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By Michelle Bruch
While researching historic African-American sites for an all-night bike tour, Anthony Taylor was struck by the former Dreamland Café, which opened in 1939 down the street from property he owns at 38th & 4th. “When the café was first built, the city was extremely segregated. So when Lena Horne came to the Twin Cities to hang out, she couldn’t go downtown. So she went to the Dreamland Café,” he said. After initially planning a bike shop at 3800 3rd Ave. S., Taylor ran into expensive soil remediation costs and decided to take on a bigger project. Now he’s working with architects to develop the Dreamland Co-Café. He envisions a co-working space for entrepreneurs, similar to the “hothead dreamer kids” that worked toward racial equality in Anthony B. Cassius’ original restaurant. “How are we going to build businesses that actually serve the greater good?” Taylor asked. The project is part of a broader dream for the 38th Street corridor. Through community workshops led by two Ward 8 representatives — former Council Member Elizabeth Glidden and now Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins — local stakeholders envision a “cultural corridor” along 38th Street between Nicollet and Chicago. “Young folks don’t have a real historical sense of this neighborhood,” said Greg McMoore, a longtime area resident. “I’m a bit of a history person, so I believe in knowing where you came from, if you’re going to figure out where you’re going to go.” SEE 38TH STREET / PAGE A10 Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins hosts a February panel discussion celebrating black history at Funky Grits, now open at 38th & Chicago. Photo by Michelle Bruch
Taking count Minneapolis works to tally every resident in 2020 Census
Walz pitches ‘generational investment’ in transit Budget proposal targets some of Metro Transit’s biggest challenges
By Andrew Hazzard / ahazzard@southwestjournal.com
As Minnesota prepares to launch efforts to ensure every state resident is counted in the 2020 Census at an April 1 kickoff event in St. Paul, wheels in Minneapolis are already in motion. “We’ve actually been doing quite a bit of work with the census,” Karen Moe, deputy director of Neighborhood and Community Relations, told the City Council Feb. 28. Moe has been leading the city’s efforts in preparation for the census, which is primarily housed in the NCR and communications departments, but has touched nearly every office in City Hall. While much of the statewide attention on the census goes toward how many Congressional seats Minnesota will have next decade — recent projections have the state losing a representative — getting a total count is critical to cities for receiving federal funding and getting accurate data for its own records. Despite a recent budget boost from Congress, experts say the Census Bureau has been underfunded this decade, which puts extra pressure on local governments to fill the gap. “What states and localities can do is start the work now,” said Bob Tracy,
By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com
SEE 2020 CENSUS / PAGE A11
SEE TRANSIT FUNDING / PAGE A14
The reenergized late-winter sun had turned the vast parking lot behind Metro Transit’s North Loop headquarters into a great slush lake, but somehow a brand new Metro C Line bus had been positioned for its photo op with barely a speck of slop on its fresh paintjob — just white drips of salt clinging to tires. When the driver swung open the door, a few of the assembled dignitaries climbed aboard joking that the articulated bus, manufactured by New Flyer in St. Cloud and the first all-electric model in the fleet, still had that “new bus smell.” Among them was Gov. Tim Walz, whose first state budget proposal, released two days earlier, was hailed by Metro Transit leaders as the long-term funding solution they’ve been waiting for. “It’s a game-changer,” said Wes Kooistra, who in January took over as general manager of Metro Transit,
The Metro C Line is scheduled to open in June. Gov. Tim Walz’s transit funding proposal envisions 10 new bus rapid transit lines opening in the next decade. Photo by Dylan Thomas
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Four Southwest area chefs nominated for James Beard awards Four chefs working in Southwest Minneapolis have been named semifinalists for one of the culinary world’s most prestigious awards. The James Beard Foundation awards announced its 2019 semifinalists Feb. 27, and the list was littered with chefs and restaurants from Minneapolis. Four local eateries have semifinalists up for Best Chef Midwest, including two on the same corner in Linden Hills. The local semifinalists for the James Beard Award Best Chef Midwest are:
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• Steven Brown of Tilia at 43rd & Upton. Brown has been named a semifinalist multiple times since opening Tilia in 2011; he reached the “nominee” stage of the award in 2017 and 2018. • Daniel del Prado of Martina, also at 43rd & Upton. Kitty-corner from Tilia, Del Prado’s Argentine seafood restaurant Martina earned him his first nod as a semifinalist. • Jamie Malone of Grand Café at 38th & Grand in Kingfield. Malone has owned Grand Café since 2017. She was previously named a semifinalist in 2014 and 2018 and was a semifinalist for Rising Star Chef of the Year in 2013.
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• Karyn Tomlinson of Corner Table at 46th & Nicollet in Kingfield. Tomlinson took over as chef de cuisine at Corner Table in 2017 and has been named a semifinalist for the first time. (Southwest Journal food critic Carla Waldemar predicted she would win a James Beard award in 2017, so you heard it here first.)
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The Lakes Running Company leaving Calhoun Village After five years in Calhoun Village, The Lakes Running Company is closing its Minneapolis location at the end of March. Manager Lauren Rice said the move was prompted in part by high rents at the Calhoun Village Shopping Center on West Lake Street, a plethora of other running stores nearby and a desire to focus on their other location in Excelsior. All items in the store are currently marked 30–50 percent off, with sales likely to increase as the month comes to a close, Rice said. The store has traditionally carried a wide range of premium brands and hosted various community runs around the Chain of Lakes over the years.
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Former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor officially pleaded not guilty March 1 to murder and manslaughter charges stemming from a July 2017 on-duty shooting. Noor is charged in the death of Justine Damond, a 40-year-old native of Australia also known as Justine Ruszczyk, who had called 911 to report a possible sexual assault near her home. At the time of her death, she was living with her fiancé, Don Damond, in the Fulton neighborhood. Rulings issued by Hennepin County District Court Judge Kathryn Quaintance at the pretrial hearing struck down prosecutors’ plan to introduce character evidence drawn from Noor’s work history and limited their ability to discuss a pre-employment psychological evaluation of the former officer in a trial scheduled to begin April 1. Prosecutors intend to argue Noor acted recklessly when he fired his weapon at Damond as she approached his police vehicle in the alley behind her home, and a jury will be tasked with deciding whether Noor acted in an objectively reasonable manner. Quaintance denied a defense motion to sever the most serious charge Noor faces, second-degree murder, from two other felony charges, third-degree murder and seconddegree manslaughter, explaining that there was “sufficient overlap” in the evidence, witnesses and facts underlying all three charges to bundle them together. She also denied a request from defense attorneys that potential jurors be shown a 15-minute video on unconscious biases, including those related to race and religious differences; Noor is Somali-American. Quaintance pledged to “be liberal” in allowing an examination of jurors’ potential biases during jury selection. But she said the 17-page questionnaire jurors would be asked to complete went far enough toward being “conscientious” about bias without adding the video. Prosecutors from the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office argued the video would needlessly add tension to the case. Prosecutors aimed to point out in their arguments during trial that Noor declined to give an on-the-record description of the shooting, turning down an interview with investigators
from the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. But Quaintance ruled prosecutors would not be allowed introduce evidence of Noor’s pre-arrest silence unless he takes the stand in his own defense, adding, “It seems to me the right not to incriminate one’s self is a pretty seminal constitutional right.” She said her ruling could change as the trial progresses and new evidence comes in. Quaintance also rejected prosecutors’ plan to discuss three prior on-duty incidents, one in which he pointed his weapon at a driver during a traffic stop; another in which Noor, while still in training, allegedly avoided taking calls for service; and a third in which he allegedly did not search for a burglary suspect when he said he would. Prosecutors previously described the incidents as “prior acts of recklessness and indifference.” Quaintance said the incidents were not relevant to the essential question for jurors: whether Noor acted as a reasonable officer would have in the same situation. But she did agree to allow prosecutors to discuss another incident that took place less than two hours before the shooting, when Noor and his partner, Officer Matthew Harrity, were called to check on a woman possibly suffering from dementia symptoms just a few blocks from Damond’s home. “That is intrinsic evidence,” Quaintance said, adding that it added context to what happened on the night of the shooting and gives insight into Noor’s state of mind when he pulled the trigger. Prosecutors also planned to introduce as evidence the results of Noor’s pre-employment psychological evaluation. They have described the results in filings as revealing a strikingly antisocial attitude for a law enforcement officer, and they aimed to have a psychologist testify on the results as an expert witness. Quaintance said she would likely not allow the test results to enter the trial, but added she could change her mind if and when Noor testifies. She noted the results were already two-and-a-half years old and acknowledged an argument made by defense attorneys, who in filings claimed there was evidence showing the test was biased against minority law enforcement candidates. SEE NOOR / PAGE A7
Walz names Met Council appointees Gov. Tim Walz on Monday announced the final list of 16 metro-area residents he plans to appoint to the Metropolitan Council, including three new members who will each represent a portion of Minneapolis. Walz’s Minneapolis appointees include Lynnea Atlas-Ingebretson (District 6), a consultant and nonprofit administrator who currently serves as chief of staff at Juxtaposition Arts; Native American Community Development Institute President and CEO Robert Lilligren (District 7), a former Minneapolis councilmember; and Awood Center Executive Director Abdirahman Muse (District 8), previously a senior policy aide to former Mayor Betsy Hodges. Walz in December chose Nora Slawik to chair the Met Council. The former Maplewood mayor and seven-term state representative was sworn in Jan. 9. A regional planning and policy-making
body established in 1967, the Met Council promotes economic development throughout the seven-county metro region and coordinates the delivery of services, including wastewater treatment, affordable housing, parks and transit. It leads major regional infrastructure and transit projects, including the $2 billion Southwest Light Rail Transit project. More than 200 people applied for seats on the Met Council. A 12-member nominating committee selected 79 finalists who were interviewed at a series of public meetings held earlier this year. The Met Council said Walz’s group of appointees represents the most diverse group in the board’s history. Walz’s appointments become official only after confirmation by the state Senate. A swearing-in ceremony was scheduled for March 6, after this edition went to press.
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Survey notices go to properties near SWLRT construction Letters seeking permission to conduct preconstruction surveys of properties along the 14.5-mile path of the Southwest Light Rail Transit project started landing in mailboxes in February. Construction on the $2 billion project, an extension of the Metro Green Line that will add tracks between downtown Minneapolis and Eden Prairie, is scheduled to begin this spring. It is expected to last through 2022. Metro Transit spokesperson Trevor Roy said participation in the surveys is optional, but it’s the only way for property owners to get into the official damage claims process should any damage occur during construction. He compared it to the walk-through many rental property owners conduct with new tenants at the start of a lease. Roy said letters would be mailed to owners of all properties within 95 feet of the planned construction area. When Kenwood homeowner Jacqueline McGlamery found the letter in her mail Feb. 11 — with a right-of-entry permit ready for her to sign and return — she said it seemed to come “out of the blue.” The letter indicated that the SWLRT project office would follow up if she did not respond within seven days. It felt like “short notice” to make a decision when she still had questions about both the project and the pre-construction survey, she said. “There has been no information, no construction schedule, no updates to homeowners, no public meeting,” said McGlamery, who lives near the future West 21st Street station not far from Cedar Lake East Beach. “The other thing that comes to mind,” she added, “is that if they’re in need of protecting themselves, what damage should I expect to happen? I’ve not been through a construction project like this. What kind of vibrations should
I expect? Can you give me a number on the Richter scale?” Property owners will have a chance to pose those questions at a future public meeting. The spring construction schedule for SWLRT has not yet been set, but once it is property owners near the line can expect to hear about town hall meeting or similar event, Roy said. He said the seven-day timeline referred to in the letter wasn’t a hard deadline, and property owners would have additional opportunities to respond before the Met Council sends out a final notice. While the Metropolitan Council is leading the SWLRT project — the costliest public works project in state history — the preconstruction surveys will be conducted by IMO Consulting Group, a subcontractor employed by Lunda/McCrossan Joint Ventures. The joint venture, comprised of construction firms Lunda Construction Co. and C.S. McCrossan, won the SWLRT civil construction contract last fall on a bid of $799.5 million. The joint venture’s contract with Met Council requires it to pay out for damage claims, Roy said. Met Council will provide oversight of the claims process. While he didn’t have an exact number at hand, Roy noted the project would potentially impact a huge number of individual properties on its route from Minneapolis to Eden Prairie. “It wouldn’t be in our interest to make them unhappy,” he said. According to the letter sent to property owners, the pre-construction survey takes approximately two to three hours. It involves the taking of measurements and both still photo and video documentation of the property’s conditions. The property owner or a representative must be on site during the survey. There is no charge to the property owner.
