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New neighbors are moving into townhomes at 3329 Nicollet Ave. this week, where glass-door garages can double as workshops. It’s a rare 12-unit development in a city dominated by single-family homes and larger apartment buildings. Developer Jeremy Edwards said he’s charging a bit less than other new apartments in Uptown ($1,300 for a one-bedroom unit and $2,450 for a three-bedroom unit plus garage), because he purchased vacant land from the City of Minneapolis. “With today’s construction costs it’s very difficult to provide an affordable
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Damond’s neighbors grill city leaders after Noor verdict By Zac Farber / zfarber@southwestjournal.com
Members of Justine Ruszczyk Damond’s community had the chance to explain why they still fear and distrust Minneapolis police as city leaders sat and listened. About 100 people gathered on May 7 at the Lake Harriet Spiritual Community, where Damond taught meditation classes before officer Mohamed Noor shot and killed her in July 2017. Noor was found guilty of Damond’s murder on April 30. “I feel as though the Minneapolis Police Department was convicted along with Noor,” Mindy Barry, a neighbor of Damond, said. “I’ve lost faith in the system that I think covered up a lot of what happened in Justine’s case.” During the listening session, hosted by Mayor Jacob Frey, Police Chief Medaria Arradondo and Council Member Linea Palmisano (Ward 13), many took the opportunity to plead for increased police accountability and to raise concerns about cops who refuse to turn on body cameras and police union leaders who continue to support “warrior-style trainings.” Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman has acknowledged significant errors in the
investigation of Damond’s murder by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and a number of speakers demanded that closed BCA cases be reopened. “If the BCA was incompetent in this case, then the likelihood they’re incompetent in other cases exists,” activist Mel Reeves said. “We don’t see much difference between the way Justine got her life ended and the way Jamar Clark got his life ended. Both were unnecessary.” Arradondo defended the police department against criticism that there is a “blue
I’ve lost faith in the system that I think covered up a lot of what happened in Justine’s case. — Mindy Barry, neighbor of Justine Damond
wall of silence” that shields bad actors from justice. He said the phrase implies that “every single officer in the department is involved in covering up something.” “Have we had officers who have lied? Absolutely,” he said, but “I do not believe that every single man and woman who wears this uniform comes to work lying.” He added that those who lie “have forfeited [their] right to be a Minneapolis police officer.” Noor is the first on-duty police officer to be convicted of murder in Minnesota, and the fact that he is a black, Muslim, Somali man and Damond was a white woman has led many to see race and prejudice as factors in the outcome of the case. “As a woman in my neighborhood, I don’t feel comfortable calling the police,” said Sarah Kuhnen, a Fulton resident who has been active in the group Justice for Justine. “I don’t know how to fix that. And I realize, in my whiteness, that’s something people of color have been carrying their whole damn life.” A Linden Hills resident named nance kent said she’s been working on “my own SEE DAMOND / PAGE A12
Washburn choir teacher wraps up long career By Nate Gotlieb ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com
Nancy Lee’s 35-plus-year teaching career has included building high school choir and musical theater programs nearly from scratch at Southwest and Washburn high schools. It’s also included directing musicals in rural Iowa and teaching the children of East Coast mafiosos. On June 13, Lee will retire after more than 21 years in Minneapolis Public Schools, the past 11 of them at Washburn. Lee, a Southwest Minneapolis resident, said she plans to focus on an intensive summer theater program she founded for college students near her hometown of Osage, Iowa, located near the Minnesota-Iowa border. She also said she wants to find more professional theater opportunities in the Twin Cities. “I think I’ll be much more project-based during the school year here, and then summers will be my big work time,” she said. SEE TEACHER / PAGE A13
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LynLake Brewery adding pop-up kitchen Starting next month, you won’t be able to order delivery pizza to accompany your beer at LynLake Brewery. In fact, you probably won’t want to. LynLake Brewery is adding a pop-up kitchen, co-owner Mark Anderson said, and will be bringing in chefs, food trucks and restaurants for two-month residencies starting in early June. The brewery is in the process of building a 450-square-foot kitchen space that will offer window service to its customers. Adding a kitchen space has been on the minds of Anderson and co-owner Paul Cossette for some time, and they began talking about it in earnest about a year ago when they asked advice from an architect and a restaurant consultant. A friend recommended a pop-up kitchen, and they began building out the space in early April. “We want to add the kitchen and not change the ambiance,” Anderson said. The first eight months are all booked. Domo Gastro, an Asian fusion restaurant in Northeast, is up first in June and July. The Chicks
on Wheels food truck crew will take over for August and September, followed by Sasquatch Sandwiches in September and October and Gastrotruck to round out the year. “I think they view it as a space to experiment a little bit,” Anderson said. He expects most entrees will be sizable and in the $12–$15 range. Both Anderson and Cossette have backgrounds in general contracting, so they’re doing a lot of construction work themselves. They plan to use the same refurbished wood that lines their rooftop bar on the kitchen. While LynLake Brewery is adding food, Anderson said the core of the space will stay the same: a place to grab some beers, listen to music and chat with friends. “We’re definitely afraid of changing the vibe of this place,” he said. LynLake Brewery Where: 2934 Lyndale Ave. S. Info: lynlakebrewery.com
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Longtime director leaves Uptown Association The longtime executive director of the Uptown Association has left the community nonprofit. Maude Lovelle, who was the leader of the Uptown Association for 13 years, had her last day on May 13, according to interim director Jill Osiecki. Osiecki, who has worked for the Uptown Association since 2014, said the board of directors will likely wait until the Uptown Art Fair ends in August to conduct a search for a replacement. “We have a lot of work to do right now with the art fair,” she said. The Uptown Art Fair, now in its 56th year, is the main event put on by the Uptown Association, which also functions as a Chamber of Commerce-style organization for local businesses. Osiecki has been doing a lot of the permitting and vendor booking for recent art fairs. “It’s natural for me because I’ve been heavily involved the last few years,” Osiecki said. She said Lovelle gave the group about a month’s notice and the transition has been smooth. Lovelle did not respond to requests for comment by press time. Lovelle’s institutional knowledge will be missed, Osiecki said, but she’s excited for the organization moving forward. “I look forward to the opportunity of change,” she said. The Uptown Art Fair will have a slightly different footprint this year, with plans to only have vendors on one side of Hennepin
Jill Osiecki is the interim director of the Uptown Association, taking over from longtime director Maude Lovelle. Submitted photo
Avenue between Lake Street and 31st Street in the wake of reconstruction, which Osiecki is hoping will make Hennepin feel more breathable. She said the association is getting creative in finding spaces for vendors this season, such as putting more artists on The Mall. The goal is to make the layout as seamless as possible for guests. “We’re hoping that nobody notices,” she said. Uptown Association Where: 2815 Hennepin Ave. Info: uptownminneapolis.com
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A 2-year-old boy is dead and his brother, age 1, is seriously injured, but expected to survive, after they fell four stories on May 2 from an apartment building rooftop onto a patio fronting the Midtown Greenway. The boys lived on the top floor of the fivestory Karmel Village apartment building, on the 2800 block of Pleasant Avenue. They climbed over a waist-high cement barrier and landed on a hard-surface patio four stories below. The boy who died was identified as Abdiqani Abdi by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner. His brother, Abdirizak, is in stable condition but suffered a broken arm, broken ribs, a collapsed lung and injuries to his chin and forehead, according to family spokesperson Osman Ali Ahmed. Ahmed said that Abdirizak had no brain damage and is “making progress.” Ahmed said he visited the family at their home the evening of May 2. “The kids were healthy hours before,” Ahmed said. “[The parents] were in shock. They are dealing with the financial and emotional impact.” Three construction workers watched the children fall around 2:20 p.m. and proceeded to call 911 and hurry to their aid. One of the workers started CPR on Abdiqani, who appeared lifeless. “These people should be considered heroes,” Minneapolis police spokesperson John Elder said. “These people witnessed what was unfathomable, something that was tragic and horrific and instead of freezing up they acted.” Police arrived soon after the construction workers, followed by paramedics, and the children were taken to Hennepin County Medical Center. Abdiqani was pronounced dead at 3:16 p.m. The medical examiner said he died from multiple blunt force injuries sustained in the fall. “It’s a tragic accident,” building owner Basim Sabri said. “The mom was very sad, the dad was very sad. It’s a rough situation.” Sabri, who lives in the 98-unit building, said that “for me it’s like the loss of a child.” “I opened the doors for those kids when
Mohamud Mohamed poses for a photo with his sons Abdiqani (right) and Abdirizak. The brothers fell four stories from an apartment building rooftop on May 2. Submitted photo
they came from school,” he said. “I greeted them in the hallway.” A prayer service was held in the Whittier Park community center the afternoon of May 4, shortly after Abdiqani was buried at the Garden of Eden Islamic Center in Burnsville. About 300 members of the community attended and speakers included members of the children’s family and Rep. Hodan Hassan (62A). “The fact that you are all here on such short notice is a testament to the spirit of not only Whittier but the Twin Cities as a whole,” Whittier Alliance executive director Kaley Brown said at the service. Minneapolis police are investigating the incident, which Elder said appears to be an accident. He said Child Protection Services is doing a routine review but that there was an adult watching the children who was deemed “credible and capable.” A GoFundMe has been set up to help with medical and funeral expenses: bit.ly/2JuyskG.
