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with you again from Grand Rounds and Rochester thanks for being here
curling EPS port has been around for five hundred years my guest is making
plans to bring it back to Rochester in a big big way welcome to our town Kelsi
shooter brand new club folks there's no excuse for not getting involved always
the thing I want to be in curling now's your chance right absolutely we we're a
group of just a small group of us so far and we're looking to bring curling back
to Rochester there was a club a few years ago but it didn't exist for very
long I'm surprised that it's not a big there's not enough of a following how
long have you been curling I think this is about my eighth season that's about
to start you lose track after year five or so and it's not I mean how did one
become involved it's not as popular as a lot of other sports how do you become
interested yes so I fled the country after college and joined the Peace Corps
and my dad was a prolific writer while I was gone every letter he wrote was about
curling it turns out that about a month after leaving the country they he became
obsessed with the source and so all of my letters were breaking down his games
so when I got back to the country a few years later the first thing I did was go
to the local curling club and learn Wow and it's a base in Scotland that's where
the history of the sport comes big following especially if you're in
northern Minnesota Wisconsin all over the country there's a US Olympic curling
team now with its headquarters in the metro for folks who aren't familiar
necessarily run us we have some footage from Mapleton from the club in Mapleton
Minnesota check this out and give us a little rundown yeah so he split out from
the Hat and he is delivering a very heavy stone
you try to get it in that bullseye correct his teammates are sleeping
currently two sleeping just two things it changes the direction and makes the
stone slow down a little less and you have generally a team of four people so
there's always somebody delivering the stone there are two people who are
sweeping the stone and there's somebody at the other end of the ice called the
Skip who's calling the shots but you rotate through most of the
positions for the first three people on the team can be throwing or sweeping at
any given time and the Skip stands in the house until they go to throw their
last two stones so somebody's watching this right now and says I have never
ever done any of this before but it looks kind of interesting can you find a
place for them yes absolutely so as we mentioned at the beginning
we're starting a curling club here in Rochester so our kickoff event is
actually Monday it's going to be at the freight yard up on Civic Center Drive
and we're going to have a big party we're going to tell people about curling
and we're going to introduce them to they're our first two opportunities to
learn how to do the sport which will be in November so it's perfectly OK no
experience required not hockey skating or anything you kind of slide I have
done it I must say some certain beverages were involved along with it so
I wasn't exactly an athlete doing it but you kind of slide along the ice and then
a lot in the technique of letting go of that heavy rock and trying to aim it
there's really a lot of strategy involved yeah there's a lot of strategy
people call it chefs on ice oh really yeah because those stones don't go away
they stay there yeah if they make it into the official field of play then
they stay in play for the entire round while all 16 stones are being thrown and
then there are points that you get yeah yeah so the point system is sort of like
bocce so the team closest to the center or the point if you have two or three
stones closer than your opponents closest stone then it scores and any
stone in or touching those rings the the bullseye
looking thing at the end of the rink will count for point and how long does
the usual match take or how far do you play up to so you throw all 16 stones
down to one end that's called an end and games lasts between six and ten and
depending upon how what kind of level of play that you're at you brought some of
your equipment along your shoes I did that art that are kind of unique to the
sport yeah so so curling shoes have have just flat rubber bottoms and so this
allows you to get as much surface area on the ice as possible and then they
also for the foot that you're going to use to slide have a removable rubber
piece and underneath is a solid piece of Teflon and the Teflon is what allows you
to slide fascinating in your broom it's not your typical broom it's kind of flat
on the bottom safe yeah exactly exactly so the broom this this surface area is
what you sweep on the ice with and the whole purpose is to actually warm up the
top surface of ice just a fraction which reduces the friction of the stone moving
down the ice okay last few seconds again Monday when and
where Monday 7 o'clock the freight yard and come join us
great Kelsea shooter this has been fascinating thanks for joining us thank
you
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Out is an event designed to help us get to know our neighbors and do a little
crime-fighting as well we join one local neighborhood at this year's event we
find out more about Archibald's moonlight Graham and we talk about trees
this is Rochester want more of them first we spend a fun afternoon at the
Olmstead County free fair find out what happens at this iconic summer event in
this week's our culture segment
