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Fairview and YMCA Forest Lake offer 12-week wellness program

Fairview Health Services and the YMCA Forest Lake are collaborating to offer a 12-week wellness program for YMCA members beginning Feb. 1.
The program, called Well Together, takes a holistic approach to improving health and well-being. It includes a whole health assessment with a Fairview doctor, nutritional consultations, healthy eating group sessions, mind-body medicine group sessions, health coaching and doctor check-ins, wellness consultations, fitness assessments, and more.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Fairview doctors, nurses and dieticians, along with YMCA fitness professionals and wellness experts, will work closely with program participants to create a customized approach to improving health that meets participants’ unique needs. The cost for YMCA members is $139 per person (a $700 value).
“Fairview is pleased to work within the Forest Lake community to offer this program designed to improve health and wellness beyond the traditional walls of our hospitals and clinics,” Fairview Manager of Community Health Kathy Bystrom said in a press release. “Well

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Forest Lake Events for January 5, 2017

Volunteer open house
Fairview Lakes Medical Center Wyoming will host a volunteer open house in conference room B from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 26. Guests will learn how to help raise funds, organize and lead events, serve others, make new friends, and have fun, all while giving back to the community.
Career success for students
The Lakes Area Youth Service Bureau will offer a program for students that will provide tools and skills required to earn and keep a job in high-growth career industries. Youth in grades 8 to 12 can attend the free class on Feb. 7, 14, 21, and 28 from 6 to 8 p.m. Students must be able to attend all sessions. Visit goo.gl/okcRxT for a registration form.

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Open Forum for Jan. 5, 2017

EDITOR’S NOTE: Letters will be accepted for the Open Forum for publication in the next available issue after receipt. Letters may be sent to Forest Lake Times, 146 N. Lake St., Suite 125, Forest Lake, or by e-mail to ryan.howard@ecm-inc.com. Letters should not exceed 250 words and must be signed with the writer’s name, address and telephone number. Deadline is noon Monday. The newspaper reserves the right to edit letters and assure that rules of libel and good taste are not violated.
History vs. economybroadstreet.zone(48036);
At 9 a.m., Jan. 24, before the Washington County commissioners is the issue of changing the long standing historical name of a small lake in the city of Forest Lake from Halfbreed Lake to Sylvan Lake.
Go back into Elsie Vogel’s “Reflections of Forest Lake.” Two tribes were in this area; her first paragraph states, “Many tales of Forest Lake’s early settlers recall how they and the American

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Winnick Supply seeks screening alternatives

Photo by Ryan HowardIn 2008, Forest Lake approved a conditional use permit for Winnick Supply that included a requirement that 45 spruce trees be planted around the edges of the property. Most of those trees have since died.
After a three-hour meeting attended by about 40 people, the Forest Lake Planning Commission voted Dec. 28 to table a conditional use permit amendment request from Winnick Supply regarding the placement of tree screening around the business.
A longtime presence in Forest Lake, the business, formerly called H. Winnick and Company, moved to its current site around 1940 – a planning commission memo and current owner Ben Winnick gave different years for the move date, but they were within a few years of each other. When the business, now a wholesale supply company, first moved to the southeast intersection of what is now known as U.S. Highway 61 and 11th Avenue, the area it

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