This is Cypress Lane and Shoreline Drive in Mound. You can see the American Legion which fronts Wilshire Boulevard, Minuteman Press, Tox Alert, Curves for Women, Cypress Salon, Sew Like New, and Home Laundry. The building on the right housed the old Mound Lanes. The new Fire Station with its tower is in the background.
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The LPGA U.S. Open is in full swing at Interlachen Country Club and while most of us, of course, are focusing on the on-course action, some viewers have questions about the clothing.
A community celebration without a parade just seems to lack the kind of pomp that makes an event memorable. That?s one of the reasons the folks planning the Spirit of the Lakes Festival in Mound, July 17-19, added a parade to the line-up of activities last year.
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Music in the Park at Mound Bay Park The start time is 7:00 each Thursday. It appears that the city is sponsoring this. June 14 Cyril Paul & the Calypso Monarchs June 21 Penny and Pals June 28 Aimee Fischer and the Snazzy Band July 12 Songs of Hope July 19 Sons of the Beach July 26 Ticket to Brasil
The Mound Economic Development Commission
This Commission was formed by the City Council in 1992. The idea was to redevelop Mound. The commission put forth 5 goals:
• To provide marketable commercial space • To take full advantage of lake views • To improve pedestrian and vehicular circulation • To maintain "downtown" character as opposed to suburban character • To make doing business in downtown Mound easy and enjoyable
The Commission's work ended up as part of the Mound Visions plan.
Also according to the City's webpage: The Vision calls for downtown Mound to recapture the charm of Lake Minnetonka by reopening an historic boat access channel via Lost Lake, as it was in the era of the streetcar boats. The Mound Vision calls for reoriented, newly designed, attractive and complimentary structures which will maintain an individual identity yet conform to an historic, resort hotel architectural theme.
Wayzata 2007 Summer Concert Series Schedule The concerts are Wednesdays at 7:00 at the Historic Wayzata Depot June 13 George Faber June 20 Bill & Kate Isles June 27 Cliff Brunzell & the Golden String Quartet July 11 The Blue Drifters July 18 After 5 July 25 Stan Bann August 1 Bend in the River Big Band August 8 Chmielewski’s Television Show Band
AP - A man and a woman found a new use for a barbecue pit one that landed them in jail. An argument over whether a third guest should stay in the house got so heated that the woman picked up the barbecue pit and hit the man over the head with it, police said.
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In 1851 "The Treaty of Mendota was established transferring 2 million acres of Indian land, including Lake Minnetonka, to the U.S. government. Hockakaduta asked that the area around Lake Minnetonka remain Indian land; the request was denied. Most of the chiefs refused to sign the treaty for this reason although the treaty was enacted despite the lack of signatures." For more from lake.access, click on their logo.
There are 14 cities on Lake Minnetonka. They are: Deephaven, Excelsior, Greenwood, Minnetonka, Minnetonka Beach, Minnetrista, Mound, Orono, Shorewood, Spring Park, Tonka Bay, Victoria, Wayzata, and Woodland.
Upcoming Events at Westonka Library
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:08:11 CDT
Westonka Library Fridays, August 8, August 15, August 22 & August 29, 3 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
For teens grade 6 and up. Play Wii or PS2 games at the library! Grab a friend, bring your favorite board or card game, or play ours!
Funded by grants and gifts to the Library Foundation of Hennepin County; Sponsored by the Friends of the Westonka Library.
Westonka Library Saturday, August 9, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
For teens entering grade 7 and up. Bring a friend and enjoy a movie on the big screen!
Sponsored by the Friends of the Westonka Library.
Copyright 2008 Hennepin County Library
Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way - Dance Tour '97 This video has nothing to do with Westonka, Minnesota, I just like it. It's from YouTube, which seems like a safe website. Watch it through to the end, Lindsay Buckingham's guitar solo is one of his best, and gives us middle age people hope. Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, John McVie, and Christine McVie are on the video too.
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Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:08:12 GMT
I have just discovered your blog -interesting, however, if you could update the information for the Westonka Horticulture Day, that would be great.
Our website is www.westonkahort.org. We are now an independent nonprofit educational organization striving to bring knowledge of sustainable gardening and landscaping to our community.
The next Westonka Horticulture Day will be held on April 5, 2008 at the Mound Westonka High School. This is one event you don't want to miss. Keynote speaker Jeff Gillman will dispel all those gardening myths and give you the answers you need to solve your garden problems. Over 16 workshops with topics such as lakeshore restoration, planting with annuals, beekeeping, septic mound plantings, native plants, and many more topics. We gather the best speakers available to bring a quality educational program.
Check us out, it is worth a look see at our website. You may even want to join one of our upcoming Garden Gab sessions. Great way to learn from others and share your experiences.
No need to be a professional gardener. The Westonka Horticultural Society and the Westonka Horticulture Day are both for learning and sharing for all gardeners~ from the novice to the professional and every one in between.
Ugly news in the Star Tribune today about the schools.
Westonka district faces a new financial deficit http://www.startribune.com/local/west/12190611.html "Less than a month after Westonka School District voters approved an $877,000-a-year, 10-year operating levy, an annual audit has revealed that the small west-metro district has a $1.1 million deficit"
"Westonka school board Vice Chairman Chuck Walerius will resign after the board's Monday meeting. He told Superintendent Kevin Borg of his plans in a letter Borg received on Tuesday... Walerius is moving out of the district ... His term ends in January 2010."