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Emma Heuchert, Mackenzie O’Brien and Brooke Sapper didn’t have any connection to Tangletown before this past semester. Now, the Macalester College students are experts on three of the neighborhood’s architectural landmarks. Heuchert, O’Brien and Sapper spent part of the spring semester researching the Washburn Park Water Tower, the Washburn Orphanage and the neighborhood’s collection of pre-fabricated Lustron houses. Their research was part of an internship through their public history class with the nonprofit Preserve Minneapolis, which works to highlight the city’s architectural history. The trio presented their research at a forum April 24 at the Mill City Museum. None of the three are from Minneapolis, or even Minnesota. Heuchert said they chose Tangletown from a list of projects Preserve Minneapolis provided them. She said it was nice to compare Minneapolis’ Tangletown neighborhood with the St. Paul neighborhood of the same name, which abuts Macalester. Heuchert researched Tangletown’s collection of prefabricated homes, which the Lustron Corporation produced between 1948 and 1950 in its Ohio-based factory and shipped to dealers around the country. The company went
Macalester College students Emma Heuchert, Mackenzie O’Brien and Brooke Sapper studied three architectural landmarks in Tangletown as part of an internship this spring for their public history class. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
bankrupt in 1950, but Heuchert said as many as 2,000 Lustron houses are still standing, including 11 in Minneapolis. She said homeowners aren’t able to drill holes in their walls but that everything in the house is magnetic. “If you get some nice, strong magnets, you can hang up absolutely anything,” she said. O’Brien studied the Washburn Orphanage, which architect E. Townsend Mix built in the 1880s at 50th & Nicollet. Businessman, Civil War general and one-term Wisconsin governor Cadwallader Washburn, who founded the company that became General Mills, left $375,000 for the founding of the orphanage upon his death in 1882. The orphanage operated until 1929, when it was sold to Minneapolis Public Schools. The district tore it down and constructed Ramsey Junior High School, now Justice Page Middle School, on the site. O’Brien admires the fact that Cadwallader Washburn’s legacy of caring for children continues to this day through the Washburn Center for Children mental health facility in Harrison. Sapper studied the Washburn Park Water Tower, which supplied water to the orphanage after its construction in 1893. The city contracted with architect Harry Wild Jones to build a new tower in the early 1930s, and Norwegian-born sculptor John K. Daniels created the “guardian-of-health” figures and eagles that adorn the structure. She said the tower is hidden from most angles in the neighborhood. Paul Schadewald, associate director of Macalester’s civic engagement center, said internships such as this one help students understand and contribute to the larger world around them. Richard Kronick, who worked with the students, said Preserve Minneapolis plans to publish their research on its website of self-guided Minneapolis historical walking tours, minneapolishistorical.org. Kronick, who runs the Minneapolis Historical website, said he would welcome anyone who is interested in historical architecture to write up a description for the site. He can be reached at richardkronick@msn.com.
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pring has sprung in all its glory and, as you may have noticed over the last dozen years I’ve been writing in this space, my favorite nature-in-the-city perch has been the two benches that, for as long as I can remember, rested — and welcomed resters — across the street from 42nd & Fremont. One afternoon last fall I was shocked to find that my beloved benches had been ripped from the earth and obliterated without my permission like so many other gone-but-unforgotten landmarks of this bursting-at-the-seams city. Sigh. It was just two conjoined benches, but over the years it became much more to me. It was a special spot, and I can’t help but think that with all the unfinished construction, traffic, and road and highway closures choking the natural world in this purportedly bucolic burg, the demolition of my little corner of the world signals a darker side to this city’s relentless progress, as it gets less and less human while it expands and experiences growing pains. Or maybe that’s just me: just another old man lamenting yet another loss of an old friend. “Best spot in the city,” I’d often mention to all who landed there as I walked past with my dog, always to knowing nods. An excellent solo spot, the two benches were nothing less than a sanctuary built for two, amazingly conducive to long conversations. For my buddy Pete and me, it became our self-anointed “guru lounge,” where we’d regularly meet to solve not the world’s problems, but our own. As a couple of free- and freaky-thinkers, we’d land at the guru lounge a couple times a week to watch the sunset and hash it out. We talked about love, work, music, humanity, the ego, science, marriage, family, beer, weed, the neighborhood, sex, philosophy and spirituality, but rarely politics, television or gossip. The guru lounge was our sacred space, our hallowed ground, and in our most earthbound moments we fancied ourselves more owls than men, a couple of wise middleaged birds feeding, observing and taking an aerial view of the chaos created by the human world. We played music there. We sang there. We traded ideas and books. One of our favorites was a pamphlet I found on my father’s bookshelf, amidst all his novels and books about life, UFOs, history and alternative spirituality. If our guru lounge sessions were to be boiled down to a single quote, it could be found in a 1958 pamphlet from writer Hilton Hotme, a kindred spirit and seeker who questioned everything about human existence, society, government and Christianity: “The ego is the entity most difficult of analysis and demonstration. The study of this entity and knowledge of its principles constitute the highest occupation of human intelligence.” Beyond my regular guru lounge bull sessions with Pete, I hung with friends and family on those benches. I wrote columns and songs on that wood. I watched people draw, read and picnic there. For a couple summers, Pete would leave geocaches with gifts under the benches and return a few days later to discover reciprocation. I took great pleasure in hanging at that spot, one
The remnants of the “guru lounge” in the Lyndale Park Rose Garden at Lake Harriet. Photo by Jim Walsh
that sits a pine cone’s throw away from what I’ve dubbed the Mars Brothers bench, from where the great artist and musician Chris Mars and his late brother Joe would likewise take in the beauty, chillness and easy magic of the Rose Garden. I discovered the guru lounge was gone just before the snow flew last fall, and hell if I didn’t gasp at the sight of the gaping hole in the dirt before me. I stood over the spot with my mouth open, then called Pete in Montana, who talked me off the ledge with, “Dude I’ve lost good friends this year, I can’t cry about a couple of benches.” For sure, and I’m in the same loss boat, but this one carried a unique sting. “It’s been there since the ’80s, and it was deteriorating, and it had been vandalized, so they took it out. Now it’s slated to just become one of our standard benches,” explained Sue McGrath, who works in the bench dedications department at the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. “It wasn’t put there by [the Park Board], it was a rogue. There’s no other reason given for its [demolition], other than it was time. That space will now feature a park bench with one of our standard dedicated plaques.” Time marches on, change is the only constant and the guru lounge — at one time equally quiet at any hour of the day or night — was bound to be discovered, bought and sold. In the end it was festooned with political graffiti, puppy lovers’ initials, weed jokes, and anarchy and peace signs carved into the wood. Of late it had become a preferred destination spot for cigarette smokers and beer drinkers, whose butts and empties I’d often grouchily clean up as a way to do my eco-part, hoping that the powers-that-be wouldn’t deem it an eyesore and party place to be monitored. Alas. Spring is otherworldly in the Rose Garden, with the annual explosion of flowers, trees and grass, and these days the sound of airplanes, strollers, sun worshipers, lollygaggers, Frisbee freaks and bocce-ballers combine for a humming, harmonious cacophony. The invasion of the teen hammockers took over the place a few years ago, and the skeptic in me can’t help but think the guru
lounge got torn out because the owners of the mansions across the street complained to the city. I’ve tried other quiet perches — Beard’s Plaisance, Karl Mueller’s bench off the Rose Garden fountain and a few more — but I always returned to the guru lounge to write and meditate. I’ll miss it. We live in a loud time of hurried anti-contemplation, and for me, the destruction of the guru lounge feels something like a metaphor for all the crap we can’t control as citizens. It was a small thing, but small things make a big city charming, and the small things and their small histories should be protected. Sure, I’ll return to the new bench to watch the sunset and work, but I’ll never forget the trippy charm of the guru lounge, and all the wit, wisdom and wackiness it inspired. To not take a moment to pay tribute to it feels like a sin, and in honor of its passing, I’m off to find another new spring spot, far from the madding crowd and as close to the guru lounge as I can get. Jim Walsh lives and grew up in South Minneapolis. He can be reached at jimwalsh086@gmail.com
CALL FOR SUMMER POETRY Minnesota summers are the way we deal with Minnesota winters. Snowblowers get replaced by lawnmowers, down jackets by shorts and t-shirts and angstloaded poems by sunnier ones. Deadline for the Southwest Journal Summer Poetry issue is May 24. If you know someone who writes poetry, please spread the word. If you write poetry, please send your best work to wilhide@skypoint.com.
