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I hope you had a chance to come out and support the Relay For Life or the Triathlon.  Iâknow it is kind of odd that our area would have two big events at the same time, but it seems to somehow work.  The Relay had a wonderful turnout with emotions in high gear as people celebrated survivors and those lost to cancer. If you are one of the families who have not been touched by cancer consider yourself lucky.  Iâlost my mom about 15 years ago now.  Iâmiss her more today than ever.  Back when she was battling breast cancer, in the back of my mind, I always thought they would miraculously find a cure and she would be saved at the last second.  Obviously Iâwas wrong, but I don’t think I’m all that wrong.  I think the millions of people working to find a cure for cancer have to be close.  How could they not be?  Think of the millions and millions of lab hours on top of billions of dollars spent on cancer research, someone has to be very close. My hope is that sometime very soon the cure will be achieved and someone’s mom will be saved at the last second.  Thank you to each person who took part in the relay and for all of the great fundraising you did!

Just an FYI for you. Last week at the North Center boat landing, a local resident launched his boat for a day of fishing.  When he came back later that day, he noticed his car exhaust was quite loud.  As it turns out, while he was fishing, someone had come and cut his catalytic converter right off his vehicle. I’m not sure what thieves get for converters, but it is a huge cost to the victims.  Iâguess what I am asking is that we all keep a vigilant eye out for suspicious activity both at boat launches and other areas that are easy prey for these thieves.

You and your family are invited to come and watch the annual tractor caravan Sunday, August 2.  

What is a tractor caravan?â The caravan is made up of a whole bunch of farm tractors traveling across Chisago County and eventually ending up at the Threshing Show Grounds outside of Almelund.  âThis is basically the kick off the ever popular Almelund Threshing Show.  

Tractors will take the following route, which you are encouraged to set up lawn chairs and view these great tractors and people.  It will begin on Keystone Avenue North rural Forest Lake.  Then travel on 192nd Street North and turn onto Manning Trail.  It will follow Manning to Mayberry Trail North which leads to Lofton Avenue North.  The caravan will pass Bone Lake on 238th Street North to Morgan Avenue.  It takes a right turn on Co. Rd. 23 (old 83) to Olympic Trail (left).  Then a right on 280th Street North and a left on Quinlan Avenue.  after a pit stop at the Froberg Farm, the caravan will continue on County Rd. 26 to 310th Street.  From there it continues north on County Rd. 9 to County Rd. 15.  It will turn right and cross 95 to the Amador Heritage Center for a pit stop.  From there it’s a short jaunt east on 95 to the grounds.  

The caravan begins at 9 a.m. and will arrive at the Threshing Grounds at approximately 3 p.m.

Iâwas coming from a baseball game this week north on I-35 by Forest Lake. âIâsaw a billboard for Ely, Minnesota that caught my eye.  It read “This weekend in Ely, emails are going unanswered and the world is not coming to an end”.  Iâlove it.  Soon the Silvers will head on vacation to an area that has zero cellphone coverage and I couldn’t be more excited.  Iâcan’t wait to see my kids’ faces instead of the top of their heads.  Iâwill let you know if our world came to an end.

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