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Vaccination rates low at Whittier school Parents opting Waldorf students out of vaccines By Nate Gotlieb ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com
An outbreak of a vaccine-preventable disease could affect more students at a Whittier private school than almost any other school in the state. Thirty percent of kindergartners at City of Lakes Waldorf School were unvaccinated against at least one vaccine-preventable disease between 2014 and 2018, according to data from the Minnesota Department of Health. About 20 percent of the school’s kindergarteners were missing doses of an immunization against at least one vaccinepreventable disease, and only about half were fully vaccinated. In comparison, just 3 percent of kindergartners statewide were unvaccinated during that time period, 4 percent were missing doses and 93 percent were fully vaccinated. Cases of vaccine-preventable diseases, while rare in the modern era, still pose a threat. A 2017 outbreak of measles in Minnesota sickened 79 people, mostly unvaccinated children under 10, according to the state Health Department. More recently, an outbreak in New York sickened 214 people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there were 387 individual cases of measles between Jan. 1 and March 28 this year, the second-highest number reported since measles was declared eliminated in 2000. City of Lakes Waldorf School administrative director Marti Stewart wrote in an email that the school has already seen its kindergartenimmunization rates increase. The school said 88
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Smashed windows plague soon-to-open pizza parlor By Michelle Bruch
The Good Times pizza and ice cream parlor is pushing to open the doors at 38th & Grand, a job made more difficult when the door and windows repeatedly shatter. A suspect first broke a window in January, said Tyler Avestini, who owns the property at 322 W. 38th St. and said he replaced glass the week of the Super Bowl. “They waited until those got replaced, came back that night, smashed the same one out again, plus another one in the other space,” said the forthcoming pizza parlor’s owner, Franz Gilbertson, adding that someone also shattered
the back glass door shortly after installation. “This is where it really starts to worry me.” It’s a pattern that’s persisted for months at Avestini’s properties in North Minneapolis, home to businesses including Mykonos Coffee & Grill, Clientele Barbershop and Avestopolis Cleaners. At each location, vandals have damaged at least 10 windows since the fall of 2017, Avestini said. “I have spent over $25,000 on my windows, not including the South Minneapolis [building],” Avestini said. SEE GOOD TIMES PIZZA / PAGE A18
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The BibelotGoodThings gift shop has moved down the block to make way for GoodStyle, a clothing boutique at the store’s former location at 44th & Upton. Submitted photo
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Bibelot-GoodThings moving down the block The Bibelot-GoodThings gift shop in Linden Hills is moving to make room for a new clothing boutique from the company. GoodStyle, a women’s clothing shop from the retailer behind GoodThings, opened March 18 in the former Bibelot space at 44th & Upton, according to a news release. Bibelot-GoodThings, the partnership that emerged when Bibelot sold its metro locations in January, has moved down the block to the former home of Poppy boutique at 4301 Upton Ave. The store will continue co-branding with Bibelot for now in Linden Hills and on Grand Avenue in St. Paul, but will eventually transition to being called GoodThings, spokesperson Tanya Rausch said. “We’re keeping the Bibelot-GoodThings name for a while because we know there’s so many dedicated Bibelot customers,” she said. The initial plan was to slowly transition from
Bibelot to GoodThings at the location Bibelot called home for 23 years, but when the Poppy boutique space became available the company seized the chance to expand its footprint in Linden Hills. “We saw a need for more fashion, clothing and accessory options in Linden Hills,” Tyler Conrad, owner of the GoodThings family of stores said in a press release. “The unique opportunity to add GoodStyle to the mix of offerings in the neighborhood was one we couldn’t pass up.” Moving the Bibelot-GoodThings store down the street will allow more space for distinctive displays, Conrad said. GoodStyle sells women’s clothing, shoes and accessories. The store is the clothing shop’s second location. They expect to add more inventory the week of March 25, Rausch said.
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the wood-fire oven they had in mind. The space will have a taproom feel, where patrons can hang out, sip a pint and order a pizza when hunger strikes. To start, the menu will feature about 10 signature pies, appetizers and desserts, Ropes said. All the food will be cooked in the wood-fired oven. On tap will be a continually rotating collection of 32 beers, mostly highlighting local and in-state brewers. “It should be a hub for tasting everything Minnesota has to offer at any given time,” he said. Fire & Nice hopes to open its doors to the public by the start of summer.
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Salty Tart moved from Midtown Global Market to the LynLake location in 2017 and opened the bakery to the public last fall. “The foot traffic wasn’t what we expected it to be,” Kathy Gibson, a Salty Tart employee, said. Gayer said she’s been calling around to other Minneapolis bakeries to try to find places for her Minneapolis staff to work after the closure. St. Paul isn’t that far away, Gayer said, and encouraged fans of Salty Tart’s baked goods to find them there. “Grab your passports and cross the river,” she joked.
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The new four-story building would sit to the west of the existing building, Hayes said. It would include a 99-seat space where people can gather for performances and other community events. Hayes’ current space has about 25 private studios and is occupied by musicians, writers, performing-arts companies and massage therapists. On a given day, the space hosts everything from guitar and harp lessons to dance and yoga classes to actors rehearsing. The center also holds the offices of the Kingfield Neighborhood Association and has short-term lodgings that serve visiting artists and people in the neighborhood. The expansion would include an elevator to allow people access to the second and third floors of the existing space, Hayes said. Hayes’ proposal to expand the center comes after the shuttering of performance spaces and arts organizations such as Patrick’s Cabaret in LynLake, the Bedlam Theater in St. Paul and Minneapolis Theatre Garage. More recently, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre has fallen on hard times and the Soap Factory has faced millions of dollars of debt. The Center for Performing Arts space is zoned as an OR2/High Density Office Residence District, which restricts most development to four stories. The existing building is 15,851 square feet, according to property records. The center will post more details about the project as they become available at cfpampls.com/expansion.
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The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) is considering changing the names of four roads near Bde Maka Ska — East Lake Calhoun Parkway, West Lake Calhoun Parkway, Calhoun Drive and Calhoun Boulevard West. On March 27, the Park Board Administration and Finance Committee approved an ordinance that would allow the names of the 42 roadways controlled by the MPRB to be changed by a vote of at least six of the nine commissioners. The measure still needs to go before the full board. Board members promised to hold public meetings before voting on any name change. Commissioner Jono Cowgill (District 4) said he hopes to update the street names in order to “reflect the new name of the lake” but first wants to find out the impact of a change on those who live on the roads. With Lake Calhoun’s name officially changed back to Bde Maka Ska — its original Native American designation — a number of neighborhood organizations and local businesses have followed suit. The West Calhoun Neighborhood Council (WCNC) is asking its residents if they want to change the name of their organization to West Lake or West Maka Ska. The East Calhoun Community Organization (ECCO) will soon poll residents on whether or not to change the group’s name.
“It doesn’t make sense to have a neighborhood called West Calhoun that’s on Lake Maka Ska,” WCNC Board chair Allan Campbell said. Bde Maka Ska (pronounced b-day ma-kha skah) translates to White Earth Lake in Dakota. Activists successfully mobilized to change the lake’s name in January 2018, saying it was wrong to honor John Calhoun, a defender of slavery who helped orchestrate exploitive treaties separating Native Americans from their land. Campbell said he attended the March 27 Park Board meeting to ensure the board didn’t make any unilateral decisions about street names. “There is concern in our neighborhood, and even more in Linden Hills, that the Calhoun names will be changed without consultation with the residents,” he said. Commissioner Meg Forney said she’s been hearing “a lot of angst” from people worrying about whether a name change would affect their mortgage or their home’s title. “I see this as an opportunity to raise awareness of why it is that we moved to change the name of a lake,” she said. “My interest is to be transparent and engage the community in what we stand for.” Ed Bell told the Park Board he lives on West Lake Calhoun Parkway and is
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Belly up to the baseball card bar
“O
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Jodi Ayres and her baseball card collection at the Lowbrow bar in Kingfield. “It’s definitely very lo-fi. Anytime people comment on it, I get really excited,” she said. Photo by Jim Walsh
“It was so scary to do. Heather and I laid out all these cards by hand and stuck ‘em in with glue sticks. We had one night to do it, he was coming to pour epoxy over it in the morning, we were here until 2 a.m. and it was like, ‘One shot, it’s gotta work, or they’re all destroyed.’ I had to leave. I was, ‘You guys just pour it, I can’t watch.’ And I came back, and it had dried really well.” Ayres’ passion for baseball and its preservationist history started early. She grew up in the RosevilleArden Hills neighborhoods of St. Paul, and played tee-ball and baseball (second base) until graduating from Mounds Park Academy in 1991. “I wanted to be the first woman in the major leagues; that was my goal from 5 until 13,” she said. “I played Little League and on the guys team in high school. They were great to me. We had to petition the Minnesota State High School League and argue that baseball and softball aren’t comparable sports, and that’s the rule: If the sports aren’t comparable, then girls are allowed to compete with guys, and vice-versa. “I grew up idolizing Hank Aaron. The first chapter book I read was about Hank Aaron, and I became super into Hank Aaron. My dad took me to a card convention once and he was signing. We stood in line for an hour and a half and he’d been signing all day, and I went up to him and he shook my hand. I was 10 or 11 and I said I was going to be the first woman in the major leagues, and he was like, ‘It’s going to be a hard road, but I bet you can do it.’ Such a classy response. “So that got me into the older cards that aren’t of my generation. A lot of the cards here are from the ‘80s when I was watching and playing. But the older cards stem from falling in love with Hank Aaron and his story, and getting into the history of baseball.”
