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What’s the plan? A closer look at the draft policy pieces of Minneapolis 2040
By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com
The City of Minneapolis is trying to figure out where to house more people. The current population of 416,000 is projected to grow to 465,000 by 2040. “We can put our head in the sand and say we don’t want change, but it will happen anyway,” Long Range Planning Manager Jack Byers told residents last May at the Black Forest Inn.
Minneapolis 2040 is the city’s long-range plan to guide land use and policy ideas for the next 10 years, with an eye toward the year 2040. For the first time, solving racial inequity is a major issue guiding land use. The draft plan is based on the idea that as the city grows, everyone must benefit.
New Washburn principal excited for role Emily Lilja Palmer started position July 2 By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com
Emily Lilja Palmer said she hadn’t planned on applying for the Washburn High School principalship when the job opened this spring. But that changed after she started talking with district leaders and Washburn staff and parents about the school. Palmer said Washburn appealed to her because of its strong community, noting the love and enthusiasm people have for the school. She said she appreciates the notion of balance presented by the school’s academics, arts and athletics focus. Palmer added that she sees Washburn as a school that’s “doing well but has goals for itself in terms of where they want to go.” “My whole entire career has been going to schools that are doing well and helping make them become awesome,” Palmer said. “That
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sort of take-it-to-the-next-level, without any intentionality on my part, has kind of become what I do, and I think that’s part of why Washburn was interested in me coming is that they’re very stable … but they definitely have ambition to be the absolute best they can be.” Palmer hopes to lead Washburn in that effort, after taking over the as school’s principal on July 2. She replaces Rhonda Dean, who resigned after four years. A graduate of Minneapolis Public Schools and the University of Minnesota, Palmer said she has naturally gravitated to leadership roles throughout her teaching and administrative career. She described herself as a “process person” who likes things to flow and has no problem with lots of things going on at once. SEE WASHBURN PRINCIPAL / PAGE A22
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Council members seek greater control of police Not all on the council support a proposed charter amendment By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com
Voters may have a chance this fall to change a system that gives the Minneapolis mayor near-total authority over the police department. City Council Member Cam Gordon gave notice June 29 that he plans to introduce a charter amendment that would share that authority between the mayor and the 13-member City Council. Mayor Jacob Frey said he opposes the idea, and not every council member thinks change is needed.
The city charter gives the mayor “complete power over the establishment, maintenance, and command of the police department,” including the hiring and firing of officers and the chief. Gordon is among several on the council who view a charter amendment as one way to respond to community frustration stemming from the most recent shooting by Minneapolis police officers. In a Facebook post, Gordon SEE CHARTER AMENDMENT / PAGE A12
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Kids try out their new waterslide and sit on a “headless Trojan horse” at Adventure Playground at Leonardo’s Basement. Photo by Michelle Bruch
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Adventure Playground An art shanty that stood on the Lake Harriet ice is now standing in the back lot of Leonardo’s Basement. Kids recently added a water slide. They also built a zip line tethered to an old car. And they poured buckets of water to make mud. It’s called the Adventure Playground, specifically designed for “unfettered and messy” play at 150 W. 60th St. “It’s that kind of stuff you can’t do in a public park and you can’t do in your yard,” said program director Tracy Nielsen. “… They play outside without a plan.” The waterslide concept, for example, started simply. First the kids used a tube and a piece of gutter to send objects off the art shanty. Then they added water to float down buckets. Next the kids naturally wanted to ride themselves, so they talked with staff about how to build a strong slide.
Kaia, left, and Olivia sit in the control room of the homemade Millennium Falcon at Adventure Playground. Photo by Michelle Bruch
“We finished it an hour ago,” Nielsen said. The park operates under basic rules to be safe, be nice and have fun. Kids dig trenches in pursuit of molten lava. They add secret passageways to the “Millennium Falcon,” where they can sit on a rooftop chair and peer through a makeshift spyglass while kids below spin them around. “You kind of just can build whatever you want,” said Kaia, one of the kids at the park. Earlier that day, she worked on a pulley system so she wouldn’t have to carry buckets up a ladder. “It’s never the same week twice,” said Nielsen. Inside Leonardo’s Basement, teens made skateboards. The workshop offers classes to make creations like Lego mosaics, a theater set, a Viking ship and Plinko, with open-ended hours to build whatever kids might imagine. Executive Director Steve Jevning said this is the second adventure playground in Minnesota. The first was “The Yard,” an experimental playground created 70 years ago in Northeast Minneapolis, reportedly containing tools, an old boxcar and a milk truck body. A 50,000-square-foot junk playground in New York is named “The Yard” after the early Minneapolis park. At Leonardo’s Basement, staff planned to disassemble the water slide when the day was over, giving the next day’s kids a chance to start something new from scratch. “It’s ever-changing. Nothing is sacred or permanent. It’s really about play,” Nielsen said. Adventure Playground is open the second and fourth Saturdays of the month from noon–2 p.m. through September.
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The “Wikipedia of affordable housing” is poised to buy the Intermedia Arts building this fall for its headquarters. But the murals will stay. RightSource Compliance will use the building as a private office to house 40–60 employees. The company will work with Intermedia muralists to continue the building’s wall art that changes every few months. Another tentative idea would convert a smaller back-lot building into a coffeehouse. RightSource offers technology and consulting services to help landlords across the country streamline the red tape associated with affordable housing. “Today they spend almost half of their day in an office buried under paperwork,” said CEO Chris Voss. “… We demystify what affordable housing is, so they can treat afford-
able housing almost like market-rate property.” Currently located in the Grain Exchange co-working space downtown, the company would renovate the Intermedia building with a “very light touch,” reusing the theater and other spaces for its Housing Academy classes. The Intermedia Arts board selected the RightSource bid out of 16 competing offers for the building at 2822 Lyndale Ave. S. Previously a busy LynLake hub for performance art, gallery space and small business tenants, Intermedia accumulated significant debt in recent years, according to the board. The board laid off all staff last fall and listed the building for sale. Media Active, the group’s media production program for youth, has been taken on by the St. Paul Neighborhood Network.
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Mexican-inspired restaurant at Lucia’s space The restaurateur behind Pizzeria Lola and Young Joni has locked up the former Lucia’s space to open a new restaurant with handmade tortillas and a cooking fire. Construction will start this fall and the opening is slated for the summer of 2019. Chef Ann Kim said it will be worth the wait. “It doesn’t happen overnight if you do it well,” she said. The pizza crust at Kim’s restaurants doesn’t happen overnight either — it takes 48 hours. The process to make nixtamal tortillas in the new space will also be tricky, she said. “Abuelas have been doing this for generations. To try this and open in a month wouldn’t be respectful to the craft,” she said. “…All of my restaurants are about craft, and we don’t take shortcuts.” They plan to join the dining spaces within Lucia’s and set aside the bakery/café space for a separate type of service. “Just like with Young Joni, we’re going to surprise a lot of people,” she said.
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The original iteration of Local Motion closed in April. Founder Barbara Heinrich wants to devote more time to her newborn granddaughter and her mother, age 99. “I have had a wonderful career in fashion design and Uptown has been my home for 33 years,” she said in a message to customers. “I could not have lasted as long without the support of my local and steadfast customers and friends — I will miss each and every one of you!” Bryan will continue to host Local Motion ladies’ nights. Events on July 19 and Sept. 20 will be devoted to the travel wardrobe, where they will talk about reversible clothes, versatile jewelry and pieces that can fit in a carry-on and wash in a European sink. An Aug. 23 event will showcase the work of artist Susan Fryer Voigt. “You can hang out, chat and have a glass of wine,” she said. “… It’s kind of a fun place to be a woman.”
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Minneapolis sues opioid manufacturers Claiming opioid abuse has “overwhelmed� Minneapolis, City Attorney Susan Segal on June 29 filed a federal lawsuit against 17 pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors. Among the defendants named in the 163-page complaint is Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, one of the most widely used prescription opioid medications. Along with the other defendants, the drug maker is alleged to have been negligent by failing to crack down on obvious signs of misuse while using deceptive marketing practices to drive up opioid prescriptions — and corporate profits. “Unlike the crack cocaine epidemic, this drug crisis began with a corporate business plan,� Segal wrote in the complaint. She wrote that drug manufacturers used “marketing that was pervasive as it was deceptive� to convince doctors that the risks of opioid abuse were exaggerated and outweighed by the pain-relieving benefits of the narcotics. Purdue allegedly pioneered the approach with OxyContin beginning in the 1990s. The city is seeking punitive damages. The complaint states that as many as one in four patients prescribed opioids for chronic pain will become addicted. The number of overdose deaths from prescription opioids was five times higher in 2017 than 1999, the complaint adds, also noting the links between prescription opioid abuse and rising use of powerful narcotics like heroin and fentanyl.
“Governmental entities, and the services they provide their citizens, have been strained to the breaking point by this public health crisis,� the complaint states. One sign of that strain, according to the city, is a spike in emergency calls for opioid overdoses. In just the last two years, the Minneapolis Fire Department has administered about 500 doses of nolaxone, a medication used to quickly reverse the effects of an overdose. The city lawsuit is just one of a number of lawsuits filed against pharmaceutical companies by state and local governments. Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson on July 2 filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma in Hennepin County District Court. That lawsuit makes a similar complaint against the manufacturer, alleging deceptive marketing practices helped to fuel an epidemic of abuse. In late May, Swanson and the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy sued fentanyl maker Insys Therapeutics Inc., alleging the company’s business practices encouraged misuse of the powerful opioid. Late last year, Hennepin County joined other Minnesota counties in a lawsuit against drug manufacturers and distributors. State Legislators have also taken up the cause, but bipartisan effort to pass so-called “penny-a-pill� legislation fell short during this year’s session. It would have raised money to address the opioid epidemic by charging a 1 cent-per-pill fee to drug companies.
