Southwest Journal, June 27–July 10

June 27–July 10, 2019 Vol. 30, No. 13 southwestjournal.com

Yoga studio’s windows smashed

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The effect of city’s wage hikes A6

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Vandalism at 38th & Grand shows no sign of abating

Library looks at how racism shaped city A7

APARTMENTS GALORE

By Andrew Hazzard / ahazzard@swjournal.com

Emily Peake Memorial Garden shuts down Developments pitched on Girard and Garfield A10

PIGEON PASSION An avian tour on the Greenway A12

By Michelle Bruch

Stevens Square is searching for a new way to memorialize Ojibwe community leader Emily Peake now that her namesake community garden plots are parking spaces. The property owner at 1913 3rd Ave. S. had shared the space for free since 1994, according to the Stevens Square Community Organization (SSCO), but shut down the garden in May after SSCO declined to start paying property taxes.

SEE STEVENS SQUARE / PAGE A14

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Ridership fell on all forms of transit in early 2019 except for Metro Mobility, which saw a 2% growth in ridership, according to Metropolitan Council figures released June 10. Metro Mobility was used 11,885 more times in the first quarter of 2019 than the same period in 2018.

That trend is not surprising to anyone paying attention to the demographics of Minnesota, which is in the midst of accelerating aging as baby boomers reach senior citizen status.

SEE METRO MOBILITY / PAGE A13

The TaraNa yoga studio’s windows were broken by vandals on June 15. Photo by Andrew Hazzard

A streak of targeted, persistent window shattering at the forthcoming Good Times pizza and ice cream parlor in Kingfield continues and now a neighboring business has been hit in what appears to be collateral damage.

Shortly before midnight on June 15, security cameras show two women running by the building at 322 W. 38th St. and hitting the windows and doors with what appear to be hammers.

Vandalism at the property, owned by Tyler Avestini, has persisted since January. Windows and glass doors at the building have been smashed six times, according to Franz Gilbertson, the owner of the forthcoming pizza joint. But this time, the vandals also struck Good Times’ next door neighbor on Grand Avenue, the TaraNa yoga studio at 3757 Grand Ave. S. The yoga studio’s window closest to the pizza joint was smashed, causing thousands of dollars in damage, owner Jeffrey Bores said. He’s afraid it won’t be the last time.

SEE SMASHED WINDOWS / PAGE A15

Kenny resident hand-built a band organ Tom Logan spent 3,000 hours constructing the 97-pipe machine

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Old-time music blasted from a cargo trailer during Open Streets Lyndale on June 2. Only this music wasn’t coming out of speakers or even from a live orchestra.

The music was coming from a band organ that Kenny resident Tom Logan built himself over a period of 12 years. Logan, an engineer, spent 3,000 hours building the machine, which functions like a self-playing piano, only with pipes that mimic the sounds of different instruments.

“It’s making pressure in the bottom that blows the pipes,” Logan said. “Then there’s the bellows on the top that makes the vacuum and that breathes the holes and makes the music.”

Logan said he became interested in band organs SEE BAND ORGAN / PAGE A15

Tom Logan completed his band organ in 2008. The 1928 model features 97 pipes that mimic different instruments and also includes several drums.

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Dan and Deb Justesen stand in their newly completed outdoor beer garden at Utepils Brewing Co. Photos by Andrew Hazzard

When Dan and Deb Justesen opened Utepils Brewing Co. on the banks of Bassett Creek near Theodore Wirth Park in 2017, they wanted to harness the unique green space at their disposal.

A newly completed creekside beer garden opening with a celebration on June 29 does just that.

“What a beer garden is supposed to be is a park,” Dan Justesen said.

The backyard at Utepils, located on Thomas Avenue North on the border of Bryn Mawr and Harrison, has been well used since the brewery opened. But the grassy area was prone to flooding.

The new patio has a concrete flooring with several drainage grates to prevent flooding.

Several moveable picnic tables are circled around a gas fireplace that is rimmed by an old sifter from the abandoned grain mill next door.

Fresh sod has been laid along the outside and

several flowerbeds have been installed.

“It’s a social place,” Dan Justesen said.

The beer garden is dog-friendly, with several bowls ready for water outside.

Utepils has sought to be an authentic European brew hall, and the Justesens say the modern rage in Europe now is drinking in parks.

It will also improve the setting for their annual Oktoberfest celebration. Utepils celebrates in the original spirit of the holiday: a marriage celebration. About 40 couples have renewed their marriage vows under Utepils’ backyard arbor over the past two years.

“I don’t think there’s a dry eye in the house,” Dan Justesen said.

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Chef and owner Alejandro Castillon Prieto holds a freshly prepared burger in the kitchen of his new restaurant Prieto, now open at Lake & Lyndale. Photos by Andrew Hazzard

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In his new restaurant in LynLake, Alejandro Castillon Prieto is keeping it simple.

At Prieto, the new Mexican eatery he opened June 21 at Lake & Lyndale, the menu is short, the food is handmade and the meat is smoked.

“Here, the most important thing for me is the meat, tortillas and the salsa,” he said.

All of it is made fresh daily by staffers who are solely dedicated to each task. That means on any given day the tortillas might be white or yellow or blue, but regardless of color, the tortillas will be hand-pressed that day and cooked fresh for each order.

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and moved to Minneapolis 15 years ago. In 2011, he debuted Sonora at Midtown Global Market and later moved the restaurant to the Longfellow neighborhood.

When the Hasty Tasty closed last winter, he started poking around the building. Now, he and his staff are putting the massive meat smoker in the building to good use. All the meat served at Prieto is smoked, from the pork carnitas and beef brisket to the fish used in the ceviche. The peppers for the salsa get a smoking, too.

“Smoke and fire have always been a part of food for me,” said Nich Malia, who mans the smoker at Prieto and was part of the team that opened the kitchen at Surly.

The menu is fairly straightforward, with nine tacos that can be purchased individually, a selection of tortas and small plates like flautas, ceviche and empanadas.

Prieto is open for lunch and dinner throughout the week, and has brunch service on Saturdays and Sundays. They have 16 beers on tap and four tap cocktails in addition to a number of mescal-based drinks such as the Oaxacan Negroni and an agave version of an old fashioned with tequila and mezcal.

The restaurant has seating for 99 people inside and an additional 28 on its patio.

Inside, Castillon Prieto opened up the space and decorated it with items that remind him of loved ones. One wall is covered with photographs taken by a friend and a wall in the back is adorned with colorful tops that remind him of his childhood in northwest Mexico.

“I try to make the restaurant for my family and friends,” Castillon Prieto said.

Prieto Where: 701 W. Lake St. Info: prietotaqueria.com

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WHITTIER

Greenway Dental to open at 24th & Lyndale The Le Parisien apartment building finally has a commercial occupant to smile about.

Dr. Sam LaChance is opening his new practice, Greenway Dental, in the long-empty space below the flats at 24th & Lyndale.

“I love it here,” LaChance said. “It’s so vibrant.”

LaChance, a St. Paul resident, said that after working as a practicing dentist for seven years, he felt he was ready to open his own practice. He started looking around the Uptown area and eventually found the Le Parisien space. He’ll have the building’s first commercial business. The large amount of housing and small businesses nearby attracted him to the area.

LaChance said his practice will be able to serve anyone from age 1 to 101 and, knowing people don’t always love going to the dentist, he hopes to create a positive atmosphere with ample art and a welcoming attitude.

He wants to bring transparency to the dental care process. Patients, he said, want to know what care they need, why they need it and how much it will cost. He’ll try to be clear with patients about problems they’re having and explain care in simple terms.

“Ambiguity is confusing for patients,” he said.

In addition to general dentistry work, LaChance said he does a lot of tooth implants using 3D imaging technology.

The dentistry is currently being built out and will have five patient areas. LaChance is eyeing a Sept. 3 opening date.

He said he’s been getting to know some of the neighbors and is starting to do some

Dr. Sam LaChance stands outside of his new practice, Greenway Dental, slated to open in early September. Photo by Andrew Hazzard

hiring. LaChance had a table outside during Open Streets Lyndale and is aiming to be a convenient neighborhood dentist.

Greenway Dental Where: 2309 Lyndale Ave. S. Info: greenwaydentalmpls.com

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The cafe has had a patio space since it opened in 2007, but the new addition is larger and raised off the asphalt on a wooden deck surrounded by planter boxes. A new maple tree stands in the deck’s center. Plum, pear and apricot trees have been installed around the patio.

“There’s a lot more green space,” Common Roots owner Danny Schwartzman said.

He’s hoping the plants will help with stormwater runoff and help cool down the asphalt space. It will also offer closer access to the alley

garden where Common Roots grows some of the fruits and vegetables prepared in the kitchen.

The patio, which is adjacent to the original 1890 brick wall on the building, has a new accessible ramp.

To go with the new patio, Schwartzman has also unveiled a new menu with several salads, including the Superfood Crunch with kale, blueberries and granola, and his personal favorite, the Chipotle Chicken Cobb.

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Will Henke, general manager of The Malt Shop restaurant in Lynnhurst, said a higher minimum wage makes it harder to compete with restaurants in suburban cities, where there’s no city mandate.

Meanwhile, Chermaine Madrid, who works part time at Cheapo Records at 26th & Nicollet, said she appreciates the higher wage.

“Until I get a full-time job somewhere else, every little bit helps,” she said.

Across Southwest, workers, restaurateurs and business owners said they are feeling the impact of the city’s 2-year-old minimum-wage ordinance, which gradually phases in a $15 minimum wage.

Some businesses said the ordinance has led to higher costs, forcing them to scale back on expenses. Workers said they appreciate the extra income.

Starting July 1, the ordinance requires employers with fewer than 100 workers to pay at least $11 an hour and employers with over 100 workers to pay at least $12.25 an hour. Those rates apply both to tipped and untipped workers.

Currently, the ordinance requires small employers to pay at least $10.25 an hour and large employers to pay at least $11.25.

Henke, who employs about 30 people, said a 75-cent minimum wage increase means a roughly 3% increase in payroll, which accounts for about a third of his expenses.

Restaurateur Kim Bartmann, who owns nine Minneapolis restaurants, including six in Southwest, said her establishments are not profitable at the moment. She said she has offered her employees health insurance since 1993 and tries to pay them fairly. She said the definition of a living wage has changed over the years, but “lately it’s moot because wages have skyrocketed with the labor crisis.”

Common Roots Cafe owner Danny Schwartzman has paid all his workers $15 an hour since April 2017. He said he thinks the $15 wage will be good for workers and the community, adding that it could force a hard conversation about the role tips play in the restaurant industry.

“If you’re thinking about paying people fairly, you really have to question how tips work,” he said.

‘Hitting the wrong people’ In passing the ordinance, the City Council noted how a full-time worker making the state’s 2017 minimum wage of $9.50 while supporting a family would have a salary below the poverty line.

The council also noted about 48% of workers in Minneapolis earned less than a living wage, which at the time was $15.25 for a single person and $19.80 for a twoadult, one-child household.

“Life in the city has become increasingly unaffordable for many people,” when coupled with rising housing costs, the ordinance said.

Before the minimum-wage ordinance passed two years ago, restaurant owners were among the loudest voices calling for an exemption for tipped workers.

Susan Eder, owner of the restaurant consulting firm Cue the Accountant, said the minimum wage increase is “hitting the wrong people” in the restaurant industry.

She said front-of-house restaurant staff already make two to three times more per hour, on average, than kitchen staff.

“I need the kitchen to get paid more,” Eder said. “That’s where the labor shortage is.”

Eder said she expects restaurants to institute a service charge of some sort in coming years.

Some restaurants have already instituted service charges. Bartmann added a 3% service charge before the minimum-wage ordinance passed to help cover the cost of employee health insurance. Blue Plate restaurants, which include The Lowry and Edina Grill, have an “employee wellness charge,” according to Anna Mailliard, director of marketing and communications.

