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Ahnna Bader 6th grade, St. Joan of Arc Class Her hard work, respect, and the wonderful example that she is to younger students has earned Ahnna Bader this Student of the Month honor. Ahnna is active in various sports throughout the year and participates in Destination Imagination. She enjoys spending time at the lake in the summer, hanging out with friends and babysitting young children. Her teacher, Mrs. Lembke, states, "Ahnna is respectful and helpful to everyone." Eleanor Bennett...
Dr. David Luehr, a retired Raiter Clinic physician and Community Memorial Hospital hospitalist, spent a month in the West African nation of Tanzania last fall. He volunteered his time at the Dodoma Christian Medical Center, where each of the 50 hospital beds has mosquito netting that drops down at night to protect the 10 patients being cared for in each room. Luehr's days included mentoring young physicians, working in internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics, and even performing an emergency...
At last, the first baby born in 2019 at Community Memorial Hospital has graced the new year with her presence. Harper Grace Frank arrived at 11:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 10, weighing in at 5 pounds and 12 ounces, and 18.5 inches long. Her parents are Allie and T.J. Frank, and she joins siblings Addison, age 31/2, and Lilian, 18 months, in the family's Cloquet home. Harper's maternal grandparents are Leslie Solseth of Cloquet and the late Andy Doble. Her paternal grandmother is Michelle Norton of...
"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style." ~ Maya Angelou For many of us, life sometimes becomes mere survival. We feel that each day is like the one before ... going to work to make the money to pay the bills that enable us to live and be able to go to work to make the money to pay the bills. Over and over, ad infinitum. However, there are also many people who have found their passion, something...
Many of us like to keep our lives on an even keel without too much rocking the boat. However, new ideas, new facts and new treatments all lead to new ways of doing things, to change, to rocking the boat. When faced with changing the way they have always lived, some people kick and scream and fight against changing. Others will change, but only after great and prolonged consideration and under much duress and in distress. But there are also those who, after reasonable research, see the...
In this second article about the 2018 Carlton County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) conservation awards, we introduce you to Cloquet's Bob Nelson, who was given the title of 2018 Urban Forestry Conservationist. Nelson is another winner who has taken what he has learned and shared his experience and knowledge with others in educational settings. Nelson has worked with urban forestry since 1968, when his family planted red pines on a third of an acre of their Cloquet property. Years...
Since 1998, Duluth’s Marcia Hales has climbed the tall ladders to string lights in her trees, rounded up the lucky magical penguins to place along a path under lit arches and ignited the cheery outside firepit to welcome guests to her Spirit in the Lights walk-through display of holiday happiness. This year, though, Hales says, will need to be her last. Saturday, Jan. 5, will be the last night the lights will be on in Hales’ Park Point yard at 3739 S. Lake Ave., all the way to the beautiful sandy Lake Superior beach, 5-9 p.m. Over the dec...
Mother Nature refused to let longtime Cloquet street and parks maintenance supervisor Les Peterson coast into retirement. Rather, she dumped more than 15 inches of snow on the city in less than a week. As a result, Peterson was out plowing alleyways in Cloquet Monday morning, his last day with the city after 18 years. Not a shy guy, Peterson was both behind the scenes and played a public role in creating and promoting some of the activities in the city parks. From designing a hay bale maze for...
Editor's note: This is a slightly edited version of a story Arnold Collman wrote about his old neighbor, Adolf Langholf. His name was Adolf Langholf, must have had some German in his blood. He was our neighbor, a bachelor and lived alone. Adolf lived up Highway 73 on the north side of Molberg Lake. He visited our place often. Liked to sit, and "chew the fat" if he wasn't too busy. He would come for Sunday dinner. Ma baked bread and washed clothes for him. Ma never wanted much for those chores....
Four landowners were recently chosen by the Carlton County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) as the 2018 Carlton County Conservation Award winners. All four were honored for the unique projects they have accomplished to conserve and protect natural resources on their properties and in their communities. In addition, they were honored for their contributions toward another SWCD goal - education, a key component of SWCD work. These 2018 winners are Alan and Sharon Finifrock, Outstanding...
They came in droves to Zion Lutheran Church in Cloquet. On this Wednesday in mid-September 1947, shops and factories closed, children eschewed school. There, at the church, flowers - some paid for by those children using coins from their piggy banks - were placed near the departed Victor Swenson. They came from the reservation. They came from the far-flung rural areas in Carlton County and Duluth. "The man who was Santa Claus" was dead, and the thousands of people whose lives he had touched...
Three generations of Proulx women have made their mark at local credit union It must be something that goes along with the XX-pair of chromosomes in the Proulx family. When Barb Brown was hired to work as a part-time teller at what was then the Potlatch Credit Union, her mom, Mardelle Proulx, was the CEO. Now, nearly 32 years later, Brown is retiring after 15 years as CEO of the same credit union, now known as Northwoods Credit Union. She celebrated her retirement with a string of parties...
