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Pelosi agenda out of touch with needs of Minnesotans Editor’s note: This piece written by U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber recently appeared in the Duluth News Tribune with a note that it was written “exclusively for the News Tribune.” However, when we went to Stauber’s website to find a contact to let him know that The Reader would also be interested in exclusive offerings for its readers, we found the exclusive article was posted as a press release, so we reprint it here exclusively for our readers. Let us know what you think. Is the Congressman in touch with his constituents? When Northeastern Minnesota reelected me to Congress last month, I reaffirmed my commitment to serving all my constituents, whether they voted for me or not. I stand by this promise. We find ourselves in unprecedented times, and our nation is calling for its leaders to find bipartisan solutions to help every American. I was eager to return to Washington, D.C., this week to complete the critical items pending in Congress. Over the course of the next few weeks, we need to authorize military spending (including a pay raise for

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As the executive director of the Minnesota Funeral Directors Association, I have the privilege of working with funeral directors and understand, as much as a layperson can, what they encounter on a daily basis. We are currently receiving many inquiries about funeral service and the impact of COVID-19, and I want to take this opportunity to help everyone understand the current situation, and funeral service overall. Funeral homes are very busy keeping the families they serve and funeral home staff safe. Their main goal is to assist families in a way that allows for dignity, respect, and the beginning of shared grief. This all takes time. However, this is not new because of the pandemic; it is what funeral directors have done from the beginning of time. Funeral homes continue to use the protocols set by Governor Walz and the Minnesota Department of Health Mortuary Science Section in an effort to keep everyone safe. Currently, funeral homes do have the capacity to serve the number of deaths. Obviously, this

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our troops), pass a spending bill to avoid another government shutdown, and, finally, provide American businesses and workers with targeted COVID-19 relief. However, I was quickly disappointed to learn that Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Stauber the House back with no intention of addressing any of these pressing issues. Instead, she called us back to vote on bills to legalize drugs and criminalize owning tigers. Every day, my office is flooded with calls from Minnesotans whose livelihoods and businesses have been devastated these last nine months. These calls and messages have only increased after Gov. Tim Walz unilaterally reinstated massive and crippling restrictions on businesses across the state. My constituents are furious, tired, and frustrated with these painful restrictions. On one hand, they are being forced to shutter their doors in the busiest time of consumer spending. On the other,

they are disappointed to learn that, at the federal level, Speaker Pelosi’s top priority is legalizing drugs. Quite frankly, Minnesotans should be offended by Speaker Pelosi’s partisan antics and tone-deaf priorities. Not only does this drug-legalization bill have nothing to do with helping Americans during this difficult time, it would exacerbate our nation’s drug crisis. As a former Duluth police officer, I have seen firsthand the terrible toll drugs take on families and communities. As Speaker Pelosi pushes this reckless partisan bill, I am reminded of some of my most difficult moments on the police force: the countless times I had to knock on a parent’s door, knowing I was about to deliver the worst news of their life, that their child had died of a drug overdose. I don’t want to see another family destroyed by drugs or addiction. I worked to prevent this as a police officer, and my commitment remains steadfast as your congressman. Rather than pushing partisan and irresponsible legislation to legalize drugs, Speaker Pelosi should be pushing bipartisan legislation that will save jobs and businesses and that

will create opportunity. For example, there’s still more than $130 billion sitting idle in the Paycheck Protection Program, which kept countless small businesses and employees afloat back when the COVID-19 economic crisis began. I have been fighting for months for the release of these unused funds to help millions of other businesses, yet Speaker Pelosi continues to block this legislation. I know this bill would pass with bipartisan support if the speaker would only bring it to the House floor for a vote. We need to return to working together on pragmatic solutions that will truly help Minnesotans during this time. This crisis is impacting our entire way of life, and now more than ever calls for bipartisanship. This moment calls for common-sense legislation that would truly help the American worker and taxpayer. In our neck of the woods, common sense is not legalizing a gateway drug with so many detrimental effects. Unfortunately, Speaker Pelosi’s weekly agenda proves, once again, her priorities are out of touch with the needs of Minnesotans.

could change as fatality numbers are increasing. For some perspective, in 2019 the total number of deaths in Minnesota were 45,395, which was an increase of .015% more than 2018. For 2020, as of September 30, the total deaths statewide were 36,488. We do anticipate the numbers to be higher by the end of the year, but not by a significant margin. Funeral directors, as medical professionals, know they can reach out to other funeral directors for assistance when necessary. This professional community includes physicians, medical examiners, the Minnesota Department of Health Mortuary Science Section and Department of Vital Records. We all hear about our many health care workers on the front lines of this pandemic, and we truly owe them a debt of gratitude. They are the first responders. But we also need to remember our last responders, our funeral directors and others working with grieving families right now. They are the final encounter many of these families will have after having gone through what is surely a tremendously difficult time with their loved one dy-

ing. Our funeral directors are among the most compassionate, kindest people you will ever meet, in a profession they love and take great pride in. They do this work because they care for the families they work with. So, yes, they are busy. Yes, it is just as hard on them as on other medical professionals and other families who are working to keep their loved ones safe while continuing to provide essential services. I am so proud to be a small part of this industry, and to call so many of these people friends. Darlyne L. Erickson, CAE Executive Director Minnesota Funeral Directors Association

freedoms.” This while Trump’s primary focus is his egotistical demand to have the vaccine named after him. Trump-publicans have ceased thinking. Whatever spews out of Trump’s mouth is swallowed, but not digested. It quickly comes back up, regurgitated but intact. Blind faith to his whims, no matter how illogical, or lacking in veracity or believability, leads to a slavish obedience. It’s a fascinating, but sickening, phenomenon to watch. “Pardons for pay” is the latest “breaking news,” and is being investigated by authorities, while Trump turns the White House into the headquarters for corruption and incompetence. More than anything else, this farce resembles performance art of the black comedy variety. Next year, along with relief from the pandemic, there’ll be the satisfaction of watching all the lawsuits that will bring Trump and his family to justice two things I look forward to with great anticipation. Gail Matthews Kellogg, Idaho (formerly of Duluth)

Breaking news Our frontline health care workers are showing symptoms of PTSD, and begging the public to wear masks, while some hospitals are now announcing they’re at capacity, and some 911 systems are at their breaking points. Almost 3,000 deaths yesterday alone. At the same time, many Republican leaders and Trump supporters are living in a Trump-land fantasy world, where masks are a left wing plot to “curtail or destroy our

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Democracy on the cheap The Duluth School Board is contemplating changing school board elections from odd-numbered years to even-numbered years. In 1953 school board member’s terms were three-years long. That meant elections were held on both even and odd years. These however were spring elections and in 1973 the terms were extended to four years so that half the school board was elected every other odd year. The City of Duluth followed the same cycle for the city council races. The Duluth News Tribune’s Dec. 5 story “Duluth School Board may shake up local elections in break with city” spells out the pros and cons of a proposal to move the district’s races to an even-year election cycle. Even-year elections coincide with the higher vote counts of gubernatorial and presidential elections. The story mentions that a similar school district proposal became contentious. In my last term on the school board, I lambasted a similar proposal in my blog on May 6, 2015. My post, “The Atom Bomb Part 1,” explained that if it went into effect the school board chair would have gotten a fifth “free” year on the school board without an election. Her motivation? Well it’s worth noting that two weeks after we shot the idea down she voted to censure a cantankerous colleague of ours for manifestly dishonest accusations of his being violent, racist, unethical and a bully. The Chair had initially hoped to remove him from the board. Five months later she voted to censure me too. The primary justification given for changing the election years was to save money. It was estimated to save $10,000 or one-tenth of the cost of a teacher’s salary and benefits. I have become leery of such justifications. When the Red Plan was first proposed its supporters sent out a survey which told those being surveyed that not bothering with an election would save thousands of dollars. Its not surprising that the sensible majority of respondents answered that it would be fine to skip a referendum and save those costs.

However, by not voting on the Red Plan they would trade piddling election expenses for a half-billion dollar building plan. It easily doubled school taxes, but even this wasn’t enough. Duluth had to lay off a hundred teachers so their salaries could be used to pay off the ever-growing building debts – unvoted on debts. There is only one serious argument for even-numbered election years – more voters. In the low-vote odd-year elections school board insiders, elitists and public employees come out in greater numbers to choose the board. I’ve had a quarter century to make a lot of those people unhappy so, as I told Member Johnston in 2015, if anyone was likely to benefit from an even-year election it would be me. Like Donald Trump I have a lot of local name recognition. And, as we’re constantly reminded, elections have consequences, especially this year with its life and death coronavirus battleground. For instance, Senator Gesundheit, (R) Nisswa, who joined President Trump in ridiculing face masks, just brought the pandemic into the state legislature. His fellow Republicans tried to hide this. Since his exposure as a modern-day Typhoid Mary, Gesundheit and other Republican legislators want to be first in line to get vaccinations. Last night I watched the movie Mank on Netflix. Its an homage to the most acclaimed and least watched film of the World War II era, Citizen Kane. It was the least watched because newspaperman William Randolph Hearst, that era’s Rupert Murdoch, pulled strings to keep it out of America. Mank is screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, whose script flipped the bird at the rich and powerful only to have Director Orson Wells hog the credit. When Orson was asked how it felt to have made the best thing he would ever make at such a young age he must have winced. The Oscar-winning screenplay was someone else’s work. I was particularly taken with the movie’s flashback subplot involving the infamous 1934 California Governor’s race. It was a precursor to the Trump campaign Red Scare treatment of Bernie Sanders. In 1934 socialist author, Upton Sin-

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A campaign photo from Harry’s first successful election in 1995 for his sixth attempt at public office. clair, was best known for his book The Jungle. His book describing the filth in meat packing plants so disgusted Teddy Roosevelt that TR is said to have thrown it out of a White House window. Damn Socialists! If Sinclair hadn’t gotten packing plants cleaned up Donald Trump might have choked to death years ago on a Happy Meal. Sinclair, like Sanders, was out spent and defamed into the ground by the filthy rich.

If I got Mank right, that’s what Citizen Kane was all about. BTW: I’m keeping my eye out on the school board race. If its moved off a year I may have to choose between running for the school board for the 11th time or running for Congress a fifth time. Harry Welty cheerfully annoys his eight loyal readers at lincolndemocrat.com.

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does Duluth become a healthier and more resilient city, with regards to the environment, public health, local economic development and other primary issues of concern to the greater community? In January 2021, the city council or a group of community stakeholders could announce the creation of a new climate task force. The mandate for the task force is simple. Within 90 days, this group will prepare and present a report to the city council, as well as the sustainability director and community leaders,

effectively address these climate events, then the first step is to change the way we think about climate change. Hertsgaard wrote, “The climate problem has undergone a paradigm shift; we humans must now make a paradigm shift of our own.” So, if Duluth wants to gain a deeper and more thorough understanding of climate change, then we need to make a paradigm shift in how we look at climate change. And to undertake that shift, we need to identify and acknowledge all the interconnections between climate change and every issue or service that impacts the greater community. From Jeff Nesbit’s book, This Is The Way The World Ends, to The Uninhabitable Earth by David WallaceWells, numerous journalists and scientists have written and reported about the growing evidence connecting climate change to infectious diseases and pandemics. Nesbit references a study by a group of ecology and evolutionary biologists in Science during the summer of 2013 that linked climate change and various public health threats, while WallaceWells wrote about new plagues and diseases that climate change will introduce to the world. For Duluth to move forward, it must take a different and more timely approach to addressing climate change. An approach that connects climate change to our city’s public health and other concerns like Duluth’s environmental and economic health. To connect the dots, Duluth needs to connect climate change to anything whose health is negatively impacted. In his book The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results, Gary Keller wrote, “Answers come from the questions, and the quality of any answer is directly determined by the quality of the question. Ask the wrong question, get the wrong answer. Ask the right question, get the right answer. Ask the most powerful question, and the answer will be life altering.” It’s time for the city to ask the most powerful question, and at the same time, connect the dots: How

While doing research and writing about climate change, I’ve found myself going back on several occasions to Timothy Morton’s book The Ecological Thought. In his opening remarks, Morton wrote, “The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy – for some, strangely or frighteningly easy – to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This is the ecological thought. And the more we consider it, the more our world opens up.” Yet, Morton expresses concern that for most of us it hasn’t been easy, if not impossible, to see the interconnections. According to Morton, this modern society we live in has not only destroyed various ecosystems and species but also has prevented us from seeing the “mesh of life” and therefore, this negatively impacts the way we envision how we can live together and coexist. So, given his argument, if we don’t take an ecological approach to climate change, then our world closes down. In Duluth, I’m very concerned that we don’t see it. We don’t see the larger picture. We don’t see the interconnections. We don’t see the mesh. I’m also worried that Duluth’s local governments and community leaders have adopted a mechanical and limited mindset which compartmentalizes how they view climate change and its relationship not only with the environment but also with significant community concerns like the city’s public health, economic development and housing. By doing this, our leaders will have disconnected themselves from exploring and undertaking the most comprehensive and proactive strategies to helping Duluth become a healthier and more resilient city. In his book Hot: Living Through The Next Fifty Years On Earth, Mark Hertsgaard stated that if we want to

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Ruminations on the future The election is over. But the struggle for a better America continues. It will be a long, uphill struggle to undo the damage of the last four years. In order to have any chance of making progress, Democrats must lead with a bold agenda that addresses the real needs of the majority of the people. They cannot succeed by pursuing policies from the past. They cannot succeed by seeking to return to a fictional “normal.” They must aggressively pursue new solutions to the old problems that impact all of us – including the 74 million who voted Republican. The truth is Democrats barely defeated the worst president in our country’s history. The final popular vote and Electoral College count gave Biden the victory. But this result came very close to going the other way. Biden won three states by very small margins – Wisconsin by about 20,000, Arizona by 12,000 and Georgia by 10,000. These 41 electoral votes would

have given Trump the presidency 273 to 265. In all three of these states the Libertarian party received enough votes to keep Trump from winning. The far right wing Libertarian party, by “throwing away” their votes, gave Biden the election. The country can breathe a sigh of relief that we will not have to endure four more years of Trump’s totally disastrous leadership. But Democrats have little to cele-brate. More people voted for Trump this election than in 2016. Trump won more states than Biden. More states have Republicanthan Democratic-controlled governments. The Senate will probably remain controlled by Republicans and they picked up some House seats. The country is more divided than ever. It is astonishing (and depressing) that 74 million people voted to continue the obvious misrule of the last four years. In doing so our friends, relatives and neighbors said it is just

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fine with them that the president is a raging self-centered, lying, corrupt asshole! It is OK to use his office to funnel money to his private businesses and ignore numerous laws. It is OK for the president to openly encourage racists and armed domestic terrorists. It is just fine that 240,000 people have died because of his mishandling of the the pandemic. This list is only the beginning of the outrages. How can 74 million people be so blind? So it is easy to be very pessimistic about the future. The problems are huge, there are many obstacles, and the country is hopelessly divided. No amount of “reaching across the aisle” or “coming together to heal the nation” is likely to change the political realities – certainly not one marginal Democratic victory in a presidential election. President Obama wasted most of his eight years in office in a futile effort to find compromise and bipartisan solutions. President Biden must not make this mistake. Trump is not going into obscurity and Republicans are pledging to obstruct everything coming from the new administration (even routine cabinet appointments). Biden must fight for what is right and needed from day one. Biden must not make the mistake of seeking to get back to “normal.” There is no normal anymore. Harking back to the Clinton and Obama administrations is a mistake. Their centrist, Wall Street and mega-corp friendly policies are part of the problems not the solutions. Real solutions must be about what is important to people’s everyday lives. Biden must work on kitchen table issues that affect everyone, whether on main street, suburbia, farm country, big cities or the ghetto. This must include the rural, small-town farmers and small business owners who supported Trump. Reinventing the Clinton and Obama policies will also alienate the liberal wing of the party. Biden can’t make this mistake. Many of these people worked hard to get Biden elected. They deserve a place at the table. Biden will need them for the fight with the obstructionist Republicans. Biden cannot take these people for granted. Biden and the Democratic party need a long-term program to rebuild and reinvent the social contract with the

American people. They need to show people what it means to govern for the best interests of everyone. They need to build respect and trust with people across the whole spectrum of society regardless of the political party. This will require a bold, visionary, positive agenda that puts the needs of people first. Democrats don’t have the power to enact this agenda but they do have “agenda-setting power.” Biden can LEAD even if Republicans, and half the population, refuse to follow. Biden can do this with issues that a majority of the public support. For years polls have shown the public is more liberal on specific policy issues than the close partisan elections would indicate. These issues provide a place to start building a new paradigm. Here are several to illustrate my point. • Dealing with the pandemic is critical. Unfortunately the pandemic is out of control. The mess has been made and we all have to live with the consequences. But one needed action is possible – stopping the drug giants from making a fortune off any vaccine. Do this and Biden will be a hero. • The majority of people recognize that the cost of health care, drugs and health insurance is exorbitant and unnecessary. Depending on the source, 60-70 percent support some form of universal, government sponsored national insurance program. • Fixing the broken electoral process is another. The Republicans have railed about election fraud. So it is time to call their bluff. Biden needs to lead with strong comprehensive reform proposals. Overturning the Citizens’ United Supreme Court decision, ending the Electoral College, serious campaign finance limits, and ending gerrymandering are all supported by most Americans. • The Green New Deal is popular and could be a tool for reinvigorating rural areas and dying small towns. A national program to bring broadband internet to these areas could be the New Deal rural electrification program of our time. Republican opposition will make all this difficult if not unsuccessful. But the act of leading, setting an agenda, and advocating for a better vision is essential. Even if you don’t win in the short term you build respect and trust. This will bring hope to the faithful and demonstrate the moral bankruptcy of the opposition. Where there is no hope and no vision the people perish. Biden must LEAD or the future of all of us is in peril.

A superhero for climate change I remember Smokey the Bear’s visits to Ashland’s Wilmarth School in the 1960s. We’d gather in the new gym and Smokey would lumber in and tell his story. When I recently saw a Smokey sign in the Chequamegon National Forest, it brought a smile to my face – like seeing an old friend. I think Smokey has survived all these years because his message is timeless and asks something specific: Only YOU Can Prevent Forest Fires. He’s like a superhero for the woods. I think we need a 21s century companion for Smokey – a superhero for climate change. Like Smokey, our superhero should be easily recognizable and deliver a timeless message – maybe some kind of cool, animated figure who could go viral on Instagram or TikTok. Climate change is a global issue, and our superhero could show up on screens from Wisconsin to India to the North Pole. Like Smokey, I think our superhero should be a friend to all – and able to work with all kinds of people. Because in order to meet climate change challenges, we’re going to need the energy industry, car manufacturers, scientists, the ag industry, educators, faith leaders, world leaders, and parents and their children, to name just a few.

And possibly an animator. I think our superhero’s message has to be positive. A couple of years ago I helped a group of students write a play about climate change. After several false starts, we came up with a theme: We’re all part of the climate change problem, so we must all be part of the solution. With a few tweaks, it’s pretty close to Smokey’s message: Only WE can solve climate change. Finally, what’s our superhero’s name? Pete the Polar Bear? Carl the Carbon-eater? Future Woman? Captain Earth? Smokey doesn’t have a magic wand to prevent forest fires; he admonishes US to take care of the woods. Our climate change superhero won’t have a magic wand either; it’s up to US to solve climate change. I think our superhero’s name has to be Captain Us. Because only WE can solve climate change. How? We need to educate ourselves. I recommend David Attenborough’s A Life on Our Planet on Netflix, the story of Attenborough’s love for all life on earth, and his urgent plea for action. The film documents the increase in atmospheric carbon during our lifetime – and its devastating effect on the planet. The non-partisan Citizens’ Climate Lobby recommends a revenueneutral, carbon fee-and-dividend

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plan for carbon reduction. You can help to secure this legislation by joining the Chequamegon Chapter at citizensclimatelobby.org and clicking on JOIN CCL. (It’s free!) Xcel Energy plans to reduce carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2030, and by 100 per cent by 2050. Go to xcelenergy.com and click on Programs and Rebates to choose from several options for clean energy for your home or business. Focus on Energy is an organization whose mission is “to empower the people and businesses of Wisconsin to make smart energy decisions with enduring economic benefits.“ Visit focusonenergy.com to learn how to make your home or business more efficient, and sign up to receive one of six different energy-saving packs

– free! Captain Us! As climate change superheroes, it might seem like we can only do small things, but they add up. Let’s work to keep 1,000-year storms from washing out Highway 2, and to keep algae from blooming in Chequamegon Bay. Let’s work so we can Book Across the Bay and ski the Birkie. Let’s all be superheroes. Liz Fentress is a member of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby Chequamegon Chapter. She recently moved home, with her husband, to northern Wisconsin after working in the theatre in Kentucky for 40 years; she missed the lake.

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Religious freedom in a tech world Close encounters

Amazon recently made headlines in the Wall Street Journal when it announced it was going to pay $500 million in bonuses to hundreds of thousands of employees who were working during the pandemic. It did not announce that CEO Jeff Bezos, who is the world’s richest person at $190 billion, had earned that $500 million in less than one hour on the stock market in May, 2020 when he personally earned $13 billion in one 24-hour period. (When he divorced his wife recently because she caught him having an affair, he made her the 15th wealthiest woman in the world.) Generosity must be his middle name. It isn’t. If he had paid each of his 870,000 employees a $100,000 bonus instead of about $300, he would have had the same bank account numbers he had at the beginning of the pandemic. When will Bezos think he has enough wealth? He is acting like another mythical King Midas who in a deal with a satyr got his wish that everything he touched would turn to gold. He first touched a table and chair. They immediately turned to gold. He then ordered a banquet of the finest foods. But when the tasty morsels touched his lips they turned to gold. Then his beautiful young daughter rushed across the room and embraced him. Guess what happened. While 20,000 Amazon workers

have been infected by COVID-19, they have not received any hazard pay for months while working in conditions that love viruses. Bezos is pathologically anti-union and has spent billions keeping unions out of Amazon in the U.S. But his European facilities are mostly unionized because European businesses tend to work well with unions. Working conditions in Amazon warehouses are much better in Europe than in the U.S. Bezos has used electronic surveillance, private investigators, and the Pinkerton Agency to keep union organizers out of facilities. The company has fired many of them using other reasons. Finally, a warehouse in Alabama has met the 30%-of-the-work-force rules of the Labor Department and will hold an election soon to determine if a majority of workers want a union. About 870,000 other Amazon employees and millions of other U.S. workers will be watching the most important election in decades in the U.S. It may even decide whether we have a democracy or not. If one warehouse accepts a union, there will be a union “pandemic” in other warehouses in the country. I consider this a close encounter with the future.

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What will be on the grave markers in Tombstone, USA? In a story that would fit with a close encounter with the past, this one

would not even sell in Hollywood until now. In keeping with the fact that we seem to have a shooting in the metro area every night, a Trumplican woman from Rifle, Colorado, who was just elected to congress plans on wearing a Glock pistol on the House floor. You see, she also runs the Shooters Grill restaurant in Rifle, was highly endorsed by our hero King Donald, and “carries” one of the 420 million firearms while serving her customers in our other dangerous pandemic that kills and wounds 140,000 Americans a calendar year. The psychopath endorsed her as “a fighter who will never bow down to the establishment in Congress.” We sure kill a lot of people every year. COVBID-19 will probably knock off more than 300,000 by 2021, 70,000 will die of Sackler Oxycontin overdoses, and more than 1,000 will be shot and killed by cops this year. Well, I guess we live in a “Make-My-Day” world. As an old Marine with an Expert Rifleman’s Badge, my attention heightens any time I’m around firearms. Some day in the future this entire country will be another OK Corral if we don’t get control of the firearm pandemic. Every city and town will have a large Tombstone cemetery filled with gunfighters. Why do 30% of young people want freedom from religion? I started thinking about God and religion when I was a Roman Catholic eighth grader in 1945 and watched the horrors of Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen and other death and “concentration” camps on the newsreels in the Falls Theater at the end of World War II. The images of naked starved bodies of all ages in big piles, the ash-filled ovens with human bones, the bodies in yet-to-be-covered mass graves, and the faces of young children pressing the barbed wire before they entered the gas chambers marvelously concentrates the mind. I will never forget the answer of a Jewish survivor who was asked whether he believed in God. His response: “Perhaps I will believe in a God if he can satisfactorily answer why he allowed six million Jews and countless disabled adults and children to be killed by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.”

In those days we were taught in catechism classes that the Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus, so I asked our priest Father Lematte what he thought of the Jew’s answer. He said: “I don’t know. Just remember only Christians go to Heaven.” That was taught until 1965, long after we had left the Catholic Church in 1960. In the 1970’s the Vatican made a statement that Jews were not “collectively” responsible for the death, but it did not give a blanket answer. It wasn’t until 2011 that Pope Benedict XVI finally made a sweeping exoneration for all the Jewish people in a book. It only took 2,000 years to come to that conclusion. What turns Supreme Court Justices Into pandemic health experts? On Nov. 28, 2020, Pope Francis held a consistory in St. Peter’s basilica to appoint and promote 13 bishops to the College of Cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church. It is an important and historical meeting each year about the leadership of the Vatican. Cardinals select and elect the next pope before a puff of white smoke. But for the first time in history the basilica, the largest church in the world holding as many as 60,000, was empty. Everyone involved with the ceremony wore masks and were socially distanced – except for two candidates who were quarantined in their countries. The Vatican, even with all that prayer power, was carefully following the rules of the Italian government because Italy was in another “surge.” Meanwhile, back in the Divided States, five Roman Catholic geniuses on the Supreme Court voted that they alone knew how to fix the pandemic, that it was a hoax created by the Democrats, that it was what it was, and that socialism brought it on. In a midnight Friday press release they wrote they knew more about COVID-19 than five world-renowned epidemiologists who had fought similar pandemics around the world for decades. Does that sound like somebody we know? Chief Justice John Roberts, trying to save “his” court from future political oblivion, dissented with the three wildassed liberals left: “It is a significant matter to override the determinations made by public health officials concerning what is necessary for public safety in the midst of a deadly pandemic.”

It was a nice way of saying “You have ruined my court for a decade with that decision. It was time to listen to experts, not bishops and rabbis wearing crazy hats and waving Bibles.” New York Solicitor General Barbara Underwood defended the actions of the governor at the court: “Indoor religious services tend to involve large numbers of people from different households arriving simultaneously; congregating as an audience for an extended period of time to talk, sing or chant; and then leaving simultaneously – as well as the possibility that participants will mingle in close proximity throughout.” Who has to go to church to pray, sing hymns, read the Bible, participate in online services, instruct children, and do good works in the neighborhood? No one. You can pray and sing hymns in your living room. You can even put money in the collection plate by sending a check. Chief Justice Roberts in his dissent reminded the majority that customers in “operating grocery stores, banks, liquor stores and laundromats neither congregate in large groups nor remain in close proximity for extended periods.” He also reminded them that casinos, bowling alleys, game arcades, movie theaters, and physical fitness centers are closed completely.

