Lake View Hospital recently connected with SPIN Worldwide Inc. (Serving People in Need), a charity organization out of Duluth, Minn. who has outreach projects taking place in Kenya related to medical supply donations through Global Health Ministries, and also clean water acquisition, malaria prevention projects.
Lost Woods premium whiskey aligns with environmental causes and seeks to bring people together to discuss climate and environmental issues while considering Two Harbors as home for a new distillery. Hoping that Lost Woods whiskey will bring people together to talk about climate and environmental issues, Tom Schaeppi believes that there is no better way to do that than around a fire with a good drink in hand.
Doctors, athletes and spas have all been talking about cryotherapy aka “cold therapy” as one of the latest trends in self-care and wellness treatments. Doctors have long used it as a way to freeze off warts or cancerous cells.
Well-known Minnesota author Mary Casanova coming to libraries on the north shore in April Straight out of college, Mary Casanova and her husband followed their dream to live “up north.” Forty years and 40 books later, Mary’s love of woods, water, and wilderness permeates her wide range of work. With heart and humor, Mary Casanova entertains & educates as she shares her writing process, including where ideas come from, overcoming writer's block, doing the research, drawing on the five senses, mining personal experience, and creating strong beginnings. Program length is 60 minutes and is recommended for all ages!
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An Explanation of the life of a home from abandonment to new inhabitants Housing issues in Lake County inevitably give rise to the question, why isn’t anyone living in the empty home down the street? No one likes to see abandoned living spaces, especially through the winter. One of two things is happening if a home is abandoned: it is foreclosed, which is when mortgage payments go unpaid, or it is tax-forfeit, which is land that has been forfeited to the state due to unpaid taxes.
Friday, April 7 “Morning News and Conversation” at the TH Public Library from 10:00-11:00 a.m. Good Friday Service at Bethlehem Lutheran at 1:00 p.m.
If you visit Mitch Costley at his office, you can’t help but notice the history documented in photos all around. Talk to him for more than a few minutes, and the history of Lake County will soon be wound into his conversation. Proud of his ancestral roots that go deep in Lake County, Mitch says that he has members on both his mother’s and father’s sides that were pioneers here before Minnesota even became a state. After obtaining his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School, Mitch returned to Two Harbors to open his first law practice in the fall of 1967.
In late August and September 2011, the Pagami Creek Fire burned over 92,000 acres in the Boundary Waters Wilderness east of Ely. Started by a lightning strike, the fire smoldered for days before spreading across the Wilderness at an alarming rate, prompting sudden evacuations of campers and putting lives and property at risk.
Meet Tara Solem, the District Manager for Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) and the Water Planner for Lake County. How and when did you become interested in conservation? I grew up exploring and spending a lot of time outside on my parent’s and grandparents’ properties in northeastern Minnesota.