Southwest Journal, May 30–June 12

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Parents want foundation to make changes

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Group says Southwest Foundation disproportionately benefits ‘whitest and wealthiest’ students By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@swjournal.com

A group of parents focused on combating systemic inequities are demanding that the Southwest High School Foundation change its approach to raising and distributing funds. The group, called White on White, said the foundation should raise money at less exclusive venues and that its all-white board needs a more diverse membership. The parents also said the foundation should focus grants on students who have been historically underserved and make the application process easier to understand for people from marginalized communities. “The decisions they make need to have an equity lens,” parent Laura Balfour said. “If it’s not equitable, then they shouldn’t be doing it.” The group’s demands came four months after the foundation received a $250,000 donation from 1969 Southwest graduate Betsee Parker, who earmarked half the funds for “teacher innovation and development.” Her gift wasn’t intended for the foundation’s yearly grantmaking activities, according to board president Adam Barrett, who graduated from Southwest in 2000. Parker was traveling abroad this spring (she bought a Scottish castle in February) and was unavailable for an interview, Barrett said. He said she wanted Southwest’s teachers to use the “innovation” funding as they saw fit, adding that a teacher committee has been discussing how best to spend it. White on White parents said they want some of that money to go toward teacher-equity training. “Real classroom innovation would be white teachers kind of coming to terms with their racism,” parent June Thiemann said.

Skateboard advocates make headway in Minneapolis

By Andrew Hazzard

On a sunny Monday in May, Tyler Kirksey brought his skateboard to Armatage Park. It’s a familiar place for Kirksey, 19, who has been skating for about seven years. He attended nearby Southwest High School and improved his skills by skating at Armatage. The place has some sentimental value to him. The skate park there is great for learning, he said, but if he could he’d improve the “flow” of the park, making the transitions between the five elements there smoother and more instinctive. “It’s really a bare bones type of park,” he said.

Ben Vaske jumps up to ride a rail at Elliot Park, the city’s public skate park Downtown. The park will be upgraded this fall, the MPRB says. Photo by Andrew Hazzard

SEE SKATING / PAGE A23

SEE SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION / PAGE A15

Kingfield philosopher seeks medical aid in dying By Zac Farber / zfarber@swjournal.com

When philosopher Karen Warren started teaching in 1978, she would devote a unit of her ethics class to euthanasia. “I started thinking very early on about whether there’s such a thing as rational suicide, whether people have a right to die,” said Warren, who has lived in the Kingfield neighborhood for the past two decades. Some of her ethics students, she said, would argue that it was always morally wrong to kill yourself. She would challenge their beliefs with probing questions. “What if you’re a CIA agent who’s taken an oath to die — to kill yourself — rather than reveal your country’s secrets?” she’d ask.

“What about Buddhist monks who set themselves on fire to protest unjust regimes — have they done something wrong? They’re monks!” The goal, she recalled, was to make students think for themselves and see how it may be “problematic to say the right to life is absolute.” If Warren’s students asked her what she believed herself, she would reply: “That’s irrelevant; my job is to develop your view.” Today, Warren is reticent no longer. In 2015, she was diagnosed with a terminal neurodegenerative disorder called Multiple System Atrophy (MSA), which will eventually leave her paralyzed and unable to talk, walk or swallow.

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The diagnosis has radically changed her outlook on life. She said her perspective has “deepened” from academic expertise to lived experience, and she has turned her orderly intellect away from philosophical research and toward the uncertain work of political activism. “It became obvious to me that the one thing I could do as a philosopher and teacher was I can do a three-minute speech,” she said. “Before I got the illness, I don’t think I understood my role in life or why I was here.” SEE WARREN / PAGE A17

Comprehensive plan’s impact on SW schools PAGE A9

“All I want to do is die comfortably,” Karen Warren says. Photo by Bill Klotz

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General Sports closes Minneapolis location After more than 50 years with a footprint in Southwest Minneapolis, General Sports closed its France Avenue store on Friday, May 24. The sporting goods store had a storefront on France Avenue in Fulton since the 1970s, and had been in the neighborhood since 1962, according to manager Sean Gavel. After opening a location off Highway 169 in Edina about five years ago, it’s been hard to keep both shops profitable, he said. “We’re kind of consolidating all our retail to that store,” Gavel said, noting that the company’s lease in Minneapolis is ending. General Sports carries gear for soccer, hockey and lacrosse. The store also sells uniforms and customized apparel for local sports teams and businesses and provides services such as skate sharpening. It sells letterman jackets for high schools in Southwest Minneapolis and Edina, a service Gavel said they will continue to provide at their Edina location. General Sports is hopeful Minneapolis residents will continue to shop with them, but acknowledged some folks further north and east in the city might not be regulars anymore.

General Sports has sold sporting goods, sharpened skates, outfitted teams with uniforms and done letter jacket work on France Avenue since the 1970s. Photo by Andrew Hazzard

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The Tasting Room plans unique wine bar A wine bar that hopes to bring a vineyard environment to Minneapolis is planning to open this summer in Uptown. The Tasting Room will open on the first floor of the De La Pointe condo building at 31st & Holmes in the mid-to-late summer, according to co-owner Jim Graves. Jim is partnering with his brother John Graves, who owns two California vineyards. John Graves collaborates with winemaker Cabell Coursey, and their wines include an Estate Cabernet Sauvignon, Estate Syrah and Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. The menu would offer charcuterie, hors d’oeuvres, fine bread and cheese. They plan to have a cellar room to hold small events and wine tastings and give people a behind-the-scenes look at the wine develop-

ment process normally reserved for vineyards. “It’s going to be something totally unique,” Jim Graves said. The wines will be unique, too, he said, with vintages hard to find at local liquor stores or even big-box giants like Costco and Total Wines. Most of their sales will be by the bottle, with by-the-glass wines to be served out of small kegs the group said are more sustainable and preserve quality. The Tasting Room will have 38 seats indoors and patio space for another 20. “We’re going to be a quiet, comfortable environment,” Jim Graves said. The Tasting Room Where: 1434 W. 31st St.

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The Tasting Room, a new upscale wine bar, plans to open in Uptown this summer. Photo by Andrew Hazzard

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Uptown VFW celebrating 100 years The term “VFW” can conjure up images of small towns, older folk and faded American flags. Although its primary goal is serving veterans, the James Ballentine VFW Post 246 in Uptown does things a little differently. With its trendy, dive-bar vibe and music venue capabilities, Post 246 proudly mixes a “new-age feel” with what it calls “old-school principles.” “A lot of people say it’s not your grandpa’s VFW,” Post 246 Commander Winston Kettle said. This year marks 100 years for Post 246. It was founded on Nov. 4, 1919, in honor of James Ballentine, a Minneapolis native who served as a lieutenant in World War I. He died in action during the war in 1918, and the Purple Heart he was awarded still hangs on a wall in the VFW more than 100 years later. “For a lot of our older members, this anniversary is a huge deal, and we want to make sure we do this right,” Kettle said. The post’s current building originally opened in the 1950s. In recent years, a major renovation added bars and food service and transformed part of the space into a music venue with a 400-person capacity. Yet, the pull tabs, regular patrons and camaraderie remain. “A lot of it has stayed the same. The people are the same we’ve always had,” said Gabriel Thomas, who will soon take over as the post’s commander. Post 246 boasts more than 500 members coming from a variety of backgrounds. Veterans of all ages, races and genders who served in wars ranging from World War II to current conflicts are represented in the membership roster. “We’re very unique in that way,” Kettle said. “[The VFW] is a place where we can come together as veterans,” Kettle said. “I like to

A photo of James Ballentine, a Minneapolis native who served as a lieutenant in World War I, hangs on the wall of the Uptown VFW, which was founded in his honor on Nov. 4, 1919. Photos by Alex Smith

say, ‘The mission continues.’ We help each other and the community.” In honor of the centennial anniversary, the organization hosted a 5K to benefit Minnesota Warriors Hockey, made care packages and plans to keep the celebrations going as they near the official date. “We’re not this old white guys’ club anymore,” Kettle said. “We welcome everyone.”

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Descendants of the Dakota leader Mahpiya Wicasta will speak on June 8 at the dedication of a public art project commemorating the village he founded on the shores of Bde Maka Ska in August 1829. Photos by Alex Smith

Displayed on the southeast bank of Bde Maka Ska is a tribute to what the area once was. A new public art project honors Heyata Otunwe, a Dakota community that existed in the 1830s, and its leader, Mahpiya Wicasta (Cloud Man). A public dedication will be held at 10:30 a.m. on June 8, with music, comments from descendants and artists, and family activities. The art project is located near the parking lot at West 36th Street and Richfield Road. Artists Mona Smith, Sandy Spieler and Angela Two Stars collaborated on the project. Two Stars, a descendant of Mahpiya Wicasta, said she found the project especially meaningful. “It’s been so informative and rewarding. Before this, I didn’t know much about the leader, basically all I knew was his name,” she said. “It’s been a really fulfilling experience for me and my family.” The project includes a website, decorative railing and pavement stamps honoring the Dakota leader and the community that inhabited the area. Heyata Otunwe (“the village at the side”) was a small agricultural community of Dakota people founded in 1829, near the site of the new artwork. Mahpiya Wicasta was urged to try “white man’s farming” by Indian Agent Lawrence Taliaferro, who supplied the village with seeds, draft animals and plows. Villagers grew wild rice, squash, potatoes, corn and other crops for about a decade before abandoning the village at Bde Maka Ska amid fears of conflict with the Ojibwe and misleading promises of treaty

payments from whites. The artwork depicts plants and animals significant to the Dakota and incorporates Dakota words and phrases into the site. Some of the crops grown and harvested at the village are featured as well. The website, which launches on June 8, will feature information about Mahpiya Wicasta, Heyata Otunwe and interviews with descendants and artists. Two Stars’ children helped inspire her design for the pavement stamps. When her daughter started to hopscotch on her initial designs that were drawn in sidewalk chalk, she knew it would be a great way to engage children in the art. “It’s been really positive for the community to see another aspect of Native Americans,” Two Stars said. The idea for this project had been discussed for several years, but didn’t come to fruition until the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board adopted the Bde Maka Ska/Harriet Master Plan in 2017. The plan responded to the strong desire by community members to embrace the natural and human history of the lakes, specifically the Native American history. The artwork was funded through the city’s Art in Public Places Program. “We heard from the community that they wanted a ‘light touch’ at this site and didn’t want the artworks to overpower the natural surroundings,” said Ann Godfrey, project manager for the City of Minneapolis. “I think the artists created beautiful artwork and also accomplished that goal.”

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According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, nearly one in 10 Minnesotans struggle to find food on a consistent basis because of a lack of money. For the past five decades, the Joyce Uptown Food Shelf has worked to lower that statistic by providing food to Minnesotans in need at no cost. It’s holding a celebration to mark its 50th anniversary on June 2. Founded in 1969, the Uptown-based nonprofit started as a project of the Joyce United Methodist Church, but following the church’s closure in 2013 due to dwindling membership, it became an outreach program of the Lake Harriet United Methodist Church. “We try really hard to reduce barriers for people to get food,” director Lorrie Sandelin said. “If you’re worried about where your food is going to come from, that makes it difficult to focus on other things.” The food shelf provides people with essentials such as bread, milk, fruit, chicken, eggs and cooking oil, along with household items such as diapers and pet food. Clients are provided with 18–20 pounds of food per person up to twice a month, Sandelin said. In 2018 alone, Joyce Uptown Food Shelf served 200,000 pounds of food to 11,000 people. Much of the food received is from the food banks Second Harvest Heartland and the Food Group, along with surplus commodities from the federal government.

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This accounts for around two-thirds of the food shelf ’s stock; the rest comes from the nearby community, with businesses such as the Wedge Community Co-op, Soo Line Community Garden and the local Whole Foods providing produce, along with other donations from individuals. Sandelin said community buy-in is how Joyce Uptown Food Shelf has managed to sustain itself and its clients for the past 50 years. “We’re just overwhelmed by the generosity of spirit,” she said. Board member Karin Schurrer-Erickson said that the idea of thinking about one’s neighbors is what has connected with the surrounding community. In addition to serving food, Joyce Uptown Food Shelf also provides clients with information on other food programs, such as summer lunch programs and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, along with referrals to assistance organizations. The food shelf doesn’t have many plans for changes moving forward, apart from offering more foods for those with dietary restrictions. Joyce Uptown Food Shelf is holding a community celebration on June 2 at Bryant Square Park. The food shelf itself is open from 1 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. Monday through Friday, with extended hours on Thursday.