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no cameras or recording devices would be allowed in the courtroom during the trial, terms to which both attorneys for the defense and prosecution agreed. A line for seating in the courtroom formed more than an hour before the hearing began. While friends and family members of both Damond and Noor, a sketch artist and select members of the media had reserved seats, just 11 of the 30 seats in the courtroom were open on a first-come, first-served basis; latecomers were directed to overflow seating in a different courtroom. Several issues were still unresolved when the pre-trial hearing ended after 35 minutes, including whether or not Noor’s defense attorneys would be allowed to call one of their expert witnesses on police use of force. In court filings, defense attorneys argued that the expert witness, firearms instructor Emanuel Kapelsohn, was never a law enforcement officer and lacked “practical knowledge” of police work. They also depicted him as biased, pointing out his long record of testifying on behalf of officers in on-duty shooting cases. Quaintance said both sides would be allowed to cross-examine Kapelsohn in another hearing before the trial starts. Quaintance also requested more information from prosecutors about a “fly-through” animation of the shooting scene they plan to introduce during trial, which defense attorneys had argued would paint an unrealistic picture of what Noor could have seen. The video is based on evidence collected by BCA investigators at the scene, Sweasy said.
Noor did not speak during the hearing and faced forward almost the entire time he was in the courtroom. Wearing a navy blue suit, white shirt and blueand-silver striped tie, he entered the courtroom with his attorneys about 20 minutes before the hearing. The courtroom, previously filled with chatter, grew hushed. Don Damond entered about five minutes later, wearing glasses and dressed in a gray shirt with the collar unbuttoned. He took a seat in the front row of the gallery. The final open seats in the gallery filled shortly before Quaintance entered. The hearing started promptly at 9 a.m. After four of the attorneys introduced themselves — assistant Hennepin County attorneys Amy Sweasy and Patrick Lofton for the prosecution and defense attorneys Tom Plunkett and Peter Wold — Quaintance noted Noor had not yet entered a plea to the charges against him, which were amended late last year to include the second-degree murder charge. “We can inform the court Mr. Noor is entering a plea of not guilty,” Plunkett said, forcefully emphasizing the last two words. There was a high security presence outside of Quaintance’s courtroom on the 19th floor of the Hennepin County Government Center. Members of the public and media were required to hand over all electronics and pass through a scanner, even though they’d already walked through a metal detector on the building’s first floor. Quaintance decided in February that
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God knows we’ve needed you, snow angels, and Lord knows we want to be more like you.
The snow angel’s motto: “Good deeds should be done with intention, not for attention.” Photo by Jim Walsh
As it should be, and as it works in all sorts of spiritual practices. “Is the reward for good anything but good?” asks the Quran. “A good deed dies when it is spoken about,” goes the Arab proverb. Which is probably why we see the snow angels’ work, if not the snow angels themselves, all over social media. A notoriously shy bunch, their faces remain covered and identities withheld in keeping with their code of altruism and selfsacrifice. They’re not in it for the good karma or the thanks they’re getting here, and there’s a Zenlike philosophy to that, which means their small acts of grace can’t be championed enough. When duty calls, the snow angels get up and at ’em, valiantly putting on their long underwear and revving up their trucks and snow blowers with no self-pep talk to guide them, other than maybe the words of Aragorn from “Lord of the Rings”: “Yet the deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.” Then out they go into the wild blue cold yonder, clearing snow and making paths for the rest of us to go on our merry way, content in the knowledge that they’re doing something tangible for their fellow humans. “Good deeds should be done with intention, not for attention,” goes the old proverb, and the snow angels have likewise embraced Oscar Wilde’s assertion that, “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.” All this incognito do-gooding got a name in 1982, when a woman named Anne Herbert wrote on a Sausalito, California restaurant placemat, “Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.” Since then, variations on the scrawl have become a saying, a bumper sticker, a foundation, a day (Feb. 17 is National Random Acts of Kindness Day) and a movement of so-called Random Acts of Kindness activists (RAKtivists).
Which describes our snow angels, and we could use a few more. At the moment, we’re inundated daily with headlines about haters, politics, racism, hubris, sexism, war and the self-destructive nature of the human ego and people’s own bitter hearts. But the little things matter most, and there’s all sorts of evidence to confirm that big changes in the world come in small but meaningful increments and that the unsung good deeds that happen all the time and all around us provide the very fabric of a healthy hometown and world. To wit: The late, great television reporter Charles Kuralt spent much of his 30 years talking to ordinary people for his CBS News series “On the Road.” Kuralt traveled from town to town in a motorhome in search of stories that no one else took the time to notice. His beat wasn’t one of press conferences and wagging-the-dog mass media but of people and their places. Near the end of his career, Kuralt concluded, “You can’t travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or recognition. The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Some people out there spend their whole lives selflessly.” That’s our snow angels. They give the rest of us pause, hope and proof positive that there is good, love and selflessness in the world. So thanks again, and again, and again. I don’t know you, snow angels, but in lieu of hot chocolate and a neighborly chat, this will have to do. Also, March is historically the snowiest month in this frozen meat locker we call home, and we’re going to need you. 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 Karen Cooper
A passion for history
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rthur T. Adams was born in 1872, and he lived at 3648 Lyndale Ave. for nearly 50 years. Adams bought it as a single-family house in 1903 and converted it to a duplex in 1916. That’s when he added the sensible stucco veneer. He’d paid $1,650 for the place and invested twice that in his improvements. Adams had a law degree from the University of Minnesota, yet apparently never practiced law. He took a job teaching law and business at South High. He was married, had a son and seems to have lived a practical, well-planned life. But his real passion is revealed in his photographs. Adams was a historian. As a teacher, his summers were free to travel Minnesota, to study its past and to document what he learned. His legacy includes work on three eras of Minnesota history. He wrote meticulous studies of 17th century French explorer Pierre Radisson’s diaries. He photographed buildings and locations associated with the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. And his photographs preserved views along the Mississippi River, including the early 20th century work done on St. Anthony Falls. He loved to teach. He used his photos to illustrate his many lectures for the Minnesota Historical Society, State Fair and any group who invited him. That included —
Arthur Adams. Image from the collection of the Hennepin History Museum
in a personally surprising plot twist — the presentation “Points of Interest Around Minneapolis” in the living room of Lloyd Dix Cooper, who happened to be my great-great-uncle. In 1926, the Minnesota Historical Society tasked him with creating an inventory of all the historical markers
in the state. The goal was to preserve Minnesota’s “events of drama and tragedy.” This work seems not to have been completed. Perhaps the Great Depression made that impossible. Around 1950 Arthur Adams, widowed, moved to Seattle to live with his son. The duplex was rented for years but ultimately was sold in 1966 for $22,000. Having planned for the future as he studied and preserved the past, of course Adams made sure that the stucco was a prominent selling point. Hennepin History Museum owns many of Arthur Adams’ early photographs. These are online at the Minnesota Reflections Digital Library: tinyurl. com/Digital-HHM. (Due to an editing error, a web link to the Hennepin History Museum’s collection of real estate photographs was left out of last issue’s edition of Moments in Minneapolis. To search for images of your Minneapolis home, go to tinyurl. com/hhm-houses.) Karen Cooper is a researcher at Hennepin History Museum and a collector of old Minneapolis photographs. Her favorite of the Adams photographs are the ones of Castle Rock because another branch of her Minnesota ancestors farmed near there.
Snowy February prompts parking restrictions The snowiest February on record for Minneapolis prompted the city to restrict parking on some streets to make room for emergency vehicles. Vehicles will not be allowed to park on the even side of non-snow emergency routes. The one-side parking ban will continue until April 1, unless city officials determine on-street parking may return to normal. Vehicles parked in violation of the parking ban could be ticketed and towed. The winter parking restrictions are meant to insure ambulances, fire trucks and other emergency vehicles can travel freely. The accumulation of snow on boulevards and the edges of streets has narrowed the travel lanes in many areas. Sections of two snow emergency routes that are also transit routes will also see parking restrictions while the ban is in effect. They are Bryant Avenue South between Lake and 50th streets and Grand Avenue South between Lake and 48th streets. Vehicles are still allowed to park on either side of snow emergency routes and parkways while the winter parking restrictions remain in effect. The city may temporarily replace signs so that established no-parking zones comply with the winter parking restrictions. If another snow emergency is declared while the ban in is place, winter parking restrictions will be temporarily suspended and replaced with the regular snow emergency parking rules. The ban will return after day three of the snow emergency. To find out which parking rules are in effect, go to minneapolismn.gov/snow or call the snow emergency news hotline, 612-348-SNOW. — Dylan Thomas
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38th & 4th was the center of the south side’s black business district from the 1930s to the 1970s, according to the Hennepin History Museum. And the city reports that today’s area businesses are still predominantly owned by people of color. At the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder at 3744 4th Ave. S., Tracey Williams-Dillard works at the same desk as her grandfather Cecil Newman, surrounded by his old books. Jenkins is exploring the idea of naming 4th Avenue in honor of the Newman family, and WilliamsDillard said she is “elated” by the idea. As the business approaches its 85th anniversary this summer, she plans to refresh the building mural so passersby can visualize the history. “Modern day, but it still feels like a community,” she said. “… It’s a nice feel to see things coming back.” Serving aged-cheddar grits, cornpuppies and cocktails, Funky Grits is now open at 38th & Chicago, where “everyone is welcome, all the time, forever.” Owner Jared Brewington said he grew up in Minneapolis hearing stories about local businesses like Dreamland. “I wanted to invest in that history,” he said. The mental health agency Kente Circle, founded in 2004, has purchased the vacant lot next door at 3800 4th Ave. S. with plans to expand, according to city officials. Sabathani Community Center is working to build 50 units of affordable senior housing next to the property’s community garden, currently closing in on the final 20 percent in funding. Sabathani is also planning a May 2 fundraiser to extend museum hours, currently open by appointment. The exhibit “Owning Up” details historic discrimination in housing. Another exhibit on the Minneapolis Sound features one of the Grammys earned by Sounds of Blackness, which still rehearses at Sabathani. Another new idea would name 3rd Avenue for the late Clarissa Walker, honored as a constant presence at Sabathani. Just last week, the office received a letter addressed to Walker looking for help re-entering the workforce after incarceration, said Executive Director Cindy Booker. As a kid, Booker thought the Sabathani food shelf was open all the time. It really wasn’t. But Walker lived across the street, and if someone knocked on her door, she would leave home and open the food shelf as needed. Beyond Sabathani, major landmarks stand on the surrounding blocks. South of 38th Street between 3rd and 5th avenues are the Tilsenbilt homes, constructed between 1954 and 1956 as part of the nation’s first federally supported commercial housing development open to homebuyers of all races, according to the city. The houses were developed by Archie Givens Sr., an up-and-coming real estate agent who became known as Minneapolis’ first black millionaire, and Edward Tilsen, a Jewish immigrant who had abandoned a St. Paul project when he couldn’t find a bank to finance integrated apartments. One of the Tilsenbilt blocks also features the home of Lena Smith, who sued the Pantages Theatre after she was physically removed from the white section in 1916, an action that eventually led to desegregation of the theater. As the first female African-American lawyer in Minnesota, Smith also fought to keep Arthur and Edith Lee in their home at 4600 Columbus Ave. S., according to the National Park Service. The Lees stayed in the white neighborhood from 1931– 1933, sleeping in the basement, watching police escort their daughter to kindergarten, refusing high purchase offers and enduring splattered paint, thrown garbage, signs with racial slurs and mobs of up to 4,000 people. Jackie Thureson visited the Lee house and Tilsenbilt homes in November as part of a tour with Judson Memorial Baptist Church. She once lived about two blocks from the house near 48th & Chicago but said she never fully grasped the history until recently. “It’s this nice little house in a nice little neighborhood,” Thureson said. “When you think of the crowds of people gathering there, it’s horrifying.” Another Judson member, Monica Lewis,
Coventry Royster Cowens, co-founder of the African American Heritage Museum and Gallery, grew up in the Regina neighborhood and lives there today. Photo by Michelle Bruch
plans to volunteer to comb through deeds with the Mapping Prejudice project, which works to map racial covenants that shaped who could buy homes. “If I want to be involved in making race relations work … I am part of the story,” Lewis said. “… I’m not enjoying my lifestyle or what I have because it’s on my own merit. I come from a long line of privilege. To understand that in today’s context is hard.” Lewis traveled to Memphis with about 50 other church members last year. She stepped into a cellar where people hid along the Underground Railroad and met Hester Moore, a Harriet Tubman storyteller so powerful that Judson Church invited her to Minneapolis. Moore will perform at Judson on March 10 at 4 p.m., followed by a community meal. Moore will also appear March 11 at the Hennepin Theatre Trust in a fundraiser for the Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery. Before the museum opened last fall, Minnesota was one of the few states in the country that didn’t have an African-American museum. Co-founders Tina Burnside and Coventry Royster Cowens opened the museum at 1256 Penn Ave. N., initially funded through private donations. The museum holds a two-year lease at its current location, and the 38th Street corridor is one possibility for a permanent site, Burnside said. On display is a Green Book, a travel guide published in the 1930s through 1960s highlighting businesses that served AfricanAmericans. There is a Buffalo Soldier uniform belonging to Jack Sidney Rainey Sr., a Central High School graduate who served in one of two African American Army combat units during World War II. The museum prints the court testimony of Eliza Winston, a 30-year-old enslaved woman who was granted freedom in Hennepin County Court. “Although Minnesota was a free state, it did look the other way and allowed people to bring enslaved persons into the state,” Burnside said. The museum collaborated with the Hennepin History Museum on a “history harvest,” encouraging people to bring their memorabilia and tell their stories for the historical record. Black history is often lost when elders pass away, Burnside said. Council Member Jenkins recently invited filmmaker Daniel Bergin to present a segment of his new TPT documentary “Jim Crow of the North,” which covers housing inequity and the Mapping Prejudice project. Jenkins said the story is important to share, but it also triggers emotional pain. “It really does sort of lift off the scab, and that’s just looking at the past,” she said. “Every day, communities of color are bombarded with all sorts of tragic, traumatic experiences. Whether it’s vicariously, just looking on social media, or personally being harassed in coffee shops, which I personally have experienced very recently. The black community is under a lot of post-traumatic and current stress.” That’s why Jenkins would like to see a 38th Street space dedicated to racial healing. She said the space could incorporate meditation or acupuncture or talk therapy, along with spaces for real and authentic dialogue and permanent space for African-American artists and heroes. “We’ve been dreaming, but now it’s time to actually plan,” Jenkins said. “I really encourage the community to get involved.”
