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THE VOICE OF BLACK MINNESOTA SINCE 1934

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COVID claims Colin Powell, former secretary of state

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By MSR News Service

Colin Powell

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eneral Colin L. Powell died of complications from COVID-19 on Monday, Oct. 18 at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Powell, a former U.S. Secretary of State and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was 84.

“We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather, and a great American,” the family wrote on Facebook. They reported that Powell had been fully vaccinated. A longtime aide said he had previously received treatment for a blood cancer, multiple myeloma, which inhibits the body’s

ability to fight infection.

“Mine is the story of a Black kid of no early promise from an immigrant family of limited means who was raised in the South Bronx,” he wrote in his 1995 autobiography. “My American Journey.” Powell was the son of Jamaican immigrants.

Powell was thrust into the global spotlight after leading the United States to victory during the first Gulf War and considered running for president in 1995.

After graduating in June 1958 from City College, where he admits he was a mediocre student, he entered the U.S. Army after participating in R.O.T.C. and was commissioned as a

second lieutenant.

Powell served two tours in Vietnam beginning in 1962 when he served as an Army adviser to South Vietnamese troops. He was assigned to Vietnam again in 1968.

Powell was charged with investigating a detailed letter by 11th Light Infantry Brigade soldier Tom Glen, which backed up rumored allegations of the My Lai Massacre. As part of his investigation Powell wrote: “In direct refutation of this portrayal is the fact that relations between American soldiers and the Vietnamese people are excellent.”

Powell was viewed as an outstanding ■See POWELL on page 5

Twin Cities celebrates George Floyd’s birthday

Hundreds visited George Floyd Square to take part in the festivities to celebrate his 48th birthday

By MSR News Service People from all over the Twin Cities joined with George Floyd Global Memorial and celebrated what would have been Floyd’s 48th birthday on October 14 at

George Floyd Square (GFS). GFS a gospel choir. The food was has served as a memorial and more than fit for the occasion, reminder of the police brutality and attendees raved about the entrees provided with the that took place there.

The celebration included help of Michael Smith of Comdrum corps, local rappers, a munity Needs Community. community brass band and The menu included chicken

Police wellness or police accountability?

What should be the focus of Early Intervention—if it’s ever implemented?

By Niara Savage Contributing Writer

The attention brought to police reform lately has also brought attention to the fact that the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) has tried for the last 10 years to adopt an Early Intervention System (EIS) but has failed to do so. The Minneapolis City Council voted in early October to accept a $500,000 grant that would fund an early intervention system intended to identify at-risk police officers before misconduct occurs.

The intervention system, funded by a Pohlad Family Foundation grant, would track citizen complaints, use of force reports, disciplinary records and officer performance, then use predictive modeling to flag officers in need of support to prevent missteps, explained Mayor Jacob Frey and MPD Chief Medaria Arradondo recently.

Frey hopes the system will be up and running by early or mid-2022. But while the conversation around EIS has been re-energized, the preventative tool has apparently been the victim of

curry, goat curry, jerk chicken, rice and beans, collard greens and celebratory cupcakes.

“We wanted to remember his life and wanted to commemorate the birthday of the George Floyd Global Memorial,”

Photos by KingDemetrius Pendleton

said Jeanelle Austin, executive director of the George Floyd Memorial. “We wanted to highlight the fact that the community helped us conserve and preserve the stories of racial injustice through offerings at

the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue.

“His life was stolen,” Austin said. “The hope is that his memory will push us to pursue justice.

Unfortunately, more people ■See FLOYD on page 5

Construction diversity: Leadership turnover slows compliance oversight Pandemic and recruiting challenges also impede progress

By Abdi Mohamed Contributing Writer

Conclusion of a two-part story This story continues MSR’s look at diversity in the construction industry begun in last week’s story “Construction diversity still a work in progress.”

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arvin Smith is president of the Association of Minority Contractors in the Upper Midwest. He’s been in the construction business for 13 years and is the owner and CEO of BogMinneapolis City Councilmember Cam Gordon ard Construction. Smith believes that careers MSR file photo in the construction industry can help young people achieve financial stability and doesn’t bureaucratic red tape and foot dragging. have some of the barriers to entry that other In 2014, former police chief Janeé Harteau industries might. invited the U.S. Department of Justice to con“Construction is a pathway for many of our duct a review of the department. Following young men who’ve got challenges. Maybe a nine-month process, the Office of Justice they’re on probation or they’re on child supPrograms released a 35-page report that iden- port. Those people can still qualify to work on tified problems in the department and made high-paying jobs if they’re willing to do the ■See MPD on page 5 necessary training to be an apprentice or jour-

Photo courtesy of SAOIC neyman,” he said.

Smith said that despite the opportunities being there, there doesn’t seem to be an active interest in filling these jobs. He recently held a job fair with members of his association. Eight contractors attended hoping to fill 15 positions. At the end of the day, not one application was filed.

“Our young men and women for whatever reason aren’t showing up.”

Keia Isaacson had a similar experience years ago when she tried recruiting women for her business. “In the history of 12 years, I’ve probably only had four women apply. Of those four I’ve gotten zero to interview,” she said.

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MSR forum breaks the silence on domestic violence MSR News Service “If you feel abused, then it’s abuse. You don’t have to be ‘Ike Turnered’ for it to be abuse,” panelist Sheletta Brundidge said during a candid virtual discussion on domestic violence.

Hers was one of many memorable comments made during the roughly one-hour conversation in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

The Oct. 14 show, “Breaking the Silence About Domestic Violence,” was the latest installment of the MSR’s digital town hall series “Forefront,” which aims to offer kitchen table conversations on the pressing topics of the day.

Brundidge, a veteran radio and TV personality and CEO of ShelettaMakesMeLaugh.com, recalled a sobering account of the painful path of abuse she survived while in a relationship as a teen.

She cautioned, “We have got to start looking out for our Black girls—we can’t just assume that they are strong enough and they can take it, or they’ll figure it out. So many times, society turns a blind eye to little Black girls and what we have to do is shine a light on us. If we don’t do it, nobody else will.”

Indeed, a new Violence Policy Center study, ”When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2019 Homicide Data,” shows that nine out of 10 Black women murdered by men are killed by someone they know, and most often with a gun.

The study also found that in 2019, 501 Black females were murdered by males in single victim/single offender incidents, at a rate of 2.34 per 100,000. In comparison, the rate for White women murdered by males for that year was 0.99 per 100,000.

Cases of domestic violence have reportedly only increased during the throes of the pandemic, as the abuser and abused were home together more often and economic hardships and unemployment caused additional stress in the home.

Violence Free Minnesota’s (VFM) newly released annual report “Homicide Report: Relationship Abuse in Minnesota” showed a 40% rise in domestic violence in 2020.

The report also found disproportionate numbers of Black

and Native domestic violence homicide victims compared to statewide demographics.

“In 2020, 40% of domestic violence homicide victims were Black, while comprising less than 7% of Minnesota’s population,” read the VFM report. “Four women were pregnant at the time they were killed by a current or former intimate partner, and three of them were Black. These violent disparities are attributed to histories of colonization, chattel slavery, genocide, generational trauma, and ongoing systematic oppression.”

Creating healing spaces Panelist Tephanie Delaney, a business development coach and survivor of domestic violence, touched on the importance of doing the work to end generational

“So many times, society turns a blind eye to little Black girls and what we have to do is shine a light on us.” trauma. She pointed out that unlike some unsuspecting young women, she was raised to have high standards in relationships, yet she fell prey to an abusive relationship.

“My mother, she trained me up, but she was unhealed,” Delaney shared. “She wasn’t healed from her own trauma, so I ended up living out my mother’s trauma. So, she’s just verbally telling us what we should do…but it had to come

from the heart… [Otherwise] all you’re doing is just passing trauma and telling me how to avoid it—do as I say, not as I do.”

