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John's Pet & Variety, The old Ben Franklin, 4/12/06 The Ben Franklin has been here since at least the 1960s. It used to sell penny candy back then. You can now buy hamsters, smoke bombs, model kits, fabric, trading cards, tropical fish, flowers, tomato plants and bird feeders at John's.

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2008-04-21T17:09:40Z

Ice out on Lake Langdon and Loons visit

This weekend saw the ice going out on Lake Langdon which is defined by being able to navigate a pontoon boat around the edge of the lake within 50 feet of the shoreline and being able to cross the lake both east to west and north to south. This year's winter kill includes a higher than average amount of carp which I predict will not impact their population or cause them to be placed on the threatened species list. The creek, (Langdon Bay Creek or Sollies Creek, take your pick.) is flowing into Lost Lake at a rate of about 10 gallons per second.

The ducks have returned and seem to be doing what ducks do every Spring, and there's a huge flock of white aquatic birds on the lake that are probably pelicans. And I am pleased to announce that about 5 loons have stopped by today and I am officially proclaiming there presence on the lake again. Their calls have also been heard. 

And on this busy day, about 50 carp were seen moving upstream from Lost Lake into Landon Bay. Each year the creek is running, the carp will about this time, get confused and think they are Salmon, and fight their way upstream to spawn. While salmon die after they spawn, apparently carp do not.  

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2008-03-26T14:56:54Z

Langdon Bay Creek Update

Langdon Bay Creek is about half open with the ice melted off of some of it. It appears to be flowing at a minimal rate, but I can't be sure about that. Langdon Bay's level may be low enough so that it hasn't breached the berm that sometimes forms at its headwaters. 

Also I have recently been informed that another name for the creek is: "Sollie's Creek". (I am uncertain about the correct placement of the apostrophe.) Named after the two Uncles of the Andrews Sisters. These uncles owned the Sollie Store located South of the Creek for many years.

2008-03-22T21:20:55Z

Thank you for not running into me...

I'd like to thank the driver who passed me on the left while I was slowing to make a left turn off of Bartlett at Avon yesterday. Thank you for not running into the driver's side of my truck at around 2:00 pm Saturday when the roads were wet and it was snowing. I am sorry that my slowing down from about 25 mph to 15 mph in a residential area to make my left turn onto Avon could've delayed as long as 15 seconds, that surely wasn't my intent. Yes I was surprised to see you passing me in what I used to consider my neighborhood, until I realized I couldn't argue with physics and that Bartlett Boulevard between Shirley Hills and Shoreline belongs to those using it to get some place in a hurry. As I started my turn, there you were, like Richard Petty making that race winning pass. All I could do is stop in amazement and wonder, was that perhaps Jeff Gordon right here in Mound? A stock car racer once told me that their cars don't have rear-view mirrors, and it has something to do with never looking back. After I got over my shock at almost being in accident, I drove up to my house and tested my turn signal, thinking perhaps it was covered in that heavy wet snow that was falling or that it wasn't working? But that wasn't the case, it blinked OK. But all is well that ends well, and I am happy that you could continue on your way and know that you had saved yourself 15 seconds of travel time.

As I write this thank you to this unknown driver, I am reminded me of another near accident I was almost in. I was making a right turn off of Shoreline onto Chateau and was passed on the right. That taught me to block the break down lane of a road when making a right turn. Signaling a right turn may not count for anything. Physically blocking the break down lane where someone may try to pass, seems the safer thing to do. Some might say I am supposed to use the break down lane along that stretch of Shoreline, East of the old Hardee's, when making a right turn. I might say that it's too narrow to be a right turn lane given the width of my truck. Its narrowness might make things more dangerous if I use it as a turning lane. The reason I think it's not marked as a turning lane is not to save on paint, but because the road isn't wide enough to have a turning lane.

Unfortunately, I can't think of anything to make making a left turn in Mound any safer? Maybe I just won't make left turns anymore. I suppose it's normal to have differing opinions between people who live somewhere and people and who just want to get through somewhere as fast a possible. I am happy I haven't inconvenienced anyone by having an accident with them, as that might make them late for wherever it is they are going.

The Great Northern Railroad’s Minneapolis to Hutchinson branch served the resorts on the Northern part of Lake Minnetonka. The branch ran through Wayzata, Orono, Minnetonka Beach, Navarre, Spring Park, Mound, Minnetrista, and Saint Bonifacius. The Great Northern owned and operated the Hotel Lafayette, at Minnetonka Beach. For a time, Lake Minnetonka was more served by trains and lake steamers than by roads. The branch is now often referred to as Dakota Rail or Trail, and is in the process of being converted first to a trail, and in the distant future, a light rail line.


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Zumbra Heights is in the area of the intersection of Highway 7 and Rolling Acres Road, South of Smithtown Bay. According to the 1895 Atlas, Zumbra Heights had a post office and railroad. The railroad is now the Northern part of the Southwest Regional LRT Trail, which does not have light rail at the present time, but will someday. This trail in the past was owned by Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad. The Heights had a landing name after it in the early part of the 20th century, that was visited by Minnetonka's lake steamers. Since 1908, the Heights was the location of the State Fruit-Breeding Farm. In 1915 the farm seems to have been run by no less than Superintendent Charles Haralson, who that variety of apple is named for. The now named U of M Horticultural Research Center (HRC) has also been instrumental in the introduction of the Honeycrisp and Zestar! Apples. Zumbra is also a variety of Cherry-Plum that was introduced by the HRC in 1920.

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May 12, 2008 09:00AM

Principals visit Westonka (Waconia Patriot)

Principals visit Westonka A quartet of educators from China who were attending a Chinese Principals Summit at the University of Minnesota visited the Westonka School District last week.

May 14, 2008 06:21AM

Breaking News (Albert Lea Tribune)

The Albert Lea Thunder announced Paul Willett as its first head coach Tuesday at a press conference at the City Arena. Willett, an International Falls native, spent four years as the boys' hockey head coach at Mound-Westonka high school and operates a hockey camp in Delano.

May 07, 2008 08:10PM

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Old William's Store in Mound. Where one could buy a pair of shoes. 4/23/06

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Election Signs at Three Points and Commerce. Sept. 2006. This and the corner at Island Park Skelly are the places in Mound to see campaign signs.

 
Old Carl's Station at Busy Corners. April 2006. Carl's was a place where you could have someone else pump your gas for you. Sometimes that would be a highschool kid who would also wash your windows and check your oil. According to Hennepin County, the building was built in 1935.


Saunders Lake, Fall 2005

Tulberg & Greenslit, CPAs
Mound Minnesota

Taxes and Accounting since 1961. Our primary service is Federal form 1040 and state income tax preparation.


5680 Bartlett Blvd. April 2006
Gillespie Center in the back.

 
Kevin Sorbo at the Grandview Middle School Library. 4/28/06. Kevin attended Grandview, or our other Middle School, Mound Westonka Junior High.

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Shirley's Hill. Saint John's Church is seen here, as well as Mound's new watertower. Three of the streets on the hill are not surprisingly, Fairview, Ridgewood and Chateau.

 
Village by the Bay. Sept. 2006. Here we are looking into the outfield of the old Babe Ruth field from about where the concession stand was.


Seton Business District along Shoreline in Mound. It includes the Westonka Animal Hospital, the Computer House, State Farm Insurance, National Power Chair, Babler's Automotive, MinneSoftTub and Small Engine Services.

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