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A few questions for six conservative Catholic Supreme Court Justices 1. Should a hospital chain owned by the Catholic Church be allowed to deny treatment to members of the LBGTQ+ community? 2. Should atheists be allowed to deduct from their property taxes the costs of providing fire and police services to all religious institutions in the city? 3. Should pharmacists and pharmacies be required to keep morning-after Plan B drugs available for sale at all times? 4. Should a Christian baker refuse to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple? 5. Can an agent refuse to rent an apartment to a married same-sex couple? 6. Can a Christian medical facility refuse to perform an abortion on a woman who is suffering from an immediate life-threatening situation? 7. Do you consider health care a privilege or a right? 8. Can a state or school system require students to be vaccinated for certain diseases? 9. Can a pharmacist or pharmacy be required to sell contraceptives, condoms, etc. to teenagers? 10. Can a city tell a citizen how many dinner guests he can invite to his home?

11. If women are equal to men in our Declaration of Independence, why has the Vatican banned women from ordination, priesthood, and pulpit? 12. How many same-sex marriages have been conducted on the altar of Fargo’s St. Mary’s Cathedral where Corky and I were married in 1954? 13. Do you agree that “street sweeper” shotguns with ammo drums should be banned? Do you approve of selling .50 caliber sniper rifles that can destroy an engine block? 14. What are the relationships among the human sex drive, the celibacy rules for priests, the sexual abuse cases, and the bankruptcy of dioceses across the country? 15. Do you believe that the LBGTQ+ community is “intrinsically disordered” and that all members are going to Hell? We have come a long way from the Constitution of 1787 when only white property owners had total

domination over our society. Going back to that original language really doesn’t make any sense. The new administration in 2021will be made up of humans of different colors with very different experiences. Many may not even own property. As an example, members of the LBGTQ+ community have been elected and will represent their constituents in governing cities, counties, states, and the country. A 25-year-old Chinese bisexual person was elected in November to represent San Jose in the California Legislature. Democratic Socialists of America endorsed 26 candidates elected to state legislatures. Astronauts living on the International Space Station were able to vote on November 3. A contract was let to a private company to remove “junk” from space to make it safer for space travel. Originalism and textualism in interpreting the Constitution is Middle Age stuff.

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NUFA, labor movement need your help The National Union of Friendly Americans (NUFA) held an emergency meeting at Camp Shack International Labor Temple as the slave masters and fuddy duddies closed in on the hardearned workplace gains earned over the past century, rights that have allowed freedom and dignity and a small measure of the democratic process to be exercised. Here it is, 2020, and our right to 40 acres and a mule when you retire is out the window if these moneyed skinflints have their way. In short, we need to bolster the NUFA ranks to fend off this latest myopia of the collective soul of the nation, the latest assault on life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and your rightful share of the Camp Shack Health Care System. The Shack Drum and Bugle Corps and the Camp Shack Marching Band have been targeted for budget cuts. The Camp Shack Education and Philosophical Consortium is on the

chopping block again. The Fishhouse Conservation Corps could very well be disbanded. The very workings of The Machine That Runs The World may be on the chopping block, with its thousands of working class people operating the robots that keep the conveyor belts humming at supersonic speed to produce what we need in life. A way of life that has evolved in tragedy and triumph since the dawn of the republic is being labeled godless and morally bankrupt by men and women with shiny hair and low selfesteem, self-promoters who’ve been bitten by the bug of greed and ego, their capacity for empathy withered on the vine. At the shack we can still hang our socks where we please, don’t have to wait until 5 p.m. for cocktails, have ample access to the suggestion box and our elected officials, have the right to vote as many times as we want,

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paintings on the wall are allowed to hang crooked. The false populists want to change all that. They want to erase the middle class and hand us over to the slave masters to be used as serfs and sharecroppers, to be made indigent in a world that’s grown larger than the sum of all its individual parts. We’re all just migrant labor in a (no) right to work nation, lucky to have a job as the ranks of the Army of the Unemployed and Underemployed swell, the reward of a tax cut slipped in the bottom of our shoe to patch a hole. Brandishing pitchforks and torches and commanding the airwaves, the slave masters have carefully obfuscated the facts about the rights of workers to engage in collective bargaining and gather a pension, painting a picture of excess and elitism in the union movement and falsely accusing the proletariat of being the bourgeoisie. Backed by the robber barons and financiers, the false populists dance in retrograde to the natural laws of the planet, pray to the God of Convenience and the Bottom Line, lust for a return to xenophobia and conformity and family values as portrayed by Ozzie and Harriet, recorded in front of a studio audience. Even the Camp Shack yoga instructor has felt the impact. The Bhagavad-Gita has been targeted as a disruptive text by the slave masters, different from their texts and therefore suspect, foreign. The Library in the Great Hall has every volume and all laborers and hobos at camp receive free handouts with every drink coupon, providing guidance in the ways of enlightenment, promoting friendliness and compassion, a life free from self-regard and vanity. Join NUFA now and receive your

own copy. You’ll also receive a onetime offer of locally-crafted selfsharpening and thought provoking kitchen cutlery as well as a signed copy of Steal This Book by the late Abbie Hoffmann, as well as the Woody Guthrie Songbook, another text regarded with a narrowed eye by the slave masters. With membership comes all rights and privileges to the Camp Shack Archives which hold the last vestiges of our shared humanity in hardbound editions displayed according to the Dewey Decimal System. All unclaimed tips left at the bar go to maintenance and restoration of the vast collection of literature and historical footnotes that date back to the time when man first dropped from the trees and decided he might like a Ford rather than a Chevrolet and that a man, just like a cow, can be led to pasture with a few select words and the right amount of fear. You’ll be taught the secret handshake. You’ll be provided with x-ray glasses that can spot a charlatan with the flag on his lapel a mile away. You’ll be provided a hat that will deflect closed-mindedness. The slave masters know we know. Shack mentality has been labeled detrimental and an enemy of the people, NUFA a socialist illusion fueled by rum and debauchery. Buoyed by the Mandate of the Clueless the hoaxsters believe they have the upper hand as they march the people toward the edge of the cliff. Join NUFA now and help stem the rising tide of ignorance. Join NUFA now before we become homogenized like a strip mall, our dignity turned into a slogan found in a fortune cookie. Join NUFA now.

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James A. Bergl Jan. 26, 1972 – Nov. 30, 2020 James Anthony Bergl, 48, of Duluth died unexpectedly in Essentia Health, St. Mary’s Hospital. He was born in Duluth to Anthony and Deanna Bergl. James graduated from Duluth Marshall High School as a “proud Hilltopper” and was a U.S. Army Veteran, retiring from the Army National Guard. He had also worked as a prison guard at the Moose Lake Correctional Facility. He was a member of St. John’s Catholic Church. He had run Grandma’s Marathon and the Inline Marathon several times. James enjoyed the outdoors, hunting, fishing and being active. James was a “devoted son, brother, uncle and friend,” He was preceded in death by his grandparents. He is survived by his parents Anthony and Deanna, siblings Patty (Robert) Gaerther, and Thomas Bergl, and his nieces and nephew Molly, Max, and Zoey. Private family services will be held and live streamed on the Dougherty Funeral Home Facebook page starting Dec. 7. Burial will be in the Minnesota State Veterans Cemetery, Duluth. In lieu of flowers memorials in Jim’s memory are preferred to MN Assistance Council for Veterans, 5209 Ramsey St., Duluth, MN 55807, 833-222-6228, or any of the Food Banks in Duluth. Arrangements by Dougherty Funeral Home. 600 E. 2nd St. Duluth.

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Jane E. Ethier Jan. 28, 1937 – Dec. 3, 2020 Jane Elizabeth Ethier (Michalski), 83, of Duluth, died peacefully with family by her side. She was born in Duluth to John and Matilda (Lepak) Michalski. She graduated from Morgan Park High School in 1955, and worked for Prudential Insurance in Minneapolis for many years prior to getting married. She prided on raising her family and then began working at Sears in 1987 and worked there for 20-plus years. She liked playing cards with her family, going to Sunday Mass, traveling, and most importantly she loved happiness and laughter around her. She was a member of St Benedict’s Catholic Church. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Lloyd; and sisters, Lorraine Chmieleski, and Delphine Duevel; son-inlaw, Bill Holtz. Jane is survived by children, Yvonne (Paul) Kalin, Michelle (Marshall) Ihfe, Lloyd Ethier, Teresa Holtz; grandchildren, Emily, Anna, Olivia, Ian, Michaela, Meghan, Jacob, Christopher; brothers, David (Diane) Michalski, and Dr. Willard (Deb) Michalski; dear friend, Gloria Walkowiak; and numerous, nieces, nephews, family and friends. The family would like to thank the ladies at the JC Penny’s Salon, for their attentive regard to always making momma bear look beautiful. Arrangements by Dougherty Funeral Home.

Gordon J. Herbranson, 84, of Gordon, Wis., died at Essentia-St. Mary’s Hospital in Duluth. He was born in Duluth, the son of Gordon M. and Florian (Ernest) Herbranson. His father died in 1936 and he was raised by his mother and stepfather, Helge Helquist, in Proctor. Gordon served his country honorably by enlisting in the U.S. Army. On Sept. 14,1963 he married Judith Harstad and they raised their family in Superior. Gordon worked for the DMIR Railroad for many years. After retirement, they settled in Gordon and enjoyed wintering in Bullhead City, Ariz., and also in Florida. Gordon was very active in the community and was a member of the Moose Lodge and the UCT. He enjoyed the outdoors, and he also loved to cook. Gordon was a social person and thoroughly enjoyed the company of others. Gordon is survived by his wife, Judith; daughter, Debra (David) Crooker of Newport, WA; son-in-law, Peter Bromen of Duluth; grandchildren, Jeffrey and Nicholas Bromen and David Crooker; greatgrandchildren, Noel, Elizabeth, Nathan, Niam, and Emilia; niece and nephews, Kim Lander, Kevin Helquist, and Teresa Tucker; and Kim’s children, Ashley, Ryan, and Matthew.

Donald W. Miller July 10, 1930 – Dec. 3, 2020 Donald W. Miller, 90, died at Solvay Hospice House with family by his side. Don graduated from Duluth Central in 1949. He served in the U.S. Air Force in Duluth, as part of the team that helped start the base. He started his career in the family grocery business as a youngster, going with his father to all the produce houses. He loved working alongside his father, brother and nephew Mark at family owned Snow White Foods. Snow White was a beloved fixture in Duluth until 1990. Don loved the customers, knowing all their names and always genuinely caring about the lives they all lived, and proudly giving many neighborhood teenagers their first jobs. Upon closing the store Don worked a variety of small jobs, the most notable was the grocery delivery service he had with his lifetime pal Harvey Winthrop (Ideal Market). Don enjoyed sweets, especially cookies and banana bread; he was a proud supporter of UMD football and hockey; taking short drives during this pandemic; traveling, golf, playing cards, Lake Superior and the TV show Gunsmoke, but most of all Don loved his friends, family and home. Don was blessed to have great neighbors, friends and relatives and thanks to them for all their help and many kindnesses.

Marcia A. Stillnovich July 12, 1937 – Nov. 30, 2020 Marcia A. Stilinovich, 83, Hibbing and formerly from St. Helena, Calif., died at Aspen Grove Assisted Living facility in Chisholm, Minn. She was born to Nick and Mary (Maras) Stilinovich in Hibbing. She was a 1955 graduate of Hibbing High School. Marcia lived and worked in San Francisco, eventually retiring to St. Helena. She returned to Hibbing in 2018. She owned and operated an accounting firm throughout her career. Marcia loved her dogs as her children. She also had a special love for living in California. She is survived by her sister, Marge Kepler, Hibbing, brother, Tom (Dee Negri) Stilinovich, Eagle, ID, nieces and nephews, Robert (Mary Ann) Kepler, Hibbing, Kathy (Gerry) Leonard, St. Louis, MO, Lisa Kepler, Maple Grove, MN, Greg Kepler, Lori (Chris) Koehler, and Tom Kepler, all of Hibbing, Mark (Kathy) Stilinovich, Boise, ID, Matt Stilinovich, Murrieta, CA, and Tom Stilinovich Jr., Boise, ID, several cousins, greatnieces and great-nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, Nick T. and Mary (Maras) Stilinovich. A memorial service will be determined at a later date. Marcia will be sadly missed by her family and all that knew her. Arrangements are with the Dougherty Funeral Home of Hibbing.

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Can solar power lead the Red Lake Nation toward energy independence? Two years ago, when Robert Blake put 10 people to work fastening solar panels to the roof of the Red Lake Nation Government Center, the solar entrepreneur hoped it would be the start of a lasting development. The panel installations completed the first phase of a planned 12step solar project with big goals: Leading the Red Lake Band of Chippewa toward an energy independent future while protecting the environment. Project organizers also think the initiative could pave the way for some green-energy jobs. Seven Clans Casino

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The Red Lake Nation Government Center stands on the shores of Lower Red Lake in the town of Red Lake. Photos courtesy of Clean Energy Economy Minnesota. certainly generates significant income, but at a cost, according to Blake, who is an enrolled member of the tribe. “Gaming just brings a negative energy,” he said. “Solar is bringing a different kind of energy to Red Lake – more than anything gaming could ever do.” In September, the tribe started working on the second phase – a 240-kilowatt array atop the reservation’s workforce center in Red Lake. “With solar, Red Lake is kind of like this giant petri dish,” Blake said. “Let’s see if we can make a distributed renewable energy system right here, turn it into a utility and see if we can power the community.” Solar energy has its limits, organizers acknowledge, especially during Minnesota winters, when the days are short. But organizers see it as the beginning of an independent energy grid that could incorporate other green technologies. “Tribal Chairman (Darrell) Seki is the kind of chairman who thinks seven generations ahead,” Blake said. “That’s what the community needs to do. It’s

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what we used to do.” About 5,900 people live on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, which covers 1,200 square miles in far northern Minnesota, including the majestic Lower Red Lake, a major walleye fishery, and part of Upper Red Lake. Tribal leaders announced plans for the solar initiative about five years ago. Projects on deck after the government center include the tribe’s three casino branches – one in Red Lake and two off the reservation near Thief River Falls and Warroad; the Red Lake Nation College, a two-year college that serves about 150 Native American students; and schools in Ponemah. Several factors led to the project. One was concern about the long-term environmental health of Red Lake, a source of income and cultural pride for the tribe. Another was the desire for a power source that would free the tribe from what Blake called the “colonial capitalism” of electricity supplier Beltrami Electric Cooperative, including frequent power outages related to unpaid fees. (The co-op’s director of member and energy services, Sam Mason, told MinnPost

“Let’s see if we can make a distributed renewable energy system right here, turn it into a utility and see if we can power the community,” Robert Blake, the tribal member leading the Red Lake solar initiative.

that the utility does its best to help people tap into energy assistance programs if they can’t pay their bills). Securing financing for the initial project, however, proved to be difficult. Ralph Jacobson, an early solar proponent and the founder of Impact Power Solutions, a panel installation company based in Roseville, said several banks declined to get involved. As he pondered how to help, he thought, “as a white guy, I didn’t want to be involved in some kind of financial scheme that fell through. Native Americans have had the rug pulled out from under them enough times.” Jacobson recalled a conference he had attended at Macalester College that introduced him to “crowdfunding,” the strategy of raising money by garnering small contributions from a large pool of people. Seki, the tribal chair, liked the idea, so Jacobson reached out to family members and friends in his church community. He characterized the venture as “an easy sell” and raised $115,000. He kicked in $15,000 of his own money. Federal tax credits for such investments will help Jacobson pay off the lenders, probably in about five years, he said. Jacobson also turned to crowdfunding for the project that is currently underway. The 67-kilowatt government center array in Red Lake is generating about 25 percent of the building’s electricity, organizers said, while the workforce center panels are expected to provide about half of that complex’s electricity. Two batteries for storing solar energy, ordered from China, are scheduled to be installed in the buildings in April. Jacobson, who has been involved in solar projects for 30 years, remembers when most projects involved “wealthy people with ideals” who wanted to put panels on their roofs. Solar power has become much more popular in recent years, however, both among utilities and individual investors.

“As a white guy, I didn’t want to be involved in some kind of financial scheme that fell through. Native Americans have had the rug pulled out from under them enough times.” Ralph Jacobson, the solar pioneer who kicked in $15,000 of his own money and started a crowdfunding campaign that rasied $115,000 for the Red Lake project. That has created some optimism about the trajectory of the Red Lake project. He noted the involvement of other tribes in green energy projects, such as a solar utility run by the Navajo Nation in Arizona and projected wind farms on Sioux land in South Dakota. “What I have learned over the years is that it’s important to create some momentum by getting something done,” he said, speaking of the completion of the first phase of the project. “Getting something built can really raise that public awareness.” Mason, of Beltrami Electric, said the utility has worked with about 50 solar projects in its service territory, such

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as panels on homes and schools. He has consulted with workers on the Red Lake projects. Losing the Red Lake Nation would be a significant loss for the cooperative, but he wonders whether solar energy can really power the entire reservation. More likely, he said, the utility will continue to provide some level of energy, even as the tribe taps into other green technologies. “Equity,” “power,” “independence.” Blake uses these words to reflect the cultural moment in his discussion of the project. Besides his installation company, he also runs Native Sun Community Power Development, a nonprofit that promotes what it calls “a just energy transition” from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. Blake grew up in Minneapolis but, as an enrolled member of the Red Lake Nation, spent his senior year of high school in Red Lake, developing a fondness for the tribe, its land and the big lake. As the project grows, he envisions tribal members training in solar technology at Red Lake Nation College and then staying on the reservation to live and raise their families, rather than moving elsewhere to find work. (More than one-third of the households on the reservation have incomes that are below the poverty rate, according to the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis). Blake credits Seki for jumpstarting the project, which had been bandied about for a few years. It will be a long project – if it is

indeed ever finished – but Blake is undeterred. “I just feel like this is what I have to do,” he said. “This project is so important not only to Red Lake but to tribal country and, I want to say, really to all of us as a whole. It not only will help native people and Red Lake, but it could be an example for the rest of us to look to for what is possible.” Jacobson, too, thinks the lessons of the effort can be applied elsewhere. “We really looked at this as not just a chance to get some renewable energy into the community, but to what is even larger – that people get their hands on (the technology) and familiarize themselves with it,” he said. “There is a lot of opportunity here, but you have to understand (solar power) and how to be involved.” He added: “It’s fortuitous that the second project is at the workforce development center.”

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Duluth hoists record-setting wind energy cargo total The final inbound wind energy cargo vessel of 2020, the BBC Swift, discharged wind turbine blades at Duluth’s Clure Public Marine Terminal last week, capping a record-setting season at North America’s furthest inland seaport. In total, the Port of Duluth welcomed 525,000 freight tons of wind energy cargo in 2020, a single-season record. This eclipsed the previous high of 306,000 freight tons set in 2019. Duluth Cargo Connect managed the

unloading, storage and dispatch of the cargo to sites throughout Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. The components arrived in Duluth aboard 30 ships sailing from eight countries: Brazil, Germany, India, Malaysia, Mexico, South Korea, Spain and Turkey. These shipments included the longest blades (242 feet) and towers (100 feet) ever handled at the Great Lakes’ heaviest lift port. Collectively, the components will assemble 154 wind turbines. “It’s been a difficult year under the cloud of a global pandemic, but this freight tonnage record is a much-

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appreciated highlight, made even better by the fact that Duluth Cargo Connect set records in consecutive seasons,” said Deb DeLuca, executive director of the Duluth Seaway Port Authority. “Looking beyond the numbers, this port’s emergence as a wind cargo hub is an important win for cargo diversity and also for the expansion of renewable energy nationwide.” Duluth became a destination for wind energy cargo in 2006. Two years later, the port welcomed a thenrecord 302,000 freight tons of turbine components. Building on that haul, the Port Authority subsequently initiated a series of strategic investments in the Clure Terminal to support additional wind cargo opportunities. That included an $18 million rehabilitation and modernization of a dilapidated dock, a project that added 26 acres of modern outdoor storage space with road and on-dock rail access, as well as two new Seawaydepth berths and a roll-on/roll-off dock. In 2017, the Port Authority added a 300-ton lift mobile crane to complement the terminal’s existing Duluth-built 90-ton twin gantry cranes and fleet of heavy-lift vehicles. The addition of this storage space and expanded lift capacity was an important factor in handling this season’s record cargo total, a factor complemented by Duluth Cargo Connect employees, who persevered through a pandemic-compressed delivery schedule. “I’m extremely proud of our team and grateful to our customers,” said Jonathan Lamb, president of Duluth Cargo Connect. “There were some long hours throughout the second half of the Great Lakes shipping season, but we stayed flexible and overcame the challenges. Ultimately, it produced a record-setting season, and that’s truly a testament to the fantastic team we have at Duluth Cargo Connect.”

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Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday may be in the rearview mirror, but for Main Street Lincoln Park, that was just the

beginning. The LNPK Holiday Hunt is offering a fun way to explore offerings of participating Lincoln Park businesses by holding an online scavenger hunt. “With the recent change in statewide COVID-19 protocols, our original holiday promotion was impractical”, said Shannon Laing, Main Street Lincoln Park Program Director. “The online hunt for information also allows shoppers to see deals, special hours, and COVID-safe shopping options like delivery, curbside pickup, and appointment shopping all in one place and have a chance to win prizes, too.” With customers looking for alternative ways to do their holiday shopping and also support the local economy, an online home for this information made sense. Filling out one or all of the question sheets with correct answers gives participants a chance to win Main Street LNPK egift cards (app.yiftee.com/gift-card/mainstreet-lnpk-card-duluth) and prize packs with prizes donated by Lincoln Park businesses. Folks who want to play along can do so at ecolibrium3.org/holidayhunt/. In addition to the Holiday Hunt, Lincoln Park businesses are also giving extra attention to their window displays for folks who will be taking a drive to view the holiday lights at Bentleyville and throughout the Twin Ports. Vote for your favorites at christmaslightingchallenge.com.

High school scholarship program announced

The Minnesota Association of Townships (MAT) is proud to announce its 2021 Scholarship Program, which will award up to five $2,000 scholarships to high school juniors. All students currently enrolled in 11th grade and attending a Minnesota public, private, parochial school or a home-study program, are eligible to apply. Since its inception in 2001, the MAT Scholarship Program has had more than 2,000 submissions and 87 winners. Applicants should submit a written essay using critical thinking on the topic of land use by May 1, 2021. Winners will be chosen by an

independent panel of judges and will be notified by Sept. 1, 2021. They will also be invited to attend MAT’s annual conference in St. Cloud, Minn., in September 2021. For more information and application details, call the MAT offices at 800228-0296 or visit mntownships.org. “Townships are proud to offer the Scholarship Program, and encourage as many high school juniors as possible to apply, whether they are from the largest cities or from smaller rural areas. We know the MAT Scholarship Program has made a real difference for our recipients in furthering their education. It is also an opportunity for learning about township government, which embody the values of “grassroots government” where local citizens directly participate,” said MAT Executive Director David Hann.

Help is on the way for coping with COVID-19

Minnesotans who need help coping with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic will now have more support services available, thanks to grants from the Minnesota Department of Human Services. DHS has awarded a total of $1.68 million to 11 community agencies across the state for crisis counseling services to help people struggling with stress and anxiety as a result of the pandemic. “As with any disaster that causes significant disruption to our lives, recovery includes addressing the mental health needs of those most impacted,” said Human Services Commissioner Jodi Harpstead. “The grant funds going to our partners will provide additional support for people who need extra help right now.” Minnesota’s Crisis Counseling Program will focus primarily on those communities and individuals most affected. It will promote coping strategies, emotional support and an array of resources. Agencies receiving grants are: African American Child Wellness Institute, Care Providers of Minnesota, Change Inc., LeadingAGE, Mental Health Minnesota, Native American Community Clinic, NorthPoint, Turning Point Inc., Twin Cities Recovery Project, Inc., Watercourse Counseling, and Wellness in the Woods. Learn more about the grantees and their services. In addition, DHS has added a number of resources for adults and children coping with COVID-19 to mn.gov/dhs/coping-with-crisis. These materials are being translated into Spanish, Hmong and Somali. The funding for the grants comes

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from a $1.83-million Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training program grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Kohlts to lead WLSSD planning/technical services

Western Lake Superior Sanitary District (WLSSD) Executive Director Marianne Bohren, has promoted Brandon Kohlts to WLSSD’s Manager of Planning and Technical Services. In this role, Kohlts will oversee a broad range of functions, including WLSSD’s capital budget and projects planning, environmental compliance, management information systems, engineering and planning functions to ensure the district provides the region with the wastewater and solid waste services needed today and into the future. Kohlts and his team support WLSSD operations to ensure the effectiveness and longevity of WLSSD’s facilities and infrastructure. “Brandon’s forward-thinking vision and leadership qualities will strengthen our outstanding planning and technical team,” said Marianne Bohren, WLSSD’s executive director. “We are very fortunate that Brandon is ready to use his talents and expertise to take on a larger role at WLSSD. Recent and upcoming retirements have opened several key positions at WLSSD. We are grateful to have such strong talent in place to step up and

lead us through the next phases of our history.” Throughout his 13-year tenure at WLSSD, Kohlts has served in a variety of planning roles. He was instrumental in the development and implementation of several WLSSD programs to ensure communities in WLSSD’s regional service area have the services they need to continue with their economic and community development plans. Kohlts earned a BA degree in Urban and Regional Studies from UMD.

Cold plasma generators used to disable viruses

Keystone Bluffs Assisted Living in Duluth and Diamond Willow Assisted Living in Duluth, Proctor, Cloquet and other nearby cities just added another powerful disinfecting tool to help keep their residents healthy. Cold plasma generators have been installed in the facilities’ heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems to produce an electric field filled with highly charged ions. The ions act as a natural scrubbing agent, safely disabling viruses and other harmful microorganisms in the air as well as on tables, countertops, doorknobs and other surfaces. Manufactured by Top Product Innovations in North Carolina, the system has been documented by a

third-party laboratory as successfully disabling Norovirus at a rate of 93.5 percent in 30 minutes. “Nothing can ensure 100 percent safety and protection from COVID-19, but that doesn’t stop us from doing everything we possibly can,” said Natalie Zeleznikar, CEO of Diamond Willow and Keystone Bluffs. “We’re aggressively using modern technology to supplement the many careful steps we employ to keep our residents and staff healthy.” Earlier this year, Diamond Willow and Keystone Bluffs purchased advanced disinfecting equipment that creates an electrostatic-charged fog that clings to surfaces and kills germs. The facilities continue to make daily use of this equipment along with the new cold plasma technology. The care at Keystone Bluffs and Diamond Willow is enhanced by industry-leading staff-to-resident ratios.

