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I hope everyone is staying safe in their homes. Like me, you are probably doing those projects that have been put off for weeks or even months. As my friend tells me, I am good at procrastination. As most activities and events have been postponed or cancelled in area communities, there is not much happening in the city of Carlton either. The Magnolia Café has put in a take-out window for those of you who want to get your favorite latte, cappuccino or treat. And Carlton Meat & Grocery is open...
Just minutes after I finished interviewing one of the two directors for the article that starts on the previous page, I got a call from Linda, an activities assistant at the residential memory care unit where my mother lives in Phoenix. Linda wanted to set up a Zoom video meeting with my mom, my wife and me. This technology was new to the memory care facility, and Linda herself had never used Zoom before. We would be their test case for this new way of connecting residents with loved ones....
While news media paint the situation in Italy with COVID-19 as truly dire, a former exchange student thinks the government there is taking the correct actions to turn the tide of infection. Giorgio Petri, 19, went to Carlton High School and lived with Chris, Heidi, Scott and Spencer Rousseau during the 2017-18 school year. He was a top player on the Cloquet-Esko-Carlton soccer team during his time here, and is now a student at the University of Milan. Like most college students in the United Sta...
Sunnyside Health Care Center resident Arlene Rodd has read 259 books since being admitted. Each month Bella Zago, right, a Cloquet high school senior and public library volunteer, brings Arlene 25 books to read from the Cloquet public library. Right now Arlene is the only resident involved with the library’s reading program, but two more residents plan to join her. Television news reporter Baihly Warfield, left, from WDIO in Duluth, recently interviewed Arlene and Bella....
I figured since most of us are sequestered indoors it might be a good time for some Wrenshall trivia. Since I am “new” to town, having moved here just 20 years ago, I thought I would bring in some ringers for this challenge. I’ve asked Dale Wolf to come up with some Wrenshall questions. See if you can answer them and email your responses to [email protected] with the subject line “Wrenshall Quiz.” The first person to email me with the most correct answers wins a Wrenshall brick. Please do...
Buses loaded with high schoolers disgorged their passengers and teachers in front of the Univeristy of Minnesota Duluth's Weber Music Hall. Eager and nervous, the students retrieved their instruments from trailers in tow. Youth from Carlton and St. Louis counties streamed the halls, finding practice and performance rooms. Piling coats onto desks in temporary homerooms, the students warmed up their voices, horns and woodwinds. Pianists limbered up fingers and paired off with singers in tiny and...
This is a tale of a nearly 80-year-old gent who grew up in Barnum on a farm in the 1950s, enlisted in the Army and traveled the world, and managed a working career which included teaching children and building partnerships among various interests and groups. His name is Alan Finifrock. He is back in the area now, living in Cloquet as a retiree and world-class Carlton County tree farmer. Oddly enough, when he taught school in rural Alaska, the nearest tree was 100 miles away. Since Al knew that...
Our farm got panicked emails Sunday morning from the stores we supply, wondering if we could do a special delivery because they were all out of carrots and potatoes. Enticed by a lunch in our 85-degree greenhouse, we were able to gather a crew of parents and neighbors together to pack about a thousand pounds of produce that afternoon to restock the shelves. At times like this when normal routines and work are disrupted, it’s nice to feel like you have a purpose. It’s important for us all to be able to maintain and develop a sense of con...
The world has been flipped upside down by the quick spread of COVID-19. Over the last week, it has had a great impact on the United States and here in Minnesota, especially with high school students who don't have a school to go. Concerts, sports, and other major events are being postponed or canceled due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus. Schools are closed for almost two weeks, maybe more, and teachers are making plans in case schools don't reopen and classes have to be offered online....
It was Christmas Eve and traffic was expectedly heavy on the interstate just north of Minneapolis. David Rice was headed home to Cloquet from a temporary construction job. He wasn't exactly in the holiday spirit. He was going through a divorce and in limbo about his work. The heaviness was there when a pickup suddenly passed him and then shot into his lane in front of him. The driver overcorrected and the truck left the road and did a barrel roll into the ditch off Interstate 494 in Plymouth....
It had been decades since Becky Dooley of Cloquet had played a clarinet, but she brushed off her rusty skills and joined the Cloquet Community Band after she retired a couple of years ago. "I hadn't played the clarinet for 35 years," she said. "I used to play in middle and high school. I got a book and relearned, and then I joined the community band." Dooley became more involved when Carol Risdon and Gene Risdon, who had managed and played in the band for 21 years, retired at the end of last...
Wrenshall had a strong showing this past weekend at the country's largest organic farming conference held in Lacrosse, Wisconsin. Rick Dalen and Clara Salveson of Northern Harvest Farm, Jason Amundson of Farm LoLa, and practically the whole family from our Food Farm attended the conference. My husband and I both felt it was the power of being part of a group of folks who are dealing with similar challenges and successes. It's energizing hearing what other people are growing and how they are...
During March and April, The Knot gallery in the Pine Knot News office is exhibiting the work of Sue Brown Chapin. Sue employs unique watercolor techniques to give her works depth and sometimes an ethereal quality. On March 12, as part of the Carlton County spring art roundabout, you can meet Sue and enjoy a wide range of her paintings 5-8 p.m. at The Knot gallery. A talk with the artist will begin about 6 p.m. with time for questions to follow. Born and raised in Carlton, Sue learned to paint...