The Mound, Spring Park, Navarre Tornado of 1965
Leonard Kopp was the Mound City Manager in 1965. “According to Kopp, the tornado came in Cook’s Bay and through Island Park, leveling a cluster of four homes and damaging neighboring ones. It continued across the island, damaging more homes and destroying the Evangelical Free Church. The funnel turned and crossed a swamp, hitting a few more houses. Just before the Spring Park bridge, the tornado took a house and set it right out in the lake. It crossed Casco Point and then hit the intersection of Highways 19 and 15 in Navarre, inflicting severe damage.” - Carol Shukle from an interview with Leonard Kopp, from “A History of Mound - 1930’s to Present.
3 people died in the tornado, while nearly 20 were injured, 20 homes were destroyed, and 18 were damaged beyond repair, according the Shukle.
There are stories of people helping out afterward. The Air National Guard was here, along with the Red Cross. Island Park was even sealed off for a time, I suppose to prevent looting.
The National Weather Service has a bit about it here. I remember on that day we went to our neighbors bomb shelter, and I suppose our parents went out to watch the sky. We haven't seen anything like it around here since.
The above is a picture of Hardscrabble Point after the tornado, according the the National Weather Service, but it looks more like Casco Point to me.
The new Mound watertower, East of Shirley Hills on Chateau Lane. Sept. 2006
Lake Minnetonka was formed by melting ice blocks in glacial moraines 15,000 years ago. The Lake is 929.4 feet above sea level at its outlet, Grays Bay dam. Its greatest length is 10.9 miles (Halsteds Bay to Grays Bay). 30 feet is its average depth. April 12 - 17 is the range of its average ice-out dates. - from the Hennepin County Library.
I would appreciate your suggestions for any factual corrections that you think I should make. Sometimes it is difficult to separate Westonka myth from fact. Thank you, David Greenslit, Mound, Minnesota email@MoundWestonka.com
The above "...web site is an online Community Resource Guide, intended to empower community members to access and become informed about services and offerings of Westonka and area communities."
Lake Minnetonka's latest recorded ice-out date was May 8, 1856. Its earliest was March 11, 1878.
The Luce Line Trail runs East and West, North of Lake Minnetonka. A walk or bike ride along it is a good way to see some rural parts of the area. "Scattered evidence shows that humans have lived in central Minnesota for at least 8,000 years. While few archaeological sites of significance have been found in the general region of the Luce Line State Trail, the region must have been a fertile hunting ground for these early nomadic people. Stone projectile points, found to the west at Browns Valley, suggest that these very early (Paleoindian) people were bison hunters. The Woodland Tradition, which began between 1000 and 500 B.C. in Minnesota, is also evident near the trail. Characterized by pottery and burial mounds, hundreds of sites have been documented around the shores of Lake Minnetonka and some of its islands." For more about the history of the Luce Line Trail from the DNR, click on the logo.
A nice section of the trail is at County Road 26 near County Road 6, West of Ox Yoke Lake. Walk East along the trail and you will see a neat little bridge, some Llama's to the North, a nice view of Ox Yoke Lake, and then about a mile in, another bridge over Pioneer Creek (the outlet of Lake Independence). Map of Luce Line Trail
Ox Yoke Lake South West of Lyndale, is said to be named for its shape.
Lyndale's former post office was named Hogbo (or Hog Boo, Swedish for, "a little town on the hill"). Its postmaster was Andrew Hogland (or Hoglund). In 1890 the post office's name was changed to Lyndale. "Old" Lyndale is along Watertown Road at and around County Road 92. A creamery was organized in 1894 called the Lyndale Creamery. In 1914, the Luce Line was built running through what is called "New" Lyndale, about a mile South of the "Old". Lyndale experienced what appears to be an economic boom with the coming of the railroad and had: a store, a post office, a bank, a blacksmith, a feed mill, a garage, a lumber yard, and a machine shop. Today, Lyndale is known for its access to the Luce Line Trail and the Ox Yoke Inn as well as its Lyndale Lutheran Church.
Deer Creek The source of Deer Creek is Whaletail Lake in Minnetrista. It heads North from the Northeastern part of Whaletail. It crosses under County Road 15 and roughly parallels Deer Creek Road, crossing it twice. It then crosses Country Road 26 and curves to the West, crossing County Road 92 South of Lyndale, and then enters the East side Ox Yoke Lake. It continues at the West shore of Ox Yoke in a Northwesterly direction. It crosses under a old railroad bridge at the Luce Line Trail, and then under County Road 6 and then flows into Rice Lake. Rice Lake is partly in Carver County and partly in Wright County, so Deer Creek travels through a total of 3 counties, starting in Hennepin. It picks up again on the Northwest shore of Rice Lake, heading North to the South Fork of the Crow River.
"STUBBS BAY, a village, first known as Graves or Teas Bay, named for Henry Stubbs who lived on Long Lake, where in his home he was postmaster of Tamarack, 1858-69, before it was removed to Long Lake; it had a station of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway." - Minnesota Place Names, MHS Press
Just north of Stubbs Bay is the current day Luce Line Trail. At one time the village of Stubbs Bay's post office was called Bederwood, and now a park there has that name.
For teens grade 6 and up. Play Wii or PS2 games at the library! Grab a friend, bring your favorite board or card game, or play ours! 
