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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his flexible political spine are compared to Al Capp’s sad sack character Joe Btfsplk.

Attorney General Keith Ellison files a lawsuit against fossil fuel giants he alleges spent decades trying to deceive the public about climate change.

“Police reform will not be accomplished with cheap, cosmetic fixes. Nor can we continue to live with excessive use of force and lack of respect for minorities and civil liberties.”

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Author V.S. Naipaul: “The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves. “ The liar’s punishment is not in the l;east that they are not believed; but they can’t believe anyone else.” – George Bernard Shaw A recent conversation on MPR, featured Tom Emmer and Prof. Larry Jacobs. At one point during the conversation, Mr. Emmer tried to hint that the Democratic House members were not doing the work they were supposed to be doing. Let me translate that comment for you. What Emmer meant was the Democrats weren’t presenting the kind of bills the Republicans wanted.

As I understand it, the House has passed and presented more than 200 bills for the Senate to weigh in on, and almost all of them are sitting on Mitch McConnell’s desk, waiting for him to put them on the agenda. Supposedly he won’t do it, because he knows Trump will veto all of them.

There were many instances in the conversation in which Mr. Emmer was ready, willing and able to tell the part of the truth that made him (and the

Republicans,) look good, or, at least, didn’t make them look bad. It seems Mr. Emmer loves the lie that saves his pride, but never the unflattering truth.

In that sense, he’s following in the footsteps of our ignoble leader, who, last I heard, has told more than 18,000 lies in public, to the public.

I’m a believer in the old adage “Say what you mean; mean what you say.”

What does it say about any person who’s willing to lie in order to control how he’s viewed by those he’s dealing with? How desperate does a person have to be to want to control how he’s seen by others, to the extent that he’s willing to do it by lying, even when there’s no need to? How vulnerable does one have to be to believe they need to control everyone around them – but themselves?

The real irony is that it’s the need to control others that makes a person feel vulnerable in the first place, because we can never really control anyone, but ourselves. What we are really doing is influencing others. Trying to influence others by lying is an indication of how insecure the person really is.

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And how does the president react when he’s challenged? It’s apparent his ego doesn’t like it when that happens, because his self-image is threatened. Much of the time it seems as if Trump isn’t running the country; his ego is.

Here’s a poem to put things into some perspective. (This is Donald trump in a fairytale nutshell.)

Wherein President Trump Takes On The Role Of The Wicked Stepmother in Snow White DT: “Mirror, mirror, on the wall; who’s the fairest of them all.”

Mirror: “Not you, oh hyperbolic, narcissistic, sociopathic, lying loser of the general election.”

DT: “Go to hell, damnable mirror.”

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YMCAs across the country – including right here in the Northland – make sure even though school is out, children are fed.

During the school year, families can rely on the free or reduced-priced school lunches available to qualifying children.

The Duluth Area Family YMCA is committed to year-round food access and provides free meals to children during the summer.

The Y is again participating in the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP).

Meals will be provided to all children who are 18 years and younger, without charge.

The Y serves healthy meals for all children regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability. The Y is here for all and is committed to equity and inclusion in this program.

Each year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture partners with local organizations such as the Duluth YMCA to provide free meals to children when school is out for the summer.

This year, the Y is offering a graband-go meal program to all youth at Harbor Highlands and Gary New Duluth to help families during Covid-19.

All meals are provided on a first-

come, first-served basis, and the sites, times, dates/days during the summer are provided here: • Harbor Highlands, 29 W. 11th St., Mon-Fri. through Aug. 28, noon-12:30 lunch; 3:30-4 pm snack; grab-&-go, Fri., 4:30-5 pm.

• Gary New Duluth Rec Center, 801 101st Ave. W., Weds. and Fri. through Aug. 28, 4:30 pm grab-&-go.

• YMCA @ Essentia Wellness Center, 4289 Ugstad Road, Hermantown, Thurs through Aug. 28, 4-5:30 pm grab-&-go.

The Duluth Area Family YMCA strengthens community through programs dedicated to youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. The Y is the largest provider of health and well-being programs in northeastern Minnesota, including those that engage nearly 13,000 children annually in a wealth of enriching activities. Everyone is welcome at the Y. The Duluth Area Y operates the main downtown building as well as programs in the Harbor Highlands, Park Point and Woodland neighborhoods, in Cook County and at Camp Miller near Sturgeon Lake, Minnesota.

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Here’s How: Toolbox must-haves

Dear James: I just bought my first house, and it needs some light repairs, but I don’t have any tools. I am a petite build. What are some of the must-have hand tools for my new toolbox? — Tina D. Dear Tina: No matter how many hand tools you get, there always will be one more you need for a specific project. Don’t overbuy initially, and

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plan several trips to the hardware store to get more midproject.

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need one power tool, a cordless drill/ driver, and a set of drill bits.

Since you are petite, look for smaller, lightweight tools, which are easier to handle. If you plan to do any precision work, using the proper-sized tool for your own strength and size can simplify the project. For example, a lightweight, 20-volt drill driver will have more than adequate power for most projects.

When it comes to hammers, though, a bigger one is generally better. If you can afford only one hammer, a standard 20-ounce one would be best. For major projects where you will be driving many nails, select a good-quality one with a vibrationdamping handle. Also buy a very small, inexpensive one at a discount store for light work. The quality is not as important.

You won’t be able to do too many projects without a tape measure. They are available in many lengths, but a 25-foot one is your best choice. Longer ones are available, but they get very heavy.

If you will be doing many of the projects by yourself, select a 1-inchwide tape measure. This width allows you to extend very far without its bending and flopping over. Select one with a replaceable tape because once you permanently bend one, it never works properly again.

Even though there are many hightech laser levels available, adding a standard bubble level to your toolbox is imperative. A 2-foot-long level should be adequate for most projects.

Longer levels are more accurate, but they do not fit all projects. As with the hammers, also buy an inexpensive, short, plastic level for use on small pieces.

If you are not an experienced doit-yourselfer, a set of chisels can save

the day. Just shaving off a little wood here and there can make two poorly cut pieces fit together perfectly. Buy an entire set of chisels because it is much less expensive than buying individual ones as you need them.

Every toolbox needs a good set of flat-blade and Philips screwdrivers. Call around to hardware and home center stores. Screwdriver sets are always on sale somewhere. At the same time, buy a small and large prybar. This will keep you from trying to use a screwdriver as a prybar. The steel used in screwdrivers is not made for bending. If you use one as a prybar, the tip may break off, and then the screwdriver is useless.

Some other items you should consider are: adjustable (crescent) wrench, hand wood saw, hacksaw, lineman’s pliers for electrical work, needle nose pliers, standard pliers and slip-joint pliers. If you are working with wood, several screw-type clamps come in handy.

Consider the warranty on the tools you buy. Many of the better-quality tools have lifetime replacement warranties. It is worth paying a little extra initially for a better-quality tool with a lifetime warranty. Remember to always save your sales receipts.

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Working group report forgotten in ‘new normal’?

“I marveled at the end we came down to some very specific and not overwhelming recommendations that I think are a good starting point for Progressive report on dealing with police violence racial justice.” may be another victim in George Floyd’s murder Just a year ago, it seemed Minnesota was going to get ahead of the national tragedy of use of deadly force by militarized police departments. Last July it became the first state in the union to convene a group to by investigate the problem JIM of civilians – often people LUNDSTROM of color – being killed by police.

Minnesota might have been a progressive national leader in law enforcement had it not been for George Floyd dying under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer in May. Floyd’s modern-day lynching by police – coming as it did a couple weeks before the 100th anniversary of the mob lynching of three young circus workers in Duluth – and Minnesota is suddenly the Mississippi of the north.

Is all the effort put in by the 18-member working group in vain in this post-George Floyd world?

“A wise person asked me, what law would have saved George Floyd’s life?,” said St. Louis County Attorney Mark Rubin, who was a member of the working group. “There was already a

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law that you can’t kill someone. We’ve got to change people’s hearts and minds. If it’s not a legislative change, individual departments, all have this report. They need to look at what they are doing and we can all do better.”

Rubin was invited to serve on the board in July 2019 by Attorney General Keith Ellison, who he did not know at the time. Rubin was only one of six Caucasians in the group and he his colleagues in the other 86 Minnesota counties voted for him to represent the state’s county attorneys in the examination of police and the use of deadly force on citizens. He was also the only one of the 18 working groups members who had served as a prosecutor dealing with cases between the public and police.

“They [commission chairs Ellison and John Harrington, the state’s commission of public safety] believed by bringing people together from very diverse cultures, professions and geographical factors, there would be some value in these discussions,” Rubin said.

Rubin said he was impressed by the diversity of the members of the group, which included Minneapolis Police chief Medaria Arrandondo; Clarence Castilo, uncle of Philando Castile, who was killed by a police officer in a St. Paul suburb in 2016; district court judge Mark Kappelhoff, who had previously worked as a federal

7/22/2019: Press conference announcing working group.

8/17/2019: Public hearing, State Capitol, Saint Paul.

9/9/2019: Working group discussion, Saint Paul.

9/28/2019: Public hearing, Minnesota State University, Mankato.

10/92019: Working group discussion, Saint Paul.

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St. Louis County Attorney Mark Rubin, who represented the state’s 87 county attorneys on the 18-member working group that studied police-involved deadly encounters. prosecutor in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and worked on police violence cases in Ferguson Mo., and Baltimore; and and Elizer Darris, a field organizer with the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota who was once sentenced to life in prison.

“It was an extremely diverse group,” Rubin said. “It was a phenomenal group and we had great discussions.”

One of the first things the group came to consensus on was these five pillars of their mandate: 1) Community healing and engagement; 2) Prevention and training; 3) Investigations and accountability; 4) Policy and legal implications; 5) Officer wellness.

Each member naturally brought his or her perspective to the table, but they all apparently shared the same goal of wanting to make the community safer for everyone. They discussed where things are today in community policing and where they need to be if we are ever to become the just nation we pretend

WORKING GROUP TIMELINE 10/17/2019: Public hearing, Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, Cloquet.

11/7/2019: Working group discussion, Minneapolis.

12/5/2019: Listening session, Sabathani Community Center, Minneapolis.

12/17/2019: Listening session, Bemidji State University, Bemidji.

12/19/2019: Listening session, Worthington High

to be.

More important than the internal discussions, the group had to engage the public in the process, hear their real-life experiences, and they did so through a series of meetings held around the state and that sometimes were electric with emotion and tension.

“Our job was to listen, just listen and give people a voice who have been through these experiences, and try to hear their advice, what can we do to protect the officer and what we can do to protect citizens in lethal encounters,” Rubin said.

Once the board felt it had amassed enough information from public hearings and listening sessions and contact with the public throughout the seven-month process, a final report was issued with 28 recommendations and 33 action steps aimed at reducing deadly force encounters with law enforcement in Minnesota.

“We’re the first state to do that,” Rubin said of the report. ““We’ve got a good staring point here. We didn’t have 100 percent agreement, but we had

School, Worthington.

1/6/2020: Public hearing, North Hennepin Community College, Brooklyn Park.

1/9/2020: Working group discussion, Minneapolis.

2/2020: Release of the Recommendations and Action Steps report. (find the full report here: dps. mn.gov/divisions/co/working-group)

consensus.”

DPS Commissioner John Harrington, Minn. Attorney General Keith Ellison and members of the working group on police-involved deadly force encounters released 28 recommendations and 33 action steps aimed at reducing deadly force encounters with law enforcement in Minnesota. The working group, composed of a wide variety of community, advocacy, academic, foundation, mental-health, lawenforcement and criminal-justicesystem stakeholders, came to consensus on the recommendations and action steps.

“These recommendations, if implemented, will make Minnesota communities and the peace officers

who serve them safer,” said working group co-chair and Minnesota Deparmtnet of Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington upon the report’s release. “The recommendations offer practical guidance and action steps to better prevent and respond to police-involved deadly force encounters. We brought together a knowledgeable group of stakeholders representing diverse backgrounds and professions from around the state to have the tough conversations. We heard testimony from 50 experts, including families who lost loved ones. As a result, we now have a plan of action that will reduce many deadly force encounters with police and provide justice and support when a tragedy occurs.”

Rubin suggested that the report seems to have been unfortunately steamrolled by the recent turn of events.

“We’re not starting from scratch,” he said. “The claims to defund the police – whatever that means – here’s where you start. I marveled at the end we came down to some very specific and not overwhelming recommendations that I think are a good starting point for racial justice. I think we could do a lot without significant legislative changes but there are those who want to show they are responding to the people. We will see some changes in law. New laws aren’t always the answer.

We’ve got to expand cultural training because of the growing diversity in our society.”

He said if some of the ideas n the report were put into action, everyone would be safer.

“It’s not a lofty goal,” Rubin said.

“It’s a hopeful goal, that everyone get home safely. These goals are attainable because these steps are practical.

Nothing is outlandish or too difficult to do.”

Echoing a comment DPS Commissioner Harrington made about the report not being the end of the work of the working group, Rubin said, “It was an honor to be on the group. We did it because were willing to serve. It was a challenge, but I’m so proud I was able to meet with these remarkable people.

We’re going to continue to meet. We’re not done.”

Minnesota issues first posthumous pardon Max Mason’s unjust imprisonment corrected 100 years later A remarkable thing happened last month when Minnesota’s Board of Pardons issued its first posthumous pardon.

“This is not some last-moment attempt to be a balm or a salve to a 100-year-old injustice,” said Attorney General Keith Ellison, who, along with Gov. Tim Walz and Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Skjerven Gildea, sat on the three-member board to issue the pardon on June 12 to Max Mason, the only black circus worker charged in the alleged rape of an 19-year-old West Duluth woman when the John Robinson Circus visited the city on June 14, 1920.

The pardon came three days before the 100-year anniversary of the lynching of three of Mason’s circus coworkers by a Duluth mob enraged by the tale the young woman and her teenage boyfriend told about being held at pistol point by a group of black circus workers who gang raped the girl.

While three other circus workers were taken by a mob from the Duluth jail and lynched from a light pole, Mason was held in jail and eventually became the only defendant in a rape trial. After being found guilty with the flimsiest of evidence, Mason, just turned 21 at the time and from Alabama, was sentenced to 30 years in prison, protesting his innocence all the way.

Mason applied for a pardon while

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doing time at Stillwater, in 1922 and 1924. Finally, in 1925, he was given a provisional early discharge from prison, on condition that he leave the state immediately for his hometown of Decatur, Ala., and that he not set foot again in Minnesota until after Nov. 25, 1941.

Upon his release, Mason disappeared into history, but the stain of his prosecution and imprisonment for a crime that evidence indicates never happened remained on Duluth and Minnesota.

“The historical record is before the Board. If this case had been submitted to me today, in a society where we strive for justice without racial bias, this case would never have been charged. Further, even if he had been charged, the evidence would not be sufficient to sustain a jury verdict of guilty,” St. Louis County Attorney Mark Rubin wrote in a Feb. 6 letter of support for the pardon.

“It was a different world when I submitted my letter in February,” Rubin told The Reader. No COVID. No George Floyd. No demand for police reform. It was a totally different world from what we have today. It wasn’t tied to what’s happening right now.”

Rubin said part of weighing in on the pardon was reading for the first time the court transcripts of Mason’s case, and as an attorney, he was horrified by the conduct of his predecessor, Warren Green, who prosecuted Mason.

“The prosecutor saiud things toinflame the jury. It was just disgusting,” Rubin said. “As a prosecutor, your responsibility is not just to the person who was hurt. You

have an equal duty to protect the rights of the accused. Yoou read the [court] accounts, and his rights were not protected at all. This was someone who held the office that I hold now and acted that way, purely on the basis of race. Thank goodness we’ve come so far. How do you right that wrong? This was a significant way to try to right the injustice.”

One of the pieces of evidence used against Mason is that both he and the alleged victim, Irene Tusken, tested positive for the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea.

“So did 20 percent of the population.

This was before penicillin,” Rubin said.

There was some talk that her boyfriend might have had it, too. That was not uncommon in the population back then. That’s very weak circumstantial evidence.”

The case also got Rubin to look into

the culture of the community when the lynchings happened and Mason’s prosecution took place 100 years ago.

“Back in the ’20s there were 1,500 registered Klansmen in this area – 1,500. Openly,” he said.

While the pardon came too late for Max Mason, Rubin said it was the right thing to do.

“I’m proud I had a chance to weigh in an do my small part, “ he said. “It helps bring us a step closer to racial equity and emphasize that it’s our responsibility to do what’s right. I think it’s also important for people to see what kind of support there was for the pardon.”

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Bye-bye, Bill Former Duluth school superintendent leaves a stained legacy in his wake Our public school district’s leader encountered a problem, however, for the past 8½ years has finally flown when one of their usually stalwart the coop. Bill Gronseth allies – Mary Cameron certainly had a wild ride.

– threw her support to His meteoric rise from another candidate: I.V. elementary teacher to the Foster. district’s top administrator Cameron has been is a tale of striving the only black school vocational ambition, board member in all the by served up with a big dollop years I’ve been going of pandering solicitousness in the boardroom and to the party line and his she wanted to promote superior. diversity in the district Bill was Keith Dixon’s from the top: by hir-ing an loyal fan from the moment African-American for the the cotton-topped hustler stormed into super-intendent job. town.

Cameron’s defection from the ranks As principal of HomeCroft Elembroke up the Red Planners’ four-vote entary, he waxed about the wonderful lock, and the political horse-trading path his boss had put our public was on. Glass, Johnston, and Kasper schools on, in collusion with Johnson opposed Bill Gronseth, who many Controls and the obsequious school Red Plan opponents had already board: “I want to tell you of an amaznicknamed: Dixon-lite. ing journey. It began with a roomful Ann Wasson, Judy Seliga-Punyko of teachers, parents, architects and and Tim Grover argued that Gronseth engineers. Everyone had ideas and was the natural choice, for continuity, dreams…The group developed a etc. (This was, in a way, true. Mr. G. solid vision. Through the architects’ certainly knew the lay of the land. He’d and engineers’ magic (backed by been on the scene of the crime, sort of the taxpayers’ wallets,) the vision speak.) was interpreted into blueprints…I There was, however, one more canwish you could have been in my didate in the mix: Stan Mack. shoes when the teachers walked into Mack was by far the most qualified the building for the first time this person for the job. He’d been in the fall…During the open house, I was system for decades as a teacher and greeting people in the hallways with administrator in several Minnesota Superintendent Keith Dixon. I watched school districts, including South St. as everyone explored with wide-eyed Paul, Northfield, Eveleth, Osseo and excitement…The Duluth School Board Burnsville. He also had put in a long deserves thanks for everything that stint in Robbinsdale, a Twin Cities happened…They had a plan and saw metro area district with an enrollment it through. They showed they cared of 12,500. about all students. May they keep up In his eight years as superintendent, their good work.”

Mack managed to rebuild that district’s depleted reserve fund. After looking What’s that smell? over ISD 709’s books, Mack described Back in 2011, the power clique that the millions coming out of the budget jammed through a huge facilities into pay for buildings as “major leakage vestment without a vote still retained from the general fund, caused by a narrow lock on the school board, School Board action.” thanks to Tim Grover’s betrayal of his While promoting the funding constituents. scheme for his grand idea, Dixon At-large member, Tom Kasper, elected actually said: “Let’s fund about $125 two years earlier, also eventually sold million of the project (final, official out to this group. In 2011, however, cost: $317,644,206.62) through Kasper was still casting some votes increased taxes and let’s have the with the board’s nonconformists: Art school district fund the rest.”

Johnston and Gary Glass.

Looking back at these words now The board’s DFL and union visionshould enlighten everyone as to why aries wanted the person who shared some board members were adamantly their vision, Keith Dixon’s assistant, to opposed to more Dixon, in the form of replace his master at the helm. They Dixon-lite.

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Bill Gronseth Foster had limited experience as superintendent of a small K-8 district in Illinois. Dixon’s former assistant had zero superintending experience and only an M.A. degree. Initially, no candidate could win a majority vote, so – exhibiting their usual bold chutzpah – the Red Planners actually tried to push through a resolution to offer Dixon, himself, a contract to come back. Mercifully, the attempt failed and the horse-trading was back on.

Cameron was stuck on Foster, and Glass supported her effort. The members backing Mack –Johnston and Kasper – decided to move their way. Foster had solid credentials and apparently had done a good job in Illinois. They concluded he would at least be a new beginning, as well as a big leap forward in diversifying the organization and providing a positive role model for black students.

So Mack lost out, and I.V. Foster garnered the necessary votes to become the new head honcho.

Whether Mr. Foster would have demonstrated he had the right stuff will remain an unanswered question.

Technically, he lost his position because he didn’t have the proper credentials to be employed as a superintendent in Minnesota schools.

On Dec. 19, 2011, after only five and a half months in the superintendent’s office, he was put on administrative leave. A few weeks later, on Jan. 6, 2012, his resignation was accepted by

the board. The district continued to pay his salary (about $50,000) until March 2012, as well as all his contract benefits, including health insurance, through June, and $12,000 for relocation expenses.

The public, thoroughly disgusted with the school board by this time, railed at it for hiring someone who didn’t have a license to work in Minnesota. Some movers and shakers meanwhile backed the board’s decision to pressure Foster out, claiming the man had not shown the commitment needed to deal with ISD 709’s myriad problems.

Former Mayor Ness said: “He’s a good person and his heart is in the right place, (but) we haven’t seen the sort of leadership that the district so desperately needs.” The News Tribune wrote an article suggesting Foster had been shirking on the job, taking too much time off, too many junkets, etc. (Employee records, obtained by the paper, verified he’d been out of the office more than 25% of the time during his five-plus months on the job, for vacation, professional and sick leave.)

Others in our community argued the new superintendent should simply be given an opportunity to apply for/get a license.

Several community leaders disputed claims about his alleged laissezfaire attitude towards his job and community involvement. They felt the board’s deposal of him was a naked power play and smelled to high heaven of cronyism mixed with a bit of rank racism.

Only Mary Cameron and Art Johnston opposed accepting Foster’s resignation. Gary Glass was gone by then; his term ended a week earlier.

Tim Grover was also gone, but the dynamic Red Plan duo of Ann Wasson and Judy Seliga-Punyko corralled Kasper and newly-elected rubberstamper, Mike Miernicki. Again armed with four votes, they seized the opportunity to usher in Bill Gronseth, who would keep playing the game the way they wanted it played. They got what they wanted, as always, but the whole episode emanated a lot of conspiratorial stink.

In the wake of all the abrasion and conspiratorial stink of the Red Plan, it was an especially unfortunate way for Bill to take over the reins.

