♪ MAARJA: WELCOME TO "ALMANAC NORTH."

I'M MAARJA HEWITT.

BRETT: AND I'M BRETT SCOTT.

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.

TONIGHT, WE'RE HEARING FROM ORGANIZERS ABOUT THE HOMEGN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND ITS LOCL LEGEACY.

MAARJA: WE'RE ALSO HEARINGM A DULUTH ACTOR ABOUT MAKINT IN THE TWIN CITIES.

BRETT: THAT'S MING UP.

BUT FIRST, WE BEGIN THIS EG WITH SOME HEADLINES.

THIS WEEK, THE ST. LOUIS CY BOARD HONORED FOUR COMMUNIY LEADERS WITH PUBLIC HEALTH ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS AS PARTF NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH WEE.

THIS YEAR'S THEME, “IT STAS WITH US,” REFLECTS THEIR W, LIKE DR. JAN BALDWIN'S ADVY FOR MOTHERS BATTLING SUBSTE USE, NATHAN KESTI'S OUTREAO DULUTH'S UNHOUSED POPULATI, MEL ALVAR'S FIGHT AGAINST N TRAFFICKING, AND CHRISTINA TROK'S PUSH FOR BIRTH EQUI.

THESE INDIVIDUALS SHOW HOW PUBLIC HEALTH BEGINST THE LOCAL LEVEL, CREATING REAL CHANGE FOR OUR REGION.

MAARJA: ST. LOUIS COUNTY IS INVESTING IN A NEW PUBLIC S FACILITY FOR THE CENTRAL R. THE COUNTY BOARD APPROVED O $45 MILLION IN BONDS TO BUA MODERN TRANSPORTATION CAMPN BALKANOWNSHIP, SERVING HIBBING, CHISHOLM, AND NEAY AREAS.

THE NEW SITE WILL REPLACE E OUTDATED HIBBING GARAGE, IMPROVING RESPONSE TIMES, EQUIPMENT LIFESPAN, AND EFFICIENCY.

CONSTRUCTION STARTS THIS F, WITH COMPLETION EXPECTED BY SUMMER 2027.

THE PROJECT WILL BE FUNDEDY THE TRANSPORTATION SALES T, WITH NO IMPACT TO PROPERTY TAXES.

BRETT: MNDOT WILL HOST A PC MEETING ON APRIL 23 AT 5:0.

IN HOVLAND TO DISCUSS UPCOG CULVERT REPLACEMENTS ON HIY 61 BETWEEN GRAND MARAIS AND GRAND PORTAGE.

E PROJECT BEGINS MAY 19 AND WILL SPAN TWO SUMMERS, WITH TRAFFIC CONTROLLED BY TEMPY SIGNALS AT EACH OF THE SIXK SITES.

A RECORDING OF THE MEETINGD PROJECT DETAILS WILL BE AVAILABLE ONLINE.

FOR UPDATES, VISIT DOT.STATE.MN.US, OR FOLLOWT NORTHEAST ON FACEBK.

MAARJA: ON THIS WEEK'S “MAG IT UP NORTH”, MEET DYLAN RN ACTOR WHO GRADUATED FROM U.

HE'S MAKING A NAME FOR HIMF IN THE TWIN CITIES AND IS SHARING HIS EXPERIENCE HERH US TONIGHT.

US TONIGHT.

♪ MY NAME IS DYLAN RUE AND IY PRINCE HANS IN "FROZEN."

FOR A LONG TE, I PLAY MUSIC WITH MY DAD IN HIS BAND, JA LITTLE GUITAR, AND MY MOM W SOMETHING IN THAT.

SO, FRESHMAN YEAR OF HIGH L ROLLED AROUND, SHE SAW THE AUDITIONS POSTED FOR THE SL MUSICAL.

AND SHE TOLD ME, DIDN'T AS, SHE TOLD ME, BY THE WAY, YE AUDITIONING FOR THAT.

I SAID, I DON'T KNOW ABOUTL THAT.

SHE SAID, YOU DO WANT TO DO THAT.

