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TIP-POOLING SETTLEMENT HAS A RIPPLE EFFECT Restaurants, servers say tip pools are getting a closer look

By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Surly Brewing Company wasn’t the state’s first tip-pooling case. But it was a big case.

A judge found Surly shouldn’t have played any role in pooling server tips and approved a $2.5 million settlement in March that sent checks of more than $10,000 to some servers.

The settlement has caught the attention of local servers and restaurant owners. Attorneys said they’re fielding more

questions. Some restaurant workers said more venues are sidestepping table service altogether.

“The conversation has definitely changed about tippooling,” said Sarah Webster Norton, a vocal advocate for servers. “… Staff feels more empowered now to speak out if they don’t agree with the tip-pooling.”

Raw food buying club fights to stay in business

By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Uptown Locavore, a drop site with raw dairy, meats and other foods from local farmers, plans to fight the city’s recent action to shut down the private buying club.

Less than two months after the “indoor farmers market” relocated to 3137 Hennepin Ave., inspectors arrived on May 3 and placed all of the food under embargo to prohibit its sale, citing an unlicensed food establishment.

“We’re a much more visible target here,” said proprietor Will Winter, who said the prior location at 3217 Hennepin Ave. operated for years entirely by word of mouth, without signage, under the name Traditional Foods.

City staff said they were pursuing an anonymous complaint shared by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. At issue is the sale of raw milk, said Dan Huff, the city’s environmental health director. He said Uptown Locavore’s website indicates that it carries milk

from Hartmann’s Dairy, or M.O.M.’s, a farm that the Minnesota Department of Health flagged as causing E. coli cases in 2010. An attorney with the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund contests whether the state fully proved illnesses were linked to the farm.

The sale of raw milk is legal in Minnesota under certain conditions. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture says it is legal for customers to buy raw milk directly from farmers at the farm where the milk was produced. In some states like California, farms that pass inspection can legally sell raw milk in stores, and in other states like Ohio, all raw milk sales are illegal.

Winter said he probably wouldn’t operate the buying club if not for the raw dairy, which includes ice cream, butter, cheese and milk.

Some families with four or more kids buy four SEE UPTOWN LOCAVORE / PAGE A10

Surly Brewing Company settled a tip-pooling lawsuit with servers and bartenders for $2.5 million. The large settlement turned heads in the industry, according to servers and attorneys.

Photo by Michelle Bruch

SEE SURLY LAWSUIT / PAGE A16

Sheriff, county attorney challenged in re-election bids DFL endorses opponents

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

The county’s top law and public safety officials will both face challengers this year as they seek re-election to new terms in November.

Candidates for Hennepin County attorney include incumbent Mike Freeman, who is seeking a sixth term, and his DFL-endorsed challenger, Mark Haase, an attorney working in government relations for a state agency.

Nearing the end of his third term, Sheriff Rich Stanek, too, has a DFLendorsed challenger, Metro Transit Police Sgt. Dave Hutch, and will also

face Joseph Banks, a bond agent and former chief of the Upper Sioux Tribal Police and Morton Police departments, in November.

Candidates for both offices are being asked to respond to a similar set of issues, including the county’s handling of the opioid epidemic and the relationship between public safety officials and the public. Debate among the candidates for sheriff has also touched on the department’s relationship with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and SEE COUNTY RACES / PAGE A15

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By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Kou Kue makes temaki hand-rolled sushi at the Gohan mobile sushi bar. Photo by Michelle Bruch

LINDEN HILLS

Gohan From their mobile sushi bar, Kou and Christi Kue can serve fresh sushi at the Linden Hills Farmers Market, teach bachelorette parties how to roll sushi on a rooftop patio or feed more than 500 people at a wedding.

“We can basically get it anywhere,” Christi said.

Friends at WAAM Industries created a bar that can fit through a door and stand on a trailer, with a foldable workstation, a sushi case and a counter where four people can belly up in chairs made by Blu Dot. And it’s fast. Kou specializes in temaki handrolled sushi, which takes seconds to make.

“You can make a lot of sushi rolls very quickly that way,” Christi said.

Gohan means “rice” or “meal” in Japanese.

Served in a street food style that’s reminiscent of an ice cream cone, the ingredients are rolled in nori (seaweed) and meant to be eaten immediately with fingers instead of chopsticks.

Kou is a sushi chef with 12 years of training at venues around the city. Christi said it’s always been a dream to open their own business. They brainstormed while she was preg-

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“That was all I did, all day and all night,” Christi said. “… We realized nobody was doing much catering for sushi.”

The company takes the mystery out of sushi-making by offering classes that cover the process start to finish, from how to buy the right ingredients to how to achieve the right flavor.

Gohan also offers a hand roll box filled with ingredients like fish, crab, house-pickled vegetables, tamagoyaki (Japanese rolled omelet), sesame seeds and pickled ginger.

All of the sauces are made from scratch, and any ingredient that can be local is local, Christi said.

She foresees that a menu favorite this season will be the poké with blackened salmon, slightly spicy on the outside and straightforward and flavorful on the inside.

The Linden Hills Farmers Market runs 9 a.m.–1 p.m. every Sunday outside Settergren’s Hardware, 2813 W. 43rd St. Gohan will also appear at the Mill City Farmers Market on June 30, July 14, July 28, Aug. 11 and Aug. 25.

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Showroom’s five-year run has ended at 615 W. Lake St. Kim Jurek-Valanzasca said the neighborhood has changed since the store’s early days, and she plans to open a smaller, more intimate storefront June 1 called The Fitting Room at 38th & Grand, located next to Kinoko Kids. She plans to curate pieces from some of the same designers that have appeared at Showroom, including FOAT, Joeleen Torvick and Scott J Lehmann. She will also showcase a new brand of her own called Alma Mia. “There is a lot of color. It feels really fresh to me,” she said.

Showroom’s cooperative business model will end, she said, replaced by a model focused on commissions.

Co-founder Jen Chilstrom left the cooperative last winter. She’s currently the co-exhibitions director at Altered Esthetics and the arts and gallery coordinator for the East Side Arts Council.

The intersection of arts and community generated profound experiences at Showroom, she said. One woman who had lost her husband was deeply moved by a pencil drawing by Jacob Baker, “as if struck by lightning,” she said, and student interns watched Andrea Jenkins prepare to serve as Grand Marshal of Twin Cities Pride.

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“That high schoolers, in their first job position ever, could experience a special moment in history and hear about the transgender community in powerful and positive light, was something I won’t forget,” Chilstrom said in an email. “… Showroom was a space where artists and makers could explore their vision and connect their work to an audience, building relationships that will continue to contribute to the growth of their businesses.”

26TH & NICOLLET

StormKing Barbecue StormKing Barbecue is closed due to “unpopular demand” at 16 ½ W. 26th St., and the adjoining Black Sheep Pizza Coal Fired Pizza will continue to control the space.

Before opening a barbecue joint, owner Jordan Smith said they used the 26th Street space as an office and thought about making it an art gallery.

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what to do over the summer.

Calling the area a “barbecue desert,” Smith expressed disappointment with the closure. He said Black Sheep was seeing 10 times the sales of StormKing over the course of a week.

“I’ve wanted to do barbecue for probably 15 years,” he said. “At the end of the day, it’s a business, so it has to support itself.”

Marhaba Grill owner Mohamed Shehata (center) prepares for an iftar dinner in late May. Photo by Michelle Bruch

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Marhaba Grill At sundown each night during Ramadan, Marhaba Grill is holding iftar dinners at 2801 Nicollet Ave. S. Chef Mohamed Hegazi helps prepare a mountain of food that awaits people who fast all day without food and water, greeting nightfall with prayer and food. A recent buffet included duck, salmon, shrimp, lamb shank and stuffed cabbage, said restaurant owner Mohamed Shehata.

Ramadan continues through June 14.

Customer Abdi Nasir explained that he celebrates Ramadan as the holy month the Quran came down. After fasting for many hours, he said he doesn’t look at food the same way.

“People eat every single day and they don’t appreciate what God gives them,” he said. “… It teaches people patience and to be thankful for what they get.”

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43RD & UPTON

Copilot Dog Outfitters offers gear and grooming Audrey, the shop dog at Copilot Dog Outfitters, likes to paddleboard. She wears dog goggles to protect her eyes from wind and sun glare. And if she gets tired, she can sit upright in a backpack-like K9 Sport Sack, where she can still see the action.

The new shop, located near the heart of the annual Woofstock celebration, carries merchandise tailored for active dog owners.

“The focus is active outdoor products that are functional,” said owner Kim Hanson.

There are bike baskets, leashes that attach to bicycles, harnesses of all sizes and Burley bike trailers. A wall is full of durable and classic toys, and there are boots for all seasons. A big ramp allows dogs to climb up while they’re fitted in new gear — Hanson said it seems to be a hit, based on all the Instagram photos.

She stocks natural treats mostly free of wheat,

corn and soy, with samples like Bocce’s Bakery PB + Banana at the counter.

Hanson said she added a grooming salon to the business after noticing that it’s not uncommon for a good groomer to book out six weeks in advance. She enrolled in grooming school herself, and she spent time to find the “perfect groomer” in Alexandra Sorenson.

Hanson previously worked for a homebuilder who retired.

“I thought a retail store would be fun,” she said.

She said she enjoys chatting with customers and appreciates the supportive small businesses.

“It’s a nice way to get involved in the neighborhood and the community,” she said.

Copilot Dog Outfitters is located on the ground floor of the Linden43 apartments at 4280 Sheridan Ave. S.

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44TH & BEARD

Motor Place car show The block-long street Motor Place, across from Penny’s Coffee at 44th & Beard, will close down June 9 for a free classic car show of the same name.

“That’s almost too perfect,” said Luis Fraguada Jr. Curated by Fraguada, the Porsche-only show will mark Porsche’s 70th anniversary. Fraguada is the co-founder of Cars & Coffee, which draws more than 4,000 cars to Canterbury Downs on

the first Saturday of each month.

He said they’re hosting a simple, familyfriendly event by bringing 45 cars to Motor Place Park. The Porsches will range from the early 356 to the Carrera GT and everything in between, he said.

The event aims to mark Penny’s history as an auto shop. The strip of land south of Motor Place was once part of the trolley right-of-way.

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Delivering his first State of the City address, Mayor Jacob Frey on May 24 announced a new partnership with Minneapolis Public Schools that aims to provide direct support to district families experiencing homelessness or housing instability.

Frey announced the three-year pilot, dubbed the Minneapolis Stable Homes, Stable Schools Initiative, near the beginning of a wide-ranging speech that touched on planning for the city’s growth, efforts to improve police-community relations and the business climate, reconnecting North Minneapolis to the riverfront, combating the opioid epidemic and the city’s goals to counteract climate change. At the end of the 45-minute speech in front of an audience of several hundred gathered at Lundstrum Performing Arts, Frey declared the state of the city as “poised” to take significant steps forward.

He was also clear about the obstacles to progress, including a shrinking stock of affordable housing and rising rents.

“It is difficult to overstate the severity of our housing crisis and the need to address it,” he said.

Frey spent more time on his proposed solutions to the housing crisis than any other topic, reiterating his intention to add $50 million to the city’s funds for affordable housing, a goal he has acknowledged will be difficult to reach. Other components of his affordable housing plan include efforts to preserve existing affordable units and creating more “deeply affordable” housing targeted to people earning 30 percent or less of area median income. He has also pitched a plan to create more “firstgeneration” homeowners.

It was during that section of the speech he unveiled the plan to aid Minneapolis school district families. He said the initiative would seek to provide stable housing for up to 320 families and as many as 648 district K–8 students, funded with a $3 million annual investment from the city to leverage another $1 million in Minneapolis Public Housing Authority funds. Details released by his staff indicate housing vouchers will be made available to families with students in the 15 schools with the highest rates of homeless or highly mobile students.

Frey pitched Minneapolis 2040 — the city’s next comprehensive plan, currently out for public comment — as another tool to combat housing inequities. A key

component of the plan, and possibly its most controversial piece, is a proposal to open up much of the city to the development of fourplexes.

“Right now, as much as two-thirds of our city is still zoned exclusively for singlefamily homes and restricted further for the wealthy by lot size,” he said. “In other words, unless you have the means to own — not just a home but a very large one on a very large lot — your chance of living in many neighborhoods is zero.”

Frey frequently called out the work of individual City Council members, most of whom he served alongside during his single term as Ward 3 alderman. He praised Ward 13 Council Member Linea Palmisano’s efforts to back up the city’s stricter police body camera policies with audits that measure compliance, which he described as “invaluable.”

He also announced a plan to place placard in every Minneapolis police vehicle explaining, in both English and Spanish, the rights of people who encounter Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Frey, who also noted the city is fighting a Trump administration effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census, raising concerns the city’s immigrant population will be undercounted, said, “We will not let the lack of compassion demonstrated at the highest levels of our government prevent us from doing right by our immigrant community.“ Near the end of the speech, as Frey turned his focus to the city’s infrastructure and economy, he highlighted paths to broader inclusion in prosperity and city amenities.

He emphasized his support for Village Trust Financial Cooperative, currently in development as the state’s only black-owned financial institution.

“This is huge,” Frey said. “Why? Because whether it’s mortgage underwriting, lending criteria or access to capital in general, black people have traditionally gotten the short end of the stick. How do we change that?

Move out of the way and support black bankers in making the banking decisions.”

