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Sports
Rangerettes in competition
THE RANGERETTES VARSITY
Kick team placed second, just three
points (out of 500) behind Duluth
Marshall at the Frazee Invitational.
In the front row are: Kaylee Unzeitig,
Mildred Ferarri, Madeline Oren and
Mikeala Hartman. In the middle row
are Madison Midthun, Amanda
Parks, Mindy Borash, Megan
Nephew, Katelyn Norwood, Nikita
Finnerty, Marlee Zender, Jayda
Wager and Abbi Eppelsheimer. In
the back row are Coash Alyssa
Vignieri, Sienna-Rae Johnson, Nikki
Sura, Rachel Daraitis, Bryanna
Wilson, Kassi Fisher, Ivy Busby and
Coach Amy Turk.
Swim lessons
at YMCA
The Brainerd Family
YMCA next swim lesson session is coming soon. The lesson schedule is available at
the YMCA and on the web at
brainerdlakesymca.org. The
session begins the week of
Jan. 5 and meets once a week
for six weeks. These preschool and school-age lessons
are taught by trained, energetic instructors. YMCA
Members can begin registering for classes Monday, Dec.
29. Community Members can
begin registering on Tuesday,
Dec. 30. Contact the Brainerd
Family YMCA at 829-4767
or stop by at 602 Oak Street
in Brainerd to register. Also
available, on-line registrations at Brainerd Lakes
YMCA.org
Offered this session! Teen
beginner and adult beginner
swim lessons. These seperate
classes are for teenagers and
adults that have not had the
opportunity to learn to swim
yet and will feel more comfortable in a class with similar
age teens and adults. Also this
session is an adult advanced
swim lesson class. Perfect for
those who want to work on
their technique and/or gain
assistance training for an
event, ie: a triathalon this
summer.
Learn about
wolves at the
Arboretum
Did you know Northland
Arboretum has wolves? Staff
from the International Wolf
Center in Ely will be at the
arboretum to talk to families
about wolves and how they are
an important member of our
ecosystem. Learn about the
physical and social adaptations
that wolves need to live and
survive in their environment
and the role wolves play in our
environment and more on
Saturday, March 28 beginning
at 10:30 a.m. at the Northland
Arboretum Visitor Center. No
registration is required. Cost is
$10 per family for Arboretum
members and $20 per family
for non-members. Doors open
at 9:45 a.m.
THE
CROSBY-IRONTON
Rangerettes nearly had a sweep of
the Frazee Invitational recently. The
JV jazz, kick and Varsity jazz all
placed first out of eight teams. The
Varsity Jazz team includes (first
row): Kaylee Unzeitig, Mildred
THE RANGERGETTES JV JAZZ
dance team includes (first row):
Emma Sanford, Kassi Fisher, Nikki
Sura and Iva Busby. In the middle
row: Jayda Wager, Amanda Parks,
Kalina Spalj, Courtney Johnson,
Ferrari, Madeline Oren and Mikeala
Hartman. In the back row are Coach
Alyssa Vignieri, Katelyn Norwood,
Mindy Borash, Megan Nephew,
Nikita Finnerty, Marlee Zender and
Coach Amy Turk.
Bryanna Wilson and Sienna-Rae
Johnson. In the back row are: Coach
Kate Schmaltz, Madison Midthun,
Jordan
Papenfuss,
Abbi
Eppelsheimer and Coach Christina
Landree.
Scorpion
Homecoming
Feb. 7
Join hundreds of dedicated
Scorpion collectors for an afternoon of memories as the
Cuyuna Lakes Chamber of
Commerce presents Scorpion
Homecoming 2015. Held in
conjunction with the Chamber’s
Annual Ice Fishing Contest,
Scorpion Homecoming dusts
off those wonderful old
machines and recalls a time
when the Cuyuna Lakes was
among the largest snowmobile
producers in the world.
The eleventh annual event is
free but attendees are encouraged to support the chamber by
purchasing raffle tickets, commemorative buttons and memorabilia. A large number of original and wonderfully reconditioned Scorpions will be on display. Complementary awards
will be presented in several categories, so if you still own a
Scorpion, why not bring it out
and show it off?
The 2015 event will feature
the compact, fun-loving Lil’
Whip of 1975-1979.
