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More than 80 percent of city’s homes constructed before lead paint ban

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All kids under age six in Minneapolis should be tested for lead in the bloodstream, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. The number of children poisoned by lead has fallen nationally and in Minnesota. But as more than 80 percent of Minneapolis homes

A city-commissioned study that found raising the local minimum wage would benefit workers of color with little downside for employers drew skeptical reactions in October from portions of the Minneapolis business community and some members of the City Council. In a report delivered Oct. 5 to the Council,

were constructed before 1978, the year lead paint was banned, lead dust continues to find its way into toddlers’ mouths. The City Council approved state grant funding this fall to continue outreach on the issue. A total of 147 Minneapolis kids were SEE LEAD / PAGE A10

a team of economists from the University of Minnesota found 47,000 of the city’s 311,000 workers, or roughly 15 percent of the Minneapolis workforce, would feel the impact of a minimum wage hike to $12 an hour. A $15 minimum wage would impact about 71,000 SEE MINIMUM WAGE / PAGE A12

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Malcolm Welter, 4, crosses the street in his pink hat and blue boots, nearing his school. Photo by Zoë Peterson

MPS celebrates International Walk and Bike to School Day “Come on, hurry up! Hurry up!” Malcolm Welter called, running hand-in-hand with a classmate to Hiawatha Community School. Malcolm, 4, was an eager participant in the school’s celebration of International Walk and Bike to School Day on Oct. 5. His mom reminded him it was not a race, but he still jogged for most of the five blocks between the Howe campus and Hiawatha campus. Malcolm was one of more than 8,000 Minneapolis Public Schools students, family members and staff from more than 30 schools who participated in the annual event that promotes the benefits of walking and biking to school. Jenny Bordon, a Safe Routes to School specialist with the district, helps map visually and culturally interesting paths for students to follow. “Minneapolis is such a beautiful city for

walking,” Bordon said, “so we assign beautiful routes everywhere.” The event was the first of three designated walk and bike to school days that the district has organized for the school year. Some schools opt to hold Bus Stop and Walk days on a regular basis (weekly or monthly). On these days, the buses stop half a mile from the school, giving all students a chance to walk to school, even if they live too far away to walk all the way from home. Bordon said studies show that increasing physical activity — even just by walking or biking to school — can significantly improve students’ academic achievement and over all wellbeing. It also helps children develop a sense of spatial and directional awareness, she said. “Teachers will report that they arrive happier,

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but also more focused and ready to learn,” Bordon said. “When kids walk and bike, everybody benefits. Cars slow down because they expect to see walkers or bikers. The community might come together around infrastructure improvement to improve the environment so more people can walk and bike, whether it’s to school, or the library, or other places that they want to go.” This thinking is in line with the message of the official International Walk and Bike to School Day, which emphasizes the importance of pedestrian safety, addresses concerns for the environment and aims to build stronger community connections. “A national event can be an amazing impetus for change in communities,” the Walk and Bike to School website says. “Improvements

that normally take a long time to institute can happen quickly when city officials walk or bicycle to school with students and see firsthand what needs to be done.” City Council Member Andrew Johnson joined Hiawatha students walking to school. Deb Regnier, the principal of Hiawatha, said the school has always participated in walk and bike to school days, but this is the first time they have included students who take the bus by organizing a stop half a mile from the school at the nearby Howe campus. This year’s walk to school day will serve as a type of pilot for a regularly scheduled bus-and-walk program at Hiawatha Community School. “We definitely hope to keep doing it,” Regnier said. “The kids are a lot more alert, they’re a lot more awake. They just feel better. Their brains are already working. Most of them, when we get Hiawatha, will go in to have breakfast, so they’ve got fuel for their bodies and this fresh air for their brains, so their learning is much better.” Harper Thompson, 6, held Regnier’s hand as she walked to school. Normally, her parents drop her off. With a shy smile, all she had to say about the event was, “I like it.” Bordon said the walk to school event is also an opportunity to honor students who walk to school everyday, despite rain and Minnesota’s harsh winters. Regnier said she has noticed strong community ties among families that walk or bike to school on regularly. More broadly, it reflects well on the neighborhood as a safe place. “We have so many students that ride or walk to school every single day,” she said. “Many of our students — even in the winter — they are biking and walking to school every single morning. It has quite the community feel.” She added that students who commute on foot or two wheels often spend time with their classmates and families at the park before heading home at the end of the day. Isabelle Cowan, 6, said she prefers biking to school, and does most days. She rides a pink bike. “I like [my bike],” Isabelle said. “It lets me do what I want to.”

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By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Uptown resident Lyndon Allen opened the streetwear shop Hyperfad in mid-August at 38th & Grand. Photo by Michelle Bruch

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Hyperfad A streetwear shop with an independent clothing line in development is now open at 3802B Grand Ave. S., the space formerly home to Wanderland. Owner Lyndon Allen has lots of retail experience, most recently working as store manager at the former Aeropostale in Woodbury. When the store closed and filed for bankruptcy protection, he decided to work toward better job security by breaking out on his own. “I’ve always been into streetwear and fashion,” he said. Allen said he named the store Hyperfad because the clothing will constantly change and evolve. “I wanted to have energy to the store,” he said. “… Everything is super limited. Get it once and it’s gone.” Allen said he carries several brands that aren’t available elsewhere in Minnesota. They include Deadline Ltd.; indscn, based out of Leeds in England; the fast-selling Fuct clothing; and Homme + Femme LA, celebrity-worn apparel that can screen print a strong statement: “By any means necessary, I will survive in an urban war zone.” Hyperfad also carries in-demand

Sprayground backpacks, originally created by a New York designer for artists to easily transport spray cans. Allen said he leans toward cut-and-sew clothing with high-quality garment construction, and he’s designing his own clothing line that’s slated to debut next spring. His ideas for the line include bomber jackets with zipper construction never done before. Allen lives in Uptown, and he’s a bit of an expert on the boom in apartment construction. He’s lived at spots including Blue and Uptown Lake Apartments, and toured The Walkway and Elan and 1800 Lake. He currently lives at Lime, and he’s planning to rent a spot at Revel, the Target-anchored apartment on West Lake that’s slated to open next spring. “I like the amenities,” he said. “[I like] seeing the new designs, the new aesthetics.” Hyperfad opened in mid-August, and Allen is hosting monthly pop-up shop events. The last pop-up featured live music and a photo shoot with co-host House of Nguyen Designs and Royal Krew, which is based in the basement of the Grand Avenue building.

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“Moms don’t want them to look like a teenager, but they want to have a little more style,” she said. “It’s been working really well. … Within four weeks, I sold 70 percent of what I brought in.” Goodnight Moon continues to carry merchandise for babies and young children, including flower girl dresses and the perennially popular sweaters and hats personalized with children’s names. “I’ve had them for years, and I still order them by the dozen,” Damian said. Goodnight Moon is located in the former Three Rooms storefront and offers free parking at 4388 France Ave. S.

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The City Council on Oct. 7 voted to dismiss an ethics complaint against Council Member Alondra Cano, who faced criticism for “doxing” several constituents who disagreed with her participation in a December 2015 Black Lives Matter protest by posting their names, email address and phone numbers on Twitter. A resolution approved unanimously by the 13 members of the Council stated that Cano “violated the ethical aspirations but not the substantive rules of the Ethics in Government Ordinance.” The dismissal means Cano will not face any disciplinary action and that the complaint remains private under state data practices law, Assistant City Attorney Susan Trammell said. “The resolution remains a matter of public record, but you cannot discuss the complaint,” Trammell told Council members. Offered a chance to speak on the matter during the Oct. 27 meeting by Council President Barbara Johnson, Cano, who represents South Minneapolis’ Ward 9, declined. In September, an email Cano sent Cano Johnson was leaked to the press, offering details of the conversations that have gone on behind closed doors since ethics complaints were filed against Cano more than nine months ago. In the email, Cano said she disagreed with the findings of the city’s Ethical Practices Board and threatened to release what she described as evidence of other Council members violating ethics rules if the Council voted to uphold the board’s findings.

duct allegations. It replaced the Police Civilian Review Authority. Velma Korbel, director of the city’s Office of Civil Rights, described the new online databases as “the fulfillment of a promise that we made to the public in 2012 when we first introduced the office of Police Conduct Review.” In an email, the civilian chair of the Police Conduct Oversight Commission, Andrea Brown, described the launch of the data portal as “a necessary step in the right direction.” “It provides the community immediate access to data and statistics that are often at the root of (the public’s) concerns,” Brown wrote. “This is a win for all of us who work hard for accountability in policing. I am excited to see how the PCOC utilizes this new tool.” The data portal’s seven dashboards allow users to search the number of complaints by quarter and precinct and track how supervisors responded to those complaints. It includes a color-coded map that shows the types of alleged misconduct — including harassment, discrimination and criminal SEE DATA / PAGE A7

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Report finds barriers to filing police conduct complaints At the same time as the City of Minneapolis and its police department are beginning to share more data on the complaints made against officers, the system for filing those complaints is being targeted for improvements. Testing conducted by the Police Conduct Oversight Commission found barriers to filing complaints both online and in-person at the precincts, where testers were unable in 13 out of 15 attempts to actually file a complaint. The commission, a civilian body that makes training and policy recommendations to the Minneapolis Police Department, delivered a report on its findings to the City Council’s Public Safety, Civil Rights and Emergency Management Committee on Sept. 28. “What spurred the study is we had heard some anecdotal reports, including from one of our commissioners, about people having trouble filing (complaints) at the precinct level,” explained Jennifer Singleton, the commission’s vice chair. Singleton said testers, including attorneys employed by the city, attempted to file complaints via all four available routes: phone, online, in-person at City Hall and in-person at all of the city’s five police precinct buildings. The service testers encountered at Precinct Four was exemplary, Singleton said, but in other cases desk officers provided incorrect information or simply refused to take a complaint. “A lot of the officers told the testers they had to file in the precinct where the incident happened, which is not true. You can file anywhere,” she said. Singleton said officers sometimes said they were out of the paper complaint forms, which can be downloaded and printed out from the department’s website. “We had a couple of instances where officers just were unwilling to help,” she added. “One officer said that it would be awkward for him to take the complaint, and then we had one officer who just walked away and wouldn’t help the (tester). In that instance, another officer did come and help.” She said it’s the department’s policy that officers, if they are unable to take a complaint at that moment, are supposed to direct a person in how to file a complaint by other means. Commander Jason Case, who oversees MPD’s Internal Affairs Unit, told members of the Council committee that the depart-

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misconduct — and where in the city those complaints originated. The data portal’s users can also search by race, gender and age those who submitted complaints of police misconduct. The data is updated in biweekly increments. Previously, precincts reported conduct data on a quarterly basis, Jaafar said. Mayor Betsy Hodges said she has heard “time and again” from Minneapolis residents about the need for increased transparency in how the city deals with citizen complaints against the police. “By launching these tools today, we as a city are providing more information on demand than ever before, and we are leading the way nationally in such transparency,” Hodges said at an Oct. 11 event at City Hall to announce the launch of the new websites.

ment was already enacting change in response to the report. “All of the recommendations, I think, are something that we’ve taken with a very serious tone and (we) have moved forward on all of them,” he said. Department supervisors assign the desk officers who interact with the public at the precincts, and Case said those supervisors were scheduled to undergo training in October and November. Training for the rest of the department will take place in 2017 or 2018, he told the council committee. “We’re definitely looking at how we staff that desk,” Case told City Council Member Blong Yang (Ward 5), the committee’s chair, who said he’d heard from constituents who encountered poor customer service at precincts. Other recommendations developed by the commission include stocking off-site locations, such as public libraries, with complaint forms and offering a private place at City Hall for members of the public to fill out complaint forms. The latter recommendation is meant to limit the “intimidation factor” of having to file complaints in the department’s Internal Affairs Unit offices, which are located next door to the department’s administrative offices, Singelton said. The department is also moving forward with “yellow cards” — forms similar to the blue incident cards officers give to interviewees at the scene of a crime or accident. The cards would include detailed instructions on how to file a complaint, Singleton said. She said the department had already made it easier to find complaint forms both on the city and department websites. The commission’s report also recommends training for the city’s 311 operators to improve the process of filing a complaint over the phone. During the commission’s test, callers sometimes received misinformation from 311 operators or were connected to operators who hadn’t been trained to take complaints, she said. On a motion from City Council Member Cam Gordon (Ward 2), the committee voted to have city staff report back in March on the police department’s progress in improving the complaint-filing system.