I THINK A LOT OF ACTORS TAA LOT OF PASSION IN THE PROJS THEY DO, AND IT IS FUN AND EXHILARATING AND UNLIKE ANG ELSE TO SHARE THAT STORY, T HARD WORK YOU'VE DONE TO CE THESE CHARACTERS AND FORMUE HOW THEY WOULD RESPOND IN E SITUATIONS AND SHARE THAT H AN AUDIENCE EVERY NIGHT.

AND BEING OUT ON STAGE, FEG THE ENERGY FROM THE AUDIEN, AND HAVING THIS BACK AND FH WITH THEM, WHERE THEY ARE RESPONDING TO WHAT WE ARE G AND FEEDING OFF OF THAT JUS UNLIKE ANYTHING ELSE I'VE R EXPERIENCED IN MY LIFE.

I THINK MY TIME AT UMD REAY HELPED STEER ME AND SHAKE R THIS BECAUSE IT TAUGHT ME A BALANCE BETWEEN THE WORK L, BALANCE BETWEEN THE WORK 'G JOB, THE WORKING JOB, THENG ABLE TO DO A SHOW THAT NIGR EVEN GO TO REHEARSAL AT NIT AND FINDING JOY IN BOTH OFM AND LEARNING TO NOT RESENTE OVER THE OTHER.

TERMS OF MENTORS AT UMD, I FEEL REALLY STRONGLY I LEAA LOT FROM ALL OF THEM.

I THINK THEY ALL HELPED TO REALLY TRAIN ME IN MY MINDR HOW HARD THE JOB CAN BE.

AND IT IS NOT JUST ALWAYS .

THERE IS WORK TO BE DONE.

YOU SHOULD BE WORKING ON YOURSELF AND YOUR SKILLS EY OPPORTUNITY YOU HAVE.

AND I THINK THEY ALL FELT T WAY, AND I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING THAT STILL STICKH ME TODAY, NEVER STOP WORKIN YOURSELF.

MY ROLE IN "FROZEN" IS PRIE HANS, BUT I'M ALSO A MEMBEF THE ENSEMBLE.

SO I GET TO DO A LOT OF THE ENSEMBLE NUMBERS.

I GET TO DO FIXER-UPPER, TE OPENING NUMBER, WHICH IS GT BECAUSE AT OTHER PRODUCTION HOUSES, IF YOU ARE PLAYINGA PRINCIPAL ROLE, ONCE YOU BE THAT PRINCIPAL ROLE, THAT L YOU GET TO DO FOR THE RESTF THE TIME.

THEY DON'T USE YOU IN OTHER THINGS.

I FEEL VERY FORTUNATE IN TI DO GET TO BE PART OF THE ENSEMBLE AND I GET TOHARE THOSE BIG FUN PRODUCTION NS WITH THE REST OF THE CAST.

SO MY ROLE HERE IS AN ACTO, WORKING AT THE CHILDREN'S THEATER, WHILE IT IS TO BEA PERFORMER ON THE STAGE ANDO EVERYTHING THE DIRECTOR AND CHOREOGRAPHER ARE WORKING , IT IS ALSO TO BE A ROLE MOL AND A MENTOR WITHOUT DECTLY GIVING INSTRUCTION OR GIVIG TIPS OR WHATEVER TO THE STT ACTORS THAT WE HAVE, WHICHE ARE NUMBER IN THIS PRODUCT.

THE MAKE UP ALMOST HALF THT AND THEY ARE SO SMART, THEE SO EAGER TO BE A PART OF TE SHOW, AND THEY ARE REALLY .

THEY ARE ALL REALLY GOOD.

THEY ARE VALLEY -- VERY TAD KIDS.

EVEN THE FOUR LITTLE SCUM E FANTASTIC FOUR, WEEK -- THR LITTLE KIDS, WE CALL THEM E FANTASTIC FOUR.

THERE IS NO SET, NO COSTUMO NOTHING, AND I AM CRYING WATCHING THEM DO ONE OF THE SCENES BECAUSE THEY ARE SO PASSIONATE ABOUT IT.

IT IS FUN TO SEE.

I THINK MY YOUNGER SELF WOE SO EXCITED AND UNBELIENG ON OPPORTUNITY LIKE THIS TO HE EVER EVEN PRESENTED IT SOU.

I JUST RE-WATCHED "TREASURE PLANET," WHICH IS SUCH AN INCREDIBLE DISNEY MOVIE AND STILL HOLDS UP TO THIS DAYN MY HUMBLE OPINION.

