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DAMOND’S FATHER PLEDGES

Hundreds gather to memorialize Justine Damond, shot and killed by police in July

r o f e c i t s u j ‘ Justine’

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

Hundreds of people gathered Aug. 11 to remember the life of Justine Damond, filling the rows of benches at the Lake Harriet Bandshell and spilling onto the grass beyond on a warm late-summer evening.

For Damond’s friends and family, some traveling to the service from her native Australia,

it was a surreal detour from plans set months earlier. They expected that night to be onboard their flights to Hawaii, where Damond was to marry her Minneapolis fiancé, Don, in less than a week’s time.

Instead, they were sharing their memories of Damond, who was killed by police July 15 after

calling 911 to report a possible sexual assault near her Fulton neighborhood home. Damond approached the police vehicle when it entered an alley near 51st & Washburn and was shot by one of the two responding officers.

“Justine should not have died,” her father, John

Met Council’s agreements with railroads raise local concerns

SEE DAMOND MEMORIAL / PAGE A10

Police see increase in emergency response times Average response to Priority 1 calls is longest in the 5th Precinct

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

Minneapolis officials expressed concern at the Metropolitan Council’s plans, announced in mid-August, to add 10-foot-high, 3-foot-wide crash wall along a roughly mile-long section of the Southwest Light Rail Transit corridor.

The wall was a late addition to the nearly $1.9-billion SWLRT project, which will extend the METRO Green Line 14.5 miles to Eden Prairie. From the perspective of Minneapolis officials, the wall was just one of the surprises contained in a series of agreements Met Council officials negotiated with two freight rail operators, BNSF and Twin Cities and Western, both of which will share a portion of the SWLRT corridor through Minneapolis.

Met Council members unanimously approved the agreements Aug. 16.

A portrait of Justine Damond stood next to the flag of her native Australia during an Aug. 11 memorial service for the Fulton neighborhood resident shot and killed by a Minneapolis police officer in July.

Photo by Dylan Thomas

City Council Member Kevin Reich criticized a “lack of transparency” in the negotiations around the wall, intended to serve as a barrier between light rail and freight trains, which he said city officials first learned about less than a week before the vote. Reich, who chairs the council’s Transportation Committee, also raised questions about plans to shift the Cedar Lake Trail, a popular bicycle and pedestrian path that runs parallel to the future light rail line, as well as the Met Council’s commitment to accept liability for any incidents involving both freight and light rail trains in a shared corridor owned by BNSF. SWLRT Project Director Jim Alexander said “corridor protection” — the wall — was SEE SWLRT PROJECT / PAGE A7

By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Eight minutes after Justine Damond reported a woman’s distressed call for help, she called 911 a second time to make sure police had the right address.

Officers arrived in 9 minutes, 41 seconds, according to an incident detail report.

The response time landed close to the citywide average for Priority 1 calls in the second quarter of 2017, which is 9 minutes 47 seconds. In Southwest Minneapolis’ 5th Precinct, the average Priority 1 response is 10 minutes 22 seconds.

That average should be “closer

to nine” minutes, said City Council Member Blong Yang, chair of the Public Safety, Civil Rights & Emergency Management Committee.

“And sometimes when these numbers go up, it typically tells us something about what’s happening in the police department,” Yang added.

The current response is on the high end of available response time data since 2003. Priority 1 response times hovered close to 8 minutes in 2003–2004, rose SEE RESPONSE TIME / PAGE A11

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Forney, Tate stay in Park Board race Races are set for all nine board seats

By Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com

Park Board incumbent Meg Forney announced she will continue to run for her seat despite not garnering the DFL endorsement earlier this year.

Forney, a first-term at-large commissioner on the nine-member Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, said she submitted more than 900 signatures — more than the necessary 500 — in place of a filing fee to put her name on the ballot this fall. The last-minute move came just before the Tuesday, Aug. 15, deadline to file as a candidate for this election season.

DFL delegates threw their support behind at-large candidates Devin Hogan, Londel French and Russ Henry at the party’s convention in July.

The three citywide candidates are part of a wave of first-time candidates and new faces looking to fill several empty seats left by incumbents on the Park Board. President Anita Tabb (District 4), Vice President John Erwin (at-large), At-Large Commissioner Annie Young and District 2 Commissioner Jon Olson did not run for re-election this year.

Forney is the only incumbent running this year who is not abiding by the DFL endorsement. District 1 Commissioner Liz Wielinski, who ran for re-election for her seat representing Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis, confirmed she’s no longer running. District 3 Commissioner Scott Vreeland, who was running for an at-large seat this year, released a

statement in July saying he ended his candidacy.

Mike “Talley” Tate, a longtime coach and volunteer with the Park Board, continues to vie for the District 2 seat, a spokesperson confirmed. The DFL nominated Kale Severson for the seat representing North Minneapolis and part of the North Loop neighborhood.

Both Tate and Forney said at the convention that they would abide by the party’s nomination.

Tate said after talking with community members he came to the decision to continue running due to about four decades working as a volunteer in Minneapolis parks.

“I earned the right to run whether I was endorsed or unendorsed,” he said.

In an announcement sent to supporters, Forney criticized Our Revolution, the Sen. Bernie Sanders-inspired group whose supporters nominated a majority of the Park Board candidates who won the party’s nomination, for not endorsing a single woman. The lack of women represented in the endorsements “does not reflect my values nor the values of the DFL,” she said.

“With the retirement of fellow [c]ommissioners Anita Tabb, Liz Wielinski, and Annie Young, we need strong, experienced female voices now more than ever,” Forney said.

In a statement, Kevin Chavis, chair of Our Revolution Twin Cities, said Forney did not apply for their endorsement.

“Our Revolution would love to see more women, especially women of color, run for

public office. Meg Forney can join us in recruiting and electing women leaders at all levels of public office,” he said.

Steffanie Musich, the incumbent commissioner from District 5, is the only woman running for a Park Board seat this year that the DFL endorsed. Our Revolution did not endorse her.

Brad Bourn, an incumbent in District 6 supported by Our Revolution, won the DFL nomination.

With just a couple other incumbents on the ballot this year, Forney said in an interview that a potential loss of institutional knowledge also played into her decision to continue running.

Nine seats up for grabs There are competitive races for each seat on the board this year.

Mike Derus, Charlie Casserly and LaTrisha Vetaw are also running for the board’s three at-large seats. Jonathan Honerbrink, formerly a Republican Minneapolis mayoral candidate, announced in July that he would run instead for an at-large seat on the Park Board. Bob Sullentrop is another Republican-endorsed candidate for the citywide seats.

For District 1, Green Party-backed Billy Menz, Mohamed Issa Barre and DFL-endorsed Chris Meyer are running to represent all of Minneapolis on the east side of the Mississippi River.

Tate and Severson are the only candidates running to represent District 2.

DFL delegates failed to nominate a candidate for the District 3 seat, which encompasses the Cedar-Riverside, Seward and Longfellow neighborhoods. AK Hassan and Abdi Gurhan Mohamed — two candidates that clashed for the nomination — are running to represent District 3. Charles Exner, a Green Party candidate, recently joined the race.

Jono Cowgill, a DFL-endorsed candidate, and Tom Nordyke are running to represent District 4, which stretches from Downtown East to the Lake of the Isles and part of Lake Calhoun.

Bill Shroyer and Andrea Fahrenkrug are taking on Musich for the District 5 seat representing the area surrounding Lake Nokomis in South Minneapolis.

Bourn, who represents Southwest Minneapolis, will square off this fall against challengers Bob Schlosser, Republican-endorsed candidate Jennifer Zielinski and former Park Board commissioner Bob Fine in the race for District 6.

Members of the non-partisan Park Board are elected to four-year terms and are paid $12,438 plus benefits each year. A president elected by fellow commissioners leads the board and receives $13,852 annually.

Voters will take to the polls this year on Nov. 7.

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By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

MIDTOWN GREENWAY & GARFIELD AVENUE

‘Sample Sunday’ at Soo Line Children’s Rainbow Garden A portion of the Soo Line Community Garden off Garfield Avenue is now dedicated to kids, featuring a bean tunnel to pick, herbs to smell, flowers to water and a compost bin to turn.

Volunteer Mary Gazca is bilingual and previously taught preschool out of her Whittier home. Gazca started the project to offer produce to neighborhood kids.

“They’re just so ready to eat something when they can harvest something,” she said.

Gazca recently enlisted neighborhood kids to fill watering cans and sent them home with fresh-cut flowers.

“One of the little boys said this was more fun than watching TV,” she said.

Grain elevators once stood at the Soo Line garden site. Gazca said founding members recently held an anniversary celebration and recalled “renegade gardeners” climbing up and cutting chains to access the area. There is a long waiting list for the popular garden. One

garden plot is dedicated to growing food for a food shelf. Another area is a “monarch way station.” Tammy Wong of Rainbow Chinese keeps a garden as well, and she’s fed noodles to gardeners on occasion.

The children’s garden holds an open house most Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 2845 Garfield Ave. “When you start an idea you don’t know if it’s going to work, but this has flourished,” Gazca said.

Gazca shares the fragrant smell of the costmary, an herb she said was historically placed between the pages of family Bibles to repel silverfish insects. Kids can stand on a pallet to pick strawberries or harvest from the “salad bowl” area.

“It gets registered in their memory for life,” she said. “That’s what is kind of important, to connect them to nature — that nice experience of eating from the earth.”

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Ingridients Caribbean Cuisine When Ingrid Richards makes “doubles,” a Caribbean street food, they tend to sell out.

“I was shocked that people loved it,” Richards said.

The double is a fry bread commonly filled with garbanzo beans and East Indian spices, she said. Richards is from Trinidad, where she said the food is common.

“On almost every corner, somebody is selling doubles,” she said. “Before people shop for food, they will have a double.”

She first introduced the recipe at her daughter Junauda Petrus’ play “There Are Other Worlds,” where they sold out.

Richards is the chef at Calvary Baptist Church. She and her daughters opened a stand last season at the Whittier Farmers Market at the church’s request. They named the shop “Ingridients” after Ingrid.

Aside from doubles, they sell Trinidad-style limeade and ginger beer and offer other rotating recipes like rum cake with Bacardi and pecans, or curry chicken with coconut peas and rice with fried plantain and pickled cucumbers.

Ingridients is available through Sept. 30 on Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Whittier Farmers Market, located at 2608 Blaisdell Ave. S.

26TH & HENNEPIN

Uptown Diner The Uptown Diner fired two employees that it said posed for pictures in “Nazi garb.”

“This is severely troubling, especially in the light of tragic events in Charlottesville over the weekend. The Uptown Diner unequivocally repudiates the beliefs and ideals of neo-Nazis and white supremacy,” the diner said in a state-

ment. “… Hate and bigotry have no place in society. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, welcoming environment at our restaurant and in our community.”

The restaurant said staff members are reviewing policies to align with values.

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Apartments at 429 W. Lake St. The developer CPM Companies is proposing to build 70 apartments and ground floor commercial space in a four-story building at 429 W. Lake Street and 3013-3015 Harriet Ave. S. CPM said the site is currently used for car sales and storage, and it’s located west of the Schatzlein Saddle Shop parking lot.

The project would include 28 enclosed and six tandem parking spaces for residents accessible from Harriet Avenue, with 70 enclosed bike parking spaces. The apartments would access an indoor bike workshop, fitness center and outdoor patio located on the north side of the fourth floor. Apartment sizes would range

from 422-square-foot studios to 831-squarefoot two-bedroom units.

As proposed, the project would need city approval for rezoning from R4 (a medium density multiple-family district) to C2 ( a neighborhood corridor commercial district).

The project as proposed would also require an increase in floor-area ratio and a reduction in parking, along with exceptions to allow a smaller amount of “active” space fronting Harriet, blank walls on portions of the building, a higher number of primary exterior materials and a higher percentage of fiber cement panels.

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Uptown’s Planned Parenthood clinic sees 13,000 patients a year.

“We’ve noticed that every time we add hours and add appointment slots they fill up immediately,” said Jennifer Aulwes, communications director for Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. “It’s our busiest clinic.”

To help meet the demand, Planned Parenthood plans to construct a new building of at least two stories.

The organization received a $6.5-million gift from a couple in the area that wishes to remain anonymous. Aulwes said the gift allows the project to move forward quickly.

She said construction would likely begin in the first half of 2018, and design details are not finalized. The new building would offer onsite parking.

Aulwes said the center, which opened in 1995, needs an update.

“We’re aiming to create a space that’s modern

and fresh and a comprehensive health care setting for young people who expect convenience, quality and affordability,” she said.

The clinic offers ob-gyn care; breast exams; pregnancy testing and services; STD testing, treatment and vaccines; morning-after pills; birth control; abortion referral and men’s health care. The clinic does not offer abortions onsite, and Aulwes said staff doesn’t anticipate providing them at the new building.

She said they are looking at temporary site options so patients don’t see any interruption in care.

Planned Parenthood would own the new building.

“We’re hoping it will symbolize for the community that Planned Parenthood is here for good!” Aulwes said in an email. “We want our patients to know we value them and their health and we want their experience of getting care with us to be compassionate, non-judgmental and just all-around a great patient experience.”

NOTED: The Whittier Farmers Market is now accepting SNAP/EBT (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, previously known as food stamps). The “Market Bucks” program also matches up to $10 in free produce whenever customers use SNAP to purchase foods.

“We’re hoping that this program increases food access in the community and makes it just a little bit easier for families to buy fresh foods,” market

volunteer Jill Verchota-Luce said in an email.