Manu Lewis, embodiment lifestyle recovery coach at ManUcan Consulting, LLC, rounded out the panel by providing a Black male perspective. He explained that for the last 11 years, he’s consulted men engaged in street life to break unhealthy lifestyle choices and patterns.

“Breaking the Silence About Domestic Violence” virtual discussion Lewis said men must also have a vision for themselves and spend time to understand the past traumas and triggers of their prospective mates before getting involved. He also pointed to having open conversations to break the cycle of abuse in the community.

“With men, what we need, and we’re developing this over North…where men can have processing space where we can talk outside the influences of just Black men. See how long you’re going to talk about you, without talking about her.

Re-training our minds. We really need spaces to detoxify,” Lewis said.

Show host Stephenetta Harmon added that the neglect of mental health in the Black community, in general, contributes to the problem.

She stressed the importance of normalizing “checking in

with therapists” and seeking out counseling services when needed.

Brundidge echoed her sentiment: “That’s where White people get the jump on us, man. They even think about crying and they’re calling in somebody! We have to be under the table, ain’t ate in two weeks—it’s got to be really bad for us to get help!”

Delaney noted that she and co-organizer Brittney Kline are providing a space for community dialog and health resources at an upcoming event entitled “Breaking the Silence” in North Minneapolis. Six community organizations have partnered with the organizers to bring hope, healing, and awareness about domestic abuse.

By taking an intentional pause to heal, generational trauma can cease, noted Delaney. “Just as [kids] may see

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the trauma, if you’re intentional about the healing process, they see that, too. She recalled how her college-age son told her, “Ma, I see you.”

She asked, “What do you see?”

He replied, “I see you trying to fix that broken heart.”

Watch the discussion at spokesman-recorder.com or the MSR’s Facebook or YouTube platforms.

The free event “Breaking the Silence” takes place from 6-9 pm on Oct. 28 at 121 Washington Ave. N. in Minneapolis. In-person space is limited. Pre-register by going to bit. ly/breakingthesilencemn.

Find domestic violence help by going to thehotline.org or call 1-800-799-SAFE (7223) or text 88788. Assistance is also available at www.tubman.org or call 612-825-0000. Find more resources on msrnewsonline.com.

Find domestic violence help by going to thehotline.org or call 1-800-799-SAFE (7223)

Convening MN’s first anti-displacement working group for the Blue Line extension Sponsored by

By Hennepin County Commissioner Irene Fernando (District 2) and Hennepin County Commissioner Jeff Lunde (District 1) Hennepin County and the Metropolitan Council are excited to announce a critical next step in the METRO Blue Line Extension Light Rail (BLRT) project—a first of its kind anti-displacement initiative that will center community voices in developing actionable strategies and policies to maximize benefits of this transformative investment to current corridor residents and communities.

The Blue Line Extension is a 13-mile light rail project that will further our region’s transit vision and affordably connect students to education, workers to jobs, patients to health care, and families to resources.

It will bring transformational investment to the corridor, connecting residents living in the northwest cities and North Minneapolis with opportunities within their communities and throughout the greater Twin Cities metro area.

As Hennepin County Commissioners, we are excited for the benefits light rail will bring to our communities. The Blue Line Extension is positioned to serve some of the most racially and eco-

nomically diverse communities in Minnesota, while also connecting transit-reliant residents to the broader regional transit system.

Our teams work deliberately every day to ensure the Blue Line Extension benefits corridor residents and minimizes physical, economic, and cultural displacement.

To strengthen these efforts, the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners approved an agreement with the University of Minnesota’s Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) on September 21 to lead a trailblazing antidisplacement working group for the Blue Line Extension project.

Under the principal leadership of C Terrence Anderson,

(l-r) Hennepin County Commissioners Jeff Lunde (District 1) and Irene Fernando (District 2)

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C Terrence Anderson, director of Community-Based Research, CURA CURA’s director of community-based research and North Minneapolis resident, CURA will center community voices and incorporate diverse perspectives to develop robust strategies and policies to prevent displacement, guide investment and economic development, and maximize light rail’s benefits to current corridor residents, businesses, and communities.

They will engage more than 5,000 individual corridor residents and stakeholders to inform this work.

The anti-displacement workgroup will be composed of community leaders, business owners, residents, and experts. After a century of disinvestment, racial covenants, and redlining, we have a duty to ensure current residents, small businesses, cultural institutions and assets are able to benefit from the increased

development and investment in their neighborhoods.

This working group will endeavor to prevent the risk of unintended harm that can occur in the wake of largescale infrastructure projects, with specific goals to reduce racial disparities, help communities build wealth in place, and to create more equitable economic strategies and outcomes.

CURA and Anderson are well-known and trusted in the community. Their approach to community research has helped them develop strong relationships which will support development of thoughtful policy recommendations to minimize the harm displacement can cause.

We are confident that through this partnership, we can encourage the kind of development and investment that helps build community wealth and minimizes displacement.

CURA will draw from years of study on gentrification and displacement to generate a research report that will outline the needs found in the community, actionable policy steps, and potential funding strategies and resources.

In addition to their team of organizers and researchers, CURA is partnering with Margaret Kaplan of the Housing

Justice Center and Allison Bell of Bellwether Consulting.

This team will rely on extensive partnerships with community, as well as housing and business organizations to develop robust anti-displacement strategies and an implementation plan over the next 18 months.

Implementation of these strategies will require coordination with a wide array of community, public and private sector partners. Putting these strategies into action will happen over the near and longterm.

The communities in this corridor have suffered disproportionately over the past year—due to the pandemic and the resulting job and housing disruptions. But the challenges of the last year, have only exacerbated historic patterns of disinvestment and harm that reaches back decades.

With CURA’s leadership and community voices at the center of this work, we are committed to ending a century of disinvestment and begin to repair the harm experienced by communities across North Minneapolis and the northwest cities.

For more information and to get connected to this work as it progresses, please visit mybluelineext.org

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Opinion

The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder (MSR) welcomes and values commentary and feedback from the community. The articles found here are edited for clarity and/or space, but the opinions are the author’s own and do not reflect the views of the MSR.

Ignore the fear-based lies about proposed police reform Here’s the truth about Ballot Question 2

By Corenia Smith and Minister JaNaé Bates

Our first concern must be health coverage for those with none Then we can improve coverage for millionaires and billionaires

By Congressman James E. Clyburn (D-SC) With some history lessons in mind, I have been sounding the alarm as Congress works to put together the Build Back Better Act, a comprehensive bill to invest in American families.

Together with the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, this legislation would be a significant step toward fulfilling the campaign promises that President Joe Biden and Democrats ran on during the last election cycle. These promises—if kept—will turn the tide on some of the growing inequities in this country.

Some have equated President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda with President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. While those making this comparison view the New Deal as a positive model to be emulated, I caution that there were shortcomings in the New Deal that left significant numbers of people and communities behind.

We are at risk of repeating those shortcomings. The New Deal did a lot of good for a lot of people. But for many people and communities, some of which I currently represent, the New Deal was a raw deal.

Let’s take Social Security as an example. This transformative program helped lift many seniors out of poverty. But when the legislation was written, the decision was made to

set the Social Security retirement age at 65 and leave out farm and domestic workers.

According to the 1930 Census, 65% of African Americans were employed on farms or as domestic workers, and the life expectancy of Black workers was 48 years. The New Deal perpetuated second-class citizenship for Black communities and effectively institutionalized the wealth gap.

We risk repeating that history today, as many of the same people and communities left out of Social Security are now at risk of being left out of healthcare coverage due to the refusal of Republicans in 12 states—eight of which are in the South—to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. As a result, 2.2 million uninsured Americans living in poverty are within the socalled coverage gap without assistance to help them get covered. Sixty percent of them are People of Color.

I have been vocal about ensuring that we address this injustice as we structure the Build Back Better Act. I am imploring my colleagues to address the racial inequities exposed and exacerbated by COVID-19. This is not a red state/blue state issue. This is a moral issue for all Americans.

This is our opportunity to address the systemic inequities.