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Tree planting During the week of April 15, I observed an extremely wasteful process by Minneapolis Park Board employees. Early one morning, a crew arrived to dig a hole on the boulevard along 53rd Street to plant a new tree. Four hours later, a crew returned to plant the tree. About two hours later, a crew arrived to apply mulch and install a watering bag (and it turns out that bag leaks and is not useful). Why are three Park Board crew trips required to plant one tree? Obviously, the Park Board is not controlling wasteful procedures. At least one Minneapolis taxpayer wonders why. Mark Hermanson, Lynnhurst
CORRECTIONS An article about graduation rates at Washburn High School on page A9 of the May 2 edition incorrectly stated the percentage of Washburn students who lived in neighborhoods near the school in 2010. About 54% of the school’s students came from neighborhoods surrounding the school. An article about Lola on the Lake on page A1 of the May 2 edition misstated the month that Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board commissioners visited a meeting of the East Calhoun Community Organization. They attended an ECCO board meeting in September.
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New commercial building planned in Whittier By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com
A Whittier furniture store owner plans to demolish his old building at Lake & Grand and construct a new one on the site, according to a city planning report released last month. Ibrahim Demmaj, owner of G & L Furniture, would use the first floor of his new three-story building as a showroom, he told the planning commission on May 2. He could lease the additional space to people in the neighborhood, his architect said. Demmaj said he has owned the building, located at 318 W. Lake St., for 12 years.
The building has closed for construction. He has relocated the business to 1108 E. Lake St. for the time being. The new building will replace a two-story structure and will have four parking spaces. A project description in the city report said construction would start in the fall and last approximately eight to 10 months. The presentation came nearly a year after the planning commission approved landuse applications for a seven-story, 44-unit mixed-use building on the site. Demmaj is no longer pursuing that project.
Ibrahim Demmaj plans to use the first floor of a new three-story building at Lake & Grand as a showroom for his furniture store. Rendering courtesy of UrbanWorks via City of Minneapolis
Petition aims to prevent tree cutting More than 2,800 people signed a petition to Gov. Tim Walz asking him to prevent the Metropolitan Council from cutting down trees along the Kenilworth Corridor before full funding is secured from the Federal Transit Administration for the Southwest light rail line. Sen. Scott Dibble (District 61) and Rep. Frank Hornstein (District 61A) spoke on May 14 as the petition was presented to Walz’s aides at the capitol. “Once thousands of trees are destroyed, the peace, serenity and natural beauty of this rare urban wooded area can never be restored,” reads the petition, which was signed by two Met Council members. “I’m concerned about us taking down trees during nesting season,” the Met Council’s new District 6 representative, Lynnea Atlas-Ingebretson, told members of the West Calhoun neighborhood the evening the petition was signed. Met Council chair Nora Slawik has said that waiting to cut down trees would jeopardize the project’s status with the FTA. — Zac Farber
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In less than two months, streets named “Calhoun” could become history around the lake. A committee vote scheduled to take place at the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board meeting the evening of May 15 (after this paper goes to press) would start a process to rename roadways around Bde Maka Ska. The changes would come to four streets controlled by the MPRB: Calhoun Boulevard West, Calhoun Drive, East Lake Calhoun Parkway and West Lake Calhoun Parkway. “Bde Maka Ska” would replace “Lake Calhoun” or “Calhoun” in each street’s name. Should the committee approve the resolution, a 45-day public comment period will take place, followed by a public hearing to be held on or before Aug. 7. After the public hearing, the name changes could be approved by a six-commissioner majority, per an ordinance passed in April. A petition opposing the name change of the parkways and lake was submitted to the Park Board in advance of the meeting by Tom Austin, a leader of the group “Save Lake Calhoun.” The petition has signatures of more than 300 residents who live on or near East and West Lake Calhoun Parkway. The signatures were gathered in the summer of 2017. Commissioner Londel French (At Large), who sits on the Administration and Finance Committee that is voting on the resolution, said he appreciates the input from people who live around the lake but believes that all voices in the city should be listened to equally on the decision. “The lakes belong to everybody,” he said. The commissioners who were elected in 2017 were voted in by people who wanted a progressive Park Board, French said, and changing the name of the parkways to no longer honor John C. Calhoun, a former vice president from South Carolina who was a proponent of slavery and the Indian Removal Act is “a no-brainer.” “John C. Calhoun was not a nice guy, you know, it’s really simple,” he said.
Commissioner Meg Forney (At Large) proposed an amendment to an ordinance passed in April that would have required the MPRB to mirror the city of Minneapolis processes of public engagement for street name changes. That amendment failed and Forney fears the name change will happen without robust engagement. “That is to me what is sorely missing in this,” she said. While the Park Board has been discussing the name of the parkways in recent months, French and Forney both said the ruling by the state Court of Appeals in late April that the Department of Natural Resources lacked the legal authority to rename the lake in 2018 “absolutely” accelerated the parkway renaming process. Forney, who voted in favor of restoring the lake name to Bde Maka Ska in 2017 and adding dual name signage in 2015, believes more public engagement could be an educational opportunity and the current process is too reactionary and fast. “This action is not transformative,” she said. The resolution calls for MPRB staff to give at least 10 days notice of the public hearing to neighborhood associations and households within three blocks of roads scheduled for renaming. The committee is also voting on a measure Wednesday to suspend its typical naming procedures to rename the portion of the Chain of Lakes Regional Park known as Lake Calhoun Park to Bde Maka Ska Park. The parkland around the lake does not bear any signage recognizing it as Lake Calhoun Park, but it was officially given that name before becoming part of the regional park. MPRB spokesperson Dawn Summers said the move is designed to formally unify the properties around the lake as Bde Maka Ska. Typical renaming processes for parks follow a long procedure of public engagement, two public hearings and the notification of all neighborhood associations abutting the park.