SNAP/EBT at the market is supported by the Minneapolis Health Department with funding from the Statewide Health Improvement Partnership at the Minnesota Department of Health.

Market Bucks is also available at the Stevens Square, Fulton, Nokomis and Kingfield Farmers Markets.

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Manager Billie Stopyro behind the bar at Coalition.

Photo by Michelle Bruch

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Coalition Restaurant Staff at Coalition, now open in the former 50th Street Café, is reporting “nonstop” business at the new restaurant.

“The community really seems to love us,” said manager Billie Stopyro.

Coalition’s first location launched in Excelsior, and the new spot near 50th & France is starting with a similar menu until the chef slowly makes it his own.

Favorite menu items include the Korean tacos and crispy cauliflower with sweet chili

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The restaurant’s “coalition” of local partners includes You Betcha Kimchi, Morningstar Coffee, Franklin Street Bakery, Addie’s Sweet Secrets, La Perla Tortillas and Bittercube.

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Penny’s Coffee The owners of a downtown coffee shop have opened a second location in Linden Hills.

Penny’s Coffee is now open near 44th & Beard (3509 W. 44th St). The shop is owned by Ben Hertz, Adam Roozen and Dean Phillips, who’s running for Congress in the 3rd District.

The three opened Penny’s this past fall on Washington Avenue downtown. Hertz said business has been phenomenal.

Penny’s offers coffee and espresso from La Colombe and teas from San Francisco-based Samovar. It also offers sweet and savory crepes, a breakfast sandwich, French toast, a grilled cheese, a salad and assorted pastries from Rose Street Patisserie.

Penny’s is the main tenant of its building in Linden Hills. E-commerce firm Echidna, of which Roozen is the CEO, offices out of there.

The building owners, friends of Hertz, Roozen and Phillips, will be renting out the rest of the space, Hertz said.

Hertz has a background in real estate development and founded a shoelace company and a bedding company. He’s also a partner in Lowry Hill Meats. Phillips previously owned Talenti Gelato and was president and CEO of his family’s firm, Phillips Distilling Company.

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The store was founded by an Arlington Heights, Illinois woman who started looking closely at pet food ingredients after losing two cats to illness. Food sold at the shop is free of byproducts, corn, wheat, soy and chemical

preservatives. The business has quickly expanded in partnership with entrepreneur Marcus Lemonis of the CNBC reality show “The Profit.”

There are raw bones in the freezer and chew bars for cats and dogs. Other products include cooling mats, Earth Rated poop bags and durable toys to help clean teeth.

Adoption events are coordinated independently by each store. The sociable shop cat “Capone” was available for adoption in midAugust at the Lake Street location.

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City haulers will collect the material each week to transport to a commercial compost site.

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Mayor Betsy Hodges’ 2018 budget proposal includes a 5.5-percent increase in the city’s property tax levy that she said was needed to fulfill the city’s commitment to an agreement with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board to fund street and park improvements.

Hodges said the increase would “continue to fully fund” the 20-year, $800-million deal struck with the Park Board in 2016. It is expected to produce $22 million for street repairs and $11 million for parks improvements annually.

Hodges proposed a 5.5-percent increase last year, as well. She also delivered her budget address in August but is planning this year on a September address, when she will also deliver a more complete budget proposal, she wrote in her letter to the City Council and the Board of Estimate and Taxation.

“As a city, we have experience two major public-safety incidents in recent weeks that have required a great deal of my attention, as well as that of many of you,” Hodges wrote. “This is time that I would have spent crafting my full 2018 budget proposal and preparing my budget speech.”

Hodges said she asked acting Police Chief Medaria Arradondo to submit his ideas for the Minneapolis Police Department budget.

Arradondo is nominated to permanently take over the chief ’s role, which he assumed when former Chief Janeé Harteau resigned June 21 in the wake of an officer-involved shooting.

“I want (Arradondo) to have the tools and resources he needs to succeed as soon as possible, and do not want him to have to wait a full year before he can have an impact on the MPD budget,” Hodges wrote.

Carol Becker, a member of the Board of Estimate and Taxation, filed a complaint in Hennepin County District Court alleging Hodges is in violation of the city’s charter.

Becker asked the court to force Hodges to submit a full budget immediately.

Hodges said property taxes are rising faster than inflation in part because city revenues from licenses, permits and fines and the municipal parking fund are flat. The city continues to advocate for an increase in state funding through Local Government Aid. A growing tax base is expected to blunt the impact of a rising levy. The Assessor’s Office projects the tax base will expand 8.7 percent, with new building construction adding nearly $750 million in taxable property.

Hodges notes in her letter that property values are increasing, adding that their rising value reflects “well-balanced growth in our economy.”

“Yet we must also be mindful that the value increases are putting pressures on rents and homeowner expenses,” she wrote.

Hodges’ proposed budget would increase the annual property tax bill on a home valued at $225,500 to $1,302 from $1,221, an increase of $81 or 6.6 percent. Taxes on $310,500 home would rise to $1,811 from $1,767, an increase of $110 or 6.2 percent.

Hodges described the city’s fiscal health as “strong,” but outlined several trends that are putting pressure on the budget. In addition to increasing housing costs, those include reduced spending by the state and federal governments, rising expectations for improvements to the city’s police department, an aging population and the need to address “persistent racial inequities” among Minneapolis residents.

Based on Hodges’ proposal, the city budget is expected to increase 5.4 percent to just over $1.4 billion in 2018 from about $1.33 billion this year.

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The City Council on Aug. 18 unanimously confirmed Mayor Betsy Hodges’ nominee for Minneapolis police chief, veteran officer Medaria “Rondo” Arradondo.

Arradondo, who joined the department 28 years ago, had served as acting chief since the resignation in July of Janeé Harteau. The former chief faced pressure to step down following the death of Justine Damond, who on July 15 dialed 911 to report a possible assault and was shot and killed by one of two responding officers.

Hodges described Arradondo as “a person of community and a person of service” who “leads by listening.” She said his appointment was “a great challenge and a great opportunity,” noting that he was being asked to carry out the department’s public safety mission while at the same winning back public trust.

“You have my emphatic and strong support,” Hodges said. “I look forward to the great work we are going to do together for the city of Minneapolis.”

City Council Member Linea Palmisano, who represents Ward 13, where Damond was killed, said Arradondo had her “provisional” support, adding that he had to prove himself capable of inspiring and leading change.

“The biggest part of all of this is Medaria Arradondo is a wonderful person, and we need him to be a change agent,” Palmisano said.

Arradondo said he planned to shift the department’s culture.

“For the communities to have trust in us, they also have to know that we are accountable,” he said.

Since joining the department as a patrol officer in 1989, Arradondo has served as a school resource officer, North Side beat officer, First Precinct inspector, deputy chief and chief of staff. He also served in the department’s internal affairs and property-crime investigation departments.

Arradondo is the first black chief of police in Minneapolis history.

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included in light rail plans, but it didn’t previously extend the full length of the Wayzata Subdivision, the name for a 1.4-mile stretch of BNSF-owned railroad corridor stretching from just south of Interstate 394 to the North Loop. The agreement with BNSF also calls for a new “tail track” for storing Northstar Commuter Rail vehicles when they are not in use, which Alexander described as yet another “new piece” in the project.

BNSF currently has a single track in the Wayzata Subdivision, but Alexander said the railroad’s position in negotiations was that it needed to preserve the option to add a second track in the future. In his presentation to the Met Council’s Transportation Committee, he referred to it as the railroad’s “150 year plan.”

Alexander said the project team would be able to shift the Cedar Lake Trail to the south and maintain its current width, although it would close during light rail construction. A public conversation on the design of the wall could begin as soon as September, he added.

In an Aug. 14 letter to Metro Transit General Manager Brian Lamb, Minneapolis Director of Public Works Robin Hutcheson wrote that city staff had “consistently maintained the position that barrier walls would be a detriment to the project and to the community,” adding that the city expected a “robust forum” to discuss the wall’s design and air community concerns. Hutcheson also noted the new components of the project could affect city assets, including the Bassett Creek Tunnel, which carries the creek to the Mississippi River beneath downtown. The tail track will be built on top of it, Alexander said.

Rep. Frank Hornstein and Sen. Scott Dibble, who both represent the portion of Minneapolis that includes the future SWLRT corridor, questioned several provisions of the shared-use agreement with BNSF that anticipate the possibility that the co-location of freight and light rail in one shared corridor could be challenged by future laws. Met Council agreed to either pay for modifications to the corridor or challenge those laws in court, and if either tactic fails, to suspend SWLRT operations.

While Alexander described the scenario as very unlikely, Hornstein noted in an interview that one possible outcome of the shared-use agreement would be Met Council suing the City of Minneapolis or some other local unit of government on behalf of BNSF. Hornstein said it appeared “Met Council basically bended to all the railroad’s interests here.”

“There’s no excuse, just because you’re negotiating with the private sector on something, that you have to freeze out key stakeholders,” he added.

Asked to respond to concerns about the

The Cedar Lake Trail will be shifted to the south to accommodate a crash wall along the SWLRT corridor. Submitted photo

negotiations, Alexander said those talks couldn’t even begin until the Federal Transit Administration issued its record of decision on the project last summer, a key step that marked the end of the environmental review phase for SWLRT. The wall and the new tail track came up very late in those conversations, Alexander said, adding that they remained privileged until he presented the details to the Met Council.

“We don’t have a lot of leeway to talk to outside parties about the nature or the content of the discussions,” he said. “That’s one of the challenges here.”

The construction agreement with TC&W includes up to $4.2 million to reimburse the railroad for costs incurred during construction and another $11.9 million to remove and replace rails in the area known as the Bass Lake Spur, located in St. Louis Park, to make way for SWLRT. A purchase and sales agreement with BNSF includes up to $10 million in project funds to acquire property and permanent easements from the railroad along the Minneapolis portion of the SWLRT corridor.

In a separate construction agreement with BNSF, Met Council agreed to cover preconstruction planning costs, estimated at about $1 million, plus another $4 million for project construction.

In its shared-use agreement with BNSF, Met Council commits to taking out a $295million railroad liability policy to cover insurance claims related to incidents involving both freight and light rail. Alexander said the council has a similar policy for Northstar, which also operates on BNSF right-of-way.

With the agreements secured, Alexander said Met Council plans to submit its application in September for the Federal Transit Administration grant expected to cover half of project costs.

The Met Council in August also received four bids for SWLRT construction, ranging from about $797 million to almost $1.1 billion.

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By Jim Walsh

The Dude abides David Hussman has terminal lung cancer, but that doesn’t keep him from using the word “dude” multiple times when talking about the disease that collapsed his lungs in January, like he’s geeking out about a new guitar pedal. The truth is, all iterations of “dude” have peppered his personal and professional conversations for so long that a few years ago his daughters’ friends started referring to Hussman as The Dude, aka Jeff Bridges’ character from “The Big Lebowski.”

But this Dude is nothing if not an original: Hussman, founder of innovative South Minneapolisbased software company DevJam and the alwaysbustling bistro/community pub Studio 2 Café (not to mention his alter-ego Nicci Wikkid, guitarist for ’80s–’90s local glam metal heroes Slave Raider), and his positive dude-vibe is serving him well at this precarious moment.

“Nothing makes you be a Buddhist like a terminal disease. Nothing makes you stop and say, ‘Every moment is what matters,’ every little hug, every time you say, ‘I’m sorry,’ ” said Hussman Tuesday morning, sitting in the living room of the Kingfield neighborhood home he shares with Andrien Thomas, his wife and chef/partner in Studio 2, and Amalie, the youngest of the couple’s two daughters (their oldest, Sage, plays with the Portland Cello Project and lives near Port Townsend, Washington).

After the initial cancer diagnosis and treatment knocked him out and landed him in the hospital for ten days at the start of the year, depression and a feeling of failure set in for the 55-year-old Hussman, which has currently given way to a certain acceptance and hard-core living in the moment.

“I don’t really care so much about working really hard, but working on things that I enjoy doing, whatever I’m doing, is what gives me that existential fulfillment,” he said. “On a great day, I’m super inspired right now. I feel really fortunate. I know that my life may be in terms of months, possibly in terms of years, but I’m still living my life in terms of weeks and months.

“I’m really, really appreciative. My mom is a pretty soulful person. She’s a Lutheran Swede from Duluth, but she’s actually more of like a Unitarian Universalist from India, or something. She lives four houses down. She planted sort of this seed of appreciative grace in me. She’s much better at it than I am, but I just feel that more than ever right now.

“I just feel like, yeah, I’m really, really sick. I’m sad.

I have a terminal illness. But I get to do stuff with my family, I get to be home, I live in this great city that we live in, you know? I’m active, I can go for a walk.

Two months ago, before I started doing the chemotherapy, I couldn’t go for a walk around the block.

That was pretty damning. I sat on that couch right there. Kind of dark for a while.”

Now he’s back at work, doing everything he can to beat the cancer, hoping for the best, and providing bucketfuls of inspiration to anyone lucky enough to run into him on the happening corner of 46th & Bryant that he and Andrien have resurrected. For sure he’s been through a battle, with more battles to come, but at least during our visit, his stillness feels almost monk-like, and a hard-won calm has come

DevJam and Studio 2 Café’s David Hussman at home: “I’m super inspired right now.”

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over him. A wise guy by nature, Hussman is particularly philosophical and poetic these precious days.

