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Breaking the silence Sexual assault victims speak out

By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

One-hundred and twenty-six women and men have participated in “Break the Silence” events over the past year in Minneapolis to speak out as survivors of sexual assault, abuse and rape. They took turns at a microphone Aug. 17, telling of violent boyfriends, attacks in parking lots, or lost memories after strangers sent drinks to the table. Some had never said the words out loud before. They included a woman who attended a professional conference and awoke to discover

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she couldn’t move. “I didn’t see it coming,” she said. One man said he was raped at age 12 after accepting a ride home from a stranger. “I told myself for many years that I deserved that for getting in that car,” he said.

 Megan Arriola (l) and Bri Byram at a Break the Silence Day truthtelling event. The Aug. 17 gathering took place at 301 on Main. Photo by Michelle Bruch

SEE BREAK THE SILENCE / PAGE A19

Hodges’ proposed 2017 budget boosts public safety spending By Sarah McKenzie

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

Two weeks before he oﬃcially started as the new Minneapolis Public Schools superintendent on July 1, Ed Graff set the stakes for an audience of reporters gathered at Webster Elementary. “It’s a life-changing moment, a life-changing opportunity,” Graff said during that hour-long question-and-answer session in mid-June, just 10 days into the district’s summer break. It was an unusual experience for the media-shy former Anchorage School District superintendent, who said he shared more with the

press that day than in 25 years as an educator in Alaska. Graff sketched out a 60-day plan to better acquaint himself with the city, the district and the political environment in which it operates, beginning with the Board of Education. Then, before he took the center seat on the dais at his first school board meeting July 12, Graff flew to Alaska, stuffed “30 years of clothes into three duffel bags,” and flew back to his new home in Minneapolis. SEE GRAFF / PAGE A14

Mayor Betsy Hodges’ proposed 2017 city budget includes a 5.5-percent levy increase and funding for 15 new police oﬃcers and five new firefighters. Hodges said an error in the state’s tax bill means the city has to craft a 2017 budget without an expected $1.7-million increase in Local Government Aid. “If the Legislature passes a corrected tax bill that Governor Mark Dayton can sign to restore next year’s planned $1.7-million increase, I will recommend that we apply it to reducing our property-tax levy,” she said. The recent 20-year, $800-million funding agreement for the city’s parks and streets also

increased the baseline levy increase for 2017 to 4.9 percent from 3.75 percent. The city’s budget is roughly $1.2 billion. Hodges said her budget also includes $2.7 million in spending cuts. The savings come from lower-than-expected health care costs for city employees and cuts in five city departments. Despite the proposed levy increase, a singlefamily home valued at $190,500 would see its tax bill drop slightly, to $1,084 from $1,108, said David Prestwood, the mayor’s communications director. The city’s tax base has expanded as result of new construction and inflation, he said. SEE 2017 BUDGET / PAGE A18

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Franklin & Lyndale proposal returns with underground parking By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Master Properties is back with a new sixstory apartment proposal for Franklin & Lyndale, minus space for the Theatre Garage and with less visible parking than a previous design for the southwest corner of the intersection. The new plan is just under 69 feet, about 4.5 feet shorter than a prior proposal brought forward in 2014. “We’ve put the majority of parking underground now, and it’s not visible to neighboring residents or the street,” project manager Elizabeth Liebhard said. Liebhard said neighbors would instead see a second-floor rooftop patio, accessible only to building residents. A total of 149 parking spaces would be enclosed on the ground floor and in one level underground. Liebhard said the ground floor would stand about 22 feet tall, allowing them to sneak in a mezzanine level of parking accessible from Franklin Avenue. A second two-way parking entry would be located mid-block on Lyndale. The project footprint is currently home to Theatre Garage, Steeple People, Chi Tailor & Cleaner, David Petersen Gallery and a surface parking lot. A restaurant of 5,200 square feet would stand on the corner, with a 1,200-square-foot fitness or retail space on Lyndale. Minneapolis Theatre Garage is no longer part of the project, and Hosmer Brown said he doesn’t plan to relo-

A new design for apartments at the southwest corner of Franklin & Lyndale rises six stories and includes 113 units, a restaurant, retail and 149 parking spaces. Rendering by Collage Architects

cate the theater. Eight walkup units would front Lyndale, and the building would contain a total of 113 units, more than the 82 units previously proposed. Rent rates are anticipated to start at $1,200 for a 530-square-foot alcove unit and run up to $2,200 for a walkup unit of about 1,100 square feet with a private garage. Proposed exterior materials include brick and metal panels. In 2014, the developer told city oﬃcials that a geotechnical analysis deemed the soil noncompactable and unsuitable for underground parking. At a recent neighborhood meeting in The Wedge neighborhood, however, developer Don Gerberding said they delved into the engineering issue and determined a Geopier deep foundation system would allow one level of

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underground parking. “It takes away the need to have a parking structure behind the building,” he said. At the Aug. 10 meeting in The Wedge, the project met a warmer reception than in 2014. Resident Ethan Cherin said the neighborhood needs more density, and said he thinks the developer addressed local concerns by reducing the massing of the parking garage. “I think it’s an improvement from the last time through,” he said. Another meeting attendee asked if Steeple People could become part of the new building; Gerberding said it would not. Sara Romanishan, a nearby resident and vocal critic of the previous proposal, called the new design “very different.” “They did take into consideration a lot of

feedback … which is really nice to see,” she said. The city Planning Commission approved a prior version of the project in 2014 that included four levels of above-ground parking. Gerberding said the land deal fell through, and he’s back with a new development partnership that does not include the owners of Rudolphs. He said a purchase agreement is contingent on city approval. The development appeared before the Planning Commission’s Committee of the Whole on Aug. 18, and the developer expects to submit a final proposal for approval in early September. Pending city approval, construction would begin in early spring 2017 and open for occupancy in May 2018. The new design requires city approval for the following: • Rezoning some of the site’s C1 zoning to match the denser C2 zoning on the corner • A conditional use permit to increase the height from the automatically allowed four stories (56 feet) to six stories (69 feet) • Reduce the west setback to 3.8 feet; reduce the south setback to 3.5 feet • Reduce the minimum loading requirement from one space to zero • Increase the maximum floor area ratio from 2.04 to 3.28

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By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

New Improv Parenting classes are available for parents and kids. Photo by Roxane Gudeman

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Improv Parenting Minneapolis parents are teaching new classes that apply improv to parenting. Founder and Lowry Hill resident Keren Gudeman offers strategies for moments when children resist the simplest of tasks, like putting on shoes and leaving the house. “For a lot of our day-to-day interactions, we’re negotiating,” Gudeman said. “What’s a way you can make it more playful and not necessarily about my agenda?” She gives an example of trying to pick up her son at preschool while he runs in the opposite direction down the hall. In response, she pretended to smear him with a giant stick of “glue” so he would “stick” to her as she picked him up. Gudeman said young children aren’t always being defiant, and it helps to look at the world from their view. “I’m often trying to get my son to smile or laugh,” she said. “You’re looking for ways to agree, or at least accept what’s happening, and finding ways to build stuff off of that,” she said. Gudeman met collaborator and parent Jen

Scott at an Early Childhood Family Education class at Kenny School. “[Scott has] been performing and teaching improv for over a decade,” Gudeman said. “She was the catalyst for me trying it.” Scott has taught at the Brave New Workshop Student Union since 2001 and teaches regularly at Children’s Theatre Company, Park Square Theatre and Pillsbury House + Theatre. Gudeman has worked as an athletic coach, classroom teacher and outdoor educator. Improv Parenting offers classes for adultsonly or kids and parents together, as well as kids’ free play classes with a few improvinspired games. They’re teaching classes this fall at venues like HUGE Improv Theater and the Center For Performing Arts. “I can’t encourage enough just trying it,” Gudeman said. “It’s super low-stakes and low-key and it’s worth trying. It gets you out of your head. And it’s great for public speaking, great for the workplace and thinking on your feet.” For more information, visit improvparenting.com.

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Chef Doug Flicker, founder of South Minneapolis’ Piccolo and Sandcastle, will head the kitchen at the Walker Art Center’s new restaurant concept as executive chef. The restaurant, named Esker Grove, is slated to open in early December with a menu from Flicker. The 94-capacity restaurant, along with a 60-seat outdoor dining terrace, will serve express service for lunch and full-service dinner in the evenings, according to a release. Esker Grove, located near the museum’s new Vineland entry, will serve craft beer, crafted cocktails and a coffee menu. The menu will feature a “modern, but unfussy, approach to vegetable and grain-focused cooking using classic techniques.” HGA and Amsterdam-based landscape firm Inside Outside are handling the restaurant’s design. The Walker Art Center, which is undergoing a multi-million dollar renovation of its campus and the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, switched culinary partners earlier this year, dropping D’Amico and Partners for Culinaire International. The company also operates Sea Change at the Guthrie, FIKA at the American Swedish Institute and other concepts at a number of cultural institutions around the country.

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“It’s a fun place for people to get a workout,” Pettus said. Pettus is a former professional at Cushman & Wakefield, a longtime cyclist and a former college athlete. He grew up east of Lake Harriet and lives four blocks away in The Wedge. He said the studio will offer “CycleGiving” events, in which nonprofits can organize rides, with all proceeds going to charity. One partner is the Pinky Swear Foundation, which aids families who have a child with cancer. The CycleBar franchise is a year old, and Uptown is one of 100 locations opening in 2016. “People are thirsty for something like this,” Pettus said. Starting opening day on Sept. 1, CycleBar is giving away all of its rides free for 10 days. The studio is located at 2927 Girard Ave. S. For more information, visit uptownmpls. cyclebar.com.

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talking about affordable housing issues because we know from the data that we’ve gathered that artists aren’t earning median wage,” Kayim said. Local arts organizations have already brought the plan into their own work. Representatives from Lyn-Lake-based Pangea World Theater received a federal grant to partner with the city and implement some of the road map vision, such as training and skill-building with artists of color, into their own work. “This is where the government is aligned with the community and we can work together to get something done,” Kayim said. City Council Member Cam Gordon (Ward 2) said at a Committee of the Whole meeting the plan could keep Minneapolis competitive in garnering resources for the arts. “Something like this could really help us get funding and more resources to the city because we can demonstrate to people we are prepared, we’re organized, we have a plan. And I think that’s going to attract some funders,” he said. Kayim said the report puts the city ahead of others around the country that are still exploring questions around racial equity in the arts. Minneapolis is now in-line with national arts advocate Americans for the Arts, which released a similar equity statement, she added. For more information on the City Creative Road Map visit minneapolismn.gov/coordinator/arts/ACCE.

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The estimated cost for Southwest Light Rail Transit hit nearly $1.86 billion in early August and threatens to continue rising as the project nears a critical turning point. The Metropolitan Council voted Aug. 10 on an updated project scope, schedule and cost estimate for the project, a 14.5-mile extension of the Green Line that will add tracks between Minneapolis and Eden Prairie. The cost was estimated at $1.79 billion earlier this summer. The Met Council says two factors are driving the cost increase since then: $69 million worth of in-kind land donations to the project which must be counted toward the overall budget; and $19 million attributed to project delays, due to what the agency describes as “inaction by House leadership.” The Minnesota Legislature adjourned in May without a plan to fund the remaining portion of its 10-percent share of the project, which was at that time about $135 million. Earlier this year, Met Council Chair Adam Duininck laid the blame squarely on Speaker Kurt Daudt (R–Zimmerman) and his fellow Republicans in the House. Daudt, Gov. Mark Dayton and Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk (DFL-Cook) met repeatedly this summer to negotiate the terms of a special session, but Dayton announced Aug. 18 that there was no way around the impasse. It was unclear how the gap in local funds would affect an application for federal funding. Federal funds are expected to cover half the cost of SWLRT planning and construction.

