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MINIMUM WAGE DEBATE

City-led events draw business owners, workers, nonprofit leaders and activists

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

Both supporters and skeptics of a higher citywide minimum wage — and many who found themselves somewhere in between — showed up to listen and give their feedback at two mid-February listening sessions, part of a series of 10 city-led gatherings that began in January and run through March 3. “There’s so many people that care who are taking

the position that this maybe is not the route to go,” said Jerry Anderson, one of about 40 people who crammed into an undersized conference room inside the Minneapolis Downtown Council’s offices for a Feb. 14 listening session. A city-commissioned study found the benefits of a $12 or $15 minimum wage would flow primarily to black and

MPS parents push for removal of tire mulch Group hopes for resolution this school year By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

A group of parents is pushing Minneapolis Public Schools to remove tire mulch from all district playgrounds out of concern for students’ health. The group, called Play It Safe Minneapolis, would like to see tire mulch replaced with engineered wood fiber, which is a non-chemically treated virgin wood fiber designed for playgrounds. Play It Safe is pushing for the district to take action this school year. It would ultimately like to see tire mulch and crumb rubber removed from all fields and playgrounds in the city. Tire rubber is used as infill material on artificial turf fields and as surface covering on playgrounds. It contains a

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Latino workers, who are overrepresented in low-wage jobs. But Anderson, a U.S. Bank vice president who said he was speaking for himself, not his company, wondered about the potential impacts on small businesses — including employers who are themselves people of color — and suggested the city might instead pursue career SEE MINIMUM WAGE / PAGE A17

Cedar-Isles-Dean neighbors consider West Lake apartment height By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

variety of chemicals known to be toxic, but researchers have not determined the extent to which exposure poses an actual health risk, according to a city subcommittee tasked with studying the issue. Studies done by California and New York have shown that exposure to the chemicals in crumb rubber is likely to be small, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. California and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are currently working on more comprehensive studies that could provide more clarity on the health effects of tire mulch. When it comes to tire mulch, the state Health Department recommends that SEE TIRE MULCH / PAGE A14

A developer is proposing to build 200 apartment units at 3100 W. Lake St., and the shape the building will take is still in question. Brickstone Partners has prepared design options rising six stories (with rooftop amenities peaking at 76 feet), nine stories (with an elevator overrun at 116 feet) or 13 stories (reaching 150 feet). The building would rise where the Lake Pointe Corporate Center stands today, a building recognizable for its giant Adirondack chairs and office tenants like the Associated Clinic of Psychology. Feedback from residents at a recent public hearing in Cedar-Isles-Dean was split between the tallest building, which would give its neighbors the most green space and breathing

room, or the shortest building, which would rise roughly in line with the Loop Calhoun Condos next door. The Cedar-Isles-Dean Neighborhood Association (CIDNA) Land Use and Development committee had preliminarily opposed all three options, seeking a 15-percent reduction in floor area and larger setbacks from Lake Street and the Loop. Dan Otis of Brickstone said he isn’t likely to waver from 200 units, however. “That’s a fundamental economic tipping point for us,” he said. “I think you’re trying to build too many units,” nearby resident Mark Scally said at the Jan. 26 neighborhood meeting. SEE APARTMENT HEIGHT / PAGE A2

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Mike Elson of the Lake Calhoun Sailing School and Yacht Club said a tall building would impact winds on the lake, making it a challenge to teach kids to sail. If no one puts a lid on development, the lake would eventually look like Central Park, he said. Some meeting attendees saw benefit in a taller tower, however. Anhthi Tran said the 13-story concept would affect neighbors the least, offering them more privacy and a bigger buffer of green space. “I really do think if we can get a high-quality building in there, I think it’s worth considering granting that variance for a 13-story tower,” he said to applause. “Where we limit height, that density does have to go somewhere,” said Leo Zabezhinsky, a Loop Calhoun Condominium Association board member. He noted that the developer Trammell Crow, which is building the Foundry apartments on the other side of the Loop, initially proposed a taller building. Following neighborhood pushback, he said, the developer moved forward with a smaller six-story plan that pushed the building “right to our doorstep.” Some think the close proximity has contributed to damage at the Loop, he said. Resident Nadine Emerson said residents of the Loop are holding the bag for $1.8 million in damages sustained after the Foundry began construction at 3118 W. Lake St. The issue is

in litigation. Initial six- and nine-story designs for the new Brickstone structure set portions of the building 30 feet from the Loop, according to CIDNA. “The farther away they are, the less potential for damage,” Zabezhinsky said. Otis of Brickstone said the company is looking at non-vibratory methods for excavation, and he’s working on a written agreement with the Loop’s condominium association. “There is a statutory requirement that we take care of you guys,” he said. Traffic was another major point of concern for residents in January. “This is almost like Déjà vu for me,” said one resident. She recalled objections in 2014 over the Foundry’s impact on traffic safety, shortly after which a pedestrian crossing the street at Market Plaza and Lake Street was hit by a truck and killed. She said Dean Parkway is a tiny street that’s bumper-to-bumper every morning. Scally said vehicles traveling down Lake Street can reach upwards of 50 miles per hour, and he said unless drivers are very alert they would risk hitting cars entering and exiting the apartments. Richard Logan, who has spent time documenting traffic issues in the neighborhood, said he’s documented five to six close calls per hour at Dean & Lake during the evening rush hour, with 80 people per hour visibly using their cell phones while driving. Otis said the current office generates more

traffic than is obvious to passersby, with lots of patients and customers traveling in and out throughout the day. Ed Terhaar of Wenck presented the preliminary results of a travel demand management plan. He said morning peak hours at the office today total 109 trips exiting and entering, compared to the apartments projected to see 102 trips. The evening peak hour is 108 trips for the current office and projected at 124 for the apartments, he said. Parking offered at one-and-a-half stalls per unit would stand in two floors below grade but above the water table. The project site lies west of the 20-story Lake Point Condominiums, which were built in 1977, and the 12-story Calhoun Beach Club Apartments, built in 1999. The Lakes Residences luxury apartment project recently completed at 2622 W. Lake St. reaches eight stories. Residents concerned about height near the lakes pressed the city to enact the Shoreland Overlay District in 1988, which requires a conditional use permit to build above two-and-a-half stories within 1,000 feet of the water. Lake Point Condominiums resident Pat Murphy submitted a statement referencing the Shoreland Overlay. “I was told by my Realtor there would NEVER be a blockage of my view because of the city ordinance of 2.5 stories,” Murphy wrote. “… Why have a city ordinance when someone with money can come in [and] ask for a modification

that will not be in the best interest of any of the population around that building and perhaps be granted that modification?” The Planning Commission can choose to grant permits for additional height if commissioners conclude the project will not be detrimental to public health, not be injurious to the enjoyment of surrounding property, the utilities and drainage are adequate, measures are taken to minimize traffic congestion or other factors. Some residents wondered about the pace of leasing at The Lakes Residences. Although a press release issued last summer said rents start at $4,000, the project website now lists floor plans starting at $2,275 for a one-bedroom, 865-square-foot unit. At the project’s higher end, a two-bedroom, 3,968-square-foot penthouse rents for $14,553. Otis said vacancy rates are under 3 percent in the area, and Minneapolis is one of the country’s most stable rental markets, thanks in part to all the local job generators. In response to some residents who said they would prefer condos, Otis said that in recent years developers have found it difficult to manage the risks associated with developing condominiums. Legislation gives developers unlimited liability lasting 10 years for any construction defects, he said. The rents at 3100 W. Lake would likely range from $2.20-$2.60 per square foot, Otis said, or $1,800 or $2,000 per month. Land costs drive the rent price, he said.

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Mercado by Earl Giles The new concept replacing Marche on the ground-floor of Lime Apartments opens with coffee and closes with cocktails. Mercado by Earl Giles is now open, and the owners are planning an open grill and bar on the patio where they’ll serve tacos “food truckstyle,” pending city approval. Sandwiches like the El Chapo sandwich are “very large — come hungry,” said operator Jeff Erkkila. Erkkila wintered in Mexico for five years, where he ran a restaurant in Sayulita. “I rolled sushi up here for a little bit and I brought that skill down there,” he said. “It’s a beachside sushi and cocktail spot.” He’s returned with his favorite Sayulita inspirations, including Mariscos shrimp tacos and chicken braised in chilies and garlic butter called Chicken Lady. His co-founder at Mercado is James Dolan; they met at Borough and have worked together for years. Erkkila said their cocktails are focused on mezcal and raicilla, which he called the moon-

shine of Mexico, produced in all regions from 100 different agave strains. He sees agave flights in Mercado’s future. Cocktails include the “pink, bright and fresh” Paloma with Earl Giles cordials and tequila, spiced with habanero tinctures for heat. Earl Giles makes syrups and elixirs, and the name is a combination of Erkkila’s middle name (Giles) and the middle name of longtime bartender Jesse (Earl) Held. Their products are found at venues around town like Lyn 65 and Borough. Along with tacos and cocktails, Mercado is bringing pop-up Maker’s Markets to LynLake. The markets will continue on a monthly basis throughout the spring and summer. Vendors have included jewelers, Duckie Uglings, “Super Moon Pillows” by Pirate Muse Productions, knitting and pottery (including pottery by Dolan’s family). Mercado is dog-friendly, and at least three dogs were in attendance at the grand opening.

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ColorWheel Gallery The owner of ColorWheel Gallery has created a coloring book dedicated to Prince. Owner Tammy Ortegon grew up in Minneapolis, and she’s loved Prince since age 15. “I started doing sketches and memories of Prince just to get me through my own grieving,” she said. “He never let anybody else tell him what to do. … He didn’t want to be put in a box as an artist.” The sketches became coloring pages, and she decided to turn the collection into a book. She carries other Prince memorabilia and another Prince-inspired coloring book by Minneapolis artist David Kline Jr. She said it’s fun to see how people finish off each page with color. “Making art together is really powerful,” she said. The ColorWheel Gallery began as a hair salon where Ortegon put away the chairs once a month for an art show. She still juggles highlights and shoppers, but the gallery and gift space has grown over time. She’s planning to start more classes and workshops in addition to her regular parties with henna, treats and creation tables. Ortegon lives in Kingfield and said she loves

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A Scandinavian kitchen design company based three hours from Helsinki is opening a new showroom in May at the corner of Lake & James. Björn Freudenthal, vice president of sales and marketing in North America, said Puustelli’s showroom is different than most. Customers will walk in to find a large demonstration kitchen, flex lounge and a floor-toceiling fireplace. Kids can play in a children’s area while parents walk through mudroom, bathroom, laundry and home office spaces. With five kitchen vignettes in the showroom, staff members are also planning cook-offs and other events. “We envision talented local chefs visiting our events and we envision fun cooking classes offered by our very own co-owner Chef Anna from Finland,” Freudenthal said in an email. “The idea is to have homeowners come in and experience a Puustelli kitchen and play with it.” Puustelli has expanded into Sweden, Russia, the Baltic states, the UK and now the United States, opening a market location in Edina in 2016. Freudenthal said staff see a chance to provide an alternative to ultra high-end European furnishings at a lower price and a comparable level of quality. The Miinus kitchen line is built around a biocomposite frame that doesn’t expand or

contract in high-moisture areas. There are no volatile organic compounds and no formaldehyde added in cabinetry making to impact indoor air quality. According to a 2012 press release put out by VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, the biocomposite design aims to achieve the smallest environmental impact possible. Ceramic countertops are scratch-resistant and nonporous to prevent stains. Freudenthal said the countertop is extremely durable, withstanding more than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. “The only thing that’s harder than that is a diamond,” he said. The showroom is opening at a newly constructed office building at Lake & James, which also houses Peterssen/Keller Architecture and Clinic Femina. It’s a spot where 15,000 vehicles pass daily, Freudenthal said, and he praised the building’s architecture. “This looks like us, more modern,” he said. Design concepts by Puustelli range from darker industrial Brooklyn-based styles to simple and fresh Asian-influenced looks and European aesthetics with earth tones and graphics. Puustelli will appear at the Minneapolis Home & Garden Show Feb. 24-26 and March 3-5 at the Minneapolis Convention Center and at the Southwest Home Improvement Fair 10 a.m.–3 p.m. March 25 at Burroughs Community School.

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April, according to the Los Angeles Times. Minnesota’s first American Apparel store opened at 1433 W. Lake St., replacing American Eagle, in 2007. A Minneapolis staff member said the closing date is not yet determined and depends on inventory. A 40 percent-off sale is underway.

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Coalition Restaurant An Excelsior-based American restaurant will open this spring in the 50th & France district. Chef Eli Wollenzien and business partner Deacon Eells will open their second Coalition Restaurant at 3808 W. 50th St., the site of the now-closed 50th Street Cafe. Wollenzien said he expects to start remodeling the site within the next week and hopes to open by May 1. “We want people to be able to come in their jeans and T-shirts and get a beer,” he said, adding that he wants it to be a place where people also can “come in suit and tie and get steak and wine.” “It is a more sophisticated atmosphere,” he said, “but that doesn’t mean it can’t be casual.” Wollenzien was the founding chef at Crave at the Galleria in Edina and spent six years as Crave’s corporate chef. He was the corporate chef for the Blue Plate Restaurant Company for two years before opening Coalition in June 2014. Wollenzien said the 50th & France location will initially have the same menu as the Excelsior location, which serves a variety of starters, vegetables and greens as well as entrees such as steaks, seafood, pasta and burgers. The new location will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner and will seat up to 98 patrons. The menu is eclectic with a lot of different flavors, Wollenzien said, but doesn’t necessarily have one signature dish. He said the restaurant

focuses on the local sourcing of products such as meats, dairies and vegetables. He said the restaurant will be going for a full liquor license. The plan is to have a small selection of local beers on tap, a full wine selection and craft cocktails. Wollenzien and Eells will fully remodel the Edina site, adding windows to the east-facing wall, repositioning the entrance and remodeling the exterior. There won’t be a patio, but Wollenzien said they will install a “four-season porch type area.” Rachel Thelemann, executive director of the 50th & France Business and Professional Association, said she’s excited about Coalition’s entrance into the district. “We know it has a great reputation,” she said. “I think we’re such a foodie community that it enhances our district for sure.” Fulton Neighborhood Association President Jane Kohnen said her organization will be looking at getting a uniform policy to address parking issues. The association will have a meeting to address parking on Monday night. She said she’s happy to have the prospect of more restaurants in the neighborhood. Visit coalitionrestaurant.com to see the restaurant’s menu.

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Former Hennepin Theatre Trust CEO Tom Hoch made his entry into the mayor’s race official with a Feb. 21 launch event at the State Theatre on Hennepin Avenue. Submitted image

Tom Hoch joins mayor’s race Speaking from a theater he helped to preserve, Tom Hoch, the former CEO of Hennepin Theatre Trust, announced Feb. 21 his candidacy for mayor of Minneapolis. Hoch officially kicked off his campaign at downtown’s State Theatre, speaking to a group of about 50 supporters in the lobby. The decision to run puts the longtime leader of downtown’s theaters and public art onto a completely different stage: his firstever run for public office. In his first campaign speech, Hoch questioned the city’s ability to compete nationwide in creating jobs, promoting creativity and fostering industries like food production, tech and health care, unlike cities like Denver, Austin or Indianapolis. “Where is the ambition of the leaders of our city?” he said. “We don’t have the momentum that others have. We don’t have a plan of action.” Hoch, 62, previously served as the founder of the Hennepin Theatre Trust, which owns and operates the State, Pantages and Orpheum theaters along Hennepin Avenue downtown. The Minneapolis native — a Washburn High School alumnus and a Lowry Hill neighborhood resident — stepped down in February amid rumors of mayoral ambitions. Hoch recently ended a term as chair of the Minneapolis Downtown Council and the Downtown Improvement District. Both Hoch and husband Mark Addicks, a retired General Mills executive who hosted the campaign kickoff, have contributed to Ward 3 City Council campaign of Jacob Frey, who announced his own bid for mayor in January. On Jan. 23, the state’s Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board issued an advisory opinion that gave Frey the go ahead to spend funds donated to his City Council campaign committee on his run for mayor. His speech included a quick jab at Frey because Hoch “gave for one purpose and now those funds are being used for something else,” he told The Journal. Speaking of his competitors, Hoch said his decision to run isn’t simply one of political ambition. “I don’t view the job of mayor as a step-

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ping stone. I want to be your full-time, visual, engaged mayor leading from the front 24/7,” he said. The campaign event drew supporters like John Sweeney, the proprietor of downtown’s Brave New Workshop; Gloria Freeman, owner of housing company Olu’s Home Inc. and a trust board member; and Cora McCorvey, the former executive director of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority, where Hoch was employed as a deputy executive director in the early and mid 1990s. Amol Dixit, the owner of Hot Indian Foods and a Minneapolis resident, said he supports Hoch because of his focus on creating a thriving Minneapolis. “Tom clearly has a bias for listening and for incorporating diverse perspectives,” he said. “It has become so clear to me that what Tom has is a cohesive vision for the city. I believe Tom is the leader we need.” Hoch previously worked as a schoolteacher, attorney and a projects manager with the City of Minneapolis. He previously served board chair of the Animal Humane Society for the past two years. Other candidates in the 2017 mayoral contest include state Rep. Raymond Dehn, a DFLer whose district includes parts of North and downtown Minneapolis, and filmmaker Aswar Rahman. Mayor Betsy Hodges announced her re-election bid late last year. — Eric Best and Dylan Thomas

