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Above: Jevetta Steele, Marie Graham, Thomasina Petrus and Zaria Graham

So, I decided to bring all my brilliant friends together and make a change. We’ve talked about it for so many years, and we understood that no one’s going to hand it to us, but we are more than capable of making it, and then developing a legacy to pass down to our younger folks. We want New Dawn Theatre, not only to serve our communities, but also to be a training ground so that coming out of us, we have more directors, we have more people in education, development and marketing, while we continue developing our skills. So that’s why it was born, and what we do is we make sure that we support and highlight and only produce plays by women, minorities and the LGBTQ community.”

--Austene Van, Creative Director, New Dawn Theatre

By Harry Colbert, Jr. Managing Editor harry@insightnews.com

Second only to New York, Minnesota’s landscape is dotted with theaters and theater companies, yet diversity is still lacking.

New Dawn Theatre Company is addressing the diversity gap and its inaugural presentation, “Crowns,” has a cast of all-star performers who seek to place the company on solid footing. A renowned musical written by Regina Taylor, the New Dawn presentation of “Crowns” stars Academy Award nominee Jevetta Steele, Grammy Award winner Jamecia Bennett, vocal powerhouse Thomasina Petrus and beloved actor, T. Mychael Rambo. For the theater company’s founder and artistic director, Austene Van, New Dawn is about telling authentic stories in authentic voices and about opening doors that were once shuttered tight.

“New Dawn was born because as late as 2019 I’ve been the first (Black, woman) to do something and that shouldn’t be,” said Van during the Sept. 10 airing

Artistic director, Austene Van of “Conversations with Al McFarlane” on 90.3 KFAIFM (www.kfai.org). “So I decided to bring my brilliant friends together and to make a

change. We want New Dawn to be a training ground so we have more writers; more directors.”

Van said the compa-

ny will only highlight works by women, people of color and those of the LGBTQ community.

“It’s not about not

recognizing the voices that have been heard for so long, it’s about recognizing other parts of our community that have stories to tell,” said Pe-

trus, who plays an elder providing guidance to a young woman in “Crowns.”

“New Dawn is releasing voices that have been under the mute button for so long,” said Steele, who was nominated for an Academy Award for the song “Calling You,” which was featured in the 1988 film “Bagdad Café.”

“Crowns” is the story of a troubled young girl sent to live with her grandmother who, along with several other women, provide wisdom and guidance. The “crowns” referred to in the title are the hats that adorn the women – hats that are traditionally associated with being worn during church services and other special gatherings.

Van said plays such as “Crowns” are more than an entertaining outing.

“We don’t do theater for ourselves. It’s more than that. It’s about healing, it’s about growth,” said Van. “Crowns” runs through Oct. 6 at the Summit Center for Arts & Innovation, 1524 Summit Ave., St. Paul.

Tickets for the play are $35 with $20 tickets for students and seniors. Tickets are available online at www.crowns. bpt.me.

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Community meeting this Wednesday

Transformation: Upper Harbor Development

By Randall Bradley Architect The City of Minneapolis’ Upper Harbor Terminal has closed.

From 1968 to 2014 this port loaded and transported grains, manufactured goods and other commodities. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers closed the Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam in 2015.

This water navigational transportation artery will no longer allow for barge traffic to originate at this northernmost upriver loading facility, as it carried its cargo to points downriver for delivery to ports all over the world. The site subsequently became eligible for transformation from industrial into other, now being determined, uses.

The City of Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, and a citizen advisory committee have held a number of meetings to create a set of goals and outcomes that they hope will yield a favorable result. Some of these ideas include a park that has trails and a strong relation to the river. Housing that serves various markets, is also a strong complement of this project. Jobs, in some of the existing companies or possibly newly created ones, are also being discussed. What will the transformation from an industrial use to a residential, commercial, and pastoral use look like? How will it be attended?

What facilities will be available to accommodate all users? What will the housing mix be? Will it be a successful “destination?”

This process is being undertaken as you read this.

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This site of abandoned silos along the Mississippi River in North Minneapolis may soon be transformed into a bustling area of residential, commercial and entertainment space.

Discussions are currently being held at Northpoint Center (formerly the Thor Building, originally the Regional Acceleration Center), at 1256 Penn Ave. N. The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, (Sept. 18) from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Much has to be discussed and agreed upon. This is a 48-acre site can achieve a lot of goals and deliver an excellent project to the Northside.