They’ll also cover half the recent cost increases chalked up to delays, leaving state and local governments on the hook for $9.5 million. But the responsibility for covering similar shortfalls shifts as the project advances. Following the Met Council’s approval of the updated scope, schedule and cost, SWLRT project staff planned to submit their application to the Federal Transit Administration to begin the engineering phase of the project. Project designs, already close to 90-percent complete, will now be finalized, and Met Council can then prepare construction bid packages for contractors. From there, the next step is to confirm the funding agreement with the federal government, which would lock in the project budget, explained Met Council spokesperson Kate Brickman. “Once we lock in this number, if we continue to incur delay costs, those will not be matched,” Brickman said. House Republicans fired back at Met Council in August in a press release issued by Rep. Tony Albright (R–Prior Lake), who wrote that members of his party were “committed first and foremost to take care of our roads and bridges,” which he contended were used by 99 percent of Minnesotans “as their primary mode of transportation.” Albright added that there are “bipartisan questions” about whether the nearly $2-billion SWLRT project “is a worthy use of taxpayer dollars.”

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he dog days of summer are behind us and something I’m calling fallancholia (the melancholia that comes with the first few whiffs of fall) is unmistakably in the air, but despite my best efforts to escape the planet, my collar still gets hot every time my personal space gets invaded by the latest horsebleep coming out of that perpetually tomatofaced and supremely angry white man Donald Trump. With Trump as poster boy, the topic of anger and how the Internet fuels it in Homo sapiens’ behavior is currently a hot and bothered topic. Last week, National Public Radio decided to stop running readers/listeners comments, with Scott Montgomery, NPR’s managing editor of digital news, explaining, “After much experimentation and discussion, we’ve concluded that the comment sections on NPR.org stories are not providing a useful experience for the vast majority of our users.” Ya think? The truth is, online comments come from less than 1 percent of all readers, so for the most part I’ve taken Lizzo and Caroline Smith’s advice in “Let ’Em Say” (“don’t read the comments”) when it comes to my hometown newspapers. But whenever my morbid curiosity craves a window into the deepest and darkest psyches of my neighbors, I make the mistake of perusing the comments sections of the Star Tribune and City Pages, which pretty much annihilates my faith in humanity and makes me want to never have interaction with another person again, live or virtual. What to do? There is, of course, only one way to go in this mad, mad, mad, mad and getting madder world. Go inward, breathe, meditate, disengage, achieve bliss through ignorance, and above all else: Stay cool. Another political diatribe that echoes Hitler and Satan? Stay cool. Another bigot, racist or homophobe in your midst? Stay cool. That creeping sensation that the world is going down the drain and there’s no goodness in people and no such thing as the kindness of strangers? Stay cool. Of course, the kinder and gentler readers of the Southwest Journal will recognize this manifesto as the sequel to my “Stay Warm” column of the brutal winter of 2015, which lamented our practice of making enemies and boxing in strangers based on snap judgments, skin color, politics, religion, sports, etc., and celebrated a rash of “stay warms” between strangers that gave me a little hope. Almost two years later, things have gotten worse, and from the looks of things they will only get much worse as we ramp up to the election and the presidential debates. But the choice is ours. “Stay warm” is an easy way of greeting one and other in the winter, and a genuine

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pleasantry issued to strangers to take good care. The two mindsets are related, but these days I say “stay cool” to myself more than anyone else, because Lord knows I need the reminder. I’m not alone. Within hours of each other this weekend, two friends weighed in on Facebook about the need to stay cool and sought to rectify their dim view of humanity with similar pleas for peace. Joseph Pettini: “I really do not understand why, when someone posts about something they think is cool or fun, there are people who will post something negative like ‘that band sucks’ ‘that movie sucks’ ‘that guitar sucks,’ ad infinitum. I delete comments from my page on a daily basis. It’s one of the things I truly dislike in this world—the compulsion to rain on someone’s parade. Just move on, or put it on your own page. Let’s be nicer to each other. Please.” Brad Zellar: “A lot of times lately I don’t know what I feel until I see what I put on the turntable. Tonight: Tim Buckley, Phil Ochs, and Gene Clark. I guess I’m bummed. Were people really this crazy and mean before the Internet? I tuned in earlier to the live stream of the Tragically Hip’s final concert—the lead singer is dying of brain cancer—and I couldn’t believe the steady barrage of evil, bat[bleep]crazy hatred that kept rolling down the chat screen. Afterwards, at the Super America, some bastard who was in there scratching off lottery tickets gestured at that photograph that I still can’t really look at of the Syrian kid in an ambulance and said to the clerk, ‘Boo hoo, some kid in Iraq had to go to the hospital.’ Who are these [bleeping] people? And what are we going to

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do to save ourselves from them?” Good question. Again, my only way of dealing is to stay cool and kind and creative at a time when too many others are circling the drain and bringing the rest of us down. Don’t believe me? Time magazine saw fit to address this budding health crisis last week in the cover story, “How Trolls Are Ruining The Internet.” “If you need help improving your upload speeds the web is eager to help with technical details, but if you tell it you’re struggling with depression it will try to goad you into killing yourself,” writes Joel Stein. “Psychologists call this the online disinhibition effect, in which factors like anonymity, invisibility, a lack of authority and not communicating in real time strip away the mores society spent millennia building. And it’s seeping from our smartphones into every aspect of our lives.” Time and other commentators offer no concrete advice for dealing with all this, but it says here that there’s only one way to combat all the petty, mean, angry, unoriginal and uncreative energy fomenting out there and only one way to rise above the seemingly endless of parade of divisiveness, road rage, stranger danger and overall jerkdom. Stay cool, stay cool, stay cool. Or, as Walt Whitman put it for all turbulent times, “Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”

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Pillsbury United Communities and the City of Minneapolis are hosting two gun buyback events Aug. 27 at Minneapolis fire stations to encourage residents to turn in guns in exchange for Visa gift cards. The guns will be decommissioned and given to artists to create pieces exploring the impact of gun violence in the community. The events will be held at Fire Station 14 in North Minneapolis and Station 17 in South Minneapolis.

The artwork will be part of a campaign called “Art is My Weapon: A Minnesota Installation of Guns in the Hands of Artists.” A call for artists will be posted at ArtIsMyWeapon.org. Pillsbury United Communities recently hosted the national “Guns in the Hands of Artists” exhibit. Some of the artwork will be on display throughout the community and eventually will be offered for sale.

Chanda Smith Baker, president and CEO of Pillsbury United Communities, lost a cousin to gun violence. “This issue is personal for me, and unfortunately it is personal for many across our community,” Smith Baker said in a prepared statement. “There are too many Minnesotans losing their lives to street violence, suicide, domestic violence and accidental shootings.” The community needs to stop looking away from the problem, she said. “We are unwilling to look the other way, believing that there’s nothing we can do — but rather we will continue to do our part to make our community safer,” she said. “We have a public health crisis with gun violence. It affects all of us, and we all must be part of the solution.” Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau said artists would make the problem more personal. “Some may see a 60-second story on the news and move on, but the effects of gun violence are devastating and everlasting. What I like about this initiative is it is deeply personal and it brings attention and emotion to a societal issue that really affects us all,” Harteau said. “The current cycle of gun violence requires a community solution and this will be more than a conversation starter.” As of Aug. 15, there have been 226 shooting

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victims this year in the city — up nearly 47 percent from the same period last year, according to Minneapolis police statistics. Mayor Betsy Hodges said the “Art is My Weapon” project could be an important way to spark dialogue about the scourge of gun violence. “The arts are where we come together as a city and as a people: it is where we show interest in each other, where the best of us shows up. The arts are also where we can have a transformative effect on the conversation in Minneapolis and across America about gun violence and the need to end it,” Hodges said. “I am very excited that we can creatively use the tool of a gun buyback to fuel this vital conversation through the arts.” People who drop off guns at the gun buyback events can do so anonymously. They will get a $25–$300 Visa gift cards, depending on the type of gun they turn into authorities.

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2016 City Election

‘IT FEELS LIKE A BRIGHTER DAY’ Ilhan Omar talks with the Southwest Journal the day after her historic win

By Jim Walsh

There was a palpable hum on the West Bank of Minneapolis on Aug. 10, with the largely East African neighborhood bustling with smiling walkers and shopkeepers, many of whom were undoubtedly beaming about the news that Ilhan Omar was a step closer to becoming America’s first Somali-American state lawmaker after winning a three-way DFL primary race in House District 60B. Did the newest member-elect of the Minnesota House of Representatives feel the love? “Yes, definitely. It feels like a brighter day,” Omar told the Journal, sitting in her CedarRiverside campaign oﬃce surrounded by members of her campaign team (including communications director and this writer’s wife Jean Heyer). Secretary of State Steve Simon reports that Omar received 2,404 votes, while her opponents Mohamud Noor received 1,738 and Rep. Phyllis Kahn 1,726. Omar will be the DFL candidate on the ballot for the Nov. 8 general election. After one of the most talked-about races in recent Minnesota politics, a weary but excited Omar talked with the Journal about her historic win. You’ve been going hard for months, all coming to a head last night. How does it feel?

Last night was a very emotional night. It’s been a very long, exhausting campaign. We dealt with a lot and it’s really hard to be the candidate and to hold it all together and to be the person who continues to say that things are possible, and that we need to stay above all of this, and that we’re not going to engage in this and we’re not going to engage in that, we’re just going to keep working. So last night, to be able to feel emotions was wonderful and I think therapeutic and freeing. Your phone died because you were getting so many texts and voicemail messages. Where have they been coming from?

All over. I did radio interviews over the phone from Somalia and the U.K. and South Africa. It was really late at night for them when the

Ilhan Omar (center) pictured in her Cedar-Riverside campaign office Aug. 10 with (left-to-right) the campaign’s East African volunteer coordinator Khadra Nur, campaign chair David Gilbert-Pederson, and campaign manager Daniel Cox. Photo by Jim Walsh

results came in, and many people I found out stayed up the whole night waiting for the results. They were ecstatic when the results came in, and there was a big celebration in Mogadishu, the capital city where I was born. There were a lot of people who followed the campaign and didn’t want to miss the opportunity to be the first to know. Everybody wanted to have that memory of “Where were you when the results came in?,” so they just showed up.

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As your campaign has gone on, Donald Trump’s campaign has been marching on in polar opposite fashion. Have you drawn any extra inspiration from that as you’ve gone on, and have you ruminated on the fact that he’d hate it that you won?

I think we put hope in the people of our district and our state and the America we all came to seek refuge in. I’m not only Muslim Somali East African, but I’m visibly Muslim Somali East

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African and our goal has been to get people to not only tolerate that or overlook that, but to celebrate that. Everybody who has joined in and pushed us to victory has actually believed in what it could mean to elect someone who [offers] a more visible diversity at our capital that could instill hope and be an inspiration for a lot of young girls and young women who are being tormented for looking like me. I think in the era of Donald Trump, that sends a clear message that that’s not what we’re about. We are much better, and greater. You’ve talked about unity and how you want to be a voice for everyone. That’s the immigrant story in this country when it comes to leadership. What do you want to do with your position and what are your main goals going forward?