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Much of which can be seen at the Lowbrow, in the staring-back-at-you-while-you-scan-the-everamazing-Lowbrow-menu visages of Roy Smalley, Rod Carew, Jack Morris, Juan Berenguer, Mike Smithson, Pete Rose, Dave Winfield, Tim Laudner, Frank Viola and more. “We never wanted to open a sports bar,” said Ayres. “We’re restaurant people, but we wanted that cozy place where people could talk and neighbors could come, and I just think baseball is really meditative. ... It’s just my kind of game.” Like all things at the Lowbrow, the bar-top feels one-of-a-kind. Look close and you’ll find a cardsize photo of the bar’s co-owner as a Little Leaguer, wedged between Hall-Of-Famers. Look closer and you’ll see that most of the cards are dog-eared, well-loved and well-played, which adds to the Lowbrow’s family-friendly pub vibe: It’s hard to feel bad about the world when you’re having a beer with some of baseball’s greatest ghosts. “Cards are so funny. They meant so much to me as a kid,” said Ayres. “Me and the couple guys I traded with, we played with the cards and read them and played with them, so they’re not in mint condition. We didn’t collect them like collectors collect them; I carried them around for years and years and years. “People sit at the bar and reminisce about players they saw play, and a lot of people point at cards and, ‘Oh, I know that guy, and that guy, and that guy.’ I also tried to put in lots of guys with big mustaches and crazy facial hair. I was hoping it would be a good conversation piece, and sometimes little kids will just stare at it. Even if baseball’s not their thing, they like the pictures.” Jim Walsh lives and grew up in South Minneapolis. He can be reached at jimwalsh086@gmail.com.
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Armatage donation drive inspired by Marie Kondo By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com
The Armatage Green Team will collect unwanted and used goods and distribute them to local nonprofits as part of a donation drive on April 6. The team is asking community members to bring old towels, blankets, pet food, unexpired car seats, used clothing and other items. (A complete list of needed goods can be found on the neighborhood association’s website). The team will sort the goods and distribute them to nonprofits such as the Committee Against Domestic Abuse, Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery and Ready for Success. “We know many people won’t make the trip themselves to five or six places,” Green Team member Tara Carson wrote in an email. “So by sorting at a central location in the neighborhood we make it easier on residents and lower greenhouse gas emissions for hopefully a large amount of donations.” Carson said the goal of the event is to expand neighbors’ understanding of what is donatable and to highlight local nonprofits
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During her remarks, Carolyn Bell praised the curiosity of a group of five Sanford Middle School students who had made a presentation to the Park Board a few minutes before her. The students were motivated to speak by a video they watched in Casey Metcalfe’s Minnesota Studies class about how the state’s first governor, Henry Sibley, had “cheated many Dakota people by being one of the signers of the 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux.” During the lesson, the students began to
concerned about the cost of a name change and about “where we stop when it comes to political correctness.” Bell’s wife, Carolyn, described herself as a lifetime educator. “We cannot change history, we can’t fix it, we can’t erase it,” she said. “In order to learn from it, we must keep it intact in the sense we can use it to educate.”
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“Tidying Up with Marie Kondo.” The show follows Japanese tidying expert Marie Kondo as she helps clients clean up clutter. Thrift stores across the country have described increases in donations as people clean out their homes after watching the show, media outlets have reported. Locally, Dakotah Johnson, an associate manager at Buffalo Exchange, a used clothing store near 27th & Lyndale, said her store saw a bump in the number of people selling clothing after the show’s release. “It really did offer us the kind of busy pace we’re used to seeing in the summer,” she said. Joshua Vrtacnik of the Disabled American Veterans of Minnesota, one of the recipient organizations of the Armatage donation drive, said his organization is happy to be part of the event. The drive will run from 10 a.m. to noon on April 6 at the Armatage Recreation Center. More information can be found at armatage.org/ donation-drive.
wonder why their neighborhood park was named after Sibley, asking: “If Sibley harmed so many people, why don’t they change the park name?” “I think changing the street names is the same thing as changing the name of the lake and changing the name of Sibley Park,” Hayley Lande, a sixth-grader at Sanford, said. “I feel it’s an important thing to do because Calhoun was a slave owner.”
Armatage mini-grants program seeks applicants The Armatage Neighborhood Association will award four grants of up to $1,000 this year to residents and others active in the neighborhood. Grantees can use the money for projects that support, strengthen or engage the Armatage community, according to program guidelines. The neighborhood association said the program is now open for individuals, businesses, schools, nonprofits and community organizations. Religious institutions are not eligible. The application deadline for the program is June 15, and the neighborhood association will announce the grant recipients on Aug. 1. Grantees will have a year to complete their projects and report back to the neighborhood association. The program is similar to grant programs run by other neighborhood associations. The Linden Hills Neighborhood Council gives out grants of around $1,000 twice per year, while the Fulton Neighborhood Association’s program gives grants of $500 to $2,500. To learn more or apply visit armatage.org/programs/mini-grants. — Nate Gotlieb
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A nonprofit that helps people with disabilities experience the freedom of bike riding is gearing up for its third season along the Midtown Greenway. Twin Cities Adaptive Cycling (TCAC) will kick off its season on April 30. With a goal of reaching 200 riders this summer, the organization is hoping to recruit more people willing to lend their time. “We need volunteers more than anything,” said Caito Bowles-Roth, TCAC’s co-founder. Last year TCAC served 120 riders on about 500 total rides, but by August they had to put those who wanted to ride on a waitlist due to a shortage of volunteers. The group will be hosting a training session for volunteers in partnership with Pedal and Roll for Parkinson’s from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 13, at Freewheel Bike along the Midtown Greenway at 2834 10th Ave. S. Those interested in helping don’t need to be an occupational therapist (like BowlesRoth) or a bike mechanic. “We want to educate people on all the roles they can be,” she said. The group always needs greeters who can help get riders organized when they arrive for a ride, she said. Several people TCAC serves are visually impaired and just need someone to ride up front on a tandem bike with them. The biggest challenge in adaptive biking
is getting bikes that can fit the specific needs of individual riders. TCAC serves people who have experienced spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, cerebral palsy, vision loss, Parkinson’s disease and balance issues, among other disabilities. To serve those people and reach even more they need to add to their collection of about 30 bikes. Adaptive bikes are expensive, with an average cost of $2,000. To help raise money for more bikes that fit the needs of more potential riders, TCAC is hosting a fundraiser on April 17 at Indeed Brewing in Northeast. Every dollar spent on the taproom’s beer between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. goes directly to TCAC. TCAC has open riding hours on the Greenway three times a week. Participants check in and board their bikes at the Urban Ventures lot at 2840 S. 5th Ave. This year, Bowles-Roth said they are organizing individual fitting sessions for new riders on different days from the rides to speed up the process for participants. They’re also planning to start a youth ride program on the first Saturday in June. Many who ride with TCAC are experiencing adaptive biking for the first time. “It’s amazing to see people have that feeling of autonomy,” she said. For more information, visit tcacycling.org.
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Funding from the project is coming from the federal government, Hennepin County and the city of Minneapolis. The Fremont Avenue bridge was originally built in 1913 and is a significant feature of a historic district between Humboldt and Cedar avenues, according to the county. The bridge had the lowest sufficiency rating of 37 assessed in a 2007 study, with the study’s authors recommending reconstruction of the bridge within three years. Twenty-six historic bridges span the 5.5-mile Midtown Greenway, which runs from a trailhead near Bde Maka Ska to the Mississippi River. The Greenway first opened to walkers and bikers in 2000 and was connected to the West River Parkway trail in 2006.