The transformation of this site is an excellent example of the evolution of cities. This is virtually a “textbook case.”

This land was taken from the Dakota People

by treaty in 1851. Due to its proximity to the Mississippi River, it was likely always an industrial use. Canoes, rafts, boats and barges were wellequipped to move people and goods along this waterway and did so for many years. But cities change … they evolve, they transform. So right in our very laps we are at a history-making event. An actual opportunity to plan our future. What will it be like? Will it be exciting? Will it be great? Will it be fantastic?

Or, will it sadly, become mediocre? Will it be no more than average? What hu-

man input will this effort need so as to not fall into an “almost” project? How much personal energy are you going to invest in your community to guarantee a highly successful project that you will be able to always “reach out and touch?”

Understand that in your lifetime you may never be presented with a situation such as this again. There are virtually no 48-acre parcels in any American city that can be reshaped into a shining examples of urban development that can serve the broadest spectrum of human reality. This is a rare opportunity.

This writer suggests that this be an intense, highly creative and exciting new urbane project. Let’s design units that serve low-income, middle-income and upper-income markets. Put a mix of housing types, destination retail shops and stores, commercial and office uses, entertainment venues, recreational facilities, including river uses and land activities, all in this development. Envision this place being spectacular. Envision this place being better than anything that exists now. Be imaginative.

Be creative. Get involved. Push the envelope.

17 million voters purged nationwide between 2016 and 2018

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia A Brennan Center analysis has found that at least 17 million voters were purged nationwide between 2016 and 2018, similar to the numbers discovered between 2014 and 2016.

Using data released by the Federal Election Assistance Commission, the Brennan Center found that counties with a history of voter discrimination have continued purging people from the rolls at high rates.

“This phenomenon began after the Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling in Shelby County v.

Holder, a decision that severely weakened the protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,” the report states. “Before the Shelby County decision, Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act required jurisdictions with a history of discrimination to submit proposed changes in voting procedures to the Department of Justice or a federal court for approval, a process known as ‘preclearance.’”

As the nation heads toward the all-important 2020 election cycle, many said they’re concerned with voter purging and the ever-present threat of voter disenfranchisement.

“Automatic voter registration is a great way to be sure that every eligible American is registered to vote,” said Dr. Margaret Groarke, an associate professor of political science at Manhattan College in New York. “Whether this prevents voter suppression is complicated by the fact that there are many ways that people suppress the vote. Key strategies today are

The Brennan Center’s report authors said as the 2020 election cycle heats up, election administrators must be transparent about how they’re deciding what names to remove from the rolls. over-inclusive voter purges, strict voter ID laws, and making threats that people with unpaid fines or warrants shouldn’t come near the polls. Automatic voter registration might counteract the effect of purges, but will do nothing to stop other strategies.”

The Brennan Center report follows a Center for American Progress analysis that examined how conservative lawmakers are suppressing the votes of people of color, young people, and those with disabilities. From discriminatory voter ID laws in places such as North Dakota, South Carolina, and Michigan to failures to provide early polling places in a majorityBlack neighborhood in Texas and the freezing of more than 50,000 voter registrations in Georgia, voter suppression is rampant in 2018, according to the CAP report.

“Voter suppression is

widespread again this year, and these efforts from conservative lawmakers largely target people of color, young people, and people with disabilities,” Connor Maxwell, a research associate for Race and Ethnicity Policy at the CAP, said in a news release. “Despite these efforts, there are many steps people can take to ensure their vote counts on election day.”

Voting is a fundamental right for all U.S. citizens, “so we encourage everyone to doublecheck their voter registration; determine ahead of time whether you need to bring certain materials to the polls; and take advantage of the many voter assistance hotlines if you run into problems,” said Danielle Root, a voting rights manager at the CAP. In its report, The Brennan Center noted why voter purges could prove problematic.

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“If a voter moves from Georgia to New York, they are no longer eligible to cast a ballot in the Peach State. As such, they should be removed from Georgia’s voter rolls,” Brennan authors said, as an example.

The report continued, “Similarly, voters who have passed away should be removed from the rolls. Reasonable vote list maintenance ensures voter rolls remain up to date.

Problems arise when states remove voters who are still eligible to vote. States rely on faulty data that purport to show that a voter has moved to another state. Frequently, these data get people mixed up. In big states like California and Texas, multiple individuals can have the same name and date of birth, making it hard to be sure that the right voter is being purged when perfect data are unavailable.

