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Plans to alter park roads face resistance

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Somali women’s group offers sewing class By Michelle Bruch

Men dominate sewing and tailoring businesses in Somali culture, says Fartun Ismail. So if a woman at Karmel Mall can learn to sew and add a tailoring service to her store, that’s a big deal. “They learn how to sew, we give them machines, and they started preparing people’s clothes in their store,” she said.

“And they’re making really good money.” Ismail founded the Somali American Women Action Center (SAWAC), a program that teaches women to sew. She came up with the idea after interviewing women at Karmel Mall. “They are struggling with so many challenges: SEE SEWING / PAGE A16

Maryam, wearing henna for the recent Eid celebration, attends sewing class at Mount Olivet Church. Photo by Michelle Bruch

If you’ve taken a trip down Minnehaha Parkway lately, you’ve probably noticed the signs. “Save Minnehaha Parkway before it’s too late,” read the white, green and blue lawn signs, which echo the color palette and graphic design style of signage used by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. But these signs are not from the Park Board. They are being printed by Preserve the Parkway, a group of area residents opposed to MPRB plans to limit road access on Minnehaha Parkway as part of an ongoing master plan process. The plans, still under consideration, would discourage through traffic on the parkway by installing roadway barriers at Humboldt and Portland avenues and removing a one-way stretch of the parkway from Pillsbury Avenue to just east of Nicollet. SEE PARK ROADS / PAGE A19

On Minnehaha Parkway in Tangletown, residents have placed signs in their yards opposing city proposals to limit through traffic on the parkway. Photo by Andrew Hazzard

Eating disorder center opening in Linden Hills The Emily Program’s 16-bed facility will be city’s ﬁrst residential treatment program for eating disorders

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When Linden Hills resident Kitty Westin’s daughter Anna died in February 2000 after a five-year battle with anorexia, there were no residential treatment programs for eating disorders in the state of Minnesota. Eating disorders were poorly understood and often trivialized. Kitty Westin, who then lived in Chaska, was a licensed psychologist, but her training had barely touched on them. Anorexia was sensationalized in made-for-TV movies as a behavior problem mainly affecting models. And Anna’s insurance company had told her that the therapy and hospitalization she needed “wasn’t medically necessary.” “It’s almost unspeakable, just horrific, to watch something like that happen and to feel so helpless and alone,” Kitty Westin said. “Had residential treatment been available to Anna at that time, I think she’d be alive today.” The past two decades have seen a tidal shift in the perception of eating disorders by the public and the medical community — thanks SEE EMILY PROGRAM / PAGE A18

Dawn Boettcher, the site manager of the Anna Westin House in Linden Hills, stands in the facility’s kitchen on Aug. 9. The building has undergone a $1.4 million renovation and will open to clients on Sept. 9. Photo by Zac Farber

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Taberna Street Tacos debuts A new eatery featuring fresh tacos, a large cocktail menu and in-house games like shuffleboard and pingpong has opened on Lake Street in Cedar-Isles-Dean. Taberna Street Tacos opened on Aug. 19. The restaurant is located on the ground floor of The Foundry apartment building at 3126 W. Lake St. The menu is appropriately taco-heavy with traditional and modern, more experimental tacos, according to a press release. Taberna has regular food and drink specials, including a $7 weekday lunch and an all-day happy hour on Sunday. The restaurant features a large selection of games, including darts, foosball, pingpong, pool and shuﬄeboard. “We want Taberna to be a great place to sip, celebrate, meet, eat and enjoy games and sports,” co-owner Chris Corlett said in a press release. Taberna has seating for 245 people inside, including a large bar area with televisions, as well as a patio space on West Lake Street. Corlett grew up in Southwest and returned to Minneapolis in 2017 after attending the Culinary Institute of America in New York City and working in the restaurant and hotel business in Los Angeles. He opened the noodle shop RAH’MN on Snelling Avenue in St. Paul in 2017. His co-owner is Tryg

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Taberna, a new taco restaurant in The Foundry apartment building on Lake Street, opened Aug. 19. Photo by Andrew Hazzard

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Arc’teryx to close its Hennepin location Upscale outdoor retailer Arc’teryx will shutter its Hennepin Avenue store in Uptown next month. The Canadian brand will have its last day of sales on Sept. 22, according to a company spokesperson. The brand will be opening a new

The Arc’teryx in Calhoun Square will close on Sept. 22. Photo by Andrew Hazzard

Twin Cities location in Mall of America. “Arc’teryx has had a dedicated store since 2014 and we will continue to grow our presence locally,” the company said in a statement. “Minneapolis is a thriving community centered around adventure and we look forward to creating a new retail store to help fuel that spirit for our customers moving forward.” The outdoor clothing and gear company moved into the Calhoun Square shopping mall in November 2014. The 3000 block of Hennepin Avenue has seen three large outdoor retailers leave this year, with The North Face and Columbia Sportswear shutting their doors in January.

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Whiteboards line the offices of The General Store, including an explainer on Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. Photos by Andrew Hazzard

UPTOWN

A blockchain-based business model Inside the former North Face store on Hennepin Avenue whiteboards have replaced racks of parkas and hiking boots. Some boards pose big questions: What advice would you give to past generations? And how would you use this space to benefit the community? Others give updates on what the businesses inside are working on and some simply explain what’s going on here. It looks like a coworking space meets a self-help conference, but The General Store is neither of those things. Rather, it’s the physical embodiment of a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), which members say is the first of its kind in the world. A DAO is a group of companies and individuals working in loose coalition toward a shared goal — in this case “revitalizing the Twin Cities” — joined together by blockchain-based “smart contracts” that decrease the need for middlemen and arbitrators to ensure agreements are followed. “There’s lots of elements to it,” said Brandon Klein, one of the founders of The General Store. In a DAO, participating organizations and individuals build their equity or “reputation” within the group by conducting more transactions on the shared blockchain base. The larger the reputation each person or company has, the more influence they can wield within shared decisions of the DAO.

The balance of reputation power shifts constantly. Klein said he lost a majority share within a couple weeks of opening. The General Store commits to opening the doors for community space between two to eight days each month (depending on how members vote) for various events and learning opportunities. They can vote together to make changes, as happened a week after opening, when the group voted to bring in organics recycling bins. There are seven businesses currently working within The General Store, ranging from Bogarts Donuts to the environmentally focused venture capital firm Turas Mara to theDifference, a consulting firm currently contracted to work with the United States Air Force. On the surface, those businesses don’t have much in common, but part of being in the DAO is agreeing to its collaboration code, which requires participants share their work and knowledge with other DAO members. “Everybody’s trying to elevate each other’s businesses,” said Brennan Townley, whose digital networking software company Collaboration AI is part of the DAO. Townley said he’s worked in coworking spaces before, but The General Store is different because it encourages working together and learning from others. Everyone who works within the DAO has SEE THE GENERAL STORE / PAGE A5

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UPTOWN

Businesses struggle after pavilion ﬁre When a fire consumed the lakeside pavilion at Bde Maka Ska in May, Lola on the Lake’s plan for a sophomore year revival went up in smoke and conditions haven’t improved much since. “After the fire there were 40 days and 40 nights of rain, and then instead of locusts, we got E. coli,” Lola owner Louis King said. The summer has been a tough one around Bde Maka Ska. Minneapolis is experiencing an extremely wet summer, and high E. coli levels have closed beaches around the lake. With no covered seating and fewer lake visitors during storms, business has been sparse. “The rain has been the biggest detriment to our business,” King said. The same has been true for Wheel Fun Rentals, where manager Lizzy Rode said the weather has driven down rentals of bikes and watercraft around the lake. Wheel Fun has been busy on nice days, but they’ve noticed the impact of losing the pavilion, with smaller crowds in the evenings than in past summers. The fire left Lola, Minneapolis Sailing Center and Wheel Fun Rentals without running water or electricity. The businesses have had to adjust to generator power. “It’s kind of the new normal,” Rode said. It might remain normal for some time. Right now, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board believes it could take two years

or longer to replace the refectory. For Lola, the fire forced them to cut down on staff and change their menu options. “We had to throw the business model out the window,” King said. Today they’re running out of a red trailer, cooking part of their food at off-site kitchens and hauling in pounds of ice throughout the day. The menu has become more barbecueheavy, and they’ve partnered with DoorDash to try to expand their delivery business. When weather permits, business has been pretty solid, King said, with people showing up and being supportive. Now he’s trying to schedule a series of events with live music, games and barbeque. The first, held Aug. 17, was dubbed the Chain of Lakes BBQ Festival. He hopes to hold a “Back to School Blues” party in mid-September and an Oktoberfest gathering the following month. He hopes people will come down to support Lola and other lakeside businesses into the fall. “Everybody’s hanging in there together,” King said.

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help find inefficiencies and correct them. “We work in little fiefdoms right now,” Klein said. While there have been DAOs before, having one in a physical space with a localized goal is a new concept. “This is a new business and they have to prove it,” said Soumya Sen, a professor at the University of Minnesota who has studied blockchain. Blockchain-based smart contracts can improve efficiency, Sen said, but blockchain has also been hyped up a lot in recent years. “The key thing is that these people trust each other,” he said. The General Store Where: 3008 Hennepin Ave. Info: thegeneralstore.me

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due to its close proximity to the Hennepin Avenue transit corridor. “There is a strong push in the city from a policy perspective to encourage biking, walking and transit use,” Planning Commission President Sam Rockwell said, noting protected bus lanes are coming in the area. The development has shrunk since its initial June proposal, which called for a sixstory, 119-unit building. Current R5 zoning in the area allows for four-story buildings. “The building is much more in alignment with current zoning and the future comp plan,” city planner Hilary Dvorak said. The Planning Commission unanimously approved the project’s six variances. Two developments, one at 28th & Girard in Lowry Hill East behind the Piggy Bank restaurant and Uptown Transit Station and one at 32nd & Girard in South Uptown, were unanimously approved. The project at 28th & Girard will replace three single-family houses with a six-story, 76-unit building. The building will have direct access to the Midtown Greenway. The building will include 43 parking SEE GIRARD / PAGE A18

