Join the fun - April 3, 2010 - 12 noon - Minnetonka

Join Norman's friends at the Einstein Bagel Shop on Red Circle Drive in Minnetonka. If you're not familiar with Red Circle Drive, you will recognize the shop as being at Shady Oak Road and Hwy 62.

Assembly begins at 12 noon in the parking lot where vests and bags will be issued. The route is to walk eastward along the WB ditch of Hwy 62 towards the Hwy 169 curve. There is a lot of blown trash to be retrieved and I don't honestly think that we can make it all the way to Hwy 169. It's a pretty broad ditch in that stretch.

Come to the Einstein Bagel Shop and I promise to buy anyone who shows up a cup of that really great Einstein Bros. coffee.

Statistics on Minnesota Volunteerism

Each week I receive Session Weekly a publication of the Minnesota House of Representatives.

A feature of the current issue was a consideration of Minnesota's quality of life. Volunteerism is alive and well in Minnesota: volunteers contributed 169.7 million hours in public service in 2008. In 2008 36.9 % of Minnesotans aged 16 and older performed volunteer services. The national percentage? 26.4 %.