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in box BLM & KAG My guess is that the title of my letter caught your attention? America is in a very difficult time with the COVID-19 pandemic, the George Floyd incident and now the move to defund the police departments in most of America. OMG. Can we all take a deep breath and count to 10? I will not get into the details of the George Floyd incident but I am 100% against looters and arsonists! So, a few days ago I was at the American Legion in Two Harbors and as a Veteran trying to describe my feelings to an obvious Dumorat. As he was getting drunker he called me a racist. I tried to explain to him that I am not a racist but as most Dumorats, he was not listening! Here is my position. If you are a good person, a good productive citizen and are not a person demanding “whoa is me,” then race, color or economic disadvantage is not an issue! I wanted to continue my discussion with this fellow at the American Legion but he was drunk and looking for a fight. I can get along with anybody if you are

a good person, a productive citizen and are an American! Am I wrong? KAG! BTW, I remember months before the pandemic that at a Trump press conference when he was just leaving when the ABC White House reporter (Cecilia Vega) yelled out, “Mr. President, are you a racist”? Trump is not a racist, however, Biden is a racist as he stated, “if you vote for Trump, you are NOT black enough.” Chuck Bracken Cannon Falls, Minnesota Kudos to John Gilbert I’m writing from France, where we’ve been since early December and likely will be until early September, at the earliest. I have to write to tell you your column in last week’s Reader (“Sports can lead us above horror of racism”) was EXCELLENT, your insights and commentary EXCELLENT. How on target you are in all you wrote, in all of the hypothetical examples you advanced. Whether in Duluth or over here (Rennes and Saint-Malo), I’m a weekly reader (no pun intended for the little paper we read in grade school) of

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I left Portman in ‘62 after my dad was transferred to Coleraine. But I have vivid memories of my youth hockey in Duluth, in a far simpler time than now, alas, and those memories include playing against Lenny Green at LC. Beyond 7th grade, I have no idea what became of him. My wife and I have hunkered down over here, trying as best we can to avoid this darn virus. Being in the bullseye, because of our age, neither of us is interested in taking the “10 items or less” rapid check-out lane. Jeff Kosak A no-flag rally Covid-19 epidemic cases are spiking dramatically all over our country in states “opening” too much or incorrectly. Oklahoma is one, where as of this morning you-know-who is still planning to hold a “huge” rally: no masks and no social distancing. He won’t wear a mask because someone might laugh at him. He’s that weak. The Donald is capable of caring about one thing and one thing only: his own ego. He cares only about himself, not even his own supporters. He displays the attitude, “if they die, they die. We just won’t count the numbers.” Although many of his supporters don’t have much idea what our Constitution is about, if they knew, they’d support and defend it, because most of them at heart are decent people. Mr. Trump however, isn’t capable of caring about our Constitution, because it gets in the way of his ego. And if you don’t care about our Constitution, then our flag becomes meaningless. It’s just a rag on a stick. He could cover himself in flags from his forehead to this butt, it wouldn’t be in the least patriotic. Patriotism comes from actions, not empty words. What words did he have for us yesterday? He threatens with violence, alienates, and tries making enemies of those who don’t support him, yet are loyal “Americans.” He divides our country rather than uniting it. After 9-11, even Republican George Bush spoke to unite our country. Our enemies haven’t attacked us the past four years. They don’t have to; they have Mr. Trump to divide us. Revisit Michael Cohen’s words about Trump during House testimony to see what’s ahead for us. There’s a line in the sand. Cohen refused to cross it, even knowing it may mean prison. He bought back some of his integrity. What will others do? A. Martin Merrifield, Minnesota

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Give the piping plover room to roam It is again migratory shorebird season here in the Twin Ports. The St. Louis River Alliance is monitoring the beaches on Wisconsin Point and Minnesota Point for the critically endangered shorebird, the Great Lakes piping plover. The St. Louis River Alliance cautions the public to be aware of these vulnerable shorebirds when using local beaches during their nesting season. Loose dogs and human activity are the biggest deterrent to successful nests. On Minnesota Point, the public can help by avoiding the beach near the airport, observing posted signs, leashing their dogs and cleaning up any garbage. To aid in shorebird recovery and increase wildlife habitat, two beach projects were completed on Wisconsin Point last year. The Wisconsin DNR lead a successful piping plover habitat restoration project within the existing wildlife refuge property. This project increased the habitat of the site and enhanced critical features that are needed for piping plover to nest. The protected wildlife refuge is posted and is closed yearly to the public April 1–Aug. 24. The site closure is monitored and enforced by Wisconsin DNR The Wisconsin Point dune restoration and access project was led by the City of Superior. This project includes enhanced parking, more accessible boardwalk to the beach and Lake Superior, enhanced boat and canoe landings, and restored

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AG Ellison sues fossil-fuel giants for lying State joins growing list of government entities holding fossil-fuel industry accountable “Minnesota is in the midst of a climatechange crisis. The world has already warmed approximately two degrees Fahrenheit (F) due to human-caused climate change; Minnesota has warmed even more. Warming will continue with devastating economic and public-health consequences across the state and, in particular, disproportionately impact people living in poverty and people of color.” So begins Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s scathing 84page lawsuit (other italicized items in this story are directly from the lawsuit) on behalf of the state and its residents to stop deceptive practices related to climate change and to hold ExxonMobil Corp., the American Petroleum Institute and three Koch by Industries entities accountable for perpetuating fraud against Minnesotans. The lawsuit includes claims for fraud, failure to warn and multiple separate violations of Minnesota Statutes that prohibit consumer fraud, deceptive trade practices and false statements in advertising. In addition to an injunction barring further violation of these laws, the complaint seeks restitution for the harms Minnesotans have suffered, and asks the court to require defendants to fund a corrective public education campaign on the issue of climate change. “Previously unknown internal documents were recently discovered that confirm that Defendants well understood the devastating effects that their products would cause to the climate, including Minnesota, dating back to the 1970s and 1980s. But Defendants did not ever disclose to the public – or to Minnesotans – their actual knowledge that would confirm the very science they sought to under-mine. Instead, Defendants, both direct-ly and through proxies, engaged in a public-relations campaign that was not only false, but also highly effective.” Minnesota joins a growing number of governments that are seeking to hold companies responsible for harms

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“Holding these companies accountable for the climate deception they’ve spread and continue to spread is essential to helping families to afford their lives and live with dignity and respect.” Attorney General Keith Ellison

associated with climate change. While defendants and claims vary among jurisdictions, at least 15 other plaintiffs have brought similar lawsuits to date. Plaintiffs include the states of Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island, along with cities and counties throughout the country. “When corporations and trade associations break the law and hurt Minnesotans, it’s my job and my duty to hold them accountable. The fraud, deceptive advertising and other violations of Minnesota state law and common law that the lawsuit shows they perpetrated have harmed Minnesotans’ health and our state’s environment, infrastructure and economy,” Ellison said. “Impacts from climate change hurt our low-income residents and communities of color first and worst. The impacts on farmers in our agricultural state are widespread as well. Holding these companies accountable for the climate deception they’ve spread and continue to spread is essential to helping families to afford their lives and live with dignity and respect. It’s only fair that, as our complaint states, ‘the parties who have profited from avoiding the consequences and costs of dealing with global warming and its physical, environmental, social, and economic consequences, bear the costs of those impacts, rather than Minnesota taxpayers, residents, or broader segments of the public.’” The complaint asks the court to require these companies to use

wrongfully-obtained profits to help Minnesota pay for the devastating consequences of climate change. “During the period when Defendants and their proxies were deliberately misleading Minnesotans about the consequences of using their products, Defendants realized massive profits through largely unabated and expanded extraction, production, promotion, marketing, and sale of their fossil-fuel products. For example, ExxonMobil earned approximately $775 billion in profits during this period.” Ellison is asking for these companies to disgorge profits and to “fund a corrective public education campaign in Minnesota relating to the issue of climate change, administered and controlled by an independent third party,” and that defendants “disclose, disseminate, and publish all research previously conducted directly or indirectly . . . that relates to the issue of climate change.” The complaint describes how these companies strategized to deceive the public about climate-change science in order to safeguard their business interests. It was uncovered only starting in 2015 that internal experts in the field of climate change at these companies were issuing warnings to company leaders about what was coming. But rather than warn the public, as was the companies’ duty, the complaint details a multi-pronged campaign of deception that the companies and API conducted the past 30 years. During this same period, ExxonMobil

and Koch earned hundreds of billions of dollars in profits while Minnesota shouldered the costs and consequences of unmitigated climate change. Two images released in the complaint illustrate the campaign of deception. One is a document from Exxon Engineering, labeled “Proprietary Information,” dated October 19, 1979. It clearly asserts the reality of climate change and acknowledges that the cause is “due to fossil fuel consumption.” The other image is of print advertisements from the Information Council for the Environment, an industry front group dedicated to denying the science of climate change. The ads compare predictions of climate change to “Chicken Little” and assert that “they may not be true” — despite the defendants’ knowledge that the predictions were true. “Human-caused warming of the Earth is unequivocal. As a result, the atmosphere and oceans are warming, sea level is rising, snow and ice cover is diminishing, oceans are acidifying, and hydrologic systems have been altered, among other environmental changes. The mechanism by which human activity causes global warming and climate change is well established: ocean and atmospheric warming is overwhelmingly caused by anthro-pogenic greenhouse-gas emissions. Greenhouse gases are largely byproducts of humans combusting fossil fuels to produce energy and using fossil fuels to create petrochemical products.” Minnesota has a history of holding companies accountable for misleading the public. Under former Minnesota Attorney General Skip Humphrey, Minnesota prosecuted Big Tobacco for violating many of these same statutes. Doug Blanke, who worked on the tobacco litigation and headed the Consumer Protection Division while he was at the Attorney General’s office, and now directs the Public Health Law Center at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, thinks Ellison has a strong case. “Misleading the public about science is not a new concept,” he said. “Unfortunately, some companies seem to care more about their bottom lines than the public’s health. But it’s a violation of Minnesota law to mislead consumers about the products you sell, and the Attorney General has laid out a powerful case that these companies did

exactly that.” Sam Grant, executive director of MN350, added, “As we come together to hold American Petroleum Institute, Exxon, and Koch Industries accountable in this consumerprotection lawsuit, it is important to be mindful that the harm caused by their bad corporate behavior is not evenly experienced. Here in Minnesota, it is our populations of color – particularly our urban African American population and our American Indian population whether urban or rural – that face the most grave health disparities, disparities contributed to by corporations that have knowingly deceived the public, distorted the science, and made tremendous profits while causing irreparable socioenvironmental harm.” “Our future generations count on our actions today,” said Winona LaDuke, director of Honor the Earth. “As fossilfuel companies like Exxon twist laws and deal in carbon across the world, people and governments are stopping them. I’m proud that Minnesota is stepping up.” Juwaria Jama, the state lead for Minnesota Youth Climate Strike, explains how young people feel about this action: “As generation z, we have known about climate change ever since we were born. As children, we were told that we only had a few years to act until our future could be stolen from us. Now as teenagers, that reality is clearer. We are spending our time fighting a last-minute battle to preserve a livable world for ourselves and future generations because corporations like Exxon knew the impacts of climate change, but continued to deceive the public for decades. Exxon chose profit over people. It’s time they’re held accountable.” The lawsuit also names those who have been complicit in spreading the fossil fuel industry’s climate change deceptions, such as the Heartland Institute, Americans for Prosperity, Cato Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Center of the American Experiment, Hoover Institute, Institute for Energy Research, Heritage Foundation, Manhattan Institute, Reason Foundation, and U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The lawsuit expecially calls out the Heartland Insitute, which bills itself as the “world’s most prominent thinktank promoting skepticism about man-made climate change.” Noting that Heartland received funding from the defendants in the past, the lawsuit says the organization in recent years advanced the false claims that there is no consensus about

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the causes, effects or future rate of global warming; that global warming is primarily a natural phenomenon; and that the benefits of warming are likely to outweigh the costs. Heartland also claims responsibility for defeating cap and trade, a regulatory mechanism designed to curb harmful emissions. Heartland, the lawsuit also points out, disseminates this false and misleading information to educators in Minnesota. For example, Heartland sent Minnesota educators, for free, a book offered for sale on Heartland’s website titled Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus. The first “Key Finding” of the book is: “The most important fact about climate science, often overlooked, is that scientists disagree about the environmental impacts of the combustion of fossil fuels on the global climate.” Most of the “findings” of the book are repeated from other Heartland Institute publications by the so-called “Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change,” which consists of the same well-worn climate change deniers.

Impacts and costs of climate change According to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, from 1951 to 2012, Minnesota’s climate warmed faster than both national and global rates of increase, with average annual temperature increasing by 3.2 degrees Fahrenheit in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metro area. According to the Minnesota Department of Health, since 1960, the rate of climate warming in Minnesota has increased from 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit per decade from the 1890s to the 1950s to 0.5 degrees Fahrenheit per decade beginning with the 1960s. These and other studies lay out many of the impacts of climate change on Minnesotans’ health and Minnesota’s environment and economy. Pages 57–70 of the lawsuit also detail some of the many impacts and costs that Minnesota has incurred and will incur as a result of climate change that has gone unchecked and unregulated because of the defendants’ 30-year campaign of deception. A copy of the complaint is available on Ellison’s website (ag.state.mn.us). Video of the press conference at which Attorney General Ellison and other speakers announced the lawsuit will be available on Ellison’s YouTube channel.

Smoking guns? The 1979 Exxon document above and the 1980 document below are key pieces of evidence submitted in Attorney General Keith Ellison’s lawsuit against several fossil fuel giants. Below are more details from the lawsuit regarding the climate change deception Ellison alleges: “According to recently uncovered documents, by the 1970s, executives were being urged by their own scientists during this time to consider the industry’s role in advancing the science of and solutions to climate change. For example, in 1978, Exxon (now ExxonMobil) scientist Harold Weinberg proposed to colleagues that Exxon become the leader in trying to define and counteract the “CO2 problem.” “The need to act quickly was also becoming clear during this period. In 1977, Exxon scientist James Black communicated to the Exxon Corporation Management Committee that ‘[p] resent thinking holds that man has a time window of five to ten years before the need for hard decisions regarding changes in energy strategies might become critical.’ Black also reported that “current scientific opinion overwhelmingly favors attributing atmospheric carbon dioxide increase to fossil fuel consumption,” and that doubling atmospheric CO2, according to the best climate model available, would “produce a mean temperature increase of about

2° C[elsius] to 3° C[elsius] over most of the earth,” with double to triple as much warming at the poles. And in 1982 it was pointed out to Exxon management that “once the effects [of global warming] are measurable, they might not be reversible.” “Throughout the 1970s, it was becoming increasingly clear that climate change could have serious implications for Exxon’s business model. In 1977, Exxon scientist Henry Shaw circulated a memo to colleagues pointing out that the climatic effects of rising CO2 ‘may be the primary limiting factor on energy production from fossil fuels over the next few centuries.’ In a 1979 memorandum to Weinberg, Shaw wrote: ‘It behooves us to start a very aggressive defensive program in the indicated areas of atmospheric science and climate because there is a good probability that legislation affecting our business will be passed.’ And a 1979 letter from Exxon’s director of research, Edward David, to senior vice president George T. Piercy states that Exxon’s ongoing research ‘could well influence Exxon’s view about the longterm attractiveness of coal and synthetics relative to nuclear and solar energy.’ “An Exxon internal document from 1979 summarizes the state of the science at that time, reaching the damning conclusion that the present trend of fossil-fuel consumption would cause dramatic effects before 2050.”

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East student brings home the gold in National History Day Competition Natalie Miller had a clear vision in mind when she entered her fourth National History Day competition. This year’s theme – “Breaking Barriers in History” – inspired her. “I knew I wanted to do something about women breaking barriers for other women,” the Duluth East soonto-be-junior said. When she started digging for a subject, she came up with a gold nugget in the form of Bernice “Bunny” Sandler ((March 3, 1928–Jan. 5, 2019), widely known as the “godmother of Title IX.” “Most people think Title IX is associated with sports,” Natalie said. “It was really interesting to find a new take on it, as my project deals with faculty and admissions, and how it all started with Bernice Sandler. Title IX basically says that discrimination is prohibited in federally funded institutions, which, in most cases, means colleges.” Natalie learned that while Sandler was teaching part-time at the University of Maryland in 1969, she applied

for one of the seven open full-time jobs in her department. [Interestingly, the University of Maryland is where the National History Day finals are held – although everything was done virtually this year.] “She was qualified for the job and was rejected,” Natalie said. “She was told she came off too strong for a woman, and so that is the title of my paper, ‘Too Strong for a Woman’.” Natalie said the research was “quite the learning experience.” “I just really enjoy the research part to if it,” she said. “Title IX kind of evolved as a law. During one of my interviews, a woman explained to me it started out with faculty, and then admissions. In the mid 1970s it was used for sexual harassment.” Since 1974, the National History Day Contest has challenged middle and high school students to conduct research and present historical projects (exhibits, papers, documentaries, performances and websites) in compe-

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tition with students from every state. The top three national finishers in each category earn monetary awards. Also recognized is one outstanding state entry in each division – junior and senior – with a medal. Natalie’s paper went up against 60 others in the senior regionals. From there, 12 presentations went to the state competition, and from that, two

– including Natalie’s – went on to the nationals. “I ended up competing against 100 other people and I got gold, which is really surprising, I didn’t expect that at all,” she said. She was among seven Minnesota entries that won gold medals in the senior division, and the only Duluth student to do so, however, Erin Coleman, also an East High School student, took 6th Place with a paper titled “Breaking Barriers in Public Health: John Snow and London’s 1854 Cholera Epidemic.” Natalie was also awarded a scholarship to attend the National History Academy next summer. “I talked to my History Day adviser. Getting first place in nationals is a really big deal. It looks really good on college applications and scholarship applications,” Natalie said. “For each of the winners in the senior individual category, they get a scholarship to go to the National History Academy, which I’d never heard of, but I’ll also have that to put on the application.” Natalie said since this was the first time to she made it to nationals, it was unfortunate that the gathering in Washington, D.C., and the University of Maryland was canceled because of COVID-19. “But the Minnesota History Day staff made it as personal as they could,” she said. “And I’ll be doing it against next year, my fifth year.” To learn more about National History Day, visit nhd.org. You can also view the two-hour 2020 national contest awards ceremony on YouTube.

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To submit obituaries, births, vows for publication, email to submissions@readerduluth.com Bernard J. Kolar 6/9/1928 – 6/15/2020

Ralph Russell Doty 7/20/1941 – 6/13/2020 Ralph Russell Doty, 78, was born to Russell Carl and Naomi (Dewey) Doty. He married Diane Mary Gooder on Aug. 18, 1962. Ralph dedicated his life to education and public service, teaching in Duluth at Washington Jr. and Woodland Jr. High School (1965-1966) at the College of St. Scholastica (1968-1976); and serving as college president at Vermilion Community College, Ely, MN (1977-81). He retired in 2001. He represented constituents in Duluth and the North Shore for two terms as state Senator (1971-1976). Ralph’s first love was radio. His first radio work was at WKLK 1959 (Cloquet), followed by “Doty on Duty with a stack of wax on the back of the racks” on WEBC (Duluth), WIGL (Superior), KDAL (Duluth) and KBJR TV News Director and Anchor (Duluth). He also loved oldtime radio. Since 1976, he introduced and provided the historical background for old shows and called them “Radio Memories.” The programs were aired on KDAL, KDWS (Superior), and WELW (Ohio). He also enjoyed being a columnist for the Duluth Budgeteer. A celebration of Ralph’s life and his interment at Calvary Cemetery will be held when his children can travel safely to Minnesota and after an announcement. Arrangements by Dougherty Funeral Home

Sara Jean Peterson 9/17/1982 – June 5, 2020 Sara Jean Peterson, 37, died of a heroin overdose in her home, alone, not surrounded by the family or friends that loved her more than she loved herself. Sara was working on getting back into treatment, but treatment did not come fast enough. Her four kids are without their Mom, who they adored, as much as she adored them. Sara always said, “I can do this! I got this!” and worked hard at recovery. She attended Celebrate Recovery and NA meetings but struggled with not being able to attend in person due to the “Stay at Home” order. She had so many loving and caring friends, all she had to do was reach out to them and they were there for her. Recently Sara had 5 years heroin free and was so proud of herself. She was born in Duluth to Patrick and Laura Peterson. She attended Denfeld and Unity High Schools. Sara loved spending time with family and friends cooking for them, having a BBQ or just hanging out talking. She had so much love to give. Always offering to help others out and be there for them. Her smile, laughter and humor were just some of the things that made her so special. There is a gofundme set up for Sara: gofundme.com/ f/214ggye29c

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Bernard “Bernie” John Kolar died peacefully surrounded by his loving family. He was born to Loy and Mary Kolar in Kinney, Minn. Bernie and his beloved wife Mary raised their six children in Duluth. Bernie was a humble man and requested that his obituary be no longer than 3 inches, which is difficult to do for a man who lived each of his 92 years so fully and so well. His faith, family, and friends were the cornerstones of his life and he touched so many with his kindness and generosity of spirit. For nearly a decade, Bernie’s greatest passion was fundraising for and supporting the Women’s Care Center. In lieu of flowers, memorials preferred to: Women’s Care Center, 103 E. First Street Duluth, MN 55802; Kid’s Closet, 2431 W. 3rd Street, Duluth, MN 55806; Damiano Center/Kids’ Kitchen, 206 W. 4th Street, Duluth, MN 55806. A private Mass of Christian Burial was previously held. Burial and military honors were at Calvary Cemetery. Arrangements by Dougherty Funeral Home, Duluth.

Nancy Ann Makenzie 3/3/1958 – 6/9/2020

Nancy Ann Makenzie, 62, died at home in the loving care of her family, ending her short journey with cancer. Nancy was born in Duluth to George and Millicent Carlson. She graduated from Duluth Central High School in 1976 and attended the London Road Technical School. She worked as a retail clerk, with her last employment at Miner’s Super One Grocery. Nancy always had a welcoming and ready smile for her customers and the people she worked with. Nancy was a spiritual person. Her spirituality was rooted in the human connection with the Universe. She was always mindful of her alignment with the stars and the nature

of the soul. Nancy was a poet and her poetry often spoke to the grace in healing. She also enjoyed listening to music and photographing nature. She will be greatly missed as mom, sister, aunt, friend and poet.

Anna Marie Matta 4/4/1937 – 6/14/2020

Anna Marie Matta (Roy), 83, died peacefully at Benedictine Health Center in Duluth. Anna was born in Bayfield, Wis., to Stella and Edmund Roy. She graduated from Bayfield High School in 1955. She married Ronald Matta June 14, 1960. Anna abso-lutely loved her tight-knit circle of family and friends. When she slowed down later in life, she and Ron could be found at the Miller Hill Mall Food Court chatting with their great group of friends. She and Ron also enjoyed spending time in the Bayfield area, where they were frequent concertgoers and volunteers at the Big Top Chautauqua. A gathering for family and friends will be announced at a later date.

Jeanne H. Rose 2/6/1926 – 6/8/2020 Jeanne H. (Burger) Rose, 94 of Duluth, died in Solvay Hospice House with her loving family by her side. Jeanne was born in Duluth to Pius and Emily (Neutzling) Burger. She grew up in Duluth and was a 1943 graduate of Duluth Cathedral High School. She worked for MP&L until she married Donald Rose on Sept. 10, 1949. They raised 7 children in the Kenwood and Duluth Heights area. In recent years Jeanne lived at the Primrose Retirement Community and then with family. She was a charter member of St. Benedict’s Church and was a member of St. Joseph’s Church in Duluth Heights. Visitation will be Thursday, July 2, at 10 am with Mass of Christian Burial at 11a.m. at St. Lawrence Church, Duluth. In lieu of flowers the family would appreciate memorials directed to Solvay Hospice House, 801 Baylis St., Duluth,

MN 55811. Arrangements by Dougherty Funeral Home.

Nancy J. Zembo 1/23/1939 – 6/21/2020

Nancy J. Zembo, 81, of Foxboro, died at her residence. Nancy was born in Superior, the daughter of Gladys (Scheldroup) and Stanley Winek. She graduated from Superior Central High School with the class of 1957. Nancy married James “Jim” Zembo on Sept. 20, 1958. She had served as the town clerk for Summit Township for many years. Nancy loved wildlife and enjoyed her solitude with nature that surrounded her home. Following Nancy’s wishes, no services will be held. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her name to the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation, National Headquarters, Attn: Financial Operations, 733 Third Avenue, Ste. 510, New York, NY 10017.

Nancy Kay Ziemski 8/13/1939 – 6/17/2020 Nancy Kay “Nan” Ziemski, 80, of Bovey, Minn., died peacefully at Solvay Hospice House in Duluth. She was born in Duluth to Robert James Murphy, Sr. and Irene C. (Schipper) Murphy. Nancy was a 1957 graduate of Duluth Central High School. She attended the Univ. of MNDuluth and Duluth Business University. She was employed at the Duluth Chamber of Commerce as secretary to the manager from 1958 to 1961. Nancy married Lawrence J. Ziemski on Feb. 20, 1960. Along with her husband Larry, they bought Murphy McNeil Company from Bob Murphy. She loved to garden and enjoyed her hummingbirds. If so desired, memorials directed to Solvay Hospice House, 801 Bayliss St., Duluth, MN. 55811 would be appreciated. Arrangements by Dougherty Funeral Home.

