The video for Retribution Gospel Choir’s single “Hide it Away” on the upcoming album 2 clearly shows the band members burying a treasure on Park Point. I task you, people of Duluth to search out and find (or discredit the existence of) said treasure!
January 14, 2010
What happens when an improv cello musician, a creative genius, and a yogi get together? Join Kathy McTavish, Kim Luedtke, and Jodi Christensen for Creative Cello Flow~The Web of Life at the Spiritual Deli, Friday the 15th, 6-8pm. Listen to beautiful, improvisational cello music as we glimpse, reacquaint ourselves with, reaffirm, embrace, or savor our oneness with all living things by creating a collective piece of art.
Spiritual Deli, 6-8pm, $15
I have found the most wonderful work distraction. Not that it’s wonderful to be distracted from work, but I can’t take my eyes off of this webcam.
Lily the Black Bear at the North American Bear Center in Ely is just days away from having her cubs.
She is in hibernation and you can watch it all unfold on the den cam.
For the most part she’s just snoozing away … zzzzzzzzzz
I’m also addicted to other Ely, MN cams like: Fall Lake and Birch Lake
Susan Askelin, passed away Jan. 1, 2010 of esophageal cancer.
Susan was born Nov. 13, 1949 in Duluth, to Harold and Jessie Askelin.
She grew up in Bagley and Savage and graduated from Burnsville high school in 1967. She was married to Richard Schmoller, and later to Michael Paymar. She moved to Duluth where she attended the College of St. Scholastica and graduated Suma Cum Laude with a Masters in business management. While in Duluth she played a critical role in the creation of several co-operatives including Whole Foods Warehouse, and Co-op and Builders & Laborers Commonwealth. She was the director of the weatherization program at Community Action Program, and later became the Director of the Program to Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault. She later moved to St. Paul and worked at Project Fast Forward in Dakota County. Later, she moved to Texas to bask in the sun and worked in several non-profit housing development organizations.
Susan will be remembered for her giving spirit, compassion, and integrity. She was smart, beautiful and strong willed. Her contributions to the world were profound. She loved traveling to Mexico and the Boundary Waters and especially loved the family cabin at Prairie Lake. In her last days her strength and compassion for others were inspirational, she passed away in Montana with sister Sharel beside her.
Susan was preceded in death by her sister, Lindy; brother, Shaun; paternal grandparents, Florence and Einar Askelin, and maternal grandparents, Winifred and Charles Jones.
She is survived by her son, Jason (Laura); grandson, Morgan and daughter, Nicole Harris (Dan); her parents, Jessie and Harold (Helen); aunts, Nancy Jones, Joyce Utter (Arnie); uncle, Ed Askelin(Joan); sisters, Michelle LeBeau (Kent) and Sharel Uphus (Mike); brother, Kurt Askelin (Ruenee); sister, Jodi Christianson (Don); sister-in-law, Beth Askelin; and many nieces and nephews.
SERVICE: is planned for late spring according to Susan’s wishes. A memorial fund is set up in Susan’s name at Wells Fargo Bank.