Frey also described the city’s vision for a new riverfront park in North Minneapolis.

The planned redevelopment of the Upper Harbor Terminal “is our No. 1 capital improvement priority,” he said, predicting the transformation of the 48-acre site on the Mississippi River would not just create a new amenity but also drive economic development in nearby neighborhoods.

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Officers won’t march in uniform in Pride Minneapolis Police Officers won’t be allowed to march in the annual Pride parade while wearing their uniforms, Chief Medaria Arradondo announced May 22 in a letter posted to the department’s Facebook page.

The department is providing rainbow T-shirts with a badge design to those officers who wish to march in the June 24 parade in plain clothes. Arradondo said his decision was made in response to the “adamant opposition of law enforcement’s participation by some representatives of our local LGBTIQ communities.”

“Representatives have conveyed to me that there is still a great deal of pain and harm that has occurred in their community, specifically our LGBTIQ communities of color, which has not been completely heard and addressed,” Arradondo wrote.

Twin Cities Pride organizers last year decided to limit the presence of police at the event, which took place about a week after

Jeronimo Yanez, a St. Anthony police officer, was acquitted of all charges in the shooting death of Philando Castile during a July 2016 traffic stop. Organizers reversed course before the event, and the parade was disrupted by protestors who slowed its progress down Hennepin Avenue.

Darcie Baumann, chair of the Twin Cities Pride Board of Directors, said festival organizers heard from many people both for and against the participation of police. The decision to restrict officers from marching in uniform was Arradondo’s alone, Baumann said.

“We respect his decision,” she said.

Asked if a police contingent might march in the parade in the future, Baumann said, “That will be a decision that will be made by the officers of the various police departments.”

“I hope so,” she added. “Twin Cities Pride is all about inclusion and all about living your authentic self.”

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County tapped again as SWLRT budget swells As the Southwest Light Rail Transit budget continues to grow, more of the responsibility for funding the state’s largest ever transportation project will be borne by Hennepin County taxpayers.

In a vote scheduled just after this edition went to press, Met Council was expected May 30 to officially increase the project’s budget 7.8 percent, to just more than $2 billion from about $1.86 billion.

The following day, the Hennepin County Board and Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority were scheduled to convene in special meetings to consider a $204 million increase in their combined contributions to the project. The new county funds exceed the increase in overall project costs because some project components, including an in-kind land transfer from the county to Met Council, are accounted for differently in the revised budget.

It’s not just Hennepin County taxpayers stepping up to the plate this time. While property tax revenues fund the railroad authority’s budget, the county pays for transit project with revenues generated by a half-cent sales tax — a tax paid by many non-county residents, Commissioner Peter McLaughlin pointed out.

“We’ve got adequate resources,” he said.

In exchange for its support of the Met Council plan, Hennepin County is proposing to take tighter control of the project’s contingency fund. It would add an executive control board to review change orders exceeding $350,000, and it would place half of the contingency fund into a reserve controlled by the board. Transferring funds from the reserve account would require approval from a simple majority of board members. The county would also seek a more active role for its staff.

Together, the county and railroad authority will soon control a slice of the

budget pie worth at least $780.5 million — a nearly 40 percent stake in the project, second only to the contribution expected from the Federal Transit Agency. That total doesn’t include $11 million from various county funds earmarked for project-related trail improvements or the tax revenue Hennepin County funneled to the Counties Transit Improvement Board, another local partner on the project.

And as the county’s contribution is growing, the federal share of the project budget is shrinking.

For years, Met Council maintained FTA funds would cover half the cost of the project. But that contribution was capped at $928.8 million in December 2016, when Met Council applied to advance the SWLRT project into the engineering phase.

The state is in for just $30.3 million, and CTIB voted to dissolve last year, leaving the Hennepin County as the only obvious source of new dollars for the project to tap.

And while they have recently made painful cuts — eliminating a planned light rail maintenance facility in Hopkins and replacing it with a very basic vehicle storage area — project leaders acknowledge the budget could continue to grow.

Delays figure significantly into rising costs. The project faces two lawsuits and awaits a federal board’s ruling on a critical property transfer, all of which threaten to slow progress. The new budget counts on FTA approval of a smaller contingency fund — not yet granted — and the fluctuating price of copper figures to be a significant factor in the size of a contract for light rail control and communications systems that has yet to be awarded.

If construction begins this fall, the 14.5mile extension of the Metro Green Line to Eden Prairie would begin revenue operations in 2023.

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The eternal boy of summer

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here are 40 tour guides at Target Field, but if you’re lucky, you’ll get Bob Lundegaard, an 86-year-old lifelong Twins historian who fell in love with baseball and baseball stadiums as a kid growing up in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia.

“I’m a diehard baseball fan,” says Lundegaard, who lives in Eden Prairie and raised his family in South Minneapolis. “The A’s and the Phillies played in the same park in Philadelphia, Shibe Park. Virtually every Sunday I went to Shibe Park and saw the best players in both leagues. It was a wonderful era. I saw [Joe] DiMaggio, [Ted] Williams, [Stan] Musial, Warren Spahn.

“In 1947, I went to a Sunday doubleheader against the [Brooklyn] Dodgers, and it was Jackie Robinson’s first appearance in Philadelphia. The ballpark, which seated 34,000, had 41,000 that day, and I would gather that excess were blacks. It was unbelievable.”

Call Lundegaard the eternal boy of summer.

Several days a month he can be found at Target Field, leading $17-a-head public tours that fly under the radar of most Twins fans but come highly recommended to baseball buffs with a sense of history.

Ballparks have a romance all their own, and no matter how bad the Twins are playing, Target Field remains a gorgeous shrine to baseball. Lundegaard’s tour comes with both his smarts and standup comedy act (“The ticket says the tours are an hour and a half, but I usually warn people at the beginning that sometimes mine last a little longer, depending on how long it takes for the laughter to subside,” he says), along with the sheer joy of being in the physical presence of scads of cool Twins memorabilia; the delicious anticipation of the endof-tour walk behind home plate and sitting in the dug-outs and a rare chance to go to baseball church, away from the numbers.

“Being in an empty stadium is kind of eerie, but beautiful in it’s own way,” says Lundegaard, as we watch two Twins ballplayers play catch on the pristine and otherwise vacant field. This morning, the Lundegaard-led tour is one of a couple in progress, including a few school groups. Kids in Twins T-shirts and jerseys, many of whom are around the same age Lundegaard was when he first discovered the game, shuffle around the stadium concourse with wide eyes.

“Having fun yet?” Lundegaard chirps to one boy racing past us, who responds with an affirmative whoop. “’Atta boy,” says the tour guide, like a first base coach rooting on one of his runners.

His enthusiasm has undoubtedly been infectious to the thousands of Twins fans he’s preached the gospel of baseball to since he first started leading tours in 2010, the year Target Field opened, after a fellow senior softball player and tour guide put out a recruiting call.

“He said, ‘You need to like baseball and you need to be a good bull (bleeper),’ and I raised both hands,” cracks Lundegaard, a font of baseball knowledge on philosophy, stadiums, trivia and players’ histories. “About a half-dozen of us took him up on it and became sort of the core of the guide system. We showed so much enthusiasm for

Bob Lundegaard at Target Field: “I’ve kind of fallen in love with the place.” Photo by Jim Walsh

it that another half-dozen joined the next year. In my biased opinion, they are among the best tour guides because being elderly and in love with baseball, they bring a lot of perspective.”

Lundegaard’s father was a soccer-loving immigrant from Denmark who took his son to his first baseball game at 10 years old. The love of the game stuck and followed Bob to Minneapolis, where he wrote general interest stories, film reviews and covered the University of Minnesota for the Minneapolis Tribune.

“I moved to Minneapolis in 1959, the year before the Twins and the Guthrie [Theater] got here,” he says. “I regarded it as a minor-league town and thought I’d work at the Tribune and go back East. But I fell in love with the area so much, and I just thought, ‘This is a wonderful place to raise a family.’ So I stayed.”

Today the baseball-loving Lundegaard family includes Bob’s daughter Karen, a writer and editor at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, and Erik, a writer and editor for Thompson Reuters and Super Lawyers in Seattle.

“It’s funny, because I’d come home from work swearing, but obviously it didn’t make an impression,” cracks Bob. “Talk about the apple not falling far from the tree, it’s ridiculous. And they’re both very talented.

“I almost never went to the Metrodome, but we liked Met Stadium and we enjoyed many afternoons at the park. The thing that really galls me about Erik is that he adopted a lot of the interests that I had as a career, but he’s better at them than I am. He’s a better writer, and he knows a lot more about movies than I do, and I hate to say it, but I think he knows almost as much about baseball as I do. We have a lot of very interesting conversations about the game.”

To be sure, as his kids will tell you, Bob Lundegaard is a character — in real life and on the big screen.

“My main claim to fame was that I was a movie critic, and a character in the movie ‘Fargo’ [William H. Macy as Jerry Lundegaard] was named for me,” he says, standing in front of a massive Tony Oliva mural. “The movie actually came out after I had retired, but I was invited to the local screening, and I went up to one of the [Cohen] brothers after the screening and I said, ‘My lawyers will see you in the morning.’ He shrugged his shoulders and said, ‘Very common name.’ Which is hilarious. In the regular phone book then, I was the only Lundegaard spelled that way in the Twin Cities — double ‘a’; the second ‘a’ makes it Danish. Like Kierkegaard.”

That’s the kind of yarn you get when you’re on tour with “Bob L.” (as his nametag has it), along with stories about Willie Mays and Ted Williams playing for the Minneapolis Millers; Babe Ruth playing “in a barnstorm in St. Paul”; the story of the Minneapolis Millerettes, the professional women’s baseball team that played for one season and served as inspiration for the movie “A League of Their Own”; the history of the Minnie and Paul sign in centerfield; and the meaning behind the plaques, trophies, bases, relics and other holy objects from Met Stadium and the Metrodome, where the Twins won world championships in 1987 and 1991.

“Almost every team likes to glory in its history,” says Lundegaard, but the truth is that it requires fans, history buffs and stalwart keepers of tradition like him to fan the flame. “Baseball fans are more knowledgeable about their teams and their history, more than any other sport by far,” he says.

“I mean, who remembers what the Vikings did five years ago?”

Lundegaard remembers so much baseball history it’s hard to believe he’s not an app — which suggests that a lifetime of reading, poring over stats and going to games keeps the mind sharp. “I think it’s inherited,” he says. “My mother was very sharp.

She remembered a lot of things.”

Throughout the tour, Lundegaard’s reverence for Twins players of the past is evident, most notably Oliva, Kirby Puckett, Cesar Tovar, Harmon Killebrew and Rod Carew. We pause for a moment of silence in front of a giant Puckett woodcutting, linger at Kirby’s Hall of Fame replica plaque, stop in the Herb Carneal press box, gawk at the case holding memorabilia from Paul McCartney’s unforgettable 2014 Target Field concert and end up in the visitor’s locker room, where the smell of ballplayers’ sweat melds with the aroma of hot dogs, ketchup, mustard, beer and freshly-cut grass.

The tour concludes down on the empty diamond, where Lundegaard surveys a barrel of infield grass clippings. He looks out at the downtown Minneapolis horizon from home plate, puts his hands on his hips and checks the cloudy blue sky for chances of rain. Somewhere an umpire is yelling, “Play ball!” But for the moment Target Field is quiet, and gloriously so.

“They’ve done a wonderful job of creating a ballpark that’s very, very attractive,” he says. “I’ve kind of fallen in love with the place.”

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Calhoun Towers development Many West Calhoun neighbors have strong reservations regarding Bader Development’s proposal to expand its Calhoun Towers property by adding two 24-story towers, two 6-story buildings and multiple townhouses. This would add 1,400 or more residents, a 60 percent population increase for West Calhoun.

Minneapolis has always been recognized for its appealing livability, but these overscaled development projects would permanently reverse that status. Projects like the Calhoun Towers set a dangerous precedent for high-rise development around the lakes, changing the character of our neighborhoods forever.

Our pro-density mayor, City Council and developers like Bader assume is that we are a carless community or that we will become one in the near future. We are not there yet.

The traffic studies presented for the Bader project make large assumptions about light rail presence and usage. They also significantly underestimate forecasted traffic levels during and after development.

Adding hundreds of new residents and light rail users would amplify this problem, not lessen it.

Lastly, the future of Southwest Light Rail Transit remains uncertain as lawsuits continue and the price tag soars.

On an environmental level, there are significant issues at stake. Existing soil and potential groundwater contamination on the Calhoun Towers site could adversely

affect residents and the lake’s ecosystem once construction begins.

There is an increasing sense of urgency for our cause as the Calhoun Towers expansion project moves forward. It represents more to come. If the Minneapolis 2040 comprehensive plan update is approved, there will be a massive disruption to Bde Maka Ska and all of our neighborhoods (minneapolis2040.com/policies/development-near-metro-stations).

If you are concerned for the future of our city lakes, please contact your City Council member, the City Planning Commission and the mayor, right away. We can preserve our lakes and the community’s unique qualities while embracing change with a more thoughtful, balanced approach.

If our residents don’t take action, the lakes area will become unrecognizable.

We’ll be asking ourselves: Is this Moscow or Minneapolis?

Victoria Hoshal and Martha Yunker West Calhoun

Rents have gone up so fast in such a short period of time, how on earth could landlords be hurting? Renters are the ones hurting.

Rents do not go up because of higher property taxes. Rents go up because landlords and their profit margins take a hit.

