Since when are trampolines so damn popular? I mean, sheesh!
A neighbor of mine put up a big trampoline in his back yard yesterday. The weird thing about this, other than that mid-September is a strange time to assemble something that will have to be taken apart in October, is that I have two other neighbors with trampolines.
Can anyone out there identify a city block in Duluth with more than three trampolines? I think my block might have the record.
Yard sale + records: 45s, LPs & 78s
Yard Sale at 417 N. 11th Ave. W. (Observation Hill)
Friday & Saturday Sept. 18 & 19, 8-4
Thousands of 50s-60s-70s-80s records: 45s, LPs & 78s CHEAP!
Household, electronics, old tools, men’s clothes, collectables & antiques, golf, fishing, camping, leather couch, 19th century Haviland China, bike rack for car, old Coke, 2 cases 4″ wall tile NEW, electric guitar.
Cancelled if rain.
Twin Ports Veg Week Schedule
Below is a full list of Pledge Week events:
Tuesday, Sept. 29 – Kick off party at Pizza Luce. Doors at 8:00.
Charlie Parr, Toby Churchill, Lookdown Moon, and Rusty Johnson will
perform. Raffle, prizes, and loads of information on the factory
farming industry and veggie/vegan lifestyles
Cost = Free
Extreme Home Makeover – Huber Edition
It has ben confirmed that Sunday September 27 will be the season premier of Extreme Makeover – Home Edition and that the first show if the season will feature none other than our South Shore friends the Huber family. Ace’s on 29th in Superior will be hosting a party during the show – offering FREE appetizers and snacks during the show. The back room will feature EM – HE on all the TVs and we will celebrate Superior’s amazing role in the life changing event. Producers of the show say that the residents and businesses in the Twin Ports turned out in droves, maybe the most local support they have seen in the history of the show. So come on down to Ace’s on 29th in Superior on 9/27 and celebrate the Huber’s joy and watch your fellow Northlanders on TV.
Getting Involved.
I am really interested in getting involved in efforts to support some sort of health care reform. Is there a local organization working to support this and show our leaders we think this is important and necessary?
This is something I’ve been really concerned about as an uninsured young adult and I feel like I need to do something other than shout at the television.
Please help!
–Amy Swanoski
Duluth 2009 Primary Election Results
41 of 41 precincts counted; 11,691 total ballots cast.
Duluth Fourth District City Councilor
Top two candidates advance
Kerry Gauthier – 1,006 | 44%
Gordon Grant – 565 | 25%
Heath Hickok – 472 | 21%
Matt Potter – 135 | 6%
Celia Scheer – 110 | 4%
Duluth At-large City Councilor
Top four candidates advance
Beth Olson – 5,429 | 26%
Dan Hartman – 4,749 | 23%
James Stauber – 4,464 | 21%
Becky Hall – 3,743 | 18%
Mike Akervik – 2,629 | 12%
Duluth District One School Board
Top two candidates advance
Ann Wasson – 1,394 | 50%
Marcia Stromgren – 1,016 | 36%
Gary Glass – 396 | 14%
Duluth At-large School Board
Top four candidates advance
Tom Kasper – 6,668 | 33%
Mary Cameron – 4,729 | 24%
Nancy Nilsen – 4,164 | 21%
Maureen Booth – 2,409 | 12%
Bryan Jensen – 1,965 | 10%
Happy Estimated Tax Day!
Today is one of four days of reckoning for the self-employed among us. I thought it was funny that these were the only stamps I had left on the sheet to put on my federal and state estimated payments.
Hospice Situation – Randy Jorgensen
Randy is in Solvay House, 801 Baylis St., awaiting a liver transplant. I don’t believe he’s on the short list. You know what your duty is. He’s not the Rugged Fish he once was.
Oodles of Noodles – Fundraising Event for Little Treasures Center
Take your bambinis to Valentini’s
To celebrate Dr. Seuss
With Little Treasures, whose fun and pleasures
Bring you — Thing 1 and Thing 2!
