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Good morning from Collegeville,

This is homecoming weekend for St. John’s. The campus will be packed with alumni, students and parents. A lot of Johnnie Bread has been baked and is ready to go.
The forecast is for showers, but that will not be a problem with tuf-turf having replaced grass.

Some of my favorite memories of football games are in the mud. I was an overweight freshman on the Upsala Cardinal team in 1957. We wore the old uniforms and helmets and we did not win any fashion awards. The seniors included one, John Atkinson, who was a running back who ran with his knees pumping up and down high and hard, but he still managed to make yardage. In practice, I would simply bounce off of his knees. The memory of the pain is still with me. That may have been the year when no other team even scored on the Upsala team. In my junior year I had shed a few pounds over the summer and I had a decent year of football. The following summer I had a diving accident and so I did not play my senior year. The Upsala homecoming game is two weeks from today and I hope to be there in my letterman’s jacket.

The APHC show this week is live from The Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul. Special guests include soul-singer, songwriter, Dan Penn, fiddler-singer Sara Watkins and blues singer Hilary Thavis , (who is named after Father Hilary). The Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Sue Scott, Tim Russell and Fred Newman will entertain with a number of skits. Enjoy the show.

The Millstream Art Festival is this Sunday in vibrant downtown St. Joseph. The weather will be wonderful. The festival runs from 11 until 5 PM.

“The root of all disturbance, if one will go to its source, is that no one will blame himself.” Dorotheus of Gaza