The Duluth Taco Festival will be held at the DECC today.

I hope that the toxic smoke will be gone; so I can eat tacos at this event.

The North Pointe Resource Center/Rainbow Center

On Thursday, the center was closed because of toxic air.  The toxic air is from wildfires in Minnesota and Canada; not because I had eaten a bean burrito.

On Friday, the center was closed due to the staff having an important event at another location.  There is room on that page for more explanation of where that event was or what happened at that important event.

What did I find posted on the Second Street pedestrian walkway bulletin board?

This bulletin board is between the North Pointe Resource Center/Rainbow Center to the north and King Manor to the south. Old posters have disappeared, while new posters have appeared.

Attention!

The staff at the North Pointe Resource Center / Rainbow Center reminds people to stop feeding the local animals.

I document the continuing saga of the parking lot pothole.

Now filled with rocks, a questionable repair job, this pothole is in the former Johnson auto parts & supply store parking lot.

I saw a tricycle motorcycle, my first for the year 2026.

I saw it traveling southeast on East Central Entrance, next to Rice Lake Road and Mesaba Avenue.

Smoky air

“Northern News Now Meteorologist Allison Jacoby just informed us that the current Air Quality Index for Duluth has now crossed the 1,000 mark. This unprecedented level of air quality is dangerous to everyone. You are advised to stay indoors and run an air purifier if you can.”

 

For the past 2 days, toxic smoke keeps me indoors.  I am often wearing only my underwear and socks to keep cool, inside my apartment without AC.