Spring sports on the way despite weather
Snow might still cover the ground and a snowstorm might be on the way but high school athletes across Lake County are readying for spring sports season. Waiting for the thaw is an annual tradition up north.
March 2022
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Health & Wellness
March is National Nutrition Month as designated by Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Nutrition has been much debated over the years. However, many professionals in the field continue to go back to the basics. This month we’d like to remind you of some of those principles.
From the Outside
Impatience and the Long Melt. I love winter. The cold, crisp days with a deep blue sky over a frozen landscape can invigorate me and make me very happy, especially if I’m zipping down some ski trail, my fingers and toes intact—or sitting by my woodstove, strong coffee in hand, staring out the window at the birds teaming around the feeder. The steady whine from the snowmobile trail a half mile to the west of my house tells me that a lot of other folks enjoy winter too.
Runoff Report
With the reluctant editor tucked in a plane he didn’t know how to fly it gave him pause to think of a story: “The Creator is a light sleeper and humanity is the reason. That’s when the Old Man takes a vacation.” Hell Yes! God’s sidekick Apparently the good book says that man was made in God’s image.
St. Urho Flies the Coop!
The American Legion Honor Guard led the way for the St. Urho’s Day parade.
Thoughts from a Pastor’s Heart
All our kids are living on their own, working, and happy. We recently celebrated the birth of our 3 grandchild. Raising kids costs a lot of money! Yet it is so very much worth it. Not all need to go to college, but those who do are facing ever-increasing tuition bills. When I attended a private liberal arts college in the Twin Cities the cost crossed over the $10,000 mark per year, and I thought, “How can these prices keep going up?” But they have continued to go up with no signs of reversing the trend.
Squared Away
National Medal of Honor Day March 25 marks the date established by Congress to “foster public appreciation and recognition of Medal of Honor recipients. Our Nation’s highest award for military valor in action dates to the late 1800s.
Ripped from the Headlines!
Excerpts from the front pages of the Lake County News Chronicle from 1922, 1947, and 1972. Submitted by the Lake County Historical Society.
North Shore Tourism Starts with Roads and Cars
On this date 100 years ago, the Two Harbors Automobile Club announced an effort to connect owners of comfortable quarters with tourists during the upcoming season. While many wealthy vacationers were able to take rustic rooms with fishermen along steamship routes, lack of passenger railroad routes north of Two Harbors severely hampered organized development of the tourism industry along the North Shore.
Nature Nurtures
On a remote sugar maple ridge deep in a century old ecosystem, farmers Jason and Cree Bradley of Never Summer Sugarbush/ Chelsea Morning Farm, Two Harbors, share the seasonal excitement of the very first drips of sap.