A collection of environmental organizations and community volunteers found nearly 13,000 pieces of garbage in and around the Mississippi River in St. Paul as part of a brief pilot study held earlier this year.
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A few months from now, as stormwater gathers in a winding creek bed and flows toward St. Paul s Hidden Falls much as it did more than a century ago Greg Brick admitted he might celebrate just a little. The public had gotten so used to seeing that ugly sewer outfall above the waterfall ledge that they thought nothing of it, said Brick of the creek that was sent underground through a storm sewer pipe when Ford built its Highland Park plant in 1925. But it is so wonderful to get rid of that ugly eyesore!
While the retired state Department of Natural Resources hydrologist may have been the first to suggest daylighting Hidden Falls Creek in a 2008 report to the Capitol Region Watershed District, he s been joined by a growing legion of city officials, environmentalists, developers and neighbors giddy over the soon-to-be-completed transformation.
Their youthful lake-side memories behind them, dad and daughter fear loss of those experiences in a warming state.
By Bud Ward | Tuesday, December 22, 2020
A sampling of family photos that recall fond times spent at Leech Lake in Minnesota. Clockwise from top: Julie’s father, James Alger, with her son Otto (left) and nephew Jack, in 1997; Julie, alone on the lakefront; with her three brothers, parents, and the family dog; and with other family members (all in the late 1960s).
Their lived experiences and vibrant memories are many:
Off-the-grid monthly family escapes to a deep and clean northern Minnesota lake amid coniferous forests, white pines, and the calming isolation of woodlands;