News Topic: Minnesota Stories

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08/29/2010 - An outdoor conversation with Julie and Dan McAlister of New Hope focuses on how a natural setting provided by the nonprofit Faith’s Lodge of Minneapolis helped them heal from the tragic loss of a child.

The mission of Faith's Lodge is to provide a place where parents and families facing the serious illness or loss of a child can retreat to reflect on the past, renew strength for the present and build hope for the future. In its north woods setting, Faith's Lodge provides a peaceful escape for families to refresh their minds and spirits while spending time with others who understand what they are experiencing.

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08/27/2010 - The civic engagement put forth by Rep. Julie Bunn and Senator Kathy Saltzman in their persistent and dedicated flight for the health of their community exemplifies what Clara Ueland envisioned when helping establish the "League" nearly 90 years ago by encouraging women to engage in their newly won civic responsibilities. Those of us in the conservation community are indebted to these two conservation champions for their tireless work to protect our natural resources for our children and our grandchildren.  They are without a doubt present day conservation champions; Clara Ueland, a leading Minnesota advocate for the rights of women, would have been proud. 

News Topic(s): Wildlife  What's New  News!  Minnesota Stories  John Latimer  

08/25/2010 - John Latimer is staff phenologist for KAXE, Northern Community Radio in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.

A lone nighthawk snatches my attention today, flying solo and south. Three days hence I will immerse myself in a flock of 40 or more as they hunt the fields along Blue Heron Road. They swoop past me as if I were merely another obstacle. I can't focus on one bird there are simply too many. As I watch one, another will sail past within 10 feet. Charcoal gray missiles with white wing marks, they put on a dazzling display of aerobatic prowess. 

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07/30/2010 - The future of our new green economy needs hard-driving and smart business people like William D. Washburn who not only have a vision for local and clean energy, but also have the ability to make it happen.  Like the Minneapolis millers back in 1800s who recognized the importance of what their local power source could do for our community, Minneapolis is fortunate to have a visionary business today that recognizes the value of clean renewable energy in Mortenson Construction.

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07/23/2010 - Beth Waterhouse is executive director of the Oberholtzer Foundation. A writer, editor, and teacher whose mission is to bring wholeheartedness and the power of story and poetry into environmental work, Beth taught a course in Environmental Ethics at the University of Minnesota until 2007. With her husband, Don Maronde, she lives, writes, and tries to garden in Excelsior, Minnesota.

Picture the canoe, sliding silently into the marsh and moving toward a yearling bull moose feeding downwind.  The green canoe stops, starts, stops again.  We as distant observers of the whole river wetland now notice that when the moose raises his head, the canoe stops.  When the moose lowers his head into the marsh to pull up more June grasses, the canoe silently slips ahead ten or twenty feet.  A small man kneels in the bow of the canoe-- at last a click, two, three clicks of a 3A Graphlex camera.  Not a word is spoken between the two men in the canoe…

Ernest Oberholtzer, adopted Minnesotan, sets the tone for such an episode in his article, “Photographing Wild Moose” written for the August 1915 issue of American Photography. 
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