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Parents at Annunciation Catholic School have expressed frustration with parish priest Brian Park, who oversees the school, for repriBrian Park manding a popular teacher who showed fifth-graders a YouTube video produced by a French humanitarian group. The video, which touches on the refugee crisis, income inequality, human trafficking, child labor and discrimination, includes a clip of a woman talking about leaving her husband to “be with a woman.” The teacher showed the video (tinyurl.com/ acs-vid) during a project in which students researched topics such as food scarcity, affordable housing and equal rights for people living with disabilities. Concerns over Annunciation’s response to the video were raised at a mid-July meeting convened by the Windom school, which was attended by well over 100 parents of current and former students. One parent said he thought the situation was a “complete disaster” and one said he was unsure why people felt threatened by the video. Another said she hoped her kids could see the video someday. The teacher, who resigned before the end of the school year, said at the meeting that she felt she was treated unfairly. (She asked that her name not to be used in this story to protect her personal and professional reputation.) Park wrote in an email that he could not discuss employment matters, but he believes in the Roman Catholic Church’s teachings about homosexuality. The church holds that sexual activity outside of a heterosexual marriage is a sin. The school expects its staff to adhere to the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis’ “Justice in Employment” policy, Park wrote. The policy says employees can be “immedi-

ately discharged” without progressive discipline for public conduct inconsistent with church morals, teachings and laws. While some parents have voiced support for the school’s administration, others have expressed concern about Park’s beliefs about homosexuality and the school’s sex education curriculum. Speaking at the end of the meeting, Park said the school will no longer work with an outside company that he said provided a censored diagram of the female reproductive system. Lisa Giddings, the mother of an eighthgrade student, told the Southwest Journal in an email that she and her wife believe the school council showed “excellent leadership” in organizing the mid-July meeting. “Members of the church and school communities are just beginning this process of openly working through any differences,” she wrote. “We remain hopeful that all will listen with open hearts and that leadership will address the concerns that are raised.” Park, 38, has been the Annunciation Parish priest since July 2015. He wrote in an email to the Southwest Journal that he works “collaboratively” with the principal on all school issues, though he said that any disciplinary decision is ultimately his to make and that the Archdiocese doesn’t usually involve itself in parish personnel matters. The Archdiocese declined to answer questions about its employee discipline policy or its expectations around how homosexuality is taught in its schools. Bishop Andrew Cozzens sent the Southwest Journal a statement expressing support for Park and urging Annunciation families to “remain in dialogue” with parish and school leaders. Annunciation is a pre-K–8 Catholic school. It’s part of the 97-year-old Annunciation Parish. It’s one of 91 Catholic schools within the Archdiocese, a 12-county region encompassing the Twin Cities and parts of southern and east-central Minnesota.

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Dr. King and Our Beloved Community, 2019

n the 1950s and 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of “creating our beloved community,” a nation-spanning initiative that bonded African Americans together in an effort to combat the violence and hardships of racism in a country that turned its back on them post-slavery. Time and again the great civil rights leader invoked the phrase: “The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community, while the aftermath of violence is tragic bitterness” (1957); “The way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community” (1959); and, “Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys. The aftermath of the ‘fight with fire’ method which you suggest is bitterness and chaos, the aftermath of the love method is reconciliation and creation of the beloved community” (1957). “Dr. King talked about the beloved community, and I think that especially in these times, we have to have places and spaces where we can affirm that,” said Sandra Richardson, co-organizer of the Our Beloved Community celebration held Aug. 17 at the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Kingfield. “It’s a time to reflect on community but also to reflect on: Do we still have a commitment to social justice? Do we still have a commitment to jobs and housing? Do we still have a commitment to undoing racism?” With a white racist in the White House and white nationalism growing more mainstream and more violent, it’s no stretch to say that King’s legacy is in danger of being forgotten, if not outright erased. “I really feel like it’s 1963, 21st century-style,” said Richardson, a consultant for community nonprofits and a member of the park’s legacy committee. “When I look around and I see that for black and brown people, housing, education, criminal justice system, health care … it’s all systemically getting worse. “If you’re a poor person of color, it’s a whole lot harder to get out of poverty than it was 20 years ago. Redlining and housing segregation is as real as it ever was. … The humanity of people is no longer covertly on a continuum. That continuum is front and center, with white and male being on the top, and I think we see that in decisions that are being made and in tweets that are going out. It’s a very deliberate use of race and racism not just to dehumanize and marginalize, but to use effectively as a political weapon.” The event at King’s namesake park is the ninth annual Our Beloved Community celebration. It comes at a time when the civil rights movement has stalled, and when black and brown people in the United States have been attacked by avowed white supremacists. At such a time, what part of King’s legacy does Richardson hang onto? “One is [the King quote] ‘the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice,’” she said. “Because I think that it’s dangerous not to have hope, and when I see what’s happening, I

Sandra Richardson, co-organizer of the Our Beloved Community celebration held Aug. 17 at the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park. Photo by Jim Walsh

think it’s designed to make groups that are already marginalized feel hopeless and that there’s no point in resisting. I think that we have to be very careful not to [give up] hope.” Toward righting that damage, Richardson and the rest of the King park legacy council have created the Charles E. Mays Beloved Community Award. “Mr. Mays was a social worker and a youth organizer with the NAACP, and he ran the only African-American chapter of AARP in the state out of Sabathani [Community Center],” said Richardson. “He was very kind and very shrewd. … He was an organizer, a tactician, and he understood how to get a sense of your own power and wield it.” The first annual Charles E. Mays Beloved Community Award was presented to state representative Jeff Hayden (District 62) on Aug. 17. “We wanted to give the award to someone who exemplifies giving back and trying to figure out ways to benefit community,” Richardson said. Originally Nicollet Field, the park was renamed for King upon his assassination in 1968. Today, the King park building overflows with images of King and his words. Picnic benches and contemplative benches are filled with parkgoers at all hours of the day and night; the park’s “Freedom Form #2” sculpture, originally dedicated to honor King in 1970, has been moved to a more prominent location, and the park playground is themed around African-American inventors and the civil rights movement. All thanks to the vigilance of the park’s legacy council, whose membership includes longtime Southside activist Betty Tisel, community organizer and activist Lorna Pettus, and Richardson’s 88-year-old mother, Virginia. “At the legacy council, we are what we say we’re all about,” said Richardson. “We meet once a month.

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29-year-old killed in Stevens Square A Minneapolis man was shot and killed in an apartment building in Stevens Square on Aug. 18. The victim, 29-year-old Isiah Lamarr Smith, died of multiple gunshot wounds at about 4:20 p.m. on Aug. 18, according to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner. His death has been ruled a homicide. Smith was killed inside an apartment building at 1906 1st Ave. S. Minneapolis police were called to the address shortly after 4 p.m. and found him dead in the common area of the building. Investigators do not believe the shooting was random, according to an MPD press release. Homicide detectives conducted interviews at the scene. Police arrested a man in connection to the shooting on Aug. 19,

according to Sgt. Darcy Horn. The 38-year-old man was booked into Hennepin County Jail on Aug. 19 and is being held without bail on suspicion of murder, according to online jail records. No formal charges have been filed in the incident.

A man was shot and killed in this Stevens Square apartment building on Aug. 18. Photo by Zac Farber

Shots fired outside of Uptown apartments A fight that began inside an Uptown apartment complex led to multiple gunshots being fired on Aug. 11. At 10:30 p.m. Minneapolis police responded to reports of gunfire outside the Elan apartment buildings on the 2800 block of Emerson Avenue South. No injuries were reported in the incident, according to police spokesperson Sgt. Darcy Horn.

Police collected evidence from the scene and interviewed witnesses, but no arrests have been made in the case, which remains under investigation. KSTP reported that the Elan sent a letter to residents saying the building didn’t believe a resident was involved and that it appeared to have been an isolated incident.

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Man disarmed in East Harriet Minneapolis police took multiple guns away from a man in a suspicious vehicle in East Harriet on Aug. 2 and are performing background checks to determine if the firearms can be returned to him. The man, who had been seen parked for extended periods of time near 42nd & Bryant in a black sedan, was found to be in possession of multiple firearms when Minneapolis police officers responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle in the area around 5 p.m. Police did not receive reports of the man making threats toward any one. No arrests were made and while police do not believe the guns were purchased illegally, the weapons are currently being held by MPD while the owner goes through a firearm background test, according to Sgt. Darcy Horn, a police spokesperson. The guns may also be returned to the man via a court order. Patrol officers in the 5th Precinct have been given detailed information about the incident and have been told to watch for

the vehicle involved, Horn said. The timing of the incident, which occurred a day before a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, that killed 22 people and two days before a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, where 10 people were killed, has added to fears and concerns from local residents, Council Member Linea Palmisano said. She said she was thankful the circumstances and law enforcement action prevented a potentially tragic situation. “It seems like a good example of policing,” she said. Palmisano said she went to the Aug. 7 East Harriet Farmstead Neighborhood Association meeting expecting lots of talk about the incident, but more residents there were focused on concerns about police response times to property crimes and a general feeling of low police presence in the neighborhood. The 5th Precinct was scheduled to hold a community meeting about the incident on Aug. 21, shortly after press time.

Police took multiple firearms away from a man after responding to a suspicious vehicle call on Aug. 2 at 42nd & Bryant in East Harriet. Photo by Andrew Hazzard

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Hennepin County is set to begin a $1.5 million project that aims to improve the intersection of West Lake Street & Excelsior Boulevard, a common point of vehicle backups and long pedestrian crossings in Southwest Minneapolis. The project aims to improve the experience for pedestrians by adding multiple islands and for vehicle traffic by simplifying the convergence of the two county roads near Bde Maka Ska. “This has been an intersection we’ve been looking at making improvements to for some time,” said Hennepin County transportation spokesperson Colin Cox. Crews will begin preliminary work in late August, with more noticeable activity to start in September, Cox said. The project is scheduled for completion in 2020, with the bulk of heavier work taking place next year. Some brief lane closures are expected during the daytime this year. A new, landscaped island will be added to the intersection, designed to shrink crossing distances for pedestrians on the north side of

the exchange. Two new crosswalks will connect to the island, which will realign the Lake Street vehicle lanes to make a more compact intersection that westbound drivers will approach at a nearly 90-degree angle. Medians will be extended along Excelsior Boulevard to create landscaped pedestrian islands on the south side of the intersection by shrinking existing left turn lanes. All curb ramps will be updated to ensure they meet ADA standards. The area is a hotbed of construction activity currently, with the new 10-story Lake Haus apartment building under construction on West Lake Street and the upcoming demolition of the BP gas station near the intersection to make way for a new hotel and condo project. The project emerged out of the West Lake Multimodal Transportation Study of 2016. “I think the experiences will be quite a bit different for people traveling in that area,” Cox said.

