Busy summer - great weather

Ahh - the flowers are blooming and the vegetable garden area is slowly coming up.  My husband and I built a new little patio in our backyard to spend more time outside.  Last night was an example of multiple activities going on in Lakeside and it was tough to choose what to attend.

Whether you choose to chill out in your backyard, read a book, walk your dog on longer walks, or go to special summer events it's all up to you.  We have Duluth's beautiful rivers/creeks and lovely Lake Superior to enjoy.

Here is an event July 23 - a Sunday later in July to take an opportunity to visit 5 garden/yards in Lakeside -Lester Park.  Here is a flyer for the event.  Please share with others.

Capture some of your favorite activities this summer by taking a photo.  Submit photos, announcement and news to wendyupnorth@yahoo.com.
The next deadline is July 14.  It's time for me to interview another person and dig into more local history.  

Wendy
www.wendyupnorth.com
www.LookAtLakeside.com

Sppprinnnggg

We've had a few nice days or even hours of warmer weather to enjoy.  The snow slowly melts and seeps into the ground nourishing the plants.  The April/May issue is ready and has been distributed.  You'll learn about Sam Snively who lived just over Hawk Ridge on his farm, a couple teachers (one retired), a cool projects with Bluebirds, have a page to color of a bridge from Seven Bridges Road, and learn about lots of events in the community.  I always include resources to connect people and some photos taken recently.

I hope you can join together to play Bunco on April 25.  I'll teach everybody how to play this simple, fun game.  It's also a fundraiser for Circle of Hope so $10 donation is requested.

I'm also offering bus trips again this summer.  Eleven day trips are scheduled - going north, east and south.  We'll go on cruises, see theater performances, go to the Capitol, go to art fairs, eat out, and enjoy the scenic beauty and interesting history of events and places.  Please sign up early.  The trip list is at www.wendyupnorth.com/excursions.

Enjoy the days ahead.  The sunrises and sunset colors are short-term but beautiful.  Golfers are ready to play, I'm sure and the hockey players will have to wait until next year.  Get out on the Lakewalk, enjoy Brighton so close to home, and thank you for reading the current issue.

Happy Holidays and Winter

Snow has come.  The Dec/Jan issue is out with topics ranging from a Q&A on Meals on Wheels at Ecumen Lakeshore, Dance lessons in Lakeside, after school activities, lit church windows, interview with the head of the Swedish choir and more.  It's pasty season, goodies time of year, and purdy window decorations.

In the next issue there will be a memorial for the Great Catsby who was hit by a car a short time ago. He will be sadly missed.

You'll also meet an Great Lakes Aquarium educator and learn more about HAM radio.

If you would like to submit local history bits, news items, or Lakeside photos - please send them before the Jan 14 deadline.

Thank you to new and returning advertisers and subscribers for supporting this publication.

Thank you to the postal workers who get an extra workout in the cold and high mail volume time of year.

Here's a glimpse from the past couple months - the pumpkin train stops on the pumpkin patch in Lakeside.   Pasties at Lakeside Presbyterian Church.  They are one of several churches that make thousands of them.  Freshly made, then freeze for a handy, hot meal.

Wendy

Hustle of the fall

The summer days are over as the school year begins.  The weekends are even more treasured to go outdoors.  Lakeside's main upcoming changes are the houses being built/put in at Dodge and 40th Ave. E.  Nine houses will go in.  The Oct/Nov issue gives information on the houses.  I also came across an interesting article on Robert Sweeny who was the head of the fish hatchery at its beginning days. You'll meet the nice couple - Bill and Janalee Reinke Lyth - who live in our neighborhood.  Check both the back calendar, ads, and the community calendar for upcoming activities.  Learn what you can learn about DNA from your dog, learn about a few businesses in Lakeside in the 1930s and about Duluth being Dementia-friendly.

If you have a topic you would like to share in the Look at Lakeside newsletter let me know.  I'd love to learn more about the history of houses and buildings and past people who lived here and to learn more about you - the people of today.

Wendy

Rain & Sun & Bus Trips

We've had our share of rain.  It's good for the plants and gardens.  Now the sun is shining and these long days are splendid.  It's great for having cookouts in the backyard, playing lawn games, hiking, biking, and assorted summer specialty activities like outdoor music concerts at Chester Bowl or the library.   We've added a couple more little bought sculptures in our yard and a new bench.  I pulled and cut a bunch of buckthorn and it's time to harvest the Rhubarb.  I planted cosmos and zinnias and don't know of the rain washed them away but I'll keep an eye out to see what grows.

If you didn't see the ad in the current Look at Lakeside newsletter, I'm now offering bus excursions from Duluth.  Nine trips are lined up and each trip has an art, music, nature, or history connection.  The first trips are in July.  July 14 will be a trip to beautiful Bayfield.  We'll stop at the White Winter Winery on the way out and have time to walk about Bayfield and the south shore.  We'll go to the Big Top Chautauqua for the Keeper of the Light musical on the history of light house keeping in the area.  The Up North Excursion includes your entrance to the show.  Meals are not included.  The trip is $79.  Sign up today!
The other 8 trips are at www.wendyupnorth.com/excursions.   Let's Go Explore the Northland together.
Have a fun and safe summer.  Be kind to the bees.  Why not convert some of your lawn to bee-friendly plants?  

