Scottish News in Minnesota, January 1, 2009, Vol. 9, No. 88

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SCOTTISH NEWS IN MINNESOTA January 2009 Issue
 
Due to difficulty in accessing the web email site, the January issue was delayed.

 
SCOTTISH NEWS IN MINNESOTA (SNIM) is sponsored by the
TARTAN DAY COOPERATIVE and published on their behalf by the
CLAN MACRAE for the Scottish and Scots-American Community in
the North Country including Ulster-Scots, Scotch-Canadians and our Celtic kin folk.
 

News & Events
Please send any notices or announcements to lawrencewinans@yahoo.com

NO LATER than the 25Th of the month. Information received AFTER the 25Th
it will be included in the next month's issue.
 

CALENDAR

 

January 10

TCSC Annual Meeting

The Twin Cities Scottish Club Annual Meeting

Macalester-Plymouth United Church

1658 Lincoln Avenue Saint Paul

The meeting begins at 1:00 PM and will elect candidates to fill
vacancies for Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer.
Prior to the TCSC meeting (above),
The Minnesota Coalition of Scottish Clans will hold its
General Meeting in the same location at 11:00 AM
 

January 17

Duluth Scottish Heritage Assn Highland Dance Competition

The Annual Winter Competition 

Pilgrim Congregational Church

2310 East 4Th Street, Duluth at 9:00 AM.

The Competition will be judged by Anne Donlan

The pipes played by Michael McCoy

Contact Jill Lucca FFI at jclucca@charter.net

Registration $25

 

January 24

Burns Dinners

vv St Andrews Society Burns Dinner at

The College Club, 990 Summit Avenue St Paul     

check the website FFI

 

vv Burns Dinner at

Calvary Episcopal Church, Rochester     

Contact 507-282-9429 FFI

Tickets are $25 per person and $40 per couple

 

January 31

TCSC's Burns Night

5 pm to Midnight

Ramada Inn near the Mall of America, Bloomington

FFI Jennifer 763-473-9049 or jenip197@hotmail.com

 

February 13

The Celtic Woman

Will be appearing at the Excel Center

Tickets available at Ticketmaster

 

February 14

SCOTTISH RAMBLE

Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM and Sunday Noon to 5 PM

Landmark Center Downtown Saint Paul

75 West 5Th Street, Saint Paul

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Norma MacDonald has dropped us a note noting the publication of

The Bard - Robert Burns by Robert Crawford is available from 
Princeton University Press (Steve_Ballinger@press.princeton.edu)
 

Allie Schmitz was awarded the KARE 11 All Star Academic Award.
Allie is a regular volunteer with the TCSC and a Highland Dancer for 11 years.
She is valedictorian at Johnson High School in St Paul, Class President &
Vice President of the Honors Society. Good job, Allie!
 

Tis the Season to be generous, send a bob or two along to our friends
at the SCOTTISH-AMERICAN CENTER who are doing us all a fair turn
by collecting and preserving our heritage
SAC c/o St Andrews Society

P O Box 24888   

Edina MN 55424-0888

 

WITH SADNESS

We learned this month that Lillias (Lil) Kennedy has passed away.
Lil was the "oldest" member of the Twin Cities Scottish Club at the age of 97.
Her obituary may be found in the Pioneer Press (December 31, 2008).
Memorials may be given to the TCSC in Lil's honor or to the recipient of the donor's choice.

 

ERRATA

From time to time a typo or spelling error will creep into the SNIM.
This may be due to human error: humans are engaged in the drafting,
editing and publication of the SNIM. It may be due to computer software
error; for example, our spellcheck has been known to convert TCSC into TASK.
Things happen. Watching CNN the other day, your editor noted three errors on
the News Crawl within two hours. CNN is a big company with full-time professional
writers, editors and proofreaders and yet errors happen. So we don't have higher
expectations for our little SNIM than Time-Warner-AOL has for CNN. Unless
there is a substantive error such as time, date or location, we will not be sending
out corrections nor apologizing profusely. If you note a typo, congrats, you are
perceptive! Remember, IT happens.
 

For Further Information -

DSHA - Duluth Scottish Heritage Association

www.duluthscots.com

MPPB - Minnesota Police Pipe Band

www.mnppb.org

MSCDA - Minnesota Scottish Celtic Dance Association

www.mscda.com

Minnesota Tartan Day

www.tartandaymn.org

RSCDA - Royal Scottish Country Dance Association

www.rscds-twincities.org

Saint Andrew's Society

www.standrewssocietymn.org

Twin Cities Scottish Club

www.twincitiesscottishclub.org

 




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