Speaking of time for a change, the Greater Downtown Council wasted not a second in repairing the long-dormant ornate clocks in downtown Duluth. The clocks' hands, removed last month after the GDC announced a grant by an anonymous donor to fix the civic timekeepers, were replaced yesterday. Still under repair are those in the Canal Park clock tower, GDC President Kristi Stokes explained.
"The Canal Park one is a different manufacturer," she said, "but I think they'll be here by the parade."
That's the Christmas City of the North Parade, of course, scheduled for Friday, Nov. 17. But before that, downtown boosters kick off a "45 Days of December" campaign with another public improvement program in which 29 businesses will bedeck their storefronts in red curtains, starting next week.
"On Monday, they'll be putting up the red curtains," Stokes said. "On Friday, they'll unveil their holiday window displays."
The red curtains are scheduled to be pulled back at 5:30 p.m. that day -- "On all the clocks," Stokes said.
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They'll be right on time.
