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Don Damond spent hours preparing to stand before the television cameras near his front lawn and talk about his fiancée, Justine Damond, who died July 15 in a police shooting in the alley behind Washburn Avenue at West 51st Street. So when he finished his statement and walked
inside, his friends were surprised to see him head out again. “I want to hug my neighbors,” friends recalled him saying. Neighbors noticed the household had run out of Kleenex and brought fresh boxes. Friends
intercepted bridesmaid dresses arriving for the wedding next month. Others spent time meditating with the family and paged through a scrapbook created for the 40th birthday of Damond, also known as Justine Ruszczyk.
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Don Damond speaks to the media July 17, two days after his fiancée Justine’s death. Standing directly behind him is his son, Zach. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
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TEN YEARS MPD updates 35W LATER body camera policy Remembering the Interstate 35W bridge collapse
Acting chief says changes had been coming
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Arriving at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport the morning of July 17, the first day of Navy Week in the Twin Cities, Navy Diver 1st Class Brian Bennett checked into his hotel and then boarded a light rail train bound for downtown Minneapolis. Visiting for the first time in a decade, Bennett found the city’s riverfront almost unrecognizable. When he last departed Minneapolis, after two weeks spent aiding recovery efforts following the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River, the fallen, the crumpled span was still partially submerged in 15 feet of water. It took Bennett a moment to recognize its gleaming white replacement. As he walked along West River Parkway,
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Bennett paused at a memorial honoring the 13 people who died in the Aug. 1, 2007 disaster. During a dozen dives into the Mississippi River, Bennett and other recovery workers used code words to refer to remains, out of concern that the media swarming the site might overhear their radio communications. Now, he was reading names of the people he searched for amid the bent steel and concrete rubble that filled the river’s murky waters. “To be able to read some of what the families had written up at the memorial was special,” Bennett said. Standing on the deck of a Hennepin County Sheriff ’s Office watercraft the following afternoon, Bennett and Chief Navy SEE 35W TEN YEARS LATER / PAGE A16
By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com
Minneapolis police officers will be required to activate their body cameras when dispatched to any call or for any self-initiated activity, Acting Chief Medaria Arradondo said July 26. The Minneapolis Police Department will also make clear in policy the range of discipline for officers who don’t activate their cameras, he said. The updates will go into effect July 29. The changes were announced 11 days after a woman was fatally shot by a Minneapolis officer in the Fulton neighborhood. The woman, Justine Damond,
had called 911 to report a possible assault in the alley behind her house. Neither officer who responded to the scene had turned on his body camera. The incident made national and international headlines and led to the resignation of Police Chief Janeé Harteau. Community members, activists and a City Council member have vowed to demand fundamental changes to the police department in the wake of the shooting. Arradondo said July 26 that body SEE BODY CAMERAS / PAGE A15
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Updated 26th & Lyndale project clears Planning Commission By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com
The Minneapolis City Planning Commission on July 17 approved amended plans for an apartment building and retail space at the southeast corner of 26th & Lyndale. The five-floor building, known as Rex 26, would include 86 apartment units and a single retail space of 21,025 square feet. A grocery store would fill that space (renderings show an Aldi logo on the building). The proposed development, known as Rex 26, would have studios and one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments. A clubroom/ skydeck would face east, and an outdoor community area would face Lyndale Avenue on the second floor. Exterior materials would include brick, metal, shingles, metal panels and metal siding. The applicant, Master Properties Minnesota, LLC, proposed 176 parking spaces in two-anda-half floors of underground parking. Fourteen of the spaces would be reserved for French Meadow, located across the street. The Planning Commission approved plans for the development in December, but Master Properties made changes to the proposal. Those included:
The Rex 26 development at 26th & Lyndale would include 86 apartments and a grocery store on the first floor. Rendering by Master Properties
• Changing the traffic flow and entrances and exits for vehicles. Vehicles would enter and exit from Lyndale Avenue South, and trucks would enter the site from the alley and exit onto Lyndale Avenue South.
• Changes to mechanical systems.
• Moving a residential elevator corridor to the interior of the building, which would eliminate a vertical blank wall along Lyndale Avenue.
• Reducing the height of the first floor by three feet, to 20 feet from 23 feet.
• Changes to exterior materials and balcony configuration.
• Adding a fifth floor, nine units and 9,267 square feet of gross floor area.
“These changes greatly improve the overall use of the site, provide a more efficient layout of the
building and significantly improve traffic circulation in the area,” Master Properties Managing Partner Don Gerberding wrote in a May 8 letter to the city. “The number of truck deliveries, hours and days of operation are anticipated to be the same as previously proposed.” The city received one public comment in regard to the latest proposal, from a longtime homeowner on Garfield Avenue. He was not in support of it. Danny Schwartzman, owner of the adjacent Common Roots Cafe said he thinks the latest proposal is better than past versions. He’s happy to see large trees in front, for example, but has
concerns about traffic flow. Schwartzman said he doesn’t think the development matches the neighborhood’s character, which he called small-business focused. “If they were thinking about matching community needs, it wouldn’t look like this,” he said. Rex 26 would encompass six lots, two of which are vacant and four of which contain a single or two-family home. The houses would be demolished as a result of the project. The Planning Commission would require all site improvements to be completed by July 17, 2019.
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Martina Martina, an Argentine fish house, is under construction at the former Marathon gas station at 5400 Penn Ave. S. Chef Daniel del Prado said he’s planning a bright, clean and laidback venue with seafood, fire and char at its focus. The restaurant would be modern, not fancy, and welcome kids, del Prado said. “We want to do our best at being a neighborhood restaurant,” he said. Del Prado said he grew up in Buenos Aires in a household with an Italian mom and an Argentine dad. His concept of Argentine food isn’t steaks, he said, and instead it’s a mix of Spanish tapas and Southern Italian. He described the image of cooking over a fire on the beach. Del Prado said Minnesota’s landlocked region has led to a dearth of seafood restaurants in town, and he will draw fresh imports through
local suppliers like Coastal Seafoods and The Fish Guys in addition to east and west coast companies like Sea to Table in New York. “I can place an order today and it will come tomorrow morning — and it’s what they caught at a fishing dock today,” he said. He plans to cook with a wood fire to achieve an underlying smoky flavor. Aside from seafood (Del Prado said he loves shellfish and crab in particular) a selection of meats will be available, as well. He selected the name Martina for its connection to polo players in Argentina and its reference to “mar,” which translates sea. Del Prado helped open Bar La Grassa and Burch Steak, and he spent time in Europe working for free at spots like Noma. He lives in Linden Hills. The opening is anticipated in late 2017.
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StormKing Barbecue StormKing started cooking today’s barbecue at 8 p.m. last night. The brisket and pork shoulder smoke all night and are prepared in the Texas style with dry rub and nothing but salt, pepper and smoke. The meat is smoked with white oak, the closest local version of Texas’ post oak. Staff have nothing against barbecue sauce, and sauce is on the table, but it’s not essential. “We think all our meats are smoked to where they should be, and they don’t need anything else,” said co-owner Nick Walsh. “… The star of the show is the brisket.” The all-natural, hormone-free menu also features Amish chicken, Duroc pork spare ribs and spicy sausage, with sides that include
collard greens, potato salad, buttermilk and bacon broccoli salad, fries and chili nachos. The menu also features pies by Rachel Swan of Pie & Mighty. “The maple pecan pie is probably the best slice of pie I’ve had in my life,” Walsh said. Co-owner Jordan Smith, the founder of Black Sheep Pizza who has spent a small fortune visiting the nation’s best barbecue joints, has worked with Walsh since the first Black Sheep opened in the North Loop. Meats are cooked and served within 24 hours, so meats may sell out. The restaurant aims to provide a living wage, gratuity-free venue for staff.
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Renovations have transformed France 44, which now features a gourmet grocery, cut-toorder cheese counter and deli. Sliding doors lead to dining space for meat and cheese boards, melts served with a shot of hot tomato soup, Kopplin’s coffee, a glass of Rickshaw pinot noir or Valrhona brownies. The wine shop is reoriented to provide more tasting counters every Friday and Saturday. “We’ve had a lot of success with tastings, but it was crowded,” owner Rick Anderson said. The total number of individual products has increased by 10 percent, Anderson said, with more bubbles, rosés and specialty liquors for cocktails. “Cocktails are such a hit right now,” said Anderson, who added the segment continues to grow year over year due in part to popularity with millennials. Nose-to-tail butchering takes place downstairs, where Merguez or spicy Luganega
sausages are made in-house. Imported European cheeses finish aging in basement coolers so they’re served at the optimal moment. “Time is of the essence,” Anderson said. “Cheese is a living organism.” Anderson said France 44 pays more than double typical market rates for meats and buys direct from ranchers. “All the money is going to the rancher, and we know it was ethically raised,” he said. “You create justice through your choices as a consumer.” Manager and buyer Peter Cusic said staff personally visit farms and can even narrow down the particular day’s cheese they feel is best, ordering wheels from the superior day. A rotating beer roster is on tap and wine is available by the glass. Happy hour is 3 p.m.–6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The business has been family owned and operated since 1959.
NOTED: Twin Town Guitars is celebrating 20 years in business with an anniversary celebration on Saturday, Aug. 5. Jeremy Messersmith will perform at 2 p.m. from his songbook, “11 Obscenely Optimistic Songs For Ukulele.” The shop will give away hot dogs 11 a.m.–1 p.m. and hold a drawing for a Fender ukulele and electric guitar. The Triple Rock Social Club will host an after-hours party with performances by
Dosh and BNLX. Twin Town Guitars opened in August 1997. The shop tripled in size in 2005, added 100 solar panels in 2011 and expanded again in 2015 to create a dedicated drum shop. The shop’s lesson program teaches instruments including acoustic and electric guitar, piano, cello and harmonica, in addition to voice and songwriting lessons.
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46TH & GRAND
ColorWheel Gallery talks down potential robber Eileen Espinosa was alone at the ColorWheel Gallery July 20 when a man placed a small gun on the counter and told her to open the register. “I said, ‘This is a small shop, and this is my daughter’s business, and she doesn’t have much in there,’” Espinosa said. The man told her again to open the register. She said no. He’d have to shoot her first, she said, and restaurant patrons outside would notice, and he’d be caught. “I just got done beating my fourth time with cancer, and I’ll be damned if I let you rob my daughter,” she said. “Is it really worth it?” So the man asked if she could simply help him out with some money. “Not when you pull a gun on me,” she said. The man became increasingly nervous and asked if the store had a back door. Espinosa let him run out the back, and then her knees buckled. She laughed to see a jar of bills sitting
untouched on the counter, collecting money for local causes. “I think it was the mama bear in me,” she said. “… Mama bears always stand in front of guns.” The family doesn’t necessarily recommend this approach, however, and ColorWheel owner Tammy Ortegon cautioned everyone to stay safe. Espinosa was shaken after the man left, and Ortegon is very thankful she is okay. “I think it’s really powerful. That’s the thing about humanity,” Ortegon said. “Everybody loves to put everybody in a box. But it’s just another person making a really bad mistake right now.” The women alerted neighbors to the man’s description: a white man in his late 20s with dark and long dreaded hair, a heavy dark mustache, red T-shirt, cross earring in his left ear and a nervous demeanor.
