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ABC News: U.S. intelligence officials warned the White House that the coronavirus outbreak could turn into a “cataclysmic event” as far back as November. Concerns about what came to be known as the novel coronavirus pandemic were reportedly outlined in a November intelligence report by the military’s National Center for Medical Intelligence, and then briefed to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon, and the White House.

The report is said to have warned about a disease sweeping through China’s Wuhan region and posing a threat to the population. “Analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event,” one of ABC’s sources said. The report warned of a serious threat to U.S. forces in Asia, and indicates that the Trump administration could have ramped up containment efforts far earlier. The Pentagon, National Security Council, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence each declined to comment on the report.

The Nation magazine (as reported by Chauncey DeVega for Salon 4/2/20: The Pentagon was aware of the likelihood of a pandemic brought on by a novel coronavirus years ago, predicting with startling accuracy shortages of masks, hospital beds and ventilators that could occur in an outbreak, according to a 2017 internal document.

The 103-page document – which The Nation describes as an update to an earlier Defense Department pandemic flu response plan – cites a novel respiratory illness as the “most likely and significant threat.” The document also warns that shortages of masks and ventilators would have a “significant

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Nation reporter Ken Klippenstein told NPR’s All Things Considered that within intelligence circles, a coronavirus has been viewed as a likely threat going back at least five years. And while President Trump has said the current pandemic “came out of nowhere,” Klippenstein says it is “inconceivable that the White House did not receive this,” (information contained in the 2017 Pentagon report).

The report’s conclusions have foreshadowed many of the concerns currently being voiced by both elected officials and medical professionals over hospitals beds and medical equipment.

Last Monday on CNN, a medical expert warned that starting the country up too fast, would cause deaths in America to rise from 1,400 deaths/day to 3,000 deaths/ day. Trump’s only concern is winning the next election, and staying in power. New Zealand is up to 19 deaths as we pass 100,000. Trump wanted the chaos of the virus, and continues to lie about everything, everyday. More than 18,000 and rising.

Trump fiddles, while America burns.

Gary Burt Marble, Minnesota Zeitgeist launches artist-driven community mask program To help fill the community’s demand for personal protective equipment, Zeitgeist hired three local artists – Stephanie Stone, Tascha Balsaitis and Renegade Theater Costume Designer Sasha Howell – to create face masks.

The Zeitgeist Community Mask Force Program allows people who are financially able to purchase masks to do so, while providing mask donations to local organizations using a “buy one, give one” model.

“While the State is recommending that people wear face coverings in public, they can be very difficult to acquire,” said Zeitgeist Community Development Director Amy Demmer.

“When the State ordered the shut down of Zeitgeist’s Renegade Theater,

Renegade Theater Costume Designer Sasha Howell with a bag of masks. we mobilized our network of costume designers and fabric artists to make masks. In our mind it has a two-fold impact: we’ve been able to continue to pay artists for their work while helping to get more masks into the hands of our community.”

The makers are using the mask pattern recommended by Essentia Health, employing a variety of fabrics to keep up with demand. All masks are reusable and machine-washable. A children’s size is also available.

“It was a natural fit for me to put my sewing skills to a good cause,” said Howell.

Donations are headed to local organizations such as the Damiano Center and the American Indian Community Housing Organization.

“As we’ve been listening to community members about the challenges they are facing from the pandemic, the need for face masks has risen to the top, especially in communities that already experience extreme health disparities,” said Demmer. “Our friends and neighbors that are people of color,

low-income individuals and those living on the fringe of society historically have faced higher rates of illness and premature death, and that is no different in the time of COVID-19. These people continue to be disproportionately at risk for contracting the virus.”

The Center for Disease Control “recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain, especially in areas of significant community-based transmission.”

To learn more & purchase/donate, visit zeitgeistarts.com/zeitgeist-maskforce/.

Zeitgeist is a nonprofit arts and community development organization committed to growing and sustaining a community that is inclusive, diverse, and equitable; artistic and vibrant; environmentally conscious; and a place where every individual can thrive.

Amy Demmer, Zeitgeist Community Development Director Dragon Boat Festival Canceled The Lake Superior Dragon Boat Festival, scheduled for Aug. 21-22 has been canceled due to the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This year’s race, which was slated to benefit local nonprofit 23rd Veteran, would have marked the 19th annual festival.

“We want to thank all the teams and partners who had committed to our 2020 festival,” said Mark Johnson, cochair of the Lake Superior Dragon Boat Festival. “While we’re canceling this year’s festivals with heavy hearts, we’re looking forward to the 2021 festival – which will be our 20th annual – and focusing on making this our best yet.”

The 20th annual Lake Superior Dragon Boat Festival will take place Aug. 27-28, 2021. The festival’s website, lakesuperiordragons.com, will have more information as the 2021 event draws closer.

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Here’s How: Think ahead when wiring Dear James: We have computer and electronic cables everywhere.

When we build our new house, how should we plan the cables inside the walls to avoid this mess? — Bret H. Dear Bret: It is very difficult to plan exactly when new electronics are constantly becoming “necessities.”

Effective connectivity is imperative to keep everything interacting as designed. It is best to plan for at least double what is now needed and plan access to each room.

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Your new house will probably be a “smart house” for convenience and energy efficiency. Though many of the electronic components of your house will be wireless and controlled by a cellphone or tablet, wired connectivity is still the most reliable. There also is less chance of having it hacked by someone outside your house.

Although you mentioned only cabling for networking in your new house, adequate electrical (120- and 240-volt) wiring will also be needed.

Just think of all the electronic devices

now used in a home, and you can be It is a good idea to also run a coaxial certain you will have many more in a cable to each room. An RG-6 cable decade. Be sure to install breaker box should work well. Since you will have panels (high-voltage load centers) and access to inside the walls before the additional wiring in the drywall is attached, run a walls to take care of future separate set of these cables needs. from the panel to each Install a second panel room. This uses more cable for all your communication than connecting them and networking wiring, from one room to the by and locate it far from the next, but it provides more primary load center breaker long-term flexibility. panel. High-voltage power For additional future wiring can sometimes flexibility, run a 2-inchcause interference with the diameter plastic pipe communication cables. from the basement or High-quality utility room to the attic. communication cables minimize this Hopefully, you have installed enough interference, but while you are laying cables throughout your house, but if out your home, it is better to be safe not, this provides a simple conduit to now than sorry later. run additional cables in the future.

For most of your telephone and Once the cables are in the attic, it communication needs, Cat 5 cables is usually not too difficult to get them should be adequate. Inside the Cat 5 down to the rooms where they are cable are several sets of wires, which are needed. twisted tightly together to minimize The plastic pipe should be located interference. This allows several devices as close to the panel as possible. to be separately connected with the Try to find as straight a path as single cable. Run one cable to each possible up to the attic. If bends are room of your house, even the garage. needed, install two 45-degree bends

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with a straight section between them instead of one right-angle bend.

This makes it easier to pull the cable through when needed.

It would be wise to install the communications cabling after all the other electrical wiring and plumbing is installed. Communications cabling is more fragile than other wiring, so this minimizes the possibility of damage.

Test the continuity of the cables before closing in the walls.

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Local arrests down during pandemic But police still on the job with added precautions It seems straightforward enough: Calls to dispatch to report a neglectmore people staying at home leads to ed child have decreased by 74% since less crime and, consequently, less arthis time last year, though that doesn’t rests. necessarily translate to a decrease in “Reduced interactions are contribthe crime itself. uting to fewer arrests, period,” said As far as incidents that have seen an St. Louis County Sheriff Ross Litman. increase in calls, reporting of college “The other thing that is helping keep parties went up. The local colleges our population lower than usual is the moved spring semester classes online, work of Arrowhead regional correcleaving many students quarantined tions court and field staff (probation in apartments with their roommates. and supervised release agents). They’re Notably, there was an increase for calls working intensely to ensure that every of non-college parties, too. inmate that is a good Another increase in discandidate for intensive patch has been for business pretrial release, electronic checks, which went from monitoring or other forms 187 in 2019 to 328 in 2020. of supervised release are The closure of many stores utilized to the fullest.” has resulted in a higher There were 25,431 calls need for surveillance with by made to dispatch between the increased risk of burMarch 28 and May 17 glary.

APRIL this year. The same time “We’re still out doing period in 2019 saw 34,179 the work and interacting EMIG calls. This reduction wasn’t with people in the ways we equal across all incident can,” said Hornibrook. types, though. One of the biggest But increases of these types of decreases has been in traffic stops, with interactions don’t lead to an increase 78% fewer calls. in arrests. In fact, the department has “We have instructed officers to limit worked to lower the arrest rate in an atdirect contact and interactions with tempt to limit the jail population and individuals,” said Ingrid Hornibrook, mitigate any potential spread of the viPublic Information Officer for the Durus. “It is much easier to do this when luth Police Department. “So traffic calls our inmate count is low than when it have gone down.” isn’t,” said Sheriff Litman. “Bottom line And with schools closed down, there is more discretion is being employed is less interaction between students and now while keeping a careful eye on not their educational support system. jeopardizing public safety.”

“There’s less mandated reporting by As of May 23, 131 of the St. Louis social workers and others, meaning a County Jail’s 197 beds were filled. decrease in reports of child neglect and According to a report by the CDC, predatory offenders,” Hornibrook said. “correctional and detention facili-

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Police are still on the beat on the mean – and ghost town quiet – streets of Duluth. Photo by April Emig. ties face challenges in controlling the spread of infectious diseases because of crowded, shared environments and potential introductions by staff members and new intakes.”

The jail is taking proper precautions based on both the CDC recommendations and instruction provided by Essentia Health. They’ve ended visitations from the general public as well as professional visits. Inmate movement has been reduced by using video technology in the courts for arrangements and hearings.

In addition, employees are screened when they show up for their shifts and detainees are screened at booking. This involves questionnaires and temperature readings. Space has been created to allow for necessary quarantines.

While the arrests have gone down, they haven’t gone away. There are still mandatory bookings for felony warrants and violent crimes. Sheriff Litman said the goal is to ensure “that the only people being booked at the St. Louis County jail are those that are a danger to themself or others or would fail to appear for their scheduled court appearances.”

And not every arrest needs to result in jail time. If an officer feels that an individual will not be a threat to the public or to themselves, they can give a cite and release.

To be clear, this doesn’t mean police

officers are basing their citations on whether someone will be detained.

“The crime that an individual is charged or cited for is based upon the elements of the crime, not on whether or not they will be booked at the jail,” Litman said.

As far as mitigating risk on the scene, officers are instructed to wear appropriate personal protective equipment when responding to calls, ranging from gloves and masks to Tyvek suits. Squad cars are disinfected before and after each shift and any time an individual is transported.

“All our decisions are based on how we can best keep our officers, their families, and the community safe,” said Hornibrook.

And there is one crime that has yet to be reported in Duluth: violating stay at home orders.

“We’ve been very lucky with the cooperation that we’ve gotten from citizens being compliant with the stay at home order,” said Hornibrook.

Now, as the state begins to open back up, both the crime and arrest rates will likely increase.

“With the removal of the Governor’s stay at home order and the loosening of restrictions, people are moving about more,” Litman said. “Consequently, our inmate population is increasing as a result of more bookings.”

Red Lake Nation votes for medical cannabis Plan is to use sovereignty to expand on state’s ultra-conservative take on plant Just a couple days after the historic vote by the Red Lake Nation in favor of medical marijuana, the man who led the initiative to its successful conclusion was still euphoric about the 80 percent majority that supported the proposal. And, he promised, this is just a step toward full legalization on the reservation, and, he hopes for other tribes as well as the entire state of Minnesota.

“We’re celebrating together,” Jones told The Reader by telephone. “I hope this opens up the journey and a new path for Minnesota with the cannabis industry.”

The results in the May 20 vote to allow a medical marijuana operation on the reservation were 1,765 in favor and 425 against.

“It was a record day,” Jones said. “It was a nerve-wracking day for me, but I had a feeling it was going to pass because of the 2,500 signatures we collected.”

In order to put a resolution before the tribal council could bring it to a referendum, Jones and other supporters of medical marijuana had to obtain 2,500 signatures in support of the proposal.

Jones said the effort to involve the tribe in the marijuana by question was needed because the state once again left tribes out of the equation when it created its medical marijuana program.

“When Minnesota opened up the medical cannabis program, they didn’t include any tribes. That really caught my attention,” Jones said.

“If Minnesota can make a program without including native tribes, we can make things here in Red Lake and start practicing our sovereignty.”

Jones believes the Red Lake Nation is ready to exercise their legal authority on this matter.

“We’re going to tell them what we’re going to do,” he said. “This is what we’re going to do, because they left us out so much. I’m tired of them taking a lot of what we had. Now they’re trying to take our sovereignty away. I won’t

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Red Lake Hemp Store co-founders Kevin Jones (left) and David Desjarlait. allow them to do that. I will fight for our sovereignty. I know the council will back us if we run this industry right.”

The initiative passed on May 20 veers from the rather restrictive Minnesota medical marijuana program in that it allows the marijuana flower to be used as a medical delivery method.

Minnesota allows only manufactured oil and pill forms of medical cannabis.

“There were so many supporters for medical cannabis in flower form,” Jones said.

The Red Lake program also allows for more medical conditions than the Minnesota program allows.

“We added 20 more conditions than Minnesota has,” Jones said.

Jones said he takes his cue on using the Red Lake Nation’s sovereignty for medical marijuana from the Paiute tribe in Nevada that opened the first hemp lounge in Las Vegas when no one else could by invoking the sovereignty of the tribe.

“I started traveling all over,” Jones said. “I went to different reservations where it was legal and got in touch with the chairmen and the people who owned the dispensaries to see how they run things. I took their advice. I went to reservations in Nevada where it’s legal. Benny Tso of the Paiute tribe opened up the first dispensary in Las Vegas and he used that sovereignty. He showed me how to write up the laws.

We didn’t have cannabis laws here in Red Lake. We didn’t even have hemp laws.”

And that’s really where the journey began for Jones and the group known as the Red Lake Legalization Team (they have a Facebook page).

“The only law they had here was for the Red Lake College to grow hemp,” Jones said. “They left out band

members to grow that. So the Red Lake Legalization Team, we created the hemp law. We applied for our hemp and cannabis licenses at the same time.

We went to the tribal council meeting of July 2019 and asked for our licenses.

That’s when we found out we didn’t have laws for anything we had going on. They issued the hemp license to me anyway.”

Jones was now ready to go into the legal hemp business, with 250 acres of land to grow the plant.

“A few months later, we ran into more problems,” Jones said. “We had to come to a stop because there were no laws for me to grow. I would have broke the tribal codes if I grew hemp.”

So Jones went back to the tribal council and said there need to be hemp laws on the books so he can start what he believes will be a very beneficial industry for Rd Lake members. He learned there was neither funding for nor manpower to write up the necessary laws to create a hemp industry.

“What I did and our team did, we put the cannabis and hemp laws together for our tribe, so we can eventually go to full recreational.”

Those laws had to go before the tribal code committee.

“I thought they were going to reject them,” Jones admits. “They liked them.

Once the codes got approved by the Code members, we took it up to the tribal council and they approved the cannabis law.”

The next step was to have a tribal council member propose a resolution for the people to vote on medical marijuana. It was then put on the ballot during the May 20 election for four tribal council members.

“The council could make a decision themselves,” Jones said, “but I wanted it to be the people. I didn’t want it to be like the alcohol referendum we had here a few years ago to allow alcohol at the casinos for the customers, and that failed.”

Jones said as he campaigned for passage of the medical marijuana initiative, many people told him they wanted full recreational.

“We had to explain to them, one step at a time,” he said. “Medical was our first step. We campaigned hard for legalizing medical cannabis. We reached out to ever band member.

We went house to house, before all this COVID-19 stuff. We went to pow

wows. We made the parades. We just kept getting signatures.”

Jones even sees a day in the nottoo-distant future when the 400-some people who voted against medical marijuana begin seeing how the new industry benefits the community.

“Those 450 people, they will benefit off this program, either way,” Jones said. “Even though they voted no, they’re still going to get a piece of the pie. We don’t view them as our enemy.

We want this for all our people.

“There are companies up here that provide us revenue,” Jones continued.

“I’m talking about our casino and the other programs that are here today, our Red Lake fisheries (sending walleye to the world). We don’t benefit off that right away. But with this new cannabis industry coming in Red Lake, the people will see something once we get fully operational. That’s what I want here in Red Lake. I worked so hard for this. I want this nation to come out of poverty, and this is how we do it.

I want to practice our sovereignty. I encourage tribal members from any other nation that want to do this, do it, because they can. They have to have the power and belief in their people.

The people are the ones who make this happen, now the power people who are running the council.”

Jones said his plan for a multimillion cannabis industry on the reservation is no pipe dream. It comes from his visits to other tribes that have gotten into the marijuana business, and his own recent experience growing hemp on 250 acres and selling natural hemp products and buds under the Red Lake Chippewa Hemp label.

“That’s something I started last year, and now today we’re doing all that,” Jones said of the Red Lake hemp store.

“Let us continue on our journey for our people. Full legalization, that’s our next step. I want to work hard and make this an industry that runs by the law. The cannabis industry has laws and they have to run by them That’s what we’ll do, run by the law.

I don’t know what the tribal council’s going to do. I hope they go in the right direction and let us continue on our journey.”

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County board opts not to vote on refugee resettlement question The May 26 St. Louis County Board Mountain Iron, the “Taconite Capital meeting was a contrast in opposites, of the World,” was well represented by and it offered a close look at the deep refugee resettlement naysayers, who political divide in America 2020. seemed to think “aliens,” as one caller On one side were the vocal majority, referred to them, were waiting at the made up of the ill informed, the border of St. Louis County to start misinformed and those just plain afraid taking welfare and jobs from hardof the big old world out there, pitted working descendants of the immigrants against well intentioned progressives who came here earlier, and they and Unitarians. would start immediately The issue was a flooding in if the board “symbolic” vote on making voted to accept them, such St. Louis County a haven as this woman from Iron for refugee resettlement, an Mountain: “They are not issue forced on the county keeping the law and you by and other governmental expect all the rest of us to entities around the country keep the law. We have no when last September employment for them.”

President Trump issued “It’s a disgrace,” said an executive order another female caller. “I allowing state and local don’t know anybody who governments to decide wants them. I’ve seen them whether to accept refugee resettlement. in action in Wilmar, Minn. Mothers When the St. Louis County Board let the children take a leak on the first addressed the issue in early floor. What are they going to do here?

January, it was tabled for the May 26 I don’t like them being shoved down meeting. Shortly after that meeting, our throat. Put them in Minneapolis.

U.S. District Judge Peter Messite If it happens, I’ll have to sell my house ruled that Trump’s executive order and move somewhere where they don’t “does not appear to serve the overall have them.” public interest,” putting the brakes on Or another Iron Mountain woman enforcement of the order. who said, “I heard you’re going to At about the same time, Beltrami bring some aliens up here. Well, don’t County voted against refugee bring them up unless they’re citizens resettlement, making it the first in the and they have a job.” state, and possibly the nation, to take a Another woman simply said, “Illegal stand on the issue. immigrants. Phooey!”

With just three of the seven county Some of the callers objected not to commissioners at the Government refugees themselves, but to the burden Services Center in Virginia and the they would place on St. Louis County rest participating virtually from their and its communities. homes, the board heard from 50 “We need to take care of our own callers who had weighed in on the first,” an Eveleth man said. “Our resettlement issue before the meeting, ancestors may have been immigrants, and they also took calls throughout the they were not refugees. There is a meeting. distinct difference.”

“A lot of these are illegal aliens. That Yes, there is, a difference that was shouldn’t be tolerated,” said one man pointed to by several callers and several calling from the Iron Range. “A lot of board commissioners when they finally them don’t come from good, moral got their chance to speak. Immigrants cultures.” He then went on to describe have usually left their homeland for living near a resettled Hmong family a better life somewhere else. Refugees and watching in horror as the family have been forced to flee their homes “scooped up dogs and cats to eat.” because of war, political violence, “I do not wish for them to be coming natural disaster and other forces they here,” said a man from Mountain have no control over.

Iron. “They can go elsewhere. We While many of the callers said these cannot afford to have them live on our refugees would not be Christians, taxpayer dollars.” probably Muslim, several people

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pointed out that an overwhelming majority – 79 percent, according to Commissioner Paul McDonald – of recent refugees brought to the U.S. were indeed Christians, as if that should matter.

On the other side were callers who said St. Louis County should stand up for being a welcoming place, and that those against refugee resettlement were expressing the same sort of misinformation, rumor, racism and fear that earlier immigrants faced when they came to this country earlier in our history. Commissioner Patrick Boyle mentioned a sign he has on display in his office from the early 20th century, a Boston want ad that says “No Irish need apply.” A caller in support of resettlement read from the lumber camp writings of a man who went on to be a prominent attorney and who had nothing good to say about the backward, dirty, just-off-the-boats Swede immigrants he had to work with in the lumber camps.

A Virginia woman pointed to the “welcoming history in our country, state, and especially here on the Iron Range” where the culture is based on many different ethnicities coming to work and live.

A Hermantown man said he tried to look at the issue through his young son’s eyes, and came to the conclusion that his son’s life would be richer in a community open to refugees. “We all do better when we all do better,” he said.

“Today I speak with a heavy heart, a heart that is open and it’s breaking over the racism and hatred I have witnessed over the past five months since we started this conversation,” said Commissioner Beth Olson, who first brought the resolution before the board.

She thought this would be an easy vote since the board represents a county full of immigrants, but instead there has been, she said, “a campaign of misinformation and lies.”

Olson told her fellow commissioners that while their vote on the issue may be symbolic, it’s much bigger than symbolism or even refugees, saying the people want the vote to be taken so they “know where we stand individually and collectively.” She

referred to the vote as “a referendum on what kind of county we are – open to outsiders and welcoming or scared by differences.”

Commissioner Keith Nelson acknowledged several comments that refugee resettlement doesn’t rely on local tax dollars. It does, however, rely on federal dollars, he said, and “the federal taxes come out of my back pocket.” He said he sees this whole thing as a way to bash Trump.

“It’s one more dog whistle from the Trump Administration to pander to far right support, so let’s attack ‘em,” he said.

Nelson added that he remains in office because he listens to his constituents, and they “overwhelmingly told me that they don’t agree with this. They simply do not.”

“The problem that has hit me in the heart since the beginning of this is family reunification,” said Commissioner Paul McDonald.

“Just put yourself, all of you, in that position, not being able to reunite with a family member.”

McDonald also attempted to dispel some of the misinformation that callers had dragged in, such as the majority of refugees being Muslim.

“In the last few years it hasn’t been,” he said, adding that 79 percent of recent refugees were Christian.

Commissioner Patrick Boyle said all those with a fear of Muslim immigrants should know they are repeating the not-too-distant history when this country had a similar fear of Papists (Catholics).

Ultimately, the board voted not to act on the question. Instead, the board approved in a 3-4 vote an amendment from board chair Mike Jugovich to send the question back to county administration until the question of Trump’s executive order is settled in the courts. The four voting for the amendment to once again delay the question were Commissioners Jugovich, McDonald, Musolf and Nelson.

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2. Programs, events, and facilities that provide essential human services to at-risk groups may proceed with conditions. Qualifying services may include nutrition and mental health services. The provider must submit a pandemic operations plan that, in the city’s judgment, adequately reduces the risk of disease transmission and adequately minimizes the necessity for city operating support.

3. Placement and use of portable toilets. The City will engage its portable toilet vendor to return portable toilets to high-traffic parks sites throughout the City and sanitize those units one time per day.

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agreements with the City of Duluth may conduct volunteer service projects with a city-approved pandemic operations plan. Tools from the Volunteer Too Shed will not be available until city buildings are open to the public.

5. Two additional locations are available for non-motorized recreation until at least July 1: West Skyline Parkway from the Magney Snively Trailhead to Becks Road (bike and pedestrian use) and paved cart path on Lake Nine at Lester Park Golf Course (pedestrian only). A portion of Hank Jensen Drive will reopen to motorized traffic June 1 in order to provide motor vehicle access to Enger Park. The portion of Hank Jensen Drive from Twin Ponds to the Enger Park entrance will be reopened to motor vehicles.

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Four cops fired for in-custody death Four Minneapolis police officers have been fired and state and local leaders are demanding answers after viewing a video showing a white Minneapolis police officer with his knee on the neck of a black man in custody who later died.

The video, recorded by a bystander and posted to social media, shows the man on the ground saying he can’t breathe as the officer kneels on his neck. An attorney representing the man’s family later identified him as George Floyd.

The FBI has been called in to probe for possible civil rights violations.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is also investigating.

Video of the Monday night incident Whitney Emanuel (center) hugs Ayanna Melander and Mauri Melander sent shock waves across the Twin Friestleben at the site where George Floyd was restrained by Minneapolis police Cities. Gov. Tim Walz vowed to seek and later died. Photo by Evan Frost, MPR News. justice in Floyd’s death.

“George Floyd’s life mattered. He was Police said they found a suspect in a moving and stops talking. Paramedics a human being and what all of us saw car after being called to the 3700 block arrive shortly after, roll him over on his in that video was wrong in every sense. of Chicago Avenue South at about 8 back – cradling his neck – and put him It was horrid,” Mayor Jacob Frey said p.m. Monday on a report of a forgery on a gurney.

Tuesday in an interview with North in progress.

Floyd was taken by ambulance to News, after the officers “He was ordered to HCMC, where he died a short time had been fired. step from his car. After later, police said. The name of the “When you hear he got out, he physically officer seen kneeling on his neck someone call for help – resisted officers,” police wasn’t immediately released. especially when you’re spokesperson John Elder charged with protecting said in a statement.

‘Not a lot of trust’ and serving – you provide “Officers were able to get by that help. This officer the suspect into handcuffs failed in the most basic and noted he appeared human sense,” the mayor to be suffering medical said. distress.”

“For five minutes we In the roughly watched as a white officer 10-minute video, a pressed his knee in the neck of a black Minneapolis police officer is seen with man, who was helpless,” Frey said of his knee on Floyd’s neck. Floyd is lying the video. “For five whole minutes. face down and repeatedly tells the This was not a matter of a split-second officers he cannot breathe. or poor decision-making.”

A second officer appears to be When asked whether the officers will placing handcuffs on the man, but is be arrested, Frey said that he could not largely unseen and a third officer is give details on that yet. Minneapolis standing a few feet away, and at times Police Chief Medaria Arradondo on stands in front of the person recording Tuesday did not identify the four the incident and other onlookers. It’s officers but said there are criminal unclear where the fourth officer may actions pending. have been.

Floyd, 46, worked security at Congo “Please, please, please, I can’t Latin Bistro, according to the south breathe. Please, man,” Floyd can be Minneapolis’ restaurant’s Facebook heard saying to the officer. Throughout page. the incident, onlookers can be heard The Hennepin County Attorney’s imploring the officers to release the Office posted a statement saying man. prosecutors were “shocked and At one point and after several saddened” by what they saw in the minutes, an officer tells the man “to video. They promised a “thorough, relax” and asks the man what he expedited review” for possible charges wants. “I can’t breathe,’’ he responds. once the investigation ends.