Troublingly, minority voters

are more likely to share names than white voters, potentially exposing them to a greater risk of being purged and voters often don’t realize they’ve been purged until they try to cast a ballot on Election Day – after it’s already too late.”

The Brennan Center’s report authors said as the 2020 election cycle heats up, election administrators must be transparent about how they’re deciding what names to remove from the rolls. They must be diligent in their efforts to avoid erroneously purging voters, the report’s authors said.

“And they should push for reforms like automatic voter registration and election day registration which keep voters’ registration records up to date,” the authors wrote.

ZuluGillespie named UROC’s executive director Makeda Zulu-Gillespie has been named as the new executive director of the Robert J. Jones Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC).

Zulu-Gillespie brings to the position a wealth of experience and commitment to advancing UROC’s mission.

She is one of the original staff members of UROC, serving as the center’s first director of Community Outreach. Starting in 2006, three years before the doors of the UROC building were opened, Zulu-Gillespie worked with UROC’s founding executive director on shaping UROC’s mission and establishing the center’s strategic communications agenda. Through the years, she facilitated dozens of partnerships between University of Minnesota faculty researchers and community organizations, playing an important role in the hiring and training of community residents for the launch of the UROC Research Action Team on Mortgage Foreclosure and Youth Violence. In addition, she oversaw the training of UROC student interns, graduate research students, staff, volunteers, and AmeriCorps VISTAs. A long-time resident of North Minneapolis, ZuluGillespie brings to the position close to 30 years of experience leading urban and community development. Prior to arriving at UROC, she served as senior director at the YMCA’s Minneapolis Headquarters (19912000) and then as executive director of Quest for Excellence (2001-2003), which is a program funded by the Minneapolis Empowerment Zone that prepares urban youth for college and careers. She then served as a community organizer for the Northside Residents Redevelopment Council (20032006) for which she managed initiatives for the Northside Neighborhood Revitalization Program and coordinated community meetings for the University Northside Partnership.

Zulu-Gillespie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Grambling State University and a Master of Public Affairs degree from the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs.

As UROC’s executive director, she will provide executive oversight of UROC’s strategic planning, revenue generation, financial stewardship, organizational development, staff management, and operational activities.

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Celebrating maturity, honoring activism For the fourth year, AARP and Pollen are honoring 50 Minnesotans over the age of 50 who are making a big impact in our world.

The 2019 50 Over 50 list celebrates and recognizes Minnesotans over the age of 50 who have made significant contributions and achievements in the arenas of social change/disruptors, nonprofit, business, arts and community.

AARP Minnesota and Pollen will celebrate the honorees at the McNamara Alumni Center on Oct. 17. Tickets available at www.201950Over50.eventbrite.com.

Disruptors: Cheryl Peterson, Dan Cramer, Elaine Wynne, Harry Hartigan, Jens Vange and Alan Howell, John Capecci, June Blue, Mary Lenard and Marge Ostroushko, Dr. Sharonne Hayes and Tene Wells Peterson, 55, is the executive director of Listening House, a St. Paul sanctuary where people who are homeless, disadvantaged or lonely come to find hope, community and connection.

Cramer, the cofounder of Grassroots Solutions, 52, is the brain behind some of Minnesota’s – and the nation’s –most successful progressive grassroots campaigns. He helped Senators Paul Wellstone and Tina Smith get elected, and he was a key strategist in Minnesota’s successful charge to become the nation’s first state to defeat the 2012 anti-marriage amendment for same-sex couples and the 12th to legalize same-sex marriage.

In 2013 Wynne received a grant to study Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy on post-9/11 veterans. Her study demonstrated its effectiveness – of the 27 veterans she studied, 100 percent reported lessened PTSD symptoms, and 74 percent reported being symptomfree. Shortly thereafter, the Veteran’s Administration mandated at least one EMDR therapist at all VA facilities nationwide.

Hartigan, 71, with the help of AARP Minnesota, founded Boomer Town, a mainstay at Twin Cities Pride and a model being replicated at festi-

Cheryl Peterson

Dan Cramer

Elaine Wynne

Harry Hartigan

Dr. Sharonne Hayes

Tene Wells

Christina Woods

Chuck Peterson

Michael Norton

Pam Determan

vals nationwide. Boomer Town is a dedicated space for LGBTQ boomers, disproportionately affected by issues of stigma, isolation and unequal treatment.

