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INSIDE Fixit Bamboo has been suggested as wood flooring for some readers who are remodeling. like to know what it looks like, if a hard or soft wood and if endangered. Turn to E6. Books Midweek Lions of and of prove that politics can be murder. For more on these mysteries, turn to E3.

FYI Take an eagle to brunch Patriotic symbols have been everywhere in recent months. If like to see some living ones, head to Wabasha, and observe bald eagles from the viewing deck as they fish in the open waters of the Mississippi River. Or you may choose to have a to encounter with a live bald eagle at the National Eagle Center. March 16-17 is the 11th annual Soar With the Eagles Weekend, which offers eagle-related activities for adults and children including a brunch served while viewing the majestic birds. For a listing of events, times and costs, visit eaglewatch.org and go to from there click on the With the link.

You may also call the National Eagle Center at 1-651-565-4989 or the Wabasha Chamber of Commerce at 1-800-5654158 for more information. Today in Minnesota history 1852: Hennepin County is formed, named for Louis Hennepin, the Franciscan missionary who saw and named the Falls of St. Anthony in 1680. From Minnesota Book of published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press. TOMORROW Staying put Don Piotraschke was 17 years old when he went to work at the Greyhound Bus Depot in downtown Minneapolis.

That was in 1942. Sixty years later, still there. they had put something about me in the high school yearbook, it would have said he said, that I was too obscure to be VARIETY www.startribune.com/variety QUOTE beauty of the past belongs to the Margaret Bourke-White, U.S. photographer, speaking on modern photojournalism Abby, Landers E5 Movie listings E7 Comics E8-E9 E11 Television E10 Fixit E6 WEDNESDAY March 6, 2002 RWBGY 1234567 consider myself a professional Gary Knox, KARE-TV photojournalist. PHOTO FINISH For the first time, the three top national awards for television news photographers went to the same market the Twin Cities.

But viewers who are the real winners. By Darlene Pfister Star Tribune Staff Writer a frigid day last April, KARE-TV photojournalist Gary Knox was videotaping an angry creek for the evening news. Two young Olivia boys were missing, believed swept away in the icy runoff. Over the rush of the water and the scraping of a backhoe, earphone caught a softer sound. It was the voice of police chief, consoling the father of one of the boys.

Without removing his camera from its tripod, Knox panned from the creek to the men, more than 40 feet away. He zoomed in as the chief stood close to the grieving father. you want to be with your wife, a good the chief said gently, his words captured by the wireless microphone Knox had attached to his uniform hours earlier. probably needs In living rooms across the Twin Cities, that scene made the news report personal. typical of the intimate, storytelling moments that metro-area viewers have become accustomed to in their broadcast news.

That style of reporting telling a story with personal, powerful visuals and natural sound is what makes Twin Cities television news among the best in the nation, experts say. Although the reporters and anchors who are most visible to viewers, the people behind the camera who are responsible for gathering details with sensitivity and skill. Since 1958, when WCCO-TV, Channel 4, won the National Press Photographers first of the award, Twin Cities TV photojournalists have been considered national leaders. Last year, two stations, KARE-TV, Channel 11, and KSTP-TV, Channel 5, swept the top awards in the annual NPPA Television News Photography and Editing competition. Knox was named photographer of the year, KARE was named station of the year (KSTP was runner-up) and Jon Menell was named editor of the year.

KARE-TV photojournalist Gary Knox, last National Press Photographers television photographer of the year, leaves the story board in the car when on assignment. the story be what it he says. Jon Menell, above, was honored last year as the top television news photography editor. there is an art to journalism, said Dave Wertheimer, KSTP photojournalism manager. Darlene Tribune Stormi Tribune Teen drinking: a problem with staying power By H.J.

Cummins Star Tribune Staff Writer his much is clear: Parents, you must tell your children not to drink. You must tell them long before you prob- ably think necessary at least by sixth grade and keep telling them through their teenage years. Your wishes have a strong influence on your teens, study after study shows. That leaves one big problem, many parents say: What should be done with the reality that most teens will drink anyway? Eight in 10, in fact, will take at least one drink of alcohol before they finish high school. Teen drinking is a chronic problem: It show no signs of getting worse, but no signs of going away, either.

Parents say that has them struggling to send warnings of sufficient, but not exaggerated, alarm over the intoxicant that so many youngsters sample without harm but that devastates others. That means deciding how to react when your children come to you and say something like what Danny Shumpert, 15, of Minneapolis said to his mother, Kenvie: think be a drinker when I grow up. I tried some, and I like the taste, and it burned going For times like that, parents say, you have to know your children and you have to stay alert to signs of trouble. Teen drinking was back in the headlines last week, amid a controversial announcement by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse that teens consume about one-fourth of all the alcohol in this country. Other research puts that statistic at 11 percent.

In Minnesota, teen drinking habits have held mostly steady since the mid- 1990s, according to the Minnesota Student Survey of public schools. In the 2001 survey, about two-thirds of high school seniors said drunk alcohol within the past 12 months. PHOTO continues onE2: breeds DRINKING continues onE4: Parents need to know when to get help..