THE TECHNOLOGY AND THAT ANIMATIONTYLE FOR THAT MOVE IS JUST.

BUT SEEING A STORY LIKE THD WATCHING ANIMATION GROW AND BECOME "FROZEN," THEN COMING TO THE STAGE AND BEG ABLE TO BE PART OF THAT MA, YOUNGER ME WOUL NEVER HAVEN ABLE TO BELIEVE THAT WAS IE CARDS.

THERE IS NO WAY.

BUT HERE WE ARE.

MY ADVICE TO A YOUNG ACTORD BE THIS.

AS HARD AS IT IS TO HEAR "" THERE IS SOMETHING TO BE LD FROM EVERY EXPERIENCE.

A WAY TO GROW FROM THOSE SN YOU FINALLY GET THE "YES,"U FEEL REALLY GOOD ABOUT THAD YOU FEEL, I EARNED THAT ANI PUT THE WORK IN AND I AM EY WHERE I SHOULD BE.

SO, NEVER STOP BELIEVING TT YOU ARE WORTHY OF IT, AND R STOP WORKING ON YOURSELF.

♪ ♪ BRETT: OUR GUESTS THIS WEEE LOUREN YZAGUIRRE AND ROBBY ISAACS, FROM THE HOMEGROWNC FESTIVAL.

LOUREN, ROBBY, THANK YOU FR BEING WITH US.

LOUREN: THANK YOU FOR HAVI.

BRETT: IT IS ALMOST TIME FR THIS YEARS HOMEGROWN.

STARTED IN 1999.

KIND OF A COOL HISTORY.

CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT W HOMEGROWN GOT STARTED AND T HAS EVOLVED?

ROBBY: YES.

OUR FOUNDER, SCOTT LUNDT, HAD A BIRTHDAY PARTY WITH W LOCAL BANDS.

FROM THAT CAME THE WONDERFL IDEA OF JUST HAVING THE FEL EVERY YEAR, WHICH HAS GROWN EXPONENTIALLY.

AND EVERY YEAR IT HAS GOTTN BIGGER AND WE HAVE RODE OUT COVID, WE DID ON LINE FOR T YEAR, AND NOW WE ARE JUST ROCKING AND ROLLING WITH I. BRETT: HOW COOL TO HAVE A BIRTHDAY PARTY, THEN IT BLS INTO A FESTIVAL.

EVERYTHING KICKS OFF ON AL 27, WITH THE MAYOR'S SPEECD A CHILDREN'S EVENT, RIGHT?

CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT?

LOUREN: SURE.

I AM ONE OF THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS THAT IS IN CHARGE E CHILDREN'S SHOWCASE.

LAKE SUPERIOR ZOO IS GOINGO HOST THIS YEAR, AND IT STAT 10:00 A.M., APRIL 27, AND T GOES UNTIL AROUND 3:30, 4:.

THEN, WE ARE SUPPOSED TO GE THE MAYOR'S SPEECH IN DULUT -- WHERE IS IT?

HOOPS BREWING.

THERE WILL BE A LOT OF FUNF FOR THE KIDS.

THERE'S GOING TO BE FACE PAINTING, TEMPORARY TATTOO.

OF COURSE, ANIMALS.

AND IT IS FREE FOR EVERYBO.

SO, NO ADMISSION THAT DAY.

MAARJA: OH, WOW.

THAT IS REALLY COOL.

I KNOW THE FIELD GUIDE, WHI WILL PUT UP HERE SO YOU CA, ALWAYS HAS COOL ARTWORK.

ALWAYS HIGHLY ANTICIPATED.

AND IT IS THICK AND YOU CAN LEARN EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS YEAR'S HOMEGROWN FESTIVAL.

CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THE PRODUCTION OF THIS AND WHAT FOLKS CAN FIND OUT?

ROBBY: YOU FIND EVERYTHINGA PIECE OF INFORMATION FOR TE ENTIRE FESTIVAL IN THERE.

AS THE DAYS GO ON, THEY STO BECOME MORE SCARCE, SO YOUT TO REMEMBER TO HOLD ONTO YR FIELD GUIDE BECAUSE IT HASA LIST OF ALL THE VENUES, SET TIMES, BANDS, LITTLE INFO S OF THE BANDS THAT ARE PERFORMING, TROLLEY SCHEDU, EVERYTHING.