Dennis Curran, owner of Curran’s Family restaurant at 42nd & Nicollet, said he’s not considering adding a service charge and that his tipped employees make far above the minimum wage.

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Krista Vosper works the counter at Common Roots Cafe at 26th & Lyndale.

Common Roots Cafe owner Danny Schwartzman pays all employees at least $15 an hour.

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Upstairs at the Linden Hills Library, a flatscreen television has been set up to serve as an interactive history exhibit. The screen displays an old hand-lettered, green-and-black map of Southwest Minneapolis. Scattered across the map are about a dozen big red dots, mostly clustered in the neighborhoods of Linden Hills and Lyndale.

Each dot represents the home of an African American family that lived in the area in the 1910s. A red dot for Willard M. Bugbee, a red dot for Harry and Clementine Robinson and a red dot for the family of Thomas West, an elevator operator who bought a house on Aldrich Avenue in 1908 and who the Twin City Star called “one of our most respected citizens.”

As visitors scroll down the TV screen and as the year turns from 1915 to 1920 to 1935, the red dots vanish from the map.

By 1940, black families had been entirely driven out of Linden Hills, the victims of violent attacks, racially restrictive housing covenants and discriminatory lending in government-backed mortgages. By 1960, Clyde and Daisy Edwards were the only black homeowners left in all of Southwest Minneapolis.

The interactive map is part of an exhibit called “Displaced,” on view at the library through July 11, which aims to illustrate “how racism reshaped settlement in Minneapolis.” Today, 75% of white Minneapolitans own homes compared with only 25% of black residents — the widest homeownership gap in any of the 100 American cities with the largest black populations.

The library exhibit expands on a show called “Owning Up: Racism and Housing in Minneapolis,” which opened last fall at the Hennepin History Museum. Co-curators Denise Pike and Maggie Mills, veterans of the University of Minnesota’s Mapping Prejudice project, said they hoped to tell the story with the new exhibit of how racist laws and practices have displaced not just African Americans but also Native Americans.

“There is a pattern of settler-colonialism and displacement of non-white people from areas to make land more valuable and appealing for white residents,” Pike said.

“We wanted to show this was an ongoing, long-term pattern.”

Pike and Mills compiled newspaper clippings, photographs, paintings and atlas pages to spell out the similarities between anti-black racism and the Minnesota Legislature’s decision to exile the region’s indigenous communities following the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862.

“Owning Up” told the story of the racist housing covenants that explicitly banned the sale of at least 20,000 Hennepin County homes to African Americans and members of other minority groups between 1910 and 1960. Mills said that some viewers wondered why the covenants did not include language banning indigenous people.

“What you’re seeing put into covenant language is the racial fears of that moment, and there wasn’t a racial fear of Native Americans because they had already been expelled,” she said. “This is the lineage of white supremacy.”

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About 40 people came to the Linden Hills Library on June 11 for the opening of a month-long exhibit on the neighborhood’s history of expelling black and indigenous people. Submitted photo

that once stood near Fort Snelling, and about Minneapolis’ racial disparities and history of redlining and white violence, before prompting viewers to consider questions like “How has your life been shaped by race?” and “Why did you choose to live in your neighborhood?”

The exhibit suggests visitors learn more by reading books like Claudia Rankine’s Citizen or watching videos like the TPT documentary “Jim Crow of the North,” which will be shown at the library on July 11. When the exhibit ends, three of the hanging panels will travel to Washburn Library; a panel focused on Linden Hills will stay on permanently.

Pike, who graduated from the University of Minnesota this May with a master’s degree in heritage studies and public history, said her work detailing the Twin Cities’ history of racial displacement has been personally meaningful.

In 1993, when she was 4 years old, she lived in a St. Louis Park duplex with her white mother and her Nigerian father.

Another African American family lived in the adjoining unit.

Pike was too young to remember the day when someone attempted to burn a cross on their garage, but she still recalls “the tension and fear my parents had.” (The culprit was never caught.)

“This speaks to some of these incidents we see historically with racial housing discrimination,” she said. “Sometimes when there’s one African American family, it’s okay, but the moment another black family tries to move in, there’s this tide shifting and people get really motivated to try to expel these black families.”

Teresa Mercier, the supervisor of the Linden Hills Library, said she hopes the exhibit will get people thinking about how opportunities can be created for people of color to move into Linden Hills, which is currently about 88% white.

“People aren’t bad for living in Linden Hills,” she said, “but they need to understand that things have happened in the past to create the community we have today.”

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Take me out to the ball game

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wo days after Twins catcher Mitch Garver sent a 2-1 fastball into the Target Field bullpen just below me and my date, Mary Beth, in center field, Dick Bremer, the Twins’ evercurious (about life, people, baseball) play-by-play announcer called the home run one of the most special moments in the stadium’s nine-year history.

He’s right, of course, and Bremer only witnessed as much from the press box. The June 14 game was but one of 80-plus games to be hosted at Target Field this year (mark your calendars: Oct. 22 is Game 1 of the World Series), but it was a case study in how, for sheer entertainment, the timehonored ritual of a day or night at the ballpark is hard to beat.

My afternoon started with me playing hooky from all work and other serious matters, a late afternoon lunch with a pal and a bike ride on the Greenway to Downtown Minneapolis. It was Prince Night at Target Field, so I bought some cheap tickets and landed in line a little before 3 p.m., early enough to score one of the limited edition Twins Prince jerseys that I’ll probably wear all summer.

From there it was nine innings of lolling magic, as 10,000 purple-clad baseball fans (some with matching Twins/Prince hats) dotted the sold-out crowd of 40,000, and Prince music and photos lit up the sky throughout the partly cloudy night.

Again, a good game at Target Field is always languidly magical, but Minneapolis was positively electric that night, with the Monsters of the North Loop (aka the Twins, aka Bomba Squad) in town, Rock For Pussy roaring along at First Avenue in tribute to David Bowie, Jason Isbell spilling his alt-country guts at the Armory and muchmaligned Downtown Minneapolis feeling like the epicenter of fun, music and civic pride.

We felt lucky to land in section 329 up top, with a summer sunset to our right, the glittering Downtown Minneapolis horizon on our left, and the best team in major league baseball on the field in front of us.

With a homegrown meal of a Kramarczuk brat, a Lift Bridge beer and a bag of peanuts I shared with our row, we took in a Friday night lights ritual that was taking place on our prairie diamond with the professional teams representing Kansas City and Minnesota, but which was simultaneously happening on diamonds in cities, parks and towns all over the country. With a cool breeze and a cool beer, the national pastime has rarely felt so precious, or, as my date said, like spending a few hours looking out at a great lake.

It’s peaceful, in other words, and as I get older I newly understand the allure of religiously following the game, with that timeless sound of the Twins on the radio that my grandmother lived for. The game drips with history and memories, of games and who you saw ’em with (my bro and I returned June 17 for another sublime pitchers’ duel and a 2-0 loss to the Red Sox, and hell if we didn’t feel like kids again at Met Stadium), but a game is never as good as the one going on right now. To that end, baseball is definitive — about wins and losses, balls and strikes, at-bats and outs — and at a

Post-game fireworks set to Prince’s “Gold” over Minneapolis.

Target Field, June 14.

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time of great change and complex upheaval in the world, baseball is straightforward, simple, nuanced, and demands presence.

To wit: I’ve only been to a handful of games this season, but I’ve discovered that one of the joys of being there is witnessing the small rite that is around-the-horn. It happens after a strikeout (the catcher whipping the ball to the third baseman, who fires it to short, second, first and back to the pitcher), or after a double play (first to second, short, third and pitcher). Balletic and just for fun, it’s a seamless little tradition that’s executed so naturally and is so pretty to watch, it can feel like you’re in on a secret. Watch for it and grin.

Yep, I’ve got it bad for this Twins team and will fully cop to my lifelong fair weather (busy) fandom, but this Bomba Squad — and, yes, their winning ways — has me following most every pitch in a way I haven’t in quite a few years. But I’m no Twins sap. I’ve suffered their mediocrity and too many years of bad baseball, and this year my nota-fan gripes are with Pizza Ranch, military night, the national anthem and FSN’s insipid “Town Ball” feature, but other than that, I am all in.

On Prince Night, the people-watching was great, especially the months-old baby who got passed around to almost every person in our section for nine innings with barely a whimper.

Bobby Z., drummer for Prince’s band the Revolution, led the warm-weather crowd in a ridicu-

lously giddy seventh-inning-stretch singalong of “Take Me Out To The Ball Game.” One of the air-gunners in left field lifted a free Twins t-shirt to Mary Beth in the third deck (“Did that really happen?”), and a couple hours later, one of the Rock For Pussy kittens tossed her a rose on the main room floor of First Avenue. (If Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight calculated the odds of both these things happening to one person on the same night, they’d be at least 5,000–1.)

Topping it off, we bore witness to the rare experience of watching well-played baseball — a crisp 2-0 pitchers’ duel that clocked in at two hours and 22 minutes. Finally, when the post-game fireworks concluded to the strains of Prince’s shoulda-been 1995 hit “Gold,” it felt as if gold dust was sprinkling down on the city itself in a little slice of gold snow globe baseball heaven.

All in all, it’s got me checking the schedule, saving my money, looking for tickets. Road trip to Chicago? Baseball fever has arrived full-throttle, the kind that only happens with a winning team that oozes personality. So what are you waiting for? As Prince sang to thousands of Minnesota baseball fans from the great beyond, “Dearly beloved, we are gathered here to get through this thing called life. ... Let’s go crazy.”

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A racist trope I am writing in response to Steve Brandt’s column “Lola’s financial problems preceded May fire” in the June 13–26 issue.

Brandt spends most of the article detailing the new restaurant’s fits and starts, some of which he admits were attributable to external factors, like a storm on the proposed opening weekend and code upgrade delays. In the last two paragraphs of the piece, he then makes an abrupt rhetorical leap: “Perhaps given the heat the Park Board has taken on equity issues, it was inevitable that it would choose a proposal from a minority-owned business such as King’s.” Brandt explicitly ties the

troubles that Lola on the Lake experienced in its first year to the owner’s race — an appalling yet tired conclusion.

This trope, that hiring or contracting out to people of color (as opposed to white people) inevitably leads a business to underperform, is rooted in racist assumptions about why King’s group was chosen to run the lakeside restaurant — that it was due to the color of his skin, rather than to his excellent credentials (including having run two successful restaurants) or the strength of his proposal. It assumes that candidates of color are inherently less qualified than white candidates. And Brandt glibly elides the accusations of racism in the Park Board’s hiring and local financing decisions, describing the complaints as baseless, overly zealous “heat.”

I don’t think Brandt intended to be explicitly racist in tying the restaurant’s difficulties to the owner’s race — but — oops! — he went and swapped the dog whistle for a siren.

In 2017, Brandt wrote about cataloguing historical racist redlining policies in Minneapolis as part of the Mapping Prejudice Project (“Tracing the legacy of prejudice,” Sept. 21–Oct. 4). Musing on the developers who established the policies, he wonders about himself and his contemporaries, “Would we have had the moral fiber to stand against the prevailing current of thought?”

I urge Mr. Brandt to reread his own words and consider how his column contributes to a racist ideology that paints people of color as unqualified and whose opportunities and achievements are due to government programs rather than to their accomplishments and experiences. I also encourage the Southwest Journal to refrain from publishing such baldly racist columns going forward.

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Merle Payne, co-director of the nonprofit Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (or Center for Workers United in Struggle), which advocated for the minimum wage increase, said it makes a huge difference in workers’ lives.

Payne said he’s also appreciated the city’s efforts to ensure that workers have a voice in the workplace. He noted a proposed ordinance three City Council members introduced on June 21 that would help protect workers from wage theft.

That proposed ordinance would require employers to provide workers with earnings statements and it would create penalties for employers who commit wage theft through activities such as withholding overtime, cheating workers out of breaks or misreporting hours.

