Care Partners of Cook County’s second annual Ice Cream Social at Sydney’s Frozen Custard was great fun. The rain stopped and over a hundred people came out to enjoy sundaes, chair massages from Lutzen Reflections, and bid on silent auction items. Susan Gardner of Lutsen and New York won the beautiful quilt made by Carol Harris. All together over $5,300 […]
Are you ready for eternity?
It seems strange to me, this continuing life as usual when life has taken the turn to the unusual for so many. Thousands displaced by flooding in southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana, yet a local museum hosts a pie social to raise awareness of and funding for its existence. A family grieves the death of loved ones and faces the […]
Douglas Dean Brenner
Douglas Dean Brenner passed away on Saturday, August 26, 2017 at the age of 76, after a short battle with cancer. Doug was born on March 3, 1941 in Minneapolis, but grew up in the small town of Deer Creek, Minn. and was the youngest child of Earl and Anne Andrie, who preceded him in death. On May 23, 1959, […]
Robert “Bob” Dunn
Robert “Bob” Dunn died on March 15, 2017, in his home in Princeton, Minn. Bob was a lifelong outdoorsman and environmentalist whose love of the boreal forest and the people of northeastern Minnesota gave him some of his life’s greatest adventures. When he was 7 years old, his parents began bringing him to the North Shore to provide him with […]
Fall festivities at the Care Center
Summer is going by quickly for residents at the North Shore Health Care Center. We have been taking every opportunity for fun outdoor activities on our new patio, and other outings in the community. It was a beautiful day on August 6 when several of the elders went to watch the Fisherman’s Picnic Parade. On August 21, a large group […]
Down Memory Lane
10 YEARS AGOAUG. 31, 2007 Betty Hemstad representing the Gunflint Trail Historical Society, and Dennis Neitzke, Gunflint District Ranger, signed copies of a special-use permit which establishes a partnership between the U.S. Forest Service and the historical society permitting Chik-Wauk Resort to be used as a museum. Cook County Commissioner Jan Hall said Tuesday she was outraged with the manner […]
J1 Visa program threatened, H2B Visa presentation Sept. 7
Cook County employers have been stunned to learn that the White House is threatening to eliminate the majority of privately funded J1 Exchange Visitors Programs. Locally foreign students holding J1 visas make up much of the summer workforce in Cook County. With more than 80 percent of the county’s economy tourist based, and with Cook County’s unemployment rate at two […]