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PSA: Now is a good time to make sure you've got a box fan and furnace filter if you live somewhere where smoke season has become a regular occurrence like the

Exposure to wildfire smoke can cause cancer and cardiovascular problems like heart attack and stroke

Despite looking janky, these things are highly effective due to having an extremely large area through which air can pass. They're also cheap and abundant. I can confirm MERV 12 works with my particulate meter

A photo of a box fan with a furnace filter rubberbanded to the back

In 1960, when I was in kindergarten, our teacher took us to watch the big kids go around the maypole for May Day. We were told that next year, we’d get to go around the maypole, too.

It never happened.

Senator Joe McCarthy declared May 1 a commie holiday and May Day vanished.

Well, courtesy of the Arts Council in , I got to make a paper maché rams head and go to their May Day celebration and, dammit, go around the maypole.

After 65 years, I’m finally a big kid.

Photo of me, my wife Shellie and one of the event organizers wearing our paper maché ram’s head hats.
Photo of my wife Shellie at the Freemont Arts Council May Day Celebration
Photo of me, going around the maypole 64 years after when I was supposed to do it.

🏳️‍🌈 It's official: You're invited to kick off in at a ceremony to raise the pride flag Sat, May 31 at noon at the flag pole outside City Hall (600 4th Ave). Hear from the LGBTQ Commission, Mayor, Councilmembers & community orgs - plus, it's the LGBTQ Commission's 40th anniversary! A casual reception (with treats!) will follow inside City Hall in the Bertha Knight Landes Room.