Come visit PDD at FallFest
Stop by the Perfect Duluth Day tent at Fallfest at Chester Bowl today and pick up a free sticker, 50 cent pop, candles, and other goodies. We’re the first booth on the right as you enter the park, conveniently located next to the biffies.
Saturday, 10-4
Oktoberfest
I happily attended Oktoberfest this weekend.
It’s a vast improvement over last year. Last year, tents were huddled behind orange fencing, penning the whole event into a tiny space as if to say: it’s too cold to enjoy the outdoors. This year, the whole event is more spacious, with a central walkway between a food tent, a beer tent, a kettle corn tent, a tent for the MPR Current (can we get that up here yet?), an area for bean bag games and feats of strength and, of course, the dance tent.
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Found Cat Near UMD
Hairless cat found near University of Minnesota Duluth campus on Friday, Sept. 16, around 7 a.m. Brought to Duluth Animal Control later on Friday.
Bike to Work!
Employees of Epicurean and Loll will bike or walk to work all week to help raise money to build bike trails in Duluth!
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Ryan Van Slooten – “Rise or Fall”
CD release show at Amazing Grace on Saturday, Sept. 17. No cover.
The Overhead Low is available at all online retailers, locally at the Electric Fetus, and on ryanvanslooten.com.
Please check out the video for the first track, “Rise or Fall.” Hope to see you at the show, thanks for all your support!
Speech Contest
A speech contest for high-school age students is being sponsored by a local charity. Title: I Am My Brother’s Keeper.
Speeches should be 5 to 7-1/2 minutes long; contestants will be disqualified if less or more in length. Members of Toastmasters will judge.
When: 9/24/11
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: First United Methodist (“Copper Top”) Church, Duluth
Interested participates should e-mail sdiazmeyer @ yahoo.com ASAP for details and use “Speech Contest” as the subject line of the e-mail.
Hope CD Available At Super One Grocery Stores and Duluth Grill
The Hope CD, a fund-raising album, is available at Super One Grocery Stores in Duluth, Superior, Two Harbors and Cloquet at the service counters, and also at Duluth Grill.
The singers/musicians on the album are James Moors, Andy Elwell, Sara Thomsen, Kim Storm, Rachael Kilgour, Jane Aas, Bill and Kate Isles, Josh Revak, and Peter Provost.
The beautiful photos throughout the CD case are donated by Dennis O’Hara. All proceeds benefit Circle of Hope for breast cancer treatment bills for patients of any gender or age in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Lower Chester Fundraiser
Lower Chester will be up and running this winter with ice! We have gotten approval at Monday’s city council meeting for a lease by Neighbors of Lower Chester Park. We had our second annual picnic/play day Sept. 10 and are now having a spaghetti dinner fundraiser at Chester Park United Methodist Church from 4-6 p.m. on October 8. Please come and support the youth of Duluth so there can be year-round activities in this park again. Tickets can be obtained ahead of time by calling 724-7667. If you would like to be on our e-mail list for information about upcoming events please leave a clear message at the same number with your name, phone number and e-mail address.
See you on the ice!!!
Mabel Galvin/co-chair NOLCP
Duluth – Onigamiinsing
[This post originally included an embedded video that no longer exists at its source.]
I’ve since moved away, but I love coming back to visit my hometown of Duluth. I made this little video one evening this summer at Leif Erikson Park, I thought some of you might enjoy. (more…)
Clean Your Closet and Help a Geek Girl
For those of you who weren’t at the last Geek Prom, I was the perpetrator of perhaps the first Geek Prom marriage proposal ever (at least that I am aware of). Adam, Crystal, & Paul were awesome enough to help me with a geeky engagement, I’m hoping that the PDD community will be awesome enough to help me create a geeky wedding. (more…)
Duluth 2011 Primary Election Results
With 36 of 36 precincts reporting and 6,620 total ballots cast:
At-large Duluth City Councilors
(Two positions; top four candidates advance)
Emily Larson – 4,918 | 40%
Linda Krug – 4,860 | 40%
Tim Riley – 947 | 8%
Chad Smith – 645 | 5%
Eric Edwardson – 446 | 4%
Gareth W. Bates – 442 | 4%
Fourth District Duluth City Councilor
(Top two candidates advance.)
Jacqueline Halberg – 695 | 44%
Garry Krause – 649 | 41%
Ryan Miles – 134 | 9%
Wallace Newquist – 59 | 4%
Travis Silvers – 29 | 2%
At-large Duluth School Board Member
(Top two candidates advance.)
