The Pine City Area Chamber of Commerce is planning the annual Fireworks Fundraiser event for Thursday, May 23rd at the Pine City Pizza Pub. This event will include a silent auction, beer and pizza tasting, and some local entertainment.
Visit the Chamber Facebook Page at www.facebook.com\pinecitychamber for more details.
The Pine City Library will host a showing of the movie, “Best in Show” on Thursday, May 2nd at 6:30 PM. At intermission, Steve Hallan – a local dog trainer – will do a brief demonstration on dog training.
Back in 1986, Jim Gordon opened the very first Jimmy’s Pizza in Pine City; it was located on the 200-block of Main Street S. (then 6th Street). Now, Jimmy’s Pizza is back in town, just a block over from where it was then, downtown Pine City.
Andrew Keene has moved his nearby Grasston location seven miles east to the larger Pine City market.
“I was looking to offer more, added menu items, sit-down areas and grow the business,” said Keene. “Besides, I live here in Pine City.”
Keene says he is excited to offer pizza lovers a taste of something familiar from a generation ago.
“We know this was a special place in Pine City’s past. We hope it can stoke nostalgia and offer a great dining option in Pine City once again.”
“There’s something about the sauce that makes Jimmy’s Pizza a stand alone,” Keene said. “Everything is fresh. That’s what people seem to appreciate, the freshness and price.”
Keene said they offer several options for pizza – carryout, dine-in and delivery are now being offered from the Pine City location. They’ll deliver in-town and out to an eight-mile range of town.
The Jimmy’s Pizza success story is remarkable, and can be viewed here. With dozens of locations across five states, it’s good to have a Jimmy’s back where it all started. Pine City’s Jimmy’s Pizza is located at 135 5th Street SE. To order, call (320) 629-4959.
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The East Central Regional Library and the MN Historical Society will present a MN Comic Workshop for youth in the region. Pre-registration is required by calling 320-629-6403
St. Paul, MN — March 22nd, 2013: When itinerant lumberjack Michael Dean arrived in the newly incorporated village of Hinckley in 1885 he must have felt right at home. Like Dean, many of the town’s businessmen and civic leaders were Irish-Americans who had followed lumbering jobs west to Minnesota. Soon, Dean made a life as a well-loved saloon-keeper and farmer who went fishing with Irish mill owner James J. Brennan and Irish lumber baron William O’Brien and lived in Pine County for 32 years (he moved to Pine City in 1907). Dean was also an avid singer who had a large repertoire of songs, from the old Irish folk tradition and from the unique musical tradition that flourished in northwoods lumbercamp bunkhouses in those years.
Bemidji-native Brian Miller has spent the past five years researching Dean’s life and, along with musical partner Randy Gosa, reviving Dean’s songs and the music of other Irish lumberjacks from the Upper Midwest. The duo presents these fascinating songs and stories in concert on Friday, April 12 at 7:30 PM at the North West Company Fur Post, 12551 Voyageur Lane, Pine City. The show is presented by the Pine Center for the Arts and has been made possible by a grant through the East Central Regional Arts Council. Tickets are available for a reduced cost of just $10 and can be purchased at the Pine Center for the Arts, Chris’ Food Center and the North West Company Fur Post.
Brian Miller and Randy Gosa have been featured on TPT TV’sMinnesota Original and MPR’sDaily Circuit and they have toured nationally to festivals including The University of Chicago Folk Fest, Milwaukee Irish Fest and the Arizona Highland Celtic Fest. Brian Miller is a two-time recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board grant for his work with the music of Irish lumberjacks. In concert, Miller and Gosa mix old world music with colorful local lore and creative arrangements, using voice, guitar and a variety of unusual folk instruments.
Their Pine Center for the Arts concert will feature stories about Mike Dean’s life in Pine County drawn from Brian’s forthcoming Dean biography (including how Dean’s was the only farmhouse to survive the Hinckley fire). The duo will also perform several songs from Dean’s repertoire and others, including the rousing bunkhouse song “Kettle River” which recalls the daily lives of men who worked in Johnny O’Brien’s lumbercamp on the Kettle River. The performance draws on recently discovered unpublished transcriptions and lost audio recordings of Mike Dean’s singing and the duo is excited to bring these songs back to the place they were sung over 100 years ago.
This activity is funded, in part, with a grant from the East Central Regional Arts Council through an appropriation from the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the State’s general fund.
The Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund came into being as part of the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment to the Minnesota Constitution that Minnesota voters overwhelmingly passed in 2008. Because of the work the State Legislature has done to direct this funding to the Minnesota State Arts Board and Regional Arts Council System, it has ensured that this money is bringing access to the arts in every corner of the state. The Pine Center for the Arts is grateful and proud to have received this funding.
The FirstLight Health System Auxiliary is offering a $1000 scholarship to an adult who has been out of high school for at least three years and who is pursuing an education in the healthcare field. This Auxiliary scholarship is funded by money made through the FirstLight gift shop. The applicant must be a United States Citizen and living in Kanabec or Pine county. To pick up an application, stop by FirstLight’s main front entrance desk. The application must be returned by April 1st, 2013.
The Auxiliary is a volunteer organization that’s purpose is to provide funds and services to benefit FirstLight Health System and its patients. Auxiliary volunteers manage the FirstLight Health System Gift Shop, arrange school tours of the hospital, staff their Volunteer Information Program (VIP), provide hand-knitted caps for all new babies, among other things. In addition, the Auxiliary has funded the purchase of medical equipment at FirstLight Health System.
Auxiliary members can volunteer on one project, or many. For more information about FirstLight Health System’s Auxiliary Volunteer program, contact Ronda Jannett, Volunteer Coordinator at 320-225-3321.
FirstLight Health System is located at the junction of Highways 65 and 23 in Mora. The main telephone numbers are 320-679-1212 and 1-800-245-5671. More information about FirstLight Health System can be found at http://www.firstlighthealthsystem.org.
Anyone can help teacher Mrs. Hughes in her efforts to raise money for Pine City Public Schools, ISD #578. Clip and save your General Mills box tops and drop them off at the front office of the elementary school. Box Tops for Education box tops can be found on hundreds of products, like Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, GoGurt,Cascadian Farm, Green Giant and more! Thanks for doing your part!
Are you a Veteran who is in business or planning to start a business/ Learn how to get registered for one-on-one professional business consulting services at no cost to you.
Attend the Veterans Business Resource Program on Tuesday, April 16th from 8:30am – Noon in Cambridge, MN.
See flyer for more details.
Look for Caleb Flynn on American Idol this season. He grew up in nearby Braham, Minn.
Fare For All is a food distribution program that is offered in our community. There are no income guidelines to take part in this program, it is simply another way to make your grocery money stretch.
How does it work?? Participants call (1-800-582-4291) to place their order of one or more of the packages that are available each month. Then, on the fourth Saturday of the month, they simply go to the local pick-up location and receive their order. Fare for All is no an authorized location to accept all EBT Cards in addition to regular payment options.
The February deadline to place an order is Friday, February 15th and distribution day is Saturday, February 23rd.
February Specials include a MEGA MEAT PACK that includes a variety of meats such as chicken, fish, beef, turkey & pork. Recieve 9-13 pounds of meat for just $25.
For more information on the program, go online to: http://www.fareforall.org
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