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TX 78279-5001. Although 20% vinegar is safe, use rubber gloves and a mask, just as a precaution. – Heloise REUSABLE SHOPPING BAGS Dear Heloise: I love that the reusable shopping bags come in so many different colors and designs. When I see one I can’t live without, I buy extras to use as gift bags. For my brother’s birthday, I found one with his favorite team’s logo and I filled it with goodies I knew he would enjoy. He loved it! – Chrissy in Massachusetts ROAD MAP PLACEMATS Dear Heloise: I was about to toss out an old road atlas when I remembered a hint I read in your column a while back about laminating calendar pictures. I chose the pages with the states where my extended family lives and laminated them to make placemats for family get-togethers. They make great conversation pieces. – Dave in Minnesota

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Whoever pays the piper, calls the tune “The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) derives a majority of its outside contributions – estimated at more than $25 million per year – from pharmaceutical companies that make vaccines. The pediatricians that the AAP represents derive the majority of their annual revenues from the administration of vaccines to their pediatric patients.) – J.B. Handley

market of 76 million children – there is meager market incentive for companies to make vaccines safe. The public must rely on the moral scruples of Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi and Pfizer. But these companies have a long history of operating recklessly and dishonestly, even with (the many drug) products for which they can be sued for injuries. The four companies that make virtually all of the recommended vaccines are “Perhaps the most infamous all convicted felons. Collectively they example of corruption at the CDC is have paid over $35 billion since 2009 how the head of (George W. Bush’s) for defrauding regulators, lying to CDC from 2002 to 2009, and bribing government Julie Gerberding, left her officials and physicians, government CDC job to falsifying science, and become president of Merck’s leaving a trail of injuries, $5 billion dollar/year Vac(incurable chronic cine Division. Merck’s CEO illnesses and deaths from understandably described products they knew to be by Gerberding as an ‘ideal dangerous and still sold choice.’ She held that under pretense of safety DR. GARY position until 2014 and and efficacy.” – Robert F. KOHLS currently holds the Merck Kennedy, Jr job title of Executive Vice President & Chief Patent “Fewer than 1% of Officer, Strategic Communications, vaccine adverse events are reported. Global Public Policy and Population The CDC’s entire vaccination Health. That is to say, the former CDC propaganda campaign rests on their director is now in charge of Merck’s claim that side effects from vaccination propaganda efforts. One might say are exceedingly rare, but according to she’s basically doing the same job now the blatantly pro-over-vaccination, that she did for the CDC, but even and Big Pharma-funded CDC, in 2016 more lucra-tively. Apart from her salary, alone, the Vaccine Adverse Event in 2015, Gerberding sold shares of Reporting System (VAERS) received Merck worth over $2.3 million. While 59,117 vaccine adverse event reports. at the CDC Gerberding shepherded Among those reports were 432 vaccineMerck’s highly controversial and highly related deaths, 1,091 permanent profitable Gardasil vaccine through vaccine-related disabilities, 4,132 the regulatory maze.” – Jeremy R. vaccine-related hospitalizations, and Hammond, Children’s Health Defense 10,274 vaccine-related emergency room visits. What if these numbers “Since vaccines are liability-free – actually represent less than 1% of and effectively compulsory to a captive the total as this report asserts? You

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multiply those numbers by 100.” – William Christenson *** I watched a recent PBS News Hour during which Judy Woodruff respectfully interviewed Tom Ridge, George W Bush’s Secretary of Homeland Security (2001- 2003), regarding his NGO, the National Organization on Disability (NOD). I recall being outraged decades-ago about Bush cabinet-member Tom Ridge, who was/is obviously a denier (or perhaps even an insider/planner) of the provable conspiracy that brought down – via pre-planted controlled demolitions – the three World Trade Center towers on 9/11/200. Each of the three towers collapsed at free-fall speeds, which is impossible except in cases of necessarily pre-planned, controlled demolitions with preplanted explosives. (For a small part of the massive amount of documentation conclusively proving the 911 conspiracy, go to freepress.org/article/ why-do-good-people-become-silentabout-documentable-facts-disproveofficial-white-house-0 and the website of the Lawyers Committee for 911 Inquiry at lawyerscommitteefor911inquiry.org/) I have been naturally suspicious of anybody who remains, not just in denial of the obvious 911 conspiracy, but also professed believers in the “single-shooter theories” (and therefore non-conspiratorial) related to the assassinations of left-wing political heroes such as JFK, MLK, RFK, Paul Wellstone, etc, etc. For these reasons and others, I wanted to know what entities have funded or are invested in right-wing Republican Tom Ridge’s non-governmental organization, which apparently pays him a six-figure salary. It is important to note that the annual fees the Ridge’s NOD charges corporations are $15,000 - $25,000 per year to join, which permitted the corporations to claim to be a supporter (”photo-op” recipient) of the NOD. Go to nod.org/services/council/ to view the lists of corporate funders. The corporate funders behind the National Organization on Disabilities’ activities include any number of multinational Big Pharma/ Big Vaccine corporations that can therefore “call the tune” played on by exerting veto power over what topics are allowed to be discussed at the NOD and Mainstream Media board meetings(meaning there will be NO discussions about the ongoing

epidemic of disabilities directly caused by America’s highly profitable overvaccination schedules imposed on its infants and children with any number of “unproven-for-safety” cocktails of brain-toxic, neurotoxic and immunotoxic vaccines (including the potentially lethal effects of intramuscularly-injected mercury and aluminum) that are behind the common vaccine-induced lifetime disabilities caused by so many of the funder’s business models. “Whoever pays the piper calls the tune” also indicts the funders of the FDA, the CDC, the NIAID, the WHO, the AAP, the APA, the AMA and every university in the nation that takes Big Pharma money are also being co-opted by the obscenely wealthy multinational corporations (and the tax-exempt foundations of the billionaire CEOs) that “bribe” the educational establishments. Interestingly, I discovered in my research that there is another closely-related non-governmental organization that “supports” the disabled population. That NGO is called Diversity, Inc and its website is at diversityinc.com/featured-partners/. It charges $250,000 annual fees to its funding corporations! What was highly significant to me was the fact that the dozens of multinational corporate sponsors of these two NGOs were nearly identical. The Big Pharma corporations listed on the two websites included Big Vaccine makers/marketers/promoters/profiteers Merck, AbbVie, Abbott, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi Pasteur, Eli Lilly, none of which allow any discussions of the public health crises that their commonly-disabling vaccines are causing every day in infants and children all over the overvaccinated planet. This makes both the NOD and Diversity, Inc, not to mention the CDC, the NIAID, the FDA, the AMA and the AAP, and the Mainstream Media (including PBS) are actually promoters of or collaborators with the very multinational corporations that are causing or contributing to the vaccine-induced pandemics that they are professing to be alleviating. And that includes the much-propagandized, fast-tracked (and therefore untested) vaccine for COVID-19.

What should happen to protest art? By Pamela Espeland Google “George Floyd Mural” images and the first thing you’ll see – also the second, third, fourth, tenth, fifteenth, fiftieth, ad infinitum – will be the mural painted at Cup Foods at 38th and Chicago by artists Xena Goodman, Cadex Herrera and Greta McLain, with help from Niko Alexander and Pablo Hernandez. You might ask “Who?” because most articles, Facebook posts, tweets, retweets and TikTok videos that feature the mural by don’t include the artists’ names. George Floyd murals are everywhere. CNBC noted, “Murals have sprung up in Germany, Kenya and even in the bombed out ruins of Syria.” Stars and Stripes found one near Kabul’s Green Zone. CNN gathered images of several in Montreal, Manchester, Belfast, Berlin, Los Angeles, Oakland, Houston, Pensacola, Belgium; Nantes, France; and Naples, Italy. But who owns them? Who gets to acquire them, collect them, show them, store them, sell them? People have been asking these questions of each other and on social media. Museums are interested, including the Minnesota Museum of American Art, aka the M. Robyne Robinson is board chair at the M. “I said to them, Listen, if we are going to do this, we need to do it in a respectful way, and we need to do it with the help of the community,” Robinson explained. “Let’s talk about it first. Let’s talk about what comes with acquisition of these pieces. We don’t want to be trapped in the situation of commoditization.” Former TV news anchor, longtime arts supporter and current public art consultant, Robinson put together a virtual conversation that took place June 18. “Black Art in the Era of Protest” convened a cross-generational panel of educators and artists: Chioma Uwagwu and Todd Lawrence of the Urban Art Mapping Project at the University of St. Thomas, Precious Wallace of King P. Studio, Reggie LeFlore, Roger

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A mural honoring George Floyd on display outside of Cup Foods in Minneapolis near where he died. MinnPost photo by Walker Orenstein. Cummings of Juxtaposition Arts, Seitu Jones, Ta-Coumba Aiken and Bobby Rogers. “I think it’s really important that we have this discussion, because it’s on everyone’s mind in the arts community, in the AfricanAmerican community as well as other communities of color,” Robinson said. “It’s better to hear from artists themselves about what they think should happen.” The idea won widespread support. The African American Interpretive Center of Minnesota, AIA Minnesota, Juxtaposition Arts, King P. Studio, KMOJ Radio, MCAD, the M, National Organization of Minority Architects, Public Art Saint Paul and the Rae Mackenzie Group all stepped up as inkind sponsors. As the response to George Floyd’s death made history, so, too, in its own way, might this conversation. “It’s an important conversation for the Twin Cities. This is the right place to do it. We are the center of all creative art activity in the Upper Midwest. What we determine will have an effect on many art communities of color to come. “This is the second chapter of what the Black Arts Movement and AfriCOBRA were trying to do 50 years ago,” Robinson said. “We’re revisiting something that didn’t have an answer back then, because it was all about educating the community and getting them to understand the power of what art can bring. “It says a lot about our community

that we want to immediately start talking about helping each other, protecting each other, rebuilding, communicating and moving forward.”

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America and her last rites The last decoded message from Hitler’s bunker: “Closing down forever” Well, well, well, now we finally have our own little Hitler in his White House bunker, assuming command of the military because, as a genius, he knows more than any of his generals and admirals. He has his own propagandaguy-Goebbels and the “state TV network” Fox News which serves as his Minister of Public Enlightenment by and Propaganda 24/7. He has his own vicepresident Goring in William Barr, his personal attorney, who serves as his toadying Himmler. He has captured a political party that at one time thought that all people were created equal and supported a proclamation to free the slaves. They now believe in white power, separation of the races, disaster capitalism, and have adopted the religious doctrine of the Christian Identity Church: God created blacks to serve the white race. English decoders translated the last message coming out of Hitler’s bunker after he killed himself and

Eva Braun: “Closing Down Forever.” That message signaled the end of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, commonly known as the Nazis, who promised 1,000 years of Hitler’s Third Reich. (Read William L. Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich.) The goal of the Nazi Party was to make all racially desirable Germans comrades and to exclude political dissidents, Africans, homosexuals, Jews, the physically and mentally handicapped, and other political opponents from the party. Sound familiar? The most important thing we must do ASAP is to take the nuclear button away from Donald the Lyin’ King before the nutcase punches it during a psychopathic fit. One of my favorite poets, Langston Hughes, wrote “I, Too” in 1926: “I , too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, But I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong. Tomorrow I’ll be at the table when company comes. Nobody’ll dare say to me, “Eat in

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the kitchen” then. Besides, they will see how beautiful I am and be ashamed. I, too, am America.” His relatives four generations later are still not at the table. They are eating in the kitchen because of knees on their necks. Why most blacks are still in a tiny kitchen Using the latest U.S. data available, it would take the assets of 11.5 black households to equal the net worth of just one white household. Why did black households in Minneapolis erupt with such fury at the death of George Floyd? A typical black family in the Twin Cities earns less than half of the typical white family and home ownership among blacks is onethird the rate of white families. In 2018, the median black family in Minneapolis earned $36,000, which is above the average of black families in other U.S. cities. But the median white family in Minneapolis earned $83,000. The $47,000 difference is one of the largest gaps in the nation. In percentage terms that means a black family earns only 44% as much as the typical white family. In the 100 largest metro areas, only neighbor Milwaukee has the larger gap. Only 25% of Minneapolis black households own their own homes while 76% of white families do. Only Madison, Wisconsin and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania have larger gaps. Almost all Minneapolis residential areas had this real estate clause (that has finally been outlawed): “The said premises shall not at any time be sold, conveyed, leased, or sublet, or occupied by any person or persons who are not full bloods of the so-called Caucasian or White race.” I still remember a time in this country when just one drop of Negro blood would make you a black person. I’m sure the idea still exists in many Southern states. As these covenants appeared in Twin City real estate transactions, blacks were restricted to smaller and smaller areas as the larger sections of the cities became entirely white. As interstate highways and streets were constructed, cheaper areas were taken by eminent domain. When Interstate 94 was constructed through St. Paul, one out of every eight black homes in the city was demolished.

Every year the Minnesota Legislature discusses the academic gap among the races – and does nothing about it. The answers are in this 2019 statement by the state NAACP: “One only has to look at the faces of the AfricanAmericans living in impoverished neighborhoods, attending failing schools, over-represented in a broken criminal justice system, and suffering from covert and overt employment discrimination on a daily basis to see that not everyone is enjoying the prosperity of Minnesota. If the growing disparities in education, economics, criminal justice are not addressed immediately, our children will not have a future.” If people are not heard, they riot. There are several going on around the world at any time. Boy! Those billionaires are really going to help us get through COVID-19! To get contributions in context, a survey by Roxanne Roberts and Will Hobson used the median net worth of U.S. households, $97,300, to see what percentage of their wealth billionaires were actually giving to the virus fight. Donald Newhouse, worth $12.5 billion, pledged to give $1 million to the World Health Organization. If that pledge came from the median household, it would amount to $8. Thomas Peterfly, worth $14.8 billion,committed $5 million for crisis relief. That’s the equivalent of $33. Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man at about $175 billion, has pledged $125 million for virus relief efforts. That comes to a stupendous total of about $82. Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg is worth $67.2 million. His contribution represents $84 out of $97,3000. The Walton family, at $200 billion, the richest family in the world, surrendered $25 million to the cause – a total of $52 equivalent. Hedge fund manager Steven Cohen, worth $14 billion, parted with an equivalent of $43. Many of our 700 billionaires have contributed nothing-nada-zero-naughtzilch-nil. These contributions would represent about 0.0003% of their total worth. The top 50 richest people in the U.S. have contributed 0.01% toward solving the pandemic crisis. When you have a lot of it, evidently the love of money is absolutely overpowering.

Bill Gates at $103.1 billion with an equivalent of $283 and Ray Dalio at $18 billion with an equivalent of $589 are two exceptions. While they live in what is called the richest nation in the world, one in five American families has no wealth. They have a negative or zero net worth. Black families are even higher in this category at 37%. Two decades ago black families were at 15%. Robert Frost: “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out” Dictators love walls. Donald The Lyin’ King is trying to complete one on our 2,000-mile Southern border to keep Mexicans and Latin Americans out. Now he has built an eight-foot high 1.7-mile concrete and metal wall to keep the people out of “The People’s House” he is defiling and “dominating.” (Part of it has been removed.) In Baghdad we have built the largest embassy and defensive grounds in the world known as the Green Zone. Now we have a White Zone in D.C. The White House wall surrounds Lafayette Square and part of the Ellipse. Corky and I lived in D.C. for almost a year in the 1950s, so we visited the Capitol, all of the monuments, museums, galleries, the Smithsonian, and many historical places. We have visited several times since in order to see the Holocaust Museum and other additions. One of my sisters was a secretary on Capitol Hill for more than 35 years. She worked for six representatives of both parties. When the Lyin’ King and his White House zombies slunk into Lafayette Square, with daughter Ivanka carrying a nuclear $1,540 white purse with somebody’s Bible in it, I wondered how many of them knew the history of the square. It is just across from the White House. At one time it was the famous Washington slave market. Thousands of slaves were bought and sold next to St. John’s Episcopal Church. After all, much of the capitol and the White House were built by slaves. The first eight presidents owned slaves. Our first president, ironically named George, was the richest man in Virginia because he owned about 125 slaves after marrying the rich widow Martha. When His Tweetness waved somebody’s Bible at the crowd, I had a sudden flashback of another Bible waver, televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, strutting across the stage, shouting Christian proverbs, and then falling to his knees. With tears streaming down

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A screenshot of Pentecostal televangelist Jimmy Swaggart weeping uncontrollably on The Jimmy Swaggart Telecast during his prime in the 1980s. his face, he admitted he had sinned and was seeking forgiveness. At one time he was on 3,000 TV stations. Alas, Jimmy had placed his healing hands on too many prostitutes so his church dumped him. He also has blonde hair. By the way, Hitler posed for a similar Bible photo op. Do Trump hotels have Bibles in the rooms now? I wonder if Trump borrowed the Bible he waved at Lafayette Square from Barr, who happens to be a member of an ultra-right Roman Catholic organization called Opus Dei. It supports fascism around the world. It was a favorite of fascism’s Franco in Spain and of Pope John Paul, the “saint” who neglected to control the sins of his priests as they sexually abused boys and girls. Barr has been known as a bully since childhood. But that’s another story. At his rallies The Donald usually reveals the Bible is his favorite book. In second place is his book, The Art of The Deal. Whenever he is asked to explain his favorite chapters, he says: “That’s very personal. The Bible means a lot to me, but I don’t want to get into specifics.” To add a little levity to this depressing tale, Alexandra Petri of The Washington Post has fantasized on how Trump interprets his favorite Bible stories. I have selected a few from her article (edited for length): Genesis: Two fools in the Garden of Eden want more information about

their condition so they get a meeting with Tim Apple. Golden Calf: Why people are punished for worshiping shiny and fake things (like Trump Towers). Lazarus: A good illustration of how easy it is to recover from an illness if you put your mind to it – and why nobody needs health coverage. Two Corinthians: There are Corinthians, and there are two of them, for sure! Lot: A man’s wife does something different with herself physically, and he sort of notices after the fact. Solomon: A man suggests a very good way of dealing with a disputed baby, but a nasty woman interferes. David and Goliath: Someone makes the mistake of flinging a projectile at a heavily-armored man; they will need to come down on him hard. Noah: This is a good, inspiring story about a wise man in a floating bunker avoiding a catastrophe, but

on the other hand it is bad because he is also surrounded by animals, birds and reptiles – disgusting. Jonah and the Whale: Bunker again, but worse. P.S. In a previous column I asked Trump voters to send me a list of their Christian values. I haven’t received any. Bible experts say Jesus Christ mentioned the poor and poverty 2,000 times in the Bible. Why do Republicans vote against Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, SNAP,WIC, the LBGTQ+ community, homosexuals, transgenders, same-sex marriage, contraception, Roe Vs. Wade, higher taxes, unions Head Start, education funding, civil rights, voting rights, laws against gerrymandering – and the public post office?

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Rumination on mowing grass It is that time of year again. We are more than five inches below normal for rain. The garden is drying of drought but the grass is still growing! This year the wood violets have been replaced by the more drought-tolerant hawk weed but my rumination from last year is still relevant. Hope you enjoy. “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” Mathew 6:28 & 29 I thought of this the other day when I was mowing by grass. The wood violets were in full bloom all over the yard. I paused to “consider” the wild flowers of the field. They don’t have to toil. They just come up with the spring rains. Neither did I have to buy them, plant them, weed them, or all the rest of the work of making a garden. I had just helped my wife plant flowers in her flower beds. This (and a couple of beers) got me ruminating on our place in, and impact on, the natural world. We are a strange species. Wood violets are gorgeous little blue flowers. They are common spring flora in this area along with hepatica, wild strawberry, trout lilies, wood anemones, gay wings, and a number of other species. We mow them down because they are “weeds.” They are not the imported, alien grass species most people want in their lawns. They are not the

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few select non-native species we buy at the store and are expected to plant in the flower bed. Most of the common bedding plants at the spring greenhouses are aliens. They originally come from Europe or Asia. Some of them are “invasive,” meaning they can out-compete native plants and create problems. In our human hubris we think we know better than nature. We are constantly altering things for our own whims, often to the detriment of ourselves and nature. It is interesting that the same flowers (petunias, marigolds, impatiens, snapdragons, begonias, etc.) are sold in garden centers all over the country. There is no regard for variations in location, climate, or growing conditions. The corporate big boxes sell the same stuff everywhere. Local, native, adaptive species are not widely available (although you can get them if you seek them out). The plants that naturally grow in a specific area of the country, that are adapted to that location, apparently are not profitable. Of course all these common bedding plants are raised in greenhouses using artificial means, pesticides, lots of plastic, and other environmentally destructive practices. Many are shipped thousands of miles before being sold. The carbon footprint of the lowly petunia must be huge. We consumers, even those of us who are liberal environmentalists, literally buy into this destructive system every spring with our consumer dollars. Many environmental and social problems result from our individual choices. We are all guilty. Too many of us are unwilling to adapt our lifestyles for the common, or our own, good. We also have a bizarre desire to promote one alien plant species over another. Many “wild” flowers are

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escaped aliens from other places. Buttercups, oxeye daisies, Queen Anne’s lace, and clover are examples. We consider the bucolic, pastoral field of these aliens beautiful. Dandelions are also an alien. But dandelions are anathema. We poison them, dig them up and mow them down. Yet they are just as beautiful. Why is one species good and another bad? Of course some species are bad because they are invasive. There is a difference between being alien and being invasive. Alien, non-native plants may be common and widespread but do not create problems. They and the ecosystem have adapted to their presence. Invasive plants can do serious harm to the environment by out competing native species. They often have no predators or natural controls to keep them in check. It occurred to me (in my excessively ruminative mood) that the notion of “alien” is a little weird. How many centuries does a poor alien plant have to dwell in the “land of the free” before they are allowed to be become a citizen? Even after they have become “naturalized” and ubiquitous they are still not native according to the purists. Maybe we need an amnesty program

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for alien plant species. I think we all have a little Donald Trump in us. Deport those foreign dandelions. Build a wall! Natural plantings or xeric landscaping have caught on in many desert areas of the country. The ideal of having New England green lawns in the desert is unsustainable with the growing water issues all across the West. People are planting the local desert plants that are already adapted to the area, require less work and consume less water. This is an eminently sensible idea that has not caught on in most of the country. Like most issues, we have to wait for a crisis before we do what is good. Why must we have green lawns and manicured flower beds? Why aren’t we happy with nature? Are Homo sapiens control freaks? Some anthropologists think this goes back to when we first climbed down from the trees and started walking upright. Tall grass was a liability for us. Predators could hide more easily and humans, lacking in claws and teeth, needed a different strategy. So we developed a mania for clearing out territories – at least around our dens. Economists of the Thorstein Veblen school (creator of “conspicuous consumption”) think we all want to appear more affluent. English estates with large lawns and formal gardens were a symbol of wealth. We, in our own little quarter-acre urban castles, aspire to be the lords of the manor. Personally I would just as soon let nature take its course. If you can drive down the driveway without climbing over trees and get to the front door without being eaten by the bear or the ticks, life is good. Why make more work for yourself? The ‘60s cliché says “If you are not part of the solution your are part of the problem.” So I thought why mow down these wonderful wood violets? I’ll just leave them until they quit blooming. Live and let live! But, alas, the lady of the manor is not so philosophical. I have to go. It is time to finish mowing the grass.

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Did you know women are more likely to have a stroke than men? And women are also more likely to suffer from a permanent disability or die from a stroke? The good news is we can do something to lower our risk. Data analyzed and published in the journal Stroke found that lifestyle

changes — even later in life — can lower women’s risk for stroke. The study looked at nearly 60,000 women, who were an average of 52 years old at the start of the study. They were followed for 26 years. Researchers found quitting smoking, being physically active for 30 minutes (or more) a day and losing weight were associated with a 25% lower overall

stroke risk. In addition, doing those three things was associated with a 36% lower risk of ischemic stroke. Ischemic is the most common type, in which blood flow to the brain is blocked. If you add eating a healthy diet, the participants lowered their risk from stroke by 23%. That healthy diet included eating more fish (think salmon and tuna), more whole grains

(brown rice instead of white; wholewheat bread instead of white), and more fruits and vegetables. Participants ate less processed meats (bacon, sausage, deli meat) and had fewer alcoholic drinks. You don’t have to wait until next February to “Go Red for Women” and think about heart healthy habits. Make some simple switches to boost the fiber

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in your diet. We need 25 to 35 grams a day. A cup of raspberries can provide 8 grams. Switch from a lower-fiber cereal to oatmeal. Choose a snack of grapes or sliced melon cubes instead of a cookie. All these little decisions add up to healthy lifestyle changes. Take a 30-minute walk, and add some strength training to your routine. My friend does a 20-second plank, 12 pushups and 35 squats throughout her day. She does those on her break while working from home. Run up your stairs, if you have them at home. Exercise doesn’t have to be at a gym or continuous. It’s more about including it in your daily consciousness. It’s never too late to get started. Q and A Q: Can peppermint oil help my irritable bowel syndrome? A: Maybe; maybe not. While a handful of small studies suggest that peppermint oil capsules may help lessen abdominal pain in people with IBS, the results of a larger randomized, controlled trial do not agree. That study was published in 2019 in the journal Gastroenterology. The study randomly assigned nearly 200

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abdominal discomfort or pain, diarrhea and/or constipation. A low-FODMAP diet, to reduce inflammation, often helps. RECIPE It is fresh strawberry season in much of the Midwest. Here’s a muffin recipe to help you use up too-ripe bananas and incorporate the best of the strawberry season. The recipe is made healthier with the addition of flaxseed, whole-wheat flour and oats.