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NEWS of the WEIRD The continuing crisis James Dixon, 29, of Chicago was arrested and charged with first-degree murder after a Thanksgiving gettogether ended in the death of Vincell Jackson, 52, the host’s boyfriend, police said. In the early hours of Nov. 27, prosecutors said, an argument broke out after Dixon used his bare hands to help himself to holiday meal leftovers, and Jackson “forcefully

Send your weird news items with subject line WEIRD NEWS to WeirdNewsTips@ amuniversal.com escorted him to the home’s front door,” the Chicago Tribune reported. Assistant State’s Attorney Susie Bucaro said the altercation moved out to the front porch, where a witness found Jackson stabbed nine times. He was pronounced dead at a hospital, and Dixon was arrested eight hours later, Bucaro said, with a blood-covered knife in his possession. [Chicago Tribune, 11/29/2020]

What’s in a name? • After more than 1,000 years, the Austrian town of F--king is getting a new name, The Local reported. Englishspeaking tourists have had a field day snapping selfies with city signs, even stealing them, and the 100 residents of modern-day F--king have had enough. According to the minutes of a municipal council meeting published on Nov. 16, the town will change its name to Fugging as of Jan. 1. “I can confirm that the village is being renamed,” said Andrea Holzner, mayor of the surrounding municipality. “I really don’t want to say anything more.” [The Local, 11/28/2020] • A newly elected local councilman in Ompundja, Namibia, is assuring constituents that he has no plans for world domination, despite his unfortunate name: Uunona Adolf Hitler. The 54-year-old, who prefers to be called Mr. Uunona, told a German news website that his father named him without an understanding of the Nazi leader, Sky News reported. Namibia is a former German colony, so many streets, places and people have German names. “It was a perfectly normal name for me when I was a kid,” Uunona said. [Sky News, 12/3/2020] Cliches Come to Life After a heated argument with his wife in late November, a 48-year-old unnamed man from Como, Italy, stepped outside to walk it off and kept on walking until he was stopped a week later by police officers patrolling after curfew in Gimarra, more than 260 miles away, Oddity Central reported. The man said he had walked the entire way, without using any other modes of transportation and relied on the kindness of strangers for food and drink. “I’m fine. I’m just a little tired,” he said. His wife, who had reported him missing, picked him up the next day, but had to pay a fine of almost $500 for his violation of the curfew. [Oddity Central, 12/3/2020] Speaking of ... • The recent unexplained appearance of a silver monolith in the deserts of Utah has made headlines all around the world. It also seems to have attracted imitators, including one in Romania’s mountainous Neamt region. The 9-foot-tall metal structure mysteriously appeared on Nov. 27 and vanished on Dec. 1, leaving “just a small hole covered by rocky soil,” a local reporter told Reuters. “An unidentified person, apparently a bad local welder, made it.” Georgiana Mosu, a spokeswoman for the local police, said officers are investigating

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the incident because the monolith was placed in a protected archaeological area. [Reuters, 12/1/2020] • Germany has also experienced a recent monolith mystery, according to the Associated Press. Local media in southern Germany reported the disappearance on Nov. 30 of a wooden phallus sculpture about 7 feet tall that inexplicably appeared on Gruenten Mountain several years ago and had became a destination for hikers and tourists, even appearing on Google Maps as a “cultural monument.” But over the weekend, someone chopped it down, leaving only a pile of sawdust. Police in the town of Kempten are investigating. [Associated Press, 11/30/2020] Turnabout is fair play An unnamed hunter near the Czech Republic village of Horni Plana contacted police in late November after a deer startled by the man’s dogs charged him, snagging his .22-caliber rifle on its antlers before running into the woods, United Press International reported. The gun was unloaded, and police said another hunter saw the stag more than a half-mile away with the rifle still hanging from its antlers. [United Press International, 11/25/2020] News that sounds like a fairy tale Police in Kansas City, Kansas, responded to a call on Nov. 27 from a man who said he returned home around 4 p.m. that day to find a stranger in his house. The unnamed suspect was wearing the victim’s clothing, had made a sandwich and cooked and ate ramen noodles, and when police arrived, was fast asleep in the victim’s bed, Fox4 reported. The man was arrested and booked into the Wyandotte County Jail, where the beds surely were too hard. [Fox4, 11/29/2020] Least competent criminal Daniel M. Rizza, 20, of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, driving a gray Audi SUV, ran out of gas on Nov. 27 and called state police to ask for help, but when he was told a trooper would be responding, he abruptly said he’d changed his mind and hung up, according to court documents. WTAJ reported the trooper responding to the call learned en route that a gray Audi had been reported stolen nearby earlier in the day, and after a check of the SUV’s make, model, identification number and registration, he arrested Rizza, who was charged with a felony count of receiving stolen property. [WTAJ, 11/30/2020]

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Budget wine strategies Early on in my wine journey, I developed a healthy respect for budget wines, and not because I was cheap. My goal from the moment I got hooked on fine wine was to put together a collection of top-notch wines from around the world, a noble but expensive proposition no matter where you shop. What I discovered in those early buying sprees was that I was consuming the collectible wines almost as fast as I could purchase them, which sort of defeats the purpose of creating a personal wine cellar. I wasn’t aging my most precious wines to perfection, because I was reaching for a “great” wine to serve with dinner on a nightly basis. When I realized something had to give, I developed a strategy. Once a month or so, I would visit a budget grocery store (in my case, it was Trader Joe’s) and snag any number of interesting wines the store was blowing out with deep discounts. I would race home, open each bottle and taste. Then, I would race back to the store and buy up cases of the one, two or three wines that had impressed me – before the bargains disappeared from the shelf. Well-stocked with tasty budget wines for everyday consumption, I was less tempted to raid my wine cellar for the good stuff on a whim. I could count on having an extraordinary wine, sometimes even properly aged, for special occasions. Having tasty budget wines on hand is especially crucial during the holiday season, when there is a natural

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inclination to imbibe more in celebration of the season. I recommend a three-pronged attack. First, visit the equivalent of Trader Joe’s in your neck of the woods and take advantage of the aggressive discounts. Second, consider buying online. The selection will be greater, and online purveyors such as Wine.com typically have specials galore. WineSearcher.com can also turn up generous deals from brick-and-mortar wine merchants who are set up for shipping. Third, find out where in your neighborhood the Cameron Hughes brand is sold. Cameron Hughes is a longtime wine industry pro. He developed a unique business model several years ago, buying up odd lots from top-of-theline wineries in the most fashionable appellations. Hughes knew that even wineries with tremendous star power produce wines that don’t make the cut for the final blend. Those wines are often sold on the bulk market and blended away into large batches of generic wine. Without giving away the name of the winery (which would undercut the star-power winery’s pricing), Hughes assigned each of these wines a “lot” number to go with the fancy appellation on the label. Cameron Hughes wines are typically sold for a fraction of the price they would fetch if the winery of origin were printed on the label. Hughes sold the Cameron Hughes brand to Vintage Wine Estates a few

years ago but continues to oversee the operation, which is now global, with wines from famous appellations around the world. A Cameron Hughes wine is the epitome of a wine that underpromises and overdelivers. And this, dear reader, is how you serve great wines through the holidays on a budget and preserve your “good” stuff for just the right occasion. 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. Nick Goldschmidt 2018 Fidelity, Alexander Valley ($20) – Winemaker Nick Goldschmidt, a transplanted Kiwi, knows the Alexander Valley well, having spent a fair amount of time as winemaker at Simi. On his own, Goldschmidt oversees a number of brands including this one bearing his name. It’s a stunner for the price: a supple, inviting blend of cabernet sauvignon and merlot that delivers aromas of ripe blackberry and plum, a generous shot of oak vanillin and supple tannins so that you can enjoy the beauty right now. Rating: 90. Tasting Notes Spottswoode 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon, St. Helena ($225) – The Spottswoode estate vineyard in St. Helena is one of the Napa Valley’s greatest treasures. Early on, Spottswoode sold its grapes to

a number of high-profile wineries but turned to production of cabernet under its own label at the encouragement of the likes of Dan Duckhorn and legendary winemaker Tony Soter. If Napa had a classification system similar to the 1855 model in Bordeaux, Spottswoode would be a First Growth by any reasonable measure. The 2017 vintage is a classic Spottswoode, impressively structured; beautifully balanced; and showing its signature aromas of cassis, blackberry, blueberry and spice. It’s pricy, but if you’re ever going to splurge, this is the wine. Rating: 98. Ladera 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve, Howell Mountain ($115) – A big, mountain-grown cabernet from Napa generally takes a number of years to come around. That means you typically need to cellar it for a couple of years after purchase. Ladera does that for you, aging its reserve cabernet prior to release. Hence, the 2016 is now available when other wineries are selling the 2018 vintage. The 2016 from Ladera is a bold wine, powerful and rich in dark fruits, with impressive palate weight and a very long midpalate and finish. Rating: 96. Dutton Goldfield 2018 Pinot Noir, Dutton Ranch ($45) – This is one of Dutton Goldfield’s most affordable pinots, and it’s always solid and reliable. The 2018 vintage is more of the same, showing good palate weight with layered aromas of raspberry and blueberry, a touch of wood spice and nicely integrated tannins. Rating: 90. Follow Robert on Twitter at @wineguru. To find out more about Robert Whitley and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at creators.com. Email Robert at whitleyonwine@yahoo.com.

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No more brain fog BY CHARLYN FARGO Creators Syndicate

You’ve probably heard enough about COVID-19 and the holidays and all that we haven’t been able to do this year, but here is something you can do to start the New Year with less of a brain fog. Whatever your Christmas holiday looks like this year, you can help your brain stay healthy with foods that support brain health. This is a great time to start a new food tradition with

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immediate family – since our traditions have already changed. There is promising research that nutrition interventions for the holidays and beyond can help prevent or delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. Current research shows that it is dietary patterns – rather than individual nutrients or specific foods – that can prevent or slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Just what dietary patterns can help? The Mediterranean diet, the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension diet and the Mediterranean-DASH Diet

Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay. Choose one – or combine them – to help your thinking. A quick primer on the diets: The Mediterranean diet consists of foods traditionally eaten in countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea and includes vegetables, fruits, whole grains, fish, olive oil and moderate consumption of red wine. A whole host of health benefits have been attributed to the diet, such as reduced rate of death, cardiovascular disease, some cancers, Parkinson’s disease

and Alzheimer’s disease, as well as protection against cognitive decline, according to an article in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, or DASH, diet also has shown promise in improving neurocognitive function. It focuses on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy, lean protein and low sodium. The Mediterranean-DASH Diet Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay, or MIND, diet combines the Mediterranean and DASH diets –with

the addition of foods that have been shown to benefit cognitive health, such as green, leafy vegetables and berries. To get the most cognitive benefit from foods, add fish and seafood, green leafy vegetables, berries and olive oil to your holiday dishes. Put them together in a meal and there is a synergistic effect. The bottom line? It’s important to think about what you’re putting into your body — even for brain function. Choose healthier foods and even your brain is going to benefit. Q and A Q: Are almonds as healthy as everyone says? A: It appears they are – in the right portion. In a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, snacking on almonds daily lowered risk of cardiovascular disease by 32%. Study participants were men and women ages 30 to 70 at a high risk for developing cardiovascular disease. After two weeks of eating traditional snacks, participants were divided into two groups. One group ate mini muffins for four weeks; the other ate whole almonds. Both snacks provided 20% of daily calories.

At the end of the six weeks, the almond snackers lowered their lowdensity lipoprotein (bad) cholesterol and improved endothelial function, two important risk factors for cardiovascular disease. RECIPE Here’s a healthy recipe from Taste of Home that combines fiber-rich quinoa with roasted vegetables. It makes a great side dish or lunch on its own. QUINOA WITH ROASTED VEGETABLES 1 small eggplant, chopped 1 medium zucchini, chopped 1 medium sweet yellow pepper, chopped 1 medium red onion, chopped 1 cup grape tomatoes, halved 2 garlic cloves, diced 4 tablespoons olive oil, divided 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon pepper 3 cups reduced-sodium chicken broth 1 1/2 cups quinoa, rinsed 3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 3/4 teaspoon Dijon mustard 1/4 cup each minced fresh basil, parsley and chives Place vegetables and garlic in an

ungreased 15-by-10-by-1-inch baking pan. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons oil; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake, uncovered, at 425 degrees F for 35-40 minutes or until tender, stirring once. Meanwhile, in a large saucepan, bring broth to a boil. Add quinoa. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 12-15 minutes or until liquid is absorbed. Remove from the heat; fluff with a fork. Transfer vegetables and quinoa to a large bowl. Whisk the vinegar, mustard and remaining oil; drizzle over vegetable mixture. Sprinkle with herbs; toss to combine. Serves 8 (3/4 cup each). Per serving: 222 calories; 7 grams protein; 31 grams carbohydrate; 9 grams fat (1gram saturated fat); 0 grams cholesterol; 5 grams fiber; 4 grams sugar, 388 milligrams sodium; 7grams protein. Charlyn Fargo is a registered dietitian with SIU Med School in Springfield, Illinois. For comments or questions, contact her at charfarg@aol.com or follow her on Twitter @NutritionRD.

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Some holiday baking pointers Many people may only bake in November and December, so it’s understandable if they’re a little rusty come the holiday season. These baking tips can lead to successful yields of cookies, cakes and other holiday treats.

ingredients are used in a ratio to produce a desired chemical reaction while cooking. To ensure success, do not substitute ingredients unless the recipe tells you how to do so, and measure each addition carefully.

Read up on temperature: Certain ingredients, like butter and eggs, are temperature-dependent. Cold butter in biscuits helps them to rise up flaky and delicious. Eggs brought to room temperature enable the emulsification process to

Supplies: The worst thing that can happen during a baking adventure is realizing your are out or short of an ingredient called for in the recipe. So the very first thing to do is check your pantry for all the items you need.

Spoon out your measurements: It can be tempting to dig a measuring cup right into a bag of flour, but scooping packs the ingredients down – potentially causing you to use more than the recipe calls for. Instead, spoon the flour into your measuring cup gently and use a straight edge to level it out. Even better, use a scale and metric measurements to ensure exact amounts of wet and dry ingredients.

work more readily. The difference in temperature can mean a completely different chemical reaction, so follow the recipe accordingly.

Follow the recipe carefully: When cooking, it is easy to add an extra dash of this or a pinch of that. But baking is a science and the

Calibrate the oven: Purchase an oven thermometer, set your oven to 350 F, the standard baking temperature, and see what the thermometer reads. If it is different, adjust cooking times accordingly or have the oven repaired. Cooking at the wrong temperature might mean the recipe doesn’t turn out right. Use unsalted butter: Most recipes will call for unsalted butter so you

aren’t adding unwanted sodium to the recipe, affecting dough consistency and flavor. Position pans centrally: Pans should be on the center rack of the oven. If the oven isn’t wide enough to put multiple pans side by side, place them on different racks and slightly offset them to enable air circulation. Use parchment paper: This unsung hero of baking can keep cookies from spreading out on baking sheets, prevent cakes from sticking to pans and may even help batter and dough bake evenly. Flip cakes: Cool cakes upside down on a cooling rack. This will help flatten out the tops, which makes it easier to stack and level cakes for layered cakes.

Make Mount Royal Market your holiday headquarters! Mount Royal Market is closed Thanksgiving Day so employees may enjoy the holiday.

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Crosstrek takes the lead in ‘Subaru-ness’

Subaru Crosstrek is smallest of the Subaru AWD fleet, and maybe the best. Photos by John Gilbert. Subaru has come out with some new or upgraded models in the last couple of years, and I have a suggestion for them: They should name their next new model the “Security Blanket.” And now I’ve had the chance to recently test several Subaru models, including the new Legacy, the new Outback, and the 2021 Crosstrek. Those tests reaffirmed my previously held opinions, but also awakened me to some new views on Subarus. The Legacy is a stylish – and dare-we-say flashy? – sedan; the Outback began life as a station wagon version of the Legacy and the more compact Impreza; the Crosstrek is a lighter and still more compact SUV that has become my favorite among the group. Subarus have, in some way, chased

after Toyota in capturing the economyminded buyers who demand quality, durability, stability, and the ability to keep the buyers away from the showroom either for service or trading in their trusty mount. But in my opinion, all Subaru models have something to offer, I just happen to think the Crosstrek looks the best and delivers more Subaruness. I have no idea how Subarus sell in warm climates, like Florida or Arizona or California. But up here in the Great White North of Northern Minnesota, and on over east through Wisconsin and into the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, as well as west across the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho and Washington, my guess is that they are as popular as they

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can get. In Duluth, there are Subarus everywhere, and I’ve been fortunate enough to test drive almost all of their models. Of course, the WRX-STi hot rod is the most fun and an all-out screaming performer, and the lesser WRX models are plenty peppy, but when we get into the sedans and small SUVs, that’s where the Security Blanket comes in. Subaru proclaims itself the maker of the first SUVs, but I always disagree, because there were Subarus with allwheel-drive that made their claim to fame as hardy utility compacts long before the term SUV was invented, let alone becoming a dominant identifying term. Spoiler alert, here: I’ve never been a crazed Subaru fanatic, even though I recognize the assets of allwheel drive on the snow and ice and unpredictability of winter in the Snow Belt, but I’ve been bemused by Subaru’s stubborn engine-building, sticking

with that flat-opposed 4 or 6 design, in which the crankshaft is in the middle, sending the pistons in horizontal and opposite directions. It makes sense, from a packaging scheme, but despite upgrading and catching up to all the latest technology, there seemed limitations. For example, as with any engine compromises must be made to go after performance or economy, and from driving them all, I’ve suspected that in every determination, Subaru officials went for performance. It took me most of two decades before I solved what I thought was an issue, because it seemed as though I never got the EPA estimated fuel economy, and in fact it was usually mid-20s when the estimate suggested 30s. They always had plenty of power, however, but unless you’re choosing the WRX-STi, I don’t think customers buy Subarus to race their neighbors down the streets.

After two decades of getting disappointing mileage with Subarus, driving mostly on freeways at the going rate, which is usually about 75, I had one a couple of years ago when I was restricted to rural highways where it was better to drive 55 or 60. To my surprise, the car delivered about 32 mpg in that test, causing me to do a little experimenting. If I pushed it, to 70-75 cruising, mileage dropped off by about 10 smpg, but if I kept it down to 55 or so, it could climb above 30 mpg. Here is what Subaru is doing with its engines these days. They have found that turbocharging the 4-cylinder engine can deliver the power expected of a 6-cylinder but with a chance at 4-cylinder gas mileage. So depending on the vehicle, you can get a 2.5-liter flat-opposed 4 with 182 horsepower and 176 foot-pounds of torque, or you can get a slightly smaller 2.4-liter version of that 4 with a turbocharger and get 260 horsepower and 277 foot-pounds of torque. In the Crosstrek, which has its own design that I find appealing, I had the 2.5 non-turbo, and because it is a light and well-balanced vehicle, it was definitely tending toward fun and performance. My wife, Joan, drove it into town and back and her first declaration was: “Boy is that thing fast!” Just goes to show that making the car light enough also means that less power is good enough, and your fuel economy improves as well. The Legacy came in Limited form, in a stunning Crimson Red Pearl color and loaded up with options, aimed at safety – a Subaru mission these days – and/or convenience. It had the 2.5 non-turbo, with a CVT, for continuously variable transmission. Most CVTs are boring and have a high-drone quality as they edge up to freeway speed. But the Legacy had steering wheel paddles, which seem silly on a CVT, but this one had detents in the continuous belt that made it feel as though you were manually overriding it for eight speeds. That’s a great feature when designed the way the Legacy was. I got 25-27 mpg in mostly cityrural driving, which wasn’t bad for a midsize sedan. With navigation and moonroof, the Legacy rose from a base price of $29,745 for the Limited model to $32,690, which placed it between the Outback and Crosstrek in price. The Outback, which will go anywhere any rugged SUV might venture off the roadways, had

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the 2.4-liter direct-injection and turbocharged engine, and it, too, was a screamer – heavier and not as agile or quick-reacting as the Crosstrek, and, in truth, looking a lot like a Legacy station wagon in an SUV world – but with enough power to make it zip from 0-60 about 2 seconds quicker than the non-turbo engine in the same vehicle. You can buy it either way, and I had the chance to test it both ways. The first one had the 2.5 non-turbo, and the same CVT with the 8-speed paddles that pinch off the belt and make you certain you are shifting manually. It was very good for going down the steep hills of Duluth, too, because you could downshift and hold it where it was instead of using up your brakes. But it seemed pretty hohum when it came to performance. Later, I got an Outback in Cinnamon Brown Pearl, a much more subtle but attractive paint job. That one had the turbocharged 2.4 engine and it was startlingly quick. It also had adaptive lane assist, LED lights, power lift gate and perforated leather seats. It was the Touring model, and with all the extras it came to $40,795. The other Outback was Abyss Blue Pearl and had fewer options and listed for $37,995. Maybe it was fitting that the Crosstrek came last of the group, because I had more time to devote to it. Horizon Blue Pearl, they call the color, and it was an attractive medium shade, set off with a flair by the stylish, if busy, alloy wheels. At 3,338 pounds, the Crosstrek proves that the nose-heavy front engine and the Symmetric all-wheeldrive system does weigh a bunch, but at 600 pounds less than the Outback, the same non-turbo engine was quick and impressive. The Crosstrek has only 1,500 pounds of towing capability, while the Outback with the 2.4 turbo has a 3,500-pound tow rating. It also has the CVT with the eight manual detents and paddles, and it also had X-Mode with hill-descent control which made descending Duluth’s mile-high hills easily conquered. The Crosstrek had a base price of $27,995 boosted to $31,440 with options like the moonroof, navigation system, and the Harmon Kardon amplifier and speakers. The Legacy and the Outback are considerably roomier, but the Crosstrek had sufficient rear seat room for adults, another asset checked off in its favor. With the Crosstrek, the Legacy or the Outback, you are assured of one similarity. Any one of them could be renamed the “Security Blanket.”

Interior of Crosstrek features sporty leather and instrumentation for 2021 model.

Subaru Legacy is a neat, roomy midsize sedan with the same power and AWD.

Subaru Outback is a spacious Legacy wagon disguised as an SUV.

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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY Duluth Herald December 10, 1888 THE BOOM WARM THE WEST DULUTH REAL ESTATE BOOM GETTING WARMER DAILY – A SABBATH’S DOINGS. An Englishman traveling on the road to West Duluth yesterday would have thought at once of Derby day, for the road was lined with people, driving, riding horseback and people walking, all evidently bent on a sight of West Duluth. There were all sorts of vehicles, from the two wheeled jinrikshas with the driver perched behind, to the handsome private conveyance with liveried driver. There were fully 200 vehicles on the road. Besides the road short line trains were packed. This morning the activity in real estate shows a renewed life and the boom is evidently on in earnest. The list of sales has been greater than any day heretofore and at prices higher than ever. The Land company has advanced prices on their own property outside of Central avenue and is disposing of more than they care to let go. Outside people are evidently becoming interested. St. Paul; and Minneapolis capitalists are here and are coming, and real estate men look for an influx of people from much farther east.

was struck on the head by a falling timber and his skull was crushed. He is not expected to live. Kroskar Mangill, a Canadian, was also very badly hurt. One knee was crushed and his back is bruised. If the knee is saved from amputation the leg will always remain stiff. Edward Marsh sustained a compound fracture at the elbow. Duluth Herald December 12, 1900 UGLY WEAPON. Bowery Character Assaults A Bartender With a Rock In a Handkerchief. With a large rock tied up in a handkerchief, John Anderson, a prominent Bowery character, assaulted Gust Tengdin, a Bowery bartender this afternoon. Tengin was employed in John Bergman’s saloon at 523 West Superior street. Yesterday while under the influence of liquor Anderson threw a cup of cold water over the bartender, and cold water on the Bowery is about as sincere an insult as can well be Ad appearing in the Dec. 10, 1888 edition of the Duluth Herald.

That there is abundant opportunity for a boom cannot be doubted, and that property in that suburb will advance greatly with the increase of manufacturing industries, and this beginning actual work in turning out cars, iron and other finished products is also a fact. There is little doubt that the activity in West Duluth, which exceeds anything ever known in the city, will have great influence in real estate in all parts of Duluth. Indeed, this influence is already felt and the sales are many and of large value. Naturally the West End feels the wave first, and there has already been an advance. Superior street near Twentieth avenue, lots have been sold in the last few days for $150 a foot, while one man refused $4,000 for a 25 foot lot near Nineteenth avenue. As far east as the point of rocks and from Fourteenth and Fifteenth avenues westerly there is good inquiry for Ad appearing in the Dec. 12, 1920 edition business property especially on Michigan and Superior streets. There of the Duluth Herald.

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seems no doubt that Duluth will see a good winter in real estate. Duluth Herald December 11, 1890 FOUR MEN FALL. A Fatal Accident This Morning at the New Furniture Factory at New Duluth. A fatal accident occurred this morning at New Duluth, in which our men were the victims. The casualty was caused by a falling scaffolding. Herman, Becklinger & Herman’s mill is in course of erection at the new townsite up river. Yesterday the workmen put up an addition to the scaffold, making it about twenty-five feet high. It was insecurely made, and this morning fell, while several men were at work on it. Four of these were injured, one fatally. Three men were taken to St. Mary’s hospital, where they are now in charge of Dr. Magie. Thomas Merrie, a workman from Cloquet,

Ad appearing in the Dec. 16, 1922 edition of the Duluth Herald.

offered. The bartender resented the water throwing by slapping Anderson’s face lightly. Today while Tengdin was not looking Anderson walked up to him and with the rock and handkerchief and swung a blow that opened up the skull. The bartender bled freely and Anderson in high glee run up and down the Bowery telling his friends that he had just killed a man. A policeman heard his boast and had him locked up. Mr. Tengdin is badly hurt but not seriously. Duluth Herald December 13, 1910 PUT LID ON CANDY SHOPS Indian Bureau Agents Stop the Sale of Malt Extract. Last Towns on the Cuyuna Range Are Made Dry. Brainerd, Minn. (Special to The Herald) – United States Deputy T. E. Brents, having charge of Minnesota Indian territory and operating under W. E. Johnson, and H. E. Coggeshall and James M. Quinn on Monday closed two malt shops at Ironton, one saloon and two malt shops and a confectionery store at Cuyuna. They were accompanied on this trip by Sheriff Reid of Crow Wing county. The confectionery store had been handling malt extract. All goods were ordered shipped out and are being boxed and shipped by the proprietors of the places closed. In the vicinity of Ironton a resort was raided and closed. This morning the deputies closed one saloon at Crosby operating in the Spalding hotel and two malt shops. At Deerwood four malt shops were closed and a drug store was raided. All goods are being boxed and shipped away. These four town constitute the Cuyuna Iron range towns, and with the closing of these the entire district covered by the treaty of 1855 is now dry. The brewery at Brainerd is continuing business. Duluth Herald December 14, 1920 GIRLS’ HOME AT POOR FARM. Women’s Council Reported to Have Decided on Recommendations. Members of the Woman’s DuluthReader.com

their meeting tomorrow afternoon. At previous meetings the Woman’s Council has gone on record as favoring the cottage system/. It is understood that they did not change their plan this morning. It had previously been advocated to build the home in Woodland, but protests from residents of that section caused the special meeting of the council this morning to reconsider the matter.

