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Walker Super One Foods’ new store to open May 15 — Grand opening celebration set for early August
The date for the opening of the new Super One Food Store in Walker has been set for May 15. The 46,000 square-foot store, where construction began last summer, will open at 7 a.m. The old store, which was 26,000 square feet, will close at 6 p.m. May 14. In a recent tour of the facility, construction crew, corporate re-set team members, current employees and employees from other Super One...
Golden Apple: Horace May Students in Bemidji Spread Kindness to Village of Hope
Students at Horace May Elementary in Bemidji have recently been learning about kindness and how a simple kind gesture can really help those in need. Students of Kate Pearson’s second grade class have recently been reading from a book that’s been teaching them all about being kind and helping those in need. The entire class then wanted to help the community in some way, so they decided to make gift bags for Village of Hope in Bemidji, an emergency shelter for families experiencing homelessness.
Hometown Pest Control is new Chamber member
The newest member of the Leech Lake Area Chamber of Commerce is Hometown Pest Control, owned by Andy Erickson of Walker. Andy moved to the area in 2013 as a member of Pike Bay Police Department before switching positions to fulltime with the Walker Police Department. Looking for additional work, he purchased Mosquito Be Gone and began treating residential and commercial properties for mosquitos and wood ticks. With the help of some amazing employees, he then expanded again. He purchased North Star Pest Control’s Cass County area, which enables him to spray residences and businesses for all insect and pests that including spiders, ants, cockroaches, bed bugs, Asian beetles, boxelder bugs and more. With the success of insect pest control, the company expanded again into mice control and bat removal, live trapping and nuisance trapping of animals. Andy had to change the name of his company to accommodate all these new changes, so Hometown Pest Control was founded. He hopes to continue to serve the Walker and surrounding areas for a long time. Andy Erickson is pictured with Chamber Director Cindy Wannarka holding the First Business Dollar.
Pilot injured in small plane crash northwest of Bemidji
CLEARBROOK, Minn. — Investigators say weather is part of the reason a small plane crashed northwest of Bemidji on Monday.The crash occurred in the city of Clearbook around 1:40 a.m., according to the Clearbrook-Gonvick Police Department.First responders found the pilot outside of the plane. The pilot was airlifted to a hospital in Fargo. Their condition is unknown.No one else is believed to have been inside the plane at the time of the crash.In addition to poor weather, investigators say the pilot experienced mechanical failure that is considered to be a main factor in the crash.The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident.
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