A local person wanted to share this, they wish to remain anonymous.  Thank you for the contribution to this site:

“Some of you may be wondering what happened to the old playground equipment that used to be at the end of park point, before the playground was remade about a year ago.  Well it was tossed in a dumpster.

My husband and I couldn’t believe that they would just toss everything out and not try to sell or give it away.  Well, we went dumpster diving before the garbage truck came and managed to save a slide and tire swing.  My husband built a playgound on our property for our kids.  So these two nice pieces of equipment will be enjoyed for years to come, instead of being buried in a land fill.

Our DIY playground has a swing, tire swing, rope balance beam, rock climbing wall, rope ladder, slide, and fireman’s pole.  Here’s some pictures of the playground, built this spring & summer.”

Added Lake Superior Marine Museum Association webcam on the right of the page, under upcoming events.  Took the idea from Chuck’s PPCC Wiki page.

I just uploaded the August Breeze…

20090824_August_Breeze_2009.pdf

I happened to get my hands on an old vintage breeze from back in March, 2002.  I had to scan it in and post it to our breeze library.  Click TheBreeze at the top of the page, scroll down to 2002, and take a trip down memory lane!

If you have any old copies of The Breeze laying around, that we don’t have on our web site already.  I’d be interested in scanning them in and giving you credit on the web site.  So dig em out and let me know where to pick them up!  I’ll return them when done scanning.

I’ve been notified by Dawn Buck that the Good Dog Club not meeting until week of September.

The upcoming events have been updated.

If you’re like me, you are very interested to see the statistics for the www.parkpointcommunityclub.org web site. Stats can be confusing if you aren’t familiar with the terminology, so I’ll do my best to explain them as we go.

These numbers are for the dates July 1 – July 28, 2009:
• 268 unique visitors – This means 268 different computers looked at the website at least once.
• 518 visits – this means the 268 different computers came back again, an average of 1.93 times.
• 1710 pages – this means every one of the 518 visits, looked at an average of 3.3 pages per visit.

Computers from many different countries looked at pages on the web site. Here they are listed in order of most pages to least. Added up, these equal the 1710 pages number.
• United States (1424)
• China (105)
• Russian Federation (61)
• Kazakhstan (21)
• Canada (18)
• Great Britain, Romania, Denmark, Indonesia, Sweden, Japan, France, Ukraine, Cyprus, South Africa, Nigeria, Chile, Taiwan, European country (all with 10 pages or less)

Here’s the operating systems that visit, based off of hit percent.
• Windows (86%)
• Macintosh (7%)
• Unknown (6%)
• Linux (1%)

Here’s the browsers that access the web site, based off of hit percent:
• MS Internet Explorer (50%)
• Firefox (36%)
• Safari (4%)
• unknown, Mozilla, Opera, Google Chrome, and Netscape (all with 2% or less)

Reformatted TheBreeze and also added the July Breeze, you can check out these updates by clicking TheBreeze at the top of the page.

The following information is from Debra McLaughlin:

51st Duluth International Rowing Regatta

For Park Pointers who wish to enjoy the 51st Annual Duluth International Rowing Regatta, below is the schedule of events. Races are scheduled to start at 8 am and run through about 5 pm. The list of participating teams and their uniform colors is also listed so you can cheer these athletes on. (Note: your home team Duluth Rowing Club is in maroon and white.)

Races are scheduled to take place starting just to the south of Hearding Island and ending at the Duluth Rowing Club. If the wind makes the Bay too choppy we will be on the Lake side along that same stretch.

Please come and cheer on our wonderful athletes

2009 Duluth International Regatta
July 11, 2009
Schedule of Events

8:00 AM
1. Women’s 8+
2. JR Men’s 1X
3. Men’s 4X
4. Master Men’s 2X
5. Women’s 1X
6. JR Women’s 8X
7. JR Men’s 4X
8. M Women’s 2X
9. Women’s 4X
10.JR Women’ 4X
11. Men’s 1X
12. Master Mixed 8+
13. JR Men’s 2X
14. JR Womens 4+
15. Women’s 4X
BREAK
16. Men’s 4+
17. M Men’s 4X
18. JR Men’s 8+
19. JR Women’s 2X
20. M Women’s 4X
21. M Men’s 1X
22. Men’s 2X/2-
23. M Women’s 1X
24. JR Men’s 4+
25. M Men’s 4-
26. Women’s 2X/2-
27. Men’s 8+
28. JR Women’s 1X
29. M Women’s 4-

CLUB COLORS:
Duluth Rowing Club, MN: Maroon & white
Kenora Rowing Club, Canada: Sky blue and navy
Mendota Rowing Club, MN: Green and yellow
Minneapolis Boat Club, MN: Kelly Green and white
Minnesota Boat Club (St. Paul, MN): Cherry red and white
Rochester Rowing Club, MN: Green and white
St Croix Rowing Club, MN: Blue and orange
Thunder Bay Rowing Club, Ontario Canada: Royal Blue and white

Thanks to all of our neighbors for your support and encouragement!

I’ve converted and uploaded 36 vintage editions of “The Breeze”.  This treasure trove of breeze can be viewed by clicking TheBreeze on the top of this site.

These are all the digital copies of “The Breeze” that we know of, if you have any other digital copies, send them to me and I’ll post them.

The following information is from Duluth Rowing Club volunteer Debra McLaughlin:

“I am one of the many, many volunteers working with the Duluth Rowing Club on our 51st Annual Duluth International Rowing Regatta. The date is Saturday, July 11, 2009. The teams from around the upper Midwest and Canada will begin arriving on Friday night with their trailers full of rowing shells. Saturday brings a full day of exciting racing. Our first choice is always to race on the Bay between the rowing club and Hearding Island. If the winds make that to rough we move to the Lake.”