Ad appearing in the Dec. 5,1900 edition of the Duluth Herald. Council, at an executive meeting this morning, are understood to have decided to recommend to the county commissioners that the proposed industrial home for girls be located at the county poor farm.

Officers of the council, however, today refused to divulge the policy they had agreed upon. They stated that their recommendation would be given to the county commissioners when the latter held

Ad appearing in the Dec. 14, 1910 edition of the Duluth Herald.

Duluth Herald December 16, 1922 STEEL PLANT IS OPERATING AT FULL CAPACTIY Official Announces That Every Department Is In Full Blast. LEADS OTHER PLANTS. Operations at the Minnesota Steel company’s plants at Morgan Park, including the blast and openhearth furnaces, wire mill and merchant mill, are at 100 per cent, or full capacity basis, according to an announcement by an official of the company yesterday. In going upon a full capacity basis the Duluth works has set the lead over any other steel plant in the country, as far as he could learn, 80 or 85 per cent f capacity being about the limit for similar plants at th principal centers, including Pittsburgh, Gary, Ind., and Chicago. The present activity at the Duluth pant was brought about through the urgent demand being experienced for the company’s wire nails and other finished products. The range of products being turned out at the wire mill is being steadily widened and, in point of economic production, it has been demonstrated during the few months that it has been in operation that the Morgan Park plant is capable of competing with any other similar concern in the country for Western trade. The labor situation at the plant was reported to be satisfactory, the various departments having all the skilled and unskilled men that are required. It is proposed to push construction work and the installing of additional machinery during the winter months in the buildings that have been brought to completion.

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The St. Olaf Christmas Festival The St. Olaf Christmas Festival is an annual music celebration that began in 1912 and has been performed regularly since then by St. Olaf College students. Widely broadcast and telecast, it is regarded as one of the premier choral events in the world. Since its founding by F. Melius Christiansen, who started the school’s music department, the festival has attracted people to the Northfield campus from all over Minnesota and Wiscon-sin. It also draws alumni from around the nation. F. Melius Christiansen began teaching music at St. Olaf in 1903. Seeking to improve the quality of choral music, Christiansen focused on developing the tradition of unaccompanied singing called a cappella. His choir soon began

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F. Melius Christiansen, founder of the St. Olaf Christmas Festival, which made its debut in 1912. performing concerts at the school and touring around the region. Under Christiansen’s leadership, the St. Olaf Lutheran Choir became known as one of the finest choirs in the Midwest. To showcase the choir and celebrate Christmas, the choir performed in the first Christmas

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Program, as it was then known, on Dec. 17, 1912. The choir was called the St. Olaf Choral Union for that concert, and they performed in the Hoyme Memorial Chapel. Under Christiansen’s direction, the choir’s status continued to grow. As the festival’s audience expanded, the event moved from the chapel to the school’s gym in 1922. Because of its popularity, the school added a second performance beginning in 1936. The festival expanded to three shows in 1941. Because of World War II, the festival was reduced to one show in 1942 and 1943, but returned to three shows in 1945. It later grew to four shows. In 1943, F. Melius Christiansen’s son Olaf became the festival’s director. He ran it until 1968, when Kenneth Jennings took over. Under Olaf Christiansen, the still-growing festival was moved to the Skogland Athletic Center (later named the Skogland Center). In 1990, St. Olaf graduate Anton Armstrong became director. Attracting more than 15,000 people to Northfield, the early 21st century’s Christmas Festival features five different choral groups. The St. Olaf Choir is the school’s premier a cappella choir. The Cantorei is the choir that performs during Sunday services at the

chapel. The Chapel Choir is the largest choir on campus. The Viking Chorus (men) and Manitou Singers (women) are choirs composed of first-year students. During the festival, each choir performs as an individual unit before all five sing together to close the concert. More than 500 singers perform, accompanied by the St. Olaf Orchestra. At various times, audience members may rise and join the choir in singing, following along with lyrics published in the concert’s program. The St. Olaf Christmas Festival has been televised since 1975, around the country and even internationally, such as in Norway in 1978. It is broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) and many of its affiliates, around the world on Armed Forces Television and Radio, on the Internet, and in movie theaters. PBS frequently broadcasts highlights as Christmas specials. Due to the “Spanish flu” pandemic 100 years ago, the St.Olaf Christmas Festival was canceled in 1918. While the in-person festival was canceled this year due to the pandemic, a virtual concert called All Earth is Hopeful was recorded for posterity and beginning on Dec. 6 was available for streaming at christmas.stolaf.edu.

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ove over, Santa! Away with EBay! With gifts like these, the Northland will no longer need to be outsourcing to the North Pole or China! One of the coolest things about our Local Gift Guide is the variety of awesome local – we repeat – AWESOME LOCAL gifts you can choose from. In addition to wonderful gift cards to local eateries and breweries, you can help spread holiday cheer by buying from local businesses which sustain a vibrant economy year round. Rather than a computer screen, purchase gifts from the Northland’s local shops, vendors and talented artisans. They’re much cuter and, in most instances, have more helpful personalities. This is a win-win! Don’t forget to tell them The Reader sent you.

Art 2020 Bring Her Home Calendar aicho.org/store/p1/ AICHO2020Calendar A beautiful, emotionally stirring

13-month calendar produced by the American Indian Community Housing Organization featuring the work of 14 Indigenous artists. Art Dock DeWitt-Seitz Marketplace 394 Lake Avenue S. Duluth

218-722-1451 art-dock.com A retail consignment gallery promoting fine art and crafts from area artisans. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

and prints and other potter’s works from the area. Gallery temporarily closed. Items from the online store and special orders available for curbside pick-up. Shipping is also available.

Art in the Alley 230 E. Superior St., Duluth 218-464-4822 artinthealley.com An “artsy” women’s clothing boutique. Open daily 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Framing By Stengl 1720 Tower Ave. Superior 715-395-9402 framingbystengl.com Frame shop and photography studio.

Art on the Planet 1413 Tower Ave. Superior 715-969-8213 artontheplanet.storenvy.com An art and artisan consignment market hosting the work of local/ regional artists and artisans. Online ordering with curbside pickup. Atelier & Stone atelierandstone.com Jewelry made in Duluth by Louise Payjack-Guillou. To make an appointment contact hello@ atelierandstone.com. Burton Forge & Gallery 443 Scenic Dr. Knife River burtonforgeblacksmith.com Functional art in iron, wood and stone. Custom orders filled. Shop open by appointment. Duluth Pottery 1924 W. Superior St. Duluth 218-606-1120 duluthpottery.com Karin Kraemer’s Maiolica pottery and tiles, Luke Krisak’s stoneware, Warrior Printress Letterpress & Design cards

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Frame Corner Gallery 323 W. Superior St. #1, Duluth 218-722-7174 framecornergallery.com Originals, serigraphs, photography, limited editions and posters from local, national and international artists. Indigenous First Art & Gift Shop 202 W. 2nd St. Duluth 218-590-3305 indigenousfirst.org Native American art gallery and gift shop in the YWCA building. Building closed except for curbside pickup, order online. Works by 80 different artists plus indigenous foods and health products. Joseph Nease Gallery 23 W. First St. Duluth 218-481-7750 josephneasegallery.com Exhibiting contemporary art by regional and national artists. Lake Superior Art Glass 357 Canal Park Dr. 218-464-1799 lakesuperiorartglass.com

A complete torch-work glass studio. Legacy Glassworks 32 W. First St. Duluth 218-720-0747 legacyglassworks.com Glass pipes, artwork and other products available at the store and online. Lizzards Art Gallery 11 W. Superior St. Duluth 218-722-5815 lizzards.com Featuring the original, museumquality artwork and framing by Minnesota and Wisconsin artists. During the pandemic, open Monday & Tuesday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Wednesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. or by appointment. MacRostie Art Shop Macrostie-art-center.myshopify.com Grand Rapids, Minn. gallery provides online shopping for works by local artists. Master Framing Gallery 1431 London Rd. Duluth

218-728-4056 High quality custom framing and gallery with many local artists. Oulu Glass 1695 W. Colby Rd., Brule, Wis. 715-372-4160 ouluglassgallery1.com Beautiful glassworks by Jim and Sue Vojacek. Open every day 9-5 except Sundays 12-5, masks required. One group at a time may watch the glassblowing. Self-checkout system for purchases. Products also sold on etsy. com. Perry Framing & Stained Glass 216 E. Superior St., Duluth 218-727-6689 Siiviis of Sivertson Gallery - Duluth 361 Canal Park Dr., Duluth 218-723-7877 sivertson.com Lake Superior region artists in addition to Canadian Inuit and Alaskan native art.

Tischer Photographic Gallery 395 S. Lake Ave. Duluth 218-348-6501 ryantischerphoto.com Featuring the landscape photography of Ryan Tischer with artwork for every home and business. White Cedar Studio 916 Hammond Ave. Ste. 110, Superior 715-392-3114 whitecedarstudio.com Design, creation and repair of custom jewelry. Shop online or text phone number to make an appointment.

Books

Chris Monroe chrismonroestudio.com Known for her children’s books including the “Monkey With a Toolbelt” series, the comic strip “Violet Days” and her paintings. Duluth Grill Cookbook duluthgrill.com Two volumes of cookbooks with

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recipes from breakfast to dessert, from meaty dishes to vegan and gluten-free goodies. Lake Superior Magazine 310 E Superior St. Duluth 218-722-5002 lakesuperior.com OMC Smokehouse Cookbook omcsmokehouse.com Smokehouse recipes including rubs, sauces, beverages, smoked meats with lush photography by Rolf Hagberg Photography, and fun behind the scene stories of how the restaurant got here.

superiorhiking.org 218-343-4512 USA Foxx and Furs Coffee-table book chronicling the A line of apparel that celebrates pride 29 W. Superior St., Duluth “second best long trail in the nation” as for Duluth without being touristy or 800-872-3699 told by volunteers, original trail blazers gimmicky. Storefront is open to the usafoxx.com and dreamers of grandeur. Hargesheimer, public with special safety measures in Providing retail and custom fleshing to a former Superior Hiking Trail place. Curbside pickup available. the Northland for 25 years. Association Board president, provides the text and photos. Kirsten Aune Textiles Wintergreen Northern Wear 12 N. 21st Ave. W. Duluth 205 E. Sheridan St., Ely Sports books by Ross Bernstein kirstenaune.com 218-365-6602 bernsteinbooks.com Scandinavian inspired art for clothing, wintergreennorthernwear.com A University of Minnesota graduate pillows, home accessories, masks and Handcrafted products with quality who has written over 50 books, mostly more. Shop is open Saturdays & Sundays design, construction and is made from about sports, many about Minnesota. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. or by appointment, or the best quality fabrics available. you may order through the website.

Zenith City Press Richard Scott 218-310-6541 Reader humorist and cartoonist has an zenithcity.com epic backlog o’ stuff including: Duluth publishing house dedicated to Lucifer for Congress: Anthology Vol. 1 historic Duluth and the Western Lake on lulu.com Superior region. The Ever-Smokin’ Chimney: etsy.com/ shop/yeoldePGMshoppe I’m an Idiot, You’re an Idiot on amazon.com DLH Clothing The Superior Hiking Trail Story 12 N. 20th Ave. W. Duluth By Rudy Hargesheimer Dlhclothing.com

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Steger Mukluks & Moccasins 100 Miners Drive, Ely 218-365-6634 Alakef Coffee Roasters mukluks.com 1330 E. Superior St., Duluth Mukluks, moccasins and clothing made 218-724-6849 in Ely since 1986. Retail store Is closed alakef.com due to COVID, but curbside pick-up is Gift boxes available online with available at the factory 7 days a week, collections of coffees (including a “30th 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Order online or Call to Anniversary Blend”). Also gift “Coffee be fitted over the phone and schedule a Club” with monthly deliveries. pick-up time.

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Bent Paddle 1912 W. Michigan St. Duluth 218-279-2722 bentpaddlebrewing.com Grab a growler of your favorite bent paddle beer, drink out of some of their glassware, or represent one of Duluth’s biggest breweries through apparel. Canal Park Brewery (Temporarily closed as of Nov. 23) 300 Canal Park Dr., Duluth canalparkbrewery.com What better way to give a little holiday cheer than with a growler or gift certificate? Check out the T-shirts, hoodies, pint glasses, hats and work by local artisans at the retail shop. Chiqui’s Chocolates 31027 E. Shore Dr. Pengilly, Minn. 218-310-6498 chiquischocolates.com What began as a mother and daughter experimenting with recipes and sending samples to friends and

family caught attention and requests for more started to pour in. Duluth’s Best Bread 2632 W. 3rd St. Duluth duluthsbestbread.com Keeping normal hours during pandemic, 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Delivery can normally be arranged for a $10 fee. Products also available at Whole Foods Coop, Mount Royal Market and Wussow’s Concert Café.

Duluth Coffee Co. 105 E. Superior St. Duluth 218-221-6643 duluthcoffeecompany.com Coffee from Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Peru and Sumatra, can be ordered by the pound. Great! Lakes Candy Kitchen 223 Scenic Dr., Knife River

218-834-2121 greatlakescandy.com Over 100 years of family tradition. Walk-up store closed for the season. Online ordering temporarily closed as of Nov. 24 but will reopen soon. No phone orders. Indigenous First Art & Gift Shop 218-590-3305 indigenousfirst.org

Duluth Candy Co. (Formerly Fannie Rose) 103 E. Superior St. 218-722-0229 duluthcandyco.com Gourmet candy and popcorn and gift sets combined with Duluth Coffee. The downtown location is currently closed, but you can find their popcorn at other locations listed on the website. Online ordering is available for local pick-up 12-6 p.m. MondayFriday or shipped to your door.

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Indigenous foods such as herbal teas, naturally harvested wild rice, maple syrup, maple sugar, honey, hominy, hazelnut flour, wild rice pancake mix and white corn flour, all from local and regional Indigenous food producers. Lake Superior Spice Co. 218-213-8274 squareup.com/store/lake-superiorspice-company Handcrafted small-batch hot sauces made in Duluth. Liberation Bakery Wild Yeast Breads Liberationbakeryduluth.com 218-391-4593 A super-duper small bakery run by Kathleen Busche and Ora Jewell-Busche producing naturally leavened bread, traditional breads and treats for coffee or tea. Mike & Jen’s Cocoa Mixes Mikeandjens.com 218-591-6171 The Packingham family in Duluth’s Lakeside neighborhood has developed “the best cocoa mix on the planet,” named after the kids.

Northern Waters Smokehaus DeWitt-Seitz Building 394 Lake Ave. Ste. 106 nwsmokehaus.com 218-724-7307 Premium handcrafted smoked fish and meats. They have a variety of moderately priced gift boxes that are sure to please. Russ Kendall’s Smokehouse 149 Scenic Dr. Knife River 218-834-5995 Facebook.com/RussKendalls Expertly cured fish smoked the oldfashioned way, open since 1908. Sweeden Sweets 601 Tower Ave. Superior 715-718-0713 sweedensweets.com Specializing in homemade chocolate, fudge and candy. Open TuesdaySaturday 11 a.m to 7 p.m., curbside pickup available. Vikre Distillery 525 S. Lake Ave., Ste. 102, Duluth 218-481-7401 vikredistillery.com

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Craft spirits made in Duluth’s Canal Park. Check website for a list of retail outlets. White Winter Winery 68323 Lea St., Iron River, Wis. Whitewinter.com 715-372-5656 Award-winning artisan meads, ciders and spirit. This small regional winery has been making delicious beverages for 24 years, and all with local smallfarm-grown fruits and honey. Open for bottle sales, shipping available. Also sold at liquor stores throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin; see website for list.

Music

Teague and Ian Alexy consideritcorrespondence.com The considerable volumes created by Duluth’s musical brothers, both as solo artists and as their collaborative incarnation, The Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank. Downloads include Teague’s new song “Christmas Bells, Holiday Drums (Jingle, Jangle)” and Ian’s “Making It Shine.” Also full albums on download and CD, T-shirts and tote bags. Dance Attic danceatticmusic.com The folk-polka duo has released an EP, “At Christmas Time” and a children’s book, “Livin’ with a Bear.” The EP features six songs including “The Twelve Beers of Christmas.” $10 each, delivered by mail by request. Bryan James Gatten: Zenith City Christmas bjgband.bandcamp.com/album/ zenith-city-christmas Instrumental hard rock versions of five Christmas carols by electric guitar maestro Bryan James Gatten. Download available from Bandcamp for $5. Wussow’s Concert Cafe 324 N. Central Ave. Duluth Local music CDs by Cory Coffman, One Less Guest, Boxcar, Woodblind, Edward Ojard and most of their One Week Live compilations and more.

Outdoors & Recreation Aerostich Design &

Manufacturing 800-222-1994 8 S. 18th Ave. W. Duluth aerostich.com The motorcycle enthusiast will appreciate most anything from Aerostich. They offer a wide variety of accessories and apparel from finely crafted one-piece suits to helmet cameras and speakers. Duluth Pack 365 Canal Park Dr. Duluth 800-777-4439 duluthpack.com Iconic national product made in Duluth since 1882, the company produces backpacks, handbags, duffels, hunting gear, clothing and more. All items are handcrafted with a lifetime warranty. Frost River Trading Co. 1910 W. Superior St. Duluth 218-727-1472 frostriver.com Backpacks, duffels, luggage, totes, apparel and gear made in an uncompromising style that goes back 250 years, when something as small as a ripped seam could mean big trouble. Granite Gear 2312 10th St. Two Harbors 218-834-6157 granitegear.com Offering a quality line of outdoor equipment including backpacks and canoe gear, anything from Granite Gear will be a prized item for that special outdoor enthusiast. Harmonic Goods harmonicgoods.com A family operation producing handcrafted backpacks, duffels, totes, wearables and accessories for the wild at heart. Kondos Outdoors 205 N Central Ave. Ely 218-365-4189 kondosoutdoors.com Canoe packs and wilderness gear along with dog sport equipment including dog booties, dog harnesses and skijoring equipment, all handcrafted in Ely. Loll Designs 5912 Waseca St. Duluth 877-740-3387 lolldesigns.com Furniture made from excess and recycled materials, including the iconic Adirondack chair. Sister company

Epicurean creates purposeful everyday cutting boards and kitchen tools. Sven-Saw svensaw.com Durable and collapsible saws will make short work of out of most lumber a few inches thick. Available at Northwest Outlet in Superior. TIMBR Design Co. 4817 S. Shore Dr. Duluth 218-393-4277 timbrdesign.com Fusion of design studio and wood shop, producing wood pennants, signage, home accessories, small board games, winter hats.

Other gifts

Anahata Herbals 3583 Martin Rd. Duluth 218-464-6889 anahataherbals.com Offering organic, fair trade, wildcrafted bulk herbs, essential oils, flower essences, books and local programs. Dock 5 218-213-3958 dock-5.com Stylish face masks, handmade handbags and accessories by Park Point

resident Natalija Walbridge. Energy for Life Connection 507 N. Blackman Ave. Duluth 218-591-2104 Energyforlifeconnection.com Winter wellness kits, herbs and herbal remedies, holistic wellness services and workshops. Engwall Floral Design 4749 Hermantown Rd. 218-727-8961 engwalls.com Engwall has been serving the Twin Ports and surrounding areas since 1876. Julebyen julebyen.us The annual celebration in Knife River this year is an online market selling local arts, crafts, food, even saunas. Books are available at the online Troll Village. In Knife River there is the “Hidden Folk” trail, a circular 1-mile self-guided tour at the Shilhon trailhead to learn Scandinavian folklore. Serendipity of Duluth 4407 E. Superior St. 218-525-3455 facebook.com/serendipityofduluth New and vintage home decor, gifts and decorations.

Give the gift of movies and concerts You know the day is coming when movie theaters and concert venues will reopen. In time for the holidays, West Theatre is offering gift cards for future events at Duluth’s Art Deco theater.. Purchase gift cards every Saturday through Christmas from 11 am to 4 pm at the West Theatre, 319 N. Central Ave. Get more information or order online by emailing info@thewesttheatre.com.

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Pardons and pentobarbital Trump’s lame duck swan song

Pardons and pentobarbital are defining the waning weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency. Speculation is rampant over whether Trump will grant himself a preemptive pardon, along with his three eldest children, Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric; his son-in-law Jared Kushner; and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani. If Trump does, he’ll be the first president in U.S. history to pardon himself. Meanwhile, the 54 people on federal death row can expect no such mercy from Trump. He has already executed eight federal prisoners, ending a 30year hiatus in federal executions, and intends to kill five more before he leaves office on Jan. 20. Four of those scheduled to die are African American men and the other is the only woman on federal death row. She would be the first woman executed by the federal government in nearly 70 years. These will be the first federal executions to occur during an outgoing president’s “lame duck” period in more than 130 years, since President Grover Cleveland executed three men of color. Cleveland lost the election, but would be the only president to win again, four years later. The federal government’s only death chamber, at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, is equipped to kill only by lethal injection. In order to expedite the killing spree, the Trump administration has issued a rule change, authorizing federal executions to take place by firing squad, poison gas or electrocution as well. The change was to take effect on Christmas Eve, highlighting how cruel and barbaric the death penalty is. The effective date was quietly shifted to Dec. 28. The next federal prisoner scheduled to die is Brandon Bernard, on Dec. 10 – International Human Rights Day. All but one of his jurors was white, and now, five of them say he should not be executed. The next day, Dec. 11, Alfred Bourgeois is set to be killed. Cory Johnson, whose attorneys say has an IQ of 69 and thus falls below the Supreme Court’s standard allowing the death

penalty, has an execution date of Jan. 14. Dustin Higgs is the final of the four African American men Trump intends to execute just days before he leaves office. Higgs is slated to die on Jan. 15, Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. Study after study has confirmed deep racial bias in the application of the death penalty, primarily targeting African American defendants in crimes with white victims. “It’s a paroxysm of violence,” Cornell law professor Sandra Babcock said on the Democracy Now! news hour. She is an advocate for Lisa Montgomery, the sole woman on federal death row. Babcock described the horrific childhood that Montgomery suffered: “She was a victim of incest, of gang rape, of child sex trafficking, of unimaginable violence for her entire life before she committed the crime for which she was sentenced to death. Montgomery She is profoundly mentally ill ... her stepfather built her a special room off the side of their trailer so he and his buddies could go in and rape her. Her mother sold her to the plumber and to the electrician, told her that she had to earn her keep.” Babcock added, “The jury never heard about the scope of her abuse or its impact. She is the most broken of the broken.” Lisa Montgomery was sentenced to

In order to expedite the death row killing spree Trump has ordered before he leaves office on Jan. 20, his administration will allow death by firing squad, poison gas or electrocution instead of just lethal injection at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind.

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death in 2008 for the murder of a pregnant woman named Bobbie Jo Stinnett. Montgomery lives, imprisoned, under constant sedation with powerful antipsychotic drugs to treat her severe mental illness. “There are at least 16 women who have committed very similar crimes, and prosecutors in those cases recognized that these crimes are the product of trauma and mental illness,” Babcock explained. During a legal visit with Montgomery in November, her two principal attorneys contracted COVID-19. A federal judge granted a delay, but her execution date has now been reset for Jan. 12. The Pew Research Center recently reported that Trump has used the power of clemency far less than any president in modern history, granting only 28 pardons and 16 commutations, including several to his political allies – less than one-half of one percent of clemency requests. President Barack Obama granted clemency 1,927 times, by comparison.

Renowned anti-death-penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, said on Democracy Now!: “There’s no need for these executions to happen. It’s the callous brute force mentality of the Trump administration ... He can use violence and force to make his point.” She added, “You can’t let frail, politically driven individuals decide ‘You, you and you are going to die.’” President-elect Joe Biden has said he supports ending the federal death penalty. It is outdated, racist and ineffective. Like Donald Trump’s presidency, it is time for the death penalty to end. 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

The pit is full I’m tired of leftovers and of hearing ill tidings, so it’s nice to pass along some good cheer for a change and announce my awe-struck happiness living in a society so abundantly noncritical. I don’t mean contentious or accusing, because those are special skills our society can’t resist. I mean honest-to-gosh uncritical acceptance of wholesale stuff made of 100% genuine fish feather. Maybe you want to know. Do you? If so my thankfulness got a huge boost on the generosity side when I recently came across the following from a well-paid (or well connected) source glowing about “soaring spires of mountains nestling green valley’s below.” Well it was something to that effect that got me busily applauding grand success for little cause. You could call the description poetic license (I’ll deal with that later), but why excuse poor description? Mountains have peaks, escarpments, and bluffs, etc. Mountains have neither spires nor aspirations. If a spire was built on a mountain it would not soar. Best it could accomplish is fall down gravely with gravity. A soaring spire is in the same reality with unicorns. And now that you’re thinking a little critically about accuracy in description do you see a mountain nestling anything, ever? Mountains do not nestle. They just don’t. I’ve drawn attention to this little example as a way of pointing out how a softer path is easily seductive. (Calling a round mountain lake the “Eye of the ocean” is poetic license. Saying it is a lipid gate to paradise would have to be termed something else.)

Soaring spires and nestling mountains are harmless examples compared to following the soft path into the quag. Covered in flowing robes educationists announced a social good by rejecting instruction in English as unfair, racist, elitist, colonialist, etc. Argument can be made for any of those claims, but so can (which was left out in favor of foregone pet conclusions) the argument that order and logic in language provides all users with the benefit of established use. In other words the education elite (they are) took the Queen of Hearts path, a choice that required tossing out “old grammar” to favor their brand of looser meaning where (as example) he, she, it, they, and them are interchangeable. (They get that them all?) The down with grammar and English campaigners used logic framing an argument that Americans must have the worst teeth on the planet because we have so many dentists or that only racists would pass and support a great many antidiscrimination laws. Most every instance of language carelessness can be overlooked as trivial, but cumulatively there is an effect of chaotic uncertainty. Who benefits from that? In some cases an individual might by claiming “we” status at the time they agreed to a contract and therefore as an individual they do not owe anyone anything. Handy way to escape a bill but not its costs. Especially in a large and complex society the vital social contract in communicating needs to be approached with an eye on agreement rather than looking for as many ways

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out and around as possible. What good is a social contract if chaos and weaseling out are the new norms? The one saying “Changed my mind” to leave debt or responsibility behind will see things differently than the party left holding the bag. No system is fail proof, but encouragement of skipping about is apt to encourage more failure than encouragement of accountability. I know it’s a stretch and some, possibly many, will call it invalid to make a connect between acceptance of nestling mountains and societal function, but if you get a hint of what’s involved that’s as much as I have in this too-big subject where critical questioning is always at risk of becoming useless niggling or spiteful egotistical haranguing. Accepting less as more is obviously a problem, but so is acceptance of less as sufficient. Lower standards assume you and I are not able to handle anything too challenging. Poor, incapable things need life’s issues made easier for them. There was probably some good intent to begin with, but “assistance” runs the good chance of becoming weakening not to mention demeaning. Let me ask. When you were in school were you confronted with the Four Forms of Formal Written Discourse? Possibly not, but more likely any current students you may know would give the blank look if asked if they knew Argumentation as a formal form. We should be deeply worried that the easier route has reduced argument to its basest form; shouting and accusing. You likely know from at least one

situation or relationship in your life what happens when one side tries to talk things through and the other does not. By not acknowledging the need for and utility of common forms harm rather than good results because disagreements become power struggles. The well-intended (we might question that) who think easier is better coach a system to their immediate benefit but with consequences they’ll not appreciate when loose rules are used to hound them to hell. We remember too late it’s not chess when one side kicks over the board and declares Checkmate! Fairness isn’t achieved nor the playing field improved by gaming the system. Wouldn’t plain talk, if we were allowed to use it, call that cheating? Possibly making too much of too little, let me try this gem on you. The great media lords who grant success have given us this: “dark brown eyes gleamed with urgency” Anyone know what gleaming brown urgency is other than gibberish? But wonderfully creative (a useful excuse) in a recently published repetition of Lassie where Lassie is a brown eyed magic horse and Timmy is now a girl.(creative as flying, talking mice?) Urgent brown was but one example of empty script (inviting more of the same if the media lords have their way) to fill the hole. When commercial success defines good communication you’ll get what we got. You’ll find urgent brown in the pit. It’s the color of muddy waste rock.

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Official bucks Trump claims, draws backlash Lifelong Republican Rohn Bishop believes the party must stop trafficking in lies for the good of the country Knowing he would probably face fierce criticism, Rohn Bishop raised a dissenting voice while some of his fellow conservatives argued in favor of invalidating votes in Wisconsin. In a Nov. 21 post on Twitter, he said he’d spent the past decade refuting claims that state Republicans were “trying to disenfranchise people” with voter ID and signature laws. But the campaign of President Donald Trump had gone too far, he said, in legal challenges aimed at tossing out votes during the recounts in mostly liberal Dane and Milwaukee counties. The counting was completed Nov. 29, adding 87 votes to Joe Biden’s winning total. “Now here we are, trying to disenfranchise people,” he said on Twitter. “These voters did nothing wrong. There’s no fraud. We’re pushing for a drawdown (in votes counted) based on a technicality!” As chair of the Republican Party of Fond du Lac County, he acted in defense of the party’s long-term interests, he said. But as a rare conservative voice rejecting pervasive but baseless claims of vote fraud on social media, he faced an intense backlash from conservatives throughout the state. Those responding to the post have called him a range of names including “useful idiot” – and worse. “I had 48 hours of where it was – it almost broke me,” Bishop told Wisconsin Watch. Raised in a Waupun, Wisconsin, household where a photograph of Richard and Pat Nixon hung behind his parents’ bar, Bishop is “all-in on the Republican Party,” he said. After serving a few terms on the Waupun City Council, Bishop got

involved with the county GOP during the 2008 presidential cycle and became chair in 2017. He also regularly contributes to the conservative news and opinion website RightWisconsin – which also has editorialized against Trump. Bishop believes trying to invalidate votes in Dane and Milwaukee counties harms his party’s brand – not to mention trust in democracy. Wisconsin Watch’s email requesting comment on Bishop’s criticism was not immediately returned by Andrew Hitt, chair of the Republican Party of Wisconsin. “I’m honestly trying to keep the Republican Party from doing something it’s going to seriously regret,” Bishop said. “By that I mean going into Milwaukee County and throwing out a bunch of African Americans’ votes. I don’t think that’s a particularly good look.” Wisconsin Watch: You said that you had spent the past decade pushing back against the idea that Republicans were attempting to suppress votes by enacting requirements such as voter ID. What changed? Bishop: I have no issue showing an ID to vote. You need one for everything else – why not to vote? One of the arguments the Democrats who would oppose this legislation was, ‘You Republicans are trying to suppress the vote. You’re trying to disenfranchise voters.’ My response was always, ‘No, even if you vote wrong’ – I mean, I’m joking – ‘you have the right to vote. You have the same right to vote that I do. I don’t want to take that right away from you. I just want to make sure that when you say who you are, that you are who you are, and that the number of votes and voters all adds up. If I win, great. If I lose, I’ll work harder in the future.’ I still hold that position. Where I’m upset with the recount effort now is that they’re going after absentee ballots. So, I always vote early in person because it exists and it’s convenient, right? You just go in,

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Fond du Lac County Republican Party Chair Rohn Bishop is seen in the workshop at his home in Waupun, surrounded by posters of fellow Republicans, including U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson and former President George W. Bush. Photo by Lauren Justice for Wisconsin Watch. you fill out your ballot, the clerk’s your witness, they fold it and put it in the envelope. We’ve been doing it that way for 15 years. And now the Trump people are claiming that technically, by state law, you’re supposed to have to fill out a paper request for that ballot because it is technically an absentee ballot. Well, great, you should have told us that like six months ago because that’s how half the state voted. Now they’re trying to throw those ballots out in Dane and Milwaukee because those are the two most Democratic counties. If they can get that done, Trump can win Wisconsin because he’ll be throwing out a whole lot of Biden votes. And I just think that’s going too far because that’s not voter fraud and those people who voted did nothing wrong. … I don’t agree with how they voted, but I don’t think they did anything illegal, improper or nefarious – they just went and voted. Throwing out those votes I think is a bridge too far for me, and that’s where I’m breaking with this effort. WW: What was the reaction like to your Twitter thread? Bishop: Monday and Tuesday of

this (past) week was a shit show of just hateful stuff coming my way from Republicans who should know better. I didn’t even oppose the president doing the recount because it was a close election and I had no problem taking a second look at it. If it helps voters understand that it was a fair and clean election, I think that’s a good thing. But this went off the rails now where they’re just trying to kick out people’s votes. So far, from what I can tell, in Wisconsin, they found one fraudulent vote; it was caught by the clerk and the person is facing two felonies. The system appears to have worked. This election is getting a closer look than any other one. People keep telling me there’s all this fraud, there’s all this fraud; I haven’t seen any yet. I’m really open to it, because if there is, I want to clean it up and have a clean election. It’s just not happening. I don’t know what to tell people because I feel like we live in two different worlds: They see an election that was stolen and I just don’t. WW: Do you think conservatives’ yearlong effort to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the presidential election has done long-term damage to our democracy?

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Bishop: I think so. I’m not an expert in any sense of the imagination, but for whatever reason I started studying more about voter fraud and how the whole election system works. A lot of it is tied into, by coincidence, back in late May, when the president started attacking mail-in voting. I had a tweet that caught a lot of attention, where I pointed out that there is no more evidence of vote fraud with mail-in voting as there is with regular voting. And I pushed back on that because I spent a good chunk of the summer arguing that I want Republican voters who are afraid of COVID to vote by mail so we can get their ballots in. The system works. And we’ve cast so much doubt on it, the Republicans, when they lose an election, they don’t believe it – and that’s not healthy for democracy. WW: Why do you think more elected representatives in your party haven’t spoken out against these unfounded attacks on our elections system? Bishop: They’re afraid. That’s the base of our party, and they don’t want to lose their jobs. I don’t get paid for this job; anyone can have it, honestly. … A lot of them, they’re just hoping this blows over in a couple of weeks, that after January 20 it will just go back to normal. I don’t know if that’s the case. WW: Where is this push to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the vote and to discount ballots headed? Bishop: I don’t know this, but I think there is a lot of state elected Republicans who are waiting until Tuesday (Wisconsin’s certification deadline), and when the recount wraps up, the vote is the vote, a lot of them will come out and say, ‘OK, we’ll take a look at absentee voting rules moving forward, and if they need to be tweaked or something, we can do that. But there is no fraud in this election and we need to move on and approve the (Joe) Biden slate of electors at the Legislature.’ That’s where the pushback’s going next. That’s where the Vicki McKennas and David Clarkes are going to turn their attention, is to yell ‘fraud’ and try to get the state Legislature … to send the Trump electors. WW: Do you find the trend of conspiratorial thinking being normalized by conservative social media influencers such as McKenna and Clarke alarming? Bishop: Yes. I don’t know why it’s happening. It’s like the QAnon thing: I had never heard of the damn thing until August. I had a couple of friends who were over at my house in Waupun for a parade, and they were telling

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me what QAnon is. My friend starts laughing and says, ‘The look on your face is terrifying.’ … A lot of talk radio is just bullshit. I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh and learned a lot from him. … When I was a kid, Rush Limbaugh was entertaining. He had the parodies and little skits and spoofs; we could make fun of the Democrats while disagreeing with them. The show was funny. If you listen over the last seven, eight years, it’s just, ‘The Democrats are evil, they’re the enemy, and if they win, we’re a socialist country by March 15.’ When every election is the most important election of your lifetime – otherwise the country’s over – that’s how people get so worked up and believe so much stuff. WW: How can we stop demonizing political opponents and move forward as a state and union? Bishop: It would be nice if we could at least agree on reality; that would be helpful. … We need to have people who are willing to talk to people who they don’t agree with. For all the talk of gerrymandering in Wisconsin, look at that map – Republicans want to live with Republicans, Democrats want to live with Democrats, and we almost never interact. If you want, you can listen to WISN radio, go home and watch Fox News channel, and have Facebook and Twitter friends who only agree with you. I know people who live in that bubble; they have no idea that there’s another half of the country out there that doesn’t agree with them. The same is true on their side: They can listen to NPR – I kind of like NPR, so I don’t mean that as a cheap shot – or watch MSNBC all day and not interact with Republicans. Because you never interact with these people, you can start to believe the crap out there about how evil the other side is, when in a lot of cases they just don’t agree with you. Howard Hardee is a Madison-based journalist who created a misinformation toolkit for consumers funded by the Craig Newmark Philanthropies. He is a fellow at First Draft, an organization that trains journalists to detect and report on disinformation. Wisconsin Watch (wisconsinwatch.org) collaborates with Wisconsin Public Radio, PBS Wisconsin, other news media and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. All works created, published, posted or disseminated by Wisconsin Watch do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of UWMadison or any of its affiliates.

Skip the carpet powder Dear Readers: Powdered carpet deodorizers are popular, but they can be adverse for the carpet, the vacuum and your health. Use them carefully. Carpet deodorizers can be loaded with chemicals, perfumes and cleaning agents. Deodorizers that aren’t vacuumed up can grind into the carpet fibers and wear them away. Vacuuming up this powder can damage the belts, filters and motor of the vacuum. And, carpet that has not been thoroughly vacuumed can harbor remnants of the stuff, which can be inhaled by pets and people. Carpet room deodorizers can freshen the carpet and the room, but be judicious with them. This may be a case where less is more. – Heloise P.S. One fun, safe and effective carpet deodorizer this time of year? Making “Santa’s Footprints” – a trail of baking soda drizzled over the cutout of a boot, showing the big guy’s path from the chimney to the tree to deliver gifts, and back again. Vacuum up before brunch. Would you like more Baking Soda Hints, Helps and Hacks? It’s easy. I’ve compiled my favorites into a handy pamphlet. Visit Heloise.com to order, or send a long stamped (70 cents) envelope along with $5 to: Heloise/Baking Soda, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 782795001. Look for large boxes of baking soda in the laundry aisle, for even more savings. Baking soda is a workhorse in the home. Nontoxic, safe, cheap and readily available. – H.

1/4 teaspoon salt 6 tablespoons butter or margarine 4 tablespoons milk 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts Combine all the ingredients except the nuts in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on high, removing and stirring periodically, until all the ingredients in the mixture are melted and smooth. When the mixture is smooth, remove from the microwave and stir in the nuts. Spread the candy into a buttered 9-inch-by-5-inch loaf pan and allow to cool completely before cutting into bite-sized pieces. If you like easy-tomake treats for family and friends, you’ll enjoy my Heloise’s Fudge and Other Recipes. To receive a copy, just send a stamped, self-addressed, long envelope, along with $2 to: Heloise/ Fudge, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5000. Let one of these tasty, easy-to-prepare recipes become YOUR family’s tradition.

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Oh fudge! Dear Heloise: You had a recipe for an easy-to-make fudge that I made last year for the holidays. I don’t remember the name of it, but you used a microwave. It had walnuts and was chocolate. It turned out so well and was a big hit with everyone on Christmas Day. Could you reprint that recipe? This time I’ll cut it out and save it, because it looks like that will be one of our family traditions! – Karen T., Utica, Ind. Karen, you’re thinking of Matthew’s Microwave Fudge, and it really is delicious! Here it is: 1 pound powdered sugar 1/2 cup cocoa

A new flavor Dear Heloise: I saw the Italian chicken recipe, and it sounded easy to make. We had Italian food already this week, so I decided to use Asian poppy seed and ginger dressing instead, along with the onions, and it was delicious! I served it over rice. I’m so excited now and plan to use different salad dressings and definitely making the Italian chicken next week. – Arline E., via e-mail Arline, what a great idea! Isn’t it fun to take a good recipe and experiment with it and discover a flavor from an old favorite? Fluffy eggs Dear Heloise: My secret to fluffy eggs is keeping a low flame. Eggs should be cooked as though you are making a pudding – slowly, over a low flame. Eggs that are cooked too fast lose flavor and end up tasting like plastic. By the way, I stopped into a local diner for breakfast and ordered an omelet. The cook took the eggs and some milk and whipped it up on a milkshake machine. Now that was fluffy! – Fred J., The Villages, Fla.

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Darkness and light The world feels pretty dark these days, don’t you think? Our daily routines – governed by clocks – are the backdrop against which we can measure this growing darkness. My alarm goes off at the same minute every morning, but last June its timing meant that’d I’d just missed CONNECTIONS sunrise. Today it took my entire yoga practice and half of my run before the sky was more than gray. In the evenings, I have to be quick to squeeze in a walk without my headlamp. Today, I didn’t make the deadline. So I bundled up with jacket and earmuffs, mittens and headlamp, and crunched on thin, dry snow down toward the lake. Halfway there, I doused my light to check on the sky. Although the forecast had been for clouds, stars glittered solemnly behind the twiggy lace of the forest. Have you ever noticed that when things are the darkest, we tend to focus on the points of light? Last week it was the full moon that captured our attention. Soon the Geminid meteor shower will blaze through the sky. Just after sunset on December 20 and 21, Jupiter and Saturn will seem to align and almost merge into one bright beacon. There is truth to the cliché that looking at stars makes us feel small; makes our tiny lives seem insignificant. The billions of years. The trillions of galaxies. The unimaginable miles. And one lonely blue planet.

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But – on a good night – when I look at the stars I also feel immense. I am made of stardust after all. And so are you. I’ve mentioned this before. The warm iron coursing through our veins originated in the core of a dying star. Inhaling deeply, crisp, cold stardust made of carbon and oxygen fills my lungs. It’s starlight that fills my belly. The energy of photons, blasted through space and captured by plants, imbues every molecule of sugar with a bit of solar power. Animals take that energy to build muscles and to use them. In my imagination, the Sun’s power shoots from my chest in theatrical rays. In reality, a chocolate chip cookie smolders in the fireplace of my metabolism. It feels good to think these Universesized thoughts after a day of living almost entirely through my computer screen. I’m grateful that we have a season when the mosquitoes don’t bite and the stars come out before my bedtime. As I turn back toward the house, the glittering becomes rainbow-colored. It’s my Charlie Brown Christmas tree – a spindly fir that was crowding my portage to the lake – and the lights I plugged in just before heading outside. Even on a cloudy night, constellations of Christmas lights shine through the gloom. Yea, in times of darkness, we tend to focus on the points of light. And perhaps the Christmas lights are a good reminder that, in times of darkness, we don’t have to wait for the stars to come out or the moon to rise. We can string up the lights and plug them in, and our neighborhood will be a little more cheerful because of our efforts. Just before I plugged in my tree, for example, I received an email from a friend about the long lines at our local food shelf, and the people who were

turned away when the food ran out. Talk about darkness. It only took a minute to find the donation button on their website, so there’s a pinpoint of light. Last night, inspired by a woman on the corner with a cardboard sign, my niece and nephews put together “blessing bags” of warm socks and granola bars that they’ll keep handy in the car as they drive around their city. There’s some starlight in those. We still have a few more weeks while the Earth tilts evermore steeply toward darkness; a few more weeks until winter solstice when the days will slowly begin to brighten. For now, I’m going to make a point to enjoy those stars, and the moon, and meteors while they shine. And maybe I’ll take my stardust blood and my starlight energy and see if I can add

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a few more to those pinpoints of light. Donations to the Ashland, Cable, Cornucopia, and Mellen food shelves can be made at thebrickministries.com, or find a statewide database of food banks here: feedingwi.org/ Emily Stone is the Naturalist/Education Director at the Cable Natural History Museum. Her award-winning second book, Natural Connections: Dreaming of an Elfin Skimmer, is now available to purchase at cablemuseum.org/books. Or order from 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 closed, but the Mysteries of the Night exhibit is available online. Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and cablemuseum.org to keep track of our latest adventures in learning.

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UMD’s Anna Klein continued behind the net after putting the first goal of Friday’s 4-0 victory over St. Cloud State past Sanni Ahola. Anneke Linser looked for a rebound, but was injured shortly after this and missed the rest of the series. Photos by John Gilbert. What have we come to with our professional sports franchises in Minnesota? Part of our “Minnesota Nice” has been the love affair we have with our sports teams, and with their players who best adapt and fit into our culture. Like all sports fans, I have certain players I enjoy watching, and in my case I often have gotten to meet, interview and know a bit as a journalist. The Minnesota Wild are a perfect example. You won’t find a more personable, friendly, responsible player in the NHL than Mikko Koivu. In the running might be Eric Staal, who built and outdoor rink at his home and goes out and skates with his kids and the neighborhood kids. He’s from Thunder Bay, as well, so his folks can come down and watch him play. Perfect fit. Another perfect fit is goaltender Devan

Dubnyk. Dubnyk, who had proven to be among the NHL’s elite goaltenders, had problems last season with an injury, and then his wife had a serious malady and he yielded the starting job to Alex Stalock so he could withdraw and spend time with his wife and kids. He came back ready to go, but he and Stalock are a rare and perfect combination, pulling for each other and fully supportive. So on the scene comes Bill Guerin, a pretty good winger in his playing days, and the Wild and the Twin Cities media gushed over him. He played at Boston College, which meant he was a big rival of Gopher hockey and has no reason to know about our hockey culture. He trades Eric Staal, first line center and a big, rangy player. HE tells Koivu he’s not offering him a contract, hoping

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he’d retire and go home to Finland. Koivu has lost a step, but he’s still the perfect captain, the perfect team player, responsible defensively and a strong face-off man. He didn’t retire. He didn’t want to retire. He signed with Columbus for the upcoming season. Guerin then traded Dubnyk to San Jose. Three men, just Monopoly board pieces to Guerin perhaps, but three solid citizens who resp[ected and fit into the Minnesota hockey culture. The word was the Wild needed to add bigger players, so they drafted a highly skilled young man on the first round. He may be great, but he’s 5-foot-9. Staal and Koivu, both 6-4, are gone. That goes back to the Vikings, an NFL franchise that struck it rich when a reserve quarterback named Case Keenum stepped in three years ago and with great instincts and spontaneity, he ran and passed the Vikings to an 11-3 season and the playoffs. They won a huge playoff game over New Orleans when Keenum arched a long bomb that Stefan Diggs made a leaping catch on from two defenders, landed on the sideline, and ran into the end zone for the winning touchdown. That’s relevant, because last week a huge contest was held for all Vikings fans to pick their greatest memory from all Vikings game in history, and that Minneapolis Miracle won. So they sent Diggs away, and that’s OK because he was an attitude problem. But they also cut Case Keenum — who fit in perfectly with the Vikings but coach Mike Zimmer didn’t want anything but a stand-still pocket quarterback, never mind that all the best young teams have scramblers. Now we come to last week, and the Minnesota Twins, caught up to the strangling point with analytics governing all their decisions, decide to cut Eddie Rosario adrift. No trade, nothing. He’s gone. A free agent instead of my favorite Twins player to watch. In the analytical mess, Rosario was an instinctive, improvising player. If the pitch was shoulder high and three inches outside, if he liked it, he would hit a line drive off the left-centerfield wall. HE gambled on the bases. A team that was ultra conservative remained so, except when Eddie Rosario was involved, making great catches, throwing out baserunners with perfect strikes from left field, daring to take an extra base that could put the Twins in position to steal a win. He’s gone. The best reason to watch a Twins game, to drive from Duluth to Minneapolis and buy a

ticket, is gone. Oh, sure, they still have Nelson Cruz, their ageless designated hitter. But wait! They cut him, too, into free agency. While they still could offer him a contract and sign him up again, nothing is guaranteed. As a sports fan with a considerable history, then, I am left without my biggest reason to watch a Wild game, or a Twins game, or a Vikings game! Men go, women pause The UMD men’s hockey team continues on its torrid season-opening run at the Omaha pod for NCHC hockey teams. The Bulldogs have a week and a half left before calling the first phase of the season over, but they still have some huge games to go. On Thursday, for example, UMD faces No. 1 North Dakota, in a game with national No. 1 overtones. Scott Sandelin found Ryan Fanti and put him in goal to replace the graduated Hunter Shepard, and Fanti opened with three straight victories, including a 2-1 victory over Denver, when the Pioneers outshot UMD 18-1 in the second period, and he held the Bulldogs in the game until two closeorder power-play goals in the third period vaulted UMD to the larceny. The large quantity of returnees anchor a strong UMD team, and Sandelin took Wyatt Kaiser, his prize defenseman recruit from Andover High School, and installed him as a raw freshman to quarterback the power play. Scott Perunovich is gone, having signed a contract with the St. Louis Blues as Hobey Baker winner, and Kaiser has done an outstanding job from the start fitting into a prominent role. Meanwhile, the UMD women continued their roller-coaster season — sweep at MSU-Mankato, then getting swept by Minnesota at AMSOIL Arena, and then last weekend, pretty well cruising past St. Cloud State 4-0 and 5-1 at AMSOIL. That’s a pattern that can be frustrating for UMD fans. Naomi Rogge scored two goals ain the second period, at 1:19 and 3:03, to stretch the first-period lead created by Anna Klein, and freshman Clara Van Wieren scored to complete the 4-0 first game, while Swedish junior Emma Soderberg notched the shutout. St. Cloud State managed only 11 shots in the game, however, not a real test. Game 2 was scoreless through a period, then Gabbie Hughes cruised by the right edge of the crease just

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Goaltender Emma Soderberg thought she covered the puck but when she didn’t she had enough help to stop Linn Melotindos.

Gabbie Hughes (17) sweeps behind the net after scoring for the first UMD goal of Saturday night’s 5-1 victory.

as a rebound landed at her feet and she rapped it in. Klein followed two minutes late with her sixth goal in six games, igniting a three-goal splurge in two and a half minutes. Rogge notched her fourth goal of the season 44 seconds later, and Van Wieren scored on a deflection at 9:47 to make it 4-0. At that point, UMD had outshot the Huskies 34-6. Coach Maura Crowell decided to give Soderberg a break and play JoJo Chobak in the third period, and, sure enough, St. Cloud State came to life, getting 12 shots in the third period after only nine through the first two. Jenniine Nylund broke through, finding a wide rebound on her stick deep on the right and rifling it behind Chobak with 3:43 remaining to cut it to 4-1.’ Van Wieren, from Okemos, Michigan, got free in the slot and scored at 17:54 for the Bulldogs to complete the 5-1 victory. Afterward, I had to ask Crowell how she planned to prepare for this weekend’s series at No. 1 Wisconsin, because the Badgers had just had their big weekend against Minnesota cancelled by COVID-19, and Crowell said: “We haven’t heard any more from Wisconsin, so we’re going ahead and planning to play, until we hear otherwise.” Otherwise came when the Badgers informed UMD that the COVID-19 pandemic has knocked out enough players that this weekend’s series is cancelled, too. That means the rest of the season, which hasn’t yet been scheduled by the WCHA, is up for grabs. But for calendar year 2020, the UMD men and the UMD women will not be back playing in AMSOIL Arena. So check out the accompanying photos — they might be the evidence

could run with the best. Or ahead of the best. The theory that Hamilton is good but has a superior car gained more evidence when /Russell, with only two days to get into the car, set the fastest race lap and could have run away with the victory — just as Hamilton has so frequently done.

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of the final games we’ll see in Duluth for a while. Hamilton back for finale World driving champion Lewis Hamilton is expected back in his frontrunning Mercedes for this weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix — the final race of this tortured Formula 1 season. A week after Roman Grosjean escaped serious injury when his car went off the tracks, pierced an ARMCO barrier and went on through it, bursting into flames on the first lap of the Bahrain Grand Prix. The car broke in half as it was engulfed in a roaring fire, and somehow Grosjean got his harnesses undone, extricated himself, and came leaping up on the Armco and to safety as the safety crew extinguished his burning legs. Hamilton won that race, but he was stricken with COVID-19 and had to withdraw. The Mercedes team worked out a deal with Williams to use George Russell, a 22-year-old Briton, in Hamilton’s car. He had no illusions, and was just hoping to stay within view of Valtteri Bottas, Hamilton’s teammate. Instead, Russel surged to the front, made a stirring pass on Bottas, and dominated the race despite a couple of safety-car incursions. His storybook day was fouled up when the Mercedes crew made a couple of horrible mistakes. First, Russell’s radio malfunctioned. Then he came into the pits at the same time as Bottas, and in the confusion, the crew put two front tires meant for Bottas on Russell’s car. He went back out, knew the compound and the style were wrong, and tried to make his way back to the front, when a tire got punctured. He finished ninth, but, more importantly, showed that he

As it was, Sergio Perez won the race, with Esteban Ocon second, and Lance Stroll third in the matching team car to Perez. Two guys who never get to the podium finished first and third. Fantastic ending to a bizarre season, and next year should provide even more off-season controversy as teams fight now for the services of George Russell.

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be unstoppable at this point.

A football season to forget? LARSMONT – With all of the various public health protocols in place, along with the requests to quarantine and social distance, I’m trying my best. I mean, I live kind of a quiet existence the way it is. So it hasn’t been a drastic change for me. The one thing that has hit me the most is that I am not getting my daily nutritional requirement of Ice Hockey due to all of this. So I’ve been filling in with a bit more football than would usually be on my plate, which is fine. I have long loved football, even if there are things about it that grind me. For starters, at this point, I likely lean more toward college football than to the NFL. I still have some issues with the way the league does business, and considering some of the political hills they choose to stand on, that is probably going to hold firm.

