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Hardwood Creek Library November Events

The library will be closed Nov. 11 for Veterans Day and Nov. 24 and 25 for Thanksgiving
Featured Events
STEM Saturday: Scratch Programing with Raspberry Pi
2 to 3 p.m. Nov. 12
Explore STEM through hands-on activities and creative projects.
LEGO mania and blocks party
1:30 to 4 p.m. Nov. 18
Bring your imagination to the library and engineer your dreams. This is an all-ages event with LEGOs for children 5 and up, and blocks for younger engineers. Drop in and leave at any time.
Skateboard art with Mark Rivard
2 to 4 p.m. Nov. 19
Combine your imagination with Sharpies and create a skateboard deck with the help of artist Mark Rivard. Register on the library’s website, call the Hardwood Creek Library at 651-275-7300, or stop by the library.
Computer classes
Microsoft Excel 2010
Part 1, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 1
Part 2, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8
Part 3, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15
Volunteer instructor Ken Noyes offers a three-part

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East Columbus businesses look for exposure

Paul Rignell
Columbus Reporter
The city of Columbus is home to many businesses, including several that are close to the State Highway 97-Lake Drive bridge interchange with Interstate 35.broadstreet.zone(48036);
However, most of the business owners with lots east of I-35 do not feel that enough potential customers know how to reach their lots, and the owners have asked for help from city officials.
City Council members on Oct. 26 reviewed a petition signed by owners of nine businesses who are seeking a sign that would list their business names at the corner of Highway 97 and Hornsby Street to direct traffic to their lots. Most of the businesses sell certain types of products, from boats and snowmobiles to utility trailers, gym equipment and quilting machines and supplies.
Some of the businesses are directly accessible from Hornsby Street south of 97, but most of the affected businesses have addresses on the connecting Feller Street or 152nd

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Local driver connects vets with health care

Photo by Paul RignellRandy Koivisto assists a veteran who is headed from Chisago County to a VA hospital in Minneapolis.
Paul Rignell
Contributing Writerbroadstreet.zone(48036);
A typical medical patient in the far north metro may wake well before dawn on a day when they have scheduled a morning doctor’s visit in Minneapolis or another city more than 30 miles away.
Some patients may be unable to get to those metro clinics or hospitals on their own, and for that they are grateful there are servants like Randy Koivisto.
Often up to four times per month, he may rise hours before daybreak to drive from his home in Stacy to a garage in North Branch, where he climbs behind the wheel of a Chisago County Veterans Services van.
On the morning of Oct. 14, when he had a driving assignment, Koivisto went north from the county garage to Rush City to pick up one rider before cutting back

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Willard “Bill” Delmer Olson

Bill Olson, age 87 of City of Columbus, passed away in peace and with grace on November 9, 2016.
Preceded in death by wife Verna (Strandberg) Olson, brother John and sister in-law Shirley, brother Arlie, sister Joyce Martinson and brother in-law Robert, brother in-law Ted Mabry, brother in-law Ernest Berget and sister in-law Dagmar (Strandberg) Berget, brother in-law Delmer Strandberg and sister in-law Ruby, nephew Al Berget and his wife JoAnne Berget, and most recently Michael Dotzler, and Deb Backstrom.
Survived by daughter LeeAnn Weigt (Dale); son Jon (Judy); grandchildren Tara Olson Medina (Daniel), Kyle Olson, Lisa Olson; and great-grandson Henry Louis Medina; brother Dale (Gloria); sister Avis Mabry; sister in-law Marie Olson; numerous nieces and nephews and their families; and many friends.
Born January 4, 1929 to John and Alyce (Johnson) Olson, Bill and his five siblings grew up in Balsam Lake, Wisconsin where his knowledge of farming and passion for fishing

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