Tchourumoff passed over for Ramsey County job The chair of the Metropolitan Council won’t be leaving for a new job in Ramsey County this summer. Alene Tchourumoff was one of two finalists in the running to replace Julie Kleinschmidt, the former county manager who retired in June. But on July 3 the Ramsey County Board offered the job to Ryan O’Connor, the current deputy county manager of Ramsey County’s Health and Wellness Service Team. The board approved a contract with O’Connor July 10. Gov. Mark Dayton appointed Tchourumoff to lead the Met Council in June 2017. At the time of her appointment, she was serving as Minnesota’s first-ever state rail director, a position created by Dayton in response to a rash of spills and derailments of trains carrying oil. Tchourumoff replaced Adam Duininck, who resigned his position to take the job of director of government affairs for the North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters, a union representing 26,000 members in Minnesota, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, Iowa and Nebraska.
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Council urged to act quickly on municipal ID Local immigrants rights activists urged City Council members to pick up the pace on efforts to establish a municipal identification card for Minneapolis residents. The city is currently developing a municipal ID that will be made available to any Minneapolis resident age 14 or older regardless of immigration status. The card would be recognized by Minneapolis police and provide access to city services, but it wouldn’t be a replacement for a driver’s license or work as a form of valid ID for voter registration. Activists say it would also offer protection to undocumented immigrants facing the threat of deportation. On June 29, City Council President Lisa Bender suspended the rules of the council to take public comments from Daniel Romero, a member of the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee, or MIRAC, who warned council members that family separation “does not only happen on the Texas and Arizona border.” “Every single day in Minneapolis, ICE arrests and separates parents from their children,” said Romero, the minister for faith formation at First Congregational Church of Minnesota in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood. According to the city’s timeline, a draft ordinance will be presented to the City
Council later this year. If the ordinance is approved, the IDs are expected to become available in early 2019 at the earliest. Romero said that’s not soon enough, adding that he has been told there is significant support on the council for municipal ID. “You can reduce those deportations, but you have to bring an ordinance here to be voted on, and you have to pass it,” he told the council. “I don’t say this lightly, but I believe you are dragging your feet, and I don’t understand why.” A city workgroup developing the municipal ID ordinance is led by Mariano Espinoza, a Latino community specialist working in the city’s Neighborhood and Community Relations Department. A recently posted update on the draft ordinance noted the workgroup “has kept the concern regarding the privacy of residents’ personal data at the forefront of our decision-making.” While MIRAC has lobbied for municipal ID, it has also pressured the city to review its data practices and take steps to ensure immigrants’ personal information is shielded from Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Both issues are included on MIRAC’s 13-point Minneapolis Sanctuary Platform.
Early voting begins Early voting for the Aug. 14 primary began June 29 in Minneapolis. The Early Vote Center, located downtown at 217 S. 3rd St., is open for voting 8 a.m.– 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Elections officials also plan to open the center 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Aug. 4 and Aug. 11, the final two Saturdays before the primary election. Minnesota has allowed early voting, also known as no-excuses absentee voting, since 2012. This year, there are primary contests for both the state’s U.S. Senate seats, U.S. repre-
sentative for the 5th Congressional District, governor and attorney general. Local races with primaries include state representative in districts 59A, 59B, 60B, 62A and 62B; Hennepin County commissioner in districts 2 and 4; Hennepin County sheriff; and Minneapolis Board of Education at-large, for which voters will chose two candidates. More information, including sample ballots and instructions for mailing in absentee ballots, is available at vote.minneapolismn.gov.
Met Council taking comments on transportation policy The Metropolitan Council began taking public comments June 27 on the most recent update to its transportation policy plan. The draft update to the 2040 Transportation Policy Plan identifies plans and policies for the regional transportation system, including everything from highways to buses to bike lanes. It also covers the movement of people and goods by air and rail. All projects that are proposed to receive federal funding are included in the plan. The 2040 TPP considers a variety of factors influencing the regional transportation system, including population growth, shifting trans-
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t a time when cult of personality politics is all the rage, Angela Conley is a breath of fresh air. To be sure, the 40-year-old South Minneapolis native has plenty of personality, but it’s her skills as a 20-year Hennepin County employee and navigator of the social services system she seeks to oversee as county commissioner that makes you want to root for her and, if you’re in Conley’s District 4, vote for her. “It’s blossoming,” said Conley, of her campaign to unseat incumbent Peter McLaughlin, sitting in her Cedar Avenue campaign office on a recent Saturday afternoon. As she speaks, “Conley For Commissioner” signs can be spotted in storefronts and on lawns and boulevards up and down Park and Portland Avenues, 38th and 42nd streets and all over South Minneapolis. “There’s been a lot of voter education happening on the doors, which is really important to me because I love telling people what the county does,” she said. “People don’t know much about the county board and their role in their lives. Every time you leave your home, you’re interacting with your county government, whether it’s your roads or what happens with your trash. “I love educating people about that, because this is the work that I’ve been doing for so long. Then, once they see that connection and I tell them about me and my qualifications, that’s when the momentum builds. That’s when people start to say, ‘You know what? This candidate is inspiring!’ And they can also see parallels from my story to their lives and things that they’ve gone through.” The seven-member Hennepin County Board of Commissioners operates a $2.4 billion budget (“twice the size of Jay Z and Beyonce’s net worth,” notes the Conley team) that plays a key role in advancing housing strategies, accessible transit systems and public health and human services. Incredibly enough, were Conley to win the District 4 seat in November, she would be the first AfricanAmerican ever elected to the board. “We are running a historical and unprecedented campaign against a 27 year incumbent that was last contested in 2006,” said Aurin Chowdhury, organizing director for Conley’s campaign, in an email. “If elected Angela will be the first county commissioner who has actually worked in the county, the first commissioner to actually use and receive public assistance from the county, and, finally, since the establishment of the county in 1875 Angela will be the first Black person ever elected to the County board. This is groundbreaking because in the most diverse county and the most diverse county district, representation matters.” Conley’s candidacy is part of a long-time coming progressive movement within the local DFL party. For the first time in his 27 years on the Hennepin County Board, McLaughlin failed to receive his party’s endorsement at the DFL convention in May. Conley received the most delegate votes, at 57 percent (60 percent of the 80 delegate votes are needed to earn the endorsement), and each of the
Hennepin County Commissioner candidate Angela Conley in her campaign office: “I want to challenge the status quo.” Photo by Jim Walsh
three open board seats has nonwhite candidates. “I thought about this run for two-and-a-half years,” Conley said. “I thought about leadership at the county, I thought about leadership at the state, I thought about some of the frustrations I had within my own position at the county and some of the things that I’ve seen, right on the ground, in the trenches, that don’t get transferred to upper leadership. “We’ve been trying at the county to eliminate racial disparities within the county, because we perpetuate them sometimes with the work that we do. The last straw was when I found out that last fall our county board, which has never included a person of color, went on a retreat specifically to talk about reducing racial disparities within the county. I don’t know that there was any input from a person of color in that retreat, and it was at that moment that I was like, ‘No. No. This is not how we’re going to do it.’ We need voices of people who are impacted either on the board or at these retreats when we’re making decisions that affect people’s quality of life, and they need to be at the table for that.” A mother of four, Conley began working at Hennepin County in 2000, making $12 an hour as a financial worker. Starting out, she lived in a townhouse that was part of an income-based co-op on Chicago Avenue where she quickly discovered that “I didn’t know it was a full-time job to be poor, that people talk down to you,” as she told the Minneapolis Interview Project. She loved helping people by working “on the other side of the counter,” where she processed applications for welfare, helped women who were single parents fleeing abusive partners or women who found themselves with unexpected pregnancies needing assistance or homeless. After five years, she took a promotion to work in a similar position at the State of Minnesota, returned to college to study creative writing at the University of Minnesota and social work at St. Catherine University, interned at a homeless shelter and taught English to newly arriving immigrants. She graduated from St. Kate’s in 2013 and went back to school for her Masters in Public Administration at Hamline University, and she has served as the board president of the Bryant Neighborhood Organization for the past two years. Given her education, passion for poor people and knowledge of the system, it’s difficult to imagine a more qualified commissioner with real-life experience.