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New advisory board on transgender issues formed Applications are being accepted for seats on the board of the Transgender Equity Council, a newly formed group tasked with advising the City Council and Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board on matters related to the city’s transgender community. The City Council on Feb. 10 voted to create the 15-member advisory committee on the recommendation of the Minneapolis Transgender Issues Work Group. The work group, formed in 2014 by the City Council and mayor, meets regularly to examine disparities affecting Minneapolis’ transgender residents and make city policy recommendations. “The creation of this committee demonstrates the City of Minneapolis’ commitment to support and uplift the transgender community and gender-nonconforming Minneapolitans by bringing us to the table,” Phillipe Cunningham, a policy advisor to Mayor Betsy Hodges, said during the City Council’s Feb. 8 Committee of the Whole meeting. Cunningham, who is running for City Council in Ward 4, is one of two transgender candidates currently campaigning for a city office. Andrea Jenkins is a candidate in Ward 8, where she hopes to succeed City Council

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Two top officials with the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority are stepping down amid a controversy over the use of U.S. Bank Stadium’s luxury suites. Michele Kelm-Helgen’s Feb. 16 announcement that she would resign from her role as chair of the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority was followed just hours later by letter from Ted Mondale. Mondale, the MSFA executive director, said he, too, would leave. Kelm-Helgen cited the scrutiny of MSFA’s use of U.S. Bank Stadium suites in a letter announcing her decision. On Feb. 7, the Legislative Audit Commission released a report concluding that, by giving away more than 150 luxury suite tickets to family and friends, MSFA members “violated a core ethical principal.” Legislative Auditor James Nobles launched an investigation into use of the suites after the Star Tribune published a series of stories examining their use last fall. In her letter, Kelm-Helgen wrote that she was “honored to serve” as MSFA chair, and touted her role in keeping the $1.1-billion stadium project on time and on budget. She also noted the MSFA’s role in attracting the 2018 Super Bowl, this year’s NCAA Men’s Final Four and the 2018 X Games to the stadium. “Despite these successes, the ongoing discussion on the use of MSFA suites has

become a distraction to marketing the stadium,” she wrote. “If I could go back and start over again, MSFA would have had a public discussion on the use of these suites and forbid the use of them by family and friends from the start.” Even before the release of the Legislative Audit Commission’s report, Republican state Rep. Sarah Anderson of Plymouth introduced a bill that would modify the MSFA, giving the legislature more power to appoint its members and limiting the role of the governor and mayor of Minneapolis. Kelm-Helgen was appointed to her post by Gov. Mark Dayton, for whom she previously served as deputy chief of staff for legislative affairs. In her letter, Kelm-Helgen wrote that Anderson’s bill goes beyond the recommendations in the commission’s report and “fails to hold all publicly-owned and operated sports venues to the same set of standards.” Recognizing herself as the target of the legislation, she said it was “in the public interest to remove myself from this discussion.” Kelm-Helgen’s resignation is effective March 8.

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By Jim Walsh

Luck o’ the Currans

he foyer of Curran’s on 42nd & Nicollet is a romantic holding tank where diners waiting for tables bide their time by taking in the joint’s decidedly Irish pub-flavored décor. Ireland street signs hang next to framed photos and quotes from some of Ireland’s greatest writers and poets and, as diners linger about waiting for feed time, it’s easy to get lost in all those Emerald Isle words and forget you’re in a South Minneapolis dining institution. “This one’s my favorite,” said Dennis Curran, the restaurant’s 65-year-old second-generation owner and namesake, pointing to a photo of playwright and critic George Bernard Shaw that’s festooned with the Shaw quote, “He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.” “That’s my favorite quote of all time,” said Curran, a soft-spoken husband and father of three. “I hung that there about 15 years ago. In the past I’ve always tried to stay away from politics, because we’re in the food business. You know, we sell food, not my opinion. But as of late, with about 97 percent of the people in this area against Trump, I guess I’ve expressed my view more than once here.” Amidst paintings on loan from the Minnesota Arts Association, off the back dining room hangs “A Mother’s Note To Her Son,” a poster donated by Curran’s mother and restaurant co-founder Betty that’s sure to leave any son or mother a wee bit misty. Likewise, most of the place is decked out in Ireland travel posters, and these days behind the register hangs a sign counting down the days to St. Patrick’s Day. “My father was all Irish,” said Dennis of his father Mike, who comes from a long line of Ireland-born Currans, as the menu chronicles. “We don’t have particularly any Irish food, except on St. Patrick’s Day, which is corned beef and cabbage. We go through about 600 pounds of corned beef, 250 pounds of cabbage, and 250 pounds of potatoes. St. Patrick’s Day is a hoppin’ day around here.” “Here” is Curran’s, a square peg in the hipster hole that is foodie-mad Minneapolis. To be sure, in a town that boasts trendy bistros and James Beard award-winners and nominees on every corner, Curran’s is an after-thought, a relic — despite the fact that the parking lot and dining room is routinely packed. “My mom and dad opened it on May 17, 1948, as a root beer stand,” said Dennis. “My dad and my grandfather built it. Started out with $5,000. We were a drive-in until ’73, then we converted to a restaurant. My mother and my father were honest and hardworking, and they liked people a lot. They could sit down with anyone and carry on a conversation. “They were both farm kids who moved to Minneapolis, my father after the war and my mother during the war. My father, when he came back from the war, his sister and brother-in-law had a drive-in in Northeast Minneapolis, and he went and worked there. That’s where he got the idea for this place. Luckily for us, he chose beautiful South Minneapolis.” Pop into Curran’s any late night and you’re likely

Dennis Curran with his daughter, Merissa, outside their 69-year-old family restaurant: “You don’t come here for a dining experience, you come here for good food.” Photo by Jim Walsh

to be part of one of the most decidedly diverse crowds around, one that would be the envy of any bar, pub or restaurant. Dennis says he’s noticed an uptick in high school students coming in for the ridiculously cheap breakfast, and one late night last week the place was jumping with post-gig musicians and some well-heeled clubbers getting take-out. “We get such a cross-section of people in here. We get bricklayers, we get housewives, lawyers, doctors, professionals, and for me it’s a lot of fun to talk to ’em all. Sundays, we get ’em coming from church. St. Joan Of Arc, Incarnation, St. Leonard’s, St. Helena’s, Annunciation. Those are just the Catholics,” said Curran, who graduated from De La Salle. “I had a fun time one time during Easter season, I think it was Holy Thursday, and a congregation from a Catholic church came and a congregation from a Baptist church came, and they were on the opposite sides of the room, and I had ’em all singing ‘Alleluia’ together.” Along with Curran’s role as a long-standing community hub in South Minneapolis, Dennis is most proud of his hardworking staff and the meals it cranks out seven days a week. “We’re casual dining comfort food,” he said. “We try to prep as much as possible here. We cook our turkey here. We have turkey dinner on Mondays. Same with the corn beef. We have fresh sauerkraut for the Reuben, and it’s delicious. The roast beef we cook here. We have a pulled-pork sandwich we cook here. People love our chicken apple links. We work with a local butcher, and we’re the only place in Minneapolis that has these and they’re delicious. We have a German sausage we get from the butcher, and we try to shop local. We get our eggs from over on the Eastside of St. Paul, and our buns we get from a local bakery. So we just try to get comfort food that people … you know, you don’t come here for a dining experience, you come here for good food. “We have all natural beef hamburgers, natural potatoes. We serve organic coffee. We try to have the best quality food we can possibly get. We sell a

lot of liver and onions, and we have a Monte Cristo sandwich that I don’t think a lot of people have. The crust pies we have someone make for us, and we bake ’em here, and we make the cream pies from scratch. There’s no preservatives in ’em and it’s real whipped cream. We have fresh strawberry pie that’s been our staple for the last 50 years. Prices on that have gone up over the years. In the ’60s you could get a piece of pie for 35 cents, now it’s $2.30. We do have our pie special for $1.49 between 2–5 and 7–close.” At the heart of it all is Curran, who obviously wields a steady hand with the kitchen and wait crew and an easy way with customers. Equal parts priest and barkeep, he can be seen at all hours of the day and night in his family-business element, behind the register and patrolling the dining room, all the while listening to customers and taking in the gossip of the day. “I’ve always been interested in talking to people. I guess I’ve got the gift of gab,” he said. “I always tell people I’ve got the best job in the world, because where else can you get a job where you walk around and pour coffee and talk to people all day? It’s a ball. “My father never sat down with me and said, ‘You do this and you do that.’ He just taught by example. He was a humble man, and he was up front with people, and I’ve learned that. You compliment people when they do a good job, and you don’t try to knock ’em down. I always tell our staff the customers are our guests. “We seat 165 people here, and we can get people in and out in a hurry. And we don’t rush ’em. Generally speaking, like on a Sunday, we’ll be full and we’ll have a line out the door, and unless you’re a party, it’s a five or ten minute wait. We’ll get you in. We have an excellent kitchen crew, and they get the food out fast and it looks good and tastes delicious.” Jim Walsh lives and grew up in South Minneapolis. He can be reached at jimwalsh086@gmail.com

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Moments in Minneapolis

By Cedar Imboden Phillips

In the days of the streetcar

his downtown Minneapolis streetscape, photographed circa 1886, shows Hennepin Avenue at Third Street. Minneapolis was booming in the 1880s and residents were starting to build homes along new transportation corridors south of downtown. Notice the horse-drawn streetcar in the lower left; the sign reads “Hennepin, Lyndale Ave., and Lake St.” Expanding streetcar options in the 1880s and 1890s made it easier than ever for downtown workers to commute from and to new homes in Southwest Minneapolis. Cedar Imboden Phillips is executive director of the Hennepin History Museum. Learn more about the museum and its offerings at hennepinhistory.org or (612) 870-1329.

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FEELING THE PAIN Officials work to combat rising opioid-related deaths By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Ian Selleck died in 2009 of an accidental heroin overdose at the home where he grew up in Edina. “We were just an everyday, regular family,” said his mother, Star. Ian had tried heroin for a few weeks and then quit, she said. Then he got some birthday money, tried it again that night, and died. “It was the day after he turned 19. Pretty young,” she said. The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office reports at least 144 opioid-related deaths in 2016 in Hennepin County. The office said the number is at a “crisis level,” a 31 percent increase from the prior year. The Drug Enforcement Administration cites increasing addiction to prescription painkillers and a growing prevalence of drugs that contain concentrated and deadly narcotics like fentanyl. “I don’t think people realize how many people are losing their lives to this, even in a very short time frame,” said Kenneth Solek, assistant special agent for the DEA in Minnesota. “We’re not talking hard-core addicts that have been doing this for years. The amount of people that are dying the first time or first couple of times they use this, we’ve never seen those kinds of statistics before.” The issue has drawn the scrutiny of the Minnesota Attorney General, state legislators and the state Dept. of Human Services. Advocates rallied at the Capitol this week for new legislation to tackle the issue, including mandatory drug history checks for doctors prescribing controlled substances. Wayzata High School graduate Alex Milun died of a heroin overdose in 2015. His mother Kirsten said she wants to raise awareness of the issue, because she sees opioids everywhere: an oxycodone prescription for the flu, or a Vicodin prescription for a headache. Minneapolis resident Judy Lee said her son Dan fell and received an oxycodone prescription for the injury. Dan was also taking anti-anxiety medicine, and Judy said the combination became a prescription for death within weeks. “He just stopped breathing in the middle of the night,” she said. “…These meds are just not appropriate for chronic pain.” The Minnesota Attorney General’s office reports that U.S. sales of opioid painkillers have

quadrupled since 1999, and fatal overdoses from prescription opioids have also quadrupled in that time. Rebekah Forrest, a family nurse practitioner at the Native American Community Clinic on Franklin Avenue, said she’s talking to patients about opioids almost daily. “People are scared,” she said. Her patients typically first receive opioids from a family member or someone in the community. Some patients have told her if they can’t get a new prescription, they will buy opioids on the street if necessary. The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation cites multiple studies that say nearly 80 percent of new heroin users previously used prescription opioids. “That puts the provider in a really challenging predicament,” she said. Forrest is a member of the state Dept. of Human Services’ Opioid Prescribing Work Group, which is analyzing the appropriate size of an initial prescription and talking about how to help doctors feel comfortable saying no to requests for pain medicine. The group is also talking about support for patients who must cut back on pain medicine. “The research really shows that to walk away from an opioid addiction is really hard,” Forrest said. Researchers can draw a line between overdoses and opioid prescriptions. According to the Attorney General’s office, studies in the late 1970s and early 80s concluded that opioids were a safe treatment for chronic pain (some of those studies were eventually proven false), and pharmaceutical companies aggressively promoted their usage. New pain management standards implemented in 2000 led doctors to advocate for increased opioid use to treat what was considered a widespread problem of untreated pain. The CDC reports that up to 1 in 4 people in primary care who receive prescription opioids long-term for non-cancer pain struggles with addiction. Monique Bourgeois, community relations director at the nonprofit NuWay, said the scariest time for opioid users comes after they have quit. The body loses its tolerance for the drug, she said, and if people resume using the same amount, they can easily overdose. “It’s like the

Kirsten Milun lost her son Alex to a heroin overdose. Photo by Michelle Bruch

worst flu you ever had, only you know you can relieve that within minutes,” said Marvin Seppala, chief medical officer at Hazelden. He said the body’s tolerance is almost gone after a month. The DEA increasingly sees opioids mixed with other narcotics like fentanyl, making the drugs cheaper and more deadly. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid similar to morphine but 50-100 times more potent. Prince died of fentanyl toxicity, according to the Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office. “Heroin right now is costing more than fentanyl,” said Solek. “You can make a lot more profit on a kilo of fentanyl than you can with a kilo of heroin.” He said the toxicity makes it harder for victims to survive a careless choice. “You never know what you’re getting on the street,” he said. “They’re buying something they think is looking the same as a legal prescription, when in fact it’s made in somebody’s basement or somebody’s garage.” Hennepin County became a “High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” last fall, a federal designation that triggers the allocation of federal resources. In Minneapolis, reported narcotics offenses dropped 32 percent citywide from 2016 to 2015, according to Uniform Crime Reports. Shari Lisell said her boyfriend’s vehicle was

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stolen on a brutally cold night in January from the Kingfield neighborhood near 39th Street & 1st Avenue South. Police recovered the vehicle six days later. Police said they arrested a 40-yearold driver who was addicted to heroin, and the vehicle was littered with used needles. “It was trashed inside and looked as though the fellow had been living in it,” Lisell said. “Our hope is that his experience of being caught and jailed can create a different circumstance for him, namely sobriety. Addiction sucks, but the cure is so worth it.” The Minneapolis Fire Department started using naloxone last year to reverse overdoses from heroin and opioids. Fire Dept. staff said they saved seven lives in the first week alone. Naloxone is available to community members as well. The Steve Rummler Hope Foundation provides regular training sessions at venues like Lunds & Byerly’s in Uptown and Northeast. “Anyone and everyone is welcome, whether you’re a medical professional or an 18-year-old kid,” Foundation Director Lexi Reed Holtum said. Bourgeois of NuWay said 23 million Americans say they’re in long-term recovery from drug and alcohol abuse. “People do find recovery and get well and lead really productive lives,” Bourgeois said. “There is help out there, and there are ways to combat this.”

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Public Safety Update By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Police see spike in thefts from cars Southwest Minneapolis’ 5th Precinct is reporting an increase in vehicle-related theft in recent weeks. There are 100 thefts from vehicles yearto-date as of Feb. 13, while last year at this time there were 44. And there are 43 auto thefts year-to-date, while last year at this time there were 24. Police recommend against leaving valu-

ables hidden inside a vehicle. A police advisory is highlighting the cost of vehicle theft: about $200 to fix a broken window, credit card charges that range from $100-$500 within an hour of the theft, and the chance of lowered credit scores due to identity theft. Police are also reminding residents that it’s against city ordinance to leave a key in the ignition when no one is in the

car. Eighty percent of stolen vehicles are left unlocked, according to police, and 42 percent of stolen cars contain keys inside. Police say hiding valuables under a blanket, coat or a seat doesn’t work. Stashing a bag in a car, even without valuables, can appear tempting from the outside. Police also suggest placing items in the trunk before arriving at a busy destination like the lakes or

Hennepin County jury convicts two in 2015 robbery, homicide A Hennepin County jury has found two people guilty of 11 out of 12 counts related to an October 2015 night of robbery, burglary and the shooting death of a Kingfield resident. The sentencing is in March. Three other individuals have pleaded guilty and await sentencing. According to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office: Julio Mozo-Cuate was sitting in his car in the alley behind his home at the 3700 block of 1st Avenue South when a man approached and asked for a cigarette. Two additional men arrived and took his

watch, and Mozo-Cuate started honking the car horn. Albert George McIntosh, age 32, reportedly said: “Do you think we’re playing,” and fired a gun at Mozo-Cuate at least four times. Mozo-Cuate died at the hospital from gunshot wounds to the chest, pelvis and abdomen. Additional robberies that October night took place at the 2600 block of Bloomington Avenue South and a house at the 3000 block of 19th Avenue South. McIntosh suggested targeting Hispanic neighborhoods where people were more likely to carry cash and less likely to call

police, according to Assistant Hennepin County Attorney Therese Galatowitsch. McIntosh was acquitted last fall of charges that he shot and killed Sarah Wierstad the same evening during another robbery and burglary in St. Paul, according to the Pioneer Press. A Hennepin County jury also assigned a guilty verdict to Michelle Lee Koester, age 43, for her role in the evening’s crimes. Others who pleaded guilty and await sentencing include Alvin Rudolph Bell Jr., age 26; Isiah Lee Harper, age 27; and driver Shannon Haiden.

a shopping area. Police advise against storing documentation with identifying information in a car, and say the only necessary documents to have on hand are a driver’s license, proof of insurance and a copy of a rental agreement for short-term rentals.