Mint has been used as a health aid for centuries, but does peppermint help with pain from irritable bowel syndrome? people to take either 182 milligrams of a peppermint oil capsule (entericcoated) or a placebo daily. At the end of the eight-week trial, there was no significant change in abdominal pain or overall symptoms in either group. IBS is characterized by bloating,

STRAWBERRY BANANA BREAD MUFFINS 2 tablespoons ground flaxseed 1/4 cup warm water 1 3/4 cup whole-wheat pastry flour 1/4 cup rolled oats 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda Pinch of salt 1/3 cup oil (coconut, olive or avocado) 1/2 cup maple syrup 1 medium banana, mashed 1 tablespoon vanilla 2 teaspoon white vinegar 2 cups strawberries, diced Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly oil a muffin tin, or use muffin liners.

In a small bowl, combine flaxseed and water, and mix well. Set aside to thicken. In a large mixing bowl, combine whole-wheat pastry flour, rolled oats, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix, and then set aside. Add oil, maple syrup, mashed banana, vanilla and vinegar to the bowl with the flaxseed mixture, and mix well. Combine wet ingredients with dry ingredients, mixing until well incorporated. Fold in the diced strawberries. Fill the muffin cups with the batter, and bake for 20 minutes, until edges are lightly browned. Allow muffins to cool 5 minutes before removing from pan. Makes 12 muffins. Per muffin: 165 calories; 2 grams protein; 25 grams carbohydrates; 7 grams fat (1 gram saturated); 3 grams fiber; 11 grams sugar; 241 milligrams sodium. Charlyn Fargo is a registered dietitian with SIU Med School in Springfield, Ill. For comments or questions, contact her at charfarg@aol.com or follow her on Twitter @NutritionRD. To find out more about Charlyn Fargo and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at creators.com

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A kettle-soured foursome I couldn’t wait to get this home – a 12-packof kettle-soured beers brewed with four different fruits. Kettle-soured, you ask? Kettle-souring shows two things – it’s the mark of a busy brewer because kettle souring is a much faster process than the traditional souring in the barrel, and it shows a tendency toward straightforward tartness because kettle-soured beers are not as complex keg-soured beers. In kettle souring, the brewer is able to by introduce lactobacillus – “wild” yeast – in the brew kettle until the desired affect is achieved, at which point the brewing process continues with a boil and addition of hops. Brau Brothers Brewing of Marshall, Minn., played on the trademark tartness of kettle-soured ales with their Kettle Sour series by introducing fruits that are known for their tartness. I started my Kettle Sour journey with Green Apple, and was met at first sip with the unmistakable bite of a crisp Granny Smith. Yes, a beautiful round, appley tartness to this one. No chewing necessary. This is a very still 4 percent sour. Kinda cidery. Turns out, all four of these beers are 4 percent. Next up,, the exotic Passion Fruit, a tropical flavor bomb, sort of like a natural Sweet Tart. Passion Fruit Sour Kettle has a beautiful herbal aroma. The taste is definitely a different kind of tart than

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the Green Apple. The tartness attacks an entirely different part of the palate. Yes, there it is, standing straight up, the unique flavor profile of what Hawaiians know as the lilikoi (instead of Jack and the Beanstalk, Hawaiian kids read about Keoki and the Lilikoi Vine). This beer isn’t as still as the Green Apple. It poured with a beautiful white head that dissipated quickly, but throughout my introduction to this beer, bubbles freed themselves from the bottom of the mug and rose to the surface. I’m really enjoying the big passionfruit flavor of this beer. It’s a happy beer. The next one is a natural sour beer combination – Raspberry. Again you have the beautiful sweet-tart combina-

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tion, with the complex and seductive raspberry. Is there a more beautiful berry? To drink raspberry in this sour context shows again what a lovely thing the raspberry truly is. I have to take back an earlier statement mentioning that this Kettle Sour series played solely with tart fruits and berries. I forgot that the final offering in this mixed twelve is brewed with mango, which everyone who knows the tropical fruit will tell you is not tart – it’s sweet and juicy. While it makes

a pleasant beverage, I doubt I could tell you it was brewed with mango if I didn’t see it on the label. If you’re looking for a refreshing beverage with a variety of flavors for some summery fun, you might want to try the Brau Brothers Sour Kettle Series.

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Family wineries shine in San Diego The 38th annual San Diego International Wine & Spirits Challenge, the third-oldest wine and spirits competition in the United States, staged what amounted by to a family affair over Memorial Day Weekend. The biggest winners, including winery of the year, V. Sattui, were three family wineries from California. Sattui, of course, is a perennial overachiever from the Napa Valley and pretty much dominates every wine competition it enters. Jeff Runquist Wines hails from the less renowned Sierra Foothills, where winemaker Jeff Runquist is climbing toward legendary status with wines of impeccable purity and balance. Navarro Vineyards, founded by Ted Bennett and Deborah Cahn in 1973, now has their two children, Aaron and Sarah, on the team; the wines are the pride of Mendocino County’s Anderson Valley and have never been better. The numbers tell the story. V. Sattui entered 27 wines in the 2020 San Diego challenge. All but one earned a medal. Two V. Sattui cabernet sauvignons, the 2016 Mount Veeder ($92) and the 2016 Vangone Vineyard ($140), tied for wine of the year with

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scores of 98 points each. Sattui also had three best-of-class winners: a blended red, a malbec and a syrah. Sattui racked up a stunning 10 platinum awards along with 12 gold medals and four silver. Runquist entered 28 wines and medaled with 26, including three best-of-class awards for its barbera, a sangiovese and a tempranillo. Add to that 17 gold medals and six silver and it was quite the impressive performance. Navarro scored a tie for best-of-show rose with both its rose of pinot noir and its regular rose, as well as bestof-class awards for its dry muscat and pinot gris. Overall, Navarro picked up seven platinum awards, eight gold and five silver to finish with 20 medals from 21 wines entered. The family theme carried over into the race for wine company of the year, where Trinchero Family Wines (based in the Napa Valley) narrowly edged E. & J. Gallo (based in Modesto, California) for this year’s honor. Trinchero entered 52 wines (covering multiple brands) and took 43 medals, including a platinum and 19 gold. E. & J. Gallo entered 71 wines over multiple brands and earned 56 medals including a platinum and 26 gold. Wine company of the year is deter-mined by the slugging percentage and is based on a formula that weighs platinum, gold and silver awards. Complete results of the San Diego challenge, including all best-ofshow and best-of-class awards, can be

found at SanDiegoWineChallenge.com. Tasting notes Wines are rated on a 100-point scale. Wines are chosen for review because they represent outstanding quality or value, and the scores are simply a measure of this reviewer’s enthusiasm for the recommended wine. V. Sattui 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon, Mount Veeder ($92) – Situated on the west side of the Napa Valley, Mount Veeder catches the morning sun. Then it’s often in the shadow of the afternoon sun. This creates a slightly cooler microclimate than that of the east side of the valley. Consequently, I find these wines, particularly cabernet sauvignon, slightly more firmly structured than those from across the valley floor. They are typically beautifully balanced, too, and tend to age exceptionally well. This is a Mount Veeder beauty from Sattui, and it was co-wine of the year at the 38th annual San Diego challenge. Rating: 98. Jeff Runquist 2018 Tempranillo, Liberty Oaks Vineyard, Jahant District, Lodi ($27) – Fruit purity is the signature of most Jeff Runquist wines, and this tempranillo has it in spades. Showing bright aromas of blueberry and currant, it is beautifully structured with impressive weight, length and a gentle touch of wood spice. It makes one wonder why more vintners don’t plant this noble Spanish grape variety. Rating: 95. Jeff Runquist 2018 Sangiovese, Pioneer Hill Vineyard, Amador County ($27) – If you buy into the argument that most California sangiovese pales in comparison to the finest examples

from Italy’s Tuscan region, you obviously haven’t tasted Runquist. The 2018 from Pioneer Hill Vineyard is richly layered, shows luscious notes of black cherry and wood spice, and has the potential to improve in the bottle over the next decade or so. Rating: 94. New Clairvaux 2017 Petite Sirah, Poor Souls Block, Tehama ($25) – Darkly colored as you might expect from the petite sirah grape, this vintage from the Trappist monks shows off the modern expression of petite sirah with exquisite balance and supple tannins. It’s a steal at this price. Rating: 94. Ranchita Canyon 2016 Divin, Paso Robles ($34) – For the money, this is one of the finest examples of a red Bordeaux-style blend made in California. This seamless blend combines all five prominent Bordeaux red grapes: cabernet sauvignon, petit verdot, merlot, malbec and cabernet franc. Supple and easy to drink now, it has exceptional balance that will carry it nicely for a decade or more. This vintage exhibits complex layers of red and black fruits with a subtle note of wood spice. Rating: 94. Rodney Strong 2018 Upshot, California ($28) – Rodney’s Strong’s Upshot white blend is as eclectic as eclectic can be, combining chardonnay, grenache blanc, gewurztraminer, pinot noir (you read that right), viognier and sauvignon blanc. But it works. Aromas of stone fruit, melon and spice with a hint of citrus waft from the glass. Each whiff is slightly different. The balance is exquisite. Brilliant! Rating: 94. Follow Robert on Twitter at @wineguru.

Top 10 tips for healthy grilling Love to cook together with friends outdoors in the summer and tailgate at the games during the fall and winter? The best part is that grilling can be one of the healthiest ways to cook! Just follow the American Heart Association’s top 10 tips for healthy grilling and barbecuing. 1. Pick the perfect protein: Fish, skinless chicken breast and lean ground poultry are all healthier choices. The good fats in fish such as salmon and trout actually have health benefits. And when you grill with skill, your guests won’t even miss the red meat, which usually has more saturated fat. Wrap marinated fish fillets in foil, construct colorful chicken kebabs, or make more savory turkey burgers by mixing minced portabella mushrooms and onions into the patties. If you do choose meat or pork, get “loin” or “round” cuts and “choice” or “select” grades of beef instead of “prime.” 2. Rightsize your portions: A healthy portion of any type of meat is about 3 ounces, or the size of a deck of cards, and definitely no more than 6 ounces. If that sounds small, just remember all the delicious grilled veggies and side dishes that will be keeping it company on your plate! 3. Give it a soak or rub: We’re not talking about a spa day! Marinating or rubbing spices on poultry, fish and meat can add amazing flavor with the bonus of being able to use less salt. All you need is about ½ cup of marinade or 1 tablespoon of spice rub for each pound of food. Try this simple marinade recipe and find others in our recipe center (recipes.heart.org). Make a simple rub of your favorite spice (such as allspice, chili powder, cinnamon, cumin, garlic powder, paprika or rosemary) and black pepper. Safety tip: never reuse marinade or rub after raw meat has touched it. 4. Add color – lots of color: Just about all your favorite colorful fruits and veggies can be grilled, alone or in kebabs, giving them delicious flavor that might win over even the most committed carnivore. The trick is to cut them into pieces that will cook quickly and evenly. Brush with a healthy oil to prevent sticking or use a grill basket to keep them out of the line of fire. Some favorites include

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asparagus, avocado, bell peppers, corn, eggplant, mushrooms, onions, potatoes, squash and zucchini. 5. Say bye to the bad fat: Buy skinless poultry or remove the skin before cooking. Trim away any visible fat on meat. Brush or marinate foods with a healthy cooking oil. And let ‘er drip – make sure fat drips away from the food while it cooks. 6. Let the simple grilled goodness shine through: Don’t drown your grilled masterpiece in salty sauces, sugary condiments or heavy dressings. Use as little of these as possible, and try making your own healthier condiments. It’s easier than you think! And sometimes, a simple squeeze of lemon or lime is all it needs. 7. Choose healthier sides: Swap the traditional store-bought barbecue fare like baked beans, coleslaw, macaroni salad and potato salad – which can have a lot of saturated fat, sodium and added sugars – for healthier homemade versions. Or change it up and do a colorful bean salad, fruit salad or leafy green salad. 8. Make your buns whole grain: Whole-grain buns and breads will complement your healthy feast with extra fiber, flavor and texture. If you’re watching your calories and carbs, try an open-faced burger or lettuce wrap. 9. Grill fruits for dessert: The natural sugars caramelize in the high heat, giving them extra sweetness and flavor. Try sliced apple, pear or pineapple or halved bananas, figs, nectarines, peaches or plums. 10. Keep it clean: OK, so this isn’t the fun part, but be sure to scrub down the rack or grill pan after each use. Removing leftover burnt pieces of food stuck to the grill prevents burning, smoking and bitter flavors the next time you use it.

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Duluth Herald June 25, 1888 Four or five years ago the council ordered street signs placed on the lamp posts. The result was that the lamp posts were ornamented with the most ungainly looking affairs imaginable. They soon became detached, and now there is nothing which will inform a stranger as to the name of a street or avenue. This is something unheard of in a city the size of Duluth, and there mere suggestion ought to be sufficient to induce the council to order neat signs bearing the names of the streets. The expense would be small, and they would prove of great convenience. Duluth Herald June 26, 1890 Yesterday might perhaps be called the full beginning of tourist travel to Duluth. It certainly marked the first arrival for the year of several hundred tourists in a day. The boats and trains brought in hundreds of sight seers and cool weather seekers and the hotels were in consequence crowded. There are many features which mark unmistakably the tourist, especially the youthful tourist. They wear odd negligee costumes, little colored hats or caps, flannel shirts, the necessary sashes, flannel trousers, etc., etc. The women have an “outing” look, too. The prevailing fashion leans towards the masculine, and t takes sometimes a second glance to tell the sex.

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Duluth Herald June 27, 1900 THE POLICE COURT. “Ole the Bum,” alias V. Johnson, known to police as a street beggar by profession, was sentenced to twenty days in the county jail this afternoon for trying to collect money from all the passengers of the Dixon, as they landed this morning. He is over six feet tall, and an ugly man to deal with. In begging he makes no distinction between men, women and children. Late this afternoon John Lynch’s trial was taken up in the municipal court. He is charged with criminally assaulting a woman at Iron Junction.

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The hearings of L. Goldberg and Sam Barnard for violation of the health ordinance was also taken up late today. Duluth Herald June 28, 1910 USE BRASS KNUCKLES Bob Brodovich Pounds Man Who Attacked Him With Knife. Knives and brass knuckles were brought into play in a saloon brawl on Raleigh street this morning and as a result, two men were seriously tough not fatally cut, and another was slightly injured. The affair was the termination of a quarrel, which started two weeks ago. All three men involved are under arrest. Mike Vokodinish, a barber resident at 124 South Fifty-seventh avenue west, who is accused of wielding a knife during the fight, is the most seriously injured. After the fight and before the police arrived, he was taken by friends

to his home, where Dr. Seashore was called to dress his injuries. Later he was taken into custody by the police. Bob Brodovich, who lives at 6619 Raleigh street, was used brass knuckles during the brawl, was severely slashed over the head. His injuries were dressed by Dr. Seashore at the police station. Pete Skadovich of 126 South Fifty-sixth avenue was also cut about the head and face. Two weeks ago, Vokodinich quarreled with Brodovich in the saloon of Mikosav & Mihic at 5602 Raleigh street and since that time, there has been much bad blood between the two men. Last evening the men came to blows while drinking at the saloon, but no weapons were used. This morning, shortly after 10:30 o’clock, the quarrel was renewed. The men started the fight in the salon, but were ejected by the proprietor. It is said Vokodinish, who is familiarly own as “Little Mike,” pulled a knife and make a vicious lunge at

Brodovich, who is a much larger man. Brodovich put on a pair of brass knuckles and with these he warded off some of the blows aimed at him by his assailant. It was here that Skadovich interfered in behalf of the smaller man. It is claimed that Skadovich held Brodovich while “Little Mike” applied the knife. Brodovich broke away and, after pounding the little barber almost to insensibility, directed his attentions to Skadovich. Skadovich received a severe pummeling at the hands of Brodovich. When the barber fell he cut himself on a broken bottle. After the men had been fighting for a short while, a call for the police was sent in and Lieut. Charles Wilcox, Sergt. E. H. Barber and Officer L. D. Root left for the scene. The three men were taken in custody. In front of the saloon at 5602 Raleigh street there was a large pool of blood as evidence of the fight.

Northeastern Minnesota Horticultural society will give Friday and Saturday at 20 East Superior street. If you do this, you will find peonies in a variety of forms and colors that in all probability you never dreamed of. You will find peonies so noble in size and shape and shade and fragrance that you will wonder where the rose got the notion that it was a monarch of the floral kingdom. Brand, the Minnesota peony producer whose fame as an expert is country-wide, has said that Duluth’s peony show is the greatest in the country, and you will not be disposed to dispute him of you attend it. If you grow peonies, exhibit Friday and Saturday. Cut the flowers just as the buds are about to open, and keep them in a cool, dark place until Thursday afternoon. If you don’t grow peonies but love flowers, visit the show Friday or Saturday and see what you city can do.

Duluth Herald June 29, 1920 THE DULUTH PEONY SHOW. One of the things Duluth can do better than any place we know of is to grow peonies. If you don’t believe it, visit the annual peony show which the

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Another fishing season in this most trying of times Here we are again, younger daughter and I and crew Joe, in Bristol Bay, Alaska, waiting for the greatest run of salmon in the world to reach our nets. As of this moment they are still far out in the Bering Sea but moving toward the bay as I write. It’s a brief respite from the tur-moil of our times since I’m not reading the daily paper but enough Rumptspeak does seem to ride the airwaves to by our little radio from a small wonderful station in Dillingham, Alaska, across the bay from us here in Naknek. You can’t seem to be able to escape the ranting of a lunatic and his lackeys. Fire the judge and hold a rally. Claim victory over COVID as cases mount. Build that wall and keep the immigrant troublemakers at bay. Blame the protesters and not the police or systemic racism and injustice. Throw the environment in the ditch and go golfing. The National Union of Friendly Americans (NUFA) has been working overtime to offset the bad vibes emanating from the worry warts that wish a return to the heady old segregated days of the post-World War 2 world rather than make the necessary changes toward a more just social

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system. Rumpt and his followers are going backwards so fast they think it’s 1950 not 2020 and Ozzie and Harriet live just down the street. My fishing crew ran the gauntlet of covid testing and quarantine plans here in Alaska. We sat on a nearly empty plane from Minneapolis to Anchorage but found the flight crowded from Anchorage to King Salmon as flights have been cut back to a single flight a day. It was a scene I hope will never be repeated as masked fishermen and processing plant workers watched the mountains and tundra below, wondering just what this pandemic might mean for the industry. Already the companies are complaining that with overseas markets in limbo because of the virus, not to say the bad ju-ju created by trade wars waged by our fearful leader, fishermen might have to settle for lower per pound prices for our catch. What a morale booster that is as we pick fish in weather both sublime and ridiculous here at the head of the Bering Sea. As always, we just have to see what the season brings and that doesn’t happen until it’s over. In the meantime, everyone is immediately aware of the covid in Naknek since thousands of workers have flooded this little village. There have been a few cases detected and those people are being isolated in refitted container vans up near the clinic. Testing is available Monday through Friday with a one day turnaround for the results. The entire

crew of three set net boats and two drift boats tested last Friday and we were all negative. Our Minnesota crew is quarantined in our boatyard and we’ve decided that there’ll be no runs to the bar so we set up our own in a cleaned out shed, complete with twinkly lights and a fine selection of spirits. We named it the Sandbar which is appropriate not just for the sandbars that are out in the river and bay but for the amount of dust and sand that whirls around here when the winds blow. I’ve always found it funny that this area gets so dry and dusty sitting next to an ocean. One dry summer a few years ago lightning started the tundra on fire and it smoldered until the winter snows came. But when the weather shifts and the rains come the boats are soaked and fishermen are wet, plain and simple. The dichotomy can come in a single day, warm and sunny on an incoming tide, wet and cold on the outgoing. I don’t know what it was this season but organizing our flights was a debacle for me. When we got to Anchorage the crew decided to take a walk since we had a few hours and we went up to check in their bags and lo and behold Alex, our guy at the ticket desk, found our reservation code but no seating for us on the plane. Turns out I’d booked dad and daughter’s flight from Anchorage to King Salmon July14 not June 14. Alex worked his magic and dad and daughter got the last two seats on the plane, last row. We headed out on our walk and daughter just happened to look at the booking

again and noticed that on our return flight I had screwed that up as well. Back into the airport to see Alex and he cleared that up for us. We headed to a nearby store because daughter had forgotten her tubs of hummus at home and was really craving some hummus. When we came back and headed through security we were stopped by the hummus. Not a liquid or a gel, but spreadable, so the TSA lady said we could try to send it through as luggage and we excused our way out of the security area, apologized to the TSA guy who looked us over in the first place and made our way back to Alex. “Oh, Alex,” I said with a sheepish smile. “Trouble is back.” Alex found us a box that we cut apart and taped back together to fit two tubs of hummus and he checked it through at no charge. What a pal. We filled out one of those little cards from Alaska Airlines that wanted us to comment on their service to us…” all our most valuable customers.” I wrote that Alex should be promoted and never laid off or fired for any reason short of murder. I’m hoping that Alex is a bit of good luck for us this season. Two nights ago we had a bonfire and when I was about to toss the hummus box into the flames I found a TSA notice of baggage inspection stuck to the bottom. The hummus had been found a suspicious item, was opened and then cleared for boarding. I’m taking that as another sign we just might have a good season here in Bristol Bay, Alaska.

Tree peony for yard ornamentation? Q: I was in a park recently, and there was a sign on a very pretty plant that said it was a tree peony. It was only 3 feet tall, so I suppose it will grow. I have never heard of a tree peony. I am looking for a small tree for my yard. Does a tree peony make a good ornamental tree? A: I’m sorry to tell you that no, it won’t grow into a small tree. Peonies are divided into the herbaceous group, which dies back down to the ground and a rhizome during the winter, and woody, stemmed shrubs that will grow by to 3.5 to 5 feet tall in five to eight years. The flowers on tree peonies grow from 5 to 7 inches wide. Colors range from white, yellow, pink, red and purple. Some varieties are nicely fragrant. The flower buds form in the late summer on the ends of branches, so any pruning done after that will cut off the flowers for next year. Tree peonies can be grown in agricultural zones four through eight. Tree peonies are divided into five groups. Japanese moutan tree peonies have been grown in Japan and Korea since the 8th century. Cultivars in this group have Japanese names. The Nassos Daphnis hybrids were created by Nassos Daphnis and William Gratwick and are up to their sixth breeding generation. Their cultivars have Greek mythological names. The Sir Peter Smithers hybrids were created by Smithers and are named after his family and friends. The American hybrids have been bred for North American gardening, and many have been developed by the Klehm family in Illinois. Finally, there are the intersectional, or Itoh, hybrids that are crosses between the herbaceous and tree peonies. They have they incredible flowers of the tree peonies, but they die back to the ground like herbaceous peonies. All of these groups have many dozens of cultivars. Some of the best of each group are available at the Klehm nursery website. Q: I bought a dwarf Korean lilac a few years ago, and it is now 10 feet

high. Do I start over with a new plant, or can I cut this one down to 3 feet tall and still have it bloom? A: There has long been confusion about dwarf lilacs. The dwarf Korean lilac (Syringa meyeri) and the compact form of the dwarf Korean lilac (Syringa meyeri palibin) have both been billed as growing to only 5 feet tall. Since plants can’t read, they often grow to 10 feet tall.

Your plant may be a Manchurian lilac (Syringa patula) or the dwarf form of a Miss Kim lilac (Syringa patula). These species and their cultivars are often confused with one another. No matter which one of these plants you actually have, it is difficult to keep any plant at less than half the size it wants to grow to. This is especially true if you want your plants to bloom. The lilac buds are set in late summer for the

following year. If the plant is growing too tall, it will be very tempting to cut it down to size before winter, thus cutting off next year’s flowers. You will be better off replacing the plant with a new shrub that really does stay in the size range you want. Email questions to Jeff Rugg at info@ greenerview.com.