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Changed funding structure boosts Whittier’s housing initiatives Six new board members elected, new strategic plan adopted at annual meeting
By Andrew Hazzard / ahazzard@southwestjournal.com
The Whittier Alliance has six new board members, an updated strategic plan and a modified funding system that will direct more funding to housing initiatives. During its annual meeting on March 26, the neighborhood organization voted to modify its Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP) funding contract, a move that requires community approval. Whittier Alliance executive director Kaley Brown said it will allow the organization to access $1.1 million in uncontracted funds that were formally allocated through the Center for Energy and Environment. The program dollars have remained with the city since the CEE stopped providing the neighborhood program in 2017, and have been unavailable for Whittier Alliance to use. About half of the newly accessible $1.1 million will go toward housing issues, with housing getting a budget boost from $107,042 to $767,031 under the modification. The modification narrowed the group’s funding into five categories: housing, youth activities, business, community building and organizational stability. Whittier Alliance Board chair David Bagley said housing and community outreach were the two issues community members told the board they wanted to prioritize. The NRP contract is a set amount of funding neighborhood groups receive from
We’re trying to honor the legacy of the people who came before us and use [the proceeds from repaid loans] judiciously. — David Bagley, chair of the Whittier Alliance
the city and is separate from the organization’s ongoing operational budget. Much of uncontracted funds are dollars repaid from loans given to homes and businesses in decades past. “We’re trying to honor the legacy of the people who came before us and use it judiciously,” Bagley said. Brown said the move will save time for staff and give the organization more flexibility in the future to respond to the needs of the community. “Approving the modification will allow us to work a lot more efficiently moving forward,” Brown said.
New plan, new board The neighborhood board had six candidates running for six open seats, which eliminated the need for a contested election. The new board members are Nate Rastetter, Jesse Oyervides, Brigid Higgins, Nate Broadbridge and Abigail Speller. Christine Popowski was re-elected to the board. Those new board members will help try to implement the new strategic plan for Whittier, which the neighborhood organization has approved and will run through 2024. The new strategic plan emphasizes four priorities for the next five years: community engagement, housing, businesses, institutions and organizational stability. Whittier Alliance is seeking to increase its influence on neighborhood housing, with goals of increasing diversity and affordability of housing in the area, becoming a resource hub for local renters and property owners and establishing design guidelines to influence new development. Some community members questioned how much power the board will be able to exert on issues it can’t control surrounding rent increases and design guidelines. Whittier Alliance leaders said the more organized they are, the louder their voice will be heard. “The questions that keep you up at night are the ones that we can organize around as a community,” said Board vice-chair Scott Melamed.
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For the first time, the Wedge has an official document to help guide the neighborhood’s future. The Lowry Hill East Neighborhood Association (LHENA) passed its first strategic plan on March 20, laying out a path for creating a more diverse, inclusionary and sustainable organization. The plan creates a long-term vision for LHENA and outlines strategies and focus areas for the association in 2019-20. “The vision is really the most important part of this document,” said LHENA president Katie Jones, who helped author the plan. The vision statement promises to “push our community forward” in four categories: diversity and inclusion, connecting neighbors, environmental sustainability and leadership. “LHENA promotes a sense of belonging in the neighborhood,” the statement reads. “We continue to lead the city in adopting ideas and launching member-driven initiatives.” The plan lays out strategies for achieving financial organizational sustainability, increasing organizational stability and supporting neigh-
borhood programs such as Compost Buddies, Feet First and a local get-out-the-vote campaign. In October 2018 the LHENA board and community members participated in a “Theory of Change” development process to identify the goals of the strategic plan. LHENA received 58 responses to a survey seeking input that was sent to about 6,000 residents in January. The city considers it best practice for neighborhood organizations to adopt a strategic plan, according to David Rubedor, director of Neighborhood and Community Relations for Minneapolis. “Strategic plans can help the organization develop agreed upon goals and targets and help everyone focus their efforts into meeting them,” Rubedor said in an email, adding that plans should be reviewed regularly. The plan will be presented to LHENA members during the annual neighborhood meeting at 6 p.m., April 17, at Jefferson School. The full plan can be reviewed online at thewedge.org.
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Residents angry as LRT comes to Kenilworth By Zac Farber / zfarber@southwestjournal.com
With construction of the Southwest Light Rail Transit project posed to start along the Kenilworth Trail in the next few months, many residents of the Kenwood and Cedar-Isles-Dean neighborhoods are frustrated. “You’re talking to a community that doesn’t want this to happen,” Lynn Blumenthal told the project’s staff on March 20 as a crowd of about 100 of her neighbors applauded. “We’re angry that it’s being shoved down the community’s throat.” Representatives of the SWLRT project attempted to reassure residents, answering questions about construction noise, property damage, vibration frequencies, road closures, parking impact and continuity of emergency services. SWLRT staff promised that during the six months when Cedar Lake Parkway is closed, access will be maintained via the Burnham Road bridge. Should noise or vibration levels exceed a pre-specified level, they said, construction will stop. Workers will park on the job site, not local roads. And soil from the Kenilworth tunnel will be hauled out via Linden Yards to minimize traffic complications. But these promises didn’t assuage the most vocal of the area’s residents, who have been organizing for more than half a decade against the Metropolitan Council’s decision to route the 14.5-mile light rail line through their neighborhood. As their battle against the Met Council nears an end, they are being forced to face what the coming multi-year construction project will mean for their streets, their homes and their daily lives. In the next few weeks, workers will begin clearing brush and cutting down trees on the Kenilworth Trail. “Construction is a messy process no matter where you go,” Community Outreach Coordinator David Davies said. Mary Pattock, the chair of the Cedar-IslesDean Neighborhood Association, said people were worried about “everything from traffic congestion to damage to their homes.” She was particularly bothered by the possibility of slower ambulance and fire service.
As their battle against the Metropolitan Council nears an end, residents of the Kenwood and CedarIsles-Dean neighborhoods are being forced to face what the coming multiyear Southwest Light Rail Transit construction project will mean. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
“You are going to be closing off this, that and the other street,” she said. “There is not a person in this room who believes it is possible to have the same level of emergency service, and it is most disappointing that you’re saying, ‘We’re the government, trust us.’” Pattock was also concerned about whether pre-construction home surveys invaded residents’ privacy and whether they would receive fair compensation for property damage from the Met Council’s contractor. “The pre-construction house inspections are problematic both from the standpoint of security and conflict of interest in the adjudication process,” she said. Jim Nikora expects to be “bombarded with loud noise” once construction starts, but he’s more worried about what vibrations will do to the structure of his building, the Calhoun-Isles Condos. “Each floor is a big pancake of concrete suspended by high-tension cables,” Nikora said. “If you put a vibration in that rigid tower, it starts vibrating and creating a SEE SOUTHWEST LRT / PAGE A18
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percent of kindergartners were fully or partially immunized against measles this year, up from 63 percent in 2017-18, though the Health Department has not yet released the full set of immunization data for the 2018-19 school year. Stewart said that the school is actively working with its school nurse and several parents who are physicians to “bring focus to the essential role that vaccinations play in preventing illness in our communities.” In Minnesota, state law prohibits students from enrolling in any school, public or private, unless they have received immunizations or they claim a medical or conscientious exemption. All of the unvaccinated City of Lakes students counted in the data cited above claimed a conscientious, not a medical, exemption. When presented with the school’s data, Dr. Stacene Maroushek, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Hennepin Healthcare, said she gets very nervous when she hears about schools with high rates of unvaccinated students. “Children die from measles, children die from chickenpox,” she said. “As an experienced physician, I cannot predict if this is going to be your child or the child in the city next door.”
Highly contagious Vaccine-preventable diseases like measles and chickenpox used to infect millions of people and cause numerous deaths each year, but rates of those diseases have dipped dramatically in the modern era. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there has been a 99-plus percent reduction in measles cases since a vaccine became widespread in 1963. It notes that the recommended two doses of the vaccine are 97 percent effective at preventing measles and that one dose is 93 percent effective at preventing the illness. Three doses of the polio vaccine are 99 percent to 100 percent effective against the disease, while the recommended two doses of the chickenpox vaccine are 94 percent effective at preventing it. Maroushek said vaccine-preventable diseases can lead to lifelong problems for kids, such as lung and brain damage, even if they don’t cause death. She noted the case of a 30-year-old unvaccinated mom whose unvaccinated child caught and recovered from chickenpox but who subsequently died of the illness. Maroushek said diseases won’t spread as easily if a larger proportion of the population is vaccinated against them, a herd effect that helps protect people who are immunocompromised. And she said that the American medical system won’t necessarily be able to save kids who are unvaccinated if they fall ill to a vaccine-preventable disease.