I-35W crash kills 22-year-old woman Hali Kay Burchfield, age 22, of Hartford, Mich., died at Hennepin County Medical Center Feb. 13, several days after she was injured in a crash on I-35W at 46th Street. Burchfield sustained multiple blunt force injuries in a Feb. 5 crash that occurred at 1:42 a.m. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner and Minnesota State Patrol are investigating.

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REMODELING SHOWCASE

KITCHEN EXPANSION “FEELS LIKE PART OF THE HOUSE” McDonald Remodeling helps homeowner realize vision

obbie Moesle and her husband, Scott, had been considering a kitchen remodel for years. They visited home and garden shows, traipsed through Remodelers’ Showcase homes, and kept running across McDonald Remodeling. At one of those shows, Scott took a break while Bobbie continued to look around. She met CEO Jim McDonald and saw some photos of a kitchen the Inver Grove Heights company had remodeled. Bobbie ran back to Scott and said, “You have to come and see these photos. This is exactly what I want.” “We would see them come to many a showcase home, which isn’t uncommon, but Bobbie and Scott made a mark,” said McDonald president Greg Alsterlund. The couple put off the remodel awhile. Then Scott Moesle suddenly died in May 2015. Rather than sell the house and move, Bobbie decided to go ahead with the project that she and her husband had been planning. The renovation of the 1958 split-level house in Edina expanded and updated the kitchen, adding a sunny family room and much-needed storage space beneath the addition. Bobbie works in commercial interiors and had some definite ideas around color and storage space in her kitchen. She wanted white cabinetry, a white backsplash and pearly gray walls. Instead of shelves beneath the countertops, she wanted drawers that would make it easier to find things. She also wanted a five-foot-deep kitchen island with a low-divide farmhouse sink and plenty of room for storage. Susan Wittine, an interior designer with McDonald, suggested adding a family room to the plan that would allow for a deeper-than-usual island. The island has a white Cambria countertop shot through with gray and the occasional sparkly stone chip. At Wittine’s suggestion, Moesle chose a curved edge for the island counter.

The family room addition flows seamlessly into the newly remodeled kitchen, as if it was original to the home. Photo courtesy of McDonald Remodeling

“That was another feminine detail that made her kitchen feel special,” Wittine said. Wittine worked with Moesle on color, cabinet, hardware and light fixture selections. To narrow Moesle’s choices among the various shades of white, Wittine ordered large paint swatches and had different shades painted on cabinet samples for Moesle to view in different types and levels of light. Moesle settled on Benjamin Moore Chantilly Lace.

The homeowner and McDonald designer also collaborated on a hutch that caps off a wall of floor-to-ceiling cabinets. McDonald removed an interior wall and the pantry behind it, adding three feet to the kitchen’s width, allowing the space for the wall of cabinets. They added beadboard along the back of the hutch and curving brackets to support glass-doored cabinets that display Moesle’s stemware. The hutch also has a white-and-gray Cambria counter in a

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subtler design than the island. The same style of counter spans the cabinets that hold a Wolf gas cooktop with its signature red knobs. Moesle had planned on the standard four burners, but when she saw the six-burner model and realized it made more design sense opposite the island’s farm sink, it wasn’t too much of a stretch to go bigger. She had also planned on a more moderately priced brand of double wall oven, but was able to pick up the previous year’s Wolf model for a comparable price. “It’s very functional,” Moesle said of her kitchen, which was started in December 2015 and completed the following April. The cabinets above the side-by-side refrigerator have pan dividers to keep the baking sheets straight and accessible. The under-counter drawers enabled her to spread out pots, pans and other kitchen essentials rather than stacking them. “It’s also a safer reach,” Alsterlund added. “You’re not lifting heavier things over your head. You’re keeping them down low, and that’s a smart thing to do as you get older.” Moesle’s Tibetan terrier, Grady, also benefited from the

The deep island allows for a large sink, seating, great storage and plenty of prep space. Photo courtesy of McDonald Remodeling

remodel. A low shelf tucked into the side of the island has cutouts to hold his food and water bowls. No walls separate the kitchen from the family room, which has a fireplace, wide-screen TV and comfortable seating. The rooms even share oak flooring stained a dark shade of walnut to coordinate with the adjacent dining room. “It doesn’t feel like an addition,” Moesle said. “It just feels like part of the house, like it was designed as part of the house.” McDonald also installed three patio doors along one wall of the family room, leading to a wide set of stairs and a patio built of pavers. The patio is just the right size for a small table and chairs, exactly what Moesle wanted.

The project went smoothly because the company designed it to Moesle’s goals, Alsterlund said. “You were well organized. You kind of had a vision of what you wanted,” he told her. “I had a vision and they looked at it, listened to it and incorporated it into the plan that they went forward with,” Moesle said. “They understood my vision.” The new kitchen and family room project also helped Bobbie Moesle grieve the loss of her husband. “My husband died unexpectedly and I said, ‘Okay, what am I waiting for?’ It was probably the best thing for me.”

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A14 February 23–March 8, 2017 / southwestjournal.com FROM TIRE MULCH / PAGE A1 Six-year-old Walter Brown plays on the Lyndale Community School playground, which has tire mulch as a surface covering. Photo by Nate Gotlieb

parents take usual precautions such as having kids wash their hands before they eat, said Jim Kelly, a manager in the environmental health division. The department doesn’t have any specific recommendations for tire mulch, he said. “Simply being in proximity to it doesn’t mean that chemicals are getting into someone’s body,” Kelly said. However, Play It Safe notes that there is uncertainty when it comes to the effects of tire mulch. The group wrote in a November letter to the city that it’s not necessary to wait for scientific certainty to take protective action, adding, “definitive science is not and will not be available.” Group leaders have cited a Yale University study that found that about half of the chemicals detected in tire-mulch samples had no toxicity screenings to determine their health effects. They note that kids are more likely to have direct contact with tire that could include putting it in their mouths. “The idea that we prove this hazardous instead of proving it safe is upside down to me,” said Nancy Brown, a Lyndale Community School parent and Play It Safe leader.

Moratorium on new installations The Minneapolis subcommittee recommended a moratorium through 2019 on using city money for new fields and playgrounds that use tire mulch. It said that tire mulch used in playgrounds and fields currently in use would need to be maintained to proper safety depth. It recommended that the moratorium not apply to the 20-year Neighborhood Park Plan, which will provide $11 million annually to Minneapolis parks through 2036. Minneapolis’ Health, Environment & Community Engagement Committee will hear a presentation on the subcommittee recommendations on Feb. 27. However, Play It Safe said in its letter that a moratorium should include the projects in the Neighborhood Park Plan. The group wrote that it’s disappointed the recommendations don’t acknowledge the impact of toxins such as waste-tire products on high-density and low-income communities as well as indigenous and immigrant communities and communities of color. “The playground shouldn’t be one more place they are exposed to toxins,” said Dianna Kennedy, a Play It Safe leader and parent of a Hiawatha Community School kindergartner. The group also wrote that the recommendations should include ways to address water contamination and heat islands associated

with the use of tire mulch. Synthetic-turf and crumb-rubber trade groups responded to the subcommittee recommendations with a letter that said a moratorium on new synthetic turf field projects would be “unfortunate and misplaced.” More than 90 technical studies have looked at the effects of rubber infill, and none have found any health concerns, Dan Bond, president of the Synthetic Turf Council, said in an interview. He added that turf fields increase playtime, save water and keep tires out of landfills. “We’re talking about saving water, saving tires from landfills and having a similar amount of chemicals that you find in natural soil,” he said.

Focus on MPS MPS had budgeted to switch eight playgrounds from wood to tire mulch, but that process is on hold. The district estimated it would cost more than $1.1 million to convert all 47 rubber mulch play areas to engineered wood fiber. That cost would likely increase, however, because of the need for border changes and improved drainage. “If we have to go back to wood, it has to be looked at more comprehensively,” Lee Setter, MPS director of environmental health and safety, said at a community forum this month.

The district originally switched from wood to tire mulch because of issues with fungus, mold and freezing as well as difficulty keeping wood mulch at proper thickness, Setter said. The rubber doesn’t degrade or freeze, and it alleviated the district’s main worry at the time, which was adequate fall protection. Setter said other playground coverings such as pea gravel and sand don’t provide necessary fall protection, whereas tire mulch and engineered wood fiber do. The district estimates that it costs $35,000 annually to replenish rubber mulch at 66 play areas, based on a need to replenish every five to seven years. That compares to $194,245 to replenish engineered wood mulch or sand at 65 play areas every one to two years. MPS recently requested bids for 220,000 pounds of rubber playground mulch. The lowest bid was 19 cents per pound, which would total out to cost $41,800. The district requested bids for 120,000 pounds of rubber playground mulch last year. The lowest bid was about 18 cents per pound, which would total out to $21,804. School Board member Nelson Inz said he would like to see the district get rid of crumb rubber but noted that the district has limited resources. “Hopefully we can come up with a solution soon,” Inz said. Board chair Rebecca Gagnon said she’s talked

with Superintendent Ed Graff about the issue. She said she fully supports replacing the tire mulch but noted that she expects the budget to be tight this year. “We’re really going to have to be careful about commitments right now,” she said. A district spokeswoman wrote in an emailed statement, attributed to Chief Operations Officer Karen DeVet, that MPS relies on a U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission handbook to guide decision-making on playground cover. The statement said MPS has two available playground-cover options, wood and rubber mulch, because its playground equipment is over four feet high. The School Board will consider replacing rubber tire mulch as the district develops its fiscal year 2018 capital plan, the statement said. Meanwhile, some parents are taking extra precaution and having their kids wash their hands after recess instead of using hand sanitizer, which Brown, the Lyndale parent, said can spread the toxins around kids’ hands. Play It Safe is encouraging parents to contact their School Board representative to share their stories about tire mulch. “There’s enough studies on this that should give people pause,” said Kennedy, the Hiawatha parent. “That seems needless when we don’t have to have it like that.”

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Dateline Minneapolis

By Steve Brandt

It’s time to say goodbye to Lake Calhoun

he nearly two-year journey to adopt a new master plan for two of the lakes in the Chain of Lakes ends on April 19. That’s when the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is scheduled to act on citizen-initiated recommendations for the lakes and surrounding parkland. The draft plan for lakes Harriet and Calhoun, the latter also known as Bde Maka Ska, contains many ideas. Some are grandiose and unlikely to happen for decades, if ever, given the tens of millions of dollars of other park work backed up awaiting a place in future state bonding bills. You can put the land bridge over Lake Street in that basket. Others fall into the category of making sure that the lakeshores around the two lakes remain safe for public use. Renewing degraded sections of pathway paving will gobble much of the roughly $3 million in Metropolitan Council funding currently available; accessibility improvements will consume much of the rest. But one recommendation by the Citizen Advisory Committee costs little financial capital even as it packs a symbolic wallop in terms of human capital. That’s that the Park Board finally getting behind the push to rename Calhoun. Here’s what the committee recommended: “The Park Board will support the official and legal restoration of the name ‘Bde Maka Ska’ to Lake Calhoun and advocate for such restoration in all appropriate fora, including the Hennepin County Board, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, and the Minnesota Legislature. To the extent that the Park Board determines that such restoration requires legislative action, the CAC recommends that the Park Board include such action in its legislative agenda.” It’s an issue the board has long dodged. First it maintained on the advice of its attorney that it had no role in renaming lakes, and that such a push wasn’t likely to meet state criteria for doing so. Then it said it directed the lakes advisory committee to weigh in. Then, without waiting for the panel’s deliberations, it tried a Solomonic ploy to placate those arguing for renaming Calhoun by directing that a Dakota name be added to signs around the lake. Although state, Hennepin County and DNR legal opinions differ, it seems clear that the path toward addressing the festering issue of renaming begins with a petition from 15 voters to the Hennepin County Board. The board would hold a hearing and could make a proposal to the DNR, which has ultimate authority at the state

level, subject to concurrence by an obscure federal board on geographic names. The Park Board’s opinion would matter in this process. Some on the board may want to duck the issue until after this spring’s DFL endorsing convention or the next fall’s elections. But the possibility of a majority of board seats changing hands in the election may make delay moot. Yet the case for changing Calhoun’s name has only gained steam. It once was argued primarily by those who found distasteful John C. Calhoun’s status as a foremost advocate for slavery. Now it has been joined by those who argue for restoration of the Dakota name and note Calhoun’s role as an architect of the forced relocation of some 50,000 tribal members from their southeastern homeland to unfamiliar lands farther west. Commissioner Anita Tabb has argued that removing the names of slaveholders in light of presentist attitudes is a slippery slope. What about Jefferson? But to pick one example, the school in the lakes area named after him has no prior name to restore. Commissioner John Erwin has argued that the Park Board’s own advisory group’s recommendation shouldn’t be determinative and that other racial and ethnic groups need to be consulted. But none of those groups can lay claim to a previous name for the lake that was stripped by misguided Manifest Destiny. Some in the small and sometimes fractious community of professional and amateur scholars of early contact between natives and the whites who displaced them debate whether Bde Maka Ska is the right indigenous name for the lake and even dispute the proper spelling. But despite his other copious accomplishments as a 19th century statesman, retaining Calhoun’s name on a Minneapolis lake is as provocative to some as flying a confederate flag over a southern monument. It’s time for Minneapolis to get on the right side of history, just as the Park Board did in renaming Nicollet Field after Martin Luther King. Yale University this month resolved to rename its Calhoun College. Some may say that the name Bde Maka Ska is too hard to pronounce. Be-DAY Mah-KAH Ska doesn’t trip off the tongue now but the next generation of Minneapolitans will say it as easily as we now say Shakopee, Chanhassen and Wayzata. After all, how many generations of Minnesotans have learned to shout “Ski U Mah”?

An advisory committee to the Park Board recommends legally restoring the name Bde Maka Ska to Lake Calhoun, named after 19th-century South Carolina politician John C. Calhoun, an advocate for slavery. File photo

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Scenes from recent protests, including a march last summer in support of the $15 minimum wage (left), an Inauguration Day protest in January (top right) and a march through downtown in honor of Philando Castile (bottom right), a St. Paul Public Schools worker shot and killed during a traffic stop, held during last summer’s American Federation of Teachers convention in Minneapolis. File photos

Protest monitors would provide eyes on all By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

City officials are researching an idea to enlist independent protest monitors to observe protests as a neutral party. The research underway is commissioned by the city’s Police Conduct Oversight Commission (PCOC), which audits police complaints and makes recommendations on policing policy. PCOC member Andrew Buss said the Twin Cities are starting to see significant numbers of protests, ranging from the Black Lives Matter movement at the 4th Precinct to the Women’s March that drew thousands to St. Paul. “There are going to be events or confrontations or a lot of he-said-she-said types of situations,” Buss said. “Part of the idea here is to have a designated, independent neutral party that’s visibly identifiable. They don’t work for the police, they’re not part of the protest. They

stay on their own neutral turf but they’re monitoring both sides.” Minneapolis monitors could be dispatched whenever there is protest activity, Police Conduct Operations Supervisor Ryan Patrick said in a presentation last fall. They would wear recognizable clothing and carry a camera. The monitors would watch to see whether police are allowing peaceful protests to happen and whether citizens are acting outside the bounds of a peaceful protest, Buss said. They could watch for police orders to disperse, any abusive language, use of force, police lines that enclose or herd protesters, arrests, treatment of medical personnel, treatment of the press, use of chemical irritants and whether police allow citizens to record the action. “Some police have stopped people from using cameras to record,” Buss said.