When Hayes saw that men’s death rates from heart disease were dropping while women’s rates were rising, she founded Mayo’s Women’s Heart Clinic and helped launch WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease.

Thanks to commitments from architects Vange, 50, and Howell, 58, to equitable design, all MSP Terminal 1 travelers – regardless of age or ability – can now attend to their most personal restroom matters in privacy and comfort that includes improved lighting, slip-resistant floors and larger stalls that make it easier for travelers to maneuver themselves and their belongings.

The Minneapolis 60-year-old Capecci is cofounder of Living Proof Advocacy and coauthor of “Living Proof: Telling Your Story to Make a Difference.”

A descendent of the White Earth Nation and a third-generation veteran, Blue, 56, challenges structures of power within the mainstream

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Brian Myres

medical system and urges all people to be more respectful of Native Americans, people of color and our society’s elders.

Lenard, 59, Edina, and Ostroushko, 68, Minneapolis, are leading Giving Voice, a nonprofit that equips organizations worldwide to bring together people with Alzheimer’s, as well as their caregivers, to sing in choruses.

Wells, 66, is a powerhouse organizer helping to address some of today’s most pressing issues, including crime prevention, school readiness and economic development.

Nonprofit: Christina Woods, Chuck Peterson, Dan Cain, Gary Schoener, Jessie Nicholson, Dr. Leo Lewis III, Luz María Frías, Michael Goar, Michael Norton, Pam Determan A member of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Nation, 51-year-old Christina Woods of Duluth is executive director of the Duluth Art Institute, where she uses her leadership skills to promote inclusive community participation, especially in the area of underrepresented cultural narratives.

Jens Vange and Alan Howell

Dan Cain

Dave Mona

Gary Schoener

Laurie Houle

Peterson, 57, is the executive director of Clare Housing, home to nearly 300 people living with and affected

by HIV. Cain, 71, is president for the past three decades of Eden House, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center.

During that time, he grew the nonprofit’s annual budget from a few hundred thousand dollars to more than $12 million.

In 1999, former Minnesota Viking, Lewis III, 63 launched Lewis Sports Foundation, a nonprofit that uses physical activity to help kids develop life skills and career goals.

Schoener, 74, is the executive director and director of consultation and training for Walk-In Counseling Center, which is believed to be the world’s only completely free, anonymous, walk-in mental health counseling clinic where all services are provided by volunteer clinicians.

CEO of Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, Nicholson, 67, has been protecting the civil and legal rights of low-income Minnesotans for over 35 years.

Frías, 57, a noted pub-

John Capecci

June Blue

Jessie Nicholson

Dr. Leo Lewis III

lic policy strategist and thought leader on race equity for more than 20 years, speaks frequently on implicit bias and immigration public policy. She also helped develop the EMS Academy, which provides EMT training and certification to Twin Cities low-income youth of color as an employment pipeline for fire departments across the region.

Goar, 52, is the CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters Twin Cities and was previously superintendent of Minneapolis Public Schools and executive director of Generation Next, a Twin Cities nonprofit committed to helping underserved youth.

Sixty-five-year-old Norton serves on the United Way board, helps organize an annual white elephant sale at his church and dishes up twice-monthly dinners at his local Salvation Army.

Determan, 66, is the driving force behind VINE Adult Community Center, a nonprofit that helps people over 50 “age to the max.”

Business: Al McFarlane, Brian Myres, Dave Mona, Laurie Houle, Lisa Deverell, Martha Pomerantz, Mickey Mikeworth, Phil Huston, Teresa Thomas, Tom McMullen Jr McFarlane, 72, founded Insight News 45 years ago in the basement of his North Minneapolis home to provide a voice for the voiceless and to help Twin Cities African-American community members see themselves as business, civic and community leaders. Under his leadership, the weekly news-

Mary Lenard and Marge Ostroushko

Luz María Frías

Michael Goar

paper, which he still runs, has won numerous awards from the National Newspaper Publishers Association and the Minnesota Newspaper Association.

Myres, 61, launched Myres Consulting to help foster growth, improve processes and create world-class brand experiences. He also joined DAYTA Marketing as chief operating officer where among, other duties, he mentors the digital agency’s 30-plus employees.

