Dance to the Oldies for Fire Equipment

Remember Elvis, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Rick Nelson and Chubby Checker?

If so, you’re thinking about songs from the 50s and 60s. And on Saturday, February 16 from 7-11 p.m. you can listen and dance to The Pretenders and Friends singing the hits from these and more at the Squaw Lake Community Center.

Admission is $6 and there will be a cash bar and sandwiches for sale during the evening as well as some 50/50 drawings. But besides just having a good time, there’s another reason for coming...to support the Squaw Lake Volunteer Fire Department.

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Comprehensive plan for EOW  

Since 1995, the Edge of the Wilderness area has been a part of a number of planning documents from both area entities like the Chippewa National Forest, Highway 38 Scenic Byway and Itasca County, and local initiatives like the Edge of the Wilderness Community Action Plan in 1997, Blandin Foundation-facilitated community planning in 2001 and the Bigfork housing study in 2004.

What is the Edge of the Wilderness like now? Where would it like to be in 2020 and what priorities should it have to reach its goals?

About a year ago, the Northern Itasca Joint Powers Board contracted with the Arrowhead Regional Development Commission to find the answers to these questions and formalize the results into a comprehensive plan. In January, the NIJPB accepted the document (on the Internet at www.ardc.org).

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Apply for Washington, D.C. Youth Tour 

Want an expenses-paid investment in your future? If you are a high school junior or senior, North Itasca Electric Cooperative would like to hear from you.

For a week on June 14-19, North Itasca Electric will sponsor a student for the national rural electric cooperative Youth Tour. Much more than a sightseeing trip, it’s a learning opportunity that will give you leadership techniques and ideas, and let you see how this nation’s government works. It also is an opportunity to meet lots of other students from around the country – 1500 of them – who come from rural communities. And, of course, it is also an opportunity to see the great monuments of our nation’s capitol.

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