by Spas Spasov | Aug 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
Three to five years takes the procedure for acquiring U.S. citizenship, said yesterday Magistrate Judge Yeane J. Graham of the U.S. District Court in St. Paul Minnesota. She made the Opening notes for the naturalization ceremony of 209 people from 53 countries that...
by Paul Henson | Aug 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
It was front page news in the local newspaper, The Ely Echo: WORLD PRESS FORUM SET IN ELY (pronounced as Ee-lee). “If you’re curious about how journalists see the world, you’ll want to attend,” it said. For a very far city with a population of 3,000...
by Veronica Kwabla | Aug 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
Even before we left to Ely, everyone said it was a beautiful place. Was Ely that beautify, we had two days to find out. The much anticipated journey started Sunday morning, we drove through some iron ore mining towns, I realized it was no joke, this town is really...
by Carson Scott | Aug 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
The music vamping in the leadup to the Naturalization Ceremony at St Paul MN’s Landmark Center had strains of London’s choice of podium music (Vangelis’s Chariots of Fire) for the 2012 Olympics … uplifting, inspiring, paying homage to success. An apt...
by Shakir Reshamwala | Aug 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
Immigrants take the oath. Sana Hersi became an American citizen today. The 28-year-old fled war-torn Somalia in 2000, and it has been a long journey for the young mother from Mogadishu to Minneapolis. “It feels good,” she beamed. Hersi was among 208...
by Tao Fu | Aug 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
Two day’s journey on train, the whole night’s waiting in line, and then ONE minute’ interview with the doctor…… when Mr. Stephen N. Oesterle, the senior vice president of medicine and technology department in Medtronic Inc., mentioned the...
by Vera Krichevskaya | Aug 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today was a beautiful day that cheered me up a lot. It was the best time to go to Nationalization Ceremony in S.-Paul, MN right after a great speech of Mr. Steve Oesterle, in Medtronic headquarter in Minneapolis, where I was paralyzed and simultaneously delighted by...
by Vera Krichevskaya | Aug 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
Friday evening, an art gallery, a lot of people, Sauvignon Blanc, handsome man and real artist is host a party, painting and graphics around, smart casual, noisy, very noisy, guests are coming and going, mixing and moving around. Close-up: a director grabs a main...
by Spas Spasov | Aug 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
If you don’t know whatthe “wolf management” means, Ely, Mivesota is where you can learn more about it. In thisl town of about 15 thousand people near the Canadian border is situated the “International wolf center. According to...
by Paul Henson | Aug 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
The thought of me doing it in the U.S. gave me a little anxiety. Doing self-service laundry, that is. You see, in Manila, it is easy, quick and inexpensive to get someone else to do the laundry, often by hand. The thought of figuring out the types of...
