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MEDICAL MARIJUANA PROGRAM tries to measure up
The state’s medicinal cannabis industry has grown steadily in recent years
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ndrew Bachman describes his company’s medicine as “healthcare from the heartland.” It’s a romantic sentiment from the CEO of a medical company, but Bachman’s LeafLine Labs isn’t your average medicine manufacturer. The Cottage Grove-based company is one of only two producers of cannabis under Minnesota’s medical marijuana program, now a tiny industry that despite the stigma and heavy regulations serves more than 5,300 active patients across the state.
Nearly three years after the state’s marijuana bill passed, Bachman, a Southwest Minneapolis resident, describes the industry as “highly scrutinized, regulated strictly and rolled out thoughtfully,” but one that is poised for future growth. “We are truly pioneering a novel health care sector on a road that has not been blazed before,” he said.
5 LeafLine Labs operates a 42,000-square-foot growing facility out of Cottage Grove. Submitted photo
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On roll-up to federal funding, bumps for Southwest light rail
A plan to end homelessness closes, but the work goes on
Despite the latest delays, Met Council is still aiming to begin construction in 2017
Heading Home Hennepin aimed to end homelessness by 2016
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Metropolitan Council Chair Adam Duininck said in April “it’s still possible” Southwest Light Rail Transit construction will begin this year, despite the $1.86-billion project encountering new obstacles this spring. The Counties Transit Improvement Board, a significant local contributor to the project’s funding package, spent months mulling a breakup before dropping the idea. But uncertainty over the transit collaborative’s future forced a pause at the Federal Transit Administration, where Met Council’s application for a grant to cover half of the project’s costs is
Ten years ago, Robert Wright spent the winter under a bridge on Hennepin Avenue. He lit a candle in a coffee can inside his sleeping bag. He was careful to take off his shoes at night — if his feet became sweaty they could freeze and he’d risk losing toes. He slept outside because he resented shelters that cast him out at 6 a.m. with nowhere to go but the skyway, where people eyed him warily on the way to work. He held a sign on the median and pooled cash with the “Dunwoody Crew,” which bought alcohol by the half-gallon. There were in-house squabbles, he said, but people generally looked
under consideration. Duininck said FTA officials are also waiting for Met Council to finalize joint-operating agreements with the two railroads that will share their freight-hauling corridors with Southwest LRT. Those private negotiations are occurring in parallel with a public debate at the state capitol, where a controversial bill introduced this spring would limit freight railroads’ liability in a collision involving light rail trains. Meanwhile, as the Met Council is weighing transit fare increases and service cuts to offset a SEE SOUTHWEST LIGHT RAIL / PAGE A11
out for each other. “It’s a community,” he said. “When I look back on it, I was crazy.” That was before St. Stephen’s Street Outreach workers met Wright under the bridge and found him a room in a boarding house. He’s lived in a Longfellow apartment for seven years now. “This is really cool,” he said, pulling out a set of keys. “This is for the front door. I have my own mailbox. And this is for my bicycle.” Wright remembers the Dunwoody Crew holding high regard for Jane Bringsthem, SEE HEADING HOME HENNEPIN / PAGE A10
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Amazing Thailand is inviting Uptown to celebrate the Thai New Year with a free block party. Hennepin Avenue will shut down between Lake and 31st on April 29. Attendees will walk through a tunnel of lanterns (evoking Northern Thailand) to find Thai boxing, beer and wine and khao poon — with chicken feet on the side. A stage near CB2 will showcase traditional Thai instruments and fire dancing after sundown. The annual papaya salad-eating contest will also take center stage, and the restaurant reports they have many applicants willing to take on a strong level of spice. The dish is a popular choice at the restaurant and it’s made with fresh chili peppers. “It can be so spicy,” said operations manager Tracy Schultz. “It takes to spice really well.” Street food not found on the regular menu will include vegan green curry and khao poon: vermicelli noodles with curry sauce, mint, lime and other herbs. The broth takes a long time to prepare, so it typically only comes out on special occasions. The restaurant has celebrated Songkran in-house since 2011. The event has become more packed each year, with guests waiting in line to enter. “We don’t want to turn anyone away,” Schultz said. Just as Chinese New Year has become part of American culture, she said, they’re hoping to bring Thai New Year into the spotlight.
“First, it’s about family,” general manager Yin Srichoochat said. “All Thai people go back to their hometown.” She said they pour water on their parents’ and grandparents’ hands and ask for forgiveness. Water blessings take place inside the temples, and out on the streets, one is likely to get soaked. “Some years I’ve had to lock my car,” she said. She explained that water holds a special place in Thailand, given the country’s connection to the Mekong River. Schultz thinks the symbolism might resonate in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, although block party attendees shouldn’t need to worry about getting wet. The event also marks Amazing Thailand’s 10th anniversary. Srichoochat’s sister Kulsatree and her husband Dee Noree moved to the United States from Nong Khai in Thailand. They wanted to open a Thai restaurant for anyone missing home. They try to cultivate a family atmosphere, starting all employees as host. “It’s not about how much experience you have, it’s how much you’re willing to learn and adapt to a new culture,” Srichoochat said. The family is about to grow a bit more. Kulsatree is pregnant with twins, and her due date falls on the 29th. They’re hoping the babies will arrive after the party. The block party runs 4 p.m.–10 p.m. For more information, visit songkranuptown.com.
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The husband-and-wife owners of CrossFit Linden Hills didn’t exactly intend to open their new gym on Anne Mezzenga’s due date. But she and Logan Bautch are ready to welcome their second gym and second baby to the world this month. They live in Fulton, eight blocks away from the new studio at 4420 Drew Ave. S. in the former Turn Style Consignment space. They operated CrossFit Nordeast for the past four years at 2400 N. 2nd St. Mezzenga has continued the Crossfit regimen throughout her pregnancy, providing an example of how the exercises can be adapted for everyone. Instead of pull-ups, for example, she can use the rings to lean back and pull herself up. People who compete in CrossFit competitions take the same classes as beginners, they said. The gym features a “handstand-pushup wall,” rowing machines, kettlebells and other “infinitely scaleable” equipment. “It looks more like a playground than a gym,” Bautch said.
Bautch said classes offer strength training followed by intense conditioning so people can get in and out in an hour. “A lot of this community is already incredibly active,” he said. “We’re trying to prepare people for what they do outside of the gym.” He said the workouts constantly change to keep it interesting. “Every time you come to class it’s going to be something different,” he said. “People don’t get bored with it because we keep it fun.” Aside from the classes, the couple hopes to draw moms’ groups to a lounge that’s already stocked with toys and books. They offer Wi-Fi and want people to consider stopping in to work, perhaps taking advantage of open gym times to take 10-minute rowing breaks. The Northeast location offers monthly “barbells and beers” happy hours, and they expect to start something similar in Linden Hills. “It’s all about balance and being happy and well,” Bautch said.
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Dan Vargas’ event planning background is evident at the co-working space he founded above William’s Pub on Hennepin. At the touch of his phone, he can change the music or switch the color of the lights above the eight-foot chandeliers. There is a bar, artwork mounted high on the walls, an arcade room, a kitchen stocked with snacks, a pool table and a T-Rex skull replica. “I wanted it to have a little bit of a wow factor,” he said. “A little bit more of a home away from home. … It’s a cross between a country club and a co-working space.” Businesses who office at The Study include a jeweler, a radio show, a beauty agency and a real estate investment group. Memberships include access to a CPA and an attorney to answer small business questions at no charge. The Study also recently launched continuing education courses on topics like improving financial fitness, digital marketing, starting a
blog and developing passion in the workplace. There are football game nights and occasional wine tastings. Co-workers even went skydiving together. “It’s like ‘Cheers’ for business owners,” Vargas said. “We’re focusing on trying to build community.” Aside from operating The Study, Vargas plans events like the Crystal Ball on New Year’s Eve, which he said initially drew 1,500 people and now approaches 4,000. He previously operated the clothing boutique FOR TONIGHT, a designer dress rental shop, at Calhoun Square. Vargas said he decided to launch The Study after networking events at bars became old — people would attend to socialize rather than network, he said. Instead, The Study hosts “elite” networking events that pour champagne and are invitation-only. “We want to be around other people that are growing and trying to be better,” he said.
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The master plan envisions a wide promenade in the area that could be used for races or food trucks and connect the lakes, nearby businesses and the Midtown Greenway. In addition, the lake’s sailing school could relocate from the northeast corner near Tin Fish to the northwest corner, according to the plan. The school’s new lakeside building could provide restrooms and a Chain of Lakes visitor center. The Park Board received mixed feedback about the idea of relocating the sailing school. Members of the West Calhoun Neighborhood Council said they don’t want their de facto neighborhood park (currently used for baseball, lacrosse, soccer, astronomy nights and movie nights) reduced in size. A top priority for the neighborhood is to fix chronic flooding, which can leave the park unusable for much of the summer. The northwest portion of the lake was once a wetland, and it was filled in the 1900s under the oversight of Theodore Wirth. A failed storm sewer there increases the likelihood of flooding as well. The Master Plan recommends reducing the size of the park’s lawn and elevating it to provide stormwater storage underneath.
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Green Party candidate joins Ward 8 race A second candidate emerged in April for the Ward 8 City Council seat Elizabeth Glidden plans to leave after three terms in office. Terry White, a marketing operations manager in the healthcare industry, is making his first run for public office with the backing of the local Green Party. White will go up against Andrea Jenkins, a DFLer who once worked as Glidden’s aide and now leads the University of Minnesota’s Transgender Oral History Project. “A large part of why I’m running as a Green is to ensure that ecological wisdom is incorporated into city policies,” White said. “In particular, I want to ensure that the city’s Climate Action Plan is implemented and fully funded.” The plan, adopted by the City Council in 2013, sets a goal of reducing the city’s overall greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2025 from a 2006 baseline. It also sets targets for waste reduction, increasing recycling and composting and growing the proportion of Minneapolis commuters who walk or bike to work. White said he began contemplating a run for office in late 2012 after city and state DFL pols — aided by Republicans in the legislature — pushed through a bill to fund U.S. Bank Stadium’s construction, bypassing an amendment to the city charter that many interpreted to mandate a citywide vote on committing $10 million or more in city funds to the plan. He described the tactic as “underhanded and disempowering for the people of Minneapolis.” White said the “tone needs to change at City Hall” and that he’d bring the cooperative and collaborative approaches required in his private-sector work to public office. “I’d like to bring my ability to listen and build consensus to the table so real progress can be made on economic and social justice issues,” he said. “There’s a nonviolent way to solve problems that I want to help lead.” White’s other priorities, if elected, include committing more city funding to affordable
housing and seeking policy solutions that would encourage developers to build more affordable units. He’d also raise the city’s goals for contracting the services of womenand minority-owned businesses. “I’d also like to produce a scorecard on socially responsible procurement, which I think will promote greater transparency,” he added. White, who lives in the Field neighborhood, is married and has two boys, aged 10 and 11. He and his wife relocated in 2006 to Minneapolis from the New York City area, where they both worked for nonprofits. White plans an official campaign kickoff April 22, and he said his campaign website will launch that same day. He and his family plan to spend that morning picking up trash at Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Kingfield as part of the citywide Earth Day Cleanup event. The City Council currently includes one member from the Green Party, Cam Gordon, who represents Ward 2 and is unopposed in his bid for a fourth term. In addition to Gordon and White, the party has endorsed Samantha Pree-Stinson in Ward 3. White said ranked-choice voting, a balloting system used in Minneapolis municipal elections since 2009, benefits the party’s endorsed candidates. “Ranked-choice voting allows people to vote for the candidate they feel best represents them, regardless of party,” he said. “That means people can vote Green first, and if I’m not elected, their vote will still count.”
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he photo that goes with this column was taken two weeks ago in Parque de los Periodistas Gabriel Garcia Marquez, or “Journalists’ Park,” named in honor of the great Colombia-born author of “100 Years Of Solitude” and for the journalists, poets and writers who worked in media offices that surrounded the popular communal square in the 1960s. At the center of the square sits a statue of Simon Bolivar and not much else, but I spent a lot of time with my family there the first week in April, since the park sits directly across from our hostel, the Platypus hostel in La Candelaria area of Bogota. It was our third trip to Colombia since we became a Colombian-American adoptive family in 1995 and 1998, and while I’ve always said I’m grateful to Colombia for giving me my kids, these days I’m grateful that my kids gave me Colombia. During our stay, Journalists’ Park provided me with some of the best people-watching to be had on the planet; a front-row seat to a ridiculously vibrant and seemingly endless parade of beautiful smiling souls, business people, high school students, elementary school students, college students, vendors, desperately poor beggars, stray dogs, musicians, ranters, ravers and all sorts of characters holding forth in animated Spanish and English. The neighborhood hosts dozens of bars, pubs and several music-themed clubs (one in particular, the Doors Rock Bar, provided me with a couple nights of blissed-out American ’80s metal), and I savored every morsel of it, delighted to be out of the USA and far from its dimwitted politics and culture. Our last morning in Bogota, I was missing Colombia already, wistfully minding my own business and taking some last photos when a group of about 50 field-tripping school kids engulfed me. Moments before, they’d been standing quietly in the center of the square as their teacher spoke of the significance of Marquez and Bolivar and the written word, and now the kids wanted some action.
