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FROZEN IN TIME A late freeze won’t stop the Loppet

Registration for some Loppet events was lagging behind 2015, but every slot for two skijoring competitions was filled by mid-January. File photo

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

If you stood on the shore of Lake Calhoun in late December and looked out across the acres of choppy, unfrozen water, you might have thought: This doesn’t look good for the Loppet. Luckily, the weather changed, and not a moment too soon. The City of Lakes Loppet Ski Festival returns Feb. 5–7 for another weekend packed full of outdoor adventure. And festival organizers say things are looking up: the Chain of Lakes finally iced-over in early January, and with less than two weeks to go there was just enough snow to pull off

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the cross-country ski races from Theodore Wirth Park to Uptown. That will please skiers who last year had to settle for a few laps around the snowmaking loop at Wirth — and not for the first time in the festival’s recent history. Despite Minnesota’s frosty reputation, it’s probably easier to plan a waterskiing event in July here than it is to plan a cross-country skiing festival in February. Or at least it seems that way. SEE LOPPET / PAGE A14

Le Parisien residents move out during extensive rehab work

By Sarah McKenzie / smckenzie@southwestjournal.com

A group tasked with making recommendations to the City Council on a mandatory paid sick time ordinance for Minneapolis workers has been gathering feedback at listening sessions with stakeholder groups throughout the city. The Workplace Partnership, a 19-member group appointed by city leaders, is expected to make its recommendations to the City Council’s Committee of the Whole on Feb. 24.

An estimated 40 percent of Minneapolis workers lack access to paid sick days, and women and people of color are disproportionately impacted. At a recent listening session at the Minneapolis Downtown Council office, downtown-based employers and workers offered viewpoints on paid sick day policies and wrestled with questions posed by SEE SICK TIME / PAGE A9

By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

All of the residents have emptied out of Le Parisien, less than 10 years after the apartments opened at 2309 Lyndale Ave. S. Since becoming owner of the property through a foreclosure action, officials at Commerce Bank discovered moisture intrusion, mold and cracked stucco, according to court documents. Residents were asked to

leave the building last fall due to the scope of repairs. “It’s really quite a story. What went on there was just crazy,” said one former resident, who requested not to print his name. Le Parisien was originally designed to be “European-inspired and eco-friendly,” SEE LE PARISIEN / PAGE A15

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Back nearly to square one in its search for a new Minneapolis Public Schools superintendent, the Board of Education now aims to name a new district leader by May. Board Chair Jenny Arneson called that timeline “very realistic” after sketching out a new selection process with her colleagues during a Jan. 26 Committee of the Whole meeting. A vote when they meet again on Feb. 16 would make the new plan official. The board regrouped in late January after cutting ties with its former top pick for superintendent, Sergio Páez, whose candidacy was torpedoed when news broke in mid-December of an abuse investigation in his former district. The runner-up, Interim Superintendent Michael Goar, briefly seemed poised to take the job, but withdrew his name in January in response to a community protest. The board is seeking to correct all that went wrong the last time around, pledging to increase community involvement in the selection and to more thoroughly vet the finalists. They’re tentatively planning to form a search committee made up partly of board members and partly of community leaders to produce a new slate of superintendent finalists. “We have to slow down, we have to unite for the sake of the children, and we have to do a good job this time,” Board Member Siad Ali said. Ali said the board “had not done a good job” on the last search. He called for “deep engagement” with teachers, parents and community members during the new superintendent search. Arneson said the district would seek a refund from Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates, the executive search firm that led the last selection process. The board plans to recruit a new firm to manage the restarted search, but Arneson said that firm wouldn’t necessarily need to have expertise with school superintendents. The plan is to recruit candidates through board members’ professional networks and the district’s human resources department, leaving the search firm to collect applications and conduct reference checks and background investigations of the finalists.

In hopes of attracting new names to the candidate pool, the board is also offering a greater degree of privacy to applicants this time around. The new superintendent search committee would include a maximum of four board members, short of a quorum that would make their deliberations subject to open meeting laws. Arneson and others have suggested the more open, public nature of the previous search may have discouraged some applicants who didn’t want to upset their current employers. The last search produced three finalists for the superintendent position: Goar, Páez and Houston-area schools administrator Charles Foust. Páez won votes from six out of nine board members on Dec. 7, and Goar took the other three. But a report on abuse by staff members working with disabled students in Páez’s former Holyoke, Mass., district — released less than 48 hours after the vote — put his future with the district in peril. The board first moved to pause contract negotiations in December, then cut ties with Páez completely at a Jan. 12 meeting. When, at that same meeting, a majority of the board appeared ready to offer the job to Goar, protesters rose up and disrupted the meeting. A group of about 25 people, including Minneapolis NAACP President Nekima Levy Pounds, questioned Goar’s leadership as interim superintendent. He has been criticized for his handling of episode involving a controversial literacy curriculum and changes to the district’s citywide autism program. Levy Pounds watched from the audience Jan. 26 as the Board of Education hashed-out a revamped search process. Afterwards, she said she was “pleased” the board was planning to start over, adding that it showed that the message she and others tried to send had gotten through. Goar’s contract with the district means he will remain interim superintendent until the district has a new, permanent leader. At the Jan. 26 meeting, Arenson thanked Goar for his service and praised his integrity. “You’ve earned my respect,” she said. Most of the audience in the boardroom rose and gave Goar a standing ovation.

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The Amp House The city Planning Commission has approved a zoning change to allow redevelopment of the Garfield Aquarium into four residences and 900 square feet of co-working space at 3255 Garfield Ave. S. A three-stall garage is planned for the rear of the property, along with a rooftop solar array and greenhouse. The building operated as a utility substation for more than 80 years, and has been vacant since the 1990s. Developers Aaron and Karen Parker have previously discussed plans to build more housing on the vacant portion of the site, which was not part of the recent application. Aaron Parker said that in order to make the project viable, the 1911 building must receive designation from the National Register of Historic Places. He said he does not yet own the site. “Because the property is essentially of no use without a zoning change, we didn’t want to run rashly into this and buy the property and not be able to do anything with it,” he said. City staff said they received many letters in opposition to the plans and a few in support. At the Planning Commission hearing, resident Devin Hogan said he spoke as a millennial in support of the project. He called the plan an “extremely reasonable proposal to turn a decrepit, decaying industrial property into a place that people want to live.” “People like me want to live in urban areas,” he said. Resident Michael Nelson said that while parking is tight — especially during kickball games — it’s not impossible. “As someone who has rented in the neighborhood up in the Wedge, where parking is way more tight, walking a few blocks is usually not a major problem for someone who is renting,” he said. Resident Jon Loer said parking is often at a premium, however. “Past six o’clock at night you’re lucky if you can find a place to park,” he said. “I think we have 97 units on this block already, so there just is no place to park.”

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Other residents worried about a “bait and switch,” or the possibility of a future sale to another developer with different ideas. Resident Bryce Pier said Aaron Parker has shared at least six iterations of the plan, varying from four units to 17 units. He said if the zoning change is approved, there isn’t much the neighborhood could do to prevent the second phase of the project. And if the sale falls through, Xcel would be sitting on a much more valuable piece of land eligible for redevelopment, he said. The Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve the height increase and zoning change to a Neighborhood Office Residence District (OR1). Commissioners also approved the requested setbacks to allow a front stairway and patio along 33rd Street, with a condition to green the landing and create a landscaping plan. “I would not vote for it if I thought there were a possibility for some wildly out-ofcharacter uses,” said Commissioner Sam Rockwell.

