Posted on June 25, 2008 by Shawn
http://www.startribune.com/20741359.html
This year’s Olmsted County Fair will be smoke-free — even in outdoor areas like the midway.
The county’s Smoke-Free Workplace Ordinance and the Minnesota Freedom to Breathe Act went into effect after last year’s fair, so this will be the first year fairgoers will have to comply with the laws.
Rich Peter, Olmsted County’s environmental health director, [...]
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Posted on June 17, 2008 by Shawn
The Mainline Bar & Grill, located in Downer, MN, has posted the following comment on their website:
201!!! Remember that #. All right, this is gonna be a little awkward but I think it needs to be put out there. The Mainline is down 45% since the inception of the smoking ban. I was told there’d [...]
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Posted on June 16, 2008 by Shawn
I want to send a special thanks to Ryan Evans and Joey Monson at Ban the Ban Wisconsin for their support and encouragement. My only hope is that Ban the Ban Minnesota has a fraction of the success that they have had in Wisconsin.
I am slowly getting the main site up to par; you will [...]
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