This is an important point. Higher taxes hurt their profit margins. They don’t need to raise the rent. Why do landlords get to decide how much profit they make?

The higher property tax excuse is not even grounded in reality. How could all landlords in the metro area need to raise their rents to the ever-increasing “market value” amounts because of higher taxes when they all have different expenses?

Some buildings have mortgages and some do not. In some buildings renters pay the heating bills. All landlords have much different profit margins, so how could all of them be hurting under higher taxes, and how could all need to raise rents?

Do they think renters are so stupid they wouldn’t see how nonsensical landlords’ rental increases are?

Frank Erickson Standish

Rising rents Landlords need to make up their minds. Are they raising rents simply because they can — because it’s “supply and demand” — or because they are hurting financially from higher property taxes?

Why even bother to cry financial hardship as an excuse to raise rents when landlords and our elected officials tell us rents are skyrocketing because of supply and demand?

Landlords currently have the freedom to band together and raise rents as much as they want, so why even bother with the higher taxes excuse? They have supply and demand, and it is the gold standard for gouging renters.

City trees Eric Best wrote a wonderful piece, “Planting a new canopy,” in the May 17–30 Southwest Journal. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board has an ambitious plan to plant 8,000 new trees by this June.

We have all learned lessons from planting a single species only to see a disease wipe out our elm and now ash trees. Trees act as the lungs of our planet by giving us oxygen and removing carbon dioxide.

The Park Board is doing its best to replace

our lost trees, but unfortunately budget issues do not allow for frequent enough watering of these newly planted trees. A stroll along our lakes and parks shows that many young trees are dying, in no small part due to lack of water.

Here is where citizens can step up and feel good about adopting a tree and seeing that it gets watered at least weekly. It makes for a great individual or family learning experience.

If more incentive is needed, there is a super nonprofit that will send you a coupon for a free beer or coffee if you adopt a tree and water it. Go to brewingabetterforest. com and find a tree near you, and they will send you an email when the tree is thirsty.

Also, this topic makes for great conversation with neighbors and at your local block party. Let’s give our Park Board a hand.

Mike Menzel Edina

Property valuations The city generates more revenue with the increase in property valuations (“For what it’s worth,” May 17–30), and then they talk of a levy increase of 5.5 percent. That actually is a double increase.

With the increased taxes via increased valuations, maybe the city should bite the bullet on the other one and have a zero percent increase. They should make the tough decision about how they spend taxpayer money.

Tom Keith Linden Hills

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“It tastes like a vanilla milkshake. It’s sweeter and more flavorful,” he said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that raw milk and products made from it can cause severe health risks, including death, because it has not undergone pasteurization to kill bacteria.

The CDC reports that heath risks exist at even the most sanitary farms.

“While it is possible to get foodborne illnesses from many different foods, raw milk is one of the riskiest of all,” states the CDC. Winter maintains that raw milk is not as dangerous as people perceive, and said he’s walked away from dairy farms he didn’t like.

He said all of Uptown Locavore’s meat is processed in licensed facilities.

“If one person is sick, that [meat processing] plant is toast,” he said. “… Every bite has to be safe.”

He argues that if stores down the street can sell cigarettes and alcohol, products with indisputable health impacts, knowledgeable adults should be allowed to buy raw dairy. And if a few families can informally buy a cow and split up the beef, he said, why not 400 families? He said Uptown Locavore is his “expensive hobby,” meant to be a public service and provide sustainable income for farmers, particularly farmers that treat animals well.

“This is not a money-making operation,” he said. “It was set up from day one to never be a store.”

About 200 members pay a $50 annual membership or apply for a volunteer membership, Winter said. They sign an agreement that frees the club from any liability related to dairy products.

“It’s just too bad they’ve come down on them so hard with this,” said Kingfield resident Dean Amundson, who said he buys direct from farmers and has known Winter for years. “… It’s just so much better to eat homegrown vegetables and locally grown meat.”

Long before launching Uptown Locavore, Winter said he sold farm-fresh food out of his garage for a decade in the early 2000s.

He later launched the Traditional Foods Warehouse on 61st Street with two other partners, he said, where they grew to nearly

2,000 members. Winter said the business generated high debts and he decided to leave. He said state investigators arrived at the warehouse one week later.

Minnesota Administrative Law Judge Amy J. Chantry said in court documents that Traditional Foods Warehouse at 302 W. 61st St. was an unlicensed food establishment, and state inspectors ordered it to shut down in June 2010 after discovering a farmer leasing space there was selling raw milk. A 2011 search of leased space at the warehouse yielded another embargo of unpasteurized dairy products and another order to discontinue operation, according to court documents.

During the unannounced inspection of Uptown Locavore on May 3, health inspectors documented foods like sourdough bread, pizza dough, organic coffee, fresh unprocessed milk, raw milk Monterey Jack cheese, Mangalitza pork and Alaskan sockeye salmon. Some of the food is from Thousand Hills Cattle Co., where Winter is a consultant, and from Lucky Pig Farm, a business where Winter partners with farms to raise his pigs.

“All my food is locked up, and now I have to go to Lunds,” Winter said.

Huff, the city’s environmental health director, said there are plenty of other ways to buy direct from farmers in Minneapolis, and the city employs a fulltime staff person to support locally grown food.

“We have 29 farmers markets in Minneapolis, more than any community in the state,” he said.

Winter countered that farmers markets don’t work for everyone, and co-ops don’t always carry “mom-and-pop” farms. Farmers who participate in markets often wake in the middle of the night, drive many miles and find they haven’t brought the best-selling produce, he said.

“Not every farmer has the personality or the time to sit there every Saturday,” he said. “… I have nothing against farmers markets, but they don’t meet the needs of all people.

And you can’t have raw dairy there.”

Huff said the embargoed dairy likely needs to be condemned, but he hopes to return the meat and fish to the producers.

Winter said he plans to fight the closure with the help of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund.

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New law prohibits tobacco sales to those under 21

By Sonya Chechik

The Minneapolis City Council unanimously voted May 25 to raise the minimum purchasing age for all tobacco products to 21.

Council members shared personal stories at the meeting that encouraged them to support the ordinance, known as Tobacco 21, and thanked the community advocators for their work to bring about change. Following its passage, a largely green T21 T-shirt-clad audience and council members celebrated with a standing ovation.

“The best way to help someone quit smoking is to prevent them from starting in the first place,” said Council Member Andrew Johnson (Ward 12), co-author of the ordinance. “By making it harder for teens to get their hands on tobacco products, fewer will start smoking.”

According to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 90 percent of youth start smoking by 18 and 95 percent start by 21.

“This is a great next step for the city to take.

It’s a really sound policy that is backed by a lot of science,” said Betsy Brock of the Association for Nonsmokers Minnesota.

According to the Minnesota Youth Tobacco Survey, the youth smoking rate is on the rise for the first time in years due to the growing presence of e-cigarettes and vapes.

Supporters argue this policy will help protect youth from being disproportionately marketed to by tobacco companies.

“We have an obligation to our residents to protect our youth from a predatory tobacco

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industry,” said co-author Council Member Jeremiah Ellison (Ward 5).

Minneapolis has previously enacted other measures to restrict tobacco sales appealing to youth. Beginning in January 2016, the sale of flavored tobacco products was restricted to specialty tobacco shops that only admit adults 21 and older.

In 2016, Chicago raised its legal purchasing age to 21. The following year the city saw an immediate decline in the rate of cigarette and e-cigarette use among youth 18–20.

Last May, Edina became the first city in

Minnesota to raise the minimum purchasing age of tobacco products to 21. Since then, Bloomington, Falcon Heights, North Mankato, Plymouth, Shoreview and St. Louis Park have followed suit.

“Seeing these other cities lead on this has really helped inspire this movement and give us additional energy to get this done,” Johnson said.

So far, more than 300 cities and five states have raised the minimum tobacco purchasing age to 21.

Lance Klatt, executive director of the Minnesota Service Station & Convenience

Store Association, said he worries about T21’s impact on local businesses.

“An increase to 21 will only add to the carnage of what these small business owners may be facing,” he said.

Meghan Shey, a representative from the Coalition of Neighborhood Retailers, said Minneapolis businesses are already struggling with the rising minimum wage, property taxes and other tobacco restrictions.

“I’m not surprised, but certainly disappointed,” she said, following the passage of T21.

A 2012 report from the U.S. Department Health and Human Services showed young people ages 18–20 account for only a fraction of the tobacco market but provide a majority of the tobacco to minors who smoke.

Ellison said, “We know we want to support our businesses, but nothing can come at the expense of our youth and our community at large.”

According to a report from the National Academy of Medicine using state-specific data, a statewide increase of the tobacco purchasing age of 21 similar to T21 would prevent 30,000 youth from starting to smoke within 15 years.

Mayor Jacob Frey, council members and advocates are now looking at pushing the Minneapolis law to the state level.

In a press conference following the meeting, Frey signed T21 into law saying, “let’s go save some lives.”

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Public Safety Update

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Police see spate of burglaries in Lyndale and Kingfield Police issued a crime alert May 21 for a series of burglaries in the Lyndale and Kingfield neighborhoods, citing 11 reported burglaries since May 18.

Suspects cut lower-level screens and opened unlocked windows in five of the house burglaries. Intruders entered six garages by walking through unlocked service doors or kicking in doors.

Extra patrols in plain clothes and in uniform are watching the area.

Data indicate that property crime year-todate in Southwest Minneapolis’ 5th Precinct is down about 17 percent from 2017 but is up 25.5 percent from 2016. Burglaries in the precinct year-to-date are down 33.8 percent from 2017 and down 19 percent from 2016.

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Shooting outside Bar Louie ends in jail time for suspect, paralysis for victim A 30-year-old man faces a sentence of more than eight years in prison for shooting and paralyzing a man last summer at Bar Louie, 1348 Lagoon Ave., a bar that recently closed.

A Hennepin County District Court judge sentenced Eddie Arlondoe Burch in March to prison for 98 months, convicting him on a charge of first-degree assault.

The following account is according to the criminal complaint and Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman: Burch brought a loaded gun to Bar Louie on June 26, 2017 and started drinking alcohol and harassing the victim. An employee heard a glass break, saw the victim punching Burch, and called the police. The victim left the bar, Burch followed, and the two fought. As the victim ended the fight and walked away, Burch pulled out a gun

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Officers working nearby heard a radio description of Burch and noticed a man of his description walking quickly toward them. After a brief chase on foot, officers arrested Burch.

According to Freeman, the victim is a U.S. Marine who returned uninjured from Iraq, and the last place he expected to be shot is Bar Louie in Uptown.

Burch said he was so intoxicated that he doesn’t have a memory of the incident, according to court documents. He signed a statement saying he understood a lack of memory would not impact the terms of the sentence.

Bar Louie closed May 15 at 1348 Lagoon Ave. A statement from the company said the Uptown location was not thriving, and the franchisee opted to close.

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Lyndale celebrates School of Excellence validation

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

Lyndale Community School celebrated its status as a School of Excellence during an all-school assembly on May 21.

Members of the school’s 2016-17 instructional leadership team accepted a School of Excellence award from Minnesota Elementary School Principals’ Association Executive Director Jon Millerhagen. Minneapolis Superintendent Ed Graff praised the students, staff and community for their work.

“You’re doing a great job of demonstrating what it means to be a Lyndale Eagle,” he told the students.

The ceremony came nearly nine months after the pre-K–5 school of about 515 students received the School of Excellence validation.

The Minnesota Elementary School Principal’s Association gives the status to schools that go through a prescribed self-reflection process and make a plan to build on their strengths and address weaknesses.

The process doesn’t penalize schools if they have lower levels of student achievement, said Sam Richardson, chair of the association’s School of Excellence Committee. Rather, he said, it honors the schools for engaging in the process of self-study.

“This process helps people reflect on the types of things they are doing very well and the success they are having with students,” Richardson said.

Richardson said it typically takes schools two years to go through the process. He said the School of Excellence validation lasts for seven years.

Richardson said that self-reflection can help staff at schools ensure they’re not taking for

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granted the programs and systems they have in place. He noted that educators sometimes think about day-to-day progress in terms of what’s not being accomplished or what’s not working. The School of Excellence application process, he said, helps them see what is working at schools.

Lyndale went through the self-study process in the winter of 2016. Members of the school’s instructional leadership team subsequently analyzed the responses and summarized them in the second part of their School of Excellence application.

In a press release, Lyndale Principal Mark Stauduhar said the process helped the school identify its strengths, which include the ways it partners with the community. He noted the school’s band, orchestra and choral partnerships as well as its partnership with Children’s Theatre Company.

“Strengthening and enhancing our climate and culture inside our building is to everybody’s benefit,” Stauduhar said in an interview.

Stauduhar added that the validation sends a message to the community that Lyndale is a valid option for families. He said it’s a component of the school’s ongoing recruitment strategy, noting an enrollment campaign the school launched this past winter.

“There’s a tremendous sense of pride in Lyndale Community School,” Stauduhar said.

The May 21 assembly was part of a week of celebration for Lyndale, which turned 50 years old this year. Students and staff also created a community art installation, created a time capsule and participated in a community celebration.

Art teacher Leann Walker presented the time capsule to the students during the assembly, going through the items that each grade level added and announcing their predictions for 25 years into the future. The students cheered boisterously as Walker announced the first graders’ prediction: that there would be robotic pencils that could do homework for you.