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Starting the work The first move to prepare Minneapolitans for the 2020 Census came last fall when the city election guide sent to all residences included a message about the pending count and why it’s important to participate, as well as information about the large number of temporary local jobs affiliated with the census. Moe said her team has been on a “census tour” in recent months with stops at a number of boards and commissions, including the advisory committee on aging and the Homegrown Minneapolis Food Council, which spurred conversations with a number of health-related groups. The arts will be involved too, Moe said. An application to the Creative CityMaking program has been made to get an artist that will visualize the census campaign. The city has received 20 applications to be part of the Complete Count Committee for Minneapolis, which were approved by the Committee of the Whole on Feb. 28. Complete Count Committees help build public awareness and are charged with developing a plan to reach their communities. Some communities in the city, such as the Latino and American Indian communities, are interested in forming their own Complete Count Committees, Moe said. Christine McDonald, the city’s American Indian community specialist, said many people involved in the American Indian get-out-thevote effort have expressed interest in forming a Complete Count Committee. Historical traumas imposed upon American Indians by the federal government are still felt today, she said. “It’s not just undocumented folks who have fear of federal employees knocking on their door,” McDonald said. Complete Count Committees can and should look different depending on who they are trying to reach, city officials say, and the model can be adaptable. Some may want to be more or less formal or call their group by a different name, something Moe said should be encouraged. “At the end of the day this is about making sure everyone in our community is being seen and heard, and that’s through being counted,” Moe said.
Hard to count Minneapolis was successful at getting residents to respond to the 2010 Census. In 2000 the city had a 73 percent participation rate of people responding voluntarily by mail. A decade later, that percentage rose to 78, the highest in the nation among cities with more than 300,000 residents and fifth highest among cities with more than 100,000 people. After the 2010 Census, the federal government assembled a Hard to Count Map, which identified census tracts across the U.S. with mail return rates of 73 percent or less. In Minneapolis, those areas were clustered around neighborhoods in Phillips, Near North and Lyndale-Central. A census tract on the southeast end of Whittier had just a 62 percent mail response rate in 2010, according to the Census Bureau, which meant more time and money was needed to conduct in-person follow-ups to count nearly 38 percent of residents. The tract is majority people of color and 87 percent of tract residents were renters. The tract directly south, which straddles Interstate 35W between the Lyndale and Central neighborhoods, had a 64.6 percent mail
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response rate. That tract was also a majority minority community in 2010 and about 57 percent of tract residents were renters. Both tracts are among the hardest to count in the nation, according to the Census Bureau. “We are focusing on increasing the participation rate within communities that are historically undercounted,” Moe said. “So, we’re going to focus our efforts on the hard to count census tracts.” Census 2010 was considered to be a very good count, according to Janna Johnson, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs who studies undercount in the census. Part of the reason it was so good was a poor job market in the wake of the Great Recession, which led to a high number of overqualified enumerators, the people who do follow up interviews to reach households who don’t return initial census forms. With a stronger job market today, she fears the pool of enumerators will be smaller and less skilled. Hiring good enumerators, especially people who can connect with immigrant and minority communities, will be critical for Minneapolis to get a full count. “It’s really important to have enumerators that speak the language and look like the people who they’re trying to collect data from,” Johnson said.
Record the babies Johnson says there are two groups that are consistently undercounted in the U.S. Census: children under 5 and African-American men. “We miss an incredible amount of young children,” Johnson said. Undercounting children has been an issue going back decades, she said, and the reason remains a mystery. There are two potential explanations for this she said: people simply forget to enter every single member of their household and leave young children off, or the census is missing the entire household. “For me that would be much more concerning … because that means we’re missing potentially an entire section of the population, which are likely much more disadvantaged folks,” she said. Once African-American men reach 18 the census misses about 10–15 percent of them, Johnson said. Researchers say this is not related to disproportionate numbers of African-American men being incarcerated, because imprisoned people are counted, but rather a lack of permanent address or fear of talking with government officials. Some populations, mainly affluent people, are overcounted in the census, Johnson said. College students are often counted both at school and included on their parents’ home forms, and people with multiple houses sometimes fill out forms from multiple locations or get reached by a follow up enumerator at their second address.
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Citizenship question A looming issue is the potential addition of a question of citizenship status, which Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced would be added to the 2020 Census last year. The proposal is being challenged in a lawsuit that is likely to go before the Supreme Court. The citizenship question was last on the census in 1950. While federal laws are in place to prevent other agencies from using census data, the potential addition has raised fears in immigrant communities. “I think a lot of the damage has already been done,” Johnson said. Even if the question is on the census, Johnson said it’s important to fill out the form. She said the added fears increase the importance of local efforts encouraging people to respond. “It makes outreach and education even more important,” Johnson said.
Additional funding, access laws proposed Rep. Jamie Long (DFL-Minneapolis) has introduced legislation aimed at maximizing the response rate for the census in Minnesota by making it easier to send forms to people who get mail by P.O. Boxes and allowing census workers to enter multifamily buildings SEE 2020 CENSUS / PAGE A13
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Skiers fare well at state Two Minneapolis alpine ski teams posted topfive finishes in the Minnesota State High School League meet last month at Giants Ridge in Biwabik, Minnesota. One posted the best finish by a Minneapolis team in modern history. Washburn High School’s boys alpine team took second in the Feb. 13 meet, marking the highest finish by a Minneapolis team since a group of parents restarted the district’s alpine ski program in 2000-01. Southwest High School’s girls alpine team took third overall, which was its highest finish since back-to-back third-place finishes in 2013 and 2014. Minneapolis Alpine Ski Team head coach Mark Conway said the Washburn boys came into the meet with the goal of finishing in the top three after a strong showing at sections the previous week. He said the Southwest girls knew they needed to execute cleanly in order to make the podium, which they did. “The pressure was on everybody, and they all succeeded,” Conway said. “That’s a really hard thing to do in ski racing.” Washburn 11th-grader Luke Conway had the highest individual finish of any Minneapolis skier, taking second overall. Washburn 12th-grader Logan Griggs took seventh overall, while ninth-grader Zach Bion took 11th and 12th-grader Alexander Heath finished 60th, helping the boys ensure their second-place finish. “He’s kind of the unsung hero of the group,” Conway said of Heath. For Southwest’s girls, 11th-grader Elsa Peterson led the way with an 11th-place finish, while 12th-grader Rachel Tanner took 24th,
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11th-grader Addie Streble took 38th and 12th-grader Anna Smalley took 49th. The team had three skiers — Smalley, Meghan Abel and Avery Taylor — who had competed in the section meet for the first time during the previous week, Conway said. Minneapolis also had several skiers competing as individuals in the meet. Washburn 12th-grader Ahnika Berg finished 19th in the girls meet, and Roosevelt High School’s Oliver Mueller took 23rd in the boys meet. Overall, 14 Minneapolis skiers competed at the state meet.
Minneapolis has three public school teams that compete in alpine skiing — Southwest, Washburn and a co-op team of Roosevelt and South. The three teams practice together at Hyland Hills. Combined, they had a total of 113 athletes this year, Conway said. Conway said the unified team depends heavily on parental involvement, noting the district doesn’t provide busing to practices. He said parents are active in organizing equipment swaps to ensure the kids have the proper gear. Conway also mentioned the efforts of the team’s eight paid and 15 volunteer coaches,
noting the volunteers’ work to ensure the skiers receive the individual or small-group instruction necessary to advance in the sport. Minneapolis’ cross-country ski teams also fared well at state last month, with both the Southwest girls and boys teams posting top-six finishes. Tenth-grader Sudie Hall led Southwest’s girls team with a 19th-place finish as the team took sixth, while 12th-grader Henry Hall led the boys with a ninth-place finish to help them take fifth. Washburn also had three girls competing individually in the cross-country meet, led by 10th-grader Etta Leugers, who took 33rd.
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Japanese exchange students come to Southwest Twelve students from Japan performed a skit, led a trivia quiz and hosted a series of activities for Southwest High School students on March 1. The students dressed as different anime characters as they performed before hosting the activities, which were centered around different aspects of Japanese culture. Hundreds of Southwest students from various classes participated. The Japanese students, from Kasugaoka Senior High School in Osaka, were at Southwest as part of an annual exchange program between the two schools. A group of Kasugaoka students visits Southwest each spring, and a group of Southwest students visits Kasugaoka each summer. Planned activities for the Japanese students included a field trip to St. Paul, shadowing host students and participating in a Japanese class at the University of Minnesota. The Southwest Foundation helped cover some of the costs of the activities. Southwest has participated in exchange programs with Japanese schools for about 25 years, according to longtime Japanese teacher Kyoko French. The partnership with Kasugaoka started in 2006, and the schools officially became sister schools in December 2013. French, who was a teacher in her home country of Japan before moving to the U.S., founded Southwest’s Japanese program in 1991. She mostly taught pre-algebra in her first year at Southwest before eventually building up the Japanese program to the point that it became her full-time focus. Nowadays, Southwest has seven levels of Japanese, from introductory to International
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Southwest High School student Dmitry Wurst participates in an activity led by Himeka Miyoshi of Kasugaoka High School. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
Baccalaureate. Students can also take College in the Schools Japanese to earn credit from the University of Minnesota. French said there are about 140 students currently in her five sections of Japanese classes. She also leads an after-school Japanese culture club that participates in an annual Japanese culture competition with students from Minnesota and Wisconsin. Southwest 10th-grader Alex Nafziger and 12th-grader Noah Hunsicker participate in the club and finished in second place at the competition, held Feb. 16 at Normandale Community College. Nafziger, who visited Kasugaoka with Southwest this past summer, said she took Japanese because she wanted to try a language harder than French or Spanish. She’s currently in the fourth level of Japanese at Southwest and plans on taking IB Japanese as a 12th-grader.
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Hunsicker, who has taken Japanese all four years of high school, said he didn’t want to take Spanish, French or American Sign Language. He said students who learn Japanese essentially have to learn three different alphabets. Ninth-grader Nathan Wilson, a first-level Japanese student, said he took the course because he’s a big fan of Japanese culture and because he didn’t want to take a language his siblings had taken. He said he intends to stick with it through high school. Wilson was one of Southwest students hosting a Japanese student during the visit. He said he expected his family would take their student to the Mall of America several times as well as different restaurants that show off Minnesota culture. The students from Japan were scheduled to stay in Minnesota through March 5.
