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OCTOBER 15TH, 2022 100 YEARS AGO: v Commissioner Charles Babcock and Chief Engineer JH Mullen of the MN highway department were visitors in the city yesterday, after traversing the Ely-Isabella route from Ely and were much impressed with the route as a drawing card for tourists and an aid in checking forest fires and brought the information that Lake County will receive $15,000 from the federal forestry roads appropriation which the county can spend on the Ely-Gunflint route. 75 YEARS AGO: v The newly elected officers of the Teen-Age center announce the formal opening of their quarters at the skating rink warming house friday evening Oct 17th at 8:00 PM.

Duluth author Linda LeGarde Grover has released a new edition of her book of Indigenous poetry, The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives. The Sky Watched is a collection of poetry— some bilingual—that tells the collective story of a Minnesota Ojibwe family and tribal community against the backdrop of history that begins with creation and continues to this day. Through poetry, Linda LeGarde Grover contributes to the continuation of Ojibwe worldview and survival in the recounting of history and family stories. In a conversation with Kristina Rafn, Lake County Press, Grover shared some her thoughts about the new book. Grover described her book as “a collective memoir, a story about family from the time of creation to present day.”

The Lake County Press and KTwH-Two Harbors Community radio are hosting a forum featuring candidates for the two contested city council seats up for election this November. The forum will take place on Tuesday October 18 at 7:00 pm in the city council chambers, with questions for candidates gathered from voters. Miles Woodruff and Uriah Hefter will answer questions about their bid for the Ward 1 council seat, and Katelyn Cobbs and Mike Kassell will respond to questions related to their contest for the councilor-at-large candidacy. Watch or listen to a live stream of the forum on both the public access cable channel 13 and KTWH radio. Recording of the video will be available for viewing on the city’s online public access. A recording of the audio will be available to listen to at the radio station’s website. Watch at Two Harbors Public Access online at: https://reflect-two-harbors.cablecast. tv/CablecastPublicSite/?channel=1 Listen at KTwH Community Radio: 99.5 FM on your dial, or online at https://ktwh.org.

Dr. Trevor Diercks has recently joined the health care team at Lake View Hospital & Clinics in Two Harbors/Silver Bay, and spent a few minutes chatting with the Lake County Press to introduce himself to the community. Growing up in a small town in northeast Iowa, Diercks says even as a young person he knew that he wanted to be a smalltown doctor like the individuals he admired in his hometown.

GRAND MARAIS, MN, October 11, 2022 — North Shore Health (NSH) would like to publicly address certain conversations that have recently been circulating on local social media and radio. In August, WTIP posted to the station’s Facebook page an interview that on-air personality Joe Friedrichs conducted with Kimber Wraalstad, NSH CEO Administrator. The topic was about the staffing shortage at NSH and how the facility’s Care Center or Ambulance Service could potentially close if NSH is unable to hire sufficient staffing to maintain required service levels. While this was difficult news to deliver, NSH felt it was their duty to inform the community about the seriousness of their hiring crisis and how it could impact local families. “We knew this news would cause great concern, but imagine the outrage if we closed a critical service without providing advance notice,” said Wraalstad. “It was our hope that some of the caring and qualified people in our community would be motivated to take positive action.” There are a variety of ways in which locals can help at NSH: apply for one of the hardto- hire positions, take on a second job, work one shift per week, prompt qualified friends, family or associates to apply, or volunteer.