We will celebrate the beginning of another year with our annual pizza party enjoying Green Mill  pizza on Thursday evening!

Agenda items:

• Letter of support for Lafayette bathrooms, City seeking grant, grant writer Christine Penney seeking letter of support from PPCC
• St. Louis River Alliance support requested, Dave Poulin via Kris Eilers
• Request from Erik Simonson for rescue vessel, link here:Support for rescue vessel  request
• “See Me” – neighbor Beth Hall started campaign to illuminate Park Point peds and bikers via vests, ankle wraps, etc.
• Perhaps: Update from Lyn Clark Pegg on UMD student involvement for continued planning for water/beach access via survey

Hope to see you for pizza at 6:30pm!

Hi Neighbors,

Here is the newest information about where to take your trimmings/trees on Park Point. Do not take any brush or trees off of Park Point. See info. below:

Tree parts and brush drop off site will be temporarily closed and reevaluated for a new regular schedule in March, when people typically start tree cutting and spring prep

–          Park Point residents will still have access to the site by request to Dale Sellner at 730-4303 as no wood parts can leave the Point.

–          No members of the public are allowed to use this site for trash drop off or to drop off tree parts from other areas of the city.

–          This temporary closure would be effective January 11, 2016 with a new schedule to be determined in early spring.

Need more information?

Pakou Ly, Public Information Coordinator

City of Duluth

411 West First Street, Room 407

Duluth, MN  55802

(218) 730-5309, office

Here is a link to the agenda.

If you would like to share your thoughts on the proposal, here is the email address for all of the councilors.  council@duluthmn.gov

• 20151231_January_Breeze_2016.pdf

20151219_December_Breeze_2015.pdf

• See updated post, this info on where and when to drop off changed on Jan. 11, 2016
• The Emerald Ash Borer has been found on Park Point- all trees, branches, wood and brush should stay on Park Point!
• The City will be running a brush drop off site on Park Point, in the parking lot near the beach house, strictly for residents on the Point trimming or cutting back trees.
• The City will accept all types of brush at this site and will open the drop off site next Tuesday, December 22, and run it every Tuesday, from 3:00-6:30 PM, which may be adjusted based on the need of residents.
• This drop off is designated specifically for brush from within the Park Point area.
• The City urges people to not bring in brush from other areas of the city and encourages the public, outside the quarantine area, to use the compost site at the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District, http://wlssd.com/services/yard-waste/
  
• Link to press release http://duluthmn.gov/web-subscriptions/View-press-release/?prid=3942

Park Point residents are prohibited from removing any wood or wood parts off of the Point hence the need to contain wood products within the quarantined area.

• The MDA has extensive information for residents and a specially created hotline to pose questions or concerns about EAB. People can call Arrest the Pest, at 888-545-6684. The following web page was created with multiple resources available to the public. http://www.duluthmn.gov/parks/emerald-ash-borer/

Emerald Ash Borer Informational Meeting

WHAT: Public meeting to answer questions about the recent discovery of emerald ash borer on Park Point in Duluth.

WHEN:                  Thursday, December 10, 2015, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.

WHERE:  Lafayette Community Recreation Center

3026 Minnesota Avenue, Duluth, MN 55802

On October 23, 2015, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) confirmed an EAB infestation on Park Point in the city of Duluth. The find was discovered as part of a three-year study the MDA is conducting in partnership with the city.

Those attending the upcoming meeting will have an opportunity to listen to presentations on EAB, hear about local plans to deal with the insect, and learn how residents can limit the spread of the bug. Experts from the MDA, city of Duluth, University of Minnesota, and other state and federal partner agencies will be available to answer questions.

WHO: Representatives from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, city of Duluth, University of Minnesota, and other state and federal partner agencies will be available to answer questions.

The public will also have an opportunity to provide input on the adoption of a formal EAB quarantine of Park Point. An emergency quarantine was placed on the area when EAB was discovered.

The MDA will take comments on the formal quarantine from November 30, 2015 – January 15, 2016 and proposes to adopt the quarantine on February 1, 2016. The quarantine limits the movement of ash trees and limbs, and hardwood firewood off of Park Point. The proposed quarantine language can be found atwww.mda.state.mn.us/eab. Comments can be made at the public meeting on December 10 or by contacting:

Kimberly Thielen Cremers
Minnesota Department of Agriculture

625 Robert Street North

St. Paul, MN 55155

kimberly.tcremers@state.mn.us

Fax: 651-201-6108

Emerald ash borer larvae kill ash trees by tunneling under the bark and feeding on the part of the tree that moves nutrients up and down the trunk. Minnesota is highly susceptible to the destruction caused by invasive insect. The state has approximately one billion ash trees, the most of any state in the nation. For more information on emerald ash borer, go to www.mda.state.mn.us/eab.

This forested wetland area was thought to be in protected, “conservation” status.

Read more about this in the Reader:

Pontliana Woods in the Reader

Aerial photo of the woods:

Park point woods for sale

Currently a group of Park Pointers is working to keep this land protected from future development. St. Louis County has been selling off properties in that vicinity.

17th-18th on Superior Bay

Thursday, December 10, 2015

6-7:30pm

 Lafayette Square Community Center

Press Release

An excerpt is below:

Duluth area residents invited to public meeting concerning emerald ash borer

Public can also weigh in on adoption of a formal quarantine of Park Point in Duluth

1. PAUL, Minn. – Residents of Duluth are invited to a public meeting on Thursday, December 10, 2015 regarding the discovery of emerald ash borer (EAB) in the city.

On October 23, 2015, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) confirmed an EAB infestation on Park Point in the city of Duluth. The find was discovered as part of a three-year study the MDA is conducting in partnership with the city.

Those attending the upcoming meeting will have an opportunity to listen to presentations on EAB, hear about local plans to deal with the insect, and learn how residents can limit the spread of the bug. Experts from the MDA, city of Duluth, University of Minnesota, and other state and federal partner agencies will be available to answer questions.

Emerald Ash Borer Informational Meeting

WHAT:            Public meeting to answer questions about the recent discovery of emerald ash borer on Park Point in Duluth.

WHEN:            Thursday, December 10, 2015, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.

WHERE:             Lafayette Community Recreation Center

3026 Minnesota Avenue, Duluth, MN 55802

WHO:            Representatives from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, city of Duluth, University of Minnesota, and other state and federal partner agencies will be available to answer questions.