It is time that the teens take this situation to their advantage. I can tell you all over and over again what is wrong and what is right with it. But that doesn't help if you can only read the words and never see it. but since I can right better than I can give a visual sense, this will do.

I will right again, as to be sure that this is a promise. For enough is enough. It's time for the teens to fight for the right of a new school too.

I am glad you found us. Speak up and let your voice be heard! You go girl!

Nugget is completely correct about the high school and in truth, the high school has not gotten any better. It's worse.

This year, we had to close that bandroom, and not too many months later, we had a pipe break down in the tunnel leading to the bandroom, letting water flood the tunnel and making it even harder to access. Now, we are spending money repairing and adding new things to a school that has just plain wore itself out. There is no more too it. It's falling apart and the money we spent repairing it could easily build a new school with the help of the state.

My mother and father if not known by some (and it is not by many) are divorced and my mother is remarried and lives and Duluth and my father is a Bartender at Grand Superior Lodge.

For those of you that think Giles (Bucko) Anderson is a "A", then you don't know him that well.

Does a new school make smarter kids?...mabye not, but its the first thing I look at in the town I plan to live in and pay taxes in. K-12 schools are very important to the economy of the town, and T.H.,in the long run would profit in a new H.S.

Has anyone taken a poll of the kids

enrolled in the school, I would bet there isn't one vote to keep it standing.

Ginger and "The Drifter" have good attitudes.

Since when did it become Drifter's responsibiity to get a school built? He could write checks from now until hell freezes over, and that wouldn't be enough. Ultimately, the decision to build, remodel or do nothing remains with the residents of the school district. Their tax dollars and their children are the issues here.

Can non-residents and/or alumni exert influence at all? To some extent, we can lobby and donate. Again, though, any "outside" funds or political pressure could create a backlash of sorts, for the simple reason that opponents of a new school could point to the fact that non-residents don't have to pay for it.

If you truly feel passionate about the issue, Bassman (and it seems you do), I would direct that passion at the people who believe THHS is good enough now, because it was good enough 40 years ago. Their minds must be changed, not ours.

Nugget, you're right on, bro. And California, your 2nd paragraph is so true, and a new school will DRAW people to Two Harbors.

Ginger, I'm really sorry about your parents split. Hang in there, kiddo.

My suggestion to you is to get your friends together and get petitions going...have everyone and their brother sign them, and when you've got a couple hundred names (check them out to make sure you've no repeats and the ones who've signed are actually living in the school district) bring it to the next school board meeting. There's nothing like a group of organized students crashing a board meeting to get their attention, and hopefully, after you've demanded an inspection of the building, a millage for a new school will be put to a vote. If you get that far, ask that the vote be in January when all the snow birds who'd vote no will be in sunny Florida.

Hey, it worked in this school district!

Fritz, there are a couple of sites being bandied about for a new school. The Nahau site was selected by a blue ribbon panel a couple years ago. All the work of this panel was printed faithfully in the Chronicle each week, only to be ignored by the public who claimed "conspiricy theories" and "hidden agendas" existed in the referendum effort.

A 2nd site called the HEART project is proposed near the current Clinic adjacent to the golf course. That is a fairly disruptive, although otherwise clever idea put forth by the city planner. His idea, which has merit, is to place the school in town and make it the center of the community.

I worked at the THHS golf course for 3 summers. A particular group of players led by Giles Anderson made it their personal agenda to bitch, whine and complain about the course every time I saw them. I didn't need 4 old men screaming and swearing at me as an 18 year old city employee. Giles, Beano Rosatti, Butch-o Kolberg and Bruce-o Jordan are pricks who can go to hell as far as I'm concerned. If Giles has any redeeming values to him that others have encountered, then great. I just hadn't seen any of them in the 15 years that I reguarly played golf at the THHS course. He's an asshole. Or the whole ass, however you look at it.

I am finding TH to be a place where 'bitching and bickering' are becoming the norm. Locals, like Captain talked about are too busy bitching about an increase in golf fees, instead of complimenting how great the course has become. Or individuals complaining about development, because it does not benefit them.

I hope a new school is built, but I am not counting on it.....

Torggy, where are you?

Thanks Jesse, but I won't need to call on your help, I can handle this myself.

Kitty, Your speaking to me about etiquette, maybe you should scroll up and read Captain America's reply regarding Giles Anderson and send the message to him on etiquette. I realize this is an uncensored forum, but some peoples true personalities do seem to come out don't they.

Captain America, What if all the living alumni of T.H. sent in $100.00 or even $1,000.00, how much would that be?? I bet enough to make a difference.

Drifter, The people in T.H. that are in the majority are the elderly and I don't blame them for not wanting their taxes to go up while on fixed incomes. And there is not enough young parents to pass a school bond. I doubt it will ever get done and so they will keep spending money in trying to fix the school. Like pouring money down the drain. Something has to be done if the young kids in T.H. are ever going to have a decent school to go to and get an education in. I am sure that if the word could get out to all the alumni that there would be a good response. One other choice is for the young parents in town to home school their kids, but that takes a lot of time and dedication on their part and not everyone has the time or education to do so.

Fritz, I am definitely not on the Left of anything, unless it's on my bass boat bringing in a bass. I am right, (Starboard for you), of center on the political side of things. Though raised in T.H. and with DFL parents, that soon changed when I got out in the real world. And for your info, I did sent in a very good contribution for the voluntary school fund.

Hope this takes some of the fire out of those who think I was just trying to tell others what to do and don't have any suggestions of my own.

You know, teachers and parents have asked each and everyone of the students to care of the school but what is the point of taking care of a school that is falling apart? But there again is another side for the parents, teachers and the elderly. the question of, "What is the point of building a new school if they can't take care of the one they have now?"

We have. Students AND teachers have spent part of every school vacation updating and repairing parts of the school. Taking time off of there hectic lives to see that our school is as best as it can be. But that moment has passed. Things just have to be kept being done over and OVER again.

So for the question above here is the answer

"Ladies and Gentlemen, we will take care of the new school, because it IS something to take care of and be proud of too."

And just for Tim....

My own little "inproper" ending.

"nuff said"

One of the things that always seems to come up when ever any one talks about the TH high school is how dirty it is, what a sad state of repair it is in and how unsafe it is for the students. How long before the powers in control cut back on services and the new building is dirty, unrepaired and unsafe? Many of the people I have talked to in Th have expressed frustration over this matter. There are other buildings in the district, what kind of shape are they in? If they are also dirty, unrepaired and unsafe then we must consider that. Teachers, students and parents can not take care of a school by on again off again work parties. The intent is great but a large building like that needs constant attention. So would a new one. It seems to always come back to an answer that the majority in TH are not willing to accept. Must be time for other ideas. I know I have not put forth any answers except maybe the school board needs new blood and a new direction.

Bassman; I agree, the real world can be an eye opener to a DFL kid from TH. I must also profess to a right side of the spectrum stance.

If the people of TH are handed a new school that they don't have to contribute for or work on, will there be a community pride or sense of accomplishment? I don't have the answer for that. The townspeople will probably still just find something to bitch about...

I have to agree whole-heartedly with Former Res--the townspeople of TH would rather bitch than actually do something (present company excluded, of course.)

But, on a more positive note, maybe the Arbleys could all send a donation to Webman and he/she could forward the $$ and some of our threads onto the Lake County Comical as a donation to the school effort?

We could all try to be part of the solution then, like the Bassman.