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Saralyn Romanishan said she was motivated to enter the Ward 10 race against incumbent City Council Member Lisa Bender because voices like hers are not being heard at City Hall. “We’ve got a lot of people who feel like they do not have a seat at a table, and even if they do, that they do not have a say in the decisions that are happening,” Romanishan said. Asked for examples of when neighborhood voices were ignored, she replied: “Every development we’ve had in the area.” A Metro Transit employee and Wedge neighborhood resident who administers the Facebook page Minneapolis Residents for Responsible Development Coalition, Romanishan is one of at least two candidates challenging the Ward 10 incumbent, who is seeking a second term. Another is high school teacher David Schorn. A third, Scott Fine, appears to have abandoned his campaign. Development is a hot-button topic in Ward 10, which is also a pressure point in the Minneapolis housing crunch. Bender has said the city’s low vacancy rate, recently estimated at 2.2 percent in the Uptown area by Marcus & Millichap, is one of the reasons she supports new development, but Romanishan is a vocal critic of how that development is playing out in Ward 10. If elected, Romanishan said she plans to pursue changes the area’s zoning so parts of Ward 10 are “not as shiny to a luxury developer,” and would also seek to place “more restrictions” on the granting of conditional use permits and variances. The former allows the city to set conditions on a property use not allowed as of right, and the latter are considered for exceptions to zoning code that meet the spirit but not the letter of ordinance. Bender, who chairs the council’s Zoning and Planning Committee, said recent projects in Ward 10 have included the smaller scale, infill development she hears constituents demanding. She said it was “irresponsible to suggest that we could meet our neighborhoods’ and city’s housing needs without allowing the kinds of buildings that have been coming through the process and being built in the past few years.” Both Romanishan and Bender said addressing rising rents should be a citywide priority over the next council term. But Romanishan is a critic of one of Bender’s major policy achievements, a reduction in minimum parking requirements for new residential projects built outside of the downtown core, which Bender said lowers rents in new developments by limiting the role parking infrastructure plays in project costs.
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Bus and light rail fares will rise 25 cents beginning Oct. 1 under a plan recommended July 24 by the Metropolitan Council Transportation Committee. The fare hike still required approval from the full Met Council but was expected to pass at a July 26 meeting that took place after this
edition went to press, despite the overwhelming opposition expressed in nearly 6,000 comments and surveys submitted by the public. The Met Council, which last raised fares for Metro Transit in 2008, is facing a budget deficit in its transportation division that is expected to rise to almost SEE MET COUNCIL / PAGE A7
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ation Board. He said he is familiar with both the system and many of the people who work in it. “I know there are a lot of good people there,” he said. In an interview, Honerbrink said he would like to see the Park Board invest in new community centers with more programming for both adults and children, including music and the arts in addition to sports. He said solar installations on Park Board buildings could eventually help to pay for improvements. “There are so many good things that can be done with kids when they have a place to go,” he said. “They can stay out of trouble.” Honerbrink said he would also push the Park Board to “disinvest” in properties like Meadowbrook Golf Club, which has been closed since extensive flooding in 2014. It is located outside of city limits. “(The Park Board) should not own a property in St. Louis Park,” he said. Honerbrink had previously registered a campaign fundraising committee for his mayoral race with Hennepin County. The filing period for all Minneapolis offices opens Aug. 1.
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with disabilities or health conditions that prevent them from using Metro Transit buses and trains, will see a 50-cent hike in regular fares, plus a 75-cent long-distance surcharge on trips longer than 15 miles. Some of the revenue produced by the fare hikes will be offset by making permanent the Transit Assistance Program, now a pilot project testing a means to help low-income and transitreliant customers. TAP participants will pay a fare of just $1 to ride bus and light-rail trains. The Met Council says inflation and a forecasted downturn in revenues from the Motor Vehicle Sales Tax, which go toward its transit services, are both contributing to the deficit. Met Council leaders, including the outgoing chair, Adam Duininck, had lobbied the state legislature unsuccessfully for a half-cent metrowide sales tax for transit. The plan was proposed by Gov. Mark Dayton.
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few weeks before she was gunned down by a Minneapolis cop, Justine Damond told the 55 members gathered at the Lake Harriet Spiritual Community’s Sunday service, “When we wake up into the quantum world we start to say, ‘Listen, I don’t believe the world happens to me, I believe I’m a creator, and I’m going to stop in this present moment and life should move towards me, and it’s moving towards me as a response to this frequency signature that I’ve set up over time.’ We tune into it like a radio dial tuning into a frequency. So you’re the same person moving through life, but depending on how you’re thinking and feeling will determine the life experiences that are coming towards you.” The irony, of course, is that Damond’s life was snuffed out by a force not of her own making, but of the violent society she lived within. Her killing at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department, like Philando Castile’s, is deservedly drawing international attention, for how we react as a people in response to this and other state-trained and -funded bloodshed is on the hands of all of us. As a city and a people, we’re going through what feels like a very important parable playing out before our very eyes in real time, about race, class, cops and guns, amidst a populace reaching the boiling point. A teachable moment, as the gurus say. The good news is that the woman at the center of the most recent uproar was a healer and a teacher. I didn’t know Justine Damond, but I’ve been a longtime admirer of the Lake Harriet Spiritual Community, about which I’ve written (southwestjournal. com/voices/my-minneapolis/2015/04/loveand-light-in-linden-hills/) and on whose altar I’ve been honored to guest speak. What I know is that LHSC is a safe, gentle, welcoming place, and if Ms. Damond was part of that community, you can bet she was a force for good and an evangelical voice of peace and wisdom on a planet aching for both. A former veterinary surgeon, Damond has become yet another symbol of everything that’s wrong with everything, but luckily she was a spiritual being born of reading, meditating, yoga and love, and we could learn something from her at this very raw moment. She spoke frequently at LHSC, where she taught yoga and meditation, and her July 2 sermon focused on quantum physics, overcoming addiction, practicing self-love and attracting/ refracting light. Some excerpts are available via the Lake Harriet Spiritual Community YouTube. com channel: youtube.com/watch?v=wayh5bST_ GA&t=168s. “In 2006, on New Year’s Day, I found myself sitting up on the edge of my bed. And I hadn’t been asleep. I feel like I had an out-of-body experience, but I was fully conscious during this process. And a few weeks before, I’d seen the movie ‘What The Bleep Do We Know?’ and there were some really profound statements and messages in that movie, inviting us to consider that maybe our thoughts have a measurable effect on our reality. Maybe how
A memorial has grown on the steps of Lake Harriet Spiritual Community in Linden Hills, where Justine Damond taught classes in yoga, mindfulness and meditation. Photo by Jim Walsh
we think and feel can not only affect our reality but in fact create it. “So I’d been mulling that over for a few weeks, in I guess what you’d call a dark night of the soul. It was one of the darkest points of my life, because over the six months before, I’d really considered several times whether I wanted to stay on the planet or not. So I was really, really unhappy and really quite sick. … And I heard a quote from that movie: ‘In this infinite sea of potentials, why do we keep on creating the same realities over and over and over again?’ “When you do begin to find out about this possibility that your external reality is directly created by your powerful, powerful self, one of the first reactions can be regret, or blame, or overwhelm, or fear, that ‘How could I have created that?’ For people who are experiencing health conditions within themselves or have experienced tragedy outside of them — we recently lost just a dear, beautiful friend — it doesn’t mean that all those things are going to stop happening, but you gain a new perspective on it. So it’s not about me standing here telling you all that you’re to blame for everything that’s happened. It’s not about that. What we want to begin to learn is what standing in the present moment means, understanding what story makes up our past, and then how we can we begin to write a whole new story for our future.” “We are vibrational beings. … Seven-pointeight times a second, you change the expression of yourself. But most people will spend 40 or 50 or 60 years re-expressing the same expression of themselves over again and over again and over again. … There’s this exquisite, infinite field of information. It’s unlimited. It’s universal intelligence, and from that information field you are being expressed — as your uniqueness, as your personality, as your incredible consciousness in this body collapsing waves of information into particles to make a pretty amazing and beautiful and good-looking and sexy version of yourselves sitting here right now. “There is this field of information. It’s flowing
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into every part of us. Everything is an expression of this field. And not only are you connected to this god, or this source, or whatever you want to call it, but also to everyone else in this room, and everyone else on the planet, and every being and every leaf on every tree. It’s all so loving. There’s a benevolent force here. There’s this loving, caring witness to you.” “If you have a bunch of similar thoughts in a row — happy thought, happy thought, happy thought — then you’ll have a happy state of mind. If you have a jealous thought —a jealous thought, a jealous thought, a jealous thought — then you’re in a jealous state of mind. You can separate yourself out from the thoughts that you’re thinking. You can somehow notice the activity of your brain in a certain state of mind, right? Notice what you’re thinking and go, ‘Oh my god, thinking that is not making me feel good. I’m going to change my mind.’ And the moment you change your mind, you change your brain. You are not your brain, you are not your mind. “For those people in your life that you can’t get rid of, like a toxic friend you’re going to cut off, there are [also] the people who are going to be there all the time, and they’re going to meet you wherever you are at. So if you’re having a bad day, they’ll probably come in and make you feel like a victim, or if you’re in joy, they’re going to make you feel like you’re the most incredible person in the world. So they have the potential to move up and down in those life experiences, but you’re the epicenter of your reality.” “Meditate, get in there and turn that frontal lobe on,” she concluded. “Then, once you start experiencing all these moments of freedom, instead of this constant mirror of reflection, you’re in this beautiful space of the unknown and pure possibility and pure potential, and just a massive adventure from one day to the next.”
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Moments in Minneapolis
By Cedar Imboden Phillips
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urrent Southwest residents may take some solace from knowing that today’s seeming constant home construction and roadwork is nothing new. Here, a new home on the corner of Emerson & 34th goes up in 1923. By the 1920s, the neighborhood (today known as CARAG) was already well developed. Many of the single-family homes had been built 10, even 20 years earlier, and by the 1920s empty lots were being filled in to build duplexes, as well as the larger brick apartment buildings in the neighborhood. Then, as now, this location was convenient to the burgeoning commercial core centered at Lake & Hennepin, as well as to public transportation links to downtown Minneapolis. And then, as now, complaints about road conditions and parking concerns were already part of the public dialogue. Cedar Imboden Phillips is executive director of the Hennepin History Museum. Learn more about the museum and its offerings at hennepinhistory.org or 870-1329.
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Police Chief Janeé Harteau steps down Hodges asked for her resignation following Damond shooting By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com
Police Chief Janeé Harteau resigned July 21 at Mayor Betsy Hodges’ request. The mayor nominated Assistant Chief Medaria Arradondo as the city’s new Police Chief. “As far as we have come, Chief Harteau is not in a position to lead us further — and from the many conversations I’ve had with people around our city, especially this week, I know that some in Minneapolis have lost confidence in police leadership,” Hodges said. “For us to continue to transform policing — and community trust in policing — both the chief and I concluded we need new leadership at MPD.” Protesters interrupted Hodges’ remarks at a press conference last week, chanting “Bye bye Betsy” and taking over the microphone. “We’re not going to be tricked by this effort,” said one protester. “… We understand that Chief Arradondo looks like us, but we understand that he’s not one of us, that he works for a police department that has a history of brutalizing us. … This is just a cosmetic change, and we want institutional change.” When Hodges returned to the podium later in the evening, she said change would not happen overnight, and said the city has made progress in rolling out body cameras and training officers. “I hope people agree that there is no magic wand for public safety,” she said. While she said Minneapolis has done more than any other city in America to transform policing, and gave Harteau “tremendous credit” for that work, she said the resignation follows an overall assessment of her performance. “The events of the last week have reinforced for me that we need that change, and it’s the right time,” she said. Harteau said the July 15 police officer shooting of Fulton resident Justine Damond and other recent incidents led her to deeply reflect on the department. “The recent incidents do not reflect the training and procedures we’ve developed as a Department,” Harteau said in a statement. “Despite the MPD’s many accomplishments under my leadership over these years and my love for the City, I have to put the communities we serve first. I’ve decided I am willing to step aside to let a fresh set of leadership eyes see what more can be done for the MPD to be the very best it can be.” Shortly before her resignation, Harteau said police are not activating body cameras enough. She said she wanted Officer Mohamed Noor to answer questions about the shooting, and said she was concerned about the incident’s impact on the Somali community. Based on available information, she said the shooting went against MPD values, and stressed that it was the judgment of a single individual. In her 30-year career with the Minneapolis Police Department, Harteau cited career accomplishments including MPD 2.0, a program to improve accountability and professional standards. She’s often repeated the mantra that officers should treat community members like family members. “My goal with MPD 2.0 was to leave the department better than when I became Chief, and I believe that we have,” she said. Arradondo joined the MPD in 1989. He has served as a South Minneapolis patrol officer, school resource officer, Northside beat officer, Downtown inspector, internal affairs investigator, property crime investigator, deputy chief and chief of staff. He graduated from Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis and is a graduate of Metropolitan State University, Concordia Willful SWJ 072717 4.indd 1
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Harteau addressed the shooting one day before resigning. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
University, the Senior Management Institute for Police in Boston and the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Arradondo also oversaw department-wide training in topics like implicit bias, the public’s perception of fairness in policing and historical damage in police-community relationships. Prior to Harteau’s resignation announcement, some Council Members voiced frustration at a City Council meeting July 21. Council Member Andrew Johnson said he’s heard from many residents who said they no longer feel safe calling 911. “We should have greater oversight of the police department,” Johnson said. “Right now it is just the mayor as our only civilian leader overseeing the police department. We literally have more oversight of potholes than we do of police.” Johnson said he’d support immediately spending about $60,000 for technology that activates body cameras the moment a nearby officer removes a gun from the holster. Council Member Linea Palmisano said the use of force in policing is too often disproportionate to the actual danger. “If the current state laws can’t get guilty verdicts when police kill our citizens, we need new laws,” Palmisano said in a statement. “When police are using their guns in a destructive manner, we must rethink our use of force policies. Yes. We must revamp our body camera policies and technology. Not just so we have recordings of these incidents, but so the cameras themselves act as a deterrent and can build trust in our community.” Council Member Jacob Frey said the city needs a new chief, and said it’s time to be angry and take action. Frey said officials should consider a “rebuttable presumption” of misconduct or illegality if an incident happens and a body camera isn’t turned on. Frey said the council should also consider the difference between self-defense claims for officers and civilians. Under current law, civilians must show a reasonable person would act in self-defense in similar circumstances, he said, while officers must simply profess that fear caused them to act in self-defense. “How do you rebut a person’s subjective intent without knowing what’s in their head?” he asked. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety Bureau of Criminal Apprehension continues to investigate the July 15 shooting.
