Wyoming, MN makes national news
(Feb. 9) -- It's only been a year since a helicopter flew him out of the capital right after the inauguration of President Barack Obama. But some Americans will be pleased to know that George W. Bush is out there, watching over them after all. From a billboard, high above Interstate Highway 35 near Wyoming, Minn., to be exact. And he wants to know if you miss him.
Someone has placed a giant photo of the former president on a billboard with the question, "Miss Me Yet?"
Until now, the billboard was thought to be a hoax, a clever doctoring of an image perhaps, meant to whip up anti-Obama sentiments in the blogosphere. But by Monday, it was clear: The "Miss Me Yet?" billboard is real.
Courtesy Minnesota Public Radio
The "Miss Me Yet?" billboard looms over Interstate 35 near Wyoming, Minn.
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Bush Billboard Poses $64,000 Question
Feb 09 2010 21:07:27
Well, we're famous... embarrassed, but famous.
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Re: Bush Billboard Poses $64,000 Question
Feb 10 2010 16:52:31
To the Business Owners who put up the billboard in Wyoming, MN,
Do we miss Bush yet? This is the man that;
1.Took us into two wars and did not have the courage to include the cost of those wars in his budget. This resulted in a record deficit for us to pay.
2.Did nothing to prevent the worst financial disaster since the great depression.
3.Did absolutely nothing to help any American who makes less than $250,000 a year.
4.Gave tax break after tax break to Big Business.
5.Allowed the Health Insurance Companies to raise our premiums and lower our benefits until most health insurance policies are too expensive and are inadequate to cover the medical expenses incurred.
6.Allowed torture of military detainees. Causing the whole world to have doubts as to what kind of people we are. We can torture them, they just cannot torture us.
I am sure that you miss all the benefits that Bush gave to you. As for the rest of the country, We do not miss Bush.
Please come up with a constructive way to help the country. Come up with ways to solve all the problems.
Perhaps you could pool your money to give someone a job and help the economy rather pooling your money to put up a ridiculous billboard.
Seriously, please come up with answers. You criticize, but have no answers.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way, Glynda Ballinger
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Re: Bush Billboard Poses $64,000 Question
Feb 10 2010 18:14:31
Great input, Glynda. Thanks for speaking your mind and reminding people about what the guy put us all through.
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Bush Billboard Poses $64,000 Question
Feb 10 2010 18:47:08
Thanks Eric, These folks are like so many out there. Gutless, if you believe this and are proud of it put your name on it.
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Re:Bush Billboard Poses $64,000 Question
Feb 10 2010 23:23:42
Hooray to glynda! For speaking out right in the middle of Republican territory in Wyoming and Forest Lake. Billboard sponsors are "anonymous"??!! Of course, they're anonymous. They have no guts, as always, to own up to their stupidity! How much you wanto bet the Wyoming mayor is a part of that?
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Bush Billboard Poses $64,000 Question
Feb 12 2010 22:40:43
Does this tell you anything about the mayor needing to get into the limelight? (forestlake times)
The media frenzy over the "Miss Me Yet?" George Bush billboard on I-35 continued this week as a film crew from ABC's Good Morning America was in Wyoming. A five-member crew led by reporter Barbara Pinto of ABC news worked on their sign story. Pinto interviews Wyoming Mayor Sheldon Anderson here during a stop at the Cornerstone Pub and Prime. Anderson, who is seeking the Republican nomination to run for the House District 17B seat this fall, told Pinto he doesn't know for sure who paid for the sign but believes a group of Republican business owners from the Twin Cities have paid the bill for the freeway billboard. The ABC crew, looking for opinions from the community, also dropped in at Russell's Barber Shop in Wyoming where shop owner and barber Shane Brown and a customer were interviewed. The Good Morning America story could air as early as Friday morning on KSTP Channel 5, but the exact air time was not available on Thursday.
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Feb 15 2010 20:24:35
To point out just what kind of damage something like this can do to a community, here's the content of a letter I received...
"I travel frequently to northern MN and have enjoyed stopping in Wyoming for food and gas. Not anymore. Please communicate to those responsible for the "Miss me yet" billboard, how offensive it is at a time when our government and many of our citizens are struggling to recover from the damage inflicted by the previous administration."
