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Girls Who Code CEO Reshma Saujani is trying to get more girls into computer-related fields

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

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eshma Saujani is on a mission to close the gender gap in technology. She has an ally at North High School.

Saujani founded the non-profit organization Girls Who Code, which offers coding summer programs and after-school clubs to teenage girls across the country. She spoke at the 14th-annual Achieve Minneapolis Education Partners Luncheon on Oct. 25 with girls from North’s new

Neighborhoods seek to stop street harassment

SEE GIRLS WHO CODE / PAGE A13

ELECTION DAY AND BEYOND A conversation with U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Stevens Square and Whittier are placing a spotlight on street harassment.

The two neighborhood groups recently organized a community forum dedicated to the issue. A student interning with the Whittier Alliance is starting a new task force focused on street harassment. And Council Member Abdi Warsame said he’s spoken to Mayor Betsy Hodges about the possibility of a pilot project in Stevens Square and Elliot Park that would partner mental health workers with police officers.

At the Oct. 24 community forum, one woman who moved to Stevens Square in July told of waiting for the bus at 18th & Nicollet when a man stopped to comment on her

Girls Who Code program in the audience.

“We are not giving girls a chance to get those jobs” in science, technology, engineering and math, Saujani said. “… If we want to solve the problems of today and tomorrow, teach our girls how to code.”

Saujani’s passion for closing the gap began after her unsuccessful run

 North High School student Toyanna Anderson works on a computer program during a meeting of the school’s Girls Who Code club. Photo by Nate Gotlieb

appearance and her legs.

“I felt very alone on the street, even though it was a weekday morning,” she said.

She jumped on the next bus, not knowing where it would take her, and ended up 20 minutes late to work.

Community members in Stevens Square say groups of men are congregating and wandering the neighborhood throughout the day and harassing residents. At a September safety committee meeting, Warsame said the same issue is hitting Elliot Park, where about 20 men, often intoxicated, have harassed people in the park, according to meeting minutes. Similar complaints surround Peavey Park, he said.

SEE HARASSMENT / PAGE A12

U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison occupies a relatively safe seat representing the heavily democratic 5th Congressional District, so in the final weeks of the election season he was hitting the pavement to campaign on behalf of other local democrats.

Ellison took a break from that work on Oct. 30 to chat with the Southwest Journal about what comes after the election and a couple of key issues of both local and national significance: protests here and in neighboring North Dakota over the Dakota Access oil pipeline project and a debate in Minneapolis over whether or not to become the country’s latest municipality to set a $15 minimum wage.

Southwest Journal: We’re speaking just nine days before Election Day. What are you doing right now to get voters out to the polls?

Ellison: I’m going to Northfield to help Angie Craig get the vote out in the Second District.

We’re very excited about her candidacy. She has a great record of service to community. She understands the needs of both workers and business owners. She understands the need for equality and inclusion. She herself worked hard, was born into a low-income family and worked her way up through a quality education and has had great success in the business world. Now she’s using that talent to help us.

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Katherine Campbell, John Pederson and Lee Sarkela (l to r) at the Firehouse sauna in Tangletown.

Photo by Michelle Bruch

TANGLETOWN

612 Sauna Society cooperative Multiple times a week, people gather at the “Firehouse” in a Tangletown backyard to sit in a 185-degree sauna, cool off by jumping into Minnehaha Creek, gather by a bonfire, and repeat.

The 612 Sauna Society is in the midst of a $30,000 Kickstarter campaign to build a new community-owned mobile sauna that will travel throughout the metro. Its first stop will be the Surly Brewing Co. courtyard in February.

The Society partnered on a project last winter that brought the Little Box Sauna to spots like Dangerous Man Brewing and 38th & Nicollet.

Minneapolitans seemed to like the idea — more than 1,700 people signed up, filling 93 percent of available reservations.

“People know sauna here, they appreciate it,” said Society founder John Pederson.

Steering Committee member Lee Sarkela said the sauna attracted plenty of attention last winter.

“There you are in shorts and steaming, and they are all bundled up with hats and scarves,” he said. “I think we caused an accident — in South Minneapolis, somebody was rear-ended.”

Sarkela said he’s noticed the sauna boosts his immune system. Any sniffle seems to disappear by the end of a sauna session, he said, similar to a fever cooking the body to fight an illness.

Through the Kickstarter, which runs through Nov. 14, Pederson is working to start a cooperative in which “founder-level” members have priority access to reservations on the bench. As more people buy in, they’ll have the capacity to

build more saunas and reach more people.

Pederson said a sauna can relieve stress by promoting deep, relaxed breathing. And the switch between hot and cold temperatures helps regulate the nervous system and promote oxygen delivery, according to the Society.

Pederson has researched sweat bathing traditions that extend to the Native American sweat lodge in North America, the temezcal in Central America, the banya in Russia, the hamam in Turkey and the sauna in Finland.

The Finnish Sauna Society reports that ancestors used saunas for everything from births and medicine to bathing and curing meat.

Pederson said it’s common in Scandinavia for top officials to discuss business in the sauna, and he’s applied for a Bush Foundation grant to host cross-community dialogue with 150 local leaders and community members in the sauna this winter.

“People have been doing it for a thousand years,” Pederson said. “We never needed it more than we need it now. Especially in the city, we’re bombarded with screens and clutter.”

Pederson said he enjoys meeting people who sign up for a seat on the bench. He finds that it brings out authenticity in people who are trying a new experience.

“It’s like the ocean. … It’s such a unique experience in a really complete way,” he said.

“Physiologically and socially it’s a new way to experience a familiar season.”

CITYWIDE

Wedge, Linden Hills Co-ops set to merge in 2017 The Wedge and Linden Hills Co-ops have voted to merge, while the Eastside Food Co-op has voted against the merger and will remain independent.

Votes to approve consolidation reached 81.9 percent at the Wedge, 87.3 percent at Linden Hills, and 51.3 percent at Eastside. Eastside needed a super-majority (66.66 percent) as required by the state in order to join the merger. Eastside’s voter turnout reached 22 percent of members.

“The consolidation strategy was about building a stronger local food system in the Twin Cities and better serving all our individual neighborhoods,” Amy Fields, Eastside Co-op general manager, said in a statement. “While we’re disappointed with

the decision, we will continue to serve our owners and our communities.”

Eastside members elected at least three board candidates who were running on a platform against consolidation. Some expressed concerns about an oversized focus on profits and potential loss of community oversight in a merger.

Those advocating for consolidation said it would improve the bottom line for all of the co-ops.

Wedge and Linden Hills will legally consolidate on June 30, 2017. In the coming months, the two boards will select a consolidated co-op board, followed by the appointment of separate councils dedicated to each store.

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“A gal who works for me used to be a paramedic,” said owner Corrie Dubay.

Dubay enjoys makeup that’s so transformative her clients are nearly unrecognizable.

“To have people question is that really you or is that somebody else?” she said.

For daily makeup wear, however, she reminds customers that photos and YouTube videos can be misleading. While Kim Kardashian’s makeup might look ideal, for example, it’s hard to see from a photo that her makeup can be very heavy. And makeup that looks good onscreen might not wear well over the course of a day.

“Sometimes less is more,” she said. “You don’t have to do this insane amount of contouring.”

Since the shop opened in 2012, Dubay has earned a following among crossdressers. Some come for a transformation without their wives’ knowledge, or try a transformation without stepping out in public, she said. Others have become wellknown drag queens around town. Dubay said she can help people discover a new look without being judgmental.

“I really love it. It’s that transformational type of makeup. It goes beyond makeup so much more,” she said.

Dubay has about 100 glitters to choose from — a popular choice on New Year’s Eve. The shop’s merchandise includes moisturizer, primer, setting powder, stencils for body paint, metallic paints, sponges, brushes and lots of eyelashes.

“I have a little bit of everything,” she said.

She also provides makeup and airbrush services for burlesque performers and bridal parties.

Dubay spent a dozen years working in an office and has a degree in marketing, but she became a bit bored with the corporate life.

“I didn’t have the ability to get really creative,” she said.

While pursuing a license in hair, a single afternoon devoted to fantasy makeup had Dubay hooked. She earned a license in cosmetology and completed additional training in makeup, but she said much of her skill comes from practice.

Corrie Dubay, owner of Midwest Makeup Supply. Photo by Dennis Driscoll

“Can I do that? Can I make it believable?” she said. “If you mess up, you can take it off and do it again. It’s not like taking off someone’s hair.”

Dubay is currently moonlighting at the Minnesota Opera, doing makeup for the steampunk-themed show Das Rheingold opening Nov. 12. And she recently taught a high school class on special-effects makeup.

“It’s really fun to be able to share my knowledge,” she said.

In addition to makeup and lash lessons, Dubay offers workshops where customers can stop in and mix colors themselves. She said it’s great for people who are searching for a discontinued color, or can’t find the right red lipstick.

“Everybody can wear red lipstick, it’s just a matter of finding the right tone,” she said.

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Valdez trained for 300 hours to earn certification in oncology massage in 2010.

“It’s a very specialized type of work,” she said.

She said oncology massage is gentle and takes each individual’s treatment, side effects and medications into account. She said that for someone with a low blood count, any amount of pressure can be dangerous, and she’s careful to ask each client the right questions.

“There are a lot of invisible factors,” she said.

Donations are taken at the register.

Estrella, a no-tipping spa, was founded in 2001 and opened at its present location in 2014. Valdez said she decided against tips to help her customers continue to relax on their way out the door.

“It’s a strange thing at the end of a relaxing

Nissa Valdez, owner of Estrella Apothecary & Spa on Nicollet. Photo by Michelle Bruch

service to go into a different part of your brain and work that out,” she said.

Estrella also carries natural skin, body and hair care products at 2515 Nicollet Ave. “I really pore through the ingredients before anything comes in here,” Valdez said.

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The Guthrie Theater originally brought owner Jeff Alspaugh to Minnesota, where he worked for a decade as a stage manager. He’s lived in the CARAG neighborhood for 25 years.

“I’ve watched the neighborhood change and now grow just leaps and bounds,” he said.

Alspaugh previously worked in IT, and he retired from IBM a year-and-a-half ago to launch the business. He said the concept hit him suddenly as he was leaving a neighborhood workout.

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Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau has concluded officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze did not violate department policy in the fatal shooting of Jamar Clark last November.

The officers, already cleared of criminal wrongdoing by separate state and federal investigations, will not face any discipline for the Nov. 15 incident on the North Side that left 24-year-old Clark dead and prompted weeks of protests. The internal use-of-force review began after those earlier investigations were completed.

“I have concluded the use of deadly force in the line of duty was necessary to protect an officer from apparent death or great bodily harm,” Harteau said Oct. 21 while announcing the results of the department’s internal affairs investigation into the case. “… In quoting the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the evidence gathered in the BCA’s (Bureau of Criminal Apprehension) investigation is insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the shooting was objectively unreasonable.”

Harteau said she and Mayor Betsy Hodges met with members of Clarks’ family before the announcement. Albert Goins, an attorney representing some of Clark’s siblings, said the majority of his family didn’t attend the meeting “because they anticipated a decision similar to the decision not to prosecute.”

Goins said attorneys representing Clark’s biological mother, Irma Burns, cut the meeting “relatively short.”

“His mother said, essentially — after she heard a lot of the legal, procedural stuff — she expressed her anguish and frustration, and she said, ‘Well, I heard all this, but my son is dead. Where do I go to get justice?’”

Goins said members of Clark’s family plan to file a civil suit.

Nekima Levy-Pounds, the outgoing president of the Minneapolis NAACP, described the outcome of the internal affairs investigation as “business as usual” for MPD in a statement posted on the organization’s Facebook page.

“The brutal way (Clark) was taken down alone makes it impossible to believe that not a single policy was violated by the officers,” Levy-Pounds said. “MPD’s decision continues to signal to our community that police officers are able to kill with impunity.”

Clark died of a gunshot wound to the head after an early morning struggle with police outside of an apartment building on the 1600 block of Plymouth Avenue North, where Clark was attending a birthday party.

According to police, Clark was involved in a fight that resulted in an ambulance being called to the apartment.

Paramedics called police because Clark was reportedly interfering with their efforts to treat the victim. Ringgenberg and Schwarze responded to the call from the Fourth Precinct, located just three blocks away, and confronted Clark.

In the police narrative, Ringgenberg used a takedown move on Clark when he refused to cooperate with orders to remove his hands from his pockets. During a struggle on the ground, Ringgenberg said afterward, Clark reached for his gun. Schwarze first warned Clark to let go of Ringgenberg and then shot him.

Witnesses at the scene claimed Clark was handcuffed when he was shot, but investigations into the incident concluded that was not the case.

Harteau said the takedown move used by Ringgenberg was not a chokehold, as some had claimed. She said the evidence indicated he took Clark down by grabbing his upper chest, and, while the maneuver isn’t taught by MPD, it was not unauthorized.

“The MPD teaches the ultimate purpose in using a takedown maneuver is to quickly bring a person to the ground,” she said. “The ground is known as the most effective place to gain control of someone.”

Harteau said video and DNA evidence supported Ringgenberg’s claim that Clark was reaching for his weapon, and that the officers’ fear for loss of life justified the use of deadly force.