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Dateline Minneapolis
By Steve Brandt
A rookie delegate’s view from the convention floor
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lthough I was a rookie at being a delegate to the Minneapolis DFL convention, held earlier this month, I was fully prepared for a long day. I packed a lunch. And I packed a dinner. But what I wasn’t prepared for was to leave the Minneapolis Convention Center 14 hours after my arrival having cast only one ballot on whom the party should endorse in this fall’s mayoral election. I’m not arguing that the city party was capable of reaching a consensus anywhere near the 60 percent support that is its threshold for endorsing a mayoral candidate; it was widely expected that the presence of four credible candidates would make that difficult despite a drop rule intended to narrow the field to two after a few ballots. Given that rule, taking just one ballot seems like merely going through the motions. I left the convention with two strong opinions. One is that in a digital age the party needs to embrace technology to automate the casting and counting of ballots, just as municipal election officials have done. That alone makes more ballots more feasible. The second is that the progressive-dominated convention’s endorsements for Park Board may well result in a vastly different approach to Minneapolis parks if those candidates are elected this fall. One nominator lauded a candidate as “someone who will turn our Park Board into the most radical park board in the country.” Among the promised changes were pesticidefree parks (a goal that eluded long-time Green Party incumbent Commissioner Annie Young) and requiring park police to buy their own liability insurance. The potential change might be enough to prompt Superintendent Jayne Miller to seek a job elsewhere; her current employment contract expires 10 months after the new board will be seated next year, unless the lame-duck board extends it. Although Miller’s potential departure would gladden her critics, who have made her their lightning rod on the Park Board, it could also create instability at the top of a well-regarded park system. Whatever her faults, Miller has brought some needed organizational discipline to what has historically been an old-boys network. But her critics also make a persuasive case that low-income areas of the city deserve better equity in the number and variety of programs offered to children and their families. However, the Minneapolis DFL party needs to look more seriously about how it handles endorsements. Perhaps a two-day convention — one for Park Board and one focused only on the mayoral race — is in order. Or eliminate the lengthy process of candidate speeches that largely rehash what’s on a candidate’s web site or what that candidate’s campaign has said in contacting delegates between precinct caucuses and the convention. It’s inexcusable that voting for the mayoral endorsement didn’t start until 6:45 p.m., almost nine hours after the scheduled start of the confab. Then it took hours to get results. That delay is partly a function of size — the party’s maximum delegate strength of 1,402 people makes it the nation’s third-largest political convention after the quadrennial Democratic national convention and the California
convention. That’s roughly one delegate for every 285 city residents. That brings the party closer to grassroots; a Sen. Bernie Sandersrooted movement like Our Revolution MN can still tilt the process. But the delay in results also reflects the antiquated hand-counting of ballots with seven mayoral candidates this year. It turns out that the party did look into automating the casting and counting of ballots, according to Scott Graham, co-chair of the city party’s credentials committee. It found that technology is viable but expensive. The optimal vendor, one that would have run the tabulations hands-free of party officials, would have cost at least $15,000. Graham said the state party was willing to cover that. But others in the party raised concerns about ease of use for technophobes, the security of a voting system and whether the largest convention in the state was the appropriate forum for testing it. Graham predicted that the technology would be tested at a future meeting of the state party’s central committee. Adoption of the technology for a future city convention would eliminate the lengthy counting process as an impediment to the convention’s prime task: bestowing an endorsement. Of course, a convention split between two strong candidates, as in the R. T. Rybak-Peter McLaughlin mayoral standoff in 2005, or divided among this year’s field of four, can still thwart an endorsement. That’s particularly true when most of the campaigns don’t want to endorse or at least stick around for a second ballot. The campaign of my preferred candidate, state Rep. Raymond Dehn, was the only one of the four not arguing against a second vote. Dehn led the field with almost onethird of the vote, fulfilling his goal of coming out of the convention as one of the top two. Council Member Jacob Frey was fewer than 5 percentage points back, trailed by incumbent Betsy Hodges, who polled just under a quarter of delegates, and former Hennepin Avenue theater impresario Tom Hoch, who faced likely drop-rule elimination on a second ballot. But with Hoch’s 10 percent of the convention up for grabs, as well as another 5 percent scattered among also-rans, didn’t delegates deserve a second or third ballot as a reward for sitting all day? And didn’t they deserve a chance to see if Dehn could build on his surprising first-ballot lead or if another candidate could rally? Apparently not, in the minds of the majority of delegates who voted for adjournment, urged to do so by campaigns bent on trying their luck with ranked-choice voting next fall. So now it’s on to the fall election without an endorsement. Hodges, who gave a rousing speech, likely has more appeal to the general electorate. She excelled in leading the firstchoice round of the 2013 ranked-choice election, and eventually accumulated enough second-choice votes to win. She faces a determined ground game that Dehn’s campaign employed for caucuses and the convention but now needs to recalibrate to try to translate from a convention plurality to winning over a much more ideologically diverse fall electorate. Frey and Hoch also are in the hunt. And don’t forget Captain Jack Sparrow.
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The last words Don Damond heard from his fiancée were that police had arrived, according to friends. She had called 911 to report hearing sex noises and a woman yell out “help.” She called a second time eight minutes later, still hearing screaming behind the house, to make sure police were coming. According to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the officers drove south into the alley with the squad lights off, searching for a suspect. As they neared 51st Street, the officer driving the squad, Matthew Harrity, said he was startled by a loud sound. A search warrant said a woman slapped the back of the patrol car. The officer said Damond approached the open driver’s side window, and Officer Mohamed Noor shot from the passenger seat. She died of a single gunshot wound to the abdomen. Noor had as of press time declined to share information with the BCA; his attorney shared Noor’s condolences with some news outlets and did not respond for comment. The shooting jarred community members and prompted vigils and marches, some silent and some with megaphones. Mayor Betsy Hodges asked for and received the resignation of Police Chief Janeé Harteau. City officials are revisiting policies on body cameras and use of force. While anger is often expressed on the microphones, it’s not the prevailing emotion at the Damond house, according to friends. Sharon Hills-Bonczyk said the apparent fightor-flight response in the shooting opens an opportunity to take a breath and understand how this can happen. “That’s what her work was all about,” HillsBonczyk said. “… Are we operating out of fear or out of love? I think all her work revolved around how we can grow and support each other in love.” Friend Jay Peterson said he expects Damond’s spiritual group of friends to “take the high road.” “Hopefully that can spread. I know that’s what Justine would want, because the officer that did the shooting, he’s in this hell right now,” Peterson said. “He just shot a meditation teacher. He’s going to be paying [for] that for the rest of his life. So having compassion for him and his family, we’ll probably be holding some kind of thing for him too. Because we’re all connected.”
Sydney to Minneapolis To coincide with a sunrise vigil in Australia, Damond’s local friends and family gathered for a silent vigil at her Minneapolis house. And while Australians threw flowers into the ocean near her childhood home, her Minneapolis friends gathered in silence at 5809 Yoga, the yoga studio she attended in the Kenny neighborhood. Damond was born in Iran, spent much of her life in Australia and moved to the U.S. in recent years. She worked for years at her father’s Dymocks Books shop near Sydney, overseeing the children’s section for a time. “She’d tell stories about how she literally grew up in a bookstore, right next to where she lived,” Hills-Bonczyk said. In videotaped lectures at Lake Harriet Spiri-
Chalk messages lined the alley near where Justine Damond was killed two days after her death. Photos by Nate Gotlieb
tual Community, Damond said she went through a difficult period in younger years. After losing much of her mother’s extended family to cancer, Damond watched her mother battle alcoholism and depression. Damond said she felt terrified of the genes in her own body, and developed an eating disorder through extreme juice detoxing. Her mother died of cancer when Damond was about 22. “As I watched her as I was growing up, I was so determined not to be her. Not to fall down the way that she had fallen down,” she said. Damond became interested in “the extraordinary,” taking advantage of her father’s bookstore to research topics like miracles and spontaneous remissions. She trained as a yoga instructor in Bali and spent time in India, and went on to work as a senior trainer for Joe Dispenza, a lecturer and author who talks about rewiring the brain to effect life change. Don Damond first saw his future fiancée present at a Dispenza workshop. Friends said he followed her around like a puppy, even though he thought she was out of his league. But Damond had recently made a list of 20 qualities she was looking for in a man, and he had them all. “Both of them just dove into it,” said HillsBonczyk’s daughter, Summer. “It was a bit of a fairytale.”
‘A calming energy’ Sharon Hills-Bonczyk said she was a bit nervous to see Don Damond’s Australian girlfriend relocate to Minneapolis in the middle of winter, but she embraced Minnesota culture.
Dozens of neighbors and activists attended a vigil for Justine Damond the day after she was killed.
Damond played in the leaves in fall and was astonished to learn about ice shanties standing on frozen lakes. She hosted meditation nights at Lake Harriet Spiritual Community and volunteered at Secondhand Hounds, where she drew on her education in veterinary medicine to help with rescue animal intakes. She once met a woman in Egypt who rescued animals. When the woman broke her arm, she flew dogs to Damond, who took them in and found them homes. “Animals reacted to her differently than they reacted to the general public,” said Rachel Mairose, executive director of Secondhand Hounds. “She had a calming energy.” People adored her too, she said. Mairose met Damond during a dog temperament test that typically takes 15 minutes. They ended up talking for two hours. “She knew and was close to people all over the world,” Mairose said. “It’s incredible how many connections she made.” Peterson talked about her humor, which was on display when another friend recently suggested a pizza night. “She said, ‘We’re in a cleanse right now because we’re getting ready for the wedding, so we’ll just have some vegetables.’ And as soon as we get there, she’s like, ‘Yeah, I don’t know who hijacked my phone. We’re going to eat whatever we want.’ ” Everyone was looking forward to their Hawaii wedding on the beach next month, Hills-Bonczyk said. “Justine had said these were the happiest years of her life,” she said.
An inspiration Family friend Tom Hyder recalled his last conversation with Damond the week she died — she’d been awake until 4 a.m. the night before preparing for a new meditation course. “She was on fire about her work,” he said. In lectures at Lake Harriet Spiritual Community, she played a video of hearing-impaired people using equipment to hear sound for the first time. She skyped with a “breatharian” who was living on three or four meals per week. She said bodies become conditioned to live in a stress response and replay the day’s awful moments, and she recommended exercise, deep breathing and “gratitude meditation” to break the brain’s habits and change perceptions about what is possible. “I want my superpower to be the bringer of spring,” she said in one lecture, describing the image of spring returning to a dark landscape in Disney movies. “I wanted that energy, that essence to be me. I wanted it to be me in every person I met, so there’s creativity and inspiration and growth with every person I come in contact with in my coaching and my healing work. I wanted that energy to be there in my community, and I wanted that to filter through to the planet.” Damond’s family has created a memorial fund in her name to support charitable causes related to social justice, available through generosity.com. Investigators interviewed a witness who was biking on 51st Street prior to the shooting and stopped at the scene. The BCA will present the final findings without recommendation to the Hennepin County Attorney. The Hennepin County Attorney will decide whether to press charges.