“I’ve been in county and state government for nearly 20 years now, but before that I was accessing services,” she said. “I was food insecure. I was accessing emergency assistance because I was housing insecure. I needed health care and help with child care at one point in my life, so I know what it’s like accessing systems, and it was that experience when I decided I want to work here and change systems from within. “No commissioner has had to access our services, or worked within our services. I’m a current county employee. These perspectives are key, and they’re missing from our leadership and that’s why I think we’re continuing to perpetuate these cycles. And when we lead the nation in [racial] disparities you can look directly at Hennepin County, because we’re the biggest issuer in the state of social services programs.” Conley’s candidacy is another illustration of the times, as a wave of women and people of color run for offices all over the country. In Minnesota, the DFL primary takes place Tuesday, Aug. 14, though early voting opened on June 29. “We’re in a huge moment of change,” said Conley, who seeks to represent District 4, which mostly covers east and downtown areas of Minneapolis. “The 4th District is diverse, we’re dense and we haven’t had leadership that’s reflected that in nearly 30 years. I’ve been in the community doing activism work and advocacy work, I worked at a homeless shelter for a year, I’ve been an advocate for victims of domestic violence and I want to see better victim services. I’ve lived through that. Our voices need to be the ones that are guiding these policies. That’s the frustrating bit, is that no one is asking us for our opinions, and they matter, and these are experts. “They’re experts because they’re living it, they’re breathing it every day. They’re under this boot, and for me it’s like, who’s going to lift that up and actually listen to people? You keep making up your own decisions about what’s ‘best’ for us, so we need someone to challenge that, and I said, ‘This is what I’m going to do: I’m going to challenge the status quo, I’m going to challenge what we’ve been doing and I’m going to join this race.’” Jim Walsh lives and grew up in South Minneapolis. He can be reached at jimwalsh086@gmail.com
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Moments in Minneapolis
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his postcard features an illustration of a major moment in the history of the Chain of Lakes: the linking of Lake of the Isles and Bde Maka Ska (then Lake Calhoun) via manmade channel. Locals gathered for an elaborate ceremony — heavily publicized as a “wedding” of the two lakes — in July of 1911. (An additional link to Cedar Lake was completed in 1913). Highlights included a boat parade, sailboat contests, a water pageant and an evening firework show. And this aquatic marriage is thriving: While the surrounding neighborhoods, the shorelines and even the lake names have evolved over the years, the channel retains its historic appearance and remains a familiar and beloved part of life in the City of Lakes. Cedar Imboden Phillips serves as the executive director for the Hennepin History Museum. Learn more about the museum and its offerings at hennepinhistory.org or 870-1329.
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Parkland students, local group team up to get young people to the polls By Sonya Chechik
A local group recently teamed up with survivors of February’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting to register young people to vote, an effort they hope will boost participation this fall’s midterm election. Students from Parkland, Florida stopped at a Minnesota Youth (MNY) Collective picnic in South Minneapolis as part of their national Road to Change tour across 20 states. Organizers of the June 25 event are working to boost traditionally low voter turnout among young people before the upcoming election, which many describe as a bellwether of the current presidential administration’s success. “Having a stronghold of young people in this state is really missing,” said MNY Collective co-founder Rahhel Haile. “It’s mostly because young people don’t see themselves in voting, whether they’re disenfranchised by the system or don’t see themselves as important.” Minneapolis is one of more than 50 stops on the Parkland students’ tour, a three-leg trip focused on cities that have faced gun violence. The group represents survivors of the fatal shooting of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School earlier this year. The Parkland students’ visit spurred discussion on gun violence and other hot topics. Jaclyn Corin is one Parkland student traveling on the tour. She said she thinks the biggest barrier to young people getting out to the polls is that many don’t know how. “For far too long the process of voter registra-
tion has been very difficult, and there’s a reason for that,” Corin said. “The politicians don’t want the youth voting, they don’t want the youth to be engaged because they know that we’re (educated), so they want to make it hard.” Corin said she and her peers are making registering easy. She pointed to another student wearing a black T-shirt with an American flag on the front. It was designed by one of her peers and isn’t just a standard T-shirt. The blue portion of the flag is a QR code that can register people to vote. “You can register in under a minute-and-ahalf,” she said. MNY Collective coordinated with Parkland students to throw the event with help from other local youth-led organizations like MN Students for Change and Students Demand Action, an initiative launched by Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. MNY Collective was co-founded by Emily Wellen and Rahhel Haile in December 2017 as a nonprofit run by and for youth who want to be more politically active. While the office is based in St. Paul, MNY Collective has representatives all across the state and prides itself on being an organization that accurately represents Minnesota in terms of personal identities. The group is currently focused on drawing
Bria Smith, an activist from Milwaukee who joined the Parkland students on the first leg of their tour, sported a T-shirt with a custom QR code designed to shorten voter registration times. Photo by Sonya Chechik
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a gun. The officers shot and killed Blevins, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Nearby witnesses dispute the BCA account, and said they did not see a gun. The advocacy group Communities United Against Police Brutality questions whether police truly found the 911 caller’s suspect. In scanner audio of the police chase relayed by the Star Tribune, an officer describes a man in a black tank top and brown shorts. CUAPB is calling for swift release of body camera footage. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office said Blevins died of multiple gunshot wounds in the alley at the 4700 block of Bryant Avenue North at 5:35 p.m. Protests and vigils have followed the shooting. The Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar is promoting a July 15 event called “Love Over Hate…A Community Healing” at 2 p.m. at Karamu Garden, located at 1600 Plymouth Ave. N. Separately, the group Justice for Justine Damond Ruszczyk is planning a press conference July 15 at 51st & Washburn, one year after police shot and killed Damond near her home. “We will commemorate this event by reiterating our demand for justice, not just for Justine, but for all victims of police violence,” states the group.
Northsiders talk trauma with police Policing was only part of the conversation at a July 10 meeting at the Minneapolis Urban League. “I don’t need more cops. … I need jobs, I need housing, I need employment opportunities,” said Deputy Chief Art Knight. He said he planned to attend the meeting months before police shot and killed Thurman Junior Blevins, which he called a tragedy any way you look at it. Community activist Al Flowers urged people to hug a woman in the audience related to Blevins. “We are also grieving,” said Minneapolis Urban League President Steven Belton. He said the community is still reeling from the deaths of Jamar Clark and Philando Castile. But the idea that black people don’t value police is a false narrative, he said. “We need policing. We just want it to be fair, we want it to be reflective, we want it to be procedurally just,” he said. “And we want policing to reflect the community that it is serving.” Knight said his top criteria in hiring is fluency in a second language and a Minneapolis residence or a Minneapolis high school diploma. He said the department has historically done a horrible job of hiring minorities. Flowers asked for community ideas on how to move forward, and said they should get
behind Knight and Chief Medaria Arradondo. “If we’re ever going to see change as an African American community, it’s going to come under them,” he said. “I believe that, that we can make change.” Other groups spoke as well. The City of Lakes Community Land Trust called for public investments in affordable housing, anticipating that North Side land values will jump in the coming years. And staff from ReCAST Minneapolis talked about their trauma training and grant opportunities. One meeting attendee said he’s tired of hearing police described as heroes on the job. Joseph Banks, a candidate for Hennepin County Sheriff, said police should get out of their cars and meet more people. Police often don’t have a stake in the communities they serve, said Sharif Willis. Meeting attendee Rory Lucas said he fears for his 9-year-old grandson. “I don’t have a relationship with the police. … I remember when they shot Tycel Nelson,” he said, referring to the 17-year-old police shot and killed in 1990. “So I quit coming to these meetings. … But now my grandson is here, so I’m back.”
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described the current system as “outdated and unwisely authoritarian.” “Right now, we have more oversight of our potholes than we do of our police,” Council Member Andrew Johnson (Ward 12) said during a June 27 Committee of the Whole meeting. Council members Jeremy Schroeder (Ward 11) also expressed interest in a charter amendment during the meeting. City Council President Lisa Bender (Ward 10) said she was “open” to the conversation. The comments by council members followed more than 30 minutes of public testimony on the death of Thurman Blevins, who was shot and killed by police June 23. Many of those who spoke called for changes to the department, and they urged Frey to use his authority to release video captured by the body-worn cameras of officers Justin Schmidt and Ryan Kelly. Activist Nekima Levy-Pounds said Blevins’ death was evidence “the problems have not been rooted out within the Minneapolis Police Department.” “We want support from the city,” LevyPounds said. “We’re tired of the status quo. We’re tired of people dying.”
Tight timeline Although it would require fast action by the council and the city’s Charter Commission, Johnson said it would be possible to place a question on the ballot this November, adding that he believes there is support on the council to do so. The city charter can also be amended by a unanimous vote of the entire council and the approval of the mayor, but Johnson was skeptical of taking that path. “We’re going to have a high-turnout election, and I think we should leave it up to the voters to decide on this issue,” he said. To go before voters in 2018, the final language of the ballot question must be submitted to the Minnesota Secretary of State by Aug. 24. If the deadline is missed, the next chance doesn’t come until the 2020 election. “This would be a tight timeline even for the council to agree on it,” said Charter Commission Chair Barry Clegg, noting the “multiple steps” proposed charter amendments must take before reaching the ballot. Those steps include passing through the Charter Commission, which can take up to 60 days to review the proposed language of the ballot question — a period that can be extended to 150 days — before forwarding its recommendation to the council. Clegg said he only learned of the council’s interest in fast-tracking a ballot question in a conversation with Gordon that took place the same day as the Committee of the Whole meeting. He said the idea of amending the charter to give the council more power over police hadn’t come up since he joined the commission in 2003, but it will be on the agenda when the commission meets July 11. “It’s amazing, the language. It says the mayor has ‘complete power,’” Clegg said, noting that similar language doesn’t appear anywhere else in the city’s charter. The charter gives the council a limited role in the appointment of a new police chief. Once the mayor nominates a candi-
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date for chief, that nominee is reviewed by an Executive Committee comprised of the mayor, City Council president and three members of the council. The Executive Committee may then forward a recommendation to the City Council. The council can only vote to appoint a chief that has the committee’s recommendation.