WE HAVE A CODE FOR OUR SECT SHOW WE DO EVERY YEAR IN TE FIELD GUIDE, SO BE SURE YOY ATTENTION FOR THAT.

LOUREN: DON'T ILL IT.

ROBBY: SORRY.

[LAUGHTER] BRETT: YOU'RE GOING TO SHAE SECRET ON "ALMANAC NORTH."

[LAUGHTER] ROBBY: AND WE HAVE IT LOCAY PRINTED.

WE HAVE A DIFFERENT ARTISTN THE COVER EVERY YEAR.

BRENT FROM DIRTBIKE BOYFRIS DID THE COVER THIS YEAR.

AND THEY ARE JUST GREAT KEEPSAKES.

I LOVE THAT THEY HAVE MADET OVER THE YEARS.

BRETT: WHEN YOU THINK OF HOMEGROWN, YOU THINK OF DU.

HOW DO YOU SELECT ALL THE ARTISTS AND BANDS YEAR AFTR YEAR?

IT HAS TO BE DIFFILT.

LOUREN: ON OUR COMMITTEE, E ARE MEMBERS THAT MEET AND N TO ALL THE BANDS THAT AUDI, AND THEY SELECT, AND IT ISN INTRICATE PROCESS TO GET EVERYBODY SCHEDULED AFTER .

LIKE WHAT VENUES, WHERE EVERYBODY IS GOING TO GO, T DAYS.

SO, IT IS A PROCESS.

MAARJA: WHAT DOES THAT PROS LOOK LIKE?

LOOKING AT THE FIELD GUIDEY ARE ALL SCHEDULED, MULTIPLE BANDS, MULTIPLE VENUES EVEY NIGHT.

YOU HAVE SUPERIOR NIGHT, T. YOU HAVE VENUES ALL OVER D. ROBBY: IT IS AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF PREPLANNING.

IT DOESN'T JUST START AND P IN APRIL AND MAY.

IT GOES ALL YEAR.

WE HAVE OUR MONTHLY MEETIN.

THE FOLKS WHO ARE WONDERFUT ORGANIZING, WHICH I AM NOTO AN EXCELLENT JOB WITH OUR D GUIDE PUTTING ALL THAT WORO IT.

IT DOES TAKE AN ENORMOUS AT OF TIME AND DEDICATION.

BRETT: ROBBY, YOU MENTIONES WAS YOUR FIRST YEAR ORGANIG THE EVENT.

YOU HAVE TAKEN PART MANY Y.

WHY WAS IT IMPORTANT FOR YO TAKE MORE OF A ROLE IN ORGANIZING?

ROBBY: IT IS SUCH AN AMAZIG THING.

I WENT TO MY FIRST HOMEGRON WHEN I WAS -- THAT WAS 201I THINK, AND I HAD NEVER EXPERIENCED ANYTHING LIKE T IN DULUTH BEFORE.

THE ENERGY AND MUSIC, THERE LINES OUT THE DOOR, PEOPLEE PACKED TO THE WALL.

THE NEXT YEAR, I VOLUNTEERR THE FIRST TIME, AND THAT WS ALSO AN EXCELLENT EXPERIEN.

AND TO HAVE SOMETHING LIKE, AN EIGHT DAY SPAN OF LOCALC AND A LOCALLY CONNECTED MUSICIANS IS SUCH A SPECIAL THING.

AND WE COULD HAVE IT ON THE SHORES OF THIS BIG BEAUTIFL LAKE.

TO HELP IT CONTINUE TO THRE AND GROW IS A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY FOR ME.

MAARJA: LET'S TALK GENRES F MUSIC THAT PEOPLE CAN EXPE.

ROBBY: EVERYTHING.

LITERALLY.

MEAT.

BROUGHT WORST.

-- BRATWUSRST.

[LAUGHTER] MAARJA: I REMEMBER THAT FRM LAST YEAR.

YOU HAVE ALL DIFFERENT GEN. IS IT LIKE BY VENUE?

IF YOU GO TTISE THIS NIGHT, IT IS A GENRE?

BRETT: WHO GETS THE MEAT?

