March is National Nutrition Month as designated by Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Nutrition has been much debated over the years. However, many professionals in the field continue to go back to the basics. This month we’d like to remind you of some of those principles.
Snow might still cover the ground and a snowstorm might be on the way but high school athletes across Lake County are readying for spring sports season. Waiting for the thaw is an annual tradition up north.
Talking with Father Time. Frazzled, ROB rushes into the coffee shop, immediately recognizes FATHER TIME on the opposite side of the café, sitting in a booth.
SILVER CLIFF Well, heckfire! In the wee hours of this day I put the finishing touches on an article for another publication where I opined that all things considered, I didn’t see the Minnesota WILD making any big deals with the impending NHL trade deadline looming large. As it goes with a lot of my prognosticating I was incorrect.
Two Harbors High School Junior Lamar Gordon, recipient of the 2022 ExCEL Award, at the Awards Ceremony at Williams Arena (UMN) with Lisa Lissimore, Associate Director of the Minnesota State High School League. The ExCEL Award – Excellence in Community, Education and Leadership – is a unique recognition program designed exclusively for Minnesota high school juniors who are active in school activities, leaders in their schools, and who demonstrate a strong commitment to community service.This award is sponsored by the League’s corporate partner Wells Fargo. The ExCEL Award recipients are selected by an independent panel of judges from schools throughout Minnesota.” Eighteen girls and eighteen boys are selected from the nominees every year. Award winners are invited to one of the state championship basketball games at Williams Arena to receive their awards. Submitted Photo
The Silver Bay 12U girls hockey squad made it to state this season and took part in the tourney over the weekend at the Iron Trail Motors Event Center in Virginia. The girls took on Alexandria in the first game and it was a good one, tied in the last minutes when Alexandria scored and then scored an empty-netter for a 2-0 win over the Mariners. They lost their second game 5-1 to Woodbury. Making state was a big accomplishment.
There are lots of things going on out there across Lake County in terms of youth sports. Please let us know about scores and team photos and any other info you might have. As well, there are miles of ski and snowshoe and hiking trails and for Lake County athletes of all stripes to enjoy so please let us know what shape the trails are in so we can share that with readers.
Two Harbors opened the Section 7AA boys basketball playoffs with a 66-45 win over Hinckley-Finlayson but then fell to Crosby-Ironton 76-56 in quarterfinal action. The #5 seeded Agates hosted #12 seed Hinckley-Finlayson last Thursday night, jumping out to a 12-2.
As was reported in last week’s Camp Shack News- Gazette-Chronicle-Post- Press-Weekly Standard, the reluctant editor found himself flying solo after the old pilot leaped out of the 1927 Curtiss two-seat trainer with a parachute on his back so old it was transluscent.
Thirty feet below the ice and slush and overcast bleakness, the lake trout were playing—or so it seemed. My buddy Tom and I had decided to attempt a north to south traverse of Ontario’s Quetico Provincial Park on skis in early March, but found our progress so slow because of deep snow in the woods and feet-soaking slush on the lakes that we were forced to change our plans and head west across sprawling Pickerel Lake, take out a week later at the Park Headquarters at Nym Lake—and call home for a ride south. On Pickerel, there would be a bit less slush, shallower snow due to the wind, and we’d have ample time to fish. Two weeks later, the travel conditions would be perfect, but not now.