Happy Holidays and New Year

Wishing everyone a happy holiday season and new year.

We appreciate the twinkle in the cute homes in Lakeside, the lovely trees of Lester Park, and the ice sounds on the lake shore.

Hope to meet more neighbors this year.  If you have noticed in every issue since June I've added a get together type event - a tour, a hike, a service time, and a treat time.  Coming up for 2015 I'll add a game night time and a book discussion.

On January 19 I'll be showing 2 local history documentaries I made a few years ago - one is on Lakeside's early years and the other is on the West End.  The films will be shown as part of the Duluth Preservation Alliance meeting.  It will begin at 7 p.m. at the Lakeside Lester Park Community Club.

By the way, I won the Superior Public Library 125th anniversary film contest.
Watch the 5 minute video here.

I'm also putting together Water Film Fest II in late January.  It will be held at UWS again.  It will include about 10 films on the topic of water and our connection to water.   Email me if you'd like to know the details of that free event.

I'm looking forward to a couple days to breath at home and not rush off to work.  We'll be eating out, watching movies, hiking, and visiting with friends and family nearby.  Most of my family is spread out in Illinois, Texas, Arizona and New Zealand.  We like that one relative is close - cousin Pearl.


Wendy

15th issue is out

The Dec/Jan issue is ready and has been distributed and is online at www.LookAtLakeside.com.

Each page has very local information and news of current Lakeside happenings or its past.  The calendar has dates to attend upcoming events including a Dec 15 pie with the editor (me) at Lakeshore.
Welcome 2 new businesses in Lakeside as listed on Page 3.  Good luck with the chalet on Page 1.  Learn more about a local pastor on Page 5 and a local church and its history on Page 4. Learn about how water quality of Amity/Lester is being improved thanks to efforts by the South St. Louis Co. Soil and Conservation District.

The next deadline is January 15 - earlier is preferred.  I'm especially interested in learning more about old houses in Lakeside and local book authors.  Email local photos to wendyupnorth@yahoo.com.

This newsletter is supported through advertisers and subscribers.  Thanks for helping keep this going.

Possible a Facebook page will come this winter.

Wendy

Lend a Hand

The Oct/Nov issue is out.  Did you know there is a Sami Cultural Center in Lakeside?  Do you want to get involved with the Citizen Patrol?  Do you want to eat at a local restaurant run by students?  By reading the Look At Lakeside newsletter you'll learn more about Lakeside. 
I'd love to have local history articles submitted.  I hope to do some library digging this month.  It's fun to find what you're looking for and find many more things you didn't know about. 

I do want to point out the Look at Lakeside readers service opportunity with the Second Harvest Food Bank coming up Wed., Oct 15 from 5:30PM-7PM.  If you are planning on coming please email me at wendyupnorth@yahoo.com.  The location is 4503 Airpark Boulevard.    We will be packing commodity food for seniors. 

Have you been up the new and improved Seven Bridges Road? 
Do you see the beautiful fall color procession along Hawk Ridge?
Are you missing the summertime crowds at Brighton Beach or big events passing through on London Road? 
Through our window tonight we see the giant full moon.  We had a small campfire in our fire pit in our backyard in the chilly night air.  It feels later than it is with the sun setting earlier.  Our cat is asleep on my desk twitching a bit as he is dreaming.  

If you have written a book and live in Lakeside let me know.  I'd like to include a local authors in Lakeside short article in an upcoming issue. 

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

Over 10,000 copies

With Look at Lakeside newsletter in its 3rd year, over 10,000 copies have been distributed in the good old paper format.   Each issue has a real local content with short articles and photos.
Some people ask where can I pick one up?

Here are locations where the Look at Lakeside newsletter is distributed:

Essentia Lakeside clinic
SuperOne Lakeside
New London Cafe
Johnson's Bakery
Sammy's Pizza
Portman
Lakeshore
Lakeland Shore
Ave 45 Hair Salon
Yoga North
St. Michael's School
Lakeside Presbyterian
Lester Park United Methodist
North Shore Bank
US Bank
Lakeside Lester Park Community Club
Pete's Barber Shop
Lakeside Dental
Video on 47th Ave. E.
North Shore Animal Hospital
Duluth Library
Perkins on London Road
Mount Royal Fine Foods
additional places as well  - such as local fairs and events

It is also on-line - in color - linked.  www.LookAtLakeside.com.

Summer Gatherings

Let's face it - the summers are short.  Take advantage of the nice weather days (or parts of days) and head out to the lake shore or even to your backyard.  We love our deck.  It overlooks a vegetable garden that has been slow.  I also have a "super weed" growing.  It has yellow flowers and is taller than me.  I'd like to know what it is.  Could I have planted it?   The zucchini plants have had a growth spurt and it's fun to snap off a piece of kale to munch on. 

If you like to hike and go for walks perhaps you'd like to join me on Aug 9 at 8:30AM for a walk starting at the first pull off area on Skyline Parkway from Glenwood St.    With so much of my work week sitting indoors I look for opportunities to stand and move (This winter's pounds haven't left me yet so I'm working on that...)

It's fun to put together each issue of Look at Lakeside.  I learn as I go along.  Yes, there are some late nights and some advertisers that said yes but never submitted an ad but that's what goes with publishing something, I guess.   This is the start of the 3rd year for the newsletter.  I appreciate the readers' comments and feel that the newsletter is serving as a connecting point.  Something that Lakeside can 'have' every couple of months to share news and announcements. 

I have more distribution to do with this issue but the subscribers have had it delivered to their home or sent in the mail.   I happened to have one of the art fairs that I organize yesterday - it was the 6th year for Woman-Made and my 37th local art fair I've organized.  Since I had the new Aug/Sept issue I put them out at the 'reception/cookie' table and over 50 went throughout the day.   More people get to know about what's happening here.   Don't forget to try and answer the little questions throughout the issue and mark your calendar for the events.  Support the advertisers who are supporting this publication.  If anyone is interested in placing an ad the ad rates are at www.LookAtLakeside.com. 

Tour of Lakeside School building (St. Michael's School) on Friday, June 13

Come for a tour through the halls, stairways, up, down, wood, classrooms, and see a bit of Lakeside that's been here since 1893.  Tour starts at 8:30 a.m.  Meet indoor near the school office.  The school is at 47th Ave. E. and Pitt St.   Tour is limited to 12 people.  Guest attending include the current principal of St. Michael's School - Bill Van Loh and the last principal from Lakeside School (Principal from 1985-1993), Mavis Whiteman. 

 Every June Look at Lakeside newsletter will be hosting a tour of a site in or near Lakeside.
 Last year's tour was the Lakewood Pumping Station. 

Also, each fall LAL readers will be invited to lend a hand on a community support project.  The date and time will be announced in the fall newsletter. 

Thanks for reading the newsletter.  It's now 2 years old. 

Wendy