I'm Brandon Ellingson I'm one of the Olmsted County Fair Board members and
we're here today at the Olmstead County Fair if there's been in existence for
over 150 years in the Fed County well I think a big part of it is due to the
grounds itself was donated specifically for the use that you see in that Celina
leg raquel chiel education things along that line so it's been kind of earmarked
that way and that's what it's been used for saying a big part of that is the
community that you know establishing this ground specifically for that you
there's lots to do here I'd like to say our tagline is where city and country
come together and there's a there's a big reason for that you know as you walk
around you'll see that there's lots of different things and it really does
cater to everyone no problem like that it exactly caters to everyone we have a
carnival rides you know there's a lot of people but they think that's all the
ther is the carnival rides because that's what they want to come and do and
while that obviously is a big part it's a lot of funds with kids and you know
people of all ages there's a lot more to see we have you know some great
grandstand events with bull riding and of the jpv air show and the ever-popular
demo derby so there's stuff like that if you were me and ER down the way we have
our miracle of birth center which is hugely popular and it's just a really
good way for I guess in my opinion for people who maybe only have any
familiarity in country to kind of go and learn a little bit about animals howling
oh the birthing process works you know I have two young children and that's one
of the first places they like to stop above and beyond that we have all the
great for nature's that are here that's obviously one of the biggest parts if
not the biggest part in my mind of the fair I grew up in 4h and I think that's
just a huge portion of what we do there's kids that are out there you know
showing their projects or showing their animals and they work extremely hard and
have extremely long weeks getting prepped and here at the fair so we have
no 4-h we have our open class animals that come in we have FFA chapters from
area schools that come in and show animals so there really is it
you know something that kind of does cater to everyone we have a free stage
that's music all day all day long every day of the fair annually we are the
second-largest County Fair in the state of Minnesota we had last year just under
170,000 we're hoping this year to obviously increase that number even
larger we've been consistently increasing in numbers while I'd love to
say we're going to reach 200,000 this year I'm not going to guarantee that but
I think we'll be pretty done in force with some of the numbers we've seen the
last night we're definitely up from 2017 so we're definitely trending that
direction yeah I think it does mean a lot of people in there there's a lot of
people who look forward to this you know throughout the summertime season they're
they're getting ready for this like I said there's some of them that are they
can't wait for the carnival rides there's those kids that can't wait to be
able to show their animals and there's a lot of people who can't wait for the
fair food which we have a lot of great options on so I think that you know in a
whole that you know people do like to look back at it and we do have a lot of
people I've talked to a lot of people this week we've been coming for 30 years
and the nice thing I think about our Fair Board and the direction that we're
training is we are always continually trying to improve it is an uphill battle
for our board to continually be working on this you know like I said it it's a
voluntary position but for some of us it's close to a full-time job too
we put a lot of hours in a lot of time in a lot of hearts into putting this
thing together so I think for the community I think it's just a good nice
place to to gather to see a variety different things
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well our good friends our town and a friend the KSM to public television is
Steven Smith Rochester he knows how to land on his feet in all of his years
running the down by the riverside concert he's never had a group cancel
its performance well this year was a first Burton Cummings founder of band
guess who will not be the featured musician at the August 13th concert but
being the well-connected musician he is stephen quickly replaced him with a
high-end guest Micky Dolenz of the Monkees Fame along with the Fab Four a
Beatles Taipan sounds like a great show you can check it out Sunday August the
13th at male park nightshift we'll open the show at 7 o'clock do you have a
favorite canine friend well treat it to an outing designed just for dogs dogs
Downton returns to Peace Plaza on Sunday August the 6th from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
you'll find performances their games and giveaway for all of your favorite
four-legged friends and their humans the event is free and open to the public a
map of it all is at downtown mmm Rochester calm and if you have children
of the two-legged variety the Minnesota Children's Museum Rochester will also be
providing fun and games on Sunday August the 6th it's their end of summer block
party and bike ride there are too many activities to mention here but check it
out facebook.com slash Children's Museum
Rochester mmm and there is no charge to participate good fun for the family the
Rochester diversity council annual celebration is coming up Thursday August
10th keynote speaker will be author Duchess Harris her grandmother was one