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to conduct follow up interviews, like local campaign workers can. “One of the big areas of undercounting is people who live in multi-family housing,” Long said. Moe said the law could be a boost for Minneapolis, where 51 percent of the population rents. The bill would also give $2.5 million, on top of Gov. Tim Walz’s budget proposal of $1.6 million to the state demographer’s office, to promote education and outreach about the census, 45 percent of which would be administered to local governments and nonprofits via grants. While the city and non-profit groups are working to build response rates in Minneapolis, many of those groups lack resources, Long said. “We really need to muster all the funding we have for community groups, including historically undercounted communities,” he said. As a former congressional staffer, Long said he saw firsthand how important it is for Minnesota to have as many delegates as possible. Projections for the 2020 Census right now have Minnesota losing its eighth seat to either California or Montana, with the difference coming down to potentially as few as 10,000 people, Long said. “The threat of losing a congressional seat is something that should scare us all, and we’re on the bubble again,” he said. A report released in December by Election Data Services has Minnesota’s eighth seat ranked 437, two spots outside the bubble. Long is optimistic about the bill, scheduled to have its first hearings the week of March 14, passing with bipartisan support. “The census shouldn’t really be a partisan issue,” he said.
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which operates the regional bus, light rail and commuter rail network. Walz’s proposal for the 2020–2021 biennium includes new revenues for Metro Transit to maintain and expand regional bus service. It also creates a separate funding stream for Metro Mobility, targeting a primary factor behind the estimated $250 million deficit Metro Transit faces over the next decade.
‘Living year-to-year’ Shifting state demographics are driving annual growth of 5–8 percent in Metro Mobility, Metro Transit’s service for elderly and disabled riders. And it costs more to operate than regular bus service, leaving less and less money for Metro Transit’s local bus routes. Metro Transit is required to provide Metro Mobility services under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act. Like the system’s two light rail lines, which under statute get half their funding from the state and the other half from metro-area counties, funding for Metro Mobility is prioritized over local bus routes. At a February Met Council Transportation Committee meeting, District 3 Council Member Jennifer Munt said without some solution, the continued growth of Metro Mobility would “force us to cannibalize our bus system.” In 2017, the Legislature passed and Gov. Mark Dayton signed a bill that provided Metro Transit a one-time appropriation of $70 million. That was used to close a 2018–2019 budget deficit of $67.5 million. But that deficit was projected to grow to over $100 million in 2020–2021. “We’ve been living year-to-year for quite some time now,” Kooistra said.
At the Capitol Rep. Frank Hornstein (DFL-Minneapolis), who chairs the Transportation Finance and Policy Committee in the state House, described the proposal for Metro Mobility as “very, very significant.” He said he was confident the new revenue identified by the governor could address Metro Transit’s structural deficit. The proposal still needs the support of Hornstein’s colleagues in the Legislature. DFLers control the House, but the Republicans in the
Senate majority have recoiled from Walz’s $50 billion budget plan. Still, Hornstein predicted there was enough in Walz’s proposed $77 million transportation package, which also includes a 20-cent gas tax hike for road and bridge improvements, to please a statewide audience, noting the growing recognition that metro-area congestion is slowing the state’s economic engine. Met Council Chair Nora Slawik made that same case at the all-electric bus unveiling, where she also announced the C Line would begin operation June 8. “Without real transit options, people will choose to commute on their own,” Slawik said. Walz is proposing a one-eighth-cent sales tax in the seven-county metropolitan area that is projected to raise $770 million for buses over 10 years. His budget also proposes an increase in the motor vehicle sales tax, which as recently as 2017 accounted for 55 percent of Metro Transit’s operating revenues. Under Walz’s plan, the motor vehicle sales tax would increase to 6.875
percent from 6.5 percent, raising another $205 million over the next decade for transit. The transit package also includes $20 million in general obligation bonds for the next biennium and $230 million over the next decade.
‘Generational investment’ The governor’s office described the plan as a “generational investment” in transit. It envisions 10 new bus rapid transit lines like the Metro C Line opening over the next decade. The governor’s office says it would be the largest increase in bus service in 30 years and could boost ridership 40 percent in some of the busiest transit corridors. It also invests in a service that’s showing results. Metro Transit ridership peaked in 2015 at 98.8 million rides and has declined since then. Transit users took 94.2 million rides in 2018, a 1.3 percent drop from the 95.4 million rides in 2017. Local bus ridership was down 4 percent. The bright spots in Metro Transit’s 2018 ridership report were light rail, which saw a 5 percent increase in ridership, and bus
rapid transit, with ridership growth of 1 percent. Bus rapid transit offers a similar experience to light rail, with off-board payment, platforms with more amenities, fewer stops and faster service. Kooistra noted the opening of the Metro A Line boosted ridership 33 percent in a corridor that includes East 46th Street in Minneapolis and Ford Parkway and Snelling Avenue in St. Paul. But if Walz’s transit package makes it through the Legislature, local bus routes might see some new amenities, too, including better shelters, investments in safety and security, improved access for disabled riders and better snow removal in the winter. And that could translate into a few more fares. “Facing deficits of $50 million–$100 million each year, we began to only reduce the routes that were poorly performing, or eliminate those routes, and we weren’t reinvesting in the … routes showing higher demand,” Kooistra said. “Of course that ratchets you down in terms of ridership.”
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A new geography of sustainable transit Alongside “smart cities” and “transit-oriented development,” the term “mobility hubs” is joining the buzzy phrases making their mark on sustainable urban planning. Mobility hubs are a cornerstone concept for shared mobility transit, which the Shared Use Mobility Center (SUMC) defines as “transportation services and resources that are shared among users, either concurrently or one after another.” In other words, shared mobility is the integration of traditional shared transit like buses and trains with newer forms like car share, bike share and ride hailing services. Mobility hubs are meant to be a physical space where these different modes of transit can intersect. Last year, Minneapolis and St. Paul were each awarded funding from the Bloomberg American Cities Climate Challenge to implement mobility hubs locally. While the plans remain in drafting stages, early comments suggest that more than 70 mobility hubs will be designated within 35 square miles of the metro area. Minneapolis Sustainability Coordinator Kim Havey framed mobility hubs as one solution to the so-called first-mile/last-mile problem. As Havey explained, many people decide what types of transit to use based on the options presented in the first or last mile of a trip. By making alternative modes more convenient in this first or last mile, the idea is that mobility hubs will incentivize drivers to leave their cars at home. Details of what these mobility hubs would actually look like are still emerging. Havey imagines them as a kind of “public space-plus” with many amenities wrapped into one, including green space, bathrooms, electric vehicle charging stations and public art. These spaces would be accompanied by a new multi-modal transit app, providing a single technological platform to integrate transit information and synchronize payment structures. These hubs are being championed locally though the Twin Cities Shared Mobility Collaborative, a working group of community and political leaders that is supported through SUMC, a public-interest nonprofit with offices in Chicago and Los Angeles. This working
Mobility hubs are places where newer forms of shared mobility, like bike share, car share and ride hailing services, intersect with traditional bus and rail transit. File photo
group was convened as a vehicle for implementing the Twin Cities Shared Mobility Action Plan, also a product of SUMC and funded by the McKnight Foundation. As local mobility hub proponents argue, redesigning the transit system around shared mobility serves two basic and urgent needs. First, as the Twin Cities continue to experience rapid population growth and worsening congestion, mobility hubs will target a pervasive reliance on single-occupancy vehicles. Second, they will incentivize greener transit alternatives and reduce carbon emissions. Diverting cars from the road appears all the more significant since the release of The Air We Breathe 2019, a biannual report from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency that is mandated by the state Legislature. The MPCA found that as of 2019 transportation accounted for the largest amount of statewide carbon emissions. This finding prompted several presentations during a Valentine’s Day hearing of the House Transit Finance and Policy Committee, which was convened to discuss the relationship between transportation and climate change in Minnesota.
Alex Burns, chair of the Sierra Club’s local Land Use and Transportation Committee, sees this report as an important call for reimagining the role of transit for healthy climate futures. “In order for us to immediately make it easier for people to get around without a car, that means all hands on deck,” he said. “We need to allow people to use all these multimodal systems until our (public) system catches up.” But there are concerns that shared mobility solutions like mobility hubs don’t just act as a placeholder for public transit; they may actually re-enforce nonpublic models. As international public transportation researcher Graham Currie of Australia’s Monash University argues in an explosively pointed Journal of Public Transportation article entitled “Lies, Damned Lies, AVs, Shared Mobility, and Urban Transit Futures,” a major part of the shared mobility narrative is “that public transport is old, doesn’t work, and its time as an alternative growth mode are limited.” Dependence on private ride hailing companies like Lyft and Uber is a particular concern. While these transit modes provide key linkages for people to get from one
place to the next, the reliance on private ride hailing can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. As Henry Graber wrote for Slate in 2016, “The rise of ride-hailing companies is increasingly viewed not as a fix for bad service but as its justification.” On the other hand, a recently published study in the Journal of Urban Economics suggests that Uber’s presence in cities actually increases public transit ridership by providing connections to destinations inaccessible by public routes — the precise results that mobility hubs are striving for. Perhaps this tension is best reflected in a blog post about shared mobility for the Eno Center for Transportation, where two transit practitioners wrote: “We are at the beginning of an important new phase in personal transportation that is both disruptive and revolutionary.” And yet mobility hubs are actually rooted in a fairly incremental premise: There are many different ways that people get around and many different reasons (convenience, price, ability, safety) for choosing between them. Whether or not this means transit revolution remains to be seen.
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Local group pushes for public clay courts A group of tennis enthusiasts is asking the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board to install clay tennis courts throughout the city and offering to maintain the courts once completed. Minneapolis Community Clay Court is advocating for public courts of the softer surface and has been met with open arms by Park Board commissioners and staff since making their pitch. The group says the clay courts are easier on the body than hard asphalt surfaces, enabling people to continue playing as they age, and are better for the environment. They argue the clay courts produce less runoff and prevent the heat concentration created by asphalt. Mike Tieleman of Byrn Mawr and Charles Weed of Kingfield are two of the men leading the charge. They are lifelong tennis enthusiasts who do most of their playing at public courts, all of which have asphalt surfaces. Clay courts in the Twin Cities are mostly found at country clubs. “There’s very few public clay courts across the country,” Tieleman said. The group is asking the Park Board to take some asphalt courts in disrepair and convert them to clay courts. The organization would then care for the courts, which require frequent maintenance. Despite the regular maintenance required, the overall costs should be lower, they say. “If you have a community doing that daily, weekly, yearly maintenance, that’s going to be cheaper,” Tieleman said. That maintenance work by volunteers will meet Park Board goals of building community, they say. Initial costs should be lower than hard surface courts, too.
“It’s just dirt,” Weed said. As the group began exploring the idea of getting a public clay court, they were unsure of where to start and were nervous about getting through to the Park Board. But Tieleman and Weed said they reached out to Commissioner Meg Forney (At-large) about 18 months ago and she advised them on the process. Commissioner Londel French (At-large) and Assistant Superintendent Michael Schroeder have also been supportive, he said. “People have this negative attitude toward bureaucracy and the Park Board, but our experience hasn’t been that,” Weed said. Schroeder said the Park Board is willing to work with groups like Minneapolis Community Clay Court who offer to pitch in to add a new amenity to city parks. “When we look at clay courts, it’s an asset we don’t have in our system,” Schroeder said. The challenge to the Park Board would be the constant maintenance, so having a volunteer group willing to do the work is critical. The group is hoping to add clay courts across the city but has already seen some planning proposals reflect their efforts. One of two concepts being considered in the MRPB Southwest Area Master Plan for Waveland Triangle in Linden Hills calls for a clay court. The Park Board is still finalizing that master plan, which is expected go up for a vote this summer after another round of community input. “I’d like to be able to find a way to help them get where they want to be,” Schroeder said.
Wirth Park to host city Arbor Day celebration The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board will be hosting the city’s 2019 Arbor Day celebration at Theodore Wirth Regional Park, bringing a wealth of tree-themed activities and planting to the Bryn Mawr and Harrison neighborhoods. The Arbor Day Celebration is 4p.m.–8 p.m. Friday, April 26 at Wirth Park, and includes the Minnesota Brewery Series Arbor Day 5K Fun Run, which donates proceeds to urban forestry outreach and education. The day’s festivities include tree-themed educational opportunities, live music, games, food trucks and a beer garden. Every half-hour, attendees will be invited to join MPRB arborists as they head on excursions to plant 200 trees throughout the city. Before the event, the Park Board will be hosting a dedication ceremony for a new extension of the wetland boardwalk at the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden. The ceremony runs 2 p.m.–4 p.m. The addition to the boardwalk includes a widened observation area that will allow increased foot traffic at lookout points. Anyone interested in volunteering with the celebration can contact Sherry Brooks at sbrooks@minneapolisparks.org.