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How to be crime free in no time It’s daunting to make sense of senselessness or reason with unreason. In the past I’ve used a chess comparison where a pigeon lands on the board, defecates, scatters pieces, and flies off victorious. The pigeon won. I’m happy for it, truly. But my happiness may be seeing the pigeon fly elsewhere with its gifts. by The worst of pigeon behavior is when the fowl stays to deliver a chess master lecture. Most times, sadly, the talk isn’t informative or amusing. Could be (by that I mean a strong possibility) not understanding pigeon debate is my failure to grasp concerns or understand a different language of truth. But wait, that’s what may save me. If it’s my fault, I get it. Being at fault, told I was misinformed and need to try harder, etc. is home base. Recognizing that makes it easier for me to be at peace with new carrier pigeons. Different birds (schoolmarm to peaceful protestor) share behavior. Orthodoxy in dissent may not be recognized, but it’s there. My brushes with authority have been more than few. While I was at the U the FBI visited my parents and our neighbors about my politics. (Student Peace Union and flying the UN flag along with the U.S. at home). I was too stupid to feel intimidated or get angry. These days I find the UN beside the point or sidetracked, reminding me of the WHO with a great program on seatbelt use in the Third World. Should I have been angry about the FBI? Don’t know what good it would have done. Anger doesn’t actually say much, except maybe about the angry person possibly running short on inner resources. Is it your experience angry people are difficult to be around? At the end (pray God it comes quickly because the aggrieved and offended can drag on) I’m left little wiser. I personally don’t get a lot from or find much use for anger, but that’s just me being insensitive, a skill I perhaps possess to excess. Can tell you this, though – There’s one suitable never-fail reply I use after a heated outburst. “Thanks for telling me.” How good are any of us (and I suspect the toll on personal energy is substantial) at making sense of

confusion? A big box store in Duluth recently refused to admit me without a mask, but thoughtful of my safety offered to sell me one. It seemed strange, however, a Duluth outlet was insistent (aggressive would be another term) about masks while its Iron Range branch wasn’t. Is hardware in Duluth more infected? Are Rangers tougher? My hardware need wasn’t critical so I went on to other things, a medical appointment. Believe there were curious mask issues there as well? A clerical employee was unmasked in the background. Numbers of unmasked went in and out; is there immunity among delivery drivers? For all the requirement we mask for safety how much instruction have you been given? In no situation I’ve been in has anyone made an effort to check my mask. For all they know (you’ll likely need to be of a certain age to appreciate this) I’m using part of an Esther Williams swim suit. What if a mosquito net or cheese cloth over your head was effective as a mask? Is there a standard to follow? Not that it matters, because if there were an approved mask how could use be enforced, certainly not by police? For now we trust that assurance “wear a mask” is for the best. I can tell you this. If you wear your mask atop your head as a beanie you’ll be chased away despite the injunction to wear a mask doesn’t specify where you’re to wear it. It’s good hearing compulsion in an argument. That’s why I follow along with the vision of America as a systemic failure starting with Columbus, slave supporting Revolution, race states War of 1812, Civil War for slavery and business, Reconstruction, segregation, Civil Rights Act, voting rights, fair housing, affirmative action, legal and sentencing reform, Black History Month, etc. can all be called fruit of the same failed system. The great visionary Pol Pot in Cambodia sought a clean start with Year Zero. For millions Pol’s new beginning began in ditches outside Phnon Phen. If we hold a problem or condition as

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systemic and see past fixes as failures of a failed system then the only cure (as with COVID) is a cure to rid us of failed efforts branch, root, subsoil and groundwater. It all has to go, including everyone in office now brought in as cooperative parts of systemic disease. The whole system, starting with Trump, would have go, but also the Obama part, tainted forever with its complicity in systemic failure. I’m ready to believe the reformers who say systemic problems need much more than a little weeding. If a model of progressivism and diversity such as the Twin Cities is the prominent example of societal failure that, then, says it all. Time to fix the whole. There might seem to be an incredible amount of problems facing the U.S., but there is some amazing news as well. Many now see us (I imagine Trump can be given the full credit deserved) as the planet’s premiere racist state. How we zoomed to first place ahead of the competition is an incomparable accomplishment. Think of the contenders we beat. A mere three generations ago (1960s and ’70s) Saudi Arabia officially abolished slavery. That was around the same time Portugal gave up the fight for its African colony of Mozambique and France was still holding its Asian colony, Indochina, better known to many Americans as Nam.

The U.S. breezed by any other contender as demonstrators in London, Paris and Australians in tens of thousands will attest. We have accomplished the seeming impossible capturing the International Racism Cup. Seems all other nations exceed us in amicable relations. How ever did we do it? But there we are, Number One on the despicable list. I’d pause a moment to wonder how Australia is doing with its native population, an issue for Australia and the U.S. that cuts much deeper than current events. Could say Native rights are THE fundamental issue, but right now who’d listen? One area of whole-fix I look forward to is election reform. Systemic failure, seems to me, requires a revamp of practices and qualifications. I’ll go on a limb to say any person elected to office must have a criminal record of at least two decades. This doesn’t differ too much from current politicians except for candidates required to prove they were honest crooks. Why shouldn’t they have to show they are truly on the other side, the right side of the left side of being victims of law and order. If people stopped reporting crime we’d be crime free in no time. Now there’s reform that works.

Older folks can still get celiac disease Q: I am an 82-year-old healthy woman, active and self-sustaining. I was diagnosed with celiac disease eight years ago after two years of diarrhea that became unmanageable. When I heard a friend describe his symptoms of celiac disease, I could relate. My friend said that a simple blood test would reveal if I had celiac disease. So I asked my doctor for that and bingo, there was the explanation! I had no sign of any problems my whole lifetime until I was in my 70s. I have had to totally change my eating practices since this diagnosis. A: Celiac disease is an autoimmune condition triggered by exposure to gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. Doctors used to be taught that it was primarily a childhood disease. by Now we know that it can affect people at any age, including those over 65 (Gastroenterology Clinics of North America, September 2009). The prevalence of celiac disease has been increasing in recent years, possibly due to environmental pollution (Environmental Research, May 11, 2020). To treat celiac disease, you must avoid any food containing gluten. Foods like bread and pasta are obvious, but gluten is also found in places you might not expect, like soy sauce. You need to read labels carefully to make sure you are not exposed. To learn more about celiac disease, you may wish to listen to our free podcast with Dr. Joseph A. Murray of the Mayo Clinic. It is Show 1100 at PeoplesPharmacy. com. Q: I can’t stand staying inside all the time, but I don’t like walking on a path with lots of other people. That means I have to step into the underbrush or go hiking in the woods. I am concerned about ticks. A

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friend had Lyme disease and it was devastating. What’s the best way to avoid tick bites? A: Even when it’s hot, wear long pants tucked into your socks. Spray your shoes and socks with DEET. An alternative would be to wear “gaiters” that have been treated with permethrin such as Outdoor Research Tick Gaiters or Lymeez Tick Gear. When you get home, always check your body carefully for ticks. Q: I believe that one cause of acne seems to be drinking soft drinks or chocolate milk. After I advised some adult family members to stop drinking colas, their acne problems cleared up. Later, one family member started drinking them again, and the acne problem returned. Do you know about a relationship between these drinks and acne problems? A: A study from France (JAMA Dermatology, June 10, 2020) suggests that adults who eat a Westernstyle diet with sugary beverages like colas, milk and fatty foods are more prone to acne. This research involved more than 24,000 volunteers. These findings are consistent with other studies showing that foods that raise blood sugar rapidly (high glycemic load) are linked to skin blemishes. The investigators suggest that this raises blood levels of insulin and other growth factors. With evidence like this, dermatologists are beginning to accept the idea that diet matters. To learn more about the connection between acne and diet as well as treatments for this common skin condition, you may want to consult our eGuide to Acne Solutions. You will find this online resource in the Health eGuides section of www. PeoplesPharmacy.com. In their column, Joe and Teresa Graedon answer letters from readers. Write to them in care of King Features, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803, or email them via their website: PeoplesPharmacy.com. Their newest book is Top Screwups Doctors Make and How to Avoid Them. (c) 2020 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Split Rock Lighthouse to reopen July 15 Split Rock Lighthouse, Jeffers Petroglyphs to Reopen July 15 Other MNHS historic sites and museums remain temporarily closed as staffing decisions are announced. In light of the Governor’s recent lifting of restrictions regarding museums and outdoor spaces, Split Rock Lighthouse and Jeffers Petroglyphs will once again be open for visitors beginning July 15. Birch Coulee Battlefield, Traverse des by Sioux, and Marine Mill READER outdoor trails are already STAFF open to the public. With the health and safety of guests, staff and the community at the forefront of decision-making, MNHS feels it is safe to reopen Split Rock Lighthouse and Jeffers Petroglyphs because they offer predominately outdoor experiences. New protocols designed to minimize the risk of spreading COVID-19 can be viewed on the health and safety procedures page of each website. Split Rock Lighthouse will be open 7 days a week. Guests can purchase a timed entry ticket for $8 online or inside the visitor center. Other indoor spaces, including the lighthouse and keeper’s residence, will remain closed. A pop-up store will be set up outside so guests can shop for their favorite Split Rock Lighthouse items. For more information visit www.mnhs.org/ splitrocklighthouse. Jeffers Petroglyphs will be open Thursday through Sunday. Guests can purchase entry tickets for $8 online or inside the visitor center. For more information visit www.mnhs.org/ jefferspetroglyphs. MNHS is limiting the number of daily visitors at each site. Tickets can be purchased up to one month in advance online or through the box office at 651-259-3015. Tickets go on sale July 8. MNHS decisions about its remaining sites will be based on several factors: current state rules for reopening indoor venues, requirements for cleaning, social distancing, and limiting capacity, as well as the financial cost of operating the site. In the meantime, these remaining sites will remain temporarily closed past the June 30

• From 3:30 until 4 p.m., the Center will be closed for a thorough cleaning. • From 4 to 5 p.m., the Center will reopen for groups from vulnerable populations. Attendance will be capped at 10 people during this time period. During this session, a wolf enrichment program is planned at 4:15 p.m. This schedule is subject to change. To stay up to date on all changes, visit the website.

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date that was announced in April. MNHS staffing decisions In order to support the reopening of sites and other initiatives, MNHS is recalling 64 staff, while making the difficult decision to extend furloughs for 139 staff and to lay off 176 staff, primarily those who work at MNHS historic sites and museums that remain closed. These actions will address strains on the MNHS operating budget as a result of ongoing closures. Critical staff will continue to ensure the security of historic sites and resources. MNHS is closely monitoring developments related to COVID-19. As MNHS plans scenarios for reopening, we are following recommendations from the Minnesota Department of Health and working to ensure the safety and welfare of our guests and workforce. For more information, visit our website at mnhs.org/covid-19

International Wolf Center reopens

The Internaitonal Wolf Center, Ely, reopened its doors on June 22, but with several changes to ensure everyone’s safety during the Covid-19 pandemic. The biggest change is that tickets must be purchased in advance. Tickets can be purchased online at wolf.org. Those without internet access can also purchase tickets by calling the Center at 218-365-4695. There is a small convenience fee that is added to the ticket price, whether purchasing online

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or over the phone. Masks are required for all visitors. For those who don’t own a mask, they will be available for a suggested donation of $1 at the door. “We can’t wait to open our doors back up and start teaching about wolves again,” said Krista Harrington, the Interpretive Center manager. “Since we closed in March, we’ve all been working incredibly hard to prepare to reopen. Finally, that day is almost here.” The daily schedule looks like this: • From 8 a.m. until 10 a.m., seven days a week, the center opens to members only. This exclusive experience will allow for members to watch daily wolf care activities from the viewing area windows as staff members perform medical checks and feed the wolves supplemental nutrition. International Wolf Center members receive free admission, but they do still need to pre-register online to ensure the center isn’t over capacity. Memberships can be purchased online at wolf.org for those looking to gain these benefits. • From 10 a.m. until 3:30 p.m., the center is open to the public. Several educational programs are offered in the auditorium every day. Lecture-based programs take place at 10:15 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 1:15 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. Also planned are two wolf enrichment programs, which are a great time to observe the center’s wolves. These enrichment programs are planned for 12 p.m. and 2 p.m.

The Strong Northland campaign has hit its first milestone. More than $50,000 in vouchers have been purchased for Duluth and Hermantown area restaurants. Now organizers are calling on the community to help raise that amount to $100,000. The campaign was unveiled last month as a way to support local restaurants during these challenging times of COVID-19. Many restaurants have recently re-opened for limited indoor dining following the state’s health guidelines. Whether it’s indoor/ outdoor dining or take-out, it’s a great time to use the $20 vouchers. The hope is to pump additional dollars into local restaurants in a short amount of time, as the vouchers must be used by Aug. 31. It’s estimated that the current amount of ordered vouchers would have an economic impact of nearly $88,000, considering most restaurant tabs will average more than $20. Individuals or businesses are encouraged to order vouchers online at strongnorthland.com and they can be picked up at North Shore Bank locations. Forty-four area restaurants are participating in the campaign which is organized by the Greater Downtown Council, Visit Duluth, Hermantown Area Chamber of Commerce and Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce.

Cookbook fundraiser nets $10,000 donation

A check for $10,000 was presented on June 19 to Ecolibrium3, the result of a fundraiser held by two Lincoln Park business owners – Tom Hanson of OMC Smokehouse/Duluth Grill and Corktown Deli, and Robert Lillegard, co-owner of Duluth’s Breast Bread. In early April the two businessmen announced they are working on a second OMC Smokehouse cookbook, following on the heels of two

every year since 2013. Prince earned her Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is admitted to the Minnesota State Bar Association, the State Bar of Wisconsin, the U.S. Federal District Court Minnesota and the U.S. Federal District Court Western District Wisconsin.

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Robert Lillegard, OMC Cookbook author and co-owner of Duluth’s Best Bread Robert, presents a check for $10,000 to Jodi Slick and Shannon Laing of Ecolibrium 3. Photo by Jim Lundstrom. previously released successful cookbooks, The Duluth Grill Cookbook (2014) and The Duluth Grill Cookbook II (2016). Both of those were penned by Lillegard. The fundraiser asked people to donate money to the cause as they were buying advance copies of the new cookbook which is due out in September. Both Hanson and Lillegard were on hand to present the check to Ecolibrium3 founder and CEO Jodi slick and Shannon Laing, Ecolibrium3’s director of Partnership Development and Main Street Lincoln Park Coordinator. Slick said the fundraiser was “a great illustration of the innovation and collaborative nature of Lincoln Park.” The funds will be used to help neighborhood businesses that have been hit particularly hard by the virus sanctions. “I think that’s what’s really great about Lincoln Park,” Slick said. “The neighborhoods that can figure out how to actually innovate and collaborate are the ones that have the best opportunity to not only survive COVID-19 to but to thrive.” Lillegard said they were thrilled to be able to deliver $10,000. “The community really came out to support this.”

High court reappoints Cheryl Prince to board Hanft Fride is pleased to announce that Cheryl M. Prince has been reappointed by the Minnesota State Supreme Court to serve a three-year term to the Minnesota Client Security Board, effective of July 1, 2020, and expiring June 30, 2023. “This is a prestigious honor for Cheryl

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Prince,” said Jennifer Carey, president of Hanft Fride. “Hanft Fride believes unequivocally in putting the client above all else, and the nom-ination of one of our attorneys to serve on the board showcases this commitment.” The Minnesota Client Security Board was established by the State’s Supreme Court in an effort to reimburse parties who suffer a loss due to dishonest attorney conduct. The volunteer board is comprised of a seven-members, consisting of five lawyers and two nonlawyers. Prince is one of Hanft Fride’s top family law lawyers, practicing exclusively in family law and mediation. She has more than 30 years of experience working with clients to address the full range of family law and mediation issues. Her cases primarily involve divorce, adoption, paternity and prenuptial agreements. Prince is widely recognized by her peers, has been named a “Super Lawyer” every year since 2006 and has been listed in Best Lawyers of America

Community Action Duluth’s Seeds of Success is planning the opening day of both the Central Hillside and Lincoln Park Farmers Market during the week of June 22. The Central Hillside Framers Market will be held at the Damiano Center (206 W. 4th St.) from 2-5 pm. The Lincoln Park Farmers Market will be held at the Harrison Community Center (3002 W. 3rd St.) from 3-6 pm. Each market has a variety of local foods, including fresh produce, baked goods, flowers, crafts and valueadded foods such as jam and kim chi. A COVID-19 Preparedness Plan has been developed for each market and new physical-distancing measures will be in place during the 2020 summer season. Each farmers market accepts credit/ debit/SNAP as payment. EBT/SNAP customers will be matched one-to-one, up to $15 dollars per market day, when using an EBT card at the market. Both markets also offer $4 per market day via the Power of Produce (PoP) Club for children and youth 18 and younger to spend on fresh fruits and vegetables. The EBT match and PoP Club funding is made possible by Hunger Solutions Minnesota, Junior League of Duluth and the Whole Foods Co-op. Seeds of Success is an urban agriculture and transitional employment program of Community Action Duluth that focuses on food access, neighborhood revitalization and creating transitional jobs for local job-seekers who face barriers to employment.

LaDuke presented with DANNY Award The board of The Global Center, a nonprofit educational foundation dedicated to developing socially responsible media, is proud to announce Native American leader Winona LaDuke as the recipient of the fifth DANNY Award, which honors the life and work of the late “News Dissector.” The DANNY is given each year to those who best emulate Schechter’s practice of combining excellent journalism with committed social activism. Previous winners include Jose Antonio Vargas, Patrice O’Neill, the reporters and editors of the Eagle Eye,

the student newspaper of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The award is bestowed annually by The Global Center and includes a $3,000 grant to support the honoree’s work. An environmentalist, economist, author, activist and occasional Reader contributor, LaDuke has already published six nonfiction books and has a new one, To be A Water Protector, coming out this fall. (She’s also written Last Standing Woman, a novel about an American Indian reservation’s struggle to restore its culture.) A graduate of Harvard University, LaDuke has long worked in Native and communitybased organizing and groups. In 1985, for example, she helped establish the Indigenous Women’s Network, dedicated to “generating a global movement that achieves sustainable change for our communities,” and later, with the proceeds of a human rights award, founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project to help the Anishinaabeg Indians regain possession of their original land base. In the 1990s LaDuke became involved with the Green Party and was presidential candidate Ralph Nader’s running mate in both the 1996 and 2000 elections. Today she is the executive director of Honor the Earth, a Native environmental advocacy organization she co-founded in 1993 with the folk-rock duo, the Indigo Girls. The organization played an active role in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests and remains a key opponent to proposals by the Canadian multinational corporation Enbridge to bring more tar sands to the United States. LaDuke continues to write and speak in support of water protectors and in opposition to other pipelines and mega projects near Native land and waters. June 25, 2020 37

Trump rally inflames racism The weight of history is bearing down on the United States, as mass protests confront the enduring impact of systemic racism. Millions have been moved to action by the police murders of African Americans George Floyd in Minneapolis, Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, Tony McDade in by Tallahassee and Raychard Brooks in Atlanta, and by the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia, by a retired police officer and his son. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is holding one of his signature demagogic rallies, the first since the pandemic struck, at an indoor arena in Tulsa, just as Oklahoma suffers its worst week of COVID-19 infections. Trump refuses to wear a mask publicly, and, while the Trump campaign won’t require attendees to wear masks either, it will require them to sign a waiver releasing the campaign from liability should they contract COVID-19. Trump’s choice of Tulsa has angered many. COVID-19 disproportionately impacts African Americans. If the rally, as expected, causes a further surge in local coronavirus cases, the Black community will potentially be the most impacted. Furthermore, this month marks the 99th anniversary of one of the worst massacres of African Americans in U.S. history. In June 1921, a white mob burned to the ground Tulsa’s affluent, African American neighborhood of Greenwood, known as Black Wall Street, killing at least 300 residents. Trump also scheduled his rally for June 19, known as Juneteenth, a day of commemoration and celebration in the African American community. Juneteenth is the anniversary of the day enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, first heard of their liberation following the Civil War. On that day in 1865, Union Army General Gordan Granger public-ly read General Order Number Three,

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Homes and businesses burned in the black Greenwood District of Tulsa, Okla., during the 1921 race massacre in that city. More than 35 square blocks of the district – at the time the wealthiest black community in the U.S. – were destroyed in the rioting. Public domain photo. which stated, “The people of Texas are informed that ... all slaves are free.” Word spread and spontaneous celebrations ensued. It had been more than two and a half years since President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. In a 1941 audio interview recorded by the Library of Congress, Laura Smalley, born into slavery in Texas, recalled learning of her freedom as a child. The plantation owner who enslaved her, Mr. Bethany, had returned from war, but didn’t tell those he enslaved that the Confederacy had lost the war, and that they were free. “Old master didn’t tell you they was free ... No he didn’t tell. They worked there, I think now they say they worked them six months after that. Six months. And turn them loose on the 19th of June. That’s why, you know, we celebrate that day.” Trump’s appropriation of Juneteeth for his rally provoked outrage. California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris tweeted, “This isn’t just a wink to white supremacists – he’s throwing them a welcome home party.” Fearing mass protests in Tulsa, Trump caved, shifting the rally to

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June 20. Tulsa attorney and author Hannibal Johnson, who wrote the definitive history of the 1921 Tulsa massacre, said of Trump’s rally on the Democracy Now! news hour: “Here in Tulsa, we are working hard ... on moving our community closer together as we approach the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre. The rally has the potential to be a disruption on the road to reconciliation.” Also speaking on Democracy Now!, scholar, activist and Black liberation icon Angela Davis added: “Trump represents a sector of the population in this country that wants to

return to the past – ‘Make America great again’ – with all of its white supremacy, with all of its misogyny. At this moment we are recognizing that we cannot be held back by such forces.” Strong currents are countering Trump as he inflames racism and encourages police violence against protesters. The Movement for Black Lives is organizing a national weekend of actions across the U.S., including protests outside the White House on Juneteenth. The Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington is also taking place on June 20. Unlike Trump’s in-person, indoor rally with no possibility of social distancing and no requirement to wear masks, the Moral March’s lead organizer, Rev. Dr. William Barber, encourages safe organizing. “Stay at Home, Stay Alive, Organize, Organize,” he said recently on Democracy Now!, adding: “We’re going to put a face and a voice on poverty to lay out the demands from people who are impacted and the experts and religious leaders. We’ve got 16 denominations, joining a hundred organizations, but, more importantly, 45 state coordinating committees made up of poor and low-wealth people.” Mass movements are coalescing, not only to reject hatred and inequality, but to demand equality through fundamental change to our economic and social structures. No matter how much Trump tries to vilify these activists as thugs and terrorists, it is they, people in the streets, who represent the proudest traditions of protest and dissent, and the best of what this country can be.

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Environmentalists have long history of civil disobedience

Dear EarthTalk: What are some ways environmentalists use civil disobedience to accomplish their goals? Robert P., Portland, OR A: The concept of civil disobedience (defined by Merriam-Webster as the “refusal to obey laws as a way of forcing the government to do or change something”) dates back to the dawn of civil society. Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. are primary examples of nonviolent resistors using civil disobedience as a tool to achieve their goals. Of course, environmental proponents have been practicing civil disobedience in various forms for decades if not longer. After all, protoenvironment Henry David Thoreau wrote his seminal essay on the topic in 1846 after spending the night in jail for refusing to pay his back taxes. He feared the money would go toward funding the Mexican-American War, which he opposed, by a U.S. government that also happened to permit slavery, which he also opposed. “If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood,” wrote Thoreau. “This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.”

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While not an environmental essay per se, Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” makes the case for nonviolent resistance as “a counter friction to stop the machine.” While democracy might be the best form of government we can hope for, the dominance of the majority inevitably leads to the trampling on the hopes, dreams and rights of the minority. In Thoreau’s mind, individuals shouldn’t let governments doing the will of an amoral or immoral majority overrule their own consciences and thus enlist them as collaborators in injustice. Even though its focus is more general, Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” has certainly fueled many an environmental campaign in the intervening years. Cut to the present, and we have Extinction Rebellion (XR), a two-yearold UK-born movement that uses nonviolent civil disobedience “in an attempt to halt mass extinction and minimize the risk of social collapse.” Activists working on behalf of XR’s cause have been in the news lately for various “monkeywrenching” antics, such as supergluing themselves to infrastructure like roads, trains and buildings and attempting to shut down oil rigs and airports. Last spring the group brought traffic

in parts of London to a halt for hours by parking a hot pink sailboat in the middle of a busy intersection, while activists threw black paint at the London headquarters of Shell Oil and blockaded entry to the company’s corporate headquarters. Seven-hundred XR activists were hauled off to jail as a result of the protest, which won’t likely be forgotten by any London com-muters trying to get home that day at least. More recently, activists from the group have been generating controversy by threatening cyberattacks if the UK government bails out its ailing airline industry. While XR may be attracting the headlines lately, they are following a civil disobedience trail blazed by many others in the last half century. Activists from groups such as 350.org, Sea Shepherd, the Hambach Forest Occupation, EarthFirst!, Greenpeace, and thousands of others engage in acts of civil disobedience every day all over the world in their pursuit of protecting wildlife, the environment and/or the health and safety of humans. EarthTalk® is produced by Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss for the 501(c)3 nonprofit EarthTalk. Send questions to: question@ earthtalk.org.

