Would you donate a kidney to help a stranger? It is not something most people think about. Jenna Latz Wagner, not only considered it, she did it. Jenna Wagner, a 2002 Cook County High School graduate now living in Phoenix, Arizona, is a nursing student. When her classmate, Ruth Ann Vallender, posted a Facebook message detailing the desperate search for […]
Correction:
Last week’s photos of Cook County High School Prom misidentified the Prom King. The 2015 King and Queen were Aubrey Lewis and Nick Wiegele, however that is not who was in the photo. Pictured in their prom attire were Queen Aubrey Lewis and her brother Danny. The News-Herald regrets the error.
Seeking real and lasting joy
There are three oak bookcases in the small guest room where I am staying. The aging owner, slipping away into the grayness of dementia, has given to others many of the books once housed there. But many remain. Books in Spanish and on teaching English to native Spanish speakers still fill the lower shelves of the case nearest the door. […]
Jean Louise Jasmin Brune
Jean Louise Jasmin Brune of Grand Marais passed away peacefully on April 27, 2015. She was born October 7, 1960 to Louis and Eleanore Jasmin. After graduating high school, Jean went on to pursue an associate degree in automotive mechanics. In addition to working on classic cars, Jean also had a modeling career and was a favorite bartender at The […]
Miriam Sletten Holt
Miriam Sletten Holt was born March 22, 1932 to Paul and Inga Holt in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She grew up across the street from the boy she would eventually marry. She graduated from Roosevelt High and attended St. Olaf College. Because of love that was true and real, she left St. Olaf to marry Howard Wellumson on June 7, 1952. That […]
Please set your clocks back 345 years
On Sunday, May 31, Spirit of the Wilderness Episcopal Church will explore its Anglican roots by traveling back in time to the year 1670. At 10:30 a.m., historian and church member Karen Halbersleben will take us back to 1670, to a town in the north of England, giving us a sense of what it would have been like to live […]
Cinco de Mayo and more
We celebrated Cinco de Mayo with a cultural celebration. We had four guest speakers this month and learned a great deal about Mexican Heritage, library services, the Northwoods Food Project, and Care Partners of Cook County. We also worked on a very important intergenerational art program. Two children were paired with a senior and found out what hands have done […]
Down Memory Lane
10 Years AgoMay 20, 2005 Two canoe campers spent the night of May 12 in the local hospital after their canoe tipped in high winds on Gunflint Lake. The 26-year-old man and 27-year-old woman, both Japanese nationals and guests at Seagull Outfitters, were fortunate in that two volunteer firemen first on the scene recognized their hypothermic symptoms, knew what to […]