“It is no wonder that Lyndale Community School has been successful in undergoing the School of Excellence program,” Graff later said.

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The filing period for both offices remains open through June 5.

Banks said he would also work to improve the department’s relationship with the immigrant community. That would include making certain undocumented immigrants booked into the Hennepin County Jail understand their rights with regard to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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A bail bond agent and former police officer, Joseph Banks said he would lead the department into a closer relationship with the community it serves if elected Hennepin County sheriff.

“When it’s all said and done, we work for the community,” Banks said, pledging to improve communications and make the department’s work more transparent. A youth football coach who said he prioritizes work in the community, Banks would if elected sheriff still make time to volunteer and represent the department at public safety meetings, which he described as “important avenues of communication.”

“My whole platform is about community and law enforcement working together,” he said.

Banks said he has worked in law enforcement for more than two decades and during that time served as chief of the City of Morton and Upper Sioux police departments. He said his run for sheriff was motivated in part by a desire to bring clarity to the use-of-force investigations that follow officer-involved shootings, and he would seek a role for the sheriff’s department when those incidents occur in Hennepin County. He said the department “should have been more of a buffer” when the 2015 Jamar Clark shooting sparked protests against Minneapolis police.

Hutch said he would staff the county jail with corrections officers, cutting the cost of overtime hours paid to licensed deputies and also giving those deputies more time in the community.

He would also seek ways for the department to intervene in the cycle of opioid abuse.

“As soon as they get arrested, we get them treatment as quick as we can,” he said.

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Hutch’s legal last name is Hutchinson, but he intends to appear on the ballot as Hutch. He is a Metro Transit Police sergeant with 15 years of law enforcement experience and a leader on the department’s North Side Community Engagement Team.

Hutch said he pioneered that communityoriented policing and engagement effort, which aims to build trust between the department and North Side residents, with a former partner who is still on the beat. If elected sheriff, he would shift deputies into roles where they have more contact with community members and can better support local police departments.

Under Stanek, he said, the department is “stuck in ’90s-era policing,” with deputies isolated from the public in their patrol vehicles.

Hutch promotes a philosophy of “21st century law enforcement” that is more transparent, approachable and fair.

“People have said it a million times, but if you and I are better, the community is better,” he said. “If the community is better, we’re better.”

The culture change envisioned by Hutch would involve re-evaluating how the department hires new deputies. He said he would shift the emphasis in interviews to testing the applicants’ emotional intelligence and ability to maintain their composure under stress.

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A former Minneapolis police officer, state legislator from Maple Grove and commissioner of the Department of Public Safety under Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Rich Stanek was elected sheriff in 2006 and is seeking a third term in office.

Stanek said he was first motivated to run by a surge in violent crime, noting a 36 percent decrease in violent crime countywide during his time in office. Statewide crime rates also hit a 50-year low in 2017, according to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

Today, the opioid crisis is a significant challenge for the department, and Stanek noted he was the first public safety official in the state to give his deputies narcan, which can reverse the effects of an overdose, and fought to get it in the hands of officers statewide.

Although he has faced criticism from some quarters over his department’s relationship with Immigration and Customs Enforcement — whose agents routinely pick up undocumented immigrants as they are being released from jail — Stanek said he is required under state law to ask where people are born when they enter the jail, adding that the information is shared with ICE only indirectly after being passed from state to federal agencies. County deputies don’t enforce federal immigration law, he said, but the department does comply with ICE requests to be notified when certain individuals are released from jail.

Stanek said the department is a national leader in 21st-century policing practices, noting that Department of Justice officials visited in April to highlight local community engagement efforts.

He has also used his position to highlight the jail population’s high rates of mental illness and state agencies’ failures to get those inmates treatment.

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Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman has often been the focus, during his fifth term in office, of a community-wide debate over policeinvolved shootings.

After a grand jury did not find probable cause to charge police for the 2013 death of Terrance Franklin, Freeman decided to end their use in police shootings, citing a lack of transparency and accountability. He then didn’t find cause to charge officers in the 2015 shooting death of Jamar Clark, afterwards releasing dozens of written documents, videos and photos so that the public could also review the evidence in the case. More recently, he used a grand jury to compel officer testimony before deciding to charge a Minneapolis police officer with the murder last summer of Justine Damond, who was shot after calling 911.

“I think today people demand more accountability and more transparency, and I gave it to them,” he said.

Freeman said he is particularly proud of efforts to keep young people charged with minor crimes out of the system, reducing the average population of the juvenile detention center more than 50 percent. He said just 3 percent of the office’s attorneys were people of color when he started; it’s now 22 percent.

“I’ll match that with any prosecutor’s staff in the country,” he said.

In response to the opioid epidemic, Freeman has focused his office on prosecuting “big-time dealers” while diverting those accused of lower-level crimes into drug court. He has also joined other Minnesota county attorneys in a class-action suit against drug manufacturers and distributors.

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In between running his own family law practice and finding a job in state government, Mark Haase worked for the Minnesota Council on Crime and Justice, a sinceshuttered nonprofit where he served as vice president, and helped to launch the Minnesota Second Chance Coalition — experiences that motivated to run for Hennepin County attorney. As an advocate, he focused on policies to help those with criminal records find jobs and housing and regain the right to vote.

“Making sure people are held accountable is a very important part of the job, and I completely believe in that, but I think there’s a balance between accountability and mercy and second chances,” he said, adding that the county is over-incarcerating, and it’s not working.

Haase said he’s running because the criminal justice system still punishes people for poverty, mental illness, drug addiction and homelessness while contributing to racial disparities.

“An African-American in Hennepin County is 11 times more likely to be arrested for a marijuana offense than a white person, even though the use is even between races,” he said, adding that it was time “to basically get out of that business in prosecution and law enforcement.”

While he agrees with incumbent Mike Freeman’s shift away from the use of grand juries in police-involved shootings, Haase would also create an independent review panel made up of community experts.

It would give a second opinion on cases involving officers, he said.

Haase would advocate for the elimination of cash bail, explaining, “I do not think freedom should depend on how much money you have.”

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Employers can almost never play a role in pooling servers’ tips, with a few narrow exceptions, explained Matt Frank, an attorney who represented Surly servers and bartenders.

People who directly receive tips are not obligated to share them with indirect service employees like dishwashers and cooks.

Surly servers and bartenders placed their tips in envelopes and turned them over at the end of each shift for redistribution in paychecks, with a percentage going to staff like barbacks, hosts and food runners, court documents said. That meant more than $1 million was diverted to other employees over a period of nearly three years, Frank said, significantly bumping pay for nontipped workers.

“It ends up amounting to a potentially significant savings for the company,” he said.

A Surly manual explained that tip-sharing was part of a “team mentality,” according to court documents.

“This is the reason we believe in tip pooling: we are a team, we will work together to be the best damn staff in town,” stated the manual.

In a statement, Surly said its 2014 tipping system was implemented on the advice of many experts and industry leaders to create a fair system. No malice was intended, and no tips were retained by Surly, the company said.

Michaelann Gillis said she was one of the first people to speak to an attorney in the tip-pooling case. As a consistent top-three contributor (an open book tallied every server’s sales), she felt the system didn’t work for her, and she ended up leaving.

She was surprised at the size of the class action check.

“The hard part is that a good portion of it was money I would have tipped-out (to other staff ) anyway,” she said. “…

Surly didn’t take a dime, they just distributed it improperly.”

Surly said a traditional tipping system is now in place.

Surly settled with 148 class action members. All will receive at least 100 percent of their out-of pocket losses, according to their attorney. Photo by Michelle Bruch

A recurring issue Minnesota tip-pooling cases date back at least 10 years. Cases include a $1.2 million settlement for 1,200 servers at Outback Steakhouse restaurants in 2011 and a 2013 ruling in favor of servers at Pinstripes.

The Trump administration floated an idea for new tip regulations last year to allow more tip-pooling with the back of the house.

Revised federal Department of Labor standards now clarify that tips belong only to employees, and if tipped workers make at least minimum wage, they can pay into tip pools that benefit the back of the house.

Minnesota law says employers cannot require workers to participate in such a tip pool, however.

Staff at the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry said they aren’t seeing any particular trends in complaints related to tip-pooling, tip credits and tip-sharing.

Annual complaints stood at 28 in 2013, 36 in 2015, 17 in 2017 and 13 so far in 2018.

But Frank, the attorney on the Surly case, said his office at Nichols Kaster is answering more tip-pooling questions.

So is attorney Shawn Wanta, who said his office at Baillon Thome Jozwiak & Wanta is fielding more tip-pooling cases. He said the issue tends to pop up in newer restaurants with creative business models.

One case underway since late 2017 involves The Copper Hen Cakery, where servers allege that the restaurant unlawfully required them to share a portion of tips with other employees.

The Copper Hen owner did not respond for comment.

Searching for a better system Dan McElroy of the Minnesota Restaurant Association said he’s watching a movement toward

fast-casual counter service, similar to Five Guys, Panera Bread and Punch Neapolitan Pizza.

Jason Dorweiler, the owner of Tori 44 in North Minneapolis, said he always thought that if he opened his own restaurant, he’d find a way to split the tips with the back of the house. But he learned his vision to provide table service and split the tips wouldn’t legally work. So he switched the business model from table service to counter service to aid tip-sharing, he said.

“I wish things were different,” Dorweiler said. “… It’s been unfair for so long. I’ve been on both sides. Mostly I’ve been cooking, but I switched for that reason to bartending and serving because I’m going to make a ton more money.”

The restaurant Fig + Farro recently ended tip-pooling practices.

The same is true at Common Roots at 26th & Lyndale, which previously used a system where employees voluntarily pooled tips with all staff. Owner Danny Schwartzman said they always ran the risk that just one staffer wouldn’t like the system, and there wouldn’t be an easy way to fix it.

They dropped tips altogether about a year ago, increasing prices and paying everyone at least $15.

“A lot of restaurants are relatively small operations that don’t have extensive back offices, and they’re trying to figure out how to do the right thing,” he said. “… Simple questions aren’t as simple as you think.”

Jennifer Schellenberg of Restaurant Workers of America, a group that advocates for preserving tip income, once alerted the Department of Labor to forced tip-pooling at a prior employer. The complaint led to a restaurant audit and checks for lost wages.

But she thinks Surly had good intentions with its tip pool, she said. Surly has been an industry leader in many ways, she said, from the craft beer movement to state law changes.

“I’m hopeful that the takeaway for people can be that they made a mistake, and they paid for it,” she said.

Minneapolis teachers union president elected to second term

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

The president of the Minneapolis teachers union has earned a second term, the union announced May 16.

Michelle Wiese was elected to a second two-year term, which will start June 15.

The union, the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers Local 59, did not release the specific election results, and Wiese did not respond to a request for comment.

MFT is the umbrella union for the district’s teachers and education support professionals. Each group has its own chapter within the union and elects its own officers and executive board.

In her candidate profile, Wiese wrote that she’s worked to transform the union into an active member-driven organization with social justice at its heart. She noted her work organizing a rally in 2016 in support of Black Lives Matter; work to update the union’s policy manual; work to catch the union up on its payments to Education Minnesota; and work to convert fee payers to members.

Wiese ran as part of a slate of candidates that called itself the Minneapolis Solidarity Coalition. In a GoFundMe page, the slate wrote that they were focused on social justice, transparency, fiscal responsibility

and what’s best for students and educators.

Ten of the coalition’s 11 candidates were elected either as officers or members of the union’s executive board.

The coalition faced competition for the officer positions and board seats from another slate of candidates, called the Joy and Justice Coalition. The six-person slate campaigned on a 10-point platform, advocating for new mentorship programs and promising to visit every site in the district next fall. About 15 other teachers also ran for officer or executive board positions.

In addition to Wiese, other winning teachers chapter candidates for officer positions were: Mary Manor (first vice president); Jill Jacobson (second vice president); Greta Callahan (secretary); Robert Koehnert (treasurer)*; and Rebecca Miller (MRLF chair)*.

Winning ESP candidates for officer positions were: Shaun Laden (president); Susan Joy Broman (first vice president); Catina Neal (second vice president) and Pam Booth (secretary).

Minneapolis Federation of Teachers President Michelle Wiese speaks during a union rally outside the Minneapolis Public Schools headquarters in February. Photo by Nate Gotlieb

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By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

Agriculture department completes gypsy moth treatments in Lowry Hill The Minnesota Department of Agriculture performed its third and final gypsy moth treatment in the Lowry Hill area on May 29.

The department aerially applied the biologically insecticide bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki (Btk) over a portion of the Lowry Hill neighborhood. It applied the insecticide between Mount Curve and Franklin avenues to the north and south and Irving and Dupont avenues to the west and east.

The application started early in the morning and took less than 30 minutes to complete.

Gypsy moths are one of North America’s most destructive pests, according to the department. Gypsy moth caterpillars have defoliated entire forests in eastern states with significant infestations, causing millions of dollars in damage to urban landscapes.

The moths have continued to expand westward in North America, according to the department. Female gypsy moths, which are unable to fly, will deposit their eggs either on natural or man-made objects, such as firewood or car wheel wells. Humans play a role in expanding the moths’ range when they transport those objects into non-infested areas.

The agriculture department diagnosed the Lowry Hill infestation last summer when a resident noticed caterpillars on trees. Department staff found thousands of caterpillars and hundreds of egg masses upon inspection of the area.