There are numerous worthy priori ties under consideration for inclusion in the Build Back Better Act. Given the unwillingness of a few of my col-

leagues to support sufficient funding for all of them, Congressional Democrats are in the process of making difficult decisions about which to include.

Some argue that expanding Medicare is more important than closing the Medicaid coverage gap. I beg to differ.

While I fully support expanding Medicare, if forced to choose between the two, I would prioritize healthcare coverage to low-income Americans who have no coverage at all over additional health coverage for millionaires and billionaires, who already have basic Medicare. If both can’t be funded permanently, at the very least, the two should be treated equally.

Last year during a closeddoor meeting, I expressed to my Democratic Caucus that “We have an opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.” My comments were leaked to the press and roundly criticized by some of my Republican colleagues. But I stand by them.

We Democrats extoll America’s vision of “liberty and justice for all.” Currently, lowincome Americans in the 12 non-expansion states are being unjustly denied the liberty and justice that comes with having access to health care.

The Build Back Better Act gives us an opportunity to fit America’s vision by closing the coverage gap. Remembering and learning from past failings, let’s fix this inequity.

James E. Clyburn (D-SC) is a U.S. Congressman from South Carolina representing the 6th District.

There has been some nasty disinformation floating around about Ballot Question 2 and transforming public safety in Minneapolis. It’s our hope that this provides you with some clarity and helps folks to stop drinking this poisoned blue Kool-Aid, so the residents can have a substantial and substantive conversation about this step forward to keep people safe and have a city where families can thrive and not just survive.

The people of Minneapolis are less than a month away from one of the most consequential city elections of their lifetime. Because of a 22,000-person, citizen-led petition, the residents of Minneapolis will be able to vote to have a Department of Public Safety that includes a range of qualified professionals from mental health responders, substance abuse specialists, homeless outreach, and police officers, working together to keep people safe regardless of race, age or neighborhood.

This comprehensive Department of Public Safety, with its qualified professionals and trained police officers, will replace what is currently known as the Minneapolis Police Department—the very department that is once again making national headlines because of its misuse of power, abuse of people, distrust by the community and murder of Black folks.

The Minneapolis Police Department as it exists now is failing at its one job—keeping the city safe. Violent crime keeps rising, homicide cases are not solved, rape kits go untested, and we still have police killing and brutalizing people in communities across the city. All while under the sole leadership of the mayor and police chief.

No one mayor or police chief can solve the problem— nor should they. It’s going to take all of us choosing a new way to invest in our community’s safety, with trained professionals working in a comprehensive department with police to keep everyone safe.

This change also added muchneeded and over-do leverage to have accountability and transparency with those who protect and serve.

This is the first time in over 60 years that the people of Min-

neapolis get to have a direct say about what keeps you and your neighbors safe. And there is a group of people who have held onto that decision-making power for far too long: the Minneapolis Police Federation.

They are using every dollar, political and judicial leverage, as well as a handful of community members to spread disinformation, lies and fear to keep you away from having a voice and choice this November.

In 1961 the Minneapolis Police Federation lobbied to place the requirement of an armed police-only response into the city’s charter, which serves as the city’s constitution.

Minneapolis is the only city in Minnesota with this requirement etched into the charter.

The Minneapolis Police Department is the only department in the city with unilateral mayoral control, siloing out the direct voice of the community. This is also unlike every other department in Minneapolis, which has democratic oversight shared by the mayor and city council.

The only department with exclusive mayoral control is also the only department that consistently makes local and national headlines. The current armed-police-only model of public safety, under the authority of the mayor, is undemocratic and fails time and time again to keep people safe.

Facts of what the charter change on Question 2 actually does: It replaces the Minneapolis Police Department with the Department of Public Safety.

This Department will have the qualified professionals necessary to keep the people of Minneapolis safe, including response from police officers to be used when necessary.

The charter amendment reads “which could include licensed peace officers (police officers) if necessary,” but police officers are required for certain functions by state law, so there will absolutely still be police officers.

Data shows that police spend the vast majority of their time responding to nonviolent disputes or minor complaints. Having specialized teams of professionals to address unique situations would allow more efficient delegation of roles within the department and allow the City to be good stewards of the

well-trained and disciplined police we have and will recruit.

You may have heard this boiled into a fear-based lie about abolishing the police or police department.

It eliminates the minimum required number of officers in the city charter. To be clear, no other city has an arbitrary number of police officers in their charter…just Minneapolis. This is a huge opportunity because it will finally give the City more leverage in its negotiations with the police federation.

This also allows the City flexibility and nimbleness in staffing the department to meet the safety needs of Minneapolis today and not the 1961 version of Minneapolis.

This isn’t defunding the police, but defanging the power and position of a federation that has held the City hostage.

It gives oversight to the city council as well as the mayor through a department commissioner, as is the case for every other City department, including public works and the fire department. It makes it possible for policy-making regarding policing to happen in the view of the public, not behind closed doors as it currently does.

The legislative and executive body of democracy (not 14 bosses) would oversee policy that affects safety, not day-to-day administrative duties. It’s also important to note that Police Chief Arradondo is able to keep power and position within the police segment of the department. The role just wouldn’t be in the charter…like most other cities that also still have police chiefs.

We know what keeps us safe: stable housing, fair wages, and having the people who’ve pledged to protect and serve to do their duty to us all, no matter our color, background or zip code. Instead, the current mayor and the police federation have militarized the police while spreading lies about our aims and stoking fears to keep us divided.

Together, the people of Minneapolis can implement proven solutions to make this a city where every one of us is safe, with no exceptions.

It’s 2021, not 1961—vote YES on Question 2 to bring public safety into the 21st century.

Corenia Smith is the campaign manager and Minister JaNaé Bates is the communications director of Yes 4 Minneapolis.

VCR approach to public safety does not work

By Maggie Rittenhouse and Molly Leutz Author Sonya Renee Taylor says it’s instructive to think about the process and acceptance of technological advancement as an analogy for how we think about social advancements too— including policing and public safety. She calls this approach the Theory of Obsolescence, or VCR Theory for short.

Today, the Minneapolis Police Department is our primary and largest investment toward safety. Everyone— from the U.S. Department of Justice, Republicans, centrist Democrats, progressives— agree it’s not great.

In effect, we are stuck with an old VCR that works inconsistently, ruins tapes of our most precious memories, and keeps us stuck watching old movies.

Our policing system is equally old and ineffective technology that rarely prevents crime, inflicts trauma and (at worst) death on our residents, and rarely tries new ways to keep people safe.

If we were actually talking about technology here, what would we do? We would honestly assess the current system and start investing in and building something new. We would put dollars into research and development and would conceive of, test, learn and invest in solutions that show promise.

We would shift resources away from the VCR and into new programs and platforms.

Yet, what we actually see happening is those deeply invested in the VCR yelling: We can fix it! Better design (new policies, better culture)! Better tape (training)! Better customer service (more use of force reporting)!

Supporters of the status quo imply that change is incredibly risky and that those calling for promising alternatives are naïve, simplistic even.

Everything they say we should do to fix the VCR has been tried before, multiple times, over multiple decades.

Their solutions have clearly not made us meaningfully safer so instead, they rely on fear, trying to distract us from having the real conversations we need to have. The system is broken. No one person or even a set of “good people” can fix it.

The VCR does not and cannot meet our current needs.

New systems are not built overnight and they are never built without investment, vision, tough decisions, and commitment. In the case of public safety, the best part is that we know so much about what would keep our

city safe while honoring the dignity and needs of all.

This new approach will actually include police officers, but in a new Public Safety Department that’s designed to prioritize the health, safety and wellbeing of all of our neighbors instead of doubling down on contain and control tactics that disproportionately harm our Black and Brown neighbors and create a false and short-term sense of “safety” for others.

We have a chance to vote Yes for Minneapolis and to vote for city council members and mayoral candidates who understand that systems change is what is required here.

It’s time to stop fixing the outdated VCR and start investing in a better future for us all.