Impact on Seattle

Southwest High School has a new principal

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@swjournal.com

Minneapolis Public Schools has hired Valerie Littles-Butler to take over as principal at Southwest High School.

Littles-Butler will assume leadership of the school on July 1, Valerie the district said.

Littles-Butler Littles-Butler was most recently an administrator at Central High school in St. Paul and has more than 30 years

of experience in education. She’s worked as a principal and assistant principal in St. Paul, an adjunct professor at Concordia University, a classroom teacher and a basketball coach.

“Her commitment to providing a quality education for all students stands out in the work she’s accomplished,” associate superintendent Carla Steinbach wrote in a letter.

In a statement, Littles-Butler called Southwest one of the best schools in Minnesota and said she looks forward to meeting the school community.

“While the last few years have presented challenges for our students, staff and school community, I am certain we can continue to do great things as a community,” she said.

Littles-Butler will be Southwest’s fourth principal in four years. Longtime principal Bill Smith retired in 2017, and Karen Wells served as interim principal in 2017–18.

Michael Favor was principal this past school year, and he left in early June to take an associate superintendent position in Roseville Area Schools.

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The Minneapolis ordinance’s passage came nearly three years after Seattle’s city council voted to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour. Seattle’s ordinance requires employers with fewer than 500 U.S. workers to hit the $15 threshold by 2021.

A group of University of Washington researchers found that Seattle’s ordinance raised average earnings among 14,000 of the city’s lowest earners while decreasing total hours worked.

In addition, they found that turnover among those low-wage workers declined and that the number of new low-wage workers in Seattle has declined.

Locally, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is studying the effects of this city’s ordinance. It will release a report on Oct. 1 detailing the effects of the 2018 minimum wage increase.

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A new development proposal would bring more than 240 new apartment units, split between three buildings, to a seven-block stretch of Girard Avenue in Uptown.

A six-story, 119-unit U-shaped building would rise at 2701–2715 Girard Ave. S., on a site currently occupied by three single-family rental homes and a duplex. A block and a half to the south, at 2824–2832 Girard Ave. S., three other single-family homes would be knocked down to make way for a six-story, 76-unit building.

A four-story building planned farther south, at 3220–3236 Girard Ave. S., would also have 76 units and would also require three single-family homes and a duplex to be demolished.

All three buildings would include green roofs and enclosed parking accessible by alleys. The two six-story buildings would have a mix of apartments leaning heavily toward studios and one-bedrooms. The larger of the two six-story buildings, at 27th & Girard, would have 74 underground and first-floor parking stalls, while the other, at 28th & Girard, would use an automated car elevator to fit 43 spots into the building’s smaller footprint. Plans for the four-story building at 32nd & Girard call for 38 parking spaces.

City staff have said plans for the six-story building at 27th & Girard are “too big for the site,” which is currently zoned for residential buildings four stories or shorter. Under the

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Yellow Tree co-founder Robb Lubenow said his company aims to provide entry-point market-rate housing for people with salaries between $30,000 and $60,000. Rents would start at around $1,095 for studios and around $1,275 for 500-square-foot one-bedrooms in the six-story buildings. Lubenow said they are aiming to keep half of those buildings’ units affordable to people who make less than 80% of Minneapolis’ medium income, which currently translates to a monthly rent of under $1,800. Less than a third of the buildings’ units W 22nd St would have two or more bedrooms. (Predicted rents are not yet available for the four-story building, but would likely be similar.)

“We’re not trying to do high-end luxury,” Lubenow said.

The project is a partnership between Yellow Tree and HGTV hosts Drew Levin and Danny Perkins, who have acquired the rights to the land.

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Two projects that will add 79 new apartments along Garfield Avenue were approved by the city’s planning commission on June 17.

The projects, a six-story, 67-unit building at 28th & Garfield and a three-story, 12-unit building at 33rd & Garfield, were both approved on consent agenda without comment.

The building at 28th & Garfield is a Yellow Tree development that will include an automated stacking garage feature for parking. A total of 40 parking spots and 40 bike parking stalls would go in the building.

There is a 12-unit apartment building currently on the site that would be removed.

Yellow Tree co-founder Robb Lubenow previously told the Southwest Journal they had offered to move residents of the building into a similar building the firm owns at 28th & Harriet.

The building will have nine studio, 33 onebedroom and 10 two-bedroom apartments.

Two walk-up units are planned along Garfield.

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Yellow Tree intends to revise its plans for Terr His business partner Bryan Walters noted that over the last 2–3 years, Yellow Tree’s the building, city planner Hilary Dvorak said. tenants have become less likely to demand Lubenow has said they could decrease the parking and he expects that trend to continue. apartment’s height to five stories from six, “The only thing worse than not enough but it would require eliminating underground parking is too much parking,” Lubenow said. “It’s parking to keep costs down. expensive, you have to reflect that in rent rates, For the four-story apartment between 32nd 55 the developers are seeking home affordability, and it just trickles down.” and 33rd streets, The six-story, 76-unit building at 28th a site plan review and a variance for setbacks & Girard would overlook the Midtown along Girard Avenue and rear alley.

94behind the Greenway and the parking lot At a June 12 meeting of the Lowry East Piggy Bank restaurant. A brief walk from Neighborhood Association’s zoning committee, the Uptown Transit Center, the building neighbors criticized the 27th and 28th street is proposed for a site zoned R6, the city’s buildings for their shadows, their “horrific highest-density residential district, which aesthetics,” W Franklin Ave and their potential impact on traffic. allows heights of up to six stories. The develNeighbor Steve Lauterbach said he liked opers are seeking setbacks and variances elements of 76-unit building on 28th Street, related to the automated parking system and but that DJR Architecture had designed the the number of exterior materials. Plans call for larger apartment building at 27th Street to be a green wall on the building’s south side. “massive and boxy.”

All three buildings would be located just a “What motivated you folks to try to shoeblock away from the Hennepin Avenue transit horn a building of these dimensions onto a corridor. The sites of the proposed buildings parcel and in a neighborhood where it’s drasE 24th St at 27th and 32nd streets are currently zoned tically out of scale?” he asked.

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The proposal at 33rd & Garfield in Lyndale will add 12 housing units to the site of a vacant substation.

The development, dubbed the Amp House by a company of the same name, proposed no vehicle parking on the site. Commissioners approved the developer’s request to divide the property into two lots, with the 12-unit building on one lot and a landscaped community and shared garden space on the other.

The building, designed by Christian Dean Architects, would be brick, glass and metal pane.

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“While we appreciate and acknowledge that proposed rents for this project are at entry-level market-rate [area median income] levels, they will still likely be out of reach for the majority of households in Whittier,” the neighborhood organization wrote in a letter to the planning commission.

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A passion for pigeons Midtown Greenway hosting summer pigeon tours

By Christopher Shea

Although they are not native to the Twin Cities, rock pigeons have flourished in this urban environment because tall buildings are similar to their natural roosting place, cliffs.

This was just one of many fun facts Zack Mohlis told a gathering of about a dozen avian enthusiasts who flocked to the Greenway on June 13 for a free tour offered by the Midtown Greenway Coalition.

“There was a time where pigeons were the image of rural America,” Mohlis told the group.

“Now they are the image of urban America.”

Mohlis said the reason for the tour, aside from his passion for the bird and the fact that June 13 is National Pigeon Day, was a desire to get people thinking more about the history of the area. For future expeditions, Mohlis plans to focus on bridges, art and other local flora and fauna.

“What I really want people to do is see the Greenway in a different way,” said Mohlis, who

In urban areas, pigeons nest on a variety of flat, covered surfaces as they are reminiscent of their natural roosting place, cliffs.

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Attendees of the tour — a 1.5-mile walk from the Walker Library to the Interstate 35W overpass — said they came out of a desire to support the Greenway, out of curiosity about a tour based solely on pigeons or out of the simple wish to learn more about the bird.

“What makes them common is inherently interesting,” pigeon fan Ann Cohen said.

The tour began with a history lesson on naturalist Henry David Thoreau. During an 1861 trip he took to Minnesota in search of a cure for his ailing health, Thoreau was in awe of the now-extinct passenger pigeons, which were native to the area. Today’s rock pigeons are the feral descendants of domesticated pigeons brought by European settlers.

Following a brief walk, Mohlis taught the group how to tell if an animal is around when there aren’t any tracks — by looking for droppings. Not long afterward, a pigeon was spotted atop a roof.

Further down the Greenway, the age-old question of how pigeons feed their young was finally answered — the bird produces milk in its digestive tract, or crop. The only other birds that do this are flamingos and the male emperor penguin, Mohlis said, noting that a pigeon’s crop milk looks like cottage cheese.

By the end of the tour, more than 100 pigeons had been spotted.

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Demand for Metro Mobility, a shared ride service required by state and federal law for riders with certified medical need that prevents them from using fixed-route service, is rising fast. The service’s ridership was up 6% in 2018 and has risen by 30% over the past five years, according to the Met Council.

That trend holds true in Southwest Minneapolis.

Metro Mobility provided 126,000 trips in the zip codes that include Southwest Minneapolis between May 2018 and April 2019, according to Met Council data. That’s a 9% increase from May 2013 to April 2014, when Metro Mobility provided 115,560 trips within those zip codes.

Kari Benson is the executive director of the Minnesota Board on Aging, a state organization with a governor-appointed board that provides resources and advocates for senior citizens. Transportation is one of the board’s biggest advocacy issues.

“We do know the demand for Metro Mobility is higher than the capacity that they are able to meet right now,” Benson said.

For older adults, signing up for the service can be difficult, she said. The application is multiple pages long, and a doctor needs to sign off verifying applicants’ need for the service.

“Those who do use it find that it is a benefit to them,” she said.

The Minnesota State Demographic Center reports that in 2020, the population of residents

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over 65 will exceed that of residents enrolled in K–12 school for the first time in state history.

Some 285,000 Minnesotans will have turned 65 by the end of the decade, which will be more than the past four decades combined, according to the agency.

“There are going to be changes needed and investments needed in some of these really key services like transportation,” Benson said.

Metro Mobility charges $4.50 for rush hour trips and $3.50 for trips during non-peak hours. The average subsidy per trip was $28.68, according to the Met Council. The service’s operating expenses, which topped $76 million in 2018, is mainly funded by the state.

Investments made in the past decade make Benson confident that Metro Mobility can withstand the increasing demand from users.

The question for the Met Council is whether they’ll be able to provide their other services.

Currently, for Twin Cities area transit services, the state funds half of light rail expenses and whatever is left over from state transit funding goes to bus service. In previous years, about half of that has gone to Metro Mobility, but as the demand increases, the share of the state transit dollars the service needs grows and grows.

“What it has meant is we haven’t been able to build out the bus system,” said Kate Brickman, a spokesperson for the Met Council.

This year, Gov. Tim Walz requested a separate

funding stream for Metro Mobility that would not come from the same trough as Metro Transit lines. But that didn’t pass, and neither did a DFL push for a new half-cent tax increase to expand the arterial bus rapid transit network. Because of that, Metro Transit officials said, the two planned BRT routes in Southwest — the E Line along Hennepin Avenue and the B Line on Lake Street — have been delayed.

Because Metro Mobility is required by law, eventually the entire state funding allotment for transit would go toward the service, Brickman said.

“If we ultimately have to fund it, it’s hard to plan for what our funding will be for the rest of the system,” she said.

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Part of a second community garden, LaSalle North at 1727 LaSalle Ave., is likely in its final season to make way for 123 apartments and commercial space. The developer said they will incorporate a smaller garden into the development, with priority for its use going to tenants. (The LaSalle South garden at 1809 LaSalle Ave. will not be touched.)

“I think it’s an indicator of a changing city, that green spaces are maybe the first ones to start being changed,” said Scott Artley, SSCO executive director. “For me, I think it’s the bellwether for additional development happening in our neighborhood, which I know some of our neighbors have anxiety about and some have excitement around. It’s a complex issue.”

