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Bag law aims to reduce litter
INSIDE MERCADO CLOSING
LynLake restaurant opts not to renew lease A4
City will soon require retailers to charge a nickel per bag
LYNDALE SAFETY FIX
By Andrew Hazzard
Residents say county’s tweak isn’t enough A6
SANTA IS ON STRIKE
Varied voices Whittier nonprofit gives immigrants a platform to tell their stories By Zac Farber
Artist Nancy Waller wants a carbon-free Xmas A8
CAR-FREE LIVING
Tea Rozman Clark stands in front of a class of fourth graders at Lake Harriet Upper School and tells them that her native country of Slovenia is shaped like poultry. “You know Italy, where the boot is?” she asks. “Well, behind the boot is the sea and behind the sea is the chicken.” Clark, a Linden Hills resident whose two daughters are enrolled at Lake Harriet, is the founder of Green Card Voices, a Whittier-based nonprofit that has recorded the stories of more than 420 immigrants and refugees from 120 countries — packaging their narratives into book anthologies, web videos and, as of October, a podcast. SEE GREEN CARD VOICES / PAGE A15
Proponents say it’s good for climate — and convenient A12
CHARITABLE GIVING
Highlighting groups making people, planet healthier B1
CHRISTMAS LIGHTS OF THE PAST
A history of the city’s electric decorating contests B3
Tea Rozman Clark, founder of the nonprofit Green Card Voices, speaks Nov. 21 to a class of Lake Harriet Upper School fourth graders studying immigration. Photo by Zac Farber
When Guse Green Grocer in Lynnhurst ran out of plastic bags last month, owner Terry Thomson didn’t place another order. The local grocer at the corner of 46th & Bryant knows its customers aren’t fans of extra plastic. The store offers paper bags for customers who don’t bring their own, but as of January, Minneapolis will require Guse and other retailers in the city to charge 5 cents for each bag they distribute to customers. The goal of the new ordinance, passed unanimously by the City Council in November, is to reduce litter and waste. About 87,000 tons of plastic bags are thrown away each year in Minneapolis, according to Patrick Hanlon, director of environmental programs for the city’s health department, and less than 5% of plastic bags are recycled. Plastic bags also tend to get caught in recycling sorting machines, delaying the recycling process. While plastic bags have greater long-term effects, paper bags are harsher on the environment in their production stage. “This fee is really adding a cost to the use of bags,” Hanlon said. The ordinance requires retail stores to charge a nickel for every bag — paper, plastic SEE BAGS / PAGE A14
For sale: ‘cursed’ restaurant site in Uptown By Michelle Bruch
The owner of the former Piggy Bank Eatery & Music Hall property says he’s giving up on restaurants at 2841 Hennepin Ave., and expects to quickly sell the site for redevelopment. Stuart Chazin, who owns the property as part of 2841 Hennepin LLC, said the site may be under contract in the coming days, likely for new apartments. Piggy Bank closed in November, and Chazin said he’s received multiple offers in recent weeks. He said he wanted to wait five to ten years before selling but restaurants are not making enough money in Uptown. “I kept getting offers, but I kept refusing them, because I didn’t want to sell it,” he said. “I don’t know what would have worked, seriously. ... Live music possibly would have worked there.” The closely watched site held five different restaurants in five years following Old Chicago’s long run. Chazin’s group acquired the site for $2 million in 2010, and Old Chicago’s departure in 2013 was “their call, not mine,” he said. Chazin said Kaskaid, the restaurant group behind Crave and Union Rooftop, held a longterm lease, and the company either partnered on restaurant concepts or subleased the space SEE PIGGY BANK / PAGE A11
A sample of restaurants that attempted a run at 2841 Hennepin Ave., clockwise from top left: Samantha Fox and Meshika Shadows at Game Sports Bar in 2016, Yoom Nguyen pictured in 2017 at the original Lotus Restaurant in Loring Park, BoneYard chef Jason Bush in 2014, and Lorenzo Ariza in 2015 at Salsa a la Salsa. Photos by Michelle Bruch
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Famous Dave’s will return to the Uptown area on Dec. 16 with the opening of its new location at 800 W. Lake St. Submitted photos
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Famous Dave’s on Lake Street to open Dec. 16 Five months after closing its Calhoun Square location, Famous Dave’s is returning to the Uptown area with a new Lake Street restaurant opening Dec. 16. The Minnesota-based barbecue chain shut down its large music venue and restaurant space in the Uptown mall in July, but quickly announced plans to move into the former New Bohemia at Lake & Aldrich. The new Uptown location embodies the chain’s strategic shift into smaller-footprint restaurants that feel more like bars and focus on catering, delivery and takeout business, according to Al Hank, Famous Dave’s director of strategy and franchise operations. In recent years, off-site sales like catering, delivery and carry-out have become larger parts of their business, Hank said. Five years ago, off-site sales amounted to 30% of all Famous Dave’s sales, but today represents about half. In a changing business environment, traditionally sized Famous Dave’s locations, like the more than 10,000-squarefoot space the company ran for years in Calhoun Square, are too large to justify. “It doesn’t make sense for us to continue to operate in that size of restaurant,” Hank said. But after 23 years in Calhoun Square, the
company knew it wanted to return to the area as soon as possible and the availability of a 3,000-square-foot space on Lake Street felt right. “We always wanted to remain in the Uptown area,” Famous Dave’s CEO Jeff Crivello said. The new location will allow the company to try out not only a smaller space, but also a barcentric one. The new Famous Dave’s will have draft beer and cocktails and big screen TVs. The old shuffleboard table from New Bohemia will remain, and the restaurant plans to offer events like trivia, karaoke and other themed activity nights throughout the week. To fit in the smaller location, Famous Dave’s had to order a slightly smaller smoker than usual, Crivello said. But the restaurant will still offer all the standard barbecue meats and sides. At the new Uptown restaurant, it will also be trying new menu items like hot pretzels and bratwurst, which the company has been considering for a while. It’s a way to honor popular items from New Bohemia, Crivello said. Famous Dave’s Where: 800 W. Lake St. Info: famousdaves.com
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Indulge & Bloom out at Calhoun Commons The holiday season is normally a busy and hectic time of year for Minneapolis flower shop Indulge & Bloom, with orders to fill and a steady stream of shoppers coming through the store. But this year an unexpected hardship has hit the florist. In late November, Indulge & Bloom packed up and left its longtime location in Calhoun Commons off Excelsior Boulevard after what the business owners describe as bad-faith negotiations with their landlord. “It’s a horrible situation to be in,” said founder Raed Kakish, who runs the business with his sister. Indulge & Bloom has been in business since 1997 and moved into its West Calhoun location in 2009. This year, the three other businesses that share its south-facing building — Moss Envy, Vitamin Shoppe and TC2 Salon — have all moved out. Kakish said this summer that their landlord, Paul Effrem, wanted them to move into the larger Vitamin Shoppe space, a move that would have doubled Indulge & Bloom’s $3,500 monthly rent and wasn’t feasible. Then, at the end of September, Kakish said, they were given notice their lease would not be renewed and the store would have to leave by the end of November, in the middle of their busiest time of year. When they asked to stay through December, Kakish said, Effrem initially offered them a price of $25,000 per month, a move he described as exorbitant. Eventually Effrem dropped the price considerably, Kakish said, but by that time they were fed up and moved out.
Effrem said he planned to reconfigure the building at the end of 2019 because all of the business leases were ending this year and he couldn’t reach an agreement with Indulge & Bloom to move into a new space. He said he made several offers to allow the shop to stay through December, including a final offer at 150% of their lease rate. “The business reality is that people’s buying habits are changing and retail is becoming more of an online business with cost comparisons happening very easily,” Effrem said in an email. “Thus the local shopping centers are becoming more service oriented.” Effrem did not directly respond to Kakish’s claim that the initial offer was $25,000. Indulge & Bloom also has locations at Gaviidae Commons Downtown and at the Mall of America, but the Calhoun Commons location is where the shop ran most of its operations and stored much of its wares. The move has put the business in flux, but the owners are working to find a new home in Southwest Minneapolis. “We are hustling and bustling to try to find a new spot right now,” Kakish said. That spot might end up being Calhoun Square, where Indulge & Bloom is hoping to move into a temporary space, according to Kakish. Indulge & Bloom Where: 3054 Excelsior Blvd. Info: indulgeandbloom.com
Indulge & Bloom flower shop has left Calhoun Commons after what the business is calling a bad-faith negotiation with its landlord. All four businesses at the building have left this year. Photo by Andrew Hazzard
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After nearly three years in LynLake, Mercado will close down at the end of the year. The Jester Concepts restaurant opened in February 2017 at 29th & Lyndale in the Lime apartments building. The taqueria was known for its dog-friendly status. Jester Concepts, which owns Mercado, opted not to renew the lease for 2020, according to a spokesperson. Mercado will operate through December and is hosting a costume party on Dec. 14 with DJs and Hawaiian-inspired food and drink. Mercado Where: 2904 Lyndale Ave. S. Info: mercadompls.com
Mercado, a bar and taqueria in the Lime apartment building at 29th & Lyndale, will close at the end of December. Photo by Michelle Bruch
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Barbecue restaurant remains in the family Scott Ja-Mama’s, the longtime barbecue restaurant at Diamond Lake Road & Nicollet Avenue, is under new management. Joe Kenney and Frank Woolsey have taken over from their uncle Scott Woolsey, who founded the restaurant in 1991. They haven’t purchased the business from him, Frank Woolsey said, but their goal is to make it a longterm venture. Scott Woolsey, a Minneapolis native, founded Scott Ja-Mama’s after mulling a run in the barbecue sauce business. His barbecue sauce comes from a recipe created by his mother, Dorie, who had tried to emulate the sauce made at the former Downtown Minneapolis Nicollet Hotel, where her husband and father-in-law worked. For nearly three decades, Scott Woolsey manned the kitchen and counter at Scott Ja-Mama’s, cooking his meats, beans and potatoes from scratch each morning, with help from a bevy of family members. Frank Woolsey, who previously managed a restaurant in Eagan, said his uncle approached him and Kenney about taking over as he prepared to retire. “We just didn’t want to see it just be left and shut down, so we decided to keep it going,” he said. Frank and Joe renovated the restaurant this past spring, after Scott retired in February, and they reopened in April. The restaurant’s hours and menu have remained the same, though Frank and Joe said they try to make sure side dishes like beans and potato salad are available at all times, which wasn’t always the case when Scott was in charge.