While expressing her condolences to Clark’s family, Hodges said she supported Harteau’s decision.

“I trust the thorough process that the department followed, and I trust Chief Harteau’s judgment,” Hodges wrote in a statement released after Harteau announced the decision. “I know her dedication to the safety and dignity of every person in this city and every officer in this department.”

Harteau’s announcement followed the U.S. Justice Department’s decision in June not to bring federal criminal civil rights charges against Ringgenberg and Schwarze. Both officers are white, while Clark was black.

Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman made a similar decision in March to not file charges.

Clark’s shooting death sparked intense protests throughout the city, including an 18-day occupation of the Minneapolis Police Department’s 4th Precinct police station.

Hodges and Harteau hosted an open conference call with the public several hours after making the announcement.

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City pilots late-night traffic plan in Warehouse District The City of Minneapolis and its police department chose busy Halloween weekend to test a new late-night traffic-management plan for the Warehouse District.

The pilot project aimed to improve traffic flow and enhance safety in the entertainment zone, ground zero for the city’s club scene.

The city plans to study the outcome of the pilot project, but there are already plans to bring some form of it back next spring.

From Friday through Sunday nights, additional traffic control agents were deployed to control who could enter a roughly threesquare-block area during the hours before and after 2 a.m. bar close.

“This traffic plan is going to contribute to our overall public safety plan,” said Inspector Mike Sullivan, who heads the department’s downtown First Precinct, speaking at a press conference a few days before the test.

Sullivan said the additional traffic control agents would allow other officers working in the area around bar close to focus on the safety of bar and club patrons. The traffic control agents were joined by business licensing inspectors who were checking the permitting of drivers for ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft.

Other parts of the pilot project included a new no-parking or stopping area on South 3rd Street between Hennepin and North 2nd avenues. The permanent parking restrictions are in effect 11 p.m.–6 a.m. on weekend nights. A new late-night food truck area near the intersection of 6th & 1st was meant split up crowds that now concentrate at the few eateries in the area that remain open at bar close.

Sullivan said recurring late-night violence was a “challenge” in the Warehouse District and that traffic is a “significant contributor.”

Minneapolis Downtown Council President and CEO Steve Cramer described the downtown entertainment scene as “vibrant and multi-faceted,” adding that everyone who visits “rightfully expects to have a fun and safe experience.”

“This is an important part of our economy and an important part of what distinguishes us as a core city,” Cramer said at the press conference, held Oct. 25 at Fine

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But the system for managing pedestrian and motor vehicle traffic around 2 a.m. bar close hasn’t kept up with the times, he said, noting that it’s basically unchanged from the period before the arrival downtown of light rail and ride-sharing services like Lyft and Uber.

Late-night motor-vehicle access to Hennepin and 1st avenues is already restricted between 3rd and 6th streets.

Only Uber and Lyft drivers, taxis, limos and Metro Transit buses were allowed to enter the restricted zone around bar close during the pilot project and then only via Hennepin and First avenues at the four access points where the traffic control agents were stationed.

“We believe those additional agents are going to really make a difference with regard to moving traffic,” Sullivan said.

Motor-vehicle and pedestrian traffic was expected to be busier than usual on the weekend leading up to Halloween.

“We know that it will be busy and that’s one of the reasons we picked this weekend,” Sullivan said.

Cramer said the pilot project grew out of an ongoing collaboration between the city and downtown businesses that also produced last year’s Hospitality Zone Assessment. Mayor Betsy Hodges said the city was committed to tackling some of the challenges of the Warehouse District.

“My goal is to ensure that the city is pulling all the levers we can to make sure that everyone who visits Downtown Minneapolis has an inviting and vibrant experience,” Hodges said. “We want to have a weekend nighttime experience that works for everyone.”

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here’s a terrific documentary currently screening on Netflix, “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” about the birth of the women’s liberation movement and feminism in the ’60s and early ’70s. I watched it the night before Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton “a nasty woman,” which makes the algorithm nation conspiracy theorist in me suspect that Netflix knows us all too well and has its prescient pulse on exactly what this collective hole-in-our-soul nation needs at any given moment.

For my own sanity, then, I was compelled to go back to school and be inspired yet again by the words of pioneering women like Ellen Willis, Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, and Susan Brownmiller. I highly recommend it, especially to my daughter and her friends in the Washburn High School feminist student club, and all my other young feminist friends who fill my daily newsfeed with their travails and tribulations about being a woman in this world, from being told to smile or shut up and worse. And given the toxic dumbed-down times we’re living through, who doesn’t need a reminder of humanity at its progressive best?

Everyone who has ever marched or protested on behalf of Black Lives Matter or Standing Rock or any other social justice movements of the day should also see it, for along with giving the current feminist movement a foundation, it’s celluloid proof that people, as her highness Patti Smith always reminds, have the power. “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” is an important history lesson about how small groups of women enacted the changes that gave women the right to vote, forced legislation on domestic violence and child care, fought for equality and equity and turned the tide in the abortion debate to make sure that women have control of their bodies in this fundamentally sexist and overwhelmingly white male-governed patriarchy.

“They don’t like to admit in the United States that change happens because radicals force it,” Brownmiller comments near the end of the film.

“We live in a country that doesn’t credit any of its radical movements.”

True enough, and at the moment it’s not difficult to connect the dots from 1971, when Herbert Hoover and the F.B.I. investigated the women’s movement as a subversive force in America to James Comey and the F.B.I. investigating the first serious female candidate for president.

“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” took me back to the early ’70s, when I was a teenager growing up in a household of feminists. Led by my mother, a homemaker-turned-professional woman, and my three sisters, my formative years were spent watching “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” reading Ms. Magazine and listening to debates around the dinner table, and so it was that my two brothers and I cut our teeth on the birth of feminism during what I’m starting to believe was an atypical upbringing.

To wit: One Sunday night in seventh grade, I was at a neighbor’s house watching television with a girlfriend of my older sister’s, who suggested we watch a beauty pageant, Miss America or Miss Universe or something. When I scoffed at the idea, calling it lame and sexist, she turned up the volume and said, “You take it too seriously. You’re just like your sisters.”

Well, yeah.

Still am, and I’m also like my mother, who posted on her Facebook wall recently, “A feminist is one who believes in equal rights for ALL.” And now that we’re about to elect the first female president and endure all the blatant and covert sexism that will surely come with it, I feel a need to talk about the real world we live in, a place where I and so many of my brethren live and work and have more in common with, say, Beyonce’s “Lemonade,” Lynn Povich’s “Good Girls Revolt” and Samantha Bee’s “Full Frontal” than Donald Trump or the house of white male entitlement cards he represents.

“In Trump’s case, the facade is easy to see through, and what you see is a bundle of anxiety, fragility and insecurity. It’s the thinnest possible mask of

masculinity,” said my man Bruce Springsteen in a recent interview. “It’s such a thin costume that for me it doesn’t hold for a moment. But there have been quite a few people he has attracted along the way, so I suppose the bluster works to a certain degree.

He’s really quite an embarrassment if you’re from the USA. It’s simply the most rigid and thinnest veil of masculinity over a mess.”

Springsteen’s words come at a time in his beloved America when gender norms are not only being discussed, they’re being dismantled, and the fact is this country is riding a progressive wave that not even a little Hitler can stop. Bring it.

At the United States of Women Summit earlier this year, President Obama memorably took to the speaker’s podium and declared, “This is what a feminist looks like.” In a follow-up essay he wrote, “One thing that makes me optimistic is that it is an extraordinary time to be a woman. The progress we’ve made in the past 100 years, 50 years and, yes, even the past eight years has made life significantly better for my daughters than it was for my grandmothers. And I say that not just as President but also as a feminist.”

It was the first time a sitting president has described himself as a feminist, and the line is taken up mantra-like at the conclusion of “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry.” After two hours of ’60s and ’70s footage, the film ends at a modern-day women’s rights rally, with teens and twentysomething girls and women marching in the street and screaming passionately, “This is what a feminist looks like.”

The montage features all sorts of women, as well as two young men raising their voices in “this is what a feminist looks like” solidarity, and hell if I don’t see a lot of myself in those dudes, and in President Obama, and in the next president of these deeply divided and glass ceiling-shattering United States.

Jim Walsh lives and grew up in South Minneapolis.

He can be reached at jimwalsh086@gmail.com

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Vote YES to renew school referendum In Southwest Minneapolis, we have a great sense of pride in our public schools. Southwest High School and Washburn High School are some of the best in the state, and our communities have always supported our kids in public schools. We have to continue to do that this year. After the 2016-2017 school year, the current Minneapolis Public Schools referendum is set to expire, and that’s why voters must vote YES to renew it on Election Day. Referendum dollars are critical to the success of our schools. The referendum accounts for nearly 13 percent of the school district’s budget, which equals $74 million in the 2016-2017 school year. That provides funding for 591 classroom teachers and over 150 support staff, including teachers for English language learners. Imagine if the district were to lose hundreds of classroom teachers. Class sizes would balloon and our kids would never receive the attention in class that they deserve.

To show how important the referendum is to our local schools, here are some allotment numbers from the current referendum to schools in Southwest Minneapolis for the 2016-2017 school year: Southwest High School receives $781,952; Washburn High School receives $1,024,008; Anthony Middle School receives $424,670; Armatage Elementary School receives $155,899; and Jefferson Community School receives $1,063,635. That’s millions of dollars for

only five schools. It would be catastrophic if our schools and other schools throughout Minneapolis were forced to cut millions.

As city council members, we are sensitive to the costs that are associated with referendums. This referendum will simply renew the existing levy with no tax increase. Even with inflation factored in, there will be no new taxes because the property tax base in Minneapolis has grown over the past eight years. We know that our neighborhoods and tax base are growing in part because of our investments in schools.

Minneapolis Public Schools has also made some great strides recently by recruiting and increasing the number of teachers of color. Let’s make sure successes like this continue.

Together, let’s continue to support our schools and the 36,000 Minneapolis Public Schools kids attending them. Join us in supporting each of our local schools by voting YES for the referendum on Election Day. City Council members Lisa Bender (Ward 10) and Linea Palmisano (Ward 13)

CORRECTION An Oct. 20 story on a citycommissioned minimum wage study inaccurately described the predicted rise in restaurant menu prices if a $15 minimum wage is enacted as less than 1 percent.

The study predicts today’s $25 meal would cost between $0 and $1.66 more in 2021. Across the restaurant industry, price increases are predicted to average less than 5 percent.

The gutting of a Southwest landmark Regarding the newly renovated Minneapolis Southwest High School, unfortunately one can find little good to say.

Aesthetically, it appears an architectural abomination — the ill-thought-out, incoherent gutting of a 76-year-old neighborhood landmark. For example, what was once the school’s front is now its back (is this even possible?), and the building’s original entrance was extensively excavated and hammered out, replaced instead by tiny grass swatches amidst a small-square, cemetery-like layout.

Down the hall from Oscar Dahle’s old choir room (still intact, thankfully) now stands a strangely guitar-themed music rehearsal room (hey! — Walt Williams’ old room) featuring two-dozen or so garishly lacquered acoustic guitars tethered tenderly to its walls. (Len’s Guitar City, it’s not.)

The school also appears to have morphed into a pseudo-performing arts high school of sorts. Hail the High School Musical!

Hooray for the Spotlighters! Full-bore Broadway musicals performed here nearly year-round to great aplomb, yet the school band today can barely toot out the school rouser.

Southwest High School, with its newly designed “linked” thruways, now possesses all the whistle-and-bell ambience and preordained atmosphere of a cheap community college campus. Forget about subsidized lunches. This nationally recognized high school is now commercially its own brand, its ubiquitous Anchor apparel selling at $20 to $60 a pop, its Anchor-branded lanyard a mere $4 more. (Chip in, won’t you?)

Most despicably, though, whatever

Southwest High School history there is or was (of course, does anyone really care?) has been ignominiously stripped away. The 1940 student-designed Southwest seal (or “Indian” insignia — forgive us!), a heritable imprimatur that was the gift and legacy of the Class of 1970 following its state high school hockey championship, was unconscionably destroyed. No guilty mentions made, no apologies ever offered.

Added to this endless list of heretical debasements, the school seemingly remains completely devoid of its previous plethora of 20th-century plaques, trophies and other ephemera — there being no explanation, as yet, to their possible current whereabouts.

(Packed away in scratchily designated cardboard boxes, let’s hope.)

The new-and-improved Minneapolis Southwest High School, 2016. Unquestionably a high-achieving high school — and, for all its 76 years, peerless in Minneapolis.

None of this is debatable. But an unreflective cultural confluence of self-administered entitlements? Undoubtedly just as much so.

At least, perhaps, until its next tawdry renovation.

G. L. LaLonde, Southwest High School Class of 1967 Linden Hills

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So that’s what I’m doing.

Yesterday, I door-knocked in Columbia Heights with Sean Broom — he’s running for city council — knocked in Richfield with Maria Regan Gonzalez — she’s another city (council candidate) — and knocked in Crystal with Therese Kiser, who’s running for city council in Crystal. Also, I knocked with Mike Freiberg, who’s a (DFL) state representative (in District 45B).