Early Summer - Lakeside

The June/July issue of the Look at Lakeside newsletter is ready.  Pick one up or read it online.  You'll see some old ads and photos of lodging places in Lakeside.  Have you heard of Riordan's?   Meet Brian Klawiter who will be teaching geology classes with field trips this summer through Duluth Community Education.  Faith Lutheran Church closes this month although Gloria Dei congregants will continue to meet there.   Come to a House Concert (reservations requested) on the solstice with accordion player Arna Rennan.  She will sing and play Nordic music on the langelek as well.   You'll find more dates of outdoor music and events in the area during our short summer.
Thanks to those who came to the showing of the Snively's Road documentary on Skyline Parkway.  The director, Mark Ryan, also came on up to share how he filmed some footage while on rollerblades.

Enjoy the summer!  Grandma's Marathon runners and fans will be lining London Road in just a few weeks.  Brighton Beach might be just the place to catch a cooler breeze when (if) warm weather comes.  I'll be out in the front and back yard gardening and we'll have an occasional camp fire in the backyard.  The birds are calling starting early in the morning and the long day length days are welcomed.

Wendy

Snively's Road - video showing April 28 at 6:30 p.m.

Head over to the Lakeside Lester Park Community on April 28 for a showing of the film Snively's Road.  Mark Ryan is the producer.  The film is a great way to learn more about one of Duluth's favorite mayors and the building of Skyline Parkway, especially Seven Bridges Road.  A $2 donation is suggested.
The LLPCC is at  54th Ave. E and Tioga St. in the former Lester Park branch library.

Spring issue is ready

Spring is in the air - some of the time.  Green shoots are starting to appear and buds forming on the trees.  Snow patches are dwindling and the days are definitely longer.
I hope you'll enjoy reading the April/May issue of the Look at Lakeside newsletter.
This issue has a good number of dates of events that you can attend in Lakeside - from a spring carnival for youth, to a gathering of seniors and a local history film on Seven Bridges Road.  You'll also get to read about efforts to grow more milkweed for Monarch butterflies, view a list of eating establishments, and be introduced to a couple new massage places in the neighborhood.

I'm doing a call out for information on church organs or church bells in the local churches.
With reading this issue you'll also meet the current president of the Lakeside Lester Park Community Club and learn about an interesting past history bit to raise money for orphans in Belgium by Lakeside folk.

Thanks for being a reader.  Feel free to share a photo, celebration announcements, or even wildlife photo - or even your thoughts on what you'd like to see in Lakeside.  The next deadline is May 14.

I appreciate the renewing and new subscribers.  Please support and thank the advertisers in this publication.


Wendy

Spring melt / snow storm / games inside

Snow is turning to water and rushing down the storm drains.  The leftover sand sits along the road side.  There's less ice now and the snowmen are down to little bumps.  Will we have more snow?  Sure.  March is a fair game time for more.   A few more times of skiing will be out there.

One thing we can do come winter, spring, or summer is gather indoors, is play games.

Come support Circle of Hope, a local breast cancer financial support group, for a fun game on Sunday, March 13 at the Lakeside Lester Park Community Club.  I'll go over the simple playing rules for this old-time dice game and we'll have a fun afternoon playing.  There will be prizes, too.
Suggested donation is $10.  Please RSVP to wendyupnorth@yahoo.com.  Age 7 and older welcome.  It's a fun community game.  Game time is 3 p.m. on March 13.

What does Lakeside need? What do you think?

The February/March issue is coming out by the end of the month.

In the issue, I'm asking What does Lakeside need more of?   I'd love to hear your responses.

Also, I've added another live music concert.  It will be Jim Hall singing and playing his guitar - and probably harmonica too - on February 9 at the Lakeside Lester Park Community Club.  Please come and listen to his great music!

I'm always interested in listing good deeds.  Share something your club, church, or youth group is doing in the neighborhood.

Thanks again to new subscribers and people renewing their subscription.
Read about the local firemen in this issue - thanks to them for people on hand to handle protecting people and our area.


Wendy

Last issue - of the year 2015

The December issue of Look at Lakeside is ready.  The eight pages include bits on local businesses over the generations,  youth enrollment at the school district, information on a new swap shop, new bike trail, new future development that is getting a soil cleanup, contact for our new city councilor, science library, community events, teen drivers ed information, and more.  The Meet Your Neighbor article is on Nancy Cayemberg, an active community member volunteering in the neighborhood, serving as an election judge, and another big fan of living in Lakeside and visiting Lake Superior.  There are photos of a fun bell at the bakery and turrets along London Road, and the pair of sphinx statues that guard the road.

In 2016 I would love to have more people share their love of Lakeside with a poem, a story of involvement in a community project, or maybe a bit of history.  Good news to share?  