“My stomach hurt, my neck hurt, everything hurts.” He asks for water.

‘Everything hurts’ A short time later, the man stops

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Arradondo was asked Tuesday about the officer using his knee on the man’s neck during the arrest.

“We clearly have policies in place regarding placing someone under control,” Arradondo said, stating that examining what happened and how those policies apply “will be part of the full investigation we’ll do internally.”

Police said no weapons were used, and officers’ body cameras recorded the incident. All footage has been turned over to the BCA, which investigates most police shootings and in-custody deaths.

Attorney Ben Crump, who has been retained by the family of Floyd, called the incident abusive, inhumane and excessive.

Crump has represented the families of Trayvon Martin, shot to death in 2012 in Florida by a neighborhood watch volunteer, Michael Brown, shot to death by police in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014, and Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old shot and killed by police in Cleveland in 2014.

Civil rights attorney and activist Nekima Levy Armstrong said the incident should not have happened, and said it was appropriate for federal investigators to respond. The officer is white and Floyd is black.

Promoting the next war Memorial Day was this week and military hero, and mafia godfather are once again the media is full of trite typical Hollywood themes. Even our platitudes about veterans being heroes. national anthem is all about war and This overblown rhetoric on patriotic “bombs bursting in air.” holidays is misleading and harmful in The media sustains this culture of many ways. It promotes militarism, violence with its slanted, propagandist supports excessive military spending, reporting. The media rarely provides and makes the next war possible. accurate information, perspective on As history professor and retired Lt. issues, historical context, or views Colonel William J. Astore has said, contrary to the accepted story lines.

“Our troops are, of course, human An example is the reporting on issues and vulnerable and imperfect. We related to war and the military. Peace don’t help them when we put them and alternatives to war are rarely on pedestals, give them flags to hold covered and never in any depth. in the breeze, and salute them as icons Around patriotic holidays, like of a feel-good brand of patriotism. Talk Memorial Day and the Fourth of July, of warrior-heroes is worse than cheap: this culture is promoted with speeches it enables our state of permanent war, honoring the “sacrifice” of our troops. elevates the Pentagon, ennobles the They died to “defend freedom” and national security state, and silences protect our way of life. dissent.”

Implied in these stories is that Andrew Bacevich, another retired our many wars were necessary and military officer and professor of history, justified. In our zeal to honor military thinks say we endlessly repeat these service we create a mythology of hero platitudes out of guilt. worship and glorification “To assuage uneasy of war that gives consciences, the numerous legitimacy to violence and who don’t serve [in the militarism. all-volunteer military] As long as the media proclaim their excessive endlessly sustains this by regard for the few who do. myth we will have endless This has vaulted America’s wars and an endless stream combating women and of dead and wounded men to the highest of the coming back from these nation’s ethical hierarchy.” unnecessary wars. In I think the reasons Duluth this Memorial Day are more basic. The real the news was full of trite purpose of glorifying veterans as heroes stories about the sacrifice of veterans. is to maintain recruiting goals and to The people speaking out for peace were keep the money flowing to the defense largely ignored. industries. We have been lied to by I do not denigrate the sacrifice of the recruiters, politicians, and war combat veterans. They have suffered. profiteers. We only deceive ourselves Their sacrifice should be remembered. when we buy into, and repeat, the false But these memories should motivate us narratives about veterans. to say, “never again.”

When a big lie is repeated it must Our troops, and their families, are countered with repetition of the truth. actually victims of war the same as So I repeat the 2016 article “Promoting the “enemy” and the many civilian the Next War.” casualties or “collateral damage.” Our Memorial Day is about honoring the callousness to the suffering and death military service members who have of our troops and innocent people died in our many wars. There will shows our acceptance of violence as a be somber ceremonies at cemeteries. instrument of national policy.

There will be parades to honer the The truth is our many wars and patriotism and sacrifice of military military interventions have not been service. But the vast majority of people for “freedom” or noble causes. will not bother to attend these events.

For all of human existence wars For most people Memorial Day is have been about stealing resources, simply the beginning of the summer protecting territory, and fear of the BBQ season. other tribes. Those “others” wanted We have a culture of violence and our horses or slaves. They wanted the militarism. Many of our national better hunting grounds. They wanted myths are based on violence. The six the gold or the oil. They had strange gun-toting cowboy, the tough cop, the customs and religions. They were

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different. Sometimes they had different economic systems like communism.

We should not fool ourselves that our modern motivations are any different. We are NOT exceptional. We are human. The details, weapons and technologies have changed but human nature is the same.

Endless war does not make us safer, more secure, or more free. Each new war adds strength to the culture of violence as more veterans come home with PTSD, drug addiction, and desensitized to violence.

Historically each war has weakened our civil liberties and democracy. The executive branch has grown more powerful.

The first world war brought the Sedition Act of 1918 and the “red scare” paranoia over communism.

World War II had the incarceration of Japanese Americans.

The Cold War created McCarthyism with loyalty oaths, guilt by association, and the outlawing of dissenting political views.

With the war on terror, we have the Patriot Act and the NSA electronic surveillance. We have undeclared wars, searches without probable cause, no fly lists, torture, and targeted assassinations by our government.

We see the results of our culture of violence in the militarization of our police, our borders and our foreign policy.

We see it in the demonizing of Islamic and middle eastern peoples.

They are the current “others.”

We see it in the paranoia of the war on terror. We also see it in the huge share of our national resources dedicated to war.

The extreme amount of our budget devoted to defense beggars all other social, political and economic needs.

Unfortunately, many people buy into the militaristic propaganda. Most politicians, even liberals, have to repeat the mantra to prevent being branded unpatriotic.

We need to change the way we think and what we honor. President John F. Kennedy said, “War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.”

We need to be honest with ourselves about our history and the real reasons for our many wars. We need to reject the culture of violence and militarism.

We can appropriately honor those who died serving our country without honoring war. Then we can begin to build the attitudes and institutions that foster peace, diplomacy, and international cooperation.

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Feminine diminutive Every week I’m sore tempted to In any case would any of us want substitute a letter “a” for an “e” in to drink lemonade made in a minute? week; my urge based on no more That’s simply not a long enough period than a sense of personal exhaustion; of time to crank out a decent beverage. weakness if you will. Why I don’t is a My rule would be “if you can make it mystery. On the plus (I hope) is feeling quicker than you can drink it then it no moral or intellectual victory for an does not warrant the effort.” urge denied. Does this mean I think Happily for readers this piece is not doing something is of less value or not about my (which I find silly and than doing it? I hope not. personally amusing) picture of tiny Untutored raw experience has shown housemaids tidying up (which I could me that not starting down use) and making my some tracks is by far more lemonade. constructive than the too The subject of this piece, often desire to ride the if I don’t bungle it, is how razor blade of life into our great human capacity division and subdivision for words is so nimble and by again on again. In ways so quick that it can deceive small we might not notice us (or we unseeing allow them we become captive ourselves to be misled – to conceptions beginning often easier than bucking with our own and all the the flow). unknown preconceptions We readily insert minute that led to it. as a time measure rather than one of But getting to today’s speed imagine size. Human willingness to go along a grocery full of surreally spaced and get along is the lifeblood of selfmasked individuals all like chess pieces deception and the main tool of conmoving according to invisible lines of men or women. (Note, please, the rule. In that new commonplace I was “con” gender bias.) in search of a product I privately refer A phrase placed on target is helpful to as Little Women. but can be too much so by putting a I don’t, out of presumed respect conclusion in place before we know for the feelings of others – aka fear of what’s being targeted. Unless the sexist censure – call it that in public. I individual is content being a language use a more acceptable turn of phrase consumer taking regular pauses to and ask a masked person (white aprons question and look critically are of vital are a big help in determining which need, especially where there’d seem to disguised felon to approach) if they be no argument. have in stock any My Newt Female Take the expression “hate crime” as House-worker Beverage. example. You know this does not apply You’ll believe such a question will to a hatred of broccoli. Hate crime draw a silent open-mouth reply saying can include things such as assaults or “WHAT?” clearly as if they actually arson, but those acts often aren’t the said it. An intent to speak clearly and focus when hate crime is referred to. correctly in a complex environment I frequently (far too often in my seems not to be much success because view) hear hate crime used to describe despite the careful wording, clerks and supposed crimes of thought on a level stockers don’t understand the simple with heresy or blasphemy. request that I’m looking for Minute I’d be very leery of any process that Maid Lemonade. lends toward censoring expression Follow me now. In a majority of of thoughts or ideas, including (and instances the word “minute” refers most importantly) things we don’t to a measure of time either precise like to hear or see expressed. Calling as Greenwich or vague and open to unpopular expression hate crime definition as a person’s minute in the employs freedom of expression to stifle bathroom, which can mean take your expression. coat off and stay a while because I’m In another sense an accusation not ready and need a half-hour. of hate crime becomes a version of The dictionary, which most users bullying others into submitting to commonly ignore in this instance, one (supposedly orthodox) version of is very clear that minute means “My what’s real.

Newt,” as in tiny, small, diminutive, Religion and politics are the two little, minuscule, and so on. historically worst actors when it comes

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My Newt Female House-worker Beverage. to repression. Saving souls or societies is such serious work that dissension can’t be encouraged. Objections get in the way of social progress or hallowed salvation.

The lesson I take from the My Newt Maid is how easily and how far we might get led down the pathway of assumption before seeing “Oh, it didn’t mean that at all.”

Spotting hate crime as possible imposition of blasphemy/heresy regulation is fairly easy compared to spotting the dangers of the tiny maidservant’s smiley face.

What you ask? Luckily I am here to tell you, huh?

You’ll hear the likes of this often.

“I’m (or we’re) here to help you.”

Sounds nice but is a lie because at that moment the message is one of selfcongratulation and not help.

Is a promise help? Might not hurt, but how much actual help is it?

Instead of the horn-tooting announcement of promised help I’d find a direct statement more promising. “What can I do? How can I help?”

That too may go nowhere because if the answer is “I need a million dollars” you’re going to be SOL from my side.

But in any case a sense of caution when accepting statements is a decent habit to develop.

As an aside, when I’m most praiseful of an idea is exactly when I think the notion most pathetic.

Aside from movie and social “artists” highly classifying their own work, an over-the-top glowing appraisal of a questionable proposal can be a most useful way to get some rethinking.

It’s more fun to do and goes over better than a frontal assault. Unlike the Pollyanna who says anything is possible I modestly only go so far as to assert certainty is uncertain.

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Sioux checkpoints in dispute A standoff over safety and sovereignty is intensifying in South Dakota. Two indigenous tribes there, the Cheyenne River Sioux and the Oglala Sioux, established checkpoints on roads leading into their territories, ensuring all those seeking entry onto tribal lands are traveling for an approved, essential reason and don’t exby hibit symptoms of COVID-19.

On Friday, Republican Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota, one of only eight governors nationally who refused to issue a stay-at-home order, demanded they remove the checkpoints or face state government intervention. The checkpoints remain in place.

“The main purpose of these checkpoints is to keep our people safe,” Harold Frazier, the elected Cheyenne River Sioux chairman said Tuesday on the Democracy Now! news hour. “With our population, with our lack of medical facilities, we look to our relatives to the south, the Navajo Nation, and see what’s going on there. That could easily be us,” he added, commenting on the massive COVID-19 outbreak on the Navajo reservation.

The Cheyenne River Sioux reservation has eight beds in its clinic, and no intensive care unit. The nearest hospital, in Rapid City, is three hours away.

Oglala Sioux Tribe President Julian Bear Runner explained his decision to create checkpoints in a Facebook Live video, saying: “Governor Noem miscalculates our level of dedication to protect our most vulnerable people from crony capitalism, threats to force us to open our economy as they chose to.

There is no way to place a value on what we have to lose if we let them insult us this way. My relatives, we have been here for millions of years. Whatever they brought to our lands has proven to be poison.”

Gov. Noem is a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, and a frequent guest on the right-wing Fox News Channel. Applauding the largely white, heavily armed groups

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The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe established checkpoints on their main highways as part of their reservation emergency response plan to coronavirus. Photo from Facebook. protesting stay-at-home orders in several state capitals in April, Noem told Fox News host Laura Ingraham, “So many people give up their liberties for just a little bit of security, and they don’t have to do that.”

Even though South Dakota currently has one of the fastest growing infection rates in the U.S., Noem is promoting a return to “normal,” risking a surge of COVID-19 deaths. Sioux Falls is home to a massive Smithfield Foods slaughterhouse, where 3,700 workers “process” close to 20,000 hogs daily. That plant became the most intense COVID-19 hot spot in the country. Of the state’s 3,723 confirmed positive cases and 39 deaths, 3,017 of them and 34 of the deaths are from Minnehaha County, home to Sioux Falls and the Smithfield meatpacking plant.

Gov. Noem rejected pleas from local elected officials, workers and union leaders to close the plant, relenting only when the outbreak became too huge to ignore. Then, on April 2, President Trump signed an executive order invoking the wartime Defense Production Act, preventing state and local govern-

ments from closing meatpacking plants. The Smithfield plant reopened on May 7. The number of coronavirus infections is still climbing.

“Our ‘Back to Normal’ plan doesn’t include new government programs, more red tape, proscriptive phases, tight controls or anything of the like,” Noem said in a statement. “Our plan continues to put the power of decision-making into the hands of the people -where it belongs.”

Noem’s stalwart defense of liberty, however, stops at the reservation boundaries. She supports armed white vigilantes who threaten Democratic governors in states like Wisconsin. But if Native Americans dare to protect public health on their sovereign territory, Gov. Kristi Noem suddenly becomes a fan of Big Government.

The checkpoints work, by the way. One person stopped responded that they had been in a known COVID-19 hot spot, which tribal authorities duly noted. Not long after, she reported feeling ill, and within eight hours had a positive COVID-19 test result. Tribal health officials performed rapid contact tracing and quarantined those who had been near the infected individual. The data collection at the checkpoint expedited the response and, hopefully, prevented further spread of the virus. The Oglala Sioux have just reported their first case this week, and immediately imposed a reservation-wide, one

day curfew.

These two tribes, part of the Oceti Sakowin people, are no strangers to the depredations of white settlers.

“The love of possessions is a disease in them,” Sitting Bull observed in 1877. “They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse ... All this is sacrilege.” The Cheyenne River and Oglala Sioux are doing all they can to stop the coronavirus from impacting their reservations.

Their efforts at self-protection and mutual aid themselves are spreading, however. The Omaha Nation, not far to the south in Nebraska, has just established checkpoints of its own.

*** Amy Goodman is the host of Democracy Now!, a daily international TV/ radio news hour airing on more than 1,400 stations. 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. Distributed by King Features Syndicate

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A trip to Oz Something is not rotten in Denmark William Shakespeare, writer of my favorite play, Hamlet, was born in Stratford-on-Avon, England during a plague year. Thomas Nashe, a contemporary, wrote a short poem, “A Litany in Time of Plague,” to commemorate serious plagues in England during 1564, 1582, 1592-93, 1603-04, 1606, and 1608-09.

These are lines from the first stanza: “Rich men, trust in wealth, Gold cannot buy you health, Physic himself must fade.

All things to end are made, The plague full swift goes by; I am sick, I must die.

Lord, have mercy on us!”

These were bacterial plagues called bubonic, not a new viral as COVID-19.

Bubonic plagues quickly transferred bacteria from rats to fleas to humans.

Victims woke up with fever and chills with feelings of extreme weakness and exhaustion. Quickly came diarrhea, vomiting, bleeding from the mouth, nose, or rectum.

It was called the Black Plague because lymph nodes in by the armpits and groin turned black.

An agonizing, and very painful death followed.

If you wish to know more about these plagues read Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year, published in 1722.

Almost every one of Shakespeare’s plays has references to plagues that often closed the theaters of London for months during his prime years. The word “plague” appears hundreds of times in his plays.

The most famous quote from Shakespeare’s works is from Hamlet when he utters: “To be, or not to be, that is the question” in his soliloquy questioning suicide and life itself.

Another famous quote from the play comes from Marcellus telling Horatio: “Something is rotten in Denmark.”

I’m using it in the headline because today very little is rotten in Denmark for the Danes who are often listed as being the happiest and the most productive on the planet. The information below comes from a recent article by New York Times columnist

Nicholas Kristof and files I have kept for 27 years.

How does Denmark keep unemployment low during a pandemic?

Denmark’s unemployment rate during the pandemic is between 4-5 percent while ours is between 15-20 percent. How come?

Let’s start with facts about Danish fast food workers. A McDonald’s burger flipper in Copenhagen is paid about $22 an hour in cash and benefits.

His or her benefits include universal health care, life insurance, a year’s paid maternity leave, a pension plan, paid sick leave, and six weeks of paid vacation.

Workers get their work schedules a month in advance – and it’s against the law to assign them back-to-back shifts.

No Dane hesitates to seek medical care because of bills. Danish employers demonstrate it is possible to have a flourishing economy while paying workers a living wage and treating them with respect.

Let’s get another thing straight. Scandinavian countries are not socialist.

None own all the means of production. They generally own less production than the state of North Dakota, which owns a big bank and the biggest mill, elevator, and milling operation in the United States.

Here’s what Denmark does during the COVID-19: 1. The Danes test twice the number of citizens per capita and have fewer than half as many deaths per capita than the U.S. 2. Denmark reduced infections so successfully it has reopened elementary schools, day care centers, barbershops, and physical therapy centers in April.

3. Denmark helps hard-hit companies pay fixed costs – on condition they suspend dividends, stock buybacks, and avoid all foreign tax havens.

4. To keep employees on the payroll, it reimburses up to 90% of worker wages of those laid off.

5. Denmark employs stay-at-home policies and Sweden doesn’t. As a result Denmark’s death rate by COVID-19 per million is less than one-third of Sweden’s.

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Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Patience Roggensack revealed her Republican white supremacist background when she responded in a case involving a meatpacking plant with 800 cases of COVID-19: “These were due to the meatpacking plant. That’s where Brown County got the flare. It wasn’t just the regular folks in Brown County.”

Think safety nets provoke laziness and welfare queens? Almost 80% of Danes between 16 and 64 are in the labor force. The U.S. rate is only 74%.

Danish workers pay an extra 19 cents per dollar in taxes, but here’s what they get for those 19 cents: (1) free health care; (2) free education from kindergarten through college; (3) subsidized high-quality preschool; (4) a strong safety net and very low levels of poverty, homelessness, crime and inequality; (5) Danes live two years longer than Americans, and they earn about the same after-tax income as Americans although they work 22% fewer hours.

The Danes have built a country that works by combining capitalism tempered by democratic socialism.

Quit the political BS – we are not the world’s richest per capita Why have we swallowed the lie that we live in the richest country in the world?

Yes, we have 621 billionaires, the most of any country. They now have gone into hiding at their huge estates and tax havens around the world during this pandemic – and kept their wallets tightly closed.

Yes, we have about 19 million millionaires who have gone into hiding at their estates around the world – and kept their wallets tightly closed.

The problem with the economy is

half of the families in the United States can’t come up with $400 to cover a sudden emergency. One record we do hold: the greatest income inequality in the world.

The organization 24/7 Wall Street, using information from the World Bank, has studied the gross national income of 200 countries and has determined the top 25 countries with the richest incomes per capita.

The group states the following qualities for the top 25: the wealthiest countries tend to have complex and diverse economies, export goods and services, and have a variety of industries such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and aerospace.

The United States ranks #12 in wealth but ranks first in income inequality among the top 25. We rank 57th among developed countries for citizens living in poverty with a rate of 17.6% Please Google for the complete list. It’s an interesting study.

This is a list of some of those in the top 25 with an accompanying note.

(8) Norway has the best health outcomes in the world with the lowest rates of maternity mortality and child mortality for children under five.

(11) Switzerland’s biggest export is gold – and has a well-developed universal health program.

(15) The Netherlands has a life expectancy of 81.6 years, among the highest in the world.

(16) Denmark is rated as the least corrupt country in the world.

(17) Sweden invests more money in education as a rate of GNP than any other major country.

(18) Germany is the third largest exporter behind China and the U.S. (19) Austria is famous for innovation and research and development.

(20) Canada exports oil and accepts over one million immigrants a year.

(24) Finland has the lowest poverty rate in the world, superior health outcomes, and excellent income equality.

(25) France has a very diverse economy and a life expectancy 10 years above the world’s average.

I’m surprised Japan did not make the top 25. The other top countries n the list of 25 are either oil countries or island tax havens loaded with money by the world’s rich.

Obama is right: Our government is ‘A chaotic disaster’ There’s a song in The Wizard of Oz that Trumplicans obviously believe applies to our workers. Dorothy sings it along with Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion as they visit Oz (Trump is probably hiding behind the curtain with the Wizard!).

The workers of Oz live so well they “get up at twelve, start to work at one, take an hour for lunch, and then at two they’re done!”

Donald the Lyin’ King keeps claiming we had “the greatest economy in the world” before the

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pandemic. Why didn’t this great economy create jobs, wages, and benefits that would have solved the problem of one American child in five being hungry all the time?

The top 10 percent is doing very well. The bottom 80% not so well.

In May we have 46 million people – or 1 in 7 – depending on food banks or other meal service programs for sustenance. In the state of Washington 800,000 people needed help in food security prior to the COVID-19 – but now, three months later, it has 1.6 million in need.

Texas, New York and Louisiana are states that have seen a doubling of applications for food stamps. Did you see the thousands of cars lined up in El Paso to receive food from a local food bank? San Antonio had 10,000 wait for hours at a food bank. It required the help of the Texas National Guard for distribution, in the “richest country in the world.”

In Sunrise, Florida, cars were lined up for two miles waiting to get food at a local food bank. Even families eligible for food stamps, to have enough to eat, waited in the food bank lines for hours for additional food.

There are only 200 food banks in the country to provide food to families that do not qualify for food stamps.

How far does a $1.40 per meal go for food stamps for a family of four?

Bought a small jar of peanut butter for $3 lately?

God doesn’t wear masks and ‘regular people’ don’t catch the virus I wonder if Trump and Pence would wear masks every waking and sleeping moment if the press kept reminding them that, if they are both ill and indisposed by COVID-19, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi would be president and take over the Resolute desk in the Oval Office. I suspect “The Chosen One” would think God wouldn’t dare.

Pence evidently has already chosen the God he is going to follow.

Who would have thought three and one-half years ago that in 2020 most Democrats would be wearing masks in public, observing six-foot spacing, and abiding stay-at-home rules – while most Trumplicans would not wear masks, violate six-foot spacing, bring dozens of Confederate and American flags and firearms to protests, carry signs with “Freedom” inscribed in red, and push guards into ditches when asked to put a mask on.

The Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Patience Roggensack revealed her Republican white supremacist background when she responded in a case involving a meatpacking plant with 800 cases of COVID-19: “These were due to the

meatpacking plant. That’s where Brown County got the flare. It wasn’t just the regular folks in Brown County.”

The “irregular” folks were black, Hispanic, many undocumented – and some whites evidently from “other places.” This is a person who makes momentous decisions about the lives of many people?

Another Trumplican wrote this about the requirement to wear masks: “This seems a blatant violation of an individual’s right to choose – of an individual’s right to self-govern. America, after all, isn’t a nation founded on collectivism (Communism!) but rather individualism – on the right of individuals to exercise their Godgiven authorities absent government tinkering and intrusion. What gives government the authority to order citizens to cover their faces?”

I say this. It’s the same government that does not allow you to go 120 miles per hour on the freeway or park in a handicapped spot.

Think that’s fair?

Or as one Floridian said upon the opening of beaches: “We love our beaches. Now we can die for them.”

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The Governor vs. the virus

Is the requirement for restaurant reservations part of the state’s contact tracing efforts?

Or both?

Walz and his commissioners have given conflicting answers to those questions.

On Friday, both DEED Commissioner Steve Grove and MDH Deputy Commissioner Margaret Kelly said the reservation requirements are not for tracing purposes, out of respect for privacy rights.

While a restaurant or salon could cooperate with a tracing investigation by sharing such information, it is not required.

“It has nothing to do with contact tracing or what have you,” Grove said in an interview. “I would say we hadn’t even thought of this until you mentioned it.”

Kelly said much the same: “We’re not requiring that restaurants keep a log for the purpose of contact tracing.”

Yet on Saturday, during a press briefing on new rules for places of worship, Walz did connect the rules around reservations to contact tracing.

Gov. Tim Walz: “Just to be clear, this massive moon shot of testing that’s getting close to the 10,000 we wanted by the end of May is totally useless if we can’t use it to do contact tracing and isolate this.” Photo by Evan Frost/MPR/Pool

By Peter Callaghan and Walker Orenstein MinnPost When Gov. Tim Walz announced new guidelines to open up additional sectors of the state economy earlier this month, he stressed that the loosening of restrictions would likely lead to increased infections. That’s why businesses were told to follow lengthy rules on continued social distancing, increased cleaning and, for those with close contact with customers, reservations.

The rules governing restaurants,

for example, note that they must “require appointments for services or reservations with call-ahead seating or online reservations to better space clients or customers and eliminate waiting.”

Meanwhile, personal care services such as salons and tanning parlors are required to “see customers or clients by appointment or reservations only – Do not allow walk-ins.”

But are reservations to foster social distancing – or to create a trail of data to help with contact tracing should a staff member or customer later test positive?

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“The reason we’re asking for that is not to infringe on anybody’s personal liberties, but we have got to do contact tracing,” he said. “Just to be clear, this massive moon shot of testing that’s getting close to the 10,000 we wanted by the end of May is totally useless if we can’t use it to do contact tracing and isolate this.

“If we’re gonna maintain, and if these restaurants are going to stay open for the next year, they’re gonna have to understand we’re going to be putting out these fires: testing, contact tracing and moving.”

So while the administration says it didn’t require a reservation system in its reopening guidelines to help with contact tracing, officials say they’ll use such records if available should an outbreak occur.

Mandated elsewhere Elsewhere in the country, customer logs are being required, or advised, to help with contact tracing.

DEED Commissioner Steve Grove said the reservation requirement is designed to create a more predictable environment for businesses so that walk-ins or clusters of bar-goers are not showing up at one time and crowding one area when they’re supposed to be social distancing. Photo by Evan Frost/MPR/Pool In Washington state, Gov. Jay Inslee backed off a mandatory requirement earlier this month after objections were raised on privacy grounds.

In New Orleans, bars and restaurants must keep a log with the names and phone numbers of customers to help the state’s health department track who any sick staff members or customers may have interacted with.

St. Louis is recommending that logs be kept for later tracing if an infection case emerges. And the Texas attorney general threatened litigation against the city of Austin for rules that included recommendations for restaurants that they log patrons’ names, phone numbers and where and when they were served.

Both the Department of Health and the Department of Employment and Economic Development have stressed that the rules are to keep the number of customers down and to keep people from gathering around front desks.

The rules already require restaurants to offer only outdoor seating and limit capacity to 50 patrons. Salons are required to limit business to 25 percent of capacity for their space, as determined by the fire marshal.

