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Chapter 40 After getting ashore and getting the outboard motors cleaned of sand, and the evening meal, they wondered what challenges were to come. The next morning the boys decided it would be a good idea to take the skiff and a pike pole and run ahead to sound out the channel.

Friday, January 28 15 years ago Between its birth and the evolution of today’s Major League baseball were the glory days of small town baseball. The golden era of the amateur game from 1945 to 1960 is described as a “magical time of outstanding ball playing attended by record-breaking crowds” in the recently released “Town Ball: The Glory Days of Minnesota Amateur Baseball.” Borderland’s team of that era was called the International Falls “Mandos,” an acronym for its sponsor, the Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company which was originally owned by baseball zealot E.W.

Last July a tiny kitten was discovered on the steps of a church in Ada, Minn. The people who found it could see it was sick and needed help. They contacted Paws and Claws and took it to the nearest vet clinic, all the way to Fargo, N.D.