We’re just getting out the vote. We’re getting it out locally, we’re getting it out nationally, we’re getting it out statewide, trying to help the (DFL in the) Minnesota legislature get back in the majority. That’s what we’re doing.

What do you think it would mean to this country to elect its first woman president on Nov. 8?

I think it would be a moment of tremendous historic magnitude. Less than 100 years ago, women gained the constitutional right to vote.

That was 1920. Women who couldn’t get credit in their own names, girls who were told you can be a nurse or a teacher, that’s all you can be.

It’s just shattering a long-held glass ceiling that I think will really help our country, because it will allow everyone to express their full talent.

Nobody is going to be told you can’t do this because you’re this.

I think it’s a great, very important moment, and I hope we don’t miss it.

As this election has shown, so many people feel left behind by the economy or left out of the political process.

What needs to happen after Nov. 8 to show them that the country is still working for them?

I think we need to have a major transformation to invest and turn out a new level of

civic engagement. We need a renaissance of civic engagement. And I think that party politics and voting can help do it.

People have plenty of information, but the information they have is slanted to their previously held viewpoints. We need to have more discussion across ideological lines so people can see, hey, we’re not so different.

We all want the same things, right?

I also think we need to do some racial healing. I have a sneaking suspicion that there are some people who feel that it is Mexicans or Muslims or somebody else that’s making their lives not good, so when Donald Trump says build a wall, you know, they’re not talking about Canada, right?

I think we need to do some racial healing and really recommit to this idea of equal protection under the law. No group can be privileged over another, and everybody has to have a fair shot in this country. And so I think that what Donald Trump’s whole campaign has basically said is that the Muslims and the Mexicans and the black people and the women and everybody are somehow harming working-class white men.

And that is what I think he’s basically saying to people. And if you look at his rallies, that’s the message he’s trying to send.

We must counteract this message after the election. It’s going to only work if we reach out to each other: sitting down,

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ment of that, or else, first, we leave our fellow citizens behind. The second is we allow these people to be susceptible to the kind of message Trump is giving out, which is that your problems are because of those people. Which is totally a lie, unless he’s talking about himself.

So, that’s what I think should happen after the election.

On Friday, you appeared at a Dakota Access Pipeline protest in front of Minneapolis City Hall. What are your concerns about that project?

I’m concerned about the water. I’m concerned about how there are two major rivers (near the North Dakota pipeline protest site), the Cannonball River and (Missouri River). I’m just worried about how that project could be very detrimental to our water source.

We already a lot of impaired waters here in the upper Midwest — Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota — and we’ve got to protect those waters, so that concerns me.

Also, it does bother me that I think — those tribal communities, they really do need to be listened to.

At the end of the day, we’ve got to have power in our country. We need energy. I’m not against that. But we’ve got to do it in a way that says that’s sensitive to tribal interests and ecological interests, too.

You’ve supported a $15 minimum wage on the federal level and, as you know, a city minimum wage proposal is being debated here in Minneapolis and facing skepticism from many members of the business community.

Do you support a $15 minimum wage in Minneapolis, and how do you respond

when business owners say a higher minimum wage would force them to cut employees or even close?

Here’s what I say about that: Minnesota has a higher minimum wage than Wisconsin, and our economy is doing better than theirs. Companies like Punch Pizza raised the minimum wage, and they’re doing really well. They’re selling plenty of pizza.

Hennepin County doesn’t have a single worker making less than 15 bucks, and Hennepin County keeps chugging along.

I do think there will be some short-time shocks to small-business people, but I think that’s why you want to ladder it in. You don’t want to go from where it is, $7.25, to $15 overnight. It goes in a stepwise way, so people can adjust.

I really do agree with (Mayor) Betsy Hodges’ point that the best thing would be a regional approach or a statewide approach so one community is not at a competitive disadvantage with another one right next to it.

But, at the end of the day, let me tell you: A higher minimum wage means more working people have more money to spend in our consumer economy. And that helps business, right? And that helps business.

You want to sell something? Try it with a populace that doesn’t have any money.

Right? And so what happened in the mid2000s is people didn’t have any money, but they were consuming based on debt: credit cards, home equity, stuff like that. Now, lending is a little tighter than it was, so the only thing to do is increase pay.

And, look, we’ve seen corporate profitability go up, we’ve seen the rich get a heck of a lot richer and we’ve seen working people’s pay stagnate. It’s time to increase the minimum wage, no doubt.

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Anne Lehman and Aria Campbell are part of a new task force looking for ways to change a culture of street harassment.

Photo by Michelle Bruch

FROM HARASSMENT / PAGE A1

MCAD student Jen Hancock said she was waiting for the bus at Hennepin & 4th when a man started telling her he would knock her down and give her what she needed. Hancock said it was unclear to her when to call 911.

“As you can imagine, you don’t think straight in these situations. Do I respond? Do I not respond? What can I do to get this guy to just leave me alone? I took [his] photo, I did mention the police,” she said.

She said the 911 dispatcher told her to call the moment she felt uncomfortable.

“I take my car a lot more now,” she said.

The Minneapolis-based Sexual Violence Center facilitated the recent forum. Executive Director Kristen Houlton Sukura said street harassment can happen to anyone, regardless of their age or what they’re wearing, and she emphasized that it’s never the victim’s fault.

She said the single largest risk factor is being a woman; the second is being out in public.

“There is nothing that you can do to encourage street harassment,” Houlton Sukura said. “… It’s a myth that it happens to pretty girls in short skirts.

It’s just not true.”

She said there is nothing generally unique about Stevens Square or Whittier that makes the neighborhoods a hot spot for street harassment.

“There is just more street traffic,” she said.

“There is nothing that’s bad or wrong about this neighborhood. It’s just a neighborhood where people are more vulnerable to this specific form of sexual violence because they’re on foot, they’re walking or maybe waiting for a bus.”

5th Precinct Insp. Kathy Waite said she’s experienced harassment even while in uniform.

“I support all of you, and I’m here for you.

I know that my officers have seen it, and we intervene when we can. … Just because you’re not committing a crime doesn’t mean it’s okay,” Waite said. “… When in doubt, I always say call 911.”

She said much of the problem seems to be associated with alcohol, some of it stemming from groups of men drinking heavily.

TASK FORCE To join the street harassment task force, contact the Whittier Alliance at info@whittieralliance.org.

IDEAS FOR INTERRUPTING STREET HARASSMENT Pretend you know the victim, start a conversation and steer them away from the harasser.

Approach the harasser and say what they are doing is not okay, speaking on behalf of yourself and not the victim.

Ask the victim if they are okay, while away from the harasser. Tell them you are concerned and that you support them.

Calling 911 is always an option in a dangerous situation.

Source: Sexual Violence Center

The experience in Stevens Square According to minutes of a September Stevens Square neighborhood meeting, problem areas have included Stevens Square Park, Minnesota Adult & Teen Challenge, LaSalle Community Garden, the 17th Street overlook garden, Loring Nicollet Alternative School, Plymouth Congregational Church and Nicollet Avenue businesses and bus stops.

Stevens Square has worked with police and the community attorney on trespassing enforcement at LaSalle Community Garden, according to meeting minutes. Waite said police are also meeting with social service agencies to address people who wander neighborhoods after shelters close under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

Sgt. Eric Dison said a neighborhood liquor store refuses to serve people who cause trouble, but offenders are usually able to find a stand-in buyer.

Teen Challenge staff said harassment out their door became so bad early this year that residents were not allowed to go outside unless they were being transported, according to meeting minutes.

Staff told the neighborhood group the problem subsided through a police department security audit, along with No Trespassing signs and increased patrols.

Ideas for tackling street harassment Whittier Alliance intern Anne Lehman is brainstorming ideas to help empower people who face street harassment. One idea is a partnership with local businesses to offer safe places for people to escape harassment. Lehman is also interested in reaching school groups so kids can learn basic guidelines about personal space and when it’s not appropriate to make a personal comment.

“It’s hard to change the current atmosphere immediately, but you can teach kids better manners,” she said.

Houlton Sukura said harassment is a challenge to prosecute because the crime is often committed in motion, with witnesses and suspects gone when police arrive.

5th Precinct Community Attorney Matt Wilcox said it’s difficult to prosecute harassment unless the incident is reported. Options for charges include disorderly conduct or indecent conduct, depending on the facts of the case, he said.

One Whittier resident, Kenya Weathers, said he’s interested in drawing more male attention to the issue.

“If you want a long-term solution to it, I really suggest you talk to young men in your lives and see what they have to say about it,” said another man who attended the recent forum. “I’d be willing to bet that anybody out there who does commit these acts probably grew up surrounded by that culture and it never left them.”

Another idea involves creating new public service announcements on the issue. Forum attendees referenced a 2014 Hollaback PSA in which a woman was videotaped walking New York City for 10 hours wearing jeans and a T-shirt. She documented more than 100 instances of verbal street harassment.

“We can set cultural norms in our little piece of the world,” Houlton Sukura said. “Culture is bigger than us, but the good news is it’s also constantly changing. … If you see something, say something.”

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Members of the North High School Girls Who Code club pose with the organization’s founder, Reshma Saujani (second from left). Photo by Nate Gotlieb FROM GIRLS WHO CODE / PAGE A1

for a New York City congressional seat in 2010.

She said running for Congress was the first time in her life she had done something “truly brave, where I didn’t worry about being perfect.”

“I’m not alone,” she said during a TED Talk this past February. “So many women I talk to tell me that they gravitate towards careers and professions that they know they’re going to be great in, that they know they’re going to be perfect in, and it’s no wonder why.”

Girls have been socialized to be perfect, Saujani said, whereas boys have been socialized to be brave. Later in life, that means boys are more comfortable taking risks in their career, she said.

Saujani set about to socialize girls to be brave by teaching them computer programming.

Coding, she said, is a process of trial and error that requires perseverance and imperfection.

Saujani started in 2012 with 20 girls in New York and has expanded the organization to reach more than 40,000 in every state. It operates about 1,500 clubs nationwide, including five in Minnesota.

It also offers free summer immersion programs to 10th- and 11th-grade students at the nation’s top technology companies, such as Facebook and Microsoft.

“For the American economy, for any economy to grow, to truly innovate, we cannot leave behind half our population,” she said in her TED Talk. “We have to socialize our girls to be comfortable with imperfection, and we’ve got to do it now.”

‘A lot of brain’ Saujani hopes clubs such as the one at North High can help with that mission. Started by Gear Up coordinator Thomas Waltower, the girls in the club are using the free programming language Scratch, developed by the MIT Media Lab, to experiment with coding different games and animations.

“Right now, it’s a lot more about exploration and playing and seeing what works and what doesn’t,” said math teacher Justin Goldstein,

Girls Who Code club leaders Morgan Meissner (left) and Ashley Arthur (right) pose with Saujani. Photo by Nate Gotlieb

who helps Waltower with the club.

The girls appeared engaged at a recent meeting, laughing and dancing as they manipulated the program to play different sounds and animations.

Ninth-grader Tyshawna Hubbert said she wanted to learn coding because it could make it easier for her to get a job. Hubbert also said it presents her the opportunity to meet new people and make her own website.

Ninth-grader Toyana Anderson offered similar reasons for joining the club, adding that coding was something she had done at her old school. Anderson said she likes coding because it’s a hands-on experience and something that could pay dividends down the road.

“Coding takes a lot of brain,” ninth-grader Taryn Jiles said. “If we can do coding, basically we can kind of do anything.”

Changing the culture Statistics show that Saujani and others looking to close the technology gap still have plenty of work to do. Women hold just 24 percent of computing jobs in the U.S. and represent just 18 percent of all computer science graduates, figures that are significantly lower than in past years. Girls Who Code projects the percentage of women in computing jobs will decrease unless more action is taken.

The organization recommends deepening girls’ hands-on computing experience, changing their perceptions of computing and supporting parents and teachers in understanding the role of computing as just a few examples of ways to lessen the gap.

“For so long we have created in our culture basically images that girls are not good at math and science,” Saujani said at the luncheon. “We have created a culture that tells girls it’s cool to hate math.”

She has partners in Minneapolis, including University of Minnesota Ph.D. students Morgan Meissner and Ashley Arthur, who are earning doctorates in cell biology. The duo started work in bioinformatics when they realized they hadn’t learned coding as undergraduates, something they said would have been nice to know.

They decided to go for master’s degrees in bioinformatics. They also inquired about volunteering for a local Girls Who Code club only to realize there weren’t any. That led them to start their own chapter at the university, which now has 28 students from about 15 schools, including some in Minneapolis.

The program focuses on the core four computer-science concepts that form the basis for all programming languages. In the spring, the girls will build an app to help refugees in Minneapolis.

“It’s something really new for them,” Arthur said of coding. “It’s something that we still think of as hard, and now that they’re playing around, it’s less intimidating.”

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Minneapolis Chief of Schools Michael Thomas, principal VaNita Miller and Swedish principal Lisa Landerhjelm at the American Swedish Institute. Photo by Nate Gotlieb

Minneapolis teachers show Swedish counterparts Minnesota culture First-grade teacher Julie Young Walser loved her time exploring the schools in Sweden so much that she didn’t want to leave.