They’ve also kept the walls lined with photos and sports memorabilia, though they said they’ve taken down a significant number of items from when Scott was there. There have been some small changes. The walls have a fresh coat of paint, the ceiling has been renovated and a new menu sign hangs on the wall behind the counter. There’s also a new iPad above the cash box, which allows Frank and Joe to take credit cards, something Scott never did. The restaurant remains a family affair, with Frank and Joe’s relatives helping with the cooking, cleaning and deliveries. Joe said they’d eventually like to move to a bigger space, though they don’t have any plans yet. Frank said another step could be bottling and selling their barbecue sauce. Scott Woolsey still comes by, too, they said. Take-out orders make up about 90% of their business, Joe estimated, and Friday and Saturday nights are typically their busiest times. On a busy day, Joe estimated they serve over 100 meals. Frank Woolsey said there hasn’t been too much that’s surprised him about the new gig. The most fun thing about it? “Running the show,” he said. Scott Ja-Mama’s is open 11 a.m.–9 p.m. Wednesday–Friday and noon–9 p.m. Saturday. Kenney and Woolsey also cater. Customers can order from the restaurant through Uber Eats.
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Infuriated Minneapolis road safety activists, mobilized by a pedestrian’s mid-October death crossing Lyndale Avenue, were largely underwhelmed by Hennepin County’s announcement that plastic bollards and bump-outs could soon be installed at three intersections along a county road known to be one of the most perilous in the city. “[We] do not trust the county to value our lives on county streets,” Lowry Hill resident Janne K. Flisrand said at a Dec. 2 community listening session hosted by Hennepin County Board Chair Marion Greene. “I don’t think there’s any realistic situation that’s going to allow for safe crossing [on Lyndale] without limiting the number of car traffic lanes,” said Minneapolis city planner Lindsey Silas, speaking as a Lyndale resident. The listening session was held at SpringHouse Ministry Center, about a quarter mile from where 54-year-old artist and musician Theodore Ferrara was hit on Oct. 13 while trying to cross Lyndale midblock near 26th Street. Describing Lyndale as “miserable” and “horrific,” dozens of Ferrara’s neighbors shared personal stories and demanded that county officials and staff make sweeping safety improvements to a stretch of Lyndale north of Lake Street that the city has designated a “crash concentration corridor” and that hasn’t been reconstructed since 1954. From 2007–16, there were 59 pedestrians struck on Lyndale between Franklin Avenue and Lake Street, according to a city crash study. City Council Member Lisa Bender, who both represents and lives in the Wedge, said walking and bicycling with her children near Lyndale is enormously stressful. “We don’t come to Whittier as much as we’d like to because it’s terrifying a lot of the time,” she said. Alex Burns, who lives at 25th & Lyndale, said he’s had to call 911 after hearing crashes on multiple occasions. Jim Reilly, an area resident for more than four decades, said a car hit him in March as he crossed Lyndale legally at 28th Street and he was left with two broken bones in his leg. Anne Spaeth, owner of The Lynhall, said her employees have been traumatized pulling people out of crashed vehicles and compared crossing Lyndale to playing the arcade game Frogger. Ingrid Soderberg, a manager of Nightingale at 26th & Lyndale, where Ferrera DJed once per month, said she was his friend for 20 years and was working the night he was fatally struck. “I knew it was him in the street,” she said. “I stood on the sidewalk and watched him get all his clothes cut off. It was 33 degrees. We watched him get put in an ambulance with no life in him. We visited him a couple times on life support, breathing from machines. And then we attended his funeral.” Ferrera’s death is still under investigation by the Minneapolis Police Department. A spokes-
person has said speeding and distracted driving do not appear to have been factors. At the listening session, attended by about 100 people, local residents proposed a range of potential changes to Lyndale, including banning right turns on red, adding a rush hour bus-only lane, rigorously enforcing speed limits and installing lighting stanchions. Soderberg said she opposes any changes that would reduce parking near Nightingale, but she thinks “the road’s too crazy, too busy, too populated to continue to have no traffic lights and crosswalks at 25th and 27th.” Halfway through the meeting, Hennepin County engineer Carla Stueve announced that two small short-term changes for the uncontrolled 25th, 27th and 29th street intersections could be made by early January. Thin reflective plastic bollards may be placed in the center of Lyndale near the three intersections to “reduce the exposure of pedestrians and bicyclists to left-turning vehicles.” And curb bump-outs may be built at the intersections to “reduce crossing distance and increase the visibility of pedestrians and bicyclists.” Activists from Our Streets Minneapolis and the newly formed group Safe Streets Save Lives have coalesced around a few significant fixes they want made by spring 2020. They’re calling for improved lighting, reduced speed limits, and medians and painted crosswalks at 25th, 27th and 29th streets. And they’re asking that Lyndale be put on a yearlong “road diet” — its four lanes repainted to three, with a shared left turn lane and one lane of vehicle traffic in each direction. (Minneapolis already has plans in the works to decrease speed limits across the city.) Stueve said those sound like “great ideas” that could be incorporated when Lyndale is reconstructed or overlaid, though Lyndale is not currently on the county’s five-year Capital Improvement Program project list. Asked when major changes might be made to Lyndale, Greene replied, “I don’t want to say six years because I don’t want to accept six years.” She said it’s difficult to move the road ahead on the county’s list. “If Lyndale jumps the line, then what other street in somebody else’s district is going to jump the line?” she said. “I trust the public works review process.” But many activists said they’re unwilling to accept the slow roll of county bureaucracy in a matter they see as one of life and death. Some at the meeting called for “radical, transformational change” on Lyndale, such as shutting the road to car traffic entirely. Philip Schwartz said to loud applause that if a four-lane-to-three-lane conversion isn’t finished by the spring, there will be more protests like the one that stopped traffic at 25th & Lyndale on Oct. 25. “We’ve been nice at these events where we’ve been crossing streets,” he said. “We’ve been letting cars go every few minutes. But we can make a lot more noise.”
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Crime rates rise in Southwest
Let’s Build Community this year
Property crimes spike in the 5th Precinct By Andrew Hazzard / ahazzard@swjournal.com
Crime has risen in Southwest Minneapolis this year, with both property and violent reported incidents exceeding 2018 figures and five-year averages, though it remains the safest corner of the city. Property crimes are at a five-year high in Southwest in 2019, with the 5th Precinct reporting a 19% increase from 2018 and a 15% increase from the five-year average, according to data accessed from the Minneapolis Police Department’s crime dashboard in early December. Citywide, property crimes have increased to a rate 7% above the five-year average. Violent crime in Southwest has risen 18% in 2019, with 533 incidents reported. The violent crime rate is up 8% over the five-year average. Citywide, violent crime is up about 12% overall in 2019, according to MPD statistics, but is down about 4% compared with the five-year average. (The Southwest Journal submitted requests for comment and questions about the statistics to MPD on Dec. 5 and did not receive a response by press time on Dec. 11.) The 5th Precinct, which includes all of Southwest Minneapolis, is home to 25% of the city’s
residents, but the precinct was the site, in 2019, of just 13% of the city’s violent crimes and 23% of its property crimes. Property crimes like vehicle thefts and thefts from motor vehicles have both reached fiveyear highs in Southwest. Vehicle thefts are up 47% over the five-year average and thefts from motor vehicles are up 29%. Burglaries have also reached a five-year high in the 5th Precinct, about 14% above the five-year average. Violent crimes like robbery, aggravated assault and domestic aggravated assault rose in 2019, but at rates below five-year highs. There have been 85 rapes reported in the 5th Precinct in 2019, a 49% increase from 2018 and a five-year high. Three of the city’s 44 homicides in 2019 have occurred in the precinct, which is home to about 104,000 people. There was one homicide in the precinct in 2018 and three in 2017. Ward 10 — which includes the Wedge, Whittier, East Calhoun, South Uptown and part of East Harriet — has seen the starkest rise in crime in Southwest Minneapolis, with property and violent crime rates both reaching five-year highs. SEE CRIME RATES / PAGE A11
YEAR-TO-DATE CRIME IN MINNEAPOLIS Property crimes Violent crimes
2019*
2018
CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS 18,525 | 4,094 16,172 | 3,649
5-year average
% change from 5-year average
17,277 | 4,276
7% | -4%
4,328 | 533
3,642 | 447
3,766 | 509
15% | 5%
Ward 7**
2,127 | 366
2,266 | 386
2,906 | 578
-27% | -37%
Ward 8**
937 | 132
769 | 150
956 | 225
-2% | -41%
Ward 10
2,243 | 310
1,765 | 227
1,709 | 232
31% | 34%
Ward 11**
727 | 88
621 | 83
698 | 94
4% | -6%
Ward 13
561 | 40
557 | 23
560 | 29
0% | 38%
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220 | 16
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533 | 77
526 | 70
Stevens Square/ Loring Heights
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156 | 41
168 | 53
Whittier
974 | 195
675 | 144
738 | 159
Lyndale
310 | 37
275 | 42
308 | 64
Kingfield
206 | 19
190 | 19
207 | 22
West Calhoun
76 | 10
77 | 4
74 | 6
East Calhoun
159 | 2
205 | 5
166 | 6
South Uptown
318 | 28
296 | 24
280 | 32
Linden Hills
125 | 6
125 | 2
125 | 4
East Harriet
102 | 8
99 | 8
96 | 8
Fulton
109 | 4
106 | 6
104 | 5
Lynnhurst
91 | 5
100 | 4
89 | 4
Tangletown
110 | 5
99 | 8
117 | 11
Armatage
65 | 9
77 | 4
74 | 6
Kenny
57 | 5
46 | 3
57 | 3
159 | 21
136 | 19
146 | 22
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Artist Nancy Waller outside her Wasteland Mfg. Co. art gallery in Kingfield: “I’m going to wish people ‘A carbon-free Christmas and a net-zero New Year-o.’” Photo by Jim Walsh