The Emily Peake Memorial Garden site’s 2019 property taxes are $1,319. The property owner, Stevens Community Associates Limited Partnership, which also owns several apartment buildings in the neighborhood, recently asked the neighborhood association to cover the taxes, according to SSCO. Saying they couldn’t afford it, board members asked the owner to buy them time to figure out a fundraising plan by donating the garden space for one year. With a 2019 annual budget of about $150,000, even a relatively small added expense would soon become a burden, Artley said, explaining that income projections show the organization shrinking to a third of its 2017 size by 2021.

“Especially in light of the impending loss of other community garden spaces in our neighborhood, we feel that preserving community green space is critical,” residents said in a March letter to the property owner.

They were reportedly turned down, and the garden shut down in May. The owner did not respond for comment.

“Parking is very tight in the neighborhood. And I know … there’s a rise in property taxes,” said Artley, who talked with the owner. “Making all available assets be revenue generating, I understand that from a business perspective.”

SSCO initially launched the garden to “combat a blatant open-air drug market at the corner,” according to the garden’s Facebook page.

“When we were building it, I had the old brick cell phone handy and made quite a few calls,” said Gene Blackledge, who coordinated the first volunteers and said he often reported prostitution and drug dealing. He said he thinks the garden made a positive impact, especially combined with the nearby Stevens Square Center for the Arts.

“A lot of us are just kind of heartbroken, really,” Stevens Square resident Dee Tvedt said. She is hoping to find Peake’s friends and family to consult on a new memorial. As part of her research, she plans to explore the archived notes and manuscript materials of biographer Jane Pejsa, who became interested in Peake through the garden and wrote The Life of Emily Peake: One Dedicated Ojibwe.

“I’m just amazed at her life experiences,” Tvedt said.

The LaSalle South Community Garden at 1809 LaSalle Ave. will remain intact, and it looks “better than ever,” according to Stevens Square’s garden coordinator. Photo by Michelle Bruch

‘Always a friend’ As a young woman, Pejsa writes, Emily Peake graduated from Central High School; made parachutes at Honeywell; served in the Coast Guard; worked as clerk secretary for the U.S. State Department in Vienna (eventually being forced to leave following a McCarthyera investigation of her high school affiliations); became fluent in French, German and Russian; and started the business “Friday Girl,” offering secretarial and translation services. She served as breadwinner for her mother and her niece.

At the Waite Neighborhood House on Park Avenue, she taught dance and later started Saturday children’s programs and summer camps. She helped found the Upper Midwest American Indian Center, where she found jobs and housing for newcomers to the city. She worked with Dakota leaders to start a march in 1971 to recognize the anniversary of the 1862 executions in Mankato, acknowledging by name each of the 38 Dakota killed. She co-hosted the “Madagimo” (The Messenger) public access television program devoted to the American Indian community.

She taught America Indian history in Minneapolis Public Schools. She worked on safety issues through the Stevens Square Community Organization, saying in 1992, “If we don’t have a safe neighborhood where people can go out to the grocery store … we don’t have anything.”

“For those in need, she was always a friend,” Pejsa writes. “She could find Christmas turkeys, Easter hams, emergency groceries, housing and a first job. Besides, Emily’s home was the 24-hour drop-in center, and drop in they did, especially after she moved to her little house at 1919 2nd Ave. S.” Peake died in 1995.

As residents work to connect with Peake’s family, one idea for a new memorial involves dedicating a bee garden in the neighborhood’s Overlook Garden on 17th Street.

“There is a desire to have another garden, but at this point, we’re losing our gardens,” Tvedt said. “And so my main concern is that it is a permanent — or as permanent as possible — thing or place that we have some control over.”

Concerned gardeners lined up to speak at a Planning Commission meeting in January. Natasha Villanueva said that especially for people living in small apartments in dense areas, the city needs to preserve such green spaces. She said everyone should have an equal chance at a plot.

“It only adds to the fabric of our community to integrate everybody, regardless of their ability to pay market rate or … below market rate,” she said.

The city can’t mandate public access to the private land. But as part of approving the project, Planning Commissioners asked the developer to explore an agreement to share the garden with community members.

Yellow Tree co-founder Robb Lubenow said he’d be open to sharing management of the garden while giving garden plot priority to tenants.

At the meeting, Council Member and Planning Commissioner Jeremy Schroeder said he appreciated that the developer would include a garden and work with the community.

“This is an ongoing debate,” he said. “The city is growing. And we’re having a really big discussion about what is the best use of land.

We want to make sure we’re using underutilized land. But for years, we’ve also used that land for gardens, for communities to come together to be able to give back, to build community. It’s a hard thing. I think there are some limitations on what the city can do

for private property that is being sold, but I want to make sure that we don’t lose what’s been built through the community.”

SSCO still holds a lease to the LaSalle South Community Garden located on city property at 1809 LaSalle Ave., operating under a lease that’s up for renewal in the fall of 2021.

“It looks better than ever,” said Robert Skafte, garden coordinator.

Also in the neighborhood, the Overlook Garden stands on Minnesota Department of Transportation property at 17th Street & 2nd Avenue under a partnership with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. Volunteers gather to garden together from 5 p.m.–7 p.m. the last Tuesday of every month. And the Stevens Square Farmers Market is entering its 12th year, launching for the season July 3 and continuing from 2 p.m.–6:30 p.m. every Wednesday at Franklin & Nicollet.

A future design concept for Stevens Square Park includes an urban agriculture zone at 19th & Stevens under a plan being considered by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board.

“We’re still having gardens, we still have the Overlook Garden, and we’re just going to try to secure green space as we can,” Skafte said. “But you know how it goes, everything changes. We were lucky to have it as long as we did. Especially with all this development that’s going on lately, it’s inevitable. It’s unfortunate, but it is what it is.”

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The Stevens Square Community Organization is looking for a new way to honor Emily Peake.

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Yellow Tree Development Corporation plans to construct a six-story building with apartments and commercial space at 17241728 Nicollet Ave. and at 1727 LaSalle Ave., currently home to a 25-plot community garden. While the design includes a new garden, SSCO estimates it would be about half the size of the current space.

The Emily Peake Memorial Garden at 1913 3rd Ave. S. closed in May. Photo by Michelle Bruch

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Community members look at Kenny resident Tom Logan’s hand-built band organ during Open Streets Lyndale on June 2. The device utilizes a paper roll (bottom left) to trigger different notes and sounds. It took Logan over 3,000 hours to complete. Photos by Nate Gotlieb

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“I know I’m going to get busted again,” Bores said.

The vandalism at 38th & Grand is part of a pattern that has developed at Avestini’s properties throughout the city. Avestini’s properties in North Minneapolis are home to businesses including Mykonos Coffee & Grill, Clientele Barbershop and Avestopolis Cleaners. At each location, vandals have damaged at least 10 windows since the fall of 2017, Avestini said.

He has since installed security cameras there but now just sees footage of two people with covered faces smashing windows and running away.

“I feel bad for my neighbors,” Avestini said.

A woman was charged in a May 2018 incident at an Avestini property on the North Side, but the case was dismissed when it went to trial in April. He still believes she is the one responsible but said property crime detectives have told him with covered faces, it’s hard to prove beyond a reasonable doubt.

“I would bet a month’s pay it was her,” he said.

Minneapolis Police spokesperson Darcy Horn said the case is open and under investigation. No arrests have been made in the 38th & Grand vandalism. She said investigators have

reviewed store surveillance footage and may set up their own surveillance “in some cases.”

Avestini said the window breaking at his properties began in the fall of 2017. The only explanation he can think of relates to a car that was towed from one of his North Minneapolis properties after sitting idle for several days. After the towing, he said the person who owned it posted about him on Facebook.

He thinks that might have sparked the dispute but said he doesn’t understand why he’s being targeted.

His frustration is to the point where he is considering doing a stakeout at the building and hiring private security. He wants to catch them himself but is afraid of what he might do.

“If I am there, I will hurt them,” he said.

At his properties in North Minneapolis, he has installed polycarbonate windows that are more resistant to damage, which has stopped further destruction. He said he’ll likely do the same in Kingfield.

Gilbertson said he was unaware of the ongoing vendetta against Avestini’s properties when he signed a lease agreement last June but added the window breaking at his place did not begin until January.

“This and myriad other things would make me not want to pursue a relationship with the building owner. However, these

things really only started to manifest after having begun the buildout,” he said. “I entered into this process in good faith only to learn quite a few lessons the hard way.”

While the vandalism has been discouraging, it hasn’t been the primary reason for Good Times’ delay in opening. Gilbertson said less visible issues have held up the restaurant and that he’s made major investments in the building. He has been told continued vandalism may make it

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after attending a band-organ rally in 1996 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He said he was talking to some guys who had built their own band organs and said to himself, “I could do that.”

He bought plans and woodworking equipment to build the machine. He said he had enough woodworking equipment by the time he finished that he could make all the parts himself.

His Wurlitzer 105 band organ was originally manufactured in 1928, according to Musical Box Society International. It has 97 pipes, with different pipes mimicking instruments such as a flute, a trumpet and a violin. It also has a snare drum, a bass drum and cymbals attached to it.

The machine would have been attached to a small- or medium-sized merry-go-round, Logan said.

Logan said his favorite part about having the band organ is sharing its music with others. He started taking it to rallies around the U.S. after completing it in 2008 and has taken it to the Fourth of July parade in Spicer, Minnesota, each year. He’s also brought it to the State Fair parade the last 10 years.

“The little kids are just mesmerized by it,” he said. “They’ll watch it, and then they’ll start to figure out what’s going on. They’ll start explaining to me how it works. It’s really neat.”

Logan said older folks love the machine, too, noting how one man teared up at the site of it.

“He turned to me and said, ‘You’ve got to show this to people. You just don’t see mechanical stuff anymore,’” Logan said.

Logan keeps the band organ in his trailer year round. He said he once received a good offer from someone interested in purchasing the machine but that his oldest daughter wouldn’t hear of it.

“She said, ‘If you’re going to sell it to anyone, I’m the buyer,’” Logan said, “So it’ll stay in the family.”

harder to get a liquor license. Starting over at a new spot wouldn’t be feasible, he said.

“I do still feel confident that the location will prove to be a good one and look forward to joining the community in a real way,” he said.

Bores has run TaraNa at 38th & Grand for 13 years and has never experienced anything like this.

“At what point does the neighborhood say, ‘What’s going on?’” Bores asked.

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By Mira Klein

Making space for environmental justice First Universalist Church hosts conversation with political leaders “If we were to address the racialized wealth gap, what would that mean for resilient communities?”

This is the question that state Rep. Aisha Gomez (District 62B) asked the audience to consider as they sat in the packed pews of First Universalist Church on May 28. The crowd had gathered for a “Community Conversation on Environmental Justice, ” an event co-organized

by First Universalist’s environmental justice team and U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s office. The panel discussion was designed to cover climate change and the Green New Deal, but as Gomez’s prodding question reminded attendees, cultivating resiliency in a time of climate crisis is about more than isolated climate policy.

Omar and her co-panelists took this expansive understanding of environmental justice in stride, threading the conversation with analyses of youth participation, indigenous sovereignty and racial oppression. Omar was joined on the panel by attorney and Honor the Earth National Campaigns Director Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation), state Rep. Frank Hornstein (District 61A) and high school climate justice activist Juwaria Jama. The panelists in turn addressed a range of questions from urban forestry to organizing fatigue.

It was the congregation’s environmental justice (EJ) team that originated the idea for the panel. Recognizing Omar’s vocal support of a sweeping package of environmental proposals known as the Green New Deal, the EJ team composed a letter to her staff in April

Attendees filled the pews at First Universalist Church on May 28 to hear U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar speak about environmental justice.