Caught in a red web Bill’s last regular meeting was on June 6. Current board chair, Jill Lofald, who is cut from the exact same cloth as Wasson/Seliga-Punyko, and would cheerfully rubberstamp the Red Plan –including no vote from the public – all over again, led the tribute to our departing leader: “Bill…as Superintendent, you led the work necessary to complete portions of the long-range facilities plan; you engaged our community through the ‘think kids’ meetings; and you passed two education levy referendums (which helped raise the levy from $11 million when Dixon came to town, to over $40 million today.) During your tenure, our district implemented achievement strategies (which have produced very little success.) We developed an online high school and fabrication labs. We strengthened the career and technical education program (while STC sat empty during your entire time as head of the district.)”

Lofald went on about several more successes of the Gronseth Administration, then praised Mr. G. for his leadership through the COVID-19 pandemic. She threw accolades at him for his selflessness as a leader: “You have publicly credited everyone in the district many times…”

I wasn’t going to bother recording something for the public comment period of this meeting, but knew the adoring praise from the DFL/union people was going to be over the top.

I felt compelled to say something, to counter their public relations blitz: “You are a dedicated educator, Bill…”

I said, after observing this to be true the past 8½ years, then continued on with what else I’d observed: “but I also have to add that I never believed you were the best fit for the job, because you were so biased towards one side of an intense civic debate. That bias did negatively affect your ability to lead. I believe some of the failings of the consolidation project could have been mitigated with a more open and honest discussion of those problems, and I know there are many wounds in this city that have never been addressed.”

After taking over as ISD 709’s new super, Bill praised Dixon’s “great leadership skills.” He told the News Tribune he and Keith shared “similar philosophies” and described the man as his “mentor.”

Bill was less openly aggressive than his mentor, but played just as rough toward any dissenters to the narrative he was selling. His strategy was to ignore them as much as possible and run them over whenever he could.

From the moment he walked into the

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boardroom as the top administrator, his mission was to finish what his predecessor started, and then bury it as deeply as he could. Bill convened only with his allies, boxed everyone else out, and fed as much spin as he could to the media and the public. He was blind to the fact that this strategy would only lock him into a closed-loop cycle of friction and failure.

The closest Bill came to admitting the truth occurred during the lead-up to the district’s 2013 levy referendum, when he admitted some “mistakes” were made with the Red Plan, but then added: “We can’t go back and undo any of that…We’ve laid a firm foundation for this community. Our students have new or like-new facilities that are gonna serve this community for decades to come.”

We might want to recheck the foundation, if we’re expecting it to last for decades to come. Our school district’s facilities extravaganza left the organization about as firm as a big, quivering pile of cherry-red Jell-O. Following Bill’s lead for more than eight years, the majority of the school board denied the link between enrollment/budget problems and a failed capital project. This denial cost the district in two ways: (1) It greatly hampered coming up with a plan to solve the problem, and (2) it eroded faith and trust.

A wise leader would have approached the public, hat in hand, and come clean with a bit of humility, but this approach was not natural to Bill’s temperament.

He preferred to pull strings in the shadows and spin, spin, spin – scapegoating the state and cheap Duluthians: “For 20 years or more, the district has dealt with flat or nearly flat aid from the state despite rising costs, (and) on top of that, the state in recent years has held back money owed school districts, forcing them to borrow and eat into reserves…There are communities that have triple the (operating) levy Duluth has. For them, class size isn’t as big of an issue.”

Following this lead, the school board majority members played the victim card and ignored the consequences of their decisions – the capital levy and spiraling expense of employee contracts – as though the burdens didn’t even exist.

Those who tried to speak the truth were attacked. Under Bill’s leadership, the boardroom imploded into a vicious verbal knife fight that spiraled out of control for a year and even got dragged into the federal court system.

Final credits and discredits Bill gave his allies lots of praise, but treated opponents as secondclass citizens, even when it became increasingly evident their concerns were legitimate. He gave them no respect for their insight and intelligence, or the fortitude they had shown in fighting for what they cared about in their town.

Rather than reaching out and trying to mend fences, he got involved in politics and tried to purge all opposition from the boardroom. When the strategy backfired, he found himself riding on the back of a tiger he couldn’t tame. His escape attempts became a running joke. He tried to leave town seven times.

To be fair, I’ll reiterate two things: Though he was an ardent cheerleader, Bill did not start the Red Plan, but did inherit the unenviable task of cleaning up the ruins.

Our former super was a dedicated educator who did care about his job. He was once quoted in the News Tribune about the “aha” moment

in education. Elaborating further, Mr. G. proclaimed: “Learning is not a dry topic. It’s a real, exciting, sometimes exhilarating interaction that occurs when one human being helps another grow in knowledge and understanding.”

Meant to be supportive and enhancing, the impetuous adventure our school district veered into under Keith Dixon – in a cursory and patently stupid way – largely marred this beautiful intention. Even if he didn’t start us down the errant path, Bill got all caught up in the trappings of his predecessor. He and the Red Plan are now permanently linked, leaving his legacy forever stained.

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Toni Gay Barrett 12/8/1960 – 3/15/2020 Toni Gay Barrett, 59, of Duluth, passed away unexpectedly in her sleep at home on March 15, 2020, of natural causes. Toni was born in Duluth on Dec. 8, 1960, to Dorlene and Thomas Erickson Sr. She graduated from Duluth Central High School in 1979.

She joined the U.S. Navy and served six years. Toni enjoyed learning and enrolled at UMD and continued her education.

She loved to write and had a wonderful gift for poetry.

Toni was an avid gardener with a green thumb and was always surrounded by gardens.

She could grow anything.

She always had a cat, or two, in her home and Taya and Midnight were her constant companions. Music held a special place in Toni’s heart, from loving The Osmonds as a young teenager to Steve Perry in Journey helping to heal her during struggles in her adult life. As a great-aunt, she took a mentorship role and just adored her nieces and nephews. She baked very well and always brought her treats to share, especially at Christmas and birthdays. Time with family meant so much to her. Toni was loyal to those she loved, and would be there, without fail, to support them.

Even in her death she wanted to help people, and was a donor with the American Donor Services. She worked many jobs over her life, but most recently worked at Fond du-luth Casino. She was a loyal fan of the Minnesota Vikings and Twins. Toni was well loved

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and will be missed by many.

Toni is preceded in death by her biological father, Thomas Erickson Sr.; stepfather, Michael Kenney; uncle Carl Carlstrom; aunt, Bonnie Boyd; great-aunt, Geneva Carlstrom; grandparents, Chester and Gunhild Carlstrom; and greatnephew, Beauden Shaw. Toni is survived by her son, Jared Troy; mother, Dorlene Kenney; siblings, Tammy (Michael) Hanzlik, Thomas Jr., and Todd; aunts, Karen (Del) Haskins and Kathy (Thomas) Olson; close friend, Keith Grinnell; nieces and nephews, Brandon, Jon, Brooke, Brittany, Shawn, Brandon James, Courtney, Luca, Sadie and Breccen; and several extended family members and friends.

Graveside service with military honors was held June 19 at Sunrise Memorial Park Cemetery. Please share online condolences and photos at Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery.com.

Our Angel For you, beautiful Beauden James Our angel up above Thank you for your presence Bringing with you love Beauden, our dear child Now graciously set free To touch all the miraculous things, None of us can see.

We are better people, Because of you, sweet boy.

Now you’re with the angels, And heaven gets your joy.

They are lucky to have you, What a fine place to be Where everything is pleasant, Perfect and carefree Now you’re free to do as you

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please, Free to laugh and smile How blessed we were to have you here, If only for awhile Someday we’ll be together, To share on happy fun Fishing for that northern pike, Playing in the sun Chasing pretty butterflies, Together we will soar Holding hands together, As we go through heaven’s door. (“Toni wrote our Angel” for her nephew, Beauden Shaw, who died at only two weeks old on March 11, 2014.)

Goodbye, Gramma I’ll say Goodbye to you today, as we part; But from now until forever you’ll live in my heart.

I can never forget all the time that we shared; When I cried, you would hold me and tell me you cared.

When I was younger, so much younger than today, We’d share summer time in a very special way.

I could not wait until Saturday night, When you make popcorn and pizza to my delight!

Patiently you listened to my ABCs, Bandaging and kissing my skinned knees.

You always had a way to make us children smile; We’d sit on your lap as you hugged us for a while.

A week ago I asked you how you felt; You were so strong, it made my heart melt.

I know some day you’ll walk with me, As we both step toward eternity. (“Goodbye, Gramma” was written for Toni’s grandmother, Gunhild Carlstrom, who died on April 12, 1980.)

Larry Goldman 1/5/1936 – 6/23/2020

Larry Goldman, 84, of Saginaw, was born in Brooklyn, NY, to Benjamin and Mary “Mitzi” Goldman.

Larry retired as a captain in the United States Air Force in 1980. He was the owner and founder of Hide and Beak Taxidermy and Supply Company, in Saginaw, past president of the Minnesota Taxidermy Guild, and a founding member and past vice president of the International Guild of Taxidermy. He enjoyed fishing and hunting. A graveside service was held June 26 at the Minnesota State Veterans Cemetery – Duluth.

Arrangements by Dougherty Funeral Home, 218-727-3555.

Bernard J. Kolar 6/9/1928 – 6/15/2020 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’ Kitch-en, 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.

Catherine Alice Mitton 12/7/1929 – 6/21/2020 Catherine “Cay” Alice Mitton, 90, a 49-year resident of Superior, died in Littleton, Colorado. Cay was born in Buffalo, N.Y. to Erma and Claude Hicks, and grew up in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

She graduated with a Bachelors’ degree in home economics from Acadia University in 1951. While in college, she had a summer job in Ottawa, where she met Monctonnative Donald Mitton. They married in Sept. 1952 in Moncton, and then moved to Louisville, Ky., where Don attended seminary and Cay worked in a hospital and the seminary’s restaurant. In 1964, the family moved to Superior for Don’s work as a history professor at UW-Superior. Cay enjoyed working in the dietary department at St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth for 18 years.

Don preceded her in death in 2003. Cay’s service will be 1 p.m. Fri-day, July 3, at Bayside Baptist Church, 3915 N. 16th St, Superior. Burial will be at Greenwood Cemetery, Superior.

Evelyn M. Peters 3/11/1938 – 6/20/2020 Evelyn M. Peters of Superior died peacefully at Essentia Health in Duluth. She was born in Aitkin, Minn., to Earl Grindle and Myrtle Grindle (Campbell). She is survived by her sons, Dean (Roxane) Larson of Superior, Ronald Larson of New Hope, MN and daughter, Rose Marie Mega of Superior, WI; six grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, William Peters; sons, John Larson and Raymond Larson and daughter, Laurie Larson.

Visitation was held at the Cremation Society of Minnesota Duluth Chapel on June 26.

Celebrate safely!

Dear Readers: Happy birthday, America! Let’s take a moment to reflect on our great country and the freedoms we enjoy. Celebrations are going on across America.

The Fourth of July and bright, beautiful fireworks go handin-hand, but keep in by mind, safety is always priority one.

Here are some hints about fireworks safety: • Never let your guard down around fireworks. Avoid alcohol and supervise everyone. Don’t let children handle fireworks, not even sparklers. Did you know that sparklers can reach a temperature of 2,000 F! • Keep pets inside; loud noises and bright lights can be frightening for our furry friends.

• Safety glasses are recommended,

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so is lighting fireworks in a large, clear area away from vehicles, tall grasses and buildings.

• Got a dud firework? DO NOT relight it. Also, keep a bucket of water close by to douse any fires.

Be aware of the ordinances in your city regarding fireworks. Lighting them at home may be illegal. The best bet for your family is probably a city-sponsored fireworks display. Look for them online. The best news? These are usually free! – Heloise PET PAL Dear Readers: Jessica and Gavin sent a picture of their newest family member, their tiny Yorkshire Terrier puppy, Lulu – so cute! To see Lulu and our Pet Pals, visit eloise.com, and click on “Pet of the Week.”

Do you have a funny and furry friend? Send a picture and description to: Helosie@Heloise.com. – Heloise PICK IT UP! Dear Heloise: I love reading “Hints from Heloise” in the Riverside, Cal., Press-Enterprise. In a recent column, I

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Jessica and Gavin sent a picture of their newest family member, their tiny Yorkshire Terrier puppy, Lulu -- so cute! read about a reader’s recommendation to put up dog waste stations in neighborhoods, and I think it’s a great idea.

Those stations do have a drawback, though.

On my first walk around my HOA neighborhood, I noticed in the distance what appeared to be isolated patches of beautiful, bright blue flowers. Upon further inspection, flowers they were not.

People had walked their dogs, used the blue HOA-supplied doggie waste bags, then inexplicably dropped them on the ground next to the sidewalk.

I guess they expect the HOA landscape gardeners to pick them up. It would be better to not pick up after their dogs at all and let mother nature break down the waste over time rather than toss a waste-filled, bright blue bag on the ground, which stands out and probably has a half-life of 50 years!

Common sense? Some people just don’t have it. – Norm H. in Temecula, Calif.

IT’S FOR THE BIRDS Dear Heloise: What to do with leftover bacon grease? I crumble old bread and blot it up. Crows and blue jays love it and it makes their feathers shine. Blue jays like it too. In the summer I save it for winter by storing it in the refrigerator. – Bobby B., New Hartford, Conn.

Bobby, I love hearing about different ways we all can care for our feathered friends. Thanks for sharing. – Heloise

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Joe Btfspik is alive and unwell!

Will the dark wall cloud over Joe’s head ever move?

Older readers will remember a character called Joe Btfsplk in Al Capp’s satirical comic strip Li’l Abner.

Joe was known for his bad luck, which was symbolized by a dark cloud hovering over him. Anyone who was close to Joe suffered because of his presence. Joe tries to capture the cloud in a bottle but he fails. He finally realizes he is what he is. I wonder if Joe by Biden will ever realize he is what he is under his dark cloud. Yes, he was a senator and a vice-president of the United States – a big deal.

He has run for president four times and will probably get the nomination of the Democratic Party in 2020. Joe was picked by Barack

Obama to be his vice-president because Joe had been in Washington a long time, had many friends and acquaintances, and could help him with congressional relationships.

Over the years Joe has revealed a flexible political spine. What does he stand for?

Well, in looking at his record and work habits, the only thing he has ever really stood for is getting re-elected. We have only four and one-half months to the election. He has been in his basement bunker for three months and seems to have come up with only one plank in his platform: “Nothing will fundamentally change!”

Joe, everything in the world has changed in the last three years for the bottom 90 Percent because of two epidemics: Donald Trump’s viruses and COVID-19.

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Joe, what do you actually believe in?

In the last Democratic debate Joe was on the stage with nine other candidates.

He was my last choice. He had the most political experience but the least imagination. He’s been running for president for 32 years. Among the 10 he was the worst communicator and among the best in embellishing a rather dismal record.

He lied more than his fellow Democrats but did not cover his prevarication as well as Donald The Lyin’ King, who can’t recognize truth or lie. You have to be a psychopath to lie 19,127 times from January 20, 2017 to May 29, 2020. Donald claims he only needs four hours of sleep a night, so during this time, he has averaged one lie for every waking hour.

Anyone want to bet the frequency of his lies will not increase in the months prior to the election? It’s funny the cherry trees are still there to blossom.

What is Joe’s view of the future? The One Percent has been siphoning off the wealth of the country since the Ronald Reagan tax cuts of the 1980s, while an Al Capp’s Joe Btfspik and his onmipresent cloud. increasing number of the 90 percent have been living paycheck to paycheck.

Over the years you have been winning Now more than 40 million are not elections by playing the center and getting a pay check while our 700 billhaving a supple spine. That won’t work ionaires have “earned” $620 million each since March 15, 2020, during the this year.

You have never had a set ideology extime 115,000 workers have died from cept one that would get you re-elected.

COVID-19.

This year you can’t sit on the 50-yard Joe, we are in a period of our line. Youth around the world are in history where our society itself has revolt. You have to inspire them, not to fundamentally change to avoid revolution. Examine the histories of all bore them to death. the empires where the One Percent once You are not Bernie Sanders. You will ruled: Greece, Rome, Persia, Mongolia, have to take a stand on the liberal, progressive issues as voiced by Senators China, and Japan to name a few. One hundred billion humans have lived on Sanders and Warren to millions of young Planet Earth. I wish it were possible to voters.

Forget the Wall Street platform of discover how many have died when moderate Democrats on the Democratic empires have failed to be fair.

National Committee. That’s a disaster.

Joe, everything has to change! Where do you stand on the following In order to beat the psychopath and issues? his 82 million Tweeter zombies you will Economic Inequality: The three richest Americans have more assets than the have to earn the votes of millions of bottom 170 million. Since 1970 the people under the age of 45. You have to convince them you are worth going bottom 50% has earned only $8,000, to the polls. You can’t bank on the idea rising from $19,000 to an average of that The Donald is such a reprehensible $27,000 today. character young people would vote for a In contrast the Top One Percent in chimp or a geranium to throw him out the same period rose from $300,000 to $1.1 million today. The top 0.1% went of office. from more than $1 million to $5 million The only way to win in 2020 is by mobilizing new voters and recent non- today. The 0.01% went from $3.5 voters. Half of the population doesn’t million to more than $24 million today.

In 2018 the top 400 highest earners vote! You need every one of them. paid a tax rate lower than the working

class. Are you in favor of increasing taxes on the rich, whether by a wealth tax or increasing the rate?

As a senator you helped turn Delaware into a U.S. tax haven for corporations. Will you support the elimination of tax havens around the world, including Delaware and South Dakota?

Health Care: We still have about 30 million Americans without health insurance and another 80 million with inadequate insurance, while spending more than $10,000 per capita per year, double what other countries pay for universal care.

An adequate family policy is now in the $25,000 a year range. You have said you would add a public option plan to Obamacare, but we all know that will not cut the profits made by hospitals, insurance companies and the voracious drug companies.

Where do you stand on Bernie’s Medicare for All? Do you even favor universal care?

Do you believe every state should cover its poor by approving Medicaid?

Guess why four organizations opposing Medicare for All have formed Partnership for America’s Health Care Future, a lobbying group of the Federation of America’s Hospitals, Blue Cross, big drug PHARMA, and the doctors of the American Medical Association. They all want to make more profits off the sick and dying.

Student Debt: Actually many elderly are still paying student debt because 43 million Americans still owe $1.6 trillion. What would have happened if the Trump tax cut of $1.5 trillion had been used to pay the student debt instead of putting 85% of the cut in the huge pockets of the rich? Would students have bought stock with their paychecks instead of buying cars, homes, appliances, wedding licenses, baby clothes, and bigger pizzas— instead of living in their parents’ basement? After the Bush Recession cut funding to higher education, tuition increased 36% in the decade following.

With our current economy it’s estimated that 40% of the students who entered college in 2004 will default on payments by 2023. Research indicates that black borrowers after 12 years still owe as much as they borrowed while going to college. The only larger debt is mortgage debt.

Almost $130 billion in student debt is in default right now. Joe, what do you want to do about this educational and economic disaster? Perhaps you should try to answer why Germany, France, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and a host of other countries have abolished tuition. Germany, by

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the way, accepts all students from the European Union for free. Another topic: why should the so-called richest country in the world have 1.5 million homeless children in school? We don’t even grow bananas.

Gun Control: By current estimates we have over 400 million firearms in homes, on the streets, in concealed pockets, and on the shoulders of protesters, militia members, hunters, and collectors. We have millions more in police and military armories waiting for crimes, insurrections, wars, and revolutions. Civilians can legally buy .50 caliber spotting rifles that can destroy an engine block at a mile, military-style assault rifles capable of firing 700 rounds a minute if you modify them with a few parts off the Internet, or AR-15s with 100-round drums, or handguns with 30-round magazines.

Joe, firearms are a public health crisis because they are another pandemic virus that is costing us hundreds of billions of dollars burying 40,000 and treating 100,000 Americans each year. Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb of D.C. we lived in when I was stationed at Quantico, is trying to ban firearms from parks and public buildings. The Virginia Citizens Defense League, wearing “Guns Save Lives” badges and T-shirts, is opposed to the change. Please send me your research on how guns save lives.

What’s your plan, Joe? Remember, your opponent said he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and not lose any votes of his cult. For the first time in his life he may be nudging the truth.

There are other major issues on the 2020 table: climate change, immigration, criminal and police law reform, post office funding, child care, family leave, and oreign policy to name a few more. What’s your position, Joe? You only have four months.

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?

Yeah, we’re talking to you... you’re still texting and talking on your phone while driving.

Reminder to all Minnesota drivers as of August 1, 2019 it is illegal to hold, look at or use your cell phone while driving.

Should The Country Be Cremated, Buried Green, Or Consumed by Vultures?

Last week I suggested that America should be given the last rites. This week, while 535 members of Congress played their fiddles while the empire burned, thousands of their constituents in 75 cities protested a white police knee on a Minneapolis black neck. The fires were lit, glass was shattered, and the looters ran.

Then another black man was shot in the back by an Atlanta white cop who thought he had a hunting license. But that is only part of our demise. This July 2, 2020 17

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 Industries entities accountable for perpetuating fraud against Minnesotans.

The lawsuit includes claims for fraud, by 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

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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.”

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hold companies responsible for harms 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

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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

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claims that there is no consensus about 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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stated, then explained that he had recently purchased the aircraft (valued at $1 million) for $20,000 and needed to fly to California to take marijuana and meet his girlfriend. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported that along with a bag of weed, Stienstra had in his possession a glass pipe with remnants of methamphetamine and other drug paraphernalia. New Smyrna Beach police charged Stienstra with grand theft; he was also wanted by Daytona Beach police on charges of grand theft of a motor vehicle. [Daytona Beach News-Journal, 6/22/2020]

Send your weird news items with subject line WEIRD NEWS to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com Complaint department Car buyer Da Tong Yang of Richmond, British Columbia, became so frustrated with his local MercedesBenz dealership that in January he flew to the company’s headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, to seek help. Yang bought his wife, Guifang Huo, a brandnew S550 in 2017, partially because he believed the $155,000 car to be one of the safest vehicles available, but a year later, the couple claimed, the steering wheel locked, causing the car to nearly crash into a concrete wall. MercedesBenz said an “internal electrical issue” was at fault and assured the couple it was fixed. Yang wasn’t convinced, demanded his money back or a replacement car, then sued the company when it declined. The case has languished in court, prompting Yang’s trip to Stuttgart in early June “to find justice, not only for him but also for other drivers,” he told the Richmond News. Despite his personal appearance, litigation is still underway. [Richmond News, 6/8/2020] No good deed goes unpunished An unnamed 66-year-old woman in Ewing, New Jersey, gave $1 to a man begging in a drugstore parking lot on June 18 and became the victim of a carjacking, according to the Associated Press. Ewing police said Tomasz Dymek, 31, of Queens, New York, “was not satisfied with the dollar, so he forced his way into the victim’s vehicle and drove from the lot, sitting on top of her in the driver’s seat.” Witnesses alerted police, who followed Dymek into Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, where the car broke down and officers arrested him. [Associated Press, 6/19/2020] Bright idea Bradley Bell, head writer for The Bold and the Beautiful, told the New York Post

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the show is experimenting with using blowup dolls in love scenes as the daytime soap, in hiatus since March, resumed taping on June 17. Challenged to adhere to COVID-19 protocols, Bell said, “We put our heads together trying to figure out a way to make these scenes work without breaking the eight-foot (distancing) rule ... and we brought out a doll we used years ago as a corpse.” The result, he said, “was very convincing ... We’ll be using her with hair and makeup as a stand-in to match some of our leading ladies.”