“My brother asked me if I think I’m an inspiration, and I think the best thing I can do right now, for instance for my daughter, who is upstairs, is to show her, like, ‘This is what you do in the face of serious adversity. You don’t fall down. You can’t be naïve, you have to be realistic, but you also can’t let it knock you down.’ So every day I sort of feel like I get up and walk around, if someone like at Studio 2 knows about my history, and they see me … you know?

“When I shaved my head, dude, I was pretty freaked out. I don’t know if you know this, but one time I won the write-in award in the City Pages — not categorical — for ‘Best Hair,’ because our [Slave Raider] fans stuffed the ballot box. You could easily say that at one time in my life, my hair defined me. I used to date girls in high school, and I think I had the same hair color as Ann Margaret, and their mothers would always say, ‘You have such beautiful hair, but it was wasted on a boy!’

“I really expected to look in the mirror and just kind of go, ‘Oh, man, one more loss.’ But my first reaction was just this unfettered smirk, like, ‘Right on!’ Like, it’s better to have nothing and it feels fresh to me. I’m out sporting my chrome dome proudly these days.”

He’s also finding inspiration and solace from reading philosophers like Joseph Campbell and from listening to music — specifically one of his main heroes, David Bowie, who died from liver cancer in January of 2016. Bowie, too, knew he didn’t have much time to live, but he gifted the world with his swan song and album, “Blackstar,” a meditation on mortality that confronts this thing called life while staring into the abyss of death. Chorus: Something happened on the day he died Spirit rose a meter then stepped aside Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried “I’m a blackstar, I’m a star star, I’m a blackstar”

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“The next day [the cancer] just knocked me down. Once again, dude, it just comes out of nowhere. And for the first time, I got close to ‘Blackstar.’ You know, it’s so dark, and it was definitely Bowie’s requiem.”

Hussman has similar intentions of leaving behind a living legacy — through his family, work and newfound hobby, photography. Ask him what he’s looking forward to and his eyes light up and, as the late summer sunshine streams in through the living room window, the Dude looks positively indestructible, his optimism setting an example for all of us.

“My youngest daughter is going into high school, and I’m looking forward to being part of that and supporting her in that,” he said. “I’m looking forward to becoming more healthy, I’m looking forward to doing more in the community. I’m super proud of what Andrien and I have done at Studio 2. It feels like it’s such a cool vehicle. And it’s such an old guy thing to say, but it’s super appropriate when you’re sick. I used to tell my clients, ‘Sometimes you have to slow down to get more done.’ You know, do less.

“I just had a really good visit to my doctor last week. The weird thing about the disease is that you have to get used to people saying, ‘You have something that’s not curable, but it’s treatable. And that’s true, with almost all forms of cancer. And last week, dude, they found an exact match to my cancer mutation, so there’s three treatments: chemotherapy, which tries to kill the patient less fast than the cancer; then there’s immunotherapy, which targets just the disease and doesn’t kill as much of the patient; and then there’s this thing which I have a chance of going on, which is targeted therapy, which works at the genetic level, and it just stops cancer.

“So today, I’m hopeful and I’m healthy. I’m not quite the person I used to be, but that’s OK.”

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Moments in Minneapolis

By Cedar Imboden Phillips

A calm day on the water

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he Chain of Lakes is one of our city’s most distinctive features, and who among us hasn’t stopped to watch a boat skimming across the water of one of our local lakes? Here, boats are shown moored in Lake Calhoun, or Bde Maka Ska, in the 1950s. Getting out on the water has long been a favorite pastime in Minnesota, and Lake Calhoun a beloved summer destination. During the 1950s, as it still is today, the lake was home to the Calhoun Yacht Club. Founded in 1901, the Calhoun Yacht Club focused on sailing and yachting during the summer and ice boating during the winter. Perhaps these boats were used in the many summer regattas popular during the era.

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Ruszczyk, said. “This is wrong at every level.”

It was the first visit to Minneapolis for Ruszczyk, who runs a bookstore in the southeast Australian coastal city of Sydney. He thanked her neighbors “for the outpouring of love and support which has engulfed us.”

Ruszczyk, who seemed to be fighting back tears as he spoke, said his daughter had been killed “by an agent of the state.”

“I feel crushed by sorrow,” he said, adding that his family was “determined to get justice for Justine.”

The service began with a smudging ceremony inspired by Native American spiritual practices.

More than a dozen people moved through the crowd holding bound sticks of burning sage, and attendees were invited to waft the smoke over themselves in a ritual cleansing.

As the sweet-smelling smoke drifted over the crowd, so did the droning music of the didgeridoo, performed by two musicians on the bandshell stage. The wind instrument, a long, hollow wooden tube, was developed by Australia’s indigenous people.

A video that circulated widely online in the weeks after Damond’s death played on two monitors on the bandshell stage partway through the service. It showed Damond climbing into a

Messages written on scraps of fabric were hung like Tibetan prayer flags.

Attendees of Damond’s memorial service chanted “om” together in recognition of the role yoga and meditation played in her life. Photos by Dylan Thomas

storm sewer near her home to rescue eight ducklings that had fallen inside. She reunited them with their mother, and neighbors filmed the duck and ducklings safely reaching the water.

“She came home that night and she said, ‘I just reached utopia,’ ” Don Damond recalled.

He said it was that same desire to help that drove his fiancée to call 911 on the night she died.

“She wanted to help somebody in need,” he said. “She went there, and she was led by her heart.”

The service included a maypole dance and ended with everyone in the crowd rising to chant “om” together three times, a recognition of the yoga and meditation practices that were an integral part of Damond’s life. Scores of people, including her family members, then joined in a silent walk around Lake Harriet that began just after sunset. The pedestrian path was lit by glowing luminaria.

Interspersed in the crowd were many people who came to know Damond during her time in Minneapolis.

Johana Sand of Eagan said she met Damond several times through their mutual involvement in the Lake Harriet Spiritual Community. Their

social circles overlapped enough that they had friends in common in Ecuador, where Sand lives part of the year.

“I really felt she was an enchanting person,” Sand said. “A light. You know, radiant.”

She said they shared an interest in the teachings of Joe Dispenza, who spoke at the memorial service, and concepts like breatharianism. Sitting on a blanket in the grass at the back of the memorial audience with her husband reclining next to her, Sand said her spirituality was guiding her in the wake of Damond’s “beyond horrific” death.

“You have to see a bigger picture, and I think that’s what Justine’s life was about,” she said.

Before the service began, Sam Simmons walked through the crowd handing out stickers printed with the image of a heart outlined in blue.

At the request of the family, most of those who attended also wore blue clothing, but Simmons’ yellow T-shirt marked her as a member of the Lake Harriet Spiritual Community. When asked to describe Damond, Simmons, too, used the word “radiant,” adding that she saw in her friend a “childlike wonder.”

“She was just a thoroughly good person and a thoroughly good laugh,” said Simmons, who

is from England and shared with Damond the experience of being an expat in Minneapolis.

The two met through the Lake Harriet Spiritual Community when Simmons signed up for one of Damond’s workshops. Damond’s absence still did not feel quite real to Simmons, but she said the many lives Damond touched would be “her legacy.”

“I haven’t made sense of it, but I’ve made peace with it,” she said of Damond’s death. “I don’t think it will ever make sense, but there’s no point in hanging onto anger.”

Among the maypole dancers who helped to close the ceremony was Maria Turnblöm of Roseville, who described herself as a close friend of Don Damond’s mother. Turnblöm said she first met Damond shortly after she arrived in the U.S., and recalled an early conversation about astrology, cosmology, neuroscience and other topics in which the two shared a keen interest.

Turnblöm got the news of Damond’s death in an email from the Minnesota chapter of the Association for Global New Thought. Justine had begun using Don Damond’s last name, but Turnblöm still knew her as Justine Ruszczyk. It took a moment, but the news sunk in.

“How many Justines are there in the world?” she said.

Damond’s death drew international news coverage and intensified scrutiny of police conduct and accountability in Minneapolis. Turnblöm said she’d been struck by a photo she’d seen in the newspaper of Don Damond embraced by Valerie Castile, the mother of Philando Castile, who was shot and killed by police in St. Anthony during a traffic stop last summer.

Castile’s death had inspired Turnblöm to join a small racial justice group in Roseville. While Damond’s death was personal to her, she said she also recognized its larger significance in a national debate on policing.

“It really puts it in our faces,” she said, adding that many people could “distance” themselves from concerns over police violence when the victims did not look like them.

“I hope there will be less of that now,” she said.

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to 9:44 in 2007, and declined to times near 8 minutes in 2009–2012, according to city data. Average Priority 1 response times have fluctuated at 9 minutes and above since 2013, and landed just over 10 minutes in the third quarter of 2016.

Officials said staffing levels play a role in response time. Yang said the number of officers fluctuates and currently stands at 852, and police administration expects that number to swell to about 900 toward the end of the year.

Officers numbered 875 at this time last year, he said.

Lt. Bob Kroll, president of the Minneapolis Police Officers Federation, said one could argue the current force is far too small for the growing city. The Minneapolis police force stood at 940 in the late 90s, he said.

“The population has grown and the size of the force has gone down,” he said.

Kroll said attrition and retirements are keeping the force short of its authorized strength. And some officers are leaving early in their careers to work in other cities or are leaving policing entirely, he said.

“This job is just not how it used to be. We are so heavily scrutinized for everything you do and don’t do,” he said.

Public Information Officer Sgt. Catherine Michal said a minimum number of officers is always working on a given night. If the number on a shift dips too low, Michal said, police can use overtime to fill positions.

“The police department had a hefty share of overtime last year,” Council President Barb Johnson said. “They use it when it makes sense, and we’re used to that.”

North Minneapolis and Downtown precincts also supplement the summertime patrol with officers from Metro Transit Police and the Hennepin County Sheriff ’s Office.

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Kroll said the extra foot beats come with a tradeoff, and this year’s focus on community policing comes at the expense of 911 call response.

Kroll also said he’s heard recent complaints that a new computer-aided dispatch system is making it difficult for officers to read and review calls en route, leading to delays.

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Chief Medaria Arradondo to weigh in on the forthcoming police department budget.

Factors that impact police response Aside from staffing, police and city officials said several factors can impact police response time.

Michal said a major incident like a shooting can tie up officers at a scene for hours. Other officers might shift into the area to help answer calls, leaving behind precincts that become shorter-staffed. Johnson said at an August 2016 City Council committee meeting that a single shooting can engulf five to seven squad cars to handle the scene and talk to witnesses.

Former Assistant Chief Kris Arneson told the Council committee last year that officer training also impacts response times, including recent training in crisis intervention, de-escalation,

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active shooter training for the Super Bowl and training through the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice.

Lower priority calls are also seeing slower response times, although that’s partly by design. Arneson said former Police Chief Janeé Harteau directed officers to spend more time with people on lower priority calls to provide a better level of service.

“More officers are on the beat, so they’re getting out of their cars,” Arneson told the Council committee last summer. “So on these Priority 2s and 3s, if they’re assigned a call, they have to get back to their car.”

Priority 1 calls involve an unstable scene with an imminent public safety threat or property loss or damage. Priority 2 calls have no immediate threat of harm, but a timely response is still desirable. Priority 3 calls involve situations that are stable.

Council members Johnson and Linea Palmisano said they occasionally hear concerns from Southwest Minneapolis residents about police response.

The 5th Precinct’s Priority 1 average response in the second quarter of 2017 is 10:22, a full minute higher than this time in 2016. The precinct’s calls for service also increased during that period, with 7,736 calls in 2017 and 7,036 in 2016.

By comparison, the average Priority 1 response is 9:31 in Downtown’s 1st Precinct, 9:23 in Northeast’s 2nd Precinct, 10:00 in South Minneapolis’ 3rd Precinct, and 9:40 in North Minneapolis’ 4th Precinct.

Kroll said the southern end of Southwest Minneapolis’ 5th Precinct historically sees lower police presence because other highercrime areas in the precinct generate more 911 calls.

“I say that from having to work there many years ago,” he said. “You spend the majority of your time up in the higher crime areas. You’re up near Franklin Avenue and Lake Street and … near 35W. You’re on Lyndale and Nicollet and Hennepin. When you get way out Southwest, they just don’t have the numbers.”

Johnson said the 5th Precinct response is often a matter of geography, given the lakes and the concentration of calls farther north.

“The squad cars can be quite a distance away from the corners of the neighborhood,” she said.

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Project SUCCESS receives $100k grant from Super Bowl committee Project SUCCESS on Aug. 15 received a $100,000 grant from the Minnesota Super Bowl Host Committee for its new student learning center.

The youth-development organization will use the space to provide students with the ability to complete courses and earn school credit, develop technology skills and earn certifications in subjects such as health, wellness and physical education.

The new space features a kitchen, multiple breakout rooms and technology such as smart TVs, computers and 3D printers provided by Best Buy. It will allow students to meet community influencers, build personal and professional networks and gain understanding of emerging trends, technologies and health and wellness programs, according to a news release.

“This is such an incredible combination of technology (and) health and wellness in this gorgeous new space,” said Dana Nelson, vice president of legacy and community partnerships with the host committee’s Legacy Fund. “We could not be more proud to be standing here.”

Project SUCCESS expects to serve students from 27 schools in Minneapolis with the new space. Founder and Executive

Director Adrienne Diercks said the grant will help students earn class credit and critical life skills and experiences. Diercks said the credit-recovery efforts in physical education and health will lead to increased graduation rates.

“It’s a continuation of what we do with students and families,” she said. “It’s wanting to continue to be a good partner to Minneapolis (Public Schools) and serve (students) where they are.”

