April 2022

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Beyond Reason

Man versus Golf You know how sometimes you go to visit your parents, but you don’t want to stay with them because, you know, they’re your parents? So, you decide to stay nearby, but not that nearby because, well, they’re your parents? But it’s also spring break for the kiddos so you dish out a little more scratch than usual and stay not just at a hotel but a resort with a full-on water park, with lots of pools and water slides galore? And you know how the first few days are good, clean family fun, swimming during the days, seeing the folks in the evening but then you learn that the resort offers something else and that something else is… golf? And you know how halfway through your stay, the PGA walks in like they own the joint? I hate it when that happens. One minute, parking is first come first serve, the next it’s: Are you with the Open? Oh, you’re not with the Open.

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Runoff Report

Editor’s note: Yes, the Great March for Community Newspapers still awaits the parachute jump signal from the very reluctant editor and Tony Xzcerlippy of Tony’s Underwater Limousine Service (Lake County Press- -editions 2-5). And yes, in recalling an earlier skydiving incident in which the reluctant editor was stuck flying an old plane that he didn’t know how to fly, it gave him pause to think of a story in which God Takes a Vacation from humanity and its lack of humanity for each other (Lake County Press—editions 6-8).

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Correction

Correction: In last week’s paper Kitty Mayo incorrectly reported that First Day Events would be organizing an event during the Festival of Sail event. During the course of last week’s Two Harbors city council meeting Mayo failed to understand that First Day Events, formerly the organizer for Festival of Sail, had applied for a permit to hold a separate watercraft display event in Burlington Bay on August 20, two weeks after the Festival of Sail.

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Finland News

Spring has Sprung…..Or something! It’s been quite the weather this past week. Almost a full thaw on the dirt roads and then back to a snowpack.

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Thoughts from a Pastor’s Heart

For those Christians who are a part of a liturgical church tradition, we have been observing the season of Lent, a 40 day period of time that culminates in Holy Week and Easter, since it began on Ash Wednesday, which fell on March 2 this year. Many Christians utilize this season as an opportunity to focus on the meaning of Christ’s journey towards death and the cross, and on His resurrection.

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Squared Away

VA Disability Benefits I am switching gears this week, as I introduce VA disability benefits. The primary benefit is disability compensation which per the Code of Federal Regulations Title 38 Chapter 1 Part 3 (38 CFR Part 3) is defined as “basic entitlement for a Veteran exists if the Veteran is disabled as the result of a personal injury or disease (including aggravation of a condition existing prior to service) while in active service if the injury or disease was incurred or aggravated in the line of duty”.

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