I think with my position I want to help build power for communities that are often powerless and voiceless in our state. I want to be able to push forth our progressive agenda and I want to create a more collaborative environment where people see themselves in politics and see themselves as part of the solution. Thanks to the example set by her mom, your daughter is going to have a completely different life and experience as an American than the one you’ve had. What do you hope for her and kids her age?

My hope is that the road and path to a future success isn’t as challenging for her as it has been for me. I think that when you’re the first, there’s a lot of pressure in regards to the way you would serve the community. For me, the pressure I’ve put myself in is to run a campaign that is not only paving the way but also contributing to shattering any challenge that could ever exist and leaving enough of a trail that can be followed.

I think we put hope in the people of our district and our state and the America we all came to seek refuge in. — Ilhan Omar

So for my daughter and other daughters and my sisters and other young women, what I hope is that they are proud that we have run a campaign that is built with integrity and grace. It’s been about positivity. It’s been about allowing people to step into leadership positions that they didn’t think they were able to do. When we started the campaign, it was really important for me to have young women in leadership positions within the campaign, and to be in those roles and have the pleasure of succeeding in those roles. And I think we’re all the better for that, because I think they have enriched and inspired other young women who’ve watched them step into leadership roles and take politics seriously and that it is possible to do things that people think you shouldn’t, and that there isn’t a perfect timing for being a leader. Since last night, have you ruminated at all on how far you’ve come? You spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya, and I’m wondering if you’ve had a second to step back and think about your beginnings and about where you are now?

I think of my life as chapters. I think about the chapter about pre-war [in Somalia] and the lessons I learned in that chapter, and my life in the refugee camp and the lessons I learned in that chapter, and my life as a young person growing up in this country and the lessons I learned in that chapter. And I think it sort of feels like it’s all

been a training. A training to take on politics that isn’t so kind, that isn’t so ‘Minnesota Nice’ in our district with people who are very much invested in staying the course and using political tactics to continue to win and hold positions. So I feel like after last night, a lot of people feel liberated and like they don’t have to fear political backlash for believing in change and that they don’t have to be beholden to relationships and they can actually invest in progress and a better future. I think a lot about the people who have financially invested in our campaign. My dad was our biggest fundraiser. He’s retired now, but he moved back from East Africa to help us, and because of his relationships, we were able to raise money. It’s interesting, because these are not normally people who would invest in a campaign. But they believed, and they maxed out because they believed it was a worthy cause and I think that’s especially inspiring and uplifting, especially for our community. As a Muslim woman, do you have concerns about working in an arena and with a community that is historically and typically malecentered? And where did you first get the idea that such a thing could be possible?

I don’t think I’ve ever fit into a mold. My whole family has never fit into a mold. I come from generations of women and men who

have not fit into molds. So I don’t think I myself considered a lot about my gender and what that would mean. It was more about other people having the concerns, and [how] walking through that might not be much of a concern. Everything we imagine to be challenging about being a Muslim woman running for the first time has not been much of a challenge. The things that were foreseen to be challenging, we figured out a way to overcome before big challenges arose. Like, I knew there would be a problem with negotiating with elders because they don’t negotiate with women. So having my dad here very early on and having my male cousins coached on the need for them to step up and mediate a lot of the conflicts before they became conflicts was sort of a strategy for us. We examined the risks early on, and spent lots of time trying to come up with every scenario that was bad, everything that could go wrong, and tried to come up with a plan about who could be surrogates and influencers for us. How does it feel to know that women and girls woke up this morning to the news that the first Somali American was about to be elected to office and are inspired by you?

Scary. And great. I feel the weight of the responsibility and of what that means. I want to work hard to make sure that I am setting a good example for them, and I will continue to do that and make sure that their first doesn’t become like a lot of other firsts, who have caused disappointments for others. Jim Walsh lives and grew up in South Minneapolis. He can be reached at jimwalsh086@gmail.com

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Celebrating the workforce’s rising stars A six-time STEP-UP intern, Aajaze Davis, 19, knows he wants to work for U.S. Bank, where he interned this summer. “I love what I’m doing and it’s such a great experience,” Davis said. “I don’t have to come into work and think it’ll be repetitive. I’m always learning something new that’s going to help me.” STEP-UP matches young people from Minneapolis aged 14–21 with paid summer internships at about 230 participating businesses. More than 800 employers, interns and community partners gathered at the Guthrie Theatre on Aug. 18 to celebrate STEP-UP award winners, including interns of the year and employers of the year. Davis — born for the role — emceed. “I’ve never been a person who’s afraid to express who I am,” he said. This summer, 89 percent of participants were youth of color and 36 percent come from immigrant families, according to a news release from the city. Mayor Betsy Hodges presented several awards at the celebration alongside R.T. Rybak, president and CEO of The Minneapolis Foundation, and Richard Davis, chairman and CEO of U.S. Bank. “The number one indicator of future workforce success is early exposure to work experience,” Hodges said. “This is why I

Aajaze Davis, 19, is a six time STEP-UP intern. This year, he emceed the program’s annual award ceremony. Submitted photo

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Judge orders city to place $15 minimum wage on ballot A proposed charter amendment that would allow Minneapolis voters to decide on setting a $15 minimum wage must appear on the ballot this fall, a Hennepin County District Court judge ruled Aug. 22. Judge Susan Robiner sided with a local coalition that sued in August to get the minimum wage question placed on the Nov. 8 ballot after the City Council voted against it. Although council members expressed support for a higher minimum wage, the majority followed the advice of City Attorney Susan Segal, who argued a minimum wage fell outside the narrow range of issues that could properly be addressed through an amendment to the city’s charter. Robiner disagreed, writing in her opinion: “The state constitution does not identify what matters may be included in a charter amendment.” The petitioners who filed the lawsuit were associated with three organizations leading the push for a higher local minimum wage: 15 Now Minnesota, Neighborhoods Organizing for Change and Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha. Mike Griﬃn, field director of Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, said members of his organization were “ecstatic” to hear the judge’s ruling and were already laying the groundwork for “an aggressive, grass-roots campaign” in support of the charter amendment. “This will be one of the largest campaigns that Minneapolis has ever seen,” Griﬃn said. The city appealed Robiner’s ruling Aug. 23 and filed a motion to stay her order while the appeal is in process. Minneapolis Downtown Council President and CEO Steve Cramer and Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce Interim President and CEO John Stanoch said in a joint

statement that questions like the city’s minimum wage were better addressed through the legislative process “which permits input and careful deliberation on consequential policy matters.” “We believe that the District Court ruling in this matter is wrong and we urge the City to appeal,” the two wrote. “The ruling creates an expansive and dangerous precedent and opens the door to initiative and referendum style governance in our City which is plainly not provided for by the Minneapolis Charter.” The plan put to voters would raise the minimum wage gradually, beginning with a hike to $10 an hour Aug. 1, 2017, and increasing annually until Aug. 1, 2020, when it reaches $15 an hour. Beginning in August 2021, the city’s hourly minimum wage would be adjusted annually to keep pace with the cost of living. For businesses with fewer than 500 employees, the minimum wage would increase by just $1 per year, reaching $15 an hour in 2022. More than 30 cities have set local minimum wages, and those currently planning to raise the local minimum wage to $15 per hour include Washington, D.C., Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The state’s minimum wage increased Aug. 1 to $9.50 an hour for large employers and $7.75 an hour for small employers. Several weeks before Robiner issued her ruling, City Council members Lisa Bender (Ward 10), Jacob Frey (Ward 3) and Abdi Warsame (Ward 6) put forward an alternative to the charter amendment process. The three introduced a measure directing the City Coordinator’s oﬃce to study the minimum wage issue and recommend a policy by the second quarter of 2017. A plan for community engagement around the minimum wage issue is expected to reach the Council in October.

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Mayor Betsy Hodges and Yasin Mire Mohamud, mayor of Bosaso, Somalia, sign a sister-city agreement in City Hall. Submitted photo

Minneapolis formalizes sister-city relationship with Bosaso, Somalia Mayor Betsy Hodges and Yasin Mire Mohamud, mayor of Bosaso, Somalia, signed an agreement Aug. 12 formalizing the cities’ new sister-city relationship. The event featured a ceremonial signing in City Hall’s rotunda and performances of the national anthems of the United States and Somalia. The City Council first endorsed the sistercity relationship in October 2014. Minneapolis is the first city in the country to have a sister city in Somalia. Bosaso is the third largest city in Somalia with a population of about 700,000 people. At the time, City Council Member Abdi Warsame (Ward 6), the first Somali-American elected to the Council, expressed a lot of

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On Aug. 17, Graff spoke with the Southwest Journal about the new school year and the progress of his 60-day plan. (The interview has been edited and condensed.) What is your message to teachers as you start your first school year as superintendent in Minneapolis?

Well, I just had an opportunity to welcome over 250 new teachers to our new teacher orientation at Northeast Middle School this morning, and my first message to them was: Realize the work that you do and how impactful that that is to our society. Just appreciate that (you’ve) taken on one of the most powerful professions that’s out there. Beyond that, we have an obligation to make sure that we’re brilliant every day for our students. They deserve that. Parents want that. I also talked to them about focusing on our students and making sure they’re at the forefront of the decisions we make — simple decisions in the classroom and how we interact with them, from how we greet them at the door to how we prepare our lesson and trying to individualize (that lesson) as much as possible. Think about the environment they’re coming from, what their weekend was like or what their summer is going to be like as they transition into (school). And those are all pieces that build, I believe, in that support of students excelling and achieving. So, we talked about that. I also emphasized the importance of the employees who we have in the district and making sure that they recognize that we are here to support them and they are, in some sense of the word, obligated to support each other. We have to make sure that we’re taking care of each other as a unit. And then I talked a little bit about the significance of engaging the community and how it’s beyond just the classroom — the needs we have are beyond the classroom, and the support we have is really beyond the classroom and beyond the district. So, finding opportunities to have our students interact in the community so they can see the real-life experiences and where their skills are going to take them, as well as having the community see what’s going on in our classrooms so they get a sense of confidence that these students are leaders for today. And when you welcome students and their families back to school in less than two weeks, what are you going to be talking about with them?

I make sure that their transition to the school year is positive, first and foremost, make sure

that they feel welcomed in our school. They have a sense of understanding of what the school is about, (and) we hear from them what their needs are for their child. They’re their no. 1 advocate; we’ll be their no. 2 advocate for their child. Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment results were released in July. I think observers of the district are used to, at this point, seeing frustratingly slow progress in raising overall achievement and closing gaps. In a letter you wrote on the MCA results, you said “it’s more than just improving our scores on a state exam.” What does that mean, and how do test scores shape your understanding of the district?

Well, I think we need to be very honest about: this is the data we have, this is where we are as a district. And acknowledging that doesn’t necessarily mean we aren’t doing positive things for students. We have teachers who come to school every day with the intent to create a better opportunity or environment for learning in their classroom with their students. Whether (testing) is one of the pieces of information we use or part of many others, it’s important to have an understanding of the bigger picture. You have described social-emotional learning as “foundational” to your work as an educator. Could you first briefly describe what social-emotional learning means to you, and then tell me how it informs your interactions with both students and the people who work for you?