No requirement information be reported to the state Walz and his commissioners have repeatedly emphasized that the next step in the administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic will be testing, tracing and isolation, with state and local health agencies responding to positive tests by attempting to find those who have come in contact with infected people and urge them to quarantine.

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will ask for from patrons when they make their reservations,” Kelly said.

“It is not required in any way that that information be reported to the Department of Health.”

In the event of an outbreak, the department will contact a business, and her experience is that they are “for the most part” very cooperative in helping the department reach out to patrons.

She said the department will handle a COVID-19 case the same way it does food-borne illnesses.

“We’d try to work with the restaurant to reach out to patrons to let them know that there is an exposure and they should call us,” she said. “Are we requiring them to turn over reservation information? No. That is not the purpose of people making reservations.

We’re not asking them to retain it either.”

Kelly said that if the department decides that information is important and needed “we should make the

argument with the public. I think we should be clear with the public that that’s what we’re gonna do. But I don’t want people to be fearful of going to a restaurant and making a reservation because they think the government will get the reservation.”

Kelly said she doesn’t think restaurants will face sanctions for outbreaks of COVID-19 in the same way they might for practices that contributed to food-borne illnesses.

There is still too much community spread of the coronavirus to be able to identify the source of infection.

She said an outbreak that is potentially tied to a restaurant could help the department adjust its guidelines, however.

––“It could be that it’s nothing the restaurant did,” she said. “It could be that 50 percent capacity is too high. It could be that the restaurant had people sitting too closely. We’re trying to figure this out.”

Walz has come under political and economic pressure to allow more businesses and public places to reopen.

Grove said the reservation requirement is designed to create a more predictable environment for businesses so that walk-ins or clusters of bargoers are not showing up at one time and crowding one area when they’re supposed to be social distancing.

Grove said DEED talked to thousands of businesses while developing reopening plans, and tracking names based on reservation lists did not come up. DEED is not advising restaurants and bars to keep their reservation records and hand them over to health officials. And while he said contact tracing is “an incredibly important tool” for fighting the spread of COVID-19, making reservation logs at bars and restaurants a way to facilitate that tracing is something the state is not “willing to require at this time.”

State guidance for salons and other personal care services, however, asks those businesses to collect a client’s first and last name, phone number and record the date and time of their appointment “to ensure that the client can be contacted in the event a potential exposure is subsequently identified.”

Kelly, the number two official at the Department of Health, said reservation logs and appointment books are tools that contact tracers have used in the past to find people who might have been exposed to food-borne illnesses.

She said they could be used in the event of a coronavirus exposure as well. But that would be voluntary, she stressed.

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Restaurateurs petition Minnesota delegation on relaxing rules Dear Senator Bakk, Senator Simonson, Representative Murphy, Representative Schultz and Representative Olson, As your constituents and local business owners, we write you with an urgent and immediate need.

Independent restaurants in northern Minnesota directly employ thousands of workers and indirectly thousands more up and down the food and hospitality supply chain. We are small businesses that have a huge impact on the economy.

We respectfully ask you request Governor Walz make immediate adjustments to his Executive Order relating to restaurant and bar openings.

Allowing establishments with only outdoor dining to open on June 1st is a disaster for our industry and a measure that has blindsided us. After the Governor’s extension of the closure last

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“We feel the Governor has made a terrible error that could cost jobs and ultimately put many of our businesses in great peril.” week and indication we could reopen in some capacity on June 1st, we feel the Governor has made a terrible error that could cost jobs and ultimately put many of our businesses in great peril.

It is impractical to think restaurants in the Duluth area, or the North Shore of Lake Superior, will benefit from outdoor dining in June. Most of our local restaurants have no or extremely limited outdoor seating. Furthermore, many of our members with outdoor dining were able to use that part of their service for only a few days in June 2019. The temperature and Lake Superior wind in June make outdoor dining near impossible.

We need our indoor dining spaces open at a minimum capacity to survive.

As an industry, we have been preparing for weeks to reopen in a safe and healthy manner – protecting our guests and employees. Our businesses have created safety plans, ordered cleaning supplies, sanitizers, masks, thermometers, gloves and other personal protective equipment for our employees and guests. These businesses are our livelihoods and we take reopening in a safe manner very seriously. We do not want to spread this virus and we want to make sure our guests and staff are safe. We are asking you to request Governor Walz immediately take steps to allow for our indoor dining areas to reopen at some limited capacity, and in a safe, socially distanced environment.

That brings us to our next request.

The Governor’s new guidelines will make it almost impossible for restaurants in Minnesota to use funds from the Paycheck Protection Program.

Restaurants will either need to return the funds, use them as a loan to be paid back in the next 24-months, or wait and see if the federal government loosens the rules on the fund’s forgiveness guidelines.

We call on our state leaders to create additional programs to help struggling independent restaurants.

If the Governor will not allow us to reopen our indoor dining areas, we need the state’s financial assistance in the form of operational grants that will help us pay leases, mortgages, utilities, and other costs of doing business. We desperately need this help now. Our industry runs on traditionally low margins and now we are running on no margins at all. We need help.

We appreciate what Governor Walz has done to curb the spread of this terrible virus. We have been patient and willing to work with the state. The time has come, though, to let us safely reopen at a limited capacity in indoor settings.

Restaurants across the state of Minnesota are struggling. With our busy season upon us – the time each year we must make money to survive the winter months – it is important leaders like you recognize this recovery will likely not happen this summer. We will need more help if we are to survive.

Please consider our suggestions and we would invite you to speak to our group via Zoom, conference call or in person soon.

Respectfully, Tony Bronson, DLRA President; Grandma’s Saloon & Grill – Miller Hill, Canal Park, Virginia; Bellisio’s Italian Restaurant & Wine Bar; Little Angie’s Cantina & Grill; The Sports Garden Jason Vincent, DLRA Vice President; Boat Club Restaurant & Bar; Vanilla Bean – Duluth; Vanilla Bean – Two Harbors Tom Hanson, Duluth Grill; Corktown Deli & Brews; OMC Smokehouse Louis Hanson, OMC Smokehouse Jeff Petcoff, Corktown Deli & Brews Dan LeFebvre, Duluth Grill Carol Valentini, Valentini’s Vicino Lago Cullen Flaherty, Black Woods Restaurant Group – Duluth, Proctor, Two Harbors; Tavern on the Hill; Black Water Lounge; Greysolon Ballroom Stephanie LaFleur, The Caddyshack Indoor Golf & Pub Rod Raymond, Fitger’s Brewhouse Brewery & Grille; The Rathskeller; Burrito Union; The Barrel Room

Kensington runestone mystery

The Kensington Runestone is a gravestone-sized slab of hard, gray sandstone called graywacke into which Scandinavian runes are cut. It stands on display in Alexandria, Minnesota, as either a unique record of Norse exploration of North Amerby ica or of Minnesota’s MINNESOTA most brilliant HISTORICAL and durable hoax.

SOCIETY Minnesota historian Theodore Blegen wrote in 1968 that “few questions in American history have stirred so much curiosity or provoked such extended discussions” as the Kensington Runestone.

There are two uncontested facts.

Swedish immigrant Olof Ohman came to Douglas County, Minnesota, in 1879. While clearing land on his farm near Kensington in the fall of 1898, he turned up a slab of rock with symbols carved on the side and underside.

These markings were later identified as Scandinavian runic writing.

The generally accepted translation of those runes reads: “We are 8 Goths [Swedes] and 22 Norwegians on an exploration journey from Vinland through the West. We had camp by a lake with 2 skerries [small rocky islands] one day’s journey north from this stone. We were out and fished one day. After we came home we found 10

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of our men red with blood and dead.

AVM [Ave Virgo Maria, or Hail, Virgin Mary] save us from evil. We have 10 of our party by the sea to look after our ships, 14 days’ journey from this island. Year 1362.”

If the inscription is genuine it places Norse seafarers deep in the North American continent 130 years before Columbus reached the West Indies, and tells a story otherwise unknown.

The details of the stone’s geology, discovery, carving and weathering, and the personality, education, writings and possessions of its finder have been dissected, analyzed and debated for more than a century.

There are four main controversies regarding the stone’s authenticity.

The first controversy centers on the plausibility of the story. For the party’s ships to lie 14 days’ journey from Alexandria, the only possible route is south from Hudson Bay. That distance is nearly 800 miles by direct line, longer by river and portage – a distance difficult to manage in 14 days.

The route is “through the west” from a “Vinland” whose location in 1362, if any, is unknown.

No other record of this expedition has been found.

Why would explorers who had just suffered a massacre stop to carve –in well-crafted, even and orderly characters – a stone inscription?

The writing and language of the text are questionable. Experts first analyzed the runic writing in 1899.

They dismissed it as a fake, citing too many discrepancies in form and vocabulary from the known languages of 14th-century Scandinavia.

Most experts since then have agreed.

The condition of the rock has also raised doubts. Though graywacke is a hard sandstone, had it been exposed to wind and rain for hundreds of years, as is supposed, the inscribed areas would show telltale weathering whose age could be estimated.

A 2003 analysis conducted by Scott F. Wolter concluded that the inscriptions were more than 200 years old. This remains highly contested.

Finally, who was responsible for the alleged hoax?

If the inscription is a fake, it must have been done by someone with knowledge of old Scandinavian language and runes, the ability to

Gilbert Hanson, Olof Ohman, and John Eklaun at a carnival near Kensington, 1927. The carnival was held at the Herman Fahlin farm to raise funds to buy a park for the Kensington Runestone.

carve in stone, and the nerve to carry out the prank.

The most likely perpetrator was Olof Ohman. Ohman had little education but owned a small library that included information about runes.

His friend, former pastor Sven Fogelblad, may have had knowledge of runes and, like Ohman, may have sought to try to fool academics, whom both men reportedly disliked.

Ohman never admitted to a hoax.

The Kensington Runestone has provoked a host of scholarly and popular articles and books. The Minnesota Historical Society library carries more than 40 titles on the subject.

The slab has been examined in Europe and displayed at the Smithsonian Institution and the 1965 New York World’s Fair.

Expert opinion favors the conclusion that the inscription is not authentic, but the majority view asks the question: if a hoax, then who, how, when, and why?

Definitive answers have so far proved beyond reach.

Kensington Runestone replica in Alexandria, Minnesota, 1958.

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How to name that bird Q: I know you have occasionally written about birds in the yard and garden, but I haven’t paid too much attention to the birds in my yard.

Over the past few weeks of being stuck inside, I have noticed a lot more birds in the tree outside my office window. I assume they are migrating. There have been several with red feathers, and some with yellow, that I have never seen beby fore. I have an old bird book, but I can’t seem to find any of the birds in the book.

What tips can I use to identify these beautiful birds?

A: I teach an ornithology class at my local master naturalist program at the university extension office. “Master naturalist” is a designation similar to “master gardener.” You should check to see if there is a class in your area.

The first thing I tell new birders (the new, sportier term, which sounds better

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In trying to identify birds, look for the dots, spots and stripes on the head, body, wings and tail. than the old “bird-watcher”) is that you will probably remember where you were when you saw the bird and what the bird was doing. Just like you said, you were in your office, and the birds were in the tree.

But what we don’t remember is more important, so we need to be diligent in paying attention. You must look for the dots, spots and stripes on the head, body, wings and tail of the birds.

Repeat that last sentence out loud a

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couple of times to help it sink in.

As soon as you see the bird, pay direct attention to these color differences on the bird. The smaller the bird, the more attention you have to pay.

There will be several birds on each page of the bird book, and they will only differ in small ways through the dots, spots and stripes on the head, body, wings and tail. If you don’t look for the differences, all you will be able

to remember is the general information of where you were and what the bird was doing – such as flying or hopping on the ground.

Another important thing to note that comes a bit more automatically is the size of the bird and the size of the body parts.

Is the bird the size of a sparrow, robin, chicken or turkey? Is the tail longer than the body?

Are the wings long and slender or

short and stubby?

I think you could recognize more birds than you realize, along with their general body shape and size. You can use the birds you know to help you group the birds you don’t know.

Think about the birds you learned as a kid, such as the ostrich, swan, vulture, penguin, flamingo, duck, goose, dove, finch, cardinal, bluebird, heron, oriole, hawk, eagle, falcon, owl, hummingbird, woodpecker, quail, stork and seagull. I can go on and on.

Each of these names has many species that differ mainly by the dots, spots and stripes on the head, body, wings and tail, and somewhat by size.

The birds in the book that are not on this list can be compared with these for size and color patterns.

Another thing that will help you identify the birds in the book is reading about the kinds of habitats they live in and the range of areas they spend the summer and winter.

You would not expect to find swans in the woods, right?

Some birds are very specific as to where they live, and others are more general.

Most bird books have maps that show the summer range of where the

birds breed, with a different color for the areas they spend the winter and a third color for areas they are only seen during migration. Because birds don’t read the bird books, they can sometimes be seen out of their normal range. But a person new to birding should probably assume they need to keep going through the book to find the right bird if their first choice is way out of its normal range.

We are in the peak of migration in most of the country right now, so keep the binoculars handy, and keep a sharp ear out for new sounds. Most bird species make songs that can be used to identify the birds, but it often takes much more practice to learn these songs than it does to identify birds by appearance.

Email questions to Jeff Rugg at info@ greenerview.com. To find out more about Jeff Rugg and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at creators.com.

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Duluth Airshow postponed for year The Duluth Airshow made the difficult decision to postpone the 2020 show scheduled for July 18-19 at the Duluth International Airport. Leadership cited the extraordinary circumstances as a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic.

The Duluth Airshow has been postponed to June 26-27, 2021. It will feature the United States Navy Blue Angels and be presented by Essentia Health and AAR. Gatherings in the State of Minnesota are currently restricted to no more than 10 people with no indication from the State as to when large gatherings will once again be permitted. Duluth Airshow President Ryan Kern said, “The Duluth Airshow routinely draws upwards of 50,000 spectators over the weekend from across the Midwest. The Airshow places a high priority on the safety of its performers and spectators and believes a gathering the size and scale of our event creates an unnecesby sary and unpredictable READER risk for the community STAFF in 2020.”

Tickets purchased for the 2020 show will be honored at the 2021 show, or ticket holders can choose to receive a refund. Further information regarding ticket transfers and refunds will be sent directly to ticket holders via email.

Additional information regarding tickets as well as a list of frequently asked questions can be found at duluthairshow.com.

The Duluth Airshow generates an economic impact of approximately 10 million dollars annually and realizes the absence of the event in 2020 will be felt by hospitality and tourism partners who have already experienced significant loss as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In announcing the postponement, Kern called on ticket holders and supporters to keep their plans to visit Duluth, Lake Superior and the North Shore. He said, “While gathering in large crowds for an event like the Duluth Airshow poses a health risk to our community, we would still love for you to visit when it is safe to do so. Spread out and take advantage of this opportunity to enjoy the beauty of Duluth and the North Shore!”

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The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds were scheduled to perform at this year’s airshow.

Duluth Airshow Special Events Coordinator Lindsay Kern said, “This is a difficult time for all, and we are so proud of the work happening throughout our community to ensure the safety and wellness of everyone. Although we are unable to gather this year as planned for another amazing airshow, the Duluth Airshow will be back in 2021 stronger than ever.

The Duluth Airshow thanks its partners, sponsors, vendors, community leaders, volunteers and aviation enthusiasts from around the region for their commitment to the show the past 19 years.

Preserving COVID-19 experiences

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages, the St. Louis County Historical Society is committed to saving today’s history for tomorrow’s generations.

“A year from now, are we going to remember what it felt like to be afraid of touching door handles or grocery store carts?” asked Charley Langowski, the SLCHS curator. “We must save the stories of how our lives changed and how we adapted. Future generations will want to know.”

The historical society is encouraging people to think about how COVID-19 has directly affected their lives and what artifacts will help tell their story.

Possible artifacts include diaries, mask patterns, recipes for homemade hand sanitizers, distance-learning lesson plans, social distancing signs, quarantine crafts and more.

Since those items are still in use,

the SLCHS is not accepting artifact donations at this time. However, Langowski urged people to start thinking about the types of items they would want to show their family members 50 or 100 years from now.

“Any donation we accept (in the future) must include provenance – why it was important, how it was used and what part of life it reflected,” Langowski said. “That can only be defined by thinking about our lives and the ways they have changed.”

People are sharing their COVID-19 stories and photos on social media.

Those posts can be shared with the SLCHS in three ways: • Tag the society by adding @ thehistorypeople • Email Langowski at charlene@ thehistorypeople.org • Mail items to St. Louis County Historical Society, 506 W Michigan St. #9, Duluth, MN, 55802 To learn about SLCHS, visit thehistorypeople.org and facebook. com/stlouiscountyhistoricalsociety.

Applications accepted for Cloquet EDA small business assistance loan

The City of Cloquet Economic Development Authority (Cloquet EDA) and Entrepreneur Fund are pleased to announce they are accepting loan applications for the recently formed Cloquet EDA Small Business Assistance Loan. The program was developed by the Cloquet EDA who has contracted with the Entrepreneur Fund to review, process, and close the loan applications

for qualifying small businesses located within the city limits of Cloquet and within commercial/office/industrial buildings in response to challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Small businesses need our support now more than ever. The Entrepreneur Fund is poised to help Cloquet businesses by making the process as seamless as possible and leveraging additional programs that these businesses may be eligible for,” said Shawn Wellnitz, Entrepreneur Fund CEO. The Cloquet Small Business Assistance Loan will provide up to $20,000 at 2% interest for a term of five years for a working capital/inventory loan with no principal or interest for the initial 6-months.

For more information, or to apply, visit nfo.entrepreneurfund.org/ cloquetbusinessassistanceloan.

St. Scholastica’s teaching licensure moves online

The College of St. Scholastica’s graduate program for aspiring teachers will move to 100% online delivery starting this fall.

The Graduate Teaching Licensure program is for people who already hold bachelor’s degrees in areas other than education and want to become teachers. It can be completed in less than two years.

Program organizers say the shift online is in keeping with their emphasis on accessibility and convenience for working adults, and fits with the current environment of virtual learning brought on by COVID-19. Online education is already solidly within St. Scholastica’s academic enterprise, according to Chery Lucarelli, PhD, chair of the School of Education’s graduate programs.

“Our GTL program is designed to be a flexible, engaging, interactive program to meet the needs of adult learners who want to become teachers,” Lucarelli said. “We know how to work online well, and we know how to work with adult learners. We are a nationally accredited program.”

GTL program alumni have reached out to Lucarelli to express how important these lessons have been now that they’ve had to move to online learning.

Erin Petz Giguere, a first-year Spanish teacher in Grand Marais who recently completed the GTL program, wrote

about how “valuable and directly applicable” she’d found the GTL’s tech lab sessions in her work, particularly as she had to move into an online delivery mode.

“The fact that my students and I have worked with those resources from the beginning of the year is an incredible asset to our transition to distance learning,” Petz Giguere wrote.

The shift from a hybrid model to online will help to address teaching shortages in rural locations, particularly for elementary schools that are experiencing an acute need, Lucarelli said. The online format will open up the program to people who might not have been able to attend inperson classes.

“It’s going to be more flexible for all of our folks who want to be teachers,” Lucarelli said.

For more information, visit css.edu/ GTL.

Rivers2Lake program accepting applications

Rivers2Lake, a dynamic education program that helps teachers integrate Lake Superior into curriculum, is accepting applications. To apply, visit the Rivers2Lake website at rivers2lake.org to download a flyer and application.

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until July 1, 2020. Educators in any subject or grade level are eligible to participate.

Teachers participate in the Rivers2Lake Summer Institute Aug. 3-7, where they learn about Lake Superior and the St. Louis River from scientists, resource management agencies and tribal experts, along with place-based and outdoor learning methods. During the year, education staff at the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve in Superior, and the Superior Rivers Watershed Association in Ashland, provide support and co-teaching in Rivers2Lake classrooms bi-monthly.

Staff help teachers find and create the resources they need to meet and exceed educational standards using Lake Superior as an integrating context year-round.

Given the circumstances surrounding COVID-19 and social distancing guidance, the timing and format of Rivers2Lake may be altered to ensure safety. The program will take place in an adapted form, if necessary, in order to be compliant with guidance from federal, state, and local authorities or if virtual learning continues in the fall.

With support from both NOAA and Wisconsin Sea Grant funding, the Rivers2Lake program offers benefits to teachers and schools. Funding covers

DSSO concert recordings on 91.3 FM (KUWS) and 88.5 FM (WSSU).

Broadcasts will be featured on KUWS and WSSU on Thursday evenings at 7 pm. Listen live on the radio, or stream online at uwsuper.edu/kuws.

Recordings of DSSO concerts will be available on Fridays on the new DSSO at Home On-Demand page starting in June and will be available

to stream for 45 days. DSSO at Home is a free on-demand service that the DSSO launched in early May, in an effort to stay connected with their audience virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic. DSSO at Home features links to virtual performances, conversations with Music Director Dirk Meyer and more. WDSE is also rebroadcasting DSSO concerts every Friday in May at 9 pm. WDSE recordings are available to stream on Saturday’s following the rebroadcast.

Access to viewing and hearing the concerts is absolutely free, all you have to do is make a quick account with your name and e-mail address. Visit dsso.com/athome to find the latest posts and learn how to access the DSSO’s on-demand content.

Studying the Lake Superior watershed through the Rivers2Lake program.

bus transportation, on-water learning experiences, student admission to the Great Lakes Aquarium and the Lake Superior Estuarium, classroom resources and an honorarium of $500 for successful participation. A multi-year evaluation of the Rivers2Lake program demonstrated that the program significantly increased student academic engagement and teacher confidence in using place-based learning.

The Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve is one of 29 reserves in the U.S. The research and outreach program is operated by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension, with leadership from NOAA and based on the UWSuperior campus. The Reserve encompasses more than 16,000 acres along the St. Louis River freshwater estuary and operates the Lake Superior Estuarium exhibit hall on Barkers Island in Superior.

Adventure Park management back home

The North Shore Adventure Park in Silver Bay is proud to bring management of the back home to the North Shore! Last season it was managed by a Connecticut company, Outdoor Ventures, who also designed and built the park.

“We think the company built a firstclass park,” said general manager Phil Huston. “But after the first season, it was clear we needed to bring all park decisions back to Minnesota. We want the park to feel ‘owned’ by our Duluth and North Shore communities. During the COVID-19 era, we really value partnerships with local businesses and resorts. Plus, we wanted to hire all our creative talent for marketing, websites and other services here, not on the

east coast. That’s important to us.”

Huston and the park’s President, Alice Tibbetts live in Duluth and Silver Bay. The adventure park has 75 obstacles spread out over more than three acres.

“Frankly, safety and social distancing are not new to us,” Huston said. “Our standard protocol is to allow only one person on an obstacle and only two on a platform. The experience is an individual challenge so it is impossible to crowd each other when we are on the aerial obstacles and ziplines up in the air.

“We have created a No-Touch Check-In policy that requires guests to reserve online, in advance. This helps us manage the number of guests allowed, which is only 35 climbers during any time slot. It also provides for more social distancing since guests won’t need to spend time at the front desk getting registered.”

The park made lots of infrastructure improvements this season, including adding one-way trails, dispersed waiting areas, and hand-washing stations. “We built 10 reservable private picnic areas to allow guests to spread out and use the entire park.

We are already booking groups from schools, corporations, small businesses and family reunions. We’ve even gotten requests to do weddings,” he said. “With the support of our local businesses and communities, we expect a really good year at the park.”

Find the park on Facebook or at ZipSilverBay.com. 218.220.5330.

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Two downtown Duluth events to return

The Greater Downtown Council Board of Directors on May 26 approved alternate plans for two popular downtown events.

Duluth’s Sidewalk Days Festival, slated for July 8-10 is being postponed until July 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

And Movies in the Park will take on a new look – drive-in style!

Movies in the Park(ing Lot), presented by Carlson Orthodontics, is scheduled to kick off July 17 in the DECC parking lot.

Cars will be spaced to allow for social distancing, attendees will be asked to remain in their vehicles and concession orders can be delivered car-side.

Movies will be shown every Friday night, July 17-Aug. 28. The first show of the season is Dolittle, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Dr. Dolittle. Here’s the rest of the season line-up: July 24th A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood July 31 – Jumanji: The Next Level Aug. 7 – Harriet Aug. 14 – A Dog’s Journey Aug. 21 – Peanut Butter Falcon Aug. 28 – Abominable

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DuluthReader.com Grand Marais and Gunflint Trail promotional patch, ca. 1986.

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

Duluth Herald May 28, 1888 The Day In The City.

Wheat receipts today were 47 cars.

The land company is planting trees in West Duluth.

The funeral of Al. Boudin, the candy maker, took place Saturday.

There are seventy dwelling houses being erected in Duluth west of the line of the old village limits.

Bricklaying on the Spalding hotel is about completed. Work begins on the seventh, or roof story at once.

H. H. Hanford has begun a $10,000 residence on the corner of Third street and Second Avenue West. He expects to move in this fall.

About $8,000 remains to be raised for the Palladio building which it is proposed to build on the corner of Superior street and Fourth avenue west.

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The board of health has ordered the Duluth Packing company to remove its slaughter house from the bed of Tischers creek, some point outside the city limits.

Fully 500 people enjoyed the balmy air and the grand view from the rocky point below third street at tenth avenue west yesterday p.m. When access to this charming spot becomes easy it is hard to estimate the number of visitors to it. It should be made a public park at once.

The poet laureate of the street gang, he of the long hair and short periods of reform, is once more a victim of the effects of old booze and of “the blue coated Satans of the law,” to use the poet’s own language. He will work for the city for the next fifteen days. He struck Frank Burke on Saturday for the price of a weeks board, and getting it, he immediately started out upon a dazzling old spread which landed him eventually in the refrigerator.

This Owen alias Chapleau has become a chronic nuisance and should be railroaded out of town as soon as he gets clear of the street gang.

Duluth Herald May 29, 1890 Seventy Duluth girls proved themselves last night, acquainted with the culinary arts necessary to keep house. Not one of these girls will become an old maid. No such fate is reserved for a girl who can cook. In the better times coming the men, if they still keep the reins of government will pass laws forbidding matrimony to all women who are ignorant of scientific and practical cooking. How much poor man has suffered from the vile decoctions and dishes set before him under the impression that they were food. It is an open question whether poor cooking or

whisky has brought more misery and crime into the world. The Bethel, and Miss French,the capable instructress, deserve the utmost praise and support for the Duluth cooking school. May it continue to flourish.

Duluth Herald May 30, 1900 TOWN AFIRE. Iron River and Its Big Lumber Yard Threatened Iron River, Wis., May 30, 1:30 p.m.

– Fire started about an our ago in the power house. It spread quickly to the Alexander & Edgar Lumber mill, formerly the Ingraham mills. At this time it is spreading to the lumber yards, which contain 16,000,000 feet of lumber. The wind is in the west and

the whole town is in danger. A call has been made on Superior for engines and help.

Duluth Herald May 31, 1910 If some one on the south shore about three miles below Allouez finds a brown paper kite with the white letters “Lester Park” across its face there is a small boy in Duluth who would like to hear from it.

