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ICE ARENA: Skating community teams up with city PAGE 3A
BY RACHEL M. ANDERSON CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Visiting an antique store is like going on a journey back in time. Most shops are fi lled with old furniture, paintings, dishes and knickknacks, but sometimes amazing treasures are found. More than a decade ago, Carolyn Porter visited a now-closed antique store in downtown Stillwater that proved most fortuitous. “I have an affection for old handwriting, and I had been keeping an eye out for old letters I could use as source material for a new computer font,” said Porter, a graphic designer in White Bear Lake. “But until that day, I had not found letters that included enough raw material to work with.” For her font, Porter needed a handwriting sample that had a complete array of both upper and lowercase letters, along with numbers. She found exactly what she had been looking for in a collection of letters written during World War II by a Frenchman named Marcel Heuzé. “I was drawn not only to Marcel’s beautiful, swashed handwriting, but to the papers the letters had been written on. The yellowed pages were covered with faded ink and stripes of blue and red had been painted in the background,” recalled Porter, who bought five of the 20 or so letters for sale. “They cost just over $6 apiece; $30 was all I felt comfortable spending that day.” Over the next several years, Porter
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Author Carolyn Porter stands by a banner illustrating her trademarked font. The banner will accompany the White Bear Lake resident on a book signing tour.
worked on the font in her spare time. She fi nished the font in late 2013, and was honored when P22 Type Foundry, a New York-based distributor that specializes in fonts based on art, history, and design, wanted “Marcel” to be part of its curated collection. Since its release, P22 Marcel Script has garnered five awards, including the
prestigious Certificate for Typographic Excellence from the New York Type Director’s Club. However, the creation of the P22 Marcel Script is only part of the story. A few years before the release of the font, Porter took on another project. SEE LETTERS, PAGE 8A
Standing-room-only crowd turns out to support Tally’s music nights BY DEBRA NEUTKENS EDITOR
WHITE BEAR LAKE — Music by the Lake is not going away, patrons may just need to take a shuttle to hear it. At the end of a packed public hearing May 22 that lasted three-plus hours, the Planning Commission lifted most constraints recommended by city staff on Tally’s Dockside, which has been operating outside of the city’s zoning code for years.
Owners Keith and Jan Dehnert requested an amendment to an existing conditional use permit to expand restaurant seating at their restaurant on Lake Avenue S., adding even more seating to “Music By The Water” nights. In her introduction to commissioners, Associate Planner Samantha Crosby said staff has no desire to “squash” the use that has grown at the business the last five to seven years. “We are recommending an interim solution with carefully crafted condi-
tions we believe will allow music by the water to continue while minimizing negative effects on businesses and residences,” she said. Crosby added that the venue is an integral part of what makes the only commercial waterfront on White Bear Lake so dynamic and desirable. “However, the operations have grown in intensity over the years and some aspects of the business no longer comply with code. Primarily they are seating and parking.”
The Dehnerts purchased the building on the west side of Lake Avenue, CG Hooks, and the marina 28 years ago. They turned the business into more than just a boat rental in 2008 when they opened a restaurant and in 2014, obtained a full liquor license, catering from the CG Hooks side of the street to the Tally’s building and patio. Live music started in 2000. During those expansions, the
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