[LAUGHTER] ROBBY: ARTISE USUALLY GETSE MEAT.

YOU WILL FIND ROWDIER ACTS AT RT QUINLAND'S.

YOU WILL HAVE MORE LOW-KEY PERFORMANCES ALL OVER.

YOU CAN LITERALLY WALK INTE VENUE, GO ACROSS THE STREED FIND SOMETHING ENTIRELY DIFFERENT, WHICH IS THE BEY OF THE WHO FESTIVAL.

MAARJA: AND SOME OF IT IS DANCING, TOO.

YOU HAVE A DANCING MENU?

-- A DANCING VENUE?

LOUREN: THE VARIETY SHOWCA.

THAT IS FOR PERFORMERS WHOT TO DO POETRY, DRAG PERFORM.

OUR BURLESQUE TROOP, THE DH DOLLS, PERFORM.

THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF TT ALSO.

WE STARTED DOING THE VARIEY SHOWCASE LAST YEAR, AND MY FRIEND AND ALSO COMMITTEE R KAYLA, SHE AND I DID THAT E FIRST YEAR AND SAW PEOPLE D IT, SO WE ARE DOING IT THIS YEAR.

BRETT: YOU MENTIONED THE MN SUPERIOR.

YOU MENTIONED THE GOPHER.

THEY ALL ATTRACT DIFFERENT CROWDS.

DO YOU SEE DIFFERENT VENUES COMING UP?

ROBBY: WHAT DO YOU THINK IT IS HARD FOR ME TO SAY BE I AM FIRST IN.

BUT SINCE 2013, THERE IS DEFINITELY A WIDER SWATH OE CITY.

SUPERIOR HAS DEFINITELY EXPANDED.

LOUREN: YEAH, IT IS A LOT F FUN.

I LOVE DOING SUPERIOR NIGH.

IT IS SO MUCH FUN.

BUT IT IS MOSTLY ON TOWER.

MAARJA: DO YOU TAKE AS MANY VENUES THAT COME AND WANT E A PART OF IT?

OR DO YOU WAIT TO SEE HOW Y ACTS YOU HAVE?

LOUREN: I THINK THAT IS WHT THEY DO.

ROBBY: IT MOSTLY GOES BY A. I AM SURE THERE'S OTHERS AS WELL.

BUT WE DEFINITELY LOVE MIXT UP, FOR SURE.

AND DIFFERENT PARTS OF THEY IS GREAT, TOO.

BRETT: HOW DO YOU ENSURE AT EXPERIENCE FOR ALL THE FESTIVALGOERS?

IF MAYBE IT IS SOMEBODY'S T TIME AT HOMEGROWN?

LOUREN: I THINK OUR VOLUNTR COORDINATOR JENNY, SHE HAS WITHIN THE VOLUNTEER TRAINS SOME THING -- WHEN I'M I TG TO SAY, ROBBY?

ROBBY: JUST FOR INTERACTIO.

TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY IS , HAVING A GOOD TIME.

WE OBVIOUSLY HAVE OUR RED JACKETS ON, AND WE MAKE A T TO MAKE OURSELVES VISIBLE G THE ENTIRE WEEK, SO IF ANYY HAS ANY QUESTIONS OR THEY E LOST WHERE THEY'VE LOST THR FIELD GUIDE AND DON'T KNOWT TO DO, THEY CAN REACH OUT E OF US.

WE JUST WORK TO MAKE SURE R VENUES ARE AS ACCESSIBLE AS POSSIBLE TO AS MANY PEOPLE.

LOUREN: THAT IS WHY WE HAVT IN THE FIELD GUIDE.

ALSO, I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPE DON'T WANT TO CARRY THE FID GUIDE AROUND.

THE WEBSITE, DULUTHHOMEGROG HAS ALL THE INFORMATION AS.

ROBBY: THEY ARE ALL OVER TE PLACE.

MAARJA: IT IS LIKE A SCAVER HUNT.

AT VENUES.

ROBBY: COFFEE SHOPS, RESTAURANTS, BOOK STORES, RECORD STORES.

WE HAVE A DEDICATED AMOUNTF PEOPLE WHO PASS THEMN, TOO.

MAARJA: I KNOW YOU SAID THY DISAPPEAR.

[LAUGHTER] SO GET THEM EARLY.