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By Jeremy Schroeder

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ost people can remember with vivid accuracy where they were for the major events of their lifetime, yet few know where they were when our democracy was redefined in favor of the ultra-wealthy. Six years ago this January, the Supreme Court of the United States decided the case of Citizens United, stating that it was unconstitutional to limit the independent spending of special interest groups. Since that time, special interest groups funded by wealthy donors have been spending more and more money on political elections, pricing out the importance of regular citizens like you or I. Ruling in favor of Citizens United, a conservative lobbying group, the Supreme Court determined that corporations and unions have the same First Amendment rights as individuals. Not only does this mean that special interests can spend unrestricted amounts of money on campaign-related communications, it has also opened the door for so called “Super PACs” — political action committees that can accept (and spend) unlimited amounts of money from any entity, be it an individual or a corporation. So what does that mean? In short, it means more money in politics than ever before. In 2010, the first year Citizens United went into effect, Super PACs seemed to be just testing the water as 83 Super PACs spent $62.6 million. Two years later 1,310 Super PACS spent $609.4 million (Center for Responsive Politics). That’s a whopping 972 percent increase in spending. And in 2014, for the first time in history, the spending of independent outside organizations was more than spending by the candidates themselves. It begs the question,

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who are candidates responsible to? We the voters the politicians supposedly represent or the wealthy donors who got them elected? It is not a crime to be wealthy. It is not a crime to donate money to a candidate, political action committee, or organization that works on issues that are important to you. Greater participation in the democratic process should be encouraged. However, we should not be willing to allow a handful of special interests to donate unlimited amounts of money to dominate our democracy. Dark money should not control the power in our

government. As the Declaration of Independence reminds us, “governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The reality is that a very small minority of wealthy people are spending more than many of us make in a year on political elections for the specific reason of advancing laws that benefit them. As we look around to the inequities in Minnesota, we need to do something to make democracy within reach to regular citizens. In the early fall of 2015, members of Common Cause and other concerned citizens created a taskforce to hold our elected officials and any would be candidates for elected office accountable to getting big money out of politics. We will be introducing resolutions to change the state platforms of the political parties in Minnesota to include taking actions to overturn Citizens United and supporting the public financing of local elections. Our elected officials should be doing more to protect our voice in democracy. Changing the platform that candidates run on is a first step toward holding them accountable. You can take part in this action by going to our website, downloading the resolutions and introducing them in your caucus. (mn. commoncause.org/2016-Precinct-Caucus) You may not remember where you were in January of 2010 when the Supreme Court decided Citizens United, but I hope you know where you will be on March 1 when Minnesota holds its political caucuses. Jeremy Schroeder is executive director of Common Cause Minnesota and lives in the Diamond Lake neighborhood.

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the organizers of the meeting. Brian Mallaro, a partner at Deloitte, a professional services firm that employs about 900 people at its downtown office, said the company offers 20 to 30 days of paid-time off (PTO) depending on years of experience. He added that “market forces drive” the benefits offered by the company. The Minneapolis office is part of a much larger organization with offices across the country. “Having to administer a one-off kind of policy in Minneapolis would impose an administrative burden,” he said. “More important, anything that makes Minneapolis less attractive with our firm could cause the firm to locate resources [elsewhere].” Other business leaders echoed Mallaro’s comments. Workers at the listening session, however, encouraged the business leaders to consider the thousands of people in the city who have low-wage jobs and don’t have access to paid sick days or other benefits that higher paid professional workers have in Minneapolis. Rev. Grant Stevenson of ISAIAH, a faithbased coalition working on social justice issues in Minnesota, spoke with people in the skyway before the Downtown Council listening session. Faith leaders have been active in calling on city leaders to pass a paid sick time ordinance. “There are tens of thousands of people in

WHAT’S NEXT The Workplace Partnership is scheduled to make recommendations on earned sick time and paid time off policies to the City Council’s Committee of the Whole on Feb. 24. For more information and to give feedback to city leaders, go to ci.minneapolis.mn.us/ workplacepartnership

Minneapolis who don’t have the ability to take a sick day and be paid for it. They don’t have the ability to stay home with a sick child,” Stevenson said. “It’s really important that the city step up now and create a really strong policy that we can all feel good about and proud about, and move our city forward.” Minneapolis Downtown Council CEO Steve Cramer, who serves on the Workplace Partnership, called the listening session “lively and substantive.” “We heard loud and clear that most employers offer a robust benefit, most often structured as paid time off that can be used as needed. But also that not all segments of the downtown work force enjoy this benefit, or at least enough to meet their needs,” he said. “The question of whether the city, acting alone, can or should step in provokes a strong negative reaction from most businesses who see such an action as an overreach with likely negative consequences for the Minneapolis economy. This is the dilemma the appointed Working Group and ultimately the City Council and Mayor will have to address.” City Council Vice President Elizabeth Glidden (Ward 8) has attended some of the listening sessions. She said there are some people who think city leaders are moving too fast on the issue, while others say it’s taken them too long to take action. She said the Council is on track to take up the Workplace Partnership’s recommendations Feb. 24. “I think it will be a really important moment for the City Council,” Glidden said. “People are taking it very seriously.” A proposal for mandatory sick time in Minneapolis is part of a Working Families Agenda first outlined by Mayor Betsy Hodges at her State of the City Address in April 2015. The agenda also included a so-called “fair scheduling” ordinance that would have required employers to notify workers of their schedules 14 days in advance — a proposal that was later dropped in face of intense opposition from the

Downtown Council CEO Steve Cramer leads a recent listening session for downtown workers and employers about paid sick time policies. Photo by Sarah McKenzie

business community. The City Council delayed a vote on a proposed sick time ordinance in late October and instead voted to establish the Workplace Partnership to study earned sick and paid-time off policies. According to A Better Balance, a New York-based organization advocating for familyfriendly policies in the workplace, four states (Connecticut, California, Massachusetts and Oregon), 20 cities and one county have enacted paid-sick time laws in the U.S. Vicki Shabo, vice president at the National Partnership for Women and Families in Washington, D.C., said there is growing evidence that paid sick day laws are good for workers, businesses and local economies. “From reducing turnover and promoting healthier, more productive workplaces to providing financial stability for workers so they can make ends meet and spend money in their communities, the research makes clear that paid

sick days are win-win-win,” she said in a recent conference call with reporters organized by the Main Street Alliance of Minnesota, a small business advocacy group. “Minneapolis would be wise to establish a standard of its own.” Dan Swenson-Klatt, owner of Butter Bakery Café at 37th & Nicollet, has recently implemented a paid sick policy for his workers. His small business is celebrating its 10th anniversary. “It turns out, the costs are relatively low,” he said during the Main Street Alliance conference call. “In the past six months, my 20 employees have only used about five days total. And it’s a great benefit to my employees who don’t have to worry about working sick.” More than 947,000 workers in the private sector in Minnesota (about 43 percent of the private-sector workforce) don’t have access to any paid sick days, according to a new report on earned paid sick days in Minnesota by the Main Street Alliance.

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AchieveMpls CEO to step down Pam Costain announced Jan. 15 she would retire from her role as president and CEO of AchieveMpls, the nonprofit fundraising partner of Minneapolis Public Schools. Costain served most of one term on the School Board before resigning in June 2010 to run AchieveMpls. Costain said then that she left the board largely because she needed a job — at the time, School Board members earned less than $14,000 a year for their service — but she ended up with what she called “the job of (her) dreams.” “I honestly feel really privileged to come over to Achieve when I did,” Costain said.

The quick transition from the board to the nonprofit meant Costain spent about a decade working closely with Minneapolis Public Schools. She said the decision not to seek a second term on the board was difficult, but AchieveMpls allowed her “to continue that work from a different space.” In addition to seeking corporate and foundation funding to support the district’s priorities, AchieveMpls runs the Career and College Centers in Minneapolis high schools, directs the city’s STEP-UP summer jobs program and recruits volunteer mentors and coaches to work with district students.

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

“We really increased and doubled-down on the focus on career and college readiness” during her time as executive director, Costain said. In November, a Florida-based consulting firm released a report on K–12 education foundations in the country’s 200 largest school districts. AchieveMpls was ranked fifth by the firm, dewey & associates, and was the only Minnesota foundation to appear in the report. Costain plans to remain with AchieveMpls for another six months while the organization searches for her replacement.

Costain said she’s looking forward to “downsizing her responsibility and time.” But after a lifetime of work with nonprofits, including 14 years as executive director of Resource Center of the Americas and 12 years as a program director with Wellstone Action, she expects to stay involved somehow. “It’s fair to call it retirement, but don’t expect me to be weeding flowers for the rest of my life,” she said.

School Choice Fair is Feb. 6

New student representative named

It’s time to enroll your child for the 2016–2017 school year. To help parents navigate all of the options, Minneapolis Public School hosts its annual School Choice Fair 9 a.m.–2 p.m. Feb. 6 at the Minneapolis Convention Center, 1301 2nd Ave. S. Families should complete a school choice card by March 5 to get priority placement in their preferred school.

Patrick Henry High School sophomore Shaadia Munye is expected to join the Board of Education in February as its next student representative. Munye replaces Noah Branch, another Patrick Henry student, who was a sophomore when he became the district’s first-ever student representative last year. Munye won’t get a vote like the nine elected members of the board, but she will be able to participate in the board’s discussions. Munye’s term runs through January 2017, and in exchange for her service she’ll get a scholarship worth up to $5,000.

