I have been a resident of Lake Co. for 39+ years, most of that time spent on the same 80 acres where my husband Doc, (a D Day survivor of Omaha Beach in WWII) myself, and our 4 children, cut down necessary trees for a power line, took them to a local sawmill, and built my dream of a recreational campground with large private sites, Wildhurst Campground. Since 1973, Wildhurst has been a community gathering place and has hosted campers from the U.S. and countless other countries. With the crisis in the Steel Industry in the early 1980’s, Doc’s increasing health problems, the children having to move on to other places and re-build their lives, 40 acres of the campground was sold in 1992 to Colleen & LeRoy Teschendorf, who through years of hard work and improvements have once more made Wildhurst a viable asset to Lake County. I now live on the 40 acres of the original property that were kept. (see the “Out My Window” page)

For nearly 4 decades, I have been known as a person that “does her homework” and stands up for what I feel is “right”, not only for my family, but for my neighbors, the small “Mom & Pop” businesses in all parts of Lake County, and constituents. Serving as a Supervisor on the Beaver Bay Town Board, on the Lake County Board of Adjustment, and as Chair of the Association of Lake & Cook County Township Officers, has shown me more and more that Lake County’s 2nd Commissioner District has been underserved. There are 39 Greater Minnesota Counties with populations under 20,000. In a 2007 paper titled “Chasing Smokestacks” by Lee Egerstrom, a Minnesota 2020 Fellow, Lake and 33 other Greater Minnesota counties were classified as “Frontier Counties”.  While Lake County still has the spirit and passion of those who settled here, calling us a “Frontier County”, does NOT mean we have to lag behind.

We can, in our own unique style, and WITH STRONG, INVESTED LEADERSHIP, enter the 21st Century.

Questions? Email: keppet@hickorytech.net