The show has also recruited some of the actors’ spouses as body doubles.

“We’ve had stunt doubles before,” Bell said, “but this is the first time we’ve had kissing doubles.” [New York Post, 6/17/2020] Least competent, most ambitious criminals • Donnovan Russell Jester, 28, of Largo, Florida, was arrested on June 18 for grand theft of a vessel – a $900,000, 46-foot-long yacht. The Tampa Bay Times reported the theft took place March 20 at Thunder Marine, where Pinellas County deputies said the 2019 Jeanneau Leader was stolen and driven into four channel-marker pilings, doing about $60,000 worth of damage, before being abandoned to drift in an oyster bed. Investigators found Jester’s thumbprint on a cabin door; he was held at the Pinellas County jail on $50,000. [Tampa Bay Times, 6/23/2020] • At 1:28 a.m. on June 20, airport air traffic control in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, contacted police about a distress call coming from an aircraft.

Officers already at the airport trying to locate a car they believed had been stolen from Daytona Beach found Robert Stienstra, 22, of DeBary, Florida, sitting in the airplane on the airport apron, according to an arrest report.

Stienstra asked an officer whether he knew how to fly a plane, the report

News that sounds like a joke After falling asleep following a 10-bottle beer-drinking binge, and failing to heed nature’s call for 18 hours, a 40-year-old Chinese man identified as Mr. Hu was diagnosed with a burst bladder, the New York Post reported on June 23. The man appeared at Zhuji People’s Hospital in Zhejiang, China, complaining of searing abdominal pain, and doctors discovered three tears in his bladder, one of which had caused his intestines to spill into the bladder. Mr. Hu underwent emergency surgery and was able to recover. [New York Post, 6/23/2020] The litigious society The Tampa Bay Times reports that Kris Hedstrom of Odessa, Florida, filed suit against her neighbor, Heather Dayner, in late May, demanding a paternity test for the five goats she purchased from Dayner or a full refund. Hedstrom bought the five Nigerian Dwarf goats – Bella, Gigi, Rosie, Zelda and Margoat – in December, paying $900, and expected to register them with the American Dairy Goat Association, according to the lawsuit.

Registered goats have higher value than nonregistered goats. But the ADGA denied Hedstrom’s application because Dayner is not a member of the

organization, and Dayner now accuses Hedstrom of trespassing on her farm and harassing her with calls to the police. “She’s been a nightmare of a neighbor,” Dayner said. Dayner plans to represent herself in court in July.

[Tampa Bay Times, 6/23/2020] Ironic Researchers at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, have made an unexpected discovery in their study of the endangered night parrot, one of only two nocturnal parrot species in the world: It has poor night vision. The night parrot lives in Australia’s outback and differs from the other nocturnal parrot, New Zealand’s kakapo, which has lost its ability to fly, ABC reported.

“The night parrot still flies, and there lies the problem of the bird running into things,” said Dr. Vera Weisbecker, which may be contributing to its decline. [ABC, 6/11/2020] Creme de la Weird Koji Ishii, 39, of Tokyo, admits his passion is sometimes more like a “curse”: He is compelled to document every lost glove he sees on the streets of his city. He photographs and records details about each one, whether they’re stuck in drains or washed up on a beach, but never touches or removes them. In 15 years, he’s curated more than 5,000 stray gloves, including children’s mittens, heavy workingman’s gloves and lacy ladies’ accessories. “I live with the constant fear that there might be a glove right around the corner,” Ishii told AFP. He even gets off buses before his stop if he sees a glove on the ground. For him, the attraction is thinking about how the glove got there and who once wore it. “Lone gloves are a constantly changing, dynamic phenomena,” Ishii said. [AFP via Yahoo News, 6/18/2020]

Why shop locally?

Reason #1 Keep dollars in Duluth’s economy For every $100 spent at a locally owned business, $45 stays in the local economy, creating jobs and expanding the city’s tax base. For every $100 spent at a national chain or franchise store, only $14 remains in the community

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All you need to know to fire up the grill Assuming I’m not the only one who fails to do a deep clean on the outdoor grill after every use, today, I have lots of tips and tricks for cleaning and by cooking on a grill.

Let’s hear it for summer; let the grilling begin!

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ALL-PURPOSE DEGREASER Pour these ingredients into a 16-ounce spray bottle, and shake to mix well: 2 cups hot tap water 2 tablespoons baking soda, 2 teaspoons blue Dawn Juice of one lemon Spray on; scrub as needed; wipe dry.

Then fire up the grill to high heat.

In the meantime, soak a stack of newspapers in water to get them quite saturated. Turn the grill off, and open the lid. Carefully, lay the wet newspapers on top of the still-hot grate. Close the lid. The heat and the wet newspaper will create a steamcleaning action. After 15 minutes or so, carefully open the lid. Remove the soggy newspapers, and wipe the grate clean.

ALUMINUM FOIL This is a strategy to create a kind of self-cleaning on your grill, provided it is gas- or propane-powered and has a lid. Just be careful here, as you will be using very high heat.

Lay several sheets of aluminum foil over the grill rack/grate, covering it fully from side to side, front to back.

Now turn all the burners on high, and close the lid. The foil is going to trap the heat below, causing the temperature to soar. This will burn off all of the grease and gunk in the same way this happens when you use the self-cleaning option on your traditional oven.

DO NOT leave this unattended, and don’t allow it to “self-clean” for hours on end. Twenty to 30 minutes should do it. Please use caution. This is an extreme cleaning method, so a word to the wise should be sufficient.

HEAVY-DUTY CLEANING A commercial cleaner that works well on gunked-up grills is EasyOff Professional Oven and Grill Cleaner, available online and in some supermarkets.

GRILL MAT I bless the day someone invented the grill mat. Made of silicone, it’s just a thin piece of flexible material that

keeps hot surfaces clean. I lay a mat right on top of the grill and then put the burgers on top of it. I don’t know how it happens, but the burgers don’t stick; they grill up beautifully, and the grill below stays perfectly clean. I throw grill mats in the dishwasher, and they come out like new.

THERMOMETER I’m convinced that the secret to good grilling is temperature control.

I’m not talking about a dial on the grill itself, although that is handy. I mean the internal temperature of whatever you’re grilling. Keeping an eye on that is the secret. The easiest way is with a quick-read food thermometer.

I heartily recommend the ThermoPop thermometer. It gives fast readings for whatever you’re cooking, and it easily rotates so you can see it at any angle. It comes with a backlight and is available in many cool colors.

MARINADE It’s the secret to making a tough cut of meat as succulent and tender as a prime cut. Just make sure your marinade of choice contains an acid, such as vinegar, lemon or wine. Acid breaks down the meat to make it tender. Enzymatic action from wine, beer, cider and soy sauce also helps.

SAFETY Outdoor grilling always brings visions of groups of people hanging around a blazing hot heat source — some of them children. Common sense and reasonable safety measures are mandatory.

The grill should be placed away from the home and deck railings and out from under eaves and overhanging branches.

Keep children and pets away from the grill area.

Keep your grill clean by removing grease or fat buildup from the grills and in trays below the grill.

Never leave your grill unattended.

For more information about the resources included in today’s article, along with a link to Mary’s favorite marinade recipes, go to https://www. everydaycheapskate.com/grill.

Would you like more information?

Go to EverydayCheapskate.com for links and resources for recommended products and services in this column.

Mary invites questions, comments and tips at EverydayCheapskate.com. This column will answer questions of general interest, but letters cannot be answered individually. Mary Hunt is the founder of EverydayCheapskate.com, a lifestyle blog, and the author of the book Debt-Proof Living.

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Habits to cultivate

BY CHARLYN FARGO Creators Syndicate

This shelter-in-place time has had me thinking about habits – the things I do on a daily basis to stay healthy.

I think it’s because so many habits were changed unexpectedly – driving to work, going to the gym, eating out.

My daily commute is now up the stairs to my office; my workout is a two-mile walk in the neighborhood; we

eat all our meals at home.

To be honest, some of the new habits are refreshing. I love to cook; I love to be outside and walk. There are certain advantages to working at home.

I admit I miss personal interaction,

and yes, there is Zoom, but it’s not the same.

We can use this time at home more (and even with the lessening of restrictions, I think we’ll be home more) to create some healthier food

habits.

I’ve shared before that my mom had breast cancer twice in her life – battled and won both times – only to have her heart eventually give out. Because of my breast cancer history, I’m tuned

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When it comes to food, the latest recommendations are tried and true.

Focus on vegetables, fruits and whole grains. The rest of your plate should be filled with lean protein (poultry, fish, lean beef or pork).

The goal is to try to eat more plantforward meals. Veggies, fruits and whole grains offer fiber, which helps us feel full and can help keep our weight at a healthy number.

When it comes to alcohol, less is better. Just two to three servings of wine, beer or liquor a day increase your risk of breast cancer by 20% compared with women who don’t drink at all.

A five-ounce glass of wine a day only increases your risk slightly.

And don’t skip working out. Regular physical exercise lowers the risk. (We knew that, right?) That’s where good habits take over.

Keep making meals at home. Add quinoa to your salads; switch to brown rice and whole-wheat bread. Check the label to make sure that slice of bread has at least 3 grams of fiber. If you want a glass of wine, have it with a meal. And get some exercise daily.

Make it part of your routine.

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Go ahead and schedule that mammogram. The time it takes is well worth the peace of mind it gives you.

Some of us need them yearly; some need scans as well as mammograms.

Listen to your doctor.

We can turn this shelter-at-home time into a benefit.

Like my mom would say, make a list of what you want to accomplish each day, and check it off as you go. Just be sure to add exercise and healthy eating.

Q and A Q: I know I need to eat more fish, but I worry about the mercury levels.

Should I eat fish anyway?

A: Fish should be included in a healthy meal plan. It is high in protein, low in saturated fat and a good source of omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins D and B2, iron, iodine, magnesium and potassium. Eating fish once or twice a week may reduce the risk of several chronic diseases, including stroke, depression, Alzheimer’s and heart disease. The key is to choose low-mercury fish such as salmon, mackerel, anchovies, sardines and herring. Pregnant or nursing women should avoid fish with high

levels of mercury, which include large, longer-living fish such as shark, swordfish and large tuna. Canned light tuna is made from smaller tuna, so it has lower levels of mercury than large tuna.

When it comes to eating fish, the health benefits outweigh the small risk of mercury for most of us. Enjoy fish one to two times a week. Choose fish high in omega-3s, and opt for canned light tuna.

RECIPE Adding bold flavors to food can transform an ordinary dish into something memorable. Try this Salmon with Chopped Tomatillo Salad from Eating Well magazine for a new take on this healthy fish.

SALMON WITH CHOPPED TOMATILLO SALAD 1 1/2 pounds salmon fillet, cut into 4 pieces 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt, divided 1/2 teaspoon ground pepper, divided 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin 8 ounces tomatillos, husked, rinsed and chopped 1 medium tomato, chopped 1/2 cup fresh cilantro, chopped

1/2 cup red onion, chopped 1 medium jalapeno pepper, chopped 2 tablespoons lime juice Position rack in upper third of oven; preheat broiler to high. Place salmon on a rimmed baking sheet. Drizzle with 1 tablespoon oil, and sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper and cumin. Broil the salmon until it is opaque and flakes easily with a fork, 6 to 9 minutes. Meanwhile, combine tomatillos, tomato, cilantro, onion, jalapeno and lime juice with the remaining 1 tablespoon oil and 1/4 teaspoon each salt and pepper in a medium bowl. Serve the salmon over the salad. Serves 4 (4 ounces salmon and 1 cup salad each).

Per serving: 267 calories; 29 grams protein; 8 grams carbohydrates; 13 grams fat (2 grams saturated); 66 milligrams cholesterol; 4 grams total sugars (0 added); 2 grams fiber; 434 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. Distributed by Creators Syndicate, creators.com.

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Become a Loonatic with a kolsch Right off the bat, I fell in love with Inbound Brewco’s Loon Kolsch.

This beer speaks to you immediately with a heavenly aroma that reminds me of ripe orchards and good cheer.

Technically, this is not a kolsch, but rather a kolsch-style ale.

In 1997, the city of cologne, Germany, was awardedby the European Union the designation “Protected Geographical Indication” (PBI) for kolsch beer, meaning that the only brewers of kolsch had by to either be making it in the city or within a 50-mile radius of the city, Anything outside of that perimeter is kolsch-style.

So, consider kolsch the champagne

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of German beers.

But even before it gained PGI status., most everyone recognized kolsch as one of the few beers specific to a city or region, just like its neighboring cousin just to the north and on the other side of the Rhine, alt beer from the city of Dusseldorf.

Both alt and kolsch are ales that are brewed with top-fermenting yeast and cold conditioned (or lagered), rendering a soft, smooth lager-like ale – regional hybrids of both ale and lager. Both of these unique hybrids are extremely sessionable beers.

Here’s a beer-drinking game for you – How many other cities or regions are known for a particular beer? If that gets too tough, name cities that are associated with particular beer brands.

Kolsch is a widely imitated style among craft brewers. That’s because it’s a highly drinkable beer that pleases many different tastes.

The lager yeast and probably the lagering process as well tamp down the natural fruity esters that develop in

ales.

However, Loon Kolsch from the Minneapolis Inbound Brewco has a definite fruity presence that I really enjoyed. No definite fruitiness I could put my finger on, just a pleasant fresh fruit feeling in the beer.

The label encourages us to escape with this beer, or is it says, “Its sweet loon call sins ‘Pew Pew’ like the siren of Minnesota’s lakes.”

I like it – the siren song of the loon. I guess I’ve always thought of the loon’s call as the most melancholy song ever

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heard on this planet, but since Loon Kolsch is such a happy beer, I might have to rethink how the call of the loon.

There’s a lot going on in this tasty but seemingly simple beer. Well done, ya loonies!

I still say my favorite craft brewed kolsch-style ale name comes from the Crystal Lake Brewery in the Illinois town of the same name – they call their kolsch Too Much Cologne.

Genius!

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.

Trade chicken or fish – such as salmon – for red meat on the grill, and trade leafy greens for higher fat sides such as potato salad.

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Four sparklers for the 4th If you’re among those who enjoy a little pop in your July 4th celebration, the sound of a sparkling-wine cork exiting the bottle by is probably music to your ears. With so many July 4th firework displays canceled due to the COVID-19 threat, opening a bottle of bubbly could well be the only discernible pop you hear.

With that in mind, I’ve selected four all-American bubblies to help you make it through the night, two in what I would describe as the top tier of sparkling wine in the United States and two I would describe as exceptional value bubblies that overdeliver in relation to price.

Always high on my list of toptier sparklers are the Domaine Carneros brut rose ($44) and the J Vineyards Cuvee 20 ($45). The current release of the Domaine Carneros brut rose is from the 2016 vintage. The J Cuvee 20 is a superb multi-vintage brut that shows off the potential for bubbly made in the Russian River Valley, where pinot noir and chardonnay reign. You really can’t go

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wrong with either of these beauties.

On the value side, the non-vintage Korbel Blanc de Noirs ($13.99) is a gem and probably the most consistent of all the Korbel sparklers, which, in general, are exceptionally consistent. Then there is a newbie (at least to me) called Bash! sparkling rose ($13.99).

It comes with a generic “California” appellation, and it was a surprise gold-medal winner at the recent San Diego International Wine & Spirits Challenge.

And there you have it: your very own July 4th fireworks in a bottle!

Best Value 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.

Hahn 2019 Rose, Monterey County ($15) – This producer has had excellent success through the years with its moderately priced portfolio of premium wines. I gather this is a blend of red grapes sourced from Monterey County because the individual

varieties aren’t listed.

Nevertheless, you will find this stainless steel-fermented rose impressive for its freshness and balance, with exceptional persistence of flavor on the palate. It shows notes of strawberry and raspberry supported by vibrant acidity. Rating: 90.

Josh Cellars 2019 Pinot Grigio, California ($12) – This latest pinot grigio from Josh is easy to drink and surprisingly complex, showing hints of lime, pear and melon with a subtle touch of spice.

For the price, this is a superb summer sipper that will also pair nicely with steamed clams, mussels and freshly shucked oysters. Rating: 88.

Vino dei Fratelli 2018 Montepulciano d’Abruzzo DOC, Italy ($11.99) — During these days of shelter-in-place and takeout only from your favorite restaurants, there is a heightened need for good pizza wines. This Montepulciano d’Abruzzo from Fratelli fits the bill nicely, showing pleasing, ripe red-fruit aromas, mouthwatering acidity and moderate tannins. Rating: 87.

Tasting Notes Gustave Lorentz 2018 Pinot Gris Reserve, Alsace AOC, France ($24.99) – The fragrant 2018 Lorentz reserve is one of the finest examples of pinot gris I’ve tasted in some time. This vintage combines richness with elegance in a white impressive for its complexity and length. On the palate, it shows notes of dried pear and apple, a subtle spice note and an alluring touch of honeysuckle. Rating: 95.

Black Kite 2017 Pinot Noir, Kite’s Rest, Anderson Valley ($50) – Although the Black Kite estate is separated into three distinct vineyard blocks, every vintage, winemaker Jeff Gaffner puts together a blend of the three as Kite’s Rest. The synergy is exceptional, combining elegance and richness for a beautifully balanced, spicy pinot noir. It shows aromas of cherry and raspberry, supple tannins and impressive length on the

finish. Rating: 94.

Chappellet 2018 ‘Grower Collection’ Pinot Noir, Dutton Ranch, Russian River Valley ($49) – This vintage of Chappellet from the famed Dutton Ranch exhibits lifted notes of strawberry and cherry, a touch of earthiness, and notes of wood spice and soft tannins. It’s ready to drink now. Rating: 92.

Black Kite 2017 Pinot Noir, Soberanes Vineyard, Santa Lucia Highlands ($45) – While the Black Kite estate vineyard in Mendocino’s Anderson Valley remains its star attraction, its other wines sourced from far-flung AVAs throughout California merit great respect. Here winemaker Jeff Gaffner has crafted a beautiful pinot noir that delivers on the nose with aromas of dark cherry and tea leaf. On the palate, the wine is delicate and refined, with excellent depth and persistence through the finish.

And the best part is the price, especially for a vineyard-designate pinot noir from a topnotch producer. Rating: 91.

Cortonesi 2015 ‘La Mannella’ Brunello di Montalcino DOCG, Italy ($74.99) – This charming brunello radiates warmth, an earthy nose, and aromas of dried cherry and wood spice. The tannins have integrated beautifully, creating an approachable brunello that is soft and voluptuous and ready to drink now.

Bring on that grilled veal chop! Rating: 91.

Tinto Figuero ‘15’ 2018 Tempranillo Reserva, Ribera del Duero, Spain ($65.99) – The “15” indicates 15 months of barrel age for this exceptional tempranillo. Richly layered and complex, it exhibits a peppery note that complements the bright aromas of cherry and plum, along with subtle hints of fall baking spices. It’s built for the long haul but impressive and enjoyable now. Rating: 91.

Follow Robert on Twitter at @wineguru.

Email Robert at whitleyonwine@yahoo. com.

Abolish the police?

Real change requires changes in beliefs, institutions and laws Abolish the police?

Defund the police?

How can society function without law enforcement?

People are not angels and we don’t live in a utopia. This may sound like a really crazy idea – especially if you are white and have not had to live with racial profiling and excessive use of force common to many minority neighborhoods. But sometimes it is better to start from scratch rather than try to fix what is by hopelessly broken.

We have a 20-yearold car that is getting seriously rusty. A cheap cosmetic repair can make it look better but it won’t eliminate the rust that will continue to rot away the car. To fix it correctly you have to cut away all the rust. This will cost more than the car is worth and we would still have an old car. We either live with the rust – hoping nothing important falls off in the road – or junk it and get a newer vehicle.

Police reform will not be accomplished with cheap, cosmetic fixes. Nor can we continue to live with excessive use of force and lack of respect for minorities and civil liberties. The deeply embedded cultural and systemic rust must be completely cut out of law enforcement.

Unless the racism, bias, excessive use of force, over-policing of poor communities, and lack of accountability are seriously addressed the problems will continue.

Efforts to reform policing have failed many times in the past because the problems have been painted over rather than fixed. Commissions, studies, and politicians pontificating are ways to delay real action and maintain the status quo. It may be time to start from scratch and create a new system of public safety.

This will be huge task.

In this country there is a long history of police using excessive force, primarily against people of color but also against labor organizers, peace

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activists and other social dissidents.

In many ways American history has been a continuous ongoing struggle to live up the the ideals of the founding documents. Too often actual equality and justice for all has not been achieved (or even been the goal).

Greed, violence, guns, racism, poverty and militarism are too deeply embedded in our society. Real change will necessitate serious changes in our beliefs, attitudes, laws and institutions.

It may necessitate taking a risk on new ideas.

There is no doubt that people of color and poor people (often the same people) are frequently treated unfairly by police.

In 2018, ABC news analyzed arrest data voluntarily reported to the FBI by thousands of local police departments.

They determined that in 800 jurisdictions black people were arrested at a rate five times higher than white people. In 250 jurisdictions, black people were 10 times more likely to be arrested than their white counterparts.

Police kill about 1,000 people a year.

Numerous sources report that blacks are killed at double the rate of whites in proportion to their percentage of the population.

A 2016 study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that 52 percent of police shooting victims were white. Blacks were 32 percent of the shooting victims despite being only 13% of the population. The fatality rate was 2.8 times higher for blacks than whites.

There are many other reasons to build a new and better system of public safety in addition to the racial disparities and disproportionate killings.

The current system of policing is costly, inefficient and largely ineffective. Police departments are a major cost item for many local governments.

Police are often the wrong professionals to handle incidents involving homelessness and mental illness.

Current policing practices are not working well and the current system delivers little in terms of real public safety.

Most crimes are not reported to police and most reported crimes are not solved. In 2018, police nationwide “cleared” (i.e., solved or closed for other reasons.) only 46% of reported violent crimes.

For property crimes, the national clearance rate was 18%. The Pew Center says only about half of the violent crimes and a third of the property crimes are even reported to police. Often crimes are not reported because people believe the police can not, or will not, do anything. So most crimes don’t result in the arrest, charging or prosecution of a suspect, according to government statistics.

According to the Washington Post, in 52 cities police have failed to make an arrest in 26,000 killings. Blacks were the victims in 18,600 of those cases and despite being a majority of the homicides, were the least likely of any racial group to have their killings result in an arrest. Police arrested someone in 63 percent of cases with white victims but only 47 percent for black victims.