“The information that will now be easily searchable has been made accessible to the public in the past, and with these tools we are taking this transparency to a new level.” City Council Member Cam Gordon (Ward 2) said “concerns about police accountability and data and information” were regularly raised to him during his decade on the council. “There have been moments in those 10 years that I have been pretty frustrated with what information we’re able to share and what we have available for the general public but also for the council,” Gordon said. He said there have been “real strides” toward transparency in recent years, noting the use of police body cameras that began this summer. Go to minneapolismn.gov/civilrights/ policereview/archive/index.htm to access the data portal.

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e all have special needs here,” said Jane Elias of herself and the three-person staff at Simply Jane/Artable, the Diamond Lake neighborhoodbased art therapy studio Elias founded nine years ago. “I am highly sensitive, which causes me a lot of anxiety and depression, and because of our disabilities, we’re all very intuitive and really able to figure out where people are at and how to work with them. “So when I moved over here from our [first location on 48th and Nicollet], I pushed everything back so it’s all wheelchair accessible, and it’s an open studio so there’s lots of spaces, so if someone’s having a breakdown or they’re just overwhelmed by things, there’s space. Being a highly sensitive person, I took everything into consideration, so we have natural light, we don’t use any chemicals in the studio, we only play classical piano music and we try to keep it very organic and very calming.” And how. And it’s not only artists, or people with diagnosed disabilities, who move through this wacky world with their senses and emotions on red alert. The rigmarole of modern life can do a number on the lot of us, and Simply Jane/Artable serves as an oasis of creativity and calm where sensitive souls are set free to bloom anew. “Painting is meditative,” said Elias. “You get outside of all the overstimulation of our world right now and away from the computers, where everybody’s really wired in and not really present. You can’t help but be present when you’re painting.” Elias and crew celebrate Simply Jane/Artable’s birthday Nov. 11 with its annual gala and fundraiser featuring appetizers, a cash bar, a silent auction and a performance and speech on accessibility and the arts by Duluth-born fiddle player Gaelynn Lea, who was born with a congenital disability and who won this year’s NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert contest. Advance tickets can be purchased at simplyjanestudio.com and eventbrite.com/e/ simply-artable-annual-fundraiser-with-musicianand-speaker-gaelynn-lea-tickets-27152307282. “Gaelynn Lea said she would be honored to perform here,” said Elias. “She’s in a wheelchair and she plays her fiddle like a cello and she’s also a big advocate for speaking for those with disabilities and special needs, so we thought she’d be an excellent [spokesperson and performer]. Our first three fundraisers we had Kevin Kling, and he was wonderful.” The second youngest of a boisterous clan of nine, Elias’s father was a guidance counselor who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and her mother was an art and music therapist who took Jane and her older sister Lisa, an accomplished metal artist and blacksmith, to nursing homes and group homes to perform songs and skits for adults with special needs. “Being highly sensitive, growing up in a big family was a very dangerous place for someone like me. I spent my childhood with a pillow over my head and in a closet,” she said. “I mean, I used to get so over-stimulated that I would faint. Everybody was always saying, ‘Don’t be so sensitive, don’t be so sensitive,’ like it was something you could

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Simply Jane/ Artable founder Jane Elias: “I feel like my sensitivity is an amazing gift, and it makes me more compassionate towards others.” Photo by Jim Walsh

control. And they took me to the doctor when I’d faint and he said, ‘She can’t kill herself, she’ll automatically breathe, so just ignore that behavior.’ So they did, and my siblings got such a kick out of making me faint. “So I had to learn how to live here, so I pretended like I was somebody else so I could function. Now, over the years, the only place I really feel comfortable is in my home or here [in her studio]. I created a space that is calm and beautiful. I have a good friend who’s blind, and she comes in here and she goes, ‘Oh this feels so good. It’s so beautiful.’ She can’t even see it, but she can feel the energy that’s in here.” Before opening Simply Jane/Artable, Elias was an in-demand illustrator and muralist who specialized in creating what she’s dubbed “healing environments.” When she became a mother, her kids took to painting and she started teaching other kids how to paint, and she opened her first studio up the street from Washburn High School. “It was a beautiful environment, but the restrooms were downstairs,” she said. “And I soon realized that people were coming in for more than painting. Like, there was a teenager with autism who came every Wednesday night to paint, and I was getting people who were depressed, or people who were total recluses and then would come out, and people in wheelchairs, and lots of women who were like, ‘I haven’t done anything for myself and this is the first time I’ve had a chance to focus.’ And I realized that this is art therapy. So when my lease was up over there, I wanted to find a place that was accessible to all people.” To be sure, other than paints and canvases, Simply Jane/Artable has little in common with the wine-drinking and paint-by-instruction joints that have become trendy in the last five years. But those franchises emboldened many first-timers to try their hand at painting, and Elias welcomes everyone to the cozy confines of her safe space. “Now we have group homes coming in,” she said. “A lot of people with disabilities feel really isolated in their group homes, so we get a lot of them and

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

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A vote for ranked-choice voting Bob Dylan just won the Nobel Prize. Meanwhile Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton vie for undecided votes. One of the two major-party candidates is going to be our next president — and yet 11 percent of the U.S. electorate is currently pledging support to one of the two potential “spoiler candidates” (Gary Johnson and Jill Stein). What’s wrong with this picture? This: That again it’s possible that the most strongly disliked candidate might win this election. The candidate that most people prefer not become president can become president in our system. This flaw in our system is fixable. There is a tried-and-true method of voting that makes it such that: you don’t have to waste your positive influence on a “protest vote”; you can “vote your conscience” without advantaging the worst candidate; and you can “send a message” without at the same time throwing away your opportunity to affect the current election. The stakes are high. Politics is not a game. Real lives are at stake. And yet, to watch the television is to come away with a feeling that the horserace itself is more important than the result. And that the candidate most capable of hurting the other is the one who will be the victor. Is this what we want? There are often many solutions to a problem. Creative thinkers collaborate. But it only takes one gigantic hole to sink a boat. My hope is that the 11 percent pledging

support for third-party candidates will in the long term increase their efforts to change our voting system — but in the short term, they will vote to ensure the boat doesn’t sink. It’s “A Hard Rain Gonna Fall” if that happens. Go to fairvotemn.org for more information on ranked-choice voting, why it’s better and how it works.

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Another vote for RCV We’re experiencing the divisive “spoiler” quandary, again – and it has me worried. Polls are showing Gary Johnson and Jill Stein taking votes away primarily from Hillary Clinton. I’ve seen this dynamic nearly every presidential race (and Minnesota gubernatorial race) for as long as I’ve been here, now 19 years. I come from Australia, where such a deleterious and lamentable dynamic doesn’t exist in elections. Voters here deserve to know it doesn’t have to be this way. If the U.S. could follow Australia’s — among other world democracies — example and adopt ranked-choice voting, everyone could vote their conscience without fear of playing the spoiler. RCV is simple: Voters choose their mostpreferred candidate but also have the option of ranking additional candidates. In a split and competitive race like the current presidential contest, if no candidate wins a majority of the votes (and polls are showing no candidate will), then an “instant runoff” is possible. If you vote for a third-party candidate, your vote is not “wasted” but instead transferred to your second choice. This ensures the will of the majority prevails — without the expense and hassle of a second election. My adopted city, Minneapolis, uses RCV. Voters here not only think it’s simple to use,

they prefer it 2-to-1 over the current system. RCV offers a proven — and immediate – path to fixing our broken system. It’s the only system that respects and counts every citizen’s vote — and ensures a more representative democracy. Many voters, particularly younger voters,

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poisoned by lead for the first time in 2015. A city map shows more than 20 children poisoned on single blocks of Whittier, Lyndale and Kingfield between 1999 and 2014. At least one lead poisoning case during that period was documented in nearly every Southwest Minneapolis neighborhood. Areas with more rental housing and lower incomes are disproportionately impacted, according to city staff. “A lot of families have never heard of it,” said Megan Curran de Nieto, director of community health programs at CLEARCorps Minnesota, a nonprofit that works to prevent lead poisoning in low-income families. “They just don’t have information about when they’re at risk. … We really try to show them in our homes how lead is everywhere.” Curran de Nieto travels door-to-door in Minneapolis, looking for peeling paint and old porch floors where children might play. Children’s brains and nervous systems are more sensitive to lead than adults, and they absorb lead more quickly than adults. She typically sees lead poisoning in low-income families living in poorly-maintained rental housing, as well as young families who live in old homes and do their own home improvement work. While canvassing near Columbus & Franklin, resident Bryon Johnson leaned out a car window and said his son tested high for lead while growing up in Ohio. “He used to chew on the windowsill,” he said. Johnson described his son, now age 19, as “a little slow.” He said his son dropped out of school, and he’s dealt with educational problems throughout his life. “What can I do about that?” he asked.

“That is what happens with kids with lead,” Curran de Nieto said in response. “…Unfortunately the damage is done. There are programs in the community that can help them with different ways to learn.” Exposure to lead can cause learning difficulties, a reduced IQ and behavior problems, according to a 2015 report by the Minnesota Department of Health. Lead can also cause hypertension and kidney problems in adults, and poses a risk to children of nursing and pregnant mothers. Lisa Smestad, the city’s manager of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes, said phasing lead out of gasoline by 1996 reduced blood lead levels. But lead paint in homes remains. She said the most common sources of lead poisoning in Minneapolis come from the window sash, the interior windowsills and painted porch floors. Even when lead is painted over, as on a porch floor, in 10 years time it may be deteriorating again, said Curran de Nieto. She said porch windows are notoriously bad. As windows slam up or down, fine lead dust or paint chips can scatter. Curran de Nieto watches for paint that’s detaching in a horizontal pattern. Whereas latex paint tends to detach with curved edges, striated paint is a telltale sign lead paint is underneath, she said. Lead can also lie in the soil, generally three feet around a home foundation. “Lead is very heavy and tends to fall fairly close to the original surface,” she said. “If they had a vegetable garden next to the foundation, we would do education about why that’s dangerous.” Paint on stucco doesn’t chip or peel the way it does on wood, but lead paint on stucco can still cause a problem, Curran de Nieto said.

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“Power sanding, sandblasting, even power washing could potentially poison a whole neighborhood,” she said. “It’s churned up into such a fine cloud of dust. …Taking a power sander to these surfaces is crazy dangerous.” Information for do-it-yourself homeowners is available at epa.gov. Tips include covering floors with plastic sheeting, turning off forced air heating and air conditioning, and applying water to lead-painted surfaces to prevent dust from spreading. Curran de Nieto encourages families to ask for the lead results in blood tests during a child’s annual checkup. “Sometimes if the lead test is under 5 [micrograms per deciliter], they will not always report it to you,” she said. The crucial time period is 12–29 months, she said, when kids are starting to become mobile and constantly have their hands in their mouths. “There are no outward symptoms,” Curran de Nieto said. “The only way to know is through a blood test.” The amount of lead in blood considered acceptable in children continues to fall, and the federal government has reduced its threshold for concern from 10 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood to 5. Research has shown there is no safe level of exposure to lead, and public health workers are addressing cases they may not have pursued in the past. “Their caseload is giant compared to what it used to be,” Curran de Nieto said. Nutrition can play a role in lead poisoning as well. Children who are eating well and eating frequently have an extra layer of defense, Curran de Nieto said. “Kids that suffer chronic hunger can have faster uptakes of lead and immediately start metabolizing it,” she said. A 2008 city report said child lead poisoning has been linked to delinquency, hyperactivity and aggression, as well as anti-social, criminal and violent behaviors. Mayor Betsy Hodges referenced the impact of lead poisoning on teenage behavior during a panel discussion last summer with U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro. “This is important for the health of your entire community,” she said. “… It does have an impact on the education system that people are trying so hard to have a positive impact on, and the opportunity gaps that young people face between white kids and kids of color.” School staff in Minneapolis take steps to ensure lead does not contaminate the students’ water supply. Water in about 40 schools has lead levels up to 400 parts per billion (water in Flint, Mich. tested in excess of 13,000 parts per billion), which prompts a daily “flushing”

