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A bit of tomato trivia and recipes
It’s about tomatoes today. Did you know tomatoes are really a fruit and not a veggie? As far as I’m concerned, they’re a veggie. Just a bit of tomato info for you since some recipes call for one pound of tomatoes. That would be four medium globe tomatoes. One pound of …
Ki Chi a blast for everyone
The Chisago City scaled down Ki Chi Saga Days event in the park; featured a booth for the city parks department where Kaitlin Carlson and Aisha Roche were holding down the fort, explaining their Girl Scout Silver Award project. The bird houses were assembled with materials provided by Gregory Contracting …
Council sees Lindstrom Fire Hall design
The first drawings and cost estimates for Lindstrom’s new fire hall were reviewed last week by the city council. Early estimates are that the seven bay fire hall can be built for between $5,272,960 and $4,585,183.
NB celebrates the newly extended Hemingway Avenue
North Branch City officials, the county engineer,commissioners and others celebrated the opening of the newly extended Hemingway Avenue. The road makes a connection now from Hwy. 95 (at its new roundabout) south to County Road 14 (Lincoln Trail.) This was made possible by Chisago County, MnDOT, North Branch and the …
Ki Chi Saga Days was awesome; reduced tuition in a pandemic??
Thank you so much to all who worked very hard to make this year’s Ki Chi Saga Days so special in a year filled with cancellations. Judging by the response on that “book” on the internet, there were bound to be opponents to the thought of having an event. I totally understand their …
End of summer fresh zucchini
It’s getting close to the end of summer, according to the calendar. Gardens, roadside stands and farmers markets are filled with lots of fresh veggies waiting to be purchased. There are a lot of varieties of summer squash out there and I always thought that only crookneck squash were called …
Primary voting numbers interesting
Some results of the August 11 Minnesota Primary are interesting but exactly how prescient the voting activity will prove to be is hard to tell. Historically, it’s only political parties that have challenges for a spot on the November ballot that get the most turnout for a primary.
Lions donate time for blood mobile
The Chisago Lakes Lions Club assisted Red Cross with a mobile blood drive August 14. The drive was held at Brink’s Market in Chisago City. Pictured are Gary Gerke, Jim Koenig, Collette Campbell, Sally Swanson, Dan Swanson, and Ron Boneske. Not pictured is Don Bungum.
Veteran gets wish fulfilled on local lake
Len Utech has been fishing nearly his whole life, but it’s the last outing that could be his most memorable.
Ki Chi Saga Days - fun to be had safely, grab a paddle and head out
So as I write this the folks at Chisago City are planning to hold their annual Ki Chi Saga Days. Just a quick note before I start writing about what’s happening. We as a favor posted the schedule on our facebook page and the comments were just as expected. Some were extremely excited and …
North Branch hosts Gov. Walz, and 'Telecommuter Forward'
A rain-soaked morning in North Branch drove a visit from Minnesota Governor Tim Walz from the front lawn of the city hall inside, to the council chambers.
Don Danielson - teacher, speaker and now author
Lindstroms’s Don Danielson’s childhood was "lake oriented." Camping, hunting, fishing, trapping, traipsing, ice-skating -- most anything associated with their backyard lake. Never in his wildest dreams did he envision writing a book about the outdoors. Yet here he is with his first book “Come Autumn, Memoirs of a Hunter”.
Still time to get your luminary; a get-away was the perfect medicine
My wife and I recently celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary and now that the kids are gone, we decided to take a mini-vacation with just the two of us. Let me begin by saying how much easier on the pocketbook renting a one bedroom cabin is. We ended up staying …
Not just corn on the cob
It’s that wonderful veggie, corn, today. Looking through articles that pertained to corn, I came across this delightful legend concerning corn tamales that saved Cortez and his men from starvation and death. It seems that when the Indians finally realized that Cortez was not the Great White God, they decided …