They saw me and seemed to make a beeline for me. There was no escape. They started laughing at me, the only obviously non-Colombian in sight. I was doomed, so I went with it. I started fist-bumping the kids, which proved wildly popular. “Hey, maaan,” several of the boys said to me as our knuckles connected, like they’d watched too many American gangsta movies and wanted to test my Caucasian machismo. I returned their adolescent jive, which amped them up more and inspired more laughs, more fist-bumps. I spoke a little Spanish and flashed my “This Is Colombia, Not Columbia” t-shirt to cheers, and they started taking selfies with me like I was a giraffe at the zoo. “I am Gringo Jimmy!” I told my new friends, raising my arms in mock surrender, and before I could tell them that I indeed was a real-live writer, a journalist, wandering around Journalists’ Park here before them, the goofball chant went up: “Gringo Jimmy! Gringo Jimmy! Gringo Jimmy!” Half a dozen selfies with Gringo Jimmy later, the group’s teacher took my camera and took this photo and then they were on their way; the class marched up the street and out of sight and were gone for good. Poof. I actually shook my head, looked around and said out loud, “Did that really just happen?” Our Parque de los Periodistas encounter all happened in under four minutes, I don’t know a single name or person in the picture, yet I cherish it and I’ve lingered over the pure joy it brings me ever since. Why? Where are those kids now? Where are those selfies? Part of me pines for that connection, to know more, to insist to them that our chance meeting was meaningful and unforgettable and what life is all about and that I wanted to have a chance to say a proper goodbye. Alas, my Gringo Jimmy moment with those random kids went by like so much does in life — too fast — but hell if it didn’t lift and continue to lift my heart as an example of a wonderfully pure connection, a moment of hilarious harmony, a fleeting few minutes shared between happy humans who will never see each other again.
Part of me hopes this photo and column gets out there and some smart teacher or student in Bogota will recall that morning and discover that a journalist in the United States is still thinking about them and wants them to know that he will always be grateful for the brief but beautifully impactful time they had together. Look at those smiles, for heaven’s sake. Lord knows I need them now. Upon and shortly after arriving home, I learned of the tragic sudden deaths of my friends Dan Fobbe and Stella Blue, both of whom I came to know through playing and loving live music together. Did I know them well? Yes, as well as anyone joined by late nights and loud guitars knows one another, but not as well as their families and relatives and lovers, though the times we shared together, and the community that was stoked by their great spirits and flames, remain as ineffable as they are unforgettable. I’ve pored over photos of Dan and Stella over the last few days, along with the one of the Jimmy Gringo crew, and I can’t help but think that losing people you love is like my encounter with the kids. I want to hold my loved ones close, keep all of it forever, but the truth is that that’s impossible, you can’t do that, and to try to do so is almost anti-life and -living. So here’s to life. Cheers to life. I’m sad about my friends and Prince and how fragile life feels and, note to self, you can’t know your impact on another person’s life and vice versa because the truth is we’re all just floating through one another’s lives, trying to live and love and learn, and today’s lesson is to be sure to tell your loved ones how you feel about them and say muchas gracias and “it was so very nice to meet you and know you and love you and you mattered so much to me” while you can because in the end you might not get a chance to say a proper goodbye. Jim Walsh lives and grew up in South Minneapolis. He can be reached at jimwalsh086@gmail.com
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Voices I suggest the following be added to building regulations:
Regulating teardowns I do not feel that the teardown and rebuild experience has improved with updated rules, as a recent Southwest Journal article implied. My neighborhood is filled with teardowns and rebuilds. In my observation, there is little consideration to fit the size of the house to the size of the lot, let alone fit the character of the neighborhood. Even with the new rules — which do not go far enough — the city has little consideration for the wellbeing of the neighborhood or the long-term effect on the community as they continue to permit the construction of these oversized structures at the expense of older Minneapolis homes. The teardown and rebuild phenomenon is an opportunistic, for-profit business arrangement between the City of Minneapolis and builders that preys on the increased value of our community rather than building it up. It seems neither the City of Minneapolis nor the builders have appropriate concern for what neighboring homeowners have to say. My personal experience with the city is that it is dismissive of complaints from neighbors during construction. It is my opinion that the entire regulatory code that governs these teardowns is designed to benefit city tax and fee collection and the builders and city employees who oversee this industry. I think the City of Minneapolis should protect its current citizens and help them navigate their rights during the construction process.
1. All city builders should be required to provide temporary electric on the property from the onset of construction, and electric compressors should be used in closed areas, as soon as there are walls, where the noise can be contained. 2. Pounding piles should not be allowed. 3. Teardowns that retain the original foundation must meet all current setback requirements for new construction and not be any closer to the property lines than is allowed for new construction. 4. The City of Minneapolis should provide arbitration and enforcement services to affected neighbors who have sustained damage due to construction, as the city receives license fees from these builders.
5. Incoming builders need to provide all surrounding neighbors with a to-do list to document the condition of their homes well in advance of their arrival, so that the builder can be held responsible for any damage to homes. 6. Any damage should be repaired by the contractor of the homeowner’s choice and not the damaging contractor. 7. The city should be held financially accountable for permitted structures and city planners should have to actually visit sites and meet with adjoining neighbors prior to permitting. 8. Surrounding homeowners should pay only a small percentage of their property taxes during the entire construction period. It is outrageous to expect suffering homeowners, whose use of their own property is highly altered for the entire construction process, to pay as if they could fully use and enjoy their properties while a construction business is
operating in close proximity. 9. Builders should have to pay for time stamp cameras, issued by the city, at a site once there is a complaint by neighbors regarding working during non-allowed hours or blocked access on a regular basis. These cameras should be accessible to the city and should be used to generate fines to contractors who do not follow city rules. Alternatively, city staff and police could enforce the complaints at the time they are suffered. 10. A study of the light impact of new houses on the adjoining neighbors’ properties should be required as part of the permitting process and the impact should meet standards set forth by neighborhood associations and the impacted neighbors. Anne Feicht Linden Hills
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Moments in Minneapolis
By Cedar Imboden Phillips
Aftermath of a summer storm
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oday’s Southwest residents are very familiar with the Lake Harriet Bandshell, but newer or younger residents may not realize that it is the fifth pavilion to be built on or near the same location. The pavilion shown here was the third. It was built in 1904 to replace an earlier version destroyed by fire. The building housed a rooftop garden and a large bandshell for concerts. Extreme wind swept through Southwest Minneapolis on a stormy night in July 1925, destroying the pavilion and causing additional devastation to the surrounding parkland and lakeshore. This photograph was taken in the storm’s aftermath. Cedar Imboden Phillips is executive director of the Hennepin History Museum. Learn more about the museum and its offerings at hennepinhistory.org or 870-1329.
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known as “Jungle Jane.” On a recent weekday in April, Bringsthem sat on the Hennepin Avenue median drinking vodka from a bottle. When asked where she slept the night before, she pointed to a traffic light. “Ten feet from the red light,” she said. “We’re alcoholics. We like to drink and we like to sign and we make money. We all take a corner. …We all share. We have to.” A 10-year plan by the City of Minneapolis and Hennepin County didn’t end homelessness as hoped. The Department of Housing and Urban Development reports that 2,984 people were homeless in 2007 and 3,056 were homeless in 2016. The number peaked at 3,731 in 2014. But much has changed in the past decade. Homelessness has gone from a fringe issue with a band-aid approach to a mainstream policy issue, said Gail Dorfman, executive director of St. Stephen’s Human Services. Pilot projects have rolled into permanent programs. Supportive housing providers now collaborate to prioritize housing for people deemed the most vulnerable: long-term homeless and those with a disability. Street outreach workers have become the primary point of contact linking single adults to housing support. Hennepin County Medical Center and Corrections have programs in place to avoid discharging people into homelessness. Massive volunteer-staffed events called Project Homeless Connect have morphed into permanent “opportunity centers” located downtown. Instead of queuing up and entering a lottery for a shelter bed, people can visit St. Olaf Church to reserve a bed for the night. “It’s much more dignified, and people aren’t scrambling to figure out where they are going to sleep tonight,” Dorfman said. The “Housing First” model is standard procedure today, but it was a new concept in Hennepin County a decade ago. Individuals with addictions were often expected to enter treatment to become eligible for housing. Now, cleaning up and finding work come at the individual’s own pace with the anchor of stable housing. “We were one of the first communities to implement it widely,” Dorfman said. Through intensive case management focused on people who are homeless the
longest, the Office to End Homelessness reports that the number of households considered chronically homeless declined from 919 in 2009 to 360 in 2016. “Quite a dramatic reduction,” said David Hewitt, director of the Office to End Homelessness. While homeless veterans and the chronically homeless have seen progress in the past decade, youth and families haven’t fared as well. Hewitt said just over 1,500 family members were homeless in 2007, 2,008 family members were homeless in 2014, and 1,591 family members were homeless last year. And while the state’s total number of homeless has declined in the past three years, the number of homeless youth has increased 46 percent, according to The Bridge For Youth. “The biggest challenge is the lack of affordable housing,” Dorfman said. Affordable housing is one of the big pieces of unfinished business in the city-county plan. Strategies to lessen the risk for landlords who take on homeless tenants were put on the backburner 10 years ago, Hewitt said. Then the recession hit, and the foreclosure crisis created more competition for low-income housing. Rents are rising, and apartments are sitting at historically low vacancy rates. Homeless advocates said they are losing naturally-occurring affordable housing at places like the 700-unit Crossroads apartments in Richfield. A new owner is renovating the apartments, raising the rents and declining subsidized rent vouchers, according to the Star Tribune. “When you think of the energy that goes into trying to raise money at the Capitol for 1,000 units — how quickly it can vanish in one fell swoop with one developer and one complex,” said Monica Nilsson, who launched the St. Stephen’s Street Outreach team and now works as a consultant. “It’s almost like our eyes were off the ball in one corner of the city while we were focused on another corner.” Although the city and county met a goal to find 5,000 new housing opportunities, it’s not enough, particularly for youth and families. The Bridge For Youth is currently renovating a house in East Isles designed for 18-21 year olds transitioning into independence, and YouthLink breaks ground this year on a 46-unit housing
Longfellow resident Robert Wright slept outside along the Hennepin/Lyndale corridor a decade ago. Today he lives at an apartment and leads St. Stephen’s tours called “A Day in the Life” to educate people about homelessness. “The best thing you can give anybody is a smile and a wave…their humanity,” he says. Photo by Michelle Bruch
project next to its downtown headquarters. There is plenty of reason for hope, said David Jeffries, St. Stephen’s director of single adult programs who worked in street outreach from 2008-2012. “That’s the reason why I come to work,” he said. Jeffries keeps in touch with one man who slept below I-394 under piles of sleeping bags and blankets. The man barely spoke to outreach workers until a minus 20 degree day. “He had gotten fed up with another winter outside,” Jeffries said. He said panhandling makes it harder to bring people in, however. He once tried to convince someone to get help while a vehicle rolled up with 20 boxes of pizza. People should donate instead to nonprofits for room deposits, application fees or bus tokens, he said. “We appreciate the compassion of the community, but the solution is housing,” Dorfman said. “It’s difficult to engage people when their needs are being met,” Jeffries said. More than 50,000 vehicles pass people holding signs each day at the Hennepin/Lyndale corridor near the Walker Art Center. One Lowry Hill resident keeps binoculars and a log of the activity she sees from her nearby apartment window. “Some days we might have 20 emergency vehicles here, from morning to night,” said the woman, who requested not to print her name.
“They will take away somebody in an ambulance in the morning, and they will be back here drinking in the afternoon.” She documented as many as 40 people congregating at Hennepin & Lyndale last year, bringing mattresses and barbecue grills. Up to seven people carry signs at different corners, she said. She called 911 on Feb. 14 after witnessing several people beat a person in the middle of the street. One man held a baseball bat with spikes, she said. Most of the group had dispersed by the time police arrived. The woman said she calls 911 when people conspicuously pass a vodka bottle around, or when someone falls down on the street and passes out. She keeps more than 40 block club leaders abreast of the situation in monthly letters. She calls 311 when she sees overflowing trash cans, graffiti and abandoned bikes. She’s met with churches and neighborhood groups and corresponded with her council member, precinct inspector and crime prevention specialist. All have been helpful, she said, but the problem isn’t solved. She learned from police in February that warmer weather has caused more activity in the area. 1st Precinct Inspector Michael Sullivan said in an email he would step up patrols, and St. Stephen’s outreach workers would visit the group on a daily basis. “I haven’t found anybody that has a long-term solution,” the resident said. “…But I’m not giving up yet.” She wishes that police would enforce trespassing laws, and that drivers would stop giving money to panhandlers. “I keep thinking that someday I’m going to wake up and it’s all going to be over, because somebody is going to do something,” she said. On the street below the apartment, Jane Bringsthem recently talked to her daughter on the phone, and called out to Samuel Hawkins carrying a sign across the street. She chatted with him about the president and the drug cartel leader El Chapo. She said she might go home to Wakiagun later that day, where she has a television and a phone. She said her children live in beautiful homes and she’s welcome there, although they don’t like her drinking. SEE HEADING HOME HENNEPIN / PAGE A11
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shortfall in its transportation budget, Duininck has been busy defending Metro Transit, its bus and light rail operator, in the state budgeting process. The transportation omnibus bill backed by House Republicans would force even more drastic cuts, he said. In April, Met Council extended by three weeks a deadline for contractors to submit bids for civil construction contracts on the project, a 14.5-mile extension of the Metro Transit Green Line to Eden Prairie. Unlike some of the other challenges piling up in front of Southwest LRT, the delay was not unexpected, Duininck said. “It was a very aggressive schedule and contractors right away said, this is a big bid for us to put together, can we have a little more time?” Duininck said, adding that he expects Met Council to award the contracts this fall.