A man listens to speakers at a vigil the day after Justine Damond was killed.
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Neighbors, activists demand justice, police reform Calls for broad change after Damond’s death By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com
Neighbors and activists mourned Justine Damond at a vigil the night after she died. Five nights later, they demanded justice and fundamental changes to policing at a rally near Lake Harriet. Neighbors said the shooting of Damond at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer rattled their trust in police. They said they wanted justice for Damond and broad police reform, including leadership change. The rally occurred a day before Police Chief Janeé Harteau resigned at the request of Mayor Betsy Hodges. Activists echoed many of those same themes. “Justine’s death is something out of the Twilight Zone,” activist Mel Reeves said. “We can’t make sense of it.” Damond, 40, was known legally was Justine Ruszczyk but had adopted the last name of her fiancée, Don. The couple was to be wed next month in Hawaii. The killing was the second by a Minneapolis officer to make national headlines in the past three years. In November 2015, police shot and killed Jamar Clark, a 24-year-old African-American man, sparking protests and an occupation of a North Minneapolis police station. In July 2016, Philando Castile was killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, sparking protests. Prosecutors later charged the officer, Jeronimo Yanez, with second-degree manslaughter, but he was acquitted last month.
Activists demanded police reform after both shootings. Many of those same voices spoke at the rally for Damond. “That officer who killed Justine was part of a system that’s been allowed to operate with corruption,” said Nekima Levy-Pounds, an activist and mayoral candidate. “…If they had done their jobs, Justine would still be alive. Jamar Clark would still be alive. … The list goes on and on.” Reeves suggested having some kind of guardianship run by citizens to oversee the police force. “The police have a difficult job,” he said. “They have to police inequity and social inequality. Their job in some ways is to reinforce the stereotypes.” Reeves said the current system of policing needs to be replaced with one that “takes into account the value of human life and treats everyone as equals.” “We have to ask tough questions,” he said. “... Apparently it’s in the interest of somebody to keep us afraid, because that’s what it does for people of color. It keeps us in a state of terror.” Gregory Brassil, a business owner in Linden Hills, “had never been to anything like this in my life,” he said of the rally. He said Damond’s death angered him and made him fearful. “Would I call the police if something like this happened? I don’t think I would,” Brassil said. SEE REFORM / PAGE A14
Activist John Thompson, a friend of Philando Castile, chants during a march through the Fulton neighborhood on July 20, five nights after Justine Damond was killed by a police officer in an alley near her home. Photos by Nate Gotlieb
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Activist and mayoral candidate Nekima Levy-Pounds speaks during a vigil for Justine Damond on July 16 near the alley in which she was killed. Photos by Nate Gotlieb
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He and Southwest resident Karn Anderson said they would like the Police Department to be restructured. They said they would call their representatives in Congress and at the City Council to make demands. When asked what changes they’d like to see, Anderson referenced a letter to the editor in the July 19 edition of the Star Tribune. The letter was written by Richard Carlson, a retired assistant Hennepin County public defender. Carlson called for the firing of the police
We at least owe it to the public to have a lot of input on this as it moves forward. — Linea Palmisano, Ward 13 City Council member
chief and for the City Council to overhaul the department. In his vision, that would include demoting, firing or reassigning everyone in management and no longer negotiating labor agreements with the police union. Ward 13 City Council Member Linea Palmisano, who represents Fulton, said at the July 21 City Council meeting that she would be pushing for fundamental changes to the police department from top to bottom. “If this means a change in police leadership or change in management structure, then so be it, because we have a systemic problem,” Palmisano said. “We are not setting up officers that come into this line of work with the best of intentions for success.” “If the current state laws can’t get guilty verdicts when police kill our citizens, we need new laws. When police are using their guns in a destructive manner, we must rethink our use of force policies.” In an interview, Palmisano said she likes Arradondo but hasn’t had the opportunity to talk with him about moving forward as police chief. She was complimentary of him in a July 24
Justine Damond, 40, was an Australia native and meditation teacher at the Lake Harriet Spiritual Community. Photo courtesy Stephen Govel
interview with Minnesota Public Radio News, noting that he was the public face in the rollout of police anti-bias training in the ward. She suggested, however, that perhaps the city could look at other cities and outside candidates. “We at least owe it to the public to have a lot of input on this as it moves forward,” she said. A permanent new chief will be appointed
by the mayor and must go before the City Council Executive Committee. Then the selection will go before the Community Development & Regulatory Services and Public Safety, Civil Rights & Emergency Management committees before a full council vote. The city has not yet set a timeframe for that process.
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camera policy changes had been in the works for a few months. It’s been just eight months since the full body camera rollout, he said, and it takes some time for officers to get used to the new equipment. He said many officers are using the cameras as intended and some officers are not using them enough. The department needs to get a more robust and comprehensive look before deciding if officers are using them enough, he said. KSTP-TV reported the week before the Damond shooting that camera use appeared low. There are still rules in place around when officers can deactivate their cameras and safeguards so officers cannot delete footage, he said. Arradondo said that the department needed to build and regain the community’s trust, which is something he’s expressed to all his officers. Body cameras are a tool, he said, but they aren’t everything. “As I’ve told all our officers, we equip them with a lot of equipment to go out there and serve our communities, but the one thing we cannot equip them with is the benefit of the doubt,” he said. “They have to gain that through their relationships with the community, and so that’s what my goal is.”
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sure it’s functioning properly at the start of each shift. They must remove themselves from service if their cameras lose power. When a body camera is deactivated prior to the conclusion of an event, officers are required to describe the reason by narration prior to deactivation.
Auditing camera use The City Council Public Safety, Civil Rights & Emergency Management Committee was scheduled to discuss an audit of the MPD’s mobile and body-worn video recording equipment programs on July 26, after this edition went to press. That included accepting the Civil Rights and Internal Audit departments’ plan to jointly conduct an independent internal audit of the programs. The departments would be directed to return to the Public Safety Committee on Sept. 27 to present a report on the results of the audit. Minneapolis’ Police Conduct Oversight Commission, a civilian group, recommended two years ago that cameras be activated for all consensual community contacts, all calls for service and all law enforcement activities. It heard from community members a desire to activate cameras at all times, but was mindful of barriers, including storage costs, continuous recording acting as mass surveillance and the need for officers to have discretion in certain situations, such as when taking statements from crime victims. MPD accepted many if not most of the PCOC’s recommendations in its policy, adopted last June, according to Hodges. It mandated recording before the 15 situations, including traffic stops, suspicious person stops and any contact that is or becomes adversarial, among others. Some were critical of the policy and body camera program, however. Dave Bicking, a board member of Communities United Against Police Brutality in Minneapolis, called previous version a “weak policy with no enforcement.” “They know there’s no consequences,” Bicking said. “They know that every officer in the department is blatantly violating the policy.” His group initially supported a policy that required officers to turn cameras on anytime they engaged with the public. Now they don’t support body cameras at all. Joseph Jerome, policy counsel for Washington D.C.-based Center for Democracy & Technology, which advocates activation for any public interaction, said he thinks based on a quick read of Minneapolis policy that it provides too much wiggle room.
The changes appeared to be in line with what Mayor Betsy Hodges wanted. Hodges had posted a statement the week after the shooting that she expects body cameras will be activated the moment an officer begins responding to a call, whether it comes from dispatch or is initiated by the officer. Hodges said body cameras should have been activated for the Damond shooting. Before announcing her resignation, Harteau said she, too, believed body cameras should have been activated for the incident. She also mentioned new technology to ensure activation and reduce human error, such as a system that would activate the camera when an officer removes his gun from his holster. “My expectation is that our policy is followed,” Harteau said. “Based on the information the BCA has released and without additional information as to why the cameras weren’t on, it is my belief that the cameras should have been activated.” MPD’s previous policy required manual activation, when safe to do so, in 14 situations, including prior to the use of any force. The policy was in line with best practices, the League of Minnesota Cities’ policy and other departments’ policies, Harteau said. The new policy requires activation upon being dispatched and starting travel to a call for service, which includes assisting squads. It also requires activation when self-initiating a call, as soon as possible but prior to contacting a person and exiting a squad, prior to taking any law enforcement action, prior to an investigatory contact and when any situation becomes adversarial. Other situations include prior to assisting a citizen other than when providing basic verbal assistance, such as giving direction, and when directed to activate by a supervisor. In any situation that does not require activation, an officer may use discretion to activate the body camera and record the situation if he or she feels it’s appropriate to preserve audio or video data for a work-related purpose. Officers should notify the individuals being recorded in these situations. As was the case in the previous Minneapolis’ body camera policy has come under policy, officers must wear equipscrutiny after two police officers involved in the fatal ment while on shift, including shooting of Justine Damond did not record the incident. off-duty assignments, and make Photo courtesy Axon
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A wreath placed in the Mississippi River below the I-35W bridge July 18 honored victims of the collapse 10 years earlier, as well as first responders. Photo by Dylan Thomas
FROM 35W TEN YEARS LATER / PAGE A1 Navy Rear Adm. Fritz Roegge spoke before the wreath-laying ceremony. Navy divers assisted with recovery efforts following the August 2007 collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River. To Roegge’s right is Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek, who also responded to the collapse. Photo by Dylan Thomas
Diver Noah Gottesman released a wreath of white flowers into the Mississippi River, just below the span on the new bridge. The July 18 ceremony honored both the 171 people who were on the old bridge when it collapsed and the scores of responders who rushed to the site — both for rescue operations in the immediate aftermath and the weeks of recovery that followed. “It was unlike anything we’ve ever seen and hopefully unlike anything we’re ever going to experience again any time in the near future,” Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek said during the ceremony. The collapse drew not just local first responders from the city, county and surrounding jurisdictions but also state and federal agencies — all of them focusing their efforts on a complex disaster site. When the about half of the 1,907-foot span fell at around 6:05 p.m., 111 vehicles, including a school bus with 63 students and driver, went with it. Seventeen vehicles landed in the water. Less than 90 minutes later, the last survivor was rescued. A report issued after an investigation by the U.S. Fire Administration lauded the cooperative response. “The City of Minneapolis was as well prepared as any local jurisdiction could be to handle a major incident,” the report noted. The National Transportation and Safety Board later determined the gusset plates connecting the 40-year-old bridge’s steel beams were too thin, a design flaw that had been overlooked for decades, and that years of stress and corrosion led up to the structure’s sudden collapse under the weight of rush-hour traffic. SEE 35W TEN YEARS LATER / PAGE A17
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Two members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were standing along the wall at the Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam, and like dozens of other witnesses immediately called 911. Col. Sam Calkins, who commands the corps’ St. Paul District, said they opened gates for first-responders to get through then launched a boat to help rescue survivors. “The Corps of Engineers’ mission includes disaster response, but we’re used to responding to things like hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters, not things like this,” Calkins said. “This disaster was new to us and unique in our history, and we were lucky to be so close.” Even luckier, he added, was that a maintenance team was working with a crane just upstream of the bridge at the time. The team stayed on site for a month, using the crane to load and unload equipment and dive platforms and to remove debris from the river. “If they hadn’t been there, there wouldn’t have been any crane support,” Calkins said. “It wouldn’t have been possible to get anything north of the bridge.” Barrett Lane, a former City Council member and now director of the Minneapolis Office of Emergency Management, was at the time of the collapse working on emergency response planning on a contract basis for the city. Not long after the collapse, Lane was called into the city’s Emergency Operations Center, then located in an undersized space in the basement of City Hall. “It was full and cramped and warm,” he said, noting that the collapse prompted the city to move emergency operations to a larger space just north of city limits. Lane had previously joined hundreds
of city staff members and city and county elected officials at an emergency management training program in Mount Weather, Virginia, an experience he described as critical to the systematic and orderly response to the collapse. “Obviously, we didn’t prepare for that particular bridge or any bridge falling down,” he said, but the relationships and understanding established during that training session gave first responders in the field and staff in the operations center a clear understanding of their roles. “The real takeaway for me is there’s a real payoff in preparedness,” he said. “Everybody in that room knew what to do,” agreed R.T. Rybak, who was mayor at the time of the collapse and also made the trip to Mount Weather, which took place during his first term in office. Rybak recalled racing back to Minneapolis from St. Cloud, where he was doing organizing work for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, when he both the phones he then carried starting ringing with the news. With things well under control in the emergency operations center, he went to family assistance center at a nearby Holiday Inn. He sat with family members as some learned their loved ones did not survive. “I have images of people that flash in front of my face, literally, every time I go over that bridge, and I probably always will,” he said. “I also think about it when I realize how little we’ve done to keep it from happening again, which I think is a damning indictment,” Rybak added. “I think we should celebrate the 10th anniversary and all of the great things that have happened, and I think we should also look in the mirror and be disgusted that almost nothing has been done in this country to keep it from happening again.”