In addition the entire criminal justice system has many problems.

Courts are overwhelmed with cases and it often takes years to settle cases.

The U.S. leads the world in the number of incarcerated people.

There is little or no rehabilitation, drug counseling, or job training for inmates.

The criminal justice system too often

doesn’t have alternative programs, such as mediation, restorative justice or reconciliation.

The problems with policing are only part of the overall problems with the justice system.

Given all this rust it is not surprising that people are demanding a new approach. The Minneapolis city council has begun the process of changing the police department into the “Department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention.” The new department will have police officers but will also include a “holistic, public health-oriented approach” and use “nonlaw-enforcement experience in community safety services.”

Does this sound crazy?

I don’t think so. We need to build a peaceful law enforcement system based on cooperation and problem solving rather than force, punishment and incarceration. We need trust, fairness, justice and mutual respect between police departments and the communities they serve.

Let’s hope the time has come for real change.

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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

Duluth Herald July 2, 1888 MARINE DOINGS. A 66 foot pleasure steamer has just been launched at Bayfield, the first boat ever built there. She will run on Chequamegon bay.

The steamer City of Traverse, which left for Chicago last Sunday, will not come to Duluth again until September.

She will ply between Chicago and Mackinaw during July and August in the passenger business.

St. Lukes hospital has been awarded the contract of caring for sick and disabled seamen at Duluth for another year and Randall & Kendall will bury the dead from vessels, contracts having been awarded by the treasury department Saturday.

The new ore docks of the Minnesota Iron company at Cleveland have received their first cargo of ore. It comes from two Harbors, as will all that company’s ore, and is the first of a consignment of an amount variously placed at from 200,000 to 300,000 tons. The new dock machinery is of the best build and latest model, and is said to be able to handle about 1,800 tons a day. The company will hereafter handle their ore at Cleveland themselves on the dock.

Duluth Herald July 3, 1890 The steam drill at work at the foundation of the new Lyceum theater seems to me an embodiment of the spirit of Duluth. T has to perform what many might call an impossible

Ad appearing in the July 4, 1900 edition of the Duluth Herald.

Ad appearing in the July 2, 1888 edition of the Duluth Herald. Images and stories courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society.

task, and it steadily pounds away day and night, rain or shine, with a determination to accomplish its task.

Chug-chug-chug, 200 times a minute, never tired, never once thinking of possible failure and determined to build there in a short half year a building of great size and magnificence – if this isn’t the exemplification of Duluth then I’m mistaken in the city and its people. Strangers coming to Duluth, no matter how they may rebel at the steady rhythm of the drill all night, pounding with its gigantic force into the rock, can but feel somewhat of the characteristics in the labor of the machine.

Ad appearing in the July 4, 1900 edition of the Duluth Herald.

people of the city to be on hand. The company will at that time make a test of the intake pipe for the benefit of the council especially. IT is claimed that the pipe is practically tight – that it does not leak any more than a new one would. The council wished to see for itself whether this is true. When a test was made last week it was estimated that the amount of water that came through after the valves had been closed on the point would all come through a three-quarters of an inch pipe under a no greater pressure.

Ad appearing in the July 4, 1900 edition of the Duluth Herald.

Ad appearing in the July 5,1910 edition of the Duluth Herald.

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Duluth Herald July 4, 1900 To Test the Pipe.

Superior people have for a long time been having a great time over the intake pipe through which the water supply f the city is drawn. Does it leak or does it not, is the question.

Thursday afternoon the council of that city is going to make a personal investigation, and invites all the

Duluth Herald July 5, 1910 HULDA ALSAKER KILLS HERSELF Former Duluth Woman Drops 120 Feet at International Falls.

International Falls, Minn. (Special to The Herald) – Hulda Alsaker, a servant in a local hotel, who came from Duluth six weeks ago, committed suicide last night by ascending the pulpwood conveyor at the paper mill and dropping to the ground, a distance of 126 feet. Every bone in her body was broken, and some were forced through the skin.

Ad appearing in the July 3, 1890 edition of the Duluth Herald.

The woman has been despondent and had acted strangely for several days. A watchman saw her climb the stairs to the top, and then hang by her hands and drop.

Editor’s note: Neither the Duluth nor Superior directory gives the name of Hulda Alsaker.

Duluth Herald June 29, 1920 OFFICIALS IN JURY’S QUIZ City and County Authorities Are Witnesses in Lynch Probe.

City and county authorities were the only witnesses quizzed before the special grand jury investigating the Duluth lynching of three negroes on June 15, when it resumed its sessions this morning after a recess since Friday afternoon. The witnesses called this morning were: Fire Chief Joseph Randall, Sheriff Frank L. Magie, Assistant County Attorney Elmer W. McDevitt, J.C. Brown, deputy sheriff; Earl W. McKenna, city detective and Arthur Johnson, police driver.

County Attorney Warren E. Greene said at noon today that no arrangements had yet been made to arraign in court any of the eight young men at the county jail who were indiced June 29 and July 1 by the grand jury on a charge of first degree murder in connection with the lynching. It is expected, however, that the prisoners will be arraigned within a short time.

No new developments were presented this morning with reference to the petition, which has been filed with the district court asking that a writ of habeas corpus for the release of the thirteen negroes held at the county jail in connection with the alleged assault upon the 18-year-old West Duluth girl, the affair which prompted the lynching. So far as could be learned today, the writ had not as yet been served upon the sheriff.

Ad at left appeared in the July 4,1900 edition of the Duluth Herald, and the one above appeared in the July 5, 1910 edition.

Ad appearing in the July 7, 1920 edition of the Duluth Herald.

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The new normal in voting

By Peter Callaghan Minneapolis Elections Director Grace Wachlarowicz was already preparing for a stressful election season. A coronavirus pandemic that threatens the safety of polling places and a surge in no-excuse absentee applications driven by fears of infection will tend to do that.

Then, just before early voting for Minnesota’s primary election was to begin, she and other elections officials around the state got word that they’d be dealing with yet another by wrinkle to voting in 2020: Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon agreed to waive the state’s witness requirement for absentee ballots, a decision that came out of a lawsuit seeking to ease the rules for mail-in voting.

As part of a consent decree be-tween Simon and the plaintiffs in that suit, the Minnesota Alliance of Retired Persons, state and local elections officials are required to notify voters of the change to the witness requirement.

So Wachlarowicz gathered all the staff she could muster and began to replace the voting instructions for thousands of ballot envelopes that had already been prepared for voters.

The work was finishing Thursday as another batch of newly printed inserts arrived at the city’s elections center off East Hennepin Avenue, which was just then also being prepared to accept the first early in-person voters on Friday.

There were signs encouraging masks and social distancing, sanitized pens to fill out forms, plexiglass shields separating voters from poll workers, and notifications indicating whether voting booths had been sanitized after the previous voter.

Altogether, it is a preview of what voting will look like around the state on Aug. 11, Minnesota’s primary election day, and – potentially – during the 2020 general election.

In response to COVID-19, the Minnesota Legislature agreed earlier this year to a compromise election bill that did not, as DFLers preferred, shift Minnesota to an all-mail election, though it did release federal and state

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Minneapolis Elections Director Grace Wachlarowicz preparing to accept the first early in-person voters at the elections center off East Hennepin Avenue. Photo by Peter Callaghan. money to promote no-excuse absentee balloting and help elections officials deal with the expected influx of mailed ballots.

The money will also allow those officials to provide more space and more sanitation at the polls. Still, the hope is that fewer voters will choose in-person voting as an option. “We are strongly encouraging vote-by-mail because that is the safest way to vote in COVID conditions,” Wachlarowicz said.

For its part, Minneapolis is planning for up to half of the city’s electorate this year to vote early or by mail, Wachlarowicz said, and up to 70 percent to vote by mail in the November general election.

So far, the application numbers have indicated that voters are on board in making that shift. As of Friday, the Secretary of State reported that 207,835 absentee ballot applications statewide had been received. That compares to 7,939 at this time in 2018 and 8,964 in 2016.

Minneapolis expects to mail out 24,000 ballots on Friday with updated guidance on the witness rules to voters who requested them earlier in the month. By comparison, the number of requests for the entire 2016 primary season in Minneapolis was 1,350.

Voters can continue to ask for a ballot right up to the election, but ballots must be postmarked by election day and be received no later than two days after election day.

That provision could mean another

big change for voters, said Simon: the results of close races may not be known on election night. In all voteby-mail states like Washington, Oregon

and Utah, voters often have to wait days before final results are known.

“This is going to be a different kind of election night,” Simon said. “We might not have a full picture. No one loves election night more than me. It is like the Super Bowl and the World Series combined. But we might not get that instant gratification that we’re used to on election night, not just in Minnesota but everywhere around the country.”

The new law also allows local officials to begin opening and processing mailed ballots and in-person earlyvotes 14 days before election day rather than seven days, which was the rule under the old law.

Voters who prefer to vote in person will still have the ability to do so. But polling places might be in different locations – and will certainly look different from what voters are accustomed to. The state has sent money to counties and cities to make their own preparations for the first COVID-impacted election.

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Duluth native John Gilbert covered Team USA from its inception through the Olympic tournament for the Minneapolis Tribune. With the 40th anniversary of what has been called the greatest sports achievement of the 20th century approaching, the timing was perfect for scouring his carefully-preserved notes for the nuggets that created this historic retelling of a championship that can never be duplicated.

Learn new insights about Team USA’s rise from being seeded seventh to upsetting the Soviet Union during an undefeated run that was climaxed by beating Finland for the gold medal.

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Tree peonies and dwarf Korean lilacs 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. 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?

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 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. by Tree peonies can be grown in agricultural zones four through eight.

Tree peonies are divided into five groups. The 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. Their cultivars have Greek mythological names.

The Sir Peter Smithers hybrids were created by Smithers in the past 50 years and are named after his family and friends.

The American hybrids have been bred for North American conditions, 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 the incredible flowers of the tree peonies, but die back like the 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.

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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 and sold or labeled in a confusing way.

Miss Kim is sometimes listed as a plant that only grows 3 feet tall, but it can grow up to 10 feet high and wide.

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.

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Program for the Aid of Victims of Sexual Assault (PAVSA): 218-726-1931 Finances If you need assistance finding food, paying housing bills or other essential services, dial the United Way Helpline at 211. (In Minnesota you may also dial 800-543-7709 and in Wisconsin 877-947-2211.)

When families are faced with financial uncertainty or sudden income loss, addressing the situation takes more than just thinking about dol-

lars and cents, says Lori Hendrickson, Extension Educator and an accredited financial counselor with University of Minnesota Extension.

“Often, when layoffs and income reduction happen, we are experiencing shock and denial that keep us from immediately making adjustments in our spending to keep us on solid ground,” according to Hendrickson.

Layoffs due to the COVID-19 pandemic are an example of events that can have significant financial impact on many families in Minnesota.

Working through the grief caused by a sudden drop in income allows families to plan for how to adjust their finances with clear heads, and the entire family should be a part of those conversations.

Hendrickson advises, “When we are adjusting spending, it’s important to include the whole family. Talk about items in the budget that are necessary and those that can be put off or elimi-

nated altogether. Ask these questions: • Can we substitute a less costly item?

• How can we avoid waste?

• Are there opportunities to work with others by trading or sharing what we can do?

• Can we save if we do it ourselves?

• Can we do without?

After determining the impact of the income loss, Hendrickson says to be sure to talk with creditors to let them know the situation and discuss when and how you may make payments.

For more information on COVID-19 resources, including managing income loss, visit: https://extension.umn.edu/ news/coping-covid-19 Food AEOA food shelves (St. Louis County): 800-662-5711 Damiano Center, 206 W. Fourth St., provides free bagged meals in the parking lot Monday, Wednesday, Friday,

Saturday and Sunday for: Continental breakfast 8:30-9:30 a.m.

Lunch 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Dinner 5-6 p.m. (Fri., Sat., Sun. only) Kids’ Kitchen, 2nd Ave. W., serves boxed meals Mon-Thurs 3-6 p.m.

Damianocenter.org Burrito Union, 1332 E. 4th St., offers free kids lunch Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Donations may be sent to Burrito Union, c/o #FeedTheKids, 1332 E. 4th St., Duluth MN 55805.

Second Harvest Northern Lakes Food Bank (NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin): 218-727-5653 Superior Public Schools has a mobile service that provides breakfast and lunch at various locations (Superior High School, SuperOne, WalMart, Park Place and more) weekdays 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. For times and locations go to superior.k12.wi.us or call 715-394-8707.

Union Gospel Mission, 219 E. First St., Duluth, serves curbside lunches Tuesday and Thursday 12-12:30 p.m.

Dinners served Sunday through Friday 4:30-5:15 p.m.

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(Douglas County 715-395-1304) Essentia Health: essentiahealth.org, 855-469-6532 Lake Superior Community Health Center, lschc.org Duluth: 218-722-1497 Superior: 715-392-1955 St. Luke’s: slhduluth.com, 218-249-5555 Wisconsin State Health Dept.: 608-258-0099 Housing St. Louis County Southern Triage Team: 218-733-2717 Northern St. Louis County Triage Team: 218-471-7391 Illegal evictions during crisis: HOME Line Tenant Hotline: 612-728-5767 Legal Action of Wisconsin: 855-947-2529 MN housing question hotlines: For single-family residences: 651-296-8215 For multi-family residences:

651-297-4455 Jobs CareerForce Duluth: 218-302-8400 Northwest Wisconsin Job Center: 715-392-7800 Minnesota hotlines Health questions: 800-657-3903 School and childcare questions: 800-657-3504 Discrimination Helpline: 833-454-0148 Report a concern about the stay at home order: 651-793-3746 Minnesota Responds Partnership that engages volunteer programs to strengthen public health, preparedness and recovery. Become a qualified volunteer by completing online orientation. mnresponds.org Seniors Age Well Arrowhead delivers groceries to seniors and needs volunteers to make the deliveries. Students home from school also wanted to make check-in phone calls to seniors and make cards that can be delivered with the groceries. 218-623-7800.

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Resource Center: 715-395-1234.

Senior Linkage Line (800-333-2433) is a free service for Minnesotans that can help adults 60 and older find answers questions and locate services.

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Information about Wisconsin Unemployment may be found at dwd. wisconsin.gov or call 608-266-3131.

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Harnessing biological impulses manufacturing” (e.g., 3D printing) at architectural scales.

Currently the small size of 3D printers restricts the usefulness in realworld applications for this emerging technology. Putting 3D printers on huge robotic arms and combining the technology with natural forms of

The best-known example of Neri Oxman’s work to date in “Material Ecology” is the socalled Silk Pavilion whereby 6,500 silkworms were fed and released onto a human-designed, robot-created cocoon-like dome structure, eventually completing the human/natural architecture by weaving a silk cover.

Credit: Mediated Matter Group, MIT. Dear EarthTalk: Can you explain the concept of “Material Ecology” as advertised in a new Museum of Modern Art exhibit? – Nancy R., New York, NY A: Israeli-born designer and architect Neri Oxman, founding director of the Mediated Matter Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, coined the term Material Ecology to describe a process of combining materials science, digital fabrication technologies and organic design to produce techniques and objects informed by the by structural, systemic and aesthetic wisdom of nature.

Oxman’s vision involves harnessing biological impulses to grow and build in the pursuit of developing structures out of natural elements alongside manmade designs and parts.

“It is the definition of ecology – the branch in biology that deals with the relations between organisms and their physical surroundings – applied to all things man-made or humandesigned,” she tells Dezeen. “Biology is far more refined and sophisticated than material practices involved in polymers, concrete, steel and glass,” she adds. “But what if we could change that by creating new technologies that

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can vary the physical properties of matter at a resolution and sophistication that approaches that of the natural world?”

The best-known example of Oxman’s work to date is the so-called Silk Pavilion, first conceived at MIT in 2013, whereby 6,500 silkworms were fed and released onto a humandesigned, robot-created cocoon-like dome structure, eventually completing the human/natural architecture by weaving a silk cover.

Animal rights activists might at first be alarmed at the concept of enslaving silkworms to make use of their biological product for human benefit, but taking a wider view of the situation affords a more humane conclusion.

Oxman points out that the traditional process of harvesting silk (“sericulture”) kills silkworm larva, effectively sacrificing the next generation of silkworms for the sake of producing silk.

“In the textile and silk industry today, silkworms are exterminated while in their cocoon, dissolving the adhesive that glues one strand of silk to the layers below,” reports Oxman.

“This process allows a single silk strand to be unrolled from the cocoon, but disrupts the life cycle and development of the organism.”

But in creating the silk cover for the pavilion, the silkworms’ product ends up in use as strands in the structure’s cover instead of as the walls of a cocoon; no silkworms-to-be are harmed.

Oxman hopes her work can highlight that, with creative thinking, we can overcome the limitations of “additive

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building (like the silkworm’s silk) could revolutionize how we build.

“In the future, we will not build our products and our architecture; rather we will grow them,” Oxman predicts. “But it will take a village, not a lab.”

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Q: I recently read that a “toilet plume” could carry COVID-19 viral particles into the air, and that public restby rooms are especially risky because the toilets have no lids.

I have been concerned about this possibility for years.

So even at home, I cover the toilet with newspaper, close the lid and then flush the toilet. I throw the newspaper in the garbage before I wash my hands thoroughly. You will be surprised how damp the newspaper gets from just one flush.

A: Physicists recently modeled the behavior of fluids when a toilet is flushed and warned about the toilet plume (Physics of Fluids, June 16, 2020).

They found that a fine mist could rise up to a yard above the toilet and recommend closing the lid before flushing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that this is unnecessary, however, as they have no confirmed reports of anyone catching COVID-19 from a flushing toilet.

Q: My knowledge of the current safety of prescription medication in the United States started when I read the book Bottle of Lies. After reading it, I sent two of my metformin tablets to be analyzed. The analysis revealed that my daily metformin medication provided more than 30 times the maximum safe level of the carcinogen NDMA. I wrote to the president of my mail-order pharmacy and received a reply that they only provide medications approved by the Food and Drug Administration. This past week, the medication provider (located in India) “voluntarily” recalled my specific metformin “out of an abundance of caution.” That was after the FDA finally issued a recall of many lots of metformin from several manufacturers. How can I have any confidence in the medicine I take?

A: Until recently, pharmacies did not have to worry about drug quality. As long as the FDA approved a generic drug, pharmacy buyers assumed that they could purchase the

lowest cost medicines.

In Bottle of Lies, Katherine Eban investigated generic drug manufacturing overseas and uncovered serious problems. More recently, research revealed that a number of common prescription drugs contained probable carcinogens such as NDMA. Quality control, storage and shipping conditions have contributed to these impurities.

Authorized generic drugs might be one option. These are made to the same specifications as the brand-name products. Sometimes they are even made on the same manufacturing line.

Q: I was hospitalized last year with a serious asthma attack. At that point, my blood pressure was high, but I monitor it at home. It is normally 120 over 76.

A couple of doctors got angry at me because I would not agree to take blood pressure medicine upon discharge. One doctor even said, “I don’t care WHAT your blood pressure is normally.” Shouldn’t they pay more attention?

A: Hospitals can be scary places, especially when you are having trouble breathing. We’re not surprised that your blood pressure might have been elevated.

Home blood pressure measurement can be an accurate reflection of hypertension (Journal of the American Heart Association, Oct. 16, 2018). Ideally, you would measure your BP twice in the morning and twice in the evening for several days to get an average you can show your primary care physician.

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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 date that was announced in April.

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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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 or over the phone.

Masks are required for all visitors. For those who don’t own a mask, they will

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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.

• 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

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 previously released successful cookbooks, The Duluth Grill Cookbook (2014) and The Duluth Grill Cookbook II (2016). Both of those were penned by Lillegard.

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.

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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.

flowers, crafts and value-added foods such as jam and kim chi. A COVID-19 Preparedness Plan has been developed for each market and new physicaldistancing 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-toone, 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.

Two more farmers markets to visit 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,

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Two promoted at North Shore Bank North Shore Bank is pleased to announce the promotion of Brenda Brannan to executive vice president

and Jeff Cooper to vice president, trust manager.

Brenda Brannan has more than 30 years of experience in the banking industry with a diverse background including trust, business and private banking. In her new role, Brenda will be responsible for managing and driving innovation and technology initiatives for the Bank. Brenda will continue to oversee Investments & Trust, Private Banking, Retirement Solutions, and North Shore Insurance.

“We have all recognized the dramatic role technology and innovation has played in the success of businesses during these current challenging times,” stated Ken Johnson, North Shore Bank President/CEO. “Brenda’s passion and keen ability to implement innovation and technology strategies make her a perfect fit to broaden that role bank-wide.”

Brannan is a graduate of the Minnesota Bankers Commercial Lending School, the University of Wisconsin’s Graduate School of Banking, the Cannon Trust School and is an Accredited ACH Professional (AAP). Additionally, Brenda was honored by Finance and Commerce as one of the 2017 Top Women in Finance.

Jeff Cooper has been with North Shore Bank for the past 15 years and has held various positions within the Investments & Trust Department, most recently as a Trust Executive administering personal trusts, investment accounts, IRA’s, guardianships and estates. In his new role, Cooper will assume management of the administrative and fiduciary responsibilities of the Investments & Trust Department and ensure that North Shore continues to deliver the outstanding service that clients expect.

“Over the years, Jeff has embraced the opportunity to become an industry resource and has developed long-term relationships with both clients and professional associates throughout the community”, said Brenda Brannan, Executive Vice President.

“Jeff’s mentorship and ability to lead are attributes that will benefit the organization for years to come”.

Cooper holds a degree in Economics from the UMD. He is a Certified Trust and Financial Adviser and Accredited Fiduciary Investment Manager.

License tabs late due to backup Minnesotans who mailed in their registration renewal, have not received their tabs due to processing delays and contacted the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Driver and Vehicle

Services division (DPS-DVS) about the issue will receive a verification letter via email to use as proof of registration renewal until their tabs arrive.

DPS-DVS also notified law enforcement that some Minnesotans will not receive their registration stickers before they are required to display the tabs on their license plates. Minnesota law requires Minnesotans to renew vehicle registration by the last day of the expiration month and display the new tabs by the tenth day of the month following the expiration month.

“We know this delay has caused anxiety for some, and we hope that this letter and law enforcement notification will ease the worries of those affected,” Minnesota Department of Public Safety Driver and Vehicle Services Director Emma Corrie said.

“Processing these renewals and getting tabs to customers is a priority, and we’ve dedicated additional staff to process these as quickly as possible. In the meantime, this letter will provide peace of mind to many who are worried about driving without their updated tabs.”

There are approximately 7,700 mailed-in registration renewals dating back to May 11 that require additional processing. DPS-DVS is sending emails with the verification letter attached to Minnesotans who mailed in their registration renewals and reported that they have not received their tabs.