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By Lynda McDonnell

Out of my comfort zone

t’s rare that I remember a theatrical performance decades later. But the play “Sally’s Rape” at the Penumbra Theater has stayed with me some 20 years. On a small stage, two women, the play’s black creator Robbie McCauley and her white collaborator, acted out scenes from their familial pasts. There were charming bits comparing how their grandmothers taught them to hold teacups and cross ankles. The central scene was McCauley’s alone: Stripped naked, standing on a stool, she reenacted her ancestor’s rape by the man who owned Sally’s body as he owned fields, shotguns and dogs. It was haunting theater. But all these years later, I remember just as vividly a quiet exchange that followed. When the actresses returned to the stage for a discussion, a man in the second row — Caucasian, white-haired, suburban — raised his hand. “That was very interesting,” he said. “But where I work and live, everybody looks like me. What am I supposed to do?” McCauley leaned forward and answered with a quiet challenge: “With all due respect, you can’t just wait for people to show up in your office or neighborhood. You need to get out of your comfort zone and go to them.” I’ve thought often of her gentle admonition in the months since a policeman stopped Philando Castile for a broken taillight on a suburban street less than 10 miles from my home. For reasons I can only guess at — panic, poor training, some primordial fear of black men — the cop in Falcon Heights fired his gun multiple times and killed a kind, hard-working man about to celebrate his 33rd birthday. We were flooded at first with poignant images. Diamond Reynolds, Castile’s girlfriend, recording the horrific aftermath on her phone. The tributes at J.J. Hill Montessori to the beloved Mr. Phil. The horse-drawn carriage that bore his body to the Cathedral. The protests that briefly closed I-94 and created an encampment outside the governor’s mansion. And now, three months later? Castile’s mother has met with members of Congress. Protestors still take to the streets, demanding that the cop be charged and that police accountability be changed. In September, the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension turned over its investigation of Castile’s death to the Ramsey County attorney. I too have done a few things. Visited the young protestors camped out in front of the governor’s mansion. Learned about de-escalation training and implicit bias. Wrote letters urging Gov. Dayton and my state legislators to find ways to correct the inequities in Minnesota’s schools, police, courts and economy. When my son challenges — “What has changed?” — I point to the Black Lives Matter signs in my neighborhood and cite dinner conversations about race. I say what the old always say to the young — that change takes time, that documenting injustice and provoking awareness are the first steps toward remedy. My answers feel meager, even to me. I think of McCauley’s challenge: Get out of your comfort zone and go to them. Over the years, I’ve tutored low-income kids, gone to public meetings, written letters, welcomed people of color when they showed up where I work, live, worship. For 12 years, I ran a program to train aspiring journalists, particularly writers of color. And yet, looking at the police killings of unarmed men and our city’s yawning racial disparities, it feels like very little. As a baby boomer, I came of age believing that civil rights laws and Great Society programs would guarantee voting rights and end discrimination in housing, schools and employment.

It was haunting theater. But all these years later, I remember just as vividly a quiet exchange that followed.

Yet here we are, half a century later, still arguing about Law and Order, still searching for the ways and the will to close massive racial gaps in education, housing, income and employment. The work of expunging the sin of slavery and fulfilling the pledge we recite so often — liberty and justice for all — is far from done. Now we are challenged to face the bias buried within ourselves. As Hillary Clinton said in the first debate: “I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police. I think, unfortunately, too many of us in our great country jump to conclusions about each other, and therefore, I think we need all of us to be asking hard questions about, why am I feeling this way? These days, I seek ways to dig deeper. I read books by young black writers — “Citizen” by Claudia Rankine and “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates — that challenge my belief in America’s fundamental fairness. I’ve had tough conversations with white friends about white privilege and friends of color about cultural appropriation. I explore research showing racial bias even among preschool teachers and the public’s subconscious connections between black faces and crime. Get out of your comfort zone and go to them. I’m still searching for the part I’ll play to ensure that Philando Castile did not die in vain. One thing is clear: I don’t have to travel far. My Minneapolis neighborhood, Kingfield, is a place of privilege — roughly 82 percent of the residents are white with a median income of $71,000 and a poverty rate below eight percent. Our privilege is clear in our trendy restaurants and landscaped yards. Just across I-35W, the Central neighborhood is different. The median income is $48,500, and the poverty rate nearly 25 percent. It’s far more diverse — 39 percent Hispanic, 26 percent black, 27 percent white. I’m spending more time there — going east for walks, using Hosmer Library instead of Washburn, taking my grandkids to King and Sabathani parks to play. I’ll know Minneapolis is making progress when its neighborhoods grow less segregated, when Central’s diversity and Kingfield’s prosperity are more widely shared. Race continues to be America’s festering wound and great divider. Change won’t come solely from the work of protestors and black activists. As a woman with white skin and economic privilege, I’m obliged to engage personally in the work and insist that my leaders do likewise. “If oppression is at the core, then this work will never end,” Robbie McCauley has written. “If it can be weeded out, then dialogue. It’s a work in progress. Dialogue. It’s a dialogue. Which means you have to work, too.” Kingfield resident Lynda McDonnell is a Twin Cities writer and former director of ThreeSixty Journalism, a youth journalism program at the University of St. Thomas.

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people, or almost 23 percent of the workforce. Those predicted to benefit from rising wages are disproportionately workers of color. Even though the Minneapolis workforce is two-thirds white, half of those predicted to feel the effects of a $15 minimum wage are people of color. Latino and black workers would benefit the most. The effects of rising wages would be felt most strongly — by both workers and their employers — in industries where lower wages are most prevalent, including retail, restaurants, health care and childcare. “This report shows that passing a $15 minimum wage by 2021 will be a tremendous step to reducing poverty in Minneapolis, and would especially provide economic opportunity for women and workers of color,” said Ginger Jentzen, executive director of 15 Now Minnesota, in a statement. “The study counters the big business scaremongering about unemployment, price increases and business closures.” Some business owners are already on board, including Frank Brown, a Minuteman Press franchisee in Minneapolis. Brown raised the starting wage at his Uptown shop to $15 not long after buying the business a year-and-a-half ago. He said it was “the right thing to do.” “People can’t survive on less than $15 an hour,” he said. The change lowered Brown’s profit margins, but he said the business is doing better overall. But the president of the Southwest Business Association, Matt Perry, said the report “just doesn’t jibe with what we’re hearing from people in the business community, at least in this part of town.” “Businesses have said that there are definitely going to be costs. They’re going to be raising their prices,” Perry said. “Restaurants aren’t talking about a 5-percent increase, but higher.”

Skeptical reactions When adjusted for inflation, a $15 minimum wage in 2021 would be higher than any minimum wage ever offered in the state, while a $12 minimum wage would be similar to the federal minimum wage of the 1960s, the researchers reported. According to the 200-plus-page research paper, the anticipated effects of a $15 minimum wage include an increase in take-home earnings

for low-wage workers of 10–30 percent — even if employers cut hours in response to higher wages. Restaurant workers are at the high end of that range. The models used by the research team predict higher wages won’t lead to significant layoffs and that operating costs for businesses will rise, at most, 5.4 percent under the $15-an-hour scenario. They predict that restaurant owners will pass on over half of higher payroll costs to their customers, but the tab for a $25 meal would only rise up to $1.66 — an increase of less than 1 percent. “When you already are paying $6 for a singlescoop ice cream cone, how much more are people going to be willing to pay?” a skepticalsounding Lisa Goodman asked the research team when they presented their findings to the Council. The City Council member said a 5-percent increase in operating costs could force businesses in her Ward 7 to close. Noting two of its authors had publicly advocated for raising the minimum wage, Goodman questioned the objectivity of the report. “I was really hoping we would get a study back that showed us the cost-benefit was, how it would affect businesses, but when I see a report that basically says there’s no negative to businesses at all, it’s hard for me to consider the report completely unbiased,” Goodman said. Jonathan Weinhagen, the new president and CEO of the Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce, said he “share(d) some of the skepticism with regards to some possible bias” in the report. One option the chamber will consider is bringing in another economist to go over the data, Weinhagen said. While the Minneapolis Downtown Council has not taken an official stance on the $15 minimum wage question, the business association’s president and CEO, Steve Cramer, said he, too, was “a little incredulous” at the report’s findings. Cramer said the “main concern” is a go-italone approach by the city that would push its wages above the rest of the region. There were similar concerns raised when Minneapolis this year became the first city in the state requiring employers to offer earned sick and safe time to most workers within city limits. Cramer said, “I hear from people whose job it is to bring companies in to fill these buildings downtown, and there’s concern about: What are

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“If anybody came to me today and said, I want to open a business in Minneapolis, I would say run,” said Julene Lind, the owner of Nicollet Ace Hardware, who has about 20 employees. “As fast as you can run, go to the outskirts (of the city) as close as you can get and go (open a business) there.” Lind, who has operated the business near the corner of 38th & Nicollet for three decades, said she already pays almost all of her employees several dollars an hour above the minimum wage. Minimum wage is “a line that people gauge their success at,” she said, and if that line creeps up, her employees will want raises to stay well above it. “They don’t want to be $1 over minimum wage, and they don’t want to be back at minimum wage,” Lind said. “… They worked hard to be above minimum wage.” If a $15 minimum wage passed the Council, Lind said it would no longer be worth it to her to hire and train high school-age employees, something she has considered her duty as a business owner. It could lead her to cut back on staffing by several employees and strictly limit overtime hours, she added. Mark Van Wie, owner of The Pig & Fiddle restaurant near 50th & France, said payroll typically accounts for a third of a restaurant’s expenses, so any change in the minimum wage has a significant impact. Van Wie anticipated having to cut back on hours for his 22 employees at the restaurant, and said menu prices would likely rise. A $15 minimum wage that doesn’t extend beyond city limits could make it harder for border businesses like Van Wie’s to compete, he added. The pub’s front door is just a few steps from Edina. “People have a choice every day to cross the street,” Van Wie said. “Whether 50 cents or a dollar an item is enough to make them change their buying habits, it’s hard to say.” Brown, the Minuteman Press franchisee who’s already paying a $15 starting wage, said businesses have to adapt — and they will. “That’s what I’m doing,” he said. “I’m just a little bit ahead of the curve in terms of what, really, is the right thing to do.”

GATHERING FEEDBACK The City of Minneapolis plans to gather business and community input on a potential minimum wage ordinance over the next few months. A community engagement plan was outlined in October, shortly after the release of a research paper examining the potential impact of an increased minimum wage in Minneapolis. The city plans multiple listening sessions and meetings on the proposal between November and February, although specific dates have yet to be announced. A specific policy recommendation is expected to go before the Council in mid-May, and a vote on a minimum wage ordinance could occur sometime in the second quarter of 2017. To download the minimum wage report or read a summary of the findings, or to find out more about the city’s plans for community engagement, go to minneapolismn. gov/minimumwage.

Brown said paying what he called a “livable wage” was good for the community. And it has strengthened relationships with his six employees, who all saw a pay bump when he raised the starting wage. He hasn’t raised his prices, laid anyone off or cut hours for his employees, so the increased payroll means his business makes a little less profit. “I’m just not Mr. Greedy (saying) that, Oh, I have to make a million dollars,” he said.

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LOCAL RACES

What’s on the ballot? Election day information for voters

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

FEDERAL OFFICES

PRESIDENT: At the top of the ballot, voters will select between a Republican ticket of businessman and television personality Donald Trump and running mate Mike Pence, the governor of Indiana, and a Democratic ticket of Hillary Clinton, a former U.S. secretary of state, and her vice presidential candidate, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine. Among the others vying for the presidency are Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson (with running mate William Weld) and Green Party candidate Jill Stein (running with Howie Hawkins). U.S. REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 5: U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, a Minneapolis DFLer, is seeking re-election to his sixth term in Congress. Challengers to Ellison include Republican candidate Frank Drake and Dennis Schuller of the Legal Marijuana Now party. STATE OFFICES

MINNESOTA SENATE DISTRICT 61: After serving one term in the house, DFLer Scott Dibble won a senate seat in 2002, and is now seeking his fifth term. Challenging to represent a district that covers most of Southwest Minneapolis is Republican Bob “Again” Carney.

MINNESOTA SENATE DISTRICT 62: Previously elected to two house terms, DFLer Jeff Hayden earned his senate seat in a 2011 special election and was re-elected in 2012. Republican Bruce Lundeen is also vying for election in a district that covers portions of South and Southwest Minneapolis. MINNESOTA HOUSE DISTRICT 61A: Frank Hornstein, a DFLer first elected in 2002, is seeking his eighth term representing the district, which includes portions of Southwest Minneapolis and downtown. Republican Brian Rosenblatt will challenge for the seat this year. MINNESOTA HOUSE DISTRICT 61B: The top DFLer in the house, Paul Thissen is running for re-election to his eighth term. Also seeking to represent parts of Southwest Minneapolis is Republican Tom Gallagher. MINNESOTA HOUSE DISTRICT 62A: DFL incumbent Karen Clark has represented this district covering part of South Minneapolis as well as the Stevens Square and Whittier neighborhoods since 1980. Republican Claire Leiter is challenging. MINNESOTA HOUSE DISTRICT 62B: Susan Allen will run unopposed for her third term covering a district that covers parts of South and Southwest Minneapolis on either side of I-35W.

