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Organizers for Minnesota’s Capital for a Day program hope you’ll be there to see it at a 5:43 a.m. sunrise ceremony that kicks off a daylong schedule of community activities.
Festivities include music, food vendors, a visit from Gov. Tim Pawlenty and will close with a fireworks display.
The event, which celebrates the state’s 150th anniversary, is geared toward families, and most activities are free, said Peggy Whalen, a public relations official for the celebration.
Activities also includes “truth and reconciliation” discussions between Dakota, Ojibwa and Ho-Chunk tribal leaders; representatives of city, state and federal governments; and local civic and religious leaders.
Winona was one of five towns selected as an honorary capital by the Minnesota Sesquicentennial Commission after two weeks of online voting by more than 10,000 state residents.
On their ballots, residents lauded the town’s American Indian and European immigrant heritage, its history as a logging hub and its scenic location.
The area’s geographic beauty will also be commemorated on a special postage stamp issued at 1 p.m. May 17 at the Capitol in St. Paul. Commemorative stamps can only be issued once every 50 years.
For more information on Capital for a Day activities, call Visit Winona at (507)
452-0375 or visit www.visitwinona.com or www.cityofwinona-mn.com.
Capital celebration
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