A True Home Away
One dollar and 38 cents – that’s what one guest at the Beacon House in Marquette left for an overnight stay there. The payment envelope also had a note that explained he gave all he had, keeping just enough to get home.
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Not Lost in Translation
A New Device Developed in Duluth Can Save Lives. It could be the stuff of nightmares: You have a medical crisis in a foreign country and no one in the hospital can speak your language as you desperately try to explain your emergency.
Jan 23, 2012 by Manda Lillie in Health/Wellness
A Home for Hope
Talking about cancer is no longer taboo. People openly discuss the illness, have more awareness of prevention and early detection. If only the same were true of mental illness that might prematurely take the life of a young person through suicide.
Nov 13, 2011 by Konnie LeMay in Health/Wellness
Bear Bones Research
Do bears hold the secret to preventing osteoporosis? How is it that black bears can hibernate, shut down their systems and not exercise for five or six months over winter, and yet do not develop a bone-loss condition?
Jul 21, 2011 by Bob Berg in Health/Wellness
Courtesy Edgewood Vista - Hermantown
Older by the Lake: Options for Independent Living
It’s not hard to come up with the reasons that people choose to remain or decide to come to Lake Superior to retire. What might be less evident are the available options for home and health as we grow older by the Lake.
Jul 21, 2011 by Felicia Schneiderhan in Health/Wellness
Bigger, Better, Brighter
It seems appropriate that a mom and her newborn became the first patients at the birth of a new hospital. The baby, born the night before, and mother were the first patients on the hospital’s opening day, March 6, 2011.
May 15, 2011 by Bob Berg in Health/Wellness
Joy Morgan Dey
Wintertime & the Livin' is Freezy
Tips on how to winterize your body.
Nov 5, 2007 in Health/Wellness
University of Minnesota Medical School-Duluth
Medicine in the Making: Educating Our Newest Community Healers
The Lake Superior region offers a variety of health education programs designed to educate the newest generation of health care providers.
Apr 10, 2009 by Konnie LeMay in Health/Wellness
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Superior Notes
Lake Superior Journal: Setting Life’s Course on the Ship Corsair
Oh is a letter and zero is a number. If you don’t say them correctly and clearly, things might go wrong for your shipmates and your ship.
May 10, 2012 5:23:00 PM | 1 comment(s)
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Superior Notes
Welcome to the Big Lake: A Tomten Named Ole
If a garden gnome is named Ole, do you think that means he’s really a tomten?
May 10, 2012 5:21:00 PM
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Superior Notes
Picturing the Big Lake – May 2012
Photographer Dennis O'Hara provides us with insights and tips for catching wildflower images.
May 2, 2012 10:22:00 AM
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Superior Notes
From Double-N Donn: Madam, I Write a Column
Donn Larson's latest post reveals one of his inspirations for writing his blog.
Apr 8, 2012 12:01:00 AM
