Opinion

As was reported in last week’s triumphant first edition of the Camp Shack News-Gazette-Chronicle- Post-Press-Weekly Standard, the top news stories of the week will be reported in this, the second edition, time permitting.

The Minnesota WILD are just like butter! LINCOLN PARK Once again the WILD are on a roll! For the calendar week just concluded they went a solid 3-0. Of course, they weren’t facing all of the toplevel clubs in the show, but considering that anyone can beat anyone on a lot of nights, they have to be gratified with the results.

At the end of teaching a theater workshop for students, I asked “What is your one take-away from today?” A 12-year-old shot up her hand, scanned the whole group and in an Auntie Mame bravado declared “ANYone can be an actor!”

Welcome to the Lake County Press! In what has been a whirl of a process to get a newspaper to homes across Lake County I can only say that I never thought I’d be at the editor’s desk again. Well, at this writing I don’t have a desk quite yet or even a chair but none of that matters at this point.

How We Impact the World really means, how do people from Lake County, Minnesota make a difference in the world. I want to share stories about world-renowned surgeons, entrepreneurs that are solving water issues in Africa, and travel with former residents that have gone back to their ancestral countries of Sweden, Norway, and beyond. All these people and many more grew up in Lake County, and then went off to impact the world. I want to bring them back one week at a time. I want to tell their stories.

So January is many things but I think the word most people use to describe it is “long”. Yes, technically it’s tied for the longest month of the year with others but I’d like to see any other month look hard and long into the cold, grey eyes of January and see who blinks first.

Greetings to all and welcome to the first edition of the Lake County Press! I know I am not alone in my sense of excitement and satisfaction that our county is sprouting a new way of sharing news and information, events, joys, concerns, and dialogue.

As I look out my window at the deepening snowpack–28 inches as I write– and an array of northern birds at the feeder gobbling up the sunflower seeds in the subzero cold, I’m happy to be a small part of a new, local paper. I’ll be writing occasionally on subjects relating mostly to the outdoors and environmental issues–lifelong passions of mine–but will occasionally drift into other topics of local concern as well. I have some strong opinions on issues I care and know about, and I promise that you, the reader, likely won’t agree with all of them.