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	<title>The City Desk &#187; Keets Harbor</title>
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		<title>Museum&#8217;s Ford Thrives on Bailouts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many historical treasures of the Keets Harbor area, the Maritime Military Museum has thus far avoided the budget shortfall common to many other municipal, civic and cultural institutions around the city. No small contributor to the museum’s fiscal health has been its Development Director, Albert Ford, who took over fundraising efforts in 1997. His initial success was a deft business deal that turned a 1998 trademark infringement suit brought by Minnesota Mining &#38; Manufacturing Company into a 10-year sponsorship that expired in November. His latest fundraising efforts have positioned the erstwhile &#8220;3M/3M&#8221; to maintain a budget surplus for the foreseeable future, even with significant infrastructure improvements and expansion plans in 2009. One of the museum’s most popular attractions is a portion of the WWII-era light carrier USS Cabot. The Cabot was auctioned off to Sabe Marine Salvage by the US Marshall’s Service in 1999 after a private preservation group ran out of funds. Director Ford, a former Naval Aviator who was twice shot down over Vietnam, purchased an intact section of the ship from SMS on September 4, 2001, not long after the carrier’s designation as a National Historic Landmark expired. The $61,500 purchase was not popular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carpe&#8217;s Marina and the Underground Railroad</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a city that has hosted kings, presidents and many other world leaders, a visit from a cabinet secretary in an outgoing administration might seem like small potatoes. But Idaho’s Dirk Kempthorne, the current United States Secretary of the Interior, was here recently for a very special reason: to officially establish Carpe’s Marina as our city’s second entry in the National Register of Historic Places. Nuncio Carpenello first went into business on the east bank of Keets Harbor in July, 1858, only days after arriving from Salerno, Italy. Local residents were amused when the burly immigrant constructed scaffolding inside his small and rickety wooden shack so elaborate that it forced him to sleep with his feet outside the walls. For many weeks afterward they heard the constant pounding of hammers and creaking of boards. In mid-September the shack suddenly disappeared, and in its place was a 26-foot long, eight-foot wide boat moored just offshore. Carpenello had built the craft on his own, from the hull up. Soon &#8220;Nunce’s Ark&#8221; was a familiar sight, tooling around the harbor and navigating the tricky eddies of the Ostahanoc River. Large as it was, the &#8220;ark&#8221; drafted barely four inches deep, and could travel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Unlucky No. 13, Powerless</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Northside residents can expect an extra unlucky Friday the 13th today, as electrical power will be cut off for up to two hours in order to repair a transformer on the corner of Garrick Ave. and Riggins Rd. The device was damaged June 26 by would-be bank robber Kevin Sturgiss when he hijacked a city bus and drove it against traffic during rush hour in an effort to evade the National Guard roadblock set up on Clark St. :: Number of buildings Downtown which skip the 13th in their floor numbering: 2 (The Ansfield Meats Tower, The Walker Consolidated Bldg.) :: Duration of Tuesday&#8217;s partial power outage, affecting the Central Corridor/Downtown, Keets Harbor, North Falls and Roxboro areas: 5 hours, 33 minutes :: Number of times the entire city has suffered a complete electrical power ‘blackout’: 3 (1967, 1987, 2003) :: Number of times the blackout originated inside the city: 1 (1987) :: Number of raccoons electrocuted in a centrally-located transformer leading to 1987&#8242;s city-wide blackout: at least 1, possibly 2 :: Amount of electricity needed to kill approximately 2 raccoons: definitely less than 22,000 volts - David Andrews, Shek Baker, RJ White]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Cognacgerie, cognacgerie, cognacgerie</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/05/18/friday-facts-cognacgerie-cognacgerie-cognacgerie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 12:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: According to a poll of more than 2,000 city residents, the Beatle considered most likely to be a considerate, gentle lover: Ringo :: The Copper Colombard, on 4th Street Lane and Annual Boulevard, claims to be the nation&#8217;s only mini-cognacgerie. The modest blue-and-white building offers more than thirty locally distilled cognacs, and was built in an abandoned Fuji Film Foto-Mat. :: The original oversized plaster bowl of fake spaghetti &#8211; formerly held in the embrace of familiar Family Italiano icon &#8220;The Spaghetti Giant&#8221; – goes up for bid at this week&#8217;s Auction for Education. Proceeds from the auction go to provide school supplies for educational facilities in several underprivileged African nations, and also to repair the axles on seven local school district buses. :: On February 3,1929 a meeting occurred between Chicago mob kingpin Al “Scarface” Capone and Roxboro neighborhood gangster Rory Sheehan at Mangini’s Bistro on Soldier Blvd. The exact topic of their conversation is unknown, but the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago’s Lincoln Park transpired just 11 days later. :: Persnickety diners may want to be aware; the &#8220;Five-Second Rule&#8221; was adopted by Chief Health Commissioner Rudolph &#8220;Guy&#8221; Fenimore as an &#8220;acceptable standard of sanitary practices [...]]]></description>
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