of the first black women mathematicians recruited to work at NASA the event will
also feature live music and the champion of diversity Awards more
information at diversity council org National Night Out was last Tuesday
check out one Rochester neighborhood celebration in this week's walkabout
segment hello welcome to our town walkabout this week my name is Rory
Latin I'll be your guest host for this evening tonight we're celebrating
National Night Out as you know there's a night out that people across the whole
nation get out get to know their neighbors actually we've won a couple of
awards for our National Night Out we've had the mayor here elected officials
fire trucks Sheriff we're just getting set up right now but I'd like to take
you over and introduce you to some of our block captains and see what they had
to do to get this going follow me hey Dave how many people expect your name
we've had 100 in the past with the weather tonight we're probably less than
that we just get together as black captains and see what we're going to do
and how we're going to plan it and still use the print out a flyer and then we
distribute those to the all of our groups each one of us captain's have
like 16 homes what's your guess - how many years we've been doing it well
we've been here for 13 so at least 13 least 13 years yeah how many how many
homes do you have in your block 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
how come you do this well I think it's important to get to know your neighbors
okay and to be able to monitor Coptic lives see what crime is happening a
little bit we can do with the cop talk live every morning you get an email that
lists the incidents throughout Rochester so I would look for anything else of
hunting in our area the police report yep so why do you do this I'm happy to
do it it's an opportunity for me to get to know the neighbors and I'm out
walking all the time also nice to be able to
meet them on a personal basis and get to know people this is Rory letting your
guest host for our town walkabout Karen Karen Karen J's beauty and oxygen you
will have more we're talking to these folks about a grand plan for Rochester
creams coming right up our past remembering what made us who we are
today brought to you by the History Center of Olmstead County Field of
Dreams fans often journey to Calvary Cemetery in Rochester to visit Archibald
Graham's gravesite
Ram played one major league baseball game for the New York Giants against the
Brooklyn Dodgers on June 29 1905 and Burt Lancaster portrays Ram in the
famous movie his nickname moonlight was bestowed to reflect his enrollment in
medical school while playing minor league baseball
Graham batted a 335 average N 1 a 1906 batting title in the New York State
League although not a Rochester native or
resident Graham possessed an important connection to the city he married
Alicia Madden of a prominent local family with D pioneer roots in 1915 they
visited Alicia's hometown often Graham enjoyed visiting Mayo Clinic observing
surgeries and visiting with other medical professionals he was also a Mayo
Clinic patient Graham died on August 25th 1965 at 88 years old an interesting
concept and one that is being studied closely in Rochester Bob Hudson is a
member of Rochester's committee of urban design and environment and Jeff Hanneman
is the city of Rochester Forrester they join us today welcome hi
so here there is a new ordinance about trees out you tell us a little bit about
them well there's not actually employment out yet the City Council has
requested that the committee and urban design and environment come up with an
ordinance that preserves and protects our trees especially our older shade
trees and environmental trees that serve us in our community why is it necessary
well as you mentioned the onset of the art of interview that trees provided
many benefits to to our communities and so this ordinance we had time to help
preserve trees within city limits Rochester so we're losing them or we
want to protect what we have as an asset throughout history of the community
absolutely we are losing them to development constantly and actually a
lot of people don't think about trees is quite as an economic development or its
economic goods and like we mentioned before is good for oxygen obviously but
it also increases property value and other things like that how it's
disordered with this ordinance work alongside some of the economic
development plans or environmental development plans of time well I think
it would be an adjunct to all of that before we get a tree preservation
ordinance what I'd like to do is present what we have already developed in our
cube process we developed a letter to to support a tree canopy assessment for the
city of Rochester because that's really where we have to start whenever you have
any big event or big plan coming up more than you're remodeling a house or having
a wedding you have to gather all the facts see what you've got is say okay
what have we got and then where do we go from here and a tree canopy assessment
for the whole city including private and public land would give us that
capability to see okay what have we got and then develop ordinance to say what
kind of ordinances we need to develop to protect and develop in areas that we
want to make our community stronger and more vital okay what if Furnham
I don't canopy is that a tree term about the whole city what does that really
mean the cover is that portion of the city
that is protected by the canopy of the truths that are within our city and you
mean the overview I don't know how that really when you're looking down from wow
