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published by the Arden Association •'`. No. 97 April 1976 TThank you for your response to last month's o request for feed -back from readers on your feelings about the Town Crier. I appreci- W ate your taking the time to write or tele- phone me with your comments. A quote from CNone of the letters I received says what was expressed a number of times: "I hope Rthe Town Crier can remain fundamentally an • instrument of the citizens of Arden Hills, since we are paying for it in the final an - Ealysis ...... on the other hand the Council views and suggestions and support are nec- R essary too. In my opinion, perhaps the ti bias should be 80/ citizens and 20% Council." In addition to this, specific suggestions and requests for inclusion of a variety of 'news' and 'feature' items were received. We will try to answer these requests in future issues. :- When the Council approved a budget for the Crier, agreement among the Council members that the paper of City Hall, but rather serve the community as an means of communication. The comments received dur residents are generally satisfied the Crier has do by the above quote and similar remarks, it seems views are wanted. This would be ideal, but withou the in -put can only come on a volunteer basis. In shall try to give you dates of up -coming meetings possible. Attendance at a meeting might stimulate and if so, the Town Crier is your place to express of all of us, one such offer has already been mad Below are her excellent comments: it was done with unanimous not function as the voice information source and a ing the past month indicate ne this; yet as evidenced more resident in -put and t a staff of reporters, response to requests, we and items on agendas when views and/or discussion, them. To the advantage e - by Diane McAllister. ..... "In order to help out the editor of the Town Crier, this embryonic re- porter attended the City Council meeting of March 22, hoping to stumble upon a Pulitzer Prize story. Unfortunately, the business of the Council that eve- ning was purely routine and, in fact, quite dull. The reporter from the New Brighton Bulletin and myself formed the entire audience. "The meeting opened at 7:35 P.M. and everybody was there except Jim Wingert. (Jim has been ill with this year's flu.....) The preceeding minutes were approved with some minor corrections. Mayor Crepeau asked if there was any business from the floor and looked at me inquiringly, since I was the only stranger present. When I shook my head "no", I couldn't tell if he was re- lieved or disappointed.