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Interstate 35W’s southbound ramp to 46th Street will be closed for about a month, instead of about a year as previously expected, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation. Aaron Tag, MnDOT’s west area engineer, said the contractor and construction staff figured out a way to rearrange work to keep the ramp open longer. He said the ramp will close for about a month starting in early June but will mostly stay open for the rest of the I-35W construction project. There will still be “intermittent” closures, Tag said, but he wasn’t sure exactly when they would be or for how long. Tag said southbound drivers who plan on exiting at 46th Street will need to move into the right lane before 33rd Street because of work happening on the interstate. He said the entrance to northbound I-35W from 46th Street will close, as expected, as part of the final stage of the project starting next summer. There aren’t any closures planned for ramps to southbound I-35W from 46th Street or to 46th Street from northbound I-35W. The nearly $240 million I-35W project
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East, West Calhoun consider name changes By Andrew Hazzard and Zac Farber
What’s in a name? That’s the question residents of two neighborhoods — the West Calhoun Neighborhood Council (WCNC) and the East Calhoun Community Organization (ECCO) — are wrestling with this summer. In the wake of Lake Calhoun being redubbed Bde Maka Ska (its original Dakota name, meaning Lake White Earth), the neighborhoods are deciding whether to change their titles, too. The two neighborhoods may have a lake in common, but they have taken different approaches to the decision. The East Calhoun neighborhood hosted a series of three public meetings last week on a potential name change, while the West Calhoun neighborhood has announced the results of a survey gauging residents’ opinions on the subject. The 10 ECCO residents who spoke at a May 9 public meeting all favored changing the name of their neighborhood. “That name causes harm to so many people,” said resident SooJin Pate, who believes the neighborhood should honor the wishes of Native and African-American communities that want the name changed. She said the current name undermines the neighborhood’s progressive values. A survey sent to West Calhoun residents found that 54% of respondents wanted to keep the existing name, while 43% favored a change. WCNC board chair Allan Campbell said the results of the survey, which only received 65 responses, didn’t provide a clear path forward for the neighborhood. “Since it was mixed, we just keep talking,” he said. One Minneapolis neighborhood has changed its title since the lake was renamed. The Calhoun Area Residents Action Group (CARAG) officially became South Uptown in September 2018.
East Calhoun The ECCO neighborhood began a name review process by forming a committee in December. The committee, which has about 13 members, has met seven times. Mostly, they’ve been trying to work out a way to engage their neighborhood on a potential name change. The committee put together a scripted presentation of neighborhood history, lake history and the name change process. Several outreach methods were used to bring people to the meetings. “I do think that people like to feel they have a say,” Lara Norkus-Crampton, a member of the name review committee, said. What that name could be is still a long way from being determined. The neighborhood will hold a vote this summer asking residents a simple question: Do you want to change the name, yes or no? If the ayes have it, a process for renaming the community will begin. Still, a couple new name options were suggested on May 9, such as East Maka Ska. Tim Crampton suggested keeping the acronym ECCO but changing the name to Environmentally Concerned Citizens Organization. “People do know this place as ECCO,” he said. Others seemed enthusiastic about the chance to get rid of the acronym.
West Calhoun The West Calhoun neighborhood is still struggling to engage the community on the question of a name change after receiving a lackluster response to the survey it mailed to all residents and made available online. Of the residents surveyed, 35 favored keeping the neighborhood’s name the same and 28 supported a change (2 residents had no opinion). Those who supported changing the name had no clear preference between West Maka
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SooJin Pate, who has lived in ECCO since 1990, said she favors changing the organization’s name. Photo by Andrew Hazzard
Ska and West Lake (to match the name of the future light rail station). Another suggestion was Minikahda, which means “by the side of the water” in Dakota, and is the name of a West Calhoun club founded on Dakota land in 1898. “I don’t know how valid the statistics are because it’s such a small sampling of the percentage of the neighborhood,” board member Victoria Hoshal said. “I guess it’s just an indicator.” The organization’s board members say they hope to gather more community input before making a decision, and have so far mostly refrained from expressing personal preferences about the organization’s name. Residents in attendance at WCNC’s annual meeting on May 14, however, were happy to share their views “There’s a lot of hoo-ha going on about this name change,” West Calhoun resident Tim Bailey said. “If you want to change it from Calhoun because of who he was, that’s fine, but if you want to change it to Bde Maka Ska and say you’re doing that to honor Native American heritage, that’s just talk.” Board member Richard Logan replied that while it’s important to “honor indigenous values” more broadly, “every community has the right to weigh in on what it would like to be called.” “I think it’s a very small thing to change the name to its original Lakota name, but it’s still worth doing,” resident Peter Kellogg said. “I certainly think we need to do much, much more.”
‘Our choice’ In April, the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled the Department of Natural Resources lacked the authority to change the name of the lake, reverting the name to Lake Calhoun, at least in the eye of the state. The DNR has requested the state Supreme Court review the case and Democrats in the Legislature have made attempts to change the name back. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names labels the lake Bde Maka Ska at the federal level, and at the local level the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board has said it doesn’t plan on changing signage. But the ongoing legal process shouldn’t impact either neighborhood’s decision about whether to change its name. “This is our choice, and it’s up to all of us as residents if we want to keep our name or change it,” said Terry Harris, a member of ECCO’s name review committee.
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internalized racism as a white person” and wanted police to be trained in race-based psychological trauma. “Most of the violence from the police is against black and brown and indigenous people,” she said. “In my white body, I am afraid of black bodies, and the only thing I can do is be aware of it and work on it and consciously try to be not so dangerous.” Mayor Frey responded that “every one of our police officers in the MPD and every single person in this room, including myself, has implicit bias.” He noted that a training in implicit
bias has been given to MPD officers since 2015. John Robertson had plenty of critical words for city leaders, but he said that with the automatic weapons and assault rifles on the streets, “this is a scary time to be a police officer.” “I would be afraid as Noor was afraid,” he said. John Barry said he was appalled to hear Noor’s partner, officer Michael Harrity, testify that he responds to calls considering everything to be a threat “until it’s not a threat anymore.” “It makes me shake thinking about that because my son was out minutes before Justine was killed,” Barry said. “He had just gotten new shoes and we allowed him to run around
the block, and the thought of officer Harrity thinking of my son as a threat and possibly shooting him makes me sick to my stomach.” A number of speakers throughout the evening thanked Frey, Arradondo and Palmisano for coming to the Lake Harriet Spiritual Community to listen and encouraged them to hold similar events on the North Side and in other parts of the city more affected by police violence. “I have become radicalized in this process,” Fred Kuhnen said, “understanding quickly that it wasn’t just a single action around the corner from us, but this was another chapter in this unfortunate book.”
