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Tuesday December 23rd 2025
What’s Up at the Franklin Community Library – June 2018
BY ERIN THOMASSON
ALL AGES
Puzzlemania!
Thursdays, 2-4pm
Educational, fun puzzles & games!
Game On!
Thursdays, 5-7pm
Card games, board games, xBox, & VR ”“ play or learn a new one.
Family Storytime
Fridays, 10:30-11am
All ages & caregivers. Talk, sing, read, write & play sharing books, stories, rhymes, music & movement.
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Metro Transit
By JOHN CHARLES WILSON
One of the sad things about writing for a monthly paper is that even when you have early access to inside information, you rarely get the “scoop” because it”'s publicly available before your publication hits the stands”¦.
That said, this month”'s big transit news is the quarterly service change, which was originally planned for 16 June, but was moved up to the 9th in order to coincide with construction on I-35W.
There is no direct effect on Phillips, but residents will notice anyway. The most obvious change is that buses which normally go down I-35W are being detoured off the freeway between downtown Minneapolis and 31st St. Routes 133, 156, 467, 552, 553, 554, and 558 will be using the Portland/Park one-way pair without stopping, and Routes 135, 146, 535, 578, and 597 will be using the Blaisdell/1st Ave. S. one-way pair stopping only at Lake St.
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Lake of dreams”“boat-building & story-sharing workshops
A.S. MILLIGAN//N.M.MILLIGAN
A fisherman”'s hook, used to lash wood together to form a frame for a currach, shown next to a completed frame.
By CARSTENS SMITH
Boats are a powerful metaphor and Ingebretsen”'s is offering a 3-part workshop that uses boats, both literally and figuratively, as a way for people to tell their families”' stories and to express their hopes for the future. This will happen through actual boat-building and with the sharing of stories and images.
Sculptor A.S. Milligan and poet and novelist Nicole Mary Milliganwill lead participants through the process of making a currach, a small Irish “basket boat” that is built with a frame and covered with a fabric skin. The skin will have images from photographs and letters that participants share during the workshop. Upon completion, there will be a small celebration and the boat will be displayed in the store”'s window. We invite you to join us on this journey as we learn about boat building and about our common ties.
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