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		<title>The First Colony in Anoka County</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Holly Broden Sometimes it takes a while for a city to find its identity and that is true of many of the first settlements in Anoka County. The city of Andover was first named Round Lake Township in 1857, and three years later that name was changed to Grow Township and then later to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anokahistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11053809&amp;post=189&amp;subd=anokahistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anoka Scouts Celebrate 100 Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Holly Broden Boy Scouting in America celebrated its 100th year and so did Anoka Troop 102. Although records from the Northern Star Council suggest a lapse in continuous charter, with only 979 months (81.5 years) of continuous membership, scouting came to America and to Anoka and it stuck. “It certainly is one of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anokahistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11053809&amp;post=186&amp;subd=anokahistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The legend of Johnny Wasnick</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By June Anderson In going through my ever-growing historical file in search of material, I came upon a story that was so well told and so inspiring that I decided to share it with the readers of this column. According to its long-ago author, Richard Meers, this account of St. Francis’s first track star was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anokahistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11053809&amp;post=174&amp;subd=anokahistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Memory lane: end of the road</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By June Anderson We continue the last leg of our trip down Memory Lane (Old Highway 10) with our narrator/guide, long time Coon Rapids resident, Beverly Wells Anderson. Along Hanson Boulevard lived many of the old residents who had settled there before 1937. The Ed Swanson family, for one, owned a farm where Faith Lutheran [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anokahistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11053809&amp;post=177&amp;subd=anokahistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Old Highway 10</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By June Anderson We continue the last leg of our trip down Memory Lane (Old Highway 10) with our narrator/guide, long time Coon Rapids resident, Beverly Wells Anderson. Along Hanson Boulevard lived many of the old residents who had settled there before 1937. The Ed Swanson family, for one, owned a farm where Faith Lutheran [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anokahistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11053809&amp;post=180&amp;subd=anokahistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coon Rapids Boulevard memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By June Anderson For the 50th birthday observance of Coon Rapids, Beverly J. Wells Anderson takes us on a trip down memory lane — a tour of the old Anoka Township along Coon Rapids Boulevard, formerly known as Old Highway 10, where we will meet the people who were of importance to her throughout the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anokahistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11053809&amp;post=182&amp;subd=anokahistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The First Baby Born in Mercy Hospital</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By June Anderson Judy Melton Schuler gives us the Mom’s perspective of a historic event “The First Baby Born at Mercy Hospital,” in her contribution to “50 Stories for the 50th” “It was Thursday, March 17, 1965, and the snow was falling ever so steadily. My son, Scott, was playing at the neighbors a block [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anokahistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11053809&amp;post=151&amp;subd=anokahistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Churches</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By June Anderson As the City of Coon Rapids began to coalesce into a community, members of the religious community were feeling the need for their own church. The beginnings of two large parishes—different denominations, located almost side by side on Hanson Boulevard—has been documented by the Coon Rapids History Project. In 1960 the population [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anokahistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11053809&amp;post=146&amp;subd=anokahistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chuck Austin: A Civic Pioneer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By June Anderson What makes a community truly a community and not just a collection of houses are civic minded individuals who are willing to devote their time and energy to organizing and developing a quality of life that makes it a “good” place to live. Chuck Austin, about whom I wrote last week, was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anokahistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11053809&amp;post=144&amp;subd=anokahistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The First Snowflake Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By June Anderson On June 12th 2009, the City of Coon Rapids celebrated its 50th birthday. In anticipation of this event, the Coon Rapids Historical Commission asked old-time residents to contribute stories to their project, “50 Stories for the 50th.” With their permission I have been sharing excerpts from some of their stories in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anokahistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11053809&amp;post=137&amp;subd=anokahistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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