The Homecoming is held
adjacent to the chamber’s ice
fishing contest on beautiful
Serpent Lake, just offshore from
Crosby
Memorial
Park
(Highway 210).
The schedule for Saturday,
Feb. 7 is:
—10 a.m. to noon: Set-up
and registration
—Noon to 3 p.m.:
Snowmobile display
—1:30 to 2 p.m.: Judging.
—3 to 3:15 p.m.: Awards
presentation
—3:15 to 4:30 p.m.:
Optional trail ride
—3:30 to 7 p.m.: Open
house.
For more information visit:
w w w. t r a i l a s l e d . c o m ;
www.cuyunalakes.com
or
rangewhip@trailasled.com.
CROSBY-IRONTON COURIER
Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014
Healthy Community Grants Awarded
through Crow Wing Energized
Monday, Jan. 19 is deadline
Crow Wing Energized has
awarded more than $11,000
through
three
Healthy
Community Grants to support
efforts to move our community
to a place where the healthy
choice is the easy choice.
The Assertive Community
Treatment (ACT) team of
Northern Pines Mental Health
Center in Brainerd received
$3,660. Its grant will be used to
enhance the existing rehabilitative program to support those
who experience mental health
illness and are making the
healthy choice to stop tobacco
use. Through the proven ACT
program individuals will be
coached through a recovery
process that focuses on good
nutrition and exercise to have a
positive impact on all aspects of
their lives.
A second grant of $2,850
was awarded to the Forestview
Middle School Youth Garden
and Junior Master Gardeners
Program, which is a program of
the ISD #181 Brainerd
Community Education. Funds
will be used to improve the
health of the students and families by creating and sustaining a
youth garden on the Forestview
Middle School grounds, offering a Junior Master Gardeners
program for fifth through eighth
grade students taught by CWC
Master Gardner volunteers, and
building sustainability into the
garden and identifying educational opportunities.
Lisa Stawarski, ISD #181
Youth Programs Coordinator,
shared “Forestview students,
families, staff and invested partners will have a greater understanding how food is grown and
harvested while enhancing the
knowledge of healthy food
choices.”
The Northland Arboretum
was the recipient of the most
recent grant of $5,000 to design
and build an outside Accessible
Wellness Fitness Trail. Mary
Corrigan, director at the Arb,
explains that the trail will consist of walking, running and
twelve exercise stations to provide a community fitness program for people of all ages.
Grant applications to Crow
Wing Energized, a grassroots
community movement led by
Essentia Health and Crow Wing
County to improve health and
wellness in our community by
making healthy choices essential, continue to be accepted.
The next application deadline is
Monday, Jan. 19, 2015.
Organization criteria for
applying includes serving or
located within Crow Wing
County, including but not limited to: neighborhood, youth, or
environmental groups; faithbased organizations; health care
organizations; civic or citizens’
associations; economic development agencies; local government entities; local businesses;
school districts and other similar
Join the Cuyuna
Lakes Trail
Association
The Cuyuna Lakes Trail
Association (CLTA) is offering
memberships to anyone interested in supporting biking,
mountain biking, in-line skating
(or rollerblading), running,
walking, skiing, hiking and
fishing in the Cuyuna Country
State Recreation Area and the
surrounding communities.
Annual memberships are
individual, $20; family, $25;
senior (62 or older), $10; student, $10; business or association, $100; and lifetime memberships are $500. The CLTA
is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization. Memberships dues are a
form of contribution that is taxdeductible.
Membership forms are
available online by visiting
www.cuyunalakestrail.org. If
you are interested in serving on
the CLTA Board, helping to
improve recreational opportunities in the area, please contact
Jenny Smith at 545-4545.
Curb-to-curb transit service
for Cuyuna Range residents
THE RANGERETTES JV KICK
Team placed first at the Frazee
Invitational recently. In the first row
are: Madison Weigel, Meg Erickson,
Emma
Sanford
and
Jordan
Papenfuss. In the middle row are:
Katelyn Landree (mascot), Lily
Marie Engler, Autumn Anderson,
Alexis Hale, Kalina Spalj, Megan
Waller, Cassidy Holtzleicer and
Courtney Johnson. In the back row
are: Coach Kate Schmaltz, Eggnalia
Doust, Shyanne Lubovich, Chloe
Craigie, Nicosha Kelley, Maria
Roberts, Lily Chapman, Addison
Clemmer and Coadh Christina
Landree.