Maggie Rittenhouse and Molly Leutz live in Minneapolis’ Ward 11.

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officer and was promoted up through the ranks. In 1979, at the age of 42, he was promoted to one-star general, becoming the youngest general officer in the Army at the time.

He later was national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan at the end of the Cold War, helping negotiate arms treaties and an era of cooperation with the Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev.

He was U.S. National Security Advisor from 1987 to 1989 and served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,

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fied problems in the department and made recommendations about how internal practices could be optimized.

The report noted that an early intervention system had been in place in the city since 2009 but characterized the system as flawed, finding it had “gaps” and was not implemented uniformly. The report said the EIS in place at the time was “perceived as a wellness program, suggesting a human resources function as opposed to a systemized accountability and risk management tool.”

In 2015, after acknowledging the Department of Justice’s recommendations in a 2014 open letter about policing and racial justice, former mayor Betsy Hodges requested in the City’s budget proposal that $124,000 be allocated toward a full-

the highest military position in the and a strategy for ending the war. If Bush said at the time. “It’s a great Department of Defense, from 1989 American force is to be used, propo- day when a son of the South Bronx to 1993. Powell was the first African nents of the doctrine said, it should be succeeds to the office first held by Thomas Jefferson.”

Powell is remembered by many for his 76-minute speech before the United Nations on Feb. 5, 2003. He made the case for war to disarm Iraq, presenting photographs, electronic intercepts of conversations between Iraqi military officers, and information from defectors aimed at proving that Saddam Hussein posed an imminent overpowering and decisive.

American to hold these positions.

In December 2000, he became the danger to the world.

During his term as Joint Chiefs Two years later, the former general chairman, his approach to war became first Black person to hold the cabiknown as the Powell Doctrine, which net post of Secretary of State when told Barbara Walters of ABC News held that the United States should he was appointed by then-president that his speech to the United Nations only commit forces in a conflict if it has George W. Bush. “General Powell had been “painful” for him personally clear and achievable objectives with is an American hero, an American and would forever be a “blot” on his public support, sufficient firepower, example and a great American story,” record. “I’m the one who presented it

on behalf of the United States to the world,” Powell said, acknowledging that his presentation “will always be a part of my record.”

In a 2012 interview he said, “Leaving Saddam Hussein in possession of weapons of mass destruction for a few more months or years is not an option, not in a post-September 11th world.’’

In 1997, he founded America’s Promise, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping at-risk children.

He later served as the chairman of the board of visitors of the School for Civic and Global Leadership, named for him at the City University of New York.

Powell twice was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and was honored by the NAACP with its Spingarn Medal in 1991.

tive if it’s separate from the MPD freeze in my opinion.”

The Star Tribune reported last year and possibly housed in the City’s that efforts to establish an EIS had Department of Civil Rights, where “fallen off course.” Gordon said he’s not the system would be managed more sure the system will be any different objectively and inspire more trust this time and the funds should not be from the community.

“It would be nice to have someone released until a solid plan is in place. with some independence from the [police] department managing it,” said Gordon.

He also stressed, much like the Department of Justice report did half a decade ago, that the EIS be more focused on accountability than wellness.

“It’s really critically important that when we have City employees that “I’m not that hopeful it will be any have the authority to use lethal force different from what happened the last on people, to restrain them, to arrest time we got excited and thought we them, to hold them down, that we were going to get our early warning do a better job of making sure they system, and the time before that, and don’t hurt people when it isn’t necessary and when it’s wrong.” the time before that,” said Gordon.

But Frey has already teed-up the new EIS to be wellness-focused and Independent management Gordon suggested that the trajec- says the system should track sick tory of the EIS could be more posi- days and indications officers might

be depressed. “We want them to have the ability to be well,” said Frey in a recent interview with KARE11, “to recalibrate between some of these difficult calls and then ultimately be in a state of wellness where they can best protect our city.”

Although appropriate implementation of the EIS has proved a challenge for the City, a well-functioning system could save lives, Gordon said.

“I bet you if we opened up all the private information and the files” about Derek Chauvin, “people would have said, ‘Why didn’t we know that this person was a risk, and why didn’t somebody do something?’”

In addition to the $500,000 to fund the EIS, the Pohlad Family Foundation grant includes $200,000 to go toward a mobile mental health crisis unit, which will dispatch unarmed, non-police mental health providers to emergency mental health calls.

“Mine is the story of a Black kid of no early promise from an immigrant family of limited means who was raised in the South Bronx.”

time employee to facilitate the adoption of a new EIS. Minneapolis City Council Ward 2 member Cam Gordon noted that the council approved the measure, and that a job position for an EIS specialist was posted in 2019. But a candi-

“The preventative tool has apparently been the victim of bureaucratic red tape and foot dragging.” date shared in a June 2020 email to Gordon that although they had been selected as a finalist for the position, they never heard back about the job. It’s not clear if anyone had been hired to fill the position.

“And then COVID came and they said there was a hiring freeze,” Gordon said. “But they had plenty of time to make a hire before the hiring

Construction

Department of Human Rights and Equal Economic Opportunity (HREEO) leadership Continued from page 1 have impacted the department’s ability to execute its responsibility in overseeing Hiring more women on these public contracts. In just public construction projects five years, HREEO has had has also been a focus for city five directors or interim direcand state officials when it tors. Currently, the departcomes to workforce inclu- ment is being led by Interim sion. Though most local and Director Kristien Butler since state statutes list the goal for the departure of Valerie Jenwomen’s participation to be sen in April.

20% of the workforce, goals set by contract compliance officers are much lower due to the lack of women in the industry overall.

Isaacson believes that the low representation of women in the workforce is due to “Amid the many challenges how they’re treated in the of the pandemic, advancmale-dominated industry. ing justice and equity of our She’s had her experience community remains as critical questioned when it came to as ever,” said Interim Direcworking on flooring projects tor Butler. “As our entire city by some of the men she’s continues rebuilding from worked with. Nevertheless, the challenges of the past 20 she believes it’s a rewarding months, we remain focused industry to join. on supporting residents, work“I don’t think they under- ers and businesses.” stand how much they make The department has since as installers even though it’s partnered with St. Paul on-the-job postings,” she said. Mayor Melvin Carter’s office “I haven’t been able to wrap my to increase its budget and staffing. Additional funding is head around it.” needed to further HREEO’s mission in increasing workLeadership turnover high Recent reporting from the force inclusion on city projects.

Brian Walsh is currently Pioneer Press has suggested that turnovers in St. Paul’s serving as the acting director

of the contract compliance division in Minneapolis. He’s also the current director of the labor standards enforcement division. Walsh explains that this is due to a hiring freeze brought on by the pandemic.

“The director of the contract compliance division was recently named Sean Skibbie, but he frankly got a new position at the Minnesota Department of Transportation,” Walsh said. Velma Corbel, the

“Construction is a pathway for many of our young men who got challenges.”

Tens of thousands have visited the site from all over the U.S. and the world to see Continued from page 1 the place where former Minneapolis police officer Derek have died since his murder, but Chauvin snuffed out Floyd’s we have to keep the memory of life. The murder has made this their stories alive so we slow the city a modern-day symbol of “man’s inhumanity to man” as repetition of history.”

Floyd

last director of the contract compliance division, left in the past year.

“I can say the departure of Velma Corbel and certainly the pandemic probably more than anything has slowed down the process, but City processes have always moved slow.”

Dunne stated that despite there not being a director for the City of Minneapolis’s contract compliance division, he and his colleagues have gotten along fine in their work despite the backlog of construction data they have to enter.

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Local journalist KingDemetrius Pendleton, reflecting on the day, wrote on his Facebook page that Floyd’s daughter said her daddy “changed the world” but asked, “Will the world ever change?”

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Called to art ‘for social change,’ bag ARWAY Bags designer found inspiration in Liberia

Black Business SPOTLIGHT

By Ashley Lauren Contributing writer What started as a hobby morphed into a thriving business for entrepreneur Marit Woods, owner of ARWAY bags and accessories. Her business recently departed from the Mall of America’s Community Commons and is now available online.

