Welcome,Parks fans, to the futureand to the beginning of the end. Last season's feel-good finale ended with a surprise twist as the Parks and Rec universe leaped forward to 2017. The Knope-headed Pawnee branch of the National Parks Department was humming, the Knope-Wyatt triplets (2 sons, 1 daughter) were toddlers, Jerry was Terry, and an employee more incompetent than Jerry had been hired and fired (Ed, we hardly knew ya). Before jumping into the meat of the premiere, let's check in with our favorite Pawneeansthree years into the future.

Leslie Knope: Running the Pawnee office of the National Parks Service. Oversees over 1,200 people, all tireless creative geniusesexcept Terry and Ed (John Hamm). She's got bangs and is nursing a hell of a grudge.

Ron Swanson: Left the Parks Department two years ago to run his own company, the Very Good Building and Development Company.

Ben Wyatt: Still working happily in Pawnee city government, and being awarded Man of the Year for spearheading the Pawnee Bicentennial Celebrationhis biggest civic endeavor since the Icetown fiasco.

Tom Haverford: Tom's Bistro has taken off, and its eponymous owner is officially a mogul, named one of 35 under 35 by Indiana Business Monthly. Owns four eateries including the Tommy Chopper (chopped salads served from a decommissioned military helicopter). His fashion sense hasn't changed at all.

Andy Dwyer: Working part-time for Leslie and starring in his own TV show, The Johnny Karate Super Awesome Musical Explosion Show. Sprained a shoulder cleaning out a gutter.

April Ludgate-Dwyer: Also working for Leslie, purchasing renters' insurance, and no longer eating cereal out of frisbees, much to her horror. Deeply concerned that she's become boring.

Terry (Larry/Jerry/Gary) Gergich: Works for Leslie, still the office punching bag. Renamed Terry because there was already a Larry at National Parks. Appears as Mailman Barry/literal punching bag on The Johnny Karate Super Awesome Musical Explosion Show.

Donna Meagle: Running Regal Meagle Realty and freshly engaged to paramour Joe.

With that out of the way, let's get into it. The premiere picks upright where we left off in season 6, with Leslie talking a mile a minute to an ever-patient Ben en route to a meeting. Advancing Leslie toruna branch of the National Parks Service was an important move for a character whose ambition and skill had outgrown the municipalParks Department. But it should surprise no one that she still takes an interest in the doings of Pawnee, particularly when those doings could include the creation of a new national park right in her belovedcity.

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Scammers posing as utility or home repair workers have been targeting homes in and around the Quad Cities according to Davenport Police.

The scammers target homes at times when no one is expected to be home, or they work as a team to get inside.

Typically, these burglars will know on your door and be very persistent in distracting you, while their partners enter your home and burglarize it, said a release from Davenport Police.

The scammers often tell the victim there is some sort of emergency, like a water main break, that requires them to get inside your home right away.

Police said the scammers use other techniques as well, including offering to shovel walks or remove tree stumps or perform other work at your home. The scammers typically travel in groups of two to five people.

Once inside, the scammers take items from the home.

Its a technique similar to one Rock Island Police reported in July 2014, when they said people were going door-to-door offering gutter cleaning as a scam to actually try to get inside to steal items from local homes.

Police say you should keep doors and windows locked, even when you are home, and never open your door to anyone you dont know.

Do not be fooled by phony uniforms, work vests or ID badges. If you did not call or request the service, do not open the door, the police statement said.

If the scammer continues to pressure you or refuses to leave, police recommend that you call 911.

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Bruce Morrison always wanted Lovell to grow. And he wanted to help make that happen. And looking back somewhat nostalgically over the last 33 years, 26 of which he served his community either as mayor or on the town council, Lovells outgoing mayor believes he made a difference.

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Morrison first ran for office in 1982, elected to a four-year term on the town council. He was re-elected to the council in 1986, then ran for mayor in 1990 and was re-elected in 1992 and 94 in the days when a mayors term was two years.

After stepping away for a few years to raise his young family, he said he was asked by then mayor Glen Olsen to run for council again so he did, and when Olsen didnt seek re-election in 2004, Morrison sought the mayors chair again and was elected to a two-year term, then re-elected to four-year terms in 2006 and 2010. But his time in office ran out in 2014 when he was defeated by former councilman Angel Montanez.