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

All Minnesota voters will be asked to answer “yes” or “no” to a proposed amendment to the state’s constitution that would remove the power of setting state lawmakers’ salaries from the legislature and instead establish a citizens council that would decide on lawmakers’ pay. MINNEAPOLIS BOARD OF EDUCATION

Eight candidates are vying for four open seats on the Minneapolis Board of Education. The open districts include three seats representing the western half of Minneapolis and one at-large seat. Southwest includes District 4 (incumbent Josh Reimnitz facing Bob Walser) and District 6 (incumbent Tracine Asberry facing Ira Jourdain). All voters will chose between Kim Ellison (the District 2 representative, seeking a different seat) and Doug Mann in the at-large contest. SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENDUM

Minneapolis Public Schools is asking voters to renew an operating referendum of $1,604.31 per pupil. Voters who select “yes” are choosing to renew the levy for nine years, while those who vote “no” are choosing to allow the referendum to expire.

JUDICIAL OFFICES

ASSOCIATE JUSTICE 6: All Minnesota voters will select between incumbent Natalie Hudson and challenger Craig Foss for a six-year term as an associate justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court. Hudson was appointed to her seat by Gov. Mark Dayton in 2015. There are also numerous 4th District Court judge contests, most uncontested.

HOW TO VOTE  Polling places: Polls are open 7 a.m.–8 p.m. for the election on Tuesday, Nov. 8. To find your polling place, go to pollfinder.sos.state. mn.us.  Sample ballot: Go to myballotmn. sos.state.mn.us to download a sample ballot. For more information on individual candidates, including links to their campaign websites, go to candidates.sos.state.mn.us.  Early voting: Early voting, also known as in-person absentee voting, is available at four early vote centers until Nov. 7. For locations, go to sos.state.mn.us/elections-voting/ other-ways-to-vote.

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SCHOOL BOARD

High stakes school board election By Zoë Peterson / zpeterson@southwestjournal.com

On Election Day, voters will choose from eight candidates to fill four openings on the Minneapolis School Board. Critical districts, including District 2, which includes North Minneapolis, have seats up for grabs. Kim Ellison, who currently represents

District 2 and serves as vice chair of the board, is up for re-election and decided to run for a spot as a member at-large, leaving that seat wide open for a newcomer. Ira Jourdain, a member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, unsuccessfully ran

for a citywide seat in 2014. Jourdain is running against Board Member Tracine Asberry, who is seeking re-election to her District 6 seat representing most of Southwest Minneapolis. The Journals offered the school board candidates 100 words to make their cases for election

or re-election. Visit campaign website for more on each candidate, including a full list of their endorsements.

DISTRICT 2

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“I’ve spent years volunteering, advocating and building relationships with schools, neighborhood associations and community partners in order to better North Side schools. As a parent of MPS students, I have insight into the disparities many of our

families face, while my work sitting on site councils and committees taught me how our schools operate. I see each school’s struggles, as well as their assets. I have played a crucial role in the process of hiring principals,

strengthening feeder pathways, reopening Franklin Middle School and bringing the IB program to Olson Middle School. I work to meet the needs of our schools.”

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“I’ve been a North Side champion since the district tried to close North High School. I’ve been a part of teams that care about North Minneapolis schools and have won. At North: assisted in the appointment of the principal who raised

the graduation rates from 22 percent to 77 percent. Franklin: reopened. Lucy Laney: dual teaching. Olson Middle School: IB program. Changes are slow. Our kids need change now. I will bring the community together and get the

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800 pages down to a meaningful 20 pages — making it easier to focus on student outcomes, not a crisis of the week. We need elected officials who consider the long-term implications for our children. My pragmatic idealism

makes me a strong voice to represent the students throughout our system in the fight for equity, reduced racial disparities and increased graduation rates.”

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the critical challenge of equity. I bring the perspectives of a music educator and scholar with 30-plus years of experience, 12 years as an MPS parent and the husband of an MPS teacher. A 27-year marriage, endorsements

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“I should be re-elected to continue providing the love and leadership needed to achieve racial equity and ensure an outstanding education for every child. I have a proven track record of relentlessly advocating for MPS students and families, and increasing the district

and board’s accountability, transparency and community engagement. I’m committed to all students making significant academic growth each year; students, families and teachers feeling valued; school environments that are nurturing, inclusive and conducive to

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“My experience in human services working with families to overcome challenges is a perspective that is needed on the board. And as a Native American parent — who has served on Site Councils, PTAs and the Title VII

American Indian Parent Committee — I bring a unique voice. I believe we need to invest in all MPS staff and move away from the administrative-heavy model; communicate to parents and

community members in District 6 about what is working; and support our community schools in District 6 and citywide by ensuring equitable funding.”

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SCHOOL BOARD

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“I have a vision for the Minneapolis Public Schools to be a more inclusive district, while also continuing to produce the best-educated students in the

country. I have the ability to implement this vision because of my experiences as a mother of four MPS students, my insights as a classroom teacher, my

work on various education-related boards and my five years as a School Board member.”

Kim Ellison RSED T, DFL-ENDO INCUMBEN

NEIGHBORHOOD: FOLWELL CURRENT JOB: DELIVERY DRIVER “I believe that education is a right, not a privilege: a quality education for all on an equal basis. The district maintains a large pool of new teachers. Many are fired or laid off and replaced during their three-year post-hire probationary

period. This makes sense only as a cost containment measure but should not be allowed: It produces huge racial disparities in exposure of students to newly hired teachers. The district must increase retention to shrink the pool of

new teachers. I oppose charter-ization, test-prep curriculum and “merit based” personnel policies. I support tenure, seniority and due process rights.”

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 Who: District 6 candidates Tracine Asberry (incumbent) and Ira Jourdain; at-large candidates Kim Ellison (current District 2 representative) and Doug Mann

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REFERENDUM

Referendum campaign gaining momentum Minneapolis Public Schools asks voters to renew support for public education

By Zoë Peterson /zpeterson@southwestjournal.com

Minneapolis Public Schools counts on taxpayer dollars to cover 13 percent of the district’s budget. This year, Minneapolis will vote on the renewal of a levy that was passed in 2008, which accounts for $72 million in operational costs. The significant chunk of the budget that comes from property taxes goes to classrooms, teachers and curriculum. “I think it’s significant that the option presented to voters is a renewal. This is really about stability in the system, not paying more property taxes,” said Minneapolis City Council Member Elizabeth Glidden. “I think the biggest thing we’re working on as a campaign is just making sure that people — in a national election year — are aware that this will be on the ballot.” Glidden is co-chair of Vote YES for Kids, the official campaign to pass the Minneapolis school district referendum. The campaign got off to a slow start, but as the general election approaches, awareness is increasing. “Once we got past Labor Day and people realized there’s more than just a presidential election, they we’re able to take a breath and realize this referendum [renewal] is happening,” said Donald McFarland, campaign manager for the Vote YES campaign. “I feel good about it. Minneapolis has a history of supporting our public schools through referendum dollars. I don’t anticipate that it will be any different this time.” The Minneapolis DFL Party endorsed Vote

YES for Kids in September. Maria Antonia Calvo, a parent of three Minneapolis Public Schools graduates, is chair of the campaign. Prominent DFLers have been named honorary co-chairs, including Congressman Keith Ellison, Mayor Betsy Hodges, City Council Member Jacob Frey and Josie Johnson. “Referendum dollars are critical to the success of Minneapolis Public Schools and its 36,000 students,” said Dan McConnell, chair of the Minneapolis DFL Party, in a news release. “The Minneapolis DFL has always supported public education, and by working to get this referendum passed, we will continue to do so.” According to the district, the operating referendum funds 591 classroom teachers, more than 150 support staff positions, curriculum development and classroom technology. The school district is not allowed to campaign on behalf of renewal. “In our official roles with the district, we provide the facts, and it’s up to the voters to decide whether or not to renew the referendum,” said Ryan Strack, the district’s project manager for the referendum. Renewal won’t increase property taxes, according to the district’s tax impact grid, which they are required by state law to mail to Minneapolis residents. Michael Thomas, the district’s chief of schools, said schools need referendum money to prepare students for college.

THE OPERATING REFERENDUM PROVIDES FUNDING FOR

OPERATING BUDGET

 591 classroom teachers  82 academic and behavioral specialists Total referendum revenue

 81 teachers and support staff for English Language Learners

All other revenue Source: Minneapolis Public Schools

“The money has to come from somewhere. We don’t have money trees in our courtyards,” Thomas said. “The funding that we receive — whether it’s federal or state — hasn’t been in line with the costs of educating kids. This isn’t unique to Minneapolis, so districts have to go to their communities for additional support so that we can ensure the highest possible quality education that we can to our kids and what they deserve.” Greg Abbott, a spokesman for the Minnesota School Boards Association, said 99 percent of all school districts in Minnesota rely on referendum money to cover operational costs. Abbott said that most of the ditricts’ funding comes from the state, but referendum dollars help to keep classrooms manageable for teachers. “The reliance on operating levy became even more because you simply can’t have one teacher teach 50 kids. You need a certain amount of people to teach a certain amount of kids in a certain amount of schools,” Abbott said. “Of all the renewals that have gone out — hundreds —

there’s only two that have not been renewed. The communities really do come out to support the renewals and the big reason is because it’s not going to increase their taxes, it’s just renewing what they have. They aren’t paying any more for this.” Nelson Inz, a member of the Minneapolis School Board, served as a liaison between the board and the Vote YES for Kids campaign. Inz said he wanted to ask voters for more referendum money to fund student services, specifically counselors in the schools. “We want to have a better environment in our schools for our students, and one of the ways we can improve our school climate is by bringing in more counselors,” he said. “I was one of the board members who wanted to seek additional money to support the vision of equity. Unfortunately, I wasn’t in the majority, but over the past eight years, we have seen class sizes reduced throughout the district, and really significantly in our high priority schools, so the referendum

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Development Update supports the significantly lowered class sizes in high-priority schools.” Most voters are receptive to renewing the referendum to maintain the district’s progress, but at a meeting in September, School Board Member Rebecca Gagnon said she talked to nearly 300 people about the renewal and just one person had heard about it. Since then, Vote YES for Kids, which McFarland had been managing as the campaign’s only staffer since May, brought on another employee to manage social media efforts. “Our social media has always been vibrant, but we’ve doubled our Facebook likes,” McFarland said. “We’ve started digitally advertising. Things are really picking up — as they do on campaigns — post Labor Day things really pick up, and ours is as well.” Ben Schweigert, a volunteer for the campaign who lives in the Kingfield neighborhood, plans to send his 2-year-old to Minneapolis Public Schools when the time comes. “I’m a proud public school alumnus, and I’m excited to raise proud public school kids of my own,” Schweigert said. “I think the campaign has a lot of momentum right now. People in Minneapolis really like their public schools, and now that we’re building awareness that it’s going to be on the ballot, it’s not that hard to build excitement around it.” Inz said that awareness about referendum renewal built slowly to begin, but as Election Day nears, community members are mobilizing behind the issue. “It’s not really how you start the campaign,” Inz said, “it’s more about how you finish, and I think we’re finishing really strong.”

