January 2022

L-BF Vikings

Littlefork-Big Falls Viking Tommy Larson scored 22 points Monday in a boys basketball game. L-BF fell to Northland, 78-41.

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CO Tales International Falls

District 5 - Eveleth area Monday CO Darrin Kittelson (International Falls #1) reports ice fishing and spearing activity on Rainy Lake and Lake Kabetogama have been slow because of the frigid temperatures. Snowmobile activity has also been minimal with Saturday being the busiest day.

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Trail Reports

International Voyageurs Snowmobile Club, Tuesday: Our trails are shaping up nicely. The guys have been out on a regular basis and have been able to groom everything but the Birchdale trail.

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Looking Back

Friday, Jan. 14 15 years ago Bethany Crane, a junior, was crowned at the Indus School homecoming pep fest by last year’s homecoming queen, her sister Mallory Crane.

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Green, green grass of home…

Home, a simple word that strikes a chord deep inside of us. As they say, “Home is where the heart is.” Sometimes home isn’t a physical place any longer. It’s a place in time we long to return to again. Curly Putman wrote a song that has been sung by many people, that Porter Wagoner made popular in 1965, called, “Green, Green of Home” about a man sentenced to die in prison dreaming of home. Is there anything better than the feeling of coming home where your people love you just as you are? Home is forever in our memory. People in prison, hospitals, soldiers serving their country, nursing homes, kids away at camp, anyone physically away from their home place rely on their memory and recognize that deep desire for home. They know that home is often, people.

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