City of Lakes Waldorf School has among the lowest vaccination rates in the state, according to Minnesota Department of Health data. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
‘My kid comes first’ The Southwest Journal spoke with six parents at City of Lakes Waldorf School, five of whom said they had had their children vaccinated. “I looked at the science, and the data backed it up,” said Chris Connaker, who vaccinated his daughter. “It only made sense.” David Tompkins said he felt worried when he learned about the school’s relatively low vaccination rates. He said he understands there’s a tension between personal choice and societal well-being but that “on this one, I’m more [for] the welfare of the whole.” “I believe in vaccines and the medical science behind it, and I wish everyone did as well,” he said. “But I know there’s some tension with personal belief, so it’s a hard nut to crack.” A parent named Alex, who declined to share her last name, said her son is “partially vaccinated” against the diseases “I actually believe are important.” Alex said she believes that kids who are not vaccinated or who are partially vaccinated tend to be healthier, adding that she thinks her child gets over colds a lot faster than her friends’ kids who are vaccinated. (No scien-
RATE OF KINDERGARTEN NON-MEDICAL OPT-OUTS FOR MEASLES, MUMPS AND RUBELLA VACCINE Before 2014-15, the Health Department did not differentiate between the number of students fully and partially vaccinated. Additional data on immunization rates for other diseases are available on the Southwest Journal website at bit.ly/2YJ8uiC.
‘Balanced information’ Maroushek said she empathizes with parents in the sense that they want to do right by their kids. But she said she feels like parents aren’t getting the full story on vaccines if they only get their information from anti-vaccine proponents. “Families need to have balanced information,” she said. “And I feel like sometimes they only get one side of it.” She said that if parents choose not to vaccinate their children in her practice, she has a long discussion with them and gives them easily understandable information from the American Academy of Pediatrics or the CDC. She said if they still refuse to vaccinate, she has them sign a vaccine-declaration form that goes into their child’s chart. She stressed that doctors don’t get paid to give vaccines.
The Waldorf model The data from the City of Lakes Waldorf School appears to mirror data from other Waldorf schools nationwide. At the Minnesota Waldorf School in Roseville, for example, 34 percent of kindergartners were not vaccinated against measles in the four school years between 2014 and 2018, according to Health Department data. And of two reporting Waldorf schools in Wisconsin, neither had a full vaccination rate above 62 percent in 2017-18, according to Wisconsin Department of Health data. Three Chicago-area Waldorf schools also have lower-than-average vaccination rates, the Chicago Tribune reported in December
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tific studies back up this claim, Maroushek said.) Alex dismissed the concept of herd immunity as an “urban myth” and described vaccination as a “personal choice.” “I completely agree with the fact that [there are] some kids for whom it’s not a choice,” she said, noting kids who are immunocompromised as an example. “[But] as much as I want to be a good citizen, I’m not going to have my child, you know, potentially be subjected to an increased risk for somebody else’s kid,” she said. “My kid comes first in my mind.”
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MORE INFO To learn more about vaccines and their effectiveness, visit the American Academy of Pediatrics website at healthychildren.org/vaccinations.
We do not involve ourselves in the medical care of students. — Beverly Amico, executive director of advancement for the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America
after an outbreak of chickenpox at a private Waldorf school in North Carolina. That North Carolina school, called Asheville Waldorf School, had a higher rate of religious exemptions for vaccinations than all but two other schools in the state, the Asheville Citizen Times reported. The Waldorf education model, based on the principles of turn-of-the-20th-century philosopher Rudolf Steiner, emphasizes arts, observation and the use of rhythm and repetition. Components of a Waldorf education include an artistic approach to reading, an emphasis on music and foreign language education and a model where teachers stay with the same class for multiple years, according to the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America. Waldorf schools suggest limiting media and do not include computers or digital technology in earlygrade curriculum. Beverly Amico, executive director of advancement for the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America, said in an email that her organization does not take a position on vaccinations. She wrote that each school has the responsibility to enforce health and safety policies in compliance with local, state and federal regulations and “we do not involve ourselves in the medical care of students.” “Any response to the variation in vaccination rates on our end would be conjecture,” she wrote. She added that based on her personal experiences, Waldorf parents are “quite deliberate in the choices they make, not only in the choice of education for their children, but in all matters affecting their families.” Stewart said the City of Lakes Waldorf School encourages all parents to consult with their physician regarding immunization and that in the event of an outbreak, unvaccinated students would not be allowed to attend class. She said the school shares commonly held concerns about herd immunity.
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An energy efficiency program for cost-burdened renters From the dead of winter to the sweltering summer months, utility bills can be a highly unpleasant reality, particularly for already cost-burdened renters. In a move applauded by tenant rights and sustainability advocates alike, the Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously in February to expand the Commercial Building Energy Benchmarking and Transparency ordinance to include multifamily residential buildings. This allows prospective renters to make better financially informed decisions before signing a lease. Janiece Watts is a policy associate with the statewide clean energy nonprofit Fresh Energy. “Fresh Energy sees these disclosures as an important step in advancing equity in Minneapolis as renters will now receive clearer information on the energy usage and utility costs of their respective unit,” she wrote in a blog post published after the benchmarking expansion. Watts went on to note that with 46 percent of city renters classified as “rentburdened” (meaning more than 30 percent of their household income goes to rent), utility costs are an important yet overlooked component of housing affordability. Especially given the fact that older and less energy-efficient buildings tend to be more “naturally affordable.” Alleviating these energy burdens is not about information and transparency alone; it is about actually lowering utility bills. This is where energy efficiency and sustainability programs come into play. But while cost-burdened renters have a lot to gain through more energy-efficient homes, the programs that help facilitate these changes are primarily directed toward building owners — who may have different motivations. In academic jargon, this is called a “splitincentive problem” and the economics behind it are described in a 2012 paper published in the journal Energy Policy. “A landlord (agent) buys and supplies all of the components of a potentially energy efficient apartment or home,” write authors Stephen Bird and Diana Hernández. “Their incen-
The Diamond Pointe apartment complex in Kenny was the first building to participate in the Multifamily Building Efficiency Program. Submitted photo
tive is to supply these at the lowest possible cost (not the highest efficiency), because they do not pay the energy or utility bills. Alternately, the tenant (or principal) pays the energy bills, and has high incentives to increase efficiency, but no control over the means to do so.” But this split is not so simple. Several local and statewide programs are helping landlords improve energy efficiency, and tenants may see lower utility expenses as a result. One of these programs is the Multifamily Building Efficiency Program (MFBE), operated jointly by CenterPoint Energy and Xcel Energy, and overseen by the Minnesota Department of Commerce. Grant Hartley is co-owner of Hartley Properties Inc., a property management company that owns five buildings around Minneapolis, two of which are in Southwest. Hartley is an MFBE success story. In fact, Hartley’s 63-unit
Diamond Pointe property was the first to go through the program in 2016. As part of the program, Hartley was advised on several energy-saving measures, including energy-efficient, in-unit amenities and better weatherization and insulation. The big-ticket item was a new energyefficient boiler, which qualified him for over $25,000 in rebates to help offset the costs. All these changes added up, and building energy usage was reduced by more than 25 percent. Through energy-saving measures that keep electricity bills lower, tenants have seen small savings as well. Since then, Hartley has put three of his other buildings through the program. For him it has been a no-brainer: “If I manage an apartment building, it only makes sense to manage it efficiently.” As a relatively small property owner, these energy savings can make a real difference.
“You do what you can to try and save energy,” he said. “Otherwise, you won’t survive as a business.” While Hartley is a big proponent of the MFBE program, he acknowledges that it has limitations. Accessing rebates requires large upfront capital investments. Energy-efficient boilers, for example, ran upwards of $60,000. In order to make these rebate-qualifying purchases, building owners need access to capital. In Hartley’s case, this meant refinancing his Diamond Pointe property. Even so, less capital-intensive changes like water-reducing shower heads and energyefficient light bulbs can make a big impact. And it is these lower-cost changes that are more accessible to renters directly. This is important because, as Watts explained, “there is a power dynamic involved here.” “Since renters do not own their home,” she said, “working with the landlord or property manager may be necessary and that is not always easy or attainable.” Kingfield Neighborhood Association Executive Director Sarah Linnes-Robinson said that, when it comes to energy efficiency between landlords and renters, it is important to put the neighborhood rental market in perspective. Most Kingfield renters live in single-family homes rather than larger multi-family properties. This means that they have a different set of tools at their disposal. Linnes-Robinson speculated that Kingfield renters are more likely to have personal relationships with landlords, which helps facilitate cooperation on energy-efficient updates. And for renters who may not have such a cooperative relationship – or even know that utility savings are a possibility – Watts and Fresh Energy are working toward building out resources to make rental properties more sustainable and cost-efficient with tenants in mind. “Energy efficiency programs are often targeted towards landlords and homeowners,” Watts said, “but we want everyone to know that there are options for renters, too.”