By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Developer seeks to swap lakefront houses for five-story condos CPM Development proposes to replace three residences on East Calhoun Parkway with a condominium development. The five-story, 55-foot building would replace 3017, 3021 and 3025 E. Calhoun Parkway. CPM Principal Nick Walton said the building of 14–16 units would rise three stories at the lakefront, with a height that steps back at the fourth story and steps back again at the fifth story. Two- and threebedroom unit sizes would range from about 2,000–3,500 square feet. Walton said smaller units would be priced just over $1 million and climb from there. Each unit would have two dedicated parking stalls, and Walton said the project would include one level of underground parking located above the water table. The groundwater impact was one of the first questions raised at an October neighborhood meeting. CPM previously developed the 1800 Lake apartments at Lake & Knox, where they discovered more groundwater than anticipated during construction. To prevent flooding the underground parking ramp, the developer pumped water into the Chain of Lakes for four years before landing on a solution to seal off the lowest parking level and settle litigation with the city. “The last thing I ever want to do is get

involved in the water again,” Walton said. “… If the data is even questionable, I can tell you for sure we’re going to walk away from it.” Arlene Fried, a longtime advocate for preserving low heights in the Shoreland Overlay District near the lakes, said she worries about the project’s precedent. “We are not Miami. This is a small lake,” added Mary Sabatke. In response, Walton said the project would neighbor multifamily buildings on either side. CPM is aiming to be respectful by stepping back the building’s upper floors, he said. “I will show you the math,” Walton said. “… Without this height, there’s no project.” Resident David Tompkins said he doesn’t

think economics is a compelling reason to build high. “This is on the parkway, it’s not on one of the transit corridors,” he said. The proposal would require city approval to build above 35 feet in the Shoreland Overlay District and rezone the sites from the current R2B and R3 to the denser R4 district. In other development news, the city Planning Commission approved plans Oct. 17 for the six-story Theatre Garage Apartments at Franklin & Lyndale. The Commission also approved plans for Rana Village, a five-story multifamily building at 2900 Pleasant Ave. S. Find stories on these projects at southwestjournal.com. CPM is planning 14–16 condo units in a fivestory building on East Calhoun Parkway. Rendering by Snow Kreilich Architects

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Public Safety Update By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Street harassment community meeting Oct. 24 A community discussion covering ways to combat street harassment is Monday, Oct. 24 at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. The event is organized by the Stevens Square and Whittier neighborhood organizations and facilitated by the Sexual Violence Center.

The event is taking place in response to years of complaints and concerns by community members who have experienced or witnessed street harassment. According to the City of Minneapolis: “Street harassment is unwanted comments,

gestures and actions forced on a stranger in a public place without their consent and is directed at them because of their actual or perceived sex, gender, gender expression, or sexual orientation. Specifically, this event is focused on street harassment of a sexual nature.”

Participants are invited to share their experiences and suggestions on how to handle the issue. The discussion runs from 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m. at MCAD’s main building, 2501 Stevens Ave., at auditorium 150 at the south end of the building.

News

Twin Cities-area retail janitors unionize Part of effort to boost wages in low-paying industry

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

About 600 Twin Cities-area retail janitors have unionized, a milestone in their years of work to boost wages, benefits and working conditions. The janitors joined Minnesota’s property services union, SEIU Local 26, on Oct. 13, after six years of working with the organization Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha (CTUL) on the effort. The Twin Cities becomes the first major metropolitan area in the country in which retail janitors have unionized. “Retail janitorial work was an industry in crisis when workers began organizing,” Veronica Mendez Moore, CTUL’s co-director, said in a statement. “Now, after six years of deep leader-

ship development with workers, … workers have done the impossible.” Janitors in retail have historically been paid significantly lower wages and benefits than those who work in commercial offices, said Javier Morillo, president of SEIU 26. Stores subcontract out retail janitor work to smaller companies who compete for the contracts, driving down wages. The effort to boost retail janitors’ pay started in fall 2009, when CTUL members began reaching out to them to form an organizing committee. Workers received their first wage increase in 10 years in 2011, a year in which the industry consolidated from more than 25 companies to

just a handful, according to CTUL. The janitors received a boost in June 2014, when Target adopted a responsible contractor policy, stating that workers have the right to organize without fear of retaliation. Best Buy, Macy’s Whole Foods and Lunds & Byerly’s followed suit this year. The janitors had agreed not to unionize until 60 percent of the market committed to using contractors that allowed their workers to unionize. The market reached that threshold in September. CTUL released statements from janitors last week praising the move to unionize. Member and Carlson Building Maintenance employee

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Maricela Flores, who cleans a Target store, said she felt “very happy and full of hope” by the move. “There was a time when the stores and the cleaning subcontractors ignored us,” she said. “We would voice our concerns about poverty wages and unsafe working conditions, and they did nothing.” Congressman Keith Ellison and Sen. Al Franken congratulated CTUL and the janitors in separate statements, as did former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. SEIU Local 26 does not yet have a date to begin negotiating with the contractors, Carlson Building Maintenance, IFS, Leones and Prestige Maintenance USA, Morillo said.

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News

Minnesota Chamber of Commerce sues to stop sick time ordinance Lawsuit claims ordinance conflicts with state law and puts a burden on businesses By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

A lawsuit filed by the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce in Hennepin County District Court on Oct. 14 aims to halt implementation of Minneapolis’ new safe and sick time ordinance. Approved by the City Council this spring, the ordinance requires most businesses with at least six employees to offer one hour of sick and safe leave for every 30 hours worked, accruing to a maximum of 48 hours per year. It is scheduled to go into effect July 1. The chamber is seeking a temporary injunction to stop the city from enforcing the ordinance. With its five co-plaintiffs, the chamber is also asking a judge to strike down an ordinance chamber spokesman Cam Winton said was “well-intentioned” but “unlawful” for creating conflicts with existing state laws. “The state of Minnesota has weighed-in extensively in the area of workplace mandates and specifically in paid sick leave, but along comes Minneapolis and they’ve created a conflicting ordinance,” Winton said. The co-plaintiffs include Minnesota Recruiting and Staffing Association, National Federation of Independent Business, TwinWest Chamber of Commerce, Graco Inc. and Otogawa-Anschel General Contractors and Consultants. The filing of the lawsuit prompted a critical response from Main Street Alliance

of Minnesota, the state branch of a national small-business coalition. In a statement issued Oct. 14, alliance member Andy Pappacosta, who works as an events coordinator at South Minneapolis restaurant Gandhi Mahal, said the lawsuit “does not represent many small business owners who have deep roots in our community. “The ordinance that was passed represents a compromise that was negotiated and supported by a vast majority of our community, including small businesses like us,” Pappacosta said in the statement. Also quoted in the statement was Common Roots Café owner and alliance member Danny Schwartzman, who said: “The Chamber presents no solution beyond the idea that businesses could voluntarily provide sick pay benefits, which is suggesting exactly the system we have now that fails so many low wage workers and is bad for our community.” Other alliance members described the lawsuit as a costly distraction for the city at a time when it should be focusing its resources on working with businesses to prepare for implementation of the new sick and safe time ordinance. Winton said the chamber filed the lawsuit now because businesses are already feeling the burden of compliance. Using the city’s formula to calculate employee sick time was

The Chamber presents no solution beyond the idea that businesses could voluntarily provide sick pay benefits, which is suggesting exactly the system we have now that fails so many low wage workers and is bad for our community.” — Common Roots Café owner and alliance member Danny Schwartzman

“the tip of the iceberg,” Winton said, adding that a much more complicated matter is determining when a business has to comply with the ordinance, since it only applies to employees who work within city limits at least 80 hours a year. Winton said that makes it complicated for businesses that staff delivery drivers, for example, to know when, exactly, trips into and out of Minneapolis add up to a total of

80 hours. Winton said the ordinance creates a burden for one of the co-plaintiffs, Graco, a manufacturer that operates three Minnesota production facilities and has employees who move between the three locations, including one in Northeast Minneapolis. “With this new law, they’ll have to track the amount of time employees spend in each location,” he said. Kathleen Harrell-Latham, an attorney for the Minnesota Recruiting and Staffing Association, said that’s also a major issue for the state’s workplace staffing industry. The nature of work now, Harrell-Latham said, is that workers don’t just stay in one place; they’re mobile. “The problem gets into the nuts and bolts and logistics of complying with the ordinance itself,” she said. In September, the St. Paul City Council passed that city’s own version of a sick and safe time ordinance, and another is under consideration in Duluth. The lawsuit also aims to halt the development of what Winton described as a “patchwork” regulatory framework for businesses that operate in Minnesota. According to online district court records, a Dec. 8 hearing has been set in the case.

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By Zoë Peterson / zpeterson@southwestjournal.com

Sustainable energy coming to a park near you

Solar array at Parade Ice Garden, a year-round ice rink in the Lowry Hill neighborhood. Photo courtesy of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is bringing sustainability energy and solar power education your way. The board’s first — and largest — solar installment, with 374 panels on the rooftop of Parade Ice Garden in the Lowry Hill neighborhood, was completed in June. The installation of smaller, informative solar panel systems at parks throughout the city — including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park, East Phillips Park and Webber Park — is scheduled to be complete by November. This solar project is the result of a nearly $1-million grant from the Xcel Energy Renewable Development Fund. The Park Board contributed an additional $150,000 in matching funds. Park Superintendent Jayne Miller celebrated the solar project with Xcel Energy officials and other park leaders in June, after the Parade Ice Garden installation.

“Sustainability is a core value of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and we’re grateful for partners like Xcel Energy that make these big projects possible,” Miller said. “The exciting improvements at Parade Ice Garden and upcoming solar projects across Minneapolis parks will have a huge economic, environmental and educational impact for years to come.” Lee Gabler, senior director of customer strategy and solutions at Xcel, works with grant recipients. He said projects like this one will help the company reach its goal of generating 8 percent of its power from solar, as part of a larger effort to be 63-percent carbon-free by 2030. “We’re committed to solar. It’s part of our existing resource plan,” Gabler said. “Are these projects in Minneapolis at a small scale? Yes. But they’re adding to all of that, they’re one piece of the puzzle that will get us to our [goal].”

The expansive solar array at Parade Ice Garden is expected to generate 10–15 percent of the building’s annual electrical needs, which is notable considering how much energy the ice rink requires to run year-round, according to park officials. “I think we’re trying to be conservative with our estimates,” said Cliff Swenson, director of design and project management for the Park Board’s Planning Department. “We will definitely meet that 10–15 percent of energy use goal.” The smaller installments are meant to set an example and be a resource for homeowners in the community. Displays will provide information about sustainable energy — in this case, solar energy —and its benefits. “The remote sites, if you look at what they’re going to produce, it’s not a lot of electricity,” Swenson said. “At Parade Ice, we had a full roof [available], and it uses a lot of energy, so it made sense for us to put a large installation there. The other sites are really demonstration sites.” The solar panels and displays will also “augment educational opportunities for programs for Minneapolis youth,” Swenson said. Another installation is planned for Lake Nokomis’ main beach, but it will have to wait until the spring because of high water, Swenson said. The new Northeast Athletic Field Recreation Center will also feature solar panels to offset a portion of electrical costs, but that is not part of the project funded by the grant from Xcel Energy. Craig Wilson is the principal and managing partner at Sustology, a sustainability advisory firm that consults with businesses, governmental agencies and nonprofits. The firm wrote the grant proposal and managed the solar project on behalf of the Park Board. Wilson said it is “absolutely” viable for homeowners to install solar panel systems. “Most of the time it is feasible for homeowners if you tolerate a little bit of an extended payback,” he said. “The return on investment tends to make them really beneficial in the long run.” Having few trees, south-facing rooflines and large attic spaces that are easy to access make

solar systems more realistic, Wilson said. Sometimes a house isn’t well-suited for the project. “It just really depends on the particular context for a given house, and then it depends a lot on the different incentive programs that exist within the area,” he said. Xcel has an incentive program called Solar Rewards that pays 8 cents per kilowatt hour that a home system produces — and gives credit back if the system produces more energy than the home uses to ensure homeowners receive the full value of the system’s generation. The state legislature established the Made in Minnesota Solar Incentive Program in 2013 to boost the solar industry. There is also a federal tax credit and many other programs to help offset the cost of installing a residential solar panel system, Wilson said. In addition to making this information accessible to neighborhoods across the city, Swenson said the Park Board wants to the demonstration sites to serve as an example for other government agencies. “We need to be very cognizant of the way we’re stewarding the public funds that we have to operate those buildings. If you look 10 years down the road, while we were able to use solar — or another renewable energy source — to save on 15 percent of our energy usage, it’s a huge dollar amount. It shows Minneapolis and the region that we’re spending money wisely,” Swenson said. “We need to provide leadership to show other communities and other agencies what government can do and should do to operate their facilities.”