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• A portion of Cedar Lake Parkway near the Kenilworth Corridor is expected to close beginning Sept. 9 as part of construction for the Southwest Light Rail Transit project. The closure will last about five days, according to the Metropolitan Council, with crews focusing on shifting existing freight tracks and water main work. A long-term closure of the road is expected later this fall. • Crews have finished retrofitting the pedestrian bridge over the Cedar Lake Channel to support construction vehicles, and salvage work to preserve the Works Progress Administration wall has begun.

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Those paddling through the channel may face temporary delays of about 20 minutes while work is ongoing. Crews are planning to work in the channel on Saturdays for the remainder of August. A full closure of the channel is expected later this year. • Minneapolis Fire Chief John Fruetel will address safety concerns related to Southwest Light Rail Transit construction at a public meeting at the Kenwood Community Center at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 27. Fruetel is expected to give a presentation on how the fire department works around road closures.

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Come September, the city of Minneapolis and Metro Transit will begin enforcing bus-only lanes during peak hours on Hennepin Avenue between Lake Street and Franklin Avenue. Red bus-only lanes will be painted on Hennepin Avenue between Aug. 28 and Sept. 3, according to city spokesperson Sarah McKenzie. The lanes will be added northbound from Lake Street to the Uptown Transit Station and from 25th Street to Franklin Avenue. Southbound, a painted curbside bus lane will be implemented from 25th Street to the Uptown Transit Station. The northbound lanes will be in effect from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. on weekdays; the southbound lane will be enforced from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. At an open house event in early August, Metro Transit officials said they debated adding the lanes on the whole stretch of Hennepin from Lake to Franklin, but they ultimately decided the best way to improve efficiency was

to focus on the areas north of 25th Street where additional vehicle traffic turns onto the street near the Interstate 94 exchange. “It was quickly apparent where the delays were taking place,” said Michael Mechtenberg, Metro Transit’s project manager for reliability. Right now, just 20% of northbound Route 6 buses meet their scheduled six-minute run time between the Uptown Transit Station and Franklin Avenue, while 33% of southbound buses are on time in the afternoon. No vehicle lanes will be lost to the bus lanes, but on-street parking will be prohibited in the bus-only areas during rush hour. “This project is frankly a no-brainer,” Mechtenberg said. Metro Transit is also considering removing bus stops one block north and south of the Uptown Transit Station to improve run times, according to signage posted at Lagoon Avenue and 28th Street.

NOTED: Reconstruction of the Fremont Avenue Bridge over the Midtown Greenway will begin Aug. 28, causing a 10-week closure of the Greenway near the bridge. Riders will be

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Proposed district challenges density West Calhoun proposal could limit scale of development on 3.2 acres near Bde Maka Ska

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@swjournal.com

In a part of the West Calhoun neighborhood where the city envisions high-density residential development, more than two dozen homeowners have applied for a type of historic protection that could allow them to help dictate the size of future buildings. The homeowners, who reside in an area immediately west of Bde Maka Ska that’s currently zoned for one- or two-family development, have asked the city to designate their combined 3.2 acres as a “conservation district.” The designation, never before used in Minneapolis, would allow them to work with city planners to create “design guidelines” that could include limits on a building’s height and square footage, senior city planner John Smoley said. Those limits could be more restrictive than the given zoning code, though they couldn’t prevent uses allowed by the code. The homeowners’ application comes as the city prepares to update its zoning code after passage of the Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan, which calls for increasing the number of housing units in Minneapolis, especially near transit stations. The proposed conservation district is blocks away from the future West Lake Street Southwest Light Rail Transit station, one of 16 along the 14.5-mile line that will run between Eden Prairie and Downtown Minneapolis starting in 2023. The 2040 Plan calls for the area containing the proposed district to be zoned as an urban neighborhood allowing buildings up to 10 stories in height. West Calhoun resident Meg Forney, a Park Board commissioner who lives in the area and co-authored the proposal, said she’s not sure she believes such density would be appropriate where there’s “established community.” She and neighbor Martha Yunker, an architect who helped draft the proposal, wrote that the area merits the designation because of its small lots and its architecturally varied houses. “The intimate scale and distinctive character of houses and landscaping exist nowhere else in the city,” they wrote. The group Neighbors for More Neighbors, which advocates for policies to increase Minne-

apolis’ housing stock, has opposed the conservation district designation in part because it could restrict housing near a light rail station. John Edwards, the activist behind Wedge LIVE, wrote on the group’s website that approving the designation would encourage others to seek exemptions to the 2040 Plan and could deny people the opportunity to live in an “amenity-rich” area. He said approval wouldn’t move the city toward its climate change goals and that the proposed conservation district is a “glaring example” of how renters can be excluded from the process of setting housing policy. “Now is not the time to initiate a conservation district process that only requires the approval of [property] owners,” he wrote. The conservation district would need to be approved by two-thirds of property owners, the Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office, the Planning Commission, the Heritage Preservation Commission and the City Council. Minneapolis has had a conservationdistrict ordinance since 2014, when Prospect Park residents sought to preserve single-family homes in the neighborhood without being encumbered by the restrictions of a full historic designation. The ordinance aimed to give property owners a “grassroots way” to set building standards that were more restrictive than what the zoning code offered, Smoley said. The city had never received a completed conservation district application before the West Calhoun residents submitted one earlier this summer. Smoley estimated that between 150 and 175 people have written letters expressing opinions on the West Calhoun proposal, with the feedback evenly split between those in favor and opposed. The city’s Heritage Preservation Commission (HPC) was scheduled to vote in August on whether to initiate the process of creating the West Calhoun conservation district. But that vote was delayed until September, Smoley said, to give staff time to process the large amount of feedback.

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Justice for Justine group angry about disparities Tentative settlement in Jamar Clark civil lawsuit is 1% of Damond lawsuit settlement

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@swjournal.com

In the wake of Minneapolis’ tentative $200,000 settlement with the adoptive father of Jamar Clark, a group of Fulton residents advocating for police reform is angry about disparate outcomes in lawsuits brought forth by families of people killed by police. Todd Schuman, a spokesman for the group Justice for Justine, said the city’s settlement with James Clark is an example of the “two systems of justice that are in play.” He said his group “strongly feels” the Minneapolis Police Department was culpable for Jamar Clark’s death “in every way that they were” for the death of their neighbor Justine Ruszczyk Damond, whom a Minneapolis officer fatally shot in 2017. Minneapolis police officer Dustin Schwarze shot Clark in the early-morning hours of Nov. 15, 2015, as Clark and Schwarze’s partner, Mark Ringgenberg, grappled on the ground outside of a North Minneapolis apartment building. Clark died the next day. The high-profile shooting led to an 18-day protest outside of Minneapolis’ 4th Precinct police station. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman declined to file charges against the two officers, noting that Clark grabbed Ringgenberg’s gun during their struggle and ignored commands to let go of it. The U.S. Justice Department also declined to file charges against the two officers. Damond’s family settled a wrongful-death lawsuit with the city for $20 million in May, days after a jury convicted Mohamed Noor, the officer

Fulton resident Todd Schuman, who is part of the group Justice for Justine, said the tentative $200,000 settlement reached between Minneapolis and Jamar Clark’s adoptive father is another example of the city “failing” its communities of color. Photo by Nate Gotlieb

who killed Damond, of third-degree murder and manslaughter. The advocacy group Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar subsequently called on Minneapolis to settle James Clark’s excessive force lawsuit for the same amount. Schuman, whose group has called for policing changes and has supported families of people killed by police, said he didn’t want to comment on the “right way” to resolve police shooting lawsuits. But he said that “if the city

decides that Justine’s life is worth $20 million, then that’s what Jamar’s life is worth.” “A life is a life is a life,” he said. Activists have said that the fact that the family of Clark, a black man, was offered a settlement that’s 1% of what was awarded to the family of Damond, a white woman, is evidence of systemic bias. Civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong has called the settlement offer “racist and offensive.”

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South Uptown church to be converted into apartments By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@swjournal.com

A Minneapolis developer plans on renovating a nonoperational, “historically significant” 112-year-old South Uptown church and converting it into loft-style apartments. Brian Farrell, principal of Northland Real Estate Group, said he envisions the Joyce United Methodist Church building at 1219 W. 31st St. housing Minneapolis workers in units that “memorialize” its Mission Revival architecture. Farrell intends to include amenities such as bike storage, a workout facility and a gathering lounge. He also plans on preserving as many interior finishes and decorative items as possible and said he envisions units being smaller, and therefore less expensive, than those in new buildings. He’s working with city planners to determine an exact unit count. The Joyce United Methodist Church building, constructed in 1907, was designed for the Lake Street Methodist Episcopal Church. The two-story building is covered with stucco and has stained-glass windows, rounded arches and a red-tiled shingle roof with a small dome atop one corner. The church is one of two in Minneapolis that was built in the Spanish Mission style, according to a report by Andrea Burke, the city’s historic preservation supervisor. The building is named after Methodist Bishop Isaac Wilson Joyce, who died in 1905, about four weeks after he preached a sermon near St. Paul. The Methodist congregation used the building until disbanding in

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A developer is planning to convert a 112-year-old South Uptown church into apartments. Photos by Zac Farber

2013, at which point the church’s statewide body took ownership of it. A new congregation, called the Uptown Church, used the building until June.

The property is zoned for one- or twofamily residential development but is about twice as large as the typical one- or two-family residential lot in Minneapolis, according to

city property records. Northland purchased it for $500,000 earlier this summer. Farrell has asked the city to make the church an official local historic landmark, which would mean that any exterior alterations would have to conform to Minneapolis’ preservation guidelines. The city’s Community Planning and Economic Development department recommended that the church be granted interim historic protection and receive further study to determine if it merits permanent designation. The Heritage Preservation Commission approved the recommendation on Aug. 13.