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Time to reschedule marijuana Despite proven efficacy in treating health issues, researchers’ hands tied by Schedule I designation After four decades of using strong prescription drugs to treat Crohn’s disease, a chronic digestive disorder, Patty developed an aggressive form of skin cancer. “It’s because my body has been suppressed for so long, it can’t fight it (cancer),” the Wisconsin resident said. Patty, who has worked at her father’s restaurant for 27 years, now struggles to handle fulltime duties. “I’m by trying to get disability, but I’ve been denied once already. I don’t plan on quitting working. I just need help. I need help because I can’t do a full-time job,” Patty said. In March 2017, a friend who lives in New Mexico, where medical marijuana is legal, mailed her Buddha Tears, a cannabis oil product containing cannabidiol (CBD), and THC, the psychotropic component of cannabis. After consuming a tiny amount of the oil each day – as well as smoking marijuana – Patty said she saw a massive improvement in her condition. “Unfortunately, I have to smoke everyday, because if I don’t, I will be in the bathroom all the time,” said Patty, who asked that her last name not be published because she is using an illegal substance. But these days, Patty is again strug-gling with the symptoms. “My connection (for CBD and mari-juana) got cut off,” she said. “I’m very angry.” While Patty and others have found success treating their medical ailments with cannabis, the drug remains illegal in Wisconsin. And because of its status as a Schedule I drug – the most restrictive classification – there has been limited research in the United States about its effectiveness as medicine. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized one component of cannabis to treat serious and rare seizure disorders, as well as three drugs with synthetic cannabis substances; no other uses have been approved. Although it remains illegal federal-ly, 33 states and the District of Colum-

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Harvested cannabis flower is seen at LeafLine Labs in Cottage Grove, Minn. The 42,000-square-foot indoor cultivation and production facility is used to grow marijuana for medical uses and create pharmaceutical cannabis products. Photos by Emily Hamer/Wisconsin Watch. bia have authorized medical use of cannabis. A bipartisan group of lawmakers has proposed legalizing it for medical use in Wisconsin, and another group of Democratic lawmakers introduced a bill in October to decriminalize possession of less than 28 grams. But Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, remains opposed. An April poll conducted by the Marquette Law School Poll showed that 83 percent of registered voters polled support the use of marijuana for medical purposes with a doctor’s prescription. “When issues receive more than 70% support from registered voters in Wisconsin, the Legislature needs to listen and act,” said Rep. David Bowen, D-Milwaukee. According to Dr. Angela Janis, director of psychiatry for University of Wisconsin-Madison’s University Health Services, Schedule I drugs, including marijuana, are considered to have no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse, whereas for Schedule II drugs, there is less potential for abuse, and there is some therapeutic benefit. Janis is intimately familiar with this distinction. In addition to her university job, Janis is chief medical

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officer at LeafLine Labs, a Minnesotabased medical marijuana company. “To put this in perspective: methamphetamine is Schedule II because it’s approved for obesity. Cocaine is Schedule II because it’s approved for nasal surgery since it can constrict your blood vessels as they do surgery in your nose. So that’s the bar for what ‘medical benefit’ means,” Janis said. According to Janis, cannabis has less abuse potential than any of those substances. “Cannabis is not appropriately scheduled. And that’s one of the barriers, but not the only barrier, to research,” Janis said. Janis recommends rescheduling the drug so researchers can further study its properties. Even Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM), which opposes marijuana legalization, is “fully supportive” of drugs containing cannabis that have been approved by the FDA, said Colton Grace, a spokesman for the group. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, cannabinoids are substances within the cannabis plant that act on specific receptors in the human brain and body. They are the main active ingredients in the medical products derived from cannabis. These receptors affect many

essential functions, including one’s memory, thinking, concentration and coordination. Interfering with it can have profound effects – both positive and negative. Two of the most extensively studied cannabinoids are delta-9tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and CBD. However, there are dozens of cannabinoids that may also have medical uses. “Many strains of the cannabis plant can have 60, 70, 80 cannabinoids in them that all interact in different ways,” Janis said. The National Institutes of Health reported spending $191 million on researching cannabinoids for medicinal use in 2017-18. Some effects are already known. For example, THC can affect the central nervous system, producing benefits such as decreased vomiting and nausea, increased appetite, reduced pain and anti-inflammatory effects. CBD also acts as an anti-inflammatory, increasing immune function, reducing pain and keeping certain cells from proliferating. Cannabinoid receptors are not in areas that control breathing, which is why there are no fatal overdoses with marijuana, Janis said. CBD actually blocks the psychotropic effects of THC, Janis said. In addition to all those cannabinoids, the cannabis sativa plant has a lot of other chemicals. For instance, terpenes, which give each strain its particular smell, such as lemon or pine, “are thought to have a lot of effects, but we just don’t know what they actually do in the body,” Janis said. In 2017, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine came out with one of the most comprehensive reviews of scientific research on what is known about the health effects of cannabis and cannabisderived products. The committee considered more than 10,000 scientific abstracts. It reached nearly 100 conclusions, finding substantial evidence for just a few indications – the biggest one being pain. The report found there is substantial evidence that cannabis is an effective treatment for chronic pain in adults, specifically nerve pain, Janis said. The group also found conclusive evidence for cannabis treating chemotherapy-associated nausea and

“Cannabis is not appropriately scheduled. And that’s one of the barriers, but not the only barrier, to research,” said Dr. Angela Janis, chief medical officer at LeafLine Labs and director of psychiatry at University Health Services. vomiting and MS-associated muscle spasms. The report also showed moderate evidence that cannabis or cannabinoids are effective for improving sleep in individuals with sleep apnea, fibromyalgia, chronic pain and multiple sclerosis. It also found limited evidence for cannabis as effective for increasing appetite and decreasing weight loss associated with HIV/AIDS, relaxing muscle tightness and pain from MS, symptoms of Tourette syndrome, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Anecdotal evidence has also proven the effectiveness of cannabinoids for treating Rett syndrome. Norah Lowe, 10, started feeling relief from the rare neurological disorder one year ago when she began using CBD to treat her symptoms. Rett syndrome impacts nearly every part of a child’s life, including the ability to speak, walk, eat and breathe. A distinct feature of the condition is repetitive, almost constant hand movements. Norah, who uses a wheelchair, has experienced “increased flexibility, decreased pain and muscle cramping, increased communication, cognitive ability, reduction in seizures, better mood control, and the list goes on and on,” her father, Josh Lowe, said. At a news conference arranged by state Rep. Melissa Sargent, D-Madison, to introduce her latest bill to legalize medical and recreational marijuana, Lowe said he is frustrated that state law prohibits Norah from trying medical marijuana, which has helped others

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with her condition. A 2017 study published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews analyzed several studies, concluding that cannabis-based medicines were better than placebos for pain relief – and that these medications also improved sleep and psychological distress – it concluded that any potential benefits might be outweighed by their potential harms. According to the Marijuana Policy Project, the most common conditions accepted by states that allow medicinal cannabis relate to the relief of the symptoms of cancer, glaucoma, HIV/ AIDS and MS. Some other common indicators include Alzheimer’s disease, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn’s, Parkinson’s disease and PTSD, according to the group, which advocates for marijuana legalization. Additionally, the University of Michigan published a study in the February issue of Health Affairs to understand the reasons why people are using cannabis for medical purposes. The authors found that 85.5 percent of uses of medical cannabis were for conditions for which there was substantial or conclusive evidence of their therapeutic effectiveness. Even more, they found that chronic pain is currently the most common qualifying condition reported by medical cannabis patients, used by 64.9 percent of such patients in 2016. “That’s a good sign,” Janis said. “Even though a physician can write it (a cannabis prescription) for a variety of things, it seems to be being used for what it’s intended for.” Since cannabis is a Schedule I drug, it is “very difficult to study at any institutional level” because, in order to do so, researchers need sign-offs from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, which has “historically been unwilling to provide them,” said David Abernathy, vice president of data and government affairs for the Arcview Group, a firm that advises investors in the cannabis industry. Because of this, “Things like doubleblind placebo-controlled clinical trials weren’t happening in the U.S.,” Abernathy said. But there has been a lot of research in the past decade in other countries including Israel, Canada, China and Italy, and “now we’re starting to see more research in the U.S.,” he said. The 2017 National Academies review of cannabis research agreed that the drug’s status as a Schedule I substance made it hard to study. “Researchers also often find it difficult to gain access to the quantity, quality, and type of cannabis product necessary to address specific research questions,” the review

LeafLine Labs director of operations Megan Gaulke at the company’s headquarters in Cottage Grove, Minn., explaining how the cannabis plants are dried in this room, so they can be shucked, then used to make cannabis oil, which is the base of most of LeafLine Labs’ medicinal products. found. Patty, the Crohn’s patient, believes that her cannabis treatment not only alleviated her Crohn’s symptoms, but she credits it with keeping her aggressive skin cancer at bay. According to a 2018 article published in Biochemical Pharmacology, studies have shown the potential of cannabinoids to reduce skin can-

cer progression. However, there is a significant lack of clinical studies promising enough to make any conclusive statements at this time. “I haven’t had the cannabis oil since March of 2018, and once I couldn’t get it anymore, I mean I just finished my 12th surgery (for cancer),” Patty said. “So, you tell me, what do you think?”

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Brown-headed cowbirds and bison NATURAL CONNECTIONS by

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STONE Prairie dogs shouted their alarm calls at me across the windswept prairie. Photos by Emily Stone.

Brown-headed cowbirds feed on insects that bison stir up as they graze, as well as seeds turned up by the bison’ heavy hooves.

(I recently received a photo a of cowbird egg in a red-eyed vireo nest, so I’m re-sharing this article from 2018—written when I was on my way to Alaska!) My hike on the Centennial Trail in Wind Cave National Park in western South Dakota had been wonderful. I felt like Laura Ingalls Wilder as I strolled over the rolling prairie hills, dodged buffalo chips on the trail, and photographed wildflowers taking advantage of spring. Thankfully, the hot sun was offset by a cooling breeze. Twice the trail ran right through the center of prairie dog towns. Their alarm calls were incessant and pushed before me in a wave, with the closest little rodents chattering from out of sight inside the entrance to their burrow. The bell-like tones of meadowlark calls rang out across the prairie, and repeatedly I searched for the vocalists who sounded much closer than their actual perch. The volume of their songs was impressive. The prairie’s wide open horizon seems to encourage restlessness. Back at my car, I quickly settled in for an afternoon of driving west. Pa Ingalls would have understood the feeling. I didn’t get very far, though. Where the park road met the highway, a pair of bison grazed on the shoulder. If it was just those two great, shaggy beasts, I might not have stopped, but around their heads fluttered personal flocks of brown-headed cowbirds. The shiny black birds, with namesake brown heads, pecked at the ground right in front of the bisons’ giant heads, played leapfrog over their humped backs, and

with Laura Erickson – a wonderful Duluth-based birder, author, educator and scientist – I gained a whole new perspective on the cowbirds’ predicament. These maligned birds once depended on the bison’s feeding to flush tasty insects, and on their heavy hooves to break up tough prairie sod, which made seeds available despite the birds’ scrawny feet. The problem was that bison herds moved regularly, and the birds had to follow. That transient lifestyle wasn’t conducive to settling down and raising a family. The cowbirds’ only option was to deposit their eggs in the nests of birds who could find food even without the bison, and hope for the best. Hope isn’t their only strategy. A female cowbird lays about one thickshelled egg each morning, and can lay forty or even sixty eggs in a season. Using radio-tagged birds, scientists discovered that females will spend the morning in nest-rich habitats like forests and edges. They may silently observe potential hosts in preparation for a “mission impossible”-style egg laying operation; walk around in dense ground cover looking for nests; or fly noisily through the shrubs hoping to flush a mother and home in on a target. They spend their afternoons foraging in more open habitats. Sometimes they’ll even return to a parasitized nest to check on and feed their own young. Once fledged, the young cowbirds instinctively seek flocks of their own kind. This worked out pretty well when there were still plenty of bison moving

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generally acted just like brown-headed cowbirds are supposed to act. Glad that no one was with me to roll their eyes at my excitement, I swung onto the shoulder, rolled down a window, and picked up my camera from the passenger seat. Now, brown-headed cowbirds are not my favorite animals. My parents and naturalist friends have always given them the evil eye. Arthur Cleveland Bent (an acclaimed ornithologist of the early 1900s) called the cowbird a “shiftless vagabond and imposter.” Its scientific name, Moluthrus ater, means “dark greedy beggar.” While they are native to the Great Plains, they have a bad reputation as lazy villains who parasitize the nests of more praiseworthy songbirds. Female brown-headed cowbirds lay their eggs in the nests of smaller birds and let other parents do the hard work of feeding their hungry chicks. Cowbird eggs hatch first, and their chicks grow faster than the others. By virtue of being the tallest mouth in the nest, the cowbird babies get more food. Their gain is another’s loss, and their success comes at the expense of one or more of the host mother’s own young. While most birds don’t seem to recognize the cowbird eggs or chicks as alien invaders, some do. House wrens puncture cowbird eggs. Yellow warblers build a new nest right on top of the invaded one – smothering their own eggs as well. Robins, catbirds, and a few other birds with big beaks toss out the strange eggs. I feel like giving them all a high-five for not being duped. But on a birding walk last spring

freely across the plains. Nomadic cowbirds rarely parasitized the same nest repeatedly, so their songbird hosts recovered easily from the reproductive setback. The problems came when pioneers settled the plains and replaced nomadic bison with fenced cattle, tilled farmland, and backyard feeders. The birds adapted well to the new scheme, which allowed them to spread east into new territory, where songbirds weren’t used to their skullduggery – which could now be concentrated instead of scattered. Their success came at the expense of their reputation, though, and cowbirds are now an unwelcome visitor in backyards from California to Maine. Is it really their fault? Like so many animals, they evolved to live in a world that we have changed almost beyond recognition. But there, on the side of the road surrounded by vast prairies and restored herds, they were behaving exactly like they should. They still aren’t my favorite birds, but for just a moment I could really appreciate the cowbirds’ place in the world. Then – restless as ever – the two bison moved on. I put down my camera, rolled up the window, and continued west. Emily’s second book, Natural Connections: Dreaming of an Elfin Skimmer, is now available to purchase at cablemuseum.org/books. For more than 50 years, the Cable Natural History Museum has served to connect you to the Northwoods. Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and cablemuseum.org to see what we are up to.

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Tribal casinos start to reopen with caution By Danielle Kaeding

Many Wisconsin tribes have been reopening their casinos as they lift or ease stay-at-home restrictions that were put in place during the coronavirus pandemic. Many tribes maintained or extended stay-at-home, travel and curfew restrictions following the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s ruling to strike down the state’s “Safer at Home” order. Now, some are beginning to reopen businesses, campgrounds and gaming facilities. Tribes primarily use gaming revenues from their casinos to support essential by government services and programs, including health care, education and law enforcement. The National Indian Gaming Commission projects 241 tribes nationwide, including Wisconsin’s 11 tribes, could see a loss of $22.4 billion in gaming revenues, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. As of June 15, the commission reported 322 of the roughly 520 gaming operations they oversee nationwide had resumed operations with 63 additional facilities expected to reopen. In Wisconsin, the Ho-Chunk Nation opened casinos in Madison on June 3 and in Nekoosa on Tuesday. The tribe also announced plans to open three more sites in Wisconsin Dells, Black River Falls and Wittenberg on June 29. Ryan Greendeer, public relations officer for the Ho-Chunk Nation, said the tribe is still taking precautions to protect members during the coronavirus pandemic through travel restrictions and social distancing. At its casinos, he said they’re following many of the same standards as other businesses that have reopened since the state’s stay-at-home order was lifted. “We’re requiring masks of everybody, and, if people are not going to wear a mask in our facilities, we’re going to ask them to leave. And if they don’t, then we’re going to escort them to the door,” said Greendeer. “That’s just for everybody’s safety.” Greendeer said employees, visitors

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An email this week from Colleen Goetsch of Bad River Casino said the venue will not be open in June. and guests will undergo temperature screenings when they enter their gaming facilities. In addition, he said they’re changing floor plans, installing plastic partitions to protect patrons, and limiting capacity between 25 to 35 percent of normal operations. “We’ve done that to create some mandatory social distancing and try to help some of our guests to maintain adequate distance using the space that we provide,” he said. Similar steps are being taken by the Forest County Potawatomi, which began a phased reopening at its Potawatomi Hotel & Casino in Milwaukee last week. Chairman Ned Daniels Jr. said in a community update on Wednesday that no issues have been reported so far, prompting a planned reopening of its Potawatomi Carter Casino in northern Wisconsin on Monday, June 22. “Our casino management has done an excellent job putting together plans for a safe reopening, implementing these important safeguards, so we could protect the health and safety of everyone at our facilities,” said Daniels. The Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa suspended its shelter-at-home order and curfew restrictions Wednesday and reopened its Lake of the Torches Resort and Casino under restrictions that barred smoking, required masks and social distancing. The tribe’s government buildings are set to reopen Thursday. “People may be asked to follow certain safety measures upon entering or using one of our facilities,” said Lac du Flambeau Tribal President Joseph Wildcat Sr. in a statement. “We’re

asking everyone to please respect those around you and follow safety measures designed to keep everyone as safe as possible. Many unknowns remain about COVID-19. To keep the reservation open, we all need to do things somewhat differently for now.” Other tribes have also reopened casinos under safety precautions this month. Some are encouraging, but not requiring, people to wear masks, including the St. Croix Chippewa Indians and Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. The Oneida Nation, Stockbridge-Munsee Community and Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin also reopened gaming facilities at the end of May. Yet, some tribes have not yet fully reopened their casinos despite allowing their stay-at-home orders to end or expire, including the Bad River and Red Cliff Bands of Lake Superior Chippewa. The Red Cliff tribe’s stay-at-home

resolution ended last Friday while Bad River’s expired on Monday. Red Cliff Tribal Chairman Rick Peterson said they’re not reopening the facility for gaming until they’re comfortable that patrons and employees can safely return. “It’s going to be social distancing. There’s some rearranging on the floor. It’s going to be opened in phases,” said Peterson. “Not every component of the facility is going to open up on day one.” As they reopen, tribes say they’re continuing to monitor the prevalence of coronavirus in the community and may re-issue restrictions if necessary to protect public health. The CARES Act allocated $8 billion in direct assistance for tribes, but the funding can only be used to pay for extra expenses incurred from the COVID-19 pandemic. The federal assistance can’t be used to replace lost gaming revenues.

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A brief history of the Twins

The Minnesota Twins – the first franchise from Minnesota to compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) – made their debut in the 1961 season. They have appeared in three World Series (1965, 1987 and 1991) and won two World Series titles (1987 and 1991). Calvin Griffith, the owner of the Washington (DC) Senators, received permission to move his baseball franchise to the Twin Cities on Oct. 26, 1960. The relocated ballclub was named the Minnesota Twins in honor of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul), and the team competed in its inaugural MLB season in 1961 as a member of the American League. The team’s by first logo MINNESOTA featured two figures, HISTORICAL christened SOCIETY “Minnie” and “Paul,” shaking hands across the Mississippi River. In a nod to Min-nesota’s Minor League teams, Minnie sported a jersey with the Minneapolis Millers’ “M,” while Paul wore a jersey featuring the “STP” of the St. Paul Saints. Though they finished seventh out of 10 American League teams in the 1961 season, the Twins improved as the decade progressed. Led by manager Sam Mele, they finished first in the American League in 1965 with a record of 102-60 and squared off in the World Series against the National League champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers. The series went to a deciding Game Seven, played at Metropolitan Stadium, which featured the Twins’ Jim Kaat dueling with Dodgers pitcher and future Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax. The Twins fell to the Dodgers by a final score of 2-0 and would have to wait for more than two decades for their next World Series appearance. In the next two decades, despite the efforts of Harmon Killebrew, Rod Carew, Tony Oliva and a young Bert Blyleven, the Twins reached the postseason only twice, in 1969 and 1970. In the 1980s the team cultivated promising young talents, like Bloomington native Kent Hrbek, Frank Viola, Gary Gaetti, Tom Brunansky, Kirby Puckett and Greg Gagne. The organization changed ownership

Minnesota Twins “Worst to First” sticker recognizing the team’s unanticipated 1991 World Series victory.

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Minnesota Twins World Series victory parade in Minneapolis, Oct. 28, 1987.

Harmon Killebrew of the Minnesota Twins hitting his 500th home run during a game against the Baltimore Orioles at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, August 10, 1971. for the first time in 1984, when businessman Carl Pohlad purchased the Twins baseball club from Calvin Griffth for close to $44 million. The 1987 season saw the Twins, led by 36-year-old manager Tom Kelly, finish with an AL West record of 85-77 behind their young core of homegrown talent and a recently returned Bert Blyleven. Having won their first pennant, they advanced to the World Series, where they faced the St. Louis Cardinals. The Twins seized their first World Series title in a decisive 4-2 Game Seven victory on Oct. 25, 1987, in front of 55,376 spectators at the Hubert H.

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Humphrey Metrodome. The Twins returned to the World Series in 1991 in improbable fashion after finishing dead last in the American League in the 1990 season. They found success by way of dominant starting pitching from the trio of Kevin Tapani, Scott Erickson and St. Paul native Jack Morris; offense was provided by free agent signee Chili Davis along with Shane Mack, Kirby Puckett, and 1991 Rookie of the Year Chuck Knoblauch. In what is considered by many to be one of the all-time-greatest World Series, the Twins defeated the Atlanta Braves in a best-of-seven series, in

which three games were decided in extra innings. Game Seven featured a pitching contest between two Hall of Famers, the Braves’ John Smoltz and the Twins’ Jack Morris, and Minnesota won 1-0 in the tenth inning on Gene Larkin’s walk-off single. The Twins’ success in the early 1990s was followed by eight consecutive losing seasons, and by 2001, rumors swirled that the club would be contracted (dissolved). Despite the uncertainty of their future, the 2001 Twins managed a winning record in Tom Kelly’s last season as manager, and then made their first postseason appearance since 1991 during the 2002 season. From 2002 to 2004, under a new manager (Rod Gardenhire) and a core of players including Brad Radke, Torii Hunter, Johan Santana, Doug Mientkiewicz, and Corey Koskie, the Twins won back-to-back-to-back American League Central titles. They failed, however, to advance past the American League Championship Series. The winning streak of the early 2000s helped the club to avoid contraction, and the Twins continued to succeed throughout the decade – thanks in large part to the efforts of 2009 MVP (and St. Paul native) Joe Mauer and 2006 MVP Justin Morneau. They reached the postseason in the 2006, 2009, and 2010 seasons, and moved into their third home, Target Field in Minneapolis, at the start of the 2010 season. They struggled after 2011, losing more than 100 games in the 2016 season. In 2019, however, the team hired Rocco Baldelli as manager, finished with an AL Central record of 101-61, and reached the postseason. Editor’s note: This article focuses on the Minnesota Twins iteration of the franchise (1961–present), and does not reflect the pre-Twins statistics and accomplishments of the Washington Senators (1901–1961).

Is NHL Return to Play in jeopardy? Already on the ropes, baseball could be dealt death blow with no 2020 season

LARSMONT… It had been rumored that the NHL would finally announce which two NHL cities would become the “hubs” for their much anticipated Stanley Cup tournament early in the week of June 22. Along with that was the expectation that some dates and by times would also be applied to that information. But now that could all be up in the air once again due to the number of positive tests received last week from various teams, players and personnel within the league. All had been proceeding along smoothly until 11 players tested positive for the virus since the advent of the Phase 2 of the Return to Play plan commenced on June 8, enabling players to return to team practice facilities in small groups. This has pushed one team, the Tampa Bay Lightning to close their facility back down. The league had tested more than 200 players thus far, and upon testing positive, those players were placed back into an isolation and observation protocol. A few staff members have tested positive as well. The league announced that it would not identify the clubs, players or personnel that did test positive. It had been rumored that Toronto Maple Leaf star Auston Matthews was one of the players that tested positive, but as best as I can tell, that rumor quieted down rather quickly. Some individuals that have tested positive for the virus went into the isolation period without ever becoming ill from it. They emerged from the isolation after finally testing negative once again. The recommended test is known as a Nasopharyngeal swab test. A medical technician will insert specially made six-inch cotton swabs into both sides of your nose and then move them around for about 15 seconds, remove them and dispatch them to a lab to test the material from inside of your nose. It is a bit uncomfortable as noted by my daughter Chelsey, who, as a medical lab worker, has had to be tested, but not necessarily painful. A positive test doesn’t mean you

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MASKED FAN MARC ELLIOT

An empty Camden Yards on April 29, 2015, when the Baltimore Orioles beat the Chicago White Sox 8-2 in the first crowdless game ever played by MLB teams. That game was played without fans due to civil unrest in Baltimore after the police custody death 10 days earlier of Freddie Gray, but with a steadily declining number of fans, baseball could be in real trouble if there is no play in 2020. Photo by James G. Howes. will become ill from the virus, merely that you are carrying it. For those who do become ill, it can be a nasty experience. Patients who have gotten sick from it report that it’s flu-like, with the worst cases also having a major impact on efficient breathing. Most patients do recover from it, but like the extreme cases of influenza, there are also a substantial number of deaths. As of this writing there have been 2.3 million confirmed cases diagnosed here, with 122k deaths attributed to it. Experts in the USA estimate there have been 12,000 to 61,000 deaths annually from influenza since 2010. The number of deaths attributed to the COVID virus have blown right past that in the first five months of 2020. Much has been made of the readiness and/or reaction of the United States government to the COVID situation and it isn’t inaccurate to say that it has been inadequate. This is patently unacceptable since it’s own experts were predicting three years ago of the looming pandemic. Once again, while our pols are busy catering to the elites, the people have been hung out to die… MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL STILL FINDS itself in disarray, having not been able to come to terms with the Major League Baseball Players

Association (MLBPA) on anything relative to having a 2020 major league season. Whether it’s how many games will be played, to what level of compensation the players would receive as well as other lesser details, the sides are making just about zero progress on anything. This has led several expert analysts to contemplate whether there will be ANY season at all in 2020. To my thinking the longer term implications of this could be devastating to the future of the game. The league has already experienced declines in total attendance in six of the last seven seasons, and the 2019 attendance figures were down 1.7% from the 2018 season. This has a spiraling downward effect of course. Fewer fans at the gate mean fewer concession sales, fewer souvenir revenues, which will eventually lead to smaller TV contracts if it were to continue. For the four major sports in North America, those TV revenues are the basic lifelines for these leagues. All of this has only made me wonder if both parties here understand the impending negative impact of a contentious negotiation between them. If some fans have already concluded that in a take-it-or-leave-it scenario that they could leave it, you would