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County seeks nonprofits’ help on organics recycling $100,000 available to nonprofits for organics education and outreach
Hennepin County will offer up to eight nonprofits up to $10,000 for residentialorganics education and outreach projects, it announced July 13. The county will teach representatives from the nonprofits about organics recycling and have them research barriers to it in their communities. The nonprofits will work with county staff to develop their projects. The effort comes as Hennepin County continues to work toward the recycling and waste-diversion targets set as part of the 2012 solid waste management master plan. The plan calls for reducing waste by six percent overall and recycling 75 percent of waste by 2030. It also calls for diverting 91 percent of waste away from landfills. Hennepin County recycled about 51 percent of all waste in 2016, according to an April report. It diverted 82 percent of waste away from landfills, a rate on part with national leaders, according to the report. Organic waste, especially food waste, appears to be a significant area in which the county could improve. Organic material represented about 25 percent of material by weight found during a waste sort conducted in May 2016 in Minneapolis. Food waste represented about 19 percent of the material by weight. Organic material produces methane gas as it breaks down in landfills, according to Tim Farnan, principal planner in the Sustainable Materials Management Unit of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. The material can instead be used to create compost, a product with environmental benefits. Compost helps soil retain water and can help plants be more drought resistant, he said. In addition, using compost typical reduces the need for herbicides and pesticides. Just 3 percent of all waste in the county was diverted to organics recycling in 2016. At the same time, residential organics recycling increased by 181 percent in 2016 because of Minneapolis completing the roll out of its curbside organics recycling program last June. More than 42,000 households in Minneap-
olis participated in curbside organics recycling programs in 2016, a participation rate of 40 percent. Nearly 46,000 households in 11 cities in Hennepin County participated in total, a rate 11 percent.
Up to $10,000 per organization The new program, called Green Partners Grow, targets nonprofits in Hennepin County cities that have curbside organics programs (Loretto, Maple Plain, Medicine Lake, Medina, Minneapolis, St. Bonifacius, St. Louis Park and Wayzata). Representatives of selected organizations will attend two days of training to learn about organics recycling, uncover barriers to it within their audiences and develop a project plan. The organizations will then receive a grant of up to $10,000 and free supplies to implement their projects. Angie Timmons, environmental education and outreach coordinator for Hennepin County, said it’s important to facilitate that peer-to-peer interaction on organics recycling. The goal is not just to get more participants, she said, but also to teach people who already participants tips and tricks. “It’s what works best for their community, but then we also arm them with ideas,” she said.
Participation in Minneapolis Kellie Kish, recycling coordinator for Minneapolis, said a barrier to organics recycling is that many people simply don’t know about it. Kish’s department has had interns go door to door to tell residents about the program, especially in areas of the city with lower participation rates. That effort has helped get all neighborhoods in Minneapolis to at least 20-percent participation. Kish added that another barrier is concern about the smell. She said her office had encouraged Hennepin County to do a grant program just for organics. They would hear from cultural groups that they didn’t have staff time to encourage people to participate in the program.
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Over 45,000 households, or 42.6 percent of Minneapolis Solid Waste and Recycling customers, had signed up to participate in organics recycling as of July 13, according to David Herberholz, director of the Division of Solid Waste and Recycling. Participating residents diverted 175 pounds of organics per household in the first year of the program. The division is looking to establish a new formal goal to reach by the end of 2018, Kish said. Right now, it’s still receiving about 100 new sign ups each week. She said sign ups will likely decrease a bit over the winter months, but they are planning another big outreach and education push in the spring. The North Loop neighborhood had the
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Park Board to consider closing Hiawatha Golf Course Reducing pumping would close South Minneapolis golf course
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board will consider a move in August that would close the Hiawatha Golf Course in South Minneapolis. Dozens of golfers and supporters of the Hiawatha Golf Club appealed to the board’s Planning Committee July 19 to postpone a decision to reduce groundwater pumping that keeps the course open for play. Commissioners on the committee unanimously opted to reduce pumping at the 18-hole course, which has been under threat since heavy rains in 2014 flooded and damaged the site. The full board is expected to vote on the measure in August. The measure passed by the Planning Committee would reduce pumping down to approximately 94 million gallons a year. That amount of pumping would not maintain the course, but it would protect neighboring property from flooding and allow the Park Board to come up with other uses. The course, a component of the NokomisHiawatha Regional Park, would remain open until at least the end of the 2019 golf season. The move to transform the course into a park would cost $28 million, the board estimates. Additionally, this option would require $18 million in dollars to maintain and operate over 20 years. The Park Board has not identified any future uses of the Hiawatha Golf Course site, but the
resolution before the board acknowledges a public process to formulate ideas. One group has lobbied the board to build a food forest on the site. Another speaker, a veteran, said he would like to see a garden to support veterans. “No matter which way you go, this is going to be a once-in-a-generation project,” David Kaplan, a Standish resident, told commissioners. Linden Hills resident Constance Pepin told commissioners that she would like to see the area revert to a wetland. “Here before you is a clear and compelling opportunity for you to choose to work with nature rather than work against her,” Pepin said. Park staff project that a new use for the site could more than double the total number of visits each year, from the estimated 211,000 visits of a maintained golf course to 525,000 visits of an alternative destination. “As an at-large commissioner citywide that’s important for me. It’s important for me that as many people in the city get to use the parkland as possible,” said Commissioner John Erwin, who chairs the committee. Commissioners considered an alternative scenario that would continue the pumping of approximately 242 million gallons of water to keep the course open. At one point, Park Boardowned facilities were pumping out approximately 260 million gallons of water annually, much more than was permitted.
A 2014 storm flooded the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board’s Meadowbrook and Hiawatha golf courses. File photo
The Department of Natural Resources regulates groundwater pumping and prefers the reduction of pumping as a more viable long-term water management option. Park staff noted that, inevitably, a future flood would damage the site, which is mapped by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a floodplain. “In terms of a sustainable choice, we’re faced with a really difficult decision on something that we love that is being consumed by floodwater,” said District 3 Commissioner Scott Vreeland. “We need to say clearly that this is a decision that has a sunset.” The Park Board estimates it would cost $14 million to keep Hiawatha Golf Course open and further renovate it, but maintaining it would require $26 million to maintain over two decades. During that time, the course would
bring in roughly $13 million in revenue. Park staff alternatively considered keeping a nine-hole course open, but found that golfers didn’t support it and the finances didn’t work out. Only one of 25 nine-hole courses in the state are profitable, staff noted. Expenses for the smaller courses are more than half of a full course and they bring in less than half of the revenue. The Hiawatha Golf Course saw on average between 20,000 and 40,000 rounds of golf annually in recent years, dipping to just 14,000 rounds when it was flooded in 2014. The course supports The First Tee of the Twin Cities, a youth golf program that serves roughly 300 kids. Golf teams at three local high schools play on the course. In the winter, the board uses the course for walkers and cross-country skiing.
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Public Safety Update By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com
Police notify public of exposer in Southwest A police advisory is alerting residents to a suspect who has exposed himself and groped people in South and Southwest Minneapolis. Police said witnesses and victims describe the suspect as a white man age 30–40 who is tall and skinny with brown hair. Residents have reported a naked man in areas between Lake Harriet and the riverfront. Anyone who sees a person exposing themselves should call 911 and provide a detailed description of the suspect and vehicle and take a photo if the situation permits, police said.
Police advise residents to walk confidently, stay aware of surroundings, make quick eye contact and walk with others when possible. If someone is following, police advise looking back to demonstrate awareness and immediately moving to the nearest public place. If a potential attacker approaches, police recommend using loud verbal commands or a screech alarm. For sex crime resources, visit: minneapolismn.gov/police/about/investigations/ police_about_sexcrimes.
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UPTOWN HOTEL FIRE RULED ARSON Investigators ruled arson was the cause of two small fires found burning early July 23 inside an under-construction hotel in Uptown, Battalion Chief Bryan Tyner said. Firefighters were called to the Moxy Uptown at Lake & Emerson shortly after 4 a.m. and found construction debris had been piled in two areas and set on fire. Investigators determined the fires were intentionally set because “there really wasn’t any other source of ignition” in the area, Tyner said. He said the fires were set in a part of the structure that was mainly poured concrete,
“so there really wasn’t a whole lot to burn.” There was no significant damage reported. Graves Hospitality began construction on the hotel, which will be six-stories and have 124 rooms when it opens, late last summer. Moxy is a Marriott franchise targeting millennial-generation travelers. Graves Hospitality posted a link to a news story on the fire to the company’s Facebook page with the comment: “Always interesting being in the hotel business... Fortunately all is well and project is moving full steam ahead.” — Dylan Thomas
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Plans for a new retail building at the northwest corner of 50th & Bryant received Planning Commission approval July 17. Rendering by Krech, O’Brien, Mueller & Associates
50th & Bryant retail building gets the green light By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com
A new retail building is slated to replace Joe’s Brake Shop at 900 W. 50th St. following the city Planning Commission’s approval in July. Several neighbors living near the intersection attended a public hearing to protest the building’s lack of parking, where 17 spaces would typically be required. City staff recommended waiving the parking requirement, saying a drive aisle and parking space would consume about half the site. Resident Steve Seitz said he doesn’t think people will take the bus to neighborhood restaurants. “We can’t eliminate parking and think that that’s going to eliminate cars,” he said. Others raised safety concerns. “I watch so many close calls every single day,” said resident Joan Zenisek, who said bikes and cars share the blame. “… That corner is an accident waiting to happen.” Resident Tom Labree said he expects
at least 25 new employees in addition to customers adding to the parking congestion. “The average home is probably 100 years old. Our garages were built for one car. I have three cars,” he said. The city allowed similar parking reductions in past years to allow former restaurant tenants Heidi’s and Blackbird at the Patina building. Planning Commissioner Alissa Luepke Pier explained that commissioners must consider the practical difficulty in requiring the full parking allotment. She encouraged neighbors to consider talking to the city’s Public Works Department about the potential for new parking permits in the area. John Velie said 50th & Bryant already has plenty of successful restaurants, and said he’d prefer to see a small apartment building instead. “If we have to take the hit, let’s build some more housing. The city needs it,” he said. City staff encouraged the developer to
build a multi-story building with a mix of occupants, but the developer countered that it wouldn’t be financially feasible, according to a city staff report. Architect Brady Mueller said they considered building retail with underground parking and three or four levels of housing above, but settled on the retail proposal because they decided it was most efficient and economical. A parking lot emptying
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near the intersection would cause traffic issues, Mueller said, and underground parking would be economically unfeasible. Some residents were more receptive to the plans. Asked resident Randall Stoeckel: What’s going to raise property values more — a brake shop or the new proposal? Resident Roxana Olson said that as a woman with limited mobility, she appreciates the flexibility of visiting neighborhood shops. “I think it would complement everything that’s going on,” she said. “… I think this is a really wonderful project.” At the request of Planning Commissioners, the developer will plant street trees, add bike parking to a blank wall along Bryant, reduce the height of the building to the north and move an entrance closer to the intersection of 50th & Bryant. The owner of Joe’s Brake Shop, which leases space at the site, is hoping to find a new location in the neighborhood.