The Glensheen Luxury Experience
Northland Brainchild Concert Series: Pt. 2
*The Glensheen Luxury Experience*
Friday, Sept. 25 (when the leaves are changing)
@ Glensheen Mansion, Duluth
Featuring:
*Haunted House
*Moonstone
*The Unit Breed (Portland)
*Brothers Band (Duluth)
*Bat Breath
*Obchod Na Korze
bbreath+obchod=splitset
The Ones That Got Away
This little snake managed to make the swim across Bent Trout Lake in Barnum without getting snatched into our boat. Roger had one lunge at it before it found refuge in the weeds.
A conversation that occurred about two hours later, when we saw a circle of small waves nearby on an otherwise calm lake:
Roger: What the hell is that over there?
Paul: Holy crap. Is that a whole school of fish?
Roger: I’ve never seen anything like it. Something’s going on over there.
Paul: Troll over! That’s gotta be fish or beaver or something.
Voice from the shore: Those aren’t fish! Those are scuba divers!
Paul: OK. Well, I guess we’re idiots then.
Roger: Yep. Pretty much.
Has the Piggly Wiggly name wiggled on out of Duluth?
I pulled up to the stop sign at Calvary and Woodland in the heart of Woodland yesterday, looked ahead, and… it’s gone!
The blast-from-the-past, decades-old Piggly Wiggly facade, cherished by… well, at least me, and featured in a PDD banner of yore, is no more! See for yourself:
Coming home for a vacation
My wife, kids and I are traveling home to Duluth in mid October and this will be my first trip back home since having children. The oldest will be 18 months in October and we need some activities for the days since the nights will be spent in Gary bars. (yes the kids too)
I have the common list of the zoo, aquarium, children’s museum and trains. Along with walking the tracks in Morgan Park and showing them were I learned to get into trouble. I need some suggestions of other things to do.
If you could drop me some suggestion in the comment stream, that would be great.
You, Sir, Are Awesome.
The Boomchucks
Brad and I have a rock and roll band, and we’re playing today at 2:30 as part of The Harvest Fest at Bayfront Park . $4 also gets you in to the Greg Brown show at 4:30!
Mr. Turing: We’re Sorry
Mathematician
Computer Scientist
Code Breaker
Artificial Intelligence Pioneer
Homo
Arguably a little late. Alan Turing received an apology from UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown for his “appalling” treatment.
Now where’s his knighthood?
Vegetable Hygiene
Problems with burning, itching, vegetables?
Vegesil stops Vegetable Itch.
Join the League of Women Voters
League of Women Voters Duluth
Fall Kick Off Event
Thursday, Sept. 17 @ 7 p.m.
Duluth Art Institute ~ 2229 W. Second St., Duluth
Chocolate Decadence is our theme with wine & coffee to compliment!
Come for the surprise program and learn how to make the most of your membership – This event is provided at no charge and we encourage you to bring a guest.
Health Security for America
Health Insurance Reform
Dr. Charles Gessert
Marlene Hart
Dr. Patrick Schoenfelder
Professor Jennifer Schultz
Wednesday, Sept. 16 | 4:30-7 p.m.
UMD School of Business and Economics, Room 118
(For parking take St. Marie St. to University Dr. to Pay lot G)
Everybody deserves a good paddling on their birthday
Today I turned 44. Which is probably the reason I was left out of the 20-under-40-movers-and-shakers-around-town list today.
That, and the fact that I don’t move or shake so good no more.
Anyway, I sent both kids off to school this morning then loaded up the kayak to treat myself to a quick paddle on the lake.
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Garage Sale / Publisher’s Clearance Sale!
118 Chester Parkway. Fri 10-6, Sat 8-2. Dining set, couch, library table, books, misc. household items, and much more.
Using this opportunity to create room in my warehouse (some call it a “garage”), so ALL X-comm books will be on sale. C’mon-stock up on Holiday gifts!
Prices slashed: Coffee Table books like Crossing the Canal and Zenith: A Postcard perspective of Historic Duluth (hardcover edition!) will go for just $15; bestseller Will to Murder for $10; paperbacks like Leatherheads of the North, Goodnight, Everybody…and be Kind, True North, and The Mosquito Book only $5.
Special: Buy any book and get a copy of Greetings from the Arrowhead for just $5; buy $20 worth of X-comm books and take a copy home free! (more…)
Glensheen Rap
Josiah Grover, a student guide at Glensheen Mansion and Museum, has released his “Glensheen Rap.”