I’ve been working in the field of social-emotional learning for over 25 years, and I didn’t know it. It’s part of who I am. And the simple definition of social-emotional learning is really around four key areas. It’s self-awareness: Are you aware of how you feel, how your emotions are, how you react to situations? It’s social awareness: Are you aware of society around you, others, what’s going on? Self-management: Can you manage some of those feelings you have — excitement, frustration? (It’s) knowing how to navigate some of that personal, emotional reaction to things. And then the social management: How do you engage in situations in society? How do you help manage and influence situations in society? That’s many times where we start at the beginning of the school year, is establishing an understanding of how people are responding to situations (and) themselves, developing those

Graff spoke with Karen Erickson, a former MPS principal, and her husband, Peter, at a community event in Elliot Park in August. Photo by Dylan Thomas

relationships. And what it does is it creates a much stronger bond and connectedness, so when you start to go into the content part — the academics, if you will — there’s a better connection and understanding of where those students might be better supported in their learning. And the research out there supports the idea that, if students have these skills, their achievement and outcomes are significantly higher than those who don’t. So, we start with that, and when we’re successful with addressing social-emotional learning, the outcomes for students are limitless. I want to ask you for updates on a few of the items you said you planned to tackle in your first 60 days on the job. One was building relationships with the members of the Board of Education. Are you getting to know those nine people — ten, counting the student representative? Are you all on the same page, in terms of the direction you want to take the district?

Any time you’re new to a position, there’s that understanding of where you are, what you have in terms of the resources around you. That has to be understood before you can figure out where you’re going, and working with the board is where I’m starting right now. We had a retreat at the beginning of this month. Since then I’ve had individual meetings with board members (and) had two board meetings, oﬃcial board meetings. So, I’m still devel-

oping those conversations. I also feel good about the support and understanding they have of my position coming in as the new superintendent with all these high expectations and opportunities, recognizing that support is going to be needed, and not just from the board but the work that we have to do collectively in the community with everyone else. As you mentioned, you spent time with school board members in a retreat in August, and I wasn’t in the room but as I understand it a major topic of conversation was the district’s strategic plan.

(Pointing to notes on a board in the conference room) Acceleration 2020. Your retreat facilitator, Michael Casserly, the executive director of the Council of the Great City Schools, was very critical of the plan’s description of schools as the district’s “unit of change.” What is your current thinking on the strategic plan and the district’s push for increased school autonomy?

Well, I think anytime you take a conversation out of context it can be taken out of context. I think, to his point, he was wanting to walk everyone through the different elements of the strategic plan, and I think this was really the first opportunity as a group we had to sit down

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and begin discussing it. But I really felt from that meeting we came away with a great deal of clarity around how everyone supported the goals of Acceleration 2020 — with maybe one or two little tweaks to a goal, inserting students into one area. Everyone was very supportive of the goals that we had. And then it allowed me to further break down the strategies and the focus areas and what were those measures, the metrics, we were going to use to really progress-monitor our work so that we can hold ourselves accountable to it. We could go back and say: If this is what we believe fits underneath this strategy, if this is our area of focus, how are we going to measure it and monitor it in a way that we can report on it, that we can have that check of success? And I think that was a positive thing. We had many areas where we didn’t have those metrics in place, and our commitment was to come back and work with the staff over here to develop that, and then we bring that to the board in October for getting a final understanding and revisiting of where we’re going. Another 60-day goal was to develop a better understanding of the district as an organization. You mentioned two issues in particular back in June: a confusing organizational chart and the morale of your employees. Are you making progress in those areas?

Yes, making progress. How do I measure that progress? Because I think when I made that statement back in June, I think I made it based on the first layer of understanding. Through more conversations and more interaction with people I have a second layer of understanding which confirms we have some organizational structures that we need to look at for better alignment for procedures (and) processes within the district, as well as accessing information and resources from the public and staff. People have been very forthright in sharing that with me, saying: The structure we have

right now, we’re still trying to see how it works, how it can work better, because we’ve gone through a lot of restructuring over here, a lot of changes and transitions. And I think that it’s an opportunity, again, to look at that. As far as morale, definitely I think when you have a new superintendent and you have, again, transitions that are happening in the district, there’s always this uncertainty of how people feel, and sometimes that raises up maybe emotions or things manifest themselves differently than they normally would in a stable, structured (environment). I think, again, it’s been reinforced (that) people want to feel good about what they’re doing, and they need to feel validated for the work they’re doing. So, that’s something that’s very important to me. As I spoke to the group this morning (about) investing in our staff: We know that this work is not easy. It’s never done. And people have to know that we’re committed to making a difference and learning together. So, I feel strongly that the morale of an organization — any organization but in particular a school district — is important. You have described your leadership style as “collaborative,” but ultimately the buck stops at the superintendent’s desk. How do you balance collaboration with ownership of your decisions?

I look at education as being a shared responsibility. It’s very easy for me to just say, “Here’s the challenge. Fix it.” I also know that I’m one person and what I have for thinking is coming from the experiences I’ve had or the education I’ve had or the professional development I’ve had and training (I’ve had). But when I have others bringing their knowledge and their lens and perspective into it, it increases the capacity for understanding where we need to go or how we can get there. I really feel that’s part of the collaboration. Especially the people who are going to

be impacted by what we’re doing, I need their input, I need their perspective. And, yes, at the end of the day I need to make the decision. Hopefully, it will be a decision that people will understand how I got there and my rationale, and it will be one that is keeping the focus on the students, first and foremost, and it will be something that creates positive progress for our students in the district. It will be sustainable. It’s a balance, definitely, of: I need the collaborative input, support, ownership (and) buy-in, and at the end of the day I will be the one who’s accountable for it.

and connection. Again, it just speaks to the relevance and the significance of our students feeling connected to the learning and to the people they work with. And they gave me a great lacrosse stick that they had made as kind of a symbol of where they are now in their understanding or acknowledgement of keeping their languages and their cultures moving forward. You know, lacrosse is becoming a very popular sport, and there’s a very strong connection to the indigenous culture, Native American culture of the game of lacrosse. So that was really neat.

You spent time on American Indian reservations growing up and, in Anchorage, worked in a district where, if I read the demographics correctly, almost one in 10 students identifies as indigenous. As you focus on community engagement in your first 60 days, are you making connections with Minneapolis’ American Indian community?

In June, you told a roomful of reporters, “The expectations I have for myself are going to far surpass the expectations anyone has for me.” It’s part of the Board of Education’s role to review your work. Parents and students and teachers will definitely let you know what they think of your performance. How will you evaluate your work as superintendent?

I had the opportunity to meet with the Phillips Indian Educators group on Monday night (Aug. 15), and, as I told them, I said, for someone who’s experienced a certain culture, race, ethnicity in their upbringing, to be brought back into that environment after being away from it, it’s powerful, the connections you have. And, for me, it just really reinforces how important it is for us to have students to be able to see (themselves) in their teachers, in their educators. So that was the first thing that I got out of that interaction. When someone was mentioning the reservation that they worked on and it was the same one where I went to school as a kid, and they were talking about a town that they visited and it’s the same one that we used to compete against in athletics, you draw these instantaneous connections. We’ve got a link. (I’ve) never met them before, but (we) have that link

I do it every day. I had a board meeting last night, and (I was) reflecting on the needs that we have, from the conversations that were taking place — members of the public, the board members — (and) just, again, revisiting the power and the impact we can make in our city with the work that we’re doing here at MPS. So, it’s never-ending. There’s always room for improvement. I think we have to acknowledge that, and we have to also take the time to know that we are making a difference where we’re making a difference, but be realistic about (the fact that) there’s always room for improvement. Every day a student walks into our school with the hope that they’re going to learn great things and do better. That’s a lot of pressure to have on you.

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Deal keeps bus rapid transit project on schedule The Orange Line will meet a deadline to apply for federal funding

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

The $150-million Orange Line bus rapid transit project is once again on track to meet a fast-approaching deadline to apply for federal funding. The Counties Transit Improvement Board on Aug. 17 committed $37.5 million toward the 17-mile high-speed transit route along Interstate 35W. That commitment was reduced from $45 million in response to Dakota County’s sudden decision in June to withdraw from the five-member joint-powers board, a major player in metro-area transit. There are now commitments to fund 83 percent of the local share of the project, enough to make “a very, very competitive application for the federal funds,” said Hennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin, a CTIB board member. About $66 million in federal dollars were previously targeted to the project, but McLaughlin said the application would include a request to increase the federal share of construction costs to 49 percent from 44 percent, a difference of about $7.5 million. “It’s a huge step forward today,” McLaughlin said. Concerns that CTIB would not act in time for the project to meet a Sept. 2 federal deadline prompted a rally on Lake Street near I-35W two days before the CTIB vote. Orange Line plans call for upgrades to several existing transit stops, including one at Lake Street where a bus shelter accessible only via a crumbling concrete staircase would be replaced by a transit hub connecting streetlevel bus routes to the Midtown Greenway below and the Orange Line above. Project plans call for 12 stations between downtown Minneapolis and Burnsville on the northeastern edge of Dakota County. Operations are scheduled to begin in 2019. Dakota County’s plan to withdraw from CTIB that same year has the board reevaluating its plans for funding future transit projects. The board collects revenue from a quartercent metro-area sales tax and a $20 motor vehicle sales tax to fund the construction and ongoing operation of transit projects, and it is committed to paying for half of the Orange

Line’s operations budget once the line opens. McLaughlin said CTIB previously planned to make a $2 million grant to the Orange Line project oﬃce on Wednesday to keep the doors open and prevent staff layoffs. A Dakota County representative amended the grant agreement to include the original $45-million funding commitment, but that resolution was voted down. Ultimately, the board approved a plan to reduce the commitment by $7.5 million, approximately equal to half of Dakota County’s annual contribution to CTIB, McLaughlin said. ‘The only thing missing right now is the $7.5 million that we carved out … and the $12.1 million in state bonding that’s necessary, that’s still missing from the project, in addition to the $25 million state bonding contribution to the road side of the project, to build the local entrance and exit ramps and access points,” McLaughlin said. “So, it’s $37 million in state bonding that’s necessary to make this project go.” Kate Brickman, director of communications for Metropolitan Council, said at least 75 percent of the project’s local share had to be committed before the application could be submitted. “It will probably give us a medium or a medium-high rating,” Brickman said. “We would’ve only gotten a high rating if we had all the state funding committed as well.” At the rally on Aug. 15, local elected oﬃcials and business and community leaders emphasized the Orange Line’s potential to connect workers with employers and to improve transit connections between Minneapolis and the south metro. A second phase of the project could extend the line to Lakeville, according to Metro Transit. Jan Malcolm, vice president of public affairs for Allina Health and a former state health commissioner, said Allina, Wells Fargo and Children’s Hospital all shared “very strong support” for the Orange Line. Together, the three organizations employee 15,000 people who all work within a mile of the future Lake Street Station, Malcolm said.

