The Great Up North Triathlon is expected to make a return to City Beach in August, with approval Monday by the International Falls City Council. Erin Hall met with the council Monday to discuss use of City Beach for the triathlon and 5K run scheduled for Aug.
Tuesday, April 5 Rainy River Community College’s freshman pitcher Juan Alcoverde earned the Minnesota College Athletic Conference’s baseball athlete-of-the-week for March 28 – April 3. Alcoverde… Login to continue reading Login…
The International Falls track and field teams competed at University of Wisconsin Superior on Saturday, April 2, in an indoor meet. For the Bronco boys, it was their first competition of the season and individually, Anthony Scholler placed fifth in the 800 meter run while Wyatt Jantzen took seventh in the 60 meter hurdles.
A report about Bryant Koenig, Falls High graduate, earning placement on the Viterbo dean’s list, in the April 1 edition should have noted that he is also a left-handed pitcher on the Viterbo V-Hawks Baseball team.
The Falls High School speech team has been in action over the past two months, traveling to meets across the Iron Range. They have competed in six meets so far with the sub-section meet right around the corner: Saturday, April 2.
The Arrowhead Library System will provide Take & Write Poetry Workbook Kits to member public libraries. Celebrate National Poetry Month with the Poet’s Workbook designed by COMPAS Teaching Artist and Minnesota Poet May Lee-Yang! Inside your booklet, there are several poetry writing exercises designed specifically for new poets. Each writing exercise will include an example poem, some directions on how you can write your own poem, and space to write! This program, sponsored by Arrowhead Library System, was funded in part or in whole with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Michele Joan Flesland-Walkoviak, 78, of International Falls, Minnesota, died on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 at the Littlefork Care Center in Littlefork, Minnesota. Michele was born December 25, 1943 in Minneapolis, MN to Sollie and Sharron Brown.
Leona Caroline Utter passed away, with her family by her side, in Duluth, MN on March 28th, 2022 at the age of 87. Leona was born in Littlefork, MN in 1935.
Mr. and Mrs. Barney Langford lived about a mile from the Kielczewski family’s Kettle River place. When Floyd was 9 years old Mr. Langford had to be absent for two weeks and they asked Violet if Floyd could stay with Mrs. Langford while he was gone. Their home was at the mouth of Bear River and Hale Bay, the house set back about 20 feet off a cliff overlooking the lake. Mrs. Langford and Floyd snowshoed to her home, and he helped carry all the wood for the cook stove and helped feed the 100-ranch mink they raised. They set a gill net under the ice near Hale Bay, catching whitefish, bluefins and suckers, and another one near the mouth of the Bear River where they caught walleye and northern pike. They ate the walleyes and whitefish and cooked the other fish adding it to meal to feed the mink. Floyd remembered one time when Rusty Meyers, who flew a 50-horsepower Cub that had skis on it, landed at the Langford’s and he told Floyd to go take a closeup look at it; he had never seen one up close and that did it, because after that, according to Floyd “he wanted to fly, very much.” One time at the Langford’s there was a bear denned up on their island and they wanted it deposed of because it kept coming around trying to get at the mink food, and they were concerned that it would kill the mink. Floyd’s dad, Orrah, shot the bear and it slid back into the den, so he crawled into the den to drag it out when he was bitten by one of two cubs. Realizing that the cubs would not survive without the mother, he shot both as well. They rendered the bear grease off the large female and the Kielczewski’s ate one of the cubs; the other cub, as well as part of the female they gave to the Langfords, Floyd notated that they didn’t have much lard at home, so the bear grease was very useful.
H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza , or HPAI, has been confirmed in poultry flocks in Meeker and Mower counties, reports the Minnesota Board of Animal Health. Flock owners large and small, from commercial operations to backyard flocks, should review their biosecurity measures to maintain the health of their birds: https://www.bah.