Imagine that

North St. Paul Mayor Mike Kuehn writes in the recently mailed City Newsletter/Community Center Recreation Activities Summer 2009 (not yet available online):

Before we leave winter behind, I want to publicly thank our city staff for another great year of winter plowing, sanding....

He goes on and on in that vein - thanking public employees for their hard work and dedication, honoring public safety workers, reminding people to be good neighbors - for an entire page without praising himself once.

Imagine that.