Mayor Jacob Frey, Council Member Linea Palmisano and Police Chief Medaria Arradondo hosted a listening session at the Lake Harriet Spiritual Community on May 7. Photo by Zac Farber
WHAT THEY HEARD In March, in front of my home, I got up to stretch while painting in my studio. I saw a teenage boy walking and all of a sudden two officers zoomed down my street, stopped their car in front of my house and came out of their car with their guns out, pointing at what looked to be a 16-year-old boy. This is when Southwest High School was out of school and in a few minutes the Fulton Upper Campus was about to be released. This boy had no weapon on him, had no drugs on him — there was nothing on him. What I learned was that two boys stole a car that was parked two doors down. I don’t know anything more than that, but I was shaking. I was shaking and I had to call my neighbors to get support because I had already seen what happened to Justine, and I was afraid it was going to happen to this teenage boy. And thank god this teenage boy was white because if he were black, I’m afraid he was going to get killed. I don’t understand what’s happened to this police force that that is the only way to respond to that situation. To have their guns out already, running at him — with a gun. And he was walking. I can’t comprehend. As a woman in my neighborhood, I don’t feel comfortable calling the police. I don’t know how to fix that. And I realize, in my whiteness, that’s something people of color have been carrying their whole damn life. — Sarah Kuhnen, Fulton
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Lee grew up in a farming family, though she said her dad and grandma both were musically inclined. She said she originally took band in high school, before her choir director persuaded her to join his group. “[He] really kind of inspired me to do this work,” she said. After high school Lee enrolled at Luther College, where she graduated with a degree in music education. Her first teaching job was in rural Farmington, Iowa, where she taught fifth- through 12th-graders and directed her first musical. After a year, Lee and her husband, Hans, moved to New Jersey, where he was studying to become a Lutheran pastor. There, she taught at two schools, including a Catholic school in the mafia district of Trenton, New Jersey’s capital city. “They thought I was the most exotic creature to ever walk in the room [because of my] accent,” Lee said. “The nuns looked at my husband, who’s Norwegian, blond, blue-eyed, and they go, ‘You better not come into our neighborhood, but you’ll be fine.’” The Lees moved back to the Midwest after a year, and Hans finished seminary and eventually began his pastoral career. After stints in Iowa and Wisconsin, their family settled in Minneapolis, where Lee took teaching jobs at Armatage Elementary School and then at Southwest High School in 2000. Lee said Southwest did not have a choir when she arrived and that the principal gave her a year to get a program up and running. She said 15 students took choir that first year and more than 150 took it by her fifth year. In 2008, Lee moved to Washburn High School, where the district had required teachers to reapply for their jobs as part of a “fresh start” initiative. She said Washburn had about 35 choir students at the time but that she gradually built
Washburn High School choir teacher Nancy Lee teaches a group of students on May 14 in the school’s auditorium. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
the program to include 200 students. She also put on the first musicals at Washburn in years. “All the equations were there to say, ‘This can be successful,’” Lee said. “But it was truly starting over.”
‘Bring out the best’ Washburn parent Sue Johnson said Lee had to beg students to participate in the musicals when she directed her first show at Washburn. Nowadays, Johnson said there are not enough parts for all the kids. Johnson, whose three kids have all done choir, said Lee is someone whom students know they can trust. She said she was impressed with how Lee coordinated a recent trip to New York City with over 100 choir students. “She orchestrates it just as she conducts her choirs,” Johnson said. Eric Sayre, a 2006 Southwest graduate who
is now band director at South High School, said Lee was encouraging but had high expectations. Sayre, who participated in Southwest’s musicals and an a capella group Lee supervised, said she always picked music that felt meaningful to students. He said she helped him write an original choir piece as a senior and then let him perform it. Other parents and former students also said Lee had the ability to make everyone feel welcome. Alma Neuhaus is a 2014 Washburn graduate who will begin a master’s program in vocal performance this fall at Juilliard. She said Lee’s classes were as much about creating community as they were about making music. Neuhaus said Lee gave students space to address things happening outside of her classroom. Parent Deb Brisch-Cramer, who worked with Lee from 2009 to 2013, said Lee
welcomed everyone who wanted to participate in the musicals, including students with disabilities. She said students felt they could talk to Lee about anything. “She just had the ability to really bring out the best in kids,” Brisch-Cramer said. Lee hasn’t been involved with the hiring of a new Washburn choir teacher, but she said she thought the school had strong candidates for the position. She said her biggest thrill in teaching has been seeing students figure out who they are through music. The past three years, Lee has received honorable mention honors in the Excellence in Theatre Education contest run by the Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University. Her choirs have also received high ratings in statewide contests. Washburn will hold an open-house retirement celebration for Lee on June 5.
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product without some sort of public-private partnership,” he said. City officials are creating a “Missing Middle” pilot program that would help finance affordable units to rent or own inside new 3–20 unit buildings. The pilot stems from the Minneapolis 2040 plan, which would allow triplexes citywide and concentrate multistory development along transit corridors like Lake Street. The draft plan is not formally adopted yet. A Metropolitan Council review of the plan is currently on hold while the City of Minneapolis gathers additional information. But in the meantime, the city is moving forward with a $40 million budget allocation toward affordable housing, which includes $500,000 to launch the Missing Middle pilot. “The reason the city is focusing on Missing Middle housing is it’s a housing type that’s really not prevalent in the city. Only about 20 percent of homes in the city actually have 3–20 units,” said Kevin Knase, Minneapolis senior project coordinator. Knase said that since 2000, the city has lost about 15,000 units considered affordable to single people making $32,000 or families making $45,000, the area median income. “The reason for this policy is really because we’ve been seeing increases in prices partially due to the limited housing supply that’s out there,” Knase said. “It’s really, really expensive to purchase a home in the City of Minneapolis, and part of that is there really aren’t a diversity of housing options that are out there. And not everybody necessarily wants to live in a large apartment building or wants to live in a single-family home.”
Karen Parolek, a Berkeley-based consultant who first coined the term “Missing Middle” with her husband Daniel in 2010, said the Minneapolis pilot is innovative. “I haven’t heard about anything like this,” she said. “I think it’s pretty impressive.” Single-family zoning gained traction across the country in the 1940s, she said, and it’s common for cities to see Missing Middle housing stock constructed prior to the 1940s but not after. Single-family zoning historically catered to popular car-centric development sprawl and aimed to keep renters out of single-family neighborhoods, she said. “There was basically no place for all of these small apartment buildings to go, and so they stopped building them,” she said. Along with zoning, Parolek said she’s glad to see Minneapolis tackling the financial challenge of Missing Middle construction. “There are a lot of forces at work to push things big,” said developer Michael Lander, whose projects include the new 25-unit apartment and condo building home to Black Walnut Bakery at 3145 Hennepin Ave. “There is pressure to maximize — maximize zoning, maximize profitability.” Lander said it’s hard to find land zoned right and priced right for small-scale apartments. And costs ranging from architects to building management to snow removal are similar for both large and small projects, he said. Financing for construction of a small project is also more difficult to secure, he said. “As a developer, if I wanted to do a 100-unit building, I’d have people falling all over me to give me the money to do that,” he said. “If I wanted to build a four-unit building, or an
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eight-unit building, the only money is my money, or my friends and family. It’s very hard to find investors for something like that.” “It will take us the same time and energy to go in and design a four-unit or 10-unit building than it does to design a several-hundred-unit building,” said developer Drew Levin. Levin and Daniel Perkins, known as HGTV hosts and founders of Turkey to Go, are currently proposing a three-story building with four apartments at 1721 Lagoon Ave. But with no elevator, no underground parking and no extra amenities, the cost of building a smaller project is significantly less, he said. “There is no better way of doing affordable than having actually inexpensive product being built,” Levin said. “They don’t require the city to spend dollars on them … but they do require the city to help out on the zoning side.” Next to the Kitty Klinic, a single-family house at 3443 Lyndale Ave. S. could be replaced by 19 units in a four-story (42.5-foot) building. Developer Alex Brogle of South Face Creative Builders estimates rents would be $1,200-$1,500 per
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month on units of 425–525 square feet. At a May 6 Lyndale Neighborhood Association meeting, some residents asked Brogle to consider building something smaller, like a fourplex. “This is the absolute smallest I could make this building in order to be anywhere close to the numbers that the bigger developers make on the bigger buildings,” Brogle said. “I think it’s something that could be repeatable for the city in a pretty urban area. We’re pretty close to downtown here.” The site is currently zoned R2B, a lowdensity two-family district, and Brogle seeks to rezone the site to R5, a high-density multifamily district. When Minneapolis 2040 zoning goes into effect, the site, located along the Lyndale Avenue transit corridor, would allow 1–4 stories. Ed Janezich, chair of the Lyndale neighborhood Housing, Planning and Development committee, said the neighborhood will continue to discuss the impact of Minneapolis 2040. “Get familiar with it. It’s going to affect our lives for the foreseeable future,” Janezich said. “It has changes in it that many of us who are longtime residents are not at ease with. It’s a change. The concept of a four-story apartment building being able to fit next door to you — that’s a brand-new concept.” One Missing Middle proponent is AARP Minnesota, which partnered to host a walking tour last fall with Daniel Parolek. City staff report that 40 percent of the city’s 3- or 4-bedroom multifamily units are in duplexes, making them an important housing stock for multigenerational families. AARP MN State Director Will Phillips said there aren’t many options for downsizing seniors who want to stay in their communities. “We really believe that creating more Missing Middle housing will help,” Phillips said. City staff is collecting feedback on the pilot through May 22 at tinyurl.com/cped-housing. The City Council may vote on the pilot guidelines in June, and release a request for proposals by July.
