Opinion

With my son’s return from deployment, we all learned some things about what that’s like for a soldier to return from deployment and get back to life as they knew it before. It’s little things that you don’t think about.

Are we in a pickle? There is a craze sweeping the nation. People of all ages have flocked to this, um, well, I would call it an activity or a game but others call it a sport.

It’s getting closer and closer to that time of year when the political signs will dominate the roadways and front yards. Because of that, I felt like it’s probably a good time to go ahead and publish our new company’s policy on election letters to the editor, as well as our company’s policy on election coverage.

Weekend at Bernie’s Everything is summer. Summer time.

Can you believe it is just about the end of summer? If your kids are anything like mine, the battle cries of, “We are bored!” and “What are we doing today?” have started to fill the time between waking up and finishing my first cup of coffee. I always like to hold out on some tricks up my sleeve for August.

This week I learned about the publication of a collection of Curt Warnke’s columns from the Wood Lake News over the course of his 27 years operating the newspaper. This was pretty exciting news to me, as perhaps many don’t know, but Curt was my mentor, who taught me the most about the industry.

A Lark with a Loon On North Arm Bay of Lake Minnetonka, Rob sits on the edge of a dock. As the sun sets, Leila the Loon effortlessly floats up.

When I started as a Memory Care Coordinator seven years ago, I quickly became aware of a tool called the Global Deterioration Scale (GDS) which is also known as the Reisberg Alzheimer’s Scale. Even though Alzheimer’s disease is sometimes broken down into 3 stages, (early, middle and late) there is another staging system that was developed by Dr.

A note from Myrna: These recipes are from World War II. Sugar was rationed - every family got tokens you used to get sugar, and you also had to pay for the sugar. When you used up the tokens, you couldn’t buy any more until the next month, so people would use corn syrup or honey to bake and can.

Last week my grandmother called me to inform me that she was sending me an envelope full of recipes for use in the newspaper. I’ve been putting out call outs for recipes here and there for months, to no avail, so I was excited to hear this.