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Cleaning up Southwest’s parks for Earth Day Get ready for spring cleaning. Minneapolis residents are invited to help clean up their local parks and neighborhoods at the city’s annual Earth Day CleanUp on April 20. There will be events at parks throughout the city with four main sites to rally volunteers for the clean-up. The primary site in Southwest will be at Lake Harriet, where volunteers will gather at the bandshell parking lot. All clean-up events will take place between 9:30 a.m. and noon. No registration is
required, and bags and gloves are provided for volunteers at all sites. The Earth Day Clean-Up was launched in 1995 with a goal of drawing attention to water quality in Minneapolis’ lakes. More than 140,000 pounds of garbage have been removed from city parks since the event began, according to the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. Last year, 501 volunteers collected more than 4,700 pounds of trash.
CLEAN-UP SITES IN SOUTHWEST BRYN MAWR Theodore Wirth Park, 3200 Glenwood Ave. (Wirth Beach parking lot) CARAG Bryant Square Park, 3101 Bryant Ave. S.
KENWOOD Kenwood Park, 2101 Franklin Ave. W. KINGFIELD Martin Luther King Park, 4055 Nicollet Ave. S. LINDEN HILLS Lake Harriet Bandshell parking lot, 4135 W. Lake Harriet Parkway
CEDAR-ISLES-DEAN Cedar Lake, Cedar Lake Parkway and West 25th Street
LYNNHURST Lynnhurst Park, 1345 W. Minnehaha Parkway
EAST ISLES Lake of the Isles, East Lake of the Isles Parkway and West 27th Street ECCO Bde Maka Ska, East Calhoun Parkway and West Lake Street KENNY Kenny Park and Grass Lake, 1328 W. 58th St.
LOWRY HILL EAST Mueller Park, 2509 Colfax Ave. S. STEVENS SQUARE Stevens Square Park, 1801 Stevens Ave. WHITTIER Whittier Park, 425 W. 26th St.
Park Board starting two-year process to update its long-term vision The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) is kicking off a two-year process that will update the organization’s comprehensive plan to set priorities and policy direction for the next decade. The plan, dubbed “Parks for All,” will guide the work of the Park Board for years to come and describe what the system hopes to become, according to a news release. Separate from the Minneapolis 2040 Plan, Parks for All shapes the overall direction of the MPRB. Unlike area master plans, which plot out the future of specific physical parks and
recreation centers, the comprehensive plan is a broader vision for the entire organization and impacts all its departments, according to MPRB spokesperson Dawn Sommers. The last MPRB comprehensive plan went from 2007 to 2020. The Parks for All plan would go into effect in 2021 and guide the MPRB into the early 2030s. To get more community input, the Park Board is inviting neighborhood groups and grassroots organizations to submit their own ideas about outreach for the plan via a “community collaborator” program. The
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A woman faces charges in one 2018 incident, he said, but the damage keeps happening, and now it’s followed him to Southwest Minneapolis. Surveillance video shows a bandana covering a suspect’s face in multiple incidents, Avestini said. Police reports note broken pieces of bricks and concrete nearby on the sidewalk. At Mykonos, he said, a suspect was injured and left blood all over, taking $50 in change and smashing a $350 cash register without a penny inside. “All I know is every time the windows got fixed, they always came back and vandalized,” said the owner of Clientele Barbershop, who requested his name not be printed. He said he personally spent about $2,200 on windows until he refused to cover the cost of more. “What I decided to do was just stake out,” he said. The first night, the barbershop owner sat in the dark for about three hours, without seeing anyone. The second night, he was ready to give up before midnight, but then… “Boom — I hear it,” he said. “Once I make it outside the door, I see the person in the middle of the parking lot.” Tamiko Lashawnda Delaney, 32, is charged with one count of felony property damage in the May 17 incident. A witness who identified Delaney in a photo lineup said he saw her break the window and jump across the hood of his car during her escape, no longer wearing a mask, according to the criminal complaint. Delaney is pleading not guilty, and she’s seeking additional surveillance video to prove her innocence and show that someone else committed the crime. Her attorney did not immediately respond for comment. A trial in
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resonance that, as it goes up, gets more and more intense.” The Kenilworth Tunnel will be dug within two feet of the foundation of the Calhoun-Isles Condos, and an Itasca Consulting Group study commissioned by the condo association found that the building, a converted grain elevator, is highly susceptible to vibrations. Lee Petersen, Itasca’s principal engineer, has told a legislative commission that light rail construction could exceed acceptable vibration levels at the condominium and questioned whether Met Council engineers underestimated the challenges the building presents in their report. Sen. Scott Dibble (DFL-Minneapolis)
Hennepin County District Court is scheduled for April 8. Avestini said he doesn’t know who the suspect is, or why someone might target him. (Avestini and his businesses have been involved in at least 17 civil lawsuits that date back to 1991.) “I just want her to stop,” Avestini said. “I told her attorney, I said, ‘I will drop the charges if she answers two of the questions: Why she did it? And who put her up to it?’” Avestini said he recently installed a security system at 38th & Grand, which features an alarm and cameras he can monitor 24 hours a day. And he installed “bulletproof” windows at Avestopolis Cleaners. For Gilbertson, who initially planned to open Good Times last fall, the windows are a secondary issue. He said he’s struggled through issues like a leaky roof and the landlord’s
contribution to the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system. Avestini said the roof is fixed and he has contributed $6,000 toward heating and cooling. Gilbertson, who previously ran a bakery in Seattle, said he’s already invested thousands in architectural design, plumbing upgrades, electrical work, licensing fees, heat payments for a temporary furnace and commercial kitchen plans. He paused the project over the winter to decide what to do. “We just made the decision, let’s try to get some cash flow and get the doors open, and hope for the best and make a go of it,” he said. “That was a hard decision. … You have all of this investment and inertia in this specific address, basically, so it’s tough to just pull out and go somewhere else.” As a Kingfield resident, Gilbertson said it’s
been embarrassing to see shattered glass at the 38th & Grand bus stop and wait for repairs. “I want to be transparent here and I want to be honest with the community,” he said. “I’m willing to stay on and make this thing work on this corner, but it’s been challenging. … I’m hoping for the best right now, and we’re just trying to keep things moving forward.” The vision for Good Times remains the same: a jukebox, arcade-style video games, sidewalk seating along Grand and bar-style pizzas with “exceedingly thin crust” and sauce that “ain’t never sweet but zingy, bright garlicky and a touch spicy.” Avestini acquired the building formerly home to Peter Pan Dry Cleaners in 2017. He said additional shops will soon materialize in the building, including a cleaner and tailor. Another storefront would hold “ShipNet Mailbox Depot and more,” which Avestini described as a miniature OfficeMax with computer stations, printers, office supplies and shipping services. The Fitting Room keeps a storefront on the block, and an acupuncturist is looking at the former Kinoko Kids space, he said. Nearby business owners said they’re rooting for Good Times. Dave Foley, owner of the Record Spot, said the new restaurant would energize the neighborhood. “If it opens up, it’ll fly,” he said. Good Times aims to open later this spring, perhaps in May. The city approved a beer and wine license last fall, and a public hearing for a sidewalk café license is scheduled for April 23. “I still like the location, I still have faith in the location,” Gilbertson said. “Honestly, after everything that I’ve experienced thus far, nothing would surprise me anymore.”
and Rep. Frank Hornstein (DFL-Minneapolis) have sponsored bills to require additional study and the reimbursement of the Calhoun-Isles Condominium Association for its engineering and legal costs. SWLRT Construction Director Brian Runzel called the Calhoun-Isles Condos “one of our top concerns” and noted that crews would construct the tunnel using a technique known as hydraulic press-in, which generates significantly less vibration than traditional pile driving. “This is a difficult engineering challenge,” he said. “We’ve done some extra testing on the building to make sure we understand how it will respond. All buildings have what’s called resonance frequencies. … We are going to monitor those frequencies to make sure we don’t have problems.”
This explanation wasn’t enough to persuade Jim Nikora’s wife, Nancy. “We’re concerned about protecting what we have,” she said. “They say, ‘You don’t need a Plan B, everything will be fine, don’t worry about it,’ but that’s not very reassuring.” Hennepin County Commissioner Marion Greene (District 3) took flack from her Kenwood and Cedar-Isles-Dean constituents for her support of the Met Council’s lobbying efforts on behalf of the SWLRT project and her refusal to pledge, as Dibble and Hornstein have, to oppose the project should it necessitate the demolition of the Calhoun-Isles Condos. “I pledge to take no pledge,” she said. “I feel the frustration of the CIDNA and Kenwood neighborhoods and the frustration of the neighborhoods along Hennepin
and Lyndale avenues who are like, ‘Why isn’t this light rail going near us?’ But I do believe our region needs light rail. … You should know that my district is 55 precincts and most of those precincts want light rail.” The Met Council is waiting on a fullfunding grant agreement from the Federal Transit Administration before beginning construction on the transit line that will connect downtown Minneapolis to Eden Prairie. Sandra Denman, who lives near Cedar Lake East Beach on Upton Avenue, is dismayed that “the wildness” of her neighborhood’s prairie land will soon be spoiled by cement. She said she came to the March 20 meeting to register her disapproval. “I don’t think I’m going to change anything though,” she said. “It’s too late.”