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have to believe that leadership from both sides surely must recognize that and conduct their business accordingly. Irritated fans do them no good and in fact could do them great harm. For decades now both MLB and the NFL have had it pretty good. In spite of some occasional labor strife they were able to maintain, grow and at least revenue-wise, were able to get fat and happy financially speaking. Everyone made money. Player salaries – especially those of the players at the top of their sports – grew in spectacular fashion. Are we about to witness a regression of that? It’s no secret that the MLBPA has been unhappy with the general scheme of “things” since the settlement of the 2016 CBA. Behind the scenes the group is quite concerned that free agent player salaries haven’t seen any major upward movement in the recent past and it wouldn’t be a stretch to come up with a direct correlation to the decline in attendance and popularity of the sport. Is it really a surprise though? The game was, by and large, considered the nation’s “national pastime” for many decades. That was eventually usurped by the emergence of the NFL and it’s popularity and appeal. Americans love their sports and if there is some grit mixed in with a little semblance of violence, all the better for some consumers. I have loved baseball since I was a young boy. Sure, it is played with a subtle, slow and deliberate pace, but that’s fine by me. For me, it somewhat balances out my love of ice hockey with it’s speed and lightning pace of play. Hockey features an absolute brand of toughness, and some would say it is a violent game in and of itself. But for those that may not have played, 99.9% of that is left on the ice at the end of a game. The physical condition and elevated intellect required to play places its participants at a special level. Respect for fellow players is very high. For young sports fans, baseball just might not be on their radar as much as it may have been in the past. There are so many other things of interest to them now. That is exactly why the current malaise is of a major concern to me. I would offer to both sides that you just might be at a crossroads, be sure to take the right path… PEACE

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Trains, lupines, Father’s Day create memories When you’d love to find a sports event to tune in and watch on your big-screen television, see if you can get onto YouTube and scroll by through the music videos of famous performers until you find the late and sorely missed Guy Clark. He wrote many unforgettable songs, filtered through his unique Texas sensibilities, and among my favorites is “Texas, 1947.” It’s about a youngster in a small town in West Texas where one of the major happenings each day was when the train, pulled by a loud old locomotive, came rumbling through town. But this particular day, a hot afternoon in the summer of 1947, the town was buzzing because the first of the newfangled streamliner trains was scheduled to pass through, and virtually everybody headed down to the depot to get a look at it. The tempo of the song gets more precise and you can almost hear the train coming. As Clark writes it, he and some other kids his age couldn’t wait, and the chorus goes, “Look out, here she comes…look out there she goes, she’s gone. Breezing right through Texas like a mad dog cyclone.” As the old men came down from their card

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games, and everybody gathered, the astounding thing was that this engine – “she don’t make no smoke!” – never even stopped. As the red and silver missile sped past the astonished townsfolk, Clark says it left people wondering “what it’s coming to, and how we got this far.” That song captivated me from the first time I heard an obscure Johnny Cash version of it, and it hit home because I was a little kid when our family moved out to the ridge 2 miles up the hill from Lake Superior on my fifth birthday – Sept. 1, 1947. And I can still vividly recall lying upstairs in bed next to the screen window, and as I tried to get sleepy, the haunting wail of a Duluth Missabe and Iron Range whistle broke the silence, and then the chugging of the steam engine could be heard clearly, although it was 2 miles away. When the first streamliners took over, it was sad, in a pre-nostalgic sort of way, because you knew modern times were shoving what we knew off on a siding somewhere. I was a junior at Duluth Central High School when my dad died, and there has never been a day that’s gone by when I haven’t thought about him. My mom, and my older sister, are also gone, and so I think about him alone, these days. When Father’s Day came last Sunday, I thought about him more. He was an amazing influence on me, and I’ve always regretted that my wife, Joan, and our two sons, Jack and Jeff, grew

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Wally Gilbert, looking for the hit sign while playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1930.

up never knowing him. Most people knew him as Duluth’s all-time greatest athlete, having emerged from Denfeld to attend Valparaiso University where he starred in football, basketball and baseball, before going on to play professionally in all three sports. But to me, he was mainly just “Dad.” I always wished he could have seen his grandsons play sports and become wonderful people, and I’ve spent my career striving to write about sports and anything else in a way that would have made him proud. Joan and I built a new house after I left the Minneapolis Star Tribune to return to Duluth, and we built it on the same hilltop location, where we can still appreciate the comparative silence of the countryside. Occasional cars speed up and down our nowpaved highway, but no trains in the distance, these days, steam engines or locomotives. As we pull out of our driveway, memories come tumbling back as we

find the ditches on both sides of our roadway positively glowing with the purple of lupines, which grow wild for about a mile down the road. When my dad was unable to work, he busied himself keeping our yard almost park-like and tending the vegetables and flowers my mom would grow with him. Among my favorites were the annual spring flourish of the lupines. And my dad must have liked them, too, because he would take handfuls of the lupine seeds and go for a walk out to the road, where he’d toss those seeds. We still have lupines in our yard, and Joan does an incredible job of working nearly full time and also tending assorted plants and flowers in our yard. The lupines always precede the rest of the flowering plants and shrubs, and they always get into full bloom around Father’s Day. And every time we leave home and drive or walk past all those thousands of lupines on both sides of the road, it reminds me to think beautiful thoughts

a nominating party to select the top 20 sports teams that were icons to Minnesota sports. They named some Twins teams, some Vikings teams, some Timberwolves (really!) and some Lynx teams. But when they got done with their 20 most iconic teams in Minnesota sports history, there was not a single University of Minnesota hockey team even mentioned. For sure, the 1973-74 team that Herb Brooks gathered together in his second year as coach and won the university’s first-ever NCAA championship, should have been one. They won it again in 1976, and then the 1978-79 team that Brooks assembled that won the third NCAA title in Brooks’s seven years at the helm should have been a cinch – particularly after a dozen of his homegrown players formed the basis for his 1980 Miracle on Ice team. If the misguided sports lads at the paper could name the Clem Haskinscoached team that reached the NCAA basketball final four – and later had all its honors stripped for a cheating scandal – then at least two of Herbie’s all-Minnesota Gopher hockey teams

deserved a mention. We also are closing in on the final struggles of the Duluth News-Tribune, which only has about two more weeks of 7-days-a-week publication, and then goes to two days – Wednesday and Saturday – with the rest being online. For those of us who like to look things up online, but also like to hold a physical newspaper in our hands, that’s sad news indeed. I started my career there, before going to the Minneapolis Tribune, and it’s a sad state of affairs when a daily newspaper can’t make it. We are still waiting to hear if there will be an official NHL-ending schedule coming soon, or whether there will be anything resembling Major League Baseball this season, even if reduced from 162 to 60 games. We need sports, even with no fans in the stands, or limited numbers let in. There is, however, a nagging concern that when we get everything back to normal, “normal” won’t be anything like what we know as normal. We’ll all be digging out that Guy Clark classic and pondering what it’s coming to, and how we got this far.

Lupines by the side of the road bring back memories from 60 years ago. spanning a lot of years. And a lot of wonderful memories. Action and reaction After the afternoon Star, which was faltering, merged with the morning Tribune, which wasn’t, the merged management became preciously seeking political correctness. We were informed one year that we would no longer be allowed to write the nicknames for various sports teams, including – and led by – the Washington Redskins, but adding the Cleveland Indians, the Atlanta Braves, and any and all pro, college or high schools that had nicknames that could be demeaning to anyone. We spent much of a season writing about the “Major League baseball team representing Cleveland,” and that sort of thing. That wasn’t enough, and in our attempt to become the standard bearer for all things politically correct, our management sent down an electronic notice that we were discontinuing the name “Chiefs,” also, as a late-coming addition. There arose considerable constern-

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ation over that one. I remember in my electronic response I wrote that not only is Chief not a Native American term, we were suddenly going to have to do without a police chief, or a fire chief…or, an editor in chief. I have no idea if that had any influence on a bad idea that never came to fruition, but now, a couple of decades later, Duluth Mayor Emily Larson has proclaimed that the city would no longer use the term “chief” to describe any city officials. C’mon…Really? We’ve got a lot of serious civic issues that could use some careful scrutiny and adjustment, but whether naming the head man or woman the chief of their endeavor is not a chief reason to spend any time on it. Speaking of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, which is still among the top half-dozen newspapers in the nation, they seem to have slipped a few cogs in their own organizational structure, or else there is a serious void in their sensitivity toward hockey. Last week, the Strib gathered everybody on their sizable sports staff together for June 25, 2020 49March 26, 2020

Day & night

Thursday, 6-25

Virginia Square Market, 2:30-6pm S. 9th Ave. W. & Chestnut St., Virginia Lincoln Park Farmers Market, 3-6pm Harrison Community Center, 3002 W 3rd St., Duluth 218-726-1665 Turns & Tunes, 6-9pm Mont Du Lac Recreation, 3125 Mont Du Lac Dr., Superior 218-626-3797 Mississippi Mike Wolf & Clancy Ward, 5-8 pm, Cedar Lounge, Superior.

Friday, 6-26 Charlie Parr, 6pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-3947391 John Seguin, 6pm Cast Iron Bar & Grill, 5906 Old Miller Trunk Hwy, Duluth 218-729-7514

Friday Night Races, 6:30pm Head of the Lakes Fairgrounds, 4700 Tower Ave., Superior 715-394-7223

Two Harbors Farmers Market, 10am1pm 320 7th Ave., Two Harbors 218-310-7174

One Less Guest, 7pm Ursa Minor Brewing, 2415 West Superior St. Suite B, Duluth 218-481-7886

Race Night, 7pm ABC Raceway, 2187 Butterworth Rd., Ashland 715-6824990

Jane Gang, 7pm Belknap Lounge, 130 Belknap St., Superior 715-3943616

Salmon Run, 9pm Sir Benedict’s Tavern on the Lake, 805 East Superior St., Duluth 218.728.1192

DJRu2, 10pm Spurs On First, 109 W. 1st St., Duluth 218-606-1633

Saturday, 6-27 Duluth Farmers Market, 8am-noon Duluth Farmer’s Market, 14th Ave. E. & 3rd St., Duluth 218-241-1847 Cloquet Farmers Market, 9am-noon Premier Theatres, 904 Hwy. 33 S., Cloquet Hibbing Farmers Market, 9am-1pm 1309 E. 40th St., Hibbing

Kid Dakota, 6-9 pm Cedar Lounge, Superior 715-394-7391

Sunday, 6-28 Sinners & Saints with Sonofmel, 1-4 pm, Cedar Lounge, Superior

Monday, 6-29 Bill & Kate Isles’ Weekly Stay-AtHome Live Concert, 7pm facebook. com/billandkateisles

Tuesday, 6-30 Hibbing Farmers Market, 2-5pm 1309 E. 40th St., Hibbing Carlton County Farmers Market, 46pm Four Seasons Sports Complex & Event Center, 90 Chestnut Ave.

Wednesday, 7-1 Superior Downtown Farmers Market, 11am-2pm 1200 Block of Banks Avenue, Superior 715-394-3557 Duluth Farmers Market, 2-5pm Duluth Farmer’s Market, 14th Ave. E. & 3rd St., Duluth 218-241-1847 Northern Lights Music Festival, 7pm B’Nai Abraham Cultural Center, 328 5th St. S., Virginia 218-780-2292

Thursday, 7-2 Virginia Square Market, 2:30-6pm S. 9th Ave. W. & Chestnut St., Virginia Lincoln Park Farmers Market, 3-6pm Harrison Community Center, 3002 W 3rd St., Duluth 218-726-1665 Turns & Tunes, 6-9pm Mont Du Lac Recreation, 3125 Mont Du Lac Dr., Superior 218-626-3797 Northern Lights Music Festival, 7pm B’Nai Abraham Cultural Center, 328 5th St. S., Virginia 218-780-2292

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Tuesday, 7-7

Charlie Parr, 6pm Cedar Lounge, Feeding Leroy, 7pm Good Thyme Hibbing Farmers Market, 2-5pm 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394- Restaurant, 77180 Hwy. 13, Wash- 1309 E. 40th St., Hibbing burn 715-373-5255 7391 Carlton County Farmers Market, 4Friday Night Races, 6:30pm Head Town of Barnes Fireworks, 9:30pm 6pm Four Seasons Sports Complex Barnes Town Park, 3360 Cty. Hwy. & Event Center, 90 Chestnut Ave., of the Lakes Fairgrounds, 4700 Tower Ave., Superior 715-394-7223N, Barnes 715-795-2782 Carlton Thunder Over Eveleth Fireworks, 10:15pm End of Main Street, Eveleth 218-744-2774

Grand Marais Fireworks, 10pm Grand Marais Harbor Park, 110 Wisconsin St., Grand Marais 218387-2524

Saturday, 7-4

Grand Portage Fireworks, 10pm Grand Portage Lodge & Casino, 70 Be a Star Run for a Vet Race, 7am , Casino Dr., Grand Portage 218Mercer 715-476-2389 475-2945

Thunder Over Eveleth Fireworks, 10:15pm End of Main Street, Eveleth 218-744-2774

Wednesday, 7-8

Superior Downtown Farmers Duluth Farmers Market, 8am-noon Superior Fireworks, 10pm Head of Market, 11am-2pm 1200 Block of Duluth Farmer’s Market, 14th Ave. the Lakes Fairgrounds, 4700 Tower Banks Avenue, Superior 715-3943557 E. & 3rd St., Duluth 218-241-1847 Ave., Superior 715-395-7270 Sawdust 5k, 8am Pinehurst Park, Cloquet 218-879-1551 Cloquet Farmers Market, 9amnoon Premier Theatres, 904 Hwy. 33 S., Cloquet

Solon Springs Fireworks, 10:15pm Duluth Farmers Market, 2-5pm Lucius Woods County Park, 9231 E Duluth Farmer’s Market, 14th Ave. E. & 3rd St., Duluth 218-241-1847 Marion Ave., Solon Springs 715395-1341 Sawdust 5k, 8am Pinehurst Park, Cloquet 218-879-1551Cloquet

Sunday, 7-5

Hibbing Farmers Market, 9am-1pm 1309 E. 40th St., Hibbing Sinners & Saints with Sonofmel, Two Harbors Farmers Market, 10am-1pm 320 7th Ave., Two Harbors 218-310-7174 Cloquet 4th of July Celebration, 11am Cloquet Avenue, Cloquet 218-879-1551 Severio Mancieri, 3-6pm Jack’s Place, 1923 Tower Ave., Superior

1-4 pm, Cedar Lounge, Superior

Thursday, 7-9 Virginia Square Market, 2:30-6pm S. 9th Ave. W. & Chestnut St., Virginia

Northern Lights Music Festival, 7pm B’Nai Abraham Cultural Lincoln Park Farmers Market, 3Center, 328 5th St. S., Virginia 218- 6pm Harrison Community Center, 780-2292 3002 W 3rd St., Duluth 218-7261665

Monday, 7-6

Turns & Tunes, 6-9pm Mont Du Lac Recreation, 3125 Mont Du Lac Dr., Superior 218-626-3797

Festive Fourth! Concert, 4pm Mesa-Teague Alexy, 6pm Sir Benedict’s bi East School Auditorium, 601 N. Tavern on the Lake, 805 East Supe1st St. W., Aurora 218-780-2292 rior St., Duluth 218.728.1192 Northern Lights Music Festival, 7pm B’Nai Abraham Cultural Nathan Frazer, 6-9pm Moose Lake Bill & Kate Isles’ Weekly Stay-AtCenter, 328 5th St. S., Virginia 218Brewing Co., 244 Lakeshore Drive, Home Live Concert, 7pm facebook. 780-2292 com/billandkateisles Moose Lake 218-485-4585

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Friday, 7-10 Charlie Parr, 6pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-3947391 Similar Dogs, 6pm Belknap Lounge, 130 Belknap St., Superior 715-3943616 Friday Night Races, 6:30pm Head of the Lakes Fairgrounds, 4700 Tower Ave., Superior 715-394-7223

Saturday, 7-11 Duluth Farmers Market, 8am-noon Duluth Farmer’s Market, 14th Ave. E. & 3rd St., Duluth 218-241-1847

Cloquet Farmers Market, 9am-noon Premier Theatres, 904 Hwy. 33 S., Cloquet Hibbing Farmers Market, 9am-1pm 1309 E. 40th St., Hibbing Two Harbors Farmers Market, 10am1pm 320 7th Ave., Two Harbors 218-310-7174 Race Night, 7pm ABC Raceway, 2187 Butterworth Rd., Ashland 715-6824990 Northern Lights Music Festival, 7pm B’Nai Abraham Cultural Center, 328 5th St. S., Virginia 218-780-2292 Monday, 7-13 Teague Alexy, 6pm Sir Benedict’s

Canal Park’s hot spot for deck dining.

Sonofmel and Sinners & Saints perform Sunday afternoons at the Cedar Lounge, Superior, Tavern on the Lake, 805 East Superior St., Duluth 218.728.1192

Tuesday, 7-14 Ely Farmers Market, 5-7pm Whiteside Park, 58 S 7th Ave E, Ely

Wednesday, 7-15 Duluth Farmers Market, 2-5pm Duluth Farmer’s Market, 14th Ave. E. & 3rd St., Duluth 218-241-1847 David Frizzell, 3pm, 7pm Midwest Country Music Theater, 309 Commercial Ave., Sandstone 320-2452429

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Northern Lights Music Festival, 7pm B’Nai Abraham Cultural Center, 328 5th St. S., Virginia 218-780-2292

Thursday, 7-16 Be a Naturalist Family Day, 10am5pm Forest History Center, 2609 County Road 76, Grand Rapids 218327-4482 Mollie B. & Squeezebox, 5pm IRA Civic Center, 1401 NW 3rd Ave, Grand Rapids Park Point 5-Miler, 5:30pm Park Point Beach House, 5000 Minnesota Ave, Duluth 218-727-0947 Turns & Tunes, 6-9pm Mont Du Lac Recreation, 3125 Mont Du Lac Dr., Superior 218-626-3797 Friday, 7-17 Charlie Parr, 6pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-3947391 Friday Night Races, 6:30pm Head of

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Sunday 7.5 Northern Lights Music Festival, 4pm Minnesota Discovery Center, 1005 Discovery Dr., Chisholm 218-2547959 Tim Kaiser Livestream, 7pm facebook.com/tim.kaiser.104

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Tuesday 6.30 Virtual Canada Day, 11am thunderbay.ca Arts Industry Social Hour, 5pm facebook.com/

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Wednesday through Saturday 4-8 pm

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Wednesday 7.1 Virtual Canada Day, 10am thunderbay.ca Enbridge Energy Proposed Pipeline Reroute Virtual Public Hearing, 4pm

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You know the music of Nashville’s Sweethearts Nashville’s Songwriting Sweethearts Bobbie Malone & Bill C. Malone University of Oklahoma Press Country music and popular music fans might not know the names of Boudleaux and Felice Bryant, but they will most certainly know their music! Arriving in Nashville in 1950, the songwriting duo became the first full-time independent songwriters in that musical city. In the course of their long careers, they created classic hits that pushed the boundaries of country music into the realms of pop and rock. Songs like “Bye by Bye Love,” “All I Have MIDWEST to Do Is Dream,” BOOK REVIEW “Love Hurts,” and “Rocky Top” inspired young musicians everywhere. Here, for the first time, is a complete biography of Nashville’s power songwriting couple. In Nashville’s Songwriting Sweethearts: The Boudleaux and Felice Bryant Story, authors Bobbie Malone and Bill C. Malone informatively recount how Boudleaux and Felice, married in 1945, began their partnership as itinerant musicians living in a trailer home and writing their first songs together. In Nashville the couple had to deal with racism, classism, and in Felice’s case, sexism. Yet through hard work and business acumen (and a dose of good luck) they overcame these obstacles and rose to national prominence. By the late 1990s, the Bryants had written as many as 6,000 songs and had sold more than 350 million copies

worldwide. They were inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972, and in 1991 they became members of the Country

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Music Hall of Fame – a rare occurrence for songwriters who were not also performers. In 1982 their composition “Rocky Top” was adopted as one of the official state songs of Tennessee. The Bryants were lucky enough to arrive in the right place at the right time. Their emergence in the early 50s coincided with the rise of Nashville as Music City, USA. And their prolific collaboration

with the Everly Brothers, beginning in 1957, sparked a fusion between country and pop music that endures to this day. Wonderfully informative, expertly organized and presented, Nashville’s Songwriting Sweethearts is a must read for the legions of country and popular music fans.

Bill C. Malone is Professor Emeritus of History at Tulane University. He is also the author of numerous books on country music history. His doctoral dissertation was published in 1968 as Country Music, U.S.A. and has subsequently seen print in three revised editions. Malone received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984 and Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for American Music in 2008. He currently resides in Madison, Wis., where he hosts a weekly country music radio show. Abraham Among The Yankees William F. Hanna Southern Illinois University Press Filling in a portion of Lincoln’s political career that few are aware of, Abraham among the Yankees: Lincoln’s

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1848 Visit to Massachusetts by historian William F. Hanna is uniquely engaging travelogue that details Lincoln’s 12-day trip through Massachusetts as a young, aspiring Illinois politician campaigning for Zachary Taylor – who was a slaveowner and the Whig candidate for president in 1848. Moving swiftly, Hanna follows Lincoln from town to town, explaining why Lincoln supported a slaveholder and describing one of Lincoln’s earliest attempts to appeal to an audience beyond his home territory. Hanna also provides excellent context on the politics of the era, particularly the question of slavery, both in Massachusetts and nationwide, and he features the people Lincoln met and the cities or towns in which he spoke. Lincoln stumped for Taylor in Worcester, New Bedford, Boston, Lowell, Dorchester, Chelsea, Dedham, Cambridge and Taunton. Lincoln gave 12 speeches in 11 days to audiences who responded with everything from catcalls to laughter to applause. Whatever they thought of Lincoln’s arguments, those who saw him were impressed by his unusual western style and remembered his style more than the substance of his talks. Meticulously researched, Abraham among the Yankees invites readers to take an East Coast journey with a 39-year-old Lincoln during election season in 1848 to see how Massachusetts audiences responded to the humorous, informal approach that served Lincoln well during the rest of his political career. William F. Hanna is a visiting lecturer at Bridgewater State University and serves as president of the Old Colony History Museum in Taunton, Mass. A past president of the Lincoln Group of Boston, Hanna is also the author of Avon, Massachusetts, 1720 - 1988 and A History of Taunton, Massachusetts. Chickasaw Removal Amanda L. Paige, author Fuller L. Bumpers, author Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr, author Chickasaw Press In the early 19th century, the Chickasaw Indians were a beleaguered people. Anglo-American settlers

were streaming illegally into their homelands east of the Mississippi River. Then, in 1830, the Indian Removal Act forced the Chickasaw Nation, along with other eastern tribes, to remove to Indian Territory, in present-day Oklahoma. Chickasaw Removal provides a detailed account of the Chickasaw removal, from their harrowing journey west to their first difficult years in an unfamiliar land. The Chickasaw removal began in 1837, a few years after the departures of the Choctaws and Creeks. In their gripping account of the Chickasaws’ forced trek, authors Amanda L. Paige, Fuller L. Bumpers, and Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., collaboratively describe the array of characters the Chickasaws came across, including missionaries, whiskey peddlers, profiteering government agents, and contractors, some of whom purchased and distributed rations they knew would go rancid before the removing parties passed by their way stations. Although several histories have spotlighted the politics and events of the Removal Era, Chickasaw Removal offers a unique illumination of the “whole business” of removal, including details of the places where the Chickasaws camped, bought supplies, sought medical attention, and buried their dead. The story continues on into Indian Territory, where the Chickasaws faced a new set of obstacles but eventually persevered to become the strong nation they are today.

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Chickasaw Adventures: The Complete Collection Jen Murvin Edwards, author Tom Lyle, illustrator White Dog Press Johnny thinks he will never understand Grandfather’s pride in their Native American heritage. What is so special about being Chickasaw anyway? But then a powerful and mysterious force gives Johnny the gift of time travel, which takes him back to important moments in Chickasaw history. Readers will enjoy following John-ny as he journeys into the past, discovering the unconquerable spirit of his ancestors, and at last learn what it means to be Chickasaw. Chickasaw Adventures: The Complete Collection combines seven published Chickasaw Adventures comic books with five previously unreleased issues to create a unique, epic graphic novel that brings the history and culture of the Chickasaw people to life. Although a work of fiction, Chickasaw Adventures accurately draws from authentic Native American history and tradition. The collection features artwork by Marvel and DC comics veteran Tom Lyle. As readers follow Johnny on his journey through essential scenes of Native American history and culture, they will also encounter words and names in the Chickasaw language, which are defined in the glossary included at the end. American Follies Norman Lock Bellevue Literary Press Ellen Finch is former stenographer to Henry James and recalls her time as an assistant to Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, heroes of America’s woman suffrage movement, and her friendship with the diminutive Margaret, one of P. T. Barnum’s circus “eccentrics.” But when her infant son is kidnapped by the Klan, Ellen, Margaret, and the two formidable suffragists travel aboard Barnum’s train from New York to Memphis to rescue the baby from certain death at the fiery cross. American Follies by author Norman Lock is an original, fascinating and superbly crafted novel that deftly explores the roots of the women’s rights movement, its relationship to the fight for racial justice, and its

reverberations in the politics of today. An absorbing and memorable read from first page to last. Unnatural Companions Island Press Dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, and other species have become an essential part of more families than ever before – in North America today, pets outnumber people! Pet owners are drawn to their animal companions through an innate desire to connect with other species. But there is a dark side to our domestic connection with animal life: the pet industry is contributing to a global conservation crisis for wildlife – often without the knowledge of pet owners. In Unnatural Companions: Rethinking Our Love of Pets in an Age of Wildlife Extinction, science journalist and dedicated environmentalist Peter Christie issues a call to action for all

pet owners. If we hope to reverse the alarming trend of wildlife decline, pet owners must acknowledge the petsversus-conservation dilemma and concede that our well-fed and sheltered cats too often prey on small backyard wildlife and seemingly harmless reptiles released into the wild might be the next destructive invasive species. We want our pets to eat nutritionally healthy food, but how does the designer food we feed them impact the environment? Unnatural Companions is a cautionary tale to responsible pet owners about why we must change the ways we love and care for our pets. It concludes with the positive message that the small changes we make at home can foster better practices within the pet industry that will ultimately benefit our pets’ wild brethren.

