Toimi School

02/08/2025

This FB page is no longer active. Please do not post on it. Due to a conflict we are unable to take it down. Thank you.

06/22/2024

This post is a correction to the last post regarding the date of the July monthly Lake County Commissioners meeting at the Toimi School. The correct date is July 16.

06/02/2024

Our Midsummer Celebration will be held this June 22, 2024, Saturday. Hope to see you all there. Other scheduled events will be the opening of the Toimi School every Saturday through Labor Day Weekend. If you have a group that would like to see the building on another day contact us and we will work with you to have the building open. Also on July 26, Tuesday, at 6:00 PM the Lake County Commissioner’s monthly meeting will be held at the school. All are welcome to attend. We also want to recognize and congratulate Martha Marnocha on winning first place at the 2024 Eric Sevareid Midwest Broadcast Journalists Awards for her feature on the Toimi Children’s Cemetery. The radio piece Martha produced can be found on our page dated Jan 12, 2023. Also a huge KIITOS (thank you) to Sherry Phillips, editor of the Brimson Toimi Newsletter, for reminding people to donate money to the newsletter to keep it operating. Enjoy the upcoming summer in our special little corner of the northern woods.

01/18/2024

The Toimi School is heartbroken to announce the death of Irja O. Kari Peterson. Irja grew up in Toimi and attended the Toimi School. Irja and her late husband, Arne, were frequent visitors to all the various events at the school. Their presence will be greatly missed. We wish to extend our deepest sympathies to her family.

Sadly we announce the passing of our sweet mom and grandma, Irja O. Kari Pederson, who left us peacefully in the early morning of January 14 at the age of 99. After enjoying Christmas, she failed fast. Even her legendary sisu was no match for congestive heart failure. Now she has her heart’s…

09/11/2023

Recently the Sons of Norway Two Harbors MN Terje Viken Lodge 1-017 visited the Toimi School.

08/22/2023

More random photos of the Brimson SISU https://www.facebook.com/brimsonsisu?mibextid=LQQJ4d.

08/22/2023

Here are a bunch of random photos from last Saturday when the Brimson SISU was held out of the Toimi School. https://www.facebook.com/brimsonsisu?mibextid=LQQJ4d

08/13/2023

Along with the SISU https://www.facebook.com/brimsonsisu being held at the Toimi School this Saturday the Brimson Market will also be held there. Stop on in and buy some wonderful home grown vegetables, food, crafts and other items you didn’t know you needed. See you all Saturday, August 19th.

Brimson Market will be at Toimi School o Saturday, August 19 for the Sisu race.

6486 Murphy Lake Rd, Brimson, MN 55602

08/03/2023

In July we hired NORTHWEST CUSTOM HOMES LLC, [email protected], to repair our two front porches. They were rotting and in a bad state of disrepair. The following photos, though not in sequence, show the repair that was accomplished. This company was great to work with and we are very pleased with the results. Stop in and see the nice workmanship and construction they did. And if your attending this years SISU, https://runsignup.com/Race/MN/Brimson/BrimsonSisu, which will be held out of the Toimi School you then can see for yourself.

07/25/2023

On July 18th the Superior National Forest Scenic Byway https://scenicbyways.info/byway/13552.html met at The Toimi School in the afternoon for their monthly meeting. They are an organization that promotes tourism between Aurora on the historic Iron Range and Sliver Bay on Lake Superior. Forest Hwy 11 connects Aurora and Silver Bay with Toimi being halfway in between. The photos following are of that meeting. Then that evening the Lake County Commissioners held their monthly meeting which they do every year in July. Sorry no photos were taken.

06/29/2023

JoAnn Olson was recently interviewed by Martha Marnocha for WTIP’s Traveling the Old North Shore segment. In this feature JoAnn talks about Petrell Hall. Petrell Hall is located in Brimson MN and is an old log Finn Hall. You may remember Martha’s segment on the Children’s Cemetery in Toimi.

Traveling the Old North Shore is a WTIP multi-part series focusing on the history of this diverse region. In this edition, producer Martha Marnocha learns more about one of Minnesota’s three remaining and actively functioning Finnish Community Halls. Petrell Hall is located on the Brimson-Toimi Ro...

06/24/2023

Another short video of the Hutter Bunch performing.