ROBBY: GET THEM EARLY AND D ONTO THEM.

MAARJA: ARE THERE ANY BANDT HAVE BEEN A PART OF HOMEGR?

THIS IS HERE 27.

ROBBY: ALSO, I WORKED THE , THE FIRST TIME I WORKED THE DOORS, IT WAS FOR MR.

KICKS SHOW.

SHE DOES THE MOST AWESOME K SHOWS.

HE IS STILL WITH US.

I AM SURE HE HAS BEEN THERR A COUPLE OF DECADES, TOO.

HE IS SO MUCH FUN.

THAT IS THE GREAT THING ABT HAVING A LOCALLY CONNECTED FESTIVAL, WE GET TO BRING W LOCAL ACTS.

WE HAVE AND ASK WHO HAS BEN AROUND SINCE THE 1980'S.

IT IS SUCH A GREAT MIX OF E AND GENDER AND TIME.

BRETT: THERE IS A WEEKEND E YOU HAVE A FREE TROLLEY RI.

CAN YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT?

ROBBY: THURSDAY NIGHT, WE E FREE TROLLEY RIDES IN SUPE, AND FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, TE TROLLEY RUNS.

I THINK IT RUNS ALL THE WAY UNTIL -- WE HAVE TO LOOK IR FIELD GUIDE.

I THINK IT RUNS ALL THE WAY UNTIL MIDNIGHT.

LOUREN: Y SO, THEY HAVE THE TROLLEY SCHEDULE.

SEVEN :00 P.M. TO :00E A.M, EVERY 20 MINUTES.

AH, ROBBY: I LOVE RIDING OE TROLLEY.

IT IS REALLY COOL.

MAARJA: YOU GUYS ARE PART E ORGANIZATION.

WHAT IS THE MANPOWER THAT S BEHIND PUTTING TOGETHER THS MASSIVE EVENT?

ROBBY: ALL THE MEMBERS THAE COME BEFORE US, AND IN ITSH YEAR, IT IS ORGANIZED CHAO.

I AM SO IMPRESSED WITH HOW ONPOINT WE ARE ABOUT WHAT S TO BE DONE, WHEN IT NEEDS E DONE.

WE DEFINITELY ARE IN IT FOE LOVE OF MUSIC AND COMMUNIT, BECAUSE I AM NOT MAKING A MILLION DOLLARS OFF OF THI.

[LAUGHTER] IT TAKES A LOT OF TIME, ITS A LOT OF EFFORT, BUT IT ISO REWARDING ONCE AGAIN TO THE FESTIVAL.

BRETT: IS THERE ANY COST ASSOCIATED IF WE WANT TO TE PART?

LOUREN: MAYBE COVERS?

ROBBY: WRISTBANDS.

LOUREN: JUST THE WRISTBAND, THAT'S RIGHT.

ROBBY: JUST THE WRISTBAND PRICES, WHICH ARE $40.

THEY COST A FEW BUCKS, TY A THING.

[LAUGHTER] LOUREN: IF YOU VOLUNTEER, U CAN GET A WEEK LONG WRISTBD FOR FREE.

SO, WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING R VOLUNTEERS.

MAARJA: THAT WEBSITE AGAIN?

LOUREN: DULUTHHOMEGROWN.OR.

MAARJA: YOU CAN FIND ALL TT INFORMATION.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOING US.

HAPPY HOMEGROWN.

NOW WE'RE VENTURING NORTH H THE CLOQUET PUBLIC LIBRARY, WHERE YOU CAN LEARN ALL THE IMPORTANT RESOURCES AND FUN ACTIVITIES AVAILABLE TO YO ♪ >> MY NAME IS COURTNEY, ANM THE CLOQUET PUBLIC LIBRARY DIRECTOR.

AS THE DIRECTOR, I OVERSEE PRETTY MUCH ALL THE OPERATS OF THE LIBRARY.

THAT'S ANYTHING FROM STAFFO PURCHASING THE BOOKS AND OR MATERIALS, PROGRAMMING, THS LIKE THAT.

LIBRARIES ARE VERY IMPORTA.

THEY ARE OUR INSTITUTIONS F PLACES TO BE ABLE TO GET INFORMATION, TO MEET.