Project SUCCESS, the host committee and Best Buy hosted a cooking seminar in the learning center on Aug. 15. About a dozen students learned about Native American foods and food systems from Sean Sherman, founder of The Sioux Chef, a nonprofit aimed at revitalizing Native American cuisine. Sherman had the students plate their own tamale dishes made with ingredients native to North America.

Students also received Fitbits from Best Buy. The host committee’s grant was part of its 52 Weeks of Giving campaign, a yearlong effort to improve the health and wellness of young people in Minnesota. The committee is awarding one grant a week in the 52 weeks leading up to the Super Bowl on Feb. 4 at U.S. Bank Stadium.

The committee is focused on health and wellness and has funded projects such as bike fleets and playgrounds in other communities, said Wendy Nelson, chair of the host committee’s Legacy Advisory Board.

“We really want these projects to be transformational,” Nelson said.

She said the program began when the host committee expressed a desire to make the Super Bowl “more than a game.” At the same time, she said, committee members heard that children born today have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

Project SUCCESS represented week 28 in the grant program. Dana Nelson said the committee would hit $2 million distributed with the following week’s grant and was looking at distributing just over $4 million over the program’s life.

The program is privately funded and includes $1 million from the NFL Foundation, the nonprofit representing all 32 NFL teams.

Project SUCCESS aims to motivate students to set goals, plan for their futures and pursue their dreams. It holds monthly workshops in schools and takes students to professional theater performances, on college tours, on trips to the Boundary Waters and even abroad on global experiences.

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“Project SUCCESS knows how to work with the whole child and make them blossom,” said Elia Bruggeman, a special assistant to Minnesota Department of Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius.

Patrick Henry High School 12th-grader Shaadia Munye traveled to France with Project SUCCESS this past May on a global experience. She said the trip helped her realize there is no barrier big enough from stopping people from accomplishing their dreams.

“I always had dreams and goals,” Munye said, “but Project SUCCESS helped me to think of more ideas (and) narrow down details in terms of what I was interested in.”

Munye said she hopes to first travel to Somalia to visit her family and then become a pediatric surgeon. She would at some point like to work for Project SUCCESS, she said.

She said her experiences with the organization to appreciate everything and everyone in life.

“I learned that the world is bigger than what we are exposed to,” Munye said.

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Repairs are underway on the bell tower at St. John’s Episcopal Church at 42nd & Sheridan in Linden Hills.

Members built the church about 100 years ago.

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Linden Hills church restoration nears completion St. John’s Episcopal repairing bell tower, basement classrooms

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

“One-hundred years of deferred maintenance” was how Rev. Susan Barnes described a project to repair the bell tower at St. John’s Episcopal Church at 42nd & Sheridan.

“It’s basically tilting and falling,” church member Barb Nicol explained.

So this year, church members undertook a capital campaign to fix the tower and renovate classrooms in the church basement. They set a $1.7-million fundraising goal and aimed to complete the work by September, in time for the 100th anniversary of the first service in the church.

They’re not only on track to complete the project next month, but they’ve also surpassed the fundraising goal by about $300,000. That has given them a healthy jump start on a social justice fund created as a part of the campaign.

“We are very happy that at this place in our history we can do this work,” Barnes said. “The generosity of members at all levels of capacity has been very moving.”

It’s a generosity that’s ingrained in the church’s history, members and leaders say.

According to church archives, in 1903 members donated about $36, or about $937 in today’s money, for a new hospital. They had $17 in the treasury at the time.

Later, church members were leaders in the sobriety movement and were on the forefront of marriage equality, according to member Craig Gudorf, who ran the capital campaign.

“We just feel like our tradition kind of calls us to engage and not just talk about it but do something about it,” he said.

The church has a healthy track record of

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service work both domestically and abroad, according to member Mark Lindberg, who is chair of the Outreach Committee deciding how best to use the new fund. Its work includes efforts related to shelter, housing and food.

Lindberg said they’d like to find a shorterterm opportunity and a medium-range goal for using the fund. He added that he’d like to engage younger members of the church in the grant-making process, citing a Minneapolis Foundation model for doing so.

The committee’s work won’t get started in earnest until closer to 2018, Lindberg said. In the meantime, church members are preparing for the construction work to be completed.

They’re planning a celebration to dedicate the new bell tower and preparing for the new classrooms to open this fall. Linden Hills Child Care rents the space.

They’ll also be opening a time capsule inside the church’s cornerstone that was laid about 100 years ago, Barnes said.

Gudorf said people feel a strong connection to the church. It has a thriving youth program, he said, and people want to see their kids raised in a church that’s healthy.

“I’m not surprised that our congregation was really generous,” he said.

More than 250 families and individuals are members of the parish, which is part of the American branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church’s pillars are children and service, Barnes said, and the community gathers around them.

“It’s a really warm, welcoming place,” she said.

The church began as a Sunday school back in 1897, and children have been at the center of church activities ever since, according to member Jane Gilgun, who is working on a church history.

The Sunday school provided a place for parents to leave their children as they toured the area looking for lots around Lake Harriet.

The congregation bought the first of three lots on which St. John’s stands in 1904.

The church was incorporated as a parish in November 1916, and building began that year.

The first service was Sept. 16, 1917.

This year’s renovation work included excavating the entire north side of the building. The church is creating a new entrance there and is renovating the classrooms used by its Sunday school program. The daycare may expand into that space.

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By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

Ellison rallies constituents against EPA cuts President Trump and his “cronies” are trying to undo decades of environmental protection, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison said at a town hall on Aug. 15.

Ellison, who billed the event as a “Save the EPA” forum, said Trump is proposing to eliminate or defund nearly every climate change program in the U.S. He expressed consternation about the proposed cuts and encouraged the more than 100 audience members to speak out against them.

“This is not a night for an interesting conversation,” Ellison said. “This is fortifying you with information so you can take action.”

Since taking office, Trump announced he would pull the U.S. out of the Paris agreement and proposed reducing the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget by 31 percent. He’s also rolled back many Obamaera environmental policies and regulations, such as the Clean Power Plan and a rule to protect wetlands and small tributaries that flow into large water bodies.

The president moved to undo, delay or block more than 30 environmental rules in his first four months in office, according to the New York Times.

Ellison and other speakers on Aug. 15 stressed the importance of environmental protections in keeping air and water clean and protecting against the effects of climate change. They noted that the EPA sets and enforces nationwide standards, sends money

to states and tribes to implement environmental programs and regulates polluters.

David Thornton, assistant commission at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, said there has always been bipartisan support for the EPA. “I never thought I’d come to a save the EPA rally,” Thornton said, “and I never thought I’d see an administration that’s trying to tear down these pillars of our environmental protection laws.”

Thornton said Trump’s EPA budget would require the MPCA to reduce their staff by about 2 percent. It would eliminate funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and would mean significant reductions in air and water quality monitoring and cuts to programs to clean up polluted sites, he said.

Thornton said it’s unlikely the budget cuts would be as bad as proposed, because of Congress’ proposing more for the EPA. He added that he’s more troubled by the Trump administration’s desire to roll back environmental standards and completely eliminate scientific research. Both are unprecedented, he said.

“Our intentions are to push back every time we can,” Thornton said, noting lawsuits

by Minnesota against the actions.

Deanna White, Minnesota director of the nonprofit Clean Water Action, which works to protect the environment, said she’s concerned about “industry’s takeover the EPA.” “Science is taking a backseat to industry interest,” White said, noting how Trump’s

EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, has spent most of his career “fighting everything the EPA stands for.”

Pruitt sued the agency more than a dozen times as Oklahoma’s attorney general.

Since taking over the EPA, he’s relied on the counsel of a small network of political appointees, including former lobbyists and senior industry officials, according to the New York Times.

White mentioned how the EPA’s chief of staff tried to interfere with the Congressional testimony of a University of Minnesota professor.

Its leaders have replaced members of its Science Advisory Board with industry scientists.

“That’s not the voice that should be loudest at the EPA,” she said. “... When industry makes the rules, public health loses.”

Neurologist Bruce Snyder praised Obama’s understanding of climate and environmental issues. He said climate change is making people sick, noting that hotter summers mean more pollen, mosquitos and ticks.

He predicted more and longer heat waves as climate change worsens and noted the increase in extreme flooding events.

“We must demand a strong Environmental Protection Agency run by someone who truly cares about the health of Americans rather than (being) focused on a portfolio,” Snyder said.

In Minnesota, the environmental outlook is “rough” with Republicans in control of the Legislature, state Sen. Scott Dibble said.

Dibble said environmental protections are taking a backseat to industry, in particular with water and environmental permitting policy.

Dibble noted that Gov. Mark Dayton has proposed increasing Minnesota’s renewable energy standard to 50 percent by 2030. Dayton has also announced a goal of increasing Minnesota’s water quality 25 percent by 2025.

The governor is hosting a series of town halls around Minnesota to talk about the goal, including one Sept. 27 in Minneapolis.

The event also featured a speech from Ticiea Fletcher, a mom whose two children were poisoned by lead. Fletcher encouraged audience members to call state Sen. Michelle Benson, chair of the Health and Human Services Finance and Policy Committee. A lead-poisoning prevention bill named after Fletcher’s son stalled in Benson’s committee this past legislative session.

The event also featured words from David Manuel, food justice coordinator for the Red Lake Nation. Manuel said funding for protection of land and water has not increased over the last 10 years and encouraged people to advocate for increased funding.

Ellison has held a series of town halls during Congress’ August recess. His next one will be a Civics 101 Forum at 6 p.m. on Aug. 30 at the St. Louis Park Rec Center.

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Commissioners vote to reduce pumping at Hiawatha Golf Course The South Minneapolis course will remain open until at least the end of 2019

Park commissioners recently voted 6-3 to reduce groundwater pumping at Hiawatha Golf Course, a move that will ultimately close the South Minneapolis course in its current form.

The vote follows the recommendation of the Department of Natural Resources to reduce pumping on the site, which would protect nearby private property but not maintain the 18-hole course.

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board will convene in mid-October to evaluate future options, including other golf configurations, for the property.

“This is not an easy decision for us to be facing,” said President Anita Tabb at an August board meeting, “but the fact of the matter is that we do need to do less pumping according to the DNR.” While the resolution passed by the Park Board does not directly dictate the course’s closing, it will reduce pumping to approximately 94 million gallons a year, down from the 242 million gallons of water it has pumped to keep the course dry. Hiawatha Golf Club, a component of the Nokomis-Hiawatha Regional Park, will remain open as an 18-hole course until at least the end of the 2019 golf season.

The closure has loomed over the course since

2014 when record rainfalls flooded and temporarily closed the course. As the Park Board moved to restore the course, staff became aware that the board was pumping groundwater into Lake Hiawatha at rates much higher than the 38.5 million gallons per year permitted by the DNR, which is allowing the board to continue pumping at the current rate until the next flood.

Park staff have noted that the site, mapped by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a floodplain, will inevitably flood again.

The new reduced pumping plan would keep nearby properties safe from flooding, which Michael Schroeder, assistant superintendent of planning services, said is the board’s priority.

If left unchanged, the site’s groundwater issues will require additional resources in the future, and reducing pumping is important in maintaining water quality, staff said.

Vice President John Erwin said he wants to keep golf at Hiawatha, but the groundwater problem won’t simply go away if the board continues to maintain the course.

“We don’t want to get rid of golf as a group.

We’re here because we have this issue with a piece of property that’s sinking,” he said. “We as a board try to make sure we have a palette of recreational opportunities for everyone in

Minneapolis. Clearly golf is one of the those recreational opportunities we want to offer in Minneapolis.”

The Park Board hasn’t formally recognized alternatives of the 18-hole course or funding paths to finance the transformation of the site.

In place of an 18-hole course, park staff have looked into developing Hiawatha into a ninehole course, which may not be profitable — only one of 25 nine-hole courses in the state is, staff noted — and costly. Alternatively, commissioners have discussed turning the site into a food forest.

Park staff project that a new use for the site could lead to more park visits, from the estimated 211,000 visits of a maintained golf course to 525,000 visits of an alternative destination.

The three “no” votes came from District 2 Commissioner Jon Olson and citywide commissioners Annie Young and Meg Forney.

Forney said the board needed more time to evaluate other options.

“We need to slow the pace down,” Forney said.

Olson questioned the financial viability of a nine-hole course. Golfers looking for 18-hole courses, such as those in leagues or clubs, drive revenue, according to the board. While revenue from nine-hole courses is typically less than

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half of 18-hole courses, staff note, the expenses of nine-hole courses are more than half of their larger counterparts.

“I would like us to continue it as a golf course for as long as possible,” he said.

Hiawatha Golf Course was originally constructed in 1929 with the dredging of Lake Hiawatha and opened in 1934 with its first nine holes. It has operated has an 18-hole course since 1935.

Activity at the course has declined gradually in recent decades, following a trend among all the Park Board’s courses. The course hit a 20-year high for the number of rounds played in 2001 with 55,000 rounds, but that number fell to 14,000 in 2014 following the flood.

Meanwhile, over the past 20 years, the number of rounds played across the system has fallen by more than half. Besides Hiawatha, the board operates four other golf courses, though just Columbia Golf Club is within the city limits.

While the board says most of the people who play on the course are white men age 35-65, Hiawatha Golf Course supports several youth programs including The First Tee of the Twin Cities, which serves roughly 300 kids.

Golf teams at three local high schools play on the course.

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hen Janey Winterbauer and Christian Erickson moved into their Tangletown home four years ago, they were thrilled to have a master bathroom.

