Straw Hat Players Opens Summer Season with Nostalgic Humor

Gooseberry Park Players continues collaboration with MSUM Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Straw Hat Players Summer Theatre opens its 53rd season with Church Basement Ladies. Inspired by Growing Up Lutheran, a book by Janet Letnes Martin and Suzann Nelson, Church Basement Ladies is a humorous “scrapbook of memories” of growing up Lutheran in the 1950’s Midwest. The musical runs May 31 […]

Become a 2016-2017 Minnesota GreenCorps Member

Minnesota GreenCorps is an AmeriCorps program, coordinated by the MPCA, which places AmeriCorps members with organizations around the state to spend 11 months, beginning September 14, 2016, addressing environmental issues and building community resilience. More information on the program is available here. MPCA is planning to place up to 40 full-time Minnesota GreenCorps members with local governments, nonprofit organizations and […]

Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month Facts

In 2014, Microsoft became the largest company with an Asian CEO, Satya Nadella. Andrea Jung of Avon became the first non-white woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company in 1999. Jay Kim of California is the first Korean-American in Congress (1992). Chinese immigrants were the main workforce to lay tracks for the railroad expansion. At the peak of production, up […]