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Southwest Journal July 27–August 9, 2017
It started with
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cott Woolsey loves the Twins. But he’s 0-for-16 in seeing a Twins win at Target Field. “I haven’t seen them compete,” Woolsey said. He also loves his mom’s barbecue sauce, so much so that he was inspired to open his own barbecue restaurant, Scott Ja-Mama’s, nearly 26 years ago. Since 1991, Woolsey has served ribs, potatoes and slaw at his hole-in-the-wall restaurant at Nicollet & West Diamond Lake Road. He’s added chicken to the menu and dropped bratwurst and baked beans, after spilling an order of 200 on the floor. SEE SCOTT JA-MAMA’S / PAGE B6
Scott Woolsey holds up a press pass from the Gophers men’s basketball team’s 1997 Big Ten championship season. Memorabilia adorns the wall at Woolsey’s Windom restaurant, Scott Ja-Mama’s. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
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Gadget Guy
By Paul Burnstein
Putting new wearables to the test
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earable technology is a category of tech devices that are worn by the user. This includes smartwatches, smartglasses, fitness trackers and more. Recently, I was provided with the opportunity to try out three wearables available through Verizon Wireless (they were loaned to me for review purposes). While wearables have been slow to catch on, I happen to be a fan. I wore a Fitbit for a couple of years before getting my current smartwatch, which I wear daily. The first wearable I tried was the Verizon Wear24. It is an Android smartwatch and very similar to my daily wearable, the LG Watch Urbane, a device that is now almost two years old. The difference between the two is the Wear24 has cellular built into it. One can make and receive calls directly on one’s wrist, a feature I have to admit I didn’t find useful. All in all, it is a solid smartwatch that can help with providing notifications on your wrist for calls, texts, emails, reminders and more. I also liked that, when used with the Google Fit app, the smartwatch could track your steps and activities. I liked the watch altogether and enjoyed wearing it. Next, I tried the Samsung Galaxy Gear S2 smartwatch. The Gear S2 runs on the Samsungdeveloped Tizen operating system and can work with Android and iOS (iPhone) phones. The Gear S2 works with all sorts of apps for notifications, including Google apps like Gmail and Google Calendar. For fitness, it is closely tied into Samsung’s S Health suite, and I did not get
The Samsung Galaxy Gear S2 is part of a growing consumer technology category known as wearables. Photo courtesy of Samsung
to experience just how that would translate over to a non-Samsung phone. My favorite feature with the Gear S2 was that
the bezel could be rotated to take one through the various options on the smartwatch. That being said, I found the Gear S2 needed quite
a bit of customization to get the most use out of the apps that can be loaded from it and the quick access notification buttons. I liked the smartwatch, but recognized that more time would be needed to get it fully optimized to have all of the shortcuts and needed apps fully set up. The Fitbit Charge 2 is a wearable, but not a traditional smartwatch; however, it is close. The wearable shows the time and provides notifications for calls and texts, but it does not allow the user to initiate any actions on the smartphone. For example, you can receive a text message but you cannot reply from the Charge 2; you have to reply from your phone. As a fitness tracker, the Charge 2 is great. You can see your step count, heart rate, calorie count and more. It is easy to access the various readings by simply tapping through them. Wearables really depend on the person wearing them and their purpose. If one is looking simply for tracking fitness, then Fitbit’s line of products is worth a gander. If the goal is to replace a watch and have the ability to receive notifications and quickly respond from the wrist, then a smartwatch is the route to take. All of the above are worth taking a look at. Paul Burnstein is a tech handyman. As the founder of Gadget Guy MN, Paul helps personal and business clients optimize their use of technology. He can be found through gadgetguymn.com or via email at paul@gadgetguymn.com.
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y first question is: Why wasn’t this discussed before you agreed to get married? Perhaps you are like many couples who fail to thoroughly discuss key issues before getting hitched. The ability to speak your truth directly, and then negotiate and regulate conflict with a partner, is an essential skill in a healthy longterm relationship, no matter the issue (allow me to put in a plug here for pre-marital therapy). Let’s get real: Raising a child is a huge commitment. Let me emphasize the word “huge.” Not only does it impact how you allocate your time, energy and resources each day, it means you are tied to your co-parent for the rest of your life or at least until the child becomes an adult. The decision to bring another human into the world should be taken seriously. And ideally it is something you want wholeheartedly, which you don’t. Having children has long been the default step after becoming an adult and committing to a partner, but younger generations are
questioning this. Society allocates significant meaning to being a parent, and there’s just as much judgment allocated to those who choose to remain childless. Ask your husband what he wants from the experience of having a family and why he desires this in the first place. Does your husband actually want to have children, or does he feel this is what he’s supposed to do? This type of conversation can help reveal whether he has compelling reasons to have children, which may shift your perspective and open you up more to the idea. A conversation of this nature could also lead your husband to realize he’s looking to start a family because he feels he should or casually figured it was the next logical step in his life. Neither of which are good enough reasons. The choice to have children can be quite an emotional issue. Together with your husband, explore your hopes and fears around having kids. Also explore what having a child represents for each of you. Your decision around this is symbolic for your differing values and beliefs originating in your experience as a
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Neighborhood Spotlight. Windom
Game of a lifetime By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com
It’s noon on a Wednesday, and every table is full at the Twin City Bridge Center at 6020 Nicollet Ave. “Just wait,” said Teri Blu, the center’s co-owner. “It will be so quiet, you can hear a pin drop.” Serious card players might visit here four times a week to play bridge, and a single game typically lasts three-and-a-half hours. There are games every day of the week, often two or three of them. Participants play to earn “masterpoints,” and the numbers accumulate over a player’s lifetime. “Once you start winning these things, it’s like gold,” said Joe Koester. The year’s top 100 players are posted on the bulletin board near the entry. Some players in Windom have earned more than 10,000 masterpoints. “To get there, you’ve got to play a lot,” said Scott Lutgens. “This is a very competitive game. They’ve got some very good bridge players here.” The game of bridge involves partners, bids and taking tricks. “Really good bridge players, after the bidding is done, can pretty much tell what’s in every player’s hand without looking,” Lutgens said. Longtime club members estimate the Bridge Center is approaching 50 years in operation. It moved to different locations on Nicollet over the years, and the current building (a former post office) has served as its home since the early ’70s.
John Westrom, center, started playing bridge in 1949 and said he became interested in the game through a University of Minnesota roommate. At age 91, Westrom continues to play regularly at the Twin City Bridge Center. Photo by Michelle Bruch
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Neighborhood Spotlight. Windom
Scott Woolsey and his mom, Dorie Woolsey, prepare coleslaw on a recent morning. Photos by Nate Gotlieb
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That’s not to say he won’t go off menu. On a recent morning, Woolsey chopped chicken for a chicken salad and had a beef roast cooking in the oven. He anticipated there would be eager mouths to feed later. “I know the customers like the different stuff,” he said. Woolsey grew up nearby, on 46th & Clinton, one of three boys in a family with nine children. He drove a truck, worked construction, tended bar and was a union rep for the Teamsters before opening the restaurant. “I quit every job I had after about four years,” he said. “I never in a million years thought I’d still be here today.” The restaurant came from a suggestion of a friend of his dad’s. Woolsey had wanted to go into the sauce business, but the friend suggested he open a restaurant instead. It’s been a family affair since the beginning. His parents would clean the place on Friday and Saturday nights. His mom still comes in every day to help with the potatoes, mopping and
laundry. His brother helps out too, as do nieces and nephews. “She just amazes me, as old as she is and as hard as she goes every darn day,” Woolsey said of his mom, Dorie Woolsey, who soon will be 90. The name, Scott Ja-Mama’s, goes back to Woolsey’s softball team, according to Dorie. Scott was always barbecuing for the team, she said, and they would always ask him if he had “Jamama’s” sauce. The name stuck. The sauce came from an attempt to emulate the sauce at the Nicollet Hotel’s Waikiki Room, where Dorie’s husband and father-inlaw had worked. “They had the best darn sauce, but that cook would never give me his recipe,” she said. “… I knew I had arrived when somebody came in here one day and said, ‘I haven’t had sauce like this since the Waikiki Room.’ ”
Everything made daily Woolsey makes everything fresh every day, from barbecue sauce to his pork, beans and potatoes. There’s one grill and no deep-fat fryer, elimi-
A view of Scott Ja-Mama’s, a hole-inthe-wall barbecue restaurant at Nicollet & West Diamond Lake Road.
nating French fries as a potential offering. His days start at 7:30 a.m. and go until about 8 or 9 p.m. The restaurant is open four days a week, Wednesday through Saturday, but Woolsey said he works six days a week. “By Saturday night, I just want to go home,” he said. He estimated he serves about 100 people daily. Friday and Saturday nights are his busiest time. Large orders and catering help sustain the business. Woolsey’s been asked about expanding but isn’t interested. “I don’t want to be a waiter,” he said. “I don’t want to hear, ‘I dropped my fork’ and that kind of crap.” The dining room is small, with just two tables and a handful of seats. The walls are filled with memorabilia, photos and trinkets that people have given him. Among them is a customized Scott Ja-Mama’s Wilsons Leather jacket, a fox hat made by a Latvian customer and an oversized Big Bertha driver. There’s also a picture of former Twins equipment manager Ray Crump with The Beatles.
The Twins have a prominent place in the restaurant. Next to the menu sign above the counter, there’s a light-up sign that says “Let’s Go!” and has a Twins logo. There’s also a picture of the 1965 American League championship team and a baseball card poster of the 1987 World Series champions nearby. Woolsey’s love of baseball stems from his dad, a former townball player. It’s the only pro sport he likes, he said. The Vikings “broke my heart too many times,” he said. And he doesn’t seem to have forgiven the North Stars hockey team for leaving town for Dallas. Woolsey, 61, plans on working until building owner Phil Nelson sells. Nelson has operated Phil’s Barber Shop next door for 49 years, although Woolsey expects it to eventually be knocked down for an apartment building. “It seems kind of like a forgone conclusion,” he said. A lot of his work is monotonous, Woolsey said. But a favorite part is just talking with people. “There’s people who their car pulls up and you know what they’re going to have,” he said. “I get a kick out of that.”
Bobbleheads line a shelf inside Scott Ja-Mama’s. The one on the far left is a bobblehead of Woolsey, made by his brother, a nephew and one of his sisters.
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oug Flicker has left the building. But the kitchen maestro’s style of compositions continues to be orchestrated by the pair of once-employees who recently replaced his Piccolo with Tenant on the same site. As the French put it, “The king is dead. Long live the [new] king!” Tenant — which, as Piccolo (Italian for “tiny”), earned its name with five tables and a few more counter seats — shines as white and bright and busy as before. And the chummy, ultra-talented staffers maintain that inherited opinion of who’s here to serve whom. (Me: “Sir, the [abrasive, anti-relaxing] music is too loud.” They: “We don’t think so.”) That said, the food and experience are a treat. Here’s the drill: Arrive (by rez) and take your seat for a six-course (“We won’t tell you what it is”) tasting menu, bargain-priced at $50, served rapidly. (You’re not here to enjoy a leisurely evening with companions; this is more like a dining seminar.) The menu remains similar for months, simply rotating one dish in and out per week. Tenant’s beverage list is limited (and that’s fine): three pairings for $25 or BTG. My choice, a Hungarian white, proved light, floral and underwhelming. Next to me on the stools, a couple of cooks from a different establishment drank their sparkling Spanish cava with a chaser of Hamm’s. The menu includes three pasta courses and three with smallish bits of protein. All are composed as if by tiny, focused elves for guests of dollhouse stature. We started with a delicious dish featuring a few teaspoons of sweet, admirably juicy beef tartare anchoring a composition that included bits (bring a magnifying glass) of charred cauliflower, beet buds, onion petals, a sole asparagus tip, beans cut in quarter-inch segments and nasturtium petals, presented with homemade XO sauce and dill (and probably half a dozen other micro-ingredients I failed to note). Course two: capeletti, homemade pasta “hats” containing a slurpy, creamy, blue-like cheese in a bowl that also included tiny specks of speck (like ham), burnt broccoli mini (and I do mean mini) florets and more in a rich, charred cabbage broth, poured tableside. Third, a raviolo called doppio — “double” — because the single pasta square, flaunting pretty stripes of black garlic on its golden façade, contains two separate fillings: one, crumbles of fennel sausage, just as you’d expect on pizza; the second, a creamy ricotta. Green garlic flavors both. It’s terrific. In fact, I want another (but, of course, didn’t ask). Then, course four. Time for salmon — a bit larger than a poker chip, sweet and tender beneath its crispy skin. It cohabits with a fried oyster, charred onion, translucent rounds of radish, nasturtium leaves and — a surprise, and unsuitable — a big (for here) hunk of herbed potatoes (which the beer-andcava boys praised mightily), along with beurre blanc and golden globules of smoked roe. Course five (aka the entrée, I suppose — it’s more substantial): delicious bits of braised lamb shoulder, hunkering under a tangle of bigoli (think robust spaghetti) along with a poached quail egg to pierce and moisten the strands, baby mushrooms, tasteless English peas and a topping of fine-shaved Parmesan. Oh, and a teaser of tarragon. Time for dessert, and it’s a lovely one: house-made ice cream (natch; they probably make the salt and sugar, too) that’s a smooth, fruity blend of black and red raspberries and red currants, which also garnish the scoop, along with candied pine nuts and puffed sorghum (picture subdivided popcorn kernels), providing a nice, salty balance for the sweets. With it arrived a complimentary glass of Belgian-style framboise beer: summer in a glass. In and out in 90 minutes and a lot of fun. Plus a lot of persnickety pretention. Best of luck, boys!
