May 2014

RSI hiring children’s behavior specialists

Residential Services’ Wicklow children’s foster care home is seeking patient, self-motivated staff to work with children with severe and persistent mental illnesses, including Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Oppositional Defiant Behavior Disorder.

This position entails working with children with challenging behaviors, transition skills and adaptations necessary in skill development, social skills, independence, etc. Experience working with children, disabilities, and behavioral modification planning and crisis prevention, intervention and de-escalation of crisis and is preferred.

Hours will vary, applicants must be able to work days, evenings and every-other weekend. Day shifts are typically 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. The home is located in Duluth.

For more information or to apply online, please visit residentialservices.org.

Where is the banana tree?

I am wondering what happened to the banana plant that was collected by Chester Congdon and used to be at Lester Park Greenhouse. It’s not at the UMD greenhouse or at Glensheen. It might be in a senior apartment with a greenhouse but I don’t know which one. I saw the plant when the greenhouse was still open in early 2000. I wrote briefly about it in the current Look at Lakeside newsletter.

Bananas Grown in Lakeside?

Employees at the Lester Park Florist would enjoy a banana split made with bananas grown from a banana plant in the greenhouse. The plant had been a gift from Elizabeth Congdon to the shop in the 1950s and was brought from South America by Chester Congdon in the 1920s.

The beginnings of that greenhouse at 6030 E. Superior St. date back to 1897. The final owners were the LaFaves who owned it for 25 years. The business closed ten years ago in the Spring of 2004.

DSFF Day 3 & 4

Last night, I saw Sorcerer and the Shorts festival at the Duluth Superior Film Festival… and I will be adding more to my thoughts before I post them.

Kathleen RobertsBut I ran into Kathleen Roberts, a local poet and a leader in the Duluth arts scene (one of the engines behind Prove Gallery). I teased that she would probably spend the weekend watching the movies in her gallery, but this is what she shared with me, instead — the movies she wants to see in the festival. Maybe she or I will see you there? …

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Duluth Public Library dedication riot

Does anyone remember that in the early 1970s there was a dedication for the groundbreaking of the new Duluth Public Library, and suddenly a group of war protesters, marching down Michigan Street, were raided by the police.

I was about 4 years old and remember seeing the cops using their billy clubs to best long-hair teenagers.

Does anyone remember any details?

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