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Pact Act - Survivors Sometimes there is a topic too expansive to cover in a single article. When it comes to the PACT Act, it requires multiple, repeated attempts to deliver the content necessary to educate the masses.

Travel learning I was recently looking through photos from my childhood, and it warmed my heart to relive some family vacation memories. Traveling as a child opened my eyes to whole new worlds, and it added an educational element in my life that I otherwise wouldn’t have experienced.

I'm happy to introduce Allie Lamote, Thalia Reis and Courtney Hedeen. We met down by the Two Harbors Lighthouse .

The end of the WILD regular season is near, buckle your seatbelts! It is Sunday evening and believe it or not, the Minnesota WILD is currently in first place in the NHL Central division, and they are in it all by themselves. While that is unlikely to stay that way, it does have a nice ring to it, even if temporary.

The Nuclear Component The recent news of the accidental release of 400,000 gallons of slightly radioactive water into the ground at a nuclear power plant a few miles up river from my childhood stomping grounds got me thinking about nuclear power. Fortunately, we’re not talking about dangerous radioactive elements like plutonium or uranium here, the released component being tritium, a fairly short-lived isotope of hydrogen that has three neutrons in its nucleus, where there are typically none.

In preparation for crossing into Canada for the Armistice ceremony of the championship game of the Intergalactic Major Junior Hockey League, the Shack Marching Band was out in force the other night under the blazing moon, trooping the snowy trails under the sky of stars and the magnificent Jupiter.

photos by Forrest Johnson .

I am sure I am like many of you who have enjoyed the snow and its calm, crisp, clean presence but I am also tired of the white, gray and seeming lack of color. Recently I broke up the late winter blahs by building a LEGO succulent garden with a friend of mine. I needed the color, the fellowship, and the tactile task to physically see work accomplished. I have seen friends’ pictures of their spring break vacation pictures. I caught myself lingering on the colorful flowers, palm trees, open blue water with waves, and wide open trails of the southwestern US. Such naturely, a Jenna made word, pictures brought hope and life to my eyes and heart.