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Challenging racism is no game Rebellion is growing from Minneapolis, where demands to defund the police radiate globally from the site of George Floyd’s murder to cities nationwide, where monuments to Confederate generals, colonizers and others are being torn down.

Some decry this onrushing change: corrupt police unions by dismiss the violence their members wreak with impunity on the civilians they swore to protect, and die-hard defenders of the long dead Confederacy continue to wave its battle flag, forgetting that the last flag flown by the generals they worship, back in 1865, was the white flag of surrender.

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocks any meaningful police reform legislation. While politicians drop the ball, current and retired professional athletes are stepping up, adding momentum to this historical moment.

The power of the Black Lives Matter movement recently surfaced at no more unlikely a venue than a NASCAR racetrack. Darrell “Bubba” Wallace, Jr., the only African American driver in NASCAR’s top races, appeared at a race on June 7 wearing a T-shirt reading “I Can’t Breathe, Black Lives Matter.”

Later, Wallace said on CNN, “No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race.

It starts with Confederate flags. Get them out of here.”

The following day, he drove a car emblazoned with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter and peace signs made of interlocking hands of every color. The car’s hood read, “Compassion, Love, Understanding.”

Hours before the race started, NASCAR issued a statement that read, in part, “The display of the confederate flag will be prohibited from all NASCAR events and properties.”

Sadly, within a week, what looked like a noose was found in Wallace’s garage at the Talladega Superspeed-

NASCAR rallied around its only African American competitor, Darrell “Bubba” Wallace, Jr., when he insisted Confederate flags no longer be allowed on NASCAR grounds.

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way in Alabama. NASCAR alerted Wallace, and the FBI was called to investigate.

On Father’s Day, June 21, a small airplane flew above the Talladega race, towing a large Confederate flag and the slogan, “Defund NASCAR.” The Sons of Confederate Veterans took credit for the racist stunt, attributing it to their “Confederate Air Force.”

On June 25, Wallace’s competitors and their pit crews pushed his car to the front of the line of race cars in a gesture of solidarity.

The FBI later announced its conclusion that the noose was an innocent garage pull-down rope, in place since at least October, long before the garage was assigned to Wallace, and thus not evidence of a hate crime.

“What was hanging in my garage is not a garage pull ... Whether tied in 2019 or whatever, it was a noose,” Wallace responded on CNN. Etan Thomas played in the NBA for 11 years, until 2012. As a player, and now in retirement, he has never shied away from political activism.

With sports journalist Dave Zirin, Thomas co-hosts The Collision: Where Sports and Politics Collide, on Washington, D.C.’s Pacifica Radio station, WPFW. “The part that was really impressive to me is the way NASCAR immediately rallied around Bubba Wallace,” Etan Thomas said on the

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Democracy Now! news hour. “They did more in 48 hours than the NFL did for Colin Kaepernick for four or five years.”

Kaepernick, an African American, was a star NFL quarterback who protested racism and police brutality by kneeling during the national anthem. He played until the end of the 2016 season, after which no NFL team would sign him. He has not played professionally since.

Kaepernick filed a grievance, alleging collusion among the team owners, which he settled in 2019.

Across the sports world, athletes are speaking out, risking their careers.

Renee Montgomery of the Women’s NBA is taking this shortened season off to support Black Lives Matter, tweeting: “There’s work to be done off the court in so many

areas in our community. Social justice reform isn’t going to happen overnight, but I do feel that now is the time.”

Kylin Hill, a star running back at Mississippi State University, threatened to leave MSU’s football program unless Mississippi removes the Confederate battle flag component from its state flag.

And revered NBA legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar, in an impassioned opinion piece in The L.A. Times, wrote: “Racism in America is like dust in the air. It seems invisible – even if you’re choking on it – until you let the sun in. Then you see it’s everywhere. As long as we keep shining that light, we have a chance of cleaning it wherever it lands. But we have to stay vigilant, because it’s always still in the air.”

Retired NBA star Stephen Jackson has been front and center at the protests in Minneapolis. He was friends with George Floyd in Houston and calls himself Floyd’s twin because they looked so alike.

George Floyd loved basketball and should have had many more years to enjoy the game, to enjoy life. For us, the living, still able and obligated to fight systemic racism and police brutality, the ball is in our court.

Amy Goodman is the host of Democracy Now!, a daily international TV/ radio news hour airing on more than 1,400 stations (har it locally weekdays at 9 am on KUMD, 103.3). She is the co-author, with Denis Moynihan and David Goodman, of the New York Times best-seller Democracy Now!: 20 Years Covering the Movements Changing America. (c) 2020 Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan.

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There oughta be a law I’d cringe when an upset oldster lectured “There ought to be a law.”

Likely some law already addressed their complaint. What they wanted was another.

If law A hadn’t done the trick why would law B (through all the other alphabet) do better?

Seems to me a law doesn’t stop violations, by only what we might do about infraction afterward.

In the past those with high standing in the land of crotchety geezers were the ones most frequently calling for more laws. That’s changed.

Calling for new or more laws and reforms is no longer geezer terrain.

It’s gone transgenerational, with a novel virus twist of requiring legal reform and more laws but with fewer enforcers.

That is clever, a tad idealistic maybe, but a bright and challenging vision no less.

Forgive me saying, but adding to law might be one of the more useless things citizens do playing the game of pretending to do something.

Ask this. What’s a greater deterrent for you? Is it fear of punishment or conscience? Do you let a nasty in-law live because you dread plea bargains?

Law does not stay a hand much as character and conscience do.

I personally refuse to shotgun people I don’t like because it’s too quick a death. Something agonizingly slow is more my style; that’s my character at work.

Any case, law usually enters after the deed be done and reams of wise folk looking to cash in start the wrangle over killing versus murder and lots of other shades you or I might never consider. This doesn’t bring back the dead. It does make living legals more secure in their prosperity.

Murder = death = execution becomes years of trials, hearings, re-trials, and stays. See, slow and excruciating just the way I’d like, but is that justice?

A sad limit on justice is the inability to execute a murderer more than once.

I’ve heard only one exception to that, though the liberated mind dismisses it.

In past times some attempt was made to leap over the one-criminal one-death limit by double hanging.

Hang till near dead, take them down, revive, then hang them again, though by then the evil criminal may be too

out of it to appreciate the awfulness of their condition. (Haven’t some serial killers laughed saying they can only be killed once. In the end tally they win.) The Saudi model might warrant consideration. A grievous sinner (Saudi crime is often religious in nature or offense) will be sentenced a lethal number of lashes.

But, people after my own heart, their system will deal out a non-lethal number of blows then allow the sinner recover to continue the punishment at a later date.

There’s justice and mercy all in one roll. (Interestingly, there are groups, some with exceeding high numbers, who define “justice” as whatever they say it is. The same applying to truth, honesty and honor; all done wearing faces of great seriousness.)

Serious tones for serious times, I say.

How do we get to the bottom of things, to root causes, in a time of revolution?

Maybe you’ve heard the same I have lately. The times being what they are call on us to take that into compassionate consideration. A revolutionary climate is stressful, and stress will naturally lead to chemical means for relief. So far so good.

Knowing we should expect more drunks and strung out people we should be tolerant and act in accordance with the spirit of the times.

What’s then seen as “law,” is attached to social climate or setting.

Used to be more of that at times people were cautious about leaving a home area where they were known. Go somewhere you weren’t known and you might be thought a criminal on the run, gypsy, or other undesirable outsider.

One change that catches the attention involves performers. As a traveling trade, musicians and actors were seen as untrustworthy opportunists. Makes sense, really, if we consider acting as dishonesty, of fakery.

The greater the actor the greater the skill at deception.

That’s changed in our times. Has the actor’s craft altered or does an enlightened public have a finer acceptance of fakery?

It would be foul of me as a lowly Ranger to question revering a good faker for doing the things earlier generations held in contempt. You can think that through and decide for

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yourself.

As a society we have more important concerns over law and racism. For the most part (so we were told and thought) old discriminatory segregationist laws were rooted out.

In theory this should have dug up the systemic underpinnings of racial discrimination. Also in theory, so it seems, passage of equal opportunity and fair treatment measures has failed to fix the complaint of systemic racism.

Could there be limits to what law can do?

Maybe the fault lies in lawmakers. If motivated by electoral possibilities the actions of political leaders may show roots of an actor strutting the stage for approval. (I’m not above seeing politics as competing troupes of vaudeville clowns, but that’s just me.)

So what are we left with? If removing old laws, passing new ones, and the efforts of lawmakers have not fixed the problem what’s left?

Do we try again?

Is it time for reflection?

Is it time for revolution?

I’m too ole to be practical as a revolutionary. Assaulting a barricade would be my end, but I can maybe add something.

Here’s how it seems: If racism hasn’t been scoured from society by laws and lawmakers maybe that’s because it doesn’t roost there. Racism does not cause itself.

If systemic racism is a fact it can only come from people; racist. Systemic racism points to lots of racists.

We’d need lots of enforcement persons (aka police) to root them out.

Would be like looking for a Calvinist Terrorist in a Calvinist church; they’re everywhere.

Would be interesting to police people for what’s in their hearts. I wonder how that would work. Imagine new crimes; race addiction might be one.

Don’t scoff. Just remember vaudevillians are in charge and know just how to pack the clown car.

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Time to reschedule marijuana Despite proven efficacy in treating medical 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-

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.

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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 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

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“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. 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,

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. specifically nerve pain, Janis said.

The group also found conclusive evidence for cannabis treating chemotherapy-associated nausea and 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.

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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 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 cancer 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?”

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 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 July 2, 2020 41

Homebuyers face fierce competition Mortgage rates are lowest they’ve been since 2012 Jamie Desjardin-Rummel entered the COVID-19 season expecting the housing market to crash. A broker associate at Benefit Realty in Franklin in Milwaukee County, DesjardinRummel found quite the opposite to be true.

“It got pretty crazy,” she said.

In her experience, a lot of sellers are apprehensive to list their homes. And by because the housing market was already seeing high demand before COVID-19 struck, buyers are facing competition from multiple other prospective homebuyers.

“Things are going a lot higher, they’re getting a lot crazier, and we have to be a lot quicker to get our people in the houses,” she said.

Sales in Milwaukee County in May decreased more than 33 percent compared to the May prior. For those who are buying, the competition is fierce. Homes are moving off the market quicker. Months of available supply dropped sharply, by about 20 percent compared to 2019, according to the Wisconsin Realtors Association (WRA).

Statewide, there were about 26 percent fewer home sales compared to May 2019. New listings saw a 27 percent decline compared to the same

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time last year.

Affordability is worsening too.

Median home prices across the state increased by about 6 percent.

Certainly the worsening labor market caused by the pandemic had some effect on the housing market, said David Clark, a professor of economics at Marquette University who serves as a consultant to the WRA. But what countered that was record low mortgage rates.

“We have never seen 30-year fixed rate mortgages as low as they were in the month of May,” he said, noting that those rates fell to 3.23 percent in May. The previous low was in late 2012, when they hit 3.35 percent.

“Those are awfully favorable credit conditions for someone who’s looking for a home.”

That’s great news for sellers, said Desjardin-Rummel.

“As long as you’re pricing the house in alignment with market value, it’s selling instantly,” she said. That’s the case even in areas with traditionally a lot of inventory, such as Milwaukee, she added.

Sellers also have the upper

hand when deciding how much contact they’d like with prospective homebuyers, with some preferring the least amount of contact as possible to curb any exposure to COVID-19.

Desjardin-Rummel estimated about 25 percent of the buyers she works with would rather do virtual tours of the home and make their offers online.

“I would say probably a good threefourths of them are doing it the old school way where they’re actually going in,” she said.

Desjardin-Rummel said her advice for people trying to buy a house right now is to not get discouraged. She advised keeping an eye out for friends or family who are selling as a way to purchase off-market.

She also said that buyers should try to find a home that needs a bit of work.

“The market isn’t going to stay this way forever, and you’d hate to get into your first house, purchase something at the peak of value and not have any equity in it when you decide to upgrade,” she said.

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STONE Spotted salamanders breed in small woodland ponds, some of which dry up before the end of the summer. Photos by Emily Stone.

Spotted salamander egg masses are contained within a packet of gel, and often colonized by algae that provide them with oxygen.

I’ve never been so glad to reach the top of St. Peter’s Dome. Even under heavy gray skies, the view from its high, rocky outcrop was spectacular.

A forested mosaic in shades of green stretched all the way north to the shimmering strip of Chequamegon Bay on Lake Superior.

Hiking up, the tree canopy felt closed. But from above, the fuzzy white of emerging bigtooth aspen and the reddish tinge of young oak leaves hinted at a more precise phenology.

Despite our recent warm days, it’s not quite summer.

It is, however, full-on bug season. I didn’t race to the top because of the view; I was chased there while seeking a stiff breeze and refuge from the biting hordes. I don’t hike much after the mosquitoes hatch, but on this day I had a special mission that was worth the blood loss.

It all started a few weeks ago, when I received an email from Jon Davenport, a biology professor at Appalachian State University in North Carolina.

He and his students are studying the geographic variation in how spotted salamanders respond to pond drying during their larval stage. In a nutshell, do salamander babies in Louisiana grow faster as their pond gets shallower? How about in South Carolina? Massachusetts? What about in Wisconsin?

The students collected eggs in the southern part of spotted salamander’s habitat earlier this spring. Then, the pandemic hit. Their plan for a road trip to Wisconsin to sample spotted salamander eggs at the northwest limit of their range was derailed.

oxygen, and nitrogen to their mutual benefit.

During the course of 70 to 130 days, these eggs will hatch into tadpole-like larvae with an elaborately plumed collar of gills, and then lose those gills and leave the water as juvenile salamanders. They’ll seek winter refuge below the frost line, and return to breed in the same pond every spring for the next two-to-three decades.

The water was cool and the bottom of the pool slippery with leaves as I waded in up to my shins. Gently, I scooped one egg mass into each of four plastic baggies. Feeling their fragility, I was glad that I’d resisted the temptation to douse myself in bug spray that might have seeped through their porous protections. I doublebagged each one, and inflated the outer bags with air before sliding them gently into my backpack for the return journey.

Back at the parking lot, I arranged the four bags of eggs in a cooler, and padded them with bubble wrap. After taping on the cooler lid, I slid it into a cardboard box already equipped with a shipping label. Destination: North Carolina. The sun came out during my drive up to Ashland, and I got a closeup view of the water I’d seen from the top of the dome. Once the clerk at the service counter scanned the label, my job was done.

The box will arrive at Jon’s house in a day or two, and these eggs will join the experiment already in progress. In a modified walk-in cooler set to about 67 degrees F, with 12 hour day-night cycles, he’ll place four freshly hatched larvae in each of 12 five-gallon buckets.

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Jon got creative, and searched the iNaturalist database. I’ve written about this awesome resource previously – people post photos of plants and animals, other people confirm the identification, and then the observations are available for anyone to look at, including scientists. I’d posted a photo of spotted salamander eggs in 2016. And now here I was, on St. Peter’s Dome, with a backpack full of zip-top baggies and dozens of swelling mosquito bites.

Facing into the wind, I unfolded my BugJacket – still with its factory creases – and slipped this hooded shirt made of mosquito netting over my head. A sense of peace and goodwill descended with it. I bought the jacket for my sabbatical to Alaska and never needed it. Within 30 seconds of use on this day, it became an essential part of my hiking gear.

Now, having suited up, I abandoned the delicious breeze and began to hike down. Just below the summit is an old road bed, and off to its side is a small, round pool. Peering through the shimmering reflections of trees, I scanned the dark water for salamander eggs. Almost immediately, I caught site of one cluster; the dozens of embryos shimmering like pearls in their clutch of clear gel.

Three more clusters appeared nearby, and with my search image primed, I walked slowly around the pond, spotting two more groups of egg masses. Most of the eggs were visibly green. Salamanders have a symbiotic relationship with algae. As with plants and animals everywhere, the two organisms exchange carbon dioxide,

Strategically, he and the staff at the university’s animal research facility will remove water so that a third of the buckets will go dry after 60 days, a third will go dry after 80 days, and the rest will remain wet for 120 days.

What the salamanders do is reliant on the genetic codes inherited from their parents. Some salamander larvae grow faster toward terrestrial, lung-breathing adulthood as their pond shrinks.

Preliminary results show that the ones from Louisiana don’t.

Why does it matter? This is a baseline study, asking basic questions about salamander ecology. How do they interact with their environment?

Next fall, Jon’s students will analyze the data, and begin to hypothesize again. What happens if climate change makes the salamanders’ pond dry up faster? Can some populations adapt?

What do we do about the populations who can’t? A good research project will raise more questions than it answers.

In the meantime, Jon is thinking ahead. This adventure in community science and “remote sampling” has been fun for both of us, and easier on Jon’s budget, too. Maybe, with the increase in telecommuting, virtual events, and video meetings, scientific field research will shift toward remote work, too.

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John Fitch – American automotive icon PARK POINT – Like a lot of folks, one of my biggest quarantine activities has been in watching movies. I have just finished watching one of the most amazing documentaries I have ever seen – for the fourth time! A Gullwing at Twilight is the title, and if you have any interest it IS available on DVD, albeit at some elevated pricing at this time due to a limited number of copies on the market.

I’d still recommend grabbing a copy or finding a way to view this beautiful story, I enjoyed it that much. The docu chronicles the life of the late John Fitch who was an auto racer of note, an amateur sailor, a pilot in WWII, was the one-time head of the Corvette Racing team for Chevrolet and turns out to be one of the most interesting people I have seen a doc on or read about and researched in some time. He studied civil engineering at Lehigh University and took that educational discipline and applied it to many different automotive safety inventions that are believed to have saved a countless number of lives for the motoring public as well as for those in the racing world.

Along with all of the life history of Fitch, his racing endeavors and family, the doc is centered around what was a final trip out to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah for Fitch to attempt one last shot at a record in the other star of the film – his legendary 1955 Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing.

This is the same iconic car that Fitch raced in Europe decades back and had success with. A remarkable factor in all of this is that Fitch was 88 when this attempt at a record was made. Had he succeeded his record would have been applied to an age group classification.

Alas, the car developed some engine issues and Fitch couldn’t get it past about 150 mph. Considering everything, that’s still pretty amazing.

Fitch himself appeared to be in better then average physical condition for his age and his mental clarity and focus was superior. How many people of that advanced age do you know who are even still driving at all? I mean, my mother will be 85 this year but only drives 200 feet per day – out to her mailbox and back!

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Some of Fitch’s biggest racing successes included wins at the 12 Hours of Sebring, the Gran Premio de Eva Duarte’ Peron, the 1955 RAC Tourist Trophy and the 1955 Mille Miglia. He was active in SCCA and won several events there and competed in two World Championship Grand Prix races.

And believe me, this is the short list of his accomplishments. So, what did he invent that the average person sees on a frequent basis?

Next time you are traveling down an Interstate and see the large sand-filled barriers in front of overpass columns, yup, that is known as the Fitch Barrier system. He also developed what is known as the Fitch Compression Barrier, which is used as a major safety device at oval racing tracks. He innovated the Fitch Driver Capsule, which is a seat back safety device for racing vehicles. He was also involved in the development of the Evans Waterless Engine Cooling System which is an engine cooling system that uses propylene glycol but does not require pressurization.

His long list of accolades include membership in the Corvette Hall of Fame, the SCCA HOF, the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America, the Sebring HOF, a Presidential Citation, a Purple Heart and a POW award. Additionally he was awarded the Kenneth Stonex Award from the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Science for his work and innovations relative to the world of automotive safety. If you have ever driven a car or have been a passenger, you have been protected in some way shape or form

by Fitch innovation, it’s that simple.

Fitch passed away on Halloween in 2012, leaving a massive legacy.

There is no way that A Gullwing at

Twilight could have possibly covered all of Fitch’s amazing life, but what it did cover was beautifully done and documented for the public, quite a few of whom likely had never heard of him before. The director-producer was Chris Szwedo of Szwedo Productions.

If you are an automotive enthusiast and ever get a chance to see this documentary, don’t pass it by, you’ll be glad you watched.

ALL MLB CLUBS will be reporting for what I guess will be the first time ever that “spring” training will be held in the summer. Due to the COVID-19 shutdowns across the country and world, the first go-round was abruptly halted in March. Players will report and get about three weeks of camp in before kicking off an abbreviated 60-game schedule that will lead up to

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a playoffs and culminate in a World Series. The regular season will start on July 23 and will end Sept. 27. The playoff will start on the 29th and the World Series is tentatively set to go on Oct. 20.

I’d have to presume that with a shortened “camp” version this year and in planning for health and safety provisions that this will be a camp like no other. I don’t believe the players are happy about the way matters stand right now between them and the league, but I do think quite a few of them just want to play some ball.

I’d like to see a few games, but as soon as the NHL kicks off it’s Stanley Cup tourney, I’ll be giving full attention to that. There seemed to be a lot less screwing around in their negotiation then there was with baseball’s contentious battle.

AS FAR AS ANY news coming out of the NHL last week went, they basically whittled the list of “hub” cities down for the much anticipated Stanley Cup tourney and then held what I can only describe as a fairly bizarre Entry Draft Lottery selection.

Early last week the league announced that Columbus and St. Paul were eliminated as possible hub cities, and then followed that up with an announcement that Pittsburgh and Dallas were also being dropped from consideration. At that point the management group of the Vancouver Canucks announced they were no longer actively seeking to be one of the hub cities, leaving Las Vegas, Chicago, Edmonton, Toronto and Los Angeles as the five remaining clubs looking at being one of the two to be selected.

With the July 10 date for training camps coming up, the league will likely be making a decision on the hubs quite soon.

The draft lottery was held involving the 7 clubs that didn’t make the 24 team tourney cut. Six selections were made, with the Number One selection TBD. That will be held after the qualifying round… 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 by if you can get onto YouTube and scroll through the music videos of famous performers until you find the late and sorely missed Guy Clark.

He wrote many unfor-gettable songs, filtered through his unique Texas sensibilities, and among my favorites is “Texas, 1947.”

It’s about a youngster in a small

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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

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

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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 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

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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 veg-etables 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 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

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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 consternation 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 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.

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4th of July events Severio Mancieri

3 p.m. Jack’s Place, Superior With a voice instantly recognizable and virtuosic guitar playing, you’ll enjoy his original and cover tunes. Flipside Band plays at 7:30 p.m.

Christopher David Hanson Band Mont du Lac 6 p.m.

Feeding Leroy Good Thyme, Washburn 9 p.m.

Woodblind

4 p.m. Cedar Lounge Acoustic ska à la 1960s Jamaica and ‘70s England.

Their sets include traditional reggae, ska versions of classic rock and R&B hits, and original rocksteady numbers. They are preceded by Jacob Mahon at 1 p.m.

