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Northwoods Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Brainerd/Pine River MN  May 3, 2015

Greetings! We are delighted to announce that our Goodbye Columbus Minnesota webpage is up for your information. Right now it can be found through our website, mnnuuf.org as an attached page. Soon it will also be available by direct googling. The link now is: www.mnnuuf.org/#!goodbye-Columbus-home/c1ogh. Long, I know. We hope you like the layout, and that it will be user-friendly to contact with your thoughts, news items, ideas, support. Apparently, it takes some time to get up and running on google, perhaps a few days, or longer.

We are also monitoring by the day, the progress or lack thereof, of the bill in the MN House, HF1858, putting into law the change from Columbus Day to American Indian and Indigenous Peoples Day. It has already passed the Senate in March. As part of our effort to continue follow up, we are planning a video conference to include people around the state to help set up strategies to help accomplish the change. There are a couple of scenarios; one, it could pass. Then how to carry forward with some substantial and achievable goals to improve race relations. It could be unacted upon, and die. Then would it carry over into the second session in October, or be totally dead and have to be reintroduced? In which case our efforts would be even more important.

Thank you all for hanging in there with us through this process, as far as we have gotten. As always, input is welcome!

Respectfully submitted, Mary DeYoung, news director NUUF  218-587-2543