October 8, 1999 - The men heading up the partnership to buy the twins are no strangers to professional sports. Glen Taylor owns the Minnesota Timberwolves, while Robert Naegele is managing partner of the Minnesota Wild hockey team.
October 8, 1999 - Tomorrow is Leif Erikson day in the United States. This year, the date serves as a kick-off for year long celebration marking the millenium of the famous Viking voyage to North America. Norway, Iceland, the United States and Canada are planning events to honor the European who reached the New World almost five hundred years before Columbus. Urn Ardnar is a Counsul for Iceland and is a memeber of the Minnesota Leif Eriksson Millennium Commission of Iceland. He says the biggest event will be next year's re-enactment of the voyage using reproductions of Viking ships.
October 8, 1999 - The outgoing CEO of Pillsbury says the average consumer shouldn't see much of a difference once his replacement takes over. Paul Walsh is leaving to become head of Pillsbury's parent company Diageo. Diageo is the world's largest beverage company and owns Burger King, Guinness, United Distiller and Vintners and Pillsbury. Walsh has been with Pillsbury since 1989. He's been the company's CEO for the past seven years. He says he doesn't expect the change in leadership will lead to major changes at Pillsbury, or a relocation of its headquarters.
October 8, 1999 - Minnesota's nonprofit organizations are doing better than ever, according to a report being released in Duluth today.
October 11, 1999 - MPR’s Bob Kelleher reports that an Ohio man is recovering in an Upper Michigan hospital, after falling overboard from a lake freighter and having to swim five miles in the frigid waters of Lake Superior.
October 13, 1999 - Midday presents a Mainstreet Radio special program to discuss shipping on Lake Superior. Hosted at the Canal Park Maritime Museum in Duluth, Rachel Reabe speaks with guest panelists, including executive director of the Duluth Seaway Port Authority, a ship captain with the Western Great Lakes Pilots Association , and a ship agent with Guthrie-Hubner. Panelists also answer listener questions.
October 13, 1999 - Mainstreet Radio's Leif Enger shipped aboard a Bulgarian tramp freighter as it departed for Italy with a load of North Dakota wheat. Enger presents an understanding of sailor life aboard.
October 13, 1999 - Midday presents a Mainstreet Radio special program to discuss shipwrecks on Lake Superior. Hosted at the Canal Park Maritime Museum in Duluth, Rachel Reabe speaks with guest panelists, including director of The Maritime Museum, an underwater photographer, a Maritime historian, and founder of the Great Lake Shipwreck Preservation Society. Panelists also answer listener questions.
October 15, 1999 - Earlier this year, Saint John's University in Collegeville commissioned the a hand-illuminated bible. The man in charge of this six year project was on The Saint's Johns' campus today to talk about how his work is coming along.
October 15, 1999 - In a little over one-year, Minnesota's Ann Bancroft and a Norwegian will attempt to become the first female team to cross Antarctica. Bancroft, a 43-year old former schoolteacher, is the first woman to both poles, she led the aborted All Women's Expedition to Antarctica in 1993, and she's fairly well-known to our listeners. But we haven't yet met her partner in the endeavor, Liv Arneson. Arneson is a 45-year old Norwegian schoolteacher who in 1994 skied alone and unsupported to Antarctica. She wrote a book about that trip that has just recently been translated into English. It's called Good Girls Don't Ski to the South Pole. Arneson says the Bancroft Arneson Expedition will be their toughest challenge.