St Louis Park High School - Echowan Yearbook (St Louis Park, MN)

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o Q. D In The News: “Heading the news tonight: — On the national scene: latest figures show that one out of every two marriages ends in divorce. — President Jimmy Carter spent the weekend with his family on the peanut farm back home in Plains, Georgia. — Locally, heavy snowfall and record lows plague the city. All Twin Cities schools will be closed tomorrow. This does not include St. Louis Park . . . o © o. (0 Not all of us enjoyed or cared about the things that went on outside our own personal world Where Jimmy Carter spent his free moment did not seem to have a dramatic effect upon our day to day lives If we were interested, we turned to Walter Cronkite, Time Magazine or the Star and Tribune for our information-NewsTTW happened hundreds of miles away did not affect us as much as the news that happened right here in our community. In our school, gossip and the news of a party spread quickly and it was not long before everyone knew what was supposed to be kept quiet. But. whether we knew it or not. news was a part of our lives. While we thought that earth-shaking events were the only things that made up the news, we in Park made the news in the things we did too. In this book, we will see ourselves as the focus of the news. We will see ourselves in our every day existence: the activities, the sports and the people that made up the 1978-79 school year. “And now we interrupt this regular broadcast to bring you the following Special Report:” To Dote

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weekend update Things to do for. . . Over $30 1. Neil Young Concert 2. A day at Afton Alps 3. Guthrie Theatre 4. Poppin Fresh's Burger 5. Dudley Rigg's If Only Wed Left It to Beaver 6. Malt Shop's Crepe. Coke $13.50 for 2 tickets $ 9.00 for 1 ticket $ 8.90 for 2 tickets $ 2.18 including tax $10.00 for 2 tickets $ 4.42 including tax To Dai