Liability concerns Rep. Frank Hornstein described the proposal to cap railroad liability in the case of a collision with a light rail train, included as a provision to the House’s transportation omnibus bill, as “hugely problematic.” The Southwest Minneapolis DFLer pointed to the July 2013 oil-train derailment in Lac Mégantic, Quebec that killed 47 people and
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“This is suicide,” she said. When asked about her ideal living situation, Bringsthem didn’t have a ready answer. “We ain’t leaving,” she said. “There is no way they can make us leave. This is our country.” The Office to End Homelessness is currently working on a plan targeting the toughest chronic homeless cases as well as youth and families. “The smaller the number gets, the harder that the cases we see are,” Hewitt said.
put the railroad involved into bankruptcy. Costs ran to over $1 billion, and according to news reports the railroad, Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway, had only $25 million in liability insurance. “So the taxpayers and the cities and the public entities had to pick up the tab, and that’s exactly what would happen (in Minnesota) under this bill,” Hornstein said. In Minneapolis and Hopkins, Southwest LRT trains will operate alongside freight trains running on Twin Cities & Western Railroad Company’s tracks. The shortline serves farming communities in southwestern Minnesota, and in addition to between two and eight trains per day hauling corn, soy and other agricultural products, TC&W also runs about two trains per week hauling ethanol tankers through Minneapolis’ Kenilworth Corridor. The presence of ethanol tankers has fueled the arguments of those who oppose the Southwest LRT’s proposed path through Minneapolis, including Mary Pattock of Lakes and Parks Alliance, a citizens group suing Met Council to stop the project. Pattock described it as a “dangerous route,” although both TC&W and Met Council representatives have insisted it is not only safe but also in line with other shared corridors around the country. TC&W President Mark Wegner said the liability provision introduced by Rep. Paul
Nilsson said increasing public awareness has been one of the most important aspects of the 10-year plan. “Until the public has the will, whether it’s the public or political will, that’s the first step in all of this,” she said. She helped Wright, who spent time in the Coast Guard, find housing a decade ago. If we talked about Wright as an honorably discharged military veteran, she said, people would have a much different frame than if we talked about a panhandler who has a conviction.
Torkelson (R-Hanksa) “is not at all about relieving any of our existing liabilities,” but instead about apportioning risk. “Because somebody other than us wants to put in passenger service adjacent to us, well, then that entity ought to take on the passenger side of the risk,” Wegner said, referring to Met Council. Duininck said the first draft of the railway bill was “sloppy,” but that revisions had been made since then. He said Met Council hadn’t taken an official position, but added, “from philosophical standpoint, the last thing we would ever do is” limit a railway’s liability in a disaster involving Metro Transit. Duininck would not comment on the jointoperating agreements Met Council began negotiating several months ago with both TC&W and BNSF Railway, whose tracks Southwest LRT will parallel in its approach to downtown Minneapolis.
Dueling letters In March, more than 80 Republican state legislators wrote to Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, urging her to deny federal funding for the Southwest light rail project. The letter was critical of Met Council’s decision late last summer to replace missing state funds for the project by issuing certificates of participation, and it also noted the project is the subject of an ongoing
“And yet the reality is that’s the same person,” she said. “It’s very often people like to be flip and think people are either good or bad, and they’re either deserving or not deserving. And the reality is all of us have some level of a continuum of good and bad within us. When you see somebody and think, ‘What a bum,’ he’s a hero to you in a different set of clothes.” When asked why he became homeless, Wright said he was disobedient as a child. He remembers his first cigarette and its immediate hold on him. If it weren’t for St. Stephen’s, Wright said, he would probably be dead.
lawsuit by Lakes and Parks Alliance. The plan to use the certificates, a relatively new form of government financing similar to bonding, was spearheaded by Gov. Mark Dayton and Duininck late last summer. The Met Council intends to issue the certificates as soon as July 3. On April 10, Dayton responded with a letter of his own, noting for Chao that most of the Republicans who urged her to deny the project funding don’t live along the route. Three Republicans who represent constituents along the Southwest light rail corridor, meanwhile, declined to add their names. In a letter Duininck wrote to Chao several days earlier, the Met Council chair highlighted the support for the project among major southwest metro employers and the light rail line’s potential economic impact. “This project is critically important to the economic future of the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul region and over the past year, the Southwest LRT project has made significant progress toward becoming a reality,” he wrote. Asked in April if he thought the project’s chances of winning federal funds had shifted under the new Trump administration, Duininck said he was reassured by a trip to Washington, D.C., a few weeks earlier. “In Washington there is less partisanship around transit than there is in Minnesota,” he said.
He said the life expectancy of a homeless man is 47, and he’s now in his mid-50s. “I consider myself a success,” he said. “... I definitely beat the odds.” The transition hasn’t always been smooth. Wright moved out of his first local apartment, lost the second, stayed in a motel, then a boarding house, and now remains at his current apartment. “One of the great things about Minnesota is there is help here. It’s not like this everywhere,” he said.
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Plymouth Congregational Church member Brent Stahl works with a student during Whittier International Elementary School’s Homework and Hoops program. Photos by Nate Gotlieb
Plymouth volunteers bring reading, music to Whittier By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com
Carol Moller began with a rag. Her hands glided across the piano keys as she played “Scott Joplin’s New Rag,” her first piece on a recent morning at Whittier International Elementary School. Moller played early jazz pieces and a variation of “Yankee Doodle,” among others, before closing with Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata.” Moller performed in the school’s atrium as students were saying hi to friends and walking to class. A few stopped to watch, but most went about their morning routines. For the past 20 years, she and other volunteers have played piano before and after the school day at Whittier. Most of the volunteers hail from the nearby Plymouth Congregational Church, which also supplies about three dozen tutors to the school. “They don’t just talk the talk. They walk the walk,” Dusty Vognild, Whittier’s volunteer coordinator, said of the Plymouth volunteers. “They really make an impact.” Plymouth has supplied volunteers to Whittier since the school opened in 1997, but its work at the school has expanded in recent years. Congregants were spurred to action by former
Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak, who spoke at the church about efforts to close the achievement gap in education. A congregant asked Rybak what they could do to help close the gap, and “really without missing a beat, he said, ‘I want you to provide 30 trained volunteers to a school to assist in reading,’” congregant Bill Davini said. About 60 people expressed interest in volunteering, according to Davini, who coordinates Plymouth’s efforts at Whittier. Nearly 40 committed to volunteering on a regular basis. The volunteers receive training from the Minnesota Literacy Council, and Davini works with Vognild to fill particular needs at the school. The tutors sometimes work one on one with students and other times work in groups. “You get a big smile from the kids as you walk into the room,” said Bryce Hamilton, a volunteer for 10 years. “It’s very affirming in that way.” Vognild said the Plymouth volunteers help fill in the gaps at the school — especially now, with budget cuts. He said he typically turns to Plymouth volunteers when he needs something done, adding that the teachers know them by name. SEE WHITTIER VOLUNTEERS / PAGE A13
A banner in the Whittier atrium expresses appreciation for the volunteers who play piano each day before and after school.
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The congregation’s commitment to Whittier goes beyond music and tutoring. About half a dozen members also participate in an afterschool mentoring program called Homework and Hoops. The Homework and Hoops program pairs students with volunteers who help them complete their homework. The students also get a snack and time to play outside or enjoy another activity. The kids in the program come from diverse backgrounds, according to Jeff Carlson, Whittier’s community education coordinator. Most are low income, and all have some kind of need, he said. To have one more caring adult in their lives is critical, Carlson said. For the mentors, the experience exposes them to a diversity of cultures that many haven’t seen. “Mentors leave changed as well,” he said. “We all leave changed.” Plymouth congregant Steve Boruff drives in from Burnsville to participate in the program. He’s worked with the same boy since last spring, helping him to make progress in reading. “I’m sure in the classroom he would get lost in the shuffle,” said Boruff a retired junior high teacher. “We’re really making good progress, just the fact that he feels comfortable with me.” Boruff worked with a young girl on a recent afternoon, playing a bingo game that involved counting out coins. Other student-mentor pairs played outside despite chilly temperatures and a drizzling rain. Others yet played soccer inside the gym or board games. Plymouth congregant Steve Daniel helped his student, a fourth-grader named Khamisi, play a game of chess. Daniel said Khamisi has
always been good at interacting with the other kids but has become better at forming friendships since they began working together. His reading has gotten better, too. Plymouth congregant Laurie Casagrande stood outside to begin the afternoon while her student, a second-grade boy, played on the playground. She said the boy was shy when she began working with him a few months ago but now looks her in the eye. “He’s just so fun and fresh,” she said. “We’ve bonded so well.”
‘A calming presence’ Arguably no volunteers at Whittier are as visible as the pianists, however. Every day, a volunteer comes and plays for about 30 to 45 minutes. They play anything they’d like to, Davini said, with styles ranging from classical music to jazz and ragtime. When David Bowie died, several volunteers played tributes to him, according to Vognild. The procession has a flow, Davini said, like one long piece of music. The atrium is usually quiet when the pianist starts playing, but there’s a crescendo of noise as students flow off the buses or out of class. Then there’s a climax before the noise quiets down. Davini said the morning and afternoon sessions mark the first time that many volunteers have played piano publicly. He said parents have told him they sent their children to Whittier because of the pianists. “The students love it,” Vognild said. “It’s a calming presence.” Whittier principal Norma Gibbs appeared to agree. She said the volunteers help build community at the school and expose the students to the joy of music, increasing their excitement to be there. “They’d stay in the commons area all morning (if they could),” Gibbs said of the students. “It makes them happy to be here.”
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Church member Carol Moller plays piano at Whittier International Elementary School.
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By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com
Carondelet teacher honored as K–8 teacher of the year Science isn’t necessarily the most engaging topic for middle schoolers. But Jill Zastrow makes it fun, according to her students at Carondelet Catholic School in Fulton. She engages them with a warm up as they walk into her class. She uses funny accents and changes the volume of her voice. She asks students about what helps them learn and for feedback on her class. “When I get into the science room, it’s a lot of fun,” said Carondelet sixth-grader John Dolan. “It’s just so engaging.” Zastrow’s efforts haven’t gone unnoticed. Last month, she was named K-8 teacher of the year by the Minnesota Independent School Forum, a statewide organization of 152 private schools. “She’s just really a kids-first teacher, so she really values them as individuals,” said Carondelet Principal Sue Kerr. “She just puts herself into everything she does.” Zastrow has worked at Carondelet for the past two school years, after spending time in the St. Paul school district. She described her teaching style in a variety of ways, from energetic and passionate to adaptive and “planned but whimsical.” She said her aim is to instill a love of science into her students so they can engage in the subject in high school. “My kids have a lot of freedom to exercise autonomy, but in a way that they can make mistakes and it’s not the end of the
Carondelet Catholic School teacher Jill Zastrow was recently named K-8 teacher of the year by the Minnesota Independent School Forum. Photos by Nate Gotlieb
world,” she said. Zastrow said her goal was to saturate the science program at Carondelet in her second year at the school. She started a robotics class and club and volunteered to lead a partnership program with the Minnesota Zoo, for which over 60 students signed up. In addition, Zastrow has been instrumental in creating a grading system for students receiving special services, according to nomination letter Carondelet sent to the MISF. She also coaches soccer at the school and started a yoga club and an enrichment class that aims to get kids more engaged and aware of global issues. She said her philosophy with teaching is to expose kids to as much as possible. She
encourages kids to try things even if they are just slightly curious, which she says is a natural way for them to figure out their passions. That philosophy mirrors her entrance into teaching. A college soccer player, Zastrow said she didn’t know what she wanted to do for a career, noting forays into pre-med, nursing and architecture. Her interest in education came from teaching English to first-graders in France, something that inspired her to pursue a master’s degree in the subject. “I knew that teaching was kind of my calling,” she said. Zastrow said she liked how natural teaching felt and how much she laughs when she’s around kids. She said it fits her personality, adding that
she enjoys how every day is different. Her students appear to appreciate her passion and energy. Seventh-grader Ava Shirley said Zastrow really listens to her students has a positive attitude that makes learning fun. “Everybody is really focused on what she says,” Ava said. “She brings everybody together with her bubbliness.” John Dolan, the sixth-grader, said Zastrow’s class is engaging from the beginning. She gives the students multiple ways to learn ideas, he said, and always covers topics at least twice. “It’s just really easy to learn in that classroom,” he said. Zastrow was the third Carondelet teacher to earn the honor since 2011, joining elementary school teacher Brigid Berger and middle school teacher Josh Nutter, who now works at Ramsey Middle School. The Minnesota Independent School Forum also recognized Carondelet’s Director of Admissions, Megan Hower, with its 2017 behind the scenes award, which recognizes “the quiet and essential work of an individual who supports the school outside of the classroom.” Hower manages the school’s marketing, website, social media and other special projects in addition to her admissions work. Kerr, the Carondelet principal, said that Hower does everything for the school, noting the attention she pays to families and their students. “She’s kind of a secret weapon for us,” Kerr said.
