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Comet Theater reaches goal

Fundraising effort successful

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Citywide rummage sales planned for Timber Days!

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As members of the Cook Timber Days Committee, we’re always looking for new ways to generate more

interest in the annual event.

With that goal in mind, we decided to host a citywide garage sale beginning

Friday, June 7 from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m.

and again on Saturday, June 8, from 8 a.m.  to 2 p.m.

We feel this will be a great way to kick off the event  and still allow the community time to participate

in all of the festivities!

City maps listing participant’s addresses will be printed and available for pick up at several outlets beginning

Wednesday, June 5. Anyone living outside city limits will have their address printed on the map.

If you would like to be listed on the map,

please send $5 to help cover printing costs to

Shelly Bristol, P.O. Box 1118, Cook MN 55723

no later than May 31.

Entries received after that date cannot be

guaranteed to appear on the map.

The maps can be picked up at the Country Store, Lucky Seven, Subway and Zup’s.

If you have any questions, please call 218-780-5298.

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Ice going ashore, Mille Lacs Lake

Sent by John Branstgrom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EyfEDKWscg

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The Laurentian Divide

Only twenty miles south of Cook

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurentian_Divide

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Lost Animals

Sent by Cindy Matson

http://www.borderlandhumanesociety.org/

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Joyce ~ Patti Knoer

(Joyce is a 2004 graduate of the Cook High School)

 I am fundraising for cancer research at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

 in memory of my mom, Patti Knoer.

 
http://getinvolved.fhcrc.org/goto/joyceknoer

Donations can also be made by phone: 206-667-7433 or by mail (just include my name on the memo):

Obliteride
c/o Fred Hutch
1100 Fairview Ave. N., LM-120
PO Box 19024
Seattle, WA 98109-1024

More information on the project can be found at www.fredhutch.org and www.obliteride.org.

I would be happy to answer any questions as well. I can be reached at 218-780-5279 or jknoer@gmail.com.

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Automotive Repair Advertisement, 1928 Sent by Dennis Reber

1914 Model T Ford Station Wagon.   May 31, 1927, the last Ford Model T rolled off the assembly line. It was the first affordable automobile, due in part to the assembly line process developed by Henry Ford. It had 2.9-liter, 20-horsepower engine and could travel at speeds up to 45 miles per hour. It had a 10-gallon fuel tank and could run on kerosene, petrol, or ethanol, but it couldn't drive uphill if the tank was low, because there was no fuel pump; people got around this design flaw by driving up hills in reverse. Ford believed that "the man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed." The Model T cost $850 in 1909, and as efficiency in production increased, the price dropped. By 1927, you could get a Model T for $290 "I will build a car for the great multitude," said Ford. " It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one - and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces."

A winter that does not want to go away Picture sent by Dennis Udovich Don,   Last years big now storm April 15-16.  Many trees over the road and power lines down .   Take care, Dennis Dennis & Mimi Udovich live in Greaney and are involved in the Vince Shute Bear Preserve.

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In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship." "The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage." The Obituary follows: Born 1776, Died 2012 It doesn't hurt to read this several times. Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election: Number of States won by:  Obama: 19 McCain: 29  Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000  Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million McCain: 143 million  Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2 McCain: 2.1 Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..." Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase. If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's - and they vote - then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years. 3 things that cannot be hidden for long. The Sun The Moon, and The Truth There couldn't be more at stake than on Nov 2012.

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Cook Baseball Team

Front: Billy Aune, Terry Ronning, Mike Amundson?, Kit Olson, Jerry Fallos, Darrell Esterbrooks?, Donny Jensen?. Back: Coach Frank Fortun, David Grebenc, Merwyn Metsa, Maurie Degrugilier,  Warren Bradbury, Larry Bialke, Irv Gustafson, Richard Roivanen, Phil Forsline, Mike Marconett. Edited list sent by Kit Olson and Billy Aune, April 13, 2013

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Bob Sikkila

Pictures sent by Ron Saxe

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Scroll down and take a few minutes to view some very interesting information.

You'll be quite surprised at some of these facts.

If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth.

If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth.

To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over

2 million individual flowers

Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.

 

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

Astronauts can't belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

 

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off!

 

Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.

Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros ..

 

Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust,

even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years.

 

Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end .

If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases.

 

Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals

The song, Auld Lang Syne, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.

 

The University of Alaska spans four time zones

The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.

A comet's tail always points away from the sun

 

Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers,

that is why it is found in some medicines.

 

Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside

 

Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters

 

Everything weighs one percent less at the equator
 

The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.

And last but not least:

In 2012, December has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays.

This apparently happens once every 823 years!

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Bears damage Apple Trees

From trhe Duluth News Herald

Sent by Beryl's cousin, Ross Swanson

Beryl Novak said the bear tumbled from his apple tree like “a hundred-pound sack of flour.” But when he walked up to it, the bear looked up at him. Then it scrambled to its feet and ran off, with Novak’s dog, Bucky, in hot pursuit.

Novak, 62, lives a mostly quiet life alone in the woods near Orr. He lives largely off the land, and he raises apple trees. He had told Department of Natural Resources conservation officer Troy Fondie that bears were wrecking his trees, breaking off his carefully grafted branches. Novak has cultivated more than 100 varieties of apples on his 50 to 60 apple trees. One tree alone has about 25 varieties, he said. He has strains from Finland, Norway, Canada and Kazakhstan, in addition to Minnesota.

And he doesn’t want bears destroying his trees. So the conservation officer told Novak he could shoot any bear that was damaging his apple crop, Novak said. Which is what he did Thursday afternoon.

Now the bear was racing around his property, Bucky hot on its tail. It was clear that Novak’s first shot from his .270-caliber rifle had not been lethal. The bear had been 15 feet up in the apple tree, and Novak had aimed for the bear’s head.

“He must have moved just as I shot,” Novak said.

The next thing Novak knew, the bear was right in front of him, moving fast, and it didn’t appear to be considering a detour.

“I reacted instinctively,” Novak said. “I took the rifle up like a hockey stick and smacked it in the mouth with the rifle.”

Novak estimated that the bear weighed about 90 to 100 pounds.

“But he looked pretty big when you looked at him eyeball-to-eyeball,” he said.

After Novak swatted the bear with his rifle, the bear headed for some tall grass down in an old beaver pond, Novak said. Bucky was still all over the bear, so Novak couldn’t risk a shot. Finally, the bear separated itself from Bucky enough that Novak could take a second shot, which dropped the bear in its tracks.

It was only then that Novak noticed some pain in his arm. He pulled up his sleeve to see several lacerations in his flesh.

“I was all scratched up,” Novak said. “That bear had laid me open.”

Novak and a neighbor field-dressed the bear and Fondie issued a permit allowing Novak to possess the bear. He gave it to his neighbor.

Novak washed his wounds thoroughly and administered a topical antibiotic. Novak visited the clinic in Orr the next day, and medical personnel prescribed a course of antibiotics.

Otherwise, things have been pretty quiet in Novak’s world. He’s been out grouse hunting a few times.

“I’ve shot three so far,” he said. “I just walk until I shoot one, then come back and have it for lunch.”