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eff Arundel’s restaurant empire on the banks of the Mississippi River sits a few miles from the Tangletown neighborhood he grew up in, but it’s safe to say that growing up near Minnehaha Creek and Lake Harriet influenced the owner of the Aster Cafe, Jefe, the Hideaway Burger Bar and the River Room — all of which carry an ancient feel straight out of Harry Potter or Game of Thrones. “There’s a connection,” said Arundel, sitting in the Aster last week. “My mom and dad settled in Tangletown, and we grew up there. I have three brothers and a sister. My mom and dad went to Washburn in the ’40s, and then all five of us kids went to Washburn. My parents picked that Tudor house, and Americans would travel to England and copy that English medieval thing in the 1900s. There’s a bloodline thing there that got built into that neighborhood. “I just always felt intuitively connected to that style. Like, there’s Arundel Castle in England in the town of Arundel, and it’s a beautiful old medieval castle, and there’s something about that from that part of our bloodline that just got stamped into my DNA. This stuff is all British, other than Jefe is intended to be Spanish, but they’re connected, too. It’s very ancient. It’s all vintage parts, because there’s something about that that’s more authentic.” These spring days, the outdoor patios of the Aster and Jefe spill over with Twin Citians coming out of hibernation and in need of an often-breathtaking river view. Business is brisk, as new condos and apartment buildings are cropping up all around the riverfront, and their residents are hungry and thirsty. “Thirty years ago, nobody would’ve been down here,” said Arundel. “We avoided coming down here. Let’s go down to the river? What? Why? You want to get killed?” Arundel first stumbled into owning the Aster 10 years ago, and since then he’s transformed the catacomb-like complex into a live music hub, with the Aster booking all stripes of music, the Hideaway hosting singer/songwriters, and the River Room — arguably the most elegant listening room in town — hosting special events, including the release party for Arundel’s latest CD, “Now We Go” (with his backing band The Hammsmen) on June 7. Arundel’s music, like his workplaces, has a decidedly time-warping feel to it, spiked as it is with echoes of ’60s and ’70s singer/songwriters, and Arundel’s personal favorite, Dire Straits leader Mark Knopfler. The ballads and production are quietly beautiful, and this listener can’t help but make connections back to Tangletown. “Definitely that neighborhood is so provocative to somebody who knows that neighborhood,” said Arundel, wistfully. “When you grow up in Tangletown, it’s a February night, it’s

Jeff Arundel outside two of his restaurants, Jefe and the Aster Cafe. He also owns the Hideaway Burger Bar and the River Room. Photo by Jim Walsh

28 degrees, playing hockey in [the] backyard, but it’s a little isolated, smell of a wood fire, you’re skating but you’re in a forest, and you go down to the creek, and you go through every alley on your bike, and you spend nights up on the Washburn water tower …” “Now We Go” is similarly romantic and nostalgic, coming from the perspective of a lover, father and friend who hankers for more. Recorded at his home studio in Downtown Minneapolis, the record kicks off with the jaunty “Hideaway” (an ode, perhaps, to his new Hideaway joint, where photos of the Arundel clan hang on the wall), followed by the title song, penned with Jeff ’s songwriter son Steele (owner of Landscape Love), a terrific minianthem that captures that elusive feeling of running wild and free by the creek, falls, lakes. “I’m the youngest brother,” said Jeff. “My brothers are seven, eight and 10 years older than me. I have my two boys, and they each have two boys. But I’m way more closer to my cousins than my brothers, and somehow this phrase ‘Now we go,’ which means ‘We’re gonna do this’ or ‘Let’s do this,’ and we use it so much I just thought, it’s got to be memorialized somehow. So Steele and I said, ‘We’ve got to write this song.’

“It’s not a big anthem, it was intended to be a subtler version of that, because that phrase has ended up being something that’s meant a lot to our family. Steele grew up on it: ‘Now we go.’ ‘Let’s do it.’ ‘Let’s roll.’” In addition to the CD release party, Arundel has a summer tour planned with his high school friend/songwriter and guitar wizard Billy McLaughlin, and a Northern Minnesota trek with fellow ace singer/songwriter/guitarist Molly Maher. One of the hardest-working and most creative dudes you’ll meet, Arundel is busy these days running his four restaurants and entertains no illusions about hitting the charts or getting airplay on hipster radio. “[Musician/collaborator] Jeff Victor and I had a joke: ‘It’s a hit. Not in this decade, but it’s a hit,’” he laughed. “I’m beyond that point of caring if it meant I achieved something; it gives me such good energy, and I feel like I’ve gotten better at it. I’m setting a table which no one wants to come to, but I make time for it because I need to.” Jim Walsh lives and grew up in South Minneapolis. He can be reached at jimwalsh086@gmail.com

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Parents concerned about comprehensive plan District has proposed changes to programs, pathways at multiple Southwest schools By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@swjournal.com

Southwest Minneapolis parents expressed concern this month with a plan to change programming and pathways at public schools across the area. Some parents said the changes, if enacted, would end effective academic programs, and some said they would decrease diversity at their children’s schools. Others said the plan would dilute the student mix needed to effectively run certain programs, and some questioned whether their proposed pathway middle school would effectively serve their children. “Looking at this plan, it seems clear that the families who send their children to our schools were not given a voice,” said parent Amy Gustafson, who co-chairs the parentteacher organization at Windom, a Spanish dual-immersion elementary school. “It’s unclear how the plan supports equity [and] retention or saves us from further financial slide,” she added. The parent comments came at a series of community meetings between May 13 and May 21, two weeks after the district released the proposed changes. District leaders said they intended to use the feedback to revise the proposal, which is part of a broader strategic plan to increase academic achievement and student retention and create more equitable programming options. “Please know that this an iterative process,” third-year Superintendent Ed Graff said. Minneapolis Public Schools serves approximately 36,000 students in preschool through

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12th grade, including over 12,000 in Southwest Minneapolis. Nearly 64% of district students are kids of color, though only about 47% of students in Southwest Minneapolis are non-white. The district operates about 70 schools, including a mix of elementary, middle, K–8s and high schools. Most of its schools are “community” schools, meaning they draw most of their students from the surrounding neighborhood or neighborhoods. The district also operates over a dozen “magnet” schools that draw students from larger regions of the city and specialize in specific types of teaching, like Montessori, Spanish immersion or International Baccalaureate. It also has several citywide and specialty programs that are open to all school-age residents. The strategic plan comes as MPS students continue to perform academically below their Minnesota peers, as measured by standardized test results. About 45% of MPS students tested in 2018 were proficient on the statewide reading exam, but just 23% of black students and 39% of Latino students. Statewide, 60% of students were proficient. The district also lagged behind the state average last year with its four-year graduation rate of 69%. The state’s was 83%. The plan comes as the district continues to find its financial footing after years of budget deficits, including a projected $33 million deficit for the current school year. Enrollment continues to decline, with about 40% of Minneapolis students enrolling in other

Armatage Elementary School parent Kelly Barkman, who has three kids in the district, asks a question during a community meeting at Southwest High School. Barkman, who lives east of Interstate 35W, said her family would be displaced from Armatage under the plan. Photo by Nate Gotlieb

public or private schools. The decline in enrollment appears to be most precipitous in northern Minneapolis, where most schools are nowhere close to their student capacities. Graff, who initiated the planning process 18 months ago, said academics is a huge driver in the strategic plan conversation, noting the disparities between white students and students of color. He said he doesn’t want the School Board to “rubber-stamp” any changes and that he expected people would have strong reactions to the proposed changes. The proposed strategic plan includes multiple academic strategies district leaders

said could help boost achievement, such as a K–2 literacy initiative for African-American and American-Indian students who are not proficient. In addition, it calls for adopting “differentiated and intentional” enrollment strategies to correct uneven enrollment patterns, with an initial focus in northern Minneapolis. District leaders said they proposed changes to academic programs and pathways at schools to “create a structure” to support their academic achievement and sustainability goals. They also said they want to establish “zone, region and districtwide learning options” with clear K–12 SEE STRATEGIC PLAN / PAGE A15

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“I think maybe we tried to make so many compromises that it ends up not accomplishing anything for anybody,” said Fletcher, who voted against the resolution. Neighborhood and Community Relations director David Rubedor said the framework was intended to be broad. “Now we’ll get into the details,” he said. Kaley Brown, executive director of the Whittier Alliance, said her neighborhood was among several organizations who wanted to delay the recommendations. She said the framework does not reflect a lot of the input neighborhood groups have voiced in the process. The process, she said, felt more like the NCR department telling neighborhoods what to do instead of dialoguing with them. “This framework is trying to force neighborhoods into one box that doesn’t necessarily match the needs,” Brown said. “It doesn’t match the activities and capacities of different neighborhoods.” Whittier Alliance, one of the more structured neighborhood organizations in Southwest, has three full-time staffers and several active committees. Although many neighborhood organizations had objections to the new recommendations, some were supportive and about 30 haven’t commented at all, Rubedor said. City staff have been directed to submit a new recommendation draft for Neighborhoods 2020 by the end of the year, to be followed by a 45-day public comment period, a public hearing and a City Council vote for approval. “The public and neighborhoods will be engaged in this process moving forward,” Rubedor said.

Engagement and equity Alongside the framework, the City Council asked staff to hire a consultant to help define program goals and how to measure success. It also asked staff to audit the city’s current community engagement efforts and form a new, universal policy of outreach that all departments will use going forward. Work with a consultant, which was initially planned to be the University of Minnesota Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, but could be another group, will focus on developing goals and metrics to determine success for Neighborhoods 2020. The work will include defining a racial equity analysis for neighborhood organizations, emphasizing outreach to people not currently engaging with such groups and drafting a logic model for Neighborhoods 2020 that will lay out hypothetical causes and effects to proposed changes. The directive calls for finding a budgetneutral way for the city to continue to fund neighborhood groups. Since the launch of the Neighborhood Revitalization Program in the 1990s, neighborhoods have benefited from revenues produced by the city’s consolidated tax increment financing district. The district expires at the end of this year, and TIF district money will dry up by the end of 2020. The community engagement directive will attempt to assess the strengths and weaknesses of how the city reaches out to residents today, clarify the roles of stakeholders and establish expectations for engagement citywide. “How we communicate is one thing, how we evaluate our community engagement efforts is much broader,” said Council Member Linea Palmisano (Ward 13), who helped author the engagement directive with Bender and council members Phillipe Cunningham (Ward 4) and Cam Gordon (Ward 2).


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southwestjournal.com / May 30–June 12, 2019 A11

A genocide starts with ‘them vs. us’ Holocaust survivor tells Jefferson students to take a stand against injustice By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@swjournal.com

The murder of 6 million European Jews didn’t just happen overnight, Holocaust survivor Fred Amram said. It started with the “othering” of Europe’s Jewish population through measures like stripping their citizenship and making them wear a yellow Star of David. “Whenever there’s a genocide, it starts with ‘them vs. us,’” Amram said. “You see how it happens one thing at a time.” Amram, an 85-year-old Minneapolis resident, spoke to Jefferson Community School students about the Nazis’ systematic discrimination on May 15. He told them to take a stand against injustice, adding that such action could have saved countless Jews during World War II. “What you do matters,” he said. A native of Hanover, Germany, Amram was born less than a year after Adolf Hitler became the country’s chancellor. As a young Jewish boy, he was not allowed to sit on park benches and was kicked out of his neighborhood ice cream shop. Eventually, he said, the Nazi secret police sought out his father, who hid with non-Jewish neighbors in their apartment building. Life in Germany gradually became more intolerable for Jews, Amram said, noting that his father was forced to perform hard labor. He said he watched his synagogue burn in November 1938 in the infamous Kristallnacht pogrom, during which Germans burned thousands of synagogues and arrested tens of thousands of Jewish men.