Lyndale principal James retires Lyndale Community School principal and longtime Minneapolis Public Schools employee Renee James retired at the end of March. The district appointed Jean Neuman, an educational consultant and retired principal, to serve as interim principal for the remainder of the school year. James was with the Minneapolis school
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No regrets after dropping Calhoun’s name
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uke Breen is thrilled that sales were flat last year at the Uptown bike shop he co-owns. There are two reasons for his optimism. One is that bike industry sales were down 13 percent nationally last year. The other is that he junked the name that he’d built as his brand without losing business. It’s been a year since the bike shop formerly known as Calhoun Cycle dropped that inherited name into the ashbin of history and was reborn as Perennial Cycle. So how has the year gone? Despite some flaming online trolls, Breen has found customers supportive. He’s only lost one regular customer that he knows of, and he’s been pleasantly surprised by the opposite reaction. “I didn’t expect new customers at the door because they supported our name change,” Breen said in a recent interview. But they arrived nevertheless, and they took time to thank him. Breen spoke in a cluttered back room of the shop at that he waggishly calls an office but it’s mostly a desk next to a bulletin board pinned full of lists and letters. Bike posters adorn the walls, and here and there an old ride number bearing the Calhoun name peeks out. The name change represents his learning curve on issues of black, white and brown. “Institutional racism was not something I ever studied. I was pretty naïve up until two or three years ago,” said Breen, who grew up in western Minnesota. A family trip that took in civil rights sites in the American South was one factor in his personal evolution. “The more I studied, the more I realized things had to change.” The name of his shop originated in a predecessor business called Calhoun Cycle Cellar that was logical at the time because it rented bikes from a basement at the corner of Lake & James for people to ride around the adjoining lake. Breen bought it from the previous owner, shortened the name and then moved to his current 3342 Hennepin Ave. S. storefront 15 yeas ago. Dropping Calhoun’s name was a twofer. Not only was Calhoun an abashed advocate for enslaving blacks as a positive good, but he also engineered the infamous Trail of Tears in which southeastern tribes were forced on a harsh march to what then was known as Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. He also planned a string of frontier forts that included Fort Snelling, and its garrison stamped Calhoun’s name on a lake regardless of its previous Dakota name. Yet rebranding the store was a risk in an era when it seems nearly every urban corner sprouts a bike shop owned by a former bike mechanic. That’s just what Breen is. Growing up in Benson, Minn., he pedaled a cheap gas station chain bike across town to school, and then made deliveries by bike for the family drug store. He didn’t own a real bike until he was a junior in college, when he bought a Bianchi touring bike. He cycled Europe for five months, grasping the utility of the bike as a family vehicle there. Back home, he needed a job. He had “high mechanical aptitude but zero experience”
I didn’t expect new customers at the door because they supported our name change. —Luke Breen co-owner of Perennial Cycle
aside from keeping his bike maintained for the European swing, using skills he learned from a book, he said. But that was enough to get him a job at the entry level of bike mechanic jobs — assembling bikes for sale. He eventually parlayed that into a business. “We struggle to stay viable,” he said. But that’s not just Perennial, and it’s not just bike shops in an online age. “Any singlestorefront retail business, they have to work hard to stay in business.” Perennial does that with a carefully defined niche. While suburban chains cater to the weekend recreational rider, especially those riding high-end bikes, Breen serves a market that’s the American version of those European families “This is an urban bike shop,” he said, which means staking out customers who bike for utility as his market. That’s a good fit with the young Uptown-area population, people who may eschew car ownership and bike or bus to get around. “They see a bike as a tool, not a toy,” Breen said. They depend on upright, more stable bikes to get around, and they depend on keeping their bikes in good repair, which redounds to a thriving service business that’s also at the core of Breen’s business model. Before changing the shop’s name, Breen assembled a list of dozens of tasks. They ranged from changing the checking account and utility billing to making sure that the mail-order side of his business didn’t disappear online in the name change. While others helped Breen last March to mark the passing of the Calhoun name with such theater as a mock burial of the letters than spelled the old name, two people toiled online for hours apiece that night to assure that social media accounts reflected both the new name and Breen’s reasons for the shift. Although most of the heavy lifting was completed when the store’s new name was hoisted into place on an overhead sign late last year, replacing a temporary banner, new tasks occasionally crop up. He learned this month that the shop was still listed as Calhoun Cycle on a Nextdoor page. At age 53, he’s looking back with no regrets. The change, he said, reflects the kind of world in which he and his co-owner and wife, Mary, want their three daughters to grow up.
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Bachman is an emergency room doctor by trade and the great-great-grandson of the founder of his family’s business, Bachman’s Floral Gift and Garden Centers, which is not involved with LeafLine Labs. Bachman, a selfdescribed “black sheep” of the family, and his partners joined the industry as one of 12 groups vying to become legal medical marijuana facilities in Minnesota. The company, which operates the legal limit of four locations in St. Paul, St. Cloud, Hibbing and Eagan, now serves more
than 1,600 patients each month. The other producer, the similarly physicianled Minnesota Medical Solutions, operates locations in downtown Minneapolis, Rochester, Bloomington and Moorhead. Both offer products with varying levels of the cannabinoids tetrahydrocannabinol or THC — the psychoactive element of cannabis — and cannabidiol or CBD — a treatment for seizures and inflammation — in a variety of delivery methods, from syrups and sprays to capsules and oils for vaporization. Soon patients will be able to use topical medicine as well.
The industry, which has 6,600 approved enrollments as of April 13, has gradually grown in the past two years, Bachman although the number of active patients rapidly increased last year with the inclusion of intractable pain. Today, more than 60 percent of medical marijuana patients receive treatment for the condition, which the program just accepted last August.
Kyle Kinglsey, CEO of MinnMed and its parent company, Vireo Health, said the inclusion of intractable pain is important to the programs as many people with the condition take opioids and are now able to get off or significantly reduce use with cannabis. Bachman said Minnesota and other states with programs that accept the condition are saving lives by giving people an alternative to the prescription painkillers, which, along with illegal drugs like heroin, were involved in more than 500 overdose deaths in 2015 in Minnesota alone, according to the Center for Disease Control. “When our medicines are killers of patients who entrusted their lives and care to use, we need to first stop doing that and then we can go from there,” he said. “That’s why I’m in medicine.” Beyond intractable pain, the nine other conditions accepted under the state’s program include cancer, seizures, inflammatory bowel
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disease and terminal illness. Two of every 10 patients take medical cannabis for muscle spasms. A small portion of patients are also qualified due to glaucoma, HIV/AIDS, Tourette syndrome and ALS. The most recent addition is post-traumatic stress disorder, a diagnosis that will officially be accepted in August. New conditions and delivery methods are regulated by the 11-person Office of Medical Cannabis, a department of the Minnesota Department of Health. Director Michelle Larson said the office includes a research team that reviews new conditions and delivery methods, which companies, patients and other advocates can petition for during a period each June and July. The final call ultimately lies with Commissioner of Health Ed Ehlinger. Despite the growth of patients due to conditions and delivery methods, the industry isn’t yet profitable. Kingsley and Bachman said their companies have yet to go in the black. However, Kingsley said it’s headed in that direction. The two said, while profits are possible down the line, they’re currently focused on patient costs. Patients, whose medical cannabis is not covered by insurance, pay about $190–$200 at MinnMed and about $215 at LeafLine per month on average. More than half of patients,
CEO Kyle Kingsley of Minnesota Medical Solutions, which goes by MinnMed, estimates their downtown Minneapolis care center is one of the busiest in the state.
who are about 50 years old on average, receive some sort of government assistance, most likely through Social Security Disability, Medicaid or Minnesota Care, which qualifies them for a reduced enrollment fee of $50, down from the regular $200. One issue that still plagues the medical marijuana industry across the country is the stigma of using a substance that, regardless of how states treat it, remains illegal at the federal level, a problem that affects both patients and manufacturers. Bachman said there are still barriers to selling medicinal marijuana because it’s been
unknown, controversial and “mismarketed” to people for decades. The most powerful remedy for that is sharing real-life examples with people across the state, he added. “This isn’t a political issue. It’s been politicized. But people are very rapidly realizing that, hold on a second, cancer doesn’t care,” he said. “It’s something that is a very human issue.” There are opportunities for the program on the horizon. Kingsley said there’s a lot of room for the industry to grow as the stigma against the drug fades. Bachman said there is compelling research that medicinal cannabis could
help people with autism, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s, a combined pool of tens of thousands of Minnesotans who could become patients under the program. For Bachman, the industry has already been a success given that it has helped thousands of Minnesotans. “We become part of their lives and part of their stories, and I got to tell you their stories are compelling,” he said. “… At the end of the day, the stories of success and the life-changing testimonials that we’ve heard and push forward, those help significantly to carry the day.”
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mara and Ted Edin had wanted to remodel the tiny kitchen in their Southwest Minneapolis home since they moved in more than a decade ago. But, other jobs took precedence — a new garage, patio and some landscaping. Last year, the Edins were ready to tackle not only the kitchen, but the entire first floor of their 1922 house. The layout just didn’t flow. The back door opened into a bedroom-turned-study. To reach the kitchen, you had to walk a few steps, make a sharp left, a sharp right and another right. The house’s only bathroom also is located on the first level, and like the kitchen, it was tiny. Walled off from the dining room, the kitchen was too dark and cramped for someone who loves to cook. The stove was apartment-sized, and the refrigerator was tucked into a space between a side door and the basement stairs. Those stairs and the flight of stairs to the second floor were narrow, steep and hazardous. With the home’s only bathroom on the first floor, and their bedroom upstairs, the couple had to tread carefully at night, walking sideways on the way down to prevent a fall. The Edins hired Sylvestre Construction of Minneapolis to remodel the entire first level and relocate both stairwells. The company removed the wall that separated the kitchen and dining room and took the rest of the interior
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walls down to the studs, replacing horsehair insulation with modern material. Sylvestre also expanded the bathroom by removing the closet from an adjacent bedroom, as well as the linen closet and laundry chute from the hall. The company converted the study to a mudroom and realigned both stairwells, making them wider and less steep in the process. To add more depth to the kitchen, the company removed a coat closet that opened to the hallway and two outdated corner cabinets. The original 8-foot-by-9-foot space now
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Hillcrest celebrates solar at Able A Northeast brewery has become one of the first in the state to utilize solar power, thanks to a Minneapolis developer. Able Seedhouse + Brewery powered on its new rooftop solar installation on April 6. The approximately 113 solar panels will produce roughly 35,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year, or about 25 percent of Able’s power. “We see ourselves as a values-based company,” co-founder Casey Holley said, noting an emphasis on people, community and the environment. “We look at (solar) as aligning with our value set in a strong way.” The project came about because of Hillcrest Development, the Minneapolis-based firm that owns the property, a multi-building complex known as the Highlight Center. Hillcrest had been looking to incorporate solar power into a property, Managing Partner Scott Tankenoff said, and the brewery building proved to be the perfect site. “They’re 100-percent true about sustainability,” Tankenoff said of Able. “They’re good business people, but also they’re doing the right thing.” Hillcrest utilized the state’s Made in Minnesota solar incentive program, which reimburses people and companies who install solar projects that include Minnesota-made panels. It partnered with Roseville-based solar developer Innovative Power Systems and Aid Electric to install the panels and completed the installation a couple of months ago. The solar panels are one of several sustainable elements on the property, which was built as a light bulb manufacturing facility, according to
Kristina Smitten, Hillcrest’s director of sustainability. Other green features include a green roof, energy efficiency through LED lights, stormwater management, organics collection and an interior bike center. “Adding solar was just really consistent with the overall feel and function of the property,” Smitten said. Hillcrest bought the property in 2015 from the Minneapolis School District, which used the site as its headquarters until it moved into the Davis Center in North Minneapolis. The property now hosts about 800 “creative class” jobs, Tankenoff said, from companies such as SportsEngine and Rêve Academy. “They’re here because their employees want to be here,” Tankenoff said. The solar project was the first time Innovative Power Systems had placed panels on top of a brewery, said Eric Pasi, vice president of business development. He said solar power eventually becomes a free resource for those companies that install panels, whereas “you continue to pay forever with Xcel (Energy)” or other utilities. Innovative Power Systems bills itself as the state’s number-one solar provider and has installed more than 1,000 projects in Minnesota since 1991. It projects the solar panels on top of Able will offset nearly 1.5 million pounds of carbon dioxide over 30 years, the equivalent of adding nearly 3,000 trees to forests. The project at Able comes as the solar industry continues to grow in Minnesota. In 2012, there were seven megawatts of solar power in the state, according to Pasi. The state
Able Seedhouse + Brewery co-founder Casey Holley explains why solar panels appealed to his company during a ceremony on April 6. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
had about 424 megawatts of solar capacity at the end of March, according to a Department of Commerce estimate. The department is projecting that the state’s capacity could be between 900 and 1,000 megawatts by the end of 2017. Pasi said costs have gone down over 90 percent for panels in the 10 years he’s been with Innovative Power Systems. Solar is becoming much more predictable, he said, and some proj-
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Rehabs set to begin at 33 neighborhood parks The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board will kickoff more than 30 rehabilitation projects across the city’s neighborhood parks next month as part of its effort to better maintain the aging park system. While not flashy projects like new recreation centers or wading pools, the rehabilitations target small but critical repairs to the board’s existing park assets, including lighting and roof repairs.
Various parks around Minneapolis will see improvements to pavement, heating and cooling systems and infrastructure. Bryant Square Park will see repairs to sidewalks. The Lynnhurst Park warming house will get new furnaces. A dilapidated roof at Whittier Recreation Center will be replaced over the center and its gym. These are a few of nearly three-dozen projects beginning this May.
The repair and rehabilitation work is part of the larger 20-Year Neighborhood Park Plan, the board’s 20-year plan that, beginning this year, will reverse years of funding gaps in maintaining the city’s nearly 160 neighborhoods parks. The plan, a joint agreement with the City Council that will also fund street repairs, provides $11 million in additional funds for the neighborhood park system each year. The board’s budget
directs $25 million toward critical repairs in the next six years. The board estimates that work on this round of projects may carry through to 2018, but many projects will be completed by the end of the year. Park staff will post information at parks and recreation centers two weeks prior to a project regarding disruptions to programs and events.