Washington, D.C. is cited as a model for independent protest monitors. Under the city’s Office of Police Complaints, monitors wearing black and silver jackets with the OPC logo recently watched demonstrations surrounding President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Their report on the protest is due out this month. A 2015 report on a National Mall rally organized by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said officers behaved in a “professional and commendable” manner. Eight monitors at that rally said police were alert and non-confrontational, provided traffic control and didn’t bar the press from any area of the protest. The report reminded officers that names and badge numbers should be visible at all times over traffic vests or other clothing. Staff from the Office of Police Conduct Review and the Civil Rights Department are

currently studying the idea. Unanswered questions include the method of choosing the monitors, what authorities or protections monitors would have and the source of program funding. The American Civil Liberties Union and the National Lawyers Guild send marshals and legal observers to protests as well. “The difference here — and I don’t mean this in a negative way — but they have their own agenda of why they’re there, what they’re looking for,” Buss said. “[Monitors] are intended to be a truly neutral party. … They’re just there to watch both sides.” The observations could result in a debriefing session, a summary report or perhaps a policy recommendation, he said. “Help make things better for the future for the next time something rolls around,” Buss said.

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training programs to “elevate the skill level of the people on the lower end of the economic ladder.” That prompted a response from Celeste Robinson of 15 Now Minnesota, who said no matter how well trained the workforce, some workers will always earn the minimum. Sharing the message of a nation-wide campaign for higher wages, Robinson argued there would always be a need for janitors and fast-food workers, and they, too, need to support themselves and their families. A similar debate played out the very next afternoon at a smaller gathering on the North Side, where again the questions were raised: Is a higher minimum wage the best way to lift people in Minneapolis out of poverty? And at what cost to business? The listening sessions have drawn other, less-obvious questions about the minimum wage into the open, including concerns about how raising wages might eat up the resources of nonprofits or discourage employers from hiring younger workers and paid interns. Danielle Grant, president and CEO of AchieveMpls, said raising the minimum wage would likely cut the number of young people who get jobs through Step-Up Achieve, a youth internship program the nonprofit runs with the City of Minneapolis. AchieveMpls already requires Step-Up employers to pay student interns $10 an hour, but Grant predicted those employers would cut internship positions by 50 percent if the city enacted a $15 minimum wage. “Anything that decreases the number of internships for them doesn’t help them be prepared for college and career in the future,” said Grant, who suggested policymakers consider including a lower youth or training wage rate in any minimum wage ordinance. The varied opinions shared at listening sessions will be taken into consideration by the city staff drafting a proposed minimum wage policy. That recommendation is expected to go to the City Council in May, and councilmem-

bers have stated their intent to hold a vote on a minimum wage ordinance by late spring or early summer. How high the wage will be set, how quickly it will go into effect, whether it will apply to all workers and, if not, which groups might be exempted are just some of the questions that remain open. But the debate has been shaped by last year’s unsuccessful campaign to place a minimum wage question on the November ballot. That proposal suggested a $15 minimum wage phased in over several years and at different rates for small and large employers. Since then, Mayor Betsy Hodges and a majority of the candidates seeking Council seats in the 2017 city elections have expressed their support for a $15 minimum wage. But McDonald’s franchisee Tim Baylor predicted raising wages that high would be “chaotic.” Baylor, who owns six restaurants, including one in Minneapolis, said he would no longer hire youth workers at that rate, adding he’d likely staff his city restaurant with more experienced employees from suburban stores. Baylor said a significant increase in the minimum wage would lead to wage “compression,” and that experienced workers and managers would soon want to see raises in line with what newer, less-experienced employees received. Several people who attended the same downtown listening session as Baylor, including a man who identified himself as a Minneapolis teacher, said they supported the wage hike as a way to directly address the city’s wide socioeconomic disparities in income and opportunity. But Baylor, who is black, said the best way to reduce racial disparities was to “build business,” adding that a city-imposed minimum wage hike would “hinder that.” Although the city staff members running the listening sessions were careful to remind attendees no policy decisions have been made, Peter Killen, CEO of a company that operates four Irish pubs in Minneapolis, insisted passage of a minimum wage ordinance was

Celeste Robinson of 15 Now Minnesota spoke at a listening session hosted by the Minneapolis Downtown Council. Photo by Dylan Thomas

a foregone conclusion. Killen argued for a “common-sense approach” that raised wages at a slow but steady rate, and said a jump from $9.50 to $15 an hour would “put the lights out” for many local small businesses. “Let’s ease into this thing here and not put a lot of people out of business,” he said. Killen said uncertainty over the Council’s plans for a minimum wage were already affecting his plans to open a fifth pub in the city. Whether bar and restaurant waitstaff and other workers who earn tips will also earn the higher minimum wage has been a main point of contention in the debate. Mayor Hodges said she supported a minimum wage ordinance only if it applied to tipped workers, but some business owners contend it would be disastrous for the restaurant industry. Tim Balfanz, general manager of The Saloon, said with a $15 minimum wage the bar’s

“payroll costs would increase 25 percent over the course of a year,” adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to the business’ bottom line. Bouncers and other staff who don’t earn tips would “suffer,” Balfanz said. “We really need to look at (tipped employees) total taxable income as a way to level out the playing field,” he said. There’s also a question of unintended consequences, one that came up at both the downtown and North Side listening sessions. Tim Marx, president and CEO of Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, said city policymakers must keep in mind what he termed “the cliff effect.” Marx said low-wage workers who qualify for childcare subsidies could lose access to those benefits after a wage hike and end up “worse off” if the higher pay doesn’t cover all of their childcare costs.

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MPS begins push on social-emotional learning Chicago organization to work with district on SEL practices By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

Minneapolis Public Schools is partnering with a Chicago-based organization to develop a framework for improving students’ social and emotional skills such as self-awareness, selfmanagement, social awareness and responsible decision-making. Representatives from the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning were scheduled to meet with district leaders and other stakeholders in February to gauge MPS’ social-emotional learning practices and policies. CASEL will report back to the district on its capacity to do systematic work, its strengths in social-emotional learning and challenges it may face in implementing a plan. “It’s really designed to just take stock in what they’re doing and help them prioritize plans for forward-looking implementation,” said Melissa Schlinger, CASEL’s vice president of programs and practice. The visit comes as MPS begins its process of implementing districtwide social-emotional learning practices, a priority of new Superintendent Ed Graff. District leaders will take a trip to Chicago next month to learn more, and the district hopes to scale its social-emotional learning program by April 2018. Social-emotional learning is the process of acquiring skills such as self- and social awareness, self-management, active listening and cooperation, according to CASEL. Research has shown that the practice increases academic achievement, improves classroom behavior and increases students’ ability to manage stress. “To me it’s about working smarter, not

harder,” said Kate Walker, a University of Minnesota associate extension professor and extension specialist in youth work practice. “The best teachers do this all of the time.” A 2015 study in the American Journal of Public Health found an association between social-emotional skills in kindergarten and key young adult outcomes in education, employment, criminal activity, substance abuse and mental health. In another study, Columbia University researchers tracked six social-emotional learning interventions and found that they gave a return of $11 for every $1 invested. Graff’s previous school district developed 15 different standards around social-emotional learning, he said when interviewing for the MPS job in May. He said those standards were a basis for conversations about recruiting and training teachers and issues around equity and the achievement gap. “These are skills that are necessary for every one of our students,” he said then.

understanding their own emotions, mindsets and how they interact with others, as well as conflict management and grit. She said her organization will try to get a sense of MPS’ ability to undertake a systematic socialemotional learning approach during its visit. Graff said the district is hoping for a 60-day turnaround on CASEL’s report. The district will also be working to create social-emotional learning standards and partner with families to support the development of these skills. District leaders have already mapped out MPS’ current social-emotional learning efforts, which include training for staff and use of a curriculum called Second Step. At a January School Board meeting, they stressed the importance of staff modeling these skills in the effort to instill them in students. “We have to walk the talk of socialemotional learning with our students,” said Julie Young-Burns, coordinator of MPS’ socialemotional learning team.

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Lifelong skills Walker said social-emotional learning isn’t something schools can do for just 20 minutes a day through a social-skills curriculum. She said she encourages educators to think about how to infuse the practice into everyday environments, noting that employers are looking for young people who have these skills. Schlinger said social-emotional learning helps students developing skills such as

Eric Moore, the district’s chief of accountability, innovation and research, said measuring social and emotional traits can be challenging because school environments can affect students. Moore said that students feel more self-worth and persistence when they also feel valued, noting the intersection of equity and social-emotional learning. “We believe you can’t look at one without the other,” he said.

Moore said his office is looking to make sure metrics are culturally relevant and don’t judge students based on what they have or don’t have. He said the district will talk to families to ensure the social-emotional measures are culturally appropriate and that it’s looking at the impact of race, culture and language on the measures. “We want to make sure there’s a shared understanding of what these measures mean,” he said. Clara Barton Open School parent Elizabeth Campbell said she looks forward to seeing the districtwide push. Campbell said social-emotional learning is “the foundation of what they do” at Barton, noting that kids there learn about their emotions and how they affect their work. Campbell said the school’s focus on socialemotional learning starts in the earliest grades. She told of her experience volunteering in her daughter’s kindergarten classroom during show-and-tell, where the presenter learned public-speaking skills and the other students learned how to actively listen and ask thoughtful questions. “A lot of people think of it as these crunchy, hippy, everybody-finds-out-their feelings things,” she said of social-emotional learning. However, she noted it’s more about the ability to understand one’s self and others “so you have citizens who can have constructive relationships.” Visit http://ecs.mpls.k12.mn.us/sel to learn more about MPS’ efforts in socialemotional learning.

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Ramsey students benefit fro University partnership University of Minnesota sophomore Dan Davidson said he isn’t interested in a teaching career. But each Friday, the strategic communications major spends his day tutoring Ramsey Middle School students in math. Davidson is one of about 40 University Honors Program students volunteering in Ramsey’s math classrooms this semester. The mentors provide inspiration to the students, math teacher Chris Halvorson said, developing relationships and leading to increased engagement in class. “Kids can relate a lot better to someone who’s closer in age to them,” Halvorson said. “Anytime you build a relationship with a kid, it’s going to help.” Ramsey has partnered with the university’s honors program for the past three years. The university sent about 60 tutors to the school during first semester, Halvorson said. University President Eric Kaler spoke at the program kickoff a few years ago. Davidson said he enjoys the tutoring experience, noting that, as an aspiring public relations professional, it’s important to be able to understand all kinds of people. As the son of

two public school teachers, he said he knows how important it is to get as much help in the classroom as possible. Freshman business major Hannah Manley said only one person who tutors at Ramsey is actually in a teaching program. Both she and Davidson said it’s cool seeing teachers who are passionate about their field and who bring that passion to middle school. Sophomore chemistry and Spanish major Eliza Brown said she likes going back each semester and seeing the improvements the students make. The majority of them don’t like math, she said, but enjoy being with the college mentors. Halvorson said a lot of the Ramsey students don’t think they can go to college. The tutoring partnership exposes them to college students who look like them, something he said provides inspiration. He added that having tutors allows the students to view math problems from a different perspective, which gives them an additional opportunity to understand concepts. Halvorson said he’d like to provide bus

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passes for the tutors, for whom the commute to Ramsey can take up a chunk of their day. Manley said it takes her two hours to get to and from the school. Ramsey Assistant Principal Angie Martin said the tutors provide additional support to the math teachers. They are there to answer questions for students and to help students who may otherwise shut down think aloud and stay engaged in lessons. “Students look up to college kids (and) look to them for feedback and affirmation,” she said. That connection is especially key in math, a subject that requires a step-by-step approach to solving problems. Middle school students don’t necessarily know how to advocate for themselves, Martin said, so having extra support allows for increased engagement. “We’re trying to instill this growth mindset,” she said. “That’s what the tutors are for — to build that confidence.”

Rename Ramsey event set for Feb. 28 Ramsey Middle School will host an event Feb. 28 to discuss a potential new namesake for the school. Ramsey students and community members have narrowed their list to five choices. They are: Dorothy Vaughan, NASA’s first AfricanAmerican manager and a mathematician whose story the movie “Hidden Figures” featured; Alan Page, the former Minnesota Vikings player and Minnesota Supreme Court justice; Prince, the Grammy-wining musi-

cian and Minneapolis native; Bde Ota, which means “many lakes” in the Dakota language; and Martha Ripley, a 19th-century Minnesota physician who fought for equal rights for women and the welfare of children. The event is the latest step in a yearlong process to change the name of the school, which is named after Minnesota’s first territorial governor, Alexander Ramsey. Ramsey has gained notoriety for his call for the extermination and expulsion of the

Sioux Indians from Minnesota during the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. Thirty-eight Dakota men were hanged in the war’s aftermath, the largest mass execution in U.S. history. The Ramsey site council will vote on a potential new namesake in March and the School Board could vote on it in June. Visit renamerms.weebly.com for more information.

Lullabies filled the gym Feb. 13 at Longfellow Alternative High School, an alternative school for teenage parents and pregnant teens. Members of VocalEssence sang the melodies written by students as part of a National African American Family Involvement Day ceremony. The collaboration is part of the Lullaby Project, a national program from the New York-based Weill Music Institute of Carnegie Hall. The project has students write letters to their children and eventually turn those letters into lullabies. VocalEssence has worked with students at Longfellow for the past two years, helping them turn the words and melodies into choral pieces. It’s part of an effort to get the students to understand the value of singing, talking to their children and using creative voices, VocalEssence Associate Conductor G. Phillip Shoultz III said. “Even if (the kids) don’t see you, they know you’re there when they hear your voice,” he said. Longellow students partner with VocalEssence over the course of three months. The organization is careful to make sure they empower the students to make musical decisions, Shoultz said. It invites the moms to the recording studio and organizes an unveiling party for the new songs. This year, the organization worked with five African-American students at Longfellow as well as guest artist Melanie DeMore. Longfellow principal Padmini Udupa said the program brings music into the school, which otherwise does not have a music program. “It’s given us a meaning,” she said. “Music and education go hand in hand.” Longfellow serves about 100 teenage parents and pregnant teens, providing school for them and daycare for their kids. The school requires students to take a parenting class and offers housing and legal help as well as a health clinic three days a week.

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Metro Blooms to host resilient-yard workshops Metro Blooms will host a series of workshops this spring to help Twin Cities residents adapt their yards to the threats posed by extreme weather events. The workshops will give homeowners an overview of Minnesota’s changing weather patterns and ways to mitigate the impact in their own yards. They’ll cover options for establishing mowable, native alternatives to grass turf, rain garden basics and other resilient-yard practices, according to a Metro Blooms press release. Attendees will also be able to receive oneon-one assistance on creating a plan for their yards as well as information about cost-share programs and Blue Thumb resources. The workshops cost $15 per household unless otherwise noted. “We’ve had people say it’s $15 for $1,000 worth of information,” said Metro Blooms Executive Director Becky Rice. “If they come prepared and they’ve done their homework, they can come away with a really nice plan for their yard.” Leslie Yetka of the Freshwater Society

will give a presentation about climateadoption strategies for cities in the face of changing weather patterns. University of Minnesota graduate students James Wolfin and Sam Bauer will present alternatively on their research into alternatives to traditional lawn turf. Several area cities, watershed districts and organizations are sponsoring the workshops. They will be at the following times and locations: • 6 p.m.–9 p.m. April 6, Champlin City Hall • 6 p.m.–9 p.m. April 11, St. Barnabas Lutheran Church, Plymouth. (Free to Plymouth residents) • 6 p.m.–9 p.m. April 18, St. Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church, Minneapolis • 6 p.m.–9 p.m. April 27, Audubon Park Recreation center, Minneapolis

Church, Minneapolis (Free) • 1 p.m.–4 p.m. May 13, North Regional Library, Minneapolis (Free) • 6 p.m.–9 p.m. May 18, St. Louis Park Recreation Center • 6 p.m.–9 p.m. May 24, Edina Public Works Building • 12:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m. June 10, Lake Nokomis Community Center, Minneapolis Visit metroblooms.org or call 651-699-2426 to find out more information or register. You can also mail your registration to Workshop Registration, P.O. Box 17099, Minneapolis, MN 55417. Enclose a check payable to Metro Blooms, and include the workshop location, your name, address, zip code, phone number and your email address.

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Minneapolis and Tree Trust will hold a lottery in March to determine who will get a tree through the popular City Trees Program. The program provides property owners trees for just $25, compared to the $100 to $150 they’d cost at a retail location, according to Karen Zumach, Tree Trust’s director of community forestry. The city and Tree Trust will be providing about 1,000 trees this year. Last year, 15,000 people went to the Tree Trust website to order a tree through the program, Zumach said. Residents will be able to register their property address for the lottery from March 13-20. It doesn’t matter when residents register, Zumach said; all registrations received during that time will be considered equally. Only one tree is allowed per property owner, regardless of the number of properties owned. You can choose between several varieties and sizes of trees, including fruit trees. Registrants will be notified of their status by March 22. Visit treetrust.org/minneapolis-tree-sale-lottery to apply.

