What are the new footings for that are appearing across the Rice River on the east side of Bigfork?

It will be a place to live for 12 families: the realization of a goal that began over 10 years ago when a community planning session identified affordable housing as a pressing need. Later another planning session facilitated through the Blandin Community Partnership reinforced that goal.

In 2001 the project became formalized under the direction of long time advocate Tarry Edington, now working for the Itasca County Housing & Redevelopment Authority (HRA).

And it got a name: WilderNest.

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The construction project at Bigfork Valley is almost complete!

When the new building was opened in February, the existing patient care area, surgery, specialty clinic and cardiac rehab rooms and emergency room were vacated. Then the construction began again.

The spaces would be remade into a new expanded pharmacy; a new Fitness Center; expanded Rehab Services area for physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy; new cardiac rehab area; new consulting rooms for physician Specialty Clinics; and new administration, business office and admissions areas.

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Operation RoundUp trustees to hold fourth grant meeting

Grant application deadline is September 6, 2006.

Things to consider when purchasing a water heater:

Generally there are three types of water heaters; electric, propane or fuel oil. With North Itasca Electric’s load management programs electric water heaters are the most economical to operate.

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No one wants to have a huge empty building with broken windows and graffiti in the middle of their neighborhood, but that’s exactly what a group of Squaw Lake residents feared when it looked like Eagleview Elementary was going to close. Dedicated in 1954, the school was once filled to capacity with students from kindergarten through eighth grade. Now serving pre-kindergarten through sixth grade, Eagleview was given a new lease on life when the ISD 318 school board voted to keep the school open despite an enrollment of just a couple dozen students.

It’s almost time for the annual Fall Color Tour on the Chippewa National Forest, and Bigfork Valley is sponsoring a 4.5 mile competitive run or 3 mile walk through a part of that route, the scenic Jingo Lake Road.