After living there for a while though, their enthusiasm waned. The bathroom was a throwback to cabin living in the 1970s. The walls — including in the shower — were covered in cedar. The “skylight” was a stained-glass window that covered the light fixture. A wooden fish plaque hung on the wall, and the cabinet pulls were little brass geese.

“It was super ‘70s,” Winterbauer said.

The shower was square-shaped and barely big enough to turn around in, much less shave your legs. The toilet had its own little room. Cobalt blue tile edged in a distressed brown tint covered the floor and the top of the vanity. A narrow door led to a deck, but it wasn’t lined up with the bedroom door, so natural light was offset and the deck became an afterthought.

“I didn’t like the windows,” Winterbauer added. “They were odd, and if you were standing here, the next door neighbor kids who had a bedroom in the attic could see in.”

“The mirrors were tilted forward from the bottom,” she added. “It was not fun to look into those mirrors. It added like 30 pounds. It was unfortunate.”

Winterbauer and Erickson enlisted Sylvestre Remodeling & Design of Minneapolis to revision and remodel the bathroom more in keeping with the style of the 1917 house, but still modern. The bathroom remodeling was one of two projects they entrusted to Sylvestre. The company also added a spacious screen porch to the rear of the house, blending it seamlessly with the rest of the Arts & Crafts architecture.

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“We just wanted to blend traditional and modern and use as many beautiful materials as we could,” Winterbauer said.

Sylvestre installed arabesque black travertine tile along the back of the rectangular shower niche, tying it to the walls in the rest of the bathroom.

individual sinks. They also opted to have Sylvestre suspend the vanity nine inches above the floor so the room would seem more open. A steel beam hidden below the vanity holds it in place.

Sylvestre production manager Kate Post likened the old shower to “a teeny sauna.” The new one is much more spacious, with a white and gray marble floor and walls of vertical black tile. Enclosed in glass that stops a few inches from the ceiling, the shower has a frameless door that can swing in or out — a growing trend in shower doors and an increasingly popular choice, according to Post.

Two shower heads — one a rain shower and the other a hand-held, wall-mounted option — satisfy the couple’s preferences and eliminate the need to switch shower settings. They

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The company also replaced and moved the door to the deck.

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Remodeling the master bath meant that Sylvestre’s crew had to traverse the bedroom to reach the worksite every day. “Kitchens are personal, but master baths are really personal,” Post observed.

“Your crew did a very good job of being respectful of that space,” Winterbauer responded.

The new shower has a white and gray marble floor and walls of vertical black tile, with a frameless door that can swing in or out.

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Ryan Companies partnership set to acquire Sons of Norway site Redevelopment plan includes retail and apartments

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Sons of Norway has selected Ryan Companies and Weidner Apartment Homes to redevelop its 2.17-acre site at 1455 W. Lake St. The new project would include a mix of high-end apartments and some retail, and the massing hasn’t been determined, said Tony Barranco, Ryan Companies vice president of real estate development.

He recently told East Calhoun neighbors the project would feature a small amount of retail near Lake Street, perhaps a deli or café. Sons of Norway would remain on the block in the new development. The existing Sons of Norway building would likely be demolished and replaced, he said, and Norwegian culture would be reflected on the site in some fashion.

Barranco said density and height would diminish closer to residential areas at 31st Street, a request that neighbors echoed.

“My concern would be that this project transition well to the residential,” said resident Heather Wulfsberg. “… That can be really jarring.”

Wulfsberg and several other residents said parking and traffic patterns are crucial to quality of life in the neighborhood.

Parking would be provided at about one space per unit, Barranco said, with about 40 dedicated parking spaces for Sons of Norway staff.

Barranco described plans for a “premium product” with nearly all rental units.

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nial-focused place,” he said.

He said he expects to build a classic building with more masonry than is typically seen today in new apartments. A comparable standing project would be Two Twenty Two at Hennepin and Washington avenues, he said.

“We prefer a more timeless aesthetic,” he said.

An agreement with Wells Fargo would fold the bank’s parking lots at 3017-3021 Humboldt Ave. S. into the project, and the new development would include parking for Wells Fargo staff across the street, Barranco said.

A multifamily building at 3014 Holmes Ave. would likely remain untouched on the site, regardless of ownership, Barranco said.

Dan Oberpriller took over ownership of 3014 Holmes last spring, according to Hennepin County property records. Oberpriller, a

co-founder of CPM Companies, said there are no plans for the apartment building at this time and declined to comment further.

Pending city approval, construction may begin next summer and span 18 months, Barranco said.

Sons of Norway marketed the property for redevelopment last spring. CEO Eivind Heiberg said they saw several dozen interested parties, and about a dozen serious offers.

“There was a tremendous amount of interest,” he said.

The competing proposals featured a large percentage of residential units with some retail, said Ted Abramson of CBRE. Most bidders envisioned the site holding two new buildings, he said.

Sons of Norway board and management selected Ryan and Weidner based on price, the

ability to deliver a high-quality development and the incorporation of Sons of Norway into the project, Heiberg said.

“We have a long history of being here in Uptown,” Heiberg said.

Barranco said Ryan Companies has been in discussions with Sons of Norway for years, and said the firm’s recent work on the Millwright office building downtown likely gave them an edge.

The closing may take place in late fall, Abramson said.

Ever since Wells Fargo announced plans two years ago to move its employees out of the Sons of Norway building and consolidate in a new building at 1505 W. Lake St., neighbors have anticipated redevelopment on the block.

Other remaining tenants include Goodwill and Norway Art. There are single-family homes at the southwest section of the block. One resident of the block, Sally Hed, said she’s hoping to see the construction of high-end housing.

The Sons of Norway property fronting Lake Street is zoned C3A (Community Activity Center District), which allows four stories or 56 feet as of right. The site is also part of the city’s pedestrian-oriented overlay district, which features guidelines to promote density and urban design.

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By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Moped accident kills Tangletown resident Tangletown resident Scott Dean Einbinder died Aug. 16 of injuries sustained in an Aug. 2 moped accident.

Einbinder, age 61, was a driving a moped that collided with another vehicle at 64th & Nicollet in Richfield, according to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office. He died of respiratory complications due to multiple blunt force injuries.

The Richfield Police Department declined to share information about the crash, as the

accident is still under investigation.

A GoFundMe campaign has raised nearly $4,000 to benefit Open Arms of Minnesota, where Einbinder cooked and volunteered.

The nonprofit delivers free meals to people with life-threatening illnesses in the metro.

“Scott’s love of life was contagious, his passions numerous and diverse, and his sudden passing left a hole in the large community who held him so dear,” states Einbinder’s obituary.

The obituary said Einbinder’s love of the Northwoods drew him to raise his family in Minnesota. He worked as a stay-at-home dad, enjoyed guitar, played racquetball at the St. Anthony Athletic Club, and hosted an annual solstice party that was “like a second Christmas to him.”

“Although widely known for his smile and infectious laugh, nothing lit him up brighter than his granddaughter Charlie, who brought such joy to his last years,” states the obituary.

Kids at Leonardo’s Basement install Windom Community Garden sign Students from Leonardo’s Basement have installed the workshop’s first community service project at the Windom Community Garden, located at 62nd & Nicollet.

A group of teens met with garden representatives and built a sign for the garden in late July.

Formerly a vacant staging ground for the Crosstown reconstruction, the five-year-old garden holds 44 plots and the beginnings of an apple orchard.

“We’re real excited about the sign, because we haven’t really had a sign,” said resident Myra Woods. “… The fact that they

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Woods is a retired teacher, and said she appreciates the students’ creativity.

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The commission’s approval allows the developer Yellow Tree LLC to build one story higher than allowed by right. The commission also approved plans to build smaller apartments than the zoning code typically allows. Some units would be 450 square feet instead of 500, and some efficiencies would be 318 square feet instead of 350.

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One neighbor each spring cleans out the wood duck houses originally made by students at Windom School.

A resident orders truckloads of woodchips from the city and summons neighbors to come with wheelbarrows and shovels. Others plant gardens along the lake perimeter to boost the bee population.

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Ask Dr. Rachel

By Rachel Allyn

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’m frustrated and concerned about my aging parents who live on the other side of the country. The past few years when I’ve gone to visit them I notice aspects of their home that are falling apart. It makes me worried about their safety. The most recent example involves a staircase that is breaking down, lacks a bannister and is too steep for them. Recently when I spoke with my mother about this, it turned into a big argument, and now we aren’t speaking. How can I help my aging parents if they resist my support?

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ntervention of any kind can be tricky.

When, why and how to intervene in the lives of people we love needs to be carefully considered, because it can often be met with resistance. The issue here is about independence versus security and safety.

For the person being confronted, there is often defensiveness. Denial is a mighty force when people don’t want to face their fears. I would argue that the higher the defensiveness, the greater that person’s fear.

There are a multitude of fears your parents may be dealing with (consciously or unconsciously). A major fear is losing control of one’s schedule, possessions or finances. Your mother may be afraid of being vulnerable, losing her freedom, not being heard or valued, being blamed, and of course the most existential one of all — fear of her own mortality. The more you can recognize and have empathy for her fears,

the gentler (and hopefully more effective) your approach to intervening can be.

Your parents have been independent all their adult lives, so it is not surprising that they would have strong opinions when you try to intervene.

Start by having an open conversation in which you ask them what changes they want or need at this stage in their lives. Do your best to openly listen to them first and then suggest alternatives.

Give them time to ponder and digest the options.

The more you push and the faster you insist, the more they may push back. That being said, it’s important to be insistent when it comes to your parents’ safety. This is something you don’t want to compromise on.

Start by having an open conversation in which you ask them what changes they want or need at this stage in their life. Do your best to openly listen to them first and then suggest alternatives.

One specialist on aging stated, “Late life involves fairly constant tension between independence and dependence. … We adult children want our older parents to be safe and to be sure all is well for them. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as 100-percent safety and it must be balanced with the older person’s priorities and preferences. … It may be best to offer help, more than once, talk with them about incremental and realistic goals to help make things safer and easier for them, and seek services that seem mutually acceptable.”

Ask yourself how much of this is about them and how much of this is about you and your own expectations, sense of responsibility or need to control. Beyond your fears regarding your parents’ safety, examine if there are other factors you are bringing to the debate with your mom, such as a clash of egos or your own sadness regarding losing your parents as you’ve known them.

It is never easy to turn the table and have the child become the parent. No parents want to be a burden to their children. And if we live long enough we will all get to the point where we face losing some of our autonomy and must surrender to the caregiving from younger generations. And let’s face it, most likely we will respond in a similar fashion to your mother! At the end of the day, we all want to age with dignity.

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hile the travelers at MinneapolisSt. Paul International Airport are going global, the airport’s dining scene is quickly going local.

For the airport, this push for Minnesotamade food has led to adding nearly a dozen restaurants from local purveyors over the past year, and many more will soon hit the runway.

Liz Grzechowiak, assistant director of concessions and business development for the Metropolitan Airports Commission, said this movement has been about giving opportunities for Minnesota business owners and better representing the state to its global guests.

“My starting point was that my goal is going to be to share with the world that the best way to know a culture is through its food, and we’re going to get it done at the airport,” Grzechowiak said.

The Minnesota restaurants are part of wave of 15 dining concepts and 35 new shops that has recently opened in the airport, which goes through a request for proposals process to evaluate retailers and enter new leases. The Metropolitan Airports Commission is expected to move forward next month with a second round of restaurants and stores. By next February, Grzechowiak said, 30 new restaurants will begin construction.

“It’s very, very important to us for people who are traveling to this facility for them to get a sense of what Minnesota and Twin Cities retailers are all about,” said CEO Brian Ryks of the Metropolitan Airports Commission. “We’ve taken that direction seriously, and it is paying off tremendous dividends.”

Among the local concepts are well-known restaurants like Republic, Black Sheep Pizza and Smack Shack. Others are smaller businesses expanding for the first time.

Angel Food Bakery & Donut Bar, a business with just one bakery in downtown Minneapolis, now has a glassy, modern shop in Terminal 1.

For owner and head chef Katy Gerdes, expanding to the “weird world” of the airport left a lot of important questions on the table for a small business owner.

Watering down the concept was her biggest concern, Gerdes said.

“How do we grow and maintain quality and standards, the visual appeal we want [and] the fun atmosphere we want?” she said.

Operating an airport bakery meant figuring out how to bake Angel Food’s goodies on site instead of trucking them in. On top of that, Gerdes had challenges sourcing ingredients and bringing their preferred local ingredients to MSP. In the end, the airport and Angel Food’s joint venture partner, Delaware North, took her ideas and ran with them, she said.

This year, the bakery won an award for best quick-service concept from the Airports Council International.

“The crew here is just as talented making fresh scratch bakery goods on site in this airport as anybody we have downtown,” she said. “On a surface level to the customer, they should be the

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same company, and that’s our biggest goal here.”

Jordan Smith of Twin Cities-based Black Sheep Pizza had his own hurdles in converting his growing chain of coal-fired pizza restaurants to an airport concept.

Beyond the challenges of sourcing unique pizza toppings and other ingredients, Smith offers new breakfast pizzas and is developing a menu of grab-and-go breakfast sandwiches to meet the needs of Black Sheep’s new audience. While the airport’s traditional pizza menu is virtually the same as the other restaurants, Smith said, the pizzas are 10 inches across instead of 12 inches.

Prices are higher, with pies running airport diners about $1–$2 more than customers at three regular Black Sheep Pizza restaurants in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Costs for restaurant operators are also higher at the airport. Grzechowiak said their agreements with restaurants allow operators to charge up to 10 percent more than the prices diners pay at the restaurants outside of the airport. The higher prices typically found at the airport cover higher wages, greater benefits, distribution fees, rent and other costs like parking and paying employees to go through security.