Hennepin County will host a Fix-it Clinic on Saturday, March 11, at Burroughs Elementary School in conjunction with the Lynnhurst Neighborhood Association. Residents can bring in small household appliances, clothing, electronics, mobile devices and more and receive assistance on repairing the items at no cost. The clinics teach troubleshooting and basic repair skills, build community connections and reduce the number of repairable objects thrown in the trash. Lynnhurst’s environmental committee is focused on waste reduction, trying to improve recycling and helping people understand upcoming green initiatives from the city. “We want to continue the discussion about waste, and part of that is fixing stuff rather than throwing things away,” said Sandra Nussbaum chair of the environmental committee. The committee will be hosting its annual Earthy Day cleanup April 22 and its annual garlic-mustard pull May 9. Visit lynnhurst.org to learn more.

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Public hearing planned for Harriet, Calhoun master plan The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is making progress on a 25-year vision for Lake Harriet and Calhoun/Bde Maka Ska. The Lake Calhoun/Bde Maka Ska-Harriet Master Plan will provide the board with a guide for improvements to the lakes, the most visited regional park in the state with an estimated 5 million visits in 2015. Roughly $126 million in funding for capital projects is available for the area over the next few decades. A majority of the $2.4 million in 2017 funding is slated for trail resurfacing and trail access, the park’s most commonly used amenity. Construction is expected to begin June 1. Residents and park goers have until March 4 to submit comments on the plan via phone, email, a paper survey or an online survey. The Park Board will host a public hearing on Wednesday, April 12 at its offices at 2117 West River Road N. The full board is slated to vote on the plan on May 3. It would then move to the Metropolitan Council for approval on May 15. Among the major changes proposed by the master plan so far is a long-standing idea for a land bridge over West Lake Street near Lake Calhoun. Park staff said a land bridge, which would feature holding trees and trails on a wide green roof, would require considerable

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A rendering shows a lower East Harriet Parkway adapted for pedestrians. Image courtesy of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board

study and would likely be years out if it ever moved forward. Heavy traffic on Lake Street has been an issue for the board. “Lake Street is a highway. There is no doubt about it,” said At-Large Commissioner Meg Forney. “Putting trails across Lake Street, to me, is bringing more people at risk, and that really terrifies me.” Other major changes include the relocation of boat launches and club facilities away from the lake’s northeast corner and instead putting a new sailing center and launches in the northwest corner. At Lake Harriet, members of the community advisory committee (CAC) have

proposed relocating a bike trail at the Lake Harriet Band Shell to the area’s perimeter. The current plan also calls for a pier near the Band Shell to incorporate stormwater management infrastructure. The CAC also supports the official and legal restoration of the name Bde Maka Ska, among other changes to honor the area’s Dakota history. A recommendation from the group of board, Met Council and neighborhood group appointees advocates for the board calling on the Hennepin County Board, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, and the state Legislature to support the name change as well.

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is proposing to restore Hall’s Island at a former lumberyard site in Northeast Minneapolis, a project that is now under environmental review. The board and a design consultant are more than 60 percent of their way through plans for the project’s first phase, park staff said, which includes building, excavating and grading of the new, roughly 4.4-acre Hall’s Island and planting permanent vegetation on the island as a habitat for flora and fauna. The board purchased the riverfront property known as the Scherer site, located just north of the Plymouth Avenue Bridge on the river’s east bank, in 2010 with the hope of creating a new destination park. The final vision for the area includes an island with a pebble beach, boat rental and storage for paddlers. The project also calls for a parksupportive café pavilion and programmable gathering spaces. The project requires an Environmental Assessment Worksheet, which details its effects on the local environment. It is now open for public comment until Wednesday, March 22 at 4:30 p.m. More information is available at minneapolisparks.org. The Park Board is currently looking for a partner to develop nearly 3.6 acres of the 11.7acre Scherer site. A request for qualifications that closed last December failed to attract a response.

Park Board plans accessibility improvements in city’s rec centers This spring the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board will begin to repair the city’s recreation centers to help park visitors get their foot in the door — literally. The first work under the board’s 20-Year Neighborhood, an agreement with the city that will raise $11 million annually over the next two decades to repair park assets, will consist of improvements to accessibility of restrooms and

exterior doorways in more than two-dozen rec centers. In Northeast and southeast Minneapolis, Bottineau, Logan, Luxton and Van Cleve parks will see accessibility improvements to their restrooms and doorways. In Southwest Minneapolis, Bryant Square, Kenwood, Lyndale Farmstead, Pershing, Whittier and Windom South parks will see similar fixes. In total, the

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MCAD student helps homeless access feminine hygiene products Minneapolis College of Art and Design student Andrea Amelse is visiting homeless shelters this week to drop off boxes of tampons bought with crowdfunding. The project to donate feminine hygiene products for women in need started as a conceptual class project. Amelse decided to go live with the campaign this month. “It wasn’t until this semester I thought, you know what, I’m just going to do it,” she said. “Even if I only raise $100, that is still going to make a difference for several women.” She’s raised more than $1,300 so far, with a goal of raising $2,000.

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Amelse has heard enthusiastic responses from at least seven shelters, and she’s heard thanks from individual women as well. One donor said she’d been homeless for a time, and when her period came, she went into the bathroom and removed socks to use in lieu of sanitary products. “It’s something that never really crossed my mind previously,” Amelse said. “It shocked me. I couldn’t even imagine that burden and that strain.” For more information, visit gofundme.com/ the-homeless-period-minneapolis.

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The City Council has approved a $35,000 settlement for a woman who alleged she fell due to an uneven sidewalk at 4713 Lyndale Ave. S. The woman said she broke a shoulder bone and tore tissue in her knee due to a fall in March 2015, according to a staff report. Mike Kennedy, director of Public Works Transportation Maintenance and Repair, said sidewalk maintenance is typically 100 percent the responsibility of adjacent property owners. But the city can become liable if a claimant can demonstrate the city knew about a problem and didn’t take action to correct it, he said. If staff learn about a sidewalk that needs to be fixed, workers can heave up a sidewalk panel and pour asphalt as a temporary repair.

Minneapolis plans to host an inaugural Workers’ Day at City Hall in March. Worker’s Day, planned for noon–3 p.m. March 8, was modeled after an annual Business Day event that brings business owners to City Hall to discuss policy issues with City Council members, city staff and each other. City Council Member Lisa Bender (Ward 10), whose office is collaborating with city staff on the event, said the event would include breakout sessions on workplace regulations, housing, public health and community safety and participatory budgeting. “This is a way for us to invite folks to City Hall and have a more open-ended discussion about issues that impact workers,” Bender said. “… We designed it

“It’s a matter of balancing priorities,” Kennedy said. “We do take potential trips and falls seriously. We act on them in a reasonable amount of time. … It’s still the property owner’s responsibility to fix the sidewalk.” He said sidewalks are inspected in a 12-15 year cycle, and if there is a problem, the city sends a notice to the property owner. Owners can fix the sidewalk themselves, or pay the city to fix it. Kennedy said there is a temporary patch on the Lyndale Avenue sidewalk. The woman could not be reached for comment.

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A graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School, Mayo Clinic and Harvard University, Dr. Anne Murray is an admired physician and an internationally recognized medical researcher. Photo by Tracy Walsh

TOP DOCTOR Dr. Anne Murray’s extraordinary journey into gerontology has led her to remarkable discoveries that may help older adults tremendously

By Stephanie Fox

t would be an understatement to call Dr. Anne Murray an overachiever. From early on, she was drawn to helping people. But her path from tiny Wells, Minnesota, to becoming a widely admired physician and an internationally recognized medical researcher took a meandering route. When Murray was young, her family moved from Wells to Minneapolis. Her father was a dentist and her mother was a medical records librarian, so it wasn’t surprising that she developed an early interest in biology.

Germany and Colombia After high school, Murray headed to college at the University of Minnesota, and in her senior year accepted a scholarship at the Goethe Institute at the University of Freiburg, learning German and studying German history. After a year in Germany, Murray was back at the University of Minnesota, graduating with a bachelor’s in physiology. “I was deciding between medical school and public health, but to get accepted as a public health grad student,

I needed to do a year of volunteer work,” she said. So she ended up in Pereira, a city in Colombia’s western mountains, helping out a group of nuns at a local orphanage. “I enjoyed the work and was hoping to stay the year — until an earthquake destroyed the orphanage,” Murray said. They were able to get all the kids out safely. But her visa was in jeopardy with the orphanage in ruins. She loved the country — and speaking Spanish — and wanted to stay. SEE TOP DOCTOR/ PAGE B8

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By Linda Koutsky

Watch out!

id you know that according to a recent study by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, 29 percent of Minnesota drivers are distracted? And 80 percent of crashes are due to driver inattention? Yes, we all need to be safer drivers ourselves — but what we really need to do is watch out for others. So I decided to take a defensive driving class. Anyone can take a defensive driving class. Classes are offered through the Minnesota Safety Council, St. Cloud State University’s Highway Safety & Research Center and many community education locations. I took mine through AAA. Most classes are geared for those age 55 or older because, for that age group, Minnesota law allows a 10-percent discount on auto insurance for attendance. I was the youngest one in my class. I wasn’t sure I’d be able to endure the eight hours, but it was lively, informative, interactive and included high-quality multimedia presentations. Not only did I enjoy it, but I’ll share some valuable tips with you so you too can be safe and learn how to stay away from distracted drivers.

Three types of distractions: visual, physical and mental Often there are secondary accidents when people are watching the first one. Beware of others around accident scenes. People reaching for objects in the front or back seats are not concentrating on driving. Get around them. Just because someone’s eyes are on the road and hands are on the steering wheel doesn’t make them a good driver. Mental distractions, like talking on phones or listening to audio books, are priorities over driving. Although employers applaud multitasking, the National Safety Council put it this way: It’s nearly impossible to read a book and have a phone conversation at the same time. So why do people call and drive? Move away from these drivers. It puts you in a safer place.

DISTRACTED DRIVERS Teens and young adults are the most distracted drivers. In adult drivers, males are more distracted than females. Drivers of vans are the most distracted, followed by pickup trucks, SUVs and then passenger cars. Higher levels of distraction are found on Mondays, weekend days, between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. and between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. It is illegal for drivers to read, compose or send text messages and emails or access the Internet using a wireless device while the vehicle is in motion or a part of traffic — including stopped in traffic or at a traffic light. Nationwide, it is estimated that more than 100 million people use cell phones while driving. A nationwide insurance poll showed 81 percent of the public admits to talking on a cell phone while driving.

Driver inattention is a factor in 80 percent of crashes, the Minnesota Department of Public Safety reports.

Drowsy drivers Sleep-deprived drivers are the second-leading cause of fatal crashes. AAA recommends taking a break every 100 miles or every two hours on long trips. You and I can do that, but what about all the other drivers on the road? Did you know that people can actually fall asleep driving a vehicle with their eyes open? During a one-second “micro sleep,” brains actually shut off. Watch for nodding heads, weaving, slow speeds and irregular driving. Pass safely and get away.

More space for better flow The recommended following distance is three seconds. Watch a car in front of you as it passes a marker, such as a street lamp or stripe in the road. You should be able to count to three before you reach the same marker. That’s a three-second space. That space protects you from having to slam on your breaks, and it creates a buffer in traffic that evens out the flow. If everyone did this, traffic would actually move faster. Watch the car in front of you. If its break lights go on and off a lot, they’re following the car in front of them too closely. Best practice: Leave space between you and other vehicles. It’s your margin of safety.

Communicate with others Use your turn signals. In fact, use your signal before you break or slow down. Some people even tap on their breaks too. All of this is to give the person behind you time to move over a lane or maybe a little extra time to stop if they’re not paying attention. Don’t get rear ended because the driver behind you is distracted. Minnesota law states that in rain or snow, vehicle lights must be on. Many vehicles lights are on all the time. That makes for good visibility. You want to be visible! If yours don’t turn on automatically, turn them on at all times. It’s simply safer.

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I know that you, dear Southwest Journal reader, do not participate in road rage, but there are many out there who do. You’ve heard them honking, passing on residential streets, or weaving through traffic like a computer game. Let them be. Don’t get mad, they’ll get their due. Avoid eye contact, do not respond, change lanes, get a space between you and them. If they’re tailgating, slow down a bit to make them pass you. If they’re already mad, it’s better to get them ahead of you than behind you. Why let someone ruin your day? Stay away from them.

The yellow blinking arrow means turn when it’s safe. You still need to watch for oncoming traffic, though. I guess this has been proven to work so we’ll probably see more of these. Just like the growing number of roundabouts — watch the signs! And then there’s the latest in Minnesota Department of Transportation design: the Diverging Diamond intersection. This unintuitive, uncomfortable design is gaining in popularity with national departments of transportation. We have one in Bloomington at Interstate 494 and 34th Avenue South on the way to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport’s Terminal 2–Humphrey. Follow the link below to watch it in action. We may as well get used to it. Expect to see more of these intersections in the future. Stay alert and be careful out there!

Road conditions affect driving abilities Rain, fog, snow, ice — we have it all in Minnesota. While we have enough trouble with dry pot-holed roads, a wet or snowy road actually reduces the contact tires have with the road. They can easily slip. The more you slow down, the more traction your car will have. Keep away from fast drivers during weather conditions.

Right of way “Minnesota nice” seems to impair driving at right-of-way situations. At a four-way stop, the vehicle on the right goes first. Always. It’s not up for negotiation. Don’t be nice about it. Be right about it.

FOR MORE INFO: Minnesota Drivers Manual: dps.mn.gov/divisions/dvs/formsdocuments/Documents/Minnesota_ Drivers_Manual.pdf An amusing awareness test: youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4 Diverging Diamond intersections: youtube.com/watch?v=oEpC9jzr7P8

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BOLD AMBITION The local gallery and hub for creatives celebrates five years with a major expansion Minnesota painter Erik Krenz is featured in the first show in Light Grey Art Lab’s new Satellite Gallery, designed for solo exhibitions. Submitted image

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

hen Lindsay Nohl founded Light Grey Art Lab in 2012, it was a passion project, an attempt to create a multi-purpose space serving the local creative community, a place where artists and designers could learn, collaborate and exhibit their latest work. It officially opened in March of that year at 26th & Stevens a few blocks from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design campus, where Nohl was a longtime adjunct faculty member. Nohl relocated her Paper Bicycle design company from Lyn-Lake to the basement of the new space, and the upstairs became the galleryslash-classroom-slash-workshop space that is Light Grey Art Lab. This March, Light Grey Art Lab celebrates its fifth anniversary by opening five art exhibitions simultaneously, showcasing a recently expanded and remodeled space for exhibitions, art sales and workshops that is three times the size of its original gallery. The offices of Paper Bicycle are still just downstairs, but that business — while still part of the financial engine that keeps Light Grey Art Lab running — seems nearly over-

Jennifer Davis is among the artists featured in “tobeyou,” a group exhibition in Light Grey Art Lab’s original gallery. Submitted image

shadowed by its thriving offshoot. What was once an ambitious side project has become, in many ways, the focus. In fact, talking with Nohl and her husband, Chris Hajny — who works as a designer for Paper Bicycle while managing public relations and producing exhibitions for Light Grey Art Lab — it can be hard to tell where their personal lives end and Light Grey Art Lab begins. Nohl said Light Grey Art Lab is the bigger time commitment these days. Their personal interests — including gaming for Hajny and tarot for Nohl — have driven several of the group exhibitions that attract submissions from illustrators, designers, animators, cartoonists and other creative types spread across the United States and beyond. The grand opening for the expanded exhibition and classroom space is March 3; four days later, Hajny jets off to Japan with Light Grey Art Lab gallery manager Jenny Bookler, where they’ll be leading a cultural tour in and around Osaka. (Nohl plans to join them partway through their seven-week stay.) This trip and upcoming excursions to Ireland and England are just one more facet of Light Grey Art Lab’s mission to build connections between members of a global creative community. For the team behind Light Grey Art Lab, the expansion of their Whittier neighborhood space is a way to do more, bigger, better. But it was initiated, in part, by more practical concerns, like having to constantly rearrange the furniture to accommodate different aspects of Light Grey Art Lab’s varied programming. An island of white, high-top tables might host a workshop with a visiting artist one night, only to disappear when the same room is transformed to host a gallery exhibition the next night. “I’m just being honest: Moving these tables up and down from the basement is the worst,” Nohl said. Stashing the furniture in the basement also cluttered-up their Paper Bicycle workspace. The idea snowballed from there: If they were try to find a permanent space on the main floor

growing community of creative collaborators. “I think this will be really cool — to infuse what we’re doing with other people’s passions,” Nohl said. The expansion also pushes Light Grey Art Lab into a more visible space at the corner of its home in a three-story, 115-year-old brick commercial building (also home to Tanek, an architecture and design firm). The windows look out onto a fast-developing area of Whittier, including the new, 75-unit Chroma apartment building across the street and Wesley Andrews, a high-end cafe that opened in the fall. “We’re lucky enough to be in a neighborhood where the community is really involved,” Nohl said. “I was walking down the street and a lady today handed me a bag of art materials out her window as I was getting my coffee.”