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offering First Universalist as a space to galvanize support in Omar’s home district.

Located in a large building on the corner of 34th & Dupont, this socially minded congregation is increasingly considering its role not only as a place to cultivate spiritual worship, but as a provider of physical space for everything from film screenings to Drag Story Hour.

Stan Sattinger is team lead of First Universalist’s environmental justice team, which was founded in 2015.

While Sattinger’s previous organizing experience was primarily outside of church spaces, he views First Universalist as a natural vehicle for building strong environmental movements. “I think spiritual [and] religious organizations are the great hope that I have for the revolution of values that will get the public pulling in the right direction,” he said. “It has to be values-driven, and that’s where religious organizations come in.”

Over the past several years, Sattinger has worked alongside a committed group of congregational EJ team members to strategically leverage their community activism toward addressing environmental justice and the climate crisis. Serving as event hosts is one of those strategies.

Until the recent panel with Omar, the biggest event the EJ team had put on was a benefit concert for the Indigenous Youth Mentoring Society. The congregation also hosts an ongoing series called Mde Maka Ska Community Conversations, discussions convened by indigenous leaders LaMoine and Wakinyan LaPointe to facilitate relationships, movements and initiatives among indigenous communities and allies.

By hosting a wide range of environmentaland indigenous-focused events, the EJ team is trying to create as many entry points as possible for politicizing the congregation towards climate action.

“Our mission is to involve as many people in the congregation as possible,” Sattinger said.

“We want more of the congregation to take active roles in going to things like hearings and rallies — things that get results.”

When it came to reaching out to Omar’s office about the “Community Conversation” event, Sattinger and the EJ team viewed it as one of those “results-getting” moments. “We saw [the Green New Deal] as a great hope for actually getting significant action on climate change,” he said. “We looked at the fact that we had a large facility and said, ‘Why can’t we make a match here?’”

With the crowd already favorable toward the Green New Deal and other climate justice efforts, the community conversation was less informational and more of a call to action.

“Recognize your own power,” Houska forcefully reminded the audience as she described her own experience participating in the ongoing Ginew Collective Unist’ot’en encampment against the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline.

Such encampments are a reminder that when it comes to environmental justice, the way people occupy space matters. This is true not only for pipeline pathways but for movement-building as well.

Organizers and community conveners must occupy space to do their work. With houses of worship holding some of the largest community real estate capacity around Minneapolis, religious organizations like First Universalist are ideally situated to provide just that.

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New bridges, more water access and fewer cars Changes proposed in Minnehaha Creek master plan

When Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board planner Adam Arvidson brought up the proposal to close Minnehaha Parkway to vehicles from Humboldt to Portland avenues, the packed crowd at the Lynnhurst rec center let out a chorus of nos.

Several changes are proposed along the Minnehaha Creek Regional Trail Master Plan in the preferred concepts released by the Park Board in late May, some of which are drawing more attention than others.

The call to divert vehicle traffic on the parkway in Southwest to 50th and 54th streets is among the boldest of those changes.

Between Portland and Hiawatha avenues, planners believe Minnehaha Parkway serves as a vital east-west commuter route, Arvidson said.

But the area from Humboldt to Portland is seen as primarily park access, planners believe. The plan calls for establishing blockades to vehicles at Humboldt, Lyndale and Nicollet avenues, in addition to removing a short one-way stretch of the parkway from Pillsbury Avenue to just east of Nicollet Avenue.

“I believe there are other ways to calm traffic on the parkways than to break up the continuous roadways,” said Julie Durand, a longtime Lynnhurst resident who has been engaging with the MPRB throughout the process.

While the future of cars on the west side of the parkway is up for debate, planners are committed to making changes to the intersection of 50th Street and Minnehaha Parkway near Lynnhurst Park. Right now, the preferred concept calls for a new bridge for 50th Street over the parkway, allowing pedestrians and cyclists to pass through uninterrupted.

“The intersection of Minnehaha Parkway and 50th Street is difficult,” Arvidson told community members on June 17.

Under the preferred concept, the rec center would be moved north of 50th Street and a new parking lot would be placed across the street from Burroughs School. Some members of the public and Community Action Committee members voiced concern about vehicle bottlenecks, and a suggestion was made to move the parking lot to be accessible from James Avenue, which planners said they were open to considering.

Durand said she feels park planners have been receptive to the ideas from the public and likes several ideas in the plan, but she has enjoyed driving the slower parkway streets and hopes they stay open.

“I don’t get the feeling that they’re backing off these roadway closures,” Durand said.

Rearranging Lynnhurst Park The Minnehaha Creek master plan calls for major changes to Lynnhurst Park designed to both mitigate frequent flooding issues in the area and to convert the park into a place to learn about and recreate in the creek.

Designs propose demolishing the current rec center and building a new one north of 50th Street. That area floods a lot, Arvidson said, and planners want to convert the area to a naturalized green space with plants that can withstand flooding when needed.

A new ADA-accessible boat launch would be added near the rec center, as would a boat storage area designed to look like a treehouse.

The tributary that runs from Lake Harriet to the creek is currently routed through a culvert under 50th Street before dumping into the creek. But plans call for removing that culvert and “daylighting” the stream.

Along the aboveground stream, designs call for a creekside nature play area. The wading pool at Lynnhurst would be removed.

Some in the room called for the Lynnhurst wading pool to stay. But MPRB planners said they feel the daylighted stream is a unique place for them to offer a more naturalized water play area.

“This is the only location that lends itself to this kind of play,” Arvidson said.

The new Lynnhurst rec center would be intended as an environmentally focused community center, planners said, with opportunities to learn about the creek and the Chain of Lakes.

The rec center would have an indoor gym as well.

Designs call for two full-court basketball courts at Lynnhurst, which currently has one full-court and one half-court set up. The tennis courts would be moved from the side of the creek to near James Avenue.

To help with flooding, planners are proposing an underground water storage area beneath the diamonds and playfields.

The technology is commonly found under parking garages and is proposed at several sites near water bodies in the Southwest Area Master Plan.

“It’s a pretty proven technology,” Arvidson said.

The MPRB is holding further public meetings about the Minnehaha Creek Plan at 6 p.m. on June 27 at Lake Nokomis Community Center and at 6 p.m. on July 9 at Lynnhurst rec center. Designs may be altered before being adopted in late summer. The plan would be phased in over the next 20 years.

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Park Board’s plans for Lynnhurst Park 1 The existing rec center would be torn down and replaced with a naturalized area that can support flooding, including a creek play space.

2 A new environmentally focused rec center would go north of 50th Street.

3 A new ADA-accessible boat launch would be added.

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The proposed master plan for Minnehaha Creek and Lynnhurst Park calls for removing the tunneled portion of the tributary between Lake Harriet and the creek, seen dumping out here in June.

A packed house filled a public Community Action Committee meeting at Lynnhurst rec center on June 17.

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A column on transportation in Southwest Minneapolis

By Andrew Hazzard / ahazzard@swjournal.com

Transit, street redesign projects move forward Kenilworth tree felling Tree felling has begun in the Kenilworth corridor, where construction crews will be removing roughly 1,300 trees as part of the Southwest Light Rail Transit project.

Several local elected officials and neighborhood groups had asked the Metropolitan Council to hold off on tree cutting until the project officially received grant funding from the federal government. On June 16, a group of residents opposed to the LRT route observed 15 minutes of silence to express “their gratitude and grief for the trees, the bats, birds, fauna and all of the creatures of every species.”

During construction, landscapers will plant 1,100 small trees, 2,700 shrubs and more than 4,000 perennials, according to the Met Council.

Project officials have said any delays in tree cutting could put the project behind schedule.

With more intense construction activity in the corridor, the Kenilworth trail (which had still been widely used despite its May 13 closure) is now more blocked off to bikers and pedestrians between Cedar Lake Road and West 21st Street. Project spokesperson Trevor Roy said no one has been ticketed for trespassing on the Kenilworth Trail, though he added that riding on closed trails can be dangerous and is considered trespassing.

An 800-foot stretch of Burnham Road above Cedar Lake Parkway was closed to northbound traffic on June 26 and is expected to remain closed for 30 days to accommodate tree felling and utility work.

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Tree felling on the Kenilworth Corridor began in earnest the week of June 17. Most of the early work took place just north of Cedar Lake Road. About 1,300 trees are expected to be cut in the corridor.

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The reconstruction of Hennepin Avenue from Lake to 36th streets in Uptown is largely complete, according to the city. Public works crews are expected to complete seal coating between 31st and 36th streets by the end of June.

Work in May focused on line painting for lanes, pedestrian crossing and bicycle lanes.

The mid-block crossing between Lake and 31st streets is slightly elevated to improve pedestrian visibility.

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Several new trees were planted along Hennepin, with a few species expected to go in the ground this fall, according to a construction update from the public works department.

Girard Avenue’s slow block The City Council voted June 7 to approve a curbless “slow street” design for Girard Avenue between Lake and Lagoon in Uptown.

A slow street functions like a standard two-way street but has an improved pedestrian experience due to lower speeds and traffic volumes, designers say. For Girard Avenue, the design proposes expanding the west sidewalk from 8 feet to 18 feet and narrowing the traffic space from 30 feet to 20 feet. The slow street design means there will be a slight incline for vehicles entering the block, intended to slow traffic. The design calls for a curbless street, which means the sidewalk and road will all be on the same level.

The 2008 Uptown Small Area Plan called for the stretch of road, dubbed the Girard Meander, to be a pedestrian link between the Greenway and Calhoun Square. Officials said the curbless design gives them flexibility to move to a pedestrian-only block in the future.

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This time, chef Hector Ruiz is bringing his Latin flavors and scrupulous French training to 50th & Xerxes in a tiny oasis of fine (but not formidable) dining. From a kitchen smaller than my condo’s closet, he serves 15 two-tops bounded by calm sage-green walls and window drapes, deftly combining micro vegetables, primo proteins (steak, duck, lamb, seafood) and inventive sauces — several to any given plate, the workaholic! — worthy of

(and Ruiz) an elite, Michelin-starred restaurant (where, indeed, he used to work in Paris).

Choose — or try to — from 14 listings, all sized for twosomes to share ($12–$24). We pigged out with four, and that’s perhaps one too many for saner diners. Start, perhaps, with the more petite Piquillos plate: ultra-creamy goat cheese melded with fennel truffle, then stuffed into a sweet, crimson piquillo pepper, presented with shards of (elite, canned bonito) tuna, fennel slaw and piquant micro arugula, all treated to dual sauces — one, yellow ahi pepper; another, a chard-white onion aioli. In this edible orchestra, each

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Next, the don’t-miss Aguacate plate: luscious, ideally ripe hunks of avocado consorting with tender diced octopus, sweetened with a flowery hibiscus glaze. They’re joined by yellow tomato, sweet-sharp bits of pickled onions and a roll call of sauces: yellow aji (garlic) aioli; Spanish white bean tapenade; roasted tomato-jalapeno salsa; and ancho aioli. (Does this guy never sleep?)

What sounds like overkill is not. Each knows its place and function.

Next, the lamb. Oh, the lamb! On the Borrego plate two luscious, meaty, and fat-

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Well, that’s not quite true. Desserts are more sedate ($8). Choose a mandarin panna cotta paired with chocolate mousse; a flan sauced with white peaches; a citrus creme brulee; or our finale, the chocolate-chipotle lava cake, dressed in a (too-mild) white ginger sauce and served with vanilla ice cream. Tasty, for sure, but safe.

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Unsung Architecture

By Adam Bradley Jonas

Refining old gas stations for a post-industrial city Editor’s note: This is the first column in a new series about architecture throughout Southwest Minneapolis that celebrates the spirit of place through the iconic structures and hidden gems of our unique urban fabric.

The manufacturing plants and warehouses that were once central to Minneapolis’ economic growth have been converted to hip apartments, restaurants and storefronts. One of the last remnants of the city’s industrial past, the gas station, is on the same trajectory.