School Choice Fair attendees can park for free in the Leamington and 11th & Marquette ramps near the convention center or take a shuttle bus to the convention center from one of seven locations around the city. For more information, go to studentplacement.mpls.k12.mn.us/minneapolis_ school_fair_showcase.

The student representative position is open to any currently enrolled district sophomore or junior who meets minimum Munye grade and attendance requirements. Munye was chosen by a selection committee made up of former student representative Branch, members of the Citywide Student Government Executive Committee and the Board of Education.

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Whittier Alliance executive director retires Marian Biehn, a former board member, led the organization for 12 years By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

Twelve years after taking a job leading one of Minneapolis’ oldest neighborhood organizations in one of the city’s largest neighborhoods, Marian Biehn has retired. Whittier residents, business owners and at least one former City Council member gathered at Icehouse Jan. 14 to send off the former executive director of the Whittier Alliance. Sitting in with the jazz combo on stage was Andy Cohen, who owns the Bad Waitress across the street and chairs the neighborhood organization’s monthly Business Association meetings. And with all the current and former alliance board members circling the hors d’oeuvres table, the gathering resembled one of those meetings almost as much as it did a typical Icehouse happy hour. Robert Lilligren, a former City Council member who represented Whittier, made his way to the front of the reception line early in the evening. Lilligren recalled Biehn as a fierce advocate for the neighborhood who was cordial even when they disagreed. “In the card I gave her at the party I said something like, ‘It’s been great working with you and sometimes against you,’” he said. A few days later, Biehn, 64, was at home planning a “sisters weekend” in Chicago with four of her siblings. She’d spent the last weeks of 2015 helping with the alliance’s transition to a new executive director, Ricardo McCurley, who previously led the Southeast Como Improvement Association. Biehn said three-year-old Icehouse felt like an especially appropriate place for her retirement party, a symbol of just how much the Whittier neighborhood had changed — not just since she was hired in 2004, but in the nearly four decades since she and her husband first invested in the neighborhood. The couple bought two Whittier apartment buildings near the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in the late ’70s. “Like many investors we hadn’t done our due diligence and we discovered it was a pretty rough spot,” she recalled. There was the weekend afternoon she pulled up to one of the buildings to find a police SWAT team perched on the rooftop, and there were also

Icehouse hosted Marian Biehn’s retirement party in January. Photo by Dylan Thomas

the potential tenants who called to inquire about openings but hung up as soon as they learned the location. “It was the high-crime era of drugs and gangs and everybody was on edge and a little bit vulnerable,” she said. The situation inspired Biehn to volunteer with the Whittier Alliance, a nonprofit that had been around since 1977. She chaired a (since-disbanded) committee made up of rental property owners and, beginning in the 1990s, was elected to several terms on the alliance’s board of directors. The apartments were sold a decade ago, but Biehn still owns a duplex in the neighborhood. She saw up close the changes the Neighborhood Revitalization Program brought about beginning in the 1990s. The alliance contributed a significant portion of its NRP Phase I funds to a new gym and community center in Whittier Park, key factors in Minneapolis Public Schools’ decision to open a magnet school on the site in 1997. The alliance also put NRP funds toward Nicollet Avenue’s 1990s transformation into the dining destination known as Eat Street. Both projects have had a major impact on

Whittier’s street life and livability, Biehn said. “Number one, there are people jogging and biking on the streets,” she said. “You didn’t see that (in the 1970s and ’80s). People weren’t out on the street like they are now.” “And, number two, there are families with strollers,” she continued. “You didn’t see the strollers (30 years ago).” Nicollet Avenue’s evolution continued during Biehn’s tenure as executive director. She credited the organization’s advocacy for improving the design and visual appeal of Hennepin County Medical Center’s Whittier Clinic, located at a neighborhood gateway. Icehouse opened in 2012 as part of the larger Ice House Plaza, a major redevelopment project that added restaurants, a climbing gym and a public plaza to one of Eat Street’s busiest blocks. But her tenure had its challenges, too, including the alliance’s repeated clashes with property owner Basim Sabri. Sabri’s holdings in the neighborhood include Karmel Square, a mall with Somali-Americarun businesses that draws shoppers from the Twin Cities and far beyond.

In March, he was one of five Whittier residents and business owners who brought a lawsuit in federal court claiming the alliance discriminated against minorities, particularly Somali-Americans. The lawsuit was tossed out in August when U.S. District Judge Ann Montgomery ruled the group didn’t have standing in the case. Biehn called the alliance’s troubled relationship with Sabri “unfortunate” since “it has kind of overshadowed the good relationships we have with so many Somali businesses.” McCurley, the new executive director, now occupies Biehn’s former desk in the alliance’s small East 25th Street office. The 34-year-old father of three takes over as Minneapolis neighborhood organizations are shifting out of the NRP era and into a new relationship with City Hall. McCurley said his three-and-a-half-year stint with Southeast Como was largely consumed by the state and federal response to a neighborhood superfund site. He said the organization started a lecture series to help residents understand the lingering impact of a former General Mills chemical research facility. After that experience, McCurley plans to make the Whittier Alliance’s environmental sustainability projects a priority. Like Southeast Como, Whittier has a large population of relatively young rental housing tenants, and he also plans to use social media to improve neighborhood outreach. Erica Christ, who chairs the alliance’s board of directors, said it’s a change for the organization to have someone like McCurly, with years of nonprofit experience on his resume, in the lead. Biehn comes from a different era, when volunteers rose up through the alliance’s ranks. “I said this to Marian on her last day: ‘We’re sort of the last great improvisers here,’” Christ said.

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Several Commons’ features put on hold for park’s debut A number of design elements planned for the Commons park next to the Vikings stadium will not be part of the project’s first phase when it opens this summer given the pace of fundraising for the project. To date, fundraisers have raised $10.5 million for the 4.2-acre Downtown East park — nearly 50 percent of their goal. The total includes an additional $2 million from the Vikings, bringing the team’s total contribution to $3 million. Two buildings, terraces along the park’s Great Lawn and the wet plaza feature envisioned for the park by designer Hargreaves Associates will be put on hold until additional funding becomes available, according to a recent report to the City Council’s Community Planning & Regulatory Services Committee. The city has issued $18.8 million in bonds for the Commons. Ryan Cos., the developer behind Wells Fargo’s new Downtown East office towers, has pledged to pay debt service on the bonds for 10 years and then parking revenue from nearby ramps will be used to cover the remainder of the debt service. The estimated cost to complete the first phase of the Commons this summer is $10.8 million, said Miles Mercer, manager of business development for the city, during a presentation before the Council committee Jan. 19. That level of funding will cover the installation of the park’s hardscape, great and small lawns, program rooms and other plantings, according to Mercer’s report. Fundraisers still need to raise about $6 million to cover the costs of the first phase of the Commons, he said. Green Minneapolis, the group overseeing fundraising for the Commons, estimates that operating costs for the first year of the park will be $1.5 million. Park planners have been looking at ways to generate revenue for the park, including the possibility of opening a food concession or charging fees to rent park buildings. A consultant for the city has estimated the

The Commons park is set to open this summer, but some key features have been put on hold. File image

spaces could generate $26,500 to $100,000 a year for the park, according to Mercer’s report. The City Council approved agreements for the Commons park in September, but also directed city staff to provide an updated use agreement with the Vikings and Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority to determine a schedule for the park. The Council also called for a funding plan for the park’s ongoing maintenance. City Council Member Lisa Bender (Ward 10) was critical of the city’s agreement with

the MSFA at the Jan. 15 City Council meeting. “Every time we talk about the Commons there is an elephant in the room, which is our agreement with the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Authority — which gives away an enormous amount of time and use of what is supposed to be a public space for private use with no compensation to the city,” she said. “I predict the day will come, and probably soon, when we will be asked to commit more public tax dollars to this space for operations and maintenance. I cannot imagine anyone here supporting one more penny of public

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Nicollet Mall project bid comes with sticker shock Planners working on the $50 million renovation of Nicollet Mall have been thrown a serious curve ball as the one construction bid on the project has come in $24 million higher than anticipated by city officials. Golden Valley-based Morcon Construction’s bid for construction work on the project was $59 million — much higher than the $35 million the city had estimated for the work, as first reported by the Star Tribune. The city declined the bid and will be sticking to the $50 million budget. The project has secured $21.5 million in state bonding and $3.5 million from the City of Minneapolis. Assessments on downtown businesses will cover the remainder of the project’s costs. Crews are currently upgrading utilities on Nicollet Mall in preparation for the redesign, work expected to last through early summer. Steve Kotke, the city’s public works director, said he’s still confident that the project will be a transformational one for the city. The bid came in higher than anticipated because of the cost of installing the project’s signature pavers, Kotke told MPR’s Tom Weber on Jan. 21. Now project planners are looking at different surface materials for the street to bring the costs down. Kotke said all of the other proposed features for the project — the artwork and landscaping elements will still be part of the redesigned street.