The department quarantined the area last July, restricting the movement of trees and woody material, including firewood, out of the neighborhood. The department also urged residents in the quarantined area to inspect outdoor equipment, household items and vehicles that had been sitting outside for egg masses. The quar-

A trap the Minnesota Department of Agriculture uses to catch gypsy moths.

Gypsy moth caterpillars have five pairs of blue dots and six pairs of red dots on their backs.

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antine remains in effect, and the department still encourages those precautions.

MDA decided to treat the area with Btk, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agencyapproved bacterium with low risk for humans or animals other than caterpillars.

The product is organic certified for food crops and has no known health effects for humans and other animals.

Kimberly Thielen Cremers, supervisor of the department’s Pest Mitigation and Regulatory Response Unit, said the first two treatments, which took place May 16 and May 22, went really well. She said some residents weren’t aware of the first treatment, noting that the department received calls from some about the low-flying airplane it uses to apply the treatment.

The department applied the final treatment in a significantly smaller area than it did the first two treatments. Thielen Cremers said the department will follow up at the infested site for two years of intensive surveying, blanketing the area with tent-shaped traps. It will begin setting those traps next month.

Thielen Cremers said there were millions of tiny caterpillars in the infested area before the department applied the treatment. She noted the great weather on the treatment days, which she said is good news, because the caterpillars like to feed on nice weather days. Btk only kills the caterpillars when they ingest it.

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Female gypsy moths, which are unable to fly, will deposit their eggs either on natural or man-made objects, such as firewood or car wheel wells. Humans play a role in expanding the moths’ range when they transport those objects into non-infested areas.

The agriculture department has traditionally lifted quarantines in mid-to-late June, Thielen Cremers said, though it will determine the specific date for lifting the Lowry Hill quarantine after the final application. She said she always cautions people to monitor their backyards and be on the lookout for the caterpillars, which have five pairs of blue dots and six pairs of red dots on their backs.

Visit mda.state.mn.us/gypsymoth to learn more about gypsy moths and the department’s treatment plans.

Tangletown, city to landscape water tower base The Tangletown Neighborhood Association is working with the City of Minneapolis’ water department to landscape the base of the Washburn Park Water Tower.

The neighborhood association is holding a planting event on June 2 during which volunteers will plant flowers, shrubs and grasses at the base of the 110-foot tower. Residents are also planning to water and weed the plants in shifts throughout the summer.

Constructed in the early 1930s, the Washburn Park Water Tower held 1.35 million gallons of water and provided water pressure to the surrounding neighborhood until the 1990s.

The city’s water department subsequently began using the Southwest pump station to provide service to the neighborhood.

The department put a fence around the tower a few years ago to protect it from vandalism, but residents contacted the department about landscaping the base of the tower.

The department reached out to the neighborhood association this winter, after accepting a landscaping proposal from Tangletown Gardens. It asked if the association could help with the planting and ongoing maintenance for three years, which it agreed to do.

The neighborhood association is still looking for volunteers for the June 2 event, said Executive Director Sally Bauer. She added that members of the water department will be out volunteering at the event.

The association recommendations that volunteers for the event bring refillable water bottles, gardening gloves and shovels. The volunteer work will include lifting and carrying plants, shoveling, planting and watering.

To learn more or sign up for a volunteer shift, visit tangletown.org/program initiatives/washburn-water-tower.

The City of Minneapolis’ water department and the Tangletown Neighborhood Association are teaming up to landscape the base of the Washburn Park Water Tower.

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By Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com

Park Board hires firm to find its next superintendent Park Commissioners have made their first formal move in finding the city’s next park leader.

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board unanimously approved the hiring of St. Louis Park-based kpCompanies to aide a national effort to recruit its next executive.

“One of things (about) kpCompanies (that) stood out head and shoulders above the rest of our firms was really an intrinsic understanding of the community listening and community

outreach that we want to conduct as part of our superintendent search process as we’re looking across the nation for the 13th superintendent of our Park Board,” President Brad Bourn (District 6) said.

The board expects to have a new superintendent in place by October. The hire will be the permanent replacement of Jayne Miller, who stepped down earlier this year after seven years as superintendent. Superintendent Emeritus Mary

Merrill, a former commissioner and superintendent, is serving as interim superintendent.

The board has budgeted up to $100,000 for the process. Only a fraction will come from its budget, which didn’t account for Miller’s resignation. The Minneapolis Foundation is assisting with the search process with a $50,000 investment, though the foundation won’t have any say in who the Park Board chooses. President R.T. Rybak said the board

should call on the civic community to help recruit the “No. 1 superintendent in America.”

“This job should be seen and known across the country, world, whatever and there should be great recruitment,” he said.

The Park Board previously worked with kpCompanies in 2016 to recruit Tyrize Cox, the assistant superintendent of its Recreation Services division. The firm was founded in 2001.

Minneapolis has nation’s best park system six years running, study says It’s become a slogan for the city’s park leaders that Minneapolis has the country’s No. 1 park system.

The title was once again affirmed May 23 with the release of the Trust for Public Land’s latest ParkScore index, which Minneapolis has topped since it debuted on the list in 2013. The national nonprofit’s annual ranking of the country’s 100 largest cities is based on a park system’s park size, investments, amenities and access.

Mayor Jacob Frey described Minneapolis, which continues to narrowly edge ahead of second-place St. Paul after the two cities tied in 2015, as a “great city in a park.”

“From quality of life, to safe recreational space, to tourism — our parks are critical to who we are as a city. I’m thrilled that our park system continues to earn accolades. We have world class parks and the world is taking notice,” he said in a statement.

Minneapolis scored 84.2 out of a possible 100 points, ahead of St. Paul (82.4), Washington, D.C. (81.9), Arlington, Virginia (81.6) and San Francisco (79.6).

The city is on track to spend about $249 for each of its nearly 416,000 residents on parks, which earned it a perfect score in the investment category. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board recently began a 20-year plan to invest $800 million over the next two decades into better maintaining the city’s neigh-

The Trust for Public Land announced that Minneapolis once again topped its annual survey of the country’s largest park systems at a May 23 ceremony at the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Park.

Photo courtesy of Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board

borhood parks. Investment across the country totaled $7.5 billion this year, up $429 million over last year’s index.

“My motto is ‘playing for life’ and parks are a vital resource for youth, adults and families throughout the city. We are committed to serving the diverse needs of our residents, and we’re

proud of the initiatives we’ve taken to continually assess and improve our park facilities and the services we provide the community,” said Superintendent Mary Merrill of the Park Board.

Minneapolis scored high because nearly all residents, about 97 percent, live within a halfmile or about a 10-minute walk away from a

park, according to the Trust for Public Land.

San Francisco is the only city in the index to have 100 percent of its residents living within 10 minutes of park, a goal that more than 200 mayors across the country have adopted. About 70 percent of the country’s population measured in the index are within a half-mile of a park.

“The research is clear: quality, close-to-home parks are essential to communities. Everyone deserves a great park within a 10-minute walk (from) home,” said Diane Regas, the organization’s president and CEO. St. Paul leads the country in its number of restrooms, or 10.5 for every 10,000 residents.

Minneapolis has about 6.8 for 10,000 of its residents, far greater than the index’s national average of 2.4.

While Minneapolis did earn the top honor from the Trust for Public Land, the index indicates several opportunities for growth. Areas of high and very high need of additional parks exist near the heart of downtown Minneapolis and the North Loop, as well as the city’s southern border near Edina and Richfield. Many of the areas in need of additional parks are industrial or former industrial areas, such as the Hiawatha corridor and the Como neighborhood.

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Council denies neighbor appeal of 36th & Bryant apartments The City Council denied an appeal filed by neighbors May 25 that sought to block construction of a 41-unit apartment building at the site of the former Southwest Senior Center.

The vote upholds the City Planning Commission’s prior approval to build a five-story, 50-foot building at 3612–3616 Bryant Ave. S. Steven Verdoorn, who lives north of the proposal, said at a May hearing the project would cause undue loss of light, air, privacy, quiet, property values and public safety.

Nearby resident Jean Ross presented a small house tied to balloons, evoking the movie “Up.” Ross explained that the movie character saw his house increasingly surrounded by high-rises and airlifted the house to an idyllic spot.

“I wish I could do that too, because I foresee the city’s current plan to continue building these high-density, micro-unit apartment buildings ruining the character and livability of our neighborhood,” Ross said.

Emily Bonifaci, a resident who lives south of the property, said she is a landscape architect with a background in affordable housing who bikes to work and supports density. But her property would be “dwarfed” by nearly 20 feet next door, she said.

“It’s simply just too bulky and tall of a building for the proposed site,” she said. “I’m not opposed to a residential development there, I just want to make sure that it’s done in a smart way that respects the rights and the privacy and value of the current homeowners.”

Although the city would not require any parking in the new Bryant Avenue building, the developer will construct 20 spaces. Developer Jeff Hall said the team is spending an additional $500,000 to build underground parking, and he said they will encourage tenants to use transit and the bikeway.

Council Member Lisa Goodman pointed out

that the developer received a 3,000-square-foot boost in density in exchange for the underground parking.

“Which is the more pressing question to the neighbors, I guess, not having parking or less height?” Goodman asked. “You could have built a smaller building and had no parking, which I completely support, or you could have a taller building and put in the parking which is making it bigger. I’m just kind of curious what your opinion is about that, because you did get a bonus to do it.”

Development consultant Carol Lansing said in response that they are trying to balance parking demand with a transit-oriented development.

One resident of The Wedge spoke in support of the project, saying the proposal is reasonable and shouldn’t be controversial. He said it’s only fair to welcome more residents to share in the beauty of the city.

“If we’re serious about housing affordability, we need to build more homes for the people that live here,” he said.

In explaining her vote to deny the appeal, Council Member Lisa Bender said that although debates about city growth become heated, the vote before them is limited to a single development, in a walkable neighborhood, with rapid transit and nearby taller buildings. She said the area would likely continue to see growth and more proposals in the next 10–20 years.

“This is the kind of project that I often hear my constituents want when a six-story building is proposed that has over 100 units. People say we want smaller buildings, more this scale,” she said. She noted that her ward is 80 percent renter and she was re-elected to another term. “… You didn’t hear those voices today, but they are out there.”

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A New Hope-based management and development company is planning a six-story apartment building for the intersection of Lake & James in Uptown.

Oak Management & Development Company is planning an approximately 77-unit building with about 50 parking stalls on the site, which spans the southwest corner of the intersection. That’s according to plans company Vice President Chris Kirwan presented at the East Calhoun Community Organization Livability Committee meeting on May 21.

The building would be a mix of studio, alcove, one-bedroom and two-bedroom units, said David Miller, principal for Minneapolisbased UrbanWorks Architecture.

Miller said preliminary plans have the building’s main entrance off Lake Street and for firstfloor flats to line part of James Avenue. The plan is to have a level of underground parking and a partial level of at-grade parking, he said.

Residents will use the alley west of James Avenue to access the parking garage.

Oak Management & Development isn’t planning to have any commercial space in the building, though it’s planning to build the fitness and common area along Lake Street.

The company will need to obtain a condi-

tional-use permit for the site, as the northern half is zoned C1 and the southern half is zoned R4. C1 has a by-right height maximum of 2.5 stories or 35 feet, and R4 has a by-right height maximum of four stories or 56 feet for multifamily buildings.

The site is also within a shoreland overlay district, which has a by-right height maximum of 2.5 stories or 35 feet.

Kirwan said units will start at around 400 square feet. He didn’t know the exact unit mix yet but said it would likely be heavier on studio and alcove units.

Some East Calhoun residents at the meeting expressed concerns about how the project would affect parking in the neighborhood. Several said they expected the project to increase demand for street parking because the building would have fewer parking spaces than units.

Miller said he’s finding that there isn’t market demand for 1:1 parking. He noted that every unit will have a private bicycle spot.

Kirwan said he’s thinking the company will make its applications to the city this summer.

Construction work could start in the first quarter of 2019, he said.

— Nate Gotlieb

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Washburn principal announces resignation The principal at Washburn High School, Rhonda Dean, announced her resignation May 25, effective June 30.

Dean has been principal of the grades 9–12 school in the Tangletown neighborhood since July 2014, after serving six years as the principal of Andover High School. She said in a letter that many factors influenced her decision.

“While I thoroughly enjoy the principal-

ship, at this point in my professional career I am looking forward to utilizing my leadership skills in another capacity,” Dean wrote. “As a licensed K–12 principal, district superintendent, and former math and business teacher, I am excited about future possibilities.”

Dean noted multiple benchmarks the school has achieved over the past four years, including how Washburn was the only

Minneapolis public school last year to post double-digit gains in the reading and math portions of the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment test. She also noted the school’s average ACT score increased to 22 from 20 and that attendance at fine arts performances and other schoolwide events has dramatically increased, among other accomplishments.

“Washburn is in a great place,” Dean

wrote. “We have dedicated students, a great staff, a strong administrative team and a supportive community.”

Dean worked for 11 years as an assistant principal at Wayzata High School before working as principal at Andover, according to her bio on the Washburn website. Previously, she had been a math teacher in the Minneapolis district.

According to AchieveMpls, research shows a support adult can powerfully impact a young person’s academic and personal success. The organization says that students with mentors are more likely to feel connected to school, have better self-esteem and experience greater success in setting and achieving their goals. One in three young people grow up without this type of

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AchieveMpls seeks grad coaches AchieveMpls, the nonprofit partner of Minneapolis Public Schools, is recruiting adult volunteers to serve as graduation coaches for ninth-graders and 12th-graders for next school year.

