May 2–15, 2019 Vol. 30, No. 9 southwestjournal.com
Training aims to teach cops compassion Leaders of the Lake Harriet Spiritual Community, where Justine Damond was a lecturer, worked with the MPD to develop a mindfulness and wellness program
Cindi Claypatch and Gary Perisian stand outside the Lake Harriet Spiritual Community near a bench dedicated in honor of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, an LHSC teacher who was shot and killed by a Minneapolis police officer in July 2017. Photo by Zac Farber
By Zac Farber / zfarber@southwestjournal.com
Before she was shot and killed by Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor in July 2017, Justine Ruszczyk Damond worked as a yoga and meditation teacher and gave lectures about mindfulness and alternative healing practices to the Lake Harriet Spiritual Community (LHSC) in Linden Hills.
“Most people are kind of trying to walk into their life dragging this parachute of all of their past emotions and experiences with them, and they’re not able to sort of move forward into this sense of freedom,” she told an audience at LHSC two weeks before her death. SEE MINDFULNESS / PAGE A14
Conviction brings relief and calls for change
Revamped Lola comes back to lake After a rocky first season, the Bde Maka Ska concessioner has a new menu and new staff
Mohamed Noor found guilty of Justine Damond’s murder
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John Ruszczyk said his family was satisfied with the outcome of a murder trial that will put his daughter’s killer, former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor, behind bars. On April 30, a jury convicted Noor of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, whom he shot in the alley behind her Fulton home. Damond’s fiancé, Don, implored Minneapolis officers to live by their department’s motto: “to protect with courage, to serve with compassion.” Neighbor Sarah Kuhnen said a conviction doesn’t mean that the system is fixed.
Justine Damond’s father, John Ruszczyk, speaks to the media after his daughter’s killer, former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor, was convicted of third-degree murder and seconddegree manslaughter. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
Those were a sample of the reactions following the jury’s verdict in the July 2017 death of Damond, a 40-year-old native of Australia. The jury acquitted Noor of second-degree murder. John Ruszczyk said he hoped the case would be a “catalyst for further change,” while Don Damond called Justine a “living example of compassion” whose legacy continues to this day.
Speaking for Justice for Justine, a group of neighborhood activists, Kuhnen said the conviction was welcome and that they would continue to fight for justice for all victims of police violence. ( Justice for Justine was planning a rally Wednesday evening, after this edition of the Southwest Journal went to press). “What Justine has gotten, we want for everyone,” Kuhnen said. “If Justine is the SEE NOOR VERDICT / PAGE A19
Kenilworth trail to close in coming weeks Light rail construction will close trail until 2022; tree cutting to begin soon By Andrew Hazzard / ahazzard@southwestjournal.com
A popular bike and pedestrian trail will close for three years as early as May 13 and in the following weeks some 1,300 trees will be cut along the Kenilworth Corridor as construction begins on the Southwest Light Rail Transit (SWLRT) project. The Kenilworth trail will close from the Midtown Greenway to West 21st Street in Cedar-Isles-Dean and Kenwood until
2022. The South Cedar Lake Trail, which connects to the Midtown Greenway in West Calhoun, will also close in Hopkins and St. Louis Park up to France Avenue. “This whole bike trail business has been a big deal,” SWLRT project manager Jim Alexander said. “We know there’s hardship. We have detours put out, we’re talking to the city. We’re going to all work through it.”
The 14.5-mile extension of the Green Line, connecting Minneapolis to Eden Prairie is expected to open in 2023.
Timber The Metropolitan Council is planning to start felling trees in the Kenilworth Corridor despite a request from six local elected officials SEE LIGHT RAIL CONSTRUCTION / PAGE A11
Lola on the Lake reopened May 1 at Bde Maka Ska, looking to rebound from a difficult launch last year. “You heard mixed reviews? Lol. We got our butts kicked,” owner Louis King wrote in an email. “But, we learned a lot. Met some great people. And, we have made changes in response to the feedback.” He’s bringing on Executive Chef Eric Austin, known for his former restaurant Big E’s Soul Food on Eat Street. “You’re going to see some twists that we did not have,” King said. “Minneapolis deserves the top talent that we can attract.” The cold spring contributed to delaying Lola’s opening by a month, and bad weather shut it down early. The restaurant struggled with system glitches and absent young employees with the “payday flu,” King said. Lola started the season with its signature smoked foods, but after hearing complaints about smoke, staff cut back on grilling and used an indoor oven — still good, he said, but not the same. Some critics were not kind. “If you enjoy horrible customer service and overpriced generic food, by all means head over there. You will see a beautiful lake. What you will not see? Me,” one Yelp reviewer wrote. East Calhoun Community Organization board members raised concerns about Lola’s food quality and business viability when Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board Commissioners Meg Forney and Jono Cowgill attended a community meeting in August. SEE LOLA ON THE LAKE / PAGE A18
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Kuva Uptown will include salon, gift shop A new store with a gift shop and salon studio space for independent stylists is opening next month in the Zeo residential and retail building in Uptown. Kuva Uptown, a new venture that will have a dedicated lifestyle gift store paired with a 14-station salon area, is planning to open this June at 32nd & Hennepin. “We want people to feel like we have a great hair salon and a gift shop,” said Will O’Hara, one of Kuva’s owners. O’Hara is opening the business with his wife, Tami, and their partner Stephan Courtright. The O’Hara family is all in the location, as Will and Tami live in the building. The couple has owned Wave Salon at 35th & Hennepin for several years.
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Kuva Uptown, a new salon and gift shop, plans to open in mid-June at 32nd & Hennepin. Photo by Andrew Hazzard
At Kuva, the stylists will have independent businesses. Each will have a modular, mobile work station for their gear and a large locker space in the back. Will O’Hara believes these days most stylists want the ability to control their own business. What Kuva offers is the physical space, a reception desk that confirms appointments. “There’s going to be nothing like it, especially for independent stylists,” he said. The gift space will be small, about 350 square feet, and will feature sections dedicated to unique lifestyles, like “techie,” “yogi” and “entertainer,” and stocked with local items. Kuva will have a natural theme inside featuring walls made from repurposed wood collected from a freight elevator in Duluth and cascading natural elements, like live walls covered in plants and a water wall dividing the gift and salon space. “It will have a real environmental feel,” O’Hara said. In addition to selling gifts, Kuva will be giving back itself. The store’s motto is “give beauty purpose” and they plan to donate a to-be-determined percentage of every item sold in the gift shop to a rotating selection of charities that will change every three months, O’Hara said. The owners also hope to host events in the new store. “This is for the community,” he said. Where: 3145 Hennepin Ave. S. Info: kuvauptown.com
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opening on Craigslist. Shofner said she’s found talented stylists and color specialists from around the metro to work at the salon. BLONDELUXE will have eight styling chairs and is taking clients by appointment only. Despite the name, everyone and every hair type is welcome at BLONDELUXE, which has the motto “for blondes and bombshells of every shade.” The business combines her passion for helping people and styling hair. She skipped out on senior prom to do hair for all her friends, and the theme has stuck in her professional life. “I think I’m a people person first and a hair person second,” Shofner said. Where: 5004 Xerxes Ave. S. Info: blondeluxe.com
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Meleah Maynard lives on the corner of 45th & Washburn. She said the new LED streetlight outside her Linden Hills home makes it hard to sleep at night. The new fixture shines onto her garden and front porch and causes shadows on her next-door neighbor’s house. Light also comes into her bedroom window, which she’s covered with a blanket to sleep better. Maynard said Xcel Energy, which owns and maintains the pole, came out and adjusted the angle at which the fixture sits but that the adjustment only made the “light trespass” worse for a neighbor. She said the utility has vowed to come out and further adjust the light but that no one has come so far. “We are not people who think we live in a country where we don’t need lights,” Maynard said. “We really just need to make these lights workable.” (Maynard writes a column on gardening for the Southwest Journal.) Across Minneapolis, Xcel Energy’s new,
more directional LED streetlights are shining into the yards, living rooms and front porches of some residents. The problem seems to be of particular concern for residents of houses on street corners. Several homeowners said the utility has vowed to adjust the fixtures but that the changes haven’t been helpful. “It’s not like it’s the end of the world,” said Kenny resident David Shepardson, who lives across from a new fixture. “But I just feel like they’ve really kind of degraded the neighborhoods with the lighting.” Xcel will typically send out a crew to make adjustments to streetlights within a day or two of receiving a complaint, said outdoor lighting manager Bob Schommer. In most cases, he said that means changing the level of the light. “We are certainly here to help,” Schommer said. “If anyone has any issues, contact us.” In an email, Xcel spokesman Matt Lindstrom said the fixtures bring economic and environmental benefits to the communities where the utility has installed them.
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A streetlight in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
Xcel owns and maintains many of the streetlights in Minneapolis’ residential areas. Its midblock fixtures are perpendicular to the roadways, shielding nearby houses from light trespass. But its corner fixtures are typically angled into the street, to ensure they light the entire intersection. That means that corner houses can receive some light trespass. Cindy Ellingson, who lives at a three-way intersection in Kenny, said light from a new fi xture blasts through her front windows and doors all night. She said an adjustment made by an Xcel repairman didn’t do much good. “It really didn’t make any difference, because he didn’t significantly turn it away from our house,” she said. SEE LED STREETLIGHTS / PAGE A7
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An electronic sign above Jeremy Marshik’s Kingfield home is triggered to turn on at night by an automatic sensor. He said a new LED streetlight makes the side of his house too bright for the sign to light up. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
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‘Trying to be patient’
Ellingson’s neighbor, Mickie Guthmiller, said the middle of her living room is “broad daylight” at night because of the new fixture. “I understand [the street] needs to be lit up,” she said. “But this is ridiculous.” She said she doesn’t feel like she should have to put a shade on her front door to mitigate the light. Shepardson, who lives at a three-way intersection about half a mile away, said the new fixture near his house emits a “harsh gray-white light.” “It’s kind of like daylight all night long,” he said. “It used to get dark at night, and now it doesn’t anymore.” He, too, said he hasn’t taken any measures to mitigate the light trespass and that he doesn’t feel it’s his responsibility. He said an Xcel employee told him the utility would make changes but nothing has happened. Kingfield resident Jeremy Marshik, who lives at an intersection, said a decorative sign above his home that used to turn on at night no longer lights up because of a new streetlight. He said it’s no longer pleasant to sit on his front porch, and he worried the fixture could negatively affect his plant and vegetable garden. He also didn’t notice any changes after Xcel came and adjusted the light. “There’s some people that think the more lights the better,” Marshik said. “I don’t think any of those people are the ones that are getting blasted on the corner.”