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hirty years ago, not long after graduating from Minneapolis College of Art and Design, artist Nancy Waller created her first environmentalist art piece — a polar bear screaming into the void. This year, just in time for the holidays, Waller’s latest installation can be seen in the storefront of her Wasteland Mfg. Co. art gallery (tinyurl. com/wasteland-museum), just around the corner from the Royal Grounds Coffee shop in Kingfield. “I’m an environmentalist artist, and I wanted to have a storefront studio-retail spot so that I could have a take on the world and have the interaction and feedback from people right away about what I’m doing,” said Waller, sitting at her desk inside Wasteland, surrounded by her art. “So it’s been a 30-year interactive performance installation, ongoing for the earth and the environment. “I’ve tried every angle. I’m a recycler and a master scrap-crafter, redoing and repurposing. I’ve started with every environmental disaster, starting with the Exxon Valdez [oil spill], and they just keep coming. [Japanese filmmaker] Akira Kurosawa says that an artist’s duty is to not avert one’s eyes. So to look boldly at the landscape and see it in destruction, we’re doing it, and now we see the science is clear with climate crisis. I’ve been saying it for 30 years, but nobody listens because I’m an artist and nutty. But science isn’t enough. You have to win the hearts and minds, so I’m trying to come up with any angle I can.” When we last left Waller, she’d gained international fame for her “Twin Peaks” installation at Wasteland (tinyurl.com/wasteland-twin-peaks). After series star Kyle MacLachlan tweeted about it, Waller and Wasteland went viral and CBS shut her down with a copyright infringement and a cease-and-desist order. Out of the limelight but
always working, Waller currently has a new viralworthy exhibit in “#OccupyXmas,” a challenge to her fellow bipeds to rethink how Christmas consumerism impacts the climate. “I got in a great state of despair about the climate crisis last year, and I thought, ‘I’m going to go crazy if I don’t come up with a method of dealing with it,’” she said. “What’s the carbon footprint of Christmas? It’s obscene what people do in the name of holidays. It’s all got to stop — traveling, shopping, buying crap for each other that gets thrown out. “We don’t even think about the true cost of the production of the things we buy and the disposal of it. OK boomers, what have we done? I heard a great quote: ‘We are the first generation to know the scale and the scope of the destruction, and we are the last generation that can do anything about it.’ David Bowie said, ‘We can be heroes,’ and I don’t know what to fight with but my storefront. I have my window display here that’s like a 3-D billboard 24-7. I’m not out on the street, but I put my toys in there and they protest by proxy.” It’s been a busy year at Wasteland. Last winter, the gallery hosted a Toy Strike for Climate protest, with tiny trolls holding “Fridays For Future” signs. In the summer, Waller hosted a month-long bed-in for the climate crisis, with her playing Yoko Ono to a life-size John Lennon puppet she created. Not long after, Waller created a mannequin of environmental activist Greta Thunberg, whose message to neighbors strolling past on West 42nd Street was, “Can you hear me?” The answer is yes. South Minneapolis is currently a hotbed of more and more environmental activism, including the artist/singer/songwriter Camille Gage-led Act On Climate weekly vigil (tinyurl.com/act-climate-mpls) that launched
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Dec. 5 on the 36th Street bridge over I-35W. And at the moment, the Wasteland window overflows with toys, nutcrackers and dolls holding “Climate Emergency” signs while, inside, an empty chair sits with a dormant Santa hat and a sign proclaiming, “Santa On Strike.” “You can have your picture taken without Santa, because he can’t make it,” said Waller. “The permafrost in the Arctic is melting. This is the first year there hasn’t been Arctic sea ice for the walruses and polar bears, so my premise is that Santa can’t get the reindeer off. They’re stuck in the mud, so he sent the word down from the North Pole — coming here first to Wasteland, because we’re open to it — that if we want Christmas, we have to do it right. We have to do it DIY. Let’s wrestle it back from Coca-Cola, who took the original Christmas and made it into this commercial nightmare that we all hate so much. “Here’s the slogan: I’m going to wish people ‘a carbon-free Christmas and a net-zero New Year-o.’ Carbon-free Christmas? Can we do that? Just think about what we’re doing and how we’re doing it. If the human species is to survive, we’ve got to flip the script.” How do we do that? “Don’t go anywhere. Stay home. Be nice to your neighbors. Don’t buy anything. Stop shopping. And if you want to give gifts, hand-make them,” she said. “We have a crisis in our culture now of not being nice to each other. Isn’t that the stupid message of Christmas, that we’re all supposed to come together? We’re supposed to be nice to our neighbors, and that doesn’t cost anything. It’s carbon-free. “All the information is out there about how to live a carbon-neutral life. You know, turn down the heat and put on your sweater. But everyone’s flying everywhere — what a devastating crazy thing to do — and stupid gifts. I’m a dreamer. That’s why I’m broke. But I’m rich in social capital, because I do know my neighbors, but it’s getting harder and harder.” Thus far, #OccupyXmas may be a movement unto itself and not exactly trending. But that doesn’t deter Waller, who’s used to going it alone. “This is my space,” she said. “One-hundredand-ten square feet — it’s nothing! But I’ve got a window, where the people walk by, so look out corporate America, no holds barred. I have nothing else to fight with, and there’s nothing else to lose if this is the end, as I’m hearing the scientists say it is. “I’m here almost every afternoon, and I have one-on-one conversations with people as they come by. It’s not like therapy — it’s like a reality check. It’s the Greta effect. I do this to talk to my neighbors and look ’em in the eye and say, ‘Is this happening? Is this real?’ What is that freaky psychology of, ‘Let’s just not deal with this’? “I’ve seen this coming my whole life. I’ve been studying about it and fussing about it and worrying about it. I can’t believe I’ve been here for 30 years like Chicken Little. … What on earth? I know people don’t take me seriously, but what the heck.” Jim Walsh lives and grew up in South Minneapolis. He can be reached at jimwalsh086@gmail.com.
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Feedback sought on planned B Line stops Metro Transit planners behind the future B Line bus rapid transit (BRT) project along Lake Street are seeking feedback on ideal stop locations. The B Line will connect the West Lake Street light rail station to Downtown St. Paul via Lake Street and Marshall and Selby avenues. Initially planned to go only as far east as Snelling Avenue, the line now hopes to directly connect South Minneapolis to major destinations in Downtown St. Paul. Preliminary recommendations call for 33 stops for the B Line, averaging 2–3 stops per mile. Some of those stops are certain, but most are up for debate. In Southwest, the only certain stops are currently West Lake Station, Nicollet Avenue and the Lake & I-35W Transit Station. Right now, potential stops are at Dean Parkway, Knox Avenue, Hennepin Avenue and Lyndale
Avenue. Metro Transit has an interactive project survey online that will be open through Jan. 31 at tinyurl.com/BLineStops. The B Line would largely replace Route 21 on Lake Street in Minneapolis. BRT seeks to bring faster service with fewer stops, larger buses, pre-boarding fare payment and other amenities. Route 21 is the second-busiest bus line in the Twin Cities and carries 20% of people traveling on Lake Street, according to Metro Transit. The buses make up just 2% of the vehicles driving on the street. The project will cost $55 million to $65 million, according to early estimates. The Metropolitan Council has earmarked $26 million for the project. Pending full funding, construction of the line would begin in 2022. — Andrew Hazzard
King’s Highway Luminaria to shed light on domestic abuse Each Christmas Eve, King’s Highway in East Harriet glows with paper lanterns to shed a light on domestic abuse. The King’s Highway Luminaria will celebrate its 21st year this Dec. 24, with lights expected to start at 6 p.m., according to longtime organizer Mickey O’Kane. The Luminaria raises money for the Domestic Abuse Project, a Minneapolis nonprofit that for years was located in
Stevens Square before moving to Northeast in 2018. Neighbors have raised more than $26,000 for the Domestic Abuse Project since 2003, O’Kane said. The Luminaria runs from 42nd Street to 47th Street, with sand-and-candle-filled bags lining the parkway, creating a pleasant glow for the holiday night. — Andrew Hazzard
Southwest’s upcoming street resurfacings Three areas set for street repair in 2020 By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@swjournal.com
Next year, Minneapolis will resurface a largely residential section of 1st Avenue in Lyndale and Kingfield, a cluster of residential streets in Tangletown and three roads in Whittier and Stevens Square. The First Avenue project will include an approximately 1.2-mile section of the street between Lake Street and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Park. The Tangletown project will include the 16 roads between 50th Street, Minnehaha Creek, Interstate 35W and Lyndale Avenue — excluding Nicollet Avenue. In Whittier and Stevens Square, 3rd Avenue will be resurfaced between 17th and 27th streets, Clinton Avenue will be resurfaced between 24th and 26th streets and 25th Street will be resurfaced between 3rd and 4th avenues. The city will assess properties along the impacted streets for a portion of the costs. City spokesperson Sarah McKenzie wrote in an email that the city does not yet have an estimate of the projects’ costs and doesn’t have a timeline for when they will be completed. The city’s total budget for the 11 resurfacing projects slated for 2020 is about $7.2 million. Resurfacing, which typically takes about two or three days, extends a street’s
life by about 10 years, according to the Public Works department. Nearby property owners typically pay a portion of the cost, and the city covers the rest by selling municipal bonds. Other street projects slated for 2020 include a $2.8 million reconstruction of an isolated cluster of residential streets in Windom and a renovation of a block of Grand Avenue in Uptown. In 2021, planned Southwest Minneapolis projects include the repaving of portions of 26th and 28th streets and portions of about 20 residential streets in and near Lynnhurst. The city also plans to reconstruct a 2.25mile section of Grand Avenue between Lake and 48th streets. A public hearing for the 1st Avenue project will be held Feb. 18 at City Hall. There will be a meeting about the Tangletown project at 6:30 p.m. on March 3 at Fuller Park and a public hearing March 9 at City Hall. A public hearing for the Whittier and Stevens Square project will be held April 7 at City Hall.