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groups of ninth-graders to help them transition into and out of high school and build skills and confidence. Coaches can also offer additional monitored support via email between sessions.

All graduation coaches receive volunteer training, program curriculum and ongoing supervision and support throughout the school year.

Graves Foundation, Pollen Midwest launch education initiative The John and Denise Graves Family Foundation and Pollen Midwest have launched an initiative aimed at generating interest in public education in Minneapolis.

The organizations hope to help people better understand issues facing public education and enable them to become more active in the system through the effort, called Unbound.

They plan on posting stories and fact sheets to the Unbound webpage and hosting events on issues facing Minneapolis schools.

“The idea is to have a new conversation about education,” said Kyrra Rankine, the Graves Foundation’s partnerships and initiatives director.

Unbound follows a program the Graves Foundation launched before the Minneapolis Board of Education elections in 2016, called Animate the Race. The foundation had a handful of fellows write blog posts about the election, with the goal of raising the profile of the race, Rankine said. It also hosted a candidate forum.

Rankine said there are three main parts to Unbound: a storytelling component, community outreach and the fact sheets on education topics. The storytelling component will include a series of articles and personal essays, which the organizations will post to the Unbound website, Rankine said. The fact

sheets will be on topics such as budgeting and governance, and the community-outreach piece will include house parties and potentially a School Board candidates forum.

Minneapolis Public Schools knows about the initiative, Rankine said, and has been willing to give the organizations information for it.

“This isn’t a ‘gotcha’ campaign in any way,” she said, adding that it’s about having an honest conversation.

Former School Board member and AchieveMpls CEO Pam Costain is also working on the project.

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Twin Cities Adaptive Cycling founders Caito Bowles-Roth and Tommy Dixon. Their program is open three days a week along the Midtown Greenway.

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Cycling for all

Program gives people with disabilities a chance to bike on greenway

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

Caito Bowles-Roth moved from New York to Berkeley, California, in 2014 to take a job with an adaptive cycling program.

Last year, the South Minneapolis native moved back home to start her own program, Twin Cities Adaptive Cycling.

Bowles-Roth, an occupational therapist, co-founded Twin Cities Adaptive Cycling in late 2016 to increase access to bicycling for people with disabilities. She said biking can be a cost-prohibitive activity for people with disabilities, noting that the average cost of an adaptive bicycle is over $2,000.

“We are here to kind of fill that gap, (to) just really make cycling truly accessible for everyone in the Twin Cities,” Bowles-Roth said.

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The rain garden also captures rainwater from Page’s roof.

“A lot of cities are actually looking at capturing runoff and using it as greywater irrigation because it minimizes the amount of fertilizer input,” Anhalt added.

Most rain gardens don’t run alongside homes or incorporate dry wells, but “you have to incorporate multiple practices to get things to perform the way that you need them to,” he said. Moving the water off a property may not be the best solution or even be possible.

Getting the water to go where the homeowner wants is just one benefit of a rain garden.

Page had planted a pair of dogwood trees at the far end of the 30-by-8-foot garden five years earlier, not realizing that they thrive in wet soil. The landscaping company added water-loving Indian grass along the side of the deck for privacy, serviceberry and chokeberry bushes, and colorful perennials — rudbeckia, gaillardia, liatris, anise hyssop and Joe Pye weed — for color throughout the summer and autumn.

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The Page’s rain garden captures rainwater from the roof and features anise hyssop to attract pollinators.

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Attainable We

By Mikki Morrissette

Digging in the dirt Stay with me I need support I’m digging in the dirt Find the places I got hurt Open up the places I got hurt — Peter Gabriel

W

ith spring in full bloom, I’m noticing numerous stories around the intimacy between trauma and connection. I feel showered with reminders about how beings push through the darkness to reach toward the sky and how deeply we rely on roots to get us there.

I recently had a conversation with “Braiding Sweetgrass” author Robin Kimmerer. We talked about those who face the trauma of being uprooted from their homes — refugees, or the generations of indigenous people forced to leave their land — and the need to find a new sense of belonging in a strange land.

One idea, she offered, is when we realize that the word “ecology” means “the study of home.”

Mother Earth is always here.

“I rely on you, you rely on me. That’s where the bond begins,” she said. Even in a new city park, or median strip along the road, we might see a familiar plant. “There you are. I’m home now.”

In a book discussion group, we read “The Ground Beneath Us,” by Paul Bogard, who grew up in Minnesota and teaches writing in Virginia. The ambitious book covers everything from the impact of fracking on groundwater to the author’s visit to Treblinka in Poland, where Nazis tried to cover up the remains of 900,000 people killed in the forest.

Bogard quotes a Christian theologian, Paul Tillich, who in the 1950s referred to God as not a personified being, but as the ground from which all being derives. He pointed out that the name Adam — symbolic of the original human estranged from the garden — is derived from the Hebrew word for “earth.”

Planting seed As the new owner of Minnesota Women’s Press, I hosted an event recently for more than 100 women about “the power of women’s voices.” One of the six speakers, playwright Amoke Kubat (“Angry Black Woman Talks to Well-Intentioned White Girl”), said that black and African-American women have always been leaders.

“Even when they were captured,” Kubat said, “they had the wherewithal and the vision to put seeds in their hair so that wherever they landed, they knew they would be planting and feeding someone.”

Kubat said it is her responsibility to carry on

that leadership as a storyteller, to remind us of how we are all connected, to “transform every incident, every moment, every person I can to make the impact that ‘we are we.’ It is not us and them, it is we.”

Author Judy LaVercombe (aka Judith Guest, “Ordinary People”), at the same event, indicated that she attended her first march, in Washington, D.C., after the 2016 election. Being a writer can be an isolating existence, she said — especially now that she is in her 80s, fighting against ageism. LaVercombe said she has always been political, sitting at the kitchen table with friends and family, but for the first time she’s engaged outside the home, including talks with legislators about gun violence.

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Reaching sprout Stay with me I need support I’m digging in the dirt Community connection is what we seek, especially in dark times. That message was delivered at a recent Magers & Quinn event by Sally Kohn, author of “The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity.”

It is the fear of others and things out of our control that lead us to seek a sense of security — a sense of belonging — with community.

The neo-Nazis she interviewed, Kohn said, believe that hate started from others, and they are simply reacting to it. Gangs, terrorists and those who dictate a “one way” aren’t seeking true believers. Rather, they create them from among the disenfranchised and vulnerable and even the ambivalent.

We tend to deepen our beliefs as a way to bond with others.

The trick, Kohn suggested, is to “stand up for our values without stomping.” The progressive ideal is to create space and opportunity for change to happen. “We never change our minds because someone makes us feel like a bigoted idiot.”

We have a choice, Kohn says, between “burn it all down,” the “polarization of purity” or “vulnerable engagement.” The opposite of hate, she points out in her book, is not love, but connection.

Tiny sprouts, pushing through the deep, dark earth, to reach toward the sky.

Mikki Morrissette is the new owner/editor of Minnesota Women’s Press. This is part of her long-standing series that explores how we might build stronger communities.

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here would you like to go for Mother’s Day dinner?” my daughters kindly queried.

Friends had asked the same question on my birthday. And, many times, after a show.

My answer was always the same, but it never worked out. Reservations were as hard to come by as a seat on a NASA shuttle.

I’m talking about Young Joni, of course.

When, on a recent Tuesday, we finally decided to pack our sleeping bags and wait in line sans a name on the list, we got lucky: two seats at the bar within warming distance of the roaring wood-fired oven.

You know the backstory by now. Food fanatic Ann Kim and her business-brained husband, Conrad Leifur, launched Nordeast’s answer to Noma (reserve a year in advance to dine in “the world’s best restaurant”). The couple’s third go, after success reinventing pizza as we know it at Pizzeria Lola and Hello Kitty, this generous, softly lit space radiates not only the warmth of wood in its décor and aroma but, even more essential, the warmth of the amiable, well-trained staff (one member of which eagerly nabbed a stool next to me to summon her favorite pizza — the Broccolini — on her day off ).

To start: a glass of plavina, a mellow Croatian red, for me, and the Italian nebbiolo for my pal. The café’s wine list is long on bottles — pricey ones — but short on BTG, as it is on cocktails (eight) and draft beers (five).

But we’re here for the food, to explore the influences of Kim’s Korean heritage on the menu’s listings, such as our starter: short ribs ($13), sweet and nicely sticky — a couple of thin slices, tender as you please, coated in a kalbi marinade, spiced with chimichurri, then softened and deepened with a charred serrano yogurt. (Talk about cross-cultural marriages that work.) Or the sweet and spicy spare ribs ($12), Korean-ized with gochujang barbecue sauce and pickled veggies. Or the halibut, attended by asparagus, peas and a napa kimchi butter ($26), untasted. Next time. (Or not. Having eaten — not by choice — kimchi three times a day in Korea, I’ve had enough for several lifetimes.)

Bypassing the quartet of salads ($9–$12) — some straight-ahead, others tailored with an Asian touch — we scanned the vegetable list ($10–$12) and summoned the cauliflower, already a local legend, and for good reason. A vast bowl of florets came dressed for success with shishito peppers and a saffron-touched chermoula, along with pickled Fresno peppers, sweet bursts of golden raisins and savory notes of almonds, smoothed with a cauliflower yogurt.

Same thumbs-up for the mix of creamy burrata cheese and snap peas accented with mint-basil pesto. Next time: the Japanese sweet potato, lapped with charred scallion crème fraiche and flakes of dried bonito.

Frankly, these are the stars of the whole enter-

prise and the dishes for which I’d return.

But you want to hear about the pizza, right?

Fifteen are listed, sized for two to share, from a simple marinara ($8) to more offbeat creations such as the Pepe ($17) with clams, Parm and chili flakes, or Basque ($16), spotlighting chorizo and Spanish olives.

We followed our server’s advice and chose what he noted as the kitchen’s most popular, the Korean BBQ pie. The softly wood-scented crust proved pillowy, chewy and ample but not wildly noteworthy. It was loaded with tender, tasty pulls of beef short rib melded with creamy mozzarella, scallions and hints of sesame and soy in a chili vinaigrette, then heaped lasciviously, wildly, with mounds of arugula, fresh and peppy.

Delicious. But the best in the known world? No. Then there’s dessert, and, as far as I’m concerned, one particular option is mandatory.

You want soft-serve ice cream? The fruit crisp? Fine. Go for it. But for me, it’s the Church Basement Cookie and Bar Plate ($7) that’s worth the drive. It features two each of buttery chocolate chippers, an uber-melty, dark and gooey chocolate bar the size of a domino and one with a cheesecake profile upon a crunchy cereal crust. Oh, and a glass of milk appears by magic at their side.

Perfect ending. Unless you’re not ready to call it a night: Then head outside and around the back to Joni’s speakeasy bar.

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Ask Dr. Rachel

By Rachel Allyn

Identity doesn’t fit in a box I

was recently watching the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The fact that she has an African American mother and a white father led me to think about where she fits in racially, similar to other celebrities like Tiger Woods and Barack Obama. As a black man I’m wondering: How is race determined among people who are biracial?

This is a thought-provoking question and I appreciate you raising it. It’s an important topic, but because it can also be a loaded topic sometimes people avoid it.

With that I’ll tread lightly as I proceed, and acknowledge how my whiteness — and my white privilege — informs this answer.

This is a question about individual identity, but also about how we have historically made meaning of our differences on a societal level.

The classification of biracial individuals as black is tied to the legacy of racist laws that relied on the “one-drop rule,” which claimed that even a small amount of black ancestry meant a person was considered black. This rule based on racial hierarchy, which only existed in the U.S., also maintained that anyone not able to “pass” for white was classified as black.

To clarify, physical anthropology and biology define race as, “categories of human beings based on average differences in physical traits that are transmitted by the genes not by blood,” as F. James Davis put it in “Who is Black?

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“shared pattern of behavior and beliefs that are learned and transmitted through social communication. An ethnic group is a group with a sense of cultural identity, but it may also be a racially distinctive group.”

In addition, when we’re talking about bloodlines, we’re referring to lineage. But when we’re talking about cultural and religious influences, we’re referring to heritage.

Yes, it can get confusing. What’s important to remember is that being perceived as belonging or not belonging to a group can have dramatic effects on our wellbeing.

We have long lived in a world in which we’re put into boxes — male or female, single or married, gay or straight. Dealing with ambiguity does not come naturally. We prefer the either/or versus the yes/and.

Categorizing people comes from a place of fear going back to tribalism; if we label ourselves as distinct from that which is “other” we think we have a framework to understand and protect ourselves.

No one should be reduced to labels by others. For example, I cringe a bit every time I have to select a diagnosis for a client because

their insurance company demands it. Just as we should be careful with potentially stigmatizing diagnoses, we must be mindful of how people are defined based on the shade of their skin.

It should be up to the individual person to decide whom they most identify with. Tiger, Barack and Meghan (excuse me, Her Royal Highness) should be allowed to choose the terminology that resonates and feels true to them.

Terms such as mixed-race, multiracial and biracial may not feel quite right for everyone, but perhaps it can never be perfect when we’re talking about putting broad labels on something as unique as an individual’s perceived experience. We’re all fascinating, unique, sensate beings with our own history, beliefs and sense of meaning. Each individual should have the right to decide the terminology that agrees with them because no one deserves to be stereotyped.