It was the same reason as now, Morrison said when asked what prompted him to become involved in town government. I grew up here. I wanted to be part of the community and help the community grow and progress.

One goal I always had from the beginning was for Lovell to grow. John (Nickle) got the grant for the bigger sewer pond that was designed to handle 4,000 to 5,000 people. I was always for that, and for the Shoshone Municipal Pipeline.

Now that he looks back, Morrison can say with pride that the community he loves is ready to grow some more, with a solid infrastructure in place.

I leave office with the security of leaving the town where it can still get to four or five-thousand with what weve provided.

There were two more projects that Morrison wanted to see through a new lift station for the sewer lagoons and a new water tank on the hill to provide better pressure to the hospital and homes on the hill. Both projects are in the works, however, and should come to fruition.

Asked about his leadership style, Morrison paused and said, Somebody told me I had a knack for getting people to work together. Thats something Ive hung my hat on. I always tried to look at people for who they are and what they have to offer and try to use that to our advantage.

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The important thing to remember about biking in the snow isn't whether it's possibleeverything is possible, except time travel and convincing your best friend to ditch Cameron Diaz and marry you instead.

Whether you should bike in the snow is largely an issue of tolerance: Would you rather be whipped in the face by an onslaught of tiny, freshly-sharpened ice daggers, or cram into an overly hot train car with a group of wet, cranky people-cattle and their mouth-breathing children? The obvious answer here is "Mexico," but it's already too late to plot any sort of escape this month. If you do choose the former, follow along to reduce your inevitable misery:

First, don't overdress. Wearing a pile of sweaters isn't going to keep your fingertips from freezing; it's going to make your core sweaty, and that sweat will quickly become cold. Wear merino wool or synthetic fiber, but not cottonnever cotton. Cotton absorbs sweat and then insists on pressing that sweat against your skin in a sort of frigid death embrace. You may as well just tape a bunch of frozen diapers around your rib cage. Seriously, avoid cotton.

Wear a waterproof or water-resistant shell on the outside, preferably one that's vented or has a two-way zipper. Wear waterproof gloves with interior grips, because a humiliating death is crashing into a truck or lamp post because your clumsy, wet hand flew from the handlebar. Bring extra socks. If you're biking in daylight, wear darker colors to stand out.

On your head, you'll want a balaclava or helmet linerwhatever it is, make sure it covers your ears and preferably, your nose. Leave your eyes for dead.

Let's talk about your bike! Your bike hates winter. It's tough on your gears, your derailleur, your drive train, your everything. If you have enough green for a separate winter bike, get a fancy one with internal geared hubs and let me borrow it. Otherwise, you have some tire options: Mountain bike tires maintain better traction, but some people prefer thinner tires on the basis that more effectively concentrate your weight and thus provide a superior grip on the pavement, wherever that is. The other option is using a bike you won't miss when it rusts or corrodes. And the fewer gears it has, the less there is to have mucked up by salt and other destructive detritus camouflaged in the seemingly innocuous powder.

Regardless of the bike you choose, the best thing you can do is maintain it. A little oil where each tire spoke enters the rim every so often will help repel both salt and water. If it falls within your skill set, dismantle your bike and give it a thorough cleaning once every couple of weeks.

Also, fenders! Fenders will help protect your bike's prissier components, and maybe spare your pants a fractional amount of the crap shooting off the sidewalk. And if you've always wondered what it's like to take a lane, now is the timeplows tend to shove the snow right into the space where you'd normally ride, and anyway, you want to make yourself as visible to drivers as possible.

Wear a helmet and use your lights in the daytime: The roads are especially lawless in the snow, and cars expect your presence in such weather even less than they do on nice days. It's also damn slippery out there, so even if you're not a helmet-wearing person normally (for shame), become one today! Your hair already looks like crap anyway. It will look like crap until April 1, 2015, when you will awake to find that it's blossomed into a beautiful 90s Pantene Pro-V commercial. Embrace your matted, ugly hair, or your inner-beauty, whichever you possess more of.

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