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Good morning from Collegeville,

Where were you 22 years ago today? How much snow did you have to deal with? Today’s sunny cool weather is so much more comfortable than 24 inches of the white stuff. We were living in a townhouse in Blaine and the driveway was not cleared for days. We were running low on food and I am sure that I was freaking out since I was hooked on Diet Coke. When we lived on Cedar Lake west of Upsala, we used to enjoy being socked in by a blizzard. We usually had some notice and it usually was winter time not Halloween. In 1991 the freeways in the Metro area were a hazard to drive on most of the winter. It took a long time for the snow and ice to melt, in fact maybe it never did, until spring. 22 years is a long time ago. I drank my last can of Diet Coke on August 7th of this year.

The APHC show this week is live from the State Theatre in downtown Minneapolis. Special guests include the Pied Piper of Poetry, Billy Collins, mandolinist and bluegrass ambassador, Sam Bush, and men’s vocal ensemble Cantus. The Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott and Fred Newman will team up with Garrison to bring us the various skits. The News From Lake Wobegon will wrap it up.

“Reputation is what folks think you are. Personality is what you seem to be. Character is what you really are.” Alfred Armand Montapert