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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...
As a young child, Cloquet's Koby Bender had two goals: play college hockey and in the National Hockey League. The 22-year-old is on his way. In his third year with the University of Minnesota Duluth, Bender is playing college hockey at the highest level for one of the best teams in the country. The Bulldogs have won the national championship the past two years and Bender contributed both years, making nine appearances in the 2017-18 season (he also qualified for the NCHC Academic All-Conference...
Bearaboo Coffee opened New Year's Day with brand new owners, after Natalie and Chris Swanson purchased Cloquet's only combination coffee shop and car wash from Karen Williams, who owned both businesses with her late husband, Bob. It was a family-centered business for Karen and Bob, and the Swansons plan to continue that tradition. Their two high-school-aged kids - senior Caleb and junior Emma - are already trained in as baristas, while eighth grader Grace is nearly trained in. Their fifth...
Warren Tester was recently honored as an outstanding conservationist at the annual meeting of the Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts last month in Bloomington. He was selected by the Carlton Soil and Water Conservation District for the award. Each year, the state's districts recognize individuals and organizations for outstanding accomplishments in implementing conservation practices and improving Minnesota's natural resources. The award program is conducted with...
Santa's helpers were busy in Cloquet Wednesday, serving Christmas dinner to hundreds of community members who either came to Zion Lutheran Church to enjoy the communal Christmas dinner or enjoyed ham, meatballs, potatoes and gravy, vegetables, rolls and more delivered straight to their doors. Because they had such a great volunteer turnout this year, anyone who came was served a sit-down meal after they helped themselves to various appetizers, said Vivi Johnson. The Johnson family is a driving...
Larry Penk, George Saarela and Dick Singpiel from the Carlton Lions Club complete a vision test for a Carlton student. The Lions use a vision screener that evaluates nine different areas of vision. The Carlton Area Lions Club has provided this screening to preschool-first grade students in the Carlton, Esko and Wrenshall schools. The screening device is funded through the Lions International. Their goal is to provide this screening to all schools within Carlton County. "Thank you to the Carlton...
Meggan Ranta of Northwoods Credit Union and Larissa Sheff, a registered nurse at Community Memorial Hospital, show off 12 handmade baby blankets for newborns at the hospital's birthing suites. Employees at the credit union spent their noon hours and time outside of work to make the quilts as part of CUForward Day in October. They also paid for all materials used in the blankets. Contributed photo...
Have you ever had the opportunity to meet your childhood or, for that matter, adulthood hero? It could be a political or religious leader, a rock or TV or movie star, a sports legend, or maybe even an astronaut. Someone, if you were to meet face-to-face, you would be so awestruck by that observers would have to tell you to please close your mouth? What makes a person a hero? Of course, people generally honor their parents and other family members, local clergy and elected officials, and even...
Grade 7 Laila Adamu Jack Bergstedt Aviana Bergstrand Elijah Bolling Annarose Brantley Colton Dewey Rilee Durovec Anika Elsmore Tait Erickson Elijah Gonzalez Elizabeth Haapanen Jack Hakala Alec Halvorson Greta Harden Arabelle Hawkinson Lillian Hester Isaac Illikainen Ilee Johnson Evie Kelsey Jayden Keppeler Mason Klatte Trevor Leach Ethan Lindgren Grace McIlvain Braydon McKibbon Maxwell McWilliams Brock Montminy Lilliana Mullen Jacob Osborn Carson Pehl Nolan Pfister Samairah Prairie Lauren Radovich Cassie Stark Meghan Wagner Grade 8 Ella...
Even in a year that included a flooded apartment and moving into a new building, Cloquet's Paula Maki is still doing all she can to fulfill her mission of bringing Christmas gifts and joy to residents of nursing homes, assisted living facilities and adult foster homes in Carlton County and beyond. For that, she has both a nonprofit organization and an alias, with the same name: Ms. Christmas. Now living at Larson Commons, Maki held a Christmas party Monday for the assisted care residents,...
A Honor Roll Connar Ankrum, Patrick Ankrum, Joseph Bergman, Liam Bruce, Taylor Bryce Megan Carlson, Lillian Eckdahl, Sage Fernquist Hunter Holmes, Cloey Horner, Bryanna Kuehnow Kaylie Lammi, Elliana Lattu, Hannah Lattu, Joel Lembke, Katarina Mattson Alex Murray, Alexis Nelson Samantha Nyberg, Andrew Olesen, Alexis Perry, Jack Riley, Zeke Rousseau-Sheff, Magdalene Sowada, Kaya Stark, Alexis Swanson, Hailey Tauzell, Randy Wimmer B Honor Roll Joshua Anderson, Emma Andrews, Gavin Beetcher Leah Bethke, Willow Cash Logan DeGrugillier, Easton...