Woods, originally from Liberia, came to Minnesota over 20 years ago. She went to Arlington High School and graduated from the University of Minnesota. She also attended graduate school in Vermont.

“I started ARWAY in Liberia [in 2010], and I was doing comedy shows,” said Woods. There she began designing her signature ARWAY bags and accessories. Woods also developed the exquisite molds for the products.

Woods emphasized that her passions called her to “art for social change, and that came with my youth studies degree—so I started ARWAY in Li-

beria.” Woods initially made the bags for herself, but her hobby manifested into a business. The feedback and support she received were outstanding, which also led to higher demand.

In 2019, Woods officially launched the ARWAY bag and accessory enterprise in Minnesota. She said, “I utilized my own funding, and my lovely aunt invested $300 as well.

Over the years, pretty much I’ve been utilizing the profit to regenerate the business.” She also uses part of the proceeds to offer zero-interest loans to the individuals she works with.

The ARWAY bags and accessories are truly one of a kind.

A variety of designs incorporate luxurious Ankara wax fabric, genuine leather and wood. Every bag is crafted with care and possesses its own unique style.

The product line is very popular. “Because we are growing and there is a de mand, I plan on getting inves- Marit Woods tors,” explained Woods.

This company values social responsibility. When customers make a purchase, $1 will be donated to Laugh Out Loud Liberia and STRIVE, an afterschool program geared towards enriching the lives of youth.

ARWAY bags enable the owner to maintain a connection with her country of Liberia.

She said, “As much as I want to leave because I have a child, I have a husband, my connection to Liberia is so ingrained that I don’t want to lose that while I’m here because ultimately I want to go back there and live.”

Woods spoke about the

Submitted photos ARWAY team that includes a number of highly skilled artisans: “I knew the individuals were good at what they did; the craftsmanship is amazing.

And because I have trained them in sort of what I wanted in the product, it just worked out pretty well.”

As a social entrepreneur, Woods uses her business to enhance the quality of life for others, especially her team. “The business provides a livelihood for a lot of people that I engage with on the ground,” Woods said.

The local enterprise is suc-

cessfully providing economic opportunities. “I have seen the individuals I work with excel in other ways—but because we don’t have the environment to excel and access to market to these products,” the business is only offering a limited number of products.

Woods said balance is important in business. “For the last few years we’ve been scaling on a minuscule level…so we went from 15 to 20 pieces.

Now we’re doing 40 pieces.”

The demand for products usually increases during the holidays.

“As a small business,” Woods noted, “of course we want to grow. I want to be very aware of how we grow, because we do have environmental consequences, because we have wood embedded into [the products], and skin as well. So our growth has to be a little different than a normal manufacturer.”

Like many local businesses, the COVID pandemic slowed business down. However, “We were lucky when the Mall [Mall of America Community Commons] reached out and gave us the space for nine months. This allowed us to really see what

the possibilities were outside online purchase,” Woods said.

Woods started working with the MOA during the holiday season in November 2020.

She was only supposed to set up for two weeks for Christmas.

The business was later offered a longer contract from March to September 2021.

Recently the ARWAY business departed the MOA’s Community Commons, but the products are available online.

“I’m primarily focusing on my online presence,” Woods said.

When asked to share parting words of advice for youth or budding entrepreneurs, Woods said, “If you have an inclination about anything and you believe that this is something that could make a difference or that would impact lives, I believe you should be persistent and keep pursuing that.”

She added, “Try to surround yourself with positiveminded people—and be flexible.”

For more info, visit www.arwaybags.com.

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How can we bring health to our community?

Our experience with COVID vaccinations suggests new possibilities

Zeke J. McKinney, MD, MHI, MPH Guest contributor We are well aware that vaccine hesitancy exists in many communities, even more around the COVID-19 vaccine, and especially in the Black community. This is an extension of existing issues of appropriate anxiety with engaging systems and institutions such as hospitals, clinics, research studies, banks, housing lenders and schools.

These institutions throughout history have at least ignored the concerns of the Black community, and at worst have actually caused harm.

In June 2021, the Biden administration worked with the University of Maryland School of Public Health to create a national initiative called Shots at the Shop. This program provided $1,000 to barbershops and salons to host COVID-19 vaccination events. Based on that budget, it seemed like this would fund

events on one or two days, similar to many of the larger vaccination events happening earlier in 2021.

In my experience volunteering at these larger events, once the COVID-19 vaccines were available, we were using a lot of resources to provide vaccines to not very many people. For example, we may use a large gymnasium with several booths for education and free resources, with 50100 people volunteering, but only end up with the same number (less than 100) people getting vaccinated. This suggests that we may be able to better direct our resources in more focused ways.

Once information came out about Shots at the Shop, my barber Teto Wilson and I jumped on this program because it fit so well with how we were trying to provide education to the community about COVID-19 and vaccinations so far. So we talked to the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), and they offered even more funding to allow us to do something bigger.

To our surprise, we found out that community-based vaccine sites (not at a hospital, clinic, or pharmacy) never occurred beyond one or two days alone!

The big issue with only having vaccine events on one or two days is that it does not

account for the many barriers we are trying to overcome. What if someone sees the event, and wants to think about it some more before they show up?

What if someone doesn’t have childcare during these limited times? What if someone can’t get off work or can’t take a day or two off work after getting vaccinated right at this time? In short, only having these sites available for a day or two may end up not opening the access we want to have for everyone.

Teto and I were able to work with MDH to provide a longer-term program for the community at his barbershop (Wilson’s Image at Broadway and Penn in North Minneapolis). We offered our vaccine clinic two days per week (Fridays and Saturdays) for four hours each day. This approach uses less volunteers, less space, and of course less money.

We have been successful at giving out more than 200 vaccines so far. Even though we planned only six weeks at first, we are now running for up to 15 weeks and plan to extend it even further.

This is not a large number of people to impact overall, but we are providing access to the folks who may still have had concerns or were not able to get one before. We believe some of this success

is due to being able to have this available at regular times each week, at a location that is trusted by folks in the community.

There is no surprise here because community-oriented health screenings have been proven to be successful in the past. But this current success opens the door for more opportunities to copy this model to other community sites, whether other barbershops, salons, churches, community centers, parks, or other small businesses.

At a higher level, this raises the question of whether we will start to see more opportunities for people to get care at places where they are more comfortable. Or at the very least, folks can start to engage their own health in ways that provide more information and with people they can trust more than the big hospital or clinical systems.

We need to take this opportunity to rebuild trust in the community by providing simple resources to start fighting the many illnesses affecting the Black community more than most. For example, we can do easy screening for high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol, which if not tested may not cause symptoms until it may be too late to reverse.

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Getting “Shots at the Shop” outside Wilson’s Image (l-r) Anna Hyde Babington-Johnson, nurse Beverly Propes, Bryen Bogan and Dr. Zeke McKinney

Photo by Thomas McCallister basic testing done at your nearby barbershop and church, and feel better not going to the doctor because you know what’s up. Or find out that it may be time to go to the doctor after all.

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Arts & Culture

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Duluth memorial speaks to Minnesota’s past and present

By Tiffany Johnson Contributing Writer In the city of Duluth in 1920, three young men were lynched after being falsely accused of sexually assaulting a White woman. While there was no evidence to support these claims, the Duluth police were quick to arrest six Black men.

From these six, Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhee were taken from the jailhouse, beaten, and lynched from a light pole that stood just outside of the jailhouse.

to bring the story to light. It was not until 2000 that community members, along with supporting businesses and organizations, formed Clayton Jackson McGhee, Inc. that would ultimately erect the Clayton Jackson McGhee Memorial (CJMM) as a commemorative space for people to remember a longforgotten act of injustice.

People can now visit the Clayton Jackson McGhee Memorial year-round in Duluth.

The memorial is paved with quotes engraved by some of the world’s most emboldened

has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent,” a famous quote

by Edmund Burke.