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Loppet nears fundraising goal for Theodore Wirth recreation center

The Park Board is slated to begin work on a new Northeast Athletic Field Park rec center this fall. Image courtesy of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board

Commissioners move forward with improvements to Northeast Athletic Field Park The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is set to begin work this fall on a new $4.5-million recreation center in Northeast Athletic Field Park in Northeast Minneapolis. The board’s Administration & Finance Committee approved Sept. 28 a nearly $3.8-million construction contract with Tarraf Construction for the project, which includes a new building with a gym, a walking track, classrooms and space for park operations and recreation staff. Work was slated to begin earlier this summer when the board awarded a construction contract to a different company, but that was later rejected by the city’s Civil Rights Department for failure to demonstrate good faith efforts under

the Small and Underutilized Business Program, according to a board memo. Once built, the new Northeast Athletic Field Park recreation building will have a gym sized for a full-size basketball court and two half-size courts, along with a twolane walking track around its perimeter. Three community rooms could be used for recreation, fitness, a preschool program and, thanks to an attached kitchen, cooking demonstrations. Pending full board approval, park staff expect construction to begin in November.

three-fourths of its goal of $8.5 million, a spokeswoman said. Quality Bicycle Products is a Twin Cities-based bike and bike accessories company that distributes brands like AllCity and Surly to a network of about 5,000 retailers. “Quality Bicycle Products was looking for a project to donate to that could benefit a community with mountain biking and outdoors as a central focus. It’s fantastic that such a great opportunity that accomplishes so much just happened to be located near downtown Minneapolis. It’s unheard of to find a mountain bike park like this in an urban area that is not only accessible to students from ten nearby schools, but accessible via bike paths as well,” said Steve Flagg, the company’s co-founder, in a statement. Flagg said the project may show other cities that building urban mountain biking parks can be economically viable. “The project aligns so well with our mission to get more butts on bikes, and for that, we couldn’t be happier to help,” he said.

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Food waste seminar Nov. 1 in East Isles A food policy expert will speak on how to prevent food waste at an upcoming lecture on Nov. 1. “More than 40 percent of our food goes to waste and we consumers are responsible for the largest share,” states the East Isles Residents Association. “Join us in learning about the big picture and most especially, what we can do to make a difference in our own households.” Speaker and East Isles resident JoAnne Berkenkamp is a senior food policy expert with the Natural Resources Defense Council. Berkenkamp offers tips for buying less food, information on expiration dates and smart storage techniques. She also has suggestions for a “zero-waste Thanksgiving.”

The East Isles Green Team reports that food waste drains a quarter of the water supply and generates 3 billion metric tons of annual greenhouse gas emissions. The workshop is Tuesday, Nov. 1, 7 p.m.– 8:30 p.m. at Grace-Trinity Community Church, 1430 W. 28th St. Attendees can send their names, phone numbers and neighborhoods to Betsy at erallis@aol.com by Oct. 28. The program is free and offers light refreshments.

Park Board seeks input on trails at Chain of Lakes A survey running through Oct. 28 covers the proposed improvements to trails at Lake Harriet and Bde Maka Ska (Calhoun). The project aims to rehab portions of the path and improve safety and visibility at West Lake Street, the northeast end of Lake Calhoun and the southeast end of Lake Harriet. Multiple options are under consideration for each area. At West Lake Street, Park Board staff hope to alleviate the pinch point over the channel between Lakes Calhoun and Isles, perhaps by routing bikes to a protected on-street bikeway on Lake Street. At Northeast Calhoun, some bikes may move away from the path under the bridge to address congestion along the narrow Calhoun-Isles channel. A new trail may be constructed along East Calhoun Parkway where an informal dirt path is today, providing a direct connection between Lake Street and Lagoon Avenue. Changes at Southeast Harriet would improve

bike and pedestrian connections to the Minnehaha Parkway trails. An open house to discuss the preferred concept is slated for Nov. 9 from 6 p.m.–8 p.m. at Lyndale Farmstead Recreation Center, 3900 Bryant Ave. S. The survey is available at surveymonkey. com/r/CalhounHarrietTrail. Additional project information is at minneapolisparks.org/ park_care__improvements/park_projects/ current_projects/calhoun-harriet_trail_and_ access_improvements. Construction would take place in the spring of 2017.

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Sewer smoke testing underway this fall City workers are sending white smoke through the sewer system to find cracks and leaks. The test is designed to reduce the amount of rainwater entering the sanitary sewer, therefore reducing the amount of sewage the city must pay to treat. The city is also working to reduce the chance of sewage and stormwater overflow during strong rainstorms. Residents and property owners will be notified by mail prior to the 30-minute tests. In preparation, residents are asked to pour a bucket of water down the basement floor drain and any toilets, sinks or showers that haven’t been used in a month. Doing so would reduce the chance of smoke entering the building. To report a mobility limitation, respiratory condition or another health concern aggravated by smoke, contact 673-3543.

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Bryant Square Park unveils community mural A CARAG neighborhood mural project is now complete, with several installations covering walls of the Bryant Square Park recreation center at 31st & Bryant.

The murals are the result of more than a year of work by 200 volunteers and a partnership between CARAG, the VOA Southwest Senior Center, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation

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Minneapolis reaches 40 percent opt-in rate with organics recycling Minneapolis has reached a 40 percent opt-in rate on its citywide organics recycling program, it announced Oct.12. More than 42,500 households are participating in the weekly program, during which the city collects food scraps, coffee grounds,

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An installation view of Lindsay Rhyner’s “Cinder Cone.” Submitted image

Emergent The Jerome fellows at MCAD

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WHITTIER — The Jerome Foundation’s fellowships for emerging artists are meant to give a boost to early career artists who haven’t yet gotten the recognition they deserve. This year’s group of five, whose work is featured in the annual fellowship exhibition at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, are — possibly to a greater degree than some of the fellows before them — emerging fully formed, or close to it. Take the

singular Lindsay Rhyner, who has chosen an unusual artistic path — recycling fabric scraps into elaborate junk-tapestries — and marched steadfastly through a series of impressive shows at Bockley Gallery, the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and elsewhere. SEE JEROME FELLOWS / PAGE B27

Where We Live

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Women’s Prison Book Project

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books sits ready for packaging at Boneshaker Books, which hosts the nonprofit Women’s Prison Book Project. The organization sends about 100 packages to incarcerated women and transidentified people each week. Photo by Nate Gotlieb

The Women’s Prison Book Project sends free reading material to incarcerated women

Providing reading material to incarcerated women Scores of programs throughout the U.S. provide reading material to the incarcerated, but only two cater specifically to women. One is the Minneapolis-based Women’s Prison Book Project. The non-profit organization has been collecting and distributing reading material to women in prisons across the U.S. since 1994. The entirely volunteer-run organization serves women and trans-identified people, helping them maintain a connection to the outside world and some freedom of choice. “A lot of the time, they say it’s just good to know somebody out there is thinking of us,” said Sara Olson, a member of the six-person collective that runs the nonprofit. “It’s important for them to know that somebody is actually thinking about their lives inside the program.” The Women’s Prison Book Project started more than 20 years ago at Arise Bookstore to provide women with reading material that fitted their needs. It was the only organization specifically catering toward women until a similar organization started in Chicago about 10 years ago. Address: The two nonprofits split the states, providing reading material to women across the country. The 2002 23rd Ave. S. Women’s Prison Book Project has sent material to at least 291 facilities, from Minnesota to New Mexico, over the years. Contact The organization has order forms that it distributes to prisons across the country. It offers women womensprisonbookproject@gmail.com books in nearly all genres, covering topics such as education, spirituality, romance and lesbian/bisexual/ transgender issues. Website “As long as we can get it, we send anything people ask for,” collective member Corinth Matera wpbp.org said. The organization sends inmates up to three books at a time and asks them to be as specific as Year Founded possible in making their requests. It is usually about three to four months behind in answering 1994 requests, as it receives hundreds of letters each month. The organization relies on individual contributions to sustain its operation, sending out two requests for donations to its mailing lists each year. It also holds a book sale at the Powderhorn Art Fair and a pancake breakfast in February. The funds help the nonprofit offset about $15,000 a year in postage costs. It has no problem getting books, Matera said, and receives donations every week.

‘You save us’ Olson, who spent time incarcerated herself, said the organization also engages people on the outside in the life inside a prison. She noted how prisoners have few opportunities for control and choice, something the organization provides. “People are very grateful that they get a free service,” said Heidi Heise, another collective member. “It gives people a time to escape or to learn.” Matera said the women they help place a lot of trust in the project. She noted how some women start asking for material on more personal topics over time, such as addiction or sexual abuse. “We know that we do make an impact,” she said. That can be seen in the letters of appreciation prisoners have written the organization. One woman wrote about how books provide her with “inspiration, mental awareness and an escape from the daily life of being a prisoner.” Another said the work of the organization makes her feel like she is worth something.

What you can do Donate financially. “We have no problem getting books,” Matera said, noting the significant cost of postage. The organization is especially in need of books on crafts, crochet, knitting, African American and urban literature and religious topics such as Wicca for people interested in donating books. Volunteer. The organization packs books noon–3 p.m. Sundays at Boneshaker Books. It is also looking for volunteers interested in selling books online. Hold a book drive or attend one of the organization’s two annual fundraisers.

By the numbers

Number of books the organization sends out in each package.

400 - 500 Approximate number of packages the organization sends out each month.

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Number of facilities to which the organization has sent reading material.

106,000 Number of women in state and federal prisons in 2014, compared to about 13,000 in 1980, according to national nonprofit, the Sentencing Project.

1 in 56

Lifetime likelihood of imprisonment of U.S. residents born in 2001, according to the Sentencing Project. That compares to one in nine for men and one in three for black men.

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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Rhyner’s “Cinder Cone” is a fantasy landscape of a double volcano that — particularly in the sinuous clouds swirling at the mountains’ bases — seems inspired by the flatness and bold compositions found in ukiyo-e, the Japanese printmaking tradition in which landscape was a popular genre. Rhyner’s genius for transforming found materials is a constant source of delight, and the lava streaming from the cinder cones — actually lipstick-red faux alligator leather cut into strips — is just one of the countless ways her work rewards close attention. Emmett Ramstad’s installation piece is split into two platforms located on opposite sides of the gallery, each constructed from wood panels and parts from a public restroom stall. There are landline phones, and phone numbers written in marker on the wall nearby. Maybe it’s best not to say here what happens when one dials those numbers, because the piece seems to hinge on evoking the quasi-private, public spaces like phone booths or public bathrooms, where the number scrawled on the wall holds the promise of lurid mystery. That doesn’t seem to be the case here, where Ramstad seems more intent on piercing our technological bubbles to make some kind of real, personto-person connection. For her video, “Spectral Response,” filmed in the vacant interior of the 1894 Hill House on the campus of Carleton College in Northfield, a former college president’s residence that was later converted into student housing, Holly Streekstra collaborated with performer Adrienne Gaylord, who pushes her body around the space, leaning on walls, dragging her body across the floor and contorting herself into narrow cubbyhole. With an ambient soundtrack composed by Reid Kruger, Streekstra’s video records the intimate meeting of an individual human body and a place that has housed many human bodies, and in her captivating performance Gaylord explores the space like a child

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explores her room, making its nooks and closets her private domain. Star Wallowing Bull is a Pop artist who professes to be a fan of the logos and commercial art he appropriates into bold and vibrantly colored drawings and paintings, playing against expectations that Pop will take an ironic pose. In one painting, “Black Hole,” an abstracted figure’s split-open skull vacuums up both intricately patterned butterfly wings and the symbol of the “Transformers” toy-and-movie franchise, suggesting Wallowing Bull is an omnivorous consumer of his visual environment. The “Troutorobouros,” the invented fisheating-its-tail symbol that plays a role in Samual Weinberg’s perplexing, sprawling narrative — which plays out across a suite of paintings, multiple objects and a bizarre parody of a soap opera — could symbolize the artist’s entire project here: each recurring symbol points to the next until you’re right back at the beginning of Weinberg’s obscure storyline. There’s a soap opera character’s bulbous red hand, developed after “the event”; the many knives; a queasy-looking cartoon face; and the two-dimensional Pink Man with an eyeball tattooed on his hand, who seems to be the main subject of Weinberg’s paintings, which shift prismatically between styles that range from cartoonish to realistic. It is loopy and vastly entertaining, and Weinberg hints at a whole world that may not have fully emerged, yet, from his head.

