On Saturday, February 10, the Alexandria Sertoma Club hosted their annual Ice Fishing Challenge on Lake Le Homme Dieu in Alexandria, MN. Four thousand holes were drilled in the ice, with the lake open for selecting your hole of choice at 8:00 AM that morning and the first line dropped in at 12:00 noon. Just after that, the RE/MAX hot air balloon sailed overhead and I was privileged to ride in it! It was windy and cold on the ice, but in the balloon, you could feel no wind and the sun was shining! It felt warm!! What a thrill to quietly rise to about 1500' and see the sites from above. I saw friends' homes, properties I had listed and sold, a bald eagle on the hunt, deer running through the forest and people stopping their cars along the road to watch us fly over, as a hot air balloon is... 02/19/2007

Alexandria's Lake L'homme Dieu in 2006 has 2 bare lots sell for over $500,000. L'homme Dieu is part of Alexandria's Chain of Lakes and is 1,744 acres and is near the northern edge of Alexandria. View what is currently for sale on this lake. 12/07/2006

by Al Edenloff, Echo Press Editor Another tax incentive program for businesses is taking shape in Alexandria. This one is targeted toward companies that specialize in biotechnology and health sciences. Link: EchoPress.com. 12/07/2006

Periglacial: Part of the lake's margin is formed by an ice sheet, ice cap or glacier, the ice having obstructed the natural drainage of the land. Subglacial: A lake which is permanently covered by ice. They can occur under glaciers and ice caps or ice sheets. There are many such lakes, but Lake Vostok in Antarctica is by far the largest. They are kept liquid because the overlying ice acts as a thermal insulator retaining energy introduced to its underside by friction, water percolating through crevasses, by the pressure from the mass of the ice sheet above or by geothermal heating below. Artificial, also called a reservoir: A lake created by flooding land behind a dam, by human excavation, or by the flooding of an open pit mine. Some of the world's largest lakes are reservoirs. Husain S... 12/05/2006