There is a Curb to Curb
transit service available for
the residents of the Cuyuna
Range through Crow Wing
County Transit. In addition to
the Crosby to Brainerd service, there is a new Crosby
service on Tuesdays and
Thursdays where local shoppers will have the opportunity
to shop locally and support
area businesses. The Crosby
service runs from 9 a.m. to
1:30 p.m. Fares are $1.50
each way, when scheduled 24
hours in advance and $2.50
each way for same day service.
3B
Crosby to Brainerd service
picks up in Crosby at approximately 8:30 a.m. and returns
from Brainerd at approximately 11:30 a.m. Fares are $2.50
each way.
The service covers the
Crosby,
Ironton
and
Deerwood areas, offering
rides for shopping, appointments and other transportation
needs by calling 825-7433 or
866-925-7433.
Additional a.m. or p.m.
commuter service is available
between Crosby and Brainerd.
Contact the dispatcher at 8257433 for details.
groups. Applicants are not
required to be incorporated
501(c)3 organizations.
Applicant projects need to
align with the Crow Wing
Energized guiding principles as
well as Minnesota Department
of Health (MDH) SHIP’s financial guide:
—Creating and sustaining a
united approach to improving
health and wellness in Crow
Wing County
—Collaboration toward solutions with multiple stakeholders
(e.g. schools, worksites, medical
centers) to improve community
engagement and commitment
focused on improving community health
—Being anchored in evidence based efforts around
greatest community good that
can be achieved through available resources.
The Healthy Community
Grants are made available
through Statewide Health
Improvement Program (SHIP)
funding that was awarded to
Crow Wing Energized. Grant
applications are reviewed
monthly by the Crow Wing
Energized
Community
Leadership Team and Goal
Groups:
Healthy Choices goal group
develops sustainable strategies
and encourages healthy choices
by increasing access to healthy
foods, increasing active living
opportunities, and helping to
promote and support the healthy
environments.
Mental Fitness goal group
encourages and equips citizens
in achieving and maintaining
mental fitness by building networks throughout the county for
achieving resilience, increasing
the practice of intentional choices to help reduce stress and anxiety, and educating our communities to increase the knowledge
of mental fitness so it will help to
make positive choices regarding
their overall health.
Workplace Wellness goal
group helps to create a healthy
and energized workforce by
increasing employee satisfaction, maximizing productivity,
minimizing absenteeism, and
helping to reduce health care
costs.
For a Healthy Community
Grant Application visit crow
wingenergized.org “Resources”
page or to learn more about
Crow Wing Energized and what
it’s community partners are currently doing, please contact
Cassie Carey–Crow Wing
Energized Coordinator at
Cassie.Carey @crowwingenergized.org or 821-6975.
County helps low
income residents
upgrade septic
systems
In 2014 Crow Wing
County Land Services provided financial assistance to
four low income residents to
upgrade septic systems which
did not meet local and state
requirements. The $20,000 in
grant funding was obtained
from the Clean Water Land
Legacy Program Clean Water
Fund, and was administered
by the Region 5 Development
Commission.
By upgrading these systems, approximately 22
pounds of phosphorous and
72 pounds of nitrogen have
been reduced from entering
county
groundwater
resources. The 2013 Crow
Wing County Water Plan
identifies septic system maintenance and inspection as a
key component to keeping
groundwater clean.
The
water plan can be found on
the county website at
http://www.crowwing.us/inde
x.aspx?nid=241.
“We are certainly blessed
to have clean groundwater in
Crow Wing County” stated
Land Services Supervisor
Chris Pence. “These grants
will help those who may not
financially have the resources
to upgrade their septic systems.”
The
Region
5
Development Commission
administers the septic system
upgrade grant program for
Crow Wing and Cass
Counties.
In addition,
Region 5 administers a Septic
System and Well Loan
Program that provides low
interest loans to residents to
upgrade septic systems or
replace
existing
wells.
Additional funding in the
amount of $35,000 has been
obtained for further grants in
2015. Residents are encouraged to contact the Region 5
offices at 894-3233. The
Region 5 office is located at
2001 First Street NE, Suite 2,
Staples, 56479. The Region 5
website is www.regionfive.
org.