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20 YEARS AGO
APRIL 22, 2002
High school baseball fans will not be able to see the Vikings play at home this season. While the original 2002 schedule included eight home games, it was announced last week that all of those games have been rescheduled as away games. Why the change? “The field is unsafe,” said CCHS Athletic Director Lyle Anderson. “For us to try and get it ready was just not in the cards. Rather than risk injuries, we’re going on the road.” The outfield is the main problem with the Viking home diamond. The story is rocks…the outfield is filled with large, sharp rocks, and players were risking cuts and more serious injuries every time they ran onto the field. To make the field safe, new sod will be put down, the field will be recrowned, and the outfield will be raked. v The Schroeder Town Board has joined the LeVeaux Ridge owners in withdrawing from the Tofte Schroeder Sanitary Sewer District. Both withdrawal requests came largely because of the rising cost of a proposed wastewater treatment system. Originally a 1998 estimate came in at $7.8 million; today the cost is figured at $13.4 million.
30 YEARS AGO
APRIL 20, 1992
v Four members of the Cook County Board of Commissioners must run for re-election this fall because of expired terms and because of new district boundaries approved last week. Commissioner Dave Bloomquist in District 1 (East End) and Commissioner Gene Utecht in District 5 (West End) must run because the new lines have changed their areas enough to make new elections necessary. Commissioners Wes Hedstrom and Floyd Johnson must run because their terms are expiring. The new district lines also affect representation on the school board. v A lower than expected number of bids were received for the construction of the Cook County Community Center and opened last week at the courthouse. “We had hoped that more local contractors would bid,” said Greg Gastecki of the county highway department, who is in charge of the project. The work was bid out in seven parcels in hopes that breaking the project down to smaller phases would allow more locals to participate.
60 YEARS AGO
APRIL 19, 1962
v The 10 deer that have been feeding all winter at Bunn’s Resort at Hungry Jack Lake are putting on their daily antics and now have become so accustomed to their environment that they no longer bound away when a stranger comes in. v Gordon “Corky” Lindquist was aboard the command ship Northampton as a crew member when President Kennedy spent Friday night aboard ship. Corky told his parents, the Gordon Lindquists, that preparations for the president’s visit were most complete. On Saturday morning, 48 other ships in the fleet formed parallel rows on either side of the Northampton to pass in review as a part of the Atlantic maneuvers. v A Grand Rapids man, Bill Frymire, has purchased the Otto Jonvik store and cabin near Lutsen and plans to open the store in early May. He will stock it with groceries and plans to have a coffee bar. Mobil gas will be sold. v Arrowhead Electric Cooperative’s Safety Award Dinner was last Thursday at Lutsen Resort, with 31 employees, directors, wives, husbands and guests attending. The employees of Arrowhead have completed another two years for a record of 196,566 man hours without a lost time accident. This record is significant in a small organization and represents almost nine years without a lost time accident.
100 YEARS AGO
APRIL 20, 1922
v A number of high school girls roasted potatoes on the rocks Friday afternoon. v The zoology class is soon to begin laboratory work on the cat or rabbit, whichever the pupils can get. In case they can get both, they will dissect whichever one they prefer. v On the new shore road there will be some work of magnitude and permanence. Between Cross River and Little Marais, for instance, there will be two large concrete bridges. One will be 380 feet long and parts of it 100 feet high; the other will be 240 feet long and 60 feet high. The cost of constructing these two bridges is about $70,000.
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