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In between organizing Polyester Laughs, a five-film series of 1970s Hollywood comedies that played at the Heights Theater in the spring, and a second series in the works for next year, Chuck Huntley is programming some one-off films for the Central Avenue cinema, located just over the border from Northeast in Columbia Heights. Up next: “Nicholas and Alexandra,” director Franklin Schaffner’s epic 1971 historical drama about Czar Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and the final days of imperial rule in Russia. Based on a contemporary best-selling book about the fall of the Romanov dynasty and the Russian Revolution by Robert K. Massie — who would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize in Biography for a book about another Russian, Peter the Great — the film’s provenance hasn’t necessarily kept it in regular rotation in repertory cinemas or on the cable movie channels. Huntley argues it is worth another look — especially in an original 35mm Technicolor dye-transfer print, the same format of its theatrical release 45 years ago. “I went to see it when it opened in the ’70s at a wide-screen theater in St. Louis Park

that is now gone,” he recalled, adding that the print sent to the Heights is in very good condition. “... If it had been a bad print, I simply wouldn’t have done it.” Huntley thought to alert The Museum of Russian Art to the screening, and it turned out his timing was excellent. “Coincidentally, and it was sheer coincidence, they have this Fabergé show that opened this week,” he remarked in early October. (“Unknown Fabergé: New Finds and Rediscoveries” opened on the 8th.) “It fits in perfectly for the movie, because a lot of the items belonged to the czar and czarina or were designed for them. “So, that was just pure (luck). That worked out very well.” Before the screening, Huntley has reserved time for a brief presentation by a TMORA representative and a drawing for tickets to the Fabergé exhibition. And he promised it would be brief, so as not to test the patience of an audience just settling in for the 3 hour, 3 minute film — long enough that it has an intermission. “Unknown Fabergé” at TMORA features more than 80 items produced in the late 19th

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and early 20th centuries by the Romanov’s favorite jewelry firm. On loan from private collectors and museums in the U.S. and Europe, a number of the objects were originally produced for the firm’s royal patrons, including the Romanovs. Among them is a bell push designed for the imperial household — a bell push being the button the emperor and empress would press to beckon a servant. It’s basically the bell pull system that many would recognize from the opening credits of “Downton Abbey” updated for the electrical age. Other bejeweled wonders include a

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What’s in a name? Exploring the modern American menu at Xavi

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RESTAURANT REVIEW/ It’s called what,

again? Xavi. Clearly this is not the outcome of a focus group. What happened was, friends James Elm, front man, and Michael Agan, chef, who bonded while working in a D’Amico establishment, couldn’t agree on a name for their soonto-debut joint venture, so they kind of threw a dart at the many Wikipedia translations for “Come to our lovely new restaurant and enjoy yourself,” or something like that. It landed on a word in Basque, about as remote from our “Ya, you betcha” tongues as you could get. (Pause for group eye rolls at the Carlson School of Business.) I’ll offer my own translation: a warm, inviting environment, both in setting and

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a furikake spice blend. It’s among the XAVI dozen-strong list of 5607 Chicago Ave small plates ($9–$16) from which we snagged 825-6900 xavirestaurant.com the mango salad as our starter. It’s a riff on what you may have enjoyed in a Thai restaurant but utilizing sweet rather than tart fruit, paired with hair-thin stalks of cucumber and scallion, shreds of crispy lettuce, a sprinkle of savory cashews and the sharp scent of mint, all bathed in a ginger dressing whose surprise punch of heat builds fast and well. Next app, a plate of shrimp and grits, again a bit off-center. The shellfish, sweet and nubile, bore a “What’s that?” scent. Oh yeah, star anise — along with lime salt and a hint of orange. The grits? No such luck: super-creamy texture (big mistake) devoid of flavor punch. Might as well be Cream of Wheat. Next time: lamb ribs with mango and cilantro. And beef tartare with pickle-spice aioli (will that work?) Oh, BTW: Your complimentary amusebouche is a dish of pickles: coin-thin cukes, etc., in a sweet brine. Yum. We sipped a crisp chenin blanc (available in half-glass portions, hurray) with our first entrée ($24-range): a pearly, plump and palpitating square of corvina. The fish is served with diced coriander-roasted squash, bits of pungent olives, marjoram, chili (subtle, that) and preserved lemon vinaigrette — all nicely balanced and tasty but nothing to write home (or to you) about. What got our attention was our second choice: pull-apart-tender short ribs braised in red wine, which enriched the yummy gravy. Mustard greens added a coarse, cleansing contrast, while the bed of lemony polenta sent us into ecstasy — everything those earlier grits were not. A pour of a super Tuscan red hit the spot, too. Dessert? Well, sure. Following our server’s astute advice, we summoned the miso caramel pudding, abetted with a dash of sea salt. It tasted just like it sounds, which was, in a word, swell: sturdy yet creamy, potently flavored and served with a sesame tuile. So, welcome, Xavi: A nice addition to the South Minneapolis dining scene.

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My Turn

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ake heart, have hope: With a free press, and open hearts, the Republic will survive I have more than a few acquaintances who are pessimistically viewing the upcoming election as a “dumpster fire” — no good choice, no decent alternative, no hopeful outcome. I can understand their angst and anguish, but I have no doubt this Republic will survive. I begin with the fact we still have a free press in America, reporters willing to ask tough questions and sort through complex documents. They inquire whether Sen. Hillary Clinton’s jobs program really worked in her home state of New York. They question Donald Trump’s assertion that President Barack Obama is “the founder of ISIS.” They’ve been persistent, insistent and consistent in their coverage of this year’s election. I have no doubt they’ll continue in their watchdog role, whether they work for websites, national newspapers, networks or alternative weeklies. Once the facts are discovered, they can be disseminated in an instant from one hand (held device) to another.

New voices This year the disaffected in America — white males feeling left behind in the economic recovery and college students feeling left out by party professionals — got their chance to be heard. They didn’t whisper or whimper. They hollered and whooped, for Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. The parties, the GOP and the Democrats, were forced to pay attention. In fact, they knuckled under, in making endorsements and drafting platforms. I hate to say it, folks, but that’s what democracy is all about — showing up and voting while others stay home and complain.

Immigrants in America As the new voices were being heard, new faces are being seen around the country — immigrants, refugees, new citizens who add to the diversity, intensity, vitality and energy in America. While I can understand fears about terrorists and troublemakers, the overwhelming effect of the newcomers is positive, no more so than in the Twin Cities and Minnesota. They roof houses, gut turkeys, drive taxis, serve food and design software. And now a few sit on city councils, school boards and in the Minnesota Legislature. The visual evidence is obvious when I drive down University Avenue in St. Paul or Lake Street in Minneapolis — a Vietnamese restaurant, a Hmong market, a Somali grocery, a Cambodian dress shop and a Mexican mall.

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Change marches on I want to be accepting of most of the changes that confront us. I believe we’ve put a few divisive issues behind us. Hardly anyone under the age of 30 rejects equal rights for gays and lesbians. Interracial couples are now as common as Pronto Pups and French fries at the Minnesota State Fair. Minnesota companies, including Xcel and 3M, are leaders in promulgating alternative energy and global sustainability, even if lawmakers are slower to react. Perhaps even more encouraging is a recent survey of high school scholars that found young people are looking for employers committed to the environment, social causes, communities, teamwork and flexible work schedules. They appear committed to the kind of country I believe Michelle Obama described in her speech at the Democratic National Convention: “That is the story of this country, the story that brought me to this stage tonight, the story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage, the sting of segregation, but who kept striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done so that today I wake up every morning in a house built by slaves.” Yep, we’ll get past this election and we’ll move forward. As a group, we do have good hearts, decent instincts and strong wills. They’re what make America great and always have — for generations now. Dave Nimmer has had a long career as a reporter, editor and professor. Now retired, he has no business card, but plenty to do. Send comments or questions to dnimmer@mngoodage.com.

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Ask the Nurse Practitioner

By Michelle Napral

What are the do’s and don’ts for kids with asthma? Q

Should we avoid endurance sports that trigger asthma in our kids? My 7-year-old daughter loves her hockey, but now needs an inhaler to prevent wheezing episodes during practices and games. I’m worried about the long-term effects of this medicine and wonder if we should direct her into a different sport.

sthma is a condition causing swelling and narrowing of the airways, and symptoms can range from mild to severe. People with asthma have sensitive airways that react to triggers. Most people are able to control their asthma symptoms with the use of medications. It would be best to talk to your daughter’s healthcare provider, review her asthma symptoms and determine if her asthma is well controlled. As long as her asthma is under control, there is no need to direct her into a different sport. Many professional athletes have asthma and do well, but only if their asthma is under control first. If your daughter’s symptoms are severe and not well controlled with medications, an alternative activity may need to be considered. In addition to exercise and cold air, other common asthma triggers include animals, mold, cockroaches, smog, strong odors, weather, upper respiratory infections, pollen, dust, smoke, food additives, medicine and emotions. Asthma can

be hereditary. Triggers cause the airways to become inflamed, swollen and narrowed. Symptoms of asthma include wheezing, noisy breathing, coughing — often at night or early in the morning or with exercise — chest tightness, shortness of breath or feeling tired. During flare-ups, symptoms may increase and include breathing fast at rest. Managing your daughter’s asthma involves identifying her asthma triggers with your health care provider, maintaining good control of her asthma symptoms and taking medications if needed. Medications for asthma have few side effects and play a key role in controlling asthma and can prevent bad flare-ups. Children can play a role in managing their asthma early by learning about what asthma is, understanding and avoiding their own triggers and knowing how and when to appropriately use a rescue inhaler. A severe flare-up should be taken seriously, especially if symptoms are not relieved by medication or if a rescue inhaler is not on hand. When the body is unable to get enough oxygen for a period of time, body tissues and organs begin to die. If someone is having a severe asthma flareup, call 911. Long-term control medication helps reduce swelling and inflammation. It makes the airways less sensitive to triggers, is taken on a schedule every day and helps keep asthma under control. The maintenance medication will not stop a flare-up once it has begun. A rescue inhaler

As long as her asthma is under control, there is no need to direct her into a diﬀerent sport.

works by relaxing the muscles around the airways and should be used when needed, when asthma is getting worse and before exercise. This medication will open the airways within a few minutes after use. Preventing asthma flare-ups involves working in a sustained partnership with AsktheNursePractioner1020 your provider. If exercise is a trigger for asthma, it’s important that all medications are taken as prescribed, even when no symptoms are present. Vacuum and wash bedding frequently to control dust and dust mites. Keep pets out of the bedroom and off

the bed if animal allergies are identified. Be sure to send a rescue inhaler along if your child is sleeping over at a friend’s house and talk with the parents about your child’s asthma. Keep windows closed during allergy seasons to limit asthma flare-ups caused by pollen. Uncontrolled asthma can become a physical and emotional roller-coaster ride for both child and parent. Controlling your child’s asthma through preventive measures, medications and treatment will help to minimize sick days and enable him or her to pursue all the activities they enjoy. Talk to your health care provider today to discuss your asthma symptoms and your Asthma Action Plan. Michelle Napral is a nurse practitioner at the University of Minnesota Health Nurse Practitioners Clinic, 3rd Street & Chicago. Send questions to nursnews@umn.edu.

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Ask Dr. Rachel

By Rachel Allyn

Navigating a relationship’s ups and downs through therapy Q

After dating my boyfriend for a year, we got engaged. Six months later we married and moved in together. This is our first time living with a partner. We’ve now been married for almost a year and have been arguing more frequently. I’ve thought about couple’s therapy but wonder if it’s a little early in our marriage to take that step. I’m embarrassed that we would even need to ask someone else to be involved. I’ve never been to counseling before so I’m wondering if it will just make things worse or be a waste of time?

ou are in the infant stages of your marriage and still learning about each other, so it’s natural to have some hiccups. Attending therapy does not mean the relationship is doomed. It means you are human beings having a human experience. And part of the human condition is to have ups and downs. We are not islands, we are social creatures who are meant to turn to others in times of need. While there are some things in life you must tackle on your own, there are many things that require support. Going to therapy is nothing to be embarrassed about. It’s a sign of wisdom to know when to seek outside assistance. If problems are ignored for too long they can become irrevocably worse. In fact the sooner you go to therapy the better, to get ahead of things. If you fear confrontation and avoid being direct, issues can fester and come out in misdirected ways. The counseling process works by helping you confront things before it’s too late with a facilitator who can provide containment. It has been said, “The only way out is through.” Ideally your therapist is a neutral, non-judgmental professional who creates an emotionally safe, confidential space for you both. They can help you establish ground rules at the beginning of your marriage. Many of us didn’t have role models for how to be in a healthy, long-term relationship, so this is your chance to learn some tips and tools.

