The Good Life – September-October 2021
On the cover – Below Zero Wresting, Local Hero – Dr. Nathan Kobrinsky, Hot Air Ballooning, CBD Providing a Peaceful Balance, Squirrel Hunting, Dad Life and more in Fargo-Moorhead’s only men’s magazine.
On the cover – Below Zero Wresting, Local Hero – Dr. Nathan Kobrinsky, Hot Air Ballooning, CBD Providing a Peaceful Balance, Squirrel Hunting, Dad Life and more in Fargo-Moorhead’s only men’s magazine.
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LOCAL HERO | NATHAN KOBRINSKY<br />
PHOTOS SUBMITTED BY: JANEEN KOBRINSKY<br />
Vampire Doctor<br />
Despite his work being extremely<br />
taxing at times, Kobrinsky does<br />
have a glaring reason to smile,<br />
and it's quite a bit smaller than<br />
you'd expect.<br />
"I love kids," Kobrinsky said. "I<br />
love torturing them and teasing<br />
them, bugging them — I mean<br />
that's still the love of my life, for<br />
the kids."<br />
Both Kobrinsky and his wife<br />
Janeen volunteer their time at<br />
Kamp KACE each summer.<br />
Kamp KACE is a summer camp<br />
at Lake Cormorant where kids<br />
and their siblings get the chance<br />
to be kids for a week, regardless<br />
of what their diagnosis might say.<br />
"I have this thing about being a<br />
Vampire Doctor," he said.<br />
Janeen also leads a memorial<br />
service in the Memorial Garden<br />
to remember each of the campers<br />
who have died since the last time<br />
they were all together.<br />
"It's amazing because we have<br />
like a sea of survivors," she said.<br />
"And a lot of the survivors of<br />
childhood cancer come back as<br />
counselors. It's great for the kids<br />
to see counselors with the same<br />
little port scars, and many of them<br />
are married and have kids of their<br />
own."<br />
"Kamp KACE is magical,"<br />
Kobrinsky said. "It's such a big<br />
part of my life, of our lives, of who<br />
we are."<br />
And he's not slowing down any<br />
time soon either,<br />
"To retire, to move, to check<br />
how to make any change in your<br />
life, presumably you should do it<br />
because it's something that you<br />
are looking forward to, where<br />
you're moving up in what you want<br />
out of your life, right?" he said.<br />
"Not going to something that you<br />
like, less. So if I was to leave... I<br />
don't like golf. I don't like sports,<br />
I don't like outdoors. You know,<br />
I don't like politics. I'm pretty<br />
boring. I like my family. I like the<br />
kids. I like my work, and I enjoy<br />
complaining about my work. I<br />
don't know what I'd do if I couldn't<br />
enjoy complaining. I don't think<br />
that retirement is something that<br />
would make me happy. So I don't<br />
think I will ever retire."<br />
"I don't think that retirement is something that would make me happy.<br />
So I don't think I will ever retire."<br />
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