“The world knew” about the violence, Amram said, but “people didn’t care.” Amram and his parents escaped Germany in 1939 and fled to Amsterdam, where he stayed with his aunt, uncle and baby cousin. From there, they made their way to Belgium and then to New York City, where Amram lived until moving to Minnesota in the 1950s. Most of his family was murdered in the Holocaust, including his baby cousin. Amram said he thinks the bystanders to the Holocaust were just as guilty as the perpetrators. He said he can’t forgive the Germans when he thinks of his cousin but that if he’s “hating all the time, then I’ll be sick.” “There’s a new generation of Germans who are embarrassed by what their grandparents did,” he said. “They’re good people.” Amram also said he empathizes with people who come to America as refugees from different countries, noting how difficult it was for him to learn the new culture as a newcomer. Jefferson English teacher Carlyn Shanley, who coordinated Amram’s visit, said she grew up with a strong Holocaust education and that she thought it would benefit her students to hear a survivor speak. She said most of her students had never heard about the Holocaust before their studies this semester. Eighth-grader Brandol Romero said he appreciated Amram’s talk, noting that the Holocaust is a sad part of history but one that’s important to learn about. He said it’s important to view all people equally and not as outsiders.

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southwestjournal.com / May 30–June 12, 2019 A13

Lola on the Lake demolished after fire By Andrew Hazzard / ahazzard@swjournal.com

Bulldozers demolished the remains of the historic lakeside pavilion at Bde Maka Ska on May 28, 12 days after a fire rendered the building unsalvageable. The fire, which remains under investigation by the Minneapolis Police Department, destroyed the home of Lola on the Lake, leaving one of Southwest Minneapolis’ most visited destinations without a restaurant or restrooms with plumbing for the summer. Officials with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board opted to tear down the structure quickly to mitigate safety and environmental concerns caused by the wreckage remaining in place. “We are devastated by the loss of such an iconic feature along the lake. As difficult a decision as it is, removing the structure is the right thing to do and will allow us to rise out of this and begin moving forward,” MPRB Superintendent Al Bangoura said in a statement. The building was originally constructed in 1930 as a shelter, restroom and concession stand and underwent a major renovation in the 1980s. The MPRB first began to lease the space to full-service restaurants in 2004, when Tin Fish opened at the site. Lola on the Lake had just reopened for its second season weeks before the fire.

Investigation ongoing Flames engulfed the building shortly after 4 a.m. on May 16, according to the Minneapolis Fire Department. No one was injured in the fire, which firefighters battled to get under control for just over an hour; the fire department reported the blaze was under control around 5:30 a.m. The fire began in the midst of large thunderstorm, and initially many affiliated with Lola on the Lake speculated it may have been caused by lightning. Minneapolis Police have since said lightning did not start the fire. “We got no fire alarm, which means whatever happened was pretty violent,” Lola owner Louis King told the Southwest Journal at the scene of the fire on May 16. But two weeks later, the police and fire departments have yet to determine the cause of the fire. The MPRB, whose insurance company is conducting its own investigation, has also not resolved the cause. The insurer did allow them to tear down the building, according to Park Board spokesperson Dawn Sommers. Minneapolis Police released images of a man and woman recorded by surveillance cameras at the pavilion between 3 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. on May 16, just before the fire

Flames engulfed the building shortly after 4 a.m. on May 16. Photo courtesy of Minneapolis Fire Department

began, including an image where the man appeared to spark a flame near the building. After police released the images on May 21, the woman in the photographs came and spoke with investigators, according to Sgt. Darcy Horn, an MPD spokesperson. The woman is no longer considered a person of interest, Horn said. But the man in the photos is now considered a suspect in the case and has been identified by law enforcement, according to Horn. No arrests have been made in the case, nor have charges been filed. Police have not officially declared the case an arson.

An MPRB archival photo shows the pavilion at Bde Maka Ska in the 1930s or ‘40s. Submitted image

Plan for the summer Lola had just reopened for its second season operating the restaurant at the lakeside pavilion with a new menu and new staff. Now the staff will serve their fare out of food trucks. Over Memorial Day weekend, Lola set up trucks at Thomas Beach, but it’s unclear if they will stay there for the summer or be relocated to the site of the pavilion once the rubble is fully removed, Sommers said. Lola’s has a contract with the Park Board to sell food at the location through 2022. No other vendors are licensed to serve food there, Sommers said. “We mourn the loss of the facility, but we are going to take care of our personnel and figure out how we can get back to business,” King said in a statement. “Lola’s and the MPRB will continue to be partners and make sure visitors enjoy fast, friendly service and great food that people visiting Bde Maka Ska have come to expect.” To make up for the loss of public restrooms attached to the pavilion, the MPRB has placed two additional portable toilets, one ADA compliant and one standard, near the site. Sommers said the toilets will be cleaned six days per week and additional toilets may be placed by the site if needed. The boat launch and Wheel Fun boat and bike rental were scheduled to reopen May 30. The fishing docks south of the pavilion have remained open.

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Imagine playing a life-size game of Candy Land Justice Page students place third in state’s Destination Imagination competition

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@swjournal.com

Ruby Paulson and Ainsley Folken sat in their living room playing the game Candy Land. Without warning, they were transported into the game, where they encountered characters such as Princess Lolly and Lady Licorice. Eventually, they won the game and returned home, with the help of their new friends. The story was part of a skit that Ruby, Ainsley and five of their friends performed in March at the state’s Destination Imagination competition. Ruby described the skit as “Jumanji meets Alice in Wonderland.” The seven teammates, all Justice Page Middle School students, took third in the competition to earn a spot in the global Destination Imagination competition, which was May 22–25 in Kansas City, Missouri. Team members said they were excited for the opportunity. In addition to performing, they got to attend a ball wearing self-designed costumes made of duct tape and trade pins with competitors from other states and countries. “All of our hard work paid off,” team member Lucca Navarre said. The team finished 21st out of 59 teams in their category at the global competition. Lucca, Ainsley and most of their teammates have been participating in Destination Imagination together since they were in third grade. They call their team the Yetis. Each Wednesday starting in October, the team met to design their set and plan out their skit. Their set featured a life-size Candy Land game box, with an outer wall painted like a living room

Members of the Yetis Destination Imagination team. Top row: Avery Reilkoff, Alex Reilkoff. Middle row: Lucca Navarre, Sydney Ruckett, Ainsley Folken. Bottom row: Ruby Paulson, Nora Bartolomucci. Submitted photo

and the inside painted like a game board. A light on team member Sydney Ruckett’s costume served as their technical component, as required by Destination Imagination rules. Destination Imagination is an activity in which teams of up to seven develop solutions to challenges in one of six categories, such as fine arts, engineering or service learning. Teams also complete “instant challenges” at the competitions in which they don’t learn the tasks until the day they compete.

The fine arts category, which the Yetis chose, required teams to create a skit of up to eight minutes centered around a game of their choice. Teams needed to research their game’s history and create a portable set containing all props and including at least one technical element. Team members said they had lots of good ideas while brainstorming their skit. They said a heart-to-heart talk from parent managers Thea Reilkoff and Monica Ruckett was key in increasing their motivation.

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White on White’s demands came as the foundation solicited 2019-20 grant applications from Southwest staff and student organizations. The applications were due April 22. Southwest High School has approximately 1,900 students, including about 850 students of color, and draws about 80% of its population from 17 neighborhoods in the southwest quadrant of the city. That “attendance zone” includes whiter and wealthier neighborhoods like Linden Hills and Fulton and less affluent ones such as Stevens Square and Whittier, according to Minneapolis Public Schools. Over 90% of the school’s licensed staff was white in 2018, according to the Minnesota Department of Education. The Southwest Foundation, a nonprofit led by alumni, parents and staff, is one of a handful of independent organizations that fundraises to support programs and activities at the school. Each spring, the organization solicits grant requests from Southwest teachers and student organizations, asking them to explain how they would use the funds and whether they would help “historically underserved” students. Its board then reviews the applications and decides which grants to fund and at what level, in conjunction with school administrators. (The foundation also acts as a holding agent for scholarships for outgoing seniors.) Barrett said the foundation has helped support dozens of student organizations, which help students stay connected and welcomed at the school. He said the foundation funds programs that are “essential” to Southwest’s success. White on White parent Shelly Damm, who has a freshman at Southwest, said she thinks the foundation has an important function at the school but that its work needs to have a focus on equity. She and other White on White parents said students of color don’t always understand how to apply for the grants. “There’s a lot of students that could use grants that don’t get them,” said parent Mary Breen, whose youngest child graduates from Southwest this year. Barrett disputed the charge that the foundation doesn’t equitably distribute grants. He said the board almost always prioritizes underrepresented students when disseminating funds. He and another foundation board member said the parent group was incorrect this spring when it claimed that almost all grants go to the “whitest and wealthiest” students. “We certainly don’t stop and say, ‘Oh, what’s the demographics here?’” board member Una Edwardson said of the grant process.

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pathways and respond to families’ need for safety, quality, predictability and equity. The plan would divide Minneapolis into a north region and a south region, in which students would generally stay, unless they attend citywide programs. Students would still be able to choose their nearby community school, but they also could choose from the regionwide magnets, most of which would stay the same. Another version of the plan would further divide the city into four quadrants, with the district offering transportation to students who live in those areas. The plan would include the “demagnetization” of Anwatin Middle School in Bryn Mawr, which would become a community school serving the Kenwood, Bryn Mawr and Jefferson attendance zones. Anwatin would no longer be a Spanish dual-immersion and International Baccalaureate school. The plan also calls for Lyndale Elementary School and Justice Page Middle School to become science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics, or STEAM, magnets, in addition to being community schools. Each would get a Somali language and culture program. Other proposed changes include shuffling Windom’s boundary and having it feed into a new middle school at Andersen in Midtown Phillips. The plan also calls for making Jefferson

Edwardson, the parent of one current Southwest student and two graduates, said the foundation’s board tends to approve requests from counselors who ask for funds for their most vulnerable and underserved kids. She said the idea of “honing in” on kids in need is one of the foundation’s “moral compasses” when deciding on grants. This school year, the foundation provided Southwest staff and student organizations with nearly $50,000 in grants. About 20% of the funds went to Southwest’s counseling department for ACT prep for all freshmen, sophomores and juniors, and about 14% went to the advanced academic department for “testing.” Other funds went to student clubs, academic programs, field trips and an after-school tutoring program, among other efforts. It’s a list Thiemann said appears to disproportionately benefit certain students. The group said the school is focused on the students and families who come from the whiter, wealthier lakes-area neighborhoods, at the expense of students from other Southwest Minneapolis neighborhoods. Students who come from “disparate” feeder schools or who aren’t socially networked in the same way are “constantly othered by those who experience the privileged norms of Linden Hills,” said parent Deb Girdwood, who lives in Whittier. White on White parents also took issue with the foundation’s fundraiser at The Minikahda Club, saying such a venue excludes people who don’t think of themselves as part of the white, privileged community. Outgoing Southwest principal Michael Favor, who is African-American, said he appreciates the work of the foundation and of the White on White group, adding that they gave him a historical perspective he didn’t have previously. Favor, who accepted an assistant superintendent job in Roseville in early May, said Southwest is committed to “dismantling any framework” that doesn’t align with the school district’s core priorities, one of which is equity. Barrett said he doesn’t necessarily agree the foundation is “catering to the elite” with its fundraising approach but that what matters more is how it spends its funds. He said the foundation’s finances are in bad shape heading into the 2019-20 school year, adding that it’s been challenging to raise money since longtime principal Bill Smith retired in August 2017. He recently appealed to school district leaders for funds to cover some of the 2019-20 grant requests, but the district rejected the plea. Last week, the foundation put out a call for donations on Facebook, noting that staff and student organizations made over $150,000 in grant requests for next year.