Master Clinton Lee Brooke has been very proud of his two sticker kite since it pulled down some good prizes by its ability to outfly other kites in the boys’ tournament of the public schools on May 14.

He has had it in the air every day since, not even barring Sundays or holidays, but Monday afternoon came

Ad appearing in the May 23, 1890 edition of the Duluth Herald.

Stories and images courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society newspaper archives.

Ad appearing in the June 1, 1920 edition of the Duluth Herald.

Stories and images courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society newspaper archives.

with $100 in cash, two watches and other merchandise valued at about $150.

Muitonen was removed early this morning to the Duluth, Missabe & Northern Railway company hospital at Proctor, where an examination showed that he had been wounded by a gunshot wound in the left side about two inches below the hip joint posterior. It was stated at the hospital this morning that Muitonen would probably recover.

Muitonen told the story of the robber at the hospital this morning.

He stated that he had closed the store about 8:30 o’clock last night and had gone to his rooms above where he resides with his wife and two children. Between 9 and 9:30 o’clock he heard the sound of breaking glass and went below to see what the disturbance was.

In the dark, he said, he could barely make out the forms of three men.

One of them, whom, he says, wore a mask, jumped upon him and a scuffle ensued during which a shot was

fired. Muitonen then swooned into unconsciousness, and it is supposed that the robbers made their getaway with their loot before the help came to Muitonen from his family and the neighbors.

Muitonen was not able to furnish deputy sheriffs who interviewed him today at the hospital with much information which would serve as a clew to identify the bandits.

Ad appearing in the May 30, 1900 edition of the Duluth Herald.

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its undoing.

With a thousand feet of broken cord dragging in the lake it sailed away from Lester Park in a beeline for the south shore.

Strong glasses followed it and when last seen it was still flying high for Wisconsin, so this small boy is asking the question to himself: “Who’s got my kite?”

Duluth Herald June 1, 1920

ONE SHOT IN BANDIT RAID. Three Highwaymen Enter Toivola Store; Seriously Wound Owner.

Suota Muitonen, Proprietor, Tells Story of Raid at Proctor Hospital.

Three masked bandits last night broke into the co-operative store at Toivola,in section 10, 54-20, northwest of Meadowlands, shot and seriously wounded Suota Muitonen, aged 37, the proprietor, and escaped

• Check it.

• Use it.

• Read it.

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lifelines

Kristin Jean Baldwin (Medjo) 1977 – 2/11/2020 Kristin Jean Baldwin (Medjo), 43, of Saint Paul, Minnesota, died on February 11, 2020 following a brief and aggressive battle with breast cancer. Kristin grew up in Duluth, attended Marshall High School and graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in English. She loved learning and teaching, so she pursued a graduate degree in education.

In 2002, she found a new calling, working full time with autistic children. In 2008, she transitioned to working in education, supporting students who had been marginalized in school. Kristin and her husband Brett met in 2003 and married in 2008. When their son Cooper was born in 2008, she devoted herself to raising him in the best environment possible.

In her spare time, she explored her many interests, including tennis, writing fiction, politics and disability advocacy. She is survived by her husband (Brett) and son (Cooper) of St Paul, and by her parents Dennis and Sandra Medjo of Duluth, her aunt Susan Medjo of Washington DC and many cousins. A celebration of her life will be held at a later date.

To submit obituaries, births, vows for publication, email to submissions@readerduluth.com

Robert E. Powless 1933 – 4/25/2020 On April 25 Robert Elroy Powless moved gently into the spirit world in the presence of his loving family. He is survived by his wife Linda Graham Powless, his daughter Marcia Karen Powless, his son Blair Graham Powless, and his five grandchildren Dane Malcolm Powless, Makayla Blair Powless, Key Robert Powless, Yvonne Simone Powless, and Preston Lafayette Powless. He is loved unconditionally and will be truly missed by his family.

Robert served the Anishinaabe community and the larger Duluth community as an educator, mentor and as a community leader for more than 40 years. He was a very social person who enjoyed being with other people: telling jokes and laughing, extending compliments to others, and taking part in important discussions. His intellectual contributions to local communities were always compassionate and were always well received. He was a devoted husband, father and grandfather. He made a point of shaping profound loving relationships with each of his grandchildren, and was supportive and active in the lives of his two children.

When asked recently what the best decision that he ever made was, he replied “Having Linda love me.”

A memorial service will be held when circumstances allow. The family will invite the community to join them in celebrating his life at that time.

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Janet L. Provost 6/1/1933 – 4/6/2020 Janet “Jan” L. Provost, 86, longtime Billings Park resident, died peacefully April 6 at Solvay Hospice House in Duluth, surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Superior, to John “Jack” and Gertrude (Harris) White.

She married Ronald Provost on June 18, 1955, and they celebrated 58 years of marriage before his passing in 2013.

Jan attended area schools, and graduated from Cathedral High School, where she was Homecoming Queen.

Jan was a longtime active member of Cathedral of Christ the King Catholic Church, and was a well-known area peace activist. In 1983, she founded the Northland Chapter of Grandmothers for Peace.

Jan is survived by five daughters, two sons, longtime special family friend, Ron DeGraef, two sisters-in-law, 14 grandchildren, 8 greatgrandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.

A Memorial Mass at Cathedral of Christ the King Catholic Church will be held at a later date. The Downs-LeSage Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements. To leave an online condolence or to sign the guestbook, visit downslesage.com.

Troy Andrew Volkenant 4/13/1979 – 4/19/2020 Troy, the son of Larry and Nelly Volkenant, was born in Duluth at St. Luke’s Hospital on April 13, 1979, and passed away April 19, 2020.

Troy attended Hermantown High School and was also home schooled. He had a variety of interests and hobbies. He loved to fish, hunt, trap and was very talented at word burning nature scenes.

Troy enjoyed helping with raising domestic farm animals and doing his chores. Troy and his siblings also raised rabbits, hamsters, kittens and tropical fish.

Troy’s mother taught him and his brothers and sisters to do crafts, cook, bake, make maple syrup, jellies, can fruits, vegetables and pickles.

Troy was preceded in death by his grandparents, Kenneth and LuLu Steffen of Duluth, and Anthony and Evelen Volkenant of Hector, Minn.; his mother, Nelly; his brother and best friend, Darin; and his uncle, David Volkenant of Hutchinson, Minn.

He is survived by his brothers Lance and Brent, sisters Cindy (and her husband Jeff Merrill) and Kristy Meidl; stepmother Kim and stepsisters Jackie Wells and Marsha Forrester; numerous uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces and cousins.

Emmery James Prisk 7/10/1930 – 5/15/2020 Emmery James Prisk, 89, as the son of Albert and Mercedes Prisk of Ely, Minn.

Before graduating from UMD in 1958, Emmery joined the armed services in 1952, serving as a Morse Code Radio Communication Interceptor stationed in Ethiopia, Africa during the Korean War. In 1953 Emmery married his high school sweetheart Adrienne Marie Lahay of Virginia. They raised three children. After celebrating 61 years of marriage Adrienne died in 2014.

Jeanne Hudson Sampson 7/5/1926 – 5/10/2020 Jeanne Hudson (Cornelison) Sampson died on Mother’s Day May 10, 2020. She was born in Duluth to Dallas and Clara Cornelison. A longtime resident of Park Point, Jeanne was active in Our Lady of Mercy Parish, Park Point Community Club, PTA and the Park Point Garden Club. Jeanne kept beautiful gardens. If so desired, memorials may be directed to St. Scholastica Monastery, 1001 Kenwood Ave., Duluth, MN. 55811. Private services were held. Arrangements by Dougherty Funeral Home.

Romayne Marilyn Urie 3/4/1930 – 5/20/2020 Romayne Marilyn Urie, 90, of Duluth, wife, mother, sister, grandmother, greatgrandmother, aunt and friend, died at New Perspectives in Superior, Wis. She was born in Duluth to Emil A. and Edna (Huseby) Lessard. Romayne was primarily a housewife and great mom. She had worked at the Glass Block, owned and ran DMV in Duluth for ten years with her husband Joe, and then bought the Northstar Resort in Marcel, Minn., with another couple. They ran that resort for many years. A Memorial Mass of Christian Burial will be held at a later date to be announced. Arrangements by Dougherty Funeral Home.

Make your own cleaning solutions Dear Readers: Are we cleaning or disinfecting? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cleaning is defined as using soap or detergent to remove dirt, dust, grime and germs from surfaces, but doesn’t necessarily kill the germs. Disinfecting involves using chemicals to comby pletely kill germs on surfaces.

Common everyday commercial products that you find at the grocery store are fine to clean and disinfect. But you can save money by making your own cleaner/disinfectant at home.

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Dear Heloise: We adopted Patootie, a rescued stray, two years ago, and she arrived with chronic ear problems.

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If she starts pawing at her ears and they sound squishy, I fill up her ear canal with the solution and massage the base of her ears to make sure it goes in.

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The groomer, who cleans her ears as part of the session, said that her ears had never looked better. I thought you’d want to know yet another use for vinegar! Cheers! – Denise R., San Antonio, Texas Denise, thanks so much! Readers, check out Heloise.com to see Patootie,

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Quarantine club Crisis Lines Safe Haven 24/7 Crisis Line: 218-728-6481 Arrowhead Region Crisis Line: 218-723-0099 Douglas County Crisis Hotline: 715-392-8216 Fond du Lac Crisis Line: 218-655-3669 or 218-655-3668 Minnesota Warmline: Adults needing support can talk to a specialist who has firsthand experience living with a mental health condition. 651-288-0400 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-TALK (8255) North St. Louis County: LetsTALKMN.com 218-288-2100 South St. Louis County: LetsTalkMN.

com 218-623-1800 Peer Support Connection: 844-7396369 (5 p.m. to 9 a.m.)

Program for the Aid of Victims of Sexual Assault (PAVSA): 218-726-1931

p.m. each day, including Sunday, departing Miller Hill Super One for Menards and Walmart at :10 and :30 past each hour. Go to duluthtransit.com or call 218-722-7283.

Duluth Transit Authority All rides are free in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Please limit bus travel to essential trips during this time.

Reducing the number of passengers can help reduce the spread of illness.

The last trips of the evening Monday through Saturday are just after 9 p.m., leaving downtown. The last trips of the evening on Sunday are just after 7 p.m. also from downtown.

A shuttle runs 10:10 a.m. to 6:10

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 dollars 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 eliminated 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 Coun-

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ty): 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 Duluth Public Schools serve free carry-out lunch and breakfast for Duluth students age 18 and younger, 10:15 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekdays through May 4. Other meal hubs are served 10-11 a.m. For updates, times and locations see Isd709.org or call 218-336-8700.

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.

Wisconsin: access.wi.gov Health care If you need health insurance visit mnsure.org or call 855-366-7873. In Wisconsin visit access.wi.gov or your county health and human services.

(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

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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.

Douglas County Aging & Disability 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.

Twin Ports Mask Brigade Collecting donations of unused masks for doctors and nurses. twinportsmaskbrigade.com Unemployment Looking for information? Find it

at the Department of Employment and Economic Development website mn.gov/deed, and sign up at uimn.org or call 651-296-6141.

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

Veterans Any veteran who has been financially hurt by COVID-19 can apply for a special needs grant through their local County Veteran Service Office.

Duluth: 218-725-5285 Ely: 218-365-8203 Hibbing: 218-262-6090 Virginia: 218-749-7110 Vikre Distillery Vikre Distillery, 525 S Lake Ave. in Canal Park, is giving away free organic hand sanitizer 12-5 p.m. weekdays.

Bring your own 16 oz. container, one per person. For larger requests, email info@Vikre.com. Check their Facebook page for updates or call 218-481-7401.

A GoFundMe page has been set up to take donations.

Sutherland CBD & Dr. Juice USA Sutherland CBD and Dr. Juice USA, both on Tower Avenue in Superior, are

now offering handmade hand sanitizer.

While they are selling the four-ounce bottles at cost (about $3) all sales go back into production so any financial or ingredient donations are welcome.

You can call, or order online for pickup. Contact Dr. Juice at 715-718-0912 and Sutherland CBD at 715-718-8050.

Arts Arrowhead Regional Arts Council resources for artists: aracouncil.org/ covid19-resources Indy Music Livestream Concert Clearinghouse: Facebook page to connect independent musicians with audiences in search of livestream concerts.

Livestream Cover Challenge: Facebook page in which musicians challenge fellow musicians to learn and stream cover songs.

Quarentunes: Facebook page for live music shows during the quarantine.

Virtual Duluth: A place to post all the upcoming virtual events.

To submit entries, email info@readerduluth.com.

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Medications can cause drug-induced dementia Q. About three years ago, I was taking Detrol for an overactive bladder, a PPI heartburn medicine and an antihistamine for allergies. During the time I was taking all three, I read about the connection between anticholinergic drugs and dementia. When I checked, I learned that all three of these drugs were anticholinergic.

I felt I was experiencing cognitive slowdown and inefficiency. I stopped all three and bounced back cognitively.

I’d rather have the symptoms those drugs are supposed to treat than druginduced dementia!

A. Antihistamines and medications for overactive bladder have long been recognized as anticholinergic drugs.

That means they interfere with a crucial brain chemical called acetylcholine (ACh).

The link between dementia and longterm proton pump by inhibitor use was reinforced by a recent Swedish study (Alzheimer’s & Dementia, May 8, 2020).

The scientists found that several PPIs, especially lansoprazole and rabeprazole, inhibit the enzyme the body uses to make ACh. Preventing its synthesis could amplify the effects of other anticholinergic medicines and may increase the risk of dementia.

For more information on other strategies for controlling heartburn, you may wish to read our eGuide to Digestive Disorders. It is found in the Health eGuides section of PeoplesPharmacy.com. In it, you will also find Dr. Tieraona Low Dog’s recommendations for getting off PPIs and overcoming rebound reflux.

Q. I used Flonase for a stuffy nose from allergies and lost my sense of smell. I tried a natural nose spray instead.

At first, it didn’t seem to work. But today, while I was sitting in front of my computer, my sense of smelled returned suddenly. I was so shocked that I went right to a scented candle in my bathroom and could smell it. I then went through the whole house sniffing everything: fruit, flowers, even

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my dirty socks. What a relief to be able to smell again!

A. We are pleased to learn of your recovery. Losing the sense of smell can be quite disorienting. People have reported this symptom (called “anosmia”) as a side effect of steroid nasal sprays like fluticasone (Flonase) or triamcinolone (Nasacort AQ). Several years ago, a zinc-containing nasal gel was recalled because it led to anosmia.

Some people are reporting a loss of smell and taste as an early symptom of COVID-19. In most cases, people regain these senses after recovery.

Q. I am a health care provider. Ever since I participated in college athletics (and did not wear flip-flops in the shower), I have struggled with athlete’s foot. I have tried every “azole” on the market – ketoconazole, clotrimazole, etc. All have failed, especially in summer, when my heels split and crack.

Finally, I chanced upon a solution: shortly after bathing, when my feet are semi-dry, I remove the upper layer of callus. I then liberally apply Vicks VapoRub and wear thick socks to keep it from smearing the floor. Within a day, my feet are like new.

A. Vicks VapoRub contains a number of essential oils with antifungal activity. They include: camphor, eucalyptus oil, menthol, thymol, cedarleaf oil and nutmeg oil.

Other readers have also found that Vicks VapoRub is helpful against athlete’s foot and toenail fungus. One small study compared Vicks with plain petroleum jelly for nail fungus and found that it was effective (Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, January-February 2011).

In their column, Joe and Teresa Graedon answer letters from readers. Write to them in care of King Features, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803, or email them via their website PeoplesPharmacy.com.

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NUTRITION

Vitamin D and COVID-19

BY CHARLYN FARGO Creators Syndicate

During this shelter-at-home time, we’re all trying to be extra careful about what we’re eating – plenty of fruits and vegetables for strong immunity, plenty of water for good hydration and plenty of exercise.

We may want to add plenty of vitamin D to the list.

Known as the sunshine vitamin, our bodies can make vitamin D when exposed to sunlight. However, dark winter days, abundant rain and even sunscreen make it more difficult in some areas.

Up to 50% of the world’s population may not get enough sun, and 40% of U.S. residents are deficient in vitamin D. We simply spend too much time indoors, wear sunblock outside and eat a diet low in good sources of vitamin D. Now there’s another reason to think about vitamin D. There is plenty of research underway to see if vitamin D protects against COVID-19. Most of it is preliminary, but there’s a handful of recent studies that claim vitamin D may play a role in both the risk of catching the disease and the severity of it.

Stay tuned on that.

The empty shelves at grocery stores might lead you to believe the research is conclusive. At this point, there isn’t proof that vitamin D status plays a role in the risk of death from COVID-19.

However, there’s plenty of proof that vitamin D is important for a healthy diet.

It helps to regulate the amount of calcium and phosphate in the body, both of which are needed to keep bones, teeth and muscles healthy. And

there is much to gain by having better vitamin D status.

What can you eat to boost your vitamin D levels?

Here are six healthy foods that are high in vitamin D: No. 1: Salmon, especially wild salmon. Wild salmon contains about 988 international units, or IUs, of vitamin D per serving, while farmed salmon contains 250 IUs, on average.

No. 2: Herring and sardines. Fresh Atlantic herring provides 216 IUs per serving. Pickled herring, sardines and other fatty fish, such as halibut and mackerel, are also good sources.

No. 3: Canned tuna. Canned light tuna packs up to 268 IUs of vitamin D in a 3.5-ounce serving.

No. 4: Egg yolks. A typical egg yolk has 37 IUs of vitamin D. The levels depend on the chicken’s exposure to the sun and the vitamin D content of the chicken feed. Chickens that roam outside have higher levels. (Just like us.)

No. 5: Mushrooms. Mushrooms synthesize vitamin D when exposed to ultraviolet light. Wild mushrooms are

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excellent sources, but for commercially grown mushrooms, the amount depends on whether the mushrooms were exposed to UV light. If they were, it will be listed on the label.

No. 6: Fortified foods. Milk, soy milk, orange juice, cereals and oatmeal are often fortified with vitamin D, anywhere from 54 to 136 IUs per serving.

The bottom line is vitamin D may or may not play a role in preventing COVID-19, but be assured, it does play a role in your health. Have your doctor check your level, especially if you’re over 50. And add some vitamin D-rich foods to your diet to make sure you get enough of this important nutrient.

Q and A Q: Is butter good or bad for you?

A: Butter is rich in nutrients and beneficial compounds like butyrate and conjugated linoleic acid. However, it’s high in saturated fat and calories.

Enjoy it in moderation. Saute your chicken in better-for-you olive or canola oil, and save your butter for your toast or baked potato. It’s best to consume it alongside a mix of hearthealthy fats like olive oil, avocado, nuts, seeds and fatty fish.

RECIPE Here’s a great recipe to get you started on healthier eating. It’s a chicken saute with an Italian flair that is high-fiber, low-carb and high in protein. It’s from Hy-Vee.

TUSCAN LEMON CHICKEN SAUTE 1 pound chicken breast tenders 1/4 teaspoon lemon pepper seasoning 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided 2 cups broccoli florets 2 cups tricolor bell pepper strips 1 cup zucchini and summer squash 1/2 cup low sodium chicken broth 1 teaspoon lemon zest 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 1.2 teaspoons Italian seasoning 1 (15-ounce) can great Northern beans, drained and rinsed Pat the chicken tenders dry; sprinkle with lemon pepper seasoning. Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in skillet over medium heat.

Cook chicken 5 to 8 minutes or until done (165 degrees), turning occasionally. Remove from skillet; keep warm.

Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in same skillet over medium heat. Add the broccoli, and cook 1 minute. Add the bell pepper strips, zucchini and summer squash, and cook 2 minutes.

Increase heat to medium high. Add the chicken broth, lemon zest, lemon juice and Italian seasoning. Heat through. Stir in the beans. Serves 4.

Per serving: 300 calories; 33 grams protein; 26 grams carbohydrates; 9 grams fat; 65 milligrams cholesterol; 6 grams fiber; 4 grams total sugars (0 added); 460 milligrams sodium.

For comments or questions, contact Charlyn at charfarg@aol.com or follow her on Twitter @NutritionRD.

Scientists warn against high doses of vitamin D

By Susan Perry Minnesota Post People should not take high doses of vitamin D to prevent or treat COVID-19, warns a team of British, Irish and American scientists.

“There is no strong scientific evidence to show that very high intakes (ie, mega supplements) of vitamin D will be beneficial in preventing or treating COVID-19,” write the 21 scientists in a consensus paper published late last week in the journal BMJ, Nutrition, Prevention and Health.

There is good evidence, however, that the excessive intake of vitamin D can be harmful, especially for people with other health issues, such as kidney problems, they add.

In the United States, the National Academy of Medicine has determined that healthy adults (those without a specific disease related to a vitamin D deficiency) need, on average, 600 international units (IUs) of vitamin D daily – until the age of 71, when they

need, on average, 800 IUs. Vitamin D is unique among micronutrients, as it’s produced in the skin during exposure to sunlight. So although the vitamin can be obtained through food (such as salmon, egg yolks and fortified milk), just five to 30 minutes of sunlight exposure twice a week is usually sufficient to meet most people’s vitamin D needs, including those living in Minnesota and other northern latitudes.

Even before the coronavirus pandemic, millions of Americans were taking vitamin D supplements unnecessarily and, in some cases, dangerously. A 2017 University of Minnesota study found that one in five American were consuming vitamin D supplements even though experts say that only about 6 percent of Americans are actually deficient in the vitamin.

In recent weeks, unsubstantiated reports that high doses of vitamin D (up to 10,000 IUs daily, according to some accounts) may lower the risk of getting COVID-19 and/or reduce its severity have spread widely across the

media, particularly social media. Sales of the supplement have soared as a result, rising by 22 percent in one week alone in March.

Yet, as the consensus paper makes clear, claims of a link between vitamin D supplements and a resistance to COVID-19 – or any acute respiratory tract infection – are not supported by good evidence.

As the scientists point out, good nutrition and a healthy lifestyle have a positive effect on the body’s immune system, thus helping individuals resist infections. Vitamin D is certainly one of the many nutrients the body needs to stay healthy. It, therefore, should receive our attention – but “not as a ‘magic bullet’ to beat COVID-19, as the scientific evidence base is severely lacking at this time,” write the scientists.

Calls for the widespread use of high-dose vitamin D supplements to contain the spread of COVID-19 are “based on speculations about presumed mechanisms,” they stress. Those presumptions are not yet supported by direct evidence involving humans.

Previous research has suggested a link between vitamin D levels and the risk of developing upper respiratory tract infections, such as the common cold, but many of those studies have been observational. They don’t – and can’t – prove the two are connected.

In 2017, a meta-analysis of 25 previous clinical trials concluded vitamin D supplementation reduces the risk of respiratory tract infections, particularly among people with low levels of the nutrient in their bodies.

But, as the authors of the current consensus paper point out, that meta-analysis had several important limitations. Most notably, two of its studies involved children from the developing countries of Mongolia and Afghanistan.

When those two studies are removed from the analysis, the evidence of a benefit from vitamin D supplementation vanishes.

Other research has shown that any kind of treatment tends to be substantially more effective in less developed countries than in developed ones.

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A corny old lager and a piney IPA When I get a hankering for a particu- erately malty/corny/hazy lager, with lar style of beer, well, that’s the kind of just the slightest hop bite. beer I want.

The recipe is a true one, having been It was lager the other day. Plenty to made by Schell’s of New Ulm before choose from these days – you’ve got the evil pall of Prohibition veiled this your macro-lagers, your regional lacountry for 13 years in the last century. gers (I still consider Leinie’s a regional Think of it as time travel in a bottle. brew), your craft lagers and a quaint Perhaps your great-grandparents once style known as pre-Prohibition lagers. quaffed a Deer Brand back in the day.

That’s what caught my eye – a single *** sixer tipped at an odd angle and waas I feel so much better about myself extremely awkward to extract from when I’m drinking a beer for a cause. the shelf. A masked employee came What a remarkable fellow I am – havover and assisted me by going into ing a beer for blind puppies. the other side of the cooler and pushSorry, did that sound facetious? ing against the back of the overturned Forget about the blind puppies. sixer as I pulled, and toHow about an IPA for gether we accomplished trees? the task of extracting the I spent Memorial Day last six-pack of Schell’s with White Pine ProjDeer Brand Pre-Prohiect IPA from Castle bition Lager.

Danger Brewing of Two by It was just what I Harbors. was looking for when I It’s a yummy, piney walked into the place. I IPA made with three hop just didn’t know that at varieties, two of which the time.

(Idaho 7 and Chinook) Pro-Pro lager, as I will are known for their piney refer to it herein, is a lecharacteristics. The third gitimate style of American beer. is Citra, which, as its name implies, imBefore the evil time of Prohibition, parts citrusy characters.

American brewers were making hazy The grain bill includes six compolagers with the harsher six-row malt, nents – including oats – to hold their and smoothing it out with adjuncts, own against the heady hops. either rice or, more likely, corn. The But here’s the philanthropic note resulting beers had the crisp taste of to this beer – proceeds will be used Euro-lagers, but were sweeter from the to plant white pines along the North corn. I already mentioned the haziShore, where the ness. tree was once Compared to the great sophisticated a staple along golden Euro lagers and pilsners, Prewith massive red Pro lager comes across as an ugly, oafpines, but they ish American cousin dressed in loud were logged out and ill-fitting clothes. But who’s comor lost to blister paring? rust or fire.

I’ve seen a few all-malt Pre-Pro lagers Yes, I guarout there, and that, I’m afraid, goes antee you will against style. I’m sure they are delifeel better for cious, malty lagers, but the Pre-Pro drinking a White style does rely on adjuncts, so the allPine Project IPA. malt varieties are snobbish recreations Probably the of beer that sound remarkably like our only thing that modern-day macrobrews that use adwould make you juncts – some say as cost-saving meafeel better is to sures – to produce bland, characterless go plant some beers that have given lager a bad name. white pine your[And I should mention here that self, but me, I’ll have another beer for flaked corn, for example, is more costly the trees, and if anyone does come out to brew with – at least on the homewith a beer for blind puppies, I might brewing level – than most specialty try that, too. malts.]

But there is no lack of character with Deer Brand. It’s a very drinkable, mod

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Survey indicates strength in industry WineAmerica is a trade organization based in Washington, D.C., that lobbies the federal government on behalf of the wine industry.

Despite by soaring supermarket sales, many wineries have been impacted by the near nationwide shutdown due to COVID-19.

To assess the damage, WineAmerica conducted a survey of member wineries, asking for information between March 15 and April 15 of this year. There were 727 responses from 727 wineries across 45 states. The vast majority of respondents (70%) were small wineries producing fewer than 5,000 cases annually.

Small wineries are potentially the hardest hit by lockdown because they are more dependent than larger wineries on tasting room revenue.

But WineAmerica characterized what it found as “resilient and creative.”

Some examples gleaned from an email from WineAmerica President Jim Trezise: “Most inspiring were the innovations wineries adopted to help offset the losses caused by having to close their tasting rooms. With many states relaxing regulations to allow new marketing opportunities, 84% of respondents initiated curbside pickup, 63 percent reduced shipping costs, 60 percent special Direct-to-Consumer promotions, 54 percent home delivery by winery personnel, 53 percent wine club specials, and 28 percent virtual tastings – with only 5 percent saying ‘none of the above.’”

