With some prompting by way of Medicare incentives, Cook County North Shore Hospital is moving toward keeping all of its medical orders and nursing notes on computer. At the March 22, 2012 hospital board meeting, RN Pam Faye demonstrated how computerization could prevent mistakes from happening. Medications are now individually packaged with bar codes to identify them. When a nurse […]
Down Memory Lane
10 YEARS AGO · APRIL 1, 2002 A large group of Harbor Park supporters was in attendance at the regular meeting of the Grand Marais City Council on March 27 to voice their concerns over the council’s recent vote against seeking grant funding to build the park. At its prior meeting the council voted 3-2 not to pursue a $550,000 […]
Cause of snowmobile crash unknown
On March 10, 2012 at 8:49 p.m. Cook County Law Enforcement received a cell phone call reporting a snowmobile accident. The caller reported, “Two down, both breathing and conscious.” The driver of one snowmobile was Keven Lee Burkart, 40, of Prior Lake, MN. The driver of the other machine was Michael Keith Isaacs, 29, Hibbing, MN. According to Cook County […]
Boat burns up on Highway 61
Motorists driving between Lutsen and Tofte on Monday, March 19 encountered an alarming sight—a boat on fire on the side of the highway near the Onion River Road. Cook County Law Enforcement received the first call at about 9:51 p.m., reporting that a boat had caught fire on a trailer. Another call came at 10 p.m., from Lutsen Resort. Security […]
Citizen protests response to shooting in Florida
Wearing a sweatshirt with a hood on her head, local resident Pat Campanaro spoke to the Cook County Board of Commissioners during the public comment period at the beginning of its March 27, 2012 regular meeting. She expressed dismay at the February 26 shooting of a 17-year-old black youth in Florida who was allegedly doing nothing but walking through a […]
EDA expanding its outreach to entire county and beyond
County commissioners expressed satisfaction with a quarterly report given by Cook County/Grand Marais Economic Development Authority (EDA) Director Matt Geretschlaeger at the March 20 county board meeting. “The EDA is striving, I believe, for more transparency,” Geretschlaeger said. With him were board members Hal Greenwood and Mark Sandbo. Geretschlaeger said the agency is working to become “more viable” for existing […]
EDA housing program finds new funding for rehabs
Nancy Grabko, whose company, Community Fundraising Solutions, provides housing coordinator services for the Cook County – Grand Marais Economic Development Authority (EDA), is an advocate for housing assistance of all types. At the Tuesday, March 20, 2012 meeting of the EDA, Grabko was happy to announce that Cook County would be receiving $60,000 in housing rehabilitation funds from the HOME […]
And now for the weather forecast…
I bet television weather people are giving a huge sigh of relief and muttering, “Thank goodness this winter is over.” The mild temps and lack of snow must have driven them crazy. Hardly a blizzard existed, and they had to search high and low to add spice and zip to their weather reports. At one point, a winter weather advisory […]
CCHS grads fly the friendly skies
In an interesting twist of the “It’s a small world” adage, two Cook County High School graduates recently ran into each other. Not in the airport, but in an airplane, in the course of their daily duties. Mark Heizler, a 1977 CCHS graduate, is now an American Airlines captain based at Chicago O’Hare. He flies on the Boeing 757 and […]