Would you like to show your mom how much you care? Enter the Northern Hi-Lites Salon and Essential Touch Massage Mother’s Day Essay Contest and you could win an amazing pampering package for your mom! As we asked last week, tell us why your mom deserves to be spoiled in 200 words or less—typed or handwritten on a sheet of […]
Free tree seedlings through Hedstrom Lumber’s annual give-away
Hedstrom Lumber Company’s annual Free Tree Seedling Give- Away is now in full swing, with about 25,000 white and Norway pine and white spruce seedlings available to Cook County property owners. Since the program began in 1997, Hedstrom Lumber has given away over 450,000 seedlings. Providing a prime opportunity to maintain this renewable resource and keep up the beautiful, wooded […]
Sen. Franken announces fifth annual poetry contest
In recognition of the Month of the Military Child and National Poetry Month in April, U.S. Sen. Al Franken will host his fifth annual poetry contest for Minnesota students. The theme of this year’s contest is “Celebrating the Veteran in My Life.” “There are thousands of students all across Minnesota who have seen or experienced the sacrifices veterans and their […]
Community Calendar
Intensive Apple Growing Systems and Apple Pest Management With Cindy Hale: Sat. May 7 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cook County Community Center. Call Diane at 218-387-3015 to register. Cost is $10, bring your lunch. CCLEP Energy Thursday The Cook County Local Energy Project Presents: Bringing Climate Change Home: A Community Show and Tell. Renewable energy road […]
Cascade Vacation Rentals wellness challenge winner announced
Hannah Hoaglund, marketing coordinator for Cascade Vacation Rentals (CVR), rolled out a 30-week wellness challenge for the staff at Cascade Vacation Rentals last September. The challenge concluded on April 5 with the winner awarded a trip for two to Las Vegas. And that lucky winner was Katterine Payer, operations and office manager for CVR. “The joke around our office is […]
Rosie’s Café namesake recognized
For 50 years, Rosie Somnis has been welcoming people to the chalet at the base of Koo-Koo at Lutsen Mountains. The café is always crowded with skiers warming up with a tasty cheeseburger or a cup of Rosie’s chili. Many of those diners will be saddened to hear that this was Rosie’s last season overseeing the cozy chalet café. At […]
Building a team in Sled Dogs to Saint Paul
With around 40 dogs to train and many hundreds of miles to run to get them all ready for the sled racing season, the life of former Minnesota representative and current county commissioner Frank Moe is more than hectic. In Sled Dogs to Saint Paul, Moe relays his experience as a musher starting with his first leader, a German shepherd […]
Kelsey Johnson named president of Iron Mining Association
The board of directors of the Iron Mining Association (IMA), made an announcement on March 10 that it was appointing lifelong northern Minnesotan Kelsey Johnson as the new president of the IMA. North Shore residents got to know Johnson during her run last fall for the House 3A seat held by the late David Dill. Johnson takes the role in […]
11th annual Theater Sports a big success
It was one show only, but what a show it was! Ivy Church’s College in the Schools literature students participated in a wide variety of impromptu skits and bits that often left the Arrowhead Center for the Arts patrons in stitches on Thursday, March 24. All told the fundraiser made over $1,200, money that will be used to pay for […]