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From a Pastor’s Heart

Transformed George Homes, a British pastor and my homiletics instructor once said, “Nature forms us, education informs us, sin deforms us, and society tries to reform us- but only Christ can transform us.” The transforming power of Jesus Christ is evident in the lives of the billions who have been touched and changed by the Gospel. Joan* was adopted but not loved.

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Ripped from the Headlines!

Courtesy of the Lake County Historical Society. NOVEMBER 19, 2022 100 YEARS AGO: v The ore shipping season of 1922 has been closed and the loading of the steamer Norman Ream which discharged a cargo of coal yesterday, will mark the closure of the season which reached a total of 5,950,000 tons.

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Through a Child’s Eyes

You know the classic question every child is asked at some point: What do you want to be when you grow up? First of all, who says we have to grow up? Jobs, however, are pretty handy to have. Although I absolutely love my job, I was never a little girl who wanted to be a teacher when she grew up. I wasn’t even a young adult who wanted to be a teacher. My career working with children happened quite by accident after a series of unplanned life events. I first began working with kids at age 26, and I loved it so much I went back to college to get my teaching degree. The rest is history, and I get to live every day in the most fun and rewarding way.

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Babbitt engineer patenting a low cost solution to sulfate pollution

But the region’s mining industry remains cool to the potential by Marshall Helmberger reprinted courtesy of the Timerberjay, Ely BABBITT— In a makeshift basement laboratory here, Jeffrey Hanson is fine-tuning a process that could turn a cost-effective fix for one of the Iron Range’s biggest environmental problems into a job-producing enterprise. Hanson, a mechanical engineer by training, has been working for more than a decade on better ways to deal with waste and it’s led him to a way to effectively and affordably treat sulfate pollution from Iron Range mines.

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