The Highway 61 earth moving equipment you may have observed, is not initiating a housing project— it is wetland restoration work. Contractors will re-grade and improve the hydrology in the area between the Heims Lake outlet and the wetland east of Highway 61 connected to Comfort Lake-Sunrise River.
Chisago Lakes Area High School Performing Arts Center was the host site for a one-act contest last weekend.
Chisago Lakes 3, Pine City 2In the first game of back-to-back clashes between the Wildcat girls’ hockey team and the Pine City Dragons, Wildcat Brooke Klemz scored twice to lead the her team to a 3-2 win over the Dragons. The game was played Tuesday, January 17 at the Pine City Civic Center.
Water & Light not in favor of electric conditions The North Branch City Council unanimously tabled a vote on terminating the city’s power purchase contract with SMMPA earlier this month; opting to wait and see how the five Water & Light utility commissioners would vote. (See city council story Press Jan 12.)
Chisago Lakes loses triangular to some of the top teams in the area The Wildcats hosted a triangular meet last Thursday, January 19 at Chisago Lakes High School. They lost both of their matches by wide margins, falling to Big Lake 55-24 and succumbing to Forest Lake 51-18. The next night , the Wildcats lost a home dual to St. Francis 60-15. Andrew Novack was the only Wildcat wrestler to go undefeated in the three duals, and won two of his matches by first period pins. Wildcat sophomore Logan Bender, ranked fourth in the state at 195 pounds in Class AA, had matchups against two other ranked wrestlers. Against Forest Lake, Bender moved up to 220 to take on junior Mark Rendl, ranked second in the state in Class AAA at 220. Rendl pinned Bender with four seconds left in the first period. Bender moved back down to 195 the next night to go up against Bo Flagstad of St Francis, ranked fifth in that state. Flagstad came out on top with a pin at the five minute mark.
Joseph E. Gillach The self-described “luckiest man on earth,” Joseph Edward Gillach, died of old age on December 21, the winter solstice, at age 94, at home, with his children by his side. Always closely attuned to his body and spirit, at Thanksgiving he told his family he would be Gone to Glory, the Gillach term for dying, by Christmas despite few outward indications that he was in failing health.