Xcel owns and maintains about 24,000 of Minneapolis’ 43,000 streetlights, according to city spokesman Casper Hill. The utility, which owns and maintains streetlights throughout Minnesota, began a statewide conversion a few years ago and began converting Minneapolis’ fixtures this past fall. Xcel estimated Minneapolis will save approximately $150,000 annually on its street lighting bill because of the conversion. Xcel’s Minnesota president, Chris Clark, said the new bulbs will help “enhance safety” in the communities served by the utility, according to a September press release. Schommer, the outdoor lighting manager, said the whiter LED light allows the human eye to see color, shapes and details much more clearly than the yellow light the old bulbs emitted. He said the LEDs allow drivers to see things earlier and more clearly than the previous lights did. Maynard said she doesn’t understand why Xcel didn’t make “better choices out of the gate.” “It’s like they’re waiting for complaints to come in,” she said. “They’re only fixing these on a case-by-case basis if people complain.” Marshik said he remains hopeful the utility will make changes to mitigate the situation. “I’m just kind of trying to be patient,” he said. “I think eventually it will be fixed, I hope.” People who have issues with the streetlights should call 800-960-6235 or email outdoorlighting@xcelenergy.com to report an issue.
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Joe Fahey’s album cover art, a version of “Music Happens Here,” the artist/musician’s 2019 acrylicon-canvas painting that hangs on the wall of the Driftwood as part of Fahey’s first art show at the club. Image courtesy of Joe Fahey
who worked with Lolo’s bassist Paul McFarland to mix, master and cull down the recordings to the 18 songs that make up the limited edition collector’s item. “It’s like the true Americana to me, those guys. It’s like I said in the liner notes: This music is a salvo for troubled times. If you want to just chill out, and if you’ve already heard a bunch of great music during the week, this will take you to another place.” The collection draws from the eight-piece Lolo’s rich catalog, along with a few covers, including a church-worthy cover of Bob Dylan’s “Serve Somebody.” All of which brings the listener into the warm vibe of Sundays at the Driftwood, captured for all time. “It’s so unique to be able to go grab breakfast, with a rock band on stage,” Loney said. “It’s the same thing as a Friday or Saturday night, but it’s a
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Washburn graduation rate hits high mark 87% of 2018 seniors at both Washburn and Southwest high schools received diploma
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Students at Washburn High School are now graduating at the same rate as their peers at Southwest, according to state Department of Education data published April 23. Nearly 87% of the 359 Washburn students who began high school in fall 2014 graduated last spring, according to the Education Department. The rate was about 4.5 percentage points higher than it was in 2017 and marked a new peak in Washburn’s turnaround from 2012, when just 52.7% of seniors graduated on time. At Southwest High School, 86.8% of the 417 seniors graduated on time in 2018. Washburn’s graduation rate grew over 25 percentage points between 2012 and 2014. That’s in part because of a 2009 enrollment plan that altered the school’s demographics. In 2010, a third of the school’s students lived in a set of 11 nearby South Minneapolis neighborhoods to the east of Lake Harriet. Today, 85% of the school’s students live in those neighborhoods. Assistant principal Michelle Terpening, who has worked at the school in different roles since 2005, said the continued rise in Washburn’s graduation rate is also due to reduced staff turnover, a new principal and better credit-recovery options. Less than 5% of Washburn teachers sought a position at a different Minneapolis school the last four years, Terpening said. She also said the school has seen reduced turnover among non-licensed staff. Terpening said Washburn’s “school-within-
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a-school” credit-recovery model keeps getting better and that students within the program have earned three times more credits this year than last year. The school is also making sure supports are in place for seniors who aren’t on track to graduate, she said. MPS interim academics chief, Eric Moore, said the combined Southwest-Washburn 2018 graduation rate was a testament to the strong staff and administrative teams at the two schools and the community’s rallying around students. He said a portion of Washburn’s 2018 improvement was due to a special-education program moving out of the building after the 2016-17 school year.
Moore pointed out that about 83% of Washburn’s black seniors graduated on time last year, the highest rate for that group since at least 2014. Overall, more than 80% of students of color at Southwest and Washburn graduated in 2018, according to the Education Department. Moore said the staff at Washburn “do a really good job ensuring that all students are learning at a high level.” At Southwest, the four-year graduation rate has remained above 85% for the past four years. Forty of the 417 students in the class of 2018 were planning to continue their high school education, while four students dropped
out. At Washburn, 31 of last year’s 359 seniors remained in school after their expected graduation date and 13 dropped out. Across MPS, 69.2% of seniors graduated on time last spring, according to the Education Department, which was the highest districtwide rate since at least 2009. The rate increased for every racial group. In a press release, Superintendent Ed Graff said more work needs to be done and that the district must focus on each individual student. “Graduation is a culmination of efforts by staff, students and families over a student’s entire educational career, not just in high school,” he said.
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year. Planners are still working to determine the route of the line. Options include traveling on Hennepin past Lake Street before taking Xerxes Avenue to Southdale; traveling south on Hennepin past Lake then traveling west to France Avenue; or turning onto West Lake Street to link up with the planned Southwest Light Rail Transit station. Metro Transit expects to complete the E Line corridor study in the fall, with a final station plan coming in 2020. Construction on the line could begin in 2023 if fully funded. A cost estimate will be made once the route is determined, according to Metro Transit. Metro Transit currently has one active BRT route, the A Line, which primarily serves the Snelling Avenue Corridor in St. Paul with connection to the Blue Line’s East 46th Street Station in South Minneapolis. The C Line, which connects Brooklyn Center to Downtown via North Minneapolis, is set to begin service in June. The Metro Orange Line, a BRT route connecting Minneapolis to Burnsville along I-35W with stops at 46th Street and Lake Street, will open in 2021. Although Metro Transit recorded lower ridership on its standard bus routes in 2018, the A Line has experienced steady growth since opening in 2016. Metro Transit has two other information open houses on the B Line scheduled: May 2 at Merriam Park Library (1831 Marshall Ave., St. Paul) from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and May 4 at Oxford Community Center, (270 Lexington Parkway N., St. Paul) from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Additional E Line open houses are scheduled from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on May 20 at Southwest High School (47th & Chowen) and from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on May 21 at Mary Open School (415 4th Ave. SE).
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that the agency hold off until there is more certainty about the project’s ultimate fate. Southwest legislators Sen. Scott Dibble (District 61) and Rep. Frank Hornstein (District 61A) joined Council Member Lisa Goodman (Ward 7) and Park Board Commissioners Jono Cowgill, Meg Forney and LaTrisha Vetaw in writing a letter to Metropolitan Council Chair Nora Slawik protesting cutting the trees before a full-funding contribution from the federal government is received. “The bucolic character of this corridor is prized by many,” the letter reads. “In the event that SWLRT does not proceed for any reason, elimination of this unique, urban forest preserve and passageway would be a reckless and irreversible mistake.” The Met Council has received a letter of no prejudice from the Federal Transit Administration, a move that serves as a de facto go-ahead to begin construction prior to the reception of a federal grant that will cover almost half the cost of the $2 billion project. “We intend to keep moving,” Alexander said. Alexander recalled being a manager on the initial Green Line project along University Avenue, when construction was ongoing for two years before the federal government released funds for the project. “That’s standard operating procedure for the FTA,” he said, adding that any delays could increase cost. Dibble, one of the signers of the letter to the Met Council, said he didn’t believe funding was a sure thing. “We happen to be existing in the era of Trump, who hates transit,” he said. “Why don’t we just wait before we cut the trees down?” The Met Council plans to remove 1,300 of the roughly 2,100 trees within the Kenilworth Corridor. Trees are already being marked for removal and felling efforts will be coordinated with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board beginning May 13 and heading into June, Alexander said. During construction, landscapers will plant 1,100 new smaller trees, 2,700 shrubs and more than 4,000 perennials. The trees will all be indigenous to Minnesota. “We wanted to bring in native species,” Alexander said.
Plight of the bumblebee Some residents along the corridor have raised objections to the project to protect another native species, the endangered rusty patched bumblebee. A supplemental environmental assessment released in February 2018 found trimming long grasses in the Kenilworth Corridor “may affect [but is] not likely to adversely affect” the endangered bee species. Project spokesperson Trevor Roy said surveys done did not find the rusty patched bumblebee
Workers cut brush along the Kenilworth Corridor near Thomas Avenue. Some residents worry that construction work is threatening the habitat of the rusty patched bumblebee. Submitted image
within the Kenilworth Corridor but the species has been recorded in the area. Early this spring, the Met Council began mowing grasses in an effort to prevent the bee and other pollinators from nesting in the corridor. “The mowing and the clearing is to prevent them from being in an area where we may hurt them,” Roy said, adding that the Met Council has been working the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to mitigate harmful effects on animals. “It’s basically ‘Let’s get rid of the habitat so they don’t use the habitat,’” Jeanette Colby, who lives in the project area, said.
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The Kenilworth Corridor is a small stretch of the 14.5-mile extension, but it’s the most technical portion of the project, with a planned half-mile-long tunnel, 10- to 40-feet below ground level, starting along the trail just north of the Lake Street bridge. “That is kind of a critical path,” Alexander said. There will be temporary fencing to ensure safety near existing freight rail service along the Kenilworth Corridor. That fencing work is likely to be done roughly in the same time frame as tree felling, Alexander said. Officials said the project is working within city ordinances limiting work from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and they do not anticipate noise or vibrations to exceed standard construction practices even with the tunneling process. “It shouldn’t feel much different than the freight train that drives by right now,” Construction Director Brian Runzel said. Alexander said they are trying to be “mindful” of the fact that work will be occurring more or less in the backyards of area residents. “Construction is messy, and I think everyone needs to understand that,” Alexander said. Some early work may begin on stations in Minneapolis this summer, Alexander said, primarily the digging of elevator pits for planned stations at West Lake Street and Bryn Mawr. Zac Farber contributed reporting to this story.
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Revised Bryn Mawr plans put focus on seniors By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com
A pair of Minneapolis developers have updated their plans to remake the former CenturyLink campus in Bryn Mawr, far more than doubling the number of units devoted to seniors. Steve Minn of Lupe Development and Ned Abdul of Swervo Development plan on building two six-story, 100-unit senior apartment buildings, including one that’s exclusively for people with incomes below a certain threshold. Together, the buildings will occupy the west side of the 8.3-acre site, which includes a vacant 100,000-squarefoot office building flanked by surface parking lots. Abdul currently owns the entire site. Abdul has independent plans to construct an assisted-living facility on the site’s east side and to renovate the office building that sits in the center of the property, according to the City Planning Commission packet on the project. (Minn said that Abdul has talked with another developer about collaborating on the assisted-living project.) The new plans come before the Committee of the Whole about a year after Minn and Abdul first pitched affordable family housing and market-rate senior housing for the campus. Minn said they revised the plans to include exclusively senior housing in part because of the large number of retirees in Bryn Mawr. He said many households in the neighborhood earn too much to qualify for income-restricted housing. “I can’t tell you how many people have gone to monthly meetings and at the end of the meeting have said, ‘You’ve got one reserved for me, right?’” he said.