You don’t mention specific reasons for the arguing. I can tell you that the most common issues bringing couples to therapy include sex, money, in-laws, domestic disputes, communication problems and different emotional styles. Communication skills are essential in all relationships. Therapy can give you the language to name how you feel and find better ways to express it to your partner. You need to “name it to tame it.” Naming the issue or feeling in a nonaccusatory manner is important to being heard and reduces defensiveness in your partner. For example, therapy can help prevent and reduce what relationship therapist John Gottman calls “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.” These are four troublesome communication patterns you want to minimize: defensiveness, criticism, stonewalling (refusing to talk to your partner) and contempt.

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Therapy is an opportunity to be present and focused on one another in a busy world. In addition to working on difficulties, you can also use the time to remember all the positive aspects of your relationship, which can help you express acknowledgment, empathy and gratitude for one another. On the flip side, therapy can help some “consciously uncouple” if they’ve been hanging on by a thread for too long. Don’t expect a quick fix. Therapy is an investment of time and energy. But, heck, so is the alternative. Depending on your issues, you’ll need to commit to a minimum of five sessions to benefit from the process. This gives your therapist time to gather and assess your history and relationship patterns and implement treatment goals. If you don’t have the money for ongoing therapy, I suggest you agree to meet for at least 3 sessions to receive some preliminary

insights. Then ask for book or podcast recommendations and hold yourselves accountable to actually utilizing them. Marriage is a contract, yes. But it’s an everevolving negotiation of that original contract. Time and circumstances will require you both to adapt and compromise. Ask yourself, “In this relationship, do I want to be right or be happy?” You can play the blame game or you can let go of your ego, come into your heart and allow yourself to be vulnerable with your partner and the help of a trained professional. No matter how you slice it, the marriage is an opportunity to learn about yourself. If you choose to see the relationship as a mirror reflecting back to you your wounds that need attention, the partnership can be a springboard for your own healing and growth as well.

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Typically the answer is no. Most of the diseases that can occur in the uterus occur because of hormonal changes from the ovaries secreting sex hormones. If the ovaries are removed, they are not present to exert influence over the uterus. Studies have shown that there is no increased risk of disease in the uterus, such as infection or cancer, when the ovaries are removed and the uterus left behind. All dogs that have their ovaries removed, either with or without the removal of the uterus, are at increased risk of weight gain and urinary incontinence. These are the two most common side effects of spaying your dog. Fortunately, both of these conditions can be managed. Overweight dogs can be managed with dietary changes or restrictions, and patients that experience urinary incontinence after being spayed can take medication that typically resolves the problem. The only downside to doing a laparoscopic spay is the cost. Because specialized instruments are needed to perform this technique, the cost of a laparoscopic spay is typically more expensive than a traditional spay. In addition, not all dogs are candidates for a laparoscopic spay. Depending on the instruments available, very small dogs may not accommodate the size of the instruments used for the procedure. Also, dogs that have gone through many heats or have existing disease in the uterus should not have an OVE performed. Because of the additional equipment needed, not all veterinarians perform laparoscopic spay procedures. If you have questions about this technique, your veterinarian is the best source of information. In Minnesota, laparoscopic spays are performed at a handful of private practices and several of the referral hospitals in our area. At Westgate Pet Clinic, three of the veterinarians, Dr. Melin, Dr. Perry, and Dr. Mirodone, are trained in this technique. Dr. Teresa Hershey is a veterinarian at Westgate Pet Clinic in Linden Hills. Email her your pet questions at drhershey@westgatepetclinicmn.com.

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By Rebecca Lee

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Shopping local all winter long

he winter holidays are just around the corner! This year, channel your holiday spending into local agriculture and small businesses. Putting your holiday dollars right back into your community is the gift that keeps on giving. Neighborhood Roots, the organization behind the Fulton, Kingfield and Nokomis Farmers Markets, is excited to bring you four indoor farmers markets during the 2016/2017 winter season. Markets will take place 9 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13 and Saturdays Jan. 28, Feb. 25, and March 25 in the greenhouse of Bachman’s Garden Center, 6010 Lyndale Ave. S. Each market is full of local vendors, all of

who produce or grow everything that they sell. Take advantage of this opportunity to increase the local foods in your diet and share with friends and family members over the holidays the incredible flavors and values that can be found at a farmers market. One of the most interesting and exciting foods to purchase at the winter farmers markets is cheese. The November market will have three vendors with amazing farmstead cheeses. “Farmstead” is a designation given only to cheeses that are crafted where the dairy producing animals are milked, meaning these vendors raise the animals that they make their cheeses with. LoveTree Farmstead, Singing Hills Goat Dairy and Cosmic Wheel

Creamery all will be bringing dairy creations made with milk from grass-fed sheep, goats and cows. Stock up on delectable cheeses to bring to holiday parties, serve before or after holiday meals or even give as gifts! There are fewer farmers markets and opportunities to connect with local farmers during the winter, so be sure to stock up on meat at the November market and make it a priority this season to serve local meats at your holiday meals and events. Share with friends and family the amazing hard work that small, local farmers are doing to keep our communities nourished while respecting the land and animals that provide us food. Braucher’s Sunshine Harvest Farm,

Johnson Family Pastures and Auntie Annie’s Fields will all be bringing meat and eggs to the November market. Stock your freezer with whole chickens, bacon, breakfast sausages, ham, ground beef and much more. Plenty of farmers will have fresh vegetables at the November winter market. Root vegetables such as beets, potatoes, carrots, celeriac and turnips, along with cruciferous veggies like cabbage and Brussels sprouts, store well in cool, dry conditions, so buy plenty for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday and beyond. Everyone’s favorite fall fruit, apples, will be out in abundance! Look for varieties such as SweetTango, Keepsake and Fireside. Apples can be stored up to six months in the refrigerator so no need to worry about buying too many! The November market will not leave you wanting for interesting foods, tasty treats, crafts and baked goods. Pick up a pie (or two!) from Wicked Tarts to serve at your holiday gatherings or bring to seasonal events. Whole pies and hand pies freeze well when wrapped in plastic wrap and stored in a ziplock bag. Stock up on fermented vegetables from Kiss My Cabbage. The addition of krauts, kimchi and curtido to your everyday meals gives routine dishes an extra zing of flavor and nutrition. Jams from Heath Glen Farm and Kitchen, tinctures and salves from Red Clover Apothecary Farm, spiced nuts from Patti’s Granola and knitted hats from Barn Swallow Garden all make great gifts and stocking stuffers. Don’t forget to bring your kitchen knives! Minnesota Knife Sharpening will be at the Nov. 13 market to sharpen them up. Nothing is more important to preparing a delicious holiday meal than a set of good, sharp knives. Carefully wrap your knives in a kitchen towel or place them in a shoebox and bring them to the market for a new edge. In addition to all these amazing products, the indoor markets are a great place to spend a chilly winter morning. All four markets will have live music, coffee, hot food and beer or wine available for purchase. Mark your calendars and prepare your shopping lists for the Neighborhood Roots Winter Farmers Markets. Rebecca Lee is the Market Manager for the Fulton, Kingfield and Nokomis Farmers Markets. She has been working with Neighborhood Roots since 2014.

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THE OLDEST BOY Artistic Director Sarah Rasmussen brings thoughtfully original work to the Jungle Theater with the regional premiere of “The Oldest Boy” from award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl. In this piece from Ruhl, who wrote “In the Next Room,” which Rasmussen directed for the Jungle in 2012, an American mother and her Tibetan husband are asked to take their child — believed to be the reincarnation of a high Buddhist Lama — away for a life of spiritual training in India. “The Oldest Boy” stars Christina Baldwin, Randy Reyes, Eric “Pogi” Sumangil and puppeteer Masanari Kawahara with cultural consultant and artist Tenzin Ngawangu.

Minneapolis native Peter Himmelman is used to touring. The Grammynominated songwriter is known for his improvisational stage performances, and his extensive work goes back to the ’70s and ’80s. Now he’s setting his sights on releasing his ﬁrst book, “Let Me Out,” which details Himmelman’s techniques for creating and making ideas into reality. The musician-turned-creative-corporateconsultant will speak about his creative strategies at Open Book — a home for many aspiring creatives — sign copies of his book and maybe even play a little music.

Where: Open Book, 1011 Washington Ave. S. When: Oct. 29 at 8:30 p.m. Cost: Free Info: letmeoutbook.com

Where: The Jungle Theater, 2951 Lyndale Ave. S. / When: Nov. 4–Dec. 18 / Cost: $35–$48 / Info: jungletheater.com

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Halloween Horrors

TC VEG FEST If you’ve ever considered a vegan way of eating and living, TC Veg Fest, a festival celebrating all things animal-friendly, is a one-stop shop to taste and try local vegan food and more. Minneapolis residents should see familiar faces, from The Herbivorous Butcher, the newly opened vegan butcher shop in Northeast Minneapolis, to Gorkha Palace, a Nepalese restaurant and the city’s main source for momos. Other exhibitors include everything from bee-free honey makers and vegan cookbook publishers to humane dog trainers and clothing brands.

As ghosts and ghouls descend upon Minneapolis this Halloween season, there’s plenty to do to put you in the mood for haunts and horror. From one of the scariest haunted houses in the Twin Cities to a celebration of spooky art, here are our picks for what to do this Halloween.

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Where: Coffman Memorial Union, 300 Washington Ave. SE When: Oct. 29–30 from 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Cost: Free Info: tcvegfest.com

For the past decade, those courageous enough have ventured into the Soap Factory’s basement to come out horriﬁed, a fresh bout of nightmares in tow. This year, the Haunted Basement offers a twisted view of real-life horrors, diving into the daily life of a typical tortured soul. For the bravest among us, new this year is an in-depth “blind invocation” experience with one-on-one encounters, and for the fraidy cats, there are also lights-on tours without the creeps. Above the fray on the Soap Factory’s ﬁrst floor there will be a retrospective of the previous nine iterations of the basement, along with a exhibit from artist Brandon Keuhn featuring artwork inspired by paranormal phenomena from across the state.

Where: The Soap Factory, 514 2nd St. SE / When: Through Oct. 31 Cost: $25–$27 / Info: soapfactory.org/haunted-basement

MUSIC ANIMATED Minneapolis-based electronic music artist Martin Dosh is collaborating with In the Heart of the Beast for a unique event combining poetry and puppetry. Dosh will kick off the South Minneapolis theater company’s Music Animated concert series with director Bart Buch to tell the story of their neighborhoods, Powderhorn and Phillips. Like a silent ﬁlm set to music, this live, family-friendly event features the musician’s ambient sound paired with the company’s passionate storytelling and puppetry.

Where: In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, 1500 E. Lake St. When: Oct. 20–22 Cost: $20, $2 for children on Oct. 22 Info: hobt.org

TWIN CITIES HORROR FESTIVAL

SOOTHSAYING AND SPIRIT BOARDS

If you’ve ever wanted the spirit of the Fringe Festival combined with the frights of Halloween, look no further than the Twin Cities Horror Festival. The fest of all things scary in theater, ﬁlm, dance and music returns to the Southern Theater for 11 days. The theater company that launched it all, Four Humors Theater, is putting on “Ubu for President” this year, featuring the eponymous presidential hopeful — also a disgusting creature. The 16-plus show kicks off the fest this year on Thursday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. following a 5:30 p.m. opening reception. Perhaps the year’s bloodiest performance, “Senseless” from Dangerous Productions, tells the terrifying tale of a woman’s nightmarish journey into an underground facility. It comes with the warning “Do not bring children. Do not come alone,” which hopefully speaks for itself. For ratings on gore, violence and language on the fest’s 18 shows, visit its website.

From the new Halloween flick “Ouija” to television series “American Horror Story,” we seem to be obsessed with connecting with the beyond. And thanks to the American Swedish Institute, we can learn about the tools practitioners have used over the centuries to do just that. Local spiritualism expert Lacey Prpić Hedke will guide interested souls through the Victorian Spiritualist movement and more during ASI’s “Soothsaying and Spirit Boards” events. Admission includes a Halloween-themed cocktail and light bites, and costumes are encouraged. Be sure to also check out ASI’s October exhibit, “Mansion in Mourning,” featuring the mournful mementos and remorseful relics of the museum’s storied collection.

Where: The Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Ave. S. When: Oct. 27–Nov. 6 Cost: $15.12 per event, passes and packs available Info: tchorrorfestival.com

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Where: American Swedish Institute, 2600 Park Ave. S. When: Oct. 26 and Nov. 1 Cost: $30 Info: asimn.org

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