Last month, she was trying to give that same experience to Lena Regnander Bergh, one of 14 Swedish educators from Uppsala in Minneapolis as part of the annual educator exchange between the two municipalities.

Regnander Bergh was staying at Young Walser’s home and spent Oct. 24 shadowing her at Kenwood Elementary School.

She said she wanted to see how teachers organized their classrooms, how teachers relate with students and how they deal with different cultures.

“It was nice pictures everywhere,” she said, adding that it felt welcoming and childcentered.

Regnander Bergh and the Swedish educators were staying with their Minneapolis contemporaries in late October, visiting schools and experiencing local attractions such as Fort Snelling, Surly Brewing Company and TCF Bank Stadium. Many of the hosting Minneapolis educators either visited Uppsala this past spring or will visit in the upcoming spring.

It’s a program organizers said helps build lasting relationships and foster dialogue.

“You realize, if you didn’t already, that the world is a small place,” said former Field principal Steve Norlin-Weaver, who helps organize the trips. “You get there, and kids are kids and schools are schools, and that’s kind of cool.”

The exchange program began in 2005, several years after Minneapolis and Uppsala established their sister-city relationship.

More than 200 educators from the two cities have participated in the program, NorlinWeaver said.

The Uppsala delegation always comes in the 43rd week of the calendar year, which falls before Sweden’s autumn break. The

Minneapolis delegation travels there during spring break, spending a night in Stockholm before traveling to Uppsala.

“Everyone has a great experience and would go again in a minute,” Norlin-Weaver said. Educators from both countries also said they developed closer relationships with their fellow staff members, many of whom they did not know before the program.

“It’s a local exchange and an international exchange at the same time,” said Lisa Landerhjelm, an assistant principal at a bilingual school in Uppsala.

Landerhjelm was staying with Field Community School principal VaNita Miller.

She was serving as the Uppsala delegation leader and spent a recent Monday attending administration meetings, observing teachers and helping on lunch duty with Miller.

She said the program made her realize that schools in Sweden are struggling with a lot of the same questions as American schools.

“We parallel each other in terms of the struggles we have in integrating immigrants,” Norlin-Weaver said.

Young Walser, who stayed with Regnander Bergh last spring, said she was impressed how “nothing was rushed” in Uppsala’s schools.

“Everybody took frequent and meaningful breaks,” she said. “It was just so refreshing not to be rushed.”

She said the schools there were very child-centered, noting that kids were entrusted to walk down to the cafeteria, clean their own eating space and walk back to class on their own. She said she was also impressed with the beauty of the classrooms, the original art in the schools and the candles in the cafeterias.

“I got so much more out of it than I ever would have expected,” Young Walser said.

“The program is just invaluable.”

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School Board candidates square off at forums Racial inequality, student-based allocation among issues addressed

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

At-large candidate Kim Ellison stressed the importance of engaging students and families.

Her opponent, Doug Mann, said he wanted to address structural problems in Minneapolis Public Schools.

District 6 incumbent Tracine Asberry said she will continue to stress accountability, community engagement and transparency. Her opponent, Ira Jourdain, said he would be an advocate for those who are less fortunate as well as his constituents.

The four Minneapolis Board of Education candidates squared off during a District 6 forum Oct. 27, covering topics such as student-based allocation and teacher evaluation.

Ellison said her experience teaching at alternative schools has helped her see what works for students. She said the district needed to uproot institutional racism, better engage families and ensure schools have adequate resources and support.

Ellison said she is against using test scores to evaluate teachers. She said she doesn’t know if she could look at a student-based allocation funding model until she knows how much it costs to effectively run a school.

Mann cited his long tenure in education advocacy as a strength. He said he’d like to see fewer teachers on probation, decrease teacher turnover and have special education students in the least restrictive environment possible.

He said he is concerned about the “watering down” of curriculum and a focus on test prep. He added the he is opposed to the district’s Acceleration 2020 strategic plan because he feels it

New Creation Baptist Church hosted the Oct. 26 forum. Four candidates were invited to a forum the next night at Lynnhurst Recreation Center in District 6. Photo

by Nate Gotlieb

doesn’t address the issue of teacher staffing.

Asberry noted her visibility in the community, her commitment to students and willingness to be a voice of dissent on issues such as the Reading Horizons curriculum and the evaluation of interim superintendent Michael Goar.

Asberry said district doesn’t know enough to determine if it should support the studentbased allocation model, noting that it’s an issue bigger than just the school budget. She said there needed to be a comprehensive assessment process to evaluate teachers that includes student testing, climate and social emotional factors.

Jourdain cited his experience as a parent, volunteer work in MPS and work as a human services program manager. He said he would advocate for a holistic approach to education, work to engage communities of color and work to change the perception of District 6 as a wealthy community.

He said he disagrees with rating teachers based

on test scores, does not support the studentbased allocation model or high-stakes testing and would work to bring back arts, music and drama.

Asberry has represented the district since being elected in 2012. Ellison and Mann are running to replace 8-year School Board veteran Carla Bates, who is not running for re-election.

Ellison has repressed District 2 since 2012.

2nd forum highlights equity issues Ellison, Mann, Asberry and Jourdain were also part of a forum Oct. 26 that featured all eight School Board candidates and centered on issues of racial justice.

District 2 candidate Kimberly Caprini said her work in the district, from attending School Board meetings to volunteering and serving as a member of the Northside Schools Collective, has given her a idea of district policies that need to be changed.

Caprini said she would like to see Harrison Education Center, which serve high school students with severe and emotional behavioral needs, close within the next two to three years.

She added that teachers need to recognize their implicit biases and that the district has to “hold their feet to the fire” on doing that work.

Her opponent, Kerry Jo Felder cited her efforts in preventing the closure of North High, her work as a community organizer and volunteer experience in the schools as reasons for her run. She advocated for full-service community schools, broader student services and a need for more diverse faculty in the Northside schools.

When asked if the district should change its approach to providing adequate and stable support staff, Felder said the North side has to “show up at the Capitol and demand more money for students.”

District 4 incumbent Josh Reimnitz noted his focus on equity, increasing academic rigor, “rich, whole curriculum” and focused governance.

He said the issue of a lack of communication is endemic across the district, noting his work on a new policy manual that would require the district to engage families 45 days in advance of any major changes.

His opponent, Bob Walser, said he is running his campaign “based on values of supporting the people who can do best work with our students.”

He said he is concerned with the influence of outside money in the school board race and that endorsements from area legislators will help him better work to secure state funding for schools.

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Tom Hoch became chair of the Minneapolis Downtown Council last year, a position he’ll continue to hold as he plans to step down as leader of Hennepin Theatre Trust. File photo

HENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST LEADER TO STEP DOWN After two decades leading the downtown theaters, Tom Hoch says he’s ready for something new

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For Tom Hoch, all the world’s a stage — or least Hennepin Avenue downtown is.

Since its inception 16 years ago, Hoch has led the Hennepin Theatre Trust, the nonprofit that owns and operates Hennepin’s historic theaters in addition to bringing art to the streets and storefronts of downtown Minneapolis. In mid-2017, however, Hoch, 61, will be stepping down from his role as president and CEO of the organization he created in order to pursue the next act of his career.

Under his leadership the trust has expanded from managing Hennepin’s theaters — the Orpheum, Pantages and State, in addition to the New Century Theatre in City Center — into a placemaking and visual arts organization responsible for large-scale art projects like the Bob Dylan mural and regular cultural programming in downtown Minneapolis.

“Art is a great catalyst for development, talent attraction and enabling people to attach to a community. With that belief, it seemed natural to move out into the public realm with arts and culture activities,” he said. “I hope that the takeaway that people have is that art is important on its own merit.

And it serves communities very, very well because of what it does to help transform.”

The trust also puts on Made Here, the country’s largest showcase of storefront window art, in order to use under-developed areas and spur interest in vacant commercial spaces. It recently launched the 5 to 10 Hennepin initiative, a weekly rotating set of block parties in collaboration with local artists and performers.

Joan Vorderbruggen, the trust’s director of public art and placemaking who puts on many of its public art programs, said Hoch’s departure is a “painful loss” due to his creative thinking, deep local roots and faith he brings to their work.

“What I love about Tom so much is that he’s totally OK to work in the gray. We start at A and we want to get to Z, but we have no idea what B, C, D, E, F, G looks like. But we’ll figure it out, even if it can be painful to operate that way,” she said.

Hoch began working with the theaters as a city employee overseeing restoration efforts

and then transitioned a couple years later to head for-profit management company Historic Theater Group in 1996, before the non-profit trust was created in 2000. His career has led him from teaching to practicing law to working with the City of Minneapolis. Hoch said he’s exploring other opportunities — he’s adamant this is not the time for retirement, he said — but he will continue to serve as board chair of the Minneapolis Downtown Council, Downtown Improvement District (DID) and Animal Humane Society.

“It hasn’t been a very straight path,” Hoch laughed. “Hopefully I can take what I’ve learned and apply it to the next thing I do.”

Hoch said his reason for leaving is to find new opportunities. His successor will need a diffused set of skills, he said, from operating theaters that host touring Broadway shows and concerts to placemaking in large urban environments. The trust’s board of directors will launch a national search for its second executive.

Hoch’s leaving comes at a time the trust is planning a move from City Center to the former Solera building at Hennepin & 9th before he steps down next year. The trust announced over the summer plans to turn the 31,000-square-foot building into office, event and education spaces. The organization will also close the 300-seat New Century Theatre and open another performance space in its new home, Hoch said.

“We’re in that ramp up to a tipping point,” he said.

Looking back, Hoch said he’s proud of the trust’s work to make Hennepin Avenue a welcoming place for both locals and people who commute into downtown Minneapolis.

There’s also their work in creating the DID, now a group with a roughly $6.5-million annual budget largely supported by private businesses, he added.

“Downtown Minneapolis’ success is in no small measure due to Tom’s leadership,” said Steve Cramer, president and CEO of the Downtown Council and DID, in a statement.

“Minneapolis is a better place to live, work and play because of Tom’s work.”

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Bike Beat

By Annie Van Cleve

Catching up on biking and walking news

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t’s a great time to take a walk or a bike ride with trees changing color, cooler temperatures and new bike facilities!

Recent weeks were full of big announcements about biking and walking: a number of new facilities were unveiled, census data showing bike commuting is on the rise was released, the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition announced it is expanding its mission to include pedestrian advocacy work and more. If you missed the stories, keep reading for a roundup on the latest news about biking and walking in Minneapolis.

The dust is beginning to settle after a summer of

record-setting street construction.

The Franklin Avenue Bridge reopened with widened sidewalks, a protected bike lane and the first automatic bicycle counter. Ride across to see your transportation choice acknowledged and counted.

West River Road has reopened after two years of construction following a landslide in the summer of 2014.

Protection has been added to the bike lane on Blaisdell Avenue South from 29th to 40th streets.

Protected bike lanes are open on 3rd Avenue downtown from 1st Street South to 16th Street East.

Downtown residents and workers should check out a recent post on the Coalition’s blog (mplsbike.org/protected_bikeway_washington_inches_away) about the frustrating gap emerging on Washington Avenue from the end of the new protected bike lanes at 5th Street to

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the University of Minnesota’s West Bank campus.

As if to validate these new investments in infrastructure, new census data released last month shows bike commuting has increased 155 percent since 2005. The city is maintaining

its second place lead (after Portland) for bike commuting in large U.S. cities.

Another positive statistic revealed bike commuting among women is up 177 percent from 2006. Forty-three percent of bike commuters in Minneapolis are women, which puts the city way above the national average of 29 percent.

The census data is based on surveys that ask people to report their primary travel mode, but responses may not tell the whole story. A University of Minnesota report from 2005 found that bicycle commuting is probably higher than the 5 percent uncovered by the census, since seasonal commuting shifts are not counted. Read more here: mplsbike.org/2015_census_shows_ record_biking_in_minneapolis.

Unfortunately, pedestrian fatalities are up in Minnesota and in the metro area. In September,

the Star Tribune reported that 34 pedestrians have been killed in traffic crashes in 2016 — compared with 20 in the same period last year — and this may be the deadliest year for pedestrians since at least 2005.

Nevertheless, walking remains an important mode. Everyone is a pedestrian. Clearly, it is time for increased efforts around pedestrian advocacy.

Community members who wish to share feedback about biking and walking advocacy work should watch for upcoming events on the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition’s website.

The Coalition is currently seeking new board members, including those with a passion for pedestrian advocacy.

The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) recently announced they will begin tracking the race and/or ethnicity of people who are stopped, including people on foot or bike. The

change was encouraged by organizations like Neighborhoods Organizing for Change and the American Civil Liberties Union as a means to help uncover any underlying racial bias related to policing in our city.

A report recently compiled by Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition volunteers (mplsbike.org/ citationreport ) analyzed data about bicycle citations given between 2009 and 2014 by the MPD. Volunteers working on the report found that men receive more bicycle citations than women.

A small subset of reports analyzed included race and gave an idea about how people of color are treated — as did anecdotal evidence — but the data was not able to fully show the impact of race.

