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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2016
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Jewelry designer carves into Marine history BY SUZANNE LINDGREN EDITOR@COUNTRYMESSENGER.COM
Aspiring jewelry designer Logan Ketterling, 19, Lakeville, launched a successful KickStarter campaign March 10 to raise funds for his first project, “The Marine,” a bracelet that features a bit of Marine-on-St.Croix history. Made of wooden beads, the bracelet makes use of log ends cast off from the Marine Mill, Minnesota’s first commercial saw mill. Though most of the wood milled in Marine between 1839 and 1895 has long since travelled to new destinations, locals discovered eight logs, more than a century old, in shallow waters of the St. Croix River. Through his fledgling company, Urbain, Ketterling hopes to tell the story of the Marine Mill,
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“The Marine,” the inaugural design by jewelry start-up Urbain, draws on the history of Marine on St. Croix and its milling industry.
then go on to tell other historical tales through jewelry design. At press, the project
had surpassed its KickStarter goal of $12,000 by more than $2,000. The campaign wraps up
this Friday, March 25, at 8 p.m.
BY SUZANNE LINDGREN EDITOR@COUNTRYMESSENGER.COM
Travels with Charlie Marine scientist’s discovery leads to cancer breakthroughs
munotherapy have been around for more than a century, the research behind those ideas didn’t always lead to success in practice. But a scientific breakthrough made by Marine’s Charles Mills more than a decade ago (and reported on by the Messenger Sept. 17, 2014) seems to have provided a missing link. And international interest in Mills’ research recently took him on a tour across Europe to share his ideas with scientists and medical researchers from England to Italy.
BY SUZANNE LINDGREN EDITOR@COUNTRYMESSENGER.COM
Around the world, medical scientists are revising their understanding of the immune system, how it functions at the cellular level and how we might enhance immune responses to treat ailments from allergies to cancer. Although the ideas behind im-
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Volunteers at a Feed My Starving Children MobilePack event last year.
Music blasts in an expansive room, and volunteers take up their stations: unfolding large cardboard boxes, filling bags with fortified rice and soy-based meals, packing the meals into boxes and hauling the boxes away. Some work cautiously at first, then gain confidence, weighing, pouring or transporting with speed and certainty. They don’t know yet where the meals they’re packing will end up, but they’re confident their efforts will change the fate of at least a handful of the 6,200 children who die worldwide each day from hunger or a related disease. It’s a familiar scene for Feed My Starving Children volunteers, many of whom return year after year to help with the local pack. The nonprofit Christian organization is coming to Forest Lake with its “MobilePack” April 1 and 2. This year, the event is sponsored by six local churches, including Elim Lutheran in Scandia, which are currently rounding up the money needed to fund the event. They’ve committed to packing 150,000 meals, which means raising $33,000 for SEE VOLUNTEERS, PAGE 2
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Charlie Mills in Sept. 2014
SEE SCIENTIST, PAGE 9
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