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Developers Steve Minn and Ned Abdul are planning to build a pair of six-story, 100-unit senior apartment buildings at the former CenturyLink campus in Bryn Mawr. Rendering courtesy of UrbanWorks Architecture
The building will utilize a new 2018 federal law that changed the low-income housing tax credit program. Previously, families with incomes between 60% and 80% of the area median did not count toward a project’s affordability. The 2018 law allows developments to qualify for the tax credits by renting units to families whose incomes are up to 80% of the area median, provided the collective average building income stays at or below 60% of the area median, which is $56,580 for a family of four in the Twin Cities. “It gives us a lot more flexibility,” Minn said.
The market-rate building will be open to people over 62, and the affordable building will be open to people over 55, Minn said. The units in both buildings will be a mix of one-bedrooms, one-bedroom-plus-dens and two-bedrooms. Amenities will include a shared underground parking garage, gardens and a new public path with pedestrian lighting on the north side, Minn said. He said the project would probably include a greenhouse. Kevin Thompson, president of the Bryn Mawr Neighborhood Association, said the
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Almost two years later, Justine’s fiancé, Don Damond, is determined to move forward. On March 23, as prosecutors were preparing for Noor’s murder trial, Damond was sitting inside the Minneapolis Police Department’s brick training facility in North Minneapolis, attending one of the first mindfulness sessions ever held for the city’s police force and giving his input. “He’s good at separating the sadness from the tragedy,” said Council Member Linea Palmisano (Ward 13), who also attended the session. “He’s extremely emotionally invested in making this better.” Before the end of the year, all 888 MPD officers will be required to take a three-hour training session designed to improve their health, wellness and sense of compassion. They’ll learn how their brains and bodies respond to trauma and will practice deep breathing, meditation, body scans and other techniques for achieving mindfulness. “It’s kind of out of the realm of what cops usually do,” said Sgt. Todd Sauvageau, a longtime MPD trainer who organized the program, now being tested on recruits and probationary officers. “We’re leery even to close our eyes around each other.” Leading the training is Cindi Claypatch, a counselor and energy healer who Palmisano introduced to police. While she was alive, Justine Damond had alternated with Claypatch in guiding the Tuesday night meditation at the Lake Harriet Spiritual Community. The mindfulness training program, Palmisano said, is an attempt to carry out Chief Medaria Arradondo’s mission of transforming the culture of his department, which has come under increased scrutiny after a series of highprofile police shootings. Sauvageau said the cost of the program will likely be $20,000 to $25,000 — coming out of a $150,000 general fund allocation for police wellness in the 2019 budget. (The rest of the wellness money, he said, could be spent on things like new workout equipment, yoga, a collaboration with a local mobile wellness company like Studio 9-to-5, or the in-house production of short videos on stretching and nutrition.) Palmisano said she pushed for the program after noticing that police officers are tired, overworked, overstressed and “always in a multi-tasking mindset.” “The danger is terrible policing and misjudgments that end in things like uses of force that aren’t necessary,” she said. “We want officers to approach everything with compassion and a clear head.”
Regulating fear About 15 years ago, Richard Goerling was working as a patrol sergeant in the Hillsboro Police Department in Oregon when he became dismayed by the lack of tools available to combat the stress and trauma of the job. “The data told us there was this landscape of human suffering inside the institution of policing,” he said. “I set out on a quest to figure out how to train police officers in a way that allowed them to maintain their humanity, their health and well-being.” Today, Goerling is an affiliate associate professor in Pacific University’s psychology department and one of the most prominent police mindfulness trainers in the country; a two-year program he helped run for police in Menlo Park, California, cost the department more than $160,000. Goerling describes mindfulness as “a very practical, evidence-based tactical skills training.” Citing a peer-reviewed article he co-authored, Goerling claims an eight-week course in mindfulness can alleviate officers’ self-reported aggression, stress and burnout. Although there are some promising findings and “emerging best practices,” he acknowledged that the field is still “the wild west” in terms of academic research. “We really do believe that mindfulness is going to help a police officer take in data more clearly, to regulate ego, to regulate fear,” he said.
Starting in late August at its North Minneapolis training facility, the Minneapolis Police Department will hold 17 sessions of a new mindfulness and wellness program. By the end of the year, all MPD officers will be required to take the training. Photo by Zac Farber
“In the next five, seven, 10 years, we’re going to be able to lock onto the efficacy of mindfulness with regard to reducing police violence.” This past November, Palmisano was joined by Sauvageau and five other MPD officers as she attended one of Goerling’s three-day “residential intensive” trainings in Bend, Oregon. Palmisano said she learned about “fierce compassion” — the ability to respond in the moment to people’s pain and suffering. “Mindfulness training is about officers being more responsive to the public than reactive,” she said. By the end of the training, Palmisano knew she wanted to bring some sort of mindfulness program home to Minneapolis. “It’s not just a training module, it’s an approach,” she said. “The hope is this becomes a part of their approach in what we license them to do, which is to carry a gun on our streets.”
The spiritual and the unseen Palmisano and Sauvageau visited the Lake Harriet Spiritual Community in February to discuss the possibility of starting a mindfulness police training with Claypatch and Gary Perisian, the president of the LHSC’s coordinating council. “If we could help [officers] deal with the stress, it would help the community and maybe stop something like what happened to Justine from happening to someone else,” Perisian said. Sauvageau said he chose Claypatch to lead the program because she is “homegrown,” “understands what’s going on” and “has a history with Minneapolis.” “She was married to a prosecutor who was a signing judge,” he said. “Minneapolis cops used to come to her house in the middle of the night to get warrants signed. She says, ‘I remember seeing some of the stress in their eyes, the tiredness.’” Claypatch holds a master’s degree in human development from St. Mary’s University focusing on holistic health and has led health and wellness trainings in prisons, health care agencies and other public and private sector organizations. On her website, where she is described as a “modern day mystic, shaman [and] uplifter,” Claypatch offers $100 energy healing sessions — in person or via phone or Skype — that she says can help alleviate “chronic conditions” and “terminal illnesses.” “She is great at normalizing what some think is woo woo and helps people be in relationship with the unseen,” her website says. (Claypatch declined to comment for this story, not wanting to risk upsetting her relationship with the MPD.) While he doesn’t know Claypatch personally, Goerling said mindfulness trainers need “to be very careful about how we brand it and how we present it.” “It’s not responsible for us to bring spiritual things into the space of public safety,” he said. Sauvageau responded that Claypatch “realizes who the audience is” at police trainings and “nothing in this class has ever crossed into religion.”
Measuring progress In Mayor Jacob Frey’s State of the City address, he contrasted the mindfulness training program with “warrior-style trainings like killology,”
which Minneapolis is trying to eliminate. “Fear-based trainings violate the values at the very heart of community policing,” he said. “We’ve incorporated wellness training for every officer to allow them to be their best versions of self.” Council Member Andrea Jenkins (Ward 8) said she thinks mindfulness training can complement the work the new Office of Violence Prevention will do with communities of color “fearful for their lives when they encounter the police.” “Policing is an extremely stressful job, they’re reliving everyone’s most tragic days, they’re observing that constantly,” she said. “I’d rather see these dollars supporting officer health and well-being as opposed to buying militaristic equipment.” Yet Jenkins wondered during a March Public Safety committee meeting how to “measure progress” of a mindfulness training program. “Is that entirely up to the chief to determine?” she asked. Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights attorney and former president of the Minneapolis NAACP, said she wants to see “statistics and data” showing that mindfulness programs have decreased excessive force complaints and allegations of abuse in other jurisdictions. “I want to make sure it’s not a fluffy way of addressing serious and significant systemic issues within the Minneapolis Police Department,” she said. “Quick fixes are not going to work to change a culture that is so deeply entrenched in taking a more militarized approach when patrolling certain communities, particularly communities of color.” Goerling said a limited sample size makes it difficult to study whether mindfulness training is effective in curbing police violence. “I could train 50 police officers at Albuquerque Police Department in New Mexico and three of them might get into a situation that requires serious force,” he said. “The data set is so small it’s not going to give us a good conclusion.” Palmisano has noted that a Bend, Oregon, resilience program — which was offered to all officers on a weekly basis — has led to reduced workplace injuries, though she said Minneapolis would probably want to use a different measure of efficacy. Nicholas T. Van Dam, an assistant professor at the University of Melbourne, has published papers criticizing the methodology and claims behind most academic research into mindfulness. While the field of mindfulness research has exploded in recent decades, a 2015 review published in American Psychologist found that just 9% of research on mindfulness was tested with a control group in a clinical trial. Van Dam warned that there could be a risk in “introducing mindfulness haphazardly” of adverse effects, such as negative emotions or depression. “People can get worse by practicing on their own in a way that is not helpful for them,” he said. He said he has not seen any evidence that a one-off mindfulness training session would have tangible benefits for police officers or the public they serve. “What few studies do exist seem to suggest
you probably need a reasonable amount of practice before you see any lasting effects,” he said. “I’m not sure a one-time, three-hour overview of mindfulness techniques would do much outside of the session nor whether any effects would be discernibly different from a placebo effect.”
The placebo effect Before her death, Damond was a devoted student of Joe Dispenza, a chiropractor, neuroscientist and mystic who wrote a best-selling book titled “You Are the Placebo.” Dispenza says he healed his broken spinal vertebrae by using the placebo effect and surrendering to a “greater mind that has unlimited power.” “I decided against the medical model and the expert recommendations,” he has written. Yet the existence of some sort of neurochemical explanation for the placebo effect is becoming increasingly accepted by medical experts. Patients have been shown to respond positively to sugar pills as treatment for depression, stress and trauma, even when they know they’re just swallowing sugar. Van Dam said placebo effects have become stronger in the past decade and experts are “not entirely sure” what’s causing the change. “There is much evidence that all psychotherapies are similar — the so-called Dodo Bird verdict,” he said. “That is not necessarily a problem in the sense that anything that works might be helpful for a client.” Sgt. Sauvageau said he considered mindfulness training more akin to yoga than to therapy. “It’s about techniques we can try,” he said. “Cops need to realize you don’t always have to be on guard, wondering what the motive might be, sometimes it’s okay to realize you’re in a safe place and say, ‘It’s okay.’” Could the training be effective for police officers even if it only works as a placebo? That’s a possibility that Sauvageau is willing to entertain. “You don’t have to be a scientist to figure this stuff out,” he said. “Why is it that some people, when they’re told they’re sick and they’re dying, believe they’re sick and they’re dying and they die to the date that they’re told to die, and other people say, ‘I don’t believe that for a second,’ and they buck all odds and move a different direction?”
Starting afresh Palmisano said one of her favorite parts of Claypatch’s training was a short meditation exercise. Claypatch spoke for about ten minutes during the meditation, though a few days later Palmisano couldn’t remember any of the words she used. “It was beautiful, it was very therapeutic,” Palmisano said. “It was meant to show it doesn’t take a long time to go into yourself and thoroughly take account of your body and your mindset and to intentionally start afresh.” Perisian said that working with Claypatch to develop a mindfulness program for police officers was a way for him and the Lake Harriet Spiritual Community to “channel the pain” of Damond’s death. “I know that if it had happened to someone else, Justine would be leading this right now,” he said.