But the rewards are great, business owners say. About 38 million people walk through MSP each year, or about 90,000 travelers a day, which makes it the 16th busiest airport on the continent. With such a large, captive audience, Smith said having your name in the airport is akin to putting a billboard up.

“If that many people are out here, we think of it as a tremendous branding opportunity,” he said.

Other locals coming to the airport include Lake Wine Kitchen + Bar, Stillwater-born restaurant and bar LoLo and Stone Arch, a concept developed for the airport that offers beer from breweries across Minnesota.

Food Truck Alley, a new experience-focused dining corner in Concourse E, features new locations from Red Cow, Salty Tart and Northeast Minneapolis-based Holy Land.

The Minnesota Twins have a presence in the dining scene at MSP. The team has opened a 6,100-square foot restaurant called Twins Grill with seating for up to 220 people.

“Having our brand out here in partnership with all the other great restaurants that are here, not only gives the guests that are coming through the airport from the region, the country or internationally exposure to the food, but also to our brand,” said Matt Hoy, senior vice president of operations with the Minnesota Twins.

For MSP, Grzechowiak said it’s about sharing a different story about Minnesota through food. Instead of travelers describing the state in desolate terms like tundra — or worse, not having anything to say about Minnesota, she said — they’ll have a uniquely local dining experience to talk about.

“I knew having grown up in food and beverage in the Twin Cities that we had so much to offer and had such a strong story to tell,” she said.

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In the decades before a polio vaccine came into widespread use, 35W Kenny pioneered a unique method for treating childhood polio. At a time when immobilization was a standard response to the disease, Kenny treated patients with a combination of stretching and exercise that “helped lay the foundation for modern physical therapy,” as Sister Kenny Institute, now a part of Abbott Northwestern Hospital, puts it on its website.

Kenny was originally settled in the 1920s and ’30s, according to a brief history of the neighborhood included in the Kenny Neighborhood Association’s 1996 Neighborhood Revitalization Program action plan. That35W history also notes many of the first families in the neighborhood were Catholics drawn by the proximity of Annunciation Church, established 1922 at 54th & Harriet in the adjacent Windom neighborhood, and its school, which opened a year later in 1923.

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Much of the neighborhood was still an open field as late as the 1950s, the Richfieldneighborhood action plan adds, noting Lake that the family behind the Bachman’s garden centers operated a nursery in a large section of what is now Kenny until around that time. Bachman’s flagship garden center is today located across Lyndale Avenue in the Windom neighborhood.

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In this case, it’s two schools — Kenny Community School and Anthony Middle School — and Kenny Park, all built on what was once a gravel pit.

Although it is overshadowed by the city’s much better known Chain of Lakes, one of the neighborhood’s main features is Grass Lake. The 27-acre wetland is today ringed by homes and the sound wall that separates the neighborhood from Highway 62, but it was once part of a larger lake and wetland system located along the city’s modern border with Richfield.

A 1996 paper published by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Urban and Regional Affairs notes Grass Lake appeared on an 1839 map of the Fort Snelling area drawn by Lt. James Thompson. A little over a century later, highway construction separated Grass Lake from Richfield Lake — located kitty-corner across the Highway 62-Interstate 35W interchange — although the two remained connected Diamond through the storm water system. The Lake lake was also dredged for construction material, and while deeper, it still only averages a depth of 2-and-a-half feet.

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A recent view of Grass Lake, which attracts muskrat, eagles and many ducks.

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“Not too many people know about this,” said a passing neighbor, out for a walk. “And we kind of like it that way.”

Though it is often considered a hidden gem, the lake isn’t hard to find. Walkers on the one-mile loop travel the roadside along Grass Lake Terrace and Girard Avenue and take a south side trail that links the roads.

Resident Bryan Simmons said the lake attracts coyote, deer, muskrat, fox, eagles and many ducks.

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62 separated the water into Richfield Lake to the south and Grass Lake to the north, according to the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. More than 300 surrounding acres drain into the lake, including the surface of Highway 62.

Members of the Kenny Neighborhood Association have worked to enhance the lake over time. The lake benefited from a Minnehaha Creek Watershed District grant about 10 years ago to remove buckthorn and add native plants. As part of the Crosstown reconstruction project, residents worked with the city and the Minnesota Department of Transportation to plant new trees along the highway, remove the old chain link fence and rebuild part of the walking path.

Simmons said the city Public Works Department owns the lake, and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is responsible for the surrounding tree cover.

But neighbors have enjoyed free rein to garden as they see fit.

When Bob Engstrom moved in 57 years ago, he brought in black dirt and clay for his sandy yard and stored it on the lakefront across the street. He later realized the dirt would give him a good base to plant flowers.

A real estate developer, Engstrom also brought in landscaping material from a job site to help stop erosion on the bank. His “pals” at the Kenny Garden Club help maintain the flowers each year.

“I think I can safely say the bee population is excellent,” he said.

Residents on the east side of the lake run a hose across the street to water a colorful lakefront plot. The garden features two chairs fronting the water.

“This is a pretty awesome spot for sunsets,” Simmons said.

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Neighborhood Spotlight. Kenny

The casual concert band

By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

At weekly Crosstown Community Band rehearsals, a father and daughter play side by side on the alto sax. A pianist covers a tuba part. A woman on clarinet plays across from her grandkids’ kindergarten teacher on trombone. Preston Weber leads as conductor, continuing a gig he landed while a senior music education major at the University of Minnesota.

Several members live in the Kenny neighborhood, where the roots of the band formed. To keep his son playing music during a summer off from Anthony Middle School, Kenny resident Bruce Wright organized a backyard band for his son and his buddies.

“It seemed that if I didn’t do something they would put down their instruments in summer and wouldn’t pick them up again until fall,” Wright said.

The band held a picnic for participating families and carried on for a second summer.

“One of the mothers said, ‘Why don’t we do something like that?’” Wright said.

A planning meeting at Kenny Park yielded a community band with about six members of all ages in 2011.

The band picks up a handful of new recruits each year, and the group now stands at about 25 regular members.

“It’s small enough that everyone knows everybody,” said saxophonist Chris Bork.

They were encouraged to fold into other community bands over the years, but trumpet player and co-founder David Yussen said there was always enough momentum to keep Crosstown intact.

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“There were some skeptics along the way,” Yussen said.

He said the band is the perfect size for neighborhood festivals and one of his favorite gigs: Bachman’s annual winter holiday event.

“We can fit in the garden center,” he said. “A large concert band can’t do that.”

They play at neighborhood festivals, outdoor movie nights and the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.

“The Kenny Neighborhood Association was the first to really give us a break to give us a chance to perform at their ice cream social,” Wright said.

The group will play at the Minnesota Orchestra lobby as part of FinnFest in September.

“We jokingly say we’re opening for the Minnesota Orchestra,” Wright said.

Previous concert pieces have ranged from “Happy” by Pharrell Willams and “Pirates of the Caribbean” to a Sousa march and “Peter and the Wolf.” Weber is arranging a piece for the band, which recently started rehearsing Finnish pieces in preparation for FinnFest.

“That’s not an easy piece to sight read, but you’re doing a very good job. … I can’t believe how good that sounds after 10 minutes,” Weber told the band at a recent rehearsal. Weber teaches band and orchestra at Hill-Murray School in Maplewood.

Members said the band is a good place to return to an instrument after a long hiatus.

“I hadn’t played in 30 years,” Wright said. “It’s like riding a bike. After you practice a little, it comes right back.”

“It’s something I always wanted to come back to,” said trombonist Chris Hahn.

Alison Morris said she previously dug out the flute only to play with her mother and sister at family gatherings and on Christmas. Then she heard the Crosstown Community Band perform at a neighborhood festival, and noticed a Nextdoor post seeking more musicians.

“I thought, ‘You know, it’s time to get the flute out again,’ ” she said.

She said her embouchure gets a little tired, and she occasionally forgets the fingerings of lesserused high notes, but she’s playing with confidence.

“I play a lot better now,” she said. “… It’s a very forgiving atmosphere. There is not much pressure. But we like to play well.”

“It’s a fun way to unwind after a busy day,” said co-founder Shari Wiggins, a Kenny resident who’s recruited several band members over the years. (Yussen joked that she meets new people first by asking their name, and second if they play an instrument.)

The group is currently looking for lower brass — particularly a tuba — and percussion.

“We won’t say no to anybody. They’re all welcome,” Wright said.

The band rehearses most Monday nights at 7 p.m. in the choir room at Richfield Lutheran Church at 8 W. 60th St. For more information, visit crosstowncommunityband.org.

Kenny resident turns bedtime tale into children’s book Timi Bliss published ‘In Search of the Sandman’ after the birth of her granddaughter

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

Timi Bliss wanted to use her daughter’s name as the main character for her children’s book, “In Search of the Sandman.” But that got vetoed.

“I love my name so much,” said her daughter, Landis. “My name is so unique.”

Instead, Bliss settled on her granddaughter’s name, Charlie. The book appears to be a success, despite the change. Bliss has sold more than 375 copies since she published it in April and has it stocked in all seven Creative Kidstuff locations.

“I didn’t have any idea that this sentimental, personal story that I told my daughter would morph into something that’s loved and cherished by so many other people,” the Kenny resident said.

It’s a story Bliss created a generation ago when Landis was a kid. Bliss would tell her about the sandman, a mythical character who puts people to sleep by sprinkling magical sand into their eyes. Landis said she was so fascinated by the story that she would pretend she was asleep to try and get a glimpse of the sandman.

Bliss eventually fleshed the story out and entered it in Half Price Books’ annual bedtime story contest in 1995. It earned semifinalist honors.

She finally turned it into a book this past year, inspired by Charlie’s birth.

“She was working three jobs at the time,” Landis said. “I guess having a grandchild gave

Kenny resident Timi Bliss holds her children’s book “In Search of the Sandman.”

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her the motivation, that extra push.”

Bliss was going to work with an illustrator but decided to create her own pictures after the illustrator bailed on her. She drew from the illustration skills she’d picked up in her work in nonprofit development producing annual reports and newsletters.

She also drew inspiration from the world around her. In one case, she created an image of a tree based on a cartoon she watched with Charlie.

“It was shot in an angle I hadn’t even

considered,” Bliss said.

It took Bliss six months to finish the book.

She said the most satisfying part is seeing the finished product and that it’s surreal to watch someone else connect with it.

She’s not done writing kids books, either.

Bliss is working on a sequel called “In Search of the Gingerbread Man” with her friend and Salty Tart bakery owner Michelle Gayer.

Bliss will write and illustrate the book, and Gayer will create a gingerbread man recipe that

both kids and parents can enjoy.

“One that’s easy for moms to do with their kids,” Gayer said.

Gayer has known Bliss for about 12 years, after meeting her while both worked for the Franklin Street Bakery. She said the two have stayed fast friends and added that she thinks it’s important for children of color to connect with and see children of color in books.

Bliss’ daughter, Landis, said she thinks it’s amazing that her mom published the book.

She said she’s most impressed that Bliss taught herself the necessary illustration skills.

“She buckled down and taught herself how to make all that stuff,” Landis said.

Landis and Charlie live with Bliss and her husband in the Kenny neighborhood. Landis said Bliss has turned into the stereotypical grandma, baking cookies and banana bread with Charlie.

“She’s just all into arts and crafts and baking,” Landis said.

Landis didn’t expect more books from Bliss at first, but now she does. Bliss is already halfway done with “In Search of the Gingerbread Man” and has been talking about a series.

“It’s been a good time,” Landis said. “Now she’s definitely will be making more.”

Visit timibliss.com to learn more about Bliss’ work.

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Call it the “Hello, Dolly!” of restaurants.

Yes, the beloved 510 is back where she belongs. And she’s lookin’ swell. The new 510 Lounge has gracefully settled into the city’s once-sovereign cocktail spot, the former La Belle Vie lounge, where Beautiful People primed their palates before supping in the dining room.

A soft makeover favors the white-and-pewter landscape of its former glory days, retaining the fabled bar and populating the space with cushy seating at cocktail tables. Beyond them, a small dinner-service setup serves the Scott-and-Zelda trade (including wannabes such as yours truly).

The menu, orchestrated by Don Saunders of The Kenwood, is of a different (okay: snazzier, more cosmo) stripe than at his nearby neighborhood digs. To suit a flute of bubbly or something in a stem, half of his limited menu is curated, rather than cooked.

Thus, oysters. Five choices of caviar ($25– $90). A range of select cheeses and another of charcuterie. Olives, too. All well worth exploring. But you know me: I came for dinner.

As starter, I succumbed to those two words that set my heart to beating faster: foie gras.

A torchon ($8) the size of a coaster proved as supple as all get-out, its mild flavor abetted by a lick of truffle honey. Rich toasts of brioche wait

in attendance (but not for long).

My companions chose wisely, too — one, a pristine still life-as-salad, celebrating supple butter lettuce, radishes and tomatoes in a light Parmesan vinaigrette (tasty, and just like it reads); the other, a lively tartine of sweet, moist and lightly smoked blush-pink trout piled on a bread slice, then jeweled with radishes and golden caviar — simple and well done. Next time: the hamachi crudo, the tempura shrimp, maybe the mussels ($6–$17).

On to entrees, modestly portioned (and that’s fine) for $18–$24 (and that $24 buys you a strip loin of primo Wagyu beef along with eggplant salad).