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VELODROME PROPOSAL STILL ALIVE FOR SHOREHAM YARDS By Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com

A group of cyclists once pitched a grand vision to transform a historic rail yard into a world-class biking and entertainment destination right on Central Avenue in Northeast Minneapolis. Now, a few years later, that dream is still alive. The MN Cycling Center (MNCC) is planning a multi-purpose center anchored by an indoor velodrome in the eastern corner of the Shoreham Yards rail yard that could host everything from student groups to world-class events. Not much has changed with the proposal since it was first announced in 2013. The volunteer-run nonprofit of biking enthusiasts is proposing to build a velodrome, or a banked track designed for fixed-gear bicycle racing, that would be able to house a multi-purpose sports field on the infield. The complex would also be home to an outdoor BMX biking course, commercial space for several businesses and a ruins garden incorporating parts of the site’s historic Roundhouse building. Jason Lardy, president of the MNCC, said the project is needed to forge connections to the next generation of more diverse cyclists. Lardy, whose marketing company works with the National Sports Center in Blaine, said the velodrome there is reaching the end of its useful life and they now have the opportunity to connect with kids in underserved communities. “Blaine is a long way from downtown Minneapolis and the other neighborhoods,” he told The Journal. “Our goal is to build a facility that is much more accessible for kids and the commu-

The MN Cycling Center is in the schematic design phase on a multi-purpose center in Northeast Minneapolis. Submitted image

nity as a whole.” The velodrome, which, if built, would be the country’s only indoor velodrome outside of Los Angeles, would have support from roughly 20,000 square feet of revenue-generating commercial space, enough for about three or four community-oriented businesses, Lardy said. The complex would also be home to industrial spaces and event spaces that could host weddings, conventions and concerts. On top of ample bike parking, MNCC is currently planning room for about 450 vehicles, though that could change dramatically as the proposal develops. The MNCC is proposing the project on about 12 acres of land near Central & 28th, just a tiny corner of the 230-acre Shoreham Yards site owned by Canadian Pacific. The group intends to partially preserve the semi-circular Roundhouse, an 1887 storage building for steam locomotives, into a plaza much like Mill Ruins Park, Lardy said. In 2000, the City of Minneapolis designated

the little-known landmark — the last remaining roundhouse in the city — after the railroad company attempted to demolish it. Lardy estimates the project would cost somewhere between an estimated $35 million and $40 million. That’s up from the $20 million to $25 million price tag originally pitched to community members, which is due to higher estimated costs associated with historic preservation and parking, he said. The MNCC is ultimately looking for $25 million in state bonding money for the project. First it’s asking lawmakers for $250,000 in predesign work. Sen. Kari Dziedzic (DFL-60), who represents Northeast Minneapolis, and Rep. Tim Sanders (R-37B) of Blaine were chief authors of that request in the Senate and House, respectively. The Minnesota Amateur Sports Commission, which manages the National Sports Center, is the MNCC’s fiscal agent, Lardy said. Council Member Kevin Reich, who represents

much of Northeast Minneapolis, was there early on in conversations and pitched the site to the MN Cycling Center. He touts the site for its connectivity, a central tenet of MNCC’s proposal. Central Avenue is a state highway with bike facilities, connections to the Grand Rounds and some of the city’s most popular transit routes. On top of that, there’s the culture. The area has a “Northeast cool,” Reich said, with its own proclivity for biking, popular events like Art-AWhirl and an expanding commercial corridor. “You just have this real downhome, kind of small-town thing going on in the big city, which they could be a part of,” he said. It also has young people, Lardy said, with an estimated 4,000 students within a few miles of the site. The MNCC would employ youth through a bike-centered job-training program and offer a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, athletics and math) curriculum to students. Local leaders and residents groups have been open to the proposal, including Jane McCarney, co-chair of the Columbia Park Neighborhood Association, and the Northeast Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce. The latter wrote a letter of support following a July community meeting. The MN Cycling Center wants to open the facility by the December of 2019. With roughly 14 months of construction, Lardy said they’re hoping to break ground by fall 2018 if state support comes through in the next sessions.

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A18 August 25–September 7, 2016 / southwestjournal.com FROM 2017 BUDGET / PAGE A1

The increase in the 2016 property tax levy was 3.4 percent. Hodges noted the city’s population grew 8 percent in five years to 412,571 residents. “We are on pace for our fifth consecutive year of exceeding $1 billion in construction permits. We have more people using our parks and our streets. We have more people taking advantage of all Minneapolis to offer,” she said. “Therefore, managing the growth of our city requires more resources.” The mayor’s proposed 2017 budget includes funding to hire an additional five full-time firefighters, bringing the department’s authorized strength to 411. It also includes money for 15 new police officers, allowing the MPD to have up to 877 officers. Twelve officers would focus on community policing and three would be designated for a mental health co-responder pilot project. Hodges has also set a goal of having 901 police officers by 2021. Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau said she’s encouraged to see funding for additional officers. “Anytime we can increase the size of our Department, it’s a good thing, especially as the population of Minneapolis increases,” Harteau said. “Effective public safety today requires our officers to spend significant time patrolling violent crime hotspots, more time on individual 9-1-1 calls, and more time on community engagement and training. I’ve been vocal about the need for more officers and I appreciate the chance to grow our staff and better serve the residents of the City of Minneapolis.” The budget also includes nearly $1 million for several community-based crime prevention strategies, including $500,000 for efforts to tackle violent crime on West Broadway and in Little Earth. All told, 70 percent of new spending proposed in the 2017 budget is directed toward public safety, Hodges said.

Mayor Betsy Hodges’ 2017 budget includes funding for 15 new police officers. File photo

MAYOR BETSY HODGES’ PROPOSED 2017 CITY BUDGET Overview: The mayor has proposed a 5.5-percent levy increase for 2017. Her budget focuses on investments in public safety and includes funding for 15 new police officers and five new firefighters. Overall, the city’s budget is about $1.2 billion. Hodges’ spending plan also includes $2.7 million in cuts. What’s next: The City Council will hold hearings on the budget this fall and vote on adopting the budget in December.

She also encouraged people to become police oﬃcers and expressed gratitude for the current members of the force. “And so I say to our residents of all neighborhoods, races, religions, backgrounds, and genders: join us. Become a Minneapolis police oﬃcer,” she said. “At this dynamic moment of change and transformation, now more than ever, we encourage people who are from and dedicated to the communities we serve to step up and join us in serving, to be part of this

transformation in partnership with community on the ground every day.” Other budget highlights include $14.5 million for affordable housing, funding for new traﬃc control agents to help with congestion downtown and additional investments in Somali youth programs. “We have worked very hard for the problems that accompany growth in our city, and we should take them as a sign of success,” she said, noting the challenges the city faced during the recent deep

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Southwest Minneapolis’ 5th Precinct saw 38 reports of rape in 2016 through July, which is higher than average based on year-to-date statistics dating back to 2000 in Uniform Crime Reports. At least two rape victims were age 12, according to police reports. Sexual assaults were reported this year in neighborhoods including Linden Hills, Kenny, Kingfield, East Isles, Stevens Square, Whittier, CARAG, The Wedge, Lyndale, East Calhoun, Lowry Hill and Kenwood. Crime Prevention Specialist Jennifer Waisanen said more than half of the cases appear to involve acquaintances. According to one police report, a 19-yearold attending a party in February at the 2800 block of Dupont Avenue South blacked out and awoke to discover a suspect pulling her pants and underwear down and attempting to have sex with her. She was able to get away, according to the report, and went to a hospital and contacted police. At least one suspect of rape in the 5th Precinct was recently charged with the crime. In that case, an adult woman awoke from sleep at the 2300 block of Colfax Avenue South to find an intruder sexually penetrating her, according to court documents. When she became alert, she startled the man and he fled, according to the complaint. Police said they discovered cut or missing screens on the ground floor, a partially open bathroom window, and a plastic patio side table placed underneath a kitchen window. Police said fingerprint impressions match Bloomington resident Davon Allen, now age 35, who is charged with burglary and criminal sexual conduct in the 1st degree. In a statement to police, Allen said the woman invited him in to the apartment and the sex was consensual. A hearing on the case is Sept. 1. In another case this year, a Southwest High School student told staff and her parents she had non-consensual sex in May with another student while the two were in school, according to a police report. Minneapolis Public Schools declined to comment on the case, citing data privacy laws. Waisanen said the family is not moving forward with the case at this time, and she said there are conflicting stories about what occurred. Jason Matlock, director of MPS Operational and Security Services, said sexual assault cases are rare in the schools. He said staff work closely with Minneapolis police when there is a direct allegation of sexual assault, and said social workers play a strong role in the investigation. “We definitely make sure we’re supporting them as much as possible,” he said. He said the district’s policy options include expulsion and schedule changes to avoid

The I-35W bridge was lit in teal Aug. 17 to honor survivors of sexual violence. Photo by Michelle Bruch

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contact between students. Staff also look for any gaps in building security, he said. “These kinds of cases are people who know each other,” he said, adding that it’s important for students to learn good social skills in relationships. One in five women will be raped at some point in their lives, according to a 2010 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The National Sexual Violence Resource

Center says it’s the most under-reported crime, with 63 percent of sexual assaults not reported to police, and only 12 percent of child sex abuse reported to authorities. The Minneapolis City Council recently passed a resolution calling Aug. 17 “Break the Silence Day.” The I-35W bridge was lit in teal to honor the day. The city resolution states that silence protects the perpetrators of sexual violence, and says 97 percent receive no punishment for their crimes. A new photography project by Alex Roob shows survivor portraits from the Twin Cities along with their stories. It’s inspired in part by the July 2015 cover of New York Magazine, which featured 35 of Bill Cosby’s accusers. “It’s incredibly important to show survivors that they are not alone,” said Julia Bodin, a survivor herself. At the Break the Silence event in August, some spoke of frustration with their chances at seeing justice. One man said he was assaulted at a homeless shelter, and police told him they wouldn’t investigate because they would never find the perpetrator. Another woman spoke of the excruciating process of testifying in detail about what happened to her.

Bri Byram spoke of being raped seven years ago. She said her attacker was sentenced to 90 days in jail and served less than 30. She became outraged when she recently learned he would no longer have to register and is pardoned from probation. One woman told of sexual abuse by her father and by her longtime boyfriend, followed by two other incidents in 2014. “I’m here because despite years of group and individual therapy, assisting other survivors in their healing, and in my dad’s case testifying in court, the peace that I’ve fought so hard for is fragile,” she said. “My sense of safety in the world crumbles from the smallest comment from someone who supports rape culture. In my mind, if good, kind decent men have twisted ideas about what constitutes sexual assault, then what happens when I come across someone who isn’t good, kind and decent? I’m terrified of being raped again, and yet I can’t shake the feeling that it’s inevitable.” Survivor Liza Laborde offered the other attendees a hug, or a phone number to call at 2 a.m., or a coffee meetup. “That rape will never go away, but happiness exists,” she said.

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Have an energy vision? The city needs you The Clean Energy Partnership, a collaboration between the City of Minneapolis, Xcel Energy and CenterPoint Energy, is looking for candidates to serve on the Energy Vision Advisory Committee during the 2017–2018 term. The committee helps make plans to meet the goals of the Minneapolis Climate Action Plan, which calls for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions 30 percent by 2025 and 80 percent by 2050. Rebecca Virden, a spokeswoman for CenterPoint Energy, said the group’s primary interest is making energy more affordable and reliable for everyone in the city. The committee’s members represent their community and advise

the board of the partnership. The board includes Mayor Betsy Hodges; Jeff Daugherty, director of regulatory affairs at CenterPoint Energy; and Laura McCarten, regional vice president of Xcel Energy. “They’re really that critical community ear that we have within the partnership,” said Bridget Dockter, manager of policy and outreach for Xcel Energy. “We’re really just looking for that broad voice to represent the diversity that is Minneapolis.” This year, the committee developed a community outreach template “to tackle cultural and language barriers to better serve historically underserved populations in energy

eﬃciency,” Dockter said. New members will have opportunities to take on special projects like the community outreach template and make suggestions to improve plans to meet eﬃciency goals based on feedback from their connections. The partnership is looking for diversity not only in terms of Minneapolis wards but also in terms of expertise. The opinions of environmental justice organizations are just as welcome as those of developers. “They are a representative of the community and we do ask that they relay information and outcomes of the meetings to the communities that they serve and represent,” Dockter said.