THIS IS A GREAT PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN GET TOGETHER, TO EACH OTHER.

PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS COMMUNITY, KNOW EACH OTHERD THEY CAN COME HERE AND CON.

WE DO A LOT OF THAT WITH OR PROGRAMMING.

WE HAVE A LOT OF PROGRAMS.

ESPECIALLY TODAY, WE HAVE E WHERE WE ARE GOING TO BE TG PEOPLE ABOUT WAYS THEY CANN FOR THE FUTURE.

IT IS A WONDERFUL INSTITUTN WHERE PEOPLE CAN ACTUALLY E HERE AND LEARN AS WELL AS T TOGETHER.

THEY CAN CHECK OUT BOOKS, OBVIOUSLY.

WE DO THAT AS A LIBRARY.

WE STILL HAVE THAT FEATURE.

BUT ALSO, WE HAVE EXPANDEDO DOING PROGRAMMING AND DOINA LOT OF OTHER THINGS WITH TE COMMUNITY THAT PEOPLE MAY T REALIZE WE DO.

WE HAVE A LOT OF PROGRAMMIR ADULTS, CHILDREN, AND TEENT ESPECIALLY OUR KIDS PROGRA, OUR WINTER READING PROGRAMR SUMMER READING PROGRAM.

WE DO THAT FOR KIDS, ADULTD TEENS.

OUR SUMMER PROGRAM IS HUGE.

WE HAVE A LOT OF DIFFERENT PROGRAMS.

WE HAVE ARTS AND CRAFTS.

WE HAVE THINGS LIKE MAGICI, JUGGLERS, WE HAVE SCIENCE PROGRAMS.

ALL THOSE THINGS ARE VERY POPULAR WITH KIDS.

WE ALSO HAVE ADULT PROGRAM, THINGS LIKE COOKING AND DOG CRAFT.

WE HAVE AUTHORS COME.TO TAE HAVE MUSICIANS.

WE COVER THE ENTIRE GAMUT.

THERE IS SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY.

THE LIBRARY PLAYS A ROLE IN SUPPORTING LOCAL HISTORY AD CULTURE BY HAVING BOOKS HEE THAT ARE HISTORICAL BOOKS T PROVIDE INFORMATION FOR THS LIKE CEMETERIES.

SOMEONE IS LOOKING FOR WHES MY FAMILIES PLOT IN A CERTN CEMETERY.

THEY CAN FIND THAT INFORMAN HERE.

WE HAVE BOOKS ON LOCAL HIS.

VERY IMPORTANT, ESPECIALLYE FIRE.

ANYONE WHO LIVES AROUND CLT KNOWS ABOUT IT.

CULTURALLY, WORKING WITH THE FOND DU LC RESERVATION TO PROVIDE FUNG AND RECOGNIZE THEM IN THISE AS WELL.

WE ALSO PARTNER WITH THE CE SOCIETY.

THEY PUT UP A DISPLAY.

WE HAVE ONE RIGHT NOW DOWNN OUR HALLWAY IN OUR DISPLAYE THAT HIGHLIGHTS DIFFERENT S OF CLOQUET HISTORY, AND THS THAT HAVE HAPPENED IN THE T AROUND HERE.

SO, WE LIKE TO PARTNER WITM TO PROVIDE THAT INFORMATIOS WELL.

THE COMMUNITY CAN HELP SUPT THE LIBRARY JUST IN GENERAY COMING HERE, AND JUST SHOWS YOUR SUPPORT BY BEING HERE, CHECKING BOOKS OUT, GOING O PROGRAMS, THINGS LIKE THAT.

ALSO MORE SPECIFICALLY, THN ALSO, IF THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT ANYTHING WITH LIBRARN TERMS OF RECENT EVENTS, THN DEFINITELY CONTACT THEIR REESENTATIVES AND LET THEM KNOW THAT THEY SUPPORT LIBS AND THEY WANT LIBRARIES TOY AROUND.

LIBRARIES ARE IMPORTANT TOM AND THEIR COMMUNITIES.

WELL, FOR A FIRST-TIME VIS, I WOULD SAY BRING YOUR ID H YOU THAT HAS YOUR CURRENT ADDRESS SO YOU CAN GET A LY CARD.