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By Jon Shelver
Market produce is good — and good for you
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our neighborhood farmers market may be better for you than you realize. That’s the conclusion that many in the healthcare field are beginning to come to. Over the past decade, which saw the formation of the Kingfield, Fulton and Nokomis farmers markets, there has been a sharp increase in the number of neighborhood and workplace markets opening across the country. That increased access to fresh fruits and vegetables via a weekly community event is yielding positive results in market goers’ lives in more ways than you might think. There is a difference between shopping for produce at a farmers market and shopping at a local grocery store. When people shop at farmers markets they are exposed to new fruits and vegetables and are significantly more likely to try foods they normally wouldn’t. Somewhere between 70 and 80 percent of people who switch from buying produce at a grocery store to buying produce at a farmers market end up increasing their weekly consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables. We know that there is a correlation between the amount of fruits and vegetables eaten per week and improved markers of health in areas like cholesterol levels, chronic disease management and heart disease risk factors. That is the health benefit that many of you likely thought about when you started reading this article, but the benefits of attending and buying from your neighborhood farmers market extend well beyond exposure to new foods. The produce at the farmers market is local
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Shopping at a farmers market might make some people more likely to try new foods. Submitted photo
and so is fresher than produce that is shipped in from more distant sites. In terms of vitamin and nutrient content, freshness matters. When produce is picked, its enzymes and internal metabolism continue, and over just a few days it can lose a large percentage of the nutrients. A day or two of transport can cost 10 percent or more of what makes produce such a healthy option. I would argue, though, that shopping at your neighborhood farmers market carries benefits more important than the way it could change your eating habits. The farmers market is a community event. Unlike a grocery store that is open daily, the
market is finite and exists over a season. This turns a produce shopping trip into an opportunity to connect with your neighbors and community on a weekly basis. It’s a chance to meet with the neighborhood association and become involved. It’s a day to bring your children down for programming and educational opportunities they may not get elsewhere. It’s an event when you can catch up with old neighbors and meet new ones, all while making healthy eating choices and stepping out of your comfort zone with new foods. This opportunity for community connection carries real benefits in terms of wellness. Connecting with the surrounding community
and building those relationships has been shown to help fight depression, it can improve mood and increase a person’s overall sense of wellness. Are you a believer yet? Come on down to the next market — South Minneapolis residents have their pick three days a week right now — and check it out for yourself. Jon Shelver has been a Hale resident since 2010 and has been volunteering with Neighborhood Roots and the Nokomis Farmers Market since 2014. He is a pulmonary and critical care physician with Park Nicollet Health Services.
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Mill City Cooks
Recipes and food news from the Mill City Farmers Market
Go wild with kombucha
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ombucha is one of the fastest growing popular health drinks on the market these days, but why all the hype? Kombucha is a fermented black or green tea infused with sugar and natural flavors. Because it is fermented, kombucha provides many probiotics, which are the good bacteria that benefit your gut. While some critics are concerned about the alcohol that is present in kombucha due to the natural fermenting process, one should not worry as most store brews contain less than 0.5 percent alcohol by volume. Another bad representation kombucha gets is its high sugar content. Although some sugar is added while making kombucha, bacteria metabolize most of the sugar during fermentation, and only one or two grams of sugar per serving typically remains. So why are all these probiotics and other
nutrients in kombucha good for us? Probiotics are the good kind of bacteria that are needed for healthy digestion in your stomach. Probiotics are helpful in boosting the immune system, preventing urinary tract infections and fighting food-borne illnesses. Other beneficial nutrients in kombucha
include B-vitamins, polyphenols and antioxidants. Due to the fermentation process, these compounds found in the drink are more bioavailable. This means that the nutrients are more rapidly and easily available for absorption and utilization in the body. Basically put, kombucha is a product that can
CHILLED SUMMER MELON SOUP WITH KOMBUCHA By market chef Heather Hartman
Ingredients 1 honeydew or cantaloupe melon (about 2 pounds), peeled, seeded and cut into small pieces 1/4 cup fresh mint 3 limes, juiced Pinch of salt 1 16 oz. bottle of kombucha, chilled
Method Combine melon, mint, fresh lime juice and salt in a blender. Blend until smooth. Add the kombucha and pulse until just combined. Do not over-process. Let chill in the fridge for one hour before serving. Garnish with fresh berries, a sprig of mint or a swirl of yogurt. Serves 8
deliver certain nutrients more effectively than other foods or certain vitamins. Kombucha lovers also boast about other health benefits — that the drink can potentially help reduce blood pressure, reduce atherosclerosis, enhance metabolism and improve skin and hair health — but there is little scientific evidence supporting these claims. Fresh small-batch kombucha is available locally at the Mill City Farmers Market from one of its newest vendors: GYST Fermentation Bar. GYST is a popular Eat Street restaurant founded in 2015, offering house-made, sustainably sourced fermented food. Offering everything from kombucha to traditional lactofermented pickles, GYST is available part-time at the market’s expansion on Chicago Avenue and at the Market’s new Tuesday night market at the Commons. Chef Heather Hartman from the Mill City Farmers Market’s Saturday cooking demo, Mill City Cooks, incorporated kombucha into a chilled summer soup. In need of honeydew, cantaloupe or mint for the recipe? Come to the Mill City Farmers Market on Saturday mornings or Tuesday evenings to pick up your local ingredients. Mill City Farmers Market is Minneapolis’ trusted source for local and organic food, bringing good food, cooking education and live entertainment to one beautiful place. More information and seasonal recipes can be found at millcityfarmersmarket.org — Taiya Brown
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You. Only Stronger.
By Dr. Heather Norton Bower
With senior cats, sometimes it’s not just old age Sometimes as we see little changes in our mature adult and senior cats, we are tempted to attribute those changes to simple aging. Old age is not necessarily a disease, however. Many conditions or changes that our older cats go through can be diagnosed and treated appropriately, adding high quality to our feline companion’s lives. Below are common issues in our older cats and a brief explanation of what can be done to further explore, diagnose and treat these issues:
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Weight loss or changes in appetite Is your kitty looking a lot thinner lately? Can you feel or even see the shoulders, spine or hips, but couldn’t before? Unexpected, unintentional weight loss in your cat should always be discussed with your veterinarian. Eating less (or more, but accompanied by weight loss) is a flag for us to start with an exam and lab work to rule out common senior feline diseases, such as diabetes, hyperthyroidism and kidney disease. Conditions that affect the liver, pancreatitis, inflammatory bowel disease and other primary or secondary gastrointestinal diseases should also be ruled out. Sometimes we can diagnose these issues through lab work and X-rays. Other times more advanced diagnostics such as ultrasound, or endoscopy are required. Dental disease is another common issue for mature adult and senior cats, and an exam should be done to make sure there are no signs of periodontal disease that would lead to weight loss or a decrease in appetite.
Changes in grooming Is your cat’s coat looking a little dull or unkempt? Are you dealing with mats that weren’t there before? Changes in grooming can mean many things, including an underlying systemic issue, a weight issue where your cat can’t physically groom places they once were able to groom or perhaps your kitty has physical pain, such as arthritis, that prevents them from grooming with ease. Grooming changes should always be addressed with your veterinarian. She or he can try to get to the bottom of the issue and at the same time help provide at least shortterm relief by helping you select proper grooming tools and clipping off the mats that may be very uncomfortable or contributing to issues of hygiene.
Changes in mobility Just like aging adult humans, cats will accumulate degenerative issues along the way that may affect their joints and spine. If your older kitty is in a lot of physical pain or showing any signs of limping when they move around, an exam and X-rays are always a good start toward diagnosing an underlying issue that we may be able to reverse or correct. Whether or not we find a reversible or chronic issue, the great news is that we have a lot of options to treat pain in our feline companions. Many prescription medications are available as well as supplements. At Westgate Pet Clinic we carry both fish oil, a good source of omega fatty acids, and glucosamine with chondroitin sulfate (there is both an oral and an injectable form). Also, both Dr. Teresa Hershey and Dr. Catherine Hageman perform acupuncture for cats.
Changes in the litter box Did you know that your cats’ litter boxes provide major clues about possible health issues that they may face? Cats that are developing or have diabetes, hyperthyroidism or kidney disease may produce more urine, and you might see a trend for larger or more urine clumps in the box or more visitation. Older cats are also more likely to experience urinary tract infections or bladder and kidney stones, and you may see more frequent urination, vocalization in the box or blood or urine outside of the box. Stool volume or texture may also change as cats age. Less stool in the box, less frequent visits, smaller and harder stools, vocalization in the box or stool outside of the box may indicate constipation or dehydration. More stool in the box, softer stools or stools outside of the box may be an indication of pancreatitis, hyperthyroidism or other primary or secondary gastrointestinal issues. Remember to try scoop litter boxes at least once daily. Scooping once daily allows you to see if there have been any changes in urinary or defecation habits, which can alert you and your veterinarians that there may be something to check. Besides all the medical clues we can gain from a litter box, older cats are more likely to continue to use their boxes if the boxes are scooped at least once daily. They are also more likely to use their litter boxes if they are in east to get to locations. Perhaps the stairs going down to the basement are more difficult for them in older age and they need at least one box to be on the floor where they primarily spend their time. Clumping litter continues to be the top preferred type of litter for cats in veterinary behavioral studies. Make sure the boxes in use are large enough for your cat to move around in with ease (if they are having issues with mobility, navigating a small box may be more difficult) and that there is a lower side for them to comfortably get in and out of the box. Last but not least, the general rule of thumb for number of litter boxes in a household is one box per cat, plus one extra box.
Changes in interaction As our cats age, they will start to sleep more and perhaps interact a little less than they did before with us or with other pets in the household. If you note a change in how they are interacting, it is best to have your veterinarian perform an exam and check their current weight. Any changes on exam or even a small amount of unexpected weight loss may be a signal for us to check for common feline senior diseases, catching issues early before your cat develops other signs of illness. Although feline dental disease does not always lead to changes in activity level, many clients have commented that their cats have been more youthful and playful after dental work is done. Checking teeth during the exam is always a top priority.
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d e r a S h sp a c e Artist and writer Andy Sturdevant (with the beard, center) leads an alley tour during a previous year’s edition of Common Room. Submitted photo
By Dylan Thomas dthomas@southwestjournal.com
“Show up, wear comfortable shoes, and it never hurts to bring a bottle of water.” That’s Andy Sturdevant’s advice for anyone who wants to join him for the eighth season of Common Room, a series of weekly, artist-led tours running every Wednesday in August. Co-organized with Sergio Vucci, the tours this season explore such varied topics as silence, sacredness and islands by foot, bicycle or bus, depending on the week. Each tour aims to reveal new perspectives on the urban environment — the grand common room we all share. Sturdevant is an artist and former MinnPost columnist whose essays now appear monthly in Architecture MN Magazine, and in July he gave the Southwest Journal a preview of the upcoming Common Room season. The interview has been edited and condensed.