As vehicles become more fuel-efficient, the use of rideshare services increases and driverless cars become ubiquitous in the near future, there will be less demand for neighborhood service stations. Minneapolis’ stations are in prime locations within the community and their space requirement — a small building with substantial area for cars to maneuver — nicely translates to more pedestrian-friendly uses. We see examples of vintage stations that resemble quaint cottages (Pure Oil became Tangletown Gardens at 54th & Nicollet) right across the street from shiny mid-century boxes (Standard Oil transformed to Wise Acre Eatery).

Restaurants are a great reuse for old stations as they take advantage of existing open areas for daylight and eating alfresco. At Colita (54th & Penn) retractable glass doors transform former service bays into appealing indoor/outdoor spaces. Trellises reinvent the canopy over former gas pumps into seasonal gathering areas and urban cues (to invite people to the tables inside).

Other uses, such as offices, utilize open space for urban infill. Our architecture office (Locus Architecture at 45th & Nicollet) started out as a 1930s brick Texaco station.

We renovated and expanded the original building footprint for workspace; the service bay now holds a conference room with views of a rain garden, and we replaced the rest of the asphalt with native grasses and a deck for community events like Kingfield’s recent PorchFest.

The open space inherent in these sites invites exterior uses as well. Kitchen Space, which recently took over the

old station at 58th & Lyndale, renovated the original building to lease out as a commercial kitchen, but plans for site development include raised-bed urban agriculture, gardens, outdoor event space and trellises for shading the open ground.

With city dwellers becoming less reliant on individually owned vehicles, we are likely to see more gas station conversions, as well as other changes to spaces for parking and driving. It may not be that long before the city’s garages convert to living spaces and offices,

with virtually no on-site parking on residential lots. This shift has the potential to make a more human-centric neighborhood experience for pedestrians and Minneapolitans.

Do you have a favorite gas station conversion? Let me know about it or share other noteworthy spaces in your neighborhood you’d like to read about by emailing me at adam@locusarchitecture.com.

Adam Jonas is an architect at Locus Architecture at 45th & Nicollet in Kingfield.

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Kitchen Space renovated the old gas station at 58th & Lyndale to lease out as a commercial kitchen. File photo

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The former Marathon station and Jensen’s Car Care site has been turned into the restaurant Colita at 54th & Penn.

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2019

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You know what you love about Southwest Minneapolis.

And you were kind enough to give us the lowdown on the best spots to go antiquing, tune up your bike, swim in the lake and indulge in fine Italian wine and cuisine.

Congratulations to all the winners!

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3350 Lyndale Ave. S. | 612-354-7029 3745 Nicollet Ave. | 612-259-7519 fivewattcoffee.com

BEST SALON (TIE) Getting a haircut can either transform you into looking your absolute best, or it can leave you in hiding.

The Chair is a salon where you never have to fear how your hairdo will turn out. Owners Michael Frear and Tim Cronin offer a rustic atmosphere and a highly skilled staff.

For those looking for a fuller head of hair than nature bestowed, Ja’Lisa’s Gorgeous Extensions is your spot. Along with providing hair extensions and a comfortable environment, stylists also provide braiding services and facial waxings.

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BEST BIKE SHOP

Farmstead

Minneapolis is a biking city, and if you have bike problems or are looking to rent or sell them, then the place to go is Farmstead Bike Shop in East Harriet. The staff works collaboratively with customers to determine how best to fit their needs and offers on-the-spot service for minor repairs such as flat tires. The shop, open for three years, also doubles as a lobby for the Warming House during shows.

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BEST PET GROOMER

BEST RECORD STORE (TIE) Pictured: The Record Spot

Southwest’s music fans don’t have to travel too far to get their favorite albums on vinyl.

The Electric Fetus has been a Minneapolis institution since 1968.

The store offers a large selection of albums, a variety of books and clothing and live performances from local and touring musicians.

The Record Spot is perfect for those looking for an obscure album to finish their Who collection. Located in Kingfield, owner David Foley sells a variety of albums from his own collection and is happy to share his wealth of musical knowledge.

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The Groomsmen

Hygiene is important for the well-being of any pet, and for the pets of Southwest, the best place to get spruced up is at the Groomsmen in Kingfield. For more than 30 years, Dave Thom has made sure that man’s best friend is looking their best with baths, haircuts and nail trims.

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BEST GIFT SHOP

BEST COFFEE SHOP

Five Watt

Digs

In a sea of third-wave coffee shops, it takes a lot to stand out. Five Watt has found success by roasting its creative coffee drinks on site. Along with regular coffees and espressos, Five Watt also sells a variety of specialty drinks that include ingredients like grapefruit bitters and lavender syrup. Since opening in 2014 in Kingfield, Five Watt has since expanded into Northeast Minneapolis, St. Paul and a recent location in Lyndale.

If a Minnesota-themed Pinterest page were a physical entity, then it would come in the form of Digs. The Kingfield shop carries a variety of mostly handmade products including woven animal hats, Minnesota shirts, vintage books, art prints and the irreverent Muddy Mouth greeting cards, a product owner Katie Koster said is a “real crowd pleaser.” For those looking to make their own crafts, the shop also has a large selection of fabrics and knitting classes.

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BEST WINE BAR

BEST NEW RESTAURANT

Terzo

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This intimate restaurant is a great spot to enjoy fine wine and good conversation. Terzo’s extensive wine program offers more than 300 selections focused on independent producers and traditional Italian varieties. Be sure to visit more than once: Their by-the-glass wine list is constantly changing with “natural, classic and interesting choices” from all regions. Terzo’s menu of Italian cuisine includes pastas, seafood and dessert to complement your wine of choice.

2221 W. 50th St. | 612-925-0330 terzompls.com

Colita

Come for the Instagrammable cocktails, stay for the delicious food. Colita has made a statement since it opened in the fall of 2018 with its smoking techniques and Oaxacan flavors.

This trendy place offers a mix of hot and cold plates, from cordero tartare to lobster tostada. If you’re looking to take a walk on the wild side, you can order the mackerel aguachiles, which are topped with chapulines, also known as fried grasshoppers.

5400 Penn Ave. S. | 612-886-1606 colitampls.com

BEST PIZZA

Tinto Kitchen

In the short time Tinto Kitchen has occupied the corner of 50th & Penn, it has made itself a go-to stop for those seeking tasty Latin-inspired cuisine, refreshing margaritas and a relaxing place to enjoy a beautiful Minnesota summer day. Co-owners Rebecca Illingworth and Thierry Penichot teamed up to create a globally inspired menu with authentic flavors and culture in the form of tacos, ceviches and other delicious dishes. During the summer, patrons can enjoy food and drinks on the patio and bring their furry friends along.

4959 Penn Ave. S. | 612-354-2130 tintokitchen.com

Broders’ Cucina

While the Broders location across the street specializes in pasta, Broders’ Cucina Italiana focuses on New York-style pizza and other Italian deli items. Pizzas can be as basic as cheese, but it’s worth trying the more complex specialty pies like Greek (tomato, feta, green pepper, pepperoncini and olive), Rossa (artichoke, tomato, spinach, mushroom and mozzarella) or roasted eggplant (goat cheese, caramelized onion and sweet red pepper). The restaurant also features a small Italian market for grocery items, a coffee bar and a deli with sandwiches and other pastas.

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BEST ITALIAN RESTAURANT

Broders’ Pasta Bar

The Broder family is a powerhouse when it comes to Italian cuisine, with Broders’ Pasta Bar, Broders’ Cucina Italiana and Terzo all at the same intersection along West 50th Street. The Pasta Bar is the oldest of three, having opened in 1994. Along with staples like risotto and spaghetti, the restaurant serves up linguine with seafood (crab, clams), goat cheese ravioli and pappardelle with rabbit. If you’re still hungry afterward, you can satisfy your sweet tooth with blueberry torta, raspberry ricotta cheesecake, tiramisu or sorbet.

5000 Penn Ave. S. | 612-925-9202 broderspastabar.com

BEST WOMEN’S CLOTHING (TIE) Pictured: The Fitting Room

Burlap & Brass is no stranger to our Best of Southwest list. Opened in 2016 by Rena Lindberg, the store offers a variety of clothing, gifts, jewelry and other items that put its Minnesota pride on display.

The Fitting Room, a newcomer to Southwest Minneapolis, recently celebrated its one-year anniversary at its location in Kingfield. The boutique is curated with locally designed and produced clothing, jewelry and other accessories. Each item is hand-picked by owner and designer Kimberly Jurek-Valanzasca from a selection of inspiring Minnesota designers, including Alma Mia, 3 Jag Design and Gina Mount.

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rant at the lake’s north end. The lake is home to some of the city’s best fishing and sailing and has two public beaches. The Park Board’s Music in the Park concert series comes to the bandshell each summer. The adjacent Lyndale Park Rose Garden and William Berry Play Area are also major attractions.

such as red curry with beef and carrots and its well-loved sea bass and shrimp noodle soup. Quang underwent some interior renovations this winter, setting it up for years of delicious dining to come.

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BEST NEIGHBORHOOD

Minneapolis Institute of Art

With an ever-growing collection of art and history from across the globe, the Minneapolis Institute of Art draws hundreds of thousands of visitors to Whittier each year.

The museum, bolstered by large collections of art from Asia, Africa and Europe, holds more than 89,000 pieces, most of which are free to the public. Modern and historical collections from Minnesota are a mainstay at Mia. The museum’s current paid exhibit is “Hearts of our People: Native Women Artists,” which will run though Aug. 18 and features original work by indigenous artists.

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Kingfield

Once considered “farm country,” Kingfield was annexed into Minneapolis in 1887 and is now one of the most bustling neighborhoods in Southwest Minneapolis, home to some of the city’s best dining, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Park, the Lyndale Community School and a busy summer farmers market. Bordered by Stevens and Lyndale avenues and 36th and 46th streets, the neighborhood sits squarely in south central Minneapolis. The 38th Street corridor is one of the most vibrant small-business zones in the city and contains many other Best of Southwest winners. Each summer the roughly 7,500-resident neighborhood hosts Kingfield PorchFest, which features dozens of musical groups playing on porch “stages” that people can check out for free.

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BEST VIETNEMESE RESTAURANT

Lake Harriet

Fully acquired by Park Board in 1888, Lake Harriet is a 470-acre destination for nature lovers, music aficionados, athletes and families. The lake is the site of an annual winter kite and art festival and explodes with activity when the weather warms. Walkers, runners, bikers and skaters use the nearly three-mile loop around the park daily, with many stopping at the Bread and Pickle restau-

Quang

The perennial favorite has done it again. Quang, which has been family owned and operated since 1989, has been a staple of Best of Southwest for a reason. Its renowned pho, noodle salads and banh mi sandwiches were some of Eat Street’s original attractions and have kept diners coming back over the years. On the weekends, Quang offers specials

Walk into the alley behind the 700 block of Lake Street, approach an iron door with an eye slot and knock. Downstairs you’ll find the stylish interior of Volstead’s Emporium, appropriately named for the legislation that outlawed alcohol in 1919. True to speakeasy form, there’s no phone number to call. Cocktails at Volstead’s rotate seasonally and are typically in the $10 range. In 2018, the speakeasy was named one of the 21 best cocktail bars in the country by Thrillist. In addition to cocktails, they boast a fine menu of small plates, entrees and desserts.

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BEST THAI RESTAURANT

Linden Hills Park

Naviya’s Thai Brasserie

The 7.85-acre Linden Hills Park is almost exactly in the geographic center of its namesake neighborhood and offers tennis courts, bocce ball, ball fields, a wading pool and winter skating. The Park Board purchased the land on which Linden Hills Park sits for $32,549 about 100 years ago. Potential upgrades to the park in future years could include expanding the bocce ball courts and adding shade structures to the wading pool.