Michael Miernicki – 3,783 | 61%
Ryan Stauber – 1,882 | 30%
Doug Frisk – 515 | 8%
Mentor Duluth on Kare-11 Tuesday night
The KARE-11 special tonight from 7-8 p.m. on channel 11 focuses on youth mentoring. Several mentor programs will be featured including Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities, Parenting with a Purpose, Bolder Options, Kinship of Greater Minneapolis, Northside Achievement Zone, Courage Center and the Y’s Mentor Duluth!
Program Coordinator for Mentor Duluth, Dave Schaefer will be participating in this TV news event. Federated Insurance is sponsoring the show. You will see many familiar faces! A live phone bank will also be part of the call to action. See the link below for more information.
Upset Duluth?
Duluth News Tribune:
Critics object to Duluth’s Aerial Lift Bridge cutbacks
(Photo by Bob King)
Michael Kac is Back
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBDuBDEzvwc
After an absence of more than a year, I’ll be back at Amazing Grace, one of my favorite places to play, on Saturday, Oct. 8, 7 p.m.
Audio samples from my CD Square One.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URI4DAO-ovw&feature=related
Found: Bike in Duluth’s East Hillside
Found a Marin bike by my house. Pretty sure it was stolen and ditched. Has a couple of distinguishing characteristics. See Craigslist ad.
Found: Eyeglasses on Wisconsin Point
I found a pair of eyeglasses on Wisconsin Point on Sunday, Sept. 11, along the shore near parking lot 1. I hung them on the sign at the parking lot, so if you’re looking for them they’re probably still there.
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John Berquist performing at the 2011 Wirtanen Fall Festival
John Berquist singing a northern MN folk song about our iron ore industry at the 2011 Wirtanen Farm Fall Festival this past weekend in Markham, MN.
Coming Up: Polka, Chili, Inline Skating
The PDD Calendar is officially launched! It’s a good week for it too, with many noteworthy events going on around town. Here are a few highlights:
Wednesday, Sept. 14
Lindsay Mac and the Boom Booms perform at Sacred Heart Music Center.
Thursday, Sept. 15
The United Way hosts its 20th annual Chili Cook-off at the DECC with 40 different chilies competing. Later in the night, Dead Man Winter performs at Pizza Luce.
Friday, Sept. 16
The second annual Oktoberfest kicks off at Bayfront Park, running through Saturday with beer, food, and lots of polka. Also, Duluth Underground Bass debuts its dubstep style with four local DJs in the Kirby Ballroom at UMD.
Saturday, Sept. 17
The NorthShore Inline Marathon brings a variety of family fun to Canal Park, in addition to the 26.2-mile inline skating race. Meanwhile, the Chester Bowl Fall Fest features 100 vendors in the scenic park.
There’s a lot more listed in our new calendar so get out there and enjoy your town!
Perfect Duluth Day
I love all weather … but today was a perfect Duluth day and I am glad to be alive!
Dinosaur Bones – New Dance Piece
Choreography by Anna Galikowska-Gajewska PhD, Music Academy Gdansk, Poland. The music is Dinosaur Bones from my 2007 Innova release Analog.
Local Arts
Ennyman’s Blog is hot this week with arts reviews and news.
There is the Red Interactive Project.
Red Interactive is inviting the public to an art opening the evening of Sept. 22 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at 1410 Tower Avenue in Superior (the New York Building). The project is an experimental art initiative conceived by Ed Newman and John Heino as part of Phantom Galleries Superior.
Utilizing social media, Red Interactive has received virtual and physical submissions from six continents, a dozen countries and a dozen states over the past few months since its inception in May. This opening is the first tangible event presenting a sample of what has been happening in virtual space. Admission is free. Attendees are strongly encouraged to wear red.
And there is the Ochre Ghost
Jessica L has done a fabulous job of putting Ochre Ghost on the map with original works by risk-taking artists. Last night I attended the opening of Risk of Dying is Greater in the Northland: new work by Avery Cassar plus the CD release of Danecdote’s new album: Mise en Place. The small space at 22 Second Ave. E. was fairly alive with energy from the music and the enthusiasm of the artist.
Check them out!
Underwater Lake Superior, Warm as Bathwater in Duluth, MN 9-10-11
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57cp6zAIVqs
If you’re allergic to pretty underwater light on rocks, self-indulgent swim videos featuring the bottom of Lake Superior, or lots of footage of my neck, then do NOT watch this.
Harvest Fest Success
A tally of cards distributed and brochures, as well as a deep ache in our bones, tells us that Wildwoods Rehabilitation talked to nearly 300 people today between 11 and 5pm.
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Found: Golden Retriever
1-to-2-year-old Golden Retriever with blue handkerchief found at 16th Avenue East and Jefferson Street in Duluth this morning with no tags, looking scared and hungry. Ate three bowls of dog food. Anyone know the owner?