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9 p.m. Good Thyme Restaurant, Washburn Wis. The Duluth-based alt-country band will perform at Good Thyme’s fun/responsible party. They want to hang with y’all, enjoy each other, be respectful and honor all people.

Festive Fourth! Concert

4 p.m. Olcott Park, Virginia Featuring Gershwin’s American in Paris, a medley of opera arias from Tosca, and some Sousa. Drive up or carve out your place on the lawn. Masks Severio Mancieri Jack’s Place, Superior 3 p.m.

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encouraged for entrance to the park.

Fourthfest in Duluth is postponed until Labor Day, but in Superior, fireworks will be launched from the Richard I. Bong Airport at 10 p.m. Viewers are asked to stay in or near their cars and practice social distancing. Bring a picnic!

Christopher David Hanson Band

6 p.m. Mont du Lac Strong rhythms, great hooks, and catchy tunes pretty much sum up this Northern Minnesota group, known for shows that bring out the dancers, fellow musicians and story song lovers.

Relik

7 p.m. Pier B Plays classic rock including Petty, Eagles, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and more contemporary music such as Brothers Osborne, Jason Isbell and Blackberry Smoke.

Woodblind, Cedar Lounge, Superior, 4 p.m.

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Two Harbors Farmers Market, 10am1pm 320 7th Ave., Two Harbors 218310-7174 Cloquet 4th of July Celebration, 11am Cloquet Avenue, Cloquet 218879-1551 Jacob Mahon, 1pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-3947391 Severio Mancieri, 3-6pm Jack's Place, 1923 Tower Ave., Superior 715-3921994 Festive Fourth! Concert, 4pm Olcott Park, 901 9th S. N., Virginia 218-7802292 Woodblind, 4pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-3947391 Nathan Frazer, 6-9pm Moose Lake Brewing Co., 244 Lakeshore Drive, Moose Lake 218-485-4585

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Feeding Leroy, 7pm Good Thyme Restaurant, 77180 Hwy. 13, Washburn 715-373-5255 The Northwood's Band, 7pm Green Door Lounge, 1002 Main St., Beaver Bay (218) 226-3437 Relik, 7pm Pier B Resort, 800 W. Railroad St., Duluth 218-481-8888 Flipside Band, 7:30pm Jack's Place, 1923 Tower Ave., Superior 715-3921994 Town of Barnes Fireworks, 9:30pm Barnes Town Park, 3360 Cty. Hwy. N, Barnes 715-795-2782 Grand Marais Fireworks, 10pm Grand Marais Harbor Park, 110 Wisconsin St., Grand Marais 218-387-2524

Grand Portage Fireworks, 10pm Grand Portage Lodge & Casino, 70 Casino Dr., Grand Portage 218-4752945 Superior Fireworks, 10pm Richard I. Bong Airport, 4804 Hammond Ave., Superior 715-395-7270 Ely fireworks, 10pm Miners Lake, Ely 218-365-3224 Grand Rapids fireworks, 10pm Portage Park, 25570 Katherine Ave., Cohasset 218-326-7600 Solon Springs Fireworks, 10:15pm Lucius Woods County Park, 9231 E Marion Ave., Solon Springs 715-3951341

Sunday, 7-5 SonofMel, 1-4pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-3947391 Milkbone Band, 3pm The Lounge on Big Lake Shores, 979 Cary Rd., Cloquet 218-879-1819 Northern Lights Music Festival, 4pm Minnesota Discovery Center, 1005 Discovery Dr., Chisholm 218-2547959

Tuesday, 7-7 Central Hillside Farmers Market, 2-5pm Damiano Center, 206 W. 4th St., Duluth 218-726-1665 Hibbing Farmers Market, 2-5pm 1309 E. 40th St., Hibbing

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Carlton County Farmers Market, 46pm Four Seasons Sports Complex & Event Center, 90 Chestnut Ave., Carlton Ely Farmers Market, 5-7pm Whiteside Park, 58 S 7th Ave E, Ely The Night Nurses (Brad Nelson & Alan Sparhawk), 5pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-3947391 King J Lar, 6pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391 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

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1pm 320 7th Ave., Two Harbors 218-310-7174 Race Night, 7pm ABC Raceway, 2187 Butterworth Rd., Ashland 715-6824990 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 Sunday, 6-28Tim Kaiser Livestream, 7pm facebook.com/tim.kaiser.104 Monday, 6-29Bill & Kate Isles' Weekly Stay-At-Home Live Concert, 7pm facebook.com/billandkateisles

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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 Misisipi Mike Wolf & Clancy Ward, 58pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391 Turns & Tunes, 6-9pm Mont Du Lac Recreation, 3125 Mont Du Lac Dr., Superior 218-626-3797 Music on the Beach, 7-9pm Lutsen Resort, 5700 W. Hwy. 61, Lutsen 800258-8736

Zakk and Wade, 7pm Powerhouse Bar, 408 Third Ave., Proctor 218-6240626 Drive-In Concert: Venison Cupcake, 7pm Myles Reif Performing Arts Center, 720 NW Conifer Dr., Grand Rapids 218-327-5780 Charlie Parr, 6pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-3947391 Friday Night Races, 6:30pm Head of the Lakes Fairgrounds, 4700 Tower Ave., Superior 715-394-7223 Thunder Over Eveleth Fireworks, 10:15pm End of Main Street, Eveleth 218-744-2774 Saturday, 7-4Be a Star Run for a Vet Race, 7am , Mercer 715-476-2389

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One Less Guest, 7pm Spirit Room, 1323 Broadway St., Superior 715817-4775 Drive-In Concert: Christopher David Hanson Band, 7pm Portage Park, 25570 Katherine Ave., Cohasset 218327-5780

Saturday, 7-11 Duluth Farmers Market, 8am-noon Duluth Farmer's Market, 14th Ave. E. & 3rd St., Duluth 218-241-1847 Ashland Area Farmers Market, 8amnoon 200 Block of Chapple Ave., Between Main St. & 3rd St. W., Ashland Bayfield Farmers Market, 8:30amnoon First Street & Rittenhouse Avenue, Bayfield 715-257-0064 Cloquet Farmers Market, 9am-noon Premier Theatres, 904 Hwy. 33 S., Cloquet

Charlie Parr, 6pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-3947391

Hibbing Farmers Market, 9am-1pm 1309 E. 40th St., Hibbing

Similar Dogs, 6pm Belknap Lounge, 130 Belknap St., Superior 715-3943616

Two Harbors Farmers Market, 10am1pm 320 7th Ave., Two Harbors 218310-7174

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

Music on the Beach, 7-9pm Lutsen Resort, 5700 W. Hwy. 61, Lutsen 800258-8736

Race Night, 7pm ABC Raceway, 2187 Butterworth Rd., Ashland 715 American Ego, 7:30pm Jack's Place, 1923 Tower Ave., Superior

Sunday, 7-12 SonofMel, 1-4pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-3947391 Open Skating, 3-4:45pm Duluth Heritage Sports Center, 120 South 30th Ave. W., Duluth 218-464-1711 Thunder Over Eveleth Fireworks, 10:15pm End of Main Street, Eveleth 218-744-2774Tuesday 7.14 Downtown Farmers Market, 11am1pm Gitchi-ode’ Akiing (Lake Place Park), 214 E. Superior St., Duluth

Monday, 7-13 Teague Alexy, 6pm Sir Benedict’s 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 Northern Lights Music Festival, 7pm B’Nai Abraham Cultural Center, 328 5th St. S., Virginia 218-780-2292

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Celebrating the brassica broccoli It’s the Community Garden program’s Vegetable of the Year I am a relatively recent transplant to Duluth. I moved up here on Thanksgiving in 2019, the same weekend that dumped so much powder it shut some schools by down for more than a week (at the time an unbelievably long period for school closures!).

I relocated to pursue a graduate degree at UMD for Environmental Education focusing on Agricultural Education and found work with the Duluth Community Garden program as their One Vegetable One Community Coordinator. Being involved with the Duluth Community

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Garden Program (DCGP) has helped me feel connected and rooted here, and I am deeply grateful for the organization and the community it serves. One of the work perks I really appreciate is a space to garden.

My partner and I are used to gardening a very large space. For two years we cultivated an acre of land we called Thunder Moon Farm in Northwestern Iowa. Between the climate shift, soil differences, and downsizing we are certainly adjusting to our 10ft by 20ft plot at Chester Creek Community Garden, but we love it.

To arrive at our garden, we walk along Chester Creek Trail about a half a mile; high above the cool water and under the cedar trees, and sometimes there is even a mysterious saxophone man perched on a cliff below serenading us as we walk.

The garden fence has colorful glittering ornaments hung all over

A frog found itself a comfy bed on top of a head of broccoli. Photo by Haley Diem.

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the chain link and two big inviting gates. There are bushy rhubarb plants, raspberry bushes, and chives in the common areas (these are all perennials, meaning they survive the winter and come back every year without replanting).

Nearby, a neighbor must have a well-stocked bird feeder, because all the gardeners keep unearthing peanuts stolen and buried by squirrels. I caught one red-handed the other day in our garden with a peanut in his mouth!

Chester Creek Community Garden is special because it has a very experienced and generous fellow gardener. She has been gardening the same plot for more than 20 years and fills up the water tank when it runs low, saving us all from hauling heavy water buckets to our gardens. This year it’s especially important, because the city of Duluth doesn’t have the capacity to deliver water this season because of all the COVID-related employee layoffs. A few of the 20 other community gardens that DCGP manages were able to get access to fire hydrants for water, but the rest are out of luck and need to carry in their own water to care for their thirsty plants.

We don’t have a water issue, but we have been having a few troubles at our community garden plot we’ve never experienced before, and it centers around broccoli.

Broccoli is the Duluth Community Garden Program’s Vegetable of the Year.

For a quick background, DCGP started the One Vegetable, One Community project in 2011 to rally the community around growing and eating a featured vegetable each year. Last year’s contest winner was rutabagas.

Winners are selected at the annual Harvest Dinner potluck each year, and are chosen because they grow well in Duluth’s climate and encourage healthy eating. Broccoli fits this description well since it’s packed with nutrients and can survive light frosts like the one we had in June.

I’ve never had an issue with broccoli before, but it can be tricky for new gardeners. In the past, we grew such gorgeous big broccoli heads that frogs would use them as a bed to nap on (see photo).

Here’s my issue: this year when my carefully tended plants tried to head up, there were only a few pitiful and loose flower buds. The entire head was

smaller than my pinky nail. Problemsolving thoughts raced through my head; was the soil wrong? Was it too dry? Too hot? But no, it had been cool and rainy the last few weeks, and this really looked like it was more of a wild mustard plant. Could the seeds have crossed with another brassica?

Brassicas are the name of the plant family that include broccoli, cabbage, kale, kohlrabi, cauliflower, Brussel sprouts, turnips and more. The most interesting thing about these crops in my opinion is that they were all derived from wild mustard, bred by selection slowly over time by farmers over a few thousand years near the Mediterranean.

This means that since all these types of crops are technically the same species, they will readily cross pollinate each other, thus ruining the specific traits they were bred for, such as a large leafy compact head (cabbage) or hundreds of tiny flower buds (broccoli).

I imagine the seeds saved from these cross-pollinated plants would appear a lot like my sad mustardy-looking broccoli.

We ended up pulling out those broccoli plants at Chester Creek even though technically all parts of the plant are edible and can be prepared and cooked similar to kale. Since broccoli and the rest of the brassica plant family are very cold hardy and actually get a little sweeter with a light frost, I planted a second crop in trays, which will hopefully be a fall crop.

I hope you have better luck with your broccoli. Are you growing any this year?

Find Duluth Community Garden Program on Facebook and let us know how it’s growing, especially if you got free seeds from us. I’d like to solve this seed-saving mystery!

Happy Growing, Haley Diem is the One Vegetable One Community Coordinator for the Duluth Community Garden Program.

Broccoli Pesto Recipe from millcityfarmersmarket. org Makes 12 servings.

Ingredients 1 cup raw broccoli (1 large floret) 1 cup fresh basil 4 cloves garlic ½ cup walnuts ½ cup olive oil ½ lemon squeezed (or about 1 Tb) Salt and pepper to taste 1-2 tablespoons water for desired consistency Instructions Chop 1 floret of broccoli into small pieces to be blended. Approximately 1 heaping cup. Use the tops first, saving the hearty bottom-portion to chop for another recipe (works well in stir fry, salads or soup).

Add broccoli, along with the rest of the ingredients to a food processor.

Blend all until the chunks of broccoli are fully blended and the pesto is of desired consistency. Add a few tablespoons of water to reach a more fluid consistency.

Remove blade from processor and scrape the sides well into a serving

bowl. Serve immediately or chilled.

Nutrition Tips • Broccoli is an excellent source of vitamin C, an important nutrient for immunity. It also helps with the absorption of plant-based iron. When broccoli is combined with nuts, seeds, or whole grains, it can assist in the absorption of iron from these foods! Broccoli also is a good source of insoluble fiber to ensure a healthy gut, and provides both calcium and vitamin K, an important 1-2 punch for bone health!

• Consider using this yummy pesto

to make a cold pasta salad this summer for an easy and nutritionally dense meal. For additional protein, try adding chicken, sautéed tofu, or chickpeas. Also works great as a dip for fresh cut veggies!

Nutrition Facts: Serving Size 2 Tablespoons (31g), Calories 120 (Calories from fat 110), Total Fat 12g (Saturated Fat 1.5g, Trans Fat 0g), Cholesterol 0mg, Sodium 15mg, Total Carbohydrate 1g, Dietary Fiber 1g, Sugars 0g, Protein 2g, Vitamin A 30%, Vitamin C 15%, Calcium 2%, Iron 2%

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West Duluth apt. couch.

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DWF, 49, brown hair, hazel eyes, ISO quality honest, loyal, financially stable WDSM for fun, summer events, concerts, fishing, camping, snuggling in the winter, watching movies, love motorcycle rides, great sense of humor, tattooed & pierces, may lead to LTR. (58490:4/11) Biker who enjoys life DWF, 52, ISO WM, someone who knows how to treat a lady. Love the outdoors.

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Attractive blonde SWF - 71, 5’8” wanting travel. laughter, love & more. I love to fish both deep sea & lake. Looking for intelligent, kind loving man. (58432:05/31) Companionship LTR Uses walker 68 yrs young.

Chubby & busty. Enjoys christian activities NS ND Books, travel, movies, cards & games, dining out, RV camping. Kind & honest w/sense of humor (58430:05/31) Country Girl Looking 5’7” medium build 66 yr young country gal NS ND loves to travel & be appreciated (58429:05/31) Home on the Range SWF, 5’4”. Looking good!

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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.

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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.

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(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)

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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.

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Lay down the law WF, early 50s, seeks WM 50s to spank, punish and ground me.

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58546:4/23) The smaller the better MWM 60-plus looking for a male friend. casual get-togethers. (58529:12/5)

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Love to fish, a little play time when the bite is slow.

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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 register at duluthplayhouse.org.

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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 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

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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.

Dave Shaffer of Springbrook, Wis., was a 2019 winner of the Audubon Community Nature Center Photography Contest with his photograph, “Safe and Sound.”

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.

MacRostie hosts virtual art opening Tune in to the MacRostie Art Center’s website (macrostieartcenter.org) and Facebook page at 5:30 pm Friday, July 3, for the unveiling of the new July exhibit Art of the Grain, a collection of works by both formally trained and self-taught wood artists from Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Each artist’s work tells a story, reflecting on the artist’s passion and the processes they use to make their unique pieces.

The art center in Grand Rapids also announced MacRostie Art Center is excited to announce the July exhibit in the new pop-up gallery in Old Central School Room 109, featuring the work of Grand Rapids-based photographer Ed Zabinski. Contact the center for updates to Old Central School gallery hours or to make a viewing appointment.

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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.

Chickasaw Adventures: The Complete

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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.

Midwest Indie Bestsellers

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NONFICTION 1. How to Be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi, One World, $27

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

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

2. Such a Fun Age Kiley Reid, Putnam, $26 3. Deacon King Kong James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28 4. The Book of Longings Sue Monk Kidd, Viking, $28

3. Untamed Glennon Doyle, The Dial Press, $28 4. Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $26 5. Me and White Supremacy Layla Saad, Sourcebooks, $25.99

5. Camino Winds John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95

6. What It’s Like to Be a Bird David Allen Sibley, Knopf, $35

6. Devolution Max Brooks, Del Rey, $28 7. The Daughters of Erietown Connie Schultz, Random House, $28 8. The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich, Harper, $28.99 9. 28 Summers Elin Hilderbrand, Little Brown, $28 10. The Jane Austen Society Natalie Jenner, St. Martin’s, $26.99 11. American Dirt Jeanine Cummins, Flatiron Books, $27.99 12. Rodham Curtis Sittenfeld, Random House, $28 13. The Guest List Lucy Foley, Morrow, $27.99 14. The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $24.95 15. A Burning Megha Majumdar, Knopf, $25.95

7. Countdown 1945 Chris Wallace, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30 8. I’m Still Here Austin Channing Brown, Convergent Books, $25 9. The Hardest Job in the World John Dickerson, Random House, $30 10. Educated Tara Westover, Random House, $28 11. Our Time Is Now Stacey Abrams, Holt, $27.99 12. Breath James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $28 13. Hood Feminism Mikki Kendall, Viking, $26 14. The New One Mike Birbiglia, Grand Central, $28 15. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99

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The movie that started summer blockbusters Jaws – 45th Anniversary Limited Edition 4K Ulta HD Blu-ray $34.98 There is little I can say about the first summer blockbuster, Jaws, that you do not already know.

Newly released on 4K Ultra HD, this seminal thriller from Director Steven Spielberg continues to thrill 45 years after its initial release in June 1975.

The film forever changed Hollywood, and studios from that summer forward began making high-concept, easily marketable thrillers and by action pictures with mass appeal.

This movie also blew the training wheels off of Spielberg’s film career, which had up to that point included made-for-TV thriller Duel and The Sugarland Express with Goldie Hawn.

Spielberg became a household name, and John Williams’ memorable score

will forever be chanted on beaches and at pool parties.

It is bittersweet watching Jaws amid this COVID-19 pandemic; this is the kind of movie that begs to be seen in a packed theater with an enthusiastic audience. Worldwide cinephiles cannot replicate that communal experience right now, but I trust better days are ahead.

The film was shot in the spring and summer of 1974 on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and was the first major movie shot on the open ocean.

The film’s budget nearly doubled during the production, the shoot dragged on well past its intended end date, and several of the film’s mechanical sharks fell victim to technical difficulties exasperated by pounding waves and salt air.

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these delays greatly benefitted the final product in several ways: The script was tightened and improved, and Spielberg ultimately chose to give the shark little screen time, instead suggesting its presence with creative angles, fleeting glimpses and audible stingers.

I cannot imagine what kind of film Jaws would have been if everything worked perfectly for Spielberg and company from the get-go, but I suspect we would not be talking about it 45 years later.

The film’s opening is nearly perfect: Two teenagers leave a beach party and run toward the picturesque, moonlit waves. The girl (Susan Backlinie) strips off her clothing and dives in, only to be violently pulled underwater and killed by an unseen predator.

The scene is lean and surprisingly brutal, and the 4K transfer gives startlingly clear glances beneath the surface that the filmmakers likely never imagined would be visible during the shoot.

Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) is the new police chief of the nearby resort town, although he refuses to go into the water due to past traumas. He fights the local bigwigs and business owners to close the beaches when it becomes apparent that a shark is killing local swimmers.

Oceanographer Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) supports his decision, and the pair enlists salty fisherman Quint (Robert Shaw) to help kill the man-eater.

The film builds to an intense climax in which the shark attacks the trio on a sinking boat, and viewers are barely able to take a breath during the film’s two hours of excitement and suspense.

Most everything works here. Spielberg’s direction is skillful and surehanded; Bill Butler’s cinematography places viewers directly into the jaws of terror; and Williams’ aforementioned

score is one of the best suspense scores of all time.

Spielberg uses the camera to his benefit, and his pans, zooms and tilt shifts create tension without becoming gimmicky. The acting is strong across the board, particularly from the leads, and the script gives welcome detail to the Brody, Hooper and Quint characters.

The technical merits of Jaws cannot be overstated; this is simply a masterful suspense film that loses none of its merit nearly a half-century after it was shot.

Fans of the summer blockbuster season have Jaws to thank for tentpole releases, television marketing and wide-release schedules. Jaws does for the ocean what Psycho did for showers and what Alien did for space.

“Here’s to swimming with bowlegged women.”

Universal continues to church out catalogue releases on the 4K format, and Jaws arrives with a 2.35:1/2160p/ HEVC/H.265, native 4K transfer with Dolby Vision and HDR10+.

Simply, the image looks as incredible as a full restoration for such an important film should. I thought the previous Blu-ray edition was excellent, but this 4K release bests it with improved textures, fine-object details, skin tones, contrast and depth.

From the opening, dimly lit scene it is apparent how skillfully this image handles low-light sequences. The grain is fine and beautifully filmic throughout. Fine-object details are abundant, and the period-appropriate costumes and set dressings are beautifully crisp and clear. Skin tones are nicely balanced, even in contrast-heavy, sunbaked scenes, and black levels are inky. Shadow detail is impressive, and the image handles challenging elements like fog and water spray with ease.

The image is free of compression artifacts and edge haloes, and wide shots are impressively deep. The HDR pass does not alter the film’s intended appearance, but instead gives it a more realistic, lifelike appearance. This is a very nice upgrade, and fans will want this 4K version on their shelves.

This package includes a new Dolby Atmos soundtrack, which, like the HDR pass, does not attempt to manufacture a new experience and instead simply supports the soundtrack in a nuanced manner.

Dialogue is crisp and natural-sounding throughout, and the track does an excellent job handling ambient effects like crowd noise and rolling waves.

Williams’ score is given the respect it is due, and the LFE does respond when appropriate. Effects panning is not up to modern blockbuster standards but is still impressive.

All elements are balanced skillfully, and there are no issues with crowding or distortion.

A 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio mono mix should satisfy fans looking for the original soundtrack experience.

The disc also includes a Spanish 5.1 DTS mix, a French 7.1 DTS-HD HighRes mix, and English SDH, French and Spanish subtitles.

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The two-disc set includes the 4K disc, a Blu-ray and a Movies Anywhere digital copy code.

The discs are packed in a black 4K case that fits inside an outer slipbox with lenticular cover. A 44-page booklet with pictures, liner notes and production information is included.

There are no new extras, but excellent supplements from previous releases are included that include interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and much discussion about the production: The Making of Jaws (2:02:48/HD); The Shark is Still Working: The Impact and Legacy of Jaws (1:41:06/ HD); Deleted Scenes and Outtakes (8:29/HD); From the Set (8:46/HD); and a Theatrical Trailer (3:15/HD).

All of those supplements appear on both discs; the Blu-ray also includes archival bonuses, including storyboards, production photos, and marketing materials.