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Green Digest

By Mira Klein

Like charcoal, but made from organic waste Biochar is one way that Minneapolis hopes to build a healthier and more cyclical city ecosystem

t is rare to leave a presentation about climate change feeling a sense of optimism. But optimism was in the air as Southwest residents, urban gardeners and sustainability advocates filed out of Mayflower Church in Tangletown following a recent city presentation on biochar. Biochar is a charcoal-like substance made from organic waste. It has many benefits but the one that gets the most buzz is its carbon sequestration capacity: It acts as a long-term container for carbon that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere or ocean and contribute to climate change. This is what makes biochar a “carbon-negative” technology. In her piece “Poetry is Not a Luxury,” the essayist, black feminist and cultural critic Audre Lorde writes “there are no new ideas still waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves, along with the renewed courage to try them out.” In Lorde’s tradition, biochar is not a new idea. But Minneapolis is poised to figure out how it can be an idea adapted to the city’s current political and ecological context. In June, the City Council passed a resolution entitled Recognizing Regenerative Agriculture and Biochar to codify the city’s support of biochar as an effective agricultural and climate mitigation strategy. The resolution, sponsored by Council Member Jeremy Schroeder, came after years of testing in partnership between the city and the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SCMC). Using compost produced at an SCMC-operated organics recycling facility, they opened five demonstration sites to test the impact of biochar-compost mixtures on urban agricultural production. The demonstration gardens with biochar had production yields averaging 20%–30% greater than those without. The studies both deepened fine-grain understanding of how biochar techniques could be implemented locally while confirming what many communities and scientists around the

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world already know: Biochar is an effective sustainable agriculture tactic. Biochar is also receiving increasing international support as a climate mitigation strategy. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change included biochar as a climate resiliency recommendation in its 2018 Special Report. Other co-benefits of biochar include stormwater management and soil remediation. Linnea Champ is finishing up her summer graduate internship with the Department of Environmental Services in the Health Department. Champ has taken the lead in researching the potential benefits and best practices for biochar use in Minneapolis — all with an eye toward how the ecological and the human interconnect. Talking about the relationship between environment and health is important, Champ explained, because “people tend to be more motivated when things feel imminent and personal, and health is one of those things.” When it comes to biochar, it is through co-benefits like food growth and pollution remediation that the human stake becomes startlingly apparent. There is fervent agreement across city agencies from the Park Board to Public Works that biochar

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Schroeder explained. “But cities move slowly.” On the upside, Minneapolis has access to a huge supply of biochar-ready organic waste from local compost to municipal ash tree removal. “For me the most exciting part about something like biochar is that it takes something that’s currently waste … and turns it into something that can be used,” Champ said. “It’s a step toward a more circular economy as opposed to a linear one.” And while local residents may have trouble speeding up production capacity and bureaucratic procedures, the public education around biochar is a powerful means to change how people understand human actions as intertwined with ecological systems. Biochar, Schroeder argued, is a tool to help us tangibly envision this paradigm shift in practice. It is about living in a world of climate change beyond simply surviving it. “We need to be looking toward finding a different way to live,” Schroeder said. “We should be looking for solutions that are going to preview what that world is.” Mira Klein is a Minneapolis-based writer and environmental justice activist. You can reach her at mira.r.klein@gmail.com.

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The gardens at Lyndale Park, near Lake Harriet, are among the most beautiful places in Minneapolis, in large part due to dedicated volunteer gardeners who help the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board manage the space. Over the years, volunteers with the Men’s and Women’s Garden Club of Minneapolis (MWGCM) have seen their plots trampled either out of neglect or vindictiveness. In 2019, they feel their efforts are being constantly maligned and say they are finding trash on a regular basis. “This year has been terrible,” said Judy Berglund, a MWGCM volunteer. The gardeners have had plants dug up and trampled. Signage has been destroyed. Cans of beer and White Claw have been left behind. Profanity has been spray-painted and carved into trees, to the point where at least one crabapple tree will need at least a branch removed if it’s not cut down entirely, MPRB gardener Jacob Deaver said. Some damage, like the carving and sign breakage, is clearly intended; other instances could be accidental, with people not realizing they are stepping through planted space. “It sorts into ignorance or vandalism,” said Kirky Otto, a MWGCM volunteer. Unintended damage is visible in the Peace Garden, where two white pines tower over the grounds. The sign marking the trees has been ripped out of the ground. The pines are some of the most impressive trees in the city yet, at their base, several smaller limbs — 48, according

The Lyndale Farmstead Recreation Center closed Aug. 17 for renovations that will add meeting spaces and air conditioning to the building. The rec center will be closed until spring 2020 while renovations are made, according to the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. The biggest upgrade will be the addition of air conditioning, but the building will also receive a new furnace and improved, more accessible bathrooms. A new meeting room, partially paid for by the East Harriet Farmstead Neighborhood Association, will be added to the rec center. The entire facility will be upgraded to be more ADA compliant. The park will remain open during construction. The nearest rec centers to Lyndale Farmstead are Bryant Square at 31st & Bryant and Painter at 34th & Lyndale.

Profanity carved into a crabapple tree in the Lyndale Park gardens has damaged it to the point that a major limb or possibly the whole tree will need to be removed. Photo by Andrew Hazzard

to the volunteers — have been removed and marked over with white paint. The culprits, volunteers say, are people using hammocks.

Hammock damage A study conducted by University of Minnesota students on behalf of the MPRB in

2018 found significant hammock-related damage in the Rose Garden area, where at least 21 trees showed signs of damage to their trunks or branches. One of the study’s recommendations was for the MPRB to develop an educational guide to make park-goers aware of potential damage to trees from hammocks and slacklines. Current Park Board rules allow hammocks to be used during regular park hours, with ordinances prohibiting tree damage and molesting vegetation. Hammock users should look for trees with thick bark that are about eight inches in diameter at breast height and avoid putting straps on branches, said Philip Potyondy, sustainable forestry coordinator with the MPRB. People should use “tree-saver” straps that are at least one-inch wide or use felt covers to protect the tree from straps, he said. The MPRB is in the process of hiring a forestry outreach coordinator who will work on promoting best practices for hammocks, among other duties related to tree education. “Most of the people don’t mean any harm to the trees; they just don’t know any better,” said Otto, who has talked to hammockers about proper straps and found them to be receptive to better practices. Having dedicated volunteers is “a big help” in managing the gardens, Deaver said, but this year the group has been discouraged by having their efforts literally trampled. “It’s crushing because you work so hard,” Berglund said.

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language, childcare, transportation. It makes them unavailable for jobs,” said Ukasha Dakane, who partners with Ismail and runs a nonprofit focused on Somali youth and employment. “With sewing skills, they can work on their own projects from home and get paid.” Their challenges remind Ismail of her own mother’s work raising five children and serving as her family’s breadwinner. Her mother started a grocery store at the refugee camp where they lived in Kenya. “I’ve seen her struggle,” Ismail said. Her program is now in its third year, and about 20 women attend weekly sewing classes at sites including the Whittier Clinic, Mount Olivet Church and Southdale YMCA. The organization is planning a campaign for “hijabs, not hate” this fall at Mount Olivet, aiming to raise awareness about what a hijab is and how to wear it. “See it as a scarf,” Dakane said. Sewing instructor Leslie Mallery said she started volunteering with the sewing program after seeing a Nextdoor post. “I realized there are a lot of Somalis in the community and I knew nothing about them,” she said.

Hodan Osman, mother of six, joined the sewing class with the hope of finding flexible employment.

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She tries to learn a new Somali word each week and teach an English word in exchange — one word was “oops.” She’s found that words like “bobbin” and “presser foot” have no Somali equivalent. “It’s a lot of hands-on demonstrating,” she said. For Mallery’s birthday in August, Suleyka Kediye brought mint tea and her famous chicken sambusas to class (friends urge her to go into the restaurant business). Kediye said she’s enjoyed learning to make dresses for fun. The same is true for Suad Ali, who works as a nurse. “It feels different when I do my own than when I buy it,” she said. Susannah Duly, who works as a geologist and teaches classes on Saturday mornings at Whittier Clinic, scoured the Internet to find patterns for a hijab or a traditional Somali dress. Finding none, she now asks women to bring in a favorite dress. They turn it inside out to see how it’s made. Special occasions like weddings and baby showers require formal wear for adults and children, and while the garments are simple to sew, they can be expensive, Dakane said. Estar Gele arrived at a recent Whittier class wearing a dress she made, and her friends estimated she saved $40 by sewing it herself. Volunteers are collecting fabric donations from neighbors and occasionally purchasing supplies out-of-pocket. After an unsuccessful request for $250,000 in funding from the state, the group is looking for more volunteers, help with business outreach and donations of money, classroom space, storage space, fabric or equipment. “If they are cleaning out their grandmother’s attic, we’re happy to take anything,” Duly said. Seeking state funding, group members testified in April at the Minnesota House of Representatives Jobs and Economic Development Finance Division. Rep. Hodan Hassan (DFL-62A) said she supports women becoming self-sufficient and entering the workforce, but she questioned the wisdom of teaching sewing, a trade that she said is often

Suad Ali (center) says she loves creating her own designs at the “Sewing 4 Living” class at Whittier Clinic. Photos by Michelle Bruch

done in factories and outsourced to China. In response, Dakane said the group has already partnered with small businesses. The organization previously secured sewing jobs for women at Project Regina and MyPillow, although they said neither company is hiring at the moment. Rep. Mohamud Noor (DFL-60B) spoke in support of the program, saying that women make up more than 60% of the workforce in the East African community. Hodan Osman said she joined the sewing class with the hope of starting her own business or finding a flexible job. She’s mother to six kids ages 8–16, and she said it’s been hard to find flexible work. “I have a passion to go into this kind of career,” she said through a translator, explaining that clothing design was a hobby when she was young. Now she’s making dresses, hijabs, baby towels and pajamas, and she’ll start teaching Sunday sewing classes at the Southdale YMCA. “I need to share what I’ve learned with other

women,” she said. “Women need to learn these kinds of skills.” SAWAC instructors have also taught “Sewing 4 Living” classes at Karmel Mall, Phillips Community Center and Wellstone International High School, as well as classes in Faribault. They sell the results of their projects at the Whittier Farmers Market, Bloomington Farmers Market and the Minnesota State Fair. SAWAC will sell tote bags and wallets at the Eat Street Festival on Sept. 15, with half the proceeds going to the makers and half going to the organization. “We’re empowering women,” said Duly. “Everybody needs help getting a start. To me, these people have come to this country, and they want to work, they want to pay taxes and take advantage of all the opportunities here.” Dakane said despite the current political climate, people like Duly “are going to make it a home for us.” “Politics come and go,” Duly said. “In the end, it’s all local.”