The year 2020 would have marked 100 years since this devastating event, and prior to 2020, board members of CJMM supported a robust year of events and activities to remind community members and tourists about the ongoing race conversation that we are still very much grappling with.

Some of these events included a screening of the film “Just Mercy,” a spoken word and neapolis police officer Derek Chauvin after being accused of using a counterfeit $20 bill.

Treasure Jenkins is a current board member of the Clayton Jackson McGhee Memorial and also a member of the Twin Ports chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America

Photos by Tiffany Johnson police chief, and Emily Larson [mayor of Duluth],” saidJenkins, “and we’re doing an educational campaign on what it means for the community to take responsibility for the community.”

“People who are victimized [by] exclusion and being shunned [for] not having af-

protocols that don’t always rely on the police. “Soon, say, within six months, there should be a community-based crisis response resource,” she said.

Clayton Jackson McGhee, Inc. has resumed programming to commemorate the 100year anniversary of the horrific events of 1920. As Minnesota continues to heal from a bleak history and a chaotic past 15 months, the Clayton Jackson McGhee memorial reminds us that it’s good to acknowledge and reflect on the past so we do not repeat it.

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While the lives of these young men were taken unconstitutionally, like many grim moments of our nation’s past, this event was long-unacknowledged despite many attempts from the community

thinkers from throughout the years like Oscar Wilde, Albert Einstein, and Siddhartha.

The banner engraved above the memorial that features full-body sculptures of the three boys reads: “An event

poetry workshop called “We all Belong,” and a concert featuring the works of William Grant Still called “And They Lynched Him on a Tree,” to name a few.

But because of COVID-19, the planned 100-year anniversary activities were canceled.

But as CJMM headed conversations to redirect the community’s attention to the racism that still exists in our state through this anniversary, the world was taken aback by the “lynching” of another Black man. Just 160 miles away and 100 years later in Minneapolis, George Floyd was murdered by former Min-

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(DSA). She is currently involved fordable housing, not having afwith the recent movement sur- fordable health care—stop jailrounding police accountability ing them. For the marginalized, in Duluth. “We’re talking about they are traumatized by having having less use of the police the police handle everything,” and more use of community- she added.

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CASE TYPE: PERSONAL INJURY STATE OF MINNESOTA

DISTRICT COURT

COUNTY OF HENNEPIN

FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

Shannon Brown, Plaintiff,

Court File Number: 27-CV-21-11612

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District Court

Washington County

Tenth Judicial District

Filed in District Court State of Minnesota Sep 9 2021

Court File Number: 82-JV-21-245 Case Type: CHIPS - Permanency In the Matter of:

State of Minnesota County of:

In the Matter of Welfare of the Child(ren) of

SUMMONS AND NOTICE CHILD

Nina Ujunwa Mbachu and

IN NEED OF PROTECTION

Robert Earl Ford

OR SERVICES MATTER

NOTICE TO: Above-named parent(s) or legal custodian(s).

1.

District Court

County of Washington

Tenth Judicial District

Case Type: Dissolution with Children In Re the Marriage of: Comfort Ade Petitioner and Eddie Campbell, Jr. Respondent

Summons (Check One) ☐ Without Real Estate ☑ With Real Estate

PO Box 3802 Stillwater MN 55082, alleging that the child(ren) of the or services.

WARNING: Your spouse has filed a lawsuit against you for dissolution of your marriage. A copy of the paperwork regarding the lawsuit is served on you with this summons. This summons is an official document from the court that affects your rights. Read this summons carefully. If you do not understand it, contact an attorney for legal advice.

Notice is hereby given that the matter of said Child In Need of Protection

1.

located at 14949 - 62nd St. N; PO Box 3802 Stillwater MN 55082, on 2.

YOU ARE ORDERED to appear before the Juvenile Court at the scheduled time and date.

4.

You have a right to be represented by counsel.

5.

If you fail to appear at the hearing, the Court may still conduct the hearing and grant appropriate relief, including taking permanent custody of the child/ren named in the Petition.

The Petitioner (your spouse) has filed a lawsuit against you asking for a dissolution of your marriage (divorce). A copy of the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage is attached to this Summons. There should also be a copy of Petitioner’s Financial Affidavit attached.

You must serve upon Petitioner and file with the Court a written Answer to the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage and your Financial Affidavit. You must pay the required filing fee. Answer forms and the Financial Affidavit form are available from the Court Administrator’s office. You must serve your Answer and Financial Affidavit upon Petitioner within thirty (30) days of the date you were served with this Summons, not counting the day of service. If you do not serve and file your Answer and Financial Affidavit, the Court may give your spouse everything he or she is asking for in the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage.

3. ☑ This proceeding involves. affects, or brings into question the real property located at the

WITNESS, the Honorable Hawley Judge of District Court BY:

NOTICE OF PARENT EDUCATION PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

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IN THE MATTER OF

Court File No. 82-JV-21-245

THE CHILD OF:

County Attorney File No. JV-2021-586

Nina Ujunwa Mbachu and Robert Earl Ford Parent(s) That Jamie Lynn Kreuser, Assistant Washington County Attorney, representing Petitioner, Washington County Community Services, Stillwater, Minnesota, has filed in this Court a Termination of Parental Rights of parents Nina Ujunwa Mbachu and Robert Earl Ford seeking to permanently sever the parental rights of the above-named parents to Patience Mbachu, DOB 12/16/2019.

THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that said Termination of Parental Rights be heard by the Court at the Washington County Government Center, 14949 62nd Street North, Stillwater, MN, on November 22, 2021, or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard, and on any subsequent hearing dates set on this matter.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that notice hereof be given to the father of

Under Minnesota Statutes, Section 518.157, in a contested proceeding

said child, by publication in the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, a legal news-

involving custody or parenting time of a minor child, the parties must begin

paper, for three weeks as provided by law and by mailing a copy of such notice

Annette Fritz

Court Administrator

ORDER FOR HEARING AND NOTICE OF PUBLICATION

THE STATE OF MINNESOTA TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT:

or Services Petition will be called for hearing before the Juvenile Court

3.

State of Minnesota

Court File Number: 27-FA-21-2488

Office of the Clerk of Juvenile Court located at 14949 - 62nd St. N;

October 25, 2021 at 0900AM or as soon after as the Matter can be heard.

Filed in District Court State of Minnesota Sep 25 2021

Judicial District _______

A Child In Need of Protection or Services Petition has been filed in the

above-named parent(s) or legal custodian(s) is/are in need of protection

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participation in a parent education program that meets minimum standards promulgated by the Minnesota Supreme Court within 30 days after the first filing with the court. In some Districts, parenting education may be required in all custody or parenting proceedings. You may contact the District Court

State of Minnesota

District Court

Administrator for additional information regarding this requirement and the

County of :

Judicial District

availability of parent education programs.

by certified mail to the natural father’s last known address of 3121 Pillsbury Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55408.

Dated: 9/25/2021

Court File Number: 27-FA-21-3408 2021 Jul 7

Case Type: Dissolution without Children

Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder October 14, 21, 28, 2021 In Re the Marriage of: Sheila Marie Ngboze II

Summons (Check One)

Petitioner

☑ Without Real Estate

and

☐ With Real Estate

Filed in District Court State of Minnesota Oct 5 2021

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Danlami Isah Ngboze II Respondent THE STATE OF MINNESOTA TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: WARNING: Your spouse has filed a lawsuit against you for dissolution of your marriage. A copy of the paperwork regarding the lawsuit is served on you with this summons. This summons is an official document from the court that affects your rights. Read this summons carefully. If you do not understand it, contact an attorney for legal advice.

Case Type: Personal Injury State of Minnesota

2.

The Petitioner (your spouse) has filed a lawsuit against you asking for a dissolution of your marriage (divorce). A copy of the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage is attached to this Summons.

You must serve upon Petitioner and file with the Court a written Answer to the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage and you must pay the required filing fee. Answer forms are available from the Court Administrator’s office.

