Opinion
You can tame a feral cat
First, put a trap where you see the cat the most and put fresh food in it at the same time daily. Once caught, keep it away from other animals and get to the vet immediately. Give it a quiet, dark, cat-proofed room with food, water, a place to hide, litter box, and clothes with your scent on them. Leave it to rest for 24 hours and when you go in be prepared. Wear long sleeves, long pants, gloves, shoes and cardboard shield.
Seasons of time and a celebration
By DANIEL G. KRAMER A warm and fine sunny day lent itself quite appropriately for the recent Ranier Days celebration.
@ YOUR LIBRARY
August is over halfway gone. The International Falls Bass Championship is next week and then a week until Labor Day and it is all just going way too fast. I want to call a halt to time and just have a week where we all just read. And if we’re being magical, then let’s just make all our meals appear and we all have the perfect books for us to enjoy all week long.
NEARLY NORTH OF TWO: NEW OLD STUFF
By DICK NACHBAR Old adventurer here nears four-score circles of Boss Star, riding on Planet Earth as he contemplates the subject of on-going learning. Some 17+ years were spent attending academic institutions of education prior to additional special short courses provided during a long career in the forest products industry before early retirement.
ASK A TROOPER
By Sgt. Jesse Grabow Minnesota State Patrol Question: I have a child that will be turning 15 years old pretty soon.
ASK AMY
Advice for the Real World Amy Dickinson askamy@amydickinson.com or send a letter to Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, NY 13068.
HISTORY with Mike Hanson
Big Sam Bjerre, Loman, Minn. Chapter 2 “Big Sam” was still a teenager when he immigrated to America choosing it over Africa because of a political revolution.
Did You Know: Dogs
Most people know dogs have amazing hearing and sense of smell, but did you know a dog’s nose is also as individual as our fingerprints, no two are alike. Ever wonder why dogs will eat almost anything, even rotten or gross things? It’s because their sense of taste is only 6 percent of what ours is. This doesn’t mean you should just feed your dog anything, keep it healthy.
@ Your Library
We just received and processed a really cool batch of juvenile fiction titles. I want to read all of these books but am deep into some heavy reading at the moment so will put these on the shelf and let others read them first. Manatee Summer by Evan Griffith is for animal lovers everywhere. Peter and his best friend Tommy want to finish their Discovery Journal the last summer before they head to middle school. It is a record of all the amazing animal species they have found around their Florida home and they both really want to find a manatee.