“I’m still very excited about the project. I think it’s going to be a spectacular place once it’s completed,” he said. Minneapolis Downtown Council CEO Steve Cramer said conversations are ongoing with city staff to determine what’s most important to prioritize from the initial plan for the mall in order to re-bid the project. “Sidewalk pedestrian features, the commitment to trees and greening, and special elements like the Light and Art Walk between 6th and 8th streets add the most sizzle and will help make the new mall a ‘must see’ destination,” he said. “Our shared goal with the city is to repackage and represent the project to the construction marketplace in a way that insures those pieces are intact.” City Council Member Jacob Frey (Ward 3) said that large construction projects like the Nicollet Mall redesign are bound to encounter hurdles. The project changes will likely be limited to the street, not the sidewalk areas, he said. “The pedestrian realm is still largely pitch perfect,” he said. The project will likely be delayed a couple of months, Kotke said, with an anticipated completion late fall of 2017. James Corner Field Operations — the noted landscape designer behind New York City’s High Line — is the designer on the Nicollet Mall renovation project.

Winter biking tips from Council Member Lisa Bender City Council Member Lisa Bender (Ward 10), who represents neighborhoods in the Uptown area, has joined the hearty ranks of the city’s winter bikers. She recently sold her car and decided to keep biking through the coldest months of the year. She has outfitted her bike for winter conditions and bundles up in heavy layers for the icy treks to City Hall from her home in Uptown. We asked her for tips to stay safe and warm while winter cycling. What has motivated you to be a winter bike commuter?

I bike to work almost every day when it’s not snowing. About six years ago, I tried to bike through the winter but I didn’t have the right bicycle or tires. I fell down in front of a bus going down the hill on 24th Street near Lyndale. I was fine but it scared me so I stopped biking that winter and hadn’t tried since on snowy or icy days. I sold my car over the summer, so it’s either bicycle or bus now and I really prefer being out on my bicycle. There’s a great support community in Minneapolis for bicycling in general and also specifically among women who bicycle and I was able to get a lot of advice and support from people who’ve been biking year-round. How far do you typically bike in a day?

I bike from Uptown to downtown every day, and occasionally to meetings that take me a bit farther than my usual commute. What do you wear while biking on a sub-zero day?

From head to toe I wear a winter hat, helmet, ski goggles, neck gator and scarf, winter jacket, windproof pants and liner gloves with mittens. My toes have been getting cold but I’ve just been wearing wool socks with my regular shoes so I have to figure that one out. What kind of bike do you have?

I have four bicycles now! For winter I am riding a single-speed SE Bike with studded tires.

Council Member Lisa Bender bundled up in her winter biking gear. Submitted photo

My regular commuter is a Trek Allant. I ride a Specialized Dolce road bike for longer rides (usually after my kids are asleep) and then I have a Dutch Babboe cargo bike to ride with my 4- and 2-year-old daughters or to go grocery shopping. Did you have to outfit your bike for winter biking?

The folks at Varsity bikes helped me get a nice simple setup for my first winter. I didn’t want to spend a lot so I went with a basic bike with studded tires. I could have put winter tires on my regular commuter but would have probably had to replace a lot of parts. Any other tips for people thinking about winter biking?

I love winter biking! With the right bike and gear it is so fun. Biking is one of the only ways I have time to exercise with my schedule and family commitments. It is so beautiful biking on the Greenway or through Whittier and downtown after a snowfall. As we continue to build out our protected bikeway network, I hope more people who might not feel safe riding in traffic in the winter will get to experience the fun of winter cycling. I love seeing my constituents and neighbors when I’m out on the road and would be happy to help anyone who’s interested in winter cycling get started.

A14 January 28–February 10, 2016 / southwestjournal.com FROM LOPPET / PAGE A1 Two Luminary Loppet participants warm themselves at a fire (left). A post-Luminary Loppet outdoor concert is a new addition to the City of Lakes Loppet Ski Festival in 2016. Also added was a second fat tire bicycle race (below). File photo

Was the Loppet Foundation’s executive director sweating just a little back in December? “No,” replied John Munger. “Unfortunately, I was sweating a lot because it was so dang warm.” “December was horrible,” Munger continued. “Our registrations are still behind, but they’ve been catching up now that it’s getting colder again.” Festival organizers expect to draw 11,000 participants over three days, roughly the same number as 2015. Munger said registration was “notably behind” for the 42-kilometer marathon ski races, perhaps the weekend’s most snow-dependent activities, but other events were beginning to fill up. The Comcast Luminary Loppet draws a crowd even in warm years, and organizers said tickets to ski, snowshoe or hike around a luminary-lit Lake of the Isles were likely to sell out once again. As of mid-January, mushers had already claimed every open slot in two skijoring races, the bracket was full for Captain Ken’s Kubb Tournament and registration for several other events, including the snow-sculpture contest and fat tire bicycle races, was about to close. Whatever the final two weeks would bring — and the forecast included some rain — the Loppet would go on. There is the “aspirational event,” Munger said, and then there’s the festival that happens, every year, come what may. “That’s a core value of the organization, that you should be outside and active every day,” Munger said. “And some days that’s skiing, and some days that’s biking, and some days that’s running. “You take what the weather gives, and that’s one of the points of the whole event.”

Still growing When that January cold snap finally hit it hit hard, and that was good news for speed skaters — especially the kind who like to

skate outdoors. Loppet organizers plan to create a 1-kilometer skating loop on Lake Calhoun for the festival’s first-ever marathon speed skating events. Long-blade skaters can sign up for 25 or 50 laps around the oval. A separate 1-kilometer event is reserved for those with short-bladed hockey or figure skates. Dorothy Bialke, who serves as a board member for Twin Cities Speedskating, said outdoor marathons are popular in Europe and Canada, but climate — particularly in recent years — means they’re less common in the Lower 48. Events like the Loppet races attract “a different breed of speed skaters,” Bialke said. “The people who really like to do the marathon, they like the outside experience,” she said. “You’re skating for an hour to three hours,

IF YOU GO: CITY OF LAKES LOPPET SKI FESTIVAL When: Feb. 5–7 Where: Locations vary. Most events are located in Theodore Wirth Park or near the Calhoun Executive Center, which also serve as the start and finish line, respectively, for the weekend’s races. Info: For a schedule of events, or to register, go to loppet.org

depending on your speed and ability.” Bialke said Bemidji played host to the U.S. National Marathon Championships for several years in the 2000s before the event was moved to an indoor ice arena. Skating outdoors makes all the difference for marathoners, who have to make fewer turns on the big ovals and get to experience the changing weather conditions. “I’m not a runner so I can’t relate it to running, but I’m sure the people who run a marathon would say the same type of thing: It’s the journey, it’s the outdoors, it’s the adventure — and maybe more (those things) than it is your speed,” Bialke said. It’s not the only new experience on tap for this year’s Loppet. The Loppet Foundation partnered with Minneapolis radio station Go 96.3 to put on a

Saturday night post-Luminary Loppet concert on the lagoon between Lake Calhoun and Lake of the Isles. And back at Wirth Park there are plans for a telemark clinic on the sledding hill that morning. Telemark is a downhill skiing technique defined by graceful turns. Those turns are made possible by equipment that more closely resembles cross-country than alpine skis. Maree Hampton of the Loppet Foundaiton said the idea for the clinic grew out of a cultural exchange program that is bringing a small group of secondary students and teachers from Telemark County, Norway to Minneapolis. They’ll be putting on the clinic with ski equipment borrowed from Three Rivers Park District. And in March they’ll host a group of Minneapolis students for a week back in Telemark. The Loppet Foundation’s executive director has a first planned for himself this year, too. Munger said he was planning to enter the two marathon ski events, both the 42-kilometer classic race on Saturday and the 42-kilometer skate-ski race on Sunday. Usually, he’s too busy managing festival events to actually participate. But the Loppet Foundation recently hired a new race director, Mike Erickson, meaning one of the people who founded the Loppet back in 2003 will finally get a chance to ski the course on race day. “I look forward to it,” Munger said. “There’s something special about not ever having to take your skis off the whole way.”

