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Welcome back for another week of news. Who is running, or sliding to their mailboxes ready to read the cozy and fun Finland News updates? I know over here in this neck of Finland, the boys and myself are!

The reluctant editor found his balance after that comforting National Union of Friendly Americans “Ride for Mirth, Merriment and Absolution” on snow sleds that weren’t too old and weren’t too new and were just right as long as the spark plugs didn’t foul and the windshields didn’t fall off, nor did the riders before they cleansed themselves of bad habits.

A number of years ago I spent a couple of weeks in late winter, visiting my Uncle Horst and Aunt Almuth on their farm in western Canada. Horst and Almuth were dairy farmers for decades before they got into raising beef cattle on the rolling landscape of woods, meadows, and lakes that make up central Alberta. One day the conversation drifted onto the subject of wolves, and Horst told me straight up that you can’t run a livestock operation on farms or ranches where wolves occur. No way.

Photo courtesy of Peg Zahorik .

Growing up in Two Harbors, Emily, Jonathon and Phil Griesy were part of a very small minority of people of color living in the area. While their memories are mostly warm ones, they faced some difficulties.

VA Health Care. At some point, I will be accused of sounding like a broken record. The complexities of the federal machine are not lost or minimized when it comes to a very significant Veterans benefit… VA health care. Even the most seasoned writer would find it difficult to completely explain this benefit in a single article. I will engage my freshman writer abilities over the coming weeks or months to elaborate on the common, as well as the lesser-known, areas of VA health care. If you want to skip ahead and learn more about this benefit, then please visit www. va.gov/health-care/.

Lake County’s snowwhite winter landscape reflects the predominant color of our population, and yet the area has a rich Black History. Robin Washington, “Black and Jewish”, as he says, is a familiar name in the near-past due to his role as editor at the Lake County News Chronicle, and at the Duluth News Tribune.