Profile: Sari Gordon
History
- Member for
- 39 years 47 weeks
Recently written
“A Woman of Action"
Reading that Mayor Chris Coleman hired Melanie Huggins as director of the St. Paul Public Library last year, one wondered if he'd done so at least in part for the mere embraceability of her name. Certainly one could not be blamed for imagining that Ms. Huggins, a Southerner with an almost impossibly sunny nature, had arrived at the office via umbrella. Yet soon after she landed, she decided to close one of the most popular branches-Merriam Park-on Sundays, giving residents reason to wonder if she hadn't actually flown in on a broom.
Cat Scratch Fever
About a year ago, on an April afternoon, Al Wolter drove to his neighbor’s house in Sandstone to help with a controlled burn. The neighbor, Cynthia Gamble, a wild-animal trainer, was his best female friend and the two regularly shared cocktails and sang karaoke together on his home machine. “She had an earthy sense of humor,” he said, an affectionate way of indicating that Cyndi could tell a good dirty joke. Gamble seemed to be most comfortable with male friends and often phoned Wolter to let off steam about personal problems. Lately, the problems had been mounting.