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for those tables and chairs, why not open it up as a community meeting space, somewhere a visiting storyboard artist could teach a workshop with aspiring animators? A dedicated workshop area is just part of the expansion, which also includes the Salon, for guest-curated exhibitions; the Page Gallery, where they plan to feature narrative art, including comics; the Satellite Gallery for solo exhibitions; and a new shop for selling prints, zines and the Light Grey Art Lab products — like artist-designed tarot decks — that blend the lab crew’s personal and professional interests in art and product design. The old galleries will continue to host the themed group exhibitions that are a Light Grey Art Lab specialty, often attracting 70-plus contributors creating art in response to a prompt. In the new spaces, fewer of the exhibition ideas will start with the Light Grey Art Lab brain trust and more will come from their

An embroidered piece by Josh Weatherlake will hang in the Salon, a space for group and guest-curated shows. Submitted image

IF YOU GO: What: Light Grey Art Lab fifth anniversary celebration When: 7 p.m.–10 p.m. March 3 Where: Light Grey Art Lab, 118 E. 26th St., #101 Info: lightgreyartlab.com

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D OW N TOW N through the decades Iric Nathanson’s latest book is a pictorial history of downtown Minneapolis

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

ocal author Iric Nathanson writes and lectures about Minnesota history, and his latest book — his third to focus on Minneapolis — tells the story of downtown. Spanning 167 years, “Downtown Minneapolis” is a pictorial history illuminated by drawings and photos Nathanson dug up from the archives of the Minnesota Historical Society, Hennepin History Museum and, most importantly, the Hennepin County Library Special Collections. It’s a visual tour through time, from an early downtown plat map drawn in the 1850s to a photo of U.S. Bank Stadium taken after the gigantic new home of the Minnesota Vikings football team opened in the summer of 2016. Nathanson shared his perspective on the Nathanson evolution of downtown Minneapolis during a recent conversation. This interview has been edited and condensed.

SWJ: What does your book tell us about the earliest days of downtown and how it evolved over the decades? Nathanson: It started out as such a small

collection of ramshackle buildings. It was not a very pleasant place — muddy streets, animals wandering around the yard. Not very pleasant at all. It’s interesting that in just a few decades it

really grew up from this shabby collection of shacks to a real city. I think we owe a debt of gratitude to the early leaders who put the city together. I really am just amazed, in the first couple of decades, how the city grew. But it was not at all a nice place to be (in the beginning).

When does downtown really become a downtown? By the 1870s, that was the commercial hub of the city. Of course, a lot of people were living downtown. But imagine a small town of maybe a couple thousand people; everybody lived within a few blocks of the commercial center. So, by the 1870s, things were beginning to emerge. Then, starting in the 1880s, there was just an explosive growth of the city. The population between 1880 and 1900 quadrupled. In the decade of the 1880s, we really become a bigleague city. We go from being a little frontier settlement to, really, a significant Midwestern city, and that happens in the 1880s.

There’s still a sense of loss in Minneapolis for people who remember what downtown was like before the urban renewal drive of the 1960s. How was downtown reshaped at that time? Well, a huge swath — 80 blocks of downtown — was demolished. It was a huge shock, I think. I feel that, while we lost a substantial part of

our commercial history, the Gateway (Urban Renewal Project), in spite of the problems with it and the loss of the Metropolitan Building, really did lay the groundwork for the emergence of downtown, which will happen starting in the 1970s. We shouldn’t have torn down all those buildings. But, at the same time, the city did eliminate a substantial amount of blight that was really creeping up and could have engulfed the rest of downtown if it wasn’t halted.

When do you think downtown Minneapolis really begins to resemble the downtown we know today? We have some buildings that are left from the 1880s. Obviously, we have the municipal building — City Hall — we have the Lumber Exchange, we have the Hennepin Center for the Arts. So, we have some vestiges of those early developments. But, really, there was so much change in the last half of the 20th century that the downtown we know today, I think you can probably start that with the completion of the IDS building in the early 1970s. IDS really gives us this huge landmark, an elegant skyscraper, and really puts Minneapolis on the architectural map. And, of course, we’ve got other buildings (like) the Wells Fargo building, the (César) Pelli building, that goes up. I think by the 1970s, we really begin to see a downtown that we know today.

A rare survivor from the 1880s, the Masonic Temple is today known as Hennepin Center for the Arts. Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society

That same period is when we get the first skyways. They’re one of the hallmarks of downtown Minneapolis. How do you think they shaped the way downtown would grow over time? I think the key contribution of the skyways — and I know there are a number of critics these days — I think the key issue with the skyways is they really, substantially helped create a strong economic base for downtown. And I think without the skyways, downtown could really be in trouble. Maybe just to fast-forward to a current issue: If we didn’t have the skyways and that Macy’s closed, I think that huge building on the Nicollet Mall would be this empty bulk spreading a shadow of blight over downtown. If we didn’t have the skyways it certainly wouldn’t be a good investment. I think downtown would not have the strong economic base that it has today. It would not become a downtown neighborhood with close to 40,000 people living there. We wouldn’t have 160,000 people working downtown. Clearly, the skyways helped downtown withstand the economic pressures of the suburban boom and, in spite of their deficiencies, I think they’ve made a huge contribution to downtown and the city as a whole.

You just mentioned how many people are living downtown today. Can you talk about what you see happening in the coming decades for downtown?

A police officer directing traffic on Nicollet Avenue in 1920. Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society

Things are changing so much these days — so much is happening that we didn’t expect — that it’s really difficult to predict. I don’t know that downtown will continue to grow at the same pace that it has. There’s been substantial growth. My sense — and I’m nowhere near an expert on residential development — but I have a sense that maybe this huge apartment boom is going to cool a little bit.

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So, we may not be having a huge growth. I think there will be a steady growth downtown. There really are not a lot of sites left for increased residential development in the core downtown and the surrounding neighborhoods. (The population) may begin to creep up from 40,000 to 50,000, but I think that’s a substantial community, and I think downtown is going to be their front yard and it’s going to be their main street. Downtown, I think from a retail standpoint, is not going to be the metropolitan magnet that it has been, but it’s going to continue to be an office site. I think it’s going to continue to be an entertainment venue. I was just doing a tour of the State Theater yesterday. I think the historic theaters are a great asset. It’s something that suburbia doesn’t have. I think the entertainment venues — the Guthrie on the edge of downtown, the riverfront — all of that is going to bring people down for recreation, and then we’re going to have a strong residential base, as well.

Tell me about how you assembled the hundreds of images that illustrate this book. I’ve been writing about Minneapolis, oh, I think for at least 20 years. And I think I’ve got under my belt 20 to 25 articles I’ve written about various aspects of local history. So, I’ve gotten familiar with the historic photo collections, and luckily we’ve got some terrific photo archives. I want to call out in particular the Special Collections at the downtown library. The Special Collections is this sort of hidden historical gem, and the people at Special Collections have done this valiant job of maintaining our written history and our archival history. And I think that’s as important, as a historic preservation effort, as the buildings we’re preserving. The Special Collections (staff) has done this terrific job. They’ve got a great collection of historic photos they’ve assembled over the last 50–60 years. Minnesota Historical Society has a terrific collection. Hennepin History Museum has photos. So, I knew that the photos were there, and it just took some hunting to find the ones that told the story of downtown development.

Do you have a favorite era of downtown Minneapolis? If you could just hop in a time machine, what date would you set on the dial?

Demolished in 1991, the Nicollet Hotel stood in the Gateway District, a skid row erased by mid-century urban renewal. Photo courtesy of Hennepin County Library Special Collections

In the decade of the 1880s, we really become a big-league city. We go from being a little frontier settlement to, really, a significant Midwestern city, and that happens in the 1880s. — Iric Nathanson

It’s hard to say. I think what I find particularly interesting is the decade of the 1880s — obviously, a long time ago. But in the decade of the 1880s, we really undergo this tremendous transformation. The major

civic institutions we have today were created then: the library system was created then, Park Board, the city hospital, which did not have an auspicious beginning. The early city hospital was really quite a sad affair, almost Dickensian. But that was the recognition, that the city had a responsibility to provide hospital care. So, we have these institutions being created (in the 1880s) and controversy with them, but we really are lucky that they are there, and I think particularly (with) the Park Board. We get what’s now Loring Park. I think the 1880s is a period that is really important. And then in the next century, I think the 1970s (are important). That’s really when the riverfront revitalization begins, and I think that’s had a huge, lasting impact. So, if I was living in two different eras, it would be in the 1880s and the 1970s. And in fact I was around in the 1970s.

Redevelopment of Minneapolis’ Gateway District began in 1957. Photo courtesy Minnesota Historical Society

Formerly known as Norwest Center, the Wells Fargo Center was designed by César Pelli. Photo courtesy City of Minneapolis

Today’s downtown began to emerge in the early ’70s with the completion of IDS Center, Nathanson said. Photo courtesy Hennepin County Library Special Collections

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Businesses close in support of

Day Without Immigrants

Dozens of businesses, including many restaurants, join nationwide strike

Dozens of restaurants closed and posted signs in support of immigrant workers Feb. 16. Clockwise from top left: Milkjam Creamery, Marissa’s Market, Andy’s Grill, Dar Medina, Salsa a La Salsa, Blue Plate Photos by Nate Gotlieb

By Michelle Bruch, Nate Gotlieb, Eric Best and Dylan Thomas

ozens of Minneapolis businesses closed Feb. 16 to show their support for the Day Without Immigrants, a national labor strike and boycott intended to demonstrate immigrants’ impact on the society and economy. Niki Stavrou, owner of Victor’s 1959 Café, said she’s the daughter of an immigrant and she’s concerned about the Trump administration’s position on immigration. She said half of her staff members are here legally from other countries. “My staff stands by me every day through their hard work and I stand by them as well,” she said in an email. “If you go back far enough, we are all either immigrants or descendants of immigrants. This country was founded by immigrants.” Stavrou said she felt closing was the right thing to do, regardless of the inconvenience. “We knew our customers would understand — and they have responded with extremely positive support. It is my sincere hope that this action, this movement will make a difference,” she said. Taqueria la Hacienda owner Miguel Zagal said he closed his Lake Street restaurant because he wanted to “send a message that immigrants contribute economically and manually with their sweat and tears” to the country. Zagal, who arrived in Minnesota over two decades ago, said most of his employees are, like him, immigrants. He said he was acting in solidarity with immigrants across the country who “work arduously for a better life for their families.” The Spanish-immersion daycare Tierra Encantada closed Thursday at 38th & 4th. The daycare serves more than 200 children at centers in Eagan and Minneapolis. “All of our staff are native Spanish speakers, and most of them are immigrants,” said Owner Kristen Denzer. “Our entire program wouldn’t exist without immigrants, so to not support this day would be wrong.” Denzer said staff approached her Wednesday

with a request to participate in demonstrations at the Mexican Consulate in St. Paul. An email seeking thoughts from parents yielded more than 100 affirmative responses, so Denzer decided to close, despite a single day’s notice. She said a couple of families weren’t thrilled with the short notice and inconvenience, but they also realized that’s exactly the significance of the Day Without Immigrants. “The point is kind of the inconvenience,” Denzer said. “It’s recognizing the critical role immigrants play in our life.” Blue Plate Restaurant Co. closed its bars and restaurant across the Twin Cities, including Mercury Dining Room and Rail, Shindig Event Space and The Freehouse in downtown Minneapolis. The local company also owns neighborhood restaurants The Lowry in Uptown and the Edina Grill in Edina. “Since we are a family of community restaurants, we listened to our community. And believe

we are strongest when we are united,” read the restaurants’ Facebook pages on Feb. 16. A spokeswoman with Blue Plate said the company had yet to decide if it will pay employees who had been scheduled to work that day. “We are actively working on a number of implications from today, and this is one of them,” she said in an email. About 20 restaurants were closed Thursday at Midtown Global Market, with several posting signs in support of the Day Without Immigrants movement. “We deserve the respect of society as human beings and the government must us for the contributions we make to the country,” said a sign at Salsa A La Salsa. Ami Cruz, manager of Fresco’s Pasta Bar, said he thinks that everyone, including immigrants, deserves a chance in the U.S, adding that he thinks immigrants are working hard for their

Ami Cruz, manager of Fresco’s Pasta Bar, said his business was closed Feb. 16 in solidarity with immigrants. Photo by Nate Gotlieb

money and respect everyone’s culture. Cruz, a Mexico City native, said he hopes Trump can “kick out all of the bad people” out of the country but not everyone. “Not all the good people,” he said. “Good people need to have opportunities.” Cruz said people are worried about being deported, especially on Lake Street. He said he’s not personally worried about being deported but knows people who don’t want to go to work or the store out of fear. Cruz said he’s hopeful that things can change for the better but that “some people need to open their eyes and see what’s going on.” Lake Street Council Executive Director Allison Sharkey said about 60 of the 2,000-plus businesses on Lake Street were closed Thursday. She said that included the 40 businesses inside the Mercado Central building on Bloomington Avenue and Lake Street. She said the movement appeared to be spontaneous, with most of the organizing happening within 48 hours of the day. Business owner Tony Avandaro closed his Lake Street beauty salon and attended a rally that same day in St. Paul. He said through a translator that the immigrant community wants to be treated with justice, dignity and human rights. “We are not all criminals,” Avandaro said. “We are hard-working people. We come to this beautiful country to contribute and work hard.” Avandaro said he thinks the messages are getting through to people and that the immigrant community is “united against injustice.” Minneapolis Public Schools Chief of Schools Michael Thomas, who was eating lunch at the Midtown Global Market the day of the protest, said enrollment was down a bit in the district, with “a higher impact in the EL (Englishlanguage learner) schools.” “This is a teachable opportunity to incorporate a social studies framework,” he said.

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And so, from then on, Murray vowed to one day start her own study of dementia. But first, she returned to the Twin Cities. In 1997, she began working as a geriatrician at the Hennepin County Medical Center’s Senior Care Clinic at the Augustana Health Care Center of Minneapolis.

Named ‘Best Doctor’

Dr. Anne Murray, a Minneapolis-based geriatrician, internist and epidemiologist, has spent decades specializing dementia care and research, including multiple studies that show a connection between kidney disease and memory loss. Photo by Tracy Walsh

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A friend, a priest, gave her some advice on how to handle the local bureaucracy in order to extend her visa. “I brought a bottle of Scotch and an envelope with a few dollars in it to a meeting with the city’s mayor,” she said. “It worked.” Murray stayed, teaching English before returning to the University of Minnesota Medical School and graduating in 1984.

Harvard and back again From the U, Murray headed to Mayo Clinic to finish her residency in internal medicine and then on to a three-year fellowship in geriatrics at Harvard, following her husband George, a radiologist, who was there on his own fellowship in interventional radiology. While there, she received a master’s in epidemiology and gained experience in dementia research, which included collecting

data for the landmark East Boston study of Alzheimer’s, one of the first communitybased studies of dementia in the U.S. “Harvard gave me excellent training and experience researching delirium and Alzheimer’s disease,” Murray said. But amid Harvard’s cutthroat culture, the couple — who had two sons during their time in Boston — found themselves yearning for the Midwest. They landed next in Wausau, Wis., where Murray worked at a chronic-care facility and also taught geriatrics to residents in family medicine. She enjoyed the work, but missed the academic stimulation. So Murray signed on to Chicago’s Rush Institute to work on the renowned Religious Orders Study, which followed more than a thousand Catholic nuns, priests and brothers, examining changes in the brain that could cause dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Participants in the study agreed to clinical

Murray soon gained a following and was named one of Mpls.St.Paul Magazine’s top doctors in multiple years. She landed on Minnesota Monthly’s Best Doctor lists in 2014 and 2015, too. Lois Eid, one of Murray’s many patients, was struck by Murray’s exceptionally kind bedside manner. “She is the most incredibly warm and loving [physician],” Eid said. “When you’re with her, you’re uppermost in her attention.” Dr. Murray also began working as a geriatric epidemiologist at HCMC for the U.S. Renal Data System in 2003, studying how common dementia and disability were in patients who were on dialysis. Murray had noticed that many patients on dialysis seemed to have significant mental impairment, but it was rarely mentioned in their medical charts. Their kidney doctors (nephrologists) hadn’t seemed to recognize the problem. “But, the nurses knew,” she said. “The nurses noticed.” So Murray decided research on the problem was needed and began her first clinical study of dementia in 374 patients in 14 dialysis units in the Twin Cities. Murray’s study showed that about twothirds of the studied hemodialysis patients — age 55 and older — had dementia-level cognitive impairment. But only 5 percent had memory problems recorded on their medical charts. It was a significant finding, given the fact that there are currently about 500,000 dialysis patients in the U.S. In 2009, Murray began her next study, the BRINK study — short for The Brain In Kidney Disease — investigating cognitive impairment in elderly patients with advanced kidney disease, anemia and diabetes. At the same time, Murray became the lead geriatrician researcher for the NIH-funded ASPREE study — Aspirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly — set up to see if lowdose daily aspirin would reduce the risk of dementia, disability and death in 19,000 healthy seniors age 70 and older in the U.S. and Australia. The ASPREE study is now in its sixth year and Murray is now the principal U.S. investigator. In 2016, Murray became director and head researcher at the Berman Center for Clinical Outcomes and Research in Minneapolis, home of the BRINK study and a division of the Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, the research arm of HCMC.

