20th Annual
GALES of NOVEMBER 2007

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Friday, November 2
Noon       Grandma's Sports Garden - Quarterback Lounge  
Lee Radzak - Split Rock Lighthouse  
2 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.   FREE Bus Trip to Split Rock Lighthouse for Registered Attendees
6 p.m. - 8 p.m. Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center - Opening Gala sponsored by Lake Superior Magazine
Saturday, November 3
8 a.m. Registration opens    
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Ballroom J Welcome  
       
9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Ballroom J Speaker Ken Buehler - How Storms affect the Railroad
  French River Room Speaker Greg Rudnick - Winter Navigation
   
10:00 a.m.  Lake Superior Ballroom Children Gina Temple Rhodes - Lighthouse Keeper Narration
    Speaker Sophie - from Sophie's wreck to tell her story
    Section Andrea Asleson - reading Pail Mail 
       
10 a.m. - Noon Outside   Tour of Coast Guard Cutter - Sundew
       
10:30 a.m. - 11:15 am Ballroom J Speaker Fred Stonehouse - "They Had to Go Out"
       
11:30 a.m. - Noon Ballroom J Speaker Thom Holden - Duluth Crib from November 2006
  French River Room Speaker Kim Brungraber - Owner/Photographer KJB Productions
       
Noon - 1:30 p.m. Ballroom K Featured Speaker Fred Shusterich - Midwest Energy Resources Company
      "Midwest Energy Resources - A Success Story"
1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Ballroom J Speaker Rick Mixter - Coast Guard Cutter Resques
  French River Room Speaker  Jay Hansen - Sophie's Wreck
       
2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Ballroon J Speaker Ken Merryman - Understanding Steam Engines
  French River Room Speaker John Thibodeau - M/V Edwin H. Gott Underwater Hull Repair
       
3:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Ballroom J Speaker Steve Daniel - Preserving Lake Superior Shipwrecks
  French River Room Speaker Wayne Sapulski - Lighthouses of the Great Lakes
       
4:30 p.m. Lake Superior Ballroom   Silent Auction Ends
       
4:45 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Ballroom J Speaker Adolph Ojard, Gary Nicholson - Windmill Title to be given
       
5:30 p.m. Lake Superior Ballroom    Cruise of a Lifetime Drawing
6:00 p.m. Grandma's Saloon & Grill Upstairs Social Social, cash bar, hors-d-oeuvres