Bob CollinsA group of women in Tennessee secretly diverted money from their family budgets for more than 30 years to bake cakes, send gifts, or provide goods to people they’d heard could use a little help.
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People doing good
Paul Tosto
Forty-five years ago today, Gov. Harold LeVander signed legislation creating the Metropolitan Council to “do a job which has proved too big for any single community.” James Hetland was the first chairman of the council, charged with bridging the long-time divides between Minneapolis and St. Paul. He died Wednesday at 86 years old. The Star Read more →
A news antidote
Late last Friday night, Tiga Stevenson finished ringing her bell at a Salvation Army kettle at a Coborn’s in St. Cloud. She set a Minnesota bell-ringing record of 36 hours and 1 minute.
A county attorney’s office ‘ties one on’
What do the bigshots at The Current do when they get a day off? Today, they helped out at a Habitat for Humanity townhome project on Third Avenue NE in Minneapolis.
Nobody blunders public relations like the Transportation Security Administration and some of the nation’s airlines.