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NONFICTION 1. The Splendid and the Vile Erik Larson, Crown, $32

1. The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $27

2. Untamed Glennon Doyle, The Dial Press, $28

2. The Book of Longings Sue Monk Kidd, Viking, $28 3. Rodham Curtis Sittenfeld, Random House, $28 4. Camino Winds John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95

3. How to Be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi, One World, $27 4. Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $26 5. The Book of Delights: Essays Ross Gay, Algonquin Books, $23.95

5. Such a Fun Age Kiley Reid, Putnam, $26 6. American Dirt Jeanine Cummins, Flatiron Books, $27.99 7. The City We Became N.K. Jemisin, Orbit, $28

6. Hood Feminism Mikki Kendall, Viking, $26 7. Hell and Other Destinations Madeleine Albright, Harper, $29.99 8. Countdown 1945 Chris Wallace, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30

8. The Last Trial Scott Turow, Grand Central, $29 9. The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich, Harper, $28.99

9. Talking to Strangers Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown, $30

10. Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens, Putnam, $26 11. Fair Warning Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $29 12. A Burning Megha Majumdar, Knopf, $25.95 13. The Daughters of Erietown Connie Schultz, Random House, $28 14. The Jane Austen Society Natalie Jenner, St. Martin’s, $26.99 15. The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $24.95

10. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99 11. Our Time Is Now Stacey Abrams, Holt, $27.99 12. What It’s Like to Be a Bird David Allen Sibley, Knopf, $35 13. Hiding in Plain Sight Sarah Kendzior, Flatiron Books, $27.99 14. Educated Tara Westover, Random House, $28 15. Breath James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $28

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Ready to travel again? What you need to know The COVID-19 outbreak closed down virtually the entire travel industry. Here’s how it’s opening. If you’re ready to travel again, the travel industry is ready for you. More than ready. But there are a few things you need to know about tourism’s grand opening that might surprise you. After the COVID-19 outbreak closed down virtually the entire travel industry, the openings have been uneven and unpredictable. Some quarantine orders, such as Florida’s for visitors from the New York area, remain in effect. There’s also a lot of uncertainty, with coronavirus cases spiking in parts of the country. And there are deals – but they aren’t what by you might expect. “We’re taking a very thoughtful approach to how we communicate leisure travel right now,” says Ben McDonald, a spokesman for the Reno-Sparks Con-vention and Visitors Authority, which markets Reno, Nev., and Lake Tahoe. “We want to talk to visitors in a way that’s relatable and will make them feel comfortable to visit.” That may be easier said than done. Reno is pursuing a multichannel, visual-first strategy, showing people it’s safe to come to the area. To keep visitors informed, the city has updated its website with the latest guidelines and restrictions. Also, there’s an emphasis on outdoor activities and safety, to reassure guests that they’ll be fine. But the last few weeks haven’t exactly been welcoming. In early June, there were violent protests and a curfew in Reno. And nearby California, a primary source of visitors, still has a stay-at-home order. On a recent Saturday morning, Reno looked like a ghost town. Hardly anyone was out, despite the fair weather. I walked into the Eldorado Resort, and, for a moment, I thought the casino had gone smoke-free. It hadn’t. It turns out there was almost no one on the gaming floor, a dramatic contrast to the last time I’d visited the resort, pre-pandemic. The hotels may say they’re open, but are they really? A recent American Express Travel survey suggests that, like almost ev-

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erything else about this pandemic, tourism’s grand opening will be like no other. It found COVID-19 related factors dominate American travelers’ leisure travel constraints. One in three people is afraid of having social contact when it comes to travel. And 72% of respondents said they felt destination and related hospitality businesses had not resumed normal operations. For destinations, it’s all about building trust for people who are ready to travel again. Jason Swick, the vice president of digital marketing at Simpleview, a company that develops marketing software used by destinations, says the talking points are the same: “It means showing travelers safety is a top priority by sharing local business pledges, communicating how often public locations are sanitized and promoting social distancing.” Grand openings are all over the map. Some resorts are literally rolling out the red carpet – and flipping a symbolic switch. “The first guests to check in were surprised with a massive light switch that officially turned the lights to paradise back on,” said Cessie Cerrato, a spokeswoman for the Grand at Moon Palace Cancún, where the first VIP visitors from the United States were welcomed with applause last week. Other places are welcoming visitors back in stages. That’s what’s happening in New Orleans. A few weeks ago, the city started its grand opening efforts by reaching out to fans who love the city for its food, music, culture or just plain quirkiness. “Our initial marketing message is directed to these people, with the idea to tickle them with messaging about the things they miss most about New Orleans,” explained Jeff O’Hara, president of PRA New Orleans. But the Big Easy isn’t quite ready for all visitors. It’s in Phase Two of its opening, which means it’s easing restrictions on medium risk operations, while continuing limits on occupancy, social distancing measures, and requirements for personal protective equipment. Next month, New Orleans will start marketing to the public. At the moment, restaurants, attractions and tours are allowed to operate at 50% capacity. In early July, says O’Hara, the city moves to Phase 3, which will allow most businesses to operate at close to normal capacity. Another approach? The great outdoors. In northern Florida, tourism

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officials are trying to attract reluctant visitors by emphasizing outdoor activities and open spaces. “It’s all about cleanliness and how easy it is to safely distance here,” said Barbara Golden, a spokeswoman for the St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra & The Beaches Visitors and Convention Bureau. St. Augustine and St. Johns County have started programs to help create a safe environment. The region’s efforts include digitally monitoring a select group of residents’ temperatures, monitoring wastewater for traces of coronavirus, and initiating a countywide Pledge St. Johns County program that encourages businesses to commit to CDC health guidelines. For most American destinations, the grand opening strategy is pretty simple: send out a press release saying that you’re ready. For example, Sedona, Ariz., launched a campaign called Clean.Safe.Ready, which includes a series of security precautions adopted by more than 250 businesses. Among them: frequent hand washing, maintaining social distancing, and limiting contact with others. Several Sedona-area hospitality companies, including ElPortal Sedona Hotel, SedonaReal Inn and Suites and Arizona Safari Jeep Tours, also sent a separate news release to remind people that the destination was a “safe environment” for visitors. For some areas, reopening is an opportunity to remind visitors of what’s there. In California’s Santa Ynez Valley, just north of Los Angeles, the opening announcement included a recitation of its most famous inns and hotels: The Landsby, The Santa Ynez Inn and Skyview Los Alamos, Alisal Guest Ranch & Resort, Flying Flags, Hamlet Inn, Santa Ynez Valley Marriott, Sideways Inn, and The Alamo Motel. “Unforgettable stays for a wide range of budgets,” it noted. Some destinations rebranded during the pandemic or added something new for visitors who are ready to travel again. Catalina Island, just off the coast of Southern California, transformed itself from the Catalina Island Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau to Love Catalina Island. “The rebrand was actually in the works long before COVID-19,” explained Jim Luttjohann, CEO of Love Catalina Island. “But the pandemic has made the case to share our love of this island even more important.” Catalina’s new site is more than a fresh take on a favorite California destination. It also keeps visitors up to

date on the latest hotel and attraction openings. “We’ve been sharing regular updates on the status of travel, along with current deals and offers from hotels and businesses, to our email database to keep them informed and interested,” Luttjohann said. There seems to be a “love” theme in Southern California. With leisure travel getting the green light from Los Angeles County Public Health, Los Angeles Tourism is debuting “LA” next week. It’s a campaign calling on Angelenos to take a staycation and help jump-start the local economy. Tourism officials found that if every employed Angeleno stayed three nights in an LA hotel, dined at three restaurants and participated in three museum visits or walking tours, it would inject $1.4 billion back into the economy and resupply more than 22,000 jobs. LA is a compilation of Los Angeles deals across hotels, restaurants, and other businesses. “We’ll be sharing a specially created landing page for visitors that contains safety information about participating hotels, restaurants, and other members,” says Los Angeles Tourism spokeswoman Jamie Simpson. Carmel-by-the-Sea, which just opened, unveiled a new Carmel Shell mural on Mission and 6th Ave., with a clever theme. The artwork was scheduled for installation in spring 2020 but paused because of COVID-19. But then tourism officials had an idea. Visit Carmel and the Carmel Public Library created the Carmel Shell-ter in Place campaign, using the shell art as its symbol. The group distributed a shell template for community members to decorate and hang in their windows as a sign of support while “Shell-tering In Place.” Christopher Elliott is the founder of Elliott Advocacy, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that empowers consumers to solve their problems and helps those who can’t. He’s the author of numerous books on consumer advocacy and writes weekly columns for King Features Syndicate, USA Today, and the Washington Post. If you have a consumer problem you can’t solve, contact him directly through his advocacy website. You can also follow him on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, or sign up for his daily newsletter.

Neptune memory challenge The latest science on the subject of CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). memory suggests that, on the whole, When you are with a certain person, memory is so unreliable that it isn’t you lose your sense of time and get very all that difficult to trick the mind into involved in the moment. Its cascade of believing things that never happened. subtly layered feelings will carry you The Neptune retrograde is ready to both away. put the theory to the test, bringing up AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). all sorts of scenarios involving desire, Motivation can be very mysterious, but regret and nostalgia. it doesn’t always have to be. Generally, ARIES (March 21-April 19). Where is motivation comes from action and not this relationship going? You have more the other way around. Doing anything control over this than you think. Your at all will change the situation. unyielding kindness and unconditional PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’ll be love will guide all to a stable place. wrestling with something that’s just a TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Sug- little out of reach. You won’t be able to gestions come from all sides – bosses, bring it closer, so you will just have to mentors, partners and your get up and move to where own head. Weed out the the thing is. unhelpful. Hone in on the ASTROLOGICAL best. Listen to the ones likeQUESTION: “Am I psychly to do you the most good. ic? Sometimes, I’ll feel by GEMINI (May 21-June really fearful for no reason 21). The Greek word krisis and I’ll read it as a bad means “decision.” You will omen. I’ll change my plan not wait until a moment based on that feeling. I of despair to choose what’s won’t leave the house to right for you. Whatever go to the store, or whatever compels you to make up I was going to do. When your mind is a positive force. nothing bad happens, I CANCER (June 22-July 22). It’s hard believe I have averted the danger. If I to make another person understand had gone to the store, maybe I would what’s in your heart when you can’t have been in an accident or something, quite articulate it to yourself. Do try who knows? I could have been killed! though. Writing about your feelings But how can I be sure that I’m following will help you understand them. psychic intuition and not some kind LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). It’s not too of anxiety disorder? Signed, Sensitive much to ask that others get in tune with Pisces.” what you are feeling. Good friends will The answer may lie in the frequency try to match your pace, slowing down of these kinds of episodes. If this is a or speeding up to be where you are, regular occurrence for you (which it physically, emotionally and otherwise. sounds like it might be), then you could VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’re be letting fear, not intuition, get the analytical and cautious enough, but best of you. While it would be foolish when there’s a lot of gray area in a to ignore your inner guidance, if you nuanced and complex situation, you’d let fear rule you, you’re not living fully. rather err on the side of trust, which is It’s time to get honest with yourself what trustworthy people tend to do. about what incentive you might have LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). True love for staying home. Are you really tired? is without expectation and does not Are you overscheduling yourself? Is try to change anyone. This is a paradox your stress level keeping you on edge? because true love changes people For a sensitive Pisces like you, rest and anyway, without trying, and usually for relaxation aren’t luxuries; they are the better. health requirements. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Because CELEBRITY PROFILES: Moonyou avoid overindulging in the rabbit child Meryl Streep has a string of hole of email, social media, games, projects on the release schedule, television and other fascinating things including the comedies Let Them All that steal your attention and don’t give Talk, about a famous author on a much back, this day will be productive. cruise, and The Prom, which settles on SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). a conservative Indiana town and a girl Being self-aware is the foundation of who wants to take her girlfriend to the social and emotional intelligence. A lot dance. The Academy Award collector of today, you’ll be managing different was born under a sun, Venus and facets of that awareness. It will involve Uranus in maternal Cancer, suggesting trying new things and choosing her favorite role is likely the role of different emotions. mother of four.

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Duluth Playhouse holding creative summer camps

The Duluth Playhouse School of Performing Arts announces its summer camps and intensives for kids and teens from ages 5-18 that gives them the opportunity to work alongside professional theater artists and explore their skills as artists and creative thinkers. Young artists will discover their actor tool box through creative play led by professional theatre artists. All camps will be held at the NorShor Theatre Rehearsal Studios, 211 E. Superior St., Duluth, on the third floor (skywalk level). Extra precautions will be taken when it comes to the sanitation of spaces and equipment to ensure a safe environment for students and teachers alike. Each summer camp (except dance classes) will host a virtual showcase via Zoom on the final day of camp. Family and friends will be able to tune in to their specific showcase. Times and links will be sent out at the start of each camp. Need-based scholarships are available. Learn more about scholarships and classes, meet camp instructors and sign up for classes at duluthplayhouse.org.

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Radio Waves Music Fest to take place on air WTIP Community Radio is pleased to announce that the Radio Waves Annual Music Festival will take place on Saturday, Sept. 12, as a one-day, onair, live music event from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Because of COVID-19 restrictions, the festival has been changed from an in-person concert to a full day of live music performances that will be shared on the air at 90.7 FM North Shore, 90.1

FM Grand Portage and 89.1 FM Gunflint Trail. The one day music event can also be heard in its entirety online at wtip.org. This marks the 13th year of this annual festival, and 13 Minnesota musical acts will play full sets to be broadcast live on WTIP Radio throughout the day. The “13 in 13” lineup will include performances by local and regional artists: Sky Blue, One Less Guest, Red Lips with Kenna Rose, Jim McGowan, Rich Mattson and the Northstars, the Kilborn Quartet, Colleen Myhre, the Portage Band, Lady Spruce, Eric Frost and Jim Elverhoy, Pushing Chain, the Aho Family Band, Chris Gillis with the Grand Marais Music Collaborative and other surprises throughout the day. The full music roster and set times will be available in late June, online at wtip.org – just look for “Radio Waves Music Festival” under the EVENTS A picture you take while you enjoy the outdoors could win you cash and recognition drop-down menu.

DSSO performances now streaming If you missed the broadcast of Resurrection on WPR’s KUWS (91.3 FM) and WSSU (88.5 FM), don’t worry! Resurrection was added to DSSO at Home with the WDSE broadcast recordings and is available until July 14. Along the Mediterranean, from the 1819 Season, was broadcast on WPR on May 14. Along the Mediterranean is now available for the next 45 days. DSSO at Home is completely free, just create an account and bring the DSSO into your home. The DSSO’s Along the Mediterran-ean concert took place on May 4, 2019, with: • Emmanuel Chabrier: España • Camille Saint-Saëns: Egyptian Concerto • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagñole • Manuel de Falla: Suite from The Three-Cornered Hat • Maurice Ravel: Bolero This program is filled with sun, energy and pure fun. Stay tuned for the encore!

St. Louis River featured in breathtaking video The St. Louis River Alliance is proud to present to you The St. Louis River Estuary, Our Home. After years of hard work, we are finding new ways to tell our story, and the visuals showcased in this video are a tribute to the River that

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in the Audubon Community Nature Center 2020 Nature Photography Contest. Springbrook, Wis., photographer Dave Shaffer was a 2019 winner with his photograph, “Safe and Sound.” provides so much for our well-being. This 2.5-minute short film is filled with breathtaking imagery of the St. Louis River estuary, along with an emotional story of environmental, ecological and individual transformation. All are encouraged to help spread the word by sharing this beautiful work with friends, family and followers: vimeo.com/4255838580 The St. Louis River Alliance is a membership nonprofit organization committed to supporting the resiliency of the St. Louis River. As river stewards we are the voice of the river, working together to protect, restore and enhance the St. Louis River.

Audubon center opens nature photo contest The Audubon Community Nature Center (ACNC) in Jamestonw, N.Y., is awarding cash prizes to winners of its 2020 Nature Photography Contest. This year’s judge, Alex Shipherd, advises, “The contest categories leave the field wide open for what-ever fascinates you as a nature photographer. Don’t be shy. Search out something that captivates you, and take your best shot!” Cash prizes of $200 will be awarded to winners in both the Youth (ages 8 to 18, or still in high school) and Adult (ages 18 or older, or out of high school)

divisions in all three categories of: • Wildlife Portraits: any wild animal. No photos of animals in captivity, such as pets, zoos, or rehab animals. • Macro Abstracts: anything that is natural/wild such as flowers, insects, leaves, water droplets, eyes/feathers of animals, close-up textures in nature, etc. • Habitats and Landscapes: places that any wild animals live in and/or waterfalls, sunsets, mountains, etc. ACNC will print the winning photographs to exhibit in the Nature Center, and winners will be named in a news release that is widely distributed, including to their local media, when known. The six winning photographs and 12 finalists -- six youth and six adults -- will be displayed indefinitely on the contest website along with the photographer’s name and city/state/ country. Deadline for submission of photographs is Aug. 31, 2020. Full details of the competition as well as images of previous winners and finalists can be found at ACNCPhotoContest.com. Audubon Community Nature Center nurtures connections between people and nature by providing positive outdoor experiences, opportunities to learn about and understand the natural world, and knowledge to act in environmentally responsible ways.

Go behind the scenes as Mia, our largest museum, prepares to reopen Since March 13, Mia has been closed to the public, doing its part to slow the spread of COVID-19. The Minneapolis Institute of Art – Mia for short, since its 100th-birthday rebranding in 2015 – is one of the nation’s great museums. It’s also one of the largest: more than 400,000 square feet. To the north, it extends by almost the whole length of 22nd street between Stevens and 3rd Ave. S., its neoclassical façade overlooking Washburn Fair Oaks Park. Since March 13, Mia has been closed to the public, doing its part to slow the spread of COVID-19. Plans are to reopen on Thursday, July 16. At first, per Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s “stay safe Minnesota” order, Mia and other museums will be able to operate at 25 percent capacity, not to exceed 250 people in a single self-contained space. But what does that really mean? “For us, 250 people is well below 25 percent capacity,” said Eric Bruce, Mia’s head of visitor experience. “We’re looking for more specific guidance around what that means for separate spaces, staff spaces and public spaces … “That capacity is just sort of a snapshot in time. It’s how many people at one moment. From there, you have to think about what that means for every 15 minutes, every hour, every day, and what flow looks like. You have to start including things like average visit time, and really look at the space with a critical eye and think about potential pinch points or really small hallways. Like the little hallways that lead to the Impressionist galleries. And elevators. Things like that.” In other words, it’s complicated. Since this process and these circumstances are new to everyone, we thought it would be interesting to follow Mia as it moves toward reopening. We asked Bruce to take us behind the scenes and into the offices. … No, wait, there’s nobody in the offices. Everybody’s working from

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home. “I Zoom, therefore I am,” Bruce said. “I’ve been working for three months at a folding card table in the corner of the bedroom where my daughter’s crib used to be. I can’t wait to get out from behind it.” Following are edited and condensed excerpts from a conversation we had on Tuesday, June 16, the first of three. “Since April, I’ve been the lead on a cross-departmental team that has a member of every division [at Mia] on it, as well as subject matter experts in areas like operations, design, facilities and security. We’ve been thinking about both staff needs and visitor needs prior to reopening. “Part of this, from very early on, was knowing this was a scenario that could change and change quickly. We would need to be prepared for different scenarios in the building. “Early in April, we spent a lot of time with the Carlson School developing a capacity calculator, using an architectural audit of the building. It has the square footage for every single gallery, room, hallway, elevator and staircase in the entire space, including the staff offices. Mia is a big building with lots of different parts and spaces. Different wings that were built in different times. “We’ve had a keen eye to capacity and flow from the start, and now we’re in a position to understand that pretty well. We were able to develop a generic version of that capacity calculator, and we shared it across the nation with the Visitor Studies Association, the American Alliance of Museums and our networks. “We’ll be requiring masks for visitors and staff. It is a requirement in Minneapolis that you wear masks in public spaces. We anticipate that a month from now it will be no different. We will have masks available on site, probably disposable paper masks, for people who don’t have one. That accessibility component of Mia is really important to keep in place. If people aren’t able to provide their own masks, we want to be able to support them. I don’t think you’ll see a Miabranded mask at the store, or anything like that. “We’ll be doing special hours for atrisk audiences. We’ll have enhanced cleaning. We’ve tried to create a

touchless journey. You won’t have to touch doors. We’ve put antiseptic coverings on handles. There will be some plexi barriers, some signage. There’s a joke about signage – the more you add, the less people read it. We’re trying to be pretty strategic about where we place it so it doesn’t disappear to the eye. “There will be some one-way flow and graphics on the floor. We ultimately decided a big one-way flow wasn’t the experience. It’s a big space with a lot of big spaces, and it can accommodate social distancing better than some other spaces. “The café will be in the lobby. Agra Culture, our food service partner, has been operating through this, doing takeout [at their other locations].

They’re familiar with operating in these times and will bring their expertise to our café. We will distance the tables in the lobby and remove the seating from the coffee shop so people don’t linger in that space. “The first two weeks will essentially be a soft open. We’ll be asking people as they go through to survey the experience and let us know what they think, how they’re feeling and how we can enhance their visit. We want to make sure we’re getting everything right before we open up to everybody. “We’re trying to make sure it’s the same Mia experience that people have come to love. That’s what we’re aiming for.”