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For the collegiate game, a couple of issues rankle me to this day, one of which is that the NCAA still has NOT put together what I consider to be a real playoff for what could be deemed, to be an honest, playoff-tried and actual D-1 National Champion. I’ve heard the phrase used that the current format (computer devised basically) is the best thing they can come up with. That’s just so much nonsense I can’t begin even to apply verbiage to my response. The current format cannot and never will accommodate a significant upset’s aura, factor in a critical injury, coaching blunder, home field, and so many other factors that a real tourney can. Next up is that an annual survey of the top 25 rankings at the beginning, mid-point and end of every season will show pretty much the same teams year after year. There is a newcomer on rare occasions, but usually, the same powerful, well-coached and wellfunded clubs are at the top of the heap, almost always. Is this compelling to any non-diehard fans of the game? Not in my book. But not wanting to penalize

excellence, is there any way to achieve some parity here? That’s a pretty hard question. Where would you even begin to try to make the college game more competitive overall? In this past weekend’s competition alone, nine FBS games were canceled due to COVID-19 out of 55 scheduled tilts, and of the games played, I counted 19 blowout games. That’s a bit short of half. It’s unacceptable. Of the canceled games, the Gophers vs. Northwestern game was among them. With the Wildcats enjoying a strong showing so far and sporting a #14 national rank, the Gophers may have dodged another not-so-pretty loss. On the other hand, young teams need game experience, and these situations will negatively impact the future of building programs. It’s easy to see the dramatic effect the pandemic has on the season and likely will for the foreseeable future. And it’s a shame the country, via inaction, didn’t get on top of this and act prudently and forcefully at its first opportunity. Much grief could have been spared for citizens, businesses, and the sports world alike. THE NFL HAS PLODDED forth with its season. There have been a few reschedules, but the league remains determined to get in all of its games before holding a reformatted playoff leading to the playing of Super Bowl LV. Of my pro ball viewing, mostly centered around the Vikings, I have noted a voluminous number of what I refer to as “slop games.” I’m sure it’s unavoidable in this playing environment whereby your roster for a given game is wholly based upon the number of positive COVID tests that week or day. So, I understand, but I don’t automatically forgive. In watching the Vikes and Jacksonville slog it out, one thing that stood out was the sheer number of what I was always taught were “concentration” type of penalties or gaffes on routine plays. They are just unacceptable at the pro level. They drive coaches nuts. In examining the Viking’s schedule, there have been a solid three “slop” games (ATL, DAL and JAX), with the team returning a 1-2 record in such games. I’m not going to analyze the coulda-shoulda factor with this year’s edition of the group because there’s nothing to gain from it. However, in a season with at least

some indifferent expectations, due to several factors, it isn’t hard to say that the current 6-6 record of this club could be 9-3 or in that vicinity. But that’s why they play the games, they say. At this point, the team is suddenly being discussed as a playoff club again. And based on this whacked-out season, it could happen. Of course, I wouldn’t get my hopes up for some run by the club. They don’t possess that type of roster depth. To win one playoff tilt if they qualified, the team would have to conjure up a bit more “Minneapolis Magic.” That’s just the way it seems this year. As far as eyeing up any playoff procrastinating, at least everyone else is up against the same quirks the Vikes are this year. At this point, the NFC’s power seems to be, in my order, NOL, NYG, GB, and, believe it or not, the Vikes. That is all based on the last five games. SEA and the LAR were strong early and have cooled. No one else in the conference stands out. Over in the AFC, there are a couple of what can solidly be referred to as “power teams.” PIT is undefeated, and KC is a healthy 11-1. BUF, MIA and CLE are all 4-1 in their L5. However, I do not feel that any of them make their way through to the title game. Over here, it probably goes right through KC and then PIT. Time will tell. And I’m leaning to KC when it gets down to brass tacks. Would a KC vs. NOL Super Bowl be a good matchup in that game? I think so, but it would depend on how good of shape NOL QB Drew Brees is in when he returns from injury. He is still out with a multitude of disorders, his ribs being the biggest challenge. Others are touting the Packers as a team that could get in. I’ve seen them a few times. It’s possible; then again, I’m not sure. When you have Aaron Rodgers calling the signals, you are going to have some success. Can the rest of the club pull their weight? That’s the unknown factor. I’m leaning KC vs. NOL. THE NHL IS STILL IN talks to determine a beginning date for the its season. The hoped-for Jan. 1 start date seems to have evaporated, with a new projection of the 15th as the earliest the league could commence operations. Either way, let’s GO! I have seen a few college games, and I am ready for some pro action! PEACE

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Coffee and the cholesterol question Q: You’ve written about coffee raising cholesterol unless it is filtered to remove cafestol and kahweol. My brother has been using only Keurig coffeemakers for the past 10 years. He is experiencing high cholesterol and memory problems. Do the Keurig devices raise cholesterol, since they do not have filters for the coffee grounds? A: Keurig-type machines that use “Kcups” or “pods” to make a single serving of coffee have become extremely popular. If you take a K-cup apart, you will find a filter in it. We don’t know whether that filter removes cafestol and kahweol. Consequently, we can’t say with certainty that your brother’s coffee habit affects his cholesterol. We suspect, though, that it’s less likely to pose problems. Recent research shows that drinkers of black coffee have higher “good” HDL cholesterol (Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, online, Nov. 2, 2020). If people add milk, cream or sugar, however, the HDL benefits disappear. Q: I am unable to get the flu shot due to an allergy to egg lecithin. Will the COVID-19 vaccine have egg protein in it as well? I have asthma and am susceptible to bronchitis. A: At this time, the Food and Drug Administration is considering two anti-COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use authorization. Both use the new mRNA technology, which completely bypasses the need for eggs in producing the vaccine. We usually say we can’t secondguess the FDA, but we do anticipate that one or both of these vaccines will be made available for people at high risk. When the time comes for you to get vaccinated, be sure to ask which vaccine you will be getting. If it is from Moderna or Pfizer/BioNTech, you won’t need to worry about egg protein. Q: I took Zoloft for depression for 22 years, and it worked well. The cost of the name brand got too high, so I tried generic sertraline. I have had serious problems with this (dizziness, spacing out while

driving, disorientation for three to four hours post-dose, return of depression symptoms three to four days after change). I found one generic that works for me, but pharmacies are dumping it to save a few dollars per prescription. I have not done well with generic sertraline from several other companies. Mix and match generics are not good for me. I believe FDA standards for bioequivalence are inadequate. I’ve read what you’ve written about authorized generic medicines. How can I find one? A: Authorized generics are licensed by the original manufacturer and must follow the identical recipe as the branded product. Other generic products have to be reverse-engineered and may have different inactive ingredients. We received this message from another reader: “Greenstone sells the autho-

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rized generic sertraline. I bought 180 pills for $45, as I didn’t want to wait for insurance approval. I had to pay $500 for 45 Pfizer pills before this. “Now the pills look exactly like the Pfizer brand name ones. It’s even stamped ‘Zoloft’ on one side. I guess they are just taking the pills off the same assembly line and bottling them as Greenstone. I have transitioned from the Pfizerbranded Zoloft to Greenstone sertraline and have not noticed any difference.”

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Healthy chili peppers and walnuts A man in Canada recently set his third mark recognized by the Guinness World Records for speed eating his way through 246 grams of ghost peppers, which are ranked as the world’s hottest chili pepper. Afterward, he told a television station he felt “great about winning the title,” because it puts him one step closer to his goal: “Collect as many Guinness Records for eating hot peppers as I can.” According to some research, this pepper champion may be extending the time he has to achieve his fiery ambition. A new study, presented initially at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2020, suggests that people who regularly eat chili peppers may live longer. Researchers from Cleveland Clinic’s Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute looked at data from 4,729 studies that included roughly 570,000 people and found regularly eating chili peppers reduced the risk of death from cardiovascular disease by as much as 26% and of cancer-related deaths by 23%. Chili peppers contain capsaicin, a chemical compound that, despite its red-hot nature, has a cooling, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anticancer and blood-glucose-regulating effect. Some research also suggests that when eaten regularly, chili peppers can aid in weight loss, possibly due to their high levels of polyphenols. Don’t hesitate to chop up a pepper for tonight’s dinner – but reports from the Environmental Working Group suggest some hot peppers may contain potentially toxic insecticides that can harm the central nervous system. So spice up your life, but wash peppers well, and buy organic or grow your own when you can. *** More proof of the remarkable health benefits of walnuts: Walnuts are the oldest known tree food. There are records of their consumption dating back to 7000 B.C. Merchants traveling the Silk Road transported them between Asia and the Middle East. The ancient

Romans called them Juglans regia, “Jupiter’s royal acorn.” More recently, nutritional science has identified what makes them so good and good for you. Some studies show they help control diabetes and lessen diabetesrelated nerve pain. Other research finds they’re beneficial to brain health and lower LDL cholesterol levels. And a new study clarifies how and why they’re so good for your heart. Published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the research followed 600 healthy older adults for two years – some consumed 30 to 60 grams (1 to 2 ounces) of walnuts per day; others followed a standard diet without any walnuts. When the researchers measured levels of 10 well-known inflammatory biomarkers, they found that people on the walnut diet had reductions of up to 11.5% in six of them, including interleukin-1B, which is often a target of pharmaceutical intervention when treating heart disease. Tamping down of inflammatory markers likely comes from walnut’s super-serving of the omega-3 fatty acid called alpha-linolenic acid. Just about 1 ounce of the nuts provides 2.5 grams of ALA. And according to a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, every gram of ALA you eat per day lowers your risk of dying from heart disease by 10%. So go nuts – about 12-14 walnut halves a day should do it! *** Are you increasing your egg-istential risk for diabetes? In 2013, Joey Chestnut, the world’s No. 1 Major League Eater, downed 141 hard-boiled eggs in eight minutes. (Enough to make you yolk!) Well, according to the newly published results of a study that ran from 1991 to 2009 and tracked more than 8,500 adults, eating far fewer eggs than that still increases your risk for Type-2 diabetes substantially. The research, published in the

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Researchers found regularly eating chili peppers reduced the risk of death from cardiovascular disease by as much as 26% and of cancer-related deaths by 23%. British Journal of Nutrition, found that folks eating the equivalent of about one egg a day boosted their risk for Type-2 diabetes by 60%! And even eating the equivalent of less than five eggs a week in the long haul upped the risk for diabetes by 25%. Women seem more affected than men. Other data shows that in the U.S., adults eat just slightly less than the equivalent of one egg a day. So your three-egg omelet for weekend brunch clearly pushes the three drive-thru breakfast sandwiches into the diabetes danger zone! That may be because the egg yolk changes the bacteria in your intestine, triggering inflammation that disrupts glucose regulation. For some folks, it also increases lousy LDL cholesterol. A processed-carbrich diet may amplify the risk. So, if this info sends you scrambling for satisfying alternative breakfasts, we suggest you poach a few recipes from Dr. Mike’s “What to Eat When Cookbook.” There’s a Mushroom MLT, a Salmon Burger (morning protein is a smart move), the Vitality Smoothie and When Way Golden Milk with soothing almond and hemp milk, get-yougoing ginger, cinnamon and turmeric. ***

Do herbal medicines boost weight loss or money loss? In 1971, the writer Clifford Irving sold The Autobiography of Howard Hughes to McGraw Hill publishers. The problem was Irving never talked with Hughes. Irving spent 17 months in prison for the deception – and then went on to make big bucks from his next book Hoax, detailing his fraudulent activities. (Richard Gere played Irving in the movie.) That’s a good parallel for claims that certain herbal medicines promote weight loss. A new study shows those assertions are about as reliable as Irving’s were. But we expect, like the public did for Hoax, many folks will continue to reward such products with their business. A global review, published in Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism, looked at 54 randomized, controlled trials of herbal weight-loss products. The researchers found that in most trials, there was no solid evidence of benefit, and when herbal meds did beat the placebo, the weight loss wasn’t statistically significant. Herbal medicines frequently used included green tea, garcinia cambogia, white kidney bean and African mango.

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The swinging door life of Sagittarius ELEMENT: Fire. Sagittarius is forever glowing like a bunch of fireplace embers. They seem comforting, but you better stand back, or they’ll scorch your ass. QUALITY: Mutable. So much so, that they don’t even know who they are. Their life is a swinging door (to the bedroom). SYMBOL: The Archer. Sagittarius is the hunter of the zodiac. Bargain hunter, and sexual predator. RULER: Jupiter. They are larger than life. Brutally frank, and chronically making you wince. FAVORITE PASTIME: Opening mouth and sticking foot in. Speaking without thinking. ROLE MODEL: Sheldon Cooper KEY PHRASE: “Bazinga!” BODY PART: Lower back, which is constantly aching from being such a pain in the ass. POSITIVE QUALITIES: Adventurous, philosophical, confident, wise, generous, expansive, optimistic. NEGATIVE QUALITIES: Tactless, restless, unreliable, self-righteous, boastful, moralistic, insensitive. This sign of the zodiac is not stable. Not even close. They subscribe to the “Grass is always greener on the other side” credo, so they are constantly “scoping” out new prospects to swoop in on. They are into short- term sensation, and not long-term commitment. They have a constant need for mental and physical stimulation, and while their higher mind searches for the meaning of life (Stephen Hawking), their other half represents their instincts and passion (Lindsay Lohan)…*burp* The wild nature of Sagittarius tends to express itself in their love of freedom and their refusal to conform to day-to-day social conventions. They are the ones that streak the family reunion party….(hysterical, right?) Sagittarius lives in the ninth house of Philosophy, Adventure and LongDistance Travel. In astrological myth, this Mutable Fire sign is described as a gregarious, honest, fun-lover who was born with a philosophical outlook and a yen to wander. The rotten truth is this tactless, vociferous bore harrumphs through the world with one foot caught in a bucket and the other lodged firmly

between their overdeveloped jaws. Both sexes think they know everything and spend their time trying to educate the rest of us. They don’t do subtle. The Archers have outrageous horse laughs, and a court jester smile. All you have to do is poke them with a stick, and you will release a ton of repressed rage. All of that suppressed fury is why Sagittarius makes the world’s best serial killer. Lucky for you, the “Sag” blows their top infrequently, and instead of physical violence they will just put their fist through your closet wall…(nice)…. and then shout vulgar swear words about your family….(equally nice). This is the most volatile of the Fire signs. The act of arriving is not the point; the adventure, the unexplored mystery, and the idea of the unobtainable goal is what really fires their imagination. Sagittarians are by nature highly intuitive, and they have a great gift for spotting new opportunities wherever they arise. They are impulsive and bold, and they like to try their luck, even if it might seem a little risky. Boredom is the great enemy of the Sagittarian, and they can become very disruptive if they feel trapped or fenced into a situation. Routine will kill them dead. “My divorce came as a complete surprise to me. That will happen when you haven’t been home in 18 years.” Lee Trevino (Sagittarian) Before you decide that you have found your soul mate in a male Sagittarian, understand that he is much like his mythological symbol, the Centaur. He will spend most of his adult life in continual heat. Sure you fell for his adorable smile, and his ability to quote Lord of the Rings while simultaneously pulling your panties up out of your jeans – be wary! As your partner he will of course be a great friend, but you won’t see him very often, unless it’s to shower and change his clothes….this is when you will feel as if you are still single. He actually wants you to have a life separate from his, since that will allow him to hang out with his buddies and drink beer, and maybe take the waitress home. He might even follow his favorite band around the nation….

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shame on you for caring where he is! He was born to be a bachelor, so he really doesn’t care about the stuff going on in your life….how you look, if your arm fell off….your weight ballooned up to 300 pounds….he’s fine with it. He is far too busy solving the world’s greenhouse gas problem. “How can you talk if you haven’t got a brain?” asked Dorothy. “I don’t know. But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don’t they?” answered the Scarecrow. Your Sagittarius girlfriend is the original squeaky clean stereotype. She believes in honesty, isn’t into pitying herself, and is genuinely friendly. She reads everything, and likes to travel. You might even start to picture your idyllic life with her….family gettogethers and big dinners with lots of laughter and fun…..but wait…. She will not show up, because there was a fundraiser for homeless squirrels. She is chronically late for EVERYTHING and tends to fall down…..a lot! It’s the neverending need to be somewhere fast, that gets her into trouble. Most Sagittarian women are easily spotted by their arm cast or leg crutches. If you ever inadvertently piss her off, she will spend the next half year entertaining friends and family with tales of your stupidity and shallowness. Everyone, of course, will be howling with laughter at your expense, and you will have learned another valuable lesson of the Sagittarian…public humiliation is her way of punishing you for being such a jerk.

The Sagittarian’s way of honesty is saying things like “For a fat person, you sure don’t sweat much.” And talk about clumsy….more accident prone than any other sign. The Sag has a constantly bruised head and scabby knees. But that’s OK with them, since they would rather be crippled for life than do anything the easy way. No matter how ridiculous the Sagittarian’s remarks may be, there’s usually not a shred of malice in his or her soul. Knowing this will help you not to throw a frying pan at their head. You will break down their exterior, if you are brave enough to call attention to their constant blunders…. this will be easy as one occurs every 10 minutes or so. Since the Archers are very quick on the uptake, and hate to hurt anyone’s feelings, with some patience on your part and minor effort on theirs, you can probably stretch that timeframe to about an hour. GOOD DAYS: Nov. 22, 23, 24 and Dec. 19, 20 DIFFICULT DAYS: December 5, 6 MENTAL CLARITY: November 27, 28 Lady Ocalat is a professional astrologist, reiki master, minister, paranormal investigator and tarot reader. She can be reached at 218-722-2240, or at Lady Ocalat’s Emporium in downtown Duluth. ladyocalat.com, ladyoparanormal.com

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Songs of the Season Dec. 10 - Jan. 3 duluthplayhouse.org/main-stage Featuring inspirational stories and classic Christmas songs, a cast of Playhouse favorites – Carolyn LePine, Gabriel L. Mayfield Sr., Shad Olsen and Christina Stroup – welcomes you back (virtually) to the NorShor Theatre.

Charlie Parr Saturday, Dec. 12, 7 p.m. youtube.com/c/ SacredHeartMusicCenterDuluth Solo blues master performs amid the pristine acoustics of Sacred Heart in front of a crooked plastic Christmas tree.

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Lyla Abukhodair’s Rent Party Friday, Dec. 11, 8 p.m. facebook.com/ WherehouseProductions Out of the golden age of jazz, a 1920’s, rent parties were a means for tenants to eat, dance and raise rent money. Live from the Teatro Theatre at Zeitgeist, Lyla Abukhodair will perform with George Pooks on cajon.

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Christmas in the Village Sat. & Sun., Dec. 12 & 13, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fat Radish, Cornucopia, Wis. Outdoor market with food, music, art, bonfires and fresh air. Bently Brehm performs on Saturday, SonofMel on Sunday.

Twinkling Holiday Evenings Tuesdays, Dec. 15 & 22, 5, 6 & 7 p.m. Fairlawn Mansion Hosts will share Victorian customs and stories. Limiting the number of guests per hour,

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Cultural Resilience: Healing From Historical Trauma Wednesday, Dec. 16, 7 p.m. facebook.com/AICHOmn David Sutherland, an Ojibwe-Cree from the Constance Lake First Nations Reserve, will speak on historical trauma and how Anishinaabe people can utilize the Ojibwe language, culture and ceremonies to heal.

DanceWorks 2020 Dec. 17-20 z.umn.edu/danceworks2020 Celebrating movement, creativity and resilience. Faculty and student choreographers will premiere original camera dances filmed in a range of styles and locations.

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Day & night Thursday 12.10 Pepperkakebyen (Gingerbread City), 8am-10pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth 218-390-8426 A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Show, noon Encore Performing Arts Center and Gallery, countyseattheater.com, Cloquet 218-878-0071 Duluth Legislative Climate Justice Town Hall, 1pm Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, bit. ly/33USTAy 651-223-5969 A Taste of Smorgasbord, 4-7pm First Lutheran Church, 2201 3rd Ave. E., Hibbing 218-263-8388 Shane Nelson, 5-8pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior Drive-Thru Bentleyville Tour of Lights, 5-9pm Bayfront Festival Park, 704 W. Railroad St., Duluth 218722-5573

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Gordon Thorne, 6-8pm North Shore Winery, 202 Ski Hill Rd., Lutsen 218387-2788 Northstar Joggers Weekly Run, 6pm Ursa Minor Brewing, strava.com, Duluth 218-481-7886 Turns & Tunes, 6pm Mont Du Lac Recreation, 3125 Mont Du Lac Dr., Superior 218-626-3797 Walking the Old Road: A Peopleâ€™s History of Chippewa City, 6:30pm Cook County Higher Education, facebook.com/CookCountyHigherEducation, Grand Marais 218-3873411

Friday 12.11 Songs of the Season, Duluth Playhouse, duluthplayhouse.org/mainstage, Duluth 218.733.7555 Pepperkakebyen (Gingerbread City), 8am-10pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth 218-390-8426 Livestream: Tea With Teague, 99:30am facebook.com/teaguealexymusic A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Show, noon Encore Performing Arts Center and Gallery, countyseattheater.com, Cloquet 218-878-0071

Songs of the Season, 7pm Duluth Playhouse, duluthplayhouse.org/ main-stage, Duluth 218.733.7555

Stel, 5-8pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior 715-394-2500

UW-S Jazz Band Concert, 7:30pm University of Wisconsin-Superior, cvent.me/0ln0W1, Superior

Drive-Thru Bentleyville Tour of Lights, 5-10pm Bayfront Festival Park, 704 W. Railroad St., Duluth 218-722-5573

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Livestream: Tiny Tent Show, 7pm Big Top Chatauqua, bigtop.org/tinytentshow, Bayfield 888-BIG-TENT John & Andy, 7pm Belknap Lounge, 130 Belknap St., Superior 715-3943616 Lyla Abukhodair's Rent Party, 8pm facebook.com/WherehouseProductions Todd Michael Jameson, 8pm Birds Bar, 5801 Tower Ave., Superior 715394-9995

Saturday 12.12 Songs of the Season, Duluth Playhouse, duluthplayhouse.org/mainstage, Duluth 218.733.7555 Pepperkakebyen (Gingerbread City), 8am-10pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth 218-390-8426 Coffee & Guitar with Darin Bergsven, 9-10am facebook.com/Darin-

The great indoors. We didnâ€™t check the forecast for cold weather. Or bring out the coloring books and crayons. But we did provide the heat so this family could enjoy the day together. When the energy you invest in life meets the energy we fuel it with, indoor fun happens.

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BergsvenMusic/ Nice Girls of the North Marketplace, 10am-3pm Masonic Lodge, 4731 Gladstone St., Duluth Christmas in the Village Outdoor Market, 11am-4pm Fat Radish, 22270 Cty. Rd. C, Cornucopia 715742-3200 Lure of Lights Horse Drawn Sleigh Rides, noon-3pm Hayward, Downtown, Hayward 715-634-4801 A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Show, noon Encore Performing Arts Center and Gallery, countyseattheater.com, Cloquet 218-878-0071 Similar Dogs, 1-4pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior 715-3942500 SonofMel, 2pm Out of the Woods Winery, 10588 Main St., Hayward 715-699-1709

Kevin Buck, 4pm Mont Du Lac Recreation, 3125 Mont Du Lac Dr., Superior 218-626-3797 Andy Lipke, 5-8pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior 715-3942500

P.B & J Facebook Live Show, 9pm facebook.com/P.BJRocks

Sunday 12.13 Songs of the Season, Duluth Playhouse, duluthplayhouse.org/mainstage, Duluth 218.733.7555

Drive-Thru Bentleyville Tour of Lights, 5-10pm Bayfront Festival Park, 704 W. Railroad St., Duluth 218-722-5573

Pepperkakebyen (Gingerbread City), 8am-10pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth 218-390-8426

Flipside Band, 7pm Belknap Lounge, 130 Belknap St., Superior 715-3943616

Open Skating, 8:30am-2pm Miners Memorial Building, 821 S 9th Ave. W., Virginia 218-748-7506

Charlie Parr livestream, 7pm Sacred Heart Music Center, youtube.com/c/ SacredHeartMusicCenterDuluth, Duluth 218-723-1895

Christmas in the Village Outdoor Market, 11am-4pm Fat Radish, 22270 Cty. Rd. C, Cornucopia 715742-3200

Rock & Roll Kamikaze 18: Quarantine Edition, 7pm https://bit. ly/3qj5x63

A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Show, noon Encore Performing Arts Center and Gallery, countyseattheater.com, Cloquet 218-878-0071

Duluth Dolls Holiday Live Auction, 7pm facebook.com/duluthdolls

Livestream: Duluth Poetry Chapter, 1pm facebook.com/duluthpoetrychapter

Livestream: Tea With Teague, 99:30am facebook.com/teaguealexymusic

Open Skating, 3-5pm Duluth Heritage Sports Center, 120 South 30th Ave. W., Duluth 218-464-1711

Hodag & Hooch, 5-8pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior 715-394-2500

Joe & Friends, 5-8pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior 715-3942500

Drive-Thru Bentleyville Tour of Lights, 5-9pm Bayfront Festival Park, 704 W. Railroad St., Duluth 218-722-5573

Bill & Kate Isles' Weekly Stay-AtHome Live Concert, 7pm facebook. com/billandkateisles

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Songs of the Season, Duluth Playhouse, duluthplayhouse.org/mainstage, Duluth 218.733.7555

Pepperkakebyen (Gingerbread City), 8am-10pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth 218-390-8426

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Waabizheshikana: Marten Trail Interpretive Plan, 1pm Duluth Parks and Recreation, duluthmn.gov/livemeeting 218-730-4300 Chris Clemens, 5-8pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior Twinkling Holiday Evenings, 5-8pm Fairlawn Mansion & Museum, 906 East 2nd Street, Superior 715-3945712

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Wednesday 12.16 Songs of the Season, Duluth Playhouse, duluthplayhouse.org/mainstage, Duluth 218.733.7555 Pepperkakebyen (Gingerbread City), 8am-10pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth 218-390-8426 Livestream: Tea With Teague, 99:30am facebook.com/teaguealexymusic Drive-Thru Bentleyville Tour of Lights, 5-9pm Bayfront Festival Park, 704 W. Railroad St., Duluth 218722-5573 Justin Wade, 5pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior 715-3942500

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Waabizheshikana: Marten Trail Interpretive Plan, 6pm Duluth Parks and Recreation, duluthmn.gov/livemeeting 218-730-4300 AICHO's Cultural Resilience: Healing From Historical Trauma Session, 7pm AICHO, facebook.com/AICHOmn, Duluth 218) 722-7225 P.B & J Facebook Live Show, 9pm facebook.com/P.BJRocks

Thursday 12.17 Songs of the Season, Duluth Playhouse, duluthplayhouse.org/mainstage, Duluth 218.733.7555

Northstar Joggers Weekly Run, 6pm Ursa Minor Brewing, strava.com, Duluth 218-481-7886

Pepperkakebyen (Gingerbread City), 8am-10pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth 218-390-8426

Turns & Tunes, 6pm Mont Du Lac Recreation, 3125 Mont Du Lac Dr., Superior 218-626-3797

Livestream: Tea With Teague, 99:30am facebook.com/teaguealexymusic

Dinner Music with Ingeborg von Agassiz (Acoustic), 6:30pm 2014, facebook.com/2104dlh, Duluth 218234-2104

Tim Kaiser and Tyler Scouton Winter Solstice Livestream, 4pm facebook. com/tim.kaiser.104

DanceWorks 2020, 7pm University of Minnesota Duluth, z.umn.edu/danceworks2020, Duluth 218-726-8561