Of note: While Harry and Meghan’s wedding represents a change to the norm, let’s not forget the contradiction at play. On the one hand we have a bride who represents something groundbreaking for the royal family — she is a slightly older, divorced, biracial woman — but on the other hand this union is still within a tradition steeped in colonialism and patriarchy. Seems fitting to check the box labeled “it’s complicated.”

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Twin Cities Adaptive Cycling co-founder Tommy Dixon and program participant Robert Gregory prepare for a ride on the Midtown Greenway.

The program has allowed dozens of people with disabilities to ride on the trails in Minneapolis at a low cost.

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Bowles-Roth worked as an occupational therapist in the medical setting before hearing about the Berkeley-based adaptive cycling program, run by the nonprofit Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program. She

reached out to the organization’s adaptive cycling program director and subsequently got an interview and then a job.

Bowles-Roth said she thought about starting an adaptive-cycling program in the Twin Cities during her first day on the job.

She spent three years working for the Bay

Area program, learning everything she could about adaptive bikes, before she founded Twin Cities Adaptive Cycling in winter 2016.

The program began operating last July, utilizing space in Urban Ventures’ parking lot along the Midtown Greenway and a mobile box truck to store the bikes. Bowles-Roth and

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this year is to reach 100 riders and facilitate 200 rides. She and Dixon have expanded open riding hours to three days a week and have also added a group ride for youth on Saturday mornings.

Bowles-Roth said her ultimate goal is for the program to operate out of its own building, which would allow it to be open year round.

Twin Cities Adaptive Cycling offers recumbent tricycles that users can pedal with their hands or their feet. The organization can modify bikes for people who only have mobility on one side of their body.

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Cycles for all abilities Twin Cities Adaptive Cycling allows people with disabilities to go on solo or tandem rides with a volunteer rider, friend or family member. Bowles-Roth schedules a fitting with new riders on their first day, helping them find the right type of bike and ensuring they’re comfortable riding on the trail.

Riders have had a wide range of disabilities, from serious strokes to cerebral palsy, visual impairments and amputated limbs.

But the program has bikes that will allow everyone to access the trail.

“People with disabilities and injuries aren’t aware biking is a possibility for them,” she said. “When they get on a bike, they can really experience a lot of mobility and freedom.”

Many of the bikes have a low center of gravity and are hard to tip. They can be adapted for people who can’t use their arms or hands and for people who have limited

People with disabilities and injuries aren’t aware biking is a possibility for them.

When they get on a bike, they can really experience a lot of mobility and freedom.

— Caito Bowles-Roth, Twin Cities Adaptive Cycling co-founder

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mobility on one side of their body.

“Virtually everything can be adapted,” Bowles-Roth said.

Bowles-Roth said she encourages people to come as many times a week as they can, noting that the program is a great way to build community. She said the program’s mission is not only to get people with disabilities physical activity but also to empower them to try new activities.

“We’re really trying to break down those stereotypes among the general population and among people with disabilities,” she said.

Bowles-Roth added that having people with disabilities biking on the same trail as people without disabilities fosters integration and helps build tolerance.

Retired physicians Dale Hammerschmidt and Mary Arneson volunteer three times a week with the program. The couple, both biking enthusiasts, began adapting recumbent

tricycles for people in need about 15 years ago.

Arneson and Hammerschmidt started their efforts by finding bikes for specific people, such as friends of their friends, but eventually started watching Craiglist to see if they could find new bikes. They noted the bikes are great for people who may have back pain or visual impairments or who may be recovering from an illness, among other ailments and disabilities. Hammerschmidt also noted how the cost of the recumbent and adapted bikes can be prohibitive for people. He added that it’s fun and rewarding to be volunteering with Twin Cities Adaptive Cycling.

“The grins are pretty big, and that’s pretty reinforcing,” he said.

Program participant V Shattuck comes down to the greenway three times a week, often biking on a two-wheel tandem. Shattuck said she loves biking, meeting new people and meeting new friends.

“I could bike every day,” she said.

Shattuck, who bikes about 15 miles per ride, said her goal is to bike upwards of 30 miles per ride by the end of the year.

Program participant James Almen, who is blind, said he heard about Twin Cities Adaptive Cycling when Bowles-Roth presented at Vision Loss Resources, the nonprofit at which he works.

Almen said it’s great to be able to ride outside like everybody else. He noted the freedom the program provides as far as going longer distances and exercising.

“Most of the time, moving fast as a blind person isn’t always easy, especially outside,” he said.

Twin Cities Adaptive Cycling has served people with a range of disabilities, from visual impairment to traumatic brain injury to multiple sclerosis, balance disorders and cerebral palsy. To learn more, visit tcacycling.org.

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Stone Arch Bridge awaits governor’s action Mark Dayton could kill inspection funds with veto, inaction

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board Commissioner Chris Meyer urges the state Legislature to fund repairs to the Stone Arch Bridge during a press conference on May 18. Photo by Nate Gotlieb

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Gov. Mark Dayton is weighing whether or not to sign a $1.5 billion capital projects bill that includes funding to inspect and begin planning repairs to the crumbling Stone Arch Bridge.

The DFL governor had not taken action on the bill as of May 29, about nine days after the state Legislature passed it. He has until June 3 to either sign or veto the bill; otherwise, it does not become law.

The bill includes $1 million in funding for inspecting the bridge and designing and planning for repairs to the 135-year-old span, which the Minnesota Department of Transportation owns. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board maintains the bridge deck, which includes a pedestrian trail and a bike trail.

In January, the transportation department requested nearly $13 million for the work.

The department cannot use its main source of funding, the Trunk Highway Fund, to pay for the inspection and repairs, as the bridge is not an interstate or state highway.

The department said the funding request would address deficiencies that include the cracking of stone masonry and mortar, the cracking and breaking of concrete and the corrosion of metal components. It noted it had submitted several requests for funding in recent years, including a $2.5 million request in 2016, and that estimated costs have increased based on an inspection last summer.

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The department noted the bridge is a highly visible tourist attraction in the Twin Cities, a boost to area businesses and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Stone Arch Bridge needs nearly $13 million in repairs to address issues such as the cracking of stone masonry and mortar. The Minnesota Department of Transportation may need to close the bridge if it does not receive initial funding to at least inspect it.

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Risk could grow Dayton included the full $13 million in his $1.54 billion bonding proposal that he released in January. But House and Senate Republican leaders, whose parties control both chambers, did not include any funding for the bridge when they released their $825 million bonding proposals in early May. On May 14, KSTP-TV reported the transportation department might shut down the bridge within weeks. The department issued a statement the next day, saying that it may need to close the bridge if it doesn’t get any funding during the legislative session.

The statement said the department needs an estimated $1 million for the inspection, design and plan preparations for the bridge, but it said that’s only a first step to fix the bridge’s issues.

“It doesn’t address the underlying issue of the deterioration of the mortar above and below the water level,” Commissioner Charlie Zelle said in a statement. “The longer we wait, we risk continued deterioration and significantly more expensive repairs. The time to act is now.”

In an interview, State Bridge Planning and Hydraulics Engineer Amber Blanchard said the $13 million would allow MnDOT to inspect the bridge and design and construct the repairs. She said construction would start in the summer of 2020 at the earliest if the department received funding this year.

Blanchard said that MnDOT typically

inspects bridges underwater every five years but that the consultant who inspected the bridge last August recommended annual inspections. She said the department has until August to do its next underwater inspection, at which point it could have to shut down the bridge.

An icon Several Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board commissioners took notice of the potential for closing the bridge and hosted a press conference on May 18 to advocate for the funding. District 1 Commissioner Chris Meyer, who represents the Northeast and the University area, asked the Legislature to fund the bridge repairs this year so the

transportation department doesn’t need to close it. He also urged the Legislature to be proactive on providing the funding so that costs don’t increase in the future.

“It’s penny wise, pound foolish to not make this investment now,” he said.

District 4 Commissioner Jono Cowgill, who represents the Isles area and downtown, said the bridge is a Minnesota icon and a connection between downtown and Northeast.

“We’re here to say that we’re concerned,” he said.

Ward 3 City Council Member Steve Fletcher recalled that the iconic Minneapolis image from this past winter’s Super Bowl was the Stone Arch Bridge. He added that the bridge is the only arch bridge made of stone anywhere on the Mississippi River.

Waiting for Dayton The House and Senate each passed a capital-investment package that included $825 million in bonding on the last day of the session, May 20, which included the $1 million for the bridge.

The transportation department is waiting until Dayton takes action on the bonding bill to comment any further.

According to House Public Information Services, Dayton received $3.3 billion in capital-investment requests. His commissioner of Minnesota Management and Budget, Myron Frans, called the Republicans’ plans a missed opportunity.

“We have the need and we are not taking care of the things that we need to take care of,” he said.

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Mill City Cooks

Recipes and food news from the Mill City Farmers Market

Market discoveries

W

e all know farmers markets are a great place to shop for pastureraised eggs, fresh lettuce and local cheeses, but they are also a great place to discover new vegetables like fiddlehead ferns.

Fiddlehead ferns are the rolled up new leaf from certain edible fern plants, often ostrich ferns. They are crisp, and their flavor is herbaceous — like a cross between asparagus and green beans (and they can be used in many of the same recipes). Nutritionally, fiddleheads have a good amount of vitamin C, niacin and potassium.

Fiddlehead ferns are hyper-seasonal, available for a few weeks in late May and early June.

Come to the farmers market early to buy them.

Like morel mushrooms and ramps, these spring treats can only be foraged in limited quantities and sell out quickly.

When shopping, look for fiddleheads with bright green color and tightly coiled tops. The stem should only be 1 or 2 inches long. If it is any longer, snap it off and compost, as the texture will probably be tough.

Buying fiddleheads from a knowledgeable forager at a farmers market is the safest way to enjoy this seasonal treat, as some varieties of ferns are toxic. Fiddleheads should be steamed or sautéed, since they are difficult for most people to digest raw.

Since fiddlehead ferns are wild and not bread for storage like many common vegetables, they

Fiddlehead ferns.

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have a short shelf life. It is best to eat fiddleheads as soon as possible after harvest to avoid browning and loss of their crisp texture.

You can find fiddlehead ferns, asparagus, fresh pasta and all the other local ingredients you need for this simple market pasta

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By Kirsten Arbeiter and Kayla Bryant

Dine out for farmers markets

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ost people don’t realize it truly takes a village to make each and every farmers market happen.

There’s an incredible amount of community and generosity that is needed in order to bring healthy food, drinks and crafts to our neighborhoods.

Neighborhood Roots is a volunteerdriven non-profit organization in Minneapolis that operates the Nokomis, Fulton and Kingfield farmers markets, bringing you 68 market days every year. These are self-sustaining markets with most funding coming from donations and sponsorships from local business owners and neighborhood residents. We work hard to keep our vendor fees low because so many of our farmers and small business owners are just getting started.

Because of the generosity of our neighborhoods and local small businesses, Neighborhood Roots has been able to serve as a business incubator for many of our vendors, including well known Minneapolis spots like Bogart’s Doughnut Co. and Rise Bagels.

We supported 111 Minneapolis farms and businesses in 2017 by offering them a place to market and sell their products, and we’re getting ready to top that in 2018.

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mutual benefits and support the overarching goal of bringing neighbors together to buy, eat and learn about local food.

One of the fun ways we partner with restaurants in our neighborhoods is through Dine Out for the Markets events. Through these events, neighbors are invited to eat at select restaurants, and the restaurant commits to donate a portion of sales to the markets.

You may have attended our Dine Out event in April with Broders’ Pasta Bar, Broders’ Cucina Italiana and Terzo. Thanks to everyone at Broders’ who helped make this event happen, and thanks to our neighbors for coming out in masses to eat delicious food and support the markets.

We have two opportunities to Dine Out for the Markets coming up on Mondays in June and we hope you’ll join us.

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Dine Out for the Markets at The Lowbrow When: Monday, June 25 Where: The Lowbrow, 4244 Nicollet Ave. What: Eat. Drink. Support. Ten percent of

all sales will go to the Fulton, Kingfield and Nokomis farmers markets The Lowbrow is committed to bringing scratch-made comfort food to your plate using locally farmed, sustainably grown ingredients.

They’re also dedicated and deeply rooted in community relationships. They give back weekly with a Dine Out Give Back program. Every Monday night when you eat at The Lowbrow, you support a different local charitable group.

The Neighborhood Roots and The Lowbrow partnership is rooted in our mutual desire to promote vibrant community together.

We hope you’ll join us at Agra Culture Kitchen and The Lowbrow for good, healthy food and the opportunity to support and help our local farmers markets continue to thrive.

Kirsten Arbeiter and Kayla Bryant serve on the board of directors for Neighborhood Roots, the organization behind the Fulton, Kingfield and Nokomis farmers markets.

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Creative Class THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE CREATIVE ARTS IN MINNEAPOLIS ASTONISHES. Estimated at over $4.5 billion in sales, or eight times that of Minneapolis’ sports sector according to the 2015 Creative Vitality Index (CVI), an economic measure used by the city, it has earned our region a lofty place as a national creative mecca. Behind such stunning statistics toil humans whose creativity and innovation fuel this so-called creative class, dubbed by author Richard Florida. Frequently laboring for the sheer love of their craft, many visual and performing artists, directors, inventors and innovators produce from an inner creative core more likely fueled by passion than personal gain.

