annual meeting
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friday, May 3TH
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PROGRAM WILL FEATURE:
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Guest speaker
John Halter, River Raconteur
John has spent over forty-five years living and working on boats, including US Coast Guard search and rescue vessels, river excursion boats, river towboats, river houseboats, and 38’ trawler on which he and his wife completed the Great Loop. Port engineer and river transportation manager (Shiely). Published columnist in Riverview Times, Pioneer Press and Star Tribune. Blogger. Pending memoirist.
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Excerpt from City Pages article "The Real Houseboats of the Mississippi" (byline Olivia LaVecchia):
John Halter, a man with the gruff voice of a captain, started working on the river when he was a 23-year-old fresh out of the Coast Guard, living on a boat at the SPYC. As a riverboat pilot, he took his boat past the Omaha Road Bridge every day, and radioed five or six times daily with the bridge-tender who ran it, a woman who "looked like Joan Baez," Halter remembers. She lived on a houseboat too, over at the old Lilydale Marina. Both of them got off their shifts at midnight. At 2 a.m., they hopped in their canoes and paddled down the river between their houseboats, three miles right through downtown St. Paul. Thirty-five years later, they're still married. "Back then, it was not uncommon for something like that to happen, or to do something like that," Halter says. Halter is the most seasoned kind of river resident, even though he officially moved off of a boat before he and his wife had their first son. He's the type some in the marina call by a name other than live-aboard: a river rat." |
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- Update on FOP2 Activities
- Upstream Riverbank Conservation Efforts
- Information about the 1 Mississippi Campaign
- A light supper will be served beginning at 5:00
- Please bring a dessert to share
This meeting, and our 2019 Between the Banks initiative are financially supported by a generous grant from the
1 Mississippi campaign of the Mississippi River Network (MRN). It's easy to sign up to become a River Citizen through the MRN, and you'll receive a FREE river cleanup bucket so you can participate in this continuous river cleanup "between the banks" of the Mississippi River.
1 Mississippi campaign of the Mississippi River Network (MRN). It's easy to sign up to become a River Citizen through the MRN, and you'll receive a FREE river cleanup bucket so you can participate in this continuous river cleanup "between the banks" of the Mississippi River.
a friendly reminder: It's time for membership renewal!
It's that time of year again when we ask you to renew your membership in Friends of Pool 2. All memberships and donations are tax deductible. We need your support to continue our efforts to keep Pool 2 of the Upper Mississippi a great place to live, fish, boat and canoe!