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Fortune Bay to host Santa’s Workshop Toy Drive
TOWER— In these trying times where everything costs more and puts additional financial stress on families, it’s comforting to know that Fortune Bay Resort Casino guests and employees will be adding some joy to area children. “We wanted to do something where our guests could do something to help and, in the process, we are rewarding them with a dollar-for-dollar...
Weather doesn’t hinder 2023 Let’s Take A Kid Fishing event!
LAKE VERMILION— With rain steadily pelting the lakeside tent at Fortune Bay Resort Casino Wednesday morning, Phil Bakken announced that the 2023 Let’s Take A Kid Fishing (TAKF) event would not go off as planned. Instead, the kids could hang out and try some activities to bide some time until lunch would be served later that morning with the hopes that the 2024 event...
Hearts for Hospice receives a nice boost!
TOWER— As a person who has experienced a loss due to cancer, Emily Koch wanted to do something in memory of her mother. So, she decided to become involved with Virgie Hegg Hospice Partners, Inc. in Cook, which is a nonprofit 501 c (3) corporation that serves hospice and hospice-eligible patients and their families in the Cook, Orr, and Tower areas. ...