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Write On: Lilliana Heinen
Essay by: Lilliana Heinen Roseau Community School Art Teacher and Supervisor: Carla Olsen I chose to do a collage for my end of the novel project. I picked ten photos that I thought portrayed the...
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New every morning.
It is a new day, a new beginning, Its a day which has never happened before. New, different, unique? How does this work? How does the word "change" fit into this "new beginning"? Sometimes a...
What Is The Problem?
The man on a corner holding up a sign, "Jesus Saves". Is it embarrassing? Or should you pay attention? Those words have become a cliché. What does it mean to be saved? Do you know? Now don't be too...
On the Road to the bottom of the state
My apologies but this is personal, and where do I begin? Last Saturday in Austin at some fine joint where they held this big induction ceremony, I'd rather had just gone down with a few of my pals. Bu...
Congratulations Bro!!
As you can see it will be short and sweet this week. I will be back next week and we will let Bro enjoy the spotlight for his amazeballs honor! Congratulations Bro! Rhubarb Pudding Bars Ingredients... Full story
Jesus is My Fast Car
Fair Warning: I'm going to talk about Jesus in this opinion column so for those of you with sensitive ears I suggest turning to something written by Karl Marx. He wanted nothing to with Jesus either....
National Library Week
Libraries are much more than books. I use our library fairly often to research things online because it doesn't have the distractions I have at home. For example, at the library, I've never had a cat...
Write On: I Am Malala end of novel project
Essay by: Jenna Pelowski Roseau Community School Art Teacher and Supervisor: Carla Olsen For my end of novel project I decided to do the collage. Not only because it seemed easiest, but because a...
Listen Slowly
Charles Swindoll shared the following story: "I vividly remember sometime back being caught in the undertow of too many commitments in too few days. It wasn't long before I was snapping at my wife...
There's Health in the Sun and in the Son
Last Monday afternoon I went out to mow our lawn after feeling quite ill Sunday night and all of Monday morning. Finally I just felt the need to get out of bed and go outside into the warm sunshine....
Sometimes, I hate this column
I lead off this week with a privileged woman, Barbara Amiel, still a very attractive British lady, a 1940 model, who is married to Conrad Black, a Canadian who once owned the Chicago Sun-Times and...
Update on Sarah's Stolen Phone
Sarah's stolen phone traveled to China! We did guess that is where it would end up. They tried hard to get her to "remove" her stolen phone. Several messages were sent and the last message was quite t...
I'm not Minnesota Nice
Some have said that if you have no opinions or enemies, you've made no positive impact on the world. I'd take that to the bank personally. I catch hell from both sides of the political spectrum. I... Full story
Butterfingers
With a wife and three daughters, I have been asked occasionally to go to the store to pick up some items that may not be - well, obviously are not, for me. Some manly men friends tell me they would ne...
Write On: by Maya Geroy
Essay by: Maya Geroy Roseau Community School Art Teacher and Supervisor: Carla Olsen I made a collage for the Malala Project. It describes how Malala speaks up for women's rights and how she is so...
The Good and the Bad
I was typing one of Joe's sermons the other day for a column. Joe wrote about an experience he had when sitting with a long-time friend at a worship service. This friend, whose father had just passed... Full story
Life is a Song to Be Sung to God!
I am going to begin with the following statement. "A job may sustain your life, but it will not provide you a life to sustain! It will not give you a life to prepare for! Do you have a "song to...
It is better to give than to receive!
I was sick a lot as a child. Other times I faked it so I could skip elementary school. I was no Ferris Bueller. I had a mother who was always suspicious of a con, especially if she had to be gone for...
Until Next Time...
Our last evening we wandered around on Fremont Street. We watched the Viva Vision - The world's largest LED canopy screen. The Viva Vision light show we watched featured hits from three-time Grammy...
The Benefits of Being Stubborn
The scariest movie I ever saw was Salem's Lot in the 1970s when it aired as a TV movie and not in theaters. A couple of my cousins and I were at our uncle's house in Roseau watching it and were...
Asking Questions
We bought our house in Minnesota almost 10 years ago. Planning to do a complete remodel, I gutted every room in the house. Naturally, while they were open, I tried to think of everything that should g...
Write On by Anna Ulvin
Essay by: Anna Ulvin Roseau Community School Art Teacher and Supervisor: Carla Olsen The main reason I thought about doing a collage was because I wanted to portray the image that our voices cannot be...
Why can't I tell who this belongs to, so If the shoe fits...
The above question was the first sentence that came to my mind when I started to write this column. Sometimes a comment or a phrase will land unexpectedly giving me food for thought. "Will I do this o...
This is our world so enjoy it
On Saturday morning, I rolled out of bed with Scott Simon's marvelous voice in my ears. He is NPR's Weekend Edition broadcaster and was mentioning that the national reporters who fly along on Air...
Zak Bagans Haunted Museum
Ghost Adventures host and executive producer Zak Bagans opened Las Vegas' first award-winning Haunted Museum in the historic Wengert Mansion, a building known for decades for its dark occult history....