Park Board seeks alternatives to crumb rubber Park commissioners recently passed a resolution that would commit the board to finding alternatives to crumb tire, a substance used in its synthetic fields that has caused some health concerns. The measure, which passed through the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board’s Operations & Environment Committee on April 12, would affect the construction and rehabilitation of its synthetic turf athletic fields. Currently, the board has eight synthetic turf athletic fields that contain waste tire crumb rubber. The substance, commonly used as infill in synthetic turf fields, has been under fire in recent years, which has led to major studies, one from the Environmental Protection Agency and the other from the state of
California, to test the safety of fields and playgrounds that use waste tires. The board operates athletic fields with the tire rubber at Rod Carew Field, Farview Park, North Commons Park, Parade Stadium, Currie Park, Elliot Park, East Phillips Park and Stewart Park. The Park Board does not operate any playgrounds with waste-tire rubber mulch. The resolution would further the board’s work to find other materials to use in place of crumb rubber in the city’s parks, a process that Michael Schroeder, assistant superintendent for planning,
said the Park Board has recently started. “We are not very far down that road yet in defining alternatives, and we believe we actually have a long way to go,” he told commissioners. A substitute motion from District 1 Commissioner Liz Wielinski that included a temporary ban on the material failed to garner the necessary votes. Staff said the proposed 12-month moratorium, which would’ve required the board to revisit the issue after a year’s time, may have affected planning dollars slated for the rehabilitation of existing fields. The board is planning to expand an indoor field at Currie Park in 2019. “We need to look at saying ‘we’re going to be proactive and say this is dangerous, indoors particularly, until we get this information back,’ ” Wielinski said.
The proposal drew criticism from District 5 Commissioner Steffanie Musich and President Anita Tabb, who said the concern wasn’t “necessarily based on good science.” “I have a kid. He plays on these fields … and I’m not significantly concerned about this,” Musich said. The Minnesota Department of Health recommends that people who use fields or playgrounds with crumb rubber wash with soap and water after use, shake out clothes and shoes to avoid bringing chips home and to cover food and drinks to prevent contamination. The MDH also suggests creating signs with such recommendations at synthetic turf fields. The committee’s resolution supports the installation of signs at its fields.
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Public Safety Update By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com
Linden Hills resident dies in house fire
Linden Hills resident Dan Fobbe. Photo by David Tanner
Flowers sit on the doorstep of a Beard Avenue house where resident Dan Fobbe died in a fire April 7. Photo by Michelle Bruch
Dan Fobbe, who died in a fire April 7 at his Linden Hills home, was prepared to die young. Although he thought it would happen more than 20 years ago. Fobbe was diagnosed in 1994 with melanoma, a cancer that spread to his lymph nodes and eventually his brain. Friends threw him a “going-away party” and a surgeon told him to get his affairs in order, he told TD Mischke in 2015 on “The Mischke Roadshow” podcast. His children were ages 5, 7, 9 and 11 at the time. “I just prayed to God that I could live long enough to see my children get out and be able to live,” he told Mischke. “Just wanted to be able to help them get started in life, and then God could take me.” Prior to neurosurgery, Fobbe changed his diet, tried naturopathic medicine and meditated. He said that while meditating he repeatedly felt a warm, secure presence with a face too bright to discern, which he believed to be his guardian angel.
The subsequent operation reportedly left the neurosurgeon shaking his head — the tumor popped out “like a cherry” and there were signs of shrinking. “Statistically I was supposed to be gone,” Fobbe said to Mischke. “… I’m not so much afraid of death anymore.” Fobbe’s wife Diane Mach was out of town the afternoon of April 7 when neighbor Will Law noticed what looked like a cloud of dust swirling down the street. Then he and a neighbor spotted smoke spewing from the corners of the house. Law banged on Fobbe’s door and it popped open. “The house was already full of black smoke,” he said. He heard the cat and dog inside, and tried to coax them out unsuccessfully. He heard the pop of the glass windows exploding. “Three seconds later, the whole front of the living room was ablaze,” Law said. “It happened so fast. I was bummed out that I couldn’t get the
pets out. I had no idea Dan was in there.” Assistant Fire Chief Bryan Tyner said the cause of the fire at 4108 Beard Ave. S. is unsolved. It started on the first floor, and Fobbe was discovered on the second floor, he said. The fire was well advanced when firefighters arrived, he said. “We weren’t able to pinpoint an exact cause, likely because of all the damage that was caused to the house,” Tyner said. “We hope to keep investigating.” Tyner said the department has seen an uptick in fires in recent weeks. There is no apparent pattern, he said, and several incidents have undetermined causes. In general, most fires are caused by human actions related to things like cooking and matches, he said, with a small percentage caused by electrical issues. Fobbe’s death marks the second fire fatality this year. The first death took place last month at a North Minneapolis apartment; the woman’s name has not been released.
Fobbe’s neighbors held a vigil two days after the fire. The front step is filled with flowers and candles. “You can’t really wrap your head around how that happened,” Law said. “It is a reminder that there’s no guarantees.” Fobbe worked as an attorney, coached hockey and played drums with the Mad Ripple Hootenanny at Harriet Brewing and Studio 2. “Many times during the three- or four-hour gigs, we’d exchange looks of amazement and hilarity and just profound aliveness and I will never forget those looks,” bandmate Jim Walsh said in an email. “We’d just shake our heads like, ‘Life is grand!’” He said Fobbe was known as “Dantastic” at the Hoot. “I loved it when he’d put his drum down and dance with his beloved wife, Diane. They shared a rare romantic love and it was beautiful to be around,” Walsh said. A GoFundMe page to benefit Fobbe’s family has raised more than $16,000. The page reports that community support is “carrying [Diane] forward, moment by moment. She is surrounded by such love and can’t thank you enough.”
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A view of a unit in The Encore, a 122-unit luxury apartment building in the Mill District. Surging interest in Downtown real estate has led more people to pursue renting. Submitted photos
Millennials, baby boomers create
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The Encore is more than 50 percent full about four months after opening.
months of supply, Arbit said. ‘We’re having to change our yardstick,” Arbit said. “Measuring in feet just doesn’t work anymore. It’s a fourthand-inches situation.” Average rental rates have increased, too. The average Downtown rate increased 3.4 percent and 3.15 percent in the
first and second quarters of 2016, respectively, according to the firm NAI Everest. The average monthly rent Downtown was $1,547 in the second quarter of 2016, compared to $1,074 in Southwest, according to city data. St. Anthony Main, the North Loop and the Mill District tend to be the hottest areas Downtown, according to Garrison, who works out of the North Loop. People also look for housing in Loring Park and by the new U.S. Bank Stadium, he said. People used to call about Uptown, Garrison said, but now start by asking about the North Loop. He said the appeal is the walkability of the area, noting that some households are going from two cars to one. Jessica Prudden, broker for the firm Prudden & Company, said a lot of baby boomers like the fact they don’t have to care for a large home. She noted the restaurants and retail shopping Downtown and the “the ease of the lifestyle” as draws for the area. “There are definitely clients who want to go to the Chain of Lakes,” she said, “but most want to go Downtown and want to be around the action.” SEE HOT DOWNTOWN MARKET / PAGE B10
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Edina’s planned 50th & France makeover moves ahead The Edina Collaborative won key variances in April By Brian Lambert
Plans for a major residential-retail development in the 50th & France business district took another step toward reality April 5 when the Edina Planning Commission approved variances for both the height and density of the project. But the takeaway for many of those birddogging the plan was an appearance by Mitch Avery, a Lund Food Holdings’ board member and the Real Estate Committee chairman, who politely admonished the commission for its lack of an up-to-date comprehensive plan for the district — a clear signal that the area’s single largest property owner is watching the Edina Collaborative’s process with keen self-interest. In a brief interview Avery declined to discuss Lunds & Byerlys’ specific plans for its various properties at 50th & France, instead focusing on the area’s sub-par electrical infrastructure (“brown-outs practically every other day”) and ill-managed traffic flow. Lunds owns 175,000 square feet in the district. Its supermarket accounts for roughly 32,000 square feet of that. But rumors have been rife for a couple years that Lunds is considering moving and expanding the supermarket, a decision, should it come to pass, that would also dramatically transform the area. Again, Avery would not comment on that. As for the Collaborative, developers led by Pete Deanovic and Brent Rogers, both Edina residents, presented the commission with a re-worked vision for their project, which aims to update and expand the commercial district on Edina’s border with Minneapolis, adding new housing, shops and pedestrian amenities. Responding to concerns about the six-story height, the new concept shaves a corner off the western edge of the central residential block, reduces a central skyway to one floor and the number of planned apartments to 110. It also breaks up what had been a rather monolithic, tan, Anywhere USA facade with a series of second-story setbacks and a varying color and material scheme. The project’s size continues to meet resis-
A rendering of the Edina Collaborative shows the project’s vision for new residential construction, retail and pedestrian amenities at 50th & France. Submitted image
tance from some in the surrounding neighborhood, primarily over the congestion effect of so many new residents and businesses. But the commission’s approval of the requested variances was proof of its belief that all would be manageable, at least in the end. How manageable during actual construction is another matter, though, for existing businesses. Dentist Dr. Heidi Brandenburg and chiropractor David Patterson, both with offices above D’Amico & Sons at 50th & Halifax, expressed serious concerns about patient access during what is likely to be at least a 24-month construction schedule — and possibly as long as 30. The current surface parking lot behind the Coconut Thai restaurant will go away. The Collaborative will also remove the so-called center parking ramp, located behind Belleson’s and Mozza Mia, eventually replacing it with underground parking for residents above and several dozen stalls for the public. The development as currently proposed will also expand the existing ramp on the north side of the former 49 1/2 Street, recently renamed Market Street. Yet to be decided, though, is the sequence of those two moves. Either way, parking will be sufficiently less convenient for existing businesses that the commission made a point of requesting language that the developers
address the problem. In a phone conversation, Rogers said his team had a scheduled set of meetings with city officials on the topic. It was the appearance of Avery, though, that set antennae twitching. If the commission and City Council both sign off on the Collaborative project, with its substantial revision of the 50th & France architectural and density ethos, it seems only logical that the area’s primary land owner would take that as a precedent or guide for the new normal. Well-known attorney Tom Heffelfinger, a resident at 50th & France, didn’t mince words warning the Commission of exactly that. Namely, if the city approves six stories for the Collaborative, it will be on weak legal ground denying the same to the next developer who wants a piece of the new, higher-density 50th & France action. Carey Teague, Edina’s community development director, disagreed, assuring the Commission that every succeeding development would be judged strictly on its own merits and impact to its surroundings. Also churning in the rumor mill is talk of a residential-retail development for the separately owned Walgreens and Bespoke Salon sites at the intersection of France Avenue and Market
Street. Likewise, removal of the post office and its adjacent parking lot has been whispered about for years. (The Hooten’s Dry Cleaning building is part of the Collaborative project.) City Council member Mike Fischer isn’t buying Heffelfinger’s argument. “He’s wrong. I don’t think he has a point,” Fischer said. “But I do think if we decide six stories is OK for that central core of the district, we have to clearly say why on the record.” Fischer said until “this minute” he had not heard of chronic electrical issues in the business district and suggested that was an issue Lunds & Byerlys should take up with the power company. He also said the lack of a new comprehensive plan for the district — the city is in the early stages of formulating one — should not impede the Collaborative development. “Since it was the HRA (Housing and Redevelopment Authority) who went out and solicited developers for these city properties (the central and north parking ramps), it would be kind of bad form on our part if, after all the time and money they’ve spent, we tell them they have to stop and wait until we finish what we’re doing.” Fischer wouldn’t say how he will vote on the final plan for the Collaborative. “My thinking kind of ebbs and flows,” he said. But, generally echoing the Planning Commission, he added, “The project has a lot of great potential for 50th and France. It is the next evolution for the district.” A greater point of irritation for him, in the context of long-term comprehensive planning, is how to get Minneapolis, on the east side of France Avenue, to step up and match Edina’s level of attention to design and cost of infrastructure, meaning parking facilities and traffic management. “I was thinking again last night about how we can apply pressure, and I’m still looking for a good idea,” he said. “Let me know if you come up with one.” Brian Lambert is a resident of Edina, directly adjacent to the 50th & France business district.
