Ted Young was recognized as “Volunteer of the Year” at the recent Minnesota Bed & Breakfast Association meeting in Brainerd. Young is pictured here (sixth from left) with members of the MBBA, who presented him with this beautiful quilt.
The Minnesota Bed and Breakfast Association, during the State Tourism Conference in Brainerd, paid tribute to Ted Young of Grand Marais’ Poplar Creek Bed & Breakfast as volunteer of the year.
Young, with his wife Barbara, owns and operates a multifaceted business that also includes outfitting and an innto inn packaging program. His fellow innkeepers are grateful to him for his “work on preservation of the northland in Minnesota, his spirit of community support and his willingness to always lend a hand to novice and seasoned innkeepers.”
Young was presented a quilt in recognition of the honor. Barbara described it thus: “The corners have pictures of our Poplar Creek Guesthouse B&B, the tall Pines Yurt, and Ted building a bridge along the Banadad and a trail crew cutting brush along the Banadad. The inscription on the quilt reads, ‘Forever grateful,’ ‘For Dedication and & Spirit,’ and Ted’s name.”
The quilt was a gift to Ted from the Minnesota Bed and Breakfast Association in recognition for his volunteer service to the Association and community. Ted is chairman of the B&B Association’s green committee, on the organization’s web page committee, and is the association’s blog master.
“Thequilt is now hanging in the B&B’s entryway; it is quite beautiful,” Barbara said.
The MBBA began in 1983 as a nonprofit with a dozen B&Bs. It now serves 100 B&Bs plus a dozen inns in the state and hosts a website, www.minnesotabb. org, and publishes a traveler guide.
The MBBA boasts a variety of styles from log cabins to Victorian estates to prairie style bungalows and even newly built facilities. Adaptive reuse in this industry includes jail houses, a light house, train cars and even a church. A free guidebook is available from the website or by calling 651-438-7499.
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