MMPA Awards 2014
Lake Superior Magazine earned four Excellence Awards from the Minnesota Magazine & Publishing Association, including golds for E-Newsletter and How-To Article.
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Thursday was an exciting (though late!) night for us when the magazine won two awards in the electronic newsletter category at the Minnesota Magazine & Publishing Association banquet last night. Assistant Editor/Digital Coordinator Phil Bencomo got to stroll up to the stage to receive a Gold Award for his monthly e-newsletter and also a Silver Award for his weekly events e-newsletter. (You can sign up for our newsletters here.)
Lake Superior Magazine itself picked up a Silver Award for Overall Excellence and Andrew Slade’s helpful story on the Superior Hiking Trail won a Gold Award for How-to Article. A fine evening with lots of new members in MMPA gaining awards. Minnesota has a healthy – and honorable! - publishing industry that we’re proud to be part of.
– Konnie LeMay
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow, OK, you can stop now
Never mind the date on the calendar – winter is here.
As much as 50 inches of snow fell this week on parts of northern Wisconsin during the first snowstorm of the season.
Reports the National Weather Service:
Winds remained out of the north and northwest from the 12th until early on the 14th. This resulted in a prolonged period of lake effect snow across the South Shore of Lake Superior.
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula got as much as 3 feet of snow, while Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, dug out from 100 cm (about 39 inches) of snow this week. Says SooToday’s Jerry Shields, “We have already received over a third of our entire snowfall amount for an entire winter and we are still in the first half of November.”
The totals here in Duluth were much more modest, stopping short of 10 inches.
Meanwhile, coal shipments still recovering from last winter
After a "brutal" winter that saw coal traffic on Lake Superior fall as much as 4 million st through the end of April, shippers are still behind 800,000 st heading into winter, the director of the Lake Carriers' Association said Tuesday.
+ Jenna Chapman, Great Lakes Echo: “You no longer have to wonder how Great Lakes landmarks will change with a changing climate. You can now see how a six-foot swing in the depth of Lake Huron could change how much of Michigan’s Turnip Rock sticks out of the water.”
+ Photographer Paul Sundberg’s images from Split Rock’s annual Edmund Fitzgerald memorial beacon lighting.
+ Danielle Kaeding, Wisconsin Public Radio: “The American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation says it’s reached an agreement this week with Telemark owners in Cable to secure a permanent start area for the race.”
+ Michael Purvis, SooToday: “Cyclists will take to Queen Street East tomorrow to celebrate the completion of what advocates hope will be the first of many cycling lanes on city streets.”