{"id":22533,"date":"2017-08-05T19:04:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22533"},"modified":"2017-08-05T21:08:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T02:08:49","slug":"spirit-valley-days-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22533","title":{"rendered":"Spirit Valley Days not. . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

. . . Spirit Mountain<\/em> Days. I had two people correct me about that faulty post.<\/p>\n

I attended the “family day” part of it late this afternoon and had a blast. That makes today my first official day of pressing the flesh. And most of it was with kids except that I didn’t offer them my hand to shake I offered them one of my trading cards. <\/p>\n

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Here is a picture I took of them this afternoon mixing them up so I could hand them out randomly at Memorial Park. One of the cards has a snow sculpture that I made 15 years ago at the park for the Spirit Valley<\/strong> Winter carnival. Valley, Valley, Valley!<\/em><\/strong> Got to get that right.<\/p>\n

I told the kids that they were “snow sculpture trading cards” and the kids were so nice and polite thanking me for giving them the cards. “Did you make this?” was a typical reaction. To their parents I would say, “They are really political literature disguised as trading cards.” The parents seemed amused except for one fellow, a civil engineer, who wondered how I found the time to make them. “I had thirty years to make them” I sputtered. Then he turned around and pointed to the pile of pea rock by the Laura MacArthur playground and asked why the School Board had spent a million dollars to replace perfectly good rubber tire mulch that protected kids from falls with wood chips. I was not prepared to switch gears……not with a civil engineer!<\/em> Heck, he told me, even California hasn’t said rubber tire playgrounds were unsafe and they think everything<\/em> is bad. “Democrats!”<\/strong> he said, summing up his disgust.<\/p>\n

Rubber tire mulch or not this is going to be a fun campaign. After I got back home a friend brought me some wire stands for my lawnsigns……I’d given all of mine away after the last campaign. Then another friend called to tell me that he\/she would be putting an ad in the Duluth Reader sticking up for me next week. And I’ll probably have all that I need to start going door to door by Wednesday or Thursday. Maybe I’ll even find time to do some fundraising. <\/p>\n

Anybody want to donate to my campaign<\/a> for a deck of snow sculpture trading cards?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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