Mid-August already - here

Have you done all the projects that you wanted to do?  Have you gone to the places you wanted to? Have you achieved all the goals you wanted?  It's hard to believe mid-August has arrived.  We still have painting projects, finalizing yard projects, and a few more fun goals to do.  The days are still pretty long - with early sunrise and some evening light.  I mean to savor these final days of summer, eat plenty more fresh local veggies, bake a little, and enjoy the outdoors.  You can tell there have been plenty of visitors to Duluth.  Isn't is great that we are here already?   Here to head to Brighton Beach, here to go out on the Lakewalk, here to enjoy public garden spaces and eat locally-grown food.   We haven't played as much croquet as last year but we will squeeze some more times in.  I hope there can be more neighbor get-togethers, especially on a smaller scale.  Books clubs, walks, potluck dinners, perhaps games - for neighbors to come together.   Time for a bike ride, sit in the backyard or out on a public bench catching a few more summer sunshine in between the rain drops.  I also have my dulcimers out to play.  I enjoyed sharing music at Ecumen Lakeshore today and introducing dulcimers to others and adding a bit of Celtic and traditional music to people's day. What do you do for fun?

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

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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