Phil Bencomo / Lake Superior Magazine
Brighton Beach
Happy New Year from all of us at Lake Superior Magazine. Here’s to more great things in 2016 for the Big Lake community, and thanks for your support of all we do.
Banished Words list released
We all have them – words and phrases that rankle us like that shrieking wheel on a shopping cart. The ever-changing English language introduces new such words every year, to which Michigan’s Lake Superior State University has responded since 1976 with additions to its annual “list of words banished from the queen’s English for mis-use, over-use, and general uselessness.”
The 41st edition is a real treat, including such vacuous phrases as “secret sauce” and “break the internet.” You can browse the complete list, too, now with more than 800 entries.
Duluth’s Bentleyville sets new attendance record
John Myers reports for the Duluth News Tribune:
Warm weather and dry roads helped draw people from across the Upper Midwest to the Bentleyville Tour of Lights this holiday season with the Duluth Bayfront holiday lighting display topping a quarter-million visitors.
+ Bentleyville organizers need help tearing down on Saturday and Sunday. There’s no need to register – just show up between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Lunch will be provided.
Birding on Boxing Day: Thunder Bay birders completed their annual end-of-year bird count, with some interesting sightings, writes CBC News.
Scriptwriting contest seeks entries: Students can submit short screenplays and plays to a University of Wisconsin-Superior contest. Winners will have their work published by Sordelet Ink, a company founded by alumnus and Broadway veteran Rick Sordelet. Entries are due by February 1.
The 100-mile beer on tap in Thunder Bay: Inspired by the local food movement, brewers seek out ingredients produced nearby, writes Maureen Arges Nadin for the Chronicle-Journal.
Ashland firefighters will start the new year in a new space: They’ll leave the Ellis Fire Station after 100 years. A few historic pieces will move with them, reports Rick Olivo for the Ashland Daily Press, and they’ve created something new, too.