Community School in Uptown a K–5 instead of a K–8 and making Anwatin the pathway middle school for Kenwood, instead of Anthony. Other changes include making Anthony the pathway middle school for Whittier Elementary School and removing Green Central Elementary School in the Central neighborhood from Justice Page and Washburn’s pathway. Gustafson, the Windom PTA co-chair, said the boundary change at the school would mean that fewer native Spanish speakers would enroll there. She said such a change would prevent the school from having the necessary mix of native and non-native Spanish speakers needed for a dual-immersion program. Parent David Weingartner, a former School Board candidate who has children at Lyndale and Washburn, said he would like to learn more about what the STEAM and Somali culture designations will mean for the school. Weingartner said he likes the idea of having families choose schools in closer proximity to their homes, but he said the academic component is what will drive families into the district. He said the district needs to support its teachers and give them the tools they need to be successful, including a solid curriculum. The district was originally planning to have the School Board vote on the strategic plan in August, but leaders have since pushed back the vote until December. More information about the plan is available at tinyurl.com/y2y4fu3z.

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A16 May 30–June 12, 2019 / southwestjournal.com

Routes and Roads Light Rail

By Andrew Hazzard / ahazzard@swjournal.com

Road closures, WPA wall and cushion funding

Work on the Southwest Light Rail Transit line continues in Minneapolis, with new road and trail closures scheduled to begin in late May and early June. • A short portion of Burnham Road from Cedar Lake Parkway to Park Lane will close in late May for about 30 days, according to the Met Council. • Glenwood Avenue in Minneapolis will close between Lyndale Avenue North and 11th Street North as early as June 3. The closure is expected to last about two years, the Met Council said,

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with local business access remaining. • For cyclists and pedestrians, a portion of the North Cedar Lake Trail from Linden Yards to Royalston Avenue will close as soon as June 3 for two years while work is done. A detour takes trail users along Kenwood Parkway through the Loring Greenway to Downtown. • Historians will don hard hats and help oversee the removal of a Works Progress Administration-built wall along the Kenilworth Channel between Lake of the Isles and Cedar Lake at the end of May. Salvage work on the

wall, which will include manual excavation in some sections, could take up to four months, according to the Met Council. The WPA wall was built in 1936. The channel will remain open initially but will narrow to 25 feet. A full closure of the channel is expected later this summer. • The Hennepin County Board is expected to vote on a measure allowing an additional $200 million cushion for the project requested by the Federal Transit Administration next month, according to a board action request filed May 20. The request is one of the require-

ments for the project to receive the $928.8 million federal grant expected to cover just under half of the $2 billion project. The project already has a 14% contingency fund for any unexpected costs, Met Council spokesperson Kate Brickman said. The letter of no prejudice the FTA issued for the project last year is seen as a commitment from the federal government that it will provide the grant money, but additional asks for backup funding are part of the process, according to Brickman. “We don’t expect it will be needed,” she said.

Southwest BRT lines facing funding delay

On May 22, dozens of people turned out to a joint meeting on two Bus Rapid Transit routes planned to run through Southwest Minneapolis, but a lack of new funding sources for Metro Transit in the 2019 Legislative session has put the future of those routes in flux. Gov. Tim Walz and the DFL-controlled House of Representatives had tried to pass a new sales tax in the seven-county metro in part to help pay for a rollout of a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system throughout the Twin Cities. But a new funding stream was not identified this session, putting a wrench in plans to expand BRT service in the immediate future. “We won’t be able to advance these new lines unless we find some new revenue for transit,” Metropolitan Council spokesperson Kate Brickman said. Currently Metro Transit runs the A Line BRT route from 46th Street East in Minneapolis into St. Paul on Snelling Avenue and is planning to open the C Line, connecting the northern suburbs to Downtown via Penn Avenue, on June 8. In Southwest Minneapolis, transit advocates are hoping to see progress on the B Line, which would mostly replace Route 21 on Lake Street to St. Paul, and the E Line, a service planned to run on the Hennepin Corridor connecting Southdale to Marcy Holmes via Uptown and Downtown. “Everything I hear from my constituents is they want better bus service as soon as possible,” City Council President Lisa Bender

(Ward 10) said at an open house for the B and E lines at the Walker Library. BRT service, planners say, increases speed and comfort of bus service with more developed stations farther apart than standard stops, payment before boarding (at either the front or middle of the bus) and the ability for buses to communicate with traffic signals to get elongated or faster green lights at key intersections. The B Line would connect the future Southwest Light Rail Transit stop at West Lake Street to St. Paul via Lake Street and Marshall Avenue. Right now, planners are trying to determine where the route will end in St. Paul, with the potential of a connection to Downtown via Selby Avenue on the table, according to project manager Adam Smith. On Lake Street in Minneapolis, planners are seeking feedback on where the major backups are for riders of the 21 and deciding where to place stops. If the B Line and other underconstruction and planned transit routes come online, Lake Street will have connections to both light rail lines and three BRT routes. “One of the things the B Line really does is get us to think about our high-quality transit routes as a real network,” Smith said. The B Line’s initial cost estimate is $54 million and about $23 million has been raised for the project. But without a new funding source for transit, it’s unclear whether the goal of starting construction in 2022 will be met. For the E Line, planners are now recom-

Dozens review plans and talk with Metro Transit staff about two proposed bus rapid transit routes at an open house on May 22 at the Walker Library. Photo by Andrew Hazzard

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Medically assisted dying Warren said she has found motivation to stay alive by fighting for the right of others to die. “Permit us the peace of mind that comes from knowing that we can decide when enough is enough,” Warren told Minnesota lawmakers in 2017, in a speech urging the Legislature to pass the End-of-Life Option Act. The bill would let mentally sound people with a terminal illness end their lives by drinking a fatal cocktail of barbiturates — provided they have less than six months to live, can prepare the beverage themselves, receive the approval of two doctors and state in writing that they understand the risks and alternatives. Medically assisted dying is now legal in Oregon, Washington, California, Vermont, Colorado, Montana, Hawaii and the District of Columbia, and has been signed into law in New Jersey. In Oregon, where a “Death with Dignity Act” passed into law by citizen initiative in 1997, more than 2,200 people have been prescribed lethal drugs and about twothirds have chosen to ingest the narcotics. Sen. Chris Eaton, a Democrat from Brooklyn Center who introduced the Minnesota bill, said many people who receive prescriptions are comforted by having the option to die, even if they never choose to take the drugs. “It’s not like people’s instincts are to get this medication to die as soon as possible,” she said. “It’s often six months or longer before people take it.” Reports from the Oregon and Washington departments of health show that most people ask for medical aid in dying out of concern for losing autonomy, dignity and enjoyment of life. People with rare neurological diseases like MSA or ALS are the patients most likely to request a prescription, experts say. Medical aid in dying is supported by 73% of Minnesotans, according to a 2016 poll. The Minnesota Medical Association ended its opposition to aid-in-dying legislation in 2017. Eaton said the Democratic caucus increasingly supports it, though her bill did not receive a hearing in either legislative body this session and is unlikely to come to a vote while Republicans control the Senate. “I think it could pass in the House right now, and when we get the majority back in the Senate, it will pass here,” Eaton said. Sen. Scott Dibble (District 61), who has co-sponsored the legislation, said choosing to die is an “intensely personal decision.” “People inherently understand that this is the kind of decision that should be reserved for themselves and their doctors and their conscience and their faith tradition,” he said.

‘The worst form of neglect’ Some of the most vocal opponents to medical aid in dying legislation in Minnesota include the Catholic Church and the Kingfield-based anti-abortion group Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, which reject what they call “assisted suicide laws” on the grounds that they target people with disabilities, could increase overall suicide rates and violate principles of “human dignity and equality.” The Minnesota Catholic Conference characterizes people who seek to end their own life as being “vulnerable” and in need of “care and protection.”

The bottom line of any ethic is it has to be based in care, not in rights, not in rules, not in self-interest, not in God’s will, but in care. — Karen Warren

Retired Macalester philosophy professor Karen Warren plays with her 15-year-old cat, Colfax, in her Kingfield home. Warren was diagnosed with Multiple System Atrophy, a terminal neurodegenerative disorder in 2015, and has become a public advocate of medical aid in dying. Photo by Bill Klotz

“To offer them lethal drugs to commit suicide is a victory not for freedom, but for the worst form of neglect,” the Church’s website reads. Kirk Allison, a former director of the Program in Human Rights and Health at the University of Minnesota, said he opposes right-to-die laws on principle. “People are starting to internalize the idea that you’re a burden if you’re terminally ill,” he said. “I think that’s a very bad development from a social and cultural point of view.” Allison also has more pragmatic objections to the Minnesota bill. He said referrals to mental health professionals should be mandatory, not up to doctors’ discretion. He thinks the bill does not require enough data to be kept on patients to detect patterns of abuse. And he feels it would force doctors to “falsify” death certificates by listing the cause of death as the disease patients were diagnosed with, rather than the drug they took that killed them. “It makes accountability and traceability nearly impossible,” he said. As a physician, Allison said he finds problematic the role that “social drivers” play in the push for right-to-die legislation. “The people who seem most interested in this are those who have higher education, they tend to have means, they tend to be somewhat secular and tend to be worried about autonomy above all,” he said. “The attitude that ‘it’s just my autonomy, it only has to do with me, it’s my choice, it’s my life, it’s my death, it’s my dignity’ is really narrowing the scope of consideration in terms of what makes for good public policy.”

Clergy for compassion Linden Hills resident Rebecca Thoman, who runs the Minnesota operation of the nonprofit Compassion & Choices, said that the conversation about medical aid in dying is evolving thanks in large part to advocates like Karen Warren. “There’s nobody as passionate about this issue as people who are either staring in the face of some nasty disease or have had a loved one who they have watched die miserably,” Thoman said. “I think it really gives them meaning about how they’re spending their life at the end.” Every month for the past four years, a group

of eight Minneapolis clergy have met in the Rev. David Breeden’s office at the First Unitarian Society in Lowry Hill to further the mission of Compassion & Choices, plan speeches and promote medical aid in dying legislation in Minnesota. Among the group’s members are Eliot Howard, pastor of the Linden Hills Congregational United Church of Christ, and Rabbi Michael Latz, of Shir Tikvah. “It may be the only organization like this in the nation,” Breeden said. “The No. 1 objection to medical aid in dying is religious, but we’re in the religion business, basically, and we’re out here saying we think this is a good idea.” The Rev. Margaret McCray, a Fulton resident and Presbyterian minister, said she got involved in the group because she doesn’t “believe that God ordains how we die.” “I don’t think you can force a religious belief on anybody or legislate a religious belief and say you cannot take your own life,” she said. “Religion doesn’t dictate how and when compassion can be offered.”

An ‘ethic of care’ Shortly after her diagnosis, Warren joined an MSA support group in Golden Valley, where she met a woman named Patricia Sturcken, who had been diagnosed with MSA in 2009. Sturcken sat in a wheelchair and breathed, fed and urinated through tubes. Severe hand spasms caused her fingernails to cut through her palms. The disease had killed off the lining of her nerve cells, causing painful cramping. “Karen felt it was no way to live,” Sturcken’s daughter, Jean Wayne, said. “My mom was trapped in her body for years, couldn’t speak, could barely move, could only blink her eyes and move side to side.” Warren became friendly with Sturcken, who communicated with the world through eye movements tracked via computer before she died last November. “I realized early on that she was inside there,” Warren said. “She was writing a novel about heirs to the British throne, in which all the heirs had been killed off, and Pat was going to be the heir who took over.” Yet Warren knew she never wanted her family to see her like Sturcken. “We were all dying but it wasn’t obvious

— with Pat, it was obvious,” Warren said. “I thought, ‘Wow, that’s what I’m going to look like. I never want to get this far.’” During her 28-year career as a Macalester College philosophy professor, Warren developed what she called an “ethic of care.” “The bottom line of any ethic is it has to be based in care, not in rights, not in rules, not in self-interest, not in God’s will, but in care,” she said. Avoiding pain and suffering is not her primary motivation. She thinks the strongest argument for medical aid in dying stems from the transcendental philosophy of Immanuel Kant, who said that being human comes down to rationality, dignity and autonomy. “What does rationality mean? It means you’re capable of living in accordance with principles you accept,” Warren said. “What is autonomy? You’re capable of self-administering, self-regulating. What is dignity? It’s not being treated as an object — being treated as a person, having intrinsic worth.” For now, Warren, 71, has no desire to die. She does deep breathing with a respirator eight times a day, spends 12 hours a week on physical therapy exercises and treats her pain with medical cannabis and Tylenol. She enjoys curling up on the couch with her 15-year-old Siamese cat, Colfax, and she has ordered her two grandchildren bike helmets to prepare for their upcoming visit from Santa Barbara. Her relationships with her siblings have never been better. “Sometimes I wake up and I’m happier than I’ve ever been,” she said. Yet when she thinks about the future, Warren knows a point will come when she’s ready to end her life: “As soon as I can’t interact with people, when relationships no longer matter to me, when I don’t care — then it’s time to go.” And she knows how she wishes it would happen: “I’d say to the doctor, ‘I’m ready.’ They’d have the family come in. ‘Are you ready? Are you ready? Are you ready?’ I’d say. ‘Okay, let’s do it.’” In the meantime, Warren said, it would be a “tremendous relief ” to know the choice to die is hers alone to make. “It’s hard work to let yourself die,” she said. “To deny us this option is to not honor our humanness.”


