Winnipeg, Manitoba has a new community sauna as of July 2025. Saunic is everything I would hope community sauna could be.

Minneapolis has once again added another artist to its list of residents. Kyle Gray Young most recently moved south from St Cloud and before that was born and raised in the Chicago area, where he got his start as a musician via high school band.

I first encountered Kyle Gray Young at FinnFest. He piqued my interest, as I had not heard of him at the time, and “new” talent to our Finnish-American community is always something to celebrate!

I had the pleasure of first hearing Jonathan Rundman perform when I was a middle schooler. The year was 2007 and by then, my intense personal interest in Finland was already unabashedly showing itself. What I do remember was when he played for the celebration of Finland’s 90th Independence Day. I went with my grandparents and enjoyed the rosolli (beet salad with herring) and other Finnish treats, prepared if I am remembering right, by Soile Anderson.