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by Jeff Olsen Shortly after 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Roseau City Council member Brady Johnson commented on the great job by the city crew. "I would love to give a shout out to the Roseau City Crew - the snow removal guys - and how hard they work and how much time they put in," he said, adding that it's been way over 40 hours a week at times this winter. During some of these snow removals, he noted, they were clearing the streets shortly after 3 a.m. "The removal process downtown is actually quite...
by Jeff Olsen Ginevra, a Roseau High School senior hockey player and the daughter of Jim and Janet Johnson, was recently honored with the 2022 Hobey Baker High School Character Award, presented annually to varsity high school hockey programs in Minnesota. A week ago Thursday, Ginevra, 18, was asked about her height and casually mentioned that she is five-two. RHS guidance counselor Dan Urness chirped in, "That's a perfect height if you ask me." A chuckling Mr. Urness will never dunk a...
by Jeff Olsen It was all for a good cause last weekend at Roseau Memorial Arena, which was the venue for 10 teams of Mighty Mites, who raised close to $5,000 for MN Hockey Fights Cancer. The loot didn't all come from these eight and nine-year-olds' piggy banks. They had help from family, friends, and neighbors. And nobody appreciated the generosity more than Erik Holmstrom, who coordinated the jamboree for MN Hockey Fights Cancer. "Mark Jennings is the overall Mite coordinator, and Billy Lund...
by Laurel Latham Nick Gustafson, Senior Test Technologist at Polaris Industries, loves a challenge! When he heard there would be a Copper Peak Snowmobile Hill Climb held in Ironwood, Michigan, Feb. 19-20, after a thirteen year hiatus, Nick knew he had to take part in the event. Nick Gustafson and Matt Tingstad, both originally from Hurley, Wisconsin, were the last snowmobilers to win a King of the Hill at Copper Peak in the modified and stock snowmobile category, Nick on a Polaris 800 Assault....
Essay by: Kayla Jacobson Roseau Community School Have you ever wondered how a Pinterest post can turn into $24,000? No, me either but somehow, someway it did. I'm Kayla Jacobson, a senior at Roseau High School. Along with my sidekick Janna Preteau, we are co-presidents of our student council at RHS. It was this fall and we were just starting to ponder ideas for our Homecoming week that we put on for the whole school. Pinterest has been like the Holy Grail to me when it comes to finding...
I am so thankful. Yesterday I got home from work and in tiredness sat in my chair. This is when I am the most vulnerable. Tiredness will do that to anyone. You have spent your strength, you need to eat and rest. I don't remember if I have said this before, but "night" is a very poor time for me to think about getting ready for anything. There is a lot of preparation for an art show. I will sign up and say to myself "oh this will be really fun!" and then comes the week before which always turns...
submitted by Arlette Solom "The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring." Bernard Williams The March Birthday of the Month Luncheon will be on Wednesday, March 16th at 11:30 a.m. A roast beef dinner and all the trimmings with birthday cake will be served. Please call 218-463-1331 if you are planning to attend. Call the day before or NO LATER than 9:30 a.m. the day of. The new LSS District manager, Carol DeMars, will be at the luncheon and available to answer any...
Nothing is more exciting than being able to write about fun things, good people, and beautiful women. No matter what age you are if you are a man, a pretty woman is the most exciting thing when she smiles. You naturally smile back. But there are fewer smiles in these depressing times when so much craziness takes away the laughter. How can you laugh when an estranged husband suddenly kills his three daughters, a male chaperone, and then himself inside a Sacramento church this past Monday. The...
We had an eventful weekend! Friday started off with going to mom's and getting another set of her curtains hung with only one more set to go! I think she is pretty happy with them. After the curtains were hung, it was Chinese for Cecile's 29th birthday! (I think it was actually more like 41, but who's counting!) Once we had full bellies it was present time. Cecile was happy with her gifts and mom got her a baby that Cecile never got growing up! Now Soraya and mommy can play with their new babies... Full story
5 years ago – Mar. 4, 2017 Burt Bassett of Roseau was inducted into the Snowmobile Hall of Fame, located in St. Germain, Wisconsin, the weekend of February 18. Named to the Roseau 12th grade 2nd quarter Straight A Honor Roll were Madison Lee, Sidney Stoltenberg, MacKenzie Bergstrom, Trevor McMillin, William Woolever and Adam Hedlund. Celebrating their February birthdays at the Four Season’s Senior Center were Lloyd Frosaker, Bev Dahl, Joann Wensloff, Vivian Peterson, Clifford Holm and Est... Full story
With that Russian Punk Putin invading the neighboring country of Ukraine, do we really need to reconsider the lack of morality of such leaders like Putin and Hitler? Wilfred Owen wrote some of the best British poetry during that “War to end all wars.” He composed nearly all of his poems from August 1917 to September 1918. In November 1918, they killed him at age 25, one week before the Armistice. ‘Dulce et Decorum et’ is Owens’ WWI time-bottle poem that questions our own morality in allowing Putin and Hitler leader types. After describing the s...
Roseau- Jeffrey "Jeff" David Bennett died peacefully at home in Roseau, on February 19, 2022, from pancreatic cancer. Jeff was 59 years of age. Jeff was born on August 24, 1962, to the late Clyde and Martha (Gabriel) Bennett in Livonia, Michigan where he attended Redford Presbyterian Church. In 1980, he graduated from Stevenson High School. Jeff attended college at the Lawrence Institute of Technology in Southfield, Mich. As a senior engineering student, Jeff was a member of the Society of...
Genesis 2: 4-9, 15-17: Ephesians 4:28 This morning I want to talk with you a bit about WORK as we continue the series on The Character of the Christian Life. WORK! In America, if we’re fortunate to have a job, we have a tendency to run to one of two extremes: (1) We become obsessed with our work (we become workaholics), or (2) we try and get by by doing as little work as possible. Like the bumper sticker I saw once which read: “WORK FASCINATES ME. I CAN SIT AND WATCH IT FOR HOURS!” It has been... Full story
Submitted by Coach Mooney We had two post season events, team and individual section tournaments. On February 15th we traveled to Detroit Lakes for the first round of team competition. We took on the host team, Detroit Lakes. Tristan, Daniel A., Avery, and Owen wrestled in the team event. We were outmatched by the older kids and were done wrestling as a team early in the night. The individual section tournament was held in Melrose on February 25-26th. Tristian and Patrick were the two wrestlers...
Submitted by Jim Mack Over the last five years, the Roseau youth wrestling program has grown by leaps and bounds. The improvements of the program were on full display last Saturday at the annual TRF Prowler Team Duals held at the Ralph Engelstad Arena in Thief River Falls. With the high amount of youth wrestling numbers over the last three years, Roseau was the only program to enter two teams into the large team tournament. With both teams (Roseau Black and Roseau Green) having great success on...
by Blayke Nelson Fall of 2021 Normalcy has been something that has been creeping back into our everyday lives. And for the 2021-22 season things were looking up for the Warriors. There was a full season scheduled with some competitive 2A schools. Some Twin Cities trips and a whole group of home games to end the season! Also, we had our starting goalie returning, four of the team's top five goal scorers returning, and a young defense core getting better by the day. The season was set, captains... Full story