My Christmas Wish for You, Duluth Playhouse, duluthplayhouse.org/family-theatre, Duluth 218.733.7555 DanceWorks 2020, University of Minnesota Duluth, z.umn.edu/danceworks2020, Duluth 218-726-8561 Pepperkakebyen (Gingerbread City), 8am-10pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth 218-390-8426 Coffee & Guitar with Darin Bergsven, 9-10am facebook.com/DarinBergsvenMusic/

Mountain Iron Holiday Lighting Contest, 5pm Mountain Iron Community Center, 8586 Enterprise Dr. S., Mountain Iron 218-748-7570

Santa & His Live Reindeer, 11am4pm Fitger's Courtyard, 600 E. Superior St., Duluth 218-722-8826

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Open mic at the Chickadee, 6pm Chickadee Coffeehouse, 3691 Alan Syverson Drive, Barnum

Similar Dogs, 1-4pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior 715-3942500

Stel, 5-8pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior 715-394-2500

Songs of the Season, Duluth Playhouse, duluthplayhouse.org/mainstage, Duluth 218.733.7555

Livestream: Tiny Tent Show, 7pm Big Top Chatauqua, bigtop.org/tinytentshow, Bayfield 888-BIG-TENT

Hodag & Hooch, 5-8pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior 715-394-2500

Drive-Thru Bentleyville Tour of Lights, 5-9pm Bayfront Festival Park, 704 W. Railroad St., Duluth 218-722-5573

My Christmas Wish for You, Duluth Playhouse, duluthplayhouse.org/family-theatre, Duluth 218.733.7555

Zenith City Sharps, 7pm Belknap Lounge, 130 Belknap St., Superior 715-394-3616

Drive-Thru Bentleyville Tour of Lights, 5-10pm Bayfront Festival Park, 704 W. Railroad St., Duluth

Eric Frost, 6-8pm North Shore Winery, 202 Ski Hill Rd., Lutsen 218-3872788

DanceWorks 2020, University of Minnesota Duluth, z.umn.edu/danceworks2020, Duluth 218-726-8561

Pepperkakebyen (Gingerbread City), 8am-10pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth 218-390-8426 Waiting for the Angels, 1:30pm Reif Performing Arts Center, reifcenter. org, Grand Rapids 218-327-5780

Minnesota Folk for Water, 7pm WaterLegacy, WaterLegacy.org/Concert

Drive-Thru Bentleyville Tour of Lights, 5-10pm Bayfront Festival Park, 704 W. Railroad St., Duluth 218-7225573

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My Christmas Wish for You, 7pm Duluth Playhouse, duluthplayhouse.org/ family-theatre, Duluth 218.733.7555

Saturday 12.19 Songs of the Season, Duluth Playhouse, duluthplayhouse.org/main-

Mountain Iron Holiday Lighting Contest, 5pm Mountain Iron Community Center, 8586 Enterprise Dr. S., Mountain Iron 218-748-7570

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Crescent Moon, 7pm Belknap Lounge, 130 Belknap St., Superior 715-394-3616 Moons of the Solar System, 7pm UMD Marshall H. Alworth Planetarium, facebook.com/UMDPlanetarium, Duluth 218-726-7129

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P.B & J Facebook Live Show, 9pm facebook.com/P.BJRocks

Sunday 12.20 Songs of the Season, Duluth Playhouse, duluthplayhouse.org/mainstage, Duluth 218.733.7555 My Christmas Wish for You, Duluth Playhouse, duluthplayhouse.org/family-theatre, Duluth 218.733.7555 DanceWorks 2020, University of Min-

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nesota Duluth, z.umn.edu/danceworks2020, Duluth 218-726-8561 Pepperkakebyen (Gingerbread City), 8am-10pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth 218-390-8426 Open Skating, 8:30am-2pm Miners Memorial Building, 821 S 9th Ave. W., Virginia 218-748-7506 Santa & His Live Reindeer, noon-3pm Fitger's Courtyard, 600 E. Superior St., Duluth 218-722-8826 Livestream: Duluth Poetry Chapter, 1pm facebook.com/duluthpoetrychapter Open Skating, 3-5pm Duluth Heritage Sports Center, 120 South 30th Ave. W., Duluth 218-464-1711

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Souvenirs, sobriquets and sundry One of the unexpected benefits of buying used books is that you occasionally get something that gives you some insight into the lives of their former owners. I have, for example, got a small strip of pink Circus Circus tickets, the kind you would get for going on a carnival ride. The former owner had used it as a bookmark. If I ever get to Las Vegas again (and I sincerely hope that I don’t) I will see what kind of ride I can take. Another bookmark I found was in Christopher Moore’s book, “Practical Demonkeeping,” which is a good reference book to have in Kansas. It was a receipt for the book, which the ex-owner bought at a bookstore in Lawrence, for $13. My only hope is that the person had enough money left over to get a flight out of Kansas. I am not a world traveller, but I have, as the country boys say, “been to town,” and Kansas is hands down the unfriendliest state in the union. You may think that sobriquet belongs to one of the Eastern or Southern States, but you would be wrong, and I can prove it. Kansas is the only State on I-35 in which the interstate is a toll road. This is because, if there is anything Kansans hate worse than tourists, it is paying taxes for things that benefit tourists, such as being able to drive through Kansas for free. Kansans hate paying taxes so much, they seriously considered closing the schools. Teachers were expected to supplement their income by panhandling on weekends. It got so bad that the best part of Kansas City slid over into Missouri. I think Dr. Seuss should take part of the blame for this poem:

They only have lakes to let foreigners drown on. If you’re looking for States that like tourists to coddle, When passing through Kansas, just step on the throttle. For the most part I’m reading used books, so they are probably old, but they are still available. I am presently on a comic fantasy kick, so that is the genre for better or worse. I found books I liked by three authors: Tom Holt, Terry Pratchett and Christopher Moore, so I have ordered a bunch of books by them, and have found, as might be expected more to like, and some to like less, and a few to put in the “Don’t read again” pile. If they’re really bad, they might go in the trash pile. The books I like a lot I’ll read again, and for some I’ve already done so. These are also the books I will probably write about. The books I like less, I may read again in the distant future. The first book I read by Christopher Moore was “Bloodsucking Fiends,” which I liked well enough that I bought the rest of the trilogy: “You Suck” and “Bite Me.” These were about vampires, obviously, as was Pratchett’s “Carpe Jugulum.” Moore changed some rules for vampires that I was not happy with, which made the ending less than satisfying. Pratchett’s book was good, but uneven. Igor speaks with a lisp, so you need to slow down to understand what he’s saying. It’s hard not to fall in love with his dog Thcrapth, though. Igors, it turns out, are a race of characters with a talent for making use of spare parts, so his dog is composed of snippets of other dogs, including two tails, because you never know when he might lose one. The pixies speak with a brogue which I’m sure is genuine, but after a while I gave up trying to translate it and just skipped over the parts where they spoke. As long as I’m on the subject of vampires, I should mention the Sarah Zettel book, “A Taste of the Nightlife,” about a restaurant that caters to vampires. I enjoyed her books in the Isvalta series,

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not comic, but based on Russian folklore rather than vampires. I was not as happy with “Nightlife,” too much about how restaurants are run for my tastes. There is a sequel called “Let Them Eat Stake” if you are interested in the vampire restaurant business. What do we really know about vampires, anyway? The problem is that authors have the right to modify vampire behaviors to suit their own purposes, so the dedicated vampire hunter has to guess at what parameters apply. Sunlight seems to destroy them all in the old Hollywood movies and in Moore’s series, but they can somewhat immunize themselves to it in Pratchett’s world. For the ones who are destroyed by sunlight, would a UV light work? Who knows? How about a crucifix or a string of garlic? They may put the vampire off, or he may laugh at the crucifix and eat the garlic. Vampire don’t show up in a mirror, can’t cross running water, and can live forever, but these features can be and are changed at will. So what is the vampire hunter to do? One course of action is always available, no matter how devious the author. Everything can be killed with a good old-fashioned sharp wooden stake to the heart. Whether your quarry is a vampire or not, the wooden stake

through the heart works every time, as long as you’re not stupid enough to pull it out. The problem with the stake is that you need to catch the vampire while he is sleeping in his coffin. This is hard enough, but now both Moore and Pratchett have them with the ability to turn to a mist. They turned to bats, I recall, but a mist? How the hell do you fight that? Well, they can’t bite you in that form, so I guess just stand there with a stake ready. What about vampire animals? I’ve never seen anything about needing a stake to kill them. Vampire bats may be shot with a wooden arrow, but there are also vampire sharks and vampire squid. I suppose for the sharks you would use a wooden spear, but the squid are problematic. They were first identified as a vampire octopus. Octopi have three hearts, so do the squid also have three? If you do find yourself hunting vampire squid, I would recommend carrying a wooden trident just to be on the safe side.

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! Penpal wanted SWB: Gender-fluid student ISO a penpal. I love writing letters and want to do it more often. (58514:7/22)

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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Looking for rest of life partner WWF, young 69, retired RN, 5’4”, 135 lbs., nonsmoker, light drinker, active, have my own Stihl chain saw. Looking for active, relatively healthy, laid-back man who is able to say “I’m sorry.” (58565:12/10) Good conversation a plus Attractive, petite, educated WF, 78, NS, seeks affectionate, intelligent, faithful man for LTR. I enjoy playing cards, dancing, road trips,

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open to new adventures. Liberalminded, mostly. East Range area. Meet for coffee? (58558: 9/24)

Orange Crush. Pie and coffee. Rocky Raccoon. West Duluth apt. couch. (58494:5/2)

Let’s dance WF, 60ish, 5’4”, 140, brown hair, blue eyes, healthy, happy & independent. Seeking tall, dark, handsome Prince Charming. Send photo. (58557:9/3)

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)

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) Maybe Mid 60s, active, liberal, looking for same! N.S., light drinking, nonmotor sports. (58539:02/21) Searching Mate on the Range SWF; 5’ 5”; NS/ND Outdoors, 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 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 area ISO my life partner that rides a Harley or Indian. 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 60s height/ weight average. OK if later LTR. (58508:7/16) Where are you now? Two Dobermans. The Ore House.

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 conversation, fishing, dancing, Facebook account. 5’6” brown hair & eyes. (58471:08/17) 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) 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) Lonesome in Ashland Looking for caring, honest man, understanding of physical imperfections to talk and go out with. F 60s, NS/ND. (58409:8/31) Try a Senior Moment Active, adventurous, affable, nice, nurturing, nimble. Petite, positive, playful. Smart, shapely, spunky. ISO fit young (67-77) codger for smiles and conversation, serendipity, exploring. (58403:6/8)

Personals Companionship 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 Comanpionship DWF, NS, retired veteran female. 63, honest, considerate, loves to laugh, visit and talk. (58373:12/15) Let’s Seek God’s Will Together 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)

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Active widower SWM 6’1”, 195, 82 years, good health, likes to travel, summer home in MN lake, winter home in south Texas. Looking for lady 60s70s. (58555:8/6) Blood in my veins Passionate, retired DWM, well educated, intelligent, ISO F, intellectual equal for companion, travel, lover in Duluth. (58554:8/6) Vermilion Lake area DWM, 60, 6’1, 200, NS, seeks SF for travel, quiet nights around fire, must enjoy fresh fish dinners off grill. Let’s communicate. (58551:7/16) 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. (58547:5/14) Living romance novel! Let me lead the way into our very own love story! SWM, tall, attractive, passionate, mysterious, James Bondish! Respond, I want to meet. (58545:4/23) Looking for love WM, 58, seeking mature BBW for dating. I have many interests. Camping, travel, concerts. (58544: 4/23) 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 dis-

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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

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Virtually explore Glensheen nooks and crannies Glensheen Mansion launched its second paid Virtual Tour, the In-Depth Virtual Tour. Since Glensheen closed all in-person tour operations to the public on Nov. 14 due to Gov. Walz’ Stay Safe temporary closure, Glensheen officials have been busy finding ways to still share the mansion with their fans. The virtual tours are one of the ways that Glensheen continues their mission of Celebrate Preservation and fans can get their Christmas tour fix. The In-Depth Virtual Tour explores the nooks, crannies, drawers, cabinets, secret compartments and behind-thescenes stories of Glensheen, with Glensheen’s Collections Manager, Milissa Brooks-Ojibway, as the guide and the only person with a key to many of the spaces seen. Even the most avid Glensheen fans are sure to see something new. Believe it or not, some of the spaces highlighted on this Virtual Tour have not been seen by Glensheen staff. The In-Depth Virtual Tour is perfect for the person who has always wanted to open drawers and peek inside the spaces they’re not supposed to on tour. On this Virtual Tour, viewers can peer inside the silver safe, see secret compartments, explore the attic, learn more about rarely-seen collection items, and so much more. Glensheen’s two Virtual Tours offer two distinct experiences to meet the needs of differing audiences. The first Virtual Tour, the Virtual Christmas tour with Jane, focuses on the Christmas trees, hidden elves, and Congdon Christmas stories. While the In-Depth Tour focuses on historic items in the collection and the nooks & cran-

• Sunday, Dec. 27, at 7pm – Afternoon Dances (recorded November 7, 2020, at the DECC). For more information visit DSSO. com or call the Box Office at 218-6233776.

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Glensheen’s Collections Manager, Milissa Brooks-Ojibway holds the key to many normally unseen spaces that will be unlocked during the In-Depth Virtual Tour. nies of the mansion with less of a holiday focus. Both Guided Virtual Tours are now available for purchase at glensheen.org. Pending Governor Walz’s orders, Glensheen hopes to open the mansion for the public to enjoy Christmas tours in person on Saturday, Dec. 18–Jan. 9, 2021. The Virtual Tours are $5 per ticket with unlimited views and an expiration date of Dec. 31, 2020. Learn more and purchase tickets at glensheen.org/tour/ virtual-tour.

DSSO teams up with public TV for holiday concert The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra recently announced the cancelation of the recording of their holiday concert, Bentleyville Holiday Spectacular, but is pleased to announce a collaboration that will be broadcast this holiday season. The DSSO has partnered with

WDSE•WRPT to combine past performances from the DSSO, Strikepoint handbell ensemble, and dazzling visuals from this year’s Bentleyville Festival of Lights. While it might not be what we had originally planned with our colleagues, we hope that it will still evoke the holiday spirit with our audience. The broadcast will feature the holiday concert recording from the DSSO in 2014 Bentleyville at the Symphony and a holiday performance from Strikepoint in 2019. We are calling this new experience the Twin Ports Holiday Spectacular! WDSE•WRPT will broadcast this concert on Friday, Dec. 11, at 9 pm and Friday, Dec. 25, at 7 pm on PBS North. The DSSO will host this concert for free on-demand on DSSO Live, donations will be requested for the participating organizations. Also airing: • Sunday, Dec. 20, at 7pm – Young People’s Concert at the Depot (recorded Nov. 8, 2020, at the Depot);

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Predicting elections I don’t know if Charlie Manson ever killed anyone himself, but he masterminded the deaths of several people and served a life sentence for it. Dick Cheney had help, but there is no question that he was the mastermind behind the Iraq War, in which over 4,000 American military lost their lives and many more were crippled. Figures are disputed for Iraqi loss of life, but estimates vary from 100,000 to over a million. For this, Cheney’s old company Haliburton got a no-bid contract and first dibs on Iraqi oil, making $39.5 billion from the deal. Cheney received lots of opportunities from the media to repeat his lies about the reason for the war. Then he became the first man in history to become heartless, both literally and figuratively, having brought back torture for prisoners of war and with his heart replaced by a pump. Bush, who seemed to be taking his orders from Cheney, suddenly balked at giving a full pardon

for Scooter Libby, who had thrown himself under the bus for Cheney. From the hole in which he’d decided to hunker Dick Cheney crept out to assess his new place. He sighed as he slithered back into his bunker, “Not even a guy I could shoot in the face. No war with Iran, no pardon for Scooter, All of the chickenhawks growing neurotic No prisoners to torture, no captives to neuter.” No fun for a paranoid heartless psychotic.

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when Nixon and Agnew both had to resign for their “ethical lapses.” There might have been decent GOP candidates to replace them, but Democrats insisted on having someone who would be unelectable, so Gerald Ford, whom LBJ described as playing too much football without a helmet, got the nod. Ford lived up to their expectations, giving Nixon a full pardon and then losing to a peanut farmer. Jimmy Carter proved to be too nice for the job and Ronald Reagan, a man no one has ever claimed was a good Governor of California, won in a landslide, to become our first acting president. Weficit, deficit Reagan the President Led all the working class Down in a ditch. Signed off on policies Mephistophelian Took from the destitute Gave to the rich. And from this election onward, I have developed my Theory of Celebrity Elections. My theory is that in any American election, the winner will be whichever candidate is the most wellknown celebrity. Had the Democrats been able to convince Paul Newman to run, he would have beaten Reagan. Newman was a liberal. but he was also an A-list actor, while Reagan was at best B-list. Sonny Bono not only won an election but when he died, his wife, whose only qualification was that she’d been married to Sonny Bono, won his seat. Sonny would never have been elected in the first place if Cher had run against him. George H. W. Bush, whom Ann Richards said was “born with a silver foot in his mouth,” was next in line, and people knew his name as a VP. He also lived up to his reputation by promising no new taxes, but seeing that Reagan left the economy in a shambles, he couldn’t live up to his word and was defeated by Bill Clinton. Clinton was a policy wonk, but his most feared weapon was his wife Hillary, who disturbed conservatives by saying that she wouldn’t stay in the kitchen like she was supposed to. They got Ken Starr to look for ethical lapses by the Clintons. He didn’t find any, but he did find moral lapses by the president, which he liked even better. Following that debacle, conservatives pilloried Hillary for honoring her wedding vows.

Remember this guy? (Image by Danielle X. Stone) Higgeldy, piggledy Yale University Gave a diploma to George W. Bush. Moved by his impulse for conviviality Needing his Daddy to Give him a push. The next election pitted Al Gore, former VP, against George Bush, president’s son and almost namesake, so their celebrity status was nearly equal. This was borne out in the election, in which Bush won the popularity vote in the Supreme Court. He demonstrated his incompetence in his first term, so he was naturally given another, because by this time, nearly everyone recognized his name. Like Reagan, he left the economy wrecked for the Democrats to fix. Obama was a Black man, which people immediately recognized as something unique in American politics and therefore the clear choice. Unlike his predecessor and successor, we did not have to cringe when he went overseas, because he kept his hands off the German Prime Minister, and didn’t push people out of the way for group photos. Another odd fact about Obama was that, unlike the Nixon, Reagan, Bush and now Trump eras, none of the officials in his administration ever went to jail. My celebrity scale for political candidates in general is: showbiz personalities, professional

athletes, political families and then famous names for whatever reason. Supermodels could be formidable if only they would admit to being over 35. Of course, A-list movie stars top the list, especially if they have just starred in a popular movie. Rock stars with TV shows outrank rock stars who just do talk shows. In the proper setting and with less well-known people to run against, Ted Bundy could be our President now. There was a long list of Republican candidates in 2016, but Trump was a shoo-in as a TV celebrity. Pat Sajak might have beaten him had he run, depending on whether more primary voters watched “Wheel of Fortune” or “The Apprentice.” The Democrats had a similar problem in 2020 with a glut of candidates and no familiar family names. Unfortunately, Bernie Sanders chose to run again and he had a familiar name, but also had the term “socialist” attached to him, which has been an anathema to people who, starting with Henry Wallace, had been told that socialism is just communism light. Joe Biden was then the clear winner, as a former VP outranks a socialist senator on the celebrity scale. In the national election, the celebrity scale appeared to break down, since a show-biz personality outranks a VP, But in this case, Trump’s handling of the

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pandemic convinced enough people that maybe incompetence is not a particularly good attribute to have in an emergency. Still, the TV persona was difficult to overcome. OUR WITCH DOCTOR IN CHIEF Dumpty suggests disinfectant injections To save us from COVID’s pernicious infections, Or a frontal attack to defeat it outright By blasting our lungs with salubrious light. A blithering idiot, gone round the bend: When in the world will this lunacy end? (From “Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown” by John Lithgow) It should be noted that the celebrity status of professional athletes depends on the sport, where the athlete played, and in the case of superstars, how their names have remained in the public eye after they retire. A Red Sox player will not get many votes out of New York, for instance, and vice versa. A golfer probably could do well nationally, whereas a team sport player will only do well regionally unless he has been retired long enough for fans of rival teams to get nostalgic.

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Cory Coffman - Canvas and Color This is a COVID era release, recorded in a home studio with one guy playing all the instruments. Coffman was previously (just last week, it seems) the lead singer-songwriter of The Cuckoo Bees, a trio that in 2018 released its first and likely only album, “Weeping Willow.” He’s gone solo, not just because of COVID but “due to life events and new career paths,” he told the Reader by text message. (They actually broke up in 2019. No one told me!) He references their brief legacy in the song “Marigolds on Monday” with the line, “I was once a cuckoo bee.” Four of the eight tracks are new and four are remakes of songs from “Weeping Willow.” “I wanted to redo a few songs from the Bees album and do them as simpler arrangements,” he wrote. “I think also because it wasn’t

long after we released the Bees album that we broke up and so I didn’t want that all to be for nothing, and maybe I could breathe new life into some of them. Also, I wrote them and there’s no rules. Haha.” The first haha is the album cover, which shows a naked Coffman (side butt shot) with his head in the kitchen sink. It’s not clear if he’s throwing up or washing his hair, though the first option gives the album title a new meaning. But the image has no implication other than, as he explained during his livestream album release show Nov. 30, his photographer/girlfriend dared him to put it on the cover, “so I had to.” There’s nothing vomitable in the music, which, like the Cuckoo Bees, is pleasant and sunny, marked by Coffman’s gee-golly-whiz voice. It’s also damnably intelligent, even magical, with an undercurrent

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interweaving dark and light. The lyrics are inventive and poetic, sometimes in a Dylanesque (Bob) way. The title cut, written for a friend’s wedding, starts out as a simple, 1950s-style piece, slowly paced like Elvis’ “Heartbreak Hotel.” Coffman sings in a deliberate, unhurried manner, “Wherever you’re going … can … I … go … too.” It builds as the bass, drums and overdubbed vocals join in and turns into a foot-stomping singalong. (If Coffman ever achieves Justin Bieber-level success, this number will have the girls wildly screaming.) The video with stop-motion construction paper cutouts (made by Alyssa Johnson of Blind Spot Creatives) is one of the sweetest things you’ll ever see. “Tango Til They’re Sore” is a Tom Waits cover, but it sounds very much like a Cuckoo Bees song, a vaudeville jaunt like the Bees’ “No Sad Song” and “Humblin’ Cold.” No surprise here, since Waits was a major influence on the Bees. “Mother Earth” urges us to burn our money, give up our cell phones and return to nature, though I doubt the author himself has gone that far. It’s also curious that a song about Mother Earth is electric blues rock, but it’s catchy. “Marigolds on Monday” is an autobiographical song, a tribute both to his youth (“Once I was an extraterrestrial being, I was nine years old”) and his grandparents. (“Grandpa was a worker bee, tougher than the sun.”) There’s some startling imagery, such as his grandfather on his deathbed pointing out the window. (True story.) The song goes through four movements, starting out floaty

and amorphous and ending as soaring, funky gospel. It’s pretty much a masterpiece, the best reason to buy this album. The next four songs are the remakes from the Cuckoo Bees album, for reasons best known to the artist. (Are self-remakes becoming a thing? The last album I reviewed, by The Dark Underbelly, also did this.) Do the songs gain anything by not having Matt Mobley’s upright bass and Mikayla Haynes’ vocals, by jettisoning the clarinet from “I’ve Been Thinking” or the lush orchestration from ”Weeping Willow”? That’s a judgement call. The willow song, also a tribute to his grandfather, packs an emotional punch in either version when he’s merely singing “ooooh.” The Cuckoo Bees album is still out there, including on Amazon Music Unlimited, so you can check the originals for comparison. I’m completely sold on the new version of “Midnight Calling,” which is unexpected since it was my favorite Cuckoo Bees song and I didn’t think it could be improved. It’s not an improvement so much as a different but equally fine version, kind of like James T. Kirk versus Jean-Luc Picard. Whatever type of guitar he’s using, or whatever he’s done to enhance it, it has a lovely, bell-like resonance. One thing he has not jettisoned from his Cuckoo Bees days is the xylophone, which I found to be an irritant on that album, but he brings it back here for several songs. So one way or another, the xylophone is integral to the Cory Coffman experience. I’ll put up with visions of dancing skeletons just to hear the rest. corycoffmanmusic.com

Mr. Magoo: The Theatrical Collection Shout! Factory, working with Sony, has amassed a marvelous package of cartoons in Mr. Magoo: The Theatrical Collection, an assemblage of every one-reel theatrical cartoon featuring Mr. Magoo (voice by the irreplaceable Jim Backus) produced by United Productions of America (UPA) from 1949-1959, 53 in all. These highly repetitive but also visually dazzling cartoons, quite different from the more familiar Disney, MGM and Warner Bros. house styles, rarely have been seen in their original form. But this practically perfect collection culls everything together in chronological order, presents them in their correct original aspect ratios (with 16:9 enhancement, where applicable), and supplements them with commentary tracks and other extra features. Further, this four disc set also includes 1001 Arabian Nights (1959), UPA’s first of two theatrical feature cartoons, and the only one produced by UPA’s founders. It comes with a nice featurette of its own. UPA was founded by John Hubley, Stephen Bosutow, David Hilberman, Zack Schwartz and others several years following the mass exodus of Walt Disney Studios animators who went on strike there for five weeks in 1941. Nearly half its animation staff departed, many of whom eventually wound up working for UPA. Columbia pictures had little luck with its own animation division, Screen Gems, which they had acquired wholly in 1939. Although Frank Tashlin, Dave Fleischer and Bob Clampett, among others, all worked at Screen Gems for a time, the cartoons Screen Gems produced were cheap (they continued releasing black and white cartoons as late as 1946, several years longer than any other studio), and their shorts were generally unmemorable. The closest thing Screen Gems had to an ongoing success was their Fox and the Crow series. Remember those? Me, neither. Columbia contracted with UPA to produce their cartoons from the late 1940s, while the Screen Gems name was reused for Columbia’s newly founded television production and distribution division. The first shorts were two Fox and the Crow cartoons

refashioned in UPA style, both of which were nominated for an Academy Award. Soon thereafter UPA came up with its two most endearing original characters, Gerald McBoing Boing (1950, “He didn’t talk words…He went ‘BOING BOING instead!”) and, beginning with The Ragtime Bear (1949), near-sighted crotchety senior citizen Quincy Magoo. Until now the Magoo waters have been muddied by the character’s longevity, first as the star of one-reel theatrical cartoons, then a full-length theatrical feature, then as the star of an original (and inferior) television series, then a series of TV specials (most famously Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol), then another TV series (What’s New, Mr. Magoo?) and finally a liveaction comedy starring Leslie Nielsen. If memory serves some, perhaps all of the theatrical shorts were integrated at one time or another with one or both of the cartoon shows for TV, though those shot for release in CinemaScope surely would have suffered. Seen here, chronologically, the original cartoons are far more satisfying. My 6-year-old daughter found them amusing and bemusing. I, too, was surprised by many of the shorts’ humor, often geared more for adults than children, and in many ways gleefully politically incorrect. In one short, Magoo Saves the Bank (1957), the nearly blind Magoo travels to what he thinks is his bank but which in fact is a racetrack where his “deposits” are actually long-odds bets that win again and again. Mistaking the mad rush of gamblers at the teller windows for a run on the bank, conservative Magoo pleads for calm, assuring the “bank’s” customers of his intuition’s solvency, while security guards, believing Magoo to be a tout,

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throw him out. Very funny stuff, but hardly The Three Little Pigs. UPA’s trademark was their innovative stylization, rooted in a kind of graphic minimalism 180-degrees from the look Disney (and, in the 1930s and early ‘40s), Max and Dave Fleischer were aiming toward: greater realism. This innovation extends to each short’s opening titles, which are mini works of art all by themselves, especially in some of the later CinemaScope ones, with its screen shape providing a broader canvas. Though highly repetitive (How many short comedies can one make about a grumpy old blind man?) even the weaker shorts are pretty amusing thanks to Backus’s spirited performances; his “Get off my lawn!”type, W.C. Fields-influenced outbursts are really something. Backus liked to tell the story of being beckoned by Marilyn Monroe to her dressing room during the production of Don’t Bother to Knock (1952). Needless to say, Backus was most intrigued by her come-hither invitation until, once inside, Marilyn blurted, “Do Mr. Magoo!”

