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> Thanks to whomever changed the thread (I think it was Julie Ostrow) - this
> is so much more postive (and relaxing) than the last couple of weeks on
> this list.
positive and relaxin
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I know I'm going to get a bunch of people's dander up, but here goes... On the side,
personally, I like the squirrels. Yeh they piss me off when they dig up my garden,
but I kinda see it that we're all in t
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I've also trieded cayenne pepper (have groud peper in a paper bage and
place bulbs in and shake around to get it all over the bulb) or placing
mothballs in the hole next to the bulb. And old nylons again laid a
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Here in NE, I have seen a snow owl,( it was mostly white so I think snow
owl, correct me if I'm wrong) in the tree behind my house, another owl
on another occasion...
I saw a turkey vulture fly over the house.
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Actually, the squirrels were chowing down on my newly planted lillies. Unfortunately,
those have to be planted shallowly, and the pesky critters seem to love them!
Barbara Nelson
Seward
Steve Brandt wrote:
Me
To the Mpls List Serv Members:
It is unfortunate that MA
has sent inappropriate emails to the list serv. This
individual has no official capacity with the Sayles Belton
Campaign and is not authorized to speak for the campaign or the mayor. He
does not show up on our volunteer rosters.
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>Once while taking a
>walk through Lakewood I had a beautiful Red Fox run across my path.
I certainly wish there were more of those in the city.
Especially in some of the parks where the Canadian Gees
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Minneapolis, MN: Friday, September 26, 2001
STATE OFFICIALS FROM MINNEAPOLIS ENDORSE R.T. RYBAK
New Priorities and New Leadership Needed for
Minneapolis at Capitol, Legislators Say
Business Consultant and
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PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Laura Sether 612-408-2467
Minneapolis, MN: Friday, September 26, 2001
State Officials from Minneapolis Endorse R.T. Rybak
New Priorities and New Leadership Needed for Minneapolis at C
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Unfortunately, there just aren't enough of them in the area to really
help your squirrel infestation. What we mostly have in the area are
kestrels. My old house in Phillips actually had some nesting in the
si
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You can find eagles nesting under the Lake Street bridge pretty reliably in
the summer. There is a path that runs north from the rowing club that you
can often see them at. And yes, they can pick up cats and
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Thanks to the efforts of list member Conor Donnelly, the
Minneapolis-Issues Election Toolkit page now features a Minneapolis ward
map, as well as 2001 primary turnout levels by precinct, and precincts
won by va
> I would like to answer a question for Mr. Eric Fyksen.
>
> Snip:
> Eric:
> I thought Sabri's daughter was about 5 years old -
> does this make any sense at all?? Maybe Zach Metoyer
> can help us with more information, since he works for
> Sabri.
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> Zack
> I'm sorry that you have not been info
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I applaud Gary Bowman's chivalrous rebuttal to Steve Sumner's attack
on Paul Ostrow.
What Steve's message did not mention is that not only is he "heavily
involved with the local Republican Part
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Annie Young,
I have a couple questions tat came to me while I was playing soccer
on an incredibly crummy soccer field: Why do we need a separate police force
for the park system? How much do we spend f
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Dear members:
Several grassroots organizations have been cooperating over this past summer
and, following the lead set by other large cities, are drafting an affordable
housing trust fund proposal which would s
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As list members may remember, I've been helping to organize a charity
housepainting effort here in King Field.
Mother Nature has not been kind. Nearly every weekend day for the past
three weeks has had rain -
I was
once ear witness to an owl taking a cat out of a tree. As a cat owner, it
was NOT a pretty sound. I'm not knowledgeable enought about the feeding
habits of birds to speak to hawks, though.
Bruce
Anderson
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Blaine, MN
Molly says... Now, this brings up an
interes
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Wow! If you can keep that up for a couple pages we can
all get rich on grant money to study Incentives for
Domestic Vegetation Protective Behavior in Urban
Carnivores. Maybe that idea is for the birds.
Are wr
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When I lived on Nicollet Island -- in the 70's -- there was a majestic
Great Horned Owl that visited during the late winter, early spring I
would see him sitting in the same tree every morning as I walked to
w
Folks,
This has to be a two-subject post since it's my second of the day! First, I saw a hawk closing in on a bird the other morning (I was pulling for the other bird to make his escape!) and then yesterday, I saw another hawk ( or maybe it was the same one!) flying with what looked like a small r
Neighborhood Leadership Breakfast Series 2001
The Center for Neighborhoods and the League of Women Voters of
Minneapolis
Welcome Dr. Carol Johnson as our presenter
On Wednesday, October 10, 2001 at 8:00 – 9:30 a.m.
At Gallery 8, in the Walker Art Center, speaking on:
Educational Leadership: H
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A city without squirrels is also a city without owls, bunnies, foxes,
etcthese little beasts are part of our urban wildlife.
Personally, I really like them - I feed them right along with the
birds and ch
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Metal mesh works well for tulips, but you can avoid having to use it
by planting daffodils. Squirrels leave them alone, in MINNEAPOLIS at
least. They also seems to ignore scilla, which give a nice blue
contra
>All,>Are there any
Raptors which could keep the squirrels from munching my bulbs?>Houw could
we incentives them to, you know, increase their take?>Joseph Barisonzi>Lyndale, Ward 10Well, assuming
(which of course, we probably shouldn't) that there is some level of consensus
in the community
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I really enjoyed the thread regarding the hawks. On my Montana vacation I
became very familiar with buzzards - now talk about a big bird?
