LaBaye Blog

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

The first documented sled dog race was in 1850 from Winnipeg, Manitoba to St. Paul, Minnesota. The Disney movie “Iron Will” features the 1917 version of that remarkable race, which was won by Alberta Campbell, a Métis from Pas, Manitoba. In 1917 as well, the first...

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Dec. 7, 1941 ~ Pearl Harbor was bombed

Dec. 7, 1941 ~ Pearl Harbor was bombed

At 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time, a Japanese dive bomber bearing the red symbol of the Rising Sun of Japan on its wings appears out of the clouds above the island of Oahu. A swarm of 360 Japanese warplanes followed, descending on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in a...

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Wisconsin Deer Hunting

Wisconsin Deer Hunting

Hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites and visiting non-resident hunters eagerly await the arrival of the 2015 nine-day gun deer season starting tomorrow and runs til Nov. 29.   Deer still in rut across much of the state and snow in the forecast for Northern Wisconsin...

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