“We’re not going to reinvent the wheel every two-year work plan, but I think there will be new things the group will add and fine tune.” Beyond the boardroom, some committee members adopt even more responsibility by helping to promote energy eﬃciency in their neighborhoods, from better insulation to starting a solar garden. “There are times in the winter when we are using more heating than Alaska because of our cold temperatures,” Virden said. “We have a lot of opportunity to create eﬃciency.” Applications are due Sept. 12. More information and a link to the application are online at mplscleanenergypartnership.org.

Wanted: innovative environmentalists Minnehaha Creek Watershed District is seeking environmentalist leaders to make lasting change. MCWD is accepting proposals for grants of up to $15,000 to support community organizations, schools, businesses and nonprofits in developing new ways to promote the importance of keeping lakes, streams and wetlands healthy. The projects usually target businesses, property owners and even elected oﬃcials, said Darren Lochner, MCWD’s education manager. Simple strategies to reduce salt, sediment and garbage runoff are common in the projects curriculum. “Some of our projects are at the basic level of building knowledge awareness and then there are some that are focused on changing behavior,” Lochner said. “The projects really span.” The grants come from the Cynthia Krieg Watershed Stewardship Fund, established in 2000 in memory of Cynthia Krieg, who dedicated herself to community service and natural resource protection. With $125,000 available annually, more than a dozen grants were awarded last year. “We’re excited to provide this opportunity

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

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FULTON — Lindsay Ries grew up on a farm on the southern edge of Wisconsin’s verdant and deep-valleyed Driftless Area, and she absorbed some of her earliest art lessons in the studio her mother kept there. “I would come home from school and sit on her studio floor and watch her paint,” Ries said. Cathy Martin, Ries’ mother, works the land and also paints it in hyperrealistic detail. Ries’ recent paintings of barns, farmhouses

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her charcoal underdrawing are left visible. “I like to show the skeleton of the painting,” she said. Mother and daughter, both painters. One graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design with an MFA and the other is a self-taught painter who went to drafting school and once took a job working for John Deere in Dubuque, Iowa. Guess which. “She told me it was her job to draw the nuts and bolts,” Ries said. The farm where Ries grew up is still in the family; her sister and brother-in-law raise beef cows and pigs on its 158 acres. And even though she lives now in Lowry Hill, that land still occupies a large territory in Ries’ imagination and in her art, as do the other wideopen rural spaces of the Upper Midwest. Working from photos taken throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and the Dakotas, Ries depicts a rural anywhere. “The way I paint them, they all kind of fit together,” she said. “They all look like the same space.”

The quiet, contemplative nature of her unpeopled landscapes is in tension with the moments of abstraction Ries inserts into the scenes. A flat layer of latex house paint makes pink and yellow farm sheds pop off the panel. Ries said she aims for a delicate balance in her paintings, depicting believable environment “but at the same time creating little moments of — I guess you could call it ‘disruption.’” Before she landed at MCAD, Ries’ winding education path took her through the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she soaked up the work of American realist painters like Edward Hopper and Charles Sheeler. The influence of Sheeler, who hardened Cubist influences into a precise, razoredged realism, often taking infrastructure and industrial architecture as subjects, seems especially strong here. But then there’s Hopper, who would isolate moments of quiet and almost eerie stillness in the busy city. Ries translates that approach to the Midwestern countryside. Ries retains a farmer’s relentless work ethic. She said she’s completed over 40 paintings this year, and all but three hanging in Gallery 360 were produced in the last two or three months. Martin recently offered her take on her daughter’s new paintings. “With this show, she said, ‘You know, it looks like home,’” Ries recalled. “I said, ‘Yeah, it does.’”

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here are many reasons to visit your local farmers market: access to great, fresh produce, buying face to face from the producer and having a gathering place for the neighborhood. Another reason that isn’t always thought of is a chance to discover new foods and new businesses. One of the market’s goals is to be an incubator for new business. Farmers markets are a great way to test out a new concept and new products. Hometown favorites Bogart’s Doughnuts, Sun Street Breads and The Beez Kneez are just three examples of popular businesses that were all early vendors at our markets. This year, between the Fulton, Kingfield and Nokomis markets, we’ve had thirteen vendors kick off a new business venture, and many more have expanded to our markets as they gradually scale up. One brand new vender is Ginger Mann ginger ale. Owner Rick Mann was exposed to different kinds of ginger ales from his parents’ travels to Bermuda. He began making it himself years ago, testing out different recipes and working to make a good ginger ale with less sugar. He succeeded by creating a product that contains less sugar then most commercially produced ginger ales. He also became interested in the health benefits of ginger, including help with gastro-intestinal issues and its use as an anti-inflammatory. After years of years of making it for his family,

Rachel Thompson’s rich, dense Liege waffles are one of the new treats on offer this season at the Fulton Farmers Market. Photo courtesy Tbsp. Liege Waffles.

Rick decided this winter to get serious and start selling his product. He perfected the recipe, and his wife took on marketing and design. Rick lives in the Kingfield neighborhood and saw our markets as a great fit, excited about the idea of keeping it local. If you have never had craft ginger ale you are in for a treat. He sells glasses of his signature drink, and if you want something a little extra he will add cayenne pepper or fruit puree. Rick said his experience at the markets this summer had far exceeded his expectations. Based on customer requests, he started selling

his ginger ale in growlers and has sold out of the first set and is awaiting his second order. Rick can be found at the Fulton and Kingfield markets through mid September. His website is gingermann.com. Another brand new business at our markets is Tbsp. Liege Waffles. Owner Rachel Thompson spent time in college traveling through Europe, where she saw waffle street vendors everyplace she went. But Thompson wasn’t that impressed with them until she came home and worked on some recipes of her own. Thompson makes Liege waffles, which are

richer and denser than the more common Belgian waffle. They use brioche type dough with caramelized pearl sugar. You can also add toppings like salted caramel or berry cheesecake. The denseness of the waffle makes it very easy to wrap up and carry with you as you shop the markets. Rachel, who just graduated from the University of Minnesota this spring, knew she wanted to have her own business, and she worked for and sought out people that would be great mentors, including the owners of Rise Bagels, Sift and Bogart’s Doughnuts. Those are all vendors of the Neighborhood Roots markets, so she saw the market as a natural fit for a place to start selling her waffles. Rachel says that this first year has far exceeded her expectations, and the biggest challenge is getting people to try the product — but once they do, the sell get easier. The smell of waffles cooking as customers walk by doesn’t hurt either. Rachel and her waffles will be at the Fulton Farmers Market through the first weekend in September. Her website is tbspwaffles.com. There is still plenty of summer goodness left at the farmers market this year. Fulton and Kingfield run through the end of October! We hope to see you there soon — soaking up all we have to offer, discovering your new favorite food, stocking up on some old classics for end of summer salads or annual canning projects and spending some time out with your neighbors in the process. Sasha Jensen is a Fulton resident who joined the Neighborhood Roots board in 2015. She left her job in advertising to stay home with her three young daughters and has spent the summer at the market, local parks and lakes soaking in all South Minneapolis has to offer.

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Neighborhood Spotlight. Tangletown

Tangletown historians share neighborhood lore By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

There is a reason why Tangletown’s winding streets diverge from Minneapolis’ tidy street grid. As told by historian Tom Balcom, landscape architect Horace Cleveland planned the area in 1886, at a time when Tangletown fell outside the city limits. An original 1886 map advertised Washburn Park (now Tangletown) as a place where “men of business can get away from the noise of the city and the inconvenience of small lots and crowded neighborhoods.” “They called this a suburban retreat,” Balcom said. “…It was way out in the country.” Balcom is a longtime Tangletown resident who leads historic walking tours. As a kid, he watched friends’ houses torn down for construction of I-35W, and he played in the trench dug out for the new highway. Balcom’s favorite historic stretch of Tangletown lies on Nicollet Avenue between 50th and 51st, once part of the streetcar line. It holds grand historic homes, duplexes built in 1939, and prefab metal houses created in factories and assembled onsite after World War II. A home at the southwest corner of 50th and Nicollet was constructed for the superintendent of Washburn Orphan Asylum, an orphanage once located where Ramsey Middle School is today. Many early homes in Tangletown were original designs, Balcom said. “It was just a different culture, a different style of building houses back then,” he said. “Each house has its own identity.” According to research by historian Elizabeth Vandam, one Tangletown house was modeled after poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s home. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright helped design an addition to another. “Peanuts” cartoonist Charles Schulz lived in a Minnehaha Parkway house in the 1950s. Another home is a replica of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Italian villa. Vandam, a former Tangletown resident, said her favorite neighborhood stories relate to architect Harry Wild Jones. “It’s hard to beat Harry,” she said. Jones was Tangletown’s first non-farming resident, Vandam said in her book “Harry Wild Jones: American Architect.” A dirt path once passed by his house (still standing at the southeast corner of 51st & Nicollet), where planks were laid for mothers to walk with their baby prams. Jones designed 300 projects throughout his career. His Minneapolis designs include the restroom structure preserved near the

Tom Balcom shows a representation of the Richfield flourmill. No actual drawing or photo of the mill has been found. The mill operated on Minnehaha Creek at Lyndale Avenue from 1854 through the 1880s. Photo by Michelle Bruch

Lake Harriet Bandshell (as well as two previous pavilions there); the Scottish Rite Temple near Franklin & Hennepin; and the Lakewood Cemetery chapel, modeled after the Hagia Sophia in Turkey. Rustic Lodge Avenue is named for Jones’ design of a “Rustic Lodge” that was never built, intended as a log home where every room was octagon-shaped. During the Great Depression, design work became diﬃcult to find, Vandam said. Jones moved his oﬃce into his home, hung the business sign on the front porch, and rented out the second floor. “It’s a bittersweet story,” Vandam said. “He pretty much lost everything.” Jones designed Tangletown’s water tower near the end of his life. According to Balcom, the water tower was constructed in 1932 to replace a smaller tower and help address water pressure problems in the growing neighborhood. The project also provided jobs to help stem unemployment at the time. Balcom’s research tells the symbolism of the water tower statues, each weighing five or

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Historians say the “guardians of health” that stand sentry at Tangletown’s Washburn Water Tower alluded to water quality challenges at the time of its construction in 1932. Photo by Michelle Bruch

more tons. He said workmen who originally built Jones’ Tangletown house in 1887 were attacked by an eagle, and Jones decided to immortalize eagles in the tower. The “guardians of health” statues related to the city’s water quality. The area had seen outbreaks of typhoid fever and foul-tasting water, Balcom

said, and residents disagreed about the cleanest water source. On one occasion in 1968, Balcom said a pump switch malfunctioned and the tower overflowed in the middle of the night, flooding basements to the west. Residents feared that the tower was on the verge of collapse. The Washburn Water Tower operated until 2005, and is included on the National Register of Historic Places. Balcom is hoping for a reprint of “The Doors of Tangletown,” and he’s continuing his research. He is currently working on a book about Fuller Park and the public grade school that was originally at the site. His walking tours take residents past Jones’ homestead, the Washburn Water Tower and Minnehaha Creek. “Hopefully they gain more appreciation and pride about where they live and play,” he said.