That said, WineAmerica painted a bleak picture of the overall financial damage.

More from Trezise: “Still, it’s been a tough time. Production has continued at 85 percent of wineries, but slowed at 62 percent of them. The average winery normally employs 12 people, but has had to lay off 5 (though 25 percent said they didn’t have to lay off any). Tasting room visitors dropped by 90 percent, and sales by 75 percent, with an average loss during the period

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of $51,201.

“Worse yet, if the current situation continues through the end of May, the average winery expects to lose $134,626 in that month alone, and believes it would take over four months to return to normal business levels in terms of employees, visitors, sales, and other factors.”

There’s an old joke about the wine business that’s never been more appropriate. It goes something like this: How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? Easy. Start with a large fortune.

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.

example of California chardonnay at its very best. Rating: 97.

Paraduxx 2016 Red Wine, Rector Creek Vineyard, Napa Valley ($82) — Just another sensational red wine from Paraduxx, ho hum. Seems like it’s effortless for the Paraduxx team, which pretty much lets the vineyard speak and gets out of the way. This vineyard is certainly one of the finest in the Napa Valley, and the blend of zinfandel and cabernet sauvignon that Paraduxx pioneered some two decades ago is a winning combination.

The 2016 shows notes of blueberry, blackberry and raspberry, loads of wood spice and a savory earthiness that is subtle but inviting. Rating: 95.

Col Vetoraz Prosecco Valdobbiadene Superiore di Cartizze DOCG, Italy ($26) – This is a rare dry prosecco from the prosecco region’s most coveted vineyard district, and it’s a stunner. The nose shows stone fruits and tropical fruits with a touch of spice, although the wine never sees

the inside of a barrel. On the palate, this prosecco is fresh, generous and beautifully balanced, with impressive length and a soft mousse. Rating: 94.

Chateau Malescasse 2016 Haut-Medoc AOC, Bordeaux, France ($22) – Given current prices for classified-growth Bordeaux, it makes sense to seek out good Bordeaux that doesn’t come with all that expensive cachet! Chateau Malescasse is a Left Bank Cru Bourgeois beauty that costs less than $25, and it’s worth every penny and then some. This vintage offers classic aromas of blackberry and black currant, firm tannins and impressive palate weight. Notes of graphite and cedar complete the puzzle. It’s beautifully crafted and more beautifully priced.

Rating: 90.

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A to Z Wineworks Rose Bubbles, Oregon ($5) – This sparkling wine in a can at a dirt-cheap price (it comes in a four-pack at $20 retail, so $5 per 250 milliliter can) tastes very, very good.

Impressive. This product is primarily pinot noir with a touch of chardonnay, all Oregon-grown grapes. It is fresh and refreshing, well-balanced and clean, perfect for a summer picnic. Rating: 88.

Tasting Notes Tongue Dancer 2017 Chardonnay, Bacigalupi Vineyard, Russian River Valley ($50) – Winemaker James MacPhail is up to his old tricks, which usually means he’s made another brilliant wine. This 2017 chardonnay from the iconic Bacigalupi vineyard qualifies on that score. MacPhail specializes in knowing the great vineyards of California’s Sonoma County, and he knows what to do when he scores a few tons of exceptional fruit. This wine exhibits the intense aroma of lemon creme, a touch of brioche, and subtle nuances of oak vanillin and wood spice.

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May 28

Lovers of sun and shade NATURAL CONNECTIONS by

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White pines grow fast and live long, so they often tower above the rest of the forest in a layer called the “super canopy.” Photo

by Emily Stone.

Who doesn’t feel inspired when they tilt their head back and gaze up at big white pine or hemlock?

And how could you not admire the grace of a pure white birch tree?

Here in the Northwoods, we love our trees. John Muir wrote, “Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”

Happily, we’ve got lots of pines up here. I’m going to go walk between a bunch of them until I find a new world I like better.

Who’s with me?

This is the final installment of topics from the Forest Lodge Nature Trail’s new interpretive booklet.

I’ll do some final editing, and then send the text off to the Forest Service so they can do layout and printing.

With any luck, the new booklets will be waiting for you at the trailhead when it’s safe to travel again.

Please remember that this trail and many others are currently closed to the public, in alignment with current

federal, state and local guidance for social distancing.

Old Growth White Pines Eastern white pines are majestic trees. They can live for up to 450 years, grow to 150 feet in height, and reach a diameter of more than 5 feet. White pines also are a valuable source of the wood we need to build homes, craft furniture, and make paper.

During the logging era of 1850-1920, almost all of the local forests were cut down.

Look down.

The rotting stumps of large white pines still dot this forest. Both their growth, and their death, are important reminders of the history of this area.

Look up.

The next era of majestic white pines are growing now. The oldest of them are probably about 100 years old. You can see their wispy branches poking up above the rest of the forest in a layer called the “super canopy.”

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In fact, white pines of all ages surround the trail.

While they face many natural threats, this forest is now protected from logging. What do you think it will look like in another hundred years?

Eastern Hemlocks The tall trees in this grove are eastern hemlocks. They are easy to identify by the way the top leader gently flops to one side.

Hemlocks often have shallow roots, and they sometimes topple over in strong winds. When a tree falls, more sunlight can reach the forest floor.

Hemlock seedlings, which tend to sprout in the shade on the damp wood of a rotting stump or log, race toward this new sunlight in a spurt of growth.

It’s hard to imagine that these majestic trees were once tiny seeds hidden inside small cones.

As hemlocks age, their bark becomes quite thick. That bark was once

harvested for tannins, which are the chemicals used in tanning hides into leather. On average, it took the bark of one tree to tan one hide. Today, we use synthetic chemicals instead.

Look closely at the bark. A yellowbellied sapsucker has made rows of tiny holes in order to feed on the hemlock’s sweet sap.

Sun-Loving Birch White or paper birch is a true beauty of the Northwoods. Its smooth, papery bark makes it easy to identify. The dark, horizontal lines on the bark are lenticels. These cells allow the tree to take in and give off carbon dioxide, oxygen, and water vapor.

Unlike the hemlock trees, whose seedlings can survive in deep shade, birch trees grow best in the bright sunshine available after a fire, windstorm, or other major disturbance.

They are known as a pioneer species.

While they grow quickly, birches are not long-lived. Firs and spruces often grow up in their shade, and are ready to take over when the birch trees succumb to disease, insects or drought.

Birches do have some defenses, though.

A chemical called betulin makes birch bark very resistant to rot. Native Americans use the birch’s strong, waterproof bark to make canoes, baskets, and homes.

Betulin is also what makes birch bark flammable. The unique chemical is being researched as a treatment for cancer, diabetes, tuberculosis, and more.

Chaga mushrooms growing on birch trees concentrate betulin naturally, and some people make it in to a medicinal tea. Please be respectful of future visitors and do not harvest chaga near trails.

That’s it for this week’s hike. Next week I’ll see you back out on the trails with some new natural connections!

Thanks to Wisconsin Master Naturalist Volunteers Thom Gerst and Kay Meyer for their help in drafting this booklet!

Emily’s second book, Natural Connections: Dreaming of an Elfin Skimmer, is now available to purchase at cablemuseum. org/books. Or order it from our friends at redberybooks.com to receive free shipping!

For more than 50 years, the Cable Natural History Museum has served to connect you to the Northwoods.

The Museum is currently closed due to COVID-19, but we’re still building our new exhibit and bringing you educational content. Connect with us on Facebook and Instagram.

Lilac Lovefest is well underway

As reported in an earlier edition of The Reader (http://duluthreader.com/ articles/2020/04/30/20607_a_lovefest_ for_lilacs), the inaugural Lilac Lovefest, which aims to put Duluth on the map for having the world’s longest lilac season.

On May 26, Mary Karl of Duluth located the Twin Port’s first lilac bloom of 2020, at 15th Ave. E and 2nd Street (NW Corner), Duluth.

A continually updated lilac-viewing map is available on the Lilac Lovefest website – lilaclovefest.com/map.

Upcoming Event: Duluth Yoga is hosting Lilac Yoga at Enger Park Pavillion at 8 am Saturday, May 30. Free.

Bring your mat.

Recipes: Lilacs are edible. Check out recipes at lilaclovefest.com.

There are also lilac-themed items you can buy on the wewbsite,including pint glasses, lilac-scented soy candles, bumper stickers, a magnet and lilac facemasks in a variety of colors.

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These are unsettling times.

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College OT should return to 10-minute form When you go to a hockey game, Let’s look back and see one of the if you’re like me, you want to see an reasons it was the best. Pick a year, any outcome. Even if your team doesn’t year. Let’s say the 1970-71 season when win, you want to see someone win. If Michigan Tech won the league title, the game winds up in a tie, bring on over Denver and Wisconsin in a close overtime. race. Minnesota and North Dakota In the NCHC, a played to a tie, and that 5-minute sudden death was the only tie all season overtime was followed by any WCHA teams. by a 5-minute 3-on-3 The next year, Notre overtime, and if that Dame joined the league to by didn’t solve the game, a make it a 10-team WCHA, shootout followed that and Denver won the league would. title, and there was not a As an unapologizing single tie game in the 28purist about the sport, I game regular season. also appreciate deciding In the 1982-83 season, the game during 5-on-5 there were two games that play, just like regulation. ended in ties, all season.

That desire goes back to determining Now let’s jump ahead to the 1988-89 that the best team doesn’t have one or season when every team had at least two hotshots, but has the ability to put one tie and there were 18 ties ascribed a 5-man unit on the ice that skates and to the teams’ records meaning there interacts as a unit, sharing the puck were 9 ties in league games. and working to free up a good scoring In 1992-93, UMD won the league chance. title with a 21-9-2 record, and in that Back in the 1970s and ‘80s, the season when each team played 32 WCHA was the unquestioned best games, there were 26 ties – meaning league in college hockey, and winning there were 13 tie games. the NCAA tournament was a regular This past, pandemic-shortened reward. season, the new and revised system of

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This photo accompanied the August 2016 press release from the WCHA regarding adopting 3-on-3 overtime and shootout (both if necessary) for regular-season league games. overtimes, followed by 3-on-3 overtimes, and then by a shootout, there were still 12 games that ended in ties.

So what happened?

It’s one of those intricate historical questions that the current college hierarchy should study closely. Back in the 1970s, I was covering the WCHA and the North Stars in the NHL, and I would routinely question the NHL officials because with all their streamlined travel and chartered planes and such, the NHL did not use any overtime in regular-season games up into the 1980s.

College hockey set the standard for the game. In the WCHA, if a game ended in a tie, the teams would gather for one, 10-minute overtime period.

Sudden death.

Remarkably, almost every tie game would be decided in that single overtime, and almost always in the first two or three minutes of the overtime.

Finally, the NHL decided to go to regular-season overtimes, but they were worried about it. They decided to play a single, 5-minute sudden-death overtime to decide all ties. In fact, I covered the game back at Met Center when the Minnesota North Stars and the Los Angeles Kings played a 3-3 tie and then played the first regular-season overtime in NHL history.

At that time, the WCHA powers

were working to unite with the NHL, so the next time they could alter their rules, they decided to switch from a 10-minute OT to the NHL-style 5-minute OT. Everybody thought that was a great idea, and they bought the prevailing idea that since the 10-minute OT almost always decided ties in the first two or three minutes, a 5-minute session would be just fine.

As I remember, I was the only dissenting voice. I suggested that the 10-minute session worked extremely well, and the reason they rarely needed the full 10 minutes was a peculiar hockey tendency.

In NHL hockey, if one team envisioned itself as being slightly weaker, or was the visitor, they would set out to play for that tie through the closing minutes of an NHL game.

It was the same in college, except that when faced with a 10-minute overtime, both sides knew there would be no way to sit on a tie for 10 minutes, so they would play hard from the drop of the puck, and generally settle things on the first two or three shifts.

But the colleges switched to the NHL-style 5-minute OT periods, and settled so few of them that the NCHC went to the 3-on-3 session for the following 5 minutes, and then a sudden-death shootout. It’s exciting, and nobody leaves when the game goes to 3-on-3, and especially to a shootout. Face it, 3-on-3 and shootouts are exciting.

But they are vague spinoffs of the true 5-on-5 game, and exciting as they are, they are not a true indication of which team is better that very night.

If you lose a 5-on-5 overtime, you can congratulate your opponent without whining about it having been 3-on-3.

Look back at the best UMD teams ever. In the 1983-84 season, a starting unit of Matt Christensen centering Bill Watson and Tom Herzig, with Norm Maciver and Tom Kurvers on the points, was as formidable as a college hockey attack could be formulated.

As it turned out, that team lost in four overtimes to Bowling Green at the NCAA championship game at Lake Placid.

The reason it went four overtimes is that both teams could send out strong 5-man units to take on the other side.

In fact, the reason either that team or the 1984-85 team was UMD’s best ever is because both of them could go through three full units, and maybe a fourth, and still have a strong enough unit to beat a worthy foe.

If they went to 3-on-3 back then, who would Mike Sertich have sent out?

Christensen-Maciver-Kurvers would

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have been fantastic, but it wouldn’t have shown UMD’s true strength. And after three or four shifts, half the team still would not have touched the ice, and wouldn’t have no matter how long they played.

The reason for all this is that college hockey is approaching a crossroads season, if there is a season at all in the wake of our pandemic shutdown.

Leagues are feeling turmoil, colleges are considering dropping the sport, and teams seem to be straining to gain a legislated upper hand over the rest of the nation’s college hockey programs.

The NCHC is lobbying for going directly from regulation play to a 3-on-3 overtime, and they go into the upcoming college rules committee meetings hoping to convince all college hockey leagues to adopt the same standard.

I would like to see college hockey return to one 10-minute OT, and then call it a tie.

Trust me, there would be precious few ties. And then, we can do away with these silly added points if you win 3-on-3, or in a shootout that won’t count nationally.

Ridiculous.

Play it my way, the winner gets two points, the loser tries again next weekend, and all points count.

That’s the way it was when college hockey was the best form of the game, and the West was the best in college hockey.

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Brewers prep for June spring training Milwaukee Brewers Owner Mark Attanasio said he believes baseball could be played at Miller Park if the 2020 season begins this summer.

The MLB has been in negotiations with the players union to start an 81game season – without fans present – starting around July 4.

Attanasio said he has spoken with Gov. Tony Evers and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett about holding spring training in Milwaukee in June.

“I think we can make Miller Park absolutely as safe as we can make American Family Fields in Maryvale (Phoenix) safe, and so I would like to try to do that if I can,” Attanasio said.

“If we are going to play games, it is important to safely stage those games.”

Attanasio, who spoke Tuesday during a virtual meeting of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, said baseball has healed the country for as long as it has been played and it can heal the country again during the coronavirus pandemic.

Attanasio serves on the MLB’s executive council and labor committee. He

says the MLB is committed to bringing baseball back this season.

“It has to come together very quickly, or we’ll just run out of time,” he said.

Cutting the season in half will have a substantial effect on revenue. Attanasio said the season typically generates about $10 billion a year. Cutting that in half will bring in $5 billion, but without fans, he said that will bring the number down to about $3 billion.

Half of that money will go to players’ salaries, Attanasio said.

A 67-page draft of the MLB’s proposed 2020 Operations Manual was sent to teams on May 15 showing what the 2020 season could look like.

And it’s much different than previous seasons.

According to the draft, obtained by the Associated Press, players would have assigned seats in the dugout, and high-fives, fist bumps, spitting and bat boys and girls would all be eliminated.

The players union responded to the draft last week. And according to AP, many players viewed many of the ideas such as arriving in uniform at the

Brewers Manager Craig Counsell said players “crave a routine.” ballparks, a prohibition on the use of showers and hydrotherapy as “overthe-top.”

Brewers President and General Manager David Stearns said the health regulations to start the 2020 season are robust. And will need to be accomplished while getting the athletes ready to play.

“I think it’s fun for all of us to talk about baseball, to envision what it could like this summer in Miller Park, in Milwaukee, to provide our fans and this city a diversion and that’s certainly our goal,” Stearns said.

Brewers Manager Craig Counsell said

players aren’t ready for opening day and are looking for guidance as far as a date and a schedule.

“Like most of us, they crave a routine, and this has really upset the routine,” Counsell said, adding that he has kept special emphasis on keeping pitchers prepared.

Counsell said while 81 games is half the normal schedule, it’s still significant. “Some clubs may try to make it a sprint, it’s still 81 games, that’s a full NBA season, that’s significant,” Counsell said. “Keeping players healthy during the season maybe more challenging than ever, and really more important than ever.”

Counsell said he’s most interested in seeing how players react to not having fans in the stands.

“The players will dearly miss fans in the stands,” Counsell said. “And it’s going to be impactful in how our season operates. The environment that we are going to play in is very unique and probably one the players haven’t felt in a very, very long time.”

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said Tuesday he spoke with Rick Schlesinger, who heads operations for the Brewers, Milwaukee Bucks President Peter Feigin, and Green Bay Packers President Mark Murphy for updates on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected their individual teams. “I’m continuing to seek input from groups like Wisconsin’s professional sports teams on how the state can be helpful in their return to play,” Fitzgerald said.

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Tiptoeing to a resumption of NHL play KNIFE RIVER…. The NHL, working this won’t be your usual 3 to 4 game in concert with the NHLPA and the roadie around the Central Division Return to Play committee arrived at a and then after that last tilt you hop basic framework for a continuance of on the charter flight, have some great competition with a vote on this Friday chow, a couple of cold ones, maybe a past that saw agreement on ending the nap and then, poof, you are back on regular season right where it was at on home turf and in your own bunk.

March 12, the day play was suspended, The two teams that make it into the and go into a 24 team Stanley Cup SC Final could be away from “home” tournament. upwards of a three-month timeframe.

Apparently the obstacles to If you have ever traveled for your work completing the postponed you will know what I’m regular season were too talking about in regard to much and it was preferred being gone from home for to ease right into an that long. Plus if you ever expanded Stanley Cup have had that as a part of format. With an inclusion your work, you’ll know by of 24 teams, 12 from that traveling for your the East and Western work can be exhausting Conferences, the top four in and of itself. Flying, from each Conference driving, hotels, restaurants, would get byes. you might not think so, There would be an eightbut it’s fatiguing after a team round robin format while. in each conference, with the winners There are a myriad of other smaller emerging to take on the clubs that details to attend to, but let’s say received the byes. they all get worked out, sites are At this point not much more is determined, accommodations found, known other than both parties are tourney formatting, rules applicable in agreement with the basic concept. for neutral site games and the like, It should be cautioned that there are what will this event look like? many more details to be worked out There is already a basic format in before final agreement can be reached, place as to how it would go and even and it is not a foregone conclusion beyond that, who the participants will that everyone will agree on everything. be.

Regardless of what may be finally And wonder of wonders, the WILD arrived at, don’t be surprised to would get a spot in the tourney. When hear some dissenting voices when play was suspended back in March an agreement is wrapped up. While they were on the outside looking in, the basics of a tournament have albeit with an unequal number of been framed, there is a lot yet to be games played among the Western determined. clubs. They were a point out of the Will the tourney be held in a minute second Wild Card spot. My own number of “hub” cities as has been calculations had them missing out by discussed throughout? a single point if the regular season had What will the health and safety played out to it’s normal conclusion. protocols be relative to actually getting In defense of the team, they were on to the ice and having at it? playing some solid hockey at the How will players’ families, time play was halted and within their (kids, wives, girlfriends, etc) be overall “game” there are some parts accommodated, if they are factored in of that that match up well with other at all? teams. But that’s another discussion.

Some players, one of them being the Here are the basics of how the Minnesota Wilds’ Eric Staal have held tourney could look; In the East the concerns about the possibility of the top four seeds would be BOS/1, players getting to the hub city game TAM/2, WAS/3 and PHI/4. The play-in sites, wherever they might be, and round would look like this; PIT/5 vs. then having to be in quarantine when MON/12, CAR/6 vs. NYR/11, NYI/7 vs. not playing or practicing, thus raising FLA/10 and TOR/8 vs. CBJ/9. the question of family involvement Over in the West the top four seeds or not. Staal was quoted as saying would be; STL/1, COL/2, VGK/3 and that “it’s hard right now to envision DAL/4. The play-in round would playing away from family.” feature; EDM/5 vs. CHI/12, NSH/6 vs.

I get that. The possibility exists that ARI/11, VAN/7 vs. MIN/10 and CAL/8

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Minnesota Wilds’ Eric Staal is concerned about quarantiine procedures if the NHL is called back into action. Photo courtsey NHL. vs. WIN/9.

What of a Wild-Canuck matchup?

Historically they have met only once in the playoffs back in 2003 when the Wild made it to the WCF. The Wild ousted the Canucks in 7 games in the 2nd round.

Even though at a neutral site, VAN would get home ice advantage for line changes, faceoffs, and etc. In the here and now the two clubs met three times in the 19-20 season with the Wild going 2-1 with the GF and GA equal at 9.

Off the cuff and in my opinion based on my season’s observations of the teams, I’d give VAN a slight edge in goal with Jacob Markstrom. Alex Stalock actually has better numbers then Markstrom, my overall feeling is that in tough games or sequences Markstrom looked better then either Stalock or Dubnyk.

In Elias Pettersson, Brock Boeser, JT Miller, Horvat, Hughes etc., the Canucks can put a lot of skill on the ice. I’m not certain the Wild can match that even up, but on the other hand, I don’t think the Canucks hold the overall experience level that the Wild do.

In the Wild’s favor is that they are one of the better clubs at limiting

opponents’ shots from high percentage shooting areas. I feel the Wild defensive group is likely better overall then the Canucks at this point.

Then on the other hand, no one has played any games for going on two months now. Certainly that gives injured players a chance to rest and recover, but if you were a team that had to “build” your game up to a certain level, how does going cold into a tournament work out for you?

As far as other data goes these two clubs are relatively close in the major stat groups.

So, who prevails here?

On the surface for me it’s a “pick’em” series. It seriously is. The only edge I could give either is that the Canucks young stars could get their games back quicker then the Wild’s older ones could. By the time the Wild caught up the series could be over.

However, it takes experience to win a playoff series, and that’s something Vancouver’s young stars don’t have yet, series to the Wild.

Whatever occurs in the near future, I’ll stand with the NHL in its quest to answer all questions before returning to play, that’s the right thing to do…

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old to be slaughtered and then consumed,” and Brandes answered the ad. At trial, Meiwes told the court he had always dreamed of having a younger brother “to be a part of me” and thought cannibalism would be a way to satisfy that obsession. Two officers accompany Meiwes on his outings, reports the Daily Mail, and he is described by his keepers as a “friendly, outgoing, polite” prisoner who is helpful to others, attends church services and works in the prison laundry. [Daily Mail, 5/12/2020]

Sign of the times In South America, some families of people who have died of COVID-19 have had to wait days for a coffin, either because of the short supply or they were unable to afford one, the Associated Press reported on May 8. In response, ABC Displays, a Colombian advertising company, has developed a cardboard hospital bed with metal railings that can be converted into a coffin. The beds can hold a weight of 330 pounds and will cost about $85 each, company manager Rodolfo Gomez said. He plans to donate 10 beds and hopes to receive orders for more from emergency clinics that might run short on beds. [Associated Press, 5/8/2020] Not men from outer space People in Washington’s Puget Sound were startled on the evening of May 6 by a brilliant streak of light across the sky followed three minutes later by a loud explosion. “Huge boom that shook the house. It was the loudest boom I’ve ever heard,” one witness in Brier reported, according to KOMO. The American Meteor Society investigated the many reports it fielded and determined the noise came from an exploding meteor entering Earth’s atmosphere. The meteor may have been part of the annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower, which occurs when Earth moves through the remnants of Halley’s comet. [KOMO, 5/7/2020] Bright ideas Restaurants have adapted to local lockdowns with curbside and drivethru services, so it’s no surprise that other businesses are following suit.

Minx Gentlemen’s Club in Virginia Beach, Virginia, is offering drive-thru pole dances and other entertainment in a makeshift outdoor space, according to The Sun. Dancers were

showered with bills or grabbed their tips using a trash picker to reach into vehicles as patrons enjoyed the performances from the safety of their cars. Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, Little Darlings is offering completely nude drive-up strip teases. “Guests can drive up to the front door, and we’re going to have dancers separated by the 6-foot separation rule, and (customers) can enjoy a totally nude show right from the seat of their car,” a Little Darlings spokesperson told KSNV. [The Sun, 5/11/2020] Recent Alarming Headline In Clocolan, Free State Province, South Africa, where the now-sevenweek-long lockdown includes a ban on buying or selling alcoholic beverages, thieves broke into the Rest in Peace funeral parlor and made off with four gallons of exhumation liquid, the Daily Mail reported on May 12. The fluid, used to preserve body parts that have been exhumed, is 97% alcohol, police spokesperson Brigadier Motansi Makhele said, and the burglars had to break through roller blinds and into a locked steel cabinet to get to the liquid. A forensic officer predicted: “If the thieves drink that liquid without watering it right down, then they will drop dead themselves!” [Daily Mail, 5/12/2020] Inexplicable In 2006, Armin Meiwes, now 58, was convicted of killing, dismembering and slowly eating Bernd Brandes, 43, over a number of months in Rotenburg, Germany, but today, the man who advertised himself as a “friendly and polite” cannibal, goes for “walks around town” with a police escort and wearing sunglasses and a cap to disguise himself. Meiwes had advertised in 2001 on a website called The Cannibal Cafe for “a well-built 18- to 30-year-

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Questionable judgment • Curtis L. Fish, 48, arrested and charged with kidnapping and raping a woman on New Year’s Day in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was released when the COVID-19 crisis erupted in jails, according to PennLive.com.

On May 12, police responding to reports that Fish tried to break into the Crossroads Tavern in Hilltown Township attempted to Taser Fish, but he fled to his home nearby, where he set off and aimed fireworks at a SWAT team before his house suddenly caught fire. “Fireworks outside and fireworks inside,” said tavern owner Mike Mrozinski. “So I believe that’s what lit the house on fire.” A body thought to be Fish was found inside. Mrozinski said Fish, whom he had known for 16 years, was “not the same guy I had known him to be” before the rape charges. [PennLive.com, 5/13/2020] • Joseph Todd Kowalczyk, 20, tweeted at the FBI on May 10, threatening that he had “10 bombs ready to go off ... in my basement ... come get me you guys have till 8 before I make this city in my own little hell #forwaco.” The FBI determined the tweet came from a mobile home park in Clinton Township, Michigan, according to The Detroit News, and officers showed up at Kowalczyk’s home the next day, where he explained that he was “testing the government” and was upset that they had not responded more promptly. He told agents he had no weapons and would not make any more threatening tweets, but as the day wore on, Kowalczyk taunted the FBI in further posts, disparaging the agency and police for their slow response. On May 12, he was arrested and charged with transmitting a threat to injure, which is punishable by up to five years in prison. [Detroit News, 5/13/2020] Paying the price Restaurants in West Plains, Missouri, endured a social media storm in early May after a customer posted a photo of a receipt that included a “Covid 19

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Surcharge.” But the restaurants pushed back, according to KY3. “It’s not a tax.

