DASSEL-COKATO, MN - Dassel-Cokato Schools will host a series of back-to-school open houses.
• High school, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.
• Area Learning Center, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
• DC Middle School grade five, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.
• DC Middle School grades 6 through 8, Thursday, Sept. 3, 6 to 8 p.m.
• Dassel Elementary, Thursday, Sept. 3, 4 to 7 p.m.
• Cokato Elementary, Thursday, Sept. 3, 4 to 7 p.m.
• Early Childhood Center, Thursday, Sept. 17, 6:15 to 7:45 p.m.
Monthly Archive for August, 2009
From: Nathan Unseth
Lester Prairie
What’s not to like about free health care? I mean, I just love anything that’s free.
Admittedly, the 1,000+ page Obamacare bill doesn’t talk about “free.” But our most majestic esteemed president has, over the years, made several public statements of his desire for “single payer” health care. That’s what Canadians, Brits, and others have. And it’s, well, uh, free. So, ultimately, our most majestic esteemed president wants us to have free health care.
What a president. What a country.
So, why do I love the idea of free health care? Well, first of all, free is my favorite number. Zero. Nada. It’s so wonderfully uncluttered. Any idiot can calculate “free.” Even a government bureaucrat.
Second, nobody can complain about free. No matter how shoddy, how slow, how inefficient, how rude the service or product is, who can gripe? After all it’s free. So, if your free health care results in the wrong pills, removes the wrong kidney, or gives grandma a quart of morphine instead of the hip replacement she’d prefer, so what? It’s free.
Third, free is always worth the wait. Just watch the hundreds of people who stand in long lines at Glencoe Days to get two little pieces of corn-on-the-cob – for free. So, if the pain in your chest has you ready to faint, you can still feel good about pulling ticket 98 in the clinic lobby, because the two-hour wait will be worth it. After all, it’s free.
Even the “ultimate decision” is free. When you’re 87 years old, with diabetes and a failing heart, you can take comfort in knowing that the warm, cuddly “death panel” will also be free.
I’m just dying to get free health care.
From: Jodi Raisanen, Former Cokato Twp. resident
After reading the article about the bike bath, I am glad to no longer be a resident of Cokato Township.
Cokato Township, where most of the path is located, and I would guess most of the path’s users reside, isn’t contributing any money to the upkeep of the bike path. Yet Collinwood Township is.
That’s ridiculous. It’s beyond being conservative. I would think allocating funds to something like the heavily used bike path, available to all, would be popular among Cokato Township taxpayers.
The bike path is an asset to the township. They should reconsider.
MYSTERY, MN – The Enterprise Dispatch web site is hosting a weekly Internet mystery photo contest in which a photo is taken of something in the area.
Anyone who correctly guesses the identity of the photo is added to a monthly drawing for a free subscription to the newspaper.
Go ahead and guess! Those who guess correctly first receive bragging rights.
Answers may be e-mailed to Lynda Jensen at news@heraldjournal.com or sent by mail. No phone calls, please.
We’ll publish the correct answer – and the name of the person who first identifies the mystery photo – in next week’s Enterprise Dispatch.
WRIGHT COUNTY, MN — An accident with injuries that later turned into a fatality was reported at the intersection of County Road 12 and County Road 138 in Buffalo Township, Aug. 24, according to the Wright County Sheriff’s Office. Continue reading ‘Fatality reported near Buffalo in Wright Co.’
ST. PAUL, MN — Coronation for the state dairy princess, known as the Princess Kay of the Milky Way, was conducted last night, with Dairy Princess Elizabeth Olson, 19, McLeod County being chosen for the honor.
Olson is the daughter of Loren and Laura Olson of Hutchinson. Today, she is having her likeness carved in a 90 lb. block of butter inside a rotating booth, which is the usual custom. When completed, her butter head will join the Olson family, making it a total of three butter heads, since Elizabeth’s two sisters are Princess Kay royalty; one being a runner up in 2005, and the second being Princess Kay of the Milky Way in 2002. Olson told WCCO that her mother has bought a new freezer to house the three butter heads. Continue reading ‘Hutchinson princess chosen as Princess Kay’
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