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t is springtime in Minnesota, and even though it snowed the first week of April, farmers across the state have lots of greens and other vegetables to bring to the city! Many farmers beat the weather by planting crops in greenhouses as early as February to harvest in early spring. At Mill City Farmers Market’s indoor winter market on April 8th, farmers brought Minnesotagrown arugula, beets, carrots, cilantro, chickweed, lettuce, kale, microgreens, mushrooms, mustard greens, nettles, pac choi, parsley, potatoes, radishes, spring onions, Swiss chard and turnips. Pam Benike, owner of Prairie Hollow Farm, is one of the farmers who vends at the Mill City Farmers Markets indoor winter markets. Not too far from Rochester in Elgin, Pam, her sons, Isaiah and Jonathan, and her daughter, Bethany, grow
fresh greens and vegetables throughout our Minnesota winters in their greenhouses. Isaiah, who re-established vegetable farming at the organic dairy farm almost a decade ago, added a greenhouse to the property in 2008 and a second one in 2010 as a way to extend the growing season for the farm. With only sunshine and angles of the glass walls, the greenhouses are heated to an impressive 75 degrees every day! With these greenhouses and the farm’s storage crops, Prairie Hollow Farm sustains Mill City Farmers Market shoppers and its CSA (community-supported agriculture) members with local food all winter long. Mill City Farmers Market’s final indoor market of the winter season is 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Saturday, April 22 inside the Mill City Museum, 704 S. 2nd St. In addition to local spring vegetables you can also find fresh bread, pasta, farmstead cheese, pasture-raised local meat, ceramics, jewelry and delicious breakfast and lunch. The Mill City Farmers Market’s outdoor season opens Saturday, May 6 and will host over 60 local farmers and vendors, live music and lots of educational programming, including its free weekly Mill City Cooks cooking classes. For more information please visit millcityfarmersmarket.org. — Jenny Heck
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Life cycle Getting intimate with cyanobacteria at the Minneapolis Institute of Art By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com
The nervous pangs Alison Hiltner was experiencing at the start of a recent work week were of the type you might associate with a vacationing dog owner who left her precious pet at the kennel. She knows the dog is fine, but she can’t help but wonder — maybe even feel a little guilty. “This is the first Monday I actually skipped to go check on it,” she admitted over the phone. “But that’s mostly nerves. It does take maintenance. It is a living thing, so it has unpredictability programmed into it. “It’s sort of like, ‘Hey, you’re doing great, kiddos.’ But next week there could be a problem. It’s sort of hard to say. “I’ve tried to test for as many variables as possible, but there’s always the unknown variables. And they will eventually evaporate.” There’s your clue. These “kiddos” are no ordinary pet. They are thriving, deep-green colonies of cyanobacteria, bubbling away in several dozen individual micro-environments, unaware that they are the stars of Hiltner’s first museum soloexhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, “It is Yesterday.” In an attempt to create a more intimate connection between human viewers and these ancient, primitive organisms, Hiltner suspends her cyanobacteria soup at close to eye level in
I’m trying to delve into a more personal experience. I’m always like, oh, this sounds so crazy-weird, but what if it felt like a budding relationship? — Alison Hiltner
clear plastic sacks (actually upcycled vinyl beach balls). The sacks, illuminated by grow lights, hang in clusters of four from metal racks attached to the gallery ceiling, and above the racks snake yards of black plastic tubing that feed into the sacks, regularly releasing a stream of bubbles to aerate the cyanobacteria. When the air compressor kicks in, the sound filling the gallery is like a bubbling hot tub. Hiltner is inspired both by science and sci-fi, and her mixed-media sculpture and installation art has over the years taken on an increasingly cinematic sheen — growing more convincing, while never exactly hiding the fact that it’s been assembled out of consumer goods and manufactured objects. An installation of biomechanical jellyfish at The Soap Factory in 2014 was an almost magical transformation of LED lighting and plastic tubing. At Mia, she takes a minimalist approach, but she doesn’t need to create much of an illusion; what looks like a lab for culturing cyanobacteria is essentially that. This particular lab looks like it could be found on the lower deck of an orbiting space colony, but that’s just Hiltner using the visual tropes of science fiction to draw us in. “Sci-fi, in particular, weaves this thread of being accessible for the general population, to kind of start and engage that curiosity about the natural world (and) technology,” she said. Hiltner’s studio became cyanobacteria farm over a year ago, when she began cultivating the first of the aquatic photosynthesizers in fish tanks. If she manifests some emotional attachment to these microorganisms, maybe it’s more accurate to compare her to the patient gardener who dotes on her tulips and begonias. And anyway, cyanobacteria could hardly be considered a pet. In fact, some cyanobacteria are toxic to the type of higher-order beings we usually keep as pets, like dogs, who can become ill or even die after lapping up toxic blue-green algae blooms — a misnomer, since it’s cyanobacteria and not algae that cause them.
Sacks of deep green cyanobacteria soup bubble away in the gallery (top). A video in the entryway gives a close-up view (above). Photos courtesy Minneapolis Institute of Art
Other types of cyanobacteria are harmless or, even better, downright nutritious, like spirulina, which you may have met in a teal-tinted postworkout smoothie — if you’re into that kind of thing. Certainly, most everyone is into our planet’s life-sustaining, oxygen-rich atmosphere, and for that we can also thank cyanobacteria. Relatives of Hiltner’s “kiddos” were around more than 3 billion years ago — as we know from some of the oldest fossils on record — and they were responsible for producing enough oxygen to alter the chemistry of our atmosphere, so that the primordial muck of the Archaen Eon could eventually give way more complex animals — including us, eventually. Which leads us back to Hiltner’s exhibition at Mia, where the artist offers us a chance to repay, at least symbolically, the tremendous debt we owe these little guys. At what looks like a microphone attached to the gallery wall, visitors are invited to blow into a sensor. The carbon dioxide levels of a person’s breath determine the amount of aeration fed into each of the little colonies. “Of course we all appreciate having a beautiful environment and going into the woods or going to a park, but there is still this separation. I’m trying to delve into a more personal experi-
ence,” Hiltner explained. “I’m always like, oh, this sounds so crazy-weird, but what if it felt like a budding relationship?” She said she aimed to create a “rudimentary form of communication” between human beings and cyanobacteria. When you visit, you might lean into the sensor and whisper a breathy “thank you.” Hiltner’s exhibition takes us into the far past, to the deepest roots of life on earth, but it also forces us to think about our relationship to our planet and the other life-forms that share it now, at what feels to many like a pivotal moment. “Nature can be nice to us if we are nice to them. That’s what my philosophy is, at least,” Hiltner said. “If we stop messing up, then we’ll be OK.”
IF YOU GO: What: It is Yesterday Where: Minneapolis Institute of Art When: Through June 25 Info: artsmia.org, 870-3000
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By Dr. Catherine Hageman
Tips on choosing a pet food
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here are so many choices available for pet foods these days. It can be overwhelming. But, armed with a little knowledge and common sense, you can choose a healthy, balanced and safe diet for your pet. First, it’s important to know there are a lot of marketing myths that can add to the confusion. For example: Are grains inherently bad for dogs and cats? Absolutely not, and they can provide a healthy source of protein and fiber if provided in the right balance with other nutrients. Domesticated dogs and cats have evolved significantly from their ancestors, but even their ancestors had some grains in their diets. Wild cats and dogs consume grains within their preys’ gastrointestinal tracts, as well as “graze” on some grasses and grains. So, grains can be a part of a healthy, balanced diet for dogs and cats, although it’s not recommended that they constitute the main source of protein. Cats are obligate carnivores and require a high percentage of protein and limited carbohydrates in the diet. In particular, it’s best to limit carbohydrates in most cats to between 2 and 12 percent of their caloric intake. Domestic dogs are more tolerant of carbohydrates and have actually evolved over the last 10,000 years to digest starches and carbohydrates better than their wolf relatives. It’s not unusual to see dogs thriving on diets with over 50 percent carbohydrate content. When choosing a protein source, it’s tempting to go for the exotic: Bison! Wild boar! Tilapia! But if we think about what cats would naturally eat — small critters such as birds, bunnies and mice — then poultry and rabbit make more sense. Also, cats don’t naturally catch and eat fish for the most part. In fact, large animal proteins such as beef and lamb, as well as fish and seafood, are among the biggest offenders in adverse food reactions in cats. Dogs are also more likely to react to beef than other proteins. Neither cats nor dogs tolerate dairy well, in general. After being weaned from their mothers, they gradually decrease production of lactase (an enzyme that helps break down
dairy during digestion). Dairy is also high on the list in many studies of common food reactions in cats and dogs. Another common misconception is that feeding dry, “crunchy” diets and treats helps to clean the teeth and stimulate the gums. The average dry dog or cat food is too brittle and too small to affect oral health (similar to chewing on dry cereal), but there are a few diets and treats that have been specially formulated for dental care. Unfortunately, label claims for oral health are poorly regulated so you can’t tell just by reading the bag. However, you can look for the Veterinary Oral Health Council seal to ensure a food meets the required standards to control tartar and plaque. Another common question is about raw diets. Are raw diets the “all-natural” panacea claimed by some? The meats contained in raw foods are not caught and eaten “in the wild” but are typically processed through manufacturing plants and handled by humans, similar to meats in grocery stores but often without the same level of quality control. Some of the reported risks of feeding raw diets include: •H uman and pet exposure to bacterial contamination like salmonella, e. coli or listeria. Please see the FDA Pet Food Recall website (fda.gov/animalveterinary/safetyhealth/recallswithdrawals/) for a list of safety and contamination recalls that is updated frequently. • Fractured teeth, gastrointestinal perforations and blockages from bone ingestion. • Hyperthyroidism from consumption of excess thyroid tissue. • Pancreatitis and / or gastroenteritis (inflammation of the pancreas and / or gastrointestinal tract). • Joint problems in rapidly growing large breed puppies. Reading through labels can also be confusing, especially with all the myths repeatedly found on Internet searches. For example, do meat byproducts really contain hair, hooves, horns and teeth? Absolutely not. AAFCO (the Association of Animal Feed
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HOW TO SAFELY TRANSITION YOUR CAT TO A NEW FOOD There are times during your cat’s life that you may want or need to transition him to a different diet. It is important to know that cats and dogs approach their food differently, and the recommendation for how to transition food is different for cats and dogs. For dogs that are changing diets, the recommendation is to mix the new food with the old food for five to seven days, gradually reducing the amount of old food and increasing the amount of new food. This is not the best way to transition a cat to a new diet. Cats often don’t like to have their food mixed. In addition, it is not uncommon for cats to be suspicious of their new food and not even attempt to eat it for several weeks. The best way to transition a cat to a new diet is to offer the new food sideby-side to the old food in a separate dish. Start by putting a small amount of the new food in a dish every day. Cats will sometimes need to look at and smell a new food for several weeks before even attempting it. Make sure the new food you offer daily is fresh. Dry food can sit overnight for 24 hours, but canned food should be picked up and thrown away after several hours of it not being eaten. Start with small volumes so you are not wasting food. Once you see that your cat is consistently eating the new food, you can start to reduce the amount of old food until your cat is fully adapted to the new diet. — Dr. Teresa Hershey
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REAL ESTATE GUIDE
Homeowners open their doors for annual tour The Minneapolis-St. Paul Home Tour will feature more than 50 homes and remodel projects
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I’m going to do this remodel.” Harrington forged ahead anyway following several small projects such as painting and adding color to the home. The first phase involved converting an original pantry to a mudroom, replacing windows and relocating an entrance. During phase two, Harrington, who has a large private backyard despite living in the bustling Lowry Hill East area, added a large covered porch to the back of her house. Finally, this past year Harrington created an open entertainer’s kitchen with tiles from a local ceramicist and bold colors like red, gray and black. “My kitchen is not a cookie-cutter kitchen,” she said. Now that she has several renovation projects under her belt, Harrington recommends that those looking to do the same for their home wait a full year to learn how they live and what their needs are before embarking on a renovation, as someone told her during a previous tour — although she estimates working in stages likely ended up costing her more. “You don’t have to achieve perfection. There are some things that I would do differently, but that’s how life is. It doesn’t always come out perfectly,” she said.
Homeowners from across the Twin Cities will soon show off their renovated, remodeled and newly constructed homes as part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Home Tour. Now in its 30th year, the self-guided tour will showcase more than 50 homes around Minneapolis and St. Paul on April 29–30. From making room for all the needs of a growing family to finally satisfying a remodeler’s itch, the homes feature real projects with do-it-yourselfers and local professionals.
A staged renovation gets final act Beth Harrington didn’t stop at just one remodel on her turn-of-the-century home. The Wedge neighborhood resident recently put the finishing touches on the final phase of her renovations, which span three phases in just as many years. Harrington, a Minneapolis-St. Paul Home Tour veteran, almost didn’t move forward with her projects as developers continue to snatch up homes in her neighborhood — several neighbors have been approached, she said — and develop larger homes. “That kind of stopped me in my tracks,” he said. “Finally, I just decided that I’m here now.
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zones for each of the home chefs. “I’m the main cook and my wife likes to bake, so we tried to create zones so we could each do our thing so we wouldn’t have to cross over each other,” Owens said. On top of the remodel, the two added custom oak cabinetry, hand-made tile, soapstone counters and period-inspired light switches. In order to not take away from the look of the home’s wood and Arts and Crafts style, the two added wood panels to kitchen appliances. “I think if we had left the doors alone and the dishwasher door alone it would’ve looked like a lot steel,” he said. To complete the renovation, Owens and Buckingham needed to do something with their breakfast nook, a unique space that couldn’t fit a traditional kitchen table. Working with their builder, Owens designed a table and added a custom booth to the nook.
Rachel Gueldner said before a full kitchen remodel that it was so cold in her 1927 home that she could store produce in the cabinets. Submitted photo
A family gathering space With three growing kids, Rachel Gueldner and her family recently moved to get more space in their home. To create the living space they needed, the family pursued a full kitchen remodel, tearing down the walls between the kitchen and dining room to open up the space. Gueldner also added heat to the kitchen, which had been
removed, and expanded a new garage with an attached mudroom. They also added a powder room to the main floor. The kids can do their homework in the kitchen, now a “place to be in and connect and be together in the home,” she said. Gueldner recommends homeowners listen to their designers, who can help bring ideas to fruition.
“They really can visualize a space that I can’t visualize,” she said. Gueldner said it’s also helpful to decide what’s truly necessary and be flexible with everything else. For her family, she said, a bathroom on the main level was crucial so they could host elderly parents. “Pick the one or two things that are nonnegotiable,” she said.