It’s basically just a small percentage to cover all of our extra expenses,” said Bootleggers BBQ owner Brian Staack.

Kiko Japanese Steakhouse manager Sarah Sherwood said prices on most items have doubled, and Ozark Cafe co-owner Heather Hughes confirmed: “Every day there’s something else (food suppliers) can’t get or the prices have gone up exorbitantly.” The restaurateurs say it’s easier to add the 5% surcharge than constantly change the menus, and they’ve been upfront with customers, using signs and notes in their menus. While the initial response was surprise, Sherwood says the community has “really come together to support the local businesses.” [KY3, 5/8/2020] Florida A Mother’s Day bouquet became a weapon during an altercation in Pinellas County, Florida, early on May 11. Sandra Kay Webb, 32, allegedly became angry with her husband because he bought flowers for her children to give her for Mother’s Day. The Smoking Gun reported that Webb threw the bouquet at her husband and hit him with it, then spit on him.

Webb was charged with domestic battery; she admitted throwing the flowers, but denied the spitting.

[Smoking Gun, 5/12/2020] Send your weird news items with subject line WEIRD NEWS to WeirdNewsTips@ amuniversal.com.

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Gemini sun day – fear takes flight The dinosaurs that roamed the Mesozoic period ranged in form from rabbit-sized to six-story-building-sized.

Such is the case with the monsters of our minds today: some small, some huge, all ancient history. The sun pushes forward into the first air sign, and by fear takes flight like a velociraptor evolving into a sparrow.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You are willing to feel an unpleasant thing if it’s what’s necessary to obtain a benefit far more important. This doesn’t make you a martyr; it makes you an adult.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). The difference between a competent performance and a struggle is often the attitude one launches from. Believe you’ll succeed. If you can’t believe, pretend to believe until one day you do.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). There

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is always a chance of thinking more clearly and perceiving things differently, because the human brain is capable of rewiring itself. Adaptation is the natural tendency. Let this work for you.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You can’t really solve an emotional problem with logic. It’s the wrong tool, and no matter how many ways you turn it, it just won’t work. Feelings need to be felt, worked through, experienced. There’s no shortcut.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).

However massive a project or problem may be, it’s doable when you break it down into small enough steps. Repeat the action until it is easy for you, and then build on that.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). While it’s nice to get the feedback you desire, you won’t get it every time. No one does.

You don’t need approval when you already approve of yourself.

HOROSCOPE HOLIDAY MATHIS

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Often what we think will be the solution to the problem is only a different side of the problem. Hint: The root of the problem, by definition, is the part that no one sees. It’s in the ground, the psyche, the heart.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You might feel a little uneasy about a new course of action, but that only means you’re the brave sort who is always moving forward. You’ll get more confident in your skills every time you use them.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

Do what you can to set yourself up for inevitable success. If you don’t know what that is, it’s usually something so small that the only reason you don’t do it is you think it’s not enough.

Untrue! Momentum builds.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

Have you ever packed your bags, arrived at your destination and wished you’d packed more ? Likely no. In the same way that packing less makes for a lighter journey, saying less makes for

lighter emotions.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Selfesteem is irrelevant to your success today. Once you get into action, you won’t even be listening to your own opinions of yourself, so they don’t matter. Action is what matters.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). When you’re doing what you’re good at, you do without much doubt. Stretch into the some-doubt zone. You can take it. Doubt is uncomfortable, but it’s a necessary part of growth.

ASTROLOGICAL QUESTION: “I am an atheist. Do you think astrology is a religion?”

Historically, astrology has been enmeshed with religious practice, but in its modern form, it is not a religion so much as a collection of beliefs, discoveries and mythologies that formed alongside astronomy.

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Friendship in Duluth WWF, 60s, relocated to Duluth, seeks friendship/activity partner with older single newcomers to Minnesota.

Enjoy coffee chats, hiking, xc skiing, canoeing, classical music, reading and listening to people’s stories. And you?

(58487:4/11)

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seeking men

Social distance for now Searching for interesting man to share letters or phone calls.

Let’s get to know each other this way, for now. Preferably 60-plus, single, honest, caring and affectionate. Range area only. (58542:4/23) Coffee? Wine?

SWF, 70’s, slim, above average, seeks SM, any age, any area (I like to drive) who is lonely too. (58540:04/03) Maybe Mid 60’s, active, liberal, looking for same! N.S., light

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(58539:02/21) Searching Mate on the Range SWF; 5’ 5”; NS/ND Outddors, walks, movies, cuddling, traveling etc. (ask) ISO compassionate, lovable guy w/humor. please be NS; interested in LTR; honest, will answer. (58463:01/28) A special friend for coffee, etc.

WWWF, 65, 5’6”, chubby.

Likes: Crafts, bowling, fishing & so much more.

Limited due to knee braces, but willing to try new things.

(58535:01/16) Looking for my one and only SWF, 51, heavyset, looking for someone to spend the rest of my life with. Hope you are the one for me.

(58525:10/24) Grand Rapids or surrounding area ISO my life partner that rides a Harley or India 0 n. I’m a DWF, 67, 5’6”, average weight, NS/ND, long black/chrome hair, brown eyes. Three things are important to me, God, family, riding motorcycles. Live on hobby farm. Like being outdoors. Let’s have coffee.

I’ll buy! Exchange photos.

(58519:10/10) Seeking Partner Looking for a life partner. I’m a WF, 64, divorced a long time. I’m ready to retire and go down a new road with a kind, adventurous soulmate.

I love God, cuddling, fun, the outdoors, travel, sharing and caring. (58512:7/25) Looking for a nice guy Hey! Let’s have some fun things together-outdoors, or just watch TV/movies. Mid 60’s height/weight average.

Ok if later LTR. (58508:7/16) Where are you now?

Two Dobermans. The Ore House. Orange Crush. Pie and coffee. Rocky Raccoon.

West Duluth apt. couch.

(58494:5/2) Looking for a best friend 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.

Honesty & loyalty a must.

(58486:4/11) Looking for you WWF, 76, walking converstation, fishing, dancing, facebbok account. 5’6” brown hair & eyes. (58471:08/17) Warm & Spiritually Minded Individualist, NS/ND 58 country soul, artist, fisher, nature hiker, gardner, baker, active, trim, in good health, seeking skilled male counterpart for companionship, eventual marriage. (58469:08/16) SMART & SASSY SFP, 31, 5’5”, 140 lbs, brunette. Loves nature, sunshine, coffee, gardening, cooking & target shooting. Seeks potential LTR between ages 32-40. Must have integrity (58433:06/11) Spoil me and I will spoil you!

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!

Seeks tall handsome SWM in 60s, educated, kind, honest with sense of humor. Likes animals, Lakeside, sauna, camp fires. Must be loving.

(58426: 11/9)

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Personals Seeks Christian Man DWF, NS/ND, 59. Enjoys bicycling, walks, music, dining out dancing, snowshoeing, camping. ISO christian man w/similar interests. (58419: 11/9) Hot with Cabin Fever Seeking happy, healthy, 60ish gentleman in Central Lakes/ Cotton area for some lake time.

Northern, WI ok too! I’m fun, fit, easy on the eyes. Let’s toast the sunset. (58412:8/31) Try a Senior Moment Active, adverturous, affable, nice, nurtuting, nimble. Petite, positive, playful. Smart, shapely, spunky. ISO fit young (67-77) codger for smiles and converstion, serendipity, exploring.

(58403:6/8) Compantionship WWF, 70, looking for companion to enjoy life with. Love football, picnics, and dining out.

Must be honest. (58398:5/4) Looking for Soul Mate SWF ISO friend who likes camping, coffee, outdoors, travel, estate sales, and hanging out.

Send photo. (58394:3/30) Looking for my Sweetheart DWF, 58, 5’5”, 160lbs, NS/ND, likes to cuddle, hold hands, camping, traveling, cooking, walks. ISO Christian guy 55-70 for friendship and possible LTR. (58374:12/15) Searching for Comanionship DWF, NS, retired veteran female. 63, honest, considerate, loves to laugh, visit and talk.

(58373:12/15) Let’s Seek God’s Will To-

gether NS, 51, tall, exotic, attractive, Christian F. Fun, nature lover, educated, epicurean with diverse interests, healthy living.

ISO Christain male 45-58 years young with similar interests.

(58370:10/13) Searching for Mate 72yr old F ISO LTR with a passoinate, sincere, kind gentleman in near age group. NS/ ND. (58354:6/23) From the Range WWF, 62, NS, likes the outdoors, walks, animal lover, garage sales, dining out, movies. ISO honest, caring man to enjoy lfe with. Will answer all.

(58352:6/23) Female Activist Seeks Companionship Seeking like minded Liberal gentleman for friendship and fun. (58340:4/14) Looking for Older Gentleman 77yr, DWF, blond, 5’5”, 140lbs.

ISO older gentleman. I love reading, animals, movies, quiet times, fun. Let’s talk.

(58342:4/14) Wondering?

SWW, 5’11”, 185lbs, 61yrs. Is there a lonely guy out there with a colostomy pouch? I have one too. Let’s meet.

(58343:4/14) Soulmate Wanted Men 55-72 yrs old. 180-210 lbs. Kids okay. Write me.

(58336:3/24) Lake Superior Country Girl Pretty, 5’3”, mid-50s, healthy, fit, well read, ISO companion

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to dance with, garden, dine out, hike, explore life, earth, universe, off grid life style.

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very own love story! SWM, tall, attractive, passionate, mysterious, James Bondish! Respond, I want to meet. (58545:4/23)

Seeking Companion How old is too old? WW. ND/ NS. Educated, traveled, experienced, bilingual. Don’t get any wild ideas now. Talking is a start. (58319:1/14)

Looking for love WM, 58, seeking mature BBW for dating. I have many interests. Camping, travel, concerts.

(58544: 4/23)

Wants the Farm Life DWF, 51, 5’6”, auburn hair, blue eyes. Not afraid of hard work. ISO NS man 45-60 who loves family, nature, animals, fishing, farming, warm fires and romance. I would like to spend the rest of my days with the same. I have other interests too, could I be the one for you?

(58311:11/19) Looking 4 Romance SWF looking for a Jewish man.

Brown hair/eyes, 5’8”, 170 lbs. Want a pal-lover-romance.

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Time for a companion DWM, 70, 5’8”, 170 lbs., brown hair, blue eyes, looking for a lady to settle down with.

I am loving, caring, helpful. Let’s talk and learn more.

(58548:5/21) Exploring SWM, 5’10”, brown, blue, enjoy RV camping, boating, ATVing, travel, staying home. Seeking LTR with any race. Piercings, tattoos a plus.

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Unique Interesting Cat Needs Suitable Kitten If you enjoy cooking, forest hikes, art, picnics, travel, antiques,cats & dogs, are 50 to 60 years old? NS, open to learning, fond of bald men, then scratch my itch.

(58541:04/03) Lonely Again I’m 6’ brown retired from the rock scene, but still roll.

(58539:03/25) Won’t be sorry Am looking for partner 63 on disability, heart surgery. Ok now 5’10” 185lbs DWM ISO L&R Hope to find home to gether, Avarage looks (58538:02/24) Seeking a mature woman SWM, tall, dark, handsome, romantic, in search of a mature woman who enjoys living life with a fun down-to-earth man with many interests!

(58537:01/23) Romantic looking for lady SWM, NS, 71 5’9” 160, trim, fit, seeks fun-loving girl 50’s or 60’s Duluth, NW WIsc. casual hiking, dinners, old movies, good music. Possible LTR, photos! (58536:01/10) Young 70 Looking for Female 55 & up Retired, divorced Iron Ranger

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in Bemidji would like lady who enjoys life and wants to enjoy with partner who treats lady as lady should be, respectfully.

You may be her! (58531:12/12) Desiring an honest, intelligent significant other I’m likable, are you? I’m slim, attractive, humorous, middleaged, ISO possible LTR. I enjoy walking, movies, cooking, cuddling and music. I’m financially secure. Let’s bask in utopia.

(55829:11/21) Mesabi Bike Trail DWM, 60s, 5’8”, 165 lbs., seeks Christian healthy in-shape gal 50s-60s. Love for outdoor music, biking, camping, lakes, sunsets. Humor a must. I’m honest, secure, please be the same. (58528:10/31) Looking for fun & partner DWM 69, 5’10”, 215 lbs., NS, light drinker, muscular, well built, looking for fun honest woman. Like to cuddle amd love. Like camping, swimming, traveling, movies, TV, staying home or pen pal and romantic.

(58526:10/24) Best friend and partner DWM, 60, 190 lbs., 5’10”, looking for LTR with woman that loves camping, hiking, canoeing, fishing, road trips and just quiet nights home.

(58524:10/24) Hopeless romantic in Two Harbors 61, on pension, fairly attractive, spiritual, love gardening, cooking, watching movies and cuddling. If this appeals to you please respond. (58523:10/24) Not the age,

it’s the mileage WM, 61, 6’, 250 lbs., NS, light drinker. Not handsome but handy, easy going, honest, homebody. Very affectionate, likes to cuddle, slow dance. Enjoys shore fishing, light gardening, easy walks. movies, music, cooking and more. ISO cuddly, warmhearted woman 55-65 for LTR. (58518:9/5) Respect joy & fun for you Tell me your story. I’m attractive, healthy, athletic, Amtrak retiree, 6’, slim, financially stable, liberal, NS. Enjoy hiking, swimming, cooking, movies, writing personal letters, conversation. ISO F LTR, any race or age. I like reciprocally gentle foreplay. Seesaw with me as friends. (58516:8/8) Tired of being alone WW, WM, 61, blonde, blue eyes, 5’11”, honest, caring, hard-working. Retiring in November. Will answer all/ (58513:8/1) Lonesome old guy There has to be some lonesome lady in the Virginia area that would like to go for coffee & conversation, maybe play some cribbage. (58510:7/16) Seeking Honesty SWM 57 looking for SWF, fit, educated,love to travel.

Camping, adventures. Picture a plus but not required. Must be romantic. (58508:7/16) Attractive Discriminating Ninety Intellectual Stimulating NS 5”9” 170lb seeks slim-trim female biologically 65ish independent fox to persue happiness. Wine/ dine, dance, karaoke. Upper

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(58507:7/4) I am a reminiscent sentimental romantic Professional writer, community education teacher, 6’1”, thin, NS, middle-aged, enjoys hiking, classical music, reading, humor, loves holding hands, cuddling, open-minded, conversationalist, adaptable to your desires.

(58506:7/4) Partnership Have a nice country home, some pets, camping, fishing and learning. ISO a lady to share and communicate with. Will exchange photos.

(58505:7/4)

Want to love again WM, 62, 5/3, 140, ND/NS, faithful, honest, passionate, seek LTR. Love camping, fishing, hiking, cuddling, holding hands, bonfires. Seeking younger to same age. Want to share love, life and hardships.

So much to give. (58504:6/20) New to Grand Rapids DWM age 78, NS, looking for NS woman 60-80 who likes road trips outdoors, fishing, dining out & financially stable.

(58502:6/13) Oral herpes for oral herpes 40s male looking for lady who has oral herpes. I do, too.

46-59. Slim or average build.

Picture, please. I’m tall, ave. build. (58501:6/13) Loving, honest, passionate DWM, 74, 180, 5-8, looking for honest woman. Like gardening, dancing, outdoors. Active, LTR, looking to adventure, try fishing and other sports, anything new. (58493:4/25) Togetherness DWM, NS, 74, 180 lbs., 5’8”, likes cooking, gardening, woodwork, dancing, Hallmark Channel. Looking for LTR, life partner. Learn from each other.

(58488:4/11) 41 seeking 50-60 Seeking lady age 50-60 for dating that leads to LTR. I’m in Superior. 6’2”, 225 lbs., Caucasian, dark brown hair, brown eyes. (58485:4/11) Tall Horse Lover DWM 65 6’2” 180lbs ISO country woman. Where are you?

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Let’s meet so we can horse around. Honest, sincere & marriage minded. (58481: 4/6)

friend 18-50 verse discreet friends with benis satisfaction.

(58437: 9/30)

Looking for a wonderful best friend Single man 60 yrs, seeks lady that loves life, movies, fishing, sports, cards, board games, cooking & grilling together that wants a true, best friend.

(58480, 4/6)

Senior fun time 70, 67”, NS, Bi, fun time, tall, up close-personal, enjoyment.

(58436: 8/7)

ISO Life Partner SWF ISO ages 50-62. Enjoys camping, hiking, kayaking, music & more. Honesty important. No drugs (58394: 4/13)

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Still looking in North Central WI SWM 63 NS/ND 5’8” 160lb.

Still believe life is meant to be shared. Enjoy the outdoors,good conversation, self sufficiency & people w/the same values. No games, just the simple life values. (58479, 4/6)

Looking for love I’m 64 years old. Love movies and music. Candlelight din-

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

(58527:10/24)

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Looking for LTR. (58496:5/9)

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Seeking Trans Woman SM seeking sub. TW for live-in FWB/LTR. No DU! Reply w/ photo and phone. Women welcome too! (58495:5/9) Male transforming to female 58 Y.O.G.W.M. 5’8” 165lbs, tone, cute-cross dress nicely, have started medical gender reasignment process. Seeks younger in-shape Gay-Bi cross dresser. (58441:3/11)

Lady Boy where are you?

Older male ISO a deep friendship, someone to appreciate your mind & your body. Someone appreciative of the arts.

Height & weight proportionate. (58439:11/9) Daughter for dad SWF 50 ISO S/D WM 50-57 spank & punish me when I’m bad. Go do something fun when I’m good.

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Pantie Play Looking for another 60 year old that enjoys wearing panties and stockings. Interested?

58546:4/23) The smaller the better MWM 60-plus looking for a male friend. casual get-togethers. (58529:12/5) Fishing friend with benefits MWM, 64, looking for a guy with similar intent. Love to fish, a little play time when the bite is slow. (58521:10/10)

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Wake me up, stud Northern Wis. Looking for playmates, top or bottom, for right stud, nice package.

(58503:6/13) ISO Top SWM WITI. 67. seeking christian SGWM for possible LTR, photo, phone please. (58453:5/31)

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Biverse Bear ISO friend, mid-40s Looking for hunt, fish & discreet Biverse

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Will emission reductions continue?

Dear EarthTalk: Do you suppose the drop in carbon emissions that resulted from transportation and industry slowdowns during the coronavirus pandemic will continue – or will we just go right back to normal once the threat has been neutralized?

– Jane Smith, Cranston, RI No one is happy about the havoc the Coronavirus has wreaked, but one bright side has been the by reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that occurred. Global CO2 emissions during The roads are empty – and CO2 emissions are down accordingly – but can we keep it up as stay-at-home orders are lifted? Credit: lisbokt, FlickrCC. April 2020 – while the world was largely locked down – were 17 percent already starting to go back up with the occurrence and it won’t do much to lower than the same time a year earlier, easing of stay-at-home restrictions. stave off climate change. Dan Gearino, according to researchers from the UK’s This decrease was an unwitting writing in Climate News, says: “…

University of Anglia. But emissions are don’t expect this to be the silver lining of the disastrous pandemic. Climate scientists and environmental advocates say any short-term drop in emissions gives a misleading sense of progress.

This could do harm if it saps some of the urgency to address climate change at a time when there are many competing demands for public money and attention.”

Indeed, the United Nations Environment Programme says that global CO2 emissions would have to fall by 7.6 percent every year this decade – slightly more than the overall reduction we’ll see in 2020 – to limit overall warming to less than the 1.5 Celsius rise scientists warn could turn our world upside down.

Stay-at-home orders around the world have no doubt had a positive environmental impact in the short term as fewer cars, trucks and planes ply our roads and airways.

But the longer-term outlook isn’t so good, especially when factoring in the damage done to public transit systems. Alon Levy and Eric Goldwyn of NYU’s Marron Institute of Urban Management report in CityLab that public transit ridership in major cities in the U.S., Europe and China is down 50-90 percent.

Unfortunately, attracting riders back to potentially crowded buses and trains won’t be so easy, given the germ factor.

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Who wants to share tight quarters with dozens of strangers on a bus or train given the transmission risks? The irony is that public transit options have been starting to proliferate as various metro areas fund light rail and other mass transit infrastructure projects to boost usage and keep drivers and their cars and trucks off the road.

While environmental advocates aren’t optimistic that we can keep up the emissions reductions achieved over the last few months, they are hopeful that the world’s reaction to the pandemic—people and governments coming together to protect human health and minimize loss of life – bodes well for our ability to handle the climate crisis as it gets more critical over the next two decades.

CONTACTS: “Temporary reduction in daily global CO2 emissions during the COVID-19 forced confinement,” nature.com/articles/s41558-0200797-x; “Analysis: Coronavirus set to cause largest ever annual fall in CO2 emissions,” carbonbrief.org/analysiscoronavirus-set-to-cause-largestever-annual-fall-in-co2-emissions; “Coronavirus: When Meeting a National Emissions-Reduction Goal May Not Be a Good Thing,” insideclimatenews.org/news/31032020/ Covid-virus-coronavirus-emissionsenergy-germany-paris-agreementtargets; “How U.S. Public Transit Can Survive Coronavirus,” https://bit.ly/ can-transit-survive-coronavirus.

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.

How to buy a car during a pandemic Jeremy Harrison needs a new car. But schedule service with home pickup during the coronavirus outbreak, he and delivery of vehicles,” said Anders can’t just head over to a dealership for Gustafsson, senior vice president for a test drive. It turns out there’s a thing the Americas at Volvo Car USA. or two you need to know about buying Of the more than 3,000 Ford dealers a car in a pandemic. in the U.S., 93 percent offer virtual “The experience was totally new to online sales processes, including me,” Harrison said, who runs an online virtual product walkarounds, video business in Toronto. chats, online credit applications and That’s the first thing to know: DocuSign capabilities. Almost 9 in It’s almost all virtual now. Harrison 10 have pickup and delivery services contacted his local Hyundai dealership. and 92% offer home delivery for new A salesman FaceTimed him back. purchases. Ford says roughly one-third “He answered all my of recent sales have been questions about the coordinated remotely vehicle,” he said. “I during the pandemic. also saw the insides and Customers are buying everything. It was almost as their cars online now if I was at the dealership.” more than ever. by Except that he couldn’t do a test drive. Or complete How has buying a car the paperwork. Or take changed during the delivery of the car. pandemic?

“According to the “There have been representative, we can only at least a few notable get things done once the changes associated with pandemic is over,” says buying a car right now as a Harrison. function of the COVID-19 pandemic,” The second thing to know: It’s a said Mansur Khamitov, a professor of work in progress. marketing and consumer behavior at Harrison says he’s going to wait to Singapore’s Nanyang Business School. buy a new car. Which brings us to the Those include new ways of selling cars third, and perhaps the most important, and market conditions that favor the thing to know. Despite all the bargains, buyer. a lot of buyers are on the sidelines.

Here’s what you need to know about The best deals will happen in about six buying a car during the pandemic: weeks, according to projections from • It’s almost all virtual. Most of the CoPilot, which aggregates car sales data transactions will happen online, from in real-time across 46,000 U.S. auto browsing to buying. dealers.

• The deals are almost too good to So if you’re in the market for a car be true. But the same principles of car for that summer road trip, now’s a buying apply, even now. good time to buy.

• It’s a more efficient experience. It’ll take less time for you and less effort for Selling a car is different, too the dealership.

If you think buying a car during a • Your car will be delivered – even pandemic is complicated, try selling for a test drive. There’s no need to one. There are government guidelines visit your dealership. Valet services to follow, signage to install and new are becoming the norm, even for noninstructions for maintaining safe luxury vehicles. personal distance that must be heeded.

And there’s a lot of technical stuff. At Buying will be a virtual Volvo, for example, dealers are turning experience to technology to help overcome the A new survey by Capgemini found pandemic obstacles. They include that 64% of potential buyers prefer Volvo Concierge, a team of personal to complete the entire transaction of assistants that offer white-glove buying a personal vehicle online rather assistance in a new purchase and than in a dealership – up from 39% 360 View, which allows you to see a before the pandemic. digital version of a new Volvo in your Harrison’s Hyundai experience is driveway. becoming the new normal, according “We’re also implementing virtual to experts. Sure, there will always be tools like Volvo Valet, which we’ve people who want to visit a dealership been rolling out for customers to and poke around inside the car, walk

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the lot and see the color choices, and look a salesman in the eye. But for most people, car buying will soon be almost entirely virtual, said Autotrader executive editor Brian Moody.

“The current restrictions have forced many businesses – and customers – to change course quickly,” he said. “The car buying and selling business was already headed in this more virtual direction anyway; it’s not really new so there’s no reason to be mistrustful.

Just like banking, real estate and virtual medical visits, the car buying world is adapting quickly.”

So how, exactly, will the virtual experience be different? For example, what if you want to negotiate a lower price? You’ll probably be able to do that with an app instead of in person.

And don’t worry about the paperwork.

Your valet will bring a portable printer and take care of all the paperwork at your home.

“All of our paperwork can now be handled online,” said Anna Tatelman, a consultant with Superior Honda in New Orleans. “By moving financing, credit approvals, and other documents into a virtual environment, we’ve reduced the possibility of surface contamination. If customers cannot use this paperless system, or would prefer not to, we can deliver paper copies to their home.”

Any way you look at it, this is a buyer’s market for cars. But it can also be a little disorienting, say industrywatchers. There are a few important things you need to know about buying a car in a pandemic.

“This summer will be a confusing time for the new vehicle consumer,” said George Hoffer, an emeritus professor of transportation economics at Virginia Commonwealth University.

When auto retailing gets going in earnest next month, there will be three model years of new vehicles to choose from: leftover 2019s, current model 2020s and early intro 2021s. There are also unbelievable deals, such as 0% financing for 84 months. But he says few buyers will qualify for those rates.

For buyers, it’s going to be harder than ever to know the bottom line for a dealer, given the many incentives and the shifting sands of the postcoronavirus landscape. Given all that, there’s only one sound strategy for lowering the price of your vehicle.

“It is best to buy at the end of the month,” he said. Dealers will be desperate to move their inventory and

will be willing to negotiate on price.

Buying a car will become more efficient than ever – eventually That’s the assessment of Jeff Pope, Group vice president at INFINITI America.

“Car dealerships will forever be changed,” he told me. “Just as we have all become accustomed to home deliveries for practically everything, contactless transactions and pickup and drop-off services for car purchases, parts and repair will certainly become the norm.”

Pope said automotive companies and dealerships that transition quickly to electronic communications will receive more customers. But buyers will benefit, too.

“Car buying will become more streamlined and much less timeconsuming,” he said. “Now, one employee can oversee the entire purchasing process – from the test drive, to arranging financing and finalizing paperwork, to delivering the vehicle to its new owner at home.”

Your car will be delivered Remarkably, your next car may be delivered to you, even if it’s just for a test drive. Carvana recorded a 16 percent increase in miles traveled by its haulers from February to March, suggesting a robust market for at-home deliveries.

