CITIZEN OF THE YEAR GIVES BACK

Every spring, the Nisswa Chamber of Commerce chooses a Nisswa Citizen of the Year — someone who deserves to be recognized for giving back to the community.

In 2024, that citizen was Bob Reichenbach.

Bob has been with the Nisswa Lions Club for almost 30 years and remains involved with the Ski Patrol at Mount Ski Gull, where he helped with the sixth grade learn-to-ski program.

He also helps provide first aid for youth hockey tournaments in Brainerd.

Like many people, Bob spent idyllic summers in Nisswa while growing up, so he eventually moved here full time in 1971.

"We'd come up the day after we got out of school and we wouldn't go back til the night before we had to go back to school," Bob said of spending summers at the cabin his grandparents built in 1934 on Middle Cullen Lake.

He now lives on Clark Lake with his wife, Kathy.

He's loved the area his whole life.

"It just always goes back to what an ideal childhood we had up here," he said. "The setting obviously was just marvelous, and the people."

He praises the beauty of the community.

"To be able to jump in the lake, and see the sunsets and the northern lights. And the seasons. And the people. What more can you ask for? People spend money to come here on vacation and we have the joy of being able to live here," he said.

A Few Of His Favorite Things

• Visit the DQ on a warm summer night

• Bike ride on the Paul Bunyan Trail

• Shop a t Martin’s Sport Shop

• Sail on Clark Lake

• Volunteer with the Nisswa Lions and Outreach Program of Brainerd Lakes

• Help out wher e needed with the Nisswa Chamber

The 2025 Nisswa Destination Guide is a combined project of the Nisswa Chamber of Commerce and the Pineandlakes Echo Journal Pineandlakes Echo Journal

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