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Unified club breaks barriers between Southwest students Students of differing abilities meet for weekly activities

Oliver Herfindal and Luke Youngdahl hula-hoop during a May 20 celebration at Beard’s Plaisance in Linden Hills. Photos by Nate Gotlieb

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@swjournal.com

Southwest High School students Robert Nordgaard and Olivia Youngdahl laughed as they blew bubbles. Nearby, Ellie Pfeifer and Diego Pinto-Zelaya danced to a song by the band One Direction, while Oliver Herfindal and Luke Youngdahl tried their hand at hula-hooping. Meanwhile, other students kicked around a soccer ball, threw a Frisbee or simply hung out on the playground. These everyday interactions came during the year-end celebration for Southwest’s new unified club, which brings together students with and without intellectual disabilities for weekly activities and social time. The celebration took place May 20 at Beard’s Plaisance in Linden Hills. Club leaders said the group has given both groups of students a chance to meaningfully interact in a school building where they can often be isolated from each other. “There’s so many people who don’t interact with everyone,” Olivia Youngdahl said. “Unified gives us that opportunity.” Southwest started its unified club last spring. This school year, the club held meetings on Thursdays during “advisory” period and also led schoolwide campaigns on issues like inclusivity, respect and “person-first” language. In addition, club members participated in a Polar Plunge and a dance marathon, held bake sales and attended a Special Olympics Minnesota leadership summit. The club has around 100 students, according to Heidi Carsello, a social worker who leads the group. It includes students with autism spectrum disorders and cognitive and developmental disabilities. Senior Morgan Ellingson, a member of the club’s leadership team, said mainstream students didn’t interact much with their special-needs peers before the club started. Now, she said, “you see so many handshakes and hellos in the hallways.” “A lot of times, people get really intimidated and they’re like, ‘I don’t know how to

act around some people with disabilities,’” she said. “But seeing examples of like, ‘Oh this is totally cool and they’re responsive to this,’ it also sets that example for the rest of the school.” Junior Gabe VanDeWalker said the club’s benefits extend both to students with and without intellectual disabilities. Other leaders said the club has given their peers with disabilities a space to make an impact and all students the opportunity to befriend one another. “It’s really cool to meet all these people that I wouldn’t have been able to meet otherwise,” senior Lucy Kegley said. Carsello said the club helps mainstream students see how much they share in common with their intellectually disabled peers. She said one of her favorite parts of the year-end celebration was seeing students of all abilities interacting like typical teenagers. “They were just engaging with each other in such a positive, organic way like you would with some of your best friends,” she said. Southwest is one of about 100 unified “champion” schools in Minnesota, according to Nick Cedergren of Special Olympics Minnesota, who oversees that organization’s schools program. Components of a champion school include inclusive student leadership, unified sports and whole-school engagement, he said. Cedergren said his organization’s goal is to create a “unified generation” with students who expect inclusion in their everyday lives. Carsello said she hopes to bring the unified approach into the broader Southwest school community. She said plans are in the works for a unified gym class and a more formalized mentoring program. Her student leaders appeared confident their club will continue to grow. “Ever since we’ve started, it’s just been getting bigger,” VanDeWalker said. “I think it’s going to keep doing that.”

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‘Apples to apples’ Jean Buckley is not exactly sure where she first learned about the option for group solar purchasing, but she suspects credit goes to one of the many environmental e-newsletters she subscribes to. In many ways, Buckley is the perfect candidate for the solar group-buy model. For one, she is already a committed solar energy user; she outfitted the garage at her Minnehaha Falls home with solar panels about 10 years ago. Until recently, Buckley’s garage-top solar panels produced enough kilowatts to cover all of her electricity needs, and for many years she never even saw an electricity bill. But since she purchased an electric car a year ago, Buckley’s electricity usage has doubled and she decided to go back on the market for more solar. The main roadblock for Buckley was in navigating the purchasing process. Trying to parse through her options for different solar installers “is like comparing apples to apples,” she explained. And so when Buckley learned about Solar United Neighbors, she was struck with relief. “You can join this co-op, and they’ll go out and do it for you.”

Buckley doesn’t need to be convinced that solar is something worth investing in; she simply needs advice to guide her through the decision-making process. “I’m not a geek, I’m a tree hugger,” she said. “I need some technical hand-holding sometimes.” Solar United is not the only solar grouppurchasing game in town. Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light (MIPL), a Southwest Minneapolis-based climate justice organization, also launched its solar group-buy program earlier this year. Emily Minges, the MIPL Solar Outreach Manager, is leading the organizing and recruitment for this program. As Minges explained, MIPL’s group solar purchasing is not only helping people switch to renewables but also asking critical questions about how that switch happens. For example, MIPL only considers partnerships with community-based solar installers and weighs bids based on ethical hiring practices and workforce diversity. While ensuring that MIPL’s solar vetting process is thorough and intentional, Minges also has some looming deadlines in mind. The Federal Solar Tax Credit will shrink at the end of 2019, which means that all the solar installation paperwork for group-buy participants must be signed by the end of this year to minimize costs. In order to meet that deadline, Minges plans to close recruitment by the end of July. She wants to have at least 20 people by then, hopefully more. “But we want to be realistic about expectations,” she said.

Solar rooftops to solar gardens The group-purchasing model is just starting to take hold in a state already flush with solar projects. Minnesota has been furiously growing its stock of community solar gardens (CSGs) since 2013, when the Legislature passed a bill to incentivize community solar and require Xcel Energy to buy into them. Since its passage, Minnesota’s community solar program has grown into the largest in the country, with more than

12,000 individual subscribers, as reported by Xcel at the end of 2018. Community solar gardens are large solar arrays perched on roofs (or other open spaces), and anyone in the area can subscribe to them. Through a credit system, the cost of the power generated though solar is then deducted from the subscriber’s energy bill. De-linking residential solar from personal private property is what differentiates community solar from Solar United’s solar co-ops, which still rely on individually installed solar panels. As EnergySage, an online solar marketplace, explains, group-purchasing strategies are easily confused with community solar, but “group purchasing does not result in a communal project whose benefits are shared — once completed, each participant benefits separately from a separate system.” As Timothy Den Herder-Thomas, Cooperative Energy Futures’ general manager, explained in a video produced through the Just Solar Coalition, “that means that people who don’t own property, people whose roofs aren’t good for solar, people who don’t have the money to afford solar up front can all get their energy from the sun.” While community solar is more accessible than property-by-property solar power, class barriers persist. A recent report submitted to the Public Utilities Commission by Xcel Energy explains that, while community solar reduces costs by scaling up compared with individual rooftop installation, CSGs can’t match the savings of utility-scale arrays. Because Minnesota law requires Xcel to buy into less efficient CSGs, the company estimates that their customers end up subsidizing the program at a price of about $36 per year. And, because by-wattage business and government account for most of the CSG solar subscriptions, the program’s long-term energy savings remain skewed toward entities that can afford the upfront costs. These factors are among the reasons that Xcel, backed by several state legislators, is pushing to reform the state CSG program.

The public option While acknowledging that community solar has limitations, energy justice advocates see benefits in driving hard bargains with private utilities. At the same time that community solar legislation was being debated in the state Legislature, Minneapolis organizers were mobilizing toward an even more aggressive energy mandate: public energy. With the city’s contract with Xcel and Centerpoint Energy set to expire in 2014, proponents of community-owned power campaigned in 2013 to establish a Minneapolis public utility. Community pressure to explore municipalization was largely led by the Minneapolis Energy Options Coalition, which electrified public debate not only by presenting an opportunity for doubling down on renewable energy commitments, but also by interrogating how and by whom that energy is controlled. While the resolution never reached a public vote, the city did approve the commission of an Energy Pathways Study to explore options for achieving a sustainable energy vision. And through pressure from the prospect of a public utility competitor, the city was able to reach aggressive agreements with each of the utilities to ramp up renewable energy commitments. The Municipal Energy Options Coalition, since renamed Community Power, writes on their website that “this story is a strong example of how grassroots pressure is essential for monopoly utilities to move on environment and community priorities.” It is in this way that solar co-ops, CSGs and public utilities can find overlap in both goals and process. Christiansen knows that the Solar United model won’t work for everyone, but it is one tool in a suite of practices that can support a renewable energy transition and pressure system-wide change. As she explained, door-knocking with Solar United is about saying: “Depending on your situation, it could be a good option.”

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Armatage Park hosts the only public skate park in Southwest Minneapolis, and on any semi-decent day, groups of kids and young adults come to test their mettle and improve their technique. But in the future, more skate parks are likely to start popping up in Southwest and across the city thanks to a series of plans the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board has undertaken in recent years and the dogged work of the skate community. For local skate advocates, it’s a long time coming.

Increased advocacy In 2007, Paul Forsline’s then-10-year-old son approached the Lynnhust Area Recreational Council with two friends and a pitch for more skate parks in public spaces. His children are adults now, but 12 years later Forsline is still in the fight. He helped launch City of Skate, a nonprofit group that advocates for public skate spaces in Minneapolis and across the state. Over the years, City of Skate has lobbied local and state bodies, particularly the MPRB, to ask for what they see other recreational activities as having — public spaces. Being taken seriously has been a battle, according to Forsline, due to a general stigma around skating that it’s a counterculture activity. When he got involved, he met people who had been in the fight for years, like Scott Oreschnick, a Minneapolis native and Kingfield resident who owns the Cal Surf store in East Calhoun. “We realized at some point or another that this would be a long process,” Forsline said. Skateboarders have been trying to get recognized by the city for decades, according to Oreschnick, who recalls skaters protesting on Nicollet Mall in the 1980s. But for years, they weren’t taken seriously. “We also face the difficulty of skateboarders being younger and not knowing how to advocate for themselves,” Oreschnick said. Philip Schwartz has been skating in Southwest Minneapolis for nearly 20 years. At times, he said, advocating for skate parks has been a lonely road. Organized sports typically have a lot of parent involvement, which leads those parents to lobby for fields and courts, Schwartz said. Skateboarding is most popular among teens, who are less adept at lobbying and organizing. “They just kind of want to skate,” he said.

A seat at the table Skate advocates began to exercise their power like other grassroots groups — by organizing, showing up at Park Board meetings and lobbying elected officials. Over time, that’s paid off in the form of a series of master plans developed in recent years by the MPRB. In 2013, City of Skate got a real seat at the table and partnered with the MPRB to develop the Skate Park Activity Plan, which was passed by the Park Board in 2018. The activity plan calls for 18 new skate parks across the city, with three or four in each of the six park districts. It was a huge step for skate advocates, but the plan is not funded; it serves as a guide to implement new parks when funding becomes available. “The question is when does the plan become a reality,” Forsline said.