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Children’s Book Carnival is Feb. 6

Kingfield Empty Bowls returns Feb. 4 Hundreds of handmade bowls are glazed and ready for the annual Empty Bowls fundraiser on Thursday, Feb. 4. The event showcases a long list of restaurants, including soups by Blackbird and Nighthawks, breads by Sun Street Breads and Rustica Bakery, and desserts and coffee by Royal Grounds, Kyatchi, Five Watt and Pat’s Tap. For a suggested $20 donation, attendees select a bowl for their meal and take it home as reminder of neighbors in need of food and housing. Proceeds benefit Nicollet Square, a supportive housing program for youth based in the neighborhood. The event runs from 4-8 p.m. at Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park, 4055 Nicollet Ave. For more information, visit kingfield.org.

A dozen authors and illustrators are slated to appear at a free book carnival on Saturday, Feb. 6. Kids can listen to author readings, watch illustrator presentations, add to a graffiti wall, make a book or puppet, and try out a “conversation tent.” The Minnesota Humanities Center will provide free books, and organizers will raffle off a book from each of the authors. Participants are encouraged to bring a gently-used book to donate to early childhood programs. The event runs from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Wilder School at 34th & Chicago.

Jon Loer and other potters at Fire on the Greenway create bowls for the Kingfield Empty Bowls fundraiser. Photo by Michelle Bruch

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n a d a p ce i In “Current Location,” artists ponder our perception of scale and distance By Dylan Thomas dthomas@southwestjournal.com

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urrent Location,” the title of the six-artist group show now up at Waiting Room, might turn visitors’ thoughts to the smart phones they carry into the gallery in their purses and pockets. Our “current location,” the Google Maps app reassures us, is a blue dot on a glowing screen. The blue dot represents a technologically aided shift in our perception of space; instead of finding our location on a map, the map conforms to our location. The artwork of “Current Location,” co-curated by Mary Coyne and Jehra Patrick, recalibrates our senses to the three dimensions of physical space by playing with scale and distance. And it often pushes into a fourth dimension: time. The showstopper is a deceptively simple video installation by New York artist David Horvitz, a 12-minute loop that plays over two iPhones mounted on a gallery wall. One video, captured by Horvitz from a beach in California, shows the sun setting over the Pacific Ocean; the other, shot simultaneously by his mother while on vacation in the Maldives, shows the sun rising over the Indian Ocean. Two people, on nearly opposite sides of the globe, turn the ordinary spectacle of the earth’s rotation into something extraordinary. Space and time fold up like origami. Duluth artist Kristina Estell gathered up jagged stones of North Shore granite from around her house, boxed them in small cubes made of drywall panels and sent the packages on round trips, via international mail, to points around the globe. The pack-

Prints in Jessica Henderson’s “Wayfinding” series blur the scenery in Google Street View. Submitted image

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Where We Live

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YouthLink  (From left) Johnnie, Jabre and Danzell serve as youth ambassadors at YouthLink, helping newcomers feel welcome. Jabre dreams of opening his own drop-in center for middle school students. Danzell is working on becoming a better cook, and plans to start his own restaurant. Once he does, he wants to help other young people succeed.

YouthLink helps young people experiencing homelessness navigate community resources to help them develop the skills they need to become self sufficient.

Helping youth find a path to a brighter future Johnnie is 23 years old, bright, ambitious and formerly homeless. Location “Right now everything is finally falling into place,” he said. 41 N. 12th St. He’s been receiving services at YouthLink on the edge of downtown Minneapolis for seven years. Johnnie has learned to take pride in his progress — whether it’s fast or slow, and he’s in a position to help other young people do the same. Contact Staff at YouthLink believe that homelessness is not a final destination. They treat each young person as a traveler on a 612-252-1200 journey, and see their role as providing the navigational tools of resources, information and support. For 41 years, YouthLink has created an environment where youth in transition can feel safe, and where it’s possible to establish healthy, supportive relaWebsite tionships with adults who care. youthlinkmn.org With the help of YouthLink, Johnnie has been able to redirect his life. Their on-site Youth Opportunity Center hosts staff from 30 local nonprofits every week. Like a resource fair for real life, they offer guidance in the areas of basic needs, mental Year Founded health, education/employment and housing. 1974 Johnnie has utilized them all. Now in his last year of eligibility for services at YouthLink, he is poised for success. Johnnie is a business development intern at YouthLink— a position that allows him to learn new computer skills, marketing strategies and polish public speaking skills. He hits the ground several times a week as a peer street outreach worker, approaching young people downtown who may be homeless and directing them to YouthLink. And this week, Johnnie started his first classes at Minneapolis Community & Technical College. He is planning to study for a two-year degree in theater, a four-year degree in business and, eventually, an MBA. “If you want something bad enough, and it’s legal, you can work really hard and make it happen,” Johnnie said. YouthLink needs more business and nonprofit leaders willing to consider their young people for jobs. Employment navigator Ginny Michel helps map out career goals, write resumes, prepare for interviews and, after they’ve been hired, provides youth with continued employment support. YouthLink has a vision for our community as a place where all youth have an equal chance to pursue their dreams, and an equal likelihood of achieving them. Toward that end, they’ve created a new way to volunteer — becoming a connector. In that role, an adult commits to “being there” for a young person (18 years or older) as they transition to full independence. The connector offers advice when asked, emotional support and a listening ear on subjects of education and employment.

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The number of hot meals served by YouthLink’s DropIn Center in 2014.

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The percentage of young people able to connect with more than one resource through YouthLink and the Youth Opportunity Center in 2014.

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The percentage increase in young people receiving case management services since 2012.

What you can do Contact Ginny Michel at michel@youthlinkmn.org if your business or nonprofit is interested in developing job/internship opportunities for youth in transition. Contact Frances Roen at roen@youthlinkmn.org to volunteer as a connector. Consider donating Metro Transit passes to YouthLink so that young people can look for work or get to work.

About the Where We Live project This project is an ongoing series spearheaded by Journals’ publisher Janis Hall showcasing Minneapolis nonprofits doing important work in the community. The editorial team has selected organizations to spotlight. Margie O’Loughlin is the writer and photographer for the project.

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Students practice “reading” the appearances of facilitator Eric Sharp. “What do you think you know about me, just by looking at me?” Sharp asked. “We size people up unconsciously, in just a fraction of a second. It’s natural to do that, but we need to be prepared to accept that our assumptions could be completely wrong.” Photos by Margie O’Loughlin

MORE INFO For more information about Penumbra Theatre’s race workshops, go to penumbratheatre.org or contact Stephanie Walseth at Stephanie. walseth@penumbrathreatre.org.

Students listen as Sharp explained: “Scientists say that all human beings share a common ancestry. Our genetic differences are minor, but they’ve been a cause for discrimination and oppression since the beginning of time.”

Penumbra Theatre invites students to celebrate difference By Margie O’Loughlin

Two classes of science students gathered in the wrestling gym at Southwest High School. They had recently seen an exhibit called “Race: Are We So Different?” at the Science Museum of Minnesota with their teacher Sharon Meierhofer. The students left their shoes at the door, took a seat on the wrestling mats and waited for the morning’s workshop to begin. Any class that visits the race exhibit can participate in a follow-up experience like Meierhofer arranged for her students. It’s made possible by a partnership with Penumbra Theatre and the Science Museum, with funding from the Knight Foundation.

