Residents in rural mountain areas like ours are often the benefit of wild tales of the Mogollon Monster, famous residents, 6-foot snowfalls and perhaps random buried items. Tales of who lived in your home, on your property or in an old barn provide folklore as a backdrop to our small-town life.
Recently Pine resident Lisa Campbell found just such a mystery. Campbell and her husband purchased their home in 2011 and moved in permanently in 2013.
âWe spent every weekend up here, we only missed one and that was for our wedding,â she said.
Getting to know her neighbors and her community, she heard a lot of the local tales. The one that caught her attention was about her home.
The wedding was fixed for Thursday September 14 1950. The committee of the student branch met at 6.30am, and we were afraid to go away on holiday in case we missed the revolution.
And our wedding was somewhat unusual. My parents’ wedding in St George’s church, St Kitts, in 1927 had been very simple with just a few family and friends, as my mother disliked fuss. She did not wear a wedding dress, just a plain, white linen suit. In fact a woman standing outside the church, presumably disappointed by the small congregation and the lack of flowers and finery, commented that it was a “miserable” wedding. Ours was to be similarly low key.
Community foundation looking for medical scholarship applicants
Students looking for financial help in completing their education to become doctors, nurses, therapists or pharmacists have until Feb. 28 to apply for a Long Trust Medical Scholarship from the Detroit Lakes Area Community Foundation. 12:00 am, Jan. 20, 2021
The Detroit Lakes Area Community Foundation recently announced that it is accepting applications for the Long Trust Medical Scholarships program from now through Feb. 28.
To be eligible for a scholarship, a student must:
Show proof of enrollment in an accredited educational program;
Show proof of a declared medical or paramedical major, and
Have successfully completed the first quarter/semester of study.
Soap vs. Sanitizer: Only One Kills
By Frank Long, MS, Editorial Director
Hand sanitizers are sold in sizes small enough to be carried in a pocket and used instantly without running water. Compared to clunky bar soaps today’s hand sanitizers win the convenience argument hands down. However, something alarming was recently found in certain hand sanitizers: poisonous, colorless, flammable
methanol.
Danger is Skin Deep
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a health advisory issued July 5, methanol is a type of toxic alcohol that can be lethal if absorbed through the skin. The CDC made this warning after it identified the first of several hand sanitizer products sold commercially in the United States:
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