Tyler Kirksey grinds on a box feature at Armatage Park, the city’s lone public skate park in Southwest. Photos by Andrew Hazzard

The Bde Maka Ska and Lake Harriet Regional Park Master Plan, approved in 2017, calls for a regional skate park on the northwest side of Bde Maka Ska. But right now, the project is unfunded, and advocates are concerned that if more skate parks don’t come online soon, people will check out of the lobbying process. “We don’t want a whole generation of skateboarders to lose faith,” Oreschnick said. The city has six skate parks, one in each of the six Park Board districts, but Forsline said they’re not exactly inspiring spaces. “Right now the six skate parks we have are mostly glorified tennis courts,” said Colleen O’Dell, a planner with the MPRB who helped develop the skate park activity plan and is the project manager for the Southwest Area Master Plan. The lack of parks designated for skateboarding in a way forces skaters into other spaces like streets, plazas and tennis courts, which has caused tension over the years, O’Dell said. The Skate Park Activity Plan is hoping to change that. The plan references other cities that have more public art integrated into skate parks and looks to cold weather cities, such as Calgary, Alberta, and Winnipeg, Manitoba, to learn how other cold climates have built outdoor parks to last with cast-in-place concrete. Now, some skate park improvements and additions are starting to come to Minneapolis. The MPRB announced in May it will start work this fall on a series of improvements at Elliot Park’s skate park in Downtown. The already passed master plans call for four skate parks in the South Minneapolis service area and five in North. Skate parks designed as part of service

area master plans are funded primarily via the MPRB’s capital improvement program and the 20-year Neighborhood Park Plan, which allocates an additional $11 million for maintenance and improvements at local parks through 2037. Additional funding for service area master plans may come from grants, donations and partnerships with private groups. At Central Gym Park in South Minneapolis, Hennepin County, the X Games and the Tony Hawk Foundation have all issued grant dollars to make the proposed skate park a reality in the diverse Central neighborhood. The Southwest Area Master Plan, which has yet to be passed, has proposals for new skate parks or skate spots (smaller features integrated into the park) at eight park locations in its initial concepts, which are expected to be whittled down before the final plan passes. Among those proposed skate spot locations is Smith Triangle at 24th & Hennepin, which Oreschnick said has been a famous unsanctioned spot for skaters for years.

A space of their own Schwartz, a Southwest native and resident, has been skating most his life, but it wasn’t until he began to work on his degree in urban studies at the University of Minnesota that he started to think of the way skate parks can connect city spaces. “You really get an intimate connection with the city through skateboarding,” he said. Other than Armatage Park, most skate spots in Southwest come and go, Schwartz said. When Southwest High repaved their parking lot, which was surrounded by railing, in the

Skaters try tricks and hang out at Elliot Park’s skate park in Downtown.

mid-2000s, it became a big skate spot for a few years before the asphalt began to wear down. Many unsanctioned spots skaters frequent will be thwarted by “skate stoppers,” metal bumpouts put on rails and ledges to discourage grinding, he said. A few years ago, Schwartz built a skating feature called the “cheese box,” a grind box painted like a block of cheese, with the idea of it being a mobile skate park. Skate parks can come in all shapes and sizes and complexities, he said, and sometimes all you need is a smooth, flat surface. By adding the box to such surfaces, pop-up skate parks appear. In the summer of 2017, the hoops at Painter Park’s basketball court were down and skaters took over the space. Schwartz brought the cheese box and people began to turn out. “It was a really fun meet-up spot for that summer,” he said. The following summer, when the hoops were back, he brought the box down to the shared street on 29th Street between Bryant and Lyndale avenues, where all forms of transportation have equal access rights, and another skate spot emerged. The skaters did a bit of a Wayne’s World “car ... game on” routine with the box, and Schwartz said a lot of locals were happy to see them using the space. “It was part of the neighborhood,” he said. This summer, Schwartz is hoping to get permission to set up in the recently repaved city-owned lot at the former SuperValu store at Lake & Nicollet. One Southwest Master Plan idea that has the skate community licking its lips is the proposed do-it-yourself skate park at the 28th Street Tot Lot park in Whittier. The concept? Provide materials and resources and let the skate community build what they want within that budget. City of Skate is partnering with the city on the proposed project. The proposed skate parks in MPRB master plans range from large, regional parks like the one proposed at Bde Mka Ska, which could cost around $1 million, to smaller skate spots like the concept at Smith Triangle, which come with much smaller price tags. Standard 5,000to 6,000-square-foot skate parks cost about the same as a new playground, or around $500,000, O’Dell said. “Skate parks, depending on size and design, can be expensive and if you’re going to do it, you want to do it well,” O’Dell said.

Shredding St. Paul Skate lobbying efforts have expanded from city lines to the state house over the years. In 2019, City of Skate had a meeting with Gov. Tim Walz and, with the help of state Sen. Scott Dibble (District 61), proposed a measure in the bonding bill to get more funding for public skate parks statewide. The measure would have allocated $8 million for skate parks in Minnesota. But City of Skate believes that money could result in $20 million in total investment through various matching opportunities. Such dollars could be critical to making plans like the regional park at Bde Maka Ska a reality. The Minnesota Legislature adjourned after a special session last week without passing a bonding bill. It was the third time the skate park measure in a bonding bill has been introduced. Dibble said it will have a better chance in 2020, as even years commonly see large bonding bills pass. Dibble, who introduced the bonding measure in the 2019 session with Republican Sen. Karin Housley, said though the plan has bipartisan support, that doesn’t necessarily mean it will make it into a competitive bonding bill. To do that, more lobbying must take place across the state and legislators need to be pressured. “If people want this, they’re going to have to work for it,” he said. Never much of a skater himself, Dibble said he’s come to understand the diversity of the sport’s participants and believes opportunities to skate should be provided by public parks in the same way those parks support more traditional sports. “These are young people who aren’t being served by the system as it is now,” he said.


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Preben Mosborg left behind 12,000 photographic slides when he died in 2012, including this picture taken in 1986 during a trip to Switzerland.

hen Preben Mosborg died at the age of 85 in 2012, he left behind 12,000 photographic slides shot on Ektachrome and Kodachrome over the course of nearly six decades and meticulously organized into 152 carousels. Today, about 80 of the full-color photos he left stashed in his hall closet are on display in the social hall of First Universalist Church in South Uptown — alongside pictures taken by his son, Steven, and his granddaughter Amanda. “This thing is an ode to dad, to grandpa Preben,” Steven said about the intergenerational photo exhibit. “There’s a lot here that’s timeless.” Preben traveled the world, from Beijing to Bali. Everywhere he went, he’d take photos. “He wanted photos of people and places that no one in Minneapolis had seen before,” Steven said. Brightly colored and vividly lit, Preben’s most striking photos — of a lion nuzzling its mate in

Steven Mosborg and his daughter, Amanda, stand outside First Universalist Church in South Uptown. Photographs taken by three generations of Mosborgs are on display in the church’s social hall. Photo by Zac Farber

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a Kenyan wildlife reserve, or of an older Swiss man leaning out of a window as his boots dry in the sun — give viewers a glimpse into the everyday subjects that caught his eye. Preceded by a few uncles, Preben Mosborg emigrated from Denmark to South Minneapolis at the age of 20. He was a gardener and paratrooper and carpenter and postman with a wry sense of humor and a strong sense of wanderlust. Steven noted that of his father’s 12,000 pictures, those of his family fit easily in a single carousel. “My dad did not pull out his camera in the Twin Cities hardly ever,” he said. “I have eight million pictures of my daughter. There weren’t eight million picture slides of us growing up.” Steven’s daughter, Amanda, said that, like many of her generation, she uses her camera to capture an experience in the moment but that photography meant something different to her grandfather. “He took a photo to take a photo,” she said. Steven said his father was a self-taught photographer but had an eye for perspective, composition and lighting. Most importantly, he had patience. “If my dad saw a woodland stream or something he thought was of interest to him and the sun wasn’t out, he would wait,” he said. “My mother would quickly bring out the blanket and the crackers and the toys and try to keep us occupied until he got the perfect shot.” Steven, a Linden Hills resident, said his first camera was a hand-me-down Nikon his father gave him for a bicycle trip to Duluth he took when he was 14. But his father never gave him photography lessons. “My dad didn’t teach me,” he said. “He didn’t sit down and say, ‘This is my camera, here’s how to use it, these are the bells and whistles.’ ” Instead, Steven learned to take photos by studying his father at work over many years. He now edits a photography column for the Southwest Journal. Unlike his father, Steven said, “I’m drawn to capturing the four seasons in the city.” Steven said he’s proud that his photos, and those of his daughter, now hang alongside his father’s on the walls of the church his parents joined in the early 1960s. “I feel my dad’s presence in the whole thing,” he said. “He’s here in spirit, he just is.” The exhibit “Three Generations Capturing the Moment” can be seen on Sunday mornings through July 7 at First Universalist Church.

Preben Mosborg took this photo of a lion nuzzling its mate during a visit to a Kenyan wildlife reserve in 2001.


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By Meleah Maynard

Snapping turtles will soon be laying eggs

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n June, snapping turtles will once again start coming up onto the sand on Lake Harriet’s north beach to lay their eggs. If you’ve never had the good fortune to see this happening, walk over there this year and see this wondrous event for yourself. My husband, Mike, and I were lucky enough to see the turtles last summer. I wrote a column about what it was like to watch all those mama turtles laying their eggs in the middle of the public beach, covering them with a little sand and then returning to the water. I wanted to share the experience, but I was also hoping to get some people together to help me do something to protect those delicate eggs. Mama snapping turtles don’t watch over their eggs once they’re deposited in the sand, and the lifeguards on the beach told us that every year many of those carefully laid eggs get eaten by hungry critters and/or crushed by people on the beach who don’t know they are there. I was hoping there could be a way to rope off at least some of those eggs, and I got several emails from people offering to help. Knowing the beach is managed by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB), I called to ask for their thoughts, or maybe assistance. I talked with Debra Pilger, MPRB’s director of environmental management. She told me that people contact them every year wanting to know whether something can be done to protect turtle eggs that have been laid someplace perilous. In fact, people call them a lot, trying to help all sorts of crea-

Snapping turtles don’t always pick the best places to lay eggs.

tures. There are times when the Park Board does intervene, like when they rope off areas to protect nesting owls from thoughtless humans who climb up trees to take pictures of them. But in the case of snapping turtle eggs, they aren’t going to take any action and they don’t want the public to either. “We feel the best protection is to leave the eggs alone,” Pilger

said, explaining that putting up fencing or ropes might attract people and critters who might otherwise have left the eggs alone. It’s a fair point. But putting up some kind of barrier to protect even a portion of the eggs could also be a great way to positively engage the public with nature. Call me Pollyanna, but I believe most people would be thrilled to get the chance to

be citizen scientists, keeping watch over baby turtle eggs until they hatched and the little guys made their way to the water. Sign me up! That said, Pilger made some good points. Snapping turtles are not endangered, so letting nature take its course in this case will not lead to the end of these animals. Also, snapping turtles lay between 25 and 80 eggs at one time. Moving eggs once they’ve been buried is ill-advised. But leaving them on the beach is also problematic because, depending on the weather, they can take two to three months, or even longer, to hatch. That’s a lot of eggs to try to enclose in some way on a small public beach at a very busy lake. So what now? Do we accept that nature needs to take its course in this instance? Or might there be more we could do if we thought about this differently? I don’t have the answer, but I would love to hear what others think; you can contact me at livinthing.com. Perhaps there is some way to work with the Park Board on this in the future. How about a citizen science project? For now, I plan to go down to the beach as often as I can this summer to see the mama turtles laying eggs, and to try to see what happens to them over time. Maybe I’ll even get to watch some of those babies hatch and make it to the water. Maybe I’ll see you there, too. Meleah Maynard is a Minneapolisbased writer and editor who blogs at Livin’ Thing—livinthing.com

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Mill City Cooks

Recipes and food news from the Mill City Farmers Market

A new local ingredient requirement

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ill City Farmers Market (MCFM) opened its outdoor Saturday market at the beginning of May with a renewed dedication to its motto “healthy foods, local farmers.” For its 14th season, the market has added a “25% local standard” to its existing sustainability statement, which the market requires all 104 farmers, makers, food trucks and other small business owners who vend there to follow. The new rule states vendors selling valueadded foods, baked goods and prepared food must use a minimum of 25% local ingredients, preferably sourced directly from MCFM agricultural vendors. MCFM defines local as a 250-mile radius from the market. Many vendors have always practiced this policy and go even further by sourcing nearly all of their ingredients from local farmers. Breakfast vendor Black Cat Natural Foods buys an impressive 90 dozen eggs from neighboring vendor Sunshine Harvest Farm each week for omelets, pulled pork hash and their signature McDonner egg sandwich. MCFM has championed the local food movement and put farmers first since its founding in 2006 by farm-to-table pioneer and James Beard nominated restaurateur Brenda Langton. While not all of its vendors are USDA Certified Organic, they all adhere to the market’s sustainability statement, which, in addition to the new 25% local standard, supports healthy soils, sustainable water use, humane treatment of livestock, honorable workplace practices and rejects synthetic inputs and GMO seed. As of 2018, MCFM

farmers support 1,255 acres of sustainable farmland and its vendors generate an estimated $2 million into the local economy each year, according to University of Minnesota research. The market is asking its makers and prepared food vendors to support local and sustainable farmers not only because of their products’ superior quality and freshness, but also because they don’t externalize costs onto the environment, our community’s health or through poor wages and working conditions for their staff and themselves. MCFM is also introducing several exciting new vendors for the 2019 season:

SHAVED ASPARAGUS WITH LEMON VINAIGRETTE Recipe courtesy of the Mill City Farmers Market Ingredients Juice from 1 lemon 1½ tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard ½ teaspoon salt 1 pound medium to thick asparagus spears, tough ends removed and spears shaved into ribbons Grated cheese, optional

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Method In a small bowl, whisk together lemon juice, oil, vinegar, mustard and salt. Place asparagus ribbons in a medium bowl. Add dressing and toss until asparagus is evenly coated. Sprinkle grated cheese on top, if desired.