Thanks for being a reader of the newsletter.  Thanks to the subscribers and all the advertisers - new ones and continuing ones.

Happy holiday, winter season to all and good health and happiness in the new year!

Peace,
Wendy

By the way, if you'd be interested in buy a used Infrared Sauna we are ready to have it find a new home.  It's been a healing and warming place in our living room for the last few years.

Time in Lakeside

In Lakeside we can shop, eat, hike, walk, hang out by Lake Superior, buy used books, stop at a Little Free Library, golf, ice skate/ice hockey, watch hawks, hear/watch trains, see wildlife, go to church, grow a garden, go to a high school sports game, theater productions, and student-run restaurant, exercise, and other places to stop or activities.

OLD-TIME MUSIC CONCERT ON NOV 5
One things I'd like you to come to is a Old-Time Music concert on Nov 5 (Thursday) at 6:30 p.m. at the Lakeside Lester Park Community Club.   The group will be Four Mile Portage.  The concert is only $4 a person and under 15 is free.  BYOD (Bring your own dinner) at 6 p.m.    Listen to live music in Lakeside.   If there is a good turnout I'll organize another live music event in the spring.

I work now at Duluth East part-time as a paraprofessional.  Not bad to have a 3 block commute.  Most of the youth are good and it's fun to see the variety of talent and experiences available at the high school.  I'm looking forward to going to the fall musical - The Addams Family - the end of October.

Other activities I do in town include putting on local art & gift fairs.  One is this weekend at the Lafayette Community Center on Park Point, 3026 Minnesota Ave. is the address.  Saturday, Oct 10 from 10AM-3PM there will be 16 local artists with locally-made things.  Actually one booth will be a local farmer so this year you can even buy cut flowers and a pumpkin.   Other upcoming fairs are Get Great Stuff Nov 14 at Duluth Congregational Church, 3833 E. Superior - next to Northland Country Club and Dec 5 the Get It Local Fair at the Peace Church, 1111 N. 11th Ave. E. Local authors and local writers  and at some local music and local nonprofits all are ways we can support local creativity and find some really great gifts.  I'll have to check my count again but I think the Get It Local gift fair will be the 50th fairs I've organized - or close to it.

The leaves are changing, the leaves are falling, some leaves are covering the storm sewers.  Rake 'em up if you can.

Wendy

Summer's End - Still Active Time Outdoors

I'm working on the next issue of the newsletter.  It's hard to believe school has started up again and the temps are definitely cooler.  A few giant zucchini were hiding out in the garden under the big leaves and those are in and will be part of dinners in September.

I like pulling together information for the newsletter.  It's a mix of what people are up to, what goes on, and sometimes I put a little bit of the past into the newsletter.  This far east part of Duluth is a nice place to live and to get out and enjoy the outdoors.  Yes, it's also the way people head to the North Shore, a part of Grandma's Marathon, the inline marathon (I forgot about that this morning and was delayed heading to Superior to be Rex the dog Scoop the Poop at the Cause for the Paws fundraiser event), and the lakewalk and local trails serve for people to bike and hike.

This summer I noticed Lakeshore was having a special bike ride opportunity for seniors.  A peddling person carried two seniors up 40th Ave E and on to the Lakewalk.  Pretty nice!  I wanted to give it a try!

I hope you'll help to keep Lakeside clean and free of litter and pick up pet waste.  Here are upcoming opportunities to help remove an invasive species: 

Help remove knotweed (false bamboo).  It's growing along the Lakewalk.

* Sept. 16, 5-6:30 p.m., meet at  40th Avenue East and the Lakewalk.
* Sept. 23, 5-6:30 p.m., meet at  58th Avenue East and the Lakewalk.
Contact (218) 730-4334

Stay tuned for the Oct/Nov Look at Lakeside for a LAL (Look at Lakeside) reader opportunity to help at the Second Harvest Food bank.

Wendy

First Post

This blog will coincide with the Look at Lakeside newsletter that comes out very two months.  The newsletter began in Aug 2012.  It's been going for a year and a half now publishing news, photos, history, and short articles on the neighborhood of Lakeside.  It's fun to ask questions, pull together information, and weave connections of the past and present.  I like to share what's going on and for people to share what they do and love in Lakeside.

This blog will be a way to send out quicker announcements than the newsletter.  The newsletter is online at www.LookAtLakeside.com. 

The newsletter is one more project that I do in the Duluth area.  I combine ways of connecting people to local history, events, local art, and each other.   Through local neighborhood video productions, to over 35 local art & gift fairs, to a fair highlighting dulcimers, to community ed classes to writings in publications such as The Woman Today and the Transistor.   Just a few ways to be part of the community.  We love the nature of the area and I enjoy digging for information although it often takes longer than I anticipated.  I continue to plug away at what I can.  Thanks to my husband, Terry Brown, for doing web and computer tasks to help me.   Thanks Elmo (our cat) for not stomping on the computer this time as I write. 

Wendy
Editor, Look at Lakeside
WendyUpNorth.com