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Most Southwest Minneapolis-area residents have health insurance, but the area’s insurance rates vary depending on poverty levels and demographics, according to a statewide analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. Insurance rates in zip codes overlapping with Southwest Minneapolis range between 85.3% and 96.5%, according to the analysis released this fall from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Generally, poorer Southwest Minneapolis-area zip codes and zip codes with more 26- to 34-yearolds have higher rates of people going without insurance. The area’s more affluent zip codes, particularly those south of 36th Street, have the lowest proportion of uninsured residents. Many people who don’t have insurance are eligible for a subsidy on the state’s MNsure exchange or for one of the state’s public programs, Medical Assistance and MinnesotaCare. “A lot of people really don’t know that they’re eligible,” said Kathleen Call, a U of M professor who led the study. Nationally, fewer people are getting insurance and costs are rising. The average premium for employer-sponsored family coverage has increased 54% over the last decade, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. More workers now have higher deductibles, too. The University of Minnesota analysis looked at data from the 2013–17 American Community Survey. In the eight zip codes encompassing all or parts of Southwest Minneapolis, which cover over 180,000 people and include parts of surrounding Minneapolis neighborhoods and several nearby cities, 7.8% of people are uninsured. The zip code with the highest rate of people going without insurance, 55404, encompasses portions of Whittier, Stevens Square, Elliot Park Twin Lake
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and the Phillips community. In that zip code 14.7% of residents are uninsured. Nearly 40% of its 27,184 residents live under the poverty line, which in 2018 was about $25,700 for a family of four. The Southwest Minneapolis-area zip code with the second-highest rate of uninsured residents, 55408, includes all or parts of six Uptown neighborhoods and two neighborhoods east of Interstate 35W. There, 12.7% of residents don’t have insurance. Less than 16% of residents in that zip code live in poverty, but nearly 30% of them are between the ages of 26 and 34. Statewide, 26- to 34-year-olds comprise the age group most likely to go without insurance. The local zip code with the lowest rate of uninsured residents, 55410, covers Linden Hills, Fulton, Armatage and several Edina neighborhoods. About 3.5% of its residents do not have insurance. Mohammed Batuun is a MNsure “navigator” who works part time on the third floor of Karmel Mall, which is located in the 55408 zip code. His role entails helping people understand their options when it comes to health insurance. Batuun, who also works as a tax preparer, said many of the people he sees going without insurance are young, single and make too much to qualify for a public program. He said he encourages them to sign up for insurance regardless and to reach out to their elected officials about the high costs. Call said the zip-code-by-zip-code analysis is intended in part to help local experts like Batuun plan outreach efforts. Some navigators have been using the information to figure out where to target mailers or host enrollment activities, she said. The zip code map is online at tinyurl.com/ insurancedata. 35W
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to other groups. They tried BoneYard Kitchen & Bar in 2014, Salsa a la Salsa in 2015, Game Sports Bar in 2016, Lotus in 2017 and Piggy Bank in 2018. News headlines and social media posts have called the location “cursed.” Marketing materials ask for $5,767,380 for the .74 acre site, highlighting its location next to the Uptown Transit Station and Midtown Greenway. The site is currently zoned as a Community Activity Center District or “C3A,” allowing four stories by right. Under the Minneapolis 2040 plan for growth, future zoning would allow heights of two to ten stories by right. The site is also part of a pedestrian-oriented overlay district, which comes with design guidelines to help the pedestrian experience. Paul Shanafelt, executive director of the Lowry Hill East Neighborhood Association, expressed surprise at the decision to sell. Two weeks earlier, the neighborhood group sought creative ideas for the space on social media. Responses included a dog-friendly brewery, a marijuana dispensary, anything that includes 20 stories of housing and the return of Old Chicago. Whatever is to come, Shanafelt said, he hopes a developer engages with the community. “This is such a unique site, and not just because it lost so many tenants over the course of the years. It’s just an incredible cross section of transit and communities,” Shanafelt said. “You have such a densely populated area, and I don’t think it’s really capitalized on the synergy around all that.” “Maybe it’s just not the spot for a restaurant,” said Jason Bush, who served as BoneYard chef and now works as a chef in Colorado. BoneYard suffered from competing visions as a southern restaurant and a DJ-driven Sunday Funday spot, he said. “Maybe apartment buildings or putting more people there will give the other restaurants more people to actually serve,” he said. “It might actually be a good thing for the area.” Restaurateur Lorenzo Ariza called the Hennepin Avenue site a “prize piece of real estate.” He’s seen this before. His original Salsa a la Salsa location on Nicollet closed in 2018 to make way for a new apartment building. (Ariza said he’s not willing to spend a half-million dollars to reopen as part of the new Nicollet development, and he’s very happy with Salsa a la Salsa’s current home at Midtown Global Market.) “People are trying to make the most out of their property,” he said. “All I hear from everybody around me is: ‘How expensive is rent going to be?’” City officials recently approved a new development just north of Piggy Bank’s parking lot. A development team involving Yellow Tree LLC and Perkins | Levin received Planning Commission approval in August to build 76 rental
units. That project replaces three single-family buildings at 2824, 2828 and 2832 Girard Ave. S. with a six-story building and 43 parking spaces, featuring a semi-automated parking system. Emily Kinnunen, who manages Bishops on Hennepin, visited all five of the short-lived restaurants. She was sad to see Piggy Bank’s vegan options and friendly workers go. She said it seems typical that a restaurant could become apartments, thinking of the Arby’s development at 1116 W. Lake St. “I’d be kind of bummed, but I wouldn’t be surprised either,” she said. “Uptown has fundamentally changed over the years,” said Kip Clayton of Parasole Restaurant Holdings, a company that shuttered Libertine shortly before Calhoun Square changed hands. Clayton said Uptown is challenging for restaurants due to the city’s minimum wage law, high rents and the growing popularity of other areas like LynLake and the North Loop. But Parasole’s Chino Latino has survived by changing with the times, he said, adapting hours for Uptown’s smaller late-night business, managing costs and offering valet parking. Restaurateur Jason Jenny said that with the exception of the apartment sector, it seems Uptown is in a “slump.” His restaurant Stella’s Fish Cafe has survived with the help of a good food-to-liquor balance, a young entertainment crowd, a summer patio, a system to manage overhead costs and a helpful landlord. But it’s not easy, he said, and he’s hearing a consumer perception that Minneapolis is unsafe and seeing more growth in his suburban restaurant. “The average restaurateur in Uptown is going to be challenged,” he said. The Uptown trade area, broadly defined as a 4.5-square-mile area surrounding Lake & Hennepin, held 160 full-service restaurants as of 2016, according to a Perkins & Will market inventory presented to the City of Minneapolis. The study said the city’s most successful food and drink establishments tend to have patios or outdoor seating, are not too large (empty cavernous spaces are undesirable) and have both lunch and evening traffic. Chazin said that given the rent he must charge, a restaurant can’t survive at 2841 Hennepin. (The space’s 2019 property taxes were $95,490.) Customers in the area seem to gravitate to bars and cheap food and alcohol, he said. Crime is also an issue, he said, and the city needs more police. The City Council required more lighting and cameras in the restaurant parking lot in 2018 following a shooting at The Lotus Uptown that hurt bystanders. Chazin said suburban customers are not coming to Uptown anymore, avoiding bad traffic and scarce parking. “It’s not a curse. It’s not the location,” Chazin said. “It’s the times in Uptown: Restaurants cannot make it.”
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There have been 310 violent crimes recorded in Ward 10 in 2019, 34% above the five-year average and well above the 227 incidents reported at this time in 2018. Property crime is 31% higher than the five-year average with 2,243 incidents reported in Ward 10 this year, about 500 more than 2018.
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By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@swjournal.com
Some Minneapolitans embrace car-free lifestyle Kenny Fennell grew up in Boston without a car and, since moving to the Lyndale neighborhood in June, he’s continued to live car-free, biking most days to his job in Downtown Minneapolis. Fennell said biking is easier in the summer than in the winter, but that it’s manageable yearround. “It’s actually pretty warm once you get going,” he said. His bike has two-inch tires, fenders to guard against splashing snow and water and a rack on which he can attach a bag. His daily commute takes about 15–20 minutes. Fennell said he thinks that not owning a car makes him and his girlfriend more “local” in their day-to-day lives. Instead of driving somewhere for dinner, they’ll walk to a restaurant on Hennepin or Lyndale avenue. He’ll walk or bike to the Seward Co-op — about a mile away from his house — instead of driving to the store. And though he’s never done it, he knows he has the option to rent a car or use the Hourcar car-sharing service if he ever needs to get somewhere Metro Transit or his bike can’t take him. In recent years, much more attention in Minneapolis has been paid to increasing infrastructure for people to take alternative modes of transportation. The Minneapolis 2040 plan calls for building out a multimodal network that prioritizes walking, biking and transit. Recent street improvement projects, such as the reconstruction of Hennepin Avenue between Lake and 36th streets, have added bike lines, widened sidewalks and reduced parking for cars. A recent pilot has added bus-only lanes on Hennepin Avenue during rush hour. And the city has expanded the length of its protected bike lane network. Part of the aim of these initiatives has been to reduce effects of climate change and improve health by enhancing air quality. It’s part of a broader citywide push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Minneapolis 80% by the year 2050, using 2006 levels as a baseline. By some standards, these initiatives appear to be helping to get more people to ride bikes. One study, conducted by University of Minnesota researchers in 2015, found that the number of trips taken by bike in the 19-county Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area increased by about 58% between 2001 and 2011, MPR News reported. Across the metro area, walking
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trips have also increased, the study found. It’s not just local governments that are taking action. Private citizens are too, and say they find living car-free isn’t just good for the environment — it’s also convenient. Jesus Leyva, a St. Paul resident who works at Perennial Cycle at 34th & Hennepin, is among the ranks of local bike commuters. Leyva said he bikes about 10 miles each way to and from work, a commute that takes about 50–55 minutes. He takes that ride rain, snow, sun or cold. Leyva said he likes the flexibility that bike commuting provides him. For daily errands like grocery shopping, he either walks or takes transit. He said people who want to live this way should “ease into it” and suggested that they perhaps don’t start in the winter. Uptown resident Gordon Loery, who takes transit to his job near the state Capitol in St. Paul, also suggested that people who wish to live “car-lite” take it slowly. He said starting small helped him get more comfortable with the transit system. Many people live without a car because of economic necessity.
Dianna Clise, who lives east of Lyndale Avenue, has been car-free since this past spring, when her car broke down. Waiting for a bus to take her east along Lake Street on a recent weekend afternoon, she said the “dayto-day” has been OK but that the bus isn’t as convenient as she’d like. Clise said she tries to schedule her errands during times when transit is likely to be more frequent. Her advice to people without cars? “Live on a bus line,” she said. Kenwood resident Gene Tierney runs the organization CarFreeLife, which aims to make it easier for people in the Twin Cities to drive less. He’s also the founder of NeighborCar, a new venture launching in 2020 that will help people in apartment buildings share ownership of a car. Tierney said the service will likely be in Minneapolis. Tierney said not owning a car makes people more conscientious about planning their errands and activities. He said people are making the choice to either give up one or more of their vehicles for both environmental and economic reasons.
