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Tuesday December 23rd 2025
Drone launched to survey the bridge!
SOREN JENSEN
Short line bridge study is underway
By SOREN JENSEN
We are pleased to report that our hired DRONE was launched yesterday, to begin our new engineering study of the Short Line Bridge over the Mississippi River.
The drone will create a 3D map of the bridge, which will then be used by the engineers from Kimley-Horn to complete the study, which will estimate what it would take to shore up the bridge and make it safe for biking and walking.
We expect to have the study done later this summer, and we’ll schedule a community meeting in Saint Paul to share the results this fall.
Thanks to everyone who is supporting our efforts to Extend the Greenway over the river and through Saint Paul!
Soren Jensen is Midtown Greenway Executive Director
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Movie Corner – August 2018
BY HOWARD McQUITTER II
oldschoolmovies.wordpress.com
howardmcquitter68@gmail.com
A few summer movies for 2018 worthwhile and inspirational
“I Can Only Imagine”
(2018) Roadhouse Pictures
5/5 Stars
I read about “I Can Only Imagine” back in March, I believe in USA TODAY, one of a handful of films with inspirational-religious theme films such as “God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness,” “Paul, Apostle of Christ,” and “Samson.” I have known for a long time that religious (Christian in particular) films have audiences out there across America although Hollywood for years has pretended the audiences hardly existed, if at all. Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” (2004) more than proved the naysayers, the cynical secularists, wrong.
When I viewed “I Can Only Imagine” (encouraged by my friend, Marvin Windom) I can say the film is one of the most inspirational films of the year. It doesn’t hit one over the head with Christian thunderbolts, as one might think. In the midst of summer blockbusters showcasing superheroes, dinosaurs, killers, and those being killed, raunchy comedies, and loads of characters using scurrilous language; a film like “I Can Only Imagine” comes through it all as a mature, inspirational story based on a true story.… Read the rest “Movie Corner – August 2018”
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