Mona, 76, a 40year veteran of corporate and agency public relations, is the founder of Mona Meyer McGrath & Gavin, now Weber Shandwick, the world’s second-largest PR agency.

Laurie Houle, 63, has played a key role in transforming Metropolitan Gravel Company – a company started in the early 1960s by her husband’s parents –from a two dumptruck excavation business into a $25-million-a-year enterprise with more than 50 employees.

A Land O’Lakes executive with 30 years of handson experience, 53-year-old Deverell was one of the pioneers in establishing a Land O’Lakes employee resource group to help women succeed through all ages and stages of their careers.

Pomerantz, 60, left a subsidiary of a Fortune 100 bank and took a pay cut to become a partner at Evercore Wealth Management, establishing the firm’s office in Minneapolis.

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50 Over 50 From 4 ment has almost tripled in size and now manages $8.3 billion in assets for families, foundations and endowments across the U.S. Fifty-two-year-old Mikeworth, a financial pro who speaks, teaches and consults on how to manifest and enjoy wealth developed a prosperity business model that’s being used by more than 50 brands, some of which credit it with helping them become multimillion-dollar companies.

Mikeworth also gives microloans to farmers and small businesses in 45 different countries.

Where others saw an abandoned corner gas station on a lot overgrown with trees, Huston, 68, saw opportunity.

And now, just three years and a $1 million investment later, the site in Duluth, which features a billion-year-old cliff-is home to The Adventure Park on the North Shore, Minnesota’s first destination adventure park that features six separate trails with 75 different adventures, including 10 ziplines.

Fifty-two-year-old Thomas of Minneapolis is a master at bringing people together for win/win connections. The author of “Win/Win Networking” created 50 Fun Things, a workshop to help people of all ages, especially those over 50, find more joy, live more fully and contribute more intentionally, while having more fun.

McMullen, Jr. has been helping entrepreneurs and their families buy and sell businesses for decades. Now, at age 76, he’s become a purpose-filled entrepreneur himself thanks to his invention, ClipDifferent. A unique automatic nail clipper that operates with the touch of a button, ClipDifferent makes it easy for people – including those with Alzheimer’s, arthritis, vision or limb loss – to trim their own fingernails.

Arts: Dave Karr, Francis D.C. Stockwell, Jack Setterlund, Kim Kane, Luis Fitch, Maria Genné, Pam Gleason, Richard Hitchler, Rita Docter, Sherece Lamke Karr, 89, has been a fixture on the Twin Cities music scene for over 60 years. With his playing as strong as ever, he remains a “first-

Lisa Deverell

Martha Pomerantz

Mickey Mikeworth

Phil Huston

Teresa Thomas

Tom McMullen Jr

Dave Karr

Francis D.C. Stockwell

Jack Setterlund

Kim Kane

Luis Fitch

Maria Genné

Pam Gleason

Richard Hitchler

Rita Docter

Sherece Lamke

Jim Scheibel

Julie Eckhert

Kathy Jo Bissen

KaYing Yang

Lynn Goodrich

Marlise Riffel

Paul Benshoof

Sangeeta Jha

Sean Kershaw

Sylvia Bartley

call, A list” musician. Most often heard on tenor sax, flute or clarinet, Karr plays with his own quartet or backs up singers and musicians at Crooners Supper Club and other local venues.

Seventy-four-yearold Stockwell is the artistic director of the North Star Boys’ Choir in Maple Grove where he works to help boys ages 5 to 12 learn note reading, new languages, and proper vocal and breathing techniques.

Setterlund, 71, has been a familiar presence on the Duluth stage for decades.

Appearing in countless plays, he’s mastered roles in everything from “Glengarry Glen Ross” to “A Christmas Carol.”

Plymouth humorist and award-winning author Kane, 58, wrote “Sparkle On: Women Aging in Gratitude.”

In it, Kim celebrates aging as a gift and reminds all of us that it’s never too late to become who we want to be.

Fifty-three-year-old Fitch is the founder of UNO Branding, a multicultural visual communication agency known for its ability to deliver “spot on” cross-cultural design solutions. As an artist, his brightly colored works are rich in culture and meaning, a playful update to traditional Mexican iconography.

68-year-old Genné, founded and directs Kairos Alive!, a nonprofit that unites the arts and health research to empower older adults to fully and physically engage, no matter their abilities.