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By Mira Klein
Custodians go above ‘call of duty’ for composting programs It was soup day at Dowling Elementary. Head custodian Roger Bratsch knew when it came time to clean up that the compost bags would be heavy, weighed down by thick liquid leftovers. In Dowling’s cafeteria, waste bins are arranged in the middle of the room, coded green for compost, blue for recycling and red for trash. There is signage carefully posted at elementary student eye level, complemented by a display of waste items strung overhead, each dangling over its respective receptacle. Bratsch was giving a tour of Dowling’s lunchroom composting system, a process he oversees to divert and recycle the school’s organic waste. In addition to lunchroom monitors, he is helped by a program of rotating ROT Rangers (Reduce Our Trash), students armed with trash pickers who stand by the waste bins and instruct their classmates on how to parse out each lunch remnant into the correct vessel. It is a responsibility the students enjoy, Bratsch attested, because “it gives them a chance to show a little authority.” The tour, kept short due to the lunchroom’s chaotic atmosphere, shed light on the raucous conditions in which Roger must ensure that the compost bins stay relatively uncontaminated with non-organic waste. In his 17-year-long career with the school district — six spent at Dowling — Bratsch has seen organics recycling become more refined over time. Composting is just one part of a broader district effort to reduce food waste. As detailed in a Food Waste Action Plan commissioned through the Natural Resources Defense Council and published in January 2019, existing policies like giving students enough time to eat, scheduling recess before lunch and expanding student meal choice can make a big difference in reducing the amount of food waste produced in the first place. The report also provided several recommendations for composting programs, including a directive to “standardize waste-sorting protocols across schools that have a composting program” and identifying a parent, student or administrator to serve as a “composting champion” at each school. This recommendation is a far cry from current
In the Dowling Elementary cafeteria, waste items are strung over the compost, recycling and trash bins. Photo by Mira Klein
operational practice. Composting programs are run almost entirely independently from one another on a school-by-school basis, with a custodial worker often taking up the helm. And operating school-wide organics recycling includes a slew of responsibilities besides waste-bin sorting. Haydee Segovia is head custodian at Bancroft Elementary, just down the road from Dowling. She brought composting to the school four years ago, motivated in part by her upbringing on a farm where organics recycling was a staple. In her role at Bancroft, Segovia takes responsibility for creating and distributing educational materials for students, teachers and her custodial colleagues. She even goes so far as to make posters for each of the ten rotating school lunch meals detailing where each meal scrap should be placed. Doug Hill, MPS director of plant operations, emphasized that what Bratsch and Segovia do for composting is not the norm, nor is it something that the district demands of them. “These guys are really going above the call of duty,” he said. “The nature of our employees is that they own the work.” Workplace demands, including expectations
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By Andrew Hazzard / ahazzard@southwestjournal.com
Court rules DNR lacked authority to change Lake Calhoun’s name
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Bde Maka Ska is Lake Calhoun again, legally speaking. The state Court of Appeals ruled April 29 that former Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Tom Landwehr did not have the authority to rename the Southwest Minneapolis lake because the name had been in place for more than 40 years. In January 2018, Landwehr formally ordered the state revert to Lake Calhoun’s Dakota name, Bde Maka Ska, often translated as “White Earth Lake,” after the Hennepin County Board voted on a resolution asking the DNR to “take the steps necessary to change the name.” But a three-judge panel ruled he lacked the authority to issue that order, finding that only the Legislature can change the name of lakes that have been in state records for more than 40 years. House DFLers passed an amendment to an environmental spending bill to officially declare the lake Bde Maka Ska on April 30, though it remains to be seen if the amendment will get through the Republicancontrolled Senate. The DNR had argued it could change the name with a cooperating county board. The agency also contended the state debate over the name is moot because the U.S. Board on Geographic Names has officially changed the name of the lake to Bde Maka Ska in the Geographic Names Information System. Assistant DNR Commissioner Jess Richards acknowledged in a statement the decision means the name will legally change to Lake Calhoun at the state level absent an appeal but pointed out the Dakota name remains at the federal level. The DNR announced it will ask the state Supreme Court to review the ruling in the next 30 days. The high court may choose to accept or decline to review the ruling. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board began the process of changing the
After seven months of repairs and rehabilitation, Painter Recreation Center reopened in the Lyndale neighborhood April 29 with more community space, new flooring and air conditioning. “It’s brighter, lighter and more open,” project manager Dana Murdoch said. The project marked the second use of the 20-year Neighborhood Park Plan (NPP20) dollars in the Southwest service area. Through NPP20, the MPRB has an additional $11 million each year for maintenance and improvements; Painter Park received $1 million for the improvements. The refurbished rec center has new LED lighting, new floors, new paint and four remodeled unisex bathrooms. A community meeting room was added to the rec center. The greeter’s desk has been moved so it can view both entrances and the rec center director’s office has been moved to open up the space. Outside, a new ADA accessible water fountain was added. “One of the biggest things to me is making it more welcoming,” Murdoch said.
The state Court of Appeals has ruled the former DNR commissioner lacked the authority to rename Lake Calhoun Bde Maka Ska in 2018. Park Board president Brad Bourn said commissioners won’t spend to change signage back. File photo
name in 2015 as places around the United States reconsidered names and monuments honoring those who supported slavery, like the lake’s namesake John C. Calhoun, a former secretary of war, vice president and South Carolina politician. Calhoun was an outspoken slavery proponent who also helped implement the Indian Removal Act, which forced eastern American Indian tribes to move west through brutal resettlements such as the Trail of Tears. The judges ruled in favor of “Save Lake Calhoun,” a group that formed to resist the name change. “We think this is a really important decision,” said Erick Kaardal, an attorney representing Save Lake Calhoun. Kaardal said the case is significant because it clarifies that elected officials cannot violate the law and change names without following proper procedure. He said most people he is representing live near the lake. The MPRB said in a statement April 29 that it was disappointed by the decision. The Park Board is not a party to the lawsuit
but is encouraging the DNR to petition the Supreme Court for a review. “While it saddens me that 318 property ‘owners’ on stolen Dakota land around Bde Maka Ska calling themselves ‘Save Lake Calhoun’ have prevailed at this stage, I know that we’re standing on the right side of history and that its arc bends towards justice,” Park Board President Brad Bourn said in a statement. He added he will not spend public resources to honor John C. Calhoun. “The most beautiful lake in Minneapolis has been called Bde Maka Ska for generations before white settlers stole it from the Dakota. It will continue to be Bde Maka Ska for generations to come,” he said. Park Board Commissioner Chris Meyer (District 1) wrote on Twitter that the board still has the authority to rename the parkways around Bde Maka Ska and would proceed to do so. Kaardal said he fully expects an appeal, but if the state doesn’t request a review, the next step will to be to ask the U.S. Board of Geographic Names to reverse its action and rename the body Lake Calhoun.
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“Customers were great, and they tell you exactly how they felt. Some of them were pretty painful, but we learned a lot from it,” King said. There were still plenty of high points, he said. Walleye tacos were far and away the No. 1 seller, followed by Lola’s pulled pork and popular lime and strawberry “Lolarita” drinks. They installed giant Adirondack chairs to provide a new landmark for the waterfront, visible from the planes overhead. In its first season last year, Lola fielded 42,000 orders. “There were days in July when they just didn’t stop coming,” King said. After a season King described as “roller skates on ice,” he said they’re regrouping with a new team, more adults on staff and a revamped menu featuring Dippin’ Dots ice cream and grills that will come out on weekends. “[We’re] trying to keep it simple but also deliver flavor and service and quality,” said Lachelle Cunningham, a chef consulting for the restaurant, joining Austin, general manager Eric Malagon and assistant manager Gabriele Meissner. Austin joined the team as executive chef about two weeks before the start of the season. “The owner said, ‘We want you to do for us what you did for Big E’s. Go. Here’s a key, go,’” Austin said, adding that the rain might help him ease into the season. “We spoke of a soft opening, but nature has provided that for us.” After reviewing the Lola recipe book, Austin said he envisions a “South Beach” seafood-oriented menu that adds dishes like his signature lobster roll, poke bowls with tofu and eggplant or teriyaki soy ahi tuna, gluten-free chicken strips for kids and specials like jambalaya and shrimp creole. “The whole umbrella by the pier feel,” he said. When Tin Fish decided not to renew its lease after 14 years, Lola beat out 11 other vendors for the five-year contract ending
Lola on the Lake team members Gabriele Meissner, assistant manager; Eric Malagon, general manager; Lachelle Cunningham, consultant and Louis King, owner. Photos by Michelle Bruch
in 2023, among them concepts by Andrew Zimmern, Ann Kim of Pizzeria Lola and teams from Penny’s Coffee, Eat Street Social and Market Bar-B-Que. The finalists were narrowed down to Lola and a group of former Tin Fish employees looking to carry on the business. Mike Finkelstein, a member of the selection committee, recalls committee members appreciating King’s presentation, financial qualifications and business plan, which involved employing kids for the summer. Food samples were deemed unnecessary, according to a Park Board report, because the finalists ranked high and samples might not accurately represent food at the concession stand. The committee voted 5-1 in favor of Lola, with one member voting for Tin Fish and another voting to extend the process and conduct more interviews. The
Executive Chef Eric Austin is taking over the kitchen at Lola on the Lake.
Park Board later voted unanimously for Lola, making it the first African Americanowned restaurant at the lake. Under the lease terms, Lola pays 12% of gross revenue less sales tax and $1,000 per month for utilities, with an additional 3% in escrow for building improvements. In a statement, Park Board staff said they gave Lola a credit last year on the 3% in escrow, due to initial investments the restaurant made to bring the building up to code and improve the grounds. Park Board staff said Lola’s financial performance matched or exceeded all previous first-year concessions in the system. Lola’s shortened season in 2018 generated $607,225. Tin Fish generated $447,749 in its first year in 2004. Tin Fish’s final season in 2017 generated $1,439,466. In the days before Tin Fish, the Park Board operated its own concessions and typically lost money, said Shane Stenzel, the Park Board’s permits manager. He recalled the challenge of relying on 10-day forecasts to order the right amount of buns and other perishable foods. “We celebrated a break-even,” he said. The parks are an incubator for small businesses, he said, and it generally takes three or four years to see park restaurants reach their potential. “Am I satisfied with [Lola]? Absolutely,” said Stenzel, praising Lola’s responsiveness. “Nobody walks in the door and hits a home run.” Park Board Commissioner Forney said she trusts her staff ’s high opinion of the business. “Everybody misses Tin Fish, but unfortunately that contract was severed, and we needed to get somebody in,” she said. “I’m
hopeful that Lola’s will be just as successful, but at the same time offer a new experience that people will grow to cherish as much as our other concessions.” Marcus VanderSanden, a member of the team that hoped to relaunch Tin Fish, said Tin Fish’s success stemmed from more than a prime location. “I think people are seeing that it wasn’t just a magic wand,” he said. “The system that we did have, while not perfect, was rather efficient. I’m sure [Lola] will figure it out, and it will definitely take time.” Tin Fish owners Sheff and Athena Priest didn’t have any restaurant experience when they offered to take over the hot dog and popcorn concessions at the lake. But the Priests said that worked in their favor, because they were willing to try anything. They opened the restaurant in 29 days and figured out how to squeeze nine people into a kitchen the size of a food truck. “We called it the dance,” Sheff said. “It was us against the line.” Now the Priests have time to take their motorcycle out of storage, and they’re still operating a food truck in the neighborhood. Brim, an organic restaurant located a few hundred feet east of Lola at Knox & Lake, recently invited them to park outside the restaurant at 5 p.m. every Monday, the day Brim is closed. At a resident’s invitation, the Priests’ Tin Fish food truck will park every Thursday in the dead-end at 34th & Irving. “I wish them well,” Sheff said of Lola. “As Athena said, it was never ours, but we were stewards of it for a period, and we loved that time. And now it’s someone else’s turn.”