Southwest Journal: These Common Room tours sound, in concept, an awful lot like The Stroll, the column you used to write for MinnPost, where you explored a topic by walking around. Am I onto something here? Sturdevant: Definitely it’s animated by the same set of ideas, in terms of putting people out into public in a certain context and giving them the opportunity to experience the world through a certain topical lens, but there’s some pretty key differences. A big idea of Common Room is that it’s also a very social experience in a way that’s different from a written column. Part of the experience is not just seeing the sights and learning things, it’s also doing it with this group of people and interacting with those people over the course of the event.
Your first tour of the season, though, is a silent tour, which I take as meaning no talking. Right. You don’t have to talk to people to interact with them. There’s other nonverbal ways to interact with people. That’s the fun thing about doing a project like this for long enough. You can really play with
the format in some interesting ways. Every year Sergio and I try to push some of the high-concept tours a little further, and this is maybe as highconcept a tour as any we’ve done. Certainly, there are ways to interact with people and the environment at large in a silent way, or a I hope there is. That’s kind of the idea. If there’s not, I guess we’ll find out the hard way.
Talk a little bit about the other tours that you have coming up this season. What are you really looking forward to? We have an island tour that I’m really looking forward to. When Sergio and I were planning out the season, it just seemed a lot of the ideas we were looking at seemed to relate to the idea of an island — you know, these places that are somehow separated from the rest of the environment around them, whether physically separated or conceptually separated, I guess. Definitely, when putting together the silent tour and the sacred spaces tour, a lot of the sites we’re going to be visiting are going to be island-like in orientation, so we thought we should do just a literal island tour, as well. So, we will be visiting at least two literal islands, but when you have a theme that’s broad enough you can pick any number of approaches to it, and one of the fun things about planning the stops is people not knowing exactly what they’re going to see or from what angle they’re going to be experiencing the theme of the tour. There are literal islands on that tour, but there are some more figural islands, as well. A big part of putting these together is creating access to spaces people might not be able to see
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otherwise, and that’s definitely going to be one of the aspects of the island tour. I think we’re hopefully going to be able to get into some spaces you wouldn’t normally be able to.
Tell me a little bit more about the experience for folks who sign up for one of these tours. How long do they last? What is it like for the participants? For some reason when you’re in art school they don’t teach you about the logistics of mounting a walking tour, so Sergio and I had to learn that ourselves. Fortunately, after so many years, I think we’ve learned our lesson. We know that people need bathroom breaks. We know that we need to make some accommodations for water and food. So we do all those things. The tours vary a lot, but for the most part they are in the two-hour range, two-and-a-half hours. That’s about as much fun as people can stand to have, in our experience. And they’re very informal. They’re really just set up so anybody can show up. They’ll interact with the rest of the group if they want to, or they don’t have to.
Common Room refers not to just a physical space, but it’s about the social experience of these events. Exactly. And when we started the project many years ago, it did refer to an actual, physical space. There was a space at the Soap Factory called the Common Room. It was an old office that had kind of fallen into disuse, and Sergio and I went in and restored it — made it look like an Edward Hopper painting, really, like an “Office at Night” — and we did such a good job restoring it the Soap Factory started using it as an office, so we found ourselves without our Common Room. But we knew we wanted to switch to a tourbased format and really get people out of the gallery and into the world, and the idea still worked, the idea that it is a shared space — you know, the whole city is your common room.
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Get Out Guide. By Jahna Peloquin
‘INTERFERENCE’ & ‘RIM’S EDGE’ Language and communication are at the center of two new conceptual exhibitions on view at Uptown independent art gallery, Soo Visual Arts Center. “Interference” is an immersive, multimedia experience created by Minneapolis native artist Liza Sylvestre, inspired by her personal struggle with hearing loss. In a drawing titled “Interference,” bits and pieces of a written conversation are blacked out, making it difficult to follow the narrative. One video depicts the artist reciting a story she wrote, first in her “normal” voice, followed by a version in which she recites only the parts of each word she is able to hear to give the viewer a sense of her day-to-day experience with a limited hearing ability. “Rim’s Edge,” by Brooklyn-based artist Christine Rebhuhn, features sculptural objects that explore the wordplay of popular phrases in physical form, to absurd effect. Also on view beginning July 29 is “Ekphrastic 2.0,” an experiment in collaborative storytelling with drawings by more than 37 artists created over the course of five weeks in an exquisite corpse style narrative.
When: On view July 29–Aug. 26; Opening receptions: Saturday, July 29 from 5 p.m.–9 p.m. with artist talks from 5 p.m.–6 p.m. Where: Soo Visual Arts Center, 2909 Bryant Ave. S. Cost: Free Info: soovac.org
MINNESOTA FRINGE FESTIVAL
RED STAG BLOCK PARTY: IN CAHOOTS!
Every year, the Minnesota Fringe Festival brings hundreds of shows from seasoned theater companies to amateur troupes to Twin Cities stages. Instead of being selected by a panel of judges, plays in this non-juried festival are selected at random, ensuring that an eclectic, diverse mix of theater is represented. Likely highlights at this year’s festival include “Wellstone: A Minnesotan Musical,” an original musical following the life of famed U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone, a liberal stalwart from Minnesota who died in a plane crash; “Mine/Field,” a performance that blends modern dance, spoken word and politics exploring the secrecy, identity and trust in the internet age; and “Subpar Heroes,” about a group of friends who gain trivial, insignificant powers and attempt to save their hometown.
Minnesota’s top craft brewers come together to create one-day-only collaboration brews in this annual festival co-presented by the Red Stag Supperclub and The Growler craft beer magazine. The 11th-annual event pairs 14 local breweries in seven teams to create seven new collaboration beers for the occasion. Block partygoers can vote on their favorite brew, and a portion of proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the winning team’s choice of local charity. The block party also features stage and street performances from Foxy Tann, North Star Roller Derby, Black Market Brass, the Blind Shake and the 4onthefloor. This year, the event is part of Open Streets Minneapolis, in which streets in the Northeast neighborhood are closed off to auto traffic for the day.
When: Aug. 3–13 Where: Various locations Cost: $19.75 per day, $200 for an all-access pass Info: fringefestival.org for lineup and locations
CAT VIDEO FESTIVAL Since the dawn of YouTube, funny cat videos have been some of the most-viewed clips on the Internet. In 2012, when cat videos were reaching peak popularity, the Walker Art Center bridged the gap between high art and low art and founded the Internet Cat Video Festival, screening viral cat clips featuring feline celebs such as Grumpy Cat, Lil Bub, Keyboard Cat and Nyan Cat. Last year the fest was picked up by myTalk 107.1 and the St. Paul Saints, and more than 11,000 people attended the event. In addition to the screening, this year’s event also features music, fireworks, food and beer, and you can submit your own cat video films or nominate your internet favorites at mytalk107.com.
When: Sunday, Aug. 6 from 2 p.m.–8 p.m. Where: Red Stag Supperclub, 509 1st Ave. NE Cost: Free Info: redstagblockparty.com
When: Tuesday, Aug. 8 from 8 p.m.–9:30 p.m. Where: CHS Field, 360 N. Broadway St., St. Paul Cost: $10, $75 VIP (includes food), kids under 5 free Info: catfestmn.com
IMMIGRANT JOURNEY PROJECT The oversized puppets of Masanari Kawahara have been part of the May Day festival for a dozen years. Now, the Twin Cities puppet master and theater artist is using puppetry to explore the theme of immigration within the Asian communities of Minnesota. Presented by pan-Asian performance collective Mu Performing Arts in collaboration with several local Asian-American organizations, the project will train community members to perform alongside Mu actors for a series of performances that investigate the 21st century immigrant experience through puppetry, movement and masks.
When: Aug. 4–20 Cost: $10
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Minneapolis Art Festivals LORING PARK ART FESTIVAL
Three of the biggest Minneapolis art festivals of the year take place over the next two weekends. Loring Park Art Festival, Powderhorn Art Fair and Uptown Art Fair all feature original art and handmade goods for sale from hundreds of local artists and makers. Here’s how the fairs compare:
UPTOWN ART FAIR
After many years sharing dates with the Powderhorn and Uptown art fairs, Loring Park Art Festival moved to a new weekend last year, resulting in record attendance of more than 30,000. The grassroots festival features a juried lineup of 140 local painters, sculptors, photographers, jewelry makers and more at a variety of price points, appealing to the entry-level art buyer and collectors alike. Plus, enjoy live entertainment from the Stone Arch Jazz Band, Diversity Street Dancers and Open Eye Figure Theatre.
When: Saturday, July 29 from 10 a.m.–6 p.m. & Sunday, 30 from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Where: Loring Park, 1382 Willow St. Cost: Free Info: loringparkartfestival.com
Billed as the largest art fair in the state, this annual fest attracts more than 350,000 people to the intersection of Hennepin & Lake. It features work by more than 360 professional artists from Minnesota and around the world working in a dozen mediums, as well as live performances, hands-on kids’ activities and food vendors.
When: Aug 5–7 Where: Hennepin & Lake Cost: Free Info: uptownartfair.com
POWDERHORN ART FAIR This annual juried show at Powderhorn Park features 184 regional and national artists from a variety of disciplines as well as artists from the Powderhorn neighborhood spread over the park’s 66 acres. A collaborative venture of the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, this fair has a decidedly more community emphasis than other art fairs.
When: Aug. 5 & 6 Where: Powderhorn Park, 3400 15th Ave. S. Cost: Free Info: powderhornartfair.com
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A visit to Millennium Garden
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o you have a to-do list of places in the metro area you mean to visit? A lot of times we’re only tourists in our hometowns when we have out-of-state visitors. But I keep a list in Google Docs of places I’ve heard about so it’s handy on my phone when I’m out and about. Last week I had a meeting in northern Plymouth and about an hour to spare after it was over. I knew I had something on my list and sure enough it was just a few blocks away. Typical of the western suburbs, Plymouth is dotted with lakes and marshes and curving roads. The City of Plymouth says their 164 miles of trails and 1,670 acres of parkland make up one of the nation’s premier park systems. Plymouth Creek Park is located near the intersection of Highway 55 and Interstate 494, close to the city hall, post office and a large retail center. Trails crisscross the park and are easily accessed from the parking lot at Plymouth Creek Center, located at 14800 34th Ave. N. in Plymouth. Millennium Garden is a planned formal garden on the edge of a marsh walking trail located behind the Plymouth Creek Center. It wasn’t listed on the center’s welcome sign, so I actually drove past it. When I did get to the building I learned it was a community activity center, senior center and event space with a large hall overlooking the gardens. The place was bustling on the Friday morning I visited. The Plymouth Senior Program offers day trips, clubs, classes, presentations, discussion groups, fitness programs, game and card groups and arts and crafts. The lobby gallery showed work by participants in a painting class. I wandered out back to the gardens. Formal plantings of roses, daisies, lilies and native
Formal plantings create a backdrop for weddings at Millennium Garden. Photos by Linda Koutsky
shrubs, a butterfly garden, a labyrinth and meandering stone paths are surrounded by flowing water, ponds and a water fountain.
They call it a Woodland Restoration but it felt more like a meadow to me. Plymouth Creek cuts through the park.
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Stone columns, decorative arbors and plenty of seating fill out the space. Though it’s obviously designed for weddings, it’s a nice garden for everyday users. Behind the gardens, nature trails traverse the park. I walked past some birch trees and headed for a bridge in the distance. In my short walk I saw a rabbit, three squirrels, a swimming muskrat and three snakes! The snakes really took me by surprise; I haven’t seen a snake in decades. The first one was just over the creek’s bridge. It squiggled into the grasses of the meadow/marshland area. As I snapped a photo two more followed it off the path in front of me. Do snakes travel in threes? I looked them up at home: just common garter snakes, but a nice peek at suburban wildlife for this mostly urban dweller. A woman I met in the gardens says she plays 500 one day of the week then cribbage on another. She likes to walk in the park
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