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• LSF Happy Hour

  

  JOIN US FOR Happy Hour 4:00-6:00 pm Thursday,
  April 2 at Mexico Lindo, Fitger’s Brewery Complex

  Meet your fellow Freethinkers at our old haunt: Mexico Lindo within the Fitger’s complex. We’ll be there from 4:00 pm until 6:00 pm to share stories, questions, and TexMex food choices or just some half-priced drinks. Park in the public garage and bring your ticket. The server will validate your parking and we will validate (some of) your unusual ideas. Why not bring a friend?

• LLO – harmful algal blooms, microplastics, lakes in winter, warming of Lake Superior.

  Sunday Apr. 5. at 10:00 at One Roof’s Central Hillside Community Center at 12 East 4th Street in Duluth (coffee / chat at 9:30). Zoom link

  

  Dr. Catherine O’Reilly, Director of the Large Lakes Observatory, Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, will give LSF an overview of current research.

• LSF Monthly Social

  

  APRIL SOCIAL DINNER
  Join us Wednesday, April 15 at 5:30 pm for this month’s LSF Social
  Dinner at Grandma’s in Canal Park (the one next to the Lift Bridge)

• NEAR Science

  Sunday May 1. at 10:00 at One Roof’s Central Hillside Community Center at 12 East 4th Street in Duluth (coffee / chat at 9:30). Zoom link

  Neuroscience, Epigenetics, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and Resilience

  

  The Family Services Collaborative of St. Louis County is, helping people understand how trauma shapes lives and how healing can begin, through our understanding NEAR Science, presentations, which explore how childhood trauma affects, children, families, and communities.
  For many of Us, trauma has been passed down through generations. Those of us who had a traumatic childhood are likely not the first in our family to experience that. But with knowledge, understanding, and support, we can be the ones to end those legacies. We can say, stops with us.
  The NEAR Science, short for Neuroscience, Epigenetics, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and Resilience, shows that high rates of childhood trauma increase the risk of negative outcomes. It also shows that what is predictable is preventable.

• LSF Happy Hour

  The 2026 National Day of Reason has been scheduled to coincide with our May Happy Hour on May 7. See the April newsletter for more information about the National Day of Reason.

  

  JOIN US FOR Happy Hour 4:00-6:00 pm Thursday,
  May 7 at Mexico Lindo, Fitger’s Brewery Complex

  Meet your fellow Freethinkers at our old haunt: Mexico Lindo within the Fitger’s complex. We’ll be there from 4:00 pm until 6:00 pm to share stories, questions, and TexMex food choices or just some half-priced drinks. Park in the public garage and bring your ticket. The server will validate your parking and we will validate (some of) your unusual ideas. Why not bring a friend?

• Bill van Druten Memorial fund

  

  A call for donations to the Bill van Druten (1932-2025) Memorial fund.
  Please consider making a contribution to the Bill van Druten Fund to strengthen Lake Superior Freethinkers, the organization he founded in 1997.
  Please send your checks made out to “Lake Superior Freethinkers” to
  Charles Gessert, LSF Treasurer, P.O. Box 3219,
  Duluth, MN 55803-3219

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