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Car ownership, for example, costs an average of $9,282 annually, according to AAA. A study from the University of Minnesota Center for Community Vitality found that over 61% of those costs leave the state in the form of fuel and depreciation. The typical household saves $300 to $500 a month when it gets rid of a car, Tierney said. Citywide census data show the movement away from car usage has been modest. About 61% of Minneapolis’ 230,077 workers over age 16 drove alone to work in 2009, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. That’s a reduction of 0.8 percentage points since 2009. The proportion of Minneapolis workers who bike, walk, take public transit or work at home increased to 29.9% in 2017 from 28% in 2009. The proportion of workers who carpool dropped to 7.9% from 9.4%. (The census data don’t capture people who are part-time bicyclists, according to MPR). The proportion of Minneapolis households without vehicles has decreased slightly since 2009 — to 17.1% from 17.5%. Lowry Hill East resident Abigail Johnson, who chairs the city’s Pedestrian Advisory Committee, is able to work from home. Johnson, who moved back to Minneapolis from New York City two years ago, said she’s never really had a car as an adult and that she chose a place to live where she wouldn’t need one. She didn’t want to be responsible for the cost of car ownership and said she was also passionate about making the streetscape more equitable. “I know a lot of people that would walk if they felt the system was set up to let them walk more or if they felt the bus was set up to be more convenient than driving,” she said. Johnson said she walks to the grocery stores near her home several days a week and that she finds that she has less food waste because she buys less. She said she thinks she’s always going to make decisions about where she lives based on her desire to walk, bike or bus. Emissions from passenger cars, SUVs, pickup trucks and minivans account for about 15% of Americans’ total greenhouse gas emissions, according to data from the Environmental Protection Agency.
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By Andrew Hazzard / ahazzard@swjournal.com
Park budget becomes battle of priorities As the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board neared the deadline for passing its 2020 budget, commissioners debated how to allocate available funds between additional programming for city youth and retaining forestry positions seen vital to protecting trees. After MPRB appeals to the Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation for an additional $1.6 million were denied in September, Superintendent Al Bangoura presented commissioners with a $126 million 2020 budget focused on funding youth programming by adding employment opportunities and two “ideation centers” for young people to get access to technology at park facilities. Park Board President Brad Bourn, who represents much of Southwest as commissioner of District 6, proposed 48 budget amendments during a Dec. 4 finance committee discussion, including conditional, one-time funding of two forestry coordinator positions. The amendments also shuffled money around to put nearly $100,000 into an “innovation fund” that would support programming for Somali youth in Phillips and Cedar-Riverside. An additional $91,000 for a third ideation center was also included in the amendments. The list of amendments passed the MPRB finance committee 4-1. The full Park Board considered the amendments at their Dec. 11 public hearing at City Hall, where they were expected to approve a final 2020 budget shortly after this paper went to press. In November, Bourn proposed eliminating two currently vacant but funded coordinator
Northrop resident Keith Schoeler (left) and Armatage resident Clint Carlson kayak along Minnehaha Creek on Dec. 1. Photo by Bill Kuhn
positions in the forestry department. One of those jobs is for a tree preservation coordinator, half of whose salary the Park Board says is supposed to be paid by the City of Minneapolis. Bourn’s Dec. 4 amendment to fund that role is contingent on the city paying nearly $200,000 to cover its portion of the position for four years. That proposal was met with significant pushback from residents concerned about the urban
forest in budget talks and sparked debate on the board about whether to put remaining dollars into youth or forestry services. “I’m hearing over and over again that our priority is investing in youth, but we have four strategic directions and that is only one,” Commissioner Meg Forney said. She and other commissioners lobbied for permanent funding for the forestry positions and
questioned their colleagues’ motives in seeking funding for Somali youth programming. “A lot of these amendments read like pork to me, read like political favoritism,” Commissioner Steffanie Musich said. Vice President AK Hassan, who represents the Phillips and Cedar-Riverside area, said the Somali community has been underserved by the MPRB and denounced claims that funding programs for Somali youth showed favoritism. Commissioner LaTrisha Vetaw, who voted against the amendments, said she wants to support trees and kids but was not in favor of programming for just one particular group of youth. She said she hears much more about desire for youth environmental programming than technology labs. “I’d rather see climate initiatives before we see ideation labs,” she said. Bourn believes the MPRB has been put in a “scenario of false scarcity” for the 2020 budget and said he would be pushing to make the forestry coordinator positions permanently funded next year. The remainder of the amendments largely denied proposed fee increases for youth recreation, while seeking to increase revenues from adult recreation, wedding fees, and added metered parking at destinations like West River Parkway. His amendment list included a directive to create a plan in 2020 to replace the pavilion at Bde Maka Ska, which burned down in May. “There are some hard and difficult challenges in this budget,” Bourn said.
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drains. Trash that is littered as far as a mile from a water pipeline can end up in lakes, creeks and the Mississippi River, she said. “Once trash is in the water, it’s really hard to get out,” Crabb said. The MPRB frequently cleans litter from parks, she said. But fishing floating plastic bags out of the water is time- and labor-intensive. So, preventing more plastic from being littered in the first place is a big step. Plastic is forever. It takes years to break down and, even then, continues to cause damage. “When we throw out plastic waste it will all become microplastic and be in the environment,” Crabb said. The city passed a plastic bag ban in 2016, but that ordinance was rendered moot by a law passed by the then Republican-controlled Minnesota Legislature that blocked cities from banning bags. The fee aims to address the issue without violating state law.
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or compostable — distributed to customers. Retailers will keep all the fees and will be required to track the number of bags being distributed, so city officials can verify stores are participating and assess fines to violators. While many environmental groups applauded the ordinance, there was some resistance from retailers. The move was opposed by the Minnesota Grocers Association, which argued it would put Minneapolis grocers at a competitive disadvantage to stores in neighboring suburbs. “What we don’t like about the ordinance is we don’t want to have to charge our customers for bags,” said Mike Oase, chief operations officer for Kowalski’s Market, a Minnesota grocer with two stores in Southwest Minneapolis. The ordinance does not include smaller bags without handles used for items such as produce, baked goods or flowers. It also exempts carry-out food bags, dry cleaning bags, bags at the farmers market or bags that come from exchanges without direct transactions, like newspaper bags. Those receiving benefits like food stamps are exempted from the fee. The hope is the fee will lead to a dramatic decrease in bag litter. In Washington D.C., a 5-cent bag fee implemented in 2010 led to a 72% decrease in the number of plastic bags removed from the Potomac River, according to Ferguson Foundation, a nonprofit that organizes cleanups in the capital. Carryout bags are a major source of litter in the city. Last year, Minneapolis residents removed more than 4,700 pounds of litter from streets, parks and waterways during the Earth Day cleanup. A lot of that litter ends up in the city’s waterways according to Rachael Crabb, water resources manager for the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. Most litter ends up on the curb line and often gets washed into
Southwest grocers Kowalski’s Market has sought to promote environmental efforts by having plastic bag recycling drop-offs at stores. The grocer has had a 5-cent rebate program for customers who bring their own bags for 15 years, Oase said, and in recent years has allowed people to donate that rebate to Great River Greening, a Minnesota-based environmental conservation nonprofit. Oase said Kowalski’s will be putting up signs in the parking lots of their Minneapolis stores reminding people of the bag fee. Often, he said, people have bags but forget to bring them into the store. The grocer is in the process of figuring out how it will track bag sales and is training their cashiers for the change. At some Minneapolis grocers, the fee won’t change policies. German-based grocer ALDI has never offered free bags at its U.S. stores, according to Matt Lillia, vice president of ALDI’s Faribault division. In Minneapolis, the grocer charges 7 cents for paper bags
Master planning to begin for Cedar-Isles By Andrew Hazzard ahazzard@swjournal.com Taneisha Holm bags groceries for a customer at Guse Green Grocer in Lynnhurst. In January, Minneapolis retailers will have to start charging customers a 5-cent fee for every disposable bag used. Photo by Andrew Hazzard
and 10 cents for plastic bags and encourages shoppers to bring their own reusable bags. “This saves money by avoiding the cost of the bag and it cuts down waste to help the environment,” Lilla said. Today, about 85% of Guse Green Grocer customers bring their own bags, according to employee Taneisha Holm. She doesn’t anticipate the ordinance will change much for the business and believes the store’s shoppers will support it. “We have pretty easy customers,” Holm said. The city is planning to conduct an education campaign in the first six months of 2020 before it starts fining businesses for not complying with the ordinance, Hanlon said, and hopes retailers and shoppers will adjust quickly. “People can adapt,” Kyle Samejima, executive director of Minneapolis Climate Action, said at a public hearing about the ordinance.
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“Teachers say one of the main problems they’re facing is that a lot of their curriculum is still about Ellis Island and a historic perspective on immigration as opposed to authentic stories of their new neighbors,” Clark said. Green Card Voices often sends groups of three immigrants from different continents into classrooms in an effort to represent the “breadth and diversity of the immigrant population.” But on Nov. 21, Clark came to Anthea Bibuka’s social studies class alone. Her daughter Sofia, 9, is one of Bibuka’s students, and the class was wrapping up a five-week immigration unit. “Who migrates?” Clark asked the class. “Monarch butterflies,” a student replied. “Different people around the world,” said another. “Whales.” “Birds.” “People in poverty.” “Dolphins.” “Dolphins I didn’t know, but now I do,” Clark said. “It is something innate in all living creatures — that they move.” Clark was 15 years old when war broke out in the former Yugoslavia. She told the Lake Harriet students how her sister’s 4-month-old puppy was permanently traumatized by the sound of air raid sirens. Though the violence that devastated the region lasted only 10 days in Slovenia, hundreds of thousands of refugees fled north from Kosovo, and Clark started spending more of her time volunteering in refugee camps than she did in school. “It was really sad,” she told the students. In her early 20s, Clark came to the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire on a scholarship, did postgraduate work at New York University and later returned to Slovenia for a Ph.D. program specializing in oral history. At the University of Nova Gorica, she interviewed 15 survivors of the Bosnian genocide and 15 soldiers in a Dutch peacekeeping force that failed to prevent it. “That process really informed me of the power of storytelling, both in terms of healing and also in terms of self-advocacy and empowerment,” she said. In 2012, Clark and her Wisconsin-born husband, Nathan, decided to move back to the United States. “We couldn’t get good jobs, and health care was not great and things just weren’t working out,” she told her daughter’s schoolmates. Two-year-old Sofia spoke no English and had to move far from her Croatian grandparents, but Clark let her pack a single box full of toys to be mailed to the U.S. “When the box arrived many months later, she had forgotten what she packed,” Clark said. “She was like, ‘Uh, I’m too old for this.’”