I ordered the pig’s head, just because somebody had to (right?) and inhaled it with lust masked as “research.” Picture a patty of pulledpork cheek meat, crumbed and pan-fried, then plated with a generous toss of woodsy chanterelles and lima-sized white beans in broth.

Comfort food, you bet.

Actually, so was the salmon — a thick, juicy

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Desserts ($9–$10) showcase creativity at its prime, every one a never-before endeavor (and that’s not easy these days) — not unique for unique’s sake, but actually as tasty as they are inspired.

Take my sunflower financier pastry, for example, attended by sunflower sorbet, mild and creamy, with more of those lovely cherries and a wake-up fennel granite, whose tiny ice crystals tasted just like frozen licorice whips.

Or the chocolate cremeux, topped with a thin sliver of ripe watermelon, under which hovered a cache of gooseberries in a compelling green sauce, which turned out to be basil. Good match.

Finally, a terrine layered with dark chocolate ganache, almond and a slim ribbon of rhubarb.

Service is warm and professional. And here’s another plus: Many of the wines in the BTG list may also be ordered in half-glass portions (including the sparklers), making course-bycourse pairing easy.

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By Jeff Berg

The view from the other side of the table

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’ve had the great opportunity to see all sides of the market over the years.

I’ve been a board member of the Kingfield Farmers Market and Neighborhood Roots for almost ten years now. I’ve been a vendor at the market and worked the front greeter’s table. I’ve set up the market tents and I’ve seen the carnage of vegetables left over after a rainy Sunday market. But the one part I love the most is all of the great people.

I’m a people watcher. Come on, admit it, we all are. And there’s something that changes when you’re behind the table versus being a shopper. It’s like a force field that surrounds you and your product, or maybe it’s more like a club and you find yourself jockeying for a few brave members.

On busy days, the living is easy. Shoppers float with open bags and open minds as they crisscross the market. People like a busy market to get lost in; it’s sort of like crowd camouflage. And just like moths to a flame, they flock to the vendors.

On a slow or rainy days that 6-foot-by-2foot plastic table can quickly start to feel like a 10-foot wall.

The first rule to go out the door is “don’t stare.” Nope, the eyes are the only way to say hello. So you find yourself like a crazy person breaking the fourth wall. You’ve been up since dawn, it’s freezing but yet you’ll be damned if you’re not gonna make a connection.

I don’t want to sound like we get desperate, but when you’re cold, wet or just bored a smile can feel better than a Hangover Hash.

Vendors see the farmers market from a different angle. Submitted photo

Shoppers come in all varieties, too. A few of my favorites are the story collector, the magic middler and the bruncher — oh, and can’t forget the sampler.

The story collector makes a vendor’s job easy. They’re genuinely curious and love to ask questions. You’re bound to get a few of their

personal chapters in too. The only problem is, as you while away the time your other customers slowly begin to pass you by. A few bold ones might try to interject, but the timid just keep moving.

The magic middlers are amazing. Like shopping spirits or ghosts they never seem to leave

the center of the aisle. They avert any Jedi mind tricks: “Look over here … no, over here.”

They shop with a surgical precision. Hovering in the middle while eyeing their targets, they are efficient and not prone to chitchat. I’m sure they end each day with completed “to-do lists” and well-behaved kids.

I personally fall into the bruncher crowd.

No shame here, my family always shows up with the best intentions of buying up fresh veggies and making a perfect delicious and healthy dinner. But inevitably we are totally tempted by all the ready-to-eat goodies at the market. We sit in the café chairs and indulge ourselves, completely content with letting the world pass us by for a while.

The samplers are a hybrid group. They have the mind of a hunter and the appetite of a forager. Often, they’ll look for the moment when we’re occupied and swoop in, avoiding all eye contact. But when caught in the act, like a nervous child they become chatterboxes.

Note to samplers: We’re all really nice people and love to give away samples, so please keep up the good work!

So, the next time you’re at the market, think twice about that person on the other side of the table. Yup, they’re your local farmers or purveyor of fresh, fun products, but they’re also something more — another fellow human.

Jeff Berg lives with his family in Kingfield and has been a board member of the Kingfield Farmers Market and Neighborhood Roots since 2008 — at least!

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Mill City Cooks

Recipes and food news from the Mill City Farmers Market

Sweet and savory apples

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ven though we are still a few weeks from autumn and hanging on to our final beach days at the lake, apples are coming into season.

Around the state growers are harvesting chestnut crab, Zestar, Gala and dozens of other early ripening varieties. On a trip to Ames Honey Farm and Orchard in Delano last week, I was able to taste the first fruit of the season.

Brian Fredericksen, a former engineer, started Ames Farm is 1994. Fredericksen’s true love is in single-source honey production and honey bee hive management on his 80-plus acres, but he also manages orchards and brings close to a dozen varieties of apples and pears to the Mill City Farmers Market every Saturday.

His orchards suffered lots of hail damage earlier this summer, so he is selling lots of the fruit that is currently ripe as “seconds.”

Seconds are perfectly edible but typically have small blemishes or bruises that many customers and wholesalers find unap-

pealing, so they are sold at a lower price.

Seconds are great to eat fresh or use in baking and cooking. Below are two recipes for applesauce from the Mill City Farmers Market’s Saturday cooking class, offered 10:30 a.m.–11 a.m. every week in the market’s covered train shed area.

You can find local, pesticide-free apples, honey, herbs and even ginger for these recipes at the Mill City Farmers Market every Saturday through the end of October.

The market also just opened a Tuesday Night Market at the Commons Park across from US Bank Stadium with live music, monthly beer and wine nights with Day Block Brewing, farm-to-table dinner and, of course, local and organic produce.

The Night Market is open 3:30 p.m.– 7:30 p.m. every Tuesday until the end of September. Get the market’s full scheduled online at millcityfarmersmarket.org.

— Jenny Heck

Apple season is just beginning, and early ripening varieties are starting to show up at the market.

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SWEET AND SAVORY APPLESAUCE Recipe courtesy of the Mill City Farmers Market

Rosemary applesauce

Makes 3 cups. Serve this with pork or chicken or as an accompaniment to a cheese plate. It will keep about one week, covered, in the refrigerator.

Ingredients 4 fresh rosemary sprigs 2 cups unsweetened apple cider 1 to 2 tablespoons honey, or more to taste 3½ pounds (about 7 to 8 medium tart apples), unpeeled, quartered, cored and Pinch salt to taste cut into 1-inch chunks (about 12 cups)

Method In a large pot, combine the cider, rosemary and apples, set over high heat and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer until the apples are very tender, stirring occasionally, about 35 minutes. Continue cooking until the liquid is reduced and the sauce is thick. Discard the rosemary sprigs. Sweeten with a little honey and a pinch of salt to taste.

Ginger cinnamon

Makes 3 cups. Here’s the classic, homey applesauce recipe with a little grated fresh ginger for zing. It’s a great snack and wonderful served warm on top of pound cake or over vanilla or butter pecan ice cream.

Ingredients

2 cups unsweetened apple cider 3½ pounds (about 7 to 8 medium tart apples), unpeeled, quartered, cored and cut into 1-inch chunks (about 12 cups)

1 4-inch piece cinnamon stick 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger root 1 to 2 tablespoons honey, or more to taste Pinch salt to taste

Method In a large pot, combine the cider, cinnamon, ginger and apples, set over high heat and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until the apples are very tender, about 35 minutes. Continue cooking until the liquid is reduced and the sauce is thick. Discard the cinnamon stick. Sweeten with a little honey and a pinch of salt to taste.

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By Mikki Morrissette

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Can curiosity help bend energy?

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uring a recent trip to the San Francisco area, I met with 87-year-old Bill Gough, founder of the Foundation for Mind-Being Research, which has 100 members, learning monthly from a diverse collection of experts about topics that have ranged from lucid dreaming to healing energies, psychokinesis to afterlife communication, out-of-body experiences to psychic abilities.

Two days prior, in the Linden Hills cafe I frequent, I had a conversation with a 79-year-old member of my similar Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) group, who was enjoying revelations in a book about the military’s use of remote viewing that a high school friend of hers published. She remarked: “I’m always surprised at how much we think we know someone, but it’s only the tip of the iceberg. All the interesting stuff we usually never get to is in that other seven-eighths under the surface.”

That seven-eighths experience is why I was in California, learning what others had been absorbing for decades. The interesting stories we often leave unspoken are, indeed, the best part.

Curiosity about how the universe confuses us A distinction I’m seeing in those I have been sitting down with over the past few years, to discuss “woo-woo” topics, is that there is a willingness to look into the box, not close the lid. Gough is one of those curious, active minds.

After his postgraduate work in electrical engineering at Princeton — where he saw Albert Einstein walking around without socks and learned what Robert Oppenheimer was doing on hydrogen research — he worked in nuclear fusion power. Gough’s last position was at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in high-energy physics and synchrotron radiation research. He began to meet others — two quantum physicists, a mathematician — who were independently coming to the conclusion that science was only grasping a piece of the whole. They came together to begin exploring anything that didn’t make logical sense.

After a lifetime of exploration, Gough says he has no answers. He does not pretend to know, for example, how people he’s come to trust have communicated with the

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Challenger astronauts since their death in water after the spaceship exploded. During our five-hour conversation it became clear to me that he has no agenda. His personal drive has been to study “things I don’t want to believe” and actively wonder “what the hell is going on?”

He’s been around long enough to know that there are many classical scientific concepts we once dismissed as poppycock that are now accepted as true, such as when “we believed the brain was a non-changeable system” or thought the benefits of meditation were made up.

Coming out of the closet I myself became interested in “what we don’t know yet” after several precognition events, such as when I drove under the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis and was hit by the thought about how terrible it would be if a bridge collapsed. Three days later, I was massively spooked when it did.

Similar to when I woke up in New York City on 9/11 from a nightmare about men seeking to kill. I cannot explain it — but I now believe there is more dimension to the one we perceive with our brains.

I gave a talk recently at the IONS conference in Oakland about why I think we’re at a time when receptivity to the longsimmering consciousness conversation is opening up — and how and why we might begin to “come out of the closet” about formerly taboo topics.

I had a half-hour conversation there with Cambridge-taught biologist Rupert Sheldrake. After long, controversial battles, he believes a transformation in the sciences around consciousness is coming, partly because the numbers of those who dismiss it as poppycock are becoming outnumbered.

[A two-minute clip of our conversation is on my ConnectedintheDeep.com website.]

When taboos begin to be lifted, and research grants begin to be awarded to explore mysteries about consciousness, Sheldrake and the thousands of people who attend conferences hosted by IONS, Science and Non-Duality, and others are optimistic that meditation isn’t the only way we’ll begin to benefit.

Activism vs. energy Gough knows that there are sham artists and believes it might not yet be time for collective energy to be tapped responsibly.

But he also believes, “If you can bend metal, change is possible. We can change the pH of something. The field around us changes; HeartMath shows that. Mob mentality is one manifestation of negative energy.”

Entanglement is proven scientifically, he said — Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance.” We cannot explain it, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t true. Similarly, “most physicists haven’t accepted there is a human consciousness effect” on the way the universe operates, yet he believes “we are not just observers, but participants with our thoughts and emotions — which affect the physical world.”

As he put it, “You can’t hold onto any belief system. All science is malleable, learned beliefs. For me, I was always curious.

And knowing you can do and experience something is a big part of belief change.”

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Tips for dog and cat care: Do you do things for your pet?

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he following tips are a reflection of issues seen at our clinic that can be prevented with some easy steps.

Wash food containers

Wash your pet’s food and water bowls in the dishwasher or with hot soapy water at least once a week. The same is true for the food storage container.

Pay attention to collars Many people will simply add new kibble to Wash your dog or cat’s collar on a regular the food storage container when the container basis. Over time, collars will absorb oil from gets low. The kibble on the bottom of the a pet’s skin and also yeast and bacteria. If you container gets old (and can even get rancid) notice that your pet’s collar is starting to smell, and this practice allows food storage mites it should be washed. to grow. Some animals will have food storage Good practice is to wash the collar mite allergies leading to chronic rashes and monthly. In addition, pay attention to the skin skin irritation. under the collar. Sometimes animals that wear The best practice is to keep half of your a collar constantly will start to get hair loss pet’s food in the freezer until it is ready to use, under the collar, or the collar can start to irriand if you keep the other half of the kibble tate the skin. Also, we have seen cats and dogs in a storage container, wash out the storage that get mats of fur intertwined with the collar. container with hot soapy water before adding any new kibble.

Cats should only wear quick-release collars. In particular if your cat goes outside, wearing a quick release collar will prevent the collar from tightening around your cat’s neck if the collar Bathe and groom gets lodged on brush or something else.

Certain fur types require very little mainteDogs that wear an electric fence collar or a nance. Labradors, for example, can go for a shock collar should not have that collar on all long time without getting a bath if they don’t of the time. The prongs on the collar can irrihave skin conditions. Other breeds of cats and tate the skin. Every year we see dogs that have dogs, however, benefit from regular grooming. developed an infection under the shock collar If you have a cat or a dog that gets mats on a because it has been left on too long. regular basis, then you should brush your pet Dogs that cough and gag when on a walk at least every other day to try to prevent small because they pull against a neck collar should tangles from forming into a mat. Common wear a harness instead of a collar around the neck. areas for matting are behind ears, behind the rear legs and on the belly.