Kidney function and memory loss

I love geriatrics. I love taking care of older people because of how much I learn from them. — Dr. Anne Murray

and cognitive testing and to donate their brains after death. The study turned out to be a blueprint for other dementia and Alzheimer’s studies. “I was always interested in dementia,” Murray said, adding that working with the Religious Orders Study reminded her of something important: “You can’t do real dementia research without seeing the patients.”

The aim of the BRINK study, originally funded by the National Institute on Aging, was to learn why advanced kidney disease patients — those who have lost about half or more of their kidney function, but who aren’t yet on dialysis — also suffer from memory problems and dementia. She recruited 574 volunteers, some with kidney problems and some who were study controls, for blood draws, MRIs and cognitive tests. Subjects came in every three months for repeat tests and brain games to keep track of their cognition. “What I and others have found is that as kidney function declines, so does brain function,” Murray said. “Patients with advanced kidney disease have a 50 to 60 percent increased risk of dementia. Our results could end up changing the way kidney patients are treated for memory loss and could give doctors a better understanding of the causes of various kinds of

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dementia, influencing care and treatment of patients with the disease.” These are important results for the 3 million people with advanced chronic kidney disease in the U.S. — and another 5 million with a mild form of the disease. One of Murray’s patients, a 90-year-old woman named June, said that when Murray asked her to take part in the study as a control subject, she jumped at the chance. “I’ve been part of the project since the beginning and enjoy doing this,” she said. “As an elderly lady myself, it’s a way I can do volunteer work. I was curious. Each time I’m called in to do memory tests using the words, numbers and shapes, I get to test my own memory. And it’s fun.” David Knopman, a neurologist and professor of neurology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, has been working on the study with Murray, who he’s known for nearly 20 years. “Murray is trained in gerontology, but she’s acquired extraordinary knowledge of neurology, especially in regards to cognitive impairment,” Knopman said. “There probably aren’t more than a dozen people in the world with this combination of knowledge for whom research is their focus.”

Struggles with funding In November, Murray and her team presented some of the results of the BRINK study at a Chicago meeting of the American Society of Nephrology, including a finding that increased inflammation in kidney disease may contribute to dementia and that anemia also appears to increase the risk. Still more research is needed, Murray said, and the hope is that the study can continue for several years.

DONATE Anyone who would like to donate to Dr. Anne Murray’s dementia and aging research fund at the Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation at HCMC can contact Amy Carlson at 873-9250 or amy.carlson@hcmed.org. Go to mmrf.org/donateto-mmrf to learn more.

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Patients with advanced kidney disease have a 50 to 60 percent increased risk of dementia. Our results could end up changing the way kidney patients are treated for memory loss and could give doctors a better understanding of the causes of various kinds of dementia, influe cing care and treatment of patients with the disease. — Dr. Anne Murray

Unfortunately, that may not happen. Major funding for the study ran out in October and the research is currently funded by bridge grants and donations. “I love my research, but it’s a struggle to keep the funding coming,” Murray said. “I always have to push for it, and it drains me.” During the past few years, there’s been a push for dementia and Alzheimer’s-related research, but government funding is on the decline and there’s heightened competition, said Sarah Pederson, the project manager for the Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, who has worked with Murray for the past 15 years. “We continue to pursue long-term funding sources,” Pederson said. “But we will need to rely on donations and bridge funding to keep the BRINK study going in the interim.” In 2016, Congress voted to give the National Institutes of Health more than $33 billion in funding for various projects. “The headliner is Alzheimer’s,” Knopman said. “Alzheimer’s funding has bipartisan support. But it’s the related disorders, including other cognitive disorders in the elderly, that get ignored.” Murray would like to continue her research for another five years at least. But without guaranteed funding, it’s hard to keep the study going and pay staff and researchers. “We’ve got the only collection of patients like this in the country,” she said. “We are the only research group with MRIs and blood tests.”

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Both Mpls.St.Paul Magazine and Minnesota Monthly have honored Dr. Anne Murray for her extraordinary skills as a clinician over the years. Murray is known for her warm demeanor with patients and research subjects. Photo by Tracy Walsh

Hugs and all Meanwhile, Murray isn’t losing touch with patients.  She still helps out at the Augustana clinic and teaches geriatric fellows (young doctors doing further training after their residencies). “I love geriatrics,” she said. “I love taking care of older people because of how much I learn from them. They have wonderful stories and an appreciation of life you don’t see elsewhere.”

Her former patients miss her, including Lois Eid.  “When she left the practice, after my husband’s first checkup with another doctor, I asked my husband what he thought. ‘She’s good,’ he told me. ‘But she doesn’t give hugs like Dr. Murray.’” — Stephanie Fox is a freelance journalist who lives in Minneapolis.

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Ask the Nurse Practitioner

By Michelle Napral University of Minnesota Health Nurse Practioners Clinic

When is memory loss a serious concern? Q

Last month I forgot to attend two social engagements, and I also misplaced my car keys. I’m 55, and I am terrified that these and other incidents may be signs of early dementia. I am afraid to even ask. What should I do?

Memory loss, forgetfulness or trouble concentrating affects many people at some point in their life. It’s normal to have mind lapses now and then, such as forgetting where you parked or misplacing your keys. Forgetfulness can be frustrating, and it is important to examine the patterns of forgetfulness and how it is impacting your daily life and activities to determine the severity. Normal age-related memory changes are different from symptoms that may indicate dementia. As people get older, the body and brain age, and it may result in minor age-related changes in memory. With normal age-related memory changes, someone is able to function independently, recall and describe incidents of forgetfulness. Someone with dementia will have difficulty performing simple tasks such as paying bills and may be unable to recall instances where memory loss caused problems. It’s normal to pause to remember directions

or have difficulty finding the right word at times, but it is abnormal to get lost and disoriented in familiar places, be unable to follow directions and have difficulty holding a conversation. The difference between age-related memory loss and dementia is that memory lapses have little impact on daily living, while dementia is a disabling decline. Dementia is when there is impairment in memory and oftentimes difficulty in other areas, as well, including speaking or writing, recognizing familiar surroundings, planning and carrying out multi-step tasks. In dementia, the impairment interferes with a person’s independence and daily activities. Dementia is caused by several brain diseases including Alzheimer disease, which accounts for 60–80 percent of all cases of dementia. Other causes of dementia include vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, Parkinson’s disease dementia, frontotemporal dementia, mixed dementia and other causes such as repeated head injuries. Know your risk factors. Dementia is rare in people younger than 60 years old, and it becomes more common in people older than 80 years old. Nearly half of people over age 90 have some form of memory loss. Alzheimer disease has a genetic component, and people with a first-degree relative are at

greater chance of developing Alzheimer disease. Studies show that other factors that may impact an increased likelihood of dementia include smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes and an unhealthy lifestyle with limited exercise, poor diet and limited socialization. Significant memory loss should not be assumed to be dementia, and other causes must be taken into consideration. Memory loss resulting in impairment of activities may be a symptom of an underlying illness such as depression, hormonal changes, anemia, stress and anxiety, insomnia, vitamin B12 deficiency, thyroid problems, alcohol or drug use, dehydration or medications such as chemotherapy. If your memory loss is caused by an underlying reversible condition, you can identify it and treat it to improve memory. Lifestyle greatly impacts brain health. Sleep is necessary for the process of forming and storing new memories. If you find that you are snoring, have excessive daytime sleepiness or are having difficulty falling or staying asleep, talk to your health care provider. Exercise regularly to get 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity a week to keep your body and brain healthy and regulate stress. Stay socially engaged with friends and family. Faceto-face social interaction reduces stress and engages the brain. Keep your brain active, play

games, learn, read, get involved in activities and projects and learn new hobbies. If you are concerned about your memory or notice a change in your loved one’s memory, discuss your concerns with a health care provider. Simple assessments can be performed and appropriate interventions identified.

By Dr. Teresa Hershey

On guard against one nasty parasite

here is a parasite lurking in our area that the public should be aware of and that all dog owners can help to control. That parasite is called hookworm. Hookworm is found throughout the world. In Minnesota, we see two different species: Ancylostoma caninum and Uncinaria stenocephala, which are both carried by dogs. Hookworm disease is a terrible disease for both dogs and humans. It is zoonotic, meaning that it can be spread from dogs to humans (although indirectly as will be explained later). Early in the disease, dogs may have no symptoms, but they can be spreading hookworm eggs in the stool and contaminating the environment. Later in the disease, patients will develop diarrhea and weight loss. Hookworms are voracious blood suckers. They attach to the intestinal lining and release an anti-coagulant to stimulating bleeding. Hookworm disease can cause anemia, and puppies that are exposed to hookworm as neonates can become so anemic that they die. Humans that are exposed to dog hookworm typically develop a skin rash. The migrating larvae leave red, itchy tracks under the surface of the skin. Hookworms are spread through a variety of sources. Puppies can get hookworm from their mother’s milk, and animals like cockroaches can also transmit the disease. The primary way hookworm is transmitted, however, is through the stool. Dogs with adult hookworms in their GI tract will pass hookworm eggs in the stool. One hookworm can produce 600–6,000 eggs per day.

Usually patients have many adult worms in their body when they are infected, so they are passing tens of thousands of eggs through the stool every day. These eggs take two to nine days to become infective larvae. An animal or human that comes into contact with the eggs won’t develop a hookworm infection. But if that stool stays in the environment for more than several days, the eggs will hatch into infective larvae. Oftentimes, the stool has mixed with soil by this time, and you can’t tell that the area is contaminated. It’s these infective larvae that enter the body, causing disease. In dogs, the larvae will grow into adult worms in the GI tract within two weeks of exposure. Very quickly the infected dog can start contaminating the environment and spread the infection to others. In humans, the most common route of entry into the body is through the skin. Contaminated soil needs to be in contact with skin only for five to 10 minutes for the larvae to penetrate the skin. In Hennepin County, the Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC) reports a hookworm incidence rate of 2 percent. At our clinic in Southwest Minneapolis, we are seeing an incidence rate closer to 3 percent. Three in every 100 fecal samples examined are positive for hookworm. It takes a community effort to help control the spread of hookworm. You can do your part to control this disease by following these tips: • Pick up your dog’s stool and throw it away as soon as it is produced. Fresh stool is not immediately infective. It takes two to nine

days for the eggs to hatch into infective larvae. These larvae live for several months in the environment. • Keep your dog on a monthly parasite preventative, even in the winter. The monthly heartworm preventative you give your dog likely covers hookworm, but it would be prudent to double-check with your vet. At our clinic, we recommend Heartgard brand heartworm preventative, as it is effective against the two types of hookworm seen in Minnesota. The hookworm species Uncinaria is considered a “cold weather hookworm” meaning that the eggs and larvae can survive freezing temperatures. Because of that, it is important to continue giving the pills year round. • Keep your dog on a leash to control him eating soil, which might be contaminated with hookworm larvae. • For humans, wear gloves when gardening and shoes when walking outside. It doesn’t take long for microscopic hookworm larvae to penetrate the skin and cause disease. • Wash all fresh fruits and vegetables. Hookworm can also enter people through accidental ingestion of contaminated soil. • Have your veterinarian screen your dog’s stool on a regular basis for parasite eggs, even if he is not showing diarrhea or illness. Early in the disease, dogs are usually asymptomatic and during that time (sometimes lasting months), they can be spreading disease and contaminating their environ-

ment. The Companion Animal Parasite Council recommends that all adult dogs have a routine fecal exam for parasites twice a year. If your dog develops a hookworm infection, it is important to know that hookworm can sometimes be difficult to manage. Dogs that have an infection have often contaminated their environment. The hookworm larvae can live for months in the soil, so the patient can easily get re-infected. Also, Some hookworm larvae will move out of the intestinal tract and turn into cysts in the muscle. These cysts are resistant to any type of deworming medication. The cysts stay dormant until they get the signal to hatch. The signal for these cysts to hatch is when the GI tract is finally clear of adult hookworms. What this means is that we can kill all of the adult worms in a dog’s GI tract and think that we have cleared an infection. For patients with hookworm cysts, however, this “empty gut” is the signal to hatch and repopulate the gut. This phenomenon is known as “larval leak” and is very difficult to control. All veterinarians take an oath upon graduation of veterinary school to not only serve animals but to help protect public health. Hookworms are a serious public health concern, and we need everyone’s help to try to reduce the incidence of hookworm disease in our area. For more information on hookworm disease, the Companion Animal Parasite Council and the Center for Disease Control websites are good resources.

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A plate of Sichuan dumplings.

A lineup of drinks from Jun’s cocktail menu. Submitted photos

Szechuan to crow about By Carla Waldemar

o … what were the trendster diners of the North Loop lacking? Oh yeah, Chinese. Just when you simply cannot make your way to your warehouse condo without a fix of hot-and-sour soup or kung pao chicken, say hello to Jun. Hipster alert: This is not your granny’s strip-mall experience. No cartoon-y paper placemats. No fortune cookies. No Number 47 with eggroll. (Oh, wait: There are eggrolls, but they’re wrapped in rice paper.) Instead, a cosmo clubhouse of cheery, backlit cherrytone wood, mustard-yellow booths lining the windows onto Washington below platoons of canister lamps and the obligatory open-to-view kitchen hemmed by also-mandated exposed bricks. There’s a signature, glassy room divider scrolled with poster-quality Chinese characters. (Certainly T-shirts are on order?) Jessie ( Jun) Wong and her son, Jack, have instilled the inviting space with the garlic- and chili-based flavors of their native Szechuan province but newly-updated from their longtime casual Roseville spot. Here, the buzz is about the hand-pulled noodles, star of the menu, along with house-made buns and dumplings. And the best lamb I’ve inhaled for months and months. Let’s start with those dan dan noodles, as our foursome did. The bowl of bouncy-textured udon skeins comes topped with

chopped leaflets of green veggies and kernels of well-seasoned minced pork, while in the bottom of the bowl resides a pool of warmly-spiced sesame-soy sauce (a one-chili-pepper warning on the menu). We also shared a pair of bao bao — plump, springy buns stuffed with pork belly, ready to dip in the kitchen’s housemade sauces, including standout hoisin and chili (small dishes $5–$12). Yearning for that fabled lamb, we bypassed the soups and small cold plates. Next time: the bacon-y tea-smoked pigs’ ears (don’t laugh; I’ve enjoyed them in China, far more tasty than the turkey feet and beating heart of duck I also gamely ordered) and the couple’s beef: chilled shank and tendon with Szechuan peppercorns, a two-chili number. But the lamb! This is the dish worth the price of admission (entrees mostly $14–$18, accompanied by rice). Savory, cumin-infused bits come curled onto toothpicks, all set upon little spinach-like leaves that also carry their share of lasting, comforting (but short of tortuous) heat. So did the plus-size shrimp, just barely stir-fried so their native texture still rules. They’re tossed with squares of bell pepper and onion in a “Szechuan sauce” (read: mouth-tingling and rewarding). Next, Jun’s spare ribs — meaty, full-flavored and tender pork accompanied by broccoli florets and one chili pepper on the menu, as are half the items. Order the walnut shrimp,

cashew chicken or sea bass if you’re Norwegian. From among the vegetable entrees ($12–$13), I was set to choose the asparagus and/or green beans, stir-fried with garlic, but was guided by the staff to try the “broccoli,” which wasn’t; it was bok choy, and neither unique nor enticing. Three desserts are on hand for the curious: chocolate wontons, sticky rice with brown-sugar syrup and sweet potato pancakes, our selection. A quartet of cupcake-diameter patties arrived, boasting a springy, chewy texture, mild in taste — interesting but not in the save-room-for category. Drinks are. Lots of unique cocktail creations (with or without alcohol), including tea and baiju infusions, plus plenty of hearty local beers. And wine if you must, with a list favoring Asian-flavors-friendly grapes like Riesling, vinho verde, etc. It’s the Year of the Rooster, and Jun makes a fine place to crow about it.