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in no small measure to the advocacy of Westin and her husband, Mark, and to the work of the foundation they started with money received from Anna’s insurance company in a “wrongful death” settlement. In 2016, President Obama signed the Anna Westin Act into law, improving eating disorder training for health care professionals and mandating insurance coverage of intensive treatment programs. Now, Minneapolis’ first ever residential treatment program for eating disorders is coming to Linden Hills. On Sept. 9, The Emily Program will open a 16-bed treatment facility just 11 blocks from the Westins’ home at 38th & Drew. And, like the organization’s two residential facilities in St. Paul, it will be named after the Westins’ daughter. “It was so exciting when they told me that they were bringing the next Anna Westin House right here to my neighborhood,” Kitty Westin said. “It’s like bringing her home to us.” The new facility will house the Emily Program’s most severe cases — patients of all genders suffering from disorders like anorexia, bulimia and compulsive overeating who require 24-hour medical care. The Linden Hills location will primarily serve patients between the ages of 16 and 26; younger and older clients will be sent to one of the Emily Program’s St. Paul locations. Over the past six months, The Emily Program has spent $1.4 million renovating the three-level, 13,000-square-foot brick building at 3012 W. 44th St. — a former convent that was constructed in 1958 by St. Thomas the Apostle Church. Converted into a group home in the late 1980s, the building had been vacant since 2003 and needed asbestos abatement and water damage repair. Offices have been added to accommodate the Linden Hills facility’s 42 staff members: doctors, psychiatrists, dietitians, therapists, nurses, eating disorder technicians and cooks — about twothirds of whom will work full time at the location. Walls have been knocked down to make space for an art therapy studio and for doubleand triple-occupancy bedrooms. A modern kitchen and soft seating have been installed. Windows will be added to the chapel’s domed roof so it can serve as a yoga space. “The goal was to turn it into a medical facility that feels like a home,” said Jillian Lampert, the Emily Program’s chief strategy officer.

Meal times at an eating disorder treatment facility are structured and therapeutic, said Dawn Boettcher, the site manager of the new Anna Westin House in Linden Hills. “There is a lot of fear, a lot of anxiety, a lot of emotion when you sit down to a meal with an eating disorder,” she said. Submitted photos

Lampert said about 180,000 Minnesotans will experience an eating disorder at some point in their lifetime, with women twice as likely as men to be affected. Of the 3,000 patients the Emily Program serves in Minnesota, around 15% will need residential treatment, she said. Right now, with the Linden Hills facility yet to open, there are 71 beds for residential treatment of eating disorders in Minnesota, all of them located in the metro area. While the wait list for residential treatment at the Emily Program is four to six weeks, there is currently no wait list at the 39-bed residential facility at Park Nicollet’s Melrose Center in St. Louis Park. “Sometimes we have patients who come here on referral from the Emily Program, and we evaluate them and our recommendation is not residential,” said Heather Gallivan, clinical director of the Melrose Center. “It’s public knowledge that they’re a for-profit health care organization and we are not.” The Emily Program is partially owned by TT Capital Partners, an Edina firm that looks to invest in “companies with the ability to be market leaders,” according to its website. Responding to expanded reimbursement options, private equity firms have invested heavily in eating disorder

The brick building at 3012 W. 44th St. was built in the 1950s as a convent for St. Thomas the Apostle Church. The Emily Program is in the final stages of renovating the building for use as a residential treatment program for eating disorders.

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“Unfortunately, construction of the twotower concept has not proven feasible,” the developer wrote in documents submitted to the Planning Commission. The updated proposal calls for one new 26-story tower and three seven-story apartment buildings totaling 736 new units, just eight shy of the total new units approved in 2018; 20% of the new units will be set aside as affordable housing. If completed, the Calhoun Towers apartment complex would have 849 units. An additional 760 parking stalls would be built under the new proposal, about 100 fewer than in the 2018 version.

Construction would begin in 2020 on the new 26-story tower and would last about two years, according to the plans. Work would begin on two of the three-story buildings while the tower is being constructed, with the third building adjacent to the Southwest Light Rail Transit Station beginning construction when the temporary SWLRT easements expire. The first seven-story building would be reserved for affordable housing, which the developer plans to lease out at the same time as the new tower. In plans submitted to the city, Bader describes the project as having a “campuslike character” and plans call for several plazas, green spaces and improved condi-

clinics in recent years. But Lampert said business needs never dictate the level of care patients receive and that eating disorders’ severity can shift quickly. “It’s strictly a clinical determination,” she said. “I think patients — consumers — make different choices about their health care in terms of where they want to go. People often wait because they know the program, their team is here, they’re comfortable here. It could be an insurance coverage issue. There are lots of factors that influence where people end up.”

stabilize eating patterns.” Patients engage in cooking groups, meal planning exercises and grocery shopping trips and are discouraged from attaching moral values to food. “Our philosophy is ‘all foods fit,’” Boettcher said. “We’re eating three meals a day and up to three snacks a day. Meal times are really structured and, because we’re dealing with eating disorders, they become really therapeutic as well. There is a lot of fear, a lot of anxiety, a lot of emotion when you sit down to a meal with an eating disorder.”

Misconceptions and treatment

Before the Anna Westin Act passed, Lampert said insurance companies frequently excluded eating disorders from coverage. “I remember reading a client’s insurance policy that said, ‘Your policy does not cover wilderness, camping, selective cosmetic surgery or residential treatment for eating disorders,’” she said. “It was so striking of how it was thought of as a medical service.” An average stay at an Emily Program residential facility lasts about 30 days and has a pre-insurance cost of around $1,000 per day, but Lampert said residential programs are significantly cheaper than in-patient hospital care. “If you go into a hospital room, that’s going to be thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars a day,” she said. “We allow patients to stay for the length of time they actually need to recover rather than a quick-turnaround hospital stay.” When Kitty Westin first became involved in eating disorder advocacy in the years following Anna’s suicide, she said her longterm goal was to bring residential treatment to Minnesota. “After she died, I had this incredible amount of rage and energy and outrage, and there were so many things that could have gone differently,” Westin said. “Anna’s legacy is that people now have access to the type of residential care that she didn’t have herself.” Westin has a message to share with the parents of people suffering from eating disorders: “There’s every reason to believe that your loved one will completely recover.”

Dawn Boettcher, the site manager of the Anna Westin House in Linden Hills, said eating disorders are the subject of more skepticism and misconceptions than many other types of mental disorders. The truth, she said, is that eating disorders are not caused by family dynamics. They are not driven by behavior but by biology. And they are not diagnosed by evaluating the size of patients’ bodies. “Size does not indicate health any more than it indicates illness,” she said. “There can be health at any size and people can be in need at any size.” Eating disorders are “biopsychosocial” in nature, according to psychiatric researchers, and they affect people of all genders. In the United States, about 6% of adult women, 3% of adult men, 8% of adolescent girls and 4% of male boys experience an eating disorder, Lampert said. “If you have a severe eating disorder, you have a brain disorder,” Kitty Westin said. “We also know that the culture we live in — which I call the ‘toxic culture of thinness’ — is a contributing factor. And people with certain personality traits tend to develop eating disorders.” Westin said her daughter Anna — whom she described as “loving, kind, perfectionistic, really sensitive, willing to do anything for everyone” — fit the profile of a person susceptible to eating disorders. Boettcher said a primary goal of treatment is “to reintroduce and normalize and

tions for pedestrians, bikers and transit users. They say the project will support sustainable living experiences and encourage car-free living. The original, 22-story Calhoun Towers building was constructed in 1962, but it’s taken more than half a century for a second tower to come. Bader bought the building and site in 2016. Bader was scheduled to appear before the Planning Commission Committee of the Whole on Aug. 22, shortly after press time. Under the yet-to-be-formally-adopted 2040 Comprehensive Plan, the site is considered a Transit 30 zone, which allows buildings up to 30 stories.

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stalls, 22 of which will be accessed by an automated stacking system, and enclosed bike storage space. The project is also a Yellow Tree development designed by DJR Architecture. The building is located in an R6 area designated for high-density housing. Yellow Tree — along with DJR and HGTV hosts Drew Levin and Danny Perkins — is also behind the four-story, 77-unit building at 32nd & Girard. The building will include 38 parking spots, 32 enclosed biking stalls and a bike storage area.

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“I saw it as a huge mistake,” said Al Giesen, who lives on Minnehaha Parkway in Tangletown and is part of the Preseve the Parkway group. “There are many people who use the parkway.” The group has raised more than $3,200 for the signs and other awareness-raising efforts via a GoFundMe campaign. Much of the parkland in Southwest is currently being reimagined through ongoing master plans for 43 neighborhood parks in the Southwest Service Area and regional parkland surrounding the Minnehaha Creek Trail. Many of the proposed changes elicit responses from residents, but nothing has drawn more attention and passion than potential modifications of roadways. “We did not anticipate this level of ire,” said Adam Arvidson, director of strategic planning for the MPRB, who is heading the Minnehaha Trail Regional Master Plan. Arvidson’s email address is on many of the signs the Preserve the Parkway group is using — Giesen said the group has distributed about 380 signs, with 200 more on the way. Arvidson said he’s been receiving “really toxic emails” and that he doesn’t believe it’s an accident the signs look so much like MPRB designs. “That’s clearly deliberate and people are confused,” he said. Giesen said a volunteer in the group designed the signs, and while he knows some people are unhappy about the sign design, their intent wasn’t to “pick on the Park Board.”

While the Preserve the Parkway group was happy to see planners remove designed barriers to vehicles at Lyndale and Nicollet avenues, Giesen said the end goal is to prevent any limits on vehicle access and to preserve the one-way stretch planners propose eliminating. “We don’t think they’ve gone far enough [in removing barriers],” Giesen said. The group would rather the MRPB focus on improving intersections to increase user safety, he said. Arvidson said park planners chose to take an aggressive stance on changing the use of the parkway in part to spark a larger conversation about how people should be recreating and if “pleasure driving,” as the initial proposal for the Grand Rounds referred to it, is the best use of the parkways today. Park Board President Brad Bourn, who represents much of Southwest including its portion of Minnehaha Creek, said he normally doesn’t engage with master plans before Community Advisory Committees (CACs) give their recommendations to the board. But he has been hearing a lot about parkway access from constituents and said he doesn’t think closing the parkway to through traffic makes a lot of sense. “The Grand Rounds is a point of access to parks for a lot of people using a lot of modes,” he said. The CAC for the Minnehaha Trail is on a temporary hiatus while the traffic flow on the parkway is studied and will likely reconvene in October, Arvidson said.