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her process and intention in sharing these deeply personal stories by quoting from bell hooks’ “All About Love: New Visions”: I feel our nation’s turning away from love as intensely as I felt love’s abandonment in my girlhood. Turning away we risk moving into a wilderness of spirit so intense we may never find our way home again. Barlow said her show’s recurring themes include “the matriarch, the importance of passing down stories, the politics of representation, racial identity development, ‘otherness’ and, at its core, a granddaughter’s relationship to her grandmothers.”
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Pothole confidential A career city staffer fills in some holes In one capacity or another, Mike Kennedy has been working for nearly three decades in Minneapolis’ streets department, which is charged with patching the city’s potholes. (Kennedy, now the city’s director of transportation, maintenance and repair, said he does not resent R.T. Rybak for stealing the title of his memoir.)
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about shoveling the patching in, maybe packing it down a little bit. Then off you go. The winter repairs are made with a cold mix, also known as a street mix, which is a cold asphalt that doesn’t bond or stay very well at all. But you can use it in the colder temperatures. Sometimes it lasts into the summer, sometimes it lasts for a week and sometimes it lasts for less than a day. We often have to go back around and patch the same potholes repeatedly. In the winter, it’s about temporary patching, but in the summer we can perform permanent repairs. The difference is that we can use better materials and procedures. First the pothole gets cleaned out, then the sides and edges are coated with liquid asphalt cement, which is the black material that’s mixed with gravel to make asphalt. This acts like a glue for the hot asphalt, which is placed in the hole, rolled and compacted. It cures quickly as it cools to make a durable and long-lasting repair. The upside of permanent repairs is that they last, but the downside is that it takes longer to do the work. Hot mix asphalt is never made in the wintertime in Minnesota. Nobody does paving in the
winter; it’s too expensive to fire up the burners and keep a plant hot, and road construction is not practical in the cold winter months. For 60 years, Public Works had its own concrete batch-making plant in Minneapolis and our own asphalt production plant. About a dozen years ago, it got to the point where it was less expensive to buy asphalt than to make it. We decommissioned our plant, tore it down and it’s gone. Now the city buys hot mix from commercial asphalt plants. St. Paul still has a very old plant of its own, which is great because we can get hot mix a little earlier in the spring and a little later in the fall than we can from the commercial plants. A good defense against potholes is a good offense. A year or two after you pave a road, you already start to see cracks in the pavement.
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new Minneapolis festival will allow the public to tour some of the city’s most iconic buildings for free – including a number of notable sites in Southwest. Doors Open Minneapolis, set for May 18 and 19, will include access to buildings such as the Suburban World Theater, Calhoun Beach Club and Children’s Theatre Company. In total, the event will include 120 buildings throughout the city, including landmarks such as Target Field and the IDS Center. Scott Mayer, an organizer of the event, said the goal is to tell stories about Minneapolis’ past and show where it’s headed. Some buildings display elements of different historical eras, he said, while others, such as The Nordic in the North Loop, indicate what the city’s future looks like. Doors Open Minneapolis mirrors building-
to highlight what it’s done to build the community. He said he’s hoping people will come out Lowry Ave to learn more about great jobs in the city. Doors Open Minneapolis is being funded by corporate sponsors and the Minneapolis Foundation. Comcast is the presenting sponsor, and over a dozen other organizations are sponsors. Metro Transit will offer complementary passes for the event, Mayer said, and four property owners downtown will offer free parking. 17th Ave Event planners are looking for 1,000 volunteer greeters to help out at the different sites around the city. Volunteers will receive a Doors Open Minneapolis t-shirt and front-of-the-line access at all venues.
oriented events in other U.S. cities. Chicago, for example, has hosted a similar event since 2011 and last year had 257 sites included in its celebration. Milwaukee’s Doors Open event saw 26,100 people visit approximately 170 sites in 2018. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey praised the event in a press conference March 5 in Bellisio Foods’ Loring Park-based innovation center, located above the Lunds & Byerlys at 12th & Hennepin. Bellisio, which manufactures and distributes frozen foods, is one of the event sponsors and will open the innovation center up for tours during the event. Frey called Doors Open Minneapolis a “celebration of civic pride” and an “ideal day date.” Dan McConnell, business manager of the Minneapolis Building and Construction Trades Council, said the event allows his organization
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Lyndale Community School fifth-graders Dahaba Sharif (left) and Sage Bergren hover in the air during their school’s performance. Photos by Nate Gotlieb
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Forrest Wozniak makes working art for working people. Whether it’s a car shop in a South Minneapolis business node, an Uptown café or a Downtown advertising agency, when the 37-year-old sign painter takes on a project, he does it for more than money. It’s for the people behind the businesses and nonprofits he serves. “Sign painting is for folks,” he said. The Blaisdell, Icehouse, Blackbird Cafe, Bluestem Bar, Lowry Hill Meats and Common Roots Cafe are among the Southwest area mainstays adorned with his work. Sign painting was once common in the business world. Shops and businesses needed a competent painter to make signage that told the world who they were and what they sold. Modern printing techniques and computer design has changed that for many businesses, but local shops in Minneapolis and across the nation still go to skilled painters to help distinguish their operation, which keeps artisans like Wozniak up on ladders and lifts adding color to storefronts and buildings.
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“Sign painting has survived the test of time,” Wozniak said. The reason, he thinks, is the microeconomics of small commercial nodes that pop up in small towns and city neighborhoods: the corner with the drug store, the barbershop, the cafe. “That’s the culture I relate to,” he said. Wozniak believes his and his clients’ businesses are the antithesis of the large corporate monopolies that dominate modern life. He makes signs for businesses that make goods and provide services people can’t find on an app or order off Amazon. It’s how he supports small businesses and the communities they serve. “I consider it to be a purpose, because I don’t like corporatism,” he said. After a career working out of rented spaces, Wozniak converted the garage of his Bryant home into a dedicated workspace in 2017. He does about 75 percent of his work on job sites, so moving the workspace to his own property has helped cut down on extra travel time and simplified his life. The garage is full of signs that caught Wozniak’s eye over the years. He does his work on a paint-spattered wooden table in the middle of the room or at a massive easel equipped with an electrified sheet where he can cut stencils. Wozniak is a big man, over 6 feet tall, with powerful hands that make big gestures when he speaks and a beard beginning to gray. He keeps a short pencil tucked behind his ear, with specks of paint dotting his sweatshirt and work pants. A South Minneapolis native, Wozniak has been painting professionally since about 2001. Back then his method was to approach businesses short on signage and pitch them. If they didn’t have a sign, he could paint them one. Wozniak was not a formally trained artist and got his start working in trade crafts. He had stints working in furniture, construction
Forrest Wozniak shows a drawing of one of his pieces on display at Target Field: a souvenir style ticket stub from the ballpark’s opening day in 2010. Photos by Chris Juhn
When I started, we were painting for car mechanics and coffee shops and now we’re painting for interior designers. — Forrest Wozniak Paint jars and strip cans sit atop counters in the garage-turned-workshop where Forrest Wozniak works in South Minneapolis.
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I consider [sign painting] to be a purpose, because I don’t like corporatism. — Forrest Wozniak
Forrest Wozniak paints the outside of Crossfit Kingfield at 29th & Garfield. Photos courtesy of the artist
and masonry, all the while painting signs on the side. In 2005, he started working with prominent sign painter Phil Vandervaart. By 2008, sign painting was about half of his work. “In about 2010, I basically said, ‘You have to bet on success,’” he said. That year, he went into the trade full time and was interviewed for both the book and movie “Sign Painters.”