how much of our impervious surface is covered by canopy a pervious or
impervious but obviously when trees cover impervious surfaces entire roads
sidewalks buildings then they have a more dramatic effect and provide more
benefits back to the community and how are we doing temple in Canada currently
we have not had a free canopy assessment done so that is one of the reasons that
we're trying to accomplish that some statistics say that we have about twenty
six or seven percent canopy covered currently and the national average that
most progressive communities strive for is about 40 percent and so that makes it
more what what's the advantage the forty percent versus twenty five well one of
the best benefits that trees provide back to a community is their ability to
help mitigate stormwater I'll use that as an example because trees hold
rainwater every single time it rains and if we had no trees in our town we would
need an untold amount more of stormwater facilities to handle a runoff trees act
actually act as giant water reservoirs and hold water and release it more
slowly to the ground so that we don't need these stormwater infrastructures to
deal with it they also improve the soil so that water can percolate down instead
of running off and creating water quality issues and of course trees
remove pollutants from our environment and they help cool city environments and
so those are both big benefits that I just thought they were nice to look at
well and they are nice to look at and because we are the destination Medical
Center they provide aesthetically and health-wise something that we just can't
afford to do without those trees provide health benefits to us even doctors are
now prescribing times with trees prescription who spent time in forest
with trees to help with people's well-being another recipient has a
pseudonym for the suspect a really big step for us in terms of you know
continuing to keep that alive yes we have we do have a Boulevard tree
ordinance and a we have a nuisance tree or nothing well but we need to take a
step back and say you know what we need to develop a urban forest master plan
that encompasses four things it's a good time to start howdy folks getting
involved in this process well this has been ongoing for a long time about ten
years ago or more reaches out to the community and urban design and
environment health produce the street Boulevard Street ordinance our tree
ordinance and that took about ten years to get done so it is a very slow process
now with more and more development with DMC we're seeing that we are losing
large volumes of old canopy forests and trees that because there's no protection
for them and nothing's written now the emphasis is there to say you know we
kind of piecemeal this in now it's time to go forward and get a big master plan
put together and we do have the resources the people involved to get
this done so now is the time and you remember to the committee of urban
design and environment yes what is the overall purpose of that
well we oversee the development and the plans for development for the city of
Rochester mostly downtown but some of the outliers in the area we just make
sure that the design structure and the environmental quality is there for the
people we make recommendations to the developers we make recommendations to
the city planners just to make sure that it's all in accordance with what
Rochester really want and how is you hear in the news when there's a disease
outbreak of a kind of tree or we're losing this type of tree and I like that
I enter in New York City making progress absolutely you want a definite well that
that right now we're faced with one of the biggest threats we've seen to our
tree canopy cover in a long time since Dutch elm disease and that is that
emerald ash borer is threatening to kill every ash tree in the state point
frankly and certainly within Rochester City Limits and so on public lands we
know that we have about 10,000 ash trees in the developed areas of public lands
that are exposed to this insect and will die if unless we take measures to
protect them so our urban forest is constantly facing new threats with
invasive species and coming over from other countries and our trees are unable
to deal with those aspects so we need to be proactive in making sure that we're
planting for a diversity of species so that we can eliminate large numbers of
trees being taken out by a single pest also like if you were a greater
assortment of trees will you mitigate one absolutely yeah we stand to lose
less at one time than by over planting a serial species and like we did with elm
trees and like we did with ash trees so that's part of the goal to really
diversify diversify that is the key so how can the public get more involved
either in terms of the public conversation that's happening and also
just thinking about the trees in their own private property well that's a great
point most you know the greatest percentage of canopy within any city
generally exists on private property so those trees are important we acknowledge
that and people can be vigilant of trees on their property understand what the
species are what the threats against em are and take action on their own
property just like the city is doing on public property well thank you for
joining us today and we're looking forward to that new ordinance community
thank you thanks for joining us today on our town join us next week when we swim
and tumble our way to some new facilities for Rochester sports see you
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