Parking debate Changes to the design of The Mall in Uptown proposed by Southwest Parks Plan CAC members in July call for eliminating pavement in favor of green space and volleyball courts between East Calhoun Parkway and Irving Avenue. The area currently serves as tree-lined de facto parking lot for local residents, several of whom have been vocal in their displeasure with the plan. “Any time parking comes up in any type of discussion it’s pretty heated,” said Colleen O’Dell, who is leading the Southwest Parks Plan for the MPRB. At parks like The Parade, in Lowry Hill, community members have asked for the specific number of parking spaces that would be included in a proposed parking garage, a detail that Arvidson said is not common for a master planning process and that was not requested in other parts of the city that have gone through the process. (Southwest is the last group of neighborhood parks to be master-planned.) “That resistance has come to its most vehement head in Southwest,” Arvidson said. The Mall has received the most comments of any park in Southwest, according to results from an online survey. Several respondents are supportive, but many decry the loss of parking and say volleyball courts would bring in raucous crowds and go underused in the winter. “The idea of adding volleyball courts to this area is actually quite frightening to me,” one commenter wrote. “I do not believe this area

needs more people bringing more garbage and more drama and noise to this quaint area.” The proposal from CAC members is “visionary,” O’Dell said, and sparks the debate over the benefits of removing paved asphalt and putting in grass, trees and recreation space. The mission statement of MPRB is to preserve green space and provide recreation opportunities, O’Dell said, but it doesn’t mention parking. “It’s really a question of what is parkland for,” O’Dell said. An Aug. 13 board meeting of the East Isles Residents Association featured several residents speaking against the proposal for The Mall and some board members voicing support, according to board president Ellen van Iwaarden. Many people had heard some misinformation about the designs online, including unfounded claims that the design would remove current trees. “The neighbors are thinking about it and talking about it,” she said. The board has agreed to hold a vote on whether or not to lend its support to the design. Changes proposed in MRPB master plans are phased in over 20-year periods depending on available funding and a variety of factors, including the Park Board’s equity matrix that seeks to prioritize investments in underserved communities. If the CAC’s recommendations are approved by commissioners, it could be over a decade before any changes take place.

Proposed design changes to The Mall in Uptown 1 Two blocks of the paved street portion of The Mall would be eliminated to make way for fields and/or green space.

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A rousing welcome back to school By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@swjournal.com

Hundreds of Minneapolis Public Schools principals, department heads and teacherleaders celebrated their return to work Aug. 14 during an assembly at Justice Page Middle School. Staff heard a performance from Southwest High School’s 3 Strings Guitars, a rock band composed of students with cognitive and physical disabilities. They also listened to speeches from Superintendent Ed Graff, at-large school board member Kimberly Caprini, retired Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan Page and Ahmed Ali, a nonverbal Minneapolis student who spoke using a piece of computer software he helped develop. “You are the most important people in our country and world,” Ali told the educators. The assembly came six days before teachers were slated to return to work and nearly three weeks before the first day of school. Schools are slated to hold open houses the week of Aug. 26.

Southwest High School’s Shukri Ahmed leads the 3 Strings Guitars group in a song to kick off Minneapolis Public Schools’ staff assembly on Aug. 14. The group is raising money for an upcoming trip to Florida to perform at the National Association of Music Education convention. Visit tinyurl.com/three-strings-guitars to learn more. Photos by Nate Gotlieb

Minneapolis Public Schools graduate Ahmed Ali delivers a speech to educators at the assembly.

Superintendent Ed Graff said the district cannot “accept as reality” the fact that half of black male students don’t graduate on time from several Minneapolis high schools.

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By Meleah Maynard

Is your basil dead? Give African blue basil a try.

bout this time last year I wrote a column about how sad it is that everyone’s favorite Genovese basil, which used to grow so nicely until late summer, is now being decimated early in the season by a fairly new disease called basil downy mildew. A mold that loves warmth and humidity causes this disease, which starts out slowly with just a few yellow leaves. Before you know it, the whole plant is a gross mess of yellow and brownish black splotches. I offered several tips in that column for potentially avoiding basil downy mildew — or at least putting it off until you can make a couple of pizzas or something. And then about a week after the column came out, all of my basil plants got it and died. So, ha! What do I know, right? Well, seriously, it is nearly impossible to avoid this basil plague. But I’m not giving up on Genovese basil, and you probably don’t want to either. So let me oﬀer another strategy that I’ve been trying this year and is going well so far. In addition to planting about five Genovese basil seedlings, like I always do, I also planted African blue basil, which is not susceptible to the disease. As of mid-August, I’ve only had to toss one diseased Genovese into the garbage. The other four are doing all right — fingers crossed. I’d never heard of African blue basil until last year when a fellow gardener told me about it. He said he’d tried it and, though the leaves are a bit tougher than those of Genovese, the flavor is very similar and the plants have done really well in his garden.

I’ve found that the flowers are just as tasty as the leaves and can be used in pesto, salads, pasta, cocktails or anywhere else you’d use basil.

African blue basil flowers are edible and don’t go to seed. Submitted photo

I planted two of them in early June, and I agree with him on all counts. I’ve made some really great pesto out of this new basil, and because it grows super quickly and doesn’t bolt, I’m going to be making a lot more. For those who’ve never heard of African blue basil, let me explain a bit about it. A hybrid variety created by crossing camphor basil and dark opal basil, it is grown as a perennial in climates much warmer than ours. But even in Minnesota, plants can easily grow to 3 feet tall over the summer. The foliage is a pretty blend of dark green and purple, and plants produce loads of purplish-pink flowers that don’t need to be removed because, unlike most basils, they don’t go to seed because African blue basil is sterile.

Pollinators LOVE the purple flowers, and I’ve found that they are just as tasty as the leaves and can be used in pesto, salads, pasta, cocktails or anywhere else you’d use basil. Even if you don’t like the taste of African blue basil, it’s a great plant to add to sunny perennial gardens because it’s quite striking and you’ll attract plenty of bees and butterflies. African blue basil is also said to grow more easily indoors, so I’m going to try putting one in a sunny window this winter. If all goes well, perhaps I can plant it outside once the weather warms up next season. The hitch with this type of basil is, since it doesn’t go to seed, you have to buy new plants each year and they cost a few more dollars than the typical varieties of basil we are all used to planting.

To save a few bucks, you could try propagating new plants yourself by rooting cuttings in water and then transplanting them into small pots until they grow big enough to be transplanted into the garden. I can see this working well in warm climates, but I’m not sure how successful we’d be using this strategy since we would need to overwinter the plants indoors for several long, cold months. I think I’ll give it a try this winter and let you know how that turns out. Happy gardening. And may all of your basil be free of mildew. Meleah Maynard is a Minneapolis-based writer and editor who blogs at Livin’ Thing — livinthing.com.

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By Katherine Huber

Fighting an apple pest with a hungry pig

achel Henderson and Anton Ptak are the owners of Mary Dirty Face Farm, a favorite for raspberries, currants, plums and apples at the Fulton Farmers Market. Their unique approach to pest management and soil fertility provides a wonderful example of how to create diverse farming practices that promote both plant and human health. Their passion for sustainable living has been a guiding force through the evolution of their farm. In 2009, after volunteering on organic farms in South America through the Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms organization, Henderson and Ptak returned to the Midwest to begin their own farming practice. Through the Farm Beginnings Program, they sought to promote undervalued fruit varieties, such as tart cherries and black currants, on their farm near Menomonie, Wisconsin. What started out as a dream of the homesteading lifestyle has become the backbone of their farming practice. “Our home and outbuildings are built primarily from locally sourced or reclaimed building materials and powered by renewable resources — collected rainwater, solar energy, wood heating,” Henderson said. After deciding to live on their farm full time in spring 2014, Henderson and Ptak began exploring other avenues to promote ecological diversity, and the introduction of livestock to their farm was next on their list. “We’ve been researching and planning for ways for the animals to bring other biological benefits to the farm,” Henderson said. “Fertility is one benefit — the animals spend a short time in the

Chickens at Mary Dirty Face Farm in Menomonie, Wisconsin. Submitted photos

Rachel Henderson and Anton Ptak.

orchard, but contribute to overall soil health through their droppings, as well as some weed control and groundcover management.” The biggest benefit they hope to see through the integration of livestock is pest control. One of the largest problems aﬀecting apples and plums is a pest called plum curculio. This beetle lays eggs on apples and plums, and the larvae later hatch from undeveloped fruit dropped from trees. Through the use of pigs and chickens, Henderson and Ptak bested a tricky pest. “Plum curculio can’t survive in a pig’s digestive system,

so by running pigs through the orchard at strategic times, we can break the life cycle and reduce their numbers in the orchard,” Henderson said. In early summer, chickens will also graze under the orchard trees, catching and eating adult plum curculio before they lay their first eggs. “A lot of this depends on good timing to be eﬀective, and we’re still working that out, but I believe that it’s having a positive impact,” Henderson said. “Of course, it results in delicious meat and happy animals.” In addition to the fruit grown in the orchard,

the pastured livestock provide another source of revenue that allows them to invest in the farming practices they believe in. As of July 2016, the orchard is certified organic. “We’ve been following these standards since the beginning, but we are very glad to be part of the organic farming movement.” You can find Mary Dirty Face Farm at the Fulton Farmers Market every Saturday through October. Katherine Huber is a registered dietitian, nutritionist and board member of Neighborhood Roots, the organization that runs the Fulton, Kingfield and Nokomis farmers markets.