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only one to be treated this way, that is not real justice.”
‘Solid jury verdict’ Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman, whose office prosecuted the case, said the outcome was a “solid jury verdict” that will be upheld on appeal. Freeman said, to the best of his knowledge, this was the first murder conviction in Minnesota against an on-duty police officer. He said that “race has never been a factor in any of my decisions and never will be.” Outside the courtroom, several civil rights activists applauded the verdict but said the system continues to treat people of color unfairly. John Thompson, a friend of Philando Castile, who was killed by a St. Anthony police officer, said African Americans are “always guilty until proven innocent.” He said he felt Noor should go to jail for the shooting but that the case sets the precedent that black officers aren’t innocent until proven guilty, unlike white officers.
Activist Mel Reeves said some people may feel angst because it’s “probably easier to convict a black cop than a white cop, especially when the victim is a white woman.” He said there’s an inherent bias in the U.S. that “white life is more valuable than black life.” Not everyone outside the courthouse was pleased with the verdict. Minneapolis resident Alana Ramadan said the outcome was unjust and asked how officials could expect people of color to want to be police officers after this case. Ramadan said she felt like the case was overcharged and that Freeman should have recused himself after criticizing the agency investigating the case at a 2017 holiday party. Several Minneapolis elected officials released statements after the verdict offering their thoughts to the Damond and Ruszczyk families and their support to the Somali-American community. Noor is Somali-American. Ward 13 City Council Member Linea Palmisano said she hoped the end of the trial would allow Damond’s loved ones and the community to take a step toward healing. She also said the best way to honor Damond is to simultaneously remember the pain that the Somali community has endured since the shooting. “The Islamophobic, racist and antiimmigrant remarks that have accompanied the discourse of this trial have no place in society,” she said. Mayor Jacob Frey said he stands with the Somali community and behind Police Chief Medaria Arradondo and officers who are committed to improving community relations. He said the verdict serves as a reminder of how far society must go to foster trust where it’s been broken.
‘An egregious failure’
Don Damond speaks to the media April 30 after a jury convicted Mohamed Noor in the death of his fiancée, Justine Ruszczyk Damond.
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Every summer Linden Hills resident Kendra Waldauer would check out programs through the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board as she searched for activities for her sons. Years ago, she signed her oldest son up for Theater Nest, a drama and arts program at Lynnhurst Recreation Center. He did a couple of sessions he enjoyed, but never quite caught the acting bug. When her younger son, Tyler, was 10, he gave it a shot. “I signed Tyler up and it was just like a light bulb went off,” Kendra Waldauer said. Now 13, Tyler Waldauer has been returning to Theater Nest ever since and is on the verge of aging out of the program. But Theater Nest, which has been serving youth in Southwest for more than 30 years, keeps kids like Tyler coming back for more. Every session children are immersed in the myths of various cultures and countries before coming up with their own heavily improvised dramatic recreations of those stories, an engaging learning process Tyler enjoys. “There’s infinite possibilities of where it can go,” he said. Stories like the Waldauers’ have become the norm at Theater Nest, where youth embrace a time-tested creative process and become part of a community. “You see a lot of the same faces because no one wants to leave,” said Rachel Williams, a Minneapolis Public Schools teacher who has a son in Theater Nest. Rhonda Lund has overseen Theater Nest for years. She’s encouraged countless youth to embrace the creative process and found roles for them to stay involved when they age out. “It’s not about who has the most lines or is going to be a big deal, it’s about throwing yourself into the creative process in every way,” Lund said.
Origin story Theater Nest, which hosts sessions in the fall, winter and spring, with multiple offerings in the summer, creates plays based on mythical traditions worldwide, but the program itself has its own mythical origins — or at least no one knows for sure when it began. The program was started by two Lynnhurst women, Kathy Matalamaki and Jane Peck, sometime in the early 1980s, they don’t remember quite when.
I have to say he was incredible at playing a ham sandwich. — Rhonda Lund
“If I had known you were going to interview me, I would have kept track,” Matalamaki said. What she does remember is an immediate interest. A year or two after the program began, they hired Lund to direct one show. She never left. A full-time drama teacher at Sanford Middle School and a professional storyteller with years of acting and directing experience, Lund’s favorite job is Theater Nest, where she can experiment freely. “This is my lab,” she said. As a storyteller, Lund has always been curious about mythology across cultures and the majority of Theater Nest programming reflects that. Most sessions the group is performing the myths of places like ancient Persia, Russia or Cuba though, in recent summers, bonus theme weeks have been added for princesses, Pokémon, Harry Potter and Star Wars. The formula for Theater Nest has largely remained the same these 30-plus years. They start with a broad theme, research the myths and culture they’re focusing on, give the kids some cues and let them go from there. Improvisation is common and encouraged. “Almost anything can happen, and does,” Matalamaki said. Matalamaki is Finnish and when they did a Finnish theme, she brought in a heavy metal CD some relatives had brought over, and the children transformed the gym into a Helsinki nightclub. “The kids love it,” she said.
Expanding imagination Today, Leah Seal-Gray is an instructor at Theater Nest, about a month away from leaving Hamline University with a teaching degree, but 15 years ago, she was a wide-eyed 7-year-old in the program. “I just kind of never stopped,” she said. Although Seal-Gray’s staff commitment is more serious than most, her story isn’t uncommon. As kids approach 13 or 14, Lund will tell them to not pay, just show up and help out with the younger children. If they’re still around at 16 or so, she’ll put them on the payroll. “The problem was when the kids aged out of the program they wouldn’t leave,” Lund said. But that problem has turned to a blessing for the program, which regularly has high school and college students pitch in for summer sessions. Five high school helpers graduated last year and four of them will be back to assist this summer, Lund said. “The younger kids see the older kids in this role, and what I’ve noticed is the younger kids want to step into the role the older kids have taken,” Matalamaki said. Marcus Williams started Theater Nest early, at around 5 years old. Marcus was a shy child, his mother, Rachel, said. Now 14, Marcus is a confident speaker and avid actor who serves as a helper in Theater Nest. There was a time when getting to play the comedic role in a skit with two teenage helpers was the highlight of his summer; now he provides
Theater Nest actors and helpers performed three short plays about Cuba in March. Photo by Andrew Hazzard
Theater Nest actors create a Polynesian scene in the Lynnhurst gym. Submitted photo
that experience to younger kids and can see how far he’s come in the dramatic arts. One of Marcus Williams’ favorite Theater Nest activities is “share what you like.” After each skit, kids in the program tell the group what they liked about the plays and ideas. It’s a training method for positivity and acceptance. “She’s sneakily teaching social skills to kids in some of the hardest times of their lives,” Rachel Williams said. Lund believes there’s no need to talk about what the group didn’t like because everyone can tell what worked and what didn’t, and while she appreciates artistic criticism, her main goal is to expand children’s imagination and confidence. “If you introduce criticism too early, you shut down the creative process,” Lund said. Some kids like to star in the plays, while others like to help with the costumes and more behindthe-scenes roles. Lund tries to meet everyone where they are and invite them into the process. “I never push people beyond their comfort level,” she said. “They will make incredible leaps from year to year without pushing.” Lund said she has several students who she could throw into a scene with five minutes warning and have no issue, due to the heavily improvised style. Theater Nest serves many children with developmental needs and many more going through the trials of childhood and adolescence. “It’s not a problem. When you create your own part you create everything you’re doing,” Lund said. Sometimes those parts are strange. One summer, Lund recalled, a boy would only play a ham sandwich, so they found a way to work that into every performance. Theater Nest thespian Ruby stands in the middle of a swirling fire during a Cuban creation myth play in March. Photo by Andrew Hazzard
“I have to say he was incredible at playing a ham sandwich,” Lund said. Other theater programs are fun for Tyler Waldauer, who is active in theater at Justice Page Middle School, but nothing quite compares to Theater Nest’s improv-heavy process. He recalled a performance where a younger kid from the audience wandered up on stage to join them and instead of stopping the performance, everyone rolled with it. “It’s more imaginative, more creative,” Tyler Waldauer said. At a performance capping the end of the winter session in March, Lund would introduce the plays, a collection of origin myths from Cuba, step back and take it all in. Her white hair tied in a bun and eyes amplified by largerimmed glasses, Lund beamed throughout the performance and cackled in her loud, distinct laughter when the actors began pounding on drums made from cat litter boxes on the floor of the rec center’s multipurpose room.
A space of their own When the program started, Matalamaki was in charge of costumes and needed a place to put spare materials. The director of the Lynnhurst rec center gave them a closet, and they’ve kept it for more than 30 years. “If I want to look back at what I’ve been doing in my life, all I have to do is open that door,” she said. The closet might be the biggest recycling collection in the state. “Materials are used and reused and used and reused again,” she said. “It’s constant.” Once Marcus Williams dropped his phone in the closet and had to dig through it for hours to recover the phone. “The prep closet is like its own realm,” he said. Current Lynnhurst rec center director Nelson Evenrud has been in his role for about four years and learned quickly to let the Theater Nest machine keep running. “I stay out of the way,” Evenrud said. He said the age range of participants and the years of experience many have in the program make it unique to other rec center offerings. “We have been enormously fortunate to have people who value what we do ... and to give us space for what we do,” Lund said. By now, Lund has several second-generation Theater Nest students. One of her colleagues at Sanford Middle School was in her class. “Many, many times I’m out in the world and people in their 30s will run up to me and say, ‘Remember me, remember me?’ and I say, ‘No,’” Lund laughed. Seal-Gray believes people keep coming back and fondly remember their experience because of the positive, welcoming environment Lund fosters. “They feel good about themselves when they’re at Theater Nest,” Seal-Gray said.