Southwest principal Michael Favor resigns By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com
Southwest High School’s principal announced his resignation on May 3, after less than a year at the school. Michael Favor accepted a job as assistant superintendent with Roseville Area Schools. He said he will finish out the school year at Southwest. “I will always consider Minneapolis home, so this was not a decision made lightly,” he wrote in a letter. Minneapolis Public Schools spokesman Dirk Tedmon said associate superintendent Carla Steinbach will lead the new principal search. That person will be Southwest’s fourth principal in four years. Principal Bill Smith retired in 2017, and Karen Wells served as interim principal last
year before the district hired Favor. Adam Barrett, chair of the Southwest High School Foundation board, said Favor emphasized service learning and community outreach and wanted everyone to feel welcome at Southwest. “He wanted inclusivity, even if it was as simple as a greeting and a handshake, to be extended to everyone” Barrett said. Favor, who holds a doctorate in education, was interim superintendent of Monticello Public Schools before coming to Southwest. He previously had been an executive director in the Robbinsdale school district and a principal at Robbinsdale Cooper High School and Minneapolis North High School.
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For Minneapolitans who like to eat seasonal produce, it has been a long winter of root vegetables. But with warmer weather tantalizingly in sight, eaters of all stripes can look forward to the bounty that summer soils have to offer. CSAs, or Community Supported Agriculture, are one way to indulge in this bounty through regular deliveries of local produce. Organized seasonally, these programs are also a way to support small-scale agriculture while building relationships with the land our food comes from and the farmers who harvest it. There are over a dozen farms that deliver CSA shares in Southwest Minneapolis alone, with many more throughout the rest of the metro. But over the last five to 10 years, local CSA memberships have been on the decline, contributing to the shrinking number of small farms in greater Minnesota and Wisconsin. Michael Noreen has owned and farmed at Burning River Farm since 2006. Burning River offers CSA shares in spring, summer and fall, delivered to the Twin Cities from Frederic, Wisconsin. Noreen identifies the CSA decline as part of a broader trend in small agriculture. “Many farms over the last six years have decided to call it quits,” he said. But with marketing terms like “local” and “organic” as ubiquitous as ever, he speculates that many people don’t know these farms are suffering. “The CSA trend has ended,” Noreen said matter-of-factly. “Consumers have just decided it’s not convenient enough.”
At Burning River, summer CSA memberships have fallen from close to 300 six years ago down to about 220 today. This means that the farm is coming up about $30,000 short of its yearly financial goals – not insignificant for a small business that also has employees to support. According to Noreen, the local food movement peaked in public consciousness around 2007 or 2008. This was reflected in media and books (Michael Pollan’s “An Omnivore’s Dilemma” was published in 2006). Farms responded to this trend; there was a sizeable growth in farmers markets and CSAs. But this hasn’t lasted. What changed? Noreen can’t pinpoint any single cause, but he knows that this is a question many small farms are asking themselves. “We’re all just throwing darts at what we think is happening,” he said. “It’s no one factor; it’s 10 factors all coalescing.” One of these factors is the rise of personalized grocery services. While these food delivery start-ups largely began in coastal tech hubs, this market has officially opened its virtual doors in the Twin Cities. Imperfect Produce, a venture capitalbacked grocery delivery company, expanded its services to the Twin Cities metro at the beginning of April. The company delivers customizable produce and other grocery items that might have otherwise gone to waste, conveniently customized online and delivered straight to your doorstep.
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As Pennings explained, the membership system allows CSAs to reduce food waste from the very beginning. “We plant according to our numbers. What we plant and what we till is based on the members we have.” As of this year, Pennings has been operating a CSA on her farm for three decades. In the beginning, she said, CSAs were a way to get organic produce before organics were offered in grocery stores. More than that, however, joining a CSA was about building a relationship with particular local food systems, and a willingness to participate in the unpredictability that such a food system entails. “The people who joined were saying: ‘We are committed to sharing the risk with you,’” Pennings said. These components — commitments to local food systems, relationships with farmers, and collectivized risk — are what distinguish CSAs from services like Imperfect Produce. But Pennings and other small farmers are worried that these relationships are being eclipsed by the draw of convenience. Phat Beets Produce, a food justice collective based in North Oakland, wrote scathingly of the Imperfect Produce model in an edito-
rial published in The New Food Economy. “[Venture capital]-backed startups are commodifying need and undermining food banks and CSAs while they’re at it. It’s a market solution disguised as activism,” they wrote. In contrast to community-supported agriculture, Phat Beets describes Imperfect Produce as corporate-supported agriculture, a company that sources from large agribusiness over local agriculture in order to reach the scale necessary to profit. Simon responded with a blog post reiterating his commitment to reducing food waste and hunger and defending Imperfect Produce’s organizational model as the best strategy to fit the scale of the problem. “If the most effective way to create this impact was as a non-profit or advocacy group, we would be doing that instead,” he wrote. Noreen said he is wary of what he described as “box delivery schemes.” On the surface, they market themselves using much of the same language that a farm CSA might. “They say they source from local farms, but they don’t actually say where ‘local’ means,” Noreen said. To Noreen, Imperfect Produce is indicative
At Burning River Farm, summer CSA memberships have fallen from close to 300 six years ago down to about 220 today. Submitted photo
of the corporatization of the local food movement as a whole. The Imperfect Produce price point will undoubtedly be lower than what local CSAs can offer. “It’s part of a bigger trend towards either more convenient or less expensive,” Noreen said. And farms often don’t have the capacity to make up the difference. But some are trying. This past winter, Featherstone Farm rolled out their new customizable CSA program using a software platform called Harvey. The software also helps with marketing and outreach to reach potential members who may be wooed by other customizable boxed food services. “Customizing is the wave of the future,” said Featherstone CSA Coordinator Patty Zanski-Fisher. Featherstone Farm is a bigger operation than many local farms; whereas Common Harvest has about 200 CSA members, Featherstone has approximately 700. But this represents a significant decline from just six years ago when CSA shares numbered more than 900. Zanski-Fisher understands why people are moving away from CSA systems. “CSAs are demanding of people,” she said. “Their lives are just so busy.” Rather than digging in her heels, she is helping Featherstone adapt. She speculates that more and more CSAs will move towards customized systems, which Zanski-Fisher sees as another antifood-waste measure. And small farmers like Pennings hope that people will continue to find value in the CSA model. For now what keeps farms like Common Harvest going is the deep relationships they have built with members over the years. After all, members helped Pennings purchase Common Harvest in the first place — land which they have now put under conservation easement to preserve it as farmland forever. “Joining this farm as a member is something bigger than just eating vegetables,” she said.
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A biker travels under the Nicollet Avenue bridge along Minnehaha Creek, where planners imagine a more developed, welcoming park space in the future. Photo by Andrew Hazzard
to MPRB history, but today one of the big questions planners are weighing is how much of the current five-mile stretch of one- and two-way streets should stay open to vehicles or serve as a commuter corridor for drivers. Arvidson said increasing separation of pedestrian and bike paths is an area of consensus for planners, but debates are continuing over an idea in the initial concepts to close the south side of the parkway in Tangletown to cars and make it a wide shared route for pedestrians and cyclists. “I’d say that’s an open question,” Arvidson said, adding that the decision is one of the hardest for planners to decide.