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Neighborhood Spotlight. Tangletown

Animal rights come first at Éthique Nouveau By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Minnesota’s only “vegan boutique” is in Tangletown, where Éthique Nouveau sells cruelty-free cosmetics, dairy-free baking chips and children’s books for animal lovers. All of the proceeds fund advocacy at the Animal Rights Coalition, also based at the storefront at 317 W. 48th St. The Animal Rights Coalition (ARC) has been around since 1981, and Program Director Chelsea Youngquist Hassler said it’s one of the oldest animal advocacy groups in the country. Barbara Stasz, an ARC volunteer since the 1990s, has protested traveling circuses, University of Minnesota experiments, and department stores selling fur on Nicollet Mall. She remembers watching dogs in cages leave Minneapolis Animal Care & Control in the ’90s for lab research, a practice ended by legislation in 2012. “In her ’70s, she’s out there protesting and shaking things up,” Youngquist Hassler said. As part of the Cuddle Coats program, volunteers strip out fur coat lining and send the pelts to wildlife rehabilitation partners, where ill and orphaned animals burrow into the furs. “We just shipped out four boxes,” Youngquist Hassler said. “People have attics full of their grandmother’s fur coats and they don’t know what to do with them.” Youngquist Hassler makes vegan wedding cakes, and she recently filmed ARC’s ninth episode of the new cooking show “Feed Me Vegan!” She said she’s skeptical when she sees claims of humane animal treatment for food. She said grass-fed cattle isn’t a sustainable method for

Chelsea Youngquist Hassler, program director at the Animal Rights Coalition at 48th & Grand, shows off a shirt that says “You betcha I’m vegan!” Photo by Michelle Bruch

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Special attractions: The Washburn Water Tower stands at a high point in the neighborhood, giving visitors a chance to admire the view and the tower itself, which is a historic landmark. Neighborhood restaurants include Sun Street Breads, La Fresca, Prima, Saguaro and Wise Acre Tangletown is also home to Ramsey Middle School and Washburn High School. — Michelle Bruch

Tangletown environmental work By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

More than 50 residents in Tangletown and the adjacent Lynnhurst neighborhood have completed advanced training in organics recycling — they’re the ones with the “Organics Captain” lawn signs. They are fielding neighbors’ questions about all the nuances of what can and cannot be composted. “Across the board, people have found it useful,” Joy Gottschalk, president of the Tangletown Neighborhood Association, said. It’s one of several environmental initiatives underway in Tangletown. A neighborhood working group is considering whether to launch a campaign that would offer solar energy shares to at least 100 people in the neighborhood or to build a resource page to provide information on solar. The neighborhood has also received a grant to perform free rooftop solar assessments at commercial sites. Ideal rooftops are hard to find. They’re flat, 10,000 square feet or more, in good condition and sunny. Neighbors are exploring the idea of a rooftop solar garden that offers shares to residents, but the free assessments could also lead to an independent solar array. “It would be awesome to create [a solar garden] in Tangletown,” Gottschalk said. “It’s really hard to find a good rooftop.” Volunteers are also planning a fall water quality project to rake leaves away from storm drains. “Organic debris on cement means there is going to be runoff into our waterways,” Gottschalk said. For more information, contact info@tangletown.org.

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Neighborhood Spotlight. Tangletown FROM WALKING TOUR / PAGE B1

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A wide variety of architectural styles are represented in Tangletown. One of the most famous architects in the neighborhood was Harry Wild Jones. In 1887, he was the first non-farming resident of Washburn Park neighborhood, which is now known as Tangletown. His projects in Minneapolis include the Washburn Park Tower, Butler Square Building and Lakewood Cemetery Memorial Chapel. A group people who appreciate his architectural contributions have mapped his structures around the Twin Cities, including his own home, built in 1887 at 1 Elmwood Place, near 51st & Nicollet, and the Harrington Beard House at 5100 Nicollet Ave. S. Visit the Harry Wild Jones landmarks map: goo.gl/NLtr49.

On the National Register of Historic Places, the Washburn Park Water Tower is one of the few remaining historic water towers in the Twin Cities. Built in 1932, the tower was a collaborative effort by architect Harry Wild Jones, sculptor John K. Daniels and engineer William S. Hewitt. Set high on a hilltop, the tower is a natural gathering place for residents in the neighborhood. I like to walk there from Minnehaha Parkway via Garfield Avenue. After climbing several steps, walk around the base of the tower to take views from all directions. Peering down are “Guardians of Health” who are there to protect the water from pollutants, and circling above are eagles keeping a watchful eye. I had the great pleasure of meeting Tangletown’s oldest resident, Betty Robb, who moved to her current home across the street from the water tower at the age two in 1925. She shared her childhood memories of climbing on the guardian and eagle sculptures while they lay on the ground waiting to be aﬃxed to the concrete tower. Talking with Betty it was easy to forget she is now in her mid-90s, so those Guardians of Health must be doing their job!

Minnehaha Creek Traversing the southern edge of Tangletown, Minnehaha Creek is one of the crown jewels of the neighborhood. The Grand Rounds Trail on the edge of the creek gives walkers easy access to clear water running toward the Mississippi River. The creek is a year-round retreat with seasonal changes reflected in the foliage and recreational activities. It is not uncommon to witness people in canoes, kayaks and makeshift rafts floating down the creek in the summer or on ice skates in the winter.

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Personal flair Homeowners throughout Tangletown make their slice of land unique by adding their own personal touches. By paying attention to the details while walking through the neighborhood, you’ll discover some gems that will likely go unnoticed by others. From my walks over the years, I’ve collected some personal favorites, like the mosaic-tiled retaining wall on the west side of Grand Avenue between 46th and 47th streets. With words like “sizzle” spelled in colorful tiles, it’s a joy to walk by this home. I also appreciate the lawn statues at 46th & Harriet lovingly maintained by Deborah and Craig Kopet. The couple has lived in Tangletown since 1978. They told me that a lot of people say that their yard lifts their spirits, and many admirers take photos or create paintings of the home, which they have shared with the Kopets. A new addition is at 47th & 1st, where the homeowner has commissioned artist Rock Martinez to paint a beautiful mural of dinosaurs, butterflies and flowers on their garage.

Fuller Park Located at 4800 Grand Ave. S., Fuller Park exists where Margaret Fuller School stood from 1896 until 1974, when it closed. Today, the park is a favorite gathering place for children and adults. One resident shared with me what she loves most about the park: “There are traﬃc lanes painted on the path that weaves through the playground, so my kids can practice ‘driving’ on their bikes. I also love the park pool. It’s a simple rectangle, which somehow makes for easy conversation with other pool visitors.” The park and community center is used for celebrations like birthday parties and the annual Fourth of July parade and Halloween party.

Growing up within walking distance of the creek was a dream come true for Margi MacMurdo-Reading, owner of Gardening Angel Garden Design. On a recent walk together, she shared stories from her childhood and marveled at the memory of thinking all kids had such an idyllic landscape at their fingertips.

48th & Grand A cluster of businesses and a community park make the intersection of 48th & Grand feel like a small village nestled inside the larger city. The southwest corner of the intersection is Fuller Park and Community Center. The other three corners of the intersection have thriving businesses that have been named Best of Southwest, including La Fresca (Best Mexican), Tula Spa (Best spa), Willful (Best home furnishings) and Tangletown Bike Shop (Best bike shop). After a recent happy hour on La Fresca’s patio, I learned that Jodi, the owner of A Little Bird On Grand, helps create the beautiful flower arrangements around the patio.

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Unique streets Since the streets are not laid out on a grid like the majority of Minneapolis, it makes for a walk unlike any other in the city. Rustic Lodge Avenue is between 48th and 49th streets, with its western point at Pleasant Avenue and its eastern point at Stevens Avenue. It meets Wentworth Avenue to form a triangle that serves as a mini green space. Such triangles are dotted throughout Tangletown. A street that disorients me every time I walk along it is Pratt Street, because it starts and ends at different points along Minnehaha Creek. West Elmwood Place between Wentworth and Harriet avenues offers a canopy of Elm trees that have been saved from disease by conscientious homeowners.

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noodles. Having always believed in using “everything but the oink,” Andrew Ikeda, Minneapolis chef and owner of Abrothecary, spends days simmering down a combination of pork and fish to make the most comforting, gelatinous broth, which you can find at the Mill City Farmers Market every other Saturday. “I’ve always loved making soups, stocks, sauces and braising things,” confesses Ikeda. “Good food takes time. From the lifestyle of the animals all the way to skimming the stock, good food takes time and a lotta love!” The Mill City Farmers Market, located in between the Mill City Museum and the Guthrie Theater, is your destination for local food. On Saturday, Aug. 27 the Mill City Farmers Market will be having its annual Gluten Free Day. Pick up gluten-free pastas, cereals, baked goods and more, and join chefs from the Wedge Co-op’s catering department for a special gluten-free cooking demonstration at 10:30 a.m. in the Mill City Cooks kitchen. More information is available at millcityfarmersmarket.org — Jenny Heck

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Noodles: Bring water to a boil. If you want you may add salt at this point. Drop the ramen in the boiling water and gently stir. Fresh ramen will cook in 3 minutes so have a colander or strainer ready to drain the noodles when they are done. Set noodles aside. Make sure to cook noodles close to time of serving the ramen to prevent from getting cold or sticking together. Toppings: Hard or soft boiled eggs, green onions, sesame oil. Assembly: Portion noodles into 4 bowls, ladle the ramen broth with the vegetables into each bowl and top with egg, green onions, a drizzle of sesame oil and any other garnish that you may like.

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Sustainable We

By Mikki Morrissette

About Science, Storytelling and Social Conscience

ne of the joys of my life as a writer is that I get to meet and hear firsthand so many stories. For a year, I’ve been able to share some of those “Sustainable We” stories with Journal readers, thanks to editor Sarah McKenzie. As she embarks on a new role, I too am shifting my focus — to a related effort I’m calling “Attainable We.” As a communicator by profession, I have a profound sadness about how poorly we tend to share stories. The goal of Attainable We is this: How might we tell stories differently so that instead of deepening the grooves of a fragmented society, we shift the way we have conversations? What if we were able to stop trying to be “right?” I don’t believe there are absolute truths. Our society evolves based on the storylines we feed it. Look at science — the world of precise measurement and theory. Even there we’ve done a lot of shifting about what we believe. Remember when Christians burned people at the stake if they did not agree that the earth is the center of the universe? By the time we got to Newton’s era, we were able to believe in a clock-like universe of immutable laws. He helped us feel like we could predict everything. Now we have black holes and dark energy, and at the subatomic level we cannot predict anything. We are always changing our truths. And finding new things that existed long before

We have become a society focused on “who knows best” without reminding ourselves, every day, simply how much we need each other in order to survive. we became aware of them. Yet we still have a tendency to talk as if we see everything there is to be seen, have every perspective in place, and can arrive at a “right” answer. What if the need to be “right” is … irrelevant? Non-existent even? What if there are simply too many legitimate perspectives? What if we recognized our interconnected dependence? I am enchanted with the old BBC show “Connections” with James Burke. The message of his show: nothing about our modern world was created in isolation. One idea leads to another and merges with another, to give us the comforts of home we couldn’t replicate on our own. How often today do we recognize what we take for granted in daily life? We have become a society focused on “who

knows best” without reminding ourselves, every day, simply how much we need each other in order to survive. Commerce, industry, technology and political rivalries have largely been allowed to take over the storyline. We’ve devalued the human and glorified the machinery and the capital and the drama. What if we refocused our conversations on the relationships that lead to our ability to BE a society? What if we became aware of how we fragment ourselves? My kids and I love watching the show “Brain Games.” The job of our brains is not to tell us truth, but to gather information and then interpret it, based on what we’ve been taught to expect. For example, our brain sees 12 lines on a piece of paper and enables us to perceive those lines as a cube. We know the story the depiction is telling us and we interpret it for ourselves. How easy it is to make us see what we are asked to see — or are instinctively prone to see — rendering other things invisible that are right before our eyes. Author Jonathan Haidt says in “The Righteous Mind” that people form beliefs not through careful consideration of data, but with gut emotional reactions to experience. We seek facts that justify our beliefs, not the other way around. His book details why liberals, conservatives and libertarians see things in different ways, and why

each side is right. I believe we’ll have a safer society not when media only tells good stories, or we’ve built some magical wall that weeds out the angry and unsafe, but when we learn not to instinctively act on the categories we create.