Minneapolis Arbor Day Celebration activities include live music, from the tree tops of course, and the opportunity for the public to help plant 200 new trees. Photo courtesy of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
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City Council approves Kingfield street resurfacing The Minneapolis City Council has approved plans to resurface nine Kingfield streets in 2019. The plans call for the resurfacing of 5 miles of streets in the neighborhood. That includes Pleasant, Pillsbury, Wentworth, Blaisdell and First avenues between 40th and 46th streets and 41st, 43rd, 44th and 45th streets between Grand and Stevens avenues. Neither Nicollet Avenue nor 42nd Street, two higher-capacity arterial streets, will be included in the project. The project is part of the Public Works Department’s annual neighborhood street resurfacing program. Larry Matsumoto, principal professional engineer in the department’s Transportation Maintenance and Repair Division, said the department is resurfacing 25 miles of streets this year. Projects include the Kingfield streets, East Calhoun Parkway between West Lake and West 36th streets and about 10 streets in Armatage and Kenny. (A map of all the planned projects for 2019 can be found at bit.ly/2NtTlMQ). The department estimates the 2019 resurfacing work will cost about $7.4 million. The Kingfield portion will cost about $1.3 million, according to Mike Kennedy, director of the Transportation Maintenance and Repair Division. The city plans on collecting about $961,000 in special assessments from property owners to pay for the project. The pavement in the Kingfield project area is in fair shape, according to the Public Works Department’s pavement condition index. But the resurfacing will extend the lifecycle of the streets at least 10 years and help defer more expensive
repair work in the future, Kennedy said. The resurfacing work in Kingfield will likely start in April and be wrapped up in May, according to Matsumoto. He said individual streets in the area will be closed for two nonconsecutive days during daytime weekday hours and that the city will inform residents about the closures either through robocalls or no-parking signs. The city is also working with CenterPoint Energy to give the company the opportunity to replace gas mains, services and gas meters in the area during the project. The utility company could close portions of the street during certain times for its work, Matsumoto said. The city mailed formal assessment notices to all affected property owners, Matsumoto said. Public Works in mid-February held meeting about the project at Martin Luther King Recreation Center in Kingfield. At the Feb. 19 City Council Transportation & Public Works Committee meeting, Randy Crowell of Midwest Cycle Supply at 43rd & Nicollet testified against the project. Crowell said he opposes it because of the assessments that have been put on businesses in the area for the last number of years. Crowell said business at his store is down 50 percent because of the construction on Interstate 35W, noting a significant part of his business comes from people outside the immediate area. “We’re just trying to make it through,” he said, noting several other instances of the city assessing his business for infrastructure projects. He said in an interview that his property taxes are up 12 percent.
Crowell said at the hearing it took him two hours to drive down to City Hall and that “every road he drove on” was in worse shape than 43rd Street by his business. “Nicollet is in worse shape than 43rd Street, but we’re paving these streets on the side,” he said. “It just seems kind of strange to me that that’s the situation.” He said that he’d rather see the $4,500 he’ll be charged for the project go toward fixing I-35W, on which construction is scheduled to be completed in fall 2021. The highway project is being managed by the Minnesota Department of Transportation, not the city. In response, Kennedy said the resurfacing work would extend the lifecycle of the streets at least 10 years and defer more expensive work in the future. He said Nicollet Avenue is part of the municipal state-aid street system and is programmed for repair at a different time than surrounding residential streets. He expressed confidence in an interview that
residents of the area will appreciate the resurfacing work and asked people for their patience during the project.
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Little Kids Soccer seeks volunteers Little Kids Soccer is recruiting adult volunteers to help with its 17th-annual summer program at Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Kingfield. Volunteers are needed teach and lead games and also staff the registration and T-shirt table. The program runs 6:15 p.m.–7:15 p.m. Wednesday evenings June 19–Aug. 14.
Program organizers are Michelle Steffen, Jacob Freeberg and Michael Vanderford. For more information, or to sign up, contact Vanderford at michaeljvanderford@gmail.com or 612-296-9647 by March 31. — Dylan Thomas
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creative while trying to accomplish tasks such as constructing a tall building that can withstand earthquakes. From there, kids spend most of their day working on their invention and getting it ready for show. “It’s kind of a customizable program,” said Laura Whittet, director of marking and communications for The Bakken Museum. Kids start working off template inventions, and once those are done they think of a problem and their own invention to try to solve it. “The sense of agency you get from being able to build something on your own is great for kids,” Rock said. The camps have kids focus on four areas when creating their inventions: think it, make it, improve it and show it. Each week ends with The Big Show, where family and freinds are invited to see short persentations on each invention. “The reason we emphasize showing it is because what good is inventing something if you can’t present it to the world,’ she said. Rock knows the process from all sides. She first came to The Bakken as a child camper in the early 2000s with some friends. She liked it and came back the next summer as a camper. In high school, Rock returned as a volunteer aide for the camp. Three years ago, she started working at The Bakken Museum full time, and she said she loves the camps as much as ever.
“The program has remained remarkably similar to what it was 15 years ago,” she said. That stability and familiarity of the process from camp staff helps ensure each child has a fun, enriching experience every week. With 18 sessions across three age brackets throughout the summer, it’s easy to find camps that work for every family. Camps are divided by age group. The Young Makers Camp is for kids in second and third grade and includes five sessions of weeklong camps that run 9 a.m.–noon daily. There are nine sessions of Camp Innovation for kids in fourth through sixth grades, which Whittet said is their most in-demand age bracket. Four sessions are available for kids in seventh through ninth grade. Camps for older children run 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Three weeks each summer are set aside as girls weeks, a move Whittet said helps create space for girls who are passionate about STEM, a field in which females are underrepresented and often overlooked. Rock said her favorite weeks at camp are the two girls weeks that include both older age brackets. The fourth through ninth grade girls week is improved by the mentoring that occurs between the older and younger girls, Rock said. Many are repeat campers and help their younger colleagues with projects they’ve undertaken in years past.
The camps are staffed by Bakken Museum Educators and a crew of volunteers, including the Southwest High School Rubies Robotics Team, a crew of all girls who compete in STEM competitions. “It’s cool for kids to get instruction from people who do this in their daily lives,” Whittet said.
BAKKEN MUSEUM CAMP When: Multiple sessions across different age groups throughout the summer, beginning June 10. The final session is a girls-only week, Aug. 19–23. Where: The Bakken Museum, 3537 Zenith Ave. S. Cost: $380 for full week; $225 for three-day camps; $200 for Young Makers Camp (second and third graders). Bakken members save 10 percent on camp fees; scholarships available. Registration now open. Info: thebakken.org/summer-camp
Children participating in Bakken Museum summer camps are given autonomy to design and build their own inventions. Three weeks every summer are set aside as girls-only weeks to promote women in STEM. Campers from a 2018 girls week are pictured below with some of their creations at The Big Show that is the culmination of each session. Submitted photos
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having all of 740-acre Theodore Wirth Park as a playground. “If you’re a kid who really likes the outdoors and outdoorsy stuff, just being outside in the summer … this is the place, I think,” Engel said. A Bryn Mawr resident, Engel lives near the park and was originally recruited to the camp by a friend whose mother got involved in the Loppet Foundation through its work promoting cross-country skiing. A few other neighborhood friends joined him that first summer at camp, and now that they’re all older teens, some of those friends have returned to the adventure camps as counselors. Engel said the adventure camps gave him his first experiences with rollerskiing and orienteering — skills that campers put to the test in the relay-style adventure race that closes each week. Engel described it as “kind of like the Olympics,” with campers splitting into teams and dividing up the course’s mountain biking, orienteering, rolling and paddling sections. Taylor said the adventure race exemplifies the social-emotional learning component of the camp curriculum. It gives campers a final opportunity to reflect back on the SEE LOPPET SUMMER CAMP / PAGE B20
LOPPET ADVENTURE CAMP When: Nine weeklong sessions beginning June 10. The final session begins Aug. 12. July 15–19 is a girls-only session. Camps run 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Where: Theodore Wirth Park Cost: $275 per session ($250 for Loppet Foundation members). Scholarships available. Info: loppet.org/adventure-camps/ summer
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s the final day closed on his Game Builders’ Club camp, Desi, a 7-year-old Code Ninjas camper, quickly added one more graphic to his “Cat in the City” game. He raised his hand, ready to share what he had been working on all week. When he presented his game to the other campers, they oohed and aahed in excitement as the cat moved on the screen. “The cat has to eat all the food,” Desi explained. “Then, when I’m done, I like to watch [the cat] bounce around.” Desi had been using a program called Scratch, a visual-programming language and online community geared toward kids. It’s just one of the programs kids use at Code Ninjas, a fast-growing Texas-based education franchise with four new Minnesota locations, offering an array of summer camps as well as year-round programming using a games-based curriculum for ages 7–14. While coding might not sound like all that exciting to some grownups, many digital-native kids find it incredibly fun and rewarding. After all, some of kids’ favorite games — Scratch, Minecraft and Roblox — are built right into the Code Ninjas curriculum.
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Camps this year at the Edina location, 3016 W. 66th St., for example, will include Game Builders’ Club, Beginning JavaScript, Minecraft Create, Code Drones, Roblox Create and, new this year, Snap It Together (using Snap-Circuits) and App Builders’ Club, plus four other new offerings. Weeklong summer camps — offered in the morning or afternoon Monday–Friday — last three-and-a-half hours. Parents can sign up kids for two different sessions to create a full day of camp, which includes lunch. Early drop-offs and late pick-ups are available for an extra charge. On select days year-round, full-day camps are offered and include a variety of coding and STEM activities and lunch.
Dojo and sensei At Code Ninjas’ coding centers, coding happens year-round in each center’s “dojo” with teachers (“senseis”) serving as mentors, who guide children through established curriculum. As kids become proficient in certain levels of coding, they gain increasingly higher belts, all the way up to the top — black belt. When kids reach black belt, part of that proficiency and curriculum includes posting their own games on an app store.
“And we help them do that,” said Jon Blood, Code Ninjas’ Twin Cities-area developer and owner. “All the way from building that app — to the marketing and individual content that follows — we will help them.” Senseis — high school or college students or other adults — are STEM-focused, proficient in coding and work well with kids. “Our senseis build a relationship with our students and mentor those kids,” Blood said. “Our model is not self-taught, it’s self-guided, so we’re here to help them at any stage. What we really see is a lot of collaboration going on with the kids and senseis.” Sensei Audrey Mitchell said coding can be tricky at first for kids who have never tried it. “Some of these kids may not have anything that they are good at in school,” Mitchell said. “But then they come here, and coding is something they are good at and helps them come out of their shell.”
Learning a language According to Blood, the fact that coding isn’t offered as an ongoing class in school — or is only minimally addressed due to funding — is what’s made the company’s reach expand so quickly.
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Tools to unlock the imagination Kinesthetic learners are drawn to Leonardo’s Basement By Sheila Regan
eonardo’s Basement has hot glue guns, saws, hammers and drills, but what they don’t have is a whole lot of tool instruction when kids and teens walk through the door. “We start with an assumption that kids don’t want to hurt themselves,” said Executive Director Steve Jevning, who founded the organization over 20 years ago with a group of parents from Barton Open School. “Our job is to create an environment to be creative but not out of control. “Our rules about behavior are, ‘Be safe, be nice and have fun.’ That covers every imaginable situation.” Located in the Windom neighborhood, Leonardo’s Basement offers classes, camps and workshops for kinesthetic learners who like to work with their hands. Kids and teens use their creativity for engineering, technology and arts and crafts projects where they get to make whatever they dream up. Working at their own pace, the youth make choices of what materials to use and are given freedom to decide how to complete their projects. SEE LEONARDO’S BASEMENT / PAGE B7
The rules at Leonardo’s Basement are simple, said Executive Director Steve Jevning: “Be safe, be nice and have fun.”
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their own projects. That kind of unfettered freedom in informal learning environment is our schtick.”
Teaching responsibility When young people walk through the door, they are given examples of what not being safe is, like running or not being careful with a tool. They are told to be nice and respectful. There’s a two-strikes-and-you’re-out policy for kids that can’t be responsible. But if a kid shows up already knowing how to use a utility knife, they don’t have to learn the basics from the beginning. “The OSHA [Occupational Safety and Health Administration] people would be terrified,” Jevning said. “We don’t waste kids’ time on how to properly use a hammer or drill or hot gun because of the range of experiences these kids have. Instead, if a young person has a question, they simply ask and learn individually what they need to know in order to use the tools for their project. “That’s worked out fine for 20 years,” Jevning said. “People that come in that are all about the safety freak out, but they also aren’t educators.” Jevning himself was a teacher trained in open education, a philosophy based notions of exploration, independent learning and collaboration. In the 1990s, his son, who attended Barton Open School, was part of group of about a dozen kids interested in science who formed an after-school club for field trips and projects. After a year or two, the club became an organized school program. There was so much interest that eventually they started hosting a summer workshop, and that workshop led to Leonardo’s Basement.
