Welcome Aspen Institute to 56572 - the Global Village

Of course Thursday's homecoming of Josh Hanson is what we are waiting for.

Before that a Think Tank on Wheels is going to be passing through 56572 on a bus, thinking. This is part of the Aspen Institute's and Annie E. Casey Foundation's Midwestern Governors Association meeting entitled, "Strengthening Rural Families Action-Learning Institute" for Leadership Teams from Kansas, Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin.

They are interested in our diversity of course, not our concrete bird, and have allowed 56572 spokeswomen access to the bus microphone for the duration of the trip from Detroit Lakes to Fergus Falls. It is unlikely they will stop in 56572, as least that's the plan, unless we can think up a clever way to stop them. What's that I hear you say? Turn both stoplights to nighttime yellow so they won't even have to touch the brakes? Set up a detour? Lunch at Bridges? A burger with fried onions at the Pool Hall? A fire drill and ethnic fashion show in the crosswalks in front of PRHS? A good selection of used cars at CMF? Any others?

I hope all that thinking helps us help them learn and perhaps someday versa vice.

Would the reader who commented that the think tank bus should detour through Perham care to elaborate?