Higher Ed and the Cook County Visitors Bureau will offer customer service training on June 26 and 27. The instructor will be Mike Prom, owner of Voyageur Canoe Outfitters. Prom is a professional trainer who mixes wit, whimsy and solid practical information to impress on those taking his classes the importance of converting customers into clients or even friends. This […]
Poetry Night at the Grand Marais Public Library
Do you have a favorite poem that you just love to read out loud? Have you written a poem that is ready to be shared with others? Do you just like to learn new poems—or hear classics read once again? Join your friends and neighbors at the Grand Marais Public Library on the last Wednesday of each month from 7 […]
Higher Ed offers alcohol server training
Cook County Higher Ed, working with the Cook County Sheriff ’s Office and the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, will offer alcohol server training June 19 and 20. On June 19, the training will be held from 5-7 p.m. at Cascade Lodge. On the 20th, training will be held from 10 a.m. to noon at Windigo Lodge. Cost of the […]
Wolf Center features Sigurd Olson works
The International Wolf Center will feature an exhibit highlighting American author and environmentalist Sigurd Olson through Oct. 31. Among other photos and artifacts, The Sigurd Olson Legacy: Wilderness, Writing and Wolves Exhibit features a re-creation of Olson’s famous writing shack. Sigurd F. Olson was one of America’s most beloved nature writers and most influential conservationists of the 20th century. Best […]
Community Calendar
Upcoming Courses & Eventsat North House Folk SchoolWooden Boat Show & Summer Solstice Festival,June 21-23. Courses: Traditional BlacksmithingJoinery Techniques, June 24-26; Shoemaking withthe Cordwainer Shop, July 8-11; Sustainable Harvestof Birch Bark: Gather Your Own, July 11-12; BirchBark Canoe Building Intensive, July 13-14; NewScandinavian Cuisine with New Scenic Cafe’s ScottGraden, July 20-21. For more information, visit www.northhouse.org. Cook County Higher EducationCareer […]
West End Calendar
Overeaters AnonymousThursdays at 5:30 p.m. at Moondance Coffee ShopConference Room in Lutsen. 6/15bTofte Town MeetingHeld the 2nd Thursday of each month, 7:00 p.m. at theTofte Town Hall, 7240 Tofte Park Road. 3/12tfnLutsen Township Monthly MeetingsHeld the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. atthe Lutsen Town Hall located at 116 Caribou Trail. 4/17tfnSchroeder Town MeetingsHeld the second Tuesday of […]
D.A.R.E. students celebrate graduation
If Sheriff Deputy Ben Hallberg was nervous about hosting his first-ever D.A.R.E. graduation, it did not show. Before an audience of students and parents at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts on Tuesday, May 21, he explained what the D.A.R.E. program is all about. Hallberg said he had to go to Minneapolis for D.A.R.E. training, where he spent two weeks […]
Schliep graduates from Lake Superior College
Malorie Schliep graduated from Lake Superior College on May 20, 2013, earning her medical laboratory technician AAS degree. Commencement exercises were held in the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center Symphony Hall. Student Senate President Kyel Vanderflute gave the student address. LSC President Patrick Johns issued a statement recognizing the graduates. He said, “This special occasion also marks the start of […]
Colin Everson receives Borealis Chorale & Orchestra scholarship
Cook County High School Class of 2013 graduate Colin Everson has been awarded the Borealis Chorale & Orchestra Scholarship. The award, formerly known as the Ora Wilcox Symphonion Scholarship, is awarded to a graduating senior at Cook County High School. Everson received the $200 award because he is not only very musically talented— he plays tuba, trumpet and guitar— but […]
Jackson Nickolay’s play published in literary magazine
Jackson Nickolay, a student at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, is among 29 students who have had their writing or artwork published in Northwestern’s literary arts magazine Spectrum. The annual publication, sponsored by the English Department, includes a selection of poetry, one-act plays, fiction, literary nonfiction and artwork chosen by a panel of students. Nickolay, of Hovland, is a […]