Mike Christopherson
Note to readers: The City of Crookston announced Wednesday that the Central Park Skatepark will remain even as RV campground improvements and expansion are made in Central Park. Staff are looking at plans to plant shrubs and other greenery to keep the RV campground and skatepark as two separate areas.
Would you consider yourself to be what is often referred to as an “adrenaline junkie”?
If you had to ponder the question at all before answering it, chances are you are not an adrenaline junkie.
I didn’t have to ponder. Mark me down as a “no.”
That doesn’t mean I don’t have what might be called a “need for speed.” As long as I am equipped with the proper amount of protection, I’m a fan of velocity. And by “protection,” I mean large, heavy vehicles crafted of metal and other hard, heavy and durable materials that envelope me in a cocoon. You know, like when I’m driving my pickup.
Mike Christopherson
Come and explore the great outdoors.in Crookston, Minnesota?
I chose to pose that opening sentence as a question because our little city probably doesn’t make anyone’s top 10 list of outdoor destinations. There are no mountains and there’s no beach. There are no tourist-trap, majestic destinations, like the Grand Canyon or Niagara Falls. We have a river, but it’s under-utilized and under-appreciated.
But when one adds a puppy to the family, a high-octane dog that also happens to embrace frigid cold and snow, and one takes that puppy on multiple walks, from early in the morning to the dark of night, one sees Crookston in a different light, or from a different perspective. It’s almost like my wife and I are viewing our town through a different lens, or maybe we’re just seeing, noticing and taking a moment or two to appreciate aspects of our town we barely even noticed before, if we knew they existed at all.
Perfect snowman weather in Crookston parks
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The snow was sticky in Schuster Park one recent balmy afternoon, so Marge Koepsell and her daughter, Jade, and Lisa Donarski and her daughter, Audrey, made not only a full-sized snowman, but a miniature one, too.
By the time the photographer got around to taking this photo, Audrey was ready to move on to another activity.
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