JUN 730 N. Washington Ave. 208-0706 (no reservations taken) junnorthloop.com

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Putting the

community in senior living community

Abiitan Mill City was constructed on a former surface parking lot in Downtown West. Submitted photos

The recently opened Abiitan Mill City has something for everyone, not just seniors

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enior living community Abiitan Mill City has opened near the Mill District bringing a publicly available restaurant and café along with it. The five-story building adds 86 units of independent-living apartments and 48 memorycare suites to the quickly growing downtown riverfront. Ecumen, the Shoreview-based owner and developer behind the project, hopes to break the mold of senior living communities where residents stay inside and don’t connect with their community, staff said. “Abiitan is senior living re-envisioned for the active senior. It is different. Everything that we did in this building we kind of sat around a table and said, ‘How would we normally do this, and how can we do it better?’” said Julie Murray, Ecumen’s chief business development officer and senior vice president of sales and marketing. Part of the project’s appeal is that it doesn’t just bring in seniors, though residents are limited to

age 55 and older. Smith & Porter, the property’s full-service restaurant and bar, and Porter Café, a casual breakfast and lunch stop, are both operated by Ecumen and can bring in a variety of generations. The nonprofit runs restaurants in about 40 communities. “We wanted to control the quality. We wanted to make sure that we were offering something really wonderful for our residents as well as the greater community, so it just made sense for us,” she said. The other appeal is what’s outside the building: the restaurants, venues and parks of the Downtown East area. “We realized that there are so amenities right here. Instead of having a movie theater, we know that St. Anthony Main [Theatre] isn’t even a mile away. And we have the Guthrie [Theater] right here. We really capitalized on what a wonderful place this is, and it’s hard to do that when everything is in the building and you only stay in the

Abiitan Mill City, a new senior apartment complex in downtown Minneapolis, offers views of the skyline from a rooftop clubroom.

building,” Murray said. For the apartments, independent-living residents have the option of studio units all the way to a three-bedroom apartment. Erwan Moison, Abiitan’s executive director, said they actually reduced the total number of independent-living apartments to 86, down from an initial 103, to keep up with demand for larger units. Amenities in the building include a solarium, a business center and a rooftop clubroom. There are two levels of underground parking with a total of 180 spaces. All the memory suites, which range from 300 to nearly 700 square feet, are located in the second floor where residents have access to a cafeteria, garden and 24/7 home care. Moison said instead of a typical fitness center, they have brought in G-Werx Fitness, formerly 501Fit, as a fitness partner and tenant to operate a G-Werx Fitness Training Studio for both residents and members. Co-owner Diana Broschka said they closed their original location, which had been two blocks away at 501 Washington Ave. S. for about a decade, at the end of January. G-Werx also operates a group and personal training studio at 50th & Bryant in the Lynnhurst neighborhood. The newly opened 2,000-square-foot location in Abiitan now houses the downtown studio’s clientele and the building’s residents, who get access to the company’s G-Werx resistance training, which utilizes patented machines that are approachable for clients as young as 12 and as old as 87, she added. “We couldn’t ask for a better location,” Broschka said. “The thought of having to move was scary on a good day. So far 20 independent-living units have been leased after move-ins began last December. A couple residents have moved or will soon move into the memory-care suites, a spokesman with the developer said, though those units weren’t available for pre-leasing. Moison described the independent-living residents as seniors who are eager to travel and

Smith & Porter, Abiitan’s restaurant, has a table where individual residents can meet and eat together.

want to take advantage of Abiitan’s resources to age in place. “A lot of them already love the city. You have a lot of them who had condos and houses in the area who just wanted to stay and enjoy what Mill City has to offer but meanwhile having that health care safety net,” he said. “When they go on vacation, we’ll ask, ‘Where were you last week,’ they say, ‘We just got back from Iran.’ ‘Where are you going next week?’ ‘We’re going to Angola,’ ” Moison said. The building, developed in partnership with Lupe Development, is located near the riverfront where the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is planning to overhaul access to the river. Mill City Quarter, an affordable housing development next door that Lupe owns, shares a woonerf or curbless shared street and public parking lot with Abiitan. The plaza, which features a gate that will give access to the board’s future riverfront park, was dedicated for public use under a park dedication ordinance. Abiitan, located at 428 S. 2nd St., is now open. Smith & Porter, described as an “American casual fine dining” restaurant, is open 4 p.m.–10 p.m. every day with a happy hour from 4 p.m.–6 p.m. Porter Café, which serves sandwiches, soups, salads and Izzy’s Ice Cream, is open 7 a.m.–4 p.m.

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Mill City Cooks

Recipes and food news from the Mill City Farmers Market

SWEET CARROT SLAW Recipe courtesy of Mill City Farmers Market. Makes 4 servings. INGREDIENTS Salad: 5-6 large carrots, shaved 1 ½ cups cabbage, chopped thinly ¼ cup raisins or dried cranberries ¼ cup walnuts or other nut of choice, chopped (optional) 1 Tablespoon ground fla or sunflower seeds Ellie Theobald of Ellie’s Whole Grains. Submitted photo

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Dressing: 2 Tablespoons sunflower or olive oil 1 Tablespoon lemon or lime juice 1 Tablespoon honey ¼ teaspoon cinnamon Salt to taste

METHOD Using a potato peeler or cheese grater, shave four long carrots into long, thin pieces.

llie Theobald, self-proclaimed farm girl, created Ellie’s Whole Grains over ten years ago as a way to bring local and highly nutritious grains to the Minneapolis food community. Ellie grew up on a farm in the prairies of North Dakota, where her father farmed many grains, including beautiful rows of flaxseed. In 2006, Ellie and her husband Dean had just returned from working in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea, providing basic medical care and nutrition counseling for the local community. As a way to continue educating and inspiring people to eat and live healthy here at home, they created Ellie’s Whole Grains. Ellie’s Whole Grains is especially dedicated to promoting the health benefits of flax — gourmet golden flax to be exact. Flaxseed has two major varieties: brown

(like we see on the tops of wholegrain breads) and golden, which has a bright, buttery yellow color and is also known as linseed. According to Ellie and a large body of research, golden flax is an excellent, inexpensive food that provides omega-3 fatty acids, protein, fiber, lignans and many other nutrients. Research also shows that flax contributes to a healthy lifestyle by supporting brain health, healthy skin, constipation relief, lowering high cholesterol and high blood sugar, relieving inflammation and relieving symptoms of celiac disease, Crohn’s disease and even hot flashes. It is this research that strengthened Ellie’s love for flaxseed, and it forms the solid foundation from which she markets her product. Flaxseed is a naturally gluten-free grain that grows as a beautiful blue flower, closely

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related to many wildflowers and ornamental landscape plants. Ellie’s Whole Grains sells flaxseed whole and ground — both delicious in quick breads or on top of smoothies and salads like the recipe below. All of Ellie’s flax is grown, processed and packaged on a sustainable farm in Denhoff, North Dakota. In addition to flax, Ellie also sells other grains and health products such as gluten-free flour, barley and fermented garlic. You can find Ellie and Dean at all of the Mill City Farmers Market’s indoor winter markets

with the carrot shavings in a large bowl and toss. If adding walnuts (or other nut of choice), chop coarsely. Set aside. For the dressing: Mix oil, lemon juice, honey, cinnamon and salt in a bowl with a fork or whisk. Add dressing, raisins, nuts and ground flax o large bowl of the cabbage and carrot slaw. Mix well, incorporating all ingredients thoroughly. Keep mixing to soften the cabbage and carrots. Serve immediately or chilled.

at the Mill City Museum and at the upcoming winter market at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum on Saturday, March 4th. More than 40 Mill City Farmers Market farmers, food vendors and local artists will be at the Arboretum’s beautiful MacMillan Auditorium 9 a.m.–1 p.m. for the sixth-annual Mill City Farmers Market showcase at the Arboretum. Find a full schedule and more seasonal recipes at millcityfarmersmarket.org. — Jenny Heck

CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Article 5 Die down 8 Military action toys 14 Something frowned upon 15 Graphic introduction? 16 Harm 17 *U.S. Steel co-founder 19 Roofer’s supply 20 “August: __ County”: Meryl Streep film 21 Spinal column part 23 Words on a candy heart 25 “CHiPs” co-star Erik 27 Newspaper VIPs 28 Crèche figure 31 Like Parmesan cheese 32 “Didn’t I tell you?” 33 Peas, for shooters 34 Racetrack equipment 36 *“Whiplash” Best Supporting Actor

It was a beautiful sunny day at Giants Ridge for the Minnesota High School Nordic Championships. Southwest won the boys’ team title for the second consecutive year 3rd, Torsten Brinkema-8th and Adlai Sinkler-9th. Not only can they ski, they’re really smart too. SW’s Joey Doyle received an All State Individual Academic Award for having a GPA of 3.9 or higher. SW Girls’ Team received an All State Team Gold Academic Award with a team GPA average of 3.75 or above. The Boys’ Team received the Silver Award with team GPA average of 3.5-3.74. Congratulations Lakers!

38 Wealthy campaign donor

59 *Peter Pan creator

9 Small bay

61 “Imagine so”

10 *“Lost” co-creator

62 Bird on Australia’s coat of arms

11 Serious injustice

63 Some celebs have delicate ones

12 What may be charged for books? 13 French possessive

42 Cause of calamity 43 Twisting force 44 Most cheerful

22 Pickett’s Charge soldier

46 Twinings product

66 Took off

49 Sixth __ 50 Cast out

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1 Humor for a select few

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29 Bordeaux buddy

3 All together

30 Matriarchal nickname

53 Clothing chain ... or what the answers to starred clues comprise?

4 Classic music synthesizers

33 Wanted poster initials

54 Turncoat

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57 “Pardon me,” in Palermo

6 Cleaver nickname

35 MetLife’s business: Abbr.

7 Talus or radius

36 *Retail chain founder

58 Singer Warwick

8 Central points

37 AAA handout

42 Orch. section 45 “It’s not too early to call” 46 Sprain support 47 Dove’s call

51 College choices

64 “Almost ready” 65 Dollop

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18 Sleep acronym

41 Picture framing materials

48 New York brewery known for its cream ale

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52 Simile words

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Get Out Guide. By Jahna Peloquin

D.C. ICE: THE GILDED MENAGERIE Over the past decade, Twin Cities artist D.C. Ice has become known for her distinctive, darkly whimsical scratchboard paintings of anthropomorphic creatures. The artist softens the sinister themes and rough edges of her razor-blade illustrations by incorporating soft pastels and flowers. Her latest exhibition, “The Gilded Menagerie,” is composed of a series of mixed media portraits of bears, foxes and deer that delves into themes of folklore, hunting and divine exaltation. Debuting in conjunction with the exhibition are new works by local artists Shawna Gilmore, Ashley Mary and Kristen Arden, plus window displays by Anna Chambers-Goldberg and D.C. Ice.

Where: Gallery 360, 3011 W. 50th St. When: March 4–April 8; opening reception on Saturday, March 4 from 7 p.m.–10 p.m. Cost: Free Info: gallery360mpls.com

WINTERFEST After 15 years in St. Paul, the Minnesota Craft B ewers Guild’s annual cold-weather craft rew festival is making its way to Minneapolis for the fi st time ever. Winterfest will pop up at Target Field with more than 90 Minnesota-crafted beers from nearly 100 guild member breweries including local favorites Surly, Summit, Dangerous Man and 612Brew. In addition to unlimited samples of specialty and seasonal beers, a ticket includes catered food, craft beer e ucation and live music.

Where: Delta SKY360° Legends Club at Target Field, 1 Twins Way When: Friday, Feb. 24 from 7 p.m.–10 p.m. Cost: $75 in advance, $85 day of event Info: mncraftbrew.org

CUBAN FILM FESTIVAL More than two years since the announcement that the U.S. and Cuba would begin to normalize relations, Minnesota’s annual Cuban Film Festival is still going strong heading into its eighth year. Highlights from this year’s lineup include “El Acompañante (The Companion),” a universal story of struggle against adversity that deals with AIDS in the world of amateur boxing (Feb. 23); “Cuba Libre (Free Cuba),” a retelling of the country’s 1898 revolution for freedom from Spain as seen through the eyes of two young children (March 2); and “The Black Roots of Salsa,” a 2010 documentary that explores the influence of Afro-Cuban dance and music culture (March 30).

Where: St. Anthony Main Theatre, 115 SE. Main St. When: Feb. 23–March 30 at 7 p.m. Cost: $8; $6 for MSP Film Society members, students and seniors Info: mspfilm.org

GUILLERMO DEL TORO: AT HOME WITH MONSTERS Conceived by the Minneapolis Institute of Art and organized in partnership with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Art Gallery of Ontario, this fi st-ever museum retrospective on Guillermo del Toro offers a glimpse into the creative process behind the famed Mexican filmma er’s unique vision. The exhibition showcases more than 500 pieces culled from his film oeuvre—which includes “Pan’s Labyrinth,” “Hellboy” and “Pacific Rim”—and vast personal collection, including sculpture, paintings, prints, photography, costumes and ancient artifacts, alongside objects del Toro selected from Mia’s permanent collection. Related events include screenings of del Toro’s film , an opening night celebration (March 4 from 8 p.m.–midnight).

Where: Target Gallery at Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2400 3rd Ave. S. When: March 5–May 28 Cost: $20; $16 for Mia members Info: artsmia.org

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SEASON HIGHLIGHTS: MARCH 6 “To Serve and Reflect” As the role of police officers and their relationship with citizens has become a major issue in many U.S. cities, T2P2 invites Janée Harteau, the Minneapolis Chief of Police, to weigh in.

MARCH 13 “The Auditor Always Rings Twice” Rebecca Otto, Minnesota State Auditor and DFL candidate for Governor, will discuss what it takes to audit the state’s fina ces — and her plans to shake up local government.

MARCH 20 “Up the Amazon without a Paddle” Olivia LaVecchia, co-author of a report on Amazon’s effects on local communities and businesses, discusses how the online retail giant has changed the face of retail and labor in Minnesota.

THEATER OF PUBLIC POLICY

MARCH 27

Since 2011, The Theater of Public Policy (T2P2) has been using improv humor to make politics accessible to average citizens. Kicking off onday, March 6, the Minneapolis theater troupe’s spring season will feature special guests who include two candidates for governor and Minneapolis’ chief of police, plus topics spanning diplomacy, state audits and what happens to our trash once it’s collected.

Where: Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater, 810 W. Lake St. When: Mondays in March and April through April 24 from 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Cost: $12 advance, $15 at the door Info: t2p2.net

“Who Needs Friends?! Diplomacy 2017” Mary Curtin, a longtime Foreign Service officer and current diplomat-inresidence, talks about the current state of diplomacy in the U.S. — and why the latest diplomatic appointments are a big deal.

SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION Based on the existential premise that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else by no more than six acquaintances, this Tony Award–nominated play wrestles with themes of race, class and manners. Inspired by the real-life con artist David Hampton, the story begins when Paul, a young black man, convinces a wealthy, white New York couple that is the son of Sidney Poitier — a ruse that quickly comes undone, leading to lasting consequences for all three characters. This staging of the drama by Minneapolis company Theater Latte Da and director Peter Rothstein features performances by Twin Cities favorites Mark Benninghofen and Sally Wingert, imaginative staging by Ivey Award–winning scenic designer Kate Sutton-Johnson and a live musical underscore.

Where: Ritz Theater, 345 13th Ave. NE When: March 11–April 9 (previews March 8–10) Cost: $35–$48 Info: theaterlatteda.com

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Gadget Guy

By Paul Burnstein

Surround sound: from 2.0 to 7.1 and beyond

urround sound systems can be confusing when reviewing how many audio channels they have, and this includes sound bars, which are not simply one long speaker. Let’s go through and review what the different numbers mean when you look at a system that says Dolby Digital 2.0 or 5.1 Channel DTS. The gist is that the numbers refer to discrete speakers — or really channels, as you can have one speaker that plays more than one channel.

2.1

5.1

7.1

2.1 adds in a subwoofer for a separate bass sound. The subwoofer only gets counted as one tenth of a channel; this is because it is not distinct sounds that come through the bass, but rather low-frequency effects. Many sound bars have 2.1 surround; you have stereo sound but also the subwoofer helping to fill in more depth to the audio. Sometimes the subwoofer is even built into the sound bar, which can muffle sounds a bit.

5.1 adds in two rear speakers to the mix. The new channels offer rear surround sound and with higher quality processing on even right and left channels (Dolby Digital 5.1 has 5 distinct channels plus subwoofer, whereas the older Dolby Pro Logic only has the rear sound in mono as opposed to stereo). This is the sound that most people are looking for in a home theater system. When watching something move in a circle on TV like a helicopter, the sound can travel from directly in front of you (center channel) to your right (right front speaker), behind you on your right (right rear speaker), continue on behind you to your left (left rear speaker) and end on your left in front of you (left front speaker) — all the while with some bass added in for low-frequency effects. 6.1 adds in an additional back surround channel that is like your center channel, but for sound behind of you. This is a less common setup but still available, nonetheless.

7.1 adds in two inward facing side speakers, but my research shows that DVD movies are not made with 7.1 discrete channels for viewing in the home (Blu-Rays can be). Of course, in a movie theater there are many more channels and speakers!

3.1

2.0 2.0 means right and left stereo sound with two distinct channels. This is just like your old stereo systems that separate sounds to create a more full experience. Almost all devices you have with two speakers will at least have stereo sound.

3.1 adds a center speaker to separate audio dialogue that has been processed for a distinct channel. The right and left channels are still distinct and the third channel/speaker is between them. This can be found in sound bars and home theater systems that have three speakers or a bar in the front and then a separate or built-in subwoofer.

With even more channels there are more speakers added to create a complete surround sound effect. Systems can have 8.1, 9.1, and so on. Confused yet? The most common configurations are 2.0, 2.1 and 5.1. If you want to hear the sound behind you, then 5.1 is the way to go. Paul Burnstein is a Tech Handyman. As the founder of Gadget Guy MN, Paul helps personal and business clients optimize their use of technology. He can be found through www.gadgetguymn.com or via email at paul@gadgetguymn.com.

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