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By Dr. Teresa Hershey

Why is it so expensive to go to the vet?

graduated from veterinary school 20 years ago. From the beginning of my career the care I delivered was directly related to what the client was willing and able to pay. At the vet clinic, you usually pay up front, and most people don’t have insurance, so money is often in the forefront of the conversation of how to manage a patient. My first job was at a mixed animal practice in rural Minnesota. Local economics and the fact that animals were raised for the purpose of food or product meant that available dollars per animal were often small. Return on investment was evaluated daily. Does it make sense to treat this cow’s pneumonia when last year’s milk production from her was low? Would it make more financial sense to “ship her”? Food-producing farmers must and do think of animals in a cost-versus-benefit equation. This dogma applied not only to animals raised for profit but also to the companion animals that lived on the farm. Often I would see a dog (rarely a cat) that was sick and I had $50 or less of the client’s money to spend in the best way possible to help the farm dog. When faced with a limited spending budget, the veterinarian must make a choice about whether or not to do diagnostic tests to determine the cause of the pet’s illness or try treatments. There is a treatment that most rural veterinarians know about called the “strawberry milkshake.” Veterinarians aren’t taught about this treatment in school. In school we are taught to approach a patient in steps. First, you examine the patient and make a list of symptoms; next, you perform the necessary tests to obtain your diagnosis; and, finally, you treat the patient. The strawberry milkshake is an injection that has a steroid, an antibiotic and a deworming medication all in one. (The antibiotic was pink, hence the name of the injection). This panacea injection allowed you to avoid the first and second steps and go straight to the third, with relatively good success since most illnesses will get better with one of the three treatments. At my first job, the cost of companion animal care was low because clients under-

It’s not fair that patient care comes down to money. That is the unavoidable truth. We can talk about it though. Your veterinarian wants to talk about it.

Teresa Hershey poses with a buffalo calf in this 1997 photo taken when she was a veterinary student in St. Paul. Submitted photo

stood we were just going to “try something.” If the strawberry milkshake couldn’t cure him, then there had to be something really bad ailing the dog. Over time I realized that being a farm veterinarian wasn’t for me, so my husband and I moved to the suburbs of the Twin Cities and I got a job at a corporate-owned veterinary clinic. I was met with a culture difference right away. The colloquial country style I had adopted didn’t go over well with my new clientele. For example, crap now needed to be called feces. Another difference was that clients wanted tests performed on their dog. At the new clinic I was at, we had equipment to check blood pressure and a machine to run complete blood cell counts. I got to be a detective again! Although not as stark, costs were still a concern for the clients that came to my corporate veterinary office. My new clients didn’t just want a treatment and to hope for the best; they wanted a diagnosis, but they still needed to keep within a certain budget. At this clinic, the business model kept individual client costs lower by making it up in volume.

At the time I left my corporate job, a new scheduling model was being used called “cluster appointments.” Cluster appointments worked like this: I saw a patient at 9 a.m., 9:05 a.m. and 9:10 a.m. Then I had 15 minutes to work up those three patients before the next set arrived at 9:30 a.m., 9:35 a.m. and 9:40 a.m. This happened for an hour at the start of the morning, followed by six patients for surgery from 10 a.m.–2 p.m. and then cluster appointments again until we closed at 7 p.m. The cluster appointments were for sick pet visits. Clients whose pets needed an annual exam did not meet with the veterinarian; instead the patients were dropped oﬀ. We had two shifts of annual exams, morning and afternoon, and I saw those patients in between my other appointments and surgeries. The tipping point for me at my corporate job came the day I saw almost 40 patients. The volume model provided the client with access to diagnostic tests and more sophisticated medications, but each pet only got a small part of my attention each day. At the clinic I currently work at, the average veterinarian sees 14 patients a day. Three categories make up the bulk of the cost of veterinary medicine: medications, diagnostic tests and veterinary team

labor. These three items together comprise about 85% of the cost of each veterinary invoice. After those big three, other ancillary costs include rent, utilities, office supplies, credit card fees and all of the other infrastructure costs that go with operating a business. Veterinarians are notoriously frugal people. We get mad when the oﬃce staﬀ splurge on Post-its. We ask clients to donate towels so we don’t have to buy them. Wall art is often product posters that sales reps give us. Veterinarians spend a lot of time trying to cut costs on the little things to make veterinary visits more affordable, but the truth is that the three big expenses are what clients feel the hardest, and one of those three things needs to be sacrificed in order for an invoice to change significantly. So what is fair for the patient, client and veterinarian? What should be given up when costs become a concern? All veterinarians spend a lot of time thinking about this. The only answer for me is to have frank conversations with each client I see. I want my clients to tell me what they value and what their budget is. We can work through different options when I know a person’s limitations. The times my clients get mad at me are when we don’t talk about this. Either the client doesn’t tell me about their own personal needs, or I make assumptions about what they would want. Over time I have learned that the talkingthrough part is the most valuable thing I can provide my clients, and this listening and discussing takes time. As a young veterinarian, when faced with the challenge of where to apply a client’s money, I felt pressure to discount my exam fees so more money could be spent in the categories of tests and treatments. I try not to do this as much anymore because although it may provide some temporary relief for the situation at hand, over time this gets to be fatiguing and I have seen many colleagues burn out from feeling like they need to sacrifice themselves for each patient. It’s not fair that patient care comes down to money. That is the unavoidable truth. We can talk about it though. Your veterinarian wants to talk about it. Your veterinarian wants you to understand your choices and options. At the end of the day, veterinarians feel like we are truly helping when we can sit beside our clients and work through the problems and options together. When we are successful with this, that is true compassion. Dr. Teresa Hershey is a veterinarian at Westgate Pet Clinic in Linden Hills. Email pet questions to drhershey@westgatepetclinicmn.com.

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Restaurateurs create cocktail programs to complement food oﬀerings

A look at Southwest’s Pizzeria Lola Location: 5557 Xerxes Ave. (Armatage) Hours: Sunday–Thursday, 11 a.m.–10 p.m. Friday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–11 p.m. At a glance: Pizzeria Lola serves six cocktails, all priced at $10. Young Joni bar manager Adam Gorski and Lola’s front-of-house manager Monika D’Onofrio collaborated on the menu. Sp

Creative cocktails

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Location: 230 Cedar Lake Road (Bryn Mawr) Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. and 5 p.m.–10 p.m. Saturday, noon–2 p.m. and 5 p.m.–10 p.m. Sunday, 5 p.m.–9 p.m.

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At a glance: Owners Juan Yunga and Ann Carlson-Yunga serve about a dozen made-to-order cocktails ranging in price from $8 to $16. Their bestseller so far has been the margarita. “We’re trying to expose people through food and beverages to some of the interesting flavors and products of Central and South America,” Carlson-Yunga said.

Red Wagon Pizza Location: 5416 Penn. Ave. (Armatage) Hours: Daily, 11 a.m.–10 p.m.

At a glance: Owner Peter Campbell and his team serve six batched cocktails to complement a wine list and 36 tap beers. The cocktail offerings include an Old Fashioned and a Manhattan.

Saint Genevieve Location: 5003 Bryant Ave. (Lynnhurst) Hours: Monday–Thursday, 11 a.m.–10 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.–midnight Saturday, 9:30 a.m.–midnight Sunday, 9:30 a.m.–9 p.m.

Tilia Location: 2726 43rd St. (Linden Hills) Hours: Monday–Friday, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. Saturday–Sunday, 9 a.m.–1 a.m. At a glance: Brown’s other Southwest Minneapolis restaurant has six cocktail offerings in the evening and three brunch cocktails, all batched. The bestseller is called Gin & Two Tonics and features gin, house-made tonic, lemon and herbs. se

At a glance: Owner Steven Brown has a menu that includes six batched, French-influenced cocktails, ranging in price from $9 to $13. His bestseller is the Vesper, a cocktail that includes gin, vodka and the French wine Lillet.

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At a glance: Blackbird serves four drinks, ranging in price from $8 to $10.

Silvia Sacta, co-owner of Cocina Latina, said customers have often asked for margaritas over the past 10 years while dining at her small Latin restaurant at 38th & Nicollet. Her new cocktail menu, unveiled in June, should satisfy that demand. Sacta, who owns the restaurant with her sister Ruth Gutierrez, serves several flavors of margarita, in addition to a mojito, a pina colada and a Sex on the Beach. She plans to add more drinks in the future. Cocina Latina is one of 12 Southwest Minneapolis restaurants that have received full liquor licenses and started serving cocktails since November, when Minneapolis voters lifted restrictions on which businesses could apply for the license. (A 13th restaurant, Seed Cafe, is no longer serving cocktails.) The restaurant owners said they have tried to ensure their new drinks complement their food and ambiance. “We still are a restaurant that’s super family friendly and closes early,” said The Lowbrow owner Heather Bray, who began serving cocktails in June. “We didn’t want liquor to change that and, so far, it hasn’t at all.” Bray, who opened The Lowbrow in 2011, said she envisioned serving cocktails that feature local spirits and reflect the restaurant’s “lowbrow” theme. She worked with Northeast Minneapolis’ Tattersall Distilling to create recipes and pick spirits, and she closed the restaurant for four days in June to add coolers and renovate the space behind the bar. “It was a crazy sprint to get it ready in four days,” she said. At the Italian restaurant Terzo, co-owner Charlie Broder said he and his team worked to create cocktails that use Italian spirits. He said the biggest benefit of having cocktails is being able to serve and teach customers about amaro, a post-dinner digestif. “In every region [of Italy] you have diﬀerent amaro that are so fascinating and delicious,” he said. Sixteen Southwest Minneapolis businesses have upgraded their liquor licenses since voters approved the referendum, according to the city. Previously, the city charter barred businesses not located in large commercial areas from applying for anything more than wine-and-beer licenses. Those businesses could lobby the state Legislature for an exemption, but that was a costly process. A coalition of business owners, including Bray, Broder and others in Southwest Minneapolis, led a campaign to pass the referendum.

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At a glance: The Broder family restaurant focuses on its Italian roots with its cocktail program, which it unveiled in April. Customers can find amaro (an Italian herbal liqueur), vermouth (a wine flavored with herbs) and other Italy-inspired drinks.

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Margaritas are a staple of cocktail menus across Southwest Minneapolis, including at the Mexican restaurant La Fresca, located at 48th & Grand, which oﬀers six of them. Here’s a look at how owner Hector Ruiz and his team make their Margarita Classica, as demonstrated by general manager Zoilo Ruacho.

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How to make a La Fresca margarita

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Location: 3764 Nicollet Ave. (Kingfield) Hours: Monday–Friday, 11 a.m.–10 p.m. Saturday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–11 p.m.

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At a glance: Silvia Sacta and Ruth Gutierrez offer tequila shots and four cocktails, with their most popular being the margarita.

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Location: 4750 Grand Ave. (Tangletown) Hours: Sunday–Thursday, 4 p.m.–9 p.m. Friday–Saturday, 4 p.m.–10 p.m.

Salt the rim of the glass and add a lime wedge.

