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The Edna G all spiffed up and ready for tours during Heritage Days. Photo courtesy of Becky Norlien .
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Rep. Rob Ecklund
Rep. Rob Ecklund (DFL – International Falls) was on hand at the recent celebration of 30 years for the Silver Bay Veterans Home. Here he is praising the leadership of the home and the resiliency of the community that has created and continued a solid foundation for veterans to live and receive care. “That’s how a small community can make a place like the Silver Bay Veterans Home such a treasure to our area, to take care of our warriors, and be such a critical part not only of the economy, but the social fabric of the community,” Ecklund told the Lake County Press.
Agate Football Preview
Two Harbors’ ultra-competitive high school football team won six of nine games last season, while suffering its only losses against local elites Esko and Aitkin. The Agates fell to Aitkin 16-6 in a Section 7AAA semifinal, culminating in one of Two Harbors’ best start-to-finish efforts in many years.
Northern Lights Concerto Competition Winners to perform at historic Hibbing High School Auditorium
Young musicians from Minnesota and beyond will be performing concertos with the NLMF Orchestra, conducted by Gavriel Heine. Eddie Ojard, 15, from Two Harbors Minnesota, will play Grieg’s Piano Concerto.
Two Harbors Girls U12 compete at Lake Superior open soccer tournament
The Two Harbors Girls Summer Recreation Soccer team participated in the competitive Lake Superior Open Tournament on June 24 - 26 in Duluth. They played games against Gitchi Gummi, Minnetonka, and Mahtomedi including a decent 1-3 loss versus Gitchi Gummi and a very close 0-1 battle versus Mahtomedi. We were overall very satisfied with the results as a lot of girls haven’t competed at this level before.
Cooperative football program at Two Harbors to include Silver Bay and Lakeview/Duluth members
Silver Bay and Lakeview Christian Academy in Duluth will join Two Harbors’ combined, cooperative high school football program this fall, the Lake County Press has learned. “Silver Bay and LCA reached out to us, expressing interest after hearing good things about our cooperative with Duluth Marshall,” Agates football head coach Tom Nelson said Tuesday morning.
Teen Sea Change
Every June for the past four years, Sea Change Expeditions in the big red sailboat has headed for Isle Royale with five teenagers, three of them local, aboard as crew. After ten days of sailing around this pristine archipelago of over 450 islands, we sail back to Minnesota. We aim to turn the teenagers loose on the world with scratched legs, bug bites, and a climate change toolkit that will energize and inspire their engagement and interactions with others. How do we get there?
Runoff Report
Bristol Bay sockeye salmon season, Naknek, Alaska It’s July and the dead salmon are starting to show up along the high tide lines on the beaches and that draws in the brown bears from miles around. It’s like a buffet line for the animals and they simply mosey along feeding their way up or down the riverbank, somewhat oblivious to fishermen or any other human being that might be near their path.
From the Outside
Livable Pockets and Landscapes A few weeks ago while picking up my oldest son at his apartment in the “Cities” for a weekend trout fishing trip, I noticed a small, shady pocket of yard between two buildings that seemed vacant, neglected, and sickly. Maybe ten feet across, with bare ground and a few non-native plants, it was one of millions of such places located in built-up, urban, suburban, and small town locales everywhere.
Masked Fan Speaks
FIALA Traded, NHL Entry Draft this week! The Stanley Cup tourney is over, the Colorado Avalanche have been celebrating and who said hockey players were delicate beings? I have no idea how many parties the Cup has been to so far since the Avs took possession of it, but I do know that it is already sporting a couple of new dents, courtesy of the revelers. I have every confidence that it shall be repaired and rebuffed in short order and that the offending individuals will suffer a lifelong embarrassment as a result of their mishaps with the big trophy.