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the nonprofit’s storytellers live, more than 1 in 10 residents are first-generation immigrants. “In order to truly understand what the stories of immigrants in America are, you should be telling as close to the 46 million stories as possible,” she said. “Every single immigrant has their unique story and it’s really important to be mindful and pay attention ... so we can all be good neighbors and be a good community together.” As Green Card Voices storytellers work to compile what Clark calls “a guided life narrative,” they are given six open-ended prompts, such as, “Take me back to that moment when you first found out you were coming to America.” They’re then given a month to journal about their lives, to ask family members questions, to read other immigrants’ stories and to jot down bulleted notes. “Usually, it’s a very intentional, introspective time for our storytellers,” Clark said. At the end of the month, Clark sets them up in front of a video camera, repeats the six prompts and records their answers for posterity. Afterward, they work collaboratively on the transcript with copy editors to create a final text they feel reads true. “Sometimes it’s their first time sharing their stories, especially in this political climate,” said Julie Vang, Green Card Voices’ program manager. “[Immigrants] are not here to take what is here — they’re also giving back as well. We want to reframe the rhetoric around immigrants and refugees.” In February, Green Card Voices’ small staff — two full-timers, two AmeriCorps volunteers and a rotating cast of interns based, since early this year, in the FLOCK coworking space near Eat Street — will publish the nonprofit’s seventh anthology of immigrant stories, this time focused on Minnesota residents in the science, technology, engineering and math fields. Their first book, released in 2016, shared the stories of 29 student authors attending Wellstone International High School in Powderhorn Park.
The stories told through Green Card Voices vibrate with humor, pathos, alienation, gratitude and joy — recounting moments traumatic, empowering and digressively personal. Fadumo Yusuf, now an engineer and poet, explains how on her journey from Ethiopia to New York she only knew a few English words, like “water” and “time,” and was confused why flight attendants kept grinning at her. “Why are they smiling?” she remembers thinking. “I didn’t say a joke or anything.” Nachito Herrera, a world-renowned Cuban pianist who lives in White Bear Lake, shares how he needed to make the decision “to become a double image.” “You can’t get rid of why you left Cuba; that is not possible,” he writes. “At the same time, it’s a completely new life you’re living here.” Zaynab Abdi, who fled bombing and revolution in Yemen and Egypt, decides, after a difficult first few months in America, that she loves the free lunches and the homework help and throws herself into her schoolwork. She’s now preparing for a career as a human rights attorney at St. Catherine University and has testified to the United Nations about the Yemen refugee crisis three times in the past three years. In a book dedicated to telling the stories of Minnesota entrepreneurs, Bryn Mawr resident Tomme Beevas jokes about how his 14-month-old daughter is the first person in his family to wear a snowsuit and explains his decision to keep the Jamaican cuisine at his Whittier restaurant Pimento “authentic yet flexTomme Beevas ible” by serving boneless jerk chicken “even though you’d never find a boneless chicken running around Jamaica.” Beevas said he is proud to have sold two
cases of Green Card Voices books at Pimento (they’re also available at Birchbark, Magers & Quinn and Wild Rumpus) and he’s been impressed with how the nonprofit’s staff have “walked their mission” in terms of hiring immigrants to publish their books and cater their events. He said by participating in the Green Card Voices process, he was able to “dive deeper than I’ve ever dived to understand my immigrant story.” “Often times as immigrants we tend to decentralize immigration issues,” he said. “Like, ‘Oh, it’s just Latin Americans, it’s just Somalis.’ It gave me a chance to hold space as a Jamaican immigrant.”
Spaghetti and accents Once Clark is finished presenting to the Lake Harriet fourth graders, she takes questions. Asked to say something in Slovenian, she shares that her favorite food is spaghetti bolognese and her favorite hobby is kite flying on Lake Harriet. After she translates her answer into English, the students chime in: “Oh, I heard spaghetti,” “I heard Lake Harriet.” When a student asks if she has an accent, she replies that she was recently in Atlanta, working on a Green Card Voices book, and the locals told her she has two accents: a Slavic accent and a Minnesota accent. Clark tells the students that the most common language in the world is “English with an accent.” “The next time you hear someone speaking English with a Slavic accent, with a Spanish accent, with a Somali accent — that’s what the majority of people speak,” she says. Leaving the Lake Harriet classroom, Clark is invigorated. “Children, especially at this age, are so eager to learn and their imagination is also pretty incredible,” she says. “They are, in many ways, so much more accepting of diversity than those who have grown up.”
Green Card Voices’ anthologies are designed to give every American immigrant a platform to tell the full story of their actual experience.
Bo Thao-Urabe Luang Prabang, Laos Eagan “My father left my mother alone with us — four small children aged 4, 3, 2 and less than a year — as he went on fighting [against the Laotian communists]. After several months, my mother sensed that it was no longer safe to stay in our village, so she took us into the jungle to hide and wait for my father’s return. There we hid for several months. No longer able to farm, my mother would hide us under banana leaves each night after we fell asleep, then go off to find food.”
Zaynab Abdi Aden, Yemen St. Paul “When any immigrant person comes to the United States or to Europe or to any country, it doesn’t mean they hate their country or that they just want to try a new country. Maybe they didn’t find a chance to complete their education, or maybe there were problems and war. So when they move to another place, another state, another country, they need that safety and they need their future. One day every immigrant will go back to their country and build it because they belong to their country.”
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By Karen Cooper
The history of the city’s Christmas light displays
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t took three years from the invention of the light bulb in 1879 before someone invented electric Christmas tree lights. The first electrically lit tree was displayed in New York City in 1882 and began a custom that has grown to become a requisite part of celebrating the holiday. Minneapolitans adopted the holidaydecorating potential of electricity as early as 1903, when a dentist named Henry Boos took the headlamps from his car and used them to illuminate the decorated evergreen in his yard at 26th & Elliott. The first citywide Christmas-lighting idea was suggested in 1914 by the Minneapolis Tribune: simply, to have every home place a candle in the window on Christmas Eve. The idea caught on, and clergy of many Christian faiths invited their congregations to participate. But as electricity was brought to more and more Minneapolis homes and the price of light strings dropped, Christmas-lighting ideas became increasingly elaborate. Just before Christmas 1925, President Calvin Coolidge pressed a button in the White House. Through the amazing power of electricity, he illuminated Minneapolis’ municipal tree, a 50-foot-tall specimen set up in Gateway Park. The festivities at the scene included carols sung by the Campfire Girls, played by the Salvation Army band and broadcast live from the City Hall carillon. This so inspired Mayor George Leach and other civic leaders that Minneapolis’ first electrically lit citywide outdoor Christmas decorating contest was announced for 1926. The city was divided into districts. Parks superintendent Theodore Wirth, Leach and a handful of others were made judges. It was all the idea of the Minneapolis Electrical League, which promoted the use of electricity, and the Civic and Commerce Association. They called the effort “The Brightest Christmas City.” At first, the idea was pretty basic: Homeowners were encouraged to put up electrically lit Christmas trees in their yards. The Alice Ames Winter Demonstration House was professionally done up by the Electrical League and attracted significant attention. “Each home,”
In 1927, seven miles of evergreen garlands trimmed with 25,000 colored electric lights were strung throughout Downtown Minneapolis. Postcard courtesy of Hennepin County Library Special Collections
the ladies said, “should be a messenger of light.” Hundreds of homeowners participated. By 1927, the Minneapolis Retailers Association could see how this could be a big thing for them, and elaborate decorations went up in the Downtown shopping districts. Seven miles of evergreen garlands trimmed with 25,000 colored electric lights were strung throughout Downtown. That year’s tree at Gateway Park was 75 feet tall. Ten thousand homes across the city were expected to be decorated with Christmas lights. Leach called it a remarkable civic asset and a story of civic pride. In the following years, the Christmas lighting contest grew and the displays became more elaborate. By 1928, tree-lighting pioneer Boos had moved to 4848 W. Lake Harriet Parkway and had a mechanical Santa climbing down his chimney. Every year, Southwest Minneapolis had plenty of fine entries in the Christmas decorating contest, sometimes taking citywide honors. Minneapolis claimed the title of “Brightest Christmas City” and dared places like Chattanooga and Boston to try and take it away. The national rivalry failed to generate a lot of attention, but the idea of Christmas-
lighting contests spread. Many cities in Minnesota held contests, which were generally run by the local Junior Chambers of Commerce (the Jaycees). The Minneapolis Jaycees ran our local contest almost every year until 1970. During the 44 years of the contest, the displays changed with the tastes of the eras and the available technology. For many years, winners often featured stand-up wooden tableaux of Santas and candles lit by floodlights. As outdoor lighting strings became more available, more buildings were outlined with lights. During World War II, patriotic themes were popular. Some winners bathed their homes in intricate red-white-and-blue lighting patterns or displayed Santa waving an American flag. In 1941, 10,000 homes participated. Blackouts were on everyone’s minds, but Minneapolis’ Christmas lights really did give the city hope during those hard weeks and months after Pearl Harbor. But the contest went dark during WWII, when conserving fuel was important, until the Minneapolis Jaycees reignited the Christmas-lighting tradition in 1945.
Over the decades, the donated prizes varied. Often they were electric appliances like toasters, radios or even television sets (“completely installed!” — meaning the antenna, too), or cash or gift certificates. But the prizes weren’t the most important thing. People competed year after year and their displays got larger and more intricate. One of Southwest Minneapolis’ biggest winners was Simon Clark Ryan of 4550 Dupont Ave. S. He was a football star at West High and St. John’s, then became a salesman (cars, then life insurance) before investing in a two-story bowling alley at 50th & France. He was just the sort of guy you’d expect to have a fabulous, attractive Christmas display in his yard. In 1948, he won the citywide competition, with Christmas trees, carol singers and a great banner proclaiming “Joy to the World.” Unfortunately, no color pictures survive of this dramatic display. It was in the old style, with wooden stand-ups and floodlights. For all the evolution of Christmas lights through the years, from the miracle of safe electric lights to the whole city becoming “a messenger of light,” in many ways little has changed. We still decorate our green trees with reds and blues that stand out against the December white. We still drive around to see brightly lit homes. We still feel a little excited and amazed at the simple beauty of colorful lights on a dark night.
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The health of the planet and the health of the people on it are intricately linked. Pollution causes spikes in hospital emergencies, trees bring scores of health benefits, water contaminants can cause cancer and the health consequences of climate change are severe, not the least of which because melting permafrost is unleashing long-frozen prehistoric diseases. Meanwhile, we are spending more money than ever on health care. Health care spending in Minnesota reached $47.1 billion in 2016 and is expected to double to $94.2 billion by 2026, according to a state report. It’s an emergency situation that will require all hands on deck, and many organizations in the Twin Cities are taking up the charge, by supporting low-income individuals and families who don’t have access to health care, raising awareness about environmental issues and attending to the health and emotional needs of people from historically marginalized communities.