At a glance: Owner Hector Ruiz and his team serve eight agave-based cocktails, most of which are made to order. A bestseller is a drink called Waterfall City, which features tequila, fresh watermelon, lime juice and agave nectar. “We just want to give people a good balance of a drink that’s not overly sweet or overly potent,” general manager Zoilo Ruacho said. ad

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Harriet’s Inn Location: 4000 Lyndale Ave. (East Harriet) Hours: Monday–Thursday, 11 a.m.–11 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.–midnight Saturday, 10 a.m.– midnight Sunday, 10 a.m.–11 p.m.

Combine ice, tequila, agave nectar and lime juice in a shaking tin.

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Location: 4244 Nicollet Ave. (Kingfield) Hours: Monday, 4 p.m.–9:30 p.m. Tuesday–Friday, 11 a.m.–10:30 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m.–10:30 p.m. Sunday, 9 a.m.–9:30 p.m.

At a glance: Heather Bray and her team serve eight cocktails, ranging from an Old Fashioned to a mimosa, many of which feature local spirits. Bray said her version of a Pimm’s Cup was inspired by a visit to London a couple years ago.

Shake over the shoulder.

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Kyatchi Location: 3758 Nicollet Ave. (Kingfield) Hours: Monday–Friday, 4 p.m.– midnight Saturday–Sunday, noon–midnight

At a glance: This sushi and Japanese restaurant has five pre-batched gin- and vodka-based cocktails. It also serves nine Japanese whiskies and three shochus (a type of Japanese hard alcohol). un

Pour cocktail into tumbler and serve.

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Community Calendar. By Ed Dykhuizen

STRONG WOMEN, FULL OF LOVE: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF MEADOW MUSKA Born and raised in Minnesota, Carolyn “Meadow” Muska used photography to record “beautiful, strong women, full of love and joy.” In an era of persistent legal and cultural prejudice against LGBTQ individuals, documenting her community was a radical act.

When: Through Dec. 13 Where: Minneapolis Institute of Art Cost: Free Info: new.artsmia.org

BREXIT, PURSUED BY BAD HAIR Join the Theater of Public Policy and John Crace, a sketch writer with the Guardian UK, for a night of Brexit talk and improv comedy.

When: 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23 Where: Bryant Lake Bowl Cabaret Theater, 810 W. Lake St. Cost: $12 Info: bryantlakebowl.com/cabaret-theater

known as Washburn Park. This hilly tour is about 1.5 miles and is not ADA accessible.

STOLIE, WITH XARIS WALTMAN

When: 6 p.m.–8 p.m. Monday, Aug. 26 Where: Washburn Library, 5244 Lyndale Ave. S. Cost: $12, advance registration required Info: preserveminneapolis.org/summer-walking-tours

Over the past quarter century, Stolie has written more than 100 published songs and has worked as a multi-instrumentalist and arranger, a loop-pedal artist and a bilingual traveling performer. Folk singer Xaris Waltman opens.

STUFFED ANIMAL SLEEPOVER Wear your jammies (optional) and bring a stuffed animal. Staff will give your animals an “owner’s tag,” tell them a bedtime story and help with a craft project. Leave your stuffed animals overnight. Pick them up the next day and see pictures of the fun they had.

When: 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29 Where: The Warming House, 4001 Bryant Ave. S. Cost: Pay what you will: $5–$100 Info: thewarminghouse.net

When: 6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27 Where: Linden Hills Library, 2900 W. 43rd St. Cost: Free Info: hclib.bibliocommons.com

ICE CREAM SOCIAL The Lyndale Neighborhood Association is hosting this outdoor party featuring ice cream, music, kids’ games and more.

MOSCOW BALLET’S NEW HORIZONS: A CHILDREN’S PROGRAM FOR LIFE

When: 6 p.m.–8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28 Where: Painter Park, 620 W. 34th St. Cost: Free Info: minneapolisparks.org

Children ages 4–10 will enjoy a one-on-one experience with Moscow Ballet ballerina Mariia Yevdokymova as they explore movement, learn about Russia and write a letter to Father Frost (the Russian Santa Claus) about a gift they would give to another.

When: 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23 Where: The Museum of Russian Art, 5500 Stevens Ave. S. Cost: Free, but registration is required Info: tmora.org

CORNBREAD HARRIS Legendary 92-year-old Twin Cities musician James Samuel “Cornbread” Harris Sr. is a singing pianistcomposer and is the father of well-known music producer Jimmy Jam Harris.

When: 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31 Where: Icehouse, 2528 Nicollet Ave. Cost: No cover Info: icehousempls.com

IN LIBERATING STRIFE: MEMOIR OF THE VIETNAM YEAR Minneapolis resident Steve Atkinson will read from his recently published account of his days as a student at the University of Minnesota and subsequent service as a soldier in Vietnam. The second half of the program will be an open forum for discussing that era.

When: 2 p.m.–4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24 Where: Hennepin History Museum, 2303 3rd Ave. S. Cost: $8; $5 students/seniors Info: hennepinhistory.org/events.html

TANGLETOWN AND MINNEHAHA CREEK WALKING TOUR Explore the winding streets, impressive homes and creek environment of the neighborhood originally

MN ARTISTS PRESENTS: CARRYON HOMES CarryOn Homes, a multidisciplinary, international artist group, invites Minnesota-based creatives who have experienced immigration or emigration to re-envision the museum as an experimental classroom through installations, performances, workshops and more.

When: 5 p.m.–7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29 Where: Walker Art Center Cost: Free Info: walkerart.org

AFTER SCHOOL KICK OFF Celebrate school being back in session with hot dogs, games and more.

When: 4 p.m.–6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3 Where: Painter Park, 620 W. 34th St. Cost: Free Info: minneapolisparks.org

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Get Out Guide. By Sheila Regan

ARTS A’FAIR Get a whirlwind tour of performing arts from Minnesota with Arts A’Fair, a showcase of dance, comedy, theater and storytelling.

When: Times vary; see the State Fair website for a daily schedule Where: West End Market (West Dan Patch Avenue & Liggett Street) and North End Event Center (Hoyt Avenue & Underwood Street) Cost: Free with fair admission Info: tinyurl.com/arts-afair Photos courtesy of the Minnesota State Fair

MINNESOTA STATE FAIR Sure, eating fried food on a stick and going on rides is fun, but there are plenty of other things to do at the Minnesota State Fair (Aug. 22–Sept. 2, $12 admission), including things that are actually good for you like arts, healthy foods, medicinal plants and more.

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Learn the healing secrets of plants like aloe, lavender, fennel and the miracle plant ashwagandha at this hypnotic and meditative garden.

The State Fair’s Agriculture Horticulture Building is a boon for anyone who loves green and grown things. You won’t want to miss the “Floralpalooza,” the gardening demonstrations, the ﬂower show or the Common Table — Minnesota Eats exhibit (which connects farm to table in new and innovative ways).

When: 9 a.m.–9 p.m. Where: North of Judson Avenue, between Underwood and Cooper streets. Cost: Free with fair admission Info: tinyurl.com/mn-heal-garden

When: 9 a.m.–9 p.m. (closes at 8 p.m. on Labor Day). Where: Judson Avenue & Underwood Street Cost: Free with fair admission Info: tinyurl.com/ag-hort-building

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GOAT BOOTH You’ve done goat yoga. But do you want to take your goat knowledge deeper at this new goat education station?

When: 1 p.m.–9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30; 9 a.m.–9 p.m. Saturday–Sunday, Aug. 31–Sept. 1; 9 a.m.–1 p.m. Monday, Sept. 2 Where: South entrance of the Sheep & Poultry Barn, north of Judson Avenue between Liggett and Clough streets Cost: Free with fair admission Info: tinyurl.com/goat-booth

THE SIOUX CHEF PRESENTS THE INDIGENOUS FOOD LAB AT DAN PATCH PARK Find connections between Indigenous foods, history and culture, and learn about medicinal uses for diﬀerent culinary food items with James Beard Award winner Sean Sherman.

When: 9 a.m.–6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 1 Where: Dan Patch Park, Carnes Avenue & Chambers Street Cost: Free with fair admission Info: tinyurl.com/indigenous-food-lab

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Mill City Cooks

Recipes and food news from the Mill City Farmers Market

Why grocery store strawberries lack flavor

olorful heirloom and big red beefsteak tomatoes are covering the tables at farmers markets. However, another red fruit is exciting customers at the Mill City Farmers Market this August: strawberries. Juicy, local strawberries are typically only available in early to mid-summer in our region, but Farmington-based Twin Cities Berry Company, founded in 2018, has a mission to provide locally grown, flavorful fruit outside of the typical short summer growing season. Twin Cities Berry Company owner and farmer Andrew Petran is using season extension and his experience as a fruit researcher at the University of Minnesota to push fruit production past its normal harvest window while maintaining impeccable taste and quality. “Most store-bought strawberries you eat in Minnesota are bad,” he said. “The strawberries we have access to 11 months out of the year were picked either in California or Mexico, and while they likely tasted good there, by the time a customer purchases a clamshell they could be over a week old. Strawberries are among the most perishable fruits available. They begin losing significant amount of taste and aroma within 48 hours of picking, even when stored cold.” Furthermore, studies have shown fruit loses its nutritional value in shipping and on the supermarket shelves. That’s another reason Petran takes his strawberries to the farmers

market within 24 hours of harvesting them. “The strawberries we can oﬀer are intrinsically superior to store-bought in almost every way; not because I’m a superior farmer, but simply because the fruit is young,” he said. In addition to freshness, flavor is a key difference between store-bought and farmers-market strawberries. Like apples and tomatoes, there are many different varieties of strawberries with unique flavors, colors, sizes, disease resistances, bloom times and other characteristics — all of which Petran studied, working on his doctorate in plant biology. While most “big box” strawberry farms in California and Mexico choose their varieties with shelf life in mind, Petran chooses for flavor. Petran is currently growing six varieties: Albion, Mara des Bois, Monterey, Portola, San Andreas and Seascape. Twin Cities Berry Company strawberries are also certified organic, ensuring they are GMO-free and safely grown without synthetic chemicals, using practices that build soil and pollinator health. You can find Twin Cities Berry Company’s locally grown strawberries at the Mill City Farmers Market (704 S. 2nd St.) every Saturday through early October. Be sure to arrive early, since they sell out quickly! Learn more at millcityfarmersmarket.org. — Jenny Heck

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