The world of Harry Potter Each summer, Leonardo’s Basement offers over 100 different classes in woodworking, metalworking, robotics, electronics, Legos, animation and all sorts of different kinds of crafts, like sewing or making floats. They also offer theme weeks, like this summer’s Harry Potter week. For the theme weeks, families and friends are invited to come on Saturday after the camp to experience the world the campers created.
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Older youth get access to a wider range of tools at Leonardo’s Basement. Submitted photo
After the Harry Potter-themed week, for example, visitors walk through Diagon Alley, play with wands and check out the potions and Quidditch paraphernalia like brooms and snitches the young people have created. This year, Jevning said they plan to offer butter beer. “It’s a two-fold thing,” he said. “It’s a bigger deal celebration for the kids who have built everything they can share with their siblings and family members, and it’s a good promotional item. We’re not a museum with public hours, so it’s hard for people to come and see the place to pop in.”
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Even during theme weeks, Leonardo’s Basement always offer an alternative for kids who want to try something else, like designing a board game, making costumes or taking a puzzle room class. “It’s a way to have a choice that’s not directly related to Harry Potter, if kids aren’t into those characters,” Jevning said. Even for kids that are drawn to a particular themed class, they aren’t told exactly what their project should be. “Themes for classes are just a way for us to organize and present for families,” Jevning said. “The expectation is kids will be making
Leonardo’s Basement is rare in the summer camp world in that it offers camps for younger kids as well as people in high school. “We’re one of the few places where teens have choices to do things,” Jevning said. “They don’t have the range of choices that they do here.” That large age range does present challenges in terms of reaching kids where they are at and making sure every kid has something they gravitate toward. Often, teens are drawn to welding and furniture making. “When kids get older, they can use power tools and different kinds of equipment that younger kids can’t,” Jevning said. About a third of the kids that come to Leonardo’s Basement know exactly what to do when they get there. “This is their candy shop,” Jevning said. “They see all the things and imagine what they might do.” For the rest of the kids, they might be curious, but don’t have as much experience. “For them it’s a revelation,” he said. Those kids might never have known it was possible to build a 20-foot-long two-headed dragon or a scale model of the Millennium Falcon. At Leonardo’s Basement, they find that they can.
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Summer offerings for all MPS has hundreds of Super Summer Program courses By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com
Minneapolis Community Education offers hundreds of enrichment courses to kids in grades K–8 through its Super Summer Programs, with offerings in sports, arts, cooking and more. Photo courtesy Minneapolis Public Schools
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tarting June 17, hundreds of kids will head to Southwest High School each weekday for activities ranging from ice cream making to fort building and songwriting. Meanwhile, dozens more will head to Justice Page Middle School for activities such as biking, basketball and building “Star Wars”-themed robots. More yet will head to other Minneapolis Public Schools buildings for similar enrichment programming. The activities are part of Minneapolis Community Education’s annual Super Summer Programs held each year at MPS buildings throughout the city. This year, thousands of students are expected to register for activities at Southwest, Justice Page, Dowling, Hale and Webster. The programs allow students to focus on individual activities of their choosing, from art projects to sports and cooking. Students sign up for classes for a week at a time, and they can typically do one to two courses each day. Community Education staff say the programs give students opportunities to have fun, learn skills such as teamwork and develop their passions. They say the programs feature welltrained staff, small student-to-staff ratios and plenty of opportunities for learning. “It’s ‘sneaky learning,’” Barton Community Education Coordinator Dawn Sjoquist said. “We try and sneak in learning, so it just feels like fun.”
Longtime program Minneapolis Community Education has offered summer enrichment courses for over 30 years, beginning when former Southwest Community Education Coordinator Tom Neiman developed the first Super Summer Program in the mid-1980s. Since then, the department has expanded its Super Summer Programs to sites around Minneapolis, offering dozens of individual courses each year.
This year the Super Summer Programs at Dowling, Hale, Justice Page and Webster run four days a week for seven weeks starting June 17 and ending Aug. 1. Kids at those sites typically take classes that start at 9 a.m. and/or 10:30 a.m., with classes starting at $39 per week. It’s typically college students who are teaching the classes, said Dave Premack, Southwest Community Education coordinator. High school kids are paid to be aides for the classes. At Justice Page Middle School, Community Education offers about 20 classes each week. The department divides up the offerings by grade level (typically grades 1–4 in one section and 5–8 in another) and offers everything from graffiti art to edible science and Italian cooking. The Justice Page program also includes extended-day programming 7:30 a.m.–9 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.–5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The program includes musical theater camps. This summer, students will put on a production of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.” Those camps are primarily targeted for students entering grades 6–9, though younger kids can participate in the show’s chorus. The Southwest Super Summer Program starts June 17 and runs through July 25 and is open to students entering grades K–8. Students there can sign up for morning classes, which run 9:30 a.m.–noon, afternoon classes, which run 1 p.m.–3:30 p.m., or both. The program also includes an early morning care option. The Southwest program has about 150 class offerings, including a dozen cooking classes and multiple science and performing arts classes. There are also several new offerings this year, including one based on the history of Alexander Hamilton and another on the board game Settlers of Catan. Classes are typically $65 per week.
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Students in the Southwest Super Summer Program can take a class in which they learn how to play ukulele. Photo courtesy Minneapolis Public Schools
Developing passions Premack said Community Education works with students and staff members to develop the courses. He noted, for example, how many eighthgraders in the Southwest program had expressed interest in Hamilton — the subject of a smash hit Broadway and touring musical — which is why they decided to develop a course around him. Premack first worked for the Southwest Super Summer Program in 2002, following in the footsteps of his older brother and mom. He said pretty much all staff members are people who once participated in the program themselves. The program typically has about 1,200 students each day and 800 at any given point, Premack said. Kids come from all over the city and even from outside Minneapolis. Community Education limits registration to about 12–14 kids per class, and it doesn’t keep waitlists for full classes. But Premack and Sjoquist, who helps coordinate the Justice Page program, said they try to ensure there are plenty of spots available. (That said, they encouraged interested families to sign up quickly, since many classes fill up). Steve Alexander, who oversees Community Education programs in Southwest Minneapolis, said the department strives for quality with its offerings and that staff are required to plan out their lessons in advance. He said kids in the programs learn social-emotional skills and teamwork and that Community Education is committed to maintaining low staff-to-child ratios. Premack said the classes may be a launching pad for students in terms of interest in certain subjects. He noted, for example, how one student’s interest in photography started with a photography class he took at the Southwest Super Summer Program. That student went onto become a photographer for National Geographic, he said. “You never know what we are setting the students up for,” Premack said. Longtime Southwest Super Summer Program art teacher Susie Crane said she loves
the energy of the program and that it inspires her as an artist and a teacher. She said good feelings emanate from the program and that she feels so much more productive as an artist after she finishes her summers. “It doesn’t feel like work,” she said. “It just gives me more energy.” Crane has taught in the program since 1991 and said she likes the look in the students’ eyes when they become inspired by mastering new skills. She said she loves that the program is diverse and ever-changing and said many of the teachers and assistant teachers over the years were students at one point. She said she’s invented a couple of classes over the years, including an open studio class in which older students can try different media and a loom beading class in which students can make jewelry. Registration for the Community Education Super Summer Programs opened on March 3. Visit commed.mpls.k12.mn.us to learn more or register online at minneapolis.ce.eleyo.com.
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Southwest Journal Poetry Project
Spring Poetry
IT’S BEEN A HARD WINTER, testing our spirits. We received more poems that seemed drawn from the past season than looked forward to the next one, and there was some I-can’t-takeit-anymore lurking between the lines. Still, this collection includes poems about both loss and love, fantasy and kindness, people and places … and rescue dogs. This is our 13th year doing these Southwest Journal poetry pages. Thanks again to everyone who has sent in poems, and everyone who has enjoyed reading them. Hang in there! — Doug Wilhide is the poet laureate of Linden Hills and poetry editor for the Southwest Journal.
My days have counted many shades of browns and greens and blues For heaven’s work, I wish for more. I want my festive shoes!
Ross Savage
At the counter stands a Tall wizened Vietnam vet With a gray ponytail Under the obligatory MIA cap. He’d just bought a stamp, A singleton. His worn hands shake some As he shuffles left of the counter Peeling it from the backing, Raising it to his tongue Which protrudes from day old Wispy white whiskers. The clerk, a no nonsense Asian Civil service counter woman said: “You don’t need to do that.” He looks at her With eyes as blue as the Finnish sky On a sunny spring day, And he counters: “I’ll just do it anyway.”
I am social like Narcissus. I’m well-spoken like Echo. You should like me on your Facebook, Like you did for Cotton Eye Joe.
Loaves and Fishes Karla McGray
And this is the way you show up ready to feed those who come to be fed. And this is the way you put on a hair net and an apron trying to feel comfortable as dark masses of people move slowly into line, ready for second helpings.
Annette Gagliardi
The time will come when I die and discussions will be made so let me tell you here and now just what I think I’ll need. When you go to lay me in the ground at my final resting place forsake those reasonable, conservative hounds. Fix a smile upon my face. Then scrounge through closet, attic and all the places they may hide, to find my red, plaid tennis shoes and put them by my side. My red plaid tennis shoes with that narrow stripe of gold are what I want upon my feet when earth has quit its hold.
Woody Allen thinks I’m homely. Planet Saturn thinks I’m slow. Old Will Rogers never met me – He was pals with Cotton Eye Joe! I was so in love with Morticia -- She could play that old banjo -- But I’m sittin’ here stuck with Lurch, All because of Cotton Eye Joe...
And this is the way you begin to see them as individuals, as mothers with their children, as old men and very young men. And this is the way you pay attention to their losses of missing teeth, worn out shoes, tattered coats. And this is the way you offer hospitality, a tray here, a glass there, another cup of hot coffee on a very cold night. And this is the way you catch someone’s eye and the old woman comes to you, asks what church you are from, speaks of when her children were in that preschool, but now asks that you pray for Annie and Ben, so she can have a grandchild, just one grandchild. And this is the way you answer, “Of course, I will, Annie and Ben, yes.”
Red Plaid Tennis Shoes
I’ve got a body made by Einstein -- Brain by Michelangelo. I talk painting at a party – All the pretty ladies go. I’m as well-dressed as an Auden. I’m as cheerful as a Poe. I’m as peaceful as a Milton. I should be married by now, you know?
The Stamp Licker Waiting in the post office, Itself a seeming anachronism, Last in a sedate matronly line, Me, the only middle aging man.
I would have married Brigid Bardot. Where did you come from? Where did you go? Look what you did to me, Cotton Eye Joe!
And this is the way one guy says, “Those are funny glasses!” And you say that in your seventies you still think it’s good to be a little “hip.” And this is the way he says, “Seventies? You’ve taken good care of yourself!” And this is the way you have a good laugh with a total stranger over hot food, a warm place to be for a couple of hours in the company of other strangers. And this is the way it happens, by showing up, getting comfortable with feeling uncomfortable, looking into eyes, offering a hand instead of looking the other way. And this is the way we see each other, no longer strangers, just people doing our best to be there for each other, whatever that means on a bitter cold day.
The Moon and I Toni McNaron
The moon grows very fast: tonight it’s half itself, three days ago, a shaving. I watch it blossom on the way to full. I differ from the moon — I inch along each day towards a circle of my own. But the angle of decline persists, and my shadow fills the space where once was light and air. Maybe I’ll be full before the snows, but the Queen of Light outstrips me, she grows very fast indeed.
And this is the way we receive a whole lot more than we give, and then go home.
Cotton Eye Joe (a version of the classic country song) John O’Connor
If it were not for Cotton Eye Joe,
Is That You? Carolyn Light Bell
I’m giving a party. People are standing in the basement rec room, the kind of room guests gathered in during the Seventies, when he died.
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He’s standing in a circle of people, with his back to me, probably telling a joke. I’d know him anywhere, from any angle. He’s entertaining my friends, as always. I touch him—Daddy? Is that you? He turns to face me. His eyes are big and green and beautiful, as always, one eye looking far away, blind. He’s wearing the green sweater he wears in the photograph I keep in the cupboard next to the microwave where I warm my food. He is beaming at me. The joke’s on me.
I learn the wisdom of the channels, the shoreline and sunken logs I broaden and slow Into the big river of maturity I flow onward, wide and majestic I move as the undercurrents of a lake I drop all I learned and carried into the soft dark sediment where life begins
I knew we’d found one another at last But when you flip-flipped on my pillow with your wet nose I couldn’t reel you in — The fierceness of your bark, the assertiveness of your gait — The way you ran around me in circles. I had second thoughts When you looked blankly into my eyes
I slide imperceptibly into the mouth where the ocean meets me The tide pulls me out, pushes me back Pulls me out into the great forever.
