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New Holiday Station Coming to Big Lake
While driving past the Holiday station on Hwy 10 in Big Lake, I noticed the sign out front indicating it will close down on September 11 so they can build a new Holiday station on the same site. I’ve always been partial to Holiday gas stations,...
Big Lake CERT Team Graduates – July 2011
The Big Lake community has formed a new Community Emergency Response Team thanks to funding provided from a grant applied for by city police officers, Sam Olson and Cindy Finch. This group is separate from the Sherburne County CERT group that Dave and...
Big Lake CERT Team Final Exercise and Graduation Photos
See my other post for a write-up of the evening. Here are some additional photographs of the first Big Lake CERT Graduating Class of 2011: #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align:...
Big Lake Boys Injured in Snowmobile Accident
Aimee came home from school on Monday and told me that four boys from her school were in a snowmobile accident on Sunday. I’ve been watching the local news online to see if there have been any reports and I finally found one from the Star News today: Four...
Big Lake Middle School Spring Choir Concert 2010
Last night was Jared and Aimee’s choir concert at BL Middle School. Here is Aimee’s choir performing “You’re a Grand Old Flag.” Jared is rockin’ out with the Swing Choir, taking advantage of dancing with some cute...
Big Lake and Princeton Business Expos Saturday
Big Lake and Princeton Chambers of Commerce will both be having their Business Expos on Saturday, March 6. Princeton Chamber of Commerce Business Expo Saturday, March 6, 2010 9a – 2p Princeton High School http://www.princetonmnchamber.org/ 25th...
Flu in the Family
I have the first of my four children home from school today: 102.7 temperature Headache Sore throat Chills Coughing Stuffy nose Achy muscles Any guesses as to what she has? Classic influenza symptoms, wouldn’t you say? I called the school to let...
Big Lake Spud Fest 2009
Dave and I visited the Big Lake Spud Fest today. We watched the parade, which had over 90 entries. We thought we were going to be rained out, but the wind and overcast sky was actually pretty nice. We watched the Big Lake Police K9 demonstration, had...
National Train Day
Today is National Train Day. Back in May 10, 1869, East and West were joined together when the “golden spike” was driven into the last railroad tie. Promontory Summit, Utah was the site of the event that changed America. Central Pacific...