Spring is in the air and it is certainly welcomed by residents at North Shore Care Center. There are lots of activities coming up in April to lift spirits – April Fool’s Day, indoor planting, spring crafts, filling eggs for the community egg hunt, Easter – and longer days of sunlight. Spring cleanup is going on inside and outside and […]
Grand Portage Elders—reading and walking
The Grand Portage Elders continue to stay involved and active. Director Patty Winchell- Dahl said they have restarted their “Reading with Kids” volunteer program. There are about 12 adults who volunteer two times a week to listen to Oshki Ogimaag school children in kindergarten through sixth grade practice their reading. This has been a wonderful and rewarding time for both […]
The price of freedom
What have I done? This was my thought as the gloved hands of a Transportation Security Agent traveled up one side of my body and down the other. She was giving me “The Pat-Down.” After a nice visit with my daughter and her family, I was flying home through St. Louis’s Lambert Field. Going through the security check, I followed […]
Local business owners nominated for entrepreneurial awards
One local business and one regional business with local ties have been nominated for the 19th Annual Joel Labovitz Entrepreneurial Success Awards sponsored by the University of Minnesota-Duluth (UMD) Center for Economic Development. McKeever Well Drilling of Schroeder, owned by Roger “Bill” McKeever, is one of five businesses nominated in the “innovation” category, given to entrepreneurs who have “developed a […]
My Sister’s Place growing with the times
How fast has time flown for Paul and Cara Sporn, owners and operators of My Sister’s Place restaurant? “It doesn’t seem like it, but in June, we will have been here six years,” said Paul, gazing about his establishment last Monday as it filled up with the noonday lunch crowd. Over that time the couple, with input from their staff, […]
Cook County Chorale readying for Palm Sunday concert
Do you know the correct way to pronounce “alleluia?” Ah-leh-LOO-ya. No, not ah-lay-LOO-ya. Leh. Ah-leh-LOO-ya. That was one of director Bill Beckstrand’s first words of wisdom to the 40-some Cook County Chorale members rehearsing March 14 for a concert to be held at 7:00 p.m. Sunday, April 17 – Palm Sunday – at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Grand Marais. After […]
2nd annual Kids Plus Easter Egg Fundraiser April 16
The 2nd Annual Easter Egg Fundraiser will be held Saturday, April 16 at the Cook County Community Center. Sponsored by Kids Plus, the event begins at 8 a.m. with a 5K fun run/walk. Registration fee is $10 per person or $20 per family. From 9 a.m. to noon, Bruce Johnson will be in the log cabin, where pictures with the […]
Easter coloring contest at Gene’s Foods
Gene’s Foods had so much fun with their Family Game Night drawings, which gave away family games and snacks to a number of lucky parents and grandparents, that they decided to do something else for family fun. Starting April 11 they are sponsoring a coloring contest. Stop by the Grand Marais grocery store and pick up a coloring page. There […]
Community Calendar
Cook County AA Meetings Mondays: Open Meeting, 7:30 PM, Grand Marais Senior Center (1st Monday of the month is desserts and coffee at 7 PM and speaker at 7:30 PM.) 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, […]
West End Calendar
Cook County Al-Anon Meetings Mondays: 7:30 PM, First Congregational Church in Grand Marais Wednesday: 7:00 PM, Lutsen Town Hall. (144) 1/24tfn Cook County Co-Dependents Anonymous Meeting Mondays 5:30 p.m. First Congregational Church in Grand Marais (15)b Sawtooth Mountain Clinic Foot Care Clinic The Sawtooth Mountain Clinic and the Cook County Department of Public Health & Human Services offer their Foot […]