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Good snowy morning from Collegeville,

Twenty Eleven is almost gone. The snow is coming down in a gentle fashion, covering the tree branches and the rooftops on campus. There are only a few of us working on campus today.

The past year has been a good one. There were a couple of annoying things, such as boom box noise from cars parked next to Gary’s Pizza at three o’clock in the morning, cigarette butts on the ground two feet from a receptacle, one unfilled pot hole next to a bunch that have just been filled, (do they need to leave one for seed?)

Twenty Twelve will be the year of the Olympics in London, the election in November and MPR will turn 45 on January 22nd. I hope that next year will be a great one for you, your family and your business. Thank you for your support of programming on MPR. We could not do it without you.

The show this week is a live broadcast from the island of paradise, Oahu, Hawaii with special guests, ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro, slack key guitarist Danny Carvalho and legendary Na Hoku Hanohano Award winner, Ledward Kaapana. Vocalist Heather Masse and slack key Kahuna Jeff Peterson will round out the list of talent. Enjoy the show and note that there will also be a special New Years Eve broadcast later on in the evening.

“I am in love with the world” Maurice Sendak, author of “Where The Wild Things Are”