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Southwest’s new Met Council representative wants to dismantle systemic inequality By Zac Farber / zfarber@southwestjournal.com
In early March, Lynnea Atlas-Ingebretson was appointed to the Metropolitan Council’s District 6 seat, which represents most of Southwest Minneapolis — along with St. Louis Park, Golden Valley, New Hope and Crystal. She said her work on the council will be driven by a desire for more “conversations about our commonalities” and more equitable access to transportation, nature and other resources. Atlas-Ingebretson joins the most racially diverse class of Met Council members in the regional governing agency’s 52-year history. A Minneapolis native and North High School graduate, she served most recently as the chief of staff at Juxtaposition Arts, a North Side organization that she described as teaching young people about “contemporary art, graphic design, landscape architecture, screenprinting, textiles and something called tactile urbanism, which is creative ways of engaging the public in spaces and decisions about spaces that impact them.” Atlas-Ingebretson left Juxtaposition Arts when she joined the Met Council and started a new role at Youthprise, a philanthropic organization dedicated to reducing racial disparities among Minnesota youth. She lives with her husband, her mother-in-law and her 11-year-old son in Golden Valley. The following interview has been edited for clarity and length.
How will your work at Juxtaposition Arts inform your work on the Met Council? One of the things that’s critical for our communities is making sure we’re taking advantage of all of our talents. We can’t afford to have the types of employment, housing and transportation gaps that exist impacting our growing populations. Organizations like Juxta and Youthprise understand that and have been working to create innovative solutions from within communities. They see these wonderful young people as untapped gold mines, if you will. What I bring to the council is an ever-present lens that we have opportunities in our commu-
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nities that we aren’t leveraging fully, and I’ll be trying to make connections between what we are doing and what can be done.
You mentioned in your job interview that you wanted to focus on measurable change for “dismantling inequitable practices baked into our systems.” Are there specific inequitable practices you want to correct within the Met Council’s organization? Right now I’m at a place of learning, but the things I’m looking for are: How are our systems operating on autopilot and not looking at certain factors as we’re making decisions? Where are we not making connections between areas of historic disinvestment and opportunities that we have to build? Are we collecting information that allows us to make informed decisions to prevent disparities? I’m asking that of every department that presents to the council. We need to collect information about age, gender, ethnicity, language. If our growing population has a much higher percentage of language diversity than our current population and we don’t have systems that allow for connections, then we can’t do a good job. What other issues do you want to address on the Met Council? It’s important for institutions like ours to think about how we’re organized to meet the expectations, desires and interests of new generations. One study said that growth in Minnesota counties is in many places going to come 100 percent from communities of color and indigenous communities. That’s going to need to influence how we plan for things. We have to ensure that people of different abilities are able to participate fully in our society, that they have transportation that’s accessible to them. As Minnesotans retire at higher and higher rates, we are reliant on five workers for every retiree and right now in our state we have three. We have to address employment gaps in order to be prepared.
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Lynnea Atlas-Ingebretson is Southwest Minneapolis’ new Metropolitan Council representative. “Are we collecting information that allows us to make informed decisions to prevent disparities? I’m asking that of every department that presents to the council,” she said. Submitted photo
Do you support the route chosen for the Southwest Light Rail Transit line and what will be your priorities for the project going forward? The route is set, it just is. That’s the reality we’re working in. My priorities for that project will be to really work hard to connect with the communities in my district that are impacted by Southwest LRT (and by the Blue Line). I want to work to create better communication and provide clarity for the public about how decisions are made. What do you see as the major upcoming Met Council projects in Southwest Minneapolis? What I would love is for us to have more conversations about our commonalities. When I applied for this position, every applicant was asked to speak about equity. Moving from speaking about it to taking action on it is something none of us can afford not to do. There’s a lot more diversity in South Minneapolis than people think, and it’s important for people to build relationships across areas. I’ve found working in North Minneapolis and
South Minneapolis to be super, super similar. These are communities that value relationships, they value their neighbors deeply. I want to encourage collaboration and engagement in metropolitan regional parks and open spaces. How do we have growth in outdoor activities that takes into account all modes of engagement, whether it’s families trying to walk with a stroller, or the excitement that surrounds skiing or biking, or the desire to have quiet nature space, or the conservation of some of the most rare natural environments in our country? I want to make sure that we’re using a balanced approach and hearing from all our community members. We need to make sure we’re providing equitable access, welcoming people who like to participate in the outdoors differently. We need to have more conversations in that space. Many people in Southwest Minneapolis have had vibrant experiences in the workforce, and they know what our economic situation is. To butcher a wonderful Paul Wellstone quote, we are reliant on everybody doing better for everybody to do better.
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Matthew Kazama, Sho Nikaido, Takashi Obu, Ben Durband and Hideo Takahashi. Submitted photo
Rock ‘n’ coffee Canteen barista Sho Nikaido is a punk rock legend By Ryan Stopera
Living in Lyndale you get to know all the unique people and places in the neighborhood. Walking to Crema Cafe for Sonny’s Ice Cream on a summer night, biking alongside my neighbors during Open Streets, and going to see Sho Nikaido at Canteen have become my essential Lyndale pastimes. It’s easy to see why Sho is my favorite barista in
Minneapolis. As soon as I walk in the door of the coffee shop on the corner of 33rd & Bryant, he greets me with a smile, my drink that he knows by heart and a great conversation. Sho and I met at Ramen Kazama and shared potstickers, green tea and our mutual appreciation of punk music. He moved to the United States from Japan in 1992 to pursue photography at the University
of Minnesota. Soon he met other Japanese artists. Hideo Takahashi, a painter at the U, collaborated with Sho on an art show and from there they decided to start a band. “We wanted to be like the Rolling Stones, but we didn’t know how to make songs so we just played really fast and really loud,” Sho said with a laugh.
Sweet JAP, their experimental Japanese punk band, was just what the people wanted. City Pages named them the best rock band in the Twin Cities, they toured the United States, played South by Southwest and had the time of their lives. “After about five years we broke up,” Sho said. “I don’t really know why. We were young and
I build relationships with people, and I see them grow. — Sho Nikaido
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never expected to get that big. That time of my life gave me a lot of great memories.” Last September Sweet JAP sold out a reunion show at the Turf Club. One of Sweet JAP’s bandmates, Matthew Kazama, is now the owner of Ramen Kazama. “He’s really smart and has a bit different way to look at things ... not everything ‘haha,’” Kazama said. “I learn so much from him.” Since Sweet JAP, Sho has continued to create photos and music while working as a barista at Canteen, where he started in 2010. Formerly Urban Bean, the coffee shop has been a local Lyndale hangout for years. Every time I walk in, Sho will make me laugh, I’ll run into a neighbor or meet a new one, and I’ll leave feeling more connected to my home and the people who live there. “I build relationships with people, and I see them grow,” Sho said. “People go to college, move away, and I stay in touch with them over social media. Some regulars have come in for years and I make the same drinks for them every day.” After working there for nine years, Sho is proud of the solid community he’s built with Canteen’s owner, Liz Abene. The vibe is always right at Canteen. It’s never too busy, they have an amazing toast bar, the best coffee and the music is always good because Sho is DJing. Usually he’ll play classics that have influenced his music, like the Rolling Stones, John Coltrane or David Bowie. “I was never really into punk; it just happened to me,” he said. “I was listening to Bowie and more subdued music. This led to my solo project.” After Sho’s second band, Mute Era, ended, he recorded a four-track cassette in his bedroom and eventually it became his solo project CELICA. He also launched his own record label, Seated Heat Records. “I wanted my music on vinyl,” he said. “Nobody was doing that so I decided to go for it on my own with my own record label. “I wanted to have an independent recordSWJ label and 20 years Lowry Hill Liquors 050219 H2.pdf
from now some kids play my record and talk about it as something that doesn’t exist any more.” Sho is such a gem in our community — talented, humble and selfless. Whether through his music or his latte art, he spreads creativity, connection and joy. “Eventually I want to focus less on my music and start helping other people,” he said. “My experiences can help my friends get their band going, connect with people and tour. I want to make Seated Heat Records an independent label that supports up-and-coming local artists.” If you want to check out Sho’s music, CELICA has a show at Bryant Lake Bowl Theater on May 30. He will be collaborating on a performance with local Butoh dancer Masanari Kawahara. If you can’t make the performance at Bryant Lake Bowl, he’s at Canteen most nights, ready to greet you with a smile and your favorite drink.
Sho Nikaido’s band Sweet JAP sold out a reunion show at the Turf Club in September. City Pages recently named the show as the best reunion of the year. Submitted photo
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Southwest Minneapolis has a new top cop By Zac Farber / zfarber@southwestjournal.com
Amelia Huffman, a former commander of the city’s homicide unit, is taking over leadership of Southwest Minneapolis’ 5th Precinct at what she calls a “challenging and painful time.” Police shootings of unarmed Twin Cities residents — including Justine Ruszczyk Damond, who was shot and killed by a 5th Precinct officer after calling 911 for help — have ratcheted up the tension between citizens and police. “Healing that chasm is going to take time and work,” Huffman said. “We need to engage with folks during the course of their regular life.” A native of Springfield, Ohio, Huffman studied constitutional law at Smith College, a women’s liberal arts school in Massachusetts, before returning to the Midwest in 1994 to join the Minneapolis Police Department as a patrol officer. “Minneapolis was looking to hire people who had backgrounds in things other than law enforcement,” she said. “I wanted to do something that would make a difference — not just pushing meaningless papers from one place to another.” In her 24-year career, Huffman has served as an investigator in the MPD’s financial crimes, child abuse and internal affairs units and taken on a number of leadership roles. When the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed in 2007, she was working as the department’s spokesperson. Her skill in managing the deluge of media attention impressed her superiors, prompting Chief Tim Dolan to give her command of the city’s homicide unit, a post she left after 10 months.
Huffman is replacing Kathy Waite, who has been named deputy chief of patrol. Before her promotion to inspector, Huffman had been working in the 5th Precinct as a lieutenant. Now a Cedar-Isles Dean resident, Huffman has also lived in Stevens Square, Uptown and Kingfield. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity and length.
You began your career in Southwest in the 1990s. How has the area changed and how will your approach to policing change from when you were a beat cop? Southwest has some of the same things I loved when I first started. It’s full of walkable neighborhood centers with beautiful businesses and great parks and lakes. Uptown has certainly become a lot busier. The nightlife has exploded. We’re not staffed the way Downtown is for that kind of an entertainment district. So particularly during the warmer months, the number of people and cars and the alcohol-fueled activity that blossoms in Uptown is really a challenge. We need to make sure we’re staffing adequately to keep everyone safe. On busy weekend nights, there are now a couple of blocks that get closed off to vehicle traffic at bar close to allow pedestrians to disperse more safely. This summer we’ll see more bike officers and mounted patrol on horses in Uptown. The officers on the bikes have a huge advantage when it’s crowded,
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What will be your overall enforcement priorities? I don’t think anyone will notice any difference in priorities. We have a significant focus on property crimes. We respond to reports of thefts and burglaries, and we also work with neighborhood groups to diminish the opportunities for those crimes. Officers post flyers in business nodes that are attractive fishing ponds for thieves. It would be great if we could catch every one of those thieves, but it’s sometimes a matter of looking for a needle in a haystack. We have a community response team that responds to neighborhood complaints about drug activity. They do investigations of street-level activity and residences where
there’s a lot of activity. Our priority tends to be responding to complaints.
