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Some great charities need your help; enjoy Valentine's Day locally
I have a couple of really neat happenings to tell you about. When I say neat, I mean neat as far as helping our community out.
Making a boxed cake mix special
Have you been asked to bring a cake or bars to a special gathering and you forgot to make it in the morning or evening of the day it is to be served? We have coffee and treats every Sunday after our worship service, as I’m sure many of you do …
Stock dogs compete indoors
Ordinarily a visitor to the enclosed arena at Rick-A-Shay Ranch, south of Chisago City, would be hearing the muffled echo of horse hooves on the fine gravel and sawdust floor, the clink of bridles against other tack, and the occasional whinny of horses greeting one another. This time, a riot …
Faux Celebration of the Lakes was still fun despite not being official, Home Show tab
I hope you had a chance to get out and enjoy some of the spectacular weather we had over the weekend. I was able to get out and take in some of the Celebration of the Lakes (yes, I know it was officially cancelled) events over theweekend. The kids clinic was great, …
Brothers pursue dream of classic dining venue in backyard of their youth
When you have a successful game plan you don’t mess with it much, but it sometimes pays to expand on it ever so slightly, and that’s just what Geoff Swenson has done with the new Swensons’ Lakehouse restaurant in Center City. He took his successful restaurant formula from out west …
Lots to do this weekend, get out and enjoy the beautiful weather before...
This weekend is what would have been the official Celebration of the Lakes. Lucky for you there are tons of things to take part in over the weekend.
It's soup time in Minnesota
It’s been a cold Minnesota winter and it’s hot soup time for us and many others. Millions of Americans eat soup each day. However, not the same person eating soup every day.
Putting the public back in cable T.V. public access
Having retired from a career portraying Ronald McDonald-- yes THE Ronald McDonald-- the newly-hired Chisago Lakes cable television public access coordinator is no stranger to being in the public eye. His lifelong pursuits in performing, marketing, video production and the arts served Jack Doepke well in his public relations career, …
Local author's book on living with ALS, release party January 23
Those diagnosed with ALS, their families and caregivers will most certainly want to get familiar with a book released just this month, which is an inspired personal story about living with ALS.
Chisago Lakes advances to semi's, more news on winter celebrations
Congratulations to Chisago Lakes and more importantly the group that heads up the ABC competition group. Chisago Lakes has advanced to the top 15 finalists in the America’s Best Communities competition. That means some representatives from our local group will attend the Summit in North Carolina in April, where they will …
Warm and delicious comfort foods
We are in the season of comfort foods otherwise known as soups, oven meals and casseroles. I am going to focus on casserole meals today.You can combine a variety of meats, poultry, fish, just veggies along with seasonings to make hot and bubbly one dish meals. We didn’t throw leftovers in …
Local effort advances to ABC semi-finals
The Chisago Lakes area, from Taylors Falls through Chisago City, is that much closer to a $100,000 economic revitalization implmentation grant as part of the America’s Best Communities, or ABC, competition.
Celebration of the Lakes has been cancelled, well sort of, maybe not
Remember last week when I wrote that Celebration of the Lakes was in essence cancelled this year. Well I have some good news, some of the events have been resuscitated. I am happy to say there will now be a 5K race and from all accounts it sounds like the Lions Ice …
Straight from the tropics
Shall we have a date today? Or in the next week or so? I wouldn’t know how to act on a date, even if I wanted to!So we’ll have recipes using the fruit from the palm tree.Dates have been called the “food of the desert.” So common in the Jordan …
