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MN Veterans Home State Veterans Homes are facilities that provide eligible Veterans with nursing home, domiciliary, or adult day care. These facilities are owned and operated by state governments.

Rise and Fall “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill.” On a friend’s recommendation, I listened to a podcast by that name. It’s about how Mark Driscoll and Mars Hill Church moved fast, broke things, broke people, expanded to 17,000 members, before ultimately collapsing almost overnight, all as a result of dysfunctional leadership.

Pies! I’ve been baking up a storm folks, Strawberry Rhubarb, Peach, I really don’t need an excuse to bake. A little secret, I also, enjoy eating them! Despite the strange growing season of cool weather, then scorchers, our apple trees are looking heavy with baby apples, the choke cherry trees look heavy with cherries, and the grape vine is loaded with grapes, our garden is coming along, with a lot of heavy care. Soon it will be canning season, that also hits at peak humidity of the summer. Can’t win ‘em all, you must process when the crop is ready. It’s nice to take a dip in the pool after to cool down if need be. Until next time…..

Happy Disability Pride Month! July 26, 2022 marks the 32nd anniversary of the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) which prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities. Disability Pride month celebrates the heritage, disability culture, and different experiences we all share.

I met this nice couple while I was up kayaking on the Kawishiwi River with a good friend. We landed on an island to let her dog run free for a while. Rhonda Schoonmaker and Roman Shulman had been kayaking too. They are from the Chicago area and vacationing over the 4th . They said they are very glad to be in this beautiful place and that we need more places like this in the world.

Some Like it Hot It’s hot out there. Real hot.

The grind of the salmon season continues, everyone scratches out every minute of sleep that can be secured. As set netters, we are ruled by the tides as the waters of the Bristol Bay rush in and out of the Bering Sea to river systems that harbor the world’s largest sockeye salmon run.

Readers Advisory Have you ever gone to the library and just didn’t know what to read or watch? If so, I’d love to tell you about something called Reader’s Advisory. This is a term librarians like to use but it means helping people find what they are looking for.