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| EDITION 612 - 03/17/2026 |
| The monthly bourse will be this Saturday. |
| Happy Saint Patrick's Day! |
| I hope to post the program at the library for this month soon. We are still looking for presenters. |
| I received an email asking if the library was closing on any day this week due to weather. I don't know. We need a way of reporting that. We don't have anyone making daily updates to our web page and I doubt anyone ever will. I think we have a Facebook page, but I have never visited it, and I assume that it gets updated even less than the web page. I will ask the board if they have any ideas. For now, I can tell you when there is poor weather it is unlikely for the library to be open. |
| Golden Valley is not having an internet auction this month. They will resume in April. |
| I sold most of my St. Patrick's Day covers a few years ago. I can't keep everything and I got one of those offers that I could not refuse. It's one of those areas that is very inexpensive to collect. A lot of my covers came from St. Patrick, MO. Since then, I have accumulated a small collection of them again. The one below is one I kept. It is simple and clean, and it was probably a dollar or less. |
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| I know everyone claims to be Irish on March 17th. I make that claim all year long. My grandfather claimed to be born in Ireland. He did have many relatives there, but his family moved here prior to 1870, and my grandpa was born in 1897 in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Like many Irish immigrants they had first settled in Boston prior to moving to Minnesota. His Dad and Uncle's were stone masons and that brought them to the St. Cloud area. They owned a large quarry at one point that is now parkland that my family donated to St. Cloud in the 1960's. Granite for the Minneapolis City Hall came from that quarry as well as other quarries in the area. Ironically, I found out that my wife had relatives that worked in the same quarry, but we believe in our genealogy search they would have missed each other by about 10 years. Enough about my claim to being Irish and my family history. |
| To sign up for the Toozeday Nooze go to our website at NORPS.org, there you will find a link for the Toozeday Nooze and on the event page where you can sign up to receive the Nooze every week and keep up on events and programs at the library as well as happenings with the local stamp clubs and shows. I have been told this does not work with some phones but should be accessible from your computer. You do not need to be a member of the library to receive this, but I encourage you to do so. We are run and organized 100% by volunteers and your donations keep the doors open and the lights on. |
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| If you have anything that you want shared let me know at pjflaherty58@gmail.com |
| Upcoming Events: |
| Date and Time | Fourth Saturday of the Month- March 28, 2026 at 11:00AM |
| Event | Upcoming Library Programs TBD |
| Location | Northern Philatelic Center, 1110 Lowry Ave No. Minneapolis, MN
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| Date and Time | Tuesday 17, March 2026 at 7:00 PM |
| Sponsor | Saint Cloud Area Stamp Club |
| Event | Monthly Meeting |
| Location | Atonement Lutheran Church 1144 29th Ave. N St. Cloud Please use South entrance |
| Date and Time | Wednesday 18, March 2026 at 10:00 a.m. to Noon |
| Event | Stamp Academy |
| Location | Northern Philatelic Center, 1110 Lowry Ave No. Minneapolis, MN If you want to know anything about stamps, this is the place. There is an expert on staff every Wednesday between 10:00 a.m. and noon with over 30 years of experience cataloging stamps for some of the largest dealers in the country. For those people that have a collection that was handed down and are looking for what to do with the collection, this is a great opportunity to learn about your options. |
| Date and Time | Thursday 19, March 2026 at 6:00 PM |
| Sponsor | Twin City Philatelic Society |
| Event | Monthly Second Meeting |
| Location | LaBelle Condominiums II 1011 41st Ave. NE Columbia Heights, MN |
| Coffee and cookies are available. Circuits books and general meeting and discussion. |
| Date and Time | Saturday 21, March 2026 at 11:00 a.m. |
| Event | Library Bourse |
| Location | Northern Philatelic Center, 1110 Lowry Ave No. Minneapolis, MN Every stamp club member and all collectors are invited to participate in this free monthly event. We started this as a monthly event, and it has continued to grow and expand. Just bring your stamps, covers, stories and any other philatelic items to sell, trade and buy. There will be refreshments available, so come and participate. It's like a garage sale for stamp collectors. Come a little early to get the best spot and set up your stuff. |
| Date and Time | Tuesday 24, March 2026 at 5:00 Social Hour, 6:00 Meeting |
| Sponsor | Minnesota Postal History Society |
| Event | Monthly Meeting |
| Location | Pax Christi Catholic Community 12100 Pioneer Trail, Room 211 Eden Prairie, MN 55347 |
| Program |
| Date and Time | Wednesday 25, March 2026 at 10:00 a.m. to Noon |
| Event | Stamp Academy |
| Location | Northern Philatelic Center, 1110 Lowry Ave No. Minneapolis, MN If you want to know anything about stamps, this is the place. There is an expert on staff every Wednesday between 10:00 a.m. and noon with over 30 years of experience cataloging stamps for some of the largest dealers in the country. For those people that have a collection that was handed down and are looking for what to do with the collection, this is a great opportunity to learn about your options. |
| Date and Time | Thursday 26, March 2026 from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. |
| Sponsor | Maplewood Stamp Club |
| Location | Community of Grace Lutheran Church 4000 Linden St White Bear Lake, MN |
| Event | Monthly Meeting |
| Auction |
| Date and Time | Saturday 28, March 2026, 11:00 a.m. |
| Event | Program TBD
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| Location | Northern Philatelic Center, 1110 Lowry Ave. No. Minneapolis, MN |