You must serve your Answer upon Petitioner within thirty (30) days of the date you were served with this Summons, not counting the day of service. If you do not serve and file your Answer, the Court may give your spouse everything he or she is asking for in the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage.

3. ☐ This proceeding involves. affects, or brings into question the real property located at the following address ____________ City

_______ State

_________ Zip Code

in ______________ County, with the following legal description: ___________________________________________________________

_______ State

_________ Zip Code

in ______________ County, with the following legal description:

Fourth Judicial District The Honorable: Jamie L Anderson Osman Yusuf,

NOTICE OF TEMPORARY RESTRAINING PROVISIONS

Case Type: Personal Injury Court File Number: 62-CV-21-5288 Tomas Adonael Murcia

SUMMONS

Sarmiento (Plaintiff) vs Ryan L Wagner and Elbia Guzman Flooring Inc. (Defendants)

v.

Taylor Kleinschmidt.

Defendant.

THE STATE OF MINNESOTA TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT: 1.

YOU ARE BEING SUED. The Plaintiff has started a lawsuit against

YOU ARE BEING SUED. The Plaintiff has started a lawsuit against you.

Do not throw these papers away. They are official papers that affect your

The Plaintiffs Complaint against you is attached to this summons. Do not

rights. You must respond to this lawsuit even though it may not yet be filed

throw these papers away. They are official papers that affect your rights.

with the Court and there may be no court file number on this summons.

You must respond to this lawsuit even though it may not yet be filed with

the Court and there may be no court file number on this summons.

2.

YOU MUST REPLY WITHIN 20 DAYS TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS.

2.

YOU MUST REPLY WITHIN 20 DAYS TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS.

response called an Answer within 20 days of the date on which you received

You must give or mail to the person who signed this summons a written

this Summons. You must send a copy of your Answer to the person who

response called an Answer within 20 days of the date on which you received

signed this summons located at: 2700 Snelling Avenue North, Suite 460,

this Summons. You must send a copy of your Answer to the person who

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THIS SUMMONS IS DIRECTED TO the above-named Defendant: 1.

signed this summons located at:

3.

you. The Plaintiffs Complaint against you is attached to this Summons.

You must give or mail to the person who signed this Summons a written

3.

response to the Plaintiffs Complaint. In your Answer you must state whether

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you agree or disagree with each paragraph of the Complaint. If you believe

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the Plaintiff should not be given everything asked for in the Complaint, you

YOU MUST RESPOND TO EACH CLAIM. The Answer is your written

must say so in your Answer.

4.

YOU WILL LOSE YOUR CASE IF YOU DO NOT SEND A WRITTEN

whether you agree or disagree with each paragraph of the Complaint. If

RESPONSE TO THE COMPLAINT TO THE PERSON WHO

you believe the Plaintiff should not be given everything asked for in the

SIGNED THIS SUMMONS.

Complaint, you must say so in your Answer.

4.

YOU MUST RESPOND TO EACH CLAIM. The Answer is your written

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response to the Plaintiff’s Complaint. In your Answer you must state

Under Minnesota law, service of this summons makes the following requirements apply to both parties to the action, unless they are modified by the court or the proceeding is dismissed: (1) Neither party may dispose of any assets except (a) for the necessities of life or for the necessary generation of income or preservation of assets, (b) by an agreement of the parties in writing, or (c) for retaining counsel to carry on or to contest this proceeding.

SUMMONS

Plaintiff,

___________________________________________________________ OR ☑ This proceeding does not involve real property.

Second Judicial District

County of Hennepin

4. ☐ (For a second property)This proceeding involves. affects, or brings into question the real property located at the following address: ____________ City

District Court

County of Ramsey

District Court

Court File Number: 27-CV-21-12171

1.

State of Minnesota

If you do not Answer within 20 days, you will lose this case. You will not 62-CV-21-5288

YOU WILL LOSE YOUR CASE IF YOU DO NOT SEND A WRITTEN

Filed in District Court get to tell your side of the story, and the Court may decide against you and State of Minnesota

RESPONSE TO THE COMPLAINT TO THE PERSON WHO SIGNED

award the Plaintiff everything asked for in the complaint. If you do not want

10/5/2021 5:22 PM

THIS SUMMONS. If you do not Answer within 20 days, you will lose

to contest the claims stated in the Complaint, you do not need to respond.

(2) Neither party may harass the other party.

this case. You will not get to tell your side of the story, and the Court may

A default judgment can then be entered against you for the relief requested

(3) All currently available insurance coverage must be maintained and continued without change in coverage or beneficiary designation.

decide against you and award the Plaintiff everything asked for in the

in the Complaint.

(4) Parties to a marriage dissolution proceeding are encouraged to attempt alternative dispute resolution pursuant to Minnesota law. Alternative dispute resolution includes mediation, arbitration and other processes as set forth in the district court rules. You may contact the court administrator about resources in your area. If you cannot pay for mediation or alternative dispute resolution, in some counties, assistance may be available to you through a nonprofit provider or a court program. If you are a victim of domestic abuse or threats as defined in Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 518B, you are not required to try mediation and you will not be penalized by the court in later proceedings.

you do not need to respond. A default judgment can then be entered against

IF YOU VIOLATE ANY OF THESE PROVISIONS, YOU WILL BE SUBJECT TO SANCTIONS BY THE COURT.

complaint. If you do not want to contest the claims stated in the complaint,

5.

If you do not have a lawyer, the Court Administrator may have information

you for the relief requested in the complaint 5.

about places where you can get legal assistance. Even if you cannot get

LEGAL ASSISTANCE. You may wish to get legal help from a lawyer. If

legal help, you must still provide a written Answer to protect your rights

you do not have a lawyer, the Court Administrator may have information

or you may lose the case.

about places where you can get legal assistance. Even if you cannot get legal help, you must still provide a written Answer to protect your rights or you may lose the case.

6.

LEGAL ASSISTANCE. You may wish to get legal help from a lawyer.

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION. The parties may agree to or be ordered to participate in an alternative dispute resolution process under Rule 114 of the Minnesota General Rules of Practice. You must still send

6.

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION. The parties may agree to or be ordered to participate in an alternative dispute resolution process under Rule 114 of the Minnesota General Rules of Practice. You must still send your written response to the Complaint even if you expect to use alternative means of resolving this dispute.

your written response to the Complaint even if you expect to use alternative means of resolving this dispute.

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Sports Gopher soccer team: women leading women

‘Culture’ lured Hopkins star to Coppin State

By Charles Hallman Sports columnist Chudear Tut missed a good portion of her second season at Coppin State. The 6’-2” sophomore middle hitter from Minneapolis recently returned and shined in a 3-2 win over Howard on Oct. 10. She had 13 kills, three blocks, and led the Eagles in hitting (.444).

“This year I’m shooting for high fours, maybe in the five,” admitted Tut, a Hopkins High School graduate, on her hitting percentage goals during an MSR phone interview before the season.

Tut was one of three Eagles players in 2020-21 who appeared in all 16 matches and 61 sets starting at middle hitter, a season affected by the pandemic. She was named MEAC Rookie of the Year. Tut was the league’s rookie of the week five times as well as secondteam All-MEAC and MEAC AllTournament Team after Coppin State finished runners-up to North Carolina A&T. Those honors caught her by surprise, said Tut. “My coach was telling me every week, every single week, ‘Hey, you got this, you got that,” she recalled. “I thought I wasn’t working as hard as I could have been.”

Tut’s first college year was, if anything, unconventional and unexpected: She took offcampus classes and played in the spring rather than the typical fall. “I went into it with a mindset of, I’m going to handle anything that is thrown at me,”

Chudear Tut Photo courtesy of Coppin State she said. “You really just have to have a strong mindset.”

Choosing Coppin State, located in Baltimore, was largely because of culture, said Tut. “I grew up in a really small town in Iowa, and I didn’t really see a lot of people of color. I moved up to Minneapolis and I could see a little bit more, but it still lacked that culture aspect.

