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		<title>The City&#8217;s Whale-Oil Pipeline</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 13:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Matt Vermeulen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the city&#8217;s post-Civil War boom, a panel of eminent politicians, including the governor, mayor and state surgeon general, met to plan the future growth of the city. Several advances were made. In an effort to provide more room for growth, Bankton&#8217;s Marsh was filled in with refuse, which increased the size of the city by 30%. This created space for growth (The land is now occupied by the tony neighborhood of South Bay), but also additional demand for resources, particularly whale oil, which fueled the city&#8217;s street lights, homes and the lanterns needed for round-the-clock mill work. Anticipating the need for millions of gallons of whale oil to keep the city growing, the city fathers embarked on an ambitious scheme- the digging of a 20-mile underground pipeline to the nearest whale intake port downriver (newly-constructed and larger than the city&#8217;s ports), which would allow them first access to the ships loaded with whale carcasses. Work began immediately, but problems arose soon after. For the unprecedented construction, the engineers drew inspiration from the Roman aqueducts, even traveling to Spain and trying to recreate scale reconstructions. &#8220;These ducts have lasted for hundreds of years, and that&#8217;s the kind of ducts we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pothole Budget Mistakenly Allocated For Potluck</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/03/05/pothole-budget-mistakenly-allocated-for-potluck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to a clerical error, city funds earmarked for this spring&#8217;s pothole repairs were mixed up with funds intended for a potluck for City Streets Department employees to celebrate last month&#8217;s groundhog&#8217;s day. Streets Department clerk Debbie Winton, who was in charge of the potluck, admits she was taken aback when she first saw the amount she had to spend on the annual lunch, typically held in Conference Room C in the Malcolm B. Adams Public Works Building on South Haverline. &#8220;Usually we get about 20, 25 dollars for this kind of thing, most people bring a dish to pass and we have a couple of grinders,&#8221; said Winton. &#8220;This year &#8211; well, let&#8217;s just say it would have afforded a much nicer affair.&#8221; Some of the additional planned expenditures at this year&#8217;s Groundhog&#8217;s Day potluck included four six-foot-long submarine sandwiches, an ice-sculpture in the shape of City Hall, a chocolate fountain, fresh lobster flown in from the coast, individual groundhog shaped chocolates, a performance by the surviving members of the band Foghat and an appearance by Brian Doyle-Murray, who portrayed the mayor in the film Groundhog Day. &#8220;I guess I just thought that this year they really wanted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshots: Boy Scout, Future Senator (1941)</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/02/15/snapshots-boy-scout-future-senator-1941/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[RJ White]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 1941. Local Boy Scout Anderson Grimes in front of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., holding a copy of a WPA poster designed for the city&#8217;s landmark water conservation program. Shortly after this photo was taken, he was to present the poster to local congressman Harford Collins in a brief ceremony. Tragically, Grimes, along with several local reporters and congressional aides, instead found Senator Collins slumped over his desk, dead from a heart attack. Thirty years later, Grimes ended up serving the same seat in Congress for four terms. He did not die in office. - RJ White]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: End of Year Closeout Special</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/12/21/friday-facts-end-of-year-closeout-special/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: With Christmas Day and New Year’s Day both falling on a Tuesday this season, please note that all city services will be open and functioning on Monday, Dec.24 and Monday, Dec. 31, with the exception of the Mayor’s Office, which will be closed at 2pm on Friday, Dec. 21, and reopen Wednesday, Jan. 2, so that Mayor Wilders can attend the Urban Environmentalism Awareness Conference in Aruba. :: Founder&#8217;s Pier will once again host &#8220;A Taste of Nog&#8221; Sunday, Dec. 23. Fans of the festive holiday drink can purchase tickets to sample some of the finest nogs the city has to offer. Favorites from last year included Traditional Egg Nog (The Legacy Diner), Quail Egg Nog (Le Cafe Brulee), Root Beer Nog (Felix&#8217;s Frankfurters), and the Triple Bourbon Nog (Grinning Kinsky&#8217;s). Tickets are 5 for $7.50 for non-alcoholic nogs, and 5 for $17.50 for adult nogs (Limit 10). :: St. Albert’s Cathedral on Algonquin Avenue issued a public correction to an item published in their most recent newsletter. The choir concert featuring Handel’s “Messiah” will take place Sunday, Dec. 23 rather than the listed date of Tuesday, Jan. 8. Also, the Parents without Partners ‘Elvis Night’ dance will take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What Your City is Doing for Climate Change&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/05/14/what-your-city-is-doing-for-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 12:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, Mayors from 30 cities around the world are meeting in New York to discuss their role in helping to curb climate change. Not wanting to be left out of things, Mayor Wilders&#8217; office has sent out a press release outlining what actions the City has taken to combat this problem in the last couple of years (Note: the title of this post is taken verbatim from the press release). Here are some selected highlights- :: Reduced the tree-planting restriction zone around public buildings and monuments from five feet to three feet. :: Filled in 29 dirt paths in 17 parks with grass. :: Approved new guidelines restricting personal use of city vehicles to trips shorter than 44.5 miles. :: Switching from styrofoam to paper plates in all municipal cafeterias and break rooms. :: Purchased 6000 compact fluorescent light bulbs for installation beginning in January 2009 :: Lowered the temperature to which water is heated in City Hall restrooms, locker rooms and saunas to 90°F. :: Exploratory committee formed to research possibility of installing giant wind power farm on site of former Clawson Farms cannery. :: Retired 16 city buses that have consistently failed to meet emissions testing guidelines [...]]]></description>
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