IF YOU GO: What: Minneapolis-St. Paul Home Tour Where: Twin Cities homes When: Saturday, April 29 from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. and Sunday, April 30 from 1 p.m.–5 p.m. Cost: Free Info: msphometour.com
Assessing properties a yearlong process By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com
Jan. 2 is the magical date when it comes to assessing real estate in Minneapolis, according to City Assessor Patrick Todd. “When we’re putting a value on it, it has to reflect what would that property sell for on Jan. 2,” Todd said. The assessment process begins well before that, however. The Assessor’s Office starts inspecting properties the previous May, going door to door to verify the condition of houses across Minneapolis. State law requires the office to look at 20 percent of properties in the city every year, Todd said, meaning that his staff of 25 looks at
about 130,000 properties annually. It takes about three to four months to inspect all the properties, Todd said. The assessors also look at permits and property sales over the previous 12 months before using a computer system to determine the estimated values. The city mails the values out in late January or early February, and property owners have 60 days to file an appeal. Todd estimated that his office would review about 700 properties this year, compared to 1,300 a couple years ago. “If 1 percent of the population calls us and is upset with their value or has questions about their value, that means we’re doing a pretty
good job,” he said. The Minnesota Department of Revenue monitors the work of the city Assessor’s Office, tracking the difference between estimated values and sales prices. State law requires the estimates to be at least 90 percent of the sales price, but Minneapolis generally targets a 96-percent ratio, Todd said. Todd said location is always the largest driver for value. Other factors include square footage, condition, garage size and the quality of construction, he said. He noted that the city’s assessments differ than those of real estate agents, because agents
look only at sales data while his office looks at all properties. His office also deducts the value of furniture and other amenities inside the house from the estimated value. “We’re really getting right down to the real estate, because that’s the only piece of it that can be taxed,” he said.
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REAL ESTATE GUIDE
High demand, low supply A tight housing market persists into 2017 and may push prices even higher
By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com
Matt Losoka of Edina Realty said “the story of this spring” was the tight market for firsttime homebuyers in the Twin Cities. An agent in his office recently put in one of 16 offers on a house listed at $275,000. The offer was $50,000 over asking price, but apparently that wasn’t enough. “Everything around that $300,000– $350,000 range and under has just been really tight,” Lasoka said. But if that’s the story of the spring, then summer rerun season has come early. It sounds an awful lot like the market of 2016, when people looking for homes — particularly first-time homebuyers shopping at the lower end of the market — faced a historically tight housing supply and fierce competition on almost every new listing. That was good news for sellers — except those who couldn’t find a new place to live faster than their homes were snapped up. “If anything, the supply is a little bit lower than it was last year, and it was low last year,” said Herb Tousley, director of real estate programs for the University of St. Thomas. The Minnesota Area Association of Realtors reported in February that the Twin Cities median sales price increased 7.6 percent from one year earlier, to $233,000. New listings were down 7.5 percent from a year ago, and the Twin Cities’ total inventory was down more than 25 percent from February 2016. The Twin Cities metropolitan area had a housing inventory of just 1.8 months in February. Experts consider 5–6 months of supply a balanced market. Barring any significant shakeups in
the economy, those trends point to a continued rise in Twin Cities home prices. In February, St. Thomas’ Shenehon Center for Real Estate predicted tight supply would contribute to a 5-percent increase in the median in 2017. “You’re hearing lots of stories from Realtors about multiple offers and bidding up over asking price,” Tousley said. “In those low- to moderately priced houses, we’re seeing an awful lot of demand chasing a smaller supply. Anything that’s priced anywhere close to right is going to be on the market a pretty short time.” He said the tight supply is particularly evident with houses priced between $150,000 and $400,000 or even slightly higher, meaning it’s not just first-time homebuyers who are struggling to strike a deal. Growing families looking to take a step up into a new home are also facing significant competition. Tousley said the number of single-family homes converted to rental properties during and after the recession was also putting a squeeze on the market. Institutional investors went shopping for discounted housing during the recession, contributing to an increase in the share of Minneapolis single-family homes offered as rentals, to 14 percent of the Minneapolis market in 2013 (10,278 properties) from 8 percent in 2000 (5,864 properties). If those rentals were on the market, many would sell in the price range of a typical first home, Tousley said. Above $500,000, houses are selling, but at a relatively relaxed pace. “It’s a good market, but not quite as frothy
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REAL ESTATE GUIDE
Realtors give the scoop on how to handle a hot market By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com
In a market where an entry-level house might generate six offers in a weekend, Leah Drury and Jill Numrich are working as a team at Lakes Sotheby’s International Realty. “You need more than one person to efficiently run your business,” Numrich said. “You need to be available all the time.” The “neighborhood Realtors for urban nesters” met at a family Music Together class Drury teaches, and they bonded as working moms living in the same neighborhood. They’ve worked together since early 2014 and handled 80 buying and selling transactions last year. Their clients take them all over the metro, but they tend to focus on high-demand neighborhoods in South and Southwest Minneapolis as well as St. Paul’s Highland Park and Mac-Groveland neighborhoods. “We follow the water,” Drury said. The agents have a bit of advice on everything from staging an old home to beating out competitive bids.
“We often take up large rugs to showcase beautiful hardwood floors,” says Realtor Jill Numrich. Photo by Seth Hannula
On staging and selling Numrich is “Old Home Certified” through the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota and lives in a stucco and stone Tudor Revival from the 1920s. “For me, the character is worth it,” she said. “They’re solid, they stand the test of time. They were sited to get the maximum amount of light and maximum amount of air flow.” While modern houses tend to showcase larger, airy spaces and bright white paint, Numrich said that doesn’t always work in an older home with smaller rooms and dark woodwork. She recommends Sherwin-William’s “accessible beige” as a great complement to natural woodwork. She also shows clients how to make the trim and cabinets shine without refinishing them. The agents rely on professional photographers to make the best impression on buyers scrolling through houses on tiny smartphone screens. The photo must be realistic, however. “You want the in-person feel to match the photo,” Drury said. “You don’t want to waste anyone’s time.” A former marketing professional, Numrich said she’s noticed her background kick in on this issue. “You can have marketing that’s great, but the product has to deliver,” she said. They advise sellers to list the house price competitively and allow the market to determine how high it can go.
How to win a bidding war The Realtors said it’s common at the moment for houses priced from $200,000–$400,000 to field anywhere from six to 17 officers. The record they’ve seen is a Northeast house on Cleveland Street that drew 25 offers. (It sold for $269,900.) Even fixer-uppers can yield six offers and land well above asking price, Numrich said. “The list price is not necessarily what the
Leah Drury (l) and Jill Numrich are “neighborhood Realtors for urban nesters” at Lakes Sotheby’s International Realty. Photo by Anna Grinets
market value is,” she said. “… Keep in mind that the list price is a starting point.” Winning a bidding war hinges on more than price, the agents said, because buyers are educated and they all know how much to offer. “Everybody could come in at the same price, but who is the seller going to pick?” Drury said. “Sellers want assurances,” Numrich said. “How do you make them feel like your offer is safe?” They said winning bids retain strong lenders known for closing loans on time. They said shorter inspection periods can also help, and they work to develop a relationship with each selling agent to learn more about what the seller wants. When it comes down to it, however, sellers are concerned about the bottom line, they said. They’re seeing prices for in-demand homes come in $15,000–$20,000 above the asking price, on average. To help alleviate the pressure of making an offer, Drury said they immediately educate new clients about what’s involved in a purchase agreement. That way, buyers feel comfortable signing paperwork when time is tight. They encourage clients to drive neighborhoods and visit open houses well before they’re ready to buy. They also encourage people to think about resale value. The value of a three-bedroom house will increase more dramatically than a two-bedroom house, they said. It’s worth considering the potential to build a home addition in the future.
Outlook on the Minneapolis market “I don’t see it as a bubble, I see it as a general trend,” Numrich said. She said low housing inventory has created a pool of buyers that has accumulated for several years. Millennials and downsizing baby boomers are drawn to the same types of houses in Minneapolis, she said. Young families, meanwhile, are increasingly investing in their homes and staying in the city. “We’re coming into this renaissance as a city in general,” Numrich said. Minneapolis has always been a relatively affordable city, she said, compared to other major cities like Chicago. “I think we’re playing catch-up,” Numrich said. “… I think it’s just an upward trend.”
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REAL ESTATE GUIDE
The Encore luxury apartment building in the Mill District features condo finishes and condo-quality construction, according to DRG leasing director Patrick Carson. Submitted photo
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Two bed, two bath Froid said millennials and baby boomers ask for the same things when it comes to units: Two bedrooms, two bathrooms and one or two parking stalls. She said she is seeing a lot of “accidental renters” — people who want to purchase Downtown but can’t find anything. “A lot of people have sold their properties, and they’re just sitting with money in their pockets ready to buy,” she said. “It’s just a matter of finding it.” Many of the buyers are from the Chain of Lakes area and western suburbs, she said. She added that a lot of people are relocating to Minneapolis from cities such as Denver, Los Angeles and Chicago. “People are just shocked at how expensive prices have gotten here,” she said. “It’s great for sellers, but it comes at a cost for buyers.” Fritz Kroll of Edina Realty said there are a lot of renters who move Downtown to see if it’s a good lifestyle for them. He said there
previously were a lot of condos for rent from individual owners, but that pool has dropped significantly. The rental market is similar to the sales market Downtown, Prudden said, with a limited supply and many deals happening o the market. Average rent is roughly $2.55 and up per square foot for apartments Downtown, she said. At The Encore, a luxury apartment building that opened Dec. 1 in the Mill District, rents range from about $1,640 to $9,350, according to its website. The 122-unit building was over 50-percent leased as of April 13, according to
Patrick Carson, leasing director for DRG, which oversees sales for the building. He said he expects the building to be fully leased by mid-summer. The Encore features condo finishes and condo-quality construction and is the only luxury apartment building in the Mill District, Carson said. Many renters are empty nesters, and some are renting for a year or two until they find the right property to buy, he said. A few are going to move into The Legacy condo development that is under construction. The 374-unit condo will open in summer 2018, according to Froid.
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By Linda Koutsky
It has sprung
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pring happens so quickly in Minnesota that if you wait too long pulling that scarf up and over your head you’ll
miss it. I was out of town for two weeks at the beginning of April. By the time I got home, our annual robin pair made their trip back north and built a nest under our upper deck overhang. Actually, they built nine nests. I’m no bird expert, but it looks like they’re going to charge rent this year. They started at one end, leaving long, dried grasses dangling over the rafters and littering our walkway. The next one over was built a little higher with a few stray grasses poking out. Each one got progressively higher and less scraggly until the final nest was a precision-built masterpiece with muddy grasses that dried in place, creating sturdy, protective walls. I think it would take me two weeks to weave a nest like that, and I have fingers. They were busy. When the robins return in spring, I like to get out in nature and see what’s happening in our post-winter world. I love boardwalks, and we’re lucky to have many in the metro area. I like walking on floating or sturdy wooden walkways over the water and through the cattails. It’s a very civilized approach to appreciating nature. Seventy years ago, as St. Louis Park was growing, industrial buildings and apartments were built off Excelsior Boulevard near Minnehaha Creek. The creek’s natural curves were straightened to accommodate development,
BOARDWALKS We are lucky to have so many boardwalks in the metro area. Here are some of my other favorites: Wood Lake, Richfield Westwood Hills, St. Louis Park Harriet Alexander Nature Center, Roseville Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, Bloomington Keller Regional Park, Maplewood Double boardwalks follow each bank of Minnehaha Creek as it meanders through the park. Photo by Linda Koutsky
and its flowing water was mostly ignored. But last year, this neglected gem reopened as Creekside Park. The Minnehaha’s newly meandering curves are echoed in boardwalks that crisscross the
LUNCH TIP Make it a picnic on one of the many benches along the creek. Pick up an artisan sandwich and freshly baked cookie at Honey & Rye Bakehouse (4501 Excelsior Blvd.).
park. Exhibit panels show the creek’s history going back to glaciers, explain how watersheds work and give tips on environmental stewardship, so we can all protect its waters. There are 1.5 miles of paved trails and elevated boardwalks that stretch between Louisiana and Meadowbrook avenues and extend into a therapeutic boardwalk on Methodist Hospital’s west side. The park is extending further west, too, as more gets developed. As soon as I crossed the creek onto a sweeping arc of a boardwalk, three kayakers paddled around a bend. They put in at Gray’s Bay Dam, the headwaters of Minnehaha Creek. It takes about seven hours to paddle
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downstream to the falls. They were moving at a leisurely pace and easily navigating the turns. Though the cattails are barely starting to green up, I did see monarch butterflies and many birds. The creek is wedged in between industrial buildings, apartments, and Excelsior Boulevard, but this park is sheltered and quiet. Babbling water, red-winged blackbird calls and the light slap as my sandals hit wood boards were all I heard.