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The Mill City Farmers Market opened its outdoor Saturday market at the beginning of May (above), and vendors sold plenty of asparagus. Submitted photos

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Additionally, regular MCFM shoppers will be happy to hear that in the face of recent downsizing, beloved vendors Salty Tart bakery and Chef Shack food truck will both be returning to the market full time in 2019. — Jenny Heck

By Sarah Woutat

What’s happening at the markets in June?

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he Neighborhood Roots farmers markets are in full swing with produce coming into season and lots of meats, canned goods, prepared food and crafts available. Of course you come to the market to buy

your groceries and chat with your farmers, but the market is also a community space where you can learn, be creative and dance. We have a great lineup of events and music this summer to round out your market experience.

People learn about pollinators at the Kingfield Farmers Market. Submitted photo

June is a busy month with the Nokomis market opening Wednesday, June 12, a bakeoff at Kingfield, cooking demos, music and lots more. At Fulton, during the weekend of May 31, enjoy the musical stylings of brass band Preludes to a Blizzard. At Kingfield you can reduce your environmental footprint by learning more about recycling, composting and renewable energy, while listening to music by Steve West and the Northstars. All music is from 10 a.m. to noon. Come to Fulton for your morning yoga with Blooma from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. on June 8, and then learn about how to make a worm hotel! Come to Kingfield from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on June 9 to learn about vermicomposting. Broken Heartland String Band will play at both Fulton and Kingfield that weekend. Wednesday, June 12, is opening day at Nokomis. We’ll be there from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. with all of your grocery needs and plenty to choose from for dinner, as well as worm hotels and music by Leonor Guelbenzu. If you’ve always wanted to learn how to make your own fermented foods, Jim from Topos Ferments will be teaching you how at Fulton from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. on June 15. And the Raptor Center is back at Kingfield, from noon to 1 p.m. on June 16. Come to the market for an up-close view of eagles, owls, hawks and other raptors. Before the birds arrive, dance to One Ukelele’s upbeat tunes. Also, make sure you shop for ingredients for the next week’s Kingfield bake-off.

On June 22, Hana Bistro will be doing an Asian-inspired cooking demo with Fulton market ingredients and One Ukelele will provide tunes for the morning. On June 24, Hana Bistro will donate 10% of all dine-in, take-out and delivery orders to the Fulton Farmers Market. June 23 is the Kingfield Farmers Market bake-off! Sign up online in advance and submit your creation by 9 a.m. We encourage you to use ingredients from the market in your recipe. Not a baker? We need you too! Buy a plate of goodies starting at 10 a.m. and vote for the winner. All proceeds from the bake-off support the Kingfield Farmers Market. The winner will receive a special market prize pack, and well as 15 minutes of fame. Details are at neighborhoodrootsmn.org. Market Fest at Nokomis is June 26. Our market host, First Evangelical Free Church, is hosting a community event that night, so we expect a bustling market evening. Preludes to a Blizzard will toot their horns while you participate in Market Science, a hands-on learning program. During the last weekend in June, we’re making a Neighborhood Roots coloring book. Bring your submission to the markets, stop by and draw one, or email or mail it in. Make sure to include your name, age and which market you attend. We’ll compile all of the drawings and share the final product with our market community. The Matthew St. Francis Band will be at Fulton and the Roe Family Singers will be at Kingfield to round out great market days.


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By Dr. Olivia Mirodone

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iardia are single-celled parasitic organisms that infect many types of animals around the world. Humans can become infected as well, but it is rare for Giardia from dogs and cats to transmit to people, and the same is true for transmission between dogs and kitties. Organisms are passed into the environment in feces and once outside the body, they turn into hardy, tiny cysts that can survive for months. Once they are ingested by a new host (for example, from contaminated water or from a dog licking her feet after walking in the grass) the shell dissolves and every cyst releases two infectious organisms. Once free from the cyst, Giardia “swim” around inside the host’s intestines until they find a good spot to feed and become attached to that area. Once there, they can move around in different parts of the intestines looking for different nutrients. It takes about five days to two weeks for the Giardia to be passed out into the stool of an infected pet and diarrhea can precede the shedding. Infection is more prevalent in places with high dog density, such as dog parks, kennels and day care facilities. Not all

dogs become ill from Giardia, and therefore treating all pets in a household is not always recommended. However, many cats and dogs will develop diarrhea (sometimes bloody), vomiting and loss of appetite. Testing has become more reliable with the development of a newer test called an Elisa SNAP test. This test takes minutes and can be done while you are at the clinic for the appointment. Because of the inconsistent shedding habits of the organism, repeat testing is sometimes necessary to detect it. Several medications are available to treat Giardia, such as Metronidazole and Fenbendazole, often used together. A prescription intestinal diet, gentle on the intestinal tract, is often used and so are canine- and felinespecific probiotics. As with prevention of all parasites, cleaning your yard of stool daily helps greatly in reducing contamination and re-infection. Freezing temperatures and direct sunlight kill the cysts, and so do diluted bleach solutions and other chemicals. Giardia cysts can attach to the fur, so bathing your pet is also recommended.

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his story I am about to tell you seems very far-fetched, but it is 100% true. About a year ago, one of our veterinary assistants, Bailee, noticed a cat hanging around her yard that seemed to be lost. If a lost animal is found or is brought to our clinic, we scan the pet to see if they have a microchip. If they do, we call the microchip company to find out the pet’s registered owner. This lost kitty did indeed have a microchip, so Bailee called the microchip company. As Bailee read the microchip number off to the company representative, there was a pause… “That is my cat,” said the woman at the microchip company. Of course, this was all too strange to believe!

What are the chances of that happening? But after having the woman at the microchip company send us a photo of her cat that matched our lost cat at the clinic, we got the full story. The woman at the microchip company was temporarily working in Fargo, North Dakota, while someone else was watching her cat for several months. The cat had gone missing, but its pet sitter never informed the owner. Because of the microchip, Bailee was able to facilitate a happy reunion (and what I am sure was a very unhappy conversation between owner and pet sitter). Sometimes the universe conspires in the most miraculous ways. — Dr. Teresa Hershey

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Attainable We

By Mikki Morrissette

Enlightened storytelling

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y son and I recently returned from a trip to Washington, D.C., where we visited my college-aged daughter. On the one hand, there were cherry blossoms and a kite festival, and tasty plant-based meals as a reunited family. On the other hand, there were visits to museums dedicated to the experiences of displaced Native Americans, enslaved Africans and disregarded Holocaust victims, which reminded us how cruel and callous people can be. I like to think that the younger generations are ushering in, with non-binary inclinations, a new definition of power. I like to think that after women reach at least 50% of leadership, we will see faster change. I like to think that we do bend toward justice. A friend once described me, after he continually trounced me in chess matches, as a “persevering optimist.” But I also recognize in those museum messages that our treatment of “others” today, and our ignorance of authoritarianism, is very similar to what we loathe about the past. In 1938, a conference of 32 countries was held to talk about the Jewish refugees Hitler was pushing out as “inferiors.” No major country would take impactful steps toward refuge, and the extermination began. One 1788 quote, enshrined on a panel at the Museum of African American History and Culture, encapsulated our ability to be bystanders: “I admit I am sickened at the purchase of slaves, but I must be mumm, for how could we do without sugar or rum?”

Narratives in the media

Who gets the floor?

Just prior to the trip, I was part of a two-day event, co-hosted by MPR, about racial narratives in the media. Much of the conversation focused on how certain communities feel invisible — or how quick reporting, by people outside those communities, leads to stereotypical storytelling. Maria Hinojosa, anchor and executive producer of the award-winning Latino USA, was on a panel moderated by MPR’s Angela Davis. Hinojosa said she got tired of trying to persuade management of the value of telling certain stories, so she created her own platform. For similar reasons, Mark Trahant, a Native man, left mainstream newspapers to become editor of Indian Country News. [Find Davis’s recorded panel discussion at MPRNews.org] Later, I was in a small group discussion. A local publisher noted a concern that if every community connects only with its own storytellers, we remain in silos without understanding each other’s experiences.

As we’ve been discussing in the book group, an enlightened culture does not let bullies who believe in “others” control the narratives. Reason, data and analysis of what works and what does not — with input from the grassroots level — might not come across as strongly in storytelling as do emotionally charged “opinionaters.” Yet experience shows that an enlightened community tends to be more accurate in naming and resolving issues. The enlightened simply have to fight hard to lead the debate. As the Rev. David Breeden put it in a recent local talk, the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion reminds us that brave people had to stand up against a police raid to say, “I am not broken! It is society that is messed up!” He continued: “Stonewall was the Enlightenment in action. Our call is to face the fear. Our call is to lose the fear. Name it. Reason about it. And seek the justice that only reason can create.” It is hard to know what our communities might look like today if, instead of choosing to open up the country 400 years ago by ownership of people and resources, we had maintained the vision of Indigenous cultures to honor our interconnected ecosystem as people and planet. The enlightened aim is to share stories to help us get there.

How to create solidarity In D.C., I noted a museum panel about the Resurrection City tent community of 3,000 people on the National Mall, a few weeks after Martin Luther King Jr. died in 1968. Over its six weeks, the Poor People’s Campaign organizers tried to create a multinational coalition focused on living wages and full employment. The panel indicated they learned how important it was “for each group to create its own solidarity, and how future coalitions required

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the ability to acknowledge their differences but focus on their shared values.” Sometimes I despair over whether solidarity is achievable alongside identity politics. I confessed this to the moderator of a book discussion group, which is exploring Steven Pinker’s “Enlightenment Now.” He pointed out Pinker’s comment: “Humans, we now know … are guided by intuitions about authority, tribe and purity; are committed to sacred beliefs that express their identity; and are driven by conflicting inclinations toward revenge and reconciliation.”

Mikki Morrissette is the owner of Minnesota Women’s Press, which showcases women who are shifting narratives to effect change.