‘Watered-down oversight’ Johnson said the council’s “watered-down oversight” of the police department means the 13 members of the council have limited ability to weigh-in on department policy. The council frequently issues staff directions that require action from other city departments, but it doesn’t have that same authority with police. “I will say there have been things absolutely in the past I have asked for, including basic crime statistics and information for my own ward, which I had an extremely difficult time … and what felt like feet-dragging from the previous administration in getting that to me,” Johnson said. With more authority over the police department, the council could, for example, order the release of the body camera footage in the Blevins case, Johnson said. But that is currently Frey’s decision alone. Frey said June 26 he planned to use his authority to release the footage as soon as possible, but would wait until Blevins’ family members were consulted and the BCA had interviewed key witnesses. Johnson also suggested the development and initial implementation of the department’s body camera policy would have gone differently. It wasn’t until after the 2017 death of Justine Damond that officers were required to activate their cameras for all dispatches. Damond, also known as Justine Ruszczyk, was shot and killed by police after calling 911 to report a possible assault, but the incident wasn’t recorded because neither officer at the scene had activated his body camera. Johnson said “a number” of council members were interested in implementing a stronger body camera policy from the start. He noted a September 2017 audit of body camera use by officers showed they were activated for only about two-thirds of dispatches. The rate of noncompliance dropped slightly after Chief Medaria Arradondo ordered changes to the body camera policy in the wake of the Damond shooting. “That’s what happens when we don’t have as your elected representative the ability to take on and implement and amend these policies,” Johnson said. But not all of his colleagues agree Council Member Linea Palmisano (Ward 13) noted that, in addition to its role in the appointment of police chief, the council also approves the department’s annual budget and votes on every city contract worth more than $50,000. “For me, I feel we have quite a few checks and balances on our police department,” she said. As chair of the council’s Audit Committee, Palmisano asked for and has so far received quarterly reports on officers’ compliance with the department’s body camera policy — an example, she said, of how the council operates within its existing authority to exercise oversight of the department.
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That the charter grants “very unique” powers to the mayor with regard to the police is not well understood, Gordon said during the June 27 Committee of the Whole meeting, noting the lesson he learned as a rookie council member in 2006. “I imagined, I’m going to be on the City Council now, I’m going to be able to participate in directing and managing and setting policy for the Public Works Department for our housing inspections and Regulatory SEE CHARTER AMENDMENT / PAGE A13
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Services Department, for the Fire Department and for the Police Department and all the departments in the city,” he said. “And then I got here and I learned after a little while, yeah, that’s true for Public Works, that’s true for the Fire Department, that’s true for housing inspectors, but the City Council has no authority to set policy for the police department.” Gordon described a charter amendment that would share that authority with the council as a “critically important step.” Two days later, when he formally introduced the proposal at a City Council meeting, Gordon said he’d been thinking about just such a change for at least a decade. Frey said he’d opposed the change as a council member and continued to oppose it as mayor. “Effectively responding to the demands of policing requires an ability to receive clear — and at times quick — direction,” he wrote in a June 29 emailed statement. “That direction would be practically impossible with 14 cooks in the kitchen.”
Effectively responding to the demands of policing requires an ability to receive clear — and at times quick — direction. That direction would be practically impossible with 14 cooks in the kitchen. — Mayor Jacob Frey
Johnson anticipated that argument in an interview that took place a day earlier, but he said those “fear tactics” were easily countered. He noted that the 13 council members and mayor share oversight duties for all other city departments. “They don’t need to get a council committee meeting together in order to condemn a public safety nuisance in terms of a property or to confiscate tainted food or to clear a road that’s been obstructed by a downed tree,” he said. Johnson said a charter amendment would also respond to calls for more police accountability and oversight, concerns he said every council member heard leading up to last year’s city election. “This is something we have heard from constituents that they want more of and that they want to address,” he said. Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins said while the call for police accountability was loud and clear, but the call for a charter amendment was not. “I do know that there is a strong, strong deep desire to rein in the Minneapolis police and bring some more accountability to that process, but I didn’t hear a charter amendment to the structure of authority and reporting as one of the solutions,” Jenkins said. She also questioned whether the abbreviated timeline for the charter amendment process would allow the public to fully weigh in on the issue. Jenkins said the lack of community engagement was a “really, really big concern of mine.” “Sometimes change is really good and really necessary to disrupt systems of oppression,” she said. “I know that there are structures that are different in other cities and it hasn’t necessarily resulted in less black, unarmed people being shot.”
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youth to the polls for the upcoming 2018 midterm elections. Recent studies, such as the Youth Electoral Significance Index, have shown that the state’s young people could have the greatest impact on the election. “If young people voted at the same rate as other generations in our state we would have 315,000 more votes,” Haile said. She said the first step is electing representatives who care about the issues the youth value. Then they can “hold them responsible to making changes,” she said. Gun violence was one of the event’s primary issues. While registering and encouraging youth to vote is a central goal of their tour, the Parkland students continue to demand changes to gun laws and demonstrate the power of youth in public displays and rallies. Following the shooting of Thurman Blevins in Minneapolis on June 23, organizers said the MNY Collective event provided an opportunity for a diverse group of youth to gather and exchange ideas and experiences surrounding gun violence. “People need to understand that police violence is also gun violence and it’s vital to be included in the conversation because gun violence is not just mass shootings in school walls,” Corin said. “It’s honestly so beautiful the fact that we have so many different voices that are coming together with this movement. It’s not just white kids. It’s not just black kids. It’s not just Hispanic kids. It’s all of us together because we all want positive change and we need to do it as a united force.” Following the midterms, MNY Collective plan to remain active in the community. The group plans to turn its attention to organizing youth on issues they’re passionate about.
“It’s the young people leading the change,” said Denny Fitzpatrick, who, along with Maryl Skinner, came from Grand Marais to attend the event. Photo by Sonya Chechik
“When you say, ‘Go vote,’ to people that means nothing. You have to say why and you have to have them see themselves in that. Like, ‘Why does voting affect you? What is your life like? What can change by voting?” Haile said. “Nothing has ever been solved by just voting, but it is the first step and we need to help people see it that way.” MNY Collective has already gathered more than 2,000 pledge cards from youth across the state listing their top three issues. Youth activists attending the event all preached a central message stressing the value of individual votes and participation in their community. “I might just be one person, but look what a group of 20 teenagers created,” Corin said. “[The youth] are the present and the future at the same time.”
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The city’s population was larger in 1950 — 520,000 people — but at that time, between seven and nine people often lived in the city’s three-bedroom homes, Byers said. Today, it’s often one or two in a home. In the past 10 years, developers have typically built “mini-mansions” near the lakes or six-story apartment buildings along the Midtown Greenway, Byers said. Now the city is looking at new zoning districts to encourage more types of housing throughout the city. Allowing singlefamily houses to split into several units within the same building footprint is one example. Apart from adding housing, city officials are currently investigating new policies that would
address affordability and gentrification. The proposed density in the long-range comprehensive plan isn’t finalized — public input continues through July 22. The council would adopt the plan in December, and an update of the zoning code would take about three years to complete, according to staff. But the first draft suggests bold changes. On streets like Nicollet Avenue in Southwest Minneapolis and Central Avenue in Northeast, reworked zoning districts would allow two to six stories or more. Key spots like the Kmart site at Nicollet & Lake could hold four to 15 stories, and areas near Hennepin & Central could see eight to 30 stories. Portions of land northwest of Bde Maka Ska between the Greenway and Excelsior Boulevard could
be zoned for eight to 30 stories. The heart of Uptown at Hennepin & Lake could be zoned for two to 10 stories. Part of the North Loop might open to 30-story buildings. “The density that we’re calling for is substantial in terms of other cities,” said Heather Worthington, the city’s director of long-range planning. “… I don’t know other cities that are calling for that level of change. Again, it’s a draft at this point. But I think other cities aren’t experiencing the level of challenges that we are, either, and the level of development pressure.” Minneapolis has the widest nationwide unemployment disparity between African American and white residents, according to the Economic Policy Institute. And while median
HOW TO WEIGH IN The initial comment period ends July 22. Visit minneapolis2040.com, where each policy ends with a green box for comment. People can also submit comments tied directly to a city map by visiting minneapolis2040.com/topics/landuse-built-form and clicking on the link “Comment on the Minneapolis 2040 Draft Land Use and Built Form Maps.” General emails can go to 2040@minneapolismn.gov.
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income for white residents has improved since the recession, for African Americans, median income has dropped. “We have a community that’s not working for everyone. We have haves and have-nots, and we need to get ahead of that and fix that, or we’re not going to be sustainable in the future,” Worthington said. Think of the city’s “comprehensive plan” like Jenga, she said, where the pieces interlock as part of a very complex city. “Minneapolis is not just a collection of neighborhoods, and it’s not just your block,” she said. “… I’ve asked people in Southwest if they’ve been to North Minneapolis lately, and not a hand goes up. … It’s hard to think outside of your immediate reality, and I think that’s what we’re asking people to do, and I think that’s hard stuff.” Policy ideas aiming to fix racial disparities
include a focus on pre-K, support for small businesses, better job opportunities for people with less education and more affordable housing near transit. The environment is another theme in the plan. A goal to dramatically reduce car trips would aim to address climate change, but also help people who can’t afford a car or are driving less as they age. “Even if we were able to decrease our car trips by one or two a week, we would start to see significant impact,” Worthington said. “… We are a very car-centered world.” To get there, the city would add retail closer to homes, use street designs that prioritize walking over cars, and incentivize transit use and zero emissions technology. “Nothing is finalized,” Worthington said. “I want people to know that we’re taking their comments very seriously and that they will shape the final draft.”
A SAMPLE OF THE 97 POLICY IDEAS PROPOSED IN THE CITY’S DRAFT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN Create housing for residents of all income levels Minneapolis added more than 12,000 units between 2010 and 2016 but lost nearly 15,000 rental units since 2000 that are considered affordable to people making half the area median income (affordable to a single person making $31,650 or a family of four making $45,200 in 2017). The issue is compounded by rising rents and decreasing wages for renters. The city currently spends $10 million annually to produce and preserve affordable housing. • Find ways to retain naturally occurring affordable housing. • Find ways to build housing types that few are developing today, including space for large families. • Remove barriers for creative housing options, such as co-ops and bungalow courts.
Design for pedestrians When it comes to building and street design, cars would be the city’s last priority. The city would first prioritize walking followed by cycling, transit and, lastly, cars. The city would frown on new surface parking lots, drive-throughs and gas stations. It would encourage street-level activity and windows. • Design narrow streets with wide sidewalks, and minimize vehicle curb cuts. • Continue to build a bikeway network.
Add retail close to homes This proposal would add more flexibility to add commercial space, such as a bookshop operating out of a house on a busy street. People take more trips running errands than going to work, so adding commercial space dovetails with the goal of reduced greenhouse gas emissions. • Allow more commercial space in areas with frequent transit.
Reduce the numbers of people driving alone In Minneapolis, nine out of 10 trips are taken in personal automobiles. To meet the city goal of an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the number of car trips would need to decline by 37 percent. • Give people the chance to meet their daily needs closer to home. MidwestOne Bank DTJ 071218 V3.indd 1
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• Enforce the city’s idling ordinance, which limits idling to no more than three minutes. • Encourage car-sharing and bike-sharing.
Tenant protections More than half of Minneapolis residents are renters. • Expand landlord participation in Section 8 vouchers that subsidize rents. • Ensure tenants and landlords are aware of their rights. • Reduce evictions and support tenants’ rights organizations.
Expand homeownership • Support groups that counsel homebuyers, especially those with low incomes and people of color.
Minimize displacement • Watch for early changes in neighborhood rents. • Prioritize affordable housing in new development.
Expand production and processing jobs The city wants more employers like the Peace Coffee roastery, Kemps on West Broadway and Coloplast, the medical equipment supplier on West River Road. For people without college degrees, these jobs offer much higher wages than other sectors like retail and food service. • Open historically industrial land for production and processing.
Ensure all Minneapolitans live within a 10-minute walk of a park Ninety-seven percent of residents live within 10 minutes of a park, with the exception of small pockets of the city. • Build new parks where needed. • Make parks welcoming to all, regardless of age and cultural background. • Create open spaces and public plazas as part of new development.
Eliminate off-street parking minimums in new construction • The marketplace, rather than city regulation, should determine the right amount of off-street parking, according to city staff.
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Neighborhood fills a food box at 46th & Colfax It’s a food shelf with the soul of a Little Free Library. A new “neighborhood food box” has become a quick drop site for food donations and food collections at 46th & Colfax. Barbara Buehl, a member of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church where the food box stands, painted an old Star Tribune newspaper box and converted it into a selfserve food shelf, adopting an idea she’d seen in other cities. “There is always hidden poor in every neighborhood,” said Buehl, a former social worker. “… We have been putting food in the box and the food is going.” She said the food box is a nice alternative for people who might be reluctant to visit a traditional food shelf. Plus it’s open 24/7. “The first day I put it out, somebody walked by and said ‘Ah, I forgot to buy peanut butter,’” she said. Church members are talking to Guse Green Grocer about potential coupons for milk and other staples. “It’s a bunch of neighborhood people pulling together for everybody,” Buehl said. “… This is a thing that we can do to make the world we have been given a better place.”
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The new pool is located at 3101 Bryant Ave. S. The old pool’s concrete dolphin will return as a refurbished public art project. A new playground opened at the park last summer, where separate areas are tailored for ages 3–5 and ages 5–12. The wading pool is open 10 a.m.–9 p.m. daily through late August. Music in the park is every Tuesday and Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Photo by Michelle Bruch
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By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com
City offering funding for refrigeration upgrades The City of Minneapolis is offering funding to businesses that make refrigeration tune-ups and efficiency upgrades after receiving an on-site assessment from Xcel Energy. The city will fund up to 20 percent of total project costs for businesses in most areas of Minneapolis and up to 30 percent of the cost for businesses located in the Green Zone areas. The city says that business owners can save as much as 50 percent on their projects, after combining city funding with utility rebates. The city will distribute a maximum of $10,000 per project and will distribute the funds on a first-come, first-serve basis until they are depleted. Businesses and organizations must be located in Minneapolis and be eligible to participate in Xcel’s Commercial Refrigeration Efficiency Program to qualify for funding. The program comes as the city, Xcel and CenterPoint Energy continue working toward the city’s Climate Action Plan and Energy Vision for 2040 goals. The Climate Action Plan calls for reducing citywide greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2025, from a 2006 baseline. The Energy Vision for 2040 calls for providing “reliable, affordable, local and clean energy services for all Minneapolis homes, businesses and institutions” in 2040. Refrigeration can be one of the biggest drivers of energy use in restaurants, grocery, convenience and liquor stores, according to the Center for Energy and Environment, which implements the Commercial Refrigera-
customers and also prevent the company from needing to build additional infrastructure. Xcel provides its Minnesota businesses customers with no-cost, on-site refrigeration assessments, which can help them identify energy- and money-saving improvements. Call 455-7803 or email XcelMNRefrigerations@ mncee.org to learn more. Additionally, the federal Energy Star website provides best practices for business owners, home owners and residents to reduce energy usage. Those tips include:
tion Efficiency Program on behalf of Xcel. According to Xcel, refrigeration can account for over half of a businesses’ monthly electricity costs, depending on the industry. Xcel has over $176,000 budgeted for commercial-refrigeration programs statewide, according to Randy Fordice, senior media relations representative. The new program is part of the city’s Green Business/Housing Cost Share Program, through which Minneapolis offers businesses grants for investing in cleaner, greener or more efficient technologies. The city estimates that the program reduced air pollution by nearly 40,000 pounds in 2016 alone.
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Xcel has more than 150 programs to help customers save energy and manage their bills in the eight states in which it operates, according to Fordice. The company is required to spend a 2 percent of its gross-operating revenues from services provided in Minnesota on energyconservation improvement, per a 2007 state law. That law, the Next Generation Energy Act, sets a goal of statewide energy savings equal to 1.5 percent of annual retail sales of electricity and natural gas. Xcel Energy customers have saved enough electricity to avoid building 20 average-sized power plants since 1992, according to Fordice. He added that energy-efficiency programs save money both in terms of direct savings for
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Excavation to begin on destination park site The Park Board is expected to undertake an excavation of riverfront mill infrastructure this summer. This July or August, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board will begin excavating the site of Water Works, a new park destination it is building along the downtown Minneapolis riverfront near the Stone Arch Bridge. The project will be built among remnants of the Occidental, Columbia and Bassett mills that once lined the Mill District. The work will reveal how much is left intact underground so construction can proceed on a glass restaurant pavilion that will be set within the mill masonry. Bids for the work are still under review, but are expected to be approved this summer. If approved, the work will begin this fall and
limited construction will continue through the fall and winter months and into 2019. The Park Board doesn’t anticipate closing any streets or trails during construction. Water Works will feature a new building with a restaurant from chef Sean Sherman, restrooms and visitor services. Another phase of work will improve the area between the building and the riverfront with a new walking bridge, road improvements and recreation areas. Funding for the project is coming from a number of sources. The Minneapolis Parks Foundation, the board’s philanthropic partner, has an $18 million fundraising goal to support Water Works. Gov. Mark Dayton recently approved $10 million in state bonding money for metro park projects.
The Park Board began a selective demolition of the Fuji Ya building at the Water Works site last fall. Photo by Tyler Peterson
Commissioners are slated to vote July 11 to direct nearly $1.1 million in park dedication fees to support further schematic design work on the
Water Works site. The funds, collected under a law that went into effect in 2014, are captured from new development projects in Minneapolis.
The park superintendent search has begun Over the next four months, the Park Board will be on the hunt for its next superintendent. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board officially started its recruitment effort in early July with the creation of a website, MPRBsupersearch.com, with information on community listening sessions, surveys and information about the search process. “We’re confident we’ll find the best super-
intendent to continue to build upon our work and create an even more inclusive park system for everyone who calls Minneapolis their home,” said President Brad Bourn (District 6) in a statement. Commissioners recently approved a contract with local recruiting firm kpCompanies to assist the search, a process they hope to have completed by October.
Former Superintendent Jayne Miller announced her resignation late last year and officially stepped down in February following seven years leading the city’s park system. She currently works for the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy. Superintendent Emeritus Mary Merrill, a former commissioner and superintendent, is serving as interim superintendent through
Oct. 31. The board will begin taking applications on July 12. The board will host community meetings 6 p.m.–8 p.m. Thursday, July 19, at the Bottineau Recreation Center, 2000 2nd St. NE; and 10 a.m.–noon Monday, July 23, from at the Webber Community Center, 4400 Dupont Ave. N.
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Palmer attended Minneapolis schools from kindergarten through 12th grade and graduated from Southwest High School. She subsequently enrolled at the university, where she initially studied journalism before moving to English. Her foray into education came as she contemplated what to do after graduating college in the early ’90s. Palmer went straight into grad school after college and subsequently student-taught at South High School and before being hired to teach at Anthony Middle School. She taught there for nine years, holding multiple leadership positions and becoming an assistant principal intern in 2002. Palmer then coordinated the commercial and fine arts program at Patrick Henry High School for four years was assistant principal at Richfield Middle School for six years. She started at Sanford in 2013 and also earned a doctorate in education from the University of Minnesota that year.
Encouraged to apply Palmer said her associate superintendent encouraged her to look at the Washburn job after it opened this spring. She said she was initially hesitant but that the associate superintendent noted how jobs such as Washburn’s don’t come around all that often. Her interest became further piqued after she talked with Dean about the job at the district’s annual principal luncheon. Palmer said Dean looked at her “completely unsolicited” and said, “You should take Washburn. You would love it.” “That meant something to me, because obviously Rhonda loves Washburn and she and I have been friends and she knows me,” Palmer said, noting subsequent encouragement from the district’s associate superintendent for high schools. Palmer also spent time with Dean and Washburn’s assistant principals, Shannon Tenner and
Michelle Terpening, at a principals’ conference last month. She started reaching out to people she knew who had students at Washburn and having conversations with them. She also was approached by some Washburn teachers who were former colleagues at Henry, who encouraged her to apply. “It just kept feeling more like a fit, more like a fit, more like a fit,” Palmer said.
Time-adjustment thoughts Palmer said she has a lot to learn before she can say what’s going to happen at Washburn or what the school needs. She noted the school’s strong arts program and praised Washburn’s staff and the collaborative work they are doing. When asked about school safety, Palmer said Washburn has a good system in place as far as its physical setup and how it locks down. But she said the bigger concept with safety is making students feel connected to school. That was something she and her Sanford staff worked to do in part by greeting everyone who walks in the door and by having kids collaborate in the classroom. Palmer also discussed on the School Board’s 5-4 vote in April to restore over $6 million in time-adjustment funding to middle and high schools. The district had begun providing the funding to middle and high schools several years ago so the schools could meet the requirements of the International Baccalaureate program. District leaders cut the timeadjustment funding from the 2018-19 budget this past winter to help address a projected $33 million budget shortfall. Washburn parents began advocating for the district to restore the time-adjustment funding after discovering the school faced an initial 13 percent, or $1.7 million, budget cut for 201819. Washburn’s chunk of time-adjustment funding this year was about $780,000. Parents and students rallied against the cuts and for restoring the time-adjustment funding at packed board meetings in March and April.
New Washburn principal Emily Lilja Palmer. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
The subsequent board vote forced district leaders to make millions in additional cuts to the central office over a 10-day period in April. Palmer, who is president of the district’s secondary principal group, said she believes the board solved a $1 million problem with $6 million, which wasn’t a good thing to do. But she also recognized that Washburn and Patrick Henry and FAIR high schools had unique needs that weren’t getting addressed through the traditional budgeting process, something at which she said the district will look (FAIR and Henry initially faced 21 and 15 percent budget cuts, respectively, before the board restored the time-adjustment funding). “How that whole thing unfolded created a lot of unnecessary drama and unnecessary inequity,” Palmer said, noting that Sanford received funding back but not enough to re-implement its seven-period day. She added that her wish would be to make sure that a
budget can get rectified without budget public outcry or controversial board motions if the budget doesn’t come back the way it should. “We shouldn’t need either of those things, because we should be able to get what we need,” Palmer said. Palmer said she’s not afraid to advocate for what her students need and that the people who hear her requests know she’s going to be professional. District spokesperson Dirk Tedmon said during the interview that Palmer expects to be held accountable for her requests. Tedmon said a challenge for the district as a whole in 2018-19 will be balancing the needs and wants of students and families while creating a sustainable district. He noted a comprehensive design process is currently underway, adding that the district is trying to get to a point where every school has a baseline level of programming. “What we’re trying to get to is, ‘what does MPS look like moving forward?’” Tedmon said. The process will lead to positive changes for students and families, Tedmon said, noting, as an example, that it could mean every student getting exposure to arts. But he added that it’s also going to be an adjustment for people who are used to having things at their schools stay the way they’ve always existed.
Summer timeline Palmer is still working out of her office at Sanford since Washburn is closed for construction work this summer. The district is adding a new science wing and renovating existing science classrooms and the school’s band and choir rooms. She said the goal is for teachers to return to the building on Aug. 21. A welcome-back night is scheduled for Aug. 22, and school is scheduled to begin Aug. 27. Palmer will be joined in the administration by assistant principals Tenner and Terpening, who have each been at the school for at least 10 years. She is also helping to serve at Sanford until the school chooses a new principal.
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District to hold referendum in November Minneapolis Public Schools will hold a two-question, $30 million referendum this November, after the Board of Education unanimously approved placing it on the ballot last month. The district is asking Minneapolis voters to increase its operating levy by about $18 million annually and to establish a capital projects, or technology, levy. The technology levy would raise approximately $12 million for the maintenance of and upgrades to district technology systems, freeing $12 million in general-operating funds. The district is not proposing any new technology-based initiatives. “We are grateful for the past generous support of Minneapolis taxpayers,” Superintendent Ed Graff said in a statement last month. “This referendum is just one way MPS is working to ensure we have the resources available to invest in the programs our students need and deserve.” The ask comes as costs outpace revenue in MPS and in many districts across Minnesota. At least 59 of Minnesota’s 327 school districts, including MPS, projected budget shortfalls for 2018-19, according to data collected by the Association of Metropolitan School Districts and the Minnesota Rural Education Association. Twenty-six metro-area school districts alone projected a combined 2018-19 shortfall of over $108 million, according to the metropolitan districts’ association. Education leaders note that state funding, the largest source of operating revenue for schools, has not kept up with the pace of inflation since the early 2000s. They also note that districts are increasingly paying for special-education and English-learner expenses with operating revenue, as those costs rise and state and federal funding do not keep up. Additionally, some urban districts, including Minneapolis and St. Paul, have seen enrollment declines over the past 15-plus years, contributing to the losses in revenue. MPS leaders say this year’s referendum is one part of their strategy to create a solid financial foundation for the district. They also made budget cuts this spring to address a
have a say in which services they provide. He said the state and federal governments have cut back on children’s mental health services, meaning that some children now get those services in school. Croonquist noted Congress established a goal of providing 40 percent of funding for specialeducation services when it passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in the ’70s. But the government has never come close to meeting that goal, he said, leaving states and local school districts to cover what they can afford. Minnesota also has a policy of “tuition billing,” meaning that MPS is responsible for paying for the unreimbursed special-education services of students who live in Minneapolis but open enroll or attend charter or private schools. The district spends $21 million annually to cover the services of these students. Minneapolis Public Schools says it would use funds from a November referendum to improve student achievement and well-being. File photo
projected $33 million shortfall for 2018-19 and are reviewing the district’s programming and services before crafting the 2019-20 budget. In addition, the district is working at the state Legislature to increase revenues for specialeducation and English-learner services. “This will give us an opportunity to reach more families,” School Board Vice Chair Siad Ali said of the referendum. Ali is serving as the board’s representative on the external committee working to pass the referendum, called the Committee for Better Schools. “There are a lot of good things happening in Minneapolis Public Schools, but we need these resources to succeed,” Ali said. “This is about our future.”
Lagging funding Statewide, total inflation-adjusted state aid per pupil is projected to dip by about 9 percent by 2019 when compared to 2003 levels, according to the North Star Policy Institute, a progressive think tank. Inflation-adjusted state aid for MPS
is projected to dip over 20 percent per pupil, according to the institute. The district has recouped some of those losses through an increase in its operating levy, which voters approved in 2008 and renewed in 2016. But the district’s inflation-adjusted per-pupil revenue is still projected to decrease by over $1,400 by 2019 compared to 2003, according to the institute. MPS has also been significantly impacted by increasing special-education costs over the past 15 years, according to state Department of Education data. The district’s special-education expenditures rose more than 34 percent from 2002 to 2016, but its dedicated special-education revenues decreased nearly 5 percent. That’s forced it to dedicate more of its general state aid to special education, including over $53 million in fiscal year 2016. Scott Croonquist, executive director and lobbyist for the Association of Metropolitan School Districts, noted the state and federal governments dictate special-education services, meaning school districts don’t really
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School Board support MPS states on its website it needs a solid financial foundation to maintain a healthy reserve fund, invest in its four priority areas and ensure district growth and sustainability. The district says the new funding would help it ensure a consistent level of staffing, services and programming at all schools and support investments needed to improve student outcomes. “If we don’t have a sustainable, structurally sound budget, MPS will have to make tough decisions, potentially impacting programming across the district,” it says. Ali, the School Board vice chair, stressed that the board is “100 percent behind” the referendum. “Every step of the process has been unanimous,” he said. The annual impact of the two questions would vary, depending on the type of property. It would be $224 on a residential homestead property worth $400,000, for example, though the district says many owners of homestead property would qualify for a tax refund. Visit mpls.k12.mn.us/referendum to learn more about the referendum, see how it would impact your property taxes and view sample ballot questions.
Neighborhood Spotlight. Fulton
Southwest Journal July 12–25, 2018
Fulton home multiplies the monarchs By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal
Mary Arneson (center) releases monarchs with the help of neighborhood kids Calvin and Austin Brix and Ian and Leo Kershner (l to r). Photo by Michelle Bruch
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hen the sidewalk chalk near 48th & Upton reported a monarch release was coming at 4:30 p.m., kids showed up right on time. They took turns sending off newly emerged butterflies from their fingertips. Fulton residents Dale Hammerschmidt and Mary Arneson organize this all the time. They released just over 100 monarchs last year. Butterfly cages outgrew their laundry room, and now their living room and windows are packed with cages filled with milkweed collected from the yard. SEE BUTTERFLIES / PAGE B5
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If you like the user interface of iTunes for your movies, for instance, you will see all of your movies there and can stick with that interface; same goes for the other eligible services. You can use the Movies Anywhere website or apps to log in and see all of your movie collection in one place there as well. The benefit of using the Movies Anywhere website or apps is that there are included bonus features, including bonus features for older films that I own and did not expect to have bonus footage. One issue that I have seen with the Amazon interface is that the movies are sorted by date added, and that can be a bit frustrating when searching for a film. Other services allow you to sort by various criteria. The service is easy to use and easy to link up your accounts with. Once you have linked your accounts, you can start viewing any of your movies If I recall correctly, there may have been a slight lag before all of the movies showed up. It should be noted that only one account can be linked per service. So you could not link together two different iTunes accounts or two different Amazon Prime Video accounts. This really is a true convenience to have my entire digital collection available under one streaming service. When I want to browse my movies I can see them all together rather than have to jump up and back between different services. Paul Burnstein is a Tech Handyman. As the founder of Gadget Guy MN, Paul helps personal and business clients optimize their use of technology. He can be found through gadgetguymn.com or via email at paul@gadgetguymn.com.
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Neighborhood Spotlight. Fulton
Hunt & Gather marks 15 years at 50th & Xerxes By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com
At 15 years and counting, Hunt & Gather is packed with antiques, oddities and vintage signs. But it took some time to develop the storefront’s “vintage amusement store” vibe. American Classics previously operated at 4944 Xerxes Ave. S. beginning in the ’70s. “It was a very traditional shop,” said owner Kristi Stratton, who started dealing antiques there 23 years ago. “It was so different.” When Stratton took over the storefront, she didn’t have a particular vision for the space. “It just evolved,” she said. That’s still the case today — they might receive a dozen chandeliers at once and rework the store to accommodate them. More than 15 dealers rent space, and everyone’s pieces combine to create the aesthetic in the front room. “We keep it edited, fresh and everchanging,” Stratton said. The storefront slowly started accumulating vintage signs about 20 years ago. Now companies routinely drop off old signs, vintage or not, and the shop buys from eight different sign companies. Some staff have uncanny encyclopedic knowledge of which letters are in stock at any given time. Some letters are easier to come by than others. “We get two Js a year,” Stratton said.
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Neighborhood Spotlight. Fulton FROM BUTTERFLIES / PAGE B1
While just 5 percent of monarch eggs hatch and survive in the wild, the survival rate indoors is 95 percent, Arneson said. They became worried about the monarch population in 2013. “It was really alarming when we went a summer without seeing more than one monarch,” Arneson said. “We were right on the edge of losing monarchs altogether, and they’re really wonderful during summer. We always took them for granted, and we’re really fond of them.” So the following summer, they ordered a few caterpillars from a monarch preservation group and released them. Now they keep a close eye on the milkweed in the yard, watching for monarchs to lay eggs. When they notice a monarch touching a leaf with her abdomen, they pull up the plant and place it inside a cage in the house.
It was really alarming when we went a summer without seeing more than one monarch. We were right on the edge of losing monarchs altogether, and they’re really wonderful during summer. We always took them for granted, and we’re really fond of them. — Mary Arneson, Fulton resident
Children help release monarchs on a recent Tuesday afternoon in Fulton. Photos by Michelle Bruch
Calvin Brix releases a monarch, joined by Ian Kershner, Eve Kershner, Sarah Goebel, Laurie Brix, Maia Brix, Dale Hammerschmidt, Leo Kershner, Austin Brix and Mary Arneson (l to r).
The caterpillars will eat up all the leaves on the plant, so they continue to stock it with fresh milkweed. Eventually the caterpillar will crawl up to the roof of the cage and turn into a pupa, where it will stay for nine to 14 days. When the cocoon turns dark, they know the butterfly will soon emerge. “It only takes a few minutes to come out and expand their wings,” Arneson said. New butterfly wings dry for about two
hours, and when they start flying around the cage, they’re ready to go. Hammerschmidt and Arneson created a stop-action video of the entire transformation, available by searching for “Wilbur the Monarch” on YouTube. When it’s time to release new monarchs, they typically post a note on the Fulton Nextdoor page and chalk a time on the sidewalk so kids can help.
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Neighborhood Spotlight. Fulton
Fulton, Linden Hills group rocks on 612live won State Fair talent contest last year
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Cole and Misha Pivec, Trey Gustafson, Eddie Rittler and Anja Breiehagen each began playing music early in elementary school. The quintet has since created their own rock band, called 612live, and has played in shows across the Minneapolis area. Cole, Misha, Trey, Eddie and Anja, all Fulton and Linden Hills residents, have won the battleof-the-bands competition at Southwest High School’s STRUT: Guitar Festival. The group also won the teen division of the Minnesota State Fair Amateur Talent Contest this past year. Each member of the group attends either the Lake Harriet Community School Upper Campus or Southwest High School. The band members say they hope to continue the group through at least the next two years, at which point Cole and Trey, now both 16, will graduate from Southwest. But they also note their passion for music, something all expect to continue long after the band. “Music is going to stick with all of us throughout life,” said Misha, 13, who plays bass. “We’re probably not going to become professional soccer players,” she added, but they can continue to play music through the rest of their lives. 612live has origins in the friendships of Cole, Trey and Eddie, who attend Southwest, and of Misha and Anja, who are entering eighth grade at Lake Harriet Upper. Anja, who is the group’s lead singer, said she and Misha would play Taylor Swift songs or pop songs during play dates in elementary school, with Cole joining in on guitar. The three eventually started playing together in their own band and competed together in the State Fair contest in 2016. Cole and Eddie, who plays drums, connected through their dads, Michael Pivec and Craig
Rittler, who are also musicians. Trey, who plays guitar and piano, said his involvement started after meeting Cole at Lake Harriet Upper, noting that he became inspired to pick up a guitar after seeing Cole play. The quintet performed together for the first time at the SW x SW alley festival three years ago. They’ve played dozens of gigs since, featuring songs such as Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child of Mine” and the Monkees’ “I’m A Believer.” The group members said they practice on average once a week, a frequency that fluctuates depending on their upcoming gig schedule. They practice in the Pivec’s basement, in which there are curtains up to partially block out sound. All said they were surprised by their win in the State Fair contest last year, for which they played B.B. King’s “The Thrill is Gone.” They’re planning to play an original song at this year’s State Fair contest, which they developed with help from singer, songwriter and producer Kevin Bowe, who’s written songs for two Grammy-winning albums. “It’s a very true story to us and the basement that we play in,” Cole said of the song. Anja said it’s exciting for the group to be playing its own material. Misha added that now that they’re growing up, she and the other group members want to “step up our game.” “I think there’s a lot of respect for writing a pretty good original song,” Cole added. Bowe, who lives in Tangletown, said he met the group because they won a recording session with him after winning the Southwest battleof-the-bands competition. He said he and the group have also created a jingle together, which they wrote for the company Splash. “They’re amazing for several different
612live members (from left to right) Misha Pivec, Eddie Rittler, Anja Breiehagen, Cole Pivec and Trey Gustafson play at STRUT: Guitar Festival in May at Southwest High School. The group won the teen division at last year’s State Fair talent contest. Photo by Per Breiehagen
reasons,” Bowe said, adding that “their musical hearts are in the right place.” He noted the band will do a “silly ’80s cover” and follow it up with ’60s and ’70s rhythm and blues or soul song. “That holds a special place in my heart,” said Bowe, who has worked with artists such as Etta James and Joe Cocker. “When I heart kids into that music, it just fills me with hope for the next generation.” Anja encouraged people to check out the group’s Instagram and Facebook pages (instagram.com/612live and facebook.com/612live, respectively). The group is available for bookings, Misha noted.
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The group will be playing at the St. Louis Park Festival on Aug. 1 and at Eccopalooza on Aug. 10, among other events. They’ll also be playing Norsk Høstfest, North America’s largest Scandinavian festival, in September in Minot, North Dakota. The group connected with the festival organizer through Anja, whose parents wrote and illustrated “The Wish Books” children’s book series. Anja is the central character in the series, the first book in which, called “The Christmas Wish,” made The New York Times Best Seller List. A schedule of the 612live’s performances can be found on its Facebook page.
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The savory side of rhubarb
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ave you heard the old saying, “Only pick rhubarb in months without an ‘R’ in them?” While many tend to be done with the crop in the spring, rhubarb is often in abundance throughout the summer. If you find yourself with excess in your garden or freezer, why not try a new recipe? Rhubarb is packed with potassium, fiber, calcium and vitamin C, which aid in bone, fluid and digestive health. Although rhubarb is typically seen in many desserts and pastries with sugar masking the sourness,
Often used in desserts, rhubarb adds zing to savory dishes, as well. Submitted photo
there are many recipes you can try that are, in fact, savory. Adding rhubarb to soups is one example. Try a simple and delicious carrot and rhubarb soup by roasting 2 ½ cups of carrots, 1 cup of rhubarb, a dash of olive oil, black pepper and cloves in the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 minutes, or until carrots are tender. Transfer to a large pot and add 1 teaspoon of turmeric and 1 liter of vegetable stock. Simmer for 15–20 minutes and then blend all ingredients until smooth. Another savory rhubarb recipe, this one for barbecue sauce, comes from one of Mill City Farmers Market’s chef-led cooking demonstrations, which take place at 10:30 a.m. every Saturday. The Mill City Farmers Market is Minneapolis’ trusted source for local and organic groceries, seasonal cooking inspiration, live music, free outdoor yoga and more. You can find more recipes and learn more at millcityfarmersmarket.org. — Taiya Brown
RHUBARB BARBECUE SAUCE By market chef Heather Hartman Ingredients 4 tsp. olive oil 1 cup onion, minced (1 large onion) 1 lb. rhubarb, diced small (about 4 1/2 cups) 2/3 c. brown sugar 2 tbsp. water 4 tsp. dijon mustard 2 tbsp. apple cider vinegar 2 tbsp. honey 1/2 c. ketchup 1 tsp. salt 1 tbsp. smoked paprika 1/2 tsp. cayenne powder 1/2 tsp. allspice powder 1/2 tsp. mustard powder
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Aldo Moroni: The A-Mill’s undisputed dean THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE CREATIVE ARTS IN MINNEAPOLIS ASTONISHES. Estimated at over $4.5 billion in sales, or eight times that of Minneapolis’ sports sector according to the 2015 Creative Vitality Index (CVI), an economic measure used by the city, it has earned our region a lofty place as a national creative mecca. ¶ Behind such stunning statistics toil humans whose creativity and innovation fuel this so-called creative class, dubbed by author Richard Florida. Frequently laboring for the sheer love of their craft, many visual and performing artists, directors, inventors and innovators produce from an inner creative core more likely fueled by passion than personal gain. These makers are marked by an almost holy drive to create – and when their artistry and intent collide, it often yields something extraordinary in its wake.