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By Meleah Maynard
Speak out for urban food forests
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ood forests — if you haven’t yet heard of them, you will. The concept is best known in connection with permaculture, which goes beyond organic growing to create landscapes that exist in harmony with nature. Designed to include nut- and fruit-producing trees and shrubs, as well as many other edible and pollinator-friendly plants, food forests are not only interesting and enchanting. They provide food for people and wildlife. They also make if possible for people, particularly urban dwellers, to see up close how food is grown and experience the joy of picking something and eating it. Heck, they may even inspire some to add edible plants to their home gardens. For all of those reasons and more, many cities around the country — and the world — have opted in the last 10 years or so to turn vacant city lots and patches of parks into food forests and community orchards. Those cities include London; Victoria, British Columbia; Calgary, Alberta; Toronto; Seattle; Bloomington, Indiana; Madison, Wisconsin; Asheville, North Carolina; Glendale, Ohio; and Philadelphia. More information on those projects and a list of others can found at urbanfoodforestry.org/ initiatives. Minneapolis makes the list with the Bancroft Meridian Garden Food Forest. The lot along 38th Street started out as a flower garden tended by the community. In 2014, the group decided it was time to create a food forest that was more
sustainable for people, wildlife and the land. Everyone in the community is welcome to stroll around and pick a few berries, apples, herbs or other things. The idea is not to harvest the food, but to create an urban foraging space for all to enjoy. More food forests will hopefully be a part of Minneapolis’ future. But one thing is clear: It is going to take advocacy from people like us to make that happen. Russ Henry, a longtime activist and landscape designer who is running for an at-large Park Board seat (russhenryforparks.com), and Ryan Seibold, who leads the Hiawatha Food Forest group (facebook.com/hiawathafoodforest), have been working for months to get a food forest started near Lake Hiawatha on the site of the frequently flooded Hiawatha Golf Course. Public feedback has been positive, for the most part. In many different public meetings, thousands of residents (golfers and non-golfers) have expressed support for the idea of restoring the wetlands, which were drained in the 1930s to create the golf course. Along the edge of the wetland on a little bit higher ground, edibles could be planted to create a walk-able food forest. The idea was by far the most popular among those that were pitched during a March 16 “Innovation Lab.” Organized by Henry, the event drew more than 150 people who wanted to hear farmers, beekeepers, restaurateurs, composters and other interested folks offer their thoughts on transforming the local food system. “People like the idea of being able to do
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Henry and other activists counter that the Park Board has shown that it is not keen on, or receptive to, input they don’t like, whether it is coming from the public or even from within their own ranks. My commissioner, Brad Bourn (District 6), has been repeatedly disrespected by his Park Board colleagues for supporting ideas that would move our parks in a more organic and sustainable direction. (Thank you for pushing for what’s right, Commissioner Bourn!) So, here’s the thing: In that March Star Tribune interview, Musich said that her mind, and the minds of other Park Board members, are open to the idea of fruit and nut trees being included in plans for the golf course and park. But they need more feedback from the community before making a decision. “We can’t just vet the idea with a group that’s already excited about it,” she said. “We need to vet it to the entire community and all the people that have shown interest in the future of this park.” Hey, well, whaddya say we show her and the rest of the Park Board some interest? And not just for the future of this park, but for all of our parks that are carpeted with chemical-soaked grass and long overdue for a safe and environmentally conscious overhaul. Commissioners’ contact info is here: minneapolisparks.org/about_us/leadership_and_structure/commissioners. Check out Meleah’s blog: everydaygardener.com for more gardening tips or to email her a question or comment.
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some food foraging in parks,” says Henry, who believes food forests have the potential to also connect people and build communities. In a progressive city like ours, you’d think a fun, 21st-century, eco-friendly suggestion like this would be a slam dunk. But it isn’t, and in this case the thorn is the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. The Hiawatha Golf Course is one of seven courses that the Park Board operates in the city. But despite the fact that keeping the soggy course, which purportedly lost money last year, operational means pumping millions of gallons of groundwater into already ailing Lake Hiawatha, they don’t seem very interested in making a change. Though they are aware of residents’ and activists’ interest in allowing the golf course to return to its natural wetland state, and potentially adding a food forest of one size or another, the Park Board has continued pumping groundwater and has restored the course to a full 18 holes for the summer. Woo hoo! Park Board Commissioner Steffanie Musich, who represents the area, told the Star Tribune in March that Henry and others who are pitching the food forest idea are violating the board’s planning process by pushing for change. “There are a lot of angry people that feel like the planning process is not being respected,” Musich said, explaining that some kind of “urban agricultural zone” is being considered as part of the master plan for the golf course and surrounding park.
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Yoom Nguyen of family-run Lotus Restaurant adds bean sprouts, herbs and lime to the bun bo hue soup. File photo
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Q: How long since you’ve indulged in top-notch Vietnamese food? A: Too long. Lotus Restaurant in Uptown proposes to remedy that deficiency. Fanatics of this Asian nation’s fresh and vibrant food can celebrate the return of the family-run restaurant to Uptown, where the original Lotus was launched in 1983 in Calhoun Square. After closing in 2012 due to rent increases, its second location on the fringe of Loring Park continued the tradition, but it was tiny and its fan base huge. The new site — former home to a revolving door of restaurants, most recently GĀME Sports Bar — remedies that. A generously proportioned interior has been modestly redecorated with posters, family photos and the Lotus’s trademark neon. Greatly enhanced parking and an outdoor patio also improve diners’ experiences, abetted by scads and scads (I lost count) of smiling young servers. What hasn’t changed: the basic menu, built upon scratch cooking and bright flavors. Wise patrons start with the spring rolls (four for $5), which could almost double as jewelry with the colorful mix of veggies glowing through their translucent wrapper. Add shrimp (we did)
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Held twice a year, this long-running event is the hottest ticket of the week, showcasing ten spring collections from local designers in an energetic, highproduction runway show. Highlights are sure to be Emily Trevor’s sequindrenched line of party-ready looks for the quirky girl and George Moskal’s embroidered, pearl-beaded silk evening wear.
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Pack away your sweaters and get your wardrobe ready for spring — it’s time for Fashion Week Minnesota. The biannual week celebrates the best Twin Cities fashion designers, independent boutiques and style-makers with a lineup of 21 fashion shows, shopping events and stylish soirées.
Where: Various locations in Minneapolis and St. Paul When: April 20–29 Info: fashionweekmn.com
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Where: Machine Shop, 300 2nd St. SE When: Friday, April 21 from 8 p.m.–11 p.m.; 7 p.m. VIP entry, 9 p.m. show Cost: $30 general admission, $60 VIP seated
FUNGI: BEAUTY FROM DECAY For more than a decade, Minneapolis designer Joy Teiken has been creating distinctive, one-of-a-kind gowns and evening wear under the label Joynoëlle with an emphasis on texture and sculptural silhouettes. For her annual spring fashion show, she continues to experiment with fabric manipulation and creating unusual shapes with 17 looks inspired by the natural beauty of fungi.
Where: Aria, 105 N. 1st St. When: Tuesday, April 25 from 6 p.m.–9 p.m., 7 p.m. show Cost: $15 general admission, $50 VIP seated
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CLICHÉ’S CROSSWALK This daytime event hosted by Uptown boutique Cliché is one part flash mob, one part fashion show. Models donning looks by local designers Danielle Everine (a “Project Runway” alum) and Jenny Carle will transform the crosswalk at 24th & Lyndale into an unconventional runway. One thing’s for sure — it’s sure to stop traffic.
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ART IN BLOOM One of the Twin Cities’ rites of spring returns to the Minneapolis Institute of Art to help usher in the season. The 34th-annual Art in Bloom is a four-day festival that showcases floral arrangements created by more than 150 local artists and florists inspired by the museum’s permanent collection of fine art. Highlights include an afternoon fashion show and luncheon showcasing spring looks from Galleria boutiques styled by Grant Whittaker, a garden shop, lectures and demonstrations by renowned florists, classes and free daily tours, plus a swanky preview party that includes a seated dinner.
While sales of digital albums and CDs continue to fall as streaming dominates consumers’ music listening habits, vinyl is still going strong, reaching a 25-year high last year. Record Store Day, an annual event held every April since 2007, brings together music fans to celebrate vinyl and features exclusive releases, including several Prince 12-inch singles and two limited edition David Bowie reissues. Local events include a free block party at Hymie’s Vintage Records featuring live music from Black Market Brass, the Blind Shake, Charlie Parr and others (11 a.m.–8 p.m.) and Electric Fetus will host live sets from Flipp, Sims and DJ Jake Rudh (9 a.m.–8 p.m.), food, giveaways and an outdoor lounge with music-related kids’ activities.
Where: Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2400 3rd Ave. S. When: April 27–30; preview party Wednesday, April 26 from 6 p.m.– 10 p.m., fashion show Friday, April 28 from 11:30 a.m.–2 p.m. Cost: Free daily admission; events priced from $20–$200 Info: artsmia.org
Where: Various locations When: Saturday, April 22 Cost: Free Info: recordstoreday.com
SCOTT SEEKINS: SOLO EXHIBITION In a press release for his latest exhibition, Minneapolis artist Scott Seekins dubs himself the “Twin Cities’ original selfie artist.” In fact, the painter and illustrator — who has been active in the local art scene for more than four decades — first initiated his self-portrait series in 1996 when he satirically drew his own face over an FBI “wanted” photo of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Since then, he has appeared in nearly every one of his art works, donning his iconic black (in the winter) or white (in the summer) suit. His third show in 12 months features mixed-media works that place himself in the center of a variety of scenarios, some based on historical events, with a dozen others portraying his fantasy relationship with Britney Spears. It’s darkly tinged Pop Art for the selfie generation.
When: April 22–May 28; opening reception Saturday, April 22 from 6 p.m.–9 p.m. Where: Douglas Flanders & Associates, 818 W. Lake St. Cost: Free Info: flandersart.com
ZORONGO FLAMENCO DANCE THEATRE AND FLYING FOOT FORUM On the surface, flamenco and tap dancing seem like an odd pairing. But the styles share a percussive, rhythmic underpinning, which is apparent in the long-running partnership between Minneapolis dancer-choreographer Joe Chvala and his Flying Foot Forum troupe and the Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre. The pair will reunite to present their 1996 joint work “Las Madres,” an excerpt from their production of “Garden of Names,” about a group of mothers that protested state terrorism in Buenos Aries during the 1970s. Additionally, each dance company will perform individual works, including the Flying Foot Forum’s imaginative new works inspired by Scandinavian folk dance.
When: Friday, April 21 and Saturday, April 22 at 8 p.m.; Sunday, April 23 at 2 p.m. Where: The Cowles Center for Performing Arts, 528 Hennepin Ave. Cost: $30 Info: 206-3600 or thecowlescenter.org
PRINCE PARTIES One year after Prince’s untimely death, Minnesotans will celebrate his legacy at a series of events throughout the Twin Cities. His studio-turned-museum in Chanhassen, Paisley Park, will be the site of a four-day event that will feature live music, panel discussions and presentations from members of Prince’s inner circle, including musicians from all four decades of his performing career: the Time, the Revolution, New Power Generation and 3RDEYEGIRL (April 20–23, $549). First Avenue, where Prince famously shot “Purple Rain,” will host a weekend of events, including two late-night club nights (April 21 and 22, $10–$15), a block party (April 22, sold out) and a daytime kid-friendly dance party (April 23, $5). Across the river in St. Paul, Minnesota History Center is featuring a special Prince memorabilia display, including his “Purple Rain” suit ($6–$12, on view through April 23).
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M-F 7:30am–5pm, Sat 8am–Noon 3233 East 40th St., Mpls • 612-729-2358 SWJ 042017 Classifieds.indd 5 Hiawatha Lumber 2cx4.indd 3
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IMMACULATE AND SHARP • $365,000
EXPANSIVE TUDOR ON CALHOUN • $2,395,000
Beautiful character and charming details. High demand “walkable” location near Broders!
Fresh, stylish design. Fabulous entertaining space, sweeping lake view and salt-water pool.
Fabulous, Mediterranean villa, beautifully landscaped, half block to Lake Harriet.
ON THE PARKWAY • $1,195,000
LINDEN HILLS PARKSIDE COTTAGE • $1,299,000
BILL MINGE • 612.759.7686
JACQUELINE DAY • 763.522.9000
CARI ANN CARTER • 612.926.9999
JASON MOORE • 612.251.3229
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Parkside Cottage is an award-winning, custom design and build. The heart of Linden Hills at its best.
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CHARMING TANGLETOWN HOME•$255,000
TOP FLOOR CONDO IN UPTOWN • $335,000 Loft style, high ceiling, granite, hardwood floors. Private balcony facing downtown. 2 BR, 2 BA.
Customize, change the floor plan, choose your own finishes and make the house YOURS.
“TO BE BUILT” HOME • $450,000
DIAMOND LAKE BUNGALOW • $210,000
MORRIE HARTMAN • 612.269.6958
STEVE NAU • 612.247.9105
ALEX BOYLAN • 612.242.9318
JOSEPH ARCAND • 612.821.4232
Walk to Lake Harriet and restaurants. Deck, fenced yard. 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, 2 car garage.
MorrieHartman.EdinaRealty.com
SteveNau.EdinaRealty.com
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Ideal one-level living. Sunroom, large, 3-season porch and central air. 2 bedrooms, 1 bath.
JosephArcand.EdinaRealty.com
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ULTIMATE IN CONVENIENCE
CLASSIC 4 BEDROOM CAPE COD • $325,000 Sun-filled two story with 3 bedrooms up, 2 baths, 2 fireplaces, custom kitchen and more.
Walk to 50th & France, creek, lakes. 4 bed, 3 bath, 2+ garage.
Beautiful home in sought after location. Oversized, private yard, meticulously maintained.
GARY WAHMAN • 651.270.4709
DAREN JENSEN • 612.720.6284
BRIAN EHLERS • 612.868.3828
ANNA MAE LAMBERT • 612.730.3121
NEAR ROSE GARDEN • $645,000
GORGEOUS SUN-FILLED HOME • $520,000
Luxury, corner-unit condo. Contemporary elegance. Open floor plan with 2 beds + den.
SusanGaryWahman.com
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FULTON CHARMER • $560,000
BrianEhlers.com
RARE OPPORTUNITY • $729,000
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STUNNING LOWRY HILL CONDO • $500,000
LAKE CALHOUN • $1,150,000 Spectacular contemporary, steps from Lake Calhoun.
Big owner’s suite, character plus updates, central air, fenced yard.
Classic, Lynnhurst 3+ beds, 2 baths, original woodwork, gourmet kitchen, 3 finished levels.
CHRIS FEHRING • 952.292.3073
SHERI FINE • 612.720.2442
EVAN HERMODSON • 952.270.7705
JULIE GLASS-YARES • 612.790.8166
Generous room sizes, maple flooring, stone fireplace and beautifully painted throughout.
ChrisFehring.com
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SheriFine.EdinaRealty.com
Hermodson.com
JulieGlass-Yares.EdinaRealty.com
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