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Enjoying some Duluth delights

The city of Duluth demands only the best. It wasn’t good enough for the town to be located on a Great Lake; it also insisted on being on the shores of the one named Superior. Striving for the best has enabled Duluth to hold their biennial Festival of Sail. My wife and I are enchanted by the romance and adventure of old-fashioned sailing ships, so we motored to Duluth to swash some buckle. The tall sailboats looked like prickly caterpillars when they were moored with their sails stowed. But when they were on the harbor under full sail, they were butterflies, floating gracefully and ...

Crazy Days: Annual tradition for Marshall area residents

Every year in late July on a Thursday Marshall gets a little crazy. The city hosts an annual Crazy Days celebration, a day filled with bargains at local businesses. It begins bright and early at 7 a.m. and continues until late afternoon. We had a good Crazy Days this year. The weather was perfect. It wasn’t raining. It wasn’t too hot. It was perfect for getting people out for shopping. Crazy Days warms my heart. It’s a day that gives business owners a connection with many shoppers. They’re right in the middle of the action. The owners talk to customers. They ring up ...

The Vietnam War – Ann Benson Rudolph – Nursing at the 93rd Evacuation Hospital

We have been learning about Ann (Benson) Rudolph, who graduated from St. Olaf College’s nursing program in 1964. She began a two-year Army service obligation, completing her Nursing Officer Basic Course and working at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She married in July 1965 before receiving reassignment and Vietnam deployment orders with the 93rd Evacuation Hospital (93rd Evac). The unit arrived by troopship in Vietnam on Oct. 31, 1965, and was operational in December. The main portions of the hospital consisted of four-plexes of large Quonset huts built in an ...

On the Porch

In 1982, St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church and Parsonage were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In Lyon County, there is a total of 12 listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition to St. Paul’s Church, there are: Martin Norseth house in Cottonwood, Kiel and Morgan Hotel in Lynd, William Gieske (Gieseke) house in Marshall, Masonic Temple/Delta Lodge No. 119 in Marshall, J.S. Anderson house in Minneota, O.G. Anderson and Company Store in Minneota, First National Bank in Tracy, Camden State Park in Lynd, Bridge No. 5083 in Marshall, Bridge No. ...

Your health savings account can be integrated into your retirement planning

When you retire, one of the biggest expenses you may be confronted with on a regular basis is health care. Even if you enroll in Medicare, you may need to pay various medical costs out-of-pocket — and, in general, costs are going up, not down. Fortunately, there are tools that can help make these expenses more manageable, one of which is a Health Savings Account, or HSA. If an HSA is available to you, you may want to explore its potential benefits. A targeted, tax-advantaged savings tool HSAs are savings plans associated with high-deductible health insurance policies. Many ...

While it’s hot

If I could bottle up these 85-degree days in July and save them for early February, I would, especially if the fishing that is part-and-parcel with summer comes along with my preserved point in time. From sunfish and crappies to white and largemouth bass, this time of year presents fast fishing and getting in on the action while it’s hot — both metaphorically and in terms of the thermometer — is the best time to connect someone with the outdoors, especially young anglers. The primary reason for this is the fast bite. Introducing new anglers (or reactivating those who might ...