THE LIBRARY CARD IS GOOD FR ANYWHERE IN THE SYSTEM, WHH COVERS QUITE A BIT OF MAYOR -- QUITE A BIT OF MINNESOTA.

YOU CAN USE IT IN GRAND RAPIDS AND ANYWHERE ELSE IR SYSTEM.

YOU CAN COME AND BROWSE THE LIBRARY, LOOK AROUND.

IF THERE IS AN AUTHOR YOU ESPECIALLY WANT TO READ ANU ARE NOT SURE WHERE THEY ARE CAN HELP YOU LOCATE THAT.

AND DEFINITELY TAKE OUR CAR SO WE CAN SEE WHAT WE ARE G THIS MONTH.

WE HAVE ALL OF OUR PROGRAMN THERE, ALL THE INFORMATIONS THERE.

ALL THOSE THINGS.

THAT IS THE GO TO DOCUMENTT WILL TELL YOU WHAT IS GOINN HERE AT THE LIBRARY TO KINF GET YOU STARTED IN TERMS OF BEING ABLE TO FIND PROGRAMT YOU ENJOY.

♪ ♪ MAARJA: I LOVE THAT SHE TOD ON PROGRAMMING AT LIBRARIES BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE JUST TK OF GOING THERE TO RENT BOO.

BUT PROGRAMMING.

BRETT: IT IS SO IMPORTANT.

MAARJA: AND AS A MOTHER OFO SMALL CHILDN, I LOVE OUR LIBRARY.

BRETT: ESPECIALLY IN THE S. MAARJA: THERE ARE SO MANY ACTIVITIES THEY PUT ON.

BRETT: AND IT IS NICE TO RA REAL BOOK.

EVERYONE IS ON THEIR IPAD R KINDLE.

BEFORE WE GO, LET'S TAKE AK AT WHAT YOU MIGHT BE UP TOS WEEKEND.

THERE IS LOT GOING ON.

COMING UP ON SATURDAY, APR9 FROM 7:00 TO 9:00 P.M., TAK DANCE ASSOCIATION IS HOSTIG THEIR COMMUNITY DANCE AT DOVETAIL CAFE AND DULUTH FK SCHOOL.

THE EVENT IS OPEN TO THE P, FEATURING A LIVE ROTATING D WEEK-TO-WEEK, WHERE NEW DAS ARE WELCOME TO COME TRY A W ART FORM, WHILE EXPERIENCED DANCERS CAN EXPECT TO HONER CRAFT AND CONTINUE DEVELOPG THEIR SKILLS.

MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOD ONLINE.

MAARJA: STARTING AT 9:30 ON SATURDAY MORNING, ODYSSEY RESORTS IS HOSTING A GUIDED FOREST BATHING EXPERIENCE E CARIBOU HIGHLANDS LODGE.

THE EVENT IS A SLOW-PACED, STRESS-REDUCING WALK THROUE SURROUNDING WOODS DESIGNEDO BOOST ENERGY AND DEEPEN PARTICIPANTS' CONNECTION WH THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.

THE EVENT IS OPEN TO THE PC AND TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE.

BRETT: CELEBRATE THE WEEKED WITH THE LAKE SUPERIOR ZOOT EGG-STRAVANZA 2025.

HEAD ON DOWN TO THE ZOO TOY THEIR EASTER-THEMED EVENT E FAMILIES CAN PARTAKE IN A Y PHOTO OP, AN EGG HUNT WITH PRIZES, A COLORING CONTESTD TRUCKS, AND MANY ANIMAL ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES.

THE EVENT IS THIS SATURDAYD RUNS FROM 10:00 A.M.O 4:00 P.M., AND COSTS $18 TO ATTD FOR NONMEMBERS OF THE ZOO.

MAARJA: NO SNOW FOR THE EGT THIS YEAR.

BRETT: CRAZY.

MAARJA: THEY WILL BE EASIEO FIND.

BRETT: AND THAT BATHING EXPERIENCE.

LET'S HOPE WE HAVE GOOD WE.

WE WANT THAT.

WARMING WEATHER, NO MORE S. THAT'S IT FOR THIS WEEK'S .

GO OUT AND ENJOY YOUR WEEK.

I'M BRETT SCOTT.

MAARJA: AND I'M MAARJA HEW.

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.

GOOD NIGHT.

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