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Good morning from Collegeville,

 Eighty two folks showed up for Chamber Connection here on campus, in the Alumni Lounge.  It is a beautiful morning and the eagles are soaring in the sky above campus.  This morning there are about 15 of them playing in the air.  I was hoping that they would be performing as the guests arrived, but they waited until now.  It is amazing to me that they simply seem to be soaring for the fun of it. 

 I always enjoy having folks come for coffee and cinnamon rolls on the third Friday of August each year.  Chamber Connection works.  I announced that I had an opening for a sponsorship message in front of the re-broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion on Sunday and someone came up to me afterwards and said that they would take it for 26 weeks.  I love it when a plan comes together.  If you have never attended a Chamber Connection meeting on a Friday morning in St. Cloud, simply go to www.stcloudareachamber.com

 The show this week is a special summertime compilation show about radio.  Guests include Studs Terkel, Bob Edwards (NPR alumni)  and Meryl Streep.  You also will hear the story of how Garrison got started in radio at the U of M.

 “If you do not sow, you do not reap; no investment, no dividend.  It’s as simple as that.”   Alfred Armand Montapert