Actor and teaching artist Eric Sharp opened the workshop by explaining the work of Penumbra Theatre. A corner stone of the Rondo neighborhood in St. Paul, the theatre has been producing plays and musicals that illuminate the human condition through the lens of the African American experience for nearly 40 years. In addition to performances, a big part of Penumbra’s mission is education in the community. The actors and educators approach the issue of racism with the fundamental belief that everyone sees racial differences. Seeing isn’t the problem, in fact, it’s a big part of the solution. At Penumbra, they call this differentiation the first of the

“Four D’s.” To underscore this, Sharp asked his students to describe what they had seen at the race exhibit. One student volunteered: “I remember listening to one-minute recordings of voices, and then being asked to choose from four pictures of people from different ethnicities. Whom did I think the voices belonged to? I was hardly ever right.” Another student said: “I liked the part where we compared our fingerprints to pictures of hundreds of others people’s fingerprints. There was no way to predict fingerprint patterns based on race.” Sharp agreed and said that using race as a tool to separate us from one another is

“fabricated.” “It’s very important to understand that we all came from the same place: the African continent, and that our genetic differences are quite superficial. This is where the other three “D’s” come in,” he said. “If difference is perceived negatively, the person with the negative perception devalues, dehumanizes and can ultimately destroy the person over whom power is exerted.” He said at Penumbra, the goal is to have people celebrate difference and get out of their comfort zones. The next exercise created plenty of discomfort for students, but it got them talking afterward. Sharp asked them to pair up, stand about 3 feet apart and engage in uninterrupted eye contact for 60 seconds. Sharp’s point was that we need to learn to see each other, and to be accountable for our reactions. As historian Robin D.G. Kelley was quoted as saying in the race exhibit: “Racism isn’t about the way you look, it’s about the meaning other people assign to the way you look.” The workshop ended with Sharp challenging students to become, in his words, “up-standers, not just bystanders.” He encouraged them to look into to people’s eyes in order to have meaningful conservations about race and difference. Stephanie Walseth, director of inquiry at Penumbra Theatre, said the race dialogue workshops are intended to get the ball rolling for participants to start thinking in new ways about how to approach interactions with people different from them. “No one expects to end the destructiveness of racism in a class period, but our teaching artists can get kids to start seeing and hearing each other differently,” she said. “These workshops are a way for participants to use theatre to problem solve and to model new behavior. The process recognizes each person as they are, and invites everyone to be part of the dialogue.”

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Sustainable We

By Mikki Morrissette

Setting priorities

here were many things about the tail end of 2015 that did not feel sustainable — that did not feel particularly “we” in our community. It’s a new year… a new climate… a new call for change that has wafted in from Paris and North Minneapolis. What happens next? One interesting, foot-forward thinker I met recently is Nate Hagens. After a decade living the “high life” as a Wall Street trader, Hagens now enjoys living the “low life” with his dogs on a farm in Wisconsin, collaborating with people like one of the early Greenpeace strategists, and teaching an interdisciplinary honors course at the University of Minnesota. He has a master’s degree in finance from the University of Chicago, and a doctorate in natural resources from the University of Vermont. Hagens has written extensively on the topic of energy, and in one of his “The Oil Drum” blogs he suggested this assignment: 1) Write down the 10 things in life that you most enjoy or like to do. 2) Then, imagine you could only choose three from that list. What would those be? How much energy — the kind that comes from oil and sends greenhouse gases into the air — needs to be consumed in order to enjoy those priorities? In three recent “Sustainable We” forums I hosted, the conversations that emerged seemed to boil down to this: How much do we think we need to consume in order to survive? In October, Minneapolis residents and policy makers gathered to largely wonder together whether our pesticide use for pristine lawns and parks was truly a priority as a community going

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forward. Given the impact of certain toxins on our bees, water and air, perhaps it is time for a new narrative? In November, we discussed the life cycle of our waste. Community members pointed out that waste is less about what we throw in the trash — and more about what we consume. That’s because it is extraction of resources, manufacturing, and distribution of products that has the most impact. At our forum at Fulton Brewery in December, a lively panel of home designers and builders led a discussion about the state of energy-efficient housing stock in Minneapolis. Will we set and meet new standards to cut carbon emissions from our leaky old houses and inadequate insulation? How? One of the outspoken voices in the room was Michael Anschel, of O&A Design + Build. He believes an emphasis on energy efficiency shortchanges an even greater question we need to be asking ourselves. Fossil fuels are currently fast, portable and inexpensive as an energy source. Is our society motivated to do things any other way? If the commercial world simply finds more ways to use energy — even minimally, like the LED lights now sold in balloons simply to illuminate them with colors, for example — what are we gaining? In a different way, Hagens also challenges our ways of approaching the serious issues of sustainability that we face. In a conversation with University of Minnesota energy club students that I attended, he said that measuring the costs and benefits of energy use — even defining the measurement sticks we use — needs to be turned on its head.

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He believes we would have a clearer sense of our resource usage if we measured how much energy and water it takes to get a barrel of oil, for example, instead of our measuring with our usual method of dollar terms. At what level does overall cost reduce benefit? Hagens says we use new technology to design solutions that maximize profits — often displacing human labor to do so — rather than improving our long-term resiliency. One energy club student who has roots in India said that his culture has adopted solar energy more quickly than Americans, partly because it is an easier way to heat water than what we’ve grown used to in the West. “Sun and wind and geothermal are great options as renewable energy sources,” Hagens said. “But not this society. Not with this footprint.” He said that in the long run it is our friends in India — where 65 percent of the population farms compared to America’s 2 percent — that will fare better when resiliency becomes more relevant. They know their food comes from soil, sunlight, water and work, instead of at a grocery store. It is our fear of scarcity — seeing ourselves as individual lives in individual homes in individual neighborhoods — that drives so much of our consumption habits. Hagens told the story of Johnny Carson, who joked on his national TV show in 1973 that a toilet paper shortage was looming. For four months after, a black market in toilet paper existed and stores could not keep enough supply to satisfy a frenzied panic.

Similarly, Hagens said modern industry is built around 24/7 access to electricity. When as individuals we learn to re-appreciate a life that doesn’t require uninterrupted power, he believes, we might reach our stronger potential as a society. Perhaps a world in which dolphins and hummingbirds and elephants have value in a 100- or 500-year plan of our making. It is up to individuals like us, he said, to “change what we aspire to be.” Since the new year began, I have done research projects on everything from gun violence numbers to kinetic art, and have connected with the past in ways that remind me that everything has incredible potential to become something else. What these eclectic intersecting points have revealed to me — connecting the dots with 4-D glasses — is that our perspective is not a fixed point. It is a shifting view that changes depending on where you are standing, what you are hearing, how you are having the conversation. We can all re-prioritize, whether it is a new year, a new crisis, or not. We can all talk about the true cost of current ways. We can all decide to re-assess the price tags we place on the things and issues that surround us. Mikki Morrissette is the founder of MPLSGreen.com and the “Sustainable We” forums, designed to lift up and celebrate the innovators in our midst who are working to resolve issues of sustainability.

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bout this time of year I turn into a pyromaniac. Don’t worry, you’re not going to have to call the fire department, but come to think of it, this newspaper would sure make great kindling . . . after I finish reading it, of course. We see less of the sun in Minnesota in February and March and it seems harder to extract the cold from our frigid bones. El Niño made the first part of winter easier but we’re suffering now. So is the strong furnace in my house. I pile on turtlenecks and fleece and even splurged for a cashmere sweater this year but still can’t manage to stay warm. Sleeping is another story; the pile of wool on our bed is a chronologically layered history of Minnesota’s blanket industry: a Pullman train blanket from North Star Woolen Mills, Paul Bunyan anniversary blanket from Bemidji Woolen Mills, and a numbered Hudson’s Bay blanket from Faribault Woolen Mill Company. We practically need block and tackle to make the bed it’s so heavy. What really warms me though, is flickering flames. I’m thankful that Litin Party Paper sells restaurant-style wax-filled glass candle holders for just a couple bucks — I have them all over the house. But when I actually do have to leave the house I make sure there’s a fireplace at my destination. In the Twin Cities that’s not too difficult; nearly every Caribou Coffee has a fireplace and their cozy wood interiors make for a great place to warm up, work a little, or have a quick meeting. Coming back through Brooklyn Center the other day I needed a cup of coffee

and pulled into a completely nondescript strip mall. To my surprise, the CARIBOU COFFEE (8559 Edinburgh Centre Dr. N.) had a fabulous, completely round fireplace, with cozy chairs surrounding it. I plopped right down. But Caribou isn’t the only coffee shop with a fireplace. So I’ve decided to go on a quest to find them all. And I need your help. Send me your favorite coffee shops with fireplaces. I’ll compile a master list then feature them on Facebook for the rest of winter. Then we’re sure to stay warm. Here’s a couple more to get us started: Though they’re only electric embers, the fireplace at WILDE ROAST CAFE (65 SE Main Street) has great presence with a carved wood mantle and mirrored surround, a giant tufted ottoman, wingback chairs, and an oriental rug. The cafe curls around the fireplace and deli counter while a full-service restaurant lingers in the tiered seating above. An opulent place to hang out. Another round fireplace — so welcoming and sharable — is dab smack in the middle of bustling Lake Street at DUNN BROS. COFFEE (821 W Lake St.). Lofty ceilings and faux finished walls and columns create a more urbane experience. Put your feet up here and stay the whole afternoon. Whether it’s coffee, tea, or hot chocolate, make mine flambé. Send your fireplace favs and learn about others, by following Linda Koutsky, the Weekend Tourist, on Facebook.