“I came out to Baltimore.

It’s an HBCU. I fell in love with the team. The girls were supportive, their med program was crazy,” exclaimed Tut. “I am a bio premed [major]. I’m trying to be a sonographer,

■ See Tut on page 12

he U of M women’s soccer all-female coaching staff is one of four such staffs among Power Five conference schools. The team as of Oct. 16 has the Big Ten’s top-scoring offense in conference play with 18 goals in seven matches.

Minnesota first-year Head Coach Erin Chastain, after 14 seasons at DePaul, began her Gopher tenure 4-0-3, only the fourth Big Ten coach and first school coach to start her first year undefeated in her first seven matches.

Maya Hayes, in her second season as Gopher assistant, is one of three Black female coaches at Minnesota, and assistant Allie Wisner is in her first season from Utah. Tarah Hobbs is a volunteer assistant coach.

“I think we’re females in sport and we coach a women’s team,” said Chastain, “so for me, compiling our staff is about giving women that are super qualified in our profession an opportunity to lead women.”

Chastain (then Erin Hussey) was a four-year starter at Minnesota (1993-96). She previously coached at Santa Clara and Northwestern as an assistant before taking the DePaul HC job in 2007. “I was given an opportunity when I

was very young,” continued Chastain, “and so being able to give that opportunity back was really important to me.”

Hayes played college soccer at Penn State (2010-13), then overseas and the NWSL for four seasons. She began coaching as a grad assistant at Auburn in 2018 and was hired at Minnesota in 2020. She is the only holdover from Stefanie Golan’s staff, who is now at Missouri.

“We were fortunate” in having her on staff, said Chastain of Hayes. “Had she not been a holdover and just someone that would have applied for the job, she still would have been someone that would have been an awesome candidate.”

Being the only Black female on the staff, “That representation factor is something that I really value,” Hayes stressed. “Just super grateful to have the opportunity.”

United Soccer Coaches last week named Hayes to the 2021-22 Class of the 30 Under

(l-r) Erin Chastain, Allie Wisner, Maya Hayes, Tarah Hobbs

Photo by Dr. Mitchell P. McDonald course.

Wisner began coaching at Utah in 2019—she played there (2009-13) and overseas and the NWSL for three seasons. “I’ve been coached by males all growing up, and I’ve

“I think it’s really important to surround the young women in our program with really capable strong women as role models.”

30 Program, selected from a pool of almost 300 applicants.

She will receive an educational scholarship that will help play for United Soccer Coaches Convention registrations and choose an advanced diploma

had a few female assistant coaches,” she recalled. “I’ve worked with mostly males in my shorter coaching career. I think it was really important for me to surround myself with strong female leaders to keep

learning in a different manner.”

An all-female staff is a big deal, Wisner said. “There should be more of them.”

Added Hayes, “That’s a pretty big stat in and of itself.”

But when asked if the Gopher players recognize this, she responded, “I don’t know if they have time right now to really sit [and reflect]. But I do think they recognize the value in having [an all-female] staff.”

“I think it’s really important to surround the young women in our program with really capable strong women as role models,” said Chastain.

Charles Hallman welcomes reader responses to challman@ spokesman-recorder.com.

More Black football coaches having an impact fore as metro area demographics are becoming more diverse.

During this time, these coaches have made a difference and have achieved success while impacting the lives of young men. Here are five of those coaches who have and will continue to change the face of high school football in the state of Minnesota.

The landscape of high school football has drastically changed over the past couple of decades. Today there are more African Americans in head coaching positions than ever be-

Minneapolis North Coach Charles Adams is one of the state’s best.

Photo by Dr. Mitchell Palmer McDonald

Charles Adams (Minneapolis North): Adams has turned the Polars into one of the state’s most dominant teams with consecutive state playoff appearances since 2014. They won the Class 1A state championship in 2016.

North is currently ranked No. 3 in Class 2A. Justin Reese (Fridley): He has led the Tigers to new heights since becoming head coach in 2015. He is the 2020 Minnesota Football Coaches Association (MFCA) Coach of the Year. He led Fridley to the state playoffs last season. Frid-

ley is ranked No. 9 in Class 4A. Ray Felton (Shakopee): He has immediately brought a certain energy to the Sabers football program this season. Shakopee is currently ranked No. 6 in Class 6A. This is Felton’s first season coaching the Sabers.

Willie Howard (Robbinsdale Cooper): Howard, a former Stanford University standout who played two seasons with the Minnesota Vikings, had led the Hawks to become one of the state’s premier programs boasting groups of talented young men season after season. Cooper is currently 4-2.

Scott Howell (St. Paul Central): Since taking one for the legendary Floyd Smaller, who starred at Central during the early 1980s as an all-metro and all-state fullback, he has led the Minutemen since 2001.

Before the current state alignment was established in 2015, Howell led Central to six consecutive St. Paul City championships from 20092014. The Minutemen are currently 4-3.

Dr. Mitchell Palmer McDonald welcomes reader responses to mcdeezy05@gmail.com.

Big 10 commissioner pledges maximum diversity The Big Ten has—count ‘em—five Black head coaches this basketball season, two WBB and three MBB. “We had five head coaching vacancies that were in our men’s and women’s basketball ranks.

Four of these five individuals are people of color,” exclaimed Commissioner Kevin Warren during the Oct. 7-8 media days in Indianapolis. “They’re hardworking, they’re honorable… and they will do a good job in leading their programs.”

Two of the new hires once played at the schools they are now coaching (Minnesota’s Ben Johnson, Mike Woodson at Indiana) and joined Juwan Howard, who also played at Michigan, where he was one of the Fab Five.

“We will continually be leaders in the industry to promote diversity, equity and inclusion from a race standpoint, a gender standpoint, sexual orientation,” stated Warren. “I

am a big believer in the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion. The more diverse we can become…the better we are.

“I look for diversity, inclusion and equality as we go forward,” reiterated the first Black commissioner of a Power Five conference.

Following are remarks by

MIKE WOODSON, first year, Indiana MBB: “I spent all my life in the NBA. I don’t know if I have an advantage or not. I know I’m competing with a lot of great college coaches and a lot of great players.”

BEN JOHNSON, first year, Minnesota MBB: “Being able to see it from every angle, as

“The more diverse we can become, the better we are.” the Big Ten’s “five COCs” (coaches of color) at the media days: MARISA MOSELEY, first year, Wisconsin WBB: “I’m really excited to be part of this incredible conference. I want to make sure that we play with passion, we’re selfless… that we’re the most prepared team…that every time they take the floor they feel confident and ready to compete.”

a kid growing up, going to The Barn, obviously as a studentathlete, as an assistant coach, now as a head coach, of coming full circle, I understand the special place that Minnesota is.”

MICAH SHREWSBERRY, first year, Penn State MBB: “We’re trying to get as cohesive a team as possible right now.”

TIM EATMAN, Rutgers associate WBB head coach

speaking for Head Coach C. Vivian Stringer: “Coach Stringer goes right back to the basics… We start with the basics because we want to give every team an opportunity to be the best team that they can possibly be.”

JUWAN HOWARD, third year, Michigan MBB: “I’m so excited to get an opportunity to go in there and coach and learn from them.”

Green new Pelicans HC Willie Green in July was named New Orleans Pelicans head coach. After a 12-year NBA playing career (2003-15), the Detroit native went into coaching in 2017, first as an assistant with back-to-back NBA champions Golden State, and was the team’s 2018 summer league head coach. The previous two seasons (201921) he had been a Phoenix assistant coach.

Willie Green “I’m extremely fortunate to have this opportunity,” said Green to the MSR on his first NBA HC job.

WNBA Legend Teresa Weatherspoon is the only female on the Pelicans staff, one of seven Black assistants.

Photo by Charles Hallman

“Coach Spoon is the best,” said Green. “She is full of life, full of joy. All of our guys love her.

We’re fortunate to have her.”

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