Organ, J. (2008 April 30). Lakeland Manor. Washburn County Register, p. 24

Lakeland Manor excerpt

There was a super turnout at the Earth Day and Butterfly habitat Ceremony on Saturday morning. Mary Ellen Ryall and Happy Tonics have been organizing this ceremony for months with the help of many volunteers and other conservation or concerned groups without our state and area. You would all be proud of the way many of these people have found a way in Shell Lake to help support this project. I know on Saturday, we had representatives from Minnesota and Wisconsin Lake Pines Girl Scouts, the Shell Lake Chamber of Commerce, FFA, Happy Tonics, Washburn County Land an Water Conservation, Experience Works, the Shell Lake Senior Center, WOJB, LCO Tribal members, LCO College, and a various other citizens happy to be involved in a bit of history in the making. Good for all of you! It was cold, and we all braved the weather, even whined a little, but the contentment from having done a good deed and the refreshments afterwards at the Lakeview Hotel sure made all of the efforts worth it. The shrubs did not get planted…why? Because it was cold! They had begun leafing out and to set them out there in the dirt would have been cruel, so they have been saved for another day. It shall be beautiful when it gets going, so just keep an eye on the habitat when you drive by it. You’ll know as much as I report if you do.