3100 W. 43rd St. | 612-370-4913 tinyurl.com/linden-hills-park

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The curries at Naviya’s are “followed religiously,” according to Kim LaBarge, who co-owns the restaurant with his wife, Naviya LaBarge, a native of Thailand. LaBarge added that the cornerstone of the restaurant is its vegetables, which it caramelizes to create a crunchy, “signature” taste. He and Naviya have operated out of Linden Hills since 2010, after owning restaurants in Richfield and Grand Marais. He said they want to stay in the neighborhood “forever,” noting that they’ve hired a lot of young people from the immediate area.

2812 W. 43rd St. | 612-276-5061 naviyas.com

One Settergren or another has operated at 54th & Penn since 1895, when the great grandfather of current owner Mark Settergren opened what was then called Settergren Hardware, Furniture and Undertaking. Mark Settergren purchased the Nicollet Avenue store in 1990 and opened the Linden Hills store in 2011.

He describes his stores as community hubs and “old-fashioned hardware stores,” adding that they carry goods not typically found in hardware stores, such as pet supplies and live bait.

“We try to get people to know that we are a lot more than just hammers and nails,” he says.

BEST GROCERY STORE

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BEST BOOKSTORE

Kowalski’s Markets

Kowalski’s has 11 stores in the Twin Cities area, including two in Minneapolis. The Lyndale Avenue store is approximately halfway between Diamond Lake and Lake Harriet and features a burrito bowl bar, cafe seating and a pasta bar. The Hennepin Avenue store includes all of those amenities plus a wine and spirits store, a pastry case and a hibachi. Customers tend to shop at its stores multiple times a week, said administrative director Deb Kowalski, who boasted of their “community feel.”

2440 Hennepin Ave. S. | 612-377-3448 5327 Lyndale Ave. S. | 612-822-2935 kowalskis.com

Wild Rumpus

Wild Rumpus patrons can come face to face with a tarantula, birds and cats, among other animals, as they peruse the bookshop’s shelves. Publishers Weekly named Wild Rumpus its bookstore of the year in 2017, and Reader’s Digest declared it this year to be the “most-loved” bookstore in Minnesota. The 27-year-old shop takes its name from a line in the Maurice Sendak children’s book Where the Wild Things Are. Its founders took inspiration from the book The Salamander Room in designing the store.

2720 W. 43rd St. | 612-920-5005 wildrumpusbooks.com

BEST ANTIQUES

Hunt & Gather

The jam-packed aisles of Hunt & Gather are full of surprises.

Take a stroll around the two-story shop and find stacks of antlers, mummified rodents, maps, stencils, matchbooks, military patches, stuffed monkey dolls, discarded microscope slides, oilcloth tablecloths, a history of Gustaf V of Sweden, an eight-point buck, a taxidermied tarantula, a 10-point buck, figurines, clocks, vintage dresses, more bucks, cocktail sets, pillars, poems, paintings, assorted contraptions, multiple ersatz marble Greco-Roman busts, a full-color bust of Charles Lindbergh and enough beaver skulls to dam up a small stream. And that’s all just downstairs!

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BEST GARDEN SUPPLY STORE

Sunnyside Gardens

Sunnyside Gardens started more than 80 years ago as a small garden plot, and today has grown into a lushly sprawling complex. The store is beloved for its knowledgeable staff, dog-friendly atmosphere and quirky decorative touches — like a multi-hued metal rooster and a picturesque tool shed guarded by two stone bulldogs. The greenhouse, kept between 40 and 60 degrees all winter long, is a welcome refuge from the snow and home to Linden Hills’ popular winter farmers market.

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BEST BAKERY BEST DESSERTS

Patisserie 46

Perhaps it comes as no surprise that Patisserie 46 has been voted the Best of Southwest for nine consecutive years (the bakery opened in 2010). Pastry chef John Kraus’ petit gateaux and seasonal tarts offer a taste of the sublime in a rustic-yet-refined setting. After ogling the neatly arrayed options — perfectly domed confections whose reflective surfaces might remind you of a Jeff Koons gazing ball — you’ll feel forced to choose just one, but you can’t go wrong. Patisserie 46 wins best dessert and best bakery this year — we recommend a cake to stay and a baguette to go!

BEST BREAKFAST (TIE) Pictured: Sun Street Breads

Southwest Journal readers picked two casual eateries as the best spots to satisfy their breakfast cravings.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, Victor’s 1959 Cafe has now been dishing up “revolutionary Cuban cooking” in Kingfield for a third as long as the Communists have held power. Try the Eggs Havana, served with black beans, creole sauce and crispy-starchy fried yuca.

The heart of the breakfast menu at Tangletown’s Sun Street Breads is its build-your-own buttermilk biscuit sandwiches. The bakery’s biscuits are flaky, crunchy, buttery, airy and warm. Pay the extra dough for the Biscuit Plus, which includes meat (sausage, ham, bacon or pinto patty), eggs (scrambled, fried or basted) and cheese (white cheddar, Swiss or Monterrey Jack).

4552 Grand Ave. S. | 612-354-3257 patisserie46.com

BEST FITNESS STUDIO

AQ Fit Lab

AQ Fit Lab (the AQ stands for “athletic quotient”) started in January, and its balanced approach to the hour-long workout has already drawn enough fitness lovers to fill five classes a day. Each class combines cardio exertion (such as running, rowing, skiing or biking) with strength training (kettlebells, deadlifts, pull-ups) set to a lively soundtrack that ranges from Lizzo to classic rock. Logan Bautch and Anne Mezzenga, the couple behind the gym, must be doing something right — their Linden Hills CrossFit location, next door to AQ, won best fitness studio in 2018.

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Moments in Minneapolis

By Karen Cooper

Coffee pioneer lived on Kenwood Parkway

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n the 1880s, two brothers named Baker left Georgia and the antebellum mansion of their youth, moved to Chicago to learn the wholesale grocery business and then set themselves up as wholesalers in St. Paul. Their specialty was spices, coffees and teas, but before long they focused on coffee.

Thomas K. Baker was first, and was quickly followed by his brother William. They spent a few years setting up and growing the Baker Bros. coffee import business. In the 1890s, they had two firms: Baker Bros. in St. Paul, run by William, and Baker & Co. in Minneapolis, run

by Tom. Their Minneapolis address, 212 2nd St. N., still stands and is now home to the exceptional restaurant Demi, a place with great fondness for its coffee-roasting predecessors.

When the Baker brothers arrived in Minnesota, Swedish egg coffee was a ubiquitous part of Minneapolis culture. The beverage is made by mixing a whole raw egg with the coffee grounds and then tipping the mixture into nearboiling water. The egg binds together the coffee grounds. A cup of cold water added at the end causes the egg-coffee mass to sink. The coffee that is poured off has no cloudy particles and is smooth and easy to drink. This ScandinavianAmerican method of making coffee may have so perplexed the southern Bakers that Tom came up with an egg-free way to make the same thing.

In 1902, he took out a patent for a coffee maker with a funnel strainer. It was meant to make sediment-free coffee. The device was only for making coffee; the brew was to be transferred to a coffee pot and then poured to drink. It probably didn’t work very well.

It seems not to have sold. The only known example of the Baker coffee maker is on view

today at the Hennepin History Museum as part of the “Inventions and Innovations” exhibit.

Their company in Minneapolis soon became known as Baker Importing and it grew quickly.

Tom and his wife, Nellie, were the first owners of a fine square house at 2015 Kenwood Parkway. Built in 1901 by a developer who lived on the next block, the house waited patiently for the Bakers to move in with their three children in 1903. They stayed in the home for three years.

In 1906, Tom Baker moved part of the business to New York City. William and their younger brother Roswell ran the Baker Importing Company for decades more, creating demand for “steel-cut coffee” and supplying instant coffee to the military through two world wars.

The Baker coffee maker is on view today at the Hennepin History Museum.

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by Karen Cooper

Karen Cooper is a researcher at Hennepin History Museum. She’s interested in your old house, charmingly odd cookery and the disappeared businesses of Minneapolis.

Tom Baker, who patented a coffee maker with a funnel strainer in 1902, lived in this Kenwood Parkway house with his wife, Nellie, and their three children.

Image from the collection of the Hennepin History Museum

By Dr. Teresa Hershey

What to expect when you put down your pet T

his is how I answer some commonly asked questions about euthanasia.

What medications do you use to euthanize an animal?

Most veterinarians use a medication called pentobarbital. Pentobarbital is an anesthetic drug that can stop the heart and lungs when a patient is given an overdose. Because it is an anesthetic drug, it puts the brain to sleep before the patient dies, making it a very humane drug to use for euthanasia. Many people will ask me if they can “feel it” when they die. We can tell that the patient will notice a sensation from the medication, because sometimes the patient will lick their lips or move their head in a way that tells us they feel different. However, because of the drug’s anesthetic effects, this sensation is not painful.

In addition to pentobarbital, sometimes the patient is given different sedatives before the procedure. This is especially helpful if the patient is restless or an IV catheter isn’t in place.

What happens to my pet’s body after I leave the vet clinic?

The body is wrapped and placed in a freezer until a cremation service comes to collect it. For bodies that are individually cremated, the cremation service will put just one in the

cremation chamber at a time. After the body has been turned to ash, the ashes are packaged in a plastic bag and then put in a box. If a special urn has been ordered, the cremains will be placed in that urn.

For bodies in which the ashes won’t be returned to the owner, several pets are placed in the cremation chamber at once and the ashes are returned to the earth. Crematoriums have a site in which they can bury the ashes of pets whose ashes aren’t going back to the owner. At Westgate Pet Clinic, we use the cremation service through the Veterinary Hospital Association.

Some families want to witness the cremation of their pet, or want their pet to be cremated immediately after euthanasia. There are several private crematoriums around the metro area that offer those services. Most of the private crematoriums can arrange for picking up your pet’s body from the veterinary clinic, or you can bring the body to the facility yourself if that is preferred.

Pets can also be put into a cardboard coffin if the owner wants to take the body home for burial. Local ordinance dictates whether this is allowed in your area.

I feel like I am killing my pet and “playing God.” Why do I have the right to make this decision?

This is a feeling that many pet owners struggle

with. Many people would like their pet to die on their own so the decision is made for them. It is common to feel this way. What I tell my clients, and what I believe, is that it is our job to take care of our animals. We make decisions for our pets their whole life based on what we think is in their best interest. Early on we decide to spay or neuter our pets, and when they get sick, we decide what treatment option is the best choice. Our pets are not capable of consulting with us in these decisions. As pet owners, we have the responsibility to make decisions on their behalf, and at the end of their life, we have the responsibility to decide if euthanasia is the best option.

I decided to euthanize my pet before our family vacation and I feel so guilty about it.

Many times a vacation or trip will expedite a euthanasia. The guilt comes from the fact that the pet owner feels like they are euthanizing their pet for their own convenience. The truth is much more nuanced than that. Most pets that are euthanized before a trip are very ill and taking multiple medications, or have fecal or urinary incontinence or mobility issues that make it challenging for someone else to care for them. We worry that someone else may not do as good of a job taking care of them, or the pet will be scared that they aren’t in their own

home, or that the pet will die when we are gone.

We also feel bad asking someone else to do so much work, or it may be very expensive to pay someone to take on a pet with a lot of medical needs. The decision to euthanize before a vacation is usually made because the owner backs into the decision after considering all of the what-ifs and complications with transferring a sick pet’s care to someone else. You can make the decision to euthanize a pet before a vacation and still love that pet with all of your heart.

Did I do the right thing?

At our clinic, we only euthanize pets that have medical or behavioral issues that warrant euthanasia. So if it comes to the point that the pet owner and veterinarian have agreed that it is time to euthanize a pet, from a practical standpoint, the right thing was done. People don’t usually ask me this question because they really think they made the wrong choice euthanizing their animal, they ask me this question because they want reassurance that they are a good person and they were good caretakers for their animals. After spending a lifetime keeping an animal healthy, it just seems backwards to then make the choice to end a pet’s life. Our brains have a hard time handling that juxtaposition. When I client asks me, “Did I do the right thing?” I always say, “Yes,” and give out a hug.

