange tubular flowers, it spread in large clumps alongside our RV at Lac des Mille Lac. At first, I only saw it as background to a busy little hummingbird who harvested its sweet nectar several times a day. Hummingbirds were my […]
Cook County connections in Bemidji State literary anthology
Mary Sanders is in good company. A Grand Marais resident, she was one of 48 women whose literary works were selected for this year’s edition of Dust and Fire, an anthology of short stories, poems, essays, and artwork by women published in March by Bemidji State University. One of the editors of the book was Trisha Olson, daughter of Greg […]
How can you be fair?
This is the fourth in a series of articles written after being influenced by a wonderful book called What Do You Stand For? A Guide to Building Character by Barbara A. Lewis. In her book, she gives stories, definitions and activities that parents, teachers and kids can all talk about and do together to help build strong character. She names […]