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Ask Dr. Rachel

By Rachel Allyn

How to get ready for a big move Q

My employer offered me a promotion, which requires me to move across the country. The opportunity is too good to pass up. I’m in my mid-40s and this will be my first time moving out of state so I’m nervous about making such a big change. I know it will be hard to say goodbye to friends and family in Minneapolis. How can I prepare and adapt?

It’s natural for the mind to spin as you sort through all the logistics of moving, not to mention the social and emotional impact. In many ways you’re well situated compared to others who move because you already have a job and are familiar with the organization. Depending on the size of your company, it’s common for an employer to pack your boxes and help you find new housing. If this is your scenario, be relieved you don’t have to deal with those hassles. You’ll also have the benefit of being automatically introduced to a new community of people. Whether these are folks you’d like to do a happy hour with is another issue! If you’re an extravert it will be much easier to make friends. For extraverts, meeting new people is like a sport and they can’t wait to jump into the game. If you’re an introvert, all the new names and small talk will be taxing. On the flip side, you might enjoy the solace at the end of your workday without the usual social commitments you had back home. The best antidote to feeling lonely or homesick is to put energy toward finding your new “tribe.” Join a recreational sports league, art class, gym or parenting group. The poet Rumi wrote: “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” The more you devote to rebuilding community, the more it will come back to you.

You allude to this being harder because of your age. Sure, we don’t have the same zest and naivety as we did fresh out of college, but being in your mid-40s doesn’t mean the world isn’t still your oyster. You never want to let your life get too small and be confined to the bubble that is your comfort zone. Aren’t you curious to see what else awaits you beyond the Midwest? Every city has its own unique personality. Think of yourself as a sociologist, investigating the disposition of this new land. Observe the differences in dialect, architecture, cuisine, entertainment and green space. Learning your way around the city could be confusing, amusing or some combination of the two. This is all based on your perspective. If you go into the experience free from expectation with the eyes of a child, the process might feel more intriguing than daunting. Tips before you go: Send out an email to friends and family announcing your impending move and new address. Heck, throw yourself a cozy going-away party so you can say ‘goodbye for now’ in person! Start your move with a road trip and make a playlist of your favorite songs. Alternate that with listening to a scintillating podcast like “Serial,” or an audio book. If you’re road tripping with kids, take your time and visit monuments and state parks along the way.

Arrive at least a week early to give yourself time to deal with the nitty gritty of running errands and going to the DMV (everyone’s favorite). Tips once you’re there: Seek out free weekly papers that list activities such as concerts and other community events. Go on walks in the neighborhood, switching the route each time, so you can discover sneak-spots like little parks, murals or corner coffee shops. Splurge on new clothes for work and play, especially if the climate is different. After all, with this new position you need to dress the part. Let’s not forget the big picture. Feel fortunate and honored that your employer likes you enough to promote you. Your hard work has paid off. Plus, this transition could also be the right time to make other changes in your life that didn’t make sense before. Your mid-40s is a swell time for a little reinvention. Better that than a mid-life crisis.

The poet Rumi wrote: “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” The more you devote to rebuilding community, the more it will come back to you.

Dr. Rachel Allyn is a licensed psychologist in private practice. Learn more about her unique style of therapy at DrRachelAllyn.com. Send questions to Rachel@DrRachelAllyn.com.

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By Dr. Teresa Hershey

Food options for your feline friend Q

I have a 3-year-old orange tabby cat. I would like to feed him a natural diet. Could you please give me some advice on that?

One of the most frequent questions I get is “what should I feed my pet?” This is a very important question to ask, especially if you own a cat. Cats are so different from dogs in terms of their nutritional needs, and understanding their dietary requirements is essential to optimal feline health. If you want to feed your cat in a “natural” way, it is important to think not just about what type of food should be offered, but also the manner in which it is offered. Let me start by giving you some information about a cat’s dietary intake in the wild. The domestic housecat is thought to have originated in the Middle East. Cats are well adapted to an arid environment and their kidneys have excellent concentrating ability. They get most of their liquid from eating prey (a mouse, for example, is about 70 percent liquid), so they don’t tend to drink as much water. Cats are solitary hunters and therefore take on prey much smaller than themselves, necessitating several small kills per day. They are also obligate carnivores, which means that they require animal protein in order to achieve good health. Unlike dogs, who manufacturer specific amino acids if not present in their diet, cats lack certain key metabolic enzymes which means that if they are not eating animal protein, they will be nutrient deficient. A sad example of this became evident in the late 1980s. Cats started to develop a fatal heart

condition known as Dilated Cardiomyopathy. It was eventually discovered that the cause of this heart condition was that manufactured diets were missing a key amino acid called taurine. Cats cannot make taurine, and it is a necessary amino acid for the heart muscle. Since then, pet food manufacturers have been supplementing cat foods with taurine and this problem has virtually disappeared. We can also learn a lot from studying the feeding habits of domestic cats. Waltham, a pet food manufacturer, has done a lot of research on cat nutrition and feeding. In a research paper, the company notes that when food availability is not restricted, cats will choose to eat small, frequent meals —on average, about 13 meals per day. They also noticed that some cats will demonstrate neophobia and others neophilia. Neophobia is when a cat is very reluctant to try new foods. This can pose a challenge if your cat develops a medical condition in which a dietary change is necessary. Cats that are fed a variety of diets throughout their life tend to show less neophobia. For cats that are adverse to their new diet, you can generally transition them to a new food by offering a small amount of the new food side by side to their old food in a different dish. After having the opportunity to see and smell the new food after several weeks most cats will eventually try the food. It is important to not take away the old diet until your cat is consistently eating the new diet.

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Some cats will exhibit a different feeding habit called neophilia. In this condition, a cat seeks out new food, often people food. This is most commonly seen in cats that are fed the same diet on a daily basis. This condition can be of concern because cats will sometimes greatly reduce the intake of their cat food, and instead fill up on other foods that are not nutritionally balanced. For these cats, offering a variety of cat foods can help reduce food-seeking behavior. If you want to feed your cat in the most “natural” way possible, here are some tips. • Since cats are solitary hunters, in a multi-cat household, feed the cats in separate rooms. • Feed smaller meals throughout the day instead of one or two large feedings. • You could try having your cat “hunt” for its food by feeding your cat out of feeding balls, food puzzles, and hiding it in little dishes around your house. • Canned food is better the dry because it has more moisture in it. (For owners trying to achieve multiple feedings per day, you could try freezing small portions of canned food and leave it out to thaw throughout the day. Cats prefer to eat body temperature food over cold food, so will typically leave the food until it warms.) • Choose a high protein food. What is high protein? As a guideline, a high protein food will have more than 45 percent protein on a “dry matter” basis. The pet food label usually

lists the crude protein, so you will need to convert it. The formula for converting is as follows: First, we need to determine how much of the food is “dry matter.” To do this, look at the moisture content of the food. If the food is 10 percent moisture, then it is 90 percent dry matter. Then look at the crude protein and divide the percentage of protein by the percentage of dry matter to get the percent of protein on a dry matter basis. • It’s OK to introduce new flavors and textures everyday. If your pet develops vomiting or diarrhea during food transitions, then you will need to be purposeful about only feeding one food every several weeks to tease out which food could potentially be causing the problem. (Please note, vomiting, diarrhea and a poor appetite can also be a sign of other serious diseases.) Dr. Teresa Hershey is a veterinarian at Westgate Pet Clinic in Linden Hills. Email her your pet questions at drhershey@westgatepetclinicmn.com.

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Chicago-based artist Joseph G. Cruz presents a large-format color photo and a book, both the products of his intense study of a former mine in Germany used during World War II by the Nazis for the development and testing of V-2 rockets. Cruz impresses with his efforts, but the project seems too dense to dig into during a brief gallery visit. Coyne and Patrick said the Cruz’s project fit the theme of the show because it explores how an early ballistic missile, which had the longest range of any rocket developed up to that point, changed our perception of space and distance. Knowing that the V-2’s chief developer, German scientist Wernher von Braun, would later come to the U.S. and help develop the early space program only deepens the metaphor. Kathryn Miller tells an oblique personal story through a collection of three maps. Coyne and Patrick said the Minnesota Geological Survey quadrangles show a bird’s eye view of locations within the state important to Miller, including the area around tiny Ada, located just north of Fargo-Moorhead; the physically isolated territory of the Northwest Angle; and Tulaby Lake on the White Earth Reservation. Those maps are specific and utilitarian. “Wayfinding,” a series of digital prints by St. Paul artist Jessica Henderson, uses a modern place-finding technology to turn the landscape into one undifferentiated blur. In the prints, heavily pixelated images of roadways and horizons are overlaid with the crisp arrows and lines of Google Street View. The Street View technology often inspires first-person journeys through both familiar and foreign locales, but Henderson transforms that idle, desktop exploration into something dreamlike and suggestive, an open-ended story.