I replied:
"While I don't have a lot of influence in the city, I will forward this information to council people that I know in town. I ran for mayor a couple years ago, and turned my election site into a community site.
No rational person could expect in a years time, that any administration could possibly dig us out of the mess that the Bush administration took eight years to bury us in. My wife and I are in real estate, and among those that are struggling through these economic times.
I'm truly embarrassed by the sign out on our freeway. While this is republican territory, there are many residents and business owners (both democrat and republican) that don't agree with this sign and share the same sentiments that I do. The sign does not reflect the true beliefs of us as a city. Speaking for those in our city who feel the same as I do, I ask that you don't judge our city as a whole by the actions of a few. I know, our residents would all appreciate your continued patronage of our city."
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Bush Billboard Poses $64,000 Question
Feb 16 2010 16:35:46
Eric, why don't you post one of the Huffington Post billboards from the contest. One of those would be more worthwhile than this ridiculous Wyoming one. This is all becoming so laughable especially with the mayor's involvment in the news. Sad.
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FEBRUARY IS LIBRARY LOVERS MONTH!
By: Rebecca Hostetler - Branch Librarian
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Remember the first line of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem:
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
What’s not to love at your local library?
-You can check out books and/or CD’s, DVD’s, video cassettes, audio cassettes, books on CD or books on tape, magazines, or other materials.
-You can learn how to use the educational databases that you pay for as taxpayers found at www.elm4you.org.
-You can make use of the public access computers.
Minnesota residents are very fortunate that state law has set up the library system to be free and accessible regardless of where you live in the state. Your library card allows you to access materials at any public library in the state. If you’re in another area of the state for vacation or work, you can register your card as a Reciprocal Borrower and check items out. Statewide reciprocity with other systems allows us the luxury of Interlibrary Loan – borrowing materials that our home system may not have. No library can own everything and the state library system delivers to all library systems.
Some suggestions for showing how you love your library:
1) Be proud of your library; encourage other residents to use it.
2) Become a volunteer. I will try my best to match task and volunteer for volunteer satisfaction.
3) Be good stewards of library materials by returning them on time and/or paying your fines promptly.
4) February 24th is Library Legislative Day at the State Capital. If you can attend, take the opportunity to talk with your legislator about the importance of libraries in your life. If you can’t get to St. Paul, write or call. Not sure who your legislator is?
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Teens on the move - School District, Pathways open new Teen Center
by Mark Nicklawske
Regional Editor
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010 5:08 PM CST
FOREST LAKE — Most teens love to hang out at the mall, so the new Forest Lake Teen Center location should be a big hit.
Forest Lake School District Community Education and Family Pathways social services have partnered to open a new after-school teen center in the Northland Mall on Hwy. 61 just north of the Hwy. 97 (Scandia Trail) intersection. Officials plan to close the current Central Learning Center location and reopen services in the former Mi Casita restaurant space Feb. 1.
“We started talking about this last summer with Family Pathways,” said Community Education Program Coordinator Laurie Drolson. “They have teen centers in some of the other communities they serve but seeing (the school district) had our own we started talking about partnering up and doing something together.”
Family Pathways agreed to rent teen center space in Northland Mall and the school district will move its programs, games, furniture and staff members into the new facility. The Lakes Area Youth Service Bureau will also use the space for programs and youth meetings.
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Bonds for Swedish trail sought
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
T.W. Budig
ECM Capitol Reporter
A host of bonding projects that include a recreational trail from Wyoming to Taylors Falls were paraded before a joint natural resources legislative committee on Thursday, Jan. 21.
Rep. Jeremy Kalin, DFL-North Branch, and Sen. Rick Olseen, DFL-Harris, are seeking bonding for two projects in Chisago County — the Allemansratt Nature Reserve and Park in Lindstrom and the proposed Swedish Immigrant Trail which would connect Wyoming to Taylors Falls along what was once the Northern Pacific Railroad line.
The $2.6 million the lawmakers are seeking for the nature reserve would be used to help establish it — it would enfold about 120-acres in total when completed.
A city official in Lindstrom said the community, unsuitable in some ways for development because of the abundance of lakes, is keying on its Swedish heritage.
A Nordic magnet already, the city, known as Little Sweden, is visited by some 6000 Swedes a year, Kalin said.
Another ethnic-inspired project is the Swedish Immigrant Trail.
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