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

3 years!

The Look at Lakeside newsletter has been being published for three years.  Time goes by.  All 18 issues are online. Thank you to advertisers, readers, subscribers, and people in Lakeside sharing history and making history.

In August I hope to create a lawn game night at the Lakeside Lester Park Community Club and also arrange at least 2 concerts this fall.

Residents of Lakeside/Lester Park and the many visitors get to enjoy our area on the east end of Duluth.  Brighton Beach has been pretty packed some days with people on the rocks and various kayakers and boats in the water.

My husband and I and some friends put our canoe in at 42nd Ave. E. beach and paddled over to a Glensheen Wednesday night concert.    We've also been out on the Lakewalk many days on foot or on our bikes.  Maybe some pounds will come off.....!

I'll be wrapping up the Aug/Sept issue this week.  I've been snapping more photos this week to put in.  I'm slowly working on adding a Facebook page and putting photos and announcements on it.

I stopped at the Faith Lutheran rummage sale and passed on a plate that I bought off ebay.  It was of the rustic bridge over the Lester River.   Now the community club will have it and might display it.
The plate was made in Germany and I don't know what year it dates to.

Take a dip in the waterfalls at the Lester River, mountain bike on the trails, walk on the Lakewalk, shop at the stores, eat here, picnic at the beach - there's a lot to do in Lakeside.

Enjoy the Look at Lakeside whether you read it on-line or via the hard copy.  Get ready for another issue soon.

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
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