We’re bumping up against June’s Summer Solstice following long Winter and short Spring. This old adventurer and his longterm bride, sweetheart and best friend are seeing their first summer season develop here at Majestic Pines, their comprehensive senior camp since September of last year, nearly North of Highway #2 in this fine city at once-grand rapids of dandy river Mississippi.
Bronco Quianna Ford was seeded 15th coming into the pole vault competition at the State Track and Field Meet on Friday, June 10, and finished in 11th place with a vault of 9 feet. The new personal best for the sophomore came on her third attempt and Q said it was exciting to achieve 9 feet.
No amount of planning or preparation would have stopped flooding on Rainy Lake, an International Joint Commissioner and members of the International Rainy-Lake of the Woods Watershed Board and its Water Levels Committee explained last week in a tour of the watershed with local officials.
The year just keeps chugging along. Here we are past the middle of June. I have done some reading this year, but I think I’ve added more titles to my “to read” list than my ‘read’ list. But that is what tends to happen every year. I would love for magic to exist and to be able to create an extra two-hour block of the day that no one knew existed and I could just read.
Three Falls High School graduates have been awarded the Leonard J. Kucera Memorial Scholarship, Bronko Nagurski Education Scholarship and Sons of Norway – Vinland Lodge 1-193 Scholarship, Northwest Minnesota Foundation has announced.
Floyd and brother Frank were out 16 days counting beaver houses for the government and at night they would use a three-gallon galvanized steel water pail with some hay and kindling in it to create a smudge to keep the mosquito’s out of their cabin, leaving the door open to filter the smoke. They had a gal lon of lard outside the cabin and one night Floyd half-way woke up in the middle of night and in kind of in a daze he watched as a big bear tried to enter through the cabin doorway, he finally uttered some thing like “a bear is coming in” and the bear bolted. Frank slept through the episode and didn’t believe him and thought that Floyd had been dreaming until he went outside and saw a big bite taken out of the lard bucket.
CO Darrin Kittelson (International Falls #1) reports continuing to assist the Koochiching County Sheriff’s Office with flood relief efforts on Rainy Lake. A youth firearms safety class in Littlefork was held at which 18 area youth received their certification. Other training was attended, and miscellaneous animal-related complaints were handled. People are reminded that the no wake zone was continued and extended out to 500-feet from shoreline on Rainy Lake. Please be respectful and careful.
Friday, June 17 15 years ago The International Falls Country Club hosted a Rally for the Cure golf scramble tournament. 55 golfers from International Falls and Fort Frances took part in this year’s event, which is the most golfers ever in the event’s six years.
As the Minnesota Department of Transportation expands the state’s Road Weather Information Systems, motorists traveling in northeastern Minnesota can expect shortterm lane closures as the stations are installed at 10 different locations.
We live with beetles, ants, flies, moths, bees, caterpillars, maggots, grubs, spiders, and on and on! There are good pests, bad pests and some down-right ugly pests. Every garden has them. The good ones—pollinators, like bees—are a welcomed member of our gardens. They aid in plant growth and fruit and vegetable production; without them, nothing would grow. Some of these good guys even help us get rid of the bad ones, for example, ladybugs which prey on aphids. A number of the ugly ones are bad for gardens and need to be removed. Maggots, grubs, and ants are just a few.