Sustainable Twin Ports no longer sustainable - for the best of all possible reasons

Minnesota is the only state in the union that has always had a population of wild wolves, which is one of the reasons the International Wolf Center is headquartered here.

It all started with a donated box of river guide books.  While working at Ski Hut a few years ago, Jared Munch met an elderly couple who told him their paddling days were over, and handed him a cardboard box. Looking through the books, Munch discovered the Missinaibi River, an historic fur trade route used to travel between Lake Superior and James Bay.  The goal to paddle the route grew to starting in Duluth, and became a fundraiser for Neighborhood Youth Services in an effort to help kids get out into nature.

Antony Ferguson kind of grew up in the Hillside Youth Theater.  It's a theater-slash-academic-slash-life-skills program for the East and Central Hillside communities founded around twenty years ago.

Then around the time he started high school, he drifted away from the performing arts.

Now a theater major at UMD, it's fair to say Antony has "drifted back," and he's giving back, too, to the program that introduced him to "the smell of the greasepaint and the roar of the crowd."