For more information, check out this blog post: mplsbike.org/minneapolis_police_ start_tracking_race_demographics_during_ bicycle_stops.

The increase in pedestrian fatalities, even as walking remains an important mode for a subset of commuters, illustrates this point.

conditions for people on bikes, more work is still needed for people who travel without cars. The increase in pedestrian fatalities, even as walking remains an important mode for a subset of commuters, illustrates this point.

New leadership at the city and more accurate counting methods — for example on the Franklin Avenue Bridge and the tracking of race and/or ethnicity on police reports — are steps in the right direction.

Keep up with these stories and more bicycling news on the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition blog: mplsbike.org/current_news.

Annie Van Cleve is a freelance writer, blogger and volunteer with the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition.

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By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

Target ranks first in corporate solar use Target uses the most solar power of any corporation in the U.S., the Solar Energy Industries Association announced Oct. 19.

The association said Target has added nearly 70 megawatts of solar in 2016, bringing its total up to 147.5 megawatts at 300 installations. The Minneapolis-based retailer edged Wal-Mart (145 megawatts) out of the top spot in the rankings for the first time in the report’s five-year history.

“We’re incredibly proud of the progress we’ve made in improving building efficiencies and reducing environmental impact,” John Leisen, vice president of property management at Target, said in a statement.

Target is committed to installing solar panels on 500 stores and distribution centers by 2020.

Its stores that currently use solar power generate between 15 and 30 percent of their energy from it.

The top corporate solar users in the U.S.

have installed more than one gigawatt of solar energy, according to the association, which is enough to power 193,000 homes.

U.S. corporations generate enough solar electricity to offset nearly 1.1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions, according to the association.

Kayak-sharing program sees over 260 participants More than 260 people kayaked on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis this fall, thanks to a new National Parks Service program.

The agency launched the Mississippi River Paddle Share program in August in conjunction with Mississippi Park Connection, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization and other organizations.

Paddlers could pick up kayaks at three sites along the river: North Mississippi Regional Park, the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization’s headquarters and Boom Island Park.

“Almost immediately, we had people

using it and posting that they really liked it,” program manager Susan Overson said.

She noted the agency hosted two events during which it took kayakers on the river, including one in conjunction with program sponsor REI. The National Park Service placed the launch points near Nice Ride stations in an effort to get people to kayak one way and bike the other. The program was paid for by a $175,000 grant from the agency’s transportation program, in addition to a $40,000 grant from REI. The program launched on Aug. 25, which was the 100th anniversary of the National

Park Service, and ran through late October.

Overson said the agency hopes to open the program in June next year, depending on conditions. She added that the agency would like to improve on existing locations and potentially add additional take-out and return stations.

“We’re all about getting people to the river, to experience the river, to protect the river and to do it in a way that minimizes the impact on the resource,” she said. “To see the city from a boat is a completely different experience and gives you a greater appreciation for the river.”

Tangletown to host water-quality forum, fair The Tangletown Neighborhood Association will host a water quality fair from 1:30-5 p.m. Nov. 5 at Fuller Park.

The free event will feature games and exhibits from watershed districts, the Master Water Steward Program, the Wetland Health Evaluation Program, the DNR, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and other organizations.

The event is part of the neighborhood’s water-quality month. The association was also scheduled to hold a waterquality forum Nov. 1 at Fuller Park.

The association was approached this year by two master water stewards who wanted to collaborate on a fall leaf-raking event, sustainability committee chair Lauren Anderson wrote in an email.

“We knew leaves that blow into storm drains are a huge source of pollution … and that a community-wide raking event would protect our local waterways in addition to providing a service to neighbors,” she wrote.

The association is also holding the neighborhood leaf-raking event on the 5th. Visit tangletown.org to learn more.

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By Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com

UNITED PROPERTIES PROPOSES OVERHAUL OF UPPER HARBOR TERMINAL Concert venue operator First Avenue Productions and two Twin Cities-based developers are proposing to overhaul the Upper Harbor Terminal site along the North Minneapolis riverfront.

The City of Minneapolis and Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board recently announced that United Properties of Bloomington, Minneapolis-based Thor Construction and First Avenue were the only team to respond to a request for qualifications to be the master developer of the former barge shipping terminal on the city’s North Side. The nearly 50-acre riverfront site is located between 33rd Avenue North and 40th Avenue North on the Mississippi River’s west bank.

Spread across more than 31 acres of the site, the development part of the proposal features 700-1,000 units of housing, 100,000-150,000 square feet of creative office space, 40,000-70,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, and 180,000 square feet of space for manufacturing, according to released proposal documents.

The developers are also proposing a two-acre incubator development for a community or nonprofit partner.

Nate Kranz, First Avenue’s general manager, told The Journal they’re also planning an amphitheater capable of hosting 8,000 to

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Community members can give feedback on the project through a City of Minneapolis and Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board online survey. For more information on the proposal and to take the survey, visit upperharbormpls.com.

10,000 people for concerts and music festivals as part of their proposal.

The venue would be significantly larger than the other stages the company owns and operates, including the Turf Club (350) and Palace Theatre in St. Paul (2,700) or the First Avenue mainroom (1,550) and its 7th St Entry (250).

The amphitheater would be similar to events First Avenue has hosted at Hall’s Island, a riverfront area in Northeast Minneapolis capable of holding around 8,000 people, he added.

Kranz said it’s too early to say if First Avenue would own the amphitheater. A spokeswoman with United Properties declined to comment on other details of the proposal.

The proposal also includes 18 acres for public parkland that would be used for a 100-foot-

wide riverwalk, which could include features like playgrounds, food vendors and/or recreational space. The site’s industrial structures would be preserved and incorporated into the park.

The design team includes Coen + Partners, El Dorado Architects, LSE Architects, Nitsch Engineering and Pierce Pini + Associates. The proposal also features partnerships for programming with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Minnesota Opera and Minnesota Public Radio.

Juxtaposition Arts has joined on as a community partner.

The team will give an overview of its proposal at a community meeting on Thursday, Nov. 3 from 6 p.m.–8 p.m. at the Folwell Park Recreation Center, 1615 Dowling Ave. N. According to goals from the City of Minneap-

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A recommendation committee will review the proposal from First Avenue, United Properties and Thor and consider a three-party exclusive rights agreement.

The City of Minneapolis and Park Board also received submissions from five teams interested in being considered as potential development partners, which will be passed onto the selected master developer.

The city and board expect to begin the planning process next March.

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t’s been a while since I’ve written about the benefits of leaves, so I figured now is a great time to bring that up again, since you’re probably out there raking right now.

If you garden, don’t rake up leaves and just put them in bags at the curb to be hauled away. Why? Because there’s gold in them there bags!

Like other kinds of organic matter, decomposing leaves improve soil structure, making it lighter and airier. They also boost soil health by adding nutrients and enticing hungry earthworms that help aerate the soil as they burrow this way and that while eating and pooping. (They do this for free if you offer good snacks, like leaves, but their “castings” are expensive to buy at the store.)

To add leaves to your gardens, or lawn, you need to first shred them up a bit because whole leaves mat down in our wet, cold winters and can smother lawns and plants if they get too thick. Don’t worry about buying a fancy shredder: I shred fall leaves with our crappy lawn mower and it works just fine.

All you need to do is find a flat surface and rake a pile of leaves onto it; then run over those leaves slowly with the mower a few times. (Go slowly or you’ll choke the mower and have to restart it.) You’ll probably have to rake the pile back into shape once or twice because the fragments will fly everywhere, but in just a few minutes you’ll have a nice pile of reasonably shredded leaves.

Do this over and over again until you’ve shredded all your leaves, or at least as many as you can stand to shred.

If you’re doing this on a lawn, you can run over the leaves in place as long as you’re not leaving more than an inch or so on the ground. In garden beds, spread shredded leaves to a depth of about 3–6 inches. Don’t worry about this too much. I use a plastic snow shovel to hurl them onto my gardens.

Come spring—since winter is so long and harsh—many of those leaves will be gone.

The ones that remain can usually be left on

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top of the soil as mulch, though you may need to rake some away from the tops of plants as it warms up so they don’t get smothered while trying to emerge from the ground.

If you’re lucky enough to have a bunch of leftover shredded leaves, add them to your compost bins or piles. Or bag them up and stick them in the garage or someplace else to use in the spring. You’ll be glad you did.

Little Free Seed Library For those who want to share seeds, the Little Free Seed Library is still going strong at my house. The library is located on the boulevard on the corner of 45th Street and Washburn Ave. S. in Linden Hills. (For more information and photos, check out this blog post from a couple of years ago: everydaygardener.com/sharing-seeds/.)

If you bring seeds to share, please bring them in envelopes or baggies labeled with the name of the plant — one type of seed per container, please. And if you have old gardening books you don’t want, bring those, too, for other gardeners to read.

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his summer I did a test on my vacation habits.

Usually I plan far in advance and research where I’m going. But recently I read a book about how the Internet has changed our travel experiences, and the author surmised that too much information actually cuts down on our joy of travelling.

So I tried it both ways. On the trip where I didn’t do any research I felt lost and thought I was always missing something. Doing research in advance made my other trip feel longer and made me full of anticipation. Give it a try. See what you think.

Most cities’ websites list members of their local Chamber of Commerce and attractions for new visitors. I look at these whenever I go somewhere new. The other day I was stranded in a northern suburb waiting for work to be done on my car. I figured there must be something interesting to do in the area so I checked the city website.

Most recommendations were in Minneapolis or St. Paul. Hardly anything was right there, and one enticing attraction was located several towns to the west — in Andover.

Somehow I’ve never been to Andover. So as soon as my car was done, I used Google Maps to navigate north metro’s jumble of highways. Twenty-five minutes later, I was at my destination.

Minnesota’s barns are alluring to many city dwellers. Other than at a few county fairs, I rarely get inside one. The Round Barn Trading Company resides in one of the few remaining round barns in Minnesota.

Because of their shape and lack of interior posts, round barns were more efficient and easier for farmers to work in, but they weren’t as popular as rectangular barns. This one was built in 1880 — the beginning of round barn era.

George and Maja Adolfson’s family lived on the farm since 1950. At some point, a long rectangular barn was built as an extension for more cows and Maja sold antiques in the circular space.

In the late 1990s, she told her family she never wanted to leave the farm, so the family held a competition to design a senior housing development. “The Farmstead” was built right

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on the property, keeping the round barn as its centerpiece.

Julie David was a consignment artist selling repurposed constructions in the round barn before she became the business’s current owner last November. The fully insulated, 3,600-squarefoot barn is stocked with new and vintage treasures. Seventy percent of the merchandise is made locally.

Artful displays showcase goat milk soap, handharvested Minnesota wild rice, embroidered towels, appliquéd infant clothes, knitted scarves, repurposed mittens, painted furniture, chalk paint, Amish country store candies, soup mixes, clever kitchenware, ceramic serving pieces, raspberry jam from Waubun that was a hit at my house and shabby chic wood signs made by local Junior Achievement students. Round Barn also sells its own line of food products and flavored coffees — help yourself to a cup while you browse!

The well-curated collection of products, airy space, meandering aisles, vintage floor and everpresent history make this destination one of my new favorites.

Help celebrate the Round Barn Trading Company’s first anniversary Nov. 5. Check out their Facebook page for more details and their monthly “Girls Night Out in the Barn.”

Know of any hidden treasures?

Contact Linda Koutsky on Facebook.

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Theatre Garage project secures Planning Commission approval The city Planning Commission signed off in October on plans for the six-story Theatre Garage Apartments at Franklin & Lyndale.

A 6,800-square-foot restaurant would stand at the corner, with a 1,200-square-foot fitness space on Lyndale and walkup units fronting Lyndale as well. The 113-unit building at 2004-2018 Lyndale Ave. S. would include more than 140 parking spaces located underground and in two levels above ground. Theatre Garage is no longer part of the project and plans to close.

The redesign of the project has generated less opposition than the initial proposal approved by the city two years ago. The developer has said the initial land deal fell through, and a new development partnership is now in place.

The latest version of the project is reduced by 4.5 feet at its tallest point, holds 31 more units and features two fewer floors of aboveground parking.

Most of the building would stand 63.5 feet tall, reaching about 69 feet at the highest point near the intersection.

The Planning Commission approved a conditional use permit to increase the height to six stories from the four allowed by right.

At the Planning Commission hearing, Stevens Square resident Kathleen Hokanson said she

likes the project’s architect but not the location.

She said it’s challenging to reach the co-op and move through the neighborhood by car.

“We don’t like the fact that you want to build it bigger than the code. If you know the area, we can’t afford any more people. … We’re not the Greenway, we’re the gateway,” she said.

“This height is allowed with conditions, as long as the applicant has met those conditions,” Council Member Lisa Bender said in response to concerns. “Generally speaking, this height is allowed here as long as the applicant has met the conditions in a conditional use permit.”

In this case, city staff recommended approval of a conditional use permit because a study found the building would not cause traffic congestion, and the building’s bulk is concentrated on Lyndale and Franklin and steps down in height at the rear parking garage. Staff also noted that the intersection is located in a valley.

