Rita Plourde receives ‘Hero Award’
Sawtooth Mountain Clinic has announced that its chief executive officer, Rita Plourde, has received the “Hero Award’ at the Minnesota Rural Health annual conference from the Minnesota Department of Health. The Minnesota Rural Health Conference presents the Rural Health Awards each year to honor the work its healthcare colleagues have done. The Minnesota Department of Health’s Office of Rural Health […]
City to add four fire hydrants
Grand Marais Wastewater/Water Superintendent Tom Nelson appeared before the council on Wednesday, June 12, with an update on the city’s potable water distribution system. The city’s water distribution system is made up of approximately 15 miles of water mains and has three reservoirs, two 150,000 gallon ground storage tanks and one 200,000 gallon standpipe. Nelson said that because of the […]
What can we do for you? Cook County Higher Education asks
Results from the January 2019 employer needs study conducted by Cook County Higher Education were surprising in a number of ways. For instance, the top three jobs employers said their employees needed more training in was accounting, advertising/ marketing, and basic bookkeeping. The last two areas cited on the top 20 requested training list were for ServSafe, a training and […]
Seth Jeffs to appear back in Utah court for nonpayment of child support
According to KARE 11 reporters Steve Eckert and A.J. Lagoe, Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) member Seth Jeffs will be returning to the court next month in Utah to face charges of failing to pay court-ordered child support. Seth is the brother of the disgraced polygamist and prophet Warren Steed Jeffs, the president of the FLDS […]
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Taking a leg of the third annual Flame of Hope Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics were from L-R: Sarah Law, Aaron Schmidt, Isaac Sandstrom and Jeanne Monson. Held June 17-18, several members of the CCHS Special Olympics Unified Club joined with 16 members of Cook County Law Enforcement, U.S. Customs Border Patrol, DNR and the Special Olympics “Flame […]
Is the individual obsolete?
“We live in a society plagued with ideological stereotypes, pigeonholing, typecasting, conventionalizing, categorizing, labeling, and imaging. If-and-only-if, you pledge yourself to a brand, an image, a label, the right cliché, the right clothes, or the right genre, then-and-only then, will you prove acceptable.” So writes prolific author, speaker, and clinician Dr. Asa Don Brown in a publication for the Canadian […]
Manmade climate change is real
Thanks Chuck for the timely and informative science lesson, you may be the first denier to use accepted science to deny Man Made Climate Change (MMCC). The Milankovich cycle is not commonly discussed in everyday conversation, but certainly every climate scientist is well aware of it and may make frequent reference to it. You are right, it has affected climate […]
Climate scientists know what is causing the Earth to warm; false theories about the sun are a fantasy
Recently, a letter to the editor was published that falsely claimed the sun was responsible for global warming. This idea is wrong; we have the data to prove it. Humans are causing climate change, period. Fortunately, there are things we can do to stop the effects. Smart decisions that will reduce our dependency on foreign energy, improve national security, and […]
No room for child abuse, nor abuse from the county
This is in response to Anna Hamilton’s letter (directed to me personally) in last week’s News- Herald. Anna…so many CAPITAL LETTERS! You must think I own a “Support Child Abuse” T-shirt! Feel free to inspect my closet… and be assured that our feelings concerning child abuse are in perfect harmony. Seth Jeffs has legally purchased land in my neighborhood. He […]