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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 …
Trial underway to prove third degree homicide of woman
The third degree murder trial of Aaron Jude Schnagl is in jury selection phase this week. Tenth Judicial District Court Judge Todd Schoffelman and attorneys for the defense and prosecution agreed to several stipulations in court on Tuesday, before the process of questioning the full slate of potential jurors got …
Northwoods benefits from prize in essay contest
The local Northwoods Humane Society, on Hwy 8 in Wyoming, has been awarded a $50,000 prize after being featured in an essay writing contest. The competition was to be a story about a pet that has “changed a life for the better.” The foundation arm of pet products giant, Petco, …
Dateline: Rotary in Jamaica
The Chisago Lakes Rotary Club delivered boxes of medical equipment; including ultrasound equipment, blood pressure machines and cardiac monitors for two rural hospitals in Jamaica. The group arrived Jan. 2 in Jamaica. Shown with some of the equipment, in May Pen, Jamaica are: Chisago Lakes Rotarian Joanie Sackreiter, left; Dr. …
Bad news for this year's Celebration of the Lakes; Iowa trips are never dull
I have some bad news to tell you. There will be an official announcement next week, but it looks like from all accounts the Celebration of the Lakes is cancelled. As you know the weather has been extremely warm keeping the ice from forming to a safe thickness for the celebration. …
Tasty almond recipes
Do you like nuts? As in almonds? Just a bit of info about this nut: The almond is the most widely known and eaten tree nut. It is not a true nut like the pecan and walnut. But rather a stone fruit like the peach or plum. Throughout history, man has used …
2015; wow what a year!
The area had state fair winners in the teen division of the talent show...Nicholas Stone and Emily McCurdy coached by Sheryl Baker, took first in State Fair Teen Division with their clogging performance.
