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Tuesday December 23rd 2025
What’s Up at the Franklin Community Library – August 2018
BY ERIN THOMASSON
All Ages
Live Show: Marvels of Motion Phantastic Physics
Wed. 8/15, 3:30-4:15 pm
Create lightning indoors! See electricity at work as we float pie tins & make a pickle light bulb! Discover the power of a Tesla coil as it ignites a cannon. Then, we send 200,000 volts of electricity through one lucky volunteer for a truly hair-raising experience! Sponsors: Friends of the Hennepin County Library, MELSA. Collaborator: Mad Science MN.
Read Aloud Book Club
Mon. 8/20, 2-3 pm
Registration required. Entering grades 3-6. Join other kids to talk about a great book! No pre-reading required. This month”'s book: True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex.
Franklin on the Green
Tuesdays, 2-4 pm
Badminton, soccer, Frisbee, & games outside; weather permitting.
Science Wednesdays
Wednesdays, 2-4 pm
Join us for a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) activity each week!
Puzzlemania!
Thursdays, 2-4 pm
Educational, fun puzzles & games!
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Metro Transit – You’re voting for an agenda
BY JOHN CHARLES WILSON
This is another slow month for transit news in the Phillips Community. I was originally going to write about the Gold Line, a Bus Rapid Transit line being planned to operate on the East Side of Saint Paul, when I was inspired to change the topic to something more geographically universal.
The primary elections are coming up on the 14th of August. How does that relate to transit? Since 1970, the State of Minnesota, the Metropolitan Council, and various other local government entities have run the transit system in the Twin Cities. The Federal government provides funding for specific transit projects, like Light Rail and Bus Rapid Transit. In this context, elections are important.
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News as first DRAFT – Clairvoyant Day lived and left mysteries
“News is only the first rough draft of history.” The originator of this phrase and others very similar is difficult to name with assured accuracy. Admittedly, it is flattering of journalists and perhaps disputed by most historians who desire to base their work on primary sources not the findings, presentation, and analyses of journalists that write 365 days of the year under pressures of deadlines. Nonetheless, we know newspapers archives are used by historians. We know that 42 years of The Alley pages have been and are used by researchers and historians. We know that Sue Hunter Weir, author of Tales of Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery uses newspaper archives extensively. As with newspaper news, newspaper columns, or history it is always imperative to note the sources for the reader to use in tempering their own conclusions and opinions.
Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery
BY SUE HUNTER WEIR
159th in a Series
Today”'s major local newspapers are not as interesting to read as those of 100 years ago. That is partly a good thing; privacy laws and policies keep some of the more sensational stories out of the public eye. The bad part is that we lose a lot of human-interest stories””stories of loss and love, births and deaths, and of achievements both big and small.… Read the rest “News as first DRAFT – Clairvoyant Day lived and left mysteries”
Keep citizen journalism alive!
