Let them eat kohlrabi From Carolyn Stevenson,Glenwood A gauntlet’s been cast down in our town. Words like “hate” and “Kohlrabi” thrown around. The display is artistic, So don’t go ballistic. Life’s too short so just settle the (insert vegetable or other word of  choice) down. A letter of appreciation for my hometown of Glenwood From Mike Dero, PGA Golf Professional in Naples, Fla.and Telluride, Colo.  This is basically a letter of appreciation and positive retrospect for my hometown of Glenwood Minnesota. Glenwood is where I was raised up, graduated high school and where my beloved parents died. It is where I have lifelong friends, where I still like to vacation each year and where I go in my heart in mind when someone mentions home. It is also where I met and married my wife on a hill overlooking Lake Minnewaska in the Chalet area.  speaking of the chalet, it was my boyhood wilderness where we camped out, hiked, snow sledged and more influentially…skiing.   My friends know now how fortunate we were to have an open ski hill in the 70s where we could ski all winter long for about $20 and a pair of burned-up mittens from the rope tow.  A big shout out to David Schramm for keeping the Glenwood ski hill open all those years and for bettering our lives. Glenwood produced whole families of lifelong skiers who got a taste of jumping, downhill racing and freestyle on 200 vertical feet of snowy slopes. I left Glenwood to pursue college, life adventures and my golf career but I’ve always known how lucky I was to have good Minnesota “roots.”  In college I realized I had acquired a better- than-most education even though I was a mediocre student who didn’t try very hard at my studies in Glenwood.  I got A’s and the presidential award for academics over my East and West Coast classmates. I was blessed – lucky – fortunate enough- to be able to play golf each summer season as a kid in Glenwood.  At the time we had two nine hole golf courses and now, incredibly, have two wonderful 18-hole golf courses in our backyard,  the Minnewaska Golf club and Peters Sunset Resort Pezhekee course.   (Fun fact- Pope County has one of the highest ratio of golf holes per 1,000 people in the entire U.S.A., just behind Myrtle Beach, South Carolina).   I now teach golf in Naples, Florida and golf memberships there cost over $100,000 to join with annual dues of $15,000. You can’t compare apples to oranges but I truly love Glenwood’s two courses and the locals who play and  enjoy them.  They are a great value for playing the greatest game ever invented. The Minnewaska Golf Club and their high school golf teams have been home to some incredible talent in recent years with the girls high school team winning the state championship an incredible five years in a row with another appearance this year.    I’m still waiting and watching for a Glenwood junior golfer to bust out and win on the PGA or LPGA tour and former golf pros Scott Dirk and Scott McDonald and current head pro Casey Vengness all deserve a lot of credit for their coaching and mentoring of Glenwood’s future stars. Wrapping up this letter I just want to encourage you all to enjoy your special little slice of Minnesota heaven on these long, beautiful summer evenings.  Take a walk, throw out a fishing line, take a pontoon ride or play nine holes of golf in the late afternoon shadows. As my brother-in-law says when he calls me to tell me I’m missing out on a perfect Glenwood evening:  “It doesn’t get any better than this.” Responds to letter on yard display From Timothy Fiala, Glenwood HATE is such a powerful word. Now, I dislike Liver and onions, Brussel sprouts, People that disrespect our National Anthem as in sports figures and certain POLITIAL PARTY SIDE. Oh and I don’t have to look to far on social media to find HATE so maybe you should watch your own BOBBERS. 1. My motivations are the First Amendment. I am the voice of WE THE PEOPLE, the silent majority. 2. I don’t know if you have exactly been paying attention, to what is happening in this country as inflation is through the roof, gas prices are at all-time highs even worse than Obama, food prices are at all time highs and all other commodities are skyrocketing as I write, but when people live under a rock they don’t see these things. 3. Things to change are CLOSE THE SOUTHERN BORDER, open the keystone pipeline up ASAP and depend on our own OIL, and take their green energy and, well I can’t say what they can do with that here, have term limits on these Politicians so we don’t have these whacked out people like Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and so on in office for ages. Oh one other thing, if you don’t like driving past my place maybe you should take the detour that is suggested and follow the signs. Thanks for blood drive success From Mary Gross, Coordinator Glenwood Community Blood Drive Thank you from the American Red Cross to all who contributed to a very successful Community Blood Drive on May 31, 2022. Sixty-one units of much needed blood were collected. Thank you to Glenwood Lutheran Church for again hosting the event. Thank you to all of the dedicated volunteers in our Glenwood community who worked registering donors and serving in the canteen. Thank you to the donors themselves for their dedication, patience and generosity. Without all of you, the Red Cross would not exist. Natural disasters, severe weather, accidents and illness that require transfusions happen every day. Each unit of donated blood has the potential of saving three lives. Everyone’s cooperation made for a great drive. We also appreciate Pope County Tribune for publicizing the event. The next Glenwood Community Blood Drive will be held on October 11, 2022 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. For more information, or to register online, contact redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-RED CROSS.