The color in this collection looks great and it’s especially nice to see the widescreen shorts presented with the graphic compositions for which they were intended. The English mono audio is fine also. The shorts are presented on three DVDs, with the fourth disc dedicated to the feature 1001 Arabian Nights. Fourteen of the shorts have audio commentaries by UPA animators Bob Longo and Emily Hubley, editor Tee Bosutow (son of Steve), and animation historians Mark Evanier, Michael Schlesinger, Jerry Beck, Adam Abraham, John Canemaker, and John Culhane participate, while Leonard Maltin appears in a video interview. Also included are featurettes about UPA and Mr. Magoo, and there’s an art and photo gallery. Mr. Magoo: The Theatrical Collection is a wonderful, must-have set, and a DVD Talk Collector Series title.

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Young Pietari gets a look at the 198 ancient and naked Santas he has rounded up in the 2010 Finnish fantasy film Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale.

Not your typical holiday movies Can’t watch Scrooge or It’s A Wonderful Life again this season? There are alternatives I’ve got nothing against Frank Capra’s 1946 holiday fantasy film. I’m sure it brought tears to my ears the first few dozen times I saw it. And as a fan of Dickens, I love his holiday redemption tale, but I do not need to see any of the many, many filmed versions, and that includes the nostalgia value of the animated version starring Mr. Magoo that I grew up on (I can’t imagine the networks are still showing that one). If, like me, you grew weary in the last century of Ralphie’s incessant effort to shoot his eye out in the leg lamp movie but still like to get in the holiday spirit with a movie or two, the world of streaming offers a host of holidaythemed movies that should satisfy. Let’s take a look at three very different genre pictures with the holidays at their core, beginning with a 2010 offering from Finland called Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale.

This wonderfully creepy movie could easily be classified as fantasy, horror or sci-fi. Young Pietari lives in a stark, womanless landscape, the son of a reindeer hunter. He and his father live in eastern Finalnd, near the Russian border. The story begins 24 days before Christmas, as Pietari and his slightly older friend Jusso have cut through a fence around a mountain that an American company has been drilling. The two boys hear the mining company CEO tell his assembled crew that the ultimate goal is to rob the grave of whatever is buried in a block of ice within the mountain. Pietari, a student of the old myths, knows what they have found. He believes the company has discovered the ancient evil Santa that was frozen in ice and buried under the mountain by the indigenous Sami people. He tries to explain to Jusso: “The real Santa was totally different. The Cocacola Santa is just a hoax...He tears

Pietari shows this image to his friend Jusso while explaining the history of evil Santa.

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naughty kids to pieces.” When Pietari and Jusso find slaughtered the precious reindeer herd their fathers were going to round up,

it confirms Pietari’s suspicions that evil Santa has been unleashed on the world. When his friends start disappearing, Pietari sets in motion a scheme that not only stops the evil Santa from pillaging but creates a business opportunity for his father and his colleagues to recoup the $85,000 they lost in the slaughtered reindeer herd, but I don’t want to give the titular kicker away. Despite seeing much of this story through the eyes of a child, it is not a kid’s movie – too many naked bad Santas and slaughtered reindeer for that – but for those who enjoy a very different take on this most sentimental of holidays, this movie is for you. I’ve long been a fan of film noir for its chiarascuro ethos in cinematography and storytelling, and because it is a true American genre. Before streaming made films so readily available to fanatics, I kept a list of film noirs that I wanted to see, and one of those was the 1947 film adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s convoluted 1943 novel The Lady in the Lake, featuring his hard-bitten PI Phillip Marlowe. At

the time I was trying to see it, I did not know it has a Christmas theme. What I did know is that an unusual device was used in its making. The movie stars and is directed by Robert Motgomery (father of Bewitched star Elizabeth Motgomery). It was the star’s last of 18 movies for MGM. The conceit in this telling of the story is that we see everything in the movie through Marlowe’s eyes. We do not see him unless he is talking directly to the camera in character, as he does to introduce the film, or if he looks into a mirror. That alone made me want to see this, and then I finally found a DVD copy in the 1990s and was happy to add it to my list of alternative holiday movies as well. The movie opens with a choral singing of “Jingle Bells” and other familiar Christmas tunes, just to put the audience in the right mood for this story of murder and deceit. As the choral sings, a series of Christmas cards are lifted to finally reveal a gun. The femme fatale in this case is played by Audrey Trotter, a pleasing and familiar face in the film noir genre. She is editor of a publishing house that has decided to publish a piece of crime fiction (“If I Should Die Before I Live”) Marlowe has written in an effort to find an easier and more lucrative career than private investigator. But it turns out she cares less about the Marlowe’s short story and more about involving Marlowe in finding her boss’s missing wife. And thus we are off on wild goose chases, fists in the face and dealing with corrupt cops. In 1945, Chandler had written a screenplay based on his own novel for MGM, but Montgomery didn’t use it. In fact, the original story takes place in summer. Why did Montgomery frame it as a holiday tale? Well, the world of film noir is a seedy one, and juxtaposing it against the time of light and hope and whatever else the holidays symbolize for individuals makes for a visceral experience. Forty years later scriptwriter Jeb Stuart and director John McTiernan found the formula effective for Die Hard. That other great American genre – the Western – also has a great holiday representation in John Ford’s 1948 3 Godfathers. This was the fifth film made from the 1913 novelette by Peter B. Kyne, and the second time it was shot by Ford. His first version was a silent made in 1919 and called Marked Men. The first version was shot in 1916. It was remade again in 1930 by William

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The audience gets a rare look at Philip Marlowe (Robert Montgomery) in a mirror in the 1947 holiday film noir The Lady in the Lake.

John Wayne, Harry Carey Jr. and Pedro Armendariz star in John Ford’s 1948 version of the holiday-themed Western 3 Godfathers. Wyler, when it was called Hell’s Heroes, and again in 1936 as 3 Godfathers. Ford dedicates his 1948 version to the recently deceased actor Harry Carey, who starred in Ford’s 1919 version of the movie. For this new version, Ford cast Carey’s son, Harry Carey Jr., as one of the 3 Godfathers, along with John Wayne and Pedro

Armendariz. This trio is a Western version of the three wise men. They rob a bank in Welcome, Arizona,lose the money in the escape from town, and take to the desert to escape the posse led by Sheriff Perley “Buck” Sweet (one of the best roles ever for Ford stalwart Ward Bond). After losing their horses in a

sandstorm, the threesome come across a wagon deserted except for a woman in labor. The woman is the niece of Sheriff Sweet and is expected in Welcome, but she dies giving birth, but before dying extracts a promise from the trio to be godfathers to her baby and save him. Their struggle to get the baby to Welcome is a thing of beauty. The 1936 version starring Chester Morris in the Wayne role is tougher and less sentimental than Ford’s version, so also well worth tracking down. All of the above movies are available for streaming on Amazon Prime. And just in case three is not enough, here are a few more oddball holiday movies: The Ref (1994): A bitchy couple drive cat burglar Denis Leary crazy on Christmas Eve. Black Christmas (1974): Nine years before Bob Clark made the iconic A Christmas Story, he made this sorority sister Xmas slasher that was reportedly Elvis’ favorite movie, period. Trading Places (1983): This modernday adaptation of Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper stars Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis. The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942): The great cast of characters in this dazzling holiday comedy includes Monty Wooley as the titular character, Bette Davis in one of her most endearing roles, Ann Sheridan, Billie Burke and Jimmy Durante. The Thin Man (1934): Dashiell Hammett’s novel launched a movie franchise starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as the hard-drinking and wisecracking husband-wife detective team, Nick and Nora Charles (their humorous banter is said to be based on the real-life conversations between Hammett and Lillian Hellman). Time has been very kind to this film. It still bristles with wit and that it takes place during the holidays is an added bonus. We’re No Angels (1955): Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray and Peter Ustinov star as prison escapees who decide to help a struggling family after being invited to share their Christmas dinner. It was directed by Michael Curtiz, who previously directed Bogart in Casablanca. (Skip the 1989 version starring Robert DeNio and Sean Penn). The Apartment (1960): Have to include something from the great Billy Wilder, and the holiday bacchanal that sets the scene here for sad sack Jack Lemmon and just sad Shirley McClaine makes this one fit nicely into the pack of obscure holiday films.

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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 BO218310-1781 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 with remote, gently used-still in box. $35 or BO-will trade for other electronics. 218-310-1781 or 218-2764985 Appliances Free 1956 Singer sewing machine in wooden cabinet. 920-727-3550. 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 Cube-style dorm fridge in good cond. $40. 218-638-2399 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 20 potted plants. Variety. $3 each. Call 218-525-7702 Pair of brass plated table lamps with beautiful red satin shades. 20 1/2” high 7 1/4” diameter base. Excellent condition $40 firm! 715919-4550 Oak plant stand. Holds ten plants. Can also be used as book shelf. $20. Call 218-525-7702 Oak TV cabinet. Door and shelf. Excellent condition. $30. Call 218525-7702 Solace medical bed. good condition. Call 218-481-0175. 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 Miscellaneous Gold-filled pin with 14 diamonds in

5 gold bars. Would make beautiful ring for Christmas, Buy 1 or all. 218-213-8556. Mickey Minnie, cookie jar excellent shape ( $15). Toro electric snow throw like new ($40). 1950 Doll high chair, excellent shape ($40). 218-624-2143 For sale: spinning wheel replica. $100 obo. 218-969-1781.

Teeter Hang Up Inversion table, $175. 218-727-3550. Thirty quart size canning jars with lids $15 715-919-4550. Beautiful potted plants. Variety. $8 each or less. Call 218-525-7702. Clean Shower seat. Good condition. $10. Call 218-525-7702. Wesco Cardio Glide exercise bike 950. USed twice. $95. 218-969-

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Real Estate Wanted_ Looking for a trustworthy, responsible person to be the caretaker of a small apartment complex in Duluth. The job will require mowing, snow removal, and a few other tasks and overseeing the property. Basic knowledge of plumbing and electricity a plus. At least a 2 year commitment. In exchange we offer a free one-bedroom apartment with all utilities included. Call Hubert at 218-409-0484. Wanted: Furnished bedroom, apartment, or cabin in Duluth area for senior couple 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. MINNESOTA HUNTING LAND Wanted. Earn thousands on your land by leasing the hunting rights. Free evaluation & info packet. Liability coverage included. The experts at Base Camp Leasing have been bringing landowners & hunters together since 1999. Email: info@basecampleasing.com Call: 866/309-1507 BaseCampLeasing.com I buy homes, multi-units and land. Cash $. 218-5562542 webuytwinports.com_

For Sale: 1978 2 bedroom, 2 bath mobile home in Sunnyside Estates, Cloquet. Needs repairs. $1,500. or B.O. 218-481-5881 Responsible nonprofit animal rescue looking for pet friendly rental housing, fenced yard, spacious. 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, Wis. 920-344-8016 Mobile home $18,500 Vintage Acres/Gary 2br//1ba includes appliances. Quiet. Large yard/garden area. 218-464-5524 Lake of the Woods, MN 30 acres for sale with well, septic, power & sheds. Minutes from the lake! Asking $78,900. 218-242-7304 Rentals__

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

Real Estate For Sale: 2.35 acre lot w/100’ shoreline on Lake LaVerne, WI. Motivated to sell: $27,000 Call Lori 612803-6607 for details.

Northland Living was launched in fall 2020 by Reader publisher Robert Boone, who noted the recent demise of an area real estate magazine and recognized the need for such a publication.

HOMES ♦ REAL ESTATE December 2020

Northland Living is published monthly and can be found within the pages of the first issue of the Reader each month. • Do you have a unique home to share in Northland Living? • Are you a builder or architect with a story to share? • Do you want to advertise in the Northland’s new glossy real estate magazine?

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16’ x 24’ cabin with steel-sided shed on county-leased land in Ault, Minnesota, 1000’ off forest management road.

$40,000 Call 218-491-0972 or 218-355-1668

Iconic Northwoods Restaurant for Lease The Chocolate Moose is available for lease to a qualified operator for the 2020 season and beyond. Ely’s most popular restaurant since 1985 needs new energy and creativity. Sixmonth lease with very liberal terms to get started. Operationally ready to move in. Profitable for more than 30 years. Call Piragis Northwood Co., 218-365-6745 or steve@piragis.com

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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

$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

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Job Opportunites PART-TIME MUSICIAN Forbes United Methodist Church Proctor, MN. Assist in developing inspirational Sunday services thru music for virtual presentation. Adaptable. Able to accompany vocal & instrumental performances. Temporary position with growth potential. Competitive wage. Apply via email to forbesumc33@gmail.com. White Cedar Shingles, Inc., 2700 Winter St., Superior, is seeking people for temporary positions that could turn full time. The work involves staining, cutting and bundling. For a telephone interview, call Joe at 218-522-1189. Graphic Artist needed. Adobe Creative Suite, pagination skills a plus. Send resume to: info@readerduluth.com Needed Immediately Some one ASAP to work with elderly, nice lady to do some errands, shopping, Doctors appts. etc. No housework. Must be kind and honest. Have to have car, insurance. Must like pets and be kind to animals. Good pay. Variable hours. 3419027 LvMessg. Business Opportunity. Photo/picture framing equipment, Fletcher 2100 & 3000 mat/glass cutters, Vacu-Seal programmable press. Extra supplies incl. $7,500. value selling for $2,500. Can purchase items separately. 218-830-1255 Adults 18 or older and generally healthy wanted for research on the physiological and subjective stress responses of individuals who use marijuana regularly. Compensation provided. U of MN Medical School Duluth Research Study, 218-726-8623. President’s Liquor has full & part-time employment

openings for stock clerk, cashier, maintenance & office assistant. Apply in-person at the Liquor store. 3824 E. 2nd St. Superior, WI. Ask for Jim “Ever wonder what the world looks like at 5 am? Always dreamed of having afternoons off? Amazing

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All Super Ones Cub Foods Mount Royal Fine Foods Mount Royal Bottle Shop Mount Royal Library Whole Foods Co-op Cashwise Liquor Lake Aire Bottle Shoppe Holiday - 27th Ave W. Holiday- 40th Ave W. Holiday - London Road Holiday – Rice Lake Road Minit Mart - 19th Ave. W. & Superior St. CHUM drop-in center Marshall Hardware Reader box - Dewitt Seitz Reader box - Main Post Office Reader box - Downtown Sammy’s – West Duluth University Liquor Vintage Italian Pizza Woodland Market Place Wussow’s – West Duluth

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Employment ARE YOUR KIDS IN SCHOOL? V.I.P. is in need of a few good kitchen workers. Day hours available. If you are interested call your nearest V.I.P. or stop in. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY DRIVERS WANTED Looking for self-motivated people that would like part time work transporting people to appointments in your area. Great benefits. Please leave message 612/978-2115 Paperboy looking for help with marketing on internet. 218-3482903 Housekeepers Wanted Must be available mornings and weekends. Apply in person at the front desk/ Allyndale Motel, 510 North 66 Ave. West and Cody St.

Looking for an amazing career and a great place to work? Aerostich is hiring! View our video and all available positions at www.SewAero.com. Arrowhead House Foster Care has part time employment opportunities working with adults with mental illness. Day/evening & awake overnight positions available. Competitive wages, paid training, paid time off and employ-

ee bonuses! Call 218-727-8040, or apply online at ahprograms. com Work Wanted Life Enrichment Activities Professional. In home, residential facility, memory care, music, life enrichment, companion care, home care..Call, text, email: 612-4235083.richmondscharf@gmail.com Sharpening Service 29 years exp. Circle saws, planer knives, Zamboni knives, tec. John 218879-6143 Experienced pet sitter would love to watch them in your home & house sit. References. Call 218380-3340 Trudy. $0. one dog, $5 each additional Licensed Nurse-Duluth/Superior area. Good driving record. Will assist clients: DRs appts, meds, shopping, lunch, some light housekeeping duties. Avail. 2-3 hrs on weekdays. Reasonable rates Call Lynn 218-348-7393 Educated hair stylist willing to come to your home and do your hair. Very fair rates. Wendy 715919-0979 Senior will do phone fundraising/ surveys. PT, afternoons, down-

town Duluth. 218-940-9005 Reliable man to care for elderly in home. Run errands, work in your home. Very diversified, excontractor. Call for details 218409-4725 Feet on the Go! Yes! I will come into your home to give you a pedicure. 218-208-7950 Handyman. $13/hr - Call Ryan @ 218-428-1626 Musicians.. Part-time musician: Forbes United Methodist Church, Proctor. Assist in developing inspirational Sunday services through music

Employment for virtual presentation. Adaptable. Able to accompany vocal & instrumental performances. Temporary position with growth potential. Competitive wage. Apply at forbesumc33@gmail.com. Fellow musicians unite. Singer songwriter, guitarist, performing and recording, collaborative spirit, seeks like minded others for collaborations. Call, text, email. 612 423 5083, richmondscharf@gmail.com

GUITAR LESSONS from Austin, Tx professional new to the Twin Ports! (Also Bass & Vocal) go to new levels! Call 512565-5000 Guitar lessons available. 16 years experience. All styles, reasonable rates. Contact Aaron at 218-760-1599. Professional violin/fiddle lessons. Credentials: Performance degree U of M Twin Cities, toured nationally as American/ Celtic/Nordic/Rock fiddler. Duluth. References. 218-2353235 Eli Bissonett 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

ment. We meet the 2nd Thursday of each month at the West Duluth American Legion at 1 PM Scandinavian Crime Writers Book Club meeting in Duluth Call Kirk 612-558-1318

HELP WANTED Keyport Lounge

is currently hiring wait staff to greet customers, wait tables, serve food and beverages. Please apply in person with Connie at Keyport Lounge 1900 Belknap, Superior.

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Buster and Chauncey’s Silent Night AMC 8 am In this adorable animated holiday special, Buster and Chauncey, mouse musicians, accidentally help write the beloved Christmas song “Silent Night.” The voices of Marie Osmond, Phil Hartman and Tom Arnold are featured in this cartoon set in 1818.

Movie: While We’re Young Showtime 4:15 pm Set in New York City, this TIFF film stars Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts as a childless, unhappy couple in their 40s, whose lives begin to change drastically when they befriend a funloving, spontaneous pair half their age (Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried).

Craft in America PBS WCFE 8 pm Tune in for back-to-back new episodes of this inspiring crafting series, beginning with this episode that focuses on makers who use their skills to tell stories of history and culture. Nicholas Galanin in Alaska talks Aboriginal art and visual language. Live Rescue A&E 8 pm Veteran journalist Ashleigh Banfield hosts as firefighters, paramedics and EMTs across the United States respond to emergency calls in this new docu-series. Cameras follow the first responders as they bravely put their lives on the line to help others.

The 11th and final season of Shameless continues with Christian Isaiah and Emma Kenney, airing at 8 pm Sunday on Showtime.

Saturday 12-12

Ocean Treks With Jeff Corwin ABC 8:30 am Join wildlife expert Jeff Corwin as he explores the underwater world in this docuseries. He climbs aboard a cruise ship to seek out thrilling experiences in beautiful and unique destinations while sharing the adventure of a lifetime with his viewers.

Dirty Jobs Discovery 10 am Spend the day with Mike Rowe in a marathon of this famously fun series. In this episode, Mike learns how dirty marble making can be in Reno, Ohio. He then learns how the famous Hawaiian “dirt shirts” are made at the Original Dirt Shirt Company. Movie: The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart HBO 7 pm This premiering documentary chronicles the hurdles, trials and triumphs of brothers Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb, best known as the members of the popular musical group, the Bee Gees. Interviews and archive footage help to tell their incredible story. Movie: Love, Lights, Hanukkah! Hallmark 7 pm While preparing her restaurant for Christmas, a woman receives results from a DNA test and finds out that she is Jewish. New family, new traditions and a new romance play out over the eight nights following her discovery. Mia Kirshner and Ben Savage star. Movie: Toys of Terror Syfy 9 pm When a young family moves to a new house just before Christmas, the children uncover a magical chest filled with toys that come to life. Unfortunately, these toys also have a taste for murder. This campy new holiday horror stars Zoe Fish and Saul Elias.

Sunday 12-13

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- their only hope is Perseus (Sam Worthington), a demigod who must overthrow the beasts to save his father Zeus (Liam Neeson) and mankind. Shameless Showtime 8 pm The 11th and final (for real this time) season of Showtime’s longest-running series continues in this new episode. The Gallaghers are back and more relatable than ever, as the fictional dysfunctional Chicagoan family deals with the pandemic firsthand. North Woods Law Animal Planet 8 pm Officer MacFadzen goes on the hunt for a suspected poacher caught stealing a camera meant to survey illegal traps in this new episode. Meanwhile, the suspicious death of an owl leads Officer Lucas to investigate, and a father and son are questioned.

Monday 12-14

Movie: Home for the Holidays Showtime 10:35 am Claudia Larson (Holly Hunter) is a young woman who has lost her job and confidence. When she learns her daughter has her own plans for Thanksgiving, she decides putting up with her dysfunctional family is all there is left. Robert Downey Jr. also stars. 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? TLC 7 pm Tune in for a new episode of this now-iconic unscripted dating series’ post-marriage spinoff bonus show. Featuring never-before-seen footage and behind-the-scenes interviews, “90 Day” superfans can get their fill even after Season 5 comes to an end. iHeartRadio Jingle Ball CW 7 pm Some of the biggest names in today’s popular music – Billie Eilish, Doja Cat, Dua Lipa, Harry Styles, Lewis Capaldi, Sam Smith, Shawn Mendes and The Weeknd - will perform for this year’s over-the-top and out-of-this-world holiday musical celebration. Christmas With the Mormon Tabernacle Choir PBS WGBH 8 pm PBS KQED midnight Don’t miss this new, Americanathemed Christmas special from the

world-renowned Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra. Tony Award-winning Kelli O’Hara and actor Richard Thomas join in the festivities along with the handbell choir, The Bells, at Temple Square.

Tuesday 12-15

Unexpected TLC 11 am Tune in for a mini-marathon of this unscripted teen pregnancy series’ second season. Chloe enjoys an all-girl baby shower for her little one, while Tylor considers a career as a stripper. Also, Lexus finally gets a job and McKayla takes a pregnancy test. Swamp Thing CW 7 pm When Swamp Thing (Derek Mears) is held captive at a Conclave facility, Jason Woodrue (Kevin Durand) makes a discovery while experimenting on him; Abby (Crystal Reed) and Liz (Maria Sten) team up to locate the hidden facility and rescue Swamp Thing. NEXT Fox 8 pm John Slattery stars as a workaholic Silicon Valley pioneer in this sci-fi thriller. After dedicating his whole life to innovations rather than family, Paul LeBlanc (Slattery) must join forces with police to stop the A.I. he built from destroying humanity.

the orphanage they grew up in, two bumbling brothers reassemble their band and head out “on a mission from God.” John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd star in this comedy classic based on a recurring SNL sketch. The Great Christmas Light Fight ABC 7 p. Carter Oosterhouse and Taniya Nayak are back to meet more families who go all out to deck their halls in a new episode of this holiday competition series. Families across the nation showcase their dazzling light displays, over-the-top trees and more. The Art of Political Murder HBO 8 pm Two days after publishing a report on the Guatemalan military’s civil war atrocities, Bishop Juan Gerardi was found brutally murdered. This documentary looks at the young investigators who risked their lives to reveal the corruption that led to his death.

Penn & Teller: Merry Fool Us CW 8 pm Magicians Penn and Teller, are joined by host Alyson Hannigan in this annual Christmas competition. This special sees amazing magicians perform their most incredible and festive feats as they compete for a fantastic Christmas trophy.

Thursday 12-17

Pinocchio’s Christmas AMC 10 am In this special, “real boy” Pinocchio wants to earn money to buy Geppetto a Christmas present, so he joins a marionette show. Leaving with a girl puppet, he is chased into a forest where he meets a fairy who tries to set him back on the right track.

Movie: Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors NBC 7 pm In 1955, the close-knit Parton family struggles to overcome tragedy in this

holiday film. A story about the early life of Dolly Parton, the movie stars Alyvia Alyn Lind as a young Dolly, Jennifer Nettles as her mother and Ricky Schroder as her father. Buddy vs. Christmas FOOD 7 pm Amateur bakers take on the “Cake Boss” team in a marathon of this competition series’ first season. Buddy Valastro and his team create a lifesized gingerbread house to compete with Emmy-winning set designer David Gallo’s giant snow globe in Episode 1. Chrisley Knows Best USA 9 pm In a new Season 8 episode of this unscripted Todd Chrisley series, the pressure of being the “perfect son” weighs on Grayson as he grapples with the title. Meanwhile, the Chase and Nanny Faye duo leaves Savannah feeling left out of the fun.

Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba star in L.A.’s Finest, airing Mondays at 7 pm on Fox.

Movie: Fred Claus AMC 9 pm When Santa’s (Paul Giamatti) brother Fred (Vince Vaughn) ends up in jail, Santa bails him out and brings him home to the North Pole. Tragedy strikes when Santa sustains an injury and it’s now up to Fred to save Christmas in this family-friendly comedy.

Wednesday 12-16 My 600-lb Life TLC 3 pm Tune in for back-to-back episodes of this inspiring reality series chronicling the stories of morbidly obese people beginning their journeys to health. In this episode, Lacey attempts to rally her parents for help after a life of pizza and ice cream. Movie: The Blues Brothers Showtime 5:45 pm In order to raise $5,000 to pay taxes for DuluthReader.com

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