It’s Friday, and I am at one of my usual Thursday and Friday “offices.” I spend those days skipping from bakery to coffee shop to café, to restaurant or anywhere in Pine River with a wifi signal. Honestly, the wifi here is better than the Internet at our Pequot Lakes Office, so if it weren’t for the fattening effects of chai tea and sawdust rolls, I would have it made.

I am drinking my very first pomegranate oolong tea, and it reminds me of when I didn’t care for tea at all. Nine months in China can tend to make a person more tea savvy. Big surprise.

An excellent example of government at its best occurred right here in Pequot Lakes last Saturday afternoon. Sadly, only a very few local citizens attended. There were nearly more elected officials than citizens.

Our local state representative, John Ward, scheduled and conducted a town meeting at city hall, open just for the occasion. The event was hosted by Mayor Nancy Adams, who personally assured that doors were open and the meeting room comfortably set up.

On Tuesday of this week the Minnesota House Committee on Governmental Operations was to consider several bills that would alter the way in which some county elective offices may be made appointive.

Since 1973, Minnesota statutes have allowed a county to appoint a county auditor, county treasurer, sheriff or county recorder if the offices have not been abolished by the adoption of other options.

The beauty of looking back over 30 years of columns is that you see historical items mentioned that one had long ago forgotten about. Life moves swiftly, change happens every day and what was true yesterday may not be true today. 

I wrote the following “Classic Last Windrow” back in the year 2000. I wrote it in February when I had been too long indoors and cabin fever had evidently set in and I was watching fishing shows.