Gleason, the 60-yearold director and co-founder of MotionArt, has been creating, teaching and performing dance for 35-plus years – many of those years with Hauser Dance. She has choreographed more than

50 dance pieces and eight plays, earned grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Jerome Foundation and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council.

For nearly two decades, 54-year-old Richard Hitchler was focused on the success of SteppingStone Theatre for Youth Development – St. Paul’s only children’s theater.

Now, he’s focused on the success of Theatre 55, which he created to engage people 50 and above.

Conductor and vocalist Rita Docter, 78, has been bringing music to the Twin Cities for most of her adult life. For more than 25 years she conducted six Twin Cities youth choirs. Along the way, she’s taught thousands of young people how to listen for themes and variations of tone and tempo and describe the feelings that music arouses in them.

Lamke, 55, started at Twin Cities PBS at 19, in the male-dominated engineering department. Over the next 36 years, she worked her way up as a self-taught content producer, production manager, financial analyst and now an independent producer/director of her own company, Brigid Films – all despite having never earned a college degree. Along the way, she’s won numerous Emmys for her broadcast work, much of which is devoted to telling important stories about inequities.

Community: Jim Scheibel, Julie Eckhert, Kathy Jo Bissen, KaYing Yang, Lynn Goodrich, Marlise Riffel, Paul Benshoof, Sangeeta Jha, Sean Kershaw, Sylvia Bartley Scheibel, 72, a Hamline University professor has inspired thousands of students to pursue lives of service. The former St. Paul

mayor and city councilperson has made the most of his life in order to help others make the most of theirs. Scheibel is a community organizer by training and an acknowledged leader on addressing hunger, homelessness and immigration.

After a decades-long career that included teaching Spanish, reporting the news and training broadcast journalists, Eckhert retired and began taking classes to prepare her to become a guardian ad litem and today the 71-year-old serves as a volunteer guardian for the State of Minnesota in Hennepin County.

Bissen, 59, is executive director of SoleCare for Souls, a nonprofit she founded 13 years ago to provide medical foot care to those in our community experiencing homelessness and/or living in under-resourced conditions. Today, SoleCare has four Twin Cities locations.

Yang, 51, championed efforts to address genderbased violence, especially as experienced by refugee women.

From there, she led a national policy organization focused on addressing the needs of our nation’s growing Southeast Asian populations. A few years later, she moved to Thailand to lead the resettlement of 17,000 Hmong refugees with the International Organization for Migration. She returned home to Minnesota in 2015 and joined the Coalition of Asian American Leaders, a nonprofit that helps

all Minnesotans, regardless of background, achieve prosperity.

Goodrich retired and moved from Southern California to his lake home in Nevis, Minnesota, 11 years ago and began volunteering in the local community. It started with a three-year term as president of the Tripp Lake Association and later, president of the Hubbard County Coalition of Lake Associations. He’s still on the board, now as past president, and focused on keeping Minnesota waters pristine for future generations. He also serves on the county Soil and Water Board, MN COLA, and the Leech Lake 1 Watershed Board.

Marlise Riffel, 68, of Virginia, Minn. serves on the board of the Iron Range Partnership for Sustainability (IRPS) and writes grants to help ensure the success of local events and organizations. She’s the cofounder of the Rutabaga Project, which brings fresh, healthy, local food to low-income residents on the Iron Range.

Judge Benshoof, 68 of Bemidji, has served Beltrami County for the past 22 years. In 2013, he led the formation of the Beltrami County Domestic Violence Court, at the time one of only three such courts in Minnesota. Since 2004 Benshoof has also served as a leader of the Beltrami County’s Children’s Justice Initiative.

As professor of gerontology at St. Cloud State Univer-

sity and St. Cloud Technical and Community College (SCTCC), Jha brings in speakers to help students better understand both the joys and challenges of growing.

She helped develop SCTCC’s diversity plan and is an executive member of Create CommUNITY, a nonprofit that addresses human rights issues in Central Minnesota. A member of the St. Cloud chapter of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, she teaches young Pan-Asian American women how to advocate for their rights.

Kershaw, 52, is vice president of Wilder Center for Communities, where he helps individuals, organizations and communities develop the capacity to address our society’s most pressing and complex issues.