Stand on the side of love In the aftermath of the violent events in July, what helped me get out of the fetal position was seeing the video of diverse Dallas residents hugging members of the police who had lost five of their colleagues in a sniper attack. I believe underneath we are one interconnected universe, whether we act like it or not, and someday more of this species will “get” that. Maybe it’s about continuing to tell stories with multiple perspectives. Stories of forgiveness rather than blame. Respect for collaboration and nuance rather than contention and declaration. If we proactively start with the notion that our universe is connected, then maybe the ways we divide ourselves up politically, economically and socially will begin to seem so inconsequential that it no longer makes sense to fixate on them. That is what “Attainable We” aims to do. Mikki Morrissette is building a new space about science, storytelling and social conscience at AttainableWe.com.

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Grows on trees

By Eric Braun

Apps for saving easily

he New York Times headline said, “Apps That Make Saving as Effortless as Spending.” So, of course, even though I don’t consider myself a very big spender, I couldn’t resist clicking. What’s not to like about effortless saving? On my journey of chasing the click bait, I learned a few things about both saving and spending.

We tend to think of Saving as a big task or chore with a capital S, but we can all build little triggers or transactions into our lives.

Upon closer inspection First: Wow, spending really is easy. It’s something most of us know on some level, even if knowing it doesn’t actually change the way we spend. A click here, a swipe there, and money just disappears in a magical, electronic poof. I wasn’t joking when I said I’m not a huge spender. I don’t like shopping, and my idea of a great evening is sitting around a fire pit with friends instead of dining at the latest, greatest restaurant. Even my kids don’t have expensive tastes. Still, when the article talked about people’s spending habits — especially using debit cards for amounts you barely notice in your account balances — it cast a colder light on the easy purchases I make and rarely even think about. For me, those small (very thrifty, in my humble opinion) expenses include things like monthly music subscriptions, a beer with friends here and there and casual dinners out with my family. Frankly, I think those spending examples are reasonable and within my budget, and this isn’t a column about how those little expenses can add up to big savings over the year. (Any of us could do the math and figure out if our daily coffee habit is worth the expense over time.)

Mimicking spending What’s interesting, though, is how several apps and programs described in the article take the idea of easy, relatively pain-free spending and turn it into a model for easy, relatively painfree saving.

For instance, a mobile app called Qapital lets you set up rules for when you want to transfer money into savings — and it lets you link those rules to your casual spending. For instance, you can set it up so that each time you buy a coffee, you automatically put the same amount (or $5, or $10, or whatever you want) into savings. Basically, apps like Qapital — and the article mentions several others, including Digit, Dyme and Acorns — make it easy for people to follow the most basic savings advice: Start small, be regular and watch your savings grow.

dollar, and then invest the “spare change” in low-cost index stocks. Your savings get bulked up, however slightly, in that same magical poof. You can read the article for yourself — tinyurl.com/savings-apps — to figure out if one of the apps is right for you. The author does note that they’re not ideal for supersecurity-conscious folks: Since most of them will transfer money directly from your checking account, they ask you to share your bank account number and password similar to money-tracking services such as Mint.com.

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And they use smartphones to do it all. Maybe you’ve gotten used to using your phone to make spending money easy: Think Uber, ApplePay and others. These apps let us use our phones to make saving easier. For instance, Acorns will round up every purchase you make to the next

I haven’t downloaded any of these savings apps yet, and I’m not sure I will. Most appealing to me is this new way of thinking about how easy it can be to save. We tend to think of Saving as a big task or chore with a capital S, but we can all build little triggers or transactions into our lives.

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For instance, I can already quickly move money from my checking account into savings using my credit union’s app. Maybe I set up my own rule that every time I go out to dinner, I make a savings deposit also. Or every time we rent a movie. Or every time I buy a record. The apps are apparently meant to make saving more appealing to young people who might think of the S-word as stodgy or something they can put off. But who among us couldn’t use a little nudge in this area? Eric Braun is a Minneapolis dad of two boys and the co-author of the forthcoming book for young readers, The Survival Guide for Money Smarts: Earn, Save, Spend, Give (Free Spirit Publishing, September 2016). Send comments or questions to ebraun@mnparent.com.

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Get Out Guide. By Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com

FAIR FARE No matter who’s performing or what’s going, the food steals the show at the State Fair each year. And while there are tried-andtrue treats — a bucket full of Sweet Martha’s cookies comes to mind — there are plenty of new eats to taste this year.

CARPE DIEM The Rabbit Hole, known for its ambitious new creations, is serving a ﬁsh-shaped buttermilk miso waﬄe cone with balsamicroasted strawberry compote and vanilla ice cream, topped with a strawberry and graham cracker crumble.

Where: The Rabbit Hole at the Midtown Global Market booth (Aug. 25–30 only)

MINNESOTA STATE FAIR The Great Minnesota Get-Together unoﬃcially marks the end of summer, but we in the Twin Cities still have a lot left to do before things freeze over. From a night to remember Prince to a bucket list of new foods to try, this year’s fair (running Aug. 25 through Labor Day) has plenty to celebrate.

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UNITED IN PURPLE The State Fair is honoring Prince with an evening of the great late musician’s music. Fairgoers are encouraged to wear purple, plus the first 5,000 guests will get glow bracelets and the first 7,500 through the gates will get buttons after 5 p.m. Prince’s personal DJ, GenerationNOW’s DJ Dudley D, will lead a Prince Party in the Park at Carousel Park from 8 p.m.–11:30 p.m. The night’s fireworks will also be set entirely to Prince music and feature a pyrotechnic tribute.

Where: Minnesota State Fairgrounds, 1265 Snelling Ave., St. Paul When: Friday, Aug. 26 from 5 p.m.–close Cost: Included with admission Info: mnstatefair.org

Garrison Keillor may be handing over the reins of “A Prairie Home Companion,” but he’ll host a new special broadcast performance at the State Fair dubbed “The Minnesota Show.” The two-hour program, which will be recorded live and then broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio, will feature many of Keillor’s popular segments, like “Guy Noir, Private Eye” and “News from Lake Wobegon.” It’ll also star regulars Sue Scott, Tim Russell and Fred Newman.

Where: The Grandstand When: Friday, Sept. 2 at 7:45 p.m. Cost: $27–$35 Info: prairiehome.org

Blue Plate Restaurant Company’s State Fair restaurant is adding a pulled pork bowl topped with rice, black beans, spinach, charred salsa and fried onion strings.

Where: The Blue Barn at West End Market south of the History & Heritage Center

MINNESOTA CORN DOG A fair staple gets a North Star State twist when a ground sausage center is wrapped with blueberries, apples, wild rice, maple syrup and cayenne — fried and on a stick, of course.

Where: Gass Station Grill on Cooper Street between Dan Patch and Judson avenues Photos courtesy of the Minnesota State Fair

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SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SHORT FILM TOUR The shorts of the Sundance Film Festival’s Short Film Tour are only limited by their runtime, not their brilliance. This year’s tour showcases a diverse range of film, from stop motion animated film “Edmond,” a nine-minute short about an oddly lovable man with cannibalistic urges from director Nina Gantz, to “Bacon & God’s Wrath,” a mini-documentary by Sol Friedman profiling a Jewish woman trying bacon for the first time. The 95-minute tour program includes eight shorts and is presented by IFP Minnesota.

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MINNEAPOLIS GREEK FESTIVAL The Minneapolis Greek Festival returns to celebrate everything Greek — the food, the handmade desserts, the music and more — all weekend long. The annual fest at St. Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church will feature church tours, a Greek Boutique, a kid’s area with inﬂatables and the Courtyard Café. On Friday night, Chloe’s Fight 5K Toga Run/Family Walk and Kid’s Toga Race will have toga-clad runners going around Lake Calhoun (registration at chloesﬁght.org). The festival runs Friday and Saturday from noon–10 p.m. and Sunday from noon–6 p.m.

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Refinishing

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Certified Arborists (#MN-0354 & #MN-4089A)

23 yrs. Fully Insured

FREE ESTIMATES FOR: Tree Trimming · Tree Removal Stump Grinding · Storm Damage

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612-345-9301

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Landscaping is all around us. Craft yours beautifully.

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Lumberyard of the Twin Cities

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CALL FOR SPECIAL FALL PRICING.

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FULLY BONDED & INSURED

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of lawn mowing

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TREE

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M-F 7:30am–5pm, Sat 8am-Noon • 3233 East 40th St., Mpls

(612) 729-9454 • Commercial & Residential • ISA Certified Arborist

• Owner Operated

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MAINTENANCE Byron Electric

Our specialty is your existing home!®

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Residential & Commercial

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Lights or power out

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763-767-8412

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Handcrafted, elegant hardwood radiator enclosures & fine custom furniture.

Serving the Twin Cities since 1977

Construction Clean-ups Household Clean-ups 1-40 Yard Containers Available Residential & Commercial

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Owner operated

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3537 EAST LAKE STREET MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55406

Fully insured

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We Respond When Your Heating or Cooling Can’t

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PAINTING Lumberyard of the Twin Cities

EXTERIOR & INTERIOR PAINTING

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Lumberyard of the Twin Cities

Remodeling and Addition Packages Fences / Decks / Garages

Carson’s Painting, Handyman Services, Snow Removal, & Lawn Care

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M-F 7:30am–5pm, Sat 8am-Noon • 3233 East 40th St., Mpls

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612.670.4546 Lic. #20373701 Bonded • Insured

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35+ yrs. experience Lic • Bond • Ins

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PAINTING Bonded - Licensed - Insured SINCE 1960

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PA INTING

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– Linden Hills

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Veteran crew keeping your neighborhood homes beautiful since 1960. Residential Commercial

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Painting & Wallcovering Co. A Growing, Locally-Owned Business Serving the Twin Cities for over 15 years!

“NO JOB TOO SMALL – OR TOO BIG”

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REMODELING

Cedar Lumberyard of the Twin Cities

Beautifully sustainable for 19 years. Building-Arts.com

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M-F 7:30am–5pm, Sat 8am-Noon • 3233 East 40th St., Mpls

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we build it

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you dream it

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Lumberyard of the Twin Cities M-F 7:30am–5pm, Sat 8am-Noon • 3233 East 40th St., Mpls

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Design/Construction

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That’s why I depend on NARI. Visit narimn.org or call 612-332-6274 to find a NARI-certified professional for your next remodeling project or to become a NARI member. The NARI logo is a registered trademark of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry. ©2008 NARI of Minnesota.

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