Monthly Archives: February 2018

Uptown Rotary takes 125 Jefferson kids to Magers & Quinn

As part of their ongoing commitment to literacy and the students at Jefferson School, the good folks of Uptown Rotary took 125 third- and eighth-graders to Magers & Quinn Booksellers (in homeroom groups of 25 students at a time) on February 7 and 8, 2018. Every student selected a book of of his or her own choosing to take home, courtesy of Uptown Rotary. Here is the story.

Parks historian David Smith comes to Cedar-Isles-Dean

When it comes to the history of the Minneapolis park system, Dave Smith has (quite literally) written the book. He knows the highs, the lows, and everything in between, and on February 25, 2018, he came to Cedar-Isles-Dean to talk about “Linking Shrinking Lakes, a Deadly Railroad Crossing, and the Northwest Passage: CIDNA’s Rich Park History.” Here is the story.