The original summer blockbuster, Steven Spielberg’s Jaws is one of the greatest thrillers of all time. This new 4K Ultra HD release offers viewers a chance to replicate the theatrical experience at home with excellent picture and sound, and previously available extras provide insight into the production.

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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 by (1958) with Hedy Lamarr.

By far the best of the three pictures, Thunder on the Hill is a noirflavored 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.

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This delay in her execution only 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

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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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The only entities on earth that you’ll appreciate, notice and remember behave strictly by rules of logic are it all better. inventions like calculators and comSAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). puters, created with the frontal lobe You perform your good deed of the day of the human brain. The rest of the in the usual way — without hope of earth’s inhabitants, including humans, reward and in full understanding that are largely irrational. Remember this the process you are furthering is not as Jupiter and Pluto line up to some your own. It will feel terrific! profoundly illogical outcomes.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

ARIES (March 21-April 19). Who Often, it is the case that the pursuit of would you be if certain limitations improvement does something but not had not been in place to keep you quite enough. It’s as though dwelling pinned to a particular life tract? You’ll on the fix only affirms the brokenness get a glimpse of that, along with the of a thing. Acceptance is ultimately the reassurance that you, like key to change. most, are better for what AQUARIUS (Jan. 20you’ve had to overcome.

Feb. 18). You may as well TAURUS (April 20-May be on the floor of the stock 20). In circles where the exchange for all that you by competition is ramped trade today. Whatever you up and being cool is very value, you’ll give it, and important, there may not you’ll accept something of be a lot of genuine care equal or greater value in being exchanged. It’s fine return. as long as you know the PISCES (Feb. 19-March difference and seek out the 20). Oscar Wilde said, hearts that are like yours.

“Morality is simply the GEMINI (May 21-June 21). attitude we adopt toward people we Normally, you would find it impossible personally dislike.” You’ll prove your to be happy when others are suffering evolved spirit as you refrain from in the world. But today’s good feelings judgment or even opinion and simply creep up on you. Shouldn’t you just focus elsewhere. accept them? Someone should be happy. Why not you.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). In many ways, this is a life under water.

Everything adjusts, constantly. Move, and you change the current. Voids are immediately filled. Everything gets traded for something else.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’ll find yourself playing games you didn’t plan to play and strategizing when you’d rather be direct. This is a case of needing to participate in the fray before you can rise above it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You may prefer that people behave in a certain way, but you do not require this of them in order to earn your respect. You give your respect up front and then CELEBRITY PROFILES: With hope for the best. more than 100 film credits, Gary Busey LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). No matter has been known to play a lunatic or how useful is a person, you’re careful two on screen, true to the name of his not to let their usefulness define them. ruling luminary. In folklore, la Luna People are not tools. They are valuable causes mysterious behaviors – ah, lunabeyond what they provide. Your cy! With four luminaries in moonactions prove your belief in humanity. ruled Cancer, Busey gets a big dose SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Even of this complex, mysterious, highly if the situation is not designed or artistic, soulful and ever-changing assumed to be short-term, if you come energy. Check out his new comedy at it as though it were only temporary, series, Gary Busey: Pet Judge.

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tv Cedric The Entertainer stars in The Neighborhod, airing at 7 pm Mondays on CBS.

The Dead Files TRAV 8 p.m.

In this new special, Steve and Amy investigate a bed and breakfast in Brumley, Missouri, where para-normal disturbances have been keeping customers up all night. Then, a vicious entity threatens a local family in Hardinsburg, Indiana.

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Cellblock 6: Female Lock Up TLC 11 a.m.

Tune in for a rebroadcast of the entire second season of this harrowing series that follows the lives of incarcerated women. First, a pregnant inmate is caught up in a brawl, while another lashes out as the reality of her murder charges catch up with her.

Holey Moley ABC 7 p.m.

Rob Riggle and Joe Tessitore provide commentary as mini-golf masters put their skills to the test on an epic obstacle course with a $25,000 prize on the line in this series’ second season.

Jeannie Mai serves as the show’s sideline reporter.

Treasure Island With Bear Grylls

Discovery 7 p.m.

Three weeks into the challenge, the islanders are struggling to survive. In this new episode, Morag’s mount-ing frustration finally comes to a head, and Ben, Jack and Marco race for the everimportant cash, after not eating for seven days.

Design At Your Door HGTV 8 p.m.

Fixer to Fabulous stars Jenny and Dave Marrs surprise a busy Wisconsin mother with the bedroom of her dreams in this new episode.

Then, David Bromstad of My Lottery Dream Home turns an L.A. family room into a funky new space for everyone.

Friday, 7-3 Movie: Catch Me If You Can Showtime 3:45 p.m.

Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio star in this heist comedy, based on a true story. For years, con artist Frank Abagnale Jr. (DiCaprio) has been one step ahead of FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Hanks). However, things get complicated when Frank falls in love.

WWE SmackDown Fox 7 p.m.

Donnie Wahlberg stars in the CBS hit crime/ family drama Blue Bloods, airing Fridays at 9 pm on CBS.

WWE Superstars continue to entertain despite a lack of roaring fans in the stands, making for a unique new look at their feats and rivalries.

This month, Bayley and Sasha Banks, aka “The Boss ‘n’ Hug Connection,” took the Women’s Tag Team title.

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ABC 9 a.m.

Anji Corley hosts this heartwarming series, sure to bring smiles to the whole family. The lives of adorable baby animals are caught on cameras across the globe, capturing footage of curious and captivating wild creatures playfully discovering the world.

The Pioneer Woman FOOD 9:30 a.m.

Ree Drummond celebrates the Fourth of July by inviting more than one hundred guests to the ranch in this rebroadcast. With so many mouths to feed, Ree keeps things as simple and delicious as possible, creating effortless and easy dishes for a large group.

Washington History 5 p.m.

The remarkable true story of America’s first president is told in a rebroadcast of this remarkable three-part series. In Part 1, George Washington (Nicholas Rowe) discovers the harsh realities of leadership when his failure leads to a war.

in the book, its characters begin to come to life and haunt them.

Sunday, 7-5 Movie: Drive Angry Syfy 10:30 a.m.

After stealing Satan’s gun and escaping from Hell, John Milton (Nicolas Cage) hunts down his daughter’s killer and the kidnapper of his grandchild, a Satanist cult leader named Jonah King (Billy Burke). Katy Mixon and Amber Heard also star.

Perry Mason HBO 9 p.m.

Strickland (Shea Whigham) and Virgil (Jefferson Mays) help Mason (Matthew Rhys) acquire physical evidence without authorization in this new episode. Meanwhile, Della (Juliet Rylance) tries to figure what’s going on with E.B. (John Lithgow).

America: Our Defining Hours History 8 p.m.

Don’t miss Part 1 of this new, threepart docuseries. Learn how the United States managed to seize some of the country’s toughest moments of crisis, using them to help lead the population toward scientific, technological and social advancements.

Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular NBC 7 p.m.

Despite social distancing still being implemented in the city, New York City is determined to celebrate America’s independence, as Macy’s department store holds this fantastic yearly celebration featuring a stunning fireworks show.

Movie: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Showtime 8 p.m.

Tune in for this film adaptation of Alvin Schwartz’s young adult horror series. On Halloween in 1968, a group of teens find a novel of spooky tales, but when a new story begins to appear

Yes, even contortionists get a shot on America’s Got Talent, airing on NBC 7 p.m. Tuesdays.

Bahamas Life HGTV 8:05 p.m.

Ever since their spontaneous first date, Bob and Shannon’s life together has been one long and wild adventure. In this new episode, the adventurous couple looks for their next great journey to begin on Long Island in the Bahamas.

Match Game ABC 9 p.m.

Join Alec Baldwin as he hosts the celebrity-filled revival of this classic game show from the ‘60s.

Contestants try to match their fillin-the-blank answer to a panel of celebrities for points and cash, but their answers often result in hilarious moments.

Austin Zajur and Zoe Colletti star in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, airing July 4 at 8 pm on Showtime.

sMothered TLC 9 p.m.

Season 2 of this reality series continues with even more drama than before featuring more motherdaughter relationships that are a bit too close for comfort. Chaos ensues as moms swoop in to crash their children’s dates, homes and even weddings.

Monday, 7-6

Movie: All Summer Long Hallmark 5 p.m.

Autumn Reeser and Brennan Elliot star in this summer romance set at sea. A woman finally lands her dream job as the captain of a dining cruise, b but plans change when s she finds out her exboyfriend is working as

the ship’s head chef.

The Titan Games NBC 7 p.m.

No stranger to taking down tough opponents, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson hosts this competition series, now in its second season.

Striving to earn or keep the title of “Titan,” competitors take part in intense challenges of mental and physical endurance.

Penn & Teller: Fool Us CW 8 p.m.

This new episode features sleightof-hand card trickster Caleb Wiles, YouTube magician D.K., who uses technology, and the astounding illusionist Wes Iseli. Alyson Hannigan hosts as magicians attempt to work their magic.

Celebrity Game Face E! 9 p.m.

Celebrity couples team up to take each other on in this fun new series that allows viewers to take part from home. Kevin Hart, Terry Crews, Sarah Hyland and Joel McHale bring their partners along as they attempt to win money for charity.

Tuesday, 7-7 Dirty Jobs Discovery 5 a.m.

Join Mike Rowe for a day of jobs that somebody’s got to do, in a marathon of this hit series. In this episode, M ike takes to the skies in Palm Springs moonlighting as an aerial tram greaser, heading 8,500 feet in the air to make repairs.

Movie: Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse FX 9 a.m.

Three boy scouts team up with a cocktail waitress, using everything they have learned earning badges in order to save the human race from zombies in this fun film.

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Hell’s Kitchen Fox 7 p.m.

Two teams of talented chefs compete for a top position in a prestigious restaurant in a rebroadcast of this reality series.

Each week, host and mentor chef Gordon Ramsay challenges the contestants with tasks designed to test their skills and creativity.

Tom Papa: Freaked Out CW 8 p.m.

Catch the always upbeat Tom Papa in this fun comedy special.

Executive produced by heavy metal artist Rob Zombie.

Wednesday, 7-8 Movie: Christine AMC 10:30 a.m.

Film and literary legends, John Carpenter and Stephen King, team up for this cult-classic supernatural horror film based on King’s novel.

Arnie (Keith Gordon) looks cool in his new car, but soon realizes it has a mind of its own and is a killing machine.

Wife Swap Lifetime noon

Tune in for back-to-back episodes of this outrageous reality series, beginning with this episode featuring a clean-freak with an iron fist and a burping-contest-winning construction worker. Both moms learn a thing or two when they trade families.

Movie: The Ring Showtime 7 p.m.

A young, ambitious journalist investigates when her niece is literally frightened to death by a mysterious videotape. Naomi Watts and Martin Henderson star in this award-winning horror film adapted from the Japanese movie of the same name.

Bigfoot Is Real TRAV 9 p.m.

In this new episode, Bobby and Brandy visit a woman who claims that a Bigfoot has been attacking both her home and her pets, and she has been firing back. Then, a witness who lives nearby leads them to a possible Sasquatch nesting area, and a hunt begins.

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Business Opportunity. Photo/ picture framing equipment, Fletcher 2100 & 3000 mat/glass cutters, Vacu-Seal programmable press.

Extra supplies incl. $7,500. value selling for $2,500. Can purchase items separately. 218-830-1255 Living Well workshop series is for people with conditions such as chronic pain, diabetes, arthritis or mental health conditions. We are looking for volunteers and professionals to become class leaders to motivate and inspire. Leaders co-lead a 6-week workshop with another certified instructor in a community setting of their choice.

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Wanted: In search of Talent Manager & mentor to help me reach my potential. I am a comedian & speaker with electric personality. I have potential to impact the world but I need a believer to believe in me. I want to make the dream attainable.Write me: Benjamin Jorgenson, 2 East 2nd st. Duluth, MN 55802 Adults 18 or older and generally healthy wanted for research on the physiological and subjective stress responses of individuals who use marijuana regularly.

Compensation provided. U of MN Medical School Duluth Research Study, 218-726-8623.

President’s Liquor has full & part-time employment openings for stock clerk, cashier, maintenance & office assistant. Apply inperson at the Liquor store. 3824 E. 2nd St. Superior, WI. Ask for Jim Have lots of nest stuff 4 sale. Have Amazon acct. Need someone w/ internet sales ability. For info 218348-2903 “Ever wonder what the world looks like at 5 am? Always dreamed of having afternoons off? Amazing Grace is looking for a full time

breakfast line cook. The right candidate will be: Reliable and skilled in the arts of time management; Ready to become an indispensable piece of our ever-growing team; Able to work fast-paced professional kitchen; Excited about working in a from-scratch kitchen in a family owned restaurant; Stop by & pickup an application, we look forward to meeting you.”

ARE YOUR KIDS IN SCHOOL? V.I.P. is in need of a few good kitchen workers. Day hours available. If you are interested call your nearest V.I.P. or stop in. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY

Employment DRIVERS WANTED Looking for self-motivated people that would like part time work transporting people to appointments in your area. Great benefits. Please leave message 612/978-2115 Paperboy looking for help with marketing on internet. 218-3482903 Housekeepers Wanted Must be available mornings and weekends. Apply in person at the front desk/ Allyndale Motel, 510 North 66 Ave. West and Cody St. Looking for an amazing career and a great place to work? Aerostich is hiring!

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Arrowhead House Foster Care has part time employment opportunities working with adults with mental illness. Day/evening & awake overnight positions available. Competitive wages, paid training, paid time off and employee bonuses! Call 218-727-8040, or apply online at ahprograms. com

Work Wanted Sharpening Service 29 years exp. Circle saws, planer knives, Zamboni knives, tec. John 218879-6143 Experienced pet sitter would love to watch them in your home & house sit. References. Call 218380-3340 Trudy. $0. one dog, $5 each additional Licensed Nurse-Duluth/Superior area. Good driving record. Will assist clients: DRs appts, meds, shopping, lunch, some light housekeeping duties. Avail. 2-3 hrs on weekdays. Reasonable rates Call Lynn 218-348-7393 Experienced personal care assistant/home health aide looking for jobs. 29 yr old female with reliable vehicle and valid insurance. can run errands, clean, do small projects, drive u places, assist u with things inside and outside of the house, shovel, as well as assist with activities of daily living. 218481-3388 Educated hair stylist willing to come to your home and do your hair. Very fair rates. Wendy 715-

919-0979 Senior will do phone fundraising/ surveys. PT, afternoons, downtown Duluth. 218-940-9005 Reliable man to care for elderly in home. Run errands, work in your home. Very diversified, excontractor. Call for details 218409-4725 Feet on the Go! Yes! I will come into your home to give you a pedicure. 218-208-7950 Handyman. $13/hr - Call Ryan @ 218-428-1626 Musicians..

HELP WANTED Keyport Lounge

is currently hiring wait staff to greet customers, wait tables, serve food and beverages.

Please apply in person with Connie at Keyport Lounge 1900 Belknap, Superior.

Anyone looking for a drumset or Bass player? I play both. 612-396-8307 GUITAR LESSONS from Austin, Tx professional new to the Twin Ports!

(Also Bass & Vocal) go to new levels!

Call 512-565-5000 Guitar lessons available. 16 years experience. All styles, reasonable rates.

Contact Aaron at 218-760-1599.

Professional violin/fiddle lessons.

Credentials: Performance degree U of M Twin Cities, toured nationally as American/Celtic/Nordic/Rock fiddler.

Duluth. References. 218-235-3235 Eli Bissonett

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Meetings NARVRE Unit 92 - Protecting Railroad Retirement - we meet the 2nd Thursday of each month at the West Duluth American Legion at 1 PM Alernative Therapies Scandinavian Crime Writers Book Club meeting in Mind Body Spirit Harmonization with Tachyon Duluth Call Kirk 612-558-1318 Energy. One only a few Tachyon Chambers in U.S. Superior, WI 715-501-4046

Free Piano Lessons for Beginners in your home. If you have the desire to learn the basics this is a good start. I will not give lessons to under 18 without others present. Jay 218213-4687

Lost/Found Lost - Black I-Phone on Dec. 16. Within 4 blocks of East High School in the snow. $50 reward Text/Call 218-213-6213

Wanted_ Wanted: Furnished bedroom, apartment, or cabin in Duluth area for senior couple for for month of August. JANEorTOM@gmail.com Disabled P/T employed male in need of stable housing, room or basement with available kitchen. Far East End. Please call James 218-461-0703.

Will provide all inside/outside upkeep, maintenance, etc. for your property/home. Swap for free but private living quarters on site. Multi-skilled 70 yr old man.

Excl. Character. 218-213-43-69 MINNESOTA HUNTING LAND Wanted. Earn thousands on your land by leasing the hunting rights. Free evaluation & info packet. Liability coverage included.

The experts at Base Camp Leasing have been bringing landowners & hunters together since 1999. Email: info@basecampleasing.com Call: 866/309-1507 BaseCampLeasing.com I buy homes, multi-units and land. Cash $. 218-5562542 webuytwinports.com_

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Real Estate Real Estate Hunting Land 40 acres Ajoins 2000 A County Land.

NW Douglas County. Buildable, heavily wooded.

Wood value $26k - Taxes $670. $67,900 218-4285844 WILDERNESS HUNTING CABIN with storage shed 1000 ft. off forest management road on leased land in St. Louis County Brimson area.

Call 218-391-4131 or 218-879-6585 For Sale: 2.35 acre lot w/100’ shoreline on Lake LaVerne, WI. Motivated to sell: $27,000 Call Lori 612803-6607 for details.

For Sale: 1978 2 bedroom, 2 bath mobile home in Sunnyside Estates, Cloquet. Needs repairs. $1,500. or B.O. 218-481-5881 Responsible non profit animal rescue looking for pet friendly rental housing, fenced yard, spactious. Rent to own pref. ASAP. 218-576-8534 50 acres hunting land. 2 enclosed deer stands, building site, power & phone access. Westerlund Loop, Solon Springs, Wisc. 920-344-8016 Mobile home $18,500 Vintage Acres/Gary 2br//1ba includes appliances. Quiet. Lg yard/garden area.

218-464-5524 2-Bedroom Cabin on Siskwit Lake, 500’ frontage, Cornicopia, Wisconsin 847-710-2967 Rentals__ Large 2 bedroom apartment in West Duluth. Available Sept. 1st Call 218-940-6237 Condo in Aspenwood 3 bed - 1.5 bath, garage,fully firnished. All utilities inc. Available October 1st. 6-8 month lease. $1,595. 218-390-7291 Newer 2 story side by side duplex in Superior w/att. 2 stall garage. 2bdr w/full & half ba gas heat & water. $1025/ mo + util. & dep. No pets. Avail. May 1 Call 715-394-2028

Seeking Rental - Whole house or private entrance w/o shared ventilation. Chemically sensitive tenants - Can Afford $800-1000 per month depending on utilities. Asthma triggered by poor indoor air quality. Call or text (218) 260-5091 $350 1 bedroom util. incl. Cloquet. Shared kitchen, bath, living room. No smoking, pets or kids living with you. 218-464-7849.

Hobby Sawmill-Hunting Lodge. Needs new renters or buyers. 218-727-1928 ______________________ Cozy two bedroom apt. In Lakewood township. $875/month available Oct. 1, 2016. Included in rent is water, heat, garbage and WIFI. wildlife. Shared laundry. No pets; no smoking or smokers. 218-3300769.

Fisherman cabin 1 mile from boat landing on Lake Superior. For info or pictures call (715) 682- 2568 Vacation Rental. Causeway on Gull, Nissewa, MN. 2 Bdrm, 2 bath, sleeps 8 May 13-15th. Close to marina, free boat slip. 218-865-6591 Lake of the Woods, MN 30 acres for sale with well, septic, power & sheds. Minutes from the lake! Excellent summer, winter fishing & hunting. Close to resorts. Asking $78,900. 218-242-7304

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Wilderness Hunting Cabin 16’ x 24’ cabin with steel-sided shed on county-leased land in Ault, Minnesota, 1000’ off forest management road.

$40,000 Call 218-491-0972 or 218-355-1668

Iconic Northwoods Restaurant for Lease The Chocolate Moose is available for lease to a qualified operator for the 2020 season and beyond. Ely’s most popular restaurant since 1985 needs new energy and creativity. Sixmonth lease with very liberal terms to get started. Operationally ready to move in. Profitable for more than 30 years.

Call Piragis Northwood Co., 218-365-6745 or steve@piragis.com

Don’t miss out on this location!

14th Avenue West & 3rd Street Wood setting near Enger Tower in the middle of Duluth. 2 bedroom apartment, everything included 950.00 a month Newer secure building, views of bay, OSP, laundry, non-smoking, no pets. 100 yards from hiking and biking trails. Students and young professionals welcome. Call Dan. 218-348-8008

$48,000 Wooded Lot with Creek & Well 6632 Hwy 61, Little Marais

Ready to build on level site. Year round access. Well, electricity, and identified septic 1-3/4 acres includes: 25’ travel trailer, 18’ X 18’ Shed, mature trees, winding creek

Contact: Mike 651-406-8221

Build your Vacation Home or Cabin Very nice, remote 10 acres. Fully surveyed, driveway in, building site fully ready. Walk down to lake and fish for Walley, Northern and perch.

Ducks, Geese, Deer, Moose and Bear roam the property. Build your dream home, or hunting cabin. Located in central Lake County. Forrest service road accress, not plowed in winter. 18 miles from Finland, MN. $35,000

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2003 Honda CVR

Sunroof, 230k miles.

Best offer!

218-940-6237

2007 Toyota Avalon Touring

LOADED, Leather, sunroof, 230k miles. Broken headlight.

Best offer.

218-940-6237

1963 Oldsmobile

4 dr collector car. 17,700 original mil. Museum quality. $15,000. 218-778-688 6 after 6pm

2017 Nissan Leaf SV ALL ELECTRIC, Charge with house power, 107mi Range, back-up camera, GPS, Bose audio, heated seats. 16k miles. $14,500 or BO. 218-428-5631

1962 Cadillac Coupe Deville.

Family owned, original papers, $18,000. 218-969-4369.

1981 Buick LeSabre. 4-Dr., dark blue, 19,000 miles, flawless. $9,500. 1998 BMW Z-3. Headturning black beauty. Spoked wheels, 5-speed, extra rims and tires, $9,750. 715-682-6116.

1973 Blue Lincoln Continental, 27K Mint Condition. $15,000. 218966-1748 1999 Toyota SR5 4x4 Classic extended cab. Excellent to mint condition. Cap, steps, frontguard, rear air shocks, sun visor & chrome package. $12,500. or BO 715-2783055 2003 Ford Taurus. New tires, good runner. Good for parts car. Has rusted frame. $750. or BO 218348-2434 95 Cad. 6 door-9 pass Limo. Very clean. 52K New vinyl roof. $3,500.