“Consumers continue to shop for cars online and more are turning to home vehicle delivery versus pickup for their online car purchase,” said Ernie Garcia, Carvana’s CEO. Steve Kalafer, chair of Flemington Car and Truck, which operates 17 locations in New Jersey, says that’s the direction his dealerships are headed.

“We’re delivering cars to people’s homes so they can test drive,” he told me. “Many times, they will let consumers try about 10 different cars before they purchase.”

This type of virtual buying is often referred to as a “concierge” service.

High-end car manufacturers have used it for a while. But now, says Kalafer, “it’s the exclusive way to sell cars.”

Christopher Elliott is the founder of Elliott Advocacy, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that empowers consumers to solve their problems and helps those who can’t. If you have a consumer problem you can’t solve, contact him directly through his advocacy website.

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Book awards postponed for a year THE 2020 NOMINEES FICTION Evidence of V: a Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions Sheila O’Connor published by Rose Metal Press

The 32nd Northeast Minnesota Book Awards (NEMBA – not to be confused with the New England Mountain Biking Association) is another victim of the pandemic, however, Gail Trygstad, chair of the organizing committee, said not to worry.

“We are going to combine the 32nd and 33rd, combine the celebration for all the nominees,” she told The Reader just a few days after the awards ceremony would have been held in the UMD ballroom on May 21.

“The actual event is really important,” said Trygstad, whose day job is at UMD’s Kathryn A. Martin Library, by headquarters for the NEMBA Committee (the library and the Friends of the Duluth Public Library oversee the awards).

“Nominees are well represented. We don’t always get the winners because we don’t let them know ahead of time. We did in the beginning, but it stifles some of the excitement.”

The winners of this most unusual book award are authors and illustrators who released a book in the previous year that has something to do with northeastern Minnesota.

“It’s amazing to us every year how many books are written, and wellwritten, about the area,” Trygstad said.

When pressed about why so many are compelled to include this area in their creative output, she said, “Maybe it just touches a lot of people. It must.

I think people just love the area.

[Minneapolis novelist] Peter Geye has won several awards over the years. He’s a fiction writer. I will never forget the day he won his first NEMBA several years ago. He was just so touched. It ‘s those reactions. Then he’s gone on to win other awards. That sense of recognition that I’ve done something that people love, that’s what keeps it going. Even though we give them some money and a plaque and book

seals, I think it’s the recognition that is important.”

Of course, being nominated for a NEMBA is a good thing for book sales.

Trygstad said the NEMBA Committee heard from an illustrator who said the major disappointment for those with books in running for an award “is that when you do win you get a burst of sales, so by postponing this, it has an effect on that.”

That comment got the committee thinking that maybe they could do a virtual announcement of the winners and runners-up in each of the categories before next year’s combined event.

“We haven’t made any decision yet,” she said. “We took her comments in stride because it’s a whole other perspective which we really hadn’t thought of.”

This year’s scheduled speaker – renowned Minneapolis photographer Wing Yung Huie – has agreed to be the speaker next May at the combined event, but Trygstad said she’s not so sure about longtime emcee Barton Sutter, who was also Duluth’s first poet laureate.

“He’s an excellent emcee,” she said.

“He just rolls with it with humorous anecdotes. This was going to be his last rodeo – those were his words. We aren’t sure if he will be able to come next year.”

Trygstad said the premise of NEMBA was simple – to honor books that are written about this area. It doesn’t matter where the author lives, unlike the Minnesota Book Award, where the author has to be from Minnesota. So the authors come from all over and they write about this area for different reasons. It’s been growing. We used to have just one category. We’ve expanded to six now – fiction, nonfiction, art-photography, children’s literature, poetry and memoir.”

BOOKS

JIM LUNDSTROM

The list of 2020 nominees follows:

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In the Night of Memory: a Novel Linda LeGarde Grover published by University of Minnesota Press Jack & the Ghost written by Chan Poling, illustrated by Lucy Michell published by University of Minnesota Press

Kotimaa: Homeland Mark Munger published by Cloquet River Press Lester’s Gift Pat McGauley published by PJM Publishing POETRY Hawks on High: Everyday Miracles in a Hawk Ridge Season written by Phil Fitzpatrick, illustrated by Penny Perry published by Savage Press To Gather a Seed Stephen Dahl

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1. The Glass Hotel Emily St.John Mandel, Knopf, $26.95 2. The Book of Longings Sue Monk Kidd, Viking, $28 3. All Adults Here Emma Straub, Riverhead Books, $27 4. Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens, Putnam, $26 5. The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $24.95 6. The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich, Harper, $28.99 7. The Paris Hours Alex George, Flatiron Books, $26.99 8. The Dutch House Ann Patchett, Harper, $27.99

NONFICTION 1. Untamed Glennon Doyle, The Dial Press, $28 2. The Splendid and the Vile Erik Larson, Crown, $32 3. What It’s Like to Be a Bird David Allen Sibley, Knopf, $35 4. Educated Tara Westover, Random House, $28 5. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99 6. Hidden Valley Road Robert Kolker, Doubleday, $29.95 7. Me and White Supremacy Layla Saad, Sourcebooks, $25.99 8. Entangled Life Merlin Sheldrake, Random House, $28 9. How to Be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi, One World, $27

9. Camino Winds John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95 10. Afterlife Julia Alvarez, Algonquin Books, $25.95 11. The End of October Lawrence Wright, Knopf, $27.95

10. Hood Feminism Mikki Kendall, Viking, $26 11. The Lincoln Conspiracy Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch, Flatiron Books, $29.99 12. Pelosi Molly Ball, Holt, $27.99

12. Network Effect Martha Wells, Tor.com, $26.99

13. Becoming Michelle Obama, Crown, $32.5

13. If It Bleeds Stephen King, Scribner, $30 14. Redhead by the Side of the Road Anne Tyler, Knopf, $26.95 15. American Dirt Jeanine Cummins, Flatiron Books, $27.99

14. Trick Mirror Jia Tolentino, Random House, $27 15. Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope into Action David Fajgenbaum, Ballantine, $27

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published by Snow Bunting Books Where Your House is Now: Prose Poems Louis Jenkins published by Nodin Press NONFICTION Grandfather’s Blood Memories and Unbroken Spirit Sharon Doolittle Shuck published by Tarpaper Shack Press Learnin’ in Hermann: History of Hermantown Schools 1874-1938 Delaine Carlson, Bette Grussendorf published by Hermantown Historical Society Press Superior Perspectives: Views of Lake Superior from Park Point Paul Treuer published by Nodin Press Taconite, New Life for Minnesota’s Iron Range: the History of Erie Mining Company Erie Mining Company, multiple authors Published by Donning Company Publishers, St. Louis County Historical Society The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald: Eyewitness Accounts from the U.S. Coast Guard Hearings Michael Schumacher published by University of Minnesota Press Walking the Old Road: a People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe Staci Lola Drouillard published by University of Minnesota Press MEMOIR Dylan & Me: 50 Years of Adventures Louie Kemp published by WestRose Press Rooted in Rocky Soil: a Mostly Peaceful Life Interrupted by Moments of Something Else Entirely Ray Thielbar, Rose Thielbar published by Electric Moon Publishing Tucker Lake Chronicle: Thirteen Months in the North Woods Joan Crosby published by Nodin Press DuluthReader.com

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Canoeman Joe written by Robin Radcliffe, illustrated by Consie Powell published by Green Writers Press Emma Bee written by Pamela Fish Carlson, illustrated by Tessa Carlson published by Beaver’s Pond Press The Forever Sky written by Thomas Peacock, illustrated by Annette S. Lee published by Minnesota Historical Society Press Hundredth Day Disaster written by Bridget Reistad, illustrated by Brian Barber published by Beaver’s Pond Press Johnny’s Pheasant written by Cheryl Minnema, illustrated by Julie Flett published by University of Minnesota Press The Lost Forest written by Phyllis Root, illustrated by Betsy Bowen published by University of Minnesota Press Snowy’s Search for Color text and photography by Richard Hoeg published by 365 Days of Birds Press

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Where is Smelly Ann Skunk? written by Chris Thillen, illustrated by Janet Hill published by Sister Crow Books Where We Run: a Dog Sledding Story written and illustrated by K.M. Allen published by Legacy Bound

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Try bird-watching while at home

A hummingbird heads for nectar in a backyard. Photos by Jim Lundstrom

By Victor Block Joann and Bill Jessen excitedly train their binoculars on a stretch of salt marsh that is alive with the sights and sounds of hawks and falcons that are resting after pursuing songbirds for their dinner.

The 24 species of birds that John Beatty spots during the first few minutes of daylight may seem like a lot, but it’s no great feat for where he is.

These folks are among the many Americans – estimates range as high as 60 million – who get their kicks from observing our fine feathered friends going about their daily tasks. Some are stay-at-home birders, as they’re called, who enjoy observing high fliers that venture into their backyard or neighborhood.

Others are known as away-fromhome aficionados. They’re willing to take to foot, car or in normal times even airplanes to seek out a rare specimen that has been seen in another part of the state or country or perhaps elsewhere in the world.

They’re likely to maintain a list of the species they have seen, with details about the date and location of each sighting.

If you have time on your hands during this stay-at-home period, you might consider trying the excitement,

A turkey vulture cruising on air currents. joy and learning experience that training your eyes – perhaps through a pair of binoculars – on visitors to your yard or neighborhood can provide.

Many serious bird-watchers got their start as casual observers who don’t stray far from where they live.

As the list of sightings grows, their newly acquired knowledge often extends beyond facts about the birds themselves to the places from which they came and are going. In the case

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A lonely bluejay. of migratory fowl, that can include farflung states or even countries.

The birds of prey that are holding the Jessens’ attention are making their annual journey south, so the couple are able to observe part of the trip that took them near their home in Massachusetts.

Beatty didn’t have to travel far from his home in Galveston, Texas, to enjoy a treasure-trove of sightings. That area is known for the diversity of both

its resident and fly-by types. White pelicans float lazily in bay waters, reddish egrets dance and prance in a frenzy of activity and roseate spoonbills display their unusual beaks, which resemble elongated ping-pong paddles.

Practiced birders know – and newcomers soon learn – that the weather can play a role in how successful a wait-and-watch quest can be. If the search is good during

A pileated woodpecker makes a beeline for a chunk of suet. pleasant weather, it can become phenomenal when conditions deteriorate. When rain and storms force birds to the ground, people can enjoy swarms that are seeking shelter in their own yards.

Not surprisingly, where one lives and the time of year play a big role in the kinds of birds likely to appear.

The Adirondack wilderness in New York state offers a patchwork of habitats with appeal to a variety of birdlife. As a result, more than 250 species have been observed in the area.

In warm weather colorful wood warblers and loons are common. Fall is spectacular, with a major migration of hawks taking place against a backdrop of dramatic foliage. In winter, avian residents with colorful names such as rough-legged hawks and saw-whet owls brave the cold weather.

In December 1818 more than 500 men took part in an organized hunting expedition in the present-day Cleveland suburb of Hinkley, Ohio. Their goal was to rid the township of bears, wolves and other wild animals that were considered to be pests or threats to crops and livestock.

The following spring, buzzards appeared to feast on remains of animals that were left to rot. Flocks of descendants of those original visitors continue to return each year, reportedly on March 15, and their arrival is marked by an annual “Buzzard Day” celebration.

Numerous places for sightings are available to residents of and visitors to Wisconsin. Burnett County provides a welcome home for nesting herons, double-crested cormorants and sharptailed grouse.

Wisconsin Point at the western end of Lake Superior attracts rarities such as the imaginatively named piping plover, parasitic jaeger and Cassin’s kingbird.

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A Bonaparte’s gull and its reflection in a Lake Michigan tidepool.

Grand Island, Nebraska, located in the center of the United States, becomes the epicenter each spring of a visitation by an estimated half-million sandhill cranes during their annual migration. The birds, which represent about 80 percent of the world’s population of that species, spend several weeks feeding and resting.

Then there are those unusual

occasions when birds show up at places where they’re not supposed to be. When a wood sandpiper took refuge in marshes near Rye, New York, hundreds of people flocked to the area to watch and marvel. That’s because the visitor is known to breed in Scandinavia and Russia, and to spend winters in southern Africa and Australia.

Knowledgeable birders speculated that the tringa glareola, one of some 40 species of sandpipers, had been blown across the Atlantic Ocean by a severe storm. Its loss was the excited watchers’ gain.

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A cedar waxwing munching on winter berries in a backyard.

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Birthday wishes for Bob Dylan

By William Tecku (May 1978) From my kitchen windows facing east tomato plants stare down a late spring frost.

In and out of growing season I wonder: What feeds but doesn’t wash away?

Some say it’s spring memories that winter well. Others guess that anything grown inside survives.

Of course, there is something to be said about one poet’s garden-grown songs.

Cross-cultivated among rows of varying climates, Zimmy’s birthday strums up from a day in May marked on my calendar. His words and music, first heard on Minnesota’s Iron Range, reach my ears that listen beyond the last fence. Like my tomatoes, I too sing along.

What chlorophyll bends his voice across the stems of ears toward a cactus sun? How does it stop and turn over acres of cool, dark air between our gates? Double-plowed grasses that sprout through the garden’s frosty real estate know. His bounty feeds above the topsoil.

A long time before ripening under his stage name, he was one note playing against the roar of the world.

Unlike tomatoes, his songs cannot be harvested. Still, in sun, in snow, by sound, by syllable I try.

(May 2020) “Tomorrow and tomorrow and

tomorrow” how will I celebrate your 79th year “. . . busy being born . . .,” “blowin’ in the wind,” but not busted

by Mortality’s wildcard whim?

I’ll “start out on burgundy” then “. . . soon . . . hit the harder stuff,” “where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,” then “dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, silhouetted by the sea” since “I contain multitudes,” and I’m “tangled up in blue.”

Or, I could raise a glass to you, your poetry, your music that blows passed yesterday as if it’s as stone still as today’s “idiot wind blowing like a circle around my skull from the Grand Coulee Dam to the capitol” that gets me feelin’ “like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone” rolling down “a highway of diamonds with nobody on it” “with these visions of Johanna” who “speaks like silence without ideals or violence.”

Or, I could borrow your poetic license long enough to “stay forever young,” “put some bleachers out in the sun . . . on Highway 61” where “the times they are a-changin’” until “the hour when the ship comes in” and the ghost of Mr. Boniface “B.J.” Rolfzen, “so much older then . . . younger than that now,” watches you blow out the candles on one more cake and wishes, before you start “knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door,” that you’d, just once, remember what he taught you about using quotation marks to give “attribution.”

Bob Dylan performing in 1963. Public domain photo.

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INXS frontman remembered in Mystify

Mystify: Michael Hutchence (Blu-ray) $22.97, Shout Factory Michael Hutchence, the late front man for 1980s and ‘90s band INXS (whose 1983 single “The One Thing” was introduced to me via Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 radio show, as it debuted right at #40) is profiled here 22 years after his death, which was ruled as a suicide.

It’s directed by Richard Lowenstein who also directed many of the band’s music videos, but Hutchence himself is the by main subject here rather than the band or its music.

Although it doesn’t present his entire life story, we learn a bit about his early life – born in Australia, his family moved to Hong Kong for a bit during his childhood and later his mother took off with him for the United States.

Those who knew him as a kid say he was shy then, but surprised everyone by opening up and discovering that he loved to perform.

He was already close friends with the three Farriss Brothers (Andrew, Jon and Tim) who had started a band and became the lead singer. They played many shows in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s before securing a record contract that brought them worldwide fame.

MUSIC SCENE

JESSE SKEEN

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The bulk of this documentary is present-day recollections of Hutchence from those who were closest to him, including his many girlfriends. They all speak offscreen however, as the entirety of the visuals are archival film, video and photos, some of which was shot by Michael himself.

Annotations onscreen often appear to tell you who shot the footage you’re seeing, as well as who you’re hearing speaking and what their relationship was – among the many others we hear from are INXS’s managers and record producers. The passage of time has allowed them to say mostly good things about him, even those whose relationships ended badly years ago.

One of Michael’s higher-profile romances was with fellow singer Kylie Minogue, who he romanced by following her on her tour of Japan. She shares some silly notes the two faxed to each other (this was high-tech at the time) and some candid personal home videos of them on a train trip.

U2 lead singer Bono also speaks highly of Michael, saying that he felt he never saw how talented he really was.

Michael’s missteps in his career are still highlighted – mainly his desire in 1989 to record a solo album against the advice of his producer and bandmates.

This ended up being a side project called Max Q (which I managed never to hear about then). It seemed to get little to no airplay in the U.S. or much visibility in record stores I frequented.

There’s also talk about disagreements with the other bandmates over which direction their music should go – personally while I liked their earlier music back then which fit more with the new wave sound of the period, I didn’t much care for their shift to more traditional rock starting with the Kick album – although that brought their biggest commercial success.

Girlfriend Helena Cristensen describes the incident in 1992 that truly brought the beginning of the end – while in Copenhagen, he was assaulted by a taxi driver, which left him with severe head injuries including brain damage.

Michael resisted visiting a hospital for several weeks, and also did not even want anyone else to know about the incident.

Looking back it seems that legal action should have been pursued at the very least, as he was radically changed afterwards. Although INXS kept

Michael Hutchence as cover boy. recording and touring, he had become a different and much more unpleasant person.

Still this film ultimately tries to serve as a tribute and remembrance. (Being nit-picky, I do have to point out the message shown onscreen at the very end, which says “If you are feeling suicidal or know someone who does, please refer to” and the line under that is quickly blacked out. I have to wonder the reason for that.)

Picture, Sound and Subtitles: The documentary is presented in a 2.35 ratio, which doesn’t make a lot of sense given that most of the footage wasn’t shot as wide and this was only given limited theatrical showings. The wider frame is best used for a number of split-screen shots, but most of the time footage is shown with the top and bottom cropped.

Material shot on video gets the added injury of a reduced frame rate – some of that is properly transferred while others are intentionally shot off a monitor. Most of the film footage appears to be newly transferred in HD, including some from INXS’ Live Baby Live concert film which is being released soon on Blu-Ray. The Blu-Ray presents all of this as it should be with no noticeable encoding artifacts.

The end credits indicate Dolby Atmos, but this Blu-Ray is limited to a 5.1 mix in DTS Master Audio. The soundstage is used rather creatively, with not just music (although no complete songs are featured) but also

voices and sounds in all channels.

An alternate 2-channel matrix surround track is also included which is impressive on its own merits, but obviously the Atmos mix would have been much more appreciated. Hearingimpaired subtitles are included, which have a few typos.

Extras: In addition to the trailer there are a number of unused segments, including one which focuses on Michael’s one movie performance in 1986’s Dogs in Space, also directed by Lowenstein. He had hoped to do more acting in his life.

Final Thoughts: Mystify likely won’t hold the interest of those unfamiliar with INXS, but it presents a fitting remembrance of its lead singer who died too early. As I hadn’t heard the exact details of his death at the time, this also served as closure on that.

I continue to enjoy the music left behind, even appreciating the later material that I didn’t like so much when it was new – the now out of print DVD I’m Only Looking: The Best of INXS is highly recommended if you can find it, as it includes most of their videos with true 5.1 remixes.

Knowing the complete story makes it a bit sadder however, as I now wish his assailant had at least been brought to justice.

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Sofia Vergara is a judge on America’s Got Talent, airing 7 pm Tuesday on NBC.

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Mountain Men History 7 a.m.

Spend an afternoon with Mountain Men as History presents a Season 1 marathon of this popular series. In this episode, meet the people willing to brave the treacherous conditions of mountain living in search of a life away from civilization.

(Times listed are based on Central time zones.) of this family comedy starring Matt LeBlanc and Liza Snyder. With his wife busy working, Adam (LeBlanc) spends more time trying to connect his phone-addicted son and his teenage daughter who seems to speak another language.

Friday, 5-30 Four Weddings TLC 10 a.m.

Four very different brides come together in a unique competition as they evaluate each other’s wedding to determine who had the best one. While Editza ties the knot in a Spanish, Christian ceremony, Alana’s celebration is a very formal affair.

MacGyver CBS 7 p.m.

Hoarding: Buried Alive TLC 4 p.m.

A mother is emotionally prompted to make a change when she discovers her young daughter has picked up her compulsion to hoard in this rebroadcast. Elsewhere, another mom puts her husband and family’s lives at risk with her extreme hoarding tendencies.

Council of Dads NBC 7 p.m.

Anthony (Clive Standen), Oliver (J. August Richards) and Larry (Michael O’Neill) attempt to help the widow of their deceased friend raise their four children in the aftermath of his death in this emotional new family drama. Emjay Anthony also stars.

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Man With a Plan CBS 7:30 p.m.

Tune in for a new episode

When a plane crashes while testing MacGyver’s (Lucas Till) experimental laser mapping system, the Phoenix goes on a mission to find the body of the pilot in this rebroadcast.

Elsewhere, Riley (Tristin Mays) works to track down a hacker.

new comedy special. Trejo looks back through a comedic lens at his childhood and the great lengths he went to just to impress his parents.

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives FOOD 8 p.m.

In an all-new quarantine edition of this traveling cooking show, Guy Fieri and his son learn about an Asian-barbecue mashup in Miami and a Wild West weenie in Virginia.

Together they check in with chefs they have previously visited via videochat.

Aussie Gold Hunters Discovery 10 p.m.

A risky plan has the Dirt Dogs team taking a big gamble while Lecky and Ted make a massive find in this new episode. Then, some uninvited guests are caught red-handed.

This unscripted series heads to the barren Australian Outback to

Movie: SpiderMan: Homecoming FX 7 p.m.

Tom Holland makes his spectacular debut as Peter Parker in this film. By day, he struggles with typical high school issues, but by night he fights crime as the webslinging superhero Spider-Man. Michael Keaton, Zendaya and Robert Downey Jr. also star.

Jesus Trejo: Stay at Home Son Showtime 8 p.m.

First generation MexicanAmerican Jesus Trejo explores growing up as the only child of immigrant parents in this

Everyday people take on “professional taggers” in the new series Ultimate Tag, with professional tagger Laura Micetich. It airs 8 pm Wednesday on Fox.

Judge Lola Carmichael (Simone Missick) in All Rise. uncover hidden gold.

nominated epic trilogy. Ian McKellen and Richard Armitage also star.

Saturday, 5-30

Movie: Smallfoot HBO 6:25 a.m.

The Last Dance ABC 2 p.m.

Migo, a yeti, encounters a human, but the other yetis don’t believe the legendary “smallfoot” exists. When Migo leaves their isolated community, he befriends a documentary filmmaker. Channing Tatum, James Corden and Zendaya lend their voices to this film.

Tune in for the third and fourth installments of this documentary series on the career of NBA legend, Michael Jordan. In this episode, the early days of the 1997-98 season are chronicled, when Jordan was forced to rely on his former enemy, Dennis Rodman.

Helltown TRAV 11 a.m.

OutDaughtered TLC 7 p.m.

This two-hour documentary special investigates the mysterious evacuation of Boston, Ohio, in 1974. There are many theories about why President Ford sent these orders, including a chemical spill, paranormal activity and a satanic cult takeover.

Movie: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey TNT noon.

Take a journey with Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), hobbit approached by a wizard and asked to accompany a band of dwarves on a perilous mission in this Oscar-

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Anthony Anderson and his mother, Doris, host a celebrity panel in the ABC reality series To Tell the Truth, airing Thursday at 9 pm.

Danielle and Adam are determined to get the girls to eat healthier, but the kids aren’t exactly thrilled about the idea in this rebroadcast. Also, the family is forced to make a big decision when they get some surprising news about their house.

Paranormal 911 TRAV 7 p.m.

In this new episode, three emergency workers share spooky stories of on the job paranormal activity.

When EMT Chris Sanders responds to a late-night, three alarm house fire that forced a

Sunday, 5-31 Duncanville Fox 7:30 pm

In a new quarantine edition of this traveling cooking show, Guy Fieri and his son learn about an Asian-barbecue mashup in Miami, 8 pm Friday, FOOD.

family outside, he is certain he sees someone still left inside.

Amy Poehler, Ty Burrell, Riki Lindholme, Zach Cherry and Yassir Lester are among the voice actors who contribute to this latest in Fox’s Sunday night “Animation Domination.”

America’s Funniest Home Videos ABC 6 p.m.

Since 1990, viewers have filled their family’s nights with laughter watching this iconic series, now

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hosted by Alfonso Ribeiro.

Luckily, kids are still adorably innocent, and popping out to scare grandma.

Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist NBC 8 p.m.

Computer programmer Zoey Clarke (Jane Levy) navigates the world differently now that she is able to hear and see people’s thoughts as song and dance routines.

The Wall NBC 8 p.m.

Lives can change in an instant as the drop of a ball down a fourstory wall determines how much money contestants take home in this unique game show.

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8:35 <++ The Recruit (‘03) The Out List <++ War of the Worlds (‘05) Tom Cruise. <++ Shaft (‘19) Samuel L. Jackson. :20 Making :35 <++++ Bohemian Rhapsody Various Pawn/ Count. Various Pawn/ Count. Various W Count. Various W Count. Various Various Various Various Various Th Christin Various Th Christin Various Th Flipping Various Th Flipping Various Th Flipping Various Th Flipping Various Th FlipFlop Various Th FlipFlop Queens FWTh Queens Various FWTh Queens Various FWTh Queens Various FWTh Queens Various Queens Various Queens Various Queens Various Movie 8:00 Pro Football Talk Football Flex Lunch Talk Live The Rich Eisen Show Lunch Talk Live Various Carcass Hockey Happy Hour <++ Indecent Proposal (‘93) Robert Redford. <++ My Best Friend's Wedding :45 <+++ Faster (‘10) Dwayne Johnson. <++ Peppermint (‘18) :15 <++ Red Joan :15 <++ My Best Friend's Wedding (‘97) :40 Penny Dreadful :40 <++ Road House (‘89) Patrick Swayze. :35 Billions <++ Peppermint (‘18) Movie <+++ Rudy (Dra, '93) Ned Beatty, Sean Astin.

Jesus Trejo :05 <+++ Grosse Pointe Blank (‘97) <++ Semper Fi (‘19) :50 Billions Movie 8:00 <++ Chicago :45 <+++ While You Were Sleeping (‘95) :15 <++ Leap Year (‘10) Amy Adams. <++ The Stepford Wives (‘04) <+++ Sleepless in Seattle (‘93) :15 <+++ Unforgiven (‘92) Gene Hackman, Clint Eastwood. :45 <+++ Almost Famous (‘00) Kate Hudson, Billy Crudup.

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Movie < A Stranger in Town :45 <++++ The Great Ziegfeld (Mus, '36) Luise Rainer, William Powell. :45 <++++ The Human Comedy (‘43) Mickey Rooney. <+ The Great Morgan 8:45 < George Washington Slept ... <++ Turnabout (‘40) :15 <++ Topper Takes a Trip (‘39) <++++ A Star Is Born (‘37) Fredric March. <++ Fifth Avenue Girl 8:15 < I Am a Fugiti... :15 <+++ Dust Be My Destiny :45 <++ Road Gang (‘36) <+++ Cool Hand Luke (‘67) Paul Newman. <++++ Deep Valley (‘47) Ida Lupino.

