Humans cause four wildfires in Cook County
There were four wildfires in Cook County in the last month—all human caused. Fortunately all four fires were spotted and extinguished quickly by people in the vicinity. On Thursday, August 11, there was a fire on Horseshoe Island on Lake Saganaga. That fire was noticed and extinguished by a volunteer Canadian fire brigade. The fire resulted from campers not using […]
City considers assisted living facility proposal
City councilors agreed Aug. 10 to grant a company that develops assisted living facilities 120 days to come up with a detailed proposal for Grand Marais. The offer made by Spectrum Health Companies is contingent on the city donating land for the facility. Nancy Grabko, housing director for the Cook County/Grand Marais Economic Development Authority, made the presentation to council […]
Commissioners still debating location for new community center
Where to place the new community center to be built with 1 percent sales and use tax dollars continues to stump the county board, which is where the buck—and the project—will stop until a decision is made. On August 16, 2011, the county board weighed options once again after the Community Center Steering Committee met one last time before letting […]
Lutsen gives okay for firehall expansion
Lutsen Fire Chief Paul Goettl came before a packed house at continuation of the Lutsen Township Annual meeting on Tuesday, August 16 and told the people what a new addition to the town hall and fire hall might look like and what it could mean to the community, and what it would cost. Last March, Goettl and several other members […]
Honest citizens appreciated
Maybe you have done it as well—set something on top of the car or on the bumper while you loaded the car and checked one last thing before you pulled out of the driveway. That’s what we did, driving away with my wallet and checkbook still on the bumper. Many thanks to the two people who found them on Lindskog […]
Business community shows kindness and generosity
I had the privilege of helping Great Expectations School solicit funds for a pancake breakfast fundraiser earlier this summer. Armed with a clipboard and a fellow teacher to back me up when the words lodged in my throat, we walked into businesses and asked for money. We approached the task not only with fear of rejection, but with the uncomfortable […]
Community service, not religious rally, appreciated
Yes, the community is grateful for the good deeds done by a visiting group of teens and supervising adults. Just to remind a recent writer, God didn’t do it. These were genuine acts of human kindness requiring human effort. Please give credit to whom the credit is due. It is well known that the act of giving serves both the […]