Brush pickup through June 20. Place brush at the curb, butt ends out. Public Works will not take anything “a reasonable man couldn’t lift,” and reserves the right to decide who that is.

Hydrant flushing begins Monday, east side first. Residents may see cloudy water; the water department asks that you run a cold tap a minute and not “call Donna about it.”

Food shelf low on coffee and canned fruit, the First Lutheran volunteers report — and, they add, “never not low on coffee.” Donations accepted Tuesday and Thursday mornings.

Garden Club plant sale Saturday on the library lawn, 9 a.m. until sold out. Proceeds support the boulevard pots, three of which survived the winter.

VBS schedule set. Sacred Heart holds Vacation Bible School June 16–20, First Lutheran the week after — staggered by long arrangement so the children can attend both and the churches can split the difference.

Lions pancake feed cleared $1,140 for the scoreboard fund, leaving it roughly $9,000 and one more pancake feed short of the goal.

Post office lobby now locks at 6 p.m., following the raccoon. The raccoon has not been seen since and is not considered at large so much as “moved on.”

Township gravel pile is by the shop, and is for the township. The township is aware that some has gone missing, and knows roughly by whom, and will leave it at that for now.

Community supper Wednesday at the Legion, 5–7 p.m., free-will offering. This week’s hotdish is tater-top, by popular and, the Aid stresses, nonnegotiable demand.

Loon count Monday at dawn, all public landings. Volunteers tally loons on the Chain for the state survey; the loons, as in past years, decline to hold still and are estimated.

Historical society seeks help photographing the contents of this newspaper’s back room before our pressman, Earl, reorganizes it “and loses the thread again.” Cookies provided.

Curve by Tim’s to be repainted, the county says, “when the truck’s up this way.” No date was given, and none was expected.

Sorensen Hardware will close early Saturdays through Labor Day so Walt can fish. The sign reads “Gone Fishin’,” Walt says he’ll be back by three, and neither has proven fully reliable.

Northwoods Realty reports three lake lots sold on Whitefish this spring, all to buyers from the Cities, all of whom asked first about the internet.

The Daybreak Café has added a second pie case. Management calls it “an investment.” Eunice Dahlquist calls it “about time.”

Vik’s Auto Body cites a busy spring — the usual deer, and one dock backed into at the landing, about which Lloyd Vik says he “won’t say more, out of respect.”

First State Bank reopens its Christmas Club on Monday. The bank notes, for the record, that it is currently June.