“There is a significant grade change … at this intersection, so the actual elevation of the top of this building would not be taller than the building that’s actually on Bryant nearby,” said Senior City Planner Lisa Steiner.

Planning Commission approves Rana Village project on Greenway The city Planning Commission approved plans Oct. 17 for Rana Village, a five-story multifamily building at 2900 Pleasant Ave. The plans have evolved since they were first introduced early this year.

Sabri Properties now plans to tear down two buildings on the site to build a 120-unit apartment building, with walkup units along Grand Avenue and sizes ranging from efficiencies to four bedrooms. One floor of the building would be dedicated to seniors.

A skyway originally proposed to connect the third floors of Rana Village and Karmel Plaza across Pleasant Avenue was dropped from the plans. DJR Architecture Principal Scott Nelson said Planning Commissioners didn’t support the skyway concept in early discussions.

“Just to get everyone’s cooperation and compromise on various things we decided to drop it,” Nelson said.

One new addition to the project is a public promenade along the Greenway. Nelson said space for the promenade along the northern edge of the site is a primary reason to demolish the buildings, which were initially going to be incorporated into the project.

Ninety-five parking spaces would include 35 in an underground garage and 60 on the main floor.

At nearby Karmel West, 312 W. Lake St., the developer would add an 800-square-foot addition fronting Lake Street that brings the upper floor of the building up to the front property line. The addition would be used for an existing restaurant’s office and storage room. Karmel West also holds child care centers, a clinic, a development achievement center and offices.

This is the owner’s second attempt at a secondstory addition. The city previously required the owner to remove an addition and covered roof deck that was built without city approval, according to a staff report.

Council Member Lisa Bender praised construction of the promenade, which is slowly being built as new projects develop along the Greenway.

“That’s really important to folks in the community, and I think it’s really great that we’ve been able to work with staff and the community and each of these project teams so far to build that continuous promenade along the Greenway, fulfilling the long–desired vision of having a more pedestrian-oriented pathway to create more activation along the Greenway,” Bender said.

As part of approval, Commissioners required more lighting along Grand Avenue.

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Public Safety Update

By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

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Edina has attracted national attention after an Oct. 12 confrontation at 60th & Xerxes between Lt. Tim Olson and Thomas.

Police said in an incident report that Thomas walked a third of the way into the southbound traffic lane of Xerxes Avenue, causing vehicles to slow to a walking pace and stack up behind him.

Olson said in the report he believed Thomas was creating a safety risk.

A woman who pulled over and captured video of the incident countered that Thomas was walking on the white line of the shoulder of the street.

“There was construction and it was obvious that the sidewalk was not available right there so he was hugging the right side as far as he could go,” she said in the post.

The video has been viewed more than 750,000 times. The Minneapolis NAACP called Thomas’s treatment “dehumanizing and degrading,” and the incident prompted an Oct. 22 march called “I Am A MAN” that began at Edina City Hall.

Thomas was initially arrested, cited and released. Edina officials later dismissed citations for alleged disorderly conduct and failure to obey a traffic signal, saying they did so “in the public’s interest.”

The complaint filed by Thomas last week said racial discrimination is the probable explanation for the officer’s behavior, because his treatment of Thomas was “so at variance with what

would reasonably be anticipated, absent racial discrimination.”

The complaint cites a U.S. Supreme Court opinion that detention after a stop must be reasonable in scope and duration.

Thomas is seeking a jury trial and damages exceeding $50,000.

An Edina spokeswoman said city officials do not comment on pending litigation.

“The officer involved was following established protocol,” Edina Mayor Jim Hovland said in a statement four days after the incident.

“However, under the circumstances, the City will review that protocol and determine how to better approach this type of incident with greater sensitivity in the future.”

In response to public questions about whether race was a factor in the stop, the city of Edina issued a statement: “Anyone walking in a lane of traffic on a busy street would be stopped and asked to move to a safer place.”

The Minneapolis NAACP asked for an apology; Edina officials said in response that officers followed established protocol. They said Thomas could have easily used the sidewalk across the street. In explaining Olson’s decision to grab Thomas, officials cited the police “force continuum,” saying that Thomas refused to comply with verbal commands.

“When force beyond words is needed, the force continuum allows officers to take physical control,” said the statement.

Edina officials said they would give officers additional training in implicit and explicit bias.

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Ask the Nurse Practitioner

By Michelle Napral

Let’s not talk about constipation Q

My girlfriend thinks it’s weird that I typically only have a bowel movement a few times a week. She believes everyone should have a bowel movement every morning or something is wrong. Do I need to be concerned, and if I am constipated, what should I do?

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onstipation is more common than many people realize because, not surprisingly, it is typically not something people discuss at parties or with friends and colleagues.

Each person has a unique bowel pattern.

Typically, constipation is defined as having fewer than three bowel movements a week, hard stools, excessive straining, prolonged time spent on the toilet, a sense of incomplete evacuation and abdominal discomfort or bloating.

Constipation can last a short time or it can be chronic problem. Constipation could be a concern for you if you have bowel movements that are infrequent, and if they become uncomfortable, hard and difficult to pass. Other common symptoms of constipation include vomiting, itching, swelling, bleeding or pain around the opening of where stool passes.

Constipation has many causes often relating to one’s lifestyle. These include diets low in fiber, too much dairy, not drinking enough liquids and lack of exercise or physical activity. Changes in daily routine, pregnancy, aging, work, travel, frequent misuse of laxatives and a conscious delay in having a bowel movement also contribute to constipation.

Some medicines such as iron supplements, pain medicines, antacids, antidepres-

sants and calcium supplements can cause constipation, too. Certain diseases can cause constipation including irritable bowel syndrome, bowel obstructions, stroke, diabetes, thyroid disease, Parkinson disease, hemorrhoids and colon cancer.

If constipation is not treated, complications may arise. Potential complications of constipation include hemorrhoids, rectal bleeding from hemorrhoids, hernias, dependency on laxatives, chronic constipation, fecal impaction, bowel obstruction or perforation.

Eating a high-fiber diet that is high in fruits (pears, raisins, apples, prunes, apricots) and vegetables (lentils, kidney beans) and other high fiber cereals and grains can help reduce constipation. Gradually increase your diet over six weeks to get at least 25 or more grams of fiber per day.

There are two types of fiber, insoluble and soluble, and they both help alleviate constipation.

Insoluble fiber, found in whole grains, cereals, apple skin, corn and carrots, may reduce your risk for certain types of cancers.

Soluble fiber in oats, beans, strawberries and peas may help lower your risk for heart disease and help control blood sugar levels.

Fiber adds bulk and absorbs water to soften the stool, and this allows the stool to pass through the colon more easily. Increase your fiber intake slowly to avoid side effects such as bloating.

Be sure to drink more water as you increase your fiber intake. The average healthy adult needs at least two liters of water a day. Bulking agents such as psyllium, methylcellulose or polycarbophil should be accompanied with adequate hydration.

Stool softeners such as docusate sodium help soften the stool. Other medications

known as laxatives or enemas may be needed for a short amount of time to help move the stool along.

Exercising can also help ease constipation. If you haven’t been active, gradually increase your activity level. Get some form of physical activity every day, even if it’s using the stairs instead of the elevator or walking instead of taking the bus.

If your bowel movements are not on a daily schedule, in general, this is not cause for alarm. Similarly, episodes of occasional constipation while traveling or when your diet is altered is not a major concern, unless other symptoms are present.

However, if you are often constipated and have additional symptoms, like those mentioned above, schedule an appointment

with your health care provider. Unlike your friends and family, they are keenly interested in the details of your bowel movements.

Sometimes medications are needed.

Constipation pared with other symptoms such as fever, weight loss, feeling weak or blood in the toilet or on the toilet paper after having a bowel movement could be a sign of a more serious problem. Based on your age and symptoms, tests may be performed including a colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy or X-ray.

Michelle Napral is a nurse practitioner at the University of Minnesota Health Nurse Practitioners Clinic, 3rd Street & Chicago.

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Neighborhood Spotlight. Fulton

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Pollinator protection project highlights importance of bees to food chain PAGE B3

Pete Driessen on TuckUnder Projects, the gallery he runs out of his Fulton home

Lieutenant Governor Tina Smith works in St. Paul but lives in Fulton

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By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Coffee klatch brings a

to Fulton coffeehouse

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nyone who stops at the Fulton Dunn Bros on a weekday morning will find a group of regular customers — so regular, they’ve been coming nearly every day for 15-20 years.

At least that’s the estimate.

“Since eternity began,” said Jim Conway.

Most of them met at the coffeehouse one by one as strangers, gradually forming a loyal group that has laughed together, grieved together, and discussed every topic imaginable, from politics and religion to movies and travel.

“We solve all the problems of the world,” said Mark Holland. “…I used to be a mailman and came here for a break. [Conway] invited me to join him.”

“What the hell, why should we sit at separate tables,” said Conway.

Kris Lindholm joked that she spent quite a few mornings reading a newspaper before Jim invited her to join the group.

“He thought I was a Republican,” she said.

Some regular customers float in and out of the conversation. One of them is Dr. Fred Walker, an avid reader who always brings a book to the coffeehouse.

“You do everything you possibly can to keep me from finishing this book,” he recently told the group.

“The other day, he read the best chapter of a book he ever read,” Lindholm said. (That would be Chapter 38 of Thomas Wolfe’s “Look Homeward Angel.”)

“Reading is No. 1 in my life. This group is way down to No. 2,” Walker said.

SEE COFFEE / PAGE B29

Where We Live

A JOURNAL COMMITMENT TO HIGHLIGHTING GREAT COMMUNITY CAUSES

Northeast Senior Services

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Rick Sundly drops off senior Vera Rich at a dentist appointment.

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Northeast Senior Services is a hub for area seniors

Providing services and resources for Northeast seniors For more than 40 years, Northeast Senior Services has acted as a hub for seniors in Northeast Minneapolis and the surrounding cities of St. Anthony, Columbia Heights and New Brighton.

Founded by a group of 11 churches and community organizations in 1973, the nonprofit was formally incorporated in 1975 with a mission of “helping seniors live independently with dignity” by providing them with integral services while building community. Since its founding, the organization’s biggest and most popular service has been its rides program.

“When [Northeast Social Services] was started, churches took care of their elders,” explained executive director Kay Anderson. “As a child, I remember my parents stopping to pick up two elderly ladies on the way to church. The social structure provided by churches helped elders stay engaged in the community.”

But surveys show Americans are less connected to churches than they once were.

In a 1992 Gallup Poll, 70 percent of respondents identified themselves as members of a church or synagogue, a rate that dropped to 54 percent in 2015. The Pew Research Center reports the percentage of adults describing themselves as religiously affiliated dropped six points — to 77 percent — between 2007 and 2014, and of those who said they were religiously affiliated, 37 percent were attending church just a few times a year or less in 2014.

On a local level, of Northeast Social Services’ 11 founding churches, only three — Mount Carmel Lutheran Church, Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church and Salvation Army Church — remain.

“With the shrinking numbers of people in churches, the people who cared for elders years ago are now finding themselves Location not quite as connected to the community as the people before them,” Anderson said. “That’s why the work that we do is so 2580 Kenzie Terrace, important — the churches could be gone tomorrow.

Suite 2A, St. Anthony “When your social network is your church and your kids move out of state, you don’t have a lot of options.”

Though its rides program is its primary service, Northeast Social Services provides much more than free rides. Housed in Contact the Autumn Woods senior living facility in St. Anthony — a city whose population is more than one-fifth 65-plus, according 612-781-5096 to the U.S. Census Bureau, thanks to its wealth of senior housing — the organization answers about 1,500 phone calls a year regarding everything from questions on Medicare to housing assistance.

Website “We don’t know what questions are going to come in the door,” Anderson said. “Today we were dealing with someone who neseniors.org was living out of their car because they were discharged from the hospital and doesn’t have a place to live. We huddle around the office and come up with the best possible resources for them we can find.”

Year Founded Activities and resources provided by Northeast Senior Services are listed in a monthly newsletter produced by the organi1973 zation that is mailed to its members. The brochure also includes notifications of important deadlines such as Medicare open enrollment, options for low-cost medical equipment and listings of additional senior services and resources provided by outside groups, including seminars on caring and coping with dementia, income tax filing assistance and fitness classes.

With a staff of only two part-time employees, Northeast Social Services is a small organization that is, nonetheless, able to make a big impact on the community it serves, thanks in large part to its team of 83 volunteers. And because it’s small, the organization is able to be flexible and evolve as seniors’ needs change over time.

Every few years, the organization surveys its seniors to find out what kinds of resources are lacking in the community. That has led to the creation of additional programs, such as Medicare health insurance counseling in partnership with the Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging (MAAA), an annual gadget fair, senior housing tours, a weekly walking group at Bottineau Park’s indoor track and a monthly foot clinic that provides foot care for $30 a service (think a pedicure minus the nail polish).

These services not only give area seniors the tangible resources they need, it helps provide them with a sense of community and wellness. Said Anderson, “We have a pastor who attends our foot clinics who says, ‘I feel like I’m walking on air when I walk out of here.’ ”

What you can do Donate online. Funds help with the costs of operations and supplies.