What actions will you take to transform the culture of the 5th Precinct? We need to engage with folks during the course of their regular life. We’ll continue to incorporate the department’s focus on procedural justice throughout all of our regular activities. We’ll look at partnering with our community engagement team to get officers out to more community events — things like Bike Cops for Kids and Open Streets Minneapolis and the Red Hot Art Festival and the Uptown Art Fair. It’s important they get to interact in a nonemergency situation; it’s hard to make a connection in a crisis situation. As I’m sending my officers out to get to know people one-on-one, I would also invite people to come to our events. You’ll have the opportunity to talk to our officers, meet the folks at our precinct, have one of the crime prevention specialists come out and talk to you about security in your apartment, your business and your home. Amelia Huffman Photo by Zac Farber
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Brewing in the wild Wild Mind captures yeasts from outdoor air By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com
On a chilly night early in April, a batch of unfermented beer cooled in a large trough, called a coolship, outside of Wild Mind Artisan Ales in Windom. Wild yeasts and bacteria in the air combined with the mixture, called wort, converting its sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide. Brewery staff let it sit outside for about 12 hours before transferring it into barrels, where it was to ferment for about nine months. Most breweries cool their unfermented beer in carefully controlled indoor environments. Almost none allow wild yeasts to combine with the wort. But that’s not always the case at Wild Mind. Twice a year, staff at the 3-year-old brewery cool a few select worts outdoors, a process they said leads to unique and tasty beers. “You can get really, really great results out of this process,” said Ryan Placzek, Wild Mind’s head brewer. “We’re all really big fans of [making] traditional Belgian brews this way.” Wild Mind has been using its coolship in the brewing process since it opened in summer 2016. In a May 2017 blog post, the brewery said the coolship method fit within its priority of bringing back “funky, unpredictable beers.” “We tend to focus on brewing traditional farmhouse-style beers, and the coolship is the epitome of paying homage to old-world brewing techniques,” the post said. Placzek said Wild Mind can only use the coolship in the late fall or early spring, when temperatures are just chilly enough to avoid spoiling
the process. He said the brewery was able to fill 28 barrels of beer using the process this year. Coolship beers are more acidic than ones cooled via traditional methods, Placzek said. He said the brewery will add fruit or different flavorings to its products later in the process to create different tastes. The brewery will have one of its coolship beers, a framboise raspberry sour, coming out in the coming weeks, Placzek said. He said he expected it would be for sale by the end of May. Visit wildmindales.com to learn more. Wild Mind Artisan Ales has operated in Windom for the past three years. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
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By Dr. Carolyn Karlin
A single sago palm seed can kill a medium-sized dog
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ago palms are tropical plants, commonly grown outdoors in the southern United States. Sago palm toxicity used to be a concern limited to dogs and cats exposed to these plants outside in warmer climates. Since sago palms are now sold, as large or small ornamental houseplants, online and at Home Depot, Lowe’s, IKEA, Costco and local garden centers in Minnesota, this tropical toxicity is now a concern for Minnesota pets as well. Sago palms look like small palm trees, but they are not true palms and actually belong to the cycad family. All parts of the sago palm plant are toxic, but more of the sago palm toxin that affects dogs and cats is concentrated in the seeds or nuts. The toxin causes gastrointestinal irritation as early as 15 minutes after ingestion of sago palm parts, followed by liver damage. Gastrointestinal signs include hypersalivation (drooling), abdominal pain, reduced appetite, vomiting and diarrhea. Signs of liver damage also include vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain and reduced appetite, as well as increased drinking and urination, dehydration, lethargy, weakness, jaundice (yellow cast to the skin, mucous membranes and whites of the eyes) and ascites (fluid in the abdomen). Since the liver is responsible for clotting factors, pets with liver damage can also show signs of bleeding with bruising on their skin, bleeding gums, nosebleeds, a pink tinge to their urine, frank blood in their stools or vomitus, or digested
blood in their stool, which manifests as dark tarry stools. In more advanced stages, patients with liver disease can show neurologic signs within 2–3 days of sago palm ingestion and may have depression, circling, unsteadiness, confusion, muscle tremors, seizures and paralysis, with neurologic signs culminating in a coma or even death. There is neither a specific test nor a specific antidote for sago palm toxicity. Lab work, with elevated liver values, low protein, low blood glucose, anemia and evidence of reduced clotting, may not show changes for 24–48 hours after sago palm ingestion. If sago palm ingestion is suspected, it is important to take your cat or dog to a veterinary clinic as soon as possible, rather than waiting for clinical signs to develop. Treatment for sago palm ingestion focuses on decontamination and supportive care and medications to reduce the effects of liver damage. Decontamination consists of trying to remove any remaining ingested material to reduce the amount of toxin by inducing vomiting, gastric lavage (pumping the stomach), and even administration of enemas. Activated charcoal may also be also given to prevent further absorption of the toxin. Supportive care focuses on treating the symptoms with hospitalization on intravenous fluids, antibiotics, medications to stop vomiting, gastroprotectants and antacids. Antioxidants are used to reduce the
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animals that ingest the same amount of plant parts. The sago palm toxins are concentrated in the nuts or seeds and just 1–2 seeds can be fatal to a medium-sized dog. Reports of survival rates from sago palm ingestion vary, with one study of dogs that ingested sago palm parts reporting a 50% mortality rate. Since dogs and cats seem inexplicably drawn to highly toxic sago palms, it may be best not to even bring this tropical plant into your house.
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t’s been a long time since I wrote about fertilizer so I’m going to do that now because people are always asking about what to feed their plants. First, though, it’s finally time for seed sharing and I’ve got the Little Free Seed Library outside my house all stocked up. As always, the top shelf of our library is reserved for seeds in the spring and fall. If you’d like to pick up or drop off some seeds, the library is located on our boulevard on the corner of 45th Street and Washburn Avenue in Linden Hills. Coin-size envelopes are in there so you can package up seeds to take home. If you have seeds to share, please bring them in their original packets or label them in envelopes or baggies in some way so people can clearly see what’s available. Now, let’s talk plant food. People often ask me why their plants look spindly and sad when mine are so lush and happy. The answer is simple: I feed them. All living things need sustenance, and plants are no exception. Lots of people who tell me they don’t have a green thumb would find that the opposite is true if they added food to their plants’ usual diet of plain old water. This is especially true for plants in containers in which soil nutrients are quickly depleted and not replenished as they are in gardens with healthy soil. If you’re new to fertilizing, here’s a quick tutorial. On every package you will find three numbers such as 5-5-5 or 10-5-5. Those numbers are always in the same order and represent the percentage of three nutrients. The first is nitrogen (N), which promotes green,
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lush growth. The second is phosphorus (P), which is good for developing healthy roots and is important for flower and fruit development. The last is potassium (K), which plants need for healthy overall growth. People used to advise gardeners to always use a “balanced” fertilizer, meaning all three numbers would be the same, like 10-10-10. But newer research has shown that balanced fertilizers often provide far more phosphorus and potassium than plants really need. Instead, look for products with numbers more like 5-1-2 or 5-1-3. That way, you’ll avoid having too much phosphorus and potassium build up in your soil. And you’ll also help protect the environment from those excess nutrients, which often leach or run into nearby waterways where they promote the growth of algae and harm fish and other creatures.
Organic or synthetic? When you shop for fertilizer, you’ll find two types to choose from—organic and synthetic. Organic options are derived from ground-up rocks, animal waste, plant parts and other organic matter. A few examples include greensand, blood and bone meals, cottonseed meal, fish emulsion, seaweed extracts, compost and manures. Synthetic fertilizers are made of synthesized nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium through processes that rely on some kind of chemical reaction involving non-renewable resources (synthetic nitrogen is produced using natural gas). I use organic fertilizers on my plants because they are generally a more sustainable choice— exceptions include rock phosphate, which is strip-
Organic fertilizer helps boost soil and plant health.
mined, and bat guano (poo), which is harvested from caves at bats’ expense. Organic fertilizers also help foster a healthy environment for beneficial microbes in the soil. And, while they usually contain smaller amounts of N-P-K than synthetic fertilizers do, organic options can be more nourishing to plants because they are taken up slowly as needed where synthetic fertilizers are slurped up fast, like a human gulps down a Coke. It’s not always easy to find a good selection of organic fertilizers. So I’d like to give a shout out to Midwest Supplies. Located in Minneapolis, this fine little store has a wide array of choices and knowledgeable staff to answer any questions you may have. As I wrote in a column a few years back, my organic concoction of choice is a mix of fish emulsion and blackstrap molasses. I got the idea from Dean Engelmann, co-owner of Tangletown Gardens, who uses the mixture himself. Unsulfered blackstrap molasses is commonly used in organic horticulture. The sugars in it
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feed beneficial microbes, helping to boost soil and plant health. Dean recommends combining the two at a 1-to-1 ratio. I use a five-gallon bucket for this, first adding fish emulsion with the amount of water recommended for the area I’m feeding (read the label). Then, add the same amount of molasses as you did fish emulsion, and give the mixture a good stir because the molasses gets blobby. It’s not a great idea to let this stinky brew sit around, so make only what you need at one time. To use, just dip a plastic pitcher or whatever into the bucket and pour the liquid fertilizer wherever you need it. I mostly use it on container plants and vegetables, but if something else in the garden looks like it could use a good meal, go for it. One thing: do your best not to spill this stuff on your shoes. They will smell like dead fish forever. Meleah Maynard is a Minneapolis-based writer and editor who blogs at Livin’ Thing—livinthing.com.
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By Sarah Woutat
How did farmers spend their April?
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ith the market season quickly approaching (opening weekend is May 18!), our farmers are busy getting ready for the season. The ground is not yet ready for planting, but there is plenty of other work to do. I reached out to our farmers to see what they’re up to and here is what they had to say. Our apple growers, Denny from Havlicek’s Orchard, Rachel and Anton from Mary Dirty Face Farm, and Aaron from Brand Farms, are all finishing up tree pruning that couldn’t get done with so much snow on the ground this winter. Liz and Curtis from Dancing the Land Farm are building a greenhouse, planting thousands of seeds and tending to very pregnant goats and sheep and the very first of the lambs and kids that are being born. They also just finished shearing their fiber herd of Angora goats and Icelandic sheep. Jean and Eldon from Davidson’s Farm are awaiting the arrival of their bees, which come from California and may be delayed as the queen has had difficulty going on her mating flights due to frequent rain. Tamara and Chris from Johnson Family Pastures are spreading red clover on the pastures where the cattle, chickens and sheep rotationally graze in the summer. In the pig pasture they’re seeding fast-growing annuals like peas, oats and field turnips. They’ll be spending the end of April and May building fence to complete a pig pasture improvement project, which is funded by a Lakewinds Organic Field Fund grant, and they are fencing an additional 34 acres for their cattle and sheep. Mike and Sherri from Brush Prairie Farm are working the equipment over, painting bee boxes, grafting fruit trees, servicing the seedlings and pruning. Kristin from Tutti Fruitti’s is working in the greenhouse planting heirloom tomato varieties, bell peppers, parsley, cauliflower, broccoli and snow peas. Kristin is a new farmer leasing land from Big River Farms, which provides infrastructure and training to beginning farmers. The farm that houses their training program is also a vendor at Kingfield, teaching growers how best to market their product at a farmers market.
