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Happy Birthday, Herb


Happy 80th Birthday
Herb Reed of the Platters

Posted by: Terry Dullum on 8/07/2008 at 2:51 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink

Elmo & Cookie Monster


Thanks to my two new best friends, Elmo and Cookie Monster, for being with us on News @5 yesterday. They took time out from their busy rehearsal schedule for "Sesame Street Live! Elmo Makes Music" to join us and we appreciate it. I wish all are guests were as enthusiastic as they were. Bert & Ernie, Big Bird and everybody have been rehearsing all week at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks for their big tour which opens tomorrow night in Grand Forks.

On News @5 yesterday, Elmo & Cookie even did a song and dance from the show for us. Thanks, too, to Christopher Harper, the spokesperson for "Sesame Street Live", for talking with us. (Elmo and Cookie Monster had to save their voices for the show.)

Cookie Monster did confirm for us that he is trying to eat better these days. After years of cookie-binging, he now knows that cookies are just a "sometimes food." Anyway, he looks fabulous. I wonder if he's been working out, too?

We'll all be seeing each other again tomorrow night at the opening of "Elmo Makes Music" at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks. I'll be welcoming the audience of the opening show, which is being sponsored by WDAZ.

In all, there will be five performances of "Sesame Street Live!" in Grand Forks through Sunday. Ticketmaster has all the information.

Posted by: Terry Dullum on 8/07/2008 at 6:40 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink

Weinermobile Schedule



The world-famous Oscar-Meyer Weinermobile is in the area this week. (Insert your own joke here.)  So that you don't miss out on this chance of a lifetime, here is the schedule:


Tomorrow

Hugo's
1310 University Ave
Crookston
11 a.m - 2 p.m.

Hugo's
Pennington and First Street
Thief River Falls
3 p.m.- 7 p.m.

Wednesday


Hugo's

306 14th Street NE

East Grand Forks

11 a.m. - 2 p.m.


Hugo's

1750 32nd Avenue South

Grand Forks
3 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Posted by: Terry Dullum on 8/04/2008 at 7:56 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink

Dorothy Collins

Sad to read this morning of the passing of the Forum's Dorothy Collins. She was 92.

I only met her a time or two, but one of those occasions provided a favorite story about my family.

Our paths crossed once at a garden show years ago in East Grand Forks, I think. She was judging flowers and I was trying to produce a television news story about the show.

Good reporter that she was, she asked about my background just after we were introduced. We talked about my grandparents who lived near Hillsboro and raised eighteen (yes, eighteen) kids to adulthood.

Dorothy told me she remembered the Dullums and some great Sunday afternoon baseball games they used to have on their farm. She said "They had enough kids--for both teams!"

Posted by: Terry Dullum on 8/03/2008 at 11:20 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink

Bush By The Numbers


Reporter Mark Knoller of CBS Radio, who has covered the White House since 1992, is known as the keeper of the best unofficial records of presidential whereabouts. They make for very interesting reading.

President Bush has appeared at 327 fundraising events for GOP candidates and causes, raising some $800 million.

The president has been to 75 countries and 49 U.S. states with Vermont the sole exception.

He has spent well over a year at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, and well over a year at Camp David.

BUSH BY THE NUMBERS

Foreign visits: 75 countries, 46 trips.

States visited: 49 (all except Vermont)

Political fundraising events: 327 (more than $800 million raised)

Days at Camp David: 450 (142 trips)

Days at Crawford, Texas, ranch: 466 (74 trips)

Sports-related events: 95

Commencement speeches: 19

Medal of Honor ceremonies: 12

White House state dinners: 5

Speeches to joint congressional sessions: 9

Addresses to the nation: 21

News conferences: 208 (43 formal)

Posted by: Terry Dullum on 8/03/2008 at 9:15 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink