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We check in on the Vikings’ new home and the rest of the evolving East Town neighborhood

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Fight for $15 heats up Petition drive seeks to amend city’s charter to raise the minimum wage

By Sarah McKenzie / smckenzie@southwestjournal.com

Backers of a $15 minimum wage in Minneapolis have turned their focus to City Hall.

Low wage-workers and community organizers have collected nearly 20,000 signatures for a petition to amend the city’s charter to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020 for employers with 500 or more employees and by 2022 for employers with fewer than 500 employees.

Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC), Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha (CTUL) and 15 Now Minnesota have been leading the fight to raise the wage.

Questions remain, however, about whether it’s legal for the city to raise the minimum wage.

City Attorney Susan Segal said she will be preparing a memo for the City Council on establishing a Minneapolis minimum wage, but said it would be “premature” for her to comment on the petition drive.

 Demonstrators gathered in City Hall recently to lobby for a $15 minimum wage in Minneapolis.

Photo by Sarah McKenzie

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Signs of solidarity Rally and march honors lives lost to violence

By Sarah McKenzie / smckenzie@southwestjournal.com

Hundreds of people gathered in Loring Park on July 9 to share sorrow about lives shattered by gun violence and personal stories about how racism impacts their lives.

Then they marched through the streets of downtown, led by a group performing traditional Aztec dances, and carried signs honoring Philando Castile, a 32-year-old black man killed by a St. Anthony police officer in Falcon Heights on July 6. Some signs were shaped like state license plates that read: “shame.”

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New police inspector for 5th Precinct takes the helm

By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Marchers take to the streets downtown on July 9. Photo by Sarah McKenzie

Kathy Waite, former 2nd Precinct inspector, takes over command of Southwest Minneapolis’ 5th Precinct this month, swapping places with Insp. Todd Loining.

Waite arrives with 23 years of experience.

“There are a lot of incidents that you’ll never forget,” she said.

She remembers talking to a mother and father on a domestic violence call when a

three-year-old walked in dragging a case of beer, hoping Waite could take it away.

“Even our youngest community members recognize what the problems are,” she said.

This is the first time Waite is specifically assigned to the 5th Precinct, but she’s policed here before. Working undercover, she posed as a prostitute on prostitution details.

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Inside City Hall’s clock tower. Photo courtesy of City of Minneapolis Archives

City Hall celebrates 125th cornerstone anniversary

By Sarah McKenzie / smckenzie@southwestjournal.com

City leaders and local history buffs celebrated the 125th anniversary of the installation of City Hall’s granite cornerstone — the symbolic start of construction on the civic building — on July 11.

The anniversary celebration featured a civic ceremony, music, root beer floats, a chance to browse building artifacts and remarks by local architecture historian Larry Millett, among other things.

City Hall’s cornerstone is 30 feet above street level because the building was already two stories high when city leaders and other state dignitaries took time to celebrate construction

of the building.

The City Hall and Courthouse building, featuring rusticated pink Ortonville granite, was built between 1887 and 1906, according to the Municipal Building Commission.

The City Council passed a resolution honoring the anniversary at its July 1 meeting, calling the cornerstone and the building it supports “a symbol for the Minnesota ideal of civic partnership and engagement for the next 125 years.”

The building features a five-story rotunda, a 365-foot tall clock tower with a clock face that is larger than Big Ben’s in London, and the 14,000-

pound Father of Waters statue, which was carved of marble from quarries in Italy used by Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, according to the Municipal Building Commission.

The statue in the center of City Hall’s rotunda was originally commissioned for the city of New Orleans, but the city couldn’t afford it and it was later presented to Minneapolis officials in 1904 by leading citizens and the Minneapolis Journal.

It’s said to be good luck to rub the Father of Waters’ big toe.

The building was designed by Long and Key Architects in the Richardsonian Roman-

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Cedar Imboden Phillips, executive director of the Hennepin History Museum, and Jack Kabrud, the museum’s curator, have gathered items from the museum’s collection for displays at City Hall to mark the anniversary.

A newspaper from the late 1880s features a cover story on the new courthouse building.

The headline reads: “A magnificent granite pile.”

The museum also has old City Hall ledger books and postcards.

Kabrud said he’s always been “in awe” of the building and has been visiting it since he was a child. He’s captivated with the building materials, ornate windows and elevators.

Phillips said she admires how accessible the building is to the public. “You can just wander in,” she noted.

She said there was great fanfare when the city celebrated the laying of the cornerstone July 16, 1891. There was a large parade and festivities attended by the governor, state Supreme Court justices, city and county officials. St. Paul leaders even attended despite a fierce rivalry between the two cities.

The City of Minneapolis and Hennepin County each owned and occupied half the building when it first opened. At various times in its history, City Hall has also been home to a blacksmith shop, horse stable and chicken hatchery.

The building was the tallest in Minneapolis until the Foshay Tower surpassed it in the 1920s.

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Game Sports Bar Minnesota’s first gay sports bar is taking over the Salsa A La Salsa building at 2841 Hennepin Ave. S. Managing Partner Mike LaGuire said garage doors will bring in the southern sunlight, and he plans to take full advantage of the four-season patio.

“You don’t have to feel like you’re going in to a place and hiding,” he said. “After Orlando, I think that a lot of us have become really scared and want to hide. I feel the exact opposite.”

LaGuire previously worked Downtown as the general manager of Union, where he organized rooftop LGBTQ events. LaGuire is gay, and said he’s long talked with friends about the need for a gay sports bar that allows people to follow the teams they grew up with in an inclusive environment.

“We want to be able to participate like everyone else does, in a place where you feel safe and feel welcomed,” he said.

He’s aiming to create the “best sports bar in Uptown,” with many televisions and perhaps a pool table, dartboard and yard games.

The menu calls for “standard bar food with a twist,” with an emphasis on ingredi-

ents and high quality.

LaGuire expects to host events surrounding the World Cup and Olympics, and play pro and college games. He’s a member of the Twin Cities Goodtime Softball League (one of the biggest in the country with 40-plus teams this year), and he expects the bar to become involved with that league and others in town.

“We’ll definitely be a hometown bar,” he said. “…It’s the first gay bar in Uptown, and the first gay sports bar in the state.”

Staff from the new Uptown Restaurant Group, including Steve Hark of the Fine Line Music Café, approached LaGuire about partnering to open the bar. The group acquired the building from Kaskaid Hospitality, and the grand opening celebration is slated for Aug. 19-21.

Kaskaid staff did not respond for comment.

Prior to opening, Game will operate a beer garden during the Uptown Art Fair Aug. 5-7, offering a preview of its food and daily performances including Dred I Dread, Mayda and The Casey Band.

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La La Homemade Ice Cream opens in August in the former Shoe Zoo space at 3146 Hennepin Ave. Photo by Michelle Bruch

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La La Homemade Ice Cream La La Homemade Ice Cream is slated to open in August on Hennepin Avenue, where staff in white aprons will scoop from buckets of super-premium, naturallyflavored ice cream. La La is opening at 3146 Hennepin Ave. in the former Shoe Zoo space.

“It will have the overall feel of nostalgia for ice cream parlors and soda fountains,” said owner Jennifer Lisburg.

Vintage leaded glass will lend a turn-of-thecentury vibe to the shop, which will feature a soda fountain serving root beer floats and sodas done with a variety of house-made syrups.

Stools will provide window seating at white marble counters.

Lisburg is relocating her business to Minneapolis from Fertile, Minn., where she ran a café since 2008.

“I’ve been in restaurants my whole life,” she said.

Her first job involved scooping cones at a farmers market in New Jersey, and she’s since worked at restaurants including The Loring Bar and Cafe.

Lisburg opened the original La La at 48th & Chicago in 1993. She moved north to Fertile in 2001 and served her ice cream at farmers markets and fairs, working in the winter

months as a substitute teacher, grocery store worker, and emergency medical technician. She devoted all of her time to the café in Fertile for eight years before deciding to close down and open a new shop in Minneapolis, where she expects customers will appreciate the natural ingredients as much as she does.

She’s planning flavors like raspberry ice cream folded with honey-tossed raspberries, a sweet basil vanilla, a full-flavored strawberry, and a rhubarb ice cream. She’s also planning sorbets and flavors made with milk alternatives like almond or coconut milk.

“Every flavor has its own personality,” she said. “It has a denser, creamier consistency.”

She’s also planning cakes, brownies and weekend caramel rolls.

“We have a caramel roll sundae that will be pretty intense,” she said.

Hot and iced coffees and teas will be available for patrons who want to hang out with a laptop.

“Like all the wonderful craft breweries in town, everybody has something to offer,” she said. “This will be definitely different.”

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After 34 years, Denise and Argyrios Arambadjis are ready to retire. Nicholas Karos is taking over the restaurant under the same business plan, according to a city report.

Denise said Argyrios drew up plans in pencil and brought them Downtown for city approval, and they opened with more than $20,000 in seed money from friends.

“We did almost everything ourselves,” she said.

Denise said the location at Lake & Lyndale was seen as risky in 1982. Call girl services operated on upper floors across the street, she said, and “porn king” Ferris Alexander ran bookstores and video stores along Lake Street.

But this didn’t faze the couple.

“We’re from Chicago. We felt okay,” she said.

Argyrios grew up in Thessaloniki in Greece, and moved to the U.S. as a student in 1969. Denise and Argyrios met while working at a DeKalb, Ill. Restaurant — also called It’s Greek To Me. (They reused the name with permission.)

They opened their own restaurant with Argyrios’ brother Alkis, and Alkis’ former wife.

The couple started with 10 tables and lived upstairs in a corner apartment. Within two years, they were able to take over a neighboring bar to double in size. They bought the building

in 1986, undertook a huge remodel 20 years ago, and installed the popular patio 12 years ago.

They found a niche as a destination spot for authentic Greek food — “not just your typical gyro,” Denise said. Argyrios became known for innovative Northern Greek regional dishes, and she said people visit for the lamb, the healthier Mediterranean diet, and the Saganaki: Kasseri cheese served flaming at the table.

Many of the staff members, particularly the kitchen crew, have worked at the restaurant more than 20 years. They’ve hired the children of former staffers, and others who visited the restaurant in utero. Prince came the first year it opened, ordering a gyro omelet with ketchup.

The owners recently attended the funeral of a longtime employee that was packed with 200 people, many of them customers.

Denise said she’d like to think the restaurant helped anchor the neighborhood’s transition from empty storefronts to the busy present-day district.

“When we first opened we couldn’t get a French loaf of bread,” Denise said. “We couldn’t get a whole fish. The food scene has changed so much, it’s amazing. And it’s all for the good.”

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Three Rooms is closing in July at 4388 France Ave. S. “I have very mixed emotions about it,” said owner Patty Burrets. “I’m not quite ready for this, but it’s happening. … For 46 years I’ve been doing this.”

With the departure of her neighbor Brightwater Clothing, which was replaced by office space for Evereve, she said it’s proven challenging to be the only retailer in the building.

She opened Three Rooms with seven

other women in 1971.

“In that day and age women stayed home and dressed the kids and fed the kids,” she said. “And we were out there out on our own.”

Merchandise is discounted, and the closing date is tentatively July 16, with a party following the close of business.

Burrets said it’s going so well, she jokes they should have staged a continual going-out-ofbusiness sale.

“It’s a good way to go out,” she said.

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“I put it in a place where they don’t expect it,” she said.

Ruby also maintains a garden humming with bees that’s filled with edible plants, and she consults on urban gardening through her business New Lawn Order.

The current show runs through July 18, featuring work by Ruby, Aaron Becker, Lisha Kirpalani, Brighton McCormick and Jim Hittinger.

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Allison Ruby’s garage has become a popup art gallery.

The garage has long served as Ruby’s studio, where in warmer months she paints, or builds furniture out of fallen sticks, or stores gardening tools for her edible gardening business.

Now she’s showing work by several artists in weekend shows. At the first show in July, she’s showcasing a bike by Karen Haselmann that pedals to make ice cream, projecting film on a neighbor’s garage, and hanging pieces on the garage walls.

Ruby said she likes to bring art into situations that aren’t pretentious.

“That’s kind of the idea, to just bring it into the neighborhood,” she said.

Public art is a specialty for Ruby. She prefers artwork that shows the artistic imperfection of working by hand, and she likes art that has a little bit of humor. She created a human-sized

Tim Yard Aylward, a former staffer at Coffee & Tea Ltd., opened a new coffeehouse in June called BlueNose in Farmington. A few Linden Hills regulars have already tracked him down and visited the shop off of Highway 3.

“I was ready to do my own thing,” said Aylward, an East Calhoun resident and father of a sixmonth-old daughter. He’s using a roaster in the front window left by the former Dunn Bros. He’s learning how to make croissants. And he’s relying on knowledge he gleaned from the 160 coffees available at Coffee & Tea. “Tasting a couple of those every day is what gave me my basis for here,” he said.

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Brown & Greene at 4400 Beard Ave. S. is celebrating its 15th anniversary this month.

“This is not your carnation, baby’s breath or mums shop,” said owner Lyn Williams. “Anything traditional usually doesn’t come through the front door.”

She cuts flowers from the boulevard garden and uses local growers in the summer months. She said she can hardly keep the potted flowers in stock, and she’s become known for the diverse card selection — customers often ask to see the edgier cards stocked behind the front desk.

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Nancy Brown of Play it Safe Minneapolis, a group working to ban recycled waste tires as ground cover in children’s playgrounds in the city, gave a presentation the City Council on July 11 about the dangers of exposure to the toxic materials in the waste tires.

She said campaigns have sprung up across the state and country to push for bans of the waste tires in outdoor play areas for children.

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City leaders contemplating building new office building City officials are considering demolishing a city-owned parking facility near City Hall for a new building to house city employees currently scattered around downtown in a half dozen buildings.

The goal is to provide more modern office spaces for city employees and facilities that better serve the public. The city’s downtown campus also includes many aging buildings in need of significant repair, said Greg Goeke, the city’s director of property services.

The City Council’s Ways & Means Committee approved issuing a request of proposals for consultants to help city leaders evaluate their real estate options.

If city leaders opt to move ahead with constructing a new building at the site now home to a city-owned parking facility at 415 5th St. S., it would not be built until after the city hosts the Super Bowl in 2018, Goeke said.

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Consolidating city employees into a new building will also free up city-owned parcels for new development.

Mark Ruff, the city’s chief financial officer, said the goal is to return to the City Council by the end of 2016 to review findings from consultants about cost estimates for a new building and possible revenue sources.

“I want to emphasize that it’s not going to be our recommendation that we have a big increase in the levy in 2017 to pay for this building,” he said. “We have lots of options to consider.”

One possibility he noted is that the city has bond issues that will soon be paid off, freeing up revenue currently used to pay off debt service on other structures.

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The superheroes of Kingfield

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hree hours before Philando Castile was shot to death by a trigger-happy and trained-to-shoot-young-black-men-andask-questions-later St. Anthony police officer, Lesa Hudak sat for an interview with the Southwest Journal and three other members of the Kingfield Citizen Patrol of South Minneapolis.

“My son thinks we’re superheroes,” said Hudak, huddled with her fellow KCPers Sabra Waldfogel, Sharon Hagford and Marge Stoic at Studio 2, the radical wine, coffee, food and music bistro in East Harriet. “When I leave the house he says, ‘Mommy’s going to save the neighborhood. Mommy’s going to fight crime.’”

True enough. Every Wednesday morning for an hour or two, the women and a few of their partners in crime-fighting meet to walk and survey the neighborhood they love and call home.

“It’s something I feel passionately about,” said Hudak, a board member of the Kingfield Neighborhood Association. “It’s about getting out and getting to know our neighbors and just ideally creating that presence that would put a damper on crime in the area.”

“We look to see if there’s things in the neighborhood that could cause people to commit crimes, like garage doors left open,” said Hagford.

“We look for graffiti, and Lesa takes pictures of it and sends it downtown and they take care of that.”

“We use the 311 app to report broken windows and things like that that are concerning,” said Hudak.

“It’s good exercise. We’re all in the same book club at Kings (Wine Bar). People take notice of us with our bright green vests, and now we started picking up garbage, too,” said Stoic. “We wear gloves and carry bags and pick up garbage as we walk.”

The Kingfield Citizen Patrol is one of several citizen patrols around the city, members of which volunteer their time to patrol their neighborhoods. They don’t carry any weapons, which would be a problem against a terrorist strike, but their peaceful presence alone is disarming and inspiring, so much so that the cop shop itself works with and encourages patrols, testifying: “The Minneapolis Police Department believes that citizen patrols can be an appropriate extension of a block club. Having pairs of residents walking around the block at various times makes their watch force more visible. This is a more effective deterrent to crime. Patrollers create a positive, watchful presence.”

This was supposed to be a column on a group of women who love their neighborhood so much that once a week they walk together for a few hours and make the neighborhood safe and feel like they’re spreading light in a dark world. But in the wake of everything that’s happened in the last week, what’s happened and what keeps happening, it says here that the Kingfield Citizen Patrol represents something elemental about the human condition, neighborhoods, civilizations,

Kingfield Citizen Patrol, left to right: Sabra Waldfogel, Lesa Hudak, Sharon Hagford and Marge Stoic.

Photo by Jim Walsh

how to get along, and the basics of public safety.

“We’re looking for things that might be wrong with the neighborhood, but we’re also seeing what’s right, with these beautiful gardens and houses,” said Waldfogel. “That’s a nice way to be connected to a place.”

On CNN July 8, Philando Castile’s uncle, Clarence Castile, wondered aloud about the state of policing and how the idea of a beat cop who knows everybody in the neighborhood is a longgone fantasy, a fossil from another time. Maybe so, but the archetype still exists in the idea of citizen patrols.

“We’ve been doing this for almost two years and now we have people waving to us as we walk down Lyndale and Nicollet,” said Hudak.

Which is not exactly the relationship the cops currently have with the citizenry. But it should be, according to President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing (tinyurl.com/ p4augo4), which calls for the community itself to be a partner in public safety: “Community policing requires the active building of positive relationships with members of the community.

Community policing cannot be a program, unit, strategy or tactic. It must be the core principle that lies at the foundation of a police department’s culture. The only way to significantly reduce fear, crime, and disorder and then sustain these gains is to leverage the greatest force multiplier: the people of the community.”

Like President Obama, every other word out of the Kingfield Citizen Patrollers’ mouths is “community.” Not a bad starting point for police reform and the reimagination of public safety we the people find ourselves thrust into, especially at a time when the going norm is one of armored tank-driving cops who remain apart from the citizenry and the communities they serve.

“When I see the crime statistics when I go to my board meeting, I’m always happy to see that there’s no crime happening between 8:30 and 9:30 on Wednesday mornings,” cracked Hudak.

“But I put out a notice on the Next Door app every Tuesday night, just to say that we’ll be walking in the morning and to join us if you can.”

“I work at home alone and it’s really, really good to connect with people in the neighborhood and to get out,” said Waldfogel.

At the very least, the Kingfield superheroes have something important to add to the discussion — even though they’ve never actually had to apprehend a bad guy.

“We’ve never caught anyone in the act of anything,” said Hudak. “But if we do … we’re an intimidating bunch of ladies.”

“They see these green vests and they run,” said Stoic.

Jim Walsh lives and grew up in East Harriet. He can be reached at jimwalsh086@gmail.com

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Viewpoints

By Rachel Durkee

Why we need legislators of color Earlier this year, I shared a story with my first grade ESL students about meeting President Barack Obama when he was running for office in 2008. My students had a host of questions and comments for me, but I’ll never forget when one of my students of color stood up and proudly exclaimed, “The president looks like me!” Unfortunately, that student would be able to relate to very few leaders in Minnesota’s schools and government in the same way.

As a child growing up, I always had teachers who looked like me, curriculum that I could see myself in, and politicians that reflected my own background. I didn’t have to question if I belonged or if I could do something, as everything around me validated my experience and assured me I could. As a white English-as-a-SecondLanguage (ESL) teacher in Minneapolis working primarily with Somali students, I see every day the importance of role models that my students can see themselves in and who will help them know what is possible.

I know I do not provide this for my students, and consequently need to be sure I provide examples in which my students can see themselves and their experiences represented. While a classroom is an essential place to start, we must also look to larger, more systemic changes in representation to make a wider, more lasting impact.

We cannot expect to challenge the status quo of education in Minnesota without bringing new voices to the table.

— Rachel Durkee

In Minnesota’s District 60B, the candidacy of Ilhan Omar is encouraging young students of color to achieve their dreams, challenge positions of power, and be catalysts for change. My students need leaders like Ilhan in the State House. Not only is she an incredible role model, but she will work tirelessly to see that all students across the state have a more equitable access to resources and an education system that meets their needs.

Like many of my students, Ilhan understands what it is like to attend school taught in a language different from what your family speaks at home. Students learning English have to navigate not only the social

ways in which we use the English language, but also classroom instruction, complex academic language demands, and face standardized testing in English. When we live in a state with some of the worst educational disparities in the nation, English language learning becomes an equity issue.

ESL services, in addition to wrap-around services such as school counselors and psychologists, after school programs, and universal pre-K shouldn’t be an auxiliary feature. Students, especially those who are new to this country, need to receive explicit support in order to succeed.

Ilhan’s steadfast commitment to wraparound services in schools demonstrates that she won’t let any students get left behind. She will be a champion for all students, and bring her lived experience of being a new American to the capitol. Educational disparities have existed for far too long — we need someone who will be able to bring a new perspective and approach to legislation. By fighting for the rights of diverse students, families, cultures, and values, Ilhan will support the advancement of the entire state.

We cannot expect to challenge the status quo of education in Minnesota without bringing new voices to the table. The opportunity for students to see a politician who looks like them, advocating on their behalf,

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will be equally as powerful. Ilhan’s leadership will not only improve our schools, but will help make school more meaningful to the many students of color who dream of being leaders themselves.

Rachel Durkee is an ESL teacher in Minneapolis and lives in the Whittier neighborhood.

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Viewpoints

By Linda Higgins

We have a trash problem, and HERC is part of the solution

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ore than 1 million tons of waste is generated by residents and businesses in Hennepin County every year. Add up all this waste and it’s enough to fill Target Field 11 times. Despite our progress in reducing waste and increasing recycling, we still have a problem with waste.

We have two options for managing the trash that remains after recycling and composting: bury it or burn it. Hennepin County burns garbage to generate energy at the Hennepin Energy Recovery Facility (HERC) in downtown Minneapolis. HERC is just one part of the county’s comprehensive waste management system to prevent waste or reduce, recycle and compost it.

Only 46 percent of waste recycled or composted in 2015 About 46 percent of the waste generated in the county was recycled or composted in 2015. The recycling rate has slowly and steadily increased in recent years, but we have a long way to go to reach our goal of recycling 75 percent of waste by 2030.

Hennepin County is committed to making recycling as convenient as possible and expanding opportunities to compost.

We offer grants, educational materials and professional staff assistance to improve recycling at businesses, schools, apartment buildings and public spaces. We support residential recycling and composting programs by providing funding and education materials to cities. And we provide residents opportunities to prevent and properly dispose of waste through programs like our Fix-It Clinics, drop-off facilities and battery collection programs.

75 percent of waste at HERC is from Minneapolis Burning the remaining garbage to generate energy at facilities like HERC is better for the environment than landfills for several reasons.

HERC generates fewer greenhouse gas emissions than landfills. Waste in landfills continues to decompose, producing methane — a potent greenhouse gas — and organic compounds. This makes landfills a problem for decades. Additionally, waste delivered to HERC is being managed close to where it is produced, minimizing truck traffic and the associated truck emissions.

Seventy-five percent of waste delivered to HERC comes from residents and businesses located in Minneapolis.

HERC has a better system to control and capture air pollutants than landfills. This includes equipment to control nitrogen oxides that contribute to smog, acid gases like sulfur dioxide and hydrochloric acid, particulate matter, and mercury and other heavy metals.

Unlike landfills, where the barrier to protect groundwater is buried and it can take years to detect and find a leak, HERC’s air pollution control equipment is monitored 24/7 to ensure it is operating effectively.

HERC: Less than 1 percent of all air emissions in Hennepin HERC operates under federal and state air pollution regulations. HERC’s air emissions are on average 80 percent below permitted levels from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, and emissions from HERC account for less than 1 percent of all air emissions in the county.

In contrast, about 90 percent of the air pollution in Hennepin County comes from cars, trucks, heavy equipment, lawn equipment, and other sources like backyard fire pits, dry cleaners and restaurant exhaust systems.

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Landfills are forever There are more than 200 landfill sites in the state. We’re going to spend taxpayer money — forever — managing these sites. For example,

the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency spent $7.8 million in 2015 to minimize environmental contamination to our water and air from the three closed landfills in Hennepin County — located in Eden Prairie, Hopkins and Medina — even though they have been closed for more than 20 years.

All of these reasons are why state law says that landfills should only be used as a last resort when no other recycling, composting or waste-to-energy options are feasible.

Hennepin County will continue to use a variety of strategies to minimize the amount of waste going to landfills, and increase recycling to meet our goals and address our waste problem.

Linda Higgins is a Hennepin County commissioner.

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Responses poke holes in SWLRT environmental report

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

Two state legislators from Minneapolis say they have “serious concerns” with the way a key environmental report on the Southwest Light Rail Transit project addresses — or fails to address — the risks of running light rail alongside freight trains.

In their June 13 letter to the Metropolitan Council, Rep. Frank Hornstein (61A) and Sen. Scott Dibble (61) wrote the final environmental impact statement for the $1.79-billion transit project “reads like an advocacy document for the freight rail industry.” The two were exploring options to have the state’s Environmental Quality Board review the report, an extra step not included in Met Council’s plans, Hornstein said.

The legislators’ letter was one of 50 responses submitted during a 30-day public comment period on the report.

Project spokesperson Laura Baenen said the Met Council would respond to the comments in the Federal Transit Agency’s Record of Decision on the project. Once the decision is published and the Met Council completes its own Determination of Adequacy document, the agency can apply for the federal funds that are expected to cover half of project costs and begin advertising for construction contracts.

Hornstein and Dibble’s comments focus on the Kenilworth Corridor, as do the responses of several other Minneapolis groups.

Kenilworth Corridor is possibly the most controversial segment of SWLRT, which will

extend the Metro Transit Green Line 14-anda-half miles from Minneapolis to Eden Prairie.

In the narrow corridor lined by parkland and homes, light rail trains will run alongside and underneath freight trains that sometimes transport ethanol.

Seeking accountability Hornstein said the 17,000-page report, released May 13 by the Federal Transit Administration, “papers-over” safety concerns, instead emphasizing the importance of the freight rail industry to the state’s economy. The document does not adequately address the “likely” outcome that the freight trains in the Kenilworth Corridor will increase in length and frequency and is vague in its discussion of emergency response plans, he and Dibble contend.

“This is a complete lack of interest in holding TC&W and some of the other railroads accountable for basic safety and transparency questions, which are really vital,” Hornstein said, referring to Twin Cities & Western, the shortline railroad that operates in the Kenilworth Corridor.

The railroad’s president, Mark Wegner, said it was “not in (TC&W’s) hands” whether ethanol shipments through the Kenilworth Corridor increase in frequency or not.

“It’s in the hands of the farmer-producers out in rural Minnesota,” Wegner said. “If they

decide to put up another ethanol plant, well, they have every right to do that.

Wegner said the company would not make its emergency response plan public because “if it falls into the wrong hands it could cause harm.”

Hornstein, who has long advocated for greater disclosure of such plans, said recent court decisions in Maryland and California have challenged claims by railroads that risk of publicity is greater than the public’s right to know.

Wegner said railroad officials met with Hennepin County Emergency Management this spring and made plans to coordinate the response to a derailment, spill or other railroad emergency through that department. TC&W was trying to schedule a meeting that would include emergency response officials from both the county and all of the cities along the co-located tracks “hopefully by the end of July or August,” he added.

Others respond There’s been a freight rail presence in the Kenilworth Corridor since the 1870s, but many current residents of Kenwood and other border neighborhoods didn’t expect to still be living side-by-side with freight trains.

TC&W trains have been using the Hennepin County-owned corridor only since the 1990s.

The tracks were rehabbed for “temporary” use by the company after its route down the 29th

Street Midtown Corridor, now home to the Midtown Greenway, was severed by a redesign of Highway 55, according to a county report.

When the SWLRT alignment was finalized over 20 years later, the efforts of Minneapolis city officials and residents to finally reroute freight trains through St. Louis Park failed.

A letter from the Kenwood Isles Area Association described the decision to co-locate freight and light rail a “significant breach of public trust and the low point of a deeply flawed planning process.” The neighborhood group’s response to the final environmental impact statement reiterates its longstanding concerns about safety, noise, vibrations, environmental impacts and damage to the historical integrity of Minneapolis’ Grand Rounds.

Minneapolis and Hennepin County struck a compromise that will run light rail trains in a tunnel through a portion of the Kenilworth Corridor, preserving not just freight rail tracks but a popular bicycle and pedestrian path.

That tunnel will be dug within a few feet of the Calhoun-Isles Condominium high-rise and an adjacent parking ramp used by residents.

The condominium association hired Itasca Consulting Group, a Minneapolis-based engineering consultant, to review the final environmental impact statement and conduct its own assessment. Among other findings, the Itasca report maintains vibration estimates from passing trains are “far too low” because they are based on faulty measurements and “unlikely ‘best case’ conditions.” The report states vibrations during and after construction could damage condominium structures; that noise impacts are underestimated; and that Met Council didn’t perform an adequate preconstruction investigation of the site.

“We believe that the Metropolitan Council should reimburse us for the cost of obtaining Itasca’s expert advice on the inadequacy of the final EIS,” a letter from the association’s attorney, Christopher Hayhoe, reads.

The amount of reimbursement the condo association is seeking is $10,000.

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A12 July 14–July 27, 2016 / southwestjournal.com FROM MINIMUM WAGE / PAGE A1

She said Minnesota courts have ruled that City Councils can vote to not put proposed charter amendments on the ballot if it’s not a “proper subject” for a charter revision (i.e. one that conflicts with state or federal law).

The City Council voted to proceed with a minimum wage study last fall, but it is not yet completed. The study’s scope includes evaluating the impact of increasing the minimum wage in Minneapolis and regionally in Hennepin and Ramsey counties — both a $12 minimum wage phased in over five years and a $15 minimum wage phased in over five years.

Rose Lindsay, a spokeswoman for the city’s Community, Planning and Economic Development department, said the city will receive the study in August and plans to present results to the City Council in September.

The petition will be referred to the Charter Commission and then the City Clerk’s office will review the signatures to verify that they are all valid registered voters in Minneapolis.

Barry Clegg, a principal at Gray Plant Mooty and chair of the city’s Charter Commission, said the commission will forward the petition on to the Council, which will then determine if it’s appropriate for the ballot.

“My own position, and I’m not speaking for the Commission, is that I support this idea and think the Council should enact this or something like it,” he said. “But I don’t think it’s a valid charter amendment. I think it’s an initiative disguised as a charter amendment. Initiative and referendum is legal in Minnesota for charter cities, but only if your charter provides for it and ours does not. If the petitioners want to take this to the voters, I think they need to amend the charter to permit initiative and referendum first and then move this proposal forward as an initiative.”

‘A long time coming’ Community organizers involved in the campaign also led the way on the recent successful push for paid sick time in Minneapolis.

Becky Dernbach, communications director for NOC, said they estimate that the wage increase will impact 113,500 workers.

“This includes 92,600 workers currently earning less than $15 an hour and 20,900 additional workers who will earn up to $16.86 per hour due to ripple effects,” she said.

Stephanie Gasca, an organizer with CTUL, was one of the organizers of a recent march

Supporters of a minimum wage increase in Minneapolis held a rally recently in City Hall’s rotunda. Photo by Sarah McKenzie

and rally at City Hall. “I think it’s a long time coming,” she said of the campaign for a $15 minimum wage in the city. “It’s a constant struggle to play catch up.”

Minnesota’s minimum wage increases Aug. 1. Large employers must pay workers at least $9.50 an hour and small employers must pay at least $7.75 an hour. A training wage of $7.75 an hour may be paid to employees who are younger than 20 during their 90-day training period, and a employees under 18 can be paid $7.75 an hour.

Supporters of increasing the minimum wage point to a Feldman Group poll last November indicating that 82 percent of likely Minneapolis voters supported a $15 minimum wage.

Business leaders, however, have reservations.

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the city’s charter “be misused as a vehicle for initiative and referendum style governance which is not permitted in Minnesota.”

“As to the policy issue of minimum wage, Minneapolis business owners should not be subjected to yet another unique mandate only in our city, especially since a recent statewide approved increase is still being implemented,” he said. “While the economy is doing well at present, it will be diminished by an onslaught of policies that make Minneapolis a more costly and complicated place to do business.”

Charlie Weaver, executive director of the Minnesota Business Partnership, a downtown-based organization representing the CEOs of the state’s largest companies, said the organization is also strongly opposed to the proposed charter amendment. He said he expects the City Attorney’s office will determine it’s not legal to amend the charter to

While the economy is doing well at present, it will be diminished by an onslaught of policies that make Minneapolis a more costly and complicated place to do business.

— Minneapolis Downtown Council CEO Steve Cramer

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Supporters of a $15 minimum wage gather on steps outside of City Hall. File photo

establish a higher minimum wage.

Dan McElroy, president and CEO of Hospitality Minnesota, agreed that it shouldn’t be addressed through the charter.

“The hospitality industry broadly has a real concern about Minneapolis having a cityonly wage that is high as $15 in the Midwest when all the states around us are $7.25,” he said. “In putting this on a referendum, it will be extremely challenging in a busy election year to explain all the facts behind the issue. We also don’t think this is a charter issue. There’s ample precedent to say that charter issues should deal with how the city is governed, not with legislative matters that can’t make it through the City Council, the Legislature or the Congress.”

Aaron Sojourner, a labor economist at the University of Minnesota, said 20 years of research on the impact of states raising the minimum wage has shown that negative impacts on businesses have been minimal.

Those studies, however, have focused on smaller increases in the minimum wage than the wage increase proposed in Minneapolis.

More than 30 cities across the country have adopted local minimum wages, according to the National Employment Law Project.

Council divided on issue Minneapolis City Council members have a variety of views on the minimum wage issue.

Council Member Lisa Bender (Ward 10) said she wants to review the city’s upcoming minimum wage study before deciding on a course of action.

“I was an early supporter of a higher city minimum wage in order to address the huge racial and economic disparities in our city. I remain supportive of higher wages, but I do want to see the results of our minimum wage study and to hear from the many businesses in my ward and across the city before taking any specific action,” she said. “If there is a question on the ballot this fall, I would expect many Ward 10 constituents to be supportive of a $15 minimum wage.”

Council Member Alondra Cano (Ward 9) said she supports putting the measure on the ballot this fall.

“Minneapolis’ moral compass is unflinchingly pointing towards raising the wage to help residents keep up with basic bills and their monthly rent. What’s good for the working families in our city makes our businesses and local economy strong,” she said.

“I look forward to voting yes on approving the $15 per hour minimum wage language to place it on the November ballot and allowing the people of Minneapolis to lead the way on this important economic justice effort.”

Cano said she plans to reach out to busi-

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Minneapolis’ moral compass is unflinchingly pointing towards raising the wage to help residents keep up with basic bills and their monthly rent. What’s good for the working families in our city makes our businesses and local economy strong.

— Council Member Alondra Cano (Ward 9)

nesses in her ward to gather feedback on the proposal.

Council Member Cam Gordon (Ward 2) said he’s also supportive of the campaign and favors an approach that would help low wage workers quickly on a schedule that would have the least “negative impacts on business operators, employment and the overall economy.”

“I favor a phased in approach, although both the state and the ballot proposal seem slower than I would prefer,” he said. “The city ballot one is a little faster. However, I believe they both have been arrived at in a thoughtful and are sensitive to the needs of businesses.”

Council Member Blong Yang (Ward 5) said he’s opposed to the proposed charter amendment, arguing it would have negative impacts on people in his ward.

Council Member Lisa Goodman (Ward 7) declined to comment until the Council has had an opportunity to review more information on the issue.

In a blog post on the topic, Council Member Andrew Johnson (Ward 12) said he’s also eager to read the City Attorney’s pending legal memo on the issue.

“Whatever opinions a person may have over this particular solution, I hope we can all agree that when someone works hard for 40 hours a week, they should not be struggling to survive,” he wrote. “How we help reduce the number of those who do struggle is debatable, and policymakers should carefully consider implications, seek and analyze contextual data, and remain as objective as possible in order to advance the level of prosperity within their respective jurisdictions.”

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The march included two short “die ins” where protesters laid down in the street near 9th & Hennepin and the Basilica of Saint Mary.

One of the event organizers, Jason Sole, a criminal justice professor and member of the Minneapolis NAACP, said he’s frustrated and hurt that it’s taken so long for people to awaken to the problem of police brutality and racial profiling. Those who attended the march and rally were asked to wear red to represent the blood that has been shed for all the lives lost to police violence and gun violence.

He said action and policy changes need to follow the conversations and demonstrations.

“I can walk into spaces and read people’s lips: ‘oh, it’s a black guy.’ I feel that, and they don’t know me or my heart or what I do or anything about where I’m going in my life. I shouldn’t have to live like this,” he said.

Nekima Levy-Pounds, president of the Minneapolis NAACP and a civil rights attorney, also addressed the crowd.

“We wanted this day of atonement, solidarity, march and rally to be something that’s grassroots and organic. So we did not have any organizations co-sponsor this. It is for the people, by the people so that we can have a space to say what we want to say about what has happened here this week in the state of Minnesota and across this nation,” she said.

Anna Gambucci came to Loring Park carrying a sign reading: “End white silence.

Black lives matter.”

She said she has attended many Black Lives Matter events and had plans to go out of town, but decided to stay and honor Castile.

She said he was shot about a mile and a half from her home.

“I need to shift business as usual,” she said.

Another protest shut down traffic on Interstate 94 in St. Paul later that evening.

St. Paul police said 21 officers from multiple jurisdictions were injured during the protests. Black Lives Matter leaders have been quick to denounce the actions of those who threw bottles and rocks at officers, saying they were agitators not affiliated with peaceful demonstrators.

Forty-six people face third degree riot charges in connection with the incident.

Lynx show support Minnesota Lynx players wore warm-up shirts honoring recent shooting victims at their game at Target Center on July 9, which angered four off-duty Minneapolis police officers who walked off the job.

On the front, the shirts read: “Change starts with us. Justice and accountability.” On the

Protesters march along Hennepin Avenue on July 9 to condemn recent gun violence. Photo by Sarah McKenzie

back, they had the Dallas Police Department emblem and the names of Philando Castile, Alton Sterling and Black Lives Matter.

Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau expressed disappointment about the conduct of the police officers who left the Lynx game.

“While I do not condone the actions of the officers, I realize how every member of law enforcement throughout this country, including myself, is feeling right now,” she said. “Everyone is hurting and we all need to find a way to come together. I am proud of our profession and the service our officers provide on a daily basis.

Accountability is a must but police officers also deserve and need public support.”

She also highlighted reform work within the department, including the new body camera program and several new training programs.

Lt. Bob Kroll, president of the Minneapolis Police Federation, the union for police officers, has also been widely criticized for comments he made to the Star Tribune in support of the officers. He also said the team has a “pathetic draw.”

Mayor Betsy Hodges offered blunt words

about Kroll’s comments on her Facebook page.

“Bob Kroll’s remarks about the Lynx are jackass remarks. Let me be clear: labor leadership inherently does not speak on behalf of management. Bob Kroll sure as hell doesn’t speak for me about the Lynx or about anything else.”

Outrage follows police shooting death of Castile An outpouring of anger and intense grief around the country has followed the fatal police shooting of Castile during a traffic stop while he was with his girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter.

Castile’s girlfriend Diamond Reynolds live-streamed the immediate aftermath of the shooting on Facebook and the video quickly went viral.

Reynolds said Castile had his hands up in the air when an officer shot him in the arm five times. The officer had asked for his license and registration after pulling him over for a broken tail light, she said. Castile also notified the

officer that he had a permit to carry a gun.

Minneapolis leaders have joined people around the world in expressing sadness about Castile’s death.

Levy-Pounds and protesters gathered outside the governor’s mansion in St. Paul after the shooting. She said she was “chilled to the bone” while watching Reynolds’ cellphone video.

Gov. Mark Dayton extended condolences to Castile’s friends and family and promised to do everything in his power to “see that this matter is brought to justice.”

Dayton said he called White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough to request that the U.S. Department of Justice begin an immediate investigation into the shooting. The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) will also conduct an investigation.

The governor said he was “shocked and horrified” by what happened to Castile, who was an employee of St. Paul Public Schools. He was a cafeteria supervisor at J.J. Hill Montessori Magnet School.

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Paul Public Schools: “Colleagues describe him as a team player who maintained great relationships with staff and students alike. He had a cheerful disposition and his colleagues enjoyed working with him. He was quick to greet former coworkers with a smile and hug.”

Grief counselors will be made available for staff and students.

At a press conference later in the day, Dayton said he was “heartbroken for Minnesota” and said he doubted Castile would have been shot by the officer if he was white.

The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers also expressed grief over Castile’s death: “He

was a beloved coworker known for his humor and kindness that made JJ Hill Montessori a better place for students. With a heavy heart, the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers gives its most sincere condolences to his family and friends. … As educators we stand united against violence. MFT is joining with others to support Philando’s family at J.J. Hill Montessori at 5:30 p.m. for a vigil.”

President Barack Obama also posted a statement on Facebook about the fatal police shootings of Castile and Alton Sterling in Louisiana.

“To admit we’ve got a serious problem in no way contradicts our respect and appreciation

for the vast majority of police officers who put their lives on the line to protect us every single day. It is to say that, as a nation, we can and must do better to institute the best practices that reduce the appearance or reality of racial bias in law enforcement,” the president wrote.

Mayor Betsy Hodges said she’s grateful that Dayton has ordered an independent criminal investigation.

“My heart is heavy at the tragic death of Philando Castile, known to so many as a kind, caring man whom children loved. I am especially troubled that he died violently in front of his partner and her 4-year-old daughter; to

witness that is unimaginable,” she wrote on her Facebook page. “People in Minneapolis, in the region, and across the nation are in deep mourning: full of emotion, wondering what this means for their families, for our lives together. I hear that. My prayers are with Philando’s family and loved ones, and for healing for everyone.”

Congressman Keith Ellison asked for the BCA to release any videos of Castile’s shooting as soon as possible and called on prosecutorial authorities to reject the use of a grand jury to determine whether charges should be filed against the officer.

“We live a world where certain Americans live in fear that their name will become a hashtag. It is not enough to say ‘Black Lives Matter.’ It’s time to make the system mean it.

We need immediate and meaningful accountability and justice,” he said. “Officers who use excessive force cannot assume immunity as they routinely do today. We need one standard of justice for all. I join my colleague Representative Betty McCollum in calling for an immediate investigation by the Department of Justice.”

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, Minnesota (CAIR-MN), an organization based in Northeast Minneapolis, is calling for congressional hearings to address the recent police shootings.

Minneapolis City Council Member Alondra Cano (Ward 9) urged Dayton to create a statewide task force to engage all police departments in the state to undergo implicit bias training and create new police accountability standards.

“I, like many of you, am angered by this vicious pattern, specially when I hear that Philando’s mother says she feels that the African American community is ‘being hunted down,’” she wrote on her Facebook page. “No one in this country should ever feel like they are being hunted down. The irrational fear of the black men and boys in our community — our brothers, our fathers, our grandfathers, our uncles, and our cousins — must end.”

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“It was very interesting work, and very dangerous work,” she said.

For many years she served on the crisis negotiator team, responding to hostage situations or people barricaded in homes. She also served on the “SAFE Unit,” working closely with residents to address problem properties.

She’s spent a significant amount of time in North Minneapolis, working as a patrol supervisor and walking a beat on West Broadway. She was promoted to sergeant in North Minneapolis, and community members threw her a party and brought her a cake.

“No. 1 has been relationships, establishing relationships and building on those for success for everybody,” she said.

Waite said it’s a challenging time to work in law enforcement.

“There is a lot of negative press, and a lot of premature judgment on a lot of situations,” she said.

Although she couldn’t speak to what occurred in the officer shooting death of Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, she said camera footage, while helpful, doesn’t tell the whole story of what everyone in a situation may be experiencing.

“People go into this work because they are passionate about helping other people,” she said.

Police are the ones who race toward gunfire, rather than run away from it, she said.

“We’re doing that, and we do that every single time,” she said.

Insp. Kathy Waite takes over in July as commander of Southwest Minneapolis’ 5th Precinct.

Photo courtesy of the Minneapolis Police Department

Waite wanted to become a policewoman after years of watching Hill Street Blues and Magnum, P.I. Her parents thought it was a phase, and later refused to help pay for college unless she pursued another field.

(They went on to become proud of her work, though still fearful.)

While in college, Waite worked as a reserve officer with the Roseville police, where she helped with large-scale events and directed lots of traffic. She entered the

Minneapolis police force through the Cadet Program.

She’s worked a range of jobs in the department since 1993, including positions in the Narcotics Unit, Juvenile Unit and Internal Affairs. She served as a sector lieutenant in Northeast and Downtown Minneapolis.

When the I-35W bridge collapsed, she was in charge of logistics to supply equipment for the recovery, and she managed logistics during the 2008 Republican National

Convention. In the Special Operations Division, she was in charge of the K9 Unit, Traffic Unit and Disaster Strike Team.

She became inspector of the 2nd Precinct in 2013, and the precinct led the city in crime reduction for two years under her watch.

“It was really a situation where a lot of different organizations came together. … A lot of great relationships, a lot of hard work and dedication by officers,” she said.

Many factors influence crime rates, she said, including the incarceration of highcrime individuals. She’s found that relationships do a great deal to help curb crime, however.

“I prefer talking to people in person or over the telephone,” she said. “We’re getting more officers out of their cars as much as possible.”

Police Chief Janeé Harteau announced the staffing change as a way to ensure departmental leaders continue to grow for future assignments.

Loining has worked as the 5th Precinct commander since 2014. He recently received an award for “outstanding service” from the Karmel Mall Somali Business Association.

“While the city’s current inspectors are both beloved and respected by their communities, the new assignments will allow them to bring fresh ideas and energy to other parts of the city while continuing the current initiatives that are already working well,” department leaders said in a statement.

Summer crime trends in the 5th Precinct Insp. Todd Loining provided an overview of the crime patterns police were tracking in early July

• Police are focusing on “micro hot spots” that experience a disproportionate number of crimes. Those areas include a two-block radius around Franklin & Clinton, which saw four stolen vehicles and two recovered stolen vehicles in the past week, Loining said. Another area of focus is the Lake Street corridor, as well as Franklin & Nicollet stretching up to Stevens Square. Undercover officers are working to spot crimes in progress and call for marked squad cars. During one incident the night of July 7, Loining said officers spotted two acquaintances in an argument that escalated into a physical fight at 24th & Garfield. A suspect stabbed the

acquaintance in the chest, he said, and after a short foot chase, police apprehended the suspect.

• Violent crime is up 20.9 percent year-to-date as of July 4.

“Most of what is driving this is an increase in sexual assaults,” Loining said.

In 2015 there were 16 rape incidents reported at this time, and in 2016 there are 31 to-date. Loining said about half of the incidents are among acquaintances, occurring indoors in residences, often with alcohol involved. Loining said he’s asking officers on routine patrol to stop

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“When you leave the bars, try to use good judgment, safety in numbers, try to get a ride as opposed to walking,” he said. “…If something doesn’t feel right, it’s probably not.”

• Robberies are up 20.6 percent over last year. In four of five robberies in the past week, victims were intoxicated and no weapons were used, Loining said. Two of the robberies took place outside bars, he said.

• The Kingfield neighborhood recently convened a community meeting in response to

shots fired at the 4400 block of Nicollet Avenue.

Crime prevention specialists are working with a landlord of a building where police have responded to several calls for service.

• Burglary is down significantly year-to-date, amounting to 32.7 percent, a reduction of 136 incidents.

• Auto theft is up citywide, and it’s up nearly 16 percent in the 5th Precinct. In some cases, people are leaving cars unattended and running, according to Loining. In one recent incident, he said a resident left a car unlocked with keys on the seat in the Kmart lot at Nicollet & Lake.

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Bike Beat

By Annie Van Cleve

After the dust settles

When construction wraps up, downtown will be a friendlier place for bikers, walkers

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t’s more than potholes that are getting filled during this summer’s construction season.

In addition to regularly scheduled street repairs and reconstructions, new development — especially in Downtown East around the new U.S. Bank Stadium — is providing opportunity to make improvements to our downtown streets.

“We’re moving toward a vision of a Protected Bikeway Network that connects with neighborhoods,” said Matthew Dyrdahl, the city’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator.

Here’s an update on what people who ride bikes can look forward to once the dust settles downtown.

• Washington Avenue is being reconstructed between Hennepin Avenue and 5th Avenue South. When the project is complete in 2017, it will feature a protected bike lane raised to sidewalk level to avoid conflict between cars and bikes. In a separate but related project, a new 35W on-ramp at 4th Street will also be built in the near future, which will help alleviate some of the congestion on Washington Avenue.

• Hennepin-Lyndale Avenues are being reconstructed between Franklin Avenue and Dunwoody Boulevard. On the west side, there will be sidewalk improvements and on the east side trail and sidewalk improve-

between 1st Street South and 16th Street East. The redesigned street will feature a protected bikeway when construction is completed in 2017.

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ments. Intersections will also be improved, and a new crosswalk will be added on the northside of the Groveland intersection. New street lighting, expanded boulevards and new landscaping are other improvements that will enhance the experience of pedestrians and cyclists. The project is expected to be fully open to traffic in December of this year.

it reopens in fall 2017, it will feature more green space, especially at the two ends of the street near Loring Park on the south and the Mississippi River on the north. Nicollet will continue to function as a multimodal street with buses and cyclists sharing space. Lots of new public spaces along the street will be especially attractive to pedestrians.

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• Third Avenue South is being redesigned

• Protected bike lanes raised to sidewalk level are being built on Park and Portland Avenues.

One block has already been completed between 3rd and 4th Streets South on Park Avenue. Improvements on Park and Portland are the result of coordination between the city and private developers. As new buildings go up, developers are contributing to pedestrian and cyclist improvements outlined in a Pedestrian Realm Augmentation plan created by the city. Drydahl said this is a new approach that was specifically developed to take advantage of the opportunity associated with so much new development. Other improvements outlined in the plan focus on improving and expanding space for people, through shortening street crossings for pedestrians and other measures.

There is a lot for cyclists to look forward to using in the near future. Visit the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition’s website (mplsbike. org) to learn more about these projects and ways to get involved.

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New foods on the go A look at the latest generation of food trucks

By Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com

It’s summer, and in Minneapolis that means food trucks are becoming permanent fixtures on the busy streets of downtown, outside bustling breweries or around just about any event near you. Whether they’re serving up quick dishes for the lunch break rush, or offering the perfect pairing for a beer, these new food trucks will be out and about to serve whatever diners are in the mood for.

Bibuta If you saw a food truck offering sushi burritos, you might be thinking, “when pigs fly.” Well with Bibuta, you’ll get both. The food truck, whose name means “beautiful pork” in Japanese, from the owners of Sushi Fix sells thick handheld sushi rolls stuffed with fresh tuna, salmon and, yes, Okinawastyle pork belly. Billy Tserenbat launched the truck, which features a flying pig, earlier this year and has mainly been catering to office workers downtown. Bibuta offers salads and bowls, including sushi-style options with generous cuts of meat, along with sides likes spring rolls vegetarian or gluten-free choices.

Sasquatch Sandwiches Food trucks can be elusive, popping up unexpectedly outside new cocktail rooms or at events everywhere around the city. This year, diners have found Sasquatch Sandwiches at outdoor outings like Art-A-Whirl offering $10 sandwiches and more. The food truck serves classic sammies like a toasted Cuban sandwich with roasted pork, ham and Swiss cheese and a turkey avocado sandwich with provolone, tomato and mayo. There are also the slightly less expected offerings like a grilled cheese with apples and rosemary honey butter, and an array of sandwich specials, from a bacon-topped burger to an ice cream sandwich. The concept, started by Gil Gaitan, can be found outside breweries like InBound Brewco or the downtown St. Paul riverfront.

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Bark and the Bite

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Noah Miller and Toph Heubach, two alumni from the former Sapor Cafe and Bar in the North Loop, debuted their new food truck, Bark and the Bite, last year with a variety of barbecued meats and scratch sauces.

The truck offers the choice of proteins, including pulled pork, chicken and vegetarian-friendly barbecue jackfruit, and sauces, from the sweeter cherry bourbon to the spicy vodka chile. Diners can get them served as sandwiches or simply piles of goodness. To round out the meal, Bark and the Bite has traditional backyard fare with baked beans, hush puppies, potato salad and coleslaw. You can usually find the truck at a brewery or distillery in downtown or Northeast Minneapolis.

Chef Ian Gray, known for the former Gray House restaurant in the Lyn-Lake neighborhood, already has The Curious Goat food truck, but he’s launched another one with another protein in mind. The Smoking Cow features an eclectic menu that focuses on smoked meat. The truck, which can usually be found in Northeast Minneapolis outside Tattersall Distilling, offers sandwiches with smoked brisket, smoked carrots or chicken, plus options like a beef taco salad, fish tacos or turkey nachos to round out the menu. For fans of the cheese curds at the sister truck, The Smoking Cow also has cheese curd fritters.

Market Bar-B-Que It’s not every day a multi-generational family business becomes a food truck, but Loring Park’s Market Bar-B-Que has done it 70 years after first opening. The father-son team of Steve and Anthony Polski launched a food truck version of the classic rib joint, established downtown in 1946, in April to spread their love of barbecue across the city. The truck doesn’t mess much with original barbecue favorites like ribs, barbecue chicken, pulled pork and brisket, which are slow cooked in the restaurant’s smoking pit and then seared on the truck’s grill. Plus, the Market Bar-B-Que truck features the same marquee and jukebox as the brick-and-mortar restaurant. The mobile eatery is usually parked downtown during lunchtime, at a brewery or even a neighboring suburb of Minneapolis.

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Misfit Coffee Co. While Misfit Coffee Company isn’t technically a food truck, that fact hasn’t stopped the third-wave coffee trailer from garnering plenty of fans around the Mill District for its nitro cold brew coffee and variety of unique drink specials. Founder Marcus Parkansky, who hails from Milwaukee where Misfit’s roaster, Valentine Coffee Co., is based, is adding even more into the mix with custom growlers. Misfit is also rolling out coffee specials like the Sassafras Blast ($6) with nitro cold brew, horchata and root beer or the Espresso Tini ($5), an espresso and cream concoction with graham cracker or mint flavors. The trailer has finalized its pastry selection with goodies from Silverland Bakery, Sift Gluten Free, Mon Petit Cheri and more.

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Wyn 65 is known as a mobile food emporium. The food truck, which is really a Winnebago camper, serves up comfort foods like hot fried chicken, mac ‘n cheese and fried yams. There’s also the classic fried bologna sandwich, dubbed the Winnebago Sandwich here, with house-made pepper bologna, pimento cheese and pickles. If the name sounds familiar, Wyn 65 is an extension of Richfield-based restaurant Lyn 65 Kitchen & Bar, which offers its own soulful fare. The truck, which launched earlier this year, can usually be found in downtown Minneapolis during lunch hours or at a local brewery.

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By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

The Eat Local Farm Tour includes farms as far away as western Wisconsin and southeastern Minnesota, but a few stops are right here in the city. Submitted photo

Meet local farmers on their turf Twenty-nine farms in and around the Twin Cities plan to open their fields and pastures to the public 10 a.m.–4 p.m. July 16 for the sixthannual Eat Local Farm Tour.

Sponsored by Twin Cities-area food cooperatives, the annual self-guided tour is a chance for the public to meet with area growers on their own turf. Various farms plan to host activities for kids, demonstrations and even music, and some will have their products available for sale on site, so tour organizers

suggest brining a cooler.

The tour guide breaks down the 29 farms by region to help participants design their own agenda. Visiting some farms requires an hour or more of highway driving, but a tour or urban farms in Minneapolis and St. Paul could be completed by bus or bicycle.

For more information, or to download a tour guide, go to facebook.com/EatLocalFarmTour.coop.

Swapping seeds and more Do It Green! Minneapolis hosts its summer clothing and seed swap 2 p.m.–4 p.m. July 23 at Mount Olive Church, 3045 Chicago Ave. S. The local sustainability nonprofit invites swappers to bring in as much clean, used clothing as they’d like to trade. Clothing, shoes and accessories of any size and for any gender are welcome, and there’s no need to fold or iron.

Anything left behind at the end of the event will be donated to charity.

Gardeners can also bring their favorite seeds to swap. Anyone who brings seeds will receive free milkweed and vegetable seeds in return.

For more information on the summer clothing and seed swap or other upcoming Do It Green! Minneapolis events, go to doitgreen.org.

Fix-it downtown Hennepin County’s traveling Fix-it Clinic sets up shop July 16 at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, 1501 Hennepin Ave. S. The goal of the clinics is to reduce waste by helping people repair broken household items.

The county claims that Fix-it Clinics have helped to divert more than nine tons of waste since 2012 by repairing goods that otherwise might have gone into the trash.

At the clinics, handy volunteers work with visitors to find out what’s wrong with broken small appliances, glitchy electronics and other household items and, if possible, fix them.

Volunteers with sewing skills will even mend or alter clothing.

Visitors are advised to bring any tools they think might be needed for the job and to be ready to roll up their sleeves and help. Only bring items that can be carried through the door; larger appliances and electronics should be left at home.

The July 16 clinic takes place noon–4 p.m. in MCTC’s H Building, also known as Helland Center, in the first-floor multipurpose room (H 1002).

Fix-it Clinic next returns to Minneapolis Sept. 10 with an event at Whittier Recreation Center, 425 W. 26th St. For more information, including a calendar of upcoming events, go to hennepin.us/fixitclinic.

Record crowd expected for creek cleanup Organizers of the Minnehaha Creek Cleanup were predicting a record-setting number of volunteers would turn out for the July 24 event.

The Minnehaha Creek Watershed District reported in early July that registrations were coming in at a record pace for this year’s 10th-annual cleanup. Volunteers will be picking up trash along nearly the entire length of the 22-mile-long creek, which runs from Lake Minnetonka to the Mississippi River, cutting through Minneapolis along the way.

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Park Board passes equity ordinance for neighborhood parks Park commissioners have approved racial and economic equity criteria to guide hundreds of millions of dollars worth of investments into the city’s neighborhood parks system over the next two decades.

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board unanimously passed an ordinance that is meant to ensure an equitable distribution of an additional $11 million of park investments annually for the next 20 years. The agreement, dubbed the 20 Year Neighborhood Park Plan, is a joint effort with the City Council and Mayor Betsy Hodges that replaced the board’s referendum campaign for funds to close an annual funding gap in maintaining the city’s neighborhood parks.

The ordinance features a 23-point system that weighs racially concentrated areas of poverty higher than other neighborhoods. The areas are defined as neighborhoods where 40 percent or more of residents earn less than 185 percent of the federal poverty threshold and where 50 percent or more of residents are people of color, based off Census data. A neighborhood can also receive points for having a larger total population, more children and higher crime statistics. Under the ordinance, staff will also assign points to parks based off the condition and lifespan of each asset — a ball field, a wading pool, etc. — with expired assets and those that present safety concerns weighted higher.

Based off the criteria, park staff have recommended a list of prioritized rehabilitation and capital projects for the first five years under the plan.

The ordinance comes at a time when activists have criticized the board for not doing enough to address racial equity in terms of neighborhood park investments

and hiring its own staff. Nekima LevyPounds, president of the Minneapolis NAACP, also called for the resignations of President Liz Wielinski and Superintendent Jayne Miller following a heated exchange between Wielinski and LevyPounds during a May 11 public meeting.

“The passage of the 20 Year Neighborhood Park Plan gave us a huge opportunity to be a leader in addressing racial and economic equity in Minneapolis,” Miller said in a statement. “It’s our moral obligation to ensure these new park investments are made equitably, and this ordinance gives us a data-driven, impartial tool to make sure that happens.”

During a July 6 meeting Wielinski praised the park staff who developed the criteria.

“This ordinance ensures the coming wave of investments throughout Minneapolis’ much-used neighborhood parks will be done equitably, so that people across all parts of the city can enjoy parks designed to serve the diverse communities that use them,” she said.

Commissioners Jon Olson (District 2), Anita Tabb (District 4) and Meg Forney (At Large) were absent for the vote, but supported the previous funding agreement with the city.

The roughly $800 million plan also includes $22 million in new money for street projects annually. Park commissioners approved the plan in May and the City Council passed its version of the plan in April.

The 20 Year Neighborhood Park Plan features a variety of funding sources, but most heavily relies on property taxes, which will fund 82 percent of the plan.

The Park Board is moving forward after reviewing several preliminary concepts for Bryant Square Park’s new playground. Image courtesy of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board

Commissioners approve Bryant Square Park playground concept plan The Park Board has approved a concept plan for a new playground at Bryant Square Park.

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board hopes to get a new playground constructed at the park by the end of the year. Commissioners postponed the vote from a May meeting in order to do additional outreach, especially to people of color and to residents of Horn Towers in the adjacent Lyndale neighborhood.

The playground, which is 20 years old, is just one of several improvements slated for the park in the CARAG neighborhood. The park’s wading pool has been in service since 1970 and needs replacement. The recreation

center is also seeing its roof replaced and new flooring and furnaces this summer.

Despite the postponement, Assistant Superintendent Michael Schroeder said there is still sufficient time to install the playground by the end of the year’s construction season.

For the pool, staff expect to start construction in September and complete it sometime next spring. For the playground, construction could start as soon as mid-August and wrap up in mid-November.

The three separate projects have a total budget of just under $1 million.

Commissioners are expected to approve a construction contract in early August.

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The event “Bags and Beers for Nat” aims to raise awareness of domestic violence.

Whenever someone orders the Herkimer beer brewed in honor of Beissel, they will receive a card with her story and resources related to domestic violence.

At least nine Minnesota women have been murdered in 2016 due to domestic violence, according to the Domestic Abuse Project. In Southwest Minneapolis’ 5th Precinct, domestic aggravated assault incidents are up 17 percent as of July 4, with 41 cases this year.

Beissel was entering her final year of medical school when she died at age 32. Her brother, Nick, posted an open letter to her at LoveConquersViolence.com: “Love Conquers Violence is my promise to you that your voice will continue to be heard,” Nick writes. “Our mission is to tell your story and stop domestic violence. I wish I would have inquired more when certain things didn’t seem quite right. I didn’t. But Love Conquers Violence will educate someone else to think twice before dismissing a situation that doesn’t appear normal. Through our event, Bags and Beers for Nat, the community will come together to remember you. Your scholarship will help aspiring doctors pursue their careers in

An Aug. 6 event at the Herkimer raises awareness of domestic violence and honors the life of Natalie Beissel. Photo courtesy of Love Conquers Violence

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Bryn Mawr Neighborhood Association (BMNA): Board meets 2nd Wednesday monthly at Bryn Mawr School, 252 Upton Ave. S. Calhoun Area Residents Action Group (CARAG): Board meets 3rd Tuesday monthly at Bryant Square Park, 3101 Bryant Ave. S. Cedar-Isles-Dean Neighborhood Association (CIDNA): Board meets every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6 p.m. at Jones-Harrison Residence, 3700 Cedar Lake Ave. East Calhoun Community Organization (ECCO): Board meets 1st Thursday monthly at St. Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church, 3450 Irving Ave. S. w

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Kingfield Neighborhood Association (KFNA): Board meets 2nd Wednesday monthly at Martin Luther King Jr. Park, 41st & Nicollet.

East Isles Residents Association (EIRA): Board meets 2nd Tuesday monthly at Grace-Trinity Community Church, 1430 W. 28th St.

Linden Hills Neighborhood Council (LHiNC): Board meets 1st Tuesday monthly at Linden Hills Park, 3100 W. 43rd St.

Fulton Neighborhood Association (FNA): Board meets 2nd Wednesday monthly at Pershing Park, 3523 W. 48th St.

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Hale Page Diamond Lake Community Association (HPDL): Board meets last Monday of the month at 5144 13th Ave. S.

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rom some vantage points, the new U.S. Bank Stadium looks like a massive ship that has docked downtown.

From the front, its glass doors — the largest operable doors in the world — reflect the city’s skyline.

Inside, the stadium is designed to feel like you’re outside with natural light pouring through the transparent roof and gigantic glass doors.

At 1.75 million square feet, it’s twice the size of the Metrodome, the Vikings’ former home. The $1.1 billion project — the largest construction project in state history — has also been one of the most controversial with many critical of the financing plan.

The Vikings have pledged to pay for 53 percent of the stadium ($577 million) through private financing and seat licenses. The State of Minnesota is contributing $348 million and the City of Minneapolis $150 million. The city is financing its portion by issuing bonds that will be repaid by tapping a portion of Convention Center taxes.

The stadium’s food service provider Aramark and SMG, the stadium operator, are contributing the remaining $12 million.

The Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority (MSFA), a local governmental unit of the state, owns and operates the stadium. A grand opening celebration for the venue will be held Saturday, July 23 and Sunday, July 24, following an official ceremony and ribbon-cutting event on July 22.

Free tickets are required to tour the stadium for the opening weekend. Outdoor events planned for the weekend include family activities on the plaza, a 3D chalk art installation, live music, movies in the new Commons park and giant-sized Connect Four and Jenga games.

The first event at the stadium is the 2016 International Champions Cup soccer match Aug. 3 featuring AC Milan v. Chelsea FC. The Vikings will play their first game in their new home Aug. 28 — a preseason contest against San Diego.

U.S. Bank Stadium will also host the Super Bowl in 2018 and the NCAA Men’s Final Four in 2019.

The new stadium is also opening in a dramatically different neighborhood than the one that used to surround the Metrodome. East Town, as the area is now called, boasts the Commons park, the new Wells Fargo towers, new housing development and other major construction projects promising to further revitalize the area that used to be defined by an abundance of surface parking lots.

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 The new stadium reflects the city’s skyline.

Photo by Sarah McKenzie

Where We Live

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Crisis Nursery

At the

Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery, kids experiencing crisis and trauma have the opportunity to play and explore in a safe environment.

Photo courtesy Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery

Crisis Nursery works to end child abuse, neglect

A respite for children Many families in poverty don’t have a place to turn for child care help in times of crisis.

Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery provides them with that child care respite, allowing them to focus on addressing their challenges, whether it’s finding housing or coping with domestic violence.

The Minneapolis nonprofit cares for about 20 children each night with ages ranging from newborns to 6 year olds, providing them with clothing, meals, activities and more. Children can stay at the nursery for up to 72 hours at a time and up to 30 days in a calendar year.

“Our work is really about establishing relationships with families,” said the nursery’s executive director Mary Pat Lee. Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery began because of research the United Way did on child abuse and neglect in the late 1970s. United Way found that parents in crisis needed a place to turn when they lack help caring for their children.

Several community organizations banded together to open the state’s first crisis nursery in 1983. The nursery has expanded its capacity over the years from six to 20 children and has added services, such as a 24-hour crisis hotline, crisis counseling, home visits and parent education.

This past fiscal year, the nursery served more than 500 children, providing 5,764 days of care and more than 1,200 home visits. Nearly 90 percent of parents/guardians they serve are people of color and almost all are women. About 85 percent of Location families have incomes under $10,000.

4544 44th Ave. S. Parents bring their kids to the nursery for a variety of reasons, family services director Molly Kenney said, from emotional exhaustion to homelessness, domestic violence, a job search and more. The nursery lets the families tell them what a crisis Contact means to them, she said, and doesn’t limit access based on the crisis.

763-591-0400 “It doesn’t really matter what happens to them,” she said. “It more matters how we can support them.”

The organization works with parents to shape their kids’ experience at the nursery, allowing them to set goals for the stay Website crisisnursery.org and keeping them involved with the care process. Staff members provide the kids with structure and choices during the day, allowing them to pick their own clothes and food at meals and explore play spaces as they’d like.

Year Founded “The play activities are really led by the child,” Kenny said.

1983 The nursery has a four-to-one child-to-staff ratio, and staff focus on helping children better understand their emotions. They are also intentional about helping kids build relationships with other adults, a skill Lee said is useful for when they start school.

Partners in Pediatrics provides medical care and consultation for the nursery, which also partners with Early Childhood Family Education and the homeless shelter People Serving People on weekly parent-education groups.

Dr. Lisa Irvin of Partners in Pediatrics said a lot of the kids at the nursery face significant barriers to health care, from transportation to insurance issues. As the nursery’s medical director, she helps staff handle food allergies and medications and tries to encourage families to follow up with a primary care provider.

The nursery also has a home-visiting program that has master-level clinicians visit families once a week for 12 to 18 months.

“That’s really the opportunity we have to work with them to try to create the stable environment they want,” Lee said.

The nursery appears to be generating positive results, as more than 90 percent of parents said it helped them gain a better understanding of child development and alleviate their crises.

That’s welcome news for Lee and Kenny, who said the ultimate goal is to prevent events that can permanently break up families.

“If we can get to families before something devastating happens, it’s so much better for everybody,” Lee said.

By the numbers

526

Children the Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery served in fiscal year 2015

5,764

Days of care it provided

3,727

Crisis calls it managed

4,087

Children who were victims of abuse and neglect in Minnesota in 2014, including 19 who died

20

Number children ages newborn to 6 the nursery can care for each night

What you can do Volunteer: A complete list of opportunities can be found at their website, crisisnursery.org/volunteer, but include cooking meals, child care and leading activities.

Donate: Nearly 40 percent of the organization’s income comes from individuals. Attend an event, tour the facility or advocate to end child abuse and neglect.

About the Where We Live project This project is an ongoing series spearheaded by Journals’ publisher Janis Hall showcasing Minneapolis nonprofits doing important work in the community. The editorial team has selected organizations to spotlight. Nate Gotlieb is the writer for the project. To read previous features, go to southwestjournal.com/section/focus/where-we-live

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Focus Jan Brueghel the Younger’s 17th-century series of allegorical paintings, “The Five Senses,” includes this piece representing sight. There’s just a peek of landscape, the focus of “Seeing Nature,” now on view at Mia.

Billion-dollar views Landscape paintings from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s collection travel to Mia

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By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

icrosoft co-founder Paul Allen entered the big leagues of art collecting in 1992 when he purchased his first Monet, “The Water-Lily Pond,” a 1919 scene painted in the French artist’s gardens at Giverny.

There are five Monets among the 39 paintings from Allen’s collection that recently made the trip to Minneapolis for “Seeing Nature.” It’s the first-ever traveling exhibition drawn from the billionaire businessman-investor-philanthropist-sports mogul’s personal art holdings, and if the phrase “five Monets” didn’t give it away, let’s be clear: the concentration of great works here is stunning.

From views of Venice by Joseph Mallord William Turner and Edouard Manet to a psychedelic vision of the Grand Canyon painted by David Hockney to a ravishing birch-forest scene by Gustav Klimt, “Seeing Nature” is one astonishing moment followed by another. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is the third of five stops on a tour bookended by installations in Portland and Seattle in Allen’s native Northwest.

“Seeing Nature” is somewhat eccentrically framed as an exhibition of landscape paintings. The definition of landscape here is elastic enough to include an Ed Ruscha gas station, a Georgia O’Keeffe flower and a nearly 400-year-old series of allegorical paintings based on the five senses by Jan Brueghel the Younger.

Then again, Ruscha’s untitled 1989 painting of a Standard Oil station does evoke the built environment of America’s interstate highway system, and O’Keeffe’s strong association with the American Southwest means it’s possible to see something of the aseptic, wind-carved desert landscape in the flower’s satin-smooth frills (or at least the curators will make that case).

With the exception of “Smell,” which is set in a garden, Jan the Younger’s five senses paintings are interior scenes stuffed with symbolic objects (fine art, a telescope and an astrolabe for “Sight”; clocks, stringed instruments and tropical birds for “Hearing”) demonstrating a Renaissance-era zeal for categorizing and ordering the natural world. The distant, park-like landscapes are only glimpsed through portals and archways.

“In the 15th and 16th centuries, you often find great landscape paintings in the background of paintings,” said Rachel McGarry, Mia’s associate curator of prints and drawings, who noted landscape was not always a respected genre.

By the 19th century, it would be on par with portraiture and history painting.

McGarry said Turner played a major role in “elevating” the reputation of landscape painting, and an 1841 scene of gondolas parading down a Venetian canal demonstrates the pyrotechnics Turner, “the painter of light,” is known for: The waters shimmer, the city is covered a gauze of mist and the sun turns everything to gold.

The Turner hangs not far from a sun-drenched Venetian scene by Manet,

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and it’s instructive to really get up close with both, to see how loosely both Turner, a pre-Impressionist, and Manet, a contemporary of Monet and Renoir, are working. Manet’s painting is a fantastic illusion: a seemingly solid and crystal-clear view of the floating city dissolves at close range into something that resembles a hastily rendered sketch.

Hockney, the great British artist and influential art theorist, adopts an entirely different approach to landscape in his 1998 painting, “The Grand Canyon.” And it’s not just the blazingly unnatural purple, yellow and red canyon walls that give his interpretation of the chasm its bracingly off-kilter feel.

Hockney’s wide-angle view of the landscape is divided into a three-byseven grid of individual canvases, and the viewpoint shifts, subtly, in each panel. An admirer of traditional Chinese landscape painting, he adopts its more fluid approach to perspective.

Nature is an empty, alienating space in two landscapes by the German painter Gerhard Richter. Based on photographs, they replicate a distancing, soft-focus camera effect.

Painting in 1940, as the horrors of World War II are just beginning to unfold, another German, Max Ernst, conjures a craggy, utterly inhospitable landscape. Adapting a Surrealist technique called “decalcomania” to smear the paint, Ernst creates strange textures that enhance the painting’s nightmarish qualities.

But more often the landscape is treated as a source of inspiring beauty and awe. The dense forests surrounding Austria’s Lake Attersee certainly inspired Klimt, who would retreat there from Vienna for long summer vacations.

In “Birch Forest,” from 1903, the painter’s dazzling, meticulous technique contrasts with the serenity of the deep-woods scene. The forest floor is carpeted in a riot orange and red leaves while white- and grey-papered birch trunks slice vertically through the scene.

The painting was purchased at auction in 2006 for $40 million, more than 30 percent over the high-end estimate set by Christie’s. Nature inspires one kind of awe and Allen, one of our 21st-century techno-princes, another.

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By Linda Koutsky

Historic Minnesota buildings 1,500 miles from here

T

hough I will not be turning 100 years old this Aug. 25, I do share my birthday with the National Park Service and I decided to take them up on their offer to celebrate.

In 1916, the National Park Service was created by an act of Congress and Yellowstone became the first park. Typically we think of the vast, mountainous National Parks, but they actually come in many shapes and sizes. Today there are more than 400 different sites in the park system that range from monuments, battlefields, lakeshores, historic places and trails. We have five right here in Minnesota: Grand Portage and Pipestone National Monuments, North Country National Scenic Trail, Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway, the Mississippi River & Recreation Area, and Voyageurs National Park. I love Minnesota’s parks, but for this celebration I decided to go West.

It was 115 degrees outside of my compact rental car. On the seat next to me were three bottles of water, two granola bars, and a paper map flapping in front of the air-conditioning vent. The drive was in as remote a place as I’ve ever been, but the roads were so smooth it felt like flying. I filled up with gas several times along the way because it didn’t look like there would be many opportunities. But after driving four hours from Las Vegas I arrived at my destination: the Grand Canyon.

It takes your breath away. And it makes you feel really small. The layers of purple and brown and rust swirl in front of your eyes like they’re trying to hypnotize you. Even those without a fear of heights need time to get adjusted to the biggest dropoff they’ve ever seen in their lives. The sweeping vistas were overwhelming. After about an hour my hat didn’t provide enough shade and the water was gone, so I headed for El Tovar and checked in.

The South Rim’s Grand Canyon Village is a cluster of interpretive centers, gift shops, cabins, and lodges. Most are built of long dark logs with chunky beige rocks in a loose Southwestern

It takes your breath away.

And it makes you feel really small. The layers of purple and brown and rust swirl in front of your eyes like they’re trying to hypnotize you. architectural style. Many are more than 100 years old and together they make up a National Historic District. Designed by Charles Whittlesey and built by Fred Harvey in 1905, El Tovar provided the park’s first overnight accommodations. Opening that same year was Hopi House — Minnesotan Mary Colter’s first of six buildings at the Grand Canyon.

Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter was born in Pittsburgh in 1869 but lived in St. Paul from age 11 on and considered Minnesota her home. After high school she attended art school in San Francisco and apprenticed with an architectural firm. Colter returned to St. Paul after graduating and taught for 15 years. In 1902, through contact with a friend working for Fred Harvey Company, Colter was hired as an architect and designer for the expanding line of railroad hotels. Her first job was in Albuquerque. She was known for using materials found on site, paying homage to earlier residents, and designing buildings in harmony with the environment. She worked for the company for 40 years. She was a pioneer in hospitality design as well as for women in architecture.

I felt right at home in her buildings. All that stone kept the buildings really cool too. And that kept me in the shops longer. So I ended up buying more: a book about Mary Colter, a 100th birthday T-shirt, a couple pieces of jewelry. I guess that’s what Fred Harvey planned when he built majestic hotels in stunning locations with beautiful gift shops.

MARY COLTER’S GRAND CANYON BUILDINGS  HOPI HOUSE

 HERMITS REST

A tiered pile of red sandstone rocks patterned after a nearby ancient Hopi Indian building. Opened in 1905 as a gift shop selling Native American arts and crafts and is still a gift shop today, more than 100 years later!

Built in 1914 for stagecoach tourists on the 8-mile-long Hermits Rest Trail, this small building and concession stand was designed to look like it was built by a mountain man. An enormous stone arch fireplace is the centerpiece.

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Colter’s 1935 geologic fireplace in the Fred Harvey History Room shows the layers of different rocks that make up Grand Canyon’s walls.

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Ask the Nurse Practitioner

By Michelle Napral

In the initial stages of the injury, you will need anywhere from a few days to a few weeks of time off for the initial inflammation on the outside of the knee to calm down.

Should I run through my knee pain?

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As a long-distance runner, I like to increase my miles and run outside this time of year. But I recently developed knee pain on the outside of my knee. What do you suggest?

You’re not alone! Long distance running is an ideal way to enjoy Minnesota in nice weather. But, with the increased miles, comes increased risk for injury.

Interestingly, the knee is one of the largest joints in the human body, with more volume,

surface area, and cartilage, than shoulder and hip. It also has the greatest susceptibility to injury, wear and tear, and inflammation.

Common causes of knee pain include, osteoarthritis, meniscal tear, ligament injury, patellofemoral pain syndrome, popliteal cyst, bursitis, stress fractures, and referred pain syndromes.

But, one of the most common running injuries is iliotibial band syndrome, which occurs in 15 percent of knee overuse injuries. Iliotibial band syndrome, also known

as IT band syndrome, can cause pain on the outside of one or both knees. It is especially common in long-distance runners, but also occurs in athletes who cycle, ski, row, or play soccer, lacrosse and basketball.

People who are just starting to exercise can develop IT band syndrome too.

How it happens The iliotibial band is a strong, thick band of tissue that runs down the outside of the thigh from the hip to the top of the shin. During activity, the leg bends and straightens, and the IT band moves over the outer edge of the thighbone, called the femur. Research suggests that over time, the repetitive bending and straighten of the knee that happens during running can cause the IT band to compress and irritate underlying structures and tissues, creating pain and irritation.

We’ve seen patients at our downtown clinic present with this condition while training for running races and triathlons. It may start with an aching sensation on the outside of the knee shortly before your workout ends. But, as the condition worsens, pain may start earlier and

persist even after the exercise has ended.

To prevent this condition, you can run on more even surfaces and try different shoes. (If running on a track or slanted surface, be sure to run in both directions.)

Rest, the best medicine The fastest route to recovery is rest. Don’t run through the pain. Pain relievers help reduce pain, as does daily icing — 15 minutes every two hours — but place a towel between the ice and skin to prevent frostbite! In the initial stages of the injury, you will need anywhere from a few days to a few weeks of time off for the initial inflammation on the outside of the knee to calm down. If your case is severe, however, you may need up to six weeks.

The good news If, in fact, your IT band is the problem, you are probably not going to be sidelined all summer.

Once the pain subsides, focus on prevention.

There are simple exercises that have been proven to prevent IT syndrome.

Keep running because it’s healthy, but make sure you’re listening to your body’s signs. If rest, ice and the other supportive measures don’t improve the pain after six weeks, it’s best to consult a provider who can help you determine the underlying cause using X-ray and MRI scan if needed.

Good luck on your upcoming races!

Michelle Napral is a nurse practitioner at the University of Minnesota Health Nurse Practitioners Clinic, 3rd Street & Chicago. Send questions to nursnews@umn.edu.

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Grows on trees

By Eric Braun

Don’t let toddlerhood break your piggybank

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ow that I’m a few years out of the woods, it’s pretty easy to wax nostalgic about the toddler years.

I even get a little jealous when I hear about someone’s early morning toddler dance parties (even if they occur at 5 a.m. sharp) or when I see a heavy-lidded dad pushing a stroller to the park on a Sunday morning when any reasonable person would be relaxing with the paper.

I remember my family’s toddler years well — blissful days of bonding with my boys, feeling super well-rested (as compared to the infant era) and savoring every idyllic moment.

Just kidding!

I barely remember that hectic time at all.

I know it was great (sometimes!). I know the boys were adorable (I have the photos!).

And I know I was sick of ABC books (even the super-clever ones). Other “highlights” include lots of big, colorful, plastic toys — and preschool tuition.

For whatever reason It’s true that our children’s toddler years contain some of life’s most magical moments. But it’s also true that they can drive us to the brink — emotionally, physically and, sometimes, financially. Whether you’re facing extra medical bills, childcare bills or just inflated household costs, it can feel hard to take charge of your spending when you’re in the midst of toddlerhood.

But looking back with some clear-eyed distance, I know there were ways to cut back that I didn’t take advantage of.

Since everybody’s values, budgets, tolerances and priorities are different, everybody’s list of what they could do without is going to look different. With that in mind, here are some simple ideas you can try as-is or adapt for your own situation. They may save you money — and possibly even a small degree of sanity — during the toddler years.

Just go for the box It’s true about the box. You know what I’m taking about because you hear it at every

1-year-old’s birthday party: “I could have skipped the present and just given her the box.” We’ve all seen the hard evidence: Toddlers often prefer playing with the wrapping more than the present. Well, what if you really did it?

For your 1-year-old or 2-year-old’s next holiday, what if you skipped the present and literally gave your child a collection of recycled boxes, perhaps nested inside each other and all wrapped up in colorful paper?

Throw in a box of crayons so your kid can color the new “toys,” too.

Want to really see your kids’ eyes light up?

Get down on your hands and knees and color, stack and pretend right along with them.

Keep your eye out for opportunities, and you can take this idea of “free substitutes” further. For example, we bought one of our sons a plastic toy drum set, but he was just as happy banging on bowls with wooden spoons and spatulas. Mix in a plastic bowl, a wooden bowl and a metal bowl or two and you get different sounds going. Now that’s good, free fun.

Bribe with experiences What about those store-bought treats (read: bribes) we give for good behavior or to keep kids calm while we’re doing errands? (Of course we all know we shouldn’t be using cookies and toys as rewards, but if we’re honest, most of us do it.) Instead of junk food, try treats made of something else toddlers love — your attention.

“When we’re done at the grocery store, we’ll sing ‘Wheels on the Bus’ the whole way home!” Or: “When we get home, we’ll read all of your ABC books — twice!” (You can’t get away from those dang ABC books; you might as well embrace them.)

Mommy-and-me DIY Here’s another way to substitute free for fees: Create your own toddler-time extracurriculars. Whether your toddler’s in childcare or not, chances are you spend at least

some money on enrichment programs like mommy-and-me, music appreciation or art for your wee one.

But here’s a secret you probably already know: These toddler-time activities don’t necessarily make parents and kids grow closer or kids grow smarter. What they do for sure is give adults and munchkins invaluable time for socializing.

So why pay tuition to experts when you can meet everyone’s needs with a selfcreated “class”?

If you don’t already belong to an online community neighborhood like Nextdoor. com, see if there’s one in your neighborhood. They’re great for arranging playground meet-ups, art- or music-themed gatherings and good old-fashioned

“mommy-and-me” play dates.

You and your new friends will have just as much fun as you would at a toddler’s music academy (maybe more fun), and you can all save on the tuition expenses!

If you’re like me, your memory of these years will be frosted in nostalgia no matter what. But if you put the money you save into a savings or college account, you’ll have a tangible reminder of your wisdom.

Eric Braun is a Minneapolis dad of two boys and the co-author of the forthcoming book for young readers, “The Survival Guide for Money Smarts: Earn, Save, Spend, Give” (Free Spirit Publishing, September 2016). Send comments or questions to ebraun@mnparent.com.

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I have amazing friends, but it’s so complicated to try to spend any quality time together. Between jobs, family and travel we all have such busy lives. There’s so much back and forth when we try to coordinate getting together it makes my head spin. Even when something does get scheduled it falls apart half the time.

How can we stop the madness so we can get to the real joy, which is actually having time together?

Amen. Quality time with others is hard to come by these days. Plus, with social media no one really has to engage face-to-face to know what others are up to anymore. When we actually do get together in person, it is most likely due to a lot of planning or simply having proximity on our side. If only it were as easy as when we lived in college dorms.

The most common issue I’ve heard my client’s struggle with over the years is feeling overwhelmed and stressed out. If I had special powers I would wave a magic wand and have us live in a world where everyone had more quality time to spend with their loved ones. (My other special powers would be more selfish but I’ll keep those to myself.)

If only it were that simple. The irony is that not only have we become disconnected from actual (as opposed to virtual) community, we’ve also become more disconnected from our own selves due to our hectic lives, feeling fragmented or lost from our interests and our essence.

You have two issues: your life is overcrowded and you miss your tribe. First, ask yourself what work-life balance looks like to you. Then after envisioning it, ask yourself what it would take to have more free time in your life. Next, put forth some of that extra time or energy to be the initiator with your group of friends. It requires work to connect and you have what it takes to be the leader among your comrades. If you value something you find a way to prioritize it. Most anything in life that is worthwhile takes work.

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Recognize that busyness comes in different shapes and sizes. Sure, there’s a time and place for gritting your teeth, hustling and getting lots of work done or times when the focus is all about small kids.

Beyond those situations, ask yourself what motivates your schedule to be chronically busy and why you have let it get so out of balance? Notice if you are busy due to financial scarcity, avoidance of your home life, or filling some inadequacy within yourself. This is very different from being busy because you’re inspired, passionate about a project or driven to fulfill a life purpose.

Many years ago when I first started my private practice at the wellness center I currently work at, I met a colleague who didn’t over-schedule herself with her acupuncture clients. I asked what her secret was and she answered unapologetically, “I don’t like to work too hard.” It was as simple as that. I had just come from working in a hospital setting and been running a ragged pace so what she said felt radical and refreshing.

In order to give myself permission to receive what I needed for so many years, it had to be modeled for me by people I respected. It wasn’t until I was surrounded by a community of individuals who valued health — not just talking the talk but walking the walk — that I learned it was possible to actually have a balanced life.

Just like my colleague, you can be the person to model life balance and true social connection to your community of friends.

Stop your role in the glorification of busyness in our culture. Spread the gospel about how you unabashedly walked around the lake at a leisurely pace, took extra vacation from work or lay in a hammock reading archives of the Ask Dr. Rachel column. As Gandhi stated, “be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

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Ambitious and diverse, Urban Scholars gain real-world experience More than 70 college students find jobs through city internship program

By Megan Cavanaugh

Ask Abdullahi Abdulle about his “dream job” and the second-year Urban Scholars intern will tell you he wants to be involved in community building.

“It should be about helping people by utilizing what I know in school, life and my different experience,” Abdulle said. “It should be bigger than myself.”

Whatever that dream job ends up being, his City of Minneapolis internship is helping Abdulle prepare for it.

Urban Scholars, a summer internship program for college students created to address the racial employment gaps in Minneapolis, acts as a stepping stone to the students’ future careers. The students gain professional experience and leadership skills from working in 17 city departments, Mayor Betsy Hodges’ office and City Council offices.

In 2011, the Economic Policy Institute reported that the Minneapolis, with a population that is more than 40 percent people of color, has the worst employment disparity between whites and nonwhites in the nation.

The Equity Division of the Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights, established in direct response to the report, operates the Urban Scholars program.

There were eight student interns in 2012.

This year, there are 73.

The diverse group of students was chosen from more than 500 who applied to work in key areas of city government and public policy.

Vermul Pewee has ambitions to work for the United Nations one day. Through Urban Scholars, she is grafting skills to prepare for a future that’s still wide-open.

“I want to do it all,” Pewee said. “I could see myself in government work, but I also see myself in the private sectors. What I appreciate about Urban Scholars is that they are giving you tools for not just [one area], they are giving you

A group of Urban Scholars. This year’s group includes 73 students. Photo courtesy of City of Minneapolis

tools for whatever you want to go into.”

Pewee worked for the Minneapolis Police Department and is now working with the state analyzing data and surveys for the Department of Employment and Economic Development.

The jobs that Pewee was paired with fit her because of her versatile aspirations.

Abdulle’s summer projects have been in the exact field he is interested in: planning.

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“That’s what’s cool about this program,” Abdulle said. “We are getting training that we wouldn’t have in schools, or even at a (different

kind of) internship.”

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“Going into the Urban Scholars program, I knew that I wanted to do racial equity work, but I didn’t know what that meant,” Brink-Johnson said. “Being in the program, and being able to meet and talk with people, that was able to give me clarity around the different programs and work that is being done in Minneapolis around racial equity. It was helpful to me in solidifying what I wanted to do.”

Urban Scholars provide students with the opportunity to excel.

“One year we had a scholar who had been doing research for Mayor Hodges around her Cradle to K initiative,” said Brink-Johnson, referring to a campaign to eliminate disparities for children regardless of race, neighborhood, income or family structure. “[The scholar’s research] helped shape a lot of her policy around that.

“I think that Urban Scholars is helping contribute to policy and decisions at a high level.”

When it comes to experience, Urban Scholars sets the bar at many levels.

They accept a range of students who have had professional experience to those who have never worked in a professional setting.

Cassidy Gardenier, assistant director of the Civil Rights Department and director of the department’s Equity Division, said Urban Scholars works off of the notion that the professional world needs students who know how to operate in diverse settings. The central idea is that it is more than just having diversity in the room, it’s about how do you glean the knowledge from a diverse group.

Diversity, Gardenier said, comes from all over.

“We do accept ‘top-notch’ individuals, but we’re also redefining what ‘top-notch’ means,” he said.

Urban Scholars is also helping students be ‘top-notch’ in their own lives. “[Through Urban Scholars] we are getting learning opportunities that we don’t have in our traditional settings in the educational systems that we have,” Abdulle said. “Because of this job, I know more about myself, more about the programs and opportunities around me and I know more in general than if I wasn’t in this program.”

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Francisco-based landscape architecture firm that won a city contract for the project in 2015.

In January, when it learned a campaign to raise $22 million for the Commons was progressing more slowly than expected, the City Council decided to accelerate construction but scaleback the overall plan for the park. Two park buildings, terraces around the park’s Great Lawn and a “water plaza” stripped from the plan may appear later — or they could be replaced by new elements, like a restaurant, Frey suggested.

Downtown Council President and CEO Steve Cramer, another key player in the Commons, suggested a wait-and-see approach.

“It could be that in the end, doing it this way is what makes the most sense, because we’ll get a sense of usage patterns and what is the next round of investments going to be in that park,” Cramer said. “Maybe it’s going to be what Hargreaves designed, maybe it’s not, based on the usage.”

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The Commons is expected to open in time for the stadium’s ribbon-cutting ceremony on July 22. Photos by Dylan Thomas

Boosters want to build buzz for the Commons Part of the new, 4.2-acre park opens in July

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

Chicago has Millennium Park. New York City has Central Park. In Houston, it’s Discovery Green, and in Detroit it’s Campus Martius Park.

So what’s Minneapolis’ iconic urban green space, that place that’s both a must-see tourist draw and a daily refuge for locals? Someday, maybe, it could be Downtown East Commons.

That’s the ambitious vision of the new 4.2-acre park’s biggest boosters, including City Council Member Jacob Frey. The park is taking shape amid the ongoing, $400-million redevelopment of a five-block area around U.S. Bank Stadium that is transforming part of Frey’s Ward 3.

“Every world-class city has a vibrant downtown, central park,” said Frey, who imagined the Commons as both a “kitchen table” for Minneapolitans and the first place they’ll bring their out-of-town guests. “It should be emblematic of everything great about Minneapolis.”

The city spent nearly $20 million to acquire and prepare two blocks for the Commons, one a former surface parking lot and the other the longtime home to the Star Tribune’s headquarters, until it was demolished last year. The plan is to recoup the costs through parking fees paid at a new stadium-adjacent ramp.

The park is nearly surrounded by new construction, including Edition, a “boutique” apartment on the park’s western edge; Wells Fargo’s twin 17-story office towers to the north; and the new, $1.1-billion home of the Minnesota Vikings football club to the east.

The eastern parcel that makes up the

With just weeks to go before the Commons’ debut, crews were busy watering trees and planting flowers in early July.

largest part of the Commons was expected to open in time for the stadium’s July 22 ribbon cutting ceremony. The fencing and jersey barriers surrounding the park’s western section should come down in mid-August, predicted Tony Barranco, vice president of Ryan Cos., the developer behind the massive Downtown East project.

Construction costs for this first phase total $10.8 million, according to city estimates.

What Ryan Cos. is delivering is much more than the flat patch of grass the city and company agreed on when they negotiated the Downtown East redevelopment plan in 2013. But it’s also less than the full vision for the park developed by Hargreaves Associates, the award-winning San

In a city that values and is known for its parks, the Commons will be something different — a kind of public-private collaboration common in other parts of the country but new to Minnesota.

The Minneapolis Downtown Council established Green Minneapolis, a nonprofit conservancy, to run the Commons and, eventually, other public spaces downtown. The fledgling organization is currently running the fundraising campaign, but it won’t be ready to take on the park for at least six months, so the city awarded the Downtown Improvement District (part of the Downtown Council) a $600,000 contract to manage park operations in the meantime.

Cramer said the city would still have a role in funding park operations. The cost is expected to run to $1.9 million in 2017, although a significant part of the conservancy’s role will be to attract revenue-generating sponsorships and park programming to offset some of that expense, Cramer said, adding that there may be a need for ongoing fundraising, as well.

The size of the city’s ongoing financial commitment to the Commons is one of several questions that have dogged the park for months.

Some who followed the design process were disappointed when the city and Hennepin County couldn’t agree to close Portland Avenue, a one-way county road that divides the park in two. The road has been narrowed from three auto lanes to two, but traffic will continue to flow through the park.

“There are grade-A parks around the world that do have streets running through them,” Frey said. “We are not an anomaly by any extent.”

The very nature of the Commons as a public space was also put into question by agreements with the Vikings and the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority that grant both entities the right to use all or part of the park for a combined 58 days each year.

Frey said the public would have access to the park “even on Vikings game days.” Cramer wouldn’t rule out the possibility of the park closing for private use — by the Vikings, MSFA or even Green Minneapolis — but said “if such events occur they will be very rare.”

The Commons isn’t a typical neighborhood park, and Green Minneapolis Executive Director Win Rockwell said developing an identity for the space would be a process of “co-creation” with the public.

“It takes work,” Rockwell said. “The (conservancy-run) parks that have succeeded in other cities around the country typically have gotten there by a thoughtful, incremental process of focusing on the space, finding activities that really work in that space outdoors, that fit in that community.”

Rockwell, currently Green Minneapolis’ sole employee, said he aims to add 10 to 12 full-time staff members by the time the organization takes over the park, probably in the spring. Their mission isn’t just to be caretakers of the grass, trees and hardscape seating areas but to program activities and events that draw in the public.

“The goal of a destination park is to be humming, to have a buzz to it,” he said.

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THE RISE OF EAST TOWN

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Michele Kelm-Helgen, chair of the MSFA, said she’s thrilled to see all of the new development surrounding the stadium. She credited former Mayor R.T. Rybak with pushing for Wells Fargo to build their headquarters near the stadium.

“I can’t tell you how important it is to me that before our building even opens, already under construction in this area is $1.2 billion in private economic development,” she said.

A dramatic design The stadium, designed by Dallas-based HKS Architects, has a unique asymmetrical design that is nearly 30 stories tall at its highest point and features an angular roof designed to shed snow in the winter.

It seats 66,200, but is expandable up to 70,000. There are 131 suites and 8,200 club seats, including field-level suites. The concourses that wrap around the field are also wider than they were in the Dome.

The transparent roof is made up of ETFE panels, which let in natural light and have a 30- to 50-year life expectancy, according to a stadium fact sheet. The stadium will also be the first in the NFL built with LED lighting.

Two massive HD video boards also flank the field and another 2,000 HD flat screen TVs are spread throughout the building.

The exterior of the building also features zinc metal panels.

Bird advocates have been very critical of the project for failing to have bird-safe glass. Stadium planners are expected to launch a study with the University of Minnesota to determine if the building needs special film added to the windows to protect migratory birds.

The five large glass doors at the stadium’s entrance are perhaps the most unique design element. The doors — 95-feet high at their tallest point — take between five and eight minutes to open. They swing out to a nearly 3-acre plaza.

Kelm-Helgen said stadium planners were very “intentional” about making sure the building would be very different from the Metrodome.

“The old Dome was an unattractive building. It kind of sat like a spaceship — you couldn’t see in, you couldn’t see out,” she said. “It

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was surrounded by parking lots and fences. It was never connected to the neighborhood. This building is an amazing iconic architecture piece in and of itself that really brings that whole area of town to life.

It is totally connected by bike trails, sidewalks.”

Construction took two and a half years and more than 8,000 workers completed more than 4 million hours on the project, according to the MSFA. The project was finished six weeks ahead of schedule.

John Wood, senior vice president at Mortenson Construction, the contractor for the project, called the building the “premier stadium in the NFL.” “The stadium stands as a testament to the dedication, expertise and hard work of so many in the local construction industry,” Wood said.

The stadium has also exceeded goals set for equity. The minority workforce goal was 32 percent and the project reached 36 percent participation, said Jennifer Hathaway, director of communications for the MSFA. The women workforce goal was 6 percent and the project reached 9 percent.

“These numbers when they were originally laid out, no one had ever come close to hitting these kind of numbers on the project,” Kelm-Helgen said. “We were very intentional when we started this program to have a process in place to help with outreach, recruitment and training should any of the subcontractors not have the workers to meet the goals.”

Stadium planners worked with Summit Academy on training and outreach to ensure a diverse workforce.

“It just became the culture that it was not an option not to meet the goals and everybody really came through,” Kelm-Helgen said.

“We not only met the goals, we far exceeded the goals.”

Other stadium attractions U.S. Bank Stadium has also announced an impressive culinary roster, including noted chefs Andrew Zimmern and Gavin Kaysen of the North Loop’s Spoon and Stable.

Downtown’s Ike’s Food and Cocktails and Revival, a popular Kingfield restaurant, will also be part of the dining program.

Aramark is the stadium’s exclusive hospitality and dining services provider.

Vikings owner and president Mark Wilf said he’s excited to see local flavors be featured.

“The dining experience is a crucial component of our commitment to providing a memorable game day, and these prominent culinary partners, along with Aramark’s robust menu and the innovative ways

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UPCOMING EVENTS U.S. Bank Stadium Open House: Saturday, July 23, 9 a.m.–6 p.m. & Sunday, July 24, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. (Free tickets are required to tour inside the stadium.) There will be family-friendly activities on the plaza, a 3D chalk installation, live music and much more. For more information, go to usbankstadium.com International Champions Cup: Wednesday, Aug. 3, 8 p.m. The first major event at the stadium will be a soccer match featuring AC Milan vs. Chelsea FC. Luke Bryan: Kill the Lights Tour, Friday, Aug. 19.

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THE RISE OF EAST TOWN

An East Town evangelist

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an Collison’s Twitter profile sums up his unique role in the community: “A pastor and civic leader who spends most days bringing people together across sectors through interdisciplinary work for the purpose of human flourishing.”

He serves as executive director of the East Town Business Partnership (formerly the East Downtown Council) and lead pastor of First Covenant Church in Minneapolis. Before he became a pastor, he ran an adult foster care home for men with development disabilities with his wife Holly.

He’s a champion of East Town, the newly branded east side of downtown that has been dramatically reshaped by the new stadium, Commons park, the Wells Fargo towers and other new development.

Here are highlights of a recent interview with Collison.

What motivated you to get involved in the East Town Business Partnership?

I joined the partnership in 2010 as a volunteer board member. My family moved downtown from the Twin Cities western suburbs in 2009 to help re-birth First Covenant Church, a congregation located between HCMC and the stadium that had declined for several decades and was ready for a ‘reboot.’ It only made sense to volunteer in the community as a means to learn how to be a good and contributing neighbor.

In 2011 the East Downtown Council completed a comprehensive market analysis we called “The East Downtown Great Streets” study.

It was undertaken to identify and understand the economic revitalization potential of our district, which includes the Elliot Park and Downtown East neighborhoods. It was this study that got me personally excited and inspired about the potential for our area. I was also shocked to learn that only 16 percent of the land in East Town was used for housing while 25 percent went to surface parking lots and vacant land. Our district was ripe for rediscovery!

The passage of the 2012 stadium legislation was what set the stage for a new wave of development, but it was the diligent work of many, but especially former Mayor R.T. Rybak that truly inaugurated a new era for East Town. I became the board president in 2013 and spent much of that year racing throughout downtown asking our members, our neighbors, elected city and county officials, the development

Dan Collison, executive director of the East Town Business Partnership. Photo by Janelle Nivens

community and regional voices “what do you want East Downtown to become?”

There were consistent responses: “become more integrated, improve connections and pedestrian environment, leverage transit, and whatever you do — while advocating for the new stadium be sure to reach further for a complete vision of holistic 21st century urban development.” At that point I fell in love with not only the vision potential but the challenge of the ask!

My professional work began in June of 2014 and expanded to include a shared staff role as director of East Town Partnership for the Minneapolis Downtown Council-DID and executive director of what we have been renamed as the “East Town Business Partnership.” This innovative partnership leverages the emerging grass roots nature of the East Town business community and the larger reach and influence of the MDC-DID. What are the greatest strengths of East Town?

I like to think of East Town as an emerging “complete” community.

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What are some of the challenges facing the neighborhood?

For several decades the income disparity between Downtown East/Mill District and Elliot Park was stark and unfortunate. This was true regarding housing and retail opportunities as well.

The leadership of the East Town Business Partnership (which has existed since 1979) continues to diligently look for ways to bridge those gaps and bring people together for the common good, and in

common shared spaces. Now that development is reaching into all corners of both neighborhoods, we realize that the rising costs of home ownership and rentals will continue to be a pressure point for low and middle income families. We are working with the development leadership of the Minneapolis Downtown Council-DID 2025 Plan to explore ways and means to pursue a diverse housing narrative in the currently hot housing market.

The other challenges include acclimating thousands of new residents and businesses to our area and help everyone to form a growing and new common vision for what East Town’s contribution will be to the larger downtown.

What is the goal of the East Town branding effort?

Ultimately this process was about creating a cohesive sense of place that celebrates the individual parts of the district but casts a larger vision celebrated on a regional and even national scale.

The East Town area is centered by the new Commons park, Wells Fargo mixed-use development and the U.S. Bank Stadium. In the past, depending upon who you talk to, the area has been called East Downtown, Downtown East, Mill District, and Elliot Park. A few people even called it The Stadium District.

The branding effort, led by the business community with input from neighborhood organizations, has worked to bring the area together much as a South Minneapolis business community did in the 1930’s when “Uptown” united several neighborhoods together around the newly built Uptown Theater.

On May 5, 2016, after almost two years and countless community engagement meetings with stakeholders the East Town Business Partnership Board of Directors officially adopted “East Town” as the new name for

their business district. The graphic presentation developed by PadillaCRT, mostly through pro bono efforts, provides a key visual brand commitment along with some possible creative expressions that will be developed further with community partners in the months ahead.

The brand vision driving the visual identity paints a compelling vision of where we are going with this new name: East Town: A Vibrant, Multifaceted and Connected Community.

What are your hopes/dreams for East Town?

(This response was written by Paul Mellblom, president of the East Town Business Partnership. I think that he and I, and the entire board share these hopes and dreams!)

East Town is poised to reap the many benefits brought by the projected growth in visitors and employment connected with the opening of the new stadium and Wells Fargo towers. The construction boom in our district has provided thousands of wellpaying construction jobs, with a significant focus on sharing the equity of those jobs among minority workers and businesses. Our organization is committed to partnering with, advocating for and assisting in efforts to grow opportunities for marginalized persons and businesses so all benefit from the prosperity in our district — especially people living here now. We join with the city, businesses, civic institutions and the neighborhood organizations to build a better district that benefits all.

Our landscape is greatly improved by the presence of U.S. Bank Stadium, Commons park, the Wells Fargo towers, four proposed hotels, hundreds of planned or under construction residential apartments and condominiums, the Kraus-Anderson campus, Ryan Companies’ headquarters, HCMC’s outpatient specialty center, and a Trader Joes on Washington and Chicago Avenues.

From the soccer field in Elliot Park to the

new connection of Samatar Crossing to the exciting vision for the riverfront, we are undergoing profound, positive change.

It feels like some may win and some may lose out, but it is the work of the East Town business community to help shape growth such that more feel included. Our business organization is diligently working with municipal leaders and staff, civic and nonprofit leaders, and especially with the neighborhood organizations to minimize the negative impacts within our district.

Together we can make a difference by advocating for opportunity and consideration of all points of view and interests — even and especially those that challenge our own biases.

Undoing the damage of decades of neglect has not been easy but it is necessary.

So what’s next? We are developing a continuous brand identity for our district linking the distinctly different and established neighborhoods. We all benefit by this connectivity: it brings people together, brings clarity to a larger landscape and builds upon existing strengths. Our brand is a vibrant, multi-faceted and connected community.

We aspire to be a regional focal point offering a diverse range of activities near the center of downtown with streets that are rippling with life and too many activities to choose from, all surrounding a new metropolitan park. Our strength is what is here and the people and buildings that will be here soon. Our district is the last to reach maturity among the many great places that ring Minneapolis’s Central Business District: Loring Park, North Loop and Warehouse District, Nicollet Island/East Bank and Marcy Holmes. We are extremely excited to connect two vital neighborhoods (Elliot Park and the Mill District) across the void (Downtown East) to become a booming district that encompasses the best of each neighborhood in such a few short years.

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THE RISE OF EAST TOWN

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By Carla Waldemar

Back in the day, color it gray: no reason to patrol its dingy sidewalks. Today, thanks to classy condos too numerous to count, a destination theater and a grand new stadium, the area— newly christened East Town—is humming with some of the trendiest dining destination in the city. They’re backed by a renewed interest in a couple of longtime dining oases still blooming in a former culinary desert.

South Washington Avenue has always been the area’s corridor, delivering folks from points north in the city to points south. Today it hosts tasty new reasons to pull over and enjoy the evening.

Let’s start, as many a good time does, with beer. Day Block Brewing Company, at 11th & Washington, debuted in 2005 in the former HQ of a lumber and milling magnate, after which they named their primo IPA, Leonard Day. And, what’s a pint without pub snacks? The kitchen agrees, readily supplying pretzels, charcuterie and cheese plates, beer mussels, and flights—get this!—of bacon and of pickles. What’s not to like? Check out the global pizzas, too.

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But the main reason to find a seat is the kitchen’s sushi; choose from a list longer than Nelsons in the phone book.

Sanctuary, also at 903 Washington Ave. S., is one of the city’s surprises, an Alice in Wonderland experience set in grotto-like chambers, where Chef Patrick Atanalian creates complicated dishes that, I promise you, no one has ever envisioned, like halibut

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Next in line, Old Spaghetti Factory, 233 Park Ave., scene—since forever—of Italian eats chosen to soothe the palates of office gatherings and visiting Scout troops in a warehouse saved from the wrecker’s ball. The fare’s more original at neighboring Sawatdee, longtime leader of Thai cuisine backed by décor to dazzle—both imported from her homeland by Supenn Harrison, doyenne of spring rolls and curries.

Cross the street, and the map, to Zen Box Izakaya, 602 Washington Ave. S., possibly the most homey Japanese joint in town, offering authentic comfort dishes (good sign: no California roll) in tapas-like portions. Mix yourself a feast from the list of irresistible gyoza, slippery udon noodles, bowls of donburi, rice balls and more, orchestrated by John and Lina, as passionate about hospitality as they are about their hometown eats. Bet you crave a beer after

that. Just steps away, the Crooked Pint, 501 Washington Ave. S., obliges, and gladly furnishes a side of pub fare like pot pies, Lucys and tater tots. Live music and trivia, too.

Eastside, 305 Washington Ave. S., is the new kid on the stretch, all dressed up to serve the folks in adjoining condos who’re scared of their own stoves. And why turn on the oven when you can dine instead on New American interpretations like roast chicken piled with pliant polenta, arctic char aside morels and spring onions, or a new spin on surf ’n’ turf: swordfish cum pork belly? Belly up to the bar lining the open kitchen or choose a windowside table.

Veer west, off Washington, for a pair of worthy kitchens, one a classic, one pulsing with new blood. Ask grandpa about The Normandy Kitchen, 405 S. 8th St., and he’ll start with a story about the famed Henry VIII burger, on the menu since 1941 (and for a good reason).

But today you can order it with a side of fries Bearnaise. It occupies pride of place on a revised, hipster-friendly list that salutes kale with quinoa, and caramelized Brussels sprouts fattened with lardons. Pot roast? Sure—but today with truffled mashed potatoes. Star of the kitchen may be the roast chicken for two with all—and I do mean all—the trimmings, from gingerbread-cherry stuffing to parsnips, carrots, fingerlings and pearl onions.

Harder to find, but worth the effort, is Mona—a wood-clad haven in the Accenture Tower on South 7th. Here Chef/patron Lisa (thus the name: Get it?) Sarazin creates a series of inventive small plates, from BLT devilled eggs to eggplant/spinach lasagna; from pink, plump shrimp in dill mayo on brioche to an easygoing veggie Madame sandwich.

Where to eat when holding Guthrie tickets?

Three choices that don’t require a hike, starting with Kindee Thai, 719 S. 2nd St., home of lettuce wraps, curries and stir fries in a modern setting. Sharing a sidewalk with the Guthrie, Spoonriver, 750 S. 2nd St., celebrating 10 years of delivering what’s fresh and fine in local, sustainable cuisine, is the urbane offspring of Brenda Langton’s original Café Brenda, pioneer of haute-veggie cooking. Today she includes meat and seafood (daily specials) in her market basket, along with her idea of tasty burgers: veggie/nut/rice or Moroccan lamb.

