Laurel Beager

Laurel Beager

  • Joined: October 11, 2023
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Softball

The Bronco softball team won on the road Monday against Warroad, 14-2.Gracie Swenson was on the mound allowing 6 hits and 2 runs and throwing 6 strikeouts.Lola Valenzuela led the team at the plate with 2 hits, 3 runs and an RBI and her teammate Neva Kokesh chipped in at the plate with 3 hits (two doubles), 2 runs, and 2 RBI’s.The Bronco softball team celebrated senior day Saturday, May 11, honoring the seniors with a 17-0 win over Duluth Marshall.The team features three of the seniors: Gracie Swenson, Hattie Ulrich, and Lola Valenzuela.Swenson had a great game on the mound pitching 9 strikeouts and only allowing 1 hit.She has committed to Southwest Minnesota State University to continue playing softball.Ulrich was only on the Broncos for one season, transferring after Indus School was closed.

Bronco baseball

In Bronco baseball Thursday, May 9, Kaden Korpi collected three hits in four at bats, but International Falls would lose to GNK 17-12 at Scheela Field.

Notebook, Tuesday, May 14:

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Let’s talk about honesty

Whenever I open an egg carton, I think of the chicken at work in the factory, creating this elliptical work of art onto a conveyor belt, to be stolen away, and then the hormones in the chicken feed kick in and the process of creation repeats itself, sort of like me and limericks: I write a good one and it stimulates the next limerick and pretty soon I have a hundred of them, which I could collect in a book but won’t because very few people appreciate limericks — women do not, because so many cruel limericks have been written about women, and when men read a limerick they think, “I could’ve done better than that,” being the compulsive competitors they are, and meanwhile here I am with this work of art in my hand.Minneapolis is great.

Essentia program recognized by AHA

Essentia Health, Duluth, is among five programs across the nation have earned the AHA Dick Davidson NOVA Award for their hospital-led collaborative efforts that improve community health.The American Hospital Association announced May 1 the winning programs: Resourceful program, Essentia Health,; Beyond Violence, John Muir Health, Walnut Creek, Calif.; UH Food for Life Markets®, University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio; TC Street Medicine, Munson Healthcare, Traverse City, Mich.; and Forensic Health and Trauma Recovery Center Services, Palomar Health, Escondido, Calif.The AHA Dick Davidson NOVA Award recognizes hospitals and health systems for their collaborative efforts toward improving community health status, whether through health care, economic or social initiatives.

L-BF students

The Littlefork-Big Falls School Board recently recognized the students of the month for April 2024.Dominick Juen, whose parents are Jake and Heather Juen, is April student of the month for senior high, and Esther Zastavskiy, whose parents are Pavel and Dina Zastavskiy, for junior high, reports Kathy Siltman, L-BF High School secretary.