July 27, 2006 at 7:19 a.m.
Center City Heritage Days, a triathlon, what a weekend
Center City Heritage Days, a triathlon, what a weekend
In Center City you will find lots of fun things to do for people of all ages. Starting on Friday, there will be a kiddie parade that starts at the Chisago Lake Lutheran Church. Also on Friday there will be a community picnic at 6 p.m., held at Water Tower Park. If you are a bingo fan, there will be bingo from 7 to 10 p.m. in the fire hall.
Saturday be sure to take your young ones to the kiddie carnival behind the post office. You can enjoy all kinds of food, from lutefisk to corn-on-the-cob and burgers all around the town. At 2 p.m. is the Kanota Lopa, which is a canoe race that is always a great time. To cap off the celebration, the Bruce Cross Band will be playing at the street dance at 8:30 p.m.
The triathlon mostly takes place on Sunday starting at Paradise Park in Chisago City. There are over 1,000 participants registered to race. It should be a wonderful event that hopefully starts a tradition in our area. The Chamber of Commerce is looking for people who own motorcycles to help with the triathlon. They need people to drive along the biking portion of the race with judges on the back. If you are interested, please call Brenda or Kelley at 651-257-1177.
On Wednesday, August 2 at 7:30 a.m., there will be another downtown Highway 8 meeting at Lindstrom City Hall. I would like to invite each and every resident of Lindstrom to the meeting. It is imperative that the citizens of Lindstrom learn all they can about the potential Highway 8 changes so they can form their own opinion about all the different plans on the table. Trust me, what you hear from other people as opposed to what the plans really look like are usually quite different. Come listen, formulate your own opinion and then let the city council know how you feel. Otherwise, you could potentially have somebody submit a plan that nobody has ever seen before whether it is good or bad. You are the voice.
Well it’s official. We have finally landed on the evening news. Unfortunately with all of the wonderful things that take place in our area it would take a horrible event like last weekend to bring the television stations out to our neck of the woods. Having young children, we have been accustomed to watching the early newscast out of sheer tiredness.
For quite awhile I have been meaning to call them or e-mail them about the context of their broadcasts (mainly FOX 9). If there was ever a case of over-sensationalizing a subject this newscast epitomizes that to the nth degree. The first 20 minutes of the broadcast are filled with murders, beatings, rapes and usually animal cruelty. Combine all of these subjects with some throaty man’s voice teasing the viewers with ridiculous tag lines, and you have basically Jerry Springer news. If there is ever a snifter of good news to report they shove it in the last 20 seconds of their broadcast. After all, who wants to hear about someone who did a good deed or a town celebration? I know what you are thinking, why doesn’t this dope just turn the channel? It’s simple, I am addicted to the weather segment of the news...even if they are wrong most of the time.
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