Candy’s Fun Facts
It is tradition that portages between lakes are measured in rods. A rod is 16.5’ - the average length of a canoe.
May 2022
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What Do We Do When Hard Things Happen?
Everyone experiences hard things, big and small. Learning how to effectively deal with life’s challenges is not something that is always taught. An event sponsored by the North Shore Mental Health Group and funded by a grant from the UMN Extension’s Rural Sustainable Development Program will give participants game-changing strategies for resilience and stress management.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month
There are many ways to get involved and learn more about mental health. #StayConnectedMN has created resources for businesses, teachers, leaders, and all community members to use to show support and bring awareness to mental health at home and in the workplace.
Squared Away
VA Burial Benefits – Memorial Items The VA’s National Cemetery Administration provides certain memorial items for deceased Veterans to honor their military service. These items include headstones, markers, and medallions, as well as burial flags and Presidential Memorial Certificates.
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.
A Look at the Past
This photo was taken in a cabin in the Lake County backcountry sometime between 1900-1905. Submitted Photo .
Back to the Beginning of Silver Bay
In 1949, a group of twelve senior architecture students at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN along with their professors, Robert T. Jones and Harlan E. McClure, spent their summer building 3 table-size models of a town which was to become Silver Bay, Mn. The idea was to convince Reserve Mining Company to plan the town before the plant was built to prevent it from being built in a haphazard way. Efforts to discover whether the models still exist were not fruitful. Archivists at the University of Minnesota’s Architectural School said that student models are rarely saved. If you’d like more information, the entire article was published in the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune on November 20, 1949.
Tree silohuettes at dawn
Tree silohuettes at dawn. Photo courtesy of Becky Norlien .
Random Strangers
I met Rose Elhaj at the JA Wedum Residential Hospice in Brooklyn Park. She was my father’s favorite nurse.
Resign or Recall Committee Collects Signatures for Second Time Committee Attempts to Prevent Swanson from Access to Names
TWO HARBORS, MN, MAY 9, 2022 – The Two Harbors RESIGN OR RECALL COMMITTEE, working to recall Mayor Chris Swanson, began collecting signatures for the second time on Saturday, May 7, 2022, at the Two Harbors Community Center. As of Monday afternoon, the Committee already had over 300 signatures, which is more than half of the approximately 500 signatures needed. The Committee planned to continue collecting at the Community Center Monday evening as well as Wednesday and again on Friday, if necessary.