Closing economic gaps is one of 52-year-old Bartley’s biggest goals. Thanks to her job as global senior director for the Medtronic Foundation, she is doing just that. Her advocacy contributed to Medtronic developing a jobs program that offers unemployed Black North Minneapolis and Cedar Riverside residents access to manufacturing jobs in one of Medtronic’s plants, offering steady incomes, health insurance and retirement plans. Bartley was also the founding chair of HNS Charter Management Organization, which provided back-office support to three charter schools that are helping 1,000 North Minneapolis students.

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By North Memorial Health start. When preparing breakAs fall approaches and children are back to school, get your kitchen ready with nutritious foods to better your child’s school performance, development and overall health.

Start the day off right Almost half of American families regularly skip breakfast according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Eating a nutritious breakfast consisting of a protein, whole grain and fruit/vegetable can enhance your child’s memory, test scores and attention span. Easy options like whole grain cereal with low-fat milk and fruit, hard boiled eggs with whole grain toast and fruit or a fruit and yogurt smoothie with whole grain toast can help get

fast, choose whole grain breads and cereals made with at least 3 grams of fiber per serving and no more than 10 grams of sugar per serving. You can sweeten cereal naturally by adding fruit.

Plan lunch, together Kids are more likely to eat meals if they’re part of the planning process. Review school menus together and pack a lunch on the days when your child prefers not to eat what’s being served.

Lunch should include a protein, a whole grain, at least one fruit and veggie, and a calcium-rich food or beverage. As an alternative to traditional sandwiches, try wraps, whole-grain cracker sandwiches, or simply wrap a slice of turkey around a cheese stick and a slice of a sweet bell pepper.

Small salads with cheese, nuts

and beans are also a great alternative. Variety is key to a healthy diet, so mix things up whenever possible.

1. Strive for these daily goals as a family:

Healthy, satisfying snacks

2. Enjoy five servings of vegetables and fruits.

After school snacks should be nutritious and satisfy hunger but should not spoil your child’s appetite for dinner. Try an apple with a tablespoon of peanut butter, a cup of yogurt with whole grain granola or whole grain crackers with a cheese stick or fresh fruit with a yogurt dip. For convenience and planning when your child is snacking at school, check out all the food options his/her school offers. This includes vending machines, school stores and snack carts. You should find healthy choices like fresh fruit, low-fat dairy products, water and 100 percent fruit juice.

3. Have three servings of low-fat dairy foods.

Hydrate throughout the day

risk of obesity by 60 percent.

North Memorial Health offers everything your family needs to stay healthy this school year including primary care, urgent care, specialty clinics, and registered dietitians for nutrition counseling. You and your family don’t have to travel far to get head-to-toe care. Schedule at northmemorial.com

Encourage your child to drink plenty of water and send them to school with a water bottle. Add some sliced citrus or berries for added flavor and interest. Skip the sugary energy drinks and sodas. Rich with sugar and calories, a daily soda can increase a child’s

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6. Inspire your child (and yourself) to be active for at least one hour.

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The Midtown Phillips neighborhood board accepted a $937,990 grant to provide medication-assisted therapy for people with opioid use disorder.

Treatment will be offered to people who are booked into the Adult Detention Center, sentenced to the Adult Corrections Facility and diverted to the Behavioral Health Center at 1800 Chicago Ave., Minneapolis.

Diagnosing opioid use disorder and beginning medical treatment while in custody could have positive outcomes for people, reducing the number of deaths and the traumatic and expensive overdose-hospitalization-jail cycle that usually precedes them.

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Hennepin County accepted additional state funding to expand access to Naloxone in the community. Weekly walkin hours will be increased to distribute Naloxone kits and clean syringes at the Red Door Clinic, which provides sexual health care. Additionally, staff will educate and distribute Naloxone kits to residents of Little Earth, a housing complex in Minneapolis serving the American Indian community.

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Sting to bring ‘The Last Ship’ to the Ordway "The Last Ship" starring Sting and featuring original music and lyrics by the multiple Grammy Award winner, makes its regional premiere at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul for two weeks, April 8 – 19, 2020, as part of an international tour.

Sting was in town Sunday afternoon to talk to Twin Cities media about the upcoming production.

Al McFarlane interviewed Sting after the superstar’s intimate cameo concert, where he performed four songs from the musical and delighted the 150 or so people in attendance with the backstory to the musical, and, in Sting fashion, talked about the musical as a backstory to the universal fight for justice, dignity and equality.

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Sting stars as shipyard foreman Jackie White.

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