Earlier this year, I read that legendary professional wrestler Pampero Firpo, the Wild Bull of the Pampas, passed away. He was nearly 90 years old and was a TV and arena wrestling star in the 1960s and 1970s. It brought back many memories for me of airplane spins, the figure-four leglock, turnbuckles, forearm smashes, the bolo, standing dropkicks, the piledriver, the Boston Crab and other pro wrestling holds and terminology. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, his given name was Juan Kachmanian....
Carlton crowned Sawyer Thorman and Brynne Mickle as homecoming king and queen following Friday's home basketball game. Members of the court include Ava Bujold Grondahl, Ben Soderstrom, Isabella Beaupre Anderson, Austin Davis, Alaina Bennett, Tanner Anderson, Kaylee Asleson and Matthew Santkuyl. Photo contributed by Leola Rodd...
After graduating from high school last May, Cloquet's Aidan Ripp hit "Pause" on academics to pursue his dream of becoming a top competitor in the world of Nordic combined. He gave himself a year, spending part of the summer and early fall jumping and skiing on plastic in Europe and places such as Utah and Colorado. Since the snow arrived, he's been across the States practicing and competing in his chosen sport. It paid off. Earlier this month, USA Nordic named Ripp as a member of the 2020...
The Minnesota School Boards Association set Feb. 17-21 as School Board Recognition Week in Minnesota as a time to build awareness and understanding of the vital function an elected board of education plays in our society. Cloquet Superintendent Michael Cary encouraged district residents to join public school districts across the state to honor local board members for their commitment to Cloquet and its children. The board, from left, includes Hawk Huard, Duane Buytaert, Dave Battaglia, Ted...
Nearly a year ago, they thought the swelling in her face and ankles was caused by allergies. But the allergy shots didn't help. When her face was so swollen she couldn't open her eyes, the emergency room doctor told them to get a second opinion. It was following that referral - to an allergy specialist in the Twin Cities area - that 15-year-old Eva Flovick and her family found out she had kidney disease. Things moved quickly, and not in a good direction. By December, only nine months later,...
The first time the new director of the Carlton County Historical Society saw the massive old library desk that has been returned to its roots there, it sparked her imagination. The stories that desk could tell, Beth Lyle thought to herself. Lyle, who started at CCHS in mid-January, enjoys telling and hearing stories, and has a personal passion for history. “I love the family stories we tell in our own family on my mom and my dad’s side, those stories you can hear hundreds of times and still wan...
In 1922, Monsignor D.W. Lynch, pastor of St. James Church in Duluth, wrote a letter to Minnesota Senator Frank B. Kellogg regarding Father Elais Lemire and the (then) Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church in Cloquet. “I know something about the work done by Fr. Lemire in his parish and the difficulties he has had to contend with, especially because of the fire. The parish is large and is made up of a considerable number of poor people, many of whom are employed in the Cloquet Mills. At various times the influence of this local Church has been v...
It’s homecoming week for Wrenshall! Monday kicked off the festivities with a rally featuring a family feud game show with the homecoming court as contestants, as well as a scooter relay race. There were dress-up days throughout the week, with Friday’s basketball game against Floodwood the culmination of all the fun and games. The JV boys team plays at 4:45 p.m. and the varsity game is at 6:15 p.m. Friday also marks the 100th day of the school year. It’s a day that many schools mark with fanfa...
Word began to filter out early Monday morning that the godfather of Cloquet hockey, former boys hockey coach Bill Kennedy, had passed away Sunday at the age of 85 at his home in Mahtowa. The tough-as-nails Kennedy coached the Lumberjacks from 1967 to 1987 after taking over for Don Bourdeau. Kennedy was instrumental in putting the program on the map. He was also a favorite teacher to thousands of students who met up with him in his classroom during his four decades of teaching. Bruce Plante, who...
Clarence Badger, left, Rol Bromberg and Jeff Mayer posed at the Jan. 3 Lumberjacks hockey game when the boys played Holy Angels at home. Bromberg and Badger both worked at the high school together for decades. Bromberg was the longtime football coach and Cloquet athletic director who recently moved to the Twin Cities area. The football field in Cloquet is named after him. Badger was a business teacher at school. In retirement the pair have gone to as many Cloquet and University of Minnesota...
Leah Hammond stood on the showroom floor of her family's woodworking business in Cloquet. Beside her was her latest hand-crafted wall hanging, an elegant testimony to her creativity and craftsmanship. But this was no ordinary wall hanging. Six feet tall and made of precisely cut pieces of wood intricately assembled into geometric patterns, this was solid craftsmanship becoming art. The work clearly evoked the patterns of a meticulously-made quilt. Hammond began to tell the story of how her...
Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and one of the ways I try and honor his legacy is to try something new and push myself to leave my comfort zone. Given the divisive nature of our national politics I am hoping to use the holiday to have a conversation with someone that I might not normally engage with. The national organization Story Corps has started a similar initiative that they are calling “One Small Step.” Story Corps has spent the last 15 years preserving and sharing humanity’s stori...
