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Remembering 9/11
Monarchs are the state butterfly.
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“I was incredibly lucky in that I didn’t lose anyone directly on that terrible day. Sept. 11, 2001, stands out in my mind as a turning point, both individually and collectively. I can only imagine how people who were more directly impacted must feel, and I hold them and their families in my thoughts as we mark this tragic anniversary.”
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militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al Qaeda hijacked 4 planes
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planes were flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York
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plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C.
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plane crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania
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— the time an American Airlines Boeing 767 crashed into the north tower
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— the time American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the west side of the Pentagon
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The Birchwood butterfly house is a hit with the neighbors. "People out walking always stop for updates on the activity," said Rachael Drew, the resident behind the monarch nursery in her yard. "It's been a great way to meet neighbors. None of this was intentional when we put it up May 2020. It's an accidental silver lining during the pandemic," Drew added. The hatch is done for the season, and the last of the monarchs were recently released. Drew still has a few pupae, or chrysalis, in her house but the outdoor enclosure is now empty of the state butterfly. She figures about 70 monarchs survived, thanks to the screened cage. "Mortality rate is high for monarchs," according to Drew, who said one female butterfly can lay 700 eggs but only 5 to 10% of them survive to adulthood. It takes just 28 to 32 days for a monarch to complete its four-stage life cycle, which goes from egg, to larvae, or caterpillar, to pupa, and then adult. Drew's husband Dave built the screened house, which holds milkweed plants and other favorite flowers. Her backyard butterfly garden is flush with both common and swamp milkweed to attract monarchs, the only plant on which SEE MIRACLE OF BUTTERFLY, PAGE 13
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arissa Blahnik has lived in White Bear Lake for the past 13 years, but grew up in New Jersey. On Sept. 11, 2001, at the age of 22, Blahnik was living in northern New Jersey and commuted to Midtown, New York, for her job at Court TV. She has kept two emails she sent in the wake of the event 20 years ago that details her experience and reflections in the aftermath of 9/11, and she shared them with Press accompanied by these comments: “I had already completed my commute and was sitting in an edit suite with some colleagues when someone ran in and said to put on the TV. It wasn’t clear what was happening yet — if I recall correctly, initially it was reported as one plane and an unfortunate accident. That quickly changed, and we watched together as the second plane hit and then later as the towers collapsed. I remember finally getting through to my mother on the phone to let her know I was OK. I remember deciding to stay at the office all day rather than wait for hours in line to take a ferry home — the bridges and tunnels were closed to cars, and the only way off the island was on a boat or on foot. “The next day I typed up my experience and shared it with friends and family. I’ve kept a printout all these years and have retyped it.
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