Wozniak’s portfolio speaks for itself. “When I started, we were painting for car mechanics and coffee shops and now we’re painting for interior designers,” he said. Danny Schwartzman, the owner of Common Roots, said he hired Wozniak because he respected the artist’s modern take on a traditional craft and style, much like what Schwartzman had in mind for his
café, an updated version of an old-school nosherie. He said Wozniak’s attention to detail and respect for the space created signage that helps shape the way customers feel about the shop. “It’s really in keeping with the place,” Schwartzman said. It’s not all small shops either. Last year, the Minnesota Twins hired Wozniak to paint two pieces in Target Field, including a souvenirstyle ticket stub from the ballpark’s opening day in 2010 that can be seen near Gate 34. Wozniak’s style trends old-fashioned, but that, he said, is sort of the nature of sign painting and hand-drawn art in general. Left to his own devices, he uses a traditional style. “Our work just looks old,” he said. He draws inspiration from local artists such as Mike Lynch, whose portraits of blue-collar life in Minneapolis Wozniak has enjoyed since he was a child, and from sign painters of the past, many of whom were aspiring illustrators putting their artistic skills to a more practical use. Wozniak considers himself lucky to get to practice an art that connects him to the city he grew up in and the community-oriented businesses he respects. “I am grateful every day that this is what I get to do,” he said.
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By Meleah Maynard
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really don’t have any faith that it will actually seem like spring by the time you read this. But even if we are enduring blizzards come April, it will help to dream about gardening. So, in that spirit, here are answers to some of the questions I got from readers over the winter.
Q: Can you name a few good annual vines that will grow quickly?
I sure can. Topping my list would be morning glories. You’ll find them in a range of colors. I love that they open early in the morning and then close by midday. Hyacinth bean can be harder to find, but this oldfashioned, twining vine produces lovely sweet-smelling purple blooms and long, curvy seed pods that kids love to pick in the fall. (I save the seeds for replanting in the spring.) If you haven’t tried black-eyed Susan vine, do it this year and you’ll be hooked. Great on a trellis or in hanging baskets, this vine is covered with dainty yellow blooms all season. Cardinal climber, with its trumpetshaped red flowers that hummingbirds love, is another good choice. Q: Is there anything deer won’t eat?
Deer will eat anything if they’re hungry enough, so everything’s pretty much a buffet in the winter. In warmer months, they will pass on things they don’t like so much, particularly plants that are spiky, scented or spicy tasting. Some of those plants are lavender, hellebore, boxwood, daffodils, ornamental grasses, Siberian iris and sage.
Q: Are there any hostas that will do well in the sun?
Yes! One of the positive things about living in our climate is that many hostas that would burn up elsewhere do just fine in sunny spots here. The key is to provide a bit more TLC in the form of water, nutrient-rich soil and a nice layer of mulch. Even with all that love, you may still see some leaf browning when it really gets hot. But if you’re all right with that, some good varieties to choose from include “Guacamole,” “Krossa Regal,” “Royal Standard,” “August Moon,” “Sum and Substance” and “Sun Power.” Q: Why do my bleeding hearts die in the summer?
Well, I hope you didn’t dig them up because they were likely just sleeping, not dead. Oldfashioned bleeding hearts (Dicentra spectabilis) go dormant by mid-summer. That means you’ll first see them turning yellow, then brown and then they’ll pretty much die back to the ground. To hide the unsightly hole they leave behind, plant something close by that will leaf out fully around the same time the bleeding hearts say goodbye for the season. Hostas, astilbe and lady’s mantle are all good candidates for that job.
your soil with lots of organic matter, like compost. If you think water and soil are not the issue, try improving pollination by planting things bees love nearby. You can also try handpollinating plants using a Q-tip or a very small paint brush. There are lots of YouTube videos that demonstrate the simple technique.
Q: Why do my cucumbers sometimes grow in a C shape rather than straight?
Q: How can I help protect snapping turtle eggs at Lake Harriet this summer?
Weirdly shaped cucumbers are a common issue for gardeners. Hot, dry weather during fruit set can be a problem. Or your soil might need more nutrients. Pollination could have been poor for some reason. To help, try your best to keep plants watered well and improve
Actually, that question didn’t come in. I’m asking it of you, dear readers. Last summer I wrote about how, in June, snapping turtles come ashore to lay eggs on the beach at the north end of Lake Harriet (livinthing.com/ a-happy-ending-for-baby-snapping-turtles).
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If your bleeding hearts look dead in the summer, don’t dig them up. They’re likely just sleeping.
Once the mom turtles go back into the water, those eggs mostly wind up destroyed by people who don’t realize they’re just beneath the sand and dogs who eat them. This June, I’d like to try to see about moving some of those eggs out of harm’s way. I’m not sure where to start, but I’ll be looking into it soon and I could use a few more people to help me do whatever it is we’re going to do. If you’d like to help, please send me an email via my website below. Many thanks. Meleah Maynard is a Minneapolisbased writer and editor who blogs at Livin’ Thing (livinthing.com).
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Mill City Cooks
Recipes and food news from the Mill City Farmers Market
Back to the basics: beans, corn and wheat
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STEWED HEIRLOOM BEANS WITH ROSEMARY AND SQUASH Recipe courtesy of the Mill City Farmers Market
vetted for quality, but also for their dedication to the market’s sustainability statement, which among other things prohibits the use of pesticides and GMO seed.
Heirloom beans Home cooks should be sure to pick up a pound or two of Bean Market’s heirloom beans at the winter market. The farm, owned by Hmong refugees Xai and Tongsee, specializes in growing dozens of varieties of dry beans. Unlike canned beans or stale plastic bags of dry beans in the supermarket, these are full of vibrant flavor when slow cooked like in the accompanying recipe.
Handmade organic tortillas Sin Fronteras Farm is a new addition to Mill City’s winter market and will only be there through the end of April. Eduardo follows traditional methods he learned from his family to turn organic corn, water and lime into packages of handmade, organic warm tortillas!
Heritage Flour Sunrise Flour Mill is a small mill in North Branch, specializing in organic grains and heritage wheat. Heritage wheat predates modern, commercial varieties so it is more digestible for most people with gluten sensitivity. In addition to wheat products, Marty and Darrold also sell rye flour, oatmeal, oat flour and heritage pancake mix. Learn more at millcityfarmersmarket.org. Tiger Eye beans at the Mill City Farmers Market. Submitted photo
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This makes a great side dish to go along with roast chicken or braised pork. It can also be turned into a vegan entree with the addition of more roasted vegetables, mushrooms or fresh greens. Ingredients 1 pound (about 2½ cups) dried beans such as Tiger Eye or Jacob’s Cattle from Bean Market, picked over and rinsed, soaked in water overnight 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 medium carrots, medium dice 1 large onion, medium dice
3 whole cloves garlic 1 pinch chili flakes 1 stem fresh rosemary 1 teaspoon salt 4 cups winter squash, medium dice 2 tablespoons olive oil Salt and freshly cracked black pepper to taste
Method Soak the beans overnight in a large bowl, in enough water to cover them by 2 inches. The next day, preheat the oven to 450. Drain the water from the beans. Add the olive oil, carrots and onions to a large Dutch oven and saute over medium-high heat until the vegetables are nicely browned. Add the beans to the pot, along with 3 whole cloves of garlic, chili flakes, rosemary and 1 teaspoon of salt. Pour enough water over the ingredients to cover them by 2 inches. Simmer the beans, adding more water if necessary to keep them covered, for 30 to 50 minutes, or until they are tender. While the beans are cooking, spray a large sheet tray with cooking spray and add the squash, olive oil, salt and pepper. Toss to coat the squash thoroughly. Roast the squash for 15–20 minutes or until softened and nicely browned. Add the squash to the beans and simmer for 3 minutes. Season to taste with more salt and pepper and a drizzle of olive oil.
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are powerful in their simplicity, love and normality. During this time, during the civil rights movement, visual images were an important tool to bring awareness and effect change in the hearts and minds of people who had never seen images like this before.” Barlow’s parents’ interracial marriage and their experiences with racism led them to raise her and her siblings in a loving and diverse community. Growing
up in Powderhorn Park and attending Park Avenue United Methodist Church, she was in a “mixed-kid bubble.” “It wasn’t until I got a little older that this facade began to crumble,” she said. “By middle school and high school, moving into whiter and whiter spaces, it was clear to me that code-switching was key to survival.” She found her place as friends and mentors encouraged her to express herself through art. “I found the confidence and language to talk about the complexities of race and
identity and connect with others through my story,” she said. In her art, Barlow aims to connect the past, present and future. Her pieces challenge us to think critically about the stories we tell each other outside of the conditioned language of racial binaries, while reflecting on our ancestors and our personal history. A distinctive aspect of Barlow’s portraits is the way she captures a subject’s eyes, allowing the viewer to look deep into their personality. “The centering of my grandmothers in this series comes from the desire to connect intergenerational intersections of race and gender and speak to the complexities of a family’s multiracial relationships,” Barlow said. While creating the work she grounded herself by reading hooks’ “All About Love” and Resmaa Menakem’s “My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies.”