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Windy City to Mill City fable The Chicagoan arrived in the Twin Cities to attend the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in the early 1970s. His emergence on the formal art scene reads like a fable. Young Moroni was whisked from the halls of college to the halls of the renowned Walker Art Center in one fell swoop. None other than then-Walker director, the late, great Martin Freeman, who saw the subtext Moroni already was providing in his work, navigated that magic carpet ride. Known for recreating civilizations in smallscale sizes, he wanted his viewers to question how we live in cities, to engage in conversations about where and how our civilizations emerge, and to explore the consequences and rewards of urban existence. Moroni invited viewers to become Gulliver in the land of the Lilliputians. His work, termed early earth or action art, followed on the heels of Dadaism. Timing was in his favor. Over his 40-plus years, his handiworks have shifted from massive to miniature and back. Audiences could peer down on occasionally vast landscapes, like his infamous Babylon project, a performance art piece of creative destruction, or a few years back, behold his tame replica of “old” Dinkytown. Many of his miniatures evoke Hieronymus Bosch-like narratives, filled with catawampus buildings and impossible configurations just recognizable enough to engage viewers in studies of urban design gone slightly awry. Others, with more authentic scale and form, like his study of Georgetown where his daughter has been living as a student, simply evoke a whimsical sense of the urban realm. I was captivated by his limited-edition series of wall sconces of the newly renovated Minneapolis City Hall clock tower with its charming miniature light, which hangs as a conversation piece above my couch. However, it would be incorrect to mistake
A row of Moroni’s sculptures.
his interpretations as fairy tale. Moroni may take liberty with narrative, much like novelists he admires such as James Michener, Ken Follett and Dan Brown, but the underpinning of his work is solid scholarship mixed with his heartfelt desire to evoke critical questions about urban life. Moroni bristles with that Bauhaus analytical idealism that maintains: “Art asks, design offers solutions, and architects and engineers implement.” Such a cerebral stance combined with sharp sculptural prowess accounts for Moroni’s exulted status as a Minnesota arts trifecta honoree. He’s earned the McKnight, Jerome and Bush Fellowships, and, going for the grand slam, the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Midwest Award. This is no small feat.
Geography, geology and geopolitics His vision and scope is epitomized in his opus, “This River, This Place,” a 6,000-pound epic stoneware wall sculpture commissioned by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. The work is a topographical map of the bank’s service area, the entire Ninth Federal Reserve District. Exemplifying Moroni’s quest for historical detail and meaning, “This River, This Place” can be read on multiple levels, as a geographical map of the six district states and as cultural and historical microcosms. “Major geographical features such as Lake Superior, Isle Royale, the Rocky Mountains, Lake Oahe, the national forests of northwestern
Wisconsin and Upper Peninsula, the Mississippi and Missouri rivers can be easily identified by the naked eye from any vantage point in the Federal Reserve Bank’s lobby.” Yet, on closer observation viewed with binoculars, telescope or a zoom lens, Moroni’s various landmarks, such as Paul Bunyon’s statue in Bemidji, Minnesota; a herd of buffalo (including a Sacred White Buffalo) in North Dakota; motorcyclists gathered in Sturgis, South Dakota; the Capitol at Bismarck (the tallest building in North Dakota); the Wounded Knee Monument in South Dakota; an overflowing Red River in Grand Forks, North Dakota — and much more, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis — have been incorporated in his archetypal style. Originally commissioned in 1996, the 33.5-by-12.5-inch piece, composed of 270 brick-shaped tiles, made of Minnesota white stoneware, fired and glazed, and covering 396 square feet of reinforced wall space, took Moroni four months of research and six months to execute with a team of seven artists. Such collaboration is also a hallmark of Moroni’s ethic. Known as an activist, he embraces numerous lifelong relationships, mentors and guides others in their art and projects, and serves indefatigably in the service of social justice, environmentalism and inclusion. Moroni is a wildly beloved and respected local legend. Moroni creates from a place of passion so deep and true that he captivates those lucky enough to enter his sphere with his fascination for how, why and where civilizations rise and fall and what role arts plays in this thrust of history. A three-dimensional mythmaker, Moroni’s worlds bring thoughtful examination about urban progress and sustainability. Susan Schaefer is a freelance communications consultant, writer and photographer who can be reached at insights@lifeintrans.com.
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Get Out Guide. By Sheila Regan
ARTCAR + ARTBIKE PARADE Musical notes, flowers, cats, skulls, trolls and colors, patterns and designs galore decorate cars and bikes for the annual Artcar + Arbike parade. Starting at the Rose Gardens, the bedazzled vehicles and cycles travel around the lake. So make yourself a picnic, make sure you have a camera and enjoy the show.
When: 6 p.m.–7 p.m. Saturday, July 21 Where: Lake Harriet Cost: Free Info: artcarparade.com
TWIN CITIES WORLD REFUGEE DAY Celebrate the rich cultural heritage of the Twin Cities refugee community during this day of art, performances, food and education. Thousands of refugees have made Minnesota their home, bringing with them so much that makes the state a better place. At this event, you’ll experience song, dance and storytelling and hear from speakers raising awareness around current refugee issues.
When: Noon–6 p.m. Sunday, July 15 Where: Loring Park, 1382 Willow St. Cost: Free Info: tcworldrefugeeday.org
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Jeremy Messersmith headlines Barbette’s 16th-annual Bastille Day Block Party this year, with other performances by Static Panic, Black Widows and the Brass Messengers. There’ll also be plenty of burlesque, by the likes of Nadine DuBois, Foxy Tann and others, fire and circus acts like Infiammati FireCircus and Circus Juventas, an appearance by the North Star Roller Derby and opera singers from the Picnic Operetta. Come for the entertainment, stay for the delicious food and local brews. Event proceeds benefit Be the Match.
When: 3 p.m.–10 p.m. Sunday, July 15 Where: Lagoon & Irving Cost: Free Info: barbette.com/bastille-day
Join local Anishinaabe poet Heid E. Erdrich for the launch of a new anthology of Native poets she edited called “New Poets of Native Nations.” The book features 21 Native poets who have published work since the turn of this century. Birchbark Books and Native Arts and Graywolf Press are putting together the reading and reception, held at Bockley Gallery, where Erdrich will read work with Gwen Westerman and Meg Noodin. The event also includes a presentation by the Asiganaak Singers ladies hand drum group.
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AQUATENNIAL For 78 years, the City of Lakes has gotten together for a big, wet party at the annual Aquatennial Celebration. Run by the Minneapolis Downtown Council since the early 2000s, it’s a four-day celebration of fireworks, parades, entertainment, family fun and more. Here are a few highlights we are looking forward to.
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See the floats and meet your Minneapolis neighbors. Free canoe rides and kids activities at Loring Park before the parade starts.
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TWIN CITIES RIVER RATS See death-defying tricks on skis as the Twin Cities River Rats return to the festivities. These acrobats of the water are a must-see event at the festival.
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hat does community mean? Google gives two definitions: “A group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common” and “A feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.” The Fulton, Kingfield and Nokomis farmers markets encompass both: a group of people living in the same place, who regularly use their time and money to support a fellowship with others. Minneapolis has an amazing community of farmers markets. From small roadside stands to weekly markets, CSAs to neighborhood gardens, getting up close and personal with our food sources is something that Minneapolis does well. But what farmer’s markets really excel at is community. Communities may be small or large, and they may overlap at the edges, but everyone needs one. Some people find kindred spirits at church, on a sports team or at work. Community may look like just two faces across the table over coffee or a couch full of book club friends or twenty strangers on a picket line. Community is what keeps humans human. Community is how and why we relate to the wider world around us. Community is how we learn, where we live, what we eat and what we believe. Watching the Fulton Farmers Market
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come together and break down at the end of the day is like watching a busy anthill. Vendors on their first season swap stories with veteran farmers; tents rise in unison to cast some shade; vegetables and fruits are lovingly laid out on long tables. The smells
of paella and breakfast hash cut through the air, and cut flower bouquets add exclamation points of color alongside fresh herbs, canned and jarred foods, bundles of vegetables and warm pastries. When customers start to trickle in, the
community grows. Neighbors meet for coffee and swap stories about the week. Dedicated shoppers make a beeline for favorite stands and greet the farmers by name. The conversation is punctuated with recipe snippets — about how best to use the gooseberries on sale this week, about the way last week’s goat cheese ended up eaten in one sitting, about how the organic carrots were the first vegetable that little Timmy ate without complaining. The market is populated by families young and old, by couples and singles, by loyal veterans and first-time visitors. Every week is a little different, with new music and activities to try out. Every stall has fresh delights and old favorites to share. In an increasingly divided world, community is more important than ever before. There’s something magical about starting your day with food grown in local soil — and sold to you by a face, not a logo. Every time you make a local purchase, it’s like tying a tiny thread to your finger that connects you to someone else in the area. That thread is a small part of the web that you create every day, all of the connections you make. Every smile, every donut, every jar of jam — that is what creates community. So, what does your community look like? We all have something common when we turn up for market days.
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