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Dateline Minneapolis

By Steve Brandt

With icy sidewalks, we’re all in this together

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nother winter, another season of slick sidewalks for Minneapolis pedestrians. The city announced last fall a gettougher policy for enforcing its longstanding but laxly enforced sidewalk snow-clearing ordinance. That did produce a sharply higher number of violation notices and bills to scofflaw property owners. Violation notices were up 26% from the previous winter. They require an owner to shovel or pay the cost of having city-hired crews do it. The number of times an owner was billed for the cost of the city arranging for a crew to clear their walks was up 78%. The average bill was over $202. Yet anyone who walks, jogs or pushes a wheelchair in the winter can testify that the stepped-up enforcement so far has made little dent in ground-level conditions. The same perennial offenders in my neighborhood left icy walks all winter. Pedestrians often negotiated a gantlet of poorly shoveled or untouched walks as they trudged down a block. The law requires that a sidewalk be cleared of snow and ice. That means to the full width. Down to bare concrete. If property owners can’t remove snow or ice, they are required by ordinance to sprinkle sand. All this must happen within 24 hours of the cessation of falling snow at single-family or duplex properties; it’s four hours for all others. This isn’t rocket science. If you’re in a hurry to get to work after an overnight snowfall, at least make a shovel-width pass down your walk, and finish the rest after work. That means you won’t need to battle compaction from the day’s pedestrians. If a big snow is forecast, consider shoveling once in the middle of it and again when it’s done, to lessen the workload. If an icy rain freezes on the walk, get out there on the first sunny day with your ice scraper. On my block, owners know when their neighbors are out of town and cover for them. Too many property owners make a pass with a snowblower but leave a layer of a half-inch or more on the sidewalk that gets compacted into a layer of ice. Some don’t get to the snow soon enough so it’s trampled to an icy crust. That’s more treacherous than six inches of fresh snow. So what should the city do? First, let’s quash

the idea of having the city plow sidewalks. Plowing freshly fallen snow is an inexact matter, as anyone who has seen the scarred turf at the edges of paths around our Chain of Lakes can testify. It’s hard for a plow operator to follow a curving sidewalk obscured by a blanket of snow. It would take too long to get to all sidewalks, and by then the snow would be packed on walks to a crust that’s too difficult for a plow to remove consistently. City plowing also carries costs in the millions of dollars. And why should property owners who follow the law have to pay extra property taxes to subsidize property owners who don’t? We should encourage recalcitrant shovelers to do their civic duty by increasing the upfront pain. In the past, it has taken up to three weeks for the city to close out a shoveling complaint. Either the property owner complied or the city eventually sent a crew and the cost was charged to the property. Three weeks is far too long, representing about a quarter of the time we’re typically blanketed with snow. The city should annually remind property owners of their duty, like how it sent a notification last fall with utility bills. That puts every property owner on notice about the ordinance requirement. If an uncleared walk prompts a citizen complaint to 311 that’s found to be valid, or an inspector spots the unshoveled walk, immediately impose a relatively light firstoffense fine of $25 or $50 to get the property owner’s attention. After all, an unshoveled walk is a petty misdemeanor under the ordinance. But also tell the owner that subsequent complaints that winter will automatically trigger the city sending a crew. If shoveling is needed, that cost will be billed to the property and, just as now, added to next year’s property tax if not paid. It’s valid that not everyone is capable of wielding a shovel due to age or disability. But many blocks have a neighbor willing to help out. There are younger teens hungry to earn a few bucks, older teens needing to rack up community service hours their school requires and healthy retired guys like me. In much of Southwest, the TRUST coalition of churches will match property owners who need help with willing workers. Those workers are paid but some lower-income owners qualify for a

Anyone who walks, jogs or pushes a wheelchair in the winter can testify that stepped-up enforcement of the city’s sidewalk snow-clearing ordinance has so far made little dent in ground-level conditions. File photo

sliding-fee basis. For those truly unable to pay, like income-qualified folks and some aged property owners on fixed incomes, the city could put a lien for each winter’s snow-clearing costs against the property and recover its costs when the property eventually is sold. As you can tell, I’m sort of an absolutist on this issue. That comes from negotiating uncleared sidewalks on the way to the bus stop. It comes from trying unsuccessfully to push my late father in his wheelchair for a few blocks, only to be blocked by ridges of snow. It comes from almost 42 years of running sidewalks to get to a jog around the lakes. I’m pretty good at staying on my feet, only tumbling once in several hundred miles on the

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By Steven Mosborg

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pring offers shutterbugs a plethora of photo opportunities as the city awakens from its winter slumber with longer hours of daylight. Everything from tree and flower blossoms, sailboat prep, trolley runs, hammocking, farmers markets, festivals, pools and water fountains are on display. As the naturalist and writer Hal Borland reminds us, “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”

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Community Calendar. By Ed Dykhuizen

SKEWED VISIONS PRESENTS BIRDS OF THE FUTURE This manic installation performance of a new hybrid movement/theater piece was inspired by research into the nature of time and the combination of dystopian narratives in popular culture with resurgent political and social activism.

When: 8 p.m. May 30–June 1, June 3, June 7–8; ASL interpretation May 31; audio description June 3 Where: Fresh Oysters Performance Research, 512 E. 24th St. Cost: $15–$28 Info: skewedvisions.org/birds-of-the-future

BOOK LAUNCH FOR MAMASKATCH: A CREE COMING OF AGE Join Darrel J. McLeod in the launch of his debut memoir, Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age, on the last day of American Indian Month. McLeod writes about the impact of colonization on himself and his family, abuse, gender fluidity, queerness and grief.

When: 7 p.m. Friday, May 31 Where: Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church, 2020 W. Lake of the Isles Parkway Cost: Free Info: RSVP at tinyurl.com/mcleod-mn

FOODSTOCK This family-oriented event celebrates Joyce Uptown Foodshelf’s 50 years of serving the Uptown and South Minneapolis with games, activities, food, music and entertainment.

When: 2 p.m.–5 p.m. Sunday, June 2 Where: Bryant Square Park, 3131 Bryant Ave. S. Cost: Free Info: joyceuptownfoodshelf.org/events

OPEN STREETS LYNDALE Much of Lyndale will be closed to automotive traffic and filled with booths and activities featuring local artists, performances, community groups and businesses. Come visit the Southwest Journal booth between Lake and 31st streets and tell us your story!

When: 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Sunday, June 2 Where: Lyndale Ave., from 22nd to 54th streets Cost: Free Info: openstreetsmpls.org/lyndale

RESILIENT YARDS WORKSHOP Unseasonable warmth, long periods of drought, and flooding rains are the new normal in Minnesota. Learn how to create resilience in your yard using site planning, rain gardens, turf alternatives, trees, other plantings and more.

When: 6 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 5 Where: Armatage Recreation Center, 2500 W. 57th St. Cost: $15 Info: metroblooms.org/workshops

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PRINCE BORN DAY CELEBRATION This Prince-inspired event includes a four-course dinner (with a vegan or meat option), music by Mina Moore, a dance party and a purple drink. A percentage of the proceeds will go to support the career development of an aspiring black culinary professional.

When: Friday, June 7 Where: The Bird, 1612 Harmon Place Cost: $49 early bird, $59 regular, $65 at the door Info: tinyurl.com/prince-born-day

LORING PARK MUSIC FESTIVAL See Honky-Tonk Jump, L arry Long and the Medicine Band, Jillian Rae, the Mill City Singers with Fred and J.D. Steele, Steam Machine and more. Food trucks will be on site.

When: 1 p.m.–8 p.m. Saturday, June 8 Where: Loring Park, 1382 Willow St. Cost: Free Info: minneapolisparks.org

See performances by inclusive artistic community Young Dance and Duluth native and winner of NPR’s 2016 Tiny Desk Contest Gaelynn Lea. Participate in a silent auction, enjoy food from Holy Land and drinks from Atuvava and more.

When: 6:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m. Thursday, June 6 Where: The Bakken Museum, 3537 Zenith Ave. S. Cost: $40 (includes food and drinks) Info: youngdance.org/spring-gala

KITH + KIN CHORUS SEASON FINALE WITH CAMERON KINGHORN

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MUSIC MONDAY WITH CONNIE EVINGSON To launch the new event space Nord Social Hall, French Meadow is hosting an ongoing series of jazz, blues and swing every other week through June. French Meadow’s menu is available at the venue.

Cameron Kinghorn will debut solo work with Kith + Kin, a 60-voice community choir, in this fundraising concert for Spare Key, which provides housing assistance to families in crisis.

When: Monday, June 10 and Monday, June 24 Where: Nord Social Hall, 2610 Lyndale Ave. S. Cost: $15 at the door Info: frenchmeadowcafe.com/catering

When: 7 p.m.–10 p.m. Sunday, June 2 Where: Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Ave. S. Cost: $15 Info: thecedar.org

KICKOFF CELEBRATION FOR SUMMER CONCERT SERIES Bring a lawn chair, blanket and/or picnic basket and enjoy music, ice cream, popcorn, face painting and more. Cameron Kinghorn

When: 6 p.m.–8 p.m. Tuesday, June 11 Where: Bryant Square Recreation Center, 3101 Bryant Ave. S. Cost: Free Info: minneapolisparks.org


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Get Out Guide.

When: 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday, June 14 and Saturday, June 15. Where: American Indian Cultural Corridor (East Franklin Avenue), The Commons (425 Portland Ave.) and Rondo (University & Dale, St. Paul). Info: 2019.northernspark.org Cost: Free

By Sheila Regan

Neon Garden Walk through an interactive wall of neon art thanks to the artists from Foci Minnesota Center for Glass Arts.

Where: The Commons, 425 Portland Ave S.

The Biker Help activate a moveable sculpture by riding a bike for five minutes. Public artist Victor Yepez collaborates with sculptor Richard Parnell and puppeteer and builder Jon “Huckleberry” Stoike.

Where: 1311 E. Franklin Ave.

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Where: All My Relations Gallery, 1414 E. Franklin Ave.

Beatrix*Jar: Let’s Make Some Sounds!

New Native Theatre brings visitors on an interactive journey through audio, live performance and light, as they reveal untold stories.

Sound art duo Jacob Aaron Roske and Bianca Janine Pettis invite you into their Audio Playground, where guests get to make music of their own using vintage electronics instruments.

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Ask Dr. Rachel

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ear Dr. Rachel, I feel so distracted all the time. My mind bounces around from one thing to the next. I’ll start on a project then see a text or email and the next thing I know, an hour has gone by. Even my sleep has become more restless. I don’t remember being this scattered when I was younger. I recently turned 40; is this just part of getting older?

Join the club. It took me longer than planned to write this because of all the competing demands. One might assume that our modern day creature comforts would make us more present and chilled-out than our caveman/woman counterparts, but being hunted down by a lion has now been replaced with our own self-imposed chase. Sure, you could be distracted, unable to pay attention, overwhelmed by life obligations, dealing with age-related changes, or all of the above. We live in such a frenzied world, it’s hard to know what’s what; there are more ways for our attention to be diverted than ever. Increasingly I’ve noticed clients tell me they suspect they have ADHD (attentiondeficit hyperactivity disorder). It’s understandably confusing to distinguish between actually having a clinical diagnosis versus simply being human during a time of information overload and high expectations. Your distraction could also be due to anxiety; if so, you’re in good company given anxiety problems are the No. 1 mental health issue in the U.S. What’s going on here? For starters, we give merely lip service to the notion of work-life balance.

By Rachel Allyn

You could do a preliminary evaluation of ADHD with a therapist before resorting to a bunch of psychological testing. These entail a series of questions that explore attention skills, hyperactivity and impulsivity. There’s a big genetic link, too; it’s estimated that nearly half of people who have a parent with ADHD will also have it. Before you slap any labels on yourself (something I’m never a fan of doing), look at your lifestyle. The easiest culprit to start with is your “smart” phone, which could be making you feel dumb with distraction. Do you get alerts for texts, emails and social media? If so, turn those off, or put your phone on airplane mode when you need to focus. Don’t worry, Snapchat will still be there, waiting to waste your time later. Addiction to screens is real. Our phones have become this permanent appendage, as if we’ve grown a third hand. All those alerts are tugging at your brain, which is not able to multi-task, no matter how hard you try. After assessing your screen consumption, now look at your food and sleep consumption. If you have a high-sugar diet (especially anything with food coloring or artificial sweeteners), that could be the problem. Even straight-up sucrose does a number on the brain, making it hard to concentrate as blood sugar spikes and drops. If your sugar intake is happening before bed in the form of alcohol, that could explain the restlessness. Booze may help you pass out, but you pay the price on the other end when it wears off quickly, waking you up. Unfortunately, sleep tends to be more restless with age. You’d think that getting older — with all its aches and pains — would lead to sleeping more, but it’s just the opposite.

I understand it’s confusing to know if your distraction is due to your biochemistry or if it’s the byproduct of living in a culture on steroids (or both). Whatever the source, I highly recommend you exercise daily to regu-

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