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Outside the Ronald McDonald House near the University of Minnesota, a group of children and teenagers shout out a resounding “yay” as they rush onto a colorful, compact bus adorned with bright butterflies, a starry sky and a black dog clutching a paintbrush in its jaws. Seven kids are joined by four adult helpers. Mason jars full of crayons, colored pencils and markers are grabbed from customized shelves. A table comfortably seating six is hastily assembled from three modular desks. The kids are aboard Ziggy’s Art Bus, a new effort from East Calhoun resident Gina Zaffarano to bring an accessible, mobile art experiences to children who are experiencing long-term and life-threatening illnesses and their families. ‘It gives them an opportunity just to be kids,” said Claire Ulbrich, an Uptown resident
and the family services coordinator at the Ronald McDonald House.
Filling a void Zaffarano is a hairdresser and business owner by trade; she owns Uptown Hair District and its sister shop, Edina Hair District. A few years ago, she felt drawn to hospice work and began to train at the hospice volunteer program at North Memorial Hospital. After her training, she began volunteering at Crescent Cove, a hospice care center for children in Brooklyn Center. “We never think about children and hospice in the same vein, we just don’t want to,” she said. While volunteering at Crescent Cove, she saw a need for one of her passions — art. She spent about nine months thinking about that void, and what she could do to fill it.
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In 2018 she formed a board and began raising money for a bus. The group raised nearly $100,000 in two fundraising events, largely from neighbors in Southwest and South Minneapolis, Zaffarano said. “It was really remarkable,” she said. The bus was named after Zaffarano’s LabradorAustralian Shepard mix, Ziggy, because the group concluded “everybody likes dogs.” In the long term, Ziggy’s hopes to have a small fleet of buses capable of going directly to the homes of children with life-threatening and limiting illness throughout the Twin Cities. But in its initial months, the bus is mainly serving Crescent Cove and the Ronald McDonald House. When a mutual friend told Lynnhurst resident Erica Marsden about Ziggy’s, she knew she wanted to get involved. An end-of-life midwife who has loved and practiced art her whole life, Marsden was a perfect fit for the program. Working with people who are going through such a real, human experience and helping them to make enduring art is a gift, she said. “It’s just a safe space,” Marsden said.
Getting creative The Ronald McDonald House on Oak Street provides housing primarily for young patients who are receiving care at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital and their siblings. Families come from all over the Midwest to receive care in the Twin Cities and must live at least 40 miles away to stay at the home. The Oak Street location has 48 family rooms and has an average stay of 150 nights, one of the longest average stays among Ronald McDonald homes worldwide, according to Ulbrich. Ziggy’s began going to the Ronald McDonald House on March 12 and has been returning there each Tuesday.
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A step in the bronze casting process for a series of sculptures by Seitu Jones and Ta-coumba Aiken that will be installed at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden this summer. Photo courtesy of the artists
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a boxed quartet). This course, frankly, bored me — the beef saltier than ideal, and sided with “ravioli” of translucent circlets of raw kohlrabi and a deep green pool of nettle mustard. Next, a “spring walk through the woods” in the form of a warm broth fashioned from plantain, strawberry, dandelion and elderflower — not especially appealing. But the pre-dessert certainly was: a soy milk pudding lush with coconut powder and lively lime zest, mint upon a pool of birch syrup — limpid and lovely. The “real” dessert starred creamy chocolate in brown-butter custard aside beeswax ice cream (just because? it’s simply a mild, anonymous flavor) and a honey toile, along with vivacious sparkles of sweet-sour orange bits. But! It’s not over ’til it’s over. Out comes a parade of pastry chef Diane Yang’s little jewels, starting with a savory, airy, chewy sesame roll (a family recipe, we’re told). Then a white chocolate truffle, a curry-scented chocolate truffle, a macaron (bland), a medallion of dried fruits and nuts under a chocolate topping and probably a few I’ve forgotten. Plus: a bowl of Rice Krispie treats to spoon up till you’re in a coma. And a printed menu as souvenir. The only downside: music chosen, it seems, by the kitchen staff and unsuited for this MPRtype clientele. It grates. But hey…
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departments that incur tort liability and worker compensation costs. Sometimes the city or its workers make a mistake. Small claims are paid off by the City Council’s tight-fisted claims committee. Bigger ones go to court. The selfinsurance fund is the bank. Sometimes cops are injured on the job. Sometimes they make bad policing judgments. Those happen frequently enough that the police department already ranks highest among city departments for the premium rate it pays into this citywide revolving fund. That premium is built into the department’s budget, but not to the tune of $20 million. The hit to the self-insurance fund is all the more painful because of its financial resuscitation over the past 15 or so years. Former Mayor R.T. Rybak inherited a self-insurance fund that was nearly $49 million in the hole when he was sworn in. That’s because the tandem of Council President Jackie Cherryhomes and Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton let the fund drain without sufficient replenishment. Remember the 8% annual increases in the property levy that were the hallmark of Rybak’s first two terms? The deficit in the self-insurance fund and its sister internal revolving funds consumed about one-quarter of that as Rybak instilled fiscal discipline in the city budget. His ally in that was Southwest’s 13th Ward council member, Barret Lane. Restoring the fund eventually freed up $21 million in the city budget for discretionary spending or property tax relief. The city’s self-insurance fund had a net
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worth of $28.7 million as of the city’s most recent financial report. The huge settlement likely will wipe out years of progress in replenishing the fund. The new drain on the fund could be offset by charging even higher premiums to the police department, eating up resources that otherwise could be used to hire more cops or for other department needs, like training. Or the city could rebuild the fund with general fund reserves, reducing its investment earnings and the opportunity to use that money for other purposes. It could even sell general-obligation judgment bonds, which would allow this extraordinary cost to be financed over time — for an interest cost, something CFO Mark Ruff doesn’t favor. He’d like to develop a four- to five-year plan to beef up the fund, in part for rising worker compensation costs and for better coverage on city buildings. The extraordinary size of the settlement compared with past city settlements and those of other well-publicized police settlements in Minnesota raises questions. Did the City Council approve too large a settlement too soon without taking time for tougher bargaining? Two council members I’ve spoken with reject this. They say that two days of mediation had been scheduled for months and just coincidentally began on the day following the unexpectedly swift verdict; they approved the settlement the next day. They didn’t want to force another round of transcontinental travel on the plaintiff. They said they didn’t want to risk putting the family’s claim for $50 million before
a federal court jury after the first on-duty murder conviction of a cop in the state’s recall. They say that the potential liability for $50 million sitting on the books before the trial could have threatened the high bond ratings that the city has enjoyed since the Rybak administration reformed city finances. They say they didn’t want the department paralyzed while the plaintiff attorney took dozens of officer depositions. Other questions remain. Does self-insurance accumulate too fat a target for plaintiff attorneys? How was the decision made to earmark $2 million to combat gun violence in the city? Wouldn’t the $2 million have been more transformational if it had been devoted to retraining any police officers who demonstrate a proclivity to shoot before a threat assessment? Ward 13 Council Member Linea Palmisano said that testimony demonstrated Noor’s actions didn’t result from faulty police training but rather an officer who disregarded his training. She said that colleagues Andrea Jenkins and Jeremiah Ellison pushed for a portion of the settlement to benefit communities of color disproportionately affected by gun violence. It was clear, she said, that the family didn’t want any settlement that gave money back to the city for any purpose. For cops, the settlement should pose obvious lessons. This is the cost of cowboy policing. It’s the cost of warrior training. This is the cost of a blue wall of silence that keeps cops on the streets who shouldn’t be on the force. The actions of those cops result in insurance costs that make it harder to afford more officers. For the rest of us, there’s a $20 million bill.
