With over 6,700 customers, from north of Duluth, throughout Lake County reaching out nearly to Ely, Cooperative Light & Power (CLP) in Two Harbors is urging customers to learn about their ability to participate in decision-making and to get involved.
After several years of dedicated effort, the Trees and Trails Commission of Two Harbors has been awarded the “Tree City USA Growth Award” by the Arbor Foundation. The list of organizations that have partnered with the Commission to plant and replace trees is long and includes the Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District, Castle Danger Brewery, Friends of Trees and Trails, the Two Harbors Girls Scouts, the City of Two Harbors, and Public Works.
VA Health – Basics. After last week’s article introducing VA health care, I would imagine the enrollment office was overwhelmed with applications from all my Lake County Veterans. Wishful thinking aside, there is no time like the present to complete your VA Form 10-10EZ Application for Health Benefits. Contact your CVSO for assistance.
In college, I had a friend who decided to have some fun with Lent – he gave up forks and spoons, and only used chop sticks. At our college’s version of Prom, I distinctly remember him trying to eat his spinach and raspberry salad with the chopsticks he purposely snuck in.
Hello from Finland, we’ve made it to MARCH! Spring fever is settling in, show of hands who’s excited we’re gaining more daylight? It feels like the possibilities are almost endless, maple sugar season is almost upon us, and then mud season! Wait a minute, we still have that famous fun, heavy, and wet snow coming for us. You know, the kind that leaves us all wanting more winter! Okay, lets agree to just be happy with the growing daylight for now.
As I gaze out at the frozen and snow covered Cloquet River, I find myself contemplating the coming of spring. Despite the cold and snow, those of us who live here know the pull of these longer days of light. Whisperings for now. With daylight saving time in March, it will be a sudden jolt. A shift in “official time” riding the wave of earth’s tilt toward the sun. Meantime, it has been a beautiful winter! Cold, a bit windy, plenty of snow. But that IS our winter. At my bird feeders the Pine Grosbeaks, Redpolls and the “Chicks n’ Nuts” (a favorite name for Chickadees and Nuthatches) have been welcome companions. But not so much the Nuthatches. We all talk of their sparse presence. Where are they? Evening Grosbeaks are common north of here, but I have only had one. Gray foxes, bobcats, wolves, deer, owls, and otters – it’s a busy winter life. Tracks everywhere!
Taproom staff at Castle Danger Brewery, just couldn’t resist drawing some attention to a couple who have become “regulars” at the brewery this winter. “I’ve met this couple in their 60s who go in the Lake every Saturday, then stop at the brewery for beer and pizza. I thought it might be an interesting story?” was the call to the paper.
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.
The Lake County Board of Commissioners met on Feb. 22 to discuss many issues including the following: Tower Discussion.