Anchoring the Guthrie itself, the James Beard awarded chefs of Sea Change, 806 S. 2nd St., showcase seafood as carefully curated as what’s onstage. The riverview see-and-be-seen room provides a cosmo backdrop for ultra-fresh crudi and offbeat starters (sweetbreads, octopus, pea soup sparked with mint and lobster) as prelude to pristine cuts of fish. As they say in the building, enjoy the show!

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Sustainable We

By Mikki Morrissette

Loving our community to failure

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few years ago, Roy Scranton, an opinion blogger for The New York Times, wrote that climate change “won’t be addressed by buying a Prius, signing a treaty, or turning off the air-conditioning.”

He said the biggest problem we face is that there is nothing we can do to save our current civilization, and we need to get down to the hard work of adapting to a new reality.

“We can continue acting as if tomorrow will be just like yesterday, growing less and less prepared for each new disaster as it comes, and more and more desperately invested in a life we can’t sustain,” he wrote.

Pessimistic? Yes. But in a way, I recently heard a similar message about wishful progressive thinking from Pam Costain, retiring executive director of Achieve MPLS, about the achievement gap in our Minneapolis public schools and how we are failing our students of color — and by natural extension, our communities of color and ourselves as a city.

I have known Costain for more than a decade, since her previous work around civic dialogue and education with Wellstone Action. She is the first person I contacted to talk to young student reporters about Paul and Sheila Wellstone for a book project titled “Be the Change,” with roots to the family that go back to her Carleton college days.

She talks with heart, passion and determination, and describes her past decade in public education as the most significant — and emotionally battering, frustrating and grief-stricken — of her long life in public service. There are few people I respect more for integrity and drive than Pam Costain.

In a private gathering that included the former and current mayor, School Board member Don Samuels, former School Board colleague T. Williams, current Board member Carla Bates, former superintendent Bernadeia Johnson, and many democraticminded activists, education reformers and Minneapolis Public Schools representatives, Costain delivered a candid retirement speech outlining six daunting reasons we are “loving our children to failure.”

1. State leaders have a lack of urgency around our embarrassingly bad achievement gap issues, and fellow Democrats are part of the status quo. It’s not simply about securing more funding, she said, but supporting innovative teaching.

2. School administration continues to have a trust issue with its teachers and parents, and a continued inability to listen to those on the ground.

3. Governance around the School Board process means all but the masochistic are driven away. We have become a one-party state with little competition for ideas.

4. Education reformers like herself have sometimes communicated with arrogance and erroneously given the impression that they do not respect teachers. We need good teachers alongside and in the center of the changes we need to make.

5. White people in our city have lower expectations for children of color. This is “one of the most subtle forms of racism,” she said. She believes that more affluent people have, through their choices, contributed to de facto segregation in our housing and schools.

All children are our children, she said. When we assume that certain kids can’t learn, then they don’t.

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We can continue acting as if tomorrow will be just like yesterday, growing less and less prepared for each new disaster as it comes, and more and more desperately invested in a life we can’t sustain.

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the most: Silent progressives. Costain said she does not understand why social justice activists who express so much concern about banks, corporations, police and fossil fuels, do not have the same level of outrage about our failure to educate all children. Is it because this would mean diving into teacher quality issues?

Costain also lifted up the bright lights: Roosevelt’s revival, Kingfield’s work toward inclusiveness at Lyndale, Patrick Henry’s rising graduation rates, the nurturing energy at Lucy Laney, achievements at Green Central, Edison and Sanford’s diverse communities.

She has hope that if adults can leave squabbling behind, and our city can combat its unexamined racism, we can develop a more unified and focused vision on our kids that goes beyond the next election and donation.

So much of what I’m seeing and hearing these days brings to mind for me the message physicist David Bohm told us in his 1980 book “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”: “The attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that are confronting us today … destruction of the balance of nature … world-wide economic and political disorder and the creation of an overall environment that is neither physically nor mentally healthy for most of the people who live in it.”

Bohm’s message was that humans tend to look at surface reality and confuse it for truth.

He believed there was a fundamental level we don’t see. That “wholeness is what is real,” and that our human need to break things down into fragments creates an illusionary sense that our world is not, at its essence, interconnected.

In a more “Sustainable We” vision, Bohm — and Costain — might argue that if we start with the notion that our community/ world/universe is connected, then maybe the ways we divide ourselves up politically, economically and socially will no longer make sense to us and we’ll get about the business of repairing it.

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Gadget Guy

By Paul Burnstein

A tool for home automation Smart homes are fun once you are set up, but it takes some time. In today’s column, I would like to introduce you to a voice activated hub speaker. This is a device that can help your other smart devices communicate with one another.

Recently, I was helping a client set up an Amazon Tap and was very impressed with the device. The Amazon Tap is part of the Amazon Echo Family, which includes the Echo, Tap, and Dot. The Echo is the flagship of the family and is a voice-enabled wireless speaker which allows one to speak to wake it up (like “OK, Google” and “Hey, Siri”) and, using Amazon’s Alexa as a digital personal assistant, ask it to perform actions or answer questions. The Tap includes the speaker and is portable, but it is not voice activated so you need to walk over to it and press a button. The Dot (apparently only available for Amazon Prime members) is the Echo without the speaker, so you can connect it to your own speakers.

I am going to focus on the Echo, as that is what I have been playing with. Why would one want an Echo? For me it was a Father’s Day present from my family. To start, I picked up a couple of wireless-enabled switches that, via my smartphone, allow me to control the power on and off to anything plugged into them. I plugged in a window air conditioning unit into one and a floor lamp into the other.

It took some work, but after some configuration and tinkering with the two switches

am better off replacing items as needed rather than all at once.

We can now add items to our grocery list, by just asking Alexa to add them. We can ask Alexa questions about weather, traffic and trivia. We can set timers, ask what is on our calendars for the day, and get a FitBit step count.

Additionally, Alexa can order a pizza from Domino’s or request a ride from Uber, all without having to touch anything. The Echo can pick up my voice across the room even when it is next to the air conditioning unit.

As we continue to buy smart home gear to automate our house, Alexa, through the Echo, will be able to control those items, like a Nest Thermostat or Ring Wi-Fi Enabled Video Doorbell, as the home hub. The usefulness of a voice-controlled hub increases with the devices added to it so that you speak to it to accomplish previously manual tasks or ask questions about the temperature, make sure doors and windows are closed/locked, and monitor your home environment. For now though, I am happy to be able to allow my kids to ask for the time, play music and turn lights that are out of reach on and off.

Alexa can order a pizza from Domino’s or request a ride from Uber, all without having to touch anything.

that I have set up this far, configuration and getting on the wireless network have been a bit finicky. It took some time, but I got them to work with the Amazon Echo and I could say, “Alexa, turn on the lamp” and “Alexa, turn on the air conditioner.”

Overall, it’s pretty cool to be hands free, but part of the goal is that my toddler and kindergartener can use the Echo to turn the light on and off on their own since it is out of reach for them currently. Plus, my young girls, or anyone else, can ask Alexa (on the Echo) what time it is, to set a timer, or to play music through Amazon Prime Music, Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio and TuneIn. After playing with it for a very short time, I already wanted to buy more switches and automate everything in my house that can be plugged in. Of course, doing everything at once is an expensive route to take, and I

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 www. gadgetguymn.com or via email at paul@gadgetguymn.com.

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A road map for energy savings Energy Fit Homes offer a personalized ‘map’ to help homeowners open the way to energy-saving comfort

By Helen Booth-Tobin

Many homeowners know that they could be doing more to improve the efficiency of their home, but knowing where to start can cause some mental roadblocks.

Part of the mission of the Center for Energy and Environment (CEE) is to help homeowners figure out what needs to be done to make their home more efficient, and create a clear path to make it happen. CEE created Energy Fit Homes to do just that.

Energy Fit Homes is a certification program designed for existing homes that focuses on cost-effective upgrades. With Energy Fit Homes, homeowners can learn how their home stacks up against energy efficiency standards and what upgrades are needed to improve their home’s performance.

CEE works with Twin Cities communities to bring Energy Fit Homes to residents, which is how Minneapolis residents Andrew and Terra Erickson first learned about the program. The Erickson’s Minneapolis neighborhood hosted an event that included a presentation on how to prepare for winter, and at one point the group’s conversation turned to Energy Fit Homes.

The first step to get certified as an Energy Fit Home is a home energy assessment to evaluate the efficiency of five main areas of the home: insulation and air sealing, heating system, windows, lighting, and ventilation and combustion safety. Homes receive an Energy Fitness Score from 0 to 100 — the higher the score, the more efficient the

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home. A score above 95 qualifies for the certificate, and homes scoring lower receive a report mapping the upgrades needed to achieve the certificate.

The Ericksons were especially eager to learn more about their home’s insulation levels. Improving their insulation was something they had talked about since they purchased the home, but they worried about potential expenses. “We were concerned that the upfront cost of insulating the house would be too much for us to afford,” says Andrew. “Then we received a quote at the assessment that told us the cost would be several thousand dollars cheaper than we expected, and we also learned that there were really great financing options available through CEE.” When they learned that upgrading insulation would raise their Energy Fitness Score from 59 to over 95 and qualify their home as

“energy fit,” the Erickson’s decided to go for it. And although they have no plans to sell their home, they know the certificate could come in handy when the time is right. In the meantime they are happy to celebrate their well-earned Energy Fit Homes certification with neighbors by proudly displaying it in their front window.

When asked what he would say to a neighbor who is thinking about moving ahead with a home energy assessment to

certify their home, Andrew said, “Do it! We just couldn’t be happier with our experience. The staff and contractors at every stage have been knowledgeable and helpful, and we are thrilled with the results!”

Helen Booth-Tobin is a policy and communications specialist at the Center for Energy and Environment, a Minneapolis nonprofit that delivers practical energy solutions for homes, businesses, and communities.

LEARN MORE Contact Energy Fit Homes at mnenergyfit.org, and then call CEE’s Beth Greeninger at 612-335-5874 to schedule a home visit and get started on your own path to certification.

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DENTURES The University of Minnesota, School of Dentistry, is seeking patients who already have NO NATURAL TEETH and complete upper and complete lower dentures.

This program offers a new set of complete upper and lower dentures, and the lower denture will be converted to attach to contain two mandibular implants. The total cost of this program is $1,500.00.

The program will begin in September, and last until the procedure is completed.

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If you have an interest in possible participation, please contact Dee Blomster at 612-301-1310 to schedule a screening appointment beginning May 10. Thanks for your interest.

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Though U.S. Bank Stadium has risen in Downtown East, it’s the Metrodome that’s the focus of a new photography exhibit at the Mill City Museum. Photographer Mark Jensen documented the former stadium’s construction between 1980 and 1982, and then its demolition in 2014. The resulting photos detail three decades of Metrodome history, along with the rise of the east side of downtown. “Up and Down: The HHH Metrodome” will have a public reception with Jensen on July 26 at 7 p.m. The exhibit is located in the Mill Commons, which is free and open to the public during regular museum hours.

Where: Mill City Museum, 704 S. 2nd St. When: July 26 through Nov. 6 Cost: Free Info: millcitymuseum.org

Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society

RIVERFRONT FEST

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The Minneapolis Riverfront Partnership, the East Exchange Club and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board are celebrating the Minneapolis riverfront the only way Minneapolitans know how — with food trucks, music and a little beer. The Riverfront Fest returns, this time for its fourth year, with an evening of outdoor entertainment. Food trucks from Stanley’s, El Taco Riendo, Betty Danger’s, Cookie Cart and more will be on hand to serve up waterfront fare, along with beer from Northeast Minneapolis. All the Islands and the Sweet Colleens will be performing and for the kids the Riverfront Fest will have a pop-up park, face painting and more.

The Taco Tour returns to Lake Street to take thousands of diners on a journey through the tacos of south Minneapolis. The tour starts at K-Mart and will move east to Taqueria La Hacienda, Taqueria Los Ocampo, A la Salsa, La Loma Tamales, Las Mojarras Restaurant, Taco Taxi, La Mexicana Supermercado, Cocina San Marcos and El Nuevo Rodeo. For early registrants there will even be free tacos, but for all diners there are special promotions and authentic Mexican flavors along the way. And the tour doesn’t end with just tacos. Harriet Brewing (3036 Minnehaha Ave.) is hosting a free after party from 6-11 p.m. after the tour.

Where: K-Mart, 10 W. Lake St. / When: Saturday, July 17 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Cost: Free, registration required / Info: tacotouronlakestreet.com

Where: West River Rd. North & Broadway When: Friday, July 29 from 5:30-9:30 p.m.

Cost: Free / Info: minneapolisriverfront.org

LOURDES NE BLOCK PARTY The oldest church in continuous use in Minneapolis is also home to a new celebration. The Third Annual Lourdes Northeast Block Party will bring locals and parishioners alike to the church for a neighborhood celebration of food, drink and music not to mention fireworks.

Where: Our Lady of Lourdes, 1 Lourdes Pl. / When: Saturday, July 23 from 6-10 p.m.

Cost: Free / Info: ourladyoflourdes.com/blockparty

SISTER CITIES DAY Who knew Minneapolis had 12 sisters? Minneapolis has sister cities on all corners of the globe, connections as far as Bosaso, Somalia; Ibaraki City, Japan; and Santiago, Chile.

The city is celebrating over four decades of being a part of the Sister Cities program with an ice cream social and festival with entertainment from many of the sister cities. The afternoon features family-friendly activities and traditional dancing from places like Cuernavaca, Mexico; Tours, France; and Uppsala, Sweden.

ARTCARS + ARTBIKES PARADE The annual ArtCar Parade has been bringing the most unique wheels on the road all to one place for more than 20 years. This year’s parade cruise will feature the Faery ArtCar, Dragon ArtCar, Lipstick ArtCar, TOY-oh-TAH ArtCar, House of Balls ArtCar, Orange Cat Bike and more. There will also be an after party at the House of Balls (1504 S. 7th St.) to watch Aquatennial fireworks.

Where: Nicollet Island Pavilion, 40 Power St./ When: Sunday, July 17 from 1-5 p.m.

Cost: Free / Info: Minneapolis.org/sistercities

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AQUATENNIAL

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You know when Minneapolis is in the height of summer when the annual Aquatennial rolls around. The four-day festival (July 20-23), which has been around for more than 75 years, continues a refocus on the downtown Minneapolis riverfront and Loring Park with huge events like the Target Fireworks and Twin Cities Carifest. From new events like a downtown drag race (July 22 from 6-9 p.m. in the North Loop) to these tried-and-true traditions, there’s plenty to enjoy in Minneapolis during the Aquatennial.

The fireworks show to end all fireworks shows. Target Fireworks is one of the largest annual fireworks displays in the country, not to mention one of the city’s most popular events of the summer. If you’re looking for the best spots to see the show, try somewhere on West River Parkway between Gold Medal Park and the 3rd Avenue Bridge. You can also try to squeeze in on the Stone Arch Bridge or Hennepin Avenue Bridge.

Where: Downtown Minneapolis riverfront When: Saturday, July 23 at 10 p.m.

Cost: Free Info: aquatennial.com

TWIN CITIES RIVER RATS

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Bring a beach towel or lawn chair to the Mississippi’s west bank during the Aquatennial and you’ll be treated to one of the more unique sights the river sees each year. The Twin Cities River Rats are once again bringing their family-friendly water works show to the riverbanks, which will feature Gru and the Minions battling Vector to become the best super villain in the world. The rats entertain with their fast-paced antics and tricks, including human pyramids, swivel skiing and more.

Where: South of Broadway Bridge When: July 21-22 at 6 and 8 p.m.

Cost: Free / Info: aquatennial.com

The CenterPoint Energy Torchlight Parade is set to bring illuminating floats, bands and displays to Hennepin Avenue. The Aquatennial flagship celebration event, Minnesota’s largest nighttime parade, will have WCCO-TV Saturday morning anchors Mike Augustyniak and Natalie Nyhus as grand marshals. Before the parade, Loring Park will be home to a family fun night with canoe rides with Wilderness Inquiry from 5:30-7 p.m.

The Twin Cities Orthopedics Torchlight 5K will also take place before at 7:30 p.m.

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