August 4, 2017
In the winter of 1971, I attended a Coon Rapids City Council meeting to complain about the snowmobiles that were running up and down the streets in my neighborhood. I was not impressed with my representation, so that fall I decided to run for the Third Ward Council seat. I had met a few folks at a caucus in 1970, so with their help, we managed to pull off an upset victory. The fellow that we beat was going for his third three year term. One of the guys that helped me get elected was Gene Merriam. We had spent a lot of hours collecting rummage for a garage sale fundraiser, so we got to know each other quite well. The next year Gene ran for Council at Large and he won that seat. Rick Reiter ran and won from the first ward and in late 1973, we filled a vacancy in Ward 2 by appointing Dave Therkelsen. We served together in the year 1974. This week we met for a 43 year reunion. We decided that today we were all too long in the tooth to solve the world’s problems, so someone else is going to have to do it. We simply spent two hours sharing stories and laughing. Picture attached.
The APHC show this week is a rebroadcast of the first show of 2017 at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, Washington. The Shins perform “Gone for Good” and “Saint Simon”. Regina Spektor sings “Grand Hotel” and “Older and Taller.” Plus Chris Thile and the band back up Sarah Jarosz on her song “Comin’ Undone,” There will be a message from the sponsor Memory Foam Mattresses — the mattress that contours not only to your body but to your mind — guitarist Chris Eldridge fields an online request for “Church Street Blues,” and the gang will close things out with everyone singing “In the Pines.”
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt.
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