Idaho Avenue
Been nearly six months since reporting on Idaho Avenue at Big Bass Lake, a little North of Highway #2. Daughter and spouse had then just begun work on new home building project.
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Question: I see school busses that do not use their flashing lights or extend the stop arm as they’re picking up kids. Cars are passing them from behind and from the front. What are the requirements for bus drivers to use their safety lights? Thank you for your time.
HISTORY with Mike Hanson
Jeremiah Johnston Chapter 2 In 1895 Jeremiah Johnston was called to take a special course for the ministry and was ordained and assigned to the Long Sault; by September of 1896 he had cleared 5 acres of land and a house and church were built. James Taylor Rogers traveled from Toronto to Rat Portage (Kenora, Ontario) where he saw Indians buying items from the various shops, some of whom had received their treaty money, $5 per head.
@ Your Library, Diane ADAMS
LIBRARY Last week I shared some of the great non-fiction in the junior room. I want to talk about one more title this week in anticipation of Veterans’ Day next Thursday.
OUR VIEW: Three things
Voting, deer hunting, and community – all celebrations of this great democracy we call the United States, and particularly of Borderland. We urge those who can to exercise all and any of these rights and privileges that come with being an American. Already the youth deer hunt has brought people together to experience tradition and respect for our great natural resources, and many have gathered to celebrate as a community at the Rainy Lake Medical Center’s Halloween event Oct. 27 and Birchdale’s Oktoberfest this past weekend.
Grand Game
We’re pushing toward November with firearms deer season nearing our Northland. Old adventurer, with a lifetime of outdoor adventuring now well into old age, has some wandering thoughts about beginning and ending those adventures. At age five or so, he got close enough to first-time see and touch a deer, his maternal grandfather’s final deer. It was a basement-hanging buck in that Minnesota River Valley farm home almost 75 years ago. First grandfather annually deer hunted “Up North”--Saginaw/ Grand Lake/Willow River--with a neighbor, some relatives and Savage Model 99’s .300 Savage cartridge. He tried, too soon, explaining bucks and does to this grandson. Taxidermy bucks and a modest arsenal on his enclosed porch were long envied by this young grandson. He encouraged grandson to pretend-hunt on that farm with real rifles after having removed firing pins. Same grandson remembers seeing first live hometown deer and finally getting 12th birthday gift gun; ensuing local adventures confirmed deer had returned locally following near-elimination due to homesteader/ market hunting.
Jeremiah Johnston
Jeremiah Johnston Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung Center – some of you may know what it is or where it is, some of you have visited but I strongly suspect most have not and I’m pretty sure that Jeremiah Johnston didn’t ever contemplate about its future history, nor had vision of his part in it because he was born Nov. 20, 1860 at St.
Ask a Trooper
Question: Hello, can a person who is working for a farmer during harvest driving a semi (no CDL) cross a state line (North Dakota and Minnesota)? Answer: Yes, as long as they stay within 150 air miles of the farm. With harvest season upon us, it’s a good time to remind everyone about sharing the roads.
@Your Library
Trade paperback books are seeing a resurgence in popularity by publishers. They are more willing to take a chance on a new, unproven author as their commitment in terms of expenses to produce the book are less. Here are six new titles that all looked intriguing. I’ve been reading about this title for months now and am excited to have a copy of “One Woman’s War” by Christine Wells. It is a novel of the real Miss Moneypenny who worked with Ian Fleming in World War II. Ms. Bennett is offered the chance to work as an agent in the field and encounters another strong woman who on the surface is also working for British intelligence. Women spies definitely seem to be a hot topic at the moment as “That Summer in Berlin” by Lecia Cornwall is also about an English spy. This time set in Germany during the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Viviane is in Berlin with her trusty Leica camera to get evidence that Germany is rearming. Books about the book world are always fun. “Thank you for Listening” by Julia Whelan is about an audiobook narrator who had dreamed of being a star of film, but only found success in the sound booth. She is even able to attend book conventions and meet fans and is asked to perform the last book of a beloved romance author with the industry’s hottest, most secretive voice. Secrets and of course, their revelation abound in this funny, sexy and complex love story. I love behind the scenes exposes and this should be a fun, light read.
Seasonal Swing
Seasonal Swing Calendars now announce that mid-October is history, like it or not. Here, in our fine city at the Edge of the Wilderness, it means fall season’s swing toward Winter.