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Rep Retirement Lodge 137: Counting the long summer days

Rep Retirement Lodge 137: Counting the long summer days

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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 137: Counting the long summer days

Twitch Boy said:
"Legislature says you're closed. I say you're open."
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Who had, "by noon" in the "Clark Griswold" pool? This article hit the site at 1:40 PM CDT:

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/203299

“We’re 400 miles away from home,” said one father at the entrance to Gooseberry Falls State Park at midday today as his children piled out of a van ready to walk down to see the falls. The family, not willing to identify themselves, said they had been in the region this week and were staying in Duluth with plans to see the falls.
In the strictest guidelines of the state government shutdown, people are not allowed to enter the park. But even staff at the park had questions about day use of the parks and its trails. Gooseberry manager Audrey Butts on Thursday said parking along Minnesota Highway 61 and at the park entrance was not an option. She said if people could find a safe place to park they could use a trail to go through the park.
Park managers said they had to close the wayside rest for traffic and safety reasons.

Lake County Sheriff Carey Johnson said his main concern was having enough room at the entrance to allow for emergency vehicles in case of an accident or fire. He said it is up to the State Patrol to police the roadside that was filling up fast with parked cars near the entrance.

Johnson said conservation officers from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources are in charge of patrolling the parks.

No officers of any kind could be seen about noon today. A handful of people frolicked at the falls, posing for pictures or hiking through.

There also were several cars pulled to the side of Highway 61 with bike racks and people heading out on to the Gitchi Gami Trail that runs from Gooseberry through Split Rock Lighthouse State Park and to Beaver Bay.

Sen. Tom Bakk, who has played a key role in the budget negotiations that failed to avoid a government shutdown, said keeping the parks open was never an option. He said he fought hard to make sure conservation officers would give people from out of state a break if they are caught fishing without a license. He said he doesn’t want to encourage law-breaking but said it wasn’t fair for people traveling from out of state to plan for a weekend shutdown.

Bakk said he feels for people in his Northeastern Minnesota district affected by state recreation areas closing. He said there may be an up-side.

“I’ll bet all the beds along the North Shore are filled," he said.
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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 137: Counting the long summer days

Twitch Boy said:
That isn't much of a break-in. Sounds like the DNR just kinda said "Okay, whatever."
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The DNR recognizes that it would take more effort to keep the parks in lock-down then to keep them open.
 
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cc to diva:
We waved, but due to the massive fog, you didn't see us. Went from 90 to 55 to 85 to 60 to 95 degrees (Mpls, Duluth, not Duluth, Ashland WI, Houghton in 6 hours). Odd.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 137: Counting the long summer days

Brenthoven said:
cc to diva:
We waved, but due to the massive fog, you didn't see us. Went from 90 to 55 to 85 to 60 to 95 degrees (Mpls, Duluth, not Duluth, Ashland WI, Houghton in 6 hours). Odd.
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The owner's dad stopped by the store after his bike ride and told us that it was actually summer everywhere else yesterday. The fog finally burned off at about, oh, 6ish, but the storms started shortly after that.
And, courtesy of Plante26's Facebook status: "Only in Duluth does it get warmer when a cold front comes through."

'Morning, kids! Heading out shortly for Houghton! :)
 
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Scarlet said:
Lionel Richie has backed out of performing on the 4th of July with the Boston Pops.[/url] I've been working on this event for four months and we are literally in the home stretch and told my contact at the production company, my boss and two friends here, and hottie bartender last night how great things were going with the event and how excited I was for it, etc. And then the gods decided to go "Oh yeah??? Try this on for size!" Got a phone call about 8:45 last night while having a few drinks from the production company contact with the news. They worked all night and were able to secure Martina McBride as a replacement, which is good. I thought this was going to be a relaxing, easy day....
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Excitement is good, though, right? :o When I worked for the opera in DC, there was a performance where the big star walked off in the middle of the show! She felt she wasn't in her finest voice, waved her arms to stop the show, said "Scusi!," and left. The understudy had already been sent back to her hotel -- naturally, since the show had actually gotten underway. No one answered at her room, so somebody had to run over to her hotel to fetch her. She was in the tub. (Pre-cell phone days, right? -- if you called and the person was in the tub no one answered.) Forty-five minutes later she was in costume and the show picked up where it had been. Unbelievable.
 
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nmupiccdiva said:
The owner's dad stopped by the store after his bike ride and told us that it was actually summer everywhere else yesterday. The fog finally burned off at about, oh, 6ish, but the storms started shortly after that.
And, courtesy of Plante26's Facebook status: "Only in Duluth does it get warmer when a cold front comes through."

'Morning, kids! Heading out shortly for Houghton! :)
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Summer everywhere else? You best believe it. I'm pinker than your......plastic flamingo on your lawn.

Today is much nicer here after the storms rolled through last night. Decent light show, too. Suomi's soon. Mmmmmm.....Suomi's........aghghghghghghgh.........
 
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GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!! weekend.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 137: Counting the long summer days

MavHockey14 said:
I can only imagine, I mean, this is DC's holiday, isn't it?:p
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nothing i hate more than <strike>tourists</strike> zombies... I'll be watching the fireworks from my arlington perch like last year.
 
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