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Performers, neighbors enjoy Kingfield PorchFest

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@swjournal.com

The Potluck String Band spent Father’s Day weekend playing the 4,000-person Blue Ox Music Festival in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

The following week, the band played at a slightly smaller venue: Kingfield PorchFest.

The group played for three-and-a-half hours June 20 in band member Chris Beyers’ Grand Avenue driveway. Dozens of people stopped by at points during the event, which started just after an afternoon rain shower.

“It was awesome,” bassist and manager Jimbo Miller said. “We thought PorchFest was great.”

Potluck String Band was among the 80-plus acts that performed on one of 37 porches, sidewalks or driveways during the fifth-annual event hosted by the Kingfield Neighborhood Association. Neighbors walked from site to site to listen to the various acts.

Homeowner Mark Hinds, who hosted two bands on his Blaisdell Avenue porch, said the event “speaks to what neighborhoods and communities can do.”

“It’s a great way for people to support folks being artistic and creative,” he said.

Edie Rae Baumgart spent part of the night playing alongside Chad Mittag on her Pleasant Avenue porch. Baumgart, who fronts the band Edie Rae and the Blaze Kings, said PorchFest is a great way to get the neighborhood together.

“I like the grassroots of it,” she said.

Miller said the Potluck String Band heard about the event because of Beyers, who plays the washboard. He said the group was happy to draw a pretty good crowd and keep people there for periods of time.

“What a neat concept PorchFest is,” he said.

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By Sarah Woutat

The farmers market warm fuzzies

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he first time I sold at the Kingfield Farmers Market in 2015, it was one of the first few markets of the season.

I brought plant starts and early season veggies — and I cried. I cried standing at my booth watching community members reconnect after a long, reclusive winter. I cried watching kids dance to the music at the market and run around free in a place in which they were clearly at home. It was amazing. At that point I had already been selling at Fulton for four seasons and had managed to forget about the farmers market warm fuzzies.

They were reignited recently at the Neighbor-

hood Roots markets in a different way. I am no longer a vendor, but I am now the manager of the Fulton, Nokomis and Kingfield farmers markets. It is now my job to manage day-today logistics and to engage with community members in a different way. I now know what goes into curating a market, and putting together all of the tiny-but-important pieces that must come together for 64 market days each outdoor season. In this new role, I also have more of an opportunity to appreciate that sense of community that manifests itself at a neighborhood farmers market.

Before

Walking around the farmers market, the warm fuzzies can overtake me at any moment: When I see a family on their way to the market join a yoga class at Fulton, and then hear that they didn’t realize it but their family just needed to move together that morning. Or when I hear from vendors how excited they are about the success of “x” crop and how great they felt after an awesome market day. Or when I have customers offer to bring me books about dealing with 3-year-olds. Or when I read books during story time at Fulton and get to know the kids who come week after week by name. Or when

I see Emma, our assistant market manager, run into and reconnect with people she’s known through her work in political activism or at a dog-rescue facility or through another part of her life. Or when I have community members come up to the info booth and say, “I love this market! How can I become more involved?”

Three times a week our neighborhoods turn empty parking lots into bustling spaces of community and local commerce. It’s a big deal, and thank you for making it happen!

The community that is cultivated at farmers markets is tangible, and feeds us all.

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Watching as an empty parking lot is turned into a bustling space of community and local commerce is one of the things that gives Neighborhood Roots market manager Sarah Woutat what she calls the “farmers market warm fuzzies.”

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TANGLETOWN 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION

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Come for live music, kids’ activities, food trucks, lawn games and a firetruck-led parade. To join the parade, decorate your bikes, wagons, pets, etc. and meet at the Washburn High School parking lot at 9:30 a.m.

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TREASURES OF MEMORY AND HOPE

DANCES AT THE LAKE FESTIVAL This 18th annual celebration features 15 dance companies and individual artists, professional and amateur, adult and youth.

After the Armenian Genocide, many survivors settled in Minnesota. This special pop-up exhibition showcases the survivors’ descendants pictured with precious family keepsakes.

When: Through Saturday, June 29 Where: The Museum of Russian Art, 5500 Stevens Ave. Cost: $10 for adults, $8 for ages 65+, $5 for students 14+, free for children under 13 Info: tmora.org

When: 7 p.m.–10 p.m. Friday–Saturday, July 5–6 Where: Lyndale Park Rose Garden, 4124 Roseway Road Cost: Free Info: dancesatthelakefestival.com

TWIN CITIES IMPROV FESTIVAL Now in its 13th year, this festival offers more than 30 shows by groups from Minnesota and around the nation.

When: Thursday–Sunday, June 26–30 Where: HUGE Improv Theater, 3037 Lyndale Ave. Cost: $15 for single tickets, $155 for a ticket to every show Info: hugetheater.com

DELIRIOUS! A PRINCELY DANCE PARTY FUNDRAISER DJ Yasmeenah will spin Prince and Prince-related artists to raise finishing funds for the local award-winning short film “Little Men,” written, directed and produced

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When: 9:30 p.m.–midnight Saturday, July 6 Where: Bryant-Lake Bowl, 810 W. Lake St. Cost: $7–$20 sliding scale, doors only Info: bryantlakebowl.com

BEING HUMAN: STORIES FROM HUMANS OF MINNEAPOLIS This exhibit displays the photographs and stories of Minneapolitans encountered by artist Stephanie Glaros, who was inspired in part by the project Humans of New York.

When: Opening reception 6 p.m.–8 p.m. Thursday, June 27 Where: Hennepin History Museum, 2303 Third Ave. S. Cost: $8 for adults, $5 for students and seniors Info: hennepinhistory.org

ROCK THE GARDEN The latest of the Walker’s annual hillside music fests boasts a lineup of The National, Courtney Barnett, X, Heart Bones, Bad Bad Hats, deM atlaS, Adia Victoria and The Beths.

STINKERS The writer/director team from Lone Star Spirits, Josh Tobiessen and Sarah Rasmussen, reunite for a new show about a stay-at-home dad’s trials and (occasional) triumphs parenting two small children. Local legend Sally Wingert plays a felonious grandma.

When: Through Sunday, August 18 Where: Jungle Theater, 2951 Lyndale Ave. S. Cost: $35–$50 Info: jungletheater.org

SARAH JONES: THE PLEASURE GARDENS Framed by her interest in the nature of artifice and in modes of display, London-based photographer Sarah Jones often enlists the cinematographic technique “day for night,” a filmmaking process lending the illusion of night during daytime.

When: Ongoing Where: Weinstein Hammons Gallery, 908 W. 46th St. Cost: Free Info: weinsteinhammons.com

When: Saturday, June 29 Where: Walker Art Center Cost: $74 general admission, $300 VIP Info: rockthegardenfestival.com

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When: 6 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 9 Where: Lyndale Park Rose Garden, 4124 Roseway Road Cost: $5 in advance, $10 at the door Info: lakewoodcemetery.org

TEKNOLUST Artist Lynn Hershman Leeson recently restored her 2002 independent film Teknolust, a sci-fi comedy in which Tilda Swinton plays mad scientist Rosetta Stone and her three clones.

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Get Out Guide.

By Sheila Regan

Red White & Boom Half Marathon

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Minneapolis’ “official” Independence Day celebration takes place along the Downtown Minneapolis riverfront.

Things start out in the morning with a half marathon, which travels around Northeast Minneapolis and ends up on the Stone Arch Bridge. Meanwhile, there’s live music happening from 6 p.m. onwards at Father Hennepin Bluff Park and Mill Ruins Park, with fireworks beginning at 10 p.m.

When: 6 a.m. half marathon; 6 p.m.–10 p.m. music; 10 p.m. fireworks Where: Downtown riverfront Cost: Free (registration required for marathon) Info: tinyurl.com/minneapolis-boom

Get into full summer celebration mode for the Fourth of July.

Barbecuing? Check. Fireworks?

Check. And might we add a few ideas to shake things up a little this year, because what’s more American than trying new things and enjoying all that’s wonderful, weird and wild about the USA?

Rihanna Drag Brunch Start your holiday out right with Flip Phone’s Rihanna Drag Brunch. Mercedes Iman Diamond, from RuPaul’s Drag Race, joins Tygra Slarii and Genevee Ramona Love at the Union Rooftop for delicious eats, cocktails and drag performances, hosted by Sasha R. Cassadine.

When: 10 a.m.–noon and 12:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m.

Thursday, July 4 Where: Union Rooftop, 731 Hennepin Ave. Cost: $12.50 Info: flip-phone.ticketleap.com

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It is also a safe space event.

When: 6 p.m. to midnight Thursday, July 4 Where: Starting point at 2 Merriam St. Cost: Free Info: tinyurl.com/pants-freedom-13

Twin Cities River Rats The Twin Cities River Rats Water Ski Show Team is a nationally ranked, highly entertaining troupe of acrobatic thrill seekers on water skis. With jumps, balancing acts and more, this is a fun show to check out.

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Mill City Cooks

Recipes and food news from the Mill City Farmers Market

Bike to the market day

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taying in town for Fourth of July weekend?

From 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 6, the Mill City Farmers Market is hosting its annual Bike to the Market Day, complete with a market scavenger hunt to win a bag of farm-fresh cheese curds. Here’s what you need to know to enjoy your healthy staycation: Bicycle parking: It is available near the Guthrie Theater’s “Endless Bridge” on West River Parkway and at the parking meters along 2nd Street South. Whichever entrance you use, make sure to stop by the top of the market, near Spoonriver Restaurant, where volunteers will be handing out free Hennepin County bike maps.

Get some gear: The Minneapolis-based bike accessory company äventyr will be at the market with thoughtfully designed, sustainably produced bike bags, apparel and more. Additionally, the Minneapolis Police Department’s Bike Cops for Kids will be on-site with free bike helmets and other giveaways for children.

A biker stops by Mhonpaj’s Garden.

July 6 is Bike to The Market Day at the Mill City Farmers Market.

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Yoga for cyclists: The Mill City Farmers Market hosts free 60-minute yoga classes every Saturday through September. On July 6 the instructor from YogaFit Studios will be tailoring some extra special poses for cyclists at the 9 a.m. all-level flow class located in the lawn across West River Parkway from the market.

Free cheese curds: Farmstead Bike Shop and Freewheel Bike Shop are offering a free bag of cheese curds (the perfect biking snack) to the first 50 people who bike to the market and complete the market’s scavenger hunt. Gather stamps from bicycle-themed organizations tabling throughout the market, and then bring your helmet and completed stamp card directly to the market’s cheese-curd producers for a bag of local, squeaky-fresh cheese curds.

For more information about the event visit millcityfarmersmarket.org — Jenny Heck

Directions In a medium-size bowl, break eggs and whisk. Place a non-stick pan, or well-seasoned cast iron pan, on medium heat. Add butter, and let it melt around pan. Add eggs, cover and reduce heat to low for one minute. Uncover, then add chives, salt and black pepper.

Ingredients 1 tablespoon butter 9 eggs Fresh chives Sea salt, to taste Black pepper, to taste 1 bag of fresh cheese curds 1 baguette or loaf of crusty bread 1 pound seasonal vegetables (snap peas, green onions, kale), grilled or sauteed and cut into small pieces

SCRAMBLED EGG BRUSCHETTA WITH CHEESE CURDS AND VEGETABLES Recipe courtesy of the Mill City Farmers Market

Stir gently with a spatula until a bit curdy. Add the cheese curds and cover. Cook for one more minute. Do not overcook. Cut the bread in half the long way and grill or toast. Cut the halves into slices and rub with garlic if you like. To serve, spoon the egg and cheese mixture on top of the bread, and add grilled vegetables.

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