OBO 218-628-2606 1997 Lincoln Luxury TOwn Car. Arizona vehicle, never seen snow.

Lo-miles. $5900. kept in Minong 715-466-4607 or 715-520-0345 1974 VW Super Beetle. Fair condition. 138,000 mi. ‘98 paint-green.

Bayfield area. $2,750.00 7157793203 Collector 1968 GM 3-speed column shift transmission #GM-17 part #3925647 and bell housing.

218-525-1477 2008 Ford Focus 4cyl sedan 4D SES 144k miles. $4500. 2000 Toyota Corolla 4cyl sedan 4D LE 90k miles $2900. 218-727-6724 1983 Buick Regal Limited mint condition V6 Air , cruise ,all original carpet still new, seats velour 25,000 miles. $8000,00. (218-6242143 Sold AS-IS for restoration or parts.

Collector 91 Buick Riviera, 68 Chevrolet 3/4 ton pickuo. 88 Mercury Topaz, 74 Mercury Montery 218-525-1477 2000 Dodge Intrepid, still runs good, (been babied), FW drive, tires fairly new, $178,000+ miles, $2000 or BO 218-786-0339 2003 Saturn LW200 Wagon. Great shape, great runner, low miles.

Economical family vehicle. $4200 obo. 218-940-3659 2000 Dodge Neon. Good shape w/139k miles. PS/PB/AC. 4 cyl.

Two new tires. $1800 or BO 218263-8292 1979 Pontiac Sunbird coupe, all

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original 44000 actual miles, never been in the snow. 4 cylinder ,4 speed, custom wheels, must see ,picture available,$4500 OBO 218-475 -2767 Single Owner, 2010 Steel Gray, Level 5, Toyota Prius, 42,000 miles, maintenance up to date, new tires, GPS navigation system, JBL Speaker system and Bluetooth for hands free cellphone connection. Excellent condition. In garage in winter. $19,500 call 218235-1698 1989 Cadillac Fleetwood. 75k Imaculate. Collector plates. A/C, cruise, power seats & windows. $5,000 or BO. 715-409-5431.

2010 Chev Impala. Great shape! $4,395 OBO. 218-409-5496 $5,000 BO. 713-409-5431 or 218Trucks, Vans, 346-3622

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1999 Toyota SR5 Ex-Cab 4x4 ExCond-mint, Caps, Steps,Frontguard, Rear Air Shocks, Sun visor, Chrome pkg. $12,500 715-278-3055 94 Ford Bronco-One owner (not OJ) 133k New alternator, tires, brakes etc. $1,500. ask for Rene’ 218-464-0757 86 GMC Rally STX 8 passenger Van 2500. 5.7L (350 V8) 168K, hitch, 2 extra tires, owners manual, very good cond. $3000. 218-4285416 88 Ford Econoline E-250 Camper Van. Flacon 190,351 Windsor motor, 144,000 mi, runs drives great.

New tires 7,000 mi ago. Many new parts. $6,900. 218-780-6436 2012 Chevy Captiva Sport V6, 67k excellent cond. $10,000. 715-3632646 or 715-292-1043 Vans-SUVs-Non Business 6 door 9 pass Limo. Nice Arizona car. No rust, new vinyl roof. $4500. OBO 218-628-2606 or 218-391-2535 1947 Willy Jeep attachment to make manual lifting Plow into power!! $75.00 218-6242143 96 Dodge Dakota ExCab, V-6, 137xxx mi. $1850.00 218-7493993 1997 Red Chev 1/2 ton, Z71, leather, 3rd door, push button 4x4++! 157000 mi. $3850. 218749-3993 2015 Yukon SLT. Fully loaded.

50% wear on tires. 103KMi Free of accidents. $34,750. 218-349-8334 2004 Ford F-150XLT 4WD Crew-

Cab. V8 Auto, 168K 2nd owner.

Remote Start, 2 sets wheels/tires.

New Battery, spark plugs, coils.

Susupension upgrade. Tonnau cover, side steps. Mechanically Excellent.. Well-maintained. Over $12,000 invested. $7,500. ot B/O 218-206-1045 1987 Dodge Ram 1/2 ton Pickup.

2WD 318 Auto, no rust. Nice upholstery. Runs good. 130k. Nice tires-orig paint. w/topper. Clean $2,650 218-269-0153 1999 Jeep Wranger Sport. Hard top, full doors. $5800. OBO 715747-2350

Heavy equipment

Knaack Jobsite Tool Box, 23” H x 48” W x 24” D. Powder paint finish in excellent shape. $100 OBO 715-209-1228 1964 John Deere 2010 C Series Diesel Crawler/Loader $5,000.

218-966-1748 New engine hoist chevy picker & engine stand $150. for both.

Diamond plate truck tool box 70” outside 5ft inside 15” depth $100.

6 1/2 ft fiberglas topper off chev pu $50. 218-848-2007 12 Tine Spring Tooth Cultivator on steel wheels. $100. 5’ Tow-Behind Field Disc $50. 715-817-8327 8’ dumpbox insert for pickup truck. 12v elec/hyd self contained. $1400/b.o. 218-729-5273 Int. single axle clam truck. $2500.

Semi hyd wrecker boom $1100.

1999 Chev ext-cab 4x4 119k. $4500. 218-258-3935 Boats/Bikes/ATV/Sno Wanted: Harely-Davidson sidecar.

920-727-3550.

16-ft. fiberglass canoe with trailer. $275 cash. 715-774-3279.

Arctic Cat Snowmobile Suit. Like New, paid $260 make offer cash only. 218-834-3709 2004 HarleyDavidson Heritage Softail. Lots of extras, helmet, available. 12,000mi $10,000. 218966-1748 14ft fiberglass fishing boat, molded seats $200. or BO 218-848-2007 1985 Honda Shadow 650 122,000 odometer. Runs good. Comes with brand new helmet & leather saddle bags. $900 OBO 715-813-0757 OLD MOTORCYCLES WANTED Collector looking for old motorcycles sitting in the barn or shed

collecting dust mostly looking for 60s and 70s motorcycles but possibly newer ones as well what do you have? Cash paid! Call me 320420-7675 Reasonably priced 20’ Pontoon boat w/ 4-stroke engine and power lift. 928-234-3325 2010 Yamaha Cruiser Red, 1000cc, 1,800mi, saddlebags, removable backrest, windshield, cruise control. Like new $5000.

218-410-2616 Ranger snowmobile trailer. 8 ft wide, 10 ft long, tilt, 4 ever lic. aluminum, spare crank up tongue.

Ready to go nice trailer. $1150.00 218-749-3993 1998 AlumaCraft 185 Trophy 150hp Johnson, 6hp Nissan, 2 Locators, Marine Radio, 4 Downriggers, 2 planner boards, 7 rods & reels. $10,000 or BO 715-8178030 2252 Ciera Express. Set up for Lake Superior. Asking $10,000. or reasonable offer 218-348-5450 91 H.D. Sportster 1200cc Rebuilt & modified. Good cond. $5,000.

OBO 218-724-1946 1972 Harley 50cc Did run last 1988. It’s been hung from ceiling inside my house since then. Asking $1,500 or BO 218-940-4984 1981 Yamaha 100 XS full dressed motorcycle w/39k miles and a full dress parts bike with it. Asking $1000. 218-263-8292 1995/96 Ski-Do Free Style. Also trailer for 24ft pontoon boat. 715682-5305 1972 Classic S-S Swan 43 Custom. Freezer/fridge/watermaker.

Hull #64 of 67. 715-747-2350 Trade my 17’ canoe for small fishing boat. 218-525-6707 17” cedar strip canoe. Brand new, hand built in No. Minn. $1,700.

218-626-1262 10’ Jon Boat. New ores. Good shape. $200. 218-788-6636 20-foot Kayot Aluminum Pontoon Boat with 25 HP Evinrude outboard motor. Deck has been replaced.

Duluth area. $1,500. 763-3890318 Auto Wanted Auto parts needed. Hood, grill & headlight units for 1997 Buick LeSabre. Hopefully not too expensive.

218-600-7105 Leave Message.

Wanted: livestock trailer. Around $500 or less. Nothing fancy. We

can make repairs. Hauling alpine goats to Arizona. Text 218-3401273. Have a chicken coop I can trade.

Older snowmobiles, motor cycles, mini bikes and most small engines.

218-269-5455 Wanted: Junk Cars & Trucks. Junk cars and trucks for scrap. Partial proceeds benefit Douglas County Humane Society. Thanks. 218348-6942.

Misc-Auto\Traillers 22-foot motor home. Clean & ready to go! Sleeps 6. A/C, TV antenna, microwave. 48,000 miles. $6,750.

218-749-3993 Wanted: older 1/2-ton, 2-wheel drive, full-size pickup in good running, rust-free condition. 218-9299161.

Wanted: 5-hole 13 inch trailer wheels with or w/o tires 218-2634676 1929 Inline Six Double D motor & transmission $1,000 or BO 218410-5011 New Kumhp Solus KR21 Tire & rim P225/70/R16 $75 BO New Dayton tire P215/65/R16 $40 BO 218-3435114 2009 Montana 5th wheel, 4 slides, located in Cloquet, Spafford Park, many extras, $22,900 obo. 701 509 7757 Brand new Kumho-Solus Tire and wheel, 225-70-16 (KR21) $50/BO New Dayton tire 215-65-16 $25.

218-464-2824 34-foot Jayco Eagle Bunkhouse Travel Trailer. Sleeps 9, 16’ Awning, Lots of storage. Self-Contained. Shower. Price lwoered to $5,500. Duluth area. 763-3890318 2-Crager S/S Chrome reverse wheels 14” Uni-lug $200. 218-5251861 4 Weather Master, Snowgroove, ST2-195/55 R15 Tires $100.

4-205/70/R15 $100. 218-724-5358 Diamond Plate Aluminum Pickup Tool Box, 14” Deep, 60” Long, 20” Wide with 5” Overhang, Single Cover. In Great Shape. $100 (218)743-3933 Brand new Kumho Solus KR21 tire & wheel. 225-70-16. $85 OBO New Dayton tire only. 215-65-16 $50 OBO 218-606-2011 4 truck roof bar light. Chrome, new. $10. 218-848-2007

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Slider windows & screens Brake.

Like new. 218-525-1477 4 Hankook Ventus V12 ev0.

245/45 ZR 19 Extra load tires with less than 7,000 mi. $200 218-4093913 4-275-65-18R (F150) Goodyear Wranglers 8-9/32 Tread $100.

218-341-0396 Lawn tractor wheel weights. 30lbs each. Fits 8 or 10” rims. $60 obo.

218-729-5273 2002 Chrysler TOC passenger outside door handle. $30. 218591-7712 L&R front fender script emplems and chrome fender scoop ornaments for 69’ Firebird. $50 firm.

Cash only. 715-718-0092 F-150 fiberglass topper, blue $100. 715-591-8217 Music Jusek Violin. Made by a master in Prague 1926, #107 valued at $4,000. Will trade for cash and a good violin or BO Call Jim 218491-4201 Conn Organ - Free if you have children, otherwise $20. Also, consol TV, free 218-624-4900 35 String Irish Harp made by Duluth Harp maker David Kortier.

Excellent cond. with case. $1800.

218-428-0563 Two 15” JBL speakers w/tripods, Peavey XR-600 P.A. Head. For band or solo. $500. firm 320-6308004 4-piece PDP drum set with cymbal stand and double bass pedal. Excellent condition! $300. Call Terry at 218-206-7571 Fender KXR-60 Keyboard amp50amp 12”speaker $135. 218235-1475 Ibanez Micro Bass. Great for beginners. Black New $195 OBO 218-235-1475 Fender Jazz Bass, black, humbuckers. Like New $400 OBO 218-235-1475 Two Lawrence green box flashers.

Mac 1 Eagle graph--Lawrence. $75. 218-984-2669 Jay Turser Sanatoga Electric Guitar w/all the bells & whistles. Gotta

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see to appreciate w/hardshell case $100. 218-393-1375 Hammond organ J-122 model w/ bench. Great condition. $100 or best offer. 218-244-1629 SWR studio 220 bass head and 2 AMPEG 4x10 cabs $600. 5905664 Old Tunes for new Harpists. Spiral bound books 3 hymns; 3 Christmas/holiday, and 2 folk tunes/ classics) with 15 original arrangements, suitable for all harps. $20 612/308-1792.

Rocktron Amp. 120wt 2x12. On board reverb, distortion, chorus, tuner. Loud and gig worthy. $175.

218-269-7042 Wanted Two- or four-wheel folding grocery cart, less than $15. Call evenings, 218-940-9005.

Small cast iron wood or pellet stove. 218-834-3709 lv messg Honda Trail 70, Z50, XL70, SL70, XR75 motorcycles. 218-428-3474 Cheap-used recesed ceiling fan.

218-310-1781 or 218-276-4985 Cheap used/refurbished room, window or portable air conditioner in good shape. 218-310-1781 Wanted - snowblower with electric start, 8 HP more or less. Reasonable - Leave or Text message to 715-610-1710.

2 into 1 stock muffler from early ‘80s Harley FX 218-341-2841 Sets of Dresser scarves. 218-9409005 evenings Reasonably priced 20’ Pontoon boat w/ 4-stroke engine and power lift. 928-234-3325 Seeking private woodlands to sustainably harvest balsam boughs in Sept & Oct. Cash paid. Senior couple. 218-428-5220 Super 8 Viewer. 715-919-1028 Plastic model cars and car kits, parts & pieces. 1/24 & 25th scale.

218-393-1375 Your old resonator or Dobro guitars/parts. Desired by man of limited resources for a project. 715817-1813 Wanted to buy. Forging tools.

218-590-6507 Computer/Elec Ham Radios-Best Offer. Text only for info & pics. 218-750-7981 Old “Air Master” radio. Text only for info & pics. 218-750-7981

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Dell Inspiron desktop 100 dollars.218-341-2607 White Baby Monitors $10. or BO 218-310-1781 or 218-276-4985 Bluetooth Music Light up bulb. $25. or BO Mini electric cigarette roller. Blue&Black comes with pushstick & brush $30. or BO218310-1781 PS2 Console w/3 controllers. Slim PS2 $40. or BO Will trade for other electronics. 218-310-1781 or 218276-4985 RCA digital converter box wth remote, gently used-still in box. $35 or BO-will trade for other electronics. 218-310-1781 or 218-2764985 Appliances Free 1956 Singer sewing machine in wooden cabinet. 920-727-3550.

Two window air conditioners. $75 each or best offer. Small chest freezer, $25. Kenmore dishwasher, $50. wood-burning stove, $100.

Upright piano, free. 218-370-0711.

ATTENTION LANDLORDS: Frigidare washer, Maytag dryer, XLarge Kenmore Refridgerator w/ ice maker, Maytag Dishwasher.

Downsizing. Excellent running cond. Some scratches from moving. $1,000. for all. 218-241-1842 Frigidare Freezer, commercial duty, 32w 30d 72h white $200.

Electric kitchen stove almond $65.

218-848-2007 Cube-style dorm fridge in good cond. $40. 218-638-2399 Frigidaire frost-free 14.4 cu. ft. freezer. Never used. $300.00 Pickup only 218-390-8426 Jen-aire Glass Top Stove. Works great. Best offer 218-724-5358 Wood space heater $50. 218-7214481 Stove for home, cabin or garage.

Burns wood or coal. $95. 715-3998569 White Kenmore microwave. $10.

218-206-1278 Two 250 gal fuel oil tanks. Paint red for gasoline. $50/ea. 218-8482007 Furniture Blue office chair. Good condition. $10. Gold floor lamp with shade.

Good condition. $15. Shelving unit and 14 ceramic bears. $25 Call 218-525-7702 Full size box spring and mattress, very good shape. $30 cash only

takes both. 218-834-3709 48” round oak pedestal table, small oak library table, ornate oak buffet, multi-drawer draftsman cabinet. Make offer 218-830-1255 White ceiling Fan $10 or BO 218310-1781 or 218-276-4985 Wooden kitchen table, 12” leaf, 6 chairs. Very sturdy $100. Light tan couch-unfolds into bed, steel

frame $100. Both items in V.Good Cond. 218-390-2629

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color. $45. 213-4369.

H&R 22 pistol with leather holster, $150. 12-gauge pump shotgun, like new. $350.218-848-2007.

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Chest High Waders. Size 11 $35 cash only. 218-834-3709

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ACROSS 1 – Close 5 – Washington follower 10 – Not dissonant 12 – Municipal 13 – Follow 14 – Laughable 15 – Long, long time 16 – Heel 18 – Hauler’s unit 19 – Pinter works 21 – Fast runner 22 – Independence Day sights 24 – Sink feature 25 – Independence Day sights 29 – Volcano shape 30 – Whoever 32 – Crude abode 33 – Iris setting 34 – Blue 35 – Bakery come-on 37 – Boring movie 39 – Mink’s cousin 40 – Natural in Vegas 41 – Bar orders 42 – Throw 84 July 2, 2020 84 April 23, 2020 DuluthReader.com

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20 – Niño’s mother 21 – Sculptor Moore 23 – Female in a pride 25 – Patriot’s day 26 – Completely 27 – Balkan region 28 – Traps 29 – Lack of order 31 – Perfect places 33 – Shucking units 36 – Got together 38 – Trawling need

Traverse crowding full-size Tahoe in Chevy line GILBERT’S GARAGE by

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The newly enlarged Traverse is officially “midsize,” but larger. Photos by John Gilbert In the old days, Chevrolet took care of all the size requirements for SUVs by offering small (Blazer), medium (Tahoe) and large (Suburban). Of course, those intentions expanded to the 2020 model year, when Chevrolet stretches from the largest Suburban, to the Tahoe, then the midsize Traverse, down to the reimagined Blazer, the compact Equinox, the compact Trax, and the also-compact TrailBlazer.

There was a recent time when fuel economy restrictions caused a realistic elimination of the largest vehicles and a splurge of the compacts. But my memory was challenged recently, after

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I test-drove and reported on the new Chevrolet Equinox, which surprised me because it performed well and handled impressively in its latest form.

Most recently, I got a Traverse to test for a week, and when I first laid eyes on it, I was impressed by the shapely form that made it look modern and sporty, with a dash of luxury.

When I climbed into the driver’s seat, I was impressed with the amount of room, and when I hit the ignition button and stepped on the gas, it took off with a bit of a jolt, and it showed tendencies for power whenever I touched the gas.

Always looking for the reasons a company builds a certain vehicle, I thought it was curious that the new midsize Traverse seemed to have grown into something larger than midsize.

In fact, I thought the Traverse might have been a flashback for Chevy, to the days when it built vehicles that were always a little bigger than last year’s models, gradually luring us to buying bigger vehicles that were, yes, less fuelefficient, while hauling larger groups of people.

Because of the difficulty I had estimating the dimensions whenever I tried to park the Traverse, and the

way it seemed almost cumbersome whenever I tried to take a corner with a dose of performance, the Traverse’s size bothered me. The old rule still works, that if you need more room you have to sometimes build the vehicle bigger, but the Traverse seemed to have grown large enough to intrude on the Tahoe’s turf.

The Equinox, which I declared “big enough” for almost any family’s duties, seemed like a compact sport-ycar by comparison. True, the Traverse has a larger 3.6-liter V6 with 308 horsepower and 270 foot-pounds of torque compared to the Equinox, April 2020 July 2,23, 2020 85 85

Leather seats and trim are features of the High Country Traverse. and it will haul seven, if you fill all three rows. But my curiosity had to do with comparisons to the larger Tahoe – which itself has grown in its all-new form to rival the gigantic Suburban.

After a little detective work I found that the Traverse is 204.3 inches long, with a wheelbase of 120.9 inches, and 98.2 cubic feet of cargo space if you fold the second and third rows down, which shrinks to 23.0 cubic feet if all the seats are in sitting position.

The new Tahoe is 210.7 inches long, with a 120.9 wheelbase identical to the Traverse, but that is for a 2021 Tahoe.

If we drop back to the current 2020 Tahoe, the overall length is 204 and wheelbase 116 inches.

So my hunch was correct. The Traverse is slightly longer than the current Tahoe, with a longer wheelbase. But Chevrolet, in order to make room for it, slyly increased the Tahoe by 6 inches in length for the 2021 model, boasting that it’s bigger than ever, and staying larger than the fattened-but-sleeker Traverse, which is also “bigger and better.”

In normal combined driving in and around Duluth, with its hills, the best we got in fuel economy was 23.7 miles per gallon, which is OK for the size of the Traverse, but leaves it at a deficit against some of the top Asian and European models, to say nothing of Ford’s EcoBoosted 4-cylinders.

But if it seems as though General Motors might have slipped a cog in its advancement toward better economy, the Traverse has a lot of impressive features that can help justify the “High

Country” test vehicle to rise from a $40,000 base price to a sticker of $54,395.

It has all-wheel drive, of course, and a 9-speed automatic that handled its power, even if it did seem to launch

with a drag-racing jolt. The 20-inch wheels are polished aluminum, and the safety features are plentiful. Rear cross-traffic alert, lane change alert, blind side alert, forward collision alert, are augmented by lane-keep assist, enhanced emergency braking, front pedestrian braking, and forward collision alert.

A large, dual-pane sunroof and LED lights all around, plus a handsfree lift gate and remote starting are nice features. The seats are leather trimmed, and the front bucket are heated and cooled, and the second-row seats are also heated. The premium audio system and navigation and a 10-speaker Bose coordinates through an 8-inch diagonal touchscreen.

The second row of seats was comfortable buckets, and the sliding second row moved forward to allow easier access to the third row. Granted, the third row is a split bench bestsuited for tiny people, like children, and will probably spend almost all its life folded flat into the floor.

Still, if you have only occasional need for a third row to increase occupancy from five to seven, you could appreciate it. Same as the 5-star crash test stature.

Actually, there are no options for the $54,395 price tag. The base, front-

Rear-view cameras are good, and the Traverse improves by split-screening a full surround view. wheel-drive Traverse starts at $40,000, but as you move up in features and conveniences, you get up to the top model in the fleet, which is the High Country, and that is $53,200. Final assembly is in Lansing, Mich., with the engine built in Mexico.

The Traverse has an attractive look, and might well appeal to everybody up to and including a Tahoe buyer, and my only cautioning idea is to also check out the more compact but surprisingly roomy Equinox.

Especially if you take comparison test-drives around a cloverleaf.

The stylish exterior is actually longer than the Tahoe, until the Tahoe was stretched for 2021.

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STOP Photo of the week That’s quite an ad for Grandma’s! A couple of spectacular rainbows illuminated Duluth, the Aerial Bridge, a couple of visiting cargo vessels and Lake Superior itself Thursday, June 11.

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Quote of the week “Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother country and to challenge the admiration of the world. But what a pitiful detail of grievances does this document present in comparison with the wrongs which our slaves endure!”

William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879

American journalistic crusader who helped lead the successful abolitionist campaign against slavery in the United States.

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