I ask him, What are you doing here? He brings his palms up, fingers spread, elbows bent, in an ironic shrug. I hug him to make sure he’s real, to show him how much I love, him, miss him, am happy to see him. I know he’s real because he’s the same height as he always was, a couple inches taller than me, with a round hard belly. It feels like I could hug him a long time, like he’s always been there, quietly. I wake and tell my husband the dream: He missed all the fun. He missed it! All the children, the grandchildren, the cabins, the water skiing, the beautiful homes, the lakes, the trees… but maybe he didn’t. He always said, Don’t cry over me. Don’t cry. But I can’t help it. I just can’t help it.
Once a Home Carrie Bassett
Delphiniums grew, blue, bluer, bluest, like walking out the back door into the sky. They lived there for five years, had a child there, hung diapers on the line there. The family moved north, and years went by. The house took others in. When the river flooded, the people fled; the house fell. Not knowing this, the mother returned to visit her child’s first home. A slab and a maple were all that was left of what was once their dwelling place.
Date Night Doug Wilhide
Oh, Mary O. Rusty Debris
Her voice now silent as bouquet flowers Falling away like springtime showers Tumbled tumbleweed, the loss is ours Salty captain of the poet ships, Billow our sails with your puckered lips Turn each moon to a total eclipse Mary brought bowls of pure cool water, Shiny tin cans of fancy cat food When puddles and fish guts spoiled my mood I am the midnight black garbage cat Creeping alone on the cobblestones Clawing through trash for fetid fish bones Mary’s the clown who hops on the bus She jiggles, juggles, jangles our smile, Rides a unicycle down the bus’s aisle From prairie to sea she makes me see What heaven on earth was bound to be: A warm breast, an all night bakery
We were going to go out, celebrate the latest day of our love together at a fancy restaurant, but we dallied and missed the reservation window So then we were going to hit a happy hour someplace — our version of the “senior special” buffet line — a couple cocktails, the cheap small plates, get there early… no waiting… hoping memories would keep the conversation going But time slipped away I shoveled the snow you caught up on your lists the windchill dropped below zero and we decided — over late afternoon wine — to stay in eat leftovers watch an old movie say “I love you” (again) and go to bed early. To sleep.
Oh, Mary O. wherever you wend Unable to answer songs I send You haven’t one precious word to spend Your guardian angel punches the clock Then you head West like a cold hobo Is “To Eternity” where you go?
Moving a rock from damp ground leaves its shape below — absent presence.
Across the Room Chuck Boe
River
The beauty of you makes me feel ecstatic, aroused, anxious, fearful. Your deep beauty, your body, your energy attracts me to you.
Bob Swandby
I am River Born in the high country I bubble from the deep earth Trickle through the green grass above the tree line I become the creek of childhood Fed by snow melt and spring rain I pick up pebbles, churn ever downward, gain speed I take on water from other flows, gather rocks, Thrash down the mountain; I am the stream of youth Filled with new ideas from the tributaries I sort and sift all that comes churning and roiling I keep the smooth and the bright, drop the rubble, I reach the ripeness of middle age
Rescue Dog Rebecca Surmont
When you looked blankly into my eyes I had second thoughts The fierceness of your bark, the assertiveness of your gait — The way you ran around me in circles. I couldn’t reel you in — But when you flip-flopped on my pillow with your wet nose I knew we’d found one another at last
Yet, a feeling of my unworthiness arises, so I remain at a distance, glancing your way, watching you move, not even allowing myself a fantasy.
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A crew of board members, staff and volunteers set up the Kingfield Farmers Market on a sunny Sunday morning. The Kingfield, Fulton and Nokomis markets are now recruiting volunteers for the summer market season. Volunteering is a great way to develop skills, meet new people and support local food systems. Submitted photo
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id you know that Kingfield, Fulton and Nokomis farmers markets are siblings? They are all operated by Neighborhood Roots, a nonprofit run by a few dedicated staff members, 13 passionate board members and dozens of neighborhood volunteers. It’s our mission to bring neighbors together to buy, eat and learn about local food. We support local farmers and small businesses, promote vibrant community and effect important changes in food and agriculture policy. Together we help foster deep, long-term relationships between Twin Cities consumers and local producers. Volunteers are the powerhouse of Neighborhood Roots. From vendor selection to programming, volunteers help shape their markets. If you’re interested in getting involved in making the market happen, there are a variety of opportunities to fit your skills, interests and availability. Folks give their time and energy to develop marketing campaigns or help with fundraising. They represent the market at community events to help spread the word. Volunteers write articles like the one you’re reading right now or snap candid photos of our vendors for our website or social media pages. From art to IT, there’s a million ways to get involved. Our greatest need is regular market-day volunteers to help with setup and teardown during the outdoor season. While farmers market season seems a long way off, we promise it’ll be here before you know it. Fulton Farmers Market opens Saturday, May 18, just over two months away! Kingfield Farmers Market opens the next day on Sunday, May 19. Fulton and Kingfield are open every Saturday and Sunday (respectively) through the end of October. During the height of the summer season, June 12–Sept. 25, Nokomis Farmers Market
is open on Wednesday evenings. Nokomis Farmers Market brings together farmers, artists, educators, chefs, musicians and residents to create a family-friendly gathering place at the corner of 52nd & Chicago. Each market day, staff and volunteers transform empty parking lots into bustling hubs of commerce and community. Consider making volunteering at the market a part of your summer plans this year. This is a great opportunity to get moving, meet new people, support farmers and learn about local food. From lifelong Minneapolitans to fresh transplants, our volunteers find that the farmers market helps them feel connected to the land, their neighbors and the food they eat. Another way to get involved is to work with us! We are now accepting applications for our seasonal assistant market manager position. This an excellent fit for folks who want to work outside, network with local food leaders, gain nonprofit management experience and learn about Minnesota agricultural trends. Major responsibilities include market-day operations and volunteer management, but there are opportunities to get involved in marketing, fundraising, program development and advocacy, depending on what skills you want to development with us. At Neighborhood Roots, we strongly believe in people power and we are committed to helping our staff, board and volunteers with their personal and professional development. To learn more about volunteer and employment opportunities with Neighborhood Roots, visit our website, neighborhoodrootsmn.org. We accept volunteers year round, but the greatest need is between May and October. The priority deadline for our assistant market manager position is Friday, March 15. We need folks like you to make the markets happen, so apply today!
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Mill City Cooks
Recipes and food news from the Mill City Farmers Market
From bumper crop to new business
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iss My Cabbage, one of the Mill City Farmers Market’s long-time vendors, began in 2012 when a farm Adrienne Logsdon was working at produced an unexpected bumper crop of cabbage. Not one to let a good thing go to waste, she decided to make sauerkraut out of the surplus. The rest of the farm crew loved the homemade recipe, so they gave some to neighbors and friends who loved it too! It’s no wonder the kraut was a hit. Adrienne’s recipe is never pasteurized or canned, allowing it to retain its probiotics and other microflora, which are obtained through lacto-fermentation. Unlike vinegar pickling, lacto-fermentation is a process in which naturally occurring organisms convert the sugar in vegetables to acid, giving sauerkraut, kimchi and other lacto-fermented products their distinctive tangy taste.
STIR FRIED BEEF BOWLS WITH VEGGIES AND KIMCHI Recipe courtesy of the Mill City Farmers Market Share your photos of this dish with #WeeklyMarketMeal and #MillCityCooks. Serves 4.
Over the past seven years, Adrienne has expanded her product line to include a variety of sauerkraut, curtido and kimchi flavors, including lemon-garlic-dill, apple-curry-elderberry and other seasonal delights. Even though Kiss My Cabbage is now at multiple farmers markets, delis and food co-ops, Adrienne still manages to source her ingredients from local farms. You can find Adrienne and all the local ingredients you need for the stir fried beef bowl recipe below at the Mill City Farmers Market’s final indoor markets on April 13 and 27. The market is open 10 a.m.–1 p.m. with 40-plus local farmers, makers and artists inside the Mill City Museum (no admission required). Learn more at millcityfarmersmarket.org. — Jenny Heck
Adrienne Logsdon of Kiss My Cabbage. Submitted photo
Ingredients for the beef 2 garlic cloves, minced 2 Tablespoons soy sauce or tamari 1 Tablespoon gochugaru (coarse Korean hot pepper flakes) or 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes 1 Tablespoon grated ginger 1 Tablespoon maple syrup from Horner’s Corner* 1 Tablespoon sesame oil 1 pound ground beef from Sunshine Harvest Farm* 2 Tablespoons sunflower oil, divided Kosher salt *Ingredient found at the Mill City Farmers Market on 4/13 and 4/27
Method Combine ground beef, garlic, tamari, gochugaru, ginger, maple syrup and sesame oil in a resealable plastic bag. Seal the bag and squish everything around until the meat is coated. Let sit at room temperature 30 minutes or in the fridge for up to eight hours. To make the dressing, combine ingredients in a mason jar, cover and shake until well combined. Cook the beef by heating 1 tablespoon sunflower oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Remove the meat
Ingredients for the rice wine vinaigrette 1/3 cup rice wine vinegar 1/3 cup sesame oil 1/3 cup sunflower oil 1 garlic clove, minced 1 teaspoon minced ginger 1–2 teaspoons Sriracha or your favorite hot sauce Ingredients for the bowls 4 large radishes*, thinly sliced 2 small carrots*, grated 4 cups mixed greens* or chopped lettuce* 1 bunch cilantro* 1 bunch scallions* Kimchi from Kiss My Cabbage* 4 cups cooked rice
from the bag (letting excess marinade drip back into bag) season lightly with salt and cook in a single layer without moving until lightly browned, about one minute. Toss meat and continue to cook, until cooked through, about three minutes. Add the remaining marinade and cook another minute. Remove from the heat and place in a serving bowl. Place the rice and greens on the bottom, top with the remaining vegetables, beef, herbs and kimchi, then dress with the vinaigrette.
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Ask Dr. Rachel
By Rachel Allyn
When to be assertive and when to let go
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ecently an acquaintance borrowed one of my favorite jackets at a hockey game and later returned it to me with a large rip in it. In a separate incident, my cleaning company tore and ruined one of my tapestries when it got tangled in the vacuum. Is it their responsibility to replace it or to give me the financial equivalent?
There are some unfortunate certainties to being human — death, taxes and losing or ruining some of your favorite items. For the latter, it’s the law of probability: These are the things you use the most (unless it’s a sacred object that stays mounted on your shelf, museum style). When there’s attachment or sentimental value you’re obviously less likely to shrug it off compared to the junk you simply don’t care as much about. In answer to your question, the short answer is yes, it is technically their responsibility. This is even more evident with your cleaners, given they’re a business (but they might have a policy that waives them of responsibility). I suggest you start off by evaluating just how much the objects even mean to you. If its absence is not going to impact you much, try to let it go. I’m no monk but I do like the Buddhist concept of non-attachment, which could be useful for you here. Non-attachment is
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ment to the permanence of things is the key understanding here.” But it may be about the principle for you: The fact that it is common courtesy to at least offer to repair or replace something the borrower ruined — in which case I suggest you mention something or it might nag away at you, leading to resentment. A simple, direct, clarifying question makes sense. Start off by asking if they’re
even aware of the fact that they damaged your jacket or tapestry. It might be obvious to you, but not to them (although a vacuum sucking something up is hard to ignore). If they did not notice the damage — or are too embarrassed to admit they noticed — explain to them the state of your items and ask if they can try to repair it (if it’s not past the point of no return), replace it (if it’s still available for purchase) or offer you some money in return. If it’s hard for you to have this conversation, then it’s a good time to check in with yourself about whether direct communication, boundaries and being assertive are a challenge for you. Some people would rather suffer in silence, developing bitterness, just to avoid confrontation of any kind than have a simple conversation about the matter at hand — even if it could clear the air. This is more often the case for women, given they’re socialized with messages that a woman is aggressive when she’s direct, whereas a man is just being forthright, a straight shooter. Don’t get me started … At the end of the day, remember you need to first honor and validate your feelings. But then it’s about picking your battles and eventually saying “C’est la vie!” and moving on. Dr. Rachel Allyn is a licensed psychologist in private practice. Learn more about her unique style of therapy at DrRachelAllyn.com. Send questions to Rachel@DrRachelAllyn.com.