Volunteer. Sign up as a driver for the organization’s rides program, volunteer for newsletter assembly or sign up as a community resource specialist to help answer phone calls at neseniors.org.

Attend a fundraising event. The organization hosts various events throughout the year to raise funds. Follow neseniors.org or sign up for the newsletter for its next event.

By the numbers

1,500

Approximate number of phone calls answered per year

1,236 Rides provided in 2015

83

Volunteers currently serving the organization

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Seniors served by the foot clinic in 2015

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Health insurance counseling appointments given in 2015

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Housing tours given in 2015

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.

Jahna Peloquin is the writer for the project. To read previous features, go to southwestjournal.com/section/focus/where-we-live

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Neighborhood Spotlight. Fulton

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Fulton sits below Linden Hills in the southwest corner of Minneapolis, tucked between Minnehaha Creek, Lake Harriet and the suburb of Edina.

The neighborhood was named for Robert Fulton, an artist, engineer and inventor born in Pennsylvania in 1765. Fulton was a portrait and landscape painter in Philadelphia before shifting his attention from the arts to a new technology, the steam engine, and moving to Europe, where he become an early submarine and steamship innovator.

After returning to the United States in 1806, Fulton launched the first commercially successful steamboat operation in New York.

Much of Fulton’s housing stock from the 1920s and ’30s, according to the city, but that’s been changing as older homes in one of the city’s most desirable neighborhoods have been replaced by new construction. Fulton was one of five Southwest neighborhoods subject to a short-lived 2014 moratorium on teardowns. (Cancelled after a month, the moratorium was replaced by a new construction management plan for the affected neighborhoods).

Now headquartered in the North Loop, Minneapolis craft-brewing company Fulton Beer traces its origins to the basement of a home in its namesake neighborhood. Lake Harriet School’s Upper Campus opened as Fulton School, and in 2015 it celebrated its centennial.

Neighborhood attractions include the lake, the creek and the 50th & France shopping and entertainment area, which spills over both sides of the Minneapolis-Edina border.

NEIGHBORHOOD RUNDOWN Boundaries: Fulton is bordered on the north by 47th Street, on the south by 54th street, on the east by Penn Avenue and on the west by France Avenue.

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Get involved: The board of the Fulton Neighborhood Association meets at Pershing Park, 3523 W. 48th St., at 7 p.m. on the second Wednesday of every month. The neighborhood association committees focus on the arts, the environment, housing and zoning and other topics.

Demographics: The Fulton neighborhood’s population was 6,060 in 2014, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau figures compiled by Minnesota Compass. The median household income in 2014 was $111,921.

— Dylan Thomas

Fulton residents work to protect pollinators Pollinator protection project highlights importance of bees to food chain

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

John Dillery wants his neighbors to know just how vital pollinators such as butterflies and bees are to our world’s food supply.

This year, he and members of the Fulton Neighborhood Association environment committee undertook an education effort to do just that.

The group started a pollinator protection project, giving away plants, seeds and yard signs to neighborhood residents at the Fulton Farmers Market from June through October.

The group also distributed copies of the city’s recently passed resolution protecting pollinators as well as information on promoting healthy soil and local plants.

“Pollinators are essential to life on earth as we know it,” Dillery said. “If you like to eat, you like pollinators.”

Pollinators play a key role in flowering plant reproduction, including that of most fruits and vegetables. They include insects such as bees and butterflies, bats and even some types of lemurs. The pollinators move pollen from the male part to the female part of the plant while searching for food, allowing the plants reproduce.

Habitat loss and pesticide use have presented increased threats to pollinators in recent years, leading to a global decline in their populations. Minnesota’s bee population is down 50 percent, Dillery said, and the state’s monarch population is in danger of becoming extinct.

Across the U.S., beekeepers have lost approximately 30 percent of their honeybee colonies each year since 2006, according the

research organization Bee Informed Partnership. That includes nearly 45-percent colony loss in 2015–2016.

Scientists have pointed toward pesticides, mites, diseases and habitat loss as reasons for the population declines.

The Fulton project developed out of efforts

by Minneapolis residents, including Dillery’s wife, Joan Hargrave, to get the city to pass a pollinator resolution. The resolution, passed in August 2015, encouraged residents to avoid pesticides and flowering plants that are treated with systemic insecticides. It also encouraged residents to plant more pollinator forage on their properties and use organic or chemicalfree landscaping practices.

Dillery and other Fulton residents wanted to do more to support the resolution. They revived the neighborhood association’s environment committee this past spring and formed the project.

The group had a table at the farmer’s market each week. It handed out more than 770 pollinator plants, such as milkweed and more than 160 signs that say “Pesticide Free Pollinator Habitat.”

Residents were enthusiastic about the efforts, Dillery said, adding that he sees pollinator friendly landscaping more frequently now in yards.

“Everybody likes a nice, green lawn,” said project member Tony Mann, “but there are alternate ways of weed control.”

The project also touched on other environmental issues such as runoff. Dillery said people are concerned about letting their

John Dillery of the Fulton Neighborhood Association (center) talks about a pollinator protection project to passersby at the Fulton Farmer’s Market. Photo by Nate Gotlieb

dogs run into Minnehaha Creek because of contaminants.

The committee is working with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board to replace spillways at the ends of streets, he said.

The Fulton Environment Committee meets at 7 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of each month at Pershing Park. All are welcome to attend, Dillery said.

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Neighborhood Spotlight. Fulton

Fulton designers bring home architecture awards

By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

At least two Fulton residents received awards this year from the local and national American Institute of Architects.

Karen Lu, a project designer at HGA, won the national AIA Young Architects Award.

Christopher Strom is a recipient of the AIA Minnesota Young Architects Award, along with Jonathan Bartling and Angela Wolf Scott.

In a recent interview, Strom said his projects aren’t far from home. He designed a rec room with dormers overlooking Lake of the Isles, a modernist wine cellar between Isles and Cedar Lake, and a 380-square-foot living space off the old trolley line near Lake Harriet.

“I feel really lucky to be able to live and work in the same place,” Strom said. “… I love having a walkable community.”

Strom is also involved in the community.

He helps organize the local BLEND Awards and serves as chair of the Fulton Neighborhood Association’s Zoning Committee. And he helped craft Minneapolis rules related to accessory dwelling units (ADUs, occasionally referred to as “granny flats”).

“I got interested in doing them before it was legal,” he said.

Strom said he enjoyed the challenge of designing a 380-square-foot ADU near Lake Harriet that sits above a one-car garage and is accessible from the main house deck.

“Every square inch you allocated to one thing, you had to take it out of something else,” he said. “This was more of a game of editing.”

Chris Strom of Fulton designs “accessory dwelling units” like this one above a garage near Lake Harriet. Photos by Alyssa Lee Photography

The kitchen holds one countertop, an 18-inch dishwasher, a two-burner cook top, a fridge under the counter and a toaster oven. A built-in cabinet delineates the bedroom. Large windows and a sliding glass door help prevent the space from feeling too small, he said.

“I’m really interested in finding a way to get natural light into spaces,” he said.

At one client’s request, Strom needed to bring daylight into a wine cellar without impacting the bottles. He found structural

glass stair treads typically used in shopping malls, and built a steel “light slot” with a mirror finish to give the wine room indirect light.

“There are some tricks to how to bounce light around in space,” he said.

Strom tries to make the most of views and give each home a sense of place.

“If you’re on Lake of the Isles, you should have a way to see the lake from a majority of rooms,” he said.

Fulton resident and fellow award winner Karen Lu has worked on corporate and government projects including a U.S. Land Port of Entry in Detroit and the Derby Line U.S. Land Port of Entry in Vermont. In an article by HGA last winter, she said a love of drawing attracted her to architecture and a love of problem-solving cemented it.

“I’ve had the good fortune to be involved in many innovative initiatives, such as climate risk analysis and resiliency, integrated energy modeling, art in architecture collaboration, repurposing site materials, and pollinator assessment — which all set precedents for future GSA [General Services Administration] projects and future HGA projects,” she said.

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The retired residents live nearby and range in age from 58 to 90.

“It doesn’t take much to get an invite,” said Lindholm.

At the prospect of a newspaper article, the group joked they’ll be flooded with new applicants.

“We have a high entry fee,” Holland said.

“We cover a lot of subjects every day too,” Jim said.

“You never hear crickets,” Holland said.

“We always get into politics,” Helen Conway, Jim’s sister-in-law, said.

“We’re still discussing Tuesday night’s debate,” Lindholm said.

The group occasionally meets around town for doughnuts or dinner, but it’s rare they take a cup of coffee elsewhere.

“They roast their beans here,” Holland said.

“It’s better than Starbucks.”

Nate Larson, manager of Dunn Bros at 50th & Xerxes, attended Holland’s retirement party and helped Jim move out of his apartment.

“They’re the best,” he said. “I’ve gotten to know all of them. … These guys have lived amazing lives.”

Jim Conway is a World War II veteran who’s traveled extensively for work with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and is a frequent poker player. (“He doesn’t always come back with his shirt on,” Lindholm joked.) Holland worked as a mail carrier, and he appears in the Southwest High School Hall of Fame for cross-country. Manny Gabler spent nine years of his childhood living in Shanghai, where his family sought refuge from Nazi Germany among 18,000 undocumented Jews admitted to Shanghai. Lindholm worked as an antiques dealer and in Human Resources for Honeywell, and she reads two books per week. Nancy Conway, Jim’s sister, worked as a chambermaid in England in the ‘70s (it wasn’t very glamorous, she said) and as a nurse at Hennepin County Medical Center’s float pool. Mike Hartigan worked in the Minneapolis court system, and he brings extensive knowledge of city government as well as “Irish humor.” Ron Moore is a retired mailman, and the Tennessee native serves as the group’s southern connection. Deb Moore recently retired from teaching math and science in Minneapolis. Helen Conway turns 90 in March, and she worked as a teacher at schools including Ramsey Jr. High and Minneapolis Community and Technical College.

“She’s a 40-year-old party person trapped in a 90-year-old’s body,” said Gabler.

“They call me the lunch queen. I love getting out,” Helen said. “…A younger group keeps you younger. It’s a lot of fun.”

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“There is a whole tray back there of other people’s mugs,” Larson said.

Before school, anywhere from 12-30 kids gather before heading to class at Lake Harriet and Carondelet. And another large group comes in to Dunn Bros on Saturdays.

“People all seem to know each other in here,” Larson said.

The group has lost members over the years to cancer and ALS: Pam Conway, Elaine Mitchell and Linda Hoffman. Jim lost three daughters. Holland’s wife died last year. Helen lost her husband to Alzheimer’s in 2011.

“We’ve been through a lot,” Lindholm said.

“We’re each other’s support group,” Holland said.

“Half of us live alone. People will come by your house if they don’t see you for a few days,” Lindholm said.

Jim, who recently turned 90, said you pick up and keep moving on.

“Don’t stop,” he said. “…I’m a relic. I’m able to walk and talk though.”

The end of a coffee hour isn’t necessarily the end of a day’s gathering. On a recent weekday, they planned to regroup for happy hour at Pinstripes — they said they’d have an entirely different story to tell around 4:30 that day.

“It is kind of amazing how we managed to hit it off,” Holland said.

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Neighborhood Spotlight. Fulton

Lieutenant governor calls Fulton home

By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Fulton is the home of 20 years for Lt. Gov. Tina Smith.

“The great thing about the Fulton neighborhood is it’s like a small town in a big city,” Smith said. “I love the sense of neighborhood that we have.”

Congressional Quarterly named Smith among the 25 most influential women in state politics early this year, and she’s often mentioned as a potential gubernatorial candidate.

Prior to working in the governor’s office, she served as chief of staff for former Mayor R.T. Rybak.

“I will never forget the day that the bridge collapsed,” she said.

Smith was attending a reception at the top of the IDS Center, with poor cell phone reception, when someone told her the I-35W bridge had fallen.

“I couldn’t even process it,” she said. “We looked out the window and could see the helicopters and the dust and the smoke coming up off the river, and I will never forget that.”

She went to the Emergency Operations Center in the basement of City Hall and worked for the next 12 or more hours.

Smith was working as Gov. Mark Dayton’s chief of staff when he asked her to run as lieutenant governor. She initially laughed at the idea because she didn’t have a traditional career path for the job, Smith said at a March forum at the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University.

“I literally laughed and walked out of the room, because I thought it was such a ridicu-

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lous idea. That’s pretty typical for women who are first approached,” she said. “Women often in elected life — there’s been research on this — women wait to be invited, they wait to be asked, and they don’t apply for things unless they clearly have above and beyond what is needed or required.”

The governor’s office held a press conference in October to announce the launch of the Young Women’s Initiative of Minnesota. The initiative would form a plan to expand opportunities for young women, particularly women of color.

The press conference fell on a day less busy than most for Smith, who was in the process of visiting 87 Minnesota counties in 86 days. She spent time on “homework” in the office, met with several agencies in a meeting focused on workforce data and early childhood education and attended a weekly senior staff meeting with Dayton. The night prior, she attended a Planned Parenthood gala celebrating the organization’s 100th year.

