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As I sit down to type this week's news, it's a balmy 40 degrees in Wright. Just think, one year ago, it was 30 to 40 below zero with a wind chill of minus 50 degrees. It was on Jan. 30, the coldest day of 2019, that our local restaurant, Minetties, caught fire and burned to the ground. What a difference a year makes. We are still hoping a café can open in Wright in the future. Congratulations to Julie Peterson, a board member at Moose Lake schools the past 29 years, for receiving the Board...
Homecoming week is here at the school. The coronation will be tonight after the boys basketball game. This year’s candidates are: Shaily, Micah, Taya, Taye, Anja, Cameron, Josie, Ben, Emmalee, Garrett, Amber, and Gage. Good luck to them all. The Farmer’s Co-op Store in Wright is now at a point where the manager had to take money out of savings to cover some expenses. Sales have gone down. The only thing that makes sense at this time is to shorten store hours at least for the winter months. So,...
Pro stock racer Jason Line announced that this will be his last season on the National Hot Rod Association circuit. He has had a very successful racing career starting at age 15. He has won championships in 2006, 2011 and 2016 and has 50 pro stock wins over his career. We wish him all the best this coming year, as he will be staying with Ken Black Racing. Jason said “we’ve got a great family there. My position is just going to change a little bit, that’s all. My heart was always in drag racin...
Our sympathy to the family of Allan William Karki Sr., 79, of Cromwell who passed away Jan. 9 with his children by his side. Upon Al’s request there will be a private family burial in West Branch Cemetery in Kalevala Township in the spring. Allan was the principal during the years that I taught in Wright (1968-1993) and we had many good times over the years. Our faculty was like a family and we enjoyed getting together with him from time to time during retirement. He was always encouraging and h...
The current Minnesota Conservation Volunteer Magazine has a 10-page article complete with photographs of our own Julie Collman and her husband, Bob Baker, as they snowmobile, and snowshoe for Big Brook Trout in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Author Michael Dvorak did an excellent job of writing the article and I’m sure he was thrilled to be spending time with Julie and Bob doing what they love doing: fishing. Pine Knot News outdoors writer Bret Baker also wrote about the couple ...
Happy New Year to all my readers and friends. It had been a long time since I was home, but finally on Dec. 26, after 11 days, I got home from my total right knee replacement at Cloquet’s Community Memorial Hospital. I couldn’t have been happier with the nurses, staff and all the folks who made my stay as comfortable as possible. If it weren’t for the pains in my abdomen, which the doctors can’t seem to find the cause of, I would be well on the way to mending. Now it’s on to therapy and more...
This may be my last news column for a couple of weeks, as I had a total knee replacement scheduled for Dec. 16 at Cloquet Memorial Hospital. I do hope to be well enough to get back home to my computer to do the news, but who knows? Our sympathies to the family of Philip Lippo, 78, of Cromwell, who passed away in his home Friday, Dec. 13, 2019 with family at his side. A memorial service was scheduled for Dec. 19. Phil’s obituary appears in today’s edition of the Pine Knot News. Our sym...
We are excited to share with you that the Cromwell-Wright area has formed its first “Best Christmas Ever” team. This effort is about uplifting and giving a local family hope when there may be none left. It is changing the world, family by family, and it’s happening right here in our community this year. If you would like to donate to this worthwhile cause, use this link: bcemovement.kindful.com/bce2019/cromwellit-takes-a- village. Anything you are willing to give is greatly appreciated. We wi...
Many area folks attended the memorial service for Harold Maki last week. Missing was his oldest brother Franklin Maki, but I got an email from his niece Mary Soyring, who said that he and his wife Ellen were both ill and couldn’t make it to the funeral. That was too bad. They live in assisted living in Forest Lake. I heard a lot of people at the funeral say Franklin was their teacher – fun. He was a great English teacher. He was also the teacher who suggested sending home a bulletin of sch...
Little Ariahlyn Goodin, daughter of Luc and Suzy Goodin, will be baptized on Sunday, Dec. 1 at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church at their 9 a.m. service. Please join the family in this special ceremony. Our sympathy goes out to the family of Harold Arthur Maki, 82, of Cromwell who passed away Nov. 20 at St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth. He had been a resident of Cardinal Court in Cromwell. Harold was raised in Kalevala Township and attended grade school there prior to graduating from Cromwell High Scho...
Larry Hamren was laid to rest Sunday, Nov. 17 at the Wright Public Cemetery following a wonderful funeral service with scripture, tributes and songs. Larry left Wright on Oct. 14 to visit his brother Glen and his family in Indiana, with a promise to return to his duties at Bethlehem Church on Nov. 17. Well, he kept his word and was in church for the last time on the 17th. Many of his classmates, friends, and family were there to pay their final respects. Pastor Deb Hanson-Carlson and three...
Our current high school exchange student from Italy, Lisa, was selected to play flute in the 52nd annual High School Honor Band at the University of Minnesota Duluth last Friday and Saturday. Lisa was one of more than 250 students chosen from more than 50 schools all over the state. She was placed in the top ensemble and earned first chair honors through an audition process held with UMD music faculty. It was a wonderful performance Saturday afternoon, following only two short days of...
Folks are wearing their blaze orange again, and you know what that means. It’s time to eat (and shop) and hunt. The hunters supper sponsored by the Cromwell Area Community Club will be 4-7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8 at the Cromwell Pavilion. The cost is $10 for adults. Volunteers are needed too. The hunters supper and bake sale at the Round Lake Presbyterian Church is 5-9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, on County Road 6 or Goshawk Avenue. The Beehive Community Club is holding its annual (all you can eat) m...