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Enhance Your Everyday
By Carly Ettinger
Working out in winter
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here are two types of people in Minnesota: those who exercise outside in winter and those who think they’re outrageous. I used to be one of those people who would yell, “What the heck is this guy doing?!” upon seeing someone jogging on snow-covered paths in 15-degree weather. Now I’m that guy. I grew up with a family that tended to live by the phrase from a winter-themed cartoon, “I’m not going outside until the temperature is above my age.” When the sky was a dreary grey and the temperatures were below 30, exercising outside just didn’t feel like an option. Aside from the one-off ski and sledding adventures, we regularly stayed sedentary, indoors, from fall to spring. Does winter weather make you hibernate? With snow-covered streets, temperatures in the teens, darkness in the early night and —let’s not forget to mention — sick colleagues, it can be tempting to stay indoors. On official snow days and through bouts of negative 50-degree wind-chill temps, you may not leave the house from morning to night, or even for days at a time. A friend of mine recently told me that she didn’t leave her apartment for four days in a row. Hiding out at home all winter can harm your health more than you may expect. Missing out on sunshine, social interaction and workouts can all add up, from lower vitamin D levels to upset circadian rhythms; from loneliness to depression; and achy muscles to increased appetite. Let’s just say it’s good to get out. So why now am I finally taking advantage of
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winter weather? With a little help from the mild weather through January, I discovered that exercising outdoors in winter isn’t that bad. While it looks intimidating, it’s actually invigorating. I’ve come to fall in love with the Norwegian phrase, “There’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes.” Putting this into action has been easier than I expected it to be and has been lifechanging for my family and me. My dad recently told me that I encouraged him to go outdoors more this winter than he has in 70 years of living in Minneapolis. My 91-year-old grandmother said the same thing. When the sun is out and you’re bundled up, it’s not so bad. The more you move, the more you warm up! With as little skin exposed as possible, we venture out to the lakes for walks and jogs. As long as we can’t see our breath and the ground isn’t too icy, we try to make it outside briefly a few times each week. Winter workouts can feel invigorating. There are many outdoor exercises you might want to consider. From snowshoeing to sledding, ice-skating to building a snowman, playing in the snow brings out the kid in all of us. And give yourself credit for shoveling or even stomping through snow, which can both burn serious calories. Aside from getting you out of the house, these workouts can help stave off winter weight gain, which averages 5–10 pounds each year, according to an AccuWeather interview with Rebecca Blake, senior director of clinical nutrition at Mt. Sinai.
Follow these tips from the Mayo Clinic for a successful and safe winter workout: 1. Before you head out, check weather conditions.
If there is a strong wind chill, you have an increased chance for frostbite. If temperatures are negative, it might be best to take your workout indoors. 2. Try to go with a friend or family member. If you go alone, please tell someone that you are going to be spending time outside, the area you will be in and when you expect to return. 3. Start out with a fully charged phone. iPhone batteries, in particular, diminish quickly in extreme cold weather. Within a few minutes, your device can shut down entirely. Keep it in a warm area such as a pocket as much as possible. 4. Dress in layers and safety gear. Wear moisture-wicking materials underneath heavier, insulated gear. If you get warm, you will be able to remove layers. Protect your head, hands, feet and ears. Stay away from cotton fabrics, as these stay wet from perspiration and can make your skin colder. 5. Wear shoes that have good traction. This could mean cleats or boots. 6. Take care of your eyes and nose. Wear sunglasses to prevent dry, teary eyes. Bring tissues for a runny nose.
7. Wear sunscreen. Spending time under the sun, even on cloudy days, can be dangerous for skin any time of year. 8. Drink fluids before and after. Hydration is key for working out regardless of season. 9. Know the symptoms of hypothermia and frostbite. This can include numbness, redness or pain. Head home swiftly if you notice any of these. Know of some warm rest areas nearby that you can duck into if you need to. 10. Limit workouts to 45 minutes or less. To learn more winter fitness safety tips, visit the Mayo Clinic website. Be sure to check with your doctor before exercising in cold weather if you have any conditions such as asthma or heart problems, as you may need to take certain precautions. Remember: Just because it’s winter, don’t neglect your exercise routine. Your body doesn’t care what season it is! So next time want to snuggle up in your heated house with blankets in front of the TV, first head to your closet. Bundle up and go for a five-minute walk down your block. For the rest of winter, I encourage you to explore more outdoors. Carly Ettinger is a trend forecaster and writer from Minneapolis. Her experiences living and learning in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and most recently New York have shaped her fascination with studying cultural trends in fitness, food and lifestyle.
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BRKFST DANCE COMPANY AND KALEENA MILLER
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Tap dancer extraordinaire Kaleena Miller teams up with the BRKFST Dance Company, known for their thrilling break dancing moves and style that mixes martial arts, burlesque and contemporary dance. Grounded in rhythm and movement, the show celebrates different genres of dance in a fast-moving show. Local composers Renée Copeland, Tom Woodling and HALEY are all featured as part of the show.
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When: 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 8 and Saturday, March 9; 2 p.m. Sunday, March 10 Where: The Cowles Center, 528 Hennepin Ave. Cost: $21 Info: thecowlescenter.org
‘SALVADOR DALÍ: IN SEARCH OF IMMORTALITY’
‘EMPTY METAL’
Take a trip into the mind of surrealistic artist Salvador Dalí’s with this documentary by David Pujol. Using archival footage of the artist and his contemporaries, the film seeks out the meaning and method behind Dalí’s creativity. Looking back at the places he lived, the people he loved and the techniques he used, this is a great film to catch if you’re a fan of Dalí’s work.
As part of its INDIgenesis Film Series, the Walker Art Center screens the film “Empty Metal” by Anishinaabe filmmaker Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer. Assassination plots, computer hackers, alternative reality — this film mixes punk rock and politics using fragmented and non-linear storytelling set to drone music by Éliane Radigue.
When: 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 20 Where: Landmark’s Lagoon Cinema, 1320 Lagoon Ave. Cost: $15 Info: landmarktheatres.com
When: 7 p.m. Friday, March 8 Where: The Walker Art Center, 725 Vineland Place Cost: $10 Info: walkerart.org
ED BOK LEE READS FROM ‘MITOCHONDRIAL NIGHT’ Ed Bok Lee will read from his latest book of poems, which use DNA as a powerful tool of navigation. In “Mitochondrial Night,” Lee mixes genetic biology and familial and national history with the acute imagery of dive bars and epic legacies. The child of immigrants from both North and South Korea, the poet grew up in Minnesota as well as South Korea and North Dakota. He currently teaches at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul. “Mitochondrial Night” follows his award-winning book, “Whorled,” which won the American Book Award and the Minnesota Book Award in poetry.
When: 7 p.m. Saturday, March 16 Where: Plymouth Congregational Church, 1900 Nicollet Ave. Cost: Free Info: raintaxi.com
PUPPET LAB 2019 In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre launches their annual Puppet Lab festival, a foray into radical puppetry performance. The first week features “The Early Years of Rachel Carson” by local artist Tara Fahey, about the early 20th century marine biologist and conservationist, and “A for Akiko” by Akiko Ostlund, which pushes back against white supremacy from the point of view of an immigrant. For the second week, Elle Thoni and Michele Spaise get into the action with a fantastical tale about a disappearing lake and a meditation on healing through trauma.
When: March 15–25 (7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2:30 p.m. Sundays) Where: The Avalon Theatre, 1500 E. Lake St. Cost: $15 Info: hobt.org
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Women’s History Month Women’s History Month is a great time to get a little extra feminist. Maybe catch a show that gives you a bit of history into the feminist movement, and support women artists.
‘When We Were Young and Unafraid’
‘Trailblazing Women: In the Spirit of Harriet Tubman’
Persistent Theatre Production takes a look at the early second-wave feminist movement of the 1970s with this play about a woman who turns her small bed and breakfast place into a domestic violence refuge.
Local musicians, including J.D. Steele and MacPhail Community Youth Choir, drummers from WE WIN Institute and singer Annie Mack join performance artist Hester Moore for this evening of song and storytelling inspired by Harriet Tubman.
When: March 15–24 (7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays) Where: Fallout Urban Art Center, 2609 Stevens Ave. S. Cost: $20 Info: persistenttheatreproductions.com
‘Women’s History Month: The Historical Comedybration (with fabulous prizes)’ With comedy, history and a dose of game show, you can’t go wrong with this funny tour with women from science history, directed by Heather Meyer.
When: 7 p.m. March 17, 24 and 31 Where: Bryant-Lake Bowl, 810 W. Lake St. Cost: $15 Info: bryantlakebowl.com
When: Monday, March 11 (5 p.m. reception, 6:30 p.m. performance) Where: 900 Hennepin Ave. Cost: $15 suggested donation Info: hennepintheatretrust.org
‘Abandoned Outlines pt. 2: A National Women’s Day Production’ Three Twin Cities dance collectives working in urban styles, including New Black City, S.H.E., and Zephonix, join forces for an evening of dance timed with National Women’s Day.
When: 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 8 and Saturday, March 9; 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 10 Where: The Lab, 700 N. 1st St. Cost: $20 Info: thelabtheater.org
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experience and recognize just how much they’ve grown and how much their skills have progressed. “What happens is, no matter where they are on Monday in biking, because they bike every single day and then they put it to the test, they actually see their growth,” he said. When he wasn’t picking up new outdoor skills, Engel and the other campers made the most of all the unstructured time to explore the park or organize “ginormous games of
capture the flag.” He said he was having so much fun he didn’t even realize how much exercise he was getting. “You’re just going, going, going, and then I would come home and nap for hours,” he said. Engel’s mom, Patty Wycoff, said it was a nice change of pace from math camp and other summer activities that keep kids indoors. “It’s a physical camp, and he’s a really physical kid, so it was the perfect camp for him,” Wycoff said. She said she also appreciated the diversity of
the campers, adding that her son “got to know kids from all over the city.” Taylor said the majority of campers come from Minneapolis, and the camp draws heavily from the Near North Side’s 55411 zip code. About half are Minneapolis Public Schools students, he estimated. Many of those campers are first exposed to the Loppet Foundation through its schoolyear partnerships with area district and charter schools. Ten schools participate in the MinneLoppet program, a ski program for elementary grades students.
Taylor said about 60–70 youth participate in Loppet Adventure Camp during each of its eight or nine summer sessions (depending on the summer calendar), and one-third of the slots for each week are reserved for scholarship campers. The camps typically fill by the first week of summer, he said. Each summer also includes one girls-only session, this year running the week of July 15–19. Taylor said campers often start with one week of camp, but many choose to do two weeks when they return the next summer. “Kids always want to come back,” he said.
Clockwise from above: Camper X’zayvr Christian; John Clifton, Harris Gulbransen, Jessie Montgomery and Kaden Chin-Massey on mountain bikes; a game of ultimate Frisbee.
Paddling is one of the skills taught at Loppet Adventure Camp. Submitted photos
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During its first 12 months, more than 100 franchises opened, with the Edina location being the first to open in Minnesota in May 2018. (So far, there are 339 coding centers planned in 38 states.) Local coding centers include Eagan, Edina/Minneapolis, Chanhassen and Prior Lake/Savage, and eight other locations are listed as coming soon to the Twin Cities. While camps are a large part of Code Ninjas’ focus during the summer, the company was actually built with a year-round drop-off model in mind: Parents can drop their kids off after school or on weekends for up to two hours of coding a week while they either leave or stay on site in a parents’ lounge.
“It’s the fastest growing educational franchise right now in the U.S,” Blood said. “And what better way to learn how to code than by building and playing their very own video games.” The idea for Code Ninjas started when Texasbased computer programmer and entrepreneur David Graham decided he wanted to equip his two children with the important skills needed for an increasingly digital future. (Previously, Graham was the founder of Coder Camps, a program that teaches adults to be successful software developers.) Graham believes the problem solving, math, resourcefulness, patience and confidence that coding requires can help kids, no matter what careers they go into as adults. Coding, according to some, is fast becoming “the new literacy” — as important to kids as a second language.
Code Ninjas’ engaging, gamebased curriculum helps kids learn math, problemsolving and teamwork too. Photos courtesy of Code Ninjas
Coding as a calling Mitchell said Code Ninjas helps kids learn perseverance and independent thinking, too. “Working through problems on their own, figuring out how to troubleshoot when things aren’t working and how to be creative with games on their own is one of the most important lessons in Code Ninja,” Mitchell said. Mitchell also believes the technology skills Code Ninjas offers can become invaluable to students as technology continues to boom. With a huge gap in the number of tech jobs available and the number of people who are qualified, Code Ninjas is creating workers who will be able to use and create modern technology, she said. “If students learn the basics of coding now,” Mitchell said, “it will be so much easier for them in the future and will open up so many more opportunities for them.”
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