These makers are marked by an almost holy drive to create – and when their artistry and intent collide, it often yields something extraordinary in its wake.

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troubled times, when hate fills the news headlines, the value of the arts is sometimes questioned. Uptown Minneapolis resident Hayley Finn has potent firsthand experience to counter such misperceptions.

Theater, she affirms, is transformative.

Finn directed an adaptation of “Why We Laugh,” a cabaret written by artists in the World War II Terezin Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia. In a rare opportunity, she experienced the impact of the play on actual survivors and their families when a revival was staged in the city of Terezin itself. Celebrated local playwright Kira Obolensky, Finn’s friend and collaborator, had adapted the play, and Craig Harris, lauded local composer, adapted and created original music.

The Terezin cabaret had been discovered in 2005

in family archives. The Germans had used the Terezin camp for propaganda purposes to show a “model Jewish settlement.” In reality, it was a concentration camp where thousands died.

“We performed that play in Terezin and there were survivors as well as their family members in the audience,” Finn recalls. “The play was about the power of theater, and in particular comedy, to lift the human spirit as a way to survive. I can’t begin to describe how powerful the experience was — to be able to connect with such deep and basic reasons for why the arts are essential.”

I caught a production of “Why We Laugh” staged at Open Eye Theatre a few years back, and the audience was struck by what it must have been like to act and sing and dance in the midst of the stark horror of the Holocaust.

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“I’ve had the opportunity to see work she’s directed as well as co-created. A couple years ago, her piece, ‘Private Party,’ co-created with her creative partner and husband, Andrew Dolan, at the Red Eye Theater, took my breath away. It was an immersive/multi-experience piece that truly mined the depths of connections and disconnections in a stunning way,” he concludes.

Indeed, Finn’s work is highly acclaimed throughout the theater sphere. She is a recipient of a number of directing fellowships, including the prestigious Ruth Easton Directing Fellowship, and has directed the New York premieres of works by Sheila Callaghan, including “Katecrackernuts” at The Flea Theater, “Scab” at the Greenwich Street Theatre and “Metal” at the HERE Arts Center. And she has assistantdirected numerous plays on and off Broadway, including the Tony Award winning productions of “A View From the Bridge” and “Side Man.”

Big Apple to Mini Apple Finn exudes theater from her core. And that core was grown in the heart of the Big Apple.

She grew up center stage New York theatrical — surrounded by a family that had a deep appreciation for the arts in general and theater in particular. She describes her mother taking her to the theater at a very young age.

“Living in NYC,” she understates, “we had access to amazing theater productions.”

In fact, Finn’s mother had studied acting but opted for a life as a teacher, “which was, of course, more practical.” Appropriately, her now retired mother has joined a theater company in NYC and is writing plays, reversing the old expression, “The apple certainly doesn’t fall far from the tree!”

The truth is, theater was and is a whole Finn family affair. As a young child, Finn created theater productions in her grandmother’s basement, using found objects for sets and costumes: “An old lampshade became a hat, a recorder a magic wand, clothes line and

sheets made up the curtains.” By age nine, Finn became a regular contestant on CBS’ “Child’s Play” game show, where for a year she described words that adults had to guess. That led to acquiring an agent and acting.

“By the time I was in high school,” Finn relates, “I was taking classes at the Lee Strasberg Institute and playing Cordelia in the school play. It was my high school English teacher who suggested I direct, and the first thing I directed was ‘Macbeth’ in the school boiler room basement — dried ice and the works!”

So, what stage direction catapulted Finn from Great White Way up here to the Great Whiteout?

“I was originally brought to the Twin Cities because of my work as a freelance director,” she explains. “I had been asked to direct Mac Wellman’s McKnight commissioned play at the Playwrights’ Center and was invited back for other projects. I then received a fellowship through the Playwrights’ Center and was hired on.”

And how does Minneapolis compare to working in New York City? Finn waxes effusive about our creative class: “Minneapolis is a wonderful city for the arts,” she contends.

“The arts are appreciated and funded. It’s a city filled with people who know about theater and enjoy attending it.”

One detail in particular is telltale: “When I say I’m a director, people assume I’m a theater director rather than a director for film or TV.” She comments, as have other creative class members profiled here, about the benefit of foundations like the McKnight and Jerome that so the value the arts.

“Philanthropy is a value of Twin Cities, and therefore, the arts are able to thrive,” she notes.

Theater continues to be very much a family affair with Finn. The new mother (baby Eames is her proudest production thus far) is married to fellow theater artist, Andrew Dolan. “My husband and I met while we were both part of the New Works program at the Red Eye — an important home for both of us artistically and

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A storytelling incubator There are only a handful of organizations in the country (and in the world for that matter) that develop new plays. The Playwrights’ Center is unique among even that small group because it supports writers at all stages of development.

Anyone can become a member. The Center offers fellowships to emerging and mid-career playwrights, supports the development of work by national and local playwrights, and helps connect those playwrights with production opportunities. It is an organization, like so many others in the Twin Cities, which places us firmly on the national map.

Being a part of this rare organization is a point of pride and satisfaction for Finn.

“We open our doors so anyone can see readings of new plays — there is never an admission charge,” she explains. This situation is a win-win for both audiences and artists alike.

For Finn, her work there truly is central to her core being.

“Getting a peek into the creative process is thrilling — the readings are performed by the top actors in the Twin Cities and many of the playwrights are nationally recognized writers or soon to be. The plays developed at the center go onto be performed in theaters around the country,” she explains.

In fact, there are at least a couple of plays being produced in town next season that were developed at the center: “The Great Leap,” by Lauren Yee, at the Guthrie, and “West Of Central,” by Christina Ham, which Finn will be directing at Pillsbury House Theatre in September.

The new play’s the thing Finn has earned a reputation as the go-to new play developer/director. Such a skill takes certain savoir-faire — a finesse that enables her to co-create from sheer imagination into being.

I wondered why she focused on this aspect of theater making and how it differs from working from a well-established script or play?

“I believe that we should support stories that reflect our times, and the natural way to do that is by supporting playwrights who write those stories, producing those plays.

Personally, I love directing new work because you have the benefit of having the writer in the room,” she emphasizes. “I’ve always loved collaborations — it is one the reasons I’m in the theater — so having the chance to collaborate with the writer as well as the actors and designers is thrilling.”

While Finn originally was attracted to the classics, she says she was fortunate to have Paula Vogel as her teacher at Brown University, where she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Vogel brought in a very talented group of writers as part of the program, and through that experience Finn was drawn into directing new work.

“When I left college, I became a directing resident at Playwrights’ Horizons in NYC that specializes in new work,” she states.

While still in New York, she developed influential and long-term relationships with playwrights, and that allowed her to start directing regularly in the off Broadway and the off-off Broadway scene.

Finn continues to direct and collaborate out of town. But for those who would like to experience her work here in our own backyard, she will be directing “Night, Mother,” a Dark and Stormy Production at the Grain Belt warehouse, opening Aug. 16 and, starring our own beloved Sally Wingert and Sara Marsh, and Christina Ham’s world premiere of “West of Central,” which opens Sept. 14 at Pillsbury House Theatre.

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personally.” Not only is it where they met, it’s where Andrew proposed! Finn grins, “It’s a real gift when you can share your life with someone who also shares your artistic passion.”

The two enjoy working together and last year co-created “While You Were Out,” which fittingly premiered at The Red Eye.

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‘TART’

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Considered one of the greatest stage comedies of all time, Molière’s “Tartuffe, ou l’Imposteur” tells the story of a religious hypocrite (Tartuffe) and the havoc he wreaks upon Orgon, a gullible nobleman and his family. For this new adaptation, Minneapolis director Adrian LopezBalbontin — the same man behind the highly stylized, well-received reboot of another Molière play, “The Misanthrope,” in 2015 — has reset the action from a stately home in 17th-century France to backstage at a present-day gay nightclub, where a cast of friends, lovers and drag performers unite to try to save Orgon from the hypocritical moral crusader, Tartuffe.

Like the original version, “Tart” combines wit, satire, slapstick and psychological drama to illustrate the power and ultimate impotence of hypocrisy.

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‘RECKONING’ / ‘FLEETING TRACES’ ‘INSTAGRAM AND The word “reckoning” has several meanings — it can refer to retribution and THE ARTIST’S punishment as well as a settling of debt. In the new solo show by Minneapolis multidisciplinary artist Rebecca Krinke, who often creates temporary, participatory STUDIO’ projects, the word evokes questions about what possessions we hold onto and the

Kaleena Miller Dance’s work is rooted in American tap dance, celebrating its legacy while expanding its creative possibilities.

Though the Twin Cities-based dance company was founded just a year ago, founder Kaleena Miller has been a fixture of the local tap scene for well over a decade as a solo tapper, co-founder of the Rhythmic Circus dance troupe and co-director of the Twin Cities Tap Festival. Although a relative newcomer to the local percussive dance scene, the company has already presented sophisticated, boundary-breaking works on local stages. This new tap dance work premieres at the Southern Theater with innovative choreography and staging by Miller and her dancers.

costs of holding onto them. Taking the shape of a large installation, “Reckoning” creates a domestic, psychological space of wonder and terror, comprising a bed surrounded by ominous, swirling black feathered curtains and stacks of blackbound notebooks visible on a burned wood floor. The show opens in conjunction with “Fleeting Traces,” an exhibit of new paintings, collages and a large installation of hand-cut paper insect silhouettes by Eleanor McGough, whose work explores the fleeting nature of life through imagined life forms. The exhibition captures the nostalgia of natural history dioramas and vanishing landscapes.

When: Opening reception: 7 p.m.–10 p.m. Saturday, June 9; on view June 2–July 1 Where: Rosalux Gallery, 1400 Van Buren St. NE Cost: Free Info: rosaluxgallery.com

When: Thursday, June 7–Saturday, June 9 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, June 10 at 2 p.m.

Where: Southern Theater, 1420 S. Washington Ave. Cost: $20 advance, $24 door, $12 students and seniors 65-plus Info: southerntheater.org

Before social media, artists had to promote themselves and their art by sending out slides or CDs or by building their own website. But the rise of Instagram has drastically changed the experience of the way artists around the world promote their work — and how the public views art.

Instagram also functions as a creative space for artists to curate and offer a behind-thescenes glimpse into their process. Many artists also make work that only exists in a virtual online environment or specifically for their social media network. “Instagram and the Artist’s Studio” explores the ways ten different artists and artist collectives utilize Instagram through installation that offer an enlarged visual presence that challenges the perception of social media and its relationship to art.

When: Opening reception: 6 p.m.–9 p.m.

Friday, June 8; on view June 8–July 15 Where: Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 2501 Stevens Ave. Cost: Free Info: mcad.edu

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N O R T H E R N S PA R K F E S T I VA L Northern Spark marks the summer solstice with more than 50 artists and 27 projects spanning three zones in Minneapolis. Founded in 2011 as an all-night arts fest, Northern Spark was modeled after Paris’ Nuit Blanche and St. Petersburg’s White Nights to encourage citizens to experience art activities, shows and installations at night. This year, the festival is switching its dusk-’til-dawn format for two nights and an earlier closing time of 2 a.m. Here are some highlights from this year’s event.

When: 9:02 p.m.–2 a.m. Friday, June 15 and Saturday, June 16 Where: The Commons (425 Portland Ave. S.), Minneapolis Central Library (300 Nicollet Mall) and Nicollet Mall between 4th and 8th streets Cost: Free Info: 2018.northernspark.org

‘MEME WEAVER’ Try your hand at machine knitting with “Meme Weaver,” an Arduino-controlled, people-powered weaving machine that explores human-machine collaboration, textile manufacturing and consumerism by knitwear designer Danielle Everine and her engineer/product designer husband, David Heisserer, at the Commons.

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Representing more than 200 years of immigration to Minnesota and the United States, Tiffany Carbonneau’s architectural video projection will illuminate the City Center façade along Nicollet Mall.

Overlaying historic photographs, found film and animated data from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Immigration Statistics, this work illustrates the shared history of ancestral migration among Americans.

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‘CARRY ON HOMES’ This multi-functional pavilion at the Commons is an interactive sculptural installation that reimagines the home as an open structure, where walls disappear and the public is invited to engage. Featuring a stage, a colorful mural, a reflecting garden, a photo gallery and a sculpture built from repurposed suitcases, the piece celebrates the immigrant cultures around the world that call Minnesota home. On view June 15 through the summer.

‘COMMON URBAN EDIBLE PLANTS’ Combining food and plant life with new creative technology, Minneapolis artist Paige Dansinger will recreate native Minnesota common urban edible botanical plants in virtual reality with members of Best Buy Teen Tech Lab, projected on the ceiling of the Minneapolis Central Library’s atrium.

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Moments in Minneapolis

By Cedar Imboden Phillips

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o you recognize the boys — or the goat — in this photograph? If so, please let me know! While we don’t know the story behind this image, goats have never been commonplace in Minneapolis.

In 1916, the city knew of only three goats, all part of the same backyard herd. In 1926, however, evidence of at least one additional goat showed up in the newspaper classifieds. Listed in the “for the children” section was the offer of a pet goat, harness and cart for $10, or approximately $142 in today’s dollars. Was this the cart and goat in question? I suspect so.

Cedar Imboden Phillips serves as the executive director for the Hennepin History Museum. Learn more about the museum and its offerings at hennepinhistory.org or 870-1329.

Image from the collection of the Hennepin History Museum

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