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Located on the north side of Lake Harriet, the Thomas Sadler Roberts Bird Sanctuary is a secret gem of Minneapolis. At different times of the year, the park is home to over 100 different species of birds: mourning doves, American kestrels, great horned owls and more. The Friends of Roberts Bird Sanctuary, formed in 2013, is tasked with safeguarding the sanctuary, ensuring the natural area continues to be a place for birds of all kinds to flourish within an urban setting. Among the group’s activities are educational programs that provide an increased understanding of the Minnesota birds and natural wildlife that make the sanctuary their home. The organization also hosts volunteer activities, where they use their hands (rather than chemicals) to help protect the sanctuary’s environment. They remove invasive species, like garlic mustard and buckthorn, and plant native vegetation, including trees, shrubs and wildflowers. The Friends have also done advocacy work, bringing broader awareness to the importance of birds in the city as a whole. Follow the organization on Facebook for the latest updates on ways you can help maintain the sanctuary in its natural state. There are opportunities to go on birding and botany walks as well, like their fall and spring migration watch walks, and an owl call event on Valentine’s Day. Meanwhile, you can find information on their website about how to make a donation supporting the organization’s work. The Friends of Roberts Birds Sanctuary is an example of a way you can affect the health of the planet — not in a vague abstract way, but right in your own city.
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in Minnesota’s economy is devoted to health care. But even with government programs like Medical Assistance and Minnesota Care, many low-income Minnesotans fall between the cracks when it comes to health care. Minnesota may rank in the top five states nationally for having the smallest uninsured population, but we still see massive disparities. While the uninsured rate for whites is 3%, that figure jumps to 6.5% for black Minnesotans and 17% for Latinos, according to WalletHub. That’s why places like Southside Community Health Services are so important. Started by volunteers in 1971, the center provides medical, dental, vision and behavioral health services for individuals and families in South Minneapolis, regardless of whether they have insurance. Whether folks need a screening, acute care, chronic illness management, a root canal, counseling or a contact lens fitting, Southside’s four programs located in two different buildings support low-income people in getting on the path to health and wellness. In addition, Southside has patient advocates and MNsure navigators available to assist folks with the paperwork required to get assistance. Southside Community Health Services provides medical, dental, vision and behavioral health services for individuals and families in South Minneapolis, regardless of whether they have health insurance. Submitted photo
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This year, The Bridge also opened a new building for homeless pregnant and/or parenting youth ages 16–20 called Marlene’s Place. The Bridge also operates crisis phone and text lines, a mobile app and other services through its youth response center. The Bridge is caring for the health and well-being of youth who are experiencing trauma. Supporting these young people, and equipping them with the care and tools they need to thrive, ensures their health and happiness down the road.
Peace Community House » PEACEHOUSECOMMUNITY.ORG The Bridge for Youth was the first runaway youth shelter in the nation to receive federal funding. Submitted photo
From bike repairs to haircuts to nurse visits, Peace Community House goes the extra mile. The center is a place for people who are homeless or in need of a place to go during the day to come
not just for services, but also to be a part of a loving community. So often, public spaces are inhospitable to folks who are homeless. Emergency homeless shelters don’t allow people to stay during the day, so PCH provides a place people can go to and feel like they belong. It’s a welcoming spot where people have access to healthy meals and hygiene kits. They even provide hand massages and back and neck massages, because touch truly is an important part of creating healthy life. Like the Bridge for Youth, PCH was started by a member of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Carondelet: Sister Rose Tillemans. After running a free store on Nicollet Avenue for 10 years, Tillemans decided she wanted to take her work further, by providing a space for people to gather and find peace amidst the chaos of life. A nonprofit organization since 1999, PCH was a volunteer-run organization until 2018, when the board created its first manager position. It’s the latest step in the growth SEE CHARITABLE GIVING / PAGE B6
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Peace Community House doesn’t simply provide for life’s basic necessities but also offers companionship and hope. Photo by Mike Hazard
Named after the Simon & Garfunkel song “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” The Bridge for Youth was started in 1970 by an activist nun named Rita Steinhagen, with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. Noticing large numbers of runaway youth in the West Bank neighborhood of Minneapolis, Steinhagen opened up the nuns’ residence to young people seeking shelter, before eventually working to create a separate facility for them. In the early years, The Bridge for Youth was run under the umbrella of Catholic Charities, but it’s operated as an independent nonprofit since 1972. In fact, the organization was the first runaway youth shelter in the nation to receive federal funding, according to its website. The Bridge operates a 24/7 emergency shelter, where youth in crisis can seek safety and shelter and get their mental and health needs met. And while the typical goal is to ultimately reconnect youth with their families, the organization also runs a transition program for 16- and 17-yearolds, for whom family reunification is not the best option. Meanwhile, Rita’s House, named after the Bridge’s founder, is where 18- to 21-year-olds learn independent living skills, work with a case manager and building a rental history.
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of an organization that provides a needed service — not simply providing for life’s basic necessities but also offering companionship and hope.
Reclaim » RECLAIM.CARE
Things have come a long way for the LGBTQ community, what with marriage equality and increasing acceptance of queer and trans identities — but that doesn’t mean there isn’t more work to be done.
Over 80% of the queer and trans youth who Reclaim works with have experienced harassment because of their identities, according to the organization’s annual report. At Reclaim, they find a safe space where they can make connections, find healing and gain tools to take with them for the rest of their lives. For adolescents and young adults who are grappling with questions of gender and sexual identity, there can be a lack of places to go where they feel comfortable talking about their experiences. Reclaim offers individual, group and art therapy for queer, trans, gender fluid, gender nonconforming and nonbinary youth. In addition, Reclaim’s Project CLEAR offers individual, group and family therapy, peer education workshops and staff training to support queer and trans young people who have experienced sexual violence and unhealthy relationships. They also train organizations and individuals on how to become effective allies. Reclaim’s education and outreach efforts include engaging in community partnerships to tackle issues of gender and racial justice. About half the youth Reclaim works with are from communities of color, and 47% have experienced housing instability. Because of this, Reclaim’s work focuses on the interconnected aspects of young people’s identities, including race, gender, immigration status, income and more.
ULLU climate campaign » ULLU.CC
Visitors stop by Reclaim’s Pride booth. Submitted photo
Campaign operative Richard Colbrum, who chaired the campaign to defeat the state amendment to ban same-sex marriage five years ago, now sets his sights on climate change with ULLU. He’s joined by behavior designer Meshach Weber and communications wizard Lindsay DiLorenzo. Much like the fight for marriage equality, ULLU’s work is grounded in the notion that the answer to climate change will be through one-on-one conversations taking place in living rooms and at kitchen tables around the state. Creating a sea change of majority will is the key to finally making a dent on climate change. The organization plans to do this through social media platforms, the development of a statewide youth council,
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ULLU ambassador Collin Martin (center), a midfielder for Minnesota United, poses for a photo at the Minnesota State Fair this summer. Submitted photo
coalition building, grassroots organizing and leadership development. While the effort is just beginning, the success of the marriage amendment defeat shows that using personal narratives and open-ended conversations is a powerful way to create big systemic change. The idea is that the laws and policy changes needed to create a more environmentally sustainable Minnesota will only happen when the people demand them. ULLU is all about drumming up a larger movement and popular support for the desperately needed actions required to make dramatic improvements to the state of climate change here in Minnesota.
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or Nicollet avenue. Taking place throughout the summer and fall, these events are both joyful and inspiring, and have done much for bringing enthusiasm and ideas for creating a more bike-friendly city. Besides organizing Open Streets, Our Streets Minneapolis is involved with a number of initiatives aimed at improving conditions for bicyclists in the city, as well as loosening the grip of the city’s car culture. This includes advocacy and public education campaigns that encourage biking for people of different backgrounds and abilities. Recent accomplishments of the organization include organizing local voices around winter sidewalk maintenance and finishing up the second year of the “bicycle connectors” program encouraging people of color who identify as female, trans or nonbinary into the biking sphere. Our Streets’ work is key to keeping Minneapolis at the forefront in the nation of cities great for biking, shifting policy toward a multi-modal infrastructure that de-emphasizes cars — making a big impact on the environment and health of all who live in the Twin Cities metro.
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The Open Streets Minneapolis program brings together neighborhood groups, local businesses and organizations for car-free community festivals. Photo by Jacob Albright
The health benefits of dance are wide. Not only is dancing good for the heart and lungs, and for muscle tone, strength, coordination and balance; it also helps prevent osteoporosis, leads to improved mental health and can actually improve brain function. Young Dance provides all the health benefits of dance for young people, with particular emphasis on creativity and supporting people of all abilities. The organization is intentional about inclusivity and about protecting young dancers from eating-disordered thinking and pressures to look a certain way.
Their classes include choreography and improvisation, in addition to hip-hop, modern, body-positive ballet and world dance. They also have a youth dance company that performs for the public and an all-abilities program that offers access to dancers with disabilities. Young Dance is infusing dance education with radical inclusion and holistic health. This year, Young Dance moved into a new space at Co•Motion, a center for movement and fitness organizations in St. Paul’s Midway neighborhood, sharing space with St. Paul Ballet, Element Gym and other movementfocused groups. Young Dance’s new home means an improvement in the accessibility of their classes and programs, making the positive health outcomes of dance available to even more people. SEE CHARITABLE GIVING / PAGE B8
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tion with organizations statewide. The organization’s volunteerdriven efforts include advocating for zero-emission buses and clean car standards, and it has opposed the Line 3 pipeline. Whether hosting education and community outreach sessions, conducting climate justice trainings, mobilizing volunteers to advocate on behalf of clean climate policies or taking its environmental message to the streets, MN 350 won’t be silent until there are measurable improvements in the health of our earth, air and water.
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The education arm of the larger TakeAction Minnesota organization, which works to advocate for equitable health and environmental policies around the state, the TakeAction Minnesota Education Fund is doing the work to bring people of diverse backgrounds into community organizing, policy research, public education and civic participation. TakeAction’s educational activities center on the voices of people who are most impacted by negative systems. Among their programs is the Women of Color Table, a group that meets monthly to build leadership skills, connections and power. The organization runs similar groups for people who are impacted by the criminal justice and immigration systems, as well as for care workers.