Last week was a tough one for many with the passing of Mike Olson, Clarence Smith Jr., Eugenia Lisson, Lee Lippo, June Kingsley and, most recently, Larry Hamren. Larry, 76, of Wright passed away Sunday, Oct. 20. A funeral service was held Oct. 25 in Greentown, Indiana. A service and burial will follow at a later date, possibly Nov. 17, at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Wright. Donations for Lakeside Cemetery upkeep can be sent to the Lakeside Cemetery Association c/o Pam and Bob Rahja, 1445 Hart...
The Chilloween Halloween party is Friday, Oct. 25 inside the Cromwell Park Pavilion (no kids on the playground/outside). From 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., the party is geared toward kids in 6th grade and younger, and toward grades 7-12 from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Costumes are encouraged for all ages — even adults! This is a free event with music, supper, prizes and treats. Elementary-age kids must be with a chaperone, and older kids are to leave or be picked up by 11:15 p.m. We rely completely on volunteers a...
It’s that time of year again ... what time, you ask? Well, time for those wonderful church and community dinners. Here are some coming up soon in our area; if you know of others, please let me know so I can get them into this news column. • The Hunters Supper at the Cromwell Pavilion, sponsored by the Cromwell Area Community Club, will be held 5-7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8. Only $10 for adults. Volunteers are needed too. •Hunters Supper and bake sale at the Round Lake Presbyterian Church on Count...
Thank you to all who helped out and participated in the Environmental Day and Pavilion Open House. It was a great day in the woods. Special thanks to the following for donating their time and talents: • Wayne Thom, for his wonderful presentation on fur-bearing mammals; • Joni Torgerson, for her water quality station; • Rachel Olesiak, for her help with forestry; • Exchange students Josie, Paula, Raisa, Lisa, Achille, and Arnon, for their presentation of their countries; • The Bell Museum, f...
The Cromwell-Wright school is now sponsoring a BackPack Program at the elementary school through the Second Harvest Northern Lakes Food Bank. Forms were sent home with students for parents to sign up for the program by Oct. 7. The BackPack Program provides a bag of nutritious food for your child for the weekend throughout the school year. Each bag contains a variety of items including main entrées, breakfast items, fruit, vegetables, snacks and often juice or shelf-stable milk. Program participa...
Sympathy to the family of Faye A. Thomas, 92, of Cromwell, who passed away Sept. 17. Services were held Sept. 21 at Nelson Funeral Care. A special thank you to the staff at Villa Vista Care Center and St. Croix Hospice for the caring nature and personal touch they provided for Faye. The Cromwell Forest Hill Cemetery Association Board has been working diligently to update cemetery records. If you own a site in the cemetery, please contact Terry Olson at 218-390-0087 or Peggy Olson at...
The 13th annual Karl Kalli Memorial Golf Tournament generated $9,122 for the Cromwell-Wright athletic department, which was evenly distributed to the eight athletic teams at school. The tournament takes place the first Saturday in August every year, so next year join in the fun. Just call Linda Kalli at 218-878-7876 for more info and thanks to everyone who supported this event. Our sympathy to the family of Irene Olson who died on Sept. 5. Her memorial service was held at Bethlehem Lutheran in W...
The communities of Cromwell-Wright School are invited to visit our school forest and the newly built learning pavilion on Tuesday, Oct. 1. Visitors are welcome to tour the grounds 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Cromwell-Wright school forest offers not only an outdoor learning space for our students, but also beautiful hiking trails available to the community. We are always looking for volunteers interested in helping maintain this important educational resource. Our next goals include harvesting some of...
As I sat down to type this week’s news I noticed that the date is a numerical palindrome, 9-1-19, meaning it can be read forward or backward and it’s the same number. There will be 10 more like it this month. They are: 9-10-19, 9-11-19, 9-12-19, 9-13-19, 9-14-19, 9-15-19, 9-16-19, 9-17-19, 9-18-19 and 9-19-19. The next one won’t be until 2-2-22. There are only 38 palindrome numbers in this century and we get to observe 11 of them this month. The End-of-the-Summer Party this weekend at the Cromw...
The Little Red School House at the Carlton County Fairgrounds represents a typical one-room, multiple-grade school common in rural areas years ago. Many of your grandparents and great-grandparents may have attended a school such as this one. Townships often had many of these buildings. Little by little these schools were consolidated into larger school districts, and the old buildings became town halls, churches, residences or were torn down. One- and two-room schools housed grades 1-8. They...
With just days until school starts, the summer is almost over. But let’s hope there are many more great fall days to come before we have to deal with cold weather. I was able to attend the Aug. 21 Cromwell council meeting, at which MnDOT project manager Josie Olson explained why the Highway 210 and Highway 73 project is being delayed until 2021: the City of Cromwell did not approve the roundabout, so it will now take longer to revise the project plans, the project is expected to take longer t...
Oscar Eliason 2019 Male Carlton County Outstanding Senior Citizen Oscar Eliason has been involved in many volunteer activities in the Cromwell community since 1993 when he started his teaching career in at Cromwell High School. Oscar has been a volunteer driver for Volunteer Services for many years. He drives folks to their medical appointments, two or three times a week. He loves the opportunity to meet new (mostly elderly) people and enjoys helping them in more ways than just the driving. He g...
