“When Ginny and Ken Oja brought their young family north from the Cities, they visited family in Babbitt and then drove east. The landscape looked pretty remote to the 3rd, 5th and 8th graders riding in the car, recalled Ginny.

But the family and the business they had purchased in Marcell thrived over the next 16 years.

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That’s the number written on the Round-Up® check held by six of North Itasca Electric Co-op’s Round-Up board members. The organization oversees distribution of the cooperative members’ choices to “round up” their monthly billings to the next whole dollar, donating the cents to area charitable projects.

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If you’re tired of stressing over finding the right long distance company, you are not alone! There is a lot to consider when choosing a long distance company...or is there? This depends on what company you decide to go with in most cases.

First of all you need to take a look at your calling patterns. When do I call the most? During the day or evenings and weekends, do I make a lot of international calls and if so what is the rate for those calls? If the plan I choose is unlimited evenings & weekend calling for, say, $24.00 a month, I would also want to know what it is going to cost me per minute for the calls I need to make during the day.

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