One answer on Shane Felegy’s Polaris bio page pretty much sums up what it must be like to race snowmobiles for a living.

Forest Lake’s own Shane Felegy will be one of the many drivers at this weekend’s Championship WSA Pro Extreme Racing, which will be held on three 1/2 mile ovals on Forest Lake. “It will be good racing for sure,” Felegy said. 

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It is 10 years this month since the Fairview Lakes Medical Center opened in Wyoming providing medical care to residents of the Forest Lake and Wyoming areas and beyond. In 2008 terms, the Wyoming hospital often carries the tag “new” as the replacement facility for the “old” District Memorial Hospital in Forest Lake. The former Forest Lake hospital closed in 1998 and is now home for Lakes International Language Academy, a Spanish immersion public charter school.

Norma Harper, right, with two longtime friends, Dr. Carl Peikert and his wife Jean, in a 1998 file photo prior to the closing of the Forest Lake hospital. Harper was a leader in raising funds to build the hospital in the late 1950s. The Peikerts were part of the first medical team,  Carl Peikert as a doctor and Jean Peikert as a nurse

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Despite her short battle with breast cancer, Kathy Peterson had never felt fatigued. That was until  she participated in a national fund raiser to draw awareness to the disease. For the second year, Peterson has signed up for the Twin Cities Breast Cancer 3-Day – a 60-mile walk spanning a weekend. Like 2007, her 26-year old daughter, Kristy, will be along for the journey that winds around the metro area.

Proceeds from the sales of “A View From Within” by Forest Lake artist Randy Peterson (left) will go towards beneficiaries of the Twin Cities Breast Cancer 3-Day walk. His wife, Kathy, a three-year cancer survivor, and daughter, Kristy, participated in the event last year.  The two women have already began fund raising for the walk on Sept. 19-21. In 2007, Kathy raised around $2,600 and Kristy about $2,400 for the cause. 

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Three days into his quest to raise $35,000 to support the Forest Lake Teen Center, Wyoming Mayor Sheldon Anderson's fund-raiser has topped the $7000 total, thanks in part to $1000 donations from the Hallberg Family Foundation, General Safety Equipment of Wyoming and Forest Lake Council member Susan Young. Anderson is living in a tent on the roof of Wyoming City Hall until the $35,000 is raised. Donations may be made directly at the city hall and can also be made on line by logging on to the following web page: www.extremefundraising.blogspot.com. The web page includes information and photos about the drive. The Forest Lake Teen Center is a program operated by ISD 831 Community Education. Anderson is pictured here shortly after making the move to the roof on Saturday.

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It was a busy month for DWI enforcement in Forest Lake last month as city officers charged 17 motorists with driving while intoxicated, Chief of Police Clark Quiring said on Friday. The arrests include five that took place during the day. The final DWI arrest of the month came at 2:12 p.m. on Thursday when a 44-year-old city woman was arrested in the 20000 block of Georgia Ave. N. Police responded to an anonymous caller who observed the woman's car fail to stop for a stop sign. The incident took place near Forest Lake High School and Century Junior High School, the chief said. The woman tested at .27, three times higher than the state legal DWI limit of .08, the chief said.

City officers also assisted other departments with three additional drunk-driver arrests in the final two days of the month. Two of the arrests involved motorists from Hugo and were in partnership with the Washington County Sheriff's Office. Late Thursday night Forest Lake officers were called to assist the Chisago County Sheriff's Office. At 12:45 a.m. on Friday, city officers stopped a vehicle that had traveled south from Wyoming. The vehicle was stopped on 245th St. in the area that borders on Forest Lake, Columbus and Wyoming Township. The driver was taken to jail in Center City on second-degree DWI, Quiring said. The vehicle driven by the suspect had heavy front-end  and tire damage.