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Isolation. This is a word we have become very familiar with in recent years due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is a word that conjures up a lot of emotions, experiences, and maybe for some, even trauma. However for many people in the disability community this word wasn’t a new word, or a new experience of restriction. It is a word that describes many of our days in the pre-pandemic world.
Social by Sons of Norway March 13: Social by Sons of Norway at 2:00 pm at the Two Harbors Community Center. Tai Ji Quan Moving for Better Balance classes for elders held via Zoom on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:15 am, March 31 through June 28.
The first four things I did when I moved to Two Harbors were 1. Apply for an Arrowhead Library Card 2.
Happy St Urho’s Weekend Everyone, This is an exciting weekend, we gain an hour of daylight, and we have St Urho’s Festivities to look forward to. Family, and friends will be motoring up for the yearly fun, and mid-winter family reunions. Family always motors back home for Urho’s! Let me know who “motored” to visit you, pop me an email so I can share with everyone. St Urho’s Day Parade will be tomorrow Saturday, March 12th at Noon on Hwy #1, through Finland. There are buttons and raffle tickets for purchase around town, as well as food and music. Follow the Urho’s schedule @ https://friendsoffinland. org/st-urho-2022-schedule/.
To the Editor, My husband and I have been looking into solar options and ways to have local energy independence, and as part of that research contacted Coop Light and Power about their solar garden project. The solar garden is a good solution if buildings cannot handle solar adequately.
Sincere thanks to Scott Ross, coaches, athletes, and fans for the tear-jerking recognition before the boys basketball game against Barnum on Friday night. I was not aware of it, he (Ross) did a great job of surprising me and arranged for my whole family to be there.
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We’ve discussed curiosity as a practice. Curiosity can help us discover a lot of lost common ground. It’s not the whole story if we want to restore our world after the pandemic, however. Sometimes, even with good research and enlightened discussion, we will disagree–and we will believe that others have caused harm through their false beliefs. What do we do then?
“Just try to be nice to people,” my grandmother always said. “You can’t change who they are or why they are.