“Sometimes things get crazy, but I try to wake up every day with [an] attitude of: ‘I wonder what’s going to happen today?’” she said. “You never know, it could be almost anything. Which is what makes this job so interesting and so rewarding.”

When Smith does have time to relax in Fulton, she said she frequently orders carryout from Naviya’s, heads to Tilia for brunch or stops in at Terzo. She said her husband, Archie, does much of the household cooking and is a frequent patron of Clancey’s. (In a recent

tweet Smith said she was enjoying Archie’s tacos and a Lynx game despite running on two hours of sleep.) Smith also enjoys hiking and cross-country skiing, and she’s roughly a third of her way through a goal to visit all 67 Minnesota State Parks.

Smith lives near 44th & Upton, and she moved to Minneapolis from St. Louis Park in 1996. She’s watched the local housing stock change over time, and said she hopes the neighborhood can hold a mix of housing and retain a diversity of families in different life stages.

“On the one hand it’s great that people are investing in the houses in our neighborhood,” she said. “On the other hand I know we all worry about the phenomenon of tearing down houses and building bigger houses. I’m glad that the city has taken some steps to make sure that the bigger houses fit within the neighborhood context.”

Smith said her top priorities at the moment revolve around making the economy work for everyone. She wants to expand access to broadband Internet in rural areas. She’s also working to build the clean energy economy and improve Minnesota’s renewable energy standards.

The state voted to fund all-day kindergarten in 2013. Now, the Governor’s office has shifted focus to pre-K education. The state passed a preschool grant program last year, and Smith said twice as many school districts applied for grants than funding was available.

“I’m looking forward to in 2017 continuing to push on that to try to continue to get preschool available for every four-year-old in

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every district in the state,” she said.

When Smith graduated from Dartmouth’s business school in 1984, she also held a political science degree from Stanford and experience at the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline. Smith had never been to Minnesota before a job interview with General Mills — although Archie had spent time backpacking and canoeing near Rainy Lake — and she accepted a position there as marketing manager.

Smith went on to work at a national strategy and media production company. The firm’s work included an ad campaign for Bill Bradley when he ran for the Democratic presidential

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Smith began work in 2003 as vice president of external affairs for Planned Parenthood of Minnesota and North and South Dakota.

Throughout her career, she’s worked on campaigns for political candidates that include Amy Klobuchar and Walter Mondale.

When asked about polarization evident at the national and state level, Smith said she looks for common ground among all parties.

“I think that the campaign is really polarized, but I talk to people all over the state every day that are rejecting that,” she said. “…

Most people in their lives are just busy going to school, going to work, taking care of their families, trying to find a little time to rest and relax. They’re not really interested in all this political back-and-forth, they’re much more interested in how do their communities work, how do their schools work. I think that’s where we ought to be focusing our attention.”

Smith noted that she was involved in bringing Allina Health and nurses together in the final weeks of contract negotiations.

“People don’t always agree on everything, but you’ve got to find that place where they can agree,” she said. “... It’s really hard sometimes when you’re negotiating with people who don’t want to find common ground. They are rewarded by stopping things from moving forward. That’s a lot of what we saw last legislative session, just kind of an unwillingness to find that common ground.”

The state did not provide funding for Southwest Light Rail in the last legislative session, which prompted Hennepin County and the Metropolitan Council to kick in the state’s share themselves.

Smith said that if the state waits to invest in transportation and transit, costs will rise and the need for it will increase.

Lt. Gov. Tina Smith at the State Fair in August. Photo courtesy of the Office of Gov. Mark Dayton & Lt. Gov. Tina Smith

“… That’s an area where we haven’t been able to find a lot of common ground, but I’m hopeful that next year we’ll be able to move forward on that,” she said.

The Star Tribune quoted GOP House Speaker Kurt Daudt calling Southwest light rail a “boondoggle project” and an “inefficient” way to move people, and he raised concerns about the project costs.

Smith said she thinks there is statewide

support for transportation spending.

“It’s not an urban versus rural divide, I don’t think. Politically it might be, but I’ve talked to so many people who live outside of the metro area who are in favor of making these investments,” she said.

Smith said she sees a parallel between the Fulton neighborhood and small towns like Montevideo, which recently hosted the Governor’s office for the pheasant opener. There are

quirky restaurants, neighbors who know each other and lively downtown street scenes, she said.

“We have a lot in common with those little towns all over the state,” she said.

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Neighborhood Spotlight. Fulton

Life in a gallery Pete Driessen on TuckUnder Projects, the art space he runs out of his Fulton home

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

It may not be the protocol for most other art spaces in town, but it’s best to email Pete Driessen before planning a visit to his TuckUnder Projects gallery in the Fulton neighborhood.

That’s because TuckUnder is located in the garage tucked under Driessen’s 1950s-era home, which in 2012 he converted into a white-box gallery space for exhibiting the work of his fellow local artists. TuckUnder has since expanded to include other, even less conventional exhibition spaces in and around the York Avenue house, including Driessen’s cramped downstairs bathroom (the Leaky Sink Gallery) and living area, the raspberry patch near his driveway, a second garage on the alley and even his front yard.

The Southwest Journal caught up with Driessen in late October to check out the last shows of the season (including “Flat Earth Society,” paintings by Justin Quinn appearing in the main gallery through Nov. 13) and talk about what it’s like to live in a gallery. (The interview has been edited and condensed.)

Southwest Journal: Tell me about the origin of TuckUnder Projects. What inspired you to turn your garage into a gallery?

Driessen: I think my inspiration came from the need to be able to exhibit my work. And also I was in survival mode as an artist — attempting to get exhibitions, attempting to get listened to by curators. And that was not

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happening. So, I wanted to begin developing my own platform for showing my work and documenting my work in a gallery format.

My original intention was to move my studio here in the house, post a divorce, but then I decided to keep my studio and to open up the garage as a gallery. And with the help of a Metropolitan Regional Arts Council community arts grant I was able to jump-start the gallery.

What do your neighbors think?

I’ve been getting along very well with my neighbors. I’ve included them in the process from the beginning.

I think many of them have a creative, entrepreneurial spirit and love to see novelty or unique, enlivened, engaged activity within their neighborhood.

I also included several of them on a neighborhood advisory panel. In order to get grant money you have to have advisory panels, so I have an artistic panel and then I also have a neighborhood advisory panel.

Do you get a lot of visitors from the neighborhood?

Not as much as I would like. I would like to get more. I think the first two years I got the most, especially from my immediate neighbors. The last three years it’s tapered off a lot.

I’ve also used the neighborhood chat (website) Nextdoor. Most recently I’ve used that this year, and that’s brought in a few (people).

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But, most of them, I’ll talk about the sculptures out front. Or they might be walking their dog or jogging by or walking their kids, and that’s when I’ll invite them in to see the show.

So there can be a casual level of engagement.

Yes. You’ve been doing this since 2012. What are some of the lessons you’ve learned about turning your home into a semipublic space?

Well, it’s difficult, because it causes a number of things to shift within your house. For the openings, definitely there’s a lack of privacy. I have to cordon-off a portion of the upstairs and lock the front door so that people are trafficking through the house in a certain way.

I care about my neighborhood and care about my neighbors, so that comes first to me — and my children’s safety — before anything I would do artistically. I’m raising two kids in the house, so they need to be able to use the house in a pleasant manner.

It’s really easy to have a loud party, but it’s much harder to have a sophisticated art show that brings about conversation about tough topics, or artistic-level discussion.

It’s really easy to have a loud party, but it’s much harder to have a sophisticated art show that brings about conversation about tough topics, or artistic-level discussion.

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going to be having gallery hours over the last two weekends in November.

So, you just walk up to the garage?

No, they should let me know they’re coming in advance, because I have had people — and buses, short buses — show up here because they saw it on a calendar. Which raises problems of gallery-sitting at your own house when you need to be shopping or actually working on something somewhere else. And all of a sudden a bus shows up because they’ve seen it on a calendar online.

What, for you, has been the most memorable show you’ve hosted here?

You can’t be just sitting around in your bathrobe.

They’ve all been memorable.

I’ve had shows such as Nathan Coutts’ show two years ago that was very minimal and just a few objects in the garage. I’ve had a really interesting, very expansive show by Nick Vlcek, an artist (who also works under the name Nickelangelo), that took up the whole yard and had a film screening, had a poetry reading, had a performance in the bathroom, and it was called the “36CHMBRZ.” It had 36 different elements that encompassed the whole space, the whole lot of the house. That was very challenging.

I’ve had some excellent collaborations with groups of artists that have gone on to become provocative works later on, that have moved onto the next level.

Right. You need to be thinking, if there’s not an appointment, someone could potentially come over (anyway), so I do have to have things either mowed or the yard taken care of on a certain basis and the garbage taken out and that sort of thing.

We’re not open 24-7 like Cub Foods or McDonald’s. Unlike Burger King, you can’t always get what you want here.

But, anyways, the best way (to set up a visit) is by email.

To learn more about TuckUnder Projects, go to tuckunder.org.

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Get Out Guide.

By Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com

ELECTION NIGHT The longest presidential election season in our country’s history is finally coming to a close, and, better or worse, it’s time to elect someone new. From your choice of election night parties to a series of presidential plays, there’s plenty to help prepare you for election results — not to mention bring in the non-election season.

44 PLAYS FOR 44 PRESIDENTS Maybe you sat through all 37 hours of PBS’ “The Presidents” series in school, but do you really remember what James Garfield or Warren Harding did as the leader of our country? Theater Pro Rata can help you with that. The Minneapolis-based theater company is putting on a second term of “44 Plays for 44 Presidents.” Much like “The Presidents,” Theatre Pro Rata is going through each presidency’s highs and lows in plays, mini-musicals and comedy, which should be ideal for election season. The show goes on at nimbus theatre’s new home, dubbed the Crane Theater, in Northeast Minneapolis.

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ELECTION NIGHT WITH T2P2 The Twin Cities’ own politically savvy improv troupe are bringing in our country’s next leaders with expert analysis, comedy — and bowling. The Theater of Public Policy will have a multi-partisan election night party at Bryant Lake Bowl with appearances by elected officials and other guests throughout the biggest political night of the year. Dennis Curley and the Explainers will perform at 7 p.m. and guests can play in an Electoral College Bowling Tournament throughout the night as live election results come in.

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ELECTION PARTY WITH MINNESOTA TONIGHT Minnesota Tonight, the local version of “The Daily Show,” will cover the election results live the only way they know how — with political satire. The group’s 21-plus election night party will feature improv comedy from Mayhem and music from General B and the Wiz. And there will be lots and lots of booze as the audience celebrates — or commiserates, Minnesota Tonight says — as results come in and the fate of the nation is revealed.

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MINNEAPOLIS HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE Whether you’re ready or not, the holiday shopping season is just one holiday away — or perhaps you’ve already started. The producers of the Minneapolis Home + Garden Show are launching a new shopping destination to bring together more than 200 artisans and vendors at U.S. Bank Stadium.

The Minneapolis Holiday Boutique is expected to bring 25,000 people to the home of the Minnesota Vikings where they’ll find clothes, jewelry, gifts and gourmet food. The three-day market will feature a Festival of Trees from the Minneapolis Fire Department, drinks at shopper relaxation lounges and a package check area.

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Art Attack, Northeast Minneapolis’ other big three-day art festival, returns to the Northrup King Building with 250 painters, printmakers and more opening their studios to the public for the festivities. With all that’s going on in our political climate this season, this year’s theme is peace and love. Visitors can write what the theme means to them as part of a “Global Thoughts of Peace and Love” installation on the building’s third floor. On Saturday, artist Jane Elias will be creating a thematic mural with help from visitors. Art Attack runs Friday, Nov. 4 from 5–10 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 5 from noon–8 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 6 from noon–5 p.m.

Coming off the Halloween season, Light Grey Art Lab’s latest exhibition, “Midnight,” features work from artists exploring the other side — the world of both dreams and nightmares. Each artist in “Midnight” takes on their own particularly vivid dreams and tackles a little psychoanalysis through their work, which run the gamut of dark and dreamy, heartfelt and haunting. The Whittier-based gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday from noon–7 p.m. and Sunday from noon–5 p.m.

Where: Light Grey Art Lab, 118 E. 26th St. When: Through Nov. 19 Cost: Free Info: lightgreyartlab.com

Where: Northrup King Building, 1500 Jackson St. NE When: Nov. 4–6 Cost: Free Info: northrupkingbuilding.com

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MCAD ART SALE The annual art sale at the Minnesota College of Art and Design is one of the best-kept secrets of dealers, curators and art lovers. Now nearing its 20th year, the MCAD art sale is known for being one the country’s top destinations for affordable work from emerging artists before they get big. Proceeds from sales go to individual artists or to a MCAD scholarship fund. First access begins on Thursday, Nov. 17 from 6 p.m.–9 p.m. with a $150 reception with bites from Eat Street restaurants. On Friday, Nov. 18 from 6 p.m.–9 p.m. attendance is reduced to $25-$30. The art sale is free on Saturday, Nov. 19 from 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

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SW Minneapolis — We are your neighbors…and that matters.

Warmth through kindness, comfort through dependability, service through knowledge. This is the full potential of real estate.

Kaslow, Michael SWJ 110316 FP.indd 2

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