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Edina Reads
is a One-Book, community-wide reading program
that encourages
active reading,
lifelong learning,
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Events
brought the community together at the new Performing Arts
Center at Edina High School on Sept. 30,
2007
for a
Sunday afternoon of jazz by the Edina High School jazz
combo, a dramatic reading by the EHS Thespians, an inspiring
lecture by Stanley Gordon West,
and a panel of high school students examining the themes in
"Until They Bring The Streetcars Back,"
comparing perspectives on high school life today.
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Edina Reads Committee with Stanley Gordon West:
(L to R): Sara Swenson,
Marcia Wattson, West, Dick
Crockett, Andy Otness and
Maureen Millea Smith. |
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Edina High Jazz Combo:
Bill Webb - Band Director,
John Sullivan, Dan
Jensen, Priya Larson
and Preston Haining. |
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Nut
Goodies played a role in the book and as a treat! |
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Edina Thespians:
Tony Matthes - Theater
Director, Alex Landreville,
Tony Matthes Jr.,
Molly Russell, Charlotte
Sweetland, Corrine Salone
and Desmond George |
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Edina High School
Panelists:
Jason Szporn - teacher,
Candice Jones,
Mikaya Larson, Priya
Larson, Brandon Mestler
and John Sullivan. |
Transit
industry veterans and authors John W. Diers and Aaron Isaacs
presented a program on Sept. 24, 2007 on
the pictorial history of the organization and
operations of the Twin Cities streetcar system. They
discussed trolley design and construction and life as a
street car operator. The Edina Historical Society provided a
display of artifacts, photos and memories about the
streetcar line that ran through Edina-Morningside.
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