But this all brings me to the point someone made about we should talk mo
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Star Tribune link
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/712099.html
Yesterday's Star Tribune had an update on Sabri's
claim that the FBI wasn't nice to him.
Some notable excerpts:
(Prosecutors) called the
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A little positive verbage about squirrels; they don't drive too fast, crank
their bass-thumping stereos, use profanity, throw trash in my yard, or
urinate on my boulevard trees like some of the urban youth in
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Joe,
I had this problem a couple of years too, especially when I was planting bulbs in the
fall. What worked for me was to lay down a piece of wire fencing over the area where
the bulbs are planted -- even chi
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Molly
RT will need to review and make changes in what is out
dated or might not work and he should have some ideas
on what he thinks should be in such plans.
Lee
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> Wow Dyna, these
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While I have no doubts that Paul Ostrow is quite capable of responding to this attack
himself, I really must offer some comments, being a fellow Ward 1-ite.
As you may know, I ran against Paul in the primary
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Picking up on Susan Youngs comments, I just wanted mention the great relationship the
Master Gardener program has with Habitat for Humanity. As a Master Gardner, I have
been working with my third Habitat fami
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Not a new idea, one that is being used and expanded---Habitat Homes
As a trash lady, I see very large differences between the number of extra
carts needed, dirty collection point cleanups and litter problems i
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Hey, squirrels are people too! :)
JHarmon
Cleveland
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>> Vickie Brock's campaign manager, Matthea Little Smith told me she had
>> forwarded this message to Vickie Brock and that Vickie would respond to
this list.
>It's pretty clear to me that Brock has no intenti
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All,
Are there any Raptors which could keep the squirrels from munching my bulbs?
Houw could we incentives them to, you know, increase their take?
Joseph Barisonzi
Lyndale, Ward 10
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There are oodles of Raptors on the city. There have always been owls
at my parents house in SW Minneapolis - they nest in the enormous
pines in the back and front yards, and we have seen birds of prey
across
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I received one of the telephone calls from the Star Tribune for their poll, and
as
as someone with a fair amount of marketing knowlege (graduate level marketing
coursework included), I believe the Star Tribu
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On Monday, around 3pm, I was driving a friend to the airport. As we were
coming off of 494 going east into the airport we saw 2 bald eagles soaring
on the thermals. We both gasped as a 727 was flying on a dir
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Well I don't want to be the one not to thank you. I do
thank you. So thank you, you're a peach, and the list
is nifty. Sorry you've had such troubles lately but I
know you can handle it.
-Nikki Carlson,
Wow Dyna, these are good questions. I think it is important for every mayor to have a plan for these things, especially the flood...I had honestly never thought of that as being a potential hazard! Eeek! One MORE thing to worry about! :)
Please keep in mind that, as a candidate, RT is still a mem
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I too have seen sparrow hawks in the Linden Hills area this summer and fall.
One Saturday, I spent several minutes watching one washing in a large street
puddle (a pothole on a drier day) after a heavy rain.
M
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Julie writes:
> Is anyone else in the city seeing birds of pray? I know there are
> falcons living on the downtown skyscrapers. Occasionally I see one
> perched on a highway street light over the Mississippi
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Michael Hohmann wrote:
> Rosa Fields responds, "a look at the
> evacuation plans for any major municipality around a nuclear
> plant indicates that it is unreasonable to expect such a plan to
> have any signi
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Julie asks:
> Is anyone else in the city seeing birds of pray? I know there are
> falcons living on the downtown skyscrapers. Occasionally I see one
> perched on a highway street light over the Mississippi R
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I too have been deleting many many posts lately. Here's my attempt to
start a new thread . . .
This subject has been running through my brain for a few months. Last
year there was a thread about bird sightin
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Dear members:
Thank you very much for the support. I have not always done the best job
of encouraging list members to police each other with non-threatening
reminders, etc., but I do appreciate the show of sup
Title: R.T. v. Sharon on emergency preparedness, where's
RT?,
In the
24 hours since I posted these questions Sharon's campaign has pretty
convincingly shown evidence of the Mayor's ability to handle
disasters, natural or unnatural. meanwhile, R.T. is missing in action.
So I'll post the qu
Thank you! Thank you! Thank You! David Brauer
David has done a remarkable job handling a large group of passionate Minneapolis citizens that care deeply about this city! Minneapolis Issues List plays and important role for lively debate and commetary on a city loved by many. I have the greatest re
In a message dated 9/25/01 10:02:00 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
However, what list members don't know is that the nasty tone and non-Minneapolis focus this list has taken in recent weeks has weighed heavily on Mr. Brauer and has caused him to very seriously consider abando
Craig Miller asks:
Before I launch on my solution, I would like to hear from the list. What
is the new solution? Most of all the plans tried so far have failed.
I don't know what you can do about the "high risk" renters, quite
frankly. No private landlord in his right mind would rent t
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Let's end this junk RIGHT NOW.
#1. According to rule #3: "3. No forwarding private messages to the list
without permission of the author." Therefore, what Eva did was wrong and
she will be warned. As she has n
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Thank you to you all that replyed informing me of my
error. I will try and remember that next time (mental
glitch).
Lee
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> Just a little correction. Ba
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