8< Design for Scandal <++++ The Citadel (‘38) Robert Donat. <++++ Mourning Becomes Electra (‘47) Rosalind Russell. :45 <++++ The Women (‘39) Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer.

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Bering Sea Gold Dredged Up (N) Bering Sea Gold (N) All on the Line (N) GoldRushTurinMine (N) AussieGoldHunter (N) Bering Sea Gold All on the Line SportsCenter (N) E:60 (N) SportsCenter (N) SportsCenter SportsCenter < To Be Announced Angling Polaris WideLife Unscrptd MLB Baseball Classics 1965 World Series L.A. D./Min. Unscripted Spotlight Spotlight WPT Poker RingHonorWrestle (N) 4:00 <++ Spider-Man 2 (‘04) Tobey Maguire. <+++ Spider-Man: Homecoming (‘17) Robert Downey Jr., Tom Holland. <+++ Spider-Man: Homecoming (‘17) Robert Downey Jr., Tom Holland.

G. Girls G. Girls G. Girls G. Girls G. Girls G. Girls Frasier Frasier <+ The Sweetest Heart (‘18) Julie Gonzalo. < Merry and Bright (‘19) Jodie Sweetin.

4:20 Natalie Wood :05 <++ It Chapter Two (‘19) James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Jessica Chastain. Bill Maher (N) Betty (N) Bill Maher We're Here Betty Sknwlkr "Night Visions" Skinwalker Ranch Skinwalker Ranch Skinwalker Ranch :05 Skinwalker Ranch :05 Skinwalker Ranch :05 Skinwalker Ranch :05 Skinwalker Ranch Dream H. Dream H. Dream H. Dream H. Dream H. Dream H. My Dream Home (N) Dream H. Dream H. Dream H. Dream H. My Dream Home Dream H. Dream H. 4:30 <+++ Knocked Up (‘07) Seth Rogen. <++ The 40-Year-Old Virgin (‘05) Steve Carell. :05 <++ Miss Congeniality (‘00) Sandra Bullock. <++ The 40-Year-Old Virgin (‘05) Steve Carell.

3:00 Trackside Live! (L) S.N.L "Charles Barkley" Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live MonsterJ. "Anaheim" Monster Jam "Miami" Pwr Natn Pwr Natn 4:15 <++ Red Joan :55 <+++ Almost Famous (‘00) Billy Crudup.

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Futurama Futurama Futurama Futurama Futurama :15 <+++ The Bride Came C.O.D. Bette Davis. <++ Pickup on South Street <+++ Three Coins in the Fountain <+++ Niagara Marilyn Monroe. :15 Niagra Dark Sha Long Lost Family 90 Day Fiancé 90 Day F "More to Love: Hard Habit To Break" 90 Day Fiancé 90 Day Fiancé 90 Day F "More to Love: Hard Habit To Break" <++ Fast and Furious (‘09) Vin Diesel. <+++ Transformers (‘07, Action) Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Shia LaBeouf. <+++ Transformers (‘07, Action) Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Shia LaBeouf.

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Unearthed Unearthed Expedition Unknown Dirty Jobs Dirty Jobs Dirty Jobs Dirty Jobs Moonshiners SportsCenter (N) SportsCenter (N) Fitness ESPN Documentaries UFC Archival UFC Archival UFC Archival UFC Archival Water&W. Outdoors Wisconsin Lindner (N) Polaris ..Outdoors HeroOut ..Outdoors NCAA Hockey St. Cloud/Mn.D H.S. Hockey Classics NCAA Hockey Classics <++ The Boss Baby (‘17) Alec Baldwin. <++ The Secret Life of Pets (‘16) Louis C.K.. <++ Spider-Man 2 (‘04, Act) Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Tobey Maguire. <+++ Pacific Rim 8< Love Under the R... < The Perfect Bride: Wedding Bells <+ Over the Moon in Love (2019, Romance) < Birthday Wish (‘17) Jessy Schram. <++ Royal Hearts :55 Quinceañ :25 < The Art of Racing in the Rain :15 Real Sports :15 Nick Buoniconti <+++ Shutter Island (‘09) Leonardo DiCaprio. :50 We're Here Movie Mountain Men Mountain "New Blood" Mountain Men Mountain Men Mountain "Family First" Mountain Men Mountain Men Mountain Men Home Town Home Town Home Town Home Town Celebrity I.O.U. Celebrity I.O.U. Celebrity I.O.U. Celebrity I.O.U. Paid Paid <++ Death of a Cheerleader <+++ No One Would Tell < Stolen By My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley... <++ Flowers in the Attic (‘14) Heather Graham.

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Stooge Star Trek Buck Rogers The Invaders "Panic" Lost in Space SVU "Choreographed" SVU "Scheherezade" Law&O: SVU "Burned" Law&O: SVU "Outsider" SVU "Loophole" SVU "Dependent" SVU "Haystack" Paid Paid Fam. Feud Fam. Feud Fam. Feud Fam. Feud Dancing "Cy & Beau" Lego Masters News (N) Last Man Tag "You Better Run!" Modern Homeown. TMZ PartFam PartFam McHale's McHale's Hazel Hazel Jeannie Jeannie Bewitched Bewitched That Girl That Girl Paul Lynde Lotsa Luck BurnsAllen BurnsAllen Celeb Page Mantrack Forensic Factor Forensic Factor <++ Two Days in the Valley (‘96) Danny Aiello. <++ Aeon Flux (‘05) Charlize Theron. < The Curse of the J...

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Mountain Men Mountain Men Mountain Men: Fully Loaded "Countdown to Season Nine" Tom and Sarah tackle a coyote threat. (N) :05 Mountain Men "Countdown to Season Nine" Celebrity I.O.U. Celebrity I.O.U. Love It or List It Love It or List It Love It or List It Love It or List It Love It or List It Love/List "Tall Tale" <+ The Secret Lives of Cheerleaders < Nanny Lockdown (‘20) Karynn Elizabeth Moore. :05 < Deadly Mile High Club Kimberly Arland. < Nanny Lockdown (‘20) Karynn Elizabeth Moore.

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it’s causing all sorts of problems and making people turn violent!

That sets the stage for the goofiness $29.95 to come as we get a few of the requisite scenes where we see people who look The Movie: The fourth entry in much older than the characters they’re Kino Lorber’s Forbidden Fruit: The meant to portray smoking dope and Golden Age Of The Exploitation Picture, giggling like fiends only to then fall all which is done in conjunction with over one another and lose any sense Something Weird Video, is Dwaine of moral decency they may have once Esper’s 1936 film Marihuana, a had.

58-minute scare film meant to keep At less than an hour in length, God-fearing Americans away from the Esper’s picture is never dull even if Devil’s root! some of the scenes of talk amongst The subject of our story is a young family members and friends really do woman named Burma feel like they’re there to Roberts (Harley Wood), pad the picture out bit. or Blondie if you prefer.

The script from One night she and her Hildegarde Stadie, Esper’s boyfriend, Dick Collier wife, isn’t particularly (Hugh McArthur), attend a deep but it’s enough by party at the beach. in that it establishes Things are fine at first characters quickly enough. but soon enough some The Video: Marijuana local dope peddlers led arrives on Blu-ray by a guy named Tony transferred from a Santello (Pat Carlyle) and collection of different film elements Paul Ellis (Nicholas Romero), start that look to be archival prints. There’s passing around some doobies. print damage noticeable throughout, Burma and a few of the other girls mostly vertical scratches, but if get stoned and a bunch of them you can look past that this isn’t in go skinny dipping (leading to a particularly bad shape for a low-budget surprisingly blunt sequence involving exploitation picture some unexpected full frontal nudity The black and white picture shows from members of the female cast!). occasional contrast blooming but This would all be harmless enough that is almost certainly a result of the but one of the girls goes out too far original camera work. Black levels are into the surf and never returns, while decent and the grey scale here is fine.

Burma lies in sin with Dick and soon Detail levels are quite good given the discovers that she’s pregnant! age of the elements, and the transfer Without any real prospects, Dick stays film-like from start to finish, decides to ask one of the drug peddlers showing no issues. Given that this was for a job and soon enough, he’s a patchwork job to a certain degree, slinging weed for a living. This ends requiring the use of different sources to quickly enough when poor Dick is create the most complete version out killed in a drug deal gone bad. there, this is all certainly forgivable.

Burma winds up having to work for The Extras: Extras start with an the same drug dealers to make ends audio commentary from Bret Wood, meet and is soon pressured to give up co-author of Forbidden Fruit: The Golden her unborn child for adoption.

Age Of The Exploitation Film. He starts Will Burma work her way up the by talking about where the print came ladder of weed and start selling cocaine from and how other sources were used and smack or will she be able to turn to make the complete version of the her life around and get things back on picture before then going to talk about track? the “square up” used in the picture.

Not quite as over the top as He offers up plenty of info about the better known Reefer Madness, the Esper’s and the Stadie’s as well Marihuana is nevertheless quite an as their family history, little “Esper amusing watch for many of the same touches” that are featured throughout reasons. Very much a product of its the picture, how a female actress time, it opens with a ridiculously racist got injured on set and Esper just text screen or two noting how weed left the footage in, the poster art was once only a problem in Asia, where used to promote the film, the use of the populace is “uneducated” but has roadhouses and of cars as areas of vice since spread to the United States where in this and other pictures cut from

The main character after her first puff of “giggle weed.”

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a similar cloth, information about the cast and crew featured in the picture, Roland Price’s cinematography work, the controversy that obviously surrounded the nudity in the film (and how one of the cast members also appears in Esper’s infamous How To Undress In Front Of Your Husband). It’s a very thorough and interesting track with a lot of great information in it.

A second commentary, an archival track from 2000, features the late Mike Vraney, founder of Something Weird Video, and the late David F. Friedman, exploitation move mogul extraordinaire. It’s a reasonably scene specific discussion of the film delivered with a great sense of humor. These guys are having a blast watching this film together, with Friedman delivering an enjoyably hammy reading of the “square up” before talking about the censorship history with the picture, how the film was a groundbreaker in many ways, how Esper was “one of the great, great creatures of exploitation” (Friedman tells some great stories about him), the way that alcohol leads to weed which leads to harder drugs in the film, where the film really does push the envelope in terms of its depictions of sex and vice and lots more. It’s a very fun listen.

A second feature, the 57-minute Narcotic from 1933, is also included, which Esper co-directed with Vival Sodar’t. The opening scrawl tells us the film is meant to bring awareness to the scourge of drug addiction before we’re introduced to Dr. William G. Davies (Harry Cording), a medical practitioner of dubious morality.

Davies’ life and career showed

great promise when he got out of medical school, but unfortunately, one night, he decided to visit an opium den, where he quickly developed and addiction. As he becomes more interested in chasing the dragon, much to the dismay of his lovely wife (Joan Dix), than in doing right by those who need his help, his practice quickly falls into disarray and he turns into a bit of a snake oil salesman, selling opium to potential patients as a cure.

This one works on the same level as Marihuana did. It’s goofy by modern standards but reasonably strong stuff by the moral gauges of the era in which it was released. It deals quite bluntly in drug use, prostitution and moral decay and, again like the feature, is less than charitable in its depiction of Asians.

Again, it’s a product of its time, and should be approached as such.

As a drug scare film it’s pretty over the top and quite melodramatic.

Davies’ descent is quick and, yes, quite ridiculous but the movie entertains.

Again, Esper paces the picture well and it’s got enough sensationalism and taboo-busting footage to please those looking for cheap thrills and conflicting morality.

The disc includes trailers for the feature as well as a trailer for Narcotic and bonus trailers for Reefer Madness and Test Tube Babies.

Overall: Kino’s Blu-ray release is fantastic! Don’t go into this expecting pristine video quality, but compared to past DVD editions they both get substantial upgrades. The movies themselves are fascinating artifacts of a bygone era, both entertaining and amusing if often times for all the wrong reasons. It is, however, the extras here that really impress.

Each of the three commentary tracks is seriously interesting stuff. Highly recommended to fans of classic exploitation pictures.

Aretha at her peak, singing gospel

Amazing Grace $5.99 The Movie: The story of Amazing Aretha’s father, C.L. Franklin, tenderly wipes her brow as she sings in Amazing Grace. Aretha does not talk in the film. She Grace might be just as intriguing and just sings accompanied by her band, drummer Bernard Purdie, guitarist Cornell Dupree and bassist Chuck Rainey. emotional as the film itself.

Sydney Pollack (Tootsie) directed the seems compared to the film. it needs to. The keyboard and bass film that showed Aretha Franklin’s two- My Hand” I think?) there is a tight shot of her, face beading with sweat, Pollack gives some instruction to provide a better than expected low night performance at the New Temple mascara running ever so slightly down a crew member beforehand and the end, though crowd noise is a little less Missionary Baptist Church in Los her eyes, and you can see what she’s sound is too…modern? It’s not lipthan expected from the immersion Angeles in 1972, but they putting into it. That type synching, but it gives the impression factor? could never sync the print of visceral emotion yet not of it.

You do pick up some moments off with the audio tracks, being garish for the sake But then Aretha comes in, makes microphone, like when Aretha looks which were released as a of doing so, will bring any you cry in five minutes and blows your for (and quickly finds) a glass of water live album in 1972, and mortal to tears. doors off with her singing and you between songs, and some modest jokes a subsequent complete by And as it turned out forget about it pretty damned quickly. between the music. Also about what recordings set was released later in the film, it did for I think we all have a general idea you’d expect, a little more power than I years later. the Church’s pastor, James of how great Aretha Franklin was as a was anticipating, but in a good way.

Before his death in Cleveland. He is all of us. singer, but seeing Amazing Grace at a Extras: Nothing, which is a 2008, Pollack gave the The film isn’t anything point as close to her peak as possible, bummer, but maybe a Criterion version film to Alan Elliott and else other than the sans embellishment or enhancement, is in the cards? allowed him to complete concerts. You see a mix of parishoners really gives you a deeper appreciation Final Thoughts: The trailer for the film. And was thwarted two both regulars and notables (Rolling for her work and this particular album, Amazing Grace pretty much sums it up. different times by Franklin (citing Stones Mick Jagger and Charlie Watt which remains one of the greatest out Aretha comes on, sings the song, wows image rights reasons) before her death being among the famous admirers of there. It’s really easy to watch this film people, end of trailer. It’s something in 2018.

Franklin). and comes close to an epiphany as to be experienced to appreciate, and Shortly thereafter, Franklin’s family There isn’t any other context the many have said. frankly if you’re dismissive of Aretha agreed to the release of the film late film tries to give you, it’s 85-90 minutes The Video: In 1.78:1 anamorphic Franklin singing gospel for a live last year. of Aretha singing, bringing people to widescreen, things look good for the album, I may have to question your And man, what a performance it is. tears, being propped up literally as most part. There hasn’t been any sort tastes in things more than music.

The church appears to be fairly she’s belting out a song, and sitting of edge enhancement applied to the Technically it’s a fine disc, though nondescript, maybe a little intimate in down during breaks when the sermon image, black levels aren’t deep but do the lack of extra material is a bummer. terms of the venue, but it comes across is going on. No fat on the bones of appear natural, light is blown out a Strongly recommend to enjoy this sounding great in the film. this, you get the performance which is little at times, but film grain is present performance and enjoy what others You’ve got Franklin at the peak of a revelation to those not familiar with through the film and the people look have. her talents, singing music she grew up the album. natural and the colors accurate. About with (her reverend father in the front The thing I was struck by as I was what you’d expect. row watching her) and she just belts it watching the film, and you experience The Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 out. it early on, is how artificial the sound surround for this which does what During one of the songs (“Take

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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

Alernative Therapies Mind Body Spirit Harmonization with Tachyon Energy. One only a few Tachyon Chambers in U.S. Superior, WI 715-501-4046 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

NARVRE Unit 92 - Protecting Railroad Retirement - we meet the 2nd Thursday of each month at the West Duluth American Legion at 1 PM World Word Writers’ Workshop meets noon every Monday at the Garland Room at the Vaughn Library in Ashland, Main & Vaughn. until Dec. 30.

2019. All genres of writing will be approached in a workshop environment from journalism to poetry with special emphasis on film documentary. We will be publishing an anthology if there is enough interest. More information: editor@worldword. org or 715-274-2202.

Needle Art Guild of Duluth Membership Lunch at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd 45th and Colorado Street, Duluth. September 23, 2019. Lunch at Noon Program at 1:00 - Mary Mulari, nationally known designer of sewing projects will present “Vintage and New Age Aprons Free & open to the public.

Scandinavian Crime Writers Book Club meeting in Duluth Call Kirk 612-558-1318

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 thouHave you bartered, sold sands on your land by leasing the hunting rights. Free or traded an item you’ve evaluation & info packet. Liability coverage included.

The experts at Base Camp Leasing have been bringing landowners & hunters together since 1999. Email: listed? Let us know so we info@basecampleasing.com Call: 866/309-1507 can keep these listings up BaseCampLeasing.com to date.

I buy homes, multi-units and land. Cash $. 218-5562542 webuytwinports.com_ Contact ads@readerduluth.com Meetings with changes.

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’ shorelineon 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

Real Estate 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

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

$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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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 con-

dition. 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 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. $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

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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 CrewCab. 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 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 Trek 21-speed, disc brakes. Perfect condition $125 or BO Call Jim 218-491-4201 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. $1700. 218626-1262 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.

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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 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 New engine stand. $50. 218-8482007 Trailer hitch fits Jeep Grand Cherokee, Reese Model 51010, like new $75 obo 715-794-2089 ARE Chev white topper. 6’ wide.

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. 218341-0396 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

Bart trade ers, unders, and private $100 ads are FREE!!

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. 218-2351475 Ibanez Micro Bass. Great for beginners. Black New $195 OBO 218-235-1475 Fender Jazz Bass, black, humbuckers. Like New $400 OBO 218235-1475 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 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.

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‘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. 218590-6507 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 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 BO218-310-1781 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 1940 RCA console radio, excellent condition maple wood. $500.50.

218-624-2143 Appliances 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.

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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 Ceramic bear collection (15) with shelving unit. $25. Call 218-5257702 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 4 Drawer Dresser 24”H 71”L Excellent Condition-solid wood. $10.

218-348-2900 Full length lawn chair with cushion. $10 call 218-525-7702 Miscellaneous H&R 22 pistol with leather holster, $150. 12-gauge pump shotgun, like new. $350.218-848-2007.

16mm sound movie projector.

Runs very well. $100. 320-2602464.

Chest High Waders. Size 11 $35 cash only. 218-834-3709 Baseball basketball cards. great condition. please call 218-4810175. or email. Patrickgjaros@ gmail.com.

Caboose Stove. Best Offer. Text only for info & pics. 218-750-7981 Compost toilet, no need for electric

or water, $200. Igloo fiberglass dog house w/floor $25. Cattle water tank $50. 218-848-2007 Trek “3500” 21 sp. shocks, disc brakes. $150. 218-491-4201 Jim Western paperbacks, from Zane Grey 60 different titles and Louis La`Mour 80 different 50¢ each..715 364 2899 ask for Zeeb Sports Cards: Baseball, Basketball

& Hockey Rookies & Stars - Mostly from the 80s & 90s. Call of text 218-391-4274 Never used still in factory-sealed box. Simple Clean Automatic Litter Box. Cleans itself every hour. Cats love them. $80 715-376-4502 $90 or best offer Ecolet compost toilet great for cabin /hunting shack Twig area 714 296-2646

Silk screen picture of the Duluth Depot. Matted and framed. $100.

Call 218-525-7702 Snowmobile helmets $10.00 2185766454 or 2183939962 Cameras--2 Nikons, Voigtlander, Konica, Kodak #10, Hanimax Amphibian (underwater). Lenses-500mm and down. $1000. Call 218-984-2669

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Infiniti QX80 big, roomy and impressive

GILBERT’S GARAGE by

JOHN GILBERT Infiniti QX80 can haul the whole family to tour Lake Superior. Photos by John Gilbert With precious few destinations available, or even open, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the few destinations offered some gems. While I was road-testing the 2020 Infiniti QX80 – yes, the big one – for a week in Duluth, Minnesota, word made the national news that Vikre Distillery in Duluth had changed over its plumbing to make hand sanitizer, and it was giving away bottles of the stuff free as a public service gesture to anyone who stopped by their shop, located in the shadow of the famous Aerial Bridge.

My wife, Joan, is more of a neat and tidy type than I am. In fact, she’s one

of those who on the rare occasion when I go after the chore of cleaning something thoroughly, she will show up and complain how grungy it is.

So she was enthused to accompany me downtown, driving through what seemed like a ghost-town amount of vacant roadways.

As we drove, I pondered how big the QX80 really was. It steered and handled well enough, for a large vehicle, but those 22-inch Bridgestone tires on those stylish wheels could probably crush a compact car if one got in its path.

The big V8 and the enormity of

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the QX80 were well-matched, but I couldn’t help thinking of the various smaller Infiniti SUVs that are among my favorite in the whole industry.

Compared to those, the QX80 seemed too tall, too hefty, too big, and to house all it has, it needed to be tootall and too-hefty.

As I parked and walked around the rear of the QX80 with my 16-ounce jug in hand, I walked past a couple of men talking to each other on the sidewalk.

Being a non-drinker, it was my first time inside the Vikre shop, and I was greeted by friendly staff who filled my jug out of the spigot and sent me off,

with one customer at a time allowed inside.

I walked back up the sidewalk past the two fellows still talking, and one of them said: “Hey, great-looking vehicle you’ve got there!”

“Thanks,” I said, explaining that I was just test-driving it, before I walked around to the driver’s door.

Now, the QX80 was a dazzling metallic red that almost seemed to flow off its high stack of sheetmetal, but this fellow meant the vehicle itself, its shape and size, were what was impressive.

It made me realize, suddenly,

Luxurious leather seating sets a high level for the QX80 interior. that it takes all kinds to make up our car-buying society, and what might seem too big for some is just right for others. I must admit, I appreciated the contours of the QX80 much more for the rest of the week.

Over the years, I’ve watched the work of sport-utility vehicles rise from only a couple to everybody’s-got-one stature, although I’ve held true to my original belief that if you need a big truck for hauling stuff, then get a big one, but don’t get anything bigger than you need, because to drive an enormous SUV around because you need a lot of storage room twice a year is a waste.

Among the 50 or so SUVs on the market right now, it’s impressive that everybody started out pretty big but the competition continues to downsize to reach smaller families and increase performance and agility while reducing heft.

Nissan is a big player in the SUV world, both on its own and under its upscale Infiniti line. Most recently, Nissan’s compact Rogue has taken charge of all Nissan sales, leading the way ahead of some impressive sedans, such as the Altima, Maxima and Rogue.

While Nissan also has its sturdy Pathfinder midsize SUV, it also went after the large end of the spectrum a decade ago with the Armada, a stout competitor for everybody else’s bigbody flagship.

When it comes to Infiniti, Nissan graced its luxury line with a fleet of

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sleek, swift, high-tech SUVs, some with high-performing turbocharged 4-cylinder engines, and most benefitting by actual transmissions instead of the sometimes annoying continuously variable transmissions found in most Nissans.

Up at the top end of the Infiniti herd is the QX80 – the king of all it surveys in Infiniti land, which is a lot, particularly if you happen to be standing atop its roof. The QX80 is, in a word, huge, at 210 inches long, 80 inches wide, and 76 inches high.

While driving the QX80, there are several impressive elements you can’t escape noticing. One is the power – it takes off with the roar and punch of a 5.6-liter V8, and, typically, this piece of machinery has dual overhead camshafts on either bank of cylinders, and those pistons play an impressive tune, remindful of the good-old days when we could drive pony cars, or Z24s, and coax that racetrack-like roar out from under the hood.

Nissan, of course, also has made midsize and full-size pickup trucks for

decades, and when they made the full-size Titan, the engineers installed that big V8 in it. So it pulled with the best of the competition, and could run away from competitors – except when it came to fuel economy.

As an aside, while I’ve always been someone who pays close attention to fuel efficiency, I’ve always cut the Titan some slack because if a pickup buyer needs to haul or tow heavy things, paying a bit more for fuel probably is worth the tradeoff.

After a decade or so of refinement, that 5.6-liter V8 is better than ever, snarling and putting 400 horsepower down on the asphalt, with 413 footpounds of torque zipping you off from a standing start, with or without the maximum 8,500 pounds of towing.

QX80 come in various models, and the test-vehicle was the Limited AllWheel Drive top of the list. Equipped with everything Nissan could put on it from a performance, luxury, safety, comfort, and convenience standard, the QX80 Limited AWD lists for

From the rear, the QX80 can be loaded with enough bread, granola, cookies and cinnamon rolls to clean out a bakery.

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Easily folded forward, the second row opens widely to the third row in the QX80. $93,795.

For that, you can shop all sorts of competitors, from the top Chevrolet Suburbans, Cadillac Escalades, Lincoln Navigators, to the best Lexus, BMW or Mercedes SUVs and not find yourself out of financial range. But $94,000 is a lot of money.

The reach that value, the QX80 has richly appointed leather seats for six, because it had the two captain’s chairs in the second row, while a threeacross bench is available. The wood and metal trimmed dash and doors house an impressive navigation screen that tells all about the safety items that you’ve activated, as well as the frequencies of the high-powered Bose audio system, with its 17 speakers.

In the rear, the buckets flip forward with the touch of a lever and open the way to easily climb into the third-row bench seat. It’s not like your living room back there, but there is sufficient space to carry adults on a trip. Sitting in the second row, you have large,

8-inch monitors imbedded into the front seat headrests, so you can independently watch your own thing or play your own game.

Quite the family hauler. Up front, the driver seat adjusts 12 ways, the passenger seat 10 ways. All the contemporary safety and security systems are in place, with lane departure warning and assist, blind spot alert, front sensors that detect anything in your path, including pedestrians, and rear backup warning with collision intervention. The QX80 also has hill-start assist to make sure you don’t roll backward on a sharp hill.

Such items as remote start and highbeam assist are nice features, certainly not out of place on the QX80. And the Apple Car Play and other connectivity has a WiFi hot spot of its own.

Smooth cruising on freeways is also standard, and the 7-speed automatic transmission is adaptable through a manual mode, while operating the allmode all-wheel drive, which can be switched form automatic to 4WD High Roomy rear seats have large video monitors to entertain passengers. and 4WD Low, with mode control to go from snow to towing settings if you want to pull your neighbor’s 8,500-pound rig out of a snowdrift.

Joan and I remain committed to lighter, more agile and smaller SUVs that can reach 30 miles per gallon – which would be double the 15 we registered on the hillsides of Duluth with the QX80. But we’ve gotten (25 words or extra cost. Note which category it should run in to save words. For example, no need to say great use out of our dispenser of hand sanitizer, and every time I pump some “car for sale” because it will be under the CARS category. Don’t forget contact phone number. May attach info as well.) of it, I can’t help thinking about that fellow on the sidewalk who truly appreciated the size, shape and color of the QX80.

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