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Sept. 29, 2011 • V41.39
Thursday Open up and say Musical to open season with free concert
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Eric Scites of Pomeroy, Ohio, demonstrates his fire-eating ability Sept. 22 at the completion of his 19 the century medicine show during the annual River Rendezvous at Pond-Dakota Mission Park in Bloomington. The weeklong event provides historic demonstrations and recreations for school groups and the public each year.
Classical music organization marking its 120th Weekly anniversary Super Savings!
BY MIKE HANKS • SUN NEWSPAPERS It’s not unusual for Jack Purcell to get behind the wheel of his 1992 Ford Escort and push the bright orange relic of a bygone era to speeds approaching 80 mph. It’s a car that wouldn’t typically impress his classmates at Jefferson High School, but Purcell’s Escort is not the typical rust bucket one might imagine when picturing a car that is two decades old. Purcell is more than two months away from his 16th birthday, but that hasn’t stopped him from getting behind the wheel of his Escort on a weekly basis. Sans license, however, Purcell and his Escort stick to the oval racetracks in Shakopee and Elko New Market, where he races in the entry-level class on Saturday and Sunday nights. And in his second year he’s
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Behind-thewheel instruction like no other Bloomington student shines in the world of stock car racing
BY MIKE HANKS • SUN NEWSPAPERS Whether it is a preference for classical, jazz, country or pop music, there’s one thing that Weekly most Super everyone likes the Savings! sound of. Free. Thursday Musical, the classical musical organization that stages concerts at Bloomington Center for the Arts, is kicking off its 120th W ewith e k layfree S uconcert p e r S next avings! season week. The organization hosts
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