Rather than speaking for these groups, TakeAction builds leadership among groups that have often not had a say in policy. Whether it’s learning to advocate for paid family and medical leave, bolstering the state’s clean energy economy or strengthening sexual harassment laws, TakeAction is partnering with communities to grow their voice in changing the state for the better.
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MN 350 takes its name from “350 parts per million,” which is what the scientific community agrees is the “safe” level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. For most of the history of humankind, the level was at 275 ppm. Now it’s well over 400, with 2 ppm being added to the atmosphere every year. MN 350 is taking on this startling reality by working in coali-
About 1,200 Minnesotans rallied in Duluth this September for a protest organized by MN 350 and other groups opposing the Line 3 pipeline. Submitted photo
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Community Calendar. By Ed Dykhuizen
FAMILIES & POLITICS: HOW TO TALK WITH LOVED ONES ON THE OTHER SIDE Better Angels co-founder Bill Doherty leads this workshop about developing strategies and skills for handling family political differences in a constructive way.
When: 9 a.m.–noon, Saturday, Dec. 14 Where: First Universalist Church, 3400 Dupont Ave. S. Cost: Free Info: tinyurl.com/better-angels-mpls
SANTA AND PANCAKE BRUNCH The whole family is invited to meet Santa, try some arts and crafts and eat a pancake brunch.
When: 10 a.m.–noon Saturday, Dec. 14 Where: Painter Recreation Center, 620 W. 34th St. Cost: $5 per person, online registration required Info: apm.activecommunities.com/minneapolisparks
STUFFED LOVE BUGS Grade school kids can create a bug design on paper and learn how to transfer it to fabric. Then, using a needle and thread, they can turn it into a stuffed animal. Materials provided.
BREAKFAST & GINGERBREAD HOUSE MAKING Bryant Square will be hosting a morning breakfast for families, after which they can decorate their own gingerbread houses.
When: 11 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21 Where: Bryant Square Recreation Center, 3101 Bryant Ave. S. Cost: $10 for residents, $15 for non-residents Info: apm.activecommunities.com/ minneapolisparks
A TASTE OF ANWATIN Come for food from around the world, a band and dance concert, an arts and crafts fair, History Day exhibits and more. All money raised goes to stock a food shelf.
When: 5–8:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12 Where: Anwatin Middle School, 256 Upton Ave. S. Cost: Free Info: tinyurl.com/taste-of-anwatin
When: 11 a.m.–1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14 Where: Walker Library, 2880 Hennepin Ave. Cost: Free, online registration required Info: hclib.bibliocommons.com
MEDITATION AND JOURNALING Explore meditation practices using anxiety and stress relief as a framework. The meditations are designed for beginners and intermediate practitioners, though everyone is welcome.
When: 1–2:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14 Where: Walker Library, 2880 Hennepin Ave. Cost: Free, online registration required Info: hclib.bibliocommons.com
STORIES FOR THE SEASON Minneapolis actors Craig Johnson and Kirby Bennett tell true tales of Minneapolis winters past along with traditional Christmas stories, including “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Little Match Girl.”
When: 7–8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14
Where: Hennepin History Museum, 2303 3rd Ave. S. Cost: $12, $10 members Info: hennepinhistory.org
THIRD THURSDAY: SOLSTICE Write poetry to set intentions for the new season, create your own winter herbal tea mix and design a luminary to add to the museum’s winter light installation.
When: 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 19 Where: Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2400 3rd Ave. S. Cost: Free Info: new.artsmia.org
FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS Bryant Square staff will take adults on a van tour of local area houses with holiday lights. The van will also stop at a local coffee shop.
When: 5–9 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 19 Where: Bryant Square Recreation Center, 3101 Bryant Ave. S. Cost: $20 for residents, $30 for non-residents Info: apm.activecommunities.com/minneapolisparks
AUTHOR MIKAELA CASEY AT HOLIDAZZLE “Lenny the Loon: An Adventure on Lake Minnetonka” author Mikaela Casey will present her follow-up book, “Lenny the Loon: A Tour of the Twin Cities,” in which the titular loon searches Twin Cities landmarks for his sister.
When: 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 20 Where: Loring Park Cost: Free Info: holidazzle.com
WINTER SOLSTICE TEA CEREMONY AND GRIEF CIRCLE A meditative tea ceremony will be used to facilitate processing of grief, followed by an optional grief circle. Resources will be offered for further grief support and community.
When: 1:30–3:30 p.m., 4–6 p.m., 6:30–8:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 21 Where: Lakewood Memorial Chapel, Lakewood Cemetery, 3600 Hennepin Ave. Cost: $35, online registration required Info: tinyurl.com/Lakewood-solstice
‘THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL’ TOYS FOR TOTS EVENT Watch the infamous “Star Wars Holiday Special,” which aired once on television in 1978 and never again. There will be food and a full bar.
When: 4–6 p.m., 7–9 p.m., 10 p.m.–midnight Wednesday, Dec. 18 Where: Bryant-Lake Bowl & Theater, 810 W. Lake St.
Cost: Bring an unwrapped new toy for admission. Info: facebook.com/starwarslifeday
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Get Out Guide. By Sheila Regan
MARK MALLMAN Mark Mallman, the Twin Cities rocker and author of the recent memoir “The Happiness Playlist,” brings a little bit of secular joy for you this holiday season, with a lineup of special guests and a whole lot of energy.
When: 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21 Where: The Parkway, 4814 Chicago Ave. Cost: $13 Info: theparkwaytheater.com
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This annual rock show features Twin Cities vocalists from Curtiss A. to the Prairie Fire Lady Choir singing the Kinks repertoire. The show is a blast, and it’s all for a good cause.
When: 7 p.m.–12:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 14 Where: Eagles 34, 2507 25th St. Cost: $10, $5 with food shelf item Info: tinyurl.com/kinda-kinky
Want to get into the holiday spirit with something just a little bit different than the common Christmas carol fare? Try these holidaythemed concerts and shows, which offer a holiday feel with a little bit broader selection of music and thematic content.
BRING THE SING Meet at the Trailhead at Theodore Wirth for an evening of singing for the solstice, hosted by The Current and Classical MPR.
When: 4–8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21 Where: Theodore Wirth Park, 1221 Theodore Wirth Pkwy. Cost: Free Info: tinyurl.com/wirth-sing
CAROLS AND COCOA THE HOLIDAY PAGEANT AT OPEN EYE FIGURE THEATRE Adding Lucifer to the story of the Nativity, this long-running tradition was created 34 years ago by puppet genius Michael Sommers, who based it on 15th-century medieval mystery plays.
GHOST WAGON’S 3RD ANNUAL HOLIDAY XTRAVAGANZA Have yourself a country rock Christmas.
When: 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14 Where: Bryant-Lake Bowl, 810 W. Lake St.
Cost: $12, $10 in advance Info: bryantlakebowl.com
When: Thursday–Sunday, through Dec. 22 Where: Open Eye Figure Theatre, 506 E. 24th St. Cost: $26 adults, $18 students, $12 children Info: openeyetheatre.org
Lyric sheets are provided as visitors are invited to sing along to traditional holiday and winter music from Russia, Ukraine, Norway and the British Isles, as well as songs from the Jewish tradition in Europe and North Africa. Two local folk music ensembles, The Lacewings and Nanilo, provide the music, and hot cocoa is provided.
When: 7–8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 18 Where: The Museum of Russian Art, 5500 Stevens Ave. Cost: $5–10 Info: tmora.org
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was 30 years old when my dad’s mother died. He was in his early 60s, and she was in her late 80s and had only recently been forced to move into a nursing home after a bad fall down her basement stairs. Her funeral was in Indiana, where my dad grew up. I didn’t go, and I have regretted that for years. I wasn’t close to that grandmother, and I was young and busy and thinking mostly about myself. If my dad was upset that I wasn’t there for him, he’s never said so. Thanks for that, Dad. Once Dad got back to Phoenix, he called to tell me about the funeral. I don’t remember much about that conversation, but I do recall one line very clearly: “I’ve never really thought a lot about death,” he told me, “but when your parents die, you realize that you’re next in line.” Those words, and the memory of his exhausted, sad voice, have been with me ever since. And here we are: It’s 2019 and I am in my mid-50s, traveling back and forth to Phoenix routinely to help out and spend time with my 86-year-old dad. Going over Medicare paperwork, sorting out forgotten passwords and trying to help him master the software updates needed to send emails and read Fox News headlines, I look over at my dad and I’m aware that we are in a line. And when he is gone, I will step up to be the first person in it. It’s such a weird feeling to understand that while the Grim Reaper will likely not be coming to collect my soul anytime soon, it’s not as if I’ve got all the time in the world anymore, either. I’d be lying if I told you that I never find that thought depressing. But, mostly, I don’t.
Gardening helped Meleah better understand the consciousness of other living things. Image by Mike Hoium
Honestly, the mid-life awareness that it’s time to focus more on my own damn to-do list feels pretty good. Finding time is the tough part because that involves letting go of some things that I enjoy, like writing this column. It’s hard for me to believe that I wrote my first Everyday Gardener column for the Southwest Journal in 2008. Back then, I was a new Hennepin County Master Gardener and I was eager to share advice, answer gardening questions and learn all I could about horticulture. I still love gardening, but I don’t enjoy writing about it as much as I used to. For me, the best thing about gardening has been having an up-close opportunity to observe and experience nature. Crawling around on the ground pulling weeds and talking to plants, I’ve often been mesmerized by the goings-on of ants, dragonflies, wild bees, birds, chipmunks, raccoons, squirrels, earthworms, beetles, aphids, butterflies and even possums.
Like a lot of gardeners, I used to get pretty irked when some of those creatures took bites out of my tomatoes, pulled up seedlings to nibble on the roots and dug up potted annuals just to hide a few acorns. But watching them do their thing over the years woke me up to the forehead-slapping reality that THE OUTDOORS IS THEIR HOME. We’re just gardening in it. It’s easy for us humans to miss that. Life has existed on Earth for at least 3.5 billion years, and our species has long believed that we are separate, if not superior, to nature. Only now, as tides rise and ecosystems disappear, are some of us questioning that belief. I renamed my column and blog Livin’ Thing in 2018 because I wanted to write more broadly about gardening and nature. While I used to spend a lot of time reading about gardening, I’m now more drawn to books about how interesting, emotional and intelligent plants and animals can be, like Sy Montgomery’s “The
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