Articles from the August 19, 2017 edition
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Reflections from the 2017 Roseau County Relay for Life
On Friday afternoon, the white luminary bags said it all at the Roseau City Park where this event has been held for 21 years. Friends and family members, now deceased because of cancer, brought back...
It's raining......Now WHAT?
So, you are at the new splash pad, and it's sunny and wonderful. Wait, no it's starting to rain! Now what? There's the library right over there. But there's not enough there to do to keep the kids bus...
She knows the business end of a loaf of bread
Who knows if Shaleah Kaml, 30, ever had an occupational aptitude test while enrolled at Roseau High School? It probably would have shown that she doesn't have an affinity for working with logs and...
Samantha's Search for Morgan
It's a six hour drive from Samantha Sanders' home near Nowthen to Lake Of The Woods Campground in the City of Warroad. Samantha can't seem to stay away from the place where her dog, Morgan, was last...
It'd be great if we were all black
Wouldn't it be great if all of Roseau County was black? It'd give us a much different perspective. Here's a question: Would we be that much different? It's just a skin color. I wonder how many of us...
Isn't that the Truth?
Nope. It sure isn’t! So, your pregnant. You wait until the socially appropriate amount of time to share the big news, according to “the experts” anyways. Everyone oohs and ahs and hugs and is SOOOOO e...
Different Drug Problem............
The other day, someone at a store in our town read that a Methamphetamine lab had been found in an old farmhouse in the adjoining county and he asked me a rhetorical question, “Why didn’t we have a drug problem when you and I were growing up?...
Harriet Josephine Naslund, 89
Roseau - Harriet Josephine Naslund of Salol, passed away on August 7, 2017 at the LifeCare Roseau Manor at the age of 89. Harriet was born on October 2, 1927 in Falun Township of Roseau County, to Alfreda (Eklund) and Doffen Dahl. She grew up on the...
Carol Ann Norton, 78
Badger - Carol passed away on Wednesday, August 9, 2017 at the age of 78. Carol Ann Norton was born on October 30, 1938, in Hallock, to Odin and Agnes (Helgeson) Krogstad. She was baptized and confirmed into the Lutheran faith at Our Redeemers...
Thomas Myles Parker, 88
Roseau - Thomas Myles Parker (Tom) died at his home in Roseau, MN, on Wednesday, August 3, 2017. Thomas, the son of the late Harry Lee Parker, M.d., and Florence Parker nee Lampert, was born on November 22, 1928, in Rochester. Thomas was raised in...
Ms. Olson takes the big plunge at Steelhead
Who knows why Amy Olson, a 2010 RHS graduate who played collegiate hockey at St. Cloud State University, would plop down her head-earned money to compete in last Sunday's Steelhead Ironman 70.3 Mile...
Raindrops keep falling on their head
"We had a steady mist, in fact it's still misting out," said Mark Wilson following the Wednesday evening Men's Golf League at Oakcrest. Actually, the last couple of years, he noted, they've had...
