VIRGINIA – It will soon be sweater weather and with that comes all of the fall favorites! Flannels, comfy sweatshirts, pumpkins and our favorite: CHILI! The Iron Range Rotary Club is excited to present our 4th annual Chili Cook Off! The community-favorite event will be held on Thursday, September 21, at the Iron Trail
Photo by Cindy Kujala. The Iron Range Rotary Club hosted the 47th Gary Carlson Memorial Kids’ Fishing Contest on Silver Lake in Virginia on Thursday, June 8. See next week’s Hometown Focus for more fishing photos and information on the event.
Hudson Pietrini VIRGINIA – A Rock Ridge High School student has won an annual essay contest sponsored by Rotary District 5580. “Hudson’s essay won because of its logical structure and application of the Four-Way Test as a moral and ethical compass in the importance of a person’s first name,” said Jessica Lautigar, a member of
Marge McPeak (left, standing) and Debra Warner Williams of the Iron Range Rotary Club pass out dictionaries to third graders at the Mesabi East Elementary School. Dictionaries for Third Graders in an educational service project of the club. Submitted photo. The Iron Range Rotary Club made gifts of a dictionary to third graders in the