April 2023

Lake County Press Prep Sports Notebook

Just when you think the weather will cooperate with spring sports in Lake County and along the North Shore, well, the weather changes. After an incredible melt last week, sprinter (spring-winter), as I call it, returns. Two Harbors baseball is set to get in some games up at the artificial turf field in Aurora Thursday if the weather cooperates. They hope to play Moose Lake-Willow River in a morning game and then play top-rated Esko in the afternoon. The Saturday contest at home against Pine City is up in the air depending on what weather shows up by the end of the week. Two Harbors softball is still looking for their first contest. Games scheduled against Barnum and South Ridge this week didn’t happen and coach John Sandstrom was hoping to get in a Saturday game against Pine City but with windchills expected to be in the twenties, he wasn’t sure that would happen.

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Taking action on Earth Day

For the last 5 years, Granite Gear Grounds Keepers have collaborated with Castle Danger Brewery & Lake County Soil & Water to hold a trash clean-up on Earth Day. The clean-up takes place along the local trails in town and surrounding areas & parks, from Burlington Bay to Agate Bay. This year Lovin' Lake County joins us and will be providing coffee, water & donuts. Julie Hukriede, an employee at Granite Gear and member of the Groundskeepers there, says that this event is an excellent way to meet others and show some love for the beautiful trails we have available to us. “I always walk away with a new friend and the satisfaction of doing something that really makes a difference,” she

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Hidden effects of school shootings: A student’s perspective

'Bullet proof backpacks shouldn't exist' Lead in the Lake Superior Community Theatre’s production of “The Diary of Anne Frank”, William Kelley High School student Marley Schumacher responds to the recent incident where a meme stating there was an active shooter in the building was air-dropped to students’ phones prior to the play’s performance on March 23rd. Thankfully it was a false threat that closed down our play, but the terror I felt was real.

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From the Outside

Outdoor Ed in Higher Ed I’ve been writing this column for over a year now, and if you have been reading it, you have been subject to a small sprinkling of the many and widely varied outdoor adventures I’ve engaged in over the decades. So, how did a kid from north Minneapolis and a family with modest means end up acquiring the skills to do these things? You don't just wake up one morning and embark on a sixweek canoe trip to the Arctic Ocean or engage in some random mountaineering trip on glaciers and remote peaks without having built upon experience, and gaining the skill set required to come back alive.

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Runoff Report

As long as the reluctant editor was still in Lake County, he figured he’d stop by one of his favorite places, the House of Gouda Cheese Commune. A wonderful place for the hungry traveler, the place is unique not only because of the good gouda and the patented “sleep curds” but it’s also a last bastion of the syndicalist movement that envisioned a worker’s paradise for all, where every worker lived in a big bartering world. Money would be useless, even cancerous.

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Masked Fan Speaks

My Stanley Cup Bracketology! Have you enjoyed a full regular season of fastpaced NHL hockey action? Well get ready, because the Stanley Cup tournament is here and it will hit the hyper-warp speed activation button shortly! Some casual fans of the game harbor doubt about that being a real 'thing', but come every spring it plays out right before our eyes. Yup, an already fast game will be played even faster.

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Learn to pilot drones this summer at FDLTCC

Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College (FDLTCC) is excited to welcome the public to learn to fly drones this summer with Geography 1060: Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Students will get hands on experience flying a drone and receive training for the FAA Remote Pilot Certification exam during the 8-week course starting May 30, 2023. The course is open to anyone interested in learning to pilot drones.

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