A Honor Roll Grade 12: Isabella Anderson, Alaina Bennett, Alisha Broneak, Kaden Crane, Madelyn DeCaigny, Spencer Hoeffling, Abigail Mickle, Brynne Mickle, Taylor Nelson, Austin Parker, Annabell Pearson, Matthew Santkuyl, Benjamin Soderstrom, Jessica Sutter, Justin Swanson, Benjamin Talarico Grade 11: Haley Adkins, Shea Campbell, Colin Emerson, Kristian Herman, Elizabeth Hey, Annabeth Johnson, Jayna Lebrasseur, Samantha Matarelli, Seth Mlodozyniec, Pablo Moran, Trevor Ojibway, Johnette Ostlund, Spencer Rousseau, Jairid Ward Grade 10: Olivia...
Honor Roll Grade 7 Santiago Anich Ellahna Barnes Jaxon Benedix Aspen Berg Wyatt Bergstedt Liam Brissett Joseph Cekalla Liberty Clifford Michael Dusek Claire Fontaine Max Foster Ethan Gamache Jack Graddy Raegan Grayson Ella Grell Isabelle Haapala Layla Hagelin Jamis Halverson Annika Halvorson Emmanuella Hansmeyer Macy Hanson Cecilia Hart Samuel Haugen Stella Haugen Michael Henney Chiara Houser Jocelyn Johnson Sophia Johnson Sydney Kazel Caitlin Kluenenberg Jayce Koskela Reese Kuklinski Kennadie Lammi Aleah Lindgren Leo Luense Joelle Majerle...
News that St. Cloud State University is ending its football program has left at least one Cloquet graduate scrambling over finals week to find a way to keep playing college football. Dylan Lauer, a 2018 Cloquet grad, heard whispers Monday night and Tuesday morning, but dismissed them as rumors until Tuesday afternoon when the news was everywhere. By the team’s 3 p.m. Tuesday meeting with the president, he already knew what was coming. The university said it will eliminate football as well as b...
While the Salvation Army's Red Kettle fundraiser runs only through the weeks leading up to Christmas, the proceeds pay for local social services programs for the entire year, according to David Westerberg, Salvation Army case manager. That's why it's vitally important they get enough volunteers to staff the kettles, which are located at the Super One, L&M and Walmart stores in Cloquet. "A manned kettle with a bell ringer usually averages about $30 or $40 an hour, versus an unmanned kettle,...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz visited the Sappi mill in Cloquet last month for conversation and a tour. Interim Sappi mill manager Tom Radovich said mill leadership wanted to talk to Gov. Walz about forest products in general, which have faced many challenges in recent years. "There have been lots of mill closures [due to declining demand] and we wanted him to know what we are planning long term and what the state can do to help us as one of the largest manufacturing sites in Minnesota," Radovich...
Some memories never fade. Don Long remembers the morning of Dec. 7, 1941 like it was yesterday. The Barnum High School 1939 grad had been at Kaneohe Bay Naval Air Station in Hawaii for about only two weeks when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, an act of aggression that catapulted the United States into World War II. "I was a Seaman Second Class, the lowest animal in the Navy," Long said in a phone interview from his home in Napa, California this week. "I'd been to boot camp and radio school,...
Shoppers for Christmas trees can experience a Swedish Christmas in Minnesota at the Jansson Tree Farm of Gunilla and Goran Jansson north of Mahtowa just off of Highway 61 at the end of Carlson Road. The tree farm wopens today and will run for eight days, through Saturday, Dec. 7. "People can walk over or drive over to the tree area," Gunilla said. "They can feel and smell the trees before they find the one that will be just right for them. People will be able to cut their own trees or we can...
The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program is one of the largest volunteer networks in the nation for those 55 and over. One of the great things about this program is that one can use skills and interests developed over a lifetime for the benefit of the community. This month’s featured volunteer, Bonnie Wenborg, is doing just that. From among her many skills, Wenborg is using her bookkeeping skills to assist the Tri-Community Food Shelf in Cromwell. When Wenborg heard about the need, she says she figured she had the necessary skills, so why n...
Most people want to leave a legacy, to know that their lives mattered, to leave their mark on the world, a contribution of some sort to future generations. But many don’t consciously think about what they want their legacy to be or how to build it. They also don’t realize that they aren’t alone, that they can involve others in creating their legacy. Warren Tester has done that. Tester is being honored as Carlton County’s 2019 Outstanding Conservationist for his work on what he calls his “strategic” property in the Nemadji watershed....
More than 100 years ago, a member of the Fond du Lac band pitched six innings for the Chicago White Sox … the same year he was deemed “unqualified” to play for the Cloquet baseball team. His name was William Cadreau. The right-handed pitcher is listed in the 1889 Census Roll of the Fond du Lac Band of Chippewa, a 1-year old boy born to Antoine Cadreau and Louisa Naganab on Sept. 2, 1888, in Cloquet. William’s lineage appears to show he is the grandson of Chief Naganab of Fond du Lac, who sig...
