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By Robert Franklin Star Tribune Staff Writer EDGERTON, MINN. It is a cautious break with four decades of tradition: For the first time, community swimming pool is open on Sundays. Cautious it is, since Sunday swimming was allowed first as an experiment, just for June, and by a 3-2 vote of the City Council. But only from 1 to 5 p.m., so that it interfere with church services. The June experiment has been extended for the summer, with some dissent in the community, although not from council members.

Virtually nothing else, except five churches, is open on Sunday no gas station, restaurant, hardware or convenience store. You can buy gasoline with a credit card, but no attendant. In some ways Edgerton, with a conservative Dutch heritage, continues the spirit of Colonial-era blue laws origi- nally printed on blue paper that once restricted commercial activity and entertainment on Sundays across the nation, and still do in some places and sometimes in odd ways. Either by court decision or legislative action, most states have abolished most blue laws. Minnesota grocery stores were closed by law on Sunday until 1962 and by labor con- tracts in some areas until 1987.

Auto dealers remain closed, but the 1985 Legislature repealed an old law that had banned sales of clothing, shoes and most other goods. Metscape A Northfield farmhouse goes to town. Also, other items of interest across the Twin Cities area. Turn to B3. Getting There A nifty State Fair parking tip.

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Vikings topped Fab Four in The Beatles were already a phenomenon when their second U.S. tour brought them to Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington on Aug. 21, 1965. About 30,000 fans squirming, writhing, clapping wrote the Minneapolis Tribune heard opening sets by Hannibal and the Headliners and other acts before the Beatles emerged from the dugout at about 8:30 p.m. The Fab Four walked across the infield to the stage, which was set up over second base, and launched into their first number, a In a little under an hour, they played 11 songs, to which the crowd and its approval.

The show was one of the few the Beatles sell out. By contrast, more than 43,000 came out for a Vikings exhibition game against the Philadelphia Eagles that same weekend. Kevin Frazzini From the mouth of a 7-year-old Last summer my daughter Jo Nell visited us from Seville, Spain. While here, her daughter Mercedes had her 14th birthday, and her daughter Elena Marie turned 7 a few weeks later. After her birthday party, Elena Marie came up to me and said, sure glad only 7 and not 14.

When you are only 7, there is much to learn, and I like to learn things. When you are 14, you know J.P. Kvamme, Mankato Have a Diary item? Write, Star Tribune, 425 Portland Av. Minneapolis, MN 55488, or email Sunday, August 18, 2002 www.startribune.com/metro RWBGY INDEX Faces Places B4 Obituaries B6-B8 Weather B10 If you have comments or complaints about this section, contact the representative at 612673-4450 or readerrep 0COMMENTS0 SUNDAY EXTRAS C.J. Turn to B4.

Doug Grow Turn to B2. Canoe builders lace one up for a voyage Photographs by Marlin Tribune Grant Goltz split a length of white cedar to get it down to size for use as planking in the 27-foot-long canoe behind him. At top, a closeup of the sidewalls being tied to the gunwales. By Chuck Haga Star Tribune Staff Writer HACKENSACK, MINN. With the patience of the forest, Christy Caine and Della Jones scrape spruce roots to sew into birch bark, binding the thick but supple strips of bark to cover thin, curving planks of aromatic white cedar.

The sleek yet substantial canoe taking shape behind them is nearly 27 feet long, a replica of the workhorse of the 18th- century fur trade. quarter-mile of spruce Caine says, examining a piece maybe 18 inches long. what sew it with. These fur-trade canoes, they She and Grant Goltz build canoes and kayaks at their cabin between Hackensack and Longville, doing most of their business from an Internet site. Della and her husband, Jim, members of the Leech Lake Band of Chippewa, sometimes help with the canoes, gathering materials from the forest, splitting and shaping cedar ribs and threading roots through bark.

Goltz and Jim Jones had talked recently about making a big canoe, the kind that trappers heaped full of trade goods as they traveled into the wilderness and filled with thick bales of pelts on the way out. Then, early this year, came the e-mail from France, as startling as the arrival must have been more than two centuries ago. Six young Frenchmen wrote to say they want to retrace the 1827 canoe and hiking route of famed Scottish botanist David Douglas, a journey of discovery from the Columbia River in Oregon to Hudson Bay in Canada. you make us a big they asked. The name lives on Douglas, born in Scotland in 1799, may be the most famous plant hunter of all time, though he was a self-taught botanist and died young, in Hawaii in 1834.

In 1825, the London Horticultural Society sent him to the west coast of North America, where he inventoried and shipped to Europe hundreds of plant varieties. He gave his name to many of them, including the Douglas maple, the Douglas water hemlock and Douglas aster. Coming ashore at the Columbia River, he scampered through blueberry bushes and clumps of coral bells, according to an account in William 1973 biography, In a Vanished But his attention was fixed on enormous trees, clad to the very ground with wide- spreading pendant branches, and from the gigantic size which they attain form one of the most striking and truly graceful objects in The tree has been known since as the Douglas fir. In 1827, Douglas set out from the mouth of the Columbia, collecting plant specimens along the way. At York Factory, a Bay Co.

outpost south of present-day Churchill, Manitoba, he caught a ship for England. CANOE continues onB9: shows original route. DFLer fights to win again Sen. John Hottinger is facing several preelection challenges, including one involving residency. By Robert Whereatt Star Tribune Staff Writer It might help if DFL Sen.

John Hottinger were a juggler, for few legislators have as many balls in the air this summer as the assistant majority leader from St. Peter. Or is that Mankato? Republicans are alleging that Hottinger, who still owns a home outside of Mankato, has not established legal residence in St. Peter, where he rented an apartment to get into a legislative district whose boundaries changed earlier this year in a court-ordered reapportionment. The Republican Party in Blue Earth County has asked the state Supreme Court to take the name off the ballot.

The high court will decide the issue later this month. just one of the balls trying not to drop. Two Frenchmen will use the craft to retrace an route from the Columbia River to Hudson Bay. Goltz and Della Jones tied the birch bark to the gunwales with spruce tree roots. This canoe will take about quarter-mile of spruce said Christy Caine, one of its builders.

0DIARY0 0RETRO0 The Beatles ALSO INSIDE: notebook B5 HOTTINGER continueson B5 SUNDAY continueson B9 ALSO INSIDE: with B9 Town takes plunge after 40 years: You can swim on Sunday Twin" Cities 75" mile MINNESOTA Edgerton Election 2002 Retired Judge Daniel F. Foley dies By Liz Fedor Star Tribune Staff Writer Daniel F. Foley, who served on the first Minnesota Court of Appeals, died Saturday of a heart attack in Nashville. He was 80 and lived in Maplewood. He died two weeks after he and his second wife, Jeane, were married by the Catholic archbishop of San Francisco.

Foley and his wife were traveling across the United States and planned to attend the National American Legion Convention in Charlotte, N.C. He had been a national commander of the American Legion and worked with President John F. Kennedy to get the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty passed. FOLEY continueson B6.