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ages returned unopened to Duluth, where Estell disassembled the six-panel boxes into the cruciform figures that now hang from the wall in Waiting Room gallery. The drywall is punctured and pocked, a record of the weeks-long journeys the boxes went on with through the global postal system. The rocks they once contained are displayed on the floor below, tiny monuments to the eons-crossing expanse of geologic time. The rocks, and the scale of time they represent, crush the boxes, both literally and metaphorically. Isa Newby Gagarin’s “Mirfak” series is named for the Perseus constellation’s brightest star, which, even at a distance of about 600 light years, outshines many stars closer to earth. Gagarin’s crayon and acrylic on paper works are based on the images produced by spectrographs, a tool used to analyze starlight for information about a star’s distance and composition. She turns them into prismatic abstractions of spindly, colorshifting lines against a black background. For a separate series of works on paper, Gagarin, who lives in Minneapolis, started with stock photos of rainbows from Hennepin County Library’s picture files (a service made nearly obsolete by Google Images and other online resources). Transferred to transparencies, the black-and-white images become an arcing shadow; Gagarin then places these over paper covered in washes of acrylic in primary colors.

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Market vendors stay busy over winter

or most vendors, the outdoor farmers market season is a whirlwind of activity. Early morning harvests, post-market chores, late nights of baking, and hours spent in kitchens tending to bubbling stovetops. Vending at a market as a farmer or small business owner is a lot of work and the winter months bring change of pace for many. Here’s what some of the vendors from the Fulton, Kingfield and Nokomis Markets are up to this winter! Pete Skold and Anna Racer of Waxwing Farm bring you produce and plant starts at the Fulton Farmers Market and through their CSA during the outdoor season. In the winter, Anna works as a classroom assistant at Prairie Creek

WINTER MARKETS Stock up on produce from farmers who have been able to store hearty crops such as cabbage, potatoes, beets and carrots and grow hoophouse greens through the winter months, along with eggs, meats, cheese, pickles, jams, baked goods, fermented veggies and more at our upcoming Saturday winter markets — Feb. 27 and March 26. We’ll be inside at Bachman’s (6010 Lyndale Ave S) from 9 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Our vendors will be loaded up with local goods and stories about what they’ve been up to since they last saw you!

Community School. Pete is staying busy on the farm and building an addition to their house! Liz Plambeck, the talented seamstress of Universal Pants, continues her artistic pursuits during the winter through the Tree Rat Collective, a group of local artists who come together once a month to sell their wares at Squirrel Haus Arts, a new arts space in the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis. Dorothy Stainbrook, proprietor of Heath Glen Farm and Kitchen, stays busy through the holiday season producing and selling the same delicious jams, shrubs and simple syrups you find at her tent at Kingfield and Nokomis during the outdoor season. In the second half of winter she works as an online diet and fitness coach, helping folks make healthy choices. In the warmer months, Ger Yang helps his mother, Pang Xiong, sell her colorful produce at the Fulton and Nokomis Farmers Markets. Ger works full-time as a machinist, but on weekends during the winter he can be found out in the middle of one of Minnesota’s many lakes, ice fishing with family and friends. Mike and Gretchen Perbix of Sweetland Orchard are busy pressing apples for cider and fermenting and bottling their amazing hard cider! They leave the trees be in December and begin pruning in January and February. Jean and Eldon Davidson spent November covering the strawberry patches with hay and getting gardens and equipment ready for the cold and snow. They will spend a few weeks in December and January traveling down to

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planting about 500 new apple trees in the spring! Dave and Mary Falk of LoveTree Farm are catching up with chores and projects that needed to be put off during grazing season such as moving the portable electric fencing before the ground freezes, getting the sheep, goats and cows set up in their winter paddocks and milking some of the remaining animals in production. Mary is working hard preparing Nature’s Gift, a high fat cow’s milk cheese wrapped in birch bark (look for it at the winter markets at Bachman’s!) While several of our vendors are scattered far and wide or taking a break for the winter, those that are still in production haven’t slowed down. The hens at Sunshine Harvest Farm are still laying 700 eggs per day seven days a week! Rebecca Lee is the market manager of Neighborhood Roots. She has worked for the markets since 2014.

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Get Out Guide.

Valentine’s Day Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and whether you have your dinner reservations planned or you’re playing it by ear, we have a few events off the beaten path for a unique romantic weekend.

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CUPID’S UNDIE RUN For the brave, Cupid’s Undie Run is a free-spirited fundraiser this Valentine’s Day weekend. Each year, half-naked runners take to the streets of downtown Minneapolis to raise money for the Children’s Tumor Foundation, all the while sporting their favorite red undies and braving the winter chill. For a unique start to Valentine’s Day, head to this event — just leave your pants in the car.

Where: The Pourhouse, 10 S. 5th St. When: Feb. 13 from 11 a.m.4 p.m. Cost: $35-55 Info: cupidsundierun.com

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CHOCOLATE HISTORY TOUR Minneapolis’ fermentation bar, GYST, is already a romantic dining spot with its artisanal cheese, wine and fermented specialties. But for the special day, the restaurant is hosting an edible tour of chocolate history with its own Jill Mott and curators from the Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine. Diners will have the chance to eat their way through modern-day chocolates and savor historical recipes includes drinking chocolates, pastes, bars and an array of other desserts.

Where: GYST Fermentation Bar, 25 E. 26th St. When: Saturday, Feb. 13 from 12-2 p.m. Cost: $32.64 Info: gystmpls.com

SAINT PAUL BALLET Work from four women choreographers from across the country will get their world premier with the dancers of the St. Paul Ballet at The Cowles Center. If night of dance is right for you, the downtown performing arts center takes it a step further with the addition of sparking wine and desserts for two on Valentine’s Day. A refined evening of wining, dining and dance is a prime option for a romantic weekend.

Where: The Cowles Center, 528 Hennepin Ave. / When: Feb. 12-14 / Cost: $25-37.50 / Info: thecowlescenter.org

THE BEER DABBLER WINTER CARNIVAL In its seventh year, The Beer Dabbler’s outdoor winter party has drawn beer fans and brewing connoisseurs from around the Twin Cities. In partnership with the St. Paul Winter Carnival, the event features unlimited samples of more than 120 local, regional and national craft beers, making it easy to find plenty of new brews to choose. Attendees can also expect live entertainment in the Midway, winter activities and a meat and cheese showcase in the heated Coliseum.

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Get Out Guide. SILENCE! THE MUSICAL As far as parodies go, “SILENCE! The Musical” may be one of the most extreme examples. The Off-Broadway hit, an “unauthorized” parody of the Oscarwinning “The Silence of the Lambs,” puts the horrifying movie to music with pungent and punchy results. Minneapolis Musical Theatre, along with Bitter Boy Productions, is behind this area premiere, in addition to other parodies like “Jerry Springer – The Opera,” “The Rocky Horror Show,” and “Evil Dead: The Musical.”

Where: The Lab Theater, 700 N. 1st St. When: Feb. 12 through March 6 Cost: $30-40 Info: thelabtheater.org

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WINTERFEST WinterFest continues the city’s winter celebrations after the Holidazzle brought the holidays to Loring Park. The event, put on by Citizens for a Loring Park Community and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, will bring family fun and ice-skating to the park near downtown Minneapolis. WinterFest will have free horse-drawn carriage rides, snowshoeing, an outdoor bonfire with s’mores, holiday crafts and an opportunity to dance with Kairos Dance Company.

Where: Loring Park Community Center, 1382 Willow St. When: Thursday, Feb. 11 at 6 p.m. Cost: Free Info: loringpark.org

WINTER CYCLING CONGRESS Many Twin Cities residents already know Minneapolis and St. Paul for being winter biking meccas, but the cycling scene will go international during this year’s Winter Cycling Congress. Now in its third year, the international biking affair will get its United States debut with speakers and other events. Throughout three days, cold-weather cyclers, planners and other leaders from around the globe will host talks and more on biking culture, infrastructure and more.

Where: Various Twin Cities venues When: Feb. 2-4 Cost: $325-475, discounts available Info: wintercyclingcongress2016.org

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