Janice from Jan’s Artisan Garden is awaiting signs of tulips, which usually start popping up around the second or third week of April. Her perennial plants are just starting to emerge and she planted out the first round of hardy annual flowers (snapdragons, Sweet William, Bells of Ireland). Those will be flowering for June markets, along with perennials like delphiniums and geum. Paul and Chris from Foxtail Farm are finishing up their winter CSA share deliveries and doing field cleanup with the help of some workshare members. They’re also working on planting low tunnels in the field. Sarah and Reuben from Grasshopper Farm just finished building a second greenhouse space to expand their seedling production for markets this year. Big River Farms began their field day schedule for their farmer education program. And Big River Farms staff and farmers will visit another farm incubator like theirs in Iowa, called Global Greens Farm. This program reconnects former refugee farmers with the land as they build their new life in the U.S. Andrew and Margo from Clover Bee Farm are seeding in the greenhouse and have lots of fun flower varieties for everyone to create some space for butterflies. And they’re planting 10 apple trees, three pear trees and 15 raspberry plants. The ducks are laying, so they’ll have a good selection of duck eggs this season! Betsy and Andy from Driftless Hills Farm are raising tiny chicks in the brooder. Their new laying hens are roving around in their mobile coop and are expected to begin laying soon. Their ewes continue to move around the pasture also looking for tender new grass. They are expecting lambs in the first weeks of May. And their pigs are just ready for butcher now and are spending their last days soaking up the new warmth and sunshine. All of our farmers are hard at work preparing for the season and we look forward to enjoying the bounty they bring to Fulton, Nokomis, and Kingfield farmers markets each week. Fulton and Kingfield open the weekend of May 18 and Nokomis opens Wednesday, June 12. See you there!
The farmers behind Johnson Family Pastures are currently spreading red clover over their cattle’s grazing land. Submitted photos
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From sap to syrup
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Recipe courtesy of the Mill City Farmers Market. Serves 4–6.
urface tension, glaciation, barometric pressure, evapotranspiration and UV degradation aren’t necessarily terms you think of when talking about a Wisconsin family farm. But at a recent visit to a Horner’s Corner maple syrup operation, we learned all about the science going on in the maple woods this time of year. Stephen Horner and his wife, Sandy, own Horner’s Corner, a 120-acre farm in western Wisconsin that consists of maple woods and a diverse orchard. Although as Stephen puts it, “It’s not farming, it’s an obsession.” If you don’t remember from scouts or an arboretum field trip, for sap to “run” out of the trees, night temperatures need to be below freezing (but not too cold — ideally around 24 degrees) and day temperatures need to warm up to 10–15 degrees above freezing (but not too warm!) in order for sap pressure to build and cause movement inside the trees. When we visited, it was a slow day. Stephen estimated they would be collecting 650–700 gallons of sap from 2,500 taps that are connected between 8 miles of tubing. Once sap is collected, they remove 85% of the water through reverse osmosis before boiling it down into syrup. This high-tech, optional step reduces boiling time by roughly the same 85%, saving time and firewood. Throughout our visit, Stephen lit up when describing his equipment, data and processes. His detailed care and knowledge of each element, from soil to bottle, can be explained, at least in part, by his previous career as an engineer. Despite his self-described “obsession”
with maple syrup production, Stephen got into the work innocently. “It all started for me 33 years ago on a Sunday morning,” he said, “back when there weren’t as many kids programs so [our family] was watching a PBS special on how to make syrup. That afternoon I decided to drill some holes, put some plumbing fittings in and see what happened.” His experiment inspired a new business, which launched over 20 years ago when the Horners moved to New Haven Township. Stephen and his daughter Finley sell their Grade A maple syrup every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Mill City Farmers Market along with seasonal fruit syrups, maple sugar, maple cream and even maple vinegar. These products are for more than pancakes; enjoy them as a natural and local sweetener for tea, coffee, baking, and cooking — like in the Maple Miso Dressing below. Learn more at millcityfarmersmarket.org.
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Ingredients for the greens 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil 1 medium onion or 1 washed leek, sliced 3 cloves garlic, minced ½-inch piece of ginger, minced 1 pound assorted greens (such as arugula, kale, mustard greens or spinach), washed and dried 1 cup sliced or crushed almonds or other nut, toasted Directions In a saucepan, heat the oils over medium heat, add onions and sauté for two to three minutes until soft. Next add garlic and ginger and saute another minute. Add the greens handful by handful, stirring constantly. Saute until all the greens are added and they have wilted into a bright green — about two minutes.
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On a slow day, Horner’s Corner in western Wisconsin can still collect 650–700 gallons of sap from 2,500 taps connected between 8 miles of tubing. Photo by Jenny Heck
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Get Out Guide. By Sheila Regan
MN ARTISTS PRESENTS: ANAT SHINAR AND AMAL ROGERS Dance artists Anat Shinar and Amal Rogers are taking over the Walker Art Center for an evening of visual art, performance and conversation as part of an MN Artists presentation. Guiding the evening is a critical lens toward ways that marginalized artists are asked to turn their trauma into narratives for the benefit of the audience. Throughout the museum, you’ll find a new installation by textile artist Maggie Thompson, as well as a performance installation by Lela Pierce that uses bodies and dirt. Also watch out for a performance by the improvisation troupe Blackout, as well as a workshop and a panel discussion.
When: 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, May 2 Where: Walker Art Center, 725 Vineland Pl. Cost: Free Info: walkerart.org
Photo by Pat Berrett
FLANDERS SOLO OPENING: GEORGE FARRAH For George J. Farrah’s new solo exhibition at Douglas Flanders & Associates, the artist and poet will be showcasing his expressive abstract painting style. In his large-scale paintings, Farrah uses the thickness of paint as well as pattern and repetition to create works that recall geological formations. In another series, Farrah uses a more fluid style as he draws inspiration from water. As a whole these abstract pieces have a feeling of improvised music.
When: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, May 4 Where: Douglas Flanders & Associates, 818 W. Lake St. Cost: Free Info: flandersart.com
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MOTIONPOEMS Poetry meets filmmaking for the ninth season of Motionpoems, taking place at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. The unique event brings words to life in the hands of filmmakers from around the world. This year’s lineup will include a mix of live-action, documentary and crossdisciplinary films that bring you into the selected poems in an intimate way.
When: 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Friday, May 10 Where: Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2400 3rd Ave. S. Cost: Free, but reservation required Info: motionpoems.org
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SKEW LINES: HEID E. ERDRICH AND ROSY SIMAS Collaborative dream team Rosy Simas and Heid Erdrich are at it again, with an immersive, ever-changing installation that will take place at SooVAC gallery. Their new project, “Skew Lines,” will evolve in the gallery throughout the month of May and will include installations created by Erdrich, an Anishinaabe artist, centered around her own ancestors and other Native people in the U.S. and Canada. Seneca choreographer and artist Simas, meanwhile, will install films and props from her recent work “Weave,” as well as a paper representation of her research into her diplomatic ancestors back to 1650.
When: May 4 to May 25 Where: SooVAC, 2909 Bryant Avenue S., Suite 101 Cost: Free Info: soovac.org
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MINNESOTA IS OFTEN LISTED AS THE TOP LITERARY STATE FOR A REASON. We’ve got so many amazing bookstores, small presses, literary organizations and voracious readers. We just really like to read around here. Lit Crawl Minnesota is a chance to celebrate all that the literary community has to offer, with a day of bar and bookshop hopping, readings, mingling and more. This year, it takes place the same weekend as the new book festival, Wordplay, put on by the Loft Literary Center.
Cost: Free Info: litcrawlmn.com The Current’s Rock and Roll Book Club presents: Classic Rock Record Party with Steven Hyden The Current’s Jay Gabler interviews rock star author Steven Hyden, who will also do some spinning and will read from his book, “Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock.”
When: 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, May 11 Where: Bryant-Lake Bowl, 810 W. Lake St.
Photos featuring Muna Abdulahi, Rob Mitchell and literary lovers at a past Lit Crawl event featuring Button Poetry.
Read More Women: Heads Up! Electric Literature, Littsburgh and The Believer/Black Mountain Institute host a women-centric reading featuring Lacy Johnson and Angie Kim.
When: 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, May 11 Where: Morrissey’s Irish Pub, 913 W. Lake St.
An Evening with Paper Darts & the Rumpus Local literary and arts magazine Paper Darts teams up with nationally focused The Rumpus, for an evening of readings by local and national writers.
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Milkweed Editions and Graywolf Press present ‘Whose Pun Is It Anyway: A Play on Words’ Two of Minnesota’s beloved small presses celebrate all things pun in an evening featuring Mary Laura Philpott, Kristen Arnett and Chris Santiago.
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CONGRATULATIONS to Southwest High School's 3 Strings Band! They were chosen to perform at the National Association for Music Education National Convention in Orlando, FL this November out of more than 385 applicants.The 3 Strings will perform at the Key Note Address as the featured ensemble demonstrating innovative music education regarding inclusion. The methodology created by director, Ruth LeMay and Special Education Assistant Artisha Knight,
is titled UnlocKeD and will be available to music educators attending the conference in hopes that they will create their own 3 Strings program. Three Strings began at SWHS in the winter of 20 15 as a pilot project for students with special needs to be included in guitar education. Ruth and Artisha were astonished at the music these young people created and they have been stunning audiences ever since. Look out Disney, Here They Come!! To help fund their trip to Orlando contact: ruth.lema)'@mpls.kl2.mn.us Securing copyright for UnlocKeD is in process.
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Eye on the City
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Docks, buoys, boats
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ce out on Minneapolis’ lakes fell between April 6 and April 9 this year, and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board has been busy with the annual sailboat buoy lottery. Permits for 380 buoys are issued annually on lakes Maka Ska, Harriet and Nokomis. “Spring dock and bouy setting is heavily weather and wind dependent” said Matt Diaz, operations manager with the Park Board. The Park Board expects to finish setting up public docks and buoys on the Chain of Lakes by mid-May. Sailboats can be placed on the lakes shortly afterward. As these pictures show, docks, buoys and boats offer photographers excellent perspective, depth and visual interest, especially during sunrises, sunsets, storms and changing seasons.
Three Generations Capturing the Moment More of Steven Mosborg’s photographs, along with pictures taken by his father and daughter, can be seen in a new exhibit. When: Opening reception 1 p.m. Sunday, May 5
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