Sheets, plates and pans of cookies were everywhere in the log home of Paula Engstrom on the shore of Sand Lake Saturday, Nov. 17, as two families gathered for their annual three-day cookie baking session. Christmas music played in the background. "We make 8,000 cookies in 21 varieties," said grandmother Joan Morehouse, in an interview while Paula and Joan's daughters and granddaughters baked and rolled Mexican Wedding Cakes in powdered sugar on the kitchen island counter. "Katie Stevenson, who...
Red Cross visits fourth-graders to talk emergency preparedness Fourth-grade students at Washington Elementary School got a lesson in disaster preparedness and a free pillowcase in case of emergency last week, courtesy of the American Red Cross. The Pillowcase Project is a program that was started after Hurricane Katrina when some college students in New Orleans were observed evacuating their dorms using a pillowcase as a "flee bag" for carrying important personal possessions away from the...
Local historian Joe Peterson thinks President George H.W. Bush will be remembered for his kindness and caring. "His kindness was such a part of him and Barbara," Peterson said. "That's part of the legacy they will leave behind - we'll never know all the caring things they did. They weren't braggers. It was genuine. That's something other presidents and first ladies could learn." Peterson has loved presidential history since he was 8 years old, shortly after President John F. Kennedy died. Since...
Cloquet sophomore Pery Boyd-Affias will be honored Jan. 26 at the Science Museum of Minnesota's Native American Science Fusion Series events. The Donaldson award is given to one Minnesota Native American high school student who has shown exceptional achievement and or passion for a science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) related field of study, in or outside of the classroom. Boyd-Affias was nominated by his research teacher/mentor Cynthia Welsh. Welsh has been working with Boyd-Affias...
There was nothing Jim Hagen enjoyed more than going to a Lumberjacks game - unless it was spending time with family. Hagen was all about local athletics, even earning the Lumberjack Super Fan of the Year Award at the annual athletic banquet in 2011. Jim died unexpectedly in February 2016 at the age of 70. His obituary noted that he was known as the "Boss of the back door" at the Cloquet Senior High gym where he collected tickets for Cloquet boys and girls basketball games. So it seemed fitting...
Cloquet Middle School fifth-graders spent three days this week at Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center near Isabella, Minn. Wolf Ridge has been providing hands-on environmental education to school-age children since 1971. Nearly 15,000 students from the upper midwest attend classes at the center annually. This year's fifth- graders took courses, mostly outdoors, in environmental science, cultural history, current environmental issues, team building and outdoor recreation....
This was the second time in my life that the police called about a friend close to me. This time it was Harold Haapoja, dying unexpectedly, and they were seeking relatives to contact. I searched for phone numbers or tried to think of a way to contact the relatives. I remember staring at the wall for quite a while. I could not cry but just let the sadness settle in. Harold came to me, alive as can be, and spoke to me in my thoughts, saying it would be OK. More than 20 years ago, Harold and I started to collaborate in plays and perform in...
This past weekend jazz singer Bruce Henry returned to the Northland to perform again at the Carlton Room in the Oldenburg House. His three-octave range and extraordinary versatility energized the room when he was there in June, and once again he sent electricity through the assembled audience. The Carlton Room bills itself as a performance space with a nightclub atmosphere in a historic house and timeless setting. In a very short time - formally dedicated in the summer of 2017 - it has...
This story waited 74 years to be told It was probably about a year ago that Clayton Kittel and I embarked on bringing his war story to paper. I look back and ask myself: Why did I sign up to do this? I hate war. It goes against all that I love - life itself. But I didn't even give it a second thought at the time. I couldn't let his cries go unheard. He held back from telling anyone about what he experienced for so many years and recently it was all he could talk about. It was all that was on his...
Louisiana native and Magnolia Café owner Yvette Maijala doesn't mind how you pronounce her first name, but it does make her a little crazy when people hack her surname - pronounced MY-a-la (the "j" is silent). The Cajun transplant came by that very Finnish last name by falling in love with Arne Majaila, an Esko native, when the two of them were young adults working in western Washington. Now they live in rural Carlton County and have (almost) raised two kids: Anja, a college sophomore who is a c...
Sara Rybak, a student in the Environmental Studies and Geographic Information Systems programs at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, won first place in the College Student Poster Competition at the 28th annual Minnesota Geographic Information Systems and Land Information Systems (GIS/LIS) Conference held in Duluth during October. Rybak, of Sturgeon Lake and a graduate of Willow River High School, entered her poster titled "Evaluating the Impacts of Environmental Factors on Eastern Larch...
Cloquet High School student Raven Sevilleja was one of 20 students from across the country invited to a three-day seminar in the Washington, D.C. area last month. The listening session was designed to give federal government agencies a sense of how teens and young adults make decisions. Anne Parish, a coordinator with the local mentoring program REACH, nominated Sevilleja. "She's extremely bright," Parish said. "She's an abstract thinker. Raven thinks bigger and broader." Sevilleja was bemused...
It was a fortuitous bus ride discussion nearly two years ago that led to a student-run peer group in Cloquet designed to keep kids safe from the stressful triggers of adolescence. "We want to do more" is what Anne Parish remembers students saying on the ride home from a suicide prevention training in Grand Rapids. She is a coordinator for REACH, the countywide mentoring program for teens begun in 2000. "Things have progressed," said Raven Sevilleja, a student at Cloquet High School and one of th...
