The Grand Portage Elders had a very successful Rendezvous Days. It takes many volunteers to pull this off as we operate two raffles, bingo and our fish booth. A Chi Miigwech to all the volunteers. Also, Miigwech to all the businesses who donated prizes, the Reservation Tribal Council and Grand Portage community for their continued support of our efforts and […]
Hospital board ponders professional standards and accountability
Protecting a patient’s right to privacy is a big deal for health care providers, including Cook County North Shore Hospital & Care Center. Employees sign a confidentiality agreement and receive training in HIPAA— the federal Health Information Portability & Accountability Act. Helping everyone stay in compliance is Teresa Hanson, the hospital’s privacy officer. On August 22, 2013, she briefed the […]
“Senior Rides” now available
The Care Partners Senior Rides program is an exciting new resource for seniors in the community. Senior Rides is a volunteer-assisted transportation program that fills in the gap for transportation needs not met by Arrowhead Transit or friends and relatives. The program includes trips to Duluth “Arrowhead Transit is a great resource in Cook County,” commented Debi LaMusga, the program’s […]
Break-in at North House Folk School
When staff arrived at North House Folk School on Friday, August 30, they discovered that one of the buildings on the waterfront campus had been broken into. Upon investigation, they found that some items had been stolen from the blue building, which houses meeting space and the school gift shop. Cook County Sheriff Chief Deputy Leif Lunde said further information […]
No injury in truck rollover by Northern Light Lake
An emergency call reported a truck rollover “two miles north of the Kimball Lake sign” on the Gunflint Trail at 6:06 p.m. on Friday, August 30. The caller was unsure whether there were injuries and Cook County Sheriff Deputies, Cook County Ambulance and Maple Hill Fire Department were paged to respond. When emergency responders reached the scene they found that […]
Two BWCA fires out, one contained
Officials of the U.S. Forest Service have updated the status of three fires burning in the Superior National Forest. As of Aug. 31, the waterways, portages and campsites of the South Arm of Knife Lake are open to Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness paddlers. There are no campfire restrictions other than the usual ones: small fires only within Forest Service […]
Mental Health First Aid offered by UMD
The University of Minnesota Duluth Continuing Education Department is hosting Mental Health First Aid training sessions for adults and youth. The training is open to the public, and no prior experience is required. Adult Mental health first aid training will be offered in Silver Bay Sept. 11 and 12 at the Sychar Lutheran Church. The material will be presented again […]
Down Memory Lane
10 YEARS AGOSEPT. 5, 2003 About a half-dozen Grand Marais property owners turned out to learn the specifics of the assessment process needed to finance a $1.55 million downtown sewer and water improvement project that is to begin this spring. Of the total cost, 25 percent will be financed through assessments; 57 percent will be borne by the entire city; […]
Plenty of projects for EDA housing program
At the Tuesday, August 13 meeting of the Cook County-Grand Marais Economic Development Authority (EDA), the EDA board heard an update on a number of commercial rehabilitation projects. Nancy Grabko and Steve Grabko of Community Fundraising Solutions (CFS), the EDA housing program administrators, gave the report, starting with Steve Grabko’s description of the work to be done at the GunFlint […]