If your cat or dog is heavily matted, these Keep toenails trimmed need to be shaved out, and it is best to seek We see dogs on a regular basis (and occaout a professional groomer. If you are using sionally cats) because they have torn a scissors to clip out a mat, put a comb between toenail. Oftentimes we need to sedate the dog the skin and mat. We commonly will see pets whose owners accidently cut their skin when to remove the remaining nail. The best way to scissoring out a mat. prevent a toenail from tearing is to not let your If you have a dog that has eyes that produce dog’s nails get too long. Dogs and cats should more discharge (shih tzus for example), the have their toenails trimmed monthly. fur around their face should be kept short (a We have a video on our website about how puppy cut look). If you prefer a longer look, to train your dog to accept toenail trimming. the fur needs to be combed out daily and any If your dog is afraid of having his toenails mucus or discharge removed from around the clipped, please watch this video. Many dogs eyes. Dogs will sometimes get secondary skin need to be acclimated to toenail trimming. infections around the face if the fur is trapping Visit westgatepetclinicmn.com and click on discharge next to the skin. the YouTube icon.

Feed on a schedule

Pay attention

I recommend feeding dogs twice a day, and cats should be fed multiple times throughout the day.

Some people prefer to feed their dogs once a day, and many dogs can tolerate this feeding schedule. However, we will commonly see dogs at the clinic that will vomit bile or foam from having an empty stomach for too long. Feeding twice a day can help prevent this. If your dog already eats twice a day but vomits foam in the morning before breakfast, you can help relieve this by giving a small snack at bedtime.

Cats in the wild will eat about 10 or more times a day. Cats prefer multiple small meals throughout the day. Cats that do not gorge themselves can have food left out all of the time. Otherwise, it is best to split up your kitty’s total volume of food for the day into multiple small feedings. (Also, I recommend feeding balls for cats or hiding small dishes of food around the house so your cat can “hunt” for his food).

Everyone, animal or human, does best in an environment where they are petted, loved and paid attention to everyday. Our lives are so busy that sometimes it seems like more of a chore to walk the dog or break out the feathers on a stick for your cat. Active play and attention with your pet should be part of your daily routine.

If your pet is happy, you will be happier, and this circle will just continue, enhancing everyone’s lives.

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Get Out Guide.

By Jahna Peloquin

‘NATURE’ Now in its fifth year, this outdoor “walking play” by TigerLion Arts offers a mythic telling of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau’s mutual love affair with the natural world.

A professional ensemble of actors takes the audience on a journey through the natural environment, accompanied by bagpipes, ancient flutes, drums and choral arrangements. Each performance takes place in several different locations within the arboretum, garden or park in which it’s set, and the audience is encouraged to travel along with the performers (hence the “walking play” distinction). This year, the theater company takes up residency at Washburn Fair Oaks Park in Minneapolis for two weeks (Sept. 7–17) before traveling to Concord, Massachusetts, the ancestral home of both Emerson and Thoreau, for a series of performances. The tour will culminate with a final weekend of shows at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum (Oct. 5–8). Thanks to a grant from the Minnesota Regional Arts Council and community partner resources, admission to the Washburn Fair Oaks Park performances will be free of charge.

Cost: Free for Sept. 7–17 performances; Oct. 5–8 performances TBA Info: tigerlion.org

When: Sept. 7–10, Sept. 14–17 and Oct. 5–8 Where: Washburn Fair Oaks Park, 200 E. 24th St. (Sept. 7–17) and Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, 3675 Arboretum Dr., Chaska (Oct. 5–8)

‘PHILEMON AND BAUCIS — PLANET IN PERIL: A PICNIC OPERETTA’ For nine years running, local theater troupe Mixed Precipitation has reimagined the Shakespeare in the Park tradition as “picnic operettas,” showcasing its own original mini-operas at parks, farms and gardens in the metro area. Based on the Greek myth of Baucis and Philemon, “Planet in Peril” is a new adaptation of Haydn’s rarely performed 1773 German marionette opera, with a twist: It’s set to the music of Queen. The plot follows a pair of ancient gods as they return to earth from outer space in search of hospitality, and find it in an unexpected place: a down-and-out tavern. A “gender-bending extravaganza” ensues. Bonus: The audience is invited to enjoy a chef-crafted tasting menu inspired by the operetta, featuring locally sourced ingredients.

‘IN SEARCH OF THE GLASS SLIPPER’ Minneapolis-based visual artist Perci Chester has become known for her colorful, large-scale, outdoor sculptures. But in the mid-’70s, she was a young, recent art school grad living in San Francisco as it was transforming into one of the world’s biggest hubs for the LGBT community.

One fateful day in 1974, she attended a house party that marked the beginning of the documentary portrait series, “In Search of the Glass Slipper.” The photographs were selected from a collection of roughly 200 portraits taken over the course of six months in San Francisco that capture the personal joy and vulnerability of the community and offer a seldom-seen, intimate glimpse into a unique moment in time.

When: Aug. 28–Sept. 29.

The opening is Sept. 9 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. (7 p.m. artist conversation) Where: Traffic Zone Gallery, 250 3rd Ave. N. Cost: Free Info: trafficzoneart.com

When: Aug. 25–Sept 24 Where: Various locations Cost: $10–$20 suggested donation Info: mixedprecipitation.org

‘SINUOUS: NEW RIVER OIL PAINTINGS

BY LISA GROSSMAN’ Although landscapes have been seen as inferior subjects for painting, contemporary abstract landscape art continues to challenge the boundaries of art. The moody oil paintings of Lawrence, Kansas-based artist Lisa Grossman are exemplary of this style, interpreting the rivers, prairies and expansive horizons of the Midwestern landscape. Grossman’s skill in depicting the outdoors has resulted in numerous recognitions, including artist-in-residence positions at six national parks and forests. From afar, her uncanny paintings are often mistaken for photography at first. But at a closer glance, it becomes clear that Grossman has captured something ephemeral that cannot be photographed.

FREE FIRST SATURDAY GARDEN PARTY: MOVE For this edition of the Walker Art Center’s monthly Free First Saturday series, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden hosts a series of performances ranging from Afrobeat-infused indie-pop to surrealist performance art. In “Les moutons (The Sheep),” Toronto-based performance group Corpus reimagines the urban setting into a bucolic country scene in which costumed performers participate in routine sheep activities to droll, deadpan effect.

(Think Monty Python at the sheep farm.) Audience interaction is encouraged. The afternoon also features a live set from new Minneapolis supergroup Ambassadors of Culture, which includes former Aviette frontwoman Holly Muñoz along with Dalmar Yare, a favorite in the Somali music scene, multiinstrumentalist Martin Dosh and indie-pop solo artist Al Church. Bonus: Walker gallery admission is free all day (10 a.m.–6 p.m.).

When: Aug. 26–Oct. 7. The opening is Saturday, Aug. 26 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Where: Circa Gallery, 210 N. 1st St. Cost: Free Info: circagallery.org

When: Saturday, Sept. 2 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., with performances at 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m.

“Les moutons” will also be performed on Sunday, Sept. 3 at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

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STATE FAIR SHOPPING The State Fair may be better known for its on-a-stick food, live farm animal births and carved butter heads, but it’s also a great place to shop for unique, handcrafted goods

by Minnesota makers. Because vendors are spread across the fairgrounds’ 350,000 square feet, here’s a guide to the main shopping areas and what to find at each.

THE VERANDA The Veranda is a new shopping and dining destination on the upper level of the Grandstand’s west side. It’s filled with nearly 20 homegrown makers, ranging from vintage and up-cycled goods to handmade products from Adam Turman Art, Hagen and Oats (wood decor) and American Craftsmen (handcrafted wood canoes and paddles). The space also features a balcony with patio seating, views of the fair overlooking Adventure Park and West End Market and locally sourced fare and craft beer. Located to the north of Dan Patch Ave. WEST END MARKET The West End Market debuted in 2014, offering a mix of shopping, live entertainment and food and beverages as well as the fair’s History and Heritage Center. Among the dozens of artisans, craftspeople and specialty merchants are J.R. Watkins (natural skincare and home cleaning products), I Like You (Minnesota-

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themed goods by local artists and crafters) and Creations by Will (wood-turned shave bowls, handmade shave soaps and woodhandled straight razors). Located at the west end of the fairgrounds INTERNATIONAL BAZAAR The International Bazaar features entertainment, food, crafts and wares from around the world. Look for handcrafted artisan pottery, soap, jewelry, hand-woven rugs and more imported from Morocco, Mexico, Africa, Bolivia and beyond. Located on the south side of Judson Avenue between Underwood and Cooper streets SITE-SPECIFIC For its second year at the fair, Northwoodsinspired apparel brand Sota Clothing is bringing back its mobile pop-up shop — a retrofitted 1972 Fleetwing Chickadee trailer. Located at the North Woods on the east side of Cooper Street between Lee and Randall avenues

When: Aug. 24–Sept. 4, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily Where: Minnesota State Fair, 1265 Snelling Ave. N., St. Paul Cost: $14 adults, $12 seniors, $12 kids 5–12, free for kids under 5 Info: mnstatefair.org

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Minnesota State Fair: stranger than fiction

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e’ve had fairs in Minnesota since before we were a state.

Early fairs hosted elaborate agricultural displays to entice people to move here to farm. They were also places for entertainment and learning. New technology for farming and households was shown in exhibits on Machinery Hill and in the Woman’s Building.

The first grandstand hosted races and elaborate theatrical productions, and the nearby midway had the thrill rides of the era.

Frankly, not much has changed.

We all know the Minnesota State Fair is the biggest and the best, yet we’re in a continuous battle with Texas over that designation. Being located in a metro area makes both fairs huge (the Texas fair is in Dallas). Both fairs had record attendance in 2016. Texas has five times the population of Minnesota, and their fair lasts a full month. But on average, we get more visitors per day.

I’d say that makes us the biggest!

The two cities were separated only by a thin well-bridged river; their tails curling over the banks met and mingled, and at the juncture, under the jealous eye of each, lay, every fall, the State Fair. Because of this advantageous position, and because of the agricultural eminence of the state, the fair was one of the most magnificent in America. There were immense exhibits of grain, livestock and farming machinery; there were horse races and automobile races and, lately, aeroplanes that really left the ground; there was a tumultuous Midway with Coney Island thrillers to whirl you through space, and a whining, tinkling hoochie-coochie show. As a compromise between the serious and the trivial, a grand exhibition of fireworks, culminating in a representation of the Battle of Gettysburg, took place in the Grand Concourse every night.

Minnesota State Fair • Lasts 12 days • 1,943,719 visitors for entire fair • Average of 161,977 people per day

‘Hot Dish’ A novel by Connie Brockway about a former Princess Kay of the Milky Way-style runner-up who hunts down the former butter sculptor to help solve a mystery

Texas State Fair • Lasts 24 days • 2,408,032 visitors for entire fair • Average of 100,335 people per day When I’m not at the fair I like reading fiction about it. Here are excerpts from three of of my favorites:

‘A Night at the Fair’

11:50 a.m., Monday, August 27, 1984 The Hippodrome, the Minnesota State Fairgrounds

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s coming-of-age story about boys at the Minnesota State Fair fair vying for attention of girls and taking rides in Ye Old Mill, published in the Saturday Evening Post, July 21, 1928

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“… and that is how dairy products changed my life,” finished seventeenyear-old Miss Fawn Creek, Jennifer Hallesby. Behind her, Duddie Olson’s prizewinning 4-H milk

The sculptor worked busily and with a total focus on her masterpiece. She had big shoes to fill.

Linda Gerritt had sculpted every single Milkfed Mary head since the inception of the pageant, but she had broken her right arm the week before the fair, and her fill-in was under clear instructions to do everything as it had always been done. So, she used seven tools, not including her hands — knives, wires, other tricks of the trade. She began the sculpting with a serrated bread knife to get the general shape and followed with a ribbon tool to refine angles. Her philosophy of butter carving was not to force the art but rather to let the face within the dairy emerge of its own accord.

Fortunately, butter was a forgiving medium. Too much off the nose, and all she had to do was scoop some off the floor and pat it back into place. Bangs not high enough?

Take a little from the rear of the head and slap it on the front.

cow, Portia, also representing Fawn Creek, mooed approvingly.

“Thank you, Miss Hallesby,” the emcee said. “Miss Delano?”

Jenn bobbed a little curtsy and was rewarded when the Minnesota Dairy Farmers’ Federation’s only female judge winked and mouthed the words, “Very nice.”

Jenn step-glided her way back to her plastic lawn chair among the other Buttercup finalists, no easy feat while navigating the minefield of mementos left by the nine blueribbon cows now stationed behind their respective princesses.

‘September Fair’ In the fifth in a series of 12 murder-bythe-month mysteries set in Battle Lake, librarian/reporter Mira James heads to the Twin Cities to write about the town’s recently crowned Milkfed Mary, Queen of the Dairy who ends up getting murdered while having her likeness carved in butter On the first day of the fair, Milkfed Mary, Queen of the Dairy, chosen out of some 80 county dairy princesses and then twelve finalists, posed as a larger-than-life likeness of her head was carved out of a block of butter inside of a glasssided, rotating refrigerator. Every day after that, for eleven more days, the runners-up also were seated and immortalized in the special booth, but no butter carving was as grand as the first one of the fair. That’s what Ashley was telling herself as she shivered despite her parka and mittens.

LUNCH TIP We all have our favorite fair foods. Mine are Danielson & Daughters Onion Rings just outside the Food Building, Paula Red apples in the horticulture building and Holy Land’s minted lemonade in the International Bazaar.

The 2017 Princess Kay will be crowned on Aug. 23, the night before the fair opens. Have a great fair!

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