Nancy Black, Tribune Content Agency TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (04/14/23). You’re on top of the world this year. You can accomplish what you dedicate time and energy for. Springtime delivers satisfying personal rewards. Adapting around summer financial challenges together deepens autumn partnership and romance. Make personal financial changes for growth next winter. Savor the prizes.
Several forest roads in the Pine Island, Kabetogama and Koochiching state forests are temporarily closed and other roads may soon be closed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources as the spring thaw impacts road conditions.
Reservations for Voyageurs National Park ranger-led boat tours and North Canoe Voyage open at 9 a.m. April 15 for the 2023 season.
Rainy Lake: Earliest ice out - April 6, 2012; latest – May 22, 1950; median ice out date – May 4. Kabetogama Lake: Earliest ice out - April 1, 2012; latest May 1; Median ice out – April 29.
Voyageurs National Park reported Monday that all Voyageurs snowmobile trails, ski trails, and ice roads are now closed parkwide due to rapidly warming temperatures and snow melt. Snowmobile trail markers will be removed over the next few days. Hiking trails will likely be slushy though this melting period.
NEARLY NORTH OF TWO Death bell rang twice, loudly and clearly in this senior camp during the past couple weeks. Hometown High School classmate's spouse and local longtime, close personal friend’s brother passed away.
This year's population estimate of 3,290 moose marks a decade of Minnesota's moose population remaining relatively stable, according to the results of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources' 2023 aerial population survey.
The Native American faculty and students of Rainy River Community College will hold a Ziigwan International Unity Traditional Powwow this coming Saturday. It will be held in the gymnasium and is free and open to the public. The Ziigwan, which means spring in Ojibwe, is held on the third weekend of April and is organized by the Anishinaabe Student Coalition of RRCC, with Stephen Briggs, indigenous services director. The powwow is a renewal process for the Indian community and it is an opportunity for non-natives to share stories and food. The RRCC Ziigwan is not a competition powwow, but a social and a spiritual event that honors the elder and traditions. “For us this is a big event,” said Briggs. “The community feast and dance is a central part of the culture and a way of showing respect. The powwow and the feast is open to everybody in the community,” he added.
@YOUR LIBRARY April showers bring May flowers. Does that include snow showers? I am ready for green and spring and growing things.