By middle school and high school, moving into whiter and whiter spaces, it was clear to me that code-switching was key to survival. — Leslie Barlow
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Leslie Barlow’s work spans art galleries, college campuses and communities. Photo by Bobby Rogers
Leslie Barlow’s exhibition “A Familiar Portrait of Labor and Love” will be on view at THE Gallery Minneapolis at Le Meridien Chambers from April 17 to June 14. The opening reception is 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 17. For more information on the artist, visit lesliebarlowartist.com.
The books helped her incorporate the conversations she had had with her family members into her artwork. Menakem’s book guided Barlow’s understanding of historical, racialized trauma passed down in black bodies, and she said it helped her process the difficult conversations she had while working on the series. In one piece Barlow portrays her grandmothers divided, yet brought together, by a column of quilt swatches sewn into the canvas. The fabric adds a colorful mixedmedia aesthetic while juxtaposing the unique lives of her African-American paternal grandmother, Ellen, and her Danish maternal grandmother, Ruth. Barlow’s work spans art galleries, college campuses and communities. She teaches young artists throughout the state, from North Minneapolis youth at Juxtaposition Arts to undergraduate students in the University of Minnesota’s art department. She’s also part of the team at MidWest Mixed, a group that organizes Twin Cities programming for mixed-race people and their families. “I enjoy connecting with people through conversations about our history, culture and identities and empowering others to share their stories — whether that’s through the work I do in the classroom, the dialogue spaces we hold at MidWest Mixed, or a collaboration in one of my paintings.” Emerging artists, particularly artists of color, face a constant battle of sustaining their work, accessing resources and preventing displacement. Gentrification and a cultural shift in Minneapolis has led to the loss of foundational art institutions such as Intermedia Arts, raising questions about the future of the city’s creative community. Recognizing the risks the artist community is facing, Barlow launched Studio #400 in partnership with the gallery and community space, Public Functionary. Located in a 2,000-square-foot studio space in the Northrup King Building, Studio #400 is designed for emerging artists age 30 or younger working in drawing, painting, collage/mixed media, photography, digital media, textiles, sculpture and installation. In all of Barlow’s work – the powerful visual pieces, the challenging conversations she’s initiating and the community she’s building – she is driven by a desire to lead people into new understandings of their histories and their collective futures, creating relationships and connections in a time of division. “I hope to find home in visual explorations that challenge superficially simple narratives and change our perceptions of family normalcy; I find that our visual culture born in white supremacy leaves little room for complex representations that are neither/ both, non-binary,” she said. “I am in the pursuit of creating a new language, one that is both improvised and rooted in history.” Ryan Stopera is a photographer, filmmaker, educator, and co-director of Free Truth Media. He lives in the Lyndale neighborhood.
southwestjournal.com / April 4–17, 2019 B13
Moments in Minneapolis
By Karen Cooper
A Tangletown home’s hard-luck history
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ouses are shelters, giving us refuge from the labors of the world. We all know that, but some houses take a while to learn the job. The home at 5021 Lyndale Ave. S. was a slow-starter. It was built in 1919, an early design by Jack Liebenberg. He also designed the Uptown Theatre as well as hundreds of other
buildings and theatres all over the North. It was built for William Wigginton, an immigrant who came to Minneapolis via France, England, Canada and St. Paul. He was the manager of the Dayton’s tearoom. The Wiggintons — William, Minnie and their son, Bill — enjoyed their gracious and spacious
home for only three years before some unknown circumstance caused them to sell. They left Minneapolis but returned 10 years later. Bill became a beloved disc jockey on WCCO radio. Waldo J. Ehlman owned the house for 4 years. He, too, suffered an apparent downturn in fortune. He tried to sell a product to protect the
Karen Cooper is a researcher at Hennepin History Museum. She is interested in Minneapolis lives and places nearly forgotten. If you would like to know your Southwest house’s history, please locate it in the museum’s photo collection (tinyurl.com/hhm-houses) and send a request to yf@urbancreek.com.
This house at 5021 Lyndale Ave. S. was built in 1919 by the same designer who worked on the Uptown Theatre. Image from the collection of the Hennepin History Museum
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finish of those newfangled automobiles everyone was driving. He quickly turned to selling autos. By the Great Depression, he had sold his house on Lyndale and formed a mutual support group for out-of-work executives. The group was limited to those who had once earned more than $4,000 a year—a huge salary in the 1930s. Roy and Grace Kivits bought the house next. Roy had worked his way up to being a department manager at a bank. Of course, banking was a tenuous field during the Depression, and he lost the job. The family struggled through the end of the Depression and the beginning of World War II. Short on cash, they put their Havilland china, furniture and penny-vending machine collection up for sale in classified ads. By 1946, they’d sold the house And here is where things turned brighter for 5021 Lyndale and its residents. The next owner, Carsten Jacobson, was a steady, careful Minneapolis city attorney, always looking out for his employer’s interests. He earned raise after raise, and for decades his family lived placid and comfortable lives. In recent years, this house has changed hands at least five more times, each at a higher sale price. Recent real estate ads note how previous owners had updated the place but preserved the 1900s charm. At 100 years old, this is a comfortable and pleasing architectural gem, a home and haven for the folks who live there today.
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Get Out Guide. By Sheila Regan
CHAMPAGNE CONFETTI AND NOW ENSEMBLE Aby Wolf and Eric Mayson bring their experiment in finding the liminal space between acoustic and electronic music to the Twin Cities when Champagne Confetti hits the Parkway Theater. Vocalist Wolf and vocalist/pianist Mayson are accompanied by a string of musicians, singers and percussionists as they create an ethereal sound. Champagne Confetti is joined by the New York-based contemporary chamber group NOW Ensemble.
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THE HOBBIT The Children’s Theatre Company’s slimmed down version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” shows you don’t need a lot of gimmicks to make theater magic. Director/adaptor Greg Banks and the cast of five actors share the epic story of hobbits, dwarves, wizards and dragons through the use of physicality, humor and a dose of audience participation. Yes, if you are sitting in the front row, you may find yourself cast in the show. The roleswitching, done by all of the cast except Dean Holt’s Bilbo, never gets confusing. Rather, watching the actors transform— often with very little costume change — is part of the fun.
Artist Christopher Corey Allen finds inspiration from rave culture, combat sports and semiotics for a series of videos and sculptures at Hair + Nails Gallery. The exhibition explores social cues, gestures, and social shapeshifting, blurring the lines between who is looking and what is being looked at.
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MAPPING BLACK IDENTITIES In Frank Bowling’s 1970 map painting, titled “False Start,” the most visible continents that appear are Africa, South America and Australia. If you squint, you can kind of see North America as a red blob, and Europe is invisible. That’s on purpose, as Bowling questions the ways European colonialism continues to persist as a power structure in the world, especially in the art world. “Mapping Black Identities,” at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, uses Bowling’s work as a launchpad to explore the myriad ways that black artists have expressed their identity through art. With works like a crocheted sculpture adorned with children toys by Nick Cave, an enormous dyed cloth by Sam Gilliam and an intimate photograph defying stereotypical portrayals of black bodies by Deana Lawson, the exhibition challenges and provokes in numerous modalities.
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Art In Bloom A sure sign that spring is finally here is the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s annual “Art in Bloom” weekend. It’s a fragrant extravaganza that matches ingenious floral designs with sculpture, paintings and other works of art across the museum’s galleries. So if this winter just seemed too much to bear, treat yourself to the often brilliant designs that illuminate and interpret art across centuries. Here’s a sampling of some of the Art in Bloom events you may want to explore.
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Flowers after Hours This spring fashion show is emceed by WCCO co-anchor Jason DeRusha. After two shows at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m., meet the models at 8:30 p.m., followed by pop-up fashion throughout the galleries.
Cocktail experts from Norseman Distillery guide workshop goers through three different floral-inspired cocktails recipes, followed by a tour of Mia’s “spirited” works led by senior docent Lucy Hicks.
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enzyme. For me, I start to get more concerned when the reading goes above 200. ALP comes from a totally different spot in the liver, and changes in this liver enzyme typically cause less concern for veterinarians. (ALP also comes from the bone, so this enzyme is not liver specific. For the scope of this article, however, we will discuss ALP made by the liver). This enzyme is made on the liver cell membrane, and there are a variety of factors that can stimulate the liver to make more of this enzyme. The normal range for this enzyme is 5–160 U/L. For me, I start to get more concerned when this enzyme goes above 500. It is common to see this enzyme become very elevated in dogs that are otherwise acting normally. I have some patients that have an ALP in the 1,000–2,000 range and clinically appear healthy. There are a variety of reasons that the liver will make more ALP enzyme. One common reason is that the aging liver will sometimes develop benign areas of liver growth called nodular hyperplasia. (You have probably heard that your ears and nose keep growing as you get older – so too will your liver grow new cells over time.) If there are more liver cells to make more of this enzyme, then the ALP will increase.
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