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Personals Seeks Christian Man DWF, NS/ND, 59. Enjoys bicycling, walks, music, dining out dancing, snowshoeing, camping. ISO christian man w/similar interests. (58419: 11/9) Hot with Cabin Fever Seeking happy, healthy, 60ish gentleman in Central Lakes/ Cotton area for some lake time. Northern, WI ok too! I’m fun, fit, easy on the eyes. Let’s toast the sunset. (58412:8/31) Try a Senior Moment Active, adverturous, affable, nice, nurtuting, nimble. Petite, positive, playful. Smart, shapely, spunky. ISO fit young (67-77) codger for smiles and converstion, serendipity, exploring. (58403:6/8) Compantionship WWF, 70, looking for companion to enjoy life with. Love football, picnics, and dining out. Must be honest. (58398:5/4) Looking for Soul Mate SWF ISO friend who likes camping, coffee, outdoors, travel, estate sales, and hanging out. Send photo. (58394:3/30) Looking for my Sweetheart DWF, 58, 5’5”, 160lbs, NS/ND, likes to cuddle, hold hands, camping, traveling, cooking, walks. ISO Christian guy 55-70 for friendship and possible LTR. (58374:12/15) Searching for Comanionship DWF, NS, retired veteran female. 63, honest, considerate, loves to laugh, visit and talk. (58373:12/15) Let’s Seek God’s Will Together

NS, 51, tall, exotic, attractive, Christian F. Fun, nature lover, educated, epicurean with diverse interests, healthy living. ISO Christain male 45-58 years young with similar interests. (58370:10/13) Searching for Mate 72yr old F ISO LTR with a passoinate, sincere, kind gentleman in near age group. NS/ ND. (58354:6/23) From the Range WWF, 62, NS, likes the outdoors, walks, animal lover, garage sales, dining out, movies. ISO honest, caring man to enjoy lfe with. Will answer all. (58352:6/23) Female Activist Seeks Companionship Seeking like minded Liberal gentleman for friendship and fun. (58340:4/14)

Looking 4 Romance SWF looking for a Jewish man. Brown hair/eyes, 5’8”, 170 lbs. Want a pal-lover-romance. (58304:10/8)

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Seeking Companion How old is too old? WW. ND/ NS. Educated, traveled, experienced, bilingual. Don’t get any wild ideas now. Talking is a start. (58319:1/14) Wants the Farm Life DWF, 51, 5’6”, auburn hair, blue eyes. Not afraid of hard work. ISO NS man 45-60 who loves family, nature, animals, fishing, farming, warm fires and romance. I would like to spend the rest of my days with the same. I have other interests too, could I be the one for you? (58311:11/19)

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Mesabi Bike Trail DWM, 60s, 5’8”, 165 lbs., seeks Christian healthy in-shape gal 50s-60s. Love for outdoor music, biking, camping, lakes, sunsets. Humor a must. I’m honest, secure, please be the same. (58528:10/31) Looking for fun & partner DWM 69, 5’10”, 215 lbs., NS, light drinker, muscular, well built, looking for fun honest woman. Like to cuddle amd love. Like camping, swimming, traveling, movies, TV, staying home or pen pal and romantic. (58526:10/24) Best friend and partner DWM, 60, 190 lbs., 5’10”, looking for LTR with woman that loves camping, hiking, canoeing, fishing, road trips and just quiet nights home. (58524:10/24) Hopeless romantic in Two Harbors 61, on pension, fairly attractive, spiritual, love gardening, cooking, watching movies and cuddling. If this appeals to you please respond. (58523:10/24) Not the age, it’s the mileage WM, 61, 6’, 250 lbs., NS, light drinker. Not handsome but handy, easy going, honest, homebody. Very affectionate,

likes to cuddle, slow dance. Enjoys shore fishing, light gardening, easy walks. movies, music, cooking and more. ISO cuddly, warmhearted woman 55-65 for LTR. (58518:9/5) Respect joy & fun for you Tell me your story. I’m attractive, healthy, athletic, Amtrak retiree, 6’, slim, financially stable, liberal, NS. Enjoy hiking, swimming, cooking, movies, writing personal letters, conversation. ISO F LTR, any race or age. I like reciprocally gentle foreplay. Seesaw with me as friends. (58516:8/8) Tired of being alone WW, WM, 61, blonde, blue eyes, 5’11”, honest, caring, hard-working. Retiring in November. Will answer all/ (58513:8/1) Lonesome old guy There has to be some lonesome lady in the Virginia area that would like to go for coffee & conversation, maybe play some cribbage. (58510:7/16) Seeking Honesty SWM 57 looking for SWF, fit, educated,love to travel. Camping, adventures. Picture a plus but not required. Must be romantic. (58508:7/16) Attractive Discriminating Ninety Intellectual Stimulating NS 5”9” 170lb seeks slim-trim female biologically 65ish independent fox to persue happiness. Wine/ dine, dance, karaoke. Upper North Shore -Let’s explore!. (58507:7/4) I am a reminiscent sentimental romantic Professional writer, community

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Loving, honest, passionate DWM, 74, 180, 5-8, looking for honest woman. Like gardening, dancing, outdoors. Active, LTR, looking to adventure, try fishing and other sports, anything new. (58493:4/25) Togetherness DWM, NS, 74, 180 lbs., 5’8”, likes cooking, gardening, woodwork, dancing, Hallmark Channel. Looking for LTR, life partner. Learn from each other. (58488:4/11)

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Fishing friend with benefits MWM, 64, looking for a guy with similar intent. Love to fish, a little play time when the bite is slow. (58521:10/10)

Wake me up, stud Northern Wis. Looking for playmates, top or bottom, for right stud, nice package. (58503:6/13) ISO Top SWM WITI. 67. seeking christian SGWM for possible LTR, photo, phone please. (58453:5/31)

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that loves life, movies, fishing, sports, cards, board games, cooking & grilling together that wants a true, best friend. (58480, 4/6)

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education teacher, 6’1”, thin, NS, middle-aged, enjoys hiking, classical music, reading, humor, loves holding hands, cuddling, open-minded, conversationalist, adaptable to your desires. (58506:7/4)

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Two members of the BTO. The one on the left borrowed a phrase Woody Guthrie had on his instrument. Awesome! The Boston Typewriter Orchestra has been performing its unique brand of music throughout New England since 2004 and will now be releasing its first vinyl album later this summer. Self-proclaimed conductor Tim Devin and a group of friends founded the ensemble as a joke, reports Ripley’s Believe It or Not, and after premiering at Boston’s Art Beat Festival, the idea took off. Using vintage machines to rhythmically clack, roll, spin and bang out “music,” the typist-musicians say different models produce different sounds. “A Smith-Corona Galaxy 12 has a power space function that makes a nice metallic clang sound,” explained Brendan Emmett Quigley. [Ripley’s Believe It or Not, 6/16/2020] Animal Antics • In Oakland, California’s Grand Lake neighborhood, Gerald the turkey has been an institution for some time, regularly queueing up with carpool riders near Morcom Rose Garden. But lately, Gerald has grown grumpy and started attacking park visitors, reports KGO, prompting complaints to Oakland Animal Services. “I swear I was getting flashbacks to the velociraptor scenes in Jurassic Park as he was ‘cooing’ at me, sizing me up,” one said. Others said Gerald charged them, clawing and pecking

as they tried to run. In response, the city closed the rose garden at the end of May and asked people not to feed Gerald or any other wildlife, as it “may have contributed to the male turkey becoming more aggressive,” the parks department said. Animal control officers are also trying to “train him to revert to natural behaviors,” but have had limited success keeping him socially distanced from humans. [KGO, 6/12/2020] • Kalua, an infamous alcoholic monkey in Kanpur, India, has been sentenced to live out his days in isolation, Gulf News reported. The animal once belonged to a local occultist who would give him alcohol. After the owner died, Kalua couldn’t get his fix and became aggressive, sinking his teeth into more than 250 people, one of who died of his wound. The Kanpur zoo took Kalua in, trying to acclimate him to captivity and other monkeys, but zoo workers are throwing in the towel. “It has been three years since he was brought here,” said zoo doctor Mohd Nasir. “He will remain in captivity all his life.” [Gulf News, 6/16/2020] Desperate Times • In April, following the cancellation of basketball madness, a Twitter account called March Madness of Flags was launched “for the love of vexillology,” pitting banners from all over the world against one another in a fearsome bracket to determine which was the “coolest flag.” During the final four, held over the weekend of June 13-14, the St. Louis (Missouri) flag beat out Stuttgart’s entry, then went on to clinch the championship in a commanding 625-49 victory over the standard from Yaroslavl Oblast, a Russian federal district north of Moscow. The St. Louis PostDispatch reported the city’s flag, a relative newcomer, was designed by Yale University art history professor

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Theodore Sizer and adopted in 1964 for the city’s bicentennial. [St. Louis PostDispatch, 6/15/2020] • For those missing travel abroad, Songshan Airport in Taipei, Taiwan, is offering 90 people the opportunity to tour the airport and “pretend to go abroad.” On July 2, 4 and 7, participants can spend a half-day going through immigration, boarding an airplane, and then getting off the plane and re-entering the country through immigration. “People who didn’t have the opportunity to take international flights at Songshan (can) use this chance to experience and learn more about the boarding process and relevant service facilities,” Chih-ching Wang, deputy director of the airport, told CNN Travel. Tour customers will also get to take home “exclusive mysterious gifts.” [CNN Travel, 6/12/2020] Awwwwww Seniors from Glens Falls High School near Tulsa, Oklahoma, pulled a classic prank on what would have been the last day of their high school career: On June 12, they hung a large sign from the school saying, “For Sale! Vacant Since March,” along with some of the school’s attributes, such as “2 full size gyms” and “swimming pool.” But Principal Tammy Silvernell could hardly be mad: Attached to the back of the sign was a letter from students she characterized as “the most polite pranksters ever,” according to The Daily Gazette. “This was all in good fun,” the letter read. “We hope to have made you laugh and miss us a little more ... thank you all for an amazing four years at GFHS!” The students also offered to remove the sign. [Daily Gazette, 6/13/2020] The Foreign Press The Associated Press reported that an unnamed man in Vienna, Austria, was hit with a 500 euro ($565) fine for “offending public decency” when he broke wind following an encounter with police on June 5. Authorities said that “of course no one is reported for accidentally ‘letting one go,’” but after behaving “provocatively and uncooperatively,” the man rose from a bench and “let go a massive intestinal wind apparently with full intent. And our colleagues don’t like to be farted at so much.” [ABC News, 6/16/2020] Bad Apples • The Gatlinburg SkyBridge in Tennessee was closed on June 15 after a guest at SkyLift Park attempted to execute a baseball-style slide across the glass panels in the middle of the bridge and a piece of metal on the

guest’s clothing chipped and cracked the top layer of glass. According to WBIR, multiple signs warn against “running, jumping or bouncing” on the SkyBridge, the longest pedestrian suspension bridge in North America. Park spokesman Marcus Watson said the top layer of glass serves only as protection for the other two layers and the cracks didn’t affect the span’s structural integrity. Workers replaced the layer of glass with cedar planks and the bridge has been reopened. [WBIR, 6/16/2020] • The U.S. Forest Service is investigating a photo posted by David Lesh, 35, on Instagram showing him walking on a log across Hanging Lake in Garfield County, Colorado, in defiance of clearly posted rules prohibiting people from entering the water there. The post blew up with criticisms, but Lesh fired back, challenging others to walk on the log and even defecate in the lake. KDVR reported Lesh has a history of run-ins with authorities, including being cited for harassing a moose with his car in 2014 and setting 25 grocery carts on fire in Boulder, Colorado. Earlier this year he was caught snowmobiling in the Keystone ski area when the slopes were shut down because of COVID-19. On June 16 he was ordered to pay $500 and do 50 hours of community service for another snowmobiling incident from 2019. [KDVR, 6/16/2020] The Way the World Works Saying that “extra precautions are justifiable and understandable where the president is concerned,” Russian spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that anyone meeting President Vladimir Putin at his house outside Moscow or in the Kremlin must pass through a disinfection tunnel that showers visitors with a “disinfecting aerosol” and a bath of ultraviolet light. The Guardian reported on June 17 the tunnels can also use facial recognition software and take the visitor’s temperature. Peskov said, “They were installed when the epidemic was in full swing,” but would not say whether Putin has used the tunnels himself. [The Guardian, 6/17/2020] RIP The Hollywood Reporter announced on June 16 that puppeteer Pat Brymer, 70, passed away in April. As a puppet builder, Brymer worked with ventriloquist Shari Lewis on Lamb Chop’s Play Along and with Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s Team America: World Police, but he is best remembered for bringing to life Bill Murray’s pesky nemesis gopher in 1980’s Caddyshack. [Hollywood Reporter, 6/16/2020]

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A fun collection of female film noir

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema II: Thunder on the Hill (1951), The Price of Fear (1956) and The Female Animal (1958) Kino, $49.95 Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema II is a fun collection of three titles all centered around women played by leading ladies at or approaching the twilight of their starring careers: Thunder on the Hill (1951) with Claudette Colbert; The Price of Fear (1956) with Merle Oberon; and The Female Animal (1958) with Hedy Lamarr. by By far the best of the three pictures, Thunder on the Hill is a noir-flavored mystery-thriller, set at a convent-hospital in Norfolk, England. The solution to the mystery is pretty obvious early on, but Douglas Sirk’s direction, particularly the way he uses the production’s lavish but underemphasized sets, offset the problems with the script. A torrential rainstorm and flood send evacuating villagers to the convent, its nuns overwhelmed with the displaced population. Among those temporarily cut off from the rest of the world is Valerie Cairns (Ann Blyth), en route to the death house after being convicted of the poisoning death of her bedridden, former classical pianist brother. This delay in her execution only

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serves to make the bitter Valerie even more terrified and resentful. Sister Mary Bonaventure (Claudette Colbert), haunted by the suicide of her sister sometime earlier, tries to comfort Valerie, but it’s no use. Soon, despite all the evidence pointing to Valerie’s guilt, Sister Mary becomes convinced of her innocence, and agrees to find a way to bring her former fiancé, Sidney Kingham (Philip Friend), across the flood waters and back to the convent to see her. With its $2.5 million budget, Thunder on the Hill was a major undertaking for Universal, then still primarily a maker of program pictures. The production design, credited to Bernard Herzbrun and Nathan Juran (the latter possibly promoted to director based on his work here) includes elaborate, finely detailed but not cavernous sets. Wisely, Sirk and cinematographer William H. Daniels instead emphasize its claustrophobic qualities, with characters crammed in narrow passageways, winding staircases and the like, and with 80% or more of the stories confined to the convent’s interiors. One scene has Valerie playing one of her brother’s compositions while Sister Mary discreetly listens, but almost invisible as Sirk places her on the other side of a corner office window. Late in her starring career, Claudette Colbert is excellent throughout, surmounting a costume that largely confines her performance to her face alone. Michael Pate, as a half-witted handyman; John Abbott’s eccentric pharmacist, and Gladys Cooper’s Mother Superior also stand out, as does Hans J. Salter’s moody score. An entertaining but absurdly convoluted noir, its lively climax marred somewhat by obvious Production Code restrictions, The Price

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of Fear (1956) plays like it was written for an older female lead along the lines of Joan Crawford, but that the producers settled for Merle Oberon, cast against type. Both she and her co-star, Lex Barker, late of RKO’s Tarzan film series, were not Universal contractees in the usual sense, adding to the picture’s off-kilter feel. The movie’s premise is rooted in a series of outrageous coincidences. David Barret (Barker) is half-owner of a lucrative dog track, but as the film opens learns that his partner, Lou Belden (Tim Sullivan) has sold out his interests to gangster Frank Edare (Warren Stevens). Barrett confronts Edare at a nightclub, and threatens his weak-willed partner. Sensing an opportunity to get rid of Barrett, he orders henchman Vince Burton (Phillip Pine) to tail Barrett, while arranging to have Belden bumped off. Elsewhere, respected single businesswoman Jessica Warren (Oberon), in a celebratory mood, is driving home drunk when she strikes an elderly pedestrian, critically injuring him. She flees the scene, then some distance away decides to report the accident to the police, calling them from a pay phone. At that same moment, Barrett, trying to shake Edare’s tail, has taxi driver McNab (Stafford Repp) to drop him off on the same dark, lonely street where Jessica is phoning the cops. Barrett sees her unattended car and drives off with it. Jessica, realizing that she can pin the hit-and-run on the apparent car thief, instead reports her car stolen. Meanwhile, Edare has Belden gunned down. The following morning, Barrett finds himself under investigation for two crimes he didn’t commit: Belden’s murder, orchestrated by Edare, and Jessica’s hit-and-run. Though the latter charge risks being bumped to manslaughter as the injured man clings to life, Barrett figures he’s better off risking a prison sentence

than the chair, and during questioning with Barrett’s detective pal, Pete Carroll (Charles Drake) and attended by Jessica and the injured man’s daughter, Nina (Gia Scala), Barrett doesn’t exactly deny the hit-and-run. (That fact that Barrett did actually steal Jessica’s car is immaterial, at least according to the screenwriters.) Jessica, terrified of scandal and going to prison, goes along with the strange ruse as the plot gets even more Byzantine: Jessica and Barrett have a love affair, despite the unusual (to say the least) way they met, and Barrett also becomes friendly with Nina, even though for all she knows he’s the man responsible for her father’s critical injuries. Alcoholic McNab, Barrett’s alibi, goes missing but his wife (Mary Field) accepts bribes from Jessica to keep her husband out of sight, just in case Barrett gets close to the truth about the accident. Edare, meanwhile, is understandably confused by all this, eventually realizing that to get rid of Barrett for good he’ll have to get to him through Jessica. Entertaining if ridiculous, the movie asks its audience to believe that these varied characters – ne’er-do-well but innocent Barrett, hit-and-runner Jessica, victim’s daughter Nina, gangster Edare, malleable detective-pal Carroll – would hang out together in various combinations in the middle of two police investigations, with Edare and Jessica each trying to maneuver Barrett down a path of destruction. Oberon’s character and dialogue all play like the part, if not written expressly for Joan Crawford, certainly falls in line with the characters she often played. Eight years Barker’s senior, no mention is made of their obvious age difference, and she’s made glamorous

throughout, even when scenes don’t really call for that. If the part was offered to Crawford or other big names prior to Oberon, they were probably turned off by the character’s weakness, a woman so terrified of prison that she’d do anything to avoid it. Oberon had been a huge British star of the 1930s, moving to Hollywood near the end of decade. She remained busy throughout the 1940s, though in increasingly lesser films. Her last big film roles were in Desiree, as Empress Josephine, and the MGM musical Deep in My Heart (both 1954). After The Price of Fear she worked sporadically, appearing in the all-star Hotel (1967) and the self-produced Interval (1973), her final film. Actor-turned-director Abner Biberman does a competent, unexceptional job with the material, allowing himself a small role as well, as a pathologist. He directed a half-dozen movies in the mid-‘50s before turning to series television. (Spoilers) The climax, set aboard a train, is compromised by Production Code restrictions, and possibly even recut in postproduction, as the final version awkwardly edits a final shootout and suicide. Trashy but entertaining, The Female Animal was the work of Albert Zugsmith, a tasteless producer who

managed to attach his name to a few good movies, notably Sirk’s Written on the Wind (1955), Jack Arnold’s The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), and Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil (1958). The opening titles for The Female Animal are nakedly imitative of those in Written on the Wind, while the picture topped the double-bill whose second feature, incredibly, was Touch of Evil, far superior in every respect. The movie is a warmed-over reworking of Billy Wilder’s great Sunset Boulevard (1950), this time with Hedy Lamarr (in her last film role) playing Vanessa Windsor, the troubled, aging Hollywood star, and George Nader playing her “kept man,” this time Chris Farley, an aspiring actor instead of an aspiring screenwriter. He, working as an extra, saves her from a falling studio light, and she ends up taking him to her Malibu hideaway, offering him a job looking after the place. Later, at a diner, Chris rescues Penny (Jane Powell), a drunk and underage teenager from a man named “Piggy” (Gregg Palmer) about to molest her, Chris unaware that, in an incredible coincidence, she’s Vanessa’s adopted daughter. Penny, herself unaware of her mother’s hideaway, falls for Chris. At the periphery of things is another faded actress, Lily Frayne (Jan Sterling),

who also sets her sights on hunky Chris. Needless to say, the picture does not compare favorably to Wilder’s film, nor Welles’s for that matter. Lamarr projects just the mix of gentle pushiness and anxiety in her seemingly sexless relationship with Chris, and Nader is pretty good as decent man adamant in his refusal to become her gigolo. At the time about fourth on Universal’s leading man roster (after Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis, and Jeff Chandler, but way ahead of Rex Reason, John Agar and others), but was neither the chiseled-from-marble nor pretty-boy type Universal nurtured during the ‘50s. Nader always seemed more rooted in the real world, a more handsome Joseph Campanella-type. Where the movie really goes off the rails is the wild miscasting of Jane Powell as a lusty, hard-drinking embittered teenager. To begin with she was nearly 30 when The Female Animal was made, and up to that point had exclusively appeared in musical comedy, almost all for MGM. In those films she was often charming, but here she’s in way over her head. Her first 10 minutes or so onscreen require her to be dead-drunk, but she’s less convincing than a high

school drama club tackling The Iceman Cometh. Watching the film, I kept thinking how much better an actress like Gloria Talbott would have been. Talbott was only a couple years younger than Powell, but had convincingly played a teenager in Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows at Universal a couple years before, and this was the type of part in which she really excelled. Extra Features Each film includes an original trailer, and The Female Animal comes with a new audio commentary by David Del Valle, gossipy but knowledgeable and informative. Parting Thoughts More and more, Kino seems to be moving toward bundling more marginal titles together in looselythemed packaging. This is, perhaps, a wise move and with standard discounts it means one can acquire titles like these for around $10 per movie. Highly Recommended.

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Genetic genealogist CeCe Moore uses her unique research skills to change the crimesolving landscape in The Genetic Detective, airing Tuesdays at 9 pm on ABC.

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Thursday, 6-25 Military Makeover Lifetime 6:30 a.m.

In a new episode of this popular series, the Harvey-Woodruff family is about to get their big reveal. Luke and Natasha both suffered while fighting for their country, returning home with PTSD and severe injuries. Together, they raise three kids.

On Becoming a God in Central Florida Showtime 8 p.m.

Kirsten Dunst stars as Krystal Stubbs, a water-park employee who cons her way up the ranks of a pyramid scheme to make a better life for herself in this rebroadcast of the series premiere. She soon becomes involved with the scheme’s most devoted follower.

Ghost Adventures TRAV 8 p.m.

GAC begins phase three of their quarantined ghost adventure in this new episode. At Zak’s Haunted Museum in Las Vegas, they test the strength of humanity’s spiritual energy during a pandemic by performing dangerous summoning experiments.

Broke CBS 8:30 p.m.

Catch one of the final episodes of this recently canceled sitcom. Jackie (Pauley Perrette), a single mom, takes in her sister (Natasha Leggero) and her husband (Jaime Camil) and teaches them about the real world when they are cut off from his trust fund.

The First 48: The Case That Haunts Me A&E 9 p.m.

In a new episode of this docuseries, wherein members of law enforcement discuss their most life changing cases, Jake Gyllenhaal is one of the stars of The Day After Tomorrow, a movie about disasters caused by global warming airing at 7 pm Wednesday on AMC.

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(Times listed are based on Central time zones.) police officers in Dallas recount a manhunt for a killer who went on a shooting spree after murdering an innocent man in his car.

Summer Rush FOOD 9 p.m.

Labor Day brings in massive crowds for tourist towns, and the Foy family’s restaurants are no different. In this new episode, each member is under pressure to meet their profit margins, but not everyone is on track to survive the rest of the year.

Friday, 6-26 Nostradamus Effect History 6 a.m.

Explore one of the most controversial books of the Bible in this marathon kick-off episode. Revelations describes a period of destruction during which the Antichrist will rise, and pestilence, famine, war and natural disasters will plague mankind.

My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding TLC 1 p.m.

Get another fascinating look into the lives of American Gypsys in this rebroadcast. Annie wears an outrageous fox fur wedding dress as she marries her first cousin, and Ana stays true to her heart but breaks a lot of rules in the first gay gypsy wedding.

Movie: Kingsman: The Secret Service FX 1 p.m.

Taron Egerton launches into Hollywood as the star of this spy-comedy and its sequel. An unrefined, yet intelligent, young man is taken under the wing of a Secret Service Agent, thrust into a

competition for the job against people born and bred for it.

Movie: Major League AMC 6:30 p.m.

When a showgirl inherits the Cleveland Indians, she tries to make them the worst team in the league so she can relocate to Miami in this comedy. Amongst her group of misfits are an exfelon/pitcher (Charlie Sheen) and a brazen outfielder (Wesley Snipes).

My Lottery Dream Home HGTV 8 p.m.

In this new special episode, David Bromstad hosts a pamperparty at his condo in Orlando, turning his home into a day spa. While making homemade beauty products, he checks in with some of the most gorgeous lottery winners ever featured on the show.

20/20 ABC 8 p.m.

Correspondents present a mix

Jaime Camil in the sitcom Broke, which airs at 8:30 Thursdays on CBS.

of compelling real-life stories, hard-hitting investigative reports and more in this iconic news magazine. Veteran journalists Amy Robach and David Muir co-host the show, which also features numerous guest correspondents.

Saturday, 6-27 Futurama Syfy 8:30 a.m.

Fry discovers he’s a billionaire in this classic Season 1 episode, as his savings have been accruing interest for 1,000 years. Caught up in the excitement, he squanders his fortune on a can of anchovies and is overcome by nostalgia for the 20th century.

The Zoo: Bronx Tales Animal Planet 6 p.m.

Seven new penguins join the exhibit in this new episode, and get friendly with the colony right away. The staff is concerned about a grizzly’s sudden slowness, a nyala calf is born, and one turtle decides he doesn’t want to be friends with the alligators.

Movie: Doctor Sleep

HBO 7 p.m.

Decades after the events of The Shining, Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor) struggles daily with his traumatic past and psychic abilities. His powers lead him to connect with other psychics, some of whom are more powerful and dangerous than he is.

Movie: Hustlers Showtime 8 p.m.

Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez and Julia Stiles star in this black comedy hit based on a true crime story. After the global financial crisis in 2007, a group of New York strippers drug their Wall Street clients, taking them for everything they have.

Sunday, 6-28

Hollywood Game Night NBC 6 p.m.

The always-funny Jane Lynch hosts as celebrities try to help contestants win cash prizes playing goofy party games in this lighthearted series. The award-winning show challenges players to games involving pop culture, wordplay, physical stunts and more.

VICE Showtime 7 p.m.

This hard-hitting documentary news series continues its first season. This year, the correspondents have covered radicalized women reviving ISIS, the rise and fall of WeWork and COVID-19. Rebecca Ferguson in Doctor Sleep, a sequel to The Shining, airing at 7 pm Saturday on HBO.

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Press Your Luck ABC 8 p.m.

Elizabeth Banks hosts this revival of the 1980’s game show in which three contestants juggle the risk of pressing their button to spin on the show’s “Big Board” to earn big bucks, but risk hitting the Whammy, which could take all their earnings in one go.

Monday, 6-29

Forged in Fire: Beat the Judges History 8 p.m.

In this spinoff season, former series champions get the chance to return and challenge one of the judges. In this new episode, the challenger is given bladesmith’s choice.

Guy’s Grocery Games FOOD 8 p.m.

Guy Fieri tackles the sweeter side of the restaurant business, and invites three cooking duos to compete for a shot at $20,000. The games heat up as each duo features one chef specializing in sweet and one specializing in savory.

Diesel Brothers Discovery 9 p.m.

The Diesel brothers are back.

Tuesday, 6-30

Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back Fox 8 p.m.

Chef Gordon Ramsay and his team helps a failing restaurant attempt to turn things around.

The Genetic Detective ABC 9 p.m.

Genetic genealogist CeCe Moore uses her unique research skills and crime scene DNA to change the crime-solving landscape in this show. She explains how her work has been used in various cases to track down violent criminals and solve crimes. Katherine Kelly

World of Dance NBC 9 p.m.

Lang is one of the nominees in the 47th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, airing at 7 pm Friday on CBS.

Performers with a passion for dance take the stage in the hopes of wowing viewers in this unique take on dance competition reality shows. Jennifer Lopez, Ne-Yo and Derek Hough serve as both judges and mentors to the hopeful stars, while Jenna Dewan hosts.

Wednesday, 6-30 MasterChef Fox 7 p.m.

Judges Gordon Ramsay, Joe Bastianich and Aaron Sanchez divide the contestants into teams for a crucial elimination challenge.

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