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the now torn down “Celebration of Life” mural installed by John Biggers in North Minneapolis. “We have a selfless attitude toward each other,” Aiken said, of his friendship with Jones. “We’re sort of like jazz musicians. One person takes the lead and brings the band together.” The Sculpture Garden work scheduled for public unveiling this summer, two years after “Shadows of Spirit” were re-installed on Nicollet Mall in conjunction with the mall’s redesign. The historical figures portrayed on Nicollet Mall included Dred Scott, the Minnesota-based feminist and labor writer Meridel LeSueur, and civil rights activist and DFL political organizer Nellie Stone Johnson. Additional shadows portrayed a 1934 Teamster striker, a settler who lived in the Bohemian flats, a Dakota woman from a legend around the now-disappeared Spirit Island and a shopkeeper and early Chinese immigrant named Woo Yee Sing. Jones’ wife, Soyini Guyton, wrote poems for each of the shadows, though there was no
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physical signage beyond the poetic text to indicate who each of the figures were. That’s something that will change for the Sculpture Garden version, where each shadow will have a plaque that will include information about each of the figures, Aiken said. “When you stand there and see your shadow — there’s a reconnection,” Aiken said. “They all come from our ancestors.” Aiken said when they were originally conceiving of the shadow spirits, they decided to have the sculptures be flat, rather than standing up out of the ground. “We don’t want to create tombstones; we want to create actual shadows,” he said. For the new iteration of the shadows in the Sculpture Garden, Aiken and Jones have selected new people the shadows will represent. Some, like Harriet Robinson Scott, refer back to the earlier project. “We were adamant of correcting some things we didn’t do on Nicollet Mall,” Aiken said. Harriet, Dred Scott’s wife, was an integral part of his story. “Harriet pushed the case for Dred Scott’s freedom,” he said.
to the history of Minnesota. But the seeds “This piece celebrates and commemorates all also represent rebirth, and the future of the these people from Minneapolis’ past,” Jones said. community, whose stories are still being At Anurag Foundry in Stillwater, members of written. “We wanted it to be a story that’s told WACTAC watched the bronze casting process. by everybody,” Aiken said. “Everybody will “We needed you here to bless it, because we’ve have their own take on the story.” been working with you for a while,” Jones told The unveiling will take place at 5 p.m. on the teen artists. June 20 at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Though the project began in 1992, Jones said 725 Vineland Pl. he doesn’t see the new iteration as revisiting older work but rather as a continuation. “For me, the most important piece that I’ve done is the stuff that I’m doing right now,” Jones said. “I don’t have time to really think about revisiting. I don’t put it in that kind of frame.” Instead, he said the work is ever evolving and present. “This piece can continue,” he said. “We may get other requests and other calls to do shadows throughout the world, so it continues.” For the Sculpture Garden, they are switching up the form from the Nicollet Mall version by including not only bronze but also sculptures etched in concrete. “I’ve got a poem that has been laser cut with the text that we’re going to place inside a shadow,” Jones said. After the poem is cut into the shadow, Jones sprays adhesive on the etching and spreads seeds on the whole piece. “The seeds will stick to the adhesive, and that becomes this surface with texture that will hopefully prevent folks from slipping on it,” Jones said. Each of the pieces has different seeds or grains that Aiken examines text by Soyini Guyton at the Anurag Foundry. are connected
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The Subversive Sirens make up a synchronized swimming team that wants to change the world through black liberation, body positivity and LGBTQ inclusiveness. They won gold medals at the Gay Games in Paris last August and now have their sights on the IGLA Aquatics Championship in June. Support the team with a fun afternoon of swimming and synchro, including synchro performances, lessons and a “Splash Mob.”
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In 2014, artist Alexa Horochowski took over the Soap Factory for an exhibition that explored living in the age of the Anthropocene — meaning our world permanently impacted by humans. One of the pieces in that show was a work called “Cochayuyo,” named after the slithery kelp Horochowski brought back from a residency in Argentina. For this event, art critic Christina Schmid talks to Horochowski about the work and how she has explored humans’ destruction of the environment with her art.
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JEROME EMERGING PRINTMAKERS EXHIBITION Three emerging printmakers — Lamia Abukhadra, Connor Rice (CRICE) and Nancy Julia Hicks — culminate a nine-month fellowship with an exhibition that highlights works they’ve created throughout the process. You’ll see Hicks’ works that mine her own family history to create monotypes, artist books and soft sculptures made of screenprinted papers and fabrics. Abukhadra, meanwhile, challenges colonialist narratives about Palestine and its diaspora through her interdisciplinary work. Finally, Rice invents a new visual language to comment on the exploitation of black identity. The opening reception will include an artist talk at 7 p.m. and refreshments.
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CELICA MEETS BUTOH Part album release, part Butoh performance, “CELICA meets Butoh” pairs the ethereal sounds of local musician Sho Nikaido with the transfixing movement of Masanari Kawahara, who brings the ghostly Japanese dance form, Butoh, to the Bryant Lake Bowl stage. Nikaido’s low-fi, idiosyncratic solo project, CELICA, presents the first release of Nikaido’s own record label, Seated Heat Records. The vinyl being released, “Bouquet For the Sunset U’ve Never Seen,” includes a newsprint photozine featuring Nikaido’s own artwork.
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JUNGLE THEATER: SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS A silent meditation retreat provides the setting for this warm and quirky new self-help parody by Bess Wohl, making its regional debut at the Jungle Theater. Trying to find inner peace, the seven city dwellers work through personal issues as they adjust to the no-talking retreat, led by a guru who leaves much to be desired.
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Moments in Minneapolis
By Karen Cooper
The famed chicken fancier of Humboldt Avenue Harry Fletcher raised prize birds in his yard and sold Buff Orpington eggs at a premium t the turn of the 20th century, the reaches of Southwest Minneapolis were called “country estates in the city” and lots of people raised their own chicken eggs. The house at 4639 Humboldt Ave. S. was home to an energetic chicken fancier named Harry Fletcher, who raised the birds in his backyard. His breed of choice was the Orpington. That breed comes in several colors, and his focus was on the orangeish Buff Orpington. It is known for being a good combination of layer and meat producer. In March of 1904, Fletcher advertised his Buff Orpington eggs for $2 for 15, or $3 for 30. In 1904, a dozen eggs to eat cost only about 16 cents. Fletcher’s eggs were for hatching and he promised that infertile eggs would be replaced for free. If you had no setting hen to hatch the eggs for you, he would sell you one of those, too. His eggs came from “good big birds” weighing 7–9 pounds. In March 1905, Fletcher advertised eggs for hatching and sold pullets (hens under age 1) and cockerels (young roosters). In the early part of the 20th century, competitive chicken raising was an important activity, with regional, statewide and local exhibits. Today, a chicken fancier may attend the Minnesota State Fair and admire hundreds of unusual, appealing chickens. Back then, smaller towns had their own shows, each about the size of today’s poultry exhibit at the fair. Fletcher’s birds regularly won ribbons at poultry shows as far away as Chicago. One of Fletcher’s birds, Harriet, had her likeness captured in a photograph that appeared in the Minneapolis Morning Tribune in January 1913. Fletcher’s most accomplished chicken was a hen called Zudora. She was a Buff Orpington, of course, and won first place in the 1915 Minnesota State Poultry Association’s annual show. Among at least 1,100 entrants, she was a blue ribbon winner, hatched of blue ribbon parents. Zudora the chicken was named for a 1914 silent film serial about a mystery-solving heroine of the
same name. The serial was originally shown at the New Grand Theatre at 621 Hennepin Ave., and today it can be watched on YouTube. Impressed with her marvelousness, the Mutual Film Company intended to give Zudora the chicken a silver leg band. Fletcher’s day job was as a printer at the Minneapolis Journal. He lived to be 94 years old and died in 1970. His World War I draft registration says he was of medium height, slender build and had grey eyes and dark
brown hair. He and his wife, Lillian, moved from Southwest Minneapolis to Excelsior in 1928. It is not known if the chickens went with him. Karen Cooper is a researcher at Hennepin History Museum. She is interested in